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Ever wondered how the streets of a very popullated city would look like? For example, Miami. At night Miami is full buildings that stand out in color, and on the highways you can see a whole road full of lights, the thing with these lights is that they are cars, even though they are helpful by getting us from point A to point B, they are the second highest source of pollution in the United States, that is after power plants. The only thing a city like Miami is missing at night is a sky full of bright stars, which that can be done by people not driving to everywhere they go, even if it is one or two blocks away. This whole "car-free" thing is become more and more popular all over the world.
In Vauban, Germany a small town, home to 5,500 people have decided to go car-free. "As a result, 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here" (Source 1). 70 percent of the the people is a lot, these streets are completly car-free except in the main thoroughfare and on the edge of the community, if this were to happen to a larger city the nights would be beatiful, and so will the days because you have all the car noise out and instead you have people talking and kids running all around the streets. "Passanger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States" (Souce 1). Miami is a car-intensive area, I know this from personal experince, there is always traffic during the day. I've been to other places in Florida, not that far from Miami, in Palm Beach at night the amount of starts you see at nights is beautiful and it's something new to see other than in Miami you see 2 to 3 stars. My point here isn't stars, it's how much better the world can be if we all do what this small town in Germany is doing.
Paris, France. The city of lights home to millions of residents and a landmark for millions of tourists, one would think this city couldn't run without cars, but they made it happen. Paris wanted to clean all the air polution in their city, "On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31)" (Source 2). Even though some didn't listen and about 4,000 drivers were fined, that is still very little compared to the entire population of Paris. "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog" (Source 2). Can you believe that? Traffic was down by 60 perfect in the city of lights, if it can happen there it can happen all around the world, little by little bu we'll get it. Public transportation was free of charge in the city while this car-free thing was going on. One week later the smog had cleared out enough for the ruiling French party to rescind the ban.
"BOGOTA, Colombia - In a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams" (Source 3). Yes, the city of Bogota in Colombia had its one car-free day, in Bogota called "Day Without Cars", this was the third year actually, on this "car-free" day cars are banned and only buses and taxis are permitted for the day. Bogota was not the only Colombian city to participate in this event, other Colombian cities like Cali and Valledupr, participated in this event for the first time. I find it funny and ironic because my sister has a friend who is Colombian and she owns a bicycle and she goes everywhere in that bicycle, and she refuses to get a car. Bogota is a very known city and just like I said before, if they can do it then the whole world can it. This day should be world wide and should be done at leats twice a year. Events like this will also get people motivated to start walking morre often. "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic; and new restuarants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up" (Source 3). If you've ever been to Miami, you know the huge amount of building there are here and I think there are about 3 or 4 being built at I type, how about we stop there and make Miami and healthier and more environmentally friendly place.
In the United States, research shows "A study last year found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009" (Source 4). This meaning that adolescents aren't as intresting and driving as they were before, yeah I see how driving can be better but most kids here take the bus, they aren't even driven by their parents anymore. I find that this is a good thing because, one can ask themselves, I can't make a difference, but if thousands of people ask themselves that, then yes a difference can be made. In 2005 the miles driven by Americans peaked, and then steadily went dropping, in April, 2013 they found out that the miles in car was the same as it was in 1995. Not driving everywhere you go and actually walking there is a good thing because you can make new friends, and health wise it is also good because, instead of walking around your block for an hour, you can walk to someones house or to the store. There are several carpooling apps on the internet nowadays, if your friends can't pick you up, for just a push of a button you can have someone come pick you up to where ever you are and drop you off where you need to go to, for a low price. "Recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by" (Source 4). This means that people aren't as interest in driving anymore, which means we are slowly getting near the time where we'll see more stars in the sky in car-intensive areas. | 3 |
"The face on mars" was not created by aliens/life on mars. Alot of people are questioning if the "face on mars" is actually a face made by life/aliens on the planet. It also looks like a few common landforms such as a butte or mesa. It may resemble a face but you can not say it looks like the first thing you see you have to study it more and closer so you can say for sure what it is. It could be anything, so why say its a face. The passage says "It also looks like the middle butte in the Snake River Plain in Idaho". The passage also states that it could
be the lava dome that takes form of an isolated mesa. Yes the shawdows make it seem like it has two eyes, a mouth, and a nose but those are just shawdows, they can't determine what it is and what it is not. The first time they saw the picture it looked clearly like a face to them, But once they got a closer look and zoomed in a bit more on their camaras they could see that it not only resembles a face but something much more than that, it has qualities that make it look as if it were a landform and not a face at all. The clearer and closer the camera got the less it looked like a face at all. from far away it looks clearly like a face so many people thought thats what it was but shortyly after that they when back up to mars and got a clearer picture of what it really is, it is much more clear than it was before and you can tell it doesn't look quit like a face but like a natural landform. This is why the "face on mars" is in fact just a natural landform and not a face created by aliens/life on mars. | 1 |
If I were a scientist at NASA, I would show many resons why the "Unmasking the Face on Mars" was not created by aliens. First, I would ask them "why" do they think aliens are real. With there own proof. Once I would get a response, I would tell them there isn't much proof that aliens exist. Including, that there are also no signs of life on Mars.
Also, I would also state that the Face was only a natural landform of a mesa, made by natural causes on planet Mars. It was probably most likely made by a sandstorm. But, surely not made by an alien. I would also tell the person who I am arguing with, that aliens are just fictional characters in movies, book, etc. made up by normal people.
Another important reason thhat you can tell that the Face on Mars is only a landform is that in the pictures show, the face has more features as a normal mesa. And you can tell because of the more advanced technology to improve the photos shown. With that reason you would point out how the face has revalent features of a landform. To prove that statement in the text, it states that the landorm just appears as an Egyptian Pharaoh face because of the shadows on Mars.
With all of this information I would've proved that aliens didn't form the Face on MArs. | 2 |
In this artical, Driverless cars are coming, tells us about the technological development that we are able to come up with today. My standpoint on the driverless cars is that I am against them. Not only are they dangerous, but they can also be deadly. they can easly crash, they can put people out of jobs, and they would also take a lot of money to build firstly, the driverless cars can easly crash. If the driver is not paying attention, the car would not be able to navigate by itself, therefore causing a possible accident. The driverless car is still technically not a driverless car, it still needs human help, like backing out of driveways, navigating in difficult traffic construction, and also navigating through roadwork. if the driver is not alert, then the cr would not be able to turn itself.
secondly, they would put millions of taxy driver and other people out of work. if the problems are worked out of the car, them they will soon be on the road. the taxi services and other car makers will soon be out of work because then would the people of the usa want to drive themselfs around when they could just sit back and relax while the car does all the work.
thirdly, they will be a lot of money to build. Just to build one of them would cost millions and millions of dollers. this would then put the economy at risk because it is being taken out of state taxes. this would cause the government to start taxing everything to help get the taxes back up. with all of the sensors and technology put into the driverless car, nobody would be able to buy it, maybe millionairs.
in conclusion, the driverless car seens to be a good ides, but thinking about it now, with all the new styled technology bring put into it, you just have to weigh the risks and the good things involved with owning it. its a great idea, but it still seems to have some gliches. | 2 |
Dear State Senator,
The purpose of me writing to you is because, i agree that we should change the way we vote for our president. Everyone has a right to vote but dont you think a easy prosses would be much bette? there are many reasons i disagree with using Electoral Collage but there are way to many reasons so im only going to give a three. my three reasons on why we should not you eletoral college is because the prosses, the problems, and finally because its old.
The electoral collage lets be honest is a huge big unfair process. There are very many steps to the Electoral collage and i belive there are many more ways we can vote. Picking the hardest one in my personal opion is just not to bright. We should have a easy way to help the people running the electoal collage and also help the citizens. There are many resons why doing this wil;l halp the process so we will have our president voted faster.
The eletoral collage has very many problems in its system. a few of them are that when the citizens vote they are not voting for the president they are voting for the elcetors who vote for the presidents. Another reason is Eletoral collage is very unfair. The peeople or the electors that are voting are not always the right ones also depending on which side you are on rpublican or the decmocratic sometimes een for example you are a republican one of your electors could be democratic as i said before very unfair.
Finally everyone gets tired of crummy old boring things! Have you ever hear it is good to try new things? lets face it the system is really old. I believe would shold try differant methods of selecting the president. If for any reason it does not work out we can always try something else or go back too the same way. i belive that we should try something new and not the same old boring unfair way we have been using for years.
All in all i belive that we should change the way we vote for the president. This eletoral collage from my understaning is not something we should keep using. As i said there are to many reason that i would have to write down but here are my three reasons to change the way we vote. First the prosses of picking the president, second the problems that the eletoral college has, and last because the system is old and needs to change so, no that you have read this are you going to help me and everyone else change this system?
in my respect, PROPER_NAME | 2 |
The "Face" on Mars is indeed just a narural landform. It was first recorded in 1976. When this happened everyone went crazy because they thought it was a form of aliens. Yet they were incorect. NASA has now said that it is just a natural landform and has evedince to prove it as well.
In paragraph 3 it talks about how the fce is just a natural landfor. Saying it is just a rock formation. Also it says that the shadows just give it the illoution of being a face. Which means the sun has cast shadows on the rocks and the way the rocks were formed it made the shadows fall in the wholes appering to be a face when it really isn't.
In paragraph 7 it says that there is no alien mounuments. Proving most theroy's wrong. They found this out by taking another photo with a better liense so they can soom in and see what is really there. By doing this they found no alie monuments and that it is just a land formation as NASA origonaly belived.
Also in paragraph 12 it says the face is equivilant to mesa or buttle. Which means that it is compare to mesa and buttle wich are both natural landforms on Earth. Also in this paragraph it was proven that the rocks were created by lava. So now it is considered a lava dome.
So over all scients now belive that it is just a natural landform and that there is no aliens ther and that there never was. Insted they say it is just a rock formation that was made out of lava. So it is now cocidered a lava dome. Also they say it is just like our natural landforms here on Earth. | 2 |
Humans have been trying each further from earth for years. NASA are first ones to fly a rocketship on to the moon. Almost everyone on earth wacth the rocket launch and then they tune in to wacth the moon landing on their TVs.The author supports his idea about studying Venus is a worth pursuit depite the dangers it presents awful agruement.
The author in "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" explains some details about venus like it nickname and why Venus got called it.But also explain
the many issue of Venus, like the fact spacecrafts survived the landing for more than a few hours because the surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit ,and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than our own plant.Also point out the fact that one of our best submarine would get crush and liquefy if it was on Venus.
Then he talk about
NASA's ideas about they could sent someone to Venus without them dieing in awful way. One Idea would be
making a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the Venus's landscape. But that proves to be stupid thought because the researchers cannot take samples of rock,gas, or anthing else from a distance therefore not worth the time. Nasa also have idea of making
simpilifed electronics made of silicon carbide that could last 3 weeks on venus which is small step up.
At author's final paragraph he started talking about "striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value". But only by using vague statements that dont mean much.For example if we over come this challenge we will gained insight on the planet itself.Personally I belive venus is dead planet void from life ,and just have some stupid rocks ,and killing heat.Also his statement about "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expaned to
meet the very edges of imagination and innovation" is dumb , we surive by not throwing humans into their deaths and waste all our limted recourse like metal,fuel.
Author supporting ideas to his statement was awful agruement. Author explain more how it horrible idea to try going to Venus then proving it would be worth it. Reading this I hope my way of thinking open your eyes to this Author's foolish ideas. while you at stop funding NASA. | 2 |
I think that when picking the president that the people of the united states should be the ones to pick instead the electoral college makes the choices of who we get for president. When you vote along with everyong else i think that the majority of the votes should get that presedent instead of everyone voteing and then it getting sent to the electoral college and them getting to pick who they want wich i dont think is right i think that the people should pick who they want by the votes. The one with the most popular vote should win. When you vote for a presidential candidate you are actually voting for slate of electors. The electoral college consist of 538 electors and a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. If you where running for president and you didnt have as many votes from the people as the ofter guy you can still win the election cause of the electoral college is the one that makes the decision to who we have as the president.
each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee. It is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not wing the national popular vote. This is a very rare thing to happen it has only ever happen twice it happen in 2000 and 1888. People think that they should abolish the electoral college because they think it is not right that they get to vote for who actually becomes president they think it should be the citizens right to pick who we want as president rather than letting the electoral college vote for us for president. In columbia they are allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the electoral college. In conclusion i think that it is not right that the electoral college gets to pick are president for us but i think that we should be able to pick are president by popular vote instead of haveing that electoral college. | 1 |
The author supports his idea by studying the comparing and contrats what the differnece between "Evening Star" (Venus ) by earth and many other planets, author says "atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus atmosphere, 90 times greater than what we experience."Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system.
Author also says " Venus has vaule, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because curiosity will likely lead us into mant equally intimidating endeavors."Minding that
Venus has a great vaule and cool experince but very dangerous.
Venus provide only limited insight on ground condition because most forms of photography and videography ineffective. Long ago was covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life. Author gives really good edivence as supporting his thoughts and why such a great experience.
The author say "Importantly researchers cannot take sample of rocks or anything else from a distance, Therefore seeking to conduct a through mission to understand."
Simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in chamber simultaing the chaos and Venus surface but while they were studying that also a Modern computer which does calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all. Help them learn a little more about Venus
Venus also referred as Earth "twin " planetary neighbor with Earth , Mars. Author had took alot of time to study and learn so much about Venus, had learn the speed, temperature, location, the things that would be on Venus, has very good evdience why would be worthy pursuit even if leads to many intimidating endeavous. | 1 |
I am against driverless cars. I feel this way because they will cost to much, there would be loss in jobs in the bmv, and if it cant get around roadblocks then why whould they be a good option.
Firstly the cost of driverless cars would be greater than normal cars now with all of the maitenence and the cost of aquaring the car. If something were to go wrong you would need to go to someone who specilizes in those types of cars. All of the high-tech gadgets in the car would cost way to much to replace. ot only the cost but what about the people who make a living off of making normal cars.
Secondly there are millions of people around the world that rely on making, and maintaning cars that would be put out of enployment because they wouldn't know how to get all of the gear into the car let alone up keeping them. Also people who make a living on making sure people know how to drive a car would be or of a job because no one would be interested in driving the would just let the car do it for them. The cars wouldn't be able to manuver around rodeblocks and accidents so whats the use for a car that doesn't know how to manuver around natural events.
Finaly natural occurences will happen and us as motorisses would need to know how to manuver around them. Imagen you're driving down a country road
at night when all of the sudden boom a deer walks out onto the road; its already
hard enough to avoid a deer when us as people are driving and even then we reduse our speed greatly when it happens so if we were to hit that deer the inpact wouldn't be that dangorous. What would the car do keep going at the same speed? If it does that one dear could kill who knows how many people in the car along with destroying the tech that comes along with it. Another situation would be what if there is a natural disaster like a hurricane and the city or town is evacuating; now lets say that there was a crash along the way and the cars don't know how to get around it, but nether do the people driving because they have relied on the cars to do the driving; no one would be able to escape the city before the hurricane because they had developed a relience on the cars.
These reasons are why I personaly thing that driverless cars should be kept in hollywood and in books because: the cost would be to high, jobs would be lost in manufactoring and upkeeping of the cars, and if the cars couldn't get around an accident or construction what good would it be. | 3 |
The Face of Mars is a natural landform and I'll tell you why. For many years we have been taking pictures and observing it to look at what it really was. We just got a new sattelite and we took the pictures. It's not what most of the media thinks.
The new pictures taken from the spacecraft show that it is clearly a mesa formed rather than an ancient artifact created by extra-terrestrial life. It was formed just like the landform would on earth and the pictures clearly show it's not even a face anymore. Everything adds up to mesa and the thought of ancient artifacts are pointless. There is no life evidence on Mars. You guys are called conspiracy theorists for a reason. The word theory is a guess. This isn't a guess. At NASA we figured out it is a mesa landform and have proof.
That is why you are wrong and no other theory could counter our results. Science facts against a civilian's thoughts, facts win. Science prooves yet another thing on another planet. HD pictures are hard proof that it is a natural landform. | 1 |
Dear Senator,
I believe that the Electoral College should stay. I believe this because even though many people think of it as a horrible way to have presidential elections, it's probably more effective this way. When people first hear about the Electoral College, they automatically assume that they don't matter to the election, that everything is taken care of by the Electoral College, that if they didn't vote, nothing would change. Now if 1 or 2 people actually had this mentality, then it wouldn't matter, but it's not just 1 or 2 people, it's a pretty big amount of the American population.
The Electoral College seems as though our government wouldn't stand for this. As I stated before, the people feel as though their vote doesn't matter. This is not true. The Electoral College only work if people vote. They need the people's votes so that they know which groups are voting for which candidate. Now of course, this system is flawed. There will always be flaws in every system that humans do. We haven't yet to have made anything flawless, but the Electoral College has far less flaws than the vote by the general population.
I assume that the entire voting system, no matter how much we change it for better, will always be flawed and have the most flaws because we are choosing the leader of our nation. Someone somewhere will always do something wrong or figure out how to cheat the system in some way. The Electoral College is going to be the best way to handle this situation for a while. The people need to realize that their vote does matter (except in the case of Democrats in Texas, Republicans in California, etc.). People need to understand that the Electoral College is the best way to go.
This whole situation about believing whether or not the Electoral College should remain should be non-existent. People just don't understand that this is the best way to go so that the vote is as fair as possible and that the votes won't come in by the thousands. I hope that this letter makes you understand the people's thoughts on this situation. I also hope it gives you the motivation to create some sort of video or program that teaches people about the Electoral College with a lot of detail so that they understand why the Electoral College exists and why it isn't a direct vote from the people. | 2 |
My position on the driverless cars after reading this article is that I am against them. I am against them for many reasons. The first one being that if the driver is not ready to take over the wheel at any one point and time they could end up crashing the car or something else bad happening. My second reason is that why have a driverless car if it doesn't know how to navigate through road work or accidents on the road. After I am done telling you my side I will then tell you the reason I think the driverless cars can be a good thing and then finish it off with a conclusion.
My first reason for being against the driverless cars is that if the driver in the car isn't ready at all times to take over the wheel he or she could end up getting hurt or hurting someone else and it wouldn't even be thier fault. I think if it's a driverless car it should be a driverless car the person in the car should be able to be doing whatever they wawnt inside the car while the car drivers for them. "This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requres." The human driver shouldn't have to be ready and any point and time i think the car should be able to handle everything road work, accidents anything.
My second reason is why have the driverless car if it doesn't know how to go through the road work or accidents. I think it should know how to go thru the road work, accidents, and all the traffic around the town or on the highways. "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." The car should know how to do this stuff on it's own or it's not really a driverless car. You still always have to be ready "just in case". So what if you need to do seomthing on the way to where ever your going and you cant do it because you have to be ready in case you need to take over the wheel.
But on the other side being for the driverless cars there are a lot of very good things that can come from using the driverless cars. One good thing about the car is that they have a lot of sensors and cameras on them. They also thought of a good way to make sure that the human driver in the car is prepared to take over. " The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over." There are also other options " Other options under consideration are flashing lights on the windshield and other heads-up display." People were also thinking about a camera that watches the human driver watching the road so that they are remaining focused on the road at alll times.
In conclusion I have told you that I am against the driverless cars as of right now. I am against them because if the human driver in the driverless car is not ready to take over the wheel at anytime things could go wrong. Alsomy second reason is i think they should be able to steer through traffic, road work and accidents. But the cars heads-up stuff and doing the things to make sure the driver knows when they need to take over the wheel is good thing, also all the sensors and cameras are a very good thing to be on the car. | 3 |
I think this would be helpful to use this technology to read students.
I agree on using this type of technology because you could tell how people and students are feeling. This is also helpful because it would be easier for teacher to help you out when your confused and having trouble with things when some students are to shy to ask for help. These classifieds 6 basic emotions of people like disgusted, happy, sad, fearful, angry, and surprise. Computers can even know if your happy or sad, some people don't really talk and mostly spend time on their computer so also for the computer to know if their happy or sad is helpful.
Finally this is helpful because people could be going through a hard time or has something that you don't know and you could even be helpful on telling them to talking it out and giving advices to them. This would make them fell better than usually. | 1 |
The face on the moon is a cool thing. Most people think that it was created by aliens. The face on the moon is just a natural landform and was not created by aliens.
Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team went and snapped a picture of the face ten times sharper than the original Viking Photos. Thousand of anxious web sufers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealling that the face on the moon was a natural lanfdorm. There was no alien monument after all.
On April 8, 2001, they went for a second look. The Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. They got got right in front of the the face. Malin's team captured an extraodinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution. It showed no alien sign. What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms commonaround the American West. It is reminded most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Pain of Idaho.
So it turns out the face on the moon is not something created by alien but, it is a natural landform.The face is a cool thing that formed a long time ago. | 1 |
Some people are arguing that the face on Mars was created by aliens. This however is not true. The claims made by these conspiracy theorists are not legit and are not based on information certified by NASA.
Others are saing that NASA knows that the face was obviously made by aliens but they just don't want to tell us. This is also not true. NASA would tell us if there were signs of life corrisponding with the face on Mars. In fact, NASA would be excited to tell us, for they have been searching for signs of life on Mars. When they took that picture of Mars in 2001, you could clearly see that it was just a natural landform. There were no airplanes or any sign of civilization. There were no aliens lounging or getting a tan on Mars.
Another thing that people forget is that these people who work for NASA are highly intelligent. They didn't go to college for four years then go into this. They went for many years. You know when people dumb things down a bit by saying, "It isn't rocketscience." Well this IS rocketscience. It is very hard work to even get a picture of the face. As it said in paragraph 9, Its not easy to target Cydonia, says Garvin. In fact, its hard work. Mars Global Surveyor is a mapping spacecraft that normally looks straight down and scans the planet like a fax machine in narrow 2.5 km-wide strips. We just dont pass over the Face very often, he noted.
These conspiracy theorists are looking over pictures and information that NASA discovered. It is simply illogical for someone to believe another who has made up a theory that completely goes against what NASA is putting out there. If they are smart enough to come up with a theory that is true then they would work for NASA.
You cannot believe everything you read, especially online. If you are looking for solid information, go to certified websites. Let's say you do want to figure out information about the face on Mars. You go to NASA's official website. That goes for every topic. You want to look for the right information so you can be informed correctly.
I hope I convinced you that the face on Mars was not created by aliens, but is just a simple natural landform. I also hope I convinced you to look for the right information for anthing you need. | 2 |
Facial Action Coding Sytems: Good or Bad?
People have bad days at school, whether it is from a home sitaution or just a bad grade. Being upset in school can affect your ability to preform well. This is why it is important for schools to have a Facial Action Coding System.
One reason why there should be Facial Action Coding Systems in schools is because it would help recongnize when the students emotion is low, faster so it would not affect their grade. For example, in the passage it says, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored...then it could modify the lesson." This proves that if the student can become more engaged then they will do better in school.
Another reason why there should be Facial Action Coding Sytems in schools is because it can give more insight into the student's home life. For example, if the student is having family problems you would be able to read it on their face with the coding system more quickly than through a human's eyes. Being sad could affect a student's scores and plummet their grade.
Finally, it would be smart and affective to have a Facial Action Coding System in the schools becuase it involves intense algorithims that kids could try and solve and maybe build one themselves. The system would promote science, technology, engineerng and math, which is very important. In the passage it talks about the types of algorithims Dr. Huang uses, "His new computer software stores similar anatomical inforamtion as electronic code." The coding Dr. Huang uses can be taught to students in order to further techonlogy in the world.
However, having a Facial Action Coding System could be a bad idea because it would not give student's the kind of action and discpline they would have with a human teacher. It is important for student's to build a bond with a teacher and to be able to open up to them. In the case with a Facial Action Coding System in the classroom the student's would not be able to have that bond.
In conclusion, it would be very benificial for Facial Action Coding Systems to be put in schools. They could help improve grades and give a better insight into problems a student may possibly be going through. It is very important to be able to read a student's emotion to help them academically. Everybody should push for Facial Action Coding Sytems to be installed in schools. | 3 |
Hi I am Luke and I am a Seagoing Cowboy. A SeagoingCowboy is someone that sails on a boat and the boat has farm animals that you take care of. I have been a SeagoingCowboy for nine years and I am still facinated at all the places we go to. I have been to the Acropolis in Greece, I also rode a Gondola in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water.
Whould you like to be a SeagoingCowboy its a lot of fun and I forgot to tell you also get to feed the farm animals. It's a very long sail but it's worth the seightseeing. The night watch is like a job you have to check on the animals every hour to make sure their okay. But the night watch could be scary one time I fell and cracked my ribs.
There are also some fun things you can do on the ship once you drop of the animals. When you returning from dropping of the animals you can play baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. Ping-Pong tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and other games that helped pass time on the boat.
The animals on the ship were pigs, sheep, chickens, cows, roosters, horses, and goats. The most liked animal was the horses because they were nice and the fur was very soft. Every time at night you could here the animals for a litlle then they would finaly settle down.
Would you like to be a SeagoingCowboy if not thats okay but it's very fun. Being a SeagoingCowboy keeps you active and it helps you learn responsibility and being trustworthy. There are signups next year in New Orleans, Louisana. This is Luke we will se you in New Orleans next year. | 1 |
Life without cars may seem like a distant dream, but dreams are becoming a reality with new expiremental towns, banning of driving in some cities, and a national day without cars. Cars are causing, in some cases, more and more pollution everywhere. Although we ignore the signs of pollution everyday, we must face the fact that we are polluting our planet, and something needs to be done about it.
Vauban, Germany. A little city that has a strange law, to live in this city, you must give up your car or pay $40,000 to park it. As a result, "70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold their car to move here" stated Source 1. Heidrun Walter, a mother of two and a media trainer stated, "When i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way". This new form of seperate suburban life from auto use is called "Smart Planning". passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissionsin Europe, and up to 50 percent in the United States. With Smart Planning, we can cut back on greenhouse gasses and start to breathe cleaner, healthier air.
Another example of over pollution problems due to cars is Paris, France. Source Two states, "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city". Congestion was down 60 percent for those five days. The reason there was so much smog in the air was due to the diesel fuel. Diesel fuel is the mail fuel used in France, 67 percent of the people there use it. Another factor could be the climate there. With "cold nights and warm days caused by the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions" Stated in Source Two.
Europe isn't the only continent seeing change. Bogota, Colombia was celebrating its 3rd straight year of, Day Without Cars. The Day Without Cars is a banning of cars and only busses and taxis are permitted. Carlos Arturo Plaza stated, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution". For the first time this year, two more Colombian cities, Cali and Valledupar are taking part in this Day Without Cars.
America too is seeing change with cars. The number of miles driven in the US peaked in 2005, but has been steadily dropping after. As of April 2013, 'the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the county was in January 1995", states Source four. Although the drop in car usage will have a benificial effect on the environment, it will have negitave implications for car industries. Ford and Mercedes are already taking steps to rebrand themselves to "mobility" companies. Although car companies aren't the only ones changing their ways due to the drop in car usage. New York started a new bike-sharing program and its skyrocketing. They have started building more bike paths and tunnel tolls are reflecting the new priorities.
Cars have done enough damage to this earth and its time we fix what we have caused. With all these new eco-friendly and car lacking ideas, we are so close to the isea where we can live without cars taking over our life. | 3 |
This technology would be useful in many ways. This technology could be very valuable, but it also could be too much for us to handle.
With technology like this it might make learning things online more interesting.
Imagine reading a boring documentory about a hero you are writing about for class, as you continue to read the article, a suggested website pops up with interesting facts about your person with more information.
Now you are more interested and the computer has done its job to change your feelings on this presentation.
We could use this technology to do many other similar things like that.
Maybe one day you are just down in the dumps and all these videos you are watching are just making you feel worse and even more bored than before.
Then a suggested video pops up and you are able to watch it and laugh and it was able to take your horrible day and turn it into just another good day.
These are the nice things this kind of technology can do for us.
Although you might think it is strange to have a computer know exactly how you are feeling when you sit down at in front of it.
There would never be a dull moment in front of the computer though.
Maybe you are just sitting around and you get bored and have nothing better to do so you get up and you make your way to the computer and play with the emotion detector just by making faces at your computer seeing if it can guess how you are feeling.
Technology is advancing quick, it is nothing like it used to be, but either you have to run with it or get ran over.
Things are changing fast we have to change with them.
This is why this technology is so valuable, we can use it in many ways even if its not important.
We can still get use out of it, so why not make it a thing? In the article it says "She is 83 percent happy, 9 percent digusted, 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry" talking about the Mona Lisa painting.
Now you cant tell me that that is not cool at all.
Its pretty amazing what they can do with technology these days so we might as well adjust to it instead of push it away.
That is why we should be able to have technology like this. | 2 |
My position on driverless cars is not approved. If the car is called "driverless" why would you still need a human in the car to be ready and alerted if an he/she had to take action in a serious situation. "Designed to notify the driver wjhen the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents."
Since the car is a driverless car why would a driver still need to be ready and alerted when the car cant manage to handle something. As in paragraph 7 it states "all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." Well if thats the case then why call it a driverless car if you still need to be alerted. That would also mean that the driver is not allowed to slack off and that the rules before the human got that car will still applie. Both eyes on the road at all times and both hands on the wheel at all times.
It would cost so much money to build new roads for the cars because in oder for the cars to drive and move in perfect condition is to have sensors that can read the positive and the negative polarity as messages in the binary code. As said in paragrahp 3 "they required massive upgrades to exsiting roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical." To much constuction would be happening at one time.
When the option of smarter roads was crossed of the list, a new option came metioning smarter cars. "They needed a whole lot more sensors." That seemslike a great idea but what if a human drvies on to many bumps and a sensor breaks off? Who knows how much it cost to fix it or where you can even find another sensor to replace the one that broke. A sensor can miscalculate a turn or and turn another way and cause a crash only because one or more sensors miscalulated.
Another thing about the sensors. what about the winter time? What if the sensors freeze or just get snow on them are the sensors water proof? So that would also put the human thats behind the wheel in a huge risk of being injured. The sensors could not pick up any positive or negative messages it need to read the binary code.
Think about if all electricy just cut off in a specific area. Wouldnt those sensors need the electircity to read the binary code? Wouldnt the sensors need to read the positive and negative messages also? If there was an power outage then no human would getting bakc to there destination or home.
Floods can be a thing that the sensors could get a shortage from. When its constantly raining and the water is rising faster by the minute and the car is driving through all of it while its splashing uner the car the sensors could definitly messed up. | 2 |
Some people believe that this landform is an alien signal. Sure, it might look like one. That still doesent that it is one.
This object in space is just another accidental landform that happened to form there. There are not any alien landforms. There is no actual proof that the aliens have built this structure. Many strange occurances happen. This just happened to be one of them.
This is a common thing that occurs on mars. This is just a coincidence that it happened to look like it was an egyptian person. Up close this big rock is just a plain rock. It is just the sun shining on it that makes it look like it is a face. Thats all that it is.
Within our article on passage 9 it says that it was super hard to find this one. So that means that there is not that many of this oddly shaped landform. If you really think about it if there were really aliens there they would build more than just one.
There needs to be more proof that the aliens built that. This is also common on earth. Some people say that they can see a celebritty in there food. Really it is just some bad shaped food item.
We just need some cold hard proof of it. For us it just looks like a big rock that has been there forever. Sure at first it looked suspicious, we did some reasearch on it the realized it was a mesa. There is no need to get so over excited about it. In passage 12 it tells you that we even see these thing on Earth.
So really it is just one big rock that is there. It is not some face in the ground that aliens built. Perhaps in the future we could end up discovering something better than this mesa. | 2 |
All of you look at the face on the moon all the time but there is more than just the moon with an face on it. Well, the planet im talking about right now is Mars. Scientist believe that rocks just so happened to form an object that looks like an human face, also they do not think that the alien theory is correct. Others think that alien life on mars is possible. Im going to tell you why the scientist are correct, and why the media is incorrect.
Scientist believe that this cannot be alien artwork because they are certian it is an Mesa they say these mesa's where very common alll around Cydonia. Also this was said to be form by multiple shadows giving away illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. Fortunantly NASA got in the news, the paper, magazines, books, talk shows, and TV!
The media is incorrect becuase they aren't as able to go in a deep as the scientist can the media [people in america] can only use the resoures they as scientist has th right equipment to get the job done. Also if there was some kind of aliens they be very far we would have been able to see the aliens establishment.also there would be evidence baount movement if it was created by aliens they must've been strong to be able to haul all of those rocks. One more thing is education none os these people are just trained every day on how to use these machines it are lots and lots of hardwork and dedication. People have to go to college to get an degree on this very complicated work that is done by these specialy picked scientist.
So, in the end the scientist were scientificly right because there is lots of Mesa's around Cydonia. Also scientist got a little bit of and bebifit by being noticed in social media. The media were incorrect be cuase there was not alot of resoures the media could use unlike the scientist [or people that research at NASA] withc have all of the equipment they need to get the job done. Also education not every citizen is tought how to use these machines even if they do have them. Even more evidence from the alien establishment and/or tracks to lead to this creation. | 2 |
Although, some may say its invassive to have this type of technology in the classroom, many experts belive it would be revlotionary to have this in the classroom. This wouldn't only be good for the teachers, it would also be great for the students.
Just imagine you're sitting in your class and the teacher is going on about something that your not that interested in. Sudenly they change the subject to something that you're actually excited about. The passage states "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored-Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor". This would be great for the students because it would cause them to actually enjoy wants going on and the teacher will be able to taylor the lesson to their perferce. It would be even better for the teachers because it would only tell them that the students are bored, it will be able to inform the teacher if they are going too fast or too slow. The teachers will be able to make that adjument on the fly. Which could lead to better test scores and so on.
On the other side of the story, some students and teachers may veiw this Facial Action Coding System too invasive. Not everyone wants to get read like a book. Some students could've been in a bad mood so they walked in class witha bored or upset facial expression. Which can to the teacher trying to fix something that they have nothing to do with. Many students have many diffrent preferces, some students may find one subject interesting while another group of students do not. Then that could put a lot of pressure on the teachers.
Overall, the FACS would be a extreamly valuable in the class room. Not only will it be able to help teachers help their students, it could also lead to much higher test scores and so much more. | 2 |
The use of this technology is not useful because this really wouldn't be a good investment and not helpful in a learning enviornment. people might also find it as an invations of their privacy using it in class. The money can be spend towards a better education system and allowing our schools to get proper funding for what is needed. It wouldn't be helpful due to the fact that there is no real need for this technology when we could spend in other programs.
The money that is put into this for detecting emotions out of a straight face, but this can be considered as an invasion of privacy. This really isn't useful much due to the fact that it will try and read your thoughts practically. Even though it would be fun to see what someones mood is on a straight face, it be more of a burdon to have and wouldn't serve a major purpose in the learning enviornment. The only real reason to use it is if you were to test to see if someone was lying about a topic.
The money to invest into these machines would be costly and hard to afford for the schools that would need to buy it. This would cause the fundings for supplies maintence and learning programs to go down and would be difficult to run the school properly. This wouldn't be effective having it in the classrooms because of the software and the risk of kids possibly messing it up cause the school to fix or replace the machine. Schools already are getting budget cuts from the government so they have to ration and shorten supply due to money cost. These new machines would take up too much of the school budget.
The counter claim it that these new tools can be used to help aid with children and behavior, and allow students to be more honest with one another. This can also help the teacher see if one student is hiding something. The teacher can use the information from the software and help dicipline the students if need be. Teachers can also see if students are cheating or are lying to them and can be able to organize the class with it's help. These can be good but this new machine can invade on personal privacy and wll not help much other than dicipline.
The main thing to see is that this machine can be useful in some categories but wil not be of much benefit. This technology wouldn't be useful due to the fact that this sytem would cost more and would be invasive on the children. The schools would be more better off focusing on supplies and equipment to further imporve the school and learning. | 3 |
In 2000 when Al Gore got more indevidual votes then George W. Bush nationwide he did not win the election. It is because of the corrupt prosses of the Electoral College that he did not gain presidency. It is this among other things we must do away with the Electoral Collegeif we want to run a true democrocy.
There are many people who would argue that the Elecotal College should stay and be apart of how we elect our president. Richard A. Posner author of
Defence of the Electoral College claims the candidate for president must have a trans-rigional appeal (source 3 paragraph 18). This however is not true. According a map that shows the breakdown of the number of electoral votes each state gets he/she could very well just get the votes from two regions and win the election. Yes you could say that two regions are trans-rigional but this idea is based on collection of states from each reagion. Not one or two. Ponser also asserts that, "...the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election"(paragraph 20). Here he is saying that only the Swinging States-such as Ohio Hawaii-would determine who the president is for the whole counrty. How is letting a handful of people decide who the presedent will be a reprsentation of the counrty as a whole? Short answer, its not. It would be foolish to put the choice for president into the hands of few, its like puting all our eggs into one basket and then throwing it off a roof.
There are a numerus amount of things that are not good about the electoral college. Bradford Plumer from the foundation for National Progress and author of
Mother of Jones says that if there was to be a tie everything would be up to the House of Representitves(source two paragraph 12). That means each state gets one vote. One! The reresentitive from Wyoming-who have 500,000 voters-would have the same amount of power as the representitive from California-who has 35 million voters. This is in no way to run a country with fifty people representing about 250 million people. Plumer also states that the vorters can't always pick who their electors are (paragraph 10). While the electors cannot be someone in office, who is to say that they may say one thing about who they will vote for but infact they vote for someone eles? It has happend before. Every one should get one vote and that be that non of this winner takes all stuff.
Finally we get to the part about the District of Columbia or Washington D.C.. The Office of the Federal Register wrote an article on the Electoral College and it says that D.C. is given three electors and treated like a state(source 1 paragraph 4). In one way this could be a good thing but in this casse it is a bad thing. The District of Columia is not a state and holds many goverment officials. Infact many people don't live in D.C. they live in one of the neighboring states. So why are we letting them have as much of a say as Vermount or Alaska or even one of the Dakostas?
To wrap this all up the corrupt system in which we elect a group of people to do what we want is not a very effective way to run a counrty in stage four of the Demographic Transistional Stages. Although president George W. Bush was an adiquate president there is still unfair that Al Gore had not become our president when he hat the popular vote. | 4 |
The author says that NASA's possible solution would be allowing scientists to float above the fray like how airplanes and jets float above storms. As they say in paragraph 5 "Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landcape." NASA says the it wouldn't be as hot but it would still be 170 degrees Fahrenheit. Its not very easy but humans will still be able to survive.
Personally I think its still dangerous because 170 degrees Fahrenheit is still really hot, the tempature on earth isn't that high. Also the passage says in paragraph 6 "Researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else." The passage says that because if NASA is going to have them floating above the premises they wont be able to conduct experiments because, they won't be able to take anything. Also because if just floating above the premises is 170 degrees Fahrenheit then when you get further down it'll be hotter so that means that if they try to grab a rock it could burn through gloves and possibly leave them with serious burns.
But NASA is working on other approaches because in pargraph 7 the passage says "Some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." The author says in paragraph 8 " 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."
In paragraph 2 it shows that they have tried numerous times to send little spacecrafts to Venus but they have only been there for a few hours which is dangerous because if a spacecraft only stays there for a few hours imagine how long a human could stay there without over heating or coming back with serious health issues.
The author says in paragraph 2 "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for a good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades."But there are numerous factors to why Venus is a challenging planet for humans to study as they explain it in third paragraph.
In pargraph 3 the passage says "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus' atmosphere." Which makes it a whole lot dangerous for humans to travel there to conduct experiments. But thats why they haven't sent anything there since three decades because they wanna make sure no one gets hurt. | 0 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" they introduce new techonology, but it's not like our phones or computres this techonology will be able to detect any emotion you are fealing, rage,love,depression anyhing that has to do with emotion. They are predicting that this technology will be able to tell wheter or not a kid is confused or bored class. This could be good because the teacher might be willing to make up new and improved lessons intsead of the same boring old thing.
The reason I am against the Facial Action Coding System is becuase not everyone should be able to know what I am feeling. My facial expressions might show that I am upset over something so drastic but, its really i didn't get any pasta for dinner last night. Your expressions can read into to much. Then what, what are you suppose to when you find out everyone in your class either bored or upset you cant talk to everyone about their emotions not most people would want to open up, Which is understandable because you didnt come to school to have your teacher read your facial expression and start to anaylze everything about you.
Although I am glad we are able to make so much new technology and such high technology like FACS. It is not right to use the technology on students everytime they come into a classroom. The Facial Action Coding system should not be used in the classroom. | 1 |
When my friend told me about how he was going Europe and wanted me to go, I was the happiest man alive. I was happy that I was going to Europe, but even happier that I was going to be a part of the United States Relief and Rehabilitation program. On this program you have the chance to take care of horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. This is a wonderful opertunity for everyone to take.
I said that the cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy. We have fun doing our work and also have fun with our extra time. When the animals our dropped of, on the way home we play games such as table tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, whilltling. This games help us pass time do we are never bored.
When I was little in worked on my aunt Katie's farm which had prepared me for the dangers at sea. On my second trip I served as a watchman. My jobs was to check on the animals every hour and report back to the captain. I was running back to the animals when I almost fell over the rail. There are a lot of fun things to do on the job, but there are also some risks you take.
I am very grateful for this opportunity because it made me more aware of animals and people of other counties and their needs. This awareness stays with me leading me family to host a number of international visits for many year after. | 1 |
In today's society, when people are asked if they would give up their cars, they would be shocked. No would be the most common answer. However, the advantages of limiting car usage are great. General stress decreases, and polution to the environment also decreases. People are not only helping themselves, but also helping the ecosystem.
Stress. Everyone has it; but what if it could be decreased just by using personal transportation less? In Germany, there are certain communities that ban car usage. No cars are allowed inside the city. Street parking, driveways, and home garages have become obsolete. One citizen of one of the towns said, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" (
In German Suburbs
). The anxiety one gets when driving a car is almost unreal. Most kids 16 and up now just do not get their licenses just because the thought of driving scares them. Citizens of cities that have just one day where cares are prohibited, such as Bogota, Colombia, love that singular day out of the year. Most say its a good opportunity to increase mental health (
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota)
. Stress not only is awful for mental health, but also physical. 75% of those who have high levels of anxiety, or are exposed to it, are tired all the time, often feel weak, or sometimes may even cause heart issues. The number one reason people have stress is by driving. So using cars less is the best way to decrease stress, and promote good mental health.
Most people that read or watch the news know that the environment is hurt, and that the human population is at fault. How? Excess usage of motor vehicles. As stated in
In German suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars , passenger cars are responsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, and up to 50% in some car-intensive areas in the United States. These statistics are horrible. Paris, France enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city after days of near-recorcd pollution rates (
Paris bans driving due to smog
) Not only was nature being hurt, but the population of France. Breathing in smog is unnatural. Thehuman body can not take that many polutants, and so it tries to fix itself. In doing this, lung cancer rates rise, pnumonia rates rise, diseases in general become more abundant. Paris took action. When enforcing the driving ban, congestion was down 60% in just five days. The only partial solution to this rising amount of smog is to decrease driving rates, and to use deisel gas less. I hate this test so much why am I even writing this I feel like a robot just going through the motions and its your fault. I blame you.
Rome was not built in a day, so getting state legislatiors or even government officials to agree on a partial driving rule may take a while. However, citizens can spread the word of the evils of driving. You, dear reader, can fix this problem. Try carpooling to work, riding your bike to places near you instead of driving. Do what you can to reduce polution and stress. Influence your friends and family to do the same. Together, we can rase awareness of the evils of driving. Together, we can rule the world. | 3 |
Showing the Students Emotions: Is it a Good Idea?
What if teachers could tell how your feeling? With this new software that is out, they could possibly do that. The software is called the Facial Action Coding System, and it could tell you what your feeling at that point of time. In my opinion, if teachers had these it would not be a terrific thing. Having them constantly knowing your emotions is not a good thing at all, and could make them mad, or make them very happy. In this essay, ill tell you about why I am against this device being in schools.
Everybody has been bored in a class before, its compleatly normal, but its in a way the teacher cant see it. Students probably would not like having their teacher use the software on them, to then have the teacher mad at them for being bored, or to have the teacher worried there not doing something right. In paragraph 3 it explains that the Facial Action Coding System begins when the computer constructs a 3-D model of the face, which will include all 44 major muscles, so they can see how your feeling. It can classify 6 diffrent emotions, such as happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear and sadness. I think that your emotions are your emotions, and that if you are feeling down or sad, that you can tell someone, not have it put down on a screen.
This tool wouldn't be that valuable in school beause we are already surviving without it. You could just tell emotions from looking at a persons face, as stated in paragraph 5, and you could just ask them what is wrong. I dont think you should use that type of technology on the students in a highschool or elementry school because it. Using this on a class of highschool students could come out with a whole lot of responces because students in highschool feel alot. I know I woudnt want to have my emotions checked on a screen. It just doesnt sound right to me.
The Facial Action Coding System is a wonderful idea, you can see peoples emotions, which is really brilliant, but I just dont think it would be good in classrooms. It could have the teacher know if your bored, if your sad, mad, or in disgust, which as a student, I know I wouldnt want my teacher to know that information about me. This device showed the gloomy looking Mona Lisa was feeling, which is tramendous, but I dont think it would be a good idea for students in a class room. | 3 |
The use of Facial Acting Coding System would not be a practical use for the students in a class room. Many people would not want a computer looking at them to see their facial expression to determine what they like or what they dislike. Many people can often pull of a fake expression that is good enough for a computer to calculate, like in paragraph seven, which includes instructions on how to do a real smile compared to a fake smile.
Most people cover up cameras on their laptops,computers, and phones for privacy and safety. Anyone who would cover up their camera would most likely not want their face constantly being scanned to tell emotion or what they like and dislike.
In paragragh seven, the article briefly explains how to look happy, which anyone can do to fool an emotion scanner. Computers are often accurate, but only do what is coded and not anything else. If you were to always be happy but not look happy, the Facial Action Coding System would not be something useful for you or students in a classroom.
The Facial Action Coding System can have many flaws in its design and would not be useful for students in a classroom. It may be innaccurate and not scan correctly or not be used at all for safety and privacy. there are many ways that the Facial Actions Coding System would not be useful and would not help students learn, just show how they feel about some things like websutes and ads. | 2 |
If people look at images of Cydonia Mars, they will come to see what looks like a mysterious face. A plethora amount of people belive that this face was made by aliens. Aliens are not real, and if they where we would have come to account with them by this day in age. It is humorous to think that people belive in aliens. These claims are rediculous to even think about if you have common sence.
The mysterious face on Mars is just a mesa. It is just something that came to be like how the Grand Canyon was formed. As the cameras get better pictures, the face starts to disappear. The picture was took in 1976 when technology was just now new to us. The conspiracy theory is not true.
People claim that then new picture of the face is not a valid source because it was "cloudy." These claims are rediculous. We went up into space again to find that it still looked nothing like a face. If this was created by aliens, then that means the pyramids were created by aliens, or Niagara Falls was created by aliens. It is the same as saying the universe was created by aliens.
The face is just a natural landform just like any natural landform on Earth. If the face was supposidly created by aliens then you could also say that about any natural landform on Earth. In fact, the new pictures of the face look nothing like a face.
People who believe these theories must have a huge imagination. If these aliens are real, how come we havent come to account with them yet. Many people believe that the face was made by aliens. The mysterious face on Mars is was not created by aliens. | 2 |
Looking at the factors of being able to visit Venus the author has some great points in the passage due to how dangerous it seems, The author is very correct on even asking why scientists are so drawn to visiting this unexplored planet for good reasons alone. The planet Venus has some pros and also cons. it may well once was a planet just like Earth a long time ago but that we only know. and some pros is that maybe that planet could possibly even help scientists with new possible discoveries.
Elon musk is one who is also trying something beyond of what we have ever set our sights on. he is trying to find a way to colonize mars!!, yet we also have plans to visit Venus. The Author also has some very good points on why its so difficult to even get close to the planet at all. When stated "Each previouse mission was unmanned, and for a good reason" in paragraph 2 is almost forshadowing the dangers of the plannet Venus.
Due to a very thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide that blanket venus is one of the dangers of the planet, so looking at the factors again on why the Author thinks why Venus is very difficult to set foot on or even get close to, We can just look at the planet from a safe distance. for now. | 1 |
I think that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because you may get to see new sights. You may also play fun and exiting games while your off shift or while going on the return trips. You can also help out with fun things like feeding the animals or be put on night shift.
The sights you get to see could be amazing. The thing you get to see could be amazing. When you are a Seagoing Cowboy you get to see all types of new things like new fish or new landscapes. Some off the landscapes you might not be used to, but that means that you could enjoys the veiw! As your out on the sea you can see fish that you might of never seen before. You could also see reefs that are colorful and bright!
When your on the ship it could get quite borning. You might want to do something fun. Well on the return trip you get to play all the games etc. you want. Some games for when your in the mood for somehting sporty you can play baseball and volleyball where their are empty holds where the animals were kept. You can also play table tennis, fencing, and boxing. After you played the sports you might be ready for a relaxing game such as board games or cards. If your not into those kinds of things then you can just read or whittle. There is always a fun option.
When there are tons of animals on the ship there is always work to be done. To help out you can feed the animals and/or clean their stalls. You could also pull up bales of hay and bags of oats from the lower holds of the ship. When you feed the animals you have to feed and water them 2 or 3 times a day. To be extra helpful you could help clean. It may not be the funnest job, but it helps a lot. When we get to our destination there are tons of animals to load off the ship. You coild help unload them or if we are back at our returning place you could help load the animals and all the supplies into the ship.
Those are only some of the reansons why you should become a Seagoing Cowboy. Its a lot of fun, but it can be hard sometimes. You may get hurt, but thats okay. Thanks for your time. | 3 |
Participate in the Seagoing Cowsboys program because you go on different trips such as New Oreleans. Seagoing Cowboy program can make you aware about the different countries and how their culture is.
If you participate in this experience and aventures you will have lots of fun to like playing games such as baseball and volleyball and more exciteing games. When you go on these trips to different countries you can explore and find out amazing things about it . Now doesn't that seem exciting!!! Also you can take care of animals horses,young cows,and mules.
You can go to Greece and see the Acroplis and riding on the gondola ! If I was you I will participate very very quick. Whats' more awesome than going on a gondola ride!! The best part is you get to cross the Atlantic Ocean. So many things you can see and visit on this program. Also you can tour a castle in Crete
and the Panama Canel. All of these exciting trips and tours you can"t miss out .
Take my advise and you will have dream of a life time. You might get to visit a country you wanted to go to. Participate in this program you will have lots and lots of fun. Riding on the Gondola you can't miss that! So sign up and enjoy this Seagoing Cowboys Program. Visit many countries and help people in these countries. This will be the best program you ever been in. | 2 |
Driverless cars can be the next big thing in the world. There are many ways how technology could imrove in a future. Just imagine how esier it's gonna be for you to not drive a car when you tired, or you don't have to worry about drunk drivers, or people who driving over the speed limit.
In example these cars would know how to drive and take you whatever you want while you texting or speaking on your phone. They would know the speed limit so speeding wouldn't be possible. You wouldn't have to worry about car accidents.
Secondly, as started in the article, these cars would use half of fuel of today's taxis and ofer far more flexibity than a bus. So many people complain about spending so much money on gas. Gas is realy issue but with these cars you don't have to worry about because these cars not only would save your money but also be better for enviorment.
Lastly, we need improvments in our world. You see on the news a lot of accidents involving cars. For an example, car crashes, people geeting hit by the cars, or drinking and driving are a lot of problems. Having these cars we would change our future by saving so much lives.
In conclusion, these cars could prevent accidents, stop drinking and driving, tale less gas, and improve our future. After hearing those reasons how could you not support driverless cars? Advancing to driverless cars could be the great thing for our world. | 2 |
"the challenge of exploring venus"
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will talk about the challenge of exploring venus and whats the importance about this article.
venus is sometimes called evening star and is actually a planet
is the second planet from our sun and is closest in distance to he earth and he author said that venus is a challenge for humans and said that for some reason no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours.
on the venus surface temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet and these conditions are extreme for the humans venus includes familiar features such as valleys mountains and craters like the earth for this facts venus is a important reason to the humans study the planet and also have not easy conditions , but survivable for humans and another proyect about this is looking back to an technology called mechanical computer.
i think that this article is so intersting because the author explain some important fact about the venus planet and i think that is a good investigation from the venus palnet. | 1 |
Dear state senator,
By my own opinion i really consider of having the votes based off popularity and also facts . I belive that some of the people that do want to become president someday will not become that because their votes mainly deals with the electoral colloges and what they really when the counts of the votes should be really counted off what the people of the united states really think or who they think our president should really be. Some people think we should have a black president or a white president green,purple,or blue it really doesnt matter in my opinion i think i am speaking for everyone when i say that wewant a person that would make great descisions for the umited states a person that is welling to go above and beyond to make our countrymore better and a safe place to all . And at the end of the day people in america doesnt want or think that it is right to have a female president sitting in the seat of a president,i say simply because the people of the USA doesnt think women have enough power or orders, or authority i think women should have the same rights as men. But at the end of the day i think that the people of the united states should have a right to choose who they want to serve as or president , someone who would make change and make the USA a better and safer place for everyone. Someone whois very well educated and have a outlook or reach of things. It shouldnt be based off the electoral colleges because america might disagree with their descison and cause a whole lot of chaos. | 0 |
Polution not only for our well beings, but to think that if we contribute to the matter that is at stake than the overall wellness of our world will change not only for us but for our children. And therefore laws should be allowed to be in certain parts of the U.S, and there should be some sort of back up from the citizens aswell to what President Obama believes.
Like mentioned in Source 1 last scentence in paragraph 7 "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States"; and this alone is why we should worry for our atmosphere. I mean think about it 50% is a huge amount and to think that it could be grealty decreased by certain laws that ban cars at certain times.
Again i find it amazing that our government has the thought of polution in their minds and plans for example "President Obama's ambitious goals to curb the United States' greenhouse gsas emissions. And studies show that fewer Americans are buying cars and getting fewer licences aswell which is beficial to the enviroment and overall wellness of the world.
To conclude Polution should be something to keep in mind therefore laws should be allowed to be in certain parts of the U.S, and there should be some sort of back up from the citizens aswell to what President Obama believes. | 1 |
I think that the electoral college should stay, because the electoral college is a process that with help our country and future problems. most states have a winner-take-all system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate. After the presidential election, the governor prepares a certificate of ascertainment listing all of the candidates who ran for president in the state along with the names of their respective electors. the state's certificates of ascertainments are sent to the congress and the national archives as part of the official records of the presidential election.
The electoral college consists of 538 electors. each candidate running for president in the state has his or her own group of electors. the electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their resonsibilities are. The founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by vote for president and vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress.
the electroal college is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. when you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. Each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee and that trust is rarely betrayed, however it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national. | 0 |
He sed that the boat was good andit tolk a long time to go to aferk and one rane nit he fell on the loder and something stop his fall the co boy played a lot of sports and he leeding his famels and he ekplord in the se cor.
loke was a sekd for coboy and he thot his lifewould chang afterhis high school year. there was a war in 1945 over in Europe. they lift so they can help those people and so they can have food. luke turned 18 befor and wich meant he could be drefted.
it tolk a lot of weeks to crross the Atlantic ocean from the eastern cost. they were helping them with aunt katie's farm as a boy ahd prepared luke.
luke found time to have fun on boared. The cowboy played baseball basketball and volleyball. he also they were
played boxing reading, whittling and they were also playing games. | 0 |
Have you ever walked a certain number of miles in order to get where you needed to go? In Germany, 70% of families don't own a car and walk to get where they need to go.
In Vauban, Germany, Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars. (Source 1) Most of Vauban's familes do not own cars and almost 60% sold a car to move to Germany. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and a mother of two. Ms. Walter loved to walk the verdant streets and hear the swish of bikes and the noise of young children playing around. It always drowned out the occasional distant motor of the cars coming form wherever. People are trying to reduce the car usage in the United States as well. In the United States. the Enviromental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities, and legislators are starting to act, if cautiously. (Source 1) In America, recent studies shows that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less, and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. Researchers think Americans don't want to drive anymore. The number of miles drivien un the United States got to its highest in 2005 and ever since than it number has decreased tremendously. 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. (Source 4) Part of the reason the American car percentage is decreasing is becuase the recession and the number of unemployed people we have in the U.S. We can't afford new cars so thats also some of the reasoning behind the usage of cars decreasing in the U.S.
One day in Paris,there was a enforced partial driving ban to clear the air of global city. Citizens of Paris we're not allowed to drive their cars and we're ordered to leave this motor vehicles at home or suffer a 22-euro fine 9 ($31). almost 4,000 driviers were fined and 27 people had their cars towed for their reaction to the fine. diesal fuel was blamed since france, compared to a 53.3% average of diesel engines in the rest of Western Europe. Delivery companies complained on how they couldnt do their job while plug-in cars, hybrids, and cars carrying three or more passengers were excused. Public transit was free of charge for three days. The smog was cleared enough Monday for the ruling French party to rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday. (Source 3) Bogota, Colombia has made a holiday out of the ban for cars. Every year for one day people cannot use their motor vehicles. Buses and taxis were the only motor vehicle permitted. Violators faced a $25 fine if the rules were broken. This has been the third year the holiday "Day Without Cars" has effectively taken place. "Its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution", said business Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two-seat bicycles with his wife.
In conclusion, cars have a great use in this world but i think we would be better off without cars. In different countries there is a even or a holiday where it is illegal to use cars. It would be very efficent to have a day for no cars in the United States. It would show people the importance on walking and not to rely on their car to get them places. | 1 |
The author does not support his idea well that studiying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. The author talks about people being facinated with Venus, that Venus is the closest planet to Earth in proximity and features, and that it would be cool if humans were able to explore Venus. What he does not talk about well is the why. Why Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers.
Here is a part of the artical where the author talks about why it would be cool to study Venus. "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system,"(paragraph 4). The author mentions humans being facinated with Venus and how the planet was once Earth-like. This information does help us see how it would be cool to visit Venus and it tells us some information about Venus. On the other hand the author doesn't give a solid reason for why studying Venus is worth it and despite the risks. "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors,"(paragraph 8). The author does not tell us what the insight is that will be gained from exploring the planet. Also what does human curiosity leading us into other endeavors have to do with how studying Venus is a worthy pursuit. Their reason and support for studying Venus is weak. The author trys to use their own opinion to convince the readers that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit. The author aslo doesn't give a sound explanation as to how the danger of heat can be overcome for enabling the trip to be successful. "Some simplified eclectronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions,"(paragraph 7). The author explains that there is a material that can survive on Venus for a little while. A problem to this could be that the metal might actually not work on Venus because since no one has ever been ther how would they know exactly what it is going to be like. That is why they are going there in the first place to explore Venus. They could have totally messed up on the calculations of surviving on the planet and it might be a failure. The pros of this mission are far less important than the cons to this mission. If they succed then they can say they know what on Venus and can gain some information. If they fail then people can die, a load of money is gone because of the time, energy, and resorces put into the exploration are gone.
The author does not support his idea well that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. They only give a few reasons why the trip would be worthy. They use their own opinions as facts trying to pursuade the readers to agree with their ideas. They also don't fully explain how they can by pass the dangers involved with this exploration study on Venus. Since the author has used their opinion as facts and cannot explain without a doubt that this pursuit can be successful despite the dangers I have to say that they did not do well at supporting their idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. | 4 |
Image you were having different emotions going through your body all at one time but you dont want anybody to know that you are feeling this way. Well there is a machine called the Facial Action Coding System it can detect different emotions that go through out a humans body.
The machine called the Facial Action Coding System is valuable to students in a classroom because if a student is having all these different emotions going through their body and they dont know what to do about it, the machine could really help them with the problem. For example if a student is having the emotions of being happy, sad, angry, or even disgusted about something the machine could really help let someone know that the student is having these emotions going through their body. In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" it states "Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements-- in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa. This states the machine would know the emotions of humans and even paintings of someones face.
In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System it valuble for students in a classroom because the machine can send someone a signal about the student that is going through different emotions. | 1 |
The idea of sending humas to another country in space has been a livley debate for many years now. Following the US putting the man on the moon the idea has grown and sicentificly become thought of as more attaniable. But, before sending any human life form to another planet it is important to conduct the proper scientific tests and research to see what the outme of such an expiremt may hold. The passage "The Challenge Of Exploring Venus" presents strong evidence to prove that sudying Venus is a worthy pursit despite the potential dangers.
The artilce states that venus is the closest planet to earth. This would lend itself to being an easier task to study. Studys have already shown that the thick atmoshere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide. This allows the conclusion to be drawn that extra saftey measurs would need to be taken in the expiremental stage of the project.
With such harsh conditions that are ever so hazerdous the quester arises 'why study venus?'. The text gives prime ezxamples to why we should indeed study venus. Venus is the planet that is most earthlike. It has rocky sediment, valleys,mountans,and craters. Features like this present the most likey chance of surviving an expedition to study the plannet as the author claims it should be done.
With a world full of fast pace ever changing technology it is important that scientifical innovative leaps be taken to 'keep up". With such a hefy task such as studying a potential non earthly inbabital plannet it is importand thourough steps be taken in research,planning,simulation of the conditions and reflection be taken before plans for a real expdition begin being formed. There is true value in studying beings,concepts,terrain, and values that escape the bound of plannet earth. The studying of venus is simply a step in the right direction. | 2 |
Should we study venus or throw away the idea because all the dangers? Venus is the closest planet to Earth. Therefore if anything happened to Earth we would have to move to our "twin" Planet. Even though Venus has the hottest surface temperature out of all the planets and we humans wouldn't last a second on the planet. Scientist are finding ways to study the planet and see if we possibly could create life there.
"many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus". The author includes ways, like this, to prove how and why we should get knowledge about Venus. He includes in paragraph 5 about NASA and their ideas for sending humans to study the planet. "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray"
There are many reasons to why we souldn't study Venus and get close to the planet, but there are also enough reaons to why we should. Something could happen to Earth and we humans have no way to leave and restart everything that we built on earth because we have no where to go. If scientist study Venus and find ways for us to live on the planet, then we have a back up plan. " Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limted by dangers and doubts but should be expanded too meet the very edges of imagination and innovation". | 1 |
I'm Luke. I was a Seagoing Cowboy. Joining the Seagoing Cowboys program can be lots of fun. I was a Seagoing Cowboy. There are so many places to see and travel through. I went to Greece, Europe, China, Venice, Panama Canal, and Acropolis. I've been many places as a Seagoing Cowboy, maybe you should try it too.
It may have taken a while to get to those places but it was still quite fun. I had my friend, Don Reist, along with me. Don invited me to tag along with him. How could I turn it down? It was going to be the opportunity of a life time!
The sea can be dangerous too. I remember that one rainy night, after making my hourly trip to the captain, I slid down a slippery ladder on my backside. My heart raced as I shot feet first toward an opening on the side of the ship. A small strip of metal along the edge stopped my slide, keeping me from flying overboard into the dark Atlantic. I was happy to be alive but, I couldn't work for a few days since I had cracked my ribs during the fall.
Becoming a Seagoing Cowboy means that you can help others who were hurt in World War II and need food suplies, animals, and more. I'm so grateful for the opportunity I had. It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs. This awareness stayed with me, leading my family to host a number of international students and exchange vistors for many years.
On the return trips I had lots of fun! My friends and I would play Baseball and Volleyball games in the empty holds when the animals were unloaded. We would have table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and the games helped pass the time.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy is fun, dangerous, and helpful to others. You should think about joining, Yes, it may be dangerous and you may get hurt but even though all that happens you know it's for a good cause. Imagine all the places you'll see, somewhere like, Greece, Italy, China, Europe, and maybe places I haven't been to. Think about how much fun you'll have losing but having fun winning and having fun when playing games with the others. Also getting to help others who need.
That's the main reason I became a Seagoing Cowboy. To help others in need. I'm not saying you have to join, just know, it could be lots of fun. | 2 |
It should be able to be used in the classroom because, people like themselves or the teacher should know how they are feeling today or want to know how they are feeling on certrain days, and what emotions they aren having. It also can be used in science so we should be able to learn this especially sincewe all have emotions and why not spice science up since we do have a science class. It can help us learn more about emotions and how can we actually can tell how we are really feeling. I think we should also have them because it said in paragraph 6 "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored", and I think that will help us cause the teachers can then see we need help trying to understand or need to take breaks becuase we have became bored and or confuse. I also would love to use this to find out how my friends emotions are on a certain day because I wouldnt want to bother them if they are angry or sad. I would also use it for my teacher. I think it would be fun to use in school and it would actually catch the children atttention in school. In my opinion this would be great becuase just like they used it on the Mona Lisa picture we can use it on many other pictures and find out alot more and how people emotions were. I know i would love to use them on slavery pictures. | 1 |
Face On Mar's
Have you ever heard a face that is on Mar's. See there is a face on Mar's that has been there for 25 years. Reseachers have came a cross it when they were doing study of the planenet called Mar's. The NASA took a picture of the face but the reaseaches really couldn't see it. This took place in 1976.
This Face looked like a human face. Reaseaches was amazed how this face popped up on mar's. The face was talked about all around the world. It was in magazines, books, and radio talk showes. This face on mar's was amazing at time. It started out in Hollywood and started to spread around.
The face on mar's started to die out of it's fame. Then reaseaches came a cross it again but this time flew over it and took a photo of it again. This time the reaseaches could see a little more deatail of the face. This took place in 1998. The NASA say they flew over it for the first time.
Reaseachers study on it really hard but thire mission faulted again. Everyone says that they think it was from alliens. Even a few reaseachers say they think it was from alliens. It was hard for them to see if it was from alliens or not.
The reaseachers mission started up again and they had more tecnlogy and to see the face way better. So this time they took a photo and sent it to NASA. they had really good detail now. They found out what it was and it didn't come frome alliens. they took the picture back in 2001. the picture showed a Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa. | 1 |
I think the development of these cars could help with so much. I am for the development of these driverless cars for three reasons. First because they help asist drivers and warn drivers of possible problems, they could help with preventing car accidents, and they also allow the driver to still have control over their vehicles.
These driverless cars allow drivers to drive easy without worry, because they warn the driver of any possible accidents. These cars would be very helpful in many aspects. For example the " Traffic Jam Assistant", announced in 2013 by BMW, can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves and notify the driver when the road ahead might require human skills, such as navigating through work zones or around accidents.
Secondly, the use of these driverless cars could help prevent a lot of car accidents. The "Traffic jam Assistant" can also handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but its touch sensors make sure the drivers hands are always on the wheel. Also GM has developed seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object.
Lastly, these driverless cars are good to use because they can still allow the driver to be in control of the vehicle if the driver decides they want to drive themselves. The driver would just have more security by having a driverless car.
In conclusion i think having driverless cars would benefit people a lot. Developing these cars is a good idea because these smart cars or driverless cars help asist drivers and insure security. They could also prevent car accidents,and they still allow drivers to be in control of their vehicle. These are the reasons why i support the development of these cars. | 2 |
The author of this passage supports his idea of the worthiness and challenging exploration of Venus throughout the passage. The author states that Venus is referred as our "twin" or "sister planet" and explains the surface terrain and atmosphere of Venus. The author also explains why there has not been any spacecrafts sent to the planet in such a long time. In the pasage it also states that "Venus could have been like our earth a long time ago and that it has similar features relating to Earth. the author Also explains why scientist are still fasinated and are still trying to figure out how to productivly examine Venus.
Venus is our "twin" when it comes to different types of features he planet has. Venus is occasionally the closest planet to Earth. Since Earth, Venus, and Mars have different sizes and mass they orbit the sun and different speeds. This means that sometimes Mars is closer to us than Venus at the right time of year. Scientist examine and still want to study our neighboring planet Venus because they belive life couldve been supported on the planet at one point in time and want to know if the planet has had such capabilties.
In the passage it states that there has not been a rover or a unmanned spacecraft sent to Venus in more than three decades. The reason that there hasnt been a manned mission before is that no spacecraft or rover has survived more than a few hours. Venus has a thick atmosphere that blankets the planet that contains 97 percent carbon dioxide. The planet also has a even more challenge to overcome,the clouds of highly corrosive acid hovering Venus has destroyed spacecrafts that have gone through them. The surface tempature of Venus is 800 degree Farenheit, and the extreme pressure on the planet is 90 greater than Earths. Venus has the hottest surface temperture in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to the sun the additional forces on the planets surface and atmosphere such as; volcanoes, lighting storms, and very powerful earthquakes has the planet at the extreme tempertures it has.
Scientist are stil fasinated by the challeges ad risk venus has to offer. There sare many risk that scientist cant take or overcome ,yet. Scientist are discussing new ideas on how to safely and efficently study our Sister planet. An idea that NASA has come up with is to build a blimp-like vechical that could hover 30 miles about Venuss surface to avoid the harsh terrain and extreme temperture. The author states that the tempertures would still be more than we would normally experience on earth at 170 degrees farenhiet. The amount of pressure on the vechical at that height would almost be equvialent to earths sea level, these conditions are not easy but a human could survive with the right equipment and spacecraft. However this idea has its downside. Since the clouds are so thick and the atmosphere isnt clear from that height humans or cameras would not be able to observe from the ship or collect surface samples to bring back with them.
The author writes this passage with convincing facts throughout the passage and explains the tough challenges that scientist have to overcome , which they will in our near future. In conclusion the author explains;the worth of overcoming these challenges , the harsh conditions of observing Venus, the details of the atmosphere and the challenges and risk and a likley solution to solve the problems of the planet Venus. | 3 |
First to me this technology is not valuable. Why you may ask well its because technology is trying to take away what humans are use for. An example is that when we first go to school a teacher greets us why, would a student/parents want to be greeted by a eletronic.
Next is you can't really trust electronics because they can malfuction or even catch some sort of virus meaning that it can go haywire and mess everything up. Also another example is that this technology called Facial Action Coding System will have the right to record/ take photo of you. To me I don't think parents will not allow this technology to record or snap pictures of there kids. In this article it states'' Dr. Huang and his colleague are experts at devloping better way for humans and computers to communicate. For me I don't want to be able to communicate with my electronic unless I'm on the phone with someone. Like right now they just launch out the new Iphone X where you can unlock it with your face if it was me I will not buy it because so many things can go wrong. In conclusion this technology is not needed we don't want it and I probably won't be the only one to think this. | 2 |
Luke wanted to join the Seagoing Cowboys program because he knew it would be an opportunity of a lifetime. When Luke went he would be helping horses, young cows, and mules being shipped over seas to a new locatation he had to help gather suplies, animals and many other things supplies to help out things that had gone wrong also 44 nations joined together to help them out.
In one of Luke's trips there had been more then 335 plus enough hay to feed all of them. By time Luke had turned 18 he had arrived in Greece which meant he could go into the military service. When Luke had been discharged he had maken more then nine trips, that is the most any Seagoing Cowboy has ever gone in this service. It took the Seagoing Cowboys two weeks to cross the Alantic Ocean from the United States, and on top of it took them a month to get to China.
When Luke was younger he used to help out on his Aunt Katie's farm, this helped him to learn his hardworking skills but never trained him for the dangers at sea. He had decided that helping out in the Seagoing Cowboys and all of the animals, and food services was worth all the help that him and his pals had given. It was real rainy one night after making his hourly check up on the horses to report to the captain when he had slipped down a slippery ladder ship cracking some of his ribs so then he couldn't do his job for a couple of days.
Luke also had a lot of fun on board with all of his friends. When the animals had been unloaded they played baseball, volleyball, fencing, table tennis and a lot more sports and game. Luke said that being a Seagoing Cowboy was way much more then an adventure he had opened up the world for Luke. He was very grateful for his jouney, it mad him more aware of the other countries and there needs.
Luke had learned everything from helping out animals to teamwork. Luke thought seen that helping other countries is fun but you do have to learn teamwork and much more. When he had broken some of his ribs he had to stop working his job for a while. When he got back on the job he was feeling very happy for what he had just accomplished for the world. | 1 |
While reading the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," I'll admit that the idea of a driverless car was cool, but it concerns me about our upcoming future. As I got to the end of the reading my thoughts were more near the negtive side than the positive side. I mean the world today is and always will be coming up with newer things, but I personally feel that we are taking, "The sky is our only limit," a little too far.
In the artical, Dr. Werner Huber, a BMW project manager driver admits," We have to interpret the driving fun in a new way." Today almost everywhere you go, you happen to hear about people texting and driving, which produces the trama of an innocent life being taken away because of some little thing that distracts a majority of us today. How are we supposed to introduce this "fun new way of driving", when there are people who aren't even responsible to drive on the road the right way? Some may say, "Well that's another good reason for driverless cars!", but in reality, it's not.
Also a question that is stated in the artical is,"If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacture?" that question right there is also a major scare to a lot of us in society. On a day to day basis, we are dealing with wars in third world countries, people dying because of hunger, a new disease that can wipe out any country, and so many more things that an everyday individual doesn't even know about or think about. Introducing a driverless car, will only add to that stress and drama. Most people would say that it's another bad idea that car manucturers have pitched.
Finally I'd like to say, It may sound like I'm bashing this entire idea, but really I'm just thinking about it realistically. Another statement that supports my argument is that television and movies have long been fascinated with the cars that could drive themselves. Another projection that many could inturprut the wrong way, especially new drivers. Teens today see crazy things done in movies and/or television shows and go and say,"Well if that actor can do it, so can I!" If they see a driverless car, who knows what's going to happen.
In conclusion, driverless cars aren't the best idea. Throughout the entire artical there are roadblocks and warning signs that show, diverless cars are simpily a pleasure and not a neccesity. Therefore the idea of driverless cars isn't so great. | 2 |
My opinon on driverless cars is, they are safe to have driverless cars. My first opinon is, they will make the streets safer.All the car accidents that are happening will slow down the death rates for the car accidens. The car will have a human at a human but the person will not actually be driving the car like we do now.The invention in 1980 would be agood help for the driverless car because, it has antilock brakes.
Driverless cars will be a big help to get people places and things will get done faster. By the car being able to brake on itself,steer itself, and accelerate itself it reqiures for the human to be navigation through a work zone. The car will be ready to take any sitaution and be quck to get the drivers attention whenever needed. If the human belives that the car is going to slow we are able to take the wheel at any time needed. By using driverless cars people can have more fun when they go places and get places.
The law agreeing with the driverless car is was a good idea. In other states such as, California,Nevade,Flordia by using semi-automous cars and a start for the driverless cars.The car being a reliable safe thing will be a help to prove that the driverless cars are a good invention to help humans out.If the driverless car in invented fully then the laws will be changed into different ones.I believe the roads will go a lot smoother and things will bw done faster from the roads being clearer.
Those are my opinons on why i think we should have driverless cars. First reasoning is they are more safer. Then, i think it will help people get around more and faster way.Finally, the law is argruing that the roads will go alot smoother with driverless cars. | 2 |
Most people have seen the mysterious face on planet Mars. There are many possibilities of how that landform got there. Many people in the world believe it came from aliens or some other species. You can think that, but really there is no possible way an alien could have made that. I'm going to explain to you, why that can't be possible.
On the planet Mars, landforms like these form all of the time. People make big deals out of stuff like this, because they are curious just like you. That is why there are movies, books, and magazines about the face. If that was an alien marking, we would have found more evidence about it. Finding the face is very difficult, because of all of the wispy clouds. If there really were aliens, wouldn't they be making more markings? Unfortunatley they haven't, so there is no acutal proof that an alien made this landform.
When we did our research, the landform is actually a butte or mesa. Those landforms are common around the American West. People overthink these situations, and automatically assume that an alien created this. Anything is possible, but when we were searching for the face, it was a cloudy day on Mars. That could have caused the clouds, to make the face appear. The face could have also been the molten rock from lava, and caused it to form. There are many possible ways, but not the way of aliens.
No one has acutal proof of aliens. There has never been one that we have caught. No one has any information on them, or what the alien looks like or how thier personality is. We have no records on any type of alien, and no one else does either. Just like there is no proof an alien made that face on Mars. You can't assume some other life form made a face on another planet. People make quick opinions, and people all over the world will believe it when they have no information about it.
Mars is a very interesting planet, and suprises us very much. Since the first picture was taken in 1976, and then the last one was in 2001, why haven't we seen any aliens? That is why there was no acutal alien who created the face. If you worked at NASA, you would believe us too. I hope we have given you as much information you needed. Now you know there is no aliens up on Mars who created this. We hope you have reasoned your theory about The Face on Mars. | 3 |
This technology is not important in a classroom setting, because why spend so much money on something the human eye can do? According to the text, in paragraph 5, it states, "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." They add this here to explain what the technology is seeing, but really, if you think about it, it's really saying that we can already do what this equipment can for much cheaper. The only way I see this peice of technology would be useful, is when students get confused while working on a device. According to paragraph 6, it states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored... Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." While this is an interesting factor, we can also look at how many people these days "freak out" because, supposedly, the FBI is watching us through our computer cameras, and now we're welcoming technology because it can read our emotions? Someone could easily see this as an opportunity to hack into the cameras at the school, and watch children. Nobody would be aware of what is really happening, and the preditor would get away with watching students while they're trying to do their work. I do not see this sort of technology as a reliable source because we can do the same thing by looking at a person, and we're welcoming technology into schools that could easily get hacked, and all of a sudden, we have unknown people watching our students while in school. | 2 |
The face on Mars was not made by aliens, and it only looked like a face because of the shadows. Michael Malin even took a better picture twenty two years later that showed it wasn't a face, but some people weren't satisfied. Three years later they took an even better one, showing that it wasn't a face at all.
This is not a face becasue the author says in paragraph two, "Scientist figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows" Some people didn't agree because "it was winter in April '98--a cloudy time of the year" and to disprove this they took a better picture in the summer. In paragraph ten, it says "Nevertheless, on April 8, 2001--a cloudless summer day in Cydonia"
the picture that he took was even clearer and it can be seen that nothing alien related is in the photo. It is all just a mesa. | 1 |
When it comes to the technology that reads students emotions I think its a great idea of having it in classrooms. Although some may ask, why dont you just ask us how we feel in this class? Others might just nit want to answer the question. So it would be easier to just get your answer from a mechine that gives you the answer you want.
There are many advantages to this technology when it come to reading other emotions. When using this device you could find out if many students are interested in the activity the teacher is talking about. You could also find out if the are just bored to death that they just want to get up and leave.
This technololgy could help with many things in the future by getting rid of all the non-fun things that happen in classroom. If this technology was in high schools I think the way teachers teach thing now days would be way better. For example, when the author put the mini lesson about moving you face in different emothions that was a good lesson. Just from that I learn that just moving your face around in different emotion could make you feel like the face you just made.
When it come to technology about your emotions in the classroom i think it would be very useful. Not only will the teachers know if students are interested, they will know if they need to change the way they teach things in class. | 2 |
Driverless Cars are not something that we need invinted. The only reason people would want driverless cars invented is becasue they're lazy and don't want to drive themselves. We are able to drive our cars we have now, Drivers Ed classes will have to undergo new information to teach, and people who already know how to drive a regualr car will have to learn all the new ways that are avaliable to oporate the cars. It will waste a lot more time and money when driverless cars come out.
There is nothing wrong with the cars we have now. We are fully capable of driving cars ourselves. It's a lot more accurate and safe if humans oporate vehicles and not technology. What if an accident occurs when the car is opporating itself? Do we blame the car since it was the one driving or the person behind the wheel because they could have taken over? A lot of lawsuits and money could come from accidents with driverless cars. If we stay with regular cars we won't have to worry about wether to blame the car or the person behind the wheel.
Drivers Ed classes will have to be taught differently than they are now. Teachers will have to take the time to learn new material they have to inform everyone on that are taking the classes. And the classes will probably be a lot more expensive since you'll still have to learn things they teach now plus all the new information with driverless cars. People will be less likely to take drivers Ed because of the cost rising. So there is less moeny being taken in by the school that offers the class and less fully educated drivers on the road opporating vehicles.
People who already know how to drive the cars we have now will have to learn the new laws of driverless cars and how the road ways will be different. It'll be a lot of unnecessary time take away from them just to learn something we don't absolutly need to know. And it'll probably cost them more money in some way by learning these new regulations brought on by driverless cars.
Driverlesss cars are a waste of thought and technology. They will just make us more dependent on technology and cause us to be more lazy. We're alright with driving the cars we have now, Drivers Ed classes will have to change to fit what is needed to be taught with the new cars, and people who have already learned how to drive will have to waste time learning new things about driverless cars. | 2 |
I would be against the development of theses cars, just for the fact if you have no control over ther car the car could crash more likely than a car a person is controlling, because what happens if a car is about to have a car accident and you have no controll to turn the car so it won't crash as well. I feel it would be better if we people took controll of driving and not some system put in the vehicle that controls it. We may have had google cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009, where cars can drive more than a half a million miles without crashing, but at the same time the google car is truly driverless because the car will still have to alert the driver to take over if something goes wrong.
In 2013, BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant", cars can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure drivers keep hold of the wheel in case something goes wrong. None of the cars we drive today are completely driverless, we still have to keep control of the wheel, how fast we go, and sometimes when we stop. Some of the cars can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills.
I feel we should just have control on the car for most of the part, just in case something does go wrong because if the car takes over who knows if something will go wrong because what happens if your car can't warn you if something is going wrong. You wont know til something does go wrong, that just isn't safe to me i am completely against the development of theses cars. | 2 |
Imagine living on a different planet than other humans. Venus once had very Earth like structures. It had very similar charecteristics which almost made it seem humane. NASA should continue to explore Venus because it has a lot of potential and was once similar to earth.
Venus has a lot of potential because if we continue to explore it, we can figure out how to get around how hot it is. We can find a way to change that as long as we keep exploring. Venus once had oceans and was covered with structures like valleys and mountains that we have here on Earth. The risk is high, but the reward is even higher.
Even though we know that this is a very dangerous plan, it could change rates of poverty and would increase jobs here on Earth because people here would leave their jobs. NASA says that they can find ways to do this but it will obviously take some time. | 1 |
so today i will be talking about my opion and how i feel about his whole little computre experssing reader and how do it will it worki and i feel that affects people hosnlty i feel like thats a bad isea because dont nobody want noody all in they bussuins iyou should let people feel how they wanna feel read more to find out how i feel about this whole techonalgy fellings/mood reader
According to the packge i just read the computre is a 3d modle that tells reather you sad or happy or any other mixed emotions someone can have if you sad this ad will pop up if you make a angery face anorther will pop up to make sure they read it rigth honstly i feel like this the dunbst idea every because it seem like technolgy is just taking over the world as it all ready .
I feel liek you should just leave people alone becauseif they feeling some type of way let them be stop always trying to be nosiey be and somebody bussins its not right stop trying to be caption save o let people be let them leave they life then if people find out you sad gthry going to be all up in your face like just leave people alone and let them be
In Conclusion i think the idea is stupid ion think you should do it yall just letting tecnolgy take all the way over i feel yall shoukd just let people be if somebody want someone to they moody they will tell them maybe talking about it make them madder then what they is you never know thsts why its important to mind your bussins | 1 |
Do i think that using technology to read emotion expressions of students in a classroom is valable you may ask, It is a marvoulous idea.
Technology has come so good in the past 17 years. I remember back in 2000 when the flip phones had just come out and fast forwars 17 years later we now have a computer that can read anyones facial expression and tell us how they are feeling. I can't even begin to imagine how much more advanced technology is going to get later on in life, it already seems to be that we could possibly have all the technology we could ask for, yet people all around the world just seem to be getting better and thinking of smarter ways to invent new things.
Why is this a good idea you may ask. For starters if technology will be able to read kids expressions while learning and being in class for teachers there will be one very good benifit. " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" Dr. Huang predicts this is going to be a very good thing for teachers, because teachers will be able to know what a kid is feeling this means that the teach will no longer have to keep going over the same information with the same kids just because one kid does not understrand it or isnt paying attention. The teacher can focus on those targeted students spicificly, and not have to go over the same information multiply times. Knoledge is a great thing to have.
One good benifit from this is that teachers can teach more to kids in a more faster way so they can get more things done, because the FACS will tell you if the kids understands the information and or get bored that way techers can work with those kids in a different time and move on to more things with the kids that do understand it.
Having computers that can read kids expresions to tell you whether you are bored or confused is a genius idea. It will be a good thing for both reachers and kids. The science behind it is also neat for people to understand how it came about the FACS. | 2 |
my postion on this is that its honestly the stupidest thing i have ever heard of.I mean honestly in todays world you literally have a computer to do everything for you wich is called lazyness. Me personally i think we should keep it the same with cars just make them safer because not one time in this article did i hear anything about the safety rating or their capability of not having a malfunction while driving.
I think that if we have driverless cars we would be focused on the wrong things while the car is driving like putting our nose right in to social media and when those sensors go off we wont be able to react in time. In this part of the story paragraph 9 it clearly states that their is laws in some states and if you ask me i say it should stay that way because these "cars of the future" are stupid and it honestly makes me livid that they could be so dumb as to come up with this idea.
these manufactures have no file or proof that these will be the safest choice honestly i think people need to stop being little babies and grow a pair and take life by the nads and get the ball rolling on learning how to drive they need to know how to appreciate the car before they say they want driverless cars america is about tradition you dont change tradition.
Honestly me myself i OTHER_PII for a living and i love nothing more than going fast and being free and in control how do you think someone like me would feel if you took that freedom away by having a car limit its self to 25mph thats like a smack in the face to me because when i drive on the road i want to be incontrol of my actions and what i do point blank.
Also did they even take into consideration some of our income we get by the time i would by a driverless car i could have had my dream car and then some i mean these people are just assuming that we have 60,000-1,000,000 dollars just laying around. | 2 |
Cars are becoming a big issue in the world due to the pullution weakning the shield around the earth, Not to long ago Florida had a increase of 1-3 of sun light Permanetly, due to pullution weakning the surface it was the first increase i've encountered during my life on the planet, also to adress how most countries and states are now making days and events, for example how Vanban's family's have a result of 70% of Vauban's families do not own cars and also 57% sold a car to move their, one person spoke nad said 'When i had a car i was always tense, im much happier this way said hheidun walter, a media trainer and mother of 2. Vauban Completed in 2006 is exmaple of a growing trend in Europe the united states and elsewhere to separate suburban life from auto use as a component of a movement called 'Smart planning. All of our development since World War II has been center on cars, and that was the downside of the pollution in the sky today, when more cars are made, then even more pullution will be traveling the sky today and breaking our sun shield some companies are really cracking down on this to help the earth.
Paris is even enforced a aprtial driving ban to clear the air of global city, with even number or even odd number license pltes were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine 31$ , almost over 4.000 drivers were fined according to reuter's, Twnety seven people had their cars impounded fo their reaction to the fine,congestion was down 60% in the capital of france, after five-days of intensifying smog rivaled beijing,china which is known as one of the most pulluted city due to its population of people their, cold nights and warm days cause the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions, disel fuel was blame since france has a tax policy that favors disel over gasoline, (Gasoline runs out faster than disel). Diesel make up 67% of vehicles in france compared to a 53 Percent average of disel engines in rest of western Europe acorrding to reuters.
It was the third straight year cars have been banned with only buses and tais permitted for the day without cars in this capital city of 5-7Million. the goal is to promote alterative transportation to help the pollution in the sky to cool down or go down a bit, the turnout was a large despite gray clouds dumped occasional rain showers on Bogota,but the rain hasn't stopped people from participateing, it's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution said businessman, the day without cars is part of an improvement campaign that began in bogota in the mid-1990s it has seen the contruction of 118 miles of bicycle. parks and sports centers has also have bloomed throughout the city uneven pitted sidewalks ahve been replaced by broad smooth sidewalks, rush-hour-restruction have been dramatically cut traffic and new restarunts and upscales, | 1 |
Luke had no idea that his life was about to change. He has two part time jobs at a bank and a grocery store. His friend Don had asked him if he wanted to go on a cattle boat to Europe because after World War II it left most cities in ruins. Luke had no choice but to say yes. So in August of 1945 Luke and Don went to New Orleans to take apart in helping families. After getting their papers from the seaman they went and borded the SS Charles W. Wooster, they headed for Greece with a cargo of 355 plus horses and enough hay and oats to feed them. Luke ended up turning 18 before arriving at Greece. Luke realized that he could be drafted for military service but everyone just told him to what he's doing now as his military service. On his second trip he served as night watchman after doing his hourly report to the captian it was a rainy night and the ladders were slick and Luke slipped down the ladder on his backside and almost feel feet first out of the ship into the dark Dark Atlantic Ocean. But a small piece of metal caught and saved him. He was happy to be alive. But he couldn't do anything for a couple days because of some cracked ribs. Luke said it's more fun on the way back because when they drop off the animals the stalls are empty and they can play games like baseball, table tennis, and volleyball. They all say it's one thing that cuts time off the journey. Luke also made nine trips the most anyone has ever made. THat is why Luke likes being a Seagoing Cowboy. | 0 |
i tthink we shouldnt be able to have technology read are emotions if we dont want it to. in the artical its does a 3-d computer model of your face. and they didnt get all the emotions that everyone might have like some people have deprrison and some might have the feeking of blah but you guys wouldnt know because you dont have that as a oppsion on there.
they talk about how a home pc cant handle the complex algorithms used to decode someone simle. i think that should make it where no matter what you use it on it can run it. with out having to write it down .
what if someone is fake smiling. is your technology going to be able to tell if your really happy or not? I think it not a good idea because one it doesnt tell you all the emotions that the person is feeling and what if the person doesnt want one or doesnt like it and they aloud ti get rid of it or do they have to keep it. I know i wouldnt want someone else to tell me my emotions so i surely dont want some technology telling me how i feel . | 1 |
The Face from the article, "Unmasking the Face on Mars." was indeed not created by aliens. Evidence from the photos taken show that the Face was just a rock formation with no artifacts of life around it. The Face was also in an area for formations like that to be common.
The Face on Mars was not created by aliens because there is no proof in the pictures that were taken. Pictures were taken in the dates 1976, 1998, and 2001. In each of these three picutres taken there is so definate evidence that the formation was created by aliens. Instead, the pictures show that the formation is common and just happen to look like a face. The text states, "... Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all.
But not everyone was satisfied. The Face on Mars is located... a cloudy time of year on the Red Panet. the comera... had to peer through wispu couds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze." Based on the information from the text, i can see why people could still believe that the Face was created by aliens. The text goes on to say, "Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution." this statement from the text verifies that any dicrempancies that were argued about earlier, were now out of the argument. Image was to clear to argue about anything. What was seen in the photo was very clear and there were no signs of alien trace.
The Face was in an area that was common for formations like it to be found in. The author states, "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or messa- landforms common around the American West. 'It reminds me most of Middle BUtte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho,' says Garvin. 'That's a lava some that takes the form of an isolated mesa avout the same height os the Face on Mars." Therefore, this gives more evidence on how the Face on Mars was not created by aliens and was a normal formation.
The Face on Mars was a normal formation based on factual ecvidence from scientist. Pictures show that there is no sign of aliens on mars. If there were aliens, the picture would have shown eviidence concluding that the formation was created by aliens. Secondly, the formation was in an area that was common for buttes or mesas. For the reason listed above, the Face on Mars was not created by aliens, however: the Face was a natural landfrom just like we have here on Earth. | 4 |
Have you ever thought of being a Seagoing Cowboy? If you haven't you should really think about. Being an Seagoing Cowboy has many benefits. For example, you get to go on many trips around the world and go to places such as Europe and China and much more places. Another benefit is helping people and taking care of animals. My final reason is that it helps you be more aware of people in different countries and their ways of living and it's fun.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy gives you the chance to visit many places. I got to go to Europe and China. Seeing Acropolis was special. So was taking a a gondola ride in Venice,Italy, a city with water for streets. I also toured an castle in crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China. Me and the other Seagoing Cowboys also crossed the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States to get to China.
The other benefit was helping people and taking care of animals. Caring for the animals kept me busy. They had to be fed and watered two or three times a day. On my second trip, I served as night watchman. My job was to check on all the animals every hour. We had to help people in other countrys by recovering their food suplies, animals, and other needs.
The final benefit was that it helps you be more aware of people in different countrys and their needs. The opportunity made me more aware of how the people in different countrys lived and how they dont have their needs and how i was helping them with their needs. Being a Seagooiing Cowboy also is fun. On return trips we played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where the animals had stayed. Table-tennis tournaments, boxing,fencing,reading,whittling, and games were fun ways to pass the time.
In conclusion i think you shouold be a Seagoing Cowboy becuase it has many benefits. The benfits are you got to visit many places and tour many places. The other benfit was that you got to help people and take care of animals. The final benefit was that being a Seagoing Cowboy made you more aware of people in different countrys and their ways of living and it is fun to be a Seagoing Cowboy. That's why i bleieve you should be a Seagoing cowboy. | 2 |
Hello, there fellow citizens of all around what if i could tell you there could be less car accidents, less pollution, and a healthier life style that we can all live with right now! and all we had to do is let go of only one thing that one thing is your car it is a killing machine not just for people but also for our mother earth.
Before you call me crazy and tell me that could never happen lets look at germany where people are trying to make a change in an upscale community where even soccer moms have given up there cars and 70 percent of the people there dont have cars and 57 percent sold there cars. now tell me do I sound crazy now besides people in that community were saying "when i had a car i was always tense. im much happier this way " which might sound shocking to you but i whould be happy too if our greenhouse gas and toxic in the air wasnt so high 12 percent of it comes from cars and 50 percent in some car intensive areas in the usa. but all hope isnt done yet because the enviromental protection agency is promoting "car ruduced" communities. whick might save us from hurting the earth because a healthy planet makes happy people.
Further more if you still dont believe that this could effect us look at paris, paris typically has more smog than anyother european capital they found that paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter compared with 114 brussels and 79.7 percent in london reuters found now thats a life i dont want to life amagine the advantages we could have if we could live and just be healthier.
one of our advatages whould be clean air and less deaths becuase the air we breath in can effect the way we think because if we take in bad were going to give out bad if we take in good we take out good. also parks and sports centers could be at a all time high now you wont have to nag your kid to leave the house he'll already be out before you say a word
In bogota, columbia where the clouds are gray but the ambition is strong even though its not stop rain the people say "its a good opportunity to take stress away stress and lower air pollution" and i think there doing a great job with this because its there 3rd strait year that they have banned cars and there pollution level is at a all time low. you see what this is showing you is that we dont have to face these challenges and disivantages that all these countrys are facing we can learn now and prosper on and not have to start ove like these countrys.
Last but not least the end of the car culture is near when miles driven in the united states is going down steadily the future of amaerica looks bright our peoples health seems better but all we need to do is one big leap and sacrfise to achieve a place where we dont have to be scared to leave our house and to not have to see your self in the news showing the damage your car did we can all live in a better place if we just try. | 2 |
People have studied the many planets in our solar system and are fastinated by them. People have also studied the solar system to help explore and give information about the planets around us. One planet that scientists have studied for a good amount of time is Venus since it shows that at one time, the planet might have inhabited living organisms. However, Venus is a very dangerous planet since many attempts of landing spacecraft has failed on Venus and the clouds of the planet are made of sulfuric acid. Venus is not worth the pursuit of knowledge since the planet has a very dangerous enviorment for humans and that not a single spacecraft has landed safely on the planet and returned. The cost and risk of exploring Venus is not worth the infromation we would achieve.
Venus has a enviorment of very dangerous elements that can harm many living organisms and even nonliving objects. According to the article, 97 percent of the atmosphere of Venus is carbon dioxide, which is unable to be breathed by humans. Another detail the article states is that on the surface of the planet, the average temperatures is over eight hundred degrees. The climate and enviorment of Venus is too dangerous for exploration. The planet does not hold nowhere near a safe enviorment for people or even machine.
Another detail about Venus is that no spacecfaft has made a journey back from the planet. The article says, ¨... humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world,¨ and then says ¨... since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours.¨ If a spacecraft made by people can not survive the landing on Venus numerous times, how can we even come close to surviving the trip? Venus is too dangerous to explore and it is a waste to even send a spacecraft. The spacecrafts cost a good amount of money to make and for them to be wasted on a inhospitable planet is not worth the information we would achieve.
NASA has came up with a ¨solution¨ of the problemof gaining knowledge of Venus which is for a vehicle to hover over Venus and scientists would safely observe the planet that way. However, the article says that this can only give us a limited amount of information on Venus since the planet has a very dense atmosphere. The effort of creating a vehicle to hover the planet only to gain bits of knowledge is redundant and is not going the benefit anyone´s cause.
Venus is not worth the time, effort and resources to explore. The planet proves to be too dangerous for mankind and even for machines. Curiosity is not sufficiant enough of a reason to explore and learn about a inhospitable planet unless it is going to benefit mankind more than what it costed to gain that information. The resources that are going to Venus should be redirected to another cause that will benefit society and life as we know it. | 3 |
The facial action coding system is an astonishing idea developed by proffesor Dr. Huang his invention has many contributions that would benifit us in our society today. The way that his system works is abrilliant idea that could not only tell us if a person is happy,sad,or angry but, those identifications of charechter can help us prevent many things from happening in our society today. One of the major contributions that this amazing machine would put fourth to the table could prevent mass shootings, that we have in today's society. By setting these facial action coding systems in our schools,banks,government build,e. t. c. to keep inocent citizens safe on the street. If we inplament these facial action coding systems in many of our buildings we can prevent mass shootings from happeinig if the computer analizes that persons charachter.
However, the downside to using the facial action coding system is that it can malfunction at ny given time. The facial action coding system seems like a creepy concept but, think about it this device could help our society through many ways other than just preveniting mass shootings . As proffesor Dr. Huang states in the article this machine could tell us how a person is feeling about certain things by using this computer. If we used this state of the art technology today companys and buisness could also use this through marketing so that they know what their customers think of their products and what needs to be done to make their company succede. Besides in today's world we already have facial recognition on most phones how cool would it be for our pones to tell us what mood we are in and what we should do to make ourselves live a happy life.
Would the facial action coding system be safe to use? We as a society always want what is best for us and we know that no such product would be released to the product without proper testing and collected data for the next 5 years or more. However, in the near future such technology might exists in many facilities if it doesnt already exist for testing.
We all want to know how our friends are feeling when they facetime us and they tell us they are okay but they are really not the facial action coding system can help us by telling us that their is something wrong with them so that we as a good friend can help each other out.
The facial action coding system will play a major contribution to our society those who support this project stand up for your beliefs as it is your freedom to support what is good. We need to stop things that can be prevented from happening sucha as suicide help us make a better society and support our foundation to make a better America. | 2 |
What we say matters and shouldnt be taken lightly
America is a country of opppurtunity. And many people come to this country to escape or change their harsh living style. When the founding father created the consitution.
I'm sure that they expected the system to last, and for the citizens to have a say in what happens to our home. but now is our government is denying us our, chance to make a difference in america. Voting.
Many people think that the Electoral college is a place, But it actully is a process. the fonding fathers established it in the constioin as a comprmise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. But now it is a way for people with a big pocket, to get there say, in who get to be president. In source 2: the readers are told that over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election. What this tells the readers is, americans don't feel like their vote actually counts towards the election anymore.
Now people are starting to wonder, Whats wrong with the Electoral college? The answer to that questions is, under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. To any american looking at this process happening and knowing their vote doesnt really matter. would feel like an injustise has been done to them, and they are absolutlly right. In the constition it say , That americanshave the freedom to vote, both men and women. so as a citizen of american, WE should be able to choose our president not an elector, from the electoral college.
As an american the citizens should be able choose who they want for president. It is not only unfair and unjust, that our votes don't have any pull. But it is also going against what our fonding fathers worked so hard to perfect. A naton where the people's words matter. The people who work hard everyday, teaching our children, and protecting our citizens, the people who lay down their lives for this country. The people who support this country , no matter how many injustices are thrown at them. Those people should have the most sway in choosing our president. Not the people who have had to never work a day in there life, or the people who are not grateful for this country. when a person who holds a position in an american government office, is easily paid off, It s time for some new, loyal, and dedicated workers. who work just as hard as the rest of america. | 2 |
In this essay there will be details and examples of technology where you can tell emotions of a character that tries to hide it in pictures. In text it says she is not fully happy she is 83% happy , 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry.
Using this techonology would be good, because in pictures you could figure out emotios from the picture. In the text it say imagine being able to detct exactly how other people are feelings, even when they are trying to hide their emotions.
It says that we humans use the same caluculations everyday when we can tell the emotions and feelings of our peers. This technology would be like a emotion calculator for pictures and paintings.
In this essay I gave details on what the 3D tecnology does , it showes a picture emotions when want not to be seen. All paitings show emotions and some of the emotions are hard to see, but this technology could help you see it better. It could help you calculate the exact percentage of all the emotions in a picture. | 1 |
The challenge of exploring venus is an article about studying venus effectively and with a purpose. The main idea that the author was trying to put across was how can we explore venus but make it worth while. The author uses multpile backed up facts to make his piece intresting and knowledgeable all while trying to get across his opinion. It's clear that when the author writes he can get his point across that the pursuit of venus is greater than the risk that follows.
When the author talks about the challenges of acutally gathering data he states that "no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours" and later he talks about the weather conditions that can be infered that caused the spacecraft to be destroyed. He says things like "temperatures average over 800 degrees farhrenheit" and "atmospheric pressure over 90 times greater than what we experience on earth" these are all signifcant to the fact that it is a challenge to explore venus. He later suggest ideas to countering the weather and enviroment of venus in genral like "mechanical computers" and "a blimp like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roilion venusian landscape" all soultions that counter the major problems of venus.
Everything that the author writes is to show how to overcome, or to give insight of how NASA and other astrounemers, are going to face the challenges presented with venus. All while being backed up with facts and reasoning. The author writes to show the purpose and effect that exploring venus will have upon everyone on earth. | 2 |
It is a trep of a liveftime. It can take you on a trip arond the wold. If you like fram anmals you wolud like this tripe on a Cattle boat.
If you are a caring person you would like this tripe.
You would be helping ather countries recover ther food supples and animals.
You can see many things incoieding Italy.
City with streets of water and ivein an castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal. If i could go I would go to Italy and see the city of Rome. If you are a sae going cowboy you schud go ahad and triy this. It is hard to be on a ship for a wil but if you are willing to halp we will esated.
It is the trip of a life time so you shoud go on the cattle baot.
The cattle boat trips were an unbeliveble opportunning.
This is a trip you can not refus.
The cowboys played games on the cattl boat like base ball and volleyball games.
number of famles halp spred a ware nes to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years. | 1 |
How would you feel if there is a machine that can tell you how youe feeling or what your emotions are?
Well there is a software that is the lastest innovation from professer. I think this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in classrooms is valuable because its important for students to know how students are doing and feeling. Some students probably dont want to talk about how their feeling because there probably scared or something . Some kids in school go through depression which is bad because if kids go through depression, some kids will commit sucide and we dont want that to happen. For that computers to read humans minds, it has to have all fourty-four major muscles like in a human , then it also has to move like what humans muscle do. In this new software or invention, it can track your facial expressions and movement. Which that is amzaing because I really want to help our other students or kids out so they wont go through sad,depressed,mad,etc.
My conclusion to this is that its very helpful to have a machine to read or can tell how kids are doing now. We dont want student nor kids going to think about committing suicdue. We lost so much syduents or kids because they are going bullying. If they being bullyed you can at least talk to them or try to have the new invention read their emotions. Everyone is imporatant to this world. | 2 |
How accurate is a computer? Answer? As accurate as it is programmed. When it comes to facial expression the technology used is programmed by one psychologist Dr. Paul Eckman. How can one man be responsible for knowing and understanding every human emotion? How could recognizing the face of a student in school help them to learn better? Using the technology from "Making Mona Lisa Smile" for emtional scanning in school may not be as valuable as it seems.
In my OTHER_PII experience you can never actually tell how a person is feeling just by looking at them. I am a pretty good example myself. I have some pretty bad "dead" face. People ask me all the time if I'm ok and I always say, "Yea I'm just tired", because I am just tired. I'm fine but others don't seem to think so because of the way my face is. Other kids and teenagers probably have this problem too. Having a computer try to cheer them up if they're ok isn't going to help. In the text they describe the situation as such, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." I find that line amazing. "Effective human instructor". That could mean many things. But how exactly could it modify the lesson to be more interesting and who is to say what an effective human instructor is?
How exactly is the modified lesson even going to help interest the student? Pop up a short game for a break or show a funny piture and tell the student to cheer up? Each child learns differently so how can a computer detect that? If computers started becoming "effective human instructors" what would happen to future teaching jobs? All of these questions are left unasnwered. As respectful as Dr. Huang puts it in paragraph 6, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," notes Dr. Huang. "So computers need to understand that, too.", I can agree with the computers learning about us but who would teach or program them?
What about flaws in the computer system? What if it reads certain faces wrong such as those with disabilities or who have been in accidents where the face is not recognizable by the system? Those children would not get the full effective education as those around them and it also derives a sense of difference from other students and leaves them subject to outcasting and even bullying. There are times in a school system where the teachers and administrators need to think about the good of the students before their education sometimes. The cost to implement this new technology could also be an issue. To install the technology they would either have to go through every computer in the school system or get rid of them and buy whole new sets of computers to be able to use them effectively. How much would a school system be willing to pay to boost the education of a student and give them the best opportunity to thrive in school.
As I have previously stated there are too many questions left unanswered. I see the potential it might have in the future. And how it could be used for the better but unless solutions to the questions I have asked are not answered then how can the system that recognizes facial emotions truly be trusted in schools? | 3 |
What is Venus often reffered as? Venus is often reffered as Earth's "twin". This is because Venus is "the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distence too". But this doesn't mean that it is possible for humans to live in the planet yet. The author suggests that we should keep studying Venus despite the danger it presents.
The author says this in a lot of ways. One way he does this is by giving us more information about Venus. This helps the reader understand how bad the conditions are in Venus. This also tells us that no matter the conditions humans should still explore it. This shows that the author is going to stay with his claim that we should keep on exploring it.
Another reason how the author supports his idea is by telling us that we've tried exploring it before. In the article it says "humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on the cloud-draped world...Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has tocuhed down on Venus in more than three decades." This shows us that Venus is a challenging planet for humans to study. With a thick atmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide blankets and temperatures averaging around 800 degrees Fahrenheit. This is a real challenge for humans.
However, the author also tells us that NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example in the article he says "some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface...lasted for three weeks in such conditions". This helps the author support his claim by telling us that there has been some progress on studying Venus. Another example is NASA coming up with diffrent ideas to explore Venus. The author says "imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape". This helps prove how well the author supports his idea of pursuing Venus despite the dangeres it presentes.
In conclusion the author supports his idea well. This is because he gives the readers information on how astronomers tried and failed. But also that astronomers are not going to give up so they come up with new ideas. In the article is says "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself..". This shows that we are not going to give up on exploring Venus no matter the challenge. | 2 |
Electoral college is a process of electors and a poupular vote is by the people. In this argue it ask which one would i favor, i have read the artical and as i was reading i have seen that i would keep Electoral college. I have three reason. one of them it's easier for us understand how the prosses works. my second reason is some people dont care about who they vote for, and my third reason is the history of Electoral college.
My fist reason is the the way the process work. The process works as a number of electors. The electors are what count more thoes are what count to see who are next president is going to be they are the final vote. The electors get together and talk it out so see who wins the most votes. The number of electors are 538. About 270 electors are for the president. The election for the president is held every four years after the first Monday in november.
My second reason is | 1 |
The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" does not do a good job of supporting their idea. The author believes that, while Venus is dangerous it is worthy of spending time and money to explore this planet. The author mentions the similaities between earth and venus, makes exploring this planet so fascinating. The author later goes on to explain how NASA would travel and explore Venus, and what tools they would use to explore Venus. How NASA would travel to Venus is irrevalate to if Venus is worth exploring. Because, the author spends a majority of their time telling us how, NASA would learn more about Venus. Is not needed to prove and explain why exploring Venus is nessacary.
The author spends three of their six body paragraphs explaining how NASA would explore the planet of Venus. In paragraph 6 they explain that sending an orbiting ship around the planet will provide limited insight of the ground below ,and the only way to gain more knowledge is to be able to collect rock and gas samples. The author never states what we could possiable learn from the rock samples, or even elbrates on the idea of collecting a varity of samples from the planet. They later spend paragraph 7 explaining the history of computers and how much computes have progressed since 1800. They even explain the mechainics of computers during the World War II for example, "these devices make calculations by using gear and levers and do not require electronics at all." The mechainics of computers has nothing to do with the idea that we should be exploring NASA. The infomation provided in paragraph 5 through 7, such as the history and mechanics of computers. The little infomation given on how a rock sampple will help us learn about Venus, or that NASA isn't able to gain enough infomation from sending a hovering ship about the planet, do not help or support the authors claim that Venus is worthy of exploring despite the dangers.
To summorize, the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus"
does not do a good job of explaining the why Venus is worthy is studying and exploring, despite the dangers. The author spends to much time explaining computers, the history and the mechainics of them, and what we could learn about Venus through computers. They also use their time to tell their readers that sending an orbiting ship around plant won't provided us with enough infomation, and to explain how they would explore Venus and the tools they would use. The author did a poor job of explaining the importance of exploring Venus despite the dangers. | 3 |
The Electoral College consists of more cons than pros. The systems that the unprogrammed engineers work on are complicated vast perspectives. When a president gets elected the most voters and does not recieve presidency, wouldn't that confuse you. Popular voting is an effective way to give a candidate presidency simply because the people want that candidate to be the one responsible for the United States. The Electoral College needs to change the way it picks its president. Otherwise, the U.S. would be vulnerable to a president that most people completely denied for the other candidate.
The thing with popular voting is that people can get the president they want. When the elections are based on which candidate has the most popular votes, there are no crazy tricks or a hidden trump card. All you have is a candidate that deserves to be the president of the United States. A good example is Al Gore and his presidency crisis. Most voters looked up to him as president. It was only until the quirks of the electoral college stole his opportunity of becoming president thanks to the system of the electoral college we have today. The situation that makes this crisis even worse is how the voters for the actual electors themselves cannot control whether they win the election or lose. This means that if we keep the routine of the electoral college we have now, there are many opportunities for an unwanted elector. Therefore, leading to an unwanted president.
Ever since 2000, many people have been suffering from economics and industry. This is the simple result of a bad electoral college system. The people of course should have most of the perks in picking a president. If the president is bad at his job in making the U.S. habitable, then the electors are to blame for making a huge mistake. Many doors are opened to sudden changes and confusing decisions. John F. Kennedy could've lost his position since all of the votes didn't necessarily go to him. There's a valid reason why people vote for a candidate. To pick the president they know suits them best.
I will admit to this though. Popular voting is not the accurate way to go through with. I mean there are situations where people just pick a president because he looks proffesional. Others are simply racist and go for the white candidate or even vise-versa. Popular voting is not perfect in the sense of the psychological opinions of the voters themselves. Besides, all of the people living in american soil are different minded. There is literally no way to immediately recognize who the voter is and why his reasons for voting are wrong. There is also nothing we can do since people are allowed to vote for whatever reasons they want.
Due to all of the information given to me about Al Gore and unwanted electors, it is the best solution to change the system to popular voting. Both sides of the arguments have strong reasons to either keep their system or change the way the electoral college is run. Meanwhile, lets be honest. There have been more political downfalls with the system we have now that can be fixed with popular voting. Even though there are people that vote for selfish and unreliable reasons, there is still a balance of the people who want this president and the people who don't. The U.S. is consisted of minds that think completely different in the sense of human nature. We don't live in a utopia where everyone agrees with eachother. Now, being able to let the U.S. decide who they want their president to be, it sounds like a pretty fair way to elect a new president, don't you think? | 3 |
Have we seen any form of life on Mars so far? No, that's why it's clearly a natural landform. Plus, how do the aliens know what we look like. They could look completely different from us. It just so happens that the natural landform look's like a face.
Why would the aliens spend their time making a two mile long face anyways? These natural landform's are common in Cydonia, only this one had unusal shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharoh. It is indeed interesting and cool to think that it was built by aliens, but it wasn't built by aliens. Don't get me wrong, everyone wishes it was made by aliens, but facts are facts.
In 1998 Mars Global Surveyor flew over the landmark and got a couple photo's that are ten times better than the 1976 photo's. It was confirmed that the landmark wasn't a face it was just the shadow's that made it look like a face. But of course, skeptics thought the alien markings were hidden by haze. "It's not easy to target Cydonia" says Garvin. "In fact, it's hard work."(Paragraph 9)
Then, on April 8, 2001, four years after the last photo, another couple of photo's were taken. These photo's were way clearer than the photo's from 1998. " As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size," Garvin added. " So if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" This is proof that aliens did not make this landform.
As you can see, there is plenty of edvidence that the two mile head is a natural landform. Their is way more convicing stories about this topic. But I hope that my side of the argument conviced you that the landform wasn't built by aliens. | 2 |
The Challenge of Exploring Venus
Nowdays exploring new planets is not such a crazy idea as it was 100 or 1000 years ago. Exploring new planets can be our new, huge step in science. What planet should we visit first? Maybe Venuse?
Venus, sometimes called the "Evening Star" and Mars are the closest planets to Earth. It is logical to see them as planets to visit.Earth is located between Venus and Mars. There are no common climate, temperature, content of atmosphere, its thickness and etc. We need technologies, resourses and a lot of money to sponsor this project. It would be hard to visit another planet. Hard, but possible. Should we visit "Evening star? Is this hardship worthy the result? Woud our sister planet be hospitable for us? There questions that author answers are very actual. Would The National Aerounautics and Space Administrarion actually sent humans to study Venus? Are we able to participate such a big challenge?
Authors absolutelly, possitively agree that we are. Venus or the "Evening Star" absolutely worthy to visite despice the hardship. | 1 |
The author states that Venus is a worthy pursuit to go for even though there are dangers present.
While there are some dangerous features on Venus, the author's suggestion might be actually worth pursuiting.
There are many reasons to look forward to see Venus.
For example it was shown that scientist studied that there was some form of life on Venus.
Even though Venus is dangerous, it is still worthwhile to study.
Venus does have many physcial dangers that are present.
The text states, "A thick atomsphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus.
Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atomsphere" (Para 3).
There are also mild temperatures on Venus's surface itself.
Text goes on to state, "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atomspheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet.
Also, notable, Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system" (Para 3).
This explains some dangers when pursuiting to see Venus.
But do not get caught up with the dangers of Venus.
There are still worthwhile things to look for when studying Venus.
The text states, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system.
The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters.
Furthermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit..." (Para 4).
This explains the wonderful features that are worth it to see Venus.
There are as well other alternatives to exploring Venus if people do not want to be sent to Venus itself.
For example NASA has been working on other approaches to exploring Venus like making machines and computers.
The text states, "... some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested ina chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions" (Para 7).
Text goes on to state, "Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers. ...but these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all.
By comparison, systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces" (Para 7).
This shows how these alternatives of exploring Venus can still be pursuited.
Although Venus is a dangerous planet to visit, there are scientist out there that would sitll go and explore Venus because of features that are worth studying for and give an idea of what it is like for Venus.
There are also maybe a possiblity of some form of life there.
Even if it is too dangerous to explore there are still many other ways to explore Venus.
There is much insight to be gained for this planet. | 2 |
In todays world students often get board in a classroom. Therefor students dont pay atention when the teather is teaching. The result of them not paying atention leads to them getting bad grades. It would make a great diffrence if schools would use the FACS. There are many reasons why schools should be useing FACS but here are some of the main reason.
One of the reasons schools should be using FACS is because it would be able to tell if someone was getting frusterated and were to imbarest to ask for help. If teacher knew that one of their students were getting upset with something they would be able to help them to complet there assiment and not just sit there and not do it. If they did not use this they could not tell if the student was getting upset and didnt know how to do somthing and didnt fell comfortable asking for help in front of the class.
Another reason is they could tell if the students were liking the subjust that they were on. The teacher would be able to see if the students were likeing the way that the teacher was teaching thing so the teacher would know for the next years. This would improve the students grades by the teacher knowing how the students like to be tought.
Last but not least the teacher could tell if something was going on either outside of schools or in school. The teacher would be able to tell if they were upset and they could ask them what was wrong and they could try to help solve the problem. This could improve grades as well by helping the student foces more and help them not be upset.
If the schools were to use FCAS they should would become a better place for students to learn. The schools would become higher in rank because the studente would get better grades. there for FACS should be used in schools. | 2 |
FACS
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", Nick D'Alto goes into great depth about how a new computer system, Facial Action Coding Sytem, can revolutionize multiple industries. He began to describe the famous Mona Lisa drawing and how they were able to calculate her facial expressions with the new facial recognition system. He then broadens the topic by explaining how the computer system actually works. After going into even greater detail about the computer process, he begins to describe the many benefits that the Facial Action Coding System will bring. After reading this article, one can agree that the Facial Action Coding System should be implemented into classrooms to read student's emotional expressions for various reasons.
First of all, the use of Facial Action Coding System could enhance the education levels being taught in classrooms by individually designing lessons for students. At one point in "Making Mona Lisa Smile", Prof. Thomas Huang states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored...Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor" (D'Alto 6). By modifying the lesson to the students' needs, this can improve testing scores in classrooms, ensuring that most students will easily learn more based on their facial expressions.
Secondly, the Facial Action Coding System can help with discipline areas among schools. In the article, "Making Mona Lisa Smile", Prof. Thomas Huang explains how muscles contribute to a large portion of reading facial expressions. At one point he claims, "To an expert, faces dont lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity aren't being truthful" (D'Alto, 8). By pointing the idea out of spotting false facial expressions, the Facial Action Coding System can be used in schools and other places to help detect people who may be lying or trying to hide the truth. Instead of adults trying to pry kids open and "spill the beans", they can simply use the computer system to recognize certain facial expressions and then start from there.
Overall, there are many benefits to the Facial Action Coding System, and although some may be more beneficial than others, they each take part in bettering academics and schools in general. By personalizing lessons and helping with disciplinary actions, schools can loosen their grips from a tight load of work on their shoulders and allow the Facial Action Coding System to "lend a hand". One can really see how incorporating this system will not only benefit the staff and faculty of schools, but also the many children striving for excellence in academics and character. | 3 |
I think it would be helpful for students in the text it says that a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becomeing confused or bored, ''Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor. I know how that feels when you get that way when you are on a lossen and you dont understand a lesson. but some people might not like that because they might be contused or bored but they might like to have a chaleng and if they chang the lesson to make it esery they might get frostrated at the program.
you have to think about the other sied of this argumint some you might be mad a some one else or be upset about some thing else and the computor might think you are upset with the lesson a chang it and everyone shows there emotions deffrint so how would the conpter know how you show yours , and it does say in the text that is still working on the moldel of the face. it says that all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. And that might take awiel.
I would love for this to work someday i think it would help me alot because i hate useing computers i like haveing a techer tech me and if i could have a computer that asked like a humen and knew when i was confused with a lossen and help me with it or even chang it to a lees cofusing losson that would be grusgt so i hope this works one day. | 1 |
I believe that using technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is beneficial. This is because students maybe struggling from depression or anxiety. It is easy for people to fake a smile or not act sad. Using the technology today, society can figure out whether or not someone is in a good mental state. This technolgoy does not just calculate one eotion, but multiple emotions. It would be a good idea to use this new system of calculating emotions because individuals misinterpertate another person's mood. With using this device humns would have a clear and better understanding of how someone is feeling. "The Facial Action Coding System" can help teachers with their job. This device can detect whether a student is bored or understanding the material. If teachers new this, they would find a better way of teaching. The device is 'all about those muscular action movements, they even indiate a difference between a genuine smile and a forced one."
The Facial Action Coding System is valuable in the classroom because it can tell the differene if omeone is being truthful or not. If a student gets in trouble and chooses not to tell the truth, this device can detect it. The article states "to an expert, faces don't lie, these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a smiling politician or celebrity isn't being truthful." It's also important to detect students emotions in the classroom. The teachers never know whats going on with a student. For example a student could have a rough home life, that could lead to making bad choices like self harm. It's important to know what a student is feeling so they can get help earlier on. Not only is that a good thing to know, but it's important to see if the student understands the material being taught. If the student is unsure what is going on in the lesson, the teacher needs to find a way to help the student understand. If students are bored or confusedduring the lesson, the teacher needs to modify it. Teachers can do this by making work more hands on and intresting.
In conclusion The Facial Action Coding System is a smart and effective way to indicae someone's emotions and shouls be used more. | 3 |
Did you know that Earth had a twin? Well not exactly a twin, but a planet that is very close to Earth in terms of it's density and size. That planet happens to be
Venus. Since the planet is very identical to earth, we are all going to want to explore it. Exploring and studying Venus comes at a cost though, it is a worthy pursuit despite the presentation of it's dangers.
Venus is a planet in our solar system. It is referred as the "Evening Star," as its one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. It is the second planet from our sun. Many people confuse Venus with being a star, because of its nickname. trying to examine Venus more closely then of the safe vantage point of Earth, can be very challenging despite it being simple to see from the distance.
We are all closer to Mars than Venus sometimes due to the speed changes at which they orbit the Sun by. Us humans send a variety of spacecrafts to the cloud-draped world for it to land on. No spacecraft has survived the landing for a couple hours. This means that all the previous missions to mars were all unmanned. All of these failed missions have explained why Venus hasnt been touched in more than three decades by a single spaceship.
As you can tell Venus is a challenging planet for humans to study because of its reputation. The atmosphere of Venus is very thick as 97 percent Carbon Dioxide covers all of it. The planet's tempatures on the surface average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. The atmospheric pressure is greater than what we experience on Earth by 90, all of these conditions are way more extreme than what we experience on Earth. Trying to visit Venus would completly liquefy and melt any spacecraft near it.
Many scientist are trying to explore this planet despite its inhospital conditions because it is very identical to Earth. It used to be one of the most Earth-like planet in our solar system, Which facsinated many Astronomers. Venus was probably covered by many bodies of water and forms of life could have been supported, just like Earth. The planet now has a rocky surface with many valley's, mountains, and craters that makes astronomers itch to further expore it. Despite it's very hard conditions to even get near the planet.
Venus is a very cool planet. As it is very Dangerous to further study and explore,It is all worth it in the long run. The planet has very many earth-like qualities. So it would be smart to see if there was any signs of life. Venus is worth all the dangers because its a worthy pursuit. | 2 |
This is about a computer program that can tell you about your smile. It tells you the percent of your smile like happniess and sadness. No emotions are safe. This computer can do a 3-D computewr model. The computer was developed by Prof Haung.
The technology can tell you on what your emotionsin your smile. This technology can identify students emotion expressions. It can exactly detect in what that person is felling. Prof Haung has put in an algorithms into the computer so it can give you the percentiges in your smile. The comptuer uses Di Vinci's 6th code for this program. The computer can tell you if you are happy or sad in your smile.
To sum up this programing. This computer graming can tell you anything about your smile. No ordninarly computer can do what this computer can do because it doesn't have the hard drive to do it. Dr. Hung has a partner that helped him build the computer. The Prof. name is Nicu Sebe. They both developed this program for the comouter that can tell you if you are happy or sad. | 0 |
This is why the face on Mars is just a natural landform and was not created by aliens. How would aliens create a face? Unless, it was their face,I dont think that they could create that. It could've even have been one of their faces. This is my argument on why this face on Mars is just a natural landform and not something created by aliens.
First, in the text it says that when NASA ended up getting a picture people were not satisfied becuase they think that there wasn't enough evidence in that picture becuase it was a cloudy time on Mars. They didn't want people jumping to conclusions so they wanted NASA to send cameras out during the time of year when it was very clear. They thought that since it was cloudy and the picture wasn't too clear they think that there was evidence of alien markings were out there hidden.
Second, when they sent out the cameras on a very clear summer day, it got them a better look but not what some of the people wanted to see. In the picture it showed us that the face looked like the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa- landforms common around the American West. If scientists are finding common landforms, it is just more evidence that aliens did not create this realistic looking face.
Thirdly, in the text it also gives us more information to back NASA and other scientists up on this face just being a natural landform. It says that Garvin a scientist states that "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, that's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." If the landforms they are finding very similar to the Face on Mars, is showing more characteristics that are extreamly alike, it is most likely just a natural landform.
I can also understand where the people that think aliens made it are coming from. They think oh well since it looks like a face it must be a face. It also says that in the text that the Face on Mars has become a pop icon. It has starred in many things like a Hollywood film. books, magazines, radio talk shows and even , haunted grocery store checkout lined for twenty five years! So with all of that going on I can tell how you would be influenced with the internet and everything.
These are my reasonings on why the Face on Mars in just a natural landform and not something created by aliens. I hope that I got the point across on why it would be a natural landform. With all of the time, reaserch and even money that scientists and NASA have put into this, that you would just believe them becuase actual reaserch and evidnece is more factual then just some magizine or movie film. We dont even have any evidence to prove that aliens are real and that there was even life on Mars, so why would you want to beleive something that a lot of people are very optimistic and skeptical on? That is why I beleive that the Face on Mars is just a natural landorm. | 3 |
In the short story " The challenge of Exploring Venus" it starts out providing information about the planet Venus , also called "Evening Star", and how it is so easy to spot in the night sky. Venus is often referred to as Earth's "Twin"
because Venus is closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size. However to explore this planet is very very difficult.
In paragraph 3 in the story it says, there is a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide that blankets Venus. To add on to that, there are clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. The planets surface has temperatures that average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on Earth. It also says that besides the high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes and frequent lightning strikes to probees seeking to land on its surface. This is why it is so difficult of us to explore Venus because of its harsh conditions.
In paragraph 5 of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," that NASA is coming up with some solutions to the hostile conditions of Venus that would allow scientist to float above the fray with a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape. This would avoid unfriendly conditions by staying up and out of their way. Further in the story, in paragraph 7, it tells us how NASA is thinking back to the 1800s and 1940s when they had mechanical computers that made calculations by using gear and lever and do not require electronics at all. Although modern computers are enormously powerful, flexible and quick, they tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions. By comparison, systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces. By using these computers we would be able to calculate many things about Venus even though it has such a harsh climate.
The author provides us with so much information on how we can find and figure out ways to explore Venus despite the dangers it presents us with. To blimps and computers, we could possibly find many more ways to test and find out new things about Venus and get an understanding about it. As it says in the last paragraph human curiosity will likely lead us into equally intimidation endeavors. Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 3 |
When in class one of my least favorite things to do is computer work. It's an excuss for teachers to not do their job and be lazy. All while we students are working. I understand how work on the computer might be convinent, but it is at the cost of our educations. Though if work on the computer has to be done in class I would not mind if my facial expression was read so more enjoyable content could be presented.
I think that if this technology was used in a classroom setting learning new information would stick in your brain better if you were in a joyful state when learning it. Since the system can identify confusion as well you would be better able to understand the information, provided that it will be altered to simplify the lesson to where you could understand easier.
All in all, I believe that the Facial Action Coding System would be benificial to the classroom setting. I feel that it could help a lot of kids in their learning. That is just what we need in our country today, better education. | 1 |
Over time, we learned venus advanteges, and disadvanteges. Studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The more challeging it is to study venus, the more people want to explore.
First about 97% carbon dioxide blankets venus. What's more challeging is the clouds of high corrosive sulfuric acid in venus atmopshere. In venus the temperture average over 800 degree. Which is also more than we experenice in our plant.
Second Also Researchers would not be able to take any samples of whatever sort. This would be diffecult for researchers to contine with the mission. In order to get far more information is to find a way to get up close and personal to venus even if it is risky.
Lastly striving to meet the challenge presented by venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the plantet itself, also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally discoveries.
Studying venus is worthy despite the danger it presents, it is more likely a better chance researchers will be able to find something we never knew before. | 2 |
Could it be an alian? The Face that appear on Mars is not an alian or a creature its a natural landform. The photos that were taken showed like an Egyptian Pharaoh or a fave called the Face. The scientis at NASA made a research about it.
First on 1976, the Vinking's photo was taken. In that photo it showed that there was a face on Mars. You might think that it was an alian or that their is life on Mars. The photo didn't showed so many details. The camera did't have good quality, you couldn't tell what it really was.
Later on, on 2001 another photo was taken. This time the camera had a better quality. Each pixel was 1.56 meters compare to the old photo that it was 43 meters per pixel. You could see the Face three times bigger. The details where much more clear.
Eventually taking all those photos, the scientist finally came out with an answer. Garvin was saying that," If there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" All those things he listed were natural landforms on Earth. So as the Face on Mars. The picture shows a Martian like butte or mesa.
After all the research Garvin says, " That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." By saying that its pretty clear that is was any of what you may be thinking. Before all the research I though it was an alian or a creture too . Now there is nothing to worry about is just a natural landform just like Earth have some too. | 2 |
Sir can I interest you with this flyer about the Seagoing cowboys program. No I' fine but thank you said the man. But sir you don't even know what the progarm is about. Well then tell me replied the man. It's a great and exsiting adventure were you go on a boat acrost the Atlantic or the Pacifac and help the contrys in ruin by bringing animals and food for the animals.
Well but don't you think that I could do more by just donating money asked the man. When you donate money it gets spit up and a small percentege of the money goes to each indevidual contry in need. However with this program you can help a country very effectivly by bringing hundreds of animals overseas at a time. But that sounds like much more work than just donating money. If you join the seagoing cowboys you will get to see many exsiting things and you will be helping more than you could if you just donated money.
Well I do have alot of spare time on my hands since I got fired from my job and nothing else to do said the man. Well then you can join the program and help the countrys in need. You know what I will take a flyer. I garentee you will not be disaponted. Thank you said the man. | 0 |
The technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable because it is a waste of time. I think it's a waste of time because studies show that you can be able to tell when someone is down. Not by the face but by their actions. You will start to see a change in them, they wont act the same even if they try so hard to,ect. The Facial Action Coding System is a waste of money, time, and space.
Why do all this just to see if someone is hiding their emotions, when you can just observe them. A true friend, mother, father ect; will know if something is wrong with their loved ones. In the article the very first sentence says " she's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted , 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." Why does it matter how fearful,disgusted,or angry she is if it clearly states she happy 83 percent. We are not computers, robots or none of that we are human beings and we all have different emotions running at the same time. Thats what makes us, us!
In the article it also states " For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face. Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, ect." My point here is that you dont observe a persons feelings by looking at their face. You observe the way they act and compare it to how they usually act when mad, sad, or happy, ect. People sometimes hide their emotions by putting on a fake smile, hiding their true emotions thats why you observe actions.
I just feel as if its easy to tell the difference between different emotions. It's common sense to me, but it may not be to you. When you really think about it, they make it seem like its really complicated. But if you would just pay close attention to your loved ones, and stop thinking that everyone has to always be happy. Then you will see that its easy to tell the difference of each emotion we humans have.
This is why i think the technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable. Hopefully you will understand where i'm coming from. The Facial Action Coding System is unnessacary, and a waste of time. It's easy to tell when someone is acting strange or different. All you have to do is observe. | 2 |
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