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Using cars can be a damage to our enviroment. It could cause smog and that can damage our lungs. According to the article "Paris bans driving due to smog", it says that "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." What Paris is doing is correct they want to get rid of the smog and the only way to do it is to get rid of the cars. Paris has more smog then other European capitals. Somes other type of trasportation a person can take instead of cars are hiking,skating, take a bus and also walking.
In the article "In German Surburb,Life Goes On Without Cars" Heidrun Walter states "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Having a car is always stressful you always have to think if your car needs gas or your always stuck in traffic. Without a car we don't have to worry about things like that. Not having a car is always helpful for people's body, they go out more for walks and that helps them be more active. in the article "The End of Car Culture" they are asking them self "Has America passed peak driving?". In these year there are not some many cars in the streets as there used to be. People perfer to take a bus or ride there bikes to work.
Using a car can also be a benift. How can people get to places that are far away, not by walking or not taking the bus. What happens if the theb route your taking dosen't go where you need to be. The perfect solution is getting a car. You can car-pool your friends. However the gas price keeps going up. All the money you spend on your car bill. Use it for taking you family to eat or the one year family trip. In the article"" a mother says that her 19 and 21 year old are not interested in getting there driver license "They are interested but it's not a priority. They organize their summer jobs and social life around where they can walk or take public trasportation or car-pool with friends." I would perfer to take the bus or walk somewhere then to go on car. In the bus you can meet new people and make a friendship. And walking is a good form of exercise.
In Conclusion limiting car usage is good, there would be less smog and it can be a health environment for the oldest and youngest persons living in this planet. Limiting car usage you can also take it as a form of exercise, walking, taking your bike to work or school. And also,why waste all your money on your car bill?.SAVE UP!!.Lets limited our car usage. | 3 |
Have you ever wanted to go outer space? Well I have, but what this excellent passage is telling me about Venus is making me change my mind. I never knew how dangerous the solar system was until I read this passage about the Earth's twin Venus.
The author that wrote this passage had very good support to support his passage over Venus. The author told us about how Venus is very dangerous but is a very intersting planet to study . Also, he told us about how about the features and the history about Venus. The author suports the idea that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers that Venus have. The author supports the idea very well because he added facts. Also he did very well with suporting his claim because he have good look passages. also he states that, "Also notatable,Venus has the hottest surface temperture of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closest to the sun". So this means that Venus is dangerous even if you go to it is too hot to even step foot on.
In conclusion, studying Venus is an worthy Pursuit because you can find alot of facts and statistics about Venus. The author states that " Venus, sometimes called the "Evening star," is one of thr brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer. So, this mean Venus isn't just an planet it aslo is an eveaning star. I have went through all the evidence that the author excellently supports his idea. | 1 |
In the article, my postion on driverless cars is that they need to be more attentive and cautious. Some careless drivers dont pay attention when it comes to driving.It may be a car that we will have that might not let us drive at all even when your in situations. However, we still need to be attentive at all times when it comes to driving. The negative aspects of this article is that there is no point is having a driver in a driverless car. Drivers would still want to drive
Drivers cant sit all day when it comes to riding in those driverless car. It's like they are the passengers inside the car and letting the driverless car take over. In the article it says, "A human driver in a safe car, is in control at all times" and always attentive when on the road for their safety. Even if the new traffic law does pass through, it still wouldnt do any good for the drivers in the driverless cars.
People still need cars that they can drive. There would be no point in letting a car drive for you. if that happens, people could be just taking the bus to wherever their destination is. People shouldn't want those cars because they are pointless and could be dangerous. You see it on movies and television but people don't know what it really feels like in real life when you let a car take over. It will all just be too weird.
I also disapprove because the only time the driver will be able to touch the wheel is when there is construction work, pulling out of a driveway, or in complicated traffic. It's a very pointless car to have. Why put in a lot of money in something that isnt even worth it? The article says, "Google cars aren't truly driverless," It might as well be. Drivers will only be able to touch the wheel, so does that mean that they will be in control or will the driverless car still be in control but just having the drivers hands on the wheel?
In conclusion, I dont agree with these new driverless cars. Especially when a new traffic law passes by, it wont be worth the wait. These cars are pointless and wont be worth your time. Sure they can do a lot of things a normal car can do but, the one main thing that they cant do is have a driver in control. | 2 |
Dear Senator of the United States,
I am a student in Miami Senior High School and I've been learning a lot about the Electoral College Vote. I know that the Electoral College is a process in the system and it consists of the selection of the electors and you don't want to get rid of it but I've got some reasons why you should remove it.
I've been reading about the Electoral College Vote and I found a passage that is full of details about how the Electoral College is affecting us, the citizens of the United States. The passage, "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong", states that, "-thanks to the quirks of the electoral college-won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." This is trying to say that the citizens don't like the fact that we don't even vote for a president anymore, we just vote for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. The electoral college vote isn't giving us the opportunity to pick a president we want to win and we sometimes even get confused about the electors and the candidate we decide to choose. This makes it really hard for all of us to have the rights of voting.
Also, I found another quote that supports our thoughts, it says, "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." What we're trying to say is that we need a chance in choosing who we want to win in an election. In my opinion, the electoral college vote is unfair to all the voters. Most citizens do agree with what Bob Dole said one day: "Abolish the electoral college!"
To sum it all up, there are some positive things about the electoral college. In the passage I found called "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" says that, "Obama received 61. 7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney..". However, we just want the electoral college vote to be abolished because the citizens would appreacite to have a chance in voting for a president by our opinion. I think that the popular vote is a better way to let us do this because it depends on the voters and who they chose for. This way, it will be equal for all of us.
I would like to thank you for taking your time to read this letter and to think about the thoughts that some of the citizens in the United States have in mind. Your service is appreacited by all of us.
Sincerely,
A Student in Miami Senior High School | 3 |
The Author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" suggests that Venus would be a worthy pursuit even considering all of the dangers that it poses. And yes, Venus would be a worthy place to research, the only downside is how dangerous it can be. Venus poses to be very challenging to study from the plant itself being hard to reach, also given the planets conditions. You wouldnt be able to get accurate data without being on the surface from the thick atmosphere of 97% carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid. While the tempurates above most of the atmosphere are roughly around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, you still could barely see through the thick blanket of athmosphere. While it being 800 degrees on the surface, with higher pressure than the deepest parts of our ocean, Venus still is a worthy planet to study. Venus is known as our sister planet, from how it's size and density is relative to our own. On Venus, there is also evidence of the planet having water on it at one point. with Canyons, mountains, ridges, and valleys. Meaning it probally supported life like our's on Earth. Venus is also the closest planet that is relative to our's besides Mars. To sum all of it up, Venus is a very worthy subject to do more research on, besides all of the dangerous factors. | 1 |
Part of being a teacher is knowing how to understand students. That's why they're are so many great teachers that know how to talk with their students and have a genuine conversations with their teachers. It is an esential part of their job to be able to do this and they should't rely on technology to do part of their job. It's a natural human trait to be able to read someone. While teachers shuold be able to do that, it could also take some weight off of them. Bringing this technology to the class room woud be revolutionary. Teachers would be able to not only focus more on class but get a real sense of how the class feels about a certain topic, if someone is bored or confused, it would be very easy to tell as well.
When you're a teacher you are expected to understand and sympathize with the student at some point. A lot of the time someone will fake being happy or say they are fine when they are not and it dissrupts the flow of class. With this technology, it will really help the teacher when a student is confused but is too embaressed to say or is just upset in general and won't talk about it. This could lead to more sucess in the classroom and help the teachers do their jobs significantly better.
Sometimes in a classroom the topic or the way something is being taught confuses people. They either don't understand or can not really grasp the concept with the way it is being taught. This could really show the teacher using this emotion techonolgy if what is being taught is sufficent or not. As said in the article "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson like an effective human instructor." This will help students pay attention and stay awake during class.
This human emotion regonzier could be a great help for teachers. It could make teaching as a whole a lot easier on the person actually teaching the class and even help students who find school boring. This technology is a great path towards the future of teaching. | 2 |
There are three reasons why you shoud join the Seagoing Cowboys program.
First you get to help many nations with food supplies and animals, like young cows, mules, and horses, to get over seas. Second you can see many places across the ocean. The Seagoing Cowboys have a lot of free time on their hands, so they can visit a lot of places. If the Seagoing Cowboys are in Venice, Italy you could take a gondola ride. Or if they are in Greece the Seagoing Cowboys could see the Acropolis.
The third and final reason why you should be a Seagoing Cowboy is you could do lots of fun fun stuff with other people. That stuff could be playing vollyball, baseball, table-tennis, boxing, or fencing. You could also do stuff on your own like reading or whittling
Those are three reasons, helping nations, sight seeing, and having fun with other people doing the same thing (or by yourself), are why I think you should join the Seagoing Cowboys. | 1 |
The author supports further Venus expiditions because of the insight we would gain from it. However, the author seems to forget that these kind of enviromental hurdels take time and money to jump over. A mechanical computer would have slow the process of gathering intel from Venus's surface. Even though silicon carbide electronics sound more appeasing because they last longer, it costs money to buy the materials and build these devices. Rocket fuel is also a bit pricey as it has to have enough fuel to launch and leave orbit and direct itself to Venus. The engineers and scientists have to be paid as well. The author doesn't have an explaination as to where all the money would come from. Venus will chew through the devices and even people we send there.
The idea of sending humans to Venus sounds dangerous, especially since Venus is a hostile enviroment. Venus has a ground temperature of more than 800 degrees Fahrenheit, as mentioned, that temperature will melt tin. If tin can't survive in that heat, so can't humans. The author brings up the idea of having the scientist float thirty miles or more above the surface. This idea seems legitiment except for one thing. Earlier in the article, the author mentioned that the clouds are made out of highly corrosive sulferic acid. The author does not mention how to overcome that obstacle. How are we supposed to explore Venus further if we can't get the money and we can't find a safe way for humans to explore it?
The author does not have many ways as to how to accomplish exploring Venus. Only radical concepts that would only work in a perfect world. They propose these ideas yet they won't elaborate further on them. Maybe this article was meant to inspire some one else to find out a way to explore Venus. However, The author has many ideas, they just need to exlain them. The idea of float in a zeppline above the surface, how do we do that? They need to go into detail as to how we accomplish these things. The author doesn't do a good job of supporting the study of Venus because they don't give an explaination to their ideas. | 3 |
Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it persents. Do you think the Venus is worthy despite the dangers? In my opinion, I dont think it's worthy despite the danger. I will tell you why the author believes that studying Venus is worthy despite the dangers.
First reason, is because their air crafts never made it to Venus, that helped them find out that Venus was to hot and that's why the spacecrafts never made it up their. In they text it says, "Humans sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world .....but all were unmanned." Another reason, is because Venus is so hot for humans to be on because it will burn them to death. In the text it says, " On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit." The finally reason, is because the radiation can kill a human. In the text it says, " Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed earth levels."
This is some belifes of why I think the author thinks that sudying Venus is worthy but dangerous. Their are pelnty of reasons why the author thinks this is very dangerous for humans. At the same time all the dangerous stuff helps them find out the information that they have collected today. This informations is only helping us identify things we never knew before that may some day help us in the future. | 1 |
The Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. The problem with this is that not all classrooms have computers. This new technology would only get used every time computers are used, so the FACS wouldn't get much use. That is why I think this technology is not very valuable in a classroom.
The article states in paragraph one that FACS was developed to help humans and computers communicate. Then, in paragraph five, the article says that humans read each other's facial expressions all the time. I do not think that humans need computers to read each other's emotions if we already do it so well.
Another point to my argument is that the computer may not be able to read people's correct emotions. For example, there is no definite way of knowing Mona Lisa's emotions in her painting. Just because a computer says what her emotions are, doesn't mean that it is right. She may have been happy, she may have been faking; we simply have no way of knowing for sure.
The last point to my argument is using technology to read our emotions. Most teachers don't allow students to use electronics in the classroom. In paragraph six, Dr. Huang says, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,". To me, a student's learning is more important than them being entertained. Now, being confused is an entirely different thing. If a student is confused they should ask the teacher to explain so that they do understand.
I think this technology is not very valuable in a classroom. My biggest issue with this is the tech being faulty. If humans can read each other's emotions without much difficulty, I don't see why computers need to be able to read them as well. I don't see how that benefits anyone. | 2 |
I think that we should have driverless cars. There are multiple reasons that I believe this, like fewer accidents and safety reasons.
For one thing, like stated above, there would most likely be fewer accidents. So far, according to paragraph 2 "their cars have driven more than half a million miles without an accident." Though the cars are not "truly driverless," the fact remain that even though they still need human drivers to navigate through certain spots, and still haven't crashed, they are pretty impressive. The driver would also be able to take over the vehicle, if needed, to get through road construction, and getting around accidents. If the driving technology were to malfunction, the driver would simply take over the driving until they can get to a safe spot to pull over or call for help. It is a great safety feature.
Speaking of safety features, these autonomous cars have many of them. The notify the driver when they need to take over. According to paragraph 7 GM has "developed drivers seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object." Google car "announces when the driver should be prepared to take over." Others consider flashing likghts and other heads-up displays. There is also the possibility of less pollution.
The cars that Sergey Brin forsees "would use half the fuel of today's taxis." With pollution being a major problem around the world, especially in places that are high in the industry business, we could use cars like that. Eventually that kind of fuel saving would go into other cars. These fuel saving cars could be the first step toward a greener world.
Overall, I think that autonomous cars are a fantastic idea because of the likelyhood of fewer accidents and the numerous safety features that the cars offer along with enviromental protection. | 3 |
I think having Facial Action Coding systems are a bad idea for students and regular people. I feel that it is a lack of privacy of what you think and that humans shouldnt rely on a piece of technology to change who we are, and as for this technology being for students i really dont think is a good idea at all. The reason why is becuase there could be students that prefer not to talk about there problems and this technology wont help them feel happier or any other emotion. Yes it will see that the person is angry about something but i feel that is not something to be said or written down for the public or teachers to figure out. If the student is ready to talk then the student will talk to you, not only that but thats what can create the bond between the teacher and the student and with that bond the student will learn to trust there teacher more better and for the teacher to trust the student better.
But with this technology, I feel like that would not be a good idea for teacher and student bonding, because then students would have a hard time trusting teachers because of the technology and if anything making student feel like they wont want to talk about there problems or anything at all because of the lack of trust that this technology gives them for teachers to figure out. If you want to know how the student is doing so badly then sit down and talk to the student about whats going on you should not need a device to detect what they are feeling. What would they gain from all that information how the students feel what is that suppose to do to make them happier making this sort of technology is a really big lack of privacy.
In conclusion i think having the Facial Action Coding System is a really bad idea especially for students becuase of the lack of privacy the students will have with there own emotions. Yes this sort of technology can figure out whats on there mind at the time but if the student is ready to talk to you about something then the student will open up to you making a better bond instead of having technology that pretty much forces itself to scan and recognize peoples emotions. | 2 |
Driveless cars are something to consider as a positive movement. Not only will they benefit by making traveling both more convinient and safer, they will also display a massive step of the future. Driveless cars will be a vital thing in history as well as let people take advantage of what they're capable of. There should be no reason to hesitate or oppose this idea of the future, it just appears impossible right now because there is a long time between right now and the time period of future driveless cars. The passage states "Antilock brakes and driver assistance still seem a long way from the dream of calling a driveless a cab to take us wherever we desire.
Driveless cars will allow significant increase in safety and convinience. There are many reasons why car crashes occur, such as the road was covered with ice or simply because the driver wasn't focused on the road. Driveless cars will one day be capable of taking over but it will still be optional for the driver to take over, especially when it's urgently required. The passage states "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are desighned to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents", despite the fact that driveless cars are able drive by themselves humans are required to take during certain situations. At this point they are able to reduce the chances of car crashes due to lack focus on the road, but they are also ablt to make convinience a safety feature as well. The passage states "Some manufacturers hope to do that by bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays, this is impotant because it contributes to the upgraded safetyness driveless cars have to offer. "Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over-something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone" as stated in the passage as well, therefore driveless cars able to give its passangers convinient entertainment as well as safety in an approved manner.
Driveless cars are a massive step into the future because they are capable of offering an abundant amount of safety and convinience. They will also show be able represent such an impressive innovation to cars as well show what history has finally arrived to. Driveless cars will become one of the most amazing things ever made in history, these cars will be known and recognized for the benefits they were able to bring. Based on the previous information, drivelss cars are undoubtfully vital. | 2 |
greenhouse gasses have always been a problem that riddled america and also politics, but many other countrys are limiting their usage of cars. paris even made there be specific days where people will keep their cars at home or be fined. paris is among the most densley polluted citys on earth, and they thought it might be good for everybody to take a break from polluting the city and maybe breath easy for a few days. almost 4,000 drivers were fined a total of 31 dollars (US) and 27 people had their cars impounded because they were upset about the fines. Its nice to see a country actually care about what it is doing to the enviroment, but it might take something big for other countrys to follow suit.
the small city in columbia bogota also took part in reducing the emmissions in the air. bogta encouraged the public to stay inside and anyone violating this rule was fine 25 dollars, many people would take out their bicycles and ride those around opposed to driving and polluting the air. the campaign in bogota bagan in the mid 1990s and has constructed 118 miles of bike paths ever since. other countrys should follow what bogota is trying to do, because if we dont pollute the earth too much then we can live her longer.
president obamas ambitious goals to curb the united states greenhouse emmissions, unveiled last week ,will geta fortuitous assist from an incipent shift in american behavior: recent studies suggest that america is buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer liscenses as years go by. that has left researchers pondering a fundamental question:has america passed peak driving? the united states with its broad expanses and suburban ideals, had been one of the worlds prime car cultures. it is the birth place of the model T; the home of detroit; the place where Wilson Pickett immortalized "mustang sally" just kidding im not gonna copy all of that. but really america has cut down on the use of cars and we should be proud.
in nelson nevada there are no more cars to be found, people are literally flying everywhere! it sounds crazy, but its not ,because researchers in the area were working on a new unknown chemical when all of the sudden somehow the chemical got leaked into the citys water system and well it had profound effects on everybody and now people are flying everywhere, nelson nevada plans to make a super highway in the clouds including speed limits and even police officers. this has really changed society.
if we all just rode bikes everywhere then there wouldnt be emissions and we could save the world! sorry i know this essay kinda sucked but writing isnt my stronghold sorry. | 1 |
Will you join UNRRA?Luke bomberger help these countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more after World War 2. You can help these countries,and get them back on there feet. It would look so much nicer and cleaner. It would be a ludicrous idea not to join,you can help so much people. Trust me you'll be as happy as a kid in a candy store if u do this
I help on my aunts Katie's farm as a boy ,and it had prepared me for hard work. On the ship you had to do a lot of things .Like:water the animals,feed the animals. They had to clean the animals stals. It might sound bad,but it's not .It might seem boring as a brick ,but I promis it isnt.
Luke had watch duty when he was coming back from talking to the captian he sliped on the ladder on his back side. That had to hurt. He had broke his ribs. He about fell over borad in the dark Alantic Ocean. He found time to have fun on board,especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. Some of their games they played were baseball and vollyball. They also played :tabel tennis ,fencing,boxing,and more.
On all these details about the boat,and animals I hope you have decided to join the UNRRA.You dont have to be audacious to join. I know for sure you'll be exubrant when you join. So dont be scared just go for it. So, will you join the UNRRA? | 1 |
I would like to change the election for the president of the United States. I would like to vote for president myself and not for a slate of electors because then I can't really control who the electors vote for. Electors in the past have refused to vote for their party's candidate and I would be very mad if that happened to me. Voters feel like their votes don't count. The Electoral College, to voters, is unfair.
I don't like that representatives from each state, represent a number of voters that make a huge difference such as numbers from the hundred-thousands to the millions. Thats the only good reason about the Electoral College, when voter numbers from each state have a huge difference apart and the electors cast their own vote, but when voter numbers don't have a huge difference apart, I don't like what the elector
The number of electoral votes given to each state is bad because there can be a lot of the same numbers and an example is, Texas has 38 votes and North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana all of 3 votes. Each party has to have trusted electors because too me, if each party has trusted electors, then maybe a lot of the votes won't be the same. If the votes between the two candidates, are a tie, the voters still can't vote for them, themselves. Voters in toss-up should mainly be able to decide the election because they usually really listen to the competing candidates so they are usually the most thoughtful. Votes in big states aren't fair to smaller states because presidential candidates give alot of attention to big states than to small states.
The Electoral College, can sometimes give voters no hope to the candidate they want to win because electors could vote for the other candidate. An example is, Republicans in a state might eventually know that their vote will have no effect so they end up paying less attention the the competing presidential candidates. I think that thats a reason how plurality happens and voters think its unfair. | 1 |
The value of not using this technology is great, because its just more reasonable to know your own moods ftom your expressions instead of a computer. I say this because it's more natural to use your own mind instead of having to with a computer. This is my opinion of this article, because it makes you have to use your mind instead of having a computer to use it for you.
Students should use their minds when it comes to this, because you will be able to tell other people moods and yours also. In the text it states," The facial expression for each emotion are universal." What this means is that the facial expressions we use are used all over the world. So why not learn them your self instead of having a computer to do it for you. When you travel there will be facial expressions every where so it's best if you learn them on your own so you will understand what there moods are.
When you can tell people's mood from their facial expression and you address it to the person they might think your smart. In the text it states," Moving your facial muscles not only express emotions, but also may even help produce them." This is also another good reason to read facial expressions, because it benefits you in a mentally way by reading people's body language. Another way it can benefit you is because it shows your actaully paying attention to the person's emotions.
When you use an computer to read people emotions just imagine doing it non verbally and using your mind to read it. In the text it states," In fact, we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day." For an example if your friend is looking down or happy you will most likely be able to tell from their facial expressions. I say this because us as humans we use facial expressions everyday so why not be able to read them.
As you read this passage this can be a life lesson, because it's used in everyday life. As we get older and years pass we will always use facial expression so it's best to learn them instead of a computer doing it for you. This is my opinion of this article, because it makes you have to use your mind instead of having a computer to use it for you. | 2 |
The article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" is writes mostly in favor of driverless cars but adds some valid points as to why these cars may not be the best decision. I believe that the latter opinion is the logical stance. If completely driverless cars were to exsist in the furture the human race would lose one more skill due to technology. On top of this loss of skill there runs the risk of computer malfuntion within the car, legal issues if and when these cars get into an accident, and people attempting to hack the cars' computer system in an attempt to kill someone.
If these are created into exsistence then people will no longer posses the abilily to drive their own car. While this may seem like a good thing these cars will not be able to do everything a human typically can do in avoiding an accident. When a situation occurs that there may be an accident there may be an opportunity for the "driver" to take over. Unfortunatly, this will be pointless because these "drivers" will no longer know how to control their own cars.
Furthermore, if and when this accident happens, who will take the blame for its cause. Will it be the drivers fault, the car's fault, or the manufacturers fault?
This is a point that is brought up in paragraph 9, "Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault -the driver or the manufacturer?" A whole new set of laws will be needed in order to accomadate this new type of car. Even if new laws are created for these cars and it is made easier to have someone take the blame for an accident how will anyone know if it is truly their fault?
Besides the loss of skill and the legal issues for if and when these cars malfuntion, there is also an issue of these cars being easily hacked. It is getting easier and easier for people to acces sensitve information with everything thing being placed online and creating these cars is just adding another thing to be hacked. It is a very real possiblies that someone may hack into a world leaders car and try to crash it in an attempt at an assination. If this does happen the public would no longer be able to feel safe in even our cars and would be at the mercy of these online hackers.
I believe that, while having driverless cars would be an amazing feat in humankind's technological advancement, there are too many risks involved if these cars are created. We would be losing another skill to technology, computers malfunction on occasion and when one of these car's computer malfuntions and causes a crash who will take the balme, and people with these cars will be putting there lives in the hands of these compurters and the people with the skill to hack and control these computers. It is too dangerous to have these cars and have everyone using them. | 2 |
Imagine a world where we didn't have to drive ourselves anywhere. All we had to do is tell the car where to go and it would take us there with little or no worries. Would that be a world you would like to live in?
The idea of the so called "driverless car" would not be the greatest thing in the world because even though people have tested it and still are testing it and saying there would be little or no accidents is still a risk to take. Even so the car are not completely driverless you still have to have hands on the wheel and be ready to take over if there was to be some sort of accident or back up.
Even if the driverless car were to come to the world there would have to be a whole set of new problems, laws and safety needs to bring our way. It is said that "the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times". So to have a computer driving you somewhere would increase the chance of being at risk of an accident.
So the idea of the "driverless car" wouldn't be the best thing for the world because it would be too much of a risk, they still have many flaws that people have to mess with and simply the peson in the driver's seat is the best man for the job. | 2 |
"Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents".
My Claim: Venus is one of the most earh like planets.
Explantion:The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes fimilar features as valleys , mountains , and craters.
Venus is really an earth-like planet thats why researchers are interested in it most. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes fimilar features as valleys, mountains, and craters. Many reaserchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long on venus , so that we can explore more of the earth like features it has. sum things from venus have been took before for testing but didnt last long so reaseachers are also studying on how to make equiment from there last longer. Numerous of factors contribute to venus reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study,which it is but very worth it. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system.(high pressure and heat). venus weather presents additonal impediments like erupting valcone's, powerul earthquakes, and frequant lightning strikes to probes seeking to on it surface.
This is why reachers want to study this earth-like planet It has many features that others don't and maybe if one day they could find the answers there could actually be human life there. | 1 |
Their are so many advantages of limiting car usage, for example having no car might even make someone happy, Heidrun Walter says "When i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Also driving cars can cause a lot of pollution, passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of the green house gas emissions in Europe. France had intense smog because of vehicles, it went 60 percent down after five days of no vehicle use.
Another benefit of no vehicle usage is instead of driving a car, you can go hiking, biking, skating , or take buses to your destination. "It's a good way to take away stress and lower air pollution," said Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two seat bicycle with his wife. The day without cars has seen the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths, which is the most of any other Latin American city. Parks and sports centers bloomed throughout the city on the day without cars in Bogota.
Also, in the United States Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses. Instead of driving vehicles to work, one can carpool with a workmate. New York has a new bike sharing program anits skyrocketing bridge and tunnel tolls reflect new priorities, aswell as car-sharing programs across the nation. Driving by young people decreased 23 percent as of 2001 to 2009.
Even though driving a car might get you to your destination quicker, it is better to go on a train, bike, skate, bus, taxi, carpool, or even walk because when you use a car too much you pollute the Earth. Biking, skating, and walking can also be fun sometimes, so stop driving a car and do something more alternative and less air pollutive, save the Earth. | 3 |
The world is making considerable advancements in the area of technology. Today there are even smartphones and smartwatches. Recently, there have been rumors circling the world of the newest advancement: driverless cars. There are many pros and cons to smartcars. Driverless cars, if used properly, have the potential to be a revolutionary technological advancement.
First, driverless cars can almost entirely eliminate the looming threat of human error. The cars can forsee danger and exercise the proper actions to aviod the threat of an accident. Soon, they wil even be able to respond to skidding and even rolling over. However, these driverless cars are not completely hands-off. When greeted with the obstacle of road contruction or an accident, the human in the car must take over. The human has more skills in this area, so, naturally, the he or she will take over. With the combination of the human's skills and the car's advanced programming, the car will become more safe and more effiecient than ever.
Next, the driverless cars have the potential to completely overtake all the transportation that we use today. Smartcars are safer, faster, and more efficient. There won't be any more lost pedestrians because the smartcar knows where to take the passenger. There will be more flexibility with schedule because the car's sole responsibilty is transporting people from one place to another. Plus, driverless cars use half of the amount of fuel that a standard car would use today.
Finally, the smartcar can eliminate the stress of driving altogether. Yes, you may have to get behind the wheel for a short period to help your car through traffic, but then the work would be done. Driverless cars give the action of driving an element of relaxation that cannot be achieved through driving a standard car.
In conclusion, driverless cars have the potential to become a great technological achievement, but there can be an immeasureable amount of controversy. If laws around the United States can be passed to allow smartcars, then the door for technology can be opened. But what if an accident occurs? Whose fault is it? These are questions that can only be answered in time. But, if given the chance, driverless cars have the potential to be a great advancement if use properly. | 3 |
Have you ever seen an alien artifact? There are people out there who claim they have seen pictures of one. Some may say it was an alien face they saw. The face people may think is an alien artifact may not be an alien. It could simply be a natural landform. Most people call it the face on Mars.
The picture that was shown revealed that the face on mars is equivilent to a butte or mesa. The butte and mesa are landforms coomon around the American West. Garvin, a NASA scientist, said
"The face is a lava dome that takes the for of an isolated mesa about the same height as the face on Mars."
Garvin says that NASA had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the face in the field of view. Another team of NASA scientist has captured extraordinary photos using the camera's absolute maximum resolution.
There are many reasons to believe that the face on Mars is an alien artifact, but there are more reasons to believe that it is just a natural landform. Scientist have done many research on the face on Mars to figure out if it is a landform or an alien artifact. All of the reasearch is there, I think it is a natural landform. | 1 |
Chossing your president is something very important and we need a way , a method to help us pick the right one. The Electoral College is the best way of picking the right president and doing it right. If you pick your president by a popular vote it would only lead to a disaster. In our world we need a method like this one that will guide us to make the right desion and something as imporatant as our President, well we can just pick out of anything we have to do it wise and neat so the right choice is picked. It is clear that we need to bring the Electoral College back.
The Electoral College is more like a process that is put in place to pick our President. It consist of the selection of the electors and then the electors vote for the President and Vice President. On source number one " What is the Electoral College" it states that " The electoral college consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electorral vote is required to elect President". This process is very well put together and simple. You vote for the electors that then later on will be chossing your president."The President election is held every four on a tuesday after the first monday in November ". And yes i know what some people might say that the want to choose who their President is but to be honets isn't better to have people like our electors to pick for us some one who really know about politics and about all of it. We all would be in better hands.
Many people would say that it is as if they don't have right that it's unfair that someone is picking their future but its not true!!!.The people choose the electors you vote for which ever one you think will represent you best, you would vote for them. The second source that I used in researching this topic is called " In the defense of the electoral college." This article they give you five reasons to keep our method of choosing the president. That one that was best for me was that " Everyones's president" just beacuse at the end of the day what's important is choosing the right president for the job that the reason this method was created. I read the part where it say even if we do let the people vote , some people will end up feeling like their votes don't count simply cause they live in a small town with a very low population. Exsactly how it says in the article "...a large state gets more attencion from presidential candidates in a campaign than a small state does."
To conclude the Electoral College method is the best way to make sure all the people are getting the president the diserve. As i said in the bigging is a good neat process that is well put together and that will help mamy people out. Voting by population vote is not safe and it's not for sure , you may think that if you vote for a president that he will win but your wrong there is a better change of him winning if the electors vote for him then you. I hope that when you are done reading this you will understand why the Electoral College should come back and it should stay. | 2 |
In this passage/story it talks about how we should challenge ourselves to explore Venus and how Venus is sometimes called the "Evening Star". Venus is planet and when your laying down on your grass outside in the night when you wanna watch the sunrise go down you can see it because it is the brightest points of light in the night sky we can spot venus esaily in the sky when its dark. Venus is the closes to Earth in the terms of density and size. There are other planets too not just Venus there is a planet called Mars, Jupiter and Earth there was a planet called pluto its not a planet anymore because scientist thought it was so small and scientist didn't reall care about that planet. Some of our planets are called sister planets sister plants i think sister planets are planets that look the same scientist at his point don't know what are they or waht other name should they called them. When you see a word like this (NASA) what comes to your mind when you see a word like that NASA is the abberviation for The National Aeronautics and Space Administration you might wonder what is that this is something for scientists instead of saying the whole thing they just say (NASA) it's a easier way for scientists to communicate with each other. There is a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent of carbon dioxide blankets Venus but the challenging part is the clouds when it rains and in the night you can't see venus because of the cloudsand how the clouds are too fat that they cover up Venus. Scientists are still woking on studying Venus well the (NASA) is because they are still trying to figure out why is Venus known as the small planet and the brightest one in the Earth ass well. Venus makes it chllenging for the scientists because they have been studying this planet for so long but they can't figure out nothing just yet. In the 1800s there was an old technology called the mechanical computers these computers had a important role in the 1940s during World Warr II these devices made calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at this time we use computers that are flexible and way faster in this time now but back then the computers were way slower. So in my opinion we should all have a challenge to study and explore Venus. | 0 |
Driverless cars are the way of the future.
As all things do, they have their pros as well as their cons.
The driverless car could potentially put taxi services out of business, however, put new jobs out there for mechanics or service people for these cars.
The driverless car would eliminate the dread of long drives to far distance places as well as save in fuel economy.
People will see driverless cars in a decade or less and this is why.
A driverless car is optimal for more reasons than not.
It gets rid of dreaded cars rides and makes crashes much less often.
A computer can comprehend things much quicker than a human can and therefore, could prevent a crash by simply realizing another car is headed towards it before a human could even recognize danger. A huge thing on these cars is the safety.
The cars themselves are not 100 percent driverless as they need people to ocassionaly take the wheel in tough spot situations like a crash or up and down driveways.
A person could be watching something entertaining and the car could instantly turn it off when they need to take the wheel.
As stated in the text, a cellphone could not do this.
Another pinpoint on safety could allow the car to watch the driver to make sure he or she or paying attention to the road in need for the driver to take over.
This would prevent a driver from falling asleep at the wheel or simply not paying attention to the road.
The only major thing preventing these cars from getting in the hands of people is the law.
Most states do not allow self-driving cars to be driven legally on roads.
But soon, other states will legalize this when the cars become more reliable and safe.
The driverless car will start a new era in the world of technology.
People will begin to realize that the human race has come a very long way.
The cars themselves are
very safe as Tesla has said, but the people don't have their trust in them yet.
When the people believe that the cars are reliable, they will become legal in all states and everyone will be able to get their hands on one.
The people have the power to say that the cars are safe by simply saying that they are.
If everyone agrees they are okay, then they are.
In 2020, drivers will become skilled workers and the common man will not drive. | 2 |
So i am going to tell you about my adventures. I was super excited when Don asked me to go with him. I was almost like a cowboy pirate. The first time i went on the cattle boat we went to Greece. We got all of the 335 horses in the gargo along with all the hay and oats to feed them. 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.
I turned 18 before arriving in Greece, which meant he could be drafted for military service. “When my draft board learned that I was on a cattle-boat trip, they told me to just keep doing that for my service.” By the time he was discharged in 1947, I had made nine trips—the most of any Seagoing Cowboy.
“The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy,” he says. “Besides helping people, I 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. | 1 |
After the nice, relaxed weekend at the beach, Steve gets up to go to work at 6 AM to go to work that is half an hour away. His Monday morning seems to be great until he jolt upright, suddenly remembering about the end-of-the-month report he was supposed to do over the weekend. Steve scrambles around his house, quickly changing into his work clothes and shoving food in his mouth as he runs out the door. As Steve drives to work, he tries to think of ways he can get the report done quickly, but he eventually prepares himself for the verbal lashing he will recieve from his boss. Steve can be anyone. Forgetting to do work is a common occurance. Steve, however, could have gotten the report done if he did not have to drive to work. A relatively new technology that could have saved Steve from his boss' rage is the driverless car. A driverless car, obviously, does not require a driver most of the time. Google and many other car companies have been trying to perfect the driverless car by making the car not require a driver. There are many pros to driverless cars that far outweigh the cons. Driverless cars are more safe and saves time for the driver.
Every year, many people die in car accdients, whether the victim was the driver or an innocent pedestrian. Driverless cars can potentially lower the rate of car accidents. Unlike humans, driverless cars can detect objects around them with multiple sensors installed in the car. The Google-modified Toyota Prius uses nine sensors - "position estimating sensors on the left rear wheel,
a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor" (Paragraph 4). Also, the rotating sensor on the roof, called the LIDAR, makes a 3-D model of the cars surroundings. With all of these sensors, the driverless car can detect objects or people that a normal human driver cannot see, as there are many blindspots that a human driver has to be wary of. Also, the car can also "cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce the power from the engine" (Paragraph 5) based on the information received from the sensors. This gives the car "better response and control than an a human driver could manage alone" (Paragraph 5).
Although the idea of a driverless car sounds appealing, the current cars developed do not drive the full amount of time. The cars needs to alert the driver in special situations like work zones and driveways. Therefore, drivers need to be alert the whole time just in case one of these special situations pop up. If you have to be alert the whole time, why not just drive in the first place? Also, what happens if the car hits someone? Would it be the driver's fault or the manufacturer's fault? There are legal issues that can be avoided if humans just drove the cars in the first place like they have been doing for the past century. In addition to the legal problems and the drive time problem, the car can become faultly, like a computer that got a virus. This time, the consequences of faulty electronics are much higher than just replacing a computer. The car could end up taking someone's life.
The current driverless car does not drive the entire time. However,Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan are expected to have cars that can drive of 90% of the time. Yes, there is a 10% chance that a human driver might have to take over but the 90% of the time that the driver is not driving, he or she can do work or just relax. Even if the driver fell asleep, there are many ways that the car can wake the driver up, like vibrating seats, sounds, and bright lights. Cars can be developed to become better at driving in traffc zones. The human instanct, however, cannot be developed to be more cautionous all of the time. Also, the legal issues do not present a problem. Laws often change to adapt with the times. Courts and lawmakers can debate on the issues, resolve them, and change the laws so that they can accomodate conflicts that the drierless car might present.
Driverless cars can solve many vehicle-related safety issues and lower the accident rate. Also, they give the driver more time to do whatever he or she wants to do. There are very little cons that come with the driverless car, and the ones that do come up can be easily solved. Driverless cars should be allowed to continue to develop so that eventually, they can replace humans drivers and make the roads mroe safe. Steve, too, can get a happy ending by frantically finishing is report while his new driverless car can take him to work. | 5 |
The Electoral College is outdated, unfair, and irrational and should be motifyed and uptated so it is more fair to voters and the rest of the citizens.
The Founding Fathers created it during the Constitution as a compromise. This meaning it was made and disigned for when it was needed. It did help the way presidents were voted for then,but its not suted for the population and other ways it has changed and is different in this time period. Over 60% of voters would prefer a new and direct election rather than the system that we have now.
Under the Electoral College we the people vote for electors, anyone not holding public office, who are chosen depending of the state by either state conventions, state party's central committee, or presidential canidates themselves. While voters are supposed to control who the electer votes for, sometimes they can make a mistake and vote for the wrong canidate. Its not very ofthen that mistakes like these happen, but they do occur. If a mistake like this was to happen the wrong canidate would be voted for that the people didn't choose, resulting in the posibility that a canidate we didnt vote for could and has the possibility if winning.
Something simmailar to this that happened back in 1960 was the biggest election crisis of the century. Segregationists, who favored separation based on race, in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors who opposed John F. Kennedy so the popular vote would not have been given to Kennedy and he would noyhave won.
In defense of the Electoral College it was very helpful when it was needed at fisrt, but now it's in the wrong time period. It exceeded Obama's share of the popular vote when he received a 61.7% of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 perecent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney in 2012.
In conclusion the Electoral College should beb changed so we have a new and improved way for the people to vote fairly for who they want. | 3 |
Have you ever wondered about the Face? The one so talked about, movies and books were made about it? In the late 90's, there was a picture taken of a rather human like landform. But get this
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it wasn't on Earth! The discussion of whether the landform was alien made or a common Cydonia Martian mesa was huge, and is still fret over today. But lets get real, the possibility of the landform being alien made is surreal - with our advanced technology today, we would know!
About twenty-five years ago, an interesting picture was found with one of NASA's spacecrafts, Viking 1. From the region Cydonia of the 'Red Planet', Viking 1 had taken a picture of a large face that stretched almost two miles wide. The landform became better known as the Face. When the picture was released to public, it was a big deal. Scientists had begun to figure it was just another Martian mesa that just happened to have unusual shadows. In the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars", paragraph two even states this. These shadows caused many people to assume it looked similiar to some kind of Egyptian Pharaoh. The general public, although amazed by the coincedence it had been, couldn't have ignored the sayings of a scientist, especially when all the facts come into play with the logical explanation - not aliens!
Even with the scienctists saying what was undeniably the truth, people demanded proof. Few scientists believed the chance of the Face being put there by exterestrial beings, but getting images became one of NASA's priorities. On April 5, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia to take ten times sharper images of the Face. In the paragraph seven, you could find that thousands of people were waiting, waiting for an image that may decide what exactly the Face had been. After the image had been taking, not everybody was happy. This resulted in many suggestions as to why there was no proof of aliens having made the Face. It was winter and hazy. Reading through paragraph eight of the article, you can also find many of the excuses used to try and find proof of aliens exsistence.
With many complaints under their belts, Mars Global Surveyor went for another go. This time on a cloudless summer day. On Apri 8, 2001, they were sent in for another look at the Face. The images, taken again, did not show any proof of aliens. To many conspiracy lovers dismay, the images were rather like Earth Landforms. Instead of alien markings, they found that the Face is equivalent to butte or mesa. Even common to landforms in the American West. In paragraphs ten, eleven, and twelve, you can read through the precautions taken to find even clearer images of the Face, though nothing had changed. Without any other evidence to go off of, what could the theorists say?
Others, such as conspiracy theorists, say that NASA has found evidence of the other life forms. They may be right, stating things such as this. But they also say that NASA is withholding this information. While that may be a good idea for other people, NASA's budget says otherwise. With the information of alien exsistence out, their funds could go up a rather lot. Would it be a good idea to hold this information to the public? Especially when it will not only be informing the people, but also helping NASA discover more about our universe.
As stated the possibility of us not coming across alien lifeforms with todays technology is unlikely. With all the precautions they took to prove (or in this cause, disprove) alien exsistence, it is highly unprobable that we missed them. With the scientist, looking over the images twice, and then checking them, the answer is in lockdown. And even if we were, sharing the information is in almost everyone's best interest. If it had been aliens, we surely would have known, wouldn't we? Unless, of course, the aliens could were invisible. How about you tell THAT to the conspiracy theorist? | 4 |
Driverless cars to me seem like the way to go, in a future sense. Driverless cars may in fact reduce collisions with other cars due to human error, but computer errors can just as likely occur. Driverless cars may take over the market, leaving new drivers a sense of safety and invicibility. Drivers that use driverless cars would not have enough experiance behind the wheel to fix, or take over the car if needed. This would lead inexperianced drivers at the wheel when a difficult situation arises, and may lead to a larger accident.
Google may have a very advanced car, equip with gear that they modified the Toyota Prius but that may not be enough. All of the gear inside may not be able to predict or mimic human operations. When to go, when not to go and when to stop, driverless cars would be almost perfect assuming everyone had one. Purely human operated cars may pose as an obsticle for the driverlesss ones.
I feel as though driverless cars may be the futuristic sci-fi many have desired to see since childhood, but the use for them I cannot find. Cars with drivers should not be replaced, the only use for driverless cars might be handicap individuals who might need to rely on the car to drive for them. Driverless cars are trying to replace something that is not broken, and I am getting a feeling that driverless car manufacturers are trying to reinvent the wheel. | 1 |
Okay so you're saying that aliens created this face on Mars?
Well let me tell you why you are wrong.
First of all, there are no such things as aliens, and if there were aliens they would have already done something to Earth and humans.
This Face of Mars was made natural.
As we already know Mother Nature can do things like this.
In fact, we see natural landforms everywhere.
The passage states,"Global Survey space craft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: A mesa."
Juat becuase you find something interesting on a different planet doesn't mean it was made by aliens.
The Man on the Moon for example it wasn't made by aliens, and nobody says it was, so then why should The Face on Mars be any different?
In one of the pitures in the passage it shows the "famous Face" and then you can see a hill next to the face.
It doesn't look like anything but a small hump, but its pretty much the same thing as the face, it's made of the same thing, but it doesn't have a face.
Now this why you should know that alliens did not creat the Face on Mars. | 2 |
Now we have so many school was used the computer ''teacher'' to teach the students. It was pretty cool to see, now in the world we already have this kind new technology. But is we can make sure the computer ''teacher'' they can same with humen teacher, or even they can better than human teacher? Is the computer can like the human to read students' emotional? I think the answer will be: yes, the computer they can read students' emotional.
People usully have six basic emotions- happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. So for this six basic emotions, people awasy can look the others face to read they are emotion. But is the we can make sure we read was all right? People make the emotions was used face muscles made. Yes, if a person don't want show they realy emotion to peolpe, they can make a emotions by theyslve. So when they do that, is we can still just look they're face to read they are realy emotion? That will be very hard, and was very eazy to read wrong emotion.
People was eazy to read wrong emotional, so what about the new technology the ''Facial Action Coding System''. The Facial Action Coding System can help the computers teacher to identify human emotions. They have all 44 major muscles in the computer 3-D model, and when they move the muscles was like human muscles. So they are can just like human to read human emotional. And maybe they will better than human. They read the emotional like doing the math homework. They will check all you muscles to read you emotional, even you try to make a not really emotional. Because the face muscles was do not lie.
So the computer teacher, will better than human teacher to read the students' emotions. They can find out students emotions and do right things to help the students. The new technology the Facial Action Coding System was very useful and they can more help the teacher find out students emotions. | 1 |
I am for driverless cars, they seem to be very efficent and have a lot of pros. Driverlress cars might put people off, but they are not that bad. In the future a lot of things will change, espicially cars. They might be different or odd but there is nothing to be afriad of, driverless cars will bring us more good than bad. For example, cars that can drive by themselves efficently, public transport will be more of a breeze. Google cofounder Sergey Brin envisions that the car will use half the fuel of today's taxis and also provide more flexibility than a bus. This is a great thing.
Some people probably hate the idea of the car. Yes, there are cons to the car but, the car is just now getting started. In the future you can expect the creators to make the car more successful. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020. They grow closer to achieveing their goal of an amazing car everyday. Wether the car comes in 2020 or 2075, it will provide a greater future for us.
In a conclusion, I personally am for the driverless car. I think it will be amazing. It will give us a greater and also interesting life. In the future, things are going to change. Some of the changes you might not like but they'll happen anyways. The driverless car is going to be a major part in this change. Hearing about this new car now while all cars are very different, might seem outrageous to people, but the concept of the car is very exciting for our future it is going to provide us great things. | 1 |
Timmy thinks the faces on Mars were created by aliens,but i keep telling him its just natural landforms that we made and it looks like faces. It happens even on Earth, it is common around the American west. In the viking photo they didn't have that well equitment to see what it actually was, so they thought it was created by aleins. In 2001, NASA wanter to show the world and the captioned a note by it saying "huge rock formation," but people just saw a face because of the shadows in it. The authors reasoned it to be a good idea to engage people and give attention to Mars.
The "Faces on Mars" started to become popular, they started to make movies, books, magazines, radio talk shows, and even haunted grocery store checkout lines. In April 1998 they flew over it again, they had better technology,and they didn't see a face all they saw was a natural landform. Then in 2001 they did it again and didn't see anything just the landform and they had much better technology where you could see a small shack and nothing was there.
These Faces were just landforms that had a shadow that made it look like a face.
Every plantet has weird landforms, and they didn't really have good techlology back then. Now they have alot better technology were they can drive robots on mars and see all these weird landforms and see if there is aliens. | 1 |
Growing up in the more modern times I see many things that would seem almost impossible to someone not born in this time. Cars are becoming more advanced than ever. Although they have their advantages, the use of cars also has many disadvantages. They polute the air and they can be very dangerous. The pros of cars are by far outweighed by the cons, if you look at them in the long run. Limiting car use could preserve the earth, relieve stress, and reduce the amount of overweight people in America .
Although cars make everyday life easier, lessening the use of them could potentially "save the world." Polution is at an all time high and car emissions are largely to blame. In paragraph five it states that, "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Euope... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." This is saying that the emissions from cars are destroying the earth. Though going to the grocery store that is two miles away may seem easier by just hoping in the car and arriving in less than five minutes, walking or biking would be better for you and the environment. Many cities are even focusing on becoming more "pedestrian friendly" to help boost the enthusiasm of cutting the use of cars. Walking is not the only option either, using hybrid cars, carpooling, or public transportation is also an option. Though still involving the use of cars, emissions would be reduced greatly. Also, emissions can cause sickness. In large cities where cars are depended on there is Smog. Smog is a thick black cloud of pollution that hangs in the air over large ciies. Smog can make you very sick if you injest it. Many people in cities that do have smog have to wear face masks when walking outside. I do not think that face masks are a new trend that everyone would like to start wearing. Lessening the use of cars around us would be a healthy step towards restoring our environment and could start a trend for others to do so aswell.
Another advantage of cutting the use of cars would be less accidents. Thousands of car related accidents happen every minute around the world in automobiles. If everyone started walking, biking, or using pubilc transportation less cars would be on the road leading to less accidents. Families lose loved ones everyday just because the driver of the car isnt paying attention. Drivers have many extra responisbilities when opperating the vehicle. They have to watch everything around them, including being responsible for everyone else in the car. Many people have reported being "less stressed" after they lowered the use of cars. Heidrun Walter said "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," when talking about moving to a car free community. Thousands are converting to the trend of using the car less and others are cutting the use completely! Following this trend would be a large benefit to yourself and the enviornment around you.
Lastly, America is known for being obese and cars support this idea. Cars make it easy for someone to get places without putting any physical work into it. Cars encourage people to be lazy. Lowering the use of cars and walking more would help reduce the percent of people that are overweight in our country. Instead of wanting to get in the car and drive to do something they could walk and get some excercise or even take a bike if they wanted to get there faster. Walking and biking are low intensity excercises making it easy for everyone to participate. Many overweight people always feel lathargic, getting out and walking or biking would also help them to feel better. Doing this would help our people and environtment become more heatlhy.
Cars are a great invention but it is not necessary for every individual to have one. Walking and biking are better alternatives. The use of cars has gone through the roof creating problems around the world. A healthy environment for our children and grandchildren is what we imagine. One does not think of using a car as damaging to the enviornment until after they have done it. Limiting car usage would turn the world into a healthier, stress reduced place. For these reasons I think it would be of best interest to try and find other alternatives to driving as much. | 4 |
Studying Venus is dangerous and hazardous. The author explains what exactly makes it this way and even so the author explains why we should still study it. The author explains how venus is most like earth in terms of density and size. Astronomers beleive that Venus "may well once have been the moat earth-like planet in our solar system."
The author talks about how Venus gets "over 800 degrees fahrenheit, and the atmosphereic pressure is 90 times greater" than earth. The author talks about hiw metal would melt on teh surface and how the pressure would smash a specially made submarine. Venus also contains "eruptig volcanoes, powerful eathquakes, and frequent lightening strikes." Even thirty-plus miles above the surface, tempatures would stll be around 170 degrees fahrenhiet, but pressure would be around what it is like at sea level on earth. With all of this bad you would have plentiful solar power and radiation would exceed earth levels. The author explains how we can't speciments from venus abd that we need to find a way to get the speciments. Researchers are working on innovation that would allow machines long time to last whule contrubuting to our knowledge of our sister planet.
Venus is dangerous but NASA and many other researchers are looking for ways to make studying venus possible. Not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades, and researchers are trying to change that. Researchers are looking bck at technology used in world war two. The author takls about venus being a backu planet if this planet becomes unlivable. | 1 |
Dear Senator, I wish to ask you a favor of keeping the Electoral College or changeing to election by popular vote for the presdent of the United States. First of all, the reason that I want to ask you this is because Most states have a winner take all system that they give to the winning president.
Next, after presidential election, the governor prepares a Certificate of Ascetainnent. listing all of the presidents who ran for president. after the presidental election is heild every four years on a tusedayafter the first monday in vovember. you help chose your states electors.
Furthormore, People should vote for a state of several Democratic electors pledged . On the off chance that those electors won the statewide election. oh yea and senitor under the eletoral college system, voters vote not for the president but for a state of electors, who in turn elect the president .
Finally, Fromm my opinion the presidental party selects a state of electors trusted to vote for the partys nominee and that trust is rarely betrayed. However, it is entirerly possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not winthe nactional popular vote.
So Mr. senator sir im only asking you this one thing if u coud just keep the Electoral college or changing to election vote for the president of the United States. pleez thats all im asking from you to do for me just one thing. quite sime thing to do right .. | 0 |
Dear state senator I think that you should keep the Electoral Collage because it is a collage that requires a presidential canidate to have a trans-regional appeal. The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recivies a majority of the votes cast. The Electoral College is a method of choosing the president of the United States and that is really importnt that we have a president. The Founding Fathers established the Electoral College because it's in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral Collage is very important to the United States we should keep the collage. In some cases people depend on the Electoral collage they chose who will be President and like state goveners that is very impornant that the founding fathers made the Electoral Collage. In 1976, tie would have occurred if a mere 5,559voters in ohio and 3,687 voters in Hawaii had votes he other way. The election is only a few swing voters away from catastrophe. | 1 |
Could you trust a car that drives itself? I know i could'nt and im going to tell you the reasons why. I think it is very dangerous and it would cause a lot of accidents. We'll see if I can change your mind about the driverless cars.
Now how could someone trust one of these things? It takes no energy to drive a car so how could people be so lazy to want a driverless car. Sure the car alerts you when your in danger but people fall asleep while driveing cars. So imagine how many people would fall asleep in a car that you do not have to do anything to operate it. Also imagine how much they would cost! A regular car is already a lot of money, so one of these cars would cost a ton of money. Also think about your kids don't you want themto actually learn how to drive? This world is already dependent on cumputers enough. It would also cost a lot of money to fix them beacause most ordinary people couldnt fix them. Wouldnt you rather have a car that you can fix yourself? If you know how to fix a regular car then it would save money because you wouldnt have to take it to a mechanic.
I hope I have changed you mind about these cars. I know they seem cool but they just would'nt be safe. Also it would cost a lot of money for one and a lot of money to fix one. | 1 |
I claim for the use of technology that reads students emotional expressions.One because it would help a lot of people know whats wrong with them or others if they aren't good at reading expressions.Second it could help detectives know weither the person faking or not(a smile,anger, ext).
One way it can help others find a way to know if someone sad, happy, or any other emotion is by the computer analising its data and seeing the 44 major muscles that help express emotion, to tell you what emotion the person feeling right now
Another way this could help is when detectives or police men would need help reading a person, which would really help by showing the person is faking the emotion or not, by reading the certain muscles need to make person actually smile or just a fake smile which fools everyone.
With the fact and reasonings i;ve shown u dear reader I hope u see that haveing a computer that know how to analyse your expretion can be help for and the concludes that we should have a F.A.C.S | 1 |
With the new use of technology, the ability to read someones emotion by the simpliest look is within our grasp. The ability to read your emotion is easy as said done. Why not put something like this that can read out faces inside school. Traspass their privacy. Even so, during school it would not come in handy with any student anytime during the day. Being watched by a face recongnition in the home of many, is an event many would not agree with.
During the school year, for example, a high school. Where would a Facial Action Coding System fit into? This would not benifit our education other than waste it. The new technology being used on students to detect their emotions is a privacy violation. Students would not want their face being read and pictured by a new face detection. For example, in the story it says, "Imagine being able to detect exactly how other people are feeling, even when they are trying to hide their emotions." With this being said, this technology invades our space. Some students don't want their emotions being let out; they might want it to keep that private information to themselves, unless they realease it by themselves. This could happen to anyone, even without them realizing it. For example, sitting in the right position across from the Facial Action Coding System, the victims emotion may be violated without their concent. In the story it reads, "...if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a smiliar ad might follow. But if ou frown, the next ad will be different." This text shows a program reading your face in real time for all the time you are on your own laptop. Having your own computer reading your face every second while being in your own home would not be welcomed to many. It's a violation to privacy to use and our freedom.
In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System would not be of use for students. Our minds and face are focused in a different direction rather than facing this machine to read out emotions. Whether this new technology is useful or not, it would not be of good use for a classroom full of faces. | 2 |
"Driverless Cars Are Coming"
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," The author presents both postive and negative aspects of the driverless cars. Driverless cars are still not very safe. They still alert the driver to take the the wheel when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues. Their illegal in most states,only a few in the United States allow limited use of semi-autonomous cars ; California, Nevada , Florida, and the District of Columbia.
Driverless cars aren't safe. You still cant juss not take the wheel ,cause at one point of time in the car you will. Manufacturers have not got everything right in the car. Driverless cars still need way more sensors. Sensors to indicate every turn and stop there is . I belive that it wasnt a very smaert idea to make a car that you cant controll. What's the point of paying all that money on a car if you cant drive it ? I just dont understand. If i had a car i wanna be able to move on go how i please. Not no one else or something controlling it .You might as well say your in a taxi, not your own car. Like now i cant wait til i get my car .Why would i wait all this time juss for it to drive by its self ? Thats why i disagree on making a driverless car. | 1 |
If we limit car usage there would be less pollution, we would save thousands of dollars, and it would inprove our safety. So if you really think about it, less usage of cars would be a great impact for us in a good sense.
For starters, experts say we have to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes..passenger cars are responsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, and up to 50% in some car-intensive areas in the U.S. Our planet is already polluted enough..why add more to it. For example; diesel trucks make up 67% of vechicles in France..which then adds more smog. In addition, Paris has more smog than othe European capitals. Once Paris had 147 microgrmas of particulate matter per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in London, Reuters found. In the city of Bagota, Colombia their goal was to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog, violaters faced a $25 fine.
Futhermore, not only would there be less pollution..but we would save thousands of dollars..on gas and insurance. Gas is one of the most important things for a car, it makes it function. But also we would be fine if we didnt have it, mainly because we would save hundreds of dollars a month. The average cost for a gallon of gas is $3.70. Not only gas but insurance and repair jobs. Insurance is as expensive as it is when you wreck your car, if you're lucky enough your insurance could possibly pay for it depending whos fault it was who caused the accident.
In conclusion, at the Mobile World Congress last year in Barcelona, Spain, Bill Ford, excutive chairman of the Ford motor Company..laid out a bussiness plan, he proposed partnering with the telecommunications industry to create cities in pedestrian, bicycles, public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emmisions and impove safety. So therefore safety is the #1 for most companies.
To sum things up we would have less pollution, save money, and our safety would be guarented. Those are the great advanatges of having our usage of cars be limited. | 2 |
Venus is worth pursuiting despite the dangers it can present. Venus is the closets planet to earth in idensity and size and occasionally the closest in distance too.
First, some people often referre Venus as Earth's twin."Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth."(paragraph 4). NASA and scientist would want to pursuit Venus. Venus could have been like Earth long ago.
Second, Venus has some appereances like Earth."The planet has surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters."(paragraph 4). Venus could become like Earth again in the future.
Lastly, Venus has the same elements but higher."A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere."(paragraph 3). Having the same elements would want scientist and NASA to explore Venus
Venus is worth pursiuting despite the dangers. If Venus is similar to Earth, Scientist and NASA would do anything and come up with something to try and be able to explore Venus. | 1 |
The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. In the article, the author has many supporting statements that support the idea of exploring Venus despite the risk that Venus gives.
In the beginning of paragraph 4 it says, "Venus was once the have been Earth-like planet in the solar system," and Venus is close to being the same in density, distance from the sun, and size as Earth is. If that is so then Venus deserves to be explored and studied.
In the article it says, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." In this statement, the author brings up that traveling beyond Earth shouldn't be stopped by dangers that come along with doing so. In the third paragraph of the article, the author talks about Venus and its dangers that the author mentions, such as the temperature and atmosphere. In order for the author to say why they feel that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit, they write about the issues first to get to their opinion on why they think it is worth exploring Venus, which has been done but not successfully for scientists to say wether or not that Venus could one day have life on it or not.
Once the author stated all the issues that there was and the complications, they talked about their opinion. Supporting their opinion, they wrote about what NASA was doing to be able to make visiting Venus one day almost possible. The author wrote about the inventions and ideas NASA had and put that into one whole paragraph, starting at paragraph 5, as their supporting evidence. NASA thought about the idea of floating above the surface at about 30 miles or so above the landscape as to not be on the hot surfcae of Venus. If scientists were to float above the surface of Venus to be at 170 degrees Fahrenheit instead of 800 degress Fahrenheit, it would make it impossible to gather data to take to analize so NASA came up with the idea of electronics made of silicon carbide and use mechanical compters from the 1800's.
The author had many supporting facts in the article as to why they think it is worthy studying Venus despite the dangers it presents. They had statistics and facts that supported their idea and had done their research well. | 3 |
The facial action coding system would be a really good valuable tool for students in a classroom because it can teach them the impact technology can have in the world. In the article I learned that the facial action coding system has many ways to process the human facial expressions. I also learned how they can be very valuable.
In the text it states " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" This product could be really good for students classroom because if the student's face shows the computer that they don't understand something then the computer itself can pull of something help them out. Also another reason why this product can be valuable for students in a classroom is that it can teach them the importance of technology and why having technology can lead to better understanding on things. In the text it also states"
The same technology can make computer animated faces mor expressive for video games or video surgery." This line right here tells us that is can lead to better things such as making faces with more expression.
These are all the reasons why the facial action coding system is vauable for students in a classroom. It can show them the advance in technology and help them with things that express on their face. This is why this product will be vauable. | 2 |
There are many reasons why scientists suggest that studying Venus is a worth pursuit despite the danger it presents. The author uses alot of information to support the ideas. In the passage the authors talk about why studying Venus is worthy to study no mater how dangerous it can be. The author talks about how Venus is the most like earth planet in the solar system, how Venus could have supported various forms of life, just like earth, and also how venus is dangerous. The author supported the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers well and effectively because he supported his facts with scientist knowledge.
In this passage there are many facts that the author added to explain why studying Venus is worthy even though there are alot of dangerous stuff in that planet. One of those facts the author gave that came from scientists knoledge is "astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most earth-like planet in out solar system." The author is adding astronomers thoughts and knowledge to implement that his facts are correct.
Also the author uses events and projects that are going on implementing that people still care about the study of Venus. In paragraph 7 it says "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made if silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such condition . The study of NASA is showing the audience thats is reading that there are scientists that are studing Venus because they do know that Venus is a vauliable subject to study. In the passage the author also adds that in order to study further there wll be people who will go to the planet because resarchers dont have the rock and gas to study and they will go to collect those objects.
Another thing that the author did to support that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents is the facts he gives about how similar Venus is from Earth. In the passage it says "Venus was probably covered largely with ocens and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth" the passage also says "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."
In conclution the auhor suggestions that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents is well explained because the author used information from scientists, astronomers, and the NASA. The author also used the thoughts from these knowledable people to support his idea. The author supports his ideas by adding information that gives his idea truth and validity. The author also adds some facts that go against his idea such as explaining why Venus is such a dangerous place. All of the author's work balences out to make his idea understandabe and thoughtful. | 2 |
I feel like it would be a good idea to have one of these in schools because, it can one tell how a student is feeling on any certian day. Along with that it can possibly predict how a student or a teacher will react to something that happens in the school or what another person says.
It can also help the students with their work if the computer can tell that a student is struggling with their assignement, it can give them easier question but still get the point across for the class. I also backed this from the article because it mentions that a classroom computer can recognize when a student is becoing confused or bored.
Another reason I think it woud be a good idea to have these in classrooms is, there are some students that learn better on a computer and this will help them if they do not understand a subject. There is also other students that can not learn if most of there course is online and to difficult for them. So this system could possibly tell a teacher or another staff member that this student does not work well on a computer.
These are my reasons to as why I feel like it would be a good idea to have the Facial Action Coding System in a school. I feel like it can benefit some students off the jump and, I also feel like it can help some students get to where they need to be if they are struggling. | 2 |
I think that The challenge of Exploring Venus is worthy to study becuse when you study that you can explore the planet and I think that it is obiously interesting but it is aslo a little hard because you cannot explore the planet closely but venus is the closest in Earth i terms of denssity and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too but mars and other planetary neighbor orbit the sun at different speeds and the difference in speed mean that sometimes they are closer to Mars and other times to venus because the venus is sometimes around the corner in space terms humans have also sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world but sometimes the spacecraft didn't survive the landing for more than a few hours and maybe that explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on venus reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study despite its proximity to us. but venus has also the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solat system even though Mercury is the closer to the sun. Beyond high pressure and heat venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanos,powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning srikes to probes seeking to land on it's surface The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable because venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like Earth but today Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth .The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has one particularly compeling idea for sending humasn to study Venus and there is no easy conditions but survivable for humans. Also human curiosity will likely lead them into many equally intimidating endeavors and their travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation and that's why i think that this challenge is interesting for people to study it. | 1 |
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author has a vague claim for supporting the idea of exploring Venus. In the passage, the author explains how many dangers there are to exploring the planet, the unbearable temperatures, the lightning and volcanoes, the thick atmosphere that blocks Venus' surface. In all of these dangers, the author believes that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit, but does not use enough support for this idea.
In the text, the author is explaining all of the dangers in exploring Venus. In paragraph 3, "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of high corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmorphere. On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees." The author continues to list these dangers. He barely has support that shows his idea of exploring Venus. For example, the author states in paragraph 5, "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray." Then the author explains in the same paragraph, "At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth." The author states an idea that supports the claim that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers, but then uses a contradictory statement proving otherwise.
In the text, the author says that each mission has been unmanned. They have instead used spacecrafts to explore the planet. In paragraph 7, the author uses a detail about NASA to help support exploration on the planet. "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions. Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers." The author's supporting claim does not have a contradictory statement, instead, he finally uses it to help support his claim. "By comparison, systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces." The author uses the statement to help prove his claim.
Overall, in this passage, the author does poorly in supporting the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. The author uses some sort of supporting statement, but then uses a contradictory statement which makes any reader reconsider the point the author was trying to convey. The article is weak in the sense that there is a constant reprimanding part to each weak supporting claim. The author did have at least one supporting paragraph in this article that helped with the idea of exploration on Venus. However, throughout all of this, the author had poor evidence to provide for his claim to convince the reader that exploration is a good idea despite all of the potential dangers enlisted in the passage. | 2 |
People should agree that the face on Mars was probably an accident. The face probably was not a face, it could have been another Martian mesa. A rock os some type could have hit it or a meteor could also. Next, NASA took pictures of it, and NASA was researching it and studying it, so they can get more information on it. After studying it, they took a picture of it, and they engaged the public with it.
People started to have debates about the picture and what it could have ment. "Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence pof life on Mars." The others are trying to protect it so NASA could be a little bit safer. The picture did look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. NASA said it was a "huge rock information" because it is very similar to a human's face. Next, you cannot just asumed the planet was made from aliens because there is a human's face on it. You got to study the artifact before you can assume it is from aliens.
After that, you got to be able to back up your answer , and saying why it is not a face. "Thousands of anxious web sufers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL website, revealing a natural landform."
People can asume it is a human's face because it look likes it. Another thing is that there is human's face on it, can mean life on the planet, Mars. Also the rock or the artifact does have an Egyptian Pharoah, it could mean a human was at one point up there. It probably is possible to have civilization on Mars.
In conclusion, the artifact could have just been hit by a rock. People need to belive most things that are not really true. | 1 |
The use of the Facial Action Coding System is actually very valuable to a teacher because then the teacher could change it up a little when teaching so they could either make it more simpler to understand or more amussing to the children.
If a teacher could understand the emotions that the students are going through during a lesson then the teacher has an advantage of modifying his or her way of teaching the lesson. If a student is confused about something most of the time the student won't speak up because he or she is either too shy or scared to be laughed at by not understanding something like the rest, but if you had the technology that gives you a read on the kids emotions then you could help that kid understand rather than the kid getting left behind in confusion. In that case you'll have the kids understanding a lot more due to knowing if they are confused or not. Also maybe if the kid just isn't listening because something else is going on the teacher will be able to know and possibly be able to fix the situation by talking to the student.
In conclusion, It's an amazing idea and very valuable to have that kind of technology in a classroom to understand the kids a little better. Especially for the teacher so they can change some perspectives of the students that are confused during class. | 2 |
"Twenty five years ago something funny happened around Mars. NASAs Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet, snapping photos of possible landing sites for its sister ship Viking 2, when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face." This is an excerpt from the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars". This is describing a strange feature found on the face of mars in the region of Cydonia.
At first there were no clear pictures of the face and no certain explanations. The Viking 1 found it in 1976 and back then the quality was not so great. Scientists thought "it was just another Martian mesa" but they also noted one unusual shadow, so they were not that clear on the reason. In 1998 NASA took another picture in better resolution but it was cloudy and some people were not convinced that it was a mesa. In 2001 NASA was finally able to capture a clear picture of the formation, putting down any kind of conspiracy theories.
Speaking of conspiracy theories, many believed that "...the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars". Some theories were that aliens built "an Egyptian pharoah". Some of the scientists at NASA even believed that it was evidence of alien life on mars! Conspiracy theorists say that NASA would rather hide life on Mars, but defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilisation on mars becuase then NASA would get more money to go to mars.
Now with higher resolution pictures NASA scientists have found what the "Face" really is. It seems that their earlier guesses were in fact correct! As quoted in "Unmasking the Face on Mars", "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa". The scientists were correct on saying it looked like a mesa. They have even found out with higher resolution pictures that it almost resembles the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. They both have a similar height and shape.
Sadly the "Face" is not an ancient alien ruins or a temple. Dont we all want it to be proof of life on mars? Scientists have proved that it is not though. Scientists say that it is in fact a mesa, and they put to rest a long standing mystery of the face on mars and any conspiracy theories with it. | 3 |
Ok so this talk about the solar oplanet this wiil be help to the planet because we nned the solar for the health and to others think what they going to helping .
Venus is called the Evening star is the only one of the brightes point . venus is actually a planet . in the solar planet.
They two has a different speed mean that sometimes we are closet to mArs and others times to venus.
The thick of the admosphere is a big percent of the carbon dioxide,the temperature is so big like is so up because is in the around of the planet solar.
The scientist are try to find the weatherhow going to be on all the days is something similary with the solar planet they are triing to find some thinks .
and the wen they find we going to know what is going to happen.
The NASA has the only one particulary compelling idea for sending humans to study venus because they know how. | 0 |
Ah, the great smell of pollution hitting your face as you walk out the door; the way the polluted air puts a haze over your eyes. There is nothing better than that when you begin to start your day every morning. Most people do not seem to enjoy the slap in your face you get when you just cannot seem to get enough air into your lungs. The use of cars has be steadily decreasing over the years, and public transportations are beginning to be used more, and more. Along with this, cities are even beginning to ban the usage of cars. This has become an idea that has spread globally and everyone is beginning to take an interest to have the pollution level lowered, and to make the air much cleaner.
It is time to inform you, that places around the world big, and small are beginning to ban the usage of cars. Cities as big as Paris, France have banned car usage to bring down the pollution levels found in their great cities. Vauban, Germany, a suburban community, has completely given up their cars, in which car owners must purchase a spot for their car in a garage that can cost up to forty-thousand dollars. According to Elisabeth Rosenthal in,
In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars , seventy percent of Vauban's families do not even own cars, and fifty-seven percent of the people living there chose to sold their cars before they moved there. Vauban's ideas has been spread throughout the world and now other suburbs are beginning to want to make places denser and make everything a walking distance away. Cities as great as Paris, France enforced a partial ban on driving cars to clear the air of the city, which was said by Robert Duffer in,
Paris bans driving due to smog.
Paris had made it easier to get public transportation while the ban was being enforced by making public transportation free of charge Friday to Monday. With pollution levels higher than ever with the amount of factories and cars, in congested cities it is a good idea for car usuage to go down to allow the air to clear from pollution. Limiting the amount of car usuage will clear the air we breathe, and allow us to inhale deeper breaths.
In addition, there are many different forms of transportation that can be used instead of just the average car, you may use bikes, roller-skates, skateboards (longboards, and penny boards), or even just a simple walk to get to places. Attempting to minimize the usuage of everyone using a single car to get to a place a carpool, taxi, bus, train, or subway can be another means of transportation that may be used. This will limit the amount of traffic on the streets, and minimize the amount of pollution that is going into the air. Some will say that not driving to your destination yourself will take more time whether it be because you have to wait for your specific train to arrive, or waiting for the taxi to show up to your doorstep, you have to wait a few extra minutes to leave for your destination. In reality, that few extra minutes you have waiting for the taxi can be stopped you can do this by, calling the taxi a few minutes before you want to leave so that it will arrive precisely when you want it too. With the use of bikes, walking, or skating everywhere you go, you will also begin to get into better shape, as you are moving towards your destination. The usage of cars for only trips that will take hours will also help to save you money on gas, and your car millage.
Furthermore, by beginning to add neat sidewalks, parks, and everything in a walking distance people will be encouraged to walk more and will not have reason not to use their car. Elisabeth Rosenthal states in,
The End of Car Culture , that even in America the usage of car is beginning to dtop down steadily. The amount of young people getting their driver's license is starting to decrease and has gone down twenty-three percent between 2001 and 2009. She also state at the Mobile World Congress the proposed the idea that they should partner with the telecommunications industry to create cities in which "pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emission and improve safety." With people beginning to take interest in other means of transportation cities, and towns alike will begin to make things a walking distance to meet the obscure demand from the people.
In conclusion, people around the world are beginning to take interest in lessening the usage of cars in their cities, and towns. Cars have began going down in sales and less people are buying them. Other means of transportation have come up that will begin to benefit us health wise. Making us healthier by excercising and clearing our air of toxins found in pollution. If cities around the world begin to decrease the amount of car usuage our air will become much clearier and satisfying to live in. It will make getting to destinations much safer with the less chance of accidents and injuries from motor vechicles. Reducing car usage will begin to change the world by making it a much cleaner, healthier place to live. | 4 |
The voting system, known as the Elctoral College, is still being disputed today. There has been many occassion where it has been tried to be elimanted. Some voters think that it is an anachronism. They don't realize that it is a well thought-out voting system. It helps gives more opportunity to smaller states and makes elections alot easier.
The Electoral College, is basiclly a winner-take-all system. Where whichever President has majority of elctoral votes, wins, no matter what the popular vote was. It gives opportunity to smaller states. The way that the Elcetoral College works, is that your state is entitled to a number of electors, a Congressional delegation based on state population, as explained in "What Is the Electoral College?" For an example, the District of Columbia, is "...treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College..." It gives the District of Columbia, almost like a voice, saying, "Hey I'm small, but my votes matter."
The Electoral college, helps alot with making the elections easier. The election season is already stressful and pressuring to begin with. Waiting for results of who the next President might be, raises anxiety to the roof. The Electoral College, helps very much to predict what the votes may be. Why? "Certaintiy of Outcome" as titled in, "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President". The share of the Electoral College also depends on the popular vote of the state, even thought they are two different things. Even a very slight plurality can cause a "landslide electoral-vote". Most of the time, the President that has the most electoral votes, has aswell most popular vote.
I know that the Electoral College isn't the most perferred method. But it is a secure way of voting. It makes the election alot easier and gives chances to smaller states. It shouldn't be abolished like Bob Dole said. Lets keep it. | 2 |
I find that driverless cars is not only a bad idea but a bad advocate, I also find that this car is a bad avocate for not only teenagers but adults as well. Although the car does seem cool because it is something new doesn't mean it won't malfunction while being used at anytime. People would have to take extra procausion while using this type of car. I could see more accidents in the future rather than safe driving.
The main reason I find that driverless cars is a bad idea is because of drunk driving. Teens and adults already take full advantage of it so why wouldn't this car advocate more drunk driving? Not only on top of cars malfunctioning, you have to pay extra procausion, and plus on top of all that someone decides to drink and drive. People don't understand all of the responsiblities you have to take on while having a driverless car.
As to many teens they like to show off, a lot. That is something everyone likes to do, but imagine all the horrific things that driverless cars could cause. It only takes one person to get distracted by their cellphone or other passangers in the car. Something could happen to the car in just a short period of time, The car could malfunction but the driver responsible wouldn't know or they didn't have enough time to stop the car or give their attention to the road.
In my opinion I believe that driverless cars should be banned from every state. Driving isn't just about getting to your destiniation, but keeping drivers, passenger, and pedestrians safe. Only alert drivers would be in the proper state to drive one of these cars but teens and other drivers that aren't very alert and are already not safe drivers and could cause many problems. | 1 |
The arts of technology. I think it is safe to say that technology has expanded over time. We live in a world where kids and even adults have technology. It is a part of our socitey now, but remember how hundreds of years ago we did not have technolgy and we did just fine? How we showed emotions throught our and nothing else and now days we have emoticans and what not?
Now we have a computer that reads us. How weird is that? We did not need this but now we seem to have. Kids now days email their teacher in order to get help when not so long ago we had Saturday school to tutor those that needed help. This computer is going to help teacher supposedly read tyhe face expression children make has they are exlaining the lesson. That way they can go back and see who makes expression of confusion and does not.
This will help those kids that are to afraid to say thye need help. See a childs ego can be pretty big when it comes to their education believe it or not. A kid could be too afraid to ask for help because they have a feeling they can do it on their own. The computer target each motion the face makes or when ever a muscle is different or changes in a face. A teacher/studenet relationship is now going to followed up by a computer screen. Won't be long untill the robots take over.
This computer program will probably make it easy for other people to see how they feel towards one another. Maybe some will like the answer and other will not. See thing about this is that maybe the computer will ditect a feeling that the person will not be sharing at all or does not want people to know about this feeling. It could be invady some privacy because this person mught be hdidng a feeling thay do not want show, This computer will read that due to the face muscles he/she will be moving. Whoever reads the results of this person will find themselve in a position they will not knnow what to do.
Maybe this computer program is good for somethings, but in some ocasions it will not be a good source. Also this computer program alterates more the usage of technolgy these days. This will make society more intense and more into technology then what it already is. People should be able to show and tell their emotions if they feel free to. Not by a computer to tell them for them! | 2 |
The author of this story does not support the idea of Venus being a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. in this article, there is only evidence supporting all the challenges that venus brings to us. The author gave no reason or claim to why a dangerous trip to venus would benefit us in any way. The author of this article does include evidence and facts about how hard it would be to get to Venus and all the challenges we would have to undergo to get to Venus.
In this article the author claims that going to Venus is hard but worthy. What makes Venus so worthy? "often referred to as earth's "twin", Venus is the closest planet to earth in terms of denisty and size." says the article of this passage in paragraph 2. but then in paragraph 2 he states that Venus has a "thick atmoshpere of 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets" and "clouds of highly corrosive sulfiric acid" "temperatures over 800 degrees Fahrenheit" and " atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet". The author gave all this evidence of the challenges we were facing to get to venus but he does not say why it is beneficial to us. he gives us more reasons to not want to go to venus.
in conclusion, this author does not support his claim of venus being worthy despite all the dangers and challenges it brings. There is no text evidence or even a reason to go to venus. the author has to include more of the benefits we can get from going to venus, instead of giving us all the challenges. | 1 |
The Author supports the idea of studying Venus very well. They give informational texts such as statistics and important information that intrigues the reader into wanting to know more about our "sister planet". He explains his idea,of studying Venus, our "sister planet" , by using facts such as Venus being the closest planet to us, describing the atmosphere the planet has on a daily basis, and incluiding the fact that even astronomers are fascinated by it.
When the author said " Venus is the closest planet to Earth. Despite Earth and Venus being our neighboring planet there's still many accomdations they must keep in mind,yes they have similar mountains and other landmade items, but it's also very different. In paragraph, 3 the author tells us how about 70 percent of the planets atmosphere is consitsed of carbon dioxixde. This would surely put the life of a human in danger. With all of this information and comparing and contrasting being made the author is still able to provide us with accurate infromation about the planet itself.
"Even astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well have once been the most Earth like planet in our solar system" the author says in paragraph 3. Breaking it into a segment of fascination for the astronmers because it has so many earth like similarities such as, a surface of rocky sediment, valleys, mountains, and craters. The fact that land made surfaces, that are prominently known on Earth,are being found on Venus shocks the readers and provides them with an inspiration to see more similaritites. They go as far as to mention that Venus may have once been scattered with oceans. This surpised me very much considering the fact that a planet a years travel away would have some of the same natural things happening on them.
When discussing the possibility of traveling to the planet one day, the author describes the climate as being very hot. Observing the planet from a ship orbiting or hovering far above the planet provides only limited sight on the ground conditions because some light simply cannot break past the dense atmosphere. Due to the almost opaque climate NASA has been working on different approaches in order to study the climate.
The author does a fantastic job of supporting his claim of Venus being a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. They included some of the most important ordeals and questions some may have regarding to the situtation. They address the climate, astronomers fascination with the planet,and discussing the relativeness it has to Earth. The author provides a strong claim at the end that somewhat encourages the reader, by saying " Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and inovation" he is saying that our advances in the future should not be limited, but adjusted to meet the requirements needed to expand our knowledge. | 3 |
The Challenging of Exploring Venus
The venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system even though Mercury is closer to sun. But, long time ago, Venus was propably covered with oceans and it was also possible to survive. The life can be as simple as we are living in Earth. However, Venus still have some things which a living beings needs to survive. This planet has a rocky sediment anf includes such a familiar features like valleys, mountains, and craters.
Venus can also conclude as our second option, if we have to choose another place except Earth. But Venus's reputation is a challenging planet for humans to study. Not even a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Sometimes we are closer to the Mars and sometimes we are closer to Venus. This all is because of difference in speed. As Venus is sometimes right around the corner, humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land.
NASA has an idea to send humans to study about Venus. To explain the idea of NASA author has used few examples like blimp like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the rolling Venusian landscape. Author also uses jet airplanes as an example as our jet airplanes traveln at a higher altitude to fly over many storms. NASA explains about the temperature and solar power on Venus for survivle of humans. The temperature is around 170 degrees in Fahrenheit, but the air pressure is going to be close to the sea level of Earth. Solar power will be enough and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Conditions is not really easy but enough for the survival of humans.
It's important or it's wothy to study about Venus as this is the only planet on space except Earth where humans can survive. And it's research done by NASA explains that humans can also survive in Venus but it's not going to be as easy as we are living in Earth. Venus is often referred as Earth's twin. | 1 |
Many people wonder whether or not cars should be ban to help save the enviroment. They dont know if that would help us or make matters worse. Their are many advantages to not using cars. Some people just can't seem to let go of their cars. They need a push to get started and to stop using their cars every single day.
Their are multiple advantages to the baning of cars. One example would be getting rid of air pollution. Most air pollution is caused by cars so if you get rid of cars you will also get rid of air pollution. Air pollution can cause a lot of different problems it can cause people to get sick or many other things, so getting rid of it completely could help a lot of people.
Another thing people wouldn't have to worry about would be traffic jams on the way to work. During the week some many people are trying to get to and from work at the same time it causes a traffic jam. People are often late to work because of this reason. So putting a ban on cars could help out with that. People could walk to and from work or ride a bike. This would limit the number of traffic jams and people wouldn't have to worry about being late to work.
If people walked everywhere instead of drove everywhere people would be getting a lot of exercise and that could help too. Cars make us seem lazy where we drive everywhere we want to go but if we walk or rode a bike that could help out in many ways. Walking could get things off your mind you could walk with a friend that way you can hangout and talk about things while you walk. Walking could relieve stress. It could calm you down and just make you relax for a few and forget about all your problems.
Putting a ban on cars could also help the town in which you live in, not only by limiting air pollution but it could boost town activity. New restaurants would be built, and more places to shop. People would spend money on other things besides gas for their cars. Town businesses would do better and make more money, also new businesses could form.
Also getting rid of cars could limit the amount of deaths every year. Many deaths every year come from car accidents, drunk drivers, people not paying attention and many other things. If everyone walked or rode bikes to the places they wanted to go that could get rid of many deaths that happen every single day. That would make the world safer in so many ways.
Getting rid of cars and not depending on cars for everything could be what this worlds needs to improve itself. This could take us one step closer to living longer, happier, and healthy lives. People wouldn't have to worry about getting a car or paying insurance on a car. People wouldn't have to worry about getting their kids license, teaching them how to drive or anything like that. The number of deaths each year could go down and things could change for the better. | 3 |
Having a device that reads the emotions of humans would no doubt be very valuable. The device would cause the teacher to know the emotions of every one of their students and in return, the teacher would be more effective. Due to the new information they have, the teacher could change the style of teaching, change their lesson plans, or ask the students why they are feeling what, based on the emotions of the students.
Students have a way of staring blankly when teachers are talking. While the students are not paying attention to the teacher's lecture, the teacher is worrying about how to get the attention of his or her students. But the teacher has no idea how the students are feeling, and the students end up not learning anything. In this common situation, the teacher would have been greatly helped if they knew the emotions of their students. If the teacher knew the students were tired, he or she could have made them do a brain exercise or a warm-up. The teacher could have used a conversation starter or made the class more interactive to gain the students' attention.
Once one gains the attention of the students, teaching becomes a lot easier. The students start to have more fun, and they learn effectively. Because students are learning more and becoming smarter, more will go to college and succeed in life at a higher rate.
Although the use of the Facial Acyion Coding System for the teacher and the learning of the students, it would be an invasion of privacy. Students might feel weirded out by the fact that the teacher knows every single emotion they have. Also, it turns out that humans tend to be pretty good at reading each others' emotions, so it might not be all that beneficial, depending on the teacher.
The best way to deal with the invasion of privacy factor, would be to receive consent from all of the students and their parents. If this step is passed, the students will receive a better education and overall, be better students. | 3 |
Did you know not haveing a car can make you happier. In Vauban,Gremany it costs 40,000 dollars for your home and garage. Because of this 70 percent of the population does not own a car and 57 precent of that sold there car to live there. Many of there residents say there much happier without a car. One offical named Heidrun Walter explained how "When i had my car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way" and its true driving makes you stressed.
Not only not have a car makes you happy but it also can save the ecosystem. Green house gas is a big problem in the world now. Carbon dioxide slowly filling are planet. Acts like Vauban, and others like it, can influnce the world to change from the dangeruos road that we desided to take. But Europe produces 12 precent of green house gas, America on the other hand produces 50 precent of green house gas. America needs to change or we all die off.
Paris has more smog then any other European capitals. Come on if you don't think thats terrable then you need a new mind set because this is evolving into a problem. They say that diesel fual is to blame. because 67 precent of Paris has diesel fuel. I think its because theres, I dont know, A billion people driving at the same time.
This concludes that we need to stop using automobiles. Because its killing are eco system and we can do it . Many small cities are doing it and there happy. So why do we have to be mad and lazy when we can be happy and active. | 2 |
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Getting rid of the electoral college would be a bad idea because of the ease it puts on voting and it makes the candidates work harder to becaome president.
When a person runs for president they are trying to take on the hardest job possible, running a country. When they are on their campaign they visit states individual amd they spen alot of time on swing states or the big states such as California, Florida, and Texas. without the electoral college it kinda defeates the purpose for them spending as much time as they do in those states because yes they have a large amount of people but so does every other state, the only large difference now is the amount of electoral votes each one gets. where as with the electoral college they spend more individualized time with each state to try to sway the majority to get all the electoral votes since they cant split them between the candidates. it all comes down to who the smarter candidate is and how they spend time and what they are trying to achive. overall the way it is now makes them wotk harder to win the election. with voting no one likes a tie and without the electoral college that can happen.
In 2000 gore and bush had a fiasco with voting in the presidental election and it was the first time since 1888. Gore who had more popular votes than bush only lost because Bush had the most electoral votes. If it was only up to popular votes than it can easily come down to a tie, what then? recount after recount, or simple debate (but who decides that?). In some cases without the electoral college it could actully make the process because yes they dont have to spend much time campaigning in certain states they get to visit smaller states that tend to get neglected during the campaigns so everyone is more of an informed voter when it comes time to vote. lets say bob and sally campaing against each other and with out the electoral college they can go ariund to smaller states and the big ones and when the voting results are in yes they can be closer or larger apart you also see how america feels whenit comes to politics, yes you can see it with the electoral college but it is a smaller amount of votes so it will always be close but seeing how america feels isnt as easy.
When it comes down to voting the Electoral College is an over all easier way to vote and makes the candidates work harder to win an already hard election to run the country. | 2 |
The Seagoing Cowboys, which included Luke Bomberger, had helped many people due to the effect of the Word War II. The Cowboys were known to help others, beat records from past Seagoing Cowboys, and meeting new people.
The Cowboys were a huge help after Word War II. They joined with 43 other nations to form UNRRA (The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administratation), which was to help countries recover animals, food suplies, and more. The UNRRA also hired the "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the young cows, mules, and horses that were shipped overseas.
When joining any club or, for example, the "Seagoing Cowboys", records are to be broken. When Luke was 18, he had made nine trips, which was the most any Cowboy has made. This was a big acomplishment for him, because it showed everybody what he could do.
Entering a club is a chance to meet new people. For example, when all the animals were unloaded, it was time to bring out your game side. Luke and the cowboys would play baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where the animals had been housed.
Joining the Seagoing Cowboys is a wonderful experience, because you have the oppertunity to see new places, help others in need, and of course meet new people. The cowboys are more than just Seagoing Cowboys, their people helping people. | 2 |
Technology has always been changing. All the changes have improved our lifes for the better or for the worst. One of the newest technology is the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). This system can classify basic emotion by measuring your face muscles. The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. Three reasons for why are it helps modify the lesson, helps read non-verbal communication and helps produce emotions.
Many students have had an online assigment that was boring to them. The teachers might not have realized if the lesson was not interesting or the students didn't understand it, since the students were behind a screen. If the teachers had the FACS, the computer would be able to detect the students emotions and change up the lesson to make it more fun or understandable for the student. This would help the students learn more better by having a lesson that fits them. According to the creator, Dr. Huang, the computor would work like an a human instructor.
There are two ways a person communications to one another. Those two ways are verbal and nonverbal. According to Dr. Huang, the most human communication is nonverbal. The students use nonverbal communication, mostly to show how they feel about the assignment. So if the tecaher doesn't catch the student emotional expression the computer would. The computer will then notify the teacher about it so he can change up the assignment or explain the assignment better.
Many people who are feeling down, try to fake their smile. Well, according to the creator, FACS would be able to tell if it is forced. It is going to be able to that becuse it will measure the muscles on your face such as the zygomatic major, oculi pars palpabraeus, and the risoriuos. Even if it is fake eventually it would be able to produce actual happiness. This would work in a classroom, if the students are in a acting class and have to fake their facial expression to fit with the scene. The computor comes into this by reading the student's facial expression, and telling the student how the computer thinks the student feels.
In conclusion, the use of the FACS is valuable. It helps modify the lessions, helps read nonverbal communication, and helps produce emotions. It may come with its flaws, but we will improve it so it can be properly used in classrooms. FACS is the new future of the use of technology that will change the way we learn. Not only would it improve our ways of learning, but also help us understand the science of emotions better. | 3 |
The use of FACS should not be prohibited on the use of just students. It can not just be experienced on students. Adults have their own facial expressions that could be test to. The students have to be able to talk to someone about their mode not by a machine. That could be wrong and probably cause probelms.
FACS in other words is the facial action coding system which detects facial movements. There are 6 basic emotions it detects.They are
happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. FACS is a 3-D model that tracks facial movements. The model stores similar anatomical information as electronic code. The model uses algorithms to now the your ficial expressions.
The FACS is being use for students to know how they feel. To know if they are saying the truth. Which is should not be used because some kids just do not want other people bothering when they have probelms. In other cases, kids are to scared to confront an adult with their worries, problems, or troubles. Certain kids prefer to be left alone; however, students should not feel alone. They need people to communicate; however the kids now they are just rude or do not feel like having a relationship with any human they just want to be left alone.
The kids instead should have a friend to talk to that could comprehend how they are feeling in that moment. Some kids are not gonna want to make friends, but at least whenever they need some one to talk to they should have that fellow friend or any person. They should also have a relationship with their parents and not with a 3-D model. The computer can have many algorithms but it can never really detect how you are feeling and how long that person could have that feeling. Any one could change their feelings in the matter of seconds.
Having this kind of technology could help everyone out; however it can also have its disadvatages. The technology can be expensive. The parts for the machine is also expensive. With all that money that is being for the technolgy it could bring shortage to the anyone who does not have enough money to support their family or just themselves. People could just use a friend to talk to or anyone who is close to them. | 2 |
In this article the suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit other than the dangers it has.There are many dangers for exploring venus. Some of those dangers are the thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus , the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in it's atosphere ,and on the surface of the plant's surface temperature averages over 800 degrees fahrenheit.
Even though it has its dangers it is a worthy pursuit. I say this because it so much like earth in the article they refer it as our "sister" planet . They say in the article it's so much a like because they beleived long ago it was covered in oceans , could have supporeted forms of life , and other similarities.
This shows it is a worthy pursuit. What if one day earth dies and there becomes a whole new worl with life on venus. I say that because in the article they compared it so much to real life on earth. | 1 |
The use of technology is extrodinary as it has shown that it is able to recongize the different emotions that we have. It has also became
discussion about using it in class. And the fact that it could really help in the future is absolutly amazing.
The author has stated the new software has been developed and impoves accuracy in perceving the emotions of others; like Mona Lisa, a subject of Leonardo da Vinci's Renaissance painting. From the article the aurthor provides lots of research from doctors that states it indeed can determind the emotions- happiness to sadness- just because of the characteristic movements of the facial muscles. They explained that its compaired to a photo of a person with a expression thats neutral.
The debate on if this new technology should be used in schools to read students emotions. As a student myself i can personally see why most kids would disagree, but it may help us in the future. All students are different and we all have our own stories so this may help teachers help us. I am not really one that like to raise my hand if I am confused, and I for am not the only one. So if this software is used then it may help a student to get help from a teacher.
Students getting their exact feelings will also save a life. Now a day multiple kids are going through things so if teachers have acess to knowing our emotions then it could hlep prevent suicide. Students have a tendancy to like to keep to themselves and don't seek for help till tits to late. So this new software can be a red flag to the teachers before anything happens. Teachers can get a better understanding if only the saw the signs the student is showing.
So in the end if ther were computer that had a software to read the emotions it could benifit everyone. Not only will students be helped if they have a problem but then there will be a better bond between students and teachers because they can understand each other a bit more. | 3 |
Just imagine how many information you can get reading "the challenge of exploring Venus" It can teach you a lot of things that maybe you did not know before.
The author speak about Venus how if he went there, he give you a lot information about the planet like, to Venus people sometimes calle "Evening Star" and explain why people give it this nickname. Explain the Venus it is really close from our planet and scienfics should examine better. Maybe the author thinks that there can be life.
Venus is Earth's Twin because have almost the same density and size, and occasionally th closest distance. He says the other planets orbiut the sun a differents speed too. What he means is that sometimes we are closer from mars and others from venus.
Venus is a planet not really safety because a thick atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide, The temperatures can be 800 degrees fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure 90 times greater than our planet is, There is not humans who can resist this.
Venus was a planet almost like the Earth, it was covered with ocean and various froms os life. And today still have stuff like the Earth so this mean that scientific should verify this planet better. Maybe is our next planet to live?
Venus maybe could be our next country, no one knows, is amazing and would be amazing if in a future we have to live this planet to another. The posilibilities of that this can happen are not a lot, but if th Scientifics or the NASA find a planet identical to this wil be a big step for the humanity. | 1 |
Have you ever been on a ship with alot of animals?If not, then come join the Seagoing Cowboys program. You can learn how to transport animals to different places. For example, Luke couldn't say no to his friend Don because it was an oppurtunity of a lifetime for him. Luke and Don were both happy that got a chance to go to Europe on a cattle boat.
Luke and Don were on the boat to tranport horses, cows, mules, their food and supplies to ship them overseas. When they signed up they were told to report to New Orleans in August 1945. They arrived on the day that the Pacific War had ended. They boarded a ship with 335 horses some hay and oats to feed them. This would be great evidence to join the Seagoing Cowboys Program.
On the other hand, most people think that it might be dangerous for kids to join the program. In the text it says that "Luke slid down the stairs and was stopped by a piece of metal." Luke couldn't on the boat because he craked his ribs. In the text it also states that "But being a Seagoing
was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger. It opened up the world to him." Luke was also happy to be alive without going overboard.
In conclusion, I think it would be great if you joined the Seagoing Cowboys Program. It would be a lot of fun for everyone to join the program. You would learn alot of ways to tansport animals and visit different places. You can also play games and have fun on return trips. All of these examples prove that you can be in the Program. | 2 |
yes, it is good that they the people that is causeing the damange to the cars pay for they responsibility that they have car insurance so that they can help them with there problems. It is good that have navigation in there car so that they know that they will not have any problems with there destinations, But it is by the law to keep all the passengers safe by them wearing seat belts just in case of any accident.
It will help if every person have on a seat or may get pulled ova by the law so it wont be no tickets going around so that mean by the person skills it would help to make sure that person thats driving is doing what they are suppose to be doing at the time that they are driving.
GM has developed drivers seats that vibrates when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object traffic jam assissant the car handle driving functions at the speed limit of 25 mph but special touch sensrs make sure the drivers keep hold of the wheel. the combination of all this input is necessary for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel.
The car read the positive and negative polarity as messages in binary code. these smart road systems worked surprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was too expensive to be practical. | 0 |
Some people think there is life on other planets and some don't, but in 1976 many people thought NASA had found life on Mars. In 1976 Viking 1 took a photo of mars which looked like a face on the planet's suface. Many believed that this was a sign of life on Mars.
Many of the NASA scientists didn't believe that the face was alien related, but it became a priority for NASA. Soon the Mars Global Surveyor was sent to take more pictures of the face to better find out what it was.
In 1998 the Mars Global Surveyor reached the red planet and took the pictures NASA needed. The pictures it took were more detailed then the ones in 1976. At home, thousands of people waited for the image that the Mar Gobal Surveyor took to reach to web.
The reveal was a natural landform and not alien artifact after all. Still some people didn't belive that
NASA was hiding something. Even though NASA and it's supporters said they would have wanted it to be alien.
Some people still believe NASA is and was hiding something, but we may never know. | 1 |
From what I understand, people are starting to use cars less and less.
Limited car usage has been seen in many different areas of the world recently and will continue to be seen in the near future. The green house gasses released from passenger cars is a tremendous harm to the ozone layer of our Earth. If one day a year we had a "No Car Day" then there would be a huge impact on the ozone layers.
Now I'm not suggesting that we just get rid of cars altogether, I love driving my car around, not just to get from point A to point B, but because of the freedom. Aside from that, cars are an essential for some people, like point A to point B for example. But, people that don't need to drive on a regular basis could get rid of their car and take the bus, or carpool. So there is always another option for transportation, I like to call it AT (Alternate Transportation).
If for one day of the year we had a "No Car Day" the ozone impact would be positively tremendous. Then people would also realize, "Hey, I have other ways of transportation like a bike, walking, or something else.", then there would be no problem with green house gasses guarenteed.
Now I know I haven't said a whole lot to make this sound good and all, but I do believe the percentage of people getting their drivers license is declining. My cousins in Texas feel they have no need for their license, when they always have someone to carpool them, or their parents just take them, or the city bus. Me on the other hand, I have a job, go to school, and I'm an active Boy Scout that helps with transportation on campouts throughout the year, it all depends on your circumstances on whether driving is appropriate for you.
Driving is an activity that many people do on a daily basis, but do they need to drive on that daily basis? Could they help towards a cleaner environment by finding alternate transportation? Or is a "No Car Day" in need? All of the above in my opinion. It all depends on your circumstance. | 2 |
I'm against the development of Driverless Cars. I think they are not a good idea for three reasons, theft, technical difficulties, and risky actions. My first reason is theft. Somebody could steal one and just leave off with the car. For example, a robber comes out a bank, he see a driverless car, hops in and leaves off with it. Also, i think it's easy for people to steal them because since its driverless they probably wont need a key.They'll use sensors.
My second reason is technical difficulties. I choose this reason because in our world, people build a lot of stuff but there's always a problem/technical difficulty. Having driverless, computer-working cars, can be very risky. According to the story "Driverless Cars Are Coming", a quote in paragraph 7 states " They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver
when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." What if the car has a technical difficulty from the rain. Usually technology doesn't work well when its wet. Say I was driving a driverless car to the store and it started to rain. I want to turn left but instead it turns right and crashes into another car. Then I wouldn't want to buy a driverless car no more because this dangerous situation.
My last reason is risky actions. There's a pssibility that a person can get injured or die from driverless cars. According to the story "Driverless Cars Are Coming" in paragraph 9 it state, " If the tecnology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault---The driver or the manufacturer?" I feel like it would be the manufacturer's fault because they the one's who made and sell the driverless cars. It shouldnt be the driver's fault because they no driving, they put they trust into the technology, hoping it will get them from point A to point B safely. If this technology does fail, there's a possibility that someone or families could be injured or die from this risky situation.
I dont think Driverless cars are safe in our world. We have had a lot of technology that had technical difficulties. It is too risky and can put people in danger or harm's way We should stick to humans (that are skilled) driving. | 3 |
The technological age has advanced to the point of being able to calculate the complex emotions of the Mona Lisa, and there's proposal for moving into classrooms as well. However, this is a sentiment that must be rejected wholeheartedly. Despite possible learning benefits, facial recognition technology in the classroom would be ineffective and would constitute an invasion of privacy.
Facial recognition software would be an ineffective addition to the classroom environment. In paragraphs 5 and 6, D'Alto writes of how the computer can sense emotions just like humans can, stating, "In fact, we humans perform this same impressive 'calculation' every day. For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." The human body has a natural ability to sense emotions within others by performing calculations based on the subtle body movements of others. Even if a machine could replicate this, as the article suggests, it doesn't dimish the face that humans already possess this capability. No emotion detecting software currently available provides anything that a human being couldn't detect, therefore adding them to the classroom would only be providing information that the teacher could already know. Teachers can detect boredom, stress, and enjoyment just like the computer would, and, if they so wish, they can change their lesson appropriately. Technology that reads emotions would be innefective and unneeded in the classroom.
Software that can read emotions could, in a classroom, invade the personal, privite lives of the students its watching over. Due to the nature of being a computer, the technology could, as stated in paragraph 6, "'...recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored.'" The level of understanding stops at simply recognizing the emotion; a computer cannot discern the reason behind each emotion because it only detects that the emotion is there. Now place that into a classroom, where students from all different backgrounds are coming together to learn, and there will be some students that have had a rough day. Something happened outside of school that was out of their control, and they're just trying to make it through the day and avoid conversation about it. Sadly, they walk into class, and a computer, which a teacher is giving a lesson, notices that the student is distracted and continually pesters them to pay attention, even though the student's interest is not on schoolwork at all. Life is not contained to just the classroom, and external factors will effect a student's emotion before, during, and after class. Those factors could be incredibly personal, but the technology, not being able to sense anything other than emotion, analyzes this personal part of someone's life as much as it would do a bored kid in class. This is a blatant invasion of students' privacy and needs to be prevented from doing such.
D'Alto argues that the technology could provide substancial benefits to the classroom by creating personalized programs for each student to remain interested, but this process would just prove overall inneffective or exhorbitantly expensive to implement. To provide reason for this technology being implemented in classes, D'alto states in paragraph 6 that "'A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,' Dr. Huang predicts. 'Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.'" This has to be looked at in two different scenarious: a group class and a personalized class. For the group class, modifying the lesson would be overall inneffective because it would cause other students that used to be enjoying class to become bored and lethargic, thus prompting the computer to modify the lesson. The cycle would continue until the end of class, with the technology switching teaching methods so often that calling the class coherent would be blatant lying. This modification method would only work if each student had their own computer modifying the lesson. In that scenario, each student would be personally invested into what they were learning. However, it also means that each student would need their own computer that holds this technology. For technology that currently is too complicated for ordinary computers to comprehend, that would require schools to invest exhorbitant amounts of money purchasing new computers that could hold this software. For every student to have a computer would be way too expensive for any implementation to be cost-effective. Despite possible learning benefits, the technology would either be too expensive to be implemented or too innefective to be used.
It's an interesting concept to imagine a world where computers are able to sense emotions and create a personalized program for each person on Earth. However, this imagination is riddled with expenses, invasion of privacy, redundancy, and overall inneffectivity. As the technology age progresses, it's important to remember to leave teaching to the teachers. | 5 |
I think that you should join the seagoing Cowboy program because you can go over sea you can be at a certian place in just a couplle weeks but it all depens on how far away it is. My reason to join this program would be that evveryone should have a chance to do things that they can't do in a normal everyday life. This started a while back I was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a bank when my friend Don Reist invited me to go to Europe on a cattle boat. I couldn't say no. I knew that it was an opportunity of a life time.
I knew this because it isn't everyday that you can go out to sea and go to a different country. This was my only chance to help out and go to another place, but if I would have said no then I would have never of gone to Europe and I would still be at home working to jobs and not being able to do much of anything but work and work and work. At my first trip I wasn't at Europe until after I was 18 when this happened I could draft myself for the U.S. army and would be able to do this all of the time. When they got my draft they told me to keep doing what I was doing. What I was doing was feeding the animals. Then on my second trip I was on nightlook out. Every hour I had to check on the animals and make sur ethat there was nothing wrong with them. After a while it started to rain and I slid down the metal ledder and I cracked my ribs. But the best thing about this was that I could make my mark on the world. This is why I think that you should join the seagoing Cowboys. | 1 |
In this passage we see Luke's experience as a Seagoing Cowboy.
Luke shows us how being a Seagoing Cowboy gave him awareness for other people. He also shows us the many impotant things to learn from this job.
First, while being a Seagoing Cowboy Luke learned to take care of many of the animals.
He fed them and gave them water.
These actions, in turn, helped many people that were suffering.
Second, caring for the animals taught Luke to be responsible and to be a hard worker.
In the passage Luke said he had to make sure he fed the animals, give them water every day, and clean the stalls.
He also said ha had to be a night guard and check on the animals every hour to make sure everything was okay.
Next, other than taking care of the animals and doing different work, Luke also got to see new things and have fun.
He said he saw China, Europe, the Acropolis in Greece, an excavated castle in Crete,and the Panama Canal.
He also went on a gondola ride in Venice, Italy.
Even on the boat Luke had fun.
He and the other cowboys played baseball and volleyball games, had tournaments, and did other enjoyable things.
Finally, Luke saw people that were hurting and that needed his help.
Luke said '' I'm grateful for the opportunity,'' and that '' It made me more aware of people...''
Because of the Seagoing Cowboys program, Luke helped many others, even after he was discharged from the program.
The Seagoing Cowboys program was a eye opening adventure for Luke.
It can also be a life changing experience for other people too.
They can learn lessons and help people just like Luke did.
It may also change their outlook on life. They may want to do more to help others in need, rather than just helping themselves. | 2 |
It was the year 1976, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was searching for a suitable landing site on a region in Mars called Cydonia for a twin spacecraft, Viking 2. While doing so a strange face appeared, (yes I said face) on Mars mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Lab had their jaws dropped in the image being displayed in front of them, but the excitment was short lived until scientist quickly pointed out it was just another Martian mesa of which was pretty common in the area.
Then a couple days after NASA reveiled the face on Mars hoping to spark up some attention toward the Red Planet. Did they get quick results! The face was admired by many, but this started theories that aliens on Mars created the wierd sensation.
When the Viking took the picture it wasn't as clear so on April 5, 1998 a Mars Global Surveyor went to Cydonia to take a sharper picture to display towards anxious web surfers, once taken the image appeared on the web site revealing unfortunantly a natural landform. Any conspirest in the audience can solemly agree there wasn't a alien monument after all. | 1 |
In "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author gives examples of both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. The article has more convincing exaples of negative aspects of "driverless cars". "Driverless cars" are something that should only be seen in movies.
"Driverless" cars can only drive under certain conditions, so why pay extra money for a car that can only do basic things when you can do them and more yourself. According to the article,"The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. In fact, none of the cars developed so far are completely driverless. They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents."
Why would anyone want to go 25 mph in a 30, 35 or even a 45. People already complain about how slow traffic is. ow about getting to work in 10 minutes with out traffic in a "driverless car", when it only takes 5 minutes with traffic in a regular car. The "driverless cars" are not really driverless all they can do is steer, accelerate, and brake, but the driver still has to do every thing else. Is the "driverless car" really worth wasting money that was earned by working hard? Americans are already struggling to find money, are they now just going to be broke because everyone wants a "driverless car".
We have laws for a reason, why would we change them just because someone watched back to the future where they had flying cars? The car manufacturers believe that states are going to overide the laws just because California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia have passed a new law were "driverless cars" are only limited. Laws are put in to place for a reason, this particular law was put into place because no one really knows if "driverless cars" are safe. The text states, "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that saftey is best achieved with alert drivers. Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times."
There are so many unanswered questions about "driverless cars". Do we really want to put something out in the streets that we hardly know anything about? Most people are scared when they do not know the basics of something.
According to the text,"If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer." Most people would not buy it if they can buy it get injured in an accident and it be their fault because the car is not safe.
Although the article has more evidence leading to why we should not have driverless cars, some might argue that it is fun to adventure. The "driverless car" would be a easy way out if you do not like driving, and can put enough faith into something you harldy know about. Some might argue that change is good, but change can sometimes be bad.
"Driverless cars" are something that people should not have. Why waste money on something that no one knows if it works or not? Is taking a risk better than being able to assure the safey of everyone? Car manufacturers should get all of the questions answered before they start selling "driverless cars". "Driverless cars" are something that should only be seen in movies. | 3 |
Many of people would like to own cars, but they're are policies in different countries, which many cant own. In paris; about 4,000 drivers were fined due to stricted rules. Not only in paris,but in columbia;they had their own rules where cars had been banned for over three years straight. The president had goals to change the u. s. and have a green house emissions. lets start protecting the world with new srticted rules to have better life style.
During when cars were banned in columbia;their goal was to promote alternitive transportation and to reduce smog. This seem's unfair for others to be treated this way, but more uneffective for the population to decrease.
presidents have wanting to change the world, especially the u. s. the change we seek for. in new york bike sharing program and its skyroketing bridge and tunnel tolls reflect those new priorities.
Many people who are in paris had issues when many drivers had been fined. There is also a poorly counrty were vaubans in germany had families had no cars, but others had sold there car for them to stay in vaubans.
We need to save the communities and start adding more safer oppertunties for we can have a change. | 1 |
From the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars", it leaves two questions unanswered. Is it natural or not? Is there other life or just things happening to be that way? My vote goes to natural non-life forms.
There is no acurate way to say that there is life forms but if there were other life forms and the government isn't just hidding things, then we would have found out about it by now. When the picture was taken it could have just been cloudy and maybe the rock formation has been there for awhile. "'As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image three times bigger than the pixel size.'"
This face or figure that we say we see isn't really that at all. For instance a car doesn't have a face but yet you could easily imagine it having one. If we see two slits and a larger one below it, to us, this resembles a face. This figure juts from it's frame because over time things change. The mars dust or sand could just as easily have been blown by wind and formed this "creation".
In this article,"'It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho.'" The plain in Idaho could be natural and so why can't this "face" be natural. There is nothing wrong with nature's beauty giving us questions and allowing us to make accusations.
So therefore, there is no other life forms. There is no "face" on mars. This is all just a mixup and it shows up one way our minds work. One way we can see nature's beauty. Instead of trying to argue, why not trust science? | 2 |
Lets see here the face is a landform or a creation by some species on Mars. Well were gonnna find out what it really is today. A lot of us would really like to believe that there are aliens or other species on Mars wouldn't we and then this face comes along and evryone is wondering if there are really any aliens. Well unforationatly we don't know right now because its really difficult to tell. A lot us think that its just a landform and thats all we know at the moment.
The so called face on Mars is just a landform for all we know at the moment and we think thats all it really is. The face is a landform because if you look at the pictures in 2001 what you see isn't a face at all its just a rock coming out of the ground. Like we said we aren't sure if there isnt any life form on Mars yet becuase we just can't watch it 24/7 now can we. We think that this is a landform because we don't have enough evidence to actually tell you but it our hopes hopes up for now. Like what everyone thinks they think it's fake becuase the don't want to know bout space unless they really wanted to and thats okay we will be the only ones that really know won't we. Plus we say that it's just in the region Cydonia which there are a lot of landforms there so we can't tell that either.
In conclusion we would like to think that this isn't just really a landform we want it to mean more. We want everyone to know that we think that there is life on Mars and that this has helped us and that it continues to help us as we continue our search for life and as we go down to see that if there are any man made marks on there but you just can't tell from a picture. At the moment this is just a landform surronded by craters and other landforms. We are telling you this it is just a landform. | 1 |
If you join the Seagoing Cowboys you will have an unbelivable experience you will have gone to places you probably have never been to, see things that are amazing and you have not seen, and even learn about diffrent cultures, and learn the process of the job while still having fun with your crew. Also making new friends along the way, changing the world for the better, changing your personality into a even better one, and makeing you aware of things that you wouldn't have known about before.
Becoming a Seagoning Cowboy will be greatful with some unbelivable experiences like helping countries recover from war and even helping with food supplies, animals,and more.Joining will also let you explore diffrent places like Greece, China, Europe, Venice, and Italy but you will also learn about there cultures like the Greece culture. During this you can also play games with your crew like baseball, volleyball, table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, and whittling. While doing all this unbelivable stuff you also get to learn the process of the job and that could also help you in your later job. During this all you get more aware of other countries and their needs and that could lead you to do amazing things and inspire the world to do these unbelivable things. These are some reasons to join the program of the Seagoing Cowboys.
Although you risk your life doing this as you can see you do things that you would have probably never been able to do before like learning diffrent things about diffrent cultures while still having fun on the job.You even see the difficultes of the other countries and trying to fix their difficultes by bringing food supplies witch will make you nice and not become senceliss or mean to diffrent people who aren't like you. You also get to visit all over the world like Greece, China and many other places and help change the world for the better. This is why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys. | 2 |
In this article about the new technology being used on the painting of Mona Lisa the audience learns about what this new technology is really about. The first sentence of the first paragraph the author states "she's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." Since the author begins this article with the percentages of Mona Lisa's emotions, we know that this is going to be about reading someones emotions, not only Mona Lisa's.
Further into the article we read about this technology being in computers and recognizing facial expressions. To have a computer be able to even calculate ones expression, the computer must construct a 3-D model of the face electronically. Imagine sitting infront of your own computer while having it read what you're feeling! This advanced technology is more than what we think. The technology actually improves lessons in school, based on an individuals expression.
To have this technology in a classroom, it would be highly beneficial to students and even teachers. The benefits a student would be receiving are improved grades, lesson plans that are interesting, being more focused, and having more benefits with learning than what a teacher could give. Improving grades can be hard and that could very well be because a student is just not able to pay attention to the lesson due to how boring or confusing it may be. In the article the author says "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored...then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." Using this to help determine a better lesson plan for the student is great because it will make them more focused along with being interested in their learning plan. This can lead to the student knowing what they are doing on their homeowork which also leads to better grades.
Some may disagree with the opionion of having this technology used in classrooms. Others may say that no matter the lesson, the student could just simply be tired or un-interested in learning. If a student is either of those, they could very well not have a benefit to this technology. However, it is more likely that a bigger percentage of students woud have a positive outcome while having this advanced technology in the classrooms.
Those who believe that this computer technology is not valued in classrooms could think that the software might not work effectivley. When saying this, I am saying that those people may think that the technology won't really read a students expression correctly. The creators of the software could possibly not have all of this technology figured out 100 percent. Although that could be the case, we should focus on whether the students believe they are being benefitted while using it.
There will always be one opinion or the other. However, reading this article makes me believe that having this technology in classrooms would be highly beneficial to students. Getting good grades is a big part of actually being able to enjoy or understand your lesson. While having better lessons, you will most likely have better grades. Teachers possibly can not benefit the students in the way this new technology could with lesson plans and maybe more. That is why most people should believe that having the expression reading computer technology in classrooms is good for the students in more ways than one. | 4 |
The main idea of this story is The Challenge Of Exsploring They go to venus sometime called Evening star is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. Making it simple Venus is the second planet from our sun. Often reffered to Earths twin. Venus is the closets planet to to Earth in terms of density too. They say venus is 90% carbon diaxide blankets Venus. Clouds are highly corrosive sulferic acid in Venus atomsphere..Human counter on Eath duch and enviroment would crush even a sumberine accustomed to dividing to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals. i want to know why sciencetist even discuss further visitis to its surface. Venus still has some analogues to those on Earth. Maybe we should think of them challenges .Many reserches are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last enough to contribute meaningful to our knowlege of Venus. Modern computers are enormously powerful flexible and quick but tend to be mo delicate when it come to extrem physical conditions...another lasted for three wekks in such conditions. Projects is looking back to to an old technology called merchanical computers. Basically this artical is about the second Earth and thats Venus in how Venus look and how it's bilted. Hoe NASA is working on other approches to studying Venus and how to work with this planet in process. in the 1800s and played an important role in the 1940s during world war 2 so this planet has been involved in quit alot.. | 0 |
Would driverless cars be successful or destructive to society?
Driverless cars would be an good idea.
They could possibly lower car crashes in the country.
Driverless cars could also be an bad idea.
They could put people's lives at risk. The driverless car could save someone's life or it could risk it.
This invention would be a good use to a drunk driver.
Instead of the drunk driver driving and possibly killing themself or others, the driverless car can drive him or her home with no one harmed in the process.
Its also a good use to those who text and drive because it will alert them to stop texting and to pay attention to the road.
Although the car is driving on it's own, you still have control over what the car does.
This allows you to take over if you feel the need too.
The driverless automobile has many qualifications to it, other than driving on its own.
In the passage it says that the car willl alert the human driver when it needs him or her to take over.
This is good because instead of letting him or her get into an accident, it'll notify them before anything occurs.
The automobiles also have cameras watching the driver to make sure they are also paying attention to the roads.
Driverless cars can be turned off if the human driver would prefer to drive.
The designers for the driverless car are focusing on the safety of the drivers.
Although the driverless car is a good idea, its also a bad one.
The driverless car could have an technology fail. If this would too ocur, the manufacture would be at fault because they didn't do their job correctly. The manufacturer is supposed to make sure that no one will be harmed using their product. The manufacturer should check for malfuctions in their system before selling their car.
This automobile could be very useful in the future.
The manufactures should carefully plan this out carefully.
The car could save many lives. There is a lot of good qualifications that comes with the car but there's also a few bad ones too.
This car could either build society or ruin society. | 1 |
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggest that studying Venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Venus is the second planet from the sun and is known as the evening star. It's a plant that is easy to see far away but hard and dangeorus to see up close. The authors gives a lot of reasons why Venus is important and different why to learn more about it.
Some reasons Venus is worth sudying is it's the closest planet to Earth by size and density. Not one single spaceship was been able to land on Venus for more then three decades. And some people belivie this is because no one has survived on Vanus more then a few hours. The artice said it is dangerous because clouds od highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. The temperature on Venus is averaged around 800 degrees fahrenheit. And the atmospheric pressure is 90 times what we experince here on Earth. A lot of scientist feel that venus is the plant that is the most Earth-like. Becuase the Plant has a rocky surfaces and have similar features like mountains, valleys, and craters.
So this is the details I found to support the idea of studying Venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. And I feel in a couple of years it's not going to be dangerous anymore. I feel this way becuase NASA is working on other approaches to study Venus. These are simplified electrons made of silicon carbide and mechanical computers. And this are going to help becuase they are going to last longer on the surface and you won't have to get out to sample the rocks, gas and everything else. And they are going to be more powerful, flexible, and quick. | 1 |
The face on Mars has been said to be created by many things. "Some people think the face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars."(paragraph 5) Other people believe that it is a natural landform. It could have been aliens, but we have yet to find life on Mars. The reason that makes the most sense as to why its there is that it is indeed a natural landform.
Sure the land may look like a face but it is simply a natural landform. It is possible that other life-forms were on this planet at some point, but it does not mean that it was created by them. Landforms like these occur here on Earth too. They are common around the American West. These are called buttes or mesas, and buttes are simply "a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa."(paragraph 12)
This landform even reminds people of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. These two are roughly the same height. The pictures of this mesa has changed over the years. In 1976 it strongly resembled a face. In 1998 it didn't appear as human-like as it did in 1976. And lastly in 2001, it just looks like a simple mesa, no face, no alien markings.
I do realize that it might make sense to you and other people that it could be made by aliens. But we have yet to find actual life on mars, let alone have it be made by non-existent creatures. This object object may seem extraordinary, but it is simply just a mesa on a planet we haven't even found running water on. I would love to say "Yes, this was actually made by aliens!" but sadly I cannot because it is simply just a landform.
Therefore it could not have been created by aliens because these landforms appear on Earth. It looks similar to landforms on Earth. It also has been photographed many times over the years with better cameras each time. Scientist can gladly say "This is only a landform, in fact these also appear on Earth as mesas or buttes." In conclusion, this is just a natural landform that was not created by other-worldly beings on Mars. | 3 |
BASED ON THE INFORMATION IN THE ARTICLE CALLED CAR FREE CITIES. IN SOURCE ONE GERMAN SUBURB,LIFE GOES ON WITHOUT CARS BY ELISABETH ROSENTHAL IN PASSAGE FIVE IT SAIS "AUTOMOBILES ARE THE LINCHPIN OF SUBURBS, WHERE THE MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES FROM CHICAGO TO SHANGHAI TEND TO MAKE THEIR HOMES.AND THAT EXPERTS SAY, IS A HUGE IMPEDIMENT TO CURRENT EFFORTS TO DRASTICALLY REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM TAILPIPES." IN THE SAME PASSAGE IT SAIS THAT "PASSENGER CARS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR 12 PERCENT OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN EUROPE AND UP TO 50 PERCENT IN SOME CAR INTENSIVE AREAS IN THE UNITED STATES."
IN SOURCE TWO PARIS BANS DRIVING DUE TO SMOG BY ROBERT DUFFER. IN PASSAGE 14 IT SAID THAT "CONGESTION IS DOWN 60 PERCENT IN THE CAPITOL 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." DRIVING CAUSES THE BUILD UP OF POLUTION WHICH CAN BE DANGEROUS.
IN SOURCE THREE CAR FREE DAY IS SPINNING INTO A BIG HIT IN BOGOTA BY ANDREW SELSKY. IN PASSAGE 24 IT SAIS THAT "ITS A GOOD OPPROTUNITY TO TAKE AWAY STRESS AND LOWER AIR POLUTION," SAID BUSINESSMAN CARLOS ARTURO PLAZA AS HE RODE A TWO SEAT BICYCLE WITH HIS WIFE". IN PASSAGE 28 OF ARTICLE THREE IT SAIS THAT "PARKS AND SPORTS CENTERS ALSO HAVE BLOOMED THROUGHOUT THE CITY; UNEVEN, PITTED SIDEWALKS HAVE BEEN REPLACED BY BROAD, SMOOTH SIDEWALKS; RUSH HOUR RESTRICTIONS HAVE DRAMATICALLY CUT TRAFFIC; AND NEW RESTAURANTS AND UPSCALE SHOPPING DISTRICTS HAVE CROPPED UP."
IN SOURCE FOUR THE END OF CAR CULPTURE BY ELISABETH ROSENTHAL. IN PASSAGE 34 IT SAIS "MANY SOCIOLOGISTS BELIEVE IT WILL HAVE BENEFICIAL IMPLICATIONS FOR CARBON EMISSIONS AND THE ENVIROMENT, SINCE TRANSPORTATION IS THE SECOND LARGEST OF AMERICA`S EMISSIONS, JUST BEHIND POWER PLANTS."
SO AS IT SAIS IN THE ARTICLE CAR FREE CITIES. THE ADVANTAGES OF LIMITING CAR USAGE ARE BETTER FOR THE ENVIROMENT AND HEALTHIER FOR US TO BREATH IN, THE COMMUNITY COMES TOGETHER WHICH HELPS CREATE A WALK THROUGH TOWN A NICE AND STRESS FREE WAY TO GET TO YOUR DESTINATION, AND IT ALSO HELPS MAKE THE COMMUNITY BE HEALTHIER AS A WHOLE. | 2 |
People should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because this program helps other countries during World War 2. We help these countries with their supplies.
We went to these countries when the Pacific war was over. Our ship even provided us something to pass time. This is why I think you should join the program.
The UNRRA hires Seagoing Cowboys to help take care of animals before we get to the countries. To pass time you would play table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games. You are able to do a lot of sight seeing, like seeing Europe and China, or seeing the Acropolis in Greece. You help countries with their food supplies, animals, and more. You even talk with people with other nations that help you.
This is why I think you should join the UNRRA. You are able to see Europe and China. You help other countries recover their supplies. You talk to other people from other nations. This is your opportunity of a lifetime. | 1 |
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the plant for is near is venus such amission productivewould on vehilcle 30 or so posssible tempertures venus sometimes evening in our solar system venus is the second planet from our solar system point to venus is the of and size and the distance too. Earth venus and mars our other planetary neighbor orbit the sun different speeds. These mean that sometimes we are close to mars and other times to venus is sometimes right around the comer in space terms humans have sent numerous spacraft this to land on this cloud draped world. good reson ,since
no spacecraft survived the landing for more than afew hours. venu's repution as a challenging planet for humans despite its proxitmity to us. A thick atmmosphere of almost 97 precent carbon dioxide of blankets venus. On the plant's surface temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit and the atmosphere pressure is 90 times geater than what we experience on our plant. | 0 |
Driverless cars could arguably change the future. Google has been working with semi-autonomous cars since 2009, and these new innovations could potentially solve an environmental crisis here on Earth. Unfortunately, many people think that if a car drove itself, it would be a danger to others on the road and to the driver as well. In many states, even testing these cars is banned. Are driverless cars dangerous enough to merit controversy?
It's no doubt that driverless cars would be beneficial to our environment since they use half the fuel of a regular vehicle, and there is no reason why we should ever be so afraid of change that we won't permit the research of a potentionally world-changing invention. Surely testing driverless cars is not without it's dangers, but the benefits that we would reap as a result are nothing less than a necessity, especially since the driver is always in control of the vehicle. Google is working on a car that will drive itself and also alert the driver if the car was about to wreck. If America is about promoting anything, it's saftey, and it's no lie that anything this monumental would be set in stone without the proper precautions being taken.
America is taking part in an advancing technological revolution, but the earth is deteriorating as a result. The constant burning of fossil fuels and the invading of natural resources for materialistic goods are pushing our planet to the brink. In times like these, we need to seize opportunity and take action before our only home in the cosmos is reduced to a regurgitated wasteland of the earth's unusable resources. With driverless cars in our near future, we'll be able to create a fully-autonomous public transportation taxi system with no need for personal cars. It's important for us to care about and care for the planet because if we don't, who will? | 2 |
Have you ever been on an amazing trip? Have you ever seen many amazing sites? Have you ever been on a long boat trip? Do you want to help people? Do you want to care for animals? If the answer is no to the first three questions and yes to the two other questions, then the Seagoing Cowboys program is for you. It is fun and educational for any one at any age. It is an amazing chance to get into this program and visit the unique places on the way to the adventure.
This is an amazing adventure I have been on it I have seen so many places and met many amazing people on the way. While I was in the Seagoing Cowboys program I made nine trips it was the most of any Seagoing Cowboy it was great. I saw so many amazing places I thought I would never be able to see because I was just a normal person in my town. I saw Europe and China while I was in the program it was a great experience for me as a almost adult. I also had the advantage of taking a gondola ride in Venice,Italy, it was the city with the streets of water. I also had a awesome chance at touring the excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China in the Seagoing trip. You should join it so you can see all those amazing places I just stated to you that I have seen because of this amazing experience in the Seagoing Cowboys. Another reason you should join it is because if you are almost 18 and you do not want to get military drafted then join this, they count it as your service or they did for me which means they will for you. Another one is after the animals get dropped off and we are going back with no animals we get to play amazing games in the stalls that the animals were in like baseball and volleyball, we also played table-tennis tournaments or even boxing.
These are all the amazing things i got to do and see, you could see and do them to if you join Seagoing Cowboys.
Did you love the idea of these things? Do you want to be apart of these things? Do you wanna be a Seagoing Cowboy? These are only some of the amazing things I got to see and do while I was in the Seagoing Cowboys program. You could do them to you just have to join in on it. Sign up and be apart of it, it is amazing and so much fun for everyone. It could be a great experience for you just like it was for me. So join and be apart of the group or program of the Seagoing Cowboys. | 1 |
In the article the challenge of exploring venus , the Author claim that altho it's dangurious and hard to explore venus, it's still worth the cost. Acording to this essay Venus is the clostest planet to Earth. It is very hard to go to Venus. It is a very challanging prostest, but the author said despite the dangers to go to Venus it's still worth it. Meatle melts when it land on Venus that is how hot it is. Every machiene that landed on Venus survive for only 3 hours.
The author still think it's ok to explore Venus. In my own opinion it is not woth it. You land on the planet, lets just say you survive the ride witch is imposible. I don't hear anything about water. All I heard is acid and hotness. Venus it the hottest planet in our solor system.
we are not talking about my opinion ok we are talking about why it's worthy to go to Venus dispite the danger and how the author supports this idea. The author is saying that it is worth the cost because, Venus is the clostest planet to Earth. In about 30 miles above the tempeature will be aound 170 degrees Fahrenheit,but air pressure would be close to the sea level on Earth. If you think about it it's still liveable.
The author supports this idea by telling us how to like up there. We would need some sort of flying object that would stay up there and not fall down. We need that so we don't contact with the ground that will cook you alive if you fall down. We need things like jets to fly through storms, like on Earth. It might soud imposible but, Venus might be the only Planet that humans could survive in if our world got distory. Even NASA supporth his claim.
So there you have it. Do you agree or disagree to the authors claim? I personlity dissagree buts some might agee. I might lack in knolege, I don't know. You might think that Venus might be the only opction. But what about Mars. Are we forgeting Mars here? If you think about it, anit Mars a better place. Mars got water, does Venus have water? It was once an ocean like Earth. Key word once. | 2 |
First of all to imform fellow citizens about the advantage of limited car usage.'' as a result,70 percernt of vaubans families do not own car and 57 percent sold a car to move here''.''Automobiles are the linchpin of suburbs where middle- families from chicago to shanghai tend to make their home''.and '' passenger car are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in europe. and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive area in the united state''.
Second of all,''while there have been effort in the past two decades to make cities denser, and better for walking, planners are now taking the concept to the suburbs. vauban,home to 5,500 resident within a rectangular square mile,may be the most advanced experiment in low-car suburban life''.
Finally there are some county and city tht have higher cost of the gasoline and some county and city have lower cost but evrything it different in all the world. paris typically has more smog than other european capital.''president obama's ambitious goal to curb the united state greendhouse gas emissiom, unveiled las week,will get a fortuitous. that what i think advantage of limited car like i said every city and county are different and have different cost. | 0 |
Driverless cars can be unsafe to many people, but there are people who support the idea 100%.
Seregy Brin states," he envisions a future with a public transportaion system where fleets of driverless cars from a public-transport taxi systtem. The cars he foresees would use half the fuel of todays taxis and offer more flexibility than a bus". Since the car will be driving around with no human driver and offer a wider range of transportaion, then, that could lead to many harmful occurances. There have been many things that were technology based that were not the safest thing to have. A stove magically catching on fire is one example but another example could be a plane crash due to malfunctions and not because it was shot down by another country. If the car has to tel the driver that he or she needs to take over then the car is not needed." They still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues". There are so many downfalls to having driverless cars that there does not need to be any type of driverless cars on the street.
If there were to be driverless cars in the near future then no one would have to drive anymore , but some people may not have the money nor the right resources to go and buy a car that drives itself. Many people would be terrified by the idea of a driverless car because the idea has not been around for hundreds of years. Some ideas are not worth sharing with the rest of the world. To have a hightech car such as the driverless car means, it would have to be as smart as a human driver to uphold those type of responsibilities. if Google can create a smart technological car that can drive a car the way a human coould then there could be some exceptions made.
Many people agree with the making of the car because ti will relieve alot of things and no ne will have to worry about driving 15 hours to another state becasue, the new and improved car will do all of that on its own. The traumatic thing about that is, there can be glitches and the car can freeze. The car could glitch, or, freeze in the middle of the road and create a terirble accident that could lead to death. ther are too many negative outcomes towards the car , that, changing the world that much right now, or, even in the near future is too much to try, and handle. There are too many other things going on in the world then to worry about making a car that does not need a human driver to operate it. Even if the car is made correctly , many people will not have money to pay for it. Other than safety there are other things to worry about such as exspenses. then after exspenses ,how much mooney wil be going into having enough supply, product, and inventory for many people to have the car. Then, they would have to worry about how much fuel the car would need, or how much elecricity the car would need in order to be operated. People try to come up with differnt ways to make so much money, they try to make it seem like they are right in what they are doing but in all reality some things can be a joke. The driverless car tempts death. the car does not sound too convincing for many people to pay for it .
Although, in many peoples mind, the idea of a driverless car seems to be more efficient, does not mean it is more safe. The driverless car can change the world really quickly and it can change the world into being alot worst than what it is. The next invention might be robots for every household, and that can lead to many downfalls. The driverless car is inspiring many other ideas that are not safe . What can be depicted from the passage is, that, transportaion isses will be handled more efficiently. Anyone who is in their right mind would not buy such a product. Risking many epoples lives just so that an "interesting' product is out on the streets is not an idea that needs to be supported at all. | 3 |
There is a new technology called Facial Action Coding System. This Coding System can identify your emotions. Dr. Paul Eckamn has been classifiying six emotions." Eckamn has classified six basic emotions happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness." "-Then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles."
They have started useing this technology in schools now. "A classroom computer could recognize when a studen is becoming confused or bored." "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." After reading this information from the article, I think we should have this type of technology in school. It could really help the kids who do not talk to their teacher at all. But there is also a downfall of useing this type of technology.
Some of the bad things that could happen is the computer misreading the kid wrong. Therefore, giving him wrong information about what ever he is learning about. It is also very expensive. The worst thing that could happen is the teachers who went to school their whole life trying to become a teacher, they are now jobless. What is the point of paying somebody to teach a student when there is now a computer in their school to do it. That is one of the major negative things from this technology.
Some of the good things that could happen is the student actually learning. There are many students who just sit in the back of the class not talking, but when a computer can do it for them they will probably learn a lot more. They don't have to say one word because when the computer feels that you are sad/happy it would change the subject."For example, if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." It can really tell how the student is feeling and their emotions at that current time.
In the end, we can take a few positives and a few negatives from this. In the long run it would be better but in the short run it wouldn't. Students will be a lot more smarter but a little bit less social. Teachers might be jobless but the students will probably have a better education and will just be smarter in general. | 2 |
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