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Have you ever wanted to travel the world? Well guess what , I did whenever I was in the Seagoing Cowboys program.
It allowed me to see the world like I never thought I could .
It was in August of 1945, me and my friend Don Reist received our orders to report to New Orleans . We arrived on August 14th the day the Pacific war ended . We both got our seaman's paper and boarded the SS Charles W. Wooster we where headed for Greece . And aboared that ship was the cargo of 335 horses ,hay,and oats to feed them .
Being in the Seagoing Cowboys allowed us to be able to see the world while we where headed for the the places we where suppost to go . What the Seagoing Cowboys was, where assigned to take care of horses , young cows , and mules that were shipped over seas. It also put me on a lot of unique adventures and also a lot of many unique places.
I had turned 18 before we arrived in Greece and that meant I could be drafted for military service . When my draft board that I had been on a cattle-boat trip , they had sais to me "Just keep doing that for my service " . By time I was drafted from my draft bored which was in 1947 I had made nine trips in totall , And that is the most of any Seagoing Cowboy
It was worth my time to be able to take those Nine trips . I was in Europe and also China . But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was my favorite of all time . It was also very fun to take a gondola ride in Italy , Venice
the city with streets of water . Being inn the Seagoing Cowboys
was one of my favorite things you can say different but I loved it . | 2 |
I believe that driverless cars are actully a bad idea. While driverless cars can help us with stuff they can also hurt us. While the car is driving without the help of humans it wont know what to do when it hits construction sites and when imdeiatite actions needs to be taken. With the human instincts not there behind the wheel the car will be more open to cullisions and massive wrecks. Driverless cars may be what people think we need but they could also mean many more accident related deaths.
Driverless cars they do alot to help us. Driverless cars can apply brakes, steer, and can even drive themselves now but is that really something you want in a car. While they can drive themselves they can't take the same action as an alert person behind the wheel. Lets take this for instance your driving down a neighbor hood street and a kid runs in the road an alert human can hit the breaks and swerve but a car wont be able to do it all that fast. The driverless cars dont have that quick instict we humans do where we can jump right into action at the sight of danger. The humans are also capable of driving slowly and safely through consrtuction zone where a car will just go the speed limit it is registered at. So driverless cars can't dp the jobs we humans can behind the wheel when driving.
With out the humans insticts the cars will be more open to wrecks as well. while even with our insticts us humans cant avoide all car crashes that happen in our life time. So if we cant do it what makes you think a car that don't have those instincts can do it either. A crash can happen in a blink of an eye and we cant always be ready. Th best we can do is hope we can apply brakes or avoide bthe cullision by going around the side. Thats the problem though going around and avoding it is not always an option. When thats the an option you have to apply th brakes quickly to reduce speed. That will take atleast a little impact away from the crash. Now cars have a breaking system in them where they apply breaks when they are close to something. If you are going down the interstate at 65mph and need to stop good luck having the car do it. By thr time you reach the cars range to apply brakes it will be to late.
Driverless cars may be what people think we need but they are not what we need. We need people to start focusing more of driving and stop being distracted. While driverless cars are becoming popular the more wrecks are increasing.along with this new technoligy is being built into cars like phones so people can call each other. This is just distracting drivers more and can lead to bigger wrecks in the future. We need to stop with the smart cars and go back to no phones and cars where humans have to drive themselves. This driverless cars are a step in the wrong direction.
So thats my view of driverless cars. I dont like them i thin they are a terrible idea and should stop being made. I dont want to see anyone else getting hurt because they were unfocused while driving. These cars will be the death of many more people then any nother kind of driving. Driverless cars cant do what humans can and they will one day be worse then drunk driving. Thats my perspective on driverless cars i dont think they should be used at all. | 3 |
Ever since their creation, cars have been the main method of transportation. However, in recent times cars have become less popular because of the issues that they cause. Limited car use would be very advantageous because vehicles discourage physical activity, make pollution, and cost everyone money.
An advantage of limiting the use of cars is that they discourage physical activity. Reliance on a motorized vehicle for transportation from place to place results in little to no physical activity. Cars have replaced the use of bicycles, skateboards, and regular walking, their use seemingly reserved only for the youth. In a car free society such as Vaunban, Germany, the "swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children" can be heard by anyone walking down the street (Source 1). This clearly shows that when cars are used less, people engage in more physical activity. This is the same case for Bogota, Columbia where the Day Without Cars is a big hit. Just in the third year of this event, over 118 miles of bicycle paths have been contructed in the city (Source 3). Limiting the use of cars is definetely advantageous because they discourage physical acticity.
Limiting the use of cars would be incredibly beneficial because they make polluation. The billions of vehicles in the world create unbelievable amounts of pollution. In Europe, "passenger cars are respondible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions" and "up to 50 percent... in the United States" (Source 1). The pollution from the increasing amounts of cars in compacted areas "are chocking cities" (Source 1). Nearly nothing else creates that much pollution. The only thing that cars are second to in the polluation rates are the monstrous power plants that continuously belch smoke into the atmosphere (Source 4). If the use of vehicles decreases, then "it will have beneficial impliciarions for carbon emissions and the environment" (Source 4). This evidence clearly supports that the use of vehicles is causing a huge amount of pollution. Thus, limiting the use of cars would be incredibly beneficial because they make pollution.
Decreased use of automobiles would be extremely advantageous because the they cost everyone money. Expenses such as constant maintanance and fuel cost the average car owner a large chunk of their salary. In April 2013, the average miles driven per person was down by 9 percent, equivalent to the rate in January 1995 (Source 4). The most likely cause is that "cash-strapped Americans could not afford new cars" (Source 4). The high cost of cars and their maintanace is a huge burden on the backs of the average vehicle owner. Not only does vehicles cost the individual person, but they have large effects on the government. In the six-year federal transportation bill, the cost of the highways was 80 percent, and only 20 percent was available to all other forms of transportation (Source 1). This issue has caused the legislators to get involved with the problem. Obviously, decreasing the amount of automobiles would be extremely advantageous because they cost everyone money.
Limited car use would be very advantageous because vehicles discourage physical activity, make pollution, and cost everyone money. | 4 |
In Making Mona Lisa Smile by Nick D' Alto, the technology used to determine what emotions people feel by using pictures of the face is a valuable tool that can be used in classrooms to make schools all over the world better for everyone. The facial emotion detection technology is useful because, the software could use pictures of students faces to let the teacher know who is confused, who understands and who is bored.
The facial emotion technology will allow teachers who have confused students to better learn by letting the teacher know that students are struggling so that the teacher can help the students on a more one to one level. This technology allows students who are normally scared to ask questions or that are very shy to not drop behind the rest of the class when they do not understand what is going on.
The emotion detection technology can help the teacher know when the class as a whole understands a subject so that they can teach in a more efficient way. The technology is helpful because, it lets the teacher know when to move on from one subject or problem to another. This is more efficient because, If a problem is understood by the class then the teacher may not even bother asking for a solution to the problem which, saves time for more important subjects or, gives more time to areas where more students are struggling.
The emotional detection software can let the teacher know when the class is bored and when they are interested in the subject, this is helpful because, the teacher can learn; how the class as a whole learns best, how to teach in a way that gets students attention and, get everyone in the class the best and most enjoyable education the teacher is able to provide.
In conclusion, In Making Mona Lisa Smile by Nick D' Alto the technology that was able to determine the emotions of Mona lisa the famous paining is helpful in the classroom because; It lets teachers know when students are falling behind, how to be more a more efficient classroom and how to provide the students with a more enjoyable and useful education. | 3 |
Dear Mr. Senator,
I have read some articles and understand what the Eletoral College does for this contry. I agree that this state needs this system instead of a popular vote. I understand that people have the right to pick and choose the president but if you think about it how many people do vote? And how many poeple vote for what they truly think is best. I have leardned that most people follow the crowd. An Electoral College is just what we need to keep the poeple safe. As explained on
What is the Electoral College?
by the Office of the Federal register "the founding fathers establsihed it in the Consitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by the popular vote of qualified citizens."
The Electoal College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote of for the president and Vice President, and counting of the electoral votes by Congress. Its a difficult process but it has worked again and again over many decades. The Electoal College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appel. which the canidate gains no electoral votes by increasing his plurailty. that is a desirable result because a candidate with only regional appeal will umlikely succed to be a president.
Now each canidate running for president has his or her own group of electors. And they are generally choosen by the canidate's political party. I understand the positive and the negative part of popuar votes and Electoral College. I also understand that just one vote can change hthe futrue of most states. How could one vote change everything? It's quite simply one vote makes one person win the presidentcy. What if that one vote changes our basic ways to live. What if that one vote can take away some of our rights. What if one vote can make the world turn into yet another great depression. The Electoral College is the way to go. As said in
The Indefenisble Electoral College by Brandford Plumer in paragraph 13 "Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in the states they know they have no chance of winning focusing only on the tight races in the 'swing' states." The Electoral has its flaws but so does the popluar vote.
But
In defense of the Electoal College by Richard A. Posner it clearly states that " Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a polical prefrence rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election...." No one wants run-off elections or an uncertainty on the outcome. Everyone want to feel safe that we're going to have a president and have no rebellons for it. The system has its flaws but it also has there advantages . Mr. Senator I strongly believe in the Electoral College system. And you should too.
Sincerely,
A student of Deltona, Florida | 1 |
THE ADVANTAGES IN LIMITING CAR USAGE ARE VERY DRASTIC. IN THIS NEW APPOROACH STORES ARE PLACED A WALK AWAY, ON A MAIN STREET, RATHER THAN IN MALLS ALONG SOME DISTANT HIGHWAY. ANOTHER POSITIVE ON PUTTING LESS TIME IN YOUR CARS IS THAT THE POLLUTION LEVELS WILL DECLINE VERY MUCH SO. CONGESTION ON THE STREETS WENT DOWN BY 60% IN FRANCE AFTER 5 DAYS OF TESTIFYING IN SMOG. "THE SMOG" WHICH IS BEJING,CHINA WHICH IS KNOWN AS THE MOST POLLUTED CITIES IN THE WORLD. WITH LESS PEOPLE AND COMMOTION IT LEFT THE ROADS CAR-FREE AND DEVOID OF TRAFFIC JAMS. THE MAIN GOAL ON PEOPLE USING LESS OF THERE CARS IS TOO PROMOTE ANOTHER WAY OF TRANSPORTATION INSTEAD OF SOMEBODY USING THIER CAR.
IF PEOPLE WERE TOO USE LESS CARS THAN IT WOULD BE A GOOD OPPURTUNITY TO TAKE AWAY STRESS AND LOWER AIR POLLUTION. IF PEOPLE USED THERE CARS LESS THAN THE COMMUNITY WOULD HAVE TO CREATE A PLACE FOR THE PEOPLE TO BE SAFE ON WHICH MEANS MORE SIDEWALKS FOR THE KIDS AND ADULTS THAT WOULD BE USING THEM. RUSH HOUR WOULD BE NO PROBLEM BECAUSE THERE WOULD BE LESS PEOPLE ON THE ROADS BESIDES ALL THE TAXIS AND BUSES. RESTURANTS WOULD BE INPACTED GREATLY BECAUSE ALOT MORE PEOPLE WOULD STOP ON THERE WAY HOME FROM THE JOB TO GET A BITE TO EAT. IF THE POPULATION KEEPS GROWING THAN THAT MEANS THE POLLUTION WILL TOO AND SO WE HAVE TO MAKE A STOP AND BETTER THIS EARTH BEACUSE BEFORE WE KNOW IT WE WILL BE BREATHING IN TOXIC GASES AND DYING! SO HELP SAVE THE EARTH AND DRIVE LESS IN YOUR CARS PLEASE FOR THE SAKE OF US ALL! | 1 |
Is studying venus a worthy pursuit ? Venus is a worthy stuying pursuit because it has many challenges but it may have been earth like. In the beginning it talks about the plant being hard to examine up close and venus havingthe hottest surface. the middle talks about Venus once being a Earth like planet and the idea from NASA and machines that will let scientists float above the venus landscape. The end talks about silicone carbide being tested over Venus's surface.
Venus is a challenging place to examine because it is really close to the sun which makes it hard to examine. According to paragraph 1 it says " While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vanatage point of Earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely." Venus is a hard planet to examine because of how close it is to the sun. None of the spacecraft's have survived the landing to Venus so no spaceships have went to Venus since. According to paragraph 2 it says " Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us." A spaceship has not went down on Venus because ofthe fails with the space creaft's.
Venus is way hotter than the temperatures is 90 times greater than what we experience on Earth . According to paragraph 3 it says "Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to the sun." Even though Mercury is closer to the sun Venus is so hot because of all the erupting valcanoes, earth strikes, and lightning strikes that may land on Venus's surface. Astronomers believe that Venus was once similar to Earth because of its features. Paragraph 4 says "today venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valley's mountains, and craters." The Astronomers think since Venus looks similar to Earth because of the rocky, mountains, and valley's type of features.
Some people may think studying Venus isn't a worthy persuit because of how dangerous it could be for astronomers to examine it. People also may think coming up with devices to make scientists float over the surface is putting them in a position of getting hurt due to all the fails that have happened.
In conclusion studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because it will make people more curious about the planet and it will also allow scientists to learn more about the planet and get a better insight up close of the planet rather than far away. With their examiniation the electronics they make will help them figure out howbthe planet was before. | 2 |
It is true that there will be a lot of benefits of having driverless cars in the future, utilizing this invention could mean less human error on the roads, having those cars to be used as public transportation could be really convenient since everyone will have access to a form of transportation especially those who do not have a car to begin with, but driverless cars might be too reliable. Although this is all well and good, there are challenges and hurdles driverless cars will have in the community, safety will still be a concern to some people.
If by any chance driverless cars are widely used and completely implented to our civilization, new laws will be made involving the safety of people when in a driverless car and everyone completely abandoned the concept of driving manually.
Now what if everything else fails and one day the driverless cars stopped working, no one will be able to get to their own destinations with ease, you will also never know when these machines will malfunction since they are completely automatic in terms of driving. Unless the issues are solved and driverless cars are safe and reliable enough, it should not be used by the community yet.
This technology is still new to us and poeple just started working on driverless cars. We as people should be a bit forgiving, and it is okay to give negative opinions about it. It just means those are the things they need to fix and it could help them improve driverless cars. I agree that a driver should be given an option for drivers to drive and use autopilot by simply giving us a feature of turning it on and off. I still do not have a good feeling of relying to machines completely, machines might be rarely making mistakes but they are far too unpredictable unlike having humans behind the wheel, which again, one of the reasons people have a concern about and requested laws and regulations from the government. In consluion, technology is great but it should not be controlling our way of life on a daily basis too much than necessary. | 2 |
In our current day and age we are making monumental discoveries and breakthroughs in technology and medicine. Mankind has risen above any previous prowess it has ever seen. In addition to the dumbfounding advances in technology already made, we have many more waiting just aruond the corner. Among these new discoveries is the autonomous car. However their seem to be many problems that could arrise with these driverless cars such as potential malfunctions in technology, legal liability difficulties in case of a crash, and the fact that they might turn on us.
While the idea of driverless cars may seem far off it is actually much closer than most would pressume, with Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan all planning to relearse autonomous cars by 2020 as seen in paragraph ten of the source document. However, one of the obsticles of the driverless car is the potential for the technology to malfunction. "Some manufacturers hope to do that by bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over", if the technology formerly mentioned were to malfunction the potential injury and death would be imminent.
With the incident of a crash involving an autonomous car invlolved many legal issues would arise. Foremost among these potential legal disputes would be that of liabilty. While paragraph nine reveals that the majority of states do not allow autonomous cars, "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers. Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars.", the problem of liability, weather it be the driver or the manufacturer at fualt, still arises.
At the very forefront of all of the issues and potential problems with the idea of the autonomous car is the imminent, unavoidable threat that they would undoubtedly turn on us. As seen in Terminator 3 Judgement Day, the technology would gain a mind of its own and begin to destroy all of the humans. The cars would begin to crash themselves and run down helpless pedestrians with cute little puppies and ice cream. Most likely the cars would soon adapt after the military got involved and begin to mount machine guns, artillery and any other gun the could think of or pruduce. they would being to be made with faces and would look like a cross between Arnold and Lightning McQueen. dropping out of autonomous helicopters to destroy us all with their evilishy cute murderous faces.
While there are many other reasons and evidences for not prudicing the machine which will kill us the three most important have been touched upon today. Therefore because of the potential malfuntcion in technology, legal obscurities and impening armageddon and war between man and machine the autonomous car should not be produced or pursued any further. In conclusion, aim for the head, do not get bitten and beware the machines. | 2 |
I am against using the value of technology to read students' emotional expressions. I'm not saying that this type of technology is bad though it isn't good either. I feel like this type of technology has no purpose what so ever.
In paragraph five it states that "you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by looking at their face." If I could do that why do I need a computer to tell me that they are happy, sad and whatever else. Just by looking at the Mona Lisa painting you can tell that she is somewhat happy but also doesn't seem like she cares about being painted. Why do we need to calculate emotions to know just exactly how a person is feeling?
In conclusion we don't need this type of technology just to see what a person is feeling. It mostly feels like a waste of time at least to me. | 1 |
Venus, a planet, also know was Evening Star, is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky which is a misleading point since Venus is a planet thats is the second planet from our sun and often referred as Earth's twin due it being the closest planet to Earth in terms of its density and size and its occasionally distance as well. In space terms Venus is considered to be right around corner which has lead to humans sending many of their spacecraft to land their spacecraft on Venus which caused each previous mission to be considered unmanned mainly because no spacecraft has survived the landing for more than a few hours and as a result it explains the reason why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades and that nemerous factors contribute to Venus´sreputation as a challenging planet to study, despite is proximity to us.
Venus has conditions that are far more extreme than anything humans can encounter on Earth and also notable Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun. Mercury planet surface temperature averages over 8000 degrees Fahrenheit and the atomsphereic pressure that is 90 times greature than we experience on our planet and such an environment would even crush a subermarine that is made to explore the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals. Venus has a thick atmosphere that is made of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide and blankets Venus. The most challenging are the clouds that are highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus´s atmosphere. Venus geology and weather introduces natural disaters such as erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes and frequent lightning strikes, which makes it harder to land on Venus without experiencing one of these dangers.
Despite Venus being very dangerous, astronomers are fascinated by Venus because they believed it was once have been the most Earth-like planets. Astronomers also believed Venus was once covered largely with Oceans could have supported various form of life we may have not been familiar with just like on Earth. Venus also some things that are simlar to Earth such as the rocky surface that include familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. Venus can also be considered our nearest option for a planetary visit, which is a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel.
Trying to exceed the challenges showned by Venus has its uses because human cruiosity will likely lead us into many equally problems in the futures. and our adventures on Earth should be limited by dangers and doubts but a determination of that should expand our very limits. | 0 |
Automatic cars. They've been invented like everyother automatic thing in the world just to make humans more lazy. There can be nothing good about automatic cars. What if they run out of batter down a four lane highway? What if they run out of gas? What exactly will the cars be run on? No matter what there will always be risks.
Say you and your family are driving down the road in one of these automatic cars and maybe the road is icy. The car slides but no computer can drive like human driver. The car slides off the road into a ditch and kills every member of that family. Who is to blame? The car, or the manufacturer? The manufacturers of the car, if they want to sell the product make sure that the car is totally accident proof. And that is completely impossible. With drunk drivers to texting drivers. You never know what the person coming at you is doing. You can never predict what that driver is gonna do while they're coming at you. And it's not your fault. So why would anyone ever want something they don't have complete control over?
Another thing. We have automatic trains and subways cars yes. But, they are guided on a rail that is also watched over by a trained person. These automatic cars have no complete guide and just go off of gps? Sun flares cause gps and phones to go wack every now and then. So what happens when we have a sun flare and the car shuts down or malfunctions while its going say 50-60 mph? That could kill and entire family and some. Again, who is to blame for that? Who is to be at fault for something like that caused by nature? You can't do anything to prevent it. It's impossible.
How expensive will these be? Only the rich will have them. These aren't something that just everyone will be able to get there hands on. Like Hover Boards. They sell for around 700 dollars and they catch on fire. What kind of waste of money will it be if people go to pay for an expensive car and it malfunctions in the first day that they get it. many companies will lose alot of money and there isn't a thing they can do about it. There are too many risks to the automatic cars.
All though the risks are there, the grand theft auto crime rate would go down. I mean, how would one go about stealing an automatic car? How would the get away quickly if the car doesn't even go fast enough? Atleast police would have to worry about people trying run from them in one.
In the world of automotives, people have to be careful on what they buy. Is it safe for the family? Is it fun? Is it reliable? The risk is too high to have completely
automatic cars. There will always be something that could break, or just not work.
If they could make a car that is "automatic" but at the sametime can be controlled by a driver, then you have a product worth selling. At one moment if a mother needs to take care of her child, she could put the car into say something like an autopilot and take care of her child. But only for a short period of time would the thing work. Then if the roads are bad or say you need to be able to control the car from and accident then you could rely on the car and not have to worry about a thing. Yes it could still malfunction but, you are less likely to crash whne the roads are bad or someone is about to hit you.
There will never be a completely safe car but manufacturers have it down to where ford can automatically back up and parrellel park themselves with a camera. Cars will always be expensive, and cars will always be dangerous. | 3 |
The facial acting coding system that is being used to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because it can tell exsacaly how somone is feeling rather they are sad or happy just by their facial expressions . In the text its states that the whole process bgins when the computer contructs a 3-D computer mode of face;all 44 major muscles in the mode move like humans muscles. It also staes that six basic emotions was classidied happiness,suprised, anger,disgust,fear,and sadness. It associate with each characteristic movement of the facial muscles during the process your frontalis pars laterails muscles above your eyes raises your eyebrows when you are suprised ,and the orbicularis oris around your mouth tightens your lips to show that you are angery. The text also states that even though some people often show varying degrees of expression like smiling as broadly using video imargey the new emotion recognition software tracks the facial movements in a real face or in a painted face. They do this by weighting the different units,also the software can identify mixed emotions. It is hard trying to decribe each facial trait that conveys happy or mad so dr huang observed that artists like vindic studies human anatomy to help them piant facial muscles enough to convey specific emotions. His software stores anatiomical information like electronic code the technology can always reconize when a student is bored or confused it also can make computers animated faces more expressive for video games or video surgery. The technology can also indicare the diffrents between a genine smile and a forced smile its just all about those muscular action units. I think this technology to read the emotional exspressions of students in your classroom is really valuable because we dont know or have any technology that can read every emotion that you are feeling and that others around you are feeling | 1 |
The article is obviously talking about the Making of Monalisa Face. It talks too about the Facial Action Coding System. It´s a program or system that knows if you are sad, mad, happy, etc. The guys who are helping now are Prof. Thomas Huang and Prof. Nicu Sebe. The creator of Facial Action Coding System is Dr. Paul Eckman.
The FACS can know if your sad. I need to say it is very cool. Thats how far technology is going. A computer can know your emotions. Dr. Eckman has classified six basics emotions, happines, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. Its all about the movement of the muscles.
In conclusion its not an important thing to have in this world but is kind of nice been able to see if the person in the pictur was happy or sad etc. Dr. Eckman is a really samrt men, Prof. Thomas and Prof. Nicu too. So if you want to know if your friend is sad take a picture of him. Do the process and show it to him Im sure he will be surprise. I really think this is a good idea, we can know if the presidents or old history people were happy or sad. | 1 |
Driverless Cars Essay
Are driverless cars dangerous to the community? They help us get by in life. They make life better for us so we don't have to walk everywhere. Especially the places we need to get to in a hurry. This passage about driverless cars can help human beings make the world a better place.
The human race has been able to use this technology for a while. A quote from this passage states,"Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009" (Driveerless Cars Are Coming, paragraph 2). This is important to know because human beings could have been using this technology for a long time. Something that this is also useful for is to make the driver more aware of their surroundings. One quote from the passage that helps with this atatement says,"The google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over" (Driverless Cars Are Coming, paragraph 7). This is important to know because the car alerts the driver of when they need to be ready to drive. Some downsides to this idea is the fact that not a lot of people would want a driverless car that still needs a driver. a quote from the passage that helps with this satatement says,"Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver." (Driverless Cars Are Coming, paragraph 8). this is important to know because many people wouldn't think that it's a driverless car if it still needs a driver.
Driverless cars aren't dangerous to the community. They can make life better for civilization. They can helps us run with our daily activities.
Human beings won't need to worry so much. In what way is a driverless car bad for society? How can they make the world harder for the human race to live in? | 2 |
Venus is sometimes called Earths twin. Whyit is called that is
because Venus is the closest planet to earth. How Venus is the closest planet to earth is because of the size and density. Occcasionally it is the closest distance to earth too. Venus atomsphere is almost 97 percent carbon. Should humans study Venus if even there are great dangers with it.
One reason it should not be futher studided is because most forms of light cannot pentrate the atomsphere. This affects them by not being able to take pictures and or videos. What they would have to do if they cannot take pictures or videos is make a base and study Venus from there. Thats alot of work bringing materials up there to make a base to study venus. The point is it would be a pain to bring materials up there make a base then try to study it which they might not be able to do.
Second thing about Venus is you cannot take samples from a distance. How are astromners supposed to get samples if they can barley see up close because light cannot pentrate the atomsphere? What are they going to do take a pick axe or a drill and just start mining. What if some piceases of the planet are explosive at they hit a part of the planet then it explodes. What are they going to do if that happens?
Third is why would we study the planet if pretty much we cant live on it. If the light cannot pentrate the atomsphere what are we going to do live in the dark. Humans cannot live in 170 degrees fahrenheit unless some how they can adapt or get everybody suits to wear. Astronmers say that Venus long ago was coverd in lakes and mountains like earth is now. If they find that water is on Venus it would be a good study if not it would not be worth it.
Should humans go more indepth in studying venus even though there are alot of dangers? No there are too many dangers and what could they get out of it.
No matter what Venus is still a planet. Its just not a planet that should be more indepth in studying. There are too many dangers in studying Venus. | 2 |
Cars have been helpful to citizens since before the 1800s. They transport us wherever we need to go and allow us to get to our destination faster then walking. Cars are more bad then helpful to human beings and nature in many ways. Limiting car usuage is probably the smartest thing in helping everyone in the world and keeping our planet clean. Instead of driving a car everyday which makes a big difference can also effect us to start walking once in while and effect our exercising. There are many advantages in limiting car usuage such as stopping air pollution, lowering gas prices, and worrying about our health. Citizens will never stop driving cars even if the cars are flying in the sky, but it would be an amazing way to start 50% of people to start using cars for only needs.
An advantage in limiting car usage is stopping air pollution. Air pollution has been a big deal since all transportions such as cars,train, and airplanes were created. If us as citizens stop air pollution, it can drop a high number of people that have conjestion problems and stop smog from appearing. Also, the change in temperature of cold nights and warm days will cause our cars to trap the emissions which is making it even worse. Limiting car usuage to eliminate pollution we see everyday can cause a cleaner air that we breath and preventing alot of heart problems. Also,pollution does not just affect us but animals too. By driving our cars daily,polluting the air can cause an animal to be extinct.
Gas prices are an important thing to a car. Citizens pay weekly to add more gasoline to there car which is expensive. Decreasing the amount of time we drive a car can give us twenty dollars back into our bank a week. Gas is what causes air pollution to enter the air and cause us humans to have health problems. Having a car really makes alot of things complicated and stressful with money,health, and our planet. Also, taxes on gas causes us to be upset because we get our money taken away to keep our veihcles on the road to get where we need to go. Limiting car usuage will help everyone have less problems.
Limiting ourselves to driving a car everyday will help everyone. If we started to walk more or have hybrids , that helps the planet and us rather then polluting and suffering under gas. Biking is a healthy way of transportation because we are exercising and not wasting money on gas. We do not need to stop driving because it is necessary that we need veihcles to go places and take us to see other people as well but limiting ourselves to driving less then 7 days a week, 24 hours will help everyone. Even completely not have having a car is a brilliant decision for people who do not depend on driving or spending money on gas. We would be alot more caring towards nature and having more advantages towards car usage. | 2 |
Venus sounds like a really cool planet from all of the things I've read from this passage. The author has done really well in supporting this claim because he/she explained where Venus is, said why venus could be very challening to explore, and what NASA can try to do to complete the challenging exploration of venus.
My first reason of my the author has done on this claim is that he/she explained where Venus is located in space. according to the passage Venus is the second planet from the sun. Also it is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size and the closest in distance. It is said that both Venus and Mars are Earth's planetary neighbors. Earth, Venus, and Mars all orbit the sun in different speeds.
My second reason is why Venus could be very challenging to explore. It might not be a good idea for humans to got to Venus because it could be really hostile for people. NASA might have a possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus. In other words its not proven to be safe around Venus yet but through time NASA will firgure out a way for sure if Venus is safe for us nor not.
My last reason is what NASA can try to do to complete the challenging exploration of Venus. It is said as of now that scientists are seeking a way to get close and personal to Venus despite the risks. They are trying to find a way to make our vehicles to last longer to get more information on Venus. They are also working on other approches to studying Venus. NASA has old computers called mechanical computers. Mechanical computers were created in the 1800's and played a big role in World War 2.
In conclusion, the author has done a fantastic job on getting information on whats going on with NASA and Venus. Venus isn't confirmed on being a planet that we can live on but NASA is doint their best to see that they can do in order to see if we can. | 2 |
The technology to read students' emotional expressions known as the "Facial Action Coding System" is helpful and valuable. The advanced technology could help modify a lesson on a computer when a student is showing signs of boredom, help with communication skills, and tell whether or not a person or celebrity is lying due to facial muscles.
In paragraph 6 the article explains how if the "Coding System" were to be in computers in classrooms, it could help modify lessons for students who get bored. Dr. Huang states "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson , like an effective human instructor," and this technology could help "make computer animated faces be more expressive for video games and video surgery." Also in paragraph 6 Dr. Huang states "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication, so computers need to understand that too." meaning that in day to day life humans interact by facial movements or gestures so if computers could read those expressions and gestures, life could be made easier. Finally, in paragraph 8 it reads "muscles called orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus make crow's-feet around your eyes. But in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risouris." showing how "these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a smiling politician or celebrity isn't being truthful." So in the classroom if a student was being untruthful the computer would be able to detect when the student is lying due to their facial muscles.
In conclusion, the technology to read students' emotional expressions known as the "Facial Action Coding System" is helpful and valuable. The advanced technology could help modify a lesson on a computer when a student is showing signs of boredom, help with communication skills, and tell whether or not a person or celebrity is lying due to facial muscles. | 2 |
Cars have been used for as long as we can remeber. They have made traveling a whole lot easier. You may be surprised about how many citizens are no longer using a car to get to places. Three advantages of limiting car usage are less pollution,more time and healty life,and it improves safety.
To begin with cars have givin us both advantages like faster traveling time but they have also given us disadvantages. Most of us can agree that cars have caused some of the pollution that we have now. The cold nights and warm days have caused th car emissions to be traped in our atomsphere. In Paris,one of the biggest capital has a big amount of cars that nearly had a new record of pollution. Acording to
Elisabeth Rosenthal, from the new york times "passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe."
Research has also found out that Paris have more smog then any other European capitals. After not using their cars the smog quickly reduce. In the capital of France congestion was 60 percent down after five-days of being unable to use their cars.
Another thing that is also giving us a more healty live and more time.
"Rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic" according to Andrew Selsky, from the seattle times.
A businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza said "
It's a Good opportuinty to take away stress and low air pollution."
Parks and sports centers are now starting to get bigger and appear more through the city. More people have also started using the sidewalks or get on a bicycle. Malls are now closer, leaving you able to walk to it. You can now hear the swishs of bicycles and children talking instead of the sounds of cars.
Last of all,it improves safety of many people. Since there are less cars on the street there are less chances of car crashes. Parents can know be less worried about their child being run over. Car crashes caused by drunk drivers are also less liklely to happen. People now take public transportations or car-pool with friends making it more safer.
In conclusion, car have been around for a long time. They have givin us advantages and disadvantages. There are many advantages towards limiting car usage. Three of these reasons are less pollution,more time and healty life,and it improves safety. | 2 |
The use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable in a student classroom. Teachers should be able to tell when a student is happy, sad, or angry. This isn't a good idea because it's a big risk money wise, is not guranteed to do its job, and most students wouldn't allow a computer to scan their face.
This idea isn't good because in order to do this, the creator will have to risk a very large amount of money. The computer sounds like it will be a success but it really won't. If this computer was built it will be very expensive and most schools wont be able to afford it. If they want to make something like this it shouldn't be used to calulate someone's emotions.
Another reason why this idea really isnt good is because the computer is not guranteed to do its job. Not everything goes as planned, and a computer can't scan somebody and expose how they feel. Making this will be a waste of time and money that can be put into something else that's better. Why make a computer to tell how somebody feels when your famiy or friends can easily tell how you feel by the look on your face with no computer.
In reality, most students wouldn't allow a computer to scan their face because it will make them feel uncomfortable. A student wouldn't want to sit in front a computer and listen to the computer tell how they feel. The text states that if you smile when a web ad appears a similar ad will follow, and if you see a ad you dont like the next one will be different. So making this computer will not be a valuable thing in a student classroom.
In my conclusion this computer will be a waste of time if it was actually created.If this computer was actually going to be made it will be a big risk of losing a lot of money. The computer also isn't guranteed to do its exact jon and most students wouldn't allow for a computer to tell them how they feel. | 2 |
From Luke's piont of view covincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program.
There are three reasons why you and others should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. One of them is taking care of animals, the other one is having unbelievable trips, the last one is the jobs you do and the free time.
The first one were going to talk about are taking care of the animals.
When you join the Seagoing Cowboys program you have to care the horses until they go to a different person.
Another supporting detail is about the cows, you need the cows to get the milk from or what are the others participates going to drink.
The last supporting detail is the mules that were shipped overseas.
Those were all the supporting details for the reason about taking care of animals.
The other reason that were going to support is the unbelievable trips they travel by.
The first supporting detail is about the cattle-boat trips they get when they participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. Also, we get to tour an excavated castle in Crete.
they also marveled at the Panama Canal on there way to China. That is another reason why you and the others should participate.
The other reason you should join is you got to do many jobs so you won't be bored, and you also get free time.
One job you get is being a night watchman you get to check on all the animals every hour.
Another one is cleaning up. You have to feed and water the animals two or three times. Bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship, and also the stalls had to be cleaned.
Those were all the reasons and supporting details of why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program.
There were three things to support my reasons in each paragraph.
That is why people should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 2 |
My positon on driverless cars is to just be in the car. Driverless cars should already be invented because some people dont drive or dont like to drive. Its just like a taxi but better. Google has cars that drive independently under specific conditions since 2009. Driverless cars should be just like google cars because its lets you know when someone is about to hit your car and has a alert on them when the driver is pulling out the driveway or dealing with complicated traffic issues.
There thinking about making computer driving cars. There should be a driverless car if you dont know how to drive, it helps out alot. The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepair to take over. The driverless car is not good to buy because you still need a driver for the car so its bacicly a waste of your money. They should have a car that automaticly drives for you without a driver or nothing.
The manufacture is at fault because he made the car and its suppost to be a driverless car. Cars by 2020 would be able to drive themselves. The real driverless car is going to be great when it comes out because people really want have to drive at all. We are getting closer to our destination everyday. The gm has developed drivers seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. | 0 |
in this passage it gives many examples on why driverless cars are good and it also gives many reasons why it is not. Honestly im on the no go side. There are a few reasons why. there is that when there are no drivers that means you dont get to enjoy family time. Another reason is that what would happen if something glitched and went out of control and killed someone who would get blamed for that the manufacture or the owner. the third reason is kids my age wouldnt get to enjoy driving for the first time or getting their permit. Those are the reasons why I dont think driverless cars are a good idea.
What I mean when I say family time is that when my family and I go on a trip we try to have fun playing the license plate game where you try to find the alphabet by going in order from a to z on peoples license plates. I would think that there wouldnt be as much fun if there was someone driving. another thing is everyone would get tired of eachother if no one was driving because everyone would be looking at eachother playing games and after a while it gets boring. If there was a driver the people that are getting annoyed with eachother can switch with the driver and then problem solved until someone needs to switch again.
I think that it would not be smart to get driverless cars cause of malfunctions glitches and other problems with electronics. Imagine that you are in your awesome new driverless car and you put your desination in and it goes, so your just sitting there and a malfunction happens and you hit a family thats on a walk would you be the one to blame for it or the manufacture. That would be something that would be a lot of trouble for the person who hit the family if they were driving there would be no malfunction or glitch that would happen. I understand the reason people want driverless cars but what happens if stuff like that happens how would the people with that car feel. People buying the cars have to think of all the posibilities that could happen if something in the car goes wrong.
I'm not sure how other kids feel about driving and getting their permit but I know I love driving anytime I can I will because the fact that I am so close to be able to drive around on my own, not having to ask people to take me places it makes me feel independent. If driverless cars come into play then kids wont get to feel that rush and the feeling of being independent cause it's going to go back to you asking your car to take you places not people. I know that not all teens my age want to drive or even like driving but the teens my age who do will miss out on it and it will suck and how will they feel if something goes wrong with the car.
All of the reasons I mentioned are because its all true just think on all the things it would take away from our society today. Kids wouldnt have as good of personalities as they do. Malfunctions would happen people could die and it would take tolls on the people who owned the car. The other kids my age wouldnt get to feel the rush of driving on their own. These reasons would change the society for the worse I think its better to have cars run on electricity not gas but not to where it drives on its own. | 2 |
What is your point of view on this argument that we are discussing today here in the Sunshine State? The Florida Senator should consider keeping the Electoral College voting system to choose our President because the founding fathers of the United States established this system. The popular vote is terrible because in some cases it might be teens or young people that don't know about poltics or what they want to give to this country or state. They vote on the things that interest them, not the country. When you vote for anything, your main pryority is "Does this make the country a better place and will bring more benefits to the people in this country or state"?
The Electoral College voting system is much easier to count who won because its a "winner-take-all" system. This can be seen when " The popular vote was very close in Florida [in 2012]; nevertheless Obama, who won that vote, got 29 electoral vote"(Source #3). This example shows even tho the popular was very close, Obama still won Florida and got those 29 electoral votes. There is a another way people view the Electoral College and they say that the "Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational"(Source #2). They also say the best argument against the Electoral College is the disaster factor.
Each person has their own point of view about each thing but mine is that we should stay with the Electoral College system because it benefits the people in Florida and the United States.
For example, "In [2012's] election, for example, Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney. . . . Because almost all states award electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis, even a very slight plurality in a state creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state"(Source #3). This shows a certainty of the outcome for that state. This also cause candidates to not spend their time in states "they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states"(Source #2).
Therefore, we should consider keeping the Electral College for various reasons. The Electoral College has been the voting system of our country all along. Why should we change the tradition that our founding fathers left for us? Eveything in life happens for a reason, I would appeciate it if you could the the Electoral College in this beautiful Sunshine State, Florida. | 3 |
Wouldn't it be amazing and such a relief if humans themselves, didn't have to drive their cars everywhere? Driverless cars, I am all for them. WIth driverless cars I am almost positive it isnt a hassel going anywhere. If you are too tired, too sick, or too anything you would still be able to get in your car and drive off, except it'd do it on its own. I think that driverless cars would be good for our world considering physically driving humans always get into crashes.
With this kind of car, there would be less crashes.Car crashes are one of the biggest reasons for death anymore. From being drunk, to texting, to being exhausted, to just not thinking, crashes are all around. Howeever, with a driverless car, that is less likely to happen, considering the fact that the ill person would have nothing to do with the engine, or steering wheel , or even the car itself. This is a wonderful way to prevent one of the leading causes of death. Automobiles that can handle themselves would be the best thing to ever happent ot his country. ''
Life itself would be easier if we all didn't have to drive manually. So much could be done, and prevented. Just think of a world where you are just sitting in fron of a wheel, without your hand pressed up against it, and you being one hundred percent alert on the road, terrified if someone is going to make the right or wrong move. Instead, its not your choice on whether or not you crash, it is the cars choice. | 2 |
Dear Senator, i am writing this letter in regaurds to the way we citizens vote. I feel as though we should vote using the popular vote. There are many different reasons i feel so strongly about this. So i will start telling you why i feel so strongly about this.
First,i think that the President and Vice President should be choose by our votes. The reason being is becasue we know what we want for our country. we look for the good and things like that in our president. I think it is only fair that we use the voting tecnique most votes because that means everyone gets a say on who runs our country.
Another reason i think we should go that route is beacuse people sometimes feel left out in all the things that have to do with our country. People want a president that keeps his/her word and one that can be the right person for the job. They want someone who knows who to be a leader because the person who gets chosen has this job for 4 years. I think that people have a right to vote for who they want to vote for not who the electors pick . I have no idea if this is aking any type of sense but i am writing this the best way i understand it.
That is how i feel about this whole thing i think people should have equal rights. I also think that people should be able to pick who they want to be their leader. They should be able to view thier opitions and see what is best for not only the country but aslo their familes and themselfs. That is all i have to say about this whole thing. | 2 |
The use of tecnology reading your face is a bad idale for some things but not all things. Emotions are what humans have. The Facial coding system enables computer to read face exspreshions like happy ,sad,frown,fear,disgust,anger,and suprise. The Coding system should not be on every ones computer becuse some people hate adds and the system would just keep showing diffent ones each time.
On the Facial Action Coding System would not be bad if you could shut it off and on other then it being on non stop all day tring to read your face. The program would be alsome to look at old pitures to see if they were happy or what not. the program makes a 3-D face that has all 44 major muscles in the model . It has to move like a human face dose.
The Facial Action Coding Systm would be cool if the creater could make it read other creachers like cat or a dog for we could see how they feel. cats wag there tail but my cat is happy when he wags his tail what dose that mean than?
My dog growls when he vplays what dose it mean? Maby later on they can move on from human faces to other animal faces.
Dr. Paul Eckter man has alot of good idals with his program. He just needs it were the people can turn it on and off othere than being on all the time. like how when some people are angry they turn tv on or funny videos. That could turnout to becume disaster.
The Facial Action Coding System is a good idal for school work for if the student would get bord it could change there studing ways up or class room asiments. The program could read diffent shown emotions in the program. In fact us human perform the same impresive caculation every day.
The "Making Mona Lisa Smile" was neat to see what the program had to say. The Facial Action Coding System read the Mona Lisa painting and it said she was 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted,6 percent fearful,and 2 percent angry.
The Facial Acting Coding System is a great program and in time it could read how humans feel and animals in the future. I think it will be a great program for computer to have. As long as you can turn them on and off at times. It would be a good way to get rid of adds.
Dr. Huang thinks that Da Vinci studied human anatomy to help him paint facial muscles precisly enough to coney specific emotions. The program would help the police with criminals becuse it would read there face and tell them what going on . | 2 |
According to the author of the "Challenges of Exploring Venus," he believes that it is a good idea to pursue more knowledge of the planet Venus. The author feels that getting to know our sister planet is important, and that there are ways to explore this planet safely and effectivly. The author gives great examples of ways too explore the planet safely and effectivly, also he gives reasons why it would be beneficial.
Pursuing and expanding our knowledge of venus is beneficial in many ways and can be safely done. Venus having an average of 800 degrees fahrenheit on its surface, make's it virtually inhabitable to humans. These conditons are so extreme the author explains that "such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed too diving to the deepest parts of our oceans." Venus has very harsh conditions and it make's it virtually impossible to explore it from the surface and proposes a tough challenge on finding alternatives ways to explore it. Although, NASA has proposed an idea to explore the harsh planet. NASA believes we can explore the planet from a distance approximately 30 miles away. The author explains that the pressure would be comparable to sea level on earth, tempature would be around 170 degrees. The author states that "Not easy conditions but survivable for humans." The mission would propose great danger and it would be a expontential battle, but with the right people and technology it could be done and accomplished. The benefit is the knowledge gained from this great planet that has had the world beat for a long time, it is time to step up to the challenge and explore Venus for the people of this world.
In conclusion, the author supports the exploration of Venus, and is open to finding ways to explore this harsh planet. He believes that the knowledge we would gain from Venus would be very beneficial to the people. He believes that mankind has endured many other harsh endeavors such as the exploration of Venus, and the curosity of mankind will likely lead us to exploring the great hot planet of Venus. | 2 |
I think that driverless cars sound pretty cool. People don't need driverless cars though. When driverless cars are made, people might start texting while the car is driving thinking they're still safe when they could still be in danger. Driverless cars is a good and bad idea, its cool but it could still be dangerous. I think they should not make driverless cars because we don't need them when we can drive on our own. Since it is computer what if hackers hijacked it? Or maybe it messed up because its computer made and the driver has no control? There are many things that could possibly happen since its "computer driven". There was something on the news before about people hijacking cars and other things, think about how easy it could be to get control of a computer driven vehicle, it would probably be more easy. If they are gonna bring them I think they should add security or something, maybe do a whole bunch of tests with devices to make sure that it's safe. This vehicle doesn't just put the driver in danger, but it also can put other peoples life in danger. If a person crashed into another person they could die. I know for sure that when I get older and start driving, I probably wont get a driverless car if they come out because in my opinion I think that these sound pretty dangerous and I don't wanna get hurt or something to happen. This actually probably could help people who are hurt/injured who can't drive get to places possibly. So I think maybe they could add them aslong as they make sure its as safe as possible. | 1 |
Although the year is 2016 and we were promised hoverboards, flying cars, automatic tieing shoes, and self fitting jackets by 2015, we arent exactly falling behind in the race of technology. With driverless cars we are one step closer to a much safer, and easier driving experience. In the not to distant future we wont have to make dad stay awake the whole drive to Disney world just to make it there on time. We no longer will have to hop in our vehicles when we are moving and have to go back and forth and back and forth from our old home to the new. Instead all that will be required of us is to pack the car full of items and ship out the car and have someone ready to unload it.
And watch out BP! With the new driverless cars we will being making half as many stops for gas than we have ever had to before! Last, but most definatly not least important is your safety. In the new smart driverless cars accedents are surely to drop a hefty percent. Keep your eyes on the horrizon, or close them and take a nap while the the car takes the wheel.
Everyone can relate to those long hauls to out of state, whether it be for vacation, visiting relatives, or work. The most memorable part, for myself at least, was wondering where we were going to stop and sleep, or if dad was going to just keep on driving. That will be something of the past in the not so distant future. As of now the cars we have can drive on there own.. Most of the time. There are still some trouble spots such as traffic jams, work zones, and accidents. In the previously stated mishaps the current versions of the cars will promptly alert the driver that there may be an upcoming event in which they will have to intervene.
Gas in the surrounding area currently is sitting around $2.75. From what I know the average car can hold somewhere around 30 gallons of gas. Lets say you fill up your tank and ride until its empty and then fill it up again, and lets also say that it takes you about a week to empty your tank. So on monday you fill it up for around $82.50. Come next weeks monday you need to fill up for another $82.50. In a span of two weeks you have spent $165.00. There are about 4 weeks in a month so that will be $330.00 a month. But you dont just drive your car for a month, so for a year you will be paying roughly $3960 a year! In the new driverless cars they can take that almost $4000 and cut it down to around $2000 since with the technology in the new cars you will be stopping in at a gas station about half as many times as you would be if you were driving in one of the old cars.
The complany Google has sent out a fleet of driverless cars already (with drivers in them ready to take the wheel at any given moment.) to help further the progress towards these great machines. They have driven around half a million miles (500,000 miles!) and are yet to crash. Google´s Toyota Prius is modified with position-estimating sensores on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS reciever, and an inertial motion sensor. With this massive combonation of the latest technology we can say goodbye to blindspots for good!
Safety, luxery, money. All three of those are what the new smart driverless cars are offereing. It is almost our duty to open our arms to the advance of this technology. With Google at the helm of the team that will bring us the cars we need and deserve, they will be in the news quite soon. | 4 |
There is a lot of things people want to do in this world. Usually people would want to just go to a beatiful place but reading this passage theres a different goals going on in this passage and in life.
When I had started reading this passage I hadn't known that much about the planet venus at all. I knew in my head deep down that venus is closer to the sun. Deep down its scary to think that someone wants to go to that planets its so hot on the planet and there a lot of dangerous and unhabitable things going on there. An example of what goes in venus would be there being a heat wave of 110 degree's farenheit. Venus would be 8 times more heat than that of earth and thats just the climate that is on that planet. In one of the passages it had that '' If our sister planet is so inhospitable, Why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface?'' I would say that scientists want to explore more planets because they want to see what is out there in space even though the risks. The thought about going to a different planet has been in scientists head for a long time so doing so would be a huge accomplishment done by us. One of the goals the scientistes want to do is inhabit venus because it was once like earth time-ago.
I would say that there is a lot of goals in this passage and in life, I had talked about somewhat the goals in this essay. The passage was good and interesting learning all the thing that I had read. | 1 |
In this essay I am going to talk about NASA discussing the Face with, someone who thinks it was created by aliens and I am suppose to convince that is wasn't a alien who, made the Face. Why don't I believe that wasn't a alien because it could have been a rock that landed and it shaped the Mars into a face in 2001.
So why I don't think aliens made it beacuse aliens aren't real, and they would have did something different probably if they were real. In this essay I don't think it was by aliens because it says " The caption noted a "huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nise, and a mouth.
I don't think aliens made this because of the pictures and things. They would have showed up and given us a sign that they were there and there are satellites up that takes pictures of all the things and planets.
For my conclusion I think aliens did not make the Face because of many reasons and because, of the technology today we could have picked up a signal or something because, of the satellites and all of the technology we have today. | 1 |
I think that this new software, the Facial Action Coding System is good idea and a really great system. Because me myself I have friends that will say there fine when I really know there and it and it would be really nice to have this just so your really knew how there are feeling. And I think its super smart that the system uses the 44 major muscles. One thing that I don't like about the system is that someone could use it on me and then someone. Like my mom could and would be able to tell when I'm not ok or when im upset. But I guess if I wanted this to use on my frinds then there is a down fall. And that would be the software could get into my moms hands, But hey you lose some and you win some. Over all I like it and wouldnt mind have it. | 1 |
I believe that keeping the Electoral College is the best way to vote. I think it would help voters vote on their own. It would also decrease the rates for voting just a little bit. Some people might disagree with me because they think that election by popular vote for the president of the United States would pick the best president for thier country.
If I were old enough to vote I would want to pick the candidate who I thought would be able to lead my country in the right direction. But if the election is based on popular votes, I would feel as if my vote didnt matter. What if many people voted for one candidate but the popular vote selectes the other? Then people would feel like there is no need for voting. We should be able to pick our own president rather than having other people decide for us.
Not evreybody has the opportunity to vote. But some people do, they just dont want to. Other dont think that their vote matters. I think that the rate for voting will go down if we have to pick a president by a popular vote. Then people who have been voting will stop voting because they would feel like there is no need to. I would feel the same way.
Keeping the Electoral College would help get more voters. I believe it would increase the rates for voting. But it wont if there thinking about changing it to a popular vote. I mean I understand people might think its an easier way to vote but our voice and lives matter too. Voters should feel like voting is important. | 2 |
The use of cars today in our modern world is crazy! Everywhere you look there's cars; going down the road, parked in a garage, or on TV. Now think of a world without them...it would be different, wouldnt it? Yes, indeed it would be, the world would be less hectic and cleaner place to live.
First, Life without cars would make life much less hectic. In Vaunban,Germany there is an upscale community where there are no cars. People either walk, ride bikes or take the public tram. A servey shows "70 precent of Vanuban's families do not own cars, and 57 precent sold a car to move here". People move to Vauban to enjoy a "car-free"...stress free life. "Im much happier this way" said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two, as she walked verdant streets where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor." (sorce 1 paragrah 3) The "car-free" world of not having to worry about car payemrnt, incerance, and gas money is a whole lot better than a car dependent world.
Second, Limiting our car use would help make this planet cleaner. Pollution issues have gotten so bad that "...Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city". (Source 2 paragraph 10) In paragraph 14 it states that "after five-days of intensive smog...the smog rivaled Beijing,China, which is one one of the most polluted cities in the world". France uses more diesel than gasoline, therefore making up 67 precent of all vehicles in France. The use of these harsh fossil feuls is a huge problem that can help be controlled by limiting our use of automobiles.
Third, Although some may argue that we need cars to fuction in our modern world, there are other options that we can choose. For example, If everyone took public transportation such as the subway we would be cutting back tremenously on the amout of feul consumed. Another advantage of using other forms of transportation other than a car would be that you wouldnt have to worry about your car not starting, or not having enough money too fill your tank. Other forms of transportation would always be reliable and convenent. You would also feel good about helping the enviornment by not adding extra gases to the ozone.
To finish up, Limiting our use of cars would make life easier and cleaner. In source 3 it states "Its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution" said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife. Many people are convinved that a "car-free" life would be much nicer than the hectic car-consumed life we've all grown so accustom too. Limiting our use of cars is a good idea for our stressful lives. | 3 |
Twenty five years ago a weird picture showed up in the Jet Propulsion Lab by a NASA's Viking 2 spacecraft. It took a picture of what seemed to be a human head on planet Cydonia. People in the Jet Propulsion Lab were surprised at what they saw. Though many thought it was something formed by aliens, scientists figured it was only another Martian mesa. They said the shadows is what made it look like a face.
The shadows gave the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth, which made the Martian mesa look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. Though it was said to be only a landscape on Cydonia, the news of the face went crazy. It starred in Hollywood films, appeared in books, magazines, and so on. Others thought that NASA would rather hide the true information of the face and just say it was the shadows which made us think it was a face.
Though, NASA defenders wish there was ancient civilization on Mars. On April 5, 1998, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture of the face, which came out ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. The picture revealed a natural landform; no alien monument.
It's not easy to reach Cydonia and therefore makes it difficult to get a picture of the so called face. Garvin said that you could see if there were small objects on Mars, therefore no alien civilization is on Mars.
This shows how the face on Cydonia is not a face, but a landscape. The shadows in the picture made the landscape appear to have a face that look human. Therefore, there are no alien artifacts on Mars. | 2 |
I'm going to talk now about a such interesting articte called "Making Mona Lisa Smile".
This article talks about how a new type of technology for the computers called Facial Action Coding System is able to "calculate" your facial expressions and know how do you feel in that exact moment; sad, happy, surprised, angry... The author show an example about the Mona Lisa of her facial expressions, and that was de result of it:
"She's 63 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry". The process for this new system begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face with all 44 major muscles. Every time those muscles moves create a new expression in your face, and depend of the movements of your muscles you will have one emotion or another that the computer will detect.
I think that is an a good idea but it doesn't convince me at all. Dr. Huang say " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored", and "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor", my opinion for this is that when you are at the school and you are reading something that it looks interesting for you and makes you happy, you will not be smiling at the screen of the computer, you will just be enjoying yourself about what are you reading. So if my muscles are not expressing any emotion the computer will probably detect that I'm bored and it will change what I'm reading. And for this reason I think that woul be a problem in more than just one situation.
I did like this articte but I didn"t simle when I was reading it, so my conclusion is that I don't think that a computer will be able to "calculate" your emotions looking the muscles of your face. | 1 |
Have you ever thought about becoming a Seagoing Cowboy? If you are gregeous you whould love to meet alot of different people. In the 1900s Seagoing Cowboys were hired to take care of horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped over seas.
When World War || was over in Europe many countries were left in the ruins. To help recover food supplies animals, and more, 44 nations joined togther to form UNRRA (United Nations Relif and Rehabilitation Administration. All of the Seagoing Cowboys are so altristic they feed horses,cow,mules, and mabye even chickens.
You can see land marks that are all over the country...no the world. You can possible go swimming in the Atlandtic Ocean and Pacific Ocean. You can go to places like Greece, China, and Europe. When you are traveling you will have a oh-muy-gosh-I-can´t-belive-I-am-going-to-across-the-world feeling. When you are traveling you will feel like you are going to lift off the ground and fly. In August 1945, Seagoing Cowboys recived orders to report to New Orleans,and they arrived in August 14 the day the Pacific war ended. They got their seaman´s papers and boarded the SS Charles W. Wooster, headed for Greece with a cargo of 335 horses plus enough hay and oats to feed them.
The Seagoing Cowgboy s program is just right for you. You can go different place, different people and experience a life full of adventure. You get to see monumants that have been there for over hundereds of years. Peple just like you, active, hard working, and gentle. You can see all different kinds of curses and yahts.You can go fishing and bond with friends see different kind of fish (maybe even a shark). Those are some reasons you should join the Seagoing Cowboys. | 2 |
I think that this technology is not vauable because you can tell the emotion on someone's face by just looking at them. " A renowned drama coach, Constantin Stanislavsky, had his actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage". These actors did not need technology to see their emotion they knew what their emotions already were. With this technology people are able to read your face and see what is wrong, why have this when you alrwady know what face your making and if other people around you know what face your making. In the story it say's " a computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face". Why have a machine do this when you can just simply ask what's wrong or why make that face? This machine could be millions of dollars, why spend money on that when you could already see what is wrong with that student. So no I do not think that this technology is valuable. | 1 |
Imagine you are woke up and you are running late for work, now in my case if I was running late to work I would hop in my car and get going as fast as I could to try and get to work on time. But if you have a Driverless Car does that mean that the car would only go the speed limit so you could not hurry up to get to work? If you got rearended by a car car drivng on the highway and started spinning out of control would the Drtiverless Car let you take control of the wheel to try and save yourself? These are both valid questions to ask before you take a step into the furture with Driverless Cars.
Many people will argue that Driverless Cars would be very helpful the todays busy and nonstop world, but if the elements were out of your control would you feel safe with your life in the hands of a car? I believe that the best way to be safe on the road would be to have a driver in control of the vehicle. Human error will always be a factor in driving but trusting that humans have been trained and have some experience behind the wheel will always over power the risk of taking the chance of a machine keeping families safe while drivng.
The manufacturers of the Driverless Cars would also have a heavy weight on their shoulders becuase if the Drivreless Cars gets into an accident who's fault is it? There would have to be careful expamination of the product and what happened during the crash. If the crash were to be the manufaturers fault then the company that the car was produced at could be sued millions of dollars due to many crashes.
In conclusion the Driverless Car to me would be a poor decsion for people to buy becuase there are many unknown factors tht deal with this product. the Driverless car has not proven yet that it is safe enough to be out on the roads and to keep people safe. | 2 |
First of all,Driverless cars are a great idea to have in the future because it helps prevent alot of accidents and would be cool to have. I think they should do more stuff to the driverless car like add a entertainment center so the driver would be entertained and more people would probably be interested in buying one in the future. Driverless cars would be wonderful to have in the future because they can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves without a human having to do anything and it would notify a human driver to take over when the situation requires.
Also, manufactures are considering to use cameras to watch the driver while the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver so that the driver is not texting or doing other things while driving, which would prevent accidents or being pulled over and given a ticket. A negative thing about having a driverless car is that drivers would get bored when waiting for their turn to drive. But, some manufactures hope to bring in some car enterainment and information systems so that the driver would be entertained in having something to do when they´re not driving.
Finally, driverless cars would be great to have in the future because it has all this new technology inside that would keep you safe and entertained when you´re not driving. Although, driverless cars has some negative things about it that would need work on but overall, I would reccomend it to people to buy in the future. Also, this specific car would help prevent alot of accidents and deaths from a regular car because a driverless car has a camera to watch what you´re doing so you are safe. | 1 |
In 1976, NASA found something pretty odd on Mars. What you may ask? They call it the Face on Mars. NASA has took new high-resolution images to study. People believe it was created by aliens, other people believe it's just a natural landform. On May 24, 2001 NASA noticed something strange. So they snapped some photos and they spotted a shadow likeness of a human face. But that is just shadows. Scientists soon figured out it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia. Maybe it is just an illusion. But the Face on Mars has become a pop icon, featured in movies and books. This is likely to just be a conspriracy theory. NASA noticed that there was no ancient civilization on Mars at any time in the past. Only few scientists believed it was an alien artifact.
On April 5, 1998 Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the firdt time. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team took a picture ten times sharper than the original ones. Anxious web surfers waited until the image appeared on the JPL wesite...sadly for them, it was a natural landform. No one was satisfied. Skeptics say that the alien marking were " hidden by haze." All these facts did'nt stop mission controllers. The mission controllers got prepared to look again. They state that they don't pass the Face often.
There is alot more ways to prove that the Face is just a landform, and not something created by aliens. NASA has done tons of research to prove it is a natural landform. NASA took years to find out what it was. It might be shaped as a face, but it was'nt created by aliens. Would'nt you think that if aliens were on Mars they would've created more things? They searched and searched but there was'nt anything odd about
Mars. So why would you be worried about a landform? So if you plan on thinking the Face on Mars was created by aliens, just ask yourself " How?" We all have illusions that our mind trick us about, maybe this is yours. | 1 |
Here are some reasons people should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. You get to move cattle,travel places,help people.
Traveling would be fun and here are some reasons why. Places, you could go to asia and see their art, or Europe and meet the people. Food, you could try exotic things like goat or fresh Polish sausge. People, you could meet new people and hang out with your new best german buddy eating goat.
Moving cattle would be fun ecpecially if you grew up doing it just like Luke did. You could get smarter by doing this you would know how much of what to give a horse or a cow for feed, and you would know how to clean a stall. If you ever retired you could go into cattle from this experience.
If you did this you could have the experience of traveling and cattle but the best one would be knowing you helped all those people stay alive milk and meat from the cows meat from the goat. everyone would love you for giving them food and milk to eat and drink to keep them alive.
In conclusion those are the reasons why people should become Seagoing Cowboys. It would benefit you and those people who need food and water. | 1 |
The build up of greenhouse gases and carbon emissions over the past hundred years since the car was first invented have started a decline in the usage of a private car. People are moving back into cities and are suing their cars signifigantly less with places such as Bogota Columbia having a day dedicated to no driving. Bikes and other forms of public transportation have become much more appealing than using a car and this trend looks like it will continue
In source one , in Vauban , Germany they are no longer using cars and instead are using alternative forms of transportation in this suburb. Heidrun walter a resident of this city talked about how he was "always tense" when owning a car which is true. It can be very stressful having to drive around and in the case of crowded areas have to sit in traffic for two hours a day. Another reason to get rid of your cars is the effects on the environment with 50% of carbon emissions in some parts of the US being blamed on cars. New laws in the US are also promoting the use of public transportation in the United States own suburbs giving suburban residents more of a reason to rid themselves of a car. In cities public transportation has been already implemented and can be much more efficent than driving around yourself.
The pollution in many cities such as Bejing is very intense and makes living conditions awful. Paris , one of the more polluted cites in Europe experienced a partial driving ban after a build up of smog in the city. This shows that if you rid yourself of a car you wont have to worry as much about contributing to this costly pollution to our environment. During the driving ban congestion was down 60% shwoing how this contribute to less traffic as well. In source 3 it discusses the no car day in Bogota Columbia showing how worldside people are starting to avoid overusing their cars and want to promote a healthy planet for us all. Parks and biking paths have emerged in this emerging latin american city and its shifting towards the right direction , of no cars.
The car culture in America has begun to die down a bit in the United States with car usage peaking 2005(Source 4). Car ownership rates are going down and more people are begining to just not get their lisences at all , and this trend will continue showing that you too should hop on this trend of lower to no car usage at all. Car companies such as Ford are changing their marketing by being more of a mobility than a car company to allow them to stay around in this decline of cars in the modern world. | 2 |
I think you should do the seagoing program because, you get to ride waves.
If I were you I would make my own choice not my friends choice or someone elses choice. When you are doing the seagoing cowboy program you get to go out and ride waves and play games at night time.
Another reason you should go is because you can learn things about the sea and the animals in it. If you already know a lot of things about the animals in the sea and the sea you should still go, because you can learn more and have fun at the same time. In the story it said " Luke got to play games at night and he got a lot of time during the day to go wave riding".
If you don't go on the Cowboys program I can't even tell you what your missing out on. I understand if you don't wan't to go, trust me I probably wouldn't it's not like I'm allowed to go anyway. I woud rather stay home than being homesick so I totally understand if you don't want to go.
If you don't want to go, but one of your friends are going or you don't want to go and someone is convincing you to just take some time to think about it and then make your second decision. Just remember do what you want to do, not what someone else wants to do. | 1 |
There is no way to know how someone is feeling unless you are them.
Many people pretend to be happy. If you have depression you are prone to act happy even if you are not happy. Happiness comes from love, yes many can tell when their friend is upset that´s because they are close to them and know how they act. But just because you think you know how someone feels doesn´t mean you really know.
If you have a disease or some type of physical trait many don´t have then you may look different then others. Every human is different in many ways. No one on earth has the same face unless you are a twin but then but then it still doesn´t justify the fact whether or not some one is happy. If you have downs syndrom you look happy all the time but that doesn´t mean you are.
A computer can not tell your emotions because a computer does not have emotions. just because your facial muscle structure is a certain way can not determin your mood. Many scientists say putting on a happy face can actually help your emotions grow and develop. If you always have a happy face on then you will usually always be happy, that is not true. The Mona Lisa is one of the worlds most nutorious pieces of art. The Mona Lisa is set apart from much art only because of one reason and that reason is the woman is smiling.
pieces of art from the 16th century until the early 20th century did not have smiling. I am not sure why many did not smile maybe it was easier to paint humans withouts smiles. No one for sure knows if that woman was actually smiling except the girl and Da Vinci himself. The world always wants to improve and make changes and but the world is different we all face different struggle sand have different emotions you cannot put a label on a person´s emotions. | 1 |
The future is a huge thing that manny people plan on having to be big. New technology, devices, transportation, homes, and many other things that make life easy will eventuually be turned into something more advanced. In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming", the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. As for my opinion, I believe these driverless cars should be made even with a few difficulties, these cars are possible to be driven as the future developes.
As the article begins, it asks, "Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore?" and when I think about that question, my response is, yes. I could imagine a time, the time of the future, where everything is advanced and especially the use of transportation. The article explains how others have been fascinated of driverless cars as well and quotes, "Television and movies have long been fascinated with cars that could drive themselves."
Car companies started to wondering on how to create driverless cars and many start off with computer driven cars or something simple. "In the late 1950s, General Motors created a concept car that could run on a special test track. Engineers at Berkeley tried something similar, but they used magnets with alternating polarity. These smart-road systems worked surprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical." Not many were successful but that didn't stop other companies from trying.
For any type of car, safety was the most important thing and driverless cars will obviously have that as well. As cars began to advanced, so did their safety. Sensors were created, video cameras on the rearview mirror and many other kind of sensors. "Sensors are nothing new, of course. In the 1980s, automakers used speed sensors at the wheel in the creation of antilock brakes. Within 10 years, those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-contril skids or rollovers." The creation of new cars were in the minds of many engineers and even until now many more ideas are being brought, tested and invented. "Further improvements in sensors and computer hardware and software to make driving safer are also leading to cars that can handle more and more driving tasks on their own.
Driverless cars are possible and clearly can be safe to use. Many are just waiting on the law for the approval. As soon as these cars are able to be used, the future is creeping its way up on huamanity. Many are being tested and it's only a matter of time for the future to happen and I could imagine how the world will be with driverless cars. | 3 |
In May of 1976, a space ship that was looking for a landing site on Mars snapped a very interesting photo. The blurry photo clearly resembled a human face. The picture led a lot of people to think that the structure was build by aliens. However, this statement has been proven wrong by scientific evidence. The structure wasn't built by aliens because a more up to date photo of the same spot has proven that it is just a mass of rock.
Up until around 1998, a large amount of people believed that the image of the blurry face was evidence of an alien civilization. On April 5, 1998 however, scientists were finally ale to take another picture of the same spot with more up to date technology. The new image revealed that it was just a bunch of rocks.
Scientists say that the blurry face could've been caused by a thick haze that was on that part of the planet when the original photo was taken. They said it was a cloudy day when the photo was taken, so the fae could've been created by the combination of the clouds and the shadows.
Now that a more up to date photo was released, some people have dropped the whole idea of an alien civilization, however, some people still believe that there could still be alien life elswhere. This could be true, but as for the blurry face photo, it was all just a trick of the eye. | 2 |
The way the author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite is by , giving facts about the good and bad thingds venus has . The author talks about NASA'S possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus . He also gives examples like , Imagining a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling venusian landscape . just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms .
The author support's the idea by saying ," Each previous mission was unmanned , and for good reason , since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours . Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on venus in more than three decades . Numerous factors contribute to venus"s reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study , despite its proximity to us ". Also the author talk's about venius having no value . The author say's that Venus has no value because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors .
The author talks about the NASA working on other approaches to studyng venus. 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 weels in such conditions . Another thing that the author is also talking about is another project , looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers . These devicers were fisrt envisioned in the 1800s and plaed an important role in the 1940s during world war II .
I Venus at thirty - plus miles above the surface , tempetures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit , but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on the earth . solar power would be plentiful , and radiation would not exeed Earth levels . Not easy conditions , but survivable for humans . | 1 |
Politics is everywhere and it rules our everyday lives. Each United States citizen has a role in choosing how our politics can operate. It might not be a huge role but it definately is an important small role. The presidential election happens every four years on the first tuesday of November. There is an electoral college which is the compromise between election of president by vote in congress and by popular vote of citizens. As state senator, I think you should keep the electoral college running because it is a safer option than just doing election by popular vote.
The electoral college consists of professionals in congress that are more specialized in politics then an average citizen is. The electoral college should be handed the trust to control our politics. There must be a majority of 270 electoral votes to elect that President. Each candidate running for president must have his or her own electoral group. The electors are chosen by the candidates political party, which means the person running for President if in good hands with his electoral college.
Al Gore lost the presidency, but he won the popular vote. Maybe the professionals in the electoral college saw a flaw in him that the average citizen would not see. 60% of people prefer doing the direct election (popular vote). The direct election would only satisfy themselves temporarily, but what if this president that got elected put the whole country in a downfall. Then people would realize how important the electoral college is.
There are some cases where the election process ends up being a disaster. What if citizens weren't able to chose the electors and the state legislatures were fully in charge of choosing those electors. Well, the electors can still chose to go by what the people want. In 1960, the segregationist almost replaced Democratic electors with the new electors that opposed John F. Kennedy. Some electors have even went against their political party's candidate and only choose who they wanted to chose. The segregationist that were in power at that time only wanted what they thought was best for them and not what was best for the people. Situations like this must require the votes and thoughts of the average citizens combined with the electoral college.
The electoral college has voters voting for electors only and not the president. The electoral college should stick around forever. Popular votes might not always be the best option. The citizens still have a say in which electors shall be chosen and that plays a part in electing the president. Even though voters are not always able to control who the electors vote for, they still have a part in chosing who will be president. | 3 |
The Facial Action Coding Sytem is not valuable in a classroom to read the emotional expressions of students.
In the beginning of the the introduction say, "New sofware has been developed that improves accuracy in perceiving the emotions of others." I say this because techology can make mistskes such as a computer that can read your emotions through your face and can have an accurate result. For example you might think an person who is happy by showing a smile but is the person really happy behind that smile with hidden emotions. It's not only one person there are others too who hide their emotions.
In paragraph 5 says, "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face. Of course, most of us would have trouble actuallly describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, ect. Yet Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convry specific emotions." I can somewhat agree because he is right about the fact that it's hard describing a facial expreesion that includes surprised or sad.
This shows that we dont need this type technology to show other people how we feel if they accurate. | 2 |
Indead, using a car is important when traveling far distances. When fellow citizens dont traval far they can easily limit car usage. There are antiquet number of advantages of limiting car usage. It can help reduce greenhouse emissions and helping our socient without depending on our automobiles.
To begin with, limiting car usage can help reduce greenhouse emissions from tail pipes. According to experts in source 1: In German Surburb, Life Goes On Without Cars
"Experts say, is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emmisions from tailpipes.... passenger cars are reponsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe.... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States."
These statistics are very high in our air pollution and can even get higher as time pases. Just with taking your bike to school, work, and other hobbies you are saving fossil fuels and most importantly you are reducing air pollution!
in addition to limiting car usage, we can help our society without depending on their automobiles. As stated in
"In German Surburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" David Goldberg, an official of Transportation for America, stated "all of our developement since World War II Has been centered on the car, and that will have to change." Indead this has to change because one day your automobile mightbrake down in the middle of getting to work or other hobbies. There is one thing for sure a bike wont break down and your to legs wont either.
Generally speaking, there are antiquet number of advantages on limiting car usage. Walking or riding a bike down a couple blocks help reduce air polluton. Your are saving our atmostphere and our Earth by riding a bike to a convinience store. Before driving your automobile down a couple of blockes ask yourself if you have to or if you need to! | 2 |
New software has been develpoed that improves accuracy in perceiving the emotions of others. The new software, the Facial Acion Coding System, has promising applications for a variety of industries.
The use of the new technology called Facial Action Coding System to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable.
The author says,"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." Facial Action Coding System is valuable in classroom as, if a child doesn't understand anything what the teacher is teaching, the teacher will get to know that the child is confused or not understanding something by just looking at the computer.
The author says,"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." So, when the teacher will know that the student is confused or bored, he/she could teach the lesson in a better way, and also the computer could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.
I would conclude by saying that, this new technology is very useful in a classroom because it helps the students understand everything that teacher is trying to expalin and helps them learning better. | 2 |
Dear State Senator,
I feel a need to adress that changing election by popular vote for the president of the United States over keeping electoral votes is, in my opinion, better for the people because it brings the U.S's people together in many ways.
The people of the U.S deserve to make great decisions like these, on account of the fact that us, the people, make most of what we have in America today, and though we work hard and may have fights sometimes, we still make choices together,voting being one of them, and this unifies us even more. Allowing this will bring a sense of unification . We already consider doing selfless acts just to make peace. Example: Our taxes pay doctors', polices', etc. salaries. We at least deserve to decide who enforces laws.
Another thing, to begin this reasoning let this question be asked: What is the government doing right now, this very moment? Who really knows, for sure? Not us. The people of the U.S really haven't an honest clue what's really going on behind the government, so it wouldn't be too wise for us to entrust the government into completely making every decision, decisions in which we could perfectly make ourselves. So it not only gives us, the people, a sense of unification, it also gives a sense of direction so that we feel that we are not being blindly controlled by the government.
To commence the third reasoning let another question be asked: First, say for example that you work a double-shift, full-time, day and night just to keep food on your childrens' and wifes' plate, clothes on their backs, and a roof over their heads. When the bills roll in, your paycheck isn't won't arrive for weeks and you still haven't enough to pay, so you may have to work overtime if possible or pick up another job. No one gets rich off the government clearly, and yet we work so hard to just make it. Now here's the question: Doesn't it all feel worth it when the paycheck come in? Okay now for the deeper question: What is the sense or feeling you specifically get when you see you happy families' faces? Now for the point: Our work pays off. We work for the government (at least most of us does) together, whether to put bread on the table or otherwise. Now wouldnt it give us that sense of freedom that us hard workers get to make great decisions like these? It would. All of these things bring us together more than we might even think, whether its families, friends, or just us as a nation.
To conclude all of the reasonings of arguing to change election to popular vote for the president of the U.S which are the sensation of unification, direction, and freedom, I'd be obliged to state that this is just one thing that finally unifies and brings the U.S's people together. Those three senses that this gives us is a seemingly small, yet great difference. And even though most don't realize it, it's definitely there. | 2 |
I was getting lonely on board with the normal crew all day everyday. I had an idea to try and see if some of my friends would want to help me with my job as a Seagoing Cowboy. with my luck some of them said, "Yeah sure!", but some of them were too busy. I asked the captain if I could invite some of my friends so I could have more fun, and so we could get more work done on the boat.
The captain thought about it for a little while, and to my surprise he said yes! I was so happy that my friends and I could see Europe together! This all started because my friend Dan Reist invited me to help. A few days later me and my friends were helping out on the boat. Also we were playing games to pass the time. We had to make sure that the animals were safe, secure, and fed.
We all had a spendid time. We could be together until we got all of the countries back to normal, or even better! We could still help people even if we were done helping countries back to normal. I still chose to help people. It was the right thing to do, and most of my friends helpped, too. | 1 |
I feel that this kind of technology is amazing. Being able to read or emotions by seeing our face is really cool. This kind of technolgy may help in the long run by letting us know peoples emotions and how they are feeling. The technology may also help us find new things in peoples emotions and allow us to learn how they work and what causes them. That is why this Facial Coding System is such a big tecgnological advancement.
With this technology we can figure out what people are actually thinking. It can detect whether or not people are actually happy or if there just faking a smile. Also the Facial Coding System can tell whether or not someone is confused. If a student is doing math homework on a computer and the student doesn't understand it, the Facial Coding System can pick up on that and try to help the student understand the work by showing him a lessonon the work. Also this technolgy can help if somebody is telling the truth. If a person is lying and their facial exprssion changes the computer program can pick up on it and tell you if they are telling the truth. This technology canalso tell if people are afraid of something and need help.
This technology is a great idea and if worked with even more could become amazing. Being able to tell peoples emotions by percentage will help people who are students and just regular people. With this technology we could even make the world a safer place by checking if people are telling the truth or if they are hiding something. That is why the Facial Coding System is so great, and i hope thatit becomes even better in the future. | 2 |
Do you think there is a face on Mars? This theory has been questioned for a long time. We have found odd things throughout the years of human existance and speculations towards this face has been studied.
The face on Mars is not actually a face. It is probably holes in the rock of the ground just shaped perfectly like a face underground. Even if there was a body burried under there you wouldnt be able to see the face if you dont see the body.
Why hasnt NASA unburried this object or crater to see if it actually is a body. This face is only a theory towards Mars having an ancient civilazation. The object there isnt a face, it is only a natural landform.
Have you heard of electromagnetic force fields? If not, they are locations on earth in which it radiates high frequencies and no animaml can live on this land. Human could for awhile but it might make you go insane. Do you think these are just alien sites that we cant handle? Most likely not, it is natural within earth. Our planets has its own different things throughout it and Mars could just have craters everywhere. This one just happens to be captured and looked like a face.
Do not believe everything you hear or see because our mind can trick us. Natural landforms come in all different shapes and sizes. Next time you think there is a face in the ground remember that its not actually a face. | 1 |
Technology can make people mad in happy its just how you use it in how you do it like you can look up things that you know that will make you happy. But in this story its saying that the computers know when you happy or sad or even confused but then it can help the person because it say it can modify. Its a lot that the technology it can't look you in the face in see that something is wrong with you. The story is saying they want to know how people are feeling even when they are trying to hide it i think that is personal and the person will tell you if the person wanted you to know. But technology is good in so many ways but its bad in so many ways to. I think your emotions shoud stay to you if thats what you want and not base on if the technology want to know. | 0 |
In this artical is cool how this technology can read peoples faces as in emotions. If this can really happen then its going to jsut how people learn in school. in a way were it mite be fun to go to school.
I am for this technology because it can help students learn more about school. The face emotion technology is mind blowing if it works. If you think about it the computer can tell when your happy or sad which is awesome.
So when your working on a subject on your computer and the computer sees that your sad its going to make it were your happy. If your happy then its going to make you stay happy.
It goes in to the it will be a 3-D computer modle to track your face. If that happens then they would have to get everyones face in the United States and everywhere else around the world. To me i think its cool.
To me I think its a really good thing to try and see if it works. If it can tell if your happy then i say lets go for it and make everyone happy and get the world into a positive world. Students need it the most because there are so may negative students in schools and they need to start being happy for themselfs and for others in there garde and there fellow students. So I'm all for it to have this 3-D face modle thing to make you happy. | 1 |
"CRASH!" The driverless automobile hits another vehicle. The wreck is capable of being prevented if there is a driver in control. "Driverless Cars Are Coming" is an article that depicts driverless cars. The advanced vehicle is helpful in various situations, but it can also have its unfortunate moments. The invention is not supported. The independent automobile is in danger of a technical problem, and the possibility of someone being injured is very high. The new technology is expensive too, and frequent problems with the law can occur. The independent vehicle has many disadvantages.
Driverless cars put everyone at an even higher risk of being injured or killed. There are not any natural instincts or feelings that can easily adapt to adversity. If the driverless automobile is confused, damage can possibly occur. "For starters, they needed a whole lot of sensors," is a quote that displays the importance of human feelings and reactions. "The combination of all this input is necessary for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel," is another detail from the passage that shows the emotionless car's disadvantage. The advanced automobiles do not have instinct, intelligence, or reasoning of a human being.
The driverless vehicle is also very expensive. There is no point in paying more money for this irrelevant toy when there are cheaper options. "Radar was a device on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars. It wasn't something you could buy at Radio Shack," is a clear example of the uneccessary payments. "These smart-road systems worked surprisingly well but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical," is another quote that depicts the financial aspects. The computer-driven cars cost too much money.
Disputes with the law can occur. The driver and the manufacturer are mostly like going to get in many quarrels. "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" is a question from the passage that explains the confusion. "Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident," is a detail that also explains the uncertain responsibilities. Problems with the law are likely to happen.
The idea of driverless cars roaming around does not sound like a fantastic idea. Someone is at a higher risk of getting hurt. The modern invention is expensive; disputes are likely to happen with the law. People are capable of changing the world in a better and safer way. The creation of the driverless car is definitely not a way to improve the world. | 3 |
The author supported his ideas very well by explaning how "venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents". He explains how "venus is often referred to as earths "twin"" and the author also explains how "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has one compelling idea".
I believe he did pretty good at explainng how venus is good in some ways and then how venus is bad. He didnt just focus on one thing he focused on it all and he put his paragraph in a very good lined up maner thats how everyone should put together their essays. The ending was the best part on how he restated the question that he had at the begining by just puting together a couple paragraphs he learnd a thing or two about venus.
So to finish off my paragraph I thought that he explained both bad and good thing about venus. He sounded like he knew exactly what he was talking about and he knew everything about it all. So that just makes this whole paragraph worthy. | 1 |
Dear state senator,
With so many opinions on the electoral college, theres reasons in which to keep it or abolish it.
I would like a favor in keeping The Electoral College because its an election of the president by vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens."The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress(Source 1,2). Without The Electoral College everything will fail due to the fact that the college does all the voting and picking and decideing if not the Electoral College then who else will do it; All the other congessmen has to do there own job in which they cant do what The Electoral College does. The Electoral College has been in plce for a while The founding fathers created it. Its consists of 538 electors. There are disadvantages to like voters dont vote for the president, but for a slate electors, who votes for the president. At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. But then theres advantages " The Electoral College is widely regareded as an anachronish, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. The advocates of this position are correct in arguing that the Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense. it is the electors who elect the president, not the people(source 3). When you vote for a presidental candidate youre actually voting for a slate of electors. People have thier own opinions but i think it would be better to keep the the traditional going on keeping the electoral college.
Sincerly,
PROPER_NAME | 1 |
In the( pargraph 5) it states that humans preform this same impressive "calculation evey day. They think technology is very comeplacated. Da vinci likes how his software is simliar to the one he had. Mona really likes the technology it brings a smile to her face beause how the computer can do imagine a co,eputer knows when your happy or sad. It makes everyone happy in the story how fun and cool techonolgy is it makes them really happy.
Mona states that imagine being able to detect exactly how others people are feeling even when they are trying to hide their emotions. (line 1 ) Mona says shes 83% happpy about it,9% disgusted,6% fearful about how the technology works. Mona likes the technology but sometimes it gets to confusing it makes her mad when it doesnt work right for her. in (line 5) vinci computer is kinda similar to monas but moans makes her really mad when it doesnt really work. It all depends on how you update your computers put in sofware into it to keep it going and running fast. (line 1) The software is the latest innovation from prof.
For people not having computers and technology its hard for them to understand it and catch onto is really quick and as old as they are its very impressing they know to work on it. The computer reconginzes the subtle facical movments we humans use to express on how we feel. Experts always know how to work and do the big things with the compurts its hard for people that dont know how to work with them. Humans express on all the techonlogy and how it procseeds. Its always good to have a good working computer that is updated and has the good sofware. | 0 |
Being in a classroom with a large amount of students can be intimidating. This makes it easier for a student to fall behind in a classroom setting, since they may be too scared to ask a question. One may be thinking, ¨what if they laugh at me if I raise my hand?¨ Or maybe that student may need a different teaching approach, but they do not know how to convey this to them. There could be a solution to this problem. New technology uses a computer that ¨constructs a 3-D computer model of the face¨ (¨Making Mona Lisa Smile) it can be used to process the emotions that a student may be feeling. Meaning that technology reading emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable and beneficial.
Reading the emotions of students can help the teachers gather more beneficial data on them. As they constantly say that ¨they are not mind readers.¨ However many students may be embarrased that they are not quite understanding the content. To which this technology could provide some assistance. The computer could simply read and see what percentage of the class is confused. If it is a large percentage then that means the teacher can go over it as a whole class. Also working vise versa meaning that if it is a smaller percentage then the teacher can make smaller groups and provide the needed attention to them. This theory was stated by Dr. Huang, ¨´A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,´ Dr. Huang predicts. ´Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor´¨ (¨Making Mona Lisa Smile¨). Although the article refers to online classes the same can be applied to the human interative classroom. The teacher can look at the data during the lesson to check understanding along the way and then provide the extra needed support to those that need it. Then let those that understand it move forward. That way the children don´t fall behind, and the children that understand the content can be further challenged. Providing a more effective and rigourous courseload.
Another benefit that this technology presents is that it can read the distressing emotions of a student. Especially during the high school years which are very stressful in both the workload and character development. A teacher is able to see if that student is upset, angry, or stressed. Or even a combination of these emotions because ¨By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions (as in da Vinci´s masterpiece)¨ (¨Making Mona Lisa Smile¨). If a student had a particularly stressful event go on in their household they may feel angry, frustrated, and sad. The teacher can then understand that they are going through a moment and be sure to provide some support. Also if the students are feeling especially stressed the teachers may even provide some kind of stress relief day, since prolonged stress can have some serious effects on the human body. This technology may even be able to detect mental illnesses such as depression or anxiety. To which the student can be provided with the support that they need. Possibly leading to the prevention of suicide attempts and anxiety attacks.
In conclusion, having technology in the classroom can be extremely beneficial to both the students and the teachers. It can provide useful data to the teachers. To which they can adjust their teaching plan accordingly, and effectively educate all the students. Futhermore it can help students dealing with mental health issues. Making sure that they get the help and support that they need in order to be the most attentive in the classroom as they can be. As technology continues to be implemented into the teaching program this computer software should be considered as well. | 4 |
What is electoral college? The electoral college is a process, not a place. the founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. But it is also a bad thing because you help choose your states electors when you vote for president because when you vote for president because when you vote for your canadate you are actually voting for your canadates electors. I think electoral collage is is a stupid process and is definitly outdated.
In the same light, I think the electoral collage is a stupid idea beacause and that they should of got rid of it a long time ago it is like were not even voteing annymore its like someone messed up the votes and said that romney got 538 votes and obama only got 438 votes. Like bob dole said,"abolish the electoral college".
but you have to remember, the electoral college is a good thing to most presendental elections. the only one election that it didnt help on was in 2000 al gore recived more indivisial votes than george bush nationwide, but bush won the election, reciveing 271 electoral votes to gore 266.
in concclusion, electoral collage is good because it helps presedental elections but its bad because it is like the U.S. riging the votes | 1 |
Driverless cars would be a great new innovation. I think there would be less accidents because of wreckless drivers, the accidents rates would most likely go down because of the safer driving by a computer. Although the computer will have many glitches in the beginning the company will have to work a lot to remove them. Driverless cars will be a great turnout for new drivers also. If they are nervous and are scared to drive the car will do most of the work for them, they wont have to do many things.
I think google has the right idea with the cars they are making, although all of the equipment that is hanging on the car would need to be minimized so one can work the car to it's fullest intent without the bulky satelites and cameras. Just as BMW did and made the car have sensors so that the driver will know when the traffic is bad or the driver should stop because there is a car or object behind the car. The car should have cameras so that the car can make sure that the driver is alert, the idea is very good.
The idea of driverless cars may upset some people, but i think it should be a nice innovation so that it makes it easier for new drivers and wreckless drivers so there are less accidents. The computers will need to be programmed correctly with no flaws. | 1 |
Technology able to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because we could detect different type of moods even by making faces that wouldn't necessarily indicate a certain mood just by looking at their face. This sort of technology can benefit in more way's as well such as helping video game designers make their graphics more realistic and having characters resemble actual and more expressive moods.
Reading students emotional expressions can determine how they could possibly feel and perhaps help them out if they're feeling low or having a bad day. A simple computer program could tell if a student is in need of help by determining if the student is in a state of confusion or stress. Then if the student is confused or in need of help then the lesson could be modified and altered to be made more understandable for the student. The student could also be helped by a digital instructor that would trigger when the student is confused. Technology like this could give students better understanding of whatever is being taught knowing there are students that are too shy or scared to ask questions it could finally help them learn without having any fear of raising their hand and causing attention.
In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System can really benefit students all around the world who would use it and prepare and give students more understanding in our future causing it to be brighter and more vivid ,therefore, the Facial Action Coding System is a valuable piece of technological advancment that could impact our future in a positive manner. | 2 |
The face could not be an alien act because of the effect that it shows when it is showing the appearance. The only time it actually look like a face is when the sun is at a certain angle that makes the mouth and eyes appear. The face is made of rock sticking out of the ground. It revealed a natural land form , because there was no alien monument anyway. The picture shows the martian equivalent of a butte or mesa which is a landform that common around the american west. The face is just a example of corrosion on mars that there was a rock there that after so long got corroded into looking like a face by chance. It coulnt have been by alien hands because we wouldv noticed some type of life form around it by now. And the research shows that it is just a rock form that was corroded into a face. by the way you can only see it in certain ways. | 1 |
Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Venus ia a worthy pursuit despite because thick atmosphere is
almost 97 percent carbon dioxide,venus have been
earth- like planet in our solar system, also venus orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions.
Atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide because on the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit, and the atmopheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. In the text it states "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on earth; such as environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to driving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals." so i think this means that nasa will not send humans into venus becasue they are not 100 percent if its safty for humans , or any objects.
Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents. Venus have been earth-like planet in our solar system. In the text it states that " venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life." In the text it also states that " today venus sill has some features that are analogous to those on earth." Wow this is scary how an other planet had living things in it. But this can still
prove that it can
have living things.
Venus orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions.researchers can't take smaples from venus because the distance.
In the text it states that " many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long anough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of venus." This shows that researchers are doing what ever it takes to find what venus is all about.
I believe Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because thick atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide, and venus has been earth-like planet in our solar system, also venus orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet. | 2 |
The Face is a natural landform in Cydonia on Mars, it wasn't created by extraterrestrials. I can prove the Face is only a natural landform bescause there are similiar rock formations near Cydonia that show zero evidence of aliens, NASA hasn't been bringing in thousands of dollars from the discovery, and scientists discovered nothing strange about the rocks besides its resemblance to landforms common around the American West.
The article, "Unmasking the Face on Mars", brought the fact that there are similiar rock formations near Cydonia that show absolutely no evidence of alien manufacturing to the reader's attention. This statement and fact proves that aliens did not create a face out of rock on Mars, let alone exist on Mars. The actual quote is, "Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unsual shadows that made it look like an Eygptian Pharaoh." A few days after the discovery, NASA released the image to the public along with this statement: "huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth."
Also, if the Face was really formed by aliens, NASA would be getting thousands and thousands of dollars from the discovery that there are other beings that aren't living on Earth. The author of "Unmasking the Face on Mars" also brought up the counter-argument that the Face was indeed made by aliens. But then provided the reader with viable information that shuts down the counter-argument. "Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars-evidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorists. Meanwhile, defenders of NASA's budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars."
The last piece of evidence that proves the Face is just a land formation on Mars is that scientists discovered nothing out of the ordinary about the rock formations, besides the resemblance to land formations in the American West. After using a professional camera, scientists released this statement: "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West." These reasons support the statement that the Face is only a land formation and wasn't created by aliens. | 3 |
In the classroom you get bored of one subject and your teacher just doesnt be quite and your tired of that subject. If you were on your computer you wouldnt have that problem because with the new advanced software it would be able to recognize your bored so it would change the subject. This could be a very effective equipment for a person that cant go to school or someone that does online school. It could really change or make a diffrence how people learn and what to do to make people learn better.
This could help someone out a lot when they are in home schooled and they get bored or are getting tired of that subject the software could read his facial expression and change what subject they are on. In the text it says " they can tell when somone is happy, surprised, angry,disgusted, scared, or sad." This could help a lot because sometimes people wont be ahving the best of days and then you could tell what was wrong with just a picture of there face during that time.
This is why I think the software that reads your expresion would be good in the classroom. Instead of wondering what is wrong with a kid when he or she is doing his or hers work just read there facial expertion and understand maybe they arent having the best of days. Also when your online and your taking a course online it can tell when you get bored so the technology can change the course your on so it wont be as boring because you would switch it up every now and then. This tool could help out a lot in the classroom expeience but aslong as its not always looking through your camarea because that could be going through our privacy. | 2 |
The car is a staple in modern day society by many standards, it represents wealth, sociatal rank however; on the more negative side of the matter cars are the result of a majority of deaths in the United States. Alongside the fatalities, cars also pollute the environment that is so very delicate. The benifits of becoming car-free are immense and far outweigh the "negatives" that come alongside living without cars.
Cars as many people know see them are recognized for their glamour and attraction, but what is forgotten somewhere in the infatuation with cars is the true devastation they can cause. Cars in the United States and many other countries around the world account for a majority of the fatalities in total. Living without cars would completely irradicate the fatalities due to cars as well as reducing the stress that comes along with having such a hefty responsibility.
Along with the potential danger to humans, in the United States cars are the second largest source of emmisions right behind power plants according to paragraph 34. Countries like India and China are among the top few most polluted cities on this planet; now imagine the imact of implimenting a car-free law. The amount of pollution would go down immensely and the effect that this would have on the lifespan of people living in those countries would be incredulous. Some will argue that this will negatively have a change on their life. And to that I would say, are you willing to sacrifice some of the comfort that a car supplies you for a better life for your children and grandchildren?
Many people aknowledge that buying a car is arguably the second largest and expensive purchases that will be made in your life second to a house. The amount of money that would be saved from living a car-free life would be incredible. Without having to pay car payments, car insurance, and gas fees every month imagine what this money could be going towards. Removing such a monitary factor would reap such high rewards that so many would agree is completely worth some of the sacrifices that would have to be made.
All in all cars are not completely necessary, and that implimenting such a thing would have such a benificial outcome for society as a whole. Think not about the present but about the future of the world, and by living a car-free life you are bettering the present community as well as the future world. | 3 |
Did you know in 1976 a picture was taken of a "face" on Mars?
Most people believe that it is a sign that there is life on Mars or a sign of aliens. But, people who agree with NASA know it is actually just a mesa. There is two sides to this picture of a "face" either you think it is a sing of life or it is a mesa. So, the figure similar to a face isn't a face because it is similar to landforms on Earth, the figure is to big to be a real face, and it is actually a mesa.
Matter of fact, the figure/landform on Mars similar to a "face" is a lot like landforms on planet Earth. For example,"'It reminds me most of Middle Buttle in the Snake River Plain of Idaho,' says Garvin."(12) This quote provides evidence that the figure/landform on Mars is similar to landforms on Earth. So, this is evidence that the figure on Mars is just a landform like what we have on Earth.
Next, the figure similar to a "face" is to big to be a real face. For example,"An enormous head nearly two miles from end to end."(1) This quote shows that the head is to big to be a real face. Like, what face is two miles long from end to end?
Last but not least, the figure/landform similar to a "face" is actually a mesa! For example,"What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa - landforms common around the American West."(12) This quote proves that the figure/landform is just a mesa. There is no life on Mars or aliens making signs. It is simply just a common landform.
Finally, the figure/landform similar to a face isn't a face. It isn't a face because it is a common landform on Earth. It is way to big to be a real face. Also, the figure/landform is simply just a mesa. These are all reasons and proof that the landform on Mars isn't a sign of life or aliens it is just a common landform. | 2 |
There are a lot advantages and disadvantages of limiting car usage around the world but let's talk about the advantage of limited car usage right now if cars were limited there are a lot of great things that can happen for one greenhouse gases emissions will reduce drastically, the streets will be more safer no more accidents, people will save more money from not buying a car, crime rate will go down, and people can get exercise if they walked or biked to places instead.
Firstly, if cars get limited then greenhouse gas effect will go down that means less pollution and to destory the ozone layer which means a lot of pollution needs to disappear if we don't want the hole in the ozone layer to get bigger then it already is which means more UV light is coming in from the sun because our protection is slowly being eatten away from all this pollution that means we can get burned more easily from the sun and eventually the world can catch fire more easily when even more UV gets in that is why a lot more forests are getting burned it's because all of this dry weather doesn't mix well with a lot of UV light coming in and also all forests can destoryed and not come back and the animals will go extinct .
Secondly, if cars are limited the streets will be safer because less and less people are driving that means no more hit and runs, drunk driving, accidents in the road to cause a blockage making people late or stuck for an hour or so, less lives taken, no more traffic, no more texting and driving, no more cras explosions or fires to cause anymore damage, kids will be able to play more often outside then inside, and no more damage to buildings.
Thirdly, if cars are limited people will have more money if they buy a car a lot of people in the United States are having financial issues where they don't have money to pay certain bill or get things that they need because they have a car which means gas money when it needs gas, when gotten into an accident you gotta pay to get it fixed while its being fixed you gotta get a rental car, and when it breaks down and doesn't work anymore you haft to get a new one but if cars were limited money will be easier to save.
Fourthly, if cars are limited then people can get exercise obesity has increased over the years because of all of the fatty food we have people are gaining weight fast and it doesn't help that people have cars which makes it easier to get around and get even more food to stuff their faces with but if cars get limited then people can either bike or walk to places giving them the excercise they need to lose all that weight and obesity rates will go down and everyone will be healthy and not a lot of people will die from a heartattack.
Finally, if cars were limited then crime rates will go down that means less DUIs, no more theft of cars, theft of household items, hit and run, speed chases, drive by shootings, life will be safer when cars are off the streets, worry free environment, and people won't haft to worry about getting objects getting destoryed in any wreckage of a criminal who is running away from the police.
In conclusion, if cars get limited pollution will drop, no more accidents on the street, financial issues will go away, crimes will slowly go away, and obesity rates will go down from the excersise that people will get if cars were limited people could live a simple life, worry free but they can't because no one stops the productions of cars that people are afraid of because they are dangerous to people and the world so it would be easier if cars didn't exsist. | 3 |
Driverless cars have both positve and negatives aspects, but I personally do not think that we should have them on our streets. They are too complicated for people. I do not think they will ever actually be on the street because of how dangerous they are. Multiple states have already outlawed the testing of driverless cars. I am siding with those states because, driverless cars are dangerous, they will make people even lazier then what they already are, and a lot of people probably would not be able to afford these cars.
Driverless cars are dangerous because everything is controlled by a computer, the passenger is not in control at all times. Traffic laws state that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. If there is a passenger in a driverless car, and the car begins to malfunction and the passenger gets injured or even dies, whose fault will it be? The passenger or the manufacturer?
Driverless cars just make things so much more complicated, I think most people would rather drive their own cars anyways, because they will feel as if they are control of everything, rather than having a computer control everything for you.
Another reason driverless cars are bad is because they will make America even lazier then it already is today. People in this country do not like doing anything for themselves, driverless cars will just make everything even worse. If people do not have to drive, then they will act as if they do not have to do other things. Not having to drive just leads to more and more lazy actions down the road. I think their are certain things that people will always need to do for themselves, and driving is one of them.
Cars that are controlled manually are already expensive enough. I can only imagine how expensive driverless cars will be. Even if driverless cars were brought to the streets, who would really be able to buy them? Not too many people. The only people that would be buying these cars are rich people. So wasting all this money to make driverless cars is pointless if they are not going to be available to everybody.
Driverless cars will not be good for this country. They will just make things worse and put lives in danger. States are outlawing these cars for a reason. I think more and more states should follow, it is the right thing to do. People already die in car accidents everyday, this will just boost the deaths caused by car accidents. Driverless cars should not be making their way to the streets any time soon. | 3 |
The author suggets that Venus is the hottest surface plant even though it's not the closest plant to Mars, its still one of the hottest planet's. Since Venus is right around the corner humans have a hgher chance to land on Venus when in a spaceshuttle. Venus has a hgher atmosphere of carbon dioxide then any other plant. Although the atmosphere can average over 800 degree, all the carbon is not good for the humans that spaceshuttle the Earth. The autor got this information by sending humans up to Earth to see what it's like up there. Although we mqay live on Earth, traveling up to Earth is far more dangerous then living on Earth. A long time ago, Venus used to be covered with oceans and wasn't so hot how it is compared to now. Although there are still some features to Earth as before and now, the plant got rockier over time and there was a atmosphere change. NASA had an idea to send humans to Venus to study the planet for people on Earth can know more about the planet. The NASA administration say's that Venus cannot form light throughout the planet and researchers are not able to take anything from the planet,such as, rock, gas, or anything else. There once was a old technoology project that took place in the 1800s , those devices made calculations about gears and the levers. Those projects made it easier for physical conditions. Scientists made it a mission to try and understand Venus up close, There are still rescearchers that are building machines to pay apart to try and find knowledge about Venus. As I stated before the atmosphere in our solar system is much more higher than down on Earth,
Scientists say that if we had a solor power the radiation levels would be much more useful for it would not work for the levels on Earth, although ist's much more surivable for humans.
Therefore, as i learned much more about space and NASA from this article. It would be much more nicer on Earth if we had a nicer atmosphere and it would be much more liveable. Scientists are still discoveing information about our solar system. | 0 |
Technology gets a lot of backlash, but in reality it is our friend. Technology empowers and teachus us. Without it, we wouldn't be as informed of the world as we are now. For this reason, advanced technology should continue to be used. Introducing the FACS technology in schools would be valuable because it would create a more beneficial enviornment for everyone: society and individuals alike.
Implementing the Facial Action Coding System into schools would be very valuable for society as a whole. The article states that the software provides the exact emotions of someone. For example, the machine might declare that someone is "83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry." (paragraph 1) Teens' actions related to their emotions are still fairly unknown, so having this information on adolescents in particular would help us be able to identify the root of the emotions later on. It's clear that FACS would seriously benefit science.
Perhaps the most important reason for going through with this technology is that people would be more honest with each other at school. Enabling teachers and students alike to see how others are feeling would create a distinct openness in the school. Students would no longer feel that they have to put on a "happy face," (as the article mentions in paragraph 9) when they're sad. There would be no point for this deception, since FACS would see right through it. People who felt sad could be comforted by others. Students would be more happy than they are now, at the end of a long school day. Having the FACS technology in schools would create an enviornment of honesty and happiness.
It's true that having a machine see right through you would take some getting used to. But this unsettling feeling is overcome by the fact that this technology benefits science and our enviornments in a huge way. It makes us into a better people, so the question is, why would we not go through with it? | 3 |
In the United States, democracy is advertised as a method of acheiving selections, though this is unfortunantly not the case. In the United States, we, as individuals, are not permitted to a "fair" or equal opportunity of voting systems. Vote should be popular, the will of the people of the nation, though through the Electoral College, the people is denied.
Voting is, as far as common sense goes, the majority rule. The Electoral College voting system was established during the creation of the Constitution in order to secure a "qualified vote"- an effort to diminish the will of the lesser, or unknowing. Arguably, it is stated that, "..the most thoughful voters should be the ones to decide the election", or in other words the statement can easily be translated to "we do not wish a nation of idiotic voters to decide our president", each individual of the nation is mindful of others and care enough to express their opinion, as it is known a is a citizens duty to vote. A duty that must be followed. In any effort to simplify this, a voter is a voter. They are all "qualified". If a person cares enough about their nation to cast a ballot, without requirment, they certainly are qualified.
Now that the qualifications are established, the electors within the Electoral College are free to do as they wish. Waving a magic wand, the support of others is unimportant now, and they pull whatever they desire out of the hat, as written by Bradford Plumer, "Consider that state legislatures are technically responsiblefor picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people". What happened to majority rule? People should have the direct vote of presidential candidate, however we are faced with shocking facts such as the house selection rarely dispalying the correct majority rule, "The election is only a few swing voters away from catastrophe".
The dispicable system was established long ago for an extremely specific purpose with specific issues, which is no longer the case today. In the United States, we are not a democracy. We are a Republic. Ridiculusly, voters do not control the election in our Republic, as shared,"...over sixty percent of voters would prefer a direct election". Can those expect change? Ironically, no. The system would most like not allow that, and those mindful citizens would need to hope for a glance at serendipity. | 4 |
I think that you, and everyone else, should think that the "Face on Mars" is not supposed to resemble a real human face and it was not made by any kind of life on Mars. I think that you should believe that the "Face on Mars" is not a real face because in paragraph 2, it says, "But the sensation was short lived. Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia..." In the 7th paragraph, it says, "And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing...a natural landform." And, in paragraph 12, it says "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West."
In paragraph 2, it says, "But the sensation was short lived. Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia." This is saying that mesas on Mars are common and that no other Martian mesa has any sort of resemblence to a human face.
Also, in paragraph 7, it says, "And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing...a natural landform." This is saying that it was just a coincidence that the "Face on Mars" resembles an actual human face. It states that there was no alien momunent after all, and that it was not built or made by any kind of life on Mars.
And, in the twelfth paragraph, it says "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West." In that same paragragh, someone says, "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." This is saying that the "Face on Mars" resembles not just a human face, but also Middle Butte that is in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa and it is about the same height as the Face on Mars.
In conclusion, you should believe that the "Face on Mars" was not constructed by any sort of life on Mars becuse, it says in paragraph 2, "But the sensation was short lived. Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia...", in the seventh pargraph, it says "And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site revealing... a natural landform." and, in the last paragraph, it says "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West." | 2 |
People may argue that emotion reading technology should be used in school. However, using this technology will most likely not be very useful in school environments. This is due to a few minor issues along with just simple facts about how this technology is used. Not to mention the very simple and straight forward ideas of how this technology could be used in the future. So the points to make are the issues with the technology, how it is used, and how it can be used.
First of all, there is the issues with the technology. This begins with the simple idea that Dr. Huang clearly state that, "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal,"Meaning, that even he understands that not everyone has the same way of showing emotions rendering his software partially ineffective. This is with putting consideration into people simply just "looking mad" all the time when the person may just have that kind of face structure and is always happy. Meanwhile it is also stated that, "So computers need to understand that, too." Showing that even Dr. Huang knows his software has to be programmed to know all these emotions and he is pulling the knowledge he gives to the software from art-works that are not actually real human faces and sometimes are not very accurate. Leaving his software to be a whole other level of inaccurate and simply just not very trustworthy.
Next, is how the software works. The way this software works calls for computers that can run the software really well putting into consideration that schools will have to waste alot of money on these when he states himself in the article, "Your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile." This is not new considering schools often times find themselves having problems with how to fund things thye need let alone a software program that can read facial emotions and the computers to run this complex software. To add to this problem with using this software in school comes the idea given when the article states the context following the past idea just about how it reads muscles and how, "To an expert, faces don't lie" However, no matter how much they may code into this software the software will never truely be a professional in human emotions without being one, it will simply be guessing.
Finally, the biggest concern is how it can be used in the future. Although the author does state one way that the technology can be used in school it seems awfully useless if like said before the technology is most likely ineffective in every way. However, this technology could be used as he states, "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive- for video games or video surgery." Which is a very valid point not to mention it will go into an industry where they will actually be put to good use unlike helping students who dont know how to stand up for themselves and ask for help. Not to mention how the information given like, "They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one." makes it sound like this technology, if possibly useful and accurate, can be put into good use if put into the hands of detectives instead. This will lead his emotion detector to basically become a new version of the already existent "lie detector" instead of a useless class tool to tell teachers when a student is bored or confused when they can simply just speak up.
Therefore, in the end the technology simple will not work properly if it is tested only on art-works and false human faces. Also, if the technology costs the amount of money that it will, then school will not be able to afford getting it anyways. Along with the the final statement that this technology will be of better use being used somewhere else instead of in schools. However, this is not saying it will serve no purpose atall in school. It is simply stating that it may not be worth the costs of rushing to use it. | 3 |
Limiting car usage is helpful into reducing stress and helping the enviroment. "When i had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way" a mother of two said. Street parkng, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental near the French and Swiss borders. Vauban's streets are completely "car free", car ownership is allowed but there are only two places to park. This is smart planning.
There have bee efforts in the last two decades to make cities denser. Vauban home to 5,500 residents are the advanced experimented in low car suburban life. With more space not being used by cars, stores can now have a walkway to the main street rather a mall next to a highway. Ever since world war 2 everything has been based on a car, well that's going to have to change.
4,000 drivers were fined for driving in paris after told not to because of smog, they did'nt listen. Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of france, after five days of intensifying smog. Diesal fuel was blamed. Paris has more smog than any other European capitals. Delivery companies complained of lost of revenue, while exceptions were made for pul in cars, hybrids, and cars carrying three or more passengers.
While in colombia they have a day when you don't use your car in order to prevent smog. Millions of colombians hike, bike, skate, or took the bus to school and work, whoever violated that day they were fined with $25. 7 million did'nt use their car. Colombias goal is to promote alternative transportation, and the rain has'nt stopped them it's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower pollution. 2 other cities joined the event.
In the united states each year drivers have been becoming less and less, we're buying fewer cars and getting fewer licenses too. A study of last year found that driving by young people deceased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. Pedestrain, bicycle,private cars,commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety. | 1 |
Venus is the planet of our solar system. Occasionally Venus is the closest planet to Earth in term of size as well as distance. Venus, also known as "Evening Star," is a second planet from our sun that makes it more brighter and warmer. Venus is covered with a large blanket of carbon dioxide. The temperature on the Venus is approximately 800 degrees Fahrenhite, and also has the atmospheric pressure 90 time greater than on Earth, this circumstances make the Human life quite impposible on Venus. Venusian geology has impediments like volcano eruption and earthquickes.
Do you ever feel how interesting it would be to visit places that are out of this world? Or, do you ever thought, what if we get the chance to visit different planets like Venus or Mars? Well, we are no longer away from the time when we will visit different planets for our vacation trips. Although our neighboring planets are inhospitable of human life, however ; Astronomers are fascinated about Venus because it may once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago Vinus was covered with oceans and could have supported various froms of life. Even today, Venus have some features that are analogous to those on the Earth. Human's have sent plethora number of spacecrafts to Venus but didn't get success. NASA has a compelling idea for sending humans to the study Venus. NASA's possible solution to hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray, as the temperature would be around 170 degrees Farhrenheit above that land, it will make easier for humans to research on Venus. To get samples of rock or gas, scientists has to conduct a mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and persional despite the risks. NASA has discovered that electronic devices made of silicon carbide can last for three weeks on Venus as they will not melt easily. NASA and many other organizations are working hard to make it possible for human to visit other planets.
As we know, how many different condition are becoming hindurance for humans to visit Venus, but we are no longer away from the time when human will visit other planets and will research about that planet. Recently scientists has discovered that their is a life possible on Mars. Many organizations like NASA and Space-X are working hard to send humans to Mars. Similarly we will find the way to land on Venus and know more about it. Our travels beyond the Earth should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination. | 1 |
Driverless cars aren't always so great
My position in driverless cars is that I'm opposing them.
Even though Google cofounder Sergey Brin can, I'm not ready to put my life nor my family's life on the line even after years and years of people testing them and making the driverless cars 100% safe.
Electronics always mess up somewhere down the road, even 100% safe, so why trust a driverless car when it could mess up and put your whole family's life on the line.
In the text it say's that "Driver's need to stay alerted at all times" but why if this car is 100% safe, aren't we aloud to sit and talk to are family while we are on the move.
The text also stats that "If there is a wreck who's going to be the blame, the owner of the driverless car or the manufacturer" so why buy it if you might be the one to blame and not the manufacturer who made this 100% safe driverless car.
My points go to prove why I'm sticking to a car I can personally drive and not a car that's still not 100% safe on the road yet.
So I ask you, would you like to move on with the rest of the world and put your life and other people's lives at risk every day with a driverless car or a car that you can drive and help keep others safe.
Stay safe and go against the flow sometimes, could be for the best. | 2 |
Facial Action Coding System technology that can detect your emotions and others. People will used that non stop people will keep looking other people's emotions. That technology will not go that well and I don't think that technology is safe to use. People will just play with that and mess around I don't think we need that to use just to know people's feeling we can figure it out withouth using that technology. Think about this way if you give that to a one person you think they will use it for good I don't think so.
It's not good to use that it's because people are just gonna play with humans feeling so i'm going for not using Facial Action Coding System. People know what your feeling their just gonna make fun of you or mess around with you because they know how you feel. It's justn not safe it's just gonna make people in trouble it't really a bad idea to use it. Knowing how many percent how happy you are based on passage it can detect percentage of your emotions that's nice but it's really bad idea. Based on the passage their talking about how humans perform the same impressive "calculation" everyday I don't believe that human have different perspective, different point of view.
I would rather not use Facial Action Coding System I don't even think if it's safe or not. It's really not a good idea to use it for humans because you know how they feel based on their actions, movements, expressions, and how they act. No need for that technology knowing a person you can tell how happy they are. Someone you truly know is a best way to know their expression.
Using Facial Action Coding System should be illigal because I people don't want them finding out their feeling. No one wants to know what your feeling you want them to find out because that's how you know if they do care. People got used to people knowing their used to look for their expression they don't need such as facial action system. It's so much better to know a feeling by talking to them in person. I would prefer use my abilities to know a person feeling instead of using that fake technology.
By looking at the picture of Mona Lisa you can that is quite happy you can see that little curve in her face it might seem different for others but looking at her make feel that she's happy.It says on the passage it also can make you happy. That's really not a good idea you can make people happy withouth using any technology .that would probably cost a lot of money I don't think people can afford that. Instead of buying that technology might just spend the money for my family. | 2 |
The authors sugestion that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents and how he supported his claim shows his enthusiasm in the topic of exploring venus.This is supported in how he says its a worthy pursuit, how human curitostity will lead to equally dangerous endeavors, and the fascination astronomers have with venus.
When the author's how human curiosity lead to dangerous endeavors is shown in paragraph 3 stating that the atmosphere is covered in highly corrosive sulfuric acid clouds.
Another example is how exploration in venus is a worthy pursuit is in paragraph 2 stating "... contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite it's proximity to us." shows the challenge in studying venus.
Lastly the astronimers fascination with venus is stemed from the fact venus has features simalor to earth.The author states that "The planet has a suface of rocky sediment...features such as valleys, mountains, and crators." show the simalaritis are still there.
In conclusion his idea has a multitued of support in his artical. | 2 |
Driverless are they going to be part of the future or should they stop trying to make them? Today I'm going to be telling you my opinion on it.
To begin, I don't like the idea of smart cars I believe they're really expensive to make and just recently a driverless smart car ran into a semi. They're not safe and no one wants to spend money on a vehicle they can't drive it's just silly and during the winter they won't know how to handle ice and snow they'd probably spin out and crash and hurt a passanger in it and who's going to get in trouble for the accident? The passenger or the manufacturer? I guarantee you it would be the passenger even though they didn't do anything wrong.
Secondly, a lot of people like/love driving and don't like being passengers. Those people definitley won't buy smart cars they like the feeling of being in control not sitting there watching a car drive them around. It even sounds weird having a car in control. In cities sure they'll work because people use taxis now but think about all the people being layed off because a new type of car took their job! I can't imagine how they would feel. My dad was layed off a few years ago and we struggled getting by and no one should have to go through that especially if they have children.
In conclusion, I believe driverless cars/smart cars are going to cause more problems then they'll fix. I am against driverless cars. Are you against them too? | 2 |
I am a high school student and in my point of view what i infer about reading the passage is that election by popular votes needs to happen. why am I thinking like this? There are several reasons, well first i dont know what this people are doing maybe they are being paid to choose the president it dosen't mean enything that they got more ethoes than the rest of the state. People should choose who they really want to be the president, they should give prove of when they count the votes.
The countrie is the home of alot of people imigrants and native we all should have the same rigths and that rigth is to vote for the person that will lead the countrie to a better place, not some slate of the state. Maybe they got more ethoes than the rest of the countrie but each person is smart to know what is good and what is wrong. In the passage they tell the reader, under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. Then what is the point of voting maybe this people are not even considering the people who vote they are only doing what they think is rigth.
This people have alot of money but they still want more and more, inportant people would brive this elector with alot of money, and they would be doing whatever they are ask for. They could be 200 votes of the entire state that if the state only as 20 electors thoes are the votes that are counting in real life. What future could we have trusting this electors our chances are really low we cant let this happen .
After reading all my letter you will understeand why did I talke like this about the elector and why the electoral college have to be remove. The word of the entire countrie should coun't more than the wor of 200 people. Thoes 200 could be in who knows what to trust our future. this is why I think that electoral college is not an opssion. | 1 |
The Face, a discovery on Mars. It was dicovered on 1976 and it was complicated to predict what it actually was. It was explored when NASA's Viking 1 was snapping photos of possible land places for the ship Viking 2.
When it was revealed to be a natural landform, not everyone was happy with it. The Face should be considered a natural landform.
I claim that it's a natural landform because it can be found on this earth. It wouldn't be a natural landform if it was not possible to find it anywhere. To confirmed it's identity, Mars global Surveyor arrived at the Red Planet in September 1997 after 18 years of the discovery. Jim Garvin, chief scientist of NASA's MGS stated, "We felt is was important to taxpayers. We photographed the Face as soon as could get a good shot at it." This senteces here shows how important is was to identify the Face.
On April 5, 1998, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture that is ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. After they snapped photos of the Face, it was later revealed to be a natural landform. There was no alien monument after taking a look at the pictures. According to the text, "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all" (Unmasking the Face on Mars,7). Many people disagreed that is wasn't a natural landform, but an alien.
The camera used to take the picture wasn't an ordinary camera. It was the aboslute best camera at that time and it zoom in three times bigger than the pixel size. Some might argue that it could be hidden by a haze or mistaken, but it was looked over for the second time and it was confirmed to be a natural landform twice. If you were to use the camera that they used, you can identify any objects such as an airplane or Eygpt pyramid on Mars.
Overall, the Face is a natural landform. The landform is common around American West. Garvin stated, "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." It's comparing a real landform to the Face. The Face today can be considered a natural landform. | 3 |
This new technology to allow us to read students emotional expressions is brilliant. Reasons being is it allows students to show their true emotion regardless if they act happy, or sad. This will more likely have less kids hide their emotion and can truly be worked on. It can be the difference between life or death. To prove that this technology can be used in advance, most of us know the famous picture of the Mona Lisa. Using this advance system most people will say she is just happy and smiling, 'but she's actually 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted,6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry'. Obviously we have more then one feeling but this is an prime example of showing this can work on other people and pictures from years ago and still show their full emotions, most people can claim to be happy a lot and be completley devasted. This will be the future to help towards others and will soon help for the greater good. | 1 |
The face is just a natural landfrom because in space there is a lot of astroids. Astroids could of hit the planet many times and have made a shape that looks like a human face. Aliens couldn't of made it because it's two miles wide from end to end at it would take alot of time. Scientists at NASA figureed out it was another Martian mesa, common around Cydonia, only that had an unusual shadow.
Conspiracy theorists belive that NASA is just trying to hide aliens on mars. Many people wanted to see the picture of the face formation, but later reaveling that it was just a natural landform. Scientists said that it wasn't easy for them to get another look at the face beacuse the MGS only scans in 2.5 km strips and they don't past over it often. Later NASA took another picture and the MGS took a photo using the cameras best resolution. | 1 |
The article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" is presumably very true. Today making things run by itself seems to pull humans in by the collar and maintain their attention. Driverless cars are inevitable due to all of the technology we have surrounding us. In the future driverless cars will be a regular thing, and it is making life easier. An easier life is what everyone wants, and a driverless car fits right into that aspect.
In paragraph 2 it states that Google has had driverless cars since 2009, that could drive under certain conditions. However, the car still lets the driver know when to take control of the vechicle and it's a great way to make sure that people are alert, while on the road, because unpredictable traffic conditions can happen at any time. Before, driverless cars were an idea, many believed that smarter roads could do the job, but it would have been very expensive to upgrade all of the roads to accomadate these cars, that had radio
signals in them. Driverless cars, would be an asset to people, as long as the technology aspect of it right.
In paragraph 3 it states that in the late 1950's, at General Motors there was a car made that drove on special track, instead of making the entire car driverless the signals in the car coinsided with the track. At Berkeley a similar concept was produced; this time the car read binary code, which is a system that uses 0's and 1's to represent different characters. With the very expensive idea of upgrading roads, engineers and manufacturers had to go in a different direction. That direction was changing the car, by making it smarter. As time has passed, just like a cellphone cars have gotten better and better. Google's Toyota Prius has alot of different software and technology in the car and on the outside. Some of that technology on the Toyota Prius can be located in paragraph 4.
With the plethora of technology everything seems as if it is reaqdy to go. However, with a driverless car there is the issue of safety. Such, as what if the software malfunctions or stops working all together. Sensors have been used since, the 1980's and because of that we now have antilock brakes. Just to be sure, we need more than that to make sure that we are completely safe, if we were to get behind the wheel. There are self-driving cars already out today, just not avaible to be sold yet. With all of the technology in these driverless cars they are still not completely driverless. The Google car announces when human assistance will be needed. Also, in paragraph 7 it states that BMW, in 2013, announced that they have developed 'Traffic Jam Assistance' which lets the car handle driving at up to 25 mph(miles per hour), and the drivers hands must remain on the wheel. GM, General Motors, has developed vibrating driver's seats that are there to alert, when the vehicle is about to back into something. Since, there will always need to be human assistance for now. There arrises another problem. Will the driver be able to take over if the want to and how much control does the actual driver has. However, since, nothing has been release we shall not know. But, a smart car seems safer than most cars, with all of the accident-preventing technology that comes with it. Since, smart cars are fairly new, new laws need to be out in place. These laws need to determine whom is at fault for an accident, and set regulations so there is no panic when these cars finally are driving on the road. It is legal in 3 states and 1 district, found in paragraph 9, to use these driverless cars. However, it is very realistic that more states will follow suit; after, they see how fantastic these smart cars are.
Driverless cars could be very helpful to the elderly, people with disabilities that make it harder for them to drive, and even teen drivers who are a little afraid to take full control of the wheel. Also, with all of the technology that is being created on a daily basis, driverless will happen, no matter what. As humans we should make the best of it because they are coming whether we like it or not. Getting to the true driverless, is not a bumpy as it seems and the destination is close, with car manufacturers planning to have this type of vehicle out on the road very soon. So, driverless cars are already a thing of the present, and will only get better in the near future. | 3 |
Dear state senator,
Many people believe that the Electoral College should be abolished, while others believe that the Electoral College should stay as it is. However, what most people who want to keep the electoral college, do not know is that when you vote for a presidential candidate you are actually voting for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. Which means that the people do not get a direct vote towards the president. Therefore, it can cause disinterest in people who are eligible to vote. That is why I argue in favor of changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States.
The first reason as to why I favor in abolishing the Electoral college is because you can not always trust the electors. As shown back in 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy so that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy. Also, due to the winner-take-all system, candidates do not spend time in states they know they have no chance in winning, it is obvious that they just want to win and you can not trust those candidates, especially the people who promise to do things they know they can not fulfill. The electors that "the people vote for" do not want to help their state, they do not even care for the needs of the people, they are just there for the money. Another reason as to why you can not trust the electors is because it is known that the electors can vote for whomever they choose and forget about the people's needs. One of the main reasons as to why this causes disintrest in potential voters. If the people vote directly for the president they have a better chance in speaking up and fighting for what they want therefore, trusting. Those are some of the rights that are taken away by the electoral college and people do not even realize it.
Another reason as to why I believe the electoral college should be abolished is because the electoral college is unfair to voters. Over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. That is more than half of the people! If the government really cared for what the people want, the electoral college would have been abolished by now. Studies have shown that only half of the people living in the U.S have voted in the pasts elections. If you really want the number of voters to increase and for citizens of the U.S to express their political preferences you should actually listen to them and abolish the electoral college.
Lastly, the electoral college prevents voters from controling who they vote for. Many voters now in days believe that when they vote, their one vote decides the election but, they are wrong. If they abolish the electoral college the voters would have a better chance in having who they want for president. The people who vote in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference we'll have more citizens voting if the electoral college is abolished. How do you expect for U.S citizens to vote and express themselves if they are not heard? | 3 |
I don't think that this is valuable for students in a classroom just to read their emotions. It invades their privacy on if they want to share whats going on in their life or not. The students can share if they want to but they should't have their emotions identify by a computer and have their teacher to see what results came in for their emotions. In the article it states that "we humans perform this same impressive "calculations" everyday" when actually you just sense it or study their face to see which emotion you can see through their eyes or facial expressions. We don't need a computer to detect our emotions when we could say how were feeling and not have a computer tell for us. In the article it states that "Eckman has classified six basic emotions-happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness-and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles." I pretty much don't beileve a computer can detect emtions from our faces when we could use a computer for many other things instead of emotions. What about our other emotions? gulity? curious? love? etc. How exactly can a computer detect our emotions? When a real human can detect it by the look of our face and talking about it. Yea it might have some good sides to it for crimes and all that but please this is not for our students just for their teachers to read their emotions and invading their privacy. | 2 |
The value of technology we as a human race and generation have envovled with what we can do with technoogy. One example of this envolution is cell phones, we all have heard the tales of how are parents didn't even have or better yet even knew what a cell phone was when they were kids. This might just seem like boring old tales to the generation who grew up with all different types of cell phones. Even so these tales show us just how much technology has improved, and how we are still improving. Just like our lastest improvement in Technology ,the FACS system.
The FACS system stands for Facial action coding system meaning this is a system that reads and codes the facial expression a person makes and tell us what emotion they are feeling. Cool right; but now the next step or should I say next question is if we should allow this FACS system in classrooms to read students emtional expressions. I believe we should use this system in classrooms because all kids learn differently and the teacher can't always adhere to a certain kids way of learning. Therefore if we were to have this FACS system it would allow the computer to calculate the childs facial expression and tell the teacher so that they can better adjust their lesson and all the kids can be engaged better. If they were to allow this system in classrooms the kids would retain information better which might lead to better test score, and maybe even a better learning environment.
This FACS system was creayed by Pyschologist Dr. Paul Eckamn with Professor Thomas Huang from Beckman Institute for Advanced science at the University of Illnois. With the help of professor Nicu Sebe from the University of Amsterdam. Eckman has classified basic human emtions and paired them with the muscles involved with that certain emotion. By doing this it allows the computer to calculate the emotion being expressed "even though indivduals show varyng degrees of emotions" meaning we can calculate even the littest emotion. Which would help out greatly if put in a classroom "a classroom computer could recongize when a student is becoming confused or bored" "then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor".
In conclusion the FACS system should be put into classrooms and if it were it would be a great aspect to students learning. | 2 |
New cars that drive on their own, sounds fun right? Well think again. Diverless cars should not be used thoughout the world. Diverless cars are not counted as driverless because people will still have to take control of them while in traffic zones, and during other occasions. Not everyone will be able to afford one of these driverless cars so people who usually ride in taxes or buses will no longer have that option. Also, cameras were thought of to be put in these cars to watch divers to make sure people are paying attention even though they are not driving to insure their safety if the driver has to take control, but that is invasion of privacy.
Why would you go out to buy a car that is "driverless" when you need to still have to drive it at any given time, and still have to watch the road? That defeats the whole purpose of having a car that drives on it's own. In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" It says "All are designed to notify the driver when the road requires human skills, such as navagating through work zones and around accidents. This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires".
If driverless cars become the new car than many people who take the bus, and ride taxis will be unable to have rides to their locations anymore. Especially if all other types of cars are got rid of. A lot of low income families rely on a taxi, train, bus, or even a subway as a cheaper way to get around because they cannot afford a car. That means they would be walking while higher class people are riding in a driverless car. The argument for supporters of driverless cars was "The cars would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus." Still it does not change the matter that people would still have to walk to get to where they need to go if they cannot afford a driverless car.
Some people believe that diverless cars will be a good thing because it is a peak of our technology, they also think that the driverless cars will be able to help people stay focused on the road just as the article says "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers." But that statement is not exactly true. If a person is put in a car that drives on it's own they are going to get more distracted and choose to be on their phones rather than paying attention to their surroundings because a driverless car is made to, drive on it's own.
That is why driverless cars should not be made, or even thought to be created. In reality, they are a distraction, they do not fufill their purpose, and they would end up costing way more than they are worth. | 3 |
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I think that the facs(Facial Action Coding Systen) is really a good project to be in our schools when kid like us every day use the computer and do test or even other thing like programs that help us get our learning we get very frutrated and no one really undertsand how we really feel but now with a facs we will not be alot the tecaher will know.
For example im opened a program that will help me with math and they put this hard equation on the the screen i need to answer it but if i don't know it will really change my mood but the computer after looking at me have trouble for a while and my mood they can switch the question to one a little more do able or give the teacher a hint that a student need help. That will really help school all over the nation also the author also had a same thought like mines.
On paragraght 6 he said that it could tell when a student is confused and it could modefy that lesson it could be like a effectave huamn instructor'. that why
I think that we should have the facs in our computer at schools they will change the whole learning program. To do what we can do that will really help us cause that way it will cha ge the whole learnig priogram and help us kid ni get a stressed at such a young age makes us not want to come to school like that there wil also be morwe kid at schol and less dropouts. facs lets us work harder and what we can really do till we work hard enought to get to the level we need to be to succefull in life.
Faces techlongly will also be usefull now that our genration in schools is advancing we now have alot of computers and each and every day the schools all around the world get more and more advance tech the schools is going to be vertauily a computer in a couple generation. this is my points why i want facs in our schools computers . | 2 |
l personally do not agree with driverless cars. l think that they they are not as safe as a human driving a car could be. l think that people are being to lazy drive your car and go on with life.
l think that the driverless cars would cause alot more accidents then a regular car would. the driverless cars would nit be as responsive to certain citustions as a human would be such as, a drtiver runs a red light the driverless car would not be able to notice that car as fast as a human would ther fore causing an accident.
i think that the idea of notifing the driver when there is a construction zone or something like that is a good idea but, if the driver is asleep and does not respond fast enough what will happen then. Will the car be able to notify the driver fast enough if a car cuts you off or runs a redlight? Will the car be able to see the blindspot?
l think that the driverless car is cool and all but l dont think that are safe at all. lf they can make the driverless cars safer and more responsive l think they could be a good idea but for now they are not safe enough. Why fix something thats not broken? | 1 |
While i feel like this could help with a few thing i feel as if it would just hurt humans in the long run because people will start to rely on the computers to tell them how other people are feeling, and that jsut makes it harder for the few people that help other people to help them when they are in need. This would be because we wouldnt be able to tell if ther person is scared or worried or just in need of help from anyone.
First of all, my biggest problem with this is that we cant rely on computers to tell us everything they cant feel what we feel when we look in the eyes of someone else. Not to metion that a computer can only do as much as we program it to do so it can only know all that we have discovered so it cant tell the different emotions of any accuratly because it doesnt know their give aways or how well they hide their emtions.
Secondly, you cant just base someone's emotions off of their facial expressions. This is because everyone including me find ways to hide how they are feeling and find ways to make their face look unemtional. To this effect people can control their facial muscles to a different degree of effiecenty. So, there for the computer would possible give inaccurate reports over and over again.
So, in the end I dissagree with that fact that this computer can tell how people are feeling based on their facial expressions. This is because for one they can't know for sure how well the person can control the muscles in their face, secondly they cant see the look in the eyes of the person and feel the emotion that is coming off the person who is looking at the computer. Finally, these are the reasons i can not agree with this article that you can tell someones emotions with just a computer instead of another human being. | 2 |
Most citizens do not realize that even though it may be easier and does not require a large amount of energy to operate, cars pollute the air that we breathe and it becomes tainted. Citizens may have their own personal reasons why they ride bicycles, walk or take the bus. If everyone takes part in not driving a car, the society would dramatically improve. For one the amount of tracffic would decrease. The text states "congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France after five days of intensifying smog...". In other words this is saying that the fog was so intense that people driving were not able to operate their vehicles. Since no one was driving or on the road, traffic went down 60 percent due to the amount of smog. In addition to the amount of traffic being lowered, certain car lots would have an significant increase in business. Article two states "exceptions were made for plug-in cars, hybrids, and cars carrying three or more passengers". In other words car dealer ships their profits and their makings would sky rocket due to the increase of people purchasing this particular type of vehicles in an attempt to make the Earth greener.
Adding on to the fact that not only will car dealer ships that sell these types and models of cars profit increase drastically, the citizens will either have electric vehicles or they will have the type of vehicles that can occupy more than three passengers per trip or outing. So then the amount of exhaust coming from cars and going into the air will be reduced. Electric cars do not produce exhaust and if more people drove cars that can seat more than three people, then exhaust will still be going into the air but the amount would be less than it usually is. Not only will reducing car usuage prevent air pollution, it brings people together and helps them relax. Article three states "it's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." In other words this is saying that banning cars allowed the citizens to just relieve stress. | 2 |
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