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I believe that the Facial Action Coding System is quite useful because it could keep the students interested and more willing, plus it could help students learn to become more happier.
This could detect how you're feeling and keeps you in interest. It could change the topic you're looking at or it could stop showing that ad you're getting sick of. If you are showing mixed interest, it could show you a different topic to keep you interest and want to learn more.
It helps us learn more about our facial features, like how all 44 major muscles help the model knows what expressions to detect. For example, your frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises eyebrows when you're surprised; your orbicularis (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger.
Also could detect what is fake and what is not, you could save lives be detecting who is really happy and who is faking it. The intentions are great and it helps alot along the way. If someone is really sad but fake a smile, then people could help that person start to become happy. Also it could help to teach you how to get out of a rut and not stay in one.
All in all, I do believe that the FACS is a great and useful and reliable is very valuable because you could change so many lives. It has all these great details ans helps you better in the long run. Students could have more interest in school and have better ways to stay up and awake during school, find new interests and grow much more. They could make even more, like reading someones mind, wouldn't that be amazing! | 2 |
If i was at NASA with Someone discussing about the with someone who thinks it was created by aliens i would dissagree with the person. One reason i would disagree is becuase that doesnt make sense. Another reason i would disagree is because How can aliens make faces? I mean Come on now, I honestly think the face of mars was made by the people who lived way before we did. In the passage it talks about when they found it, IT states that some astronaunt went to space and was exploring and came along the face, They were very amazed, So they decided to capture a picture of the face and showed the word the next day, as you read in the text. They face has became more realistic as we see the progress from 1976 to 2013 , May this is a sign to the world, But im tired so ima just end this here. | 0 |
Lots of people think the face on Mars is an alien or something else,its really not. The face on Mars is not an alien because there is no proof of it being an alien. Only few people have said it looked like an alien,but they have no proof of that being true. Lots of scientist and NASA have proof that its not an alien and that it is something else thats there. People who think that the face is an alien, they are wrong.
The face on Mars is not an alien because NASA said it was a sort of rock formation. Also that it looked like a human head. NASA never said it looked like an alien or that they had proof of it being an alien. NASA said "NASA unveiled the image for all to see. The caption noted a huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes,nose,and mouth". NASA also gave proof that the shadows gave an illusion of the rock formation that it looked like a face.
Another way that it did not look like a face is that MOC said it was just a landform on Mars. MOC also said that the face was not and alien and revealed what it actually was. MOC said " MOC team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos...anxious web sufers were wating when the image first appeared on a JPL web site,revealing...a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all". MOC had proof and a picture that the face was not an alien and that it was something diffrent.
Finally, you can see that most of the scientist said it was a type of landform or something else. They never said that is was an alien. They all had proof and a picture to tell us that it was a natrual landform. The face is actually a Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa which is a type of landform. The face on Mars is not an alien at all. | 3 |
Does the author support the idea of going to Venus?
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it present. Why the author belives Venus is a worthy pursuit is becueas, Astronomers think it holds many of our solor systems scerets.
Nasa or The National Aeronautics and Space Administration wants to send humans to study the evil planet.
By telling us all of these facts and theorys about our sister planet in the test, the author keeps supporting is main idea about being a good idea to go to Venus and heres why, In the text the author names off where he could be getting his information about Venus. Such as NASA, satalight, and photos. NASA and the author thinks studying Venus is a good idea for human curiosity but yet vary challenging.
In the text it stats "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system". The Author thinks if NASA could get spacecrafts or even humans to the planet we could learn more about out solor systems scerets. Or if it could really have been "Earth-like".
Did the author support the idea of going to Venus? Yes, The Author supports his idea well. They sighted their soures, gave theorys, and an idea what Venus is or could be. Saying "how much of a great challege it would be and hopefully one day we could get a human on Venus, but small steps first." Thats how the author supported his idea of going ti Venus. | 2 |
A argument Luke is dealing with from his point of view is how much things he has to do and if he does the commands wrong there will be horrible consequences for them.
When Luke heard about the job he was so excited about it. He heard that being a Seagoing Cowboy was a amazing job. He has been dreaming about being a Seagoing Cowboy because of all the animals you take care of and all the traveling they do. That's why right away when Luke heard that they are hiring Seagoing Cowboys, he couldn't say no. It was a opportunity of a lifetime!
As soon as Luke got hired, he was so excited to start working. He worked and worked all the time. He wanted to be the best Seagoing cowboy there has ever been. Sometimes he would work more than he was soppost to. He enjoyed taking care of the horses, young cows, and mules.
Luke worked very hard and sometimes got tired. He went to alot of places. He went to New Orleans and Greece and other places. As soon as he was done with all the traveling he made nine trips all together! He made more trips than any Seagoing Cowboy!
Later on Luke kept working with all the animals. All the taking care of made Luke very busy, beside with the traveling. Luke also had to clean.
On Lukes second trip he served his night as a watchman. He had to check on all the animals every hour. But then a horrible thing happened. After making his hourly report to the captain, Luke slid down a slippery ladder on his backside. He landed feet first toward an opening on the side of the ship. A small strip of metel along the edge stopped his slide, that kept him from going overboard into the dark Alantic Ocean. But luckly for him he was still alive.
As soon as that insedant happened to Luke, he got his ribs cracked. Luke couldn't work for a couple of days. So while Luke was not going to work he managed his time to have fun on board. He played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals have been housed. He played alot more games aswell.
Later on being a Seagoing Cowboy he thought of how amazing it feels to help people. He helped lots of people during his trips. So Luke had a great idea. He wanted people to help other people. He started to convince people to be a Seagoing Cowboy. But most of people thought he was crazy. He told people how amazing it is to be traveling and amazing it is to be helping others.
People called his job dangerouse. It sure was. Luke got very annoyed and angry because people thought he was crazy and they did not like that kind of job. Luke stopped persuading people to be a Seagoing Cowboy. But He didn't give up on his job though. He liked his job the way it is and he wouldn't change it for anything. He got awards for being a very helpful, admiring, and amazing person in his job. | 1 |
There's a new software, the Facial Action Coding System, and has promising applications for a variety of industries. It can be able to detect exactly how other people are feeling, even when they try to hide their emotions. I think the use of this technology that reads the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because it can help teachers know how students are really feeling, not by how they pretend to feel. Students can fake emotions by fake smiling when they're down or students can look sad, but be alright and just not be smiling.
The text states "the process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face, with all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Dr Huang relies on the work of psychologists, such as Dr. Paul Eckman, creator of the Facial Action Coding System. Eckman has classified six basic emotions, happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. They are associated with characteristic movements of the facial muscles." So the system has most of the emotions that are used in the everday life. When your muscles move it helps determine your emotion a little better. Some examples, are your frontalis pars lateralis muscle raises your eyebrows when you're surprised and your orbicularis oris tightens your lips to show anger.
Secondly, the facial expressions for each emotion are broad and you can see mixed emotions. In the text it said "There's universal emotions even though individuals often show varying degrees of expressions
(like not smiling as broadly). Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movement-in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa. By weighing the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions. Each expression is compared against a neutral face. " When a person is sad and mad, the video imagery can help figure that out. You may not know why they're mad and sad, but you know how they are feeling and something is going on. Then, maybe a teacher can help the student let their emotions out and open to them on why they're feeling different emotions and what's going to cause them to be the way they are.
In addition, in the text it talked about how humans can calculate other people's expression everyday like being able to tell how a friend is feeling by just looking at their face, but we could have some trouble if their face is worry and other people think they're just tired. In the text, it stated :Dr Huang ovserves that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions. His new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code. Perhaps Dr Huang's emotion algorithms are a different sort of "Da Vinci Code". So even back then artists could draw people with perfect muscles showing their true emotions like da Vinci with Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa demonstration is intended to bring a smile to your face to show how much the computer can do. It truly is amazing because technology is so advanced, but this technology you could really get a good use out of it for students in their classrooms, mostly for kids who are quiet and just keep to themselves. The text also stated, "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. 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." It's very helpful for when it shows a student is puzzled on a certain material that is being taught and it can notify the teacher. If the student was shy to ask questions in front of everyone or if they were embarassed to say anything, the teacher woud know and would be able to help the student individually.
Furthermore, the article talked about how moving your muscles helps express your emotions, which is how the Coding system is able to catch onto how you're feeling and if you're hiding your emotions. Examples from the text are, there is an indicator that indicated the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one. "In the real smile, the zygomatic major (muscles that begin at your cheek bones) lift the corners of your mouth. Meanwhile, muscles called orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus make crow's-feet around your eyes. But in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risorius. To an expert, faces don't lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity isn't being truthful. According to the Facial Feeback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only exresses emotions, but also may even help produce them." When faking smiling people can detect it by the way your mouth looks. It's better to just show your true emotions because there may be many people who can tell your true emotions and when you have the technology in classrooms, teachers will be able to tell your mood.
In conclusion, I think the use of the technology that reads the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valueable. There are many reasons on how it helps and how it works which are several stated above. It's truly amazing techonology and is very advanced and can detect every little thing, like when faking an emotion or having multiple emotions. This will help teachers in their classrooms when a student is confused. Students won't be able to fake their emotions and someone can help when there is sadness that is detected. | 4 |
The advantages of limiting car usage is that it helps the envirornment to stay healthy, it helps bring the rate of high car usage down and lets people take bikes, skates, and ect. and so people can be more actice, and cars have harmful chemicals, and gases that is bad for the air we breath.
The advantages for limiting car usage is that it helps the envirornment to stay healthy because with so many countries with over populated cities have alot of cars which causes smog. Like in Vauban Germany they have gave up on there cars so they have baned cars, and that most of the population has got rid of their car, and or sold them to stay in Vauban which has a population of 5,500 residents. The people now in Vuaban walk of side walks, and are more actice most of the citizens like it that way. which that is a good way to get over car is to use bikes, skateboards, and ect. So that people can be more active, and social. It is also good that they do that so they can get a exercise than just sitting in a car, and driving to a location.
the advantages of limiting car usage is that it help prevents harmful chemicals and gases thar are bad for the air we breath because if we keep polluting the streets with cars those harmful and deadly chemicals, and gases go to the atmosphere and come back to us as air we breath, and those are not good things to put in your body. The cause of over populated cities like in paris, or bogota have cause alot of smog. So now what they have to lower the smog is that they have days when they dont drive cars, and that if you rode a car you would get fined. In Colombia Bogota they have time where that the people didnt mind not driving cars, and they would hike, bike or even take the bus.
To end off the advantages of limiting car usage is that it helps the envirorment to stay healthy, help bring people together and make them more active by taking bikes, skates, and ect. and also cars have harmful chemicals, and gases that is bad for the air we breath. | 2 |
The way the future is coming to the future vehicals are quite interesting and they havea lot of good things for the environments, but having these Driverless cars may not be the best thing ever because of the way they are used by which the children are now not have to learn to drive. Having the responceability to have licens and a lot of kids will take advantage of it so im gonna say that the Driverless Cars are good for us, the atmosphere, the people with money and down payments on vehicals. Not most people have vehicals because of the payment range and if we can change that who knows we might not have to have buses, taxi, etc any more, and the people will have more money to take care of their children and its also gonna help with car crashes and lowering how many we have every year or so. Allowing kids16+ to drive the less crashes will help majorly. Also with the insureance itll cost less but will the insurance go out of buisness ? If the law says we do have to still have insurance to have a vehical we buy then i doubt that theyll go out of buisness. | 0 |
Have you ever wanted to be a sea going cowboy? Well i got some reasons why you should join. and if you think your not have fun you mistaking. One more little you get explore. Well i got some really cool facts about joing the seagoing cowboys.
Here are some facts about seagoing cowboys. If you like anmals this would be allot of fun for you because the one thing that you will be doing is hanging out with animals. Another reason is that if you have adventure side to you your gonna love this you get to go all over the world on a boat at that so not only exploring the land but the ocean. Also one more thing if you have ever thought of going to a different country an speaking multi languges well you get do that on a daily bases. And it is very fun ihave some reasons why it might be fun to you.
It is very fun so if you like here some reasons to get you interested. you can play animals and if thta isnt fun i don't know what is. Also you get play games after you drop off the animal such as table tennis,volley ball, and boxing oh and if you want to just chill after all that fun you can read a book. Also you can look over the rail and see the water and if get luck you see some sea life. And there is some bad things about being a seagoing cowboy.
There are some bad things though but you get used to it. One thing is that if you have family you wont get to see them but don't worry you get to see them after you get back from all that fun and you can tell them about it. Another reason is that when your on board um you gotta take care of animals like clean the manuer of the ground and bathe them some they stay healthy oh and feed them but after that your done for the day but remmber your helping other people. One more reason you wont have the luxury of sleeping on a soft warm bed but you wil get used to it. But other those bad reasons it is really fun to be a seagoing cowboy. Remmeber how I said you get to go to other countrys well you can learn new things.
You get to learn new things i have a few reasons how you get to learn new things. like a new language like if you to germany you can learn german. Also you can learn new cultures and lifstyles of and goverment/Economy.One other thing is that you will learn what type of people there are there nice or mean. Also they could have different types of than what America has. One other thing is that you will learn how to live on a boat so you could possibly own your own boat when you get out of your service. Maybe you might meet their leader and shake his hand you ever know what you might learn in a different place.
You could meet new people maybe even make new freinds. Like you could meet the president/leader but you could meet other people. And this has brought us to my conclusion.
With these facts i have give I hope you chang mind. just remmeber you would be given alot of opurtunitys. So willyou become a seagoing cowboy. | 3 |
Its a good statement on why they think they should visit Venus but its to risky. Venus might be the closest planet to Earth from density and size and sometimes the closest. The different speeds of Venus and Mars are why we are sometimes closest to Mars than we are Venus. So why not go and explore Mars it would be safer than Venus.
Humans have sent numerous spacecrafts to land on Venus but Venus is all cloudy. Each and every mission was unnamed for a good reason, each of the spacecraft dissapeard after a few hours after the arrival on Venus. Not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in three decades for that exact reason. It gets to hard for humans to study, considering nothing can be there for more than just a few hours and its to dangerous to land there. To land or even to see people cant because the amount of clouds that cover Venus.
On the surface of Venus tempature average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than are own on Earth. Its would be way to extreme for us to even come close to even think of getting down there. And Venus has the hottest aurface temparture of any planet in our solar system although Mercury is closest to the Sun. Venus has a more likely chance of impacting Volcanoes, Powerful Earthquakes, and fequent lighting strikes. But the planet Venus used to be like Earth and it still has some features like Valleys, Mountains and craters.
So it would be way to dangerous to even try to land on venus. They were talking about a blimp like vehichle floating above the surface of Venus, even though it would still be aroud 170 degrees there. It would still be to dangerous what if something goes wrong theres always that what if. And even if it did work theres no possible way scientist could take samples of rock, gas, and plants since there not going to be doen there. They also have slight visibility up there from the clouds since no light can pass through. | 2 |
Cars have come a long way since Ford's model T. Radios, seatbelts, airbags, and advanced brakes systems have been added. Now today, in the span of a few short years, cats can respond to voice commands, sense a driver's blood alcohol content, and even shut themselves down if the driver is being unsafe. The concept of a completely driverless car is enticing, offering advancements well-within the reach of today's scientists and technology, and providing a new level of productivity to passengers.
The world may not be ready for driverless cars, but the advancement of this technology should be continued. Google and Tesla have already received promising results from their tests. According to evidence, the experiments they conduct do not put anyone at risk, so it is odd that some states ban even the experimentation of these driverless vehicles. The article lacks any evidence of expense to the common man, but assuming it offers him little trouble, the advancement of these vehicles can only be beneficial. With advancement of technology like the microchip, more and more complex devices are available to the public. Just look at Apple products. They release an ever increasing number of new products every year, each with better technology than the last.
The 3D modeling sensor is the most important, promising piece of technology in the car industry. Other devices such as phones and tablets have made significant advances in the past decade, with the inclusion of voice activated functions and 3D Touch. The fact that the scientists know what the problems are is key in their development of a 100% driverless car. They know that their experimental cars can move from point A to point B with little issue unless their is something out of the ordinary along the way. Construction, reckless drivers, and wildlife can be unforeseen obstacles. Cars aren't the only technology that is attempting to see the future. Current handheld devices can listen, understand, and apply knowledge from the Internet to respond in no time at all. Scientists must figure out how to apply reactive technology like Apple's Siri or IBM's Watson to their vehicles. In this way the cars would be able to adapt to any situation, allowing the passengers to enjoy a worry-free ride to their destinations.
Imagine how much work could be accomplished in transit. Either that or long commutes could be used as a time to take a power nap. In any case, a completely driverless car would provide its passengers increased time to accomplish tasks that they could not previously because they needed to be attentive to the road. Students could study for the day's final, relax, or socialize without a worry that their lives are in danger. If every United States Citizen had a driverless car, the odds of an accident would decrease dramatically. Current GPS devices function in a way that the don't disturb others of their kind. If the cars were linked in some way, the odds of an accident would drop to near zero.
The advancement of driverless cars is an open door for both scientists and the public. It offers benefits to the every growing, technology driven population of the United States. Cars will never not be a part of every day American life, so it only makes sense that they would continue to advance some of the most precious technology to them. | 4 |
Unmasking the Face on Mars has always been an argumentive topic for us scientists and the conspiracy theorists. Is it just a naturally forming landform? Was it created by aliens? No one knows for sure but from our research, it is very unlikely that aliens could have assembled it.
Us scientists here at NASA take our jobs very seriously. We research the outside world for a living and theorists are just taking guesses! Would you rather believe a NASA scientist or a conspiracy theorist's hypothesis of space? As humans, we always choose the craziest scenarios and we assume the worst. It could be something as simple as a landform for all we know.
There is no proof of aliens but there is proof of landforms forming naturally. Yes, the "face" looks like it was made to look that way and yes it is oddly accurate to the face of an egyptian pharoh but this could just be a coincidence. We have very high tech cameras that shoot pictures of mars all the time. The "best" picture of the face from 1796 was taken by a camera with 43 meters per pixel. In 2001, we used a camera with 1.56 meters in each pixel so if there were so called "aliens" that assembled the face, they would have been captured in the shot as well. As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size.
What the picture shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa, which are landforms common around the American West. People sometimes say it reminds them most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. Another thing that makes the idea of it being a landform likely is that Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho is a lava dome that takes form of an isolated mesa which is about the same height as the Face on Mars so they are both very similar to eachother.
There are a lot of ideas about what the Face could be. We will continue research and further our studies. Until then, believe as you wish but remember, scientists or theorists? | 3 |
The face on Mars was as national hit, it was every where, Tv shows, Talkshows, movies, even grocery stores. America just could not get enough of the Mask on Mars. Although there are many consperacy theorys, all have been proven wrong becasue it is just a heap of martian material. These theorys have been proven wrong by the pictures, the fact that the shadows give it the charectaristics of a face, and the reason it is not photographed much is not the Goverment, and N.A.S.A hiding proof of alien life. It is simply the fact that we do not pass the face often since 1976 when we first glimpsed the face, Alien existance theorys have spiraled into being both well know, and well conceived. The only problem with these ideas are that the pictures do not support those ideals. There are clear pictures that with out a doubt show no strange markings, or proof of an alien race. These picyures just show it how it is, A Messa.
Furthermore the face is just a large hill. The shadows, of some of the crevaces give off the apperance of being humanoid. Charectaristics such as eyes, nose, and even a mouth appear,but it simply a trick of the light.
As for the people who say Nasa is just "covering up" the fact that alien exist or have existend, are simply mistaken. The reason the Face is not often photographed is because we just do not passover the Face often. There is no alien life on Mars, or at least none that are affiliated with the Face.
In conclusion through the hard facts, and evidence of pictures, the shadows mistaken for human features, and the fact that our rover, and satalites just simply do not passover the Face often, support the fact the Face was not created by an alien race. Although the theorys are interesting, fun to look at and read it is important to know the truth. The Face is a messa, sitting on Mars, with slightly human like charactarisics. Charactaristics acheived due to shadows. | 2 |
I personally believe that driverless cars are a good idea and can be very useful. There are also some major points that are needed to be pointed out before a person purchases or drives one of these cars. I can see people taking advantage of these technologies and abusing the things the car may provide. The buyer should always take into consideration that these car could malfunction and be aware that these cars are not always going to be reliable.
If the driver were to be carless and text and drive the car could possibly malfunction and you could be putting your life or someone else's life at risk.
Manufactors are coming up with new techniques to help alert the driver of any danger that could possibly occur before the incident could even happen. Vibrating seats are providing the driver enough time to stop the car when it is about to run into another object. Flashing lights on the dash board are used to alert the driver if the car thinks they are being distracted from the road. In these cars the manufactors are installing video cameras to watch the driver inside that car and to watch for any danger the driver might encounter outside of the car. GPS are installed to monitor where the car is in case of a crash or if the driver is lost on the road the driver can use it to find there destination. Motion sensors are being put into cars to help the driver drive safely. The motion sensors help the driver know how far away they are from hitting another car or even a person. They are also used to apply brakes when the car is coming to close to another object. They are hoping to soon put in a display where the driverless car system can be shut off when the driver wants to be in control. "The car read the positive and negative factors in binary code, they functioned surprisingly well but to make the massive upgrades needed would be far to expensive for them to even make it practical."
The main focus that these manufactors have is to keep everyone on the roads safe. Take this into consideration, these cars could possibly change the human way of driving. Each and everyday new technologies are being discovered and giving humans another reason to become more lazy. These developments will eventually come into good use when the time comes, but that is if the people using them will have enough common sense to understand they can not abuse the advantages these cars provide and if they do it could lead into bigger consequenses. | 2 |
Can we calculate our emotions like math? Even we don't use this kind of techonology we can tell other people emotions by looking at their face. If we known all about what other people think about us, it didn't good for all of us.
If we are happy, surprice, angry, disgust, fear and sad other people can seen by looking at our face. But some people can control their felling so sometime it hard to know their expression. Sometime it is good to know how people think about us but sometime not knowing what other pwople thik about us better. Some people can't tell other people emotion by looking at their face. Most human communication doesn't have emotion. They talked to each other because they think they have to.
Some people can know that the difference between a real smile and the forced smile. In real smile your muscles that begin at your cheek bones lift the coners of your mouth. In forced simle your muscles that begin at your cheek bones stretched sideways. If you are surprice you raises your eyebrows and if you are angry you tightens your lips.
School should not use this technology to the students because this technology is good but bad at the same time. Students didn't come to school happy everday. Sometime students come to school sometime they are not enought sleep so they don't want to study or they get angry easily. Some students have some teachers they didn't like so if the teachers know that their communication can't be good. Even if we don't use this technology most teachers can understand our expression by looking at our face. | 1 |
Dear Senator,
I think you need to change it to where the election goes by popular vote for the president of the United States. It's not fair to have electoral college. The people that have to obide by the president should be able too choose who thier president is. I can see where people like the electoral college because the electors get to choose and it has to be a majority of 270 electoral votes. I also don't like the fact that all of the states get a different amount of electoral votes. Claifornia gets the most amount of electoral votes, it gets 55. But there are a few states that only get three or four. All of the states should get an equal amout of votes, We are the 'United' states, arnt we?
The idea of the common adult (over the age of 18) being able to vote is a good way to let us keep our say in things, especially if we get to choose who the president is going to be. Once again, I think you should change it to popular vote for the president of the United States. | 1 |
The so called " Face'' on mars is just a landform that looks like a face. I know this because there are no such thing as aliens, if aliens did exist we would have seen them and known by now, and lastly I know that I is just a landform because it looks like a coincidental landform that looks like an alien.
The first reason that I know it is a landform and not an alien is because aliens do not exist. They are some made up characters found in science fiction books and movies, just like monsters, witches, and ghosts. There has never been actual scientific evidence that proved any of those things to be real. Many crazy people think that they have encountered ghost sightings and other things like demons, zombies, or even something as dumb as slenderman. These things are all fantasies that they make up in their heads and then try to get other foolish people to believe them.
The second reason that I know that it is not an alien is that if aliens and monsters really did exist we would have all known by know. If they were anything like what they are in movies we would all be dead or abducted. In movies people see UFO's and they suddenly are sucked up into a portal and abducted by aliens and used as slaves. If they existed you would think that many people would probably have gone missing after "UFO" sightings. Like I said before it is just a bunch of nonsence that people have made up in their head and aren't smart enough to know that it isn't true.
My last reason that I know it isn't an alien is because I know that landforms can often look like things that they really aren't. For example at my uncles house they have a big rock in their back yard that looks a lot like a ground hog. I know that it is not a ground hog, but if I was like the people that thought it was an alien I could make up a bizare story about how in ancient times the ground hog got cursed and then was turned into a rock because the king demanded it to.
See? It just doesn't make much sence.
Sure, the landform looks somewhat like a face in the 1976 picture, but so did the rock in my uncle's back yard. All the thoughts of it being an alien is so made up in their heads. The NASA crew said, "Nasa's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet, snapping photos of possible landing sites for its sister ship Viking 2, when when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. An enormous heaad nearly two miles for end to end seemed to be staring at the cameras from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia. First off, the aliens in sci-fi movies aren't nearly two miles long, not even close to that. Secondly where it says that the head seemed to be staring up at them, obviously if you are above it and it's a 2d or 3d shape it's going to appear to be looking at you!
In conclusion there is no way that the so called face on mars is an alien. It's not an alien because aliens don't exist, we would have known by now it aliens really existed, and some landforms are shaped like odd things. Like I said earlier, if aliens really existed we would have encountered them before and seen UFO's that would try to abduct us. This is why there are no such things as aliens, which means the face on mars is just a landform that just so happens to look like a face. | 3 |
For the past two decades we as citizens have been trying to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, with little or no change. A major conductor of greenhouse gases would be automoblies also known as cars. For example France, cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions. Diesel made up 67 percent of vehicles in France, which was blamed for causing five-days of intensifying smog that rivaled even Beijing, China; Which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world.
In an article "
Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars
" by Elisabeth Rosenthal, It tells about Vauban, a town occupied with 5,500 residents in Germany where locals have given up their cars. Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district and Vauban's streets are completely "car-free" except the main thoroughfare, where the tram to downtown Freiburg runs, and a few streets on one edge of the community. 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" said Heidrun Walter a local resident of the town.
Vauban serves as a great example on how the majority of world should be. The time to take action is now. Reducing car usage can benefit the world around us globally, less pollution equals a cleaner world we live in meaning a better environment. Things like "A day without a car" should be global holiday. In "
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota
" by Andrew Selsky it describes how Bogota, Colombia had a day without cars that helped promote alternative transportation and reduce smog.
Cars are the main source of greenhouse gas emissions and need to be put on a limit.
They produce pollution that is not only bad for the earth, but bad for our health as well. A solution to reduce cars emissions is having holidays in which no one can use cars and use other forms of transportation like bus or bike. It is important that we take action and aim for a better, cleaner tomorrow. | 1 |
I believe that the face of Mars is just a natural landform because there is no such thing as aliens living upon us. Another reason is that Mars could've got hit by an astroid that came from the Astroid Belt, or maybe could've had a volcanic eruption. I know this because in the passage from the article it said, "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing.... a natural land form."
Another passage form the article says, "what the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa--landforms common around the American West." I believe that Mars had signs of life, and water in the passed, but now Mars has changed and is still changing over time. Mars does not have water anymore, but theories show thats there might some signs of living on Mars. And that is why I believe that the image of the face on Mars is just a natural landform!!! | 1 |
The state senator should keep the electoral college and not change it to the election by popular vote for the president of the United States.
Therefore, I agree with what the passage is saying because it says ''The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electors votes is required to elect the President. Your state's entitles allotment of electors equals the nu,ber of memebers in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators.... That to me explains it all because the college votes can vote for multiple things then the people who vote for the popular votes. So, to me they gave a good enough reasonings.
Also, Electoral College votes have a better outcome then the popular votes because in the last election that they have for Obama he received 61.7 precent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 precent of the popular vote cast him anf Romeny. So, electoral college voted have more oppurtunies of more things.
Although, popular votes can come in many ways of being helpful because popular votes can help people win by very littler or more. On my opino i don't consiter them to change to poplaur voted becasue to me its nothing i agree to keeping the electoral college votes .
Finally, but not last what ever you do keep the electoral college votes they know what there doing. | 1 |
A computer can tell the Mona Lisa painting is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. A computer is a complex machine with almost everything in it. A computer stores information like what sites you have been on, documents, and more. It also lets you get information in less than five seconds, but is this a good idea to use in classrooms with students? By looking at the reading "Making Mona Lisa Smile," we can see how computers are helpful when it comes to students' expressions; the teachers can change the lesson up to make it more exciting on the spot.
The software that can read people's emotions is the latest innovation from Professor Thomas Huang, who worked with Professor Nicu Sebe on this project. They are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate. "The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Movement of one or more muscles is called an 'action unit.' Then Dr. Huang relies on the work of psychologists, such as Dr. Paul Eckman, creator of FACS (Facial Action Coding System). Eckman has classified six basic emotions-happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness-and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles." All of their research on human expressions went into this software. They noticed your frontalis pars lateralis muscle raises your eyebrows when you are surprised and your orbicularis oris tightens when you show anger. By using the software on the Mona Lisa painting, they predicted how she was feeling. She was more happy than angry according to the software, but by looking at the painting, a human can not tell if she is happy, angry,or sad. The computer can tell us how she is feeling by acknowledging her muscles in her face. This software can also tell us when a student is happy, confused or bored, and it will help the teacher adjust the lesson for the student. "A classrom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confued or bored.' Dr. Huang predicts. 'Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor". The technology can help a teacher and a student succeed together by telling each other how they are feeling even if they do not talk during class. Most students raise their hands to answers questions, but a student will not raise their hand to say "I'm bored". Some students do not want to tell the teacher they are confused either. Hence for the computer will automatically tell the teacher and they can explain the lesson better to the whole class because there are always multiple students who need extra help, but will not ask. There for, their software will make humans interact more by telling us how they are feeling.
In conclusion, the software Professor Thomas Huang and Professor Nicu Sebe will help read students' emotional expressions. The software has information on how a humans' muscles move when they are happy, sad, angry, fearful, surprised, confused, etc. By using it on the Mona Lisa, we can see that the software works and it will also help find problems in it. Dr. Huang predicts that the software will also help the teacher know when a student is confused or bored. The teacher can then adjust their lesson to make the student more attentive. This will help the teacher succeed in their job more, the lesson more informational, and the student more productive in their school work. | 2 |
I agree with the author, like he says studying Venus is whorthy the dangers it presents. I also agree with him, because in the paragraph says that Venus is one
of the brightes points of light in the night sky that means that they are really fascinated to study Venus. The challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. So the travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of immagination and innovation.
According to the article Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. Sometimes because of the changes of speed in the orbit we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus. Because of the change of speed previous missons were unmanned, this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Some of the qualities of Venus is that is really amazing Venus as a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets. The more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venu's atmosphere. The planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmosphereric pressure is 90 times greater that what we wxperience on our planet . So that means that these conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth. Also Venus has the hottest suface temperature of any planet in our solar system. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. According to the NASA, it has one particulary compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA's possicle solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray.
In conclusion, scientist should go to Venus and keep studying it. Researches are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus. Also Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions. The challenge presented by Venus has value, so that's why studying Venus is worth the dangers it presents. | 2 |
Dear Mr. President,
As Americans, we are told that we are given rights in our country. We have the freedom of speech, expression, religion, and petition as stated in our first admendment. We are also told the we have the freedom to vote once you reach certain requirements, like age and citizenship. However, are we really getting the freedom that is talked about? No. Because the Electoral College is present in today's society, our vote becomes pointless and meaningless. We become a "popular" vote, but really the electoral college gets to decide who becomes presidents. The Electoral College has been in our Constitution since the Constitution was approved, but we have modified simple things as in gender discrimination and race discrimination, why are we not going to change this unjust system?
Bradford Plumer, author of
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the Best-laid Defenses of System are Wrong, explains how the electoral college is fooling our citizens to think we have a say in our country's government. He elaborates further to say that "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the presidet, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. This proves my point further, because once again we do not vote for our president, we vote for the people who get the "priveledge" to vote for the most prestine place of power in our entire country.
The next problem with our Electoral College is that each state is given an uneven amount of representatives form each state. If Florida voted canidate A, but North Dakota voted for canidate B, canidate A is bound to win because Florida has twenty-nine representatives and North Dakota only has three. As you can see Mr. President, this becomes a preblem because four states with only three representatives could vote for one canidate, but if Florida votes for the other one, the first canidate has already lost.
Now most people are afraid of change, which is understandable. They are afraid chaos will occur if any change with our society's ethics. However, the Electoral College has already caused chaos between the two opposing sides. If we tried a new system, we could see if the people will become more civilized because they now have a say in the government. If it doesn't work, then we can always change it back and no harm will be done. As you can see, there are many possibilities and options we have yet to explore.
Mr. President, I have explained to you what the people want, which is to stop being lied to. However, every four years comes around, and yet I do not see a change in anything. I do not think it is only the people who are afraid of change, it is also you. But, would you want to live in a world where everyone hates the way the government works or a world where the citizens are given the rights they were promised? Mr. President it is now up to you to do the right thing.
Sincerley,
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
I belive thate the face is just a natural landform becouse of facts
One exaple of why i belive its just a natural landform is in the text it states on april 5th 1998 mars global surveyor flew over cydonia and snapped a photo ten times sharper than the original viking photos revealing a narural landform. Another reson is in the text it states on april 8 2001 a cloudless summer day in cydonia mars global surveyor frew close enough for a second look.
Another exaple of why i belive its just a natural landform is in the text it stats thate they had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the face in the field of view. In the text it also stats thate malins team captured an extraordinary photo using the cameras absolut maximum resolution. In the text it also stats each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 viking photo. In the text it also statses that it is equivalent of a landform common around the american west.
I would understand why somone would belive it was not a natural landform. one reson they may not is in the text it stats it was winter in april 98 it was clooudy time of year on the red planit. In the text it also stats that some pepoul belived aliens marking where hidden by haze.
And so becouse of facts such as it being equivalint to a landform commen around the american west i belive it is not alins. so i hope this proves thate the face is just a natural landform. | 1 |
Have you ever wished you could help your nation, well I have a thing that you can do. I'm Luke, and i'm a Seagoing "Cowboy". Don't think that it's nasty to be a Seagoing "Cowboy", you get to do amazing stuff.
On the ship you get to take care of lots of animals, they're really fun to hang-out with. You get to take care of them for a living, how cool is that. Plus your helping your nation while your doing it.
There is also lots of time to sight-see the places you go. I toured a excavated castle in Crete, and was marvled when I saw the Panama Canal. All of it was really cool, but I only got to see it when I was a Seagoing "Cowboy".
You also get to do really fun stuff when the animals are deilvered. We played baseball, and had volleyball turnoments in empty stalls, Where the animals used to stay. We also had ping-pong and lots of other games we had fun with.
You also have different jobs like night-guard. I remember when i was on night-guard for the first time. Had some great adventures. My first night i was on the job, I broke a rib, be careful on slippery ladderes, very careful.
Being a Seagoing "Cowboy" is all fun and games, it's seirous busniess. You have to give the animals water 3-4 times a day. You have to pull bales of hay and bags of oats from lower holds of the ship.
You also want to be confident in yourself. If you say you can't do, Then you probley won't do it. Plus can't never did anything, but could tried because he could do it. | 2 |
I think that this would be valuable because this Facial Action Coding System really work because in the text it stated that they found out what was Mona Lisa moods. And they figured it out so if they put the computers in a classroom for kids they will find out if they need help or not. Another reason why i think that this computer is valuable is because it can help out the kids and to see if they need help and to also see what they are struggling with so they can fix the problems that the kids are having. Another reason why i think that the computers coding system is valuable to the classroom is because if they feel sad or anything going on at home or somewhere the computer can tell what is they mood and why they have this mood. I also think that this coding system would be good for a classroom because it can help teachers and what i mean is that if the student is struggling and the teacher dont know why the student is struggling but the coding system do the system can tell the teacher what she need to do to help the student understand i really think this would be good for school all over the world the world need this new technology and it need to help us get through school. This concludes my reason on why i think that the technology to read the emotion expressions of students in a classroom are valuable. | 1 |
The author starts off by talking about how Venus is the closest planet to earth. Although Earth has made it a challening place to examine more closely. But since Venus is right around the corner,they have sent numerous spacecrafts. The spacecrafts failed to survive the landing for more than a few hours. In the article it says " Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging plant for humans to study despite its proximity to us" This shows how challening it is. The author goes on to say how life is on venus in the article it says " clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere". The article also says ' surface temperatures average over 800 degrees". This shows how author decribes life on Venus. The author then talks about how astronomers still want to know more about Venus. In the article it says " Astronmers are fanscinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system". This shows why atronomers are drawn to Venus. The author talks about how it is human curiosity. 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 innvation'. This shows that even if Venus is dangerous they still want to travel and know more about this plant. | 1 |
In this article "Driverless Cars Are Coming", the author talks about the aspects of driverless cars. To me driverless cars can be a bad thing. Just think about a car running on its own without a driver. That's basically impossible and also scary. I feel like cars should always have a driver inside them.
Driverless cars can sometimes be a danger to people. If the car was completly driverless then it wouldn't need human skills. A driverless car shouldn't be able to use human skill. It should be able to do everything when needed to. The driver must remain alert when in a driverless car. They must keep their hands near the steering wheeling at all times to be ready to take control.
Drivers would get bored just sitting around waiting for the car to alert them. Why would anyone want to buy a driverless car isn't in full control? People shouldn't make driverless cars becasue it could probably hurt someone. What happens if the technology fails? Whose fault would it be if it does fail? In case of an accident, there should be laws. Where would they sell these cars.
If the technology ever fails I feel like it would be the drivers fault. It would be their fault simply because they were so eager to try out the driverless car. They thought it would be so perfect to try it out. But then it would the inventor's fault because they were the ones that invented it. They should've made sure everythng was fine and working properly before they someone buy it. There shoudn't be any problems with the driverless car if you're gonna buld it. Make sure everything works perfectly then have people buy it.
There it is. The reasons why there shoud not be driverless cars. People could get in accidents id they're not focus on the alerts. They could be bored while waiting for something to pop up. The technology could probably fail while they're in the car on the road. New laws would be needed for these cars. | 2 |
Reckless drivers are dangers, they have no care for the world or people who are in it. One point of evidence is that in 2013, BMW announced the development of the '' Traffic Jam Assistant''. So this means that when you are driving up to 25 mph you have a smart car , but when you go over 25 mph you have just a normal car . See the point that I'm trying to make is that when people had a little bit to much to drink and they go over 25 mph they're like a missle that can blow up at any time. Some sensors on the car may fail while you are driving , lets say if your driving down the street in a BMW at 20 mph and a car passes you and your not looking and you happen to run into it, its the cars fault and the owner because the driver should've been looking and the car should've stop on the dime. Because BMW developed this new System and its mention in paragraph 7 '' 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. Also mention by BMW ''They can steer, accelerate, and brake by themsevles. So if the driver in this situation was looking down at a phone lets say ,and runs into the back of someones car who's fault would it have been ? I would have blame the manfacturer company because they said that the car is supose to brake themselves if danger is near or coming up . So if the owner was hurt then it would've been on manufacturer company all because they said that this car had sensors that could alert the drivers. Also which leads to another point lets say that the sensors fail without the driver knowing and she was driving a little bit reckless then that would been her fault and the cars. So I think that people should stop driving so reckless and start paying attention to the road . Also I think that a new law should be passed saying that car companies should recall their cars every 5 to 6 years to upgrade the safety quality on their cars. This will safe a numerous amout of people's lives and increase the amount of cars being sold by BMW. | 1 |
Well using facial recognition to read the emotional expressions of the students in class seems pointless to use. In what ways would it help to know how a teachers students are feeling? Students are at school to learn what they need to learn, not neccesarily what they want to know. It is not their choice what they learn, so if they get bored or not, it does not mean you could just modify the lesson, but instead they would have to finish the lesson one way or another. Facial recognition of students expressions in the class room, would not help their education in any ways.
Having this technology in the classroom not only may it tell the emotions of the children, but it invades their personal privacy as well. The way students feel while in class has a much greater horizen than just inside the classroom, but as well as everything going on in their lives, such as parents, friends, things at home, work, etc. Which is an invasion of personal privacy to the way someone feels, that may have nothing to with school. It is said in the article “A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,” But what about all the other emotions other than just confusion and bordem? All the other that are included such as "happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness", but the problem with this is that these aren't all the emotions but merely just six specfic ones. So how could you determine how someone is feeling emotionally without all the other emotions that all concide with each other? You can't, because it's impossible to tell how someone is feeling emotionally.
It all comes back to the Facial Action Coding System, can it accurately determine someones emotional state only through facial expressions? As stated "But in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risorius. To an expert, faces don’t lie;", The system may be able to tell if the subject is faking a facial expression, but what help would that be in the classroom. Even if someone is faking an emotion, you still truely couldn't tell how they feel mentally especially through FACS. As D'Alto says "Eckman has classified six basic emotions—happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness" this means the system only has 6 BASIC emotions, it still couldn't be able comprehend the greater complexity of feelings and how they all work together to truely tell how a person is feeling.
The FACS could be very helpful in many other fields, "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive—for video games or video surgery." It could change everything, the way plastic surgery is performed, create simulations, help mental health, it could be used in court to find if someone is guilty, military, and medicine as well. The application could have millions of good uses around the world as well as endless possiblities for the future, just not for education.
In conclusion I believe using the Facial Action Coding System would not only be wrong, but inaccurate, an invasion of privacy, and would have no good practical use in a classroom. Although it could have many applications in other fields it just wouldn't work out in a setting of a school or college, reading the emotional expressions of students. There are other ways to be able to engage students in work and to help them when they are struggling. Teachers need to be able to help their students, having software that can tell a students emotions won't help anything or anyone until the teacher steps in and does something. But having a computer to read students facial experssions to be able to know their emotions would only add onto the problem. | 3 |
Dear senator, i belive that the electoral college is benifical on some levels but people in america still need their rights. i think that they should abolish the electoral college because its very unfair to voters. and by voters i mean just regular citizens. not the democratic electors or representatives ect. also even if we vote it doesnt matter because the state legislaters and the senate are basically responsible for picking a president. its very irrational and old and a big problem. it would just be eaiser for america to have a popular vote instead of a electoral college.
the electoral college is quite unfair to citizens. they vote for a reason right? to have the person they think best to run the country. some people might not have as much knowladge about congress or the government or whatever. but still its there right to have a say in what they belive in. some people dont even get to have a say in things. during the 2000 campaign,seventeen states didnt see ads or even the candidates at all. the senate is not giving people the right to vote for the candidate they want. they say each state only casts one vote. which is unfair. many people in one state have their own differences and opinions. for an example, "the single representative from wyoming, which represnts 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representatives from california. who represnt 35 million voters." "given that many voters vote one party for president and another for congress, the houses selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people."if the vote is more popular it is not right to change it because the electoral college thinks differently.
yes in my opinion i think the electoral college is unfair but its not just that. it is also very outdated. they need to try something new and just let them elect the president over the popular vote. i think its way less difficult that way. people wouldnt be disputing over the popular vote winner lost and the electoral college has its defenders to make sure they have their candidate win. its also irrational. if the just keep on going with this electoral college thing then whats the whole point of the citizens voting? | 2 |
I think driveless cars are a positive thing today. Driveless cars are helping our future and making things a lot better for us now. Techology is being put to great use now with driveless cars.
The reason i think driveless cars are a positive thing is because they are helping save lives. The driveless cars are helping save lives everyday. The more techology we have, the better the cars become. They have alerts and different things to make sure the driveer knows what is going on and help to try avoid accidents from happening. For example BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant."
Driveless cars Can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves. These are great things to have on a car to makes things a lot easier and safer for others and yourself.
The driveless cars are just an enhancement for humans and to help keep drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safer now. | 1 |
I do not agree with this technolgy to read students expressions because its like forcing them to show their real emotion when they don't want to talk about or even show if they're sad or happy. Some student's come to school to help use get through with our emotion's through friends that they trust so if you bring that machine to a classroom and point out the person that is sad is clearly none of your busniess unless they wanna talk to you about it. This example "these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity isn't being truthful" how can you tell if someone is being truthful through emotions? We all express our emotions differently, so differently that computers can't tell the difference. I think that the technology is useless and they should use their time to cure sicknesses or to help people besides telling their emotions through a computer. Instead of using their knowledge to make a computer telling the difference between emotion's they should put it into a good use like a cure to all sickness. I'm not calling them dumb or anything like that i'm just saying instead of investing their time and money on a computer they should invest their time to actually helping people. | 1 |
Driverless cars are a sign of laziness, driving is one thing that I believe drivers should have to do. Individuals can not have everything handed down to them, driveless cars should not be legal. The cars would be in better control of us than we are with them!
Cars that do not have to be driven by humans should not be allowed, every car that is seen on the road should have to have a driver behind the wheel at all times, not just sometimes but all of the time. The law focuses on keeping drivers safe "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe." The law of driving has to be safe for individuals to make it to their destinations, if the car companies put driveless cars out on the road that could be a risky move. Cars are meant to have drivers behind the wheel at all time. In many states "it is illegal to even to test computer-driven cars." I agree with it being illegal one hundred percent, if it is illegal to even test driverless cars in some states then it should be illegal in all states as well, the roads will continue to be a lot safer without the cars that have drivers not focused on the wheel.
There could be so many problems with the driverless cars "Automakers are continuing their work on the assumpton that the problems ahead will be solved." Computer driven cars could have so many problems, there are so many what ifs. The cars computer system could stop working which then could shut the whole car down, you would then have a car that is not fuctionable, which is not safe for you or other individuals traveling. We used to not have the technology to even be able to do this back in 2000 "The sensors weren't there, the computers weren't there, and the mapping wasn't there. Individual had gotten by without the driverless cars so I think we could get by too. The need of having cars that do all the work for us is a sign of laziness and I do not agree with it.
The models of these cars are also using destracting technologies, because individuals will become bored while waiting to drive, it would be a challenge to sit and wait to drive while your car is doing all the work. Dr Werner Huber, a BMW project manager states "We have to interpret the driving fun in a new way, some manufactures hope to do that by bringing in car entertaiment and information systems that use heads up displays.'' Even though these displays can shut of instantly when and if the driver needs to take over makes it even more risky. These designs are meant to entertain you while you sit and wait for your turn, but they are really just new destractful ways for the road. Driving is already dangerous, but adding new entertainment devices make the roads even more dangerous. If an individual is in the middle of being entertained they aren't just going to quit what they are doing which could cause an accident that didn't have to occur. Now while the driver watches the road or is attempting to watch, the car will aslo watch the driver, "using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road." Drivers could become more destracted, focusing more on the camera and what is tapping rather then the watching the road, which could also cause an accident that isn't neccessary.
Driverless cars are not a good idea, they will cause limitless destractions that will just make the roads more dangerous. Our cars that we control are better off than the automobiles that we don't. Cars are meant to have a controler and with the driverless cars the car would be controlling us. Let's not cause more of a risk for drivers then what there already is, safety is important and with these cars safety is not guranteed. | 4 |
Us as humans generate on emotions. We hate and we love that's our nature. With this new software, the Facial Action Coding System. We are able to precisely calculate our emotions. This software constructs a 3-D computer model of our face, then uses the 44 major muscles in our face to calculate our emotions. Movements in our major muscles portrays our emotions and this new software catches those precise movements. This software can better benefit the learning expeirence of both the students and the teacher by helping the teacher understand what the students do and do not understand.
This software can benefit classrooms by helping the teacher understand what the students do and do not understand. In Nick D'Alto's article he speaks of this new software in a classroom setting, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." This excerpt directly portrays that a teacher can benefit with this software. The teacher would be able to indicate exactly when students are confused and modify the lesson to better help them. This new method of teaching is able to really advance teaching techniques of teachers and help students in the long run. This software can better advance student's evidence in presentations, essays, and agruments. Also in D'alto's article he includes, "She's 83 perecnt happy, 9 perecnt disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." When students include photos in there presentations or essays this can better help them analyze the photo. This excerpt shows that this software can excatly calcuate someones emotions in a photo. A photo of a battle in history is a good example of how this software can benefit a student. This software would be able to read the emotions on a warriors faces of that war and show the thought process of each side of the war. One side might have been 70 percent fearful, while the other side is 70 percent disgusted. This software can directly translate into a better learning expeirence for both students and teachers.
The Facial Action Coding system can better advance the techniques and skills of both students and teachers in a classroom by helping teachers understand their students thought process much more. This will benenfit many students and teachers in the long run. This new software might be so helpful that it will be located in every household soon. | 3 |
The Electoral College should be not be abolished and the government should not change to election by popular vote for the President of the United States. The Electoral College requires the presidential candidate to have a trans-regional appeal, it produces a clear winner and avoids run-off elections, and the Electoral College allows people in swing states to be more thoughtful and choose wisely because the popular vote could be in their hands.
In paragraph nineteen of the article
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President , it states, "The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. No region (South, Northeast, etc.) has enough electoral votes to elect a president." This means that the favorite candidate of a particular region has no reason to campaign too much in those states because that candidate doesn't gain many more votes. Any candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be successful because the people of the other region feel that their interests will be overlooked by the president.
The Electoral College decreases the amount of pressure of a run-off election. In paragraph twenty-two of the article
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President, it states, "The Electoral College avoids the problemm of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast." So if both presidential candidates receive an equal percent of of popular votes, the Electoral College's number of votes could be the "game changer." The number of votes in the Electoral College produces a clear winner. If there wasn't an Electoral College, then there would have to be a recount of votes and one vote could change the entire election. This could cause chaos in swing states because of the one vote of someone that might not even care who wins the election.
Based on many elections, the Electoral College creates more thoughtful voters in swing states. Those people know that the power of turning an election around is in their hands, so they must use that knowledge wisely, not recklessly. People in non-swing states will vote on a candidate that their peers like or that they heard is "the best" even though it may actually be a choice reconsidered two years into the winning candidates presidency. In paragraph twenty of the article
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President , it states, "Voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign, to really listen to the competeing candidates, knowing that they are going to decide the election." The most careful voters should be the ones to decide because they are the ones receiving the most attention by candidates trying to persuade them to vote for them.
Overall, the Electoral College should not be abolished and the government should not change to election by popular vote for the President of the United States. The Electoral College doesn't allow a presidential candidate to have a single regional appeal, it produces a clear and fair winner and avoids run-off elections, and the Electoral College creates more thoughtful and careful voters, because when you actually think choices through in life, it could make a tremendous impact on yourself everyone around you. | 4 |
After reading this passage, I think that driverless cars are good for our world. One reason is that it is a great technological advancement. They will also alert drivers if there is anything going on ahead or
anything that they need to know about. Lastly they drive half a million more miles without a crash than cars with drivers.
These cars are a great technological advance. They are further progressing our world today. We are having less crashes than ever before. If we havemore of these cars, it will be easier on drivers everywhere.
The sensors in these cars are alerting drivers of what is going on. The drivers know when to stop and when to pull out. They are being alerted of anything they need to know. If there is oncoming traffic the car knows before its ever seen. The sensors in this driverless car are leading to cars that can handle more and have more driving tasks without the driver. The farther advanced these cars become the smarter the driver becomes on the road.
Lastly there has been a report that these cars can drive half a milion more miles without a crash than cars with drivers. With less crashes, our roads are safer. Even our young drivers will be safer and better drivers because of these cars. This is much better for parents with children in the car. The number one cause of death for young people is driving. Having a driverless car means no driving while drunk;texting; or high. This means there will be less deaths caused by these behaviors.
In conclusion, driverless cars are better for this world. With having less crashes, we have less deaths. My opinion is still the same. We can have safer roads with driverless cars. Even our most reckless drivers will be safer. These driveless cars cause three big things: less death,less crashes, and less traffic. | 2 |
The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers when according to Venusian geology,like erupting volcanoes,powerful earhquakes,and frequent lightning strikes can land on its surface. Also when gumans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any palnet in our solar system,even though Mercury is closer to our sun. An example that explains this is "On te planet's surface,temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit,and the atmosphere pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet". Another detail that supports that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents is the planet has a rocky sediment and includes familiar features sach as valleys,mountains,and craters. Also Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit and seems indisputable. An example is "The value of Venus seems indisputable,but what are the options for making such a mission both safe and scientifically productive". Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions. At thirty-plus miles above the surface,temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit,but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. It may not be easy conditions,but survivable for humans. Also,Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safety far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere. Mny researchers are working on innovations that would allow their machines to last long enough on Venus. An example that supports this is "Therefore,scientists seeking to conduct a through mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks.
An explanation of the evidence of why Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because,Venus is the hottest planet and it is difficult to understand the different despites of many risks. Also when simplified electronics that is made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and has lasted over for three weeks. An example that supports this is "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". One way Venus can not be worthy of despite of the dangers is by looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers and can make calculations by using gears,levers,and do not require electronics at all. Also if you use a phone or tablet to acis or heat capable of melting tin,then those systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure,heat,and other forces. An example is "Modern computers are enormously powerful,flexible,and quick,but tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions".
Some ideas that show that Venus is a wothy pursuit despite the dangers when it is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth. also Venus is referred to Earth's twin. An example is "These differences is speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus. Because Venus is sometimes right around the corner". Also,each previous mission was unmanned,and no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. It also explains that the spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. Long ago,Venus was covered largely wih oceans and could have supported various forms of life,just like Earth. A final Example is "If our sister planet is so hospitable,why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface". Finally,when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. | 2 |
Changing the election by popluar vote for the President of the United States would be a better option than keeping the Electoral College. Although they have a meeting where they are voting for President and Vice President, doesn't the citizens of United States do the same thing. Since we help choose our states electors when we vote for which President we want, why can't our vote be the last vote to count?
Qualified citizens of the United States should have the final say so on who we want our President to be. We choose our President based off of what they said they will do to make the USA a better place. Instead of the citizens voting for a state elector we should vote for who we want President. Since we will be living in the type of envoriment they set.
The Electoral College is unfair to votes because of the winner take all system they have in each state. And if the Electoral College can't decide or have a tie , the election would be thrown to the House of Represetatives where they vote on the President. What about what the citizen of the United States want our President to be?
Since the state legislatures are tehnically repsonible for picking the electors , those electors could always defy the will of the people. So leaving the vote up the elecotor is another reason why we should not keep the Electoral College. Citizens that vote can not control who the electors vote for. The electors can even get confused and vote for the wrong candidate. Or even take the advantage of thier own to vote for who they think is right, rather who the citizens wanted them to vote for. | 2 |
Dear State Senator,
I would like it if you would just keep the Electoral college because it would be so much easier to pick a president then if we the people had to pick the president. If we screw up and pick the wrong president then its our fault, but if you all pick the president it'll be your fault if the president turns out to be good or not. Besides the founding fathers founded the Electoral college so we should keep it just for their sake. Anyway the Electoral College consists of the selection of the electors which then when there picked they decide who is the new or repeating President of the United States of America. The reasons I would like to see the Electoral college do good is because the first reason as to why you should just keep the Electoral college is because everyone will want to be president heres an example .The Electoral college requires a presidential canidate to have transregional appeal. If you have a solid regional favorite you go for them states first then you work around to different states to get more Electoral votes but then if you leave that state that was with you all the way then they atomatically switch to the other person that has been campaigning around all the other states and takes your states what are you supposed to do then? The only thing you can do is just go back and try to get your state back..
Sincerly,
PROPER_NAME | 0 |
Dear Mr. Senator,
The Electoral College is a unfair system used for voting the reprentative of our nation. Bigger states with a bigger population get more votes, and smaller states get less votes. Its not completely fair, but then again when is politics fair? If the majority of big states are all a certain paty (either democrst or republican) them the entire system is thrown off, unfair, and unbalanced. Its much more fair if the people of the United States vote amd the votes were to be counted as individuals and not grouped to see which has the greater percentage and then given a certain number of votes to that party's candidate.
Although the process I think will be fair does include greater numbers, the government has equipment such as computers to do the counting for each person. This system is rigged and unjust. It is the opposite of what America and its foundation is all about - equality. I would like yout to take this to washington and even if you get scrutinized and pestered, you should ride forth because lots of Americans think this system is corrupt and if we want our voices and opinions to be heard there is no one else we can tell but you. So represent us small town people of LOCATION_NAME, represent the nation in undergoing a process that will finally make our country one of equality.
Sincerely,
GENERIC_NAME | 1 |
Driverless cars can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how their used . Driverless cars are needed in some cases . Driverless cars could create more accidents and also can creat less problems. Driverless cars could be a disrtaction for the world . Driverless cars will also cause problems with health because the owner might be lazy and become obese.
Driverless cars can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how thier used, because people always try to take advantage of things . Driverless cars would be good for people who have a disability . Driverless cars may not be good in all cases cause the driver would still have to be in the car because it they would have to drive for themselves navigatin through workzones and when accidents occur , the person behind the wheel might be asleep or busy doing other things which would cause for another accident to happen. As long as driverless cars are used well and not abused because Driverless cars could be useless.
Driverless cars are needed in some cases , they would take place of a taxi. People occasionally like to go out to bars,clubs,events and drink beers and other beverages that can make them under the influence . Those drivers do not need to be behind a wheel operating a vehicle, they become a danger and could injure and sometimes kill people of innocence . Driverless cars would be good for people who are disabled because they could help them move around and go places which could could help them out . Driverless cars are needed in cases as if a women were pregnant or a person is injured they could get home or to a hospital.
Driverless cars could be a distraction for the world, taxi and cab drivers could lose their jobs which could make the unemployement rate go up and America cant afford for that to happen. Driverless cars could make people lose their focus and also can be harder for people to focus till on the road. People would get the idea that just because they dont have to be in the car or even operating the car that they could lose focus . Driverless cars are really not needed because people need to be more focused on the road and not doing other things to limit possible distractions .
Driverless cars could also create health problems , If the route the person has to go is cleared from accidents and road work sites then they could be fine . People need to be moving every muscle in their body . Little things like pushing your foot down on the gas pedal or the brakes move the muscle in your leg .
Driverless cars can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how their used. Driverless cars are needed in some cases . Driverless cars could create less accidents and also create less problems . Driverless cars could be a distraction for the world . Driverless cars will also cause problems with health because the owner might be lazy and become obese. Driverless cars are only needed if they could be used in positive ways . | 2 |
The scientists have claim that Earth and Venus are two planet that closest density and size. It been said that venus long ago was probably covered with largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life. Despite of danger in venus NASA possible to study it will proximity to us. And Earth and Venus is so mush alike. Scientists even discussing further in the surfance of Venus. Can scientists could study the surface of Venus depsite of danger there?
It claim Venus will maybe prevent life for human to explore and study it. Despite the danger of conditon od the planet that they could usee modern technology called mechanical compute. It will help NASA what real like compare Earth and Venus.
Today technology maybe will help the NASA to study Venus because of the modern world. Modern technology of cell phone or tablet and other could to help study most curiosity in the our planet. It very powerful and quick to use, but it delicate when it come to extreme physical condition.
Striving to meet the challange presented by Venus has Value, not only becuase of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also becuase human curiosity will likely lead us into equally inlimitdating edeavors. Venus, sometime called the "Evening Star," is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. Earth, Venus , and Mars. our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speed. The Venus numerous challanging planet for human to study, despite its proximity to us. | 1 |
The Use Of Technology To Read Students Emotional Expressions In A Classroom
I believe that using this technology "Facial Action Coding System" to read students emotional expressions in a classroom is not right because that's like taking advantage of the students privacy on what they could be thinking and looking at. Watching the students faces and not understanding them and why they have the face expression and then using the Facial Action Coding System to help you determine the feelings or the mood could be harmful due to the fact that what if that students had something they didn't want to say or want anyone to know about, but the teacher made it their business to figure out what was wrong by using a technology that could help them.
I found my evidence in paragraph 5 and how I know this is because it states that "We humans perform this same impressivde "calculation" everyday which mean we have the same face everyday that no one seems to read but for instance some people can tell a friends emotions by just looking at there face and even the look they might have gave or had." This could also be used in different by mixed emotions that someone might have and can be compared against a netural face.
The new technology software stores similar anatomical inofrmation as a electric code that help the teachers study the students and paint a facial muscles. Precisely just enough to convey the specific emotions as most students can have a nonverbal emotion including communication so using the computers to figure that out is to under the complex algorithms to determine the mood of each student in th classroom.
The new technololgy could modify the lesson like a human instructor for example Dr. Huang predicts that the "Facial Action Coding System" could be really good use becuase he feel that the painting of Mona Lisa inspired him to recognize studetns emotional expression in a classroom on wtheater if they are bored or feeling behind, and using this technology could prevent the confusion.
As I came to my conclusion I noticed that in a way it would be good to use the new technoolgy but in reality it wouldn't help with anything because at the end of the day trying to read students emotional expressions in in a classroom could be real life stressful I wouldn't want that kind of pressure on any teacher to if they try and read a students expression adn they figure out something they didn't want to know it could be bad on there part. In other words I wouldn't want this new technology in any school becauswe that's too much troubloe to go through with ebery single student an trying to figure out the students emotional state. | 2 |
Dear State Senator,
There is a big controversy between the issue of keeping the Electoral College or abolishing it. Some people say that we should abolish the Electoral College because it is unfair or outdated, and others agree with the idea of having electors choosing their party's nominee. The Electoral College should be abolished because it is unfair for the states with smaller populations, and the "swing states" don't get any attention during the Presidential Election.
If we look at the statistics about the Electoral College, we see in the article "
What Is the Electoral College?
" by the Office of the Federal Rigister, it states "The Electoral College consists of 538 electors" and "A majority of 270 electoral votes." Your states number of electoral votes is based off of your states population, which isn't fair to smaller states such as Hawaii or Alaska. Hawaii has four electoral votes and Alaska has three electoral votes, while the larger states like California have fifty-five elecotoral votes.
The way that our country today decides our winner in the Presidential Election is the "winner-take-all" system that gives the all the votes to the winning canidate. In the article "
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses are wrong
" from "
Mother Jones
" by Braford Plumer, he states that "Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, canidates don't spend time in states they know have no chance of winnning, focusing only on the tight races in the 'swing states.'" But in the article "
In defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President
" by Richard A. Posner, he states that "...almost all states award electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis, even a slight plurity in a state creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state" and "The winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the canidates."
"The electoral college is unfair,outdated, and irrational." We need to abolish the Electoral College because it just isn't fair to the voters and some stes are getting more attention than other states. If we abolish the Electoral College, we would have a more fair election and more people would come and vote. | 2 |
Dear State Senator,
I strongly believe that we should change our election to popular vote. The Electoral College has a ton of problems that can not be worked out. In the artical "What is the Electoral College?" it states in line 7 that, "most states have a "winner-take-all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate." I understand how majority rules, but the number electoral votes should be proportional to the popular vote. I am aware that, "The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no canidate receives a majority of the votes cast." as stated on line 22 of In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President. However, I would rather be in a situtation where I know my vote counted for the president, than use the Electoral College and avoid ties that could still happen. "It is the electors who elect the President, not the people." as stated in line 15 of In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President. In The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong, it states that "That those electors could always defy the will of the people." What is the point in voting if the will of the people can be defied? I strongly believe that we should change to popular vote. | 1 |
The author does not support his idea well because he has little of evidence to back up the claims that he made. These claims were that Venus could be useful because of how close it is and he called it a challenge for human curiosity. Neither of the claims he made were to vbalid becauise he would go off topic, provide little evidence, and would talk about the benefits of Venus but not say what they were.
When he claimed that Venus is useful because of how close it is and said " ...Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long frames of space travel." and then said " The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable..." so he made a claim saying that it is a good thing to go to venus but the right after said the value is indisputable but never gave any evidence of why its so good to go to. Then he also claimed that it has value in over coming, that it is a challenge for human curiosity. This is a bad claim because he did not have much evidence or reason to back up going to Venus so he said " Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." This claim would be much better if he actually listed any good benefits from Venus. Also through the text the author seems to either run out of things to support his claim or he went off topic because he started to talk about what NASA is doing and planning to do to explore Venus like " NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions would be to allow scientist to float above the fray." He would say thing of what people might be able to do to explore Venus with its hostile conditions but he still never said what could be discovered while exploring.
I don't disagree on his point but how he executes getting it across to the audience does not work. If he provided any solid evidence on what could be learned or discovered on Venus like technology or new elements then it would bring more people behind this idea. But that still does not change the fact that his claims of Venus is useful for future visits and its a good challenge for human curiosity, are not valid and he does not to a good jobs of supporting his claims. | 3 |
Positive aspects of driverless cars is that thes cars had driven more than half a million miles without a crash. They also still help alert the drivers to take over when they are pulling in or out of the driveways or when dealing with complicated traffic issues. Such as road constructions or accidents, When building the smart cars they put sensors into the car. For example in the 1980s, the automakers used speed sensors at the wheel in the creation of antilock brakes. Within 10 years, these sensors had become mor advanced to help detcet and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids of rollovers. The sensor cand also help cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone.
There has been further improvements in the sensors and computer hardware and software to make the driving safer. It is also leading to the cars that handle more and more driving tasks on their own. All cars are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills. Such as navigating though work zones and around accidents. So this means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires.
I agree with the development of these cars because if you
are an older person driving this car can help you drive. The will help you alert when
there is a traffic issues or accidents and more. These cars will let you know when you have to take over. So once again if you are an older person or getting old these cars can help you in the near future because automakers are still continuing their work on the assumption that problems ahead will be solved. There is a person name Telso who has projected
a 2016 release a car capable of driving on autopolit 90 percent of the time you driving. There are more car brands such as Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan also plan to have their cars drive themselves by 2020. So once more these cars would be helpful for the elder and the people getting older. | 2 |
Imagine being able to detect how your loved ones are feeling, even when they are trying to hide their emotions. New software has been developed that improves accuracy in perceiving the emotions of others. This new software, the Facial Action Coding System, has promising applications for a variety of industries.
This new technology can help others in so many ways.
One Reason is a person's emotional state. Suicides are major
problem in our world today. Victims are usually hiding their emotions to avoid being detected for their feelings. This technology can find out their emotions by using a 3-D model of the human face; all 44 muscles in the model must move like human muscles. FACS(Facial Action Coding System) then can help guardians or anyone get help the victim needs.
Another reason FACS is useful is the lovely world of education.
Students go through school lost or angry for not being able to click on to the lesson being teached. This system of technology can tell if a student is confused in a certain or many topics. Many students are builled for saying they need help or they dont understand what is being taught. The teachers can use FACS to look at the students face and see if the student needs to be explained the lesson over in class or privately.
My final reason I support FACS is in the courtroom. When justice needs to be served it comes down to the jury to decide cases such as murder,rape and other criminal actions. Poylographs (detection tests) are the common tool used to determine if the alleged is innocent or guilty. Polyographs are known to fail,causing the innocent behind bars or the guilty running free. FACS can scan the emotions of the alleged to see if they feel empathy or if they are guilty. | 2 |
Today's world is full of ideas and innovation. Sometimes there are good ideas, and sometimes there are bad ideas. You can never expect all good ideas from one person, and that brings me to Sergey Brin, co-founder of the world's biggest search engine Google. Brin states his company is developing a car that operates without a driver- to an extent. Do not be fooled, Google has not came up with a completely autonomous car, though the project's future does seem bright.
There are many faults when it comes to a self-driving car. First, you will have to understand that, despite all of the technological advances brought on by our society, the car has advanced fairly slowly. With this, one has to realize the change from a car controlled by a person to a car controlled by itself may not be well-suited.
Secondly, there seems to be somewhat of a complication when it comes to regulations of a new concept. For example, in the passage "Driveless Cars Are Coming", the author brings up the issue with creating new traffic laws in order to accomodate the autonomous car. Would that not be a hassle? In my opinion, there are far more things to worry about than a driverless car. All of the time used to create laws, roadways, hubs, and so forth could be spent on medical research or fixing our environment.
On the other hand, the industry of making and manufacturing these cars and their components could create jobs for people living in our desperate country. On the flipside of that, what if, similar to all other industries, labor is outsourced in order for companies to establish an edge early? When dealing with social issues such as these, all conditions must be considered before moving on.
With this idea of self-driving cars, I really can not say I agree with the project. I feel like if there ever was to be a car like that, the problems would far outway the common good of it all, and perhaps the whole thing would turn into a hastly jumbled mess. All in all, the idea of an autonomous car seems outlandish and unnecessary, not to mention sloth in an already lazy America. | 2 |
Driverless cars aren't really anything we are relying on for the future.Driverless cars are awed by many due to how they are portrayed.When actually, they have no reason to be focused on and worked on so much.They will ingrave more of a negative effect than a positive in society.Driverless cars are unessesary for the world we live in,considering there aren't
many problems about cars not being as reliant.
Driverless cars are depicted as a more flexible way of transportation and a gate for new generations of automobiles to arrive.You don't hear much about cars not being as reliant as they should be.Cars have the functions we use every single day and require average to little work to transmit.Roadblocks however are a big obstacle to both driverless cars and normal cars, since driverless cars fall victim to traffic jams or accidents.The idea for a driverless car is to be able to keep your eye on the road while the car keeps you safe,however this idea cannot be relied on heavily because any sort of accident or event that accurs on road will immediately put the individual in the car into the position of the driver transferring all of those responsibilities the car had at one point back to the driver rendering the cars idea of being driverless to useless.
There's also the fact that the fault of an accident would be a bit difficult to locate.Was it the cars fault for not being effective in its abilities?Or would it be the drivers fault for not being alert to any sort of situation?More laws will be nessesary to make sure we have restrictions for those using a driverless car.The ratio of positive effects these types of cars may have to the negative is very small.This generation has little to no problems with driving cars being too tedious or too troublesome.We don't need more amounts of problems entering this world but should focus on what is now. | 2 |
Driverless cars are definitly an advancement in society today. Although there are slightly independent cars today, it is projected that by 2020 Mercedes-Benz, Audi and Nissan plan to have self driven automotives. In the article, "Driverless Cars Are Coming," a decent amount of benifits were listed. One of those benifits are safety features, such as the inability to use a telocommunication device while in the vehicle.
Each of the self driven automotives will have regulations. While the car is in the self driving mode the opperator must be alert. By doing this the driver must have both hands on the steering wheel. The steering wheels have a sensor built in; made to ensure that when road conditions ahead need human capabilities they can take over quickly and safely. Another restriction included in the driverless cars are the ability to shut off all systems instantly. For example in-car entertainment is a privlage but may be turned off when neccessary.
These self driven cars include many other features as well. GPS, Tire, motion, and radar sensors are installed in these vehicles. When in reverse newer cars have the ability to have a camera in there dash to see the surroundings behind them. Vibrating seats are a feature used to alert the driver when they are close to hitting an object around them. With these advancements in the self driving automotives the opporation system can be a copy cat of a human driver.
Not only do the driverless cars have safety features but save on gas. The self driven cars are projected to recieve better gas millage, using half the fuel our automotives use today. As stated in the article by Sergey Brin, " Such cars would fundamentally change the world." Not only will each tank of gas last longer, but there will be less fumes going into the atmosphere.
Advancing modern cars into self driving vehicles in a societal achievement. Having safety features such as sensors, vibrating seats, and the restriction of cellphone use will decrease accidents. These vehicles require the driver to stay alert, and detect when conditions require human assistance. The evolution of self driving cars is progressing, with a target of cars being on autopilot 90 percent of the time. | 3 |
Dear Mr. Senator,
I'm writing you this letter to discuss that we should keep the Electoral College. I think we should keep it because it's only a fair enough way of voting it is more consistant than others because if we voted by popular vote it wouldn't be much fair because as soon as most people found out there was a black president running they were against it the thought it was the worst idea ever. Instead of giving Mr. Obama the chance he deserved most people were against him. So if it wasn't for the Electoral College Mr. Barck Obama wouldn't have gotten the chance he deserved. Romeney also could've won but that's not the way Electoral College works when voting you are actually voting for a slate of electors and they chose the president.
The electoral collage some people might call it unfair or a disaster factor because it's not the people chosing the president it's the electors. The popular vote just chooses which person is more well liked not who people think will make the country a better place and so far no one is doing so. The Electoral college has a slate of trusted electors that has a certain party's nominee and the trust is rarely ever betrayed. Despite the Electoral College's lack of democratic process it's certainty of outcome is good as for example Obama's winning he received 61.7 percent of the elctoral vote compared to 51.3 percent of the popular vote.
The Electoral College also should be kept because it prevents Run-Off Elections elections when no canidate receives majority of the votes. This why I think we should keep the Electoral College and not change over to the popular voting method. | 2 |
Estimate Senator:
As one of the people living in Florida I am honor to have the opportunity to wirte you this letter telling you about what I think about keeping the Electoral College. For numerous reasons I think we have a better outcome of getting the candidate we want if we keep the Electoral College method to vote for our candidates.Does reasons are : certanity of outcoem, Everyone's president, and swing states.
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Topic: Certainty of outcome
Support: Problems over Electoral College is possible but not as much as problems over popular vote. "The reason is that winning candidate's share of the winning candidate's share of the Electoral Colleg invariably exceeds his share of popular vote".This also benefits small states. In addition the is a possibility to have a tie in nationwide electoral vote " because the total number of votes-538-is an even number, but it is highly unlikely.."
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Topic: Everyone's president
Support: The candidate have to be neutral, it cannot have favorite religion or section of the country because "The residents of the other regions ae likely to feel disenfranshised-to feel that their votes do not count,that the new president will have no regard for their interests,that he really isn't their president".
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Topic: Swing States
Support: Candiates most of the time choose to focused more on the toss-up states because they are "the most thoughtful voters [and] should be the ones to decide the election".
Counterargument
"The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor".People are worried that the governmetn will choose for them. They do not realise that if we don't have the electoral college than that is is more than likely to happen because the electoral college is what allows us to have a voice, a say, in what we want in our future president.
Conclusion
Keeping the electoral colloge gives the peope the opportunity to choose wisely who they want taking care of them for the next four years.
Thank you for your time,
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
Venus is the second planet from our sun, it is also called the Evening Star. The author uses many pieces of ecidence that states that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The first piece of evidence is that well us as humans have this thing in our DNA that wants to survive longer. We want to explore whats mysterious, we want more, we want it all. Venus is a way of "if we can find a way to make it survivable for humans, extinction for our species will be nearly zero." This paragraph is more of my piece of evidence but the author was inching towards it at the last paragraph of the passage.
The passage stated that long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life. Which sounds a lot like Earth. So if long ago, this place was sustainable, then that just gives us motivation that we might be able to actually do this. The second piece of evidence that the author uses to state Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents is NASA might be working on a project that involves a blimp-like vehicle hovering around 30 above Venus. This project if suceesful can possibly be the first big step for actually landing on Venus even with its harsh conditions.
The last piece of evidence is that solar energy or power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. These may not be the easiest conditions but it is survivable for humans. We still cannot take samples of rocks, gas or anything on the surface of Venus. This is just another challenge that we will overcome sooner or later. When we solve this problem, then the real fun begins.
In conclusion the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents by using good information, and having multiple pieces of evidence to back up his or her statement. In paragraph 8 the author states " Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." Human curiosity to travel, to explore to get more will always be in our DNA. | 3 |
Many researchers wants to kmow more about Venus ans starting to created a machine that can contribute the knowledge of venus planet. A venus planet is closely to the another planet calles sun. The difference between venus and sun is the sun has fifferent speeds. Somethimes we might be closer to the Mars and other times ti venus. It's challenging planet for humans to study because it is complecated.
venus has the hottet surface tempertures of any planet on our sytem. Because of high pressure of heat it can create powerful earthquakes, and such as vocalnoes. This planet includes physical featurs such as valleys, mountains, rocky sediment and carters.
The temperatures are extremely high, the temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit and the atmospher pressure ais 90 times greater than what humans has experience on earth, but the air pressure would be close to sea level on earth. just like our planet venus could have various forms of life . Sometimes venus can be nearest planetary to visit but will take a traveler a long times.
Studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents becuase | 0 |
Dear state senator,
The Electoral College that was established by the founding fathers in the Contitution is important to all of us. Every candidate that is running for President in each state has its own group of electors that the political party of the candidate chose. I am however, not in favor of keeping the Electoral College but to change it to be an election by popular vote for the president of the United States, the reason being that it is unfair to the voters and outdated.
The Electoral College is unfair to it's voters. If the candidate has more electoral votes than popular votes then they have a higher chance of winning. "Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prewfer a direct election to the kind we have now" (Plumer, Paragraph 9). The president is the leader of the United States and if most of our country votes on a candidate they think suites the best but the other candidate wins, that would make many voters dissapointed. "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" (Plumer, Paragraph 13). Every vote counts, and the candidate that gets the most popular votes deserves the win.
Since our founding fathers established the Electoral College it shows that it is outdated. "The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational" (Plumer, Paragraph 14). This is the twenty-first century, and we need to make our elections more modernized to where every voter is happy. A voter should not vote for an elector and hope that the candidate wins but be able to vote for the candidate itself. Even though there are many people against the Electoral College, it still has its defenders. "This year voters can expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could again lose the presidency" (Plumer, Paragraph 9). As there are people who believe that whatever our founding fathers established we need to keep our tradition going and not change a single thing, but maybe it's time for a change. "Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than poeple who thing that single vote may decide an election" (Posner, Paragraph 23).
"It's hard to say this, but Bob Dole was right: Abolish the electoral college" (Plumer, Paragraph 14)! The voters think the Electoral College is unfair and outdated. People vote for a candidate but the outcome is not what they were expecting. The candidates that get the most popular votes deserve to win!
Sincerely,
Dissapointed voter | 3 |
The story about "Making Mona Lisa Smile" describe how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enable computers to indentify humans emotion by writing a essay arguing weather the use of this technology or to read the emotional expression ?
Will I think by using this technology if it bring a smile to my face while it shows how much this computer can do. Then I might have to get it. Like if the computer no if im happy or sad in my emotion then thats a be a good feeling I dont know why but it will. A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. So if you confused on something the computer could help or figure it out for you . I think its good because if the teacher is helping another students work the computer could help the kids or whoever.
So I think it will be good for students to get a smart computer like that so when you do need help like that or feeling disgusted or fearful the computer will help. Like on her last asignment she could feel not knowing how to do things .Then you can calculate emotions like the math homework . In the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face in if you dont know how to work a app it will show you .
But one reason why I dont know about it because one day you can be mad in not let no one know . Or want somebody to know whats going on with you. So I think thats probably one reason . Then you might not want help or want people seeing your emotion even the teacher. so thats the reason I probably would'nt get on the computer for that reason or some people probably just dont like the setting to it or probably want think its useful..
But last I think its valuable in someways in school or at home . Sometimes people dont know whats wrong with they body. They can get right on the computer in so the computer could tell them like your despress or things like thats . So I think its a good learning envoirment for the kids in grown ups . So thats some reason why I thi nk its valuable. | 2 |
Would you be able to give your car up? Having to ride with strangers on the bus to reduce pollution. Would you be able to pay the fines after driving your car?
Most people nowadays wouldn't give up their car to save their life. We've been so used to having cars since they came out we've just forgotten what It's like using our bikes, or walking from point A to point B. "70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold their cars to move here" Says passage number 1 paragraph 3. Imagine selling your car just to live somewhere else. Not having a car would for one, reduce the amount of pollution in the area, but two, also reduce the amount of stress. Come to think of it, it would also lessen the number of deaths. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Said Heidrun Walter. She uses her bike to get from place to place. Which could e a lot more healthy. We most likely wouldn't have so many obese people.
A lot of people have bad health just because of where they live. All these cars polluting the area does not help the fact that most people with asthma, It's just slowly killing them because their lungs can't get enough air as it is. " Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog... the smog rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world." The gas that makes these cars zoom around the world is hurting the enviroment. Polluting our streets, making it so foggy out that drivers can hardly see. Not only does diesel fuel hurt our ecosystem, it hurts our wallets too. How much does the average person spend on gas in their lifetime? A lot, don't you think? You probably have to fill up your tank every week or so, depending how far you drive. Just think of all the other items you could buy instead of having to pay for gas. Shoot, we'd probably all be millionares if we set aside our gas money.
Death. Death is a major problem. Due to alcohol and stupidity plus cars equal not very good outcome. Most people aren't even safe when the drive so it's not like cars can drive themselves and not get in an accident. Police were starting to fine people if their license plate was even or odd, depending on the day. Would you really want to be fined for driving a car? Save the time and effort on your precious little car and ride your bike to the grocery store. Or instead of driving your dog to the dog park, walk him or her there. Maybe instead of running an aron in the car why don't you actually RUN the aron.
Cars cause a lot of problems in most of our cities, countries, states, islands, whever. It would be ten times easier just to tone it down a notch. | 2 |
From Monster trucks to Volkswagen Beetles, all automobiles are created to make life easier for people from all corners of the Earth. Many people start up their cars everyday without a second thought, whether trekking across the street or across the country. Others believe that cars are ruining the Earth, and put effort toward decreasing their car's "footprint" on the environment. People everywhere should consider limiting their car usage.
A community with less cars has proven to also be one with less healthy citizens. According to Source Two, Paris, a city known for it's aromatic scents, was covered with the smell and appearance of smog for days (they had near-record pollution: Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in London). After a day in which all even-numbered license plates were banned from the streets of Paris, the smog cleared up a great amount (enough for the city officials to take the ban they had placed for odd numbered license plates the next day). The smog that was affecting the well-being of Paris' citizens had mostly disappeared after only one day of limited car use. If a community limits cars, its inhabitants will be almost forced to exercise more. According to Source 3, in Bogota, Colombia, where a "Day Without Cars" is held yearly, 118 miles of bike paths have been constructed, the most of any Latin American city. Less cars on the road in this city have led to other means of transportation being more popular, including walking and bicycling. These ways of getting around are much more healthy then their gas-powered alternative. Less traffic on roads will therefore leave cities healthier than otherwise.
There are many more reasons why citizens should limit their personal car use. Owning a car is huge investment. You have to pay for gas and oil refills for any standard car based on how much it is driven. Because of this, limiting car use would also limit the pressure on car owner's wallets. According to Source One, the majority of residents of Vauban, Germany don't have cars. This city is an example of a worldwide effort to make suburbs denser. Because of this there is no need for automobiles to commute across the city. The purchase of a car, which costs thousands to even millions of American dollars for the average buyer, is unecesssary for the residents of this town and therefore can lead to better financial stability.
Car-driving, the catalyst to the wonders of travel, will continue to drive on the pollution of our Earth. Babysitters, doctors, students, and even the retired will thrive from limitations of car usage. Whether by limiting car usage or not, Earth's inhabitants need to ensure their planet is treated right. | 3 |
Have you ever wondered if this "Face on Mars" was created by aliens? Well, I am sorry to dissapoint you however, because it was, in fact, not created by aliens. There is much evidence to support that it was not created by aliens.
To assume simply because a rock formation looks like a face that it is an alien artifact is illogical. Martian mesa's are infact very common where the Face of Mars was discovered. It just happened that one of them happened to have weird shadows that made it appear to be a face.
In 1976, the quality of the cameras that took the first photo of the Face of Mars on the Viking 1 were inadequate. On the Viking 1 photo, every pixel was 43 meters, meaning the photo would be very distorted. In 1998, it was taken again with a better, yet still not great, camera that would reveal the rock formation merely only looks like a face because of the weird shadow. In 2001, the photo was taken by a MGS with a good quality camera. The camera on this MGS had quality of 1.56 meters per pixel. Meaning if there were structures or a Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you would be able to see it. This proves that the rock formation was not created by aliens.
The martian mesa is very common in the region where the Face of Mars was found, yet Garvin says "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." He continues by saying "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face of Mars." It can be proved that this is not an alien structure as, not only is it common in that region in mars, it is also common in Western America.
There is strong evidence that proves that this 'Face of Mars' is not an alien structure, and instead simply a very common martian mesa that just happened to have shadows that made it appear to be a egyptian face. An alien structure on mars would be interesting, but I'm afraid this Face of Mars is not what it first appeared to be. | 3 |
In "Driverless Cars Are Coming" they show the next future is cars for our society. It looks and seems like a bad and great idea. But we never really know until we take a full look into the research for this idea that they have for us. Google cofounder Sergey thinks this plan will work out. We'll end up seeing whether that is true or not.
As I see yes these cars are working by themselves and showing alot of positive things. But how can we insure for sure that it wont be that expensive we need more facts for that. The car will tell the driver when the driver has to move it by vibrating the drivers seat or some kind of signal. What if there are malfuctions to this process and it doesnt alert the driver. Yes the driver should already be alert just in case but we all have flaws that sometimes we space out.
It does seem like they are off to a good start with idea for "Driverless cars" but they need to have some facts,more percentages of how they know they wil be right that this will be a postive thing. I am still balanced out whether this is bad or good. im at a fifty-fifty with there idea. Maybe in a couple more years their plan will work but for now i just dont agree. | 1 |
In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit even with the dangers on the planet. Venus is the sister planet to Earth but the surface of Venus presents a challange to any living thing. Venus is also called the "Evening Star" despite it being a planet.
Venus is a planet that the most like Earth but we bearly studied it because we'll have to get on the planet to do so. Venus has around the same density and size as the Earth but Venus' surface is 800 degrees fahrenheit. Venus' Atmosphere is dangrous as well with 97% of it being carbon dioxide and the clouds made out of highly corrosive sulfuric acid. Many people may be wondering " If our sister planet is so in hospitable, why are scientists even thinking about any further visits? Astronomers are really fascinated by our sister planet because how close to Earth it really is, Venus even has valleys, mountains, and craters just like our Earth.
For future visits NASA has came up with an idea to has hover crafth that floats 30 or so miles so we wouldn't have to step on the boiling planet. Venus is a worthy pursuit because the more we know about our sister planet the more things we get to do with it. | 0 |
If humans were to use this technology, who is to say we would not advance it, and take it much further. That could be problomatic. Reading someones facial features could be a good thing, but also a horrible mistake.
If we were to use FACS in a school setting, it could be used to show if someone is lying or cheating, because it would read their expressions. Then what would happen would be that students may try to cover the senser or camera to block the machine, making it outright pointless. Not to mention, it would be ripping the users confidentiality away from them as it may record what the user does to more easily tell their emotions. Now it recording the emotions is not bad, but the people who could get their hands on it are. It does state in the text " 'The facial expressions for each emotion are universal.' " This may be true, but if that is the case, why cant we just read emotions ourselevs, instead of making a robot do it for us.
There is nothing wrong with asking if someone is sad or mad, but there is someting wrong with telling them how they feel. If compaired to anyone who makes the same expressions, how are we to be certin that they are our emotions, and not someone elses. Yes we all frown, and we all smile, but; what if some of our ways to show our smile are different, then it may be computed incorrectly, causing someone or something to go wrong when using this program. This is why we should not use FACS in any place. It just rips away our own thoughts, replacing them with a genric persons emotions. | 2 |
Is Facial Action Coding System valuable to students? Do you even know what a Facial Action Coding System is? Well, it is a program or a system that was made from codes to help a computer identify human emotions. Well, I think that the Facial Action Coding System is valuable to students. The reason I think this is because your video games could have more expressive faces, your PC at home can't handle the complex algorithms, and it can reconize when a student is becoming confused or bored.
The first reason is that your video game could have more expressive faces. Some people enjoy playing video games a lot but what is the point in having this fun video game if your going to have faces that look like they are mad in the game. If the charcaters in game could show expression I think it would make a lot more people into the game. If more people like the video games just because they got expressions then a lot of more people will start buying games. Which means that the gaming stores will get more money, and then the government would get more money. So in conlcusion one of the reasons why it is valuable to kids is because it could make video game charcaters have expressions.
The next reason is that your PC at home can't handle the complex algorithms. The computer system that was designed by Prof. Thomas Huang made the program for a sufficicated computer that can handle the algorithms. Your PC at home was designed not to hold complex stuff on it, it was designed to hold simple stuff. So, if a teacher got this in their classroom then it could benefit the kids and they would probably have a PC that could hold the complex algorithms unlike the ones at the kids home. Therefore, another reason is that your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms.
The last reason is that a classroom computer could reconize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Having this system on a classroom computer would help the kids out a lot. The reason I say that is because what if there is a kid strugggling really bad to understand the problem they are working on but are too shy and embarassed to ask the teacher for help. What are they going to do then, just take a bad grade and deal with? But, if they have the system on the computers in their classroom then the computer can just read their facial expression, see they are confused, and then help them by pulling up a helpful website. Also if the kid is bored and the computer reads that then they can pull up a helpful website for the material that they are working on but is also a website that they can play games on. This shows that the coding system also can help students in a classroom if they are bored or confused.
In conclusion the Facial Action Coding System is valuable to students in a classroom because your video games could have more expressive faces, your PC at home can't handle the complex algorithms, and it can reconize when a student is becoming confused or bored. This system can help these kids in a lot of ways. I think this system will be effective and useful for students in classrooms. Facial Action Coding is a good thing for kids and should be in schools everywhere. | 3 |
Self driving cars are a hazard to society.By passing a law that would allow us to drive without using our hands give drivers a reason to be lazy and text while the car is moving on its own.
I believe that texting and driving is the worst issue even by itself but now you have teenagers driving and texting in a car that fully operates on it's own. In paragraph 7 it states that : ''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.'' But what if the driver isnt alert? the driver could be sleeping, texting, looking for something in the car or simply zoned out. there could be an accident or a death a lawsuit will be filed and the creaters of that contraption will have to pay large amounts of money.
In self-driving cars they always have something wrong with them. usually its a bug which means that the technology either fails or there is something wrong with the car. In my opinion i like the way driving is now and now that they have self driving cars there are many ways that they could go wrong. you could possibly have a child in the passenger seat of the car that is curious and wants to know how the car works and by the time that you realize your car is gone it's too late. You could have a burgular sneak into your car and hijack your car. in paragraph 4 it states; '' the most important bit of technology in this system is the spinning laser on the roof that updates the cars surroundings.'' How can that be the most important thing on a self driving car and you dont even have a camera available so that the owner can see what is going inside the car who is inside the car and what they are doing in the car.
i think that now all companys want to do is steal your money and now that they have cars that self-drive people become excited and curious and they want to know how the car works and it's not worth getting injured or possibly dying for. but now that you have self driving cars companys will make millions and millions of dollars off of them and with that money they will possibly make more and more and then stop once they realize that an innocent person was possibly hit by a self driving car or killed in a self driving car. they claim that they always think about a person's safety when all they talk about is the new upgrades and how well the car can drive. which in that case proves that Self-Driving cars are indeed dangerous and should be watched in close caution. | 3 |
In the article ¨Making Mona Lisa Smile¨ by Nick D´Alto Computers and technology are getting so advanced to the point where they can tell you how you feel based off your facial expression and emotions. The computer can even tell many different emotions from just one picture.
In stanza 1 the technology allowed professeors to find out that the Mona Lisa isn´t all that happy she is also 9% disgusted and 6% fearful while being 2% angry at the same time. This is so amazing because this is possible from 3-d constructed computer models which can recognize and define all
44 human like muscles in the body if they look normal. Some of the ways the computer can tell your emotions is or example, ¨Your frontalis pars lateris muscle raises your eyebrows when you´re surprised, your orbicularis oris tightens your lips to show anger¨. The computer has also learned 6 basic emotions which are Happiness, Surprise, Anger, Disgust, Fear, and Sadness. If you go home and try to make a happy face in the mirror you can easily see the muscles that are making you smile but what you didn´t know is that when you fake smile it actually causes happyness which can actually make you for real smile. Even with the cool technology most people wouldn´t want their day to be changed just because of how they´re feeling.
In conclusion the computer technology is so advanced nowadays that a computer can tell how you are feeling at anytime but do all people want that I say no if people are in a bad mood they probably have a reason to be in that mood and they don´t need a computer to try and lighten up their day. | 1 |
Decreased Driving
In the past, the act of driving was a mandatory ability to possess, but as time progresses, the use of personal cars is declining. The decrease of drivers can be attributed to several events, one such event being the large quantity of greenhouse gas emissions caused by vehicles, especially cars. With society shifting to become less car centered, communities are adjusting accordingly, becoming more compressed to enable walking to ones workplace or a store. Additionally, the lowered use of cars results in a greater usage of more physical methods of transit, such as riding a bike or skating to a destination while saving the money that would have been spent on maintaining a car.
Pollution is an important issue on a global scale, having the potential to drastically impact the lives of both humans and other life forms. A large amount of pollution brings negative health effects upon most living creatures, making it essential to reduce pollution levels for the betterment of the environment. Some may think that cars don't have a large influence on pollution, but "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," (Rosenthal Paragraph 5). Automobiles are responsible for a large portion of greenhouse gasses, as "transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions, just behind power plants," (Rosenthal Paragraph 34). The enormous amount of pollution in some areas of the world even resulted in temporary bans of personal vehicles to reduce the smog, and at one point "Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city," (Duffer Paragraph 10). As a result of this temporary ban in the previously smog filled city of Paris, "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France," (Duffer paragraph 14).
In order for society to shift away from the use of personal vehicles, distances between destinations must be reduced. There are experimental communities to test the effects of more compact cities, the most drastic being a Vauban, Germany, a suburb without cars. "Vauban, home to 5,500 residents within a rectangular square mile, may be the most advanced experiment in low-car suburban life," (Rosenthal paragraph 6). These compacted cities have homes and stores placed close to one another, eliminating the necessity for a car or other vehicle. "In this new approach, stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway," (Rosenthal paragraph 6). Life within a smaller community saves the residents a lot of time which would have otherwise been spent on lengthy commutes. Additionally, through living in a less spread out society, people are more connected to one another, better learning their neighbors who are closer, while developing a deeper feeling of a community, by living in a close-knit zone. This reduction or even elimination of personal vehicle usage would enable more funds to be put toward public transport or pavement, as opposed to the current setup where "80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transport," (Rosenthal paragraph 9).
Not only does the reduction of car use have environmental, time, and societal benefits, but there are also health as well as economic benefits to be wrought from avoiding car use. When not using a personal vehicle for transportation, other methods must be applied to reach a destination. Among these methods there are choices of public transportation, riding a bike, hiking, skating, and more. By not taking a vehicle and instead commuting by foot or bike, the commuters health improves as a result of the exercise. Many claim that traveling by other methods than a car reduces stress, one such testamony coming from businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza: "'It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution,'" (Selsky paragraph 24).
In addition to health benefits, there are also economic benefits, as there is no need to maintain a car when one is not in use.
In conclusion, there are various benefits to not using a car. These benefits range from improving the condition of the environment thorugh reducing pollution, as well as saving money for those not | 4 |
People need to join the Seagoing Cowboys program. You will have lots of fun, see many of different places, and become aware of countries in need. Helping take care of the animals will be one of your jobs.
Taking care of the animals is pretty simple. They need to be fed (bales of hay and bags of oats are hauled up from the lower holds), watered (two or three times a day), and the animal's stalls have to be cleaned. Another job is being a night watchman. It can be very dangerous.
Another reason to join the Seagoing Cowboys is that you can have lots of fun. On the return trip, when all the animals are gone and the stalls are empty, cowboys play baseball, volleyball, fencing, boxing, and many other games. Table-tennis tournaments are also held.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy is quite an adventure. Having a chance to help people in need, playing games, and taking care of animals. This is a once-in-a-lifetime offer to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. Please join us today! | 1 |
Cars have undergone many changes since they were first established. Since then what is reffered to by "smog" has severly incresed. "Smog" is also what is called greenhouse gas emissions. Over the years many countries have undergone ways to prevent car usage in effect to gradually reduce "smog"
In Vauban Germany, many people dont use cars due to the fact that street parking, driveways, and even home garages are tipiclly forbidden. Some benifits are, less stress, ruduced greenhouse gas emissions, closer shopping areas and stores in walking distance. In Paris, peoples driving rights on Mondays as well as Tuesdays are being revoked by the number on the license plate. All this in effort to reduce smog. Failing to abide the rules of revoked driving led to a fine which many people recieved, then giving up cars. In Bogota Columbia, theres a program meant to reduce the "smog" as well. This being called "Day without cars". Violations to follow the day without cars also resulted to a fine.
In the United States of America people have seemed to loose interest in cars and license at that matter. The peak of miles driven was in the year of 2005, decreasing after that, our percentage rate was 9 percent below the peak of 2005 and equal to the time period of January 1995. The decrease has been assumed to be because of the recession. Since the amount of miles has decresed, and because the recession people have not been as interested with driving beause how much gasoline has costed. With amount of miles drivien in America decresed, in Columbia, the a amount of bicycle paths had increased to 118+ miles.
Cars are on of the biggest greenhouse gas emission producers, in France, Diesel fuel was blamed because it was a favored from a tax policy. Paris tipically has the most smog due to the increased use of diesel fuel. Paris' amount of smog was 147 micrograms of particulate matter compared to a low of 79.7 micrograms of particulate matter in London. Usages of cars are going down all over the world. therefore reducing the amount of smog greatly.
The way many countries have new and improved ways to reduce the amount of smog is incredible. Cars are now being used less, biking, hiking, walking, and bussing is now easier to do with what is happened. Car companies have come to advertising cars they wouldnt usually advertise, becuase they are not selling as many cars and they are trying to appeal to everyone. It has been said with driving less it relieves stress, and has been scientifically proven to ruduce the amount of smog. Many people are interested and cars and getting their license, but it just has not been a priority. There are many advantages to limiting car usage. | 2 |
Are you excited to get that new car you've been saving all your hard works money for? Cant wait to drive whenever you want and not have a care about where you go? Maybe us as a society has the wrong idea of cars and what they do for us. Cars have been givin this impression that they are what us young adults want and need to become an adult or even for some people ''cool'' but we've got the wrong idea.
Americans use cars almost everyday, numerous times a day, spening loads of money on gas and filling up our ozone with pollution but for most lifes outisde the United States they prefer to walk, bike ride, run anything except a car. Vaubran ,Germany have given up their cars. 70% of Vaubrans families do not own cars and about 57% sold a car to move there. Giving that most subrub lifes are over populated there would be no room for all those cars, but if you're that person that needs a car you must buy a space for 40,000, along with a home. ''When I had a car i was always tense. Im much happier this way'' said by Heridrun Walter, a media trainer and a mother of two, as she walks the busy path ways of Vauban streets. MOst countries are like Vauban, over populated with little to no car usage. Most people travel by foot, bus or bike and have been proven to not only heelp save thier environment but save lifes but you still have some countries that work like America. Bogota, Colombia does us cars very frequent but has a ''car free'' day which a large amount of Colombias population (7 million) participates in. '' It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution,'' said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode with his wife on a two seat bicycle as it poured. '' The rain didnt stop people from participating'', ''We enjoy this, its better for us as a society''. Many other countries saw this remarkable change that they were trying to accomplish and really were motivated to cut cars out and start walking, biking..
Paris, France typically has more smog than other European capitals. The cause for this smog is to be said it comes from the Diesel fuel since Diesel makes up 67 percent of vehicles droven in France. The smog was so serious and dangerous that it traveled to Beijing China, which they did not need since they are the most populate city in the world. France and lots of other countries have smog/ pollution problems caused by cars. France has plug-in cars, hybrids, more cars carrying three or more passangers, and public transport free of charge Friday threw Monday clogging up our o-zone. Many people across the globe have notice this big error its causing and try to make a stop to it. Lots of citizens try to cut back on their driving or try to find closer areas to work or for school to make it easier them to walk, bike ride to. For instance, the sons of Michael Sivak who are in their 20's travel by foot since driving was ''not a big concern for them.'' ''They organize their summer jobs and social lifes around where they can walk, take public transport or car pool with friends''. Even young adults are seeing the greatness in doing something good for them and thier environment.
Driving is a big part of our world today, but we have some people and even countries who have to or choose to do it by foot. Its proven to help the mind and also proven to help with our environment and our safety life. Pollution fills the air but so does the people, making the world a better place to live and causing less stress to the citizens that do so. | 2 |
What is the Electoral College? Well the Electoral College is a founding fathers established by the Constition as a compromise between election of the President by the vote of Congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral College was created for Big States, Avoid Run Of Elections and Centainy Of Outcome.
The Electoral College will restore some of the weight in a political balabce that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the senate decreed in the constitution. For example a large state get more attention from presidential candidates in a champaign then a small state would. The reason big states well get more attiontion than small states is because the biger the state is the more pepole there well be and thats like hitting a glod mine for the presidentil candidates.
The dispute over the outcome is possible. As it happened in 2000, But it's less likly then a dispute over the popular vote. For example in the 2012's election with Obama and Romney' Obama received a 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney. Even A very slight plurality in the state creates a landslide electoral vote victory in that sate. Even a tie in a nationwide electral vote can happen because the total number of votes is 538 and 538 is an even number, but it is very unlikely.
To Avoid Run-Off Elections The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in witch no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast. There is pressure for the run-off elections when no candidate wins a majority of the elections of the cast and that pressure, witch would greatly complicate the presidentail election proess and is reduced by the Electoral College witch invariably produces a clen winner. | 1 |
Studying planets is often hard because of the conditions in space, and also on the planet Venus there are also very harsh conditions that humans cannot survive. Venus has a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Exploring Venus can be a very risky planet for us to expore until we get better technology.
Venus is often reffered to as Earth's twin because it is the closest planet to be like Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. Venus would be hard to expore becuase of the planet's suface reaching up to 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmosphere pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet of solar system and if we tried to land a rover there the metal would just liquify because of the extreme temperature's. NASA however, still wants to try to study the planet but they would have to hover over Venus because of the extreme conditions on the planet's surface. Even at 30 plus miles in the air in Venus the temperatures can reach up to 170 degrees Fahrenheit. However, peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere. Rendering standard of photography and videography ineffective. The solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth's level.
More importantly, reasearchers cannot take samples of rock, gas,or anything else, from a distance. Threfore, scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks. Many reasearchers are working on innovations that would allow the machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus. | 0 |
We believe that Luke Bomber had an good time, even though it dosen't say that. Luke had an good time because he had got to see and visit animals and 44 nations. Luke had got take care of horses, young cows, and mules that were shiped over seas. He had also got to work with his friend,Don.
Luke Bomder had got to visit 44 nations. Those 44 nations had at the time formed the UNRRA, or known as the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. He also got to visit Europe, New Orleans, and Greece. UNRRA had wanted to hire "Seagoing Cowboys."
Luke had got to see 335 horses plus he had got to help feed the horses, Luke had got to feed the horses their hay and oats. Luke had got this job after he was working two part-time jobs. He knew that this opportunity of a life time.
To sum up my thoughts we believe that sailing on ships to help out arround the country is a once in a life time opportunity that no matter whoever was offered this opportunity they should take it. This could show you many unique things, many unique places, and most important of all the new people, friends, and unique exeriences and adventures you will travel. | 0 |
Imagine that you are in scientist at NASA, the man that you worked with was an photographer of Mars. As the man comes in he as an Trapper keeper as he is walking down towards your office. He shows you the photographs that he took when he was outterspace on the planet Mars. He noticed something about the picture and he tells you to look at it and ask you what do you see, you tell him that you see an figure that looks like an face. Then he agrees with you, you start to jump to conclusions and ask if it is made by aliens or is just a regular landform. A few days later NASA unveiled the image for everyone to see. The note on the paper was stated " huge rock formation." As they are passing around the picture for everyone to see one of the co-workers had assumed it was made/formed by an alien. You and a couple of your workers were talking and assumed that it was just a regular landform and changed as the years went by. The manager had did a little debate, if they thought it was made by an alien they would have to go on one side and if they thought it was just a natural landform that is going to change as the years go by they would have to go on the other side. The people of NASA that thought it was an alien artifact, had to explain and decribe why. One of them volunteered and said that they think it is made by an alien because there is no way that it is just going to change through the years. You interupt him and say that is possible because many things change over the years, policies, laws, taxes, and many more things. You explain to them that it is not made by an alien becuase the photographer of viking 1 and viking 2 goes around and takes pictures of the planet as it circles around then they noticed something different about the figure when the picture was shown. The people that is on your side agree with you and say that you are true so they ask for more evidence to make your statement better than what it was. So you tell them that what the picture really shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms common around the American West. You and the co-workes take the last look of the picture and you are amazed. As the years goes by you see that the face doesnt appear on anymore of the picutures from the time it started to the time it ends ( 1998 - 2001. ) | 2 |
" A study last year found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009". Limiting the use of cars from people is a great thing to consider. Cutting down the use of cars would reduce harmful toxins in the air that hurt our enviroment and help people save money.
Reduceing the car use of people today would help out our enviroment. To illistrate, smog is a seriosu problem, "cold nights and warm days caused the warm layer of air to trap car emissions"(Duffer, 15). The smog is not good for our enviroment, therefore we should cut down the use of cars to cut down the amouhnt of smog produced. If we maintain our Earth the way it needs to stay healthy then it wouldnt have lots of issues. Keeping up with the no car use "sociologist believe it will-it will have benifical implications for carbon emissions and the enviroment"( Rosenthal ,34). America's second largest cause for emissions is transportation. We should completely stop or dirastically reduce the amount of car use. These new changes will help our enviroment stay clean and save our Earth.
Another example of why we should controll the car use is because it will save people money. Now that "118 miles of bicycle paths" (Selsky, 27) have been made people wont have to drive cars. Cars cost a lot more money than a simple bicycle does. You also dont have to maintain a bicycle as much as you do a car. | 2 |
If you think the face in mars was created by aliens your wrong. Am about to tell you why your wrong. Am also going to convince you that the face is just a natural landform.
First of all the first picture was blury but we took new ones and they are better.''Michael malin and his mars orbiter camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the orinal viking photos''.The camera also can see anything if ther was life down ther. Michael malin also said ''as a rule of thumb you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size,''he added.''So if ther were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks,you could see what they were!"
In the passage it says that the face is nothing but a land scape form"what the picture actually shows is the martian equivalent of butte or mesa-landforms common around the american west. This also happens on earth sometimes. "It reminds me most of middle butte in the snake river plain of idaho"says Garvin.
So if you still think that the martian land form, as it should be called,was created by aliens, than think twice because thats all the information i need to prove you wrong. | 2 |
In this writing prompt the topic that is going to be disscused is that if the Idea of technology going to be able to predict what humans are feeling an a emotional level.
The Idea of a facial expression reading computer is a good idea but for as long it is used for the right intentions such as using it to read picture of families to know how they are feeling, or using it for a class that is not interested into a subject so the computer alters the lesson to change up the lesson to make more entertaining for the students, but for advertisements that is not very good way to use technology in that way. If the human race is going to use technology like it should be used responsibily and used to help man kind to strive to become better.
The technology for this is remarkable and how we are going this far to use technolgy like this for only medical purposes, for learning, and to see if some one is lying or telling the truth. If it is going to be used to fill companies pockets full of cash for advertisements it shouldn't be allowed cause taking photos or using technology to invade on peoples privacy just to adjust their own benefits, and I can see it being used for purposes like art work just like the Mona Lisa .
The Facial Action Coding System(FACS) and really what makes it remarkable it tells you all of the emotions that they are feeling rather than just one specific emotion. It tells you from the emotion they feel the most to the one they feel the least about.
It is outstanding how technology could come so far in a short amount of time and their is a saying that comes with it comes great power, comes great responsibility and their is technology that is either taken for granted or it is misused for the all of the wrong reasons. The FACS or the facial action coding system it could be very useful in for medical research or it can help detectives to tell them what are witnesses or patients feeling so that they could help them get through their isssues in life. | 2 |
We all need to have a break right? Well,now Google wants to create a driverless car in the future. In this argumentative essay I will talk about how we should have driverless cars in the future and how beneficial it can be.
I think that driverless cars are better and they should be allowed because some people drive from twelve hours to there destination and even thirty-two hours from their destination. I would say it is a good idea because some familys take road trips and the driver is usually very tired after hours of driving in the same position. According to paragraph one,Google cofounder Sergey Brin believes that such cars would fundementally change the world,and personally,it could change my dads world. Also,we need driverless cars becuase some people drive at night and their sight and brain can be unconscious and have a wreck. Driving at night can be and will be very exhausting,but if you are too tired to even pay attention to the road,the best thing to do is to lay down in your car and let the car do its own thing.
Another reason I think it should be allowed is because of all the reckless driving there is in this world. Of course,according to paragraph seven,Google didnt extend the possibilites of having a successful driverless car. They just made the driverless car not really driverless. I mean,in paragraph seven it states clearly that the car will have a sensor in order for the passenger in the drivers seat to take action whenever there is an accident or upcoming traffic. In someway it sounds helpful but in another way it just sounds as if the driver is still driving no matter what. They should create driverless cars becuase some people have accidents and can result in death. So,to avoid that we need those driverless cars,we need something that can be useful for people who are seniors and when they are drunk or are just learning to drive. Also,we do need it for the people who take road trips or the people who have business trips and just have to drive for hours.
My third reason on which we should have driverless cars is that we might want to see and enjoy the view of the outside. The passangers are not a problem when coming to viewing the outside world through their window,but the passanger will get exhausted just looking straight infront of him. We need to think that the driver also wants a little taste of what is out there to see. Like my mom,she likes to see out in the window but she cant because she has to keep her focus infront of her. Our brain can also go to a point where it can get exhausted and they eyesight fails some of the time it fails and the accidents happen.
In conclusion,we should have driverless cars because they will be useful for all of us,especially the ones who have to drive for hours just to get to their destination. It will also be helpful for the people who drive at night. Some people cant even see at night and they just crash. So,I think that we should have driverless cars because it will be beneficial for all of us. | 4 |
Driverless cars have both negative and positive aspects reflected upon them. The text states, "Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009. Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash, but so far, Google cars aren't truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents." The truth is that driverless cars have not completely been invented yet. Driverless cars are the next step into future generations.
First, driverless cars will offer flexibility. The text states, "The cars he forsees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus." What Sergey Brin hopes will happen is that these cars will become a future public-transport taxi system. This is good for people who are not licensed or do not own a car to get to where they need to be on time.
Second, driverless cars will use less fuel. The text restates, "The cars he foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus." With pollution rates continuing to rise and contaminate the air, the fact that these cars will use less fuel is certainly a good thing for the environment.
Finally, driverless cars give us a chance to interpret driving in a different way. Dr. Werner Huber, a BMV project manager driver, tells us that we have to interpret the driving fun in a new way. The text then states, "Some manufacturers hope to do that by bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays." When you add in the in-car system you are actually adding in a safety feature and safety is always a great concern.
As we look ahead, automakers are still continuing to come up with a plan for driverless cars. According to the text, "Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020." One of the few things holding back driverless cars are present traffic laws. An example from the text is, "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." This statement has not been proven to be 100 percent true. Just think about how many accidents reported on the news about wrecks or wreckless driving. Driverless cars are the transportation of future generations. | 3 |
Biking for a Change by PROPER_NAME
Cities have come to the realization of how much pollution is being released into our air by motor vehicles. Many cities and countries are taking part in this attempt to clear the air, such as: Germany, Paris, Columbia, and the United States. Smog is hanging over many cities in a dull cloud, blocking the citizens' lungs from receiving clean air but cities are starting to come to an understanding of how dirty our world is becoming.
In a small town with the population of 5,500, Vauban, Germany, the streets are completely "car-free", which does not include public transportation and certain roads meant for driving. If one wishes to own a car, they must purchase a car space with their home, costing a whopping $40,000.(source:1;paragraph:2) This automatically discourages home-owners to purchase a car because of the steep price. The attempt to rid the air of pollution is gradually becoming more and more successful. 70 percent of Vauban families do not own any motor vehicles, and 57 percent sold their cars to move to the small town. The United States Environmental Protection Agency approves of this movement and is promoting car reduced communities. Although this is occurs in the suburbs, it is hoped to spread into the cities as well. (source:1;paragraph:9)
Paris came to the smart decision of a driving ban once their air was replaced with a filthy smog. All motorists that owned license plates with even-numbers were required to leave their cars at home for the day, or they would be fined. The same rule would apply to any motorists with odd-numbered plates the next day. Evidently, it did not seem as if the people cared about the wellness of their planet, since 4,000 drivers were fined in a single day. 27 people were so furious with this law, their reactions cause them all to have their cars impounded.(source:2;paragraph:10-12) The pollution was catastrophic enough to have Paris challenging China for the record of the most polluted city in the world. After one day of a car-less city, the smog cleared enough to revoke the ban for odd-numbered plates the next day.
In an attempt for world-wide change, Bogota, Columbia creates a "Day Without Cars" in the capital city holding 7 million inhabitants. Many citizens partook in this act. They hoped to promote alternative transportation such as buses, biking, skating, hiking and walking to reduce pollution and have fresh air to breathe. Any violators were to be fined a fee of $25. (source:3;paragraph:20-21) This campaign began in the 1990s and has resulted in the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths, which is the highest amount of alternative transportation in any Latin American city, according to the city mayor. (source:3;paragraph:27) Bogota has seemed to make the highest impact of cleaning out air pollution, and resulted in a more positive effect on every person's life.
The motivation of people trying to clean up the human act of pollution and waste is abundant and consistent throughout the entire world. We are changing the daily enjoyment of our lives, animals lives, and the cleaness of the earth one step at a time. A study last year showed that driving by young adults decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009, which is a huge accomplishment on our part, compared to the earth's well being in the past 15 years. (source:4;paragraph:41) If we remain focused on the wellness of our planet and ourselves, the world can be a better place. | 3 |
Although some may spectate that the Face was created by aliens, it is just a natural landform such as the ones we have on Earth.
Back in 1976, when the original photo was taken, the camera technology on Viking 1 was not very well, and the cloudy atmosphere did not help any. There is really no way to tell what the landform is in the picture. Now in 1998, when the second photo was taken, you can more visibly see the mesa start to take shape as the humanoid face goes away. Cameras have improved in the last 20 years, and are able to capture pictures with greater detail. In 2001, the picture is fully resolved and you can see how the landform is natural. The mesa is just like the one we have on Earth, in Idaho. Also, compared to the 43 meters for every pixel in 1976, the last picture taken in 2001 has 1.56 meters for each pixel, resulting in a higher revolution and seeing the object more clearly.
In conclusion, the Face on the Moon is just another casual landform as we have on Earth, not some alien made product. | 1 |
Advantages to car limiting!
In different cities like VAUBAN,Germany,Levittown and Scarsdale,Newyork they have banned the use of cars. Some people may wonder how can this be and this is totally wrong. This is not so much of a bad thing. You see this decision is basically helping save the enviornment,Save money, And reduce car accidents. But in some places its not banned instead they have to buy a space for $40,000 along with a home. Now think about it no car or having a car and having to spend over $40,000 to have one and its being okay.
Due to this decision they have made stores a whole lot easier to get to. Now thats one good thing. With banning the cars the air pollution has went down a lot. Think about it all the cars riding around and we dont know what kind of chemicals they are pushing out into the air. But we do know all the chemicals that is getting pushed out is going into your system there's dirt pushing out there's gas pushing out and that is going into your lungs and your body. Talk about being healthy and making sure your body is running in a proper manner. | 1 |
In this article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" they have both postive things to say about this and they have negative things to say about cars.
First, my position on driverless cars to me is a good thing because if you have to parallel park in between two cars and you're not very good then thats when the car can do it and park it perfect for you.
It's also good because say if you're texting and u drop your phone and go to pick it up and there is a car in front of you...then the car would automatically stop for you so you dont crash.
Second, It's bad because you never know when the car can mess up on you. But f anything does happen then it wont be your fault it would be the manufacturing people's fault for not checking to see if everything is good with the car. Some people wouldn't even want a driverless car because they will get bored waiting for their turn to drive.
In the end it all depends on whether or not you want a driverless car, but there are going to be very nice driverless cars in the future. I would get one but I would want it tested before I buy it because I wouldnt want to spend a lot of money on a car that didnt work like the manufactures said it would. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars drives themselves by 2020. | 1 |
I would favor changing the election by popular vote for the president of the United States. The president is more important than the electors. Who knows if the electors are being paid to choose a president? The people vote for what they want and need. The people should get what they want, not what the electors want. The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational.
To begin with, the electoral college is not fair! For example, you can have 500 people voting for you, but then your opponent has 55 electors voting for him. Then most likely your opponent would win you but why should he win you if you had more people voting for you? That is really unfair. Also its like a winner-take-all system.
Therefore, the electoral college is out of date. We are in the 2000's, not the 1960's gentlemen. This system is very old style, it was even used back in the 1960's when segregationists almost replaced the Democratic electors. This electoral college is a disaster factor. All it does is makes things harder and worse for the state.
All of these reasons is why we should get rid of the elecotral college and change the election by popular vote for the president of the United States. The electoral vote is just not fair to anyone. It is so old styled which should be changed. Its a really bad system thats hould be removed. The electoral college should be changed to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. | 2 |
Trying to detect someones emotions is like playing the game "Clue", it's a mystery and very hard to figure out. But what if there was a software that allowed a chance to put the individual infront of a camera and the thought of guessing was no longer an option, because all the answers are sitting on the screen? Professor Thomas Huang from Beckman Institute has created such a software, a software that has the ability to calculate someone's emotions much like in math class. This new software can open doors for the future, and give us new advancements in the classroom, but could it be an end to simply asking if some is okay? Could this be the end to emotional privacy, or simply emotions?
The new software, the Facial Action Coding System, has many promising attributes and the ability to open new doors for technology and learning environements in the future. It being able to calculate emotions as easily as math problems, could help us decode a lot of the mystery that is the human mind. The process starts wiht a 3-D computer model of the face, and contains information of all the 44 major muscles in a human face and with the help of psychologists, it can classify six emotions and associate them with movements of facial muscles. This type of technology has the ability to be used in a classroom to watch when a student is getting bored or tired to help the teacher better themselves when teaching. Or maybe even help in real world situations when someone goes in front of a jury, or even during interviews for a job. But how accurate is this new software, and how do we know we can rely on it?
The Facial Action Coding System is seemly flawless with many positive outlooks on what is instore for us in the futrue, but has two big questions sitting on its shoulders. How can we rely on this system? And how do we know that this is even an accurate reading? When thinking about someones emotions, one thinks of the individuals emotions as diverse and extremely different from everyone elses. So how can this software accurately read individual emotions around the world? Dr. Huang says "even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression", he firmly believes that his new software can identify the most mixed emotions with the use of video imagery and emotion recognition. This however, still does not provide us with a good example of how we can be sure that this is a reliable way to read someones emotions and could potetially ruin human socialization and emotions toward one another.
While this new software may seem like the "next big thing", there are many ways that this could potentially ruin the human race. Society right now is circling around the phone, it is how we communicate, have a social life, and figure things out. It is in our way of life and we have adapted to the idea of constantly having a phone at our beck and call. So why not add in another way of relying on technology, but this one can help us figure out someones emotions, since simply asking "Are you okay?" is too hard and time consuming. Why not just stick them in front of a camera to have it tell them how they are feeling instead of trying to listen to how they feel and talking with one another. This new Facial Action Coding System has the ability to open many new doors, but it could close the door for human socialization.
The Facial Action Coding System is an advancement in technology and has the abilities to open and grow our future. It had the ability to help out in classroom environments and give more support during other real life situations. But with it can come the destruction of human socialization and emotions and make a total mess of how we interact with each other. While trying to figure out someones emotions is very difficult and challenging, it may be better to stick with such ways rather than completly giving up what makes us human and causing a catastrophe in the human world. | 5 |
To this day our technolodgy has become alot more advanced. So much that even driverless cars are being built. But is it really as awesome as it sounds?
Many companies are developing new ways to make the world more advanced, widescreen cellphones, smart cars, virtual ways of exercise. So much infact that the thought of driverless cars are being made into reality. It is stated that the Google cofounder envisions a future of driverless cars to offer transport and use half the fuel of todays ways of transport. That sounds like a good deal to some people, but what of the dangers they could cause?
In America our lawmakers put the thought of safety in our drivers and pedestrians first. To pass a law of driverless cars wouldn't that mean they would have to be safe enough to have around people? today with our modern cars we have cautious driver in the seats able to watch the road and avoid certain issues. Would a driverless car be able to do so? Even now accidents are hard to be prevented, but in a vehichle without a person wouldn't people be even more liable? Not to mention the large amounts of money that would need to go into making each fleet of cars. Even more money than what we put into our natural cars today. In the story it also talks about having to redo our roads which would cost more than the cars!
I think that driverless cars would be more dangerous than cars with drivers. Before we know it they will want to make thousands of pilotless planes. Unless they already have.
We can become more advanced in differnt ways. If we were to have driverless cars could'nt they be used for special jobs instead of transportation of people? Why no transportations of goods? I personally belive driverless cars are a good idea, just not a safe one. | 2 |
Fellow citizens their are many advantage to limiting your car usage. With a wide range from not getting a ticket to helping the enviroment, and it's a social trend, driving cars are now a thing of the past.
In Vauban, Germany a community where only thirty percent of its entire population owns vehicals. The advantages for not owning a car are displayed in this upscale community by the ablity to walk, and ride a bicycles to stores, shops, and restaruants. The secret to this the innovative take on this community, is by not placing these all of stores, shops, and restaruants in some crowed mall, but accesible from a mere walking distant. Also a great way to burn off calories and in time put an end to obesity.
By reducing car usage smog and other pollutants in big cities can be drastically reduced. In Paris congestion of smog was down sixty percent, the way they got people to stop using cars was by putting a fine driving your car for the day almost 4,000 drivers were fined thirty one dollars that day. Another example of this is in Bogota, Colombia here most the millions of people were willing to give up car usage, a program that was started in the mid 1990s called the Day Without Cars with it's goal is to promote an altenative transportation. As a result of this added 118 miles of bicycle track, parks, and sports center to this city. Lower emissions of green house gases are also helping the enviroment with the help of Day Without Cars program.
People are slowly drifting away from their cars. The miles driven per person in the U.S. has dropped nearly nine percent since it's original peak in 1995. Many things have been suggested to reduced the car usage in the U.S. The number of car ownership per household and per person has come down three years before the downturn of car usage that started in the 2005. People in the U.S. are also more likely to retain a drivers license at an older age as to opposes to the younger age groups between 16-to-39-year-olds.
In conclusion, the age of cars are slowly coming to an end. People are planing for the cleaner and healther future that lies ahead of us, where pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation are woven together into a connected network. The revolution is upond us. | 3 |
What do you think about joining the seagoing cowboys programs? I think that you should join because 1 you get to help people, 2 you get to bring supplies and other thing to people in need, and 3 you can get experence of how it feels to be a helping hand.
first, in August 1945, they received their orders to report to new orleans. we arrived august 14 luke said the day the pacific war ended. their seamen's paper and boarded the ss charles w .wooster,headedfor greece with a cargo of 335 horses plus enough hay and oat to feed them.
also,it took about 2 weeks to cross the atlantic ocean from the eastern coast of the united states and month to get to china caring for the animals kept luke busy feeding them and giving them water two or three times a day and also the stalls had to be clean.
last,luke had learned his experence from his auntie at a farm that he helped and he work hard to help and that help him now with his work of taking care of the horses and that really and a big effect on his work now.
That is why you should work at the seagoing cowboys. | 1 |
Ever wonder what someones feeling even if they aren't sowhing in well this might be something worth looking into. Many people have heard "Fake it till you make it", well that might work sometimes but now those people are gonna have to step up their game. A software has been made by a a team of professers and this software is called "FACS" or Facial Action Coding System. People belive robots and computers are not eligable to understand emotions but thats changing.
First of all, this software that has been created by two Professers. One of theses people is Dr. Huang from Beckman Institute for Advanced Sceince at the University of Illionis, and the other is Prof. Nicu Sebe from the University of Amsterdam. Together these two men are working and striving to devlop better ways for humans and computers to communicate. Not only did this work later on, but they also made something very interesting its called FACS.
Also, the FACS software begins with a computer and this long code which then gets turned into a 3-D computer model of a face. This model includes the 44 major muscles in the face to replicate a human face and determine its emotion. They tested this technology on the famous Mona Lisa, which is a famous panting made by Da Vinci. In this panting there is a woman who is somewhat smiling but it doesn't appear t be a real happy smile.
Not only, when these two scientist ran a test on the Moan Lisa did they prove it worked, but they also got results of the emotions that were astonishing. The results showed that the woman in the panting was 83 precent happy, 9 precent disgusted, 6 precent fearful and 2 precent angry. This infromation came from a computer just running a scan and replicating the movement of the facial muscles. Not only was this a remarkable sceintific discovery, it also could become very helpful in many ways. We could take this software and read childrens and students emotions just by scanning the facial muscle movements, we could also even use this on older or people that can't express their feelings.
All in all, lets just face it we may have devloped a technoloy that can read peoples emotions and give us results based appon the simplest movements of their face muscles. Thats remarkable and not only is it going along with the tecnhnoloy these days, but its also so helpful. This is a tool that can become very effective and useful in schools, hospitals, nursing homes, and even mental instatutions. What these two men acomplished with a set of codes and a computer just may in fact help change the world. This would possibly help end the increasing suicide deaths, so people could get help and not be alone with their emotions. | 2 |
Driverless cars, Whats my opionon on them, and some supporting details. Well first off, i dont really care if they are made or not, it's not my money or time being invested or devoted into them. Now i wouldnt say they are a good idea, but i will say i think they are a really cool project and concept, and i do and know they are out there.
Do i see issues with cars that can guide or drive themselves? Yes, i do, but did anyone see cruise control being a thing when it was first invented, i dont think so. Some major issues i see is law suits, and such when they are invloved in a accicent, such as who fault it is the driver or the computer, and what you can do if it is the computers fault. what if it kills someone? who gets blammed, and who goes to jail for the crime. What if the driver of the self guided car gets killed in a stand alone accident? Who knows.
I also see a issue of them releasing the car, and they'er being alot of unsolved issues, fatal ones, so i think it should go threw major and long and extensive testing, during snow conditions, dirt roads, high ways, city streets, alleys, sand, mud, tempture testing, impact testing, and long hours testing to make sure this thing is almost faultess, and insures safety for everyone.
I also see the benefits of this car, such as allowing the driver to relax and pay attention to other obstacles, and unseen objects etc. I see it allowing cars to hold lanes better, maintain safer speeds, and stopping impacts before they happen with the right technology. i see it making a incoventent travel more convenient, and making simple life task even easier then they were. It could also cut down on the careless drivers.
I do think it's a neat idea and a cool project that needs alot of time, and developement, but i dont wan't all human task, and responsibilties taken away. I don't wanna see the world turn into nothing, but robots, and automated machines. I want to see cool things, that are fun, and make life a little bit eaier, but still allow us to have do do things. Thats just my personal opionon. | 2 |
The idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. Venus is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot. While Venus is simple to see from the distant, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely. I'm here to show you both sides of studying Venus.
Venus is often reffered to as Earth's "twin", its the closest planet to Earth as far as density, size, and occasionally in distance too. Scientists believe it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. Venus has a surface of rocky sediment and inclides familar features such as valleys, mountians, and craters.
Venus is really attracted by Scientist, although it has some factors that prove as challenges for them. A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon diocide blankets Venus. On the planets surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. The atmospheric presssure is 90 times greater then what we experience on our own planet. Also notable, Venus has the Hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Murcury is closer to our sun.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has one idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. The scientists want to use a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or s miles above the roiling Venusian landscape.
In all therory studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The adventure provides numerous factors that contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study. But NASA's studies provide that solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earths levels. Basically its saying not its not going to be easy but its survivable for humans. | 2 |
Would it be awesome if you could read someone's emotion by the look on their face?, You could but most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc. A new technology called the Facial Action Coding System that can enable computers to identify human emotions. That means this can read emotions correctly. The FACS (Facial Action Coding System) can identify a person emotion by coding the facial structure is being planned to be used in classroom to read the emotional expression, In my opinion i considered it to be valuable.
First, Everyone is different and reveal different emotions. For example this technology can be used in classroom to read the emotions of students, teachers can identify when students are not paying attention or just bored. This technology will let the teachers know that maybe change plans some fun activities before moving to regain the students attention.
Second, Faces don't lie; If a student had been bullied the technology will show the emotion of that student which will alert the teachers, teachers can talk with the students about whats wrong? or what happend?. Many kids in the world are bullied but they keep their sadness and fear to themselves, even when they show sadness or fear teachers can't tell or understand. The FACS doesn't just take a picture of a face, it constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model move like human muscles.
Third, This technology can have impacts everywhere not just at hospital, or video games. FACS can make computer-animated faces more expressive-for video games or video surgery. Teachers can make animation and excites the students to regained attention. Teachers can do animation for the topic they are on to impress the students.
Last but not least, "why not?", If the FACS is affordable for schools to obtain, Why not right? It can be used for educational purposes. For example, students can use this for projects or other activites. Instead of schoolwork students can be involve with peers and read eachothers emotion. "Most human communication is nonverbal, icluding emotional communication," notes Dr. Huang.
In conclusion, I considered this technology (FACS) to have a good impact in classroom, This technology can change the game for teachers and even students. | 3 |
Wanna keep the ozone nice and clean? or how about not being stuck in traffic? Sounds good not having to be stuck in traffic huh? Well theres a way that, that can happen. All you have to do is not drive your car as much. Not driving your car means you can stay out of the way of traffic and not have to spend so much money on gas so much. Limiting the amount of car usage is good because it can save tons of money and could save you so much more if you just ride your bike.
According to the article "On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22 euro fine ($31)." This means that places are getting more strict about driving and they should cut back because it is harmful to the enviornment. Also limiting the amount of car usage could be good too so there wont be as much traffic on the road anymore. Its good because that means that people will not need to use so much gas and the price of gas should go down becasue the amount of people not using it would make it cheaper and more affordable.
Another good reason is itll stop the ozone layer and itll make it smaller than it is now by using cars so much all that bad stuff is going into it and the hole is getting bigger and bigger. Also it helps because your saving the earth and limiting the amount of polutions a car throws out.
It is very important to have them not use cars as much because itll do amazing things one day if everybody does it and it could stop so much polution and make gas priceses super low adn affordable. So cutting back on using your car is important and it would save you tons of money and you could buy a bike if you needed to. Also you could use diesle because it is a lot safer than gas and it can be more expensive but its way worth it. | 1 |
Driverless cars are currently in development that are able to navigate roads without the control of a human for a majority of the time. An innovation like this has the ability to change the world. Driverless cars would be able to form a public-transport system similar to taxis. Eventually, in the near future, a human driver would not be necessary. The development of these cars should continue because they use less fuel, they are in less accidents, and they help with the short attention span of a human.
Driverless cars should continue to be developed because they use less fuel than a taxi. Google cofounder, Sergey Brin, foresees driverless cars using half the fuel of today's taxis. This would help the environment tremendously. In large cities such as New York city, taxis are a huge part of the public transit system. This many cars use a lot of fuel, and cutting that amount in half would be very beneficial to the environment.
Another reason driverless cars should continue to be developed is that they are in less accidents. Google has had cars that could, under spcific conditions, independently drive themselves. Google cars have driven over 500,000 miles without a crash. However, Google cars are not completely driverless, as they still need a human driver in some situations. Even though humans are needed for some manuvers, most of the driving would be done by the car, which can drive, on average, better than people. The cars are also able to sense and respond to dangerous situations, such as skids or rollovers. It would be able to apply brakes to the wheels that need it as well as reduce power from the engine. This results in a better response than a human driver could ever do on their own.
Driverless cars also help with the short attention spen of a human. People can be alert and aware on the road, but not all of the time. Humans can get tired, bored, and let their mind wander. With driverless cars, people would be allowed to let their mind drift, as long as they can be alerted when they need to take over the car. These cars would be able to do that with flashing lights, vibrating seats, annoucements, and other alerts. The car would do what it is able to, and when it needs a driver to take over, it simply lets the person know. The manufacturers are also considering using cameras that watch the driver to make sure they are paying attention.
In conclusion, the devolpment of these cars should continue because they use less fuel, which would be really good for the environent. It would especially help in the larger cities, where taxis are common and pollution is at high levels. They are also in less accidents, and they could prevent a lot of people from getting hurt as well as property from getting damaged. The short attention span of people is another problem that could be helped by driverless cars. People can not pay full attention to the road for long periods of time, but if driverless cars can drive for the majority of the time while only needing a person to take over occasionally, it would be a lot easier to drive long distances and it would be easier for the driver. | 3 |
I think people should join the program becuase it can be a life changing experience, in parargh 5
Luke says it opend a world to him, he also says that he is grateful for the opertunity that he has. Being in something can make you feel better about yourself because you would have a lot of oppertunitys like making new friends, or being something thast you can call yourself a team in. In the program you also get to have a lot of fun you can do a lot of thing insted of just doing one, people like to hang out and play sports and just hang out and have fun. You get to go on the most adventurous journeys. When you are a Seagoing Cowboy You get to do a lot of trips by yourself or with other people and it is just a good oppertunity that someone would have. Some cowboys even travle and go over seas. This program is something everybody should be in because you never know maybe along the way a good oppertunity comes along. The program can also give people courage, because if they are scared of maybe being with people they could learn to build up strenght. Not everyone will agree about joining the program and that fine, all that matters id that poeple who care will be joining. People can become something of themselves and they would aslo be proud for doing and accomplishing something. Being a cowboy can also make you be a good role modle and also many kids could look uo to you and also they could be one some day to all because they saw hiow it could change someones life. This is why i think this progra can help a lot of people, i have supported my claim and gave many reasons. So this is why many people should join the program. | 2 |
Dear senator of Florida,
I'm a highschool student who is very involed with polotics and i wanted to write this letter to let you know that i am in favor of getting rid of the electoral college. I belive that the elcetoral college causes big problems during election time . For example when people say that the electoral college is not taking into consideration to what the people said but only caring about who they want as our president. There are five reasons to keep the electoral college, but there is many reasons to get rid of it for good. i know most peole or adults that really vote and our into politics would say otherwise but i beleive that we should get rid of it and really let the people have a voice and not have a group of people speack for us. When i was little they used to tell me that you learn something new evertyday and they were righty i leaen morwe and more everydsy that the electoral cvollege is unconsitional in my eyes why have a group ogf peopole speack for us we have avoice we can do it o our own we need to get rid ofg the electo5ral college for good. So that the peoplew of the
United States of America have a say so in who we choose to run our country. Mr. Senator if you would take this into consideration that the electoral college is bad and we need to get rid of it the people during election time would be so happy because whoever wins the vote ffrom the citiens wins the election not a group of politions who procide over us citizens. mr. Senator thak you for reading my letter, because it could help me get my voice heard about getting rid of the electoral college.
Sincirerly, PROPER_NAME | 0 |
The anachronism that is the electoral college is a system that unfairly represents voters and can possibly lead to catastrophe. The much simpler solution would be election by popular vote where every voter in every state matters rather than the system of the electoral college that discounts many voters opinions. The arguments against popular vote are either illogical or inconsequencial and we as a nation should pay no heed.
The biggest and most obvious problem with our current electoral college system is that it unfairly represents voters in the states. An example of this unfairness towards voters propagated by the system is expressed in "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" by Richard A. Posner where it is stated that in the 2012 election between Romney and Obama Florida gave all of its electoral votes towards Obama when he only won 61.7 percent of the vote. This method completely exludes the opinion of the minority, that 48.3 percent of people in Florida who didn't vote for Obama got their say taken away, their opinion no longer mattered to the election because all of the electors were given to Obama by a small majority. A second unfairness to the voters is the attention taken away from any voter not in a swing state. In the article written by Bradford Plumer named "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" it is said that in the 2000 election that seventeen states got no attention from the candidates whatsoever. This system gives undeserved attention to a few swing states which will decide the election because of our outdated system of the electoral college. If popular vote was instituted the attention given to voters of all states would be equal as every vote from every state matters.
A problem with the electoral college that could possibly outshine the unfairness of it would be the potential for catastrophe that it brings. As is stated in "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer the electors presented by the states according to popular vote are not even obliged to vote for the candidate they said they would. Even though this may be a rare occurace a single elector betraying his party could cause misrepresentation of millions of Americans. Another possible disaster would be a tie vote in the electoral college. This situation, as explained in the same article, would cause a vastly unfair election incomparable even to the unfairness of the normal system. This horrible system consists of each state getting one vote for the president which when you consider that some states have many times the population of others means that millions upon millions of people could have the same say a a couple hundred thousands, an injustice unthinkable in our society and one that could be stopped by instituting a popular vote system.
The arguments against popular vote presented in "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" by Richard A. Posner are unrealistic, unsupported, or insignificant. The argument presented as "Certainty of Outcome" says that a dispute over popular vote would be much more common but provides no evidence to support the claim, invalidating it. The article's second argument states that candidates would have more incentive to stay in their region if popular vote were implemented but this entire argurment relies on the fact that there are not enough electors in any one region in order to elect a president. Although this is true it doesn't matter because the same is true of population, no one region has an overwhleming population advantage over others and population is what matters in popular vote. The third arguement is the most illogical stating that the electoral college's tendency of causing only swing states to matter is actually a good thing because it increases the education of the populations of those states by the increased attention by the candidate, therefore the educated would decide the vote, making it more accurate. This is a parochial and shortsighted viewpoint, not considering the fact that the system of popular vote would make candidates pay attention to all populations, making all voters more educated rather than having some elite educated aristocracy in the swing states. The articles fourth argument is possibly even more deluded than the third, stating that large states get more attention because of the electoral college which balances out the fact that states have hugely varying populations but the exact same thing would happen in popular vote because some states have larger populations and candidates need larger populations for election in popular vote. The electoral college in this instance changes nothing meaning that the argument leads nowhere. The only argument presented in "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" by Richard A. Posner that has any merit is the fifth which shows that popular vote could lead to possibly complicated run-off elections. Although that is a disadvantage of popular vote I believe that the vast unfairness and averting disaster is worth the cost of slightly complex run-off elections.
To support the eletoral college one must rely on unrealistic or insignificant evidence. This "evidence" can be easily refuted and outwieghed by strong evidence from the opposing side. To support the electoral college you are supporting unfairness and catastrophe and to any reasonable person that is not a very intelligent idea, making the need for popular vote irrefutable. | 5 |
The Face: Alien Artifact or Natural Landmark
Do you think that the " Face on Mars" is an alien artifact or is just a natural landform on Mars? Well, in my own personal opinion I believe that it is a natural landform because, in 1998 NASA went back to Mars, and took 10 pictures to get the perfet shot. I also believe this because, landforms are common around the American West. Although, some my think the picture is an alien artifact, it is not because NASA went back to Mars with an even better camera and, took even more pictures of the Face.
First of all, I believe that the Face is a natural landform because, in 1998 NASA went back to Mars, from their 1976 expidition, to see if the conspericy theories were correct, and they weren't. In the passage it says," And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the origninal Viking photos." It also says,"
the image first appeared on a JPL wed site, revealing... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." I used these sentences because, they prove that NASA is corret, there wasn't any alien activity.
I believe that the Face of Mars is an natural landform because, landforms are common around the American West. The passage says," What picture actually shows is the Martian equivialent ofa butte or mesa- landforms are acually common around the American West." I used thi sentence because, it shows that the landform wasn't a once-in-a-life-time sort of thing, you see them quite offten actutally. That is also something that people who don't believe NASA never take under consideration.
Some people may believe that the Face is an alien artifact, but in all truthfulness it is a natural landform. I say this because, in 2001 NASA got some amazing cameras to take the best pictures that they could possibly take to prove themselves right. In the passage it says," Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution." I used this because, it proves that NASA has worked really hard to get high quality photos of the Face.
In conclusion, I believe the Face is nothing more that a natrual landmark on Mars because, NASA went to Mars to get more pictures, after their mission in 1976, in 1998. I also belive this because, landforms are common in the American West area. Although, some may believe that the Face is an alien artifact it is not because NASA got high qualiy photos to prove it 2001. What do you think the Face is? | 3 |
Venus is called as the "Evening Star" and it is the birghtest point of light in the night sky. However, this nickname is wrong as Venus isactually a planet. In our solar system, it is the second planet from our sun and is the closet to Earth. Therefore, it is a challenging study for human about Venus. Hence, there are some claims and reasons where the author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger.
Firstly, scientists are discussing futher visit to Venus's surface because it is the one and only planet that is most Earth-like in our solar system. This is proved in Paragraph 4 where Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. Futhermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planet visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel. In my opinion, we can explore Venus by using technology as it is most similiar planet with Earth. Because of the polution, the Earth will be no longer to be safe and we need to find another place yo live in. Thus, Venus is a good idea where the scientists can work on it to find a way for human to live in there.
Secondly, Venus is a worthy pursuit despite danger because human can actually live in Venus. This is told by the evidence in Paragraph 5 where The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a possible solition to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape. Just as out jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehivle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. At thirty-miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exeed Earth level. So, Venus has the most likely conditions as we have on Earth. It is a good idea to explore Venus and make it same as Earth for living. Although it has no easy conditions, but it is survivable for humans. Hence, the scientists can work on it to be prepare on the baddest thing that will happened on Earth.
Thirdly, the author says that Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers it presents because the scientists can examine some of the contents on Venus by using
specific old technologies. So, why not we try and see? In Paragraph 7, NASA is working on another way to studying Venus despite maintaining the old way which is not successful. For example, some simplifies 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 prohect is looking back to an old technology called mechanical compuers. These devices were first envisioned in the 1800s and played an important role in 1940s during World War ll. The thought of computers existing in those dyas may sound shocking, but these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all. Modern computers are enormously powerful, flexible, and quick, but tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions. I can imagine it as a electronic devices to acid of melting tin. Thus, these technologies can help scientists to examine some of the contents in Venus. They do not cost too much as they are old technologies which can be use in this case. Hence, I think that the scientists examine and do some experiment on Venus where it will bring benifits to all of the human being. We must try to expore something new.
In conclusion, I think that Venus is a nice place for human to live in as it has the most Earth-like conditions. So, the scientists work hard for the experiment to know whether it is good or not for us to live in. Sometimes we need to try something new to know new things. I think it is a nice way to examine Venus for preparation to the baddest. | 3 |
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