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Driverless cars is the way the automotive industry is heading, and will be here sooner than people think. Many big names that specialize in different aspects of technology are working on driverless cars. Some of the biggest are Google, BMW, and Tesla. People have long dreamed of driverless cars, and in the 1950s GM tried "smart roads" as a solution, but was soon disregarded because of the cost.
Almost all the successful driverless cars have been producted by big successful companies that are household names. Google is highly respected and is working on a driverless cars, and in total those cars have driven more than half a million miles. In those half a million miles not a single crash has happened. BMW is also helping solve problems with driverless cars by intoducing "Traffic Jam Assistant." This new technology requires the driver to have their hands on the wheel as the car drives itself in case the person is needed to take over. Also Toyota has helped set the templet for Google's smart car by producing the Toyota Prius.
The knowledge of how to design a smart car has been around for a long time, but the technology is just now letting us build our dream car. Improvments on technology and cheaper technology makes it easier to build a smart car. An example of technology that has under gone this transformation are all the different sensors in cars. This technology is also making cars safe like an antilock break.
People have long dreamed of driverless cars, and the human race is known for making dreams into realality. For a long time driverless cars have only been seen in television shows and movies, but now big name companies are working hard to solve the probelms that face smart cars to make it come true. This dream is nothing new, and was first tested in 1950s by GM.
Driverless cars are not to far away in the future and will help make our lives safer. With some of the best companies in the world investing time, money, and reseach on smart cars the only question is when. When it is a dream of not just a person, but millions that in it's self is enough drive. | 1 |
The reason why people want to learnn more about venus is because is that its the closet planet compaired to earth in are solar system. Even with its dangerous conditions it shares many simularites to earth. It has things like valleys, mountains, and craters.
The reason however why we've never been able to get a closer look at it is be cause of is dangorus conditions. Things like valcanic europtions, earthquakes, and the contsant lighting storm make it difficult to gett anthing to land on the the ground. However the reason why scientist still wish sto study this planet is that it still would be somewhat possible to support human life.
There was even possibley one point when venus was the most earth like planet in our solar system. It may have even at one point when it could have been possible to support life and it might even had supported life at one point. This is probably why scientist strive to land something on it.
These are the reasons why the authors claims are very much a possibilty. Maby some day venus well be more like a countroy and become a tourist destinaition or just become a place for people to live. but we mont know unless we keep on trying. | 2 |
Mona Lisa's facial expressions were "determined" by the Facial Action Coding System. It determined that she was "83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angery" (D'Alto). This super high-tech machine can identify your emotions based on analyzing the muscles in your face. But is the technology really needed in classrooms?
The knowledge of emotional expressions to teachers can be very beneficial. Everyone knows that kids don't learn the same and keep up at the same pace. Teachers could use this for kids to know how comfortbale they are with the lesson. In the text it 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'" (D'Alto). This shows that FACS can help students who don't understand the lesson, by looking at their facial expressions, and changing the lesson to fit them.
Others would argue that facial expressions for every person and emotion are different. As the author pointed out in the text, "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal" (D'Alto), people will disbelieve because not every person shows the same emotion the same way. Some oppossers would argue that the addition of the system to education would drastically bring up the cost. Making schools more expensive and put schools at an advantage.
Although I agree with the fact that not every face makes the same expression,
FACS can identify the way the muscles move to indicate the emotion. In the text it states, "This process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles" (D'Alto). This quote shows how the system works and to identify the muscle movement in your face. While, yes the cost of education will increase due to the addition of FACS, the benefits will outway the costs. Like any technological addition to schools, they use funds and sponsors to help pay for that stuff. Helping kids find a new way to learn and helping them succeed, seems a lot more important than costs.
In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System will help teachers and students world wide succeed. When teachers know how to fix their lessons based on how their students learn, it makes the job easier for them and they get to see their students grow. Although the FACS was able to identify Mona Lisa's facial expressions, they can be used for so much more in the real world. | 3 |
Help wanted!
The Seagoing Cowboys program is in need of help from other herders.
Why would anyone want to do this? With the program, you are able to help out other people, do things you typically would not do, and have fun.
I think it is beneficial to join the Seagoing Cowboys program because you are able to help out people.
It is important to help people because not only does it benefit them, it benefits you as well by bringing joy in to your life.
In the text it states that in 1945,
World War 2 was over in Europe, and many countries were left in ruins.
This is just one reason why this program is beneficial.
Another reason why I think that joining the Seagoing Cowboys program is beneficial is becuase you get to do different things in your free time that you would not normally get to do.
In the text it says that they got to tour many places.
My final reason why I think that joining the Seagoing Cowboys program is beneficial is because you get to have fun.
In the text, it says that while they were unloading the animals, they played baseball, volleyball, table tennis, fencing, boxing, reading and even whittling.
These are just a few reasons why I think that people who join the program will have lots of fun.
In conclusion to all of this, I think the Seagoing Cowboys program is beneficial to all. | 1 |
I believe that driverless cars are unnecessary because of the liabilities that come with them, there's nothing wrong with standard cars, and too easy to take control over from an outside force.
One of the reasons I think driverless cars are unnecessary is because of the liabilities. If the car doesn't alert you and tell you that you're about to crash and you end up hitting someone, who's at fault? You or the manufacturer? Certainly it would be the manufacturer, wouldn't it? But you should've been paying attention! You can't just expect the car to alert you every time! But, isn't that what it's supposed to do? How are we supposed to have driverless cars if you can't even come to a clear decision on whether it's the driver's or manufacturer's fault in the case of a crash? These cars will create too many complex legal battles and are unnecessary.
Another reason I think driverless cars are unnecessary is that there is absolutely nothing with standard cars. Sure, people will be stupid and get behind the wheel under the influence; but, they will be able to be held accountable for their actions and have to pay fines, serve time, etc. What will become of people who just want to drive to drive? Standard cars provide security in knowing that the person behind the wheel will need to know what they're doing. What if a cell tower is down and the car won't be able to drive itself? How does the car drive in places with absolutely no reception? Driverless cars are not big of enough of a step up from standard cars.
The final reason I feel that driverless cars are unnecessary is because they are too easy to take control over. Now, I do not mean that it's easy to just grab the steering wheel and turn the car into a random tree off the side of the road or anything like that. I mean that if a computer is driving the car, can't it be hacked into? Hackers can get into some of the most secure computers in the world, so what's stopping them from doing that with computers that drive cars? Say someone that is mentally ill enough to not like someone to the extent that they want them dead, isn't it easier to just hire someone to hack into their car computer and make them get into an accident? Driverless cars pose too many risks to people inside them as it is easier to be taken over by an outside force.
Some may say that driverless cars can actually help and are a good invention. They can make driving across the country or down to Florida for spring break much easier than having to sit and pay attention to the road for sixteen hours straight. But, you still have to pay attention to the road. The car isn't completely accident-free. What if the dad who has all of his kids and his partner in the passenger seat starts drifting off at the wheel? It's dark and he doesn't have to focus on anything so what's keeping him awake? What if he doesn't wake up when his car alerts him that it is about to crash and the car gets totalled? Although seemingly incredible, driverless cars offer up far more cons than pros.
That is why I believe that driverless cars are unnecessary because of the complexities of legal issues that come with them, they aren't much of a step up from standard cars, and they are too easy to take over from an outside perspective. Next time you start thinking about how nice it would be to have something drive your car for you, just think of the dynamics of everything that could be wrong with it and call a taxi service instead. | 4 |
There are many different plants in our solar system. You may have a favorite one or maybe you're just not that interested in it. Well have you ever thought about taking a trip to the moon or just the planet period maybe even studying a planet just for fun? It will cause you to think about the 5 w's first the who, who will be there are there lots of humans just floating around in space? what will it be like, what would it look like? Why did someone create this?
when did everything take place? Why did it take place? Where did everything all begin And what made someone think of this ?
Let's say you studied Venus. Venus is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planted in our solar system. It could be by far the most exiciting plant that you could ever study and the greatest dangerous one too. Beyond high pressure and heat Venus geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes. Venus causes many things to corrupt without venus there would be many corruptions in the world. But so does any other planet right? Not every planet is a good planet.
How is Venus tested and when was it discorved ? According to the text," Many astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planted in our solar system" The text also states that " Long ago, Venus was probably covered largelt with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. " Different plantes have been here for over 1,000 years crazy right, If you was to imagine what life would be like with out planets or gravity keeping everything in check what would we be up to right now. We need these things to survive.
Venus could be the most by far dangerous planet to visit the text says ," Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere". The text also states that, " On the plantet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." This goes to show that if you were able to take a trip to Venus you probaly would pass out or either die because the tempature is not average compared to the Earth's and there's less oxygen.
You might take it into concederation that we should not be limited to on things we want to do just because the danger of things, and I agree because the world be so much better if we did what we wanted. Studying a planet and actually going to see about it could be someone's biggest dream but they are stopped by it because of the outcome. Many people say chase your dream but how if we stuck in the same mind frame as everyone else. | 1 |
Imagine being able to sit back and let your car take the wheel. It sounds great right? But what if the car was being driven by a computer imagine all of the possible things that could go wrong. Driving your car rather than having a computer drive your car is the best way to go. Driving your own car puts your own life in your own hands.
With driving your own car you can make all of the choices keeping yourself in only the danger you put yourself in. Nobody wants a computer to put them into danger that they would not put themselves in. Now some people would say that with the computer driven car it could make better choices then a normal human, but with the computer car you are risking putting your life in a computers virtual hands.
Human driving puts yourself in a responsible place and it teaches you responsibility over your actions. With computer driving if it wrecks you automatically blame the computer and you will not take responsiblity over the actions. This is not a good habbit to get in because as teennagers when first being able to drive if you are aloud to blame any small thing on the computer system it will become a habbit to always blame something else even though it might be your part. People might say that with computer driving it would have less accidents, but it is not proven that a computer driver will not have misfunctions.
With human driving your fate is in your own hands you are not putting your life into someone else's hands and deffintley not a computers. With the computers there is too many chances for it to have a bad function and mess up. Also with the computer drivers you still have to be up and alert for any circumstances where you might have to take over so you might as well just take over the wheel all together. With computer driving it puts people in risk of falling asleep behind the wheel which would mean if it came to a point where they needed to take over they would not be able to. People would say it would be relaxing to be able to just sit and be droven for, but you could get a little too relaxed.
With human driving it puts everything into your hands it does not allow a computer to lead to your death or injury. Human drivers can be a little reckless but you have no way in telling when a computer driver will have a misfunction. Driving your car rather than having a computer drive your car is the best way to go. Do not be the one to put your life in a computers virtual hands. | 3 |
The planet Venus is a very strange place. Scientists have very little knowledge about this Earth-like planet with an atmosphere that contains 97 percent carbon dioxide. Venus is one of two closest planets that we can visit and learn about (the second being Mars). Although we have sent vessels to Mars to study the area none of them prove a challenge as much as the ones sent to Venus do. The extremeities of weather on Venus prove pretty difficult to allow spacecrafts to land upon its surface.
Scientists discribe Venus as being the closest planet for planetary visit. If it weren't for the the obscurity of Venus we would have more information on it. The thick layer of carbon dioxide in Venus's atmosphere and a atmospheric pressure which seems to be 90 times stronger than Earth's makes it pretty difficult for further inspection up close of Venus. If a spacecraft can't land there much less a manned ship. The 800 degree weather and clouds full of highly corrosive sulfuric acid also causes problems for spacecrafts to land on Venus.
Although it might be tough scientists are not giving up hope on trying to reach Venus since it is one planet that closely resembles Earth. Venus has many similarities to Earth such as a rocky surface with sediment, valleys, mountains, and craters. It is also higly probable that Venus's surface was covered in large oceans wich made it a planet that can support life. If we knew what caused Venus to turn this uninhabitable we could figure out a way to reverse it and make it safe to live on.
If scientists find a way to land a spacecraft onto Venus's surface we could find out if it still has some form of life on it and start a mission to reenable Venus to be habitable for humans. Even if such a thing is possible it is going to take a very, very long time to figure it all out. The reason scientists aren't giving up on the exloration of Venus is because of the fact that the human population is growing and growing pretty quick. If we run out of space or resources we don't know what will happen to the future human race.
We need Venus as a back up plan. Venus will serve as a way to expand even without running out of space on Earth. Either way the exploration of Venus is such a neccesity to us that we can't give it up. One day in the future some people will be ble to call Venus there home. That is what gives me hope for the future. There is one part of me that thinks what if we never manage to make Venus reinhabitable. WIll natural selecetion take place ? Will the human race get diminished by nuclear weaponry? Who knows what can take place for our future. All we can do know is to continue to live life to the fullest and hope for the best. | 3 |
On May 24, 2001 NASA had thought that they had discovered a face on mars that was created,by aliens. Because any human face can look like that. It couldn't have been aliens because aliens doesn't even exist.
The only reason that they think it was aliens because everyone around the world always talk about how aliens live on mars! You can tell by how the face looks like that it is a human face. The reason that make it look like an alien face because of how long it had been there for,and that was about twenty years,and also that its covered up with rocks and dirt.
But to let you know that its not a person that aliens had created,because if you look at paragraph seven that Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC), took good,very sharp picture of it,it revealed . . . a natural larmform.
That it was no alien monument after all. But they had to get more evidence to really make sure that it was a ordinary human and that was not created by aliens because lots of people belive was not satisfie,and actually belive that it was created by humans.
So whe they look back at it they discover somthing, they discoverd that it was a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars. And thats what had lead people to know that it was landform human face. | 1 |
When people grow up they have choices to make and they have to decide if something is worth the risk for the outcame they may or may not recieve. In this article the author discuss's why studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author supports the idea of studying Venus with, Venus will lead to new discovery's with the help of technology, still having more to explore, and being able to learn things we have never known or seen before.
NASA still has more opportunites to make new technology. With new techology NASA will be able to land on Venus and discover new things, "some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's suface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." This advancement in technology may allow people to be able to land on Venus and allow us to discover Venus. The author shows that studying Venus is not far along with the technology.
Venus still has more to be explored; Venus is a planet that we have been on the edge about, because NASA is unable to land on Venus. "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." This shows that we have not been able to land and explore Venus as we would like. Which is not allowing us to explore Venus liek we have done with the other planets. Venus is a planet that we know about but have been unable to explore and find out its unknown things.
The author discuss's how we still have more opportunities to learn about Venus. The authors gives reasons on why we cannot land on Venus, which doesn't allow us to study Venus like we should. We are not able to find out Venus's truths. "Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challening planet for humans to study, despite its proxmity to us." This shows that since we have not been able to get to the surface we still have alot of unknown things to learn about Venus. And that we are needing to keep studying Venus despite its dangers.
In this article the author discussed why we should keep studying Venus. We should keep studying Venus to learn new things, we still have more opportunites to discover with the use of advancemnt in technology, and we still have more to explore about Venus. NASA can finds its truths that are hidden to us. Being able understand Venus is worth the risks. | 3 |
Most people would like to think the "Face on Mars" is related to aliens in some way. However, that theory is highly unlikely. As in the in the article, the pictures from three different time periods, show different things, and each is more accurate than the other. It appears in the third picture (the most updated picture from 2001) that there is no face at all. It simply looks like a natural landform. The face was just shadows.
Even with the most updated and accurate picture from 2001, people still like to argue it could be a connection to alien life. Alien life has yet to be proven and is based off of theories, just like the face on Mars. These people are just ignoring the facts. My question is, why are people still basing there theory on an outdated and poor-pixlated picture when the newest one prooves its just a landform? I would like to think it has to do with fantasy. Most people get so stuck on something they wish were true just to make there life more entertaining, and most people like a little mystery as well. The thing is though that facts over-rule theories and perdictions.
According to the article, it says that with the newest picture, if there were something, we would've caught it in the picture. That is proof that it is only a landform. They even compare it to some of our landforms on earth, so I don't see how people still believe it could be something else. As I've adressed before, alien life isn't even prooven, so how could we be sure if this is connected to that all? We can't.
I would also like to adress shadows. In the first picture it had been said that they were only just shadows. There have been many instances of when we've seen shadows on objects and thought it looked like something else. This case isn't any different than that. We base most things on what we see rather than what it really is. It tells us in the article people have put the face in things such as movies, books, and magazines. For some reason people tend to feed into those things rather than whats really true. That goes along with the thing I said earlier about how people will believe what they want and pick the thing thats more exiting over whats logical.
There are facts and there are theories. Facts are what tell us that the 'Face on Mars" isn't anything alien related just a natural landform. Kind of a dissapointment really. | 3 |
The 'Face' in Space
The Face is a bonafide example of a natural landform. However, some people say that it is an ancient artifact that proves that there is life on Mars. Scientists have said that the Face is just another buttle or Martian mesa, that the Face is just another natural landform and there isn't a face at all. It is just a common landform.
Even if the masses aren't satisfied, the Face will remain just a buttle or Martian mesa. Martian mesas are common enough around Cydonia, the place where the Face was found. The Face only has shadows that make it appear like a face. Conspiracy theorists say that the Face might be evidence of ancient civilization on Mars, but defenders of NASA's budget beg to differ.
Truly, the face is just a natural landform.
As the text states "There wasn't an alien monument after all."The passage also reads that Malin sent a team to capture a more clear picture of the Face. Some said that there might have been hidden alien markings, and they were proven wrong. The Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough to get a clear picture of the Face. As it turns out, there really wasn't a alien monument after all.
In the beginning, there was no face to begin with. The Face only had unusual shadows that made it look like a face. NASA unveiled the image for everyone to see and here in the passage it reads "huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose and mouth." This shows that there wasn't a face, just an illusion.
There is the arguement that the Face is evidence of an ancient civilization. At the time the picture of the Face was taken, it was winter. Perhaps the alien markings were hidden by the cloudy haze. Mission controllers even looked again. On a cloudless, summer day, the Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough to take the another picture, in hope there was something that they didn't see. Even so, the scientists were proven right again. The Face was really a mesa, a landform common in Cydonia.
In conclusion, the Face turned out to be a common landform. Just another buttle, another landform, another rock formation, not really a face at all. There is no evidence that there was even a civilization and there wasn't even evidence that there was life to begin with! Again, there could have been alien markings that were covered by the haze, and there could have been life on Mars. Let us face the facts though; in this reality; there isn't a face on Mars, there isn't a civilization on Mars and it is just another landform. | 3 |
No, FACE is not created by aliens. as a person who works for nasa face is not created by aliens. i say this because Face is a naural landform found on mars. if you look at the pictures you can find that the imagae is getting clearer and clearer. Have you ever seen an alien in real life? do you belive that an alien has seen a human before? At first NASA
thought it was just a martian mesa that made it look like a eygptian pharoah. Afer a couple days had past we unveild the image wo the whole would could see the photo. When the image was seen by people the caption under image was " It ewsembles a human head, with eyes, nose, and mouth.''
Have you even seen an image that it looks like a person? Well, that's what we found on Mars. After a few years had past on April 5, 1998, Michael Mailen and his Mars Orbiter Camera got a picture ten times better from before. When the picture was uploaded a website it was revealing a natural land form and no alien monument after all. Since the image was uploaded not everyone was satisfied. Skeptics, still beleve that alien was hiddenby haze. To prove skepicts wrong MGS went for a second look. When they went they captured an extraordinary picture of ''Face'' for the second time.
Finally I can say that ''Face on Mars'' was not created by aliens. The image actually shows that the Martian qquivalent of a buttle or mesa which a common around the America West. | 2 |
Imagine being in a driverless car and the car turing against you and crashing. That is the exact reason why I am aganist driverless cars. I feel like driverless cars are dangerous, unreliable, and not affordable. This article made me feel like it is even more unsafe than I orginally thought. I feel like it is unsafe for people to be in a car that does not have a driver, because of it's limited abilities and how little technology there is for it.
I think that having a driverless car is dangerous because of its limited abilities. The article said that driverless cars can not navigate through work zones and around accidents or pull in and out the driveway. If the person in the driver seat were to fall asleep at the wheel or be completely distracted how would vibrating their chair and flashing light get their attention. The technology could malfunction and that is extremely dangerous. Imagine being in the passenger seat going 60 MPH on a highway and you have a gaming device or are watching TV in your car, and then out of no where you wrecked into something else. You had no warning or no advisery that you were in a dangerous situation because that technology failed you and just caused a crash. The only solution that could possibly work is for manufactures to have cameras in the car watching the driver that is a positive. It could also be a negative based off of how it is a invasion of privacy. The smart roads would help in these situations but would cost to much money so it's practially eliminated.
Having a driverless car is plain out unreliable. If everyone has a driverless car the roads would be filled with computers and technology controlling every move and turn on the roads. Just one thing could go wrong and there could be a serveral car accidet or someones life could just have been taken. What if the steering starts acting up and it can stay in the right lane and another car has a driver who isn't paying attention then they collide. All that happened just because a car steering started messing up. Something even worse could happen for example the brakes stop working. Imagine going the speed limit down the street but someone was speeding and just got in a accident right in front of you. The seats start vibrating so you wake up and see the situation in time and try to hit the brakes and it didn't work. That would've caused another accident based off of it's unreliability with its technology. The coordination system could mess up and you end up somewhere completely off target then what you were expecting to be. All the unpredictable factors that make driverless cars unpredictable just overweight the postives of a car driving you because you don't feel like driving.
It could be to expensive for everyone to get a self driving car. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have self driving cars by 2020. The question is will be able to afford the car or be able to pay the insurance. Most cars are expensive but afforadble over a course of years because you pay a monthly payment. Imagine buying this brand new self driving car and then crashing it even though it wasn't your fault and you already went broke trying to pay for it. How would you even be able to pay for it to get fix, the thing is you would not be able too. It might be to expensive for the average person.
I think it just is not smart to have self driving cars on the roads. It is to hazardest for people to mainly rely off of it when anything could go wrong. They are trying to make it more safe by putting in cameras, or vibrating seats, and entertainment to keep you away. That's all positive stuff but that doesn't mean it is realistic. There is no promise that any of that could do what it is expected to do. I think we should just stick to people driving cars for a better and safer driving experience on the road. It's to dangerous, and unreliable, and potenially to expensive for the average person. Let's let humans do the driving and stop having technology run our lifes. | 4 |
So you believe that the face on Mars was alien made. There are very many people that belive it is alien made to. There are also many people that believe it is not alien made. I believe that it is not alien made. I believe that the "face" is actually a natural landform.
I believe that it is a natural landform because it is said that it looks like another landform on Earth. It is also shown on the pictures that NASA astronuats have taking that it is not alien made. The shadows have made the landforms craters look like facial features. There wasn't any proof of alien life on the face just theories made by consumers.
People who believe it was made by aliens say that for many reason. The first reason is that hte first picture showed what look like a face staring back at you. Sencond reason is because they believe that we are trying to hide something from them. Also people want something to believe even if it doesn't have any realistic evidence. Last but not least the theory that aliens are out there has been around for ages so it wouldn't be wrong for them to believe that aliens did it.
It may look that way in the past but only because the images we captured then were not as inhansed as the ones now. The first photograph, made from the Viking 1, may have give the illusion that it was a face. Now that our technology is now modified we can see that is was just a landform. It wasn't a face made by aliens.
i believe that it is not alien made. i belive that the "face" is actually a natural landform. There are also many people that believe that it is not alien made. There are many people that believe that it was alien made. So you believe that the face on Mars was alien made. | 3 |
Unmasking the Face on Mars
By Dariontai White
Do you think that the face is from an Alien? I do. and if you keep reading i can tell you why.
I think it's just a human from a long time ago. My evidence is this quote from the text "NASA'S Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet, snapping photos of possible lamding sites for its isster ship Viking 2, when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face." This quote explains its self, and thats's why i think its a human.
I think it just a natural landform, and i got a quote to back it up. My quote is "Thousands of anxious we surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform." and that quote tells you that it was a natural landform after all.
My last reason why I think its a landform is because of the quote that say's "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent ro a buttle or mesa - landforms common around the American West."
In conclusion, if anyone ask me what I think it is My answer would be a natural landform, and if they ask me how do i know i have evidence. | 0 |
How do you feel about driverless cars? Do you think they will be safe or dangerous? Do you think they will ever be invented and if so how long do you think it will take to invent them?
I think driverless cars are going to be an amazing product for the world and its buyers. The reason I agree with it is because many people who drive normally are focused on many others things like cell phones, kids,etc. However, driverless cars are going to be able to watch the human inside the car making sure that they are focused on the road at all times. In the text it says "Manufactuers are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road."
I think driverless cars are going to be a safe product as well. The reason I say this is that many of them have cameras installed or they are going to have cameras installed so they can see where there at and the area that they are in. They also have GPS installed just in case a driver gets lost and doesn't know where to go. There are many drivers who are always talking on their cell phone or they are on social media and they end up getting lost because of that problem. In the text it says "Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the review mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS reciever, and an inertial motion sensor."
I think the driverless will eventually be invented. The reason I say this is that some car companies already prototypes or something similar to a driverless car. A few major car companies already have cars that can drive themselves with speeds up to 25mph and also park themselves. Many people who drive normally don't know how to parallel park so once the driverless car is invented it'll be able to do it for them. In the text it says "In 2013, BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant". The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. In the text it also says "Telsa has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time."
In conclusion to my arguement, these are my reasons on why the driverless car would be an amazing product for the world and also for the safety of the drivers and their loved ones. | 3 |
I believe that driverless cars should not exist.
It's better to have people actually drive cars then to have people ride in cars without drivers.
The form of driverless cars in a public-transport already exists, its called a train.
They have to be very smart cars if they want to drive on its own.
There are so many reasons why driverless cars should not exist.
These cars are going to be so expensive that if they do make more then only a few amount of people will have them.
If people get in a car crash using the driverless car then the insurance of the man or women will have to pay for the damage when it ws actually the cars fault. Even if you crash the car the amount to fix the damage will be very expensive as well.
In the article it says "as long as thr driver is watching the road, the car will be watching the driver." Now since the driver in not actually driving the driver will eventually pull out is phone or go to sleep and since the driver wasn't paying attention the car would just crash since no was wacthing the road.
Every single piece of technology always has a malfunction so what makes us think that it is never going to have a problem.
Lots of reasons why we shouldn't have driverless cars.
If people want to but a driverless car it on them. I would get a car that will let me drive but prevent me from crashing.
Driverless cars is not a thing I will ever get. Thats what I think about driverless cars. | 1 |
If I were Luke Bomberger I would convince people to join the Seagoing Cowboys program.
The reason you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is because it's such an experince.
When you are doing your job not only are you working, you are helping other people and it gives you that good feeling down inside. As you are doing you rounds or trips or whatever you want to call it is a great opertunity for a young boy or grown man to see alsorts of stuff, like different cultures and different countrys. Another reason is your an animal lover you got yourself a job but remember one thing you do need to be strong and tuff. If you are worried about being board trust me we have loads of stuff to help you pass time some of the stuff includes, Table tennis,fencing,boxing,reading,whittling,and games so you dont half to worried about being bored.
There are some great dangers about being on sea. On my second trip I served as a watchman . My jod was to check on all the animals every hour. One rainy night I was makeing my hourly report to the captin and I slid down the slipery ladder and landed on my back side. I was happey to be alive. The one problem was that I couldn't work for a couple of days because of cracked ribs. You shouldent have that problem.
Well thats realy all I can say. Yes I agree it dose have its downfalls but thers more good things than bad I can personley tell you that. It realy helped me open my mind to the world. It helped me understand the problems other countries were facing and I realy hope it helps you open up your mind. With all my information I hope to see you at sea helping the animals. | 2 |
There are many questions still to be answered about Venus. Was it really once a survivable atmosphere for life? Could there have been life on Venus at one point in time? Were there any plant or food sources?
Venus is Earth's twin planet due to it's similarity in size and density, making it probable that Venus was once very similar to our planet and living conditions. It shouldn't be a suprise it is desired to be explored and researched.
Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system, besides it not being closest to the sun, Venus's average temperature is an average of 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Which leaves Venus being an Astronomic mystery. Even the atmospheric pressure is 90x greater than anything on earth,including the bottom of our oceans.
NASA has yet to discover a productive way to visit the planet. One idea being to hover atleast 30 miles over the landscape of Venus. A con to that is NASA's technology can not handle samples of gas or rocks due to the atmospheric pressure.
NASA is still working on ideas, a plan and the right technology to take a look at Venus which in the end, will be a magnificent discovery.
Taking a closer look at Venus could likely lead us to discovering something great in astromonmy and could likely help us answer some of the biggest questions of our Solar System.
Besides the dangers and great challenges, a history changing discovery could be made and is worth the risks. | 1 |
My position on driverless cars are that I am a total advocate for it. I think driverless cars will become a safer way into the future. I also believe that it can have an huge impact on a becoming a green earth, or reducing pollution.
Details from the story that provides valid info will definetly be passage 3. Passage 3 explains what and how many sensors the expiremental testing car had, which would also be on the final driverless cars. Also passage 7 explains what BMW has designed with the "traffic jam assistant" this is can be an aquired postive or a negative, because of people preference.
Passage 7 explains what will happen when the car's computer system can not handle intense driving situations only humans can handle. Such as road work or traffic jams. The computer or car will sense if the driver need to tak over and a gret question comes up in this passage about what is the point of buying a car that is driverless but you have to wait until you might have to drive?
This is a great question becuase it will lead more developement to the car but not all people have to buy the car. I would still drive it becuase it is safer that the average car, it designed very well to keep you afe during these drives and can give the driver a break at most of the time. It's just like every pilot needs an auto pilot for a break.
I truly believe if pople accept these driverless cars to revolutionize the car business it will change lives and also some them too. I aslo am a strong advocate of the belief on that there are more postive than negatives about the driverless cars.On a side not, this can reduce taxi pollution by half leading to a cleaner world on earth. | 2 |
The implications of technology that can detect emotions simply by reading the muscles in the face sound truly remarkable. The thought that one can tell what another is thinking simply by plugging data or maybe even a picture into an algorithm sounds like fiction, but may soon be a reality. The article, "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto briefly discusses the possible use of such technology in a classroom. The system could examine student's faces, and if they read to be unengaged or uninterested, could adjust the lesson to make learning more interesting to that group of students. That type of technology could revolutionize learning, and customly tailor lesson plans to the feelings of students on any given day. Technology that reads people's emotions would be beneficial in a classroom setting, because it would adjust lesson plans, make learning more fun, and could also help students struggling to focus in class.
The technology to read emotions would greatly change the way students learn. If a teacher used this technology and noticed that all of his students were bored and uninterested, he could alter the lesson plan to make it more fun. Not all students will feel the same, though, which is also where this technology could come in. At the beginning of a school year, perhaps, the teacher could use the technology on the class to see how they feel about the particular subject. Then, the students who are excited about the subject and show interest could be sorted into a class that can be run in a way that makes the class educationally suitable for students who actually want to learn that subject. The students that do not show as much interest, or none at all, could be sorted into a seperate class that makes the subject more fun, but still teaches the same points as the other class.
Another application of such technology in the classroom could help to make learning overall more fun for all students. If many students start to become bored, then the teacher could come up with a quick game to enrich the learning experience. If many of the students are already interested with the subject matter, the teacher may not have to do as much adjusting. If the students need to be enriched with games and activities, now the teacher will immeditely know. This could overall make learning a lot more fun, but introducing more games and activities into the curriculum as see fit. If the students want to play knowledge enriching games, they can just show disinterest, and the system would pick that up and inform the teacher. The technology to read student's emotions in the classroom as a very basic level could make learning more fun and personal to the student.
Reading students emotions would also be helpful to identify those students who are struggling to focus or simply understand the material being presented to them in class. If a student shows confusion or discontent, it may be able to pick that up and show the teacher specific students that need help. The teacher could take the student aside and ask if they need help, and then adjust their learning accordingly. Another way this technology could help struggling students is to set them up with tutors that are doing well in the class. If a student is excited to learn consistantly during that class period, they could be sat next to a struggling student in order for the one not doing as well to recieve help from a peer. The ability to read emotions in the classroom would help students who are struggling tremendously.
Adjusting lesson plans, making learning more fun, and helping struggling students are three of the main reasons in which emotion-reading teachnology would be amazing to introduce into the classroom. The students would control the class, not the teacher, and it would make the learning experience more customized to each particular class. As well, it would allow for more interesting games and activities to be introduced into the curriculum in order to keep learning entertaining and entriching. Students who struggle with particular subjects would be able to recieve help using the technology, and the teacher would not have to guess which students are struggling only based on grades. The technology of emotion-reading should be applied to all classrooms when it becomes widely available, because it could help both teachers and students improve the learning environment. | 4 |
The idea of driverless cars is one that we have seen in many places, and heard of many times. Although, we have never quite reached that achievement, I believe that driverless cars would have a great impact on todays society in a both good and bad way My belief is that this invention believe has a more positive affect. This creation can help our world have safer roads, better environment, and could actually help our environment in many ways. With the correct technology and great intention, we could eventually live in a futuristic type of world like we have always seen in movies.
Driverless cars aren't actually driverless quite yet, but they still need assitance in different occassions. For example, Google has had these cars since 2009. The cars have been tested driving more than half a million miles without a crash. The conditions where it can't perform by itself is pulling out of drive ways or driving around complex traffic. These cars still allow one to drive but it also is a way for people to sit back and just enjoy the ride. So although we might not have complete driverless cars, we have already been proven that it is possible top have a car that drives safely by itself.
Since we have seen that these cars can perform safely without an accident occurring, think of how many less accidents would occur. Many lives have been lost due to drunk driving, reckless driving, and even texting while driving. With these cars that perform on their own, people will no longer have to drive under the influence. People will now have the chance to text or call while in the car, and it will eliminate more accidents from occurring by this type of reckless driving.
Now that we know that these cars are a safer way of driving and how people could still have access in controlling these cars, we can talk about how these cars can help create a healthier environment.The Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spoken about having these cars that half the fuel of today's taxis, and that would be great for our environment. Having these less fuel cars will help create less pollution and will help decrease in smog and contamination of the air. Today, many people have cars and will use up lots and lots of gas for them which really affects our air. The cars that Mr. Brin has in mind will help us become more healthy when it comes to our environment.
These are not all the great things that could be an outcome from this great creation, but just a few. The driverless car proves to be a new, safer, and improved way of transportation.It benefits people today in many ways and will leaqd to a rising economy. My arguement is that, I believe we shouldn't pass on this great oppurtinity and we should take advantage of this newer way of transportation. It may have many things needed to improve, but it is a great way to start, and I know this driverless car is just the start of something even bigger . | 3 |
I am against driverless cars and here are my thoughts on this topic. The manufacturing company hasn't fuly developed these car advancements like the car still cannot function properly around construction sites and accidents. I am against driverless cars for reasons such as the manufactures of the company are worried that drivers still need to pay attention and they want to install cameras to watch the owner of the vehicle I believe that would be an invasion of personal time and space. (In paragraph 7) Such things are listed to get the drivers attention incase of the fact that car can not handle something ahead.
I believe from the facts given that this car is not yet ready for the world or the bumpy roads ahead considering the fact that it says the car could still get out of control or technology could have a malfunction. (In paragraph 5) It says that sensors have been developed and tested if something was to have these sensors go off and the car were tobreak and let's say soemone wasnt secure something could happen that would end in injury.
The humans today are greedy as well something could go wrong and they could sue the company for a lot of money. To me this sounds like these driveless cars still need to let the drivers do the work. (In paragraph 9) It says in some states that it's not even legal in Claifornia, Nevada, and Florida. This
just shows even our authority doesn't think they are safe yet. | 1 |
Imagien, you're going on a little vacation trip with your faimly or friends. But there's a program called the UNRRA
that you wanted to do. So you put it aside for next year becuase you wanted to hang out with your friends or faimly. Some people wanted to do things like programs or groups but couldn't becuase they have "other things" to do that aren't that really important. So this paper should make you think twice about going or signing up for the UNRRA program.
My first reason to join the UNRRA program is becuase you get to help other people in other countries that are in need for help or care. The UNRRA helpes people from Europe to China and give them stuff like food, water, and other things becuase of the war that happened in Europe which we call World War 2.
My second reason why you should join the UNRRA program is becuase that you get to see other countries or cities that aren't pausible to travel on foot, car, or train. You can get to see other counties like China, Greece, Crete, and even Panama Canal for a matter of fact.
My last reason to why you should join the UNRRA program is that there's fun activeities on the UNRRA ship to do. There's vollyball, boxing, table-tennis tornaments, fencing, baseball, whistleing, reading, and other sports or relaxing things to do before we go back to get more supplies for the people in Europe and people in other countries.
I hope this paper made you think twice about signing up or joining the UNSSA program. I'll also hope you'll join the UNRRA program sooner or later to help out others in Europe and people from other countries to make them feel safe, cared for, and happy. | 2 |
Dear Florida senator,
The United States has changed drastically and continously over the few centuries that have passed away. Americans, have been building up since our founding fathers to become the democracy we are today, a democary of "we the people". Citizens, are given the privilige to vote or not to vote and choose our leaders, but that is not what the electoral college vote has to offer. The electoral system over complicates things, lies to the people, and is not fair to voters and in its delivery.
The electoral process is a disaster that disorderly combust into problems. Because of it, issues like the election of Al-Gore who won the popular vote,but lost presidency due to the system, has caused confusion and controversy. This wouldnt have happened without the system that lies in front of the people. We voted for some one and we should have gotten that person.
The unfairness of the system goes way beyond than the probability of the losing candidate to win, and it has an incline towards one side that may harm the other. Although the "winner-take-all" method brings greater focus from candidates to campaign for and to address the real problems that voters need, it results in a battle between candidates to go for certain states that leave others with no benefit. In other words, a candidate may leave your state to recieve the silent treatment while others benefit from the attention.
To wrap it up, the electoral system causes an unfair incline towards certain objectives that the voters need. The electral system needs to be abolished. | 2 |
So you know that face on mars right? You do, good do you thing that it was made by aliens? You do, well let me tell you something it was not made by aleins it was made by comets they hit mars and they made the face because aliens are not real they are fake, so they coundn't of made them. See the comets hit mars in the right place for it to make a face. I think that it is stuiped that people still think that aliens are real they are not real!
NASA knows that aliens are fake they just want people to think that they are real so they can get more money by spreding rummers that they found a UFO that has crashed in to the earth and the weriod crop cricles that are made into the corn fields, and they make money off of that crap, I think that is stuiped that they get money on that stuff and then there is other people that are trying to find money just to feed themselfs and there childern .
The face in mars is just a hugh rock that got hit by some comets and the comets hit in just the right places and they made a face in that rock all the other syuff around it got hit to by a comet to so that is why places near the rock are caved in they got hit by a comet.
So comets made the face in the moon not aliens because remeber aliens are not real they are fake so you can go tell other people this story and one day no one will ever think that aliens created the face in a mars rock. | 1 |
Studying Venus seems almost impossible with all the risks, but the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" suggests that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite all the dangers it presents. The author certainly proves their idea on why they think studying the planet Venus is worth it. The author supports their idea by making sure to back it up with evidence. In "The challenge of Exploring Venus," the author supports their idea well by explaining Venus's relationship with Earth, how landing on Venus is possible, and the power human curiosity can have. The author's use of evidence shows readers how seriously they took what they were writing. All the points they made were backed up by evidence on why they felt that way. The author made sure to clearly support each and every point made in their writing.
First, the author uses Venus's relationship to our own planet, Earth, to support their ideas. For instance, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth" (4). The excerpt above illistrates some of the similar features Venus has to Earth. The author uses the similarities of the planets to support their idea of venus being a worthy pursuit. The text also states, "Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel" (4). The author uses this sentence to support their idea by explaining how Venus is one of the nearest options to Earth for space travel. Saving travel time is one way Venus shows it is a worthy pursuit. Overall, the author uses the relationship the planets Earth and Venus have with eachother to support their thoughts.
Secondly, the author uses the point of human curiosity to support the idea that Venus is a worthy pursuit. To illistrate, "...human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors" (8). The author explains how humans are naturally curious, and how this curiosity often times leads them to dangerous situations. Studying Venus has its dangers, but it is no different. Also stated, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation" (8). The author is promoting curiosity because it leads us to new things. Curiosity can overcome the fear of danger when exploring Venus to help us learn new things about the planet. To summarize, the power of curiosity in people is something the author uses to support their opinion of Venus being worth it to explore.
Additionally, the author uses evidence about how landing on Venus is possible to support their idea that it is a worthy pursuit. For example, "At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Farenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth" (5). The author uses this piece of evidence to demonstrate that Venus's conditions are possible for humans to survive, making Venus a serious contendor for space exploration. The author also states, "Some simplified electronics... have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions" (7). The author backs up her idea by using these electronics, that can survive three weeks on venus, to once again show that we can get through to venus. Science and technology being able to help us properly function on Venus shows that the planet is a worthy pursuit. Ultimately, the author backs up her idea by giving evidence on the different ways landing on Venus is possible.
In conclusion, the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" demonstrates how despite the dangers Venus presents, it is worthy of pursuing. Exploring venus seems like it is almost impossible with all the risks it offers, but the author makes it clear in this article that they disagree. Their use of evidence in their writing to support their belief that Venus is a worthy pursuit shows how well researched their case is. The author used evidence on Venus's relationship to Earth, how landing on Venus is possible, and the natural curiosity humans have to support their idea. After taking a look at this article, readers know that the points made in "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" were very nicely supported. The author's support made their idea a thought provoking case. | 4 |
Have you ever thought something was another thing when it wasn't? Have you ever had to let people down by telling them what it actually was? Surprisingly, NASA has done this before. NASA had sent one of its spacecrafts, the Viking 2, to search for their first protogy named the Viking 1. While it was in search for it the Viking 2 discovered what appeared to be a human face.
NASA unveiled the picture of "the human face" for everyone to see. They thought it would be a good way to attract attention to Mars. And, sure enough it was! Everyone loved the idea of the "Face on Mars" so much that people started to write books about it, base movies on it, and people on talk shows would even make conversation on it! The only negative side was scientists didn't really believe the Face was actually alien artifact. And it was soon proved that it was only shadows that made it appear the shape of a human face. Scientist described the Face as just a mesa or a butte, and really it is nothing more uncommon than a natural landform. Even in the article they described the whole theory as just "somthing funny".
People weren't very satisfied when NASA had to break the news that the "Face on Mars" was nothing more than science fiction. In conclusion it wasn't really anything interesting at all unless you find landforms all that and a bag of chips. The "Face on Mars" is now just a silly theory we made in the past and nothing more. There's no argument on weather it's real or not because most scientist to begin with were skeptical on the theory of it being an alien artifact. I hope this helped you understand what the "Face on Mars" really is. | 2 |
How much easier would online schoolwork be for students if the computer could detect their emotions and adjust things to help? Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is a new development in technology that is able to do such a thing by looking at which of the 44 facial muscles are in use and how.
With the use of FACS, computers would be able to calculate emotions such as frustation, anger, or confusion and adjust things to help, either by explaning the information available, or by giving a deminstration. FACS would also be able to decect if a student is bored and give either more challenging work, or making the work there more fun.
Additionally, by using FACS, teachers would more easily identify students who need help. They would be able to talk to the student and more accuratly figure out the problem, then help them or adjust the information themselves. It's helpful in programing as well when making 3D models of the human face (assisting graphic designers in their jobs).
As stated in paragraph 6 of the artical, Dr. Huang states "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotinal communication, so computers need to understand that, too." Technology would be able to better serve us if it could understand us more, making jobs and learning more effective.
FACS would be able to enhance our learning in school, and assist in our learning. By using FACS, students would have an easier time in class, making FACS valuable to edication and helpful. | 2 |
As technology has advanced, our methods of transportation have advanced with it. Driverless cars are things of the future, just as regular cars were a thing of the future in the 1900s. There will always be risks and certain safety regulations just as with regular cars but having the technology and not using it would be taking a step back.
The use of driverless cars may seem lazier or seem to have more risks than a manual car but is that not what people once thought about regular cars? Cars already start themselves and can be put in a self driving setting, so a full time driverless car would be a step in the right direction and be all around safer for citizens and drivers everywhere. Having technology run your car rather than a human, the risk and chance of a wreck would decrease dramatically. Although as of now a malfunction in the technology that could cause a crash and whether the manufacturer or the driver is to blame is a blurry topic the restriction of testing the cars would never give them the opportunity to fix the problems. Progress is slow as shown in 2013 when BMW announced the "Traffic Jam Asssistant," which can only function up to 25 mph which wouldn't be nearly enough to drive on actual roads yet but the progress is still there. The lack of states on board with the test driving of these cars is restricting the chances for improvement.
We, as humans, sometimes give up on things we see as impossible but things we think of as normal now seemed impossible 50 years ago. Driverless cars are simply an advancement that we're ready to make and improve but we limit ourselve sin our own abilities. It may be 20 years from now but eventually in the baby steps being taken drvierless cars will see the roads. | 2 |
Landform, Not Aliens
The "face" on Mars has been a topic of discussion for almost twenty-five years. Was it created by an unknown species of aliens? Definitely not. Although, some people do think that, the "face" on Mars is actually just a natural landform that happened to be shaped like a face. Obviously, the "face" on Mars is a natural landform, not something created by aliens.
To begin, the "face" on Mars is just a natural landform. What else could it be? Some say it was a statue built by aliens. But, that can't possibly be true. There is no proof that aliens exist in the first place, so how could a species that doesn't exist build a statue? Also, NASA released information saying that it was just a huge mesa forming into the shape of a face. The shadows just give it the illusion of eyes and a nose. Finally, the pictures of the "face" obviously show that it is not a built structure. It is just a natural landform on Mars. The pictures get clearer each time they were taken, so it is very apparent that the "face" is just a huge formation of rocks. So, all of this shows that there is no possible way that the "face" on Mars was built by aliens.
Although, I do understand why people could believe the "face" was built by aliens. It does look like it could be a monument, like the ancient Egyptians built for their people. However, life does not exist on Mars; therefore, the "face" could not be built by aliens. Also, some people think that aliens do exist on mars, and that NASA is just hiding it. But, why would NASA hide that they found an alien civilization? That could only help the company, not hurt them. And, if you still don't believe me, if there were aliens on Mars, wouldn't we be able to or have seen them by now? Once again, I say that the "face" on Mars is just a mesa that gives the illusion of a face, not a statue built by creatures that don't exist.
In conclusion, the "face" on Mars is just a natural landform, not something that was created by aliens. In the future, we might find out for certain what that "face" is. We aren't one hundred percent positive it is a mesa, but we know it wasn't aliens. I will be thrilled to find out what it is soon, and I think you will be, too. | 3 |
Dear state senator,
I think the Electoral College should stay because like most well educated Americans the people of the Electoral College know who they want to lead this country. Most Americans complain about how there vote doesn't matter but it really does. Your vote is what's making the electors decied on who should lead America.
The Electoral College is a group of well educated people that understand congress better than the average American citizen. In order to choose the right leader we need to have the highly qualified people for the job. Most Americans don't know what toppings to put on their pizzas, now imagine what kind of trouble they would have choosing someone to run our country. when you vote you don't vote for the president or the secrotary of state or the governor, you vote for a slate of electors that then choose who to elect as the leader of the country, state, or city. 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 recieves the most popular votes the winner. but each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee and the trust is rarely betrayed.
There are 5 reasons for retaining the Electoral College.
Certainty of Outcome
A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible but it is less likely than a dispute over th popular vote.
2. Everyone's President
The Electoral College requires a presidential canidate to have trans-regional appeal. No region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. So a regional favorite, such as Mitt Romney was in the south, has no incentive to campaign heavily in those states, for he gains no electoral votes by increasing his plurality in states that he knows he's more favorited to win in. this is a desirable result because a candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to become a succesful president.
3. Swing States
The winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the canidates to focus their campaign efforts on the toss-up states. Voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign knowing that they're going to decide the election. They are likely to be the most thoughtful voters and the most thoughtful voters are the ones that are going to be deciding the election.
4. Big States
A large state usually gets more attention from presidential candidates then the smaller states 5. Avoid Run-Off Elections
There is pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a majority of the votes cast; that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presidential election procces, is reduced by the Electoral College, which invariably produces a clear winner.
A good precentage of Americans want the Electoral college to be gone but i think that the Electoral College should keep doing what it is doing because they know how to choose the right candidate and they have a great 5 step procces to choose who should lead the United States. | 3 |
All around the world, cars have influence our lives for the good or for the bad. Whether that is getting people to their jobs or getting into an accident. Cars have altered our lives and are doing it constantly. Although for a century cars have benefited humans greatly, cars have negative effects and banning cars can help decrease the pollution all over the world, it saves the little resoucers the planet has, and car accidents will occure less.
To elaborate more, countries all over the world are trying new ways to decrease the air pollution as much as possible, whether that is banning cars or restricting them. In Vauban, German cars are restricted and if you have a car it is very expensive to use. In Vauban, 70 percent of families do not have cars, and inorder to move in to the town 57 percent sold their cars. The idea of resticted areas are getting big ,and for Vuaban has 5,500 residents, that shows that people like the idea and will support it. People in the town have claim to enjoy it alot and are happier. In Paris, France their idea to help low the pollutin in the air was to have specific licenses plats restricted on certain days of the week. France had very bad smog and within 5 days the smog decrease 60 percent. In Bogota, Columbia they had similar goals as other countries like Germany. Carlos Arturo Plaza said,"It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." In Europe cars make up 12 percent of the greenhouse gas and air pollution. In the United States Americans are driving less and the pollution in the air is decreaseing, benefiting the enviroment. Throughout the world, countries are tring to help the world, by decreasing the pollution.
Moreover, throughout the century cars have been using non renewable resoucers and now that alot of the people have cars, it has taken a toll on the enviroment. The world has only so much resoucers and once its gone it is gone, it takes time for them to come back and it willl not be in our life time. Using these resoucers have a negative effect they emit carbon in to the atmosphere creating greenhouse gas, that is bad. saving the resoucers and not using them can help with keeping the atmopshere cleaner.
Now people are banning and restricting cars for various reasons, but one reason is that for the past century cars have killed alot of people. It is one of the top reasons for deaths in the United States and possibly in the world. If banning cars can save thousands of lifes why not do it. Banning cars or restricting cars means less cars which can result to less car accidents. Having less accidents results to less people getting hurt and potenially dying. Less cars can also mean that the goverment does have to focuse on roads and stuff like that ,but can focuse on improving the safty of the people on the sidewalks or at playgrounds. the funds can go to better causes.
The world we live has changed enormously and now inorder to save the plant and the people in it, we must make changes as a society, inorder to live long and healthy. Banning cars might be one of the many choices we must make inorder to live. Banning cars can help decrease the greenhouse gases, conserve the resoucers, and less people will die from car accidents. Who knows cars may be a thing in the past int he next decade or two. | 3 |
The electoral college is pointless, I believe that it is just another step that was added to the long process of picking our new president. It causes problems between the people and the government and it takes away time that we could be using to do something actually beneficial to our country. The electoral college is not a place but a group of people who meet and vote for the President and Vice President. Each state gets represented by a certain amount of electors which is decided by the population of that specific state. The electoral college should be thrown out of the way that we choose our president becuase it upsets the people, it can completley change elections, and because it gives to much power to the legislative branch.
I think that the electoral college gets people frustrated with our government. They have to go basically vote for another person to vote. If I lived in texas I would go to a poll and vote for the person that I wanted to put up in the electoral college. That person would then vote for the president. It makes voters, mad why spend time for voteing on people who you dont really care about when you could honeslty just vote for the President who you believe could help our country. The biggest argunment against the electoral college is that it we can't control who our elector votes for. You see when you go to vote for an elector you normally vote for one who says that they are going to vote for the person that you like, but they can change their mind and now you voted for someone that is going to vote for the candidate that you didnt want.
The electoral college can completely change the direction of a vote. Becuase voters only have one vote, the electors represent alot of the states population. For example a single representitive from samller states like Wyoming can represent of to 500,000 voters and in bigger states like California can have up to 55 electors who represent as much as 35 million people. This is why the electoral college can have such a big effect on the voting proces exspecially since the electors represent such a large amount of people. It can become frustrating when a large mass of people ellect some one and that elector changes there mind about who they vote for, because a group of people as large as 500,000 can be ruiting for one person and the elector can change his mind and now that group 500,000 is voting for someone that they don't like.
Another problem is that the electoral college gives to much power to legislative branch "Back in 1960 segregationists in the Lousiana legislature nearly succeeded 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 becuase it would have been overthrown by the college. Which meens that the Legislative branch has enough power to create a biased slait. The legislature would create a group of electors that are all in favor of certain idea and you wouldnt be able to vote for anyone else becuase those are the people for your state. The point of voting is to give power to the people and with the electoral college in the way it completely takes that away from us. We get to vote for the electors but that doesnt meen that they are going to vote for the people that we want them to.
Yes the electoral college could have some advanteges like allowing professionals to have an input into what is going on, It helps us avoid run-off elections (elections that end up with a tie), and restores some of the weight in the political balance that larger states lose. But there are definalty more cons to this procedure. The constitution states that we are here to create a more perfect union but how are we supposed to create a union when the government is basically in control of everything. There is no unity gouing on in our government it more like the government is in charge and we are kind of just here. If we get rid of the electoral college it will make the people happier and allow them to actually feel like part of the government, It will stabilize elections and not allow the legistaure to change them, and will take away some of the numerous powers that the Legislative branch holds. All in all the electorla cllege os unfair, outdated, and irrational. It need to be abolished! | 4 |
State Senate
In my favor i do not think that the Electoral College should still be a process. Most people in america are not so pleased with how the Electoral College works. Manily because the Electoral College, in a way, get to pick if they want this person as the president or if they want this other person as the president. The people of America do not really have their own choice. Now, if we would go from having the Electoral College and change to have election by popular vote for the president of the United States. The people in America would be much happier. I think that the Electoral College is not fair to American's. We all need to be able to select as who we want as the president of the United States.
"The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president." Found in " What Is The Electoral College?" by the office of the Federal Register. As you see there are 538 elector. All 538 electors have to conversate about who should be the president. The Ellectoral College has complet control over that. People could want this person, but then here comesnthe Electoral College. The Ellectoral College can change who the people vote for. All of them have to deside what should be the outcome. Its never really the people choice. Its the Electoral College's choice. Americans should be able to chose in which President they want for America.
Some people want the Electoral College because they think that they solve all the problems, then there are the people who know their rights and want to be able to have full popularity vote of who their presedent is. Most of the time te popularity vote is changed by the Electoral College, They chose what they think is so called "right". The Electoral College has a mind of its own. People dont have their rights with the Electoral College. Thisprocess is not the way things should be. American's need to have or at least know their rights. That is why people in America are not so happy with what the Ellectoral College picks. The total vote for one person chould be 46% and a total vote for another person could be 42%. Ellectoral College has controle over that again. If the electors chose the person with the 42% they can bump up the percentage to be higher than the other one. That is not fair to the people of America. We do not need the Electoral College. The people of America should have full popularity vote of who the peresident of the United States should be. | 2 |
HI, I'm Luke and im part of the seagoing cowboys program. It's really fun and exciting too. I think you shoud try and join because it may be dangerous but it really is fun. We need more people to join! Would you want to join us on our adventures?
Our ship is really cool too! We're almost like pirates in a ship on the sea. We get to go to so many new places as well. I've been to Greece, New Orleans, the Panama Canal, China, and different parts of Europe. You always hav time to have fun too when your on board or off board. We play vollleyball, baseball, and table tennis. We also fence, box, read, whittle, and play games just to pass the time. This is an opportunity of a life time!
Trust me you dont want to miss this! I love this place and have made many friends on it. You will have so much fun too! I hope i see you here one day! I hope you will like it too. | 1 |
Imagine the ability to percieve every single emotion of another person, recieved in short and direct percentiles. This will now be possible thanks to the latest innovation in software development by Prof. Thomas Huang and Prof. Nicu Sebe. This new computer software will be able to contruct a 3-D model of one's face and analyize major facial muscules and the emotions that they convey. This is used along with FACS, Facial Action Coding System, which codifies the facial features into the six basic emotions of happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. All of this information is complied and then you reviece results. This techonology has been predicted to assist students in classrooms who struggle with a certain lesson. Doctor Huang says, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored...it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This does seem promising, but I propose that this techonology would not be as beneifical as it seems and will only further alienate our society, end up being only used to make profit, and exasterbate stimatization of mental disorders and 'wrong emotions'.
Today we are blessed with technologies science fiction of the past could not even dream of and yet we are still faced with the same psychological neurosis of the past. On a large scale technology has seemed to exasturbate this problem, we are lonely, we are guilty about the past and anxious about the future. Before we would do anything to be liked by our peers, but now we will do anything to be liked by the thousands of blank profiles on social media. This does not diminish the adcances in science, computers, and the now easy access to information we have but technology always brings with it amazing powers but also terrible consequences and we must use it responsibly, In the artile "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto, it says "In face, we humans perform this same impressive calulation every day. For instance you can tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." Our human brains are just as powerful as the machines we create. We do not need artificial software to bring us together we only need to encourage and foster a society of empathy and compassion. The use of this emotion-recognition technology in classrooms would not be effective if teachers and instuctors are not already avaliable to address such issues as demotivation, boredom, and more extreme cases of mental disorders. We can make genuine connections in the real world to solve these problems instead of expensive new technology. Schools may not be able to even afford them, but others might.
Others might use this techonology for less admirable means than classroom disinterest. The article states other uses, "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." This does not seem as nefarious if you do not think of the further consequenses. Privacy is becoming a scarce commodity in the twenty-first century, as I type this companies and corporations are making money selling my (and your) personal information to thrid-parties. In today's society, money is the sole drive for success. This type of emotion-recognition software would be less likely to be used in classrooms and more likely to be used to sell more stuff.
In conclusion, this techonology could only be used in a regulated and safe environment in order for it to be effective. The consequenses of this technology would be an increased of alienation and the malpractice of this technology. One day this technology might become widespread but before than happens it is even more important for one to address the societal impact technology has already had on us and foster a society of compassion where this technolohy would thrive. | 3 |
We live in a world where we can see and talk to someone through a tiny screen, even though they are halfway across the world. We live in a world where tiny robots can act and do anything we want, with just a click of a button. Now we live in a world where we have the ability to detect every single feeling a person is expressing, even when they are trying to hide their emotions. FACS (Facial Action Coding System) is brand new technology that allows us to detect accurate and precise emotions of others. What does this mean for the future?
FACS is the newest Facial innovation that allows us to read the most hidden emotions. "Prof. Thomas Huang, of the Beckman institute for Advanced Science and Prof. Nicu Sebe of the University of Amsterdam." Introduced this new and advanced technology. Huang and Sebe are always finding better ways for computers and humans to interact. Have you ever spoken to someone who was just a blank slate; no emotion, no expession, nothing? Facial Action allows us to dig deeper and help those who have trouble expressing emotions with the people they interact with everyday. Secondly, have you ever gone to the doctor and didn't know how to explain how you felt? With FACS we can now detect feelings in which we can't explain maybe even feelings we don't want to explain.
With this kind of advanced technology one must be careful. Is it not always the best choice to see what others are feeling, maybe they simply don't want help or want others to know what they are feeling. For example, when asked the following question; if you could pick any superpower what would you pick? Most would say super strength, super speed etc. One might even say the ability to read minds. But after given that ability, some might want to reverse the clock. When we are given high technology or "superpowers" we have to keep in mind the risk of such information. We may learn things we never wanted to learn or things we should have never come in contact with.
Every new technology that the world presents has pros and cons; but our job is to be able to weigh out these conditions so that everyone is happy with the outcome. Just because something benefits one human that doesn't mean it can benefit everyone it comes in contact with. For when given great power comes great responsibilty. | 2 |
There have been many studies done to find a new home for humanity. One of the planets that scientist have been looking at as a new home is Venus. Altought there are many dangers- such as the temperature, atmophere, and natural distaters- Venus has many good qualities and is very similar to Earth.
Venus is similar to Earth by its air pressure being similar to the Earth's sea level pressure, being close to the sun having pleanty of solar power, and once believed to have oceans and support life.
Venus is often called the Earths sister, or twin. Venus has a realitively similar size to Earth and is actually the closest in distance to Earth. Scientist believe, altought not able to land on Venus, that Venus has a similar surface to Earth as well. Scientist say that Venus has a rocky surface and, as the article says, "... features such as valleys, mountains, and creaters" (paragraph 4). With this, it is also believed that Venus once had oceans. If Venus had oceans, there is a chance that Venus can support life on its surface.
Not only is there a posibility that Venus might have had water, the air pressure is very similar to the sea levels on Earth. In Paragraph 5, the article says "... the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth". This means that those who lived on Venus would not be crushed by the weight of the air pressure. On other planet the air pressure is heavy enough to crush a person and is not suitable to live on.
Another reason that Venus would be suitable for humaity is because it is the second planet in the solar system and is exposded to a lot of sun light. As many people know, there is a big need for energy on Earth. As a result of this, the Earth is running out of fossial fuel and that is one of the reasons the Earth is dying. If humaity lived on Venus there would be a big source of solar energy, which is renewable energy. But like everything, there is a down side to living so close to the sun.
Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. Venus could melt many of the metals that we use in our everyday lifes. Because Venus is the hottest planet, the temperature can reach an average of 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Not only can the surface temperature be high, but there is 97% level of carbon dioxide in Venus' atmophere. Scientist have proven that humans would only withstand three weeks on Venus because of these conditions.
Even though there are many things stopping us from living on Venus now, there are still many things that we do not know about the Earth's twin. There is still so much more to explore on Venus. But for now we know that the air pressureis similar to Earths sea level pressure, it is close to the sun having pleanty of solar power, and is once believed to have oceans and support life. And one day Venus might need to become our new home. But until then, the human race will stay on Earth. | 3 |
The future car
Wouldn't it be cool to sleep while you drive, or even do your hair while you drive? How would you like to just lean back and let your car drive itself? Maybe deal with your kids while on the way to see grandma. How would you like to call an old relative from out of state will going to pick up your kids from school without having to drive? If you don't want to deal with traffic or you just can't drive. If you said yes to any of these listen up.
Google thinks they can come up with a self driven car. It is safe and easy to use. You don't have to do anything, but do we have the tech for a self driven car? Google made a toyota, but it is not self driven. The car stops and drives itself.
There is a problem when needed help it warns driver to take over. Traffic, road work, and Traffic problems. The car also needs driver to pull in and out of the driverway. Other car companies are tring to develope the self driven car. No one has succeded yet.
The tech has came a long way from 1980. The concept were first introduced in Tv shows and movies. Lots of people thing we should drive ourselfs. They have thier reasons to not have self driven cars. Others have different ideas.
Mercedes Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to havecars that drive themselves by 2020. People doubt they would have done it. The futrue is near. The self driven cars will be the greastest thing to happen. The car will be amung us. You can use the time you driven to change dippers, or anything you want. | 2 |
Many have wondered when and if the day of automatic cars would come. At this day and age, it certainly seems like the technology has updated to a point of these driverless cars could be possible. Now we have to argue a new question. Should driverless cars become a reality? Will they do more harm than good? Driverless cars should stay a fantasy due to saftey, expense, and laziness.
Human operated cars have already caused a tremendous number fatal accidents. Who is to say that these machine run cars will do any better? We have learned that machines are not always consistent in their actions. What would happen if these driverless cars malfunctioned and caused an accident? If they hit a person? What were to happen if a driver falls asleep at the wheel, and the cars fails to alert them? Who would be at fault? These driverless cause would cause the government to make revisions to our laws. Driverless cars are not a guaruntee to public saftey.
Driverless cars require much more technology than non-driverless cars do. This would raise the price of cars tremedously. Not only would one have and expensive car, but one would have to dish even more money out to fill it with gas. As the article "Driverless Cars Are Comming," states, sensors, GPS receivers, and 3-D modeling and much more would be put into the car. This technology would make the car safer but would also increasde it's price. The article also states that some manufacturures have built special roads that would keep the car on course. It goes on to state that this would be an expensive update to preexisiting roads everywhere. There just is not enough money for these cars to be placed on the market.
Driverless cars would add the pile of laziness that has built up over the years. As technology advances, humans use it to create items to make life easier. Cars themselves were invented to make travel easier. Human no longer want to have to work for anything. We want to be able to snap our fingers and get what we want. If these driverless cars were to be produced, they would decrease physical activity even more than before. Now all the driver would have to do is sit back and relax. Driverless cars would cause humans to be even more unhealthy than before.
Driverless cars should stay a fantasy due to saftey, expense, and laziness. They would cause us to revise laws incase of an accident. They would cost more than they're worth. They would make humans even more lazy. Driverless cars should stay in movies becuase somethings are better a fantasy than a reality. | 2 |
Taking our time to make sucj car's, have the people actually taken theri time to think of the consecuences in making these cars? At the moment, driveless car's are being developed, but still not finished. Car's are able to drive on their own, or being able to actually let the driver know that it is too close to another object or car. If there was an accident with one of these car's, and there were victims and death's included, who would be the one to be blamed? the driver, or the person who actually made created teh car to begin with?
There are also the facts that if the car was to suddenly shut down or to have complications, it could cost the life of many. At the moment, the car's thet Google has, are able to drive on their own, but it is required for a driver to take control after some time. They say that these car's "alert drivers when they have to take control again. If these4 were to not work and alert the driver as it should at the moment and cause problems. What would be the concequences in the future?
The driveless car's could help in many ways, but by donig this, many in the enxt generations will not know the necesary knowledge for problems if they were to have to go back to driving on their own. Would having car's that can drive independantly really be a great thing to have in our economy or could it be a setback? | 1 |
At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. The winner take all system in each state candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning. Focusing only on tight races in the swing states. During 2000 campaign,seventeen states did not get to witness they're candidates. Including Rhode island and South Carolina. Voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single ad.
State senator we need to get rid of Electoral College and upgrade to popular vote. It's just not fair. That's not very perfessional at all. what's the point of having electoral college if they do not show up. Thats a horrible look for not just you but them too. Either yall need to get a understanding or move on up to popular voting.
I have a question. When citizens vote in electoral college why do their votes go straight to the candidates and not the president? Sound very fishy if you ask me. This is about the president of our country and it's not being taken seriously.
See with the popular vote they go straight to the president and not a scam like eletoral vote. It's more confidental if your really serious about your president. Now what if the wrong president get picked? Then what? High bills,going up on gas,harder to get hired. | 1 |
At a glace, "The Face of Mars" could be misunderstood as an alien artifact. The Scientists at NASA are more than sure it is nothing but a rock formation, an illusion caused by the the shadows it causes. The picture still bacame an icon over its false label however. For two and a half decades, people believed there were aliens outside of the atmosphere placing these on planets. It wasn't until a more clear camera came around that
the face really was shown.
To the dismay of many conspiracy theorists, the face is nothing more than a mesa. As Jim Gavin, cheief scientist of NASA's Mars Exploration Program calls it reminds him most of the "Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." Not only are these rock formations common on Mars barren landscape, but also the living, breathing planet that is our home. Mesas are highly common on earth-this one on Mars just so happens to look like the face of a person.With all of the media attention it recieved, the article even says "defenders of the NASA budgetwish there was an ancient civilation on Mars." We can infer that NASA's findings were not that of aliens, as though they currently do not have the funds for space exploration projects,
With people unsatisfied of NASA saying it was just an odd formation of rocks, NASA took pictures of it on April 5, 1998, and again on April 8, 2001. As the images becaome sharper and shaper over time, it looks less and less like a human head. With the better pixels, people could see that it was just as NASA made it out to be- a mesa. With this picture, many theories around the face were not as credible.
Some might say that it still might be from an alien. even so, it seems like something you would see on our world that scientists could prove naturally. The rock formation being common on Earth, and multiple pictures across 25 years is sufficent enough to be proven false.NASA also mentions that the main reaon for the rocks looking as they are are from the strange shadows over it, giving the illusion of a face. The main reason for all the attention it got was simply because ofa trick of the eye. NASA also includes that clouds on the surface could be another reaon it looks as such.
Keeping these things in mind, it's safe to say that the face people see is just a natural part of Mars. The same natural formation can be found around our world .The reason people believed it to be something more was because a poor quality camera by today's standards. Since the, we can better understand how it looks. What would it look like with a camera today? | 3 |
It's no secret that school can be boring or confusing or just plain out hard. For years and years kids have been confused, bored, or just plain upset with a lesson or class. Recently a new technology has been found that enables a computer to identify emotions in humans. It is called the Facial Action Coding System, the latest innovation from Professor Thomas Haung. Imagine how significant this would be in use in classrooms all over the world. It could decrease confusion and boredem, encourage students to learn and help teachers see signs of stress or depression.
The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) could really come of use to teachers attempting to get students to learn effectively. In paragraph 6 Dr. Huang says, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". This new technology could show teachers how effective their lesson was. It there are students who are bored, he/she could research or come up with new ways to get the kids engaged in lessons. FACS would also reveal confusion in students. Students sometimes get freaked about asking for further explainations because of how they might get judged. With FACS, teachers would already be able to see student that may be confused and be able to help them.
Teachers adjusting their teaching practices also may assist students in learning more. Not all students learn the same way. If a teacher teaches one way, and one fourth of the class looks confused, she may be able to adjust her teachings and teach another way to help those kids who did not understand.
Being in school isn't always the easiest thing in the world. Everybody goes through things. Having FACS may help out kids who need it. If a student is constantly coming into class and the computer reads that, it is a sign to the teacher that that child may need help and too scared to ask for it. In paragragh 7 of the article is says, "They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one." This device will help teachers see the warning signs and help prevent students from doing something they later regret. It will allow students to get the help they need when they are too afraid of asking.
Professor Thomas Huang's latest innovation is a computer software that allows computers to indentify human emotions. It is called Facial Action Coding System. This program would be incredibly efficient in schools all over the world. It would allow teachers to see boredem and confusion, help students engage more in their learning, and help teachers notice the warning signs if a student may be stressed or upset. | 3 |
Every four years america as a whole chooses on who should be the president of the united states. The process of election is straight forward and always follows the same process every election. The american citizens vote on one of the two candidates, then those votes are counted and giving to the electors, then the electors of each state representing the population of said state (including the District of Columbia) votes one of the candidates, after all votes are tallied the winning candidate is elected president. Overall this system seems rather complicated and can be seen as an unfair process at which only to vote on who takes charge of america. The electoral college should be replaced by who receives the most popular votes from all american citizens and not the state electorals.
Electoral college is a process created during the founding of the united states as sort of a "middleground" or compromise on how the people of the country should elect the president (
source 1
). In order for a president to be elected out of the 538 electors that make up the electoral college he or she must at least receive 270 votes (
source 1
). Each president has a group of electors that process your votes in order to choose who the state votes for making it in a ways unfair. This system can come with its own set of problems that include replacement of electors, electors voting to who they feel, and at times one candidate gaining the most popular vote but losing the chance of presidency because of the lack of electorol votes form the state (
source 2
). An example of the unbalanced power is the near success of the louisiana legislature replacing the democratic electors in the 1960, segrigations with new ones that would oppose against John F. Kennedy making him lose the popular vote.
The best replacement for the electoral college is to allow the citizens of america to vote upon who should be the president of the U.S without the need for electors. The candidate that receives the most votes is the one who becomes the president of the united states. In order to process all possible millions of votes into a rational percentage and the candidate with the higher percentage would in turn become president. With this in mind the candidates would need to visit all or largely selected states in order to deliver campaign speeches to persuade the population to vote for them, because with the electoral college system candidates would focus mainly on tight races in the "swing states" practically ignoring other like in the 2000 campaign seventeen states didnt see their candidate (
source 2
). The electoral college only focuses on the large numbers and not on the smaller population that can still make a difference making the system unfair. Making them only focus on the big states because how many electoral votes it could bring compared to a smaller state which could possibly only supply three.
On the other side electoral college does have a good standing as a method of vote. Electoral college has five good reasons on why it shouldn't be replaced and they are certainty of outcom, everyone's president, swing states, Big states, and avoid run-off elections (
source 3
). Each campaign party chooses their electors which rarely end in betrayel making it possible to win the election with low popularity votes. The electoral system also gives the candidate a chance to win in a "landslide" because of the winner-take-all basis at which it follows (
source 3
). No region has enough votes to elect a president also the electoral college needs to have transregional appeal. And the main goal of the electoral college is to obviously elect a new president but as well avoid runoff elections.
The electoral college is an unfair system of voting because of how it all depends on a small group of selected representatives and not all of the american population as a whole. Even though it can be regarded as a fair middle ground it still has its flaws and doesnt reach out to society as a whole only focusing on the states that can lead to victory, casting out those who's electoral votes will not make much of a difference. In the end the voting system should mainly focus on popularity of a candidate than what the "state" feels they should vote for because of how many votes they actually received for a given candidate due to the fact that it may end up voting on which who they feel and refuse to vote for their partys candidate. The electoral system should be replaced. | 4 |
You should join Seagoing Cowboys program because you can see lots of things you have never seen before in your life.
And you can spend time were ever you go but not forever.
You can stay there for maybe a day or two.
But that is mostly for rest, it dosen't mean you can't play around with kids or meat new people.
And you get to go sailing alot when you are traviling to were you are going or if you are going back to were you live.
When you are going to were ou have to go you do have to bring straw,hay, and soy beans.
For the animals to eat because you do have to take care of the animals.
But you would probably like taking care of the different animals you haven't seen in your life before.
And if you are luke you would take advantage of it because you can meat new people and play new games in your life.
Plus when you go home you can tell stories about what you did and when someone ask you if you went to china or somthing you can say yes probably.
Then you would probably have to go back so when you do you won't have to sneak around because you will no people.
That is why I think you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 1 |
Using technology is a good way to help other in a classroom that are suffering. Technology is a important part of everday lives each expression is compared against a neutral face showing no emotions. This can determine if someone needs help in the class. Technology is very valueable it helps us daily and we don't even know it.
The use of technology to read expressions in a students face in classroom is valueable because like the article stated "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored during the lesson. So the use of technology to read the emotional expressions of studetns in a classroom can be valueable. It can help teachers with students it can either tell the teacher if the student is liking the subject or wether he or she is bored. It can also help with communication is can help students communicate more with their classmates. So yes i think that technology is a valuebale way to read students expressions
The use of technology to read emotional expressions is a good way to understand other people better i love this idea. It can help lot's of people out in the future especially teachers it can help them know if there lesson was boring or interesting. So that's
why i think some teacher would love to see this form of technology at our schools it can really help the school out. | 1 |
Dear, State Senator
I think we should keep the Electoral College. Even though it is despised method of choosing our nation leader, it is the best form of desiding who will run and the winner. The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding father established it in the Constitution as a compromise between elections ot the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting for the electors wherer they vote for the President and the Vice President, and counting of the electoral votes by Congress.
I think that we should keep the Electoral College for five reasons. Number one,
Certainty of Outcome . Which is a dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible but it's less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. Number two,
Everyone's president . Which is the Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. Number three,
Swing States . The Swing States is a winner-takes-all method of awarding electoral votes incluces the canidates. Number four,
Big States . The Big States is the Electoral College restores some of the weight in the politcal balance that the large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution. Last but not least is number five,
Avoid Run-Off Elections . Avoiding Run-Off Elections is when the Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast. The Elecoral College is not all that fair though because it is an anachronism, a non-democtratic method of selecting a president the ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner.
I think we should keep the Electoral College. Even though it is despised method of choosing our nation leader, it is the best form of desiding who will run and the winner. But it is the way our founding fathers made this nation and wanted it to stay that way because they created it that way.
From,
Austin | 1 |
hey guys this is tyler, i'm a reporter, today i'm going to give you three reasons why it's a challenge to explore venus.
- my first reason is because venus is a very very hot plant if you so much as enter the plant, the atmosphere it will crush you do to the tempature and the extreme conditions on the plant.
- my second reason it has been claimed that it is more dangerous to see up close.
it's the second planet away from the sun but it is also considered our planet, earth's, "twin" among other things the reason why it's considered our second planet is for density and size also distance.
- my final reason it's thick atmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide blankets venus for a even more challenge the clouds have a high corrosive sulfuric acid in the atmosphere. the pressure is 90 times greater than what we exprience on our own planet. the conditions are far more extreme than anything humans can encounter on earth.
i'm going to end this report, thanks for reading and i hope you enjoyed it.
thank you:) | 1 |
Facial coding is cool, but it is not valuable in a school setting. Why would one ever need this at their school. Students do not go school to get their emotions checked, they go to learn about history stuff or about anything else. Also we do not know if this computer will truly work on a human because they only talk about attemping it on a painting not a live physical humans. Also how can one produce something so complex that a PC can not even keep up with it. To one it might might be cool, but in reality it is not that interesting for school use.
Why use a computer? Using a computer to find people's emotion is uneccessary because Alto mentions the brain does this calculation everyday with even more acurracy and it will help build comunication skills and put oneself on a deeper level of thought. There is a person that this boy likes or has a crush on and he wants to talk to her, but he doesn't know what to say. Later he notices that she is obviously down about something, and he walks over to her and says "Hey, are you alright you look kinda down?" This is the skills we need to work on we need to not rely on computersand learn to read emotions.
While people agree and disagree with this idea the opposition has some good points. If there is kid that has been mentally abused or is depressed. Having this imagery can really help get students to open up and talk about it, so they can prevent what is happening. Another thing it can do is help depict the mood of a painting like previously stated in this article by D'Alto. Also it could help teachers more on understanding their students so they can buils a more positive and stable relationship. By knowing what people are feeling it could effect the mental state of the mind and body and not cause stress.
Overall the effect to this product would be not having the ability to actually depict how one is feeling without using the coding system which could make human intereaction almost artificial. Later on down the road this could be useful, but as it is today it's not the greatest idea for a school atomosphere, especially with the distraction of social media and technology in general. | 2 |
The author did a pretty good job explaining everything about Venus and all of this stuff about outer space. He said some very powerful things within this artical that should be changed in this wolrd and some should not be changed. The way he put everything into his own thoughts before just outting it out in the wolrd he had done a lot of reaserch about all of Venus and the planets.
I well enough think that he did a very good job at explaining everything about Venus and how the earth works. When the author states " our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edge" he is saying that even if there is danger in this world you shoudl never run away form it you should take a risk. The authour has some very good points on why you shouldnt be scared of this earth and all the new things happening with Venus and all the planets.
When the author was talking about the computers we should use on the planets and the new hovering saftly to the planets instead of taking rocket or a plan. That would be a good idea to try because with the hovering system you can get closer to the planets more than you can if you take a rocket or a plan all the way up there. It may not be as safe as taking a rocket up there because tou are more open being able to get hit by things up there. But with the new technology he is trying to use and to bring back that could honestly work becase the computers and tech that we are using today you cant take up there becasue there are no cell towers.
What the author is trying to do is a good idea and they way he explained everythung was super good to because he had so many reasons on what you could do to make it easier on everyone that has to go up in outter soace and work. He had a reason to back up everything that he was saying anf that is what is going to make people think that this is a good idea to start using diffrent things in this world. | 2 |
The Facial Action Coding System from the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto shows that Dr. Paul Huangs invention would be a great upgrade for schools. It is a great advance in technology for everyone around the world . It is creative and intellegent. The technology could make dramatic changes to the future.
To begin with the technology itself can tell how a person is feeling. It recognizes the human muscles in the face and can tell when a person using it, is fake smiling or smiling because they're happy. "Eckman has classified six basic emotions ,happiness,surprise ,anger ,disgust, fear , and sadness and then associates each with characteristic movements of the facial struture." The technology itself is incredible , now imagine students using this to their education advantages.
And then students would be able to change what they're learning with how their emotions are showcased. " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." It would be such a great idea to have technology to interact with students such as those who have an attention shortspan. "Then it could modify the lesson , like an effective human instructor." The technology could really bring out the understanding of an individual such as a student.
To sum it all up , this new technology would be a great impact for generations to come. It would help out emotionally, scientifically and personally. It would help students realize what they are and aren't intrested in , and it would help the teachers understand where the students are struggling in as well and how they can help them in subjects they dont quite well understand. And scientifically the technology can help modern technology advance as it said in the aticle on how an ad could keep playing if shown intrest or could skip to a different one if shown none. | 2 |
Some might thing cars are essential to life, but other might think they don't need them at all. Limiting car use is a good thing because it limits the amount of fog, it reduces traffic jams and crashes, and people seem to be more family oriented. i believe that limiting car usage is a very helpful thing and a great idea.
We all know how badly cars gases are are and that without those harmful gasses there wouldn't be much fog. now imagine if this happened here in America. In Paris they band driving due to the near record pollution. They did this so they could have a day where the air would clear out and there wouldn't be that much fog. Some might think this is an excellent idea, but some might say its a very lousiness idea. Limiting car usage actually helps because your limiting how much of those harmful gases you put in the air. They tried this for a certain amount of time in Paris and that do you know! The smog cleared up enough for the ruling French party to rescind the ban for driving your cars. Now this is just one of the many great things limiting car usage has on our planet.
Something else similar to what they did in Paris happened in Colombia. They limited the car usage for one day to free up some of the congestion that they had in the capital (Bogota). This is also a great idea because people don't have to worry about crash crashing, people getting ran over, or kids getting hit by cars. People don't have to worry about a lot of harsh things, so they live a somewhat stress less life. In Bogota they are also making new parks for people because without cars you don't need to drive to parks you can just walk. People when they walk tend to have conversations with the people around them so they tend to have a more social and all in all better lifestyle. This could also help in places like New York or other very congested cities. Without all those cars filling up the roads with all there horrible gases, New York would have a very clean breathable air. Another thing is that they wouldn't have many traffic jams and/or many people getting in car crashes.
One of the most important reasons why limiting car usage is an advantage is because people are more family oriented. Studies have shown that when people don't have cars they fell like they don't have and debts and fell somewhat free. This will make a person more loving and more interested in family time. Also people tend to walk more and carpool, so this causes them to car pool or walk in groups and they do all of that with their own family. In Germany the citizens say life without a car is great. One citizen said how his life was so tense when he had a car and now without a car he is mush happier. Also America the percentage of drives have gone down by a lot. This is because people are unemployed, they don't have money to buy a car, or they simply don't want to be tense and have a car.
Limiting car usage is a great ting and i believe people should at least try to make it happen. It helps reunite family's, clear the amount of fog, and it reduces car jams and accidents. Some people might think its not a very good idea but some might think it is. So people should at least try to see what happens. | 3 |
"If our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing further visits to it's surface?" is what the author said to introduce the discussion that scientists have been having. One of the ideas that the author supports their claim was the conspiricy that venus might have been earth before earth. "Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and include familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters" and there are some evidence of previous forms of life. On the planets surface temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. So that would be a set back on the idea of exploring the planet and also Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system.
NASA's possible solution to the such hostile conditions is to have a blimp-like vehicle floating above 30-50 miles in the air to study the planet. Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many unfriendly ground conditions. This possible solution would put them at like 170 degrees Fahrenheit but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on earth. "Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans".
However, flying over Venus from a ship or hovering object would be safe but it would only provide limited "insight" on groung conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, More importantly researhers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else form a distance. But for me I think its a great idea, I like the solution to the issue. | 0 |
Using this type of technology can be somewhat unsafe to students in classrooms, beacsue what if they aren't happy and someone uses the Facial Action Coding System, but then reveals how the person really feels.
More into the future it has gotten to a point that companies will stop at nothing for growth and development. But these things can cause a major unbalnce to everyone. Just like the Facial Action Coding System, this thing can be someones enemy, becasue maybe this person can be against the whole thing. And using it on some one that didn't want to be used could lead the person to do bad things.
On the other hand, other people can come foward and say "it is time for change" and be all happy, and the next thing you know is that the world is run be robots. Change is good, but it can also lead to destruction and caos. That is why we have to be careful with what we do in future, because what we do now can harm some innocent life that didn't deserve it.
The passage alson states that Leonardo used knew how "Mona Lisa" felt when he was drawing her. At first he didn't know if she was smiling. But then he just let is go and began to draw. And now we are here, to the future and people wanting to knoww how another perosn feels by using a computer.
Like i've stated before, change can go in a good or bad way. There is no way saying it could be both or could be something completly different. We just got to be careful with what we have now or they may be no future. | 1 |
In the article " Making Mona Lisa Smile", we are introduced to a new type of technology. It is called the Facial Action Coding System. " The process begins when the computerconstructs a 3-D model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles." Therfore, this system can basically determine your emotions, based on the movement of your face muscles. It has been stated that this technology can read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom and I think this is a very valuable sysytem to invest in.
In the text it was stated that , " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" and " Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." To this day technology is being used more and more in classrooms and this is just a great addition. In schools many students do not understand the topics being teached and just need to process things more slowly to understand. If a computer could pick up the fact that they are confused and make the lesson easier for them, it would allow them to learn at their own pace. Taking things slowly rather than quickly is way more effective for many students across the world. Not only would this benefit them but benefit the schools grade averages and teaching effectiveness. The Facial Coding System classifies six basic emotions- happiness,surpise,anger,disgust,fear,and sadness. This system not only can help a teacher determine when you are confused but when you are expierencing emotions that might seem off at that particular moment. For example, if you are sitting down in a classroom and the computer detects you are very sad than this will alert your teacher that you need help. You teacher can provide help by talking to you and together you guys may solve your problem. This will allow you to then focus on what is being teached in class better.
Overall, the Facial Action Coding System can help you both physically and emotionally. This system can not tell what is going on in your head but can sense your physical emotions. Your physical emotions
tell a lot about you. No matter if you are angry,sad,happy or surprised you can get help from other people. In a classroom full of students it is very hard for just one instructor to focus on the needs of every student. If this sytem is installed in classroom computers it can help your instructor to attend to each individual students needs personally and more effectively. The Facial Action Coding System is very valuable for both teachers and students and proves to be a good investement in the education of hundreds of students globally if used. | 3 |
I believe that the use of technology to read the emotional expression of students in a classroom is valuable. There are six basic emotions. Happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. This emotions can be shown an identified due to your facial and bone structure when showing one of this emotions. For example your frontalis pars lateralis muscle raises your eyebrows when you're surprised. When you get angry your orbicularis oris tightens your lips to show anger.
I believe that the use of technology to shows peoples emotions is valuable. This can be very helpful to profesors giving one hour lectures. This can show the profesor if the students are bored or confused. Meaning if the profesor is awared of one of this emotions they can help the student or make the lecture interesting. Doing either one of this things can change the students emotions durasticly. Another thing we can check up on, is if the student is engaged with the teachers teaching abilities. We would also be able to see if the students are angry at one another, happy, or maybe even disgusted. Identifying emotions can help the profesor, but it can also help out other students. If the students were able to tell what this emotions are, then school drama would decrease in a way. For example lets say a student was disgusted or angered at some student the person could easily ignore him or prevent making eye contact with him. Getting into a serious note lets talk about school shooters. If we were able to see how a angered lonely kid feels, we would help him and we could prevent them from making a tradjic mistake. This could prevent tradegies from happening around the world. Where a no hearted pathetic animal goes and shoots up a school.
So in my opinion I agree with using technology to show peoples emotions. Not only can this make class fun, but it can also help people that are headed to a path of distruction and hatred. This would be able to help a majority of people not just the ones I included. | 2 |
Imagine the world in the future, completely full and covered with cars. Roads are going to start taking up every area of Earth, if people continue driving everywhere and buying cars. I think people should limit car usage because it's environmental friendly, they'll get more exercise, and people will be happier. Cars can be handy from time to time, but i think they should only be used occasionally. Imagine if there was a car for everyone on the planet. Car usage should decrease.
First of all, the Earth is beautiful and the people on it need to take better care of it. For example, just one day without the use of cars in a city, allowed them to construct bike paths, new sidewalks, and reduced traffic jams. Fuel from cars will polute the air and cause smog. If everyone continues to use cars as much as they do or more, there will be no way to clean all the air. When Paris banned cars for a while, smog was cleared and reduced by a lot. Limiting car use will not save the Earth completely, but it will help very much.
Secondly, if people started using cars less, they could get outside more and get more exercise. Biking will help people get fresh air and decrease pollution because cars won't be used as much. People should start finding jobs or doing activties that are close enough to walk or bike to. Cars are for situations in which you really have no other way there or long distances. That's all I think they should be used for. Everyone would be much more fit and healthy if it weren't for being lazy and having to take a car there.
Lastly, not using cars could increase people's happiness. Some people suggest that having a car makes them tense. Everyone would become much closer together and explore more of the world without cars. We could all be outdoors or around each other more. For example, you could take the bus to work instead of your car and meet a new friend. You never know what could happen when you try something new. It's good to change things up once in a while, like not taking your car every now and then and finding another way there.
In conclusion, the positives definetely outnumber the negatives of limiting car use. The main three reasons in my opinion is that it's environmental friendly, you'll get more exercise, and you'll most likely be much happier. Think about all the good outcomes that could come out of not driving your car and try it sometime. | 3 |
I think that the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students is real. I say this because if you look into the computer and have a emotion on your face it will tell you what facial expression you are showing. For example if your looking mean then the computer will think that your angry at this moment. Just how people can look at you and tell how your feeling the new technology can do it to. If the new technology did not work to descibe people's expression then the computer would not do anything, computers are a smart technology and can do lots of things.
It is a good idea to read the emotional expressions of students because computers know how your feeling once you look into it. To figure out how your feeling the computer will take a 3-d picture model of your face. The new technology could only tell six emotions which are happiness,surprise,anger,disgust,fear,and sadness.
The expressions people make are very universal. The new technology cannot describe how your feeling if your not showing no emotion. If you smile while ads come on the computer while assume that your demonstrating the mona lisa facial expression because your smiling and thats what they or she wanted you to do. They wanted to bring a smile on your face.
Last but not least i think that the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students is real. I say this because if you look into the computer and have a emotion on your face it will tell you what facial expression you are showing. For example if your looking mean the computer will think that your angry at this moment. Just how people can look at you and tell how your feeling the new technolgy can do it to. If the new technology did not work to descibe people's expression then the computer would not do anything, computers are a smart technology and can do anything. | 2 |
When you are looking up at the stars and planets at night, do you ever wander what is going on up there. Well what if I said that there was a chance to go visit the planet Venus. Yes, there is many dangers on Venus, but there is so much to explore too; like how Venus is the most like Earth when it comes to shape and size, the gases and temperture, and the curious of how Venus looks like now.
When you think of Venus, what do you think of? Do you think of the heat or the size? Well, when scienetist think of Venus they "[often] referred to as Earth's "twin", Venus is the cloese planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closet in distance too". So, becasue of how close it looks in shape and size, you have to have though in your mind of, what else does it have in common.
When you think of dangerous gases and temperture, what this the things that you think of? Do you think of hot summer day or the gases in the air? Well, on Venus "[a] thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuris acid in Venus's atmoshpere. In the planet's surface, tempertures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheris pressure is 90 times greater than we experience on our own planet". Eventhough, it could be life theathing, there are scientist that want to do test and collect gases and ect to do studies. They want to do studies because they want to learn some much more about Venus.
When you think of how Venus looks like, do you think of craters and the sign of no life? Well, you be somewhat correct because it has a rocky surface, and it looks like valleys, mountain and craters. Although "[long] ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth". Since, there was a possible that there was life forms and etc, scientist want to see if there was some kind of life living up there, but then got exstinted or somethings else happened to them.
So, to rap this all up, scientist know the danger of explore Venus, but sometime you have to do thing that are danger to learn new things. People alway talk about wanting to explore different planets, but they never do it. Yes, there are going to be opsolcules in the way, and there are going to be dangerous things we have do to go there, but it will be worth it in end. Nevertheless, there was forms of life on Venus in the past, why not have life on Venus again. | 3 |
Sometimes you need to go somewhere but just don't feel like driving. Or maybe you are going on a vacation but don't like to fly so instead you drive. Driving for hours at a time is no fun at all. That's why they've come up with the solution to that problem, driverless cars! You may only need to drive when the roads get bad, there is roadwork going on, or when you have came across an accident. This makes life much easier! Now you can relax, and not worry about the road near as much as you would be if you were driving the whole way.
Another problem with the cars we have today is the gas mileage. Most of the cars we have today have terrible gas mileage. With gas prices being around $2 or more you want to use the least amount of gas that you can. WIth driverless cars you may only use half of the gas that you've been using. Can you imagine that? If you get 20 miles to the gallon you may now get up to 40 miles per gallon! The article says," The cars he foresees would use half the fuel of today's...". If you're the person that doesn't like to fly but wants to go on vacation this car may be the best thing to take for the drive. Because you wouldn't use near as much gas as you originally would. And as I said before with gas prices how they are today, you want to save as much as you can!
Maybe you aren't going on a vacation but you choose not to drive and take the bus to work instead. If you work morning shift trying to load a bus with hundreds of other people around 4 or 5 in the morning is not fun. Not to mention there usually aren't enough seats so you may be left standing the whole ride to work. That doesn't make a very good start to your day. The owners of the bus(es) could have some driverless cars as well. Driverless cars would have way more flexibility than a bus or even a taxi. They may also even have more flexibility than most cars that we use today. The articles says," Offer far more flexibility...". This shows that driverless cars offer more flexibility than a regular car, bus or taxi. That means, that you day may not be ruined because you had to stand the whole ride to your job.
Another great thing about these driverless cars is that they don't take on more then they can handle. They alert the driver before they need to take over the wheel. Because, of course driverless cars can't do everything that us humans can do. So if you come across some roadwork or an accident your car may alert you that you need to take over until you get passed that. This isn't such a bad thing though. It's much better to have to take over the wheel then it is to crash because the car took on more then it could handle. The article says," They still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues...". So the only time you'd have to drive is when your car feels its better for your safety if you take over the wheel.
The last great thing I'm going to tell you about driverless cars is that they give you plenty of warnings before you have to drive. Some people are saying that it would be boring to just sit there and wait for your turn to drive. But they are working on putting systems in the cars to where they can entertain you. However, the entertainment will shut off as soon as its your turn to drive again. The article says," Some manufacturers hope to do that by bringing in car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. Such displays can be shut off instantly when the driver needs to take over-something not available to a driver trying to text with a cell phone. So, you can be entertained but you can also be warned before you have to drive that way everyone is still safe!
In conclusion, driverless cars can be a great thing for us! They use half of the fuel that today's cars use. They have way more flexibility the today's buses, taxis, and even some cars. They don't take on more they can handle, instead they tell the driver to take over. Lastly, they entertain you but shut the entertainment off when it's your turn to drive so everyone is safe. So, driverless cars can be a great thing for us! | 4 |
The author suggest the idea of visting the planet Venus in mnay diffrent ways. The author states how similar Venus and earth are and how venus is " the most Earth-like planet in our solar system" in paragraph four. Going to Venus would help us learn alot more about the planet and how it works.
Going to planet Venus could be very dangrous despite how close it is to earth. Venus is also very close to the sun " Venus is the second planet from our sun " it is very similar to earth in various diffrent ways. The author states in paragraph four " The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." The only problem is the temperatures in Venus. The author mentions in paragrah three " On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees farenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experince on our own planet." Venus not only has insane temperatures and very high atmospheric pressure, it also has other dangrous factors, In paragraph three the author also mentions " Beyond high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like errupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface." The author shows us how going to venus would be very tough also very dangrous. Despite the dangers of going to Venus the author states it is something worthy to pursuit. The author mentions that NASA is working on other aprroaches to study Venus. In paragraph seven the author says " NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted up for three weeks in such conditions." the author goes on to say that even though this is a challange it could lead us to something good. the author ends this by saying " Our travels on earth should not be limited by the dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innvovation."
Going to Venus would be incredible even considering its dangers. We just need to davople the right equipment and teghnology to be safe through the conditions. | 2 |
Dear Senator,
Have you ever thought about changing a certain system of voting that is currently in place? This system that I am talking about is the electoral college system, used for voting for president, vice president and sometimes other congressmen. This system unites both views from small states and big states, having two senators per state, no matter the size, and also acquires electors based on population. Some people think that this is an effective system and should not be replaced because everyone is president and because of the presence of swing and big states, as stated in source 3, but I beg to differ. I strongly feel that this system should be removed because it is inaccurate, the electors vote, and lastly because of the disaster factor.
Additionally, The reason why I don't agree with this current system is an issue that can have multiple consequences and none are positive, which is that the electors vote, not you. We do not have the ability to vote for president, we only acquire the ability to vote for the electors that will hopefully vote for the president of your choice. Sometimes, the elector completely disregards what the people want and who the people are voting for, and they do have this ability to ignore the majority's preference and vote for the opposite candidate of the people's choice. If their is a tie situation,as stated in source 2, in which both presidents have the same amount of votes, the case is tossed to the House of Representatives, where state electors who would normally vote for the vice president is now obligated to vote for the president.
Additionally, another reason that this system be removed immediately for the reason that it is not very accurate. This system doesn't show who the people actually want to vote for, it just gives the electors some ideas as to who to cast their vote for. So in reality, the people are actually voting for the electoral college and the electors, as opposed to voting directly for the president. According to source 1, most states have a "winner-take-all" system in place in which all votes are awarded to one candidate and is not based on personal opinion. This shows who the state in general or in majority wants to be awarded president; but in source 2 it states, if you want to vote for a democrat and your state is a republican state you have no choice as an individual to change your state's opinion. Referring back to source 1, when you vote for your candidates you are actually voting for your candidate's electors, so if your candidate wants to change opinion, you have no choice. And it shouldn't be like that , we shouldn't have to indirectly choose our president hoping that our messenger doesn't change his/her mind.
Finally, the last and, in my opinion, the most significant issue to this system is the fact that a disaster factor could take place in any election. Looking back to source 2 and also in source 3, we caught a glimpse of this unfortunate situation in the 2000 election between Bush and Gore. But this was just a minor part as to what this system is capable of and can do. Another example stated in source 2, in 1960 segregationists almost succeeded in replacing the democratic electors with other electors that would be contrary to John F. Kennedy and would throw him off. According to source 1, each candidate has his or her own group of electors, but there is a possibility that these electors could revolt against his candidates and vote for the candidate's opponent.
To conclude, I feel that this system used for voting the presidents and vice presidents should be replaced by another system that does have a direct correlation to the voters opinion and who they choose in their voting screen. Not acccurate, electors vote not people and the disaster factor- these are all flaws that I have found in this system that is currently in place and I feel that this should be fixed. So I agree with Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Bob Dole where they believe that the electoral college should be abolished and replaced by a better system. Do something about it! | 3 |
The" Face on Mars ",this was a therory that even scientist couldn't figure out until 2001. The space probs most liikely sent false information that made them belive that it was a face, when in reality it was just a huge rock formation. Also, in the place that this site was located they are to belive that these things are common in this area. It was the shadows of the rock formation that gave off the belief to be a human face in the rock formation.
NASA states that new high resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA's Mars Global Survey spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is : A mesa. Also, it says that another group of people went to Mars and as soon as they could get a photo of it the the minute that they could.When they put it on the website there were already thousands of anxious web surfers waiting ,so when the image appeared they could identify it as a natural landform and there was no alien monument after all.
Even though they came to a conclusion many people still had doubts about it, so they prepared to look again. They said it's not easy to target Cydonia, so Mars Global Surveyor drew
in closer to the surface and luckly enough it wa not an alien monument.These facts state that there were no aliens on Mars because aliens are not real and they most likely will never be. | 1 |
Self-driving cars, or driverless cars, have always been argued on wether they are more reliable than the typical driver car. While there are pros and cons to owning a driverless car, there are more faliures that come with it rather than successes.
Driverless cars are always open to accidents. Although there have been limited amounts of accidents involving self-driving cars, the chances are still high. In the text the author states, "This necessitates the car being ready to quickly get the driver's attention whenever a problem occurs." This means that whenever a self-driving car approaches an accident, it makes the driver manuever it itself. This can be dangerous to someone who is not paying attention, regardless of it being a self-driving car, that quickly approaches an accident which causes the driver to panic and not do the right manuever. This can cause another accident and can even be deadly.
Self-driving cars are also expensive and hard to perfect. These cars are costly to manufacture, sell, and maintain. They require intriquet parts such as sensors which are very costly. In the article is states, "...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 inertial motion sensor." All these parts that a single modified Toyota Prius uses is costly. One can only imagine how complex and expensive a real manufactured driverless car would be. The driverless car fields are targeting the upper and middle classes of this economy but how will the average American afford to buy one when they are bound to be expensive luxuries?
Driverless cars also produce conflicts that would occur if a person were to get into an accident with one of the cars. In the article, it states, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?" This is one of the questions that needs to be answered by the companies before they can produce them. This is a liability to the person involved in the accident because they will have to determine specifically if he/she caused the accident or the car. This can be costly and time consuming.
Cars that can control on themselves take the joy out of physically driving. In the article, it states, " 'We have to interpret the driving fun in a new way.' " Driving a car can provide relaxation and joy from being able to control a car, but with a self-driving one, the joy disappear and limitations occurs.
Although there are many people who are opposed to this idea of self-driving cars, there is a majority of people, mostly Millenials, who think this idea is revolutionary. Most of the people who like the idea of self-driving cars think that it provides less room for accidents because the car does the driving for you. Also many who support the idea think that driverless cars will burn less fuel and help the enviroment. There are pros and cons to both, but having the access to self-driving cars would provide to be a failure.
Driverless cars are an advancement to this society. Although revolutionary, these cars have or can make issues such as accidents, lawsuits, complications, limitations, and more. They, most importantly, can take the freedom and joy of riding cars and being able to control them. Driverless cars have more negative aspects rather than positive ones. | 4 |
Pardon me, but i would like to disagree with you. What the picture acually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa. The Face on Mars is just a natural land form. The Face on Mars is a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa. Just like we have many lanforms here on Earth, infact there is a lanform in Idaho. It is located in The Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain, is what reminds me most of the Face on the planet Mars. We have more lanforms like the Face on Mars in the American West.
Conspiracy theorists say that the people of NASA are hiding the evidence of life on Mars. I mean think about about it, why would we hide evidence that would benefit this whole organization? Most of the people here at NASA wish that there was an early civilization on Mars. If we did find life on Mars we would share it world wide, it would be one of the greates scientic breakthroughs in history.
Do you understand what I am saying? The Face on Mars was just a Natural land form, not a monument built by aliens. | 1 |
Greetings! I have heard that you think the Face on Mars, is a face that was created by aliens. I believe that this "face" is just a natural landform. I will support my claim why I think this, and maybe you will finally believe, that there are no such things as aliens.
There are many reasons why the Face is just a natural landform. On the second sentence paragraph, it says that we scientists have figured that the Face was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only that this one had unusual shadows, which made it look like an Egyptian Pharoah. The reason some people think it look like an alien, was because it looked like a real face, but it looks like a face, because the shadows formed on the rock give off illusions of eyes, nose, and mouth. On paragraph 7, it is said that Machael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture that is ten times sharper than the origninal Viking phots. Later on, thoughsands of anxious web surfers were waiting for the image to appear. When it finally did, the site revealed a natural landorm. People were not satisfied, because it was a cloudy day on Mars. The scientists decided to prove that it was just a landform, so when it was not cloudy, they took another picture. In the final paragraph, paragraph 12, it says that what the picture actually shows in the Martian equivalent of a btte or mesa-landforms common around the American West. A man name Garvin says, "That's a lava dome that takes form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." The lava dome is most of Middle Butte in the Snake Riber Plaint of Idaho.
So, in conclusion, if you first thought that the Face on Mars was created by aliens, than I hope I have gave your enough information, and persuaded you that it is really just a natural landform. I am sorry if you thought it was made by aliens, but it wasn't. I hope that you could understand, and see that it was just the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa. | 2 |
Now, for some people, cars are a way of life. Nothing pleases them more than the feeling of a stering wheel on their hands, or the growl of a healthy engine. Those people probably could never live without their cars, but you probably can. Well, maybe not living without cars entirely, but at least reducing your use of them. It'll be a lot safer for the environment, and it'll cause a lot less traffic jams. So let's see why you can go a few more days without your prized Hoda Civic.
Now, you've probably had this fact jammed down your throat more times than you care to count, but, cars produce a lot of gas, which isn't really easy on the environment. According to the New York Times article, "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal, "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe...and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." And according to the Chicago Tribune article, "Paris bans driving due to smog" by Robert Duffer, "Last week Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter." So, less car usage means less greenhouse emissions. Yes, there are cars out there that are more "fuel-efficient," but they still require lots of energy from the environment. Not only that, but using your car less often will mean that you won't have to deal with one of the biggest evils in the world.........traffic.
Now, think, when have you ever been stuck in traffic and actually enjoyed it? Now, if you were to ride a bicycle or take a subway, you wouldn't have to deal with that! Already, some cities around the world are finding alternative ways to avoid those jams. "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota," by Andrew Selsky, tells of how the capital of Colombia is doing so. "It has seen the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths...Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic; and new restaraunts and upscale shopping districts have cropped up." This means you'll be able to get to work or to that first date a lot quicker! Sure, people using less cars would strike a big blow in the automobile industry, but you don't neccesarily have to never drive a car again! What about on those long road trips, or when you have to carry a lot of passengers with you? A car would come in handy in such scenarios, but not neccesarily every scenario.
In summary, driving less would be more efficient because it means cleaner air and less highway congestion. So, after reading all of this information, do you think that you have what it takes to get from point A to point B without having to get into a driver's seat? can you take your hand off of the steering wheel long enough to open yourself up to other transportation options? Go ahead, try. | 3 |
Do you think that Venus is worth exploring? Well in the story, " The Challenge of Exploring Venus," it tells you how scientists are trying to explore Venus. Venus is called the,"Evening Star," because of how we can see it as the brightest point in the night. Venus is also, a planet that no human can survive on; the planet is hot, and has high pressure. The conditions far more dangerous than any human has done on earth.
However, the challenge of finding what this planet has and, how it can help us on earth. Has made scientists want to find out about this more. Imagine someone has finally, found something on Venus; everyone would be amazed by it. That is why they want to find out about Venus even if it dangerous.
Although, Venus is a planet that we can not land on without burning. Scientist have reason on trying to find out about this planet. For example, Venus is referred to Earth's "twin," because it has the same density, size, and closest to earth,even if something we are closer to Mars, because of the speed of the earth. However, because Venus is more like earth scientist think that their is a posibility that is we might need to move to another planet. Venus might be the better option than any other planet. That is why scientist want to know.
All in all, even if scientist think it's impossible to find something about Venus, they will try and figure out. It might be hard but, I believe that people like challenges. Even if we can not there might something they can do, like make a robot that can stand hot and high pressure. | 1 |
I am against the development of driverless cars. I am against the development because "if the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault?" There are many reasons why the development of driverless car are not safe.
I am against the development of driverless cars because its could not be safe at all times, "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." Laws are written to keep people safe, if thats the law then driverless cars might not be safe.
Driverless cars may not sound or look dangerous but you never know."In most states it is illegal even to test computer driven cars." It is illeagal in some states probably beacause they are not proven to be safe yet. If they were really safe I think that they would allow them to just test drive them.
Laws about the driverless car are going to change if they do make a safe driverless car. The laws are probably still going to be strict ans safe. "Even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of in accident." If an accident did happen and there was no law who would be blamed for it, the driver shouldn't be because its a driverless car.
"Television and movies have long been fascinated with cars that could drive themselves." Just because we see it in movies or tv shows doesn't mean it real or safe. There are some good things about driverless cars, but there are alot more thing that are bad or just not safe about them. | 2 |
It takes more muscles in your face to frown than it does to smile. Emotions are everywhere. People and animals around the world give off emotions everyday. Joy, sadness, anger, doesn't matter, it's a part of everyday life. Facial Action Coding System, a software made by Professor Thomas Huang, is allowing us to read peoples emotions, based simply on their faces. As cool as it is, there are some real life applications that can be used with this. Whether it is for fun, or for research, FACS can change the way see emotions.
FACS can be used for fun, research, or both at the same time. In the article, to test FACS, they scanned the Mona Lisa and came up with the result saying she is, "83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." This is when FACS could be used for fun. Imagine going to museums with the worlds most famous painters paintings, and scanning their faces. You could see what the artist wanted them to have their person feel like. Also, you could use it on animals to see if your dog or cat really is excited or faking it. It doesn't have to be used soley for research, but can have a joking or fun aspect with it.
Now, it comes down to research. Within the article, they explain its possibilities in classrooms to see if students are bored or losing interest. This can be used in classrooms to change the way the person is being taught if they are starting to lose interest because it can change the lesson to make it more interactive. If a person looks frustrated or stressed over a a lesson, the computer could find another way to explain the subject. Or even if the person is excited, then it could make it more challenging to push them to do better. Possibly, on the more controversial side, you could use this to detect malicious intent. If someone consistently seems upset and angry, it could warn the school or the persons counselor to have them talk to them about any issues they're having. This could prevent possible future issues. Lastly, they could use the information collected to make flexible lesson plans for entire schools or classes. There would be little to no downsides to having FACS in classrooms.
Lastly, FACS can be used for both fun and research. Similar to the first paragraph, one could scan their animals face to see if it is excited, sad, or angry. Not only could it be used for fun by scanning your pets faces, but it could be used for research to detect animal patterns or if an animal is sick. All that could help prevent or detect future problems in our pets.
In conclusion, FACS is a software that lets one determine someones emotions based on the look of their face. It can be used for research, fun, or both at the same time. FACS could be put into classrooms to help make better learning plans, used to detect patterns between animals emotion for the well being, or just used to tell if your dog or cat is excited to see you. Whether it is for fun, or for research, FACS can change the way see emotions. | 3 |
In the future, we think about things that may be invented. Maybe a robot assistant, or somthing that involves great technology and knowledge. Some people have had a vision or have had inventions that have been created. Not many people think that some of these invetions are entirely safe, such as driverless cars. Driverless cars are safe. This can be observed by facts, technology, and manufacturing. First, driverless cars are stated to be safe, you can look at facts that represent that. Although the cars are not entirely supported with facts, they are still included. Google has used driverless cars since 2009. Their cars have driven half a million miles without a crash. This is a strong fact that driverless cars a very safe. Second, technology is a big part of safety in driverless cars. However technology may not be able to control everything, it is a extremly helpful. Driveless cars a progamed to know where they are going and how to get there. The know how to not back into object or other cars on the road. Sebastian Thrun, founder of the Google Car project, believes that the technology has finally begun to catch up to the dream of antilock breaks and driver assistance. There is still a lot of technology ahead in making these cars into something even bigger. Last manufacturing plays a big role in the safety of these driverless cars. In 2013, BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant." Car manufactures have designed the car to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through works zones and arounds accidents. No cars have been invented that are completely driverless. but I think in the futures manufatures can make that happened. Driverless cars are in fact safe. You can see from the facts, technology, and manufacturing. I recommend you to read the article, "Driverless Cars are Coming," and read even more facts about how these cars are safe. | 2 |
5-21-01 something happen on Mars, a human face was printed on Mars! The people that seen this was on a ship calledNASA"S Viking ship 1-2 were in there ships taking pictures of landing sites. But before I get to telling you this, we think the human face is just a
natural landform. A few day later the NASA'S unveiled the image for all to see, it captioned,
"A human head." THis face started shownign up in hollywood films,in book and magazines.
But I think this might just be a landform because, how could a face just appear
on mars, did someone go to mars we didn't now about or, did someone that went to mars put the face in the ground, or did someone die on mars and there body goes underneithe and forms a face. No, none of that happen because
no one ever knew about it or heard about it, and how could they go to mars without a ship, and they are no such thing as aliens
in the 21st century which we are liveing in now and if it is no one has heard about it so no in this case something happent with a rock or heave hard object and soon or later it form into the ground and it kepted forming from under the and it starts to llook like a humans face.Even MIcheal Maline said it was a landform not an Alien print or nothing like that. | 1 |
The author explains venus very well. he describes the atmospher on the planet and the tempreratures on the planet as well. it would be very difficulet to land there because it is very hot. i have seen images from the planet and the ground is very valcanic looking and you cant see very well cause of the atmospher. The planet gets very hot during the day and very cold there during the night as well. its kinda neet to look up at night on planet earth and see all the stars and planets out there. I have seen venus a couple of times and the author is right it is very bright. The reason we cant land their the author sates that it has sulfiric asid for the atmospher and the author is right. A prob was sent there and it only lasted a few hours. The author done a good job at studying veuns and its a good idea to pursuit it. | 0 |
If I were you I would participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. It is a great opportunity of a lifetime. If you were to join this program you would make a difference for the countries that had ruins after being in or around World War II.
One reason I think humans, such as boys, should join this program is, because you could get a chance to take care of horses, young cows, and mules that had to be shipped overseas. Doing this could make a difference on these animals life. Think about if you were in this situation, wouldn't you want someone to participate to help you and take care of you.
Another reason I think you boys should join this program is, because it could be a chance to open up the world to you. In the ending of you joining this program will most likely make you proud and grateful for this opportunity you got. Wouldn't you like to be opened up to the world and know a lot about it? I know you would, because before I joined I did to.
My final reason I think all boys should join this program is, because it could open up many opportunities to yourself. I, Luke, made nine trips overseas the most of any Seagoing Cowboy. That was a great opportunity that I got. It made me feel proud and I know it would make you feel proud also. You only live once so hey why not, this opportunity could lead to many awesome opportunities.
In conclusion, I think boys that have the opportunity to join the Seagoing Cowboys program should do it. If you were in my place, you would want someone to do something good to now wouldn't you? So go sign up for the Seagoing Cowboys program. Wouldn't you want to help out things such as animals after a war? Well than that is why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program with no hesitations! | 1 |
Dear Florida Senator,
The Electoral College has been in the United States for a very long time. It has worked for the most part and we have been happy with it for the most part, but "for the most part," doesn't cut it. The system has to be one that works all the time without fail. Said system has to make sense. That is why electing by the popular vote should be our's.
Except for two states, the electoral votes are, "Winner take all." This means that if the popular vote is obtained in a state by just a smidge, the the entire state's votes go to that candidtate. This makes absolutely no sense at all. The "big states" like California, Texas, and Florida have about thirty to fifty five electoral votes unlike most other states which have three to ten electoral votes. If the "big states" were to be won by a little by one candidate, then he or she would have over one hundred votes toward his or her candidacy but only about sixty percent of the popularity for those states. This happened to Al Gore in 2000 against George W. Bush.
Another problem with the Electoral College is that the creators did not make it so that a tie is impossible. Richard A. Posner explains in his article from
Slate Magazine that although the total number of electoral college votes is even, it is still very unlikely. Now which is more likely, something to happen out of 580 things or something to happen out of many million?
When voting for the president, the voter feels like he or she has the power to choose our nation's leader. When the voter realizes they are not voting for the president, they are, in fact, electing chosen people to vote for them, it does not really have the same effect. This is explained in Bradford Plumer's "The Indefensible Electoral College." Electing by the popular vote would make it seem more personal and voting would have more meaning.
Richard A. Posner also said that the Electoral College made candidates go to more than one region of the United States to gain support. In fact, they just go to swing states and states they know they will win. Electing by the poplular vote would make candidates go to every state to gain support.
The Electoral College may or may not have worked before, but it just doesn't now. It will take a while to implement the process of electing by popular vote, but when we do, it will definitely be worth it.
Sincerely, PROPER_NAME | 2 |
The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable? To i dont think is good to be doing that tipe of stuff like that to me its vialating are privasy to be use. I really dont know why they would do stuff like that like there are so many quastens to ask the .Why do we need this?How is it importent?What are the use of it ?And when did you have this idea.I think if artes want to know how a persen is feeling just ask cause thats are persanol stuff getting iut ther to people,and i dont think people want there emotional expression out the.some people dont want to tell peopl how they are felling today and only they have the right to tell some one there emotion.This is my apinyion people may not like the idea or they love the idea that's them i know i would not like that and i dont want people knowing eberything about me that is why i disagree with it . | 1 |
" It's 2016 and i still look young!" said Luke. he was the cowboy who rode waves "Ok dad since Forever ago!" said his daughter. She was in town for special reasons.
" Can you tell me a story of when you were young?" his daughter asked. " Oh all right,but just one. When I was young I was a wave surfer and-" he was enturupted by his daughter. " that part changes every time last time you told me this story it was a sailor and then it was a -" "Alright mabey I was just a guy on a cattle boat." he said.
" His daugter laughed at him, just a guy on a cattle boat,huh." she said "Hey it payed the bills, got food on the table,and payed the hospital bills too!" he said angerly. His dauhter sat there with nothing to say. "You promised to never talke about her ever again!" not knowing what he said. she left the room with nothing to say.
She left the hous got in her car and drove off without a hug or a kiss goodbye. She never had done this before. She never knew her mother.
But of course she came back and he talked about his journeys to china and all different places. | 0 |
Voting has been a legal write of all people since our country was established, but is the way we vote recieving some resistance? The electoral college is the way we vote now and the way weve been doing it for years. So why change it? For the sake of fairness and accuracy. People from all around the country don't think that the electoral college is a intelligent way of voting. So they are fighting changing the electoral process to popular vote rather than voting for a state of electors.
Our best arument we have to go against the electoral college is the disaster factor. Document 1 "
What Is the Electoral College?
" states, "Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people." This is basically saying we can't trust our electors to really vote for what they are assigned. That is like not being able to rely on the school bus to take you to school in the morning, its not a great sense of doubt.
Another reason not to use this outlandish method of voting is that the total number of electoral votes (538) is an even number. Which means there could be a tie. Another thing worth mentioning is that one candidate can win the popular vote but have fewer electoral votes. That is exactly what happened to Al Gore and that was largely part of this bogus system our country continues to uphold.
The electoral college should be abolished. It has caused nothing but problems for us in the past years. From ties, to innacuracy of votes, to causing re-counts. The electoral college is not putting America in the right direction. Most people don't like change, I am one of those people. Although, this change is for the better. And it should be strongly considered in the comig years. | 2 |
I am against the development of Driverless cars because, it really be a waste of money imagine all the things we can do for other causes. People already a lazy now they wont have to do anything. Its not teaching them how to drive, its encouraging people to be under developed. They won't be able to access the real world they'll be spending alot of their time on social media as they do now. Why is it bad to make Driveless Cars?
First off who would benifeiting off of driverless car? Yeah the rich would have them but, wouldn't they be more of a threat? How useful would they be? So many questions you know why, its new first of all people like new things, like cars, phones, hunting rifles, etc... we want new inovations to drop and when someone reads a newspaper clip stating " Google's cofounder invented driveless cars". The people love that type of things and whats gets them move interested is when you give them details, the new functions, and the accsessability you have in a car that you don't need to drive.
Secondly, we can be useing the funds for another purpose. We can buy things for the uneducated or help the homeless so many posibilities we have and we invest it in a driverless car that has no other function other than take you to your location by gps.
Finally, the importance of a self diving vehicle isn't needed do to the technology that we have already. We have so much that we use it for transportation. We literally have the whole world in our pocket and we're using it for cars.
That's why it isnt a good idea to be making driverless cars. | 2 |
The author of Driverless Cars Are Coming presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. The positive aspects of these cars are that they will be using half of the fuels than today taxis, they will offer far and more flexibility than a bus and also the driverless cars are also safe.
The driverless cars will create less pollution by not polluting the air with car fuel, and exhuastion. With the cars not polluting the air so much the world will be so much better there will be less of a pollution and it will stop the growth of global warming. Fuels of cars and factorys are the main souce of global warming and with driverless cars fums wouldn't be so much of a problem because driverless cars will only use half of fuels than cars today use.
Driverless Cars will be more flexiblity than buses because they are smaller andcan weave in and out traffic in the safest way possible they will take you farther on less fums. These Cars also are safe because there are senseors that can detect any promblems in traffic. Also they provide
3-D visual of cars that are surrounding it. driverless cars use gps sytems so they know where they are going and will not get lost. The cars will always have a lincese human in the car that can drive in the driver seat at all times when the car is in motin so if the car do have problems that human being can take over. Manufacturers of the driverless cars are working each and everyday making the cars 100 percent safe and reliable. | 2 |
If I were a scientist at NASA I will not believed alien because most of scientists said aliens are not real and I think they just made up of alien. A face on Mars is maybe when the wind blow the dust it trun that face or when they goes there they died and their dead body face is still there. But it's really interesting because that face is really big and it image 3 times bigger than th epixel size. But I believed there are not alien in the other planets or in earth because alien are not real but I have to makesure that I have to ask more question to the smartest scientist and ask about how did that face happen and how are we gonna prove about that. I have to ask more question about that too and they said that face look like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian style pyrmaids or even small shacks, you could see what they were. Some of them don't believe it because they don't see it and they just guess that answer. But when I looked at the picture I think I saw that crown and their face look shiney and in 2001 that face look destroy . I don't believe in aliens but if there was some aliens in that planet they might made that face too and they hid away from that face. I wish I see that picture for real and take some picture and prove it. | 0 |
Their are three reasons why Luke's point of view convince people that they should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. One reason was that it was an expirience of a life time,he does what he likes to do,and he gets free time to do fun things. Thoes are the reasons why Luke's point of view convinces others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program.
I can support this answer that the Seagoing Cowboy's program was an expirience of a life time when the passage says "but the Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger"."It opended up a new world for him". I can also support that it was an exprirence of a life time when the text says,"I'm greatful for this for this opportunity,"he says."It makes me more aware of people in other contries and their needs."thats the reason that it was an expirience of a life time.
I can support that he gets to do what he likes to when the texts says that "Biside helping people ,I had a side benifitt of seeing
Europe and China. I can also support that he likes what hes doing when the text says "Luke also tored and excavatede Crete and marvoloues at the Panamna Canal on his way to China."
I can support that found free time to do fun thing when the text says the cow boys played baseball and volleyball table tennis and more fun things. They also boxed read whiting and more those are the reasons how he got to do fun things
In conclusion he did alot of things to inspire people to be a Seagoing Cow boy. If mre people were like hime the world would be a better place. | 2 |
Dear, state senator
I am writing this letter to argue the favor of keeping the Electoral College during president elections. There are five reasons for retaining the Electoral College. All are practial reasons , not liberal or conservative reasons.
Certainty of outcome
Everyone's President
Swing states
Big states
Avoid Run-Off Elections
Certainty of outcome
A problem over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible. Once before it happened in 2000 , but its less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. The winning candidate's share of the Electoral college comes from his popular vote. 2012 election for example Obama & Romney , Obama recieved 61.7 percent of electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of popular votes. A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible because the total number of votes.
Everyone's President
Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. No region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. A president from the south ,has no incentive to campaign in those states, he gains no electoral votes by increasing his plurality in states that he knows he will win in . This is a unfair result because a candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to ba a successful president. Residents of the other regions are likely to feel as their votes do not count,that the new president has no regard for their interest.
Swing States
Winner takes all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates. Voters in toss up states are most likely to pay close attention to the campaign ,and to really listen to the competing candidates . They are known to be the most thoughtful voters. They have recieved the most information and attention from from the candidates.
Big States
The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states lose. A large state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a small state does
Avoid Run Off Elections
The Electoral College avoids the problems of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast. A run off election is when no candidate wins a majority of the votes cast. The Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state.
Voters in presidential elections are people who wants to express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election.
There's also some cons of the Electoral College. In the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case , the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives , where state delegations vote on the president. The electoral college is unfair to voters. Becasue the winner take all system in ecah state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning , they focus on "swing" states. Votes vote not only for the president ,but for a state of electors , who in turn elect the president.
There's a lot of pro's and con's to this arguement,but I believe you should keep the Electoral College . | 2 |
"Out travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers or doubt" The author of this article belives that it's worthy to study Venus no matter the dangers we could be face to face with.
In the article the author states we should travel beyond despite all the dangers we could come across. This author supports his idea by stateing that we could go beyond our imagination and innovation. NASA is working on sending humans to go and study up closely Venus. I think we should study different planets only if we are not faced with any danger in our way, this way we know if most of the planets are survivable.
In the article the author states if and when we arrive to Venus it could be tough desicion and with unease conditions but it could be survivable for humans. Radiation would be one of the dangers we would have to face. Another aspect that would make the conditions on Venus uneasy would be the fact that air pressure could get us really ill if and when we travel there.
In my opinion i think the opportunitiy of traveling to any other planet such as our neighbors Mars and Venus are a great way to go above and beyond out of our planet. This would be such a great opportunity
for us to travel to different planets, then again if we dont come acroos any dangers.
This would be a great exploration for us to send humans to study other planets as the author states and when we do, we will know what we are up againist. | 2 |
Driverless cars are a good thing to have at times because they have the technology to make a change for the future. Smart cars have the capabiltiy to sense things that are coming when drivers have their focus on something else. The cars are amazing because they have the an opertunity to change driving in new ways.
With time computer-driven cars will be better than they already are because with time new ideas will keep coming and they will be put to the test to see if they can make them better. They will make thier ideas for the cars better and keep testing new theories for them like in the article it says" Sensors are nothing new, of course. In the 1980s, automakers used speed sensors at the wheels in the creation of antilock brackes. Within 10 years, those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers."
Driverless cars are getting better as the years go on and technology improves. Google founder belives that " technology has finally begun to catch up to the dream". He belives this because before 2000s nothing was improved enough to make things that we have today like technolgy has grown alot since then to be albe to understand the math that it takes to make sure these cars are going to be able to do the job they are programed to do.
Even though driverless cars are good they still have flaws that are not good like their technology can malfunction and that wouldn't be good for anybody in the car if they don't know what to do. In the article it stated that "if the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?" With this being said it puts things into perspective that probably were but not thought
as much until it was brought up. Also they don't always know what to do in situations like if there are work zones or finding a way around an accident that had occured. One thing that is also put into thought was the money that these automakers and manufacturers are putting into these cars because they are not cheap to build.
Driverless cars are something that will be in the future becuase of the technolgy for cars rapidly growing and manufacturers finding new things all the time. In the article it says that " the road to the truly autonomous car stretches on ahead of us, but we grow closer to teh destination every day".
As time is being put into this more ideas are poping up and more adjustments are being made to make these cars better than the last. | 3 |
Fellow citzens i am here to inform about the advantages of limiting car usage. limiting car usage has made people feel safer walking and planners are noe taking the concept to the suburbs. expert says its a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gases.
In this new approach to limit car usuage stores are placed a walk away on a main street,rather than in malls along some distant highway. even in the united states the enviromental protection agency is promoting "car reduced" communities and legislators are starting to act, if cautiously.
for example congestion went down in france after five days not being to drive and of intensifiying smog.70 percent of vaubans families do not own cars,and 57 percent sold a car to move here. most people are happier with the the car usage limit due to that fact that they have too be tense anymore. and the wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor.
Vauban,home to 5,500 people wihtin a rectangular square mile , is the most advanced experiment in low-car sudan surburban. many experts expect public transport serving suburbs to play a much larger role in a six year federal transportation bill to be approved this year.
New suburbs may look more vauban-like,not only in developed countries but also in developing world,vauban,germany residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers,going where few soccer moms or commuting excutives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars .
Vauban,completed in 2006,is anexample of a growing trend in europe,the united states and else where to seperate surburban life from auto use,as a component of a movement called "smart planning". | 0 |
Cars have been a necessity to us for as long as I can remember. Billions of people around the world use cars everyday. Without cars in our lives many people would be lost and not know what to do. Thinking of a world without cars is unreasonable to the people of today, but if they thought of all the good not driving everyday does for the world then it would probably be a different story.
Many places are enforcing people to go without there cars transporting them everyday, which could be a good thing. Heidrun Walter a man in source 1 states, "Seventy percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and fifty-seven percent sold a car to move here." By saying this he is showing how many people like living their lives without all the troubles cars can cause. People of this community dont have to worry about being ran over by cars or being stuck in traffic everyday. David Goldberg, another man in source 1 also states, "All of our development since World War two has been centered on the car, and that will have to change." In saying this he portraying that we need to focus on more important things and stop worrying about cars, which hurt us more in the long run than they do helping us.
Vauban isn't the only place that has enforced the rule of not using cars. Many other places have done so also. Robert Duffer states, "After days of near-record pollution, paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." By saying this the author is explaining how the use of cars have dramatically polluted a city. Just think, if there were no cars, then there would be less pollution to worry about hurting all the city's. It is not hard to ride a bike to the places you need or want to go. Instead of using cars everyday and hurting our enviroment, people should think of how much good they would be doing and money they would be saving by taking another type of transportation than just cars.
Bogota, Colombia has also taken the no car use into affect. They have used many other types of transportion such as hiking, biking, and even skating to there destination. Businessman Carlos Arturo from source 3 says, "It's a good oppurtunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." He and many other citizens of this place agree with saving our enviroment and not using cars. Not using cars is less stressful because your not consistently worring about gas, the car breaking, or getting into an accident with another driver.
Just imagine your life without using a car everday. Not using a car isn't that bad and doesnt hurt you or the people around you as much as it does having one. Using a car everyday puts your life at risk, takes your money, and hurts the enviroment. Life without cars would be simpler and less stressful in our world today. | 3 |
I would honestly say that my standpoint of driverless cars is that they are will not be as a good of an invention. I say this because if we have driverless cars some people may forgot about the fundamentals of driving and when they need to take over the wheel it could cause a major accident. Some people may even panic when they have to take over the wheel because it could be very sudden to them and be a surprise which may cause the driver to speed the car which may end with car crashes or injured pedestrians.
The driverlesss car has been something greatly talked about all around with people see the upcoming future with all new inventions willing to be introduced by i do not think we will need a car that can drive itself. If the car can drive itself this seems as you have to not just learn how to engineer a car but as well learn the technology of it if anything goes wrong with it. It seems as it will cost more peopel more money and may even be more expensive repairs on with all the added technology to it as uses laser beams to form the car's surroundings. We are giving a car skills to mimic everything a human can do as we do. It was well still needs the driver's assitance to help out in case of any roadblocks or anything that the car cannot see. All i see with these cars is that we will continue to have more driving conflicts and if we get into an accident we have to come to mind to see whose fault was it the driver or the manufacturer. With all these new inventions of cars coming we are starting to have to build more laws into states to make sure we have the safety of everyone and everything. This invention could be a posssible great invention to be remembered or this invention could cause another issue in the world maybe because we all are not new to technological failures. If we have a technological failure in the middle of driving what will happen the car will just stop going or will just completlely go out crazy when drving. That seems as to high of a risk to take for the safety of other.
At the end I do not see these car being the greatest thing to come but be another issue for us in our near future to come. This could be really bad for us and may result in even more danger for all of us. I am going to hope this is nothing to worry about. So this new driverless car is not greatest thing to come by in my eyes. | 2 |
One of the highest paying movie catagories is Science fiction, but it's just that fiction, it's fake. When you watch these movies about aliens you can never take them as one hundred percent fact. The CGI can look amazing and the props outstanding, but it's not real. Now NASA has photographed an image of what liiks like a face created by aliens, but that is not a face, and it can be proven with facts.
There is a point in the article that says, it was just a messa, only this one had unusall shadows. That right there tells us that it is not anything created by aliens, but in fact just something that we even have on earth, the only difrence is that mars had lots of cloudes, wich gave it shadows, wich made the rock look like a face. The face on mars is just another hoax, another what if statment, another theroy, one that has been disproved by evidence. MYTH BUSTED. Now of course scientest didn't stop there, and they kept researching the face, trying to prove that it's alien, but they never did, because it's not alien, just another rock.
Aliens have been part of our world for a long time now, but the aliens we have grown acustom too are fake, just coustumes. That is one of the reasons they have become so famous, because they're not real. yoou cant take everything you see in movies or on tv as one hundred percent fact, you need to know whare fake ends and relaty begins. The famous Face on Mars, is not created by aliens, but by clouds. | 1 |
The auther supports the idea of study venus more because the chance of find out the history about venus and if it was a earth-like plant that was once home to life. In pargah 4 they say that "venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth," because of venus includes"familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters."
As NASA work on a way to study venus and how to reach it. They have work with "some simplified electronics made slilcon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of venus's surface"that has lasted for 3 weeks.
As the auther states his last part by say thet "earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation."
To sum it all up is that we should stop because we fail we should learn from it and keep push on. | 1 |
"The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is an artical about how Venus an unhabitable planet thats very dangerious for human to go, dispite the bearing heat of the sun blazing down on Venus at over 800 degrees fahrenheit, atmospheric pressuses 90 times greater than earth's, with the planet also being the hottest planet in our solar system. The author suggest many reasons why a trip to Venus is not like anyother trips but also a worthy pursuit.
My first reasons is how the author shows both Cons/Pros of exploring Venus, acording to to artical "Beyond high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and Weather present additional empediments kike erupting valcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface." (3) this show how dangerious Venus is for a humans. but the arthor also stated that " Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." (4) the author stated that Venus could be Earth long lost brother a planet that once support life, and many scientist want to study Venus to answers.
My Secound reason is how the author claim humans should strive to new challenges for the curisoty to the answers. according to the last paragraph Venus "Our travels on Eath beyond should not be limited by danger and doubt and should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation" (8) the author that being cerious for answers it the expande to meet teh edge of imagination to it fullies. My thirth reason is how the arthor concluded different scientist working on new equitment and technology to better the trip to Venus.
Although Venus is extremely dangerious with an unbearible heat and pressure enough to crush a submarine, it may be worth the danger to pursite studying Venus and it hold answers to many question with its history, while on extreme contition a nice trip to Venus might just be worth it. | 2 |
The Facial Action Coding System recognizes human emotions. It builds a 3-D computer model of the face. Which can detect the emotions of a human. It now being used in schools to detect the students facial expression.
The use of the technology to read the emotional expressions of students in the classroom is not valuable, because its not going to help them with anything. Its not going to change how they feel, In paragraph 6 the author states that "Aclassroom computer can recognize when a student is becoming bored or confused". The computer is not going to help them change their emotion.
Also, the computer is going to be able to recognize their emotions, but its not going to make them feel different. If the computer sees that a student is sad or mad, its not going to make them feel better. It is just going to know how they feel. Its not going help them at all. They are still going to do the same thing on the computer as they were before.
They detected the Mona Lisa painting. In paragraph 1 the author said that "she is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, and 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry". That did not change how the painting looks. They just recognize how she was feeling. Its still the same painting as it was before. Her facial expression did not change at all. At schools computers are going to do the same, the students are not going to change how they look and feel.
The Facial Action Coding System is not valuable, because it is just going to detect how they feel. It is not going to really change anything. The system is not going to provide them with anything to make their emotions change. I feel like they should not have that, because they know how they are feeling and other people are going to know to. | 2 |
Would you keep your vehicle at home for a day and walk to work? Well in Bogota there is a car-free day, people all over the town partcipate in this event. According to the article, "millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yestraday." On this day only buses and taxis are permitted to rome the streets for the day. The reason behind having a car-free day is because cars cause smog, which can cause congestion in the city.
In Paris, "Diesels make up 67 percent of vehicles in France." Diesel is favored over gasoine because of a tax policy, because of diesel France was polluted with smog. Since France took away the use of cars for evn numbered license plate owners for the day delivery companies complained of "lost revenue," but if you had a "plug-in car, hybrid, or cars carrying three or more passengers" had exceptions. On the next day, odd numbered lisence plate owners were followed to keep their car at home but instead the smog had cleared enough on that Monday for the ruling French to rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates.
"In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" article they talked about the people walking or bicycling to work or places they wanted to go. Many people might have decided to not take a car to go places because there was limited parking, which only consists of two parking garages. Now, 70 percent of families don't own cars in Vauban, which is shocking because they all either walk or take a bicycle ride.
Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. The United States of America is now responding to these other countries and their way to reduce car usage. Obama ambitious gaols to curb the United States greenhouse gas problem might be paying off. The article "The End of Car Culture states "Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." If Americans are buying less vehicles than that's a way to a good start for lowering greenhouse gases.
In conclusion, limiting car usage can have many advantages. Since caar usage causes greenhouse gases and smog, limiting by a little or alot will always help to reduce the amounts of these gases in the air that we humans breath. People in differnt countries like France, Germany, and Bogota are coming up with many unique ways to help reduce the car usage. Limiting the car usage helps with the gas expensives, and helps with finding other ways for transportation. | 2 |
One ordinary day my friend Don Reist invited me to be a Seagoing Cowboy in Europe. I couldn't say no to that getting to help people and getting an opportunity of a life time. While over there I realized how bad those countries are and how many Seagoing Cowboys they really need. For me the answer was an immediate yes, because there's so many reasons to be in the Seagoing Cowboy's Program.
While I was on the cattle boat trips I got to see Europe and China. Not only that but I got to see the Acropolis in Greece which was so amazing to see and probably my favorite. A gondola ride in Venice, Italy with the city streets made of water. I also had the opportunity to tour a castle in Crete, and saw the beautiful Pana Canal on my way to China. All this beautiful sightseeing is only one of my reasons.
I didn't just go over there for that, I went over there to help. Yes, all those magnificent sights were a blast to see. Yet as an affect of World War ll, there were people with out homes who needed help and food. As a small town boy I only got to have few choices of work, but as a Seagoing Cowboy I went everywhere and got to help people. We helped them by shipping horses, mules, and young cows overseas because they had lost all there animals. While helping I got to sail across the Atlantic Ocean sixteen times and the Pacific Ocean twice. Knowing everytime I sailed across either ocean I was helping someone in need. Which made me feel good and not so much like a small town boy anymore. Lots of Seagoing Cowboys are needed and as you can conclude there are many great reasons to join. | 3 |
Having Driveless Cars would be nice because it maximizes our safety. I agree because not only does it help but it can prevent accidents. Driveless cars can help our community. Driveless cars can fundamentally change our world like Sergey Brin said. It also would be great to have new technology in this world.
Cars right now are pretty safe, but having driveless cars can be make this world safer. For example, if you accidentally fall asleep while driving who's going to help you? Now if you have Driveless cars it can help you not fall asleep or drive while you rest for a bit. It can also help you be precausious if there is another car behind you or if there is something when you are going back. People has tested cars that drive independently under specific conditions and has not caused any accidents, so far.
Driveless cars can be very helpful. One reason is because it helps you be more relaxed. It can also be helpful when you have kid in the back and you need to watch them. Plus it won't be so stressful to drive if you can just sit and watch the view. If you ever get lost, a driveless car can help you find your way home. Driveless cars can also help older people.
Sometimes you have have to give your baby a bottle but you can't leave the wheel so then the baby starts crying and that could cause a distraction and cause an accident. With the driveless cars it can make life easier and help you out. They can also save you some money by not going past the speeed limit which can also prevent more speeding tickets. Driveless cars can be helpful when your are just learning how to drive too. They could also help when your driving at night.
Driveless cars can change our community. It would be kind of different to get used to not driving but it would be fun too. You get to be able to do different stuff while driving. Driving can be fun but sometimes you also get tired. So whenever you get tired you can change it to autopilot. Plus it would benefit a lot more people. | 2 |
Venus is a planet that is like the second planet Sun. It is bright and has it's own good. It is also close to the Earth, which they call it Twin. It is very easy to spot. Not alot of humans studying Venus can actully be on the planet for too long.
It's got "a thick atmosphere of almost 97% of carbon dioxid"
which meaning the air around it is very thick and it is not an easy area. Getting close to it is impossible, studying it is impossible, and thats why were are still on about how to really get a real definition of what venus is, a hard to learn lesson.
They say that Venus is a place that we can't really figure out but we still learn about it because it was once a place that was filled in with water, and was supported it in with various forms of life, just how where we are living, the Earth, today. Venus is close to the Earth whcih is an easy place to visit, and it is covere with a sediment surface of rocks and have the similar features of what we have now in the Earch. We are trying to learn about Venus so the NASA group is trying to discover hoe it works and so they came to the point of flying jets and stuff around there. They are also trying to test some testing therte to see what it can handle or hold. They using some divices that was used bnac in 1940 which was during the World War ll. Venus is resistant to heat so when using teachnology there, it all is gonna have to be used in different.
We try to do what best we can to get to the Venus and to study it by using imaginations, and innovations | 0 |
I Luke Bomberger am a veteran seacowboy. The segoing cowboy program isn't all hard work. You should join the program because it is a chance of a lifetime, you visit cool places, and you get to have fun. The cowboy program is meant for you.
This a one time offer. You don't know how long this opperation will be running. When my friend asked me to do I thought, "I knew this was an opportunity of a lifetime." I decided I am going to go. You should go too.
Another reason you should go is that you travel all over the world. You get to see things that you would never imagen. The places were unbelieveble. When I was a cowboy, "I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special. Another event I remeber was in Venice were we road a gondola on the streets of water.
I always liked the end of the trips because after all the hard work we had fun. We had had so many games. "The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, and whittling." with all these games we never wanted to leave the sea. If you came too, you could do play too. We spent so much time having fun I knew it was the best decision I made.
After all those years I stopped, but I still remember the adventure. Most of all I remember it was a chance of a lifetime, all the trips we made, and all the fun we had. The trip was definintly worth it. | 2 |
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