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2e94a27 | I believe students should be able to use the new technology called the Facial Action Coding System.
It could help improve student's interest in the subject.
The technology could also enforce students to want to get better grades.
Using the Facial Action Coding System could benefit the classroom and students.
The software could help improve student's interest because it could modify the lesson like an actual teacher.
The system would detect that you were bored and most likely make it entertaining.
It is valuable because the coding helps teachers understand how to change their teaching format.
In the text it states, "A class room computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored.
Then it could modify the lesson like an effective human instructor"(Dr. Huang).
It could also help students want to get better grades.
If they notice that the software is changing to the students benefit, then maybe they will start enjoying the class more and take it more seriously.
With the Facial Action Coding System, I could see no downfall.
The new technology is valuable for students in class or at home.
It helps them understand what is going on in class.
There is also a more personal experience with the software compared to basic lessons.
The Facial Action Coding System makes it to be as if there is a teacher in front of you when you are at home.
In the future this technology will probably make classrooms and students more advanced. | 23 |
b28b002 | People have studied the many planets in our solar system and are fastinated by them. People have also studied the solar system to help explore and give information about the planets around us. One planet that scientists have studied for a good amount of time is Venus since it shows that at one time, the planet might have inhabited living organisms. However, Venus is a very dangerous planet since many attempts of landing spacecraft has failed on Venus and the clouds of the planet are made of sulfuric acid. Venus is not worth the pursuit of knowledge since the planet has a very dangerous enviorment for humans and that not a single spacecraft has landed safely on the planet and returned. The cost and risk of exploring Venus is not worth the infromation we would achieve.
Venus has a enviorment of very dangerous elements that can harm many living organisms and even nonliving objects. According to the article, 97 percent of the atmosphere of Venus is carbon dioxide, which is unable to be breathed by humans. Another detail the article states is that on the surface of the planet, the average temperatures is over eight hundred degrees. The climate and enviorment of Venus is too dangerous for exploration. The planet does not hold nowhere near a safe enviorment for people or even machine.
Another detail about Venus is that no spacecfaft has made a journey back from the planet. The article says, ¨... humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world,¨ and then says ¨... since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours.¨ If a spacecraft made by people can not survive the landing on Venus numerous times, how can we even come close to surviving the trip? Venus is too dangerous to explore and it is a waste to even send a spacecraft. The spacecrafts cost a good amount of money to make and for them to be wasted on a inhospitable planet is not worth the information we would achieve.
NASA has came up with a ¨solution¨ of the problemof gaining knowledge of Venus which is for a vehicle to hover over Venus and scientists would safely observe the planet that way. However, the article says that this can only give us a limited amount of information on Venus since the planet has a very dense atmosphere. The effort of creating a vehicle to hover the planet only to gain bits of knowledge is redundant and is not going the benefit anyone´s cause.
Venus is not worth the time, effort and resources to explore. The planet proves to be too dangerous for mankind and even for machines. Curiosity is not sufficiant enough of a reason to explore and learn about a inhospitable planet unless it is going to benefit mankind more than what it costed to gain that information. The resources that are going to Venus should be redirected to another cause that will benefit society and life as we know it. | 34 |
b2c2b7a | Have you ever been in school and not understood, didn't want to do it, or just was bored with your school work. I think mostly everyone in the world has gone throw that and that can affect you in the future, also on and what you have learned in school. I think this new computer sytem can help and change that. One it helps the teacher find better way to teach there students. Two it helps the children learn better. Finally it can be that start of new inventins to help the children work and learn better in school.
The fist reason why i think this computer system would help in schools is becuse it can help the techer find better way to teach there students. Teacher can get reports on what students emotions are during a lesson to see if there needs to be a change. This can also help let teachers know mostly which students need more help that others. Also with students who are just bored with the lesson and it makes them not want to work. This can be supported by paragraph six"A classrom computer could reconize when a student is confused r bored" Dr. Huang predicts"Then it could modify the lesson, ike an effectiv human instructor."
The second reason why i think this system would be valuable in school is because it helps the kids learn better. One it can chnge the lesson when it sees a child is behind to help them catch up, confused to help them understand better, or bored to make the lesson more enterting to help hem focuse. This idea chan chage so many students lives for the better. This is why i think it would help students learn better.
Finally I think it can help start new ideas to help better school. If this compuer system works it can inventors start to think of new ideas to make school an easier place to learn. This can help people make inventins for even more things like what kinds of foods students should eat to find when a student has something that been bring harm t other students . This is only a few of the many reasons why this cud help start the ideas for new inventions on how to make school better.
In conclusion i think this computer system i valuable and can make school a etter place. One because it an help teacher. Two it helps children lern better. Lastly it can lead to new ideas to make school better. How do you feel about this new computer system do you thin its valuabel. | 34 |
455511f | A Car Free Future?
Is the car necessary in the 21st Century? Many city planners and government officals around the globe dont think so. Car free days are becoming common place in Europe and South America, and in the German town of Freiburg, an upscale neighborhood where cars are banned, has been a kind of experiment for larger towns and cities without cars. In Paris smog levels have gotten so high, that people have been asked not to drive their cars, in order to reduce pollution levels.
In the United States, the number of miles driven peaked in 2005, but has dropped nine percent since then. This is largely due to the 2008 recession, but also due to more people becoming educated about the effects that cars have on the environment. More people are choosing to take public transport, or carpool, because mainly it's cheap, and it's good for the environment.
Many key sociologists believe that this trend will continue. One of those sociologists is Professor Mimi Sheller, Diector of the Mobilities Research and Policy center at Drexel University. "Different things are converging which suggest that we are witnessing a long-term cultural shift" there are many factors that point to the "major cultural shift" that Proffesor Shelley referred to. For example,the renewal of city centers has made the suburbs seem less appealing, and has drawn many people into the cities. Many carpooling apps have appeared in the last 2 years.
Better cities, more public transport, and an increase in telecommunications is the start of a global movement to reduce pollution and increase efficiency. the age of the car is coming to an end. | 23 |
221dbc7 | BASED ON THE INFORMATION IN THE ARTICLE CALLED CAR FREE CITIES. IN SOURCE ONE GERMAN SUBURB,LIFE GOES ON WITHOUT CARS BY ELISABETH ROSENTHAL IN PASSAGE FIVE IT SAIS "AUTOMOBILES ARE THE LINCHPIN OF SUBURBS, WHERE THE MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES FROM CHICAGO TO SHANGHAI TEND TO MAKE THEIR HOMES.AND THAT EXPERTS SAY, IS A HUGE IMPEDIMENT TO CURRENT EFFORTS TO DRASTICALLY REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM TAILPIPES." IN THE SAME PASSAGE IT SAIS THAT "PASSENGER CARS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR 12 PERCENT OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN EUROPE AND UP TO 50 PERCENT IN SOME CAR INTENSIVE AREAS IN THE UNITED STATES."
IN SOURCE TWO PARIS BANS DRIVING DUE TO SMOG BY ROBERT DUFFER. IN PASSAGE 14 IT SAID THAT "CONGESTION IS DOWN 60 PERCENT IN THE CAPITOL OF FRANCE, AFTER FIVE DAYS OF INTENSIFYING SMOG. THE SMOG RIVALED BEIJING, CHINA, WHICH IS KNOWN AS ONE OF THE MOST POLLUTED CITIES IN THE WORLD." DRIVING CAUSES THE BUILD UP OF POLUTION WHICH CAN BE DANGEROUS.
IN SOURCE THREE CAR FREE DAY IS SPINNING INTO A BIG HIT IN BOGOTA BY ANDREW SELSKY. IN PASSAGE 24 IT SAIS THAT "ITS A GOOD OPPROTUNITY TO TAKE AWAY STRESS AND LOWER AIR POLUTION," SAID BUSINESSMAN CARLOS ARTURO PLAZA AS HE RODE A TWO SEAT BICYCLE WITH HIS WIFE". IN PASSAGE 28 OF ARTICLE THREE IT SAIS THAT "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; AND NEW RESTAURANTS AND UPSCALE SHOPPING DISTRICTS HAVE CROPPED UP."
IN SOURCE FOUR THE END OF CAR CULPTURE BY ELISABETH ROSENTHAL. IN PASSAGE 34 IT SAIS "MANY SOCIOLOGISTS BELIEVE IT WILL HAVE BENEFICIAL IMPLICATIONS FOR CARBON EMISSIONS AND THE ENVIROMENT, SINCE TRANSPORTATION IS THE SECOND LARGEST OF AMERICA`S EMISSIONS, JUST BEHIND POWER PLANTS."
SO AS IT SAIS IN THE ARTICLE CAR FREE CITIES. THE ADVANTAGES OF LIMITING CAR USAGE ARE BETTER FOR THE ENVIROMENT AND HEALTHIER FOR US TO BREATH IN, THE COMMUNITY COMES TOGETHER WHICH HELPS CREATE A WALK THROUGH TOWN A NICE AND STRESS FREE WAY TO GET TO YOUR DESTINATION, AND IT ALSO HELPS MAKE THE COMMUNITY BE HEALTHIER AS A WHOLE. | 23 |
b512b19 | The Challenge of Exploring Venus, Venus is called the "Evening Star" it's one of the brightest stars in the nigh sky. Venus is a planet its the second planet from the sun. The atmopshere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. NASA is tring other approaches to study Venus. Venus is a planet trying to be explored and studied.
Venus is the second planet in line to the sun. Earth's twin is Venus, Venus is the closest planet to Earth in density and the size. Earth, Venus and Mars are neighboring planets they all orbit the sun at different speeds. No man has been on Venus NASA has tried to send spaceships up to Venus but the ships never survived the landing some did but they didn't make it past a few hours. Venus has never been touched by man.
The author has lots of good pionts about Venus and the is it worth to study. The auther has good pionts he claims the average temperature on Venus is over 800 degrees and that the atmosheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on Earth. The auther makes good pionts of why we should study this planet, to learn to expand our minds into space.
Spending resources on studying planets is a good and a bad. Studying planet that can't help us is a wate of time, finding a planet out there that have air and can grow plants is a big find and we should study those planets. The auther has claimed that Venus has a temputer of 800 degrees no person a live can live through that so that planet is the worth taking time, resources and money to go out and study.
Planets like ours and Mars. Mars is worth all the time, resorces and money to gonout and find more about because later in our life or in the furture Mars could be the next Earth. NASA has aldready claimed before they have found water and grass. Venus has nothing close due to its 800 degrees and the atomspheric is 90 times greater than ours so you can't breathe on Venus. The auther made great claims but I feel we could foucs more on Mars and other planets like ours.
The Challenge of Exploring Venus, is not woth the study. Venus is one of the highly dangers planets our there in space. Better fouces on Mars than Venus. The auther had great claims but the enough to sell me into the studying of Venus. Venus was ans is not worth the studying pursuit depite th dangers it presents. | 23 |
c435fff | Have you ever looked a photo of someone and wonder how they feel? Yes well now you can Thomas Huang form the neckman institute for Advance Science at the University of Amsterdam. Im all for this Facial Action Coding Sytem. It could show us how people long before use felt when getting there picture painted of picture taken. people could know how family member and friends felt before they past away. what if we could know how animals felt with the FACS?
We dont know how people felt back then, we didn't know what they were going through, but with the FACS we could get a general idea of how they felt at that time in there life. Say you had a family member that passed away that you never met before but you want to know if they were a happy, sad, or mad person you could use the FACS to know so you dont have to hear it from someone else. Wouldnt it be cool to know what animals are feeling? If this FACS could show us how humans felt wouldnt you like to konw what your pets are feeling if your pet was sad and you didnt know,but you use the FACS you would know and then you and do something with your pet to keep the happy. Now you might be asking how does this FACS work well ehrn the computer constructs a 3-D computer modle of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. examples your frontalis pars lateralis muscles when you raise your eyebrows you are suprised, your orbicular oris (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger. these reasons i just listed are why i support the FACS! | 12 |
1fd8cbc | The "Facial Action Coding System" is technology that can be used in the class room because some people can't figure out how good or bad someone is feeling. Teachers will be able to know if the student is learning or eithor not paying attention or sleeping in class. It'll be easier for them to know what's false and what's true expression in their situation they could be in.
In difference in the situation students can't understand someone's expression. Thanks to the technolgy now it'll be easier to figure out students emotion or anyone. The article states, " Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements- in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa. By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions. Each expression is compared against a neutral face.""The Mona Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much this computer can do."
Finally, yes the technology is worth a big margin but its worth to have the help we can all get to help us know many. In my opinion it'll be a better way to learn/read better on our emotional expressions because you"'ll have more information and could know more about everything you want or need to know about the expressions. According to the Facial Feedback Theory of emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them. We humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day, for instance, you can probably tell how a person is feeling simply by the look on their face. | 23 |
7bb751c | In the year of 1976, an object was discovered that looked like a human face on the planet Mars. NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling around Mars and taking pictures of possible places for Viking 2 to land. This 'human head' as they call it stretched two miles from each end of Mars. The passage states, "It seemed to be staring back at the cameras from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia." NASA believed that there must have been a degree suprise among the mission controlers at the Jet Propulsion Lab when this 'Face' appeared on their monitor screens.
Days after this what seemed to be 'human face' was released for all to see. The authors say, "It would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars." It did! NASA decided to call it "Face on Mars." This 'Face' became a popular icon throughout the world. The text states, "It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows-even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years!" This object on Mars lead people to think that maybe there really was life on Mars.
When the MGS arrived at the Red Planet in September of 1997, 18 years after the Viking missions ended photogrpahing, Cydonia was still a big priority for NASA. Chief scientist, Jim Garvin says, "We photographed the Face as soon as we could get a good shot at it." Jim believed it was important to taxpayers. One year later on April 5, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time takig a picture that was ten times sharper and more clear than the photos taken by Viking. Thousands of people were waiting for the picture of the Face to appear on their monitor screens any minute.
Not everyone was satisfied with the picture of the Face that was taken that day. The author states, "The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face." The mission controllers were prepared to look again and noted, "It's not easy to target Cyndonia," says Garvin. "In fact, it's hard work." NASA does not pass over the Face very often, in fact, they scan the planet in 2.5 narrow strips.
On April 8, 2001, MGS drew close enough for a second look at the Face. Jim Garvin states, "Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution." The picture shows the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa which are landforms common around the American West. The passage states, "You can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size." If there were any objects in the picture taken of the Face in 2001 like an airplane or the ground or a house or pyramid, you could definitely be able to see them!
The Face found on the planet Mars is an extraordinary icon that will always be popular. Few believe that the Face could have been an alien artifact. The picture that was released for all to see noted, "huge rock formation...which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." Could there really be life on Mars? It is possible. | 01 |
28070d2 | The auther is intsted in learnig was venus once a planit like ours. he also clamis the venus long ago was a planit covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life and that
venus shas features that are analogus to those on earth. travling to venus can be hard espusaly sence there is a thick could srounding the surface of the planet and you cant see the surface of the ground and none of the air crafts have ever maniged to stay alive long enoff.
The Nasa is working on other approches that could help out in studing venus for example some simplified elctoncs made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos venus's surface and lasting for three weeks in such a condition. They are also looking into using old technology called mechanicl computers these devices were first envisioned in the 1800s and payed an important role durning ww ll.
These cumputers actualy dont need eletroncs at all. Modern comuters are enormously powerful, flexible and quick but tend to be more delicate. By using these old computers that use mechanic parts can be made more resistant to pressure heat and other forces. | 01 |
98bf596 | Can there be life on Mars? The answer is NO! How can there be life on mars without food, water, plants, and oxygen. For a human to live on Mars they would have to bring a life supply on food and water, but you can't have a life supply of oxygen. So there can not be life on mars.
The Face on Mars is not a really face. There can not be life on Mars. First, aliens are not real. Second, there is no oxgyen. The article "Unmasking the Face on Mars," states "huge rock formation.... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose,and mouth."
The Face on Mars only happen one time. Another aircraft went back at the same degress and a cloudy day just like the one before. When it took the picture there was just a landform. This aircraft even had a better camera and took even more pictures.
The article says " What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West." Gavin says " It reminds me most of Middle butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, that's a lava dome that takes the form of an islated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars."
That is why the Face on Mars is just a landform not a alien or an alien made it. It was just a illusion not anthing else. | 23 |
dbcfa50 | In the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars", there is information showing that the Face is a natural landform, and was not created by aliens. I have to agree, and say that the Face is a natural landform. Reasons to back up my thought would include, that the Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped quite a few pictures showing that it wasn't a real face, they have never seen anything like this before, and more scientists believed it was a rock formation rather than an alien.
The Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped quite a few pictures to get closer looks on the formation, to see if it could be a real face or not. In paragraph 7 it stated, "...Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos." Malin and his team took sharper pictures to prove to other people that they were right about it being a natural landform. Scientists also haven't seen anything like this before. In paragraph 9 it mentioned, "We just dont pass over the Face very often." If it really was an alien you would see more things like this because there wouldn't be just one alien, there would way more, causing there to be more faces. More scientists also believed that the Face was a natural landform, while only a few believed it could have been an alien feature. Within paragraph 8 it stated, "But not everyone was satisfied... Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze." By the article saying this, they showed that some people disagreed with the other scientists, and actually thought it was some sort of alien marking.
Although, most of the scientists say that this is a natural landform, there will always be someone who wants to disagree with them. No matter how many people would say that something is right, there will always be that one person who has to be different then everyone else. In the article, there are more facts saying that the rock is a natural landform, even though that leading it to be bias. There would be a better argument, if you had one story saying it was natural, and one story saying it's because of an alien. | 23 |
0548f53 | Luke's point of view convincing others to participate in the seagoing cows program.
Luke did not know that when he grauated from high school it will become hard. He has to work two part time job to get money to buy his own stuff.
So one day his friend asked him to go to Europe with him he could not say no because it was a big opportunity of a lifetime.
In 1945 world war two was over in Europe and many countries were left in ruins. To help these countries recover there food supplies animals and more 44 nations joined together to help these people get all the things they need and all they supplies they need to help the animals thats why Luke and Dan sign up to help the animals and peole to get better and get the stuff they need to survive.
Thats why Luke and this friend Dan wants you to be in the seagoing cowboy group beacuse wants you to learn how to help other and do somethink nice just to do it and just to give because giving is nice beacause some people in that country like i said dont have food supplies now if you help them get that they will have enough to feed kids themselfs and others that dont have food. | 12 |
8bddab9 | The use of this technology in a classroom would be useful because it can help teachers identify how a student is feeling, if the are confused, and if the need help. For example," a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. huang predicts. " Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instrucuture." This is really helpful to some students because when taking an online lesson some of them might be comfused and the teacher is no there to help. So the computer can take these facial expresions and modify the lesson so you could undestand it better. This also follows along if a student needs help with the lesson, the computer could see you are having a hard time and t to help you by changing the lesson.
Also it could help teachers identify emotions by the facial expresion. "You can tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face. Of course most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait."
If the student is acting up the teacher can use this new technology to see if the student is sad or angry. Then she can ask the student if everthing is okay or if he needs to talk to someone.
In conclusion the new technology would be usful in a classroom because it can help teachers identify how a student if feeling, if they are confused, and if they need help. | 23 |
c893ec0 | Innocent and young, children grow accustomed to the utilization of cars in society. Hot Wheelz, battery-powered Barbie SUVs, Hess Semi-trucks, and other deviations of play-friendly cars introduce the car culture to Americans from nearly the first day out of the womb. Mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, neighbors, and grandparents depend on their cars daily. This reliance on cars consequently impacted America's environment. However, limiting car usage reduces society's carbon footprint, slowly eliminating the encompassing pollution and stress of the developed car culture.
All vehicles alike release carbon emissions into the atmosphere, polluting the air and smogging our cities. Suburbs, especially, rely on automobiles to provide needed transportion. Experts state that car transportation in suburbs "is a huge impediment" (Source 1) when discussing "efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes" (Source 1). In the car-intensive areas of the United States, passenger cars hold responsibility for "up to 50 percent" (Source 1) of greenhouse emissions. This constant car usage pollutes American skies. Elisabeth Rosenthal states that car usage reduction "will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment" (Source 4), especially in America "since transportation is the second larget source [of emissions]" (Source 4). Cutting down on cars for alternative, public, or group transportation provides a solution to the car epidemic of suburban America.
In other societies where limitations of car usage occured, the majority of its denizens replied positively. In the car-depleted suburb of Vauban, Germany, "57 percent sold a car to move [to Vauban]" (Source 1). The influential idea of a suburb without traffic jams and long drives to stores attracted 5,500 current residents of Vauban. Futhermore, car bans in Paris reduced emissions and cleansed the air "after days of near-record pollution" (Source 2) and "five-days of intensifying smog" (Source 2). During this ban, "congestion was down 60 percent" (Source 2), relieving traffic and pollution. In Bogota, Colombia, a "car-free day" (Source 3) promotes "alternative transportation and reduce[s] smog" (Source 3). One Colombian businessman commented cheerfuly, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." (Source 3). The relief of traffic results in the relief of stress, which city-drivers appreciate.
In America's evolving society, and the evolving global economy, limiting car usage stands benefically. Reducing smog, eliminating the stress of traffic, and preserving the environment, low car-usage societies appeal in all current circumstances. Progressively, the world may see a day where car usage is antiquated. | 34 |
190a8d4 | In paragraph seven it says that in 2013 the BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant" (meaning that the car can move but it still needs assestance from the driver) is proof that this Google car is not safe. It says that the driver seat will vibarte when the vehicle is in danger of backing in to an object. But what if the driver is sleep and the car dosn't react in time and not only will the car be damaged but will the driver be ingerd and will the object that was involved in the acedent be damaged.
In paragraph nine it states that "presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." Now they came out with a car that doesn't need a driver (only in emergences). That they still have to come up with some sort of law saying that when in an emergence that ether the driver or the maker of the car will be acconted for.
I think that these cars are not safe and that they put driving at a grater chance for car crashes becase even thow technolagy is improving there are still malfuncutions and the car can stop, run into things, and turn on by its self. The cars are alsoeaser to be hacked and that someone could take over the car. Than that person life is in danger. | 23 |
ad0e889 | Luke said he had only worked two jobs before in his life and they were at a gocery store and a bank. He never knew he would get a chance for a job like this. It states that Luke knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime. He might have never got to do it agin. It also states that the cattle boat is an ubelievable opportunity for a small town boy. He couldn't say no.
Luke caring for the animals has kept him busy. He has to feed them and give them water two times a day. The animals food has to be kept in the bottom of the ship. Luke had to make sure the stalls are clean. Luke had to work hard for this job.
Luke had to do alot of work but he also had fun. It had opened up a world for Luke. He states that he is gratefull for the opportunity. It states that the cowboys played baseball, vollyball, table-tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and some other games over time. Luke has learned alot of this job and hopfully keep learning of this job. You can have an important job and a fun job all at the same time. | 01 |
947e3c9 | Dear,Senator
The United States Of America should change the voting of the president to popular vote. popular vote gets to see what the citizens of the United States want not just the 538 electors. They should change it to popular vote because it gets to see what the people want and we cant control who the electors vote for.
The president should be picked by the people because whoever wins the presidency is in charge of us. In the passage "What is the electoral college" it says "The electoral college consists of 538 electors". That means 538 people get a say in who they want the president to be not the many citizens. We all should get a vote because if the electors are the only ones who get to pick then the popular vote is useless.
Another reason why we shuold use only popular vote is because the electors dont always choose the president that their state wants. There only been a couple incidents of this happening but its possible. In the article"the indefensible electoral college:why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" it says "Can voters control who their electors vote for? Not always". That is saying that theres always a possibility that your electors does not vote for what the state wants. Thats not right so they should change it to popular vote.
The citizens of the united states should have direct votes to the election of our presidents. Thats why You should change to popular vote. We get to see what the citizens want and we cant always trust our electors. | 23 |
921202b | Dear State Senator,
The election should be changed to popular vote instead of using the Electoral College for the president of the United States. The Electoral College is unfair to voters and is an outdated system that needs to go.
In Source 2, the article states "Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and those electors could always defy the will of the people." The people vote for the president they want then the state counts the votes and picks majority then the Electoral College has the final desicion and picks the presidet, which is unfair to the people because even if they win majority vote it is up to the electoral college to decide. The same article also states "In the same vein, 'faithless' electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's canidate and cast a deciding vote for however they please-". It is almost ads if the people have no voice in elections.
The Electoral College is also unfair because of what is stated in Source 2. Again, the article says "Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people." The people have no opinion in elections it is all up to the Electoral College to decide the president of the United States regardless of what the people want as their leader of the United States of America.
Although the people have no voice in the elections but instead the Electoral College, sometimes it is better to keep the old method. In Source 3, the article states that it is is less likely to have a dispute over the popular vote. "The reason is the winning canidate's share of the Electoral College invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote." Saying that the Electoral College sometimes tries to go along with the popular vote to best fit what the people voted for.
Even though the Electoral College has been around fro a really long time, it is time to change and go with popular vote elections for the president of the United States instead. That way the people actually vote for the president themselves and they get what they want.
Thank you for your time. | 23 |
01cbe3d | Using details from the article, i can write an essay evaluating how well the author supports the idea, that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents by, while yes there are many risks to exploring Venus and other planets but in the long run it could help out. The reason it could help out is if we found a planet near ours like venus that in some way shape or form could be inhabited by humans it could give society and its people more places to go so we dont have as many over populated areas. an other big reason we could benefit from figuring out if venus can be inhabited is if that planet has usefull resources we can stop using as many GMO'S as we do in our foods.
A place that has the biggest issue of having overpopulation and has to resort to using GMO'S in there foods is japan. some places in japan the overpopulation is so bad that it has created a very large increase in the amount of polution that is in the air, Its so bad in some areas that in the morning you can see the polution while just walking which has made it so the kids/adults of japan have to wear some sort of mask to not get sick/ get poisened by the air. If we do end up figuring out that venus and some other planets in our solar system can be inhabited we can decrease this issue by sending some of those people to Venus. It's not only in japan that this issue of overpopuation is occuring, you can see it occuring more and more in the USA with all the refugees and people from other parts of the world coming to live in the USA.
The reason i am making these claims and the information i am using to support my reasoning is, in the text it stated that. " Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth. Today, Venus still has some of the features that are analogous to those of Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features suck as valleys, mountains, and craters. If scientist can conform that Venus was once inhabited by some sort of life form, they can possibly figure what type of life form this was and maybe figure out why they are no longer there. If they can figure out why that certain life form left or died off we can possibly reverse what had happened. which will lead us to being able to inhabite another planet and could reduce the amount of over population and further problems here on earth by splitting up our population. It could also help the human race live longer and help so that the human race does not die off. In the long run i do think that figuring out if the planet Venus can be inhabited, i also think that from my information and the information that the author gave you to can see the reason why this discovery is so crusual to our society and race. | 34 |
073d5b0 | "New software has been developed that improves accuracy in percieving the emotions of others." I believe that this software is very interesting because it detects your facial expressions through a screen and tries to understand your emotions. However, I do not think that we need this software in our schools for education purposes.
There are a few reasons in which I believe that these programs should not be installed on our school computers. The text claims that "the computer could modify a lesson, like a human instructor."
However, I find this hard to believe considering the software can not specifically determine what lessons or problems you do not understand. One for instance, if a student is supposedly confused or bored, he or she can ask the teacher for help. If we have a school computer that modifies and changes the lesson due to facial expressions, it might get in the way and misunderstand what we actually need help with or slow us down. Recieving specific help from teachers, to understand the certain steps that a student struggles with would be a better option in my opinion.
Secondly, we do not know how accurate this software is. The program could be very touchy; It could mix up confusion for anger. The student could be upset about a different topic or could simply have a certain resting face. The accuracy could have a lot to do with how this program would help us.
Lastly, Why spend a lot of money installing programs to hundreds of computers at our school when we can recieve help from our teachers?
Teachers are there to answer specific questions and a software that only detects your facial expressions and matches them to emotions can not do that. Installing these programs to our school computers will cost the school a lot of time and money without knowing for a fact that this software will actually be useful. Given these ideas, I do not think that it would be a very helpful addition to our students to install this software. | 34 |
e9d79df | Think back to the day you got your license. The thrill of being able to drive and knowing how much more independce you would have. You want your kids to enjoy that experience too, right? Well what if that all went away because of driverless cars. I am against driverless cars because, driving helps you learn responsibility, the technology could fail or malfunction, and liablity arguments would arise.
When teens learn to drive they are given the rules and regualations. Remembering these rules and following them is their responsibility. With driverless cars the drivers or people in the drivers seat would have less responsibilty because they do not have to do as much work. In the article it says that the driverless cars can steer, accelerate, and break themselves. Since the driver has to do less they may not always pay attention becuase they would think it is the cars job to handle the driving. Carless drivers would make people more lacidazicle about driving. Driving teaches people to be responsible, without this how will we instill responsiblity into the people on our roads?
In todays society new technologies come out everyday. However, we know how frusterating technology can be if it doesn't work. If our Iphone or laptop glitches it usually isn't a big deal. It can be fixed in an instant, maybe even by yourself. But what could the consequences be if a driverless car glitches? While you are driving you don't really have a minute to google how to fix your car like you can do with an Ipad. Just like any new technology a driverless car could have malfunctions, but these malfunctions could but peoples lifes at risks. People may say that even today with people driving cars that there can be glitches in cars. However, since real people are driving the cars they can evaluate the situation and control the car.
If the driverless car does fail whose fault is it? The "driver" or the manufacturer? This question will definetly come up if driverless cars come into our society. If you get in a crash, but weren't in control of the car, how can you be blamed? This problem could to lead to new laws, many court cases, and law suits.
Driving is a right of passage for teens today. Driverless cars, while could make life easier, would just bring more problems and arguments into our already technology filled lives. Driverless cars should not be legal because driving teaches responsibilty, the technology could fail, and cause arguments over liability. | 45 |
fc55299 | computers at school for students that can read your facial emotions I think not. I also, think there could be some benifts out of it too but really there is no need for those computers at school.
First, of all it is dumb to have a computer that reads peoples face emotions. the reason why is because most people hide their emotions because they dont anyone to know how they are truly feeling. Another, reason why is becasue peoples emotions are valueble to them and they just want to keep their emotions hidden. Also, emotions are a big factor of life they can tell alot of things about a perosn.
Secondly, there are some good causes to a computer that reads facial emotions becuase at school when kids get bored or tired of listening to the teacher the comouter could read that and make it more intertaining for the kids. Also, I think that would be helpful in schools too. On the other hand it could be bad to because of the students that are having a bad or sad day and it reads their emotions then people will know how they are feeling when they are trying to keep it to them selves because they dontwant anyone to know what is going on in their live or why they are feeling that.
Finally, students probably wouldnt want a computer that could read their facial emotions anyways. Many students are just tired and bored because it is school and they just want it to be over. Also, students arent at school to tell people about about their emotions or have a computer read them. Students are there to learn about school and makes friends like in the real world you would do.
In conclusion, there should be any competer that could read your facial emotions. Its not really a good idea to have them in schools either because it would cause more drama and kids would most likely feel more uncomfortable at school when they are sospouse to feel safe and not have to worrya bout anything but school work. | 23 |
dfbaca5 | The author of this article thinks that we as humans should explore Venus despite the dangers it presents. Venus is the second planet closest to the sun it's also the hottest planet in our solar system. Venus is also considered Earth's twin, it is the closest planet to the Earth terms of density and size.
The author starts his claim on how Venus is somewhat similair to Earth. He also says that long ago Venus was just like earth it had different forms of life and landscapes. It still holds some of the more rocky landscape. The author says how the condition on Venus is bad, but still liveable for humans and NASA should send humans to go and study Venus.
The idea of studying Venus sound really mindblowing, but with all of the grotesque conditions it's going to make it dificult to imposible for humans to go there. First of all, Venus has a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide. The clouds are made of highly corrosive sulfuric acid. The tempetures in venus are even worse it can get up to 800 degrees Farenheit, 90 times greater than what we experence on Earth. With that type of environment it's going to make it extremely difficult to go and study Venus.
Even with all of the difficult challenges Venus has, the author is very optimistic of how we as humans should explore Venus despite the dangers it presents. | 23 |
3fb3a4e | People in the United states have a voice of opinion towards voting,but in the end it is the electoral college that has the final say. To many americans voting is a very important event. The united states is a democracy. A democracy is a form of government where people have the say, The United States does not follow that route because of electoral college. Senator of the United States, I ask that you put a stop to the electoral college.
First of all, I believe that The United States is a corrupted democracy. The electoral college is a unbeneficial way of voting because they may be bias towards the people, for example, one might know what another so it can be considered as favoritism. In a sense this voting system can be manipulated in ones favor. How the voting system works is considered wrong to many Americans.
Workers in politics such as Richard Nixon or Jimmy Carter also do not believe in the electoral college and they even wanted to get rid of them! Most people want to get rid of the electoral college because of the "winner take all' system. If it wasnt for the winner take all system George W. Bush would of never been elected as president while john kerry would've taken the spot. Many politicians believe ingetting rid of the electoral college such as Bob Dole when he said "abolish the electoral college!"
In conclusion Senate, Citizens of this country and I believe that we should put an end to the electoral college. Politicians even disagree with the idea of giving specific people to give the final vote. As senator you have the power to put a end to this unconstitutional doing. The United States is a democracy where everyone matters. Because of the electoral college our opinion on who should be elected has been taking away from us. this event is undemocratic and I ask you senator to think this through and take action on making this voting system to a popular voting system. | 12 |
2b83b27 | Transportation will only advance throughout time. Today's so ciety has advanced from horse and buggy, to steam powered engines, to trains powered by a magnetic field. Cars have advanced from a gasoline powered engine, to an engine that can be charged up from an outlet. The next thing to do is to make transportation easier for the public by making it unnecessairy for them to do much work. The way to achieve this is to mass produce driverless cars.
Driverless cars are very efficent. They don't cause the driver to have to waste time doing the work. Now, the drivers can make phone calls or eat lunch safer than ever. Driverless cars will still require the driver to be aware of its surroundings and be alert for a problem to occur. This causes maximim amounts of safety for the driver, and others on the road. The car is designed to notify the driver if there are any difficulties. Today's society is already halfway to driverless cars, so why not take that extra step? It couldn't do harm, besides many lawsuits, but those could be prevented by making laws for these cars before they're made for the public.
Driverless cars could be very beneficial to society. It could cause so many improvements for other things to technologically advance, too. The work and studies are continuously being made for driverless cars. All transportation could be just as high-tech as driverless cars only if they are released to the public. | 23 |
18c9ed8 | I support driverless cars to an extent. Driverless cars seem like they could help out a lot, but as paragraph nine states, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault---the driver or the manufacturer?"
That's a good question too because the driver wasn't expecting for the technology to fail, but the driver should have been ready anyways.
I enjoy the things that current smart cars do like stopping for you because it can sense the environment, but if we rely on smart cars too much it can be a problem. For example if we would rely on smart cars too often there are chances where we expect a certain thing that the car can do for our safety, but it ends up malfunctioning and causing an accident that could be deadly. I think we should stick with driverless features, but not rely on them because you always need to be ready just in case they do malfunction. It can be very deadly if you completely rely on your driverless car.
I agree with parargraph eight in it's explanation of texting and driving because many people text and there are many accidents every year due to texting and driving. In the paragraph the text states that, "Such displays can be turned off intantly when the driver needs to take over---something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone. In this way, the in-car system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big concern."
I find this to be very helpful for someone who texts and drives, it could possibly lower accidents caused by texting and driving. It could be very helpful to people with emergencies too where they have to respond immediately to a message, but they're driving, if they have a smart car they can let it take over for a small moment to answer the text message.
I'm going to refer back to paragraph nine again about laws being affected by driverless cars. In paragraph nine it states, "Presently, traffic laws are written wih the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars."
New laws will have to be made in order to make driverless cars legal and tht could be a problem because of all the work that is put into creating laws anyways. It could cause a confusing mess with the law system and driver's license tests would have to be remade to fit the requirement of driverless cars. Safety laws would also be affected because of the malfunctions that could happen with driverless cars as I talked about above.
As I said before, I agree with driverless cars to an extent. There can be positive effects of driverless cars, but there can also be negative effects too. I feel that we need the option to have a driverless car, but still rely on yourself to drive it and only use the driverlees option when necessary. | 34 |
9f4170d | The use of this technology (Facial Act Coding System) to read the emotional expressions of students is valueable. It can bring more joy when browsing through the internet, using for educational purposes, or even for video games or video surgery.
Using the software (FACS) to detect a persons expression during a session of internet use could help you feel better instead of having a negative feeling. "For example, if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow." Using your expressions, the software could help you have a more enjoyable time. "But if you frown, the next ad will be different". This technology would help in how you view the internet.
Using the facial recognition software would not only help with the Web, it would also help out many students that have a tough time learning lessons. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." Using the help of the software would be useful in helping the student become less bored or making it easier for the student to understand. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor". Being able to recognize how a student is feeling would help out the student by switching up how the lesson is taught; making it easier or more fun for the student.
Finally, the Facial Action Coding System would help in making video games or video surgery. "Most human communication is nonverbal". Using the technology to improve video gaming would create a beter experience.
This is why being for the Facial Act Codding System would help improve the lives of people in many ways and forms. It would make browsing the internet more fun, having a better understanding of the lesson for the students, to even having more realistic video games. | 23 |
273fb7d | A venus sometimes called the ''Evening Star,'' is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. It's simple making for even an amateur stargazer to spot. A venes is actually a planet. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe ventage point of earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely. Also, Venys us the closest planet to Earth. Venus is sometimes right around the corner in space terms and human have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world for good reasons.
A thick atmosphere of aklmost 97% percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degree. it's the hottest degree. So these conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth.It's colser than people.
NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. Also,They're doing the another project. By compartison,systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant,heat, and other forces.
People should to know what kind of Venus and tell people about it. Finally, Our travels on Earth and beyond should not vbe limited by dangers and daubts but should be expamded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 01 |
e6631d0 | Are dreiverless cars a good idea for the future? There are many pros and cons to these cars.
One down side to these cars are the price. Making the driverless cost more due to the amount of gadgets that they need to perfect it. Although, it cost less for gas because it does not use as much. Because there is not an owner of these cars, the gas prices do not benefit anybody. The only benefit is that gas is reserved for a longer period and slows the use of it tremendously.
There are many car accidents that are caused by human error and these type of cars may reduce the number of injuries or deaths for some period of time. However, technology is yet to prove that it can last forever without malfunctioning. This may cause accidents that could have been prevented.
Another down side is the time of travel. If these cars are used as taxis, then they may not take you wherever it is you need to go right away. It may make several stops before you are at your own destination.
There are other resolutions to the problems of modern day transpirtation. These are less expensive resolutions. If the reasoning for driverless cars is due to the amount of gass it uses, then that can be resolved by electric cars. If the issue is safety, then people need to be more careful. It is acceptable to add new features to a modern day car for safety purposes, but there is no need to re-make cars to be automatic.
In conclusion, driverless cars are not needed and are unessicary. The only aspect of transpirtaion that needs majorly improved is the intellegence of modern day drivers. There are more cons than there are pros for the driverless cars, therefore they should be prevented. | 23 |
6d3a41b | Venus is very dangerous and volcanic but this article has opened my eyes to the woderful planet. Despite the dangers and challenges that Venus presents I would have to agree with the author, for we could one day benefit from knowing more about this red planet. Regardless of all the challenges that come with it, getting to know the surface and history of this close planet could better pevent ours from turning into a replica.
A couple of statements that fascinated me about Venus is that it has the hottest surface tempurature in our solar system with an average temperature of over 800 degrees Farenheit. That is truly mind-boggling seeing as how Mercury is the closest planet to our sun, not Venus. To make matters worse the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we expirence on Earth, therefore, making it very hard to explore the surface. Even just getting close to the surface you would have to deal with eruptions, earthquakes, and lightning strikes.
The risk is incredible but the information provided from this planet may very well save us all one day. As stated, Venus was the most Earth-like planet in our soar system meaning the same thing could happen to us eventually. Even though Venus could have substained life in the past, now is very unlikely. How could we find out more about this interesting planet if we cannot go near it?
As of right now, technologically speeking, we are far to inadvanced to send anything to the surface, let alone humans. The safest possibility to even get close would be to float in a structure roughly 30 miles above the surface. Even at that distance the temperature would still stand at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level.
In conclusion, I feel that if there was a way to study Venus close up without all the provided risks and more, then we should invest. Many great things could come from any planet alone but this one is just amazing. Do you think Venus is worth it? | 34 |
b6ad252 | The studing of Venus is worthy pursuit despit the dangeres because Venus it is one of the brightests points of light in the night sky. Venus is often refered as Earth's twin. Venus is 97 percent carbon dioxide. It challanges for clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere.
Venus is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, it makes it easy for an amateur stargazer to be spotted. Venus is the second planet from the sun, Venus is easy to see from eaths veiw point.
Venus is offten refered to earths twin because it is the closest to earth by size and density. The speed when they orbit differently around the sun.
Venus is about 97 percent of carbon dioxide. It challenges clouds of high corrosive sulfuric acid in the atmosphore of Venus. The tempature on Venus is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, also the presssure of the atmosphere is 90x greater then what we have here in our own plant.
The studing of Exploring Venus is a worthly pursuit besides the dangers such as Venus is at one of the brightest night point in the night sky.
Also Venus is often referd as earths twin. Last but not least Venus is 97 percent of carbon dioxide. | 12 |
6efb0f2 | Exploring Venus is one of are closest or second planet form our sun and one of the brightest one in the solar system Nasa had a compelling idea as doin research on the plant called Venus now considering Venus being so close to our sun the maybe had issues about three decades ago by traveling around a couple kilometers.
We had a thick atomosphere of 97 persent our solar system getting that close to a planet like Venus or mercury they way and how close to the sun they may of been would be extream hot heat that would be coming of form the sun the it could burn now i don't no of we hot/heat proof suits or what not but it sure is a crazy thing but intstead of not completeing that then Nasa would need tooi send drones that would be buid for temps like that and in those certain situations.
Now scientists are even going futher of the grid as move it too the next level of being able too visit sister planets and what not to make them liveable in time for when it has to come to certain situations like our planet starting over as taking us to a new one but the conditions of plantes always have a crucial consideration of giveing long frames in space travel the and the vaule of returning but there has been both of having more and more scientifically speaking as which the fahrenheit around 170 degrees that would be very toasty for sum of us if we landed on the platet in those tempatures to become of those standards. | 01 |
f20afb0 | For me right after i got out of highschool i went to the ,Seagoing Cowboys progam. I got to do things like see the world,and learn how to be a good employee. I got to do things some people will get to do, that is why you should sign up too.
One amazing thing that i got to try while doing the program was i was able explore the world. I got to ship 335 horses and enough food to feed them to Greece. While in Greece igot to see Acropolis that was truly amazing for me.
Just imagine what it would be like for you. Other places i saw were, China,and Europe,They were also amazing.
Also While being on a ship i learned good work ethnics being there you had to work,so i cleaned stables and feed the animlas. It tought me skillls that i use in the real world.
hard work is a good skill since now people think they are intitled to stuff, and we aren't. we must work fo our own stuff and thats what theytought me. You could even make it a legacy you could do it aand then your son could do it and so on (etc).
One last thing don't you love america? by helping me help you are helping your people you are giving back to your country and that will sure make your mom proud ,( less dangerous and risky than the army).I take that back you not just helping america you helping earth. Your cleaning up the mess we as all humans started War we need to help clean it up now to prove to your family and our God that we are worhty of life on such wonnderful planet.
Now that you have heard from me will you reconsider your thinking. Try it out if you dont like don't do it. But you should always try everthing. So please come help in my program Seagoing Cowboys. | 23 |
2154584 | This article is about an author explaining why studying Venus is a worthy puraauit despite the dangers that come with it. Although studying Venus is a big thing for NASA, their are still many risk and things to know before making such a discovery.
In this acticle it says that Venus may have been another copy of Earth thousands of years ago. This may be true but some scientist are still not sure. But they have prove, in pictures of Venus it is shown tha this plant has mountains and other features earth has. We all know earth is mosly covered in water, but many scientist thing that Venus may have had water like earth thousands of years ago. In the article it say "venus is somtimes referred as earth's twin', and many scientist think that is true since both plants have some of the same features. But scientist still want to have a closer look deeper into venus so see if they are really twins or they are completly the oppsite of each other.
Next the paragraph talks about how many scientist have already sent various objects to venus but really didnt last that long cause of the density and tempature of venus. And since no spaceship has survived landing for more than a few hours, this explains why scientist are working reslly hard to get on venus. The author alson states that "spaceship have not touch venus in over three decades" which is a really long time. That saying that the author said is really powerful casue it shows how much time it has been and probaly how much time NASA has been working on this project.
lastly in the article it says that scientist have reveled one of their projects that they have an impact in this discovery. NASA has reveled that they have been working on a computer that as they say" can take the heat and the denisty of venus", which they say can becasue it was tested ina stimulation of venus. Scientist have also said that this device can last up to three weeks in this weather which is a hige impact and accomplishment. The awesome thing about it is the device makes caluation from the gears and levers. And the aouther alsosaid that they used this type of technology in WWII which is very hard to think to have such high technology at such time.
The author did an amazing job explaining why scintist should expolore venus more. He/she also did a good job explaing the details and facts about venus. He/she also did a good job showing the simlar and different features earth and venus had. But the important part part is how he/she supported their answer. After reading this article many people will agree with the descoveries that should be made in venus. | 23 |
680d445 | The author supports the idea of studying Venus, despite the dangers it presents, extremely well in this article. He uses both good and bad features to portray the idea that Venus is a place where one day humans will be able to study it's exquisite qualities. The article as a whole, relays many strong facts and opinions as to why one should want rearchers to further study Venus.
In each paragraph, the author gives an argument as to why researches should strive to explore the planet in depth. For example, the author says,"Often referred to as Earth's "twin", Venus is the closest planet in termos of density and size, occasionally the closest in distance too." (Paragraph 2) As one reads this sentence they begin to compare Venus to Earth. This gives the idea that Venus is an interesting and diverse place with many complex attractions to discover, as one would think of Earth. However, the author will follow up with a counter argument, such as, "Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us." The author uses this technique of adding in a counter argument to allow the reader to see that the author also understands that Venus is not an easy planet to study up close.
Another tactic the author uses to persuade the reader that the planet is worth pursuing, is the explanation of their possible future plans to explore it. The author provides the reader with many detailed descriptions on their ideas. He says, "Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way." (Paragraph 5) Not only does this sentence explain what NASA plans to one day achieve, it once again compairs an Earth expample to something on Venus. This allows the reader to feel as if they understand what NASA is willing to do to study this planet and provides them with a reason as to why they should think the same.
Lastly, the author explains how their methods of exploring the planet in the future will not only succeed in finding many new discoveries, but will be using older technology that uses no electricity. The author then goes to say, "The thought of computers exsisiting in those days may sound shocking, but these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all." (Paragraph 7) As one reads about the use of "mechanical computers" they can recieve a better comprehension of the challenges NASA is attempting to face to study this planet in more detail.
As one reads through this article, they are persuaded into believing that Venus is a planet worth exploring and trying to find discoveries on due to its close relation to Earth, NASA's perserverance to create a way to study it, and the many amazing things it has to offer. The author supports the idea of Venus being worthy of pursuit despite the dangers it presents very well. | 34 |
c53fb5e | I do not think that the use of this technology on the students in the classroom is valuable I think this because we don't need technology to see how someone is feelings or to show us someone's emotions. We can tell just by looking at them that they are fine or not. Technology is used to much in the world. My question is why would we even use that technology, because later on generations won't be able to look at someone and tell their emotions.
In the story, the author gives an example of how we don't use technology to tell one's emotions. "You can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." That example shows that we don't need technology to figure out one's emotions. Even though, its a great invention would be even use it. Its not appropriate to use in a classroom setting. A teacher using that just to see what the kids' emotions are on the lesson. The teacher could just look at them and see how they feel towards this.
The teacher would probably say that it would be useful for that technology. Some students probably wouldn't mine but others would. Students don't like to show their emotions sometimes. Then all of a sudden a teacher can just tell your emotions in a second. The students would probably feel uncomfortable, because the teacher can see how they are feeling. Feelings or emotions are meant for that certain person. That certain person can show off his/her emotions to other students around them.
Also where would you even put the emotional expression technology, because having a huge thing in the front of the classroom would be a distraction. That technology is also a distraction, because students would mess around with it when they probably aren't supposed too. Also the students would keep asking the teacher what their emotions are. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." That quote sounds like its better than a teacher, because it can read the emotions and tell when the students get bored so they can change it.
The invention would be nice, but not in a classroom settings. Its just not appropriate there. In the story, it makes you do a little motions with your face. This is demonstrating that the technology will use the muscular part of your face to determine your emotions at that current time. The technology is cool on how it works and operates, but reading the students' muscular emotions would not be right.
Towards the end of the text, they said they used it for a theatre thing. That is an appropriate place to use it, because you are supposed to show a lot of emotions there. Also they could read your emotions and help improve them because the technology told you what the emotion mostly was. The technology does reveal a lot about the science of emotions, but other places would have better use on it.
Some students like to hide their emotions from the teacher or other students. Some don't want people to know what they are feeling, because its their own business. Students wouldn't want their teachers walking up to them asking what is wrong, and the students said something like how do you know there is something wrong. Then the teacher says I used the emotional expression technology. The student would just feel awkward, because the teacher just figured out their emotions when they probably wanted to keep it to themselves. This is why the use of technology to read the emotion expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable. | 34 |
dcc56a5 | The use Facial Action Coding System or FACS could be extremely valuable in the classroom. The amount of time students are confused on a subject or do not understand what the teacher is saying because they are moving to fast could drop tremendously if teachers could read how the student's are feeling. The teacher could know that the whole class is bored with a lesson and modify that lesson later to make it much more interesting. Knowing how the student's feel could change the classroom for the better.
Throughout any student's school career there is a moment when they are confused by a subject and was forced to retreive additional help in fear of a bad grade on their upcoming test. Some students would be too shy to stop the teacher to elaborate or could not visit the teacher after class due to time constraints and forced to look up youtubes videos hours on end in order get a grasp on a subject. If the teacher knew that multiple students felt this way in their class, they could change their lesson plan to make things much more understandable for the students just as Dr. Haung predicts. The Facial Action Coding System could bridge that disconnect between teacher and student.
Not only could a teacher make a subject easier to comprehend, they can also make it much more enjoyable. This technology can help a teacher know if their students are bored or not. If the teacher knows this they can make a lesson much more interesting, getting the students engaged, which leaves less heads sleeping desks. This could lead to students having more of a passion towards subjects such as math or chemistry because they are having fun with those topics. Some time if someone doe not find a subject interesting they won't try hard in that class unlike someone who does like that subject.
Knowing student's emotions through this technology could change the experience of school as a whole. If teachers were to follow the readings from FACS students would be able to comprehend and enjoy a variety of subject matters, there could be much less sleeping bodies in class, and the engagement level in classrooms could skyrocket.Just only if FACS and schools cooperated to make the education system better as a whole and makes things a better experience for the student. | 34 |
e0d01a8 | In this essay i will be explaining the difference and similarities and the pros and cons of the electoral college and opposing it. I personally like the idea of having the people themselves vote because the electors could change their mind and because it makes more sense to just vote for who you think should be president. As of right now i dont really care if it changes or not because i dont vote for another 4 years.
First, "Whats wrong with electoral college". one reason to pick electors is because its less people to keep count of. Having these electors is another step in the voting procces but it keeps things going easier. In conlusion, i dont agree with this, there is almost nothing i can think of that is good about this, unfortunutely.
Secondly, The great points of having the people themselves vote (which i agree with). One reason, is that electors can change their mind and vote for whoever they want and it could completely change the election. Secondly, This requires the president to go to all states exculding no one! This way all states feel equal and they feel like all of their votes matter. Another great reason is that they focus more on toss up states where people tend to pay more attention. Another good reason, is that bigger states get more attention. This is important because he can reach out to more people rather than a smaller state.
In conclusion, I think having people do the elections themselves is the better option. I hope you can come to agree with me. | 12 |
26a6b97 | Facial Action Coding System technology that can detect your emotions and others. People will used that non stop people will keep looking other people's emotions. That technology will not go that well and I don't think that technology is safe to use. People will just play with that and mess around I don't think we need that to use just to know people's feeling we can figure it out withouth using that technology. Think about this way if you give that to a one person you think they will use it for good I don't think so.
It's not good to use that it's because people are just gonna play with humans feeling so i'm going for not using Facial Action Coding System. People know what your feeling their just gonna make fun of you or mess around with you because they know how you feel. It's justn not safe it's just gonna make people in trouble it't really a bad idea to use it. Knowing how many percent how happy you are based on passage it can detect percentage of your emotions that's nice but it's really bad idea. Based on the passage their talking about how humans perform the same impressive "calculation" everyday I don't believe that human have different perspective, different point of view.
I would rather not use Facial Action Coding System I don't even think if it's safe or not. It's really not a good idea to use it for humans because you know how they feel based on their actions, movements, expressions, and how they act. No need for that technology knowing a person you can tell how happy they are. Someone you truly know is a best way to know their expression.
Using Facial Action Coding System should be illigal because I people don't want them finding out their feeling. No one wants to know what your feeling you want them to find out because that's how you know if they do care. People got used to people knowing their used to look for their expression they don't need such as facial action system. It's so much better to know a feeling by talking to them in person. I would prefer use my abilities to know a person feeling instead of using that fake technology.
By looking at the picture of Mona Lisa you can that is quite happy you can see that little curve in her face it might seem different for others but looking at her make feel that she's happy.It says on the passage it also can make you happy. That's really not a good idea you can make people happy withouth using any technology .that would probably cost a lot of money I don't think people can afford that. Instead of buying that technology might just spend the money for my family. | 23 |
99b0b02 | The new technology of being able to identify a persons emotions by their smile could be very useful for many different sorts of things. If teachers everywhere were to have this computer technology to tell the emotions of their students they could find new, better improved ways of teaching their students. Wheather it be a college professor trying to find what their students emotions are to a middle school teacher it would help all around. The new technology can help everyone all around the world in different ways to find different kinds of information about a person. Like their peronality based off of wheather or not they are angry, sad, or just happy. I believe that you would be able to tell alot about a person based off of their emotions.
In the text the author talks about how Mona Lisa's emotions were very different when Davinci had made his master piece of her. It is said that her emotions were 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. The reason I think the new technology would be able to tell alot about a person by their emotions is because the advanced computer can pick up 4 different emotions altogether. One of those emotions are going to have a bigger percentage om the person than others depending on how they are feeling.
I think that the new technology can come to a conclusion of helping eveyone improve the society we live in today. Because every one has different feelings and thoughts about many different things that are going on. If the technology was used to find out how people are feeling about those different things that are going on then they could help to give ideas to make those changes. Then everyone would be able to use their voice and stand for something they think should happen. | 23 |
409fa65 | The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. One reason why I thik is valuable for a classroom is because it can see if you happy, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. Another reason is " a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Lastly, teachers can communicate with their students better and understand them, if she knows the way they are feeling. Can this app be spread through all teachers in schools?
First reason is because it can see if your happy surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. This can help students to be more kind to their friends because they know how that person is feeling. It can also help them selfs to realize the way they are feeling because sometimes you don't even know how you feeling. It can help students to change their emotions and feel better about themselfs.
Second reason is "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. This can help teacher to know when students need help. It could also help the teacher see if they are bored and make the class a little more fun for students. Teachers can learn more everyday about her students and see her kids have any problems at home or in school.
Last reason is teachers can communicate with their students better and understand them, if she knows the way they are feeling. The teacher could help the student by giving him space or time alone and not be so hard on him. Teacher could communicate with the student and help them get their feelings out and make them feel better. Teachers might start giving their kids more leassons abou how to feel and how make themselfs get up when ypu feel like the world is against you. Students might start coming to class more happy.
The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom it can be valuable. For teachers to know students feelings. For teachers to also make the classroom more fun. For teachers to communicate better with students. This could be really helpfull for teacher the most. That's why this could help a classroom with students. | 34 |
936d03a | Goodmorning fellow citizens , i hope you all are having a wonderful day! Could that possibly be because you all walked or rode your bike to this meeting today? The reason behind that is because there are many advantages to limiting car usage. You are less tense and happier , , smog- free air , and you can have fun with it! Bringing together your community. Now , who's up for a challenge.
Car-Free Cities as in Source 1:"In German Suburb, Life Goes on Without Cars" , by Elisabeth Rosenthal , made really good points. First i would say , not having your car makes you stress free. 70% of Vauban's families do not own cars , and 50% sold a car to move here. "When i had a car i was always tense. Im much happier this way" , said Heidrun Walter , a media trainer and mother of two , as she walked verdant streets where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor. People are giving up their cars because they claim it's more to life. In the United States , the Enviromental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities , and legislators are starting to act.
Source 2: "Paris bans driving due to smog" , by Robert Duffer , talks about "healthier" air. So , another advantage would be to have smog-free air. Congestion was down 60% in the capital of France after five days of intensifying smog. Cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions , diesel fuel was to blame. Delivery companies complained of lost revenue and Public transit was free of charge from Friday - Monday , according to BBC. The smog cleared enough Monday for the ruling French party to rescind the ban for odd numbered plates on Tuesday. This way the air we breath doesn't harm us.
Source 3: "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" , by Andrew Selsky is exciting. Lastly i would like to state , you can have fun with not having a car bringing together your community. In a program millions of Columbians hiked , biked , skated , or took buses to work during a car-free day. "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution , " said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife. Parks and sports centers also have bloomed and new improvements have been made everywhere. Source 4: "The End of Car Culture" , by Elisabeth Rosenthal explains the greenhouse effect also , and the change it's had on the economy.
In my closing remarks i would like to say overall the advantages of limiting car usage is amazing! We can have fun with it and improve global warming and our economy. Who wants to help me tell the mayor this situation? I'm about to give in my car right now! You are less tense , smog-free air , and your community can join in. Now i ask again...... Who's up for the challenge?! | 34 |
79f7075 | Technology improves every minute and it seems like there is no stopping. Reading emotions on a persons face can be confusing sometimes, so Prof. Thomas Huang, of Beckman Institute, and Prof Nicu Sebe, from University of Amsterdam, worked together to come up wiht technology that can read human emotions. Using emotion reading computer can be useful when it comes to school, because teachers and students deal with different emotions from their classmates/ colleagues every day. The first benefit is that it will help teachers and student figure each others emotion. Second, is it will make others be more active. Lastly, it lets others know what your emotions are.
First of all, because there are so many facial expressions that teachers often have difficulty reading their students emotions and lots of times that causes confusion among each other. For example, the text states that, "The facial expression for each emotion are universal," observes Dr.Huang, "even though individuals often show varying degrees od expression'(like not smiling as broadly)." This technology will be able to help teachers and or students have an easier way of reading each others emotion. In advance, it can calculate the different types of emotions that a person may be expressing all at once. The text states, "By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions (as in da Vinci's masterpiece)."
Secondly, it will help others be more active, that meaning students will show more happier emotions if the teachers can understand them. More over, Understanding students emiotions will help teachers have more of a positive way of viewing their students. In addition, recognizing a student emotional expression when learning a lesson can help the teachers teach more effectivly with the help of the technology. For example, the text states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confusd or bored, Dr Huang predicts. "then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor."
Third, although letting others know your emotions can sometime be scary because some emotions can mean weakness, the computer can give specific emotions that a person is expressing. When you see a friend or
teacher sometimes it is very hard to tell their emotions that they are expressing, but maybe with this technology it will be easier for us to understand them. Because most human connect nonverbally, our emotional communications is considered nonverbal communication and the computer has those skills. The text says, "Most human communications is nonverbal, including emotional communication," notes Dr. Huang. "So the computers need to understand that, too."
In conclusion, using this technology in classrooms can be very useful. It will help teachers and student figure your emotions. | 34 |
9e16dd7 | The Face on Mars is something that is just an opinion of many people .There is no proof that this is real. The Face is something that people assume that aliens made it.
In paragraph twelve it says that the landform was common to the Middle Butte, which is on Earth. So, maybe the lava carried to Mars and created the same shape,which is probably at the same time .
In paragraph nine ,they said it wasn't an easy target to look at . Maybe, what they were looking at wasn't correct. They might've saw it wrong and just guessed what it was.
In paragragh one , the planet Cydonia
was two miles away from Mars .Maybe
Cydonia and Mars had once crashed into each other and created a weird shaped. Years later the shape wore off and created a human shaped face.
People can't prove that aliens made the Face ; they can't even prove that aliens are real. You can't assume anything until you know somthing about it . They may have all the picture and other details , but that doesn't answer anything. They don't have that fact of what really happened.
The Face of Mars is just something to keep people busy and on the edge of their seats . Even if it was real they wouldn't tell us . The Face was formed by posibbly by a collision or the lava like the Middle Butte .
All of the things that scientist say is based on opinions . They stated very few things that were actually facts . The Face maybe somthing else , it's not just what we see , niether
what's really there. | 23 |
e1f841c | In theory a self driving car is a great idea, but in reality it is an accident waiting to happen. Self driving cars have many flaws to them. I beleive the development of these cars should no longer continue.
The self driving cars are never self driving, they still require the passenger to be there when it does not know what to do. The artical says " The car can read the positive and negative polarity as messages in binary code." This means that someone can send a wrong message through a computer, causing an accident. The death rate from car accident could rise with the development of the self driving car. Whith hearing that would you trust your child to be in that car?
People who agree to continue the development of these cars have many of theair own opinions. They say that the sensors on the car help make it safer.
They also might say that its a lot less stressful for the driver. The accepters of this product may also say that all safty measures are taken care of.
There are many things wrong with many of the statements above. The sensors on the car can go bad, how will the person know before its to late? How is a self driving car less stressful for the driver? If anything they would have to pay more attention to the road to make sure the car was working correctly. The safty procations of these vehicals rely on the driver noiticing the car is speakinging to it or that the seat is vibrating. Sometimes people do not feel my phone vibrate in their pocket or hear if for that matter, how are we suppoded to trust a car to alert you if we can not trust our phones.
Through out this campaign to have self driving cars it seems there is no one out there that wants to ask the hard questions, everybody thinks it is a great idea because it is new. Will this product be safe, we dont know, but it doesnt look promissing. In conclusion i do not beleive we should continue the devlopment for self driving cars. | 34 |
3dce3b5 | I think that it's a Martian mesa. I think that its a just a bunch of rocks put together. If there was life there, it would probally be something else instead of the face. If there was life on mars we would have probably meet them by now and probaly do an invation. We would have found them by now if they was life. And the first picture was from a distence and could barily be seen.
Erosion probaly made it to the way it is, because on the top of Mars there is ice. The scientists took pictures over time as technology started to become for advanced. The human head was formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose and, mouth. And people couldnt even see what it really was. The sicentists can just discern thing ina a digitial image 3 time bigger than the pixel.
People can just take photos of the plantet Mars and check if there is? The Martian is the same as a butte or a mesa. They dont pass overr the Face not that often. JPL website puts the picture of the face and there was no alien monument after all. The caption when the NASA unveiled the image for all to see wasm," huge rock formation which resembles a human head". | 12 |
50cf7e6 | I would tell who ever I was telling the face about to read the paragraph if they don't belive me. The reason why I would say that is because they could find out there own self if it was a alien face or if it was a natural landform. But I would also tell them that aliens isn't real. If they would still be arguing then I would kinda talk to them about it.
I would tell them that you can read about it. It could be someones face that visited there a long time ago. The reason why I say that is because it probably is really hard to shove your face in a moon rock. You could ask someone that reshearch stuff like that. It seens to the (MGS) and (NASA) that it was hard to get pictuers of the face.
The face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in April at 98, it was a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet. The reason why there are so many storeys about the face on Mars is because the scientest didn't know if they should beleve if there really was a face on Mars or not. So thats when (NASA) went and saw it with their own eyes.
In the pictuers in the passage you can tell during the soan of 1976-2001 the face has gotten clear. But in 1976 the face was all blurrey to where you can barley see it. In 1998, it doesn't quite look like a face but it is still kind of blurrey to where you can hardly tell its a face, and then in 2001 it was the shape of a face but you stilll can't see the eyes or mouth or nose yet. In 1976 you could see the face oerfectly fine from a distance away. | 12 |
076f000 | Everyone and even myself thought this thing was some kind of face created by the aliens. But all this is a land form on Mars called a butte or a mesa. Because it is not a face or an alien object it is just land formation on Mars.
First we all thought it was a face made by aliens from a monument. But "there was no alien monument after all after upgrading our cameras to get a better view of this so called "Face of Mars". Then after twenty-five years of looking at this thing for many years people thought through those twenty-five years that it was a sign of life of mars. On April 8, 2001 we got to the spot to were the face is and every pixel of that picture took that day proved that it was no face but a lava dome that is common around the West of America. A few people at NASA said that it reminds them of the Snake River Plain of Idaho.
All those years of hoping and trying to believe that there is life on Mars all just stoped after we all found out it was just a big land formation. Twenty-five years of making a camera better in every way imaginable just to take a sky view picture of a rock! | 12 |
477bbba | Driverless cars are the cars of the future.
When you think about the future you like of hover boards, spaceshifts, and automobiles that can literally drive themselves; well the future is almost here.
Advances in driverless cars have not only made them plausible, but it has also made them a safer alternative to human skills.
Many car manufactures have been working on driverless cars, driverless cars have been driven over half a million miles with no accident, and driverless cars have safety features and abilities far beyond the skill of a human's ability.
Google has modifies a Toyota Prius so it can drive itself.
This special Prius has a huge amount of various sensors from wheel to roof; it even has a LIDAR on the roof that continously updates 3-D imaging of the surrounds of the car using laser beams.
In 1980 we only had antilock brakes and within the next ten years those sensors have become so advanced that they could detect and respond to skids and rollovers better than a human.
Because of sensors driving a car toda in safer than it ever was, further advancements in the technology of the car have made it so human error is lower. So why not make the car driverless and have NO human error?
In 2013 BMW announced their development of a car that can handle driving up to 25 miles per hour, but the car features touch sensors that require the driver to keep hold of the wheel.
This car can steer, brake, and accelerate themselves.
Although this car does have near driverless attributes, it is still not driverless.
If we had casrs that could basically drive themselves with little to no help from humans, imagine the future when the car doesn't even need a human inside drive.
Driverless cars also improve the safety of everyone on the roads, or near them.
Some driverless car manufactureres hope to develop a car that uses displays that can be turned off the instant the driver needs to take over, as a form of in-car entoertainment.
In a way, this display system is a safety feauture since it is turned off automatically when the driver is needed, unlike a cellphone.
Google's driverless cars have driven over half a million miles with no crash.
This proves the safety of the driverless car compared to the safety of a completely human operate car.
Driverless cars might be illegal in most states but that is starting to change, California,Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia are the first to allow limited use of semi-autonomous cars.
The saying, "the trend is your friend" applies to this situation, and soon the country will legalize the use of driverless, or almost driverless, cars.
Driverless cars have more capabilites than a completely human operated car, they are safer, and they have peeked the interest of many large manufacturers.
Driverless cars are the future. | 34 |
9211106 | Many scientists working for NASA, as well as myself, have found, and taken pictures of a natural landform on Mars that resembles a face. We have discovered a very unique landform. Some people, like you, believe that the face is some form of an alien monument. I do not believe that this is a claim that can be supported, nor is it a true claim, but I can see where your ideas come from.
The scientists I work with, along with myself, believe that this is definantly just a natural landform on Mars. When the pictures first came from the Viking 1 spacecraft, we were suprised, but that didn´t last long. We realized that this is just another Martian mesa. We realized that the only reason why this landform looked like an Egyptian Pharaoh was because of the unusual shadowing. Taking another picture of the face was necessary to us when MGS arrived at Mars in 1997. When the MGS flew over the face it took another picture that was much better than those that the Viking 1 took. This picture really proved to us that this was just a natural landform. Since that day was cloudy, some people didn´t believe that the picture was sufficient. In 2001, we got yet another picture that proved to us that this was just another natural landform. With the technology and the camera used to take the picture, if there were small shacks near "the Face" or unusual markings on "the Face" we would have been able to see them. There was no actual markings or Egyptian-style pyramids near or on the face, so we decided it is just a natural landform similar to Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho.
When we first found this face I could see where you were coming from about thinking it is an alien monument. You may think that it could be something they worship, or it just represents something like our statues do. You may also think that NASA scientists, like me, just don´t want to share about the fact that there might be alien life-forms, but I think that if we knew anything about that we would want to share and profit off of it. Also this is not an alien monument because if we thought that it was, we would want to explore it more and get it out to the public, but we´re not. This should probably give you and your fellow believers about it being an alien monument a clue that it really is just a landform.
So, in conclusion, this natural landform that looks like a face is simply just a natural landform similar to what we have on Earth. Aliens did not create this to resemble a face, it is just a result of shadowing on the landform. | 45 |
acf38f8 | Many people are not using vehicles anymore. It could be more alternatives for transportation are showing up, to lower air pollution rates, the goverment might be forcing citizens not to use their vehicles, the enviroment they live in, or simply citizens have no interest in driving. There are many reasons to not driving, but maybe there are advantages to limiting car usage.
Some cities have been built where streets, driveways and garages for home are forbidden, such as, Vauban, Germany. These suburban communities have used every other way of transpotation except cars, taxis, buses, and some even trains; they pretty much use anything that doesn't have an engine. Many citizen like not have to drive everywhere. In Source 1, paragraph 3, ""When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two." Many of the citizen that live in Vauban give the same answer or just want something different in their lives. In France, the govermnent enforced a partial driving ban to clear smog in the city get rid of traffic. In Source 2, paragraph 5, "Congestion has down 60% in the capital of France, after five days of intensifying smog." The lower rates of traffic congestion helped a significant amount of French citizens to get to where they were going faster and less accident on the road.
Other countries have created a somewhat holiday called car-free day where millions of people hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work during that day. The only vehicles on the road were buses and taxis. In Source 3, paragraph 7, "These people are generating a revolutionary changeand this crossing the borders." The citizens doing this are very open to this change and enthusiastic about it. It also helped cities renovate and rebuild themselves. In Source 3, parargraph 9, "Parks and sports centers have throughout the city; uneven and pitted sidewalks have been replaced by brad, smooth sidewalks." These change that this holiday has influenced helped the cities to become a safe place.
In conclusion, the limits of car usage has helped bring great beneficial change to many countries of the world. It has provided us with altenate ways of travel, health habits, the reduction of air pollution and a great way to interact with others. | 23 |
fede8f3 | What do you think about the Face Of Mars? I think that Mars was made like that it is rocky and collected all the rocks and it made the face.You should really check it out because some things are ment to be probaly like the face of Mars.Mars is made out of rocks and know one has been there so it could've a been an human. The ancheints had'nt even had that type of technology so it wasnt them. There arent any sign of aliens so it wasnt them.Who could it been know one it was made like you need to belive in me because if we hadnt touch it yet know one has.
Mars was built with a face and i think it was made like that.hen all the dirt and rocks collided together it was collected all together and made cluster of dirt and rocks to make a face.If people lived on mars we would've got a message or more clues that they were there.Mars landform was built like that and just made that face.Is that a clue? I dont really think so becaue more and more clues to tell us they were there.If there were people on mars think about it how would they breath.
It takes a long way to get to mars long ago they didnt have electricity.If people long ago went to mars how would they build that face and make it that tall without any tools.If NASA look at Mars everyday and dont see any life signs how and who would make the face. I really think that mars has had a transformation then the face had appered.
If the something like that happened on earth then you should know that its just a natural landform.If aliens had made it then were are they at now.We would have saw a ufo flying in the sky.I mean I dont know why people believe that aliens mad that face if they dont have any back up or any proof.Then look at the picture who would put holes in a human girls hair.Now look at the thing across that a land formation there no way someone was really there playing with dirt and rocks.
Even though it look like somebody made it really its just art. Its a land formation and just a cluster of rocks with holes on the face.The face on Mars is a beutiful thing and it was just fantastic.But its just a natural landform that why it has all types of holes next to it and everything.Mars is so far away and there no way back so
who made the face know one. | 23 |
5dc2e40 | Technology is improving more and more as time goes by, each year that goes by the technology we use gets smarter and smarter. Soon we may be in a world where everything consist of technology and requires technology. The future will be nothing like now or the past and the future generations will be born in futuristic society.
This text talks about driverless cars becoming a thing that'll soon change the ways of drving and how driving is. If there starts being cars that can drive without someone driving, maybe that'll prevent less car accidents and cassualties. Perhaps if there is cars that can drive by themselves when a person goes on a roadtrip they wouldn't have to worry about stopping to sleep and it would make getting from point A to point B a lot faster. Driverless cars seems like a brilliant ideal but there could many flaws about it.
I am for driverless cars because I believe that'll beneifit a alot of people. People who have disablities or are disabled from the waist down could actually be able to drive. Driverless cars could also help teens with driving and prevent teen car crashes from happening. Less drunk driving accidents would happen if there were driverless cars because if the cars drove by themselves that means a drunk person wouldn't be in control and there would be less deaths. driverless cars has its benifits but it also has its flaws.
The flaws of having driverless cars are that if something bad happened as said in the text who would be in the wrong for the accident, the driver or the manufactuerer? If something bad was to happen with the car, would the person be able to sue the manufacturer or would it be all on the person in the vehicle? If the weather got bad and the driverless cars wasn't progammed to be ready for the situation that could havoc. The manufacturer of the car would have to ensure that the car is smart enough and capable enough of driving through harsh weather conditions. Also how many people would actually have the money for a driverless car, assuming that it'll be expenisve.
In conclusion I do believe if maufacturers put in a lot of work and effort into driverless cars it'll be a success without a doubt. Driverless cars is a brilliant ideal and would actually benefit people. Driverless cars would be one of the first steps into a technology based world and society. The future will be here before we know it. | 23 |
1cb73aa | Have you noticed? Have you noticed the sidewalk person-population is increasing? More and more people are taking public transportation, walking, and biking. smog and polution are coating our cities like a blanket.
"Passenger cars are resonsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. Up to 50% in car intensive areas around the
U.S.
'' says source 1. There is an experimental town in Germany, named Vauban, whose streets are filled with people instead of cars. This seems to be the growing trend, a movement, called "smart-planning''. As cars decrease, the city of Vauban is more compact. They no longer have a worry about where to set parking. Stores are set on main roads, no longer having a mall on the side of a congested highway. Everything's just a simple walk away. Things are simple here, and air is clean.
Unlike Vauban, France had to take things to a new level. As smog layed heavy over Paris, a driving ban was set to clear the air. Though congestion was down 60% in the capital, cold nights and warm days caused a layer of air to trap car emissions. Diesel fuel was blamed in this case, the tax policy made by France, favors diesel over gosoline. "Deisels make up 67% of vehicles in France, compared to a 53.3% average of diesel engines in the rest of Western Europe" says source 2.
As France set a ban on cars for a little while, America seems to be just losing intrest in motor vehicles. Source 4 tells us " Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." As driving decreases so does the polution, creating healthier enviroments.
IN CONCULSION, AT LEAST MAKE THE TOPIC INTERESTING. PLEASE AND THANK YOUUUUUU :) | 12 |
2440f97 | Taking our time to make sucj car's, have the people actually taken theri time to think of the consecuences in making these cars? At the moment, driveless car's are being developed, but still not finished. Car's are able to drive on their own, or being able to actually let the driver know that it is too close to another object or car. If there was an accident with one of these car's, and there were victims and death's included, who would be the one to be blamed? the driver, or the person who actually made created teh car to begin with?
There are also the facts that if the car was to suddenly shut down or to have complications, it could cost the life of many. At the moment, the car's thet Google has, are able to drive on their own, but it is required for a driver to take control after some time. They say that these car's "alert drivers when they have to take control again. If these4 were to not work and alert the driver as it should at the moment and cause problems. What would be the concequences in the future?
The driveless car's could help in many ways, but by donig this, many in the enxt generations will not know the necesary knowledge for problems if they were to have to go back to driving on their own. Would having car's that can drive independantly really be a great thing to have in our economy or could it be a setback? | 12 |
acc3c33 | In my opinion, driverless cars would be a great addition to the road. Driverless cars allow drivers to be more safe and alert on the road, they don't require as much fuel, and would overall help prevent accidents!
I think every driver wants to be safe and alert on the road. Now, with the driverless car, you are able to be even more safe and alert! The driverless car would be equipped with laser beams that will constantly update a 3-D model of the car's surroundings. The car would basically be another set of eyes on the road to help keep you or other people in the car safe!
Everyday people are driving, whether it's 5 minutes away or 2 hours away. They need their car to be fueled up so it can take them where they need to go. Depending on where you are going and how much time it will take, you might need to fuel up a couple times. With the driverless car, it takes half the fuel it normally would take in a regular car! This allows you to spend less money and less time fueling up!
Allowing the use of driverless cars would help decrease the amount of accidents on the road. As drivers, we sometimes get distracted, but with the driverless car it could help you keep your eyes on the road. It would have sensors on the steering wheel to keep you alert and focused on the road. The driverless car's main job is to watch the road and keep you safe!
Overall, I think the driverless car would be wanted and even needed on the road. It helps you stay alert and safe, it would require half the fuel a normal car would need, and it would keep you focused on the road at all times! | 23 |
1fc46cb | Why would scientist want to travel to one of the most hostile planets in the solar system? The author of "The Challenge of Exporing Venus" explains by listing the reasons why we should, listing the challenges, and saying possible solutions to those challenges.
So, why should we explore one of the solar systems most hostile planet? Well, the author explains that, at times, Venus is the closest planet to Earth. It is considered to be Earth's twin, because both planets have similar density and size. It also could have been the most Earth-like planet in the solar system. It has similar features geography such as valleys, mountains, and craters; scientists believe that, long ago, Venus was covered in huge oceans and could possibly support life.
This planet, that used to support life, is now hostile. The author tells the reader that the atmosphere of Venus is 97 percent carbon dioxide, has sulfiric acid, and has an atmospheric pressure 90 times greater than Earth's. The surface also has it's problems. The surface averages over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. There are also erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning striking the surface.
The best solution for these problems is a blimp-like vehicle. This vehicle would orbit 30 miles above Venus. It would avoid all of the surface's challenges. It would be cooler at about 170 degrees Fahrenheit. The atmospheric pressure would be equal to Earth's sea level. This blimp would be solar powered and could possibly have simplified electronics made of silicone carbide. The author adds that simplified electronis will not be the only technology onboard, there is a chance that mechanical computers could make a comeback, as they are more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces.
The challenges scientists face have solutions, and the solutions can help scientists make new discoveries of a planet that remains unexplored. The author has explained why we should explore Venus, despite how dangerous the mission would be. They give the reader reasons why we should, such as possible life forms, and the author has more pros than cons. They also says solutions to the cons that scientists face. | 23 |
bb8453c | Driverless Cars Essay
Are driverless cars dangerous to the community? They help us get by in life. They make life better for us so we don't have to walk everywhere. Especially the places we need to get to in a hurry. This passage about driverless cars can help human beings make the world a better place.
The human race has been able to use this technology for a while. A quote from this passage states,"Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009" (Driveerless Cars Are Coming, paragraph 2). This is important to know because human beings could have been using this technology for a long time. Something that this is also useful for is to make the driver more aware of their surroundings. One quote from the passage that helps with this atatement says,"The google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over" (Driverless Cars Are Coming, paragraph 7). This is important to know because the car alerts the driver of when they need to be ready to drive. Some downsides to this idea is the fact that not a lot of people would want a driverless car that still needs a driver. a quote from the passage that helps with this satatement says,"Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver." (Driverless Cars Are Coming, paragraph 8). this is important to know because many people wouldn't think that it's a driverless car if it still needs a driver.
Driverless cars aren't dangerous to the community. They can make life better for civilization. They can helps us run with our daily activities.
Human beings won't need to worry so much. In what way is a driverless car bad for society? How can they make the world harder for the human race to live in? | 23 |
185b9d3 | The face on mars is a landformation. People would argue it isnt but keep in mind that isnt the case with this. With people argueing that it isnt they think aliens did it but that may not have happend. The face of Mars has to be a landformation.
The face on mars is a landformation because natural occurances happen. This could have happend fromm a meteor strike or the winds in Mars. Not to mention if the clouds in mars are constant then finding this twice on over a 20 year period should still be the same fro slow winds and mild weater.
Many people belive aliens were the cause of the face. Well thats nearly impossible if you consider the aliens were made in mars. Life forms take upon millions of years to grow and need about 60 degree weather on average and mars has below freezing average. Plus if theree were life on Mars, there should be green on Mars because of plants. People also think its aliens because of the lattitude changed. Well this is because the camera that had to take this picture had to be on a cloudy storm probaly causeing some small problems but nothing minor.
At the end I think the face is a landformation and that life could not of done this. It solid evidence. I mean stuff on earth happens like that all the time and people dont care, it is like how you see a bunny on the moon but in reality they are just cooled down oceans of lava. So the face on Mars in my opinion is a landformation. | 23 |
bddcbac | Is there a possibillty that we can live a better life without the use of cars? Yes there is many counties have stoped the use of cars because it's cheaper. For example in VAUBAN,Germany they have given up theif cars street parking,driveways,and home garages are generally forbidden. Vauban's streets are car free except the main thorougfare of course. 70% of Vaubans's familis do not own cars, and 57% sold there cars to move there. Many people say that when they had a car there were more tense they say there much happier this way without a car.
Cars come with a responasabillaty thers so much dangrous things that can happen to you while in a car. For example all the accedentd people get in each day hundres ot thousands of people die each year for car crashes. Also people who cause the accedents like drunk driving, or texting while driving ect.. Any little thing can happen in a car that can take your life forever just with a blink of an eye. In other cases like getting pulled over and the incerance you have to pay and all the money we spent daily on gas.
While in BOGOTA,Colombia they have a no car day! It all started in the 1990's where there was traffic jams it was 3 straight years cars been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the day without cars in this city of 7 million people. But a man named Carlos Arturo he rode a two seated bicycle with is wife other two colombians saw hin and decided to do the same. tjis becaqme big everyone stared doing this and they even smoothen out the side walks for the bikes. The streats where busy with bike traffic.
I think we should start walking places like for example if you need to go to the store and you have one right neer your home dont get in your car walk. By doing this it will help us save gas money and get excerce. Many american are over weight because they dont get any excerce. So by not using our cars once and a while it will help us and our invierment it will stop so much palustion caused by cars. we should take some time off our car and enjoy nature. | 23 |
471269c | "All of our development since world war II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change." Mr. Goldberg an official of transportation for America, a growing coalition to promote car frees communities said. The world is changing for the better and one of the machines man created, that is one of the world changing invenions of it's time is coming down for it's throne is the car. So what are the reasons for not getting a car? lets find out.
In Germany, that is coming faster than people think. An idea called "Smart planning' is taking hold in an exprimental town bulit in 2006 named Vauban. A place were cars are a thing of the past. People everyday are not driving to school or work they are walking, bicycling, or taking the tram into the town from the suburb. Smart planning is revoultionary buliding towns to not be dependent on driving. 70% of Vauban's famlies do not own car and are much happier to not have the everyday anxiteys of driving a motor engine car everyday. 57% sold there car just to move into the small town of Vauban. Car free suburbs and town are a growing trend all across Europe, the united states and many more nations. These efforts have been making cities, towns, and suburbs denser so you don't have to go far to get some milk and eggs.
The global warning is a huge part of the fight to make the earth our home more better and healthier for generations and generations to come. Cars emit gas emissions that make up 12% of the greenhouse gases in our enviroment, up to 50% percent in car-intensive areas in the United States and around the world.
France, Paris having heavy smog decided to have a partial ban on driving making even numbered license plates not drive or fear a fine. Congestion went down after the experiment. What was to blame for the smog was the Diesel fuel being used in most cars because of the fact that a tax policy favors diesel fuel over gasoline. Paris having more smog than the typical capital had a decrease in congestion and the citiy after enormous victory decided to go at it again and do odd numbered license cars.
The car culture is one the has had enormous effect on the everyday lives citizens around the world. In the United states, "Recent studies suggest that americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." In America where the car culture has turned us into the number one place in the world to find the history of one of the planets world changing innventions. People want a greener earth and benifits of not owning a car because everybody knows the stress of having a car no matter ho much it helps you. The car in which you have to have insurance, life insurance, car payments, you have to keep up with your car, the dangers associated with having a car and stress plus anxiety that comes with a car. The cons outweight the pros but those pros have an enormous effect. People are changing and the percentile of teenagers and young adults have droped ten fold in getting or renewing a license. The new trend is that people are no longer getting cars or licenses so why should you.
The people of planet earth understand the pros or cons of a car the benifits of not diving and are making for that change. One of the worlds greatest innventions is stepping off there throne. So why will you not get a car? | 45 |
688b494 | Have you seen the Grand Canyon? Then you probably know that it was not Pual Bunyon who made it, water carved out the Grand Canyon. Nature makes all of the landmarks that we have. Nature can also make landmarks on other planets as well. This is why the Face on Mars has to be a natural formation.
To begin with, I know that the face is a natural landform because it resembles something in the United States. Chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, Jim Garvin, thought that the Face resembles Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. He also said it was a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face of Mars. This shows that even one of the top leaders of NASA's Mars Exploration Program believes that this Face is only a natural landform. Besides, NASA would want to find aliens to prove that there is life on Mars.
Equally as important, nobody has proved that there is any other living thing on a planet except for Earth. Mars is too far away from the sun, and there is very little to no oxygen on the surface of Mars. Even if there is life on Mars, it would be mircoscopic organisms, and they could not build a large structure like the Face. This is another reason why the Face is a natural landform.
And finally, if the Face was made by aliens, then wouldn't there have to be some kind of civilization or living area. The aliens would probably want to be somewhat close to their great formation. However, nobody has located any type of civilization on Mars. With the more powerful that NASA had on the latest probe, they said that you could have see things as small as a shack. Plus, if the aliens built one landmark, why not build another one, but nothing else out of the ordinary has been found by scientists. Lastly, nobody has seen a civilization, so the Face could not have been built by aliens.
In conclusion, there is no strong evidence that the Face on Mars is built by aliens. All the facts point to the idea that the Face is just a natural landform. Scientists took planty of pictures of the Face, trying to find whatever made the Face, but they have found nothing. Besides, there is a natural formation that resembles the Face which proves that they both probably formed the same way. Plus, NASA would want there to be living things on another planet besides Earth, but even they reject the idea that the Face was made by aliens. All this shows why the Face on Mars is only a natural landform. | 45 |
d3557e5 | Driverless cars seem like an amazing jump into the future.
They would be a great addition to public transporation or maybe even personal use.
Google has already made some effort to making this dream a reality.
Although, these cars are not fully independent to be driving by themselves.
I believe that driverless cars would not only be better for our means of public transportation, but better for our environment as well.
Googles invisions would highly support my position.
The company is making efforts to have a public transportation system of driverless taxis.
With this improvement, today's taxis fuel usage would be halfed.
Ultimatly, the less fuel used is almost always better for our environment.
Although, it seems with every advance in technology, there is often a down side. The driverless cars are not exactly safe with modern technology. It is said that the cars can only do so much, needing a human to do some work at times.
The cars would need help with complicated traffic, work zones, and accidents.
Some accidents could even come from the cars themselves.
With the good and bad, driverless cars have much improvement to reach better safety requirements.
They wil help with minimizing the usage of fuel and public transportation trafic.
These cars have a ways to go, but thats nothing automakers can't solve. | 23 |
04c4f26 | Dear,state senator
The Electoral College voting method is a very debated subject among the people. That is why I am here to explain to you my opinion on it, and why i think that the whole process needs to be stopped. As you can probably already tell, I completely dis like the whole process all together but anyway here is my letter to you.
The first issue with this process is that there is not that much stability to it. When people vote for who they want as president they're giving their votes to some one else just so the person they gave them to can vote for who they want to,not for the elector that that person actually put down on the ballet. We the people are not even the ones who technically get to pick who we want as president, it's the electors.
This being said brings me to my next point,what is the point of the people voting if we arent even the ones who get to pick the representatives? Yes, they say that when people are voting,they are actually voting for electors but what if the electors dont listen to the peoples votes and only vote for who they want? It is true that the slate of electors is trusted to vote for the parties person they want to elect but, there is always that tiny percentage that the electors can break that trust. When they take these chances they are setting themselves up for disaster.
I hope that you take what I said into consideration. These are just a few of the things that are wrong with the Electoral College system. Its only a matter of time before people like me start to realize everything wrong with the system we have now, and when they do realize the things wrong with it, they will want something done about it. Please help get a better system going and end this Electoral College crap we have now. | 23 |
fb71126 | The Author Supports this Idea very well. Tells us the many ways that scientist researching venus is bennificial to us. Venus has many risk that we would take when studying such as the temputures there with the stupendous amounts of heat. They say that it would be great to explore from 30 miles up but I think the tempture would still be to much to handle in the aritcale it states the tempture would still be about 170 degrees . In the passage they state the pros and the cons of exploring venus and think that there are more pros and cons and the author supports thay very well and says all of them and admits that there is more cons the pros but then after they says that there may be more reasons not to explore but the reasons to explore out way the other reasons not to explore. They Talk about how testing things and new technology on venus atmosphere can really be a benifit to the human race because imagine if your cell phone could become more heat resistant or easier to use under extreme forces In conclusion i would like to say the authour supports themself very well and gives very straight forward details and provides argument to her own opinion. | 12 |
cf82152 | The face on Mars is something found commonly in American West or Mars. There have been people who dislike what NASA had to say about this picture, because at the beggingn NASA didnt know what it was for a fact.
NASA started focusing on this more and more. as it says in the article "Its not easy to target Cydonia, says Garvin."
Well they beggingned to take a photo of this object every year and the more they study on it the more it came to there minds that it wasnt a face and had to be something else. Many scienctists were taking a shot and believing the face was an alien artifact. Well as this got more interesting and popular to the world NASA had one day many years later, found out that this Face that people were saying it was had been a landform. In the article it states "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West." This proves that NASA has proof for this picture, that the people that had been disagreeing with NASA can no longer disagree because of what NASA put in for this to be proved it wasnt a face. | 12 |
9a958aa | Cars have always been used to get from point A to point B. That is how the people in society know what cars are for. However, there are other alternatives when is comes to going form one destination to another. Citizens should limit their car usage. It helps with the terrible traffic on the street. Also, there will be no more pollution in the air. In addition, citizens can be able to enjoy the world.
Everyone has been caught in traffic, whether it is going to work or school or meeting up with someone. Everyone has been in traffic before. People can prevent traffic form happening. There is carpooling, it can help limit traffic on the streets. Just like it states in source three, "...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." There are other ways to avoid and stop traffic. Not everyone needs to take their own personal car to work. They can either car pool or take public transportation to save money because gas isn't cheap these days. In addition, traffic somtimes end up leading to accidents. There are several people who died in a car accident due to someone speeding because he or she doesn't want to wait in the traffic. However, if everyone just finds another alternative way to get to his or her destination, then no one has to die. Just like it explains in proclaims in source four, "pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial, and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emission and improve safety." This qoute listed some alternatives way to get somewhere. By doing these things it will not only limit the traffic but the resources and the safety of other people. Traffic isn't a fun place to be in, so find another way to get to his or her destination can prevent traffic.
Air pollution is everywhere we go. Whether someone travels to Japan, India, or South America. There willbe air pollution there. It might not have same amount of air pollution as other countries but there is still pollution. Why? Because there are people who uses his or her personal car not thinking about what happens to the air that they breathe. However, there is a solution to limit the pollution in the air. Limiting car usage or find another way to get to the certain destination. Mr. Sivak even claims that "A car is just a means of getting from A to B..." Cars is just a means of transportation. So are bicycles, trucks, buses, traind. However, all these have one thing in common, they are all going form destination A to destination B. Biking, walking, skating are some way to stop the gas from the vehicles from polluting the air. Actually, by using these methods pollution can be reduced. For example source three states, "...uneven, pitted sidewalks have bee replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic..." When people don't use his or her car and decides to find another way to get to their destination it helps reduce the traffic.
There are several people who say that they know what the real world is since he or she travels all the time in their car. However, do people really know the sounds of kids laughter when walking down the side walk or a bicycle bell violently ringing at someone to get out of their way? Not a lot of people know this because they are usually used to their vehicles getting them places. People will argue that they have heard all of those before and that they were happier. But Ms. Walter thinkgs other wise, "When i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Ms. Walter has been walking on the streets and she hears the swish of bicycles and the talkative children and occastional a distant motor. These help people better appreciate the world that they live in because not everything will last forever. In addition to this, less cars means more people walking which means that several people will end up walking pass a shop and look what is inside. For instance in source three is explains, "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed through the city; uneven...and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up." It helps by walking to find new stores or restaurants people never heard of.
Several people believe that the only way to get somewhere is by car. That isn't necessarily true. Skating, walking, biking, car pooling or public transportation can help get anyone from point A to B. Yes, it will take longer on foot than by car but it helps the environment, it stops from the air getting all the gasoline form the cars. It is faster than being stuck in traffic. Someone who is biking to school can be five minutes late while soneone who is took their car and got stuck in traffic can be an hour late. Limiting car usage is a way that everyone can explore the world than being stuck in that four or tw door car. Limiting car usage has its downs but it also have its perks. | 56 |
82ff9ec | In the past, if society was told that cars would be able to drive themselves people would have called you crazy or would have laughed it off,calling it wishful thinking. Throughout life, we as humans have worked towards new advances in technology. We are always looking for a way to make life easier and simpler. The queastion is where so we draw the line. Saftey. Saftey has been a concern through time because we are less independent and have become more dependent on machines that could easily break, causes permanant damage. With this in mind, it is not safe to have drivless cars.
Having driverless cars could be harmful to not only to the passenger, but other drivers as well. The text states, "In reality, Google has had cars that could drive independetly under specific conditions since 2009." If this is the case, why are they just coming out with it. It is probably due to the fact that there are casualties. For example, the passage mentions that they have not fully developed the driverless car to handle complicated traffic issues, which is basically what driving requires. This could definatly result in drivers getting injured. Not only could they cause injures, but they could also cause legal issues.
If one thinks about it, most people don't want to rely on a car's driving if there is a chance it could cause an accident. There are no laws about driverless cars so it could be caos if something goes wrong. What if the car causes an accident because of an malfunction? There is no law about driverless cars, which means it could be blamed on the driver or the manufacturer. These are very concerning points that has to be taken in to consideration. Some may argue that driverless cars are better than human drivers.
Although there are numerous drawbacks to driverless cars, some may say they are better drivers than humans. The passage states," 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." This shows that driverless cars opperate breaks better than humans do.
Although driverless cars are good with brakes, thay can't be relied on enough to put ones life in their hands. The passage states,"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 through work zones and around accidents." This means that even though the point of driverless cars is that humans don't have to drive, we technically still have to drive and stay alert. This seems to defeat the whole purpose of creating driverless cars if it is not actually driverless. Even though we rely on technoloy for various activities, that doesn't mean we have to rely on them to do everything.
The reality is that driverless cars are more trouble than good. They compromise the saftey of people on the road. They also don't have any regulations or laws, which could impact driving and saftey. When taking into account that there are no laws or order for driverless cars, it is no question that driverless cars should not be sold to society. We,as humans, have a responsibiliy to protect and mantain the saftey and life God gave us. | 45 |
8235368 | What I think about the facial action coding system enables computers to identify humans emotions is weired i wouldn't want that on my computer or phone or for other people. I wouldn't want that because it seems like someome is looking at what you are doing pretty much like a stacker and i think that is weired. I think we shouldn't have that because what if someone is hacking that program and gets to my phone or computer that means they could see what we look like and what we are doing. It says using videos imagery the new emotion-recognition software track these movements in a real face. So what I think is that they will have access to our camera and they could see our face and how we feel and that is weired. So i thin we should NOT have that because you never know what else the can get access to. | 12 |
52b89ea | You get to travel places and see new things over sea and get to help others get there stuff back for them. His life would change in what he is doing and it was a opportunity of a lifetime. H would be apart of something new.He turned 18 before getting to Greece now hecould be apart of the militaryservice. It was a great opportunity for a small town boy. Helping his aunt when he was at the farm got him ready for cleaning and feedingthe animals, keeping watch staying up at night checking on them every hour. If something was he would try to fix it and report it. Even if he got hurt he would still be there to help. There are lots of stuff to do on the ship they have games to pass the time. It opened his eyes to see what other things you can do telling other people to join in helping him and the others in there need and in his. He in grateful that he got to help others to care for them. There are other people to help and he was one of them that he helped.
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d5221c2 | There are a whole lot of positive and negative aspects about these cars. I truly agree with what's going on with the negative aspects of these cars. For example, things can happen with these cars that can drive by itself.
First, these cars could be a big safety issue. It can be a safety issue because the passage states that if there is any road work the driver should be ready to prepare to take over. Not only take over but also be ready when something happens with road work. Road work can be scary with the roads being bad and going around the road work can be difficult.This is where you think to yourself as, "Why drive this car if you can be prepared and be alerted when you are responsible for your own car?"
Another safety issue is during traffic. Traffic is where a lot of accidents happen in the process of drivers. Yes, this car can break by its own but remember that anything can happen with this car. Expect the unexpected because if anything happens you may never know. The car could probably get a problem and miss understand something because it is computer authorized. It may not break when it is supposed to, or maybe not even get the alert that there is road work ahead.
Lastly, there is states that are still checking if it is reliably safe. This is still not proved at all if it's even safe. That especially is a big problem because you don't want to have a car that you don't even know if it is safe or not. If the car gets into a crash, that may be a responsibility that relies on you or the car. Think about it is the car going to get the ticket or is it you that's going to get it. We all don't know just remember safety first.
I disagree with having a car and I say this because I rather be safe then sorry. There is cars that I could get and have control over it than having a car that controlls by itself. If getting into an accident and I know how to explain that I had the control over it then it won't be a problem. That way I don't need to be worried or question about the car twice if in an accident knowing it controlls itself. | 23 |
691f21e | As we enter a world where humans want to depend on technology for everything, even the simplest of tasks, the idea of "driverless cars" is introduced. What sounds like a great idea now, doesn't have as much potential when looked in to. While these "driverless cars" are envisioned to use "half the fuel of today's taxis" and "offer more flexibilty than a bus", there are still some aspects that don't make the cars completely "driverless". Before driverless cars make their huge impact on the world, some of the "minor" details need to be further developed.
How often do you hear of people calling for transportation services, such as taxis or Ubers, because they aren't in a state of mind and being good enough to be able to operate a motorized vehicle? If taxi systems were to be replaced with driverless cars, who would drive those people home? A major flaw in the driverless cars is that they might require human assistance sometime throughout the trip. If there were to be a spontaneous accident, or large work zone ahead while the only human in the car was intoxicated, that would pose a lot of danger for that driver and every other driver around. The safety of other drivers on the road has to be taken into consideration.
Making cars driverless means no one would be completely in control of the vehicle. Keeping that in mind, in the case of an accident, who would be to blame? The driver could be at fault, but then how really driver-independent are these cars? With the possibility that the car will more than likely need human assistance, the driver themselves is only slightly benefited.
Just because "driverless cars" are assumed as completely "driverless", an actual human capable of thinking and doing for the car is indeed necessary. Where I'm sure there are certain groups of people that will benefit from being able to get from point A to point B without having to think anything of it, there's still that larger population that will find almost no practicality in watching their vehicle drive itself when they are capable of doing it themselves. Aside from the safety features that comes with a car having a mind of its own almost, I think we're better off without this technological advancement. | 34 |
d2c1065 | Limit car usage! While you may think having a car is a necessity, others completely disagree. According to the passage -''In
German, life goes on without cars'', street parking, driveways, and home garages are forbidden in a new district on the outskirts of
Frieburg. 70% Vauban families dont own cars and 57% sold there cars just to move. Many find it better this way. For example,Heidren Walter stated- '' When I had a car, I was always tense. I'm much happier this way.''
In Paris, France, there is more smog then any other European capital. According to the passage- ''Paris bans driving due to smog'', drivers were fined and motorists with even numbered license plates were forced to leave there cars at home. Diesal fuel is to blame for warmer layers of air traping car emissians. Delivery companies complained. However, exceptions were made for plug-in car, hybrids, and cars that can hold three or more people. When the smog cleared,the ruling French party rescinded the ban for odd numbered plates. According to the passage-''car- free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota''- this is the third year cars have been banned, this sets a goal to promote alternative transportation and to decrease smog. This program influenced two other
Colombian cities to join and participate in trying to end all smog. The reduce of cars impacted Colombia in a positive way.
Therefore, causing the air to blossom and the air to blossom and new construction to occur. In the U.S.A, President Obama's goal is to curb the U.S green house gas emissions. According to the passage-'' The end of car culture'', the U.S has peaked its driving miles in 2005 and dropped there after. A recent study found that driving by young people decreased 23% between 2001 and 2009. However the Mobile congress in Barcelona, Spain, laid out a business plan inwhich bicycles, private cars, and public transportation traffic would save time, conserve resources and save energy.
Concluding to all my information, many countries and states are still trying to reduce car usage. Therefore, reducing smog and pollution . This will not only improve the air , it also solves our time, resource, and safety issues. This will help to improve society aswell. Therefore, we can live without cars. | 23 |
a1138fe | Human emotion recognition software should be used in the classroom. First it could appeal differently to each students larning style, or be modified to teach him/her how the student wants. Lastly, it could see if a student is getting bored with the lesson or if he/she likes the lesson. This could help children learn alot better in a learning enviroment tailored just for them.
First, it could appeal differently to each student. This means that if it notices a kid frowning when showed a hard problem or a large group of text, it could change what it is doing but keeps the concept of what it is teaching. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming bored or confused, Dr. Huang predicts. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective instructor." This shows that the program could be used for the betterment of teaching for different people, not all people learn the same way, so why should it all be taught the same way. The computer could fix that by modifying the way it teaches.
Lastly, it could see if a student is getting bored with the lesson or if he/she likes the lesson. If a student, me especially, dosen't like a lesson or thinks it is boring, he/she wont learn. A computer that reads faces to get the emotions of students would keep the lesson being taught livley and more fun to keep students entertained. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming bored or confused, Dr. Huang predicts. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective instructor." I used the same quote twice once in the second paragraph and now, in this paragraph becauses it strongly supports both of my claims. If a computer where to "modify the lesson, like an effective instructor" students would always be engaged in learning because the lesson would always change to what is needed to keep students entertained.
Human emotion recognition software should be used in the classroom. If used in a classroom, it would greatly keep students engaged in learning. personally, I would love having something like this in the classroom to keep me interested in the lesson. Wraped up, having this tool would greatly improve the entirety of the school learning enviroment. | 23 |
0084f6c | What exactly is the facial action coding system? Well it enables computers to identify human emotions and expressions. This is an interesting way to understand a indivuals emotional expressions. Children in this mordern day have a tendency of hiding some deep emotions and expressional feelings from their peers,friends,and family. Being able to figure out some of their emotions could save a lot of problems long term.
The worst thing a person can do is hide their emotions from people. This can really lead to a bad depression or other sad emotional syndromes. In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto it stated that "Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy,worried, etc." This shows that a person understanding someone emotions is very diffucult. People can hide their feelings really well especially students when even they are having their worst day.
Facial action coding system can really help adults to understand the true emotions of a student. The story says that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human insturctor." This by far is an excellent idea. In the US in today's world a lot of students homework is online. Not even just homework at school but in everyday life it has something to do with technology.
By being said the students that can't comprehend the lesson, there can be an alternative assignment that they can to so at least they are learning something. Doing something that you kind of know and bettering yourself at that is way more benefical then doing something you have no knowledge of. A lot of students don't ask for help when they are struggling with a assignment. Most of the time they either skip it or copy down answer without getting the full structure of the material. If the students are not understanding something in a lesson the material is only going to get way harder for them without any help.
In the end, the facial coding system is a great creation and will be very benefical toward students. Teachers a very educated and have the Knowledge to help the students. If they don't know who is struggling though at all times they can't help every student. | 34 |
65b060f | My opinion on driverless cars is that they dont have enough support and they are not something that is necessary for our society. I dont think we need driverless cars, because they would cause too many problems and be too much work to take care of. Driverless cars should not be a huge focus in our society, because we do not need them and we should be focusing on being more productive. We should not focus on driverless cars but rather on the safety of the cars and roads we have now.
Driverless cars could be more dangerous than the dangers we have now, revolving around the cars, traffic, and raidlroads all around us. We already have too many problems involving cars that we don't need to add any more. The people who are involved in creating the driverless cars should focus on making sure that the railroads are safe before trying to come up with anything new. I think that creating theese new cars is already to much work. It would involve creating the sensors, changing the breaks, and making new computer hardware and software. Theese things will not protect us from getting into accidents or having cars crashes which should be our main focus.
Even though they are taking away the concept of people having to drive the cars they are not preventing anything that could happen or that needs prevention. People may think that having a driverless car would keep them from having to do the work themselves. Whn really what would happen is that they would have to pay more attention to everything around them, which would cause even more work. The cars would need to supervised more than they do now, because they would be moving and need us to take on more responsibility in controling the car. This could end up not working, because the cars could end up going out of our control. Which could cause more problems for us. | 23 |
76f8404 | Has anyone ever noticed that face shaped rock in Mars? Well back in 1976, some NASA Vikings saw a rock in Mars. They were all talking about it and wanted to know what it was. They told a few people and scientists. They came to a conclusion and made some guesses about what it was. Some said it was an alien's face and some said it was a man's face. It is now 2001, and the argument is currently still going on. Now I'm going to tell you from my perspective whats going on now.
So I'm a scientist, I'm currently in outerspace with other astronauts. We see what everyone is talking about. It does look like a face. From people's opinion it looks like an alien made the face, a real person, and other exotic ideas. Honestly from my opinion it looks like the natural planet. Of course it looks like a face, but I don't think a man or an alien just came and stuck their face in the planet. Like come on people, let's be real.
It is now October 24, 2002. Today we go back up into space, we go back in 3 hours. Right now I'm having a conversation with one of the astronauts, John, he thinks an alien made the face. This is what he asks me "How could you not think that is an alien's face?" My response: "Because the face is no where near shaped like an alien's face. There probably is life on that planet, but their face isn't in the planet." His response: "Oh come on, that is totally an alien's face." My response: "Look at the the way the face looks, it doesn't look anything like an alien." His response: " Well if it's not an alien then what do you think it is?" My response: "I think that was just naturally formed there."
His response: "How so?" My responese: "Look at the picture, it looks natural. Also, you know all of those big wholes in the earth, they were naturally formed, no one just came an dug that big of a whole in the earth. If so, they would probabbly be stuck inside the whole." His response: "You might be right, but that still doesn't convince me that the face was naturally formed." Then I said "Okay John, how did the alien's face get in the planet? The ground there looks awfully hard. So I don't think it would be possible for anyone or anything to make a face print in it."
"I don't know how, the alien does know." Then I said "Exactly you don't know how it got there. The alien does, if he did it. All I can say for myself is that the alien didn't do it, nor a man. I believe that it was naturally formed. So I'll let you think what you want to think." A few hours later, after him thinking about it, he came to the conclusion that maybe it was naturally formed. | 34 |
c58e91b | Imagine you are riding in a driverless car and you see a bright red car heading toward you. Would you panic? Or would you go on as if nothing was going to happen? Imagine having very little control of your car when it crashes into the red car that was coming towards you. Imagine finding out that you had just killed two precious, little babies lives because your driverless car lost control. These are the things that you have to think about when it comes to driverless cars. I believe that diverless cars are not completely safe. I think they should be illegal for many reasons.
Vehicles have mechanical problems all the time. You will be driving down the road and your breaks will go out, or your steering wheel will lock up. These things are hard enough to control when the driver is in control of the car, let alone if the driver was not fully in control. In section seven, it says that the driverless cars are able to steer, accelerate, and brake themselves. What happens when you are riding along and something goes completely wrong and you end up crashing into the car that was heading your way? Driverless cars would only exacerbate the mechanical problems cars have today. In section nine it says that if the car fails, and someone is injured, who is responsible? The driver or the manufacturer?
Safety is a big issue when it comes to driving. One of the main issues is texting and driving. If you are the designated "driver" in a driverless car, you would be even more tempted to get on your phone. I believe that this is not safe at all. If you are in the drivers seat, you need to be paying attention to the road at all times, even in a driverless car. In section eight in the passage, it says that some maufacturers hope to bring in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. I think that having these ammentities in the car are very unsafe. Even though the cars have been tested and have been driven more than a half a million miles without crashing according to section two, there are still possibilities for mishaps and crashes. Because of this, section nine says that in most states it is illegal to even test computer driven cars.
Safety is not the only issue when it comes to driverless cars. Owning a driverless car would be extremely expensive. As I said earlier, mechanical failuers happen all the time in cars today. The cost to fix your car when something happens is already expenxive. If you were to own a driverless car and something happened to fail, the cost would most likely be exorbitant. Driverless cars have so many features and sensors. In section four, it says that there are sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera near the rearview mirror, four automative radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor. If one of these sensors were to go bad or to break, it would be costly to fix them.
Overall, I thik that driverless cars should not be legal. They put too many things and people at risk. Even though they have been tested and proven to be safe, there are still many things that could go wrong. In section seven, it says that they are able to steer, accelerate, and brake themselves. If you believe these things to be true and you get in the car without a care in the world, you will not be filled with much exhilaration when something goes wrong. The issue of driverless cars and safety is a big problem to me. When you are in a car that you do not have to pay attention to the road very much, you could be doing whatever you wanted. Even if you were paying attention to the road and your surroundings, you never know what other drivers are doing. Not being in control of the car can be very dangerous no matter what situation you are in. | 45 |
1a19cfb | Although many people believe that the photo of a " Human Face" taken by NASA's Viking 1 from 1976 is created by aliens , many scientists prove it to be wrong. Considering how land can form in many shapes and sizes , it's not impossible for a landmass to looklike a face. It's also not impossible for aliens to build it but the fact that NASA have never discovered aliens prove that it cannot be credit to aliens, atleast not yet. Light also made it looklike a face and hide some parts with shadows thus making us blind to the other half. Another prove is that if we view it closer, it's nothing like a face but just an illusion. Therefore proving that aliens should not be credit of creating it.
Landmasses can have a variety of results. On Earth there are many landmasses ranging from high mountains to blue seas to dry lands and each of them have different types of appeareance. There are also many islands on Earth that shaped like a heart or other shapes. Even on Earth, there are many artifacts that are thought to be made by aliens. Why? Because they were ahead of their time but as soon as humen start accepting them, they were considered inventions. Knowing this fact, it's pretty clear that there will be more unique shapes and unknown tools to be discover on the Red Planet. We just have to take our time and use it as our advantage.
Light also tricked our brains into believing that it was a face. Light can cause many illusions and it's strongest with shadows. We humen use light to make shadows of dogs and rabbits using our hands and the result seems like a dog's or rabbit's shadow. The shadows hide the other half of the face and thus the other half might just be a plain of nothing on it. We only use our naked eyes to judge it when we should use the measurements to determine if it really could be a face or just a landmass.
Then in 2001, NASA took another picture of the "Human Face" and with better and higher technologies, the face was re-discovered with small details. The camara from 1976 did not provide enough evidences and it's not clear enough for our naked eyes to see the small details like the strings and the land features. The land features prove that the other half was nothing like what we imagined. Only half is like a face and the other half is just land with no features of a human face. The picture from 2001 reveals that, what was thought to be a face made by aliens for decades, is just illusion made by landmass and light.
Many people still and will still believe that it was made by aliens because they are in denial. Although aliens existing has always made humen curious about the lifeform of other planets, the face is just leading us into a wrong direction. We need to focus more on discovering more planets beyond our reach and also see if there is water source available on them. We should not let little landmass trick us into wasting millions and millions of dollars on it. But what ever the cause may be, nature will always surprise us and we just have to be ready for it. | 34 |
7715f1d | The author supports that going to Venus is a worthy pursuit by giving information as to why it is important. He describes the importance of it for humanity and the future for humanity. The author says the importance of going to Venus and the dangers that come with trying to get to it. Imagination is one thing the authors says to support the idea of going to Venus, as it is dangerous and even though it is dangerous people shouldnt let danger get in the way of their imagination and curiosity.
The author states many things that contribute to his idea of not being afraid of danger. In the text it says, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." This states and supports the idea that the author has as to why people should travel to Venus. The author is saying to not let danger or doubt get in the way of imagination that we could accomplish
impossible tasks as getting to Venus.
Another reason the author explains is that information that could be gathered from Venus. It could give knowledge as to why it is the way it is or many other types of information. Much knowledge can be gathered from the planet. In the text it states, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but talso because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." This staes that it is important to gain insight on the planet and as a way to lead us to as equally intimidating endeavors.
The author states another reason as to why Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers and the reason is that innovation in technology can be improved making technology that we dont have. Innovating technology can help in the future. The text states,"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." The text also states,"Another project is looking back to an an old technology called mechanical technolgy." "Systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces."
This explains the reasoning for needing to go Venus. There can be innovation in technolgy that can be improved to make it better than before. To not let danger or doubt get in the way of challenges being accomplished to not let the danger in the impossible stop humanity from extending into more things. This is why the author supports the idea of traveling to Venus. | 34 |
3d098ec | The Face on Mars was not created by aliens, and does not prove that there is alien life on Mars. The Face was created simply by poor camera quality and an optical illusion. The later pictures of the Face taken in 1998 and 2001 prove this theory even further. If you look at the later pictures, you can clearly see that the Face is nothing more than a natural formation. NASA is also in support of finding alien life, so they would have no reason in trying to disprove that aliens are not real. So, the face is nothing more than an optical illusion, and not something created by aliens.
The Face on Mars is nothing more than an optical illusion and a natural formation working together. If you look at the picture of the Face from 1976, then it is very convincing proof that the face was the work of aliens. However, the picture of the Face that was taken in 2001 shows that the Face is simply a rock formation with shadows where the eyes and mouth should be. This is also proven with the picture that was taken in 1998. Even though there is clouds over the Face, you can still tell that there is no alien creation in the picture. Garvin brings up a comparison of the Face to a "Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," which is a "lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." By drawing this comparison, it gives us something we can easily compare the Face to on Earth. People don't claim that the "Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain" was created by aliens, yet it is easily comparable to the Face.
Alien life on Mars would support NASA. It would bring great attention to the space program, and more funding. If NASA were to find aliens, they wouldn't hide it from the public. Whenever the picture was first taken in 1976, NASA released it to the public only a few days after it was taken. Although the picture had a theory to disprove that it was the creation of aliens along with it, NASA still released it almost immediatly. This is proof that NASA is in support of finding alien life becuase they were not afraid to release something that could possibly prove it. Even after NASA ended the Viking missions, they still went back to take more photos of the Face. This would either prove the conspiracy theorists even more, due to advancments in technology which would allow for higher resolution photos, or it would prove NASA's theory that shadows were creating the optical illusion. The pictures helped the case of the latter. Because of how much clearer the picture taken in 1998 is compared to the picture taken in 1976, you are able to see much more detail of the Face, and can easily tell that it is just a mesa. Conspiricy theorists claimed that the alien markings were hidden by the haze in the picture, which would later be disproved by the very clear picture taken in 2001. So, if NASA were not in support of finding alien life, why would they release three pictures that could possibly prove alien life?
In conclusion, the face was not created by aliens. NASA is also not trying to hide any evidence for alien life on Mars, so if this were the creation of aliens, NASA would fully support it. NASA released three photos of the Face, all which had the possibility of proving that it was the creation of aliens, yet they still released them. So, if NASA wanted to hide alien life, why would they release anything to hint at it? | 56 |
c5c1b30 | Being able to detect how other people are feeling can be a satisfiying and critical thing to use or to know. When the historical and famous picture that was taken of Mona Lisa famouse painting with her smiling can be a miss lead consuption or an unexpected photo at the time. With the FACS it was able to detect Mona Lisa's expression through the photo. She was 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry. The FACS isnt able to detect what Mona Lisa was happy, upset, angry, disgusted or fearful at the time. The only thing it was able to capture are her feelings but not towards what she was feeling for.
Being able to know that the person that you are analizing can have certain emotion's towards you or towards others is a good thing. If you were to have a significant other or some one that you are intrested in is sending mix signal can be complicated and people wouldn't be able to tell, it can be usefull but, can also be a disadvatage. There are people who tend to be complicated when they aren't wanting to. It would be easy tp know if there were to be a detected FACS. But how would it be for sure that it was towards that one specific person. For instance in the Mona Lisa picture/painting. | 12 |
81d56c1 | The mission to Venus is one that has been on a consent want and need for men and women but due to Venus challenging surface and atmoshphere, it causes many set backs for NASA but they dont allow that to stop them. In the text it claims that, " While Venus is simple to see from the distand but safe vantage point on earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely" (Challenge 1). It's possible to see Venus from Earth and enjoy the beauty as it comes, but many others want a closer look of the beauty and dangers of Venus. NASA calls them missions and this is where the most results of a planet come to piece together the study. It's clear that missions are dangerous but, "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours" (Challenge 2). Sending unmanned spacecraft before actual people is there way is studying without harming the people that are willing to risk a lot.
Earth and Venus are two planets that are very interesting due to their layouts and the features and each one holds, each planet may have things that we won't know until we discover them. In the passage it explains what Venus is to us, shown
here, "Often referred to as Earth's 'twin,' Venus is the clost planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too" (Challenge 2). This may seem like great news the two planets are alike and are close together but understanding a planet that has never seen people is hard. Not only that huamns have never stepped foot on the planet but the overall income it may take to build a spacecraft, only for it to last couple of hours on the planet. Many issues come to the surface when taking about sending a spacecraft to Venus most often it's, "Numerous factors contribute to Venus's repution as a challening planet for humans to study, despite it's proximity to us" (Challenge 2). After counting up the possible outcome of a mission to Venus, it's always a outcome very little information and the need for more. This make NASA went to explore a planet that is so close but has countless dangers.
The dangers of one planet similar to the planet that many people live on would be far fetched until meeting Venus. That means the yes Earth and Venus may be twins but ones not like the other. Earth is a place of great colors and has a sence of beauty until looked upon by Venus, shown in the text that, "Such an environment would crash even a submarine accustomed to driving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals" (Challenge 3). When saying that Earth and Venus are twins, it can be seen more as Venus is the evil twin and doesn't mean to but just is. Venus is a present waiting to be open, it's a like present because it's never known what's in store for the person or persons opening it. The text explains that "Venusian geology and wather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to lond on it's surface" (challenge 3). The climate of Venus isn't a remake of Earth it's clear that it's hold a lot more dangers to the study of the planet. Also Earth shares those dangers but not at the scale that Vensu might.
Although Venus is dangerous up close Astronomers are still looking for answers and enlightment on the planet. The reasons for them still wanting figure out this planet is due to, "Venus probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like those on Earth" (challenge 4). At one point Venus have have been a on point twin capable on inhabiting lifeforms to live out thier days. Now Venus seems like it's been in a bad mood due to the change. since the overrall climate of Venus giving many scientist a hard time with the study of the planet shown in the text, "Researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from distance" (Challenge 6). The consent change in weather and how it already is makes it hard for researchers to reach the surface to gather information. Leaving the scientists in a tough spot and not being able to do much other than just look and admire.
Scientists are not willing to tap out and say game over, they are determind to unfold the secrets of Venus and the hidden life that it may or may not take care of without anyone knowing, Scientists are hard at work with, "Some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulationg the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions" (Challenge 7). They made a carbide that would be able to withstand the climate and treats that Venus throws that it, this could help with the resreach. There is a meaning behind travel to Venus and it's clear that many want this. Shown in the text that " Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insighted to be gained on the planet itself" (Challenge 8). It means a lot to people that if this was capable of doing they would be helping with it because it would help further the span of life for many humans. Venus is a planet much like ours, it may hold some differeance but in the end it's clear to see that every planet does. No doubt that the dangers of space are anywhere and everywhere no matter where the mission is taking place but it's the bigger picture that matters. | 45 |
8efd892 | The elector college is a controversial subject today in america, based on many questionable policies that leave many americans confused and cheated. This is why I argue in favor of changing to election by popular vote for the president of the united states.
With the electoral college way of electing a president voters arent actually voting for the president, they are voting for a slate of electors who will then vote for the candidate. There are so many things that can go wrong when electing like this. Voters can't neccessarily control who their electors vote for, you may vote for a certain slate of electors but they may still go ahead and vote for someone else. Sometimes voters get confused and may vote for a slate of electors who are for the wrong candidate. For example, in 1960 segragationists in the Louisiana Legislature almost succeded in replacing the democratic electors with new ones who would oppose John F. Kennedy, so a popular vote for Kennedy would not actually go to him. Although these things dont happen all time their is always the possibility and why take that chance on such an important event, choosing our president the person who will lead our country.
In an election their really is a process of voting and voting again. Instead of couting the number of people who want a certain president and so on. We are viewed as a state and some states having more say than other even if the votes are in the same margin. This is the reason why some states are focused on more by the candidates and are heavily educated on the topic and given more attention than smaller states whose votes wont change much. an even bigger problem is te fact that most states operate on a winner-take-all basis so even a slight majority vote one way will give that person all of the votes. A very worrying prospect as expressed in source two is the possibility of a tie. in which the election would be given to the house of representatives. Each state only gets on vote so a representative representing 500,000 people would have as much say as representatives representing 35 million people. Why not just cut out all of the extra processes and focuses on the decision of the people directly.
Although there are many arguments against the electoral college there still are people who argue in favor of it. There is a certainty of outcome with this process. There will less likely be a run off election with this process. All in all the major arguments agaisnt this process outweigh the pros of it, which are few.
With all of the reasons to go against this process I think it is necessary to change the election to popular vote for the president. We need to give the voice directly back to the people of our country so we know that we really do choose our fate in these elections. | 34 |
f3fd856 | In the passage, it talked about this new technology that can break down your facial expression and figure out your mood. In this case, they did Mona Lisa. They said, her face was 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, and 2 percent angry. I dont know they are to come up with these percentages.
I feel like this technology can come into good use, although, i just dont really see the importants of it. In cases like this one, with Mona Lisa, yes i feel as if it was a great thing, but i just dont see any other good uses for it. I would really like to find out another use for this technology to be able to think it is very useful.
I do think this technology is very interesting. I like how it broke up Mona Lisas face into three different emotions. I think that is very cool. I dont see any other use for the technology, but if it is just used for paintings, i think it could be kinda useful. I would like to see the technology in action more to see what all it can do. I want to see it figure out peoples emotions by the look on their face. I hope to see more of this technology in the future. I would also like to know who the inventors of this technology are. You would have to be very smart to be able to invent something like this. | 12 |
7044865 | Everyday when you wake up and get ready for work there's always one thing you use, it's inched it's way into your daily life and now you wouldn't be able to do most things without it. It's your four wheeled friend that sits out in your driveway or garage, your car. Every day millions of people drive miles and miles in a car, using them to go to work or to go and see other people, but what people don't understand is the need to limit just how much they use their automobile companions.
Cars have changed our lives for the better and for the worse. They save us a tremendous amount of time by making traveling super efficient, but along with that is air pollution. Cars emit greenhouse gasses, and these gasses trap heat which in then leads to warming of the surface of the earth. This warming of the earth creates drastic changes in many environments such as the polar regions. "Passenger cars are responsible for twelve percent of greenhouse gas emmisions in europe... and up to fifty percent in some car intensive areas" This was stated in an article about German suburb life witout cars. By limiting the amount of which we drive and by switching to alternative sources for transportation we can lower the amount of greenhouse gases and stop the heating of the earth.
Furthermore, these gases create smog. Smog is similar to fog but instead it has gases emitted from cars in it. Smog is usually thick and can be hazardous to environments. It was so bad in Paris that they set a partial driving ban in which people couldn't not drive becuase they didn't want the smog to get worse. The problem here is that people still continued to drive out even though there was a ban being inforce. So, this is another issue in which cutting back on car uses can fix. If we switch to biking to places that are withing biking distance or walking to place that are walking distance than we wouldn't have to worry about smog, or bans.
Automobiles have changed the way we live our lives and the way we do things, but they also have changed our communities. The typical city today consists of tall buildings and a surplus of streets and avenues, but parks are not as common. In Bogota there has been celebrating a day without cars for three years, and it has seen changes in the community. By having everyon give up their car for a day it can change their view on things, can make them notice things about the place in which they live in that they did't know about before. It can show them the beauty of their surroundings and this can lead to people wanting to protect that beauty and improve their city. This can be done in the form of building parks, and fixing uneven sidewalks.
So all in all, we depend on cars for daily purposes and it may seem hard to let go of your keys and walk, but if we all do that every once in a while it can lead to tremendous benefits. Imagine if you could walk outside and see people walking and enjoying themselves, not having to worry about gas prices or traffic jams. Imagine if we didn't have to worry about greenhouse gases or smog. Going for walk instead of driving may not seem like much, but it has major impacts on a multitude of things. | 45 |
ac8c2d6 | "A classroom computer could recongnize when a student is becoming confused or bored," said Dr. Huang and also predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This would be ground breaking if children, high schoolers, and even audlts coould use this techonology. It would change how everyone on this plant learns everything.
This is very vauble because the computer will be able to tell if you are happy, sad, confused, angry and other emothions. The computer could change its lesson around you and not what it is just programed to do like computers right now. Everyone human on this earth learns differently. Some students are more visual than others and some get distracted more. This program would help everyone equaily. Everyone on this planet learns differently and that is why this program would be so helpful to our education and future on earth.
This product would be so valuable to our society today. We need something like this for our education. Everyone would be able to learn how they want to learn and everyone would be given a fare and even learning expericne. | 23 |
f19ed9c | The author suggests that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it present. This is because astronomers are fascinated by venus being the most Earth-like planet in the solar system. scientists also believed that long ago, Venus was covered largely with oceans and could have supported various form of life. Venus also has some features that are same to the Earth like valleys, mountains and craters.
The author suggests tha studying Venus is worth a pursuit because it has been the most earth like planet in our solar system.
The author suggests that studying Venus is worth a pursuit because it has been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system.
Venus is often reffered to as the Earth's twin because it "is the closest planet to the Earth in terms of density, size and occasionally in diistance". Venus also has natural features which is also in earth. It is also the nearest place to go for planetry visit. This because there won't be a long time of space travel and it would save fuel consuption. The author supports his idea by showing Earth and Venus similarity in physical and natural features.
In conclusion, the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy
pursuit despite the dangers because of her similarity to Earth.This similarity includes shape, size, natural features like mountains, valleys and craters. Astronomers aalso believed that Venus probably have been covered with oceans which could have supported life. Due to long time of space travel, Venus is sometimes the nearest option for planetry visit.
Since Venus is closer, this would also save the consumption of fuel. | 23 |
616eaa4 | In this essay, I'm going to talk about the new softare, that is called the Facial Action Coding system, which can help the computer to knows if we are sad, happy or angry. Putting the example of the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's called Mona lisa. I'll explain why this software is a very good idea, for the teachers and the students too. The software can calculate "emotions" like math homework. Just recognizing the subtle facial movemets that persons use to express how they feel.
The new software, the Facial Action Coding System, has promising application for a variety of industries. It's a new software that can recognize emotion, and it's the last innovation from prof. Thomas Huang and his colleague Are experts that are trying to do better ways for human an computers to communicate. This process begins when the computer does a 3-D model of the face; creating at least of 44 major muscles making it move like human muscles. Eckman has classifies six emotions ( happines, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and saddnes) Associating each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles. For example: your muscles above your eyes rais your eyebrowns when you are surprised. The software can even identify mixed emotions. Each expression is compared against a neutral face.
A big example is The subject of Leonardo da Vinci's, Mona lisa. Da vinci studied anatomy to thelp them paint facial muscles for paint special emotions. This subject is really intented to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how this can computer can do. Your PC can't handle the use to decode Mona lisa smile. But this invent can write down simple instructions that "encode" differet emotions. 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 software makes the computer could recognize when a student is bored or confused, then it could modify the lessons, like an human, It's great right?. It can indicate the difference between a genuinie smile and a forced one. To finish with some cientifics conclusions and understand better your boddy. According to the Facial
Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not ont only express emotions, but also may help produce them. A example is when a drama coach tells to his actor carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage because empath might happen when you see someone else expressions.
In conclusion a think this is a good idea, because you can problably know when a friend is feeling just looking on his face, so imagic that a software in your computer can know that, is amazing right?. Also this project helps a lot to the students when a subject is hard and they get confused, this is going to help you, or when you are reading too much, then you get bored. This software project would act as an human. | 23 |
06ed983 | In the aricle "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to indentify human emotions. Details I found from in the article show that computers can read a persons emotions. It can also tell from a painting or a video. It tells us in the beginging of the paragraph 1 that in the Mona Lisa paiting it shows emotion. According to the new computer software that can read emotions they tested it on paiting. She shows 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 perecent ferful, and 2 percent angry.
I believe this new technology is valuable for our use. It can give us bettter ways to explore and to communicate with computers. It tells us in the artilcle that computers can actually "calculate" emotions. It can recognize how a human feels and how humans express themselves. A psychologists, such as Dr. Paul Eckman a creator for FACS constructed a 3-D computer model of a face and all major muscles in the model must move like a human muscle. One or more muscles that move is called a "action unit". An example, your pfrontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyues) raise your eyuebros when your surprised or shocked .
Using video imagery, the new emotion-regonition software tracks these facial movements- in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa. Humans perform this same impressice "calculation" every day. For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her or his face. I think to read the emotional expressions of students in classroom is impressive. A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. It could also make computer animated faces more clear and expressive for video games video surgery. But also most humans communicate in nonverbal, including emotional communicaton.
I think the use to read the emotional expressions of students is valuable. It can help them in the classroom if there confused or distracted. It could really help a lot more then just students in a classroom. I think it could be used around in daily life maybe at a hostpital or military. This is why i think the Facial Action Coding System and technology is valuable. | 23 |
58f273c | Luke Bomberger was a man who worked for a seagoing company thats a person who goes over seas during World War ll to help people and there towns , and citys.
He was in a program called Seagoing Cowboys. In the story are reasons to join the program here are some. You can travel the world and go to places that you have never been. You will travel in the oceans like the Alantic and Pacific. While you do this job if you like animals this would be a good job for you because Luke had to check on the animals every hour so u could sign up for that part .Luke's claim was that being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an job. I know this because the passage says that Seagoing was much more than an adventure " it opened up the world to him".
In all Luke Bomberger was a man who thought that that Seagoing was a lifetime opportunity and loved it. | 12 |
61c8ddd | Driverless cars would be a great new innovation. I think there would be less accidents because of wreckless drivers, the accidents rates would most likely go down because of the safer driving by a computer. Although the computer will have many glitches in the beginning the company will have to work a lot to remove them. Driverless cars will be a great turnout for new drivers also. If they are nervous and are scared to drive the car will do most of the work for them, they wont have to do many things.
I think google has the right idea with the cars they are making, although all of the equipment that is hanging on the car would need to be minimized so one can work the car to it's fullest intent without the bulky satelites and cameras. Just as BMW did and made the car have sensors so that the driver will know when the traffic is bad or the driver should stop because there is a car or object behind the car. The car should have cameras so that the car can make sure that the driver is alert, the idea is very good.
The idea of driverless cars may upset some people, but i think it should be a nice innovation so that it makes it easier for new drivers and wreckless drivers so there are less accidents. The computers will need to be programmed correctly with no flaws. | 12 |
ae5a636 | Dear State Senator of Florida,
I believe that we should keep the Electoral College. The Electoral College has been a huge part of America since our founding fathers, who established this process. This process helps keep America in order in and in line. Where would our country be without it? We would be lost and confused with no direction to follow. The Electoral College helps keep America's voting process organized, which is key to a well functioning country. Which is why I believe that we should absolutley keep the Electoral College so that our voting process stays organized and because it has kept our country functioning since the very beginning.
I believe we should keep the Electoral College because it has kept our country functioning since the very beginning. Our founding fathers were the ones the establish the Electoral College which means it has been around since the beginning of our country. We should not change this tradition of America because it has seemed to kept us running smoothly for this long so why would we want to change that for no reason? If we stopped this tradition and changed it to all popular vote from citizens we would be hurting America in a huge way. It would completely change our ways of thinking, living, and running of America. Yes, a lot has changed in America since our founding fathers and yes change is sometimes for the better in our country because things are obviously different now then what they were 200 years ago but change would not be for the better in this situation. Let's say your grandmother, Mr. Senator, has had a peach cobbler recipe in your family for ages and it just takes your breath away with all the flavor and its divine taste, but this recipe is very old. If your grandmother's old recipe taste so delicious you would not want to change one thing about that recipe. Well same with the Electoral College. Its extremely old but it has also kept our country running well and has not failed us yet so we should not change this process just like you would not want to change your grandmothers peach cobbler recipe. This is why I think we should keep the Electoral College because it has kept us going since the beginning and you do not change something just because it is old or thought of being outdated.
Voting for someone to be the head and leader of an organization is an extremely big deal, especially when that organization is a country with laws, citizens, and many other important topics. America needs to have a president willing to stand up for what is right, be there for his people, and run America in a smooth and organized fashion. If the elections were based upon popular vote then imagine what could happen, someone running for president could act like a person who is willing to take on the huge responsibility and stand up for what is right, but when everyone votes for him and they get into office then they turn into a total coward and someone not determined enough to take on the responsibility or take on America. With Electoral College those running for president are also being voted on by Congress and qualified citizens. This makes things run much more smoothly because citizens are still getting to put there two cents in but only if they are qualified which is much more reasonable. Citizens are a huge part of America, they have a lot to do with America running smoothly or not, which is why they should have a say in who runs their country, but no so much of a say that its unorganized and completely on their own opinion. I mean lets face it, us citizens have our flaws and dont always make the best decisions or have the best opinions. Having qualified citizens voting and Congress members voting make it much more understandable. Most Congress members will have been in Office for a very long time which makes them wiser and better to understand the whole voting process, the way America runs, and laws. Most will be able to pick out the better qualities for president out of each of the members running for president. This is why I belive we should keep the Electoral College because it keeps voting organized.
The Electoral College is what keeps our voting process in order. When something gets old you do not throw it away if it still is of good use for you and the Electoral College is definetly still in good shape and is doing our country well so we should not change it because it has kept our country functioning from the beginning and so our voting process stays organized.
Sincerely, a fan of the Electoral College | 34 |
7f80bb9 | As stated in the article, the Electoral College process consists of the selction of the electors, the meeting of the electors, where they vote for PPresident and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. The Electoral college consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. A state's entitled number of electors is equal to the number of members in its Congressional Delegation. There is one for each member in the House of Representatives, and two for every Senator. There are many reasons why the voting process should be changed to popular vote instead of the Electoral College. The two biggest reasons are as follows: Unfair elections and the freedom of the people.
As stated in the third source, the Electoral College is often considered an anachonism and is unliked across the nation. The reasons for which vary greatly from certainty of outcome to big states to swing states. Certainty of outcome means that one of the Presidential Candidates has to be cosen to become President. There are no recounts in Electoral College, whoever they like the most becomes President, and that ins't fair to the people. Bigger states tend to have more members in the electoral college. This can greatly influence an election if a big state like Texas favors one candidate over the other. Swing states are the states that recieve more atention than other states due to bias, greatly influencing votes. In my opinion, this is something that needs to be changed.
Citizens of the United States of America are the ones who are supposed to decide who should be the President of the United States of America. It isn't right to select a few people from each state to decide who the President will be. That power lies with the people, and nobody should be able to take that away. The votes of millions and millions of people are out-weighed by the votes of a few hundred men and women. This is unjust and unfair in every way. If all the people in the United States wanted somebody as President, but the Electoral College disagreed, the Electoral College would win. Why should the Electoral College have more power than all of the people of the United States; they shouldn't. The power to decide who is President of the United States of America should always lie with the good citizens that live here.
I hope that the voting process will change. I hope that it will finally become fair. That it will become what the people want it to be. It should be what the people want it to be. We the people of the United States have the power to change this, and we should work to change it. The voting process should no longer be the Electoral College but should be dicided by the people and only the people. The voting process needs to be fair and needs to be what the people want it to be. | 34 |
0d80f66 | I do not like the idea of driverless cars, becuase i have a lack of trust of computers. I'm old fashioned and prefur to have a human being control a machine. If i have to put my child's life into someone elses hands it would not be a computer. Now I am not saying the machine can not do it's job. I am siply saying in my opinion there are to many things that could go wrong.
Someone could hack it for instence. They could run the vehicle of the road, or ey sencers could nowfunction. Say you are going down the road and a little kid runs out infront of you. In a regular car in i can brerak every time, but in a driverless car if the fuse is bad or a wire is loose it may not tivate the breaking system, becuase the sencer was not working. Now imagion for me if you will that kid that ran out in the road was your own child. Young and inocennt with so much life before him/her. Would you really want a driverless car to be the one it ran out infront of?
Now I know people do not always drive safe or pay attention eather, if we inforced the laws we already have in place to protect or children and others. We could make the streets and eventually our beautiful nation safe once more, becuase today our nation is in to big of a hurry, and we forget what it means to take it slow and enjoy life. So i say no. We do not need driverless cars becuase it would only end badly. | 12 |
b5dda6c | "Imagine being able to detect exactly how other people are feeling, even when they are trying to hide their emotions." The author of this article explains why emotional technology is helpful. Looking in perspective of people in school, in work, or just living people are creating technology that is more intelligent than the smartest person in the world. Seeing what life has come to now, why not add another ingredient to making artificial intelligence work more and make our lives a little less complicated. Along with several other opinions, others should also think of the great posibilities this could have in store for the future.
Starting off, this new "emotional" technology could be very useful in plenty of ways leading to just knowing instead of the unknown. As said in the article, "Then Dr. Huang relies on the work of psychologists, such as Dr. Paul Eckman, creator of FACS (Facial Action Coding System). Eckman has classified six basic emotions—happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness—and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles." Using psychologists's intelligence, the technology will be pretty accurate due to the research and major ability of the creators. Readers may say, "Plenty of people make plenty of different facial expression and emotional expression!", but according to a psychologist's claim he agrees to disagree. "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal,” observes Dr. Huang..." (paragraph 4, line 1) "Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements—in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa." (paragraph 4, line 2) Taking from those quotes, there is thechnology for all of the worries in the world!
One of the worries could include the relationships. Those worries include friendships, love, family, etc. The author said in the article, "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." People may have friends that hardly open up or just need help, but don't know how to talk about issues concerning themselves or the relationship. Normally people could tell if something is wrong because of the time span of the relationship, but if they can't they can rely on this technology. "Yet Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions. His new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code." The facial expression of the companion that people may have may be different, but this new technology can make relationships way less confusing. Involving communication, as said in the article, "They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one." This quote proves that communicationa and relationships can benefit from this new age technology.
"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,” Dr. Huang predicts. “Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.”" Yes, the new computer science can make education more efficient. It seems as if the technology would be used in a classroom both the teachers and students could benefit. While teachers are doing their job students will either be intent and getting the main idea, or be bored and confused. "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive—for video games or video surgery."
Students can have a more fun and easy education with new software for classes like computer science, anatomy, etc.
In conclusion, whether people want this technology for school, work, or just plain life it is suitable. The future of many people could benefit in the use of emotional truth behind many things like family aspects, political aspects, or commercial aspects. Having this technology could eventually lead to better learning industries and just a better future for people in general. | 45 |
a10b883 | I think driveless cars can be they future of automobiles. But until we can fully control the car its not worth it.
Driveless cars are only useful in certain ways like its good for public transportation and taxis. But does a average middle class citizen need a driveless car....... not really if you have been driving your whole life odds are your not gonna want or need this expensive technology.
I think its dumb to create drivless cars yea it can stop the texting and driving deaths and drunk driving deaths but they should'nt be doing it anyway. The only way drivless cars are useful is buses and taxis but even then your taking away jobs of hard working people. We do not even know how much these so called smart vehicles are gonna cost if its really expensive then its not gonna be used by the middle class people and thats mainly america . Most people dont have 100,000 dollars to spend on a vehicle.
Another thing is that computers have flaws and if theres one mistake that can mean a persons safety at risk. I think they should keep working uncovering new technology and in maybe 10 years from now they make these vehicles avalible to the public. The smart road is effective but it is very expensive. New laws need to be made for these driveless cars like in a school zone you have to drive. but what about all the people that love driving are these driveless cars gonna be in the way of normal cars?. But what if the driver falls asleep while the car drives and he doesnt see the lights and gets in a car accident.
I think if the car fails and someone gets hurt i think its the manufacturer that should be at fault because how are you gonna call a car a driveless car and not be truly drivless. I think if they want this to succeed they need to make this technology drive like a human. I think this is a great concept but i do not think it will succeed. | 23 |
a3ced5b | This is going to be an argumentaive essay about the contriversy wether or not the face is a alien or a natural landform. I am really going towards why it is much more like a natural landform than it is a alien. I mean it could be possible, but I'm edging towards the more realistic view point.
Ok so the artical clearly states that Micheal Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original vikings photos. When the picture was analized it was proven to be a landform NOT a alien monument. Of course the stuburn ones wanted to believe the opposite,because that's what they do. So they looked again for the the sake of proven the hard to belive ones wrong. They got an even better picture this time, but found more information. The martian is equivalent of butte or mesa which are landforms common in the American West.
So with this said, if it wasn't for the stuborn ones they never would of went back
and found this piece of valuable information. So there you have it do you belive it now or do you want me to go get a ''better''picture for you. | 12 |
b11d402 | Venus is just like earth but the venus really hold some lives in earth like some animal and some other thing. Venus is a good planet but on big problem we dont know how the life is over there and we really know if it could hold all lifes. Thats why scientist are gonna send a drone or a spaceship to go check it out the venus life. People think that sound crazy but in reality is not is a good thing cause what if some thing happens to our earth and we have no where to go. Scientist said that the planet venus had live so many years ago and the scientist also think there were living things in that planet. Thats why scientist want to go and see if venus is worth living over there and if it could have a big empact to our lives and also if it could hold lives there with no problem. I think we should give it a shot and see if the planet venus could hold any lives and if its not dangerous to go and make other home like earth and make it better. I think everyone will be happy to see if venus will be our next home planet. It will be wired if we find any lives over there like not human related different spices. | 12 |
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