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The neighboring planet to earth, known as Venus has been considered a land of danger. This however, does not stop astronaunts from searching for the unknown answers behind this magnificent planet. Venus represents itself hotter in tempature than Mercury (the closest planet), and is known not to be hospitible to any outside objects. This essay will be explaining few of the reasons why Venus is in fact an intresting discovery in the universe, and depict why it is yet so dangerous.
The first reason why Venus is a worthy pursuit towards the information it consist about, is because if NASA were able to test rocks and other materials, then it would impact the history of science. Science is an amazing attribute to society and if NASA could develop the technology to be able to enter the Venus atmostphere then all the lost questions will be answered. It is also, very similar to Earth.
If the danger of Venus could be determined to an exact pin point then we could use the results to fix and calculate other situations. Each time Earth as send a space aircraft to Venus, it had only lasted moment before it melted. If the substance could be tested then it would influence the world in a scientific way.
In conclusion, despite the critical mess of Venus, many people find it special and unique. The more scientist that get involved with making new technology to show Venus' value, can also help bring the world closer. This is true, because the more that are influenced are the more that will make a difference to society. If NASA exposes continually how similar Venus is to Earth then the way we look at things scientifically will conjure our thoughts | 2 |
Hi my name is Luke I am writing this letter to convince you that you should become a Seagoing Cowboy. Us, Seagonig Cowboys, love to play games like Table Tenis, Baseball, Volleyball, cards, and may other games. We also have responcibilties like, Check on the animals every hour, Feed and water them.
If you join us on our Seagoing Cowboy trips I promis that you will have fun and learn new things every day. Like i said before we do have responcibilties around here. We could always use an extra hand with cleaning, feed, and watering the animals. Also it might just get you out of going to that dreadful army when you become of age.
In my time working as a Seagoing Cowboy I have been to a lot of places , and learend a lot of new things. If your like me and good at worken come join us. Remeber at the end it all pays off. Also we always are looking for new recrutes evey day. Once you join you will never want a different job. | 1 |
I do not agree with driverless cars. I think robots are too dangerous and could kill us if they become intelligent enough. Cars cant be replaced. not within the next hundred years or anytime soon. The roads are better controlled by humans, and it would cost us a ton of money to make and use all the proper equipment.
One of the major reasons I don't agree with driverless cars is the cost of it all. I will quote the article, "These smart-roas systems works surprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical. This would put us in debt even more and will ultimately be too risky to even do. This should remain what it is on television, a sci/fi mystery.
Another reason I disagree with driverless cars is its good for us to drive. It's stimulating for your brain as you develop more skill in driving. It would be one more thing we didn't have to worry about. It would make us lazy.
Thirdly, it's simply too dangerous. What if the human fell asleep in places where the car couldn't drive itself? If the technology fails and the human is injured, who could take the fault? The driver, or the manufacturer? In most states it is illegal to even test this sort of technology for a reason.
In conclusion, driverless cars are unsafe, too dangerous, and could lead to the dumbnation of humankind. I do not agree with driverless cars and I think they should leave the roads for the humans to secure. Robots are unpredictable. | 2 |
Dear state Senator,
I am in full favor of the Electoral College process. I think that this process is a great way to elect president because we rely on the electors vote. By relying on the electors vote, we don't have to worry about the popular votes messing up the election. I say messing up because a lot of people aren't paying attention to the election, so they vote out of a random pick. This could influence the presidential outcome of who becomes president.
Also, the Electoral College process goes to a series of elections. This is better because when we vote for the president, we are actually voting for the electors. After that election, the electors vote for the president on a more serious note. The electors take charge of your your state, and vote for the most reasonable president. They discuss the bad and good qualities protraying to each president. Based on thier dussicion, America will have the best president there is.
To add on, the election process by popular voting can be easily screwed up. This process can be messed up by none serious voters who choose the worse president. This election process can be messed up by people choosing a president and not even paying attention to the qualities that the president has. The president that they pick could have some awful characteristics, along with the presidents decisions.
To conclude, we should keep the Electoral College process and not even think about the popular vote process. The Electoral College process, we rely on the electors to make the right decision for America. We don't want a bad president by going with the popular voting process. This is why we should keep the Electoral College process.
From, concerning High School student | 2 |
I agree that driverless cars are a developing idea. I do like the fact that these cars should be used by the public. They could lead us to a whole other revolutionary idea with the way the human race lives our lives. It could help us all out with our neccessaties. Also it could help us with other sciences in our lives such as medical assisstants and drivers. Next, the ability to drive without a driver could help us alll in the aspect of the way on how we live our lives.
First, for example in the text paragraph 7 it says how the company of BMW has made the "Trafiic Jam Assisstant" which could help us drive up to 25 mph without the need to do anything at all. Driverless cars dont just help us at drving it helps us at being smarter. The science put into these cars to drive without any work is fascinating. If we could put that same science in other fields justy as medical, then the possibilites are endless. We could have assisstant doctors getting us tools that we need,when we need them, and alarming us when something is wrong.
Next, these cars are fantastic for elderly people who are unable to drive by themselves. They offer a sugnificant amount of assisstants for them so they dont have to rely on anyone else. Next, it could help keep us safe in our cars. For example, in the article in paragraph 7 it also states that these new cars have developed a drivers seat that "vibrates" when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. These cars can reduce the amount of vehicle incidents very much. Not only can they stop us from backing in to something but they can also stop us from being killed.
After that, they have video cameras also in every corner of the car to help the driver sense any danger around them. For Instance, in parapraph 4 they tell of how they have a "spinning sensor on the roof that uses laser beams to form a constantly updated 3-d model of the car and it's surrounding. They need all of these so it could act as if a human being was in the driver's seat. Further more, these "newer cars" dont just give us new abilities, but also the new knowledge. They show us what needs improvement and what doesn't. Also, they help us guide our way to safety if we are lost.
To inculde, these cars could also lead us to anywhere we need. This is very important in case someone gets lost. For example, if someone is lost on a camping trip and is in the wrong spot there and needs assisstance, then there car could lead then to safety and tell them exactly where they are located. It could also serve as a discovery unit. For instance, if someone is in a new town or city then they need to know where the gas station, hotel, restaurant, etc are and there car would take them there. They would help them navigate to whereever there destination might be.
In conclusion, the need for cars that do not need a driver is very important to our everyday lives. They would help navigate, save, and make our lives easier. They would help our economy out tremendoulsy by reducing accidents and the death rate. Next, they would help with people who need it such as elderly and disabled people. Last, these cars are getting closer and closer to becoming a part of our daily lives already, because we have the science that helped us develop these types of cars now. | 3 |
Mona Lisa, when you hear her name you think of a women that doesnt look fazed at all, she looks like she has no emotion. Mona Lisa does, thanks to studies Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Institute foe Advanced Science found a way to tell emotion.
In Paragraph 3 the text states that process begins with 3-D computer model of the face, all 44 major muscles in the model must move like a human. In Paragraph 4 the text states the use of Video Imagery is what helps find the emotion new emotion-recognition software tracks thses facial movements. When a friend is feeling down you can tell in there face and how they act around you. when they stops talking your friend might be sad they want to cry or irratated sometime they dont want the be bothered. Also a person can be happy when they smile, laugh, or joke with you. you can tell fear when a person or friend eyes open, and when a they are speachless.
Science can unlock and find a lot of new things and emotion is one, be happy and never hide you real emotion cause science will get you. | 0 |
I am going to tell you the reasons Luke joined the program. One is "he knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime". My second reason is"luke also found time to have fun on board. both of these statemeant are going to help answer the question to the text.
Next,I'm going to give you details on why it was a great opportunity of a lifetime to join the program. Well my first reason is Luke bomberger had no idea that his life would change soon after his high school graduation. second is But being a seagoing cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger it opened up the world to him. One more reason is that he said"I'm grateful for the opportunity"he says. Both of thoses reasons suport why he thought it was a great opportunity.
My second statemeant is he also found time to have fun on board especally on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. One peice of evidence is "Table-tennis tournaments,fencing,boxing,reading,whittling,and games also helped pass the time". My second peice of evidence is "Luke also toured an excavated castle in crete and marveled at the panama canal on his way to china.
In conclusion both of thoses statemeants help me answer question. Which is why he joined the program. Both of my reasons were it was great opportunity of a lifetime and Luke was also able to have freetime found time to have fun on board. | 2 |
The study of Venus may be dangerous for some of the sciencist considered before, venus has a really intresting structure what makes science go around the planet. Finally by the information given we can determinate if Venus may not be a planet what we could explore today.The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite
the dangers it presents.
The article "The Challenge of exploring Venus" relates many ideas and facts that makes venus a challenge to be explored today, the article has thought to be a explanation of realitiy to make to known why Venus is far to be explored. The author wrote: "Humans have sent bumerous spacecraft to land on this cloud draped worl. Each previous mission was unmanned, and ofr a good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." The atuhor write a fact that any spacecraft survived more than a few hours in Venus. The risk to send humans are very high becuase even a machine can't resist a big pression and climate change in Venus. Another fact that explain better why is a risk explore Venus is: "The planet surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet" The average of risk from Venus are very high, we have a unknown planet that has a pressure "90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." It is dangerous send today without advance technology someone or something to explore Venus with good results.
In conclusion, today we can not explore Venus. We need more information and what is given from the author is a reasonable answer. The author has reason in be a worthy pursuit with the danger front of ours eyes. The ideas given and the analysis makes think about if we are really prepared to explore Venus, and the answer is we are not ready to explore because it reperesent a big risk for explorers and machines. | 2 |
Cars have been around since the early 1900's, but now it seems there is no need for them. The younger generations have not been getting drivers licences and technology is making it easier to ride with someone else or telework. It is an all out war against automobiles and the United States isn't the only one fighting in it. Vauban, Germany, Bogata, Columbia, and Paris, France have all joined the war against personal cars.
How to win a war against cars; stop owning them. Vauban, Germany's population is doing just that. Over half of Vauban's population sold theirs cars so they could live in Vauban, and over seventy percent don't own a car. If people don't own cars, then there is no need for parking. Now, without parking lots or garages all over the place stores and schools can be closer to home. For those that require a car to get to a farther away work there are two parking garages, but to own a spot in one of them one you must buy a home there and pay forty thousand for the parking space. Residents of this experiment have even gone to say that without a vehicle they are less stressed and happier.
Joy was not what Paris communters felt when France closed down the streets to certain vehicles for one week. Why would they close the streets; smog bad enough to rival one of the most polluted cities in the world. Paris is usually the European city that has all the smog, 147 micrograms to London's 79.7. So the government decided to do something about it. For five days they alternated from even licensed-plate cars could drive to odd licensed-plate cars could drive. To appease everyone without cars the government made public transportaion completly free allowing those without vehicles to still get to where they needed to go.
In the war against cars public transportation has played a big role. Take the city of Bogata, Colombia for example; every year they have a completly car free day where everyone takes public transportation or walks. Due to the day without cars public transportation is better than ever, as are the sidewalks. Busses have nicer interiors and are more accomodating, and old, cracked sidewalks have turned into smooth, flat sidewalks that are safer for everyone.
Some might say that it is impossible to live without cars, because of illnesses and the lack of safety. However, in Vuaban, Germany people are less stressed which acounts for many immune systems shutting down. In Paris, France they were able to clear their city of smog in five days, without smog there would be nothing to hide the sun on a nice day letting people get vitamen C also while keeping their lungs clear. In Bogata, Colombia public transpotation and sidewalks have improved tenfold since the day without cars started as has safety. Without cars there are no accidents, people cannot injure others by drunk or reckless driving, and it allows the police to watch for crime instead of speeders. Overall our society would benefit grately from becomeing carless. | 3 |
Just imagine being able to go places without driving. If it was really possible to make driverlesscars, they would be a success. The development of these cars are already coming into a positive position. But also these cars do have some safety risks as well.
Driverless cars can break, steer, and accelerate themselves. What if you have a baby in the car, or perhaps a pregnant woman in labor? These features can help the driver get tasks done while in the car, and still be moving safely as well.
People may ask what if you get bored and fall asleep since your not driving? All models of driverless cars are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skill. Other options under consideration are flashing lights on the windsheild and other heads-up displays. Also GM has devoped driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object.
Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedrstrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best acheived with alert drivers. Traffic laws are written to the asumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. Automakers are continuing their work on the assumption that the problems ahead will be solved. But new laws will be needed to cover liability in the case of an accident. If something fails and someone is injures, is it the diver or the manufacturers fault?
Driverless cars are coming into a positive postiton. They can break, steer, and accelerate themselves. That can help drivers at anytime when they are occupying the vehicle. All models are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skill. Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time. The key to a truley driverless car is ahead of us, be we are getting closer, and closer to the destination every day. | 3 |
Have you ever thought of being part of the great union of the Seagoing Cowboys? There are many reasons to be one, like the fact that you have intereaction with livestock, get to visit unique places, sail the oceans, and much more.
Seagoing Cowboys are people who sign up to the UNRRA. The UNRRA is the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. It is 44 nations joined together to help the countries in need from being left in the ruins after World War II. Being a Seagoing Cowboy also counts as a military service.
While being a Seagoing Cowboy you get to take care of all of the livestock that is getting shipped across the ocean from one country to another. The animals have to be fed and watered two or three times a day. The animals need to be fed either hay or bags of oats, and every once in a while their stalls need to be cleaned.
One of the best things you get to do is sightseeing. You could get to have many trips and see many cool things. We do a lot of sailing on the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. In total I've been on the Atlantic 16 times and the Pacific twice. Don't even get me started on the unbelievable cattle-boat trips. For a small-town bot like i was it was incredible. I got to visit the Acropolis in Greece, sightsee in Europe, touran excavated castle in Crete, ride a gondola in Venice, and marvel at the Panama Canal on my way to China.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy isn't just about the travel and sightseeing. We still had fun on board, especially on the return trips when the animals had been uploaded and their stalls were empty. We would enjoy playing baseball, volleyball, table-tennis games. We would also play fencing and boxing matches. Last but not least we enjoyed reading, whittling, and other small games to pass the time.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy was not only fun for me, but it also opened up the world in a whole different perspective. It also made me more aware of other countries problems and needs. With that experience my family was a host to a number of international students, and exchange visitors or many years.
I loved my experience as being a Seagoing Cowboy, and I hope you will too. Welcome aboard future Seagoing Cowboy! | 3 |
Many citizens around the world could not imagine there like with out a car. But the more and more we use our car the more and more we are hurting our earth with the pollution our car gives off. The more we use it the more money we have to waste on gas. Maybe if we get rid of our cars it will save us money. There are better alternitives insead of using a car. There are many advantages of limiting car useage.
To begin with, have you ever heard of greenhouse effect? Greenhouse effect is where air gets traped and causes it to get warm. Well earth has a greenhouse effect, all the emissions for tailpipes gets traped. If you live in a high elevated area you most likey have a lot of polluted air. In the first passage
In German Suburb, life goes on without cars it states that "passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions", "in the Untied States up to 50 percent in some areas. All of these gases from our cars causes so much pollution. In the second artical it states that "paris had near-record pollution", this is not a good thing, our earth can only take so much. All this pollution is not good for our earth. If we limit car usage the better our earth will be and the better we will be able to breath.
Furthermore, the less we use our car the less gas we have to buy. Not using our car that much can actually save us money. Its better than getting fined in France. We waste so much money on cars, from the gas to the insurance bills to the hula dancing girl on the dashbored. Why not trade in our car in for a bike.
Last but not least, if we get a bike, we will be saving gas money, we will not be polluting the air with the emissions, and we will be getting exersize. exersizing is relaxing. It relases stress. Also you wont have to stress about waiting in traffic and the time. Riding a bike has way lass traffic than cars.
in conclusion, some people can not image their life without a car, but life without a car is honestly better. Less pollution for our earth. We will save money without cars. There are many ways to get to places with out a car. and you can get exersize with some of those other ways. Their is so many more options than cars, and there better. so limitaing the car have many advanteges and theses are just some. | 2 |
The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. Venus is like Earth's sister planet. It is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size. There could have been life on Venus at one point. Venus has been difficult to study according to NASA. In the essay it is stated that "Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system." Due to this there is erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes.
Venus is Earth's sister-planet and scientists have speculated it to one have been the most " Earth-like planet in our solar system." Venus is the closest planet to Earth relative to density and size. Venus once had features like Earth, which included being covered with oceans, and could have even supported various forms of life. Venus has valleys, mountains and craters, the same as Earth does.
The atmosphere of Venus and the planet itself is difficult to examine. Venus' atmosphere is estimated to be coated with 97% of carbon dioxide. The clouds are made up of highly corrosive sulfuric acid. On the surface of Venus, its temperature could average over 800 degress farenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is sometimes 90 times greater that what it is on Earth.
NASA has an idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA's solution to the violent conditions of the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above it. A vehicle that is basically a blimp, hovering 30 miles or greater above Venus' landscape. NASA's idea for the "blimp" could possibly be a breakthrough because the "blimp" would be able to avoid the harsh conditions that is going on below. Although the vehicle would be above the surface, the temperature would still be 170 degrees farenheit.
The author supports the idea that pursuing Venus is worthy.
NASA's solutions to the violent conditions could help get different types of samples. Earths sister-planet could possibly be sustaining life. Despite its dangers it is important to study Venus. NASA exploring the planet from surface or above would still be a breakthrough. | 2 |
You people could really do good with your life. You should join the SeaGoing program for sightseeing, a good expirence, and helping others recover what they have lost. Sightseeing is great becaue you get to see things that wil probably be a once in a life expirence. Getting a good expirence from all of this would be positive for your mind and your body. Helping others is the main reason that you should do this whole SeaGoing program! It woud be great for you to get out and see the world!
It would be great for you to go out and see the world, and it is pretty amazing. The trip to Europe is pretty educational, and humbling. You can learn about tides, and seafare, as well as swells and knots. These are all things I have learned over my "nine trips---the most of any SeaGoing Cowboy." It is also great for getting to know others, and learning about different cultures. Another very interesting topic that is brought up when you sign up for the Seagoing Cowboys is the sightseeing.
Sightseeing is a great part of these trips. You see, when you get to wherever you are delivering you don't have to do the drop off as well. All you have to do is wait for the sailors but until then you get to look at the attractions. For instance, I saw "the Acropolis in Greece" which normally you have to buy plane tickets or boat tickets to get to Greece but when you join you get see these attractions virtually free! I also got to "take a gondalo ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water!"
But the most important part is helping others.
Helping others is the whole reason you should sign-up. You are doing somethining good, not for your self, but for the world, or a specific part of the world anyway. You are also stepping out of your way to help others, you will be rewarded for what you did on Earth in heaven. You will probably, unknowingly save lives while doing this. Helping people is actually good for our brains, it makes us more satisfied with ourselves and we become happier, healthier, and more fun to be around!
You may be thinking we shouldn't go because we like our lives here. Well step outside your comfort zone, stand up for those people who need us, and be the man that says "I will go and help these people!"
So, in conclusion you should come and join SeaGoing Cowboys and help us help others, see amazing things, and just have a good time! Come and let us save people, have a good time ourselves, and see wonders beyond our home! | 3 |
Is There Any Advantages Of Limiting Car Usage ? Well , my fellow citizens there is actually advantages of limiting car usage like gasoline money , traffic , take a away stress , and lower air pollution.
In The Source ,''Paris bans driving due to smog''. By Robert Duffer . One Advantage of limiting car usage is you dont have to pay gasoline anymore . Can You Believe that gasoline prices are going higher. ''Diesel fuel was blamed ''.; ''Diesel makes up 67 percent of vehicles in France , compared to a 53.3 percent average of diesel enigines in the rest of Western Europe , according to Reuters''. This means that we should stop driving cars cause imagine have to pay gasoline money like everyday. Another Advantage of limiting car usage is No traffic ! .''Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five days of intensifying smog. The smog rivaled Beijing,China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world''.I absolutely hate traffic ! This means that We , Us ,Citizens should stop drving cars and start walking , biking , and taking buses.
In the Source , ''Car free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota ''.Other advantages of limiting car usage is take a away stress and lower air pollution .''Millions of Clolombians hiked,biked,skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesturday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams''.This means that Colombians understand that they dont want any traffic or anything like that.''The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog''.They , Colombians do this every year becayse they care about thier economic system.''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 ''.These Two Married coupled opened thier eyes to the real world .
These aren't the only advantages to limit of car usage. There are like people that cant drive or dont know how to drive or that they dont want too. As You can see Some people that cant drive is probaly because there forbidden to or they have a problem or they just dont want to and just take the bus everywhere they go or walk or that they dont know have to drive and dont wanna learn. These aren't advantages, these are issues / problems that people have on thier own but My Fellow Citizens we have to face the fact that there are advantages of limiting car usages.
In Conclusion , You See My fellow Citizens. There are advantages of limiting car usage . Gasoline Money , Congestion ,Take away Stress ,and lower Air Pollution. | 2 |
Luke has many more adventures coming up and you can too. You will be able to visit many unique places just like Luke did.
Being in the Seagoing cowboy program will also give you the oppertunity to help people by sending food and animals over sea with you. You would have to care for the animals too as to help on the trip.
A seagoing cow boy can visit many places. Luke got to visit Europe,China,Acropolis,Greece, ride a Gondola in Italy,and tour a castle in Crete.
Besides visiting all the great places when you are still onboard there is plenty to do besides feeding and watching the animals all day. Luke played games and you would be able to also. There is baseball,volleyball,tennis tourments,fencing,boxing,reading and more. You don't have to sit around and do nothing.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy is a great idea. You get to help people in need of resources, visit different unique places,and even have fun onboard. You can do all this maybe more like Luke did. | 1 |
Have you ever thought about joining a Seagoing Cowboys program? Well my name is Luke Bomberger and I am a member. The Seagoing Cowboys program is a group of people that help countries that have been in World Wars recover food, supplies, animals and more. The other members and I do so many cool things in the program! If you were to join you could do these cool things with us. So you should think about joining the Seagoing Cowboys program.
Joining the Seagoing Cowboy program is an opportunity of a lifetime. While traveling you can see many landmarks or historical sites. Maybe we could see the Great Wall of China sometime! You could meet many new people in the world. Oversea you could learn many new languages like Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and many more.
If your in a Seagoing Cowboys program you could visit many cool places. You could see the Great Wall of China or even The Acropolis in Greece. While being in the program I've been to the Acropolis in Greece and I've ridden in a Gondola in the streets of Venice, Italy. You could visit landmarks and even statues of historical figures.
After delivering the animals and food we clean everything up then we have a bunch of free time. In our free time we play baseball, volleyball, table tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and other games to help pass time. We play all these things in the cleaned out stables of the animals. We all have fun! If you were to join us I bet you would have a bunch of fun too.
In conclusion, joining the Seagoing Cowboys is fun, friendly, and fantastic! We help many people but we have fun at the same time. Everyone in the program right now is having fun. I would love to see all of you join the Seagoing Cowboys. Hope to see you sign up soon! | 2 |
This story is about Luke Bomberger a boy who rode the waves had no idea that his life would change soon after his graduation. He was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and at a bank when his friend invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat. He couldn't say no he knew it would be an opportunity for him. It was 1945,world war 2 was over in Europe and countries were left in ruins. To help these countries recover 44 nations came together and started UNRRA {The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration}. UNRRA hired seagoimg cowboys to take care of the horses,young cows, and the mules.
The first reason to join the program is because they came together and started a group of 44 nations to help Europe. They hired ''Seagoing Cowboys'' to help the animals. They are trying to get the nation back together. Luke and Don signed up for it to. Heading over seas in August 1945, they recieved their orders to report to New Orleans. They arrived ''August 14,'' Luke sayed,the day the Pacific war ended.''
The second reason you should join the group is because '' The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy,'' he said.''Besides helping people, had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special,'' he says. ''So was taking a Gondola ride in Venice,Italy,a city with streets of water.'' Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to china.
The third reason why you should join the group is cause caring for the animals during the crossings kept luke busy. They had to be fed and watered two or three times a day. Bales of hayand bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship. Stalls had to be cleaned. Helping out on his aunt Katie's farm as a boy had prepared luke for hard work.
In conclusion I think you can still help with or without an reward. He did that from heart to help and sign up for that, also he liked watching the animals every hour and taking care of them so did his friend. He really liked the trips around the world too, just help to be nice somtimes for other people. | 2 |
There is a limit to car usage. A car can really come in handy but its not nessary. Gas is not all that cheap for evryone either. Cars don't need to be used for everyhting but since thats an easy way to get around people just take advantage of that and use it. People can cause lots of damage with the way they use there car. Weather people of the millennial generation will start buying more cars once they have kids to take to soccer practice ans schoolplaus remains an open question.
A car can really help you out in some cases. But it not nessary at all. There are lots of other things you can do to help help out. Their are things you can do to get you places and also helping you out. Example riding a bike, gets you to exercise and also take you places. Needing of a car isn't so needy anymore."But america's love affair with its vehicles seems to be cooling.
people do can cause lots of damage with there vehicles. The amount of care people have with driving is rediculous. Parks and sports centers have also bloomed throughout the city. Their are sidewalks that have to be replaced,rush-hour restrictions that have dramatically cut traffic. All these can happen for careless people instead of following such simple things.
Not only do people use up gas in there car but also miles. The number of miles used in your vehicle does matter. The number of miles driven in the united states peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter, according to an analysis. Means car usage is very high in the united states. My opinion cars are no nessasary for everything. There are more to use or do to get to places which may take longer or faster but still getting there.
Some advantages of limiting your car usage. Yes there are much limits to it which are important. People should really start using or finding other way to go."Its's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution". | 1 |
Dear Rick Scott,
Controversial. This is the word that can describe the Electoral College in recent elections. The Electoral College is composed of 538 votes, a presidential candidate must acquire 270 to win the election. States with large populations get more electoral votes so say, Rhode Island. California gets 55 votes while the puny Rhode Island gets a whopping 3 votes. The Electoral College has been debated since the 2000 election, where Al Gore lost even though he got more popularity votes. Many folks believe the Electoral College should be abolished. I believe that the Electoral College should be kept in the presidential elections, because it shows a clear winner, it ensures it is, "Everyone's President", educated voters count in the swing states and it avoids Run-Off Elections.
Without the Electoral College, some elections may be hard to decide a true winner. No matter the situation, the Electoral College will determine a winner, if the popular vote and electoral vote become tied, (which is highly unlikely,) the vote will be taken to the senate. Each senator counts as one vote, so no longer do bi states matter. Also, the Electoral College ensures the presidential candidates have trans-regional appeal. It makes the votes count, the president chose is surely, "Everyone's President," rather than a favorite in just northeastern states. Furthermore, swing states are tremendously important to the outcome of the election. States such as Florida, New York, Texas and California have dozens of votes combined, winning all four of those states pretty much means presidency. The swing states not only have more electoral votes because of population, but because of their voters. On average, there are more educated voters in the swing states, they actually stay up to date, watch the news and know the means of each candidate. The Electoral College also avoids the disaster of which no cadidate receives a majority of the votes cast. A good example of this is when Clinton had only 43% of the popular votes won, yet he got a whopping 370 electoral votes, which made him president. The pressure of having a run-off election is nearly vanished by the Electoral College. Although others say that the Electoral College should be abolished, because in that system, voters vote a slate of electors, not the president. Well tough , the Electoral College ensures a winner, and that is all that matters.
The Electoral College should, for sure, be kept in the Presidential Election system. It consists of 538 total votes, and 270 votes have to go to a candidate to pick a winner. Although the votes may tie up, which is nearly impossible, the Electoral College ensures another method to decide the presidency. The Electoral College produces a sure winner, "Everyone's President," is elected, educated voters are in the swing states and it avoids the disaster of a Run-Off Election.
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So the face on mars. Many poeple say the face is a alien landmark. Well I dont. Im gonna explain to you why the it isnt. Also that it is just a natural made landform.
What the picture actually shows is the martian equivalnet 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," say Garvin. "that's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the face on mars.
So on april 5, 1998, when Mars Globsl Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars oebiter camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a jpl web site, revealing... an natural landform. There was no alien monument after all.
A few days later NASA unvield the image for all to see. the caption noted a " huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth" This is a great explanation for the way the face looks.
So there you have it. I say that the face is just a natural made landform. There is no evidence to show other wise. With the better camera we were able to find out that its not an alien atrifact. So yes it is not a alien atrifact. | 1 |
Cars have dramatically changed the way human kind lives and they have not been ran by computers, only us. Humans have always been the one in control of cars. People can operate a car perfectly fine without assistance, so why are there people trying to make cars that drive themselves? A number of things could go wrong with a computer car. Technology always tends to crash or shut down unexpectedley, so what happens if our computer car does that in the middle of traffic?
To start off, the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," seems biased. There are many paragraphs backing up the new Google Cars, and only a couple backing up how dangerous they can be. What is hard for me to understand is the whole point of the self driving cars. Why do we need them? Do certain people have better things to do in a vehicle than drive it themselves? If someone were to buy one of these cars, i would assume that they would be in a constant fear that maybe the car would take a wrong turn and run into a tree.
Cars that we drive today can already malfunction in many ways. The breaks could go out, the tranmission could go out, the headlights could go out, the tires could fall off, etc. We can fix the tires falling off, we can fix our headlights, but does everybody know how to fix a computer when it crashes? We could be on the road eating food while our car drives itself and the car just completely stop because the computer in the car crahsed. Instead of paying 60 dollars for a tire repair, getting the Google car repaired would probably cost a few hundred that nobody would want to pay.
Google cars could cause a stir between the manufacturers and the drivers as well. If a driver was positive that the crash they had was the computer cars fault, that would cause problems. The car manufacturers would definately not want to admit they are at fault. The car would of course be very expensive, too. Many people will not even be able to afford a car that drives itself, but why would they want to? A self driven car can take away the fun in operating something big.
Why do we want to take the fun out of driving and feeling in control, or pay a big price for our computer car malfunctioning? Why do we want to put ourselves in even more danger by making an untrustworthy computer in charge of our lives? A computer car puts our lives at stake, and if a computer car proved to be at fault of a murder, that would also put the car creators in a bad situation. | 2 |
Car ussage isn't a must do, it's more of a want to do. Many places like Columbia, Germany and France take days off of driving to help the world and the people.
The people of Vauban, Germany have given up their cars altogether. In the outskirts near the French and Swiss border driveways, home garages and street parking are not allowed. You are still allowed to own a car but if you do choose to own one, you'll have to choose where you want to park it. There aren't many options, you can buy a space for $40,000 in one of the garages on the edge of the development. Media trainer Heidrun Walter said "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way". About seventy percent of families in Vauban, Germany do not own a car and aout fifty-seven percent sold their car so they could come live in Vauban. Much like in Germany to preserve resources and maintain pollution to a minimum in Paris, a partial driving band was placed due to over pollution. The band stated that only some people could drive on certain days. For example if your license plate was an even number than you could only drive on certain chosen days and vise versa with odd numbers. If you failed to follow this rule then you would be fined a $31 or a 22-euro fine. This rule caused around 4,000 drivers to be fined and around 27 people to have their cars impounded. In the capital of France congestion in the air went down about 60 percent after intense smog for about 5 days. Also because diesel is prefered over gasoline in France diesel fuel was blamed. In western Europe around 53.3 percent of diesel engines as compared to 67 percent in France.
Hiking, biking, skating, taking buses to work these are all things that Bogota, Colombia participated in during their car free day. Doing these activities has been proven to relieve stress and lower air pollution. Cali and Valledupar joined in the event and others came to see the event. This car free day is a day that Bogota started in the 1990s, it has led to around 118 bycicle paths being constructed which is the most any city in Latin America contains. Carless people are more likely to turn to sports centers, walking on sidewalks, upscaling new restaurants and cropping up shopping districts. The time that is wasted in a traffic jam is time that you'll never get back. Might as well use it to do something that's good for you like excersising or spending time with family. In Barcelona, Spain the Ford Motor Company chairman, Bill Ford announced that to conserve resources, lower emission and to improve safety they should have public transportation and private cars and pedestrian biking connected into the network.
One of the worlds prime cultures is in the United States. Since the second largest source is transportation in America's emission. Since we have the internet and different social medias that allow us to reach our friends and family or anyone we'd like to speak with easily there is not much need for people to drive around every time that they want to see their friend. This causes teens and many others to not have getting their license as a priority which will decrease in the long run the amount of cars that are being driven around. Teenagers usually base their life around what they have to do. Whether it is going to their job or going to the gym, they find their way around it. Car-pool, public transportation or just simply walking will decrease pollution and increase your healthy level if you walk. It's a win-win either way you look at it. If you car-pool you are helping the enviroment by not polluting the air and if you use public transportation you are changing the amount of cars that are being used. Public transportation is like a large car-pool.
Places like these are the reason that the world will live longer, along with the people on it. If more places participated in events like these, there would be much less pollution in the air, much less time wasted and much less obesity. Your children and yourself could breathe better and have a brighter, much cleaner future. | 2 |
Their are many ways to read emotions without the using of technology but we never come close to the real feeling. Many years ago technology was small and it
had limits to what it can do but after so many years after technology has changed through out
the years. Computers now are able to read muscles on any human but can it read the emotions they feel?
Three men have been working on a project called "The Facial Action Coding System".
Dr. Paul Eckman (a psyhologist) is the creator of The Facial Action Coding System. The software was made by prof. Thomas Huang (of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science) in collaboration with Prof. Nicu Sebe(of the University of Amsterdam). The FACS was used to be able to read emotions in percentage. It was able to read six emotions hapiness, surprised, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness due to their 44 major strands of muscles on a humans face.
The way that FACS was able to read your emotions are like complicated math equations. The 44 strands each have different meanings each movement of one or more muscles are called "action unit". The frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyebrows) raises your eyebrows when your surprised and your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger. The use of FACS have been use on the Renaissance Painting Mona Lisa by Leonardo da vinci to show expressions that only that she is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angery.
The FACS is amazing and is changing over time and time again being able to read your emotions with accuracy. Will you be able to read emotions with accuracy? or will it be false accusions? | 0 |
Driverless cars, what all is good about them? Yeah, the driver could just sit back and go. But also, the car could mess up, have a defect, and it could crash. Causing multiple cars to crash, multiple injuries or deaths possibly.
As stated in the passage, who would be at fault? The driver is just doing what the car is made to do. Sit back and enjoy the ride. The manufactures could do everything right, and the car could still mess up. Engines go out on cars all the time. These samrt cars eould mess up too. If a car swerves at the last second and hits you, then you won't be watching to try to miss the car.
I don't think that automous cars are a good idea. They are too risky. I do believe that one day we will see them. But when that day comes, is the day that there are going to be more wrecks, more deaths due to automobile accidents, and more families grieving becuase they just lost their 16 year old son and 13 year old daughter who just died in a car wreck. Not because of a drunk driver swerving and hitting them. But because of a car defect. | 1 |
Driverless cars should not be aloud. The roads are already unsafe, it could harm other people and It would be very costly to afford a driverless car. If we invented driverless cars it would become a problem. "In the late 1950s, General Motors created a concept car that could run on a special test track. The track was embedded with an electrical cable that sent radio signals to a receiver on the front end of the car."
The roads are already unsafe. People are already reckless drivers and don't follow the rules or pay attention to the roads. If we were to get driverless cars, do you think people would more careful? Cars have sensors, cameras ,GPS etc. already built into cars. Why do we need cars that can drive by themselves? It is unnessisary for us to drive driverless cars. In the 7th paragrapgh is says " The human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when a situation requires." If the car is driverless why would we have to take over it should be safe as possible?
Driverless cars could harm other people on the roads. If a car is incontrol, a human will not be able to stop it. With all of the technology getting put into cars we could be in big trouble in the future. Do you want a car that is driverless? More accidents could happen, if a driver is in the front seat and the car is driving by its self, and the person is not paying attention to the road and something is going on with the car do you think that would be safe?
Driverless cars could be very costly to people, with everything they are trying to put into cars, the cars could be very high in price. So why make them? If only a couple hundred people can aford them why waste all the time to build one. I think driverless cars should not be aloud. Think of someone you know in one, its very unsafe.
In conclusion, cars should not be driverless. The roads are already unsafe as it is, it could harm other people on the road, and it could be very costly. Driverless cars should not be aloud. | 2 |
"The founding fathers established it in the constitution as a comprimise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by popular vote of qualififed citizens." (Paragraph 1) The electoral college is made of 538 people called electors, these people are there to take in consideration what the people voted and then they them selves vote physically for the President of the United States. The electoral coolege is good beacuse there is not as much controversey and if its been fine for this long it sould not be changed now.
Controversey, a big word with lots of meaning, but what does it really mean in this context. It is when two or more things are being argued about, in this case two politacal veiws. Whether or not we should keep the electoral college or get rid of it and go back to popular vote for electing the President of the United States. Having a little bit of controversey is good but the reason why the founding fathers made this into the constitution is to stop the out rageuos argueing that was going on when electing the First president. It states in paragraph 3 ,"The electoral college consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president." This shows that they didnt just make it to please one side of the arguement, this pleased both side because it was very fare and didnt favor one side to the other. By doing this it nearly ended all of the argueing and controversey, which that is what they wanted to acomplish.
Futhermore, the electoral college is good because why would you change something that has been working perfectly and helped the voting process out tremdously over hundreds of years. They have had voting for the President down to a science now, for example,"The presidential election is held every four years on the tuesday after the first monday in november." (paragraph 6) Everyone in the U.S. knows this date, it is imprinted in our brain when that day is and we need to clear our calenders and turn on the grill because that is a very specail day of change for our beautiful country.
Many people say there are problems with the electoral college, then again there are problems with everything in this crazy world we live in. "The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century." (paragraph 11) Yes there was a crisis but to say that the electoral college is corupt and bad just cause of that fiasco is to far. America is too strong to break down from just that and there are to many belivers in the electoral college to have it just fall to peices from that one problem. It also shows the resliency of the electoral college, and not just that but also showing changes so that those crisises wont ever happen again. "Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors..." That is living proof that there are changes and fixes being made to further the effiency of the Electoral College.
All in all the electoral college has proven itself to be more then just helpful but it has changed America itself. It was made to settle a comprimise made but it has settled more arguements then anyone can count. Its proven to the world it is here to stay and is not leaving anytime soon. | 3 |
Even though you may believe that keeping the electoral college is a great idea and a benefit to all, its not. Americans votes no longer count when having the electoral college and do not vare for our opinion on whom we believe should become our president, they decide in what they think is bvest for us. "The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irtrational". (Plumer, paragraph 14.) Most americns believe that the elcetoral college is unfair and voting has become a waste of their time and that there is no neeed to vote if their votes no longer count.
Our votes do not count and we are no longer in control. "Most states have a winner take all system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate." (The Office Of The Florida Register, paragraph 7) Therefore no matter who wants what iif that is what the electoral college decides thats what goes, And many americans are getting tired of doing pointless voiting if it doesnt even matter. "Given that many voters vote one party for president and another for congress, the house selection can hardly be excpected to reflect the will of the people." (Plumer, paragraph 12) Yes, The electoral college might be voting for what they think is best for us, but whats best for us might not be want we want, it might not be what we think is best for us why does are vote no longer count? "But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the partys nominee - and that trust is rarely betrayed ... [; however,] is is entirely possible that the winner of the elctoral vote will not win the national popular vote" ( Posner, paragraph 16)
Our votes are just a back up plan and we are not important. "The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast." (Posner, paragraph 22) If the eclectoral college leads to a tie our votes become the tie braker but that method has never been use so why are we even voting? " It is the electors whyo elect the president, not the people." (Posner, paragraph 15) Because the electoral college is voting for which "package" they think is best they believe that our opinions are unimportant and they know what is best beyond what we believe. "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for the slate of elecetors, who in turn elect the president." (Plumer, paragrph10) Our votes are just a second optiion and is not resonible and fair to each and every american who truly believe that they can make a diffrenece when they truly cant because they are an "extra."
All in all the electoral college should not be kept. Most americans now believe that we are not important and voting is just a waste of time which is currently true and fighting againt the truth is not going anywhere. Loose electoral college or loose active americans. | 3 |
Life on another planet is something that is very hard to find scientific evidence for.
In the science world you always have to have many sources to prove something is real.
There were always claims that the Face resembling landform was made by alien people but where is the proof?
I am about to tell you how there is no reasonable explanation for the mesa on Mars being created by aliens.
First, I will tell you a little bit about me.
I am a scienctist and I worked for NASA when Viking 1 journeyed through space. Over the years, as more advanced photography have taken pictures of the mesa, it has led me to believe that the formation is not an alien artifact.
Also, the mount on Mars looks just like the "Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho".
Which makes me think it was just a coincidence that it looks like a face.
Next, the image from Mars Global surveyor in 1998 does not resemble a face to me at all.
The Viking 1 photo probably had bad shadows.
The face was "formed by shadows giving illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth".
Further, the landform resmebles mountains and hills on earth; and other planets have mountains and hills too.
Moving forward, people think NASA is hiding something, but in reality finding other forms of life would benefit many studies and researchers.
"Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars."
Finally, how come there is no other evidence of life on Mars?
Don't you think that aliens would have made other landforms?
In conclusion, life on other planets is very hard to prove.
We have many explanations for why the Face is a "huge rock formation...which resmebles a human head.".
I hope in future years scientists find more proof leading towards that fact that the Face is a natural landform. | 2 |
The Seagoing Cowboys is a good job for those who own farms or are just good at taking care of animals. You could travel all over the world.
If you join the Seagoing Cowboys you'll travel to many places. You travel to places like Greece, Italy or China. The Seagoing Cowboys take care of horses, young cows, and mules. They have to feed and give the animals water three times a day.
On their way back to get more animals, even they had some free time on the ship and at their stops! The boys and men play in the rooms where the animals were held. When they dropped of some animals they could tour the place. That gives a lot of chances of traveling the world for free! It is fun to go to places you've never been before. You leave animals in one place, spend a few days there, then keep on traveling.
Those are some of the reasons to join the Seagoing Cowboys. There are many more but a few can do it. You should join the Seagoing Cowboys. | 1 |
The author suggests that studing Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because the author wants to study and know everything about venus. Like how Venus is Earths twin they have the same density and size and occasionally the closet in distance too but the arouth is willing to take risks knowing that a thick atmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide blankets Venus and on the planets surface temperatures average over 800 degrees fahreheit, and the atmosphere pressure is 90 times greater then what they experience on earth them conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter. Venus has the hottest temperature of any planet its beyond high pressure an heat NASA worked on other approaches to study venus they simplified electronics made of silicon carbide it lasted 3 weeks in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus which are erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes. But the challenge presented by Venus has value not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also becaues human curiosty will likely lead us to many equally intimidating endeavors. | 1 |
I say we should keep the Electoral collage. The founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress & election of the president by popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral Collage consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. Under the 23rd amedment of the constitution, the district of columbia is allocated 3 electors & treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral Collage. But what's wrong w/ the Electoral Collage, under the electoral collage system, voters vote not for a president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. But in defense of the electoral collage: 5 reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the persident.1)
CERTAINTY OF OUTCOME
-A dispute over the outcome of an electoral collage vore is possible-it happend in 2000-but it's less likey than a dispute over the popular vote. The reason is that the winning canidate's share of the electoral collage invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote.2)
EVERYONE'S PRESIDENT
-The electoral collage requires a presidental canidate to have trans-regional appeal. No region(south,northeast,etc.) Has enough electoral votes to elect a president. So a solid regional favorite, such as Romney was in the south, has no incentive to campaign heavily in those states, for he gains no electoral votes by increasing his pularity in states that he knows he will win. This is a desriable result because a canidate w/ only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president.3)
SWING STATES
-The winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the canidates-as we saw in [2012's] election-to focus thier campagin efforts on the toss-up states....Voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attation to he campagin-to really listen to the competing canidates-knowing that thet are going to decide the election. They are likely to be the most thoughtful voters, on average (& for futher reason that thwy will have received the most information & attention from the canidates), and the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election.4)
BIG STATES
-The electoral collage restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-appotionment of the senate decreed in the constituion....The popular vote was very close in florida [in 2012]; nevertheless Obama, who won that vote, got 29 electoral votes. A victory by rhe same margin in wyoming would net the winner only 3 electoral votes. So, other things be equal, a large state gets more attention from presidntial candidates in as campagin than small sate does....5)
AVOID RUN-OFF ELECTIONS
-The electoral collage avoids the problem of elections in which no canidate recives a majority of the votes casts. For example, Nixon in 1968 & Clinton in 1992 bath had only 43% pularity of the popular votes, while winning a majority in the electoral collage (301 & 370 electoral votes,respectively). There is pressure for run-off elections when no canidate wins a majority of the votes casts; that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presidential election process, is reduced by electoral collage, which invariably produces a clear winner....It can be argued that the electoral collage method of selecting the presindent may turn off potential voters voters for a canidate who has no hope for carrying their state-democrats in texas,for example,or republicans in california. Knowing thier vote will have no effect,they have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular vote. But thats why i believe we should stay w/ the electoral collage because we have used this method for so long & yes there were a few hiccups here & there but not every system we use is perfect & for how long we've bee using this one i say why change now!? | 2 |
Driverless cars are new, advanced forms of technology. Manufacturers seem to be getting closer and closer to an improved and completely driverless car. They have different advantages and are very convenient. This may be the new innovation that everyone raves about. I think having driverless cars is a great idea and a huge milestone.
Driverless cars have come a long way, and sensors have become more advanced with time. The sensors can now detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers. This is very beneficial to the driver because he or she may not know how to respond or react to these kinds of dangerous situations. The sensors enable the car to apply brakes on the seperate wheels and decrease the power from the engine, which allows a better responce and more control than the human driver could manage. More improvements on this technology will bring safer and more durable cars, which will increase the number of driving taskes on their own.
Even though most cars aren't completely driverless, many improvements and innovations allow the driverless cars to evolve and become more intriguing. For example, BMW developed the "Traffic Jam Assistant." This car could handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph. This car also had special touch sensors to ensure the driver holds onto the wheel. Having cars that aren't fully driverless allows the driver to remain alert, so they can take over when there is a situation. This is a great thing about these cars. There are driver seats that vibrate when the car is in danger of backing into something. The Google car announces when the driver should take over. Other cars might have flashing lights or other signals that warn the driver to take control of the vehicle.
Driverless cars have come a long way and are still in the process of being perfected. New, developed features have different advantages such as the advanced sensors that repsond to dangerous situations and the signals that allow the reader to remain alert. Overall, I think that driverless cars are a major innovation and can be very effectful and beneficial for drivers. | 3 |
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Car Free Cities-
Cities in Europe and parts of the United States have taken a new trend, car free cities, this may be weird but the amount of good that comes from not having cars is increible. Cars cause a greenhouse gases which are really bad for the environment.
Limiting car usage has many advantages and can help everyone.
A place known as Vauban, located in Germany has over 5,500 residents and only 30 percent of them own cars and 57 percent sold a car to move there. People said that they lived much better lives without a car in (source 1), smog and toxic car feums don't clog the city air allowing it to be free for people to walk outside and smell the fresh air. Some cities even enforce not to drive, such as Paris if you drive through certre areas you will be fined 22-euros ($31). Enough smog clear after people saw they were getting fined. There are some areas of the United States where greenhouse gas emissions are 50 percent, not only does this cause health related problems but also the it effects the environment, to help this the "Environmental Protection Agency is promoting"car reduced" communities, and legislators are starting to act." This means that bills will be past to have certin areas have cars reduced.
This increible idea really helps everyone and will help the future, some say its the end of the car culture. Different bills are being passed to help communities reduce emission of the gases that come from cars that effect the environment and certin health problems. Such as New York, they started a new bike-sharing program. Some people within the ages of 16-21 have started new proritys and have organized themselfs to not need the use of a car. This is a prolong goal to help the environment and people, to create a better future. "The excutive chairman of Ford Motor Company. has laid out a business plan for a world in which vehicle ownership is impractical or undesirable."(source4) Even car companys see the cars are bad and want change for a brighter future.
Limiting car usage or even no cars at all only have pros and is a very good idea for people who like to plan a good future and live in the suburbs. Cars are bad for the environment and should be reduced to help out. | 2 |
"It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational." Three reasons right there on why we should switch over to election by popular vote. Unfair, outdated, and irrational. Let's help you better understand;
"At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all-system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the 'swing' states." stated in
What's wrong with the electoral college
(source 2). The electoral college is also unfair because there's always one person, in this case candidates, trying harder than the other person. Also stated in source 2
"During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad." Which is completely unfair, foolish even.
Way past outdated, "In 1968," decades ago. There is no reason as to why we still actually have this around, many people stopped voting, maybe not because of how old this act is, but definetly because we need a new way. Election by popular vote could be one of those new ways. This electoral college has to have an experation date on it someday.
Irrational. Irrational because it doesn't make sense, if you think about it, it's basically an easy way to get out of cheating, and no one likes cheaters. If we were to change the election by popular vote, think about how much more worth it would be, think about how there wouldn't be as many problems if people voted for the right candidate. What if they actually won? What about all the world changes?
It just makes more sense, it's more reasonable. There could be so many things different today if we changed the way election worked years ago. It's never too late, we still have time. Time to stop the unfair, outdated, and irrational ways. All's you need is a little motivation. | 2 |
I am against driveless cars for many reasons. The first reason being that there is a high posiblity of getting into a wreck. Your car might not see an animal or a person walking the streets and you might not have enough time to turn it back to manual so that you can swerve away from it. Driveless cars can also be very scary in my opinion, I mean, we are so use to driving, we might accidently forget it is driving itself and get freaked out of scared.
Another reason is the technology could mess up at any moment. What if your car ran into a puddle? Would that affect your car at all? It might not but I wouldn't want to that that chance. I also would feel as though whoever else is in the car with me, or on the streets, would be in danger if I let the car drive.
I just don't think driveless cars are very safe. What if the car glitches and won't let you take control? You could not only putting yourself in danger, but others as well. I also think it would be creepy having a car watch me while I'm driving. What if i parked to the side and had to change real quick? Would it see anything? I sure hope not!
On an ending note, I think that driveless cars sound like an amazing idea but they probably would take 10 years to make perfect. Or else people would most likely waste their money on a car that glitches a lot, super dangours, no control over them, and could cause a wreck very easily. | 2 |
The article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," describes a new techology called the Facial Action Coding System(FACS for short), this system enables conputers to read facial expressions to identify human emotions. This program can be used in classrooms to find out when a student is bored or confuse, this can help teachers chage their lessons to something that can keep a students active and focased on there studies. As long as the software can only read emotions, read if a student is lying or not and make help make lessons more active, I am for its use in schools.
This program can only read six basic emotions- happiness, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness- and each are associated with different characteristic movements. The way it reads your emotions is by constructing a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles in order for the program to read each emotion. In class this can be used to find confused and bored students and then help the teacher change the lesson so that they can understand it better or become more focased on the lesson. This can help effectively raise grades for students who are prone to becoming confused and bored.
Now this can also be used to figure out if a student or convict is lying or not. Muscles called orbicularis oculi palpabraeus make crow's-feet around your eyes. But in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risorius. Now if someone is fake smiling or keeping a strait face while lying the program can use that to help notify people if someone is lying or not.
The program can help make classes and students, more active and controlled. When knowing if a class is confused or bored can make a big diffence because the lesson or teacher can then be changed to the students likeing so the class can continue on focased and active. Which helps students whom are prone to get distracted.
As long as this program can help students in these ways than schools should invest in this program to keep their students active in their lessons. So then schools wont have to continue constanly be trying new things to figure out how to keep their active and focased. | 2 |
The planet Venus has many dangers but that doesn`t mean that it is impossible to explore. There hasn`t been a single spaceship, in more than three decades, that has touched down on Venus. Many different factors contribute to the reasons why there hasn`t been one. One factor is that the atmosphere is thick and contains almost 97 percent cabon dioxide. Another factor is that there are many, erupting volcanoes and powerful earthquakes.
Despite the dangers of studying Venus I agree with the author that it is a worthy pursuit. In paragraph four it states that "Venus may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system". It might be important to explore Venus to collect data to predict the future of the Earth.
In paragraph five it provides a possible solution to explore the planet Venus. The possible solution is to create a blimp-like vehicle that would hover over the planets surface at about 30 or so miles. The blimp-like vehicle "would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way". The only limitation is that "hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on the ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective". Despite this it would still be good to be able to explore what we are able to and collect all of the data possible for further explorations. | 2 |
Do you think computers being able to tell students emotions be useful? I say it could be useful it could tell us if the student is bored which that could help us try to make the student more intrested in what he is about to learn. This could also tell us if anyone it feeling hurt or depressed because of something that happened to them which we could probably help the student with the problem they have. It could tell us if the student is slacking off or if the student needs extra help.
This would be useful to help students stay active and be intrested in what they are going to learn. It would tell us if the student is bored and that could help us find another way to make the kid more intrested in what we are learning. It would also tell us if the kid was slacking off which if a kid was slacking off we could move him and let him be more comforable where he could be more intrested and pay attention to the things he is about to learn. We would be able to help out your child many peoples children we could help them get on track and maybe help them get a scholarship and give them a better understanding of school and education. Would you want your childs emotions read by a computer?
Imagine if your child was going through something that happened to him theses computers could help us figure what is wrong with your child. And maybe that is the problem why he is not paying attention we could help so many children by this. We could lead and help students to success. If your child is failing in school it might be because of being bored which these computers would tell us and we c oulc find another way to help your child so he wouldn't be failing.
We need to let people know that this could solve so many problems. If your child new something bad was going to happen or knew a student was getting bullied or he was getting bullied we could find that out with the computer and help them out. We could help kids from harming themselfs just think about how many kids we could save. Do you wish you had these computers when you were younger? i say yes this ould have helped me do better in school and it could have told my teachers that i needed extra help.
Just think about how many kids could be succesful because of theses computers. Think about how it could help you out if you were to be able to have theses computers when you were in school? | 2 |
The residents of Vauban, Germany have given up their cars to live in a car free enviroment. Some of the residents believe that this enviroment makes them happier. The reason behind this is because we are trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that come from tailpipes. This experiment has the potential to become the most advanced experiment in low-car surburban life.
There are many places in the world that are trying this new experiment out. In the United Statesnthe Enviromental Protection Agency is promoting communities to become less dependent on cars. The legislators are starting to act on the bill and experts even expect public transpotation to play a larger role in society.
Also, in Paris, France there were days of near-record pollution. This is another reason for the experiments, to slow down the amount of pollution. Paris enforced a driving ban to slow down the pollution. The ban worked out so good that they even followed up on it afterwards. | 1 |
There are many advantages to limiting car usage in our community. Other countries such as France, Germany, and Colombia are home to cities that are working towards cutting down the use of personal automobiles. Many of the people in these places find that using alternative transportation means proves to be less stressful. Studies even show that fewer Americans are purchasing cars for themselves. Now is the perfect time to join in with Vauban, Bogota, and New York and spend less time in our cars.
It may seem hard to believe, but in Germany, there's a suburban area where residents live without their own cars. According to "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal, the streets of Vauban, Germany remain "car-free" aside from some public transport. The article states that "70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here.". Heidrun Walter was quoted in the excerpt saying "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way..." Communities in Europe and the United States are hoping to move towards this "car-free" lifestyle, in order to become less dependent on automobile usage and cut back on greenhouse gas emissions that damage the environment. We may see an increase in the number of "smart planning" areas across the globe. If a mass of citizens wish to lessen the amount of time they spend in their cars, it's possible, and the city can adapt to a more automobile-less way of life.
Bogota, Columbia dedicates a day to transportation without the use of personal cars, where the city's goal is "...to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog". Many who visit Bogota during this time are impressed by the "revolutionary change" they see unfold before their eyes. Going "car-free" leads to more physical activity amongst residents and an overall nicer-looking community. "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" by Andrew Selsky claims "Parks and sports centers... have bloomed throughout the city... sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks... restaraunts and upscale shopping districts have cropped up.". Not only does the city reduce the amount of greenhouse gas it contributes to the atmosphere, but it results in a more active and better-looking community.
What change would we see in our own community were we to follow in the footsteps of Bogota and Vauban? The United States is seeing a decrease of car ownership in the country. Less and less people are buying automoblies and obtaining driver's licenses. "The End of Car Culture" by Elisabeth Rosenthal says that "...America's love affair with its vehicles seems to be cooling." The writer cites investment research company Doug Short of Advisor Perspectives, which states "...the number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter..." The country is already subconsciously moving towards a more car-independent lifestyle. The millenial generation seems to be the biggest contributor to this declined interest in car-ownership. With improved methods of communication by means of social media and cell-phones, as well as more use of car-pooling and public transportation, people are staving away from car commuting. While this may require a change within the automobile industry, many agree that this turning away from private car usage will see communities striving to be more time and energy efficient when it comes to transportation.
Limiting the use of cars can lead to a less polluted and stressful environment, more exercise-oriented and upscale communities, and the conservation of our natural resources. Cities around the world are working to become less car-dependent, so that they may limit their contribution of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Were our community to move towards this more eco-friendly, car-free way of life, we would not be alone. | 3 |
Driverless cars? I honeslty think driverless cars would be dangerous. I think that because you never know what could happen. The car might explode due to all the things in the car thats making it drive on its on. The car might over work its self, and maybe cause car crashes as well, and car crashes are not want we need!
Car crashes are big things that don't need to happen all time, well I know they happen alot during these days but driverless cars? i just feel like with driverless cars its going to happen a whole lot more. Driverless cars to me feel like they would cause more car trouble, with all the explosions and disfunctioning and especially all the techniques and material that would go inside the car, to make it function on its on, Causing explosions because all of the material over working that car.
So, thats why agree on not having driverless cars. Its unneccessary to have driverless cars, when people made cars for a reason, so that people can DRIVE the cars. Not for the cars to work on ther own. What's the point of having a driverless car? MIght as well just walk if you want to have a driverless car! | 1 |
To be President of the United States you have to win the vote of the people, but not only the people also congress... I dont think that the government should be in charge of everything therefore i think the people and only people who should vote for who is the President of the United States and not vote for electors.
I dont like how the electoral is set up for instince like it says What is Electoral College? section 10, "If you lived in Texas and wanted to vote for Jonh Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 democratic electors pledged to Kerry." then he would get 34 electoral vote.
Then anyones whos not holding office can be a elector. What makes them so qualified? nothing. Whydoes everyone just cast a vote and they all get counted up and thats whos wins the election? I know why becaus ethe government like to be complicated.
The electors could vote who ever they want they dont have to vote for the person you say, like back in 1960, in Louisiana legislatture nearly succeeded in replacing Domocratic electors with new electors who oppose Jonh F. Kennedy so the the popular would not have gone to him.
All of that just seems a little complicated when it could all be settle by every one in the country voting and then adding up all the votes and thats the winner. But its the gosh, darn government that has to make it so hard. | 2 |
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I am against the developement of driverless cars for these reasons.
The first reason why I am against dr]driverless cars is that they are dangerous.
any thing can happen to make the car go out of control. The car caint since every thing like if you are sleep, if there is ice on the ground, and construction zone. When you are sleep which im sure you would end up doing do to the fact you arent realy driven can have some realy bad effects in the future more accident leading to death, and might even get arrested ffor reckless driving.
Another reason I am against driverless cars is that it takes away lots of jobs for people. Some people this effects are car dealers, vallet parkers, airport parking,
and other people whithin car companies. This is a big thing alot people may be homeless if this happens.
The last reason I have is that it is a waste of time and money. Why pay so much for a car thats driverless than just driving by yourself. I dont know if people are that lazzy to where they cant drive a car. Same for the people who will be producing these cars you wasted your money building these.
In conclusion I beleive the production of driverless cars is a waste of time and money. | 1 |
i think this should be a thing because it would help people work when on a computer. it would help people becasue it would make them more enjoyable for the person that is working. it would help because if th user is not satisified by the way a lession is performing the computer would know that an change the application to make it more interesting to the spicific user. also it would be diffrent for everybody and everyone has a diffrent way of learning certain things. doing this would make studfence preform better because th appilication that they are using conforms to them specifically. the only bad thing about this is that some people would say that it is invading peoples thoughts and that it should not be able to know everything down to emotions in a person. the othe rthing wrong with this is that we dont have the capeability to have that in the common computers that we have today , simply because they would have to be way bigger just to have the space to hold all the facial recognition codes for every emotion. those are the reasons i think that facial recognition in a school computer would be helpful. | 1 |
I think the face on Mars is a natural landform because anything can form on land and there is a coincidence that that land formation can look fimiliar to something on Earth, like a human's face. The face on Mars was photographed, so we arent really seeing what the face on Mars looks exactly like, but we are seeing alot of it. Though, the image of the face in the best Viking photo in 1976 proves to show that, because of the 2001 photo's image span of 1.56 meters, if there were ships, planes, or even small shacks, you would be able to spot them out in the photo. What the Viking photo really shows is the Martian equivalant of a butte or mesa, which are both found commonly in the American West. Therefore, Mars has many land formations of all shapes and sizes, so the face that we all know and are so curious about; could just be another on of Mars natural landforms. | 1 |
The electoral college is not a good thing and it certainly messes things up it takes votes away from people, It changes the votes to make a person lose presidency even by changing the senators, and it's a winner take all system these dont turn out good no matter what. It's even overthrowing the people with the popular vote yes it sadly is possible.
Why would you still have the electoral college if it doesnt help anyone at all?
There are many many ways to win an election and this is not one good way it can easily make one side lose even if they won the popular vote. The odds of one side winnning is easily changed with electoral votes. This inturrupts the odds of how much the people likes them then it turns into how much the government of states likes them. However it could help some people win if they are not the popular vote.
It can also make anyone with the popular vote lose when they should have won like after Al Gore during the gallup poll thanks to the perks of the electoral college won the popular vote but he lost presidency over it. Even though 60% of people prefer the direct election now some prefer the electoral college.
But this can all be due to the fact that the electoral system was made by our founding fathers on the Constitution so it may only be natural that they support it. A good arguement was when the system allowed for far worse when the electors for defy the will of people like in passage 2 it says "in 1960 when segragationists in the louisiana legislature almost succeeded in replacing electors who would appose John F. Kenedy" that is just evil. Although the law has not been changed since the Constitution was made.
Even at the most basic level the electoral college is still unfair to voters because of the winner take all system put in place for each state. They saddly dont visit every state in passage 2 it says "Candidates dont spend time in states they know they have 0 chance of winning, focusing only on tight races" Although the winner take all is made just to do what they are using it for by awarding electors to the presidential candidate (exept for Maine and Nebraska) it is being used for what they are using it for.
In all the electoral system is not good but its not all bad it takes the votes away from the people,Its a winner take all system, and its taking people down who deserve to win even changing the senators to make them win. Its evil and makes no sense to what they are doing trying to give other parties a chance i get it but its gone a little to far. | 3 |
I am against driverless cars because if you dont want to have the responsibility to drive a car you shouldnt have one. Im also against it because the car could do something you dont want it to. the main point is you shouldnt have a car if you dont want to control it in that case you might as well ride a bus or airplane.
Also it would cost alot of money you would have to buy certain types of streets anfd that would mess up other cars. You would have to upgrade the roads frequently. But most importantly I wouldnt want smart cars because they maybe would cause alot of accidents they could run red lights stop signs. Driverless cars are also not good because you could be on your cellphone and accidently take control and you dont know. It is also bad because that means the people in cars won't wear seatbelts and if they get in a car crash the are going to get hurt. | 0 |
The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) could be useful for people that are not around you enough that you have no idea what they are feeling but in most cases most people can tell when their friend is feeling down or not."In fact, we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day. For instance, you can problably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face. Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, ect. Yet Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions. His new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code." This shows that most people do not know the specific traits that describe the emotion but most people also know that when their friend or family memeber makes a certain facial expresion that they are either happy, sad, mad, or even annoyed.
People can figure things out without needing a machine to do things for them. Maybe for paintings the FACS can be useful but not on ordinary people who know when their friend is feeling down or not. People do not need technology to do everything for them. People need to do things on their own make conclusions to things and if they have no idea what their friend or family is feeling they can just ask. | 1 |
The article that is called "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is about the dangers that you could come upon if you go to or explore Venus. Some challenges that can come with when exploring Venus, are temputure, gravity, its atmosphere, body damage, or even death. There have been many mission that scientists have planned to go to Venus.
The first danger that Venus definately has, is its thick atmosphere that's almost 97 percent carbon dioxide that blankets the planet. This is true, because it says "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus." Also no scientists want to go there, because of the even more challenging clouds that are highly corrosive sulfuric acid in the planet's atmosphere. This is also true, because the passage says "Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere.
The second danger that Venus's includes, is its very hot temputures. The passage talks about how the surface temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, which could even melt a submarine at the bottom of the ocean, and its atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than Earth's. Venus also has the hottest surface temputure out of all the planets in our solar system. These dangers are found from the passage and it says "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 planet." "...such an environment 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...".
Scientists now have been testing simplified electronics made from silicon carbide in a simulator that simulates the chaos of Venus's surface, and so far they have lasted weeks in those conditions. This was found in the passage and it says "... some simplified electronics made of silicom carbon have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." Another project the NASA is working on to get to the planet is a technology from the 1800's and played an important role during World War two, these devices make calculations by the use of gears and levers. This was also found in the passage and it says "Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers. These devices were first envisioned in the 1800's and played an important role in the 1940's during World War II." "... but these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all."
Striving to meet the challenges of Venus have been proven to be hard, because of human curiosity which will lead us to intiminating endeavors. We should not be limited by the danger and doubts and decide not to explore. Instead we should explore to gain more experience and new technology. | 2 |
Your feeling ten percent annoyed, fifty percent boared, and thirty percent suprised. Advancements in technology has been brought to an entire new era with facial readers. One computer can tell people how they feel about themselves just by the muscel structure and movements in their face. Who would not want to know what some stranger walking down the street is feeling? I mean, I know I would. Today our generation is amoung the nosiest. Classrooms today need these computers to better understand their class. Emotional expressions can change society by understanding children, making lives easier, and progressing technology.
Children have mood changes as fast as people chose fast food over vegtables. Children are a hard age to understand what they are feeling, becuase they are so quick at changing the things they are doing and always moving. Having a brain wired to becoming board with something one day and then wanting to do it again the nest day. That is hard for teachers to keep up with. Dr. Huang commented, "A classroom computer could regonize when a student is becoming confused or board." But, with having a computer that classifies the six basic emotions and picks up each one takes a great stress off of teachers. Teachers have a class from anywhere to ten to fourty students. Having to know each one personally and be able to read what they are thinking to help further their education is a big task for underpaid teachers to do. Those fourty students have all different facial structures and the Facial Action Coding System uses video imagery to track their movements and weight the different units. Teachers understanding their students better with the Coding System, will help them further their education in a classroom when seeing if they are frustrated or upset.
Fourty students, fourty diiferent views, and fourty different emotions. That is a lot to take in. Having the Coding System in your classroom takes the relief off the teachers of figuring out each student. With the easy three step process anyone can read their emotions, but just by video it makes it three steps easier. With no wires and personal information to plug in. Teachers have students that do not like to share their feelings, which takes a lot of time for the teacher to understand what they are feeling taking away from other students. Dr. Huang stated, "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." Saving the time of teachers and peronalizing lessons for the class creates so many benefits. Not having this machine will not do damage in hurting the students, it is helping them.
Fifty years ago classrooms did not even have a smart board or computer labs, they had chalk boards. It is a fact some people do not like change. Parents probably did not like their children learning how to use computers or new technology. But our world is advacing, and makes it that much amazing to see how simply technology is helping change classrooms for the better. Dr. Huang and his colleagues are developing ways for us and computers to communicate. People think that is scary and weird. The fact is, we can learn about the artwork from hundreds of years ago with the sytem. Classrooms can have precise and exact answers with the system. Huang used Mona Lisa and they figured out that she was 83 percent happy, and 9 percent disguested. Can your art teacher tell you that?
Technology is helping further our classrooms education and learn abilites.
Classrooms benefit from the Facial Coding System. Many people will be against this new change, but they have no arguement. The Facial Action Coding System is easy, helpful, and dependable. As a teacher I would feel more comfortable with giving a lesson and teaching views ,they all understood and agreed with. Lives can change by understanding childrens minds, creating hard ache free lives, and keeping up with the new technology. | 4 |
The article talks about a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System that can read your emotions, but would it really help in a classroom environment? That's what the minds behind this technology think. They believe it can be used in schools to show if the lesson is boring or not and if so it will switch it up, this technology can also be applied to ads on facebook for example, if you smile at the ad it will continue to show more ads like that one, but if not it will show other ads.
This seems more creepy than helpful, some people cover cameras on computers because it's so easy to hack into them but to do this you'd have to uncover your camera and so you could easily be watched without you even knowing. Even if its not hacked, would you want a camera to continously watch your every move recording everything? Not many people would.
This technology could be helpful to some people, as stated in the article "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" but for most if you don't like a lesson and its boring or confusing, there should be a button to click to modify the lesson, or if you don't like a certain ad you can already click a button saying that on facebook. This technology would'nt do much other than making people lazier than they already are, it's a cool theory but in action it would never help much. In conclusion, I don't beleive this would help more than it would hurt. We don't need all of our info inside databases and we don't need more of a reason to be lazy. | 2 |
Exploring somewhere new could be fun or could be a waste of time. Though their are many dangers in going to new places that you have never been before, it is akways worth a shot. So where are we actually talking about going? Venus, despite the dangers, is a worthy pursuit. I believe that it is worthy, because it is the most Earth-like planet in the solar system, it still has some features that are analogous to Earth, and it can be the nearest option for a planetary visit.
Firstly, I believe that Venus is a worthy pursuit, because it is the most Earth-like plant in our solar system. Scientist believe that Venus probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life. You can find this is the text saying,"Astronomers are facinated 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."
Secondly, I believe that Venus is a worthy pursuit, because it has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. Though Venus may have been covered in oceans or supported forms of life, it also has features that Earth didn't know could even be there. You can find this in the text reading,"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."
Lastly, I believe that Venus is a worthy pursuit, because it can be our nearest option for a planetary visit. Though traveling to Mars or the moon is what we usually set explorations for, Venus is the nearest planet we could visit. Traveling to Venus can sometimes be crucial when given the time frames of space travel. I have found this statement that allows me to believe that,"...recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel."
So traveling can be considered fun or a waste of time. What do you think? Are you travelling to Venus? Considering my following points, that Venus is the most Earth-like planet, it has features analogous to those on Earth, and it can be our nearest option for a planetary visit, I believe that Venus is a worthy pursuit, despite its danger. | 3 |
Are Driverless Cars the Future or Death to Many?
When people invision the future some may imagine hallograms and flying cars. In today's world numerous people are thinking of ways to better our future, for example Sergey Brin. He invisions driverless cars and how they might function. There are many pros and cons in this equation! One may think that their life isn't in their own hands, they may think they don't have contol of the car, or there may be devistating glitches or maulfunctions.
There may be many risks, such as glitches but there are various benifits! For example the text says, "Allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone." This shows that if the machines work correctly then they would decrease a lot of the everyday rearendings. The downfall about that is if there is a glitch in the syastem and someone is on the highway and you stop dead in the middle of traffic and could potentually die. Although one may depend on that car a glitch may be the reason someone died.
Numerous people count on their phones to help them out in the hastles of everyday life, but would one really be willing to put their lives into the hands of a machine? When riding with a new driver one may tend to be weary of the new driver because they have no experiance or as much knowlege, simply because it's a new learning experiance for them. Growing up some may have had to undergo a "trust exercise" were one would fall back onto someone elses arms without looking to see if they'd catch them. Having a machine driving you is exactly like that exercise unless in this case instead of falling to the floor one may die.
Trust is a major role in having a driverless car because there is no telling what will happen. For example, Smart Phones glitch constantly and they're not holding someones life in their hands. Imagaine if a driveless car had a glitch and imagine the devistation. There are many variables but having a machine control the car isn't the way to go.
To conclude, driveless cars would play a huge role into the future and when most people think of the future they think of flying cars and teleporters. Saftey should come before everything and it's important to recignize that someone's life isn't in their own hands, they're not in control of the car, and machines always have glitches! One may say that driveless cars are unsafe and unreliable and they're correct. | 2 |
I remeber through my childhood my mother would always tell me not to be lazy. i think we all grow up with our parent reminding us we have to be independent because when your an adult you have to do thing's for yourself without the help of others. Now think, if you grow up learning about this independence your going to have to have. What does it say to future generations to have such a simple task of driving removed from something they have to learn to be responsible for? Simply learning how to get yourself from point A to point B is being replaced with driveless cars. I am not for the development of driveless cars because they will make this generation and future generations lazier and hopelessly dependent on technology when we can easily figure it out on our own.
In the article it says that Sergey Brin "believes such cars would fundamentally change the world" . Its clear this guy is using his head to develop this product to put us all in driverless car .But developing this product would encourage us more than anything NOT to use our own head. In this century we have technology already being something that distracts us in our cars. Things like cellphones and tablets distracting us from the road cause accidents every year. Although in the article it says "the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires". If a human already living in a technology based world is sitting in a driverless car you can imagine they'll find other ways to occupy their time while the car does all the work. Now if their is a time that a human needs to take over who says the person will actually notice ?They have all this extra time in the car you can imagine they'll be facebooking tweeting or instagraming .To distracted to pay attention...Thats the same problem that kills thousands every year. So what i this really solving?
We all look forward to the scary time we are hoping and praying to pass our driver's test. future generations will know nothing of this anxiety because of this driver less car being developed they're will virtually be no point of studying day and night for your driver test. Or working extremely hard to get your first car. you wont be driving it so whats the big deal? Teenages in future generations wont have a clue how to drive. A simple skill we all realize we will have to learn weather we are afraid to get behind the wheel or not will basically become a skill we dont need. to me driving is a privledge . But the privledge will dissapear and become pointless.
Finally these cars will come at a price. In the articel it said to make smart roads was"simply too expensive". So how much do you think it would cost to replace billions of cars? These cars already need a boat load of sensors just to be able to park. something a human can do effortlessly by the way so i can only imagine why we would want to spend more money. I know i sure dont. and i sure others dont either when we can just drive oursleves instead of spending thousands of dollars.
In the end these drivles cars will make us lazy and clueless on something as simple as driving. i dont think that driverless cars are a good idea for anyone to pursue. Although it is tech savy it is not soething i would like to see change in favor of technologies progression. Driving is someting that has been around before me or anyone was born and it would be pointless to let a self driving car to do it for us. | 3 |
The way that i see it is that the author put a lot of reseach into venus and study it some scientist still today though study the plant. And trying to find a way to go there but the tests that there getting back isnt good like how in the article it said that "no space craft survived the landing for more than a few hours ".
So as there doing more tests they find out more things about the plant and try to look for a way to reach venus and to finally land on it . And to find out more stuff about venus up close .
The other thing is they found out about venus is that " a thick atomsphere of 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus" according to the article . And so that means that they also have to find out whats wrong with the air and how can they live in it . And venus it the hottest plant even though mercury closer to the sun so it means that venus wont really be safe for us .
But therefore scientists cant get close to venus cause of the plants but they will try to chance even though there a risk. They still though want to so that they can test the objects on the plant . And see if its safe for the future or something . | 1 |
In paragragh 1 it says that Luke had no idea what he was going to do after graduation, but then his friend had invited him to Europe. Then it says he couldn't say no because it would be an opportunity in life to start something after graduation.
Just before they were arriving in Greece, Luke was turning 18,wich had ment he would have to go into military to prepare for war. This is all in paragragh 4. Then it said that they just let him to just keep going for his service.
Then in paragragh 6 it says that it took them 2 weeks to make it through the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to get to China.
Then it says in paragragh 9 he says ''I'm gratefull for the opportunity. it made me more of people of other countries and thier needs.'' He feels the emotions because of the Lord Christ. He was with Luke through it all and he is with you to.
Don't be scared to take opportunities in life that God gives you. He gave you them for a reason and you won't find out until you take it. He is there through it all so don't be afraid Luke wasn't. Follow his example and keep going till you have reached the point were God has wanted you to stop. The lesson here is to
'' Never be Scared to Try Something New'' | 1 |
There are many programs in the world around you. I know one certain program that I personaly love and think you would too. This program is called the Seagoing Cowboys. I think you should join it because there is so many sights that we can see on our ways across oceans on boat trips, it's an opportunity to work hard, and it's fun.
The first reason I think you would enjoy this program is because there is so many sights to be seen. I saw many sights. I saw the excavated castle in Crete and marvled at the Panama Canal on my way to China. I also, took a ride on a Gondola in Vencie, Italy a city with streets of water. Like I said these are all wonderfull sights you could see. There is one sight I think was the most special and that was the Acropolis in Greece. Europe and China are a couple other sights. The boat trips do take a while though. For example, it took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States, and a month to get to China. These are many sights that make this program super enteresting and fun.
The next reason I think you should join this program is because it's an opportunity to work hard and show others what we can do. There are many opportunities to do, expecially if you are on the cattle boat. Some of the things to do are, caring for animals, and makeing sure they have been fed and watered, pullying bags of oates and bales of hay from the lower holds of the ship to the upper, and cleaning the stalls. These many things were hard work.
cleaning the stalls was every night and the animals had to be checked daily and nightly to make sure none of them were hurt and fed and watered properly. All of these responsabillities are hard work.
Just because there's hard work dosen't mean theres not any fun, because there is. once the animals and cargo are all dropped off there is time to have fun on board, The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where the animals had been housed. Tabletennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time. As I said before there are many things to do fun it's not always just seriousness. There is time to goof around and have fun too .
Like I had said before, there are many reasons to join the Seagoing Cowboys program. You should join this program because there are so many sights to see on boat trips, it's an opportunity to work hard, and there's time to have fun. I hope this makes you want to join this program because it's a good time to shine. Well, not really shine but, you know what I mean. | 3 |
Dear Mr. Senator,
I have decided to express my opinon to you about the Electoral College process for electing the President of the United States. This process should be abolished as soon as possible for it is corrosive to the American peoples opinon. We should instead switch to a popular vote by eligble American citizens to decide presidency.
Now some fellows might argue that the Electoral College is favored by the people. When in fact, as Bradford Plumer points out in paragraph 9, "60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now". Some people may also say that the Electoral college ecourages the president to visit all states, when in fact smaller states still are not treated the same as states with more electoral votes. A president would rather spend their time investing and giving information to a state such as Californa who have 55 electoral votes, who feel more inclined to think about their decision due to their involvement, rather than a state with 3 electoral votes who dont invest as much thought into their votes.
In grade school we are taught that popualer votes most accurately represent what a specific population wants, why dont we use it in the real world? If your princible wanted to figure out what color the students wanted their yearbooks, she would not elect people to decide for each class! In the Bush and Gore election, Bush recived less votes by the American people but won presidency because he accuired more Electoral votes than Gore. That means that more American people wanted Gore, but the fate was chosen by 271 people, who selected Bush as the winner!
The Electoral College also increases the risk of a tie and if one occured, the election would be disrupted by the unorderly process of which we would have to take to decide the president. In 1968, a change of votes from just 41,971 people would have tied the electoral votes due to the even number of 538 Electors.
The overall idea im trying to express is that the Electoral College is a poor way to show peoples opinon, and much rather focuses on that of 270 individuals who in the end, decide the President of the United States. I hope you can see my points and I long for the day when the president is decided by the people. | 3 |
The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers by giving us some of the main features NASA is trying to get a look at, and stating that Venus was also an earth like planet back from 3 decades ago and still till this day Venus has those features. The author claims in paragraph one that venus is the second planet from sun and also as easy it may seem to see from a distant that it has proved to be very challenging to examine more closely.
The dangers the author talks about in paragraphs three,four and five he is claiming that venus is a "Earth's twin" but much more circumstances to survive there. In paragraph three he states there is 97% of a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide covers venus, the surface temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahreneit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times bigger than what we have on our planet earth. As much for common sense these are higher conditions humans have ever encountered because we believe this is normal and survialable for humans but venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system which means we wouldn't stand a chance to live there. In paragraph four the author talks about how venus was once largely covered with oceans and could have many different forms of life like the planet we live on today. In the middle of the paragraph, he said "Today, venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sedimentand includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters."
after reading that that i could see why scientists would take the risk of visiting venus even knowing the dangers of not ever coming back. In paragraph five he does state that it would be more toasty or humide because the temperature would be 170 degrees Fahrenheit but says the air pressure would be close around the sea level on earth. At the end of the paragraph he states "Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans."
To my conclusion, he describes it very well and gets more facts in the article. | 2 |
While technolgy is being developed as time goes by, "Making Mona Lisa Smile", is when technology wasn't good and for that, no one couldn't tell what she's feeling before FACS (facial action coding system) revealed her hidden feelings. Having a technology that can read expressions is valuable and should be allowed. There aren't many affects to it and it would help many people to express or show at least a sign or a feeling.
before feelings were being revealed and shown by a machine, people we're already talented and smart enough to tell one another faces. In the article, the author told us that it's not hard to tell when someone is either sad or happy, "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." this quote provides us information that looking at someone's face can give us a lot of hints, even if they try to aviod it or show it. which means it is natural for somone to know notice it while some can't. Another thing that the author tells us is that the muscles are visible and that there's nothing to hid when parts of our faces gives the viewer an opourtunity to either guess or say what they see, " To an expert, faces don't lie; these muscles clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity isn't being truthful." this quote perfectly explains that there are many majors and units where it deals with the muscles and movement in our bodiues. It's easy to tell with or without parts of the face showing.
Lastly, the machine. As technology increases, a machine called Facial Action Coding System, solved it better than using our proper eyes. Dr. Paul Eckman, who combined his thoughts to create the machine, and Dr. Huang, who helped Dr. Paul Eckman build the machine, helped themselves and others to know the hidden feelings of Mona Lisa and sooner will be used on others. In the article, it talks about how Da vinci made Mona Lisa look different while he was drawing/painting her, " Yet Dr. Huang observes that the artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions." this quote means that Da Vinci was smart enough to switch up on the painting and made it seem so realistic and looked like she's going through a lot.
While the readers recieve a lot of information about the technology and how it works, "Making Mona Lisa Smile", was more of a for than against. There's nothing wrong using it while its helping scientist know what's going on inside a person's mind. Not enough of against dosen't mean this article is not helpful, it can still be helpful and especially for those who are for it. Technology is helpful and valuable to many subjects or topics. | 2 |
HEY YOU!, you should join the seagoing cowboy program because. If you would like travelling mabe you hould go with here is why. Also if you like contestes and roff stuff you should go with. Also if you like horuses you should go with here is why.
You can see excavated castle in Crete and panama canal in on the way to china and acropolis in Greece. Also explorer Europe and China , gondola ride Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water. Also fed, gron, muck stales that the horses were in.
You can find fun on board, especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. You can play baseball, volleyball games in empty holds where animals were. Also table-tennis tournamennts, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games to pass the time.
You can also help people because the war put them to rounes and the animals will help them live. Also saves people from dieing and starving. You need to be strong and kind and helpful. That is why you sould be a seagoing cowboy. | 1 |
The "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the autor suggests that studing Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents and I agree there are many reasons why I agree and ill be telling you some. The reason why i agree to the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is because like it said in the text on paragraph 2 "Often referred to as Earth's "twin," Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size" this means tht its like earth so we could possibly breath up there on Venus and start building stuff up there. Another reason its a worthy pursuit is that NASA is working on it already and its probably kinda close to being done so we may as well just complete it since they spent awhile on it it says this in paragraph 7 "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. In conclusion yes i agree to when the Author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. | 1 |
Imaging getting hit by a driverless car and not knowing how is to blame. "Driverless Cars Are Coming," talks about the development of driverless cars. It goes into detil about how they work, their function, and how soon they should be avaible for purcuse. Having driverless cars can negtivity effect people because they
can be dangerous,not many laws for them, and they takes a important live skill for teens.
Driverless cars can have a negtivity effect because they can be dangerous, not many laws, and they takes a important live skill for teens. These cars can be dangerous becaus they don't have the fast reflexes like humans. The sensors are also unpredictable,"they needed a whole lot of sensors" (Driverless Cars Are Coming"). With a lot of sensors who knows when one will fail, or how bad it is. Automakes made antilock brakes they, "used speed sensors at the wheels,"(Driverless Cars Are Coming") these sensor can faill. Leading to why some antilock brakes do not work proprely."human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires"(Driverless Cars Are Coming). If all the sensors worked it would only be a matter of time before someone hits something becasuse their car didn't warn them soon enough. By not having to drive you have already lost some of your alertness. Being told you need to drive and having to take over just like they, is bound to cause problems. With the transsion from computer to driver, the driver need to have enough time to esses the sution and make a decition on what they are going to do, If the car is going too fast, then the driver will not have time to decied. In the article it says "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars"(Driverless Cars Are Coming). Without anylaws to control these cars, or how and what is developed in them they are most to be more umpredictoble. Without any laws they have to follow the creators of the cars can do crazy things. These driverless car can take a impotrant life skill away from teens. The childeren are the future, with driverless cars on the horision, people will think, they don't need to drive this young. There for raising the age for being able to drive so they will have less experence when they do start driving.
Is having driverless cars really a good ideal because they are dangerous, there are not many laws for them, and they take away a important life skill for teens. The development of these cars contune today, some componeis even plan to have a car ready by the year 2020. With that inmind we will have to change some current laws. Do you think this is really worth out time, money and effort? | 2 |
The author, has a very good amount of information on why venus is a very worthy persuit and talks about how venus is the "most Earth like planet" in our solar sytem. Venus is the closest planet in density and size and is sometimes the closest in distance to Earth. Scientists belived, that venus has been supported by various life forms long ago. The author, talks about how so many projects have been sent to venus and so many have failed to comeback to Earth and also mentions that there are so many factors that contribute to Venus as a challenging planet for humans to study there obviously has to be a reason why it is such a difficult planet to study.
The author, mentions so many reasons why venus has many dangers that contribute to it and did a good job on telling why it is such a dangerous planet as he mentions Venus is one of the brightest points in the sky, The tempertures average over 800 degress in Fahrenheite, or that Venus has 90 times greater atomic pressure then earth does. Also makes a point that Venus is a very dangerous planet and is trying to tell us that their must be a reason why Venus is so dangerous and thats why he makes a great observation on why Venus is a worthy pursuit.
In conclussion the author, did a good job on telling why Venus should be continued to be studied. The author, gave many good facts on the planet Also, told that many projects have been sent to Venus but have failed to be brought back to Earth. The author also talked about how venus is one of the only planets in the solar system to possibly have various life forms on the planet and also talks about how challenging of planet is that NASA is working on ways to just get the macines back to Earth. | 1 |
Cars are a very important invention that helps people get from point A to point B. However, they are only good inventions at a limited use. Cars polute the air when everyone is using them in a city, and they also cause multpiple traffic jams and a great deal of stress to the users.
Paris has done the right thing foor the enviorment and the community, They have banned driving on mondays and tuesdays, and the cars are selected through even and odd license plates. This was a very good move, ever since paris satarted limiting automobile use, Smog has gone down 60 percent. This is most definitely proof that cars polute the air. Paris even made it better for the people who did not have cars for the day, by offering free public transportation during the weekdays.
Germany has also made an effort to limit automobile use by starting a community that has almost zero cars. Cars are forbidden in Vauban, Germany. 70 percent of the people in this city do not own cars and rely on bikes, scooters, and public transportation to get them around. A woman from source 1 says, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." this shows that people were not forced to be here for an experiment, it shows that life without cars, or at least a very limited ammount of them, can be very beneficial to not just the enviorment, but also the induvidual lives of the people that it is affecting. The city of Vauban has made an effort to be very dense and they have stores that are next to the residential area so citizens can walk there and not drive.
Bogota, Columbia is a revolutionary city that has made the decision to have a "no car day". Yu would think these people would not be very fond of the idea, but people are very excited for this day. The citizens wwere so excited that on the third celebration of this habitat saving day, it was a very rainy and moist day but the people were still ready to clean the air so they biked, skated, and used public transportation in the rain. Neighboring cities even fancied the idea of this new idea, and decided to join the festivities and had there own "no car day". This change is growin more and more popular since it gives people a sense of communtiy and cleanliness when they are not spreading smog around everywhere, and even more people continue to join in on this revolutionary idea.
Cars were once "the next big thing" and now, they are getting old. This is statistically shown, according to Doug Short's analysis, that as of April 2013, the number of miles driven per person dropped nine percent from wher ethe country was in 1995. Less teens are getting there license too, they are thinking of smarter ways to carpool and ways that they can walk to school and work. The largest ammount of people that are getting their license are older people renewing theirs. The hype of cars is starting to die down becaus epeople are either getting bored of them, or realizing it is hurting planet earth, is more beneficial, and most certainly cheaper to go with a bike. | 2 |
The author does not support their idea of Venus being a planet worth exploring despite the risk and dangers very well. There are examples or facts that the author provides to the reader that are sometimes insignifigant to the point. The author also provides information that is very detrimental to their claim and only makes their aruement weaker. The reason why the information is detrimental is because the author fails to give any counter arguement that would be convincing enough to to at least have the reader understand their side.
To start, in the third paragraph the author list many reasons why Venus is difficult to explore and ather information on. Later in the fourth paragraph the author talks about how enthusiastic scientist are to explore the planet and how it may have been like Earth at some point. If the author were to reorganize the fourth paragraph giving the teorey that Venus was once like Earth and then going on to give the inputs of scientist it would have made more sense going into the fifth paragraph. In paragraph five the author writes about how NASA has ideas on how scientist can observe Venus without entering its toxic and dangerous enviornment. The author also explains the conditions the scientist would be under if they were to make this idea a reality and said conditions would make any who oppose this idea less open to the thought than they already are, which is not the point of the article. In paragraph six the author talks about how while scientist could observe Venus if they were to go through with the plan NASA has it would ultimatly be for nothing as scientist would have no way to gather information worth sending back.
The author does have points that support the claim but said points were either useless to the overall idea or were organized in a poor manner. The author also provides arguements that counter their claim and says nothing to counter those arguements back. The author also talks about human exploratiom in the article but it essientially amounts to nothing. The reason why is because the author later goes on to talk about machines on the planet itself making most of the information provided before hand obselete. If the author left most of the article out the claim may have actually been supported well although the information provided woul have been lackluster. | 2 |
So, you have read the article Unmasking the Face on Mars, am i right? Well, I have some theories of my own, and I can assure you that Cydonia on mars, is not a face or anything extra-terrestrial.
My first reason as to why Cydonia on mars isnt a face is, well have you ever looked at the moon? Ever notice that when the moon if full, you see a face? Scientists in the past have been to the moon on investigations. While they were there they have proven that the face on the moon was just a bunch of craters. It is most likely that the face on mars is just creaters, or a mesa too.
My second reason is, things in outer space pictures are going to be a lot bigger than in reality. Take the sun for an example, we see the sun ten times smaller than it really is. If the sun was just as small as we presume it is, then how would planets, that are thousands of light years away, possibly get warm?
The final picture they took on April 5,1998, actually showed the Martain equivalent of a buttle or mesa. Buttles and mesas are landforms common around the American west. "It reminds me most of Middle Buttle in the Snake River Plain of Idaho" says Garvin. "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa, about the same hieght as the Face on Mars." The Snake River in Idaho is basically evidence that Cydonia isnt really a face and that is was just a buttle, or mesa.
My third and final reason is, that all planets start off as a big ball of rock, meteors, and astroids that collide with each other. The possiblities of a ball of rock, a planet, having left over craters from all of the collisions, is very high. If, somewhere way far out in space, or even just one planet away, wouldn't we have had a lot more pictures, videos, and newspaper articles about aliens?
This is only three theories backed with evidence, and I'm sure that if you talk to any other of these wonderful scientists at NASA, that they can also provide more reasons with more evidence. Thus, I really hope that these reasons help you clearify that Cydonia is not a sign of Extra-Terrestrial activity. | 2 |
While getting your first car may feel like a wonderful thing, it leads to many not as wonderful situations such as having to constantly pay money for gas, repairs, and insurance, getting in wrecks, and having to worry about how to get places efficiently. there is an answer to these problems that has been in the making for years, this wonderful innovation in technology is called the driverless car. These cars will be able to drive anywhere without human assistance and will be open to the public much like taxis. They are safer and more economically effiecient than regular human-driven cars.
There will be no need to own cars anymore with the invention of this new car of the future. This means many great things for the saving of money. It means that people will no longer have to worry about paying for gas or repairs to their car, because they will not have a car. They instead will have free access to public driverless cars which will take them anywhere they want. this also means that people will not have to be responsible for such an expensive piece of equipment such as a car of their own.
Driverless cars will also make great bounds in the ideaology of vehicular safety. They will be equipped with many sensors and cameras on their exterior and interior to sense any danger and be able to prevent it in a moments notice without endangering anybody as recalled from paragraph four in the article. These cars will also be driving themselves, a situation that will take away the risk factors that are commonly associated with human-driven cars such as texting while driving and impaired driving due to alcohol or drugs. All of these factors lead to the conclusion that there will certainly be less and maybe even no wrecks with these amazing driverless cars.
Driverless cars will also make way for a much more economically efficient transportation system. As mentioned in paragraph one, these cars are said to consume about half as much gasoline as a normal human-driven car. This is in part due to the cars having a built-in GPS system that will guide the cars to the destination in the fastest possible route. Also, there are more economically friendly cars that are being sold now and these driverless cars will resemble those cars, but with even more economic efficiency and the extra perk of having the ability to drive itself.
All these perks of driverless cars are outstanding innovations in the technology of today, so why would we not take the opportunity to incorporate these into our daily lives?
Driverless cars are the future and the future is now, so out with the old human-driven cars and in the with the new, more economically efficient, safer, and cheaper driverless cars. | 3 |
The Seagoing Cowboys is mostly about helping other countries. We help them take care of the horses. They give us hay, and seeds to feed the horses.
We had to feed the horses, and cleaned there stables. If you like helping people, and animals than join. You have night watches each night, and you get to check on the horse each hour. We helped other countries such as China, Greece, Crete, and Europe. You also get to ride a boat called the SS Charles W.
You would get some spare time to go sightseeing. You would get to cross the Atlantic Ocean. On the return trips you get to play games. The games are baseball, volleyball, table tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, and whittling. You get to meet new people. You could make some friends from different countries.
You still have to be careful on the boat. Makes sure you don't slip. If you want to go over seas to help other countries this is the thing to do. | 1 |
It is vary dangerous to explore it because because of the extream heat and the high pressurebut i think it would be worth it. I think it is a vary interesting planit because i would like to know if there is any other life than what is on earth. I dont think that earth is the only inhabbited planet.
In The Challenge of Exploring Venus the author says there are valleys, mountains, and craters. I think it would be nice if they could think of a way to explore venus but i dont know if that will happen because we might not be advanced enough. If we where able to get on the planet with out dieing we might find out that there was life on it or there might still be life on there that had to adapt to the envierment.
There are alot more planets out in the univers we shout see how far we can get. We might find other planets with life on them. I dont think we should just focus on this one planet. All they are doing is waisting recources on one planet that they could be using on other panets. | 1 |
The making of the FACS was not to good of an idea because what if somebody want's to be left alone and does'nt wan't you to know their emotains? It's kind of cool but eveybody is'nt the same this might affend people because your going into someones personal life now. It states that "Hold on! Can we actually "calculate" emotions like math homework? And how can a computer recognize the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we feel?" That was a great statement because, i could smile in a picture but actually be hurting inside how can a computer tell that?
I don't think that this will help in schools, or the future. Why would we need FACS when you have your own mindset that can tell you how your feeling? Also friends can tell when one is up or down there are many ways to know the humans emotions without using a computer. I think it's just going into someones personal life without asking and thats never ok. There are many things that we need on Earth but, the creating of FACS is not one.
My introduction is respect others the way you want to be respected. | 1 |
Using technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because it could help students learn in ways that suit them, prevent students from getting angry or stressed, and make them feel valued.
The article says that the computer would be able to tailor lessons to suit each students needs based on what emotions they're showing. This could greatly improve a student's education. A lot of students don't seek help if they get behind or don't understand something, the Facial Action Coding System could help them out by recognizing their confusion and changing the lesson to best suit them.
Speaking of emotions, the Facial Action Coding System would be able to prevent students from getting too angry or too stressed. If a student is showing strong negative emotions, the FACS could notify someone or tell the student to take a break.
Many students hide their negative emotions in a classroom, for fear of looking bad amongst their peers. The FACS could help students, by acknowleding their emotions and change the lesson or the atmosphere. Overall this could boost both grades and school attendence, by making students feel valued, like someone cares about their feelings.
Using the Facial Action Coding System in schools could be a valuable asset to education. It could help students improve, keep them from getting too upset, and make them feel valued. | 3 |
Everyone think's that it is a face that was created by aliens but its not. The thing that appears to be a face is not a face it is simply a natural landform. It is a natural landform because on April 5, 1998, global surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time and snapped a photo of the so called alien artifact. Their photo was ten times better than the original Viking photo so that meant they could get a better view out of it. After looking over the photo they found out that is was no alien arttifact.
But people were not satisfied. So on april 8, 2001 a summer day in Cydonia the global surveyor drew closer for a second look. As they rolled the spacecraft 25 degress to the center of the
face they took an extrordinary photo. Using the cameras absolute maximum resolution for the photo. That means for each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo.
You can discern things in a digital photo 3 times bigger than the pixel size. So that means if the human lookin landform was an alien artifact u would be able to see airplans on the ground. Egyption-stye pyramids, and even small shacks. But what the phoyo acually shows is the Martian equivalent to a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West. | 2 |
In my opinion the author did support his idea.The author wrote about the challenge of exploring venous, In the essay he typed he covered some key points about how life is there and how he thinks that there might had been living things and oceans there before. He also talks about how NASA is working on other approaches to studying venous. In which he also says in the text that "travels on earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts."
In paragraph three he talks about the atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets. It also says that the planets surface, the temperatures average over eight hundred degrees Fahrenheit which is most then its expected to be here in earth. It aslo talks about the atmospheric pressure being 90 times greater than what we experience in our planet. Which in this case he is trying to explain how the living conditions in venous are, which are " More extreme tha human encounter on earth." Basically the author covers the temperature and the state of living in venous, but he also talks about how NASA is working on other approaches to study venous..
The author wrote that " The National Aeronautics and Space administration" (NASA) are trying to send humans to study venous, and he continues talking about ways that NASA would allow scientists to float above the fray, which some people would believe that it's impossible. He gives examples of how jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude in order to fly over many storms and how they could manage a vehicle hovering over venous that could avoid the unfriendly ground coditions...etc
Not only did he talk about NASA'S plan but at the end of his argument he stated " Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors..." I agree with the author on this one because not only are humans interested in what could be there they're interested in what type of form life there is surviving in those types of weather and living conditions.
In conclusion in my opinion the author did support his idea. The author wrote about the challenge of exploring venous, in the essay/argument he typed he covered some key points about how life is there and how he thinks there might had been living things and oceans there before. He also talks about how NASA is working on other approaches to studying venous. In which he also says in the text that " Travels on earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts." | 3 |
I disagree that this Facial Action Coding System is benefical for the classroom. There are many things about this that could go wrong. This type of tecnonly would not be valuable to our schools.
Although all of the facial recognition sounds good, there are some parts to it that could be bad. There are many things that could turn out to be negative. Here is a question to think about: Is he downgradeing teachers? In the sixth paragraph Dr. Huang of the Beackman Institute for Adveanced Science predicts, "A classroom computer could recgonize when a student is becomeing confused or bored", he continues with, "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." I believe he is trying to say that teachers don't do enough so we have to bring in a computer instructor to make it less boring. This is not only bad for the students, but also the teachers.
This also can be a distraction in class. While the teacher is giving a lecture about an important skill that students need to learn, there are students in the back of the classroom trying to mess around with the facial coding system by trying different faces and causing a disruption. Kids are easily distracted and this is just another distraction from keeping kids engaged and focused on the studies that they will need for the rest of their life.
While a child is learning, for instance, a math program site, they could be trying to get in it but there are ads that pop up ,in paragrah 6 it states that "if you smile when a Web ad apperars on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." If a child looks away from the computer at his/her friend to wait for he ad to be over that he/she doesn't want, and smiles while glancing down to the screen to see if the ad is over, the computer could take this as a happy signal for the ad. So then it will play another one that is similar to the ad that the child did not want.
So, no, I do not believe that this technology would be a very good tool to express in the classroom. I believe that there are lots of things that could go wrong, and not enough right. I don't think that this Coding System would be valuable to our schools. | 3 |
I think we should keep the Electoral College. For one reason is its in our Constitution. You cant just go back and erase it off the Constitution. The other thing is you have to be an qualified citizen. Sorry but i dont want a comenest to vote for our president.
The Electoral college restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportonment of the senate decreed in the constitution. So your getting back some of what you put in, it is a win win situation. If you keep the Electoral college you get certainty of out come. A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible it happend in 2000.
Everyones president. The electoral college requries a presidential candidate to have a transregional appeal. No region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. The electoral college can be argued that its method of selecting the president my turn off voters for a candidate who has no hope of carring there state.
you can also avoid run off elections. The Electoral college avoids the oroblems of and election. Like when Nixion and Clinton both had 43 percent plurality of popular votes, while winning a majority in Electoral college.
This is my reasons why i would keep the Electoral college. | 2 |
we know that driving from one to another is easier but their is alot of disadvantges of that. There are many good things that come out of limiting car usage.
In the text "in german suburb, life goes on without cars" they mention that we have to do with alot of the pollution in the air from driving. if we limit ourselves with driving then we can help the atmosphere become less polluted. It also states that when you have a car you become more tense because of the other drivers driving around you. When you limit yourself in car and walking around it mentions you become alot happier.
Driving from place to place you tend to get caught in traffic jams and it can become very stressfull but in the article "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Botgota" they say if you walk, bike, skate, or anything that doesnt involve a car, you can avoid all of the traffic. With less cars in the streets there are less car accidents with other cars or people. Having this kind of adjustment you could save a life with this doing. There are different ways to getting to work or school without everyone having to use a car. In "The end of the car culture" it states that you could take public transportation or car pool with friends and family.
In the end there are many positive outcomes of not always having to rely on a car. Many people could even get healthy from walking to work or school besides sitting in a car and not doing anything. Yes it is nice having a car to take you everywhere but its not benefiting the atmosphere or your body. Many people forget how nice it is to walk around and enjoy the outside without any traffic or road rage on the streets. Its your decision in the end wether want to limit yourself driving but now you could understand the other ways without having to stress and worry about the other drivers hitting you or you getting to an accident. Life becomes easier. | 2 |
How can NASA want to hide this evidence if they wish there was an ancient civilization? The people that think that are conspiracy theorists. They dont have any evidence that NASA would hide this. If they wanted to hide it why would they give it out to the public a few days after they found it? Lets talk about where the face is located.
Many other Martian Mesas are in that area so it wouldnt be surprising if it was just another one. All though it would be enchanting to find out that there is life on Mars, the land mass is not enough evidence to support that theory that aliens or some sort of life built the face. Lets talk about the size of the face.
The face is too big to be a face of someone or something anyways. Unless there is a new species on Mars that is that big or maybe it is a ancient burial site like the ones that the egyptions made. The pictures would be able to see any life next to the face. They would be able to see if there were any shacks maybe house or aircrafts of some sort. Lets talk about what scientists think.
The Snake river Plain of Idaho is about the same size as the face and it reminds him of it. The face could have just been a couincadince. The face also could not have been. Small meteors could have crashed into the mesa to create the facial features of the face. In pictures of the face you can see a lot of different crates next to it. There a small craters and large craters. it wouldn't be surprising if it got hit by a crater.
You can believe that aliens or some sort of life form have created the face or you can believe that it is just natural. The choice is yours. But before you make asumptions you should do your research first. Those are the main facts that i can give you to make a disition on your own. You might even end up doing more research. If you find any facts that can support your claim that a life form has created this please let me know. | 2 |
The United States is a democratic country where the people decide on a leader through voting, or so it's supposed to be. We Americans use something called the Electoral College, where a state is worth a certain amount of points, and when you win that state for your party, you gain those points. I find this to be unfair, because you could win by popular vote, but lose because the opposing party won the states with the biggest number of points. I think that the Electoral College should be removed and replaced with popular vote only. It would make elections more fair, and it would make peoples' votes feel like they change something.
When you go to vote, you don't actually vote for the candidate, you vote for a group of people who in turn vote for the candidate. I find this to be ineffective, because the people you are voting for are still able to switch there vote to the other party, and humans aren't the most honest things on Earth. Also, there is the feeling of being important that you get when you think that you could tip the scale, it makes you feel special, and in control of your own country. What's the point of voting if there's a chance it might not matter, because the other party just won California, the state with the most amount of points, 55, and you couldn't do anything because you live in Idaho or North Dakota, with only three little points. Popular vote would make you feel involved, and happy to help.
As I stated before, each state has an amount of points based on the population, which in turn affect how much you help your desired party. Seems reasonable, right? You would think that the more the population, the more impact it has on the election. That's right, but it's also unfair because states that have noone living there could all vote for one party, but it wouldn't help that much, unless the points were close and that state tipped the scale. But big states, like California, Texas, and Florida have some of the most points, so if you were to win those, you already have more than one hundred points. Candidates would try to just seek out those jumbo prizes and systematicaly try to win the largest behind "the Big Four". If someone was reading this and wanted the Electoral College, they could say that the big states would still have an advantage with more voters, and that is right, but they wouldn't be as big of prizes. So the election turns from a voice of the people, speaking up for a new leader, and turns into a mad chase to get the biggest prizes before the other party, like a game of Monopoly. In Monopoly, you buy areas with your money, and when someone lands on that space you own, they have to pay you. The places ath the end of the board have the priciest cost, but the best outcome. You can also build property on spaces to make the enemy players pay more. If you were to buy those, you practically win the game. On the other hand, the spaces at the begining are basiclly worthless, costing about 100 dollars and giving you about 1000. Those are like the small states, that have almost no value to the election, and the big states are worth a lot.
In America, the people should be able to feel responsible for their country's future, and not feel as if their state doesn't matter. My own words might not be able to change peoples' minds, but I'm sure the votes aren't tied. | 4 |
Mr. and Mrs. Smith get prepared for the elections, which is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. They're both really assured on who they are electing, Mr. Keen, the remarkable Republican canidate. Mr. Keen would most definitely operate in Mr. and Mrs. Smiths' favor, due to the fact that Keen offers a convinient medical insurance for they're family, opposes of abortion and is projecting sites for the unemployed individuals. Clearly, candidate Mr. Keen is a go for the Smiths' family, but what if they're doomed of their vote not getting qualified due to the systems', such as the Electoral College? The Electoral College is a ominous process, due to the fact that voters vote not for the president, but for a state of electors, disvalues ones' citizenship rights and it's going to influence the country of not voting.
Firstly, the Electoral College is a cynical process where not everyones' vote is taking account of. Imagine, voting in the upcoming election in vain knowing that organizations that only select the votes of one entire state, unconsious of the other millions individuals in the other surplus of the nation exist. The possibility of the one in fifty states choosing majorly one particular candidate, is highly risky for the goverment, and no one should permit putting in risk the goverment with this stubborn prefrence of electoral votes. Incontestably, the Electoral College System, is not a method of voting that should be unresposibly utilized to advantage the four years of presidency. Secondly, voting is a stupendous privilege that allows' one to vote in the adulthood stage. Perhaps, because in the adulthood stage one is aware of all the current economic situations and one is noticable of the advantages a former president can serve them. The former citizens' privileges are unfortunately disvalued lately, with the Electoral College system. It's dreadful that the anticipation a legal individual once awaited on, can no longer be celebrated or reinacted, with this fashion of electing states, that manage the majority votes of the respective candidate. Can voters control whom their electors vote for? That results in a false and negative answer. Thence, it is more than clear that the old-fashion and benevolent method of regrouping all the cadenced voices of all the recievable votes is appropate and suitable for the public and president. Thirdly, the Electoral college influences countries to not participate in the privilege of voting. Once the citizens, have the knowledge of these unprudent organizations, voting is going to be outlooked as an petition, that isn't necessary of taking toll of. Due to the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance in winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing'' states. The pending thought, that ones' state might be chosen out of the many, is certainly doubtful. The Electoral College, can upbring wins in the popular votes but lost in the presidency, these democracies need to be abolished because it should be a doubt that the President and the opposed public, should be uncondemed of. Clearly, the definition of this service is dooming and should be reinforced from the Constitution, to prevent the countrys' votes from going unknown. It is at time, at last, to conclude all the disadvantages of the Electoral College in one, it's ominous due to the fact that the public votes not for the president, but for a state of electors, disvalues ones' citizenship rights and influences' the country of not voting. The opression against the Electoral College, has it's witty motives. As we all know, the most popular partys are the Republic and Democrat. If the Electoral College, only selects one state out of the entire nation, that allows one states, that carries one culture of people to form the regimen of the rules of that successful party. No goverment, should suit this fashion, because it isn't right in any shape or form. | 2 |
What are some advantages of limiting car usage? Some may say that there is no advantages but many would like to differ, Some advantages that we would have would be less polution , Smog, or even a chance to exercise . But lets talk about polution. Polution takes a major affect on the world and many people might not see this, but limiting car usage can help prevent this . Polution is constantly harming us and the world around us. It destroys are Ozone Layer, causes smog , and much more. And if limiting car usage can help prevent this why not? This is when todays socity kicks in to play. In todays socity some people are just to lazy i'm not saying im not guilty of this
However , i'm not saying that anyone is. See some people decide to take there cars wherever they go, even if it is just three to four blocks down the road. If we just decide to walk more maybe we can reduce polution. Let's say that you have a local Walmart or Supper store about a one mile radious away from were you live and all you need is a gallon of milk or just something to eat, im not saying spending over three hundred in grocries. Just something little why not just walk it? Now im not saying that if there was an emergancy like your kid got in an accident or your wife is in labor to walk them to the hostbitol. You should be able to use your car in those types of situations. But Like i said If we all do that for the little things we might just be able to stop polution.
Other ways to prevent this from happening? In source three the passage written by:
Selsky, Andrew it talks about a car free day! This would be an Excelent way to help prevent smog and air polution. But to make this take a major impact on the world is to get everybody to do this. not just a few states but the whole contry. This will benifit the world and you more then you might think. In passage one written by:
Rosenthal, Elisabeth there was a statement made,
"How much you drive is as important as whether you have a hybrid."
. This stood out to me because a hybrid is an electrive operated car and some of these cars don't take or burn any fosil fules . Wich will also help prevent all of the affects cars have on the world and us. In conclusion , We should all try to walk around a little more then use are cars for little things we should all try to be a little more active and help prevent the world from getting worst then it all ready is! | 2 |
Venus, they say is our twin planet. Earth and Venus are close in density and size. Venus is sometimes easy to see from Earth. The planet is very diffilcult to study closely. NASA one day wants to have human life on Venus. One day maybe life will be better on Venus than Earth.
NASA has been trying to get a spacecraft to stay on Venus more than a few hours. "On the planet's
surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit." As stated in the story. Venus has carbon dioxide clouds over the planet. "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such a valleys, mountains, and craters." As stated in the text.
NASA may have more imformation on how one day Venus could have humans on the planets in the furture. The story states that " Many reasearchers are working on innovations that would allow our mahcines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowlege. More information will lead NASA to more ways of getting infoamtion of Venus and possibily a camera up there to see what the planet looks like. A lot of people are curious about the twin planet. | 1 |
United States of America, the land of the people right? When people think of America they think of freedom, so isn't it our job to keep it that way? With our electoral college, the people of America aren't truly given the right to where their vote matters. The electoral college has so many flaws such as the disaster factor, risk of a tie, and even how unfair it is to our countries voters.
The disaster factor is the risk that the electors could always defy the will of the people. The electors are picked by state legislatures, so it could easily happen where electors disobey the right citizens have and do what they choose, or the legislatures replace electors with malificent unpatriotic electors that will try to cheat the vote. How is that fair to us? Knowing that thousands and thousands of voters dedicate their time to focusing on which candidate is truly the most deserving, proactive, and thoughtfull. "Back in 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. 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..."
The Office of the Federal Register . Here was a time where had already been done, and it is sure to happen again.
Overall the electoral college is completely unfair with so many different problems that over rule the right of ther people. For example, "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..."
The Office of the Federal Register , this shows how it is not really fair to all the states as even if the popular vote comes close, the winning candidate takes all the electoral votes.
It is possible as well for the electoral votes to tie for both candidates, in which case if this were to happen it would be a catastrophe, as the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president. "...the single representative from Wyoming, representing 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representatives from Calfornia, who represent 35 million voters"
The Office of the Federal Register . The population difference between the two is beyond comparable with California exceeding Wyoming with over 30 million voters. And to know that the two states would each get one vote? How is that, in any way possible, fair to American voters.
With so many problems with the electoral college and it being unimaginably unjust, the common thought would be how could this possibly still be the final word of our presidential election. If the Disaster factor, risk of a tie, and undoubting unfairness still haven't woken up our government, then how far and much destruction of our country's freedom will it take for the United States of America to truly be, the land of the people. | 3 |
As I have read the passage I believe these "driveless cars" are very safe and may even be very productive. Not that just anyone can own the driveless car. I think you should have to pass
some sort of test to be able to qualify into buying this car.
We might even be able to save many more lives, by helping to prevent accidents as we have the car to help us navigate throughout our destination. The driveless car could help you through traffic as well.
As well I also believe they could be very dangerous on my other half. If someone were to be in the car and almost in a accident and the driveless cars system didn't know how to react to the oncoming collision I think the out come of the crash could be even more worse then someone getting a normal
car crash.
As the passage says the Google cofounder Sergey Brin, believes a future with a public transportation system of driveless cars would fundumentally change the world. "Mercedes-Benz, Audi,and Nissan plan to have cars that can drivethemselves by 2020." I would hope they have a plan to every system faliure. How would the car react with a human body faliure while the car is in no chance of self driving? How would the car be 10% of the time when the person has to take to take over for that time pieord and cannot?
Driveless cars just seem to be something that can take very many years to fix and operate, update and upgrade on. | 2 |
In our world today, having the biggest fanciest car on the street is important to some people. But think to yourself for a minute. What is the point? Cars mow down your wallet, Cars are harmful to the enviorment, And lastly cars take up way to much room.
In Freiburg Car ownership is allowed but there are only two places to park your car, Both are on the edges of the development. In order to own one of those spots the car-owner " buys a space for $40,000, along with the cost of the home. " This is an Outrageous price just to park a car. If you didnt have that car You would be saving $40,000 dollars alone. You could use this for your childrens college or even house renovations. As a result of this, " 70% of families do not own cars, and 57% sold there car to move here. "
In addititon, we all know that cars are harmful to the enviorment. But why do we still use them? Well i can tell you the answer to theat question, Because we are just to lazy. " Passenger cars are responsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. And up to 50% in some car- intensive areas around the united states. "
Lastly, even though cars have reduced in size from many years ago, they still take up way to much room in our garages. " Precepts are being adopted around the world in attempts to make suburbs more compact and accesible to public transportation, with less space for parking. " What is the point of having a car in an area where you cant even park it. If you dont have a car you have more starage in a garage. Then you wont have to spend even more money on a storage unit.
To sum everything up, There are just to many downsides io having a car in your Life. Cars are way to expensive, Cars are harmfyul to our our already fragile enviorment, and cars take up valuble space. " All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car, And that will have to change. " The real question is, Will you make the change? | 2 |
There are many ways a person can get from one place to another whether it is by bus, plane, train or car. Car and truck transportation is one of the leading causes in air polution. Ruducing the use of cars will be beneficial to the public, not only on the streets, but to the citizens themselves.
To start off, the reduction of cars on the streets will cause less stress to the people who drive them. For example, in Source 1 it shows how a woman is happier and the loss of her car has changed her life for the better. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," she says. The tension of being in a car and waiting in traffic can be stressful and cause people to get impatient, grumpy, and even irritated. The woman proves that her life has changed because she doesn't have to go through that anymore. Her car-less life is the one that makes her happy.
Besides that, not only does car reduction cause better mood for people, but it also lessens the air pollution and makes the enviornment cleaner and better for people to live in. According to Source 4, "If the pattern persists- and many sociologists believe it will- it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the enviornment, since transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions, just behind power plants." This proves that when cars are being used less, there is also less carbon emission into the air and that is helpful to the enviornment. This benefits and makes the air cleaner and safer to breathe.
Now with every thing good, there is always a bad. In source 2 it is explained how the delivery companies were complaining of lost revenue. Yes, this will be a problem with the delivery companies, but there are other ways of transporting goods to their destination such as by train, boat etc. Also in Source 2 there were arrangements made for the the cars to go out on certain days, so the delivery companies' problems were not all that bad. The reduction of cars benefits the public more than it what it hurts.
The results of limiting car usage has been greatly proven through studies done (in source 4) and it is believed that it should continue to be limited and or reinforced. The people are happier, the enviornment is safer and the air is clean. There is more help than there is hinder and soon it will be seen throughout the world that cars are better in the garage. | 3 |
Cars thery're every where, and people use cars to get from point A to point B. Cars are very important in the lives of many people all over the world. Cars are efficiant and help to get the job done. People often only seem to look at jus the postive sides of cars, but yet tend to oversee the down falls of how the use of cars can have in a persons life. the use of cars many have a few postive aspects but the negatives out way the good. The use of cars effect the enviorment negatively in a big way, also the use of cars tends to cause people stress that a person might not be aware their going through. The limting of the use of cars is something people must take upoon themselves to look at.
The envorement its all around us, it provides us with the basic nesscities we need to survive the envoirment provides us with oxygen that we need to breathe and food that we need to eat. The use of cars is threating the enviorment. Cars realse Co2 or carbondioxy into the enviorment causeing the air to be come polluted. Accoriding to an article tittled "paris bans driving due to smog" writen by Robert Duff. Duff writes about how Paris Frances air had become so polluted due to the realse of co2 admsions that the govenerment had to enforce a band on the use of cars until the smog in the air cleared up. The main casue of the smog in the air was the diesls found in the cars used in France, due the fact that France has a Tax policy that draws towards the use of diesles over gasoline. Accrording to Duffer "diesels makes up 67 percent of vehicles in France, compared to53.3 percent average of diesle engins in the rest of Western Europe, according to Reuters."
In the article Duffer explains how the most ppopulated cities are the ones with the the smog or air pollution. Cities like Beijing and China have alot of smog in the air is because of the use of cars. The use of cars have a very negative impact on the enviorment. Countries all over the world are taking a step foward towards limting their use on cars due to effcts its has. In an acrticle called In German Suburb, Life Goes on Without Cars writen by Elisabeth Rosenthal talks about an upscaled coummunity in called Vauban Germany where people have given up theirs cars. In Vauban's 70 percent of the families that resided in vaubans don't own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move into the community. Even though alot of the resdients of Vauband dont use car some still due. Ownig a car is still allowed vauband uses large garages where people can store thier cars,but a person must first pruchase a parking space for $40,000 first. While some cars are still used in the comuntiy walk or bycicle as thier means of transportation. Vauband is a prime example of of a postive growing trend. Vauband helps to reduce the green house gas emissions cars give off.
While cars can cause harm to the enviorment, cars can also cause people stress that they themsleves don't know they're dealing with. Accoriding to a a qoute found in In german Suburb, Life goes on without Car. Heidrun Walter exprees how without casr lifes is happier "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." another qoute found in Car-free day is spinnig into a big hit in Bogota says "Its a good opportunity to take away stress an lower air pollution" said a businessman Carlos Arturo. Carlos was speaking about a day set aside where the use of cars is not permited in Colombia. Cars casue people to feel as if thier lifes revole around cars. Pepole didnt notice the effect that cars had on thier lives until they didnt have to undergo the use f cars. | 3 |
I think that people should join the Seagoing Cowboy program because you can take care of horses, young cows, and mules that wereshipped overseas.
My first reason is that in August 1945, the recieved their orders to report the New Orleans. They arrived August 14, the day the Pacificcwar ended. They got their seaman's papers and boarded the SS Charles W. Wooster, headed for greece-with a cargo of 335 horses plus enough hay and oats to feed them.
My second reason is that the cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy. It tooko about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China.
My final reason is that I would go because I love horses and mules. Horses are so cozy and fluffy to me. Mules are entertaining to me as well as Horses too. They are to adorable and huge.
That's why I would want to go. I would want to touch Horses and Mules. | 0 |
Should driverless cars be made? No beacuse a driverless car cant do everything a person in the car can do. Yea driverless cars can drive themselfs but then the human in the car has to take over because the driverless car cant go around everything. Such as a road blocks. It can give directions to get around them but cant do it by themselfs.
A driverless car can do great things but whats going to happen when the car cant do things its suppost to do. What I mean is what if the car is on the highway and it sarts to malfunction and it starts doing thing on the road that can get you hurt of killed. What if you dont want to drive anymore and the driverless car doesnt want to drive itself.
Now this car can be incredible or it can be a mistake. When your on the road and the driverless car is driving itself and all of a sudden boom. The car crashes into another car who would that be on or who would have to pay? You or the compony you bought the car from. See the car you bought crashed by itself because you are letting the driverless car drive itself. Now you have to pay the person that the driverless car hit because you didnt have the wheel to prevent the crash from happening.
See these cars can be good for you or bad for you to get. These cars can do good thing or thing that will make you have to pay someone almost over $1000 because you were not driving to prevent the crash from happening. This is why we shouldnt have driverless car that drive themselfs, anything can happen with driverless car driving around. | 2 |
Exploring Venus is brilliant but on the other hand there are many dangers when it comes to studying it. In order to get samples of anything researches would have to go to Venus but it's not garented they will make it back to Earth, so they have to come up with a better idea because studying Venus is worth it especially since Venus is an Earth-like planet.
The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because Venus could be the next palnet there is life on. If the researches discover that life could be held on Venus people could start traveling there and try to research more of the surface of Venus. " Long ago Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth" (Paragraph 4). There is a chance of life on Venus so thats why the author states that researching Venus is worthy despite the dangers.
Another way the author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despiting the dangers is that many reseachers are woking on making machine last long and doing some testing on them to see if the machines do last longer. " Many researches are working on innovations that would alow machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus" (paragraph 6). Those machines could study Venus for the reseachers and they wouldn't have to send anyone and risk the dangers.
Exploring Venus is a great idea but researchers should look for other things like machines, or create their own one that could survive the heat and Venus conditions so they don't have to send people and put them in danger because they don't really know what it's like there. If reserches put in hard work and study all of Venus, Venus could be the next Earth. | 2 |
Venus, otherwise known as the "Evening Star", is the closest thing to Earth as far as the base planets go. It is often called Earth's twin, even if it doesn't seem that way. The surface temperature is nearly 800 degrees Fahrenheight, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times that of Earth. This being said, scientists are still fascinated by Venus, as it could have been just like Earth long ago. Despite the dangers it presents, studying Venus is a worthy persuit because it could lead to many scientific discoveries, and set foot on another planet and gather data, and see what happened to Venus and possibly find out how to prevent it from happening to Earth.
Even getting to Venus may seem like a stretch, but keep in mind that it is at times the closest planet to us, which is important considering the long time frames of space travel. Furthermore, even with the harsh surface temperatures, there's a way around it. A vehicle hovering Venus would still be able to get data about the planet without burdening itself with the the tough conditions. Even if this can only provide limited insight, scientists are working everyday to on technology that lasts long enough to be able to get meaningful samples such as soil, rock and gas. For example, NASA has developed simplified electronics made of silicon carbide that have been tested in Venus-like conditions, and they lasted about 3 weeks in the harsh temperature and pressure. Another project is looking to the past to mechanical computers, computers that don't use electronics, but use gears and levers to make calculations. They could be made to withstand the conditions of Venus, while also taking data and making calculations for study.
Although there are many challenges that need to be overcame and scientific breakthroughs that need to be discovered before we even think about sending anything to Venus, studying Venus is a worthy persuit because of the discoveries it could hold. From regular rock and gas to preventing a catastrophe, scientists should continue to study our sister planet, and see what's really beneath the surface. | 2 |
By doing a Facial Action Coding to a classroom full of students would be different and interesring. This would be the first time anyone has done something that like. But the results could vary cause of how the students are feeling.
Say there is a girl who is having a really good day, she got asked to Prom and she said yes. It made her day and she was happy for the rest of the day. And then take a boy who was late for the bus and had to walk to school. He would be tired and upset. They both have two different emotions, so the results would be different.
Read this part of the article, "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor". If a classroom did a scan and all the students were tired, not interested, and ready to go home, the teacher could take those results and make the class more interesring for the students. The students would probably have more fun and want to do the work if the teacher made it fun and interesting for the students. But don't make it too difficult for the students cause they could shut down again.
By doing the Facial Action Coding, the result could be different for some students. But it would be fun and interesting to switch things up a bit and have while learning. By doing the Facial Action Coding, you can see how the students really feel. And it cpuld help them and you (the teacher) get a better understanding of how to teach. | 1 |
Not everyone can affored a car and not everyone ownes a car. 70 percent of vauban's families do not own cars and 57 percent sold a car to move to Vauban germany. giving up your vehicle isnt pleasent and expeacially if your streets are completly "car free". Vauban has ownly two places to park :-large garages or if a car-owner buys a space along with a home. Not everyone thinks the same about cars in Vauban/germany. A mother of two walked down the street and didnt worry about no cars coming her way or her two childrens"im much happier this way".
Automobiles are the linchipin of suburbs. A huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouses. 12 percent of greenhouses is responsible do to the passengers seat in a vehicle.50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the united states. Vauban completed in 2006 a growing trend in europe to separate suburban life from auto use "smart planning".
There have been efforts in the past two decades to make cities denser and better for walking now planners are taking the concepts to the suburbs. Vauban have 5,500 residents within the most advanced expirement in low-car suburbuan life. but their basic precepts are being adopted all around the world attepmting to make suburbs more compact to their public transportations. the united states its broad expanses and suburban had long been one of the worlds prime car cultures. protection agency is promoting"car reduced" communities.
With all these changes people who stopped car commuting as a result to the recession will find less reasons to resume thir old habbits. a study last year found that driving by young adults decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. americas love affair with vehicles adjusted to the population growth the number of miles driven in the united states in 2005 had dropped steadily. april 2013 numbers of miles driven per person in the united states was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal the the country in 1995. In the next few years will be telling the lower emissions and impoved safety. | 1 |
Driveless cars are one of the most talked about upcoimg advancements in modern technology. These cars are efficent for the driver, as well as the enviorment. Although some don't have the greatest eye appeal, the Tesla model S, for instance, has a clean and luxury look to it. Even though these cars are tremendesly positive in the aspect of a driveless car, their is most definetly drawbacks. However, the pros outways the cons by a wide margin.
These cars could change the way people all around the world commute and travel. A long car ride across country can be just as easy as sitting there and enjoying the ride. Gas prices are a major issue in our econemy. During the reccession in 2007, gas prices got to as high as 4.00$! These driveless cars are ran by Electricity, and some are even toying with the idea of using solar power.
A younger male lands a new job he wanted, so he goes out with friends to celebrate. This male has a couple drinks and is just barely under the legal limit to drive. He isnt responsible and thinks he can drive home. He's not only putting his life in danger, but other peoples lives as well. What if this same male owned a driveless car that drove itself 90 percent? The odds of him getting in a wreck go down dramatically and could potentially save many peoples lives.
Although, with everything its not always perfect. I am a big supported of the driveless car, but i will be the first to admit there is some drawbacks and worries. On a long trip or early morning drive to work what if the driver falls asleep at the wheel and an emergency occurs were the driver would have to take over? Would the vibration in the seat be enough to wake this slumbering person up? Suppose there is a white out condition were the sensors and cameras cant recognize a thing and malfunction. Will the car be able to tell the roads are too slick to go 70MPH on the interstate? Also suppose its driving in a highly populated downtown area. All the diffrent variables it would have to be prepared for. People and little kids walking in the street, crosswalks, people biking along side the road, construction sites, is just to name a few things.
However, I believe Driveless cars are coming, there will be some dropbacks, there will be some figuring out to do. All-in-all its a terrific idea and i think itll change the world and the transit system as we know it. Cars are just the start. Could Aircrafts be next? Maybe, what is to stop us from finding out. | 3 |
The Facial Action Coding System is not necessary in a classroom enviroment. It can be a distraction from student productivity, it is most likely a costly item, and might not be one hundred percent accurate. There are just so many flaws with the idea.
If the F.A.C system was to be placed in a classroom, students will be distratced. For instance the students would be much more concerned about the machine than the actual work in class. "A classrom computer could recognize when a student is become confused or bored." Students will mess around with the system and try to through it off by making weird facial features or gestures, the computer can not tell if the perosn is lying and some students no matter what they will always be bored. Also some students are paranoid and might think that the government is taking information from them or the school is keeping an eye on them and that will be a distraction.
To be able to have this advanced peice of technology in a public school it is going to cost a lot of money. Because the F.A.C system can be damaged, students will not be albe to go near it t and teachers are going to have to be taught on how to use it which takes their time from them whem they can be planning lessons. If a school were to buy those they might as well use that money and spend it on better supplies for students fix things around the school buy better soap for the bathrooms or something that is worth the money.
The F.A.C system is advanced and made by some intelligent people but it might not be completely accurate. There are multiple students that don't like to show their expressions they just have a blank face. In the passage it states "each expression is compared against a nuetral face (showing no emotion)," yet some people just have a resting face where when they are happy they use words instead of facial expressions, or when people choose the unhealthy option and keep it all on the inside instead of letting it all out. The way people feel can not always be determined by a machine.
Therefore the Facial Action Coding System is pointless. It is better to do things the old fashion way by talking to ine another and being kind. If students are confused or bored they can speak up and let the teacher know. On the other hand if there is someone out there with the extra money then by all means. | 3 |
Hi I am a scinetist here to tell you about the (Unmasking the face on mars). Scinetist are getting information from the space satation about a figure on mars surface that looks like a face. They believe this could mean taht there is life on mars.Because there can not just be random faces on mars without soemthing there to make them. No one has really found anything like this before on mars....Untill..last year when they discovered water was on mars or had been on mars... That was a sign that there must have been life on mars. Besides there has to be life on mars or had to be life on mars..Why? Well because of all of the evidence they are finding and found.. But when they found these face like figures on mars they were set that there has to be and there is life on mars.. On the face like structure you can point out the eyes,the nose,and the mouth.. Once they gather up all this information and put it together they will adventally get somwhere..Or mabby they will lead there selfs to life on mars,you may never know...In the past year we have found lots of information and evidence from mars.... We do believe that possabily the next trip to mars we will find more information and evidence,mabby even find something dead,or alive.For all we know we could find some of what evr lives out there dropings..... But...... once we find the living creatures on mars we are going to take them back and do testing on them and experaments. Because the world may coem to and end one day and we will need somewhere to go.. But.... if it does we will hopefully know what we need to survive on mars untill we find a new planent...... | 0 |
I am against driverless cars. Only because we aren't prepared for them. The artice even proves to us that we aren't ready for them. They aren't completely driverless so people would still need to pay attention to the road. The roads arent prepared for driverless cars either.
Are we ready to controll this high tech technology?
Drivers want a driverless car so that they don't have to drive. They can do their own thing. But with the driverless cars that the article talks about you can't do that. Drivers will have to pay just as much attention to the road as they would with a non driverless car. The driverless car can not pull in and out of driveways or deal with complicated traffic like roadwork and accidents ; according to the article. During any of thoes times you would have to take controll of your vehicle. Is that even safe? Meaning can a human stay focused on the road and take over their car when needed?
Us humans arent the only thing not prepared for driverless cars. The roads aren't ready either. The article says "These smart-road systems work surprisingly well, but they require massive upgrades to existing roads." Changing the roads just in one town would cost a ton of money just to allow a new driverless car to drive on them.
I am againt driverless cars because in the time of the world us humans and roadways are not prepared for them. To me driving driverless cars seems more complicated than a regular car. | 2 |
Dr. Paul Eckman is the creator of the FACS which stands for Facial Action Coding System. This system was created by Dr. Paul Eckman He classified six basic emotions which are happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. When you first try out the system the first process begins with the computer constructs with a 3-D model of the face. It gathers all the movement of the facial muscles, it shows if your mad or happy "your frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when you're surprised" this quotes says that the system can tell us your face expression, how you feeling during that time. If they tested out students in a classroom with this system FACS it would be valuable because it would show teachers how they students are really feeling that day, it would show teachers if the students really care about there eduaction which this would help out teachers because they'll see who really cares. Like when Mona Lisa smile, they tested it out the picture with the system to find out how she was really feeling "she's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry" this showed that the sysytem can tell all the different types of emotions at one point which this shows us that if they tested this system out in classroom with serval students this would show all the different types of emtions they're feeling that day and would help out a lot. | 1 |
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