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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile." The author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions, Which could be a good idea for students in school.
The Facial Action Coding System could come in handy in many ways. If a student is at school and they are watching a video online where a person is trying to describe something or inform them of something and they are confused and the computer notices it, it could show them to another website that could help them understand it better. It could also inform a teacher that a student needs help. Another reason this would be a good idea is if a student isnt having a good day and they are upset and the computer recognizes it, then the computer could transfer them to a page that could cheer them up and put a smile on there face, which could help them get through the school day. It could also send a signal to a teacher that could lead to help from them. Another reason i suggest this tool is if a student gets very upset about something and the computer notices it, then it could help a teacher get a councelor if the student is having problems at home or with other people in the classrooms. The Facial Action Coding System could also come to help for students who might be suffering from depression and no one noticed the computer could help.
Therefore I think that using the Facial Action Coding System in classrooms is a good idea becasue it could lead to some positive outcomes. | 2 |
Humans are capable of making many expressions with the muscles located in the face,and some of these slight changes might not be observable to the normal human eye without intense concentration from a person that is knowledgeable in the anatomy of the face and what the different changes mean.The facial coding system(FACS) is an attempt to take those slight changes that often go unnoticed and shed light upon them so that you can get an accurate idea of how a person is feeling.
teen suicide rates have been going up as the rise of social medias and the internet has increased,but with
the facial action coding system we could try to combat this trend by implementing it in ways that could benefit these suicidal teens.Many teens come to school upset or get upset during the school day but don't like to go to their counselors for help.Some of the main reasons why students don't like to go to their counselors are things such as: fear of their parents getting involved, fear of other students picking on them or judging them because they need to see a guidance counselor,and a belief that an adult couldn't possibly know what they are going through because adults didn't grow up in an age where most people use social media which tends to set standards that few can actually achieve.The Facial Action Coding System would allow counselors to be notified of students that are feeling upset so that they can try and help these students in need.Have you ever felt like your life wasn't worth anything because their were so many people that were better than you? Well this is a mentality that many high school students have so instead of getting help they just allow themselves to stay unhappy because the don't want to inconvenience someone who is actually worth something.
There has been a massive spike in student's shooting up school's and in most cases it is because the student felt that the school,or its students just watched as they suffered from sadness or other issues, but usually it is just that no one realized what they were going through.Teenagers have become good at hiding their true emotions from others because they try to live up to some stereotypical standard such as the stereotype that real men do not cry, or the stereotype that women only want tough guys so if you want a women then you need to be a jerk that seems to not care about her.Many women also suffer from these standards that they believe they need to live up to such as the false belief that all women should be thin,or the belief that they need to wear makeup to cover their face because if they don't then guys won't be attracted to them.The Facial Action Coding System would allow the counselors to be aware of when these pressures were sapping a student of their happiness,and try to help lift the weight presented by these pressures off of the student's back.If we can help these students that feel this way than we would have happier students which would decrease the violent trend of school shooting that is on the rise.
School is like a sport in that in the end everyone is working towards the same goal of keeping society going and flourishing, so by keeping the students happier you are benefitting society as a whole.Humans have a tendency to link happiness with productivity so in theory happier students lead to more productive students,and more productive students become more involved members in society.
depression is linked to many health issues such as paranoia which hinder people by making it hard for them to function in normal society.depression related health issues can also lead to drug abuse because students try to find a way to make themselves happy and there is a stigma that drugs will make you feel good so they try to use the substances as an escape from their life.drugs cause many students to put more effort into getting the next dose of the drug than they do on being sucessful in life.
If you have ever been to school than you would most likely notice that many students find school boring and unecessary,this method of thinking could be directed to a more positive one if school could be more tailored towards what the student thinks will be important or what they find interesting.The facial action coding system could help make this a reality for students as it could be used
to detect when a student is feeling bored or annoyed at the presented work and notify a teacher. This would allow the teacher to try and help the frustrated student, because many times students may not understand something but don't want to ask about it for fear that they may get ridiculed by the teacher or other students.
Many students could benefit from the Facial Action Coding System by
allowing staff memebers to help them when they need it but are to scared to get help.This software would increase safety for students as well as allow them a greater chance to learn.this is why I believe they should have the Facial Action Coding System in school's. | 4 |
World war II was the start of development centering cars but; in the recent years the popularity as well as the traffice has gone down because of limiting car usage which have lots of advantages. Limiting the use of cars advantages are less air pollution and new communities
Initially, less car usage means less carbon emissions which leads to less air pollution. For example, Elisabeth Rosenthal author of " The End of Car Culture" wrote "If the pattern persists and many sociologists believe it will it will have beneficial implications for carbon emmisions and the enviorment since transportation is the second largets source of America's emmisions...". Limiting the use of cars will have a really big benefit on the enviorment by stopping more emmisions from damaging the O-zone layer. For example in Bogota, Colombia they have a day called "Day Without Cars" and Carlos Arturo Plaza a businessman who lives ther says "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." from "Car-free day is spinning into big hit in Bogota" written by Andrew Selsky. People living there have seen the benefits of the limits on cars and thinks it's a really good thing for their cityand not even rain can stop people from participating says Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus.
Additionally, these limititations have created new communities by building places that are very easy to get to. For example, Elisabeth Rosenthal author of "In Germany Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" wrote "In this new approach, stores are placed a walk away on a main street, Rather than in malls along some distant highway." With the new approach of limithing car usage things are built closer making many things accessible to everyone. For example, Andrew Selsky the author of "Car-free day is spinning into big hit in Bogota" wrote "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions dramatically cut traffic; and new restraunts and upscale shopping districts have cropped up.". With the changes of accessibility buissness owners have to come where the money is making everything more accessible and creating new things in the area. Building things closer attracts more people which means more homes being built and more families enoying the community.
Clearly, the advantages of limiting car usage is amazing because it means less air pollution and new communities. Limitations on car usage will benefit us and the world. | 3 |
Cars with automatic driving, can you believe it? I personally believe driverless cars will be unsafe and unnecessary. There is no reason that we can't drive ourselves.
While the car drives itself, people still need to be aware of the things sorrounding them in case of an accident. Roadblocks are detected making the human take over on controls. If the person were to not pay attention, what could be the outcome? Wrecks, fatalities, and problems. Say that the person who is in the car pays no attention to the road. Instead he/she is playing on their phone. That causes danger to everyone else around. There is no way to monitor these people without invading privacy. Also, laws would need to change in order for these new drivers. Making things harder to adapt to. Not driving most of the time would take away the natural ability to drive.
There are some upsides to this invention. These new cars take half less gas than a normal taxi, saving money. As stated in the text "the cars he foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis." "It would also offer more flexibility than a bus" states the text. Get this, you would not have to pay for a car. There could be a public-transport taxi system that is cheap and affective.
In all, these cars could cause a major problem. At the moment there is more evidence against the cars than for them. It's cold hard facts. These should not be used, we should continue to navigate manually. | 1 |
Drivers should be in control at all times. Driverless cars are very expensive, there still needs to be a driver in the driverless car, and most importantly pedestrians and passengers know saftey is best achieved when there is an alert driver. Cars should be controled by people, not on its own.
Expenses to buy sensors and radar are at a high. In the text Sebastian Thrun says, " 'The sensors weren't there, the computers weren't there, and the mapping wasn't there. Radar was a device on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars. Its wasn't something you could by at Radio Shack.' " This evidence from the text explains how the cost is a major issue in the driverless cars.
Driverless cars might still need assistance. The text states, "Why would anyone want a diverless car that still needs a driver?" This evidence from the text proves that that is an issue. A car is not technically "driverless" if it still needs a driver keeping alert of surroundings.
There are laws placed for a reason on all drivers. The text states, "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and law makers know that saftey is best achieved with alert drivers. Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has human driver in control at all times." This evidence from the text proves that having these driverless cars can possibly cause conflict with the law. The text also proves that a driver is more alert of their surroundings as well.
Although it is more safe to NOT have driverless cars they also can help us. If the society were to use this type of car it can also notify the driver. According to the text, "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are design to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents. This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." This evidence from the text clarifies that the driverless car is not completely "driverless" and still requires the drivers attention.
In conclusion, there are more reasons to not get the driverless car. The car would require a pretty penny, the car still needs a driver, and driving law could possibly be broken. The roads would be much safer with a driver behind the wheel, not a system of its own. | 3 |
Facial Action Coding System is a form of technology that people are using to be able to tell how some ones feeling by using a computer to constructa 3d model of the face and study all the muscles in the model to see what you are feeling. i just going say it this just sound like a waste of time and money.
it a waste of time because i think we could be able to do more thing then finding out people emoitions instead we could have be able to help out people with cte of any other major pshycologic disies instead its just focussing ono emotion and yes i understand emotions can help us diagnos people with those issues but all i hear i this passage is about emotions nothing else . this is also a huge waste of money,why the technology being used sound like its cost a bunch of money to produce. | 1 |
"The Face on Mars". Many pepole think that its more than what it is. They think that we're hiding something. That maybe what we found was something that we didn't want you to know. However, I can assure you that if their was anything going on in the solar system, that we would tell you because, well thats our job. Our job is to analyze the solar system and keep the public informed on anything that is happening outside of earth that normal citizens couldn't see for themselves. If their was life or anything else on the moon of Mars we would have seen it by now. Also, we would benefit from their being something special about the moon of Mars. Another thing believe it or not we wouldn't keep something that could change the way that we live to ourselves.
We would have seen something extrodinary by now. The picture that was taken in April of 2001 would have shown you anything else that sat nearby "The Face". Also in an earlier picture they determined that the mouth, nose, and eyes on "The Face" were shadows. They were not built into a structure the way that they would have been if indeed the structure was built by other forms of life. This also just popped up, if say someone or somethign did build it then it would have progressed. It wouldn't have just came to in one of our pictures. However, if say an asteroid had hit the planet, then it could have caused the same thing that had happened here.
On another note, anyone that knows anything about NASA knows that we get funding from the government. When we get funded from the government obviously they need people to check things out. The people that check things out are obviously going to get paid because that is their job. So if we're going to get paid more and more money to try to find life on the moon of mars then why wouldn't we want their to be life on the moon. The funding that NASA gets isn't little. Some people would have the oppertunity to make allot of money. It would also give NASA a chance to get people interested in what they do for a living.
The whole point of our jobs is to go to school to learn how to see things that happen in space beyond what we already know. We want to help and make a difference and keep people informed on what else is out there. So if we found something again we would want you all to know about it because we could teach you something. So many people think that our job is stupid and useless because all we do is stare at the stars. This would be a good way to show everyone that what we do is real. We really do see things that the rest of the world didn't know about. Most kids don't want to be an astronomer anymore they want to be doctors or lawyers. So showing them that what we do is important would be a good thing for the kids. We alll want whats good for the kids so why wouldn't we tell them?
Life on the moon of Mars. It sounds plausable. It sounds amazing. So many good things could come from the fact that there is life on mars that it is unreal. However I can assure you that there is nothing there. "The Face on Mars", it's just a natural land formation that we took a picture of over the years. Nothing more , nothing less. | 3 |
People can prove from the article that this "face" in mars was only a natural landform. We've been told that Earth and Mars used to be a like in many ways, like size, and also the fact that Mars used to have water. With that being said this means that probably both Earth and Mars can form mesas on thier planets. The way that the probes found it was a surprise, it was looking for its other Viking 2. The mission controllers were indeed surprised but wanted to look at it a little closer just to see what it was exactly. They found out that it wasn't a human or alien but a landform, that was made naturally.
After releasing the photo everyone came up with thier suspicions, which many disagree aren't true. The landform itself was about 2 miles or longer, after that being said it was and should've been clear it wasn't a mythical creature. NASA had only did this research for many peoples questions, it would pay off taxpayers. Telling from the pictures the "face" in the 1976 photo, agree does like like a face but over time in 2001 this face seemed to flaten. Also if if were a face, it would be late to actually go Mars and observe because it would've already faded or deformed. Judging by what's left of the evidence that is found by that time will not be able to prove if it was an ailen or not.
In conclusion, i think these people can be proven wrongly. One of the scientists said that in fact it was hard to keep taking the same pictures but in a better view. It was hard, because they didn't pass over it very often. It's a waste of energy for the probe and money for the company to keep sending it, just so people can make other assumptions and theories that are irrelevent. | 2 |
Venus and the Earth the differentes is the Earth is more bigger then Venus the nickname is Evening Star and the samalier is they both are floating onthe air.
Venus and the Earth
the different is Earth is more bigger. The Earth is different because living can live in Earth. I also think that they both are grate in their time. The different is Venus is small and shiny the can help the Earth to bright at night. They are beautiful too mose of girls like it. Also the Earth have oxygen to breath but the Venus does not because it live on the sky.
the samalier Venus and Earth they both float on the air. Also they
oth are useful. They both grate at their place the Venus is good for night time it gave light the Earth is good for living thing and people. They both have grateness.
The Venus sometime come around the corner in space. Onetime the cloud - draped world it's take few hours. This explain that the spaceship touch down on Venus more then three time. This explain that the spaceship are real.
I don't understand some of it so
I am just going to right another makeup story okay.
I thinks People loke Earth more because they can live in there and they have the best oxygen in the Earth. Venus is too small for the living thing the Earth is the grate place for them. So they will chose the Earth if tell them to pick one to live. | 0 |
I think the use of this technology is valuable for games or computers or cameras because people can already kinda notice how other people emotions are by how there body movement are and how the tone in there voice is or the looks on there face. I think this technology would be helpful becasue on video games you can see the emotions of the characters on the game or the emotions of a person in a picture. Like It said in the article below the picture she's 83% happy, 9% disgusted and 6% fearful and 2% angry, that's what the new technology recgonized. Using video imagery the new emotion- recognition software tracks these facial movements. The new software can even identify mixed emotions to. His new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code. In the article says Dr. Huang predicts then it could modify the lesson like an effective human insturctor; The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive for video games or video surgery. Dr. Huang also notes that most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication so computers need to under stand that too. | 1 |
In the story "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author likes to talk about how important Venus is and how dangerous it is. The auother starts the story by giving us some points about Venus, on how it is known by the "Evening Star" and it is the second closest planet to the sun. A little further in the story the auother gives us an idea how dangerous it is, one point being how thick the atmosphere is in Venus. But then giving us information on why this planet is imporatant, by telling the readers that this is the most Earth-like planet. Then giving us another example of how dangerous it is to even be close to the planet.
One of the first points the auother made was on how thick the amotsphere is. As this being one of the first points that they said it must be one of the most important things to know, on why it is dangerous to here even land there. The auother goes on getting more into detail about how thick the atmophere is and "almost 97 percent" is carbon dioxide, and then explaing to the reader that the atmospheric pessure is "90 time greter than what we experience on our own planet". These conditions are no match for a human as it can "crush even a submarine," thus showing how bad the conditions are for any human. In this topic the auother does very good on his explantions giving the reader information on how bad the atmosphere is, and giving good examples.
Further into the story the author goes into why the planet Venus is so important. Not saying this right away but as you go on to read paragraph 4 the auother brings up on that Venus is the "most Earth-like planet". The auother estimates that Venus had life like things with large oceans and "supported various forms of life". Venus still has some Earth features such as "valleys, mountrains,and craters". The auother does not go into this as much but still gave good examples and enough informatuion.
Keeping our distance from Venus is very important. This point kind of brings us back to the atmosphere being so dangerous. the auother goes in om talking about how we have ti keep our distance because of the ground condtions. But hovering the planet limit "insight on ground condtions," because of the dense atmosphere. This will not stop us from trying to get closer to the planet, as many researchers are " working on innvations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledgeof Venus. The auother did enough infortmation and was good enough for readers to picture how bad the condtions were but there
is still an up side to it.
Bringing all the points together. The auother making good statements, readers might say we should risk the condtions. If the auother is very right with these points, readers will say we should risk the condtions and go for a new life. As we sit here and waste this beautiful planet we could be trying to have a new life in new condtions. | 3 |
Driverless cars is a bad idea I disagree on this idea. I think driverless cars is a bad idea becuase its unsafe I fell like its going to be more recks. Driverless car would not fundamentally change the world. Televinson and movies have long been facinated with cars that could drive themselves but, not all movies all real.
Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers. Traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer driven cars. If the technologly fails and someone is injured, who is at fault the driver or the manufacturer? I think it is the manufacturer fault becuase that what the people are going to blaim it on they giong they didnt have full control of the car but, if they had full control of the car it be a differnt story.
Another reason why I think its a bad idea becuase if your are going to make driverless cars why are they not compelety driverless? Driverless car on movies look nice so that mean driveless cars are going to cost more and some people cant afford it. I also think it a bad idea becuase some kid like to play in their moms or dads cars an what if they push button they didnt know of in the car starts taking off and the kid get hurts that wont happen with a normal car thats why i think driver cars are bad. | 1 |
On May 24, 2001, a NASA Viking 1 spacecraft had saw a landform on Mars that had happened to look like a human face. The spacecraft had taken pictures of this landform and show the world a few days later in order to attract people to Mars. Some people, like conspiracy theorists, say that it's evidence of alien life that NASA has hidden from the public, but if this had been something NASA was hiding, they wouldn't have show that photo at all to the public. Scientists and astronaunts have denied this by adding titles that suggest otherwise on there photos, showing the photo in the first place, and going back up to space to take more pictures.
According to paragraphs 1 though 5, NASA had found a landforn that resembled a human face of an Egyptian Pharaoh located on a region called Cydonia. Mission control was surprised to see the face, but believed it was just another Martian mesa with unusual shadows, so they decided to reveal the pictures to the media, knowing there wasn't anything "top secret" or alien like about it. Then, according to paragraph 5, NASA had captioned the image, "huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth," basically telling the public that it was just a quirky looking natural landform, not a big alien conspiracy theory. People defending the NASA budget even claimed they wished there was an ancient civilization on Mars, basically meaning there wasn't life that they knew of. Finally, in paragraph 7, another NASA spacecraft went over Cydonia on APril 5, 1998 and took better, sharper pictures, showing that it was just a natural landform that didn't have a civilization in it.
In conlusion, NASA was not trying to hide a whole big alien civilization theory from the world. They had just saw a cool natural landform with weird shadows that made it look like a human face and decided to share it with the world. If there was a conspiracy, NASA wouldn't have showed the picture to the world, added a title stating that it was an artifact, or have willingly went back up to space to take another picture of the landform. Therefore, NASA is not hiding any ancient alien civilizations from the United States, or any other part of the world. | 3 |
In the article of the "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author states how sicentist can tell if you're happy, sad, mad. I think we should use this device in classrooms and all around the world. If we used this in classrooms it would make teaching way easier. Wouldn't it be neat if we didn't have to tell people how we feel just think about it. But then again it may turn out bad cause we could lose so many jobs. Cause if we have a robot to see if we are sad or not we wouldn't need to tell people how we feel like counclers or doctors. Now if we did use facs it would help people way more to be honest but then again it may not what if it reads your emotions wrong and get sad mixed up with mad that could go really bad. It could also save expensices with the computer you dont need breaks it will always be there to read your emotions. One way computers could mess up what it dignaoses the wrong medicine to someone for being sad then it could possible kill that person or maybe it will make. But then it again it could prescribe the best medicine to you. In conclusion it would be best if we used computers in classrooms. | 1 |
Is using technology to find out how someone is feeling by scanning there face a good idea or a waste of time? In this article the author explains how a couple of people from a university created a program to identify how someone is feeling. Some people might disagree on how these students are using technology to find out how someone is honestly feeling. I think this idea of using this program is a good idea for many diffrent situations.
In the article the author explains how student at a few university's have been developing a program to show how someone is feeling. Student's from the University of Illinois, University of Amsterdam, and Dr. Huang and his colleague's are all apart of creating this program. The article describes how the students created this program and how they tested it on the Mona Lisa. This is a good idea because this program could help a lot of people in there everyday life. This program could help out with people who might have dangerous jobs were people could hurt them badly. This program could also help people who love art get more information from painting they love, becaue they might see a painting and not know what the artiste was trying to say.
This article on how these men and women created a progam that could be useful could inspire others to created somthing they want. It might inspire others to get into science or programming. It could also inform someone who might be intrested in the product that it is developing and could become useful in a lot of ways. | 1 |
It could not be made by aliens because Mars can make land forms such as a face or something. If you look at these three images you will notice over the years we have been able to unblur this image and it shows there is no face on Mars.
We have snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, reaveling. . .a natrual landform.
As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image three times bigger than the pixel size, so if there were objects in the picture like airplanes on the ground of Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks,you could see what they were.
What the picture actual shows is the Matrian equivalent of a butte or mesa- landforms common around the American West. New high-resolution images and 3D altimentry from NASA's Mars Global Survey spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: A messa. l | 1 |
"Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore"? As said in the being of "Driverless Cars Are Coming" the question is simple. I can say without a doubt that I can invision diverless cares in the future. Although I can hope for sooner rather than later that is one aspect I can not yet answer.
As I have already stated in the previous paragraph that I can invision this future, but I also support this future. The era of perfectly calculating autonomous cars would be an era of complete safety on roads. The driverless cars not being subjected to human errors would not make the foolish mistakes that a human might make in situations like slick roads, alcoholic influence, and peer preasure. The only flaw with autonomous car that I can visualize is the possible glitches in it's programing that could be prevented with annual mantainance. As said in the article "The cars he foresees would use half the fuel of todays taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus" Although I do not see a public transport system being the only use of these cars I can agree with the amount of options and the decrease of polution put into our daily life styles.
In the end I fully agree with the use of driverless cars no matter what the primary use is for. With only minimum tolerance for errors in todays technology I do not see the likelyhood of an accident due to the fualt of the car. Although, as the article states, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault". I refute this statement just as the article did it's self by saying "Automakers are continuing their work on the assumption that the problems ahead will be solved". | 2 |
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despit the dangers it despites. Through the story it shows it is a worthy pursuit but dangerous because Venus is most like ours in many ways, the structure is set up just about the same way, and going past the dangers they have the great technology to help themthrough it.
The pursuit of this mission is worthy because the planet is mostly like ours. The two planets Venus and Earth are called "sister planets" (paragraph4). These planets are most alike becasuse Venus once had rocky surfaces, mountains, valleys, oceans and more. for example in paragraph 4 it says " Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could havd supported various forms of life." This proves that even though there witll be some slight dangers it is still a worthy pursuit knowing it is our sister planet and is structually the same as ours or was once before. Knowing the similarities with Venus and Earth can take a step back with some of the dangers yet make it very fascinating to take a visit to see Venus
Venus and alot of actions in the world will always have there dangers. In venus and studying Venus can be cautious at the sam etime becuause the tempretures are slightly higher than what Earth gets. It states in paragraph 6 "temps. would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. " Yes there are dangers with temperature and weather on Venus but there are more advantages to it than the negatives.
Last advantage that NASA could use to study and collect data from Venus is the technology we have these days. They have mechanical computers, gears and levers to help them and shocking devices. It says " The thought of computers existing in those days may sound shocking, but these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all." There are so mnay advantages to this study. Looking at the objects they have and the resources they have to study and get informtion on Venus makes it all out more interesting on them to study Venus and make a visit like the people have talked about through the story.
Although there are many disadvantages and some negatives if you look at the positives and look at the similarities it is a worthy pursuit because it is most like earth in many ways, they have better techology uses these days, but yet some dangers to it. | 2 |
Venus could have been just like earth a long time ago with life on it, but it has changed and is now to hot for humans or anthing to be on the planet. In the text it says," Long ago , Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth."
In many ways venus is just like Earth becuase it has all these features just like Earth. The only thing different now is that the planet is alot hotter and has acid.
The planet Venus is alot like earth because it has rocky features and it used to have oceans, it just so hot more then 170 degrees Fahrenheit. The text in the artical says," The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as vallys, mountains, and craters." Which in terms is just like another Earth. Venus has changed and became very different from Earth over the years, but it is still the closet planet in our solar system of being like Earth.
Venus is a hot planet. yes, it isnt as close to the earth as other planet but it is still a very hot one, hotter then some of the planets that are close to the sun. Even high above the surface of Venus the temptures are crazy high. The text says," At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatues would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth."
The pressure on Venus is so high that if someone would put a submarine onto it, it could get crushed. That could be on of the reasons that NASA has not sent any human subject to Venus.
Going to Venus, NASA has sent probes and robots to Venus. But never any human subjects. Why? Well the pressure on Venus is way to high and would probably crush any human if they did not have the right gear on. It is also very hot way hotter then tempures you see here on earth. Which in case would be miserable for many human to bare on another planet.
At the end of the day human kind still wants to go to Venus and it coming up with ways too. In the text it says," Striving to meet the challenges 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 many equally intimidating endeavors." the people thing that will get to Venus one day, it may not be today or tomorrow. But techinally changes every day and ti would be in the near future that onday a human will step foot onto Venus. No one should have doubt of going somewhere becuase of the dangers or the doubts of getting there, but should be thriving off the idea and imagination of what is out there, and what could be held for man kind.
"Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to mrrt the very edges of imagination and innovation." | 2 |
In 1976, NASA was taking pictures of Mars and found what looked like a human face looking at them. When the news got to the public they emediatly jumped to the conclution that it was an alian artifact. I can reasure you that it is nothing more than a natural landform that looks like a face.
When NASA went back to retake pictures on April 5,1998, it showed that there was nothing at all but a nautral landform. The public still were not agreeing on it just being a landform due to them taking the pictures on a cloudy winter day. So the NASA team took pictures yet again on April 8, 2001. This time a cloudless summer day.
Garvin, a NASA worker, says,"If there were objects in this picture like airplains on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" The 2001 pictures showed the "Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa."
So I rest my case. Even though an alian civilization on Mars is a really awesome thought, its proven to be not true. The face on Mars is no alian arifact, but just a really cool natural landform that looks lilke a face. | 2 |
venus is a worthy pursuit because there are many things that could be on there and many other thnigd that we have yet to explore.
Like the author says in the article 'venus is a challenging planet to explore". we could explore the planet in many other ways that would work. nasa has a idea about having the blimp about 30 milesabove the surface which would help the studying of the planet venus and help promote exploration and pioneering of the planet. Also the planet venus is much like earth othe than the high levels of carbon dioxide and tempertures, but us humans have many methods as the author says summerized which would help humans survive on t he planet and possiblt becom habitably. more information to support the other is that we havent sent any probe or anyting to venus in 50 years and now in the age that we are living in now we have significance amout of better and highl advanced technology and computers that could help with this motive.
The author has many claims to help pursuade humans to explore mars and he or she does a very well job of doing it. BUt therefore humans must go to venus ans the author claims it would help people and all of the people | 2 |
The usage of cars around the whole world has been the main reason why the earth is facing with air pollution problems and day by day our ozone layer is breaking. To solve this problem we can limit the usage of cars or any type of moving vehicle that can harm us and use other efficient ways to get to places.
There have been places in this world where they have started to move to make a difference in the earth. For example in source one "Vauban's streets are completely "car-free" except the main thoroughfare, where the tram to downtown Freiburg runs..." in Vauban, Germany there are alot of suburban communities who have giving up using cars or have sold their cars to make their houses where they live. Not only have they be making car free streets but also have taken out parking spaces so that people can reduce the usage of cars. This change can be either economicaly better for everyone but can also be useful for people to start thinking to go outside more. In Bogota, Colombia they have created a program that is set to spread to all the Colombians to hike, bike, skate and also take the bus to their jobs, it is a car-free day like stated in this statement from source 3 "It was the third straight year cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the Day Without Cars in this capital city of 7 million. The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Violators faced $25 fines." This improvement campaign began in the mid-1990s.
In other countires like in source two "after days or near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial ban to clear the air of the global city" this was due to the large amount of smog that cars give out to the layers of air. The citizens of Paris would also have to pay a fine. Source two also states that "Paris typically has more smog than other European capitlas... [last] week Paris had 147 micrograms of particular matter (PM) per cubic mater compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in London, Reuters found." this is the reason why Paris has started to make a change. They are many other solutions to changing the cars we us today to others like electrical cars where you only have to charge them and you can use them it would not harm our ecosystem in any way. Driving a car not only affects our earth but can be very stressful for the driver because he or she would have to face in their every day life traffic jams, but looking for other ways to get to your destination would separate you from having to go through that everyday.
One of the biggest produces of this problem is the United States of the America where all of the cars we know have been created and is also one the most more advanced countries. In source four is states that "President Obamas's ambitious goals to curb the United States greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled las week, will get a fortuitous assist from an incipient shift in American behavior: recent studies suugest that Americans are buying fewer cars, drivinf less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." as hard as this sounds if we dont get to moving we will soon die little by little. We also lower down the percentage of car accidents if we reduce the usage of cars, the level of mortality would not decrease so fast.
In conclusion, you have learned that driving a car is very harmful for the planet and if we dont start making a change our earth would be more polluted then how it is now. Start making a change and think smart. | 2 |
Many people agree in abolishing the Electoral College. Electoral Collage caused a dispute in the year 2000. The Electoral College is a irrational system and it should be banned.
Certainly the Electoral College has some benefits. In the passage "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our sidpised method of choosing the President" by Richard A. Posner the author states that the Electoral College "avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recieves a majority of votes cast." With the Electoral College there is no issue of a candidate getting the most votes, so there wont have to be any run-off elections. Run-off elections complicated the election process. Posner asserts that the "winning candidate's share of the Electoral College invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote." It is because of this that the possibility of an argument over the outcome of an Electoral College is lesser then an argument over the popular vote. Although this is true, the people should have the say on who their president will be. The Electoral College is a broken voting system that causes confusion and dispute. Therefore, the Electoral College should not be used as a way of voting for America's President.
A key issue is that the candidate with the most popular vote does not have the certainty of winning. This is a problem because America can not have the leader she wants and deserves. Bradford Plumer from the article "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" argues that the Electoral College causes " the popular vote winner could again lose the presidency." If the people can not chose who they want as their leader then where is their freedom? Plumer also states that the voters can not always "control whom their electors vote for," We dont get to chose who the electors are voting for. This way the value of the people's opinion is being diminished into nothing. The resonable solution to this problem is to just end the Electoral College imidiatly.
Another factor is that the electors have to much power over the election. Palmer writes "that the electors could always defy the will of the people," The electors are the only people who have decent amount of power to chose a president. The people should have that kind of power. The author asserts that the electors " have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please," The electors are able to just change their mind when wver they like. The popular vote must decide on who should win. The future of america should depend only on the will of the people. The people has to finally stand up and fight for their right to chose their own President.
In final consideration, the Electoral College is unfair to the American people. We should have freedom to chose whom our country's leader should be. The popular vote should stay and the Electoral College should be banned once and for all. | 4 |
To begin, I feel like the Facial Action Coding System would start a big argument if it should be used or not. Most people are going to question the the software. For example, What if a student didn't want everyone to know thier emotions? Also, Isn't that kind of invation of privacy? But i can see the positive side of the new software to.
First of all, the new software "Facial Action Coding System", has a lot of positive sides about it. In paragraph six it says, "A classroom computer recognizes when a student is becoming confused or bored." This will modify the lesson it the computer reads that the student is confused or bored. Also, If the new system reads student emotions this could stop a lot of school shootings. Furthermore, If the new software doesn't recognize the student or person it could send an alert to the office and other classroom so the could lock their doors an hide.
Secondly, there are some negitives about the system. For example, in paragraph six it says, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication." This shows that the computer needs to understand that too. Also, Isn't the new software kind of invading your privacy? Because, What if you don't want anyone to know your emotions? Is this really going to help students learn or lose human emotions?
All in all, I personally think the new software should be used only in schools for the students, teachers, and staffs around the world. If this system can recognize students and teachers then doing the attendance should be quick. This new software could save students lives and stop school shooting. Do you want your childrens lives safer at school than a dead zone of kids? | 2 |
There is a deabate wether Electoral College should or shouldn't be alowed. I thing we should keep it because this everyones right to vote. alos it is in the constition.
Electoral Colleges should be abole to vote because it can sway votes "Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters". This quote shows that it can sway the voters because they voted for them and theay vote for that person to be the next president.
The bad thing about Electoral Colleges is if there a run-off election "The presidentail election process, is reduced by the Electoral College, which invariably produces a clear winner...." I took it as the Electoral Colleges is the ones to chose the out come of it so why do we vote then if they chose at the end of all of it.
the last reason Electoral College should be abole to vote is that they dont have all the controle "A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible-it haqppened in 2000- but it's less likely than a dispute over the popular vote". This shows that the people can also way the vote the way they want it to go if there is a larg amount of you that agree.
These are the reasons I thing Electoral College people should be abole to vote. everyone should be abole to vote because it is everyones freedom to vote for what they want. | 1 |
Driverless cars, is this in our future? Driverless cars have become a growing topic in the past years. Recently, more information has become visible to the general public. Are these cars a good idea? I believe driverless cars are not needed in the near future. Development of these cars is an unneeded advancement in technology. Driverless cars, as of the technology we are now given, are not as reliable as an independent driver, they invade your privacy, and it would take more money to install technology in roads to be able to make use of these cars. Driving is a symbol of independence, in the sense that you are given the responsibilty and freedom to go virtually any location you please by driving yourself there.
Self driving is a commonly used way of transportation amongst many individuals. Driving is a way of transporting ones self from point A to Point B. When most individuals are driving, the average spped exceeds 25 mph. Driverless cars are only reliable for simple driving functions up to 25 mph. "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. In fact, none of the cars are completely driverless." If driverless cars were to become a prominent part of every driver's life, would it be very practical? In the article, the author states what the cars are capable of, even with the driverless technology, the car will never be fully independent. The car is not completley driverless, this will be an unneccassary advancement until manufacturers create a truly driverless vehicle. So, using these new cars may be seemingly pointless, as the driver will still need to be paying attention and the car has sensors to make sure the driver is paying attention. This leads me to my next point, is a driverless car worth giving up your privacy?
Driverless cars not only have sensors on the wheels to make sure you are paying attention, they have cameras on your dashboard to ensure you are paying attention. "Manufacturers are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver." While some people may argue this is for the safety of the driver, there is no valid reasoning that there should be a manufacturer watching your every move to ensure you are paying attention on the road. Cars that have been driven that are not driverless have been doing, overall, well. While drivers are able to pay attention to the road regularly, having a camera creates an unwanted pressure to the driver. Adding the pressure of knowing you are constantly being watched as a driver can raise your stress levels, resulting in frustrated driving. Frustrated driving is an unsafe form of drivng, where as driving while relaxed and unwatched, relieves the pressure of knowing you are not the only person in the car. In addition, in the current days and in the past, has there ever been a need for manufacturers to put a camera in your dashboard to make sure you are driving safely? The answer to that question is no. Drivers, while not being watched, are expected to follow the laws and pay attention. Using cameras in the car and invading the privacy of the driver is an unneccasary addition, as there will only be use for the driverless portion of the car for up to 25 mph; therefore there is no further reasoning to begin developing these new vehicles.
If driverless cars are only useful for up to 25 mph, is there really any practical use for them? If driverless cars become the new form of transportation, there will be money involved that a lot of people do not have. Having smart cars requires smart-roads, ones that can communicate with the car to ensure the safest possible driving experience. "These smart-road systems worked surprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical." When manufacturers create these smart roads complementary to their smart cars, who will be paying for them? The most likely answer is a raise in already inflated car prices. When the smart-roads are installed, hypothetically speaking, will the road be smart enough to communicate with all different manufacturers types of cars? Will they allow regular cars to drive on them? How long will the instillation take and will it be on every road? These are all things that require time and money. Manufacturers see the big picture of driverless cars running the roads, but that simply can not be the case, given all of the obstacles needing to be overcome and all of the questions that require answers. With all of the money it will require to run cars that are still dependent on drivers, will there be any valid reasoning to spend all of this money on new roads and new car development?
With all of the advancements in technology, there should be a threshold to the items consumers want versus what they need. Manufacturers should not be trying to create new technology, but improving what they already have created. Using driverless cars, still require a driver to pay attention and take control after a certain point, invade your privacy by watching you with a camera, and require more money to create the new road systems and create new cars. In conclusion, I believe there is no practical reasoning that these cars should be further developed. | 5 |
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As you read my story i hope now you want to be a seagoing cowboy because you will get to help and fell like your being loved for doing something good. | 1 |
Are driverless cars simply good or bad? You could argue either way, driverless cars are improving every year, but they are also cautious because its up to you to put your life on the line by letting the car drive you around. Driverless cars are not aproved in alot of states, simply because other states dont know whether to trust theses cars with traffic laws and etc. These cars are trying to be proven that can could make you driving experience easier and more safe.
I believe this cars need more improvment, they seem to be very good technology but I wouldnt trust theses cars. Traffic laws are also stopping driverless cars, it states that, "traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." I truely based on my knowledge absolutely believe this satement. There is no need to have technology control your car, because technology will always have some kind of flaw with it. If the car cant completely drive through any kind of circumstances then I wouldnt trust it.
"In most states it is illegal even to test computer driven cars." If i have no evidence that these cars could drive through traffic then I would also prevent theses cars in my society as well. Not only because i havent seen them in traffic but also because i have some kind of fear in these cars, such as accidents, reckless driving by the car, and also any kind of technical difficulties that could cause the car to mess up in traffic jams. There has been accidents by regular human beings but there could even be more with driverless cars, "who knows?" we wouldnt know until we have some type of prove that they can do just as fine as humans on the road.
These cars cant be trusted at this moment in time. "Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themsleves by 2020." Until then I wouldnt allow them on streets. If you had an accident, "whos fault is it, the driver or the manufacturer?" You have to create all these new laws for just one type of car. Its going to take some time, but for now you have to just keep on improving them until you have an argument theat theses cars should be allowed. Also you have to have some type of evidence that these cars could be really good drivers on the road.
"Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver?" Eventually drivers could possibly get bored and decide to drive on their own. These cars could also bring to mind, "A waste of money". In the article it says "We have to interpret the driving fun in a new way."This is absolutely correct, you have to have some type of way to keep the passengers alerted and also interactive in the car.
For me, I just would want to see how this car could last more in future. I want to see manufacturers bring in car entertainment and information systaems that use heads-up displays. I would also want to see more evidence on how these cars could drive in traffic, and expand in more states. Most important thing to improve is simply the safety of the cars. All of this information would have to improve for me to trust these cars. Would you trust these semi-autonomous cars? | 3 |
intro this story is about people making a robot and how it could be used today in the world like in classes this robot could tell how you are felling and it could make you happy if your sad the robot has 6 emotions nad it has muchels.
1. I think people that are makiung these robots are good because sometime you cant tell what a person is thinking or felling and when you are in the class with studnts sometimes you cant tell whats wrong with the students so i think that is a good that thaat they are doing this because once you can see what the student is felling you could help them out.
2:the monalisa smile is going to have diffrent things like they are going to people just like a human they will have facial expressons they will have muschels like we do they can move there face and talk to you and they are going to be helping us out in the class room i think that is good because goning to the office and telling them whats wrong you can go to the robot and he can talk to you.
3:there is going to be a 3D print out of the robot of how you want it it could tell if you are bored and it could start making faces to make you happy and i think that is good because if you are not felling to well it could read your facial expressons and make you then you will be ok concluchionthis story is about robots going in schools and reading people facal expressons and how it is mad and what it could do to make someone that is sad happy i think that is good because some kids get bullied sum times and that robot could make you happy so you could not hurt your slef or anything or anyone. | 1 |
machine that reads smiles ,*sighs,''whats next"
in my opinon i do not think their should be a machine that could read my emotions ever i belive privacy is important and the will for someone to express their emotions to someone whom they may care about is sometimes sacred or personal varying on the person. technology that tracks the way our muscles move could be used for other puposes the machine can even track if were angry and how our lips tighten around our mouth ,this other ways we could use such as facial recongtion, best said himself " even though indiviuals showing varying degrees of expression" these could identify someones facial muscles even if they had face suregy or we could use this as machinery as facial reconstructions benifts .if its able to identify muscles of every unique person even famous art work like the mona lisa then this could have other benifts we could even look into the past to tell how historical figures were feeling in paintings or older photos. or we also could use to know animals emotions and how we can make an animal have a better day or stop animal related accidents from happening such as animal attacks. One good reason is if women could know if how we really felt about that dress the one they asked our opinons about then the trouble comes. often times emotions are the reflection of the human spirit emotions are things that leads rebilons agaimts broken systems or start movements,emotions are what gives us the extra inch for the push, emotions soemtimes give a door to grieve, our even hold our opinons , see we have feelings inside that no one should look threw in todays society alot of mans virutues once held have gone, emotions are something that is deep imside us that we can hold onto , humanity always wants to know even it breaks or passes the limit but , if emotions were able to show they could stop so much possibilties , imagine if slave masters knew their slaves emotions, or britian during the american revoultion knew, emotitons is how cover ourselves . | 1 |
Dear State Senator,
I'm aware that there are two ways of electing the president of the United States. According to Source 1 "What is the Electoral College?", the Electoral College is a process where electors get elected to vote for President and Vice President. The other option is popular vote. Popular vote is when the people vote, and which ever Candidate gets the most votes wins the election. I personally feel that you should not keep the Electoral College. In my opinion, election by popular vote is a better strategy of electing the President and Vice President of the United States. Electoral College is a horrible strategy, because voters are not actually voting for the President, they are voting for a slate of electors. There are other reasons why I believe that popular vote is a more accurate way of electing the President and Vice President of the United States.
Under the Electoral College system, voters don't actually get to vote for the President, and Vice President. According to Source 2 "What's wrong with the electoral college?", the voters vote for a slate of electors who will elect the President. It's possible that the voters may not even know much about the electors that will be electing the President. The electors can be anyone, it depends on what state you are in. According to Source 2 "What's wrong with the electoral college?", sometimes the electors may be elected by state conventions, the state party's central committee, or the presidential candidates themselves. Voters can't even control who their electors vote for sometimes. What if voters choose an elector, and the elector doesn't even vote for the President that the voter was hoping they will vote for? That seems unfair to me, because during this process, there's a chance that the voter may not even get to actually vote for the candidate that they wanted to vote for.
This is why I feel that popular vote is more accurate. Voters get to vote for the candidate that they want to win to be the President, and know that their vote will count. They don't have to worry about electing an elector that can possibly vote for a different candidate. So, may you please consider removing the Electoral College, and replacing it with popular vote?. I'm sure it will make many voters happy that their vote will actually count, and that they will not have to vote for an elector. | 2 |
That photo is not an alien. What photo am I talking about? The photo the NASA took of the "face"that is shown in a lot of places. In the arcticle its says,"The Face on Mars has since become a pop icon. It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk showseven haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years!" Lots of people believe it is an alien, but it is not. It is not an alien because it is just a natural land form, it is hard to target(because it never moves, small and blends in with all the rest of noraml mars), and people say it looks like a normal natural lava dome (and it does).
It is just a natural land from. It is only shaped like a face. There is nothing odd or strang about it besides the shaping. It just happened to look like a face. In the texts it says, " Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." This shows it had nothing to so with aliens, it was just a land form.
If it was a living thing, or used to be living shouldn't move around?Its not easy to target Cydonia, says Garvin. This shows it is one spot and small. It also proves it blends in like in other natural land form would do. If it was something special you would think it would be easier to find. If you don't look very closly you don't even see the face at all.
Not only is it natural land, but it is also reminds Garvin of a lava dome of Middle Butte in the Snake River of Idaho. "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, says Garvin. Thats a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars. This again proves if you ignore the fact that it looks like a face, it looks completely normal. It looks like a normal thing any planet would have, even earth.
Some may agrue it looks to much like a face to not be something like an alien. Even though it is funny how much it looks like face, there are too many facts proving it isn't anything different from everything else on the planet mars. It just happened to be the way it formed it looked like a face.
There are many things proving, this thing on Mars is not an alien or created by aliens. First, it is just like anyother land form, just a "werid" shaping. Second, it blends in, is small and doesn't move. (This makes it hard to target.) Finally, it reminds people of a lava dome, again showing it is just shaped weird to us. The face got the attention of the public for a while, like the text said,"The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars." But, everyone needs to let it go because it is nothing to talk about since we now know the truth. It was fun for a while, but if you still believe it more than a normal part of mar's natural land, you will look like a fool. I guess we will have to keep looking on other planents to find live or "aliens" because so far it is for sure not on mars! | 4 |
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As humans, our natural instinct is to look for ways of improvement. Driving is a big risk factor in our every day life, so finding ways to reduce the effects of life on the road is beneficial to all of us. If the driverless car means less accident occurance and more alertness, I am all for the driverless car. Although there are minor kinks to smooth out, that will come in due time.
Driverless cars propose many good situations. With the assistance of these cars, less accidents are likely to occur. Many young drivers text and drive, which leads to a lengthy number of accidents a year. With the driverless car, the driver can actually be alerted before they reach a road block or when something pops up unexpectedly. These cars can steer, brake, and accelerate all on their own. This would mean that if the driver were to get distracted and the unexpected happened, he or she would be able to have the chance to get their mind right and asses the problem.
Who wouldn't want to be able to reduce the chances of getting into an accident? When it comes to manual driving, if you look away for a second it could mean crashing into the car in front of you. It could mean backing into a hidden pole. These smart cars have many sensors and cameras that will ensure these things from happening. Google has test driven these cars 500,000 miles without a crash so far. Basically, driving with these cars would be more like performing a job with moderate supervision and an all around less stressful act. It is nerving driving on an interstate with thousands of cars flying around you. There are no room for mistakes. Having assistance wouldn't hurt.
Like any new technology that falls before us, there are always problems. So far, the driverless car is not able to navigate itself through accidents or work zones, but manufacturists are already working on solving those problems! Our technology has come such a long way. We only keep making improvements. Pretty soon, our cars will be driving us safely from one destination to the next.
Over all, driverless cars seem like a smart way to go. It's where we are heading. Things are improving everday. I know I would like to eliminate as many harmful things out of my life as possible, and these driverless cars would help so many problems that us new drivers will have to face everyday. Our eyes can only see and do so much. Having this car would make driving safer for everyone! | 3 |
Dear senator Im arguing in favor of keeping the Electoral collage. It has come to my attencion that people want to change it to election by popular vote for the president of U.S. I think that we should keep the Electoral College because it makes more sense and is easier for you guys to count the votes. It is more orginized by level of the voting people lie president, vice president ect.
The Electoral vote consists of 538 electors. The most votes that are needed for being elected for president are 270 votes. Each candidate running for president has his own group of electors. The are generally chisen by the candidate political party so is fare. So Im sure that you are going to consider this and read it because some people dont thhink about it. Some dont know how it works and vote for a new one because it sound better but is not.
I just want to make sure people are inform with. That they read this and tthink about it. This is only held every 4 years on the tuesday after the first monday of november. So you might not want to make a big mistake making this decision. People might think that this is not that big of a deal but it is. This very important for the president and the government. This only happens Every 4 year so you got to wait a long time.
I am very imform about this and making a change will only make thinks worse. People are not going to get use to doing another way or they are gonna get confuse with the old one. It going to be a caus if you change it. I just want to make thing better not worse. So you maybe want to consider this more and think about for days and analyist real good. Thank you for your time and hope you make a good decision. | 1 |
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This is a once in a lifetime experience to go around and help people and animals out at sea, you can easily save many lives. You could become well known for saving living creatures. Every so often you get to go out on a boat and rescue people and living things, You dont get to do that often at home. I thought it was a great opportunity to save these things.
Another good thing about joining is that you can have lots of fun with your friends or work buddies. This experience could change your life, like it did mine. "The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy" We all had time to have fun on the boat, we played baseball, volleyball, and many more games. We also played board and card games. | 1 |
Studying Venus can be a good thing to do, you will learn more about the planet and why it is our sister planet to us. You will have a lot of information and reasonings on why it's that planet or why is it close to the sun. The text gives you a lot of information about venus and why it is called that. As it states "long ago when venus was covered with nothing but the ocean", they could of had human life on that planet. You can study venus and maybe found out if there was any human life their besides the oceans that were their. You can be the one who goes to space and can take a look at venus and if it's safe you can probably visit the planet. I suggest that it is a good idea to study venus, you might have a chance to visit the planet venus. | 0 |
Dear Florida State Senator,
I do not believe that we should keep the Electoral College. I think that we should vote for presidents and have them win by popular vote. My reasons for aboloshing the Electoral college is that the president should win by popular vote of the citizens of the U.S., we shouldn't let electors be the reason the president wins, and we should have a direct voting system than the Electoral College system.
First, the president should win by popular votes from the citizens, not electors of the candidates. The people would vote directly so the president would win by popularity of people in the states. The presidential candidate has electors. So when one person votes it counts as the electors votes not theirs. I don't think that is fair.
Second, we should not let the electors be the reason our president wins. It states in the article "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" that the "faithless" electors have occasionally refused to vote for their own candidate. They decided to vote for whoever they please. Isn't their job supposed to be to vote for their parties candidate. How can we trust them?
Thirdly, I believe that we should have direct voting instead of the Electoral College. The reason why is because we can easily vote ourselves and actually realize that the president we chose was actually us, not the electors. It is nice to know that we made that decision and not remember that it was just the electors getting their votes from ours. It states in the article "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" that ove sixty percent of voters would prefer a direct election because some states know that the actual voting and winning comes from the states electors. The people would not even pay attention to the campaigns because they don't care anymore.
In conclusion, people would rather have direct voting than the Electoral College. Direct voting is easy and it makes us feel like we actually care. The Electoral College however, doesn't really pay attention to the campaigns either because they are basing their votes from ours. The Electoral College is unfair in many ways. I would rather have direct voting than the Electoral College. Sixty percent of the U.S. would agree with me. | 3 |
Do you belive in Aliens? There are lots of people that belive in Aliens but there are also lots of people that dont belive in aliens. There is not really facts or proof that aliens exsitst but there is not much proof or facts that can say there not real or where real. Im A sccientist at NASA and the Face on Mars in not really a face afterall. It is just a Land form.
25 years ago something funny happened around Mars. NASA's Vicking 1 space craft was sircling the planete snaping photos of possible landing sites of its siter ship Vicking 2, when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. An enormous head nearly two miles from end ot end seem to be stating back at the camers from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia.When you think of aliens you think of green figures with big heads and big eyes right? Well when you were thinking about big head were you two miles from end to end big? No proubly not. If there were aliens with heads that big I am pretty sure that we would have found one by now at at least seen one , or had some kind of eveidence.
Scienstis figured it was just another Martian mese , common enought around Cydonia , the only thing that made this one uncommon was the unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptiam Pharaoh. The shadows are not all going to be the same on/ by all of thease Martian mesa's. Some are going to be weird/Unusal. People schould expect that and not expect the first unusal shadows to be something this important. An Alien head. A few days later NASA unveilded the image for all to see. The caption noted a "Huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illustion of eyes , nose and mouth"
This face on Mars gave NASA a lot of attention. This idea of a face on mars ended up in Hollywood films , appreaed in books , magazines , radion talk shows and even haunted grocerty store checkout lines for 25 years. The face had become so pouplar there were proubly people out there trying to say/prove the head was actually a head and not a landform. That could of made lots of people belive that there is really a head. Some people think that Face is bona fide evidence of life on mars-evidence that NASA would rather hide says conspiary theroirtst. Meanwhile defneders of the NASA bugget wish there was an ancient civization on Mars. If there was a face on Mars why would NASA try to hide something that huge. That could get there space program more attention and prossibley more money even.
The "Face " had its picture taken 3 times with 3 diffrent cameras.Each time NASA took a picutre of the face the picture was more clear. The first picture was in 1976 , the secound picture was in1998 and the last and most recent picture was in 2001. In thease picutes you can almost see a face in the first picture taken in 1976. When NASA took a picture of the face in 1998 you can tell there is not really an entire face there. In 2001 NASA's photo is more clear than the other two and you can tell that there is not a face. It is just a landformation. Some people argure that in April '98 it was a cloudy time of year ont he Red Planet. The camera on Board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the face. Phehaps , said skeptics , aline markings were hidden by haze. Nevertheless , pn April 8, 2001 - a cloudless summer day in Cydonia- Mards Global Surveyor drew close enoguht for a secound look."We had to rool the spacecradter 25 degresseto center the Face in the deild of weird," Said garvin. "malin's team captured an extraordinary photot using the camers's absolute maximum resoultion.
What the picture actually
shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa- landforms common around the Amercian West. "Thats a lava dome that take the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars"If you still belive in aliens that is okay , if you dont that is also okay. But to belive that the "thing" in the picture was a face and not a landform is kinda bizar. You call tell in the 2001 picture that it is not a face after all if is just a landform. There was no alient mounmet after all. Yes there were clouds and we didnt have the best technlogy but now we have advanced tencholgy and we have pictures of the that are clear. (All of my evidence is in the article Unmaksing the Face on Mars." | 3 |
When thinking about technology in school, what comes to mind? To me, projectors, computers, and tablets. But soon, we may be getting something that too personal and shouldn't be used for education purposes. FACS (Facial Action Coding System) is a an algorithm that can recognize facial features of a human being.
Why wouldn't the emotinal expressions of a student be valuable? Well, it's too personal. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" Having a camera that can detect every one of your emotions while doing assainments on computers seems a little above and beyound, especially when you're just concentrating and maybe your facial features aren't really saying what your mind is.
"Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor" It only reads facial expressions, there's no information on why or what's making the student not enjoy whatever the student is doing, you dont know what going on in their head. Why have information only on the students expression when there's no reasoning behind it?
As I read more and more on the FACS, I continue to doubt it, it's too in your face about everything, and having something monitor you every day of school, which is already stressful mind you, just adds more into the mix. | 2 |
There are a lot of advantages of limiting car usage. Yes a lot of people use cars to get around, but there are other ways to get around. Limiting car usage would probably cause a lot of complaints, but I think once people started limiting how much they drove everyday, they wouldn't see the need as much.
In Paris, for example, they have banned driving due to smog. The story "Paris bans driving due to smog", Robert Duffer states that "Congestion was down 60 percent in the captial of France, after five-days of the smog." Only five days of banning drivers brought the smog rate down 60 percent, that's huge. To make it easier for the people of Paris to get around, they had public transit free of charge for those five days. If driving was banned for a while people woould find other ways to get around, and other people in the community would help them, like the transit bus giving free rides those five days.
Some people may argue that it's a free country and we shouldn't be limited to how much we're allowed to drive our cars. Yes it's a free country but limiting car usage is actually getting people to be active, instead of being lazy and driving everywhere you go. The United States has the highest percentage of obesity. With limiting how much you can use your car it will make people walk places, if they really have to go somewhere. Also riding a bike, or even riding a bus or train. However, unlike your own car, to get to the bus stop or train station, it will take some walking, which is good.
Also another advantage of limiting car usage would be all the things that would be fixed around our community. With people walking more, the community and city people would want to make our area look better while we walk. In the story "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" Andrew Selsky states, "..Pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up." With less driving and more walking to get to places, the community would fix our sidewalks and make more shopping centers and resraurants closer.
Limiting car usage will be hard to adjust to at first, but I think in the long run it's a win-win. It helps us get active and lower our stress from driving, and it helps our environment. | 3 |
I think that it's a Martian mesa. I think that its a just a bunch of rocks put together. If there was life there, it would probally be something else instead of the face. If there was life on mars we would have probably meet them by now and probaly do an invation. We would have found them by now if they was life. And the first picture was from a distence and could barily be seen.
Erosion probaly made it to the way it is, because on the top of Mars there is ice. The scientists took pictures over time as technology started to become for advanced. The human head was formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose and, mouth. And people couldnt even see what it really was. The sicentists can just discern thing ina a digitial image 3 time bigger than the pixel.
People can just take photos of the plantet Mars and check if there is? The Martian is the same as a butte or a mesa. They dont pass overr the Face not that often. JPL website puts the picture of the face and there was no alien monument after all. The caption when the NASA unveiled the image for all to see wasm," huge rock formation which resembles a human head". | 1 |
The 4 sources talked about the advantages of limiting car usage, but also the reaction of people and what they think about it, if they're for or against what the government made for a solution of car usage problems. We can see that the number of cities hwo cared about those environmental problems increased, and so they reacted by different methods.
We're living because of nature, without nature we can't live. People finally react because of the warnings of nature, for example: Smog in Paris, "despite gray clouds that dumped occasional rain showers on Bogota". They finally saw the problems that they caused. So that, Gorvernment found some solutions to have less smog, so they banned driving but none all of them will stop driving if they don't talk about money, so they made some fine (31$) if they don't leave their cars at home. As they expected, not all of the french people obeyed it because we all know that Paris is an extremly busy city that can't avoid of using cars even if they have to pay. But people have to see how the environment is really bad because of cars.
Limiting car usage is very important and it's mostly because of the environment, because the number of people using cars is increasing every year. The nature is now becoming scary because of us. Let's think about what will happen in the futur when you will have children, we're not even sure if they are going to live because all the damage that we committed to the environment, I'm sure one day the nature will take a revenge and it's just at that moment that we will realize that we made a horrible and big mistake.
Look how happy the germans hwo live in that city that don't have cars anymore... Or just a few but not that many cars. They are showing us that we can live without all those cars, and they said that it's "less stressful", and it's good for the body. They are different methods to avoid those cars, EVRETHING IS ACCESSIBLE EVEN IF WE DON'T HAVE CARS, their is a lot of ways to change places, like bycicles in New York, or you can walk, and there's even buses that can take more passengers than a simple car hwo is too big for just one person. It's world-wide now, the number of cities hwo reacts is increasing everywhere. Than why not us ? Let's do the same and don't forget to think about your futur and the futur of your children. | 2 |
Driverless cars should be used soon,because some people need to feel safe when driving. This passage states that "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe," this states if the driverless cars were safe then people could start driving them. The drivers might feel more safe when the car drives by its self. In conclusion driverless cars should be used soon,because some people need to feel safe when driving.
Driverless cars could be very handy for people who have alot to do when they are driving. In this passage it states "Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over-something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone."This means that if you have lots of things to do when you are driving you can do a few .These cars are made to be safe. In conclution driverless cars could be very handy for people who have alot to do when they are driving. | 1 |
Have you ever wonder if the is life on auther plant and if alien or real .In the photos or the face of mars peole think aliens mad it but they didnt three reason that did it not made by aliens are
rale martian mesa nasa the photos
martian mesa one fact is that these martian mesa can all so can be found on eath and the can be the same size this show the face can be a martian mesa
likes earths sceod is that martian mesa can be any where in mar there are other ones on mars to this show the its just a martain mesa face that be just a conwece dcenthird is like look like the one on eath in the snake river plain of idaho this show that mesa can be anywhere to wrap up this just is a land mind on mars
my scode reason is nasa one fact is if this was aliens nasa whould of told us like in the artice it said "nasa budget wish there was an ancient civilization on mars" this shows that there is no aliens there sceod fact is nasa is spending to much money so if there where aliens there would of told us like they told us about the face on mars this show that nasa got nothing to had third fact is that nasa aready look in it for
us and tld ever thing there know this show that nasa is right about the face and to wrap up there nothing there
my third reason is the photos nasa took for a example the frist one just look like a bumb in mars this show that it not even a big deal secod is the photo of 2001 it show there really is in face it third the last photo its show us a face but as one see it there other martian mesa there this show that the face was not made by aliens ot wrap up the face in the photos show us that its not even a face
in conlution the face on mars is just a martian mesa and there is no life on mars and nasa is right but what the photos show us that it looks like a face but its not becaues if it was there would be other and just show aliens life on it so this show that the is not aliens lif on mars and the face is just a martian mesa becaue if you look this is no lif so i ask again do u wonder if ther life on mars are think aliens are on there the answer should be no there not | 1 |
Driverless cars are coming there are both pros and cons about these new cars. Theres many saftey rules we should worry about which make it a con. On the other hand some pros are that the cars woudl more advanced and luxurious. For example they can be driven on there own, they can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves. With new driverless cars would have to be a change of laws and to alert drivers with there very new system.
My positon on driverless cars is that people should not trust technology to much. A technology error could happen that could even
cause someones death just for these cars. As a result it's illegal to even test computer driven cars in many states. There would be a massive change in are drivng industry it would be like having robots all over are nation. There should more precution about the driverless cars and to think about the cons that can happen even though since 2009 they've had something similiar to a driverless car.
Many people seem to be facinated by television and movies with cars that could drive themselfes. Entertainment is an easy way to fullfill people about getting or even thinking that they can make driverless cars. Whenever people see this on TV they don't think about all the risks there putting them selfs in. Everything isnt sured that it will work which my opinion that driverless cars should not take it farther then what it has been.
Tesla has projected that Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Niassan plan to have cars that can drive themselvles by 2020. This companies are taking things to fast this should be thouht over and over a millions times. I think with the driverless cars pepople are getting to excited about it and that not taking precaution. Everyone of the buyers should be more open minded about all the troubles that could go on to buying such an expensive car.
Overall I think that the manafacturer should be more cautious in what there exposing to people. If the technology fails and someones get injured who's fault would it be the driver or manufactor? Yes exactly manufactures make it seem like driverless cars are going to be fully well safe. Manufactuers even believe that moer states will follow as soon as cars are proves more reliably safe. Which i think is outrages because a human should not trust computer technologized cars for all the many things that could go wrong. | 2 |
Will Earth always be our home? As time goes on and we start noticing the effects human life has had on earth, we may start to consider other planets as a new home. As poeple start to brainstorm about the planets in our solar system, we have noticed Venus, our sometimes closest planet. The passage mentions many ideas on starting life there and what it would take. The author explains, in a nonbias way, why studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite dangers because he lists the dangers and risks as well as the reason why we should look into emploring the planet.
He mentions the early life of Venus and how it was similar to Earth in many ways. The author says "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth."( TCOEV, 4) The author mentions the landscape structure of both planets today, metioning the similarty in rocky sediment, valleys, mountains, and craters. The author mentions the similaries with a sense of hope for humans to start looking into moving to Venus for a new home. The passage also mentions the disctance factor considering travel time, given the fact that it is near us.
Risks and challenges for this idea are also metioned by the author. The author mentions the clouds and the 97 percent carbon dioxide that blankets Venus. The surface of the planet, as mentioned in the passage, has an atmospheric pressure that is 90 times greater than what we have here on earth. The surface of venus has the hotest temperature compared to any other planets. These and many other conditions aren't conditions that human life can withstand.
The pros of emploring the planet are also portryed. The reader is given hope by mentioning NASA's approaching to the planet. NASA would like to allow their scientists to "float above the fray" thirty miles above the planets surface. It is mentioned that the conditions humans would have to go thorugh may be rough, but survivable. Though providing insight of this planet would take challenges scientists are willing to take the risk.
The author mentions the pros and cons of the reasons why studying Venus is a worthy pursuit even after the many dangers metioned in a non-bias way. The author provides the reader with their own option to generate their own opinion given the facts on the dangers and the postive view on going to the planet Venus. Although moving to another planet may seen crazy to some, others think that it is something we should start to consider. Exploring unknown territory may be scary, but what do we have to gain if we do not choose to look into the many ideas of going to Venus. | 3 |
Is the FACS (known as the Facial Action Coding System) a good idea to read the emotional expessions of students in a classroom valuable? I agree that it is, the reason why I agree to that cause it can help students show their emotions when they are scared to, and in the future it can really come in handy.
The reason why it can help students show their emotions when they are scared to is that because what if a student is in class and they are sad but they just don't wanna say or tell someone, well from the FACS it can show when the perosn is sad.
In the text it shows that from this new technology it can really come in handy in the future by the more we use it and explore with it, it can help with us by first making animated videos, like in games, movies, short films etc. that would come in handy cause by then things will be really easy.
In conclusion to my side is that I think its a good idea to start spreading the FACS around this will do good in the future and we can't make it good if we don't explore and make it spread cause i'm for sure know that this will be good for our society maybe for the whole world. | 1 |
In the solar system, the earth is the only planet where life excists. We still are trying to figure out if there is any other planets where life is possible and also planets that are similar to the Earth. Venus is one of our nabor planets and one of the most similar planet to the Earth. Studying about Venus is very interesting and important but also dangerous.
Venus is one of the most like planet to the earth for example in size and density but it is very dangerous and no human or a living thing has survived an landing the planet. The atmospher is mostly full of carbon dioxide and its really hot there. the author states " A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus... temperatures averages over 800 degrees Fahrenheit"(3). The planet is very dangerous for humans, its very hot and the air is full of carbon dioxide and they is bearly any oxygen and humans cannot survive without oxygen.
The author also states that life was also a thing in Venus before because the scientists beleive that there was oceans, valleys, mountains that were similar to our Earth. There is still some features that are left over that are analogous to those on the Earth. The paragraph four says " Astronomer are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system... Venis was probaby covered largely with oceans and could havve supported various forms of like... inculdes familiar such as velleys, mountains, and creaters"(4). The planet have a lot of similarities to the Earth but it is dangerous. The author use the word "probably" which shows that he is not sure that it is safe for humans.
NASA has bin doing a lot of great things over the year. They are also trying to send humans to study venus. They are inventing an vehicle that survive the conditions on Venus and making it safer for humans. NASA is working on other ways to approach Venus. They are looking back to an old techonology called mechanical computers. They are powerful, flexible, and quick. The aurthor states" NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditiions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. Image a blimp-like vehical hovering 30 or so miles above the roling Venusain landscape... Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans"(5). It is very intresting that NASA is trying to approch Venus but it is dangerous.
In conclusion, Exploring Venus is challenging and is very dangerous but possible and if we are able to land an human body on Venus, we would get to learn a lot of Venus and will help us in future. | 2 |
Imagine yourself in the driver seat of a car, jamming to music with no worry for the road. This can become a reality with a self-driving car. Self driving cars are needed for progress, for safty, and for pure entertainment on the road.
Smarter cars provide a new era in the age of technology. According to the article, " Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS reciever, and an inertial motion sensor." All of these sensors require advanced technology that the world didn't have, nor a reason to have, before 2010. With the self-driving car paving the way to the future, the world needs to increase its dedication to progress and its concern for details to make sure accedents don't develope.
With the driverless cars undergoing recent development it is understandable as to why safety concerns for a driverless car are a major debate. According to the article "In 2013, BMW announced the development of 'traffic jam assistant.'" This development proclaims that even though the car can drive itself the driver must keep both hands on the wheel in case of emergancy. The car will also notify the driver through various methods ranging from a vibrating seat to flasing lights on the windshield. The manufactureing companies want to make sure that people can be safe while enjoy themselves in these robotic cars.
A big issue is whether the driver will get bored if they aren't driving but instead, they are just watching the road. Yes, the driver will evntually get bored. However, manufacturers have created a solution. According to the article, "Some manufacturers hope to do that by bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays." This will eliminate the argument of getting bored by provide entertainment to a driver. Also, as technology advances, this can shut down when the driver needs to take over again so no accidents occure.
Overall, self driving cars are needed for progress, for safty, and for pure entertainment on the road. They will be the future of this world. | 3 |
Have you ever walked to work or have you rode a bike to work? Many people dont,then again many people do. For example in New York there is a new bike-sharing program for people who perfer to ride a bicycle to get to poing A to point B. There are many other alternitives to getting to point B from point A like Mr. Sivak has said "A car is just a means of getting from A to B when BART doesen't work.".
In Paris the usage of cars has lead to days of near-record pollution rivaled by Beijing,China. Paris has worked to fix this problem by banning the usage of cars on certain days acording to their license plates. For example on mondays motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars,if one did not listen they would be fined 22-euros. That day almost 4,000 drivers were fined. Due to this new ban congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France.
In another part of the world in Vauban, Germany there is a suburb that has had Street parking, driveways and home garages forbiden. This german suburb is completly car free with an exception of thoroughfare. Car ownership is allowed, but it is highly inconviniant for the owners. As a result, 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars. Vauban is an example of a growing trend in Europe.
In conclusion, there are many alternitives to getting around place to place. Such as riding bicycles and taking publick transportation in New York, Paris, Germany. | 1 |
The idea of having cars that can do the driving for us is something we are getting close to. The stresses and dangers of driving could be eradicated by not controling a car. At this point we are not quite there; cars are not driverless and may cause more harm than good in situation that sensors can not yet deal with. Human control is important and relaxing too much can cause problems with that. Not having to think about driving and instead just enjoying the ride is something that most desire, but the safety of these vehicals has to be taken into consideration.
Driving can be a stressful part of one's day and eliminating the need to pay such close attention and relax is what most people want. Right now, driving involves paying close attention to everything around a car and features within the car as well. All of this can be stressful and hectic and the ability to mess up and cause damage to ones own self, someone else, or to property becomes too easy. Smart cars not only get rid of the stresses of driving, but include safety features that could do better that a human. Sensors are the main factor of making these cars work and have safety features that can, "..apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage." At this point smart cars still involve a human element with drivers still having to take over in difficult situations. To get drivers attention many ideas have come about. Some such as the in-car entertainment system even allow for leisure and then turn off when a driver when they need to take over. All of these features sound nice, but is it really that much safer?
The cars that have been developed and even the ones proposed for the near future are not completly driverless. That means that drivers have to stay alert. There are systems to alert a driver, but if a driver is relaxed the transition could be difficult. It would not be a completly stress free ride if a driver has to think about when they will have to take over and in what difficult situation that would be in, because drivers are expected to take over in difficult situations. "Google cars aren't truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways of dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork of accidents." When learning to drive we may reach a point that what is primarily being taught is the dificult things and when the computer stops working one would just have to get off the road or drive dangorously. Or we could reach the point that teaching people how to drive stops. Once we reach the point of not needing a human driver people become completly at the mercy of a computer and we lose the ability to drive because we don't need to know how. Computers can always malfunction and then it's not even a human at fault when people die because of it. Driving teaches control, awareness, and even patience, if a computer is doing all that those life skills are not readily learned and lost to more people. These factors do not sound any better to me.
I think we should have smart cars, but with the right percautions and keeping an element of human control. Sensors giving warnings and keeping drivers alert should be enough to help with the safety concerns. Stress is reduced in this situation because a driver has the help of the sensors, but is not relient upon it either. The systems that allow entertainment are too controled by a computer and cause issues with transitioning between relaxing and paying attention to driving. Driving still has to be taught and if a computer dosen't work humans still have the knowledge to take over without extra danger.
Having humans do more of the controling, but having safety features sounds like the best thing to me. It still reduces stress because sensors are used as early warning systems and features keeping one alert. Skills that go along with driving are not lost and a driver doesn't get too relaxed. Drivers are not completely relient upon a device that could malfunction, but the help is not gone. The idea of doing nothing sounds nice, but I just don't think it is the safest option. | 3 |
Dear, state Senator
Electoral College should be abolished because the electors may help ruin the president election and large states are not vistied or spoken to from the president other than small states. Sources from source 2: The Indefensible Electoral college: why even the best - laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumet. Reason 1 explains that many electors could ruin the president campaign and Reason 2 states many elector go for big states to cast in more votes other than small states.
Many may not realize but when they vote they're not voting for the president, they're voting for state electors, for example "each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee" although each party chooses a trusted elector many can betray the party and select the other party. Also the betray can cost the presdient election dearly for instance Bradford stated " back in 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. kennedy.(So that a popular vote for kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy)". In other words the electors can ruin the president campaign and may cost most of the states problems.
The electors want to cast in more votes from big states other than small states. Source 2 quoted " Because of the -take- all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states. Even though you would like to vote for your campaign the electors may not even visit other sates because they may think the other campaign has a better shot at getting more votes, but they do not know that maybe spoken words for the president may get more votes. also many may not even see any ad for the campaign, for example " During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didnt see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad." The author explains that many electors don't even see most staes because they are small states and they may not get as much votes compared to larger states.
Electoral College should be abolished because the electors may help ruin the president election and large states are not vistied or spoken to from the president other than small states. Electoral college may seem an unfair disadvantage for most voters many of their campaign that they want to win can be rather at a disadvantage or advantage depending on their electors, many electors may betray their campaign because they're not pubilicly held in office. Lastly the disadvantage is that many voters want to see what and how they are going to change or improve their well being, but most electors and campaigns do not visit the states that want view and know the candidates better. The electoral College should be abolished for the matter of the voter and the United States of America. In my opinion we should be allowed to vote on our own, for example instead of voting for an elector we should just vote on the type of campagin whose better and meet our daily bases needs. | 3 |
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author supports the idea of studying Venus through research and data that has been collected thoughout the years.
The author made really good points about why we should study Venus despite the dangers that it may hold.
The author talked about why Venus is worth studying.
It is said in paragraph 4, that Venus, long ago, may have been earth-like.
It may have been covered in oceans and supported life.
This is defintely interesting to think about.
If it was like that long ago, why couldn't Venus be inhabitable for humans now?
On Venus, we would have enough solar power, and radiation levels wouldn't exceed Earth's.
I think it would be fascinating to study venus even with the dangers that it may present.
Overall, the author did a good job at persuading people to want to study Venus despite the challenges that may be faced.
There was a plentiful amount of interesting facts that the average person may have not knew.
After reading this article, I am not fascinated by Venus and what the future intails for us humans. | 1 |
I believe the author did a really great job on stating his idea and supports his idea very well-informed. The author includes how NASA was trying to study Venus and that NASA still try to found a way to study Venus more. The author also explain why Venus exploration is a good idea and how dangerous it can be.
NASA has been trying to study on Venus but the Venus has thick atmosphere almost 97 percent of carbon dioxide that covers the planet. So NASA uses chamber simulation close to Venus but only lated for three weeks in such condition. But they have a idea which to build spacecraft that hover above Venus atmosphere and there study it.
The exploration of Venus is well worth because Venus used to Earth-like planet long ago. The study said that long ago, Venus probably has ocean like Earth and could support kind forms of life. However today, Venus has average temperatures of 800 degree Fahrenhiet, but Venus still has similar features to Earth like mountains, valleys, and creters. It is also sometime the closet planet for planetary visit.
I believe the author makes a good points. I agree with how Venus is worth the visit even its dangers. Humans has be expolring all around the world including ocean and the moon. However, there are still things that are unexplore and Venus is one of them and it is worth it to explore. The mission of Venus exploration might bring the world togather and will inspire the children of the future. | 2 |
Do you thing the face on mars is just a natural landform? or perhaps do you think it is a face? Well guess what? Well from what the story says its a possibility that it could just be a natural landform.
first, in the story it says" its's not as easy to target Cydonia". This mean its not as easy just to pop up and see it. meaning theres a possiblity thats not it because it wouldn't of been that easy to find.
Second, most scientists think it was an alien. In the story it says" Although few scientists believed the face was an alien artifact, photographing Cydonia became a priority for NASA when mars Global Surveyor (MGS) arrived at tge REd PLanet in sept. 1997, eighteen long years after the viking missionsended". which means they never know what it is it can be a alien or an face but most likely just an alien in their case.
Last , you dont just see pass the face any other time. As it says in the story "We dont just pass over the face very often". With that being said its not some you can just see any minute its maybe once out of a blue moon or your just lucky.
Well with all of the information its possible that its just a natural landform. Its nnot so possible for it to be the face like some scientist said because its not the simple you have to work very hard to find one. | 1 |
My opinion is that the electoral college should be abolished. In source two paragraph eleven Bradford gives a interesting statement to leave the reader thinking why. "The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor", mentions the article. I think what she is trying to say is that the system is prepared for chaos and that is what might happen in the future if things do not change.
The electoral college system can at many times be irrational. In source two paragraph thirteen the author puts out a bold and straight forward opinion. "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters", mentions Bradford. The author is trying to say that our popular vote created by the people is no longer cared for when electing our president, it is all up to the electoral college.
What do you think about the electoral college? In source three paragraph fifteen Richard A. Posner gives a very well put together decription of what we call the electoral college. "The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the canidate who receives the most popular votes the winner." The electors are who is actually electing the president, not the people. When you vote for a presidential canidate you are really voting or a slate of electors instead.
Overall the electoral college is an unfair, outdated, and irrational system. Do you really think your vote counts? They are lying to you, because it does not. They are who decides our president. | 2 |
I believe that this is not valuable for studetns in a classroom. Sure it could help them make those faces more, but it doesnt't have much of a use other than that. It is not like it helps lose weight or improves health it just shows emotions. Especially in a school setting most students express their emotions freely anyways. There may be some cases of students hiding emotions, but for the most part they tend to be very expressive.
First, many students may not rralize how much they show their emotions already, but generally they are incredibly easy to read. This technology would
not be that usefull becuase of that it would only help in very select cases. Also, some people would no twant their emotions to be scanned by a computer. They may be going through a hard time and want to keep that as personal as possible.
Second, it could be invading someones private life. By this I mean some people hate when everything is know about them. For example, people who put tape over their computers because they are worried about the FBI watching them. I think that becasue of people like that it would not be very accepted into schhols without forcing it onto students. Also, I do not think the students really care about expressing their emptions to a computer.
Third, although it could be used to detect emotions of items in history it would not have a place in schools it is an invasion of privacy and would be very prying into a students personal life.
In conclusion, I do not hink this technology will be very well accpted into schhols I think it will have to be forced onto the students whuch would just cause more problems from parents and students. Although it does have some used they are so situational I do not think it is that amazing of a discovery. | 2 |
The Impact of Emotional Expressions
Many of us whether in elemenatary, middle school, highschool, or even college can relate to the emotions we feel throughout the entire day of school. Many emotions tend to spark when we're learning a new lesson in class. It can range from happiness, sadness to confusion, frustration and etc. But, it isn't always visible to your friends, family and much less your teacher. So, by having the "Facial Action Coding System" we can really improve what the students are truly feeling when learning new teachings. It can really come into value when a student is feeling frustrated in class, it can improve grade point averages, and just the simple act of knowing how a person is really feeling can make a situation of learning much more efficent and valuable.
First and foremost, the "Facial Action Coding System" is a system that can be trusted into scanning and analyzing what students are truly emotionally expressing. They have had the experience of composing and making results for even paintings, and not just basic human behavior. For example, in the article it starts off with the analyzations of the different expressions being produced by Leonardo's Da Vinci's, "Mona Lisa"."She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry". This calculated emotional information from the new computer software can really dictate what even the Mona Lisa is feeling. By sighting this, students from all over the world can use this technological advancement to improve their emotional state while also being able to undertand.
Furthermore, the facial code recognition can specifically detect human emotions simply by muscle movement. In the text, it starts to give information on how a person's smile can be dipicted as being fake or not. "Meanwhile, muscles called orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus make crow's-feet around your eyes. But in a fake smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using zygomatic major". This specified information can also help in a classroom for when a student is trying to fake their emotions. By being able to differeniate whether a student is doing so or not, it can further help teachers with how they're teaching a lesson. For example, if a student is actually enjoying a lesson it can then be concluded by the teacher that it should make the lesson more understandable yet more energetic.
Lastly, having this type of facial technology can help in classes where showing facial expressions are essentiel in even passing a class. In the reading, it states how drama classes can be improved and be much more efficient when having the ability of having a facial code system to depict their certain emotions. "Moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them....A renowed drama couch, Constantin Stanislavsky, had his actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage".
All in all, the Facial Action Coding System comes into value in many forms when being used in a school classroom in any certain grade level. Students from all over the world can be more understood and comprehended when they're not undertanding a lesson, when they're not enjoying a lesson, or simply want to be able to pass a course. Their facial expressions can be detected simply by their muscle movements as stated and tested by many universities and science collaborations who have been able to study these advancements. Facial expressions are universal, and should always come in importance when people are feeling a certain type of way. Human emotions can be complexed and even misunderstood at times. But, with this facial code, people can come together and be more sympthatic and empathatic with one another from all over the globe. | 3 |
out with the old and in with the new. "The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational." - "the Indefensable Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses are wrong" from
Mother Jones by Bradford Plumer. The Electoral College needs to be replaced it has too much room for failure, manipulation,and its loose guidelines allow unfair representation.
The Electoral College has too much room for failure considering the only guidlines for electors are those that are not holding office and depending on the state electors are chosen in various ways. the garuntee that electors will vote in favor of majority vote of their state is not garunteed. "The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the constitution as a comprimse...The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meetin of the electorswhere they vote for
President and Vice President, and the counting of electoral votes by congress." - "What Is the Electoral College?" by the Office of the Federal Register.
The Electoral College allows room for manipulation and as cited in "The Indefensible Electoral College:Why even the best-laid defenses are wrong" as "the single best argument against the
Electoral College" would be the disaster factor described as the thing that the american people should consieder themselves lucky didnt happen. The articles asks the reader to "consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people." Citing an event in 1960 where louisiana attempted to replace electors with others that would vote in their favor and John Kennedy would not have won popular vote. In the event of a tie the election will be passed to the House of Representatives, because each state only gives one vote allowing states with meager population to have the same holding as states that represent millions upon millions and given the information that voters may vote one party to president and another for congress, the house's selection can hardly be reminiscent of the choices of the people that each one person represents.
The Electoral College is unfair because the candidatesknow which states will vote for them and which states definately wont and the ones that they might be able to find their way in favor. for example in "the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didnt see the candidates at all"-The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses are wrong. jeopardising the validity of the entire capaign by putting the votes in the hands of swing voters to see who wins favor with visits to poor elementary schools and weak middle school student council campaigning by promising free ice cream and kissing babies.
The Electoral College needs to be thrown out there is no fixing what is already widely regarded as an anachronism. the Electoral College is a flawed system and maybe in some utopia it might work but not in america it wont there is too much at stake to keep trying to mske it work | 3 |
The thing is that 25 years ago a face appeared on Mars. Nasa said that it looked like someone looking up through tha camera at them whcih is very creepy. Although few scientists believed the face was an alien artifact, photographing Cydonia became a priority says, says the article.
Don't get me wrong I do think that it is just a normal landfrom but, if you really look at it then it actually isnt a regular landfrom. To me it looks like the shadows on mars are creeping up on the mass of rock or sand or whatever it is. Like the scientists said the creeping up shadows is what gave the landform a the eyes the mouth and the nose.
But, this face they say is actually called a mesa. From all the years it has went through such as 1976 to 2001 I would say that the face is now older and deformed. The article says what the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa."It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho" says Gavin. They also says it's not easy to target Cynodia.
So when people say that the face is an actual face they are wrong becaus e if they would actually read a article on the mesa/face . They would see that they are not right at all they are just wrong. Beacus ethe shadows are what gave the massive the landform the eyes and the mouth and the nose. Remembe rthis they first discovered it in 1976 , and they kept on lokking at throughout the years. I think that it was an awesome thing to discover. | 2 |
According to the article the Facial Action Code System i think is valuable to student in classroom's. I am for it because aacording to the text its tells you how great it can predict how your feeling. The article gives us a little information on how accurate it works numbers showing she's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry it shows that the Facial Action Code System is an new way to figure out people's emotions. Also it says the Mona Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much this computer can do. Also this new software can show a lot about your emotions 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. Also i think its a good idea for students in classroom because the computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored and your teacher could help you or could try to do something more to keep you from getting bored. I think from the articlke this would be a great thing to get and to start using because according to the text its a great tool to use in the future. | 1 |
The topic of driverless cars will be argued until there arent any humans left. But to simply have a driverless car woud be like having an irresponsible parent. Cars were formally made for us to have an easier way of transportation; and now we want cars tha can dive themselves. Taking the taxi away from taxi drivers would put them out of business; As well as Uber Drivers and other assistants. How would the generations after us know what to do in an emergency if the driverless car werent able to function on its own? What would happen to the data base of a company if its system crashed, how would signals get out from the cars routers?
Having driverless cars would be a bad idea, for one it would take the place of a taxi driver which would take away jobs. Googles cofounder Sergey Brin says "...a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transportation taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half the fuel of todays taxis and offer far more flexibility that a bus. He believes such cars would fundamentally change the world." Another reason I wouldnt condone in the submitting of driverless cars would be to save the generation after me. Letting fresh young adults use driverless cars wouldnt teach them how to drive. Which means they wouldnt know what to do in case of an emergency. Yes there would be a manual that you'd have to read. But when it comes to fixing technology and mechanics, humans need a hands on experience which would help them in case they dont know what to do if the car becomes driverless. Finally, what would happen in a storm if the connection didnt go through or the companys system crashed? Would that mean the car isnt driverless? "...For starters, they needed a whole lot of sensors. Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive rardr sensors, a GPS receiver,a nd an inertial motion sensor." With all of this technology needed to properly produce a smart/ driverless car, would it be necessary? having this much technology, there would be too many technical difficulties. Which would lead into the owners of the car paying for more that what was even expected.
The world of technology today has help us for the better or worse. With smartphones being able to locate people, cars, and places around the world. ToSending a typed papre to your teacher just in time before grades come in. Technology has been tremendously heplful. but to have a 18 year old behind thw wheel of a driverless car not knowing what what to do in case of an emergency or the car having a mal-function would be pointless to buying your first car. | 3 |
Dear Senator,
The electoral college is a process that the founding fathers extablished as a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and popular vote of the people. This process involves selecting the electors, meeting with the electors, and counting the votes by congress. There are 538 electors total in the Electoral College. The presidential election happens every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. After the election the governor makes a "Certificate of Ascertainment" which has all the names of the candidates who ran for President. I believe we should keep the Electoral College because there is a certainty of outcome, it helps avoid run-off elections, and the electoral college helps balance out the smaller and bigger states with more people that vote.
The outcome of an Electoral College has a possibility of creating a dispute like in 2000, but this dispute is less likely to happen over a dispute over the popoular vote. This is because the winning candidates share of the Electoral College is greater than his share of the popular vote. Obama recieved 61.7 percent of the electoral vote in comparison to the 51.3 percent of popular votes for him and Mitt Romney. Trans-regional appeal is required in the Electoral College. If we got rid of the Electoral College then there would be a greater possibility of dispute.
Furthermore, Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes while winning a majority in the Electoral College. This proves that the Electoral college avoids the problems of elections in which neither candidate receives a majority of the votes. When no candidate wins a majority the pressure complicates the presidential election process. The Electoral College minimized this pressure be invariably producing a clear winner every time. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President.
In addition, a large state gets more attention from candidates than a small sate in a campaign. As an example in 2012 Obama, got 29 electoral votes. In Wyoming the winner only had 2 electoral votes in the same marin as Obama. The Electoral College provides some kind of restoration for the weight in the political balance that large states lose by mal-apportionment of the Senate. Voters in toss-up states are more likely to read into and pay more attention to a campaign because they know they are going to decide the election. It is most likely that these people are going to the the most thoughtful voters.
To conclude, there are many reasons to keep the Electoral College. This process has made the winner of the election much clearer to decide. There are a lot of pros and cons to the Electoral College but the list of cons is way shorter than the list of all the pros to the Electoral College. We should keep the Electoral College because it creates a certainty of outcome, diminishes run-off elections, and creates a balance for the bigger states. The Electoral College has created a positive impact for our presidential election.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
Nowaday, the world of technology is really big all around the world. People start to use technology for everything in their daily life. From their house, their school or work. Phone, laptop, computer, cars, etc. Each day a lot of inventors work hard to produce their invention to make the world better. Recently, iphone company just release a new iphone called iphone X that you can unlock the phone without using your finger, you can just look at the camera and the phone will recognize your face and open it for you. That is a really popular invention that everyone excited to buy and love to use. People create many new technology for it to communicate with humans like iphone X as an example. Thomas Huang professor of University of Illinois collaboration with Nicu Sebe professor of University of Amsterdam created a software called :"Facial Action Coding System." The software were created because Dr. Huang said that he want to develop better ways for huamsn and computers to communicate. The software can recognize humans emotions. Either, you happy, sad, fear or surprise, the computer just look at you and tell what is your feeling right the way. Because Dr. Huang is a professor at University of Illinois, beside the software he just look like every professior that have to go to class and teach. As many people know, not every time you attend the class you understand what the teacher teach you. Sometime you get bored, sometime you get confused or tired. But all of that emotions you are the only one that know about it. With that in mind, Dr. Huang wanted to bring the software to his class so he will know his lesson is actually go through students mind or not. He will know the time to change the topic to make student more productive, more happy and enjoy in his lesson. Not just only him, every teacher in the world need this sofware, everyone want their students to happy to learn. More happy you are, more focus you are in the class. The Facial Action Coding System is a valuable software for school that help teacher recognize students feeling and that can make the class better.
Here is how it works. According to the article "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 a human muscles" This show that, we can believe in the result of the software after its read the emotions. Because the computer created a model of the face, with all muscles that humans has. When you move your face the 3-D model of the face will form exactly the same as your face to help the software recognize what is that emotion. One of psychologist and creator of FACS that work with Dr. Huang is Dr. Paul Eckman has classified there are six basic emotions :"happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness." That is what emtions of a regular humans looks like. Either you happy because you got good grades, or anger because someone ate you ice cream that you save for a long time. They bring every emotions of humans in real life in the software to help help it easily recognize humans face. One of the example from the article is when your frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when you are surprised, or your orbicularis oris (around your moth) tightens your lips to show anger. The computer is really smart, just look to your face and form the 3-D it can easily show how mad you are, how sad you are. Even from the painting Mona Lisa of Leonardo da Vinci, the computer show she's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fear ful and 2 percent angry. You can see how smart it is. If you mad and angry or surprise at the same time, the computer will still know and point of the percent of each emotions. When you make a fake smile, the software still recognize it. According to the article "But in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risorius." You cannot lie to them, they already know exactly how you give them fake or real smile. Go back with Dr. Huang classroom. Why is FACS is a valuable software for study at school? Because when you are tired, bored or mad about something you cannot focus on the lesson or what the teacher or proffessor teach you. From that the computer will recognize your emotions and tell the teacher your feeling. Teacher cannot make you forget about your problems but they will create or find another way to make the class seem more fun or do more activities instead of just standing and read ore teach boring stuff that you don't care about. That's help you feel more comfortable, in that way when you feel happy and relax you can focus on your work more. All of the stuff that you learn will easily come to your brain and you will remember it.
The FACS is a great software for school. It can help teacher/professor a lots in their way of teaching students and from that students will focus more on the teaching time. Not just classroom, this could help many people around the world with whatever they do. Because sometime, humans being never tell anyone about their feeling, they just sad and angry but noone now about it. Using computer to communicate with them is a great ideas. Like an example in the article, when it recognize your emotions and know that you sad, it will find an ad or something funny that can make you laugh right the way. Since many people around the world using technology all the time, people should create more things that could help technology communicate with humans. Because it could help the world more modernized, help the people without family or friends feel better when they communicate with technology. Growth more technology will make the world better. | 2 |
Astrology is a complicated field for many scientist to study. Scientist have been attempting to study different planets for many reasons. One great accomplishment many astrologist attemp is finding a way for life to reach these planets. In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author reveals the many complicated reasons man can not reach Venus. The author reveals the dangerous aspect of heat and radiation. These dangers have set scientis back, but with many different ideas they are still striving to reach Venus. The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" emphasizes many valuable claims for the reasoning to explore Venus.
The author explains why scientist strive to study venus. Venus is refered to as Earth's "Twin" because it is closest to us in terms of distance and size and density. Scientist want to study it because, "the planet has a surface of roky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. This simular characteristics facinate scientis. Scientist want to find a way to reach Venus inorder to study it Earth like characteristics.
The author also emphasizes the issues with their aspiration to reach Venus. The biggest issue that scientis face is the issue of heat and radiation on the planet. The author reveals, "on the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. Because of this environment no man would be able to land on Venus and all spacecrafts do not surrvive. This invironment would liquify any metal. Even with these extrieme conditions scientist are determined to find a way.
The author explains how scientist have still attempted to find a solution to these issues. One idea scientis have is to send men to the planet but not allow them to land on the planet itself. The author explains that the scientists idea is to, "allow scientists to float above the fray." With this solution scientis would still be unable to land on the planet but are able to make observations from above. The author continues to share how scientis are not giving up and continuing to find a solution for scientis to study rock, setiment, and more. One of these ideas include, "simplified electronis made of silicon carbide." This has been tested in Venus like conditions and have lasted for three weeks. With this experiement scientist are able to come closer and closer to a solution. Scientist continue to find a solution for reaching Venus.
The author reveals throughout the article that it is important for scientist to explore Venus. Although there are many challenges to the exploration the author reveals that this should not stop scientist. Scientis will remain curious of the planet and eager to discover a way to reach the planets surrface. With studying Venus scientist are able to make connections between Earth and Venus. Scientis belive that Venus once looked like Earth and with discoveries on the planet scientist can draw conclusions about what happened on Venus. Venus is a complicated mysterious planet and scientist are eager to reveal it. | 3 |
The story is going to be about the Challenge of Exploring Venus. Vanus is the clostest to the Earth by size and density. Venus is the brightest planets in the night sky. Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system: many livings can died and even a mental can melt too. The atmosphere of Venus contain alomost 97 percents of Carbon dioxide.
Now scientist are trying to go to Venus to study more about the planet. Scientist say that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. What do you think about it? If you were a scientist will you go to Venus to study more about it? It it were me I won"t definitly not do it. It is a dangerious planet, because livings things and non-living thing can died out of the heat even a mental can melt in a minutes.
First, Scientist say that studying Venus is a worthy pursit despite the dangers it presents. They want to study more about Venus not only because of the insight to be gained the planet itself. But also because they want to tell many people about the planet. They also study the Vanus because they think that human curiosity will likely lead them into many equally. More importantly scientist cannot take sample rock from other world to do research.
Secondly if Scientit don't study about the planet of Venus we will not know nothing about the planet itself. If they don't study about Venus we will not know what happen in the begining on Venus. We will also not know if life exist on Venus. We will also not know is Venus a planets or a star and what is the closest planet to Venus. We will not know why Venus is the hottest, even thought Mars is the closest planet to the sun.
Finally We know all about Venus because scientist study about the planet. We know that Venus is a planet that is the brightest in the night sky. We also know that Venus is the hottest planets in the solar system. Futher more we know that anything can melt in Venus. Also if scientist don't study about the planet of Venus we will not know what kind of life exist on the planet of Venus.
In conclusion we know how important it is to study Venus. Venus is the closest to our Earth and It is the second hottest planet from the sun. The planet of Venus has almost 97 perscent of a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide. Scientist study about Venus even thought it is dangerious, so they can tell us more about it. Now i know all about the planet of Venus. | 2 |
The article "Driveless Cars Are Coming"
presents the reader with positive reasons and negative reasons of having a computer driven car ,or what people call smart cars.I believe that self driven cars should be allowed because the postive reasons behind it.It states that they have
sensors or even brake asist options.It even states that google has had a self driven car since 2009 that have driven half a million miles without crashing,but they really arent driverless yet becouse the driver can take over in any situation.Without a doubt I see this as an oppurtunity to benefit us in the future.
The positive things about having self driven cars are various such as less accidents,a more organized and safe street, and its better for the environment.The self driven by Google have proven that they can be trustworthy stating that its droven half a million miles without driving.The smart car will allow you to take control at complicated issues.The Google car includes four radar sensors, a gps reciever,and an internal motion sensor.The sensors could help you by can help the car apply brakes orthe individual to reduce power from the engine.This could help out civilians in many ways.
The self driven car has inspired people to devlop ideas toward this concept.BMW has devloped a "Traffic Jam Assistant"
which allows the car to go up to 25 mph ,but need the driver to hold the wheel.The human driver has to remain alert to take over at any situation.Even GM have devoloped a drivers seat that vibrates when in danger of backing up on an object.On the other hand the google car simply announces when to take over.Manefacturers have considered implementing camaras to watch drivers remain focused in the road.BMW wishes to use head up displays to give enertainment and informative systems.This is a safe feature, becauses safety is the priority.This has inspired Tesla,Mercedes Benz, Audi, and Nissan to coninue devolopment.
A self driven can follow the laws of keeping drivers safe,and pedestrians safe.Driving these vehicles are allowed in California,Nevada,Florida,and the district of colombia.New states should follow soon as soon as they prove that thses cars are safe.New laws will devolop in the feature but they trust that the cars will have no problem.If their is a problem the thing is will the driver be in trouble or the manefacturer.
My view on this is im for this cause of self driving cars.These cars have been in devlopment since 2009 by google and there hasnt been a problem yet.Other car manefactures have continued their work in this idea.This idea is already allowed in some states.This idea can also inspire opther ideas in the near future. | 3 |
About venus challenge
People called venusa a " Every stry"; because it the brigtest light in the night sky. make it esay tp spot it in sky but the name is misleding it a venus is a planet. Venus is are second planent from the sun. So venus is the second hottes planent of the earth.so peopele really live on it. venus is over 800 degrees and fahrenheuil on the surface of venus. Some people say venus is earth twin beacuse venus is closest and it densith and size. beacuse of venus is closest to the sun it speed is little fast then earth.
some people wnat to exlporing venus. while venus is simlpe to seen from the distant but safe vantage pount of the eart, it has proved a very challenging place to eamine more closely. so many thing are happand to venus but what know about if can put pepleo on the planet. what are the challenging we can do want venus. people have sent spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped wprld
beacuse it no spacecraft well survived the landin for more than a few hours. make it hard to get on venus beacuse of the speed and get on time.
venus have geolog and weather prsent. make erupting volcanoes powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes; then earth have. venus is anymose like earth it have mountains, craters and valleys like earth have.
we need to closets to venus to get researchers of venus like rock, gas, and anything. the NASA are try to sending humans to study venus. NASA is try to approaches to studying veuns.now we get better in life will time past. we need more thing to get to venus and do lot of on venus. we need to better the challlenge of venus | 0 |
Well when we 1st hear about the Electoral College we think it's some college where students go who drive BMW's, Audi's, Nissian GTR's, Nissan Skylines,Honda Civic SI's,Toyota Supras,Chevy HHR SS,Ford Focus RS,Subaru STI's,etc. But is it really a college like that? No unfortunately not as a matter a fact it's not even a college to physical go to if you thought it was a college you can physical go to then you are the biggest chunk that ever stepped foot on this earth. According to paragraph 1 it says " The Electoral College is a Process not a place the founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens." So when you hear that it's not a place and its a process yay! we're learning.
But let me stop you right there happy readers who are learning, that's not the question so wait heres the part when you feel like the biggest chunk again... the question is Does The Electoral College Work? Aha see you thought you won the 4v4 but really it's just getting started. Like how can you win if you don't know anything about the process college well thank godness im here because im gonna educate you goats. According to paragraph 2 "The Electoral college process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice president,and the counting of the electoral votes by congress". So what i think it's saying is that this is how like our wonderful presidents get elected. this is the voting system that elects vice pres,pres,meeting the to runners and electors thats the electoral college in a nut shell. But you guys are still scrubs you need to know a little more before we can answer this question.
Actually no we don't need to learn a little bit more you guys aren't chunks you are Pros at this we all are you know why? So let me tell you why our founding fathers started this in 1769's or something like that but ever since they made this system it's been going on until 2015! so the answer to that question would be yes it does work because it gives the people a right to choose who they want and the president doesn't get to much power and without this system we wouldn't have any presidents you know what i mean.
- Clown | 0 |
Why do we have emotions? Why were we given thought of feeling and expressing them with our face? Our ability to do that is amazing and has helped us understand each other better through the years. As technology is always advantcing so has our understanding of other humans, but now scientists are creating machines to do that for us. To become our eyes and calulate the exact percentage of the basic emotions we feel, is this really needed, and if anything, might hurt us as a whole? I believe that this Facial Action Coding System is a waste of time and could harm the future of humanities ability to understand emotions.
First, is how at the bare minium the Facial Action Coding System is worthless. From the "Making Mona Lisa Smile" article by Nick D'Alto, some perks it is able to include from this is only the idea of face reconition allowing ads to know whether you are smiling or frowning at the ad to know whether to keep ads like that or move on with new ones. This is a huge flaw because people can already log into a computer happy or upset but the FACS isn't going to know that so the system is basically ruined. Another thing is it being able to change a lesson to suit a students emotions if they are feeling confused or bored. This could be a good thing but how is it going to change the lesson to make it better? Even if it does it still wouldn't mean it would make it better for the student they could still be bored with the lesson making the FACS useless again.
Second, if this thing becomes more widespread and popular to the extent of everyone can use it anytime, then that's taking able for humans to naturally understand one another's feelings without FACS. I already explained any ideas given in the article are useless but if one day everyone is using it in forms of video chatting or smart-glasses, this is taking away from the natural experience of human commuication. Take for example texting, texting is dimminishing the vaule of talking to one another face-to-face, if future generations this could lead everyone to be more un-social and that creates problems on their own, this could be the same with advancements we put into FACS, more people becoming reliant on FACS to the extent where when we don't have it we will become naive to socailizing.
Third, is the invasion of privacy this can create. To look into a persons facial muscles to calulate the exact percentage of what they are feeling can be consider creepy and inhumane. Personally, to know that a computer knows exactly how I am feeling makes me feel uneasy. I know I am not the only one and others probably feel worst able this then I do. This was in the same vein as when the lie detector first was made, everyone was fancinated by a computer being able to tell if you are lying. However the person who made it regets ever making for its inconsistancy on being accurate. Who should say that FACS will always be accurate and falsely accuse other's emotions into a legal bind or hasty agument?
In conclusion, this essay is to prove my claim that this Facial Action Coding System is not worth anyones time, money, or thought. From it being basically useless without any sort of advancement including the loophole around ads to it really not helping students with lesson plans. Then the idea of us becoming more naive people and another reliant on technology to understand others. Finally, the inhumane way of distrubing our privacy with and it could also falsely calulate our emotions and cause more harm then good. WIth everything said this should give a clear view of that terrible invention we call FACS should be put away and never opened again and to take this as a learning experience. | 4 |
The author claims that "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".
In the exerpt, of "The Challanges of Exploring Venus" we learn that Venus is our cloest rival to Earth, and that it has more Earth-like features that we want to explore. In paragrph 2, we learn that Venus is "Often referred to Earth's twin, Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too". Venus is a very challanging planet to explore since it is the second closest planet to the sun making it very hot to even get through with a space craft, and a space probe, because it will melt whithin seconds of entering the atmosphere.
In paragraph 4, it explains that "Today, Venus still has some Earth Like features that are analogous to those on Earth". "The planethas a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters". In order for us to explore Venus, we are going to have to create, or advance or technology so that we are save when entering Venus's atmosphere, and even touching down on the surface without burning up. In paragraph 5, it tells us that "At thirty plus miles above the surface, temeratures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that oa sea levels on Earth". Indead, we still need to learn about Venus, but first we need to create some more advanced technology that will keep a live man or woman on the planet until they have colected enough data to go back and safely escape the planet.
In paragraph 6, it tells us that "More importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance". "Therfore, scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understandVenus would need to up close and personal, despite the risks". Yes, it may be challenging, but in order to explore other planets not known too well of us, we would need to put the effort in trying new things, and advancing to new heights. In paragraph 7, it tells us that "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus". This is good, because if NASA can find another way that we can safely explore Venus, then we wouldn't have to go through all the trouble of making new technology, or find ways that we can make a new space suit to fit Venus's temerature.
In paragraph 7, it tells us that "scientists have made systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistent to pressure, heat, and other forces". we only have a litle more to go before we have the right amount of data, and technology to explore Venus in more depth. All we need to do is test thiese new things that scientists have made, and see if we can survive the forces that Venus throws at us.
Venus is a challenging planet, but scientists are still curious and will do anything to try and get research from Venus at all costs. The author claims that "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". | 3 |
Driverless cars might seem like the best car out there but have you thought of the negatives things that come with these cars? No you probaly have not. They are not horribble cars but they are not as good as you would expect them to be.
It is cool that they drive themselves but there have been lots of accidents in the past and it would be harder for driverless cars to be able to dodge them or take a different route if its a recent accident. For example if you are driving down the highway and a car crash happens right in front of you, the driverless car would not be able to just detect it that fast and stop or move to the left or anything. If a dog runs out in the middle of the street and you run him over would you feel guilty for that even though you had no control over the car. Most people would be too busy texting and driving to be able to be focussed on the road. Even though it says cell phones are turned off while trying to drive people would find a way for the phones to not turn off. And also some people might have an emergency and they might need there phone. Many accidents would happen. The point of driveless cars, like said in the name, is so the car does not need a driver. So why would you want a car that still needs a driver.
Most people that are on the streets now a days are students and teenagers that are recently getting their license. After school a lot of kids car pool to go out to eat, the mall, or the beach. So much distraction to the car might cause a problem. If there is an emergency they might be too focussed talking to someone else, taking pictures, or messing around. On paragraph 7 it is stated that manufacturers are also considering using cameras to watch the drivers. That is not a bad idea so people can focuss more on the road.
In my opinion as fun as the driverless cars seem it is not a bright idea to manufacture them. Too many accidents would happen and many problems. Car accidents happen all the time not accident on purpose, if a person can not avoid them than how would a computer be able too? | 3 |
I am against delevopling these driverless cars. I believe that they are inferior to manual driving.I believe that it wouldnt be safe. If one company uses the technology and mass produces these cars. As everyone believes the hype they buy the car, then it malfunctions and causes many crashes then many people wont believe in the selfless driver car after that. also we would have to spend money on making better roads everywhere so the can funtion the same everywhere. Then what if the driverless car cant react to a human driver in a situation. Then machine must be really advanced to recogize the drivers actions and then react.it wouldnt be abled to. Also could it react to drunk drivers? or any reckless drivers?
All in all i dont see driverless cars as being great. I see too many problems,and
risks for this to work. Maybe it would be when we are more sure have better technology. | 1 |
If you would paticipate in the Seagoing then you would explore a lot and go to different places. A Sea going is a person who takes care of horses,cows,young cows,and mules. I can explain a couple of reasons that you should be a Seagoing. My three reasons to become a Seagoing is that you can explore,working with animals,and it can change your life. Now lets talk about how you can explore if you join Seagoing so when you would join you would have to get to that place meaning travel and when you are traveling you get a chance to see different sightings which is really cool. When you would join a Seagoing you have to take care of animals on a farm and so you would be feeding the pigs or maybe bathing a horse and other but taking care of a animal is a lot of work but it is worth it. Becoming a Seagoing can change your life like it did to Luke maybe you don't have a good job but not a bad job and so if you join the Seagoing right now then you would be free out in the wild and would have the best job because working with animals and a farm is somthing that I want to do right now. So now I gave you three reasons you get to explore,working with animals,and it can change your life so now while your reading this I hope that you decide that you do want to be a Seagoing and I hope that you will enjoy exploring to different places,feeding and taking care of animals,and finally I hope that Seagoing will change your life. | 1 |
Technoogly should not be a thing that reads students emotional expressions. Only the students know how they feel inside. A machine or whatever would be used shouldn't have a say of how you feel or of your expessions.
In paragraph 2 it asks the question "Can we calculate emotion?" And of course they can but sometimes the calculation could not be right all the time. Following up in paragrph 3 it breaks it down how they find the calculations of emotions but then again the computer could tell a different emotin from the one that the person is actually feeling.
In paragraph 5 it has a valid point that even humans do calculations on other people feelings. When we are used to seeing those person expresions we began to know what it looks llike from them everytime they feel that way. With a computer it would be their first time seeing that person expression on their face.
In conclusion a computer should not determine the mood a student is in. Only you know how you feel inside others might think they know but only you know how you feel when you feel that emotion | 1 |
That isn't a face. This was made by aliens. This what some people might have said when they heard about a face being on Mars. The first picture was taken in 1976.The picture was taken by a spacecraft named Viking 1. I believe that the face is just a natural landform and is not made by aliens.
First, in the passage it tells you that when they first looked at the image it shocked them. They thought to themselves that it looked like a face. Then, from the minute people saw the photo everyone agreed and called it a face, but no one knew how it formed.
Next, there was a disscussion amoung scientist about the face. Few scienctist believed that it was an alien artifact. So from reading this I take the einfitive to believe that the face isn't made by an alien. It is just a natural landform created.
From reading the passage it also gives proof to why it couldn't be an alien artifact. For example, the pictures, it shows you the different and sharper pictures the spacecraft took and as you go along and you see the 2001 picture you see that the picture doesn't look like a face anymore and just looks like a natural landform.
Another example is in the last paragraph, when Jim Garvin, chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, said That the picture actuallly shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa, which are landforms that are commonly around the American West.
In conclusion, there is a lot of proof to why the face that was found on Mars isn't an alien artifact, but is a natural landform. The pictures show it and it mentions it in a couple of paragraphs to why it couldn't be a face. So in the end, the face is just a natural landform not a face or an alien artifact.There isn't enough facts or data to prove that the face is an artifact. | 2 |
Do you think that Venus would be satanceable to live on as we do on Earth? NASA has reason to belive that human could live on Venus one day and that their where oceans and living things on Venus a long time ago. Venus may or may not be a place we can call home now but NASA will make it a point to find out if we could. A small piece of the article states, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth." This is telling us that Venus may have oceans and forms of life they just can not prove it at this time.
As of today, Human can only peer at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions. A piece from the text states "most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective. More importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance. Therefore, scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks." This shows that this in fact dangerous for us to go to Venus to study how it is like being there.
NASA is working on an approach for humans to study Venus. A small spart from paragraph 7 states, " 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." Some other projects would be to look back at old technology called mechanical computers. This is telling us that NASA is trying their best to try and get human to study Venus to see what goes on over there. In conclusion at the moment Venus is not at shape to have humans study there let alone live there. Venus may or may not be a place we can call home now but NASA will make it a point to find out if we could as of now the answer in No but in the future the world will see. This matters because if something where to happen to our earth we could die if we did not have anywhere else to go, NASA finding out if Venus is up to date to let humans live their would save countless amounts of lives and be a place we can call home if anything where to happen the the world we call home today. | 2 |
dear, senators of USA. in the manner of arguing i say that you should change to popular voting. you should change it because we (the people) know if somebody will make a good president. the people want to vote for somebody from how they look. for how someone would run our country. sure some people would want to change and go by the electoral voting. but the popular voting is they way to go.
when the people vote for a president, they don't want to vote for an elector to vote for a president. they would want to actually vote for the president, not an elector! Obama had 61.7 percent of the electoral votes on him (said in source 3, paragraph 18). most of the congress wanted him to be a president. not many people (citizens) wanted him. but not the congress, they all wanted him. and they always get what they want.
like it says in source 2, "the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational." what this person says is true. this voting system has been going on for quite a while. from the 1960's even till now. maybe even further back. its time to change this system. its to old. it may work and all that. but its time for a change. it's also unfair. the own congress gets to choose who their president is? why not the people? they're the ones who are going to have to go by what he says. we have to go buy the prices, follow the rules, and do as we're told. why shouldn't we be the ones to vote for our president. | 2 |
Mona Lisa is making beautiful smile's to the people and to the world out there. Technology, however, was too advanced after a few years Mona Lisa died. The difference between Mona and the technology is no compliment because Mona is no exception in technology, she was born with no technology back then, as for us, we did!
But Mona Lisa should of experienced technology because technology is fun and you can chat with others! As back then, you couldnt chat with your friends or with your parents, I wondered how children got hold of their parents back then since there wasn't no technology back then.
Exception of Mona Lisa, I feel bad there wasnt no technology back then but at the same time i didn't feel bad because she was probably glad of not having technology. To clarify any information of the technology Mona was glad to have not experienced technology. As others(like our ancestors)they wished to had experienced technology as we are today.
Technology is a tool we now call "daily rountine" because we use it everyday and its a rountine at school. I would have loved to experienced what life would be without technology. But unfortunely, I didnt, I live in a generation of having technology that I now call my rountine becuase i do it at school and at home. Last year, the new iPhone X(10) was made and holy cow how the technology went from iPhone 3 to iPhone 10 in just 5 years(i think it was 5 years).
The iPhone X(10) has cool features that nobody thought of buying it. One of the features are Facial recognition. what i mean by that is, the iPhone X(10)recognizes your face changed your not it still recognizes it.
Another one is that there is now a wireless charger which is insane even though you have to buy the charger to connect it but u dont have to use the word "plug" anymore, instead you say is "I'm going wireless today." The last one I'm going to mention is it doesnt have a home button anymore. Instead, you swipe up or down(i dont know how it goes since i dont have an iPhone X(10))to go to the main page of your screen. | 0 |
The Electoral College has been established since the founding of our country. It is a system that has been tried and tested to work over the course of centuries. It should be upheld for it's ability to produce a solid outcome, and though it has the possibility of failing it's faults are not worse than the popular vote system, and that the Electoral College fosters a presidency campaign that appeals to multiple regions of the United States. This fair system allows representation of the people's will, just like the rest of our government does.
Faith in a certain outcome of the presidential election ensures that the vote has as little complications as possible, and is a reason the Electoral College is necessary. According to source one, "What Is The Electoral College?", each political party has it's own set of electors that equal the amount of congressional delegates per state. Usually each state has a "winner-take-all" method, so the presidential candidate that gets majority in your state will get all of the electors that represent their party, not just most of them. This is beneficicial to the outcome of the election becuase it makes the ability for a candiate to get majority vote much simpler. There is less of a possibility of a tie, or an outcome where no candidate wins. Source 3, "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep out despised method of choosing president", states that "even a very slight plurality in a state creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state..." , therefore allowing the candidate to secure all votes to their side, instead of having the votes divided on the line of majority rule, and causing rifts between Electoral College voters.
No system is perfect, and the Electoral College is not exempt from this. "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong", Source 2, argues that a term called 'disaster factor', or the possibility of immenent disaster due to the Electoral College system, is why the Electoral College system should be abolished. The passage uses individual instances, like the fact that in 1960, segrigationists in Lousiana nearly appointed Democratic electors that would vote against their candidate, or that in rare instances, "faithless" electoral voters would vote for the other side. These are strawman arguments, using specific instances to come to a conclusion that the whole system should be abolished. While the Electoral College system isn't perfect, neither is the popular vote system. The popular vote system has a higher chance of causing a tie between candidates, and it doesn't have a "winner-take-all" standard. In a tie, the vote would be given to the House of Representatives, which, according to source 2, "..can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people..", as citizens often vote one party in for president and another for Congress.
In addition, the Electoral College fosters a more nationwide appeal for the candidate's campaign. Source 3 brings up the fact that no region in the United States has enough electoral votes to elect a president. The "winner-take-all" system further benefits this, because in order to win, candidates have to focus their attention on states where their majority vote is insecure. They will not focus on regions where they have essentially secured the majority rule and therefore secured all the electoral votes. In popular vote, they would have to focus extensively on those regions, as the few that are not in the majority would need convincing. Source 3 goes into detail as to why a regionally picked candidate is not a proper show of the will of the people. It states that "The residents of other regions are likely to feel disenfranchised - to feel that thier votes do not count, that their new preident will have no regard for their interests...", and so having a trans-regional appeal is essential to properly representing the will of United States citizens.
Our Electoral College system should be defended and kept. It has the ability to produce a solid outcome, has flaws but ones that are not more disasterous than other systems, and drives candidates to try and present a national appeal. A single vote does not decide an election, the representation of our people should not be split in half, divided. The Electoral College does its best to give the nation the president it deserves. | 5 |
Using computers to detect emotons in a picture is outrageous. Technology has become too much apart of our everyday lives and its stepping over the line. From smart phones to this new FACS machine, technology has advanced too much.
I honestly have no words for how insane this is. Scientists these days would do anything to create a machine more like a human. Now theyre asking machines to detect emotions, whats next. I for one do not think that they need to start making robots that will eventually take over the human race. this is ubsurd. Why would anyone trust machinery to detect emotions, why couldnt they have left Mona Lisa alone and just said that she looked happy and content? We do not need technology for anything! Especially not this.
Humans and machines do not need to communicate at all let alone "emotionally communicate". thats just wrong. Humans are humans and technology is technology. Advancements in technology shouldve stopped at smart phones. People wonder why half the stuff that goes on these days is so bad, its because we have allowed technology to come into our world and give people resources they never wouldve needed.
Computers and humans do not need to be related, they should stay seperate. no one in their right mind should want an emotional connection with a robot, thats wrong. Robots should not be a thing and technology needs to stop before it gets out of control and its no longer in the humans hands its in the machines.
Dont let technology take over the world. | 2 |
The invention of the automobile was one of the most important inventions of all time. Everyone uses cars! They're everywhere! But what are the effects of car emissions? Are they even worth using if they cause negative effects on people and our environment? Many people are trying to cut back on driving, or even live without cars. Why are they doing this? Well, let me inform you about some of the advanrtages of limited car usage throughout the world.
In Vauban, Germany, there is a suburb where people have decided to ban cars all together. The neighborhood roads are completely car-free and even having a garage is usually not allowed. About 5500 people live in this suburb and 70% of these people do not own cars. For the other 30%, there is a parking garage that is located on the edge of the community that requires a $40,000 payment to use. This trend is growing immensely in Europe and there could quite possibly be several communites that would mirror Vauban and what it is all about. This effort to ban cars is based on the idea of reducing pollution as well as reducing stress, and many members of the community insist they live happier and less stressful lives since moving into Vauban.
Bogota, Columbia is the home to nearly 7 million people, and in Bogota there is an annual car-free day, with hopes to reduce smog and promote alternative transportation. There is also hope that this idea will spread to other cities and to other countries around the world. For the people who decide not to participate in the annual car-free day, a fine of $25 would be handed out. This "holiday" if you will, could be revolutionary potentially and if implemented year round, could really put a dent in the ammount of pollution throughout the city. Even the mayor of Asuncion, Paraguay revered the program, saying it is "generating a revolutionary change".
Officials in Paris, France put a partial driving ban on the city in an effort to reduce smog in the city. The ban worked like this, on Monday, drivers with even-numbered license plates would not be allowed on the road. The next day, it would be the drivers eith odd-numbered license plates that would have to leave their cars at home. Nearly 4000 people were fined due to the enforcement of this ban, for somewhere around $120,000 total. The strictness of the ban was due to the seriousness of the smog and the fact that it was intensifying. The dissapearance of the smog resulted in loosening of the ban and less negative feedback from drivers.
As you can see, these places have been limiting car usage and found at least some sort of benefit from doing so. Maybe if these restrictions or all together bans were implemented in more places, pollution in the world would be hindered. | 2 |
Have you ever had a job in high school when it was a huge deal. Well if you did not i'm going to inform you about a teenager who has one. If you have a bet it is nothing like this one! So, now I am going to give you some deatials about this passage. Which side would you pick.
First who would want to miss out a job of a life time! In the passage it states , "Luke could not say no." If Luke could not say no then why would you. Also the text states, "He knew it was an opportunity of an life time." That should be another reason why you should be apart of the Seagoing Cowboys program. All the things that Luke was saying I would want to sign up myself.
Next ,but on the other hand it is a terrible idea to go to the prgram. One reason is it is a long way to travel . In the text it states, "It took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from eastern coast of the U.S.A and a mouth to get to China. also you will miss all of your loved ones. These are some reasons why
you should not join the program.
In conclusion I think it was a good Idea to join the prgram.I have stated
why and why not to join. Also they exsplain them to to give you more deatials. This job is a great opportunity . Luke side of this essay is right. | 2 |
The possiblity of driverless cars conserving not only gas and money but also be proactive in saving the planet would be an irrisitable goal. There may be some "liability" in the manufacturing of these cars but there could be even greater achivements as well. Not including the abundance of money the economy would save on gas alone would be plentiful and amazing.
There is without a doubt some faults in sensatizing in the automotavies being created. There will never not be faults in some sort of new brand from phones to airplanes there will always be a fault somewhere so to completely throw this idea out is absurd and uncalled for. Even now we still have a little help from our sensors an example would be the "Dubbed LIDAR" sensor on top of the car to sense the cars surroindings my mother is thankful for hers im sure.
There is of course problems with driving assist somtimes it is others who cause the accident are technology can not control what us stupid humans decide to do , but mabe it can. With new and inproved drving assit there could be a possible decrease or reduction in accidents and automotavie fatalities. Drivless cars could sense a car coming into your lane sending the car into brake mode stopping it before your hit. There may even be a possibility the trafic lights connect with the sensors to alert the car to stop before running a red light and possibly killing a crossing pedestrian. As the article states " None of the cars developed so far are completely driverless".
Without a doubt there would be at least one legislative pearson who would vote aggainst this. I was in a state of shock to learn that California and Florida are part of the verry few states who are against "semis-autonomous cars". Though they do have grounds for their descison do the fact they extremley populated and condensed they still should be open to the idea of driverless cars. Even thought there are states that do not agrree or even condone this there are still improvements being made to soon create a autonomous car.
In conclusion I belive that no one pearson will understand the importance in autonomous cars. There will always be the possibility of theses cars to the save not only pople and money but the enviroment as well. There will never be a time on earth where we as humans will stop improving are lifes and necesities just rember that the next time somone mentions the autonomous car or the driverless car. | 2 |
Yes these cars can help you drive but they can aslo malfunction. Such as, if you are turning the car could turn you the other way. Also if you try to stop the care could keep going, causeing a car accedent. And what if you get pulled over by the cops and you have to stop but the car goes faster or just does not stop, you could get into some serious trouble.
With the planning and wireing of the cars other people could hack into them. For example. The people who make the cars have to program them to the streets they are driving on. One, someone could hack the car so it will go anywhere the hacker what's it to go. And two, you could track the car, where it is going, where it came from, and where it is.
You never know who is working on the car. It would be so easy for someone to make the car go oppiset of the way you want to go. You could be turing left and the car would turn right. Or you want to go straight but the car goes backwards, and vis versa.
These cars are not for everyone. Some people are going to take advantage of the fact that they do not have to really drive. So they could just program the car to go to one place and then sleep the rest of the way. But the problem is, is that the car does not know when there is a accident or not. so it could avoid it. | 2 |
We have many planets in our solar system that we have been to, landed probes on them, or maybe orbited around them. Their are some that we have not explored because its too dangerous. For example, Venus. We cannot explore venuse because it is filled with carbon dioxide. The author of this passage thinks that we can study Venus and explore what it holds.
Venus also know as the "Evening Star" is one of the brightest point of light in the night sky. It is also referred to as Earth's "twin". It has a think atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide and has clouds of highlt corrosive sulfuric acid. There are many things to explore in Venus.
Long ago, Venus was covered with oceans and could have supported various forms of life. Today, Venus still has some features to Earth like valleys, mountains, and craters. Venus can be an option for a planetary visit, but it would be hard getting there. But NASA maybe found a way.
According, to NASA, they are finding ways to study Venus. Right now there possible solution for Venus conditons is to allow scientists to float above the fray. There are testing more possible ways.They tested some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide and put it in a chamber stimulating of Venus's surface and been doing this for three weeks in hard conditions. Another thing is going back to old technology called "mechanical comptuers". These played an important role during World War II. They make calculations by using gears and levers. They did not require electronics.
We all been worried about has dangerous something is, but there i always a way to see it. Venus is going to be a challenge to see but we will see insight of what the planet looks and what it has stored to explore.. | 1 |
The use of technology to read the emotional expression of students in a classroom is valuable. Having computers be able to detect the emtions you are feeling will be a good thing.
Technology will start to help students do better in school and help to learn understand how they might be feeling while doing school work. Paragraph 6 states " a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored Dr. Huang predicts, then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This quote shows that in the future technology could help students become more engaged in their school work and help them be able to focus. Teachers teach in certain ways and it usually doesn't work for all the students in the class, while having better technology will help the student possibly become better at the subject. "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication, notes Dr. Huang, so computers need to understand that, too." Communication in humans is mostly read through body language and facial expressions and techonology right now can not detect those things. Once computers can read facial expressions many classrooms will have students who are more excited about doing their school work because it'll be based on what they prefer and how they learn best.
In the future technology will be able to do much more then it already can now. The use of technology to help read peoples' emotions in a classroom will become valuable. | 3 |
Do you like to take adventures? Would you like to explore the world? Do you like taking care of animals? Well if you do this is the right place for you.
You should join the program because you will have a lot of fun! We will be exploreing places and going all over the world. You will get to eat new foods and get to go to new places and more. We will be taking care of horses, young cows and mules. But you can not be afraid to go on ships because that is what we will be riding on. You also have to be very responsible because taking care of animals as big as them is hard work.
So come on down and join us the Seagoing Cowboys cant wait to see you. Hope to see you soon! Here are all of the places we will possibley be going; Italy, China, Atlantic Ocean, Greece, Euroupe, and the United States. | 1 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", the author makes really good points on how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System can benefit us in the future. In the article, Nick D'Alto makes a few points on how this new technology can benefit students in a classroom. Having this new technology in the classroom would be great so teachers can detect wether their students are bored or tired.
Having a Facial Action Coding System will benefit an ordinary classroom in various ways. In the text it states," A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," This shows that if the students get confused or bored then it'll instruct the teacher who will then explain it to the student or make the lesson seem more interesting. This is important because it can help teachers out when they teach a new lesson.
In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System will benefit classrooms all across the globe. It'll be able to detect the students' emotions and report the information back to the teacher. Then the teacher will then know how their students feel about the curriculum and if they need extra help or not. | 1 |
Developing driverless cars is an important part of the future of the automobile industry. Driverless cars will be safer and more reliable. Self drive cars are the cars of the future because, they can brake, accelerate and steer on their own.
Driverless cars being able to break and stop on their own would prevent car crashes from happening. This would save lives and prevent injury. The author states "the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better responce and control than a human driver could manage alone." This would allow cars to stop faster than humans could manage and to prevent cars from scidding and flipping. The author reffers to the advancements in the sensors that "make driving safer" would allow cars that can handle more tasks on their own.
Cars that accelerate on their own would prevent speeding, which is a risky driving habit. If a car is able to accelerate on it's own it would allow trafic to move smothly with little frustration. The author states that "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph". This is a long way from driving on the interstate, however it can be done. The author atates that Sebastion Thrun belives " That technology has finnaly begun to catch up to the dream" If technology keeps advancing we could have self driving cars in decades.
Cars that can steer on their own would prevent a large portion of car crashes and other automobile accidents. This would save lives, The author states "but special sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." The driver would stil have the ability to have control of the car when neccasary. This way the driving experience is even safer. The author states "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" This would make the passing of the law to allow self driving cars tricky,however it can be done.
Self drive cars are the cars of the future because, they can brake, accelerate and steer on their own. This makes them safer and more reliable. This would save lives and prevent injuries which makes them the smart choice for cars in the future, Manufactures should focus on developing self driving cars for the good of the world. | 3 |
The electoral congress, made by the founding fathers for the people to vote for the President and Vice President. Also there is a process that consist in the counting of the electoral votes by congress. "the office of the federal Register". There are also issues with the idea of having the electoral congres becuase the voters get confuse and vote for the wrong candidate, but today those erros do not happen. The candidate is the person who is going to be the next President and Vice President.
To begin with, Having the electoral congress is a great idea, it is an easy method of choosing the candidate that the people want to have for four years guiding taking care of the Precidency, and there are reasons of having the electoral congress, if you are part of the united states you can give your opinion and vote for the person that you think is going to the right one.
Secondly, The electoral congress keeps the organization of counting the votes and declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes (The winner). when you are voting for the cadidate you are voting for a slate of electors that were choosen by the congress, and the people will decide who they wanted to be their president and this is all about the people, and their opinion because they are the ones who vote for the candidate and they want him or her to be the president. the congress has some erros but as time is pasing, it keeps getting better and having less issues because they have a modern techonology, thats now is taking care of the votes and keeping it orgainze.
In conclusion, many people today prefer and thank to the founding fathers of creating the electoral congress becuase is way more better. every one who is part of the united states can vote for the candidate that they want. the electoral congress was a great idea and everyone enjoys it becuase they are the ones who give their opinion to the congress and choose the candidate that they want to have for four years, giving benefits to the united states and there is a perfect example of our current precident who is doing a great job taking care of the united states. | 2 |
The voters of America do not vote for a president; they vote for a slate of electors who then elect a president. The Electoral College is the process of voters relying on a slate of electors to vote for the pesidential candidate of their choice, though they cannot always guarantee who the electors will vote for. The Electoral College should be changed to election by popular vote for the president because it is a non-democratic method since voters do not get to vote for a president diectly, even though the outcome is almost always in the favor of the voter.
The Electoral College is a non-democratic method of voting because voters only get to vote for a slate of electors, not the president of their choice. Although it is rare for an elector to vote for the president that is not the first choice of of the people who elected him, it has happened. The Electoral College is also unfair because in the system, the "winner takes all". This is unfair because nominees only spend their time campaigning in the "swing states" that will get them the most votes. In these states, some voters know they have no chance of getting the president they wish to elect if the majority of the state chooses to elect the other candidate.
The Electoral College is an unfair way of voting because citizens do not have a voice in their elcetion; can only hope that their elector votes for the president of their chioce. Our Senator should change to election by popular vote so that every citizen may have a vote! | 2 |
Hello my name is Luke I think you guys should join the program because its fun you can even join when you are out of high school. A man came up to me at one of my jobs and asked if I wanted to do it so I had to say yes because I knew it would be fun to do. You also get to travel places with the other cowboys. We do this to help the countries in Europe that got destroyed in World War II recover. We help them get thier animals food supplies.
44 other nations helped us and all together. we made something called UNRRA that stands for United Nations Relief and Rehibitation Administation. Thats were I come in the UNRRA hired Seagoing Cowboys to take care of the horses and cattle and mules so me and Don signed up. If you turn 18 when you are a Seagoing Cowboy you can be drafted to the military services but they might tell you to keep doing the Seagoing Cowboy for a service. I even got to see Europe, China, Greece, Italy and more.
It made me aware on other countries and their needs. It was also fun to be on board. I got to play table tennis, baseball, volleyball, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games that passed time. I think you should join to and do all of the fun things I did. You will learn a lot of things. You will aslo learn about other people and not thinkig about yourself. | 1 |
I am for driverless cars, I believe they are the true future of vehicles. I think that cars where people still actually drive them will be used as entertainment than actual means of transportation. Traffic laws will of course have to be made for the driverless cars as time goes by, but I think that once they are fully driverless there will be little to no driving laws as the cars will be advanced enough to not have to worry about them. Cars may not be fully driverless in our lifetime, but I believe that eventually it will happen.
Traffic laws for vehicles will be added and removed as the advancement of driverless cars continue. I think that there will be motion sensors or a sync that will detect when a car is coming to a stop sign or a stop light and will make it stop on its own. All the basic driving laws of today will either be altered or removed more than likely.
Cars that are still required to have an actual person control them will be used more as entertainment purposes than for actual transportation. It will be like sporting events such as NASCAR and Formula 1 racing I would say. They will not be used for actual transportation though.
Cars will not be fully driverless in our lifetime, I believe. We will be very close to achieving it, however. I think that they will still be semi-driverless by then. | 1 |
The article "Driverless Cars" is about the stance on when and how driverless cars will be made and deploded onto the roads of the United States and elswhere. When I read the article I was fasinated by someparts of the story and not happy about other parts. I believe we shouldn't have driverless cars or have some version where we can turn on and off the driverless mode.
If we have driverless cars I wouldn't buy one because it is so much easier to me in my opinion just to drive it on itself. The reason being is that I don't believe they will be as safe as they say. The reason I say that is because people might want to drive their own cars and people might not like computers controlling their every move. I personally think that since most of the world's population already know how to drive it will just have more deadly accidents. In the story it says "The combination sof all this input is to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel." They don't say it will improve human driving just that it will mimic. So why would we replace something that has worked for a hundred years with something that will work the exact same way and not improve it? I don't get it.
Now I like that we have cars that will be able to make the roads safer with sensors. That's something we can capitilize on, not driverless cars that change nothing except the driver. Tesla will not release a car by 2016 because it is 2016 and I've not heard anything. The technologies not even there for people to drive on highways and it's a big waste of time on all those engineers when they can be making something to make this world better.
I hope you all enjoyed this. If not I'm sorry and i don't realy care. So thanks for everything. This is why we shouldnt have driverless cars. Thanks for nothing. | 2 |
By reading this article I am in favor of keeping the Electoral College. The Electoral College is a great way to choose our next president or Vice president. The way the process works is by how many people have voted for that on person. Each canidate has to travel to each and every state and talk about why you the people should vote for him/her. Now some citizens think that there should not be a Electoral College because they think that they are not being accounted for but when really they are. As you can see Under the Electoral College system, voters vote not for the president but for a slate of Electors,who is in turn elect the president. The five main reasons for retaining the Electoral College despite its lack of democratic pedigree; all are practical reasons, not liberal or conservative reasons. These are the reason why i think that we should keep the Electoral college its a great system and its been in the United Staes for a ery long time. | 1 |
The Author Supports this Idea very well. Tells us the many ways that scientist researching venus is bennificial to us. Venus has many risk that we would take when studying such as the temputures there with the stupendous amounts of heat. They say that it would be great to explore from 30 miles up but I think the tempture would still be to much to handle in the aritcale it states the tempture would still be about 170 degrees . In the passage they state the pros and the cons of exploring venus and think that there are more pros and cons and the author supports thay very well and says all of them and admits that there is more cons the pros but then after they says that there may be more reasons not to explore but the reasons to explore out way the other reasons not to explore. They Talk about how testing things and new technology on venus atmosphere can really be a benifit to the human race because imagine if your cell phone could become more heat resistant or easier to use under extreme forces In conclusion i would like to say the authour supports themself very well and gives very straight forward details and provides argument to her own opinion. | 1 |
I think that they should have more people join/help with the Seagoing Cowboys program.
I think they should have more peoople beacuse then it will incluse having more help instead of having so many animals with not so amny opeople. For example, if you had ten/10 cows and one/1 person then it would be harder . But if you had al least five/5 people helping then you would have half as many which might/would have a big effect on how much more help is nedded/wanted.
What if you put it at a diffrent point/thought. As in, what if those cows and horses were going to little kids? And they were for example going to use them for 4-H because if then would it make other people want to join? For the kids sake? Would you think that would make more people join? More people help? More people to "get involved"?
I think if we brought it to people's attention that, joining this could possibly "save an animal". If you really think about it you could even save a farm, because cows produce milk and some poeple cant even afford milk and thing that you could get from these animals that are in this program. The following problem about the farm.
And a cool part about helping would be you could go overseas if you join the program. And if you have a mind like Luke then, as qouted in this passage " I would be glad to have this opertunity. And another great benifit out of helping/joining, is as said in the story, "Table-Tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and alson games to help times to pass by.
"It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs". And if you think about it with this being quoted/said in the passage it could teach people a real lesson about others inneed of others help. So this could be
"Learning Opertunity". So this is could teach people another reason on how they arent the only ones ineed.
All these reasons are things that support my answer on how I think that they should have more pople join/help in the Seagoing Cowboys Program. | 1 |
Luke thinks people should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because people will be able to learn a lot of things from different countries.They get oppertounity to explore the country.They can also do thing like eat food and meet new people.
People like Luke joined the program so they can see different parts of the world and learn more about that country.It gives them a chance to be apart of that country. For an example, Luke had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. For another example, Luke made nine trips-the most of any Seagoing Cowboy. This is why Luke think's you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program.
This person think that people shouldn't join this program because they could miss out on the high pay jobs.Parents would want to keep their kids in the state
that they graguated from. THey should stay home so that they don't forget where they come from. traveling is the worst idea in the world. this is the reason that people shouldn't join this program.
Some people want you to participate in this program, and some people don't . It would be a great oppertunity to learn about the country, or it can be the worst. But these are reasons people should or shouldn't join this program. | 0 |
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