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Have you ever wondered what other planets are like? Have you ever gotten the questioned yourself about these other planets like... Have scientists found other lifeforms? Have scientists found resorces on other planets like they have on Earth? well then if thats the case let me explain you why "Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents." There could possibily be other life forms on other planets and even Venus, how there's life forms on Earth, typicaily Humans, Animals and even Bacteria like Algy and Fungi, In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" In paragraph 4 it says "Venus could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." Another reason why Venus is worth studying is, like the Sun its the hottest thing in our solar system, what if Venus is not as hot as the Sun but what if Venus is hot for anything to be on there, in the article " The Challenge of Exploring Venus" In paragraph 3 it says "Venus tempreture average is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit.", or what if it relates to Earth in many ways? In the article in paragraph 4 it says "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans" This is all the evidence on why Venus is worth discovering dispite the dangers while, Scientists may have discovered a bit of Venus and a bit of Mars unfortionatly for now some of those planets remain a mystery while some are on the very peak of changing from the unknown to the discoverable. | 2 |
In the excerpt the author talks about how even though going to venus will be a challenging journey it will aslo be a meaningful one. Through paragraphs 1-8 he paints a perfect picture of what NASA's has tried to do and what they are currently doing. He starts by explaining that yes, the living conditons on Venus are not ideal but they are survivable. Through the previous voyages to Venus, they have been able to establish that Venus is not a stable enough planet for them to completely land advanced technology there yet. The author tells us that in the past NASA has sent rovers and stuff up to the surface of Venus to get us a better view of our galaxies "evening star''.
But within hours the space craft was lost and in a way killed due to the harsh conditions on Venus. Taking all that into consideration, NASA is planning on devising a better plan to rediscover and reexplore Venus. They are brainstorming on a way to make a device that can hover 30 or so miles above the surface of Venus. That distance will be the equivalant to jets and commercial airplanes flying over storms here on earth. The author succesfully persuaded me to believe Venus is worth exploring after reading this excerpt.
He did so by descriptively creating a scene in my head of Venus being Earth's equal. He talks about there being valleys, hills, and craters on Venus's surface just like they are here on Earth. He also goes into detail about how there is a strong possability that long ago Venus could have been covered in water that could have supported various life. There is also a strong possibility that if Venus can support our earth needs, then it could possibly be supporting someone elses. With further research and explorations we could find out if there truly is other life forms other than us.
In conclusion, Venus is worth going back to and doing a deeper investigation of what the planet really can do. I do believe that if anything would happen to earth it would be in our best bet to be able to flee to Venus. The author did a amazing job of supporting the idea of conducting better research on Venus by painting a vivid image into my head. Through his use of words and use of back story, he helps show that with enough motivation and dedication. We can transform Venus and its rough planetary conditons into another Earth. | 3 |
All humans face difficulties at all times in their life. Humans aren't always going to be happy every second of everyday. In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author is expressing the new technology, the Facial Reaction Coding System. This is able to identify human emotions. I am against this technology on reading students emotional expressions. Students go through school and come across bad times and stressful times and not every student likes to show that.
Students go through emotions quite frequently and even when noticing one has a great big smile on their face, doesn't exactly mean they are happy. For an example, in paragraph 5, it states "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." This shows that anyone can make any face just to show one is "happy" or "sad," others may not want people knowing how sad you actually are deep down. Everyone is different in their own ways, but for me being a student in high school and if i am ever sad, i show a smile on my face so not everyone is noticing my sadness and asking me what's wrong. Therefore, in paragraph 7,
"They even indicate the diiference between a genuine and a forced one." This is showing how the software and the movements in the mucles show the difference between an actual smile and a forced one. Not every student in highschool is going to know the difference on the movement in muscles unless they are studying it. There is a reasoning on why there isn't a bubble on top of our heads revealing our thoughts. One good example from paragraph 6 states "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication, so computers need to understand that too."
If one wants to express how they feel towards a family member, or friend, etc then thats on them for wanting people to know their business and talk about it with soemone else. Undertsanding the thought of understanding yourself, each and every individual has their own thoughts on things and many things that come across the head is always secured within yourself and never left your mouth which doesn't mean it needs to be notified by a computer either.
I strongly believe each student should be able to express their feelings how they want, if that means hiding their real emotions or embracing their real emotions. If one is upset and has something going on in their life, they know how they feel and don't need a computer operating all their thoughts. This is why i am against having this software of identifying human emotions. | 2 |
From electric cars to deisel semi-trucks, automobiles can hurt the enviornment and people living in that eniviornment. The limiting use of cars can help everyone in some way. It can also save nations millions of dollars to spen on things other than fuel. the world will be a lot better wihtout the usage of cars.
Cars will alaways be a part of the human race, but have you ever had the thought of not using one anymore? In source number 3, it tells about a car-free day in Bogota, Columbia. "It`s a good opportuniy to take away stress and lower air pollution," said business man Carlos Arturo Plaza, who was riding a two seat bike with his wife. Using cars can give you a lot of stress behind the wheel because you never know whats going to happen and if you will live another day to drive your car again. In Paris, after days of near-record pollution, they enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city, according to source number 2. France has a tax policy that favors diesels over gasoline. Because of the heavy usage of diesel engines paris typically has more smog than other European capitals.
Passenger cars are responsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissionsin Europe and up to 50% in some car-intensive areas in the United States. In Vauban, Germany, an upscale community is letting people who have given up their cars to live there. Source number one state that 70% of the people who live there do not own cars and 57% sold a car to move there. "When I had a car I was always tense. I`m much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter, as she walked verdant streets where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor. Recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by source number 4 shows. If the pattern persists it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the enviornment. People who stopped commuting may find less reason to resume the habit.
Car usage, the poisen to the enviornment, is a big issue. Wealthy business men who commute an hour to work, soccer moms, and even kids driving to school all rely heavily on car usage. If the issue of limiting vehicles isn`t solved, it must be watched closlely for the coming geneartions. It will continue to effect the human race by the disposing of greenhouse gases, until we figure out a way to limit the usage of cars. | 2 |
The face of Mars present in the region of the Red Planet called Cydonia. Isn't made of the made-up creatures called aliens. It's simply made from the rock there. In the following information will be able to support this claim.
Yes, the mission controllers back at the Jet Propulsion Lab must have been surprised when the face appeared on their monitors but that was very short lived. The scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa. That thanks to the shadows made it look like a face. And mesas are known to be quite common enough around Cydonia which is how they figured that out.
So a few days later NASA unveiled the image so everyone could see it. The authors reasoned that it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars. So much that people started to think the Face was "bona fide" evidence of life on Mars. Conspiracy theorists stated that the Face was evidence
that NASA would rather hide from the public's view.While that was happening the defenders of NASA budget wished that there was an acient civilizatiob on the Red Planet.
Although very few scientists believed that the Face was an alien artifact. A photography of Cydonia became a prioprity NASA.So Michael Malin and his MOC team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. So when thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing a natural land form. Many were disappointed by this finding.
So as you can see the Face was really just a Martian mesa. That caused a huge outbursts that shouldn't have that big of a deal. Which wasn't that big deal. | 3 |
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author shares many key facts to explain how worthy but dangerous exploring Venus would be. In the pasasge the author shares the life risking ways Venus could be ,but he or she also shares the importance and information gaining ways of how worthy exploring Venus is. The factors of how dangerous Venus is may not set us back from exploring and investigating the factors that Venus provides.
Venus has a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide that blankets the planet. The passage states "even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. The author already shared 2 of the most dangerous features of the planet ,but is still wanting to explore. The conditions are more extreme than anything humans encounter on earth , but this could help scientists investigate how closely related it could be to earth.
Venus is refrred to as ''Earths twin". The passage gives us ways how eath and Venus are similar and differant. Putting aside the dangerous attributes of Venus it just has to be worthy of exploring ,because earth really was! It gives us a place to live and expand. How awesome would it be to do the same on Venus?
In pharagraph 4, it states "Long ago Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life". This was a good supportive fact for the author to help us understand why this is to worthy of discovering. The passgae also includes that today Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth. But how do we know? We have to keep an open mind to the information given to us about how dangerous this could be.
Venus has the hottest surface out of any planet in the solar system. The author shares that there are erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes ,and many other dangerous factors to add. This informs us that if Venus is so worthy to discover, we need to find safe healthy ways to do so.
NASA is working hard to find ways that it woud be posible to explore Venus. In paragragh 6, the author includes "However, peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cant penetrate the dense atmosphere" ,this tells us there are still major set backs. NASA continues to research on differant approches to study Venus. They are striving to meet the challenges of Venus and its danger .so they can prove it could one day be like earth.
There are many facts shared in this passage to help us believe that Venus is important and worthy of exploring. Like the author says "Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans. The author wants us to believe him or her, and she does this by supporting this with claims and true facts on the topic. He or she proved no matter the factors of how dangerous Venus can be we can't be set back from exploring the factors that Venus shares. | 3 |
Every theory needs to have proof, or else no one will want to believe the idea. Theorys though, are just ideas or thoughts people have. Its hard to link a day dream to scientific facts. The statement that the Face was created by aliens is nonsense. There are no facts to back the idea up. Aliens haven't even been proved to be real! People need to understand that the Face is just a mesa, a type of landform that be found on Earth aswell.
If the aliens were real, don't you think something would have changed by now? There is absolutley no sign of any life near the mesa; not even on the planet. If the aliens did exist then we should have noticed some sign. The statement that the Face is only a landform is clearly correct, unlike the idea that creatures formed it into Mars.
The statement that the Face is just a mesa has lots of proof to back it up. There are many sets of pictures, including the pictures from the original Viking itself. The Viking was the spaceship on Mars that helped capture the landform on camera. There are also pictures from recent explorations that further prove that the Face is just a landform.
I think one of the reasons people like to dream up conspiracys is because of the other ideas spread by celebritys. People like talk show hosts spread there ideas for large groups of people to hear, causing people to further think on those ideas. Plus the movie that was made about the Face doesn't help by mixing the facts up. If I were to give you one piece of advice it would be to stick to the facts. Late night dreams won't get you far in a lab or other place of scientific study. The Face is just a landform, nothing more, nothing less. | 2 |
This was what the 21st Century looks like.. People using cars more and more every single day to the point where half of us don't even want to take a lovely little stroll through the garden, over the bridge, and straight to the tree house. Nope. Nothing like that anymore. Ever since cars were created, it's given us a form to transport easier, but it's taken out a lot from the people. Among all the things they could be doing, they choose to sit in the car all day. Not anymore. There are people in different countries and states who are making a wonderful change in the world.
It all starts in Vauban, Germany. People have no cars within their non-existant garages and people are paying thousands of dollars to park their car. Why? Well, consider it as a way to help the environment. Places like Germany, France, and small sections of the United States have banned cars because of the greenhouse gas emissions. With a law that prevents cars, the states and countries can clean up the air quicker without any more polluting gas entering to make things worse.
One of the greatest advantages for car bans is that there are less accidents. With rarely any cars on the streets, it prevents people from dying in car accidents or hit-and-runs. With this, we'll have less deaths and more people coming home safely to their families.
With the majority of the population gaining weight from no workouts, car bans puts us in a different track. Whenever we need to go somewhere, we do it with a bit of exercise. Walking, biking, all that sweet jazz. We can become a better generation with just a little push and removal of something that restricts us from certain things. We've taken advangtage of cars by not putting so much work into getting the strength we need to keep us walking for more than just 20 minutes before our legs grow tired.
The future is close, but we've still got a long road ahead of us to get to our goal. To cross that road, we've thrown all the cars off to the side and we'll walk, we'll ride our bikes, we'll dance our way over the other side. Whatever it takes to get to the other side, we'll take it. | 2 |
Dear Florida Senator,
There has been much controversy over whether or not we should keep the Electoral College or have it removed and vote on the president based on popular vote. I believe the best decision is to change to an election by popular vote for the President of the United States. If the system would change, people would feel like their votes actually matter more then they do now. They wouldn't have to worry about the electors flipping sides. Some people though, do say that the way the election is now is completely fair in the case of votes are based on population.
To begin with, if the Electoral College was to be taken out of use, more people would feel like their vote matters. Although you may think you are voting for your choice of president, you are not. As of now, when you cast your vote, you are actually just voting for your candidate's electors, as said in "What Is the Electoral College". In the 2000 campaign, voters in seventeen states didn't have a chance to see the candidates at all. Those candidates went mainly to the "swing" states, or states that were not certain on who they would be voting for. The states unvisited, such as Rhode Island and South Carolina, were passed over because the candidates knew they would or wouldn't have their vote no matter what. The ones who questioned their vote did not have the chance to see either candidate in their state. In, "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President", the Romney and Obama election is mentioned. It brings up the fact that Romney knew that throughout the South, he was going to get their vote. He realized that there was no need to go there because he didn't need anymore popularity in the South because he had already gained their electoral votes. Those who opposed Romney in the southern states felt that their votes would not matter because majority already knew they were voting for Romney. If the system were to change, which I believe it should, more people would feel their votes mattered no matter what state they were in.
In addition to feeling like your vote matters, people never know if the electors would flip their desicions. The slate of electors is not picked by the people. It is said in, "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid jdefenses of the system are wrong", that sometimes the state conventions, the party's central committee, or the presidential candidates themselves choose who will be their electors. That being said, you don't know whether or not the electors will follow your choice of president or not. For example, in 1960, some electors refused to vote for their party's candidate and they chose whomever they wanted. If we were to switch the way things are now, that would not happen. A poll taken in 2000 called the Gallup poll, showed that over 60% of voters prefered a direct election rather then the kind we have now. This took place when Al Gore recieved the popular vote, but lost the electoral votes. You can see that the current system has its flaws.
Many people say that it is fair for all states because of their amount of electoral votes. For example, in "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President", Florida, which has a much larger population than Wyoming, recieved 29 electoral votes for Obama while Wyoming only had 3 electoral votes. This, at the same time though, makes candidates want to only go to the larger states to try to get their votes. The smaller states once again feel left out and unappreciated.
In conclusion, I strongly feel that we need to change to an election by popular vote. Above all, it is more fair to the people. Citizens would feel that their votes matter more than they do now. People wouldn't have to be worried about if the electors would flip on what they had voted for. Although some say its is absolutely fair throughout all the states, there are still the set backs that come along with keeping an Electoral College. I agree with former presidents, Nixon and Carter, that we need to abolish the Electoral College. All of these reasons show you the problems there are with the current system of electing our President and I know you will agree. | 4 |
In the article " Making Mona Lisa Smile, " the author describes how a new technology called Facail Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. I believe the Facail Action Coding System can greatly help a classroom. This type of technology can really improve the students' education. It can also help the teacher in some certain ways. This technology could also change our future in teaching.
First, this Facail Action Coding System can greatly help a students' education by knowing their emotions. As the article said, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". This is helpful, becasue the teacher now knows what student is confused or bored. By the teacher knowing, he or she would be able to asist the student. This would benefit the student.
Second of all, the Facail Action Coding System can really benefit a teacher. It can benefit a teacher, becasue the teacher would be able to know who is bored or confused. For example, if the teacher knows that most of the class is bored. Then the teacher can modify the lesson, to make it more effective. This is why I think it can greatly help the teacher.
Finally, I really believe this kind of technology can change the way the schools teach. If people start puting Facail Action Codying Systems in schools, and they see improvment in grades for students. It will spark other ideas for these types of technogy. Like what the article siad for the Facail Action Coding System,"Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This is how schools could change in the future and help the students' education improve by a lot.
I really believe that the Facail Action Coding System can greatly help the students. This could also be helpful for students who are to shy to rasie their hand when they are confused. That's why I believe that the Facail Action Coding System can really help students. What do you think? Do you think the Facail Action Coding System is valuable in a classroom? | 3 |
I do like the idea that computers can read our emotions. because it can tell if we are getting bored in a lesson then it could change the lesson like it says in paragraph 6 . I think that would help alots of kids stay focoused and on tastc.
Also i feel like it would make alot of desions much easyer to make because it would know if u like something or not then gve you more options like that one. For examiple when your online shoping or looking for a video game to play.
Somehting eles i think this emotion reading computer can help is when your upset and your on youtube or even socal media it knows your upset so it put stuff on your time line that won't make you even more sad or puts stuff on your timeline that will make you feel better. And that is why i think a computer that can read emotions would be very helpful in veryus ways. | 1 |
Dear Senator,
Concerning the topic of the merits and demerits of the Electoral College, herein abbreviated as EC. The Electoral College, through which our president and vice presidents currently are selected, is an institution that concerns many people in the United States. Some claim that the Electoral College is "an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner." (Posner) Though the lack of control over the president of the United States' election is disconcerting, the Electoral College, as you are aware is beneficial to elections, for example, it allows disputes to be settled over ties and complications in the popular voting process to be reduced, and minimises the amount of votes necessary for tallying, the Electoral College also provides accurate representation to citizens in certain areas. However, is this appropriate? Can the single justification for the disconnection from citizens of a nation to their president be justified on convenience? From what most sources suggest, the Electoral College is a safety system, in place to minimize the risk of complications arising from the voting process. The use of the Electoral College in this manner is unsettling to the American voter, and poses many risks for the basis of the United States. Therefore, the Electoral College should not be allowed to continue in its current manner.
Foremost, the EC as a method of back-up to reduce risk of complications in popular voting is inappropriate. In theory, the EC is not invalid; however, the way in which it is implemented is prone to error, or lack thereof, for reasons that harms the voter's representation. As each citizen votes, he/she votes for an EC slate, with each party selecting a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee. Richard Posner in his publication "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President," states that, "it is entirely possible the the winner of the electoral vote will nto win the national popular vote." However, Posner, immediately states thereafter, "yet, that has happened very rarely." Posner is correct in this case that this phenomena does happen rarely. The reason for this happening rarely is the fact that the EC adopts a "winner-take-all" voting scheme, where the majority candidate wins all of the EC votes for a specific state. To understand how this is a poor way of electing a president, a view into one's ethicality is necessary. The president of the United States is meant to represent the largest amount of the population, inevitably, there will be many that are unhappy with their president. Representing the largest amount of the US population requires that the candidate in question, theoretically, receives the most votes by popular polling. An informed American studies the resolutions and principles of potential candidates, and makes an informed decision as to which one represents their resolutions and principles. Upon deciding which candidate suits their needs, this example citizen casts his/her vote. This vote is a marker which signifies that a certain candadate will, if elected, represent this voter most. Should more than 50% of Americans decide that a certain candidate suits them best, that candidate will represent the largest amount of the American population. The EC, in comparison, awards the full amount of votes possible to the winner of the majority of electors. If 55% of the electors vote one way, and 45% in the opposite direction, the 55% will take precedence, and win the total possible votes for that state. Unfortunately, certain citizens who would have been represented accurately by popular polling may be deprived of the representation by the EC. The disconnect between the American citizen and the president of the United States is detrimental to the whole nation, including the executive body.
The Electoral College is criticized to have disconnected the United States citizen from his/her presidential candidates. However, this has been justified with the claim that "the EC saves the complications of polling the entire American population." There are inherent risks with polling the entire population: the fact that there are too many votes to keep an accurate count of. Keeping accurate track of said votes, however, is the responsibility of the current president, who, even during the end of his term, must represent the people who voted for him in providing them with a way to elect their president of choice. In this case, "practical" justification signifies the lack of interest in allowing the United States citizen to vote. A dispute of outcome in popular vote is high, the possibility of dispute in the EC is less, due to less electors being polled. The EC attempts to provide an accurate representation of the population, ensuring that the candidate selected is a candidate that suits most of each region, not one in specific. Unfortunately, despite efforts, this system is not accurate. Posner states in his publication that, "the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election," morally, his reasoning is spot-on. An uneducated voter is dangerous to the society he/she lives in, regardless of country. By contrast, the United States guarantees every citizen a right to vote for his/her representatives; pursuant to this mandate, a person of great power cannot be allowed to arbitrate that "only educated voters should decide the election," simply because an educated voter is not defined, and cannot be defined.
Large states also play a role in the EC's inaccuracies. While one may argue that larger states have more citizens, therefore, a candidate chosen by popular vote represents those citizens, regardless of their geographic location, smaller states, argue, conversely, that states, as defined entities, should have the power to have equal representation in congress, and the EC. Reflecting back to the resolution of mal-apportionment of the Senate, two senators were granted to each state, regardless of size. The Electoral College, however, does not apportion this representation evenly for smaller states. Popular vote, obviously, depends on the population of a certain state for a candidate to be elected. The EC also depends on a state's population. Smaller states who do not have many EC votes arguably should have a chance for an equal vote, as the Senate provides for in the United States congress. The EC does not represent this opposite side to representation.
Understanding the root of this argument is crucial to being able to make a difference. Where accuracy is possible, it should be achieved, where accuracy is seemingly impossible, it should be striven for. Allowing the EC to continue in its current manner is inaccurate, by any standard, and sacrifices accuracy and representation for convenience of election. The EC should, when properly instituted, regard itself as a body where the people are further supplemented in their popular representation, not opposed. Senator, I have left the personal remarks to the ending of this letter, but would like to stress my discontent with the EC as it stands today. I understand there are practical limitations that cannot be met, I understand that the EC may be more convenient when it comes to hiring employees to track votes, and co-ordinate the process as a whole, but it is something that must be done, and striven for, in the most accurate way possible. You, Senator, were elected by popluar vote because the population chose you as the candidate that best suited our interests, and were most likely to defend our interests in the face of opposition. Where we have benefitted you from voting as we have, we request you now represent us in the election of our presidential candidate that best suits our interests nationally. For the reasons provided theretofore, we strongly urge a negation of the Electoral college in favour of a more accurate voting method.
Yours,
PROPER_NAME | 5 |
In the article the author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers because of how he described the astronomers as fascinated and curious. The author is using those descriptive words to show how even though it could be dangerous, it is worth it.
In the article the author shows his strong support for the exploring of Venus. He states, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." This shows how he desribes Venus as fascinating and that illustrates the passion to explore despite the dangers.
He also stated, "Therefore scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks. Or maybe we should think of them as challenges." The author says that they should maybe think of the risks as challenges when exploring Venus becuase of the want to understand Venus. This shows how they so badly want to understand Venus thast they should just disregard the dangers of it.
The author then goes onto say how Venus has an insight to be gained and assuming that the insight is worth the dangers. He states, " Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value becuase of the insight to be gained on the planet itself." The value the author brings up the quote is being used to show how the challenges are worth the value and that the exploring of Venus is worth the dangers. The author also describes the astronomers as curious, he states, " Human curiousity will likely lead us to many equally intimidating endeavors." He is stating how they are so curious and that they are so curious that studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers.
In the article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author very cleary states how exploring and studying Venus is worthy of the dangers that come with it. The author shows this by saying how fascniated and curious astronomers are, by saying this he is inferring that they are willing to do what they can to venture out onto Venus and do what they can to find out more about it even with the dangers attatched to doing so. | 3 |
If diverless cars are in our future would it impact the way people focuse on the road? I belive that driverless cars will afect peoples saftey.
A way that driverless cars can be a negative thing is because people are not in full control of the car. What would happen if the car all of a sudden starts doing something wrong and the driver can not do anything about it? In paragragh number 7 is says that the car can do a lot of things on its own. "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navagating through work zones and around accidence."
Also if people were interested in buying the diverless car would an average person be able to affort it? In paragragh number 4 it clearly says that the car needs many tools and special equitment to be able to be a driverless car. "Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an intertial motion sensor."
Not only would the car itself cost alot, it would also take millions to be able to fix all the roads in order for the car to be able to drive on the roads. In paragragh number 3 it states that the car requies magnets in the road to be able to read the messages in binary code, but would be too expensive. "These smart-road systems worked surprisingly well, but they require massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical."
Finally one of my biggest concerns is that if the driverless car does not need the driver at all times would it make it easier for younger kids to get in the car, start it, and take off? In paragragh number 7 it says that all it takes is the drivers hands to be on the wheel for the car to go. "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." Since the driverless car can do alot on its own the car could make it easy for a young child to get in it and leave while not being watched properly.
In conclusion, I belive that people should keep driverless cars off the road for many reasons. For example, people are not having full control of the car. The car may not be afordable to the average person. It would take millions for the road to be fixed and be able to have driverless cars to work on the roads. Finally it would be seriously dangerouse for a young child to get in the car and the car start driving on its own. | 3 |
venus is the second planet in our solar system. This is the closer planet to the sun before earth, wich is the third one. this planet has many interesthing things like any other planet in our universe, many interesting things to explore, many interesting things to know about it. we can explore many
things. For example we can know about his temperature, weather, and if there is life in it.
The author's idea is well supported since he tells the differents things that venus have. He tells how dangerous Venus is, if humanity is able to live there, or what is the temperature in it. he gives details about how some types of experiments that the (NASA) did. He talks about how the (NASA) created a technological thing created with silicon, to see what was the reaction to the planet, or how long was going to be able to still working. the machine lasted for 3 weeks in good conditions. but the (NASA) didn't have enough, they wanted to send people to Venus so they could investigate what else does this planet would have.
"The national Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has one particularry idea for sending human to tudy venus. to study the hostiles conditions of the surface.
Venus has a lot of dangerous things such as tornados, radiation, highest temperatures, bad weather etc. the NASA things that even with that it can be survivable for humans. "solar power would be plentiful and radiation would not exceed earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans." humans have a lot of curiosity to explore things, no matter what it is or what is the effect.
Humanity doesn't have limited imaginations. and technology just keeps getting better wich helps humanity to do things that we cant do by our self, or together. That's why technology is very
important in our future, because is what we would need always no matter what we do technology is alway going to help us in one, or many ways. this is what has helped humanity with the investigation of venus and what dangerous things it has. | 2 |
When it comes to automobiles they can provide us with numerous benefits. However, it would appear that limiting car use has far more advantages than thought of before: it can help the enviorment, provide easier means of commuting, and it can cut down on traffic congestion.
To begin, it would appear as though that limited car usage is a enviorment saving technique. For instance, within the article "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal, it states of the exsistence of a small suburban city names Vauban, Germany that has nearly obsoleted the use of automobiles. Within the fifth paragraph of the article they talk of why it is so necessary for this to become a trend,"Automobiles are the linchpin of subarbs... And that, experts say, is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes...Passanger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe...". This bit of information informs those that drive of the harmful effects that our cars are creating upon the enviorment. However, if we are to limit our uses of cars, and like the residents of Vauban, and find alternative means of transportation then maybe we can reduce the amount of greenhouse gases that are being given off by cars. Similarly, Paris has taken up a similar idea. In Robert Duffer`s article, "Paris bans driving due to smog" he talks of the percautions that France has taken to driving and why. Paris has created a ban so that those who have a liscense plate that begins with an even number cannot drive on a certain day, and the next day those who have a liscense plate that starts with an odd number cannot drive. This all began because, "...after five-days of intensifying smog... [The smog] rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world."(paragraph 14). Paris`s efforts to create less smog was a success and they now implement the ban on Monday`s and Tuesday`s. Due to less drivers, they were even able to reduce the amount of smog polluting the air. Limited and restrictive usage on cars seems to be very helpful when saving the enviorment.
Next, the near obsolete use of cars has made for easier modes of transportation. For example, in Elisabeth Rosenthal`s passage " "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" she tells of the many benifits that limited car use have upon their community. In paragraph six she states that suburbs are beginning to be,"...more compact and more accessible to public transportation, with less space for parking. In this new approach, stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway." This meaning that there will be more of an ease when traveling and everything being closer together. No longer will people have to drive miles away for some groceries, they will simply either walk or ride the bus to their destination. They will no longer be stressed as to what time they have left to reach a store that is a distance away. Along the same lines, soemtimes it can be easier to not drive at all. In the article "The End of Car Culture" the author, Elisabeth Rosenthal, states how many people have found diffrent means of getting to where they are going. In paragraph thirty-seven she says," New York`s new bike-sharing program and its skyrocketing bridge and tunnel tolls reflect those new priorities...". From the information given, it appears as though finding easier means of transportation have become a new popular trend. Since prices to travel by car are soaring, the cheapier solution appears to just be walking, or as stated, riding a bike. Leading people to belive that the near extinction of car usage has left us with easier means of travel.
Lastly, choosing to not use cars more frequently has left us with less traffic. In Andrew Selsky`s "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" he talks about the reasoing for this. "...millions of Columbians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams."(paragraph 20). Due to the enviormentaly safe means of travel, traffic has become a thing of the past. This can also mean for the residents, a faster, safer way of traveling if they take a taxi or bus to their destination. Even Bill Ford, executive chairman of the Ford Motor Company had input to this. Elisabeth Rosenthal was able to incorporate a statement into her article "The End of Car Culture" when on the subject of the decline in car usage. Mr. Ford had to say that, "...pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety." (paragraph 43). This statement can inform the general population that from the drop in cars on the road, it can improve our safety and save time because of the fewer motorist on the road. That traffic is nearing an end which can be a new age in which traffic is gone. Which is why, when people choose not to use cars it can help to reduce traffic.
In conclusion, when it comes to automobiles they can provide us with numerous benefits. However, it would appear that limiting car use has far more advantages than thought of before: it can help the enviorment, provide easier means of traveling, and it can reduce traffic. | 4 |
Driverless cars may be very interesting and cool to have, but are they truly furthering the betterment of people over all. The new technology used in order to full develop this driverless car will cost large amounts of money. If the United States focuses too much on this development the economy will suffer. There are may aspects to be considered about the idea of an autonomous vehicle. Developing these cars will enable laziness for people, establishing maybe unsafe conditions for pedestrians, and creating a way for people to not have to learn how to drive.
Even though being able to have a car that drives itself would be cool, it would allow people to rely on machines to do their work for them. Americans are in some cases are seen as lazy, and these cars will further show that. The druver is still in the car paying attention, but they are not truly focused apon maming sure to turn correctly or not going over the speed limit. Driving a car can teach people how to be discipline, how to focus, and how to be aware of their surroundings. These fundamentals would not be fully understodd if the driverless cars were developed further.
Also, this new technology of cars could create a safety risk for ohter drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists. There potentially could be a larger number of accidents with these new cars. For example, If the cars is not programmed to be aware of incoming bicyclists or pedestrians there could be a problem with stopping the car in time to avoid collisions.
Drving is a good skill to have, but if these cars develop people will feel there is not much use in learning the specifics in driving techniques if the car drives itself. A driver still should know the importances of driving even if the car is able to run on its own. This means thta the drivers of the future will not need to learn major parts of driving because the cars will mainly do all of the work.
Cars without drivers is a development that could create more accidents, allow people to be lazy, and cause there not to be a reason for people to not learn the skills of driving. The cars may be unuseful in many ways because the driver still must be attentive to the road. Is there really a point to having a car the is supposed to drive itself if the person in the car is basically still driving. These cars take away learning opportunities form upcoming driver as well. Driverless cars seem to be a great development, but in all reality having cars that need a driver is more beneficial. | 2 |
I am very much against the idea of putting my life on a machinge. I no not agree in putting my life and others in danger because I am to lazy to drive the car myself. So many things could go wrong when letting a machine work for us such as more distractions, machine breaking down, WIFI disconnecting, and overconfidence are all things that could cause accidents and death all because we want a machine to do work for us!
The fact that people are actually considering risking their lives so that they can places faster and more convienently is very concerning. We are actually hoping that one day we can sit back in the car and let a machine take us places and actually believing nothing would go wrong. I don't trust in machines at all. I am a student at Guerin Catholic were computers are needed, and I see someone having problems with them everyday. If we cant trust simple electronics like computers to be working for us everyday, then how are we suppose to expect a car that needs sensors, lasers, GPS, WIFi, and so many other things to work 100% of the time. We are risking our lives and those of others trusting that all this will work properly.
Today we have laws that prevent us from using phones and other electronics in cars, because they are distractions and can cause accidents. In the text we learn that some manufactures are wanting the car to control 80% of what happens so that in unexpected cases we humans can take over. I seriously doubt that is someone were in a car in which the did not do anything but sit for 80% of the time that they would not be doing something else. If we allow people that much time to have a machine control the movements of the car we cannot really expect someone to just be 100% ready to take over the job to prevent something dangerous from happening. It just won't happen! If we have people texting and talking on phones inside of cars were we are the only ones in control of what is happening how are we to expect people to be resonible enough to know when they need to take over in command because the machine warns us. The law clearly warns us to not talk and drive and yet we do it. What would be different when the machines says, "take over now"?
In our world today we already have a lot of technology in control of part of our lives. We drive machines, use computer, phones, GPS, WIFI all to help us in our daily lives. We of course know that the are not 100% trustworthy, because we see them breaking down all of the time. Now imagine a car on a road with about 50 other cars around. Are we seriously thinking about about installing a system in these cars that drive them for us. What would happen if one of them suddenly broke down? It would be a catastrophe! This car would cause a major accident and could possible ruin everybody else around them. They indeed would be very convenient if they worked 100% of the time, but since we know that won't happen then we shouldn't do it. There is just to much at risk!
Something else we should think about is what will happen when a car breaks down, hitting another car and killing the other driver? We known today that there are laws that specifically tells us who is to blame in certain accidents. In a world with no drivers or with drivers who control the car 20% of the time, then who are you gonna blame. If you blame the company which built it they will simply say "well you bought it. What happens now is your fault and not of my concern". Is it really your fault though? How can you be to blame if your not even in control of what you are buying? The answer is your not. Truthfully there is no one to blame excpet for those who though all this would be a good idea!
These are all very good reasons that we should think again about what we are about to do. Companies should overlook the money and start thinking primarily about peoples safety and the danger it will be if all of this actually comes to reality. After seeing and analyzing all these reasons are you really going to risk your life by letting a maching drive you, or are you going to put in the extra effort and drive yourself? | 4 |
After I read this article, I already have my own opnions about this situation. Many people would think that if they do not need to drive everyday, and they do not need to focus on if there are some drangerous things in front of the car, these will make their life become easier. I know it is so great, but every thing has the two sides, there still has something problems about the driverless cars.
Nowadays, more and more people are use car to do any things they want. Cars make their life become much
more easier. So people have an idea about if we have a dirverless cars, what thing will happend, whether or not these cars will bring us more benefits. From my aspect, I disagree wiht it now. Let's imagine, if we go to the very steep mountains, and the zone which have a lot of swamps, whether or not these car can make quick responding in the dangerouse situations. Safty is the most important thing in our life. I think we do not have an ability to produce a very perfect driverless car.
In the other hand, driving is kind of skill in out life. Many people still interested in drive cars, they like have a competition sometimes. There are some beneficial things about drive car by ourselves. Practicing driving car is kind of way to help us try our best to focus on something. And some people will feel better if they drive cars by themselves, because driverless cars will make them feel like that someone controls their lives, then make them uncomfortable.
From the articles, some interesting opinions also sounds like good for us. Such as develop the smarter road, and " traffic Jam Assistant". Those are more possible to produce, although some problems still between them.
If I will choose the way to develop our car, I would not choose Diverless cars. The little personal reason is that I have even drive, so I think it will be funny if I practise more, and become a good diver. | 2 |
Recent trends are showing that the average person is trading in their keys for a more contemporary mode of transportation, such as public transit or walking and biking from point A to point B. Even though the reason as to why this is occuring has yet to become clear, there are some general benefits that are known to come from this. More and more, cities in developed and developing nations are now being planned to be more dense, so that the citizens in them can get to where they need to be, without needing a car. Because of this, fewer greenhouse emissions are being created, there is less congestion and smog in cities, and the burden of traffic is being lifted from the everyday driver. The more this trend continues, the more beneficial it can become.
Climate change is a ubiquitous threat to the world. In order to face and reverse the direction of where the world is heading, some cities are finding new ways to face this issue. For example, a city in Germany has practically given up cars through its policies and design. Citizens are only allowed two places to park, and the city is designed so that everything you need is within a walking or biking distance, albeit more dense. More and more places are slowly beginning to adopt this style of suburb because "emissions from an increasing middle class are choking cities" (source 1). Making this change will not be easy, but it is important because "passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe... and up to 50 percent [...] in the United States" (source 1).
Another issue that weighs down cities everywhere is the horrid smog and unbearable congestion most cities face. In order to combat this adverse effect of driving, Paris has banned driving in efforts to reduce the smog it deals with. The effort proved to create a temporary solution, as "congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog" (source 2). A city in Bogota, Columbia has taken a day off from driving, and the results were so positive that the movement has spread to multiple cities in neighboring countries. This movement "[left] the street eerily devoid of traffic jams" (source 3).
In an ever changing world that exists today with cities that never sleep, the average person is constantly burdened and stressed by things that tend to pile up. So why have driving and traffic be added to that heap of annoyance, especially if it's avoidable? The fact is, driving can be incredibly stressful and sometimes border on superfluous. A resident of the densely populated german town where 70 percent of its citizens don't own cars claimed, "when I had a car, I was always tense. I'm much happier this way", referring to how they no longer need to own a car or drive (source 1). The day of no driving in Bogota, Columbia has been said to be"a good oppurtunity to take away stress" (source 3).
Modern nations have revolved heavily on the invention and continuous innovation of the automobile. However, the increasing dependence on this mode of transportation has created some adverse affects for the general population of the world. In order to solve this problem, an emphasis on cleaner and more efficient modes of transportation must occur, along with more densely designed, modern cities. A larger independence from cars can create fewer greenhouse emissions, cause less congestion and smog in cities, and make the average citizen free from the stress of driving. Change will only ensue with a more proactive stance on this issue | 4 |
Have you ever thought the "Face on Mars" might be made by something extraterstrial? Well I'm here to prove to you its not.
Here are my three examples that prove that its just a mesa. First there are mesas on Earth and in pictures fom Mars theres a lot. Second NASA took pictures of the mesa in 2001 and used "high resolution images and 3D altimetry" to show what it really looks like, and it doesnt look like a face. Lastly it would be beneficial to NASA for them to say its aliens.
One reason why it's just a mesa is, theres lots of mesas on Earth and Mars. An example of this would be "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho". This is why its not a face but just a mesa.
Secondly NASA re-took photos of the "face". In the picture its a lot clearer then the one took in 1976. They did this by using "New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry" to clear the picture up. This is another reason why its not a alien made object but a mesa.
Lastly it would be beneficial for NASA to say that it was aliens. it would beneficial to them because people would be giving more money to them to try and find the aliens. this is yet another reason why it's not aliens.
To conclude these are the reasons why its not aliens. NASA would get more funding if they said it was aliens. They took a clearer picture of it in 2001 and it proved it wasnt a face. Lastly we have lots of mesas on Earth and someone siad theyd seen one like The Face on Mars by a river in Idaho. | 2 |
Since our very first President George Washington our founding fathers have created a system of how a President shall be elected. For many years this system has been proven to be effective. This system or process of electing our Country's President is known as the Electoral College. The Electoral College was used to elect our very first President George Washington and our current day President Obama. This process is full proof and has yet to let our Country down.
The Electoral College is a process created by the founding fathers to make the choice that the people want. After all this is the peoples Country. According to the Source "What is the Electoral College?", written by the office of the Federal Register,The Electoral College process consists of the selection of electors. There are a total of 538 members in the Electoral College. If a candidate has more than 270 votes then they will be our new President. The number of how many members depends on the number of members in its Congressional delegation. There is a total of one each for every member in the House of Representatives and two each for every member in the Senators. When a person votes for his or her Candidate they are actually also voting for thier candidates electors. After the election everything is certified and sent to the National Archives as part of the offical records of the presidential election, also stated in "What Is the Electoral College", by the Office of the federal Register.
More than 60 percent of voters would like to abolish the Electoral College and just have a direct election. This year voters can expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could again lose the presidency, states "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong", by Bradford Plumer. Not alone have 60% of our voters agree upon giving the Electoral College a boot but so has Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Voters don't feel close enough to the process by which who leads are Country. When voters vote they feel as if they are voting for Electoral members and not the Candidate himself. Voters can not control whom the electors vote for, after all electors can always defy the popular vote and choose a candidate of their liking. More then half of our voters think that the Electoral College is unfair, out of date, and unpredictable. If the people voted for the President directly then states with a larger population would always win. That would be an outrage, states like Texas would get a better chance then states like Florida. The Electoral College is a full proof plan that avoids run on elections by insuring that no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast. Although others want to abolish the Electoral College, there is no better system for choosing our President.
The Electoral College requires a presidentail candidate to have trans-regional appeal, says "In Defense of th Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President, by Richard A. Posner. The Electoral College restores the pull that large states have over smaller states. The Electoral College also Avoids the problem of elections where a candidate receives a mojority of the vote. The Electoral College provides a clear winner. Although many people feel that the Electoral College is uneffective, unfair, and outdated it is a great way of chossing our country's greatest leader. Our founding father have created an effective method that has avoid many problems that may have occured if this process was created. Every four years a President is elected correctly thanks to the Electoral. Many have seen the harm the Electoral college has provided but they do not see the harm that it has helped to avoid. | 3 |
I am Luke, a Seagoing Cowboy. There are many amazing things to experience while participating in the Seagoing Cowboys program. The journeys are long, but there are spectacular things wating for you along the way. Views are breathtaking, and you get to handle animals. There are many reasons why you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program.
The animals are great. They wouldn't survive a few days without the care of a Seagoing Cowboy. There are horses, cows, and mules in need of care for floating across the sea. Only a Seagoing Cowboy can keep these adorable animals safe. These animals need you.
"Besides helping people, I had the side benifit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special." (5) You too can see amazing places and experience once in a lifetime things when you're a Seagoing Cowboy. Places are beautiful and you get to see them. It's a once in a lifetime choice.
The journeys are long and hard, but at the end, you have lots of fun. After animals are unloaded, you can play. You can have fun playing baseball and volleyball in empty holds where animals had been housed. If you're bored, you can have table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, whittling, reading, and other games. After hard work, you can have fun.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy is amazing. Not only do you help the world, you have fun along the way. The world needs you. No one could handle animals and get them places safely without you. Become a Seagoing Cowboy and save the world. | 2 |
Driverless cars can be undeniably dangerous, but they have the ability to be safe as well.
With the developement of autonomous vehicles there are less drunk driving accidents and less reckless driving accidents.
With more and more teenagers learning to drive and getting their license the number of reckless driving accidents from teens have skyrocketed over the last five years.
As well as the increased risk of drunk drivers, which is always a problem but even with those risks taken care of; the car itself has some serious safety issues and economic issues.
With the American economy always fluctuating from good to bad this new developement could end up causing a huge disadvantage in some of our lower class citizen workers.
"...a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system"(1).
However with that in mind the ammount of low income jobs, such as the taxi drivers, would end up erraticated would be to large to count and more americans could quite possibly fall below the poverty line once again.
Also the article states that right now there is no such thing as a driverless car but a driver assitence car.
These cars can drive by themselves 90% of the time, except in special circumstances like road construction and accidents.
With cars like this they still require an aware driver at all times and the car needs a way a communicating with the driver when to take over.
"GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in daanger of backing into an object.
Other options under consideration are flashing lights on the windshield and other heads-up displays"(7).
However with these warning systems in place they should help the driver but instead these warnings could scare the driver.
What if a drunk man was in the drivers seat because his car can drive on its own so he believed it was safe, but he is told to take over by his vibrating chair.
WIth that man not being in his right state of mind in a special situation, such as a cinstruction zone or accident where you are suppose to be extra careful can cause more harm then good.
Finally there is the problem of eventually if there is an accident with a driverless car because the systems failed, who would be at fault the passenger in the car or the manufacturers.
That is the question everyone is asking for when these autonomous cars are used in our everyday lives.
Now autonomous cars have both their advantages and their disadvantages but they are the future wether we like it or not.
The future is full of improvement adn failures; and however this one comes out, and improvement or failure, it is still being aimed for to improve our future.
The autonomous car is ineveitable for our future, however don't be afraid but instead be prepared for the outcome whether it be good or bad. | 2 |
Everyone seems to think that driverless cars would be great. Im here to tell you why they are not. They cant navigate through certain situations. In these situations they require drivers assitance.They wouldn't be able to function without assistance from humans. Seems very unreliable to me.
When you are approching an accident or construction they become driver cars. For example lets say you are approching a construction site. Everyone fell asleep in the car including the driver. The "Driverless Car" says driver help needed, but no one is awake. This car is going to stop no matter what, and cause a accident. Well whose fault is it?
Sice this car stopped and caused a accident whos fault is it? Would it be the manufacturers fault or, the drivers fault. I personally think its the manufactures fault. He would not only be false advortising the car, but he also put the passangers in the car at danger. If the car was legit then it should drive on its own.
Another arguement is how could these cars obey the laws of the road. The answer is they couldn't. They would run stop signs. They couldn't yeild to the right away. They wouldn't know from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. no turn on red on certain streets. How would these cars know if a train is comming? How would these cars adjust in bad road conditions.
In conclusion i think these cars are to much of a liability. In certain situations these cars fail. There is to many things to worrry about when thinking about these cars. There are many questions to ask when dealing with situations. In the end I think automatic cars are unsafe for our roads. | 2 |
Venus is the closest planet to the Earth and despite its challenges scientists need to explore Venus to study the worst condition in the planet to see if its a managable place to go for a planetary visit so that in case of danger in the Earth there is a closer place to run to and be safe in.
The author explains how Venus is a challenging planet by telling us how it has been the only planet without a single spaceship landing on it in three decades because no one survived the landing more than a few hours. Venus also has clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid with temperatures over 800 degrees Fahrenheit which is 90 times hotter than the earth. beyond that it suffers a lot of natural disasters.
Even with all of this
Astronomers sre facinated by Venus because it might as well once been the most earth like planet in our solar system.
NASA's possible solutions for making venus survivable for humans was to float above the fray to avoid the harsh conditions on the ground. Through this the air pressure would be close to the sea level on the earth, solar power would be plentiful, and radiatio would not exceed earth levels.
To acheive this scientists have to refrain from bringing things like rocks or gas or anything from a distance, so to change that, NASA is working on how to make electronics with silicon carbide and also using old technologies that dosent require electronics to prevent them melting and causing radiation.
In conclusion our travels on earth should'nt be limited by the dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet edges of immagination and innovation. | 1 |
What do you think about diverless car? There are advantages and disadvantages to diverless cars. In the article "Diverless Cars Are Coming," the Google cofounder, "Sergey Brin" envisions a future public tranportation system where fleets of diverless cars form a public taxi system.
In my opinion, i don't think the world needs diverless cars, simiply because technology is already consumed the world. Now a days everyone is on their phones or laptops doing business work or simiply being on soical media, the last thing we need are cars without divers. In the article, they talk about smart roads and binary code messages. How can you have the technology to make a road smart? Is my question. Who in the right mind would want this? It is just making the world look more and more lazy. The fact that that this is the future is ridiculous. Making driving fun is not just a way to make a new car? Its stupid to be honest. They should be focusing on making cars more safer and more knowedgeable when it comes to crashes or other emerganies.
So, Driverless cars? If you ask me they just seem like a waste of time and money. You're just making the world more lazy then what it already is. The world doesn't need cars that are built with technology to help them drive or to drive for them. | 1 |
What is venus? venus is called "evening star" is one of the brightest points of light in the sky. Venus is the closest planet to earth in terms od density and size and accasionaly the closest in distance too. Also
venus is the second planet from our sun. Venus is simple to see from the distant."Venus is sometimes right around the corner, in psace terms humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud draped world. Meaning venus is more than decades.
The tempature of venus is very hot and warm, beyond high pressure and heat. "The atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on earth." They have the hottest surface tempature of any planet in the solar system. Venusian geology and weather impediments erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to land on its surfaces.The temperature average is 800 degrees fahrenheit.
The challenging of exploring venus, lightening cannot be near venus, why? because scientists through missions to understand venus would need to get closer to it but despit the risks. I think many researchers are working on innovations that would allow machines to last longer to acknowledge the 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 weeks in such conditions." Computers are very flexible and powerful also smart.
those devcies were first invented in the 1800's played an important role in the 1940's during the World War 2. Venus has values because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors.Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth. The value of returning venus seems indisputable. | 2 |
The Face
Have you ever heard of a planet having a face? Neither have I. Even though there seems to be eyes, a nose, and a mouth, on a planet, does not mean that this sighting can't be a natural landform, and it also doesn't prove that there is life in space.That is why "The Face", is just a natural landform.
"The Face", is just a natural landform because they can't prove that aliens are real. People think that they have seen UFO'S in the sky, but how can they prove that it was not just a shooting star? They can not prove it. Not even the smartest scientist or astronaut can prove that UFO'S are real, because they have no physical evidence, Just like Aliens. Out side of Earth is a completely different system. there is very little ways for aliens and life forms to live there. Yet again, they only have weird sightings like "The Face" to explain their reasoning for life in outer space and on other planets.
There is not life in outerspace, or on any planet, even though, the other side would bring up UFO'S,
and bring movies like "E.T" to state their proposition, how do we know that these "UFO'S" are not just shooting stars or helicoptors, and movies like "E.T" are fiction, even though they seem so real and so believable, it is quite obvious that its just not possible. NASA has never had any sighting or any true proof that life does exist outside of our world, and even when they get the slightest and silliest ideas that there is life, they get the worlds hopes up and then when people ask for evidence, they say something like "there is currently no physical evidence, however research says "...". " You get the picture. it just cant be proved, and most likely wont ever be able to be proved.
finally, "The Face", people are obsessed with, is really just a landform, a very cool landform indeed. There were no aliens responsible for this landform, or any other landform. it was most likely, just created by the draft, or by the seasons of the planets, maybe even created by the gases that are in outerspace. That is why the face on the planet is just a natural landform and in no way related to other life. | 3 |
The article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" was a interesting factual article to read. My opion on driverless cars is they're not a good idea. I am against driverless cars. My reasons for this are an increasing rate of accidents, technology failing, and the cost. In the following paragraphs are reasons why I am against the ideal of driverless cars.
Starting off, my first reason for being against driverless cars was the increasing rate of accidents. Not all drivers pay attention to the road while driving (especially teens) and riding in a driverless car, coming into a situation that requires a human being to take control of the wheel can lead to accidents if they're not paying attention. The rates of car accidents are already high till this day, just imagine how high the rate would be having driverless cars. It may not even be the drivers fault, a glitch can happen with the car causing it to get into a accident injuring somebody, as said in passage 9; who's fault would it be then? The person or the manufacturers fault? That is my first reasoning opposing driverless cars.
Next, my second reason was the technology failing. We live in a society where technology advances EVERYDAY, but there is always a complications with technology. Updated technology isn't always perfect. For instence the computer system in the car could crash, shutting off the whole car, there might be a hay wire causing the car to spin out of control, causing an accident, and even a more dangerous situation the car could explode or catch on fire due to the technology. An example of today's most updated piece of technology that went bad is the "Hoover Board," many people could just be riding on it, and it could burst into flames. The same thing could happen with driverless cars.
Lastly, my last reasoning was the cost put into the car. Many companies say they plan to have driverless cars by the year 2020, the amount of the Driverless Car would be a ridiculous amount of money. If someone were interested into buying it the first thing, they should ask themselves "is it worth it?" Knowing the bad outcomes that could possibly happen. Not only would the car be super expensive, but also having to fulfill the tank with gas, and gas nowadays isn't the cheapest. But the most important question asking yourself before buying the expensive piece of technology, is it really worth how much it costs?
In conclusion, I am against driverless cars. The reasons are, increasing rate of accidnets, technology failing, and the cost. I myself would not buy this knowing the reprecautions. That is why I am against the ideal of Driverless Cars. | 2 |
Driveless cars should'nt be allowed to be on the road. I dont think it's a good idea because drivers will not remain fully focused on the road, drivers will get bored waiting for their turns to drive, and if these cars were to create an accident it would be a "who to blame" case.
Starting off by sayin drvers will not remain fully focused on the road should be enough of a red flag to make it a no. In paragraph 7, it may state " The human driver must remain alret and be ready to take over when the situation requires" but, if a car is doing all the driving, it's giving the driver time to get distracted. They are now given easier access to text and drive, make phone calls, and attempt other tasks they have no business doing while driving. Making being on the road a dangerous place.
Secondly, like the question asked in paragraph 8, "Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?" Boredom to me leads to messing with other objects around me and losing focus. That's what will happen. Later to say, "We have to interpret the driving in a fun way." Driving is not supposed to be fun. You're supposed to get in and take yourself from point a to point b. The passage also talks a sort of bringing in an "in-car entertainment system". Just another distraction in my opinion, once again, making the road a dangerous place!
Lastly, and most importantly, if an accident would to come of these cars driving the road, who would be the one to blame? The question is aslo found in paragraph 9. The drivers would become so dependent of the car and trust it not to get them into an accident. While the manufactures are dependent on the law to pass a law so they don't get taken down with the lawsuit of an accident their cars are responsible for. They do not want to help you, they want your money.
Closing this with a stong statement: you cannot expect a driver to have such this nice of a creation in their possession and not fully confide in it. They're going to get distracted because they're allowed to now that something else is doing the driving. They're going to get bored, because now, they are hardly needed. These drivers would expect the manufacturers to take care of any problem created with the car, because of the fact that the car was the one doing the driving. | 3 |
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" should there be driverless cars? There are a lot of negative and postive things about this movement. My opion on driverless cars is that sometimes it could be good and sometimes is could be bad like for an example. when your very tired and you need to go somewhere your car can take you were you need to go without you having to drive it. If you are ever in a hurry your car can drive you without you being late.
Now for my opinion on the bad things about driverless cars. Driverless cars are also bad because you could be texting and you would'nt here your alert that the car gives you when it can drive at that certain part in time and you end up crashing into something or hurting someone. This means a human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires.
I think that driverless car would be a good experiment because we would be able to see who could handle it and who can't handle it. Some people might think that they can handle it and they go and bye a driverless car and go to start it and dont no what to do but the other half would no what to do right off bat. I also think that the car would be more expensive than any car that has ever been made because if what it does this car is basically the future.
But why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver half of the time? Well i guess ill tell you why. Most of the people think that it would be fun sometimes because not often you get to drive a driverless car its interesting in my opinion. But in a way the car system is really a saftey system if you pay attention to what all that you are doing but if you don't it could be hazert.
Most of the driving laws focus on keeping people safe but what is you arent the one who crashed who's to blam? Traffic laws will even change new laws will need to be reinforced. If you crash into someone who also has a driverless car who crashed into who. | 2 |
In the story Cowboy who Road the Waves i have to support why people would want to do his job. There are many reasons. Who would like a job that you got to see the world and travel. I would like to see the world. whaty about you?
In 1947 the world wars finaly ended WW1 and WW2 had a spand of 30 years. There was alot of mess to clean up and you had to be a certain person to do it. The see cowboys where just the right people. Luke said in the story that it was a fun job. But also hard. You got to see the world and do many activitys. You had lots of free time. But it was very dangerous he even broke his ribs doing it.
Luke stated that he got to see many countrys. He had free time to do what he wanted. All whole he did alot of good. But he wasnt at home very often and that ment he had no permanit home. He just traveled.
I think this wound be a great job for someone who wants to travel. Not have a family. Or wants to have a abnormal life. I dont know if i would want to do this job or not. All in all i think it would be a great job. | 1 |
To me I think we should change the election by popular vote for the president because the citizens deserve to vote on who ever they think will help are country. If they make the wrong decsion the it would be there fault and they wouldnt have no one else to blame but themselves for choosing that president or who ever they wanted to win. Also, if the person does make a mistake they should be able to unelect them also cause people need what is best for are country.
When people elect the president they usally go back through there speaches and see what they had promised for our country and make sure it is what they want. If it is not what they want they would probably go to the next person who is trying to be the president. When you are electing always make sure you are mking the right decision and make sure that they please you because they could elect that person because of yur vote you never no what could happen when voting.
Do you think it would be a good idea to elect someone who you are not sure about ? Well i dont think it is because they made the country to a bad situation or even smething dangerous like a war. But if they did keep the Electoral College i dont think they would care about the citizens of the united states I think that they would only care bout themselves and whats gonna please them and not everyone else. | 0 |
In the article ¨Driverless Cars Are Coming¨ it gives us information about how the future is coming up with a whole lot of knew technology, but they have there downsides. Although there are still some problems with the driverless cars, I think it would be a great invention. Driverless cars could reduce car crashes, it would be less expensive, less pollution and many more great features. There are some small bugs at the moment, but anything can be fixed.
Driverless cars could help cause less accidents because of all of the sensors it would have. Google´s modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimation sensorson the right wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive sensors, a GPS reciever, and an inertial motion sensor. These are the recent added technologies and if we wait a little longer possibilities are endless. They would help lessen the amount of crashes because the sensors tell you when things are around or in the way of the car. Driverless cars could help avoid accidents and although they aren´t fully capable of reducing all accidents they could reduce most accidents.
Gas prices have always gone up and down. No matter what car you drive it requieres fuel. Google cofounder Sergey Brin envisions a public transportation system that use half the fuel of today´s taxis and offere more flexibility than a bus. Driverless cars would be less inexpensive, they could economically help us. Gas prices will most likely not change but instead of spending 50$ on gas wouldn´t you want to spend 25$ on gas or maybe even 30$. Although buying a driverless car would be expensive and mostlikely cost you two arms and a leg in the end it would be worth it.
Lastly I feel like it would be the technology we need to better our future. It would look nice having cars that potentially save pedestrians lives and help the driver stay safe. Some manufacturers hope that by bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. They also hope that some of the in-car systems could help reduce the amount of people who are on their phones while driving. This type of technology could save endless amount of lives and help better the world.
I feel like driverless cars could help many people. Especially as a teen and driving is new to them it could help because all the sensors would be there to help. Creating and legalizing driverless cars could help economically and safety wise. The world will never know whether this will be an actual thing or not but only the futere can tell, and I wouldn´t mind driverless cars driving around my home. | 3 |
Venus
is a worthy planet despite its dangers
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Goodday sir I am
a student of ela, and i am in support with the author that says Venus is a worthy planet despite its challenges. Because Venus ,is right around the corner its offten referred to as Earth 's twin, this reason is because venus is the closest planet to Earth in term of
density and size and the closest in distance too.
And yes i
agree that venus is a challenging place for humans ,despite its proximity to us
Venus has a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide and far more challenging are clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid, in venus, on the surface, Veuse has a temperature average over 800 degrees fahrenheit , and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times higer than Earth such an
a word would crush even a submarine accustomed to dive the depesst part of the oceans , if our sister planet is so inhospitable ,then why are scientist even planning further vists to its surface ? its because scientists are fascinated by venus because it may well once ave been the most Earth like planet in our solar system.
Striving to meet the challenges by our sister here (Venus) has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself,but also human curiosity will likely lead us to many equally intimidating endeavors .oue adventures and exploration on Earth should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation.
In conclusion Venus is a
open planet in case of evacuating of Earth in being in danger and should be considerd exploring not only in venus in addition more planet should be explore like mars nest to Earth or jupitar the biggest planet in our solar syetem even pluto the clodest planet , to know a sutable planet that can hold live.
Thank you . | 2 |
The Face on Mars was not created by aliens and we know this because if there was life on Mars we would have seen more evidence of it then just the Face, and there are many Martian mesas in the area where we found the Face so it is most likely to be another mesa with shadows that make it look like a human face. Like the many types of different natural landmarks we have on Earth.
We have taken more pictures of the Face on Mars that don't show any evidence of alien life on Mars. The most recent being the one we took on April 8, 2001 on a camera that takes pictures with better resolution that helps us see more then just the Face but also anything else that could be around the Face, like, pyramids, airplanes, and small shacks. The picture showed something that looked more like the landforms that are common here around the American West. And the picture was take on a cloudless day in Cydonia so it is more clearly seen in the photo.
The Face on Mars is just another landmark like the ones we have on Earth and was not created by aliens because we have more evidence that proves so. Like how if there was alien life on Mars we would have to have seen something that shows that anything could be living there on Mars. The Face on Mars looks more like it has shadows that have made it have the illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth. | 2 |
"Driverless cars are coming" is an article that informs the reader about cars that can drive themselves; but they also yield warnings about these autonomous cars.
The thought of driverless cars is fascinating! Since 2009, Google has had cars that could drive by themselves under specific situations. This gives the driver a whole new expirence from what has been expected for years. Yes, drivers still have to stay alert and navigate through various traffic issues, such as driveways, constuction work, accidents, etc., but driving just got a whole lot easier.
Automobiles are already on their way! In 2013, BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistance".
With this function, drivers don't have to worry about the stop and go, but they can worry more about their destination. GM has also added to the technology. They developed seats that would vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing in an object. Now drivers wont have to worry about that blind spot that alwys urks them, because GM has their back.
But don't think that this is all fun and games just because the car is driving for you. Manufacturers are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road. Dr. Werner Huber, a BMW project manager driver says this," We have to interpret the driving fun in a new way."
Various manufacturers are hoping to bring in-car entertainment and different information systems that use heads-up displays.
So, overall driverless cars are becoming our future. I am completely for this idea. Those of us in the technology era have learned to adapt and this is just another way. People are coming up with new ways to make our lives easier and autonomous cars are just the beginning. | 2 |
Driving a car can be a good idea in the country where you might not be able to walk to every place that is a necessity. But why drive a car and sit there for up to thirty minutes in traffic when you can walk there in under ten or ride a bike in just under five, now if that sounds like great logic to you then great; if you are like the majority of people in this current day and age then you would not need to feel the erdge to drive, you would rather ride a bike and feel the breeze of the fresh crisp air in your hair.
The new trend of living is here, more and more communities are popping up that are car free. As the first source has stated "...70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here." more and more people are deciding to not own a car or even to just sell their cars so that way it is not a burden on their shoulders to maintain the cars. Most of the people who decide to give up their cars say it's a much happier way to live.
Some countries are even putting a ban on driving on certain days like paris did in source two. It stated that "...motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine." This ban went on for roughly five days for the smog cleared enough for all to resume preferd ways of transportation.
In colombia the government made a car-free day so that way more people would get comforatable with finding alternate ways or commuting said in the third source "car-free day is spinning into a big hit Bogota" by Andrew Selsky. All in all more and more nation and people are deciding to go car free for good. Maybe you wil catch on and join in on this car free lifestyle. | 1 |
Exploring Venus is just as important as Exporing the solar system. Venus is Earth twin sister in the terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too.
Exploring Venus would help us better understand more about our solar system and even our galaxy. With Venus being just like Earth in terms like density and size it would be fun to explore Venus but also Venus isnt that far from us. But by better understanding Venus would help our space techology improve greatly. With better understanding of Venus will better our konwledge not only of our solar system but our galaxy.
Venus has a thick atomsphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide which is bad for us because carbon dioxide is gas element which traps heat that the sun gives to all the planet in our solar system and with Venus atmophere being mostly carbon. Most heat is trap in Venus atmosphere with little escaping with all that heat that is trap it the tempiture on Venus is very hot even for our spacecraft. But despike this exploring VENus is still a good thing because long ago Venus was once a Earth-like planet just like her twin sister Earth.
Despite the challenge that Venus is giving us we will find a way to get past the acid clouds and the thick carbon dioxid atmosphere because through out human history we have had many challenge as a species but we have proven that we are more than comble of over coming this types of challenges. One day we will get to Venus and we will learn about her because human curiosity always win. No matter how challenging it is we will overcome it. By us finlly understanding Venus will as a species will better our understanding not only our solar system but our galaxy as well. | 2 |
This technology would be useful is so many ways. Ways that have been mentioned in the article. I am for this technology not against it , it can be used to better and understand alot of people who are stuggling.
This can help students become smarter in subjects they dont understand. It can put the kids who dont understand all in the same class and create a new lesson plan that they will all understand. Like in the article it says ' a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored'. That quote from the article is the main two reasons kids are failing.
This is why im all in for this technology , also when people are going threw things at home this can help them get through it. I think it may be weird at first having a computer that can read how you feeling but for the better it will help alot of people. I also love video games so if this can help advance and make better video games in the future i would love to have it, it can maybe help create classroom games that helps you learn better. | 1 |
in this article the aurthor belives that we should go and explore venus dispite the damgers. thaey have some information about venus but cant get on the ground because of the weather conditions. the high preasure is 90 times stronger than earth's which can distroy anything man made. The planet might have been hospitable and suport various life forms. it is now coverd in rocks similer to those on earth. they should pursuit the exploration of this planet despite the dangers.
if the scientest ever manage to land on venus there could be new matierials that could help us like stronger matierials than the ones that we have right now. if they manges to build something to make hospitable for humans. this could help us advance in technology and other things. there are many new thing that we can learm from venus. NASA is planing on sending humans to explore venus but the weather conditions are far to damgerous. hovering over 30 miles from the surface is the safest way to stay ther but enables them for reashurching the groung more no spacecraft has managed to land do to the hight temperature and high preassure. with the advancement of technology some day scientest could manage to land on venus.NASA has been working on some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide. these electronics have lasted for 3 weeks in these conditios.
As humans we will strive to meet the callenge in exploring venus. we are curiose on what we could find in other planets. They can find soluotins for the dangers that are faced in venus. we could learn a lot from venus. | 1 |
I disagree with everything this passage has to say.Cars are suppose to hold responability, but if we have cars that drive on their own there will be no more responability!
Think about it, You wont have to worry about having your turn singals on, turning into lanes and parking! Sure it will be nice and relaxing but life isn't suppose to be relaxing and easy. Life is suppose to be hard, with problems that you have to solve. If we have a car that drives on its own, people are going to get more lazy, their not goning to want to get up and help guide the car. They are going to think the car can do everything and anything! They might even fall asleep in the car and if the person whos driving the car they could be a heavy sleeper and the chairs aren't going to wake them up so they might die! They are going to be more lazy then they are today! For example, they wont wanna clean their houses, take their dogs for walks, anything like that!
This is why I disagree with this pasasge and we should not have cars that drive we can drive by oursevles! | 1 |
Imagine a world where you get out of bed. Fix your self or your child something to eat, Get ready and walk out of the door. Only not to a car that you youself will be drivin, but a car that will drive you any where you want it too.
The problem that I have with driverless cars is, that I believe it's another way for humans to be lazy. In todays world we have machines to vacum our floor, and wash our dishes. Now we want cars to drive us places? The world is getting lazy. America is one of the countries with the highest obesity rate, now driving a car has nothing to do with your weight, but it has something to do with your mind. When driving a car you have to be alert. Not only for yourself but for others around you. When I drive my mother always tells me to watch myself and the people around me, because you may be paying attention, but others might not be. When growing up getting and driving a car at 16 is almost every teenagers dream, but how will the future teenagers of the world get that experience if we have driverless vehicles? When I got my license it was a feeling of accomplishment. I had read that long drivers manual forover a month and when I took both of those test I was ready, but with a driverless car will a person even get that feelling? Will they even need a license or even a car of their own?
Now I get what the article says about driverless cars use less fuel than a normal one, and "Driving fun in a new way".
Having a driverless car would be pretty cool. Getting into a car and typing in where you want to go and the car just taking you there. Or just telling it what to do due to voice actiivation. But, is driving suppose to be fun? Or a way to get to one place or another. If driving was fun it wouldn't be safe. People would be drag racing throughout the city causing chaos and getting into serious damage.
Moving into a world where technology is becoming more and more relevant is good, but driverless cars..Not so much. It was very innovative,and futuristic, but in my opinion a waste of money, time, and space. | 1 |
Driverless Cars are the furture of the automoblie. No crashes have happened to googles smart cars so far. They take up less gas, saying "The cars he foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis." Those are just two of many reasons why driveless cars are going to change America.
The small amount that driverless cars have actully driven there hasn't been one issue with crashing into other objects. Yes there are still bugs that still need to be fixed. The cars can not at this time pull out or pull in a driveway, they also can not tell when road work is happening or when there has been a crash on the road. All things when they first start are a little bit buggy but that doesn't mean in two to five years that things could get fixed. When those bugs do get fix we could see a crashless world.
In the artical they are talking about a driverless taxi's sevice, that is more cost friendly and more flexable than the buses. Gas isn't high cost like it use to be but when you're driving people from one part of town to another side, the gas bill started to stack up. Driverless cars always take the shortest route and are just more gas friendly then your average taxi. Cutting that gas bill in half will safe more money to put back into your company or the communtiy. Gas had always been in high demand the driverless car could stop that.
The only thing keeping us from those driveless car in the laws and the bugs that they do have but again in two to five years both of those could have change the way we see cars forever. The prices of gas will fall, there will be less driving issues. The world has we know it will be safer and less popluted with less Co2 coming from every oned cars. | 2 |
While the idea of driverless cars appeals to many, is it really practical for modern day America? Sergey Brin has proposed and imagined this utopian idea. The creation of these seeming easy cars would actually make everyones life harder, not only on the roads, but in the court rooms as well. These cars would obviously be extremly costly to make, and would put stress on all tax payers if roads were to be remodeled. The idea of driverless cars is impractical and shouldn't be taken seriously.
There is a quote that states, "Be careful what you wish for becuase you just might get it." What this quote boils down to is that as much as one might want something that aesthetically pleases them, it may turn around to be a truly awful mistake. Driverless cars cause more trouble then they are worth. A prime example would be, if a driverless car were to be made, having to switch the roads and the designs of them. Tax payers already pay for the seemingly never ending road repair, let along new roads for cars that arent even a necessity. Many engineers at Berkeley attempted to use magnets in driverless cars that could read in binary code. They discovered there needed to be grotesque and expensive changes to pre existing roads, making the whole ordeal impractical. After realizing that roads were too hard to deal with, money wise, Google tried to make cars that were smarter. With all of the upgrades required to make a smarter car, the cost of the driverless car wouldn't be fathomable. How are people supposed to drive cars when they cost too much to own and take care of?
Another huge problem with the new cars is whither a human in the "driver seat" would be assisting or driving. If a car could go forward on its own, but can't drive under certain conditions, how is it really a driverless car? If a person in the car were to fall asleep while being drove by the car, then there were to be an accident that the car couldn't handle, how would the car alert the person it was time to drive. There is a big reason as to why people dont hop out of bed and into a car. The brain needs time to adjust and wake up before attempting a process that can quite legitimately kill people. A single car accident can kill many people. Pretending that driverless cars are a toy isn't an option. People with health problems wouldn't find a driverless cars helpful either. Awareness of people who cant feel vibrations, cannot hear, and cannot see, would all be in danger riding in this type of car. Without being in control of the wheel and acceleration at all times reduces the feeling of needing to be alert in the car, causing more careless accidents that could have been avoided if the car had an alert and ready driver.
If one of these careless accidents were to happen, who would be to blame? With the idea of driverless cars, sprialing and time consuming court cases come along. When accidents happen, usually the two drivers are taken to court, with the exception of car recall cases. When two driverless get in an accident it leaves the question as to why two, in fact driverless cars, would hit each other. This also brings up the question as to if they are even driverless cars. A driverless car would technically have to be driverless and not need a human assistant to run properly. Thus saying, more car companys are more likely to get sued in the court of law for murder, vehicular manslaughter, and many other charges most car companies don't get hit with using regular cars.
Another pretty famous quote states, "If it's not broke, don't fix it." Today's cars are fully functional and drive almost perfectly on the roads we have now. To switch the great thing that is going on now would be useless. In this economy, America does not have money to throw around. To mass produce driverless cars is and forever will be unconventionally excessive. In order to save time, to save money, and save citizens from dreaded jury duties, driverless cars should remain in the movies. | 4 |
Dear state senator,
After researching the Electoral College process I find that the process should no longer be used. The process is not effecient for choosing the next US president and therefor the voting process should be changed to popular vote.
"Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." This makes the Electoral College not a democratic method for electing the president. This nation was founded on the belief of democracy, so when the government ignores the call for a democratic method for elections it is disrespectful towards out Founding Fathers, and especially to the citizens of the United States of America. Furthermore, state representatives may misrepresent a state, possibly by defiance. This has happened in the 2000 campaign where segregationalists defied the people and nearly succeeded in replacing the electors for those who opposed Josh F. Kennedy. Although defying the people does not happen often there is still the risk of repeating history to a greater extent.
Continuing, the ''winner takes all system'' causes states with smaller populations to be ignored. According to source 3, "Knowing their vote will have no effect, they have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular vote." Larger states are paid the most attention to by canidates because they will receive more votes than compared to the number of votes a smaller state would produce. This causes smaller states to have less interest in the campaign because they know they have a lesser chance of their favored canidate winning. Even more, canidates focus on swing states. Swing states are states that can be easily convinced for votes. It is important for all states to focus on the campaign so that an unworthy or unprepared canidate is not chosen for presidency, but only large and swing states are paying attention. In contrast, it can be argued that no single region can shift a campaign greatly, nonetheless a single voter`s vote.
The Electoral College should be rid of. The process is not democratic and misrepresents voting citizens in more ways than one. If voters were able to directly vote for canidates then more states would actively engage in the campaign and all people would be represented equally. It would lower the chance for downfall, and the chance for incidents to occur. I propose that the next presidential election should use the process of popular vote to choose the next president for the United States.
Please take into consideration my proposal,
Student A | 4 |
Facial Action Coding System has not been around since the early ages of technology. When it comes to technology, developers think of various ways the technology can affect your daily life. With FACS (Facial Action Coding System) there is new wonder to the system everyday. In "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto, D'Alto describes the many ways a computer system can benefit learning styles of students by using examples of FACS: classroom computers, complex algorithms, and 3D models created by computers.
Classroom computers may seem like a boring and old piece of machinery to most students. Although classroom computers are not that exciting, students can have a great benefit from the technology that can be accessed from the computers. Students might not be able to notice any difference in the computer's hardware. However, they may be confused when they see certain ad's showing up depending on their facial expressions. A student's facial recognition can be very important when encouraging students to learn "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" (D'Alto). Classroom computers being able to read facial recognition helps students' lessons become modifyed to help their learning experience.
Complex algorithms can help a computer detect facial structures and emotions portrayed from within an individual. With technology becoming more efficient in the daily live of an average person, some computers are now built with sensors that can be used to unlock the device. Some home computers; however, are not able to "handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile. But we can write down some simple instructions that 'encode' different emotions" (D'Alto). Software engineers, computer engineers, etc. are working nonstop to help write certain codes that will help create features that will be able to sensed. This big leap into technology can help when classroom computers are being built, thus helping student to learn better.
3D models created by computers are something individuals normally wouldn't see on a day-to-day basis. 3D models are usually created to help people working in the medical fields determine certain diagnosis and such with individuals. If a patient is getting a scan and the doctors need to see certain muscles "the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles" (D'Alto). With computers being able to read and detect muscles located in a person's face, engineers can use that research to help enhance the function of computers being able to sense facial expressions.
The use of FACS examples: classroom computers, complex algorithms, and 3D models created by computers can all make an impact in a student's learning style in the passage "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto. The use of technolgy used today's society already has a huge impact that can lead to an even bigger impact and that impact can help many young individuals learn specific and various ways. | 3 |
Do you think there should be technology to tell us our emotions?
Well Dr. Haung does and here is my reasons why.
Facial Action Coding System, a new technology created to show us our emotions. Boredem, students have evolved in many different ways such as a likeness in school. Many students get either tired, bored, or confused. Teachers go by the book and do what they have been told to educate and tech students, but most students get either bored, tired, or confused in the subject that the teacher is teaching. We soon to know the reason is why for that, so this is where the Facial Action Coding System comes in work. Its going to show how these students are feeling and what the reason is why they are feeling that way so the lesson could get modified.
Dr. Huang observed artist such as Leonardo da Vinci who studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotion algorithms information as electrical code. So Dr. Huang used what da Vinci did but put in his own way to help out schools for the students so the teachers can see if they are bored, angry, sad, tired, or anything. | 1 |
In the story, The Challenge of Exploring Venus, the author suggests that Vensus would be a place where people could live in. Despite the dangers and conditions
that Vensus has showed the author suggests that Vensus could be a potential new plant to live in.
Vensus could be an option for people to live in. But Vensus has its drawbacks and conditions. The planet's suface temperatues are over 800 degrees fahrenheit and it's atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than on earth. Those condtions would make it inhabitable for the people on earth. Vensus is also the hottest surface temperature in solar system. Vensus is coverd with erupting valcanoes, and frequent lighting strikes.
Vensus is an option for people to live there because there was life on Vensus. The planet has some familar features towards Earth. It had a surface of rocky sediments, valleys, mountains, and creaters. Vensus is also the nearest planet towards earth which makes an option for us.
Vensus is an option for the people to live on if our planet becomes inhospitable. It would be the closest planet
towards us and it would make it easier to travel there. But Vensus has it setbacks and extreme conditons for people to live there. The author supports the idea of living vensus even with it drawbacks. | 1 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System. This piece of technology allows us to read the emotional expressions of our peers and well, paintings, such as Da Vinci's, Mona Lisa. From this, it has been discovered that Mona Lisa was eighty-three percent happy, six percent fearful, nine percent disgusted, and two percent angry. I believe that the information recieved from the Facial Action Coding System is valuable.
In today's world, we rely so much on technology that it's hard to see a world without it. We all use technology everyday whether it be a computer, cellphone, or even a television. With advancements and improvements in technology, that leads us to believe that the accuracy of technology is reliable. In the article, the author talks about the software. The emotion-recognition software can track anything from a real face to a painting, and tell whether or not the person is angry, sad, mad, or happy. Humans use this same technique everyday. In the article, the text states "you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." Well that's just what the Facial Action Coding System does. Facial expressions are universal. Based on the article, we can tell that technology is more fast and efficient working than ever. Technology is like our brains, it processes things quickly and with accuracy.
Most of the time the human eye can tell how someone is feeling, but we are not always certain because it is difficult for us to desribe facial features. There's no need for that when upcoming technology can do it for you. In the text, it tells us that artists study human anatomy for precision when painting the face. The software Dr. Huang uses detects the small things such as the slight curve of a lip or even the squint of an eye to determine emotions. The Mona Lisa shows us just that. An example from the text is "if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar might follow." This is because even our computers can detect our emotions and follow it with an ad similar to how we are feeling.
From the article, the reader can even try the expressions for themselves to test the accuracy. I think the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. If the student is stressed or mad but not willing to confront a teacher about how they are feeling, the teacher can know based on the technology or even looking for the small things such as a curve of the lip. This may take stress off of students as well as adults. | 3 |
Today i will be talking about some good reasons to join the program seagoing cowboys. i will also be trying to get people to sign up for it. I think it would be a great idea to sign up for it.
Here are some reasons why youu should sign up. You could help people out by going and helping with the food supplies, horses, cattle, youn cows, mules,and more. It would be doing a good deade too.
Another good reason is it might be a opportunity that you may never get to take again or if you wanted to try it too see if you like it.
If you are 18 though you could be drafted for military service so if u ever wanted to be apart of the military service it would be a good idea to sign up. Another good reason is if you wanted to just go and look at some new places this would be a good idea because they travel a lot and make a lot of trips.
Going on trips like this to places that need help because they just got out of worl war ll can make you see how much more help thses people need then you do. Another really good idea is that if you ever wanted a chance to help out with animals and stuff and never got a chance to this would be a good idea since they help out with all that.
In this essay i was trying to get people to sign up for seagoing cowboys. I hope the reasons i gave you was helpful enough for people to see that it would be a good idea to go and help out all the people that are in need and to help out with the food and animals and stuff. I hope some of you who read this will sign up. | 1 |
In the article the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it represents. Studying Venus is a difficult challenge that NASA is trying to achieve. NASA is trying to create an aircraft that will last long in venus's environment conditions. They have a aircraft that is made out of silicon carbide that will last about 3 weeks.
NASA
and other scientist believe that venus was once like earth, they believed that there was once water and living oganisms. Due to the planet being so close to the sun, and the sun being as hot as it is the temperature of the planet is average 800 degrees fahrenheit. The planet now has a rocky sediment, valleys, mountians, and craters.
Also from the planet being so hot the aircrafts that had been made for venus wouldn't last very long. The atmospheric pressure is 90 time greater than what we experence on our own planet. The aircraft must be strong enought to support itself and not be crushed. "even a submariene accustomed to diving in the deepest parts of our oceans would be crushed and would liquefy many metals.
Not only is venus very hot and has a greater atmospheric pressure, the weather and natural diasters are dangerous. Venus often has "erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on it's surface."
Going to venus would be a very diffuicult for scientist to achieve. The aircraft that they built would only last about 3 weeks. The temperature on the planet is average 800 degrees fahrenheit and the atomic pressure is 90 times greater than is is on earth. The Weather on venus is also very dangerous. | 2 |
I think that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. If you join the program you can take care of animals,play games on your free time,and go to new or exciting places. When I was a Seagoing Cowboy I did those things. Being a Seagoing Cowboy means that you would have to be on a cattle-boat going to different places.
On the cattle-boat I had to take care of some animals. I took care of horses,young cows (calfs),and mules. Sometimes, I have to check on the animals every hour as a night watchman. I have to feed the animals two or three times a day. I had to clean the animal stalls too.
On the trip, I would get free time. When I get free time I found some fun things to do. I did these things:table-tennis tournaments,fencing,boxing,reading,and whittling. Other Cowboys played baseball and volleyball I played those too.
While sailing I went to lots of places. I went to places like Venice,Italy and China. Going places is part of being a Seagoing Cowboy. I went to places in Europe too.
In summary, I took care of animals,played games,and went to different places all around the world. It takes some work to be a Seagoing Cowboy but,it is worth it. I'm glad that my friend asked me to go to Europe with him as a Seagoing Cowboy. I didn't just get to feed cattle the whole time I went to places all around the world. | 2 |
In the story the author says it's the brightist planet in space. And every space craft has been a failer that has landed. On it and they have acid clouds and your head can expload. And it's super super hot hoter than the sun even and they have very big storms and lightnign stikes. Even though it's very similer to Earth it's still very diffrent in meany ways. Even not being on the planet and just chillin above it you can still die but its hard to even study it. From above because how dens the planet it. But they are finding ways to go their but it's still very hard to study the planet.
I think the way the author puts it is good they talk about how it looks like Earth like it have reveains rocks lakes and more. But they also explain how bad the condions are their. So even though i dont really care about space that much I think it would be cool. Because for all we know Venus could of had life on it at some point in life so their could be bones of some kind or if their still is life that would be very cool thats my conclusion. | 0 |
In the text it is said "Our travels on earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." this basically means no matter the danger or risks there is we should be able to expand to do what we have always wanted to do with innovation.
So this is showing that the author is suggesting that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents no matter if it is dangerous or risky we were made to innovate what we see in our imagination is what it is saying. He even says thing's like "If our sister planet is so inhospitable,why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface?" If he wasn't supporting it he wouldn't be saying this.
It's very obvious he has done his research on venus and his main focus is on supporting the exploration of Venus. He knows the space administration ideas for sending humans to go study venus and knows that NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus also to the exact temperatures of where they would be and the carbon dioxide percent to the planets average surface temperature. All of this throughly shows how much he supports the exploration of Venus despite the danger and risks. | 2 |
Luke said that he could not have said no. He thought it would be a opportunity of a lifetime,he was right. Luke had lots of fun in all his sea trips. He helped a lot of people and almost died but survived. He traveled aroud the world. he had fun in the middle of there voyage. He crossed the Atlantic ocean and the the Panama Canal.
They crossed the Atlantic Ocean,and in return they played baseball and volleyball. Luke also said that they found lots of time to do fun thing. Luke was proud that he help all the horses and Greece. They had fun work,Luke was a watch man witch is not as hard as othere jobs. But being a seagoing cowboy was much more than a adventure for Luke. It opened up his world
Luke probably liked helping with the animals,because He helped his grandmother with her farm. Luke helped horses,young cows,and mules. When that was over it opened his world and his heart. That was a big opportunity for a big act of kindness. He helped countries in their needs. Luke had a good time and a real good heart because he could have said no but he didn't.
Luke had a lot of fun in this ones in a lifetime adventure. Luke said that the cattle-boat trips were an unbelivable awesome. Luke traveled to Italy,China,and Europe. the most speical place he went was in Acropolis in Greece. The other trips were good but that was special. He injoyed the city with streets of water. Also injoyed the Panama Canal and the excavated castle in Crete.
That is why Luke joined the UNRRA also called the Seagoing Cowboys. Luke said in the begining that his life changed. It changed a lot because of all of the good deeds. Luke injoyed that trip and was proud and grateful for that oppotunity. That is why Luke injoyed and will never take back that chose that changed his life. | 0 |
Throughout reading this article I thought it provided very good and extensive research. Although I did see some major issues with the leading point of the passage. This author provided very good research but the research and evidence throughout the entire article controdicted their main message. To make this article better, more evidence on why studying venus is benefical should be provided to support their claim.
In this article the evidence they use for example: "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth; such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals" and also "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus" supports the controdicting claim that going to Venus is too dangerous with too many complications. Throughout the whole passage the author states many reasons on why it's too dangerous to go to Venus and all the complications that would happen if going there. They also show all the major problems with NASA's idea of a solution, but never came up with their own possible idea of a solution. This leads you to believe that the author is against going to Venus. I dont disagree that going to Venus will gain us insight on the planet, spark imagination, and create innovation but the author's claim needs to be more supported and obvious throught the passage.
Some good things about this passage is that they do provide great evidence and research. They provide input from NASA and NASA's insight on the whole thing and a possible solution. They also provide facts about the atmosphere and about the conditions of the planet. Them providing all this evidence helps the reader themselves have almost enough information to come up with their own opinion on the topic. Although I still stand by this article needing much more information on why and how we could go to Venus safe and affectively.
Overall this article's information and research was great and really did inform me about the planet, but the conclusion ruiened it all. The whole time (paragraphs 1-7) the author lead all the readers to believe that going to Venus has too many dangers and isnt in our best interest, yet the conclusion stated that going to Venus would be a great oppurtunity and that "Our travels on earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation". If the passage had evidence all throught that going to Venus is beneficial, it would be a perfect article but i was all around confused when I found out the author was all for going to Venus and it ruiened and confused the whole article. | 4 |
If you had this car you could do what ever you want to. you would still be on the road oyu could be drunk and still make it home to safety. you could be on your phone and still be on the road. you would never crash unless you were drunk and forgot that the car could drive itselfl. for instence you could use up less gas than what you thought you would be using. you could only go a certian amount a miles without a crash.
you would nerver know what happened if you were on a colision course with another car. but if you remebered that your car was the one that was driving it could stop and change directions so that you would be alright. and the other driver would also be alright. you could be going to washington and sleep on the way there so that you could wake up to refill in the morning. what you could also do is drive the rest of the way without your car trying to quite.
you wold never have a crash or try to kill your self by jumping off the bridge because the car would drive with you safely to the bottom and you would curse your
car and your life but then learn that the car was doing oyu a favor when you got your
got a wife of husband there with you are buying a baby crib | 0 |
Relatively autonomous cars represent a great advance in technology, as it is observed in society today. Even though this technology represents a relatively large effective range, I am not for the use of mostly or fully autonomous technologies. Even though the use of machines and technologies for the enrichment of the human populace is important, allowing them to affect our place at the wheel will not be beneficial to the coming generations. By allowing these technologies to supercede the need for the human driver/passenger to actively think, we take away from our own capacities of understanding and adapting to the simplest of situations.
In paragraph 7, it is discussed how in 2013, BMW had developed a vehicular system called "Traffic Jam Assistant", which was capable of autonomously operating effectively at speeds up to 25 mph. This being said, there are sensors on the steering wheel that assure that the driver does not release the wheel. Also, when there are area-specific conditions, such as construction zones and accidents, the driver must take control when indicated. If so much input is required from the human driver, then why should we relinquish the wheel to these vehicles in the first place?
Information from various sources have indicated that when oneself is not exposed to the full extent of certain processes, it is more likely for errors to occur later. In other words, if a person is presented with a task or job largely dependant on technological assistance, and they are later given the same job, but without the 'tech support', then they are more likely to fail at the task. If we were to allow the coming generations to initially utilize these technologies in their everyday lives, as these technologies develop and progress, then they would be impaired in a situation where they would not drive a relatively autonomous vehicle. In short, the use | 2 |
I think the idea of being able to see other kids emotions or feelings from a computer is a bad idea. No one should know what the kid is going through unless that kid wants you to know he or she will tell you.
If the kid wants it to be private or can't tell anyone anything then they don't want others to know at all. If they are mad they shouldn't take it out on someone else. They could maybe ask a close friend or teacher or parent for help or ask them what they should do. He or she could be going through a lot at home or with grades or a bully that makes he or she mad. Parents need to ask there kids and wonder are they doing ok in school is everything alright if there kid is showing emotions for being mad or sad then they should be concerned. Most kids will be to scared to tell others cause they think they will get into trouble so they just stay quiet. Some kids take the pain out on there selfs and harm there selfs or worse. The kid shouldn't be asking what to do cause they are to scared. The guardian, teacher, friend or someone close should be asking them are you ok or im here for you then the kid will speak up and talk.
My opion on whether the computer should read kids expressions is no that's the parents job or guardian computers don't run are life's and the guardian should know if there kid is doing ok or not and help them instead of a computer helping them on there life situations. | 1 |
The Seagoing Cowboys program is a program that sends diffrent cowboys overseas to help out many countries that are trying to recover from war or just do not have the essientials they need.
According to the story in paragraph 2 some cowboys were sent in 1945,after World War ll to Europe to help these countries recover their food supplies,animals,and many other things.44 nations jonied together to form UNRRA and hired in "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the horses,young cows,and mules that were shipped overseas. The passage also states in paragragh 5 that besides helping people,you get the side benefit of sight seeing. For example Luke was able to explore Europe and China,Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China. In paragraph 7 Luke had an accident. During the accident Luke cracked his ribs,he could not work for a couple of days. In paragragh 8 Luke found ways to pass time while his ribs were still injured.
Luke says in paragragh 9 that he was so grateful for the oppurtunity to be a Seagoing Cowboy. He says it made him more aware of people of other countries and their needs. If you decide to to join the Seagoing Cowboys program it will sure be a great expirence for you. | 0 |
Who doesn't like the idea of sitting back, sipping on your coffee while reading the paper as your car whisk you to your destination? Sadly, as wonderful as it may sound, that is not the case with "Driverless Cars." Driverless cars are not really a grand idea as they may seem because even though they say that they are driverless and are suppose to be safe, you must always be alert when driving them, there is a chance that the car maybe unsafe, and without a doubt, they are more than likely going to be expensive.
These suppose driveless cars are said to only handle driving functions at speeds up to twenty-five mph, but it carries sensors that make sure that the driver keeps hold of the wheel. And although the car is designed to be able to steer, accelerate, and brake for themselves, it is designed to notify the driver when it requires human skills on a road ahead. Which then require the driver of this "driverless car" to be alert at all times and be ready to take the wheel at any moment. This makes the term driverless car pointless.
Having to always be alert while being in a driverless car isn't the worst thing in the world and it isn't the only thing that people have to worry about. In many states they have banned the use of computer driven cars because they believe that humans are the only safe drivers. Although in many cases this may not be true, a human driver seems more truthworthy than a computer that may or may not short circut at any moment. Humans seem to be more reliable but if people ever see to change their minds and laws change, it will still come down to one question as stated in the text, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault - the driver or the manufacturer?
Other than these cars being unsafe, what most people seem to not realize is that these cars are going to probably cost them an arm and a leg. Seeing as how these smarter cars are suppose to be smarter and more high tech. Which leads to the next question, what makes a "smarter car" smarter? Well according to the passage Google had modified a car to use position estimating sensors on a left rear whieel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a gps receiver, an intertial motion sensor, and a dubbed LIDAR, not including the things inside the car. This all sounds like materials that cost quite a bit of cash and as time progresses and technology improves, so will the sensors and as things get better, the preformence will go up but so will the value, making the car more expensive to make.
Ultimately, these smarter, driverless cars, don't seem so smart or so driverless because they still require a driver to be alert, they don't seem so safe, and they will probably cost a ton of money. So they require a drivers assistance everytime it can't do anything on its own, making the name driverless car pointless. Another human being would seem more trutworthy behind the wheel than a computer. Then lastly they probbaly cost more than a colege students yearly tuition. Need there be more said about why driverless cars are just a bad idea? | 3 |
The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is a technological facial recognition system that tells about a persons emotion from their smile. Here are some points to talk about when thinking of this topic.
If your'e really truly invested in using the FACS system you could very well be doing yourself good and bad, here are some reasoning. Let's start with the pros, first off it would be a pretty good technological advancement if we could get the facial recognition to work for us. Second, if it does work we can use it to tell how people are feeling if they come into work school or home and they do not seem like they have had a good. The FACS would be a pretty amazing system to have and use in the future, whether it be the near or far future. Now with the cons, first and foremost the program could completely bomb and not even work at all and just say a random amount of percentages for your facial expression. Second of all, is there going to be a cost? will it be free? The passage is saying that they would have it in school, so would the computers the children were using already have it embedded into the software? This is a hard thing toputout there for everyone to have access to.
There are so many questions needing to be asked and answered about this program, and this will be a hard but ground breaking system. This FACS system could possibly be one of the best inventions known to man. Let's hope it would be a real true thing and nothing fake. | 1 |
Since the early 1900's, cars have been an integral part of the human life. Cars allow people to get everything that they need accomplished complete. Whether it's picking up groceries, picking up your child from dance classes, traveling across the country, or just sitting in the driver's seat listening to John Mayer rethinking the highlights of your day. Metaphorically, the car is what truly allows the world to continue rotating on it's axis. For this reason, advancing the wonderful technology of automobiles will bolster appreciation of drivers and car lovers everywhere.
In the world of technology, we see advancements, modifications, and improvements every second. Why not advance the beauty of automobiles? Automobiles are like a second home to some people, especially those with busy lives that require a plethora of transportation from place to place. I believe that now is the time to create a car that has the capabilities of being driverless. A car that allows for a safer, more effecient environment. According to the story, "Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009". Accordingly, they have driven roads calculating distances of more than half a million miles WITHOUT a crash. This is a truly amazing discovery. Progress is key to creating a future of state of the art technology.
Hence, in an effort to bolster encouragement for creative and innovative thinking, one must realize that in the lenses of 'driverless' cars... I don't believe the ultimate goal is to strip humans of the ability to control their car but improve the flexibility of it. For instance, if we have a car that is capable of being driven manually and automatically, this opens a variety of opportunity to the driver. Let's take this anecdote as an example: Johnny is a very busy businessman. He is always traveling to and from meetings. In fact, Johnny has a meeting to attend in 5 minutes and he hasn't eaten anything all day. Considering Johnny's situation, he could use a driverless car right about now. Instead of driving to the meeting, Johnny can flip a switch that activates 'autodrive' and pick up a McDonald's salad and chow down. Suffice to say, driverless cars can and will be effecient to the business driver and the everyday soccer mom.
Whether it's in 2016 or 2020, the efficiency of cars need to come up to par with the standards of this generation. Times are changing and improved technology is required in order to move forward in a variety of aspects. The driverless car can and will improve the overall quality of life. | 3 |
The Facial Action system ,Detects exactly how other peple are feeling this system has promising applications for a variety of industries. This urguing people that if it is a good idea to put this system to use in classrooms. This systems can extract even the most minimal detal on a paintings. Such as the Mona Lisa from Leonardo da Vinci. And real live people to.
I think that it is a good support the use of this technology to read students emotional expressions. But at the same time they should ask their students before going further. If is okay with them and their privacy because this machine or systems can read or noticed the most little detail in ur face expresions. Or if they are minors they will have to ask their parents or guardians. The founders or workers of this system or company.
The reoson i state this,Is because it can also benefit the students to learn more about them self and what they need to succed in life. It can also give the researches of this systems new information based on he research gather. From students partipating in the facial system. As the text states that Mona Lisa was 83 percent happy 9 percent disgusted and 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry. Using the machine.
By showing they could also see if the students are happy or isgusting with their clases or even their. By saying all of this i think it is a good i dea for this facial device to be use in classrooms. | 1 |
There are many harsh conditions and atmosphere on Venus and NASA still tries to land on Venus. It is because Venus is a planet that is closely related to earththan any other planet. Venus is a worthy pursuit because it could have information about earth and fragments from the meteor. The planet could have valuable minerals or bacteria on the surface.
Venus could have been similar to earth billions and billions of years ago. This is a prediction due to the size and shape of the planet. In the article, the author says, "Often referred to as earth's "twin", ... in terms of density and size, ... closest in distance too." Since Venus is the closest in relation to earth, then the planet should be able to sustain life again. Many experience to try and land on Venus's surface, but many failed due to the harsh conditions preventing them from landing.
There have been many attemps to land on Venus, but the planet is harsh. The planet can become extremely hot and has a thick atmosphere. The weather is another obstical that prevents astronauts from landing. In the article, the author also says, "These conditions are far more extreme ... an environment would crush even a submarine ... and would liquefy many metals." NASA have tested many metal that can survive Venus and have succeed with silicon carbide and has lasted for three weeks. Scientist are still striving to make Venus more sustanable for human life.
So far there has been litle success to see which metals can survive Venus. People are driven to explore Venus is due to their curiosity because it is similar to earth. Even though is is dangerous due to Venus's surface, people still try because it could have critical information on earth or valuable minerals or bacteria. | 2 |
The Facial Action Coding system. It can read almost any face, and tell weither what emotion you have having. You could use this for many diffrent things such as; busting a crimanal, telling if a person around you acully is happy around you, or even if someone is lying to you. But one other important thing this technology can be used for is school.
Lets say you were at school and you were getting bullied or you werent having a good day. You are trying to hide your emotions but your quiet good at it. But the moment you sit down at a computer, it scans your face and it says that you are sad/depressed. The moment the computer reads your face it can alert the teacher and it can tell if the student is enjoying or disliking the class or school in general. Then, when the teacher knows his/her emoiton, he could ask the student why they are feeling this way and if they need to talk. It could make the students feel special and that they dont need to hide there emotions from people and can feel totally comfortable expressing themselves.
Even with that sanificant factor of helping children out with there emotions, there is also some cons about have this system. Facial Action Coding System could almost make the parents a bit worried about there children and be wondering would it could be doing. What if foreigner parties start to hack the system. There could be major problems such as; knowing who you are, having your facial ID, and a chance of getting captured. Some parents are really strict with their children not letting them show there face to a camera just because they are aware of the dangers that could happen.
Another con is that the system could malfunction. Since is sends the information and emotion to teacher/parents the teacher could get worried and ask why this student has this emotion but little do they know that there was wrong information sent. Lets say the student his sitting as his desk and the system scanned his face over a multitude of facial moment and it says your sad, but on the inside you are acually fairly happy. Then the teacher could ask you why he or she is sad, and would try to help him out. But little do they know is that he really happy and something went wrong with the system. It would be pointless, there would be no advantage in having this. It would take time out of your day and there could be a whole ordeal about weither your sad or happy.
But also the Facial Action Coding System could help us find out is is someone has cheated on a test, or is mad at another student. It can prevent many of dangerous thing from happening in the school such as a school shooting for example. If a student was angry 24/7 at school it could aller and worry the teachers that something drastic could happen and a gun could be pulled out. But you can prevent that from happening with the Facial Coding System, you could see that the student is mad all the time and the teachers could reach out and help the student before something drastic happens.
Over all I think it would be a great idea to have a system like this in our schools today because some people are really hurting on the inside, and sometimes us humans can not tell weither if the person is sad, mad, or happy. We could prevent self harm with this! We could stop many of things from happening in our schools today. I think every school should start to incorporate this system into there labtops and computers because it could really help a student out. We could make people the outcasts feel important for once. It would make there day knowing the fact that somone cares about them.
We could help a lot of things we do in school today, it was be a good benefit factor having this system in schools. | 4 |
Driverless cars may seem like an idea of the future, but they are already here.
Studies have been in progress since the late 1950s and are continually getting more complicated to date.
Driverless cars may seem like the next big thing and look as though they have many upsides to them, yet, the public has still not been offered a genuine driverless car.
Scientists are trying to make something that does not need to be invented, using up funds and donations towards it, when they could be trying to make current cars and roads more safe.
Driverless cars should remain a fantasy of the future and nothing more because they will cost a lot of money to start up and mantain, not all data is complete on them, and they are not as safe as cars with drivers.
Driverless cars will cost a lot of money to make and maintain, and the specialized roads that they will drive on cost more money, too.
Older theories for these cars that involved them being driven on roads with eletrical cables beneath them, or roads that were essentially "magnets," were too expensive to be used.
With the original ideas too expensive, scientists are now researching newer, more cost efficient ways, but even newer cars that are less costley, still cost too much.
The car includes many sensors, cameras, a GPS reciver, and an intertial motion sensor which would cost more many than any regular car, and the most expensive part would be the LIDAR technology used to create a model of the cars surroundings.
Everything added to a smarter car, to make it driverless, that costs much more money than any other car, can all be done for free by the human brain.
All the extra technology gives nothing to prove that it will always work and never give out when someone is in the car.
There is not much data provided on how driverless cars will work and what technically makes them driverless.
One would imagine that with the name "driverless car" that they would not have to drive the car.
Yet, in these cars scientist make an alert system to alert the driver when they must take control of the car.
Driverless cars will lend a false sense of security because someone may decide to take a nap while in one, only to have the alert going off but they do not see or hear it.
The person in a driverless car must remain alert at all times, just as in a regular car, causing the name "driverless car" to be meaningless.
There is nothing saying that these cars will work the way they are supposed to which can cause saftey problems.
Driverless cars are not as safe as cars with drivers.
Not everyone will have a driverless car, and if someone driving a regular car disobeys a traffic law, such as running a red light, how is the driverless car to know or stop on time?
Someone driving in a regular car would be able to swerve or stop at the last minute when seeing someone run a red light, but the driverless car would not be able to.
People can make sudden actions and do uncalled for things when driving, which can be a major disadvantage to driverless cars, but a peron's quick thinking can stop an accident if they are in a regular car.
Driverless cars are costley, do not have enough completed data on them, and are unsafe.
It would be considerabley cheaper and safer to have a human drive a car, because everything that a driverless car does, a human can do without any added technology.
Within driverless cars humans still need to be alert and focused on the road, terminating the reason for a driverless car in the first place.
No information is given as to what would happen if someone in a driverless car were in a wreck with someone in a regular car, or another driverless car for that matter.
Driverless cars are wonderful ideas that should remain as such. | 2 |
Alot of people may think that aliens created the Face on Mars but i don't think it was. I think that it is just a natural landform made by a storm or a meteor. Photographing the rock formation was a huge priority for NASA. Some scientists say that aliens didn't make it because they don't exist. They decided that it was another Martian mesa which were common around Cydonia.
A few days after, NASA unveiled the image for all people to see. When they released the photo, the caption was "huge rock formation." Some of the scientists say that the rock formation looks like a face. They said "formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." An author later decided that the Face would be a great way to get the public's attention and attract them to Mars.
After the Face was released to the public, it became a pop icon around the world. the Face appeared in Hollywood film, books, magazines, radio talk shows, and even haunted grocery store checkout lines. In the passage it says, "Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars." This is evidence that NASA wanted to hide from the public. Some say that the defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars.
On April 8, 2001, the Mars Global Surveyor got close enough for a second look. Garvin says, "we had to roll the spaccraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field view." He also said, "Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution." In 2001 each pixel spans 1.56 meters. compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo.
Even though the scientists did not find out if it was alien who made the rocck formation or not, they tried very hard to try and find out. People are saying that the formation looks like the Martian form of butte or mesa. Other people ae saying they look like other landforms around the world. Some scientists might think that aliens formed the Face becuase of what it looks like. Other scientists might think it is a natural formation. Both answers could be correct, but they still don't know. | 2 |
Car Free Cities
Many people use cars for different reasons, some to get to work, some for their jobs but i bet these people don't know what they are really causing when they step into their car. Some people throughout the world have been reducing cars in their cities, and the changes they are making have huge advantages on the city.
"Automobiles are the linchpin of suburbs" says Elizabeth Rosenthal. Stating that automobiles, or cars, have made and astronomical change in the suburbs, or small neighborhoods on the outskirts of big cities. Some pros about not having cars are that more people are exercising and losing weight, and reducing the pollution in the air. Some even say you can get where you're going faster when not using a automobile.
"It's a good oppurtunity to take away stress and lower air pollution", says businessman Carlos Arturo. Implying, you dont have to stress over being late for work by filling you gas tank up, its a sign of relief knowing you can get places without your car. Redusing car yuse also helps you save your money, by spending money on gas, or even waiting on taxis to get you where you're going can also be tough.
In colclusion, there are many advantages on why you should limit car use in big cities. Even though some might not agree, its still a risk to take and make your city a cleaner, more happy place. Even though this might be a incipent to car limiting, it might be able to grow througout the next coulple of years if people work together to stop automobile transportation. | 1 |
The Face
"The Face." Is "The Face" a natural Martian mesa with unusual shadow?
Is this proof that there is life on mars? Are the scientists at NASA keeping life on Mars a secret? Well lets look at some evidence to prove or disprove these theroies.
"The Face" is a nartual Martian mesa with unusual shadows,and the technology used in 1976 to take the picture was not as reliable to give a detailed picture. As u can see in 2001 the picture looks different because it it zoomed in, it gives better detail of the picture. You can see some of the hills and moutains in it,and its twists and turns.
"On April5,1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Vikings photos." "The image appeared on a JPL web site,revealing a natural landform.There was no alien monument after all."
"As the rule of thumb, you can discern things in digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size," Garvin added. So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!"
Some skeptics still think that the Martian mesa with unusual shadows still was made by aliens.Some skeptics say that the camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see "THE Face." | 1 |
How many people do you know show that they are upset or hurting? Most of the time people hide their feelings or emotions from others. They could be your best friend but you may not be able to tell when they are not okay. Maybe you are the same way. Maybe you walk into class one day and it is just not your day. Let's say the teacher doesn't know you are upset and upsets you by picking on you. You never showed him you were upset...how would he know? Imagine being able to have the technology to calculate someones emotions!
A lot of students have stuff going on at home. Maybe their parents got into an arguement, maybe they got in trouble, or they lost a loved one. Whatever the case may be, some people don't like to show others they are hurting. So they put up a "fake emotion", as I like to call it. A "fake emotion" is when someone hids their true emotions with a fake one, like being happy when they are really sad.
Things would go so much easier and smoother if teachers could tell when someone is upset. They could help them by talking to them about it and maybe giving them some advice or recommend them someone to talk to. Luckily with the help of a "Facial Action Coding System", which was invented by Dr. Paul Eckman, teachers could see what students are actually feeling. I know crazy right? But just imagine being able to see someones hidden emotions.
Dr. Eckman classified six basic emotions- happiness, anger, sadness, fear, disgust, and surprise. Based on one's facial muscle movements his invention can detect what one's emotions truly are. Dr Huang stated that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming bored or confused". This could help teachers know that they need to change their lesson to make it more entertaining for the student or make the lesson a little easier or more in depth.
Those students who get bored stop paying attention and stop learning. Those students who get confused fall behind. This affects their education. Students falling behind and not learning won't pertain knowledge and succeed. Some teachers don't notice a student who is falling behind. With the help of this invention, they could spot the students and get them the help they need. This invention can be very helpful for students and teachers. | 3 |
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author proposes the idea that driverless cars are things in the future that are closer than one could possibly imagine. Despite the good qualities of the car, it is not as useful as one may think.
The car in itself is expensive. There are many changes that will need to be made in present laws and roads in order for the car to work at its best. The car is also not safe, due to the fact that the driver is not as engaged and more vulnerable to distractions. Most importantly, the car is just simply unecessary.
Some may argue that the car is efficient and that due to less use of fuel it may even be better for the enviornment, but if it truly is about helping the earth, would it not be more efficient to place the money directly into fixing the earth? Another possible arguement is the fact that due to a less engaging driving session, many more people would be able to drive comfortably. However, the passage clearly states that the car will still monitor that the driver is just as engaged, supporting the statement that they are unecessaery.
A better proposal would be the alerts the driverless cars offer but in a regular car. That way alternate safety precautions are available to the average person. Many accidents are caused by people sleeping at the wheel and a car making sure the driver is engaged might help lessen that.
In conclusion, although the idea of a driverless car sounds fantastic, it just maybe have to wait. However, many concepts that will be applied to the futuristic car may really help out if applied to regular cars. | 2 |
why you should limit car usage? limiting car usage is a great way of helping the air from pollution, less accidents, and less money throwing out the window. you could just walk, run ride a bike or anything that doesn't require you to use money with. Doing those things could even keep you healthy. pollution is getting out control these days to much greenhouse gases in the air. its bad we needa do something before it can kill us. like in all of the passages it tells why not using cars is a great way a better way to not us cars.
in the first passage "in german suburb, life goeson withoutcars" people from vauban, germany are giving up their cars. they are now riding bikes or walking. 70 percent of people from there dont use cars. people are happy there. people are selling their cars to live there. yes you could drive a car but there is only like 2 parking spaces. you could buy a space for 40,000$ along with a home. they are just trying to help out to keep the air clean.
in the second source "paris bans driving due to smog" the city was almost about to reach their record pollution but they enforced a couple days banning to clear air. people would be fine 31$. but 4,000 people didn't listen. but people had their cars impounded for their reaction. diesel full was to blame since france tax policy favors diesel over gasoline. paris is the most pulluted city in europe. but good thing happened the smog cleared up.
in the source 3 "car-free day is spinning into a big hit in bogota" millions of colombians were biking, hiking, skated, or took buses. people would be fine 25$ if not following the law. it will help reuce the smog, the pollution. two other cities cali and valledupar have joined the event. people from other countries have came to colombia to watch this event. it is the straight year for this event. now since the event is going well more sidewalks have been made.
in the last source "the end of the car culture" says that america is now using lesser cars buying fewer cars and getting fewer licenses. sociologists says it will be good for the enviroment and for beneficial implications for carbon emissions. but will be bad for car industrys.
using less cars is good thing because more socializing less accidents less pollution less greenouse gases. this would help you save money give you exercise. it could help the enviroment people would get better at being active. maybe the world should have a week once a year that we don't use cars to lower pollution. escpecially bejing since it is the most polluted city in the world. | 2 |
Cars are an important part of American Culture, but a superpower country using them has big consequences. Pollution is getting worse and worse, and greenhouse gases are heating up our world. There are a few advantages to limiting car usage: safety is improved, and less pollution.
Paris recently enforced a tentative law that banned driving so as to clear the air of pollution. Warm days and cold nights were trapping the car emissions (Source 2). In the other side of the world, America's car selling stats are decresing. This could mean that cars will be used less and less in the U.S., which would definitely benefit smoggy places like L.A. and New York (Source 4).
Fun fact: automobile accidents are the leading cause of desth for teenage Americans.
Now, if we were to remove that, then there would be no deaths. Thus, safety is improved. Bill Ford, executive chairman of the Ford motor Company, found that "pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time... and improve safety". (Source 4) Ford and Mercedes are already calling themselves "mobility" companies with a wider product range.
The world would be so much happier with less deaths and breathable air, so cars should be limited. Days where driving is not allowed would be a great idea for America, like in Bogota, Columbia. The capital city of Bogota was devoid of traffic jams and violators who used cars faced 25 dolllar fines (Source 3). The goal was to promote smog reduction and safety. America should follow this example and try to set one for other countries, because planet Earth doesn't have much time left and humans need to all they can before they become extinct. | 2 |
The author of "The Challenges of Exploring Venus" did not support this idea well. I know this because not only did they wait until the sixth paragraph to use the word challenges to replace the word risks, but they also waited until the very end of the article to explain their reasoning. Even when explain why they feel that exploring Venus is worth it the writing feels rushed. The article's overall tone just doesn't sit well. The message is supposed to be postitive, but the author spends so much time on how other people feel about exploring Venus and how other people fear the risks you start to agree with the oposition instead of the author.
This author did not support this idea well. and i know this because in the passage it states so many challenges but only a few soltions. For example, the author mentions "clouds of highly corrosive sulfirc acid in Venus's atmosphere", but we are given no solution to this proble to allow humans to explore the surface. this author also spells "liquify" as "liquefy" and I do not believe this is correct, and if this author cannot spell a simple word how can i trust their facts are true.
In conclusion this article feels rushed and too pessimistic. The author either did not put in much time to write this passage, or they just don't agree with what they are writing about, or perhaps they just did not care. No matter what the reason this article did NOT support the idea it was about well. | 2 |
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author presents some positive and negative aspects of driverless cars, but that idea of bring cars onto the roads should be allowed and not against the law.
According to the text, driverless cars from google are being imporved and developing so that they can reach the goal of one day no one buying cars because people wont need it. Sergey Brin envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system.
One of the benifits of having driverless cars one day in the future would be going to places far without getting lost. People sometimes when they are in a hurry or trying to find their destination to where they are going is getting lost. Not every one in this world knows where every place is at and how to get to them, but GPS receivers within the car can help them get there and staying on track without getting lost.
On the other hand, some if not many people would think that driverless cars should not be put on the roads due to the fact that they can maufunction at anytime and at any place. First, most people probably wound't want to still drive if in any case being told to drive due to cautions on the roads. Second, in most states its illegal even to test and drive computer-driven cars. But also in some states they do allow but limited use of semi-autonomour cars. However, people would be happy even if they didnt like the idea of driverless cars on the roads because they could enjoy their rides where ever they are going to.
One day in the future there will be cars that will be driving themselves after the passenger puts in all the correct details about where he or she is going to. The author wants to see a day when there will be driverless cars on the roads, which could happen at anytime when they get improved. | 2 |
Venus is a great planet to study, but they got to worry about the danger of it. The planet is so bright, hot, and has air pressure. People would want to know about the planet, danger of it, and the testing the electronices that they can use.
The scientiest have to study the planet so the people don't die or get hurt while on the planet of Venus. They would have to study the tempereture, air pressure, and the amount of carbon dioxide. In paregraph one it says "Venus is sometimes called the "Evening Star" is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actully a planet". The planet is very hot with . the tempereture being around 800 degrees also 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus.
Venus air pressure is 90 times greater than what the experience on our own planet. In paragraph 3 it says "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth". Venus also has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solor system. Spaceships can't land on the planet for more than a few hours therefore they are trying to make some electronics made of silicon carbide.
The scientest are trying to test the silicon carbide electronic so that it can last on the planet of Venus for more than a couple of hours. In paragragh 7 it says"The silicon carbide electronic has been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions". There are older technology that are called mechanical computers. The device were first envisioned in 1800s. They also have played and important role in the 1940s during the World War II as a result the planet Venus is a dangerous place to study for humans to land on.
People would like to know about Venus, danger of it, and the testing for the spaceshuttles to land on. Venus is the second planet away for the sun and the first closets to the earth. The planet is dangerous for the spaceshuttles to land on because it is so hot and the air pressure is bad. | 2 |
Despite the challenges of studying Venus. Scientists suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursuit. Venus has a lot of dangers and challenges. Scientists suggests studying is worthy for many reasons. For example the humans curiosity.The challenges of studying are the hot temperatures and high pressures. Another challenge of studying is the highly corrsive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere.
Scientists are facinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Scientists suggest that Venus is a worthy pursuit because Venus can somtimes be out nearest option for planetary visits. NASA's possible solution to the conditions on Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. This vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the dangerous ground conditions.
NASA is working on other approaches to study Venus. Scientists are trying to avoid the dangers of Venus while stufying the planet, Scientists are woking on technology. Some of the projects scientists are working on is the old technology. The old technology called mechanical computers were first envisioned in the 1800's the computer played an important role in the 1940's during World War ll.
Scientists are studying the planet Venus because of the curiosity. Scientists say that Venus has value. The challenges of studying the planet Venus won't stop scientists from studying Venus. Scientists will continue to make technology that will hold all of the challenges of Venus. Many researchers are working on innovations that woul allow out machines to last long enough to contribute the knowledge of Venus. | 0 |
Dear state senator,
I think that we should keep the Electoral College. By keeping the Electoral College, there will be no problems in elections to where no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast. The process is like a "winner-take-all" system. In the Electoral College a presidental candidate must have trans-regional appeal.
To begin, there are run-off elections. Run-off elections will make sure that no candidate wins a majority of the votes cast. The Electorial College will help make it clearer to see which candidate is the winner. For an example in 1992 Clinton had only 43 percent plurality of the popular votes, then won a majority in the Electoral College.
Next, the Electoral College has a "winner-take-all" process. States such as Florida (29), Texas (38) and California (55) have a high amount of electoral votes. If there was a tie between two candidates and the votes from Florida were not put in yet, one of the candidates has a better chance of winning. Most candidates will try to persuade and win the higher states votes so that they will have a better chance of winninig. What's nice about the Electoral College, it causes the toss-up states to pay close attention the the campaign.
Finally, every candidate running for office must have a trans-regional appeal. None of the regions in the United States has enough electoral votes to elect the new president. When a canidate goes and campains in one region without thinking about he will not gain his electoral votes. Normally a candidate that has only regional appeal will be unlikely to be a successful president.
To conclude, the choice of keeping the Electoral College would very very wise and helpful. The Electoral College makes sure that there are run-off elections, it has a "winner-take-all" system, and that every canidadte running should be trans-regional. Even though in the Electoral College is not democratic and that only a slate of electors vote, a decent amount of times of when the people would pick that one candidate the electors would pick the same one. | 2 |
Facial Action Coding System
This passage explains how FACS could help for a lot of different things. For example in the article it says "Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa." Meaning that if the FACS really does work, it could be used for knowing how teenagers feel about school and learning. Teenagers now an days think school is boring. Sometimes teachers don't even know when their students are paying attention. If schools had emotion-recognition software we would be able to know if our students are into the lessons.
The FACS could help teachers understand how their students may feel. In paragraph 6 it says "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." In my opinion i think it is true, having a emotion-recognition software could really help teachers. Some kids are to nervous to ask the teacher to repeat the lesson, kids get confused easily, having a FACS could really help. It could let you know if your student is confused or bored. This could really change the way of teaching, some teachers don't even pay attention to their students.
Having a emotion-recognition software could really help all around the world. The creator tested the new software on the Mona Lisa painting. The results were incredible. He says "She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." It also says "It could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor, the same technology can make computers animated faces more expressive for video games or video surgery." Having this software could really help people understand how others feel. This proves how technology could be very useful, this new generation is going to change the world, and so is this new FACS software.
Dr. Huang created the FACS to underdstand human facial expressions. I say that in my own words having a emtion-recognition software could really help people. Sometimes teenagers hide their emotions and put on a fake smile or pretend to be happy when they are not. Teenagers now an days don't really like showing their emotions because in their mind they think it makes them seem weak. Sometimes teenagers don't want to talk about what is wrong, and sometimes teachers/parents don't even know what to do. That technology could really change the world. In paragragh 6 Dr. Huang notes "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication, so computers need to understand that, too." That is true. Now that kids have iphones and computers , they could use emoji's to express how they feel. | 2 |
People should participate in being a Seagoing Cowboy Program because they do not know what they would be missing. I have seen people who helped others like this and it chaned their life forever in a positive way for both of them.
Luke met tons of people,animals and even went new places like Europe,China, Greece, and Italy you would go to new places and you would be helping people who are in need every day too. Luke enjoyed helping people,and animals they even met people who you probly would not meet every day.
The trip changed Luke's life a lot because he probly would have never thought of hosting to a number of international students, and he even exchanged visitors every year he even met more and more people even after the trip you never know who you could meet.
If you join the Seagoing Cowboy program it would change your life forever a lot of people could have gone to Hawaii and said I saw sea horses, but not a lot of people could say I did the Seagoing Cowboy program and helped lots of people you would have fun make new friends and even new family there is somany reasons you be a Seagoing Cowboy and these are only a few. You would enjoy helping people every day. | 1 |
A driverless public taxi system? Or complications waiting to happen? Driverless cars are becoming a thing that most car companies want to get their hands on designing. After considering some of the cons to driverless cars such as; they are not completly driverless yet, they conflict with the existing laws of the road, and in case of of an accident who would be to blame?
Driverless cars may seem like a great idea at first, until you actually look in to the idea and its complications more. They haven't made a completely driverless car yet. There are several cars out there like the BMW Traffic Jam Assistant car and The Google car who can steer, brake, and accelerate themselves. The cars are not completely driverless, the cars still have to alert the driver in the car when pulling into or out of driveways, approching roadwork, accidents, or other complicated traffic issues. While the car is driving this will allow some drivers to become disracted (by eating, texting, talking on the phone, oher people in the car,
and a number of other things), this could cause them to not hear the car when it tells the driver to take over to drive through what ever obstacles could be occuring. With a distracted driver like this the likleyhood of accidents is sure to increase. With accidents come blame, and who is to blame if the car malfunctions? Their will be many cases from accidents just trying to decided who is to blame for the accident. Was the driver at fault for owning a car that malfunctioned and didnt tell them to take over? or is the manufacturer at fault for their car not doing what was said to suposedly do? There would have to be some type of law made to determine who is at fault for the accident in what cases. In addition to that law they would have to revaluate and modify other laws just to make driverless cars legal to drive. Laws today are written assuming that drivers have they're hands on the wheel
and are in control of the car the whole time, but with driverless cars those same assumptions cannot be applied. Because, of this today there are
only 4 states that allow limited use of semidriverless cars.
So are driverless cars really worth all of the complications that come with them? is it worth making a completley new set of laws to apply to he cars? Playing the blame game?
The increase of accidents? For these reason i suggest you think about how cool a driverless car really is. | 2 |
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", Is about technology being able to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. And I am arguing that it is valuable. Because it is a better way for humans and computers to communicate better. The computer can tell if you are happy, suprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness for example your orbicularis oris around your mouth tightens your lips to show anger. It is also vauluable because it can show your real emotion in a picture too.
So if any student wanted to know how the author was feeling at the time and it could also help them with projects. It also know what ads you want to see like if you smile on a ad that you are watching it will bring up another similar ad. But if you are frowning it will bring up a diffrent ad. Another way it help is that the computer knows when a student is becoming bored or confused, then it could modify the lesson for the students. And it also has good animated faces and more expressive for the video game.
Which could help students in there career if they chose that profession.
It can even indicate a real or fake smile. And if you practice smiling and frowning it helps you create diffrent emotions like empathy feeling someone elses emotional state. But who woulve known a computer can do all of those things. | 1 |
Dear State Senator,
The Electoral College is a process not a place. When the founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and also a popular vote of approved citizens. That should stay remain the same they should not be any change to the Electoral College system.
The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electorals. When the electors have a meeting thats when they are able to for the President, Vice President that is running for office. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors, majority of 270 electoral vote, is to elect the President. Each state is entitled allotment in its Congressional delegation which means one for each member in the House of Representives plus two for your Senators.
Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated three electors and are treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College. Each candidate that is running in the election has their own group of electors, generally chosen by the candidate's political party. The presidential election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The voters help choose their state's electorals when they voted for the President, when they vote for the candidate they are actually votin for the candidate's electors. Voters are more likely to pay attention to the efforts the candidate put to win the election like the campagin.
The Electoral College system has a method called "winner- take-all that awards all the electors to the winning presidental candidate. After the presidental election the state governor will prepare a "Certificate of Ascertainment" that which list all the of the candidates that ran for office, along with the names for their respective electors. The Certificate of Ascertainment also declares the winner of the presidental candidate of your state. The Certificate of Ascertainment is sent to the Congress and the National Archives as part of the offical records of presidential election. | 0 |
At NASA we found something interesting on Mars, it looked like a face that the Viking 1 spacecraft was taking photos of. Many people believe the Face was an alien artifact, but it was not.
The Face is a natural lanform and was not created by aliens. The captin of NASA at the time said it was a "huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." The Face wasnt a face it was just the shadowing and placement of where the photo was taken from. "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared o a JPL web site, revealing...a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." This was after more clearer pctures were taken and it looked just like a landform, nothing else.
It wasn't an alien artifact, it was just a landform taken from an angle which it looked like a face and the Viking 1 didn't take that clear of pictures from the ones I have seen and the photos were taken all the way back in 1976. | 1 |
Cars that drive them selves shouldn't be developed. These cars shouldn't be developed because the cars they have now aren't completely driverless. All the "driverless" cars now can't navigate through any work zones or car accidents. Only thing these cars can do is steer, accelerate, and brake by themselves. What good are they if they can't manuever through things by themselves?
If someone was texting and driving in their driverless car and they let their car take over and their driverless car failed to drive by itself and a accident occured who would be to blame? Would the driver or the creators of the car be at blame for the accident? Safety would be best achieved by alert drivers. There is going to have to be new laws will be needed to cover liability of an accident. They say "We have to interpret driving fun in a new way." What fun is driving if you can't do it manually? Driving is a previlage why let you're car take the previlage of you driving?
Fully driverless cars shouldn't be developed. The automatic steering, acceleration, and braking by themselves are okay for a car. But completely driverless? No us drivers can stick to driving cars manually. Not wanting to drive is pure laziness anyways. People should enjoy being able to drive. There's no reason to not enjoy driving. | 1 |
Dear State Senator,
The Electoral College is a process where voters select electors who then vote for the President of the United State. But is it really that reliable? Is it better than an election decided by that of popular vote.
The election process should be changed to one decided by popular vote instead of using the process of the Electoral College. First of all source two states that voters can sometimes get confused on the candidate that they actually voted for since they're not direclty voting for the President. Another flaw of the Electoral College also stated in source two is that "... "faithless" electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please...." That is pure lying. That basically just made that voter vote for the candidate that they did not want. Another critical error is that in the process of the Electoral College is that not all states are equally represented. For example if there is a tie in the Electoral vote the election would be handed to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the presedent. This wouldnt be fair because since each state casts only one vote, then the single representativ from Wyoming would only represent 500,000 voters. However the single representative from California would represent 35 million voters. That hardly seems fair.
With Popular vote every American would get their say in a democratic way. As source three states "... the Electoral College is not democratic in a modern sense. With popular vote everyone would be represented equally.
I understand that "the winning candidate's share of the Electoral College invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote" causes less chance of a dispute over the Electoral college than of the popular vote, but not everyone really gets a say. Also i understand that the Electoral College avoids run off elections but that is still very rare.
State Senator it's time to abolish the Electoral college, and switch to the use of popular vote for elections. | 3 |
Since the car was first created there has been many innovations to different types of cars. However, studies have shown that in the last few years the percentage of people getting a license has dropped. There are many advantages in limiting car usage not only in the city but also in the suburbs.
The first of these advantages has to due with our never ending problem with our environment. For example, as stated in source number 2 the city of Paris had been very polluted. To solve this problem the ruling party in France enforced a driving ban. After five days of this driving ban being in effect the smog in Paris had gone down by 60%. Becasue of this ban the city of Paris is a cleaner place to live now and another result of this ban is that people truly can see how much pollution these cars create.
Another advantage of limiting car use is that once these cars are gone people are much more sociable. In source 1, the government of Germany has created a suburban community where there is no cars. Car ownership is allowed however there are only two places to park and it is very expensive. Because of this 70% of families in this community do not own cars. To get around in this community you are able to walk, ride a bike, skate, etc. As a result, you do not hear cars on the streets but you do hear bike swishing and kids playing with eachother. Many studies have also shown that a day without a car is a very effective stress reliever, as stated in Source 3.
Now a world without cars is very hard to imagine because of all the different places that everybody has to get there however, there are many alternatives to using cars on a daily basis. These alternatives include public transportation, bikes, skates, walking, and also car pooling. If there is a reduction of car usage the environment will recieve a very large benefit.
As the articles provided has shown, there are many advantages to the limiting of car usage and it will not only benefit us as humans but also our environment. | 3 |
Driverlees cars are coming and there are my whole thing on the driverless cars is that is there safe for the road safe on highways do they need gas in there how long can it ride does it need to be charger up well the psotive thing is that the diver less cars have gone miles without anything
happen to them but the only problem with them is that they still need help when pulling out of drivewyas or dealing with complicated traffic issuess, they have problems navigating through roadwork or acciends so what does that mean does it still need are help with thoes things well for the car to be smart you must need a lot of sensors in the car when google had use the toyota prius they had estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, rotating sensors on top of the car and a video camera near the rearview mirror plus all thoes thing you have four more sensors in the car evan a gps but the one thing on the car thats good is the sensors on top of the car why it has a laser beams that constanlty updating usesing 3-d model and check the surroundings of the cars and with that help the car can mimic the skill of the person that inside the car of ther driver with thoes sensors in the car diverless cars can but the brakes on its self or it can just turned the whole car up thats a good thing cause most people won't get into lot of crash.
in 2013 the bmw had made a thing called "traffic jam assisant" what the car can handle up to 25 mph, but with that we still goiing to have to hold the wheel of the car thats not a driverless car but what it can do is steer,accelerate, and break with other things the car might need are help such as going throught work zones are around other cars accidents so that means for us that we must always be ready for anything that could happen.
with that gm has made a thing for us inside the car that has sensors in them that tells you somthing going to happen you seat will vibrate when the car is in danger backing up into an object with the google car it tells you when you have to take over the wheel but there laso thinking about putting cameras inside the cars for you can be watching the road and while the car watches the driver. | 1 |
Many may argue that 'driverless' cars will be a great fundamental change in the world. Driverless cars are only helpful if you really know how to use them properly. They are very dangerous when it comes to being on the road around a bunch of other people. Driving is already dangerous enough for young people with our phones so why make it worse on us? I believe that driverless cars will only make our world worse in every situation.
If you dont know how to use these 'driverless' cars there is really no point in owning one. Since 2009 people have been hoping to eventually have a car that drives itself but i dont think they actually looked at the logic behind it. This driverless car means there is really no learning taking place. Why even have a license if you wont ever need it because your car drives itself? It is practically a waste of time.
Another reason I would not approve of this evolving is because, just imagine all of the things that could happen if you are in a driverless car around a bunch of people on the highway. You could easily be going a certain speed limit and then have to speed up to a different speed and if you cant do that fast enough there is most likely going to be a crash. Does anybody see that driving and maintaining a certain type of composure in a car is hard enough?
Keeping your composure in a driverless car would practically be impossible. You can be way too relaxed in a driverless car and completely forget to pay attention to your surroundings, which is also extremely dangerous.
The last reason these cars should not be abbolished is because we all know how teenagers cant wait to get on the road. We also know how much us teens love our Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, ect. This driverless car only promotes us to do these things while we're driving because of the simple fact that we dont have anything better to do. With this we can pay all of the attention we want to our cellular devices and hope that nothing tragic will happen. Hoping isnt good enough. If we keep everything the same we will be sure that teenagers pay close attention to the road instead of the distractions in the car.
That being said there are many flaws to this car. If you dont know what you are doing, do not put yourself in that situation. Not paying attention to your surroundings is very dangerous and leads to you crashing. Lastly distractions are a big problem in the United States and this car will only make them worse. Therefore I say no to the driveless cars. When it comes down to life or death i chose life. Safety always comes first. | 2 |
Goodmorning fellow citizens , i hope you all are having a wonderful day! Could that possibly be because you all walked or rode your bike to this meeting today? The reason behind that is because there are many advantages to limiting car usage. You are less tense and happier , , smog- free air , and you can have fun with it! Bringing together your community. Now , who's up for a challenge.
Car-Free Cities as in Source 1:"In German Suburb, Life Goes on Without Cars" , by Elisabeth Rosenthal , made really good points. First i would say , not having your car makes you stress free. 70% of Vauban's families do not own cars , and 50% sold a car to move here. "When i had a car i was always tense. 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. People are giving up their cars because they claim it's more to life. In the United States , the Enviromental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities , and legislators are starting to act.
Source 2: "Paris bans driving due to smog" , by Robert Duffer , talks about "healthier" air. So , another advantage would be to have smog-free air. Congestion was down 60% in the capital of France after five days of intensifying smog. Cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions , diesel fuel was to blame. Delivery companies complained of lost revenue and Public transit was free of charge from Friday - Monday , according to BBC. The smog cleared enough Monday for the ruling French party to rescind the ban for odd numbered plates on Tuesday. This way the air we breath doesn't harm us.
Source 3: "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" , by Andrew Selsky is exciting. Lastly i would like to state , you can have fun with not having a car bringing together your community. In a program millions of Columbians hiked , biked , skated , or took buses to work during a car-free day. "It's 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. Parks and sports centers also have bloomed and new improvements have been made everywhere. Source 4: "The End of Car Culture" , by Elisabeth Rosenthal explains the greenhouse effect also , and the change it's had on the economy.
In my closing remarks i would like to say overall the advantages of limiting car usage is amazing! We can have fun with it and improve global warming and our economy. Who wants to help me tell the mayor this situation? I'm about to give in my car right now! You are less tense , smog-free air , and your community can join in. Now i ask again...... Who's up for the challenge?! | 3 |
The reason why I think you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program is because i think it would be fun to do all the things that they do and to help out the people. And to take care of the animals like it said in paragraph 6 It took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China. Caring for the animals during the crossings kept Luke busy. They had to be fed and watered two or three times a day. Bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship. Stalls had to be cleaned. But like it said in paragraph 9 But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger. It opened up the world to him. Im grateful for the opportunity, he says. It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs. And that awareness stayed with him, leading his family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years. | 1 |
In the article the author states,"Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors" meaning getting humans to another planet, in particular Venus, will be extraordinary research and could lead humankind to staying for many more centuries. If we find that we can live on Venus with this research, then why shouldn't we. There were a lot of failed missions to the moon and now look what we know about it. We learned so much because people decided to risk their lives in order for us to learn more about the universe. We can do so much good with the world and if we have the choice of trying to go to Venus, shouldn't we try? The only way we know we're going to fail is if we don't try and not trying would be a diservice to people. Besides, what if we get to make friends with aliens? | 1 |
Venus,
sometimes called the " evening star is one of the brighest point of light in the night sky making for even an amateur stargazer to spot . in our solar system , venus is the second planet from our sun.
A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets evenus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in venus' s atmosphere. On the palnet's surface ,tempreature average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atospheric pressyre is 90 time greater thean whar we experience on our own plaent.
According to the (NASA) has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study venus. NASA's possible solution to the hostile coditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. imagine a blim- like vehicle hovering 30 or so mile above the roiling venusain landscape . just as our jet airpalnes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many stroms vehicel honering venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way so they prove the venus is like our earth .
In the Inconclusion
striving to meet the challenge presented by venus has value,
not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Our travels on Earth and be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation on the Earth. | 0 |
Dear Mr. State Senator,
I have been a citizen of the United States for my entire life, and through my studies, research, and personal experiences with the Electoral College system, I have come to the conclusion that the Electoral college system is not only an out of date way of casting a vote, but also an ineffective way of electing a president. I believe that the popular vote both directly reflects and accuretly shows which politician citizens have chosen will best lead our country. The Electoral College is merely a way for politicians to attempt to swing the vote in their favor by paying more attention to states that contain more electors. Politicians should be concerned about gaining the votes of individuals, regardless of how many Electoral College members their states contain.
There is very little need for the electoral college even to exist at all. There is absolutely no point in having two ways for collecting the votes of citizens when all that the system requires is for one of the candidates to gather more votes than the other. Having the Electoral College does not help the voting process and therefore will only harm or make the process of electing a president ineffective. In many cases, the votes of the Electoral College go against what the popular votes want and tend to cause an unwanted politician to go into office. I am not the only citizen concerned about this system, there are people all across the United States who dislike the Electoral College and who see that it constantly gets in the way of electing a decent president into office.
There have been politicians, Chamber of Commerce members, and everyday citizens who have stood up aginst this awefull Electoral College and who have realized just how terrible and ineffective it is. Putting this system out of commission will be no easy task, but if enough citizens like myself write to their local, state, and federal congress members, change just might be possible. Though a group effort would be required to destroy this system, it would be extremely difficult to convince politicians and presidents that have been in office for years to destroy this College that allowed for them to go into office. It would also be exceptionally difficult to get all three branches of the United States government to destroy the Electoral College, afterall.. it would only take the president's veto to stop it from being removed.
There are counter claims to mine that I'm sure you will recieve within your time in office, counter claims that you should'nt ignore. I think that you should look over all of the evidence, all of the facts, and all of the sources that you can inorder to form your opinion as to whether or not the Electoral College should stay, or it should be terminated. Some of the claims that you will recieve will not have much basis and will most likely state that the system has been in existence ever since the founding of the United States. These claims are not based on evidence of the system being correct or being fair, these calims are based on a fear of change. Change tends to scare people, especially when their power of voting may be altered due to a major change to the U.S. government. But over the past several decades alone, our country has undergone many wonderful changes and experiences that have positively affected its citizens and its laws.
Two of these changes include the desegregating of schools and the right for women to vote. These changes are extremely positive, just like the destroying of the Electoral College would be. It would have a positive impact on all of the country's citizens and would allow for the United States to show that it too can change and adapt for the better.
I am not writing this letter to you because i think that you can single handidly change the voting system of the United States, I am writing this letter to you because I have faith that you can help change the opinion of your fellow politicians and State leaders. I hope that you use the facts and research that I have presented to you today and continue to gather more evidence on the Electoral College system and why it is holding back our country from properly electing its presidents.
Thank you very much for both your time and your consideration, I wish you luck on changing the system and informing others about the problem.
Sincerely, PROPER_NAME © | 4 |
The limiting of car use can help with many things in our environment and society today. One reason it could help is all of the gasses gathering up in the atmosphere and damaging crop and other vegettation. Another reason is giving teens less stress to overcome with all the school work and testing they have to do. The last reason is less death in the United States and less money spent on car crashes every year possibly pulling us out of debt. Limiting car usage could possibly save America from drowing in debt.
Gasses gathering in the atomosphere are killing plants and possibly animals on our planet. The toxic fumes our cars release are killing vegetation and harming crops we need to eat and survive. Most animals need the plants to eat and care for young, but we're killing those plants leaving the animals to starve killing them off one by one. The Earth is made with specific gasses in the atmosphere to help protect us from the harmful rays of the Sun. Without those gasses we would be nothing but a lifeless desert.
Limiting car usage can help save teens from the stresses of everyday life without the worry of learning how to drive. Teens today are so excitied to drive but none of them want to take the time to learn the rules of driving before getting behind the wheel. This causes us stress. Us teens have too much school work and tests to worry about learning how not to take drugs and drink alcohol behind the wheel. Driving also causes us stress on the road as well. If we limited car usage we wouldnt have to worry about car crashes or accidents if there were no cars. Sure we wouldnt have any fast transportation but thats what bikes, trains, and planes are for.
America is in debt. Thats a fact. Most of Americas debt comes from car related accidents every year. Billions of dollars are spent each year replacing, repairing, and financially supporting those involved in crashes. Without cars, people wouldnt have to worry about if America is going to fall due to the government taxing. America can survive without cars. America can be safe and non-costly without cars. Limiting the usgae of cars can help America live safer happier lives.
Limiting cars in America would help in many ways as i proved to you in my following paragraphs. Gasses can be preserved where they belong. Stress can be relieved in teens and adults. Debt can be relieved and save us. Limiting car usage can help in those ways. It can also help in other ways as well. But, you and the government have to make those decisions for each other. Limit car usage in America. | 1 |
I think that the new technology to read students faces in the class room could be of some use, but I also think that it would not be of use in the classroom. The reason I think it would be useful is it could help a teacher understand some of the kids facial expressions.
A teacher can read the childs face to see if they can help then when they are sad and dont tell anyone, but I also think that it would be an invasion of the childs space, because sometimes when kids or even adults get mad or sad and they dont say anything to anyone it's because they dont want people to know. It could help in somecases like when a child is being bulllied at school and they dont tell someone then the teacher could use the device to see that the child is either sad or mad or even both.
I support and do not support this at ther same time. i support it because I feel it could be helpful but I do not suppot this because I feel if a child needs help with how they are feeling they will go to an adult they trust, weather it be a teacher at school or a parent or even a friend at achool. | 1 |
Computers, we all like using computers it's one of the things more used around the world. Computers are use at work, school, home, hospitals and ect. Since computers are use so much around the world it's only right that people keep making new advance computers that can change the future. How advance can computers get.? Well by reding this article it shows the new level of computer that people have made.
New software from Prof. Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science at the University of Ilinois, working in collaboration with Prof. Nicu Sebe of the University of Amsterdam that can reed how you feel even do if you fake it. According with the article it says this new 3-D computer model of the face, all 44 major muscle in the model most move like a human muscle, so it can detect the feeling. They classified six basic emotions: happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear and sadness, and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles. This it's crazy it says if you not smiling right, like happy there a video imagery that recognition software tracks these facial movements in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa. Some times we have trouble describing the look in our friend face if they happy sad or ect., but Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions.
I personal think this is a bad ideal, becuase people feeling its very personal. Example
if someone in your family die and you feel so sad put you don't want people to know about it and here comes a computer and detects your feeling and people going to start asking, "oh hey, why are you so sad" and that will make people more mad. I mean i could work sometimes like if you see a girl and the computer detects that she sad and need someone, you could go and try to make her happy and see if that changes something. I think a lot of people won't like it either because they think it's violationg their feelings. I think this computer will work if only used the right way, i mean for something good or to help people be happy. | 3 |
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