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The advantages of limiting car usage are,street parking and driveways are now. car ownership only alloowed two places to park and that large garages at the egde of the development where the car owner can buy space. Without that you wont be able to park anywhere you would be better off walking or riding a bicycle.
There been efforts to make cities better for walking home and to other places. some countries developed increase of numbers of private cars owned and are being used with private parking spaces. It is a huge effect of reducing greenhouse gas if theres not lots of driving 50 percent of some car intensive area are effected. they are starting car reduced communities and legislator just for cautious to limit greenhouse gas from going out.
Many experts expect public transportation serving to play a big role in the new limiting car usuage. They made the motorist leave there cars at home or suffer a big fine. They did care even if you have a license plate or a odd number plate. They also limited car usuage because france uses diesel fuel and that was a big impact in western europe.
A car free day was made buses or taxes were the only cars permitted. They used those to ride to work or any other alternative to reduce smog. That was the best opportunity to clear air pollution. Many people from other countries came to see and celebrate the event that was happening. So many bicycle paths were made just because there were no more car usuage that was the most in any amercican city.
Sidewalks were replaced by even better smoother sidewalks even a rush hour started to happen now that the car usuage was limited. That dramatically cut traffic for taxes and any other vehicle that was still in usage. Some people feel more connected over the internet now instead of using there car to go see them all these changes made it hard to continue the habit of not driving.
Since the cars were out of usage a bike shaing program started and really increased the population that has been dropped because of all the cars not in use. If you were around the age sixteen and thirty nine you could get your lisence and start to drive again. | 2 |
Imagine a world with driveless cars. While that world is coming to picture, be sure to also imagine all the things that could possibly go wrong. Imagine an increase in car accidenets because a malfunction occured in one of the cars. All the money and time that is being invested in this one specific project. Teenagers no longer getting excited about being able to get their license. Seems like a not so great world to live in.
Manufactors may promise people that their smart cars are safe and reliable, nothing will go wrong. But what they dont tell people is that they messed up on a couple thounsand cars, no biggie. The smart cars are no longer alerting the driver for when they need to take over. The spinning sensor just breaks down, with no warning whatsoever. That is one of the most important parts of the whole system. Everything could go wrong. Promises are broken by family; companies can easily break promises too.
So much money and time could be put into better and more useful things. This all started back in the 1950s with General Motors. Google has had working driveless cars since 2009. All of that time and money should have been invested into something that tis world needs. The United States of America has been in debt for a long time, but instead of paying off some debt we build driveless cars.
Teenagers are excited about finally being old enough to get thier permit, their first car. That is what the majority of us look foward too. We finally feel like an adult and have some freedom. With driveless cars, how would this all work out? In the pasage it says, "... no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore.." That is no fun. What will we have to look foward to now? No one will need cars.
I am against driveless cars. They may be what we dream of but that doesnt mean they are best for us. Malfuctions could occur which causes a rise in accidents. Possibly even death. Money and time is wasted on this project and it is not what the world needs. The world does not need driveless cars. Teenagers need to experience freedom early, by getting their license and having their own car. If we will no linger have any point for cars in the future, how will teenagers expeince the early life of adulthood? | 3 |
The electoral college should be eliminated. It should be changed to popular vote for the presidential election. With the electoral college, people don't get to have the freedom to vote for who they want to be elected. Instead they vote for a slate of electors who in turn, elect the president for you. There are a few problems with this. One, the electors could end up not doing their job. They might refuse to vote for their party's candidate and end up voting for whomever they please. That could turn into a riot or just leave a lot of people very unhappy. The electors could also mess up their vote and end up voting for the wrong candidate. Say they are loyal to the president they are suppose to vote for, but then end up choking and voting for the opposing president. Further more, what if a state sends two slates of electors to Congress? It happened in Hawaii in 1960. ("What's wrong with the electoral college") Another thing is a tie could happen. A tie in the electoral vote means that the election then gets handed to the House of Reprsentatives, where they will then vote on the president of their choice. Either way the people do not get a say on who they want for president. It is all in the hands of people that can turn their backs on who they promise they will vote for, and end up voting for the opposing president. If the people got to choose who they wanted to be president, then we wouldn't run into any of these problems. There would never be any ties or broken promises. The electoral college is "unfair, outdated, and irrational." The electoral college should be abolished. | 2 |
Ever wonder what is a " Electoral College? Like what is that suppose to mean?, A internet campus, Tech class, or etc. Well its not actually A Electoral college is made for up coming presidents. That differrnt selections of people go and meet the president and vice presdent. The congress. The College consits up to 238 votes and only 270 on select for the presidecny.
The president electron is held evey four yeas an the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. When you are about to select a presdint you vote for your candidan
Two guys named Rich, Jummy carter, Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO and they are not alone according to Gallup poll in 2000, after Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. Under the electoral college system voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors. The single best argument agianst the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. The election would be thrown to the house or Representatives, where state delegations vote to the presdient. Because each state casts only one vote to give th voters vote to the president and another for the congress,
The House's selection can hardly be expected to reflect the wall of the people, And if an electoral tie seems unlikely. A the base level the electoral colloege is unfair to voters. Because of the winner takes it all system in each state , candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chances at win at these king of states for the president. They focuse only on the the tight races in the "swing" states. There many things in the Electoral College that many people on they outside don't know what the Congress or the up running presidents are struggling it looks easy on the inside bu on the ouside wow they have a lot to work on. | 0 |
There are a few advantage of limiting car usage taled about in the passage. Some say that not having a car is mcuh better. Heidrun Walter says, "when had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way"
This movement also helps to reduce greenhouse gas from tailpipes. Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas in Europe, and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States. Many experts expect public transport serving suburbs to play a much larger role in a new six-year federal transportation bill to be approved this year says Mr. Goldberg.
80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transport. Also you can save lots of money not having a car.
It cost $40,000 to buy space for the car.
Some Vauban's families sold their car just to move there. Stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in mails along some distant highway. | 1 |
Wow you really think an alien made a face that good! An alien couldn't have made that face. How would an alien know what a human face looks like if an alien never been to a planet with humans?
The Face on Mars is a natural landform. The face looks like it was just naturally there if an alien created that face it might look messy and sloppy. An alien would not be able to just draw a human's face as good as an actual human could. What tools would an alien use to make the face look like the face seen on Mars? Human's themselves visited Mars and saw the face.
According to paragraph 1 sentence 2, it clearly states that
human's were on an airship and circled all the way around Mars taking pictures and spotted the face. NASA said it was "the shadowy likeness of a human face". They say "the head is about two miles from end to end". The Face on Mars became pretty popular.The Face on Mars was every where all over the world movies, books, radios, stores,and magazines.
Some other scientists also thought that an alien could have made the Face on Mars. There was only one way to figure out if the Face on Mars was a natural landform or an alien created it. Jim decided he would go to Mars and take a better picture of the face. To see wether the face was made by an alien. He proved that "there was no alien monument after all".
After all an alien did not make the Face on Mars. The Face on Mars is just a natual landform. The pictures have proven it and so has scientists. | 1 |
In my opinion, yes that would be very helpful and valuable to have that type of technology in our classrooms. heres why.
A lot of students hide all of their emotions and hold them inside and that sometimes can make us do crazy irrational things, like shooting up a school full of kids. If we had this technology we could figure out how a student feels and try our best and do whatever we can to help them before it gets to that point. If we had that technology we would be able to get a student into counciling or to a therapist or just to a close friend to talk to because who knows that could save that students life. If we knew what was bothering students or knew that there was something bothering a student we could maybe avoid all of those student v. s. teacher fights that happen because that student isnt in the right mindset and that teacher had no idea.
Another reason why that type of technology would be useful is learning. Say a student was doing some school work on a computer and they start falling asleep because the content is so boring. If we had that type of technology the computer could change the way the content is being presented into a wat that is more interesting and exciting to the student. Every student learns differently and if we had that technology then we all could excel in school.
Not only could we learn better and help the teachers understnad us better we could understand the people around us better. We could learn how to recognize those faces and understand how the person we are talking to is really feeling. Not only that we could make a whole new lie detector test for authorities. If they had those they could truely find out if someone is guilty because as the passage said faces dont lie. Maybe if we had that type of technology helping the law the crime rate would go down emencely because if criminals knew that no matter what they did they would always fail this test if they lied they wouldnt commit those crimes and risk getting caught.
In conclusion, having this technology could help the world beyond our imagination. If we had this, maybe, just maybe our dreams for a better place might start to become true. | 3 |
The face as you call it is just a natural land formation. We took pictures that prove us correct but you still think it was created by aliens. All we saw was that it was a mesa and that its shaddows look like a face. So why dont you belive us if you lok colsely at the 1998 picture you can clearly see no alien markings but yet you still belive why. Every body else belives us why cant you all you we see is a big rock so why do you think aliens put it there.
In the article it clearly states that the so called face was not made by aliens but just natural formations. There is no life what so ever on mars. It was not made by aliens but instead by mother nature. It was found in cydonia where a lot of other mesas located there and if that is not proof enough we sent three misions and they all reported it was a mesa nothing more nothing less. Unfortunatly some scientists belived it was an alien artifact so we took more pictures and the showed the exact same thing.
But we sent another mission to take pictures with more pixels and they showed no proof of alien life. But you still dont belive us and I dont understand why you dont belive us. even though we gave you all this proof you dont seem to care. What will it take to convince you that its not a face. If I were you i would have belived NASA as soon as they showed the picture.
But I am not you so
I will try to convince you. But if you reject the idea I will not care.
I will simply leave . So I will. continue when they told the public they even said it was a natural thing but still . the face is not really made by aliens but it is naturaly awsome. so i will leave telling you that you are wrong and that NASA is right. but the face is still cool and if it broke off and fell to earth it would be alien so food for thought.
I think you might be right about one thing the face is so cool. and i think that you are mostly wrong bye | 2 |
Have you ever heard about the face on Mars? Well I have, let me tell you that it freaks me out. Do you think that the face is actually a face?
A few days after NASA sent Viking 1 to Mars to take pictures, they got back photos of a face. Not just any face, it was a human face. Not only is this crazy, it's impossible. It's impossible because we spent a lot of time and money reaserching if humans can go live on Mars. And it has been scientifcally proven by us that no human can live on Mars, so for that reason I don't know how that human face got there in the first place.
I know that some people think that maybe aliens are the ones who made the face, and you may be right. In some cases though, while we we'er reaserching, we would have noticed already. What we think it is is a natural landform. I know that it sounds crazy, but it is a possibility. It would make more sense if it was a natural landform.
If you can't decide if it's a face, aliens, or just a natural landform, then let me take some details from the article to support my idea. One detail is that when scientists found out about the figure, they knew that it was just another Martian mesa. They are common enough around Cydonia. When the pictures were released, it revealed a natural landform. It turns out that there was no alien monument after all.
Dou you believe me know? All of theses details add up to only one solution, which is that it was only a natural landform. I couldn't make this decision without proof, and now that I got it, I can prove to the world that there is nothing but a landform. | 2 |
I think its valuable and there are a lot of reasons why I think that. One reason why I think that is because it can tell you how other students feel. Like one example the Facial Action Coding System can tell the type of mood.
Another reason why I think the Facial Action Coding System is valuable for use students they can problaby read a lot of the facial expressions, in the text it said" And how can a computer recognize the the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we feel!"
Another reason why I think its valuable is because it also said about the FACS , that some guy named Eckman, creator of FACS in the passage said that "Eckman has classified six basic emotions: happiness, surprise, anger, digust, fear, and sadness- and then assiciated each with characteristic movements of the ficial muscles." Thats another reason why I think that.
Well these are why I think the FACS is valuable in a classroom. To me the they could also read any person expressions, emotions or feelings. | 1 |
Imagine a computer being able to read your facial exprssions to be able to tell if you were board or confused at school. Then that computer being able to take that data and improve your learning experiance at school. Well based off of Dr.Huang's research collaboratrion with Prof. Nicu Sebe from the University of Amsterdam, that might happen soon. They were able to find out the Mona Lisa's facial expression using a brand new computer software from Prof. Thomas Huang.
It is said in paragraph 1 "Dr.Huang and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate." Which is great news.
This Is great news for schools because; it will make learner better for students who are having trouble in class. According to Dr. Huang in paragraph 6 he pridicts; "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or boared, Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This could also help with non verbal communication, and emotional communication. Shy students wouldnt have to be quiet and have unanswerd questions if we brought this technology into schools.
In conclussion, this technology would be a major break throug in class rooms and the world itself. Teachers would have closer bonds with students who are having trouble learning and that would improve test scores and the learning department itself. "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal." is what Dr.Huang said in paragraph 4, which he is right, it could be used in video games, the medical field, schools, and our everyday lives. | 2 |
In this article or passage the author idea was to explore venues more find out what are it values. because if earth would suffer a damage of nature venues would be the only safe place for humans but first of all water got to be in venues in other for human to stay a live why because us the human ca not live without whater why because we need it to drink it also we need it for our crops to grow an give us fruits and vestables for our food. scientist think that onces there was water in venues if fresh air could be infume by humans there's could be a chage that human would survive out of space in a different planet. scientist are peeking over venues to get rock samples also air sample to see the enviroment values on fact about venues is that is one of the closets plate to the sun which means that the climate there is going to be high cause the planet being clos to the sun and that why we need water in venues cause of it's high temperatures humans would be thirsty for water. | 0 |
Cars that can drive themselves have been a fantasy for many years. They have been seen in movies and shows for quite a while, and many have hopes that someday, it will become a reality. With recent research and new developments, car manufacturers are beginning to actually make driverless cars possible. Altough there are many risks that could take place in the us of driverless cars, I believe that driverless cars should be made and used for everyone in the future.
A driverless car would have dozens of benefits for drivers on the road. Because there would be sensors all around the car that monitor the car's surroundings at all times, there would be almost no crashes. As of now, there are already cars that can drive by themselves, however, if there is a obstacle on the road, it will alert the driver and allow him to take over. When car manufacturers can develop a way for these cars to detect obstacles and manuver around them, the road will a much safer place, and car crashes would almost become nonexistent. When everyone has a driverless car, there would not even be chance to have a crash, unless nature gets involved, since each car is on a course that is monitoring the road at all times. Not only would there be fewer car crashes due to collisions, but there would also be no more speeding or reckless driving from unresponsible or inexperienced drivers.
Two of the main causes of car crashes today is the act of texting while driving and drinking while driving. If the car drives itself, then there would be no more distracted drivers that don't have their eyes on the road. A driverless car would allow the person in the drivers seat to focus on other things. When they develop cars that won't need a driver under circumstances, the person in the car may become bored, due to the lack of the thrill while driving. To solve this issue, these driverless cars would have in-car entertainment that would allow the owner of the car to not become bored. Another big benifit of driverless cars would be that they would use half the amount of gas and therefor not only saving the earth's limited amount of gas, but also saving people tons of money.
As stated, I strongly believe that they use of driverless cars should become a reality in the future and that everyone should use them. This would further increase everyones safety on the road and lead to fewer injuries and crimes. Not only would driverless cars benefit others by helping them achieve their destination safely, but also by saving the earth's amount of gas and saving people's money. | 3 |
What I think is that when the planet was moving the planet ended up making the face but it is just part of Mars.I dont think that aliens had something to do with it.If people think that aliens had something to do with it then why have we not went to go find out more about the object.The object is just part of the planet that was made when the plant was moving and it is just a butte or mesa made by the plant not aleins.Aleins had nothing to do with this object it was just something that was made by Mars and Mars only.
If we are going to say that the object was made by aliens then we need more evdince not just that one object because one object doesnt mean anyhting with out more things but the planet is able to form something just buy when it is moving and that we have evedince on that but we dont have evedince that an alein made that object and we wont know until we can find more objects just like this one,until then we just know that Mars made this object that NASA found. | 0 |
Driverless cars, what a great idea. Untill some small, young, inocent child is mowed down in the streets by a dfriverless car. Cars should not have a mind of their own. A human with commen sence and instinct should be behind the wheel at all time to make sure nothing wrong happens. Let me tell you why in the following paragraphs.
The technology used in todays' driverless cars is not strong enough to deliver a safe and secure driving enviorment to other drivers or pedestrians walking. The technology and sensors are only acuret at low speeds, and are not capable of preforming all the task nessisary to drive with human drivers lives at risk.This provides a safty risk for all who are on the roadway or near them.
Another large problem with the self-driven automobile is who is to blame. Do we blame the company for the error made in the design. Or do we blame the owner of the car because it is their proporty and responsobility. This could lead to major conflict in the court systems. Which could cost the owners of cars and companies money, lots of money. More than the problem is worth.
Will I be owning a self driven car any time in the near future? No way, I will stick to the man behind the wheel as long as I can. As cool as it sounds to have a self-driven car, the room for error in these mechines are very large. The risk out-way the rewards in personal eyes. There is no way I will be trading in my truck for a self-driven car. | 2 |
Cars are starting to beome more and more expensive everday. Why pay when a person could either usea train,bike,or just walking. Stated in soure 1 "As a result, 70 percent of vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here..." Many people are glad that they had sold thier car because it just cost to much money for others. Therefore many people need to limit their car usage.
To begin with, Cars could have many flaws that may infect the environment or humans. Stated in source 2 "After dats of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." So because cars take in gas it may effect the environment because inside of the car is more chemicals a that comes out of the exhust system. Stated in Soure 1 "Many experts expect public transport serving suburbs to play a much larger role in a new six-year federal transportation bill to be apporved this year, Mr. Goldberg said." this may be true because gas prices may go down and the environment will stay clean. However, waiting for public may mean waiting for a couple of hours. But when having a car a person can get to their event or job on time. Stated in Source 3 "The day without cars is part of an improvent campaign that began in Bogota in the mid-1990s." Maybe if the United States started to start a campaign then maybe their wouldn't be so much smog in the air thats pulluting the environment.
Also, in America many people would never give up their cars just for the looks. Stated in Source 4 "But America's love affair withits vehicles seems to be cooling." So i guess that would be a great start for the environment for America. But how long will America last with out a vehicles? From my point of view, not for long that's my opinion. Although, stated in Source 4" Whether members of the millennial generation will start buying more cars once they have kids to take to soccer practice and school plays remains an open question." In my opinion i wouldn't take a bunch of kids on the train just to get to school or to a soccer game and then once that is all over with then have to get back on the train just to take tem back home. Anything can happen. That's why having cars have pro's and Con's. But others may think of the train ride as bonding time or just getting to know the full team better.
Stated in Source 3 "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city;uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic." So having cars helps everyone a lot less accidents would happen and park and sports centers are making good profit. So now everyone could be happy and go on with their life. Stated in Source 4 " With all these changes , people who stopped car cummuting as a result of the recession may find less reson to resume the habit..." I would totally agree with these , because when u stop driving it means more money and better health.
Finally, cars should be limited for many reasons. Limiting car usage would many better health and less gas, and also less accidents on the road. Stated in Source 4 New York's new bike-sharing program and its syrockiting bridge and tunnel tolls reflect those new pririties." Therefore many jobs aren't complainig about the less car usage and some people aren't complaining about it. Many people should stop using cars to help the environment out and to get into shape. | 3 |
''The Challenge of Exploring Venus'' is a informative text, Venus called the ''Evening Star''is one of the brightest point of light in the night sky,In the solar systen Venus is the secont from our sun; Earth's twin Venus is teh close planet to Earth, and occasionally the closest in distance too Earth, Venus, and Mars.
First, Venus is a hot planet, Venus has somre persent of carbon dioxide,Venus is so closer to the sumfor that reason Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in iur solar system. The temoperature is the over 800 degrees fahrenheit, and the atmosphere presure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet, people can't survive.
Secondly, The scientifict However, peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can povide only limited insight on ground conditions because about However the light cannot penetrate th eatmosphere and it's from photography an dvideography ineffective.
Lastly, The NASA is working about proyects electronics made silicon and this proyects they can send this things to visit Venus and this things starts doo do about 1800's and played a important role in the 1940's during World War ll, they can move this things fon computer.
in conclution, ''The Challenge of Exploring Venus'' is a lot investigation fron interestings scientificts, showing to the people interestings things in the space,, the scientuifics lookk Venus interesting. | 0 |
Yes,the use of this techology is valuable beacuse maybe what you'er are upset and there is no one there to make you feel better. "That at least according to some new computer software that can recognize emotions. The person who is making the software is Thomas Huang,of the Beckman institute for advanced science at the university of illinois"(paragraph 1) .Huang is doing this by trying to recongnize other people facial expression. This computer software is a 3-D printer which can make a mode of the face."The process begin when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 4 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles"(paragraph3).A 3-D printer is way better then a normal printer. At least for a 3-D printer it gives you all the close up details of how they are feeing.
The movement of the one is called action unit according to
Dr. huang who relies on the work of psychologist,such as Dr. Pual Eckman,creator of FACS (paragraph 3).The computer will calculate this everyday "In fact, we human perform this same impressive "calculation" everyday amd for instance,you can probably tell how a friend feeling simply by the look on her face"(Paragraph5).This can calulate every single movement that you make. So here what the people who is making the software want you to do. This a partner they will like for you to take a mirror a genunie smile and forced one. The real smile is called a zygomatic major that lift the corner of your mouth."Meanwhile,muscles called orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus make crow's-feet around your eyes"(paragraph8).I'm pretty sure is the muscle that are around your eyes. | 0 |
I strongly believe people should join and be a seagoing cowboy. If you like riding at sea and love animals this is a job for you. Have you ever wondered how other countries are? Or ever wnted to go to another country.
Well now you have an opportunity to see lots of other countries.
You can save peoples lives. In some countries they don't have the food we do. The least we can do is help them get a boost. And some countries need animals so they can have food or transportation. It will give you a good experience. But if you get sea sick, ect. You are not fit for this job. Just think about if you were one of those people, no food, no animals,no transportation. You may think that you could be away from your family and it's a waste of time but think of it this way, there are other families out there just like you, hungry starving. Or could already be dead,lets not let that happen to any more families.
This is a one in a life time opportunity. You can save alot of lives from hunger. Afterwards once the animals are all unloaded you can have some fun. You can play baseball, volleyball, table tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling,games will make things seem quicker. You can also have a good feeling in your heart for helping others. Think about others, care about others. | 2 |
I think the face on mars is just a face of landform because, how would aliens make a face on a planet? A few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see, then NASA captioned it "huge rock formation" they didn't say nothing about aliens and probably didn't even think about aliens. After 18 years they finally stopped researching about the face on mars. I think that is was just there as a land formation because, I don't think any person or alien could make a face on a planet. After the years went on you could see the face even more, but the only reason why NASA couldn't see it clear is because in 1976 the aliens markings were hidden by haze, which says exactly in the text, "Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze." NASA says "We just don't pass over the Face very often."
A lot of the scientists think that it's a alien artifact, which then later on, the scientists figure it was just another Martian mesa. But this face was a little different then the other ones by, unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. In the text it says, "which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." If NASA says the Face On Mars was really big, then how many years do you think it took to make the face if it was a alien artifact? But then again it says in the text "There was no alien after all." This discovery took NASA 25 years to figure what it really was, and everybody has been talking about it for 25 years, because, this is like a one time thing, you would never see a face on a planet!!
There's been to much information that it wasn't aliens, and it says in the text that "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing... a natural landform." So again there clearifying and making sure that everyone don't freak out and just make sure it's a natural landform. | 2 |
The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author supports his idea extemely well. This author stated a lot of interesting facts.
The author claimed that in the begining of the article, Venus is called the "Evening Star". Going along with this statement, the unidentified author explains exactly why and how Venus got this nick-name. The author even goes into Venusian geology and weather. This is something not many people know about. The past of Venus was also spoken on too. In the article the unknown author states "Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit. The author even spoke upon NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. Some more interestings facts that the author stated, "Peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective. According to the author's article, NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus.
Concluding my essay, the author greatly discussed that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author went in depth into every one of their details. This unidentified author wrote this article very greatly. | 1 |
First I would explain
to them that that martian mesas are common around cydonia,I would probably research important facts to support my claim. I would explain that the "face" is really pilled up rocks that give off the illusion of a person features, eyes,mouth, nose, things like that. In the passage it says "What the picture actully shows is the martian eqivalent of a butte or mesa- landforms common around the american west.A lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa is about the same height as the face, through all the years of research and the uncovering of rocks people started to realize that the face really wasnt there. Scientist took pictures during the years 1976, 1998, and 2001 to give show us what we thught was a face was really a natural landform. On april 5,1998, when mars global surveyor flew over cydonia for the first time, michael malin and his mars obiter camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the origianl photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waitig when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing a natural landform not a face or a alien monument after all. I feel like everyone should look at the facts and lab researchs to fully understand what they thought they sawbecause they were obviously mistaken. | 1 |
Would you ever ride a horse to work or school? That's a bit out of date , don't you say? Well, why don't we use horses as transportation anymore? In my oppinion, this is because we've adapted from horse transportation. I think, everyday products, such as, cars should always adapt. Therefor, I am for the developement of driverless cars.
According to paragraph nine in "Driverless Cars Are Coming" it states, that states such as, Nevada, California, Florida ,and Distict of Columbia have allowed limited use for these driverless cars. This is good ,because they get to test these cars and fix the potentially spotted flaws. If these cars have been tested accurately , what is the problem?
Essentially, these cars could potentialy save lives. Statistically, texting, drunk driving and sleeping while driving are the topmost factors to fatal car crashes. If we had driverless cars, I feel confident that the death rate in this catagory will decrease. Futeristic automakers are under the assuption that the problems ahead will be solved, According to paragraph ten in "Driverless Cars Are Coming". This year, Tesla has relesed a car that pilots 90 percent of the vehical, according to paragraph ten in " Driverless Cars Are Coming". Within 2020, Benz , Audi, and Nissan will have an offer on driverless cars. In order to adapt, these cars need to be given the chance to succeed. | 1 |
I feel as though driverless cars are very contoversial. The are some pros and cons to having a computer control a car. With that being said I feel as though driverless cars are not something that should happen, at least not now. There are far too many complications that come with not having to drive.
There is a fine line between needing something and deserately wanting it, and I feel as though cars that don't need drivers are something that people just want. I feel as though the amount of people that need driverless cars pales in comparison to what else could be done with the money that is spent on driverless cars. In the passage, it clearly stated that an idea for driverless cars is ridiculously expensive. Granted the idea was from the 1950s, but there is no doubt that to total cost of driverless cars would still be outrageous. Driverless cars just seem unneccesary because the money spent on driverless cars could go towards something better, like starving children or homeless people.
Another flaw of having driverless cars are the danger of it. Technology is no where near perfect and one small mistake in the car could cause a ginormous car accident. What if a child darts out infront of a car, and there is no driver to stop it? What if there is an accident and the driverless car doesn't detect it? There are too many possibilities for something that isn't a neccessity.
So far driverless cars aren't even driverless. People still need to sit in the front seat and they still need to be alert at all times. "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating throigh work zones and around accidents." Also there isn't a set date for when the driverless cars will get done. Car companies plan on releasing some driverless cars in 2020, but there are compliations that could arise and slow down the process.
Driverless cars seem cool and they could make things easier for the human population. However cars that don't need drivers are something that the world doesn't need right now. There are too many "what-ifs" that come with driverless cars. Besides there are more useful things that people could be putting their money, focus, and time on. Building shelters for people in need, donating food and water to sountries that have a lack of, and attempting to make the world a safer place for people are thing that people should be focusing on. Not just a new car that seems cool. | 3 |
Dear, State senator I would like to have the chance to tell you my opinion on whether to keep the Electoral College or change to election by popular vote for the president in the United States. I would like to argue the fact that I think the Electoral College should be kept for the way in which we pick our president and vice president. with that being said the Electoral college isnt any regular thing. It is a process in which we elect the two most important people who represent our country. The Electoral College was estalished in the constitution. The way the Electoral College works is that the president and chosen by a vote in congress and a popular vote of qualified citizens.
To commence, the Electoral College has been the way we choose our president and vice president for many years now. There hasnt been any problems with it. So why the need to change it? Many people beliee that the Electoral College is and old thing that its time to come up with something knew. As said in source 3 " The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism". Each state is given a number of electoral votes. The electors are the ones that eect the president not the people. Each candidate running for president in somoenes state his their own group of electors. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is needed to elect the president. In my opinion the Electoral College works perfectly fine so their should be no reason to change the manner in which we elect our president and vice president.
Furthermore, if we were to change to election of pop[ular vote in the United States their will be more diversity and more political issues. Because with champaigning and that candidates electors will make it easier to win. And then it wont be really based on who really deserves to win. They could easily cheat in picking the candidate by popular votes. it shouldnt just be based on who has the popular votes their is more too it. We are talking about the person who will represent our country not someone who's about to gpo pick what dog they want for their family. Our country isn't a joke.
To Conclude, my response is that the Electoral College should be kept is the way we pick our president and vice president. There are many diverse opinions and this is a very critical topic but there is no need to change it now. Its all controlled and handled so well with the Electoral College a popular vote will just bring problems. | 2 |
I believe that this technology that can read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is vaulabe. I believe it is vaulable because it can know when the student is either happy,sad, or bored. When the computer finds out your emotions then it can help you with your work depending on how you are felling.
First, this software can identify all your emotions. This technology is vaulable in the classroom because when it known rather you are mad , happy, etc. it can produce ads depending on the expressions it sees you are having. In paragraph 6 it says,"Imagine a computer that knows when you're happy or sad . For example, if you smile when a web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different. " This says that the computer will changes the things on your screen depending on your emotional expressions. The computer can also detect if the student is getting confused or bored which happens to many students when they are working or the computer or in class. This shows that if the student is getting confused, then the computer can try and explain it better or demonstrate the work better.
Last, I believe that the technology that Prof. Thomas Huang has invented can help students in the classroom. The technology is very vaulable in the classroom because it can modify the lesson like a effective human instructor. "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," notes Dr. Huang. " So computers need to understand that too." | 2 |
The author supports the idea that studying Venus is important in many ways. The author does it by stating why it's important, stating facts, and comparing it to other planets. The author also states highs and lows of studying venus.
In the text it states "Often referred to as Earth's "twin,". " This explains that the author is trying to make people think that venus is just like Earth. He wants to make people think that Venus is just like Earth because he knows if people like Earth they will like Venus as well.
The author explains studying Venus is a worth pursuit in paragraph 7 by saying "NASA is working on other approaches to studying venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." This proves that the author wants us to study Venus.
In conclusion, the author has supported thye article with many details regarding how impotant studying Venus is. | 1 |
Most people might want to get rid of the Electoral College and change to popoular vote, because of how unfair, voters have no say so in who gets pick president.
One reason you might want to change to popular vote is because of how unfair they can be all because of the winner-takes-all system and this this system is in easch state, and because of that candidates dont spend time in states they know that wont vote for them. Just like you can't pick who you want your president to be.
Voters can't pick who they want their president to be its all the Electoral college. Voters don't even get to vote for the president thay vote for a slate of electors. just like if you live in Texas and you voted for Kerry you didnt vote for him you voted for 34 demcartic electors.
The only argument against the Electoral college is what we call the disaster factor. Americans should feel lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest problem election in a century.
Given that most voters vote one party for president and another for congress they do this becaus ethis think a tie or deadlock will happen but, consider this. In 1968 a shift of just 41,971 voters would of dead locked the election yet in 1976 a tie would of happen but 5,559 voters in Ohio and 3,687 voter in Hawaii voted the other way.
This right here is the most basic level the electoral college is unfair and should let the voters have their voice when voting. | 2 |
In the article, "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author Nick D'Alto presents information regarding Facial Action Coding System (FACS), a computer which that can sense people's emotions. D'Alto lists out many of the functions of FACS, and effectively uses these functions to show that this technology can be valuable in a classroom setting.
One direct mention of FACS' benefit in the classroom is mentioned in paragraph 6. The author writes, "a classroom computer could recognize when a stuedent is becoming confused or bored." This allows teachers to recognize these emotions more clearly, and switch the topic to somethng more interesting, in which the students will be more likely to pay attention. As a result, class focus will increase as well as students' grades. Thus, one can see that FACS can help increase the productivity in a classroom.
Another benefit of FACS is mentioned later in the text. D'Alto mentions how FACS can help people reproduce and replicate certain emotions: he had his actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage." Through studying the methods of FACS, people can learn to replicate emotions. This can prove to be helpful in classroom setting, because as mentioned in the text, "empathy may happen because we unconsciously imitate another person's facial expressions." When one students see his friend feeling down, he can help his friend cope by empathizing with him. Having FACS can allow students to practice and experience the relationship between facial muscles and emotions. As a result, this will foster positivity in the classroom.
Furthermore, through FACS, teachers can often tell whether a student is lying or not. The article mentioned how FACS can be used to tell if someone is falsely characterizing themself: "faces don't lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to sport when a 'smiling' politician or celebrity isn't being truthful." These implications can also be demonstrated in the classroom, when a student is being untruthful about something. The teacher can use FACS to identify the emotions of the students, and make sure he gets a fair punishment.
Overall, FACS is a great tool with a wide variety of applications, including in the classroom. Although it is not a viable option in classrooms right now, it may become an important technology for society in the future. | 3 |
Abolishing the Electoral College sounds like an excellent idea. The election by popular vote is most definetly without a doubt, more fair for the people. Why are 538 people the ones who get to decide who becomes president and not the rest of us? The Electoral College is outdated and too old for todays society. Lets get rid of this while we can.
The Electoral College was made many years ago by the founding fathers, this can tell you it is outdated. People used to have completely different political views back then, we need a fresh start on how we want it today because things have changed. We the people should vote on what we want now an Electoral College vs. a popular vote by the people and redecide since it has been over a thousand years later.
"The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational" says Bradford Plumer in source two. Plumer is right about this, the electoral college is very unfair. How can 538 people decide what happens for the rest of us? It should not be like this, everyone should be equal and all vote then go with the most popular vote for the president. We need to change our ways now before the next election.
Some people may argue like Richard Posner in source three that "the Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states lose by virtue..", basically saying the electoral college makes things more equal and fair. What is not fair is that everyone doesn't get to vote directly only the electors do. Many people don't agree with Posner and they shouldn't because the electoral college is the wrong way to run things.
Lets make changes to our future, and abolish the Electoral college. We need to have an election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Fairness and equality is the route we need to take. | 3 |
Is studying the planet Venus dangerous? This article i am reading is called, " The Challenge Of Exploring Venus." This article mainly mentions about the planet Venus, it's conditions, and expierences. This Planet is sometimes known as the " Eveninng Star." This Planet has alot of reasons why it shouldn't be studied. The temperature conditions on planet Venus are extremely high, It is also the second Planet closest to the Planet Earth, and scienstist wont even be able to observe this Planet closly.
To start off with the Planet Venus temperature are extremely high. In the text it mentions, " On the planet surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenneit, and 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." This is a piece of evidence with specific datails exlpaining how hot this Planet could get. This Planet is 90 times greater than our actually temperature. If a human were able to go to this Planet and actually land they wouldn't even last atleast 30 seconds on that Planet.
Secondly Planet Venus is the second more nearest to the Earth. Which means Venus is also most closest to the Sun. Venus goes around the Earth in different speeds. That could probably be a reason why Venus has extremely high temperatures. In the text it states, " Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." This text talks about how they had to stop giving missions to Venus because the NASA realized they couldn't do much more if their partners couldn't even survive.
Instead of keeping the missions for this Planet they had to cancel it all since they were eventually getting no type of information but for the weather.
The last reason was that NASA can't even get near the Planet because the conditions are terrible. They will have to experince the Planet from a specifc distance. In the text it states," At thirty- plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level o Earth. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels.Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans."
This is a piece of evdence explaining on how distance NASA will be from the Planet.
It even mentions the temperature, and how the conditions would be hard but it helps for humans to survive. NASA will be floating around the earth trying to experience any little thing they could possibly get their eyes on. The can't even take samples of rocks, gas , or anything else.
In conclusion, i believe Venus couldn't get studied. My reasons are becuase the temperature conditionsare pretty high, It is the closest to the sun and the Earth, and NASA wouldn't even be able to experience this Planet closelsy. These reasons are why I believe Planet Venus shouldn't get studied, it is too dangerous. | 3 |
Limiting car usage can and will benifent us in all different ways. The so called "smart planning"is to make it where all cars are sold, or not used and people start walking everywhere they go. With doing this the pollution rate will go down and make the Earth a better place. Not everyone is doing this, Vauban, Paris, and Bogota are the main places that are trying or have started .
First, As stated in passage #2, After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the gobal city. Almost 4,000 drivers were fined, according to Reuters and 27 people had their cars impounded for their reaction to the fine. Public transit was free of charge from Friday to Monday, according to the BBC. After reading this i feel like it's a good things that people are starting to do somethng like this, i just don't find it right that people are being fined, they could have gave people a warning and gave them a time line to find out how there were going to get around and make to far places they had to go. Not everyone has a bike, and alot of people have kids. At least they are making it were the public transit is free and working certant days.
Second, In passage #3 it states that,In a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians 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. It was the third straight year cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the Day Without Cars in this capital city 7 million. The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Violators faced $25 fines. With this i'm okay about the fines because its just for one day, everyone should have enough respect for there home [Earth], to not use transportation for one day, and it's not like they just came up the idea they have been doing it for 3 years, i believe people should be fined more because if you can't have enough respect for one day then you obiously don't deserve the money you have because it useless anyway and if not fined more money get their driving privilages tooken away.
Conclusion, i believe that going a day without any transportation would be good, maybe not just on day, but i also feel like you shouldn't gat rid of cars all the way. People being fined for not wanting to just do it for one day should get there cars tookin away, they don't deserve to ride around and polute our air. But taking cars away all at once its'nt right and people shouldn't be fined for it. | 2 |
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," it talks about the development of cars that can drive themselves. The article talks about hoe companies are working on cars who can completely drive on their own with no human assistance. I am against the development of these cars. I am against it because how can you have a car that needs no human assitance, I think it would be a safety issue, and laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe.
How can you have a car that needs no human assistance at all? Even the smart cars that we have today still need human assistance. Firstly, the cars tha we have today still have to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills. The smart cars can't not navigate through traffic such as, work zones and accidents. Secondly, in the article it says, " Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver?" I agree with that, who would? The whole point of having a driverless car is to not have to drive and manufacturers are no where clsoe to that kind of car. Lastly, the cars that we have developed now can only accelerate, steer, and brake themselves. The cars now have ways to notify the human when the road ahead requires human skills. The manufacturers are not close to developing a car that can drive itself because as of right now all of them stil need a lot of human assistance. They can't really do much by themselves.
I think that driverless cars would be a big safety issue. I do not think that a computer is as alret as a human. In the article it talks baout how driverless cars are a big safty concern. Firstly, what would happen if there was an accident and the computer was the one driving? Would it be thr drivers fault or the computers? Secondly, if something ever went wrong and there was an accident and someone was hurt who is at fault? is the driver or the manufacturer at fault? Lastly, what if the computer is controlling the car and it doesn't see something because it isn't as alert as a human? If the computer hit soemthing would the human's insurance cover it? This is why i think driverless cars would be a safety issue.
Laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe. Firstly, in the article it says that lawmakers have agreed that safety is best achieved with alert drivers. This means that they think safety is achieved when human drivers are the ones driving and not a computer. Secondly, some states are already against driverless cars and no one has even onvented one yet. In California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia it is illegal to even test drive computer driven cars. Lastly, in the article it says that presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. This means that the laws are based on human drivers are more alert and safer than a computer.
This shows why I am against the development of driverless cars. Driverless cars need human assistance, they are a safety issue, and laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers and pedestrians safe. | 3 |
The solar system has always been a mistory to many people. The unknown can be kind of scary for someone unfamiliar with space. But that is not the case now, scientists have been questioning the planet venus our neighbor in space. Trying to figure out the insides of this planet has proven to be quite difficult.
Always seeking to know as much as we can, humans have proven that statement many time. This discovery might just up at the top with some of the best things ever found. Venus a inhospitable planet, making scientists question it. A atmosphere almost made of %100 percent carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid clouds. The planets surface averaging around 800 degrees Fahrenheit and an atmospheric pressure that is 90 times greater than earths. These conditions are said to be able to crush submarines and liquefy many types of metals. You think this would stop scientists from trying to exsplor this planet, wrong.
They believe that Venus once was like earth. Covered in oceans and supported various life forms. With many failed attempts scientists believe that they will be able to get a unmanned spacecraft down to the surface before it is destroyed by the conditions of the planet. With light not being able to break throught the atmosphere there is no way to take pictures of videos, making it even harder to see. NASA has an idea that instead of going to the surface of the planet they float above it. With a 30 mile long blimp that is maned and would safely sit above the planet and be able to study parts of the planet. "Not easy conditions but survivable for humans". Still not being able to get samples for planet they have managed to think of something that might be able to survive the conditions of the planet for 3 weeks. Made of silicon carbide, these electronics have been tested in a chamber simulating venus "chaos".
Another project they have been working on is an old World War II device, a mechanical computer. Using only gears and levers and do not require eletronics, "these have been made to be "more resistant to pressure, hear, and other forces".
Scientists believe that this planet has value, mostly human curiosity. This planet has been thought to inhabit life long age and have oceans covering the surface. While the risk might be high, what we might find on this planet might be life changing for the human race. | 2 |
A summer day on Earth is not that hot, campare to Venus its way off .
Tan on a nice summer day with a nice 80 degrees Fahrenheit, life is good. On Venus the temperature can reach 100 times that, 800 degrees fahrenheit.
Venus use to have water, and could maintain life a long time ago. Now the surface is hotter, all the water is gone, no space rover can spend more can couple of hours before being destroyed. This challenge more difficult then anyone can think of. The is just so much more to explore in Venus.
Sciencetist can study lots of things about Venus. Can't judge a book by its cover. Venus sound hard on paper, our technologies are getting better. The idea of floating on top of the clouds, is just amazing. Its more safer then landing on the ground, and not a lot of damage is going to accure to the astronaut equiments. The good thing is that, it hovering 30 miles or more above the surface. No need to worry about
storms and other kind of desassters.It will be powered by the suns energy, not much battery power needed to make the machine more heavier.There are some downsides to the idea of floating above the ground, the air pressure would be close to sea levels on earth. The scienctists who observe rocks wouldn't be able to take rock sample.
If the astronauts can make it to Venus, it wont be long to check out mercury. There might be other planet more hotter then Venus, but step by step we can do it. The future is closer, human curiosity grow larger, the farther more we know about space. Venus is just the first obstackle, will it be our last? | 0 |
Driverless cars are beingcoming more and more common with each day that the technology is evolving. I believe that in the next 30 years we will have driverless cars all over the place.
Many car companies today are well on their way to developing driverless cars, simple autonomous cars have been tested since 2009, with many car companies rushing to learn what they can about it. The reason it wasn't happening before then was because they lacked the technology. Back then, a radar was an object on a hill that cost over 200 million dollars, not something you could put on a car and use to help it on the roadways.
Driverless cars are not a bad idea, they can improve safety because they are more precise and can respond quicker to any situation thrown at them by todays everchanging road ways and transportation infrastructure. If we can improve driver and passeneger safety, why not take the chance to develop something for the future. So far, many of the tests on these cars have proven successful 90% of the time. Volvo hopes to have their first driverless car publicly available in 2020.
I believe driverless cars are going to happen somewhere in my lifetime, I won't use them because I prefer to drive myself, but I can see many using them because of their saftey. | 2 |
Dear State Senator,
I am writing you a letter in regards of the electoral college. I believe we should abolish it completely. I believe that we should change our voting system to election by popular vote for the president of the United Sates. While it is a good system, it is not reliable and does not let the people truly decide who their representative will be. It does bring some certainty of outcome but not as much as it should.
The electoral college must be abolished because it does not let the people truly decide who their president will be. While it does allow them to vote for a slate of electors who then elect the president usually based off of the popular vote, they do not always vote for who they are supposed to. The slate of electors that the people vote for are supposed to be trusted to vote for what the popular vote says, they do not always do so. A good example of that is in 2000, when Al Gore ran against George W Bush. Al Gore won the popular vote nationwide over Bush, he still didnt win the presidency because the electoral college did not stay true to their word and voted for Bush. That is because, as shown in Source 3, paragraph 15, " When you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. So while you might think your individual vote makes a difference, it doesnt at all, for you are not choosing which presidential candidate to vote for, you are voting for someone else to vote for the president who might not always stay true to their word and vote for a different candidate.
Although the electoral college does bring better certainty of outcome than a popular vote, it does not have the certainty it claims to have. In Source 2, paragraph 12 it states, "Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote." This is a big worry because the electoral college holds a total of 538 votes which is definetely possible to cause a tie. If this were to happen, then the vote would be thrown to the House of Representatives where state delegations would vote on the president. Then the concept of the presidential campaigns would become pointless because the point of campaining is to try to win over large, swing states to ensure more votes. Because the bigger the states population, the more votes they hold in the electoral college. But that would only work if it was in the Senates hands because the amount of representatives in the Senate for each state is based off of population, whereas the amount of representatives in the House of Representatives is always two for each state. So if the vote was thrown into the House of Representatives hands, then whichever candidate who holds claim over the most states, regardless of size, would almost automatically win the election because each state holds equal say in their vote.
So because the electoral college is obviously unfair, it should be abolished. Because the voters are told they decide who reopresents them, yet they do not. There is a possibility, while slim that a president could win the popular votes, yet lose the election because of the way the electoral college is set up. So because it unfair to the presidential candidates, it should be abolished and we should have elections controlled by popular votes. | 4 |
Dear senator,
I agree with keeping the Electoral College until it pulls off a mistake. The Electoral College has no real reason to be changed or modified. It's served its purpose with almost no flaws for years now. Let's take a look at why we should keep our Electoral College.
Our Electoral College is a system made to ensure fair voting for our president based off of how many Senators you have, and how many state representatives you have. This is a fair way of voting because of regardless of you population, everyone has the same amount of senators. This is to ensure a small state like Deleware has the same voice to match a big state like Texas. According to Source 3, one of the main concerns for people who want to abolish the Electoral College is that the people are not actually voting for the president, they are voting for a slate of electors. But in source 3 it states, " But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee". This state the although the vote doesn't go directly to the presidents vote, it is most common for the trusted slate of electors vote for the president.
Another concern for people who want to abolish the Electoral College as stated in Source 2 is,"Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote." If the vote were to be tied then the election will be handed over to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president. Each state gets only one vote so another concern is that the state representatives will not be able to vote what everyone in the state wants because the number of people would be too much to keep up with. First, why would a state turn its back on the majority vote of who their state wants to be president? If a state should do this, their representative would not be representing their state, therfore they maybe punished of may hear about it from the public. Not only are the representatives not expected to miss vote what their state wants, but also what are the chances of theirbeing a tie. It has never happened before, and the closest its gotten is over 8,000 people having to agree on a single same person. This is an absurd number for people to abide to the same person from different states. Its hard to find people in the same room to agree, let alone 8 thousand people! It just seems to extra-ordinary for their to be a tie in the electoral college.
Although there are many pro's, there are also just a few con's. A large con that should be avoided is what source 2 calls,"the disaster factor." The legislature is responsible for picking the electors and they have all therights to defy what the people want. A clear example of this would be as stated in source 2,"Back in 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana legislaturenearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy". Should the legislature had been able to pull that off, it could have changed the vote and stopped Kennedy from being president. But seeing as segregation isn't as big of an issue in the U.S, this isn't as prone to happen.
As you can see Mr. Senator, there are many reasons why we should keep the Electoral College until it makes a mistake. The pro-to-con ratio is largely in correspondence to keeping the Electoral College. As long as it continues to do its job, and no one abuses it, I'm in favor of it.
Sincerly,
Jose Cruz. | 4 |
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author balances the pros and cons of exploring the planet Venus to boost the human race scientifically. The author expresses that Venus is the most Earth-like planet in our solar system, making it realistic for life forms to inhabit the planet. That is, if they can handle the heat. The exploration of Venus is something modern scientists should engage in due to the potential technical advances the population can make because of the information on the living conditions the average biotic being would endure on Venus.
The knowledge scientists have the ability to gain from Venus can only bnefit us. Even the simplest efforts to explore the planet will leave us with more determination to continue exploring and feed us information crucial to the succession of the human race. Analyzing the atmosphere further can encourage adaptation and give us options of migration when our sun, inevitably, blows up. There being "Many researchers... working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus," already proves the exploration to be something legitimate and worthwhile.
The risks being taken by choosing to explore Venus entertains the idea that the human race is diligent, curious, and selfless. The cause being fought for is for the benefit of future genertions of humans. With current and future technology, Venus' exploration will seem very realistic and encouraged by scientists with the same goals, giving the population a future. | 2 |
Should you join the program with Luke?
You should join the program with Luke because its a now expereance and you should always try new things out.
"Lukes friend Don Reist invited him to go to Euroupe on a cattle boat. Luke couldn't say no. He knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime."
This shows if you are a farmer that loves being with farm animals, than this would be a good thing for you to do. You would be able to be with animals all the time.
"World War II was over in Europe, and many countries were left in ruins. To help these countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more, 44 nations joined together to form UNRRA. UNRRA hired "Seagoing cowboys" to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas."
That give a good reason to join the UNRRA because you can help bring farm animals to places where there are no farm animals. You can help the farm animals find a home. You would be able to bond with other animals and save them from the wild and then take good care of them.
"With a cargo of 335 horses plus enough hay and oats to feed them." This shows another reason to joins the program and help feed the farm animals over seas.
"I'm greatful for the opportunities, he says. It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs.
"You will probably feel the same way he did. You will feel good for the joy and happyness you give the other people when you give them there new farm animals. You should join the programe to go with the new experiece and make new friends and bond with animals. | 2 |
The author supports the claim in a very understandable factor. It plays a part in the story to inform you more knowledge about Venus.
The author is basically telling you what he knows, explaining the subject may be easy to read , but you wants you to understand it too. For example, when he said "A thick atmosphere of 97 percent co2 blankets Venus." Then giving you an supporting detail to where you could understand the meanning of his statement. The author obviously studies a big part of his work to infrom and coclude with lots of details in the story , thats the great big meaning of the supporting detail and main message of the story.
Now to conclude this paragraph , the author uses scientific purposes in the story to get his point across from. Using the knowledge he gave himself to under the the inform he was trying to do. Thats how the author supports the idea of studying Venus is worthy pursuit despite all the dangers. Thats the perfect example that fits along with my answer. | 0 |
Luke bomberger is my name. I am here to provide exaples and state facts to make you want to join the Seagoing Cowboys program. This program is about helping people that got left in ruins not just after World War II. They help people if they need animals they will bring you animals from other countrys and if they need help building there houses and everything will bring you people that can build houses and better things!
Some reasons why you would want to join is because do you want to get drafted to the army? I don't think a lot of people do. So be a Seagoing Cowboy. If your with us you will not get drafted. Do you like animals you can help us by taking care of the animals. Another reason why you would like to join is because we have fun after we are done with everything we play table-tennis,fence,read,box,whittle,vollyball, and we also play baseball now doesn't that sound fun."I don't even know what whittling is but i've done it before I think it's fun!"
That is why me,Luke Bomberger want you to join the Seagoing Cowboys. Also its not just work and play we also learn and get to vist a lot of cool places around the world. I crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice. It made me more aware of people in other countrys and their needs. Thats why I leaded my family to host a number of international of students and exchange vistors for many years. Thank you and good-bye. | 2 |
The development of driverless cars pose no threat to anyone. Driverless cars are not completely driverless. The cars will still need assistance from the driver. "Special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." (p7) It has been said that the cars can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all of these cars are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents.
The cars that Sergey Brin forsees would use, "half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus." (p1) Driverless cars have been well tested and have been modified repeatedly. "Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009." (p2) Google'sdriverless cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash. Although Google's cars are not truly driverless, meaning they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents, not crashing when having driven half a million miles is miraculous.
Really, there is no danger that really stands out when speaking of driverless cars. They were specifically engineered to do one job; that job being to get its passengers to and from their desired designation without crashing. The most important bit of technology on Google's modified Toyota Prius woul have to be the spinning sensor on the roof. "Dubbed LIDAR, it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings." (p4) The combination of all that has been modified and manufactured for the driverless car is necessary for it to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel.
Car manufacturerers are not starting from scratch recently. "In the 1980s, automakers used speed sensors at the wheels in creation of antilock brakes. Within 10 years, those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers." (p5) When getting in a driverless car, it will not me like getting in a wagon at the top of a hill and being pushed. You will be in as much control as the car if need be. The car itself will give you far better chances when it comes to not crashing. "The information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone." (p5)
This has been said repeatedly but once again none of the cars that have been developed so far are completely driverless. Human skills are still needed when driving these cars. As long as you get into one of these cars knowing that you will need to be alert, there is little to no chance of an accident occurring. "Special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." (p7) Being alert when in a driverless car will not be as hard as it may sound due to the modifications that have been made to these cars. "This necessitates the car being ready to quickly get the driver's attention whenevera problem occurs. GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over." (p7)
You may be asking yourselves why anyone would want a driverless car that still needs a driver. No one likes to be completely helpless or bored and waiting to take their turn. Some manufacturers hope to keep drivers entertained and awake by, "binging in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. Such displays can be turned off when the driver is needed." (p8)
This information goes to prove that driverless cars pose no real threat when driving other than when a driver gets in the car and is deliberately irresponsible and not paying attention. When in these cars stay alert and all will be well. | 3 |
Driverless cars would be a helpful tool in the future. They could help us get things done while heading somewhere far away. It could get rid of driver errors. Drunk driving could even by stop by this new product. This is why the driverless car should be allowd.
First off the time you use to drive all the way down to Florida is about 12-18 hours. Lets say someone is going there for their job that 12-18 hours could be used for all sorts of things like making up for you job while your away or just finshing a project you did for this meet. It would be a great way to use your time instead of having to drive. This could be an amazing break through for somepeople who have to travel many times for their job.
Secondly, if we have only driverless cars all driving they would know how to react to each other. This inturn would get rid of driver error such as drivers getting angry at each other. Another example would be cars speeding past each other, which cause recks. Driverless cars could bring down the death toll from car crashs every year by getting rid of driver error.
Finally, a big problem today is drunk driving. If we had driverless cars the drunk drivers would never have to touch the wheel making the roads safer. The car its self could never get drug or slow down its reaction speed making it safer than with someone above .08. This could also bring down the death toll, for drunk driving crashs every year.
These are all reasons i believe that we could be better of with driverless cars. It may cost more and their might be problems at first but in the long run it could save many of lives. Many states do not trust it, but i believe after they make they cars smarter they will see that they can driver better than any human ever could. Saving lives for many people which if worth it. | 2 |
In 1976 a photo was taken by a Viking of a shape on Mars.To some the shape looks like a face,but to me it is just a natural landform.Research has been done over many years trying to figure out what the shape is on the face of Mars.In belief that it was just a natural landform,in 1998 another picture was taken of the figure.Michael Malin and his MOC team flew over Cydonia for the first time and snapped a picture ten times better than the original picture.
The image appeared on a JPL web site and showed that the shape actually was a natural landform.This proved that no aliens monument was on the face of Mars,but not everyone was satisfied with the outcome of the image.Do to the clouds the landform was not clearly seen in the image taken in 1998.People wanted to see a better image to have a better belief in the landscape on Mars.Mission controllers prepared to take another look at the figure for a third time.
In 2001 there was a cloudless summer day in Cydonia.Mars Global Surveyor went close enough to take a second look of the figure.The spacecraft had to be rolled 25 degrees to center the shape in the field view.Malin's team had captured the most extraorrdinary image usig the camera's maximum resolution.The pixels in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters proved the theory that the shape was just a natural landform common around the Amarican West.And finally after 28 years of going to Cydonia we found the truth of the landscape shape on the face of Mars. | 1 |
Are you for or against the development for driverless cars? Me personality, i'm against it. Can you honestly trust these cars 100%, they have your life in their hands. Even tho in the article it says there is an alert that lets the driver take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with comlicated traffic issues. I still wouldn't trust it, maybe you take advantage of it driving by its self. Then you start doing other things such as texting, playing games on your phone, or looking for something in the back seat. You really trust that car enough to stop paying attention to the road and others around you. So what if something does happen and you crash into something or get into a accident.
But the car never alerted you to take over, maybe the technology failed. So now you're injured from trusting a "driverless car". That you should of never trusted in the first place, especially with your life. There's no promises that this car isn't gonna mess up or make a mistake. So many things can go wrong with this car, because there is so much technology. Even if the technology doesn't fail, what if there is another driver that is driving reckless. Unfortuately you just so happen to be at the wrong place, at the wrong time. So you get hit by that driver, but will you get warned by the car that the car was even coming. In the article it didn't say anything about the car alerting you when another car is coming at you.
These cars can't stop everything from happening, it just might be the cause of something bad happening. The car can handle driving functions up to 25 mph. They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to alert the driver when the road ahead requires human skills. What if it doesn't notify you, not all technology is perfect. Almost anything can go wrong, they make you think that it's so perfect with no problems. But that's because they just tell you the positive things about the car and nothing about the negatives. Such as what could happen if the car does mess up or the technology does fail.
They're not gonna tell you things like that, because they want you to buy the car. Which you most likely will and you'll trust that car to drive by its self. I wouldn't trust this car one bit, because they're still working on it. So you know for a fact it has problems and could mess in any way, at any point of time. Never let techology take over something that you should be doing everyday. Also that car may not have the driving skills that you have. They say techology can do more than humans, well driving is definately a humans job.
Driving shouldn't be handled by technology, because its a everyday thing for humans. we know what to do and how to do it. Technology just could make a mistake and your like is in stake. Because you trusted some technology with your life. What if you do get in an accident in this car, is it the drivers fault or the manuafacturer? Driving is for humans and a human everyday thing, lets keep it that way. | 3 |
Alien Life! A very controversial topic, some might say, especially at this point in time.
Some people believe that the face that has been photographed on Mars is evidence of alien life; however, it is just a landform because if NASA wanted to hide the existence of aliens they wouldn't have released this image in the first place, there were no other "alien artifacts" near the face in any of the images, and if the face was in fact an alien artifact, NASA would use this to its advantage because they would receive more funding to find alien life since there would be proof that alien life actually exists. Obviously, the face on Mars is not an alien artifact but only a natural landform made on the surface of the Red Planet.
One of the most blatantly obvious reasons why this face could not be made by aliens is because NASA does not believe that it is. Now, every one is entitled to their own opinions, but because NASA is saying that this face is not an alien artifact you should think that same thing. There would be no reason for NASA to want to release an image that possibly supports that there could be alien life on Mars and then just say that it provides no evidence for life on Mars, if NASA actually believed there really was life on the Red Planet. Either, NASA would have not released the image at all in an effort to prevent people from thinking that aliens could be living on Mars, or they would release their image and say the truth. In this case NASA released the image and then said that it does not support alien life on Mars, so it is very clear that the landform is just a landform and not an alien artifact.
Also, there were no other "alien artifacts" near the face. If this really was an alien artifact, there would be evidence left behind of the people that built this face, but there was not. And, the more recent pictures of the face were very high resolution, "Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters." That may seem like a very large area for one pixel, but unless these aliens that live on Mars all live in one home that is less than twenty-five square meters, there is no one near this face that could've built it. Clearly, this landform could not have been made by anyone living on Mars because there simply is no one that is living close enough to this face to build it.
And last but not least, if this face on Mars was indeed an alien artifact, NASA would use this scenario to its advantage by blowing up the media with news of alien life in an attempt to gain more funding for the space program. There is absolutely no reason for NASA to try to keep the discovery of alien life a secret because, if anything, NASA would gain substantially from a discovery on that scale, so if the scientists at NASA think that this face is just a landform made on the surface of Mars, there is very little reason for someone to doubt them on this.
Now, some people may say, "But wait! That face is clear evidence of alien life, and there is no way that a face like that could have naturally formed on Mars!" If anyone is thinking that same thing, I can see why you may think that, but there is simply no scientific evidence to support your opinion. Yes, it is unlikely for a rock to form in the exact way to make it look like a human, but no, it is not impossible. Additionally, if that face was in fact a natural formation then there is no more evidence for it to support alien life than any other rock on Mars. Obviously, this landform was not made by aliens.
As anyone can see, the face on Mars is just a natural landform because NASA wouldn't release images propagating alien life if they didn't want to say that alien life has been discovered, there is no other evidence supporting aliens on Mars other than the face, and there would be no reason for NASA to try to cover this up because NASA would end up gaining in a situation where alien life was discovered.
Obviously this face is not an alien artifact; however, I believe that alien life does, in fact, exist, and that we may find it in the very near future, so look forward to what may come next. | 5 |
When electing the president of the United States, you must vote in favor of the president you want. However, instead of coming down to popular vote, the system uses the Electrolar College to decide. The Electroral Vote works in that the people of a certain states votes for their candidate and the majority of people who vote for a certain president give their votes to a slate of voters. What this means is that the popular vote within a state wins the electoral votes of the electors who then vote for the president. Many people dislike this system including myself. I disaprove of this system because it limits representation, permits the disintrest of voters, and reduces a candidates intrest in a state.
One major problem with the Electoral College voting system is that it limits representation of the people. The Electoral COllege votes work so that the population of a state directly effects the amount of votes that states recieves. For example, Wyoming only has about 500,000 voters so it only recieves one electoral college vote. Because there is only one vote for wyoming, the 500,000 voters do not have acurate representation in a vote that has a total of 270 electoral votes. There have also been times in which a president has won the piopular vote but lost the Electoral College vote. This was seen in the 2000 vote of Bush versus Gore when Gore won the popular vote and Bush won the electoral vote.
One might claim that because the amount of electoral votes for a state is based of the population, it is fair. However, I believe that the popular vote is more fair because it expresses the opinion of the majority. In some states, there is a large majority of people running for a single party. This can be observed primarily in Texas where an overwhelming majority of voters are Republican. Therefore, the Republican president wins Texas almost every election period. This can be frustrating for Democrats who live in Texas because they know that their vote does not matter causing them to lose interest in voting in the first place. This is not fair for those people nor is it particularly good to express as an American trait.
As stated before, the larger the population of a states, the more Electoral College votes that state gets. This leads to a small group of "big states" that have such a large amount of votes, they are the target for candidates to try to persuade to vote for them. On the opposite side of the spectrum, most of the other 50 states have a smaller amount of votes and are less of an objective for candidates to acquire. In many states throughout an election preiod (the period in which candidates move to diferent states giving speeches) the candidates never make an appearance in their state at all. This is observed in the 2000 election in which seventeen states did not have the candidate make an appearance at all. This also can lower interest in voting for the president.
The Electoral college voting system is not fair in the way the present system works. The system does not show proper representation of the people, does not promote interest in voting, and causes a candidate to ignore the states in which do not have a large amount of electoral votes. Moving to popular vote will fix all of these problems and will improve the way we vote for our president. | 4 |
The Face
The Face that was found on Mars couldn't have been created by aliens. If so where is the proof of these aliens. Ask yourself if you really believe the Face was created by aliens? Dont you believe their would be some sort of evidence after all of the exploring of Mars. In this essay I'm going to write a argumentive explaining why aliens could'nt have made the Face and why I belive it is just a natural landform.
I believe that this Face that was found on Mars could be a natural landform becuase of paragraph twelve. This paragraph says that the Face has resemblance to a butte or mesa, which are common landforms on Earth in the American West. It also states that it has resembalance to the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. These details are not exactly evidence that the Face is a natural landform, but it gives probable cause to think that it possibly is a natural landform.
For those who feel that the Face was created by aliens, dont you belive their would be some type of evidence of a life form on Earth. As paragraph eleven stated if their were other structures like pyramids, airplanes, or small shacks we would be able to see what they were because we could dicern things in a digital image three times bigger than the pixel size. If their were aliens I'm sure NASA wouldn't keep it a secret because they would possibly get more donations or money from people wanting NASA to go up and get even more pictures. Or even for NASA to take people up there themselves like a trip.
Those who belive a alien created the face possibly would say that NASA would keep aliens a secret because it would frighten some people. They also could ask the question how and why did the rock or land for the way it did if its just a land form? For the first statement I can say that could be true, but the question I can't answer. I sure that someone who has studied it could though.
The alien belivers can also say that the aliens hide when humans come to Mars but that is something that can't be proven or disproven.
In conclusion, aliens couldn't have made the Face because their should be some type of proof that their has been life on Mars. Especially since we have photos of Mar's surface and have a rover on its surface. I feel that the Face is just a natural landform because it resembles a butte or mesa and because their is no sort of proof that their are aliens or any type of life form on Mars. Alien belivers could ask the question, how was the Face formed like a face, but I can't answer this question. | 3 |
I do not agree with the whole driverless car thing. To start off it is dangerous. The idea that the person has to always be alert defeats the purpose of it being driverless. Also the alerts to get the drivers attention should not be needed. I mean if someone creates a driverless car they should actually make it so it is, in fact, driverless.
On long road trips I get that one person has to drive the whole time, and yes the driver could get tired and want to take a nap. This would be good for them but even if the driver were to go to sleep and be awaken to an accident in front of them. You cannot expect a human that has been sleeping to be completely in control of what is going on at the time. Who knows, they might freak out and run into something else. There are so many possibilities that something could go horribly wrong with driverless car.
Yes, I know almost everyone expects to have all this new technology in the future. All I think about is the movie Wall-E and how they had their own floating chairs and everyone was fat and lazy. Is that really how we want the world to end up. America is already one of the most obese countries. Making it so people do not have to drive is taking away from at least some of the excercise they could have.
Overall I think the driverless cars are a bad idea. Not only will there be more accidents because people are not always going to be watching the road and they will not have to rely on a machine, if they just drove themselves. Whoever makes a car that could go driverless will almost never make it completely driverless. There will always be something else to add on to it. | 2 |
Driverless cars are a great investment and idea for our country to encourage. Not only do the cut down on fuel usage, but also reduce the number of accidents. The futuristic automobiles could revolutionize the country. Drivereless cars are a fantastic idea, and could create several benifits for the country.
Driverless cars have the potentiol to drastically reduce fuel usage. In the opening paragraph of the article, the author states, "the cars he forsees would use half the fuel of today's taxis." Less fuel used for automobiles would empower the United States to spend less money on oil and natural gas imports. Additionally, less fuel polution released by cars would help make the enviroment a safer place for current and future generations.
In the article, the author talks about the use of GPS and sensors used in the cars. Relying on computers to transport us is a much safer alternative compared to the current option. The driverless cars, that are largely computer powered, leave very little room for human error, which would drastically reduce the number of automobile accidents.
Oppontens of driverless cars may argue that these cars are not safe in the event of unforseen circumstances, such as accidents or road problems. However, driverless cars, as stated in the article, "are designed to to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skill." Thus, in an emergancy situation, the driver can take over the car can advance past the situation and continue to move along without any issue.
In conclusion, driverless cars could be the best thing to happen to automobiles since automobiles were invented. They could reduce the amount of pollution, and save the United States millions on oil imports. Furthermore, self driving cars can make the roads a safer place to be. Although it may seem scary to some, and there may be a few bumps along the road, driverless cars could make the world a better place to be. | 3 |
The advantages of limiting car usage is a good thing because some people might feel stress out when they are behind the wheel but thanks to the limitied usage of cars people can just walk and keep a calm mind and stress free. Also there would be more space becaues the car garge can used for somthing else like making stores. Then there will be less greenhouse gas. then we will more money. Finaly that is some advantages of limiting car usage.
One advantages of limiting car usage is the lack of tense or stress you will feel when you are walking instead of driving. When you are driving you feel so stressed out because you are nervues that you might hit some or might crash on the side of the road. Then you will have more of your time instead of rushing to get some were you will feel calm chilled and relaxed becaues you are walking the stress away. Next you will be able to spend more time with your friends and talk to them more instead of texting them and get in a reck. finaly that is my advantage of limiting car usage.
Second reason why is do to the lack of parking lots garages there will be more space for something more need a hospiltle or a store for food. Then we will have space for more homes so it will cut down the amout of homless people on the street. Also the lack of parking will help decress the amout of death in some because there will be less people starving on the streets. Then there will be spaces for resetraunts,fast food,and other places were people can work at so there will be more jobs avaiable. Finaly that is another advantage in the lack of car usage.
Third reason is there will be less greenhouse gases in the air. Then do to the lack of greenhouse gases there will be less polution in the air causing people not to get sick. Then do to the lack of polution the will survie longer and our omdoem layer will start to repair it self. Then we will be able to breath better and live longer. finaly that is another advantage of limiting car usage.
Inconlusion that are just a few possabilty's do to the lack of car usage's. One you will be less tense. Two more space for important places. Three the lack of greenhouse gas. That are noly just some advantages maybe there will might be more i the futer. | 2 |
Dear senator
I think you should keep the electoral colleges. The elctoral colleges are not a vote for presidency but its the vote for slate of electors who in turn elect the president. This is a great way to find a good president because if the people voted they might not know much about the president that they are voting for but if the slate of electers are the ones who pick the president they might know what the man running for president is not telling us. If their is a tie in the electoral votes than the election would be thrown to the house of representatives, where state deligates vote on the president. The electoral college should stay.
The electoral colleges has been an american tradition for hundred of years why would you end such a long and strong condition. The only bad thing about the electoral colleges in my opinion is that it is unfair to voters because of the winner take all system in each state. ( According to the article the electoral college: why even the best laid defenses of the system are wrong) "during the 200 campaign, seventeen states didnt see the candidates at all, including road island and south carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didnt get to see a single campaign ad." Bobe dole thinks they should abolish the electoral college he thinks its unfair, outdated, and irrational.
It is the electers who vote for presiden not the people it is possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the nations popular vote. It happened in 200 when gore had more popular votes than bush but bush had more electoral votes and bush still won the race and became president. You should keep the electoral college throughout history it has helped us in many ways. Lots of people say you should abolish it but give it a few more years and see what happens. The electoral college also stops run off electios this means no candidate recieves a majority of the vote cast. If their is a run off election the people might think the election was rigged or unfair. So please leave the electoral college alone it benefits us in a lot of ways.
from: PROPER_NAME | 1 |
In the passage, the author talks about the use of car usage. In my opinion, I think that we use cars to get place like, school, work, the store, to sporting events, to doctors appointments. We use cars every day. Teenagers can drive because they need to know how to get places without relying on some one else to do it for them. Beinging able to drive helps people alot. It may not seem like it, but, everyday some one gets injurded in an automobile accident. We the people have the right to drive when we can.
The Enivironment Protection Agency (EPA) is promoting "car reduced" places, and the legislators are starting to become a part of that. Many companies like that do it alot. Just do what ever they want we they want. I think if you want to drive you can drive. There are some bad things that happen to people when they drive. Sometimes it is not even their fault. Of course they go to court and try to get things settled. Usually the person how caused te accident wins the case because their lawyer makes stuff up to make the person that didn't cause the accident to make them look like the did. Thats called "Tappering with evidence". Which is against the law.
With the new cars comeing out, like the cars that don't need gasoline, that don't need a key, the companies are trying to prove a point. Gaoline can cause serious damage to the world. It sends toxic waste in the air everytime you hit the gas petal. Thats why companies like Ford, Chevy, Jeep, Mersaidnces Bin, VMW, and many other ompanies. It is OK to drive around but it can be harmful and dangerous. One of my favorite bands Black Veil Brides, they use an electric tour bus because they don't want to harm the people and it saves alot of money. They love the people in the world and they want them to be safe. You can pay up to $2.75 for a gallon of gasilone and $3.75 for diesel.
Not everything in this "country" is go for your health. Gasoline can kill people just by smelling it. It is highly flameable. If you are one a bus and you start smelling something weird like diesel or gasoline, it would be smart to go to the driver and tell them because if you don't alot of people can get hurt just by you not speaking up and telling him/her. Even through you didn't put the gas in the bus, you can still get sued because you didn't tell them. People die everyday because of stupid stuff like this. Even on a plane. You smell diesel, you go to one of the flight addentents and tell them. They are required to tell the piliot what is happening and they must can their airport. Just telling someone that you smeel it, you can save alot of people.
Just because cars can be dangerous, it doesn't mean that you can't speak up for what you believe in about it. Family loose loved ones because of drunk drives, texting, not paying attention to the road, and, not wearing their seatbelt. People make stupid and careless misstakes everyday. People don't understand that. People don't care. It's your choice. You make the desenion. Be a smart person and you make your own choice. If your car usage is dangerous like driving a AMT on a highway, you're going to jail. Driving a car with a subinbuted drivers liesense, you are going to lose your car. It's up to you. That's all I have to say. | 2 |
Although self-driving cars are quite an interesting topic, they can be quite dangerous. Throughout the modern age cars have been a major form of transportation and have been constantly modified to match our ever growing needs. But this type of modification can prove to test the limits of safety these machines can offer.
Safety is the key aspect in designing machines for transportation. Be it thicker frames to stronger more durable material. But with giving these machines nearly total control can leave quite the room for worry of failure. The article even says itself that the machines would have quite the trouble traversing "...through workzones and around accidents." That flaw was able to be botched up with the feature to notify the user that human skills are required.
Even if the safety is solved with notifications such as "flashing lights on the windshield" or "seats that vibrate" The cost to build/purchase such technology is still quite absurd. The technology that goes into the ones we have today, namely Google's cars, they would require a multitude of sensors from "positioning-estimating" to a "rotating sensor on the roof" and Google has went to the extremes as to add a "LIDAR, it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings." So the price continues to rapidly climb as the other devices come into light.
If the the already mentioned safety features weren't bad enough the psychological ones it would create make it even worse than the price. as the article states "Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver? Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?" And that is entirely true because you would have to be constantly alert in case the car comes across trouble and needs your assistance. They plan to battle this with "in-car entertainment" but it would still be quite bothersome to be constantly vigilant for imminent danger. And yes the laws would adapt but it is currently, and logically should remain, that a "safe car has a human driver in control at all times."
With the issues in safety, price, and psychological area's of this proposal it will clearly take more than a few half-baked solutions to fix these bothersome quirks. It is clearly too much of a hill to climb for our current technology and budget to attempt until a later date. But the proposal is still a daring and appealing one on the surface and should be kept close for the time that we are feasibly able to carry it out. | 3 |
This year I'm a sophomore in high school I'm gonna be brutally honest sophomore year overall is hard. There a lot of test and homework, the pressure to get good grade and get into a good college is always in the back of my mind.
For example if I'm learning a new lesson in math class I sometimes find myself always getting confused. But I feel like we all have been there when learning something new. But if we had something to tell teachers that we are confused I think it could help kids understand what were learning better. It's called Facial Action Coding System and I think it could be really useful in a classroom.
I think by being able to read a student's emotional expression is a excellent idea.
"Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D' Alto is a hard arguement about if we should have a Facial Action Coding System in a classroom or not. But Dr. Huang says "A classroonm computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." Some kids get home from school, they have sports or maybe a job that they have to work to until midnight. In the morning they might become tired and fall alsleep learning something new. So with the Facial Action Coding System we could find out which students need a little bit extra help. Another quote is "if you smile when a Web ad appears on your sceen, a similar ad might follow." "But if you frown, the next ad will be different." We could use this same idea in a classroom the computer will know which kids look a little confused and will know which kids aren't understand the lesson. Some kids are shy and don't wanna speak up and say if they don't get it what there learning, now with this technology. We will now know the student that don't understand so they can do better in school.
By identifying human emotions we could also help the kids that are very stressed out and might just need to take a little break. It says "They even indicate the different between a genuine smile and a forced one." If some is upset in a classroom this technology should pick up right away if a person isn't feeling good or even sad. It could help teacher know what potentially could be wrong with one of her students. Another way we could find out what's on a student's mind is "to an expert, faces don't lie; there muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity isn't being truthful." This could as well tell a teacher if a student is telling the truth or not. By having this system we could find out what's wrong with a student or even find out if there lying.
I feel that if we had Facial Action Coding Systems in a classroom the student will understand what there learning better and probably get a better grade in the class overall . We know how important it is to do good in school, we heard it since day one. I want nothing more to graduate from college and go to the college of my dreams. Maybe with this new Coding System can help me get a better grade in the class and help me get the help I need. So I could potentially get into the college I want to get into. | 3 |
Venus, an extraordinary planet because of many reasons and fascinating things that goes further than our temporal limits, a very attractive planet that put our imagination to work due to our curiosity and the difficulties that Venus presents when it get time to explore. The planet called by the people as "The twin of the Earth" had being proving why is it so interesting enough to go and know more about it. We will see with the author´s text how Venus is a worthy planet to visit even with the kind of dangers that are possible to happen in Venus.
First of all Venus is a very hard place to review and investigate deeply. In the text we can see that Venus is in a first look inhospitable, 97 percent of its atmosphere is 97 percent carbon dioxide, clouds are highly corrosive, the planet´s surface temperature average is 800 Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greather than Earth´s pressure. That is something that used to be different in the past where Venus looked like Earth´s enviroment. There used to be mountains, valleys, oceans etc. But all these impediments gets underpreciated when our curiosity grows each day, and in the text we can find the first steps of something that once used to be impossible to think and that´s a correct expedition to Venus. The NASA is looking for a way to send humans to study Venus. This way is to float above Venus. Conditions there are more survivable for humans. The pressure is a lot less, and radiaton levels is not greater than Earth´s radiation, the temperature is considerably lower than the surface temperature. Some scientific advantages have to be completed to at least have a safe investigation expedition such as in photography or video cameras because of low light levels in Venus. Samples of materials can´t be taken either from a far distance and Venus difficult enviroment. The author is convinced that some day the human will be able to do a research in Venus and its convincement is reflected on how he wrote the 6th paragraph where the author says, "Or maybe we should think of them as challenges. Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to las long enought to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus." is giving a small amount of hope to keep track in the research of new technologies to have the key to travel Venus and explore it. | 2 |
Why is Venus a plant the people shouldn't go too, and how hot is Venus?
Also what else is Venus called beside the " Evening star"
Venus is a plants that is the second to closted to the sun. People from call Venus the "Evening Star." It's called that ecuase how close it is to Earth and Becuase people see it as a star. People from Earth, Nasa and other people, sent aircaphs to Venus but they onlu losed a few hours.
Since Venus is the second plante to the sun, it's also the second hottest plant to the sun. It's so hot the no living thing could live there. It's about 800 degresse in Venus. Ten time worst then our average temperature.
As we know Venus is knowed as the " Evening Star", it's also know as our twin plant. It's know as that becuase it looks just like Earth. and it's about the same size as earth. People look at it like as our plant but hotter.
I think it would be amazing to go to Venus one day but as far as we know it's too hot and who knows if any living human, plant or animal could live there . | 0 |
"The Face''
As we all know in the year of 1976 Nasa's Viking 1 spacecraft captured a photo which was belived to be a "face'' formed in Mar's surface. There has also been arguments over the years if "the face" was created by aliens or was it just a natural landform. Here is why I belive it is a natural landform.
In the article "Umasking the Face on Mars, in paragraph 12 it says what the picture that the picture actually shows that the Martian is equaivalent to a butte or messa which are landforms common around the American West. Some migfht that you can't actually tell what things really are just from a picture because it is only a proportion. Well, in paragraph 11 Garvin says that ," As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size. "So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Eqytian -style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were.
Some might say that you can tell by the picture thaat Viking 1 spacecraft took because of the type of technology they were using in the 20th century. Well in paragraph 10 they said that they rolled their spacecraft 25 degrees to center in the Face in the feild of veiw. Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camer's absolute maximum reslotion. Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters, 43 in the 1976 Viking photo. This tells everyone that they did not make their decsion based upon 20th century technology, but they captured thier photo with morden day technology.
In conclusion, I belive that "The Face" was a just a natural landform. I belive this because of the eveidence that NASA provided and the fact that they went back to space and took anthor picture with up to date technology. | 3 |
How would it be to have driverless cars in today's time? Most people would love to have driverless cars becase now we are getting ot where everyone is lazy, and they might think it's just cool. There are some really good things about driverless cars, but there is also some bad thing to them as well. Good things would be things such as
I believe that there should be diriverless cars, but under some conditions. I think that if we would create driverless cars, there would be a lot of people going to sleep while the car is driving itself. I say this because you always can't just trust something with your life on the driverless cars hands. There will also be others that will try to be on their phone the whole time the car is driving instead of paying attention to the road and being alert just incase something happens with the car. They have already made some what driverless cars already. One of the examples of one is in 2013, BMW announced the develomet of "Traffic Jam Assistant." This vehicle can handle speeds up to 25 mph, but the driver still has have hands on the wheel. The human still must be alert to the road so nothing happens to them or someone else.
I think there would be no point of driverless cars if there still has to be a driver. Like Dr. Werner Huber said, "We have to interpret driving fun in a new way." So, I think they should have something entertaining for the other person in the car. They should have something entertaining but not too entertaining causing the driver not to pay attention to the road or get side attracted by the entertainment.
So there are good things and bad things about it. Just have to test them out and get a graph of injuries happened without driverless cars, and with them. It's a cool idea, but i just don't think it's safe in todays society. | 2 |
Seagoing Cowboys is fun and I can tell you all about it and it is amizang, it makes you feel good about yourself. You get to meet many people. You have fun when you go Seagoing Cowboy and treat others well.
There are many reasons you should go Seagoing Cowboys. One cool thing is that you get to see ruins and they are awsome. You will feel good about yourself becuase you do good things for the community around the world. Do you like animals? Well you get to take care of some animals on your way to a place that needs your help. If you thought that was lame well you need to adventure outside a bit more.
There are many things that can support the things I claim. He said in paragragh 5 that besides he gets to help people in need. Another reason is that it keeps you in shape because you help the animals and it evens says it in paragragh 6. When you help others and your a Seagoing Cowboy you will feel good becuase you helped someone that day and it will be fun. You can't explain how awsome it is and you have lots of fun on these trips.
You would love being a Seagoing Cowboy. You get to meet others and you get to be the person who wants to make a diffrence. You can tell your friends that you help people. Those who you help won't forget you becuase you helped them when they needed you. You become a hero to those people that you help. Finally Seagoing Cowboys taked care of animals. | 1 |
In May, 1976, Mars became the center for many conspiracy theories and research for alien life. A picture of what seems to be a huge head in a rock formation was unveiled, and immediately started to sway people's minds that there might be alien life on Mars. Some took this belief way too far. However many conspiracy theories are claiming that the martian mesa in Cydonia is a sign of alien life, none of them are correct. In all truth, it is just another naural land formation on the desolate planet.
When a picture of the mesa was first unveiled to the public, it made so many people believe it was a sign of life on Mars. NASA claimed that is was just a normal rock formation, and was confirmed in 2001 when they took another picture with newer technology, revealing a big mesa with a few craters. People still don't believe NASA that it is just a crater. If the mesa was a sign of alien life, NASA would benefit greatly from it. So when people say that it's a sign of life and NASA knows about it, that's so incredibly wrong because if it was, NASA would be there right now with a rover, exploring the strange sign. NASA has done extensive research on this, and have found no life, while people are claiming huge things like this without doing any research, so it is very hard for anyone to believe them.
The next photo, taken in 1998, of the mesa reveals nothing but a natural landform. When the picture was taken, there were some wispy clouds over the top of it, which made some people believe alien markings were hidden by haze. Even though there is a slight haze over the mesa, there is no way a slight haze could hide alien markings the way some people belive. Even with the haze, the picture is still much more clear than the original photo from 1976.
The newest, and most clear picture is from 2001. It was a cloudless day this time when the Mars Global Surveyor passed over the mesa and snapped a picture of it. The picure was taken using the highest resolution in the camera's capability. This type of quality photography allowed for us, back on Earth, to be able to see if there were even smaller objects on the mesa, like airplanes or small shacks The picture revealed, once again, that there is not really a face on the mesa on Mars. The conspiracy theorists are still coming up with ways to try and find a way to make NASA seem like liars. After 25 years, it still didn't work.
After 25 years, and 3 picture all concluding that the mesa has no sings of life, people are still talking about crazy ideas of life outside of Earth. While there is a possibility of life outside of Earth, there is definitely none currently on the mesa that has created so much controversy, for such a long period of time all around the world. | 3 |
I think that we dont need to keep the Electoral College because it is not a good way for people to vote.
I think how we should vote is by a majority vote where whoever wins the popular vote from all states will win the election and become are president. So whoever gets the most votes per every state that is who will win. One reason why i dont think we need to keep the electoral college is because in the second sorce in paragragh 14 where it says "It's official:The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational." It tells you that the electoral college makes it to where no matter who wins the popular vote the canidate will not win if the electoral college wants something different to happen.
"The Louisiaa legislature early succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. (So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy.)" i wanted to bring this up because if the Electoral Colege did what they were trying to do then Kennedy never would have been the president and who knows what the history of that presidency would be today. The electoral college is good at some times but i think that who ever wins th popular vote should automatically be the president.
In the second sorce paragraph 2 it says "What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college!" According to Al Gore--thanks to the quirks of the electoral college--won the popular vote but did not win the presidency because of the electoral college.
Over 60 percent of the people that vote for the president would rather have a direct election than have the electoral college becuse the electoral college does what they want and they do not listen to the people.
I just think we need to no longer use the electoral college and just go by what the people of America think will be best for this country. | 2 |
Have you ever wondered what students are emotionally expressing? Well now a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System are trying to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom. Do you think the use of this technology is valuable? A new piece of technology is coming out called the Facial Coding System it enables computers to identify human emotions.
A piece of technology that enables computers to identify human emotions is called the Facial Action Coding System. I think the technology is valuble because so that the teachers and students now what each other is feeling. To backup my claim it says in the text " Most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc."
Which means that the technology is valuble so that you don't have to describe it will tell you.
I think that the techology called the Facial Action Coding System would be valuable because it could help with communication so they know if you are sad, happy, etc. In the text it states that " Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication." Which means that most communication is non talking just by emotion.
Finally, my last reason I think that the new technology called Facial Action Coding System is valuable is because it helps produce your facial muscles. In the text it states " According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them". Which means that the technology helps produce your facial muscles.
All in all the technology called the Facial Action Coding System is valuable in many ways. By the facial muscles, the nonverbal communication, and how the students are feeling. There are also many ways to back it up. The Facial Action Coding System is reading the emotional expressions of students. | 2 |
Have you ever thought of exploring Venus? Yes, I know it may sound risky but in "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the auothor says, "our travels on Earth should not be limited by danger and doubts," (para. 8). The author is just saying that you should let anything get in your way. You should always try it even if it's dangers.
The author says that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. In the articke, the author states, "astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system," (para. 4). This is one reason the author wants to study Venus. They that Venus referred to as Earth's "twin." Another reason he/she wants to study Venus is because he/she think that "Venus was probably covered largely with ocenas and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth," (para. 4) This just means that Venus has the same thing that we do on Earth and could be surviable. Still to this day, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth.
For all these reason listed above, is why the author suggests that studying Venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. | 1 |
Venus is well known to be one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. The author believes that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. It may appear that Venus is the scecond planet from sun, its so to call Earth's twin, but although Venus is the second hottest planet. In despite of the conditions Venus may be worthy of pursuit.
Such like Earth, Venus is the closest in terms of density and size. Venus is a challenginhg planet for humans to study. As the authors states "humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land", but unfortunately no spacecraft has survived. It is believe that long ago, "...was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life". The author may believe that Venus isn't a lost cost.
However, Venus has a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide,and it is believe that the average temperature is over 800 degrees. Even though Mercury is clsoer to our sun, Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet. In these conditions Venus is a dangerous planet to study. Although the consequences the NASA has one idea to send humans to study Venus, "...allow scientists to float above the fray". The solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. It may not be easy but are survivable for humans.
In conclusion Venus is an unstable planet to study, Venus may be worthy pursuit despite the dangers of the weather but it may possible to study it above the planet. The author also explains that NASA has a way to study the planet which may be useful but is it worth it? | 2 |
Driverless cars are more expensive and require more attention than what they are worth in and of themselves. Driverless cars will be expensive to manufacture, which will be handed to the consumer in that driverless cars will be more expensive than regular cars. Since driverless cars still require an operator to monitor the enviornment, a person might as well just be driving the vehicle.
Driverless cars either require smarter roads, which will be extremely expensive to upgrade current roads and the cost of that would ultimately be handed down to taxpayers, or require expensive engineering which the cost of would be passed down to consumers.
Driverless vehicles still would require an operator which poses several issues. Drivers could become bored, and even if they had entertainment systems build into the car, drivers would then be distracted from the vehicle's environment in the case where the driver needed to take control of the vehicle. Even if the entertainment systems could shut themselves off in a moment's notice, drivers may not be in a state of mind that is prepared to operate a vehicle in an emergency situation.
The legal challenges facing driverless cars are also not worth fighting. Multitudes of laws would need to be changed in order for driverless cars to be legal. And even if some states legalized driverless cars, then there would be practical issues for consumers. Drivers would not be able to cross state lines if some states legalized driverless cars while others did not. Also, if a driverless car manages to get into an accident, then the quesstion of who would be liable for the accident would pose legal issues. And in the case where one driverless car got into another driverless car, then the law would be especially ambiguous as to who is at fault for such an accident.
In conclusion, driverless cars are more expensive, both in the engineering or upgrading of roads, than what the cars themselves are worth. Driverless cars still require a driver for special cases, such as navigating around accidents or a hazordous environment, which would also require that the driver stay alert and aware of the environment. Driverless cars lastly pose multitudes of legal issues, as laws would need to be changed and written in order for driverless cars to become legal. Driverless cars that require a driver are not worth being driverless. | 3 |
The use of the facial emotion recognizing things can help when kids are stuck on a problem or don't understand it. It may even help explain to a level they understand. It can help with how to teach someone and to read if they are understanding it, not just saying they do.
They could even be more helpful outside of the classroom. When police take somene in for questioning they could have to computer read their face to see if they are nervous or lying. Instead of having a human give their opinion on what they think the person is feeling and giving the job to a computer, that was built to understand and read those things.
It can help a lot with kids who lie and kids who need help and to get their own special level of understanding in thier education. To get things to be understood on a level for them. Not everyone learns the same and doesn't understand things the same way as others. Building this may help kids learn a lot better and give their teachers a better undertanding on how to teach them and what they need. What pace to take it at for that individual childs mind. To help understand better why certain kids are grasping at the subject they struggle in and help them. Maybe they understand it but it doesn't get their attention. The computer could possibly even help on that. It could help so many kids with grades. Could possibly slow the struggle with kids learning. Kids could learn in their own way at their own pace. Maybe not make them feel so scared and confused.
The article stated that it read basic emotions, even a paintings emotions. They think it could help when kids get confused looks on their faces and give them help when needed instead of having to wait for a teacher who has to take care of more than one kid. Could change the way of explaining it to help them, sometimes they just don't understand the way it's explain as others might. The use of this technology could go far, even then could be able to be better with more work done. It may help a lot, in or out of the classroom. | 2 |
Venus, along with Mars are the closest planets to Earth, they also at one point or another might have been similar to our planet. Yet, we have explored Mars much more than we have Venus. Venus has left us mind-boggled on how to study it with it's dangerous conditions, such as the thick acid rain, the average temperature of over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure that is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. Though the exploation is worth these risks for we can explore a planet that scienctists believe could have been once similar our own. Nasa has developed many ideas and solutions to hopefully find new ways to study one of the closest planets to us.
The first way that NASA has created to help us observe Venus is a blimp-like plane to fly over Venus. This idea of the vehicle is stated in paragraph 5, "Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly gorund conditions by staying up and out of their way." Also later on in this paragraph where it states, "At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels." Now these conditions would most defintely be harsh, but would be capable of living through, escpecially astronauts who are/would be trained for these conditions. This would at least give us an above look of Venus and be able to study some of it's physical features.
The problem that NASA would now have is figuring out a way to study up close and on the surface of Venus. They have a solution for this issue as well in the form of old World War 2 computers, the solution to this problem is explained in paragraph 7 as it says,"Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers..." Also further on in the paragraph it reads," The thought of computers existing in those days may sound shocking, but these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all. Modern computers are enormously powerful, flexible, and quick, but tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions." And even later in paragraph seven it states, "By comparsion, systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat and other forces." These older computers would be able to be dropped down onto the surface of Venus and take samples of the terrain and it's geological features allowing NASA and it's scientists to study the information gather and create better models to study more of Venus and understand the planet.
Another way NASA is thinking to study Venus on it's surface is simple electronics, the ideas and princples of these machines are stated in the beginning of paragraph where it states, "For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." The simplified electronics would be used the same way as the mechancial computers, in which to study the terrain of Venus and collect data from Venus and to send it back to NASA allowing them to study the data.
Venus is a very interesting planet with many disadvantages and conflicts like the difficulty of being able to study the planet's terrain or even to be able to observe the planet in a hover-like state from above. If the challenges that NASA faces can be solved with solutions stated above, then Venus could be a very worhty pursuit, so that we may discover the secrets of one of the closest planets to us. | 3 |
As the global concern for the environment increases with time, the desire to use cars decreases. People are aware that cars release fumes which, when combined, can be detrimental for the environment, and they want to do something about it. Elisabeth Rosenthal writes in her New York Times article, "In German Suburb, Life Goes on Without Cars", that up to fifty percent of environmental greenhouse gas pollution comes from the cars driven in American suburbs. In her article, she quotes David Goldberg, an official of Transportation for America, that "All of our [the U.S.A.'s] development since World War II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change". It seems like America, and the rest of the world, is becoming more aware about what cars can do to the environment and that car usage needs to decrease, and they are taking steps to do so. So why should you limit your car usage? By limiting car usage, the average citizen can decrease pollution and harmful greenhouse gases that are causing damage to the environment, improve living conditions in large cities and reduce smog, and feel better in general, with more exercise and less stress.
In the past decade, America has struggled with an obesity epidemic. In the early 2000s, obesity was at its peak, with McDonalds' "Super Size" menu options, huge SUVs, and endless television programs to keep couch potatos on the couch. If you visit New York City's Manhattan, you won't see a whole lot of obese people hurrying down 5th avenue to hop on the subway or pick up groceries at the local market. Why is this? Not many people drive in NYC, mainly because it would be far too expesive to buy and park a car in this already monumentally expensive city. The cars one does generally see are either from out of state, taxis, or businessmen who live in the other boroughs of the city. Very few who live in Manhattan drive. Most people take the subway, walk, or use bikes to get around. Because of the way it's made, everything one needs is just a few blocks away, from the grocery store, to the drugstore, to the postoffice, to the bank, there really is no need to have a car. If you have to go to the airport, just take a cab. Naturally, people who walk and bike everywhere are slimmer and healthier. In the suburbs, this is not the story. Many people in the suburbs drive cars out necessity, because it would take the whole day to walk to the grocery store and back. The way suburbs are set up, walking or biking is almost impossible to do if it's not for leisure. Driving around all day to pick up kids, go to work, and finally pull into the home garage can be draining and stressful. If people were to get around and get exercise at the same time, they would be less stressed and healthier. Andrew Selsky quoted businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza in his article, "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota". Plaza said that, "It's [limiting car usage] a good oppurtunity to take away stress and lower air pollution". Many people are already doing this. Vauban, Germany, is a new "car-free" suburb. In this town, things are close together, just like a city, eliminating the need to use cars. It is not illegal to own a car in Vauban, but people who do must pay a heavy fine and pay for parking on the edge of the city that is also highly expensive. People in the German suburb get along fine without cars, because of the way the city was built. The idea of a "car-reduced" community appeals to the U.S. as well, and legislators and other government officials are trying to make it happen for the environment as well as the sake of the people.
Bejjing is supposedly the most polluted city in the world, and Paris the most beautiful, but Paris is more polluted than one would think. Robert Duffer reports in his article, "Paris bans driving due to smog", that Paris, after suffering from "five days of intensive smog" called for some drivers to abstain from using their cars for the day or face a fine of twenty-two euros. The system was based on license plate numbers. One day, the drivers with even numbered license plates would not be able to drive, the next the ones with odd numbered license plates. This helped reduce smog in the city, which is more polluted than others in Europe like Brussels and London. Once the smog cleared, the ban was rescinded. This ban on cars, although only for a short period of time, is actually a great idea. Emissions from cars cause a large amount of smog to pollute the air, which is bad for both the inhabitants of the city and the environment. The reduction of the use of cars will reduce the amount of smog in the air in large cities, and improve the living conditions in those cities. Almost two centuries ago, smog, soot, and dirt covered Victorian London and its people. This smog was not from cars, but rather from the rising popularity of factories powered by fossil fuels such as coal. Today, all cities of the world are polluted, and almost two hundred years have passed. Shouldn't some improvements regarding the environment and smog in cities have been made by now? There is just as much environmental damage being done as there was in 19th century London, but now, instead of factories being the main cause, it's cars. Although cities are cleaner now, they are just as polluted. In Bejjing, some say the air is so dirty that if you blow your nose, your tissue turns black! It is the 21st century, and we have to be taking strides to improve the environment for the good of the people who live in cities like Paris and Bejjing.
Limiting car usage is important to create a better living environment for people as well as improve their well-being, but the most important reason is to limit pollution and damage to the environment due to emmisions from cars. President Obama, according to Elisabeth Rosenthal in her article, "The End of Car Culture", has "ambitious goals to curb the Unites States' greenhouse gas emissions". If the President of the United States is concerned, this means it is a real problem. The immense amount of greenhouse gases caused by cars has already aided Global Warming and the damage to the ozone layer that exists today. If car usage increases or holds steady, even more damage will be done, so much so that it may become unfixable in the future. If the world does not cut back now on its vehicle usage and reduce environmental damage, things will only get harder to fix. But things are looking good for Mother Nature, because according to all four articles given, including, "In German Suburb, Life Goes on Without Cars", by Elisabeth Rosenthal, "Paris bans driving due to smog", by Robert Duffer, "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota", by Andrew Selsky, and "The End of Car Culture", by Elisabeth Rosenthal, people are already taking steps to reduce the use of cars and better the environment.
Ever since the Model T came out in the early 20th century, cars have become more and more popular in America as well as around the world. They have become so popular, in fact, that they have become a problem. Cars emit harmful greenhouse gases that pollute the environment and cause excess smog in large cities. They can also be stressful and unhealthy for people who depend on them for everyday modes of transport. Limiting car usage is important and will help not only the environment, but also the people of the world. | 4 |
I feel like the use of this technology being able to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not needed in anyway.
I feel this way because in the artical it stated that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored... Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor" (Dr. Huang). That could be useful, the computer notices that the students are bored and some confused, and then it changes to now the students that were bored and confused, now are amused and understand it much better. But the normal teacher that we have already can do that to.
As an example a teacher notice when students are bored, and then swich it up a little so keep things somewhat fresh, and when students get confused, the teacher will do the exact same things, swich some of the lesson up and explain it more. Just like the computer.
As somewhat of a side note, it also feels more natural to be taught by a human. Because its someone who thinks the way you do, understandes you better because they have been through everthing school wise as you. If I had a choise to be taught by a computer or a teacher, I would pick the teacher because a computer might know everything there is to know, but it would make me feel in a way, safer, because I would be talking to a human, something everyone is used to doing.
Overall, I state that it is not valuable because the teacher can almost do the exact same thing as the computer. Yes, teachers maybe not be able to tell that you are 65% bored and 35% confused, but do we really need a computer to tell us this information, because I feel like it would be a waste of money and time, if its something humans can already do and have been doing much longer than any computer has, humans are not as exact as a computer, but we can help out a student, and recognize that the student is confused or bored, and much more. We can help the student, just like a computer. | 2 |
What Would Our Country Yet The World Be Like With Driverless Cars ? Having Driverless Cars Would Have Both Positive And Negative Aspects . Driverless Cars Would Be Positive Aspects Due To The Fact That They Use Half The Feul Of Today's Taxis , They Offer Far More Flexibility Than A Bus Would , And Many Other Aspects . Driverless Cars Would Have Negative Aspects Do To The Fact That The Driverless Cars Can Not Navigate Work Zones Or Go Around Accidents Without A Driver .
My First Reason , That They Use Half The Feul Of Today's Taxis , Is Because Who Wants To Keep Causing Global Warming By The Gases That Come Out Of Your Car ? In Order To Even Have Driverless Cars We Have To Have An Earth To Keep Them On . Global Warming Is Basically Over Heating Our Earth And Is Caused By Many Things Including The Gases That Come From Cars . Using Half The Fuel Of Today's Cars For A Far More Better Transportation Sounds Pretty Good To Me .
My Second Reason , They Offer Far More Flexiblity Than A Bus , Is Because Buses Have Certain Routes And They Hold More Than One Person . I Assume That The Driverless Car Would Be A Mix Of A Bus And A Taxi Not Physically Though . Meaning It Would Pick You Up Wherever You Are Like A Bus And Taxi But It Would Drop You Off At An Exact Location Like A Taxi . Only Its A Far More Upadated Version Meaning Its Takes Half The gass We Use Not & Can Do & Go More Places Then Buses .
But Driverless Cars Have Some Negative Aspects As Well . One reason That They Are Negative Is Because They Cant Navigate Work Zones Without A Driver. So If Your Riding In A Driverless Car It Doesnt Know Where Work Sites Would Be Causing Traffic Jams And Maybe Even Crashes . Everyone Wants To Know Whether Their Drive Home Will Be Safe Or Not . Because There Is No Way For You To Inform A Driverless Car That Work Zones Are Ahead If They Dont Have A Driver .
Last But Not Least A Driverless Car Is Not Able To Go Around Accidents Without A Driver . This Means That The Driverless Car Would Either Do Three Things If Confronted By A Accident . It Would Either Cause A Big Traffic Jam , Cause Another Accident , Or Even Cause Angry Citizens . Everyone Knows An Angry Citize Is Not A Nice Citizen. Then If There Is Already A Traffic Jam Due To The First Accident And A Driverless Care Cant Get Around It , That Would Cause A Huge Traffic Jam .
All In All Those Were My Reasons Why Driverless Cars Are Both Positive And Negative Aspectd . The Positive Aspects Would Be That It Uses Half The Feul Of Today's Taxis And It Offers far More Flexibility Than A Bus . The Negative Aspects Would Be That They Cant Go Around Work Zones Or Accidents Without A Driver . | 2 |
"Do really think the face on Mars was created by aliens?"Chloe said softly. "Yes", said Jeannie. "Jeannie how in the world could you believe that?" Exclaimed Chloe. "I have always been told that and I truly believe that!" said Jeannie. "Maybe one day you will know the truth ,or I could tell you about the truth now if you want?" "Sure lets hear it" softly said Jeannie.
"Well the face on Mars was created naturally because aliens are not real." Chloe quoted. "Yes they are" arrgued Jeannie. "If they are real then where is the proof." Shouted Chloe! "Well you see there really is no proof I just know the face could not have been made naturally." quitely said Jeannie. "Exactally, I have proof and you do not, so I think I am the right one in this arrgument." Fastly said Chloe. "Where is the proof then if you acctually have some?" Snobbily said Jeannie. "My proof is right here. You want me to read it out to you?" said Chloe. "Yeah go ahead", said Jeannie. "Okay, in the story "Unmasking the Face on Mars" paragraph 3 it states that the face is a huge rock formation and the eyes, nose, and mouth are formed from shadows." Claimed Chloe. "Well how is that proof?" asked Jeannie. "The scientist that wrote the story is the one who gave me the infomation from the book. You see the aliens could not just make a rock the shape of a face." Stated Chloe. "Oh I kinda understand where you are coming from Chloe, now to think about it, my story sounds kinda dumb." said Jeannie.
In the end Jeannie really starting understanding me and was less naive towards the world. She kinda realized the rock face was not made by aliens and she kinda led herself to the truth! So it all worked out and we are not arguing anymore about the face on Mars. Acctually in June on the sixteenth day of the 2016th year we are going to Mars to see the face. So I hope you and your people can get through arrguments like we accomplished. | 1 |
I was discussing the face with a friend who thinks it's created by aliens and I think it was not created by aliens. These are my reasons why I think it is a natural landform. NASA and other scientist said it was a natural landform. The face was equivalent of a butte or mesa says NASA.
The face is ether a buute or mesa landforms because it is common around the American West. That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the face on Mars. It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Sanke River Plain of Idaho.
If it was an airplane on the ground orEgyptian-style pyramids or even a small shacks, you could see what they were. Few scientist belived the face was an alien artifact. Defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars.
Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Lab saw it and thought it was another Martian mesa but it had an unusual shadow that made it look like an Egyptain Pharaoh. It had eyes, nose, and mouth as a human. Not everybody was satisfied that it was a natural landform.
These are the reasons why I think the face on Mars is a natural landform and not created by aliens. The face is just another mesa on the planet Mars. Do you think it was made by aliens or just another natural landform on Mars? | 1 |
Students in class are often mistaken for having different emotions than what they actually feel. This new software can have both advantages and disadvantages. Here is my opinion on the subject.
First, the good side of this new software being used in schools. If the software is accurate, it can be used to detect certain students who may be thinking about suicide, hurting another person, etc. It can possibly also detect if a student might be using illegal drugs or alcohol. It will detect students who may need help with work or other things.
However, there are some downsides to this software. It's mainly because of invading anothers privacy, like if a student is having thoughts about another they have feelings for. If it is inaccurate, it can be extremely bad for students. If a student is just angry at family problem, the software might say they're suicidal or are planning something bad.
Those are my thoughts on this new software. I personally don't think its a valuable use for students in school mainly because of privacy. | 1 |
Many people belive that aliens live on mars and how the unuasl things on mars are because of aliens, like this face and im sorry to tell you this,but im not one of those people.
This his face was not created by aliens' I can say your ideas are not as reasonable as the way land is form. See over hundreds and thousads of years land is formed and thats all this face is, a landform.
Many people are on your side about the exstings of aliens which many people beleive in but the only reason most people beleive in ailens are because there are so many movies and television shows on aliens it seems real. There are so many land forms that look unusal that are here on earth, but you can't say aliens made them, we except the fact that it's a land form and not that some unknown creatrue did it. There can be a thousand people saying aliens made the face but no one is going to belive them if they have absoluty no proof at all. See for many years now people have been caling in to say how they saw a flying sawser, we need proof we can't just go off of what someone says and then over half the world belives in somthing thats that NASA as no proof of. At the end of the day there is all ways those three groups out in the world the ones who believe and care, the ones who don't care about any side and the ones who just don't beleive and | 1 |
The Seagoing Cowdays program is a good program if you like spending weeks at a time on a boat. It has great views of the ocean, and if you get up early you might be able to see the sun rising up over the ocean. You will be able to go to most likely new countries all over if you like that stuff, and see new things there also. You can meet new people, see new things, and be aware of their needs. It might be a little risky being on that boat in a storm. When the animals are gone and your on your way to get more there is room and time to do things like baseball, volleyball, table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and much more. Being a Seagoing Cowboy is a huge opportunity and a great adventure. If you do choose to join, then great. I hope you enjoy you adventure and have fun. | 1 |
Scientists wants to keep on exploring venus even tho it is dangerous. One reason I think they should is because they should get information about things they brealy know about. My second reason is because they might find someuseful things if they keep on studing it. My last reason is because it might not be as dangerous as people make it out to be. These are some reason why scientist should keep studing venus.
In addition I do think that the scientist should keep studying venus for some of these reasons. Reason one is because of the information that they can find id they keep looking into it. My second reason is that they might find some useful information if they keep studing the plant. My last reason is because it might not turn out to be a dangerous place as people say it is.
In conclusion I do think its a good idea for people to keep studing venus. My first reason was because it could give the scientist more information on the plant. My second reason was they might find some useful information that coild help them. My last reason was venus might not be a dangerous place as people make it out to be. So i think this is why some scientist should study venus more. | 0 |
Are you for or against the value of using this technology to read students emotional expression? No, I do not believe we as a whole should be able to use this. The reason why I believe this should not happen is because everyone is intitled to their own opinion. The fact that a computer is able to distinguish this type of information is very scary.
In the article the author Nick D' Alto talks about Mona Lisa he says "She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry" (Alto 1). This quote itslef is nerve racking due to the fact that a computer is able to find this information out. Using this type of technology to read students emotional expressions would be helpful but it would not be professional. Honestly who would want to see what a teenager feeling?
There are many other ways this technology can be used such as prison. so we are able to track prisoners feelings. Overall using this type of technology on a group of inncocent people is unprofessional. This type of technology should be controlled in a proper manner. | 1 |
As we all know cars are a big part of our society today. However cars have a bigger impact than we think. Some people can't live without there car. Some people can go their whole life without a car. We may not think about it however there are multiple advantages to not using a car. When we limit our car use it saves the earth also it i said that it takes away a heap load of stress and it saves people money. Just think about it, one day without the use of cars. How would that be?
We we think of saving the earth we think of recycling, reusing things, and reducing. Did you know that passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gases and up to 50 percent in some car intensive areas in the United States.(According to "In German Surburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" By: Elisabeth Rosenthal). In Paris there pollution was almost record setting and so they ordered that even-numbered license plates leave their cars at home or pay a fine of $31. Almost 4000 drivers were fined that day and 27 got their cars impounded. Most of the cars in Paris are diesel ran so the smog is worse. If they would cut down on their car use it would lower the smog.
You might not think of it but if we limited the use of cars it relieves stress. According to "In German Suburb, Life Goes on Without Cars", In Vauban, Germany they have given up their cars. Vaubans streets are completly car free. 70 percfent of Vauban's families do not own cars ansd 57 percent sold a car to move there. Heidrun Walter said"When I had a car I was always tense. Im much happierthis way". According to "Car-free dat in spinning into a big hit in Bogota" by Andrew Selsky in Bogota,Columbia they have been without cars for 3 years. Also Carlos Arturo Plaza said "It's a good opportunit totake awat stresss and lower the air pollution".
According to "The End of Car Culture" by: Elisabeth Rosenthal recent studies show that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licences as each year goes by. The number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily afterwards, according to an analysis by Doug Short of Adivor Perspectives. People who stopped driving there cars as a result of hard times may not find a reason to go back to driving if they are saving money.
So I believe that they're many reason to have a car. However they're many advantages to limiting your car use. You can think of yourself as doing a good deed to the earth when walking somewhere or riding your bike are catching the bus. You can have a clear mind and seize stressing so much. Also you can save money I think that everybody likes to save money one way or another. Instead of drivng your car to the mall you can save that money and catch the bus to the mall and buy that new purse that you have been dying to get. | 3 |
The election for the president of the United States uses the outdated Electoral college system. The Electoral College system should be retired and the election should be changed to popular vote for the president. Even though Electoral college avoids run-off elections, it is still corupt. We should change to popular vote because The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. Therefore The electoal college should be abolished.
To commense, the electoral college is unfair. The system uses the winner-take-all system in each state."Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates dont spend time in states they know the have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states."(13) said by the office of the Federal Register. For example, during the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all. Thus making the electoral collge unfair.
In adition, The Electoral College is outdated. The voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors. The slate electors elect the president not the voters."If you lived in Texas, fr instance, and wanted to vote for [John] Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry."(10) examole by the Federal Register. This proves that the system is outdated and the voters should elect the president.
In addition, The Electoral college is irrational. One of the most worrying prospect is the tie in the electoral vote. If this occurs the elction would be handed off to the House of Representatives, where state delgations vote on the preident. Pretty much the Senate would choose the vice-president."The election is only a few swing voters away from catastrophe." (12)said by the Federal Register. this is very unconvient if occurs during election.
All in all, the State Senator should abolish the Electoral College system and change the electoin to popular vote. The electoral college system is unfair to voters. The system is outdated. And the system is overall irrational. Therefore the State Senator should abolish the Electoral College system and use the popular vote system in the election for the president for the United States. | 2 |
The" "Face" may look like it's a human face but it's not. Anything can make anything look drastic or cool. But there is no way that it could be a human inside of Mars. It's way to sketchy for it to be like that. So I'm gonna go ahead and tell you why I think this is why I don't think it is a human at all.
The face structure hasn't changed any of those pictures. If it was human, in a couple of months or years (maybe), your body becomes rotton and turn into nun but bones. If it was human, then it would have body parts along side with it. There's no body parts near it except rocks and holes. Besides, the picture look like it was taking from a pretty far distance for the head is bigger then that boulder next to it.
The fact that I know that it's not a face, notice how by years go by, the face starts looking like an sand temple. The thing with it is that on the top of it, it looks like another face on it, like a rebuilded electronic robot. But, when 2001 came by, it started looking like an a map or a super hard shell. All of these things that were on Mars looks different by the years. Now, in 2016, I bet it looks like a guided map to wear it started to wear it landed at.
There's no doubt that this is just some random structure because there were no oxygen, nor water, on mars, in 1976. It's pretty much impossible to live there unless, your from NASA. Then again, there still are rumors about alien's existing. So what if there was a alien who killed an human and left it there? If you notice now, the structure of the "Face", how it fades away, it starts looking like an cracked shell.
I want to believe that there is life on Mars, but the thing is that Mars "probably" have alien's there. As no one has thought about it, alien's could be legit. Just because we see a face on Mars means one thing, but the fact that it's whole entire bottom half of it's neck-to-bottom part is gone. Just because it changed up doesn't mean,"Oh, it must have cleared up since it's been there for a while". I doubt that because, no human being can walk on Mars with no protection on that can keep him/her alive. If your going to Mars, make sure you need a quite bit of protection. But, if you actually do see an alien, just run, because it's best staying alive instead of wind up dead in the middle of no were on Mars. | 1 |
NASA is over reacting over this face on mars because they think aleins did it, they been taking alot of photos, and they been showing it to the public. NASA should stop this because it could be just a natural landform.
NASA thinks aliens made the face because it looks like a face. Studys show that it could be a natural landform like a butte or a mesa just like we have on planet Earth. NASA argues that aliens could be hiding their markings behind a haze. Critics argue that it could be a natural landform. NASA took a photo of the face and it appeared to look like a butte or mesa.
NASA should stop taking photos of the face because they already have enough pictures of the face to look at. In 1976 the took a photo of the face by using Viking 1. Nasa argues that they can get better views when take new photos. critics argue that you dont need that much of photos to figure out what the face is. In 2001 they used the Viking to take a photo of the face and they got back a good photo. It showed that it was a natural landform and it looked like a butte or a mesa.
NASA should stop showing it to the public because they know what the face is, and people dont need to worry about it. The face starred in a Hollywood film, and appeared in books. NASA argues that they need to get the information out to people. Critics argue that people dont need to worry about it and get freaked out about it. The face was on talk shows, checkout lines for 25 years, and in magazines. This shows that the face was out in the public for people to see.
In conclusion NASA is over reacting over this face on mars because they think aliens did it, they been taking alot of photos, and they been showing it to the public. I think NASA should stop taking photos and reasearching the face because its a butte or a mesa. | 2 |
The new FACS (Facial Action Coding System) could help out in a classroom setting. This software could help teachers make class work that keeps kids intrested and ingaged. The software could also help teachers know which students need help, both in class and out of class.
The FACS software works using the 44 major muscles in the human face to identify "6 basic emotions; happiness, suprise,anger, disgust, fear,and sadness." The computer will make "a 3-D model of the face" of all 44 major muscles. Then as the actual person moves their face the program will measure the emotion they are showing. In a classroom setting this can be used to see if a child is intrested or confused about what they are learning. Then could potentaly "modify the lesson" or notify a teacher that said student was confused or bored during the lesson. This software could also help detect if a student is depressed. If a student if going through something mentally the software can "indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forces one." If the computer is showing that a student is showing a lot of sad or forced facial expressions then it could notify the teacher. Then the teacher could try to help that student with whatever it is that might be troubling them.
Adding FACS to school settings would help teachers teach at the right pace, keep students on task, even help students become smarter. By reading a students emotions the teachers can help in so many ways. Schools should look into adding a system like FACS into classrooms. | 2 |
Even though, driverless cars seem to be easier and better than a self driving car, they have possible negative outcomes. Some people would get a driverless car because of lazyness or not wanting to driving. A driverless car could have good and bad outcomes. "Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash, but so far, Google cars aren't truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driverways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents." Whether the driver wants to drive or not they still would have to stay aware and watch the road at all times.
There are many reasons some people wouldn't get a driverless car.Driverless cars are created to further lazyness. People would start texting and being on the phone as the driverless car drive. That can still cause an accident, technology have issues and powerdowns often. You can't depend on technology for everything. The main reason some wouldn't buy the driverless car is because of safety reasons. "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers. Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." People feel as if anything can happen and go wrong dealing with a driverless car. It's as if you are risking your life for a free ride with no safety guarantees. Another reason some may turn down a driverless car is because they are expensive. "The car read the positive and negative polarity as messages in binary codes. These smart road systems worked surprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical." Theseare just the main issues dealing with an driverless car.
On the otherhand, some may think a driverless car is way better than a regular car. Only because they don't really have to do anything. They can relax in the driver seat and cruise around. It's nothing wrong with having relax time while your car drive you itself. They are still developing new safety ideas for the driverless car. "GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over. Other options under consideration are flashing lights on the windshield and other heads-up displays. Manufacturers are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road. While the driver watches the roas, the car watches the driver." These ideas will insure safety to the people. Aslong, as the driver stay alert while the driverless car is driving everything should go well. People have their different reasons on why they should and shouldn't buy a driverless car, but even with a regular car you can still have accidents. To be on the safe side, always pay attention to the road for your own safety. | 3 |
If you wanna travel tons of times and help others you should join the Seagowing Cowboys they help others by providing people food, animals, and more. In the passage it said that fourty-four nations combine to form the UNRRA, also known as the United Nations Relief and Rehabailitation Administration. You should definately join because you are helping others even thogh it might be fun to travel its also a great feeling when you help others. Those are some reasons you should join the Seagoing Cowboys.
According to the article Don and Luke signed up to take care of the horses, young cows, and mulesthat were shipped overseas. Luke traveled many times traveling more than any other Seagoing Cowboy at 9 times. He liked traveling but he really like supporting others. For example when Europe was left in ruins as wll as many other countries the Seagoing Cowboys would help them which I can imagine was a tremendes feeling. People will appreciate you more for helping others. Thats another reason you should be a Seagoing Cowboy.
In the story it said that the Seagoing Cowboys went to Greece witha cargo of 335 horses and enough hay and oats to feed them so that they would be healthy which also means that they help the animals too. It also said in the article that being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than a adventure for Luke Bomberger, it opened up the world to him, he even said "I'm grateful for the opportunity. This is especially a good reason because he even said that it was great which means from his prospective he appreciated the oppotunity.
Luke was thankful to help others maybe you will be too.
These are some reasons you should join the Seagoing Cowboys you will find it fun and helpful to help others. Maybe you'll find it in your heart that you will help others. | 2 |
Dear State Senator,
I think we should get rid of the Electorial college because they are unfair. There are only a few reasons to why we need the Electorial college. I think we should get rid the college because it is a non- democratic method of selecting our president. It shoule be overruled by declaring the candidate who got the most popular votes. Its the electors who select the president not the people. When you vote, you are actually voting for a slate of electors.
Another reason why would get rid of the Electorial college is because of the winner takes all system. Canadiates dont spend time in the states they know have no chance of winning. They only focused on the tight races in the "swing" states. During the 2000 capaign, seveteen states did not see the the candidates at all including Rhode Island and South carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets did not see a single campaign.
It can be argued that the Electorial College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state, demo crates in texas, or reblicans in California for example. Knowing their vote will have no effect, they have less incntive to pay attention to the campign thean they would have if the president were picked by popular vote... The voters in presidential elections are people who to want to express a political preferance rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election.
Whats wrong the Electorial College?
When we are under the Electorial College system , voters vot not for the president, but they vote for slate of electors. For example if you lived in texas and wanted to vote for [John] kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 democratic electors pledged to Kerry. On the off chance that those electors won the statewide election, they would go to congress and Kerry would get 34 electorial votes. These electors could be anyone not holding public office. Plus voters can not control who the electors vote for. Voters end up getting confused because of the candidates the electors vote for. | 3 |
The Face was discovered forty years ago by scientists at NASA who saw the FAce for the first time and said it was a martian mesa. Later when the photo was released to the public conspiracy theorists believed the Face was an alien artifact, but the picture was taken on an older camera on the Viking I that the photo was fuzzy and no one could be sure of what was on the Face. Twenty-two years later another photo was taken with a camera ten times sharper than the original viking I photo. Still some people believed it was an alien artifact and the clouds on mars covered some alien markings that may have been covered by haze. Some theorists believed that NASA was trying to hide evidence of alien life on Mars. Others questioned theorists about why NASA would want to hide something like that and how it would benefit scientists at NASA. Three years later another team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution. When conspiracy theorists saw the picture had no markings of alien origin and saw it was just a bute or mesa like landforms found in the American West. | 0 |
The technology to read the emotional exspressions of student is a classroom is valuable because the computer can express how we feel, it can tell if your bored or not, some think the computers need to learn nonverbal communication.
The computer can tell your emotion. Dr. Paul Eckman the creator of FACS ( Facial Action Coding System) has classified six basic emotions they are happiness,surprise,anger,disgust,fear,and sadness. They each associate with the characteristic movement of the facial muscles.
The computer can tell if your bored or not. they have indicated the difference between a genuine smile and a forced smile. A real smile or in other words the Ztgomatic major ( muscles that begain at your cheek bones) lift the corners of your mouth. In a false smile the mouth is stretched sideways using the Zygomatic major and a different muscle called the risorius.
Some think the computers need to learn non verbal communication. In the article it says imagine a computer that knows your happy or sad. for example, if you smile when the web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might fallow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different. A classroom computer can tell if the students are becoming confused or bored. Dr. Huang thinks he can modify the lesson, like an effective human instructer. " Most humans Communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication."
Notes Dr. Huang " So Computers Need to Understand that, too."
Yes this is valuable in a classroom. this is because computers express how we feel, they can tell if your bored or not, and some people think they need to learn nonverbale communication. | 2 |
The Facial Action Coding System is a new innovation that can change classrooms forever. Imagine lessons that are specifically designed to fit your learning style and interests. Using this technology, you can learn lessons that enhance as they go.
If you are in a class with a bunch of other students, the way the lesson is administered can be very generic. Some students may get bored with the way the lesson is being taught. By using the Facial Action Coding System, the computer can identify that a student is bored. It can then go on to modify the lesson to better engage the student. The methods that best help students learn are unique to each individual, so using this technology can make for more engaged and enthusiastic learners.
Some lessons can move too quickly or can simply be difficult to understand. The Facial Action Coding System can detect confusion in students and make changes to the lesson to help the student better understand. The technology can slow the lesson to a pace best suited for the individual. It can also modify the lesson so it is put into terms that the student easily understands. This allows students to move at their own pace and have a better understanding of what they are being taught.
The Facial Action Coding System can also detect when a student is enjoying their lesson. This information can be used to enhance teaching altogether by providing a baseline method for planning each lesson. It can be used to determine what methods are most commonly understood and allow for the modification of lessons for people that don't have access to the technology. By getting a baseline, the information can then be utilized in classrooms even without the technology.
Although there is no definite way to ensure that students will completely understand the things they are taught, the Facial Action Coding System can definitely enhance learning for a better understanding. By being able to detect satisfaction, confusion, and boredom in students the technology can allow more students to learn and enjoy what they're learning. | 3 |
Studying venus is a worthy pursuit becaue it is a well known planet , venus is the closet planet to earth and also has the hottest surface temperatue of any planet in our solar system . '' astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well once have been the most earth-like planet in our solar system '' this shows that venus is a likely planet. There are numerous factors contribute to venus's reputation as a challenging planet for human to study , However NASA is working on other ways to study venus . ''Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to out knowledge of venus '' this shows that its alot to learn about venus ."striving to meet the meet the challenge presented by venus has vaulse , not only because of insight to be gained on the planet itself , but also because of human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. this shows that venus is challeging despite the dangers | 0 |
New development for cars would be a great idea because the world is constantly changing. People who are developing new things like cars are making the world more advanced. It would be a great to have new technology so people can live easier.
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" the author talks about both the pros and cons of having new devolopment for cars. They discuss types of cars that are newer, and how they could be better for the environment. Later the author talks about sensors. The author tells the readers that "within 10 years, those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers." That proves that even old technology can advance itself within short amounts of time.
New developments are amazing things that happen in this world because the smarter, and more advanced the world gets the easier people can live. Scientists should go beyond car and phone advancements, and move on to bigger subjects like finding more cures for diseases. Overall, new deveopments are a great idea, and should keep being pursued. | 1 |
Becoming a Seagoing Cowboy has a lot of ups and downs but the ups are accually pretty cool like;
You might find an uncharted island and make a lot of money off of it. You would see interesting and cool places while you were travleing to the destination. I have always wanted to go to Ireland but i dont think that i will ever go there... Unless i become a SeaGoing Cowboy of corse!
You get a lot of excersise by traveling a lot. If you are the kind or person who really likes to travel, then you would like to be a SeaGoing Cowboy. You get a chance to be on a boat in the open sea. I would really like to be a SeaGoing Cowboy because your always out at sea and i love the ocean, i could live on the ocean if I could.
You would try new things on the on the way like you would land on countries or islands that you have always wanted to go to. You might also get respect from the other landgoers. I mean, who wouldn't like to have respect from other people! (Plus you get an awesome name) "Seagoing Cowboy" sounds cool huh? Yeah.
So try it, it might be your kind of thing, or maybe you could just sit around at home doing dishes, chopping logs or something, Who knows maybe you will become a SeaGoing Cowboy one day. | 1 |
Dear Senator,
As you may know, there is a huge dilema with the voting system we have as of right now. I am writing to you because it is in our best interest to abolish the Electoral College and change election to popular vote for the next presidential election. The reasons we should make this change is because the Electoral College is unfair for voters, also a disaster waiting to happen and the popular voting system bring so many more benefits and opportunities for the people.
The Electoral system simply takes away the people's say on who they think the best candidate is. It is simply unfair for the voters. In this system, according to the second source, popular vote, which is what the majority people select, most of the time loses the election due to the Electoral System. An Example used in this source was the 2000 election with Al Gore, he had won the popular vote, but had lost the election thanks to the Electoral College. With this system in play, voters cannot control who they want to vote for and that is not how it should be. In source one, it clearly states most states have a "winner-take-all" type of system that awards all electors of that state to the specific candidate, which is the complete opposite of benefiting the people, because not everyone in that state wants to vote for that specific candidate. Source 3 says big states that a larger state gets more attention than a smaller state does because of the amount of votes, however some states claim they never even got to see a presidential campaign had because of how small the states was. Its is Unfair to these states which include Rhode Island, South Carolina. It takes away opportunities from these smaller states.
In source two, Bradford Plumer mentions the single best argument against the Electoral College, which he calls the "disaster factor". Voters vote not for the president but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. This means that voters dont really have control on who they vote for, as mentioned before. The Electors can defy the will of the people, the only reason people vote, in this system, is to "sway the opinion". This is known as the "disaster factor", the electors defying the will of the people. Another problem with this system is that if there is a tie, it is definately out of the peoples choice. The decision is left to the House Of Representatives. The Electoral College is a disaster waiting to happen, like a bomb ticking, at some point in time, it will explode.
The benefits of switching to popular vote really pays off. With popular vote, these issues adressed would not be a problem at all, such as the unfairness to voters, the disasters awaiting to happen with the Electoral College. The only downside to this is that it will take a little longer to count the votes and finalize the election, but it is worth it. All voters would be at peace of mind knowing that their vote actually counted for something. In my opinion, this is the best choice and option out there. We need to get rid of the Electoral College because it brings us no good at all. We could finally stop worrying about the timer!
I hope you take this into consideration.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
To be honest I think It should not be car driving by themselves because, for one the car can lose control of itself and cause alot of damage and danger. Cars are made for people to drive in not for them to drive on their own. If them cars drive on their own people will be scared and will be distracted by the car. Them cars can be stolen from people with no problem. They say the want cars that can drive on there own but who are going to pay for them if they get into an accidents? Why would somebody eventhink of cars driving on them own so many bad things can happen to people, they can get hurt or cause possibly die & who going to pay for the person hospital bill. So thats why I say they dont need to make cars that can drive on their own because they can run out of gas or make a mistake and go over the speed limit, who the police going to give the ticket to? So thats why I said they dont need to make cars that can drive on their own. | 0 |
Most people know the dangers and risk of venus but why would anyone be detrermined to explore Earth's "twin". exploring this planet will allow more knowledge to the experts and allow to educate the society. Despite the dangers, we might get something good out of taking the dangerous risk.
Why would a scientis put people at risk for such a planet? The author is giving the idea that it might be possible for humans to study Venus. The author says " Venus would allow scientist to float above the fray." (paragraph 5) If you even had a chance to explore something different and be part of it, would you?
"NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus"(paragraoh 7) NASA is coming up with different technology to be able to move farther to study Earth's "Twin". " electronics made of silicon carbride have been tested" this is one way they are trying to advacne technology to be able to study Venus. The scientist would taker such a risk to because NASA is inhancing their technology. NASA is even building " mechanical computers" which was important to World War 2 becasue of the calculations it made. If this computer made calculations for the war then it would probably have a lot of effect to the scientist on exploring Venus.
If you had the chance to ecxplore Venus and be apart of what's goign to happen would you? Even though Venus is a dangerous risk, people and experts would love to know the knowledge that the planet will give us. We also woudln't have as big as a risk if these technologies would work out. Maybe the scientsit aren't so wrong on this mission I mena they are experts. Scientit would love to the risk to expirence Venus, give information to others, and have our society grow more in education. | 2 |
Venus is a planet that is like Earth, only without life and water. It is the second closest planet to the sun. This makes it the hottest planet, hotter than Mercury, which is closer to the sun. This planet is special, though. It keeps people from examining it closely because of its conditions. The planet is too hot, the pressure is high, and it also has a thick atmosphere that makes it hard to see, but we can overcome that with some ideas and by studying it more.
Venus is like Earth in a lot of ways. It is believed to have had water and life on it before, and it even has physical features like Earth. It also is almost the same size and density as Earth. Scientists want to explore this because it is there first option for space travel. Earth is sometimes closer to Venus than it is to Mars. They want to find out the best way to make it hospitable for people to live there. They have sent unmanned probes there to scout out the territory and to find samples and more evidence that could help them. However, the probes don't last long because of the harsh atmosphere.
There are a couple reasons why it is hard to study. The planet is simply too hot and melts metals easily and quickly. The pressure is higher than our ocean, meaning it can crush us and even a submarine easily. There is also a thick atmosphere made of 97% carbon dioxide that blocks our vision. There are clouds of highly corrosive sulferic acid in the atmosphere too. There are also casual earthquakes, lightining, and volcanoes erupting. Scientists want to discover more things about Venus because it was like Earth, and the won't stop.
There are a couple of things that scientists have though of so far. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has though of a flying craft that is in the air above the surface of Venus. This way its not too hot and the pressure isn't too high. However, this won't work because they still can't see past the dense atmosphere. There are more tests like putting things in a simulation of Venus's surface to see how long it could last. There is also a thought of making the machines not so fragile like our technology these days that can be more resistant to the forces of Venus.
The author thinks that overcoming the obstacles and challenges that Venus has for us has value. He thinks this because it will lead us into more exciting "endeavors." The author thinks that our travels shouln't be limited. He believes they should be expanded " to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." I believe the author wants to know more and is curious about the unknown. The author does a great job showing all of the dangers and benefits of traveling and examining Venus. Even the title shows that it won't be easy. The planet is currently too hot, it blocks our vision from above, and the pressure is too high, but we can overcome that by making more ideas and by studying this planet more. | 3 |
Why We Should Study Venus
What is venus like on the surface? In this passage the author suggest that studying venus is worthy pursuit despite the danger it present.Their are risks when trying to study another planet.Their are also material on venus that is the same or earth years ago.Their are also benifit if we can sucessfuly studying venus such as blimp-like vehicle.We should study venus because of the benifit and the technology it can provide us.
Risks, A thick atmostpher of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide cover Venus.On the surface of venus the temperture average over 800 degree fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on earth.Venus has the hottest surface in the solar system.In additional there are erupting volcanoes,powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning.Even more challenging is that it has the sulfuric acid in venu's atmosspher which makes entering the planet challenging for object to enter.
Venus was a earth-like planet long ago.Venus was probaly covered in largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, like earth.Today, Venus still have some feature that are simlar to earth. The planet have features such as valleys, moubtains, and craters.There is also that venus can be sometime be our nearest option for a planetary visit.
Their are some benifits such as having a blimp-like vehicle hovering over the roiling venusian landscape for scientists to study venus.Like our airplane could fly over storms , a vehicle hovering over venus would avoid the unfriendly gound condition by staying up and out of their way.The hovering vehicle can avoid danger.Howerver looking at venus from above in a hovering vehicle can provide only limited insight on ground condition because most form of light can not penetrate the dense atmospher.There are many researchers who are working on innovating machines to last longer on the surface on venus to study it.Venus has value, not because of all the gains we get from it but also from our human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors.
Venus have a vary hot surface about 800 degree in fahrenheit.
Their are also risks invloving this expadition such as atmospher pressure.
Venus was like earth a long time ago, Today it still have many features like earth such as valley, mountains, and craters.Some benifits are that we could have a hovering vehicle over venus for sicentists to study it.The author supportes his idea really well saying why we should study venus. | 3 |
Join the Seagoing Cowboys program, you can experience different adventures from all around the world.
Body#1: In the program, you can experience different countries and adventures from all around the world. You can also visit places you have not been to before. After you come back home, it can make you more aware of people in different countries.
In the program, you go from country to country delivering horses, mules, supplies and also sometimes food. Joining this program is very helpful to the citizens/people living in these countries because of World War II.
Although, joining this program can sometimes be very dangerous. From high waves and huge thunderstorms, to slipping overboard and getting very wet and ice-cold. Sometimes, you are elected to be a night watchman and check on the animals hourly, but just be careful about where you step because you might slip and fall down the side of the ship.
Now that I've told you everything about the program, who wants to join? | 2 |
I'm trying to convincing you to be a Seagoing Cowboys program, because one reason, why you should be in the Seagoing Cowboys, is that you can take care of the animals, if you like animals a lot.
Other reason why you should be in the Seagoing Cowboys program, is that you will go other part of the world, or even making new friends there.
But, it will take about two weeks to get to the place your going to get the animals, or getting back your home.
Other reason why you should be in the program because you will get pay, and you are helping people to get more animals, or food. When you become a Saegoing Cowboys you will take care of the animals almost every hour. You got to feed the animals, clean the animals, and give the aniamls to the people you were going to help them get animals.
When you get the animals you will be them in a room, and you will go to a small ship, but not that small.
At night you need to check the animals every hour, even if it raining, or when the sea is dangers. Well I hope that I convince you to become a Seagoing Cowboys program. | 1 |
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