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I believe that driverless cars are the way of the futrure and we need development them for our community and making everyday lives a lot easier.
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," it states many helpful ways that these cars can make driving a lot better safer and easier to use. Ways like having a human in control at all times and making sure they remain alert and focused; not to mention the advanced technology put into these cars, and time an effort they made to make these cars easy and safe to use as possible.
Driving cars are great, but I would be scared to drive a car I had no control of. What if the steering wheel shortened out and I had no control over the wheel? Thats not the case gladly! These Self driving cars are all not self driving. The cars all have been built for you to have full control over these cars brakes, steering wheel, and acceleration, so you have control whenever you need it.as stated in the article here, "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skill..." this makes me a lot more at ease to know that ill be safe at all times and in control which make me more for the development for these cars.
I think the developing these cars will be such a great thing for this community. Parents could send kids to school in driverless cars when the technology is there as stated in the article "Long way from the dream of calling a driverless cab to take us wherever we disire, but Sebastian Thrun, Founder of Goodle Car project, believes that the technology has finally begun to catch up..." Think about how much time they will save without having to take their kids to school. Things like that are why we need to develop these driverless cars.
The endless possiblities that we could accomplish with these driverless cars. Think about how you could get in a car and go where you want to go with easy and no effort at all. How safe you would be knowing you have full control if you need it . Thats why we need to develope these cars not stopping their creation, they would be such a great advancement in every day lives. | 3 |
"It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." That is a direct quote from Jim Garvin himself, the chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program. If a well-educated researcher such as Garvin says that the face-like feature on Mars is simply a natural land formation, why shouldn't we believe him. There is too much evidence disproving the theory that the face is an alien structure or artifact for the idea to even be fathomable.
The picture clearly shows that this formation could not possibly be that of alien descent. Scientists have proved on three different occasions that it is merely another isolated Martian mesa, which was common in the area Cydonia. NASA scientist Jim Garvin states, "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa," which only proves further that there is no sign of unknown life present on Mars.
Although NASA researchers would have benefited from having found alien life on Mars, they have proved that no such life exists or has existed on the planet Mars. Three different images from three separate missions has only proved this point further, there is no ancient alien marking or signs on Mars whatsoever. | 2 |
The "Evening Star", which is considered one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. What may this be called? Venus is the name. But, this is actually a planet! In our current solar system, this is the second planet from the sun. Although, it has proven to be one of the most challenging places to explore. It is considered to be 97% carbon dioxide, which us humans, need Oxygen to survive. Despite all of the danger this planet has, there are still ways to pursuit this deathly planet.
Astronomers have scientifcally proven that Venus was once considered the most Earth-like planet that has ever existed as a part of our solar system. Till this present day, the planet still has a surface of rocky sediments. Which includes valleys, mountains, and craters. According to The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, there are ways that we can explore Venus. On Earth, we have jet airplanes that allow humans to travel from one destination to the next without touching any grounds. If that can be done on planet Earth, then it is quite possible that it can be done on planet Venus considering the fact that it was once considered an Earth-like planet.
This can be done by taking a blimp-like vehicle and traveling 30 miles above ground, that is a much possible way to avoid unfriendly ground conditions on Venus. Of course it will still be around 170 degrees Farenheit even in the air, but, that air pressure would be extremely close to sea level on Earth. It is not in easy conditions, but quite possible for humans to have the ability to do. NASA is even considering using some type of technological electronic to explore Venus. Creating these gadgets, so it has the ability to pursuit this planet, despite all of the danger still involved.
In conclusion, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has scientically been able to prove that these ways could give humans another chance to explore what Venus has to offer. Whether it is jet airplanes, technological electronics, or whatever else they may be able to come up with. All of our travels to Earth and even beyond Earth, should not be allowed due to dangers and doubts but to pursuit even the most dangerous places to see what other things are like except our home. Who knows what is out there, and what could be waiting to be found. | 2 |
Losing a privilege to drive a car is a risk. Some people use cars for there main transportation. In some places you will found countries and nations that dont limits you to drive a car anymore. Those places are Germany, Paris, and Bogota,Columbia. These cities limit the right of driving a car, but the citizens agree in many different ways.
In Vauban,Germany the citizens are happy that most people dont have cars. The citizens think its an great idea no cars are on the street. They have certain places that you can park if you own a car. There's only two places you can park and those two places are the large garages at the edge of the development, and you have to buy a space for $40,000, along with a new home. There is 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move there. They think that cars wouldve been to much for them and that since the cars has been gone it has had a big impact in the German society thta has lower the transportation bills 80 percent down by the law.
In Paris, the cars have been moved off the street due to smog. The smog happened when the pollution started. There was almost 4,000 drivers fined for refusing to follow the orders. Paris has also created a new tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline. The diesel makes up 67 percent of vehicles in France, compared to a 53.3 percent average of diesel engines in the rest of Western Europe, according to Reuters. Paris averages more smog than any other European capitals.'' Last week Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter compare with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in London, Reuters found. The Paris people have come to a conclusion that its cars and diesel has effected its community and such more but its the main reasin why paris has the advantages of limiting car usage to the people.
In Bogota,columbia its a new program that sets to spread to other countries. After the program started Colombians have begin hiking, bike riding, and skating to reduce the traffic jams. Its the third straight year cars have been banned with just taking a bus and only taxis for a day. In the capital of 7 million people the goal is to try and promote an alternative transportation and reduce the smog pollution. The violators will have to face $25 fines.'' It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution, said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife. For the first time ,two other colombian cities, Cali and Valledupar, have joined the event. The Municipal authorities from other countries came to Bogota and joined the event. A day without cars is part of an improvement campaign that began in Bogota in the mid 1990s. Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city.
Since the even, Predsident Barack Obama has accepted the terms of the no car limits and he thinks its a good idea to the citizens. | 2 |
If we dont make a change now we, could be in a lot of trouble twenty years from now. Us as people dont really ever look at how much we actually are hurting the world and ourselves. For instance, limiting your car usage. That right there saves money for you and also helps keep our enviroiment clean and healthy.
First of all, if you were to limit your car use from seven days a week to maybe three, you would be saving a ton of money. The avarage person probably fills there gas tank all the way up once a week. Depending on mile per gallon your car ges it could be different, but if you were to only use your car three days out of the week you would only have to fill your tank up about every two weeks instead of every weeks. You would save so much money if you were to do that. Gas prices arnt cheap in todays world, its not like you can go get a gallon of gas for 50 cents anymore.
Second of all, used gas contaminates our world almost more than anything. The feums that come out of cars/trucks is the reason why we are having the types of problems that we are having enviromental wise. In source 1: In German suburb, life goes on without cars, the people who live in Vauban Germany only get to use there car everyother day depending on licsence plate numbers. They're making a movement and it is called smart planning. This town along with others sees how bad we are hurting our enviroment and making a change. These people are getting along with there lives just fine, in fact some are saying that life is better without having a car. They say they are "stress free." In source 2: Paris bans driving due to smog, it says that almost 4,000 drivers were fined, now i cam see were some days you just have to use your car to take car of somethimg and that is totally fine because thats what cars are used for, to benefit us.
In conclusion, i believe that us as people need to reallly think about the future and realize that we dont have to use our cars as much as we do today. We can take a couple of days out of the weeks and not use them it wont kill you. Infact it might make you live longer because you are helping your enviroment which is definitley helping you. | 2 |
The art of technology to read expression would be valuable for many reasons. Many people like to guss or are unaware of peoles feelings which could cause problem with communication. It alsp could stop some problemd not all but some.
With technology being that advanced to tell peoples felling it could defuse problems or keep them from happining. If someone is feeling sad or depressed and they are read from the computer it could tell a teacher to go help the kid out. By helping the kid or person it could keep tjat person from makig bad decisons. It could help out long term for those students. It could also help a teacher find out how to teach a specific subject the way thsts most beneficial to students. The computer reading emotions could help with that by letting the teacher know a kid is confused about something. A lot of time kids or people in generall don't like to ask for help about some things because it can be imbarrasing or they are just independent people but if they need help and dont ask the system could pick that up and inform the teacher. It could also make learning morre eifficant and interesting. Most people would want to know about how teachers are able to read emotions. | 2 |
The use of this technology is not valuable for a studdent in a class because some emotions are to be kept because with this technology students emotions will be out there for people to wonder what is happening with the child.Well how about the child do not want other people to know what is happening in his or her life or with his or her emotions.In the artical it states that the computer could recognize when the student is beccoming confused or bored, My question is how will the teacher know when she is teaching the children, and how will she know that one of her students is confused, it also stated that it could modify the lesson like a human instructor and that would be taking jobs from teachers . One of my questions is that if the computer knows what you are feeling and if it says that you are bored and the computer will modify to like a human instructor will it spice things up and make lessons funner and interesting so kids won't get bored?Im againt using this technology for it to read the students emotions because some emotions are to be kept and it is creepy for a computer to be reading your emotions that maybe you didn't know you were feeling. | 1 |
Limiting car usage would be a wise thing to do for the world, and places around the word have already started. In German suburbs there are fewer cars, Paris banned driving due to smog, there is a car free day in Bogota, and car culture is coming to an end in the United States.
To begin, in Germany people have given up their cars! This is a product of some of the new laws that they are enforcing on the outskirts of Freiburg. For example, street parking is generally forbidden. But car ownership is still allowed, if neccasary they can only park in large garages at the end of the development were you buy a space for $40,000! I deffanitly dont ever want to pay that much just for a parking space, and they dont either; 70 percent of Vaubans families do not own cars. On the plus side people feel more involved in their community when taking a bus or walking to were ever they need to go. "When i had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter.
Moreover, air pollution is getting out of control. To help, Bogota has a car free day. Millions of Columbians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid to traffic jams. "These people are generating a revolutionary change, and this is crossing borders," said Enrique Piera, the mayor of Asuncion, Paraguay. The goal is to promote alternative transpertation and reduce smog. Paris typically has more smog than other European capitals. [last] Week Paris had 147 micgrograms of particutate matter per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in Lonon, Reuters found.
Adittionaly, greenhouse gas emissions are crazy. Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer drivers licenses as each year goes by. But America's love afair with its vehicles seems to be cooling. If the pattern persists-and many sociologists believe it will- it will have benificial implications forr carbon emissions and the enviroment, since transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions, just behind power plants. There has been a large drop in the percentage of 16-39 year olds getting license. | 1 |
The author supports his idea that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers very clearly and effectivly. He supports his idea by stating how much its like Earth but its corroive atmosphere, weather, and the atmospheric pressure are to extreme for humans to encounter with. He then talks about NASA plans to approach Venus and how at one point it may have had oceans,mountains, and varous life forms like Earth.
The author states Venus is often reffered to as Earths "twin" because it is the closest in terms of size and density, and sometimes in distance. When Venus is closest to us, humans have sent many different spacecrafts there to explore the planet. Each of the ships were unmanned since every landing was terminated after a few hours. This was due to the dangerous environment of Venus.
The author also states thst Venus has a very harsh and inhospitable environment. Its atmosphere is 97 percemt carbon dioxide and they are highly corrosive with sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. Venus's surface on average is over 800 degrees fahrenheit. He talks about the planets atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than Earths. The author also states what type of weather the planet offers which is said to be erupting volcanos, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes. The author then asks a question to himself; if the planet is so inhospitable why is NASA still wanting to take visits to its surface.
The author answers back by saying the Astronomers are fascinated by Vesus because it may well once been the most Earth like planet in our solar system. The author says long ago Venus was probable covered in oceans and could support life forms similiar to Earth. Venus is said to stilll have some features that are analogoous to those of Earth. The author states that NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions would alow scientists to float above the harsh surface although the tempertures would still be hot but the air pressure would be closest to sea level on Earth.
Thus stating all support of his research of Venus's dangers and possible history he supports his main idea to us without confusion and going off topic. He states clearly what his purpose and idea was. | 2 |
The idea of implementing Facial Action Coding System(FACS) into school computers is an idea that has been suggested by the creators of the software. They suggested that the system would be able to recognize whether a student is confused or bored, and change the lesson accordingly. This will create a separation in a classroom between the kids who understand the topic and kids who do not. Since there are so many different levels of comprehension within a classroom, kids will be constantly progressing at a different rate. For the students who are a little bit slower to grasp information, they will always be behind on the lesson plan. On the other side of the spectrum, the children who are fast to understand the information will always be bored and always be ahead of the lesson. For teachers, this divide would be even more difficult than the one that they face today, as they would be aware of all of the kids who don't understand, and will be prevented to continue on the curriculum until everyone is on the right track. Implementing the Facial Action Coding Sysem is a great idea on the surface, but once applied into schools, it will be very hard to control the curriculum in a classroom. That being said, it would not be a good idea to add Facial Action Coding Systems into classroom computers.
There is always a contrast in the level of comprehension between students in a classroom. For the students who don't fully grasp the information right away, the Facial Action Coding System would keep them behind on the curriculum, making sure that they "understand" what is being taught. This system would be a major drawback for these students, as they might be able to fully learn about half of the curriculum, and leave the other half untouched by the time they are tested on it all. Another thing is that once a student is recognized as being confused, the software would have no clue as to what is causing the confusion, and would not be able to assist. Google would be a better platform for a student who is confused on a lesson to study off of. Another thing is that if a student is not interested in the content and doesn't understand it, they will be more inclined to look bored of the situation, and be put into the higher level curriculum, which would set them back even more. While this facial software is a great idea, the system would end up holding back many students who could do better with solely a teacher in the room.
On the other side of the spectrum, students who are always understanding the information within the first few days will not reap much benefit from this software either. They will be recognized as bored, and then they will be assigned to something else for the "bored" students to complete. This would most likely not take them very long at all, and they would probably be finished before the other students even understood the initial topic. This divide will keep the fast students progressing rapidly, and the slow students at a stand still.
This Facial Action Coding System might be hard on students, but the teachers will be getting the brunt of the situation. The teachers will be more acutely aware than usual whether or not one of their students is comprehending the content or not. This will cause the teacher to provide additional lessons to that student, and prevent them from moving on in the curriculum. This software not only creates a divide between the students in the classroom, but also the teacher. The teacher would then have to morally decide whether to stop and wait for a student to understand, or to leave them behind. Many students may disagree, but no teacher ever wants to have to make that decision. That is why putting Facial Action Coding Systems into school computers would be a bad idea.
Implementing the Facial Action Coding Sysem is a great idea on the surface, but once applied into schools, it will be very hard to control the curriculum in a classroom. Some students would have an easy time completing lessons from this software, and some students would find it impossible to make it through one unit. This dilemma would be even tougher for teachers, as they would have to decide whether to leave behind the kids who don't understand, or to make the kids who do understand, suffer through more lessons of content that they already have mastered. While on paper, adding Facial Action Coding System may have seemed like a great idea, implementing this into real schools would provide challenges that would not be combatted by modern day educators. | 4 |
Driverless cars are a big question in today's world. Driverless cars have been worked on for many years now, but none have been perfected. Why is this? Because at some point, all the cars need the help of a human being. Driverless cars have not been perfected because a car does not have instints, as humans do. A car can not make a decision, as a human can do. Driverless cars can not be perfected because there has to be a human to do these things.
The advancment of driverless cars has been attempted many times. Companies have tried to make cars totally opperable without humans. An example of this would be by making the roads smarter by putting magnets in them for the cars to follow and be pulled by. Another would be making the cars smarter by putting in senors, vibrations and lights. The downfall to these attempts is that they cost more money than it was worth. A way to produce a reasonably priced driverless car, or road, has not been found.
Cars have advanced in many ways. They have sensors, video cameras, and so many other things, but cars are not humans. If driverless cars became something many people used, many laws have been put in place for driving, some would have to be altered, and others just made new all together. Companies trying to produce driverless cars even realize that the cars can not function without an alert human being in the car to take over. This being said, it destory's the main idea of a driverless car in the first place. Driverless cars would not benifit people with all the factors put together. | 2 |
I do not think that the author supported his idea to the fullest. He could have just done better because he never made it clear about his descion. there were just too much negatve about going to venus theres are 4 postive things about why we should go to venus. "solar pwer would be plentiful , and radiation wouldnt exceed earth levels not easy conditions but survivable for humans .
He supported his argument very few places of the passage. The text states "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment includes familiar features such as valleys and mountain. He also supported his argument with "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life . which means that the planet could be inhabitable by humans.
He made his argument worse by putting all of the dangerous stuff intot the text. The author says "Humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world. Each previous misson was unmanned."
Which means that it has been to difficult to go there for breif periods at a time. " A thich atmosphere of almoost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus." Which means that it is very inhabitibal for humans.
If i had to guess on which side the author would have been for : try and explore the plane or Stop trying because it is too dangerous I would have to say that he is on the stop trying it is too dangerous side. I think this because compared to the postive stuff it says to venus it has a lot of bad facts and good reasons on why we shouldnt go there. in my mind i do not think that he got his point out enough to say he wants us to go to Venus .
In my opinion Venus is too dnagerous for us to survive there and live there. I think that exploring there is just a waste of money because " each previous mission has been unmanned and you shouldnt just keep trying. the author believes that there should be money invested into the reseach of venus. I do not agree with him. And i feel as though we as humans should explore some where more inhabitable | 2 |
The things that go on in florida about keeping in electorial college is working for us there are good reasons and bad reason where to keep it or change it to popular vote.
I think keeping the electorial college is better for everybody we vote on the represenitive by there good ideas not there popularity. in the electoral college it consist of 538 votes and the majority of 270 votes is usally the winner and he is voted for because of his good ideas not if he is populer with the people or represenitives. in and electorial college where the electors vote in the president and the vice president which helps out the decison for the better man or woman in the white house, so the people should keep the elector college and not change to the populer vote.
the united states should keep they electoral collge because the people vote and it is won by majority rule and should not be changed. the people vote for who they think is right for the job not just random people vote its unanimus decison to who wins. There is no reason to change the way things are going it has always been the same way the whole time ever since the united states was made in the first place. the people elect that is the advantage of a democracy which we have and in a democracy we vote by majority and thats how it most likley will stay in the united states no matter who the goverment is trying to vote in who they want but the united states is the power to vote in who goes into the office not the goverment so there is no chane of rigging all the votes so the unites states should not change to a popularity vote. power to the people is an old metaphor that indicates that we have the power to vote unlike in other countries where one man rules and the people have no power to vote for the best man to take over so in an electoral college we have all mighty power to make our own decisons to our future.
so the united states will stay in electoral college forever but anything could happen to stop it. | 0 |
Do you think that our world should have driverless cars ? Well I don't think that we should have driverless cars. I think that more car accidents will occur. How safe would the car be around people. Thats my opinion on why driverless cars shouldn't be made.
My opinion is more accidents will happen if we had driverless cars. One reason why accidents would happen is due to technololgy failure, and if the car did get into an accident and severly hurt someone whos fault would it be the humans fault, or the cars fault.
Would the driverless car be safe around peope? How safe would a kid be walking home from school and a driverless car is coming down the street? Would the car be able to recongnize a kid and stop at an apropriate distance without getting in the red zone of a kid ? These questions are important questions that need to be taken into consideration heavly.Thats one reason why I disagree with having driverless cars roming the earth.
I highily disagree with having driveless cars because what if the driveless car gets into an accident would that be the cars fault or the fumans fault? How safe would the car be driving around humans ? Would it be able to stop at an apropriate distance with out hurting anyon? These questions need answers out of the saftey of everyone. | 1 |
I would not want driverless cars on the streets that I walk every single day. Why its three reason why I dont want them on the streets. Because they will be dangerous at night time, not safe for kids to walk across the street after school, and beacuse how could a car drive it self come on now.
First one of my reasons was because it would not be safe at night time.Every day there is a drunk driver out there some where be drunk and driving.So tell me why would they put driverless cars on are streets, come on the streets are safe as it is now and we gonna make it more dangerous if they put driverless cars out where people walk across it will be a wreck if they make them cars.
Second reason is that kids cross the street everyday after school. Some of the elementry kids are not that smart to look both ways before cross so how would a driverless car know when they are about to hit some one. I really dont think those cars will be that smart toknow when sombody is crossing the street and the kids will not be safe at all i promise you thats why those cars should not be out here .
Last is that how will these cars support thereself. They will need gas,they will need oil changes,and they will need to put air in the tiers when they pop or a hole gets in the tire. Maybe if we dont make the cars we would not even have to worrie about those problems because us human beings can handle tall that work for the cars to be safe.
Inconclusion I would not want driverless cars in the streets i walk every single day.It's the three reasons I talked about today why i dont think their safe because it will be a messed up world.Who ever wanted to make that driverless car stuff should just say forget it because they will not be safe at all out in this world its not safe in the world today what makes you think it will be safe when they put "DRIVERLESS CARS". | 1 |
Dear Senator,
The process of voting through the Electoral College was established in the Constitution by our founding fathers. While some say that the Electoral College goes against America's democratic ideals and it increases the probability for a disastrous vote, the Electoral College still gives Ameican citizens some sway in the election and with a completely democratic system of voting there is a good chance that the outcome could be even more disastrous. The Electoral college is a compromise of voting between citizens and the government, it represents the people as evenly as it can, and it still gives voters a collective chance to change the outcome of an election.
One reason that the Electoral college works so well is that it is not completely run by the people or run by the government. Rather both are part of the voting process, having equal representation. While democracy is highly regarded in America, it would be unwise to have a vote completely run by the people. The government needs to have some system in place that gives citizens a vote, but not complete free reign. If the people of America voted and the election outcome was disastrous, then the government needs to have a scapegoat in place. The founding fathers understood this which is why the Electoral College is still in place today.
The Electoral College does not give a single voter a chance to sway an election, however America's population as a whole is represented. Not one region or state has enough electoral votes to elect a president (Par 19 and 21). This is a good thing because canidates pay equal attention to all of America's people. Also, in the Electoral College, not every state has the same amount of electoral votes because every state has a different population size. This might seem like unequal representation of that states, but the election is not meant to give each state an equalized vote, it is meant to give the population of america an even representation.
Swing states give America's people a chance to decide an elections outcome. In swing states the voters are very thoughtful about their canidates because they know that in the their case, that their vote really does count (par 20). It is good to have voters who are very thoughtful and catious about their vote. The Electoral Colleges encourages this type of behavior among citizens by giving voters a chance to sway an election in swing states. Swing states can impact an election. They are an example of how the Electoral College, while still not completely democtratic, still gives the people a vote.
Through the Electoral College America's population is represented, the government and it's citizens have equal representation, and American people can still impact the outcome of an election. The founding fathers of America thought of this while they created the foundation that our country proudly stands on. The Electoral College should stay as it is. It still works effectively to decide on who will become president. As long as the College works effectively, then ther should be no issue with it. | 4 |
First, I dont agree with the making of driverless cars,there are too many faults that can happen with this technology. I believe technology consumes too much of our lives already, now they're trying to take the freedom away of driving yourself. When all the problems with this subject are fixed and the driveless vehicle is proven safe , I still won't support it.
There are many well thought out reasons I have on which people should not buy these cars. First of all who feels comfortable with letting the car drive itself with all the homocides and extremist group bombings going on. I don't know about you, but I will not put my life in a driverless cars' hands. Also with more technology comes more hackers to get into the software, which is going to be my next point.
An hacker can get into credit cards , computers, drones, and even phones which have all types of security to stop this. So what makes you think a driverless car can't be hacked some hackers might even call it mediocre to even try to be honest. So you could be in this "driverless car" as they say with your family and what if it gets hacked? I know for a fact the company which you bought it from is not going to have a track on each and every cars software status, you could be driven somewhere by the hacker without anyone even noticing because you just let the car control where you go. Once again I won't be letting this car take my freedom of driving .
From my standpoint I will never suport this idea. In the future to come I know these cars will be finalized and glitches fixed. The world will be completely run by all technology. Then we will see that one of the cars had a problem causing multiple fatalities. Once more evidence comes that these cars aren't fit for the world's problems going on they will stop being manufactured. Proving that as humans we should take the responsibility of driving ourselves around as it was before the idea of driverless cars evn generated. | 2 |
Driverless cars would be a good idea. It would use less fuel, cause less accidents, and there wouldn't be as much traffic. Driverless cars could save many peoples' lives.
Think of it, if a person driving were to get to close to another vehicle the it would stop on its own, preventing the accident. With that preventing the accident, that leads to less traffic. If we had no accidents we wouldn't have as much traffic. The cars would know how to follow all the road signs which would stop all speeding and prevent people from running red lights. Also to all the drunk drivers, that would allow them to not be able to drive drunk. It would be much safer for everyone to have the driverless cars. If you were coming up to a road construction, accident, or traffic the car should let you know atleast five miles ahead of time.
Personally, I think this would be a great way to not use as much fuel, prevent accidents, and traffic. It would make driving so much easier for everyone and not cause as much frustration while driving. | 2 |
Luke Bomberger had got asked to join this program called '' Seagoing Cowboys."
He was working at two part time jobs, one of the jobs were grocery store and the other one was the bank. Then, Lukes friend Don Reist invited Luke to go to the cattle boat in Europe. Luke couldnt say no because that has always been Lukes dream. Then he thought, that would be the opportunity of his lifetime to work on the cattle boat!
The reason Luke wanted to work onthe cattle boat was because the World War II just got done in Europe. He also wanted to help Europe get there food supplies, animals, and familys back together. Fourty-Four nations joined in on this program. The name of the program was called "Seagoing Cows" because they took care of the horses, young calfs, mules that were on there way over seas. Europe needed despirate help when this incident happened.
Acording to the story, on August 1945, they arrived on August 14th. On that day the Pacific War ended. They had a cargo with 335 horses plus hay and oats to feed them. Luke turned 18 when he was onthe cattle boat headed towrds Greece, and that meant he could be drafted to the military services! By the time he was discharged in 1947, Luke Bomberger had made nine trips, then he got told that he had the most Seagoing Cowboys trips in the program!
Luke always said "the cattle-boat trips were so unbelievable opportunity for a small town boy!" Besides helping people Luke had the benefit of seeing Europe and China. Seeing the Acropolis was very special, Luke said. He enjoyed being a Seagoing Cowboy.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger. It opened up his world to help people and be kind and helpful to people who need help. A good reason for joining the Seagoing Cowboys program is because you can relize how you have good towns and good houses and some countries don't have that. It shows how you canbe helpful and you need to be greatful for what you have and dont have! | 0 |
why would anybody want to be in a car that controls itself? What if the car breaks down in the middle of now where. What if a hacker hacks the car and drives you off a cliff or into a ocean? What if the car crashes and will not allow you to get out of the car before it blows up? Driverless cars are dangerous because you dont know what will happen once you're in a machines control.
Smart cars are not able to pull in or out of driveways, dealing with traffic, working their way through roadwork or even an accidents. Driving in and out a driveway is easy but a smart car is unable to do such a thing. A smart car has techology that i is a spinning sensor on the top called Dubbed LIDAR. that uses lasers to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the cars around it. So it should be able to pull in and out of driveways and also be able to coraperate in traffic.
Another example is what is a super smart hacker or terrorist hacks into the smart cars system and start creating crashes. Even if the Google cofounder Sergey creates a safe enough password someone will find a way to crack the code. There are lives at steak with these driverless cars. What if someone had a enemy decides to hack into their car, and drives them off a cliff. who will be responsable Google cofounder Sercey.
in conclusion driverless smart cars are dangerous they are just trying to make the work high tech and easy. And when i say easy i meant less work for man kind and our future. We should just leave driverless smart cars to the television and movies. | 2 |
The "Face" on mars was not created bye Alians. The face on mars is just a natural landingform, and was not reayed by Alians. April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Sureveyor flew over cydonia for the first time Michael Malin and is MOC tean snaped a picture ten times sharper than the original viking photo. After that thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting for the image to appere, when finally when the first image appeared on a JPL web site, revealing a natrual landing form. There was no Alian monument after all.
If the "face" was created by an Alian/Anlians there would be trakings of them and all that and it was really hard to see because it was winter at the time. They dont pass the unknown figure very offten, but when they did they payed really close attintion to the figure. They took more pictures to discover them. They still found know tracings or sighs that alians made this.
What the picture really showes is the Martiam equivalent of a butte or mesa- landingforms common around American West. "Its a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same hight and the Face on Mars." | 1 |
Limiting car usage is not an everyday thing everybody sees, basically almost everybody in the world owns and drive a car ,or any type of a motorized vehicle. There is no need to freak out of limiting the usage of cars other countries do it and its working quite well for the people of Vauban, Germany, In Vauban vehicles, street parking, and home garages are forbidden on the district, car ownership is allowed though but there are only allowed to park at the large garages at the edge of development where the car owner buys a space for $40,00. 70% of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57% sold a car to mover there, most people of the community are more happier and less tensed since moving to Vauban. In the romantic city of Paris, France air has become filled with smog so the city of Paris bans driving if there was any violaters they'll be fined for 22 euros, but it had a good outcome; congestion ,or car traffic, was down by 60% in the capital of France and the city's smog has been cleared enough that the French party rescind the ban. In Bogota,Columbia there is the annual car-free day that basically bans the usage of car in the streets of Bogota, the goal is the same as Paris: reduce smog. Many other cities of columbia participates in the car-free day and it's a great success for seeing the people of Columbia making a revolutionary change. In the good ol'USA Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less, and getting fwer licenses as each year goes by, which is leaving researchers a question: is America passing it's peak driving? Rates of car ownership is starting to come down if the pattern keeps going it'll have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment, which its a sudden incipient shist in American behavior. Limiting car usage aint that bad its a good opportunity to take away stress from driving and lowering air pollution. Who knows, probably next week there might be a car-free, or car-ban day and hopefully people will see the much appreciated benefits from it. | 2 |
Driverless Cars in my opinion should be made. In the article they ask a question "Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore?" Many people should be glad if Driverless Cars come about, because that just saves he or she thousands and thousands of dollars.
If someone were to have a Driverless Car then they could just sit back and get comfortable. In the article it states that people have to stay alert , so that they can be ready to take over incase needes. In reality Driverless Cars could actually be safer than a regular car. With all the sensors and stuff there are more "eyes" to see whats going on. So maybe if the car behind you is going to fast and is going to ram into the back of you , the car could maybe move itself quick enough so you don't get hurt. Coming up with something such as the "Driverless Car" the world could be a more acident free world and everyone including yourself could be more safer. | 1 |
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Reason for the FACS (Facial Action Coding System) read the emotional expressions of a student can benefit by how the teacher can teach beacuse if a student make different emotions like confuse,bored or overwelm while a teacher teach can show that what the teacher is doing is not working.
Whe a sutend show a confuse emotion is showing that the work the teacher has given is to hard to comprehend. Showing to the tacher that she has giving to much of a hard work for a student to understand it. Giving that situation the teacher can make a plan to low donw to a level of the student grade she is teaching.
A bored student is not much good to have in a class because whe a student is bored it intent to start distrubtin a class or come to fall a sleep in class. Thas showing to the teacher that the way is teaching is has become to un-interesting,that should let the teacher know that her has has to come more interesting and\or active so students can show more curiosity to class and get inspired to learn the class.
When a student comes overwelm it coem a stress and start to panic for all the work the teaches have givin. Showing the student being overwelm shows teacher that it have giving to many work or the class have become to hard to comprihend. Tha so ones the teacher knows that student s have starting to become overwelm because of her class she has to star changin her plan of teaching so tudent can learn better and a eassy way.
In conclution the class room computer could reconice when the student is becoming confused or bore and /or overwelm. That could modify the lesson so it can be an efective to the human instructor. So they are able t o plan a better way to teach students a easy and better way so student can comprehended better | 2 |
Why you should join seagoing Cowboys program. They visit unique places.
You get to experience adventures. You get to meet Luke. This adventure is going to be great!!!!!
If you join the program you get to meet Luke. He will teach you how to be a seagoing cowboy. He will show you how to take care of the horses, young cow, and the mules. He also helps countries that needs help with recovering there food and other supplies.
You can also experience adventures. Luck will show you different countries. It would be fun to see different places. You would be able to see a whole another world out there. If you like adventure then this I'd the place.
You would get to experience different parts of the Europe, China. Also who wouldn't want to visit other places. You get new lerening experiences in different places. I would join this group.
So this is why you should join seagoing Cowboys. If you love adventurers then this is the right place. I hope you join the group. | 1 |
The Electoral College is a method of voting for President and Vice President that was produced by our founding fathers in the articles of the Constitution. The Electoral College has been in use for centuries, but it is time that we disregard it. The Electoral College was a smart idea in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds, but as our country continues to change, it is necessary to change the way that we elect our leaders. The Electoral College has remained untouched and exactly the same for hundreds of years and this has caused it to be extremely outdated. Not only is it far too outdated and complicated to help our voting process, but the Electoral College does not give the voters voice; instead, it takes it away from them. The Electoral College also can lead to concerning situations that the country and its people do not want to be put in. For these reasons, I strongly encourage you to make the change and switch to election by popular vote.
The question of whether or not to abolish or keep the Electoral College in tact is a heavily debated one, but it is clear that getting rid of the Electoral College will be highly beneficial to the voters of America. The Electoral College was established hundreds of years ago when our Constitution came about and it created a complicated process to elect the President and Vice President of the United States. Our country is changing day by day, and we certainly have made monumental changes since the Electoral College came to be. According to Bradford Plumer, author of, "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong," a poll was taken by Gallup in the year 2000 that showed that less than just forty percent of Americans support the election system that we have now. This proves that it is time for a change and that the system that we currently have in place has been in place for far too long. The everchanging United States of America is in desperate need of an up-to-date election system that fits the current needs of the American people. The Electoral College is not only outdated, but it is also an extremely complex voting method. In an article entitled, "What Is the Electoral College," written by the Office of the Federal Register, it is explained that the Electoral College is a lengthy process that involves the choosing of electors and the issuing of Certificates of Ascertainment after both the people and the electors have voted. The Electoral College does far more harm than good for our country and for this reason especially, I believe that America should begin to elect its Presidents using the popular voting method.
Moreover, the Electoral College should no longer be the voting method of the American people because the people are given no voice with the Electoral College process. In his article, "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong," Bradford Plumer specifically states that the people themselves do not vote for their desired candidate, but instead, they vote for electors who then vote for the more popular presidential candidate. The people should be the ones who vote for the president because they will be the ones who are governed by the president. The Electoral College gives no voice to the people and is considered by many to be a non-democratic way of voting and is often referred to anachronism. Today, it is a struggle to encourage people to vote and be present on election day because no one feels like their vote matters. People say that one vote doesn't make a difference and that there is no point in filling out a ballot if it has no real affect on which candidate is chosen. The Electoral College and the process it established is really just confirming these opinions. People do not feel like they are contributing because when it comes down to it, the electoral votes are the deciding votes. The Electoral College only has a little over five hundred electors that are representing the millions of regular people who show up at the polls on election day. In order to make the people feel like their opinions are being voiced and their voice is being heard, and to increase voter turnout on election day, it is imperative that the country switches over to election by popular vote.
Most importantly, using the Electoral College as our voting method can lead to some serious problems. The replacing of electors that oppose the popular vote result is a problem that comes with using the Electoral College. Not only is it not hard to accomplish, but it has happened before. According to Bradford Plumer in his article, "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong," in the early 1960s, people who favored races being seperated in society were almost able to replace Democratic electors with a new set of electors who supported the opposite party. Also, some corrupt electors who are not pleased with the popular vote will simply vote for whomever they please. Electors clearly have trouble being trusted and there is obviously some extreme dislike for the system we have now. The Electoral College also causes some problems when instances like a tie in the electoral vote come about. In this case, a tie in the Electoral College would be thrown to the House of Representatives, who would then vote for the President. The Electoral College brings about uneccessary problems that could all be avoided if the country converted the way of electing to election by popular vote.
In summation, the Electoral College has been around for hundreds of years, but it is time that the United States makes the change that would improve the way of electing its future Presidents. The Electoral College is outdated and complicated, does not allow the voice of the people to be heard, and leads to uneccessary voting complications. For these reasons, I vehemently feel that we should switch from the Electoral College to election by popular vote. | 4 |
Though the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is very interesting to read about, I do not believe it should be present in the classroom. There are a few issues I believe could be argued against using this software in a classroom setting. The FACS should be developed more and put through serious testing before being put in the classromm setting, but there were several other valuable uses for the program. The problems with the system in a school setting are the complexity of the system, the possible issue of privacy, and the accuracy of its predictions.
The FACS is a great idea that could have many applications other than schooling and several of these are included in this article, but it is currently too complex for school networks to handle. The author states outright in paragraph seven, "Your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile." The school computers that we use are even more out of date than the one I use at home and if it cannot run the system the school won't be able to without a major upgrade of technology or a major downgrade of the FACS, neither of which is desirable. The technology uprade needed for school computers would be too large of a bill to be practical in all but the richest of schools. The downgrade of the system to a simpler form will essentially defeat it's purpuse by killing its effectivity.
Another issue with the FACS in a school setting is privacy. How are we to be sure that they are not going to use our faces to gain access to things such as confiscated phones or to possibly find profiles online of students? Because this system requires a camera to see your face and put it through a detailed analysis, facial recognition security software like faceID on the Iphone X
then becomes a security concern. In paragraph six the author also mentions, "If you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." This system in schools would essentially let the build a personal marketing profile on every student in the country.
The accuracy of the FACS would also have to be put through intense testing to determine how effective it actually is. Prof. Huang says,"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." If the system thinks that a student is confused when they actually aren't though, it could hurt their academic growth. It would be changing the material to a lower level in an attempt to interest them, but also at the same time lowering their understanding of the material.
In conclusion, I do not believe that this system would be as effective of a tool as it needs to be to offset the dangers it poses. The money needed for the complexity, the threats to privacy, and the questionable accuracy and adaptability of the system are too concerning to support the FACS as it now stands. If these concerns were addressed the possibly it could be an effective tool, but for the foreseeable future it is not. | 4 |
What happen on Mars. In May 24, 2001. One of our spacecraft took many photos of a human face that look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. People think that this is a symbol of life. What they dont know is that we have studied this symbol for a long time and there is no symbol of life on Mars.
NASA sent one our space man Michael Malin to take some pictures with a better camera, revealing that their is no sign of alien life on Mars. "But not everyone was not satified." In April, 1998 we sent another spacecaft to take pictures of Mars but it was to cloudy witch made it look like an alien markings.
April 8, 2001 cloudless day, we sent another one of our viking spacecarft with a better camera so that we could see what we were really into. "Malin team captured an extraordinary photo using maximum resolution."What the picture actually shows is the martian equivalent of a butte or mesa lanforms common around the American West." | 1 |
Will this technology be of any value in the classroom? This technology seems cool and all but will it really help? If this technology can read facial expressions then it could be a good thing but this is why it would not help.
When you are in school do you ever feel bored? We all do sometimes that is just how things work. Now do you think that if our computers could tell if we were bored that it would make the lesson any more exciting. The lessons that we are taugh are mostly given to the teachers or the teachers make it. If our computers think that we are bored of the lesson it wants to change that. How does that happen? The teahcer would have to make more than one lesson to teach the class. There are also things that are just completely boring at school there can not be a way to make them any better.
Then there is also one or two good things about it like if it were able to detecte if someone were not feeling very good about themselves. They might need help but not come out and say it, this technology could help with that. If you put this in a school you would just get a lot of stressed out faces that have to much homework to do while still trying to have a life. But is this taking things to far is this a violation of peoples personal space. Sometimes people want to keep their emotions to themselves. If this technology is used in schools then there goes all privacy that we have.
This might be a good idea for advancement in technology, but is it the right thing to put in schools? This technology seems pretty cool it could be used in other places but should not be somewhere like a school. This would just be one more thing that makes school not a fun place to be in. There are some lines that do not need to be crossed and this is one of them. | 2 |
Its about a face on mars. Viking one saw it. The face showed up on a lot of articales. Nasa tried to cover it up. It happened 25 years ago.
Everyone thought it was cool. It was pretty famous. It showed up in books, magazines, movies. It was everywhere. Everyone wanted to see it.
There were shadows that made it look like an egyption pharaoh. They thought it was just the ground on mars. It kind of looked like a human head. Everyone thought the face meant their was life on mars. Nasa tried to cover it up.
It has become a pop icon. They thought it was bona fide evedince that there was life on mars. Nasa would hide it then tell the truth. The defenders of NASA want an ancient civilization on Mars. They thought the face was an alien artifact.
They want to believe theres life on Mars. NASA didn't want to tell anybody. The face is a very popular icon. They took a photo that was ten times sharper then the orginal. They thought alien markings were hidden in the haze. | 0 |
For a long time now, companies around the country have been attemping to develop a new car that would be completely driverless. This car would be safer, faster, and more innovative than any other self-driven car on the market right now, providing maximum safety to our people. Driverless cars are necessary to our society for the further development of technology. These new cars are quicker than manual cars, and safer than human-driven vehicles.
Developers believe that once driverless cars hit the streets, there will be a decline in car accidents and crashes. They say that the sensors on the new cars will improve the car and passenger's safety. The sensors can detect information from it's surroundings, and then apply pressure on the brakes for certain wheels, or ease off the engine, which would result in more driving accuracy than there would be with a human-driven car, therefore meaning more safety. Also, Google cofounder Sergey Brin has envisioned a public-transportation system kind of like taxis, but with a driverless car. This can only greatly benefit our society's safety, and our environment, due to the fact that it would use half of the fuel that today's taxis exhaust. There is an outstanding number of car crashes per year due to drunk driving. With driverless cars, people would not have to worry about how they're going to get home safetly, and just take a driverless taxi that they know they can trust. It would also provide a safer alternative than taking the bus, because then people wouldn't have to wait a long time for the bus to come. This would again therefore lower the rate of drunk driving accidents, and other safety issues, once again providing safety to the people.
Overall, driverless cars would be a major benefit to society, and a great advancement for technology. From this giant leap in technology, our developers will only advance, and make more great steps, to benefit our world. It would provide major safety to people, better than there has been ever before, and better than just a human driving. | 2 |
I think we should keep the Electoral College. long time ago our founding fathers established it in the consitution . so why change it now ? the Electoral College process consists of the selections of the electors , the meeting of the electors where they vote for the president and vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress . The Electorl College consists of 538 electors . A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president .
on the 32rd of the constitution it said the District of columbia is allocated 3 ellectors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College .
we been doing this for years and my opionion is we shodnt change it.... under the electoral college system , voters vote not for the president , but for a slate of electors,who in turn elect the president. in each party , selects a slatee of electors trusted to vote for the partys nominee and the trust is rarely betrayed . did you know barack obama won beeing president because of the electoral college popular vote .
The Electoral College aviods the problem of elections in which no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast . yeah Electoral college have some problems but it doesnt mean you should take it down . you can fix the poblem easily ! in my opionion it can help people with there elctions and also the election by popular vote for the president of the united states . | 1 |
Venus is a planet that so many people want to study but the risks of studying are dangerous. " Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of lie." Nobody will really know what Venus has to offer if nobody want's to study this planet. Many people discuss about the dangers of sending people to Venus but never really talk about what they might find in Venus. Venus is Earth's twin. Venus is right next to Earth, which means there could have been something there.
The author did a really good job on persuading that Venus should be studied despite the dangers because he has evidence that backs him up and he gives information that benefits a lot of things. "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientist to float about the fray." Venus benefits NASA because they can send people to Venus and explore but it can also give them a chance to see what they have to do for reseachers to be outside of a vehicle because the temperture would be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit and there is not a possible way to know if its safe to walk on Venus. "Researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else from a distance." Since there is no way of taking things to Earth, reseachers could take pictures and write down what they saw and their experience. NASA is also trying to figure out ways to go and study Venus. "Some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's suface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." NASA is already trying out new and old ways to approach to Venus so they are most likely going to work on those projects and get people up there and come back to Earth safe to explain all the things they saw.
The author knows the risks and dangers of studying Venus, but it can help people know what Venus is like and if they study this planet. They will know what it had a long time ago, if it really had oceans or something living there, there will be proof with researchers to back up that information. This Author makes a good point of why this planet should be studied. It could benefit so many things along the way, but we will never know until Venus is studied. | 2 |
Proving The Face is Just a Natural Landform.
Although this face was unexpected,that doesn't nessasarily define that the face has anything to do with aliens. There are majority of theories we can assume from this topic. Few scientist condoned that this mysterious face had something to do with a very unordinary prediction .Some scientist seemed surprised when they saw the photograph of the face on mars.
As a scientist, many mistakes are made during observations, but that's apart of human life. Mistakes are casual in everyday life and, all of us make them. In my opinion, I don't think this entertaining outbreak had anything to do with aliens. In fact, they're wasn't a specific sign, or clue that an alien was actually was involved. NASA got a great shot at the face, and the picture closely showed that their was nothing do be deeply concerned about.
The face was defineitly rare, but over the years the face continues to fade so it shouldn't be harmful. If it happened to really be an alien, we would know from the recordings, and pictures that were captured. This is a huge topic to discuss, and space can likely be considered as a horrifying setting due to rumors, and scientific observations. Astrounaunts never discovered any issues, or new assumptions by traveling to space.
The main point is aliens aren't realistic, you may see them in movies, books, or perhaps may hear about them. An alien was never discovered by NASA, and the face just appeared to be a natural cause. The face could of been anything, but we know it wasn't an alien because there is no proof that the face was an alien, and still isn't as we speak.
In conclusion, think about other things that are possible. | 2 |
The author's claim of studying Venus is a worthy pursuit because Venus is closely related to Earth, Venus has a enviroment that is similar to Earth, and scientists want to explore more of what Venus has to offer.
The first claim of why the author supports scientists studying Venus is that Venus is closely related to Earth. In the passage, it states," Often referred to as Earth's twin, Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. Earth, Venus, and Mars our other planetary neighbors orbit the sun at different speeds. These differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus. Because Venus is sometimes right around the corner, in space terms, humans have sent numerous to land on this cloud draped world. Each precious mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us" (Paragraph 2). This supports the author's claim because the author believes that scientists should study Venus because Venus is closely related to Earth.
The second claim of why the author supports scientists studying Venus is that Venus has a similar enviroment to Earth. In the passage, it states," A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth; such an enviroment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals. Also notable, Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun. Beyond high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface" (Paragraph 3). This supports the author's claim because there are many physical and enviromental dangers that are present on Venus. Despite all of Venus's dangers, scientists still want to explore Venus in depth.
The third claim of why the author supports scientists studying Venus is that the author supports the further exploration of Venus by scientists. In the passage it states," If our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing futher visits to its surface? Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. 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 to visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel. The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable, but what are the options for making such a mission both safe and scientifically productive?. NASA has one particulary conpelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. Imagine a blimp-like vechile hovering over Venus would aviod the unfrendily ground conditions by staying up and out of thier way. At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperature would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy, conditions, but survivable for humans." (Paragraph 4 and 5). This supports the author's claim because scientists want to know more about Venus's planatery history and similarities to Earth.This statement also supports the author's claim because the scientists wants to try and send humans to Venus.
Therefore, the author's claim supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents by Venus being closely related to Earth, Venus has a similar enviorment to Earth, and the author encouriging further explorations to Venus. | 5 |
State Senator,
The Electoral College is not a fair way to vote. Instead of voting for who you would like to win, you are voting for an elector who says they will vote for the candidate you want to win. Voting for who we want is a part of our rights! The Electoral College system is not only out dated, but there has also been a few fiascos.
This style of voting has been going on since the beggining, there are many flaws that need to be worked on. A major problem would be the electors; they are not reliable. "Can voters control whom their electors vote for? Not always." This right here proves that the electors don't always tell the truth. Who picks the electors anyways? "Sometimes state conventions, sometimes the state party's central committee, sometimes the presidential candidates themselves." We don't even get to select our electors, how are we supposed to rely on strangers to vote for who we would like? Would you trust a random stranger to take care of your child? It is the same as putting the fate of our country in the hands of someone some people have never even seen! "During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all," This information should prove to you that the Electoral College is unfair.
The disaster factor should have been the end to the Electoral College. "Segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy." Is there anything left to say? These people tried to sabatoge the election. What is stopping more poeple from this? Some electors refused to vote for who they said they would. "'faithless' electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please." In 1960 Hawaii sent two slates of electors to Congress! Thanks goodness for Vice President Nixon who "validated only his opponent's electors, but made sure to do so 'without establishing a precedent.'"
Also, many people stated that they prefer the direct election, "Over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." With giving you this information, you should be able to infer that the Electoral College should be changed.
In conclusion, more people are aginst the Electoral College than with it. We should be able to vote for which one we prefer. Less people would have a problem with the election process and it would go a lot smoother.
Thank you for your time,
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Humans should study Venus despite the dangers it could cause. Venus is one of the planets that is close to earth. It is often called Earth's twin. It is sometimes called the Evening Staras well. If we were to study Venus more we would learn more about its past.
Venus is a very dangerous planet to explore. Every mission to Venus had no humans on it. The reason their weren no humans is because the spacecraft would only last a few hours. Venus is filled with carbon dioxide. The planet is also very hot. The temperatures are usually over 800 degress Fahrenheit. Clouds of sulfuric acid is in the atmosphere. Even though their is alot keeping us back from visiting this planet, that should not keep us from learning more about it.
Astronomers say that Venus could have been the most Eart-like planet. According to the aricle, "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." (The Challenge of Exploring Venus p4). This quote shows that Venus could have been like Earth. We'll never know if this is true if we don't learn more about Venus.
NASA is trying to find ways to send people to Venus. They are making machines that colud last for three weeks on Venus. They are thinking about ways we could live on Venus in the future. We should try and study Venus even though it could be dangers. According to the article, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imaginations and innovations."(The Challenge of Exploring Venus p8). This quote tells us that we should not limit ourselves. This why we should try to study Venus despite the dangers. | 2 |
Cars have been a part of our culture for some time now. Since Henry Ford created the Model T, we have been crazy about these machines. Molding, crafting, and improving since, we have come to know these as daily objects. However, with all the new and progressing theroies now, is there really a need for cars? Limiting car use cold be beneficial not only for the Earth, but also for people. Limiting car use can improve people's moods, can reduce pollution, and improve community interaction.
Firstly, limitng car use could in turn improve people's moods. In Vauban, Germany, there has been an experiment of great proportion. They are living a suburban life without cars. Not only is this community close and in touch, the people are happier. As mother of two Heidrun Walter stated, "When i had a car in was always tense. Im much happier this way," it is showing that not having a car can really relax a person. Just think about it, no insurance, no car payment, no thinking if wil my car last until the end of today, just saving thousands a year and having a lot of stress put off.
Secondly, limiting car use can reduce pollution. Im almost certain we've all heard about Global Warming and Greenhouse Gases, and the devastation they do to our planet. Withou cars these problems are still present, but lack the massive numbers in which it was rising. Smog is a horrible kind of pollution that affects the biggest cities throught the world. Paris banned cars for an entire day to remove the amont of smog in the area. This shows that pollution can be stopped. Even though they only banned even numbered licenese plates one day and odd another pollution still went down. If all cars were banned then pollution would have gone down even further.
Lastly, limiting car use can improve community interaction. People now dont need cars for everything. They can walk, and take trains, and carpool. All these interactions strenghten the community. Walking makes people maybe wanna buy things from stores along the way and help local stores. Taking trains can create friendships and long lasting personal buisnesses. Carpooling cits down on emissions and reduces pollution. The community can do nothing but benefit from these.
In conclusion, limiting car use could be extremly helpful. It could improve people's moods, reduce pollution, and improve community interaction. Maybe someday we could actually get rid of cars and listen to the grinding of the pedals down the biking highways. | 3 |
Driverless Cars Are Coming
Manufacturers are making new cars that will be able to run without a human constantly operating the machine. As of now, Google, BMW, and other such companies have been making efforts toward this new era of technology, however
"Driverless Cars" would be more of a danger and problem to our society than good. It would cause confusion with where to place fault in accidents or legal situations, computer run cars would malfunction just like any other computer run technology such as the "iphone", or "MacBook", Drivers would abuse their privelege and fall asleep "at the wheel", and this would encourage drunk drivers to drive, possibly skyrocketing drunken accidents and alcoholosim.
In paragraph 9 under the section entitled, "Wating on the Law", the passage clearly states "If technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?" This is not only concerning but also a very dangerous thought. When we as humans give the liberty and saftey of our lives over to computers that are programmed to do tasks and that do not feel any human emotions, and then one of them kills someone in an accident, who is to blame? The computer, malfunctioned, but the manufacturer and "driver" didn't directly do anything. This type of machine still needs constant attention and alertness of the human within. Maybe even more so than when driving a normal car because the "Driverless Cars," will alert you at random to take over quickly when human skills are needed. People may not be prepared to do so, and in that case, things could take a turn for the worst. The beauty of "Driverless Cars" would cause some people to abuse their privelege and maybe even drink or sleep with the knowledge that the car will drive for you. After all, whats the actual chance that the car will ask them to do something? People will think this and slack off on their responsibilities, causing a very dangerous situation.
Technology is increasing and our future holds many things ahead of us. New cars are being made to drive for us but are we ready to take such a huge leap into this process? A leap that puts our lives in the hands of non-human, compassion-lacking, machines? "Driverless Cars" would cause more harm and more problems to our society than good. | 2 |
The author suggest Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents and i completly agree with that . But im here to prove why his idea is valuable and correct.
The author supported his idea in many ways but one way he really showed me how well it was supported was when the article stated "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too". What the author is trying to prove with this is the danger despite it presents by being really close to earth. Something else that is really important for us to know is the speed and space. Yea it might not be as important but the author wrote it because he thought it was something important to know . What he means with speed and space is that, With speed it means that sometime Venus is closer to Earth but also sometimes Mars is closer and this because the rate of speed going through. In space is the numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world because of humans. | 1 |
NASA discovers a mesa and mistakingly takes it as a sign or symbol created by Aliens, First of all we are hard working humans striving everyday wasting time on things that don't make sense but we care about. So even if it was something like going to space for a few days you're down because its something new, Now.. think about this if you were on a ship in space what would you have done? Taken over the world below? No. because you're already gonna be used to space like we are on earth as we also are too much wanting. We can never be satisfied. We want to see it all! But think again is it possible to do these things? Travel in time or Ride a hovercoaster? No. Well at least not in our generation, But a time is coming most likely we will have those things before we even know it. We only can be sure of things we see not what we can hear. | 0 |
Well to start with ,they need to keep the most popular one by elections because it would be fair to people to have the electoral votes. its absoutly a great idea in my presice ! i think that people should vote on what they want to do not the senate or house of the united states . Also , it seems to me that the votes keep going down because people dont like the way they have to vote its going astronomical they need to take control NOW ! Even though candidates might now want to spend time going through the head ache of focusing on because to me its the most baic level and it UNFAIR to all voters all around the globe . Allthough my opinion is people need to realize to some of the overruled voters are all not electoral college dont mean you cannot vote for regular its entirely inpossible for the "new president" not to win and thats one reason why people pick that source because they know for a fact that they wll win their president they voted for this on coming "election" . ALL votes go to the house / state senate and it goes uphill from there so according to the passage all the electroal college requires a presidental candidate to have a regional appeal . But in 2012 President Barak Obama almost didnt make president until they put the electroal votes all together and we won PRESIDENT !! But of course knowing your vote you need to have to pay attition to the camapaign that the presidentcy were picked by a popular more VOTE . Even though votes swing on a national election one and a half americans express a petherance than a acual single vote which is probalbly much faster and easier on us and the senate. Knowing that people want to make sure our country stays in place they vote the correct presdient for the next four years so make the correct descision. | 0 |
Who are voters voting for? Whoever they are voting for, it certainly isn't the president. The Electoral College has the potential to cause a nationwide catastrophe, which is why changing the election to popular vote is the best way. The Electoral College should be abolished because of the "disaster factor", prospect of a tie, and the fact that more citizens vote in the presidential election compared to the electoral election.
The disaster factor is exactly what it sounds like: a disaster. This "disaster" is described as the event where electors defy the people they are representing. For example, this happened in the 2000 presidential vote when Al Gore won the public vote, but lost the electoral vote to George W. Bush. This means that the electors voted by the people of their state changed their minds about which president they were voting for. This resulted in the opposing vote turn-outs in the 2000 presidential election. As said in Source 2, "In the same vein, 'faithless' electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please." Although some people may argue that it is very rare for something like this to happen, the fact that there is a chance that it could is overwhelming. Clearly, against even the smallest odds, the Electoral College can cause a catastrophe.
A tie would cause a real predicament in a presidential election. In the case of a tie, the choice is given to the House of Representatives. This means that there is an unequal amount of electoral voters. Source 2 says, "Given that many voters vote one party for president and another for Congress, the House's selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people." Once again, the Electoral College has faulted; a simple tie could throw the whole election off. Why would the vote be passed on to the House if there is already a popular vote? If there is already another vote in place and the votes are counted, why not just put those votes to use? Obviously, if a tie could mess up a national vote, then it's time to change our ways.
Although each state decides its electors, how many people are actually voting for the electors? According to Source 3, about one-half of the eligible American population voted in 2012's presidential election. If only half of the population is voting for a nationwide presidential election, how many people are going to vote for a small, in-state election? It isn't clear enough that although the presidential election is bigger, the electoral election is much more important. However, if we just had a popular vote instead of the Electoral College, everyone would vote in the presidential election because everyone already knows the importance of the presidential election. Yet, people aren't aware enough of the importance of the electoral vote and although the government has tried to stress the importance of voting it, nobody seems to catch on. It is evident that a large percentage of the population does not understand the need to vote in the electoral election. People simply do not understand that this election determines the outcome of the presidential election, which is why it shouldn't even exist.
The Electoral College is regarded as a non-democratic method of selecting a president. It is true hypocracy and should be replaced because of the "disaster factor", prospect of a tie, and the fact that more citizens vote in the presidential election compared to the electoral election. The presidential election isn't a nationwide election; it is an election that takes place in a little room where 538 electors decide the political fate for millions of people living in the United States of America. | 4 |
Driverless Cars in my opinion is a little off the charts due to the fact many things can happen. The author states that
" If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufactureer?" And the Author states that;
"Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." Driverless cars is a bad idea.
Driverless cars are off the chart because some states such as : California, Nevada, Florida , and the District of Columbia have led the country in allowing limited use of semi-autonomous cars. Now thats nowhere near half the country. If driverlsess cars do go on there will need to be more laws and regulations. Driverless cars are off the chart for many ways and reasons.
The author states that " If technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer? I personally think it would be the manufactuers fault for 1, making the product. 2, not knowing all things that can go wrong in accidents. And 3, not being able to help the driver out in sisutations like accidents,or traffic jams. Manufacturers would be in charge do to the fact they made the car and they should know everything that goes with the car both good and bad.
Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. This statement I feel is so True because if a human isnt in charge of the car then there are many chances bad stuff will happen. But in reality theres a human behind all the computer work and GPS's . But as a person not driving yet I feel if a car is controlled by computers it can cause and led to many accidents and injuries. So Driverless cars is a bad idea and will aqumilate many accidents and injuries. | 2 |
The author suggests that studying Venus is worthy enough even though it is very dangerous. The author mentioned that on the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet . His solution to survive this weather that is dangerous to us humans is to allow them to float above the fray. A "blimp-like" vehicle hovering 30 or so miles would help avoid the unfriendly ground conditions . At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. So not easy conditions, but survivable enough for humans. So this would help make the mission capeable of completing.
He also mentions how peering at venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penertrate the dense atmosphere making it hard to take photographs . They also cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance. So many reaserchers are working on innovations that would allow their machines to last long enough to help gain some imformation of Venus.
They are working on other ways to study Venus such as simplified electrnics made of silicon carbide that have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface . So far they have lasted for 3 weeks in these conditions which is more than enough time hopefully for them to be able to grab enough information. Their other project that they are working on is using an old technology called mechanical computers. They are powerful, flexible, and quick. Systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces.
He feels that studying Venus even though its dangerous is valuable because of the insight they could gain about the planet itself but also becuase "human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors."
I think the author supported his claim very well he explained why he thought it as nessary to go even though it is dangerous and he gave solutions to some of the dangers on Venus such as sollution to the heat and ways to actually help gain evicence and imformation on Venus. | 3 |
Do you want to be able to feel more safe while you are in the car? If you answered yes, then you might want a car that can senses all the dangers that's surrounding you before you can. Car is a great transportation to go to places, so it's important that you are safe while you're in the car. Diverless cars are being develop; driverless cars are cars that can drive itself without you touching the steeling wheel.
While you are in a car, it is important that you're safe from all dangers that is surrounding you.Most cars company are developing driverless cars, meaning that the car can drives itself without you even touching the steeling
wheel. Almost every cars have safety featers. For example, in paragraph 4 it said, "Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor." All these sensors will help you be more safe while you are in the car.
Another good thing about driverless cars in the furture is that the car would use half the fuel of today's taxi system and offer far more flexibility than a bus. Another good reason to have driverless cars in the furture is that, say that you are going on a vaction and you are driving about 4-5 hours, but you don't want to take a rest before you would slow down the time of getting there; so by having a driverless car, you can set the car to drives itself while you can relex and rest for a bit. After you got some rest and feel better, you can set the driverlss mode off and you continued driving.
Cars that can detect dangers before you can it's important feater to have. In paragraph 7 it said that " In 2013, BMW announed the development of " Traffic Jam Assistatn." The car handle drivong functions at speeds up tp 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." this means that the car will help the driver focus on the road. Also in paragraph 7 it said that " They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves." meaning that if you are not paying attention the car can stop itself before an accident happens.
So yes developing driverless cars is a good idea in the future. It has a lot of safety featers that can help to stop an accident before it happens. it's important that you are safe while you are in the car. Most of cars company is developing cars that can drives itself without you even touching the steeling wheel. | 3 |
Facial Coding: Valuable or Not
There is a new emotion reader out there, called FACS, short for the Facial Action Coding System. This new application has a bunch of cool features and innovations that can have some pretty practical applications. However, this essay is only focused on one application; is this system beneficial for reading human emotions in a classroom setting? People have mixed feelings about this, but this essay will focus on why this new FACS is not extremely valuable for reading emotional expressions in a classroom setting.
First, what can this new emotion reader do? Well, this thing can read all of the emotions on the face of the Mona Lisa. Not just one or two, but four emotions at once, and balance the percentages for each emotion, to let you know exactly how much of each emotion the person is feeling. This could have some really cool applications, like being able to tell what emotions someone was trying to convey in a drawing, or being able to tell what kinds of things you like or dislike, based off your expressions when you are shown different advertisements. There is so much you can do with this new technology, and there is a lot of uses that it has. However, the things you can do in a school setting are just mediocre.
There is a lot that sounds like cool things you can use this application for in school. In the text it says, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" The text also says,"Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This sounds like a really good thing. However, instead of a computer system having to recognize when a student gets confused or bored, the student can just speak up and say something about it. That is not all, though. The computer system could either, one, misread a student's expression and make the lesson harder to understand or take a lot longer, or two, the student might just start drifting away and thinking about something else that is really confusing, like Einstein's theory of relativity. The computer, in turn, would make the lesson modified when it doesn't need to be, and have so many modifications that the student gets completely lost and doesn't understand anything that is happening in the lesson, just because he or she started to think about something else for a couple of seconds.
Lastly, this facial recognition system could seem like a pretty big invasion of privacy. Do people want everyone to know every single emotion they ever feel? Do they want all their teachers to know that they find what they are talking about boring? No, they do not, at least for the most part. Systems like these are getting pretty close to almost being able to know what someone is thinking, and most people don't want everyone to know what they are thinking about. The text says, "The new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements-in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa. By weighing the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions." This text says that the system can detect your emotions, but also your mixed emotions. Going back to the Mona Lisa example, the software can track the exact amount of emotions that you have, and the percentages of the emotions that you are feeling. This seems way too much like an invasion of privacy, given that people are giving what their feeling, and all of it too, away to a computer system, that can be tracked or looked at by anyone. Now maybe the system will only give what you are feeling to a teacher, or maybe it will not even do that, and function as a one-on-one learning guide. Even still, their are various ways to get into computer and technological programs, and forcing kids to give away all their emotions just for a possible improved and modified lesson seems like way too much to force someone to do, for that amount of a reward.
So, the FACS could have numerous practical applications for entertainment purposes and other purposes too. However, putting it at use to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom isn't one of them. In conclusion, the use of FACS in a classroom isn't worth the value that comes out of it, as it could have better applications elsewhere, it could glitch out or misread emotions, it could read emotions that the student is feeling about something else rather than the classroom, and finally, an appliclation that can read all of your expressions and convey them to other people is a pretty huge invasion of privacy, and forcing people to use this program is not worth the value of a slightly modified lesson for each individual. In the end, FACS is more useful as an entertainment device rather than having a school setting application. This technolgy has great value in so many areas, but schooling just isn't one of them. | 5 |
Every day people wake up, get ready, and go to work or school. The way they get there can vary but for the most part, people drive cars. That's about to change. Helping the enviroment and becoming more relaxed are advanatages for limiting car usage.
By reducing car usage, emmitions produced from automobiles can be reduced and help the enviroment. When cars reslease gas into the air, it causes smog which traps the gases and inhibits them from being able to escape the atomosphere. In largely congested cities smog can be as harmful as 147 micrograms of particulate matter as seen in Paris, France (paragraph 17). Paris enfored a partial driving ban due the amount of smog and just after one day of reduced driving, the smog clears enough so they didn't have to enforce the ban another day (paragraph 19). Passenger cars are resonsible for 12 percent of greeenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in the United States. (paragraph 5). This staggering statistic can open your eyes to how much cars really effect the envrioment. If just once a week you didn't use your car, you could reduce greenhouse gases drastically. In the United States today, recent studies have shown that Americans are buying fewer cars, and are driving less. (paragraph 29). Since 1995, the number of miles driven per person dropped almost 9 percent (paragraph 32). With lesser people buying and driving new cars, gas emissions could change drastically within a few years and could help our evrioment exonentialy.
When you do not drive a car to from places every day, you become a more relaxed person. In Vauban, Germany- residents have given up cars almost all together, only 30 percent of residents owning cars. In this Suburban town, it seems comman for mothers to own a minivan to ship children back and forth all throughout town; Heidrun Walter feels other wise. She has given up her automobile to get around town and "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Walter states. (paragraph 3). For the past three years in Bogota, Colombia they take a day out of the year where only taxis and buses are permitted, the Day Without Cars. Even when dark clouds circled around the city and rain splattered down onto the heads of people, they didn't revert back to their cars. A businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza states that "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." (paragraph 24). This day has become so popular, two other cities in Columbia joined in as well the celebrate the day where people do not use their cars. People do not need to meet with other people in order to go to work or hangout with friends anymore; they can be in their own homes using the technology they access see their friends and continue to do their work.(paragraph 35). Without having to commute to an office, people feel less stressed and more relaxed being able to do their work in the comfort of their own home.
People used to accossicate cars as the best way to get from place A to B without thinking about the consequences it can have on the planet or on yourself. You have to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. What can you do to help change the world?
WOW WHAT A FUCKING WASTE OF MY TIME!!! | 3 |
Some may say right now, at the start of 2015, the whole world is at a peak for technology, cars, and advancements. Some are saying differently. In this day and age, many countries, also can't afford any more pollution than they already have, due to how many vehicles there are on the road. Some cities have even stopped using cars all together, and have been very sucessful. All of these reasons help further prove the point of how limiting car usage could really be an advantage in today's society.
Are the peak of vehicles in the United States over? In the past, people predicted flying cars for 2015, but no one predicted a downfall in vehicles all together. Elisabeth Rosenthal states, "the number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily after... As of April 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the contry was in January 1995." So overall, less driving seems to becoming a trend.
Pollution caused by the gas of cars is a huge issue in today's society. Some cities are finally taking action. "Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city" (Robert Duffer). Few may argue with this, saying that these sort of bans are not fair, delvery companies aren't able to work, or a some may argue about the fine of 31 dollars you're charged if your vehicle is on the road is riduculous. But, "the smog cleared enough Monday for the ruling french party to rescind the ban"(Robert Duffer). | 2 |
Why do you think ther is a face on Red Planet called Cydonia. Well ther is not the olny thing that is up ther is a wast land of nothing. Dont let consperisetheres out ther fool you. I will show you the facts and prove to you ther are no aliens up there.
In the story it states that the faces up there are olny land forms. Land forms are shaped over thousinds of years. As the years go on the land form gets smaller and smaller. Also the planet can not suport life.
All the consperisetheris out ther dont know what they are talking about.
They dont have the evidens to provide like everone else hase. nasa is a groop of scintest the consperisetheris are a groop of craze people.
thes is why you shud not blesve everthing you see on the internet. lisint to the scintest. leav them in charge . | 1 |
Dear State Senator,
Electoral Colleges have many resources on why they should still be in favor of keeping but I strongly disagree. Changing to election by popular votes for the president of the United States is way more resourceful because Electoral Colleges do not vote for the president of the United States and not all regions may have an opportunity to vote.
To begin with, Electoral Colleges do not vote for the president. Source 2 "Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" states " Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect for the president." This quote shows that if you vote for a slate of Republicans or Democratic electorss pledged the president but those electors won the statewide election, those electors would have to go to Congress and the president would get the amount of electoral votes the people have made. It's a process having Electoral College systems therefore, it's much easier having popular votes for the president.
Furthermore, Source 3 "Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" argues "No region has enough electoral votes to elect a president." This quote is stating that not everyone has a saying on who they want their president to be. Like people in the South may have many elctoral votes but not other regions like Northeast etc. The entire community should be able vote, everyone should be able to vote. Electoral college systems shouldn't be able to reject no ones vote. Moreover, changing elections to popular votes is better because people have a chance to vote the president they want.
Electoral College systems may be in favor in many ways like the winner takes all method, or each candidate running for president having their own electors. In whatever case it may be it's not fair to people having their own votes being rejected. Like i said in my previous paragraph everyone should have a saying on whom they want their president to be.
In conclusion, I'm in favor of chaging the elections by popular votes for the preisdent of the United States because everyone has the saying on the president they wish to have. Electoral Colleges do not vote for the president of the United states and not all regions pf the United States have an opportunity to vote.
Sincerely, PROPER_NAME | 3 |
I am in favor of keeping the electoral collage although you may think there are better ways to do it i think thats its worked for long enough so why change it now. ''Under the electoral collage syster voters vote not for the president , but for a slate of electors ,who in turn elect the president.'' " the electoral college is a process consists of the selection of the electors where they vote for president and vice president, and the counting of the electors where they vote for president and vice president and the counting of electoral votes by congress .'' theres nothing wrong with that and lastly it has a pourpose '' The electoral collage is a process not a place. The founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. so i feel that it has a pourpose in which its serving so im in favor | 1 |
Should the electoral college process be demolished? Many would say no way PROPER_NAME, but I strongly consider the electoral college process should be demolished. I believe this because I think the citizens of the U.S. should be able to vote for their favored presidential candidate directly. In reality, voters are not really voting for their presidential candidate, they are voting for a slate of voters. Below are my main reasons for why I am in favor of demolishing this electoral college
First off, let's get something straight, citizens who regularly vote in the presidential election are not really voting for their desired presidential candidate. All fifty of the U.S. states are given a certain amount of electoral votes. As the electoral college is widely regarded as a anachronism, it's not fit for the present anymore. According to the third source, the electoral college is a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaing that the candidate who recieves the most popular votes the winn er.
There are five reasons why the electoral college has not been demolished yet,
Certainty of outcome
Everyone's President
Swing States
Big States
Avoid Run-Off Elections these are the reasons ehy the electoral college has not been demolished even though it is highly resented in the U.S.A.
In continuation, people who vote should be able to directly vote for who they are in favor of winnning the presidency. That basically means whoever's name was checked off on their voting card should have been their pick to win the election, not for another sllate of voters who do the voting for them, that's not having a voice. The electoral college method of selecting the president may turn of potential voters for a candidatr who has no hope of carrying their state. For example, Democrats in Texas, or Republicans in California. Knowing their vote will have no effect.
In closing, I urge that the electoral college process should be outruled. Because people who don't support their state, their vote won't matter until this electoral college process is outruled. It is important that all Americans vote count in a election of any kind. They should be able to vote for whoever they want directly, not for electoral, but for the popular vote. Not to vote for a slate of voters who elect the president themselves. Now, again, should the electoral college process really be demolished? | 2 |
Car usage has decreased more and more as the years have gone on. Numerous people have found other ways of transportation rather than driving a car everywhere they went. The decrease in car usage has been very beneficial to the enviornment and continues to do so.
With the decrease in car usage, a suburban community called, "Vauban" in Germany has mostly been named "car-free." Their reasoning for their lack of car usage is because most of their citizens decided to give up their cars to live a better lifestyle. Its an easy solution because stores are placed just a walk away and as a result many people are commuting by bicycle or by walking. In Paris, France the city banned driving during smog to clear the polluted air in the city. To enforce this, the police would fine about 22 euros to anyone driving during the partial ban.
Bogota, Colombia has started a program called, "Car-free day" where most citizens will use another source of transportation like hiking, biking, or even taking buses to limit the amount of pollution for the day. Even rainfall has not stopped people from participating and broken sidewalks have been repaired and rush-hour restrictions have limited traffic. In the United States ''recent studies have shown that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less, and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." Studies have also shown that the number of miles driven in America have dropped since 2005. Driving by young people has also decreased between 2001 and 2009.
All in all, car usage has decreased tremendously in the past years and continues to decrease. Many countries have taken action to limit the amount of air pollution and it has benefited the enviornment. | 1 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the "Facial Action Coding System" which enables computers to identify human emotions. In paragragh 1 it talks about why the Mona Lisa 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, and 6 percent fearful in Leonardo da Vinci's Renaissance painting, the Mona Lisa. In paragraph 1 it also talks about a new technology called the "Facial Action Coding System" that can read humans facial emotions made by Professor Thomas Huang. These are the things that the article talks about thoughout the passage.
The first thing I will talk about is the way students in a classroom can also read the emotions of other students. In the paragragh before paragragh 8 it says that, "They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one." I chose this sentence because it explains how students are able to read other students facial expressions. Another thing is in science class the students performed a lab expierment to see if they can read other students facial expressions. They were able to do this because in paragraph 8 it says that the muscles in your face are called orbicularis oculi.
The second thing is how Professor Thomas Huang managed to be able to create a new technology to read humans facial expresions. In paragragh three it says that," when a computer constructs a model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles." I chose this sentence because it explains how this new technology works.
The last thing that the article talks is how it can read the Mona Lisa's facial expressions. In paragraph one it says that," She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent digusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." I chose this sentence because it explains how this demonstration showed that this new technology can read humans facial expressions.
Finally in this article,"Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author describes how a new technology called the "Facial Action Coding System" which enables computers to be able to identify human emotions. The first thing that I talk about is that students in a science classroom performing a lab experiment were to read their partners facial expressions. The second thing that I talk about is how Professor Thomas Huang, of the Beckam Institute for Advanced science was able create this new technology, none this be possible without his new technology the "Facial Action Coding System." Lastly none this would also be possible without the Mona Lisa's demonstration to read her facial expressions. | 0 |
"When you vote what do you commonly feel? Do you feel as joyful that your making a difference in the country as an elephant in its prime leading the herd? Perhaps you feel content, fairly certain that you picked the best person for the task like a donkey who's pleased to take a nap after helping his owners plow the field. Or maybe you just don't feel that your vote changed anything, still residing in the vote booth pointlessly waiting to be seen." The American people have always felt that they alone should decide who is to lead them. While this has been the case since America became a country, there are those who feel our current process of electing the people who will elect your candidate isn't a desirable system. Personally, I think the Electoral College is a acceptable method considering that it causes the candidates to interact with a greater bulk of the country, it makes voters consider there votes even more, and it prevents dilemas or tension relating towards the elections much more effectively. Although voters can never really all agree on something | 1 |
I don't beleive that the use of this technology to read student emotions is of any value to help students in the classroom.
There a few reasons why I have this opinion. I simply don't believe the technology is accurate, not becuase it cannot detect the emotion, but more so our facial expression dont alwyas exactly match the way we feel.
The text says that, "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 disagree with this statement because facial expressions are not always reliable. There are times when I look irritated or mad when in reality that is just my natuaral emotionless face. So if this were to be true, and my computer just automatically updated my lesson because it saw that I looked bored that wouldnt be fair. It would actually throw me more off course then help me. Another reason I feel its not a good idea is because in reality majority of students barely just smile and look happy while doing work, it's just something we don't do. So how would the computer be able to accurately know if we were interested if we dont clearly look interested?
So, therefore I believe that new computer technology to read emotions isn't really a big help to students in the classroom. The resuts may not be as accurate because we don't always look the way we feel. | 2 |
Their is no way that the US can continue approving the electoral college! Its a cotastrophe waiting to happen! The electoral college is going to fall apart any moment. It basically takes away one of every americans best rights, The right to vote! Why would we take time out of our lifes to vote when we are basically voting for someone to vote for us? This can pretty much decide an election and we would have no say. This is a completely unfair part of the election. This is an anachronism and a very non-democratic way of electing presidents. Each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee and that trust has a chance to be betrayed. Although its a small chance it can still happen. It happened in 2000, when Gore had more popular votes but Bush had more electoral votes. If the electoral college didn't exist, Gore may have become president and it may have been a much better run. If we have election by popular vote we will get a fair and legit outcome. Their will be no errors or lying or even hacks in the decision or system. That is why the electoral college is not a good system to use for electing a president. | 1 |
Is it really worth it? Studying venus is indeed worth pursuit and indeed despiting the dangers. Venus has pros and cons to this topic of question. I can see why people think that we shouldnt waste our time on veus. I can also see why people may say that venus has potential and is worth studying. Although venus is worth studying in my opinion.
Venus is considered one of the planets. Venus is called the "Evening Star" . Venus is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. Other often reffer to Venus as the "Earths twin". mainly because they share some common things. Astronomers are very interested in Venus. NASA is takeing venus into another level, experimenting and haveing faith that Venus can actually be the next great big thing, maybe such as another Earth. They are already said it will be full of solar power. It can maybe even let humans be up there with survival. I can see why the would want to continue to discover Venus as it seems it has alot of pros. venus's pros outwiegh the cons.
Venus is the secound closest to the sun meaning it is very hot. In the passage it says "In our solar system, Venus is the secound planet fom our sun". Astronomers have done missions of spacecrafts sent by humans to venus, which none have lasted no more than a few hours or landed on venus. No spacecraft sent up there has ever made it to Venus. This reason explains why humans have not yet tried to go up there or discover it is very challenging. The passage says "....humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud draped world. 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 won on Venus in more than three decades".
Clouds of highly corrosive sulfric acid is in venus, we could die. In the passage its says "Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfric acid in venus's atmosphere". There more than 800 degrees
and 90 times greater pressure in Venus we can again die. In the passage it says "On the planets surface, tempetures average over 800 degrees ferenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we expierence on our own planet".
Venus is the closest planet to Earth refferring to density and size, which would be fantastic if they wanted Venus to become another earth. In the pasage it says "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too". Venus was once before covered in oceans just like Earth is. The passage says "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth today. Venus also has features sucha as valleys, mountaims, craters, and rock sedement once again just like Earth. THe passage says "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters".There is 97% of carbon dioxide in Venus more than enough to live off of . In the passage it says "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus".These are all examples on why Venus is worth discovering and tooken furthermore serious, despiting the bad. If NASA continues to discover they might find a slotion or actually have a chance.
Therefore with given evidence Venus has alot of potential and is worth of discovery. Venus must be given a chance to prove to people that it is more than just another planet. It is given life features. | 3 |
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggest that studying Venus is worth it because we still dont have enough information to explain others about it. The people that go to it can gain more information, tell us how things are, how things move, and how they see things that are different from earth.
One reason people should go to explore Venus it to discover how the weather is there. In the passage it said that "Venus is one of the brightest point of light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot." This is not abnormal for a planet that is second from the sun. I imagine that it would be really hot because if earth is hot Venus is nine times more, which would be around 800 degrees Fahrenheit.
Another reason is that you can go to venus to see how to surface is transformed. The scientist said "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supposted various forms of life, just like Earth." This means you have the danger of stepping into something that you dont even know if its going to be ground or water with grass that makes it look like land. You can also be an danger because you dont know if the surface is really hot or cold.
My final reason on how the author supports the idea stuying is worhty but danger is because People can check how techonology is there, or maybe if they have more advance technology then there is in Earth. For example it said " Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers" That gives them an idea of how smart technology was in Venus. Another example was " Modern computers are enormouslwy powerful, flexible , and quick , but tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physical condition." This means that the technology is good it just depends on the nature things like weather.
Those are reason on why the author suggest why people should go visit Venus although it might be dangerous, People also want to learn more about it but we dont have enough information because people dont go explore Venus. | 2 |
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author points out that astonomers are fascinated by Venus because in may well once have been the most Earth-likeplanet in our solar system. Addtionally, the article also says that NASA has one particulary compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. Finally, the author points out that NASA is working on other approaches to study Venus.
Astronomers are looking for evidence that Venus have the same characteristics as Earth. In the article, it says that, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediments and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." This part of the article proves that it can be safe to go to Venus because the astronomers have an idea on what the surface of the planet looks like.
NASA is looking for a way to send humans to Venus without putting their lives at risk. In Paragraph 5, the author points out that, "NASA has one particulary compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientist to float above the fray. Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape. Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy condition, but survivable for humans." This shows that it would be hard to land on Venus because of the surface. It would be really hard to not to destroy the spacecraft.
Finally, NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. "For example, 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 condition." This quote from the article is telling the reader the NASA is trying to prepare in case they are in bad situation where the people in the craft are in danger.
In conclusion, in "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. From the dangerous surface of Venus, to protecting all the passengers in the spacecraft. | 3 |
As a sixteen year old girl in the year 2016, being able to drive around is pretty important. Whether it's to go to a friends house, drive around with friends, pick up things for the house, or even driving to and from school. A driverless automobile would make things even better.
Google has had cars that could drive independently since 2009 and have their cars have driven more than hald a million miles without a crash! Although the Google driverless cars aren't truly driverless, the Google's modified Toyota Prius does have position estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the rood, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, an inertial motion sensor, and spinning sensor on the rood of the car. That speaks a lot in safety terms, which is pretty important in America. Being able to ride around in an almost driverless car would be grand because, it would almost solve the texting and driving issue, which is common among most driving teens in the 21st century. The seats are able to vibrate whenever they need to get the drivers attention and needs assitance getting out a tricky situation that the car could not handle on it's on such as roadblock or traffic jams.
Before 2000, there was no way that this technology could have been possible although the founder of the Google Car project had the idea. The technology before 2000 just was not as developed as it was now. In 2013, BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant." This makes the car capable of driving function at speeds of 25 mph, but the special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps ahold of the wheel. Even though the car can drive on autopiolet, the driver should still be ready to take over at any time. The Google car has an alert that simply announce when the driver should be prepared to take over. The other options of alert are flashing lights on the windshield and other heads up displays. None of the Google Driverless automobiles are complete driverless yet, but this is a start since the driverless cars can steer, accelerate, and brake by themselves but notify the driver when human interaction is needed.
Most of the driving laws focus on keeps driver, passengers, and pedestrians safe. At the current moment, traffic laws state that safety for all is best achieved by human drivers behind the wheel. This is why the driverless cars are not legal in most states. California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia are the only states who have led the country in allowing limited use of semi-autonomous automobiles. This is a good start, but even if the traffic laws do indeed change, new laws will be needed in order to keep people safe in case of accidents. The big issue would be finding out who was the cause of the accident. The driver, or the car?
Telsa has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopolite 90 percent of the time and Mercedes, Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to follow through with driverless cars as well by the year 2020. This is a great start for driverless cars that are not complete driverless. From the vibrating seats to cameras to watch the drivers, Google is soon on it's way to greatness as the continue to improve their driverless automobiles. | 3 |
Imagine this, Living in a world where pollution no longer exists, where cars have been limiting due to important reasons and where stress no longer affects individuals that drive. Cars have played indeed an important role in our lives since a long time. They do make us get to places faster but they are also making some individuals more lazier than before. They have affected our atmosphere which can affect every living organisms on Earth in the nonfar future. In my opinion cars should not be limited, the companies that make them should just change the way they work.
First of all, less and less people no longer walk or take public transportation in places where every individual in the population owns a car. According to source number 1 paragraph 3 "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way". This is important because it shows that when individuals own a car they are always going to fight against state laws, traffic, people on the streets, meaning that they are always going to stress everytime they ride their car. This could be a lot different if cars were limited for every single individual or if cars somehow where seperated from people's places for walking.
Second of all, our planet's atmosphere has gotten more and more polluted than when cars were not a big thing to people. Pollution is something that some people do not take seriously. It can affect our lives in a big way. According to source number 2 pargraph 1 "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial drivin ban to clear the air of the global city" meaning that the air was being contaminated due to cars. This is important because cars are affecting our atmosphere in a way that can affect us all by destroying our atmosphere and leaving every living organism on Earht with no oxygen.
Last but not least, Scientist's have invented cars that are electric meaning that they dont use gasoline. This is a good thing, because it can reduce pollution for a better atmosphere. Another way that pollution can be reduced is by making more and more individuals use public transportation. This can help by them not using their gasoline powered cars that pollute the air. In conclusion, cars will not be limited in the near future they will just change the way they work. | 2 |
So to start here is a letter to my state senator, in which I argue in favor of keeping the electoral college or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the united states. The electoral college is a process, not a place. The electoral college process consists of the selection of the electors. The electoral college consists of 538 electors. In the 23 Amendment of the constitution, the district of columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the electoral college. For this reason, in the following discussion, the word "state" also refers to the district of columbia. Next, each canidate running for president in your 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 responsibilities are.
The president election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Also, most states have a "winner-take-all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate . However, Maine and Nebraska each have a variation of "proportion representation".
Abolishing the electoral college! But don't worry they're not alone; according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore.
Thanks to the quirks of the electoral college, which won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voterswould prefer a direct election to the kind we have now.
Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president.
You might not know this so if you dont here is something very interesting for you to know. Who are the electors? Well they can be snoyone not holding public office. Here's something eles you might know, Who picks the electors in the first place? well here's the answer it depends on the state. The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor.
The American people should consider themselces lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for must more. consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and thats those electors could always defy the will of the people. Black in 1960.
Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the hose of representatives, where state deegations vote on the president. Okay to end my letter, my con conclustion is that this is my letter to my state seator. | 0 |
Usuage of cars should be limited for many reasons. Many people in different countries agree that cars should be either baned or not used as constantly. Pollution, Economy, and people's health are all a factor to limiting car usuage.
In Vauban, Germany, people have given up their cars. There is a fee to park in Vauban which is a coast of $40,000. No one is going to want to drive do to that outrageous price. 70 percent of the people living in Vauban doesnt own a car and, 57 percent sold their car once they moved there. "'When I had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way' said Heidrun Walter". This quote shows that cars just bring you done emotionly and you'll feel better with out one. In Vauban, cars are causing 12 percent of greenhouse gases. The percent of greenhouse gases are four times higher in the U.S do to car's gas emissions.
In Paris, there is a smog problem going on. There is so much pollution in the air that there was a forced ban on driving. If anyone was found driving they were fined $31. 4,000 people were fined and 27 had their cars taken do to not wanting to pay the fine or being difficult. Paris had the most smog out of the European country; in Paris there was 147 micrograms of particulate matter, Brussels had 114 and, London had 79.7.
Bogota, Colombia has an annual car-free day. A day full of hiking, biking, skating and bus riding. If found driving on the car-free day you are fined with $25. "'It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution,' said businessman Carlos Plaza". President Obama is getting envolved with the limiting car usuage aslo. His goal is to curb the greenhouse gas emissions. There have been less cars bought and licenses given out as the years go by. Lastly, there has been a 23 percent decrease in young peolple driving from the years 2001 to 2009.
These are some reasons why car usuage should be limited; and as you can see many countries are starting to make a difference. | 2 |
Air pollution has been a major issue in the U.S for quite some time now. The number one cause of air polution is car exauhst emisions. Engine exauhst from a cars tailpipe shoots into the air we breathe ever so often. Limiting the use of cars would exponentially help reduce the amount of air poluition we have within the U.S today. Knowing this, our main concern as humans right now should be trying to limting car usage in order to reduce harmful greenhouse emissions that cause air pollution and smog.
In Vauban, Germany, citizens have give up their cars and have moved into an experimental upscale community where cars are not highly used. Even though car ownership is allowed, there are only two locations to park the vehichle and would cost $40,000 to buy the parking space. As a result, 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold their cars in order to move into the experimental community. Media trainer and mother of two, Heidren Walter says:"When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Germany has already taken a first step in order to help reduce car emissions in the air. David Goldberg, an official of transportation for America states:"All of our development since world was II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change." In Europe, passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions while the United States is responsible for up to 50 percent greenhouse gas emissions in some car-intensive areas.
On Monday in Paris, motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same ban applied to odd-numbered license plates the following day. Sadly almost 4,000 drivers were fined and twent-seven people had their cars impounded. In the capital of France, congestion of smog was down 60 percent after five-days. Diesel fuel is the leading blame, since France has a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline. Diesel makes up 67 percent of vehicles in France, compared to a 53.3 percent average of diesel engines in the rest of Western Europe, according to Reuters. Not only is Germany taking small steps in order to reduce air pollution by limiting cars but Paris is also doing the same thing to help reduce smog.
Not only is Germnay and Paris trying to limit car usage but so is Colombia. In Bogota, Colombia; there is a program they have in which millions of Colombians either skate, bike, hike or took public transportation in order to get to work for one day out of the entire year. The goal is to promote alternative transportatin and reduce smog. Violators would face a fine of $25. Businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza commented:"It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." Two other Colomian cities, Cali and Valledupar, have decided to join the event in order to help reduce car usage.
Now we finally reach the United States after hearing about Germany, Paris, and Paris in terms of trying to limit the use of cars. Michael Sivak, who studies the trend of car usgae in America and is a reasearch professor at the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute, reports:"What most intrigues me is that rates of car ownership per household and per person started to come down to two to three years before the downturn, I think that means something more fundamental is going on." Mr. Sivak's research has found demogaphic shifts in the driving populations that suggest that the trend may accelerate. There has been a large drop in the percentage of 16-39-year-olds getting a license, while older people are likely to retain their license at they age. A study last year has also found that driving by young people decresaed 23 percent between 2001 and 2009.
Limitng the use of cars is starting to slowy take its place within the United States, Germany, Paris, and even Colombia. Hopefully more and more people around the world will do their part in order to help reduce greenhouse emissions such as smog and air pollution. | 1 |
The electoral college is seen both hated and favored by many Americans. Some believe that the electoral college is an efficent way of reciving a effective president and should be continued to be utilziled in America, and others (In comparsion with me) agrees that the electoral college should be thrown out allowing voting to be more of an "equal chance". The vote really doesnt count if your electors of the state dont come to the agrrement of the president you would want In the electoral college Secondly, who are the electors? And lastly who pics the electors? this is the curicumstances of having the electoral college.
First off, the vote really doesnt count if your electors of the state dont come to the agrrement of the president you would want. In the elctoral college the citizen of that particular state vote for the president of their choice. Afterwards it would be up to the number of electors that pledged for that particular president would earn the runners a number of votes that the state has based on their population. The method used for selecting a president maybe effiecent but not correct. It maybe faster and easier to caluclate but which would you rather have? An not so good president that was choosen by some elector. Or a vote based on what the entire country feels. Not off what a certian side of the country are most likely to do.
Secondly, who are the electors? Although these electors are trusted and rarely betrayed, how would we know if it was betrayed during this certian election? What if almost more than half of the electors in every state was influenced,forced or was to "betray" that would be an serious issue the elction of that particular presdient. This is one of the many questions in having a electoral college. The electors can be influenced by the other electors. which cannot be good for our country. these type of decsions should be made by everyone in the country not 12, 45, or 44 elctoral votes. The electoral votes were in the constitution from long ago. These type of systems worked better because the technology wasnt as advanced, but now it is. Why continue on whats already worn out, and out of date?
Lastly, how are the electors choosen? Because of not always being able to control who their electors of the state choose for it really isnt accurate. If electoral college was and "correct" way to choose the presdient, then why arent they publicly annocunced? How do the people who selelct the eletors? which brings up the possiblilty of the electors have a strong bias belief in democrats/republicans. all together the electoral college sounds fishy, if everyone voted on their perosnal opionion there would be less choas on how the president was selected.
Although anachronism may seem like a tradtion in America, that worked when it was created and continues to work now, there are quite of few down falls of this system. things are different now, we (America) should adjust to the times we are living in. What worked then may not be the best possible choice due to the advancements that we nw have in america. We should be free to vote for our president directly, not through some system that is almost acient. The vote really doesnt count if your electors of the state dont come to the agrrement of the president you would want In the electoral college Secondly, who are the electors? And lastly who pics the electors? This is the curicumstances of having the electoral college. Maybe soon the country will see the differnce. | 3 |
Why Luke Thinks You Should Join The
Program
Luke thinks that you should should prticipate in Seagoing Cowboys program. I mean,why wouldn't he,he had a great time there and he thinks that you would to. Just in case you don't believe me I will provide some details from the story to prove it.
For instance,in the story he even says that he knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime. Now tell me that doesn't sound like he knew it was going to be great experence for him and it could be a great experence for you.
Another example is in the last paragraph when he said that he was gretful for the opportunity to be a Seagoiong Cowboy. Now i'm just stating the facts to to you that he is trying to convience people to be a Seagoing Cowboy and if your not agreeing with me yet then I guess there's no way of convincing you.
I have another piece of evidence since you still don't believe me. He also says that Luke also had fun on board. This piece of evidence just proves that he had a good time just being on the boat.
In conclusion, I truly think that in this passage he was trying to convince others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboy program and Ithink that you should believe that to. I gave you my evidence and my reasoning why I think this and if you read my evidence you should to. | 1 |
Vroom! Vroom! Is the familiar and common sound heard all across the world. Can you believe that cars can be so helpful and convienient, yet cause so many problems? The United States, Environmental Protection Agency, jumped on board with it's new promotion of, "car reduced" communities. This is a new act that will limit car usage, and help protect our Earth's environment. Motorits all over the world are contributing to the Greenhouse effect, stress, congestion, and pollution in the air we breathe. Countries such as, Columbia, France, and Germany are trying to reduce pollution, and the long term affects of cars have on the world.
Middle-class families, ranging from Chicago to Shanghai, make a huge impact on our greenhouse. Up to about fifty percent in the US alone emits carbon dioxide gas, instead of trying to reduce it. According to the international agency headquarters in London, the congestion and traffic within the capital of France, went down sixty percent, after fining citizens for being on the road after five days of a near-record pollution. The smog that covered this global city had one hundred fourty seven microorganisms per cubic meter. They had blamed diesel fuel as the reason for the smog. The cold nights and warm days trapped car emissions. If we started this new idea, we would see a large improvement within our enviromnment.
Beep! Beep! Traffic is such a stressful situation to be in. Wheather it is on your way to work, going home, getting lunch, or going to see a friend, the streests are flooded. This new act will promote the simplicity of transportation. This will release a lot of stress on people, and make their lives happier and healthier. People will be more connected and involved with their community and surroundings. Sidewalks are being layed out all throught cities, for people to find a new efficient way of transportation such as, walking or riding a bike.
Some countries are so used to not having a car or even having a space to put a vehicle. In Vauban, Germany, people are giving their cars up more and more. They just see the positive affects this "car-free" act has on them. Today seventy percent of families that live there do not own cars. The rate of people getting their license has gone down dramaticlly as well. Car companies are scared for their business if everyone tries to conserve energy.
This limitation of moterized vehichles may be just what the world needs to improve it's environment. This saves more energy, reduces pollution, keeps people healthy and stressfee. Living a life of simplicity will make you more happier. | 3 |
I suggest to try the Seagoing Cowboys program based on the information and the passage I have read. It can help you learn and experience things you have probably never done before. Also you could go places you have never been before and probably would like to.
A reason to join the Seagoing Cowboys program is to learn and experience new things. If participating in the Seagoing Cowboys program it makes you realize and make you more aware of people of other countries and their needs.
Secondly, playing games on trips like baseball and volleyball can also be fun. Also table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, whittling, and games also helped pass time. At last, being a Seagoing Cowboy can be more than just an adventure.
It can open up a new world.
As I see it, joining the Seagoing Cowboys program can be an opportunity of a lifetime to travel on a cattle boat and help people from a different country. | 1 |
The revolutionary end to car culture could be creeping upon us more rapidly than we imagine. In the passage, "Car-Free Cities", authored by Elisabeth Rosenthal, Robert Duffer, and Andrew Selsky, they've elaborated a bit more on how cities all around the world are deciding it is time to decrease the use of automobiles, with the exception of hybrid cars and public transportation. The inhabitants of specific cities across the world have taken it into their own hands to reduce the usage of private automobiles in order to slow down pollution. In other places the government are pressing fines or taxes on those who drive their smog-emitting vehicles depending on the day or city. Some people are also commenting that the reduction of car usage has even brought about less stress in their daily lives.
In certain cities across the world, the people are open-mindedly accepting life without personal vehicles. In the first section of the passage, "In German Suburb,Life Goes On Without Cars", Elisabeth Rosenthal shines light on a city in Germany by writing, "Vauban, completed in 2006, is an example of a growing trend in Europe, the United States and elsewhere to seperate suburban life from auto use, as a component of a movement called "smart planning."" This allows for homes to be built without driveways and garages, thus reducing the size of the home, allowing more homes to be built in a suburb. Such houses allow for more people to become a part of a fast growing community with a dream to end pollution from personal car usage.
The governments of select cities are declaring specific days for there to be either a reduced number of vehicles on the roads or no vehicles at all, with the exception of public transportation. In section two of the passage, "Paris bans driving due to smog" by Robert Duffer, it is acknowledged that, "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day." By Paris enforcing these taxes they are acknowledging that someone has to at leats make an effort to reduce the levels of existing pollution.
By doing this people are able to live more stress-free lives. | 2 |
Many people are not using vehicles anymore. It could be more alternatives for transportation are showing up, to lower air pollution rates, the goverment might be forcing citizens not to use their vehicles, the enviroment they live in, or simply citizens have no interest in driving. There are many reasons to not driving, but maybe there are advantages to limiting car usage.
Some cities have been built where streets, driveways and garages for home are forbidden, such as, Vauban, Germany. These suburban communities have used every other way of transpotation except cars, taxis, buses, and some even trains; they pretty much use anything that doesn't have an engine. Many citizen like not have to drive everywhere. In Source 1, paragraph 3, ""When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two." Many of the citizen that live in Vauban give the same answer or just want something different in their lives. In France, the govermnent enforced a partial driving ban to clear smog in the city get rid of traffic. In Source 2, paragraph 5, "Congestion has down 60% in the capital of France, after five days of intensifying smog." The lower rates of traffic congestion helped a significant amount of French citizens to get to where they were going faster and less accident on the road.
Other countries have created a somewhat holiday called car-free day where millions of people hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work during that day. The only vehicles on the road were buses and taxis. In Source 3, paragraph 7, "These people are generating a revolutionary changeand this crossing the borders." The citizens doing this are very open to this change and enthusiastic about it. It also helped cities renovate and rebuild themselves. In Source 3, parargraph 9, "Parks and sports centers have throughout the city; uneven and pitted sidewalks have been replaced by brad, smooth sidewalks." These change that this holiday has influenced helped the cities to become a safe place.
In conclusion, the limits of car usage has helped bring great beneficial change to many countries of the world. It has provided us with altenate ways of travel, health habits, the reduction of air pollution and a great way to interact with others. | 2 |
In my personal opinion, I think that it would be very valuable because when your having trouble on a problem and you need help but your teacher is busy doing something or you are on your own, it can modify the work down for you. I get frustrated all of the time with my work and I don't alway have a teacher right there with me to ask how to do something or to help me every time i'm stuck on a problem. I think it would be great and super convient, especially for the kids who need a little extra help on their assignments. This essay also goes to show how technology is taking over the world, sooner or later there will be no going to school, it will all be over computers from home. I think that this could really help some kids out but what if you get a text message and you start smiling about that and it thinks you are doing great so it doesn't modify it for you? I feel as if even though this could have some really great benefits to it, it could also have some really bad ones. | 1 |
wether you are 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percet angry people shouldnt go around measruing your emotions. I think that emotions are something very personal that should be kept for ourselves. There is a difference between asking a friend how they feel and being there for then versus measuring their emotions, and only working on that part of emotiong thatthey want to get rid of. what of they device has gathered the wrong information ? That means we would be helping people in the places they dont need help.
In the article they keep rerfering the facial muscle and what they represt and how the computer identifices them. Us humans look at people and predict they are feeling some type of way but we could be wrong, becuase only the persons can feel how that emotion. Eventhough they mention all the different features the computer has to identify our emotions I dont believe that our technology is advance to a point where it can do all of those things. In fact i believe this system is pointless becuase we dont need to worry about other people and their personal space.
In conclusion my opinion is that we dont have this system in our school. I say this because teachers shount be worried about our personal emotions. School should focus on better ways on teaching people versus worryingabout theyre personal emotions. Sometimes our emotions are not being the scholl but by the problems we have at home witch makes it irrelent to have this system. That is why i say we shouldnt have this system. | 1 |
The author claims that investigating Venus's surface is worth our time even tho there are many dangers there, because Venus at one point in time may have had simliar feature that Earth does such as water, Venus has similar geological traits, and Venus is sometimes the closest planet to Earth making Venus a likely trip.
Scientist believe that one point in time Venus had oceans on its surface along with other life forms such as vegetation and maybe alien life. "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." It would be a ground breaking discovery to man kind if we were able to discover a new form of life on another planet.
Under Venus's thick atmosphere and its giant corrosive clouds, the geological formation of Venus is similar to our planet. Venus has craters and mountains like we do on Earth."The planet has a surface rocky of sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." With such similar features to our home planet it makes Venus a likely option to send mankind to visit.
During Earth's orbit, there are points in time were Mars is the closet planet to us and other times when Venus is the closest planet to us. Since Venus is closer to the sun it orbits faster than Earth while Mars is farther from the sun it has a slower orbit. Since Venus at points in time is the closest planet makes it a likely option to go visit." Furthermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel." With Venus being the closest planet at a given time makes it an ideal planet to study.
I believe the author proves a valid point on why we need to travel to Venus, because Venus could have had really similar features to Earth at one point in time, Venus also has similar geological traits, and Venus is sometimes the closest planet to Earth. With that information given to us by the author makes the idea of studying Venus a worthy pusuit despite the many dangers there are. | 3 |
Studdies have shown that passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and 50 percent in the United States alone. Many people see this as and eye opener to life in the suburbs without motor vehicles. There have been actions on car deduced communities in Europe. Also France baned Driving do to smog. Sounds Extream, but it is very effective.
There have been some countries that have reduced the usage of cars to almost nothing. In Vauban, Germany Residents of this community have given up their cars. This may seem a bit insane, but the way the government did it is varry smart. Street parking, driveways, and home garages are generally forbidden. Their streets are completely "
Car-Free
". The government made it that if you still wanted a car you would have to pay an aditional $40,000 for a spot when buying your home. The result is 70 percent of Vauban's Families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move there. In the United States, the EPA (
Environmental Protection Agency
) is promoting "
car reduced
" communities. Legislators are starting to act as well. Bogota has a car-free day where the only motor vehicles running are busses and taxis.
Some countries are even going to harsh measures by banning motor vehicles all togather. In France they had so much smog that they baned driveing all togather. France desided that they where going to order even-numbered license plates owners to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). Same for odd-numbered cars the following day. almost 4,000 drivers were fined, and 27 had their cars impounded because of their reaction to the fine. But congestion was down 60 percent in the capital. In Bogota, Colombia they have had three straight years where cars have been banned with only buses and tavis permitted in a capital of 7 million. Their goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Violators faced $25 fines. A businessman Carols Arturo Plaza said, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution."
Based on all of the previous information givin, we can conclude that driving bans, and car-free campains have helped our environment. These countried have reduces the smog in their air. They have goten people to partisipate in their community. Also They have gotten other countries to get involved in this cause. Diffrent countries have Made their own style of these programs to their advantage. This idea of car-free suburbs is changing the way the population reacts in the community. | 3 |
In the late 1800's in was a huge deal to have a car, only rich people had them. Today it is a necessity to have a car, if you dont have one it is a big deal. But not everyone enjoys diriving some people want to not have to drive to live in an everyday environment. There are so many pros to having a walkable society, one being pollution.
In new York city there is millions of people, and millions of cars. When you have that manny people needing to get places most people drive. But that causes a problem it makes polution a big thing in these big cities, cars cause polution and people think i need a car to be able to get around. Thats not true, engineers these days are trying to make more of thyese "walkable comunities." A walkable comunity is one that can be travfersed by foot and does not require a car.
If you were to walk everywhere that you normally drive You would be burning a massive amount of calories. This in turn would keep people in shape and in better health and thats always a plus. If every one in a comunity is healthy then everyone would live long and every one wants to live longer. More people living longer means more people in the comunity more people in a comunity. more people in a comunity means more people working and leads to a higher production rate.
In the end cars limit the growth of humans by causing polution and people that are not in shape. Polution is a big problem in the world today and this is a way to stop it. People in america are becoming over weight and lazy if peoplewere to just bike or walk where there going it would help out the world greatly. So please next time you need to drive down the road, just grab a bike or even walk to you destination. | 1 |
Driverless cars would help people in there day to day lives. Driverless car are getting more and more realistic as we head forward with our lives. Driverless car can help many people get around in the near future.
Google has been working on making driverless cars reality since 2009. Driverless cars have driven more than half a million miles without crash. Cars have been evolving through time and we now have cars that can steer, accelerate, and even brake themselves. Driverless cars would use half the fuel of today's taxis.
Driverless car can have set backs as well. Car companies have been trying to make driverless cars but have came up short. In fact, none of the cars beening developed are completely driverless. In 2013, BMW had a car that can handle functions up to 25 mph, but has special touch sencors to make sure the driver has their hands on the wheel. They can control themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skill, such as navigating through work zones and accidents.
Driverless car are getting better and better every day. Cars are indicating the driver if there is any danger around the car. Some cars are braking on there on to prevent grashes that humans can not see in time. Car have cameras in the back of the car so you can see were you are going when you back up. Driverless cars are coming to us in the near future.
The rambunctions automakers are still continuing their work on driverless cars. Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Nissan, and many more plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020. Driverless cars are getting closer to reality every day, so when it does go buy yourself one. | 3 |
As I know from images and researches that aliens could possibly exist by the looks of it . Not so Postive about it , but why would there be an human face on mars when people aren't on Mars everyday of there lives. Also that by seeing pictures of hwo aliens look there similar too us in a way , but the mouth is weird shping like it's not a human mouth that people think it may be . Makes you have second thoughts and makes you want to investigate more on the " The Face On Mars " . Each year we have something new on this face of mars.
So we investigate more on these pictures to see exactly what were trying to find out because it doesn't add up how would I big hu,man face be on mars. doesn't make since too me. Yeah and like " Garvin " says we don't pass over a human face very often so something isn't right here. The scientist put there all into this to figure out what there dealing with.
So finally in 2001 we've came to an conclusion and find out from all our investigations that it's really just a ' mesa ' It's an Middle Butte in the Snakwe River Plain of Idaho It's the same height of as " Face on Mars ". | 0 |
Not one human has ever seen a living species in Mars or in any planet. In 1976 an odd feature appeared on Mars. Many people think that it looks like a human face. These people believe that the odd feature could be an alien living on Mars.
The news has been spreading around that the "face on Mars" is a creature living in space. I don't believe that aliens are real. Aliens are a figure that someone made up a long time ago hoping that their were more people in the Universe. I know this because if there were aliens in the Universe, someone probably would have already found one.
A lot of odd objects float around in space. The face that people are seeing could just be a meteor. Meteors float around the Universe just trying to make problems. The meteor could have blasted into Mars and created the face like feature. Things like this are not very rare. Meteors have rocketed into Earth a great number of times.
I also believe in Jesus. I believe in every single detail the Bible says. The face could be Jesus showing people that he is watching us. Everything in the Bible has either already happend or will happen in the future. Aliens are not in the Bible, therefore, I don't believe they exist.
If aliens really do exist we would have already found one. Humans have thought aliens are real for hundreds of years. The object could be a natural object like a meteor. Meteors pass through the Universe every single day. What makes this object different? Nothing make the object different. Jesus Christ has all of the creatures we need to know about in the Bible. Aliens are just not one of them. | 0 |
First of all, I feel like it's pretty reliable, BUT one of the parts that threw me off was when Professer Nicu Sebe said that shes "83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry."
Professer Nibu said the process begins when the computer construts a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Movement of one or more muscles is called an "action unit. Then his friend Dr. Huang relies on the work of psychologists such as Dr. Paul Eckman, the creator of FAC (Facial Action Coding). Dr Huang then observed that "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal, even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression."
By using video imagery, the new emotion recognition software tracks the facial movements in either or real face or painted picture of Mona Lisa. By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions, each expression is compared against a neutral face. In fact, Dr. Huang said that we humans perform the same impressive calculation everyday, like for instance, me going to one of my close friends and seeing them frowning I will assume that they're upset about something.
According to the machine if you frown at it, the next ad will be different. I feel like a machine like this would be very useful for computers so they can track if a student is getting distracted, tired or bored, because I feel like it could give the student a warning or something to not fall asleep during a test. And lastly, no, the expirement didn't really make me happy, I tried smiling and it felt awkward.
According to the "Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion" moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but it may even help producethem in a way, which was very shocking to me because I never knew anything could work like that. Reading this article made me feel smarter in a way, learning something I've never heard or seen before. But in conclusion I feel as if this article is helpful and should be seen to my peers. | 1 |
The "Face on Mars" was discovered May 24th, 2001. It was discovered when a spacecraft was cirlcing mars and spotted something that looked like a human face. This is where the name "The Face on Mars" comes from. Some people think it was from aleins, other think it was just a natural land form.
If i were a scientist at NASA and I had to convince them that the " Face on Mars" was not created by aliens i would simply say that there is no evidence that shows aliens where around.
The arictle " Unmasking the Face on Mars" states that on April 5th, 1998 Micheal Milan and his Mars Orbiter Camera team tookphotographs of the object which clearly revealed that the " face " was a natural landform.
Although people werent satified with the therory that the "Face on Mars"is just a natural landform, it is the only conclusion that really makes sense. If aliens made this the spacecraft orbiting mars would have been able to see them. And another thing there would have been signs to prove aliens made this landmark, but there isnt. All of this leads me to believe that the" Face on Mars" isjust a natural landform. | 1 |
The new age of technology demands something refreshing and new every day,with new cellular phones coming out nearly every six months, such things are expected. However people who enjoy driving as a sport or even a pasttime are not going to be able to enjoy such things with cars that can drive themselves and the inevitability that roads will be a collective of such things. If they can make special roads; like how General Motors created a concept car that could run on track charged with an electrical cable, there should be an on/off switch for this kind of driving as well as things that are restricted to human drivers only. These things will create a kind of harmony between the two groups of people.
However if this alternitive can't be met then self-driving cars should be eradicated as an idea until it is completely safe. To many dangers are posed if we mix the kinds of cars anyway,all it takes is one person to create a wreck, And such things should be avoided at any chance given. Nobody needs to danger more lives than humans do on the highway. We could always put money into better things.
The joy of driving is to great for alot of people to give up driving on a daily basis. Our future isn't looking so bright except for the flourescent lights from the robots who are now part of our daily lives. | 2 |
Driverless cars seem like they would be a good idea and could very so work, under the right condidtions. Like the author said, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault--the driver or the manufacturer?" That is a very good question considering people that drive with children or just starting out. I personally think that a driverless car could work if everyone would still be alert and aware or their surroundings. Some Companies such as Tesla, have aleady projected dates to when they plan to release a driverless car.
These cars have sensors on them almost everywhere on the car that alert you when you are about to hit something or tell you when you need to start taking control, such as in a traffic jam or if there was an accident on the road. Televison and movies have long been fascinated with cars that could drive themselves. And now that we finally have that technology, we are taking the next step to better safety, more quick and effecient driving in some cases, and probably more money in the pockets of these creators as well.
The people at Google making these cars seem to be very confident and sure about what they are doing. These cars would almost be used as a texi service or bus transportaion. But, they would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus. So as far as I am concerned, driverless cars would be a great idea. | 2 |
Have you ever been interested in studying astronomy or space sciences. Well, across the nation, people who work for NASA expore space or study planets to find. Of the many planets in the solar system, this essay analyzes the planet Venus and why we should study it. In the article, The challenges of Exploring Venus, the author clearly supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents by disscusing the three main reasons based on it's distance from Earth, Earth like features, and the possibility of sending a space mission there.
First of all, the author clearly discusses that we should study Venus because it's similarity and proximity to Earth. The article states, "Often referred to as Earth's
"twin", "Venus is the closest plannet to earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance" (2). Based on this quote, this implies that Venus may have similar shape and size to earth. Because it's sometimes the closest distance to earth based on orbit, it may be the most convient to visit compared to the other planets in the solar system.
The next to study Venus is that scientists have found ways to send vehicles carrying humans to study Venus. The article explains how NASA has an idea of sending humans to study Venus when the article states, "Imagine a blimp like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape" (5). In this quote, this means that people would ride in a spacecraft close enough to Venus to see the surface. Also, the article contains an anology when it explains how "a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and our of their way" similar to how "jet planes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms" (5). Based on this quote, the view out of this spacecraft looking down at Venus may be similar to viewing out of a jetplane window on Earth, which is what you may expect out of this space journey.
The final reason to study Venus is because the planet has similar topography and may have had conditions similar to earth. The author clearly describes Earth's and Venus's similarity to Earth when the article says, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like Earth. Because of the possibility that Venus has or used to support living, it would be worth studying Venus, which ties back to the main idea of why it's a worthy pursuit. If we find this to be true, then maybe one day we'll live on Venus.
The author did a great job of supporting the idea that Venus is a worthy pursuit based on the ideas of Venus's proximity to Earth, the possibility of life on Venus, and building a vehicle to ship humans to explore Venus without landing on the surface. Maybe one day we'll actually push forward with this pursuit of studying Venus and find a way to possibly get there. Overall, studying astronomy may help us understand the uncertainty of our neighboring planets, which may give us the oppertunity to find another world to inhabit. | 4 |
Throughout the article it is made known that Venus is an oustanding yet harsh planet. However Venus is one of Earth's closest neighbors and the planet most like Earth. Scientist believe that at one point Venus could of maintained a form of life, and for some reason still have hope to visit. Astronomers to this day are fascinated by Venus and would soon love to find a way to make a landing on this very earth-like planet. However, why are astronomers so fascinated by this planet?
Venus has many features that are analogous to those on Earth. However Venus has an atmosphere almost ninty-seven percent of carbon dioxide, and on the surface temperatures average over eight hundred degrees. Venus isn't the closest planet to the sun but is still the hottest. Even though some conditions are different Venus still has many conditions similar to Earth.
Throughout the article it is clearly states the similarities and differences between Earth and Venus. In paragragh three the author shows just how a like these two planets can be. "Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking land on its surface." These conditions listed are very similar to those of the conditions on Earth. However Venus may be similar in some forms, the differences between the two planets has prevented Venus from being discovered.
Venus may only ever be discovered through a ship flying over thirty miles above the landscape of the planet due to how harsh the conditions are. "At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Farenheit," this claim by the author comes to show that even from a distance the conditions of Venus can be felt. Coming any closer to the planet would put those on the journey in a very dangerous situation.
However despite the harsh conditions and nearly impossible ideas, atronomers still attempt on landing something on the floor of Venus. Venus is the closest thing to Earth, and astronomers want to believe that one day it did or one day this planet will hold life. | 2 |
The Facial Action Coding System is a good technology but then again not. The software comes with alot of features but it could be a failure. Nobody could just guess someones emotions by looking at there face I dont think a computer sofware couldn't either. It possibly could find the emotions of someone but the results could be wrong because you never know what or how a person is feeling on the inside or outside. Most people don't express there feelings anyway so a computer sofware couldn't find it unless it has the best DNA sofware or best way to find how someones feeling on the inside. The Facial Action Coding System could be a failure in way of just having bad results if someones angry or depressed the software could determine that there happy or surprised. In the Mona Lisa picture she does look a little happy but thats one the inside it says it could find mixed emotions but she could be just smiling for the painting, Also in the instructions it gives you directions to smile or look happy. Maybe the software just tells your on the instructions to smile, so that the software could give you the results as your happy because of the directions of making you smile. The emotion software just gives you ways to smile maybe for you to smile so they can give you results as your happy or excited. In conclussion the Facial Action Coding System could be a failure and doesn't really work. | 1 |
Having a day where driving cars is banned instead of having traffic on the roads. Many countries including the United States are banning cars for a day or forever is becoming a new trend. The reasons that countries are doing this is so they clean up the air because the greenhouse gases have been a problem for the past couple years.
In Vauban, Germany the advantages of limiting car usage has been great for the suburban community. In souce 1 one of the residents said "when i had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way." So having only walking and using bicycles as transport the residents are better off without cars. Even in Paris they started the new trend after a near record pollution the enforced a no driving ban to clean the air. France had blamed diesel fuel since they favor diesel over gasoline and paris has more smog than any other European capitals.
Bogota, Colombia millions of the people during a car free day hike, bike, skate, or use the bus to get to work. They wanted to promote alternative transportation to reduce smog. "It's a good a opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," said carlos Arturo. Even Colombia's two other cities, Cali and Valledupar joined the car free day event. In the U.S president Obama has goals to curb the greenhouse gases. The shift in bahavior is because in a recent studies Americans are buying fewer cars. | 1 |
Exploring another planet may be fun, but how would you like to live in a different planet? Venus is the second planet from the sun, but it's hard to study this mysterious planet because of the different risk that may be on the planet. Many people have tried to visit this planet but had no success. The reason of not accomplishing this goal is because of the many dangers that are within the planet. Although it may seem fun to go study another planet, some may consider it to be a major risk due to the fact that: It's a new planet with no knowlage of knowing what might happen, high or low tempretures, and challenges that may come to getting to know this planet.
Many scientist sent numerous spacecraft to Venus but unfortunetly none has maintaine to last the newly planet for more than a few hours. In the text it states, "Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades"(The Challenge of Exploring Venus, ph.2). However, people may ask why vist this planet, we have other planets that are more closer. Well studies have shown that Venus is the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. In the text it states, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth"(The Challenge of Exploring Venus, ph.4). So, the only difference of the Earth, and Venus is the tempreture they have.
In any planet, you don't happen to know the tempretures in the planet. Many plantes have high or low tempretures, and some may even have toxic air for us humans. In Venus the air is mostly made up of carbon dioxide and corrosive sulfuric acid. In the text it states, "97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus" and "Clouds of highly corrosive sulfic acid in Venus's atmosphere"(The Challenge of Exploring Venus, Ph.3). Wanting to go vistit another planet is meaning having to wear special gear so you dont get sick due to the different air it has from Earth. Furthermore, the text also states, "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet"(The Challenge of Exploring Venus, Ph.3). Having high degrees is very dangerous for us humans, especially if we've never encountered this problem here on Earth.
Austrounots are very brave people, they do all these studies for us so we could understan how another planet functions. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) do send humans (Austrounots) to go study Venus, but they don't particuarly land on the planet. In the text it states, "NASA's possible solution to the hostlie condition on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray"(The Challenge of Exploring Venus). This motion is leting the humans hover over the planet and it helps protect the people from any harmful ground conditions by not touching the planets surface.
In conclusion, it is fun to study another planet, yes it may seem harmful but in reality the NASA people do know what they are doing and yes they will watch over you and protect you. They | 2 |
The election is an very imoportant thing that everyone really needs to pay attention to it can interfere with us or it can be a good thing for some people. we should not vote for the person wants to make our lifes difficult and miserable and want to take away things like medical insurance and weak for a new born.
To start off with,we should not just pick a random person who looks like there going to be a good president of a good vice president. In source 3 it says that,"It can be argued that the electoral college method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state-Democrats in texas."
At most basic level,the electoral college is unfair to voters. because of the winner take all system in each state,candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning,focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states. The electoral college is unfair ,outdated,and irrational. we dont want segregation in the state,it casually states that,"segregationist in the louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy.
To conclude my essay,we should not let any person win all votes and turn everything around for people. i just want to say that if the electoral college avoid the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast then i agree to keep electoral college,but it needs to help not cause any confusion and not take away important needs in life,I just want end my essay off with an quote "if anyone has a good argument for putting the fate of the presidency i the hands of a few swing voters in ohio, they have yet to make it.... | 1 |
Have you ever thought about life without cars? In VAUBAN, Germany the people have given up their cars and there streets are car free. In Paris, they enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. In BOGOTA, Columbia millions of Columbians hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work during car free day. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities, and legislators are starting to act, If cautiously.
In VAUBAN, Germany 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter. As you walk Verdant streets where you can here the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drowning out the occasional distant of motors.
In Paris, diesels make up 67 percent of vehicles in France, compared to a 53.3 percent average of diesel engines in the rest of Western Europe. On Monday motorists with even numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 31 dollar fine. Almost 4,000 drivers were fined.
In BOGOTA, Columbia there goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Violators faced a 25 dollar fine. Being car free is a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution. Parks and sport centers blooming, no traffic just people and there everyday life.
The United States is the birthplace of the Model T,the home of Detroit, the place where Wilson Pickett immortilized "Mustang Sally." Presidents Obama's ambitious goals to curb the United States green house gas emission is slowly working. The number of miles driven per person is nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in January 1995. New York's new bike sharing program and its skyrocketing bridge and tunnel tolls reflect those new priorities, as do a proliferation of car sharing programs across the nation.
In conclusion, life without cars keeps life fresh. Cars are destroying the earth from smog. We will be much happier people with out cars. Having to see all the children and all the wonderful people actually having a good time with there families. Cars are every where but if we can reduce the amount of cars being driven maybe we can save the earth from air pollution. | 1 |
Technology involving computers, smartphones, and even cars are slowly but surely taking over our lives. Cars are one of the most purchased and used items of our world and without owing a vehicle or having other means of transportation, life would practically be hard. The world around us is constantly changing and with change comes new and fresh ideas. One of the new ideas that is thought to help improve our lives are driverless cars. Driverless cars (also known as taxis) are cars that can drive themselves around while the passengers are at rest as they wait to arrive at their destination. Although driverless cars sound exciting and fun, are they really? These new driverless cars are not completely driver-less, take the fun out of driving, and will cause several issues down the road dealing with accidents and injuries.
Google has created cars that are driverless and that can drive themselves under certain conditions. However, these cars are not completely driverless. Driverless cars tell the driver to take over the wheel when the car itself cannot perform human driving skills. Such as pulling in and out of driveways,going through accidents and construction sites,and on certain roads and streets. Driverless cars can acccelerate, steer, and brake themselves but overall these cars are still not completely driver-less. The point of having a driverless car is being able to simply enjoy not having to drive, not wait until it is your turn to take over the wheel.
Take a look around you. We have smartphones, computers, and even elevators to help make our lives easier. Studies have shown that the country that has the highest obesity levels and that also happen to be the laziest are Americans. Technology is the creation of something that helps make doing ordinary tasks easier and according to many doctors these new inventions involving computers and phones have made us more and more lazy. So what's next ;cars that drive themselves? What happened to taking a drivers test at the age of 16 and praying that you passed ? What happened to the thrill of being able to drive your parents car (legally) for the first time? Is that now going to be taken over by these new driverless cars? Driverless cars would in fact take the fun out of driving.
Overall driving has become the worlds' "norm" for our way of living. Yes, having a car that can assist you while driving would be very helpful, but having a car that drives for you would not. In that case, what would be the point of owning a car when you could instead call a taxi? Everyday our world is changing. Ideas and inventions are growing bigger and better by the second. Driverless cars are smart and creative inventions but cars were created to help make our lives easier;not live our lives for us. | 3 |
Have you ever heard of the face on Mars? Well if you have do you think its was made by alien life or it is just a natural landform. I think it is a natural landform because there has been no signs of life on Mars. Also we have spacecrafts taking pictures on Mars so if there we would know about it. This is why I think it is a natural landform.
So if you think that this " Face" was created by alien life then you are wrong because I can tell you that there are no life on Mars what so ever. We know this because we have spacecrafts flying around Mars taking pictures every second of everyday of every year. This is why it is just a natural landform.
It looks like a normal rock on Earth just with a face that was created by the way it was formed. This is one reason that it is a natural landform.
Another reason that is a natural landform is because my good buddy Garvin says that " What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms common around the American West. It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." Which is a lava dome that takes the shape of an isolated mesa around the same height as the face on Mars. Im am telling this because land masses can form anywhere and look like anything. That is another reason it is a landform.
My last reason it is just a landform that you can find anywhere is that the first photo was taken in 1976, back then we didnt have the technology we have now. In 1976 we had a camera that had the range of 43 meters per pixel, which is not good. Now in 2001 we had a camera that had 1.56 meters per pixel which is the best at the moment. The picture in 1976 does look like a face but in the picture in 2001 it looks like a normal rock with a lot of cracks in it. That is my last reason of how it is a natural landform.
Those were my reasons to try and convince you that the rock on Mars is just a natural landform. My reasons were that there has been no signs of life on Mars. My second reason was that it looks like every other rock i have seen on this Earth. And my last reason is that we have a lot better technology then we did back in 1976. You can believe what you want to believe but it is just a normal rock like anything else. | 3 |
Many agree that driverless cars would bring many benefits to society. On the other hand, I disagree on the idea of producing driverless cars. Driverless cars will arise more problems in the upcoming future. Driverless cars could cause more accidents, if something goes wrong who could you blame the manufacturer or the driver, and it would just be pointless to drive places if you are not directing the way. Driverless cars should not be the next invention.
Accidents always happen. Even now when humans are driving vehicles, but if there is many accidents with humans driving imagine a car driving itself. A car does not have reflexes. Therefore, if an accident happens really quick and the sensors do not alert the driver like it should be then there goes another collision. Many things could go wrong with the sensors and could cause terrible accidents.
In this case who could you blame for the accidents that occur with the driverless cars? On paragraph 9, it describes safety, but there would be new laws to cover liability of an accident. The manufactures would have some fault because they invented it. It would be their fault if the sensors did not work. It also is the person driving the vehicle's fault, but not if the sensors did not warn them in time.
Technology is making people lazier and lazier by the minute. Driverless cars will continue to make society even more lazier. There is absolutely no fun in getting in a car and not driving around and just waiting for something to happen so it could be your turn to drive just like it asks on paragraph 8. It would become pointless to go through all that process of getting your permit and license if you are not driving the vehicle. It would be hard to interpret driving fun in new way with driverless cars.
Driverless cars will bring benefits in a way, but also many complications. Accidents are most likely to occur because humans are not driving the vehicle, but the vehicle itself is driving. There would be uprises on who you can actually blame since the driver was driving but the manufacturer created it. There would be no point in getting a license if you are not driving the car. Driverless cars are going to be pointless to even own if you are not driving the car yourself. | 2 |
There has always been a debate on how we should electe our president. There always will be. Someone always has a new idea or plan for the future. After giving it quite some thought I have come to the conclution that changing to eletion by popular vote is the best way to elect our predent. Not only if it the most effcient way but its also the most fair way. I belive this for many reasons and I hope you can see that this is the path to sucess.
One out of the vasriety of resons why we should not keep the electoral college and change it to election by popular vote is that electoral college is unfair. Its unfair because of the winner take all system in each state canidates dont spend time in states they know they have no chnce of winning. A perfect example of the flaw is during the 2000 campain, seventeen staes didnt see canates at all. Its unfair outdated and irrational and we need to do something about it now.
Also the electoral college can cause the disater factor. The american people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisist. The system is going to cause problems and it needs to be removed as soon as posiable. If we keep going at this rate we will end up with a disater so big that wont be fixable. The election by popular vote can fix this. Its a fair and equal system that peope will agree with. It allows them to have a say in the election. They feel herd, dont you want to make the people happy.
As you can see clearly the option of election of popular vote is the only way to fix this madness. These are just a few of the thousands of reasons why we need the change. the system we have now is going to crash and burn and there will be no recover. i know you know what is right so make the change that will put us on top. Not only do we want this we need this. i hope you can see that senator. I cant articulate how drasticly is will improve the election process. thankyou for your time and have a nice day. | 2 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify humans emotions to see humans' reactions while they are using their computers. Computers can recognize emotions by the way you look, and it is allow to the computers to understand your feelings, and to change the topic because they used this technology to see Mona Lisa's emotions. "The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model on the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles." When technology developed they started their project with a 3-D computer.
A claim for the value of using this technology to read students' emotional expressions are that the computer can detected the emotions of the student because it has a "Web ad appears" on the screen of the student's computer, and it can see his/her different emotions by the way their faces are.
According to the text in paragraph 6 Dr. Huang explains how the computer might work if the student doesn't like what he/she has in the computer and it says "A classrom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor. The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive for video games or video surgery. Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication. So computers can understand that, too." It means that technology has developed, Dr. Paul Eckman and Dr. Huang created the FACS to see humans emotions, it has six basic as: happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. The Doctors are showing that the new computers can see what it is in your mind because they improved the technology.
My conclusion is that the "Facial Action Coding System" is a good appications for a variety of industries because it is able to detect exactly how other people are feeling, even when they try to hide their emotions. The new technology has "Empathy because it can feels someone else's emotions and can handle the complex algorithms. | 1 |
During the 1700's the world did not have transportation like we do now. They had to ride on horses and walk to where they needed to go. Now all we depend on is driving where we need to go. Its hurting our world and the people around who are around it. Their are plenty of advantages of limiting car usage around the world. Many people think its no good side to not driving around everywhere but their are. Stores are becoming closer to walking distance. It stops cars from poluting the world and it lessons stress from the human body.
Everywhere you look you see a store or a building. We drive to places because we think its to far a walk or its a bad day to walk. In the Article "In German Suburb,Life Goes On Without Cars" it says that in Vauban,Germany they built stores that were a good walking distance on a main street instead on a long far away highway. So that means the stores are closer to you,which is good because you can go alot more often if they are closer and easy to get to. Another advantage to that is that its faster to walk if they bring the stores closer to you. This is some of the advantages to limiting car usage.
Cars are polluting our world everyday and everynight night somebody wants to drive. In the aritcle "paris bans driving due to fog" it says that Paris had to force people to leave their cars at home or they would have to pay a fine if they drive it. It says that it was intense smog. Cars cause alot of damage to the world but people who drive dont see how it's effecting the world. The Smog caused alot of traffic to happen and that most likely caused car accidents to happen. Instead of driving if you walk it helps you not worry about gas prices or anything that you worry about that is related to driving so it relieves stress.
All in all limiting car driving is the way to go. It improves the walking distance to and from the stores. It helps the world from being polluted and relieves stress from your body. Why would'nt you want that for yourself and your family. | 2 |
Humans have taken extreme measures to achieve their goal of landing on the moon. At the time, many people did not believe that it was ever going to be possible. Today, many astronaut have successfully landed on the moon. The challenge of exploring Venus is another one of these cases that some humans believe is possible, but others do not. The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" explains how scientists today strive to meet this challenge and take it on, even after knowing the chaotic conditions of Venus, in order gain insight on the planet as well as to stifle their own curiosity.
The "Evening Star", or the planet Venus has extremely dangerous surface and atmospheric conditions for humans to explore, but in many ways has similar features to Earth as well. One of the main reasons humans would not be able to survive a trip to Venus's surface without the proper equipment is because the average surface temperature is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Because of this, Venus has the hottest surface temperature out of all of the other planets. Another aspect of the dangerous conditions of Venus's surface is that it has frequently-errupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and lightning strikes. Thes conditions would be dangerous for humans if they were on the surface for to long. These are some of the reasons why past attempts of exploration were unsuccessful.
Even though Venus has many dangerous conditions on the surface, there are also many landforms that make it comparable to Earth. Some of these are a scatter of valleys, mountains, and craters. Scientists also believe that Venus used to be covered with vast oceans and potentially could have supported various forms of life.
Even though there are so many components, surface conditions are not the only chaotic feature of the "Evening Star". The atmosphere of Venus is also extremely dangerous for humans to surpass. The clouds are filled with corrosive sulfuric acid and the atmosphere is dense with 97% carbon dioxide. The atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what is experienced on Earth. These extreme conditions make it far too dangerous for human to explore. To resolve this issue, scientists at NASA today have begun to innovate ideas to find a way to successfully send humans to observe the features of Venus.
One of the approaches NASA is taking to the problem is to simulate Venus's surface conditions in order to test different engineered materials to see how well they withstand the constant heat and pressure. Another approach that the scientists have researched is flying a "blimp-like vehicle" about 30 miles about the surface of Venus to avoid having to land on the scorching surface. This method had many plusses because the "solar power would be plentiful and radiation would not exceed Earth levels".
Just like there are many plusses that come this idea, there are also a few negatives. Because flying higher than 30 miles above the surface is one of the only options in getting close enought to observe, the distance will cause "limited insight on ground conditions". The thick atmosphere would prevent photography to be clear and decipherable. Another negative is that the scientists have no way to collect any samples from the surface for evidence. Flying above the atmosphere would get the astronauts close, but it would be ineffective.
Each day, scientist work hard to come up with new materials and ideas to achieve their goal to successsfully explore Venus. Even though there are many dangers because of the harsh atmospheric and surface conditions, scientists and astronauts work towards this goal because they are determined and believe it is possible to overcome these obstacles to get to what they've worked hard for. | 3 |
Many car manufactoring companies are developing technology for driverless cars. This new technology will allow the car to drive itself with little to no help from the driver. By the year 2020, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Audi hope to have cars that drive themselves. This new technology could bring some problems to the roadways.
The problem of texting and driving is already getting out of hand in this modern time. Many people in this modern time own a phone and most of them text and drive. This new technology would tempt the driver to be on their phone while the car is driving itself. If something were to malfunction in the car, the driver would have a greater chance of not getting control of the car than if they were staying alert and driving themselves.
When more and more technology is put into a car, more problems can arise. With so many working parts crammed into one car, there is a higher chance for the car to overheat. This can lead to an engine fire which can envelop the car in flames and endander both the driver and passengers, as well as the persons who come to rescue the victims.
When driving, safety should be the top concern for anyone. Not just for them, but for the safety of the passengers as well as other drivers. With this new tecnology, parents of young children could let their child opperate the car without the child having their licence. Driving on any road is no position for a young child to be in. Children do not have the experience to opperate a car properly. With this new technology, some parents may think that it is safe to let their child opperate the car when they are actually putting everyone in the car at a higher risk of injury and possible death.
In conclusion, while driverless cars may be an idea not far around the corner, this new technology could arise some problems. Texting and driving cases would dramatically increase with the new technology. Also, all of the technology put into the car could cause the car to overheat. Finally, parents may think it is fine to let their young child opperate the car on roadways. When really they are putting the people in the car at a greater risk of injury. | 2 |
I think driverless cars sounds so fun, but a good idea? I don't think so. I think that sounds like a bad idea and a bit reckless.
Driving a car as a human you have control over everything, besides the other drivers. How fast you go, which way you turn, how close to the lines you are, it is somewhat safe this way but cars are still deadly no matter how much control you have. You need to have control over them, not a robot. Also in paragraph 2 is talks about how you will still have to navigate through roadwork and accidents, and when pullling out of driveways so what is the use if your still going to have do something or another. It would also be so much more expensive to sell and make. When that money being wasted could be helping getting America out of debt or for something useful but instead why not spend it on something we do not even need.
In paragraph 9 it talks about accidents and who would be responsible the driver or company? And if it is the company they could sue the place and depending on how bad it is they can have the whole operation shut down. It seems like a big ordeal that could simply be avoided by sticking with normal cars, they are already dangerous enough with humans in control imagine a car controlled by a robot machine... | 1 |
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