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the made a claim that venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it present and the author support his or her statement because he stated that astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well once have been the most earth-like planet in our solar system and also stated that today venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth. so thats show how the author supports this idea.
The first reason why the author believe that venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents is because he stated that astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well once have been the most earth-like panet in our solar system so they still could try and find out what the planet venus have and how venus was a long time ago and another reason why the author believe that venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents is when he stated that today venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth so that shows that venus was once like earth and the astronomers want to find out what was the caause of venus changing.
in conclusion the author supported his stement "venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents" very well because he bgave many reason why he stated that such as astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well once have been the most earth like planet in our solar system. and also stated that today venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth. | 1 |
Unreal Theories & Magazine Believings
I believe the face on mars is a natural landform. I believe this because, in a few paragraphs, they say that it can't be possible and that they took a picture and that wasn't the case. My three examples from the text are in paragraph 11, paragraph 7, and paragraph 9. The face on mars is a landform, and i could prove it to you.
In paragraph 11 it shows that this so called "face" is actually not a real face. It says in paragraph 11, "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size, so if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see wat they were". I think that this "fact" is actually kind of unreal. For example, if you take a picture of the sun, and you make the picture 3 times bigger than that size, you wont see how the real sun looks because the picture doesnt have all the good pixels you need to get a perfect picture. Its almost to never when someone has a perfect picture and you can see every detail of the picture.
In paragraph 7 it states "Thousands of web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared in a JPL web site, revealing... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all". Thats one of the best examples i have so far because, if they went up to mars to check out if this face was real or fake and it ended up to be fake, AND they have proof, of course its not going to be real. some people still believe that the face is still real as it says in paragraph 8. Some people were so anxious to have the answer, that they started to have theories about the planet. as it says in paragraph 8,"The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze". If anyone has heard me, i have said SKEPTICS. They said that for a reason to let people know that answers is better than a hypoothesis.
My last example is from paragraph 9. In paragraph 9, it says that " Mars Global Surveyor is a mapping spacecraft that normally looks straight down and scans the planet like a a fax machine in narrow 2.5 km-wide strips. "We just don't pass over the Face very often," he noted".
They dont pass over the face very often because if you think about it, they just look straight down and scan the planet. The planet doesn't swirl on different sides. it stays in something that is called orbit. Orbit is something used for the plant to go in circles. it doesn't go everywhere like a regular sphere on earth, it has to stay in one place.
I believe that the Face isnt a real face, but actually a landform. I have chosen Those few examples to change your mind about how you feel about the Face, when, in all reality, its a landform. I believe I can change your mind about the feeling of knowing that this Face is a natural landform, most likely made by a meteor hitting the planet. | 2 |
Although, Venus holds some dangers for astronomers, it is a great science of study and has potential solutions to avoid dangerous studying. It sparks scientists to Venus, due to the similarities it has to Earth, as is to why scientists are interested on reserching this planet in space. The conditions are far more extreme than anything scientists encounter on Earth due to the stability of the atmospheric pressure and temperature that could crush practically anything. Venus is worthy to pursuit because in paragraph four, it reads, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." This explains to the reader to why it is important to be discovered despite all of the challenges on the surface.
"Human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." (paragraph 8) Despite everything that makes us humans limited to encounter the curiosity of Venus, it shall not be intimidating to expand the edges of knowledege when humans can work around it to find safe solutions. Paragraph seven explains, "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venuss surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." This explains to the reader that they are still interested in the findings of Venus because they are experimenting ways to finding safe solutions that convinces the reader that the idea of studying Venus is still a worthy pursuit.
The idea of expanding scientists knowledge of Venus are risky, this does not make it impossible to find stratagies to make studies safe for the scientists. It may take many experiments and knowlege to make it easier for further visits, but it is never limited. The wonders of a planet so similar to the planet for humans will carry on depsite the dangers of it. It is worthy of pursuit because the idea of studying it is never impossible and scienetists shall never give up on their ponders of their fascination on Venus. | 2 |
Almost every single citizen in the United States of America has experienced riding in a car. And for most people, they have to have a car in order to make a living. This comes with many conciquences as well. For one, car accidents happen everywhere leading to major car insurance payments, injuries, and even death. Another downfall of having cars is all the traffic and pollution they cause to the enviornment. What if there was a society in which cars are banned? the only way of transportation is biking, walking, skateboarding, etc. That would be a lot heathier wouldnt it? Well in the city of Vauban, they did just that.
To start things off, car accidents are a huge crisis in which almost every country faces. Driving a car puts many things at risk including your life. Many people are severely injured as well causing issues for their life. Having limited car use would save thousands of lives and lower the amount of peoples lives lost from cars. If everybody walked and rode bycicles, nobody would get hurt!
This brings me to my next point. Using cars means polluting the air and expecting traffic. With no cars, your community wouldnt have to pay for stop lights, huge highways, and many other things the community must pay for in order to have access to vehicles. Also, cars pollute the air dramatically. Keeping the earth is very important and by using cars, all we are doing is hurting the earth we live on. People wouldnt have to buy gas and things would be much cheaper and cleaner without them.
This brings me to my last point. If everyone walked and rode bikes and man powered things, everyone would be a lot healthier. people would be forced to get outside and get exercise in order to go anywhere. Less people would be out of shape and people would be much happier. People would also socialize a lot more and everybody would know everbody. There would be less strangers and you would be closer to your community you live in.
To wrap things up, limiting car use would be very benificial to society for many reasons. One, there would be no car acciedents and this would save peoples lives. Two, without cars, there would be no pollution and no traffic issues at all. And three, without cars, people would be much healthier and socialize a lot more than they do with cars. All in all, a life without cars would be extreamly beneficial to the community and everyone would be much happier. | 2 |
Driving cars is a big thing for people now, but have we taken driving too far? Driving has increased major problems around the world. I think that we should limit our car usage sometimes though. It can help the environment, allow us to do activities outdoors, and decrease health issues.
Helping our environment is one of the biggest problems we are facing across the globe. Have you ever thought that a car is one of the leading causes of air pollution? In "Paris Bans Driving Due to Smog," Paris had to ban driving driving because the air pollution was so bad, they had to find a way to clear the air. Also, Bogota had to ban cars except taxis and buses in order to reduce smog, as it says in "Car-free Day is Spinning into a Big Hit in Bogota.
Limiting our car usage will also allow us to do activities outdoors. We use our cars daily for work, school, visiting families, or for the park. Sometimes we even use it when we don't have to. "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars," stores are placed near the block, so people can walk instead of using their cars. A media trainer, Heidrun Walter, even admitted that she has been so calm ever since she sold her car. People seem much happier and active without cars than with it.
Lastly, it can decrease health issues. Cars make a lot of pollution in the air, making it harder for people to breath fresh clean air. Congestion was at sixty percent in the Capital of France, as it says in "Paris Bans Driving Due to Smog." In all sources, it says that driving can even increase stress.
As a result, driving is a bad habit. we should limit our car usage so we can help the environment, so we do outdoor activities, and decrease health issues. We don't always have to drive in order to get to someplace. Decreasing car usage will help a lot of our problems we deal with each day. | 2 |
In the generation of 2016, many things are updated. Chordless phones are more of an antique than a necessity. People no longer write letters, but rather send a quick email or text. Cars are becoming, and will continue to become, more and more updated as the years progress. As handy as it is to have a car with bluetooth and heated seats, is it a benefit to the lives of 2016 to have a car with no driver? Due to all the challenges the government will face and many of technical difficulties this world faces today, the obvious answer is no.
It is always nice to be able to do less. Sitting back and relaxing is something everyone enjoys. However, when a woman gets into a taxi and imputs her destination, she is entrusting her life in technology. Teenagers like the thrill of roller coasters, until one gets stuck at the peak of the ride. This woman liked the car until the steering wheel got stuck, sending her into a ditch. She liked it before the brakes stopped working because of a wire snapping. Many things could go wrong technilogically, that would make the car ride seem a little bit scary. "If the technology fails..." (paragraph 9). Even the author of "Driverless Cars Are Coming" didn't deny that many things could in fact go wrong technilogically.
Even if this woman did get to her destination safely, many factors had to take roll in making driverless cars possible. For starters, the law would have to be set. "New laws will be needed in order to cover liability in case of an accident." (paragraph 9). It takes 75% of congress to be able to take a law to the president. When it makes its way there, the president can still deny that law; furthermore, it has to go back to the congress and get revoted. Laws put in this position do not normally pass.
"In most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars." (paragraph 9). It would take many months or even years to be able to pass this law, considering they have all this information about driverless cars and only a few places are allowed to even test them. Questions are raised such as "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?" (paragraph 9). Too much time is put into trying to pass the law, and in a society that is looking for ways to save time, it isn't worth the effort.
Furthermore, America has other problems to fix. The government does not need to put this country into more debt by spending its time and money on cars that are even less safe for its citizens. When smarter roads became too high of costs to be practical, people turned to developing smarter cars. "In the late 1950's, General Motors created a concept car that could run on a special test track....something that was simply too expensive to be practical." (Paragraph 3). For 76 years people have been putting time, money, and energy into making these cars more practical. Cars aren't a neccessity to everyone. Certain religions (such as the Amish) are without cars. Mackinac Island runs by horse and buggy. True, that isn't efficient for this huge country, but being billions of dollars in debt, that time and money could be used to help America pay what it owes. In the mean time, Americans can put up with what they have been using for many years.
In the generation of 2016, many things are updated. Phones don't have chords anymore. Americans don't send letters by mail as much as they used to. The citizens of this countru have been very efficient on many things. They have learned how to save time and money; furthermor, they have encorperated those ideas into everyday life. However, one item America doesn't need, due to limited safety; the time it takes for laws to pass; and the debt this country is in, is driverless cars. | 4 |
The Electoral College is a process that has been used in the United States Government for many years. It is the process that selects a candidate for Presidency based on electoral votes rather than the popular vote of the people. Many believe that the Electoral College should be abolished, but if we were to take it out of our governmental system, it would take away most of the effectivenss of our elections. The United States election process has worked very efficiently for many years with this process of election, it is very effective for choosing a candidate, and when it comes down to it, the last process of the Electoral College (House of Representatives stepping in when there is a tie) is very unbiased and is also effective in choosing a candidate. If we were to abolish the Electoral College, the United States government would basically be starting over with their election process, which isn't necessarily a good idea once you are nearly 300 years into being an official country.
The United States' election process has worked very effectively with the Electoral College for a large amount of years. There is no reason why it should be abolished from the country. Throughout all of these elections, the best candidate was chosen for each presidency in the end because of this great process of election. Rather than choosing the majority of the people, which could have a biased opinion, it is left up to both the citizens and a vote in Congress. This forms a balance between the two opinions. It is a very evenly based system, as said in Source #3 "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our deprised methos of choosing the President", the article states that "The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal." This means that just by having one region of the United States really respect you and vote for you, this does not mean you are going to win the election. No region can get you the win. There simply are not enough electoral votes. Therefore, you must cover the most ground possible in the United States, because the more states you win over, the better your chances of becoming president are.
The Electoral College is a very efficient process of election. Instead of only the people voting and the decision of who becomes president left to the popular vote, the power of selection for presidency is evenly spread between Congress and the people. Some say that the electoral colleg is unfair, and that it is irrational. This is stated in the article "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" written by Bradford Plumer. He states "The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality." This means Plumer believes that those who argue in favor of the electoral college do not take a look at the reality of things when talking about this subject. The electoral college is very fair when it comes to the election of a president, because we all want to choose the best candidate for the job, and the only way to do that is to have an effective system for choosing a candidate without having a biased opinion tossed into the mix to mess up the process. It's sort of like a job interview. You show what you have to offer to the boss (in this case it is the whole country), and if you are chosen for the job that means you were the most qualified and that you are the best choice for the job. Whichever candidate gets chosen for the job was obviously the best candidate at the time, and there is nothing that anyone can do to change that.
The one situation that most people worry about within the electoral college is when there is a tie in the electoral vote. In this situation, the decision of the election would be placed into the hands of the House of Representatives and the Senate chooses the Vice-Presidential candidate best suited for the job. It does not matter how many representatives there are for any one state, as stated in the article "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer. He states that "Because each state casts only one vote, the single representative from Wyoming, representing 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representatives from California, representing 35 million voters." This means that no state has more power than another in this process, and every representative has the same amount of power when it comes down to chooosing a candidate best suited for being president. Additionally, it creates a sense of balance between all of the states and nobody has an unfair advantage when electing the next president.
As you can see, the electoral college is a very effective process used in the United States to choose a presidential candidate that should not be abolished from the country. With this system, the country has functioned very effectively for a very long time, the system is very effective for choosing a candidate best suited for the presidential position, and it is very unbiased and fair when it comes down to the decision of the House of Representatives for the election. Abolishing this efficient process would just do a disservice to the country's election process, and I highly doubt that any whole-hearted citizen of the United States of America would want to do that to his or her own home country. | 5 |
Using Facial Action Coding System technology would not be useful in a classroom due to each student learning in a different way and teachers not being able to target to each individual student's best way of learning as well as the constantly changing emotions of students.
Because teachers are not able to adjust their teaching style for each individual student, students would continue to be unhappy and bored during class and no problem would be solved. According to Dr. Huang, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." While this is true, students are taught by humans, not computers, and education is in a group setting. A teacher cannot change their lesson just because one student is bored or confused. They may be able to work with them one-on-one later, but changing how the lesson is being done can affect the ability of the other students to learn the lesson.
In younger grades, students often change emotions very quickly due to a lack of maturity and focus. For older students, they are often tired from lots of homework, sports, and early start times. With the Facial Action Coding System, negative emotions or quickly changing emotions would cause a problem in a school scene. Dr. Huang stated, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication. So, computers need to understand that, too."
The facial expressions being read from a tired high school student could cause this system to be constantly trying to find a way to teach the student that he or she would enjoy, only leading to unproductivity.
Using the Facial Action Coding System in schools would cause more problems than it would solve. Students would still be in a similar setting in classes due to their teachers not being able to adjust their teaching style or lession for one specific student. Students would also lose more time for learning due to their constantly changing emotions and the software attempting to change the learning style to match them. Using the Facial Action Coding System would have a negative impact both students and their education. | 2 |
Have you ever wanted to be a seagoing cowboy? In this essay I will give you the pro's ,and con's of being a seagoing cowboy. I will also have evidence from the text to prove my statements.
Now there are good thing's about being a seagoing cowboy. Like you get to see different places as stated in the text, "Beside helping people, I had the side beneifit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special,"Another piece of evidence from the text states, "So was taking a gondala ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water.
There are also some bad thing about being a seagoing cowboy, Like getting ingured on the job. This evidence from the text explains why you would get hurt on the job "One rainy night,after making his hourly report to the captain he slid down a slippery ladder on his backside. Luke's heart raced as he shot feet first toward an opening on the side of the ship. A small strip of metal along thge edge stopped his side, keeping him from flying overboard into the dark
Atlantic."
Another piece of evidences from the text states "He was happy to be alive. But he couldnt work for a couple of days because of cracked ribs"
In conclusion, I think both of these paragraphs show some pro's and con's of becoming a seagoing cowboy. Now let me ask you again, Have you ever wanted to be a seagoing cowboy? | 1 |
In the article Luke was asked by his freind don to go to Europe on a cattle boat. Luke couldn't say no so when he said yes that would change his life. So then now he has been on nine trips since the first ever trip that he has taken. Luke was always busy tending the cattle during the day. He was having lots of fun even when he got knocked over the boat and broken his ribs. He was playing board games and everything like that to keep him busy while he was healing.
The reason of Luke going on trips across the oceans because he likes it and he was born to do it. Also his freind asked Luke to come with him to keep him company during the trips. Luke was waiting for some thing to drastically change his life and he to his wish off the drastic change. Luke would stop going with don if Luke didn't like the motion sickness,or because there where a lot of storms,or he didn't like tending the cows during the long and tiring journey. If the possibility was that Luke didn't like the sea his freind would be like are you ok and or something like that.
In conclusion Luke loves the sea and he wants to keep going out and adventuring the wild and the unknown. Luke couldn't say no because it was his freind don and he wanted to explore another island. Luke loves the same because he likes tending the cows and he likes his fellow crew mates that are with him on his journeys to the out and the open sea. Another reason that is because he wants to be in dangerous storms and worlpools. Luke want to take the risks in the dangerous sea. | 0 |
Have you ever wanted to spend more time with your family? Well you may have that opportunity sometime in the future. Even as we go about our daily lives people somewhere are working to make that happen. With driverless cars we can spend more time with our family. The driverless car will no doubt help lessen the accidents caused by cars, it will also allow you to do something more important than driving on your way to and from work, and it will help keep your children under control because of you being able to talk to them about their actions in the backseat of your car.
Automated driving will help stop accidents from happening. Driverless cars are safer because they use sensors rather than the human attention span. Also driverless cars have an automatic brake system in a child or car got in front of the car at any time the car would be able to stop before collision. The cars will also allow everything to be more electronically inclined. If we get automated cars it will change how we live and our productivity.
While driving a car you have to pay a lot of attention to any hazards that may come along, and you don't have any time to work on the project for your workplace. While you are driving you could have been working on said project, but you couldn't due to the fact that you had to pay attention to the road. If we develope automated cars it will help bring work productivity up and sales along with it. The economy could really get a boost from them. Which would help people get jobs and more people would come out of poverty. Which could help us pay more attention to the future generation.
What are your kids doing half the day do you know? Do you drive with your kids in the car? How many life lessons could you have taught them if you didn't have to drive? I am guessing a lot. Your kids want to hear your stories and they want to know that they are loved by you. If you can't take five minutes out of your day to talk to them what kind of life will they lead.
My point is that with automated cars we will get more done, have more time to talk to our kids, and we will get into less accidents due to inattention. We could have a life like that. All we have to do is help each other and let them develope and test freely on our streets. Honestly, what do we have to lose? We kill each other more in car accidents than any machine ever will. | 2 |
I think that the idea of having Driverless Cars is in a way not smart. For the simple fact that anything can happen while your in the car what if the car malfunctions and it hits something before it gets your attention. And a question that I have is will the car stop as it gets your attention or will it keep going? Also in the passage it says what if road blocks lie ahead of the car will it stop?
But I'm not totally against it because it seems like they have the right idea. In the passage it states that the combination of the censors that the cars will need and the laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings. The combination of all this input is necessary for the diverless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel! But I don't think that this makes the cars driverless I look at it more as assisting. Also the process will be very expensive, for a simple radar it costed two hundred million dollars!
Also what is a driver goes to sleep on the road a simple vibration will not wake them up if anything it soothing! Alot of accidents may occur from this feature. Also they don't even have the new laws following accidents in the new Driverless cars, maybe some people will think that the new laws are unfair and that can stir up alot of problems!
Lastly I think that the drivers will get very bored having to wait on their turn to drive, and how will the car know you destination will you have to make all the turns for the car? I really just think it isn't a good Idea there are to mny flaws that come with Driverless cars! | 2 |
I agree with the idea of "driverless cars."
I agree with this becuase it could cause a lower number in people drinking and driving.
This project could also be a whole lot safer.
Machines are only as smart as the human making them.
So there could be flaws and mishaps that can occur, but through trial and error we can fix those problems and perfect the car.
The idea of driverless cars can be dangerous in the matter of if something goes wrong and the driver is not alert it would cause an accendent.
When I read this passage i thought to myself.
With a driverless car I could go to sleep while I go to my destination.
Then I read that the car will alert drivers in situations that the car cannot handle.
the creators should fix this issue so that drivers dont have to still pay 100% attention to the road and the driver could relax.
The idea of driverless cars can be a whole lot safer too.
Mostly because if car accendints are caused by humans, a car can fix this problem.
Like in the passage they used sensors to see around the car to help navigate through traffic.
I agree with the idea of driverless cars because it would be safer. | 1 |
Have you ever thought about people making driverless cars? People are trying to make driverless cars. I think it is a good idea to make driverless cars, but a lot of people think it is very dangerous. I think it is a good idea because, blind people can ride in driverless cars, it is easier to multi task especially when you have a kid, and when you are traveling far distances you can get a good break. Let me tell you more about the advantages of owning a driverless car.
One advantage of owning a driverless car is that a blind person can get from place to place in a driverless car. Usually a blind person would have to have a dog and a stick and walk. Blind people can get from place to place and easier with a driverless car. You can get from place to place faster with a driverless car, rather than walking everywhere.
The second advantage of owning a driverless car is that it is easier to multi task. When you have a kid or kids it would be great to have the car drive itself, so you can take care of your kids. When multi tasking you can sleep when going on road trips. You can also eat food while the car is taking you somewhere.
The last advantage of owning a driverless car is that you do not have to do anything. You can sleep the whole time and still get place to place. Or you can do what ever you want while in a car.
Personally, I would like the cars to be invented. In the passage the bad thing is when coming upon construction is that the car will tell you when to start driving manually. The other bad thing is that you have to have your hands on the wheel at all times. Other than that I would love to own a driverless car. | 2 |
Ugh! Politics are so boring why must we study or do them. But then again there is an upside to it. We get to choose who the president is and how he is going to run the country. Also if we Electoral College vote it would be harder for us to vote.
To begin with, If we changed it it would be harder for us to vote because it is a process made by our founding fathers and it is established in the constitution. It is a compromise between the election of the president and the vote of the citizens and a vote of Congress. The Electoral College process is long it consists of many sections like the electors, meeting the electors so they can vote for the President and the Vice President, and counting the votes everyone thata voted. The Electoral College comsist of 538 vots but thwey only need 270 votes in order to elect a President. With that amount of votes they can become presidents. | 0 |
i think it is very valuable because it knows if youre happy or or sad which helps in a lot of ways. another intresting example would be "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored."and the technology is so good it can make computer animated faces more expressive accroding to the text and can too for surgery videos. and the computer may not detect your emotional communication but noted dr. huang said "so computers need to understand that too.
"The proccess begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face" and all 44 important muscles in the model must move like human muscles."it also says that we may some times not really know what is wrong with our friends and sometimes we can becaus of there facial expresion. or just behavior in general but sometimes they dont want to show that emotion or what is in them the computer can detect all of that.
so i personally think it would be great because some people are usually shy and wouldnt really express there selfs to the class as if they were with there friends. so all we would have to do is just by a sinlge glimpes on the computer we can tell what is going on maybe something happend. and she doesnt really know what to do so she seeks help from a counceler and she just checks what is going on with her and just by that maybe her whole life could change by checking the computer. tech is advancing a lot and is helping the sociatey positivley and yet negativlily but hopefully one day it will all come down to nothing but potive stuff. | 1 |
The author goes into great detail about the pros and cons of the driverless car. Giving us examples on the cars features and how a humane could work the car. He also gives us facts, but I in this eassy I will explain to you and give you reasons on why I think the driverless car is not good. I will also share my pros about the driverless car. What do you think about the driverless car?
One reason i dont think the driverless car is a good idea is because of acciedents. If you were to get into a wreck then what? who is resonsable for the damages? You? But you weren't even driving. So whos going to pay all of that money to get the car fixed. You shouldnt have to you. I'm sure the manufacturer does not wanna pay it. Its not his car anymore. Yet you were the one who put all this money into this car and you cant even drive it. What will happen if you get hurt? The same problem with your cars steering or etc could be the same thing wrong with everyone elses car. Now you have hundreds of people sueing. You cant really control this car you might as well take a taxi. Atleast your not the one who has to pay for damages.
The second reason I think they are bad ideas is safety. Now they say this car is safe because of the warning features and sensors. Yet this car could run off the road at anytime and you cant stop it. You have kids and a family, I dont think you want this car to take that or harm your family. No one really knows what makes these cars tick. It could be water one small spill and everything is hay-wire.
My third reason is the sensors. If one of your sensors does not work yet you think it might, all
it would take is for someone to step behind and and boom. Now your paying for a hospital bill plus more. How could this be your fault when they gave you a reliable car that should be able to stop when danger is in the way. In a normal humane driven car you have control you just turn around to see whats behind you. You are your onw sensors, you would trust someone who thinks they can drive take your car. Right?
In conclusion its mainly about safety for you. These cars might be more trouble then its worth. With so much happening at once it could be overwhelming. Testing could go great, but when you get in that car your taking a billion dollars and a headache with you. So stick to the old fashion way less worries more money in your pocket. | 2 |
The value of using the Facial Action Coding System to read the students emotional expressions could be valuable in alot of ways. For example in parapgragh three , the process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles (movement of one or more muscles is called an "action unit"). Dr. Paul Eckman, creator of FACS ( Facial Action Coding Systems) has classified six basic emotions- such as happiness, surprise, anger disgust, fear and sadness; each associates each with a characteristic movements of the facial muscles. Facial expressions are universal and transitional as such the smallest of the facial movement or the mood you choose can depic the varying degrees of expression. Using video imagery, the new emotion- recongnition software travks these facial movements- in a real face or even in a picture (such as Mona Lisa).
The software would help people understand facial expressions better to be more perpared on an emotional scale on what to do if that particular person is upset. In fact, we humans perform the same impressive "calculation" every day. Each expression is compared to a nuetral face ( showing no emotion). For instance, you could probably tell if your friend is having a bad day or good day just by the facial expression she/or he portrays. Dr. Huang; his new computer software stores similar anatomical information as a electronic code.
Based on the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions , but also may even produce them. Study shows if you smile you release endorphines that'll actually make you happy! A renowned drama coach, Constanin Stanislavsky, had his actors carefully produce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these on stage to make it more believeable; That your portraying those specific emotions. Whoever thought that making faces could reveal so much about the science of emotions. | 0 |
The author really supports the studying and future visitation of Venus, one of our neighboring planets. Below are some reasons why and facts on why the author supports the study of Venus.
The author gives us facts about venus, such as how Venus is called Earth's twin, and "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit." The author also stated in the passage, "such an enviroment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals." The author claims that NASA is trying to send humans to studny Venus. To top all of this off the author later says in the passage "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers or doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation.
This is why I believe that the author supports the study of Venus and the future visitation of the deadly, carbon dioxide filled planet known as Venus or Earth's Twin planet.. | 1 |
As a scientist at NASA, I know that this "face" found on Cydonia is just a natural landform that makes the shadow of a human face. Natural landforms often make shadows when light hits it at a certain angle. This causes the shadows to form things like faces, animlas, or other things. For example, when Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet, taking photots of possible landing sights for its sister ship Viking 2, it spotted a shadow likely to be of a humans face. The shadow made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh.
Some scientists think that the "face" could also have been an alien artifact. That may be possible but, its more likely to be a shadow caused by the formation of he land. The "face" is caused by rock formations which resembles a human head giving an illusion of eyes, nose,and mouth. More scientists believe that this "face" is most likely to be caused by shadows. | 1 |
Although it seems tempting and futuristic in theory, driverless cars would be a headache legally and financially and grow Americans accustomed to technology taking over everyday activities even more than it already is. There are too many details that factor into who takes the blame for a car accident. Who is at fault for the accident is usually one driver or the other, and adding the vehicle to the equation as a culprit if it were to malfunction would make it that much more difficult to come to a conclusion.
Deciding who takes the blame and foots the bill for a car accident is already a legal and financial nightmare for those involved, and implementing driverless cars regularly would result in the car manufacturers and the drivers pointing fingers at each other and may drag out the legal process even more and put the drivers through more grief. Who untimately decides who takes the blame? Regular, driver required cars malfunction everyday and it is difficult even then to come to a conclusion. The passage states that new laws would be needed to cover liability in the case of a car accident involving driverless cars, which would require more funds. It seems like this is creating more problems than it is solving.
Modern technology tends to take over regular activities in our everyday lives, so much so that we can almost be replaced at the touch of a button. Having a sense of control and manual operation is very important. It's a matter of pride, and there's not much pride in having our computers do everything for us. According to the text, the cars would have features that tell us when to take over and operate the vehicle to execute a minor maneuver. The driver would need to be alert anyways. Advocating for awareness on the road, only to invent something takes over all operation is a bit of a condradiction. Driverless cars would only aid in the progression of an era in which man isn't really useful for much anymore. Man makes technology, not the other way around.
There are too many semantics and things that could go wrong with driverless cars on the road. Americans should stick to cars that they fully operate to ensure safety and legal ease if something were to go wrong. Growing used to technology doing everything for us is not healthy and is not something we should be proud of. | 3 |
Using technology to read students' emotional expressions is a very bright idea. Using this type of technology in the classrooms could get out of hand, but I believe it would extremely useful. All it takes is a little time to get use to then it would be a huge help. When working on assignments during class on the computers, or being assigned a video, the computer would be able to read our emotions and try to put a twist into the lesson, and not just any twist, it would help the students catch onto the lesson and learn from the activity. I believe that the Facial Act Coding System would be a great help, especially for teachers use.
When learning something new in class it can be a bit boring. Especially when reading articles on the computer or even watching videos. Students fall asleep or even get on their phones. Even if the teacher hands out guides during the videos, no one can catch on and keep their minds on the video. Teachers try to find the videos that give good lessons, but are also attention grabbers. In the article Dr. Huang predicts, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor."
I believe that this technology would be extremely valuable and could possibly even bring students grades up. Even if it was just a little assignment here and there, the computer could recognize the boredem and help with the lesson. I feel as if students would concentrate more often and actually be doing good in class if the FACS would be set up on school computers.
Teachers I believe would want look into this technology, it could even help the kids remember more and do better on test. Test are always a big chunk of your grade and not everyone does their best, but with this technology it can help students remember information and actually keep the information well known in their minds. | 2 |
The author suggest that studying Venus is worth it despite the risk,probably because he thinks that Venus and Earth are similar.Or because he thinks we may find life on Venus then Mars also because Venus is closer to Earth then Mars is.
According to the passage the author states that "Long ago,Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life,just like Earth."The texts also states that"Today Venus still has some features that are analogous to those of Earth.The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys,mountains,and craters.The text also states that "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus.For example some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's Surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions."
There are also many differences in our planet compared to Venus. For example"On the planet Venus the surface tempeatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit,and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet.The texts also states that "Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet ir our solar system,even though Mercury is closer to the sun,Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes,powerful earthquakes,frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface."The text also states that"the conditions are far more extreme that anything else humans have encountered on Earth,Such an enviornment would crush even a submarine accustomed to driving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals."
In conclusion I personally dont think that its a good idea risking lifes to explore Venus even if it may be Earth's "Twin" it's too dangerous and to risk to send people to explore life forms up there,It will also be way to risk if they dont find any kind of life on Venus while they're risking there lifes. | 2 |
When you drive a car you are putting out emisions that are harmful to your children or your family members. So when you think about you could do to limit that, the answer is in the question. When your child goes to school they should ride the bus or if close enought ride a bike or walk. As stated in Source 1:In German Suburb,Life Goes On without Cars; they have elminiated the facor of the building up of smog.
Now as that is a good thing,not everyone should have such restrictive laws or rules that make it almost useless to have. A car-free city that is losing money on the gas that is need to use the cars, are losing money and they are making the money back by feeing you when you dont listen to them. in paragraph 3,there is a quote that states - "when i had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way," that cant be intirely true. When foced to find a diffrent way to work,or school,or home you are putting a burdan on yourself and community.
You are putting stress on your body that can result in back,leg, and knee injury when you have to walk home. Not everyone is fit enough to walk home or to work or wherever you have to go.
In Source 2: Paris bans drving due to smog; they have fined 4,000 people for this issue they are trying to solve. It will never be solved. they are making more money while in the process of trying to eliminate he smog that will alway be there. But it sure has help with the congestion of the capital of France. It haas gone down by 60% after just five days. As they banned diesel fuel in france they have also lost the money that they need to be safe from the inpending fear of something horrible happening and making them lose money.
When you ban something that makes p for 67% of vehicles in france you must find a diffrent way to people from point a to point b in such a big city. When they have to use the subway or the bus or taxi there will need to be more of them so everyone can get on.
When fining people for there "mistake" of haaving their car in use the day of car free capital day,they are making money off of you and what are they going to spend it on? more tanks or weapons for there military? How about for the debt that they trying to pay off? In every country there is something that they need money for.
As in the Source 4: The End of Car Culture; "the american love affair with its vehicles seems to be cooling." Many people will be losing there job because of what is going to happen when no one wants a car anymore. The reason older people still keep their license and car is because they know what it is like when you have to march your way to the store and buy food for your family and then lugg them all the way back by yourself. | 2 |
This all started 21 years ago. Here is how the face on Mars was discovered. NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling Mars, taking pictures for possible landing sites for it's sister Viking 2 and it spotted a shadown of a likely human face. It was a great big head shaped face 2 miles apart from end to end. That is how this all started.
How could aliens make such a thing? There is no way. Some scientist believe that the face was an alien artifact, the photographing from Cydonia became a priorty for NASA when MGS showed up at the Red Planet in Sepmber. The face was not created by some things we like to call aliens that we don't even know if they exist or not, kind of like mermiads or unicorns.
There is to much evidence of how this face could of formed on it's own. It was so bi it would take aliens so long to even make this thing we say that looks like a face. Some people belive that the face is "bona fide", which means that that face is evidence that there was life on Mars at one point. Nobody has that big of a face for it to be an actual human face. I believe it is just a natual landform that just happened to look a lot like a human face. The face is exactly located 41 degrees North martian latitude where it was winter in April '98, a very cloudy time on the Red Planet. This investigation the scientist haas said has been very hard work to figure out exaclty what it is. I still belive with all the evidence we have it has to just be God's creation and it just apeared to look like a face, no aliens or anything like that because if you want to tell me that aliens did it you better be showing me that aliens even exist first. | 1 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the Facial Action Coding System, also known as FACS, may be a good thing to have in a classroom. If a child is acting up constantly, the teacher will be able to read his emotions and talk to that student. Teachers would be able to tell if their students are doing okay. FACS could help teachers understand their students better.
FACS would be a good way to tell a child's emotions if they are acting up at school. This would help teachers understand why this student is always having a bad time. Teachers could ask why this student feels the way they do. Maybe its something at home or something to do with bullying. The child could then be able to express their thoughts because the teacher will know why they are always misbehaving.
Teachers and students should have a close bond. You are around eachother all of the time until you are out of school. Teachers should get to understand their students feelings. If a student is having a rough day the teacher could maybe cheer them up. Most teachers let things slide even though they can read some of their students expressions. Expressions tell it all. FACS could help kids have a better time in school if they were able to have their expressions read so they could talk about why they are feeling a certain way.
Students can sometimes be in a bad mood becuase of things that happen throughout their day. If teachers showed concern with how a student is feeling it may create better respect for a teacher that shows concern. It could help that student know that the teacher understands them. FACS could maybe help kids that struggle in school because they think no one cares about how they feel. If FACS scans their expressions it could better help them know that teachers are paying attention to how they feel.
FACS could be a great way for schools to take the time to help students. Students go through so much during their time in school. This could make students have the desire to go to school because they will know that someone at school will be concerned about them. Some kids have parents that do not care. It could make these types of kids care about school. If teachers do something kind and thoughtful for them then they may have the desire to do the same for the teacher and maybe others. | 3 |
Dear Senator, The Electoral College as controversial as it is can be a very simple choice to either keep it as it is, or to change the voting process to a popular vote process that in which the people vote directly for the President of their choosing. I believe that you should consider changing the Electoral College to a Popular vote voting process for reasons such as, the fact that only "one half of Americans are voting" because they do not believe that their vote will count in states such as California and Texas because the voters do not believe that the candidate will carry their state anywhere(In Defense of the Electoral College section 23). Another reason is because of the winner-take-all system the candidates will not campaign as much in states they think they will win over without going there and they focus on the "swing states" instead.
Senator, one of the reasons that I believe you should consider changing to the Popular Vote process is because "only one half of the eligible American population voted in the 2012 election"(In Defense of the Electoral College section 23) for reasons I believe is that they do not think that the candidate running will go somewhere with their state and the fact that they do not think their votes will actually count towards the President that they would like to win. Also the fact that segreagationists will try and corrupt the voting process in the Electoral College, i. e. When John F. Kennedy was running for President segregationists tried to replace Democratic Electors with other electors to try and go against Kennedy therefore giving the opponent the upper hand(The Indefensible Electoral College Section 11).
Senator, on the contrary I would understand why you would like to keep the Electoral College because of it being a set compromise that the founding fathers created, making voting equal by letting "qualified citizens in congress" have the last word into the decision (What is the Electoral College Section 1). In a way I see how you would think that the Electoral College is a fair system because the people are still choosing somewhat who the Electoral College elects and the fact that anachronism is a factor that plays into the Electoral College greatly(In Defense of the Electoral College Section 15). The Electors elected should be trusted truthful people and they are to vote for the nominee in honest fact of who got the most eelectoral votes(In Defense of the Electoral College Section 16) but sometimes even if the electoral votes are calculated and are higher the popular vote could be higher than the electoral vote even if its a rare occurance(In Defense of the Electoral College Section 16).
Senator, as you see both sides of this controversy you could also see that the Winner-take-all method is all in all unfair. In the winner-take-all method the candidates that are in the election will take more time to go to the bigger states and try and have ads for their campaign posted in there and not in the littler states they believe they will win without campaigning there. The candidates will focus even more on the "swing states" because they believe they will have more luck in those states than the other smaller states. "Seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't see a single campaign ad"(What is wrong with the Electoral College Section 13) this fact goes to show that the candidates would rather focus more on the larger states and "swing states" than go to the smaller states; this makes those smaller states less encouraged to vote because the candidates don't even bother to come to them to campaign.
Senator, in the end I strongly believe that you should think about changing the Electoral College to a Popular Vote process because it will give the voters an incentive for them to vote, for them to decide who wins and who will run their state or country. Power to the People has always been a great thought to keep running around in your brain for me. Before you discard my thoughts in a mere second think about it; would you like the people of your state to be unhappy with you and disappointed because they had no choice in what is happening around them? or would you like the people to be excited for the new changes in allowing them some freedom of choosing what they want and not what others want? | 3 |
Im a scienst at NASA discussing, and im trying to discover how did these type of faces get on this planet?.So me,PROPER_NAME and my friend are trying to see how did this face get here.Then i go do some research on it and i typed the face of mars and it poped up.While im doing that i start to read about what it is saying, its says these faces have came from aliens.So i look at the picture real closley and i also look at what i see in the back grown and i see all the little holes that are there.But on april 5,1998 when mars global surveyor cydonia for the first time they shot photos of the pictures and they showed them.But they also investing in those pictures and rerally seen where they came from.But most people where not happy because the face of mars was located 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in april 1996.But nevertheless on April 8, 2001 a cloudless summer day in cydona and it was 25 degrees to center the face of mars.But there was no type of alien that made all those faces, it was just all of the baterica and the things that have changed over time. And also the little holes that was in the background of the picture were the rocks that hit the area and it must have got little holesin it. | 1 |
I think having driverless cars is a great idea. I support it alot because it will make road trips very easier and more exciting for the driver. If taking a long road trip, the driver will be able to sleep as well as the passengers. But the con about that, is that the driver might have issues trusting the driverless car. If the driver dont trust the car, he/she might stay awake as the car have a long trip to where ever the destination is located. Another con will be how might the driverless car react upon other driverless cars. Will the sensors be too hype from every car causing a traffic jam, slow traffic, or maybe an accident. Thats why i also support the driverless cars to let the driver take control at certain points while driving. Eventhough the driver would have to still keep watch of the rode, thats what he or she have to do anyway. So as of right now, ill just say that driverless cars would be good for drivers who like to text while driving and maybe talking on the phone while driving. That is what i think about driverless cars untill they can approve the use of the cars to sleep in while driving. | 1 |
Some people dont like to drive cars and some people do like to drive cars. Do you like to drive cars? There is a new thing called "Driverless cars" meaning a driver can be in the car and the car will drive by itself. They are still in production and still being tested to see if they are safe. People are finding new ways to make them more and more safe.
I dont like the idea of driverless cars because I like to drive cars. There are also more reason why I dont like the idea. One reason is they can cause some problems such as reckless driving and if the technology fails then it can wreck into another car or a building. The main reason is what if the technology malfunctions and doesnt let the driver know when to take over the wheel? Technology doesnt always work 100% of the time.
The car uses sensors which will sensor a 3D surrounding of the car but what if something is blocking the sensor such as rain or heavy snow. How does the technology know the speed limit on certain roads?
There are also alot of positive ideas to driverless cars also such as it only uses half the fuel it uses today so it wouldnt cost as much fuel. It would be easier to get to places and it wouldnt require much work.
What about the cost of this technology, it sounds very expensive. I dont like the idea of this. Some people are going to love this technology because it doesnt require much work. There are some states that might not allow this because of any kind of malfunctions it has.
Whats your opinion on this new technology? What if alot of people dont like it and they dont use it so they spend all that money on somthing people dont like. I dont think this is a good idea but yes there are alot of pros and cons. | 2 |
I personally dont think these cars are a good ideas. Simply beacuse they arent completely driveless and the car might have some problems and cause someones life. These cars are just a bad idea , these cars are going to make teenagers and young adults think its ok to text and drive , but its not even if you ave a driveless car , in the passage it said that they are not completely driveless cars , when the car want the driver to take over its going to give some type of signal to the driver to take over , and the drive may not be prepares to take over. If it was an regular car you wouldnt have to worry about having to take over the acr because you wil already have control. Some may think the cars are a cool idea until someone get hurt. These cars are basically a set up , 12 , 13 ,14 ,15 year olds are going to think its ok to play in their parentes car because it SAYS its driveless and hurt themselves when its time to take over the wheel. Another reason i disagree with the cars is because people arent going to be paying attetion to the road , their going to be either texting , messing with things or people in the backseat , or just not paying attention to the roads and when its time for them to take over , something bad is going to happen. In the passgae it said " If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" That right there shows that if someone do get hurt the maunufacturers are going to try to blame it on the driver but all along its the manufacturer fault because ther technology failed an caused an accident. I just dont think these cars are an good idea , it sounds cool and all but when you think about it its an dangerous idea to have a car that is driveless , but you still have to be ready to take over ther wheel whenever the car signals you too. | 3 |
What do you thing about driverless cars? Driverless are can be a good thing for this world becasue it would save more gas, there wont be any more gas to polute the air slowly like cars are doing now. Driverless cars would be better on traffic cause it wont cause any accidents if the car is smart eneough to knoe its surroundings.
Driverless cars would be safer to use then regular cars drivin by humans. If we are driving the car is more of a chance of an accident happing then there is if the cars are driving them self and have technology to know there surrounding. The cars knowing there surroundings make it safer beacause the car would know what to do and what not to do while is in motion.
Having cars that run on electricity would be better beacause gasses would polute
the air and have cars that no longer uses gas is a plus becasue there would be less air polution. The less air polution there is the healthier the earth would be without gasses.
Driveless cars would save you a lot more money then having a car that runs on gas. maybe having a drivelesss car would cause less accidents to happen. Or maybe the insurance pricess would lower becasue there would be less accidents happing so they wont have a choice but to lower the price.
That is why I believe that having driverless cars would be better in the future. Saving more lives, having less air pulution.And not only that but also people would be out more if its safer to own a car maybe car companies will make more money then what they make now. Less clumbsy driving less peoeple get hurt while driving. so maybe dirverless cars can be a good thing to the future. | 2 |
Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The passage states, " humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world. Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades". This means that it isnt really safe to go study Venus despite the dangers it presents.
Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. the passage states, " Beyond high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather presents additional impediments like erupting valcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface". That means that it is really hot in Venus even though Mercury is closer to our sun. Earth, Venus, and Mars are planetary neighbors but orbits the sun at different speeds.
There is a limit you have to reach in order to go to Venus. The passage states, " peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective". In order to stay safe you have to follow the rules. | 1 |
Dear state senator,
I think we should end the Electoral college because it is not fair to each american. It's not fair because voters can't control who they pick, and the person they vote for end up losing the presidential election. Even though our founding fathers established this act it doesn't mean it benefits our country.
The electors are chosen by the candidate's democratic or republican's party. Some states has a "winner-take-all" process. When that process is over and the candidate win the presidential vote in that state, it then shows which electors will represent your state. Although this would seem like a good way to vote I disagree. It is unfair to everyone.
It would be a lot easier for every citizen to just make their own personal vote. For an example, back in 2000 Al Gore had way more popular voters than George W. Bush who had a higher number of voters due to the Electoral College process. I think every state should reconsider picking the electors because they always seem to defy us. Losing the Electoral College can also avoid any mishap in the future. What if there was a state that had equal number of votes? what would happen then?
It has been stated that over 60 percent of citizens would rather vote towards their candidate they select, rather than going through the process. congress should consider the thoughts and opinions that us voters have. If they wish to not do so the candidate with the popular votes could potentially lose presidency.
In conclusion to the eyes of the government it may seem like a proper way to vote, but to us it's unfair. You should abolish the Electoral College for good so we can elect the right candidate who deserves presidency. In order to get rid of this process we should take a single vote from every citizens. | 2 |
The idea of cars that drive themselves have been depicted in children's books, movies, and television shows. Driverless cars have always been seen as a thing of the future; however, we are currently living in that future. Car manufacturers are now teaming up with Google to create ways to make cars that require very little human control. Though it may sound innovative and convenient, there are many disadvantages to these new futuristic cars, making them unnecessary.
The first con to manufacturing these cars, is that they are extremely expensive. The amount of sensors, radars, and cameras that would be put into these cars are not cheap or cost-effective. The money that would be put in to this project would have better use going to some type of charity instead. Investing the time and money this type of idea needs, could lead to another project, possibly more beneficial than driverless cars, being neglected.
A major problem, that even car makers foresee, is the complication an accident would cause. If there is a collision, and someone is injured and/or killed while the semi-autonomous car is in motion, but the vehicle does not signal the driver to take control, it would be great controversy over who is to blame for the accident. If fault was to be placed on manufacturers, drivers would be inclined to drive more carelessly than they do today because they would have someone to place blame on and walk away without consequence. New laws would have to be made to ensure the safety of the drivers of these cars, and those around them.
The making of these cars also contributes to the laziness and dependence of technology in today's society. Americans have been labeled lackadaisical and the fact that more and more inventions are being made to accommodate our laziness is becoming a growing problem. A simple task such as driving a car is now being handed over to an inanimate object.
Driverless cars are a bad idea and should be left to be seen on television, and in books or movies. The risk factors and societal damage these cars would cause, greatly reigns over the benefits car manufacturers think the cars have. | 3 |
To the senator of the state of Florida you have asked us to write a letter explaining why we believe in keeping the Electoral College and the answer to that is no we should not how many votes have gone to waste because of this unfair system? and wasn't the United States a democratic country? we as citizens deserve to atleast pick who runs our country, By having this system you are not giving us the right to vote if you think about it, like Bob Dole once said "Abolish the Electoral College!".
I believe, that this way of running presidential elections should be thought about more. You do realize people stand HOURS not a couple minutes or 20 minutes hours waiting and thinking that they are going to actually pick the president they believe this country needs when in reality you are actually picking electors that may or may not help you elect the president that you picked. "What is the Electoral College" By the Office of the Federal Register explains in detail much more about the electoral college and like he said "You help choose your state's electors when you vote for president because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors." We as citizen should have the right to pick our leader the one that will help us overcome our problems not some candidates.
For instance, Let's take the 2000 Gallup poll also called the "Biggest election crisis in a century" by Bradford Plumer in his story "The indenfensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defense of the system are wrong" Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency all together and we found that out thanks to the quirks of the electoral college. Do you imagine how many presidents that must have happened to? it is like when you are first place in a race your close to the finish line, you can feel your legs givng up on you but you don't stop you keep going because you know your gonna win after all you are the first one, you're so close your about to step on the line when boom! the person that was behind you caught up and well.. you lost. Can you imagine how many votes have just gone to waste and how many hours in peoples days.
However, Some of our best presidents have gotten picked by the Electoral College there is no doubt in that. But it still does not change the fact that its an unfair system, the story by Richard A. Posner "In defense of the electoral college:Five reasons to keep our despised the method of choosing the President" explains that "As we saw in 2012 elections.. Voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign-- to really listen to the competing candidates--knowing that they are going to decide the election." What he is saying is thta basically some states do not even have billboards! how are we suppose to feel like citizens when you don't give us atleast a poster to know who is running for president? The big states get the most candidates ofcourse so basically, one states could decide who wins. The system has UNFAIR written all over it and we are all just waiting for you to see it.
In the end, It is the congress decision, But we do hope you look at these letters and realize how this is taking our rights away, how many votes have not even counted, and how selfish the whole system is. I do hope you take in my letter into consideration and decide the best decision for us. But please do remember that Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, The U.S Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO said " Abolish the Electoral College!". | 3 |
I am one of the many scientist of NASA and what i'd like for people to understand is that the "face on mars" is really just a natural landform of the moon and not any ancient civilization on Mars. Although our defenders of our budget and some of us certainly wish there was a form of life on Mars.
What it is that your seeing that you call a face on mars is a Mesa. The mesa or the huge rock formation,you all have seen has ended up unlike some other mesas,ended up resembeling a human head. Formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes,nose,and mouth. This very well did draw all of your attention to Mars which is somewhat good for your knownledge,but with you all thinking there is aliens of some sort it is hard to come by whats true or not to some that have not picked a side of whos right or wrong.
We had to roll the space craft 25 degrees to center the Face in the feild of view and it was a clear photo we took from that so if they're were any objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptain-style pyramids or even small shacks,you could see what they were! So again but lastly What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American west. It also reminded Jim Garvin of most of middle Butte in Snake River Plain of Idaho. Thats a lava dome that takes form of an isolated mesa that is somewhat the same height as the Face in Mars. | 2 |
People use them to commute around various locations and it releases harmful emmissions. The object that is being reffered to is a car, a car is beneficial but people should limit car usage because it cuts down on pollution of the atmosphere and it is not as bad as it seems to not use a car all the time, and limiting usage of cars is starting to trend.
Cars release green house gas emissions that affect the ozone layer of the atmosphere. that is a main cause as to why people shoul limit car usage. "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog...[the smog] rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world." as explained in the article
Paris bans driving due to smog . This shows that smog is caused a good amount by cars and has affected major cities around the world. it also showed that when less usage of cars happened there was a 60 percent decrease in congestion which is a big percentile. in paragraph 5 of the article
In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars.
it is explaining that automobiles are a big part of the suburbs and is a affect on the efforts to try in cut down on green house emissions of cars. its states in the article by Elisabeth Rosenthal, that "passanger cars are responsible for 12 percemt of green house emissions in Europe.... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States. Some may argue that the percent of green house emissions produced by cars is not high, but in reality it is and the numbers keep rising. If people limit the use of automobiles the numbers can be cut down and reduce pollution in areas that have heavy amounts of smog, smog affects the health of people and is toxic. "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." as atated in the article
Paris bans driving due to smog this shows that driving is a major contributor to smog and can be reduced by people limiting the usage of cars.
limiting car usage is not so bad and can even promote a happier lifestyle as shown in the articles about limiting driving. "when i had a car i was always tense. i'm much happier this way,'' said a media tyrainer and a mother of two whos statement is said in the article
In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars.
This shows even when the people of the community of Vauban, Germany, experince a fortuitous life style. '' Vauban, completed in 2006, is an example of a growing trend in Europe, the United States and elsewhere to seperate suburban life from auto use, as a component of a move,ent called "smart planning" as stated in the article
In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars.
this shows that limiting car usage is a "trend" and it leads to a positive outcome that affects generations to come. People around the world are also taking up the movement of limiting car usage, in Bogotoa, Columbia a buisness man named Carlos Arturo said ''it's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." as referred to in the article
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota thsi shows that not only the advantages of limiting car usage is decrease in air pollution but can also benifiet the individual. 'If the pattern persists-and many sociologists believe it will-it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the enviroment." as explained in the article
The End Of Car Culture.
this is relatin to the pattern of how in America the buying of cars is going down since 2005. which as result of that ocurring has benifited or will benifiet the enviroment. This shows how more and more peole are traveling less by car.
The advantages of limiting car use far outway the disadvantages of not using a car. this means that people are duing more to commute less by car and more by eco friendly transportation like bikes. The limiting of car usage not only impact people now but will do so in the future of the world and if not changed will result in the mass pollution of the globe. | 3 |
Driverless cars would be good addition to the world. One of those reasons is that a smart can have better reaction times than a normal human driver. A smart car can also help with traffic jams. Smart cars also make sure the driver is holding onto the wheel and alert at all times.
Automakers used the speed sensors at the wheel in the creation of antilock brakes. Those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers. The information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing better response and control than a human driver could manage alone. Other improvements to make driving are also leading to cars that can handle more and more driving tasks on their own.
BMW announced a smart car that can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph. They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills. That means that the human driver must be alert at all times and be ready to take over when the situation requires.
A smart car can have better reaction times than a human driver and a smart car can help with traffic jams. Those are just two of the reasons why driverless cars are a good idea. | 1 |
Although cars are an important piece of human technology, they can also be pretty bad. Cars harm the environment, and a polluted environment can harm us.
According to source 1, 12% of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe are from passenger cars. In America, there can be up to 50% of greenhouse gas emissions because there are a lot of people that own cars. An advantage of limiting car usage would definitely be decreasing the amount of greenhouse gases. Also in source 1, a German suburb had entirely banned cars. One person even mentioned how much happier they were since moving to a community without cars.
In source 2, the auther discusses how Paris banned cars for several days due to the amount of pollution. The source even states that the smog rivaled that of Beijing, China. Beijing is one of the most polluted cities in the world. Unfortunately, simply banning something does not stop people from doing it. So, in order to make sure people did as they were told, Parisians were fined 22 euros, which is thirty-one American dollars. To make things simplier for people, public transit was free of charge.
Similarly to Paris, Bogota, Columbia has one day where everyone goes car-free. As stated earlier, not everyone follows the rules when it comes to things simply being banned. According to source 3, violators in Bogota face twenty-five dollar fines. Thanks to the one car-free day in Bogota, 118 miles of bicycle paths have been built. To a lot of people, use of cars damages the environment, so days where everyone goes car-free really do matter and should not be pushed aside as unimportant.
Limiting car usage would certainly decrease the amount of pollution in the atmosphere and other parts of the environment, even if only a little bit. Because of cars, pollution is a serious issue these days and if we don't do something about it soon, it might be too late to try to fix it. | 2 |
Driverless cars are a danger.
Driverless cars are something new they are trying too bring to society. I am 100% against driverless cars. Driverless cars are a danger to everyone on the road, they should not be aloud to operate the roads. Accordoing to local studies scientist are finding new things wrong with driverless cars everyday.
One example why driverless cars are a bad idea is, in paragraph eight it states that, "why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver". If its a driverless car why is it that they still need a driver, I'll tell you why, they dont trust there automatic driving system enough that they need someone in the car just in case of failure. Another example is, in paragraph ten it states, "Automakers are continuing their work on the assumption that the problems ahead will be solved" that means they are assuming, they dont know the truth, they are just saying that so it makes you wait to see what they have planed, that way you want one even more when it releases, even if its not safe. Furthermore it's still illegel in some states to even test these vehicles, in paragraph nine it states, "lawmakers know that safety is best achived with alert drivers" that in california, Nevada, Florida, and the Disrtict of Cloumbia have led limted use of semi auto cars.
In conclusion I am 100% not for driverless cars as they could be a danger to society. Driverless cars could help criminals, bring more crash danger, and what is a driverless car with a driver that just shows they are not ready for the public. Also driverless cars will have to much imformation, be to expensive, a mechanic will not no how to fix them as they are all computer made. Driverless cars will also be electric and that means more coal will have to be burned from the power plant witch causes more polution resulting in a bigger problem to socitey, if the worl had a decsion I hope that I don't live in a world where driverless cars are released to the public. | 2 |
Fellow citizens should know the advantages of limiting their car usage of drivng less car can reduce the pollution, For example the article "In German Suburb,Life Goes on Wihtout cars" it says "expert says its a huge impedmient to currenty efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpopes. Cars are responsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emission". Thats why its important to cut back, If not... They could ban driving. For Example the article "Paris Bans driving due to smog" Paris almost of near the record pollution, so paris enfored partial drivng ban to clear the air of the global city. And there was 1 article about "Car Free Day Is Spinnning into a big hit in Bogota" talks about banning cars and only transportation is bike, walk, and busses.
In the article "German Suburb,Life Goes On Without Cars" people who ownes house has to pay for Parking space stated "Car ownersship is allowed but they must buy a parking spaces which can cost up to $40,000" cause of this people who dont have money rather buy a house instead of a car so they dont have to pay $40,000 for a parking space. 70% of Vauban's families do not own cars and 57% sold a car to move to germany.
"Paris bans driving due to smog" Paris bans driving becuase after days of near record pollution, Which made Prais enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. Mortorists with even numbered license plates were order to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine which is $31 in USD. And some drivers dont even enfored the rule for example "4,000 drivers were fined for not coperating with the rule enforced by paris offical. Diesel fuel was the blmamed since France Car which is made up of 67% of cars fueled with diesels. its a good idea for Paris to ban driving for certain amount of days because it can clear the air up with pollutions.
In "Car free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" they have banned driving for 3 straight years. the only transportation you could get around is buses and taxis is permmited for the day without cars in the capital city of population of 7 million. People who violate the banned of driving could faced a $25 fines, the turn out was large, despite gray clouds thay dumped rains showers on Bogota. As the mayor says "its a good oppertunity to take away stress and lower air pollution" in this case i agree with the mayor because having a stree-free pollution can lead to a heathier state and a clean enviroment.
"The End of Car Culture" President Obama ambitous goals to curb the United States greenhouse gas emissions. Many sociologists believe it will have benefical implications for carbon emissions and the enviroments, since transporation is the 2nd largest source of american's emission. For example companys like "Ford and Mercedes have been rebranding themselves as a mobility companines. with all these changes, people who stopped car commuting as a result of the recession may find less reason to resume the habits. Company who offer transportation for example in New York theres a new bike sharing program to reduce car transportation.
So as a fellow citizens its a good idea to cut back and save on money, and pollution to our planet earth. everyone wants a clean and safe enviroment. One thing you dont want is your country to ban or limited driving which makes you take the city bus or call a taxi. | 2 |
There are many different topics and reasons about becoming a Seagoing Cowboy but i'm not goning to mention them all if I did it would take me an excrutiateingly long time. So in cunclusion I am onley going to mention a few of them such as importance, adventure, and sites.
The importians of the Seagoing Cowboys was an extremley important person to be in that time period for saveing hundreds of thousands of cattle, hoarses and any kind of lifestock that was useful to the people. No matter how stormy it got they always tryed there best to keep on cource and never give up. They worked very hard cleaning stalls, feeding the animals, and giving them waterThey were always honored then and I think we should honor them now as well or better as they did back in the time of world war Two.
Oh and just imagian the adventure they had out on the open sea just having the time of there lives. They probably ran in to some nasty storms just think of the waves probabley huge waves the size of a mountain. In the story Luke almost whent flying off the shp but he got lucky he caught a peice of metal to hold onto. Cuold youjust imagian how much that would scare you, if you would have been swallowed by the hungery ocean. They could have even been flung overboard and eaten by sharks it just gives me the chilles thinking about it.
Oh just thnk of the sites they have seen they have probabley been all around the world. In the story it said that Luke he whent to Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water. That was only one he even whent down the Panama Canal on his way to China! can you imagian dong somthing like that !? It would be spectaculer seeing those kind of sites. He even whent on a tour threw an excuvated castle now that is like the cherry on a sundae don't you agree?
That is why I think past Seabearing Cowboys shoul be honored for there services and not just ignored like they are today. My goal is to get the word out about the Seabearing Cowboys to show there importance to this country. So they arent just forgoten and cast away and not honored. | 3 |
Unmasking the Face on Mars
If you ever saw or heard about the "Face on Mars" you might think that it was created by aliens but it's actually not. Everybody thinks it is but it's really just a natural landform.
A few days after NASA sent a camera up to Mars to look for Viking 2 it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. They said," it was a huge rock formation which resembles a human head formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth." The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars. It soon become a pop icon and it starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines and on radio talk shows. Some people think that the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars. Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an acient civilization on Mars.
People starting believing that it was evidence of life on Mars. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camer team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original photo. Everybody was waiting to see it but it revealed that it was just a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all. Even after having all this evidence people sill didn't believe that it's not an alien because they said the pitcure was cloudy and could've been hidden. To prove everyone wrong, on a cloudless day they took a second photo with even better quality of the landform.
Finally, the picture could show you that it was not really a face but only a landform. Many people just want to believe that there is life on Mars when there most likey is not. They spent a lot of money trying to prove this to everyone that there is no alien life on the planet Mars. | 2 |
What would it be like without cars? Well acording to the passages there are a lot of cities that are trying this car free world. The one city that are free of cars is Vauban,Germany. So lets see how they like the car free communtiy.
The frist place were looking at is Vauban,Gremany. they have a total car free rule. they cant have car in the town . but if they have to park them they have to buy a space for $40,000 along with a house. As a result 70 percent of vauban's families do not own cars.57 percent sold a car to move here. Vauban completed inn 2006 , Is a example of a growing trend in Europe, The united states and elsewhere to separate suburban life from auto use. As a componet of a movement called "smart planning".
The end of car culture. President Obama's ambitious goals are to curb the United states' greenhouse gas emissions. Unvail last week, will get a fortuitous assist from an incipient shift in America behavior,recent studies suggest that America are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year gose by. Americas love affair with its vehicals seems to be cooling down. when adjusted for population growth ,the number of miles driven in the united states peaked in 2005 and stedily dropped thereafter. Therefor if the pattern is perists and many sociologist belive it will ,It will have benefical impacts on the world's carbon emissions. so let all try to be car free and hgelp the enviroment! | 1 |
I believe that choosing the president of the United States should be choosen by popular vote and not by the Electoral Collage. I believe this way because I think that the people should have the right to choose who represent their country, not the House of Representatives/Senate. The Electoral College in most cases is unfair to most voters because of the whole "winner-take-all policy". Some states have less electoral votes given to them and that may seem unfair to some. The Electoral College method is basically electors that elect the president and not the people which I think is completely useless.
I believe that the best argument should be between the people and not members of the Electoral College. The most worrying part of using the Electoral College to vote for the president and vice president insteded of using the peoples votes is that the elections are just being thrown to the House of Representatives, where the state delegates choose the president and the Senate will choose the vice president. Candidates dont't spend time in states they know will have no chance of winning. they only focus on the tight races in "swing states" that are most likely to pay closes attention to the campaign. The Electoral College puts most of the weight on the large states because of their large populations.
Getting rid of the Electoral College is a better decison for the people so they get a say in how they want their county to be and not how the goverment wants the country to be. If we use the peoples vote we would get more accurate votes and it would be fair for everyone. The Electorlal College is pretty much what the government wants rather than what the people want which is why many citizens have problems with our current president, so if the people could just get a say in who they think should run the country they should. When we vote for a presidential candidate we are actually voting for a slate of electors and not for the president. Some of the smaller states don't get to see any campaign ads like the larger states do so they are basically putting the fate of the presidency in the hands of a few swing voters.
The Electoral College is hurting our county because we are not getting the accurate votes we think we're getting. Citizens are not going to want to vote anymore because of how unfair these campaigns are. Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think a single vote may decide an election. | 2 |
What Does it Look Look Like to You
The "Face on Mars" is just a landform. Like many other NASA scientist i do not beleive that it was an made by ancient civilazations of aliens. The pictures that we have taken from the planet Mars first indicated a type of face. But now that with our newer technology we've seen that it is just a mesa or butte. NASA has even provided real photos taken on the Mars. But still, many disagree that it is simply just a landform.
Nasa sending out the Viking 1 and bringing back that picture has made a big impact on NASA. Alot of scientist did not beleive that it was a face. But "the Face on Mars" has become a pop icon. This "Face on Mars" starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows-even haunted grocery store checkout linesfor 25 years. But NASA scientist were still a bit doubtfull.
In 1998 NASA felt that it was important to tax payers to see the for sure if the "the Face on Mars" was really a face at all. When Mars Global Surveyor(MGS) flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper that the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing...a natural alndform. So all these people believed that it was a face but it actually turned out, from real pictures taken, to be a landform.
But still not evryone was content with that. The "Face on Mars" is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in April 1998-a cloudy time of the year on the Red Planet. The camera that took the last picture of the "Face on Mars" had to peer through wispy clouds to see the "Face". So in April 8, 2001-a clodless summer day in Cydonia- Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. And once again the even more advanced picture of the "Face on Mars" looked like a mesa or a butte.
Now some people will say that NASA is trying to cover up something, that they are hiding something from the public. Others say that NASA doesn't want people to know if there are aliens out there. But what people lack in that accusation is the fact that if NASA would've discovered aliens, it would be one of the most popular and profitable organizations on Earth. NASA trying to verify, by spending millions of dollars on global surveyors to take pictures of Cydonia, if the "Face on Mars" is really a face is not them trying to hide anything. In fact its NASA trying to satisfy the public in best ways they can. And people even say that the pictures arent good enough to tell for sure. NASA's surveyor's camera pixel in 2001 had a span of 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo.
So in conclusion, even though you dont beleive that its a natural landform, and i understand why, facts and real photos beg to differ that idea of a face on the Mars. All the times NASA has sent out surveyors to bring pictures to the public, the public just gave them garbage. So honestly all i can say is that all the facts and pictures that NASA has provided us with to understand the face or landform is for a reason. And thats so people can see and decide for themselves wheather it a face or a landform. But really if a scientist and an entire corporation of intellegiant scientist with high degrees say its a landform, then that they're aren't going to lie to an entire planet of people. | 4 |
Driverless cars, even the idea of it gives me a massive headache. Thinking about all the promblems that would cause is just dreadful. I mean it's bad enough people now and days don't know how to drive I cant even imagine what it'd be like having driverless cars on the road. I think it's absoutley the worse idea I ever heard of mainly because of all the tremendous promblems it would cause.
Having driverless cars in my mind is very dangerous because anything could happen when a driver isn't in control. Today we already have so many accidents everyday with just everday people. People are not responcible enough to take on such a big task of having a driverless car in their possestion or on the road for that matter.
It's understandable to have the idea of having them because of how much technology has improved over the years. But even now the cars are not fully ready to be taken out on the road when it can't fully take on the challenge of driving around accidents, roadwork, and roadblocks. However it does say that the car can alert the driver when it needs the assistance but, who is to say when a person is paying attention they could be sitting back relaxing and the alert may not
make it to the driver in time. That is a acciedent waiting to happen.
Even though we still have wrecks I think that its less likely to happen if we have people behind the wheel that
are able to control the car at all times. With a smart car there is no telling what it could do and what it could cause. If a person needed to take over and drive and couldn't get the displays that control the car to turn off that could be really bad. If
we keep it like how
it is now
we won't even have that as a issue.
I fully agree with traffic laws saying that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. At least then there is a chance to prevent a accident. When
you as a driver are not in control of the car you are driving. It can become a scary and dangerous situation. You are not only putting yourself in danger but everyone else that is on the road with you in danger. I will stand by what I think and that is driverless cars should stay in the television shows and movies and keep reality where its real. | 3 |
Although not having driveless cars seems more safe, Im for driveless cars. Im for driveless cars because it could be making driving more fun. Driveless cars sounds dangerous but its really safer than regular cars. The driveless car has many more good advantages than a regualr car.
Im for driveless cars because it has good advantages such as there a senors that are advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or roll-overs. Regular cars does have some good advantages too but driveless cars has been driven more than half a million miles without being crashed. Even though driveless cars uses half of the fuel of today's taxis, it's making driving fun in a new way.
Driveless cars may not sound safe but really its safer than regualr cars. Regular cars dont have senors to tell when danger is near and reguar cars are boring. This idea would bring people out more and experience the world with a nice car. Driveless cars could be the best invention ever! | 1 |
The Face is actually a natural landform. It's a huge rock formation which is also common in the American West. It's proven by Micheal Malin and his Mars Orbit Camera because it's ten time sharper than the orginal. All this mostly proves that it's not an alien monument.
When NASA reveal the image for everyone to see, the authors thought it's a good way to engage attention on Mars. According to the text, it stated, " huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadoes giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." This caption have brought attraction on Mars and books, magazines, radio talk shows, and Hollywood film has starred.
Most of the people thought of an alien comparacy but when Malin and his MOC team snapped a better view of it, it proves it wasn't an alien monument. According to the text, it stated, " And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a oicture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos.
If it's not an alien monument, what is it? Garvin said it was a landform which reminds him of mostly Middle Butte. According to the text it stated," What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West."
The picture is a landform after all. Most might be disappointed that it's not an alien monument. It's also been proven by the pictures over the year they had taken of which mostly is not an alien monument. Again, it's a picture of a butte or mesa, which are common around the American West. | 2 |
In " The Challenge of Exploring Venus" The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers that Venus represents.
In the text it gives multiple reasons that Venus is dangerouse. Venus cann be a dnager to things that go on in space and the diffrent things that happen in space.
In the text it states that " Venus is the closet planet to earth in terms of density and size" This is stating that venus is the closet planet to earth so if something happpens to Venus then it couold effecct earth. In the text it says " A thick Atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus." When iI think of that statement it scares me. The reasont the statement above scares me is because th4e carbon dioxide that is on Venus could coem to earth and start puliting the air. Pullution in the air is not good for our animals or hummans.
I feel liek the author did a very good job at explaining why it is a good idea that studying Venus is a worthy despute inspite the dangers of studying Venus. I feel like the author could probablly give more backround on why it is not very safe to study Venus. I feel like the author could give more information why it is a good idea to prsue studying Venus.
In conculson i feel like the author did a good job suggesting that studying venus in the artical " The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is a worthy prsuit despite the dangers that studying Venus might have. I feel like the author also needs to include more facts about Venus and making it more intresting for the reader. | 1 |
I don't think the use of technoloy to read emotional expressions of students in aclassroom is a valuable. I don't think that is fair to students because some people want to keep their emotions to theirselves. There are many reasons people want to keep their emotions to themselves. They don't want any one knowing their emotions.
I think if there was technology reading your emotional expressions,it would distract students from learning and getting good grades. Some kids might think it really cool that a computer can read your emotions,others might not think it is so cool. Some kids might get to focused on the computer reading their emotions or get too worried that the computer is going to share their emotions to other people on the internet. I think your emotions are private and should be kept to yourselve. I think kids should not be distracted by learning because a computer thet can read your emotional expressions should not be put in a classroom.
I don't think having technology that reads your emotional expressions is right. Some people might think that is cool,but others might not because maybe they don't want their expression read. I think parents might not agreee with a computer that can read your emotions in a classroom,because they want their child to succeed and not be distracting from learning by technology. I don't think we should allow technology that reads your emotions in a classroom so kids can learn and not be distracted and get a good education,so they can graduate school. | 2 |
Driverless cars are coming. They are so dangerous to a human an his/her families life. Driverless cars would be ok if the technitions knew what they were doing.
My position on these diving cars is nowhere. Humans can drive cars fine. Yea we get tired of driving because we are always on the road. Also, driverless cars aint all driverless anyways cause they tell you to take over if they're in complicated traffic or in roadworks. Like what if the person in the driver seat falls asleep and the car needs it to take over will it cause a wreak?
Letting google make the driverless cars is outrageous you told have like toyota, ford, chevy, or maybe even pontiac but google they shouldnt have the right tot be able to build a car let alone a diverless car. Google makes alot of money as it is they are just trying to make more money with this car but i dont think anybody should buy it cause if it messes up and you wreak they will think its the person who is in the driver seats fault.
I mean making it isnt as bad of an idea but i dont think noone will buy it because of the technical difficulties it could have. Like you could wreak and blow up and google would of thought it was the person driving at that giving point, but they wouldnt know who was driving because it was on auto pilot and the driver fell asleep and crashed and blew up.
The special track that they have for the driverless cars should be were they are only aloud to be. So, you dont cause no accidents in the middle of the city with a car that blew up because of technical difficulties. I think google should just stay with the internet blogs cause they make enough money as it in being the first page when you click the internet broswer. they shouldnt be building a car cause if the do and something happens to them when they are sold to people and the mess up people could come back and sue thm because its not like a orginal car with a motor no its a car with computers evrywhere in it. | 1 |
The face on Mars is nothing but a natural landform. Contrary to popular belief, it is just a rock formation that coincidentally looks like a face. Scientists figure it is just another Martian mesa, which is common around Cydonia.
The scientists at NASA made it a priority to obtain a clear photo of the face on Mars, due to the unlikely possibility that it is in fact, an alien artifact, for which they wanted a clear answer. When Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia, it snapped a photo, much clearer than the one obtained by the Viking. When the photo surfaced online, it proved to be nothing but a natural landform. However, some people were not satisfied with this discovery. Conspiracy theorists began to theorize that there were alien markings hidden by haze, which caused for another search to get an even clearer picture, which was not easy. The photo obtained on April 8, 2001 was a phenomenal photo, which proved the face on mars to be a mesa, nothing but a happy accident, you could say. Conspiract theorists also believe that NASA is hiding evidence from the general public, which is absurd. A discovery like that of an ancient alien civilization on Mars would benefit NASA.
So in conclusion, the face on Mars is something much like the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, just a natural landform. | 2 |
The author talks about the challenge of exploring venis, he talks about how astronomers are interested in venis because it may once have be the most earth like planet in our solar system. The fact that there is a possiblity of there once being life on that planets surface, that is amazing.
The facts abouts about venis and how the author shows that it can be dangerous to be on venis. The first fact, the atmosphere of venis is 97 percent carbon dixide. If there was life on venis at once, then the life like creatures didn't last long. The planet venis could be the twin of earth. On the suface of venis it is about 800 degrees fahrenhiet.
The chance of there being life on venis, there is about 50/50 chance of there once was life. the fact is that the pressure of the planet being 90. that could crush any lind of living thing. There can't be a creature that live on a surface that is hot. The pressure of the planets atmosphere is 90, humans can be crushed easily.
The distantce from venis to our earth. the planet venis is rearly near our earth. it is in the orbit in our solar system so yes it is close by to the earth. Just about anything in the salor system of our is close to us.
The author is right, the dangers of life on venis is very risky. It can crush anything with the pressure. It could kill anything that goes past its atmosphere. the athor despites the risk and the way venis is. | 1 |
On May 24, 2001, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling around Mars while taking photos of possible landing sites. As it was taking photos, it noticed a dome that resembled a human face. The face was nearly two miles in diameter and it appearded to be staring back at the cameras from an area of the Red Planet called Cydonia. Some say that this is evidence of life on Mars.
In paragraph 2, they tell us that the sensation was short lived. It also says that scientists assumed it was just another Martian Mesa because it was so common around Cydonia. This one had shadows that made is look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. They should not have came to the conclusion that there is life on mars only becuase they saw shadows that resembled a humans facial structure.
In paragraph 7, it states that on April 5, 1998,
Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team took photos that would come out 10 times sharper than the original Viking photos. The photos revealed a natural landform. There was no alien monument. If there really was an alien monument to begin with, it surely would have appeared the second time around, especially because they used a much better camera.
In paragraph 12, it says that the picture actually shows a Martian equivalent to a butte or mesa, which is a landform that is common around the American West. Garvin states that it reminds him of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. That is a lava dome that is about the same height as the Face on Mars.
The Face on Mars is most likely a natural landform. Martian mesas are common around the Cydonia area so it could have easily been mistaken for what appeared to be a human face. They claim to have seen evidence of life based on shadows that appeared on a natural landform. This seems very unrealistic. Michael Malin and his Orbiter Camera team took photos using a camera that would leave pictures 10 times sharper than the orginal Viking pictures, so if anything was actually on Mars, we surely would have seen it. | 3 |
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Do you want a messed up system to control who is voted for president, or would you want to vote for who becomes president? In my favor, I would choose the most popular vote for president. In my defense people should vote for president and not have higher ranked people vote for president. To be clear with you,
The Electoral College should not be used.
Would you want to vote for who becomes president?
I would love to vote for who would become president. Why would you let people that do not live the life you live vote for you, you need to vote for who you think will be a great president for you.
For EX.
I'm living in a retirement home and I cant pay for my dentures I would need to vote for a president that allows charity for retirement homes. different people need different presidents we all can't have a different president so we all need one that we all agree on. people living in the white house do not know what we want so why would you want them to vote.
Would you use
The Electoral College
?
I would love to vote for who would become president. Why would you let people that do not live the life you live vote for you, you need to vote for who you think will be a great president for you.
For EX.
I'm living in a retirement home and I cant pay for my dentures I would need to vote for a president that allows charity for retirement homes. different people need different presidents we all can't have a different president so we all need one that we all agree on. people living in the white house do not know what we want so why would you want them to vote.
Which statement sounds resonable?
voting for president is more reasonable. to me thats what i say. | 1 |
In the article "Driveless Cars Are Coming" two sides of whether there should or should not be driveless cars are given.
Through out the article both sides use experts from car companies and scientists to give their side, or opinion, of this argument.
Reasons such as drivless cars aren't completely driveless and still need the driver's attention are given which gives the reader a standpoint against this argument.
Driveless cars are expensive and dangerous.
In paragraph 6 of this article, it states that the make-up of a driveless car consists of sensors and other parts of the car add up to two hundred million dollars to manufacture.
Another fact given in paragraph 7 states that "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel."
The quote just given shows how driveless cars aren't truly driveless and by using this point to back up the claim this kind of car would be a big waste of money because it doesn't fully serve it's purpose.
Last, but not least, if an accident were to happen would the blame go upon the manufacturer or the driver who was supposed to be assisting the wheel.
Although this idea of a driveless car is a good one and shoots for the sky, there is no way it could work out at the end of the day.
Too many points go into why driveless cars would not work rather than how they do.
Driveless cars are too expensive and dangerous to have exist, and people shouldn't rely on this kind of car because technology errors happen all the time while humans have the advantage of reaction time and common sense.
In conclusion, our roads would be safer if we kept human controlled cars. | 2 |
Cars were ment to be many things, comfortable, muscle, work, luxury, cheap, and fun for a lot of people. The new cars that they are making should only have safety features that are computer, not the whole car. If a whole car was a computer, what would you do, sit there and eat? you wouldnt be paying attention, you'd be all relaxed, and probably sleeping if you were tired. There are many things that i can say are bad for being in a car that is a computer with a frame, an engine, exhaust manifold, and many more parts. That is why i disagree/ dislike the fact to have a computer drive you.
The facts are that there are people building cars that are partially computer driven. For the car that could be bad or good, but if it faults you wont be able to know until it acctually faults while driving which is a huge safety hazard. The car is made for teens, and grown-ups to have fun and comfort or one of them.
The reasons I dislike/ disagree with the self drving is that everybody would become lazy/ on unintellegent about cars. So on my behalf the cars shouldnt be self driven and should have people at the wheels. If the safety features are computer, and not faulty then keep them because it's better to be safe then sorry on the road with idiot drivers, drunks, first time drivers, and semi drivers. | 1 |
I am totaly against driverless cars. I do not think that should continue they're production on these vehicles. Simply because they are already having issues. For example in paragraph two they say the car cannot operate or minuver through traffic , road blocks, accidents etc.
So what if there's a storm, or a tornado, or earth quake or something? Will the car know what to do then? If you're going to have to take over you might as well drive it yourself anyway. What could you possibly do for those short moments of time anyway? A driver is always supposed to stay alert and focussed no matter what. Whether you are driving or not because you never know what could happen. Safety first! I dont think a computer is accuipt enough or qualified to think , act, or make decisions a human is supposed to make.
Then what happens if you do decide to let the car do what it is programed for and ypou do get in accident or get hurt? Then what like they said in paragraphs 9 & 7, the big argument will be who,s fault is it, the driver or manufacturer? Well my opinion is driver, because its states that the car wouldn t knolw what to do in these type of situations and youre werent focused and did not jump in when you should have all the more reason you should drive yourself so there will be no reason for this argument. I just really dont think these cars will be that much useful, I actualy really think they will be the cause of alot of future problems. | 2 |
Dear Mr. Senator:
Lately there's been a problem regarding electoral colleges. Some people are in favor of them; others not so much. I agree with the latter; electoral colleges are anachronistic and should no longer be used in this day and age.
In this modern era, people are being more aware or more educated about the going-ons in government. As a result, it is becoming no longer necessary to have others vote in place of the people's choices. Instead, people should be able to vote directly for their chosen leaders and not have to worry about an elector making a last minute decision to vote for another.
Those who are in favor of electoral colleges are wrong about keeping them. In only half-way allowing people to vote for president, it could also be viewed that the people were never really given a choice. Their votes are at the mercy of the electors.
If you are wise Mr. Senator, you'll choose to do away with electoral colleges. By doing so, you give people more choice and control over their decisions. I hope you'll put your foot down on this matter and refuse to have anything to do with electoral colleges because they're not helping the future of our country,
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 1 |
Have you ever heard of a software that tracks your movements to tell you your emotion? This software is able to detect percentages of emotions on your face, all you have do do is look in a camera. But, should this be used on student computers? I think that this software should not be used on students computers because of distractions, the speed of the computers, and the anxiety of somebody always watching you. I can see the argument for this software going both ways, but I would not want a camera watching me all day.
This software can be very distracting. Say a student is getting bored with the lesson being taught in class that day. They might decide to play around with facial expressions to see how their laptop with this always-watching software reacts. This can cause the student not to hear the lesson being taught, or make it easier by tricking the software. In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," it tells some of the facial expressions you can make to get this software to react.
Have you ever dealt with a slow computer due to something not running properly? With this software on school laptops, they will be so slow that nothing at all will work. As a result of this speed issue, students will fall behind in class, and at home. This software is much to massive for a school laptop. To run this you would need a state of the art computer costing you thousands of dollars. "Your home PC can't handle the complex algorythems used to decode Mona Lisas smile." Schools can't affort to give every student a computer capable of running this software.
Anxiety. It is a growing problem in the United States today. Anxiety of people judging you, stress from work, or just nervousness. This facial recognition software on school computers would bring anxiety to a whole new level. The thought that someone is always watching you is not a good thought. This program will not only feel like you are constantly being watched, but in a way will be true. The software always tracks you facial expressions, your emotions, to adapt to how you "feel". Also, imagine how easy it would be to hack into this intricate software. It would be fairly simple to someone with experience. If someone were to hack into the camera, they could constantly watch you. As long as your computer is opened up, they are watching you.
Did you change your opinion on this software? It is terrifying to know that someone could be watching at any time they choose. This software is wrong for school computers because of the speed of the computers, the anxiety of someone watching, and the distractions. I hope you consider voting no for this software in the future. | 3 |
Have you ever thought of how the Facial Action Coding System could be beneficial in your everyday life? In a painting of Mona Lisa this sofware is very helpful at describing emotions. This technology can help computers and humans to communicate better. "At least according to some new computer software that can recognize emotions. The softwarre is the latest innovation from Prof. Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Institiute for Advanced Science at the University of Illinois, working in collaboration with Prof. Nicu Sebe of the University of Amsterdam. Dr. Huang and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate." This invention can make a difference in our everyday lives.
The Facial Action Coding System can be very effective on teachers in a classroom. Some teachers might have a hard time understanding if the student is grasping onto the content or not. "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 instrector. The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive." This could dramatically help the teachers and students become more successful. It can help identify emotions that a person is feeling, without verbally having to say what is going on.
This is a valuable technology that can greatly impact the world. Identifying specific emotions for what a person is feeling can do a great deal of help. "According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only express emotions, but also may even help produce them." This invention will help make life a lot easier for a lot of people. | 1 |
Looking at someone can tell a lot about someones emotions but, the FACS (Facial Action Coding System) made a software that can calculate someones emotions. The software calculates somones emotions by seeing the movements of a muscle. It calculated da Vinci's painting of Mona Lisa and said that she is 83 percent happy, 9 percent dishusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. It can expose if someone is bring a fake smile. I think this software will be very valuable.
A reason why I think it would be valuable is because it could calculate if a student in a classroom is bored or confused. The software could modify the lesson if a student is confused. This can help students be more attached with the lesson. In the text it says," A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." This is why the software could be valuable.
Another reason why is could it could be valuable for a student in a classroom is to see if a student is depressed. If a student has a mental disease like depression or bipolar, the software can know if a student is feeling depressed or if a students emotions change by seeing how their muscles move. The teacher can help the student if he/she has depression when a student is trying to hide it. In the text it says," They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one." This could help the software be more valuable.
The final reason why it is valuable is that it can tell if a student it lying or not. It can see if a student is tell the truth by just looking at their face. FACS calculates major muscles in the someones face and exposes if someone is lying and experts say," Faces don't lie". The evidence in the text says that," The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-d comouter model of the face; all major muscles in the model must move like human muscles." This would help teachers with students in the classroom.
The FACS would help many teachers with their students to make teaching more better. The software would even help video games to make computer-animated faces more expressive. The FACS would help companies and people to indicate someones true feelings without them fooling someone. They should add this type of technology to computers in the future. | 3 |
luke was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a bank when his friend Don Reist invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat. luke couldn't say no .he knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime. their was a world war 2 but is was over. Then they recover their food supplies and animals.44 nations joined together to form unrra ( the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administrtion). I think that Animals need to be care of because thy needfood water and family to stay with. Some animals need to a vet because the dont fell better and doctors need to make them better. And people can adoppte them to have a home.
people should join the program because people can learn how to love an animal that u have seen befor or not seen befor in your life. Or new Animals that are new thatpeople have never seen before Animals need to be feeded because without food they cant live for ever they can die . and their babys need to find food by themself. Without their mom's and dad's to find for the baby's to grow up like them | 1 |
Lukes participation in the program ment the point of view in convincing others to join the seagoing cowboys program. some reasons to join the program are you will get to experience adventurs and see many uniqe places. luke got to see the arcropolis,an excavate castle in crete,and the panima canal the conclushen is that the seagoing cowboys do alote of work but when there work is over they get to see sights and have fun.
After there work is done the seagoing cowboys turn were they keep the animls in to rooms to play games like baseball and vollyball. somtimes they have table tennis tornamints,fencing,boxing,reading,whilting,and games to also helped pass the time. being a seagoing cowboy is not all fun and games until that people half to work before play. this is more then an adventure for luke bomberger it opend up a world to him. awernes stayed with him leading his family to host a number of internatinol students and exchange visitors for many years.
Being a seagoing cowboy is alot of work but it pays off in the end. luke had fun and got to see many sights on all the tims he worked as a seagoing cowboy. it was a good opurtunity for luke to see sights and diffrent places. the seagoing cowboys go to places like europe, venince, and crete. the seagoing cowboys opend up an opurtunity for luke to see the orcropolis and the panima canal. | 1 |
In this story they talk about exploring space they siad that venus is called evening start somethimes . At night you can see it its the brightest one in the sky. Venus is the seound plant from the sun. And it has proved a very challeging place to examine more closely.
Venus is referred to as earth too because its the cloest to the planet its about the same size as earth. Sometimes we are close to mars and sometimes to venus thier be some days around the corner. No space ship has touched down in venus more then three decades. On venus temperatures are average of 800 degrees fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 more times grater then what we experience in earth. Its has the hottest surface temperature of any plant in our solor system. Venus was covered in largely with oceans and could of had life there.
NASA are working on approaches on studying venus . A old project is looking back on an device called mechanical computers those devices where first envisioned in 1800s and they played a role in 1940s during world war 2 .Thier are builed useing gerars and levers. They are striving to meet the challenge. | 0 |
This technology will not be needed in classrooms. They wont be needed because a teacher wont change the way they teach just because 1 students isnt happy wih they way they teach. Another reason why they shouldnt have this new technology is just because they probably dont have the money for it. Final reason why they shouldnt get this is because it wont benifit any student. its only going to help with one thing and thats to help the teacher figure out who is bored and who isnt. Schools dont need this.
First reason as to why school should not get this new emotional expression technology is because teachers really wont care what one student thinks. The thing will say that you're bored and that their lesson sucks but teachers really wont care what you think because the rest of the class doesnt think that. They might give you extra help but they wont change the way they are teaching just because 1 student is bored.
Another reason why schools should not get this is because their budget. This will probably be very expensive and schools probably cant afford one for each class. The school should also remember that it will only do one thing and thats read emotion. It wont make any student smarter, it''ll just read their emotional expression and its not very useful. Schools shouldnt spend a ton of money on a machine that will only help with 1 thing.
Finaly reason as to why schools shouldnt get this is because this emotional expression machine isnt going to benifit any student. Its only going to read an emotion and nothing else. It wont make anyone any smarter than they already are and its just a waste of time,money, and space.
Schools should not get this new technology because it wont help anyone but the guy who created it. It'll be fun to mess around with but it wont be useful. There shouldnt even be an argument about this because its actually dumb to think that schools want to but an expensive machine that will not help anyone in any way. | 2 |
la monalisa was creater by one of the best drawing artis ever existed in this life. La monalisa is in French Paris, lots of people go during vacations or even during a work flight because if part of the history of the worls not lots of people gets to see her closly these days because its so importand and there would never be one like it you might stand 7 ft away from it thats the closet that your gonna see it lots of the peole that have gone there say that its the most beautiful art that they have ever seem in tgeir life. Most french people already know how it looks like and how it is bevause its part of their history party of their culture and if you star searching who are the most artis people you probably find that most of them are french peoole which is pretty impresis because the best art is over there so they get it from the culture they have artis skills in their blood. Forgot to tell ya the monalisa its a 3-D art piece which in those times it wasnt easy to creat a piece like that and still now days. it has 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles . You can hardly tell that the monalisa from differents way if she is happy, sad or anger its a one kind of piece which you probably get to see once in your life time. | 0 |
Often times I go to seventh period looking at my classmates and see only blank expressions. Like me, they're tired after an enitire day. It is difficult to tell how they are feeling and what are they thinking. I am positive that my teacher struggles with the same issues. She often says things simiilar to "Use the next 30 minutes to get 2 or 3 problems done". I don't blame her for the class's lack of enthusiasm. But now shift to the middle of the day, where people have the most energy. Mixed emotions appear, as well as mixed facial expressions. How can a teacher effectively teach if he/she is unclear what students are thinking? In Nick D'Alto's "Making Mona Lisa Smile", D'Alto discusses using technological advancements in facial recognition to detect exactly how people are feeling. If a classroom uses technologically assisted facial recognition, one would see the following three benefits to a learning environment: more focused education, increased collaboration with students, and creating a safer learning environment.
In "Making Mona Lisa Smile", D'Alto' cites Dr. Thomas Huang, a professor at the University of Illinois. Dr. Huang predicts that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." In the first case where a student becomes confused, the teacher now knows what concepts the student is struggling with. This is a major advantage to the traditional school setting. In many of my past experiences helping fellow students, I have found it beneficial to know more about the student. I could relate better to the student, and better predict what could be a possible weakness. With a computer more accurately assting the teacher, the teacher can better address the weaknesses of the class or student. Since the primary goal of the educator is to educate to prepare students for the future, a computer assisted classroom would benefit the teacher in spotting weaknesses. In the latter example where the student becomes bored, a computer would spot a student who is not paying attention. The teacher, who often teaches a class of over 20 students cannot detect a bored face as easily. By focusing on a student who has mentally shut down, the teacher could potentially take disciplinary action, or quickly wake up the student such that the student misses less material that was taught. In both cases, a computer assisted classroom would bring a more focused education to students.
Dr. Huang goes on to predict that the computer "could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This would relate back to the first example made. By creating a more focused curriculum, teachers can collaborate better with students. It is rarely possible, perhaps even impossible, to teach a class without proper collaboration and communication between teacher and student. By collaborating with students on a more individualized level, the student receives help and education directed at his/her needs. I look back at my personal experiences, where I have needed help on one particular topic. For example, there was a point in my AP Physics class that I needed a detailed explanation of a topic, and I stayed after class to talk with my teacher specifically. Such a computer assisted classroom could help teachers and students alike receive better collaboration, further leading to a better education.
Finally, it is necessary to note the main point of D'Alto's work. His main argument is that computers can help understand the way humans feel. Additionally, a computer can carry out raw calculations millions of times faster than humans can. With the recent events involving gun violence in Ohio, Kentucky, and Florida, it is critical to ensure the safety of the students. At my school, staff now glance over each student entering the building, looking for possible weapons. If a computer assisted school patrolled the doors looking for signs of anxiety, anger, depression, or any emotion that may show signs of intent to harm, a faster response could be delivered before any event occurs. For a long duration of time, the Columbine shooters had displayed emotions of intent to harm. If Columbine High School was assisted with this type of computer technology, perhaps the threats would have been neutralized before fifteen lives were lost. With the help of a speedy computer scanning through hundreds of emotions every day, it would better protect students attending that school. This would contribute to a safer learning environment for students, which further presses the need for this technology in schools, especially in today's society.
To wrap things up, it ought to be clear that this new facial recognition technology has many benefits to schools. Perhaps the only disadvantage would be the cost; however the benefits clearly outweigh the cost. Nick D'Alto's article discussed the techniques of using such a technology, and these techniques benefit the school setting greatly. After analyzing the examples presented, such technology used in schools would provide more focused education, increased collaboration with students, and a safer learning environment, all of which are advantage to schools seeking to provide the best education for the future generation. | 4 |
Based on the four sources, car usage should be limited in some way. Smog in Paris and other cities have governments placing restrictions on when and where citizens are allowed to drive their vehicles. A German has a certain city that bans cars and other places, such as Bogota, Columbia, have "car free days". These give citizens of nearly every country a thought of why drive when i can walk. Some expert sociologists even believe we are out of our peak car buying years and into one that is less vehicle extemsive and more stress free and relaxed.
In Paris, smog forced many citizens to stop their driving all together. The pollution was so overwhelming that it rivaled Beijing, one of the most polluted cities on the world (Duffer). Car emissions put Paris' parculate matter scale off of the charts. Pullotion is a serious issue, especially when it affects millions, such as those in Paris. Other places have gone so extreme to ban cars in certain cities. Vauban, Germany have given up their cars to live there. Most citizens agree with Heidrum Walter's words of "being much happier [without a car]" (Rosenthal). Her understanding of a life without a vehicle is a crutial turning point in todays society and even limit air pollutions, not unlike those of Paris or Bejing.
Experts say that the United States "love affair for vehicles seems to be cooling" (Rosenthal). Many Young citizens aged under 25 seem to have no desire for a drivers license. As of April 13, 2013, the number of miles driven per person were down 9 percent from the peak of car buying sales. We are experiencing a long term cultural shift (Rosenthal) and will likely see dramtic changes in the future. Major cities , like New York and San Fransico, have transit and subway systems put into place for this very reason. More car pooling and public transit seems to be the way to go.
Not only does driving less reduce air pollution, but it decreases unwanted stress in many different situations. Many cities and countries around the globe agree with this and are all headed that direction. Vehicles seem do be on the downhill portion pf their lifespan. Take the initiative and protect our world. Less driving and less pollution reduces stress in even the best of us. | 2 |
The Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. But is this advcanced system valuable or particularly necessary? In my opinion, although this coding system is brilliant, there is not a need for it in the classroom.
The fact that I live in a time where computers could calculate my mood and or my emotions is nothing short of amazing. But, this coding system doesnt benefit the consumer at all. In paragraph six, D'Alto gives an example of a computer analyzing your mood as you come across an ad. So, if you come across happy or smiling the computer will continue to display like minded ads but, if your computer sees that you are frowing upon seeing the ad it will direct you to different ads. Now this is great for the compant who sells whatever is in the ad, they get to literally profit by this technology. But what does it do for the one viewing ads? Nothing.
Another example given in paragaph six is in a classroom setting. Dr. Haing states "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then, it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor". I'm not saying that this technology cannot do what it claims but what it does is utterly uneeded in a classroom setting. If a student is becoming confused about a certain topic they should raise their hand and ask a teacher (even online run courses always ave a teacher there to supervise). They should seek out a teacher guidance because, at least in my school district. cirriculum cannot be altered.
My district is made up of is five different highschools. All five teach the same exact math, english, and science curriculum. So, the computer would not even be permitted to change my lesson even if I was confused. So whats so helpful about a notification appearing on my screen saying thay I am about 63% confused? the answer is simply, its not.
In conclusion, although this software sounds very talented in what it is capable of achieving, is not useful in the classroom. This specific technology would quite honeslty serve me and my fellow classmates no use at all. What this software can do is what almost any human can achieve with sight and cognitive skills. Give me valuable software that will give me alternate youtube videos or websites to hellp me if im confused not software that just tells me im confused. | 3 |
Using Facial Action Codying System (FACS) to read students emotions could be a good thing. It could allow teachers, staff, and other students to know how a students is feeling. If you know they are feeling sad, you could change something to make them feel happy. These things could make the student more willing to learn and be more excited about school.
If you were to recognize how someone was feeling, think about how much that could benefit you and the person feeling that way. If you were to notice a student feeling sad or lonely, you find out the problem and solve it. If a student was mad or upset, you could fix that too. This might create less violence in schools and higher school attendence rates. It could prevent fights and arguements between teachers and students. It could also prevent bullying. If a student is feeling sad, lonely, or depressed, teachers could recognize that and fix the problem before anything happened or got worse. This can also make school couselors better at their jobs and make their jobs easier. If couselor knew how you were feeling, they could get you the help you needed faster then when they had to figure out exactly how you were feeling.
The Facial Action Codying System (FACS) can be a good thing. It could solve so many problems inside and outside of schools. It can show when you're happy, surprised, disgusted, afraid, sad, and angry. | 2 |
There has been a lot of dispute about the electoral college, therefore causing much confusion. The president should be elected by popular vote only. This allows all voters to be treated equal, avoid untrsutworthhy electors and everyone will be given the same amount of knowledge about the campaigns.
The electoral college creates an unfair set up for the voters. The winner-takes all system gives all the electors to the presidential candidate who won. This system disregards that the opposing candidate received any votes, because all the electors are given to the winner. This doesn't give a chance to the candidates whose party is not necessarily popular in that state. Candidates, therefore spend more time and money campaigning in states they know their party is popular in. According to Bradfor Plumer in 2000, 25 of the largest media markets did not see a campaign ad, because they lived in one of the seventeen states that had no campaigning. Some candiates don't even campaign in some states based on this. According to an excerpt from
Mother Jones by Bradford Plumer most candidates focus on the "swing" states where it is close competiton. In the case of tie in the electoral vote, the house of reprensentatives vote. This means one vote represents the whole state. How is that fair for a state like Wyoming that has 500,000 voters?
Another popular dilema of the electoral college is untrustworthy electors. The electors are chosen in different ways. According to Bradford Palmer in 1960 there was a problemwith the Louisiana legistlature choosing bias electors. Segregationists wanted to be rid the democratic electors and replace them with electors who would not vote for John F. Kennedy. In another case, there has been a history of electors voting for whom they want instead of their party's vote.
Voters often are not update onall the campaigns due to the unfairness of the electoral vote. There's no doubt that the electoral college is a confusing subject, but this often creates confusion in the ballot box too. There has been times when voters have casted votes for the wrong candidate. The voters know about the presidential candidate not the elector. States often do not get the same level of campaigning as eachother. According to
Slate Magazine a larger state gets more attention from the presidential candidates than a smaller state does. Over 60 percent of citizens who vote would like a direct election instead of the kind we have now, says Bradford Palmer.
The electoral college has caused enough confusion in its lifetime. The United States should change to using only the popular vote to allow all the voters to be created equal, avoid untrustworthy electors, and everyone will be given the same amount of knowledge. This will prevent bias people and a more knowledgable campaign. | 4 |
There are many advantages of limiting car usage . There are 3 important sources that tell us why people should limit car usage . Source 1 : In german suburb , life goes on without cars. Source 2 : Paris bans driving due to smog . Source 3 : Car - free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota. Last but not least ,Source 4 : The end of car culture .
To begin with , In sources 1 & 2 you can tie in the two sources to conclude that limiting car usage is going on in Germany and Paris. Most people walk , ride bikes, or catch the train. Car ownership is allowed but there are only 2 places to put them in large garages at the edge of the development , where a car - owner buys a space for 40,000 along with a home ( 1 : In german suburb , life goes on without cars para 2 ). Paris decided to ban driving to clear the air of global cities. ( Source 2 : Paris bans driving due to smog para 10 ). Diesel was blamed , since France has a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline .
As well in sources 3 & 4 Car - free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota and cars have come to an end with culture. They feel as though when people ride bikes , and trains it can prevent car jams. ( Source 3 : Car - free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota para 20 ).The goal was to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. In ( Source 3 : Car - free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota para 35 ). shows that for example van services can share services to have less cars and less gasoline . They also have a bike sharing company that you can share bikes and dont even need to use a vehicle.
In Conclusion , There are advantages in limiting the use of cars. With 3 helpful Sources
Source 1 : In german suburb , life goes on without cars. Source 2 : Paris bans driving due to smog . Source 3 : Car - free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota. Last but not least ,Source 4 : The end of car culture prove the advanges of limiting cars. | 0 |
Cars are a very nice thing to have, they are fast and they take you places that you want to go to. Cars come in a variety of colors and shapes. The thing about cars that you probably didn't know is that they pollute. Polluting is a very bad thing, everyday we're breathing in chemicals from cars that pollute. Doesn't sound very good now, does it? Cars are extreamly expensive too!
Cars cost thousands of dollars. Now, lets think for a minute, what if you didn't have a car? You wouldn't be able to get to places fast enough, you won't be on time to where you are trying to go. Well, you see, there are things called bikes and buses. It might not be as fast but, you'll still get there. Their are a lot of advantages of not having a car. You don't have to pay for insurance, You don't have to worry about accidents, You also don't have to worry about polluting the environment. In Vauban, Germany many people do not own cars. Atleast 70% of them do not own cars. Did you know that about 57% of the people in Vauban, Germany sold there cars so they could move to Germany?
In Paris, people enforced a partial driving ban to clear out some of the pollution. If you drove in your car you would have to pay a $31.00 dollar fee. That day, about 4 thousand drivers were fined. Wow! that is a lot of people to be fined for driving. Is it easy for you to imagine a car-free zone, where nobody is driving, and the roads are free of cars? Believe it or not, a lot of people like the idea of a car-free zone. In Columbia, people had banned cars for 3 straight years! Now, that is a long time to not be able to use a car. There was still transportation of course such as, biking, roller skating, walking, and even buses. I mean, you can't walk every where, right?
Even when it rained the people still didn't use cars, and it rained a lot. Not having a car takes away the pollution of the air and stress because, I can imagine having a car would be stressfull due to money you have to pay for gas and insurance. Their was about 118 miles of biking paths that people could take to get around. Stores were moved to be closer to people so they wouldn't have to travel so far. As each year goes by, americans are driving less, buying fewer cars and getting fewer licenses. I guess it's suggested that we don't use cars as much due to air pollution but i dont thing that is going to stop everyone in the world from driving their cars. I think we should cut down on driving every where and maybe car pool instead or take a bus, that way not everyone is driving and there will be less pollution. People will of course still drive cars and cars will pollute the air but, it is not going to stop us from driving. | 2 |
I think this Facial Action Coding System would be very helpful in classroom. Since it can accurately read emotions, I think it will be able to benefit students. I thinks the use of this in a classroom is very valuable in a class room.
I'm for the value of using this technology for reading students' emotional expresseion. In paragraph 6, it saids that " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instuctor. " If the computer could do that, I think many students would be able to understand lesson and effectively learn more. Since the computer would be modifying the lesson to help you, it would be a lot easier to learn than only being taught one way. I also think that if classrooms had this
students will be able to comprehend what they have been taught and do well on test.
In conclusion, I think that this would a very positive outcome if implemented in the school systems. It would probably help improve many grades and students will have an easy time learning. If FACS (Facial Action Coding System) ever becomes official, it should be introduce to school systems. That is why I think this technology would be valuable in the classroom. | 1 |
Do you think its time to get rid of Electoral College? Or change to election by popular vote for the presdient of the United States?
An Electoral College constist of 538 electors but a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. To win so easily by just getting Electoral votes just seems really unfair. We should change to election by popular vote for the president of United States because it seems like a more fair challenge to earn the title of President of the United States.
Each candidate running for presdient in your state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generaly chosen by the candidates poltical party, but state laws vary on how the electors are slected and what their responsibillites are.
What the electoral college system does is you dont vote for the president, you vote for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. As an example of Electoral college system , Stated in paragraph 10 "If you lived in Texas, for instance, And wanted to vote for [John] Kerry, You'd vote for slate of 34 democratic electors pledged to kerry. On the off-change that those electors won the statewide election, they would go to cocngress and Kerry would get 34 electoral votes". The electors can be anyone not holding a public office.
That just doesnt sound fair to win an election just by having more electoral votes, when you have less popular votes.
Basically the Electoral College is unfair to voters, because of the winnter-take-all ssytem in each state. Candidates dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states. 25 if the largest media markets didnt get to see a single campaign ad. If anyone has a good argument for putting the fate of the prsidency in the hands of a few swing voters Ohio, They have yet to make it.
The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. It doesnt make sense to have such a thing for out presidents. They should win by popular votes because it will be fair to let out people choose who should win not only 270 electoral votes, out of thousands of people that want to vote normally. | 2 |
Have you ever heard of a seagoing Cowboys program? Well if you haven't or even if you have just keep on reading. If you like to help animals thin this is the artical for you. I think you should particapate in the seagoing cowboys program. There are many reasons why you should perticipate in this Seagoing Cowboy program. So just keep on reading to see what those reasons are.
I think you should try it out but if you dont right now you might eant to at least reaserching this and see if you would like to try out this seagoing Cowboys program. I think you need to try seagoing Cowboy program beacause in the passage "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves." There was a man named Luke Bomberger he loved this program he even experienced going over the Alantic Ocean six-teen times and also went though the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by the World War ll. Would you like to experiance that type of fun.
Also I think you should at least try this beacuse in the passage "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves." It states in paragraph two that he helped recover their food supplies, animals , and more , forty-four nations joined together to form an UNRRA (the united Nations Relief and Rehabitstion Administation.) That needed to be recoverdfrom desasters.
I also think that you should join the Seagoing Cowboy program because it states that in paragraph six that you care about animals on the way back from safty. Would you like to save a pour animals life? It states that "Bales of hay and bages of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship." It also states that they have to clean the stalls. that would mean that the pour animals need your help because they need more people to help them out with the pour animals with feeding them and also cleanding there stalls.
Third of all I think you need to at lest try this is because of paragraph four it states that when he turend eigh-teen that Luck Bomberger was going to try to go to the miitary service, but when they found out that he was on a cattle-boat trip they said that he should just keep doing what he is already doing. That just by doing that it helped alot so he did not need to searve in the milatery.
This is about how and also why wou schould at least think about going the Seagoing Cowboy program. If you belive that you would want to at least find out more you should partisipate it dose not even have to be that long of your searvice. Would you likek to join now that you have read you have read my convinsing artical on why you should join the Seagoing Coyboy proogram? | 2 |
Facial Action Coding System is a good idea to have on all school computers and laptops. It was help the students with projects or even there work. It could also be good for a teacher to help teach there students how to do a problem they may not understand the problem. It is a very smart idea that they came up with and I think we should use it and not put it to waste. This could be a very good thing for students and them getting better education.
By bringing this into our schools for students it could help them with there work to help make them understand something better. In the arctle Dr. Hung talks about how if they put this on a computer it could recognize when a students is becoming confused or bored with the problems or with whatever is going on, on the screen. If a math teacher gave you problems to try on the computer over something you just learned that day, your faces that you make while you are doing the work could help the teacher. It could help by letting the teacher know what problems the student made a confused faced on to let the teacher know what to go over with that student. In the article Dr.Hunag also talks about somethimg very simliar to what I said the sentence brefore. In his notes he talked about the computer being like a human instructor. So if you made a confused face while doing a problem instead of letting the teacher know it would just give you easier problems. I think this is the best idea for the use of this new technology. Some students are smarted or learn faster than others so if the computers know that this person is more confused than the others, it could give them easier problems.
Think about all the things you can do with this new technology, you do use it to help you with problems on homework or even studing. This is a very useful tool for school and helping kids get a better education and I tink every school should have something like this for there students. If it was in my school I would for sure go and try this new technology to see how cool it really is. | 2 |
The author did well on supporting the idea that studying Venus
is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers becasue there might be some new stuff that we havn't yet explored on Venus.
In the article it mentioned that Venus has still has some features that are similar to Earth, like valleys, mountains, and craters. " Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth." ( paragraph 4) " The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters."( paragraph 4) The artical also mentioned that
Venus might acturally be a planet that us humans or other types of life forms could possibly be able to live on Venus because the temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to the sea level on earth. " Temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth." ( paragraph 5).
Scientist belives that long ago, Venus could have possibly contained oceans, which could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth does. Scientists are problably questioning on what happend to Venus oceans.
I know that if us humans were to go Venus without a spacesuit, we would problably get crushed becuse of the air pressure, just like the water pressure could crush a submarine, depending on how deep down you go into the oceans. If Venus had Earth-like features wouldn't that me that Venus once had air that us humans could breath, water that we could actually drink, etc. In the articel talked about how Venus
didn't have different kinds of light because the light couldn't penetrate through the dence asmosphere. Us humans and other types of life forms need sunlight to survive, So how could life possibly be found on Venus if there is hardly any type of
light coming through. The mystery behind Venus, has yet to be unsolved, but I feel like some day we will get to bottom of this mystery and when we do get to the bottom of this mystery, the mystery will be solved and all of our questions will be answered. Im hoping that some day we do solve this mystery. Venus could actually be another planet that us humans and other types of life form could live on, but until we solve this mystery, we're going to have to keep trying, don't give up, keep gathering new type of information and when we do gather some new information, we keeping closer and closer to solving this mystery. So lets just keep pushing forward and hopefully reach this goal. So lets just keep our heads up high and just hope for the best. If we all work together, we might actually solve this mystery. | 3 |
Dear Senator
The Electoral College was created by our Founding Fathers. They put this in the Constitution to make electing the President of the United States fair and equal to all the citizens in the United States. The Electoral College should not be changed no matter what. To go against the Constitution would be to go against the nation, for we were built on the leadership of our Founding Fathers and the guidance of the Constitution. This Contitstution was created so that the people have more power than the government. So I strongly believe that the Electoral College should stay the same. It is the governmet that needs to change. There is nothing wrong with the Electoral College, it is just the ones that run it. So if there should be any change, it should be the government that should change, not the Electoral College!
The Ectoral College is a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and by the popular vote of the citizens. When the voting starts the electors come to a meeting place and vote on who they want as President. After the meeting, there has to be a majority of two hundred seventy electoral votes for the election of the president. The electoral College is as I have said it before is fair and equal to all the citizens in the United States. To take this away now would be a catastraphe, because that would mean that all the other presidents in the past would not have even been our Presidents, the history behind them would be rubish and not even true. Some states may have a "winner-take-all" sort of thing but they are together and voting together as on state. Some of them may vote for the other one but the majority of them is for one person. Some of the states believe that it is not even worth it to have a "winner-take-all", because they think it is unfair. Then after the presidential election comes the "Certificate of Ascertainment" which is a list of all those who ran for President and there respective electors.
The electoral college has been around ever since the Constitution was created. It may be unfair now, but if there would have been any changes to the Constitution it would have been done then instead of now. The Electoral College was probably a great idea when the the Constitution fisrt started out. Then the years have gone by and now we want change. Well I see that the Electoral College can be unfair but it is also fair in it's own right. Because of the fiasco in the year of two thousand about the abolishment of the Electoral College, it has left a scare in our nation about the government, because you guys are giving out the information on the candidates to late or not at all. That SUCKS, for most states because they may not even get one advertisment about the candidates any where or even a commercial on T.V. If the vote for the abolishment of the Electoral College does happen, then there is nothing that I can do about it, but you can still change your ways. You can make it fair and not irrational. Even send the "Certificate of Ascertainment" earlier than you have done before now. This is a nation of freedom and peace, how are you trying to keep the peace with other countries if you can not even keep the peace within your own?
The government is the real problem, not the Electoral College. It may be unfair, because the majority of the people may have chosen one person while the electors may choose the other. Then when they add it together it is there vote that counts more than the peoples. If the government had only done the right thing and elected what the people wanted, then no one would have a problem with the Electoral College. It is stupid that the government is listening to what we have to say but not hearing it completly. The Constitution is a document of equality for the people. Not the government. If our nations democracy is a democracy then they should listen more to what the people have to say and not what the government has to say. If the government would do this then things would run more smoothly within our country and there would be less conflict.
This nation is a nation of freedom and peace. Not for a bunch of people who are power hungry. The Electoral College is fair and equal, it is the government that is not. If the government would only change for the better then there would be no problem. This nation is still young compared to all the other countries. They have gotten all there issues taken care of, but we have not. The reason is that some of the officials are power hungry and do things to take care of themselves and not others, but some are not and they want to make this country better. Those are the ones that should stay and not the power hungry ones. They make it fair. So I strongly belive that the Electoral College should stay the same, and that the government should be the one to change.
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Hundreds of teens each year die from texting,dinking, talking to passenger, while driving or even die somthing as simple as to paying attention. Driving is not for everyone.
Driverless car will prevent many accidents due to people mistake. Which are normal we make mistakes, But with the vechile watching our steps or even driving for us would be a benfit for that driver.
Google states "google cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash". The cars aren't compeletly driverless; they can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills. Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver? your probably asking, although, the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires such as navigating through work zones and around accidents, until then they are free to text with a cell phone, call someone withour stoping. In this way, the driverless car is actually a safety feature.
How the car does this is with position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor.
But the most important piece is the LIDAR(spinning sensor on the roof), it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the cars surroundings. The combination of all is necessary for the driverless car to replicate the skill of a person at the wheel.
Even when the car require the driver aid, displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over. GM has developed drivers seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over. Other options under consideration are flashing lights on the windshield and other heads-up displays.
Over all I see benfit in having driverless cars, They driverless cars allow us to complete as task such as putting on make up or text messaging someone, but they can still allow us to take over if needed. Which means that we do not put our live compeletly in the mercy of ours cars, but rather allow the car and the driver to work as together. | 1 |
"Abolish the electoral college!" is a famous statement that was made by Bob Dole on whether or not it would be a good idea to keep the electoral college. Though others may disagree and say that our founding fathers established the Electoral College. Also that it was established with the mindset of helping the American people, but i would like to think otherwise. I believe that the we should change the system by which we vote the president of the United States into election by popular vote. For many years we have been using the concept of the Electoral College and for many years, it has lead to unfair calls and the placing of bad leadership in our country. In the article titled, "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong", the author defines what the electoral collage system really is, the author states, " Under the electoral collage system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." This system is an unfair system, and can not be trusted. It time for change.
The electoral collage is a dishonesty to voters, it is an unfair system. In "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong", the author makes a good claim. He or she talks about the winner takes all system that is affiliated with the electoral college. In the 13th paragraph the author specifically says, " Because of the winner-take-all system in each tate, candidates don't spend time in states they know have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races "swing" state." That shows how unfair it is to us as the American people. Certain states may not get a chance to see who their choices are. They are forced to make a decision based on the little we know and the majority of the knowledge comes form the media which is a very unreliable source. " During the2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all." That shows how little our voices are heard in a desion that is crutial for how we go about and make decisions in our everyday lives. We the American people have to rely on states such as Ohio for who our president will be.
There is dishonesty every where you go. More so in the electoral college. When the electors are chosen we have no say so. The state legislatures are the ones responsible for picking the electors. In paragraph 11 of "The indefinsible Electoral College", the author makes a remark that everyone should put into regards. It says "That those electors could always defy the will of the people." Just like people can lie about their age, electors san also fib about their position or party in which they are representing. The author also mentions in paragraph 11, : In the same vein, "faithless" electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever the please."Not everyone can be trusted, and the dishonesty is another reason why we should do away with the electoral college and change to election by popular vote. With the election by popular, we are assured that there is fair play even though some of us may not get our voice heard completely.
People who are for the concept of the electoral college may argue other wise. For instance, in the article called, "In Defense of the Electoral College", the author argues that " The Electoral College despite its lack of democratic pedigree; all are practical reasons, not liberal or conservative reasons", meaning its idea of support. I believe the Electoral College is an overrated nor practical.
I am in favor of abolishing the electoral collage amd changing to election of by popular vote. With the system of election of popular vote, you will be sure that the system is fair,honest, and speakes the voices of the American people. As a sentor you should take the best interest of the American people to heart. | 4 |
This new technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable.
This technology is valuable because we can actually determine what or how someone is feeling. However making faces can reveal so much about the science of emotions. Alot of us human beings hide our emotions either because of what other people might think or because
you dont want them to feel empathy for you, which is feeling someone else's emotional state. There's also a big lack of human communication. For example, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," notes Dr.Huang."So computers need to understand that too."
Yes i know everyone is like how can we acually calculate our emotions or how can a computer recognize the facial movement that we use to express how we feel. I have prove from the article,"Making Mona Lisa Smile",...all 44 major muscles in the model(face) must move like human muscles." That detects whether its a human or not because of the muscles in our face. Even if we dont have the system just by looking at someone when they are sad there's a frown, when they're happy abviously a smile, etc.
The system and us humans can also tell the difference between a fake and a real meaningful smile. In the cite it states," In the real smile, the zygomatic(muscles that begin at your cheek bones) lift the corners of your mouth." And in a false smile,"..,the mouth is stretched sideways
using the zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risorius." Using this system would really benefit all of us in whether there's no communication then with the system you'll see why.
Another example would be the Mona Lisa Smile theres alot of emotions going on its a pretty confusing picture if you look at the details pretty closely, but just looking at her like this in the painting we see a smile and we just think that she is happy which in reality there's more than that being shown. In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", they used the system and these were the results,"she's 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry."
The system will show more than what we human beings believe a human's emotion or how they are feeling, thats why it is valuable. | 3 |
What would you do if you were left in ruins? Have you ever thought of being a Seagoing Cowboy?
Well here's your chance to be that person to help all those people that are left with nothing. A person that is a hero to those who need one.
Have you ever thought of helping someone who can't even help their own family? If you don't want to help them. You should be ashamed of yourself. Put yourself in their shoes. You would be starving, sleeping on the ground with no bed, you would have nothing to cover yourself with, and watching your family starve too.
Have you ever wanted to take care of a animal for a good cause? If you have you can become a Seagoing Cowboy. "Its better than having two jobs." Just think of taking care of the horses. You can feed them , and give them a baths , and even pet them all day.
Have you ever wanted to see the world? Is it to much to go places. Well know you can go for free. You can become a Seagoing Cowboy, and still see beautiful places. Where ever your going I bet they have something you would love to see." I had a side benifit of seeing Europe and China, but seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special."
So put yourself in a person who needs help. What would you do if that was you and your family that were left in ruins. You would have no money to even buy meat. So if you even give them one cow that means a lot to them.
What would you do if you always wanted to become a animal care taker, but you can't because you can't find one in your city. Well you can always become a seagoing cowboy, or girl.
Is it to much to go places. Well you can become a seagoing cowboy, and still see amazing places. Every courty has its beautiy. So if you wanted to become all these things. I think you should join me, and become a Seagoing Cowboy. | 2 |
I think that we should change from the Electoral College, to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Yes, the Elctoral College in good in some ways, but I believe the flaws it has out numbers the good things. When you vote you really aren't voting for the president but for a slate of electors, there was the 2000 fiasco, and there really isn't that many reasons to keep the current method of choosing our president.
According to the article "What is Electoral College?" The electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for the President and Vice President, and the counting of electoral votes by congress. So you really are'nt voting for the president but for a slate of electors. Elecotors can be anyone isn't holding a public office. Who is picked as the electors depends on the state. Sometimes there's state conventions, sometimes the state party's central committee, and sometimes the presidential candidates themselves. Voters can't control who the electors vote for and sometimes voters get confused about electors and vote for the wrong candidate.
There was also the 2000 fiasco that was the biggest election crisis in a century, and the system allows for much worse, according to "The Indefensible Electoral College:Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong." There have been a few occasions where "faithless" electors have refused to vote for their party's candidate and casted the deciding vote for whomever they pleased. Oh, and what happens if a state sends two state electors to Congress? According to "The indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" it happened it Hawii in 1960. Luckily, Vice President Richar Nixon, validated only his opponent's electors, but he made sure to do so "without establishing a precedent." But who's to say it won't happen again?
The Electoral College does have some goods things about it as well. It states those things in the article "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President." 1. There is always a Certainty of Outcome "A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible, but its less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. 2. It makes it Everyone's President."The Elecotral College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal." Which means no regions has enogh elecotrol votes to elect a president. 3. Swing states, "the winner-take-all method of awarding elecotral votes includes the candidates to focus their campaigns efforts on the toss-up states." 4. Big States, "The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the senate decreed in the Constitution" 5. It avoids run-off Elections, "Electoral College avoids the problem of electionsin which no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast."
Now, you can see why I think we should change from the College Electoral to election by Popular Vote. The Electoral Vote does have it's advantages but I think the many disadvantages that come with it outweigh those advantages.
When you vote you really aren't voting for the president but for a slate of electors, there was the 2000 fiasco, and there really isn't that many reasons to keep the current method of choosing our president. | 3 |
I think having a Facial Action Coding System in a classroom is very valuable. There are many positive outcomes to having it in the room with the children. It can help stusdent counselers for a school with this technology. It can help just about all the students in a school. I think this would be a very useful thing for a classroom.
How can it help in a classroom? Lets say a teacher noticed a student that was having a bad day or looked down in general. The teacher would then send them to a computer to use the Facial Action Coding System to help see how the student is feeling. The teacher can then send the student to a counseler to discuss how the student is feeling using the technology on the computer.
In paragraph 6, it said that the computer could recognize when a student is bored or confused with a lesson. If a student the best day, the computer would recognize it and the student can be helped out with his or her situation. Thats when the student would be sent to talk to someone about whats going on with them.
In couclusion, I strongly think that having a Facial Action Coding System in a classroom would be very useful. It can make a teacher and student counselers job 10 times easier. It may cost the school some money for the technology but it would be toatally worth it. | 2 |
"Facial Action Coding System" is a good thing for classrooms. FACS can help students understand what their encountering at school. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," thats how most kids are in a classroom. To find out how to better yourself by technology is a step forward. FACS can modify lessons like a human instructor.
FACS has six basic emotions-happiness, surprised, angery, disgusted, fear, and sadness. Its associated each with characteristic movements of he facial muscles.
Movement of one or more muscles is calloed an "action unit." Your frontails pars lateralis muscle (above your eys) raises your eyebrows when you're surprised; your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger.
The Mona Lisa description was to indicate a smile to your face, as it shows how much the computer can do. The computer knows whens your happy or sad, the FACS can make computer-animated faces more expressive for video games or video surgery. Each expression is compared against a neutral face. | 1 |
i believe that its actually okay to use this tecnology, because why not i mean to me it seem like all that its doing is scanning your face no harm done to you or anything.Most people would probaly belive that this device could seem
dangerous if they dont add enough details about it, but im getting off task from the topic of this essay so yeah. Yeah im for using this tecnology in school because the teacher could be able to tell
if just by looking at a computer to see if the class is instrested in the matarial the teacher is teaching. That way they will be able to change their plan of attack while trying to teach the class how to do the work. and there is just so many benifits with this teconolgy, teairler the artical said tha they could even be use to tell if someone like a major celebrity or politician is lying so just imagaing how far this teconolgy could go just by scanning you face to see how your feeling or even just to see if your lying all just from your faical expressions. | 1 |
Most of us are pretty curtain that we will still be driving cars regularly untill our granchildren have grandchildren. In reality most car manufactures are planning to change that by as early as 2020! They have been working very hard and constantly to bring us the products that they have now but that brings up questions .Are they safe to drive us on the road or if they are energy effeciant and cheaper than a regular car?
Believe it or not, Most car manufacturers have been working on self driving cars or "smarter cars" as said by General Motors since the late 1950s and programing and computing have came a long way since. The first idea was to make the cars run on Special tracks that had embedded electrical cables that sent radio signals to the cars receiver on the front of the end of the car.
now it is all programing as google has stated that They have driven driverless cars for more tham half a million miles without a crash.
Firstly most people are worried about how the car will react in different situations or how well the cars senses are. Google is using postioin estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, A video camera mounted near the rearview mirrow, Four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an internal motion sensor. These same cars have driven half a million miles without a crash so sensors are not a concern. The most important sensor of the car is the spinning sensor on the roof it has. It makes a constantly updating 3-D Model of the cars surroundings making the cars reactions to things it may not nessecarly be infront of importnat and key.
The cars are also much more energy effeciant than today's people driven cars, cutting fuel consumation in half, but self driving cars are not completly self driven. They will alert the person or let the person take the wheel if there is a road block or a potention hazard ahead.
They still need help from the human as computer judgement will never be as sharp as human judgement or decision, but for the most part the car can do most of the things a car needs to do on its own, tesla has a plan to release a car that is capable of more than 90% auto pilot mode on it.
So in conclusion the self driving car will come wether we like it or not but it will be a very good thing for the world. Little accidents have been caused by them and they are much more fuel efficent than regualr cars. They also have an alarm system to keep the driver alert at all times just incase he needs to take over the wheel, so need to worry about somthing going wrong as you have the choice to drive the car at any given time. | 3 |
The Seagoing Cowboys program. Why is it such a good program? I'm Luke Bomberger and I'm here to tell you why the program helps and why you should join. The Seagoing Cowboys program helps the world. Here are some reasons why the program is helpful. And, maybe why you would want to join.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy takes alot of time, but is an opportunity of a lifetime. I got to travel the world. I got to see Greece, China, Europe, and etc. And, the best thing is I got to help people and their countrys.
Also, something really cool is you still get to play the sports you like such as. Table-tennis, fencing, boxing, reading,and whittling. We played baseball and volleyball in empty animal holds to help pass the time. Last, being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure, it opened up the world for me.
In conclusion, the job may have been hard, but it was worth it. I got to give people hope again. I got to travel and see things I never thought I would have. That is why you should sign up for the Seagoing Cowboys program. Help the world through its hard times. Be a hero and help. Would you like to help and give hope? | 1 |
If I was arguing with some one that the face on mars was not real and that it was some thing that just happend on its own I think that it could go both ways and that it could of been an alien but it really just probly happend on its own.
We could argue and argue about this subject but if I was a scientist I would make a camera that could go farther and depper into mars outmasphere so we could see what was going on for some days to mounths to see what would happen if nothing happend then I would be right if we seen aliens there then he would be right.
But it would be alot easyer said then done to make that camera that can go that far into space to see that much for that long it would not be a easy task. But for the sack of seeing if aliens were real then it would be worth making to see if aliens are real or not. Because that would change every thing that we now about a different life force then use. It would blow up I would become famus nowing im the one that made the camera.
But I would also be famous if i was the one that found out that it was just a big joke and it was realy just like sand and rock. So there would not be a big comspeisy of it. And not even that i would prove that guy in the lab wrong that it is not even aliens that it is just sand and rock.
But It would be pretty cool to see aliens and we only seen this way back in 1976 I wonder how long it has been there it could be billions to only 40 years old. But i would get to work to see if i could build the camera to send to mars and see what was going on on mars. And if I was to build it and if it would work I would keep it there on mars untill it ran out of battries and if there was yto be nothing then I would be right but if there was to besomething then that guy from the lab would of been right.
But that is what i woud do if I was a sientist that worked for NASA abd there was a big argument about what it was then that is what I would do to see just make a camera to see which one was right me or the guy in the lab. Hopfully I would even be able to build that if i was a scientist that worked for NASA. | 1 |
In "The Challegenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despiote the danger it present. Even though the author knows the condition of Beus he suggest it anyway because tyhe author is drieven with curiosityThe author claim that Venus could once be a just like Earth today. The author also claim that Venus is Earth's "twin" making it closest to visit.
The author claim that scientists are so fascinated by Venus becuase it was it well have been the most Earth-like plant in our system. The author says that long ago Venus could've been cover with oceans and might have even support various forms of life. The author suggest that there are familiar feature on Venus to Earth right now such as: rocky surface, valleys, mountains, and crator. However, the author also stated that Venus conditions are far more extreme than anything humans can encounter on Earth.
The author also claim that Venus would be a good place to vist because of how close Venus is to Earth. Venus is call Earth "twin" along with Mars because of how close they are to each other. The author claim that this would be a good option for a planetary visit, given the crucial consideratin of the long time frames of space travel. Even though the average temperatures is to extreme, NASA are working to a solutuion to study Venus by humans.
In conclusion, the author suggest to visit Venus because Venus could very well have been the most Earth-like planet and because of how close Venus is to Earth. The author is driven with curiosity to gain an insight on Venus. The author consider the possiblelity of visiting Venus both safe and productive. Visting beyond should not be limited by dangers and doughts. | 2 |
In most cases computers help you with math or looking up an answer. But now a days computers are getting more advanced like being able to change a masterpeice made by
Da Vinci. That would be something that could draw the bored kids in. Even the confused student's who dont ask for help could beneifit from a more advanced technologly. Most lessons are drawn out and very long which makes me want to put my attenton else where, then what im post to be focused on. If a computer could recognize when I was confused or bored that would benifit me and my teacher.
That would put me in a better place of learning and being focused. If I and my fellow peirs was actully happy about learning I feel our mind would lock more stuff in. Sometimes it goes in one ear and out the other. But this wouldn't just help school students. This could be used to help a seller of a video game. When most people play games after while its not as fun. When the Facial Action Coding System enables the game can reboot itself to be more interesting and keep that person interested to buy and play more of that same game. Just like in school I would come back more ready then ever if I had something not boring to look forward to. Not even helping the every day life this could be a grate value to the discovery of the human muscles. Showing how your muscles in your face come together and make that facial expression. Like the example given in the story the Zygomatic major ( muscles that begin at youR cheek bones) lift the corners of your mouth. Using the computer you can find out what helps the cheecks rise up.
Im getting to off topic just wanted to show other ways that this coumputer can be helpful. The students would be more prepared for test and examines like iSTEP, SATS,and ECAS. if the lecture was more intersting to grasp the consept that is be taught to me or anyone. Like Dr. Huang said " faces don't lie" if my face expression is happy im locked into my studies and ready to learn. But if I'm bored I get right on my phone so can find that spark. I now by being a student other students feel this way this could make life so much easier to actully feel like you learned something today. So this more advancd computer will definitly help students and the work environment there in. | 2 |
The use of this technololgy towards students in a classroom, I think it is a good idea. If teachers found out how we feel or our face expressions to show them how we are feeling that day. I feel like it's a great idea, that way teachers and staff know if they are having a bad day or are in need of help. Some students in school can be stressed even over homework in the classroom or at home. Reading students facial expression and there feelings is good for the students and teachers, because the teachers can help there students and they can be happy.
In paragraph 6, it quotes "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." If the computer can figure out the students feelings and emotions, I most certainly think it's a good idea to have the Facial Action Coding System. This system can help every student there is in a classroom by having teachers make them happy or help them with something that they are having trouble with. Some students can be very sad and upset that this system can save someone's life. Usually you can notice someone's not having a good day or is having a good day by looking at there face. No one can find out if they are really sad inside with a small smile on there face, nobody can find out if something happened to them and they're hiding it. But with that system, teachers would be able to find out what is wrong with there students.
In paragraph 4, it quotes "Each expression is compared against a neutral face." When it comes down to the Facial Action Coding System, that would find out whether or not the students face expression is being sad, angry, happy and etc. No matter what the students face expression is or looks like. I feel as if this system would be greatly used in school's. It can save kids lives and help each and every one in the school and classroom's. | 2 |
I think the new Facial Action Coding could be true, because nowadays we have more technology. The 3-D computer model of the face could actually see our face expressions. Maybe it wont actually know what we feel inside like our mood. The Facial Action Coding update can just tell us if we have a annoyed,sad,mad etc face. Sometimes, people seem sad or mad but that's just their thinking or worried face.
If the technology of the Facial Action Coding System was that powerful ir smart to read students emotions, it would be good and cool. Teachers would actually know why there student is quiet or why they're not doing anything in class. My evidence is that " by weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions (as in da Vinci" masterpiece). Each expression is compared against a neutral face (showing no emotions). if you're really close with a friend or family member you'll know if their upset or not.
You see them everyday you already know how they are. The Facial Action Coding System would just study your face and tell you how you are. Whoever came up with that software and the emotional expressions came out wrong. Then, people wouldn't trust it anymore. When you smile and your cheek bones raise then that a real smile and a showing all your teeth.
Sometimes, when someone is really upset or don't want to be rude they can fake a smile that looks so realist. The software update also could follow is the student is bored or not knowing what to do. We honestly need that in all school. Some kids are always disrespectful or always getting in trouble, never doing work. The Facial Action Coding System would be so much help for everyone. The software update knew about the painting Monsa Lisa face expressions. | 2 |
A world of less pollution, less costly wages, reduced congestion on the roads, healthier ways to venture around, and less stress and danger. That would be a world with limiting car usage. May not seem like a rational idea but when you see all the good that could come out of the reduction of cars on the streets it could change your way of thinking.
A city in Germany by the name of Vauban, 70 percent of their families do not desire to have cars. Over half of the percentage of people had sold their cars just to move here. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way". Those were the words of a women by the name of Heidrun Walter who is a mother of two and is also a media trainer she finds bicycles and sound of children running about is a much more tolerant tone then the sound of a motor rolling by. The enviromentalists from the Enviromental Protection Agency favors the idea of car reduction. They stand for cars being limited would reduce pollution and be more friendly the mother earth. From the reduction of cars on the roads the congestion percent soared down a plump number of 60 percent. That's truely a magnificent amount.
I strongly believe that limitng the car usage would reduce death rates, reduce smog, put people in less tense moods keeping them more happy, and lastly reduce moeny going to greenhouse gas wages. More places worldwide should limit relying so much on cars, to allow us to function in daily life without them. | 2 |
I think they should make driverless cars but not all of them should be driverless they should just make some. I think people should have a choice of what they want and that would be way better. so peoeple don't complain about driverlesscars. But i do think that driverless cars are cool and is not a bad idea. There is alot of people that would like to have one.
They would help alot for people that can't drive so they would be way more helpful and i think there will be less car crashes. It wolud chnge alot but somtimes change is good and what if it makes this country better. In the passage it says that some companies are already thinking about making them by 2020. So i do think it's going to happen and i am really excited to see them and how they are going to work.
The future is here and we have to accept it i think it's for the best. And i guess we are going to see if they work out. I hope they do and i hope people love them. | 0 |
I think the United States should keep the Elector College because it consists the selection of the electors and the electors of where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of electoral votes by Congress. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. Majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Based under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College. You can help choose your state's electors when you vote for President, when you vote for your candidate you're actually voting for your candidate's electors.
The best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for pickng electors and could always defy the will of people. Perhaps the most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. At some type of level, the electoral college is unfair to some voters. If anyone has a good argument for putting the fate of the presidency in the hands of some swing voters in Ohio, they'll have to yet make it.
The electoral college is outdated, irrational, unfair, and its official. Best arguments in favor of mostly assertions without much basis in reality. The electoral college is regarded as an anachronism. Anachronism is a person or thing that seems to belong in the past and not to fit in the present. Advocates of this position are correct in arguing that the Electoral College method is not a democratic in a modern sense, its the electors who elect the president, not us (people).
There is pressure for run-off elections when there's no candidate that can win majority of the votes cast. No voters vote a nation election, also in that order about one-half the eligible American population did vote in 2012's election. The popular vote was in Florida. Other things being equal, a large state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than some other small states do. Almost some of the voters are likely to be the most thoughtful voters, on a average type of level, and most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election.
There are five reasons for retainng the Electoral College, despite of it's lack of democratic pedigree. Pedigree is the origin and history of something, when it is good or impressive. The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have transregional appeal. Electoral College restores some weight in the political balance that some of the large states lose by virtue of mal-apportionment of the Senate. The Electoral College avoid problems of elections in which no candidate receives majority of the votes. Sometimes it can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a type of candidate who has no hope of carrying their state. Some voters in presidential elections are people that want to express a political preference rather then people who's thinking a single vote may decide on an election. | 1 |
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