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In the article Unmasking the Face on Mars the face is just a natural landform. The reason this is is because there has been things found like this before. Another is that there is no solid proof that the landform was made by aliens. A third reason is that the people that got the rumor started about all of this are conspiracy theorists.
There has been things like this found in space before. In the article the author states that the sensation of finding the landform was short lived because scientists figured it was just another mesa. Since the scientist said another that means there has been things like this found before. If there has been others found before why is this one so special. The scientist state that they were not actually consstructed there.
Besides that there is actually no solid proof that this landform was made by aliens. That is just an opinion. The fact that it looks lika face is the only reason people believed that the landform was made by aliens. Nobody has ever actually been on mars to investigate this landform and prove that it was made by aliens. The only things we have of it are just pictures. So that means that there is no solid proof that the landform was alien made.
The people that came up with the rumor are conspiracy theorists. That means that the thought of this landform being alien made is just a conspiracy theory. A conspiracy theory is just a buch of bits and pieces of infromation that the theorist put together and think is suppost to mean something. These bits and pieces of infromation are put together even if they didn't happen in chronological order. That means that all a conspiracy theory is is an edjucated guess. Once again that also means there if no solid proof about it.
All three of those reasons go along with the fact that the face looking landform in space is not alien made. All of the rumor about this landform beging alien made are just guesses and theories. With that being said I hope that now people will stop believing everything that people say about this subject unless they have solid proof that what they are saying is true. | 3 |
Over many years, technology has become more and more advanced. Some of this technology has become so far that it can now detect human facial expression and determine what emotion they are expressing. This technology is called Facial Action Coding System (FACS) technology, and it enables computers to identify human emotions. This technology can have a positive impact in school classrooms today. FACS can help improve the way students learn in schools, they way teachers teach their students, and most simportantly, help teachers detect when a student is feeling confused.
One of the main positive impacts FACS can have in reading emotional expressions of students in a classroom is improve the way students learn. FACS can scan the facial expressions of the students in the classroom and determined if the majority of the students are confused by the leasson the teacher is teaching. FACS could then modify the lesson in a way that students can understand it and the teacher can then further clarify the lesson the way FACS shows it. As stated in pargraph six, "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instrctor", this shows how FACS can help teachers in the way they teach. This could also explain to teachers how to clarify even more the lesson to students that may be going through hard times.
Another way FACS can have a great impact in schools all around the country is by improving the way teachers teach their classrooms. FACS can detect many expressions on students in a classroom. It can detect whether a student is perplexed by lesson or simply just bored. FACS can detect which students in the classroom are bored by analazing their facial expressions. As stated in pargraph six, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". FACS can then provide the teacher many ways in which they can make the lesson more interesting so that students can comprehand it better and in a more fun way.
The last way in which FACS can greatly improve the teaching environment in schools is by recognizing when a student is depressed or sad. FACS can detect facial expressions on students faces and determine if they may be going through trouble or are depressed. As stated on pargraph six, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication". FACS could recognize when a student is not okay so that teachers can the help those students who may need help, wether that is emotional help or help with school work. FACS could even help save lifes by getting help to students who may be contemplaiting suicide.
In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System can be extremely valuable to schools all around the world. This computer system can help teachers improve the way they teach their classrooms by analazing students' emotional expressions towards a certain lesson. It can help teachers by modifying their lessons in sich a way so that students are not bored or confused by it. Lastly, it can help teachers know which students may be going through hard times and help those who need help. | 4 |
It is not a face. As you can tell in the picture, it clearly resembles a face, but there are a lot of facts to show that it is not. First, they have updated images showing it is a rock formation, just like here on Earth. Second, if it could prove aliens once lived, or currently live on Mars, then NASA would not hesitate to publish it. The Mars face is only a natural rock formation.
There are newer images proving it is a rock. With our growing technology we sent spacecrafts close to Cydonia, and they show rock formations. This rock formation is much like what we have on Earth. The shadows cast upon the rock, giving it facial features. On a different day, those shadows are not there.
Why would NASA keep this a secret? NASA would thrive from finding alien lifeforms. Why would they keep that private. As the story states, " Defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars." They want that, because their budget would increase and they could do better projects if they had published it.
Nerws articles claimed it was a rock formation long before any conspiracy theories were out. Soon, after the second shot of it, scientists proved it was just another rock formation that resembles many we have here on Earth today.
Even though the photos look like they have facial features, and could be the remains of an ancient alien civilization, it is not. Some facts to back it up are that NASA would not hide something this benefitual to them from the public, scientists have proven it was made naturally by rock, and better resolution photos prove that it is just a rock formation with shadows showing facial features. In Mars' revolution the sun does not always cast a shadow on it, and that is why the features do not always show up, proving that the Mars face is just another face in conspiracy history. | 3 |
Hello everything i am PROPER_NAME we will be start talking about how technology should not be used in today's work as right now.
So I will be explaining why first then secondly after that i going to be talking about reaons . Okay I yall enjoy this paragraph i written it from my head put alot of compassion inside of this.
Alright so why should student's should be allowed to have technology.Okay so there is many reasons why i think we should have alittle of technology in our time as right now.But most importantly the resources that we will be able to use for information.To find good article facts about a pacfific topic on a good reseach.Why dose 95 % of the world use technology for because of social media if social media wasn't even alive right now there would be no more usage of the devices that the world have as our time today.But most people don't realize that not having technology now days could have impacted Amercian's too be more worried about there love ones.Althought people could just use not alot of the usage of phones and laptop's and computers etc. This time of age little kids even use more technology than adults do just because of the games have been made on the devices.The reason why people use much technology cause now days there are more outbreaks on social media like how billy Graham died they sent a whole tweet about it the news got big on social media. I can see why half of the reaons why people use technology much as for there work and jobs they have to look up research about stuff ordering different types of things so they can have the right enought things that they wanted to get on a website.But most people don't realize you can just do that and also not use as much technology most kid's don't even interact with one another they always text there friends on a apps like snapchat ,instagram facebook and including messager on apple phones and samsung phone's .They just text there friend's and say you want hang out at my house but they don't realize half of Amercians don't get there home work done in school just because of the technology we have now day's half of school in my class be on there phone 24/7 they don't even pay any attention to most of the teachers that trying to benefit them to have a nice good decent edcuation and including how they listen to music while a teacher trying to get there attention to answer a question that we a learning in class so i think people should not be allowed to have technoloy in school or out of school.
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he had did good about ut he did good going to venas would be good so most people would want to take a trip there it is way to hot to be up there by your self as well as if your with ah group of people as well but the good thing about it is that you can have an exsperance to do somthing like you better do it it would not be good to miss out the had sent a rovor up there to see how things are going to work out as well also people are want to go there but yet it is 300 times more hot then earth its self as well..that is not many people have really been up to venus..also venus is a very rockey place also you can find metels there as well and last but not least yes to get to venus is a long space traval to get there it takes up to 6 years as well. and mars earth venus are all lined up right next to each other as well. | 0 |
Limiting car usage has many advantages. The most important advantage is reducing pollution. Vehicles emit greenhouse gasses from their tailpipe. "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse has emissions in Europe.... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States", as said in source one,
In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars.
One of the main reasons the pullution is so bad in Europe is because of the diesel fuels. According to Reuters, "Diesels make up 67 percent of vehicles in France, compared to 53.3 percent average in the rest of Western Europe. Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter, Brussels had 114, and London had 79.7. The numbers show that there is a direct correlation between the percent of diesel used, and the amount of pollution in an area.
Limiting car usage also helps cities grow. In Bogota, 118 miles of bicycle paths were constructed. Along with parks and sports centers blooming up, side walks have been replaced. Even new restraunts and shopping districts have been built. And on top of all this, traffic has been majorly reduced. As said in the exerpt,
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota , "These people are generating a revolutionary change."
Not only does reducing the amount of cars help the enviornment, it's better for your health. Pollution doesn't only affect the environment, it also damages the body. As the air gets polluted by greenhouse gas emissions, you breath in that air. And that contaminated air is the same contaminated air that is being cycled throughout our body. On top of that, reducing the usage of vehicles would force you to find a new way to get to your destination. You might resort to walking, jogging, bike riding, skating, or anything else you could think of. Limiting car usage would force you to excercise, which is obviously very beneficial to one's health.
Another advantage of limiting vehicle usage is the money that would be saved. Limiting vehicle usage would result in not buying gas as often. And as expensive as gas can get, that would would be a lot of money saved. If you went as far as selling your vehicle, there's even more money that you would benefit from.
So there are many advantages that result from limiting vehicle usage. For one, it reduces pollution, which is bad for the enviornment, as well as our health. Secondly, it would force us to excercise more. And lastly it would save us a lot of money. | 3 |
The Facial Action Coding System is it useful? Yes, it would be useful because people might be able to be into things that they would probably get board with. Students may finally be willing to learn stuff on thier own instead of being forced to learn something they are not intrested in. this can all come true if we make the facial action coding sytem available to stores around the world.
The Facial Action Coding System is a program that can read a person's emotions. When a person is frustrated the program can alter the screen to help the person better understand something or to help them become less frustrated. This program can also inform a teacher that a student does not understand what they are doing. This also can help the teacher do his or her job better. the advnced science at the university of illinois working in colaboration with prof are developing better ways for humans and computers to comunicate.
This program is able to help read emotions and determines what a person is feeling. It does this by reading complex algorithms that were also used to decode mona lisa's smile. This program picks up the smallest details like when you raise the corners of your lips. Also it can pick up when you squint your eyes you produce a wrinkle called crowsfeet at the croners of you eyes.
This program should be available to stores world wide because it could create a solution to much confusion and frustration. This program could make people want to learn stuff. Also this program can be cool and fun for people to try. Another thing would be that Ferinsics caan use this to tell what people are feeling and determine if the are nervous about somthing or not. | 2 |
Luke is trying to convice people to be in the Seagoing Cowboys program by saying cool things that he does. For example: he is saying that he toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to china. He also said that he finds time to have fun on board. some games they played were baseball, vollyball, Table tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, and whittling.
Luke got to vist different places and he got to go to 16 different places. Luke also got to go to the Atlantic Ocean. Luke also liked to see the animals. He would always go visit the animals and feed them. Another thing luke would do is help people that got hurt during the War.
So those are a lot of fun things that luke did. He also did a lot of good things. Like feed animals, take them from one place to another, and help people that got hurt in the War. Luke shared all those fun and good things that he did to convice others to participate the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 1 |
Driverless cars may be modern and use half of what todays taxis use . Yet they are not truly driverless, they still alert the driver to take over in certain conditions , for example pulling in and out of drive ways or driving through road work or accidents. Which brought them to the idea of embedding streets with an electrical cable that sends radio signals to a reciever on the front and end of the car , which is stated in the passage. These smart road systems worked well but require massive upgrades to existiing roads , which is simply too expensive. So with out the smart roads a whole lot of sensors are needed on the car , one specific sensor is the special touch sensor which makes sure that the driver keeps their hands on the wheel at all times . Besides that there is also seats that viberate to alert the driver and flashing lights on the window shields , which would add on to the price of a car. Also stated in the passage that so far none of the cars are completely driverless. They can steer , accelerate and brake themselves but they still notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills . This means the human driver must be alert and ready to take over at all time. Which might not always happen , a driver may not always be attentive of the road ahead even with alerts included in the car. Which brings up the case of a drivers, passengers , and pedestrians saftey , and lawmakers know that saftey is best achieved with alert drivers , which is stated in the passage. Traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. Infering to why in most states it is illegal even to test computer driven cars. Yet even if traffic laws change , new laws willl be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. If an accident were to occur due to the technology failing , who is to blame the driver or the manufacturer. | 0 |
I believe that the face on Mars is just a natural landform because NASA says it looks like it was formed by shadows giving the illusion eyes, nose, and a mouth, and because they say there was no alien monument after all, also because the picture actually means something else.
NASA says that it looks like it was formed by shadows giving the illusion eyes, nose, and a mouth. I believe this shows that it is not something created by aliens it is just simply a natural landform.
NASA also says that there was no alien monument after all because as a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital 3 times bigger than the pixel size, so if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyrimids or even small shacks you would be able to identify what they are.
What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa. Landforms common around the American west. It reminds scientist Jim Garvin most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. He also says that it is a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars.
This is why i believe that the Face on Mars is not somthing created by aliens it is simply just a natural landform because the shadows give it the eyes, nose, and mouth, Also because there is no alien monument after, and because the picture actually means something else.
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I feel that the use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not very valuable. Even though I feel that this new way of technology is pretty cool. I don't think that it is something that is really needed in a classroom.
In paragraph six Dr Huang predicts that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or boerd,- Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instuctor". This may help the instructor greatly with teaching, and being able to know how their students are feeling. But, I think that as a teacher you should be asking questions, and making sure that the material you are teaching is being understood by all your students. And if it is not, you should find a way to help your students understand. You shouldn't depend on technology when, it is your job to know when the students are becoming boerd or confused. So, that you can make your classroom a better learning environment for everyone in the classroom.
Sometimes even though it may not be the best thing to do, students like to keep in their emotion of how they are feeling and don't want the entire classroom to know it. This new way of technology could be a great addition to a classroom for experiments once in awhile, but shouldn't be a major part of the classroom. | 2 |
BOOM! CRASH! BANG! "911, what's your emergency?" "HELP! we've been in a terrible accident, please get here fast!"Sirens and horns is what you hear after a terrible car crash. By limiting car usage, we could prevent less car accidents/traffic jams, pollution/greenhouse gas and we can get more exercise.
To begin with, pollution and the greenhouse effect are really bad to the environment. Car exhaust and other gases are a big contributor to that. How do we do something to help that people ask? Well you can drive less and maybe walk or ride a bike. It will limit so many big issues if you just dont drive as much. Source 3, paragraph 24 business man, Carlos Arturo Plaza says "It's a good oppertunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." You know what he did after he said that? He rode away in a 2 seater bike with his wife. Thats a business man, and even he doesn't have a problem riding his bike to work with his wife. You can do so much to save the earth. You, can make a difference. You don't have to be the hero, but you can sure do your part to help save the day.
In comparison, car accidents? They are the absolute worst. It not only affects 1 car but it could affect 2 or 3. Maybe even more. Limiting car usage could prevnt so many accidents and that means no more hospital visits. Source 2, paragraph 4 says "Congestiion was down 60% in the capital of Frnce after 5 days of intensifying smog." That means that there was 60 percent less traffic jams and accidets in 5 days! That's an amazing improvment. I always wished that people couldn't get hurt or that I could save someones life, so that what I will try to do. Drive less, or drive only when it's needed. Don't leve your car running. A big negative is don't speed and watch all around you. You can prevent killing someone, not just that, but you can decrease the amount of accidents that can happen. Don't make an asamine choice and drive because you feel like it. Help save this earth. It's really all we have left.
Lastly, you can get more exercise. Riding a bike and walking is a great source of exercising. Everyone always talks about how obeseity is a big problem well this can decrease the amount of body weight you have and you wont put gases into the air. That's 2 problems solved in 1. There are so many things you can do to solve this issue and these are only a few. I see a lot of people riding bikes or walking to school. Teachers especially which shows you that they arent always asking teenagers or new drivers to do it. Don't be the reason the earth is getting worse. Be the reason its getting better.
In conclusion, pollution is bad and so are accidents. But there is always a soulution to the madness. You yourself can make a change. This earth can't take care of itself, it needs your help, so help it. Limiting the usage of your car is a great start. Yes, cars are great and they get you from point A to point B and they can warm you up when it's cool outside or cool you down when its hot, those are all true statements and that's fine it really is. Just limit it and things will start to get a lot better, trust me. It all starts with one person willing to make a change and that person can be you. | 3 |
Have you ever thought a computer could tell how people are feeling? I never thought that a computer could detect how people are feeling until I read about this new technology called Facial Action Coding System. I think this new technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because a teacher could tell if you were confused or bored and people can tell how you are actually feeling.
I think this new technology to read the emotional expression s of students of students in a classroom is valuable because a teacher can tell if you are confused or board. In the article, the author states that "then it could modify the lesson, like an efective human instructor". I believe this is true because it could help the teacher know who doesn't understand what they are teaching. It could also tell the teacher who needs it explained in a different way to help them understand it better. Having technology that can tell if a student is confused or board would have value becasue it could help teachers know which of their students are understand what they are teaching and which ones aren't.
I think that this new technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because people can tell how you are actually feeling. In the article, the author states that "there are six basic motions-hapiness, surprise, anger, disguest, fear, and sadness. I believe this is true because those are the basic emotions that people show. If we use this technology, then other students will know how their friends and teachers are feeling. It could also help students know if another student is upset about something that they said. Having technology that can tell how someone is actually feeling would have value because it could help students know how their friends and teachers are feeling.
I really believe that this new technology would have value because teachers could know if a student is confused or bored over what they are teaching and it could help people know how you are actually feeling. This could help teachers know who needs help with what they are learning in class. It could also help students know how you are actually feeling. | 2 |
The smile of the Mona Lisa has
eluded people for centuries. The slightly smug look suggests an
emotion that not many people can detect. Luckily, there appears to be a software that can detect one's emotion based off of the facial movements one makes.The software was developed by Dr. Huang of the Beckman Institute, and there could be so many uses that this technology could be applied to. One such example is the classroom, where teachers will know when a student is becoming confused or bored. However, one must ask the questions that this technology brings. In essence, this software is not useful, applicable or effective inside of the classroom because of the cost of the software, the intrusion of privacy, and a host of other problems. Computing technology could have the ability to be useful inside of the classrom, just not this kind.
The first point that would make teachers unsure is the cost of the software. In the article, there is no mention of the cost of the newly developed software. There are numbers, indeed, but they are simply percentages or single numbers. Based on what the article said, one could assume that the cost of this technology would be high. This would not be a very effective tool for an average American school, but the tech could be applied to richer schools or universities.
Secondly, the software is an intrusion of privacy in the school. Although most public schools are indeed public places where civilians expose themselves, it also has a private element to it. Think of it as a small shard of individuality and alone time, like when one is at lunch. The software, if mounted on a camera or a tripod, would be able to observe every single student and every emotion in the room. Schools do need safety, indeed , but the use of this technology in an academic situation just seems proposterous. An alternative use would be to use this technology in hospitals, where nurses could percieve the emotion of patients, and whether they are in pain or not.
Although the technology developed by Dr. Huang and his colleagues is certainly impressive, the use of it in a school enviroment seems odd and misinformed. Schools are still meant to be relatively private places where people can feel safe and secure. The costs of this technology is unknown, but it is likely that it is not cheap. Artificial intelligence is meant to be used as efficiently as possible, and although scientists do have free reign on what they use this software for, applying it in schools is not the best way to make use of it. | 3 |
There is alot of advantages to limiting cars. Is there disadvantages? Yes, there is, but limiting cars can also be dangerous, well because the Law Enforcements needs cars and so does the Fire Department or even hospitals. The Law Enforement needs cars to catch criminals faster, and the Fire Departments need cars so they can save us from fires and to save cats from trees, how do they even climb up there? who knows, and the hospital needs them to save patients or to get them to the hospital faster so doctors can save them, but i personally think its a great idea to have limited cars.
First of all alot of people would lose their jobs due to limited cars, such as mechanics, car dealers, etc. mechanics will go out of business because of no business and so will the car dealers, and if cars dealers dont sell many cars, the company might go out of business too, but its good because they might think of building better cars like the hybrid so we wont have much pollution or wont have to use natural gas. In the suburbs of Germany 70 percent of Vauban's families dont own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move there. "when i had a car i was always tense. Im much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter a resident in the suburb.
Another advantage is that it is much more peaceful and quiet. "the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor" this sentence from the "Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" explains that it is very peaceful because theres no noise, no pollution and much more healthier people because they ride bikes everywhere and walk alot, and theres no pollution so theres probably people who dont have breath in nasty air of cars. Even the Environmental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities, and legislators are even starting to do the same.
People that have no cars most likely walk alot and ride bikes, or even run, well because of that the amount of stress people have is probably very low, because of low stress people are happier, and thats because excersize relieves stress and even reduce headaches or other health problems. Even the death rate will go decrease because there will less car accidents, and car accidents are the numer one reason of death and the United States. In Bogota they were in their third year where cars were banned but only buses and taxis were permitted for the Day Without Cars in this capital city of 7 million. Their goal is to promote alternative tranportation to reduce nasty smog and violators faced a $25 fines, the turnout of this was large, despite the gray clouds that dumped occasional rain showers. "The rain hasnt stopped people from participating," said the Mayor of Bogota
In conclusion the advantages of limited cars are great and the people of Car-less cities or areas are much happier without them, people are healthier, less stressed and even have less health problem due to it, but who will save the cats from climbing trees? maybe they wont climb it because of no pollution or scary car noises. | 2 |
A new piece of technology, the Facial Action Coding System, has been developed and is helping with the learning the emotions of others. Some may say that this technology should not be used in classrooms because it invades the students' privacy. However, finding the emotions of students in classrooms could help teachers with what kind of lessons to prepare and finding out potemial problems that students had. The ability to read the emotions of students in classrooms could be extremely valuable.
Some may argue that having the emotions of students read in class would be a bad idea. If the school could find out what their students were feeling with a computer program, the students may be unhappy with the idea that their school was observing their feeling. In paragraph 8 of the article, the author states, "faces don't lie". If teachers used this technology, they could know the emotions of students even if students tried to hide it. In this way, students could feel as though the school is invading their privacy by finding out emotions that they want to keep hidden. Their emotions can be tied to their thoughts. In most cases, people consider their no one else should be able to know their thoughts and emotions without the person's consent. Some argue that reading the emotions of others will be an invasion of privacy.
Teachers using the knowledge of students' emotions could be helpful in a classroom. If teachers know how students are reacting to different assignments, they could alter the worksheets to make the students more interested and understand what they are learning better. Also, if a computer can understand the emotions of children that are using it, the computer can change the material to aid in the learning. The article states, "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" and "it could modify the lesson". Teachers being able to help students better understand what they are being taught is just one of many benefits to using the Facial Action Coding System in classrooms.
The knowledge of students' emotions could be beneficial to schools. If teachers could figure out the emotions of students, they teachers could potentially find and help students that are suffering with problems. The author states, "faces don't lie". Knowing what is truely going on with students by using this program could help the teacher recognize if a student is struggling with anxiety or stress. Students with anxiety and stress could potentially have suicidal thoughts or actions. By identifying this problem, teachers could get help for the student and help prevent the death of an innocent life. The article also states, " moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them". The teachers could additionally do exercises with students to reduce their stress levels. The technologies like the Facial Action Coding System could help teachers know about students' anxiety and prevent harm to the students.
Though some say there could be several issues with using technology to read emotions in classrooms, there are many more benefits than issues. The system could modify the learning style to one that suits the individual student and could help teachers learn of problems the student has. Using technologies like the Facial Action Coding System to help read students' emotions could be an important asset for schools. | 4 |
The electoral college is our countries way of voting, but we need to change that and what i mean by that is that i think we need to have our voting system on the peoples popular vote, for many reasons first off, easy to comprehend you dont have to be nervous and accedently vote on someone different you can obviously see who your voting on. secondly, president can win just by popular vote and not worry about the electoral college votes.
To start off, the electoral college is confusing when i first learned about it i could barely understand, but when your voting on a president you dont have to worry about voting on the wrong person because you vote and your states vote is different. also when you vote by poular vote you chboose who you want to be president and not worrying about your states vote. also theyr'e aren't any hassels involved like understanding how the electoral college works. also the vote that you cast can not be who you wanted due to the elctoral college because you cast a vote on the electors and they vote which isn't fair to the people because they could vote for someone toltally different then what you wanted.
In addition, the nominees for president now can get popular vote and still loose which isn't fair to the people and the nominee because he can get tricked and the people do to which is cruel. also if if i was a nominee i would wrather win by a popular vote becacuse it means the people get to vote for who they wanted instead of a elector and it means the people really wanted me as a president so it shows that they wanted me and that i win by there election vote. now instead of that we have a system to where i could be running and get popular vote and loose which is cruel and unright to the people cause it means they wanted me.
To conclude, the elctoral college is our countries way of voting but i would wrather have the president win by popular vote because first, easy to comprehend and you get who you wanted to vote for. secondly, you dont have to worry about winning popular vote then loose cause you didn't win electoral vote. | 2 |
Have you ever wondered whst it'd be like to always have a ride to places? The thought of one person sitting in a car alone and not having to drive to reach their destination sounds pretty luxurios to me. Ther have been, and will always be debates over the existance of driverless cars. Everyone knows that, in a car, safety is always the most important thing. I honestly believe that driverless cars can be made safe if they aren't already, and they should most definately be seen on the road in a few years.
Like I stated earlier, safety is the most signifigant quality in an automobile. as stated in passage number nine, "most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passangers, and pedestrians safe". I'm pretty sure most of the manufacturers making these driverless cars are aware of this also. The googlr cars have been driving themselves since 2009 without an accident. The thing is mainly that the driver should still be alert, and ready to take over in a dangerous situation. Manufacturers are working towards this problem being solved in a few years.
Also, these self driven cars would use less fuel. In passage number one, it states that google founder Sergey Brin forsees driverless cars using half the fuel of today's taxis. This would make the automobile more efficient, and economical. I hear people everyday complaining about not being able to go places, because of the lack of fuel they are able to afford. Well if half today would be full in the future, than what is there to worry about. Go out, have fun, do as you please.
Lastly, but most definately not least, with driverless cars it would be almost impossible to get lost. In driverless cars there would be an internal GPS that knows where it is going. Also, constant updates would notify of any roadwork or detours. The possibility of just typing an address, and just relaxing as you go about your driverless trip certainly sounds satisfying. The endless road trips and vacations would be fantastic.
In my closing, driverless cars in afew years could become safer than human skilled driving. Having to pay less for gas is always a good thing, and never getting lost in places you don't know makes you more confident to go more places. Driverless cars can really change the world with all of the ideas and things that come along with them. The possibilities are endless, and simply fantastic. I almost can't wait to see what can happen in just a few years. | 3 |
Those pictures you see aren't pictures of aliens and they are not prints that show that aliens have been through. In 1976 the Face on Mars picture was taken, but when it was taken the camera was through some clouds, so when it took the picture it was probably some shadow of the clouds. It even says the when this picture was taken it was a cloudy day "it was winter in April '98 a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet."
The picture could just be some dust that has moved around a bunch of time at had made a face figure out of the dust and debre. The pictures also look different over time which was probably the dust and sand moving it all around. Plus there are really strong and heavy storms almost every single night at mars. so the dust, sand, and rocks are flying every where so that can cause disfiguer to anything. So before you jump to conclusion about it being aliens you should know more facts about what happens in mars on a day to day basis. | 1 |
While having a computer adapt to your emotional state, whether it be bored and change to some activity that's more fun. The usefulness is still not there for computers to read students' emotional expressions because a lot of school work could be boring and tedious, but it does not change the fact that we still have to do the work. If computers were doing the job of teachers they would lose their jobs. Even if we could know exactly what a student was feeling, are we sure we would want to know? That would be almost like stripping away ones privacy and individualism. Using computers to read students' emotional expressions should not be used.
The purpose of education is not to be more fun than productive, the use of this technology could help students' focus, but at the end of the day the work is still inevitable. Being angry can only be helped by something you like and I'm sure you would not like to be doing math homework made fun. Until proven effective, this technology should not be applied just yet. Teachers should work on the energy in their classrooms; therefore, getting better results out students. According to the text, "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." In that case we really don't need any help to tell how a fellow friend or student is feeling.
Sometimes students are best left to themselves. Knowing everything about how they are feeling and when could feel pretty invading. Although a computer being able to adapt to a students emotion would be cool, is that technology really neccassary? According to the text, "...it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." If teachers would only work on being 'effective' then we wouldn't all of these shenanigans.
Students should be surrounded by positivity when they come to school. For that any student should be willing to work and enjoy the process. Coming to school should not feel like we're being read ourselves as if we were an assignment. What if this type of technology malfunctions? What if a student does not really feel the way the computer is saying it does? Getting accused or feeling accused could sometimes trigger a bad emotion in some students.
Consequently, the use of this technology has no classroom value. Can a computer tell how we all think and learn? As a substitute for a teacher, this technology could never be as useful as a teacher who can fully comprehend what a student is having trouble with. We need more advancements in technology in order for a computer to think and act like a teacher would. Although technology seems to be very ahead of its time, we still have a long way to go. | 3 |
You should be a seagoing cowboy because it is an adventure because you, get to go to diffrent places.Another reason why you should be a seagoing cowboy is because you get to see diffrent people and diffrent countries.In the text it states that being a seagoing cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger.The text also states that the cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling,and games also helped pass the time.That is why you should become a seagoing cowboy that rides the waves. The other reasons why you should be a seagoing cowboy is because you get to see new oceans.You also get to se other islands that you never seen before.Being a seagoing cowboy helps you get more aware of how other people need help to. The text states it made me more aware of people of other countries and his family to host a numbeer of international students and ,exchange visitors for many years. When you are a seagoing cowboy you get sail on a boat alote.The other reason why you should become a seagoing cowboy is because when you are a seagoing cowboy,you can make people lives better by helping them.Getting to be a seagoing cowboy helps you change it makes, you want to do better things for other people.The text states he knew it was an opportunity of a life time. | 1 |
If you thimk it is a alien civilisation you are mistaken. If you think it is where is the evadence like houses. I think it is a natural land like we have here on earth. It can be an astriod hiting the earth or it could very well be a mountain like we have on earth. Another thing i think it could be is an un earupted valcanneo like an other thing we have on earth. Also it can be where the inside of the planit has bin pushed out to cause a natural land form. There can also be other things it can be. The people that think that it is an alien civilisation they have to back there rason up with a lot of information and very detaild information to get me on there side. Even then I probibly wont believe them it would have to be a very low chance i would take there side. | 1 |
- In the passage "Driverless Cars are Coming," explains how Google cofounder Sergey Brin invented driverless cars for the future. I feel like the safest way to get around is cars with drivers in control. I say that because the passege says 'the car will send an alert to the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents,' but what roadblocks lie ahead for the autonomous car? - Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe and I understand that but would we all be safe with a driverless car? I say no because if there's no driver there's no control and if this world didn't have contol it would be nothing but madness and we don't need that. These "driverless cars'' aren't safe that's why they're illegal to even test in California, Nevada, Florida, and the district of Columbia. Manufactures believe that more states will follow as soon as the cars are proved more reliably safe.- What if the car gets into an accident and you or someone else is injured? Would you think it's you fault or the manufacturer's fault? -Automakers are still continuing their work on the ''assumption'' that the problems ahead will be solved, but there shouldn't be no problems because they keep testing them right and said the cars can drive more than half a million miles without a crash so why should there be a problem? - The passage also says "new laws would have to be passed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident."
Laws are getting passed everyday like Gay marrage and legallizing marijuana but driverless cars are simply not safe at all and that is my final opinion. Even though the last paragraph of the passage says "Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time." I feel like that 90 percent is the percentage of danger the car will cause and the other 10 percent is the safest because the driver is in control. This is why I feel driverless cas shouldn't be released in the future. | 1 |
Studying Venus can be a worthy pursiut despite the dangers. Venus is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky and the nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. It is also the second plant from our sun. '' Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely.''
Studying Venus may despite the dangers it presents but it also is a worthy pursuit because scientists are still discussing futher visits to its surface even if it is inhospitable. In the text it states'' Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us.'' This shows that it is worthy because of the reputatation and is great to study for. The text also states'' Astronomers are fascinated by Venus becuase it mat well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system.'' This shows that the planet surface is a good planetary visit and its mission is safe and scientifically productive.
The dangers of Venus may include the surface temperature, its high pressure and heat, the erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes. In the text it states'' researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance. Therefore scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks.'' It will be a challenge but the researchers are working on innovaitons that would allow the machine to last long enough to contribute to there knowlegde of Venus.
Even though Venus had its dangers it still strives to meet the challenge becuae it has its value and it also will human curiosity will likely lead us into mant equallt intimidating endeavors. This is why scientists are still willing to study Venus because it is worthy even though it has its dangers and is inhospitable. | 2 |
Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because it is one of our planets in orbit, and also is the closet planet to us. Like in paragraph 2 " Venus is the closet palnet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closet in distance. Even astronomers are fascinated becuase Venus could have been like earth covered with various life forms like earth.
Venus is still a dangerous planet like how its describe in paragraph 3 " A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets" which is very dangerous and also havs degrees up to 800 Fahrenheit. and atmosphere pressure 90 times greater than ours. "These conditon are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth". Venusian geology also say that the weather is very extreme, with bug earthquakes, erupting volcanoes, and alot of lighting which destroy probes tryning to land.
Venus and Earth do share simalarities. Like in paragraph 4 " Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth. Venus also has features like earth with rocky features mountains, valleys, and even craters. They even said " Furthermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a plantary visit".
Venus is dangrous but scientist are still trying ideas to examine it. Like on paragraph 6 " scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks". Venus could be examined by a ship hovering safely up above the planet but only little sight becuase the light can get through down to the crust which means no standard froms or video are getting through.
Venus is a planet that can be landed on soon. Like in paragraph 6 "Many reaserchers are working on innovation that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus". Scientist are still working on landing probes safely on Venus. Lik on paragraph 7 " some simplified electronics made of silicon caarbide have been tested in a chanber simulating the chaos of Vensus's surface lasted for three weeks in such condtions. The next step scientist are going to do is use old technolgy used during World War 2. These machines used to caculate gears and does not involve eletronics.
Venus is worth trying to explore. If we can get to explore Venus crust imagine the more we can do. Like on paragraph 8 " human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors.". There will be more dangers planets in the beyond other than Venus which is why we should thrive and explore Venus. | 2 |
the article, Making Mona Lisa Smile, the author describers how a new technology called the facial action coding system enables computers to identify, human emotion the university of amsterdam, Dr. huang and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for human and copmputers to communicatre. a computer recognize the subtle facial movements we human use to express we feel. the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the the face, all 44 major musclues in the model must move like human muscles.
the new emotion, recognition softwere track these facial movements in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa, the different unit, thte softwere can even identify mixed emotion, each expression is compared against a neutral face showing no emotion. the humans perform this same impressive every day. for instance, we can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face. us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, that artist such as da vici studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotion.
his new computer softwere stores similar anatomical information as electronic code. perharps Dr. huang emotion algorrithmms are different sort of "Da Vinc code" the Mona Lisa demonstration is really internded to bring a smile to thet're face, while it shows just how much this computer can do. a computer that knows when they're happy or sad. if they're smile when a web ad appears on they're screen, a simily ad might follow, but if they're frown, the next ad will be different.
a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor. the same technology can make conputer animated faces more expressive for video games or video surgery. most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication, note Dr. huang, so computer need to undersatand that tooooo.
had his actor carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotion on stage. feeling someone else's emotion state, may happen because they're unconsciously imitate another person's facial expression. whoever thought that making faces could reveal so much about the science of emotion. Dr. Huang just want people to used the technology about the computer of Making Mona Lisa smile. he want all the wourl people happy of about he did. he just want to see people are smile. he don't want people are sadness. that's why he making these technology. | 0 |
A world without cars is a world we should all want to live in. Participating in this worldwide fad has been known to benefit the lives of those among us. Thus, causing a decrease in the amount of stress one inhabits, as well as a decrease in pollution, and beneficial effects on carbon emissions. The advantages of limiting car usage are increasing daily, and cutting your time spent driving may have a positive effect on not only your life but your families, and those surrounded by you.
Traveling across the world to Germany, you will find Vauban. A well-known, upscale community where more and more soccer moms and commuting executives are giving up their cars. This experimental, new district has generally forebidden street parking, driveways, and home garages. Therefore seventy percent of the residents in this community do not have cars, and fifty-seven percent sold a car to move to this ecofriendly habitat. One resident, Heidrun Walter says, "When I had a car, I was always tense, I'm much happier now." The atomosphere of this residence has a positive effect on stress, meaning it decreases it! The vibe of walking down a street filled with the swish of bicycles passing by, and the chatter of wandering children has lowered the stress of nearly all residents. This ecofriendly, and stress-free enviroment is a trend that is growing and being adopted by many countries, including the U.S. From Chicago to Shanghai, this residential area may be the place for you.
Paris, France, home to the famous Eiffel Tower even has its pollution problems. After days of uncontrollable smog, the ruling French party enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of thiis well-known city. They ruled that on Monday's even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their vehicles at home, and on Tuesdays, odd-numbered license plates were to do so as well. After this first trial, the congestion was down sixty percent in the capital of France. This was a huge success since Paris typically has more pollution that other European capitals. Temporary laws like this have a huge effect on reducing the amount of pollution in crowded cities. Even the city of love has unclean air, how romantic is that? Limiting the usage of cars benefited this society immensely, and it could benefit our world as a whole if all of us chose to cut back our car usage at least twice a week.
Automobiles are the Beyonce of suburbs, where families from California all the way to Sydney tend to make their homes. Experts have concluded that this is a huge impediment to current efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes all around the world. Passenger cars in Europe are only responsible for twelve percent of these emissions, while America is responsible for up to fifty percent. President Obama's goals to drastically curb these greenhouse gas emissions will be assisted by a shift in American behavior: Fewer Americans getting their license. Studies have shown less and less of Americas youth are prioritizing getting their license. If this pattern persists, it will have a beneficial effect on the reduction of carbon emissions being released into the environment. This calls for less pollution, and a more ecofriendly, healthy society for us all.
In conclusion, limiting car usage in your daily life can cause a drastic change. These changes include a decrease in the amount of stress one inhabits, to less pollution, and a beneficial effect on carbon emissions. Our society as a whole has the opportunity to reduce car usage, so why not grab it while we have the chance. A healthier environment calls for a healthier you. | 3 |
Dear Senator,
I belive that we should get rid the electoral college. The electoral college help so much on deciding on who becomes elected for president.
For starters the electoral college is a process that the founding fathers established as seen in "What is the electoral college?" To be exact the electoral college is a process of 538 men and women from each state in the united states that are chosen to represent their state. The amount of electors varies on the size and population of the state. Say California has a population of 2 million there will be more electors than Rhode Island if it had a population of 1 million. These electors vote for the president and the vice president. For the president to win the majority of the votes they need at least 270+ votes.
The electoral college we can do without. It is just 538 votes out of millions in the United States. I belive that all people should have is the election where everybody votes not another one of just 538 people. The majority of the people in the electoral college would also be esier to bribe than the whole country. Who picks the electors? It could be legislators that pick them only to opose one canidate like what happened in 1960 against John F. Kennedy. Also larger states have more say than a smaller state would have making the election in a way less reliable. I belive that each state if the electoral college is to be a thing should have 3 chosen representatives for one president.
The only reason i see the electoral college working is if the vote comes to a 50% to a 50% tie. The electoral college should be a back up plan in case the vote is too close of a tie. A complete tie is amost impossible but if so the college would work perfectly if there was not an even amount of electors. Say 537 or 535 instead of 538 where the electoral college could be a tie aswell.
That is why i belive there should be no electoral college. | 1 |
Have you ever wanted to be a Seagoing Cowboy? Well, you should because there are lots of different cultures and place to see along the way. Plus, you get to help people. You also get to do things you may do at home.
There are so many different places to go when you are Seagoing Cowboy. The places I have gone are Europe, China, and many other places. You can also see famous places in the country that you are in. I had the chance to see the Acropolis in Greece. Another thing I got to do was take a gondola ride in Venice. That was so beautiful and amazing! I've seen and done many other things such as a tour through the excavated castle in Grete; also the Panama Canal on my way to China. There are so many places to go; plus you get to help people on the way.
Besides, going many different places and seeing lots of extordinary artifacts you get to help people on the way. It was so fun meeting new people and getting to be a part that changes their life. There are many different ways to help somebody but when you are a Seagoing Cowboy you make a big change in someones day or whole life. It made me more aware of people in other countries and their needs. That awareness is never going to leave my thoughts either. I will always remember the time when I was a hero! Also just because there are serious time doesn't mean there aren't fun times too.
There are times when you have to be serious and help or do the best of your abilities, but there are times when you can play games. The coyboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. We also played table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling. In addition, the games also helped pass time in our long journies.
The reason I like being Seagoing Cowboy is all the different things you get to see and learn about on the way. Another reason I like to be a Seagoing Cowboy is the people I met, and the people I helped change their life in a good way. Plus you get to do the things you normally might do at home. That is why you should become a Seagoing Cowboy! | 2 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author explains how certain algorithms built into a system, called the Facial Action Coding System, can detect human emotions. In the article, the author describes how a classroom computer can recognize when a student is getting bored or confused based on their facial expressions. This computer can change the way that the lesson is being taught so that the students are more productive in classes. While the Facial Action Coding System detects facial expressions that indicate a person's emotion, the system built in a classroom computer is valuable to students, because it can manipulate the lesson based on how students are learning.
The ability to have a classroom computer that is able to read the emotional expressions of students, would be very valuable is a classroom, because it allows the lesson to be taught in a way that would benefit the students, according to Dr. Huang. In a normal classroom, teachers create lessons that confuse the students or do not appeal to their learning ability which creates a tension for the learning environment. With the use of this technology, classroom lessons would be more educational and responsive. This is because, the technology is able to recognize when a student is confused or bored by reading their emotional and facial expressions. This is useful since the system can alter a lesson plan to be suitable for the students in the classroom which would potentially help them learn better. For example, if a student is confused during class, it is likely that they will not ask for help, leading them to not understand what is going on in the lesson. Having this technology in the classroom, would sense this and modify the lesson so that a student would be able to learn better and understand the topics.
The use of the Facial Action Coding System in classrooms would be beneficial in classrooms to both the students and the teacher, because it would allow the teacher to adjust lessons in order for more students to understand the concepts. Dr. Huang predicted that the system would be able to manipulate lessons based on the readings of emotional expressions in the classroom. The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable, because it would benefit the student's learning ability in the classroom. | 3 |
Dear senator,
I think that the presidential election should be settled by popular vote. We people are being run as a country by the president, and we should be able to have more of an impact choosing who our president will be.
The president currently gets chosen in the Electoral College, a process in which the electors vote for President and Vice President after they are selected. This process flows very well and the president is chosen easily, so its good. The Electoral Collage consists of 538 electors. The majority being 270 electoral votes and the first president to get to this number in the race wins. We the people are separated into states and the states get however many electoral votes based on population. So the bigger states get more say on who's President, but I mean that makes sence because more citizens live there. There are also many flaws with this process though, and thats why I think it should be settled by popular vote.
You may think that the people are mainly voting for the President in the Electoral Collage process, but we're not. The people just vote for electors who in turn elect the President. Some of the slates of electors may even vote for who they want to and forget about what the majority of the state wants. At the most basic level, the Electoral college is unfair to voters because of the winner-takes-all system in each state. This means that if say Florida has twenty-nine electoral votes, then all twenty-nine go to the candidate who wins that state. "So normaly candidates don't spend time in states they know they have know chance of winning, focusing only on the "swing states" and the larger populated states." "Swing states" are states that pay close attention to the campaign and really listen to the competing cadnidates. This means that the states may pick the republican or democrat. Some states pick the same way every election. During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina. I mean what kind of madness is that, how are they supposed to know who to choose. Thats not fair and it shouldn't be settled that way. This all just proves that "The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational."
Therefore the Electoral Collage shouldn't be the way to elect the President and Vice-President and should be either altered or in my opinion scratched. So then they should be elected by popular vote, so we have more control on who runs the country.
Sincerely,
Luke | 3 |
In this article, the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit, despite the seemingly impossible conditions of surviving on the planet. He/she supports this claim multiple times in the article, saying that,"Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." This proclamation suggests that Venus was once like Earth before becoming so inhospitable, implying that scientists could understand a great deal about Venus's fate if it was studied. This understanding of Venus's transformation into the wasteland it is now would help scientists make predictions about the causes of Venus's destruction, allowing them to warn humanity to not make those same mistakes.
The last paragraph in the article states that, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavours." What the author is proclaiming here is that overcoming the obstacles associated with analyzing Venus is good practice if we want to achieve similar undertakings with Mars and possibly even planets that are even farther away, like Mercury and Jupiter.
Another point the author makes is that there are multiple ways to safely study Venus without risk. The first would be utilizing a blimp-like vehicle capable of floating 30 feet above the ground for extended periods of time, allowing the crew inside to bypass most of the hazardous ground conditions of Venus and analyze the surface. "Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so mile above the roiling Venusian landscape...a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way." Not only that, but NASA has been testing how silicon carbide electronics react to the simulated chaotic conditions of Venus's surface. NASA has proved that the electronics can survive for about 3 weeks under those conditions. With further testing and refinement, it's possible that more complex electronics could survive for up to a few months, allowing more time for further data extraction from Venus's surface. "...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." | 2 |
Dear state senator,
I believe that we should keep the Electoral College. It's a part of history and has worked for many years. There maybe people that think the Electoral College should be taken out and be replaced, but I strongly disagree.
The Electoral College was founded by our founding fathers, and it's in the Constitution. This system has worked for years and it still works to this day. When the people vote they are voting for a slate of electors, and those electors are trusted people. If you don't like the system than you don't have to vote, but you want to vote top help your electors when.
Changing the election by popular vote for the presendent won't change anything. People will find mistakes in that and want a different way to elect people. It's best to leave the system alone before everything goes havoc. The Electoral College is a way for people to vote for who they wan't without others knowing. Keeping the Electoral College may make some people mad, but it's something we are all used to. It would take years for us to perfect everythimg for a new voting system.
That's why I think we should Keep the Electoral College. Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Sincerely,
A concerened citizen. | 1 |
Car free cities can have a advantage due to being able to get from point A to point B without causing any harm to the enviroment, but the price is risky to have a car, in some countries, your better without a car. Such as in "In German suburb, life goes on without cars"By Elisabeth Rosenthal. And in "Paris bans driving due to smog". By Robert Duffer.
German residents in VAUBAN are know as "suburb pioneers" because of them not having any motor vehicles. An additional affect is that in order to put your car in a parking garage it will cost you an additional $40,000 along with a house. Another in paris "almost 4,000 drivers were fined for 22-euro $31 U.S dollars, 27 people had there cars impounded for their reaction to the fine". An extra effect was that the city had "cold nights and warm days causing the warmer layer of air to trap car emission".
In another passage they show that in Bogata,Columbia "millions of Columbians hiked,biked, skated, or took buses leaving the capital city free of traffic jams". It was the third straight year says the Author:Andrew Selsky,"cars had been banned in order to set there goal to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog". The day without cars was part of a campaign in the mid 1990s.
Another source by Elisabeth Rosenthal was "The End of Car Culture" showing and sharing information that in America recent studies show that people in America are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer license,
Car free cities have a positive affect around everyone by helping reduce air pollution like smog,and to avoid injuries from traffic jams. | 1 |
All arround the world countries are making an effort to reduce their use of cars to benefit the Earth. There are many benefits to reducing car usage all arround the world. Not only does it reduce polution but it also promotes getting out and being active. Vauban, Germany is a car-free community where the voices of a few children can drown out the hum of a car. Bogota, Colombia has established a program called the Day Without Cars where they promote alternate transportation and reduce smog. This promotes people to use transportation that runs on man-power like bikes or even walking. This also falls into the fact that as people use bikes and walk they begin to get more exercize. Although most of the time it is more convinent to use cars to get to a location some places have stores within walking distance so there would be no need for the use of a car.
Pollution has been a problem arround the world for many years, each country is responsible for their own share of polluting the Earth and cars are part of the problem. Cars alone are responsible for 50 percent of greenhouse emissions in America, if Americans made an effort to reduce that number by just half it would mean a world of difference to that country. It would result in America being less responsible for the pollution of the Earth and a safer environment for the citizens. However, other countries have been taking action to help the environment, efforts were thrown towards cities to make it more beneficial to walk and they are now settoing their sights on suburbs. Vauban, Germany is acommunity where there is an advanced experiment that focuses on eliminating the use of cars. Their efforts have proven quite successful as only 30 percent of the families that live there own cars and almost 60 percent of the residents sold their car in order to live there. Bogota, Colombia has created a day where everyone is encouraged to use bikes and walk instead of using fuel-burning cars, those who chose not to participate in this event were fined $25. The effort that was put into the making of thisevent has inspired other countries like Cali and Valledupar to do the same. This shows that people are making an effort to move torards environmentally beneficial habits that cause a chain reaction.
Another benefit to reducing the use of cars is that people will get more exercize than they usually do. For some people the most exercize they get is the walk from the couch to the fridge or the 30 minutes when they are at the mall. Unfortunatley, people do not walk arround the mall every day for their daily exercize routine. Decreasing the use of cars would promote people to use their physical energy in order to get to their desired destination. This would also result in having stores and other services of use closer by so people will be more willing to walk to them. In Bogota, Colombia parks and sport centers have been opening all over the city | 3 |
Driverless cars are very interesting to disscuss. They can be so helpful, but there are downsides to them. Thoughts about whether they are great or horrible will vary from person to person. Some people might think both. I would be one of those people that think both are true. There are many arguments both ways. All of them seem logical. All is understandable to think what everyone is thinking about them.
One reason that they are great would be that it means the driver would be able to do other tasks instead of drive. The person in the car could do their own thing rather than focus on all that comes with driving a car which can be a lot to focus on at one time. One major reason that it could be a bad thing is that anything thats made can malfunction, which could cause many things to happen. If it did malfunction people could get hurt or possibly die. Then the question comes down to who would be responsible if something like this were to happen. The driver owns the car yet wasn't actually driving so would the manufacturer be responsible? The manufacturer can't be held accountable because things that are made break and mess up constantly. The driver also can't be responsible, because they were not driving and they have no control over if the car does something it's not supposed to do.
Both sides of the argument make total sense. They can be so helpful, but they have a possiblity of causing harm to innocent people. Once they figure out who would be responsible if something bad were to ever happen or they can promise nothing will ever happen, which they can't, everything would be so much easier. Driverless cars could potentially be a great idea. It just depends on how you look at things like this. | 1 |
The advantages in limiting car usage in Germany is to not buy one. Heidrun Walter said, "when I had a car I was always tense. I'm way much happier this way." From people not driving cars, it reduces the greenhouse gas emissons. Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percenet of the greenhouse gas emissons in Europe, and 50 percent in the United States. From people not using vehicles, and walk or ride bicycles instead, they tend to take the suburbs to get around. The suburbs are more compact and more accessible to the public than your own personal car. Now that they have taken away personal vehicles and gave them suburbs, the stores are a walk away on the main street, other than a walk on a distant highway. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency promoted "car reduced communities."
While in Paris, they banned driving because of the smog. On Mondays, vehicles with even-numbered license plates were told to leave their vehicles at home or suffer a $31 fine. The same thing with the odd numbered license plates the next day. Almost 4,000 of the drivers were fined because they didn't follow the rules and their cars got impounded. The cold nights and warm days caused the smog to form which made a thick layer of air to trap the car emissions. Diesel fuel is the biggest issue because it makes up 67 percent of the vehicles in France compaired to 53.3 percent in Western Europe. When the smog cleared up on Monday, the French party went after the odd-numbered licensed plates on Tuesday and fined them.
In Bogota, Columbia there is a program that was sent to spread to other countries, millions of Columbians hiked, biked, skated or took buses, left the city and avoided the traffic jams. Cars have been banned to the point were people can ride buses and be taxed with the Day Without Cars in the capital city of 7 million. Their goal is to promote the transportation and reduce the smog. For the first time, two other Columbian cities joined the event. The parks and sport centers were fixed throughout the city. The uneven sidewalks have been replaced, rush hour restrictions have cut traffic, and new restaurants and shopping areas have cropped up.
The end of car culture is president Obama's goals are to change the United States' greenhouse gas emissions. Recent studies show that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as the years go on. Mr. Sivak said that when he was in his late 20s early 30s, he was curious about what kind of car he drove, but no one really cared as long as it got you from point A to point B. A study was done last year and it stated that young drivers decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. At the Mobile World Congress last year in Bill Ford, Barcelona and Spain, the For Motor Companys chairman laid the business plan out for the world to see. He said to create the cities so the pedestrians, bicycles, private cars, and other transportation are brought into a connected network to save time, conserve recoursces lower the emissions and to improve the safety. | 1 |
I am about to tell you, from Luke's point of view, why participating in the Seagoing Cowboys program is a great opportunity and why you shouldn't pass it up I'f you do get invited to go.
The first reason is becuase you could go on so many journeys,and trips that you've never even thought of in your head before. Like it says in the article Luke couldn't say no to an opportunity that huge. Anyway,like I was saying there's so many unique and fun places that you could go. Luke went to Europe and China,and Acropolis in Greece, it's an amazing journey. Sometimes if the journey that you are taking is a very long one,like in the passage You could do a lot of things. It took two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast and a month to get to China. In addition, they would play baseball,volleyball games,Table-tennis tournaments,fencing,boxing,reading and whittling.
The second reason is becuase if you've never taken a trip anywhere out of the U.S then this is an amazing chance for you to get out there and explore different places of the world. Why would you wanna pass up an amazing chance like that? Being in this program could take you anywhere in the world from places ranging to Venezuela all the way to Athens,Greece and those are beautiful places in the world. Wouldn't you like to go see them? I'f you've already been to the places that the program would take you,then,hey, what's the harm in seeing those places again? You never know they could've built new homes,stores,hotels,and everything awesome like that. Okay,yes,it says in the passage that One rainy night,after making his hourly report to the captain,Luke slid down a slippery ladder on his backside and cracked his ribs. Everyone gets physically in their lifetime.
The third reason, this reason is for parents. Wouldn't you love for your child to go and explore the different places of the world? They would be so excited if they were to get a chance like that to go to all different places of the whole world. I mean of course they would probably hesitate at first because they would be so far from home. They could go to Fiji,Thailand and just work work with animals and play games,do every fun thing that a kid is supposed to do while their still young. In the article,Paragraph 9 Luke says ''I'm grateful for the opportunity'' It made me more aware of our people and countries and their needs''.
Fourth Reason is you get to help people in other countries who are homeless,doesn't have any food,tired,sleepless nights and going through everything. Your child could become a doctor from benefting from this trip and helping people. Their are countries and people in need,and this is a great chance to help people out and benefit from what people are going through. In the passage it says he even went to
Venice,Italy,streets with water''. He visited a castle in Crete and loved the viewing at the Panama Canal on his way to China. Like I said in the other paragraphs their are so many places for your kids to go and have fun in this world. Just know it's an amazing opportunity.
Concluding this essay. What I'm trying to point out is that this is an opportunity of a lifetime. You could explore places and countries around this world you didn't know existed. Kids it's a great opportuntity. Don't pass it up. There's so much in this wrold that you would accomplish just being out in the world. Luke went to so many places it was unbelieveable all the beautiful and magical places he described. | 3 |
The Challenge of Exploring Venus
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the high pressure and extremely hot surface. The author suggests that us human can survive on Venus if there are some innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to bring more knowledge about Venus.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has some promising ideas for sending human to study Venus. One of their idea was that if a blimp-like vehicle hovering above 30 miles can avoid the unfriendly ground condition of Venus. But, monitoring Venus from a ship orbitting safely above the planet can only provide so little information about ground conditions. NASA saw the issue and have developed "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" (Paragraph 7). NASA was able to see how they can improve such technology to last even longer in difficult conditions. By improving technologies that they already had, NASA can show the world more possibilities of living on another planet, that can help prevent humanity from overpopulation and explore a whole new world.
Overall, despite the challenging condition Venus has brought upon, human curiosity will likely to lead us to more incredible innovations. New innovations can help human adapt in different challenging environment much easier, bringing new possibilities beyond the expectations. | 2 |
Do you think the author did a great job on suggesting that studying Venus is a worthly pursuit despite the dangers it presents? It seems like the author did a pretty great job. the author included both sides of the claim and wiht amazing supposrting detail to justify his or her answer. The author aslo doesn't uses any first pronoun in his or her reading. Therefore, the author did a great job explaning his claim.
First the author gives you some background information about Venus, that was an amazing job. Not everybody is going to understand what your talking about unuse you inform them with some information. The text states in paragraph one, "Venus, sometimes called the Evening Star is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot." Another quote from the text states in paragrapgh one, " However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet." The auothor states how Venus and Earth may once been the most look alike planets. The auothor also states why humans can't get to the land on Venus.
Overall, the author did amazing job at explaning how he felt about this stiutation. Includng details and supporting his claims perfectly. | 1 |
After reading this article, "Making Mona Lisa Smile" I believe that being able to detect and know how to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable and could be useful for many. Using technology to know whether an individual is upset, happy, mad, etc. could be used as an improvement on our daily lives. According to the article, they tested this new technology on the famous Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting and defined that "she was 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." The outcomes from this new technology system could actually be legit and can tell us what people feel. This new sofware can also help the people that are to afriad to express their feelings or don't know how to .
Sense there are some individuals who hid their feelings and aren't that easy to read their emotions by just looking at their facial expressions, by using this system you could read and even track their face movments and even their mixed emotions also. For instance, as stated in the passage "Even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression"."Using imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa." This new software can help those who have a "neutral face" and show no emotion.
Facial expressions aren't always going to reveal how an individual is actually feeling or what emotions he is going through inside. For example, in the article it indicates that the Mona Lisa is "9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry", even though in the painting she looks 100 percent happy. This software will read off your emotions no matter what face expression you are making. Many of us can use this software to figure out what others are feeling when they are to scared to tell others how they feel. For instance, if someone is feeling really upset and has a neutral face and you can't tell that they are upset, you can't help them unless you know how they are feeling.
In conculsion, I believe that This new software "Facial Action Coding" that helps reveal human emotions by using technology cn be valuable and useful for certain people. | 2 |
Space exploration is a growing topic. NASA has sent rovers to Mars and landed people on the moon but they cannot seem to figure Venus out.
The author of this article titled "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" has explained why Venus is such a hard planet for space explorers very well.
Venus could have been a planet just like Earth, according to the author. The author of the article first hits the readers with information about Venus and compares it to the planet we live on. If Venus is so close to being Earth's twin then why is it challenging to explore it? In the third paragraph the author states, "On the planet's surface [Venus], the temperatures average 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. " These facts are on of many reasons as to why Venus is challenging to explore.
NASA is looking into these invention or solutions that need to be addressed to even have a chance at making to Venus. The author said that there are things that could be done to help us get to Venus' surface but it is not around yet, which is another reason it is challenging to explore Venus. We cannot succsessfully make it there yet.
Venus is dangerous. From what space explorers can tell the planet can be similaer to Earth or was similar to Earth. The author says, "... 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," this means that touching down on Venus'surface isour best chance on discovering what might have been living on Venus or what may possible show up. NASA has been trying to find other life or signs of life for many years and the planet that finally may show signs of possible life they're unable to reach.
The author has presented may facts and statistics within this article. They brought up the fact that space explorers cannot reach the planet/reach the planet and survive, how it is different from Earth, and why NASA wants answers to the questions they have on Venus. | 3 |
The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because the Venus is actually a planet and also the second planet from our sun. He also mention that Venus is simple to see from the distance but safe vantage point of Earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely. Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distant too. Venus is something right around th corner - in space terms - humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world. Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us.
Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. The planet's surface temperature is average over 800 degree Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. Also the Venus has the the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun.
Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. Recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a curcial consideration given the long time frames of space travel.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would aviod the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way.
However, peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insighton ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere. More importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else. Therefore scientist seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks. Or maybe we should think of them as challenges.
NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers. By comparison, systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces.
In a conclusion the striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but alos because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should br expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 0 |
Soon the world may be using driverless cars. This means no more human use of driving. Driverless cars should not be used because driver would get bored waiting for their turn to drive, driverless cars may become safety hazards, and human skills are still required.
First, driverless cars are not the best idea because drivers will get bored waiting for their turn to drive. As said in paragragh eight, "Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?" Many kids around the world are waiting to get their license and if you make cars driverless it takes away the opportunity of some kids wanting to be able to drive their own car. Also drivers that already have their license may love driving and then there is not point in driving if you do no have to do any of the work.
Secondly, the cars may become safety hazards. In paragraph nine it says "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers." If the human drivers are not fully alert to due waiting too long for their opportunity to drive, some may fall asleep or just lose complete focus. Maybe the cars programming fails, then what if the car can not stop itself, pedestrians and others may be killed or injured.
Lastly, human skills are still required, so why not let the human driver have complete cotrol at all times. BMW says "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 miles per hour, but special touch sensors make sure the keeps hold of the wheel." If the car still requires human assistance, then why are they calling them "Driverless Cars." Humans are more effective than computers when it comes to driving.
In conclusion,driverless cars should not even be considered available to the public. Driverless cars should not be used because driver would get bored waiting for their turn to drive, driverless cars may become safety hazards, and human skills are still required. Technolgy fails all the time and who can guarantee it will not fail this time. | 3 |
Dear Florida Senator,
I believe that we should not have the Electoral College no more. We are giving people false hopes that there vote counts when it really does not. We see on TV ads that we should vote and let our voices be heard but when in reality it is not. Didn't Lincoln once say "A nation founded by the people for the people by the people..." he was saying that we should let people have a a voice in everything that happens in America, but we can not even have a voice in who we wanted as president.
We give all the power to the Electoral College but not to the people. In 2000 Al Gore won the popular votes but lost the presidency. What type of system is this where we vote for who we want but get who we do not want. What the whole reason to vote if the Electoral College vote is more important then our. Beside voting for the president we want we vote for the slate of electors who elect the president. We don't even know who these mysterious Electoral College are they can vote for a president just because he is in the Democratic Party,we have no ideas why.
In 2000 we had the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse when it came to Electoral College. "Consider that state legislatures was technically responsible for the picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people." Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency. The people vote was not heard in that year,because they wanted Al Gore respresenting by the Democratic Party but we got Geroge W. Bush. I have never heard of a more unfair voting system before. Where were our rights the freedom of speech then, it was no where to be found. I feel that voting for who never we want should be in the Bill of Rights. So it okay to a gun for safety in our bag but itnot okay to vote for what we want.
On most basic level, the Electoral College is unfair to voters, because of the winner-take-all-system in each state. Some candidates do not spend that much time in states they know they have no chance of winning. In 2000 campaign, seventeen states did not get to see Geroge Bush or Al Gore these states were Rhodes Island with 3 electoral votes and South Carolina with 9 electoral votes. Candidates mostly only visit the states with the most like Florida with 29 and Texas with 38. They do not care about the other states they only care about who have the most electoral votes.
Each party selects slate of electoral they trust to vote for the party nominee and they have rarely been betrayed. It is could be true that the winner of electoral vote will not win base off of the national popular vote. But it is most likely not to happen again like in 2000 when Al Gore had more popular votes then Bush. The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. So no Electoral can have a solid favorite they must vote on who would most likely chance America for the better.
But if the Al Gore vs. Bush happen once what stop it for happening again the reason why it happen was because we had Electoral College so to stop it. We Must stop it.
Florida state Senator as much of a good idea it is to have at some point in time it will go wrong. All good things, have bad endings. So I think it better to stop it now before things for the wrongs like Americans just stop voting becasue we all know our votes do not mean a thing when it come to Electoral College votes. | 4 |
Well first off Dr. Paul Eckman created a sytem called FACS, which creates affects and changes on human facial expressions for better results. This allows a new form of technology to change emotions and more. This software can identify emotions just like that!.
In my opinion I think that there is no need for this system to identify facials expressions on students. Because first we are young so you know when we are angry, happy, or sad because we tend to show it. Like body language older people and even people my age know when there is something wrong with one another, because you can tell how they usally are from how they are at that moment. Don't get me wrong i like what Dr. Paul came up with this type of science and technology, but i dont think it's neccessary to change pictures and add emotions to something.
I just think using this technology on these students wouldn't do much, but tell you whether or not there sad, angry, happy, confused, excited, and etc. However this technology shounldn't go to waste I mean you can use this technology in other ways like animlas, you can't really tell whether an animal is happy, sad,and etc.
But so far I like the whole idea just not the type of experiment Dr. Paul is trying to accomplish. His technology that he has created is outstanding , and im pretty shore he can find something else to use it for. So like I said you don't need a comeputer to read a humans face or body langauge. | 1 |
Thesis, using this technology to read students emotional expressions in a classrooom is valuable because, it can help students to stay a wake,work hard and change their bad behavior in classroom.
First, using this technology to read students emotional expressions in a classsroom is valuable because, it can help students to stay awake. that mean it will be more easier for teacher to teach student. Student will more will participate in class work. Also, student will get better grade. Lastly students will not be behind and,not have to stay after school.
Next, It is perfect that technology can read student emtional expressions in a classroom because student will work harder. therefore, Student will able to behave alot beter. Dr. Huang prediction is very sharp and it is best for future. In addition, I hope this tchnology will keep going and help student emtionals.
Finally, Using this technology in classroom will bring a lot of help to change student bad behavior. Student will able to done thing in class and stay out of trouble. It will make easy for teacher to understand student feel and get a long. Dr. huang prediction can bring out alot of hope for teacher and student.
In conclusion, Using this technology to read emotional expressions of student in a classroom is valuable, because it can help student to stay a wake, working hard, and change bad behavior in classroom. | 2 |
The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger because of the knowledge we will gain, because in the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author states "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-Like planet in our solar system". The author is trying to explain that, though Venus is not a very suitable place for humans to be, we should still explore Venus, beacuse of the scientific knowledge we will gain.
Another reason the author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger is because of the thing the scientist could tell people back on earth about Venus. In the article the author states " Venus was covered with oceans and could have supported various form of life just like Earth" The author is trying to explain to the readers that if they were to accomplish their goal of visiting and studying Venus, they could come back to earth and tell the people how similar Venus was to Earth.
The last reason the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy despite all of the dangers is because Venus has some features that are analogous to those on earth, because in the article the author states "Venus has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains and craters". The author is trying to explain that if scientist were to got to venus and discover something it may be of great help to the science world | 1 |
In this essay I will be explaining how the face of the moons theroys began. How the face of the moon was captured and found by NASA. I will be expaling the description of the face of the moon. Also how the face of the moon became famous. In conclusion the face of the moon was not made by aliens but made natural.
The paragrpah I'm writing will consest of the theroys of the face of the moon. The first theroy of the moon began when a camrea on board the MGS had to peer through a wispy cloud, and thought alien markings were hidden by haze. After the examination from labs they found out that the Martian face resembled a butte or mesa landform commonly found in the American West. The face of the moon represents a lava dome that has the form of a isolated mesa the same size of it. In conclusion the theroys are incorrect of the face of the moon.
This paragrpah will be explaining the face of the moons discovery. The face of the moon was discovered by Nasa's Viking 1 spacecraft on May 24, 2001 when it spotted a shadowy figure of some what of a human face. When the face of the moon was examined at the Jet Propulsion Lab scientist figured out it was another Martian Mesa. After examing the face of the moon the authors resaoned a good way to attract public attenistion to Mars. In conclusion the face of the moon startled many scientist.
My paragraph will be demostrating the charactics the face of the moon has. The
face of the moon has a face like a human which is located in the center of the moon. Also the moon resemblise the nose, eyes, and mouth of a human. The face of the moon has a shodow that makes it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. The face of the moon has many charactics that have followed its discovery.
This paragraph will talk about how the face of the moon became famous. It became famous by starting off as an illusion but then becoming a pop icon that has stared in Hollywood films, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows, and even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years. People even think the face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars. A few scientist belived the face of the moon was an alien artifact after examining the facts. In conclusion the face of the moon has made a big impact on fame.
In this paragrpah I will be describing the face of the moon. Nasa has done reasherch, and has figured out the face on the moon was not made by aliens. Also the theroys of the moon were proven wrong by experts concluding the face was made natural. Even after experts examined the pictures taking from the moon conclude it has similar charaistics to the human face. The illusion of the face of the moon has brought many attention to it making it a big event in fame espacalliy in Hollywood. In conclusion the theroys and facts behind the face of the moon prove that it was not made by aliens but made natural and is similar to a butta or mesa. | 2 |
Do have you ever helped people before? Well if you had do you like doing it? I have and it like doing it, I think it is fun to help people out. Helping people out is a way to be kind anbd caring. And evryone like being kind instead of mean right? Now I am going to tell you why you should go join a program that helps taking care of animals and plants called the Seagoing Cowboys Program.
The Seagoing Cowboys are really nice they help the people that got help in World War 2. In World War 2 there was a lot of people that died or lose their homes or even family members. If you were in the World War 2 and lose your family member, would you want less people to lose family like you or help people save their family member and have less people be sad because of family passing away. The Seagoing Cowboys help a lot od people.
Do have you ever helped people before? Well if you had do you like doing it? I have and it like doing it, I think it is fun to help people out. Helping people out is a way to be kind anbd caring. And evryone like being kind instead of mean right? Now I am going to tell you why you should go join a program that helps taking care of animals and plants called the Seagoing Cowboys Program. | 1 |
In 1976 NASA captured a picture of Mars with the Viking 1. This photo was taken of a Martian mesa which resembled a human face. When this was shown to the public, people went crazy. People said that it was created by aliens, but others say it was
just a landform on Mars.
For my evidence that this photo is in fact a normal natural landfrom on Mars. We shall compare the dates these photos were taken. When Viking 1 first took the picture of the "Face" we weren't able to see all of the details. Remember at the time photography wasn't as superb as it was in 2001. In 1998 when MGS took the picture of the "Face" we were able to get a clearer product, but there were clouds in the way. If those clouds were not in the way we would have evidence it was a landform sooner. At the perfect time NASA was able to get a clear photo with better technology we were able to see the "Face" for what is really was.
At the time conspiracy theorist said that NASA was hiding the truth from the public saying that life on Mars did exist, but they were relunctant to show it. Even if they did find life on Mars it would be a huge scientific discovery. Why would we be forced to hide the truth from the people and not answer the biggest question in
history. Are We Alone. Just to add on, these conspiracy theorist did not have enough evidence to prove their claim either.
Now this ties in with my first claim of technology at the time. if you compare the photo from 1976 and 2001 you can see a major difference. Shading. In the Voyager 1's photo the lighting is not the best. Shadows in the photo make the illusion that there is a face in this rock. In MGS's photo there are features that are more defined than the 1976 photo.
Even though it would be amazing to have life this close to our planet. Mars is not just the right place for life. Sometimes we just have to accept reality. We may really be alone here in this huge universe. Maybe someday we will find aliens. Maybe not. The Face of Mars gave hope to some and brought them back down, but there will be a day when our visions of extraterrestrials will come true. | 3 |
I think that driverless car will be pretty cool, but I don't know I would feel safe with them. Eventhrough, the human driver can take over when requires to, I still don't feel safe with a carmera being in the car and the car watching me. Also, if the car does start to break down and the signals don't go off, what will have to that humand driver and other passagers? Will ther be insurance for them? Will it happen to other cars? And what happens when other people found out what happened to the car the broke down and caused an accident? Because I doubt they are going to want to keep driving that driverless car. These are things the manufacturers have to watch out for and many others.
I am not say I don't like that idea of a driverless car, I am just saying that they need to put everyting that can happen into concerteration. Not everyone is going to want a driverless car. Some people are going to want to keep their human driven cars. But I do thing it can be done and it will be done, someday in the near future.
Therefore, driverless cars are not impossible, but I don't think that today is that day is the day. We need to research ever possiblity before it happens. We also need to get othe peoples oppinion on this, such as the elderly. So yes, I do think think driverless cars are a good idea, and hopefully one day soon they will be a part of this world. | 1 |
Good day state senator in this letter I would like to talk to you about changing the Electoral College to a popular vote. Even though the Electoral College is a good way of selecting a president. This meathot has his flaws, under the electoral college system the people that vote are not voating for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. And I think that the people that vote shude vote directly for the candidate they have chousen.
This makes more sense that voting for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledge to the candidate.
I think at the most basic level the electoral college is unfair to voters. Since the voter are not voting directly for their candidate of choise, I personaly dont think this is the best way to go. The popula elections provide a better way of voting for president. Since it means that the people that vote a voating directly to the candidarte and not the electors. The popular elections is a safer an more fair way to vote. By thid we could evate the disaster factor, for example the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century and the system allows for much worse.
By this I want to thak you for taking the time to read this letter since I imagin you mus be veary buisy. Thank you for yout tine directly...
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Driverleess cars have a lot of advantages and disadvantages to them. Right now, driverless cars don't have the proper technology in them to fuction the way that would have the most advantages. For the driverless cars to find a way out on the streets they would have to be able to drive completely alone, the laws would have to change about fault, and the roads would have to be upgraded.
Driverless cars are not to their fullest potential now. The only way people would buy these cars is if they could completely drive themselves, and if they were proven safe. People would find it wast of their money to buy a car that could do most of the work, but they would have to pay attention because the cars can't manuver through tricky turns and work zones. If people are going to have to pay attention to the road they would rather just drive the entire time.
The way that driverless cars are going to become completely safe is if we upgrade our roads. The roads would have to include a track system in it. No car is going to be able to prevent a crash unless it is being guided by some kind of guided technology. Seperate roads would have to be made for driverless cars because there is always human error and the cars that are not driverless could crash into these driverless cars.
Driving laws were not made for driverless cars. People would have to look back at the laws and make changes. If someone were to crash a driveless car who would be at fault, the driver or the manufacturer. How old would you have to be to be alone in a car. There are many more laws that we would have to take into consideration.
Driving laws, upgraded roads, and being able to fully function alone are all things that would have to happen for these cars to become common. Driverless cars can be extremely revolutionary as long as they are safe and ready to use. | 2 |
The face on Mars is just a mesa. It was not built by aliens, and I can prove it. When the face was first photographed, NASA did not have very good cameras. They were up to date but not very powerful and had bad pixles. The 1976 Viking 1 had 43 meters per pixel in the best photo.
While some people say that this is definetly alien activity, they have been proven wrong. In the 2001 photo, the great pixels showed that this was nothing more than a mesa with weird shadows. There wasn't even anything around it. There were no planes houses nothing just a big lump of rock.
This kind of mesa can be found on Earth too. There are a lot in the U.S.A. one especilly good one is a lava dome in Idaho. Even though this mesa on Mars is not lava it is a rock that looks like natural earthly structures.
Back then nobody was positive that it wasn't aliens that had built a really big sculpture, but as tecnology got better, NASA was able to say for sure that this odd thing on Mars was not aliens. Only a big mesa that was isolated on the Red Planet. | 2 |
In today's society, people have become more and more dependent on technology. It is everywhere a person goes, whether that be to school, work, and even outside. In some ways, technology is good, but in moderation. For example, it helps with communication between long distances. Although technology has shown no sign of slowing down, it has began to become unrealistic with driverless cars. Companies should not be allowed to continue to develop driverless cars because they are unrealistic, dangerous, and can bring up legal conflcts.
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author makes the driverless cars seem exciting and futuristic, when is actuality, they are unrealistic. The article states that each car needs to have sensors everywhere along the car in order for it to work. The driver also has to remain alert, which makes the car not completely "driverless." Driverless cars are also unrealistic because not everyone wants to manufacture these cars. The article explains how "it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars" ("Driverless Cars Are Coming" 9).
This explains that in order for it to work, each car in the world would have to decide whether they want to have driverless cars also and manufacture their cars with this technology. With that being said, driverless cars are unrealistic because each manufacturer would have to agree to driverless cars in order for the sensors to work.
Another disadvantage of having driverless cars is the safety reasons. Companies today still have not figured out how to prevent safety problems from happening, which is causing companies to be reluctant to produce cars without drivers. The article states, "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents" ("Driverless Cars Are Coming" 7). This explains that even with all of those sensors and the hard work put into the technology provided in a driverless car, they are still not safe. All in all, driverless cars bring up safety considerations since they will not fully be able to drive be itself.
Because driverless cars are not completely driverless, they can cause accidents to occur. In this case, it would be hard to tell if it was the cars fault for malfunctioning, or the driver's fault for not staying alert. The article states that "lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with an alert driver," hence the multiple states with laws against driverless cars. The article also states, "Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?" ("Driverless Cars Are Coming" 9) This explains the rising legal issues that would result from continuing the development of driverless cars.
In the end, companies should not continue the development of driverless cars because they are unrealistic, result in safety problems, and cause legal issues to form. It is inevitable that technology will continue to develop into amazing wonders, but driverless cars are too unrealistic. They would require functioning sensors at all times and for every car to be driverless. Along with that, they result in safety and legal concerns is accidents occur. With that being said, companies should not continue the development of driverless cars. | 4 |
A day a quite different than others. The symphony of children's laughter, as they sway their arms in harmony with the pace of their feet, while making their way to school. The crescendo of the birds serenading eachother with their dainty chirps. Inhaling fresh, sweet air. And not even the slightest echo of a car's vroom in the distance. VAUBAN, Germany, BOGOTA, Colombia, and even the global city Paris, are living the average american's greatest fear to clear up the atmosphere by limiting car usage. At least one day, without the convience of a vehicle to take you along your marry way.
Paris had a near-record pollution, and just days after the incident, the city enforced a partial driving ban to clear the city's air. Any motorist driving a vehicle with a license plate that contained the print of an even number, faced a 22-euro fine. Same punishment went for a motorist caught driving with an odd-numbered plate the following day. After just five days of the city's recovery from harsh smog, congestion went down 60 percent in the capital. Just goes to show that the slightest bit of effort can make quite a global impact. If only it could become a trend. Which brings me to introduce you to a prime example a trend that is currently growing in Europe.
Vauban, Germany, home to 5,500 residents, is an upscale community thriving with suburban pioneers, is a prime example of the type of community trying to make a difference, that is now trending. Where residents must pay a whopping fee of $40,000 for one space, in a large garage, at the edge of the only known car ownership. Forbidden street parking, driveways, and home garages is what makes that bill ever so large. Not a car is to be thought of while walking through the streets fresh air bombarded with bicyclists and walkers.
But what about the country who has a love affair with it's vehicles, The United States? Well, according to an analysis by Doug Shortof Advisor Perspectives, As of April 2013, the number of miles driven driven by Americans was at it's peak in 2005, and has durastically dropped thereafter. Transportation for America is a fast growing coalition of people in the US who are promoting, and supporting the communities that are less dependent on cars. David Goldberg, an official of Transportation for America, stated that "All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change. How much you drive is as important as whether you have a hybrid."
Transportation for America isn't the only agency standing to make a difference, either. The Enviromental Protection Agency promotes communities with reduced car usage, and it's about time that legislators are cautiously starting to act upon this main contributor to the problems of pollution. At this rate, if the pattern persists, Sociologists have determined that all of this will have beneficial implications on the enviroment.
Knowing that it is possible with just the slightest bit of effort, don't you want to join in on saving mother nature? | 2 |
So, what do you think the Face in the ground was created by? In my opinion, the Face was created by a natural landforms on mars. Resesachers of NASA have done serious reseach over the years just to tell how the Face was created. Pictures have been taking from differnt cameras over the years just to continue the long search on the Face. From, 1976 to 2001, the evidence in the picture has changed everytime.
The article states, " As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size, " he added. " So if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" What the article is saying that there might have some kind of landform that created the Face. People are still curios til this very day on how the Face was formed or created. So, in my opinion the Face was created by a natural landform on Mars.
Some people think it's created by aliens. When there seems to be no type of life form on Mars. The
Face has changed over the processes in the picture. In my arguementive essay, I still haven't changed my theisis about how the Face was created. Through out the article, it tells you on how they processed the long journey to take the photo and make it clear on what it is. | 1 |
The face on mars is most known as a alien creation , however people don't know if its a natural landform or a alien creation. People who would actually try to look in to it to find facts if its a alien creation or a natural landform.
People don't always think that creations like that can be made by a natural landform. If you see in the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars" they give ecidence showing that the face on mars was actually a natural landform. It states " A few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see . The caption noted a "huge rock formation ... which resembles a human head," The qoute is saying that when they out the image closer it looks like a human head made by rocks "
"The image first appeared on a JPL website, reavealing ... a natural landform , there was no alien monment after all." According to the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars". This qoute is saying real evidence that there was no alien monument the face on mars was a natural landform.
Although few scientists believe the face was an alien artifact, a scientist named Jim Garvin proved them wrong by saying "What the picture is actually showing is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms comman around the Amercian West." Scientists Garvin is proving that the face was a nautral landform. | 1 |
Everyone has a car for the most part. It's used for a wide verity of things, like going to work, taking your child to school, and after noon sports, and even going out with the family for a little drive because its a nice day outside. People take there cars and use them for anything so they don't have to walk to where they have to be or want to be. There are many good reasons people can say why they need their car for everything, but have you ever looked at the advantages of limiting the usage of your car?
In the United States, the environmental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities,and legislators are starting to act cautiously. Many experts say that public transport transportion serves will play a much bigger role in a new six-year if the federal transportation bill is approved sometime this year. In previous bills, 80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent found other ways of transportation. If we where to try to not use our cars for a day or two it would probably be the hardest thing on earth for us to do. we relaye on our cars more then anything, but it would make the place we call home much happier and healthier. Just take Paris for example and look at what they have done to prevent people from using there cars because of what it has been doing to the air. They are actually trying to make a different and show people how much better things could be if we stoped using our cars so much.
Paris begins to ban driving because of all the pollution its causes in the air. On Monday's every car with an even number license plate will be ordered to leave their cars at home or they will suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same will appy to the odd number plates on Tuesday. Almost 4,000 drives where find, and Twenty-seven people had there cars impounded for their reaction to the fine. Congestion went down 60 percent in the captial of France and after five-days of intensifying the pollution, it later rivaled in Beijing and China, which is known as one of the most polluted cited in the world. The cold nights and the warm days cause a layer of air to trap inside the cars emission. Diesel fuel was blamed since France has a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline. Diesel makes up 67 percent of vehicles in France. Compared to a 53.3 percent average of Diesel engines in the rest of Western Europe side.
Paris typically has more pollution then all the other Eurpean capitals. Last week Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in London. Delivery companies complained of the lost of revenue, while eceptions were made for plug-in cars, like the hybrids. The Hybrids are much better to use and they hold 2-3 more passengers. Public transit was free of charge from Fridays all the way to Mondays, according to the BBC. The pollution cleared up on Monday for the ruling of the French party to rescind the ban for the odd number plates of Tuesday.
In conclusion, limiting our car usage really isn't that bad. Its actually helping our plant alot. All the smoke and gas is just polluting our air that we need to breath and with all the pollution in the air your just going to breath in a big cloud of gas or smoke. Its just like smoking, you don't want to breath in the smoke that comes from a car into your lungs because its bad and can hurt you just like cigerets can. We can stop this from happening if we give our cars a break or switch to a different kind of car, but really we should just limit the usage of the cars we have now. We can go outside and walk to where we need to be and just fresh air that isn't being polluted and we can exersize, which a lot of people need, so limeting the usage of cars would help not only the air, but the amount of fat people in the world as well. Limiting car usage is going to make a huge change in helping our plant and it would make the earth a better, happier, and healthier place to live. | 1 |
I agree with the use of this technology to read emotions expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because the way you will know weather the student is suffering from something. Been treated good or bad. You will know how the student is doing in life by asking questions after you see the results of the Facial Coding System. you will know if the student is happy by seen how hes nerves stretches when where they stretch to. If he raises hes lipsat the corners of hes mouth. Then squint your eyes slightly, to produce wrinkling (crows feet)at the corners of your eyes. Holding that, raise the outer parts of your cheeks up, toward your eyes.
If you do the you will look happy if you look at your face in front of a mirrior and making the face will also help you feel happy. Teenagers be going through a lot of dreppesion and unhappy times so i think it will be a great idea to do use this technology in school. To keep them from trying to suicide or know whats up with the kids life. You will be available to help him/her and even save a life. | 1 |
I think that getting told how you feel by a computer is fucked. computers shouldnt knoiw how we feel that some pedofile shit right there. fuck that dude i dont need a computer telling me how i feel. But right now in really hungry. You guys should tell NN to get better food it would help out alot if we ate food that wasnt moldy. if we really need to be here in this shit hole at least let us have so damn WIFI because this is bs. last year we were all good when we got the WIFI.
but now they done did takeded that away from us. It juat all depends on how we look at it. Like this school is stiraght garbage. i would rather go to hell then to be in here. Even people that are in jail dont have to pay for there meals that shits free to them. but i cant say shit because there food sucks dick too.
if the state can see this send me a letter to the school so i can know that you can really see my shit. i think that i could do good on this test id=f i really tried but im not a pussy try hard i just do the most that i can do. usualy thats nit alot tho because fuck 12 nigga i hope if you can see this your black in sorry. but what is uo with the purple koolaid you thinkin that you sippin on kean or some shit. and the watermelon yall niggas can eat a damn watermelom. you can go back to africa ill go back to mexico.
this test is boo boo {fucking garbage}. get us better food and ill find a way to pay you guys back with the money from my taxes your fucking cunt.
The Mona Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much this computer can do. Imagine a computer that knows when you’re happy or sad. this shits taking to long i just wanna go home and beat my meat to some fire my dude. if your a girls grading my shit do you have fat boobs and a fat ass. if you do you know where to find me. but if your ugly get fucked. im sorry but thats just how its suppose to be no ugly bitches. if your a dude and you have a daughter my age ill pound if you want.
By the way, did making a happy face in this experiment also make you feel slightly happy? According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them. (“Putting on a happy face” actually works!) A renowned drama coach, Constantin Stanislavsky, had his actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage. Empathy (feeling someone else’s emotional state) may happen because we unconsciously imitate another person’s | 0 |
Dear Senator ,
I beleive that we should keep the electoral college. I say that because it would be choas if we did not have them keeping the voting in check. I have one reason why we should keep the electoral college. And that is to make and keep the right/ best person for president to we can feel safe and good about the newly elected president.
I can see where you think that the electoral college doesnt really do anything. But thats were you would be wrong. I say that because without them there could be a horrible president that just made ppresident because he was good at advertising and he is paying off companys to advertise to make him look better. But i can see what your getting at because he did win fair and square but that doesnt mean that he will turn out to be a good president. That were the electoral college will come in, by chosing the true person who will be there for our country when we need him the most. And its not like the people are not choosing their president. The electoral college still go's with the peoples vote they just go in more depth with choosing the right president. So in the end everyone wins. the people will have the best leader of the united states they can have thanks to the electoral college. So why take them away, all they do is help us.
yours truly
PROPER_NAME | 1 |
"With less cars we have less accidents and less problems ". As a teenager i should be getting prepare to get my learner license but i do not bother because thats not my priority that doesn't mean i'm not interesting in driving but everything i need are close by like the mall , restaurants and a lot of other thing so i dont really see the need to be driving . By limiting our car usage we prevent accident and we payless bill such as car insurance and gas money .
"After a day of near-record pollution , Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city ". Every country should have more than one day where we are car-free because that will protect the air we breath by bringing the congestion down and also we will have less car accident. where everyone can take the bus or we can just walk to wherever we need to go. it would be a good opportunity to lower the cars accidents and the pollution ."All of our development since World War 2 has been centered on the car , and that will have to change " we can centered that development on something better , on something that will be on our benefit and that will help us to move foward not that the cars doesn't help us but it also pollute the air we breath and we need the air more then we need the cars , might as well reduce the development of car to protect ourselves . "In previous bills , 80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transport ".
buying a car and still have to pay all those extra money is a a pain and a waste money. Those money could got to your kids college funds or for vacations , putting yourself in a situation to have too much in your plate is not worth it ,why be always tense when we can be happier . That is too much money just on cars who will bring more trouble then anyone deserve . "A study last year found hat driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009 " young people have found out its not that fun having to drive around . Most likely as soon as you can drive your parents leave all the responsibilities on you ,starting with the groceries then dropping your young sibling somewhere to others thing. There's also the gas money , the car accidents and if you take a light the tickets bills and the money for when you taking the highway . People shouldn't have all those trouble coming with the car , thats why the percentage reduce because most people now just take the bus or walk .
Many times my aunt had complained about the problems that come with the car but she still use her car for simple reason such as going to walmart by the house when she could just walk there .The advantages of limiting our cars usages such as less accidents and a better air to breathe are way better then the disavantages which are polluted air , having to pay cars insurances with gas and otherso why not stick to what's better for our environment. | 3 |
Dear Senator,
The Electoral vote should be not used in the office anymore. It is casting the popular vote aside,its also basically saying that we the people don't know how to vote for the president ourselfs, and it brings too much confusion. It might have been used in the past when it was needed, but this it the 20's century and there is no need for them any longer. Somethings just have to change and try new things.
Popular vote is the vote the people cast on who the new presidnet should be,the one representing our contry. The motto of this contry since the consitioution was signed was "We the people" as in we the people have a say in what we belive is right and justice. The Elector vote although gives someone else power to vote for us, like as in a state has more people lets try to win this state over. The amount of electors given to the state is based on the amount of people in the state and in the house of representives. For example the state of California has 55 electors becuase it is one of the larger states in the United States. In the passage "In defense of the elecortal College" by Richard A. Posner, he states it himself " The advocates of this position are correct in agurging that the Electoral College method is not democratic...when it is the Elecorts who elect the president, not the people.". That right there states that our votes are no longer taken into consideration, but now it is only the Electors voting for us, and not "We the people".
The method of using the elelctors is saying that someone is needed to represtent the ideas of the people, as if one doesn't know how to express them alone. The liberty of freedom of speech was granted as one of our very first amendment, as one is able top express their. One might be able to vote for whoever we want but in the end the vote may not matter in office. The vote of the people does not go towars the presdient it goes to the electors of the state, it takes a lot of time out of osmeones day to vote, the least that should be is that we can at least vote for the presdient himslef and not someone to elect for us.
The electoral vote is was used before and it seemed to have been sucessful because its is still used in todays society; but that was back then when the people weren't informaed as much as we are now about the things that are around us. the Electopral voted severed its perposed but now it is time to let it go and be able to give the power to " We the people" and to do it ourselfs. Thank you for your time Mr. Senator and please take this under consideration.
Sincerly,
PROPER_NAME. | 2 |
The conditions on venus aren't pretty. The tempertures get up to 800 degress fahrenheit. Humans can barely deal when it's a 100 degrees in Arizona. The carobon dioxide is so strong that we could survive it more than 10 minutes. Venus's surface tempertures are too hot to even walk on. Venus even has very dangerous weather like erruptng volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes to proes seekng to land on it's surface.
Where could we go if earth was to blow up? Mars. Venus or Mercury, We don't have a for sure answer to that. Exploring Venus isn't a bad idea but very risky. We could see what Venus has that could benefit ot affect Earth. Considering Earth is the closet planet to Earth. NASA could potentially send robots in the spacecraft to see what information they can give.
No ones life should have to be put on the line to explore a diffrent planet. I personally think its a great idea. As said in the passage "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." | 1 |
In 1976 a mars global surveyor image from 1998, and the latest MGS image from 2001. Twenty five years ago a "human face" was photographed on Mars. NASA'S Viking 1 spacecraft was trying to photograph possible landing area for the Viking 1 spacecraft's siter, Viking 2. When they were capturing photos they came across a face. Now you're saying that it was created by aliens.
If it was formed by aliens, Where did the aliens go? Where did they come from? How do you know for sure that aliens exist there has been no sightings of "Aliens". Nothing can live on Mars. If so why are they not still there.
It was a Martian mesa, common enough around Cyndonia, it only had ONE unusual shadow. No more than one unusual form. We had researchers, we also had all the right rescources to figure it was only a Martian mesa. Where is your evidence that it was aliens.
It was just a landform that was formed on Mars. They only sent it out to attract attention to NASA. When it did it got way to out of control. The article also said that "the camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds". If a high tech camera can't see through clouds then how could "Aliens" see through it.
The landform was equivalent of a butte or mesa, those are landforms common around the American West. If it wan't a common landform then maybe I would believe you.
It was not "aliens" sorry to dissapoint you. If you could please have more research next time, that would be great. Evidence is apart of what we do here at NASA. | 2 |
ESSAY
AUTOMIBILES ARE THE LINCHPIN OF SUBURBS, WHREMIDDLE- CLASS FAMILIES FROM CHICAGO TO SHANGHAI TEND TO MAKE THEIR HOMES. AND THAT EXPERTS SAY, IS A HUGE IMPEDIMENT TO CURRENT EFFORTS TO DRASTICALLY REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM TAILPIPES... PASSENGER CARS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR 12 PERCENT OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN EUROPE... AND UP TO 50 PERCENT IN SOME CAR-INTENSIVE AREAS IN THE UNITED STATES.
ACCORDING TO THE TEXT, IT WAS THE THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR CARS HAVE BENNED WITH ONLY BUSES AND CARS IN THIS CAIPITAL CITY OF 7 MILLION. THE GOAL IS TO PROMOTE ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION AND REDUCE SMOG. MANY COMPANIES CREATE CAR TO RESUDE GAS EMISSIONS FOR THE CARS .
BUT AMERICANS LOVE AFFAIR WITH ITS VEHICLES SEEMS TO BE COOLING. WHEN ADJUSTED FOR POPULATION GROWTH, THE NUMBER OF MILES DRIVEN IN THE UNITED STATED STATES PEAKED IN 2005 AND DROPPED STEADILY THEREAFTER, ACCORDING TO ANALYSIS BY DOUG SHORTS OF ADIVISOR PERPESCTIVES, AN INVESTMENT RESEARCH COMPANY.PART OF THE EXPLANATION CERTAINLY LIES IN THE RECESSION, BECAUSE CASH-STRAPPED AMERICANS COULD NOT EFFORD NEW CARS, AND THE UNEMPLOYED WEREN'T GOING TO WORK ANYWAY.
IF THE PATTERNPERSISTS- AND MANY SOCIOLOGISTS BELIVE IT WILL-IT WILL HAVE BENEFICIALS IMPLICATIONS FOR CARBON EMISSIONS AND THE EVIROMENT, SINCE TRANSPORTATION IS THE SECOND LARGEST SOURCE OF AMERICAN'S EMISSIONS, JUST BEHIND POWER PLANTS. BUT IT CULD HAVE NEGATIVE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CAR INDUSTRY.
EXAMPLE FROM THE TEXT: HE AND SHE HAVE SIMILIAR OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THEIR CHILDRENS.THEY [19 AND 21] HAVE NOT BOTHERED TO GET GET A DRIVER'S LICENSE, EVEN THOUUGH THEY BOTH LIVE IN PLACES WHERE ONE COULD COME IN HANDY, THEY ARE INTERESTED, BUT IT'S NOT A PRIORITY. THEY ORGANIZE THEIR SUMMER JOBS AND SOCIAL LIFE AROUND WHERE THEY CAN WALK OR TAKE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION OR CAR-POOL WITH FRIENDS.ALSO WHETHER MENBERS OF THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION WILL STARS BUYING MORE CARS ONCE THEY HAVE KIDS TO TAKE TO SOCCER PRACTICE AND SCHOOL PLAYS REMAINS AN OPEN QUESTION. BUT SUCH PROJECTIONS,EVEN IF CAR BUYERS ARE MERELY OLDER OR BUYING FEWER CARS IN LIFETIME RATHER THAN REJECTING CAR CULTURE.
IN CONCLUSION
THE CAR IS USE FOR MANY RESONS , MANY PEOPLE USE LIKE A TRANSPORT MANY COMPNY CREATE CARS THAT HELP ENVIVEROMENT. | 0 |
I personsonally think it would benefit everyone if we abolish electrical colledge. We should change the election to most popular voted. This would be easier and also fair. The election should only determine who is going to be our president not the electors. This way it just creates a bid mess for them to deal with anyway.
For example "over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now"."This year voters can expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could again lose the presidency". The votes should be direct to dtermine who will be president of our country.
"The electral colledge consists of 538 electors". Thats alot of electors. Why not just make it more simple and try to avoid voting the electors and lets try to just vote directly for the president.
In conclusion I would have to agree that we should abolish Electral colledge. We should just get right to the point. Lets just and only just vote for who should be president. Don't waste your time trying to vote for the electors, make it easy for yourself. "Each candidate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors". Why so complicated? | 1 |
The United States of America has been running on the Electoral college for a large amount of time. According to the article the founding fathers established it in the constitution as a comprimse between election and President. Unfortunately, some American citizens think they vote directly for the president which is a false statement. The electoral college system is innacurate, unfair, and is horribly balanced and desgined.
Although the electoral college system is used in every presidental election the system is unfair to voters. For instance, according to Bradford Plumer in the article "Because of the winner-take-all system in each state candiates don't spend time in states they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the "Swing States". American citizens in states such as Rhode island, and South carolina are not getting the 'good side of the stick. 'Voters in small states sometimes don't get to see a single campaign ad' says Bradford. The electoral college is treating American citizens in small areas horribly.
Alot of times, citizens cannot control who there electors vote for. Not to mention the electors are also anonymous. According to source 2 voters sometimes get confused about electors and vote for the wrong candidate. Their would be alot more better results if the citizens could trust electors with there votes. This system is badly desgined. | 2 |
"I'm tired i dont want to drive home!" what if you didnt need to drive home? You might not need to drive your car anymore. Car companies are making cars smarter and cars would be able to drive themselves. Driverless cars are effiecent because the driver doesnt need to drive all the time, there would be less accidents.
Drives won't need to drive all the time now. There are some people who just dont know how to drive and are better off not driving. In the article it said " The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over." This shows that drivers would still need to drive the car but not all the time. Sometimes drivers need to get somewhere but dont go because they dont want to drive. They won't have to becuase they might drive for a little bit or maybe nothing at all.
There would be less accients if cars can be driven themselves. In the article it said " their cars have been driven more than half a million miles without a crash."
This shows that their cars so far have not gotten into an accient for a while. People who have cars tnd to crash many times because some drivers are just not careful. The roads would be more calm and safe. It is just better for everyone.
Car companies should make driverless are becuase people wont need to drive all the time espicially when thehy go somewhere far, and there would be less car accidents which also include less deaths. No one wants to be involved in an accident. I believe driverless cars would be neccessary and they should have them. Many people would like to have a car they dont need to drive. | 2 |
I really don't think that aliens could have done this. actually i could give you a few reasons why and reason one, that just sounds crazy. Aliens dont exsit.
It's just a natural land form. There are all kinds of dents and holes on these planets. Besides the natural landforms are common enough around Cydonia. "in the article it states, "Thousands of anxious web surfers were wating when the image first appeared on the JPL web site, revealing...a natural landform. There was no alien mounment after all." Reason two is landforms are common around the American west. The test even states, "What the picture actually shows is the Martail equivalent of a butte or mesa-landfors common around the American West." Finally reason 3. If ypu look at the pictures long enough, the longer "the face" has been there there more it transfors into a dent and looks nothing like a face.
I believe its a landform and hopefully these reasons help you beive it too. The scienctists proved has the facts that it is a landform and not a alien face. | 1 |
In Luke's point of view you have a opportunity of a lifetime to be in the
Seagoing Cowboy program. You have a opportunity of a lifetime because you get to experience adventures and visit many unique places . To be in the Seagoing Cowboys program you have to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that are shipped overseas . One reason why you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program is because you can help the countries that were left in ruins when World War ll ended. To help these countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more, 44 nations have joined together to form UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration).The second reason why you should participate is because you also can find time to have when the animals have been unloaded. In conclusion you can participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program to help these countries that were left in ruins by the World War ll and it can also make you more aware of the people that are from other countries and there needs. | 1 |
Changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United State is the best way to select the prisedent, because people has right to pick any prisedent for them selve.
popular vote for the prisident is fair way to vote, there's no cheeting.
I think that The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational.
The electoral college is unfair to voters, because winner got to take all system in each state.
it's also dangurios for all the people in US.
If the winner got to take all system in each state, then he able to do anything he/she wants.
It's like a disaster factor, and the system allows for much worst. and consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors. that those clectors could always defy the will of the people.
on electorall college system voters vote not for the president, but for slate of elector.
people vote for president, not for slate of elector!!!!
electoral college may cauge trouble, it may mess up the system, | 1 |
Dear state senator,
You seriously need to change this whole "Electoral College" voting system. It's not right and not accurate. Wouldn't it be fair if the people had a say in this? We..The People?
Popular vote definetly makes more sense in this case. It's proven that an electoral vote would sometimes end in a tie, resulting in a "You're President, You're Vice President" scenario. No one wants to go through a tie cause the election would go to the House of Representatives and then they would decide who is who. That's pretty stupid...if I do say so myself.
Now if the people, us, had a say in this...Then we'd defiently have a winner. No ties, No mistakes, No nothing. Just a plain, clean winner. The electoral college is unfair to voters to be honest. The electoral college is irrational, unfair, outdated and annoying. No one uses it anymore. Due to it being completely unfair to citizens and states alike.
The Electoral College rule says "It requires a presidential canidate to trans-regianl appeal." Don't you think we know that? Then there's the fact that only "Big States" have a say, what about the smaller ones? There are people there too you know.
The Electoral College does avoid the problem of "Run-Off Elections" but that doesn't help the fact that we should all have a say.
Well, Nevertheless, you can understand why im so fed up with this "Electoral College" nonsense. It's stupid, outdated, and unfair. | 2 |
After World War II countries around the world were left in ruins. To help countries recover 44 nations banded together and created UNRRA. Also known as the United Nation Relif and Rehabilitation Administration. UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of animals shipped overseas to help those fallen nations. While some people think it is a bad idea to go over seas and be a "Seagoing Cowboy" it is a great opportunity to help other nations.
Not only do they help people the cowboys have fun aboard the ship. They don't concider it a boring job. On return ships after the animals were unloaded the cowboys played tabel tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, and whittling to name just a few. The cowboys also have a side benifit of being able to sight see. They go to Venice, Italy and can take a gondola ride. See many gothic castles, or Churches in England. See the Panama Canal. You can go see China.
As stated before helping people is an other benift. You deliver people cows, mules, horses. While the animals were most likely eaten of killed during the war you can deliver a new calf and its mom to a places were all the animals were lost. Although you might be always busy, you get to feed animals, take care of animals, and see overjoyed faces of people when you bring in mules, cows, and horses.
Even with the World War II over there is still many threats. Starvation, overcrowding, more wars, and many other threats. Although in those nations these cowboys were able to stomp out Starvation for a bit. Serve your nation in the United Nation Relif and Rehabilition Administration. While helping the UNRRA and becoming a "Seagoing cowboy is very important for your nation and other nations it is also a great opportunity for anybody to help. | 3 |
I think the reason why they have advantages of limiting car usage cause all these changes people who have stooped car commuting as a result of the recession may found less reason to resume the habit...that differnt thing are converging which are suggest that we are witessing a long-term cultural shirt.
another reason is that if that pattern persists they believe it will have a benfiicial implications for cabon emissions and aslo the environment and they aslo they sayed it might have a negative implicatins for the car industry. and because the cash-srapped americans could not afford new cars and the unempolyed weren't going to work either and young people decreased by 23 percent between 2001 and 2009.
my last reason is that they had demographic shifts in the drving poulation suggest that the trrends may have accelerate it the percentage had drop while older people are likey to retain there license as they age. Aslo like cellphones and car-pooling apps has facilitated more flexible commuting arrangements and they had reserachers had pondering a fundamental ques:Has America passed peak drving? | 1 |
The story "Driverless Cars Are Coming" they give a lot of information about how the some of the new cars that car coming has sensiors in them that alters drivers that are to close to an object. The car that mention that has the sensior in it is the Toyota Prius.
The Toyota Prius is a better outlook then other cars because the insurance is still probably high but its saving money because its bot causing alot of acdents as though the cars with out the sensiors. Drivers text while driving and some do not pay attention to whats going on around them while they are texting so with the sensiors if they are coming to close to an object it will alter them. The only bad part about is the sensiors its going to alter the driver is passing threw a red light if that person isnt paying attention because they are texting. The GPS They are also putting in the newer cars are better because people that are not really good at knowing the North, East South and West and that doesnt know the directions to a place it can help them but not only thoes kinds of people aslo people from other cities that dont know they way around town.
If i was to go buy a car I will get one the newest smarter car over the older cars because its preventing alot of car acdents and saving people alot of insurance money. The sensiors and the GPS are great out looks on the newest cars. | 1 |
I think that the use of this technology called Facial Action Coding System to read the emotional expressions of students is valuable. I like the idea of this. People can now know the true meanings of things. They can detect how someone is feeling. I think this is really cool and something that is unique and has never been thought of before.
The reason why I think it is valuable is because everyone can now know the true meanings of things. In the article, Dr. Huang states that "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal." I think it is quite amazing that you can now tell how someone is truly feeling. Everyone has their days and you can just tell by their face what is wrong with them but that is the obvious. With this new technlogy, you can go more in depth on how they are feeling by simple facial expressions that you sometimes don't notice. In pictures or pantings you see a person half smilling, but that doesn't mean that they are half happy half sad. It just simply means that you shouldn't always just go off by what you see. With this technology you can see what the true meaning of the person's smile is or what their intentions are. In the article, it states that "The Mona Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face." If you have seen the painting, you will notice that the portrait doesn not seem like Mona Lisa is happy nor is it trying to bring us happiness. That just shows how much this technology can do. It is just pretty interesting how a computer can know what you are feeling.
In conclusion, I do think the technology called the Facial Action Coding System to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. It would really be a helping hand for anybody. It helps detect the true feelings or meanings of things. This can be really useful for those who need a little help identifying what the true emotions really are. It is also very discriptuve. This is why I think this technology is valuable. | 2 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", the author describes a new technology that allows computers to identify human emotions. The author also describes how this new technology can read the expressions of students in a classroom. This seems like an extremely valuable peice of technology. There are many ways that this can help students with there education. This technology can help students understand what they are learning better, which can result in a better education.
For example, this technology can help a student that is having difficulty on a lesson they are learning just by identifying there emotions. In paragraph six of the article it states, that a class computer can identify when a student is becoming bored or if the student is having trouble understanding the material, then the technology can change up the lesson so that the student does not get bored or confused. This results in a better education for students. With this type of technology students will be more educated and that will help future generations to come.
In the article, the author describes to us, this new technology, Facial Action Coding System, which can identify human emotions. This is indeed valuable to students in classrooms. This tech can read students emotions and modify the lesson, so that the student understands the material. the Facial Action Cosing System will soon be essential for learning in the future so that students can be more educated for when they are out in the real world. With this tech students will soon have an education that is right for them. | 2 |
My essay on the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" is against the development of driverless cars because they are not safe.
Car development has come along greatly, but driverless cars are not the way to go. If someone's driverless car breaks down it will be extremely expensive to replace the parts necessary for function. Driverless cars also would take jobs away from working citizens such as; Cab drivers, Pizza delivery specialists, Postal workers, and Truck drivers. IN THE ARTICLE, it says "GM has developed driver's 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.", but if the vehicle's system malfunctions the commands necessary to announce to the driver to manually operate wouldn't function properly.
Driverless cars can be very dangerous. When one is using a driverless car, he/she is putting his/her and their passenger's lives in hazardous conditions. No one should take that risk. | 1 |
Ban Driverless Cars!
Ban driverless cars! Weather, We should have driverless cars or cars with drivers has been in a huge issue in the world today. Some people may believe we should have have driverless cars but, in this case I think we should ban them from the United States due to many reasons.
One reason why driverless cars should be banned because of reckless driving. Reckless driving is one of the major deaths we have in the world today. Having cars with no drivers can be very dangerous to the driver and passagers in the car, even the pedestrians on the streets and other cars. As the story states "... Lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers."
If we allow driverless cars we never know for sure if it is actaully safe to drive them on the road and citzens wouldn't be safe.
Get rid of driverless driving!
Another reason we shouldnt have driverless cars because the cost for them would be too much. Today in the world technology has became very important to us . Driverless cars would have to have lots of technology to work. "such as radar sensors , and GPS receiver, motion sensors also" Driverless cars will cost alot more than a regular car that requires a driver.
If one of your sensors stop working it will cost alot more to get fixed than a regular car. Which also would mean your car would unsafe and undrivable.
Last but not least, my last reason is changing to laws. By having driverless cars require the laws to be changed. Eventually everyone would be forced to buy a driverless car do to the changes of the law. The laws would have to change and it wouldn't be fair to other people with regular cars.
In conclusion, Driverless cars should be banned. Due to safety issues, reckless driving, cost, and changing the laws. I do understand that people may disagree with my arugment but, here are reasons why I believe driverless cars should not be allowed. | 3 |
i think Venus is a good thing to study about its actually a planet.its the sun planet from the sun.often referred to as Earth's "twin" Venus is the closest planet to earth. density and size , and occssionally the closest in distance too. Mars,Venus,and Earth our other planetry neighbor,orbit the sun at different speeds.the different speed mean sometimes we are closer to mars and othertimes to venus.venus is a value.peering venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safelty far above the planet can provide only limited in sight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere,rendering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective.simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's suface have lasted for 3 weeks in such conditions. Venus would aviod the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of thierway.at thirtyplus miles above the surface,tempertaurs would still tasty at ground 170 degress fahrenhiet ,air pressure would be close to that of sea level on earth. | 0 |
This article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto revolves around this idea of using a computer to read people's experssion and emotions. It can tell how much precent you are happy, sad, surprise, andger, fear, etc. It can just tell the basic emotions. This type of technology usage is not valuable to read the emotionla expressions of students in a classroom. It's just going to be a waste of money and resouces.
By using this technology in classrooms, it is useless. It can not read in deatail of how the students are actually feelings, it cannot tell in dept of emotions. In paragraph three it states "Eckman has calssified six basic emotions- happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and saddness, and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles". Here one can see that these computers only reads basic emotions. These basic emotions can be read by humans. We have our fellow humans to be able to tell how we feel, more than a computer.
Begining of paragraph 5 states "we humans perform this same impressive "calculations everyday" and "you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face". I think that techonology has already been a huge part of our lifes and we don't need a computer to read our emotions. I think if we have that in a classroom then it will ruin the interactions between classmates. Iphones, the internet, computers, video games has all been a huge part of society. People are addicted like it is drugs. Addictions to phones has become worse in recent studeis. People take their phones EVERYWHERE, to the bathroom, to bed, to school, to church, to parties, etc. It has become social network online. Kids barley go outside and play anymore, teens don't hang out much; all because of this small device. I think it is not of value to have a computer in a class that reads emotional expression.
While having a technology that read peoples emotional expressions would futher ruin the interactions between humans, It will be very costly to make such devics and put them in every classrooms. It would just be a waste of money and resources. In the article it says "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" it also says "your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile". The process of this techonology sounds like it will be expensive to build such a high tech decoding. The article also says our PC's is not complex to handle this new techonology. So this new techonology must have complex algoriths to be able to decode a smile. Which will be expensive to make.
I think this type of techonology is not of value to have in a classroom to read students emotional expressions. The technology will ruin interactions between fellow classmats and it will be expensive to put in every classroom. There needs to be more connections between students, a device like that would make connecting with others worse. This type of technology should not be in classrooms. | 4 |
Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system and is extremely dangerous and deadly, but is also the planet that most like Earth. The author of the article supports his idea that going to Venus is a great idea reasonably well, although he doesn't use that much information to prove his claim. The author states a lot of the dangers of going to Venus and then addresses his points of wanting to study Venus more closely.
The author tells the reader that many Astronomers are fascinated with Venus because some people have a theory that Venus was once like Earth. He states that in Venus's past it might have been covered largely with oceans and could've had life on it, just like earth. The author even states that Venus still has some features on it that Earth has such as valleys, mountains, and craters. The author also decribes that Venus could sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit. The author uses examples of technology that could help us research more about Venus, such as NASA's blimp-like vehicle which could allow scientists to float above the carbon dioxide littered atmosphere, but most of his points about technology wouldn't work because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, which would make most forms of photographs and videos ineffective.
The author of this article claims that Venus is worth the cost and risk just to learn more about it but doesn't support his claim well enough to presuade the reader to agree with him. He backs up technology that wouldn't work because of the atmosphere surrounding Venus and doesn't show ways how we can get past the deadly atmosphere without risk. The author doesn't show enough reason that scientist should study Venus besides that it might have closely resembled Earth in the past. | 2 |
Dear Senator,
In my opinion we should change the presidency election to be based on popular vote. I can speak for a lot of citizens here when I say that it is a way of representing our country as a democracy, and is more efficiant.
The electoral college is a better representation of a democracy. Instead of voting for your president, you're instead voting for electors. That's not what we're trying to do. The political parties of Florida are trying to get their candidate to be elected. The electoral college is a bit unfair to the other parties that aren't gettin represented. Since most states have a "winner-take-all" system, not all voices are being heard. With popular vote everyone's voice is being heard! We are a democracy right? Democracy means that all citizens have a say in the government. Which plays into the voting topic. We vote because we have a say in what goes on in the government, and what the decisions they make. With the electoral college, we vote for electors that vote for the president, even though the title of the event is called the presidential election! Not the electoral election!
Another reason many people prefer the popular voting system is because it is more efficiant. This is because we can't always count on the electors we vote for to reperesent us correctly. Electors might change their mind at the very last minute and decide that they like the opposing candidate's view, discarding their loyalty to us. Now the opposing candidate has more electoral votes casted their way. Voters can't always control who their electors vote for. That's not what I would call a trustworthy system. With the electoral college, it is a slighter chance that a tie could happen. With the popular votes, there is more votes being casted to almost prevent this from happening.
The popular voting sysem is a better way represent this country as a democracy, as well as being more efficiant. This sounds like a better America to me already. SO please keep all this in mind next time you go to work.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 2 |
Driverless cars to me are a bad thing. I think they are a bad idea because there are so many things that could go wrong. The cars computer systmem could mess up and cause the car to go out of control and hurt pedistrians or the driver of the car. The driverless car would make road trips with friends and family boring. I think people nowadays are just getting lazier and lazier. I feel more comfortable with being in control of the car instead of the car being in control of itself.
First, the first problem that comes to mind about creating these cars are the costs to build them and the crazy price tag on them. These cars would need special time to build because of all the computer work and the programming. After putting in all the time to build the car and doing all the work would the car even be worth it after all? Maintenance on the cars would be a problem also. One would not be ablet to find parts to fix the car and would have to send the car off to a specialist evertime it needs to be repaired or computer work. Everone doesn't know how to do programming and work with computers.
Secondly, road trips to vacation with family or friends would not be fun at all. What's the whole point of going on a road trip if the car is driving itself. That is the whole point of a road trip to drive where one has never been and enjoy looking out the window. I personally enjoy traveling and road trips just wouldn't be the same with driverless cars. Every year my family and me drive to the Rocky Mountains to spend time with our family and letting the car drive itself up the long windwing mountain roads would be boring for me and the others in the car.
Third, my last issue with the car would have to be the laziness involved. People of today's world have become obese and lazy. People are creating driverless cars because they want to make it easier on the them to go to and from places. Obesity is a problem in todays society because everyone has become lazy and doesn't want to work for what they need or want. People want to create something that makes them do less work and not make them sweat.
In conclusion, I am strongly against driverless cars for the fact of the cost, road trips would not be the same, and the fact that people are getting super lazy. | 2 |
In the text the author suggests that Venus is worth the pursuit despite the dangers it presents. He supports the fact that Venus is the sister planet to us and that it could have once been another earth and had all kinds of life and water on it. He proves in the text that he supports it strongly because the way things are they arn't able to conduct a thorough study and mission. They need to have a closer look and intake on the plannet to do the right amount of work needed to be done.
In the text the author plainly state's that what they are doing and how hey are studying Venus isn't effective. It would be if they where to go and despite the danger's get a closer look. He thinks strongly that the way things are they are unable to get samples and find out actuall good data on the sister planet. As it states in the text "More importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance" (Paragraph,6). This shows that the author believes that it is important to get closer in on the the planets survice to conduct the proper evaluation and tests.
The author feels as though it is worth the while to try and work around these dangers. He feels this planet has alot to offer them on as far as information goes. That their is a good possibility that this planet could have been another earth. As it shows in the text "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system" (Paragraph, 4).This goes to show that because of the planet possibly being an old earth It makes the research more valuable.
The authore suggests that Venus is worth the dangers to get a good look at what really lays along the surfice. He supports this strongly believing that Venus is a sister planet and could have once even been another earth. He shows in the text that he supports this strongly because the way things are they arnt able to get a good read on things their that they arn't close enough. To him getting closer means getting more in tell and samples. They need to have a closer look on the planet to get better evidence and facts support behind if this planet really used to be a earth once. That is why he strongly supports it and thinks it's worth the risk it could help better earth since its our sister planet. | 2 |
In order to inform the fellow citizens about the advantages of limiting car usage, let's first talk about how it impacts society, what will happen if society doesn't reduce the excessive amount of car usage, and what they can do to improve societies living conditions. Driving has majorly changed since back then, driving is an everyday thing for society; most kids get dropped off to school by car, adults drive to work, and families go on trips by car. Driving has succesfully impacted society in a positive way in this generation, but it does have some negative and unseen sides to it.
Limiting access to a car can positively change the outcome of a suburb, whether it be the United States, or Canada. According Source 1, "In this new approach, stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway." That gives the reader an idea of how the suburb is like without the use of cars, everything is closer to your house. You can walk to the nearest bakery or grocery store, creating the central idea of the stereotypical 'perfect town' seen in shows. In order to build that idea, cities around the world are being influenced by that concept. According to Source 3, "uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic; and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up." That proves the fact that if cars are used at the minimum, the city will change for the better. According to Source 2, "The smog cleared enough Monday for the ruling French party to rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday." In conclusion, with less usage of cars, the better conditions the city would have.
If society doesn't start reducing the amount of car usage in their city, it will end up being a horrible decision. According to Source 2, "after days of near-recorded pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of global the city." That being said, cars cause the city to endure smog, causing leaders to input a partial ban. In order to fathom the idea of how many drivers refused to follow that law; Source 2 states, "almost 4,000 drivers were fined." That can easily manifest the idea of how society won't be able to live without their cars, which can end up being disasterous. Smog seems to be a major result of car usage in cities, but in the future, it will lead into a worse situation. In Bogota, Colombia, an event was created to ban the use of cars. According to Source 3, "The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog." To conclude, if cities tried to reduce car usage, it'll drastically decrease the risk of smog and greenhouse effect.
Improving the living conditions of society will produce a tremendous amount of positive effects towards the city. According to Source 4, "President Obama's ambitious goals to curb the United States' greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will get a fortuitous assist from an incipient shift in american behavior." That being said, America is planning to attempt reducing car usages in the country. Also according to Source 4, "recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." That also manifests the idea that America itself, is slowly reducing it's numbers of car usage. Whether it be the expensive prices of cars or the hard driving tests, the less people who drive, the better the environment. According to Source 1, "the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor." That forms the idea that without cars driving around, children have an excuse to go walk around outside. Rather than being inside not doing anything, and taking a car ride to where they need to go; Vauban's rule helps provide children with a different and active childhood.
Driving is slowly causing the countries to change, children don't go out that much. Technology already limits childrens excercise and their time outside, but driving causes children to barely be outside. Also, excessive driving can cause horrible conditions towards the environment itself. Limiting car usage and how it impacts society, what will happen if society doesn't reduce the excessive amount of car usage, and what they can do to improve societies living conditions are all explained, creating the idea that the less drivers there are, the better outcome it'll be. | 4 |
Camel,Anthony 9856 sw 152 ave
Miami, FL 33196
Dear Senator,
What do you think about the Electoral Collage? The electoral collage is a process,not a movement. The Electoral collage is unfair to the citizens of the united states. Its unfair to voters because they are not able to vote for a president of their like. Another reason the Electoral Collage is unfair is because citizens are not voting for their president they are voting for a slate of elector how will pick the president for them.
Citizins are givin the rights to vote. The electoral collage is a way of taking voting away from them. Why would someone want to vote if they are not going to be able to vote for a president of their like. The single best argument against the electoral collage is what they might call the disastor factor. The electoral collage is also unfair to voters because of the winner-take-all system that awards all electors to the winning president candidate.
What is voting to a citizin? Isint voting a right for citizens to vote for their president of their choice? Why take it away from them with the electoral collage. If you look at it from an american citizen prospective its like they dont even have a word when choosing their president. What di Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, The U.S. Chamber of commerce, and the AFL-CIO all agreed on? they agreed on abolishing the electoral collage! According to a Gallup poll in 2000 over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct elections.
Thank you,
Anthony camel | 1 |
Dear Senator,
The Electoral College is a very unfair to many of the states.Some states are left in the dust without being visited or even seeing anything about a campaign. Also the voting is misleading because they vote for electrols not the president which the people should be voting for.In the passage
The Indenfensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong states
" Under the electoral college system ,voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." this information tells us that Electoral College is wrong and should be changed.
Voting for a new president is left for the electors we choose as a state to pick and we dont even get a say in the matter because we can not control who they vote for and it could be very confusing and people might vote for the wrong person.In the passage
The Indenfensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong states "Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case ,Elections would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president." With this information it shows that the election is out of the people hands that are going to be governed but to the governement that can make very bad decsions and has the United States populations fate in there hands and make the wrong move and have a crisis for the next four years to come.Also the winner take all system doesnt spread eqaully through the states, In the 2nd source it states" During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina ,and voter in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad." This shows that it doesn't matter that the candidates go to get states because they only depend on certain states that have alot of elctorols like California and Texas an Ohio.
The Electoral College idea is outdated and irrational and needs new ideas that wil make voters happy. It would be easier just to have a popularity vote to pick the president instead of going through so much chaos with all the election. Ther should be campaigns and a couple of debates but then one big election that every one vote on at the same time to elect our president. This idea might help bring togetheir the population in each states to decide on one president to run our nation. The Senate and the House of Represeitatives already have a job and doesn't need to be taking the job of the citizens. To prove my point in passage 2
The
Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the sysem are wrong states "
In 1976 a tie would have occurres if a mere 5,559 voters from Ohio and 3,687 voters in Hawaii had voted theother way. The election is only a few swing voters away from catastrophe" The citizens can be confused and easily mislead if something is confusing like the Electoral College. Swing voters can change everything .
In this type of election there can also can be segregation invovled which unfair because mostly all people in the Senate and The House of Represantives are white and maybe have a problem with different races or women becoming the next president. In source 2 the last paragraph :
"It's offical: The electoral college is unfair ,outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality.And the arguments against elections are spurious at best. It's hard to say this but Bob Dole was right:
Abolish the electoral college!"
I agree with this is and I beleive that the Electoral College should be abolished because it is so unfair to the voters because thet are mislead and are not voting for the prsident but for the electors to vote for the president. I hope you agree with my opinion and decide to take this matter in your own hands and make a better election and happy citizens.
Sincerly,
PROPER_NAME | 2 |
Technology has grown in the past couple years. It has grown so much tha now computers can read human emotions. Emotions and computers normally are seperate from each other. Every human has a different emotion and ways to show these emotions. Now computers could read our emotions. With a new technology called FACS, Facial Action Coding System.
FACS could possibly affect how teachers could run a class. Teachers never truely know if a student is paying attention to the lesson or not. FACS could show the emotion of the students and teacher in a daily classroom. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modifly the lesson, like an effective human instructor"(Paragraph 6). Computers could read the emotions of studetns then give a report back to the teacher in order for the teacher to see the students emotions. The teachers could even use FACS in a lesson or a lab.
In the article "Makin Mona Lisa Smile", in the seventh paragraph it gives steps how to read emotions in person. Teachers could use the steps to explain how FACS works before a lab. Being able to use FACS in lessons/labs could interest the student in the lesson. A main class that could use it is the health class, for the emotion section of the book, or class. Friends can read their own friends emotions very well because the friends know each other so well. "For instance,you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her/his face." (Paragraph 5). Instead of teachers not being able to tell the emotion just by looking at a students face then maybe FACS could help allow the teacher to make lessons emotionally fun.
If teachers could use this type of techology in classes for lessons then maybe FACS could be a valuble thing. The teachers could use the students emotions to make a lesson good or bad. With Technology at a rise right now the students may enjoy using FACS due to the fact that it is technology. "Most human communcation is nonverbal including emotional communtion," notes DR. Huang. "So computers need to understand that, too." (Paragraph 6) FACS could also make the students want to pay attenition in class more. Each student would have a different emotion to the new technology.
Different emotions are common and there are different ways to show those emotions. This new technlolgy, FACS, could help the different emotions be caught in a class. You do not want any sleeping students in a classroom. | 2 |
I agree with a Facial Action Coding System that is used to identify human emotions."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." With a facial action coding system you could change and make the world a better place,you could get law enforcement to invest in facial action coding system's. "Eckman,has classified six basic emotions- happiness,surprise,anger,disgust,fear, and sadness-and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles." Using this type of technology can actually help a lot,you can stop teen suicides from happening,you can stop school shootings from happening...But what I mean by that is you can help the person out that's feeling grieving,depressed and mad by talking to them about their problems or maybe what's going on at home or anywhere else, you can scan that persons face and see what emotions they're feeling. Overall, I think that this could show people what technology really is about and how we can inspire kidsto do the same,it could keep kids out of trouble and give them motovation to do good things in their community or around the world. | 1 |
This passage is about the pesidants, congress and other people and groups in the U.S government. It also tells us how Presidents are picked and when it is electing time. So in this essay I'm going to tell you what all happens in the court system such as how presidents get choosen, thus the time that presidents are choosen. Also i will be tellingwhat else there is in the government
In the united States we have a president and how president is in charge of the country and what happens. He or she is in charge of what happens in other countries that can deal or harm us. So far in history we have had 44 presidents. Some presidents have done a lot more for this country then others have. Presidents are choosen every four years by voting. The people that live in the country vote out of dozens of peopel who nomenate themself as president. Then they narrow down to 2 people and they count the votes frrom there and that is how the presidents get choosen
There are other people in the government other then the president. There are poilical parties. Also canadates. they both have differnent jobs in the court system. They arent as high up in the court system as then president is but thery help the president in what they do. | 0 |
In the passage, the author believes that studying Venus is a good idea even though it has many dangers. The author gives many different reasons as to why they think that Venus is a worthy exploration. I do not think that the author supports their idea very well in the passage. The author did a poor job of supporting the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it carries.
I believe that the author does not support their opinion well in the passage. This is because they heavily focus on the negatives of exploring Venus, rather than the positives. For example, in paragraph 2, the author says, "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." Because the author included this, it automatically leaves the reader with a negative connotation towards the exploration of Venus. The author then continues to show more negatives of the exploration of Venus in the third paragraph. The author states, "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth; such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals." Once again, this makes the reader think negatively about Venus. Since the author included this in the passage, it gives the reader another reason to think poorly of studying Venus.
Another thing that the author did poorly was not including any counterarguments to the cons of exploring Venus. It seems that the author does not care about the negatives of Venus' exploration and completely ignores them. They should of included counterarguments against the cons that thy stated. If they did this, it would further prove their opinion. Instead, they just give ideas of how an expedition to Venus would occur. The author then makes it worse. In paragraph six, the author goes on to give more negatives of the process of Venus' exploration. They say, "However, peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere." This claim adds more negative to the passage. The author poorly supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit.
The author does not support their opinion that studying Venus is a good idea even though it has many difficulties. The author displays too many cons of studying Venus instead of the pros. The passage leaves the reader with a negative opinion, rather than a positive one. The author poorly executes their goal of persuading the audience that it is a good idea to explore and study Venus. | 4 |
Would you like to travel like Luke had traveled to and by cities.Being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more for Luke Bomberger.His deamnor had changed since he became a Seagoing Cowboy.He was like a kid in a candy store,for the first when he got to see all the different countries.Then the animals were happier than a dog being scrachted on the belly when they got food or water,thanks to Luke and the workers.But Luke can be gregarious around the animals since he was a nice guy.When ever he to a nice place he thought oh-my-gosh-that is-so-pretty.
Luke also had fun on board,especially on return trips after animals had been unloaded.In the empty holds where the animals would be.They would play games to pass time.When would play games that are inncouius it would just be to pass time.Some of the Seagoing Cowboys maybe
a little zealous at times.During the games people can be exited over fencing like a professinal.
On his trip,Luke served as a night watchman.So someone can keep watch over the deck of the ship,and below the deck of the ship.He does this so all the supplies and cargo doesn't get damaged or gets hurt.He likes being a Seagoing
Cowboy becauis he gets to travel ever where.Then see animals like he is use to helping out. | 1 |
Dear, state senator
The Electoral Collage was established by the very people who rote the Declaration Of Independince, some of our gratest invintors, and presidents the founding fathers. The Elcectoral Collage consits of 538 electors and only about 270 electoral votes are required to elect a president. I am in favor of keeping the Elcetoral Collage because the population is biased,and the population isnt always as smart as the people of the Electoral Collage and might not look at their criteria and stats and what quality's they have that make them a good presedent.
The Elcectoral Collage is made up of 538 elecrtorsthat are suposed to be non biased unlike the public who are very biased in ways that come down to voting for a president because of his skin color. If all of our presedints were voted in because of the race or religion we would wouldknow longer have a country, we would live in segrigation and poverty and would hve 99 cent stores.
Making a desion is some times very easie and some times very hard and most dissions are thought hard. While making a dessision on who to vote for afuture predident should take time but thats not always what happens. The public might not always take their time and look ovwr the facts and statistics on the future president and if we dint have the electoral collage we would have terrible presidents most of the time.
Inconclusion the Elcetoral collage is verry important, and we need it because the public isnt always wright even they think they are and it could have possibly saved our countries if the non elected runners for presedint would have bean president and it it possibly could have enden sufering and bad thing in out county but the Electoral Collage isnt always a good thing but its deeply needed | 1 |
This face landform stucture found on Mars was not made by any living source. I belive nature took its course and it so happened to look like a face. Eyes, nose mouth it looks like a face no doubt about it, but it cannot be stuctured by living substances. Most scientists have been saying that this face was made by aliens, but I have to disagree. It just simply can not.
I belive that the face on mars is just a natural landform because we do not even know if aliens exist in the first place. There is no prove that aliens exist so why are we jumping into the conclusion, assuming that aliens made this landform. Prove to me aliens exist then we can start thinking if they had anything to do with this. If not then I do not even think that aliens should be in this conversation. Also even If aliens made this landform that looks like a face, how can they make it like that. It is kind of a perfect face, and I belive that you need some technology to build a structure like that. I don't know how they could do all that by hand. Another topic about this landface I want to point out is the three photos. Have you not have noticed how the face changed every couple of years? Well I do. It makes me belive that nature has built that landface throughout the years withe the wind and rain and the planet shaking at times. There is basically no evidence that aliens have built this landface.
Well If you still do not belive me and still think aliens have built this landface than I think you are insane because I gave you a bunch of reasons why there is no way and there is no evidence that aliens have built this landface. Everybody should be on my side and say mother nature has built this face, but untill there is prove aliens exist I don't think aliens should be in the topic about this. | 2 |
Innocent and young, children grow accustomed to the utilization of cars in society. Hot Wheelz, battery-powered Barbie SUVs, Hess Semi-trucks, and other deviations of play-friendly cars introduce the car culture to Americans from nearly the first day out of the womb. Mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, neighbors, and grandparents depend on their cars daily. This reliance on cars consequently impacted America's environment. However, limiting car usage reduces society's carbon footprint, slowly eliminating the encompassing pollution and stress of the developed car culture.
All vehicles alike release carbon emissions into the atmosphere, polluting the air and smogging our cities. Suburbs, especially, rely on automobiles to provide needed transportion. Experts state that car transportation in suburbs "is a huge impediment" (Source 1) when discussing "efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes" (Source 1). In the car-intensive areas of the United States, passenger cars hold responsibility for "up to 50 percent" (Source 1) of greenhouse emissions. This constant car usage pollutes American skies. Elisabeth Rosenthal states that car usage reduction "will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment" (Source 4), especially in America "since transportation is the second larget source [of emissions]" (Source 4). Cutting down on cars for alternative, public, or group transportation provides a solution to the car epidemic of suburban America.
In other societies where limitations of car usage occured, the majority of its denizens replied positively. In the car-depleted suburb of Vauban, Germany, "57 percent sold a car to move [to Vauban]" (Source 1). The influential idea of a suburb without traffic jams and long drives to stores attracted 5,500 current residents of Vauban. Futhermore, car bans in Paris reduced emissions and cleansed the air "after days of near-record pollution" (Source 2) and "five-days of intensifying smog" (Source 2). During this ban, "congestion was down 60 percent" (Source 2), relieving traffic and pollution. In Bogota, Colombia, a "car-free day" (Source 3) promotes "alternative transportation and reduce[s] smog" (Source 3). One Colombian businessman commented cheerfuly, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." (Source 3). The relief of traffic results in the relief of stress, which city-drivers appreciate.
In America's evolving society, and the evolving global economy, limiting car usage stands benefically. Reducing smog, eliminating the stress of traffic, and preserving the environment, low car-usage societies appeal in all current circumstances. Progressively, the world may see a day where car usage is antiquated. | 3 |
Aliens may or may not be real, but if they were they could not make this. I know this is just a natural landform. Yes it is weird that this landform looks like a face i agree with that, but saying aliens made it is just crazy. Here are some reasons on how i know and can prove that aliens did not make this.
First if aliens did make this how could they make it. They had to have some kind of machine or something they couldn't have just built it with there hands. So if they did make it we would of seen how like some machine like i said before. Also they would of left some kind of foot mark or something they couldn't have and not left a single mark.
The second reason is if aliens made it don't you find it weird that it looks like a human face. Where or how would they get the idea of making it look like our faces. The only way they could do that is if they went to earth and saw our faces there and if there aliens on earth NASA would be the first to know.
The third reason is in unmasking the face on mars it says in paragraph 12 "What the picture actually shows is the martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landform common around the American West." Then to prove it even more it says this. "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an islolated mesa about the SAME height as the face in mar." So that just said that these "faces" are common around the American West and I'm pretty sure aliens are not on earth. So unless aliens came to earth made a face and then left without NASA seeing it would be impossible.
These are my 3 reasons on why i think it is impossible that aliens made it. It's just a natural form. I am not saying aliens are not real but i am saying that they did not make this face without us seeing it. | 2 |
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