essay_id
stringlengths 7
7
| full_text
stringlengths 712
20.5k
| score
int64 1
6
|
|---|---|---|
93dcffc | Fellow citizens we should limit ower car usage and see the advantages that we can gain from it. Having a car can bring lots of tense and responsibility along with lots of money having to be spent. In (Source 1) it states that "When i had a car I was alwayse tense. I'm much happier this way," Car ownership require lots of of money to be spent on the car ,on a garage and even a parcking space. In (Soure 1) it states that "Germany car ownership is allowed, but there are only two places to park-large garages at the edge of the development,where a car-owner buys a space,for $40,000, along with a home". An advantage from limiting your car usage would be to make the cities denser, and better for walking. In (Source 1) it states that "While there have been efforts in the past two decades to make cities denser, and better for walking, planners are now taking the concept to the suburbs". | 2 |
93e1019 | Dear Senator,
I would like to bring to your attention the matter of the electoral college, and the unjust way that presidents are elected in our country. While there are benefits, more of the negative effects come to play when reviewing and contemplating on whether this system is effect or not. The Electoral College is very unfair, and should be subject for abolishment.
The number of electors in the Electoral College consits of 538 electors in total, which makes a tie completley possible, although it has never happened, in the past only a few more votes were required to create this unlikley problem. According to source 3, paragraph 18, Richard A. Posner claims that, "A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible because the total number of votes-538- is an even number, but it is highly unlikley..." There's a shockingly short ammount of votes required to turn an election into a situtation where both canidates have an even number of votes, a problem almost occured in 1976, that were if, according to source #2, paragraph #12, Bradford Plumer, "a mere 5,559 voters in Ohio and 3687 voters in Hawaii had voted the other way." Those may look as if they are big numbers, however in comparison to the amount of voters in each state, these are not large amounts of people who needed to vote the other way. In comparison, the number of representatives is determined by the number of members in your congressional delegation, the amount of electors per state is fair. Still, however, the event of a tie would cause a lot of issues within our country, and would be relieved if the winner was elected by popular vote.
In addition, electors are United States citizens, and are entitled to their own vote based on the Constitution, while they are allotted their own vote, this gives opportunity for problems to arrise. Politics are very lowkey orders of buisness, and in 1960, the legislatures in Louisiana almost used the disaster factor to swing the election in their favor, by electing people who were more likley to vote for the opposer of John F. Kennedy, because they prefered the other canidate. According to source #3, paragraph 16, Posner addresses, "..each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nomie (and that trust is rarely betrayed". . . [; however,] it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote." Since the electors can technically vote for whoever they desire, it can cause an unfair advantage to the electors sent who vote for the other candiate. The other factor tying in is that the voters feel as if their direct vote does not count. While it is true one vote cannot sway the election, it becomes apparent that canidates must have transregional appeal, meaning that they're favored in that region of the U.S. The canidates hold off on campaigning in states they already know they have dominated the votes in, because there is no one region that can elect a president. This makes voter feel inferior, and discourage them from "wasting" their time voting. If we use the majority of votes way to establish the new president, it is more likely that they will decide to vote once again, since they feel as if their opinion once again matters.
As you may recall, the 2000 election had a dispute between the popular vote. Confusion with the votes in a state that decides which kind of electors to send to vote creates issues, because it is unclear which the majority goes to, a canidate may recieve more votes than the others. This creates an advantage to a candiate, and makes a problem for the people who voted for the other canidate. Also, in source 3, paragraph 22, Posner expresses the issues when a run-off election occurs. Some canidates will not win a majority of casted votes, the pressure complicates the presidential election, leaving the true, clear descion to the Electoral College.
In conclusion, the Electoral College seems unconstitutional, since a variety of issues can occur due to the many problems that could potentially occur. The United States should shift into a more reasonable and logical means of electing our president in our Republic, where everybody is equal. The Electoral College should no longer decide the president based on the possibility of a tie, the possibility for betrayal of trust and disputes due to how close the votes are. The system should change to where the popular opinion should decide on the president of the United States of America, making people believe that their vote will be fairly counted. Thank you for your time. | 5 |
93e2ad5 | Have you ever thought about being able to read how someone feels even if they show no emotion ? In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile"by Nick D'Alto, new technology is being described. Many examples are given on why the new technology is helpful.The use of technology to read the emotional expressions is valuable because it helps out students,and stops the problem of having to wonder about someones emotions.
The use of technology to read emotional expressions is valuable because it helps students.
In the article it stated, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," it also states," Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor". Having a computer being able to tell that a student is bored or confused allows the computer to change those emotional facial expressions so that the students enjoy learning and able to learn better.The computer may not be a human instructor but it would be able to help like a human instructor.
Not only does
the use of technology to read emotional help out students,it also stops the problem of having to wonder about someones emotions. In the article it stated, "Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trtait that conveys happy, worried, etc." it also states, "yet...studied human anatomy to help them pain facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions". Those examples show that because we have this new technolgy to allow us to read the emotional expressions,its not easier to be exact on how someone is feeling without hsving to guess.
The use of technology to read the emotional expressions is valuable because it helps students and stops the problem of having to wonder about someones emotions.There were many examples on how those things helped out. | 3 |
93e44b2 | This face is not because of aliens it was just a landform. "Nevertheless on April 8, 2001-a cloudless summer day in Cydonia-Mars Global Sureyor drew close enough for a second look. "We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degress to center the Face in the field of view," said Garvin. "Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution." Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 merterd per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo."
Other reasons, "as a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than pixel size," he added. "So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptain-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!"
More resins why, "What the picture actually shows is the Martain equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West. "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," says Garvin. "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." These are all reasons that this is no because of aliens but it is a landform. | 2 |
93ecd40 | A claim that evalutes how well the author supports the idea is "Often referred to as Earth's twin, Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too." " Sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to venus." "EAch previous mission was unmanned, and for a good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." "Not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades." " A thick natmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide blankets Venus."
The suface of venus is over 800 degress, that is 90 times greater than what we experience on Earth. These conditions on Venus are far more extreme. Venus conditions also beat submarines divinging into the deepest parts of out oceans. Ir would liquidfy metals. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar sysem even though Mercury is closer to our sun. Venusian geology and weather presents additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface.
Venus was probaly covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Venus still has some features just like Earth. The planet has rocky sediment and includes familar features like valleys mountains and craters but, you have to consider given the long time frames of space travel.
Venus would allow scientist to float above the fray. A cehicle hpvering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of the way. You would have to be 30 plus miles above the surface. The temperture will still be hot around 170 degrees. The air pressure would be close to sea level on Earth. "Radation would not exceed Earths levels." The conditions on Venus would be survable for humans. " Most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering sandard forms of photography and videpgraphy ineffective."
" 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." "Reaseachers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else from a distance." | 1 |
93ef0d8 | Limiting the car usage can have multi advantages for everysingle citizen. reducing car usage can help citizens to live a better life,which mean it can make them happier,healthier and more sociable. for example heidrun walter says "when i had a car i was always tense. i'm much happier this way."this show the effects of limiting the car usage." after days of near-record pollution,paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city.''goverments are now being concius on how cars can affect us todays but, more in a future about pollution. ''the smog rivaled beijing,china, which is know as one of the most polluted cities in the world.'' the cause for this problem are cars. in beijing,china, citizens and tourist are having problems to breath and the smog is causin health problems too.''its a good opportunity to take aways stress and lower the air pollution,''in bogota colombia another citizen name carlos arturo talk about how the reduce of car usage have taken ways the stressand helps to lower the air pollution which is going to help our kids ain a future to have a better life. another important fact is that is car usage is that citizens would have to walk or exercise by using bicycle or other methods to move around the citie which the effect could be everybody having healthier lifeand have a better social life wich in some cases helps the person to be able to be themselves.
i think people should be concius and start reducing their car usage becasue is only for theis benefit but for other or even something more importantr their families. car companies are going to be affected by this change. but their going to be more affective in a future when they see what they have done. not only for the human race but for theis loved members. so i think the advantages of limiting tha car usage is good in many ways but their still one factor is going to bother people like going to some places really far away to see some of theirs family members. | 3 |
93f09b0 | Dear Mr. Senator,
I believe that there should not be such thing as an Electoral College. I feel it is not fair to our country. When people vote they vote for who they want to win and think is best for their country but in the end, it all does not matter because the Electoral College makes the final descision. If its our country, we should be able to vote for whoever we want and who ever gets the most popular vote, wins.
I also agree with Bob Dole, "Abolish the electoral college!" It is unfair and irrational to our country. When you think about it, If 3 people: one for each member in the House Of Representatives and two for your senators, it could be unfair. What if those three people are going for Republicans? and the majority of their state that they represent votes for Democrats? it would not be fair to the rest of the state because they all wanted the opposite of what the Electoral College wanted, so the Electoral College basically gets to make the final decision of who they want in office.
Sincerely, the people of our country. | 2 |
93f511e | People from the NASA think that aliens built the face on Mars, but actually it is a natural landform. Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it llook like an Egyptian Pharaoh.
A few days later NASA unveiled tthe image for all to see. The caption noted a "huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth.
" The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars. The "Face on Mars" has since become a pop icon. It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows, even haunted grocery store chechout lines for 25 years! But not everyone was satisfied.
The Face on Mars is located as 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in April '98, a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet. Mission controllers prepared to look again. "It's not easy to target Cydonia," says Garvin. "In fac, it's hard work.
" Mars Global Surveyor is mapping spacecraft that normally looks straight down and scans the planet like a fax machine in narrow 2.5 km-wide strips. "We just don't pass over the Face very often," he noted.
What the picture actually shows in the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common aroud the America West. "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River PLain of Idaho," says Garvin.
"That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same heigh as the Face on Mars." | 2 |
93f529f | If people started to reduce the usage of cars, there would be a decrease in accadents in the world. Their would be fresher air to breath, less polution, no more gas prices, and less fat people. But the down fall is that you can't travel as much or as far as you wanted to. Millions of people would be out of jods. Planes, trains, and busses will become overcrowded. If people stop using cars there would be some improvements on the earth and some disproements.
In large cities without cars you could fit 5,500 residents in a square mile. It may be what most coutries will change in the next 20 years. "Due to over population, people with cars could not get to were they wanted to go." "Stores would be on a main street, (a short walk) thourgh out the city. Car lanes would be made into bike lanes.
In previous bills (80 percent of appropriations have gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transport. People would not have to spend so much money on buying a new car. Polution would start to drop in days due to no gas polution. humans would start getting stronger by the week by walk or riding bikes to a destination.
Cars would become something of the past. Inventers can consentrate on other things like finding ways to explore other planets and to discover new life. The ice in the South Pole would stop melting and might reduce flooding. Even if we just get rid of gas and start using electric cars the polution would fall as well. Gasoline then could be used for rockets to go up in space. | 2 |
93f73be | You may have thought the Face was created by aliens. It could be a possibility, but think of the research and observations of the scientists. You can't just predict something and think of a conclusion. You must go through a process of research and examinations. The scientists researched and examined the Face and was just another Martian mesa that was around Cydonia.
First of all, the image did have characteristics of a face. The text stated "a few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see. The caption noted a "huge rock formation..which resembles a human head....formed by shawdos giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars." The Face could simply have been the shadow of something or the lighting that caused it to look that way. "Although few scientists believed the Face was an alien artifact, photographing Cydonia became a priority for NASA when Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) arrived at the Red Planet in September 1997, eighteen long years after the Viking missions ended." The photograph from the Viking could have been a worse quality than now.
Secondly, the photograph that was captured in 1998 is more reliable and more efficient than the other one. This picture has a more clear view and is better to observe. "And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Micheal Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camer (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousand of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing....a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." The landform could have been created from erosion or weathering or even different types of weather or climate. In fact, maybe a closer view could have looked a different shape.
Furthermore, there was another shot taken in 2001. With an even better camera quality, which showed different types of shapes or objects, other than a face. In the text it said "On April 8, 2001, a cloudless summer day in Cydonia, Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look."
Garvin stated "We had to roll the spacecrafts 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view. Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution." Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo." The pixels having a better quality made the observation even better. The camera could even make the objects 3 times bigger. "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size, he added. So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" They were trying to say that if it was created by aliens they could have been able to tell because of its texture or shape.
In conclusion, the Face was not created by aliens, it is just a natural landform. The Viking photo made it look like it was created by an alien because of its structure and the way it was formed and shaped and it was only because of the quality of the picture that made it seem like it was. With the more recent pictures and 10 times better quality made the scientists come to a conclusion that it was just a structure. "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa- landforms common around the American West." Garvin stated "It remind me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about that same height as the Face on Mars." | 4 |
93fd504 | Driverless cars seem to be unneccesary . Our world is being run down by technology that is not needed. Just cell phones alone are damaging our focus from school,work, and even our familys .
Driverless cars may seem high-tech and amusing but our focus would totally be off road . We as people would be eating,dazing,on the phone, and changing music . In The Article
"Driverless Cars Are Coming" they state "we have to interpret the driving fun in a new way" but they are under estimating what we could do about or saftey! In California,Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia it is illegal to even test a computer-driven car !
If an accident occured how could anyone determine who's fault it was when it could possibly even be the cars fault , literally. This may even cause the manufacturer problems due to it being the cars fault. Some individuals may even throw all the blame on the car when it was that individuals fault, this would result in so much conflict .
When driving a car your focus goes towards the road and your surroundings . We witness whats going on around us . We control what we do and where we go . Driving a car may be complicated but it is a skill we have all can manage to learn. Why change the way we migrate just to become lazy.
By taking advantage of driverless cares instead of self mobility they create obsticles. They will now have to approach the law and things will have to be passed so why go through that mess. The age to be allowed to drive will be droped, No more driving school or anything of that sort.
By 2020 they enviroment we live in will change. poeple dont even walk to parks anymore, they ride hoverboards. our society is changing for the worste but the easiest . If they way we consider to do things is pertainable then why change it, why make it different? | 4 |
93fe2af | I kinda do agree with this problem. Tech can tell whats everyone mood is at at the moment and i also agree on you can read on people faces if they are upset or something. Tech tells you how to handle your problem and tell you what you should do. but, face emotions can speak louder than words and thats true. also wehn people take pics of each other, that show it all as well. there are many ways that your emotions can be shown not just by phone and other Tech. People try to lie about there emotions and sometimes, that can lead to life risks. If that person really sad then and always upset, then that person might think something that you dont want to see. over the years, people is scared to tell other people what they think or what they should do. Some people dont relized that other poeple can help that person that is going through something that they should be going through. everyone shounld think about the bad stuff and always should think about the good things. now that being said, computers can read other people emotions and i believe it should give them tips to forget about whats going on. | 1 |
93fee24 | Imagine you stuck on a math problem, you did not get a word the teacher just said. Dr. Huang has created new software that helps identify how you feeling. If you confused, your computer can read your emotions and try to break down the problem. It would be able to explain step by step on how to do it. This would be of great help for the students.
Prof. Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science at the University of Amsterdam, was able to create a new computer software that can recognize emotions. This process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like a human muscles. Movement of one or more muscles is called an " action unit." Dr. Paul Eckman, creator of FACS ( Facial Action Coding System), has classified six basic emotions happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. He was able to associated each characteristic movements of the facial muscles. Since facial expression for each emotion are universal, by weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions. Each expression is compared against a neutral face. This would help a lot students in their classes because if you have a computer that can read emotions and is able to identify if you are confused it would be able to break the problem down step by step like that you would not have to wait on the teacher who is helping two other students. The classes would be able to go faster because the teacher would not have to stop every 10 minutes to re-explained the same the problem like 20 times. A computer would be able to recognized if you getting bored and be able to modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor. Or maybe you just browsing on the web and an ad appears on your screen and you smile at it , a similir ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different.
Prof. Thomas Huang lastest innovation could be of alot of help for student and teachers. Teachers would not have to stress about re-explaining the same chapter like 20 times. Student would not get behind during class because the computer would be able to identify their emotion. Be able to break it down step by step if they get confused. Or just make the subject more interesting if they bored. Dr. Huang and his colleagues are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate | 3 |
9401d26 | Luke Bomberger has went to Europe on a castle boat witch was an offer he couldnt say no to, witch begins the journy of how he came to be a "seagoing cowboy".
Luke has crossed the Atlantic Ocen 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people in harm and in need from the war, witch he states "Im grateful for this opportunity." "It made me more aware of people of their countries and needs."
"It took two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the East coast of the United States witch had been a ship filled with horses having to be feed every hour but it was all worth it to help the people in need, and after unloading they have all the time to play basketball, tennisse, volleyball, table tennisse.
Even though luke had to work hard he had the benefit of seeing Europe and China , witch has an opportunity of a lifetime for people to see places just like Luke Bomberger did and opening up your eyes to the world. | 1 |
940251b | "Making Mona Lisa Smile" in the story the author descrbes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Is this technology to read emotinal expressions of humans wrong? How do they make this technology to read people's emotions? Who's idea was this?
First, I think reading people's mind's by this technology is wrong. First reason is it's none of our bussines. Also reading people's minds is something that is totally creepy. This technology can detect anyone who's happy, sad, angry, and disgusted. Everyone has their own personal secrets that he or she doesn't want to reveal their feelings. They need to invent something to help people around the world.
Second, this idea came from Professor Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Instatute for Advanced Science at the University of Illionois, working in collaboration with Professor Nicu Sebe of the University of Amsterdam. Dr. Huang and his colleague are exports at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate. Both of these professors want's to know of their invention to the world to earn credit. Do they even know what their doing? Both professors test's the painting of Mona Lisa of her emotions. Mona Lisa results is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry.
Then, this software technology has a constructs a 3-D computer model of the face. All 44 majors muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Movement of one or more muscles is called an "action unit". Then Dr. Hunag relies on the work of psychologists, such as Dr. Paul Eckman, creator of FACS ( Facial Action Coding System. 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 ( as in da Vinci's masterpiece). Each expression is compared against a neutral face (showing no emotion). The new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electric code. This technology can read people's emotions by raising your lips at the corners of your mouth. Then squirt your eyes slightly, to produce wrinkiling. Holding that, raise the outer parts of your cheeks up, toward your eyes.
Finally, in conclusion it's bad to read other personal thought's. Both professors makes a computer to see emotions in people's mind's. Finding the new technology is rare in the United States. The new computer is not an ordinary science teacher grading your work this is a professional professors inventions. In my opinion these professors should make a new invention to change the world and by not reading people's minds. | 2 |
9402ac5 | If I was a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens, because in the story it's saids that '' Face on Mars'' has since became a pop icon. If I was a scientist in NASA I would found out how did the peron face came to another planet. They have to get out the earth to come to another planet to just put your face on it out of no were. But if a person did put there face inprint on a another planet, I think they will turn into a alien. I will tell you why I said that, because people say that aliens are real and they harm creatures. Also, if I'm the scientist this will tells that a FACE on a human body doing on a another planet they should be on earth. In the article it saids: twenty five years ago something funny happening around Mars, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet snapping photos of possible landing sites for it's sister ship Viking 2. Also, when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face, an enormous head nearly two miles from end to end seemed to be staring back at the cameras from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia. There must have been a degree of surprise among mission controllers back at the Jet Propulsion Lab when the face appeared on the monitors. But now scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa common enough around Cydonia only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. But if I'm the scientist trying to figured out all this work,and see who's the human face or a alien face because humans on earth an aliens in Mars or more planets. But afterwards after that happening, it saids how some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars evidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorists. Meanwhile the defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an acient civilization on Mars. Also, although few scientists believed the Face was an alien artifact photographing Cydonia became a prioprity for NASA when Global Surveyor arrived at the Red Planet in September. 1997, eighteen long years ago after the Viking missions ended. | 1 |
9406d8d | There are alot of rumors going around about "Unmasking the face on Mars." Many say that it is a face that was created by the aliens in Mars. However, this is not true. Scientists in NASA have background information that states that it is a Martian mesa. The rumor of " Unmasking the Face on Mars" is false because scientists have background research proving it isn't, authors influenced readers to think that it was, and the scientists used higher quality cameras.
Scientist have done so much background research on this topic of the "face" to prove that their statement is true. The scientists statement was that it was another Martian mesa. Martian mesa's are very common in the Cydonia area. Only that this one had unusual shadows that made it look like a face. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Only to reveal that they were correct, it was just a natural landform. What the picture actually showed was butte or mesa, which are landforms that are common around the American West.
Authors influenced many readers to think that it was a face so they could engage them. When NASA unvieled the image for the public to see the caption quoted, " huge rock formation... which resembles a human head, formed by shadows giving the illusions of eyes, nose, and a mouth." Many authors thought this would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars. To their suprise it did catch many readers attention. The " Face on Mars" starred in a hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows. and even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years. People thought the face was a bona fide evidence of life on Mars, evidence that NASA would prefer to hide. However, defenders on the NASA budget wish there was an acient civilization on Mars. Scientists took several pictures to prove their point.
Another thing scientists did was take several pictures to see different points of views and from different angles. The first picture taken of the "face" was on the
NASA Viking 1. The second picture taken was on the Mars orbiter Camera which snapped a picture that was ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. These pictures clearly proved that it was a natural land formation, a mesa, which were very common in that area.
The rumor of " Unmasking the Face on Mars" is false because scientists have background research proving it isn't, authors influenced readers, and the scientists used higher quality cameras. These are the reasons how the "face" on Mars was never true. | 4 |
9407484 | There has always been a debate on how we should electe our president. There always will be. Someone always has a new idea or plan for the future. After giving it quite some thought I have come to the conclution that changing to eletion by popular vote is the best way to elect our predent. Not only if it the most effcient way but its also the most fair way. I belive this for many reasons and I hope you can see that this is the path to sucess.
One out of the vasriety of resons why we should not keep the electoral college and change it to election by popular vote is that electoral college is unfair. Its unfair because of the winner take all system in each state canidates dont spend time in states they know they have no chnce of winning. A perfect example of the flaw is during the 2000 campain, seventeen staes didnt see canates at all. Its unfair outdated and irrational and we need to do something about it now.
Also the electoral college can cause the disater factor. The american people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisist. The system is going to cause problems and it needs to be removed as soon as posiable. If we keep going at this rate we will end up with a disater so big that wont be fixable. The election by popular vote can fix this. Its a fair and equal system that peope will agree with. It allows them to have a say in the election. They feel herd, dont you want to make the people happy.
As you can see clearly the option of election of popular vote is the only way to fix this madness. These are just a few of the thousands of reasons why we need the change. the system we have now is going to crash and burn and there will be no recover. i know you know what is right so make the change that will put us on top. Not only do we want this we need this. i hope you can see that senator. I cant articulate how drasticly is will improve the election process. thankyou for your time and have a nice day. | 3 |
9409a54 | Hey Earth has a twin. In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author strongly suggest that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. Although the author's idea may sound wild to some he does support his argument very intelligently.
To begin the author supports his ideas by giving back ground knowledge on Venus. The author then preoceeds to scientificly explain the orbits that Venus, Mars and Earth under takes."Earth, Venus, and Mars, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds. These differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus. Because Venus is sometimes right around the cornerin space termshumans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world." The explanation that the author gives us shows us the simalirty of the planets and the efforts of exploring Venus is important despite its conditons.
In paragraph 4 the author uses a rhetorcle device "If our sister planet is so inhostible, why are scientist even discuusign further vistits to its surface. The author uses a rhetoricle quetsion to get his point across to the reader. The author goes further into depth by describing the geogrphics of Venus and how it could of been a Earth like planet long ago." Today Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth."
The author brings in NASA into the conversation and explains to us how they have been working to explore Venus. "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientist to float above the fray." Although the author is fully aware of the extreme condtions of Venus they still don't believe that hoviering 30 miles from Venus wont provide them with enough information. The author also argues that scientist wont have the ability to take samples of rocks,gas,etc. The author even goes further by saying" Therefore, scientist seeking to conduct a thorough mission to undestand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks".
Well Earth may have a twin, but they are not identical. Despite the harsh conditions of Venus the aurthor does a great job with supporting their idea that Venus is a worthy pursuit. Not to forget the author supported their claim with lots of evidence provied through out the text. | 4 |
940c51e | Have you ever wonder what over planet is like earth?
Studying venus is a wortthy pursit despit its dangers, venus has simlair features to earht in fact the text it referred to as Earth "Twin" becaus e of its size and density and sometimes the distance from the sun. venus long ago,"probably" had oceans and spme type of forms of life living on venus, at this moment in time if you look at a picture are captured of venus you would see rocky sediment and features such as valleys,mountains and craters.
Now that we've understand the good aspects of venus their are some very dangerous cons about veunes. at thirty plus miles above surface the temperature rises at 170 degrees farenheit it sounds nice and toasty but air pressure would close to sea level on earth,solar power would be plentifull and radiation would not exceed on earth so its not survuable for humans. many spaceships landed on venus but many didnt make it back due to conditions of the tempature in closing as much as we want to disciver new things and find somewhere other then earth we must look at the terms and conditions | 2 |
940d9dd | In "The Challenge of Exploring
Venus'' explain how humans are exploring Venus, it shows the advantages and disadvantages that Venus has. The author suggests that studying venus is worth persuit dispite danger presents, and it is true because we don't know waht is out there and we have to be prepared, although is good to explore new things . Some reasons that prove the author is right are, that Venus is like the Earth, it has his story like Earth, and we can survive there.
One of the reasons Venus is like Earth is that the shape and density. Also Venus is very close to Earth too. I know this because in the text it says, ''Often referred to as Earth's ''twin", Venus is the closest planet to Earthin terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest planet in distance too''. This evidence shows how's Venus. Maybe the gravity is also like Eath and if is it true we can survive there.
The second reason is that Venus started as same as Earth. It has a story in that both planets started all covered by oceans and strange things. I know this because in the text it says,''Long ago, Venus was probably covered with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like Earth''and "The planet has a surface rocky sediments and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters''. This shows how scientists have exploring Venus, they have their hypotesis about how did Venus started and how is changing. Scientis have curious if it just started with the same story like Earth.
The third reason is that we can survive at that planet. If the scientists says that is the twin of the Earth mean that we can probably have another option to live in Venus. I know this because in the text it says,''Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans''. This mean that humans can have a new chance of life in another planet, is not going be easy but we can discover new things that may help us be better in the future. Nothing is easy but we can get to know other things.
In conclusion I think the NASA should continue exploring the planet also to inform us about all this new thing about Venus. We have a challenge of exploring new things every day and we learn from it. It would be cool that we can discover new things in another planet such as Venus. Also it feels good to know that another planet is the twin of ours. | 4 |
940e8d0 | Many people have there own opinion on something and a experience to it. I feel like Venus sounds like a good planet to live in but it'll be impossible for humans to get up there into the sky and into Vensus. Many researchers say it is okay for us humans to live in Mars sometime in the future but again would be impossible for some of us to get up there and would cost lots of money. Some say if we decide to move to mars we can't return to earth and would have to build our own house in Mars and make our food to survive.
It sounds very challenging for us humans to explore Vensus because of so many storms they get there and because of how hot it is out there for us to be in. They get almost the most earthquakes and these quakes cause them to get biggers circle holes and thats why when you look at picture of a planet you'll most see circle holes on them and rocky parts on them also because of the quakes. NASA has a study and plan solution for sending humans to Vensus and study and to explore Vensus will be very possible for them to do because of the dangerous tempertures and storms. These aren't easy conditions to live in. Many say when humans return to earth from space they are sick depending on ehich planet or what they did up in space to get sick and injured. This is why there should only be humans that know what they're doing and not humans that don't know what they're doing and life-threatening there self.
Mercury is the closet to the sun and has dangerous high tempertures that cause life-threatening and cause injurings and why is Earth the second closet to the sun and not have dangerous tempertures like Mercury and Vensus. Its because of climate change in our planet is good or sometimes can get worst if not getting enough attention to it can cause tempertures to rise above high tempertures like reaching 100 degrees and higher then usual and some cold parts can get very dangerous wind chills and cold tempertures.
Exploring Vensus is possible but would take a lot of work and research to see if humans are ever allowed to ever visit Vensus. Only devices have been sent up to Vensus and researchers are using these devices to see all the parts of Vensus to get more information on how it'll feel to be up there and if it is safe to do so. Scientists have discovered that Vensus get more quakes, volocanoes, and stormy weather conditions more than the Earth and US does. | 3 |
94135e7 | Limiting car usuage around the world will cause a beneficial improvement across our nation and other countries around the world. Transportation is the second largest source of America's emmisions, just behind power plants, if citizens reduce the amount of car usage then air pollution would slowly decrease across America. Countries around the world are participating in limiting car usage within a day.
Paris is banning driving due to the increase in smog within the city. "Congestion was down sixty percen tin the capital 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." Paris smog has increased to the point where typically the capital has more smog than any other European capital. Compared to Brussels adn Londin, Reuters found the micrograms of particulate matter increasinly high. Diesel fuel was the main problem, since France has a tax policy which favors diesel over gasoline.
In Bogota, Columbia millions of Columbians hiked, biked, or took buses to work or any destination during a car-free day. Thus, leaving the capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams. This program is set to spread in other countries. The goal is to promote alternative transportation and to reduce smog. (Violators could face around $25 fines.)
Carlos Arturo says, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution."
Two other columbian cities, Cali amd Valledupar, joined the event. Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven sideways were replace with smoothed down sidewalks, and rush-hour restrictions dramatically cut traffic.
President Obama had a goal to curbs the United States' greenhouse gas emissions. recent studies show that Americans are buying fewer cars throughout the years passing by. Also the amount of licenses are reducing by the years. If the pattern persists (many sociologists believe it will) it will have beneficial implications for carbon emmisions and the enviroment.
The reduction on car usage will create a beneficial impact across America and other countries around the world. Citizens should participate in the car-free day programs to improve the Earth's atmosphere and reduce air pollution, such as smog. This is also a healthier program for citizens, with the reduction of cars that day, citizens could walk, hike, or bike around improving body health. So not only does limiting car usuage improve the environment, it also improves you. | 3 |
9419fd7 | I am going to prove that the face you saw on the planet is not a alien and that it is a natrual landform. On May 24,2001,"NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet,snappin photos of possible landing sites for its sister ship Viking 2,when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. An enormos head nearly two miles from end to end seemed to be staring back at the camreas from region of the Red Planet called Cydonia."This shows how it all started."A few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see. The caption noted a "huge rock formation...which resembles a human head..formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes,nose,and mouth."The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attenion to mars."This shows that everyone is going to go back and forth about if its a alien or a landform."And so on April 5,1998,when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time,Micheal Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the orignal Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site,reavaling...a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all. This shows that ther was no alien face in the planet in the first place and that it was a landform the whole time. | 2 |
941e431 | When reading this article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" I though that would be a great ideal but, reading the passage made me think about accidents and what would happened if the technology stop working on the car. After realizing this i'm 100% against the development of these cars and everyone should.
In paragraph nine it said "only safe car has a human driver in control at all times and that safety is best achieved with alert drivers." that right there is true. I also want to show you something in paragraph nine it said " If the technology fails and someone is injured,who is that fault - the driver or the manufacturer?" right there should be the big reason why we should not have this because who are you going to blame the person could say that it was the car when it really was him not being alert.
There is some good things when it comes to technology but not this we can't always relay on it. We have became more independed we can't have technology do our driving for us, technology pretty much does everything for us any was.If you don't want to drive then get
a "human" to drive for you not technology.
In the states of Californai, Nevada,Florida, and the District of Columbia it is illegal to do that and I think that ever state should be like that too! Make this country a better one by not tearing it down and making it wrost already. Having technology do our driving could make everthing go down hill. It could lead to a much bigger cause to death and driver not paying attendtion because they relay on the technology. We all need to wake up and ask ourself will this be good for us or not? | 3 |
941fc37 | The author of the article "The CHallenge of Exploring Venus" explains how he thinks that venus is a worthy pursuit aside from all its dangers . The author describes the planet
to be Earth's twin and the brightest light in the night sky. "Humans have sent numerous spacecrafts to land on this cloud-draped world. Each previous mission was unmanned and for good reason "
is what the author informs us in paragraph 2. He continues with his thought by stating
that each mission sent to Venus has only servived a few hours after landing on Venus .This tells the reader that if technology can't survive on venus then human kind can't either .That is only one of the reasons why man kind doesn't go to Venus . Other factors that also doesn't allow human to travel to Venus is the atmosphere pressure that is 90 times greater then Earths . The author gives us reasons as to why Venus is dangerous but he also tries to convince us to keep sending spacecrafts to Venus . He believes that by sending spacerafts
we are gaining knowledge about it surface and will be able to understand its ways .That way we can find out a way to survive on Venus .He believes venus to have "No easy conditions but survivable for humans".(ending of paragraph 5). | 2 |
9426302 | The Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth.
Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself.
It the Venus’s reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us.
Also notable, Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun.
That would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus.
The challenge of Exploring Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth.
The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable.that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames.
A vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way.
At Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere.
I'm think Venus systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces.
The chaos of Venus’s surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions.
The idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers.
At the evidence from the article that supports your claim Venus is the second planet from our sun. | 3 |
94271ab | What do I think about driverless cars? I am for them and I am also against them at the same time. I do think that driverless cars are good for people who do not know how to drive very good, and for people who do not want to drive. I don't want them because I like to drive, and I like cars.
I think driverless cars would be good for people who are bad drivers, because then those people would not be causing trouble on the road. Also people that are scared driving would be better for them so they wouldn't be nervous and could relax in the car.
The reason I do not want driverless cars though is that I want to drive, I don't want a computer to do it for me. I love cars to and its fun driving them, what would be the point of that dream sports car you always wanted if a computer was going to drive it for you. Also, computers are pretty smart but they dont know everything for instance, if a deer runs infont of you on a backroad would the car know that usually more deer come after that, or would it slam into the second deer, would it know the roads like you do.
So I am for them and against them. I think I would be better if they were optional so if you didn't want to drive you could buy one but if not you can still buy a normal car. | 2 |
94277e6 | Dear Senator,
I along with many other citizens have came to the conclusion that the Electoral College worth keeping. Though, the process itself has loose ends, overall it benefits the state and national election. The system uses general influence and a representative style of voting that makes the ballot more stable and dependable.
As a start, Electoral College electors are decided upon by the people. This means an elector with similar beliefs to the citizens will be chosen and most likely decide their vote in consideration of popular demand. Each state is given representatives in proportion to the poulation of the state. These people can be anyone who does not work in office and maybe a regular American who is probably going to emathize with the needs of the public and if chosen correctly will stand by the option of the state. Electoral College gives a more concentrated form of voting.
In addition, some may argue that the Electoral College is risky and a representative may not always stay true to their word, but isn't this the case with all types of voting? A presidential candidate makes many a promise during their race for Chief Executive and there is no way to be completely certain that these oaths will hold true. The same goes for the Electoral College. Citizens must have faith in the candidate as they would in the presidential election that they will put their country or state before personal wants and carry out their responsibilities honestly. The Electoral College process requires trust like any other form of election.
Lastly, though people may not want to believe it, the Electoral College brings a certainty to the ballot that popular vote could not do alone. Having a presidential tie could be the messiest turn-out of an election, but with representative voting we can tip the scale in either way, in the interest of any state or party. It's a game of chance, but sure enough works better than flipping a coin! The Electoral College makes the voting system more reliable.
In conclusion, the Electoral College should be kept as a part of the voting system because it gives a more concentrated form of voting, it only needs the same amount of trust betweencitizen and candidate as every other election style, and overall makes the voting system more reliable. | 4 |
94280f2 | When we [humans] think of the future, of course most people are going to assume flying cars like many directors have depicted in futuristic films, but will it really going to be that advanced? Some people are already completely sold on the idea of driverless cars because its appealing, fascinating, and it has never been fully accomplished by anyone; regardless of their persuasion. Hence, in the passage the quote from Dr. Werner Huber, "We have to interpret the driving fun in a nesw way." Next, you have people like me who think with logically and realistically and oppose the idea of technological control on every ounce of space provided within the vehicle itself. I don't hate the idea of cars that can drive by itself, but I know that there's more of a challenge than what most people expect.
In the twenty-first century we see experiments and improvements in technology everyday; it's constantly evolving as people learn, fix mistakes, and achieve enlightenment. We originated from homo erectus' and homo sapiens as we make our world work the way it does, so why not strive for bigger and "better" success? However, all humans have flaws and we are always trying to reform and change what we have, but we cannot perfect such complexities like a driverless car if we ourselves are not perfect. It has been said and tested that humans don't use our whole brain, therefore there can and will be issues that are hidden out of our control. My intentions are to not discredit inventors such as Henry Ford who introduced automobiles to us, it's simply the matter of how far we can take technology from an idea or a dream and connect it to the safety of others, yet remain realistic. Not all of technology and refinements can function properly for years on end, there are times that it will dysfuntion in certain areas even if one man or many men try to fix the problem "hundred percent" accurately. We are capable of many things that are unthinkable, but I have reason to believe that this type of illusion that car manufacturers make to consumers are completely extreme and exaggerated.
In many newletter or announcements, there are multiple recalls on cars that humans completely retain control, how can there be a driverless car that is so to speak, "reliably safe." Yes, we address of these utterly smart cars as being the next level of road safety because they turn their attention to those who drive recklessly and don't operate their cars correctly; thus the need for ticketing and charges such as DUI's. Though this may have some affect, it does not cover all aspects of the dangers of driverless cars. If you can't trust a person to drive responsibility with full control, what makes car manufacturers transition into thinking that they will immediately respond and react when in critical danger after assuming the car's role of driverless? A majority of drivers will not pay any more or less attention than being able to drive manually, let alone allowing the car to drive for them. | 4 |
942bd1e | I read the article the challengenge of exploring is talk about the sun and star and it was said that everning star is one of the brightest points of the light in the night sky and is also said making it simple for ever an amoteur stargazer to spot. nickname is misleading since venus is actually a planet
in our aolar system venus is the second planet from our sun.
it also said venus is the closest to earth in terms of density and size and occasionally the closest in distance too. earth venus and mars our other planetsry
neighbor orbit the sun at different speed.
it tallk about how earth beging and how earth closest to the sun and other plants and its talk about how NASA send humans to study venus and it also talk about the national aeronautiecs and space administration.
NASA
is working onm other approaches to studying venus and they working on the veuns
surface and ahve lasted for three weeks in such conditions and is alson talk about the project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical
computers. | 1 |
942f7ca | Dear State Senator, I propose that we change the election by popular vote for the president of the United States rather than having the Electoral College. I say this because the Electoral College is unfair to voters in many ways more than one.
I'll start off by saying that Electoral College is unfair to voters. I strongly agree about this because under the electoral college system, voters do not vote for the president, they vote for a slate of electors, who then elect the president. This system is unfair because you don't always know who your electors are and you can't always control who the electors vote for. If you can't or don't know who they are voting for, then how can we trust them with the fate of our country? Although us people don't always make the right decisions, at least with popular vote we would all know that our votes wouldn't be put in someone elses hands.
To continue my agruement, the Electoral College is also unfair in this way. Say if there was to be a tie in electoral votes, the election would be given to the House of Representatives. Then the state delegations would vote for the president and the Senate would chose the vice president. When this would happen you would then not know who they were going to vote for and what your government's fate would be. So again if we had election by popular vote this wouldn't happen.
Lastly, the Electoral College is unfair to voters by the winner-take-all system. Since there is a winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning. An example of this is back during the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't get to see the candidates at all. Some of the largest media markets didn't even see a single campaign ad. This is completely unfair and ridiculous to all potential voters.
In the end, I think that the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and ridiculous. With all the valid points and arguments I have made, they make a pretty good reason to abolish the electoral college. | 4 |
9431736 | Dear Senator,
I think we should keep the Electoral College because it gives the people opportunities to vote for electors and presidents. If we vote for popular votes then that doesnt mean people truly know what president they want to run their country. When we vote we are actually choosing our electors when we vote for president because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors. Some people think that the Electoral College was unfair back-then but what about now. Over seventeen sates did not see the candidates at all,Including Rhode Island and South Carolina. When you vote for a presidental candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. There are five reasons for retaining the Electoral College. One reason is certainty of outcome,Two Everyone's President, Three Swing States, Four Big States, and yet but not least Five Avoid Run-Off Elections. These are all practical reasons, not liberal or conservative reasons. It is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. The Electoral College requires a presidental candidate to have trans-regional appeal. Voters are likely to be the most thoughtful voters, on average and for the further reason that they will have received the most information and attention from the candidates, and the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election. Now in my case that is wrong because wether you vote or not everyone person should have the right to see what the president is doing to their country. So, other things being equal, a large state gets more attention from presidental candidates in a campaign than a small state does. There is pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a majority of the votes cast; that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presidental election process, is reduced by the Electoral College, which invariably produces a clear winner. It can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state-democrats in Texas, for example,or Republicans in California. Each party selects a slate os electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee and that trust is rarely betrayed. The Electoral College is widely regarded as an person or thing in the past that cannot fit in the present. A non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. | 2 |
9438deb | How could we get the reduction of Greenhouse Gas? We can simply do this by reducing the number of cars on the road. In the city of Vauban, Germany, they gave up cars completely. If you still own a car in this city you have to buy a large garage that runs to about $40,000. This expense doesn't include your house. Up to 70% of the cities population of 5,500 have given up their motor vehicle. The passenger cars in the city are responsible for 12% of the Greenhouse gas. I believe that if we, in the state of Florida, give up our cars that we can literally save the world.
First, Today in the sunshine state, we love to sit in our air conditioned motor vehicles. We love to take a joy ride by the beach, but do you know the real damage you're doing to our world? In the United States alone we produce about 50% of the Greemhouse gas. With how many citizens we have, what would that number be if we cut out all motor vehicles? We would be saving the Earth. How does that make you feel? Like a hero? That's what you would be.
Secondly, We all own houses that cost so much! To be able to park your car you could have to buy a large enough garage, that would be at the end of your comuntiy that could cost up to $40,000. Why pay this outrageous amount to be the only one driving around your car-free city? If we do take this comitment on reducing our driving, how would you get to work? This is a common question asked. We would be forced to put work establishments within walking distances.
Lastly, we as americans are one of the most obiese countries. We sit in cars and drive around daily. Our government has actually made it even more easy to acess fast food, they put in drive threws. Some thought that this awesome, new, cool invention could help us save time, but in reality it just make it more simple to get these bad habits. If we really want to eat these bad foods, we would have to walk there. Thus we would be getting more exercise. Getting rid of cars would be the best thing that has happened to us in a long time.
In conclusion, We need to take a stand and stop all motor vehicles. With these powered automobiles we are damaging the earth with Greenhouse gas, Saving money, and giving us what we need. I believe that this change needs to be made soon, or who knows where we could end up. Lets get all states to get rid of all motor vehicles. This stand could change everything as we know it! | 4 |
9439b2e | I think that we should keep the Electoral college rule. This is simply because our founding fathers put it in the constitution and we have always used this rule in all of our elections for presidents. Also because it is win or take all in this process witch mean if the canidate gets a majority of the votes then he or she gets the votes for that state.
I think we should keep the Electoral college this is because our founding fathers put it in the constitution and we have been going by this rule for all of our past elections and for all of our winning canidates. we have never changed or strayed off from this rule why should we all of the sudden change it? I do not think we should change it because some people disagree with it. You can have your own opinion about it but i do not think just because of someone's opinion we should change what we have been doing for many years before them.
Also i think we should not change this because it has helped us for so long to help elect the president. As in if he or she gets a majority of the votes for that state the they get all the votes for that state. It is a win or take all position. This also allows the people to have a vote and say of who the president should be and who they want it to be.
I understand why alot of people disagree with the Electoral college rule though. This is because the voters who do not get a majority rule do not have a vote in who will be president. This makes people angry and upset because there vote does not matter and will not mean anything if the other people get the ma | 3 |
943b1a9 | Exploring venus would be a pretty cool idea but theres lots of things that could go wrong to fast. the temp is about 800 degrees Fahrenheit. All thought Venus is a challenge to explore it is every easy to see at night , its the bigest "star in the sky". There're many different ways to see Venus and to explor it , they have lots of places where you can go see most plants and learn lots from it.
The "NASA" is mostly known for the plants and how we found out most fasinating wonders about them. NASA has lots of compelling ideas for studying venus. They have came up with lots of details about venus like, how "The atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets." They also talk about how the atmospheric pressure is 90 times geartet than what we experiencevon our own planet.
They have lots of other big problems why Venus is hard to explore but i think that what i picked is the biggest things i ppointed out. | 2 |
943f41d | I like the idea of having it, it sounds like it would make teaching kids who are sad or depressed easier.Especially if it can change the lesson a little bit spice it up so kids wouldnt be bored.I like the idea because of course im a student and i still get bored in class sometimes so i would really like to see that change.
But on the other hand it could see if students are mad or bored but it really couldnt tell what the student is mad at.so the computer could just be switching up the teachinhg style when the student is mad or bored about something totally different.The machine cant read minds it can only read emotions.But would never really know whats going on in the students head.
You Have to really explore both sides on this arguement or topic to understand if we need the machine or not. I think we are trying to take less work off the teachers and let the computer help. Although at the same time the most the teachers can do is guess whats wrong with the kid and talk to him.but if we really needed the machine it wouldnt be up to the people it would be up to school board.
But my final answer would be that i would choose the teacher over the computer.We just need to teach the teachers to get better at helping us.And actually caring if we are doing work or not,and if we are bored or fustrated at are work.If we had that we wouldnt need a machine to tell us emotions. | 3 |
94428a2 | Yes I think the use of this technolgy would be helpful in the class room on so many diffrent levels. If sombody is sad or is angry you could help them out with there work and also solve the problem to make them happy. If you pu this technology in class rooms you can show if somboy is lying or is telling the truth. Say if you told the teacher that you where thgreatend but really you where not they would more than likely to belive you. So if you had the technolegy in the class room you can show that you where lying so know body would get in unneseary truble over somthing that you said. If you had the technolgde in the class rooms or in the hall ways you can watch out for peolpe who have a anger prolbem you get vthem help or if sombody said that they where going to shoot up the school you could stop harm before the person hurts anybody in the school. That is why i said yes we should have it in the class rooms all acroos the world and there would be less harm done to students and teachers and people would make the world a better place if they are only shown good things then they might not do bads thing to the world. That is why I said yesbut allso you cpould make people worse if they tried so hard to hide it but you keep trying to pull it out of them but it might work. | 2 |
944301c | In this world many people or students were being suicide and some people they just don't have hope. Many people are facing many different kind of difficulties and sadness. For instance some people might be upset because they don't have families and can be because they are not as smart as other people in school. Some people are facing difficulties while other are living happily. But we people don't know how other people feel and we don't understand each other how we feel inside of our heart.
First,using this technology to read students' emotional expressions is valuable. The reason why i think it is good is because sometimes some students are not as smart as other students and some students are afraid to ask question that they don't understand and afraid to discuss with their teacher. But if we use this technology to read students' emotional expression in class, it would be really useful thing and meaningful for students. it would make students even better and smarter. As we can see in the articles it says"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" If all teachers use the computer that knows students' feelings that would also help/make student to improve and develope their knowledge. Second,some students keep skipping class it can be because since they don't understand the lessons that they learn, they feel bored and stress and they behave bad in class so it makes them want to skip class so that they can stay away from stressness. But if teachers use technology that can read studens' emotional expression so that teacher would know which student doesn't understand and confused the lessons and teacher can explain those who didn't understand after school or during their lessons. Finally if they keep using this technology,one teacher can change a thousand studens' bad behavor and mind.
In conclusion,making useful things for those who feel hopeless and helpless are one of precious thing in our lives. Even though we all are came from different countries we have similarities things in some ways like how we face difficulties and that thing makes us one. | 3 |
9443400 | Limiting car usage can and will benifent us in all different ways. The so called "smart planning"is to make it where all cars are sold, or not used and people start walking everywhere they go. With doing this the pollution rate will go down and make the Earth a better place. Not everyone is doing this, Vauban, Paris, and Bogota are the main places that are trying or have started .
First, As stated in passage #2, After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the gobal city. Almost 4,000 drivers were fined, according to Reuters and 27 people had their cars impounded for their reaction to the fine. Public transit was free of charge from Friday to Monday, according to the BBC. After reading this i feel like it's a good things that people are starting to do somethng like this, i just don't find it right that people are being fined, they could have gave people a warning and gave them a time line to find out how there were going to get around and make to far places they had to go. Not everyone has a bike, and alot of people have kids. At least they are making it were the public transit is free and working certant days.
Second, In passage #3 it states that,In a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams. It was the third straight year cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the Day Without Cars in this capital city 7 million. The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Violators faced $25 fines. With this i'm okay about the fines because its just for one day, everyone should have enough respect for there home [Earth], to not use transportation for one day, and it's not like they just came up the idea they have been doing it for 3 years, i believe people should be fined more because if you can't have enough respect for one day then you obiously don't deserve the money you have because it useless anyway and if not fined more money get their driving privilages tooken away.
Conclusion, i believe that going a day without any transportation would be good, maybe not just on day, but i also feel like you shouldn't gat rid of cars all the way. People being fined for not wanting to just do it for one day should get there cars tookin away, they don't deserve to ride around and polute our air. But taking cars away all at once its'nt right and people shouldn't be fined for it. | 3 |
944711c | The author supports this idea of ''The Challenge of Exploring Venus '' by stating many facts by
In paragraph 3 it states that ''A thick atmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide blankets venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in venus's atmosphere. On the planet's surface tempatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit,and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we are accustomed to on earth. such an enviorment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquify many metals. Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes,powerful earthquakes,and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on it's surface.
The main reason i used the following text was to support my point of view of why we do not go to venus. For example we do not go to venus because of the heat,carbondioxide,and the facors of the planet so in conclusion, i think it is important that we should be smart about this and only hoover above the surface. because of the factors of venus. | 2 |
9447934 | Sometimes many people called to Venus how "Evening Star" because is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, Venus is the second planet in our solar system, Venus is simple to see from the distant.
Studying Venus is no bad, Explore Venus that is dangerous, Why? it is because Venus have an atmosphere of 97 percent carbon Dixide and have a clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid. The autor referred to Venus as Earth's "twin"
because is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size but Venus is really dangerous. On the planet's surface the temperature average is over 800 degrees farenheit, and thhe atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience in the Earth. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even thought Mercury is closer to uor sun.
Venusian geology and weather present other impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface.
In conclusion visit Venus is so dangerous and so expensive because need an advanced technology, money, time and people | 1 |
9447d8a | How would you imagine the world with cars that are driverless ? You may have question like how is that posibble? Or is that going to be safe ? I believe that we shouldn´t have cars that are driverless because we will need to have some high technology stuff, no cars will ever be completely driverless, and they would be have to add special features to the car to alert you when it´s time for you to drive.
I strongly believe that we shouldn´t have cars that are driverless because we will need to have some really high technolgy to be able for the cars to operate correctly. For example, we will need stuff like position sensors, roatationg sensors, sensors on the roof a video camera mounted on the car. All these things can be very expensive and where will they be getting the money to make hundreds of driverless cars.
I also strongly believe why would we have driverless cars if they will never be completly driverless. For example, in 2013 BMW announced the development of ¨Traffic Jam Assistant.¨ They also announced ¨none of the cars developed so far are completely driverless.¨ So I don´t see why they would want to waste money and time if they havent had a car be completely driverless so far.
Another reason why I strongly believe that we shouldn´t have driverless cars is because they would still need to add special features to let you know when it is time for you to drive since they still haven´t had a car that is complety driverless. For example, they could add flashing lights on the windshield, heads up displays, and cameras to watch that the drivers stay focused. I mean all this sounds even more of a distration that someone just driving theor own car to where ever they need to go.
In conclusion I believe that we should not have any driverless cars because we will need to have some high technology stuff, no cars will ever be completely driverless, and they would be have to add special features to the car to alert you when it´s time for you to drive. | 4 |
944ba37 | There are many advantages to not driving a car like less polution and smog which makes our days more sunny and nice, people will be more healthy and it will help people with their physical health with how they will have to walk, or ride a bike just to get places.
In paris, people with even numberd licens plates were orderd to on monday to not drive their car anywhere or they would be fined a $31 fine if they did and on tuesday the same for odd numbered and the result was that alot of their smog was cleared and that helped them alot, so if we did the same then we might see dramatic results.
In places such as Bogota they do a no car day and they have less stress and less smog but sometimes it does rain on them but the stress is reduced because of not much traffic and people trying to make them angry, care crashes could easly be avoided if people did not drive very often, I think the stress was reduced because the people were able to enjoy the outdoors for what it was.
If people did not drive cars with alot of bulk and that just guzzle alot of gas, then their weather would not be so weird and they would be more able to do the things they want like go the becah, ride a bike, hike, and just hang out with people they want to and not just hope that it will be ok tomorrow, most people who dont drive often and just do something more meaningful have a longer healthyer life rather than people with truck diesel, or regular gasoline.
Having gasoline smoke in your lungs can have just the same amount affect as when some one smokes around you, it gets in your lungs and it will cut your breathing ability down by half and then everything you do will seem harder to do just because your lungs are not helping you breath just like they use to, and the pollution will make you more sick so adding on to your lungs feeling like someone is standing on then you also are sick, so now you have to just sit down so not to make it worse.
If you exercise enough and dont drive your car very often then you can stay healthy and do good int the process for yourself and you might have an effect on others to do the same then it will become a natural thing to just get outside and not need to drive your car alot, just moderate.
Alot of smog comes from places such as New York, Paris, Bogota..... because they all have alot of people and therefor alot of cars so people all over that place have car after car so they get angry and unhealthy and if they would just leave the car alone once in a while then they will have less traffic, less smog and more people just happy to be there. | 3 |
9450130 | Senator, I believe that voting for the president of the United States should be based off of the popular vote by the people. Not the Electoral College. Voting by the Electoral College does not allow the people to have the final say. It altimately gives the elector the choice. "The 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century" (Bradford Plumer, paragraph 14), it was a disaster factor. The electory went against the will of the people and voted the opposite of what they said. Whose to say something like this can't happen again soon?
Some people say that the Electoral College is a good thing. It allows a certainty of outcome and is a fair, reasonable way to vote for a president. But it is based off of trust, that the elector won't betray the canidate's party and people. Trust. Are you really going to put your vote for the president of your country in someone eles hand based off of trust?
Having an elector represent your state based off of population is ridiculous. One elector representing 500,000 people in Wyoming. Wouldn't you sleep better at night if you could represent yourself instead of someone representing you and thousands of other people all at once.
In 2000, a canidate had more popular votes, and less electoral votes and lost! Even though the people had more votes! How do you feel knowing that your vote doesn't even count? "Most states have a 'winner-take-all' system that awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate"(the Office of the Federal Register,paragraph 7). Because of this system, canidates will not spend time in certain states they know they have no chance in winning in. "During the 2000 campaign seventeen states didn't see the canidates at all"(Bradford Plumer, paragraph 13)
Next time you go into that voting booth, remember that you're not voting for a president, you're voting and are supposed to trust an elector. | 4 |
9454d53 | Yes driverless cars could be great in this world for the if they save a lot more fuel, reduce the number of traffic accidents, and much more. But there could be problems to that many people will ask. I will talk about three of these problems such like what if the computer of the car goes crazy and it makes the car go out of control. Second what if some hacker just hacks into the computer of the car and purposly messes with the computer to make it crash. The third thing is what will happen if one of these sensors breaks or stops working. These are all major things thats could cause serious problems of death.
Lets talk about the first issue which was what if the computer in the car goes crazy. If it when crazy this car could possibly drive on the wrong side of the road, go of the road, and it possibly even run somebody over. I mean we cant say thats not possible because we see problems with technology everyday. So what could make it not happen, This could cause a serious life or death situation which would not be very good.
Okay now you could that it would happen because of new computer software and it updates constantly. Yes that could make it much more safe but the only problem is there is alway criminals in this world who kill. Now what or would stop them from hacking into one of the cars computer and change coding so it could crash. This could be a really big issue. Theres always new ways of hacking coming out so it would be to hard for people to just do it. We see it all the time that somebody has hacked into the goverment, into apples icloud, or even a internet server. Theres no way of stopping them before it happens.
The third big issue is what if a sensor or the sensor stop working on the car and the computer doesnt recgonize that. This could cause it to go of the road, hit another car, and crash. Yes the car does alert the driver but what would be the point if most people will put their alert down evetually getting used to the car. So their reaction would be slower and it would possibly be to late.
Nobody wants to lose their life or risk it with such a car. It would be much better if the human was incontrol the who time. Its much more safe and they get more experince to driving so when they are in a situation they will know what to do over a driverless car. So i say that we shouldnt have driverless cars. | 4 |
945518e | Developing driverless cars is an important part of the future of the automobile industry. Driverless cars will be safer and more reliable. Self drive cars are the cars of the future because, they can brake, accelerate and steer on their own.
Driverless cars being able to break and stop on their own would prevent car crashes from happening. This would save lives and prevent injury. The author states "the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better responce and control than a human driver could manage alone." This would allow cars to stop faster than humans could manage and to prevent cars from scidding and flipping. The author reffers to the advancements in the sensors that "make driving safer" would allow cars that can handle more tasks on their own.
Cars that accelerate on their own would prevent speeding, which is a risky driving habit. If a car is able to accelerate on it's own it would allow trafic to move smothly with little frustration. The author states that "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph". This is a long way from driving on the interstate, however it can be done. The author atates that Sebastion Thrun belives " That technology has finnaly begun to catch up to the dream" If technology keeps advancing we could have self driving cars in decades.
Cars that can steer on their own would prevent a large portion of car crashes and other automobile accidents. This would save lives, The author states "but special sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." The driver would stil have the ability to have control of the car when neccasary. This way the driving experience is even safer. The author states "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" This would make the passing of the law to allow self driving cars tricky,however it can be done.
Self drive cars are the cars of the future because, they can brake, accelerate and steer on their own. This makes them safer and more reliable. This would save lives and prevent injuries which makes them the smart choice for cars in the future, Manufactures should focus on developing self driving cars for the good of the world. | 4 |
945612a | I am for the development of driverless cars. Why stop its progress when it has been worked on so hard all these years, this is definitely not the time to stop. Driverless cars could solve many problems in the community of drivers. For instance, texting and driving would become less of an issue. Based on its progress, safety precautions, and its economic benefits, having cars that could drive themselves is one of the greatest ideas our world could ever have thougt of.
Cars that could drive independently have existed since 2009, and has nothing but progress since. The very fact that these vehicles could drive by themselves, even under specific conditions, should be our inspiration to keep moving forward with the idea. Technolohy we have now is way more advanced than the technology we had in 2009. This means that not only will be progressing the idea of driverless cars be faster, but more efficient due to better working conditons. If this development were to stop now, I know America would regret it.
Although the driverless cars are said to not be completely able to function on their own 100% of the time, they are able to tell the driver when they are not able to do so. With sensors and vibrations the vehicles have to warn the driver to be ready to take over the wheel the driverless car takes many precautions to ensure that there be no accidents. Drivers of these vehicles are forewarned that they must be ready to take control of their trasportation at all times. Doing this defeats the mentallity that the drivers should be sleep or doing other activities and not be responsible of their car. This funtion of the smartcars, along with its ability to brake and warn drivers on its own, strongly benefits the safety of all drivers.
Oil is equal to wealth. The world uses it for everyday uses such as driving or cooking or activities that require electricity. The article states that using the smartcars will reduce the usage of fuel, which is a huge issue for the world today. There are lives being lost over the functions of oil, countries and other territories become enemies because of selfishness formed from the want of oil, and once it is all gone, its gone. Scientists spend years trying to find the solution to oil inventory, why not use every way we can conjure to do so.
Smartcars are giving the world potential. They are giving the world potential to progress on to new technologies. They are giving the world potential to become a safer place for not only drivers but all inhabitants. They are giving the world potential to help our Earth. Development of driverless cars could very well save our world from plummeting back to all the inferior positions humans have overcome. | 5 |
9457870 | Just another day working at the Jet Propulsion Lab. Day's at the Lab went by as any other day for the scientist's, not finding anything new up in space, just a few minor event's here and there, but nothing big. I went in my office, and was informed today we were going to try and find any possible landing site's for Viking 1's sister ship, Viking 2. As usual we went to work. Orbiting Mars for what seemed like an eternity! I'm literally bored out of my mind, until out of the corner of my eye I see something, not just a star or anything, but to my eyes looked like a human face staring right back at us through Viking 1.
Confusion is all us scientist's felt when we saw that face on Mars, just plain fear and confusion. Nothing was spoken much about it among us scientist's since we were all super shocked and speechless, that was until we were on our lunch break. All I heard was "Alien's", really alien's can they possibly pin this "face" on Aliens! The table next to me also seemed to think alien's made this Egyptian-type face. I dont know what came over me something just clicked and I said "How can you possibly pin this on alien's?!" of course this started a one-on-one argument with me and another scientist "What do you mean, how can it not be Alien's" he answered. "First of all, it was spotted near Cydonia, a part of Mars where Martian Mesa's are commonly being found everyday, so how do we not know it isn't just another Mesa?" "If you think this is a mesa, how would it take form to look like a human being's face? Dont you think that is too much of a coincidence to happen?!" at that I left it alone, maybe it was too much of a coincidence, but that wasn't going to affect my thought on the "Mesa"
The word on the "Face" spreaded around the world, becoming a hot topic for people everywhere, most of them thinking it was made by Alien's. I didnt really get much into it until that scientist kid came up to me again, "Still think it wasn't made by alien's?!" "Of course, why wouldn't I?" "How can you not think it was alien's! The picture became known to the world and everyone think's it was alien's, which they are probably right!!" "How can we know for sure this was created by alien's!? Think about it we dont have great technology yet, that "Mesa" was in the form of a face because our photo was too blurry and it was really cloudy!!" I really didnt want to end up on the wrong foot with this guy so i just walked away.
April 5,1998- I walk into the office and apparently we are going to take a look at Cydonia for the "Face" again. This was actually a releif to me, because I know that now our technology is way more advanced and we could see with a sharper picture what this thing really is, a mesa. So it happened Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia and took a picture ten time's sharper than the old one! As to my conclusion, the egyptian face ended up to be a mesa! This mesa took form of a face because of the shadow's that went over the mesa. As I heard of this new's I couldn't help but look back at that one scientist, and whipering "Look who the right one is now!" with the most accomplishing smirk on my face that I can make. ;] | 3 |
9459254 | 25 years ago, a NASA spacecraft called Viking 1 was circling Mars, taking pictures of landing sites that its sister spacecraft, Viking 2, could possibly use. While circling Mars, it snapped a photo of a landform that seemed to look similar to a human face. Thay called it the "Face on Mars", and it became hugely popular, making appearances in movies, books, radio talk shows, and even grocery store checkout lines in the form of magazine covers. Contrary to some popular belief, wasn't anything to do with aliens, and here's why.
The Face on Mars is what you would call the Martian equivalent of a mesa, a natural landform that is common in the American West. The scientists assumed so whenit first appeared on screen, but this particular mesa had shadows that made it look kind of like an Egyption Pharaoh. When releasing the images to the public, the author of the article made it sound like the eighth wonder of the world, trying to attract attention to Mars, and it worked.
The photographs that were first taken of the "Face" were very hazy, and many people believed that there were some sort of alien markings under all the fog. The truth is, they took amazing photos with maximum resolution on April 8th, 2001, and there were no markings, aircrafts, little structures, or pyramids to be seen anywhere. What the picture does show is that the "Face" is, in fact, a kind of butte or mesa on Mars. Jim Garvin, chief scientist for NASA's Mars Eploration program, said it reminded him of "Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho.". So, In conclusion, the "Face on Mars" was just a natural landform that got a bunch of hype in the press. | 3 |
945f221 | In deciding on who will be in charge of our nation for four years, the people should be able to choose who they want and not be giving the decision to 538 people from the Electoral College when there are millions of people in the United States of America. The Electoral College should be removed because it is not fair to the people and the Electoral College is not organized. By changing the electon to a win by popular vote, people can ensure its them deciding the future. Who knows how many times a candidate as president has won a state but it wont even count because the Elctoral College decides another.
An Electoral College is unfair to the people voting. Although changing it may be something shocking because of how long we have had it, like in passage 2 paragraph 14 it is "outdated and irrational." For example, as said in paragraph 11 of source 2, when the author states that some Electors haver voted for who THEY want instead of their party's candidate. This shows that the Electoral College can be fraud or fake. Who knows if we dont stop it now, what if the number of Electors that do that go up, our nation could depend on this. That's another thing. Our president affects how our nation is treated for 4 years and maybe even 8 if they are voted into office again. Why leave a big decision on a coupld hundred people when there are millions waiting to get their right to choose.
A second reason to remove the Electoral College, is that it is not organized. If we remove them, we can avoid the messiness of elections where no candidates gets the majority votes as said in passage 3 paragraph 22. Another example is in source 2 paragraph 10, when stated that when people are voting for the presidents electors, many get confused and end up voting the wrong person. That can be big issue and is caused because of the unorganization of the Electoral College. This can be prevented by letting the popular vote of the people count instead of Electors.
In conclusion, the Electoral College is something that was successful in the past. If we start now we can slowly remove them, and head into a fair presidential election by letting the popular vote of the people decide who is president. Our president should be someone the majority of the people agree with, and not people who are willing to go with whoever they want instead of the majority of the state they represent. | 4 |
945f7ba | Luke made a good choice to go to China so he could help do stuff and help other people and help with World War 2. He could also help the horses and protect the horses and train them. He could also do stuff people couldn't do or help the people that need help or he could also protect the people that are hurt and take them to the nurse or the hospital. He has a good reason to go to China and protect people he could help his friend do stuff or he could do it for him and he could also fight with people and he could fight the other Country and he could also give people the horses of they need them. His friend had a good reason to take Luke with him to China so he can do a lot of stuff with him. It is a opportunity of a life time for Luke. Luke was excited to go to China to help other people and train horses and fight vs other Countrys and help people that are hurt also ride horses with his frinds and have a lot of fun with his friend. It took him two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean and it took him a month to get to China and when he got there he was so excited to be there so he can fight and ride horses and train them. He had no idea his life was going to change. it was when he graduated high school then his friend asked him if he wanted to go to China. When he was asked he couldn't of said no so he couldn't feel bad. He went to the Atlantic Ocean sixthteen times and the Pacific Ocean twice. | 2 |
9465a3e | Do you like traveling? Do you like helping people in need? Well if you said yes to these questions you might want to become a seagoing cowboy. There is a lot of hardwork,but you get to do a lot of fun things to. One of those is sight seeing.
Getting to see some of the places that you would get to see, are some places I was dreaming about seeing, before I became a seagoing cowboy. The seagoing cowboys made it a reality. One place you would get to see is Europe. In Europe you could see countries such as Greece, and I got to even see the Acropolis. I also got to take a gondola ride through the streets of Venice, Italy. Another thing I saw in Europe was a castle in Crete. Another country I got to sight see was China and in China I went passed the Panama canal. Even with all this fun we had the pleasure of helping people.
I knew I would have a good time and have many adventures,but not like what I had when I was a seagoing cowboy. One thing that I did was helped out with cattle. I got to see and take care of many animals during my time in Europe and China. One of my jobs was the night watch job. During my vist it also helped me understand that not everyone had the type of great life that we take for granted. It showed me that a lot of people have basic needs that they can't even fullfill, because of something that had happened to them.
As one can see my experience was fun! I not only got to help people in neeed, buy I created life lasting frienships. | 3 |
9468359 | The face on Mars has a lot of people thinking there is life there but studies show there is no sign of life on Mars. The face on mars is very big so people dont really think it was made by aliens. Just because it big that doesnt make it made by aliens but in outer space there are a lot of astroides flying around so some of them may have hit a mound of rock to where it has made a face. People still want to believe that there is life out in space there could be but there are no studys to prove that there is life. In conclusion there is not lif on mars and that face could have been made naturally because how long has the face been there before we took the picture. There could have been someway that the face was formed. Look at Earth there are many formations that have been naturally made. There are other studies that the ice caps on Mars have tiny bugs in them. | 2 |
9469de5 | Many cause of limited car usage tends to have less people on the streets. Near the French and Swiss borders ; streets and driveways and home garages were not allowed for free parking. It forced people to park in places where it was usually crowded. Most people did not like the parking rules. They either rode their bikes or walked back and forth to get to their destination. Later after that, many people were very upset with the parking rules, that alot of them decided to sell their car so they could park wherever and that had opened spaces for multiple cars to transpass the roads at the same time.
Same thing in Bogota, Columbia but the problem they had, was the pollution in the air. Columbians rode on buses with other people because the believed it was safer than being in a car and getting in an accident. Paris had the same problem, except they were fined to be driving. About 4,000 drivers were fined and others cars were to be impounded for arguing about being fined.
I think the better way for the car problems, is to have all people discuss the problems and explain what is best for other people. The solution near French and Swiss border is to let people park wherever they like and Columbia to clean up their pollution so they can live through fresh and safer enviroment. | 1 |
946f2b5 | I dont think the a computer reading emotins would be valuable in a classroom because technology is not always acurrate. We use a lot of different facial muscles when just making one facial expression. Student dont really show emotion when the class their in is boring.
One reason i dont think its valuable because emotions can change at any moment .Saying someone is 80% happy in a pictuer wouldnt always be ture becuase they could be smiling but also could be more sad than they are happy. Some people have a bipolar disoder which makes their eomtion change very fast , and some people are just very temperamental. Some students show emotions differnt than others . For example one student that is very upset could be yelling and shouting about it and another student that as angery as the other student could be very calm about it and not showing that they are angery.
Another reason i dont think its acurrate is because sometimes we dont just use one muscle to make a facial expresion. The computer only test one facial muscle to an emotion. Paragraph three states" For example , your frontails pars laterlis muscle raises your eyebrows when your surprised ..." but also when someone is surprised they sometimes move their mouth muscles. We move our mouth muscles for almost every emotion.
I dont think it would be a good idea to put one of these computers in a classroom becuase each student shows emotion different and some students might not shoe emotion at all , therefore the computer would be getting emotion from about half the claaroom which wouldnt be acurrate . | 3 |
9473a2c | I am honestly against driveless cars. Driverless cars takes alot of techonolgy just for it to be able to be used. I can't say driverless cars are just so bad but as in my oppinon I would never want a driverless car and these are the reason of why I wouldnt ever see myself in a driverless car.
Driverless cars needs to much technology just for it to work and still with all of that technology you still have to steer the wheel. The cars takes about half of fuel today that taxis and buses use. Also I wouldnt want a driverless car because its way to exspensive for the car when its not all the way certain to work. It states in paragraph 9 in the second sentence that "Presently, traffic laws are written the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." So why would i want a car that is not for sure safe to be putting myself into? Also if the technology wasnt to work all the way and i was to get injured that would be my fault for trying something new that took to much stuff to even work.
Dont get me wrong driverless cars does have some type of good use like when there is a crash or you are about to get in a crash the car can warn you. But safety is still better from a human to me. In plus you can save alot more money just driving yourself instead of buying a car that has camars in all. The reason I bring up camars is because why would someone in front of your car want camars pointing at there car. There is still work needed on a driveless car anyways so as for myself I wouldnt take the risk of getting one.
SO yeah the driverless cars are pretty neat but there just not something anybody should want to get. Who wants to have to depend on alot of technology just for a car? Also why would someone want to pay so much money for a car thats not even proven to be safe. I know I wouldnt want to ever have to depend on a driverless car to be safe. I hope after you read my reason of why not to get a driverless car you think twice about getting one yourself. | 4 |
9476b21 | The Facial Action Coding System is one of the new technologies of this century that is very complex and futuristic. It uses algorithims and muscle knowledge to discern the emotion of people in reality, photos, and other facial sources as well. The system can calculate how much you're happy, sad, suprised, and angry. Knowing other people's emotions is a great tool and can be used in many different situations. This new technology is good for a lot of things, and being used in a classroom is one of them.
Students need to be focused and engaged at all times in the classroom because if they are neither engaged, nor focused then they will struggle with learning new things and excelling in and out of the classroom. A computer in a class constantly scanning students' faces could become a distraction, but it would solve more problems than it could create. These days students are more vulnerable to distractions, and there are a lot of uncontrollable factors they are standing against. Some do not get enough sleep, some do not get enough to eat, and some do not have good health, whether that be mentally, socially, emotionally, or physically. These factors can take a toll on their ability to focus and be receptive to new information being taught in the classroom. They easily can become "confused or bored"(D'alto 6) or even distracted in a class, but if there was a way to track the behaviors that coincide with those emotions then it would be easier to assist the students. With the computer scanning their faces students emotions would be much more clear, and, as D'alto said in paragraph 6, the needed adjustments could be made to help students pay attention so they can learn.
Many teachers find it hard to keep their lesson plans exciting and engaging because of their lack of resources, but with this computer it would be easy to recieve real feedback from students emotions on what they like and dislike. Moreover, even though the computer might present itself as a distraction in the beginning over time it would become a useful tool for the classroom, and be a huge asset for both students and teachers. | 3 |
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. | 3 |
947e919 | Dear State Senator,
I am in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing it to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. It is very rare that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote.
The U.S Chamber of Commerce and some others agreed to abolishing the electoral college. Because of the quirks of the electoral college, won the popular vote but the electoral college still has its defenders. The electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in return elect the president. Although the electoral vote may be unfair to voters it gives the president a better chance of winning the election. There is a dispute over the outcome of an Electoral Colege vote but not likely for the popular vote. For this is because the winning candidates share of the Electoral vote exceeds it's share of the popular vote. For exemple, Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to 51.3 percent of popular votes for him and Romney, in the 2012's election.
The Electoral college requires a presidential candidate to have a trans-regional appeal. If you are a regional favorite, as Romney was in the South, there is no need to campaign big in those states becuase no region has enough electoral votes to elect president. Therefore, Romney gains no electoral votes by increasing his popularity in states he knows he will win. It can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state but, have a less incentive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular vote. Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a polital preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election. | 1 |
9483182 | Driverless cars should not be legal. Driverless cars may have some benefits, but there are far more flaws then there are benefits. Driverless cars are not even fully controlled automatically on thier own. Liability for any injuries is a question that needs to be adressed. Does the company or the customer take responsibily for any injuries that may occur while driving the car?
Driverless cars have very few benefits. One being they drive on their own. Another being they have a system that alerts you when you are in danger. Although these functions are quite amazing, there are some flaws to the system. The driverless cars are not fully able to driver on their own. They may require you to take over driving if put in a certain situation. Some examples of this sitituation are, if the car has to move around an accident, if the car is going through a construction zone, or if the car is going into a changed area where the GPS in the car is not up to date on. Also the car has a system that alerts you when you are in danger. This requires you to be awke and aware just incase this alert comes on. What is the point of having a driverless car if you all your doing is waiting till the car asks you to take over driving?
A extremely thought about issue is liablilty. Who is the one to take responsibily if something goes wrong and an injuty occurs? For this car to become completely legal there would have to be a law passed to show who would take responsible in a certain sitiuain if anyone was injured.
Also if you think deep you are putting your life in the hands of some metal and wired object that moves on four wheels. There are so many problems that occur with cars that you have to operate on your own, and now they want to make a car that drives it self legal.
Driverless cars should not be legal because there are many saftey issues that need to be addresed, and also many laws that need to be made. In order for this car to become legal, it is asking for a lot just for something as a little as a not fully autommactic drving car. | 3 |
94848c8 | You should join the Seagoing Cowboys program.
The reason that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is because, it's a once in a lifetime opportunity, It's really fun, theres lots of games to play, and t you can make friends, also that you can see diffrent countrys!
The first reason you should join the program is that it's a once in a life time opportunity. Just like Luke said, because if you got asked if you wanted to join and you said no chances are that their not going to ask you again. Manly because there not going go spend a long time looking for you to ask you again. Luke took the opportunity as soon as his best friend asked him.
Another reason you should join the program is that it'll be really fun. You'll be able to make freinds and hang out with them when your not busy. Luke, more than likely, made a ton of friends.
The third reason you should join the program is that theres fun games to play! After everyone is done doing what there suppose to and theres nothing left to do you can play games. The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time. Luke loved playing these games!
The last reason you should join the prgram is that you can go and see a lot of diffrent countrys, if your lucky enough. Such as China, Acropolis which is in Greece, and Europe. You might even be able to sail the Atlantic ocean, just like Luke did.
So you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program so you can do all of these cool stuff like making friend, seeing Europe, And China. You never know this program could open the world to you, just like it did to Luke! All of these thing Luke did don't you want to do these things to? | 3 |
9489333 | i mean what i can say so far about this artical yeah okay i understand where there coming from and all but its just i cant foucus on the part where i have to sit here an explain to yall that the women mona lisa demonstration is really to bring a smile to your face . The process begins whe the computer constructs3-d computers model to the faces . she also was also 83 percent happy 9 percent disgusted 6 percent fealful 2 percent angry . she was peaceful young lady to be honest . But while it shows as much as this computer can . imagine whst a computer that knows when your happy or sad . By the way making a happy face experiments also make you feel slighty happy . According to the feedback theory of emotion, moving your facial muscles not onlt the expresses emotion, btu also mau even help produce them . i cant just imagine being able to detect exactly how other are feeling even when they are trying to hide their emotions . also your home pc cant handle the complex algorithms used to decode mona lisa's smile . And meanwhile muscles called orbicularis oculi palpbraeus make crow's -feetaround your eyes . | 1 |
94950c1 | I totally think driverless cars are a positive thing. There are many reasons why these cars would be helpful to many people. One reason is if they dont know how to drive. Another is if they need to do other things in the car like make a phone call or just socialize with the other passengers. A good reason also is a car could be safer than a human driving. Driverless cars could be in a big step in humanity.
If someone doesnt know how to drive, a driverless car could be a good thing for them. They wouldn't have to take the time to learn to drive. The person could just get in their car and the car could take them to wherever they needed to go. Also the person that can't drive doesn't have to hastle with public transportation. Driverless cars could be a positive thing for people that doesn't know how to drive.
Socializing in a car can be much safer with a car that drives itself. Many people like to talk and text on their phones while driving. That can be very dangerous to themselves or others. If they were to have a car that drives itself they wouldnt have to worry about their safety. They could have a conversation with other passengers too. Driverless cars can make socializing in the car much safer and convient.
There are people out there that doesn't have very good driving skills. We all know somebody like that. Driverless cars could keep people safe on the roads. Many people are clumsy and don't pay attention or they just dont care. Cars that drive themselves could drive those people. You dont have to worry about irresponsible drivers driving. Driverless cars can keep you and their passengers safe from reckless drivers.
Driverless cars would be a positive thing in our society. Socializing can be easier and safer. People that can't drive doesn't have to worry about public transportation or depending on someone else to get them places. Reckless drivers can be stopped from cars that drive themselves. Driverless cars is one thing the U.S needs! | 3 |
949dfa3 | Many people hid there emotions while others are very open. When someone smiles does that really mean they are happy or is it just a mask conceiling their true emotions. Not many people are very open even with themselves. When times were simplier people how either hid there emotions or speak freely about them. Now in this new day and age a man named Prof. Thomas Huang of the Beckman institute has created a machine that can tell what you are feeling even if you are hidding it.
I am for the value of using this technology to read students emotional expressions. The reason i am for and not against is because this machine can actually save lives. For those who pretend to be happy and are actually depressed they the machine can pick that up and that person/student can get the help and teatment they need. This can help because this machine can detect "happiness, surprised, anger, disgust, fear and sadness."
This can be found in paragraph 3. With this new technology it observes the face that will look at your face and look at all the muslces in the face and calculate it to see how you are feeling even if you try and hid it. Everthing is about the muscles in your face that can conduct how you are feeling. In this article it talk about how they tested this by using video imagery where they had people use a computer and they would flash pictures and the device would examine the face to see how they were feelng. They had did this a few times to test it.
In conclusion, they should use this to read studnets emotions because they maybe depressed and it could save lives. If someone is to angry they cold harm soemone but with this new technology this can prevent many things like that. They can detect things like emotions because the machine looks at the muscles on the face to determine weather you are sad, happy, angry etc; | 3 |
949e0f0 | Why do we have emotions? Why were we given thought of feeling and expressing them with our face? Our ability to do that is amazing and has helped us understand each other better through the years. As technology is always advantcing so has our understanding of other humans, but now scientists are creating machines to do that for us. To become our eyes and calulate the exact percentage of the basic emotions we feel, is this really needed, and if anything, might hurt us as a whole? I believe that this Facial Action Coding System is a waste of time and could harm the future of humanities ability to understand emotions.
First, is how at the bare minium the Facial Action Coding System is worthless. From the "Making Mona Lisa Smile" article by Nick D'Alto, some perks it is able to include from this is only the idea of face reconition allowing ads to know whether you are smiling or frowning at the ad to know whether to keep ads like that or move on with new ones. This is a huge flaw because people can already log into a computer happy or upset but the FACS isn't going to know that so the system is basically ruined. Another thing is it being able to change a lesson to suit a students emotions if they are feeling confused or bored. This could be a good thing but how is it going to change the lesson to make it better? Even if it does it still wouldn't mean it would make it better for the student they could still be bored with the lesson making the FACS useless again.
Second, if this thing becomes more widespread and popular to the extent of everyone can use it anytime, then that's taking able for humans to naturally understand one another's feelings without FACS. I already explained any ideas given in the article are useless but if one day everyone is using it in forms of video chatting or smart-glasses, this is taking away from the natural experience of human commuication. Take for example texting, texting is dimminishing the vaule of talking to one another face-to-face, if future generations this could lead everyone to be more un-social and that creates problems on their own, this could be the same with advancements we put into FACS, more people becoming reliant on FACS to the extent where when we don't have it we will become naive to socailizing.
Third, is the invasion of privacy this can create. To look into a persons facial muscles to calulate the exact percentage of what they are feeling can be consider creepy and inhumane. Personally, to know that a computer knows exactly how I am feeling makes me feel uneasy. I know I am not the only one and others probably feel worst able this then I do. This was in the same vein as when the lie detector first was made, everyone was fancinated by a computer being able to tell if you are lying. However the person who made it regets ever making for its inconsistancy on being accurate. Who should say that FACS will always be accurate and falsely accuse other's emotions into a legal bind or hasty agument?
In conclusion, this essay is to prove my claim that this Facial Action Coding System is not worth anyones time, money, or thought. From it being basically useless without any sort of advancement including the loophole around ads to it really not helping students with lesson plans. Then the idea of us becoming more naive people and another reliant on technology to understand others. Finally, the inhumane way of distrubing our privacy with and it could also falsely calulate our emotions and cause more harm then good. WIth everything said this should give a clear view of that terrible invention we call FACS should be put away and never opened again and to take this as a learning experience. | 5 |
94a17a3 | Cars are a big deal in our everyday society. We use cars all the time because they are what get us from place to place. As we go further into the future, more improvements on cars are being made each day. One major invention is the driverless car. The development of the driverless car is a good thing because it is convenient, safe, fuel-saving, and beneficial to our knowledge on cars.
Many people are always needing to travel from place to place and don't always want to drive. It's more convenient to just hitch a ride from someone such as a friend or a taxi. But sometimes those aren't always the most convenient options. Taxi drivers could take someone anywhere or your friend could be under the influence. Driverless cars are safer because they could take you where you need to go safely. They are also more convenient because sometimes people could be impaired and unable drive, so they would just have a driverless car pick them up instead. This way, it is convenient for people to travel without worrying if they are going to be safe or not.
A main factor in people buying cars is if they are safe. According to the article on Driverless Cars Are Coming, these independent cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash. People could be safer in a driverless car than with someone driving a car. Safety is a huge deal in our society and people buying cars want what's best for them and their families. If driverless cars are safer, companies will have good sales and produce better profit. This way, the economy is being benefitted and so is society.
In the world today, we try to conserve our resources as much as possible. Fuel is a major resource that is used to power a lot of things in everyday life. By using driverless cars, we would limit our use of fuel to half of what taxis use, and that is phenomenal. Inventions like the driverless car can lead to preserving resources. Conserving our resources is an important thing we need to do, and fundamental developments like the driverless car can help us achieve our goal in doing that.
The research on these cars is significant for people in the future. Many years ago we would have never known all the important things about technology that we know today. By researching and testing the technology of the driverless car, we have produced more efficient knowledge for the future. Driverless cars need sensors to operate similar to a human driving the car, which is important to creating cars. Without researching and inventing these important products, we wouldn't have half the knowledge on cars that we have today.
Driverless cars are beneficial to us because they are convenient, safe, fuel-saving, and important to our knowledge on cars. Driverless cars can help people in society and people in the future. The development of these cars can influence people to create even bigger things in the future and that is incredible. The future is brighter than it has ever been, and the development of such a product has made this possible. The future is bright and driverless cars have led us further down the road to creating newer, better inventions. | 4 |
94a3939 | The idea of studing Venus has always driven humas curiosity. Well wanting to explore Venus is easier said then done Venus
exploration is very tricky but very meaningful to NASA.
NASA has discoverd the Venus has Earth like featers such as Valleys, mountains and craters. But it is very hard to get much infomation due to the " Blanket of carbon dioxide in Venus" also "no singel spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades " meaning that it's time to explore again .
Researched shows that Venus was once "venus was onced coverd largely with oceans " and with that information Venus could have supported wild life . Nasa is now working on a better drone to explore Venus . The ones before were very delicate and couldnt surpass the heat ,pressure ,and force that Venus provided .
With these olterations Nasa will be able to collect way more information on our sister planet.Despite the danger and money humans shuld explore Venus and other planets in the solar system to gain more information . | 2 |
94a8456 | No Driverless Cars!
Driverless cars could considerably mess up the way everday life works, and how anything is done. It would be extremely pricey, not everyone could afford it. It would get rid of jobs, and make certain places like gas stations completely useless. If everyone was on the same road, and they had to follow a certain path, traffic would be an extreme issue. We need to take a step back and look at things.
Not having a driver in your car would change everything. However, if everyone needs to own there own driverless car, than it would be way to exspencive. People with not enough money would be completely screwed over. There would be no way for them to get anywhere because thier current car is not capable of being driverless. Then instead of using cars like they have done for years, they would need to pay for a taxi, that they shouldn't be needing. If they got rid of all cars in general, the only way for it to work would be free public transport from the driverless cars. This would cause problems for people wanting to go back and forth, and eventually traffic would be a huge problem. You could also make "smart roads" and not smart cars. This would be extremely exspencive to do. Almost illogical. "But they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply to expensive to be practical."
Then, it would also get rid of jobs. If every car was driverless gas stations would be completely out of buisness. There goes a lot of companys and jobs available. Police officers would also lack on things to do, as a lot of officers jobs are to maintain the roads and make sure nothing bad happens, like speeding, reckless driving, etc. "None of the cars made yet are completely driverless." The technology we currently have isn't safe enough yet.
Traffic, a huge problem. WIth all the cars driving at the same speed it would be easier to go places. However, with everyone going the same speed and you say having to turn right, could mess up the cars way of doing things. If there is traffic you would have to take the wheel, which would be a nuissance. And if you did not take the wheel and drive in time, you would crash. If everything still requires a driver then the drivers themselves overtime would forget/not need to know how to drive and lose the ability. It has a traffic jam assistant but "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but speacial touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." How could kids get to school? This is another thing they have seemed to skip over.
Cars should not be driverless, it would cause to many problems. Humans need to remain in control. Having a driverless car would mean to much for daily commute, jobs, money, etc. Cars can get smarter, and they can prevent accidents, but going completely driverless is insane! | 4 |
94a91d5 | Many people are afraid of the concept of driverless car, and I cannot say that I blame them. These people believe that new, driverless cars could lead to a myriad of crashes injuries, and deaths, because the cars do not have the intelligence or driving capabilities as an average human driver. While I do understand why these people fear the future with self-driving cars, I also understand that they are wrong, simply because they are misinformed, and unknowledgible about the topic.
Self-driving cars are exactly what they sound like, cars that are able to control themselves without the input or command of a human driver. They use advanced sensors and technology to achieve this. While many people think that these cars could only appear in the distant future, they are, in fact, driving around right now.
Google's self-driving car is an example of one such current driverless car. It has been driving itself for months now, and has been in only a few wrecks, all of which were caused by human error, either by someone in a different vehicle or by the human driver of the car, when the self-driving technology was turned off. This shows that driverless cars are in fact, safer than cars driven by humans.
Also, imagine if all the cars on the road were self-driving cars. Because these cars constantly send out signals to drive, what if they could send signals to other driverless cars around them, informing them of what is happening on the road ahead. There's a road block on the your next turn? Your car could be informed to take a detour, to save time and energy.
Driverless cars also mean that the people who were previously driving no longer have to. A busy person could work on his computer on his way to work, or could be sending an important email. Or perhaps someone, having just been out drinking with friends, will no longer be able to drive drunk, they could just tell their cars to take them home, saving people from being injured or killed by drunk drivers. The same could be said about truckers or people going on road trips, who sit at the wheel for a long time. Instead of potentially falling asleep at the wheel, killing or injuring themselves or someone else, nothing would happen, as they were not driving in the first place.
In my honest opinion, self-driving cars are a huge step to the future, and a huge step towards making the world a little safer. While the fears or loss of control or technological malfunction in these cars, causing them to crash, is real and legitimate, it has been shown time and time again that those concerns are not a real problem. The pros definitely outweigh the cons in this sinario. The rise of driverless cars mean less accidents, because they virtually eliminate human error. They allow for people to have more time, instead of driving they can do more important things, and can completely stop drunk drivers. Driverless cars are better in pretty much every way; we just need to spread the news and inform people why it is the case. | 5 |
94aae94 | From our solar system venus is our second planet from our sun. Venus was a nickname that released. It is dangerous to go near but it a safe vantage point of earth. It a challenging place to examine more closely. It is closer to mar.
A thick atmosphere of most 97 percent carbon dioxide blanket venus. On the planet serface, the temperature average over 800 degrees fahrenheit and the pressure was 90 time greater than what we have in our own earth. Submarine accustomed to dividing to the deepest part of our ocean beyond high pressure and heat. Additionally scientist even jcussing futher visit to this surface.
NASA is working om another approaches to study venus. The divices were first made in the 1800s to 1940s during world war 2 and computers were existing in those day may sound shicking but it really is existing in 1800s but not that good one ass a 20 centrys lates ones. More dedicate when it comes to extreme physical condition.
More resistant to pressure heat,and other many forced that researching about the venus and people really intersting in the imformation for venus. Venus is also a interesting planet i. the earth too. A people who really interesting in planet have imagination and innovation.
Our travel on earth an beyond should be limited by danger and doubts but should be expanded planet by itself. | 1 |
94bae27 | luke wanted to join the seagoing program because it is his dream to traval around the world and new places like new orleans,greece,china. it was luke's dream to traval around the world because when hid friend don reist invited him to go to europe on a cattle boat. luke couldn't say no he knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime because that's probally the last time someone invite him to traval with them. before luke dream happend he was a farm boy because he used to work with his aunt katie it was her farm luke was served as a night watchman his job was to check on all the animals every hour. luke also found time to have fun on bored. The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. Table tennis tournaments,fencing,boxing,reading,whittleing,and games also helped pass the time. Being a seagoing cowboy was much more than an adventure for luke bomburger because he knewq taht he is gratful because he had the oppertunity to be an seagoing cowboy. | 1 |
94bb008 | In germany, they are trying to reduce the amount of cars driving by the people. They are improving on there walk ways, and public transportation to make it a better place. However in paris they are complety banding cars and fining people if they take there cars. The air in the city is smoged. In colombia there is a car free day. They either walk, take buses, bikes. The day without cars is a camaign to improve which began in the mid 1990's. The end of the car culture takes about our president Brack Obama's goal. The United States green house gases.
Germany is imporving on there side walks for people to walk instead of taking there cars, either to work, to school, or other places people need to get. Germany is doing a great job. mentioned in paragragh two, in source 1, it says, "street parking driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district on the outskirts of Freiburg"... they to are forbidding things in there conturies, yes but they are improving on there streets nd providing public transportation to make it better.
70 percent of Vuauban's families do not own cars, Elisabeth Rosenthal mentions in her artical. 57 percent sold there cars to move there. She also says, in paragragh 3 lines 3 and 4, "when i had a car i was also tense". People seem to be tense with having cars. 12 percent of greenhouse gas are in Europe, in the United States its up to 50 percent in some areas.
"All of our development since World War II has been centered on cars" paragragh 7 states. according to David Goldberg, that will change. Paragragh 8, says that New York sububs with spread out homes nd privite garages, were the dream towns of the 1950's. The last paragragh, 9 in Source 1 mentions that in the United States,the Environmental protection Agency is promoting "car reducing" communities.
In sources 2,3, and 4 also have some good imformation that are understandable and have good ideas like in source 3: Car free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota. Andrew Selsky the writter of this artical says in the first paragragh that Colombians have a car free day. They either walk, ride there bikes to there location or anything like ride buses but they dont use there cars. Germany are improving and there making there community better. | 1 |
94bbf8d | I am a scientist at NASA, and I am going to prove to you that NASA was not created by aliens, it is just a natural landform. Other scientists, including me was around Mars taking photos. We took a lot of photos and when we came back to check the photos it looked like a human face. I used a new method step by step to see if it actually was a human face, but it was not. It turned out to be a rock shaped as a head, and the rock made you have an illusion of the eyes, mouth, and nose.
To many people are concerned about aliens going to attack, but it is not true. Some scientists just want you to think there are aliens that based off what they have saw. If you look on a JPL web site you can see that it is just a natural landform. After all there was no alien monument. The picture actually shows the Martian equivalent of a butte or messa-landforms.
According to what the theory is, another reason for it being a natural landform is because NASA would rather hide and the defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars. Half of the time on photos things start to look like ghost or even aliens for this matter if you are scared and are thinking about aliens being alive or by you. The Face is a natural landform according to the mission controllers, where the lab is. Monitors will lok like a face when you first take it but you have to clear the picture up a little bit.
For the Face to seem natural to you, you have to believe that there is no aliens out on what people call bona fide, of life on Mars. You always want to make sure that you are not just having an illusion. To make sure you are not having an illusion you are checking what ever is happening twice. For an example of a natural landform, there would have to be pictures taken and on the natural landform there would have to be a mapping spacecraft and that normally looks straight down. For an example of a alien landform, there would be UFO's with bright lights shining and would have to have a hide out for them to live and to not be seen.
This is my evidence that I gathered from the method that I used to prove to you that the Face is just a natural landform. Yes, NASA does have a Mars but, that does not mean that there would be aliens, just because it says Mars. If you ever have need some help on getting a person to believe you about something like scientists wise, come to my website JPL and message me. Their are creatures but they are not on the Face of NASA. Do not ever forget if you take a picture and you think something is there try to clear it up or get someone else to clear it up. | 4 |
94be929 | A growing trend in day to day life that is occuring around the world is "car-free" day. Car-free day has spread in cities and towns around Europe and the Americas to separate suburban life from automobile use. This is benefitial in many ways to the growth, forward movement, and health of towns. So far Europe, Asia, and the Americas have given up car usage for a day, and even given up car usage entirely.
Different cities practice car-free day differently. In Paris, the near-record pollution was at its height. The city participated in car-free day by enforcing a partial driving ban and making people with even numbered license plates leave their cars at home. The following day, the odd numbered liscense plates were confined to home. Any person who didn't follow guidlines and conduct was fined. The congestion of smog in the capital of France decreased by sixty percent. Paris typically has more smog than other European capitals, like Brussels and London. By participating in the car-free day, Paris was able to contribute to cutting down the greenhouse gas emisisions and temporarily fix a few environmental concerns in Paris. Even though they had some effective results, Paris wasn't the only city that participated in the trend.
Across the Atlantic ocean in Bogota, the program allowed Colombians of Bogota to hike, bike, skate, or take public transportation to work. The car-free day left the normally buisy, full and loud streets devoid of traffic jams. The goal to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog was enforced by minor fines. Despite the fact that rain showers were common, it did not stop the people from participating. The people of he town viewed it as a day of taking away stress and lowering ar polution. The day without cars has been part of an improvement campaign since the mid 1990s, and has since been practiced at least one day out of the year. Authorities from countries all around the world have gone to the event and were impressed and some were inspired. Even other cities that are in Colobia have joined the event like Cali and Valledupar.
Back in Europe, the city of Vauban, Germany, has taken place in a permanent car-band. Street parking, driveways, and home garages are nearly forbidden in the experimental and new district of Freiburg. While car ownership is allowed, there are only two places to park. People that live there generally like the way of life in Vauban. Many of them sold their cars just to move there in the first place. The overall feeling of living in a city free of cars seems to lift stress of the people that live there. Therefore, the people are happier and more productive. Vauban is known as the most advanced experiment in attmepts to make suburbs more compact and have a minut number of vehicles. Supermarkets and stores as a result have been moved to a closer distance so that they could be walking distance away. Our development as people over the past century hads been based on the car, and Vauban goes completely against the idea that progress is based off of the car.
Even in America, Obama is ambitious to change the amount of the United States polution. While although cities have yet to participate in car-free day, Citizens are buying fewer cars, driving less, and getting fewer licenses across America each year. This gives researchers the idea that America is passed the peak driving level. American life has been integrated with cars from the time that the Model T was born. As the amount of jobs decrease, people just can not afford to buy cars. People in America have lost the general idea of a car and it's uses. Young adults in college have learned to use other ways of transport like carpooling with a friend, public transportation, or walking to the destination. The amount of people has dropped more than twenty percent and still continues to drop. This incipient stage of American life has implied the idea of alternatives to multiple motored vehicles.
Cities all around the world are deciding to practice their own car free day and are decreasing the use of cars altogether. The practice of car-free day has caused parks to initiate, sidewalks to be prepared repaired, cut traffic, give joy to the people, and overall diminish air polution. | 4 |
94c1d7b | Car-Free Places/ Bannings:
In German, they have a car-free cities.
"Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district in the outskirts of Freiburg ," says
In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars . In all honestly, I think is kinda nicer because therefor, you don't have much space taken up with the driveways, street signs and you get more exercise if you go out and walk or run if you want to go there. But on the opposing side it could be bad if like the grocery store was on the other side of the town and you had to walk all there and walk all the way back with all your stuff that you bought and by that time you would be so tired. That's like me walking from the high school to the lake. If I started in the morning at lets just say 10am by the time I get there it would be like 2pm and if I go there and come right back I would be at high school at 7pm, not including the time I spent at the lake. What I'm trying to say that it takes so much time in the day and then just so exhausted by the time you get back.
In Source 2,
Paris bans driving due to smog, states, " After days of near-record pollution, Paris enfoced a partial driving ban to clear to the air of the global city." Which I think that means that they banned the cars or transportation to cut down all the pollution so they can breathe better and the air is cleaner and nicer. And i guess that worked because a couple paragraphs down it says, Congestion was down 60 percent after five-days of intensitying the 'smog'." If that happened in only five days, I'm freaking proud, and think they did a good job and would be amazed of what would happen in a whole year!!
In Source 3,
Car-free day is Spinning Into a big hit in Bogota , it took place in Colombia and it seems like that they an annual day to banned cars; "
It was the 3rd straight year cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the day without cars in this capital city of 7 million."
I think that its amazing of how these people pacticipte in something that is doing well for the Earth and for us as well. This world will be so much cleaner before you know it! | 2 |
94c3802 | Limiting car usage nowadays is very well for the enviroment. Not using cars so much lowers polution, and is a great way for humans to start interacting with one-another again.
The "Car-Free cities" started in the suburbs of Germany. Almost everyone completely gave up their cars. P2 L1-2 states that stret parking and drivewats and home garages are generally forbidden. If you are not completely car-free you pay $40,000 to buy space to park you car(s) along with a home.
Statistics say that 70 percent of families d not own cars anymore, and 57 percent actually sold their cars to move to Germany. Heidrun Wlter stated "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way".
In Paris, due to near-record pollution, they enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city.
On certain days motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a $31 fine. the other days same rules apply to odd-numbered license plate owners.
The more cities that start doing a ban on driving cars' or use more enviroment healthy cars are helping reduce pollution and other toxins in the air. p43 states that the Ford company is already making changes to their cars/trucks to make them more enviromentally safe.
The rate of Kids and aduts between the ages of 16-39 getting their licenes and permits have dropped drastically within the past few years. With communication the computers and telephones, teens and alduts feel connected by talking on these devices and don't feel the need as much to drive to go see a friend and find it easier to stay intouch.
In Bogota, Colombia millians of people hike, bike, skate or took buses to work durin a car-free day. It was the third year that cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the Day Wihout Cars in the city. The turnout was large, despite the occasional rain they ecieved, that didnt stop the colombians for doing what they did. "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution" said Carlos Arturo Plaza. Two other Colobian cities, Cali and Valledupar, joined the Day Without Cars event. The citites are generation a revolutionary change in the world.
Parks and sports centers have bloomed throught the city, sidewalks have been repaired and rush-hour has been cut.
The United states' has realized a drastic change in driving. Fewer people are getting their licenses. as of 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in 1995 (P32 L9-12). | 2 |
94cf58f | Cars have been in use ever since World War II. Yet, more and more people have been limiting their usage of cars. Many take the alternative of bikes or buses, which ultimately creates benefits for not only one's self, but as well as all of the other people within the area. The benefits of limiting car usage are lowering pollution, creating less road and city congestion, and stress relief.
First of all, people have known for years that cars are a large source of air pollution. However, what most don't know is that "passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe... and up to 50 percent in some car intensive area in the United States" (Rosenthal, Elizabeth Paragraph 5). "Cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions" (Duffer, Robert Paragraph 15). Therefore, not only do the car emissions go into the atmosphere, but it gets trapped there, so the more cars being used, the more emissions get built up and added. By limiting the usage of cars, the car emissions in the atmosphere that create air pollution can be reduced.
Secondly, many big cities have to deal with cars and traffic congesting the area. "BOGOTA, Colombia-In a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams" (Selsky, Andrew Paragraph 20). This allowed more room for people to move along the roads and without having to worry of being hit by a car. "Rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic" (Selsky, Andrew Paragraph 28). In doing so has allowed for pedestrians to be safer when crossing roads. A benefit in which prevents a hospital bill.
Lastly, stress relief can come from limiting the usage of cars, including relieving stress. "'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, as she walked the verdant streets where the swish of bicycles and chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor" (Rosenthal, Elizabeth Paragraph 3). Heidrun isn't the only one who agrees that life without a car is less stressful. "'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" (Selsky, Andrew Paragraph 24). Arturo and his wife were participants of the Colombian car-free day program. When you live a stressless life, it is proven that you can live longer, especially when replacing your car with exercise.
In conclusion, the benefits that come with limiting car usage are a healthier world. One, by replacing your car with exercise and relieving stress. Two, by lessening road accidents. Three, by lessening air pollution, which is not only better for the environment, but yourself. By limiting car usage, all of the benefits work out in your personal favor. | 4 |
94d40ea | After reading this article, I have grown a nutreal side of this topic. The reason why is becuase I found a liking for the discovery, but there is also some things that I dislike as well. This tech can become useless and useful in many situations.
One reason why this is a good piece of technology is for court cases or things such as that. People could check if a persons emotions are set of fear, anger, sadness, and other emotions as well. If this technology becomes advaced we could see if a person is lieing just by their facial actions. This could help court cases become justified and more crimes solved.
A reason why this is bad is due to people and their privacy. I would like it to be scanned just to see my emotions, many people would agree with me on this as well. People who could get their hands on this could use it too much or go over the top with this tech. Also, since there is people who probobly don't like this type of technology, they would throw a fit it they would have to use it.
Also another reason why this is bad is the portablity of this technology. For this to work they would need a high end computer to check someone, and not everyone can just wheel in a computer like that and check someones emotions out of the labatory. This technology is usless without a lab becuase you need a lot of tech to do this expierment on someone.
Another reason why I partly side with this technology is for old painting, such as this article explains. The artcile talks about finding the emotions of one of the most world wide known paintings in the world, the Mona Lisa. We could find out people emotions from years ago, dating back from the first detailed paintings. This could also work on not just paintings, but old photos. Imagine seeing what emotions people had in pictures from World War 1 or other wars. Seeing this could bring a new sight into history.
One of my most favorite reasons why we need this is for classrooms. Many people get bored in school, so this computing could help out. The article claims that it could tell if a student is bored or confused, and could change the way the lesson is in seconds. This could help kids out with learing and could future their education. But with that computers would have to understand if a student is making a face to confuse the computer into thinking the kid is confused or not, because we all know that one student that would play with the computer to mess up peoples education for the day.
Another bad reason for this is becuase people could fake their emotions. Many people know how to act on stage, so they could easily do that to a computer to fake their emotions. This could trick computers to doing things that it really shouldn't. This means that this technology could become tricked, making it usless in many situations.
A good reason for this is for advertising. The article states that ads can be modifyed to show things that make you happy and could make you purchase it. If you see a ad you don't like you won't get ads like those anymore, insted it will supply ones that will possibly make you happy, if you still don't like those ads, the process will repeat will you do find a interesting ad. This could lead to higher sales, but also lower sales.
Lastly, my final reason is how hard it will be to access this tech. It states in the article that a home PC will not be able to handle to algorithims to understand facial emotions. Many people will not be able to expirement with this nor use it at all. So this technology will not be know to the public unlike other technology.
All in all, this technology will recive mixed opinions, manly due to the fact that people will not be able to get their hands on it unlike phones, laptops, PC's, and consoles. This item can be very useful, but needs to be polished to be absolutely useful in every situation. This technology will grow as long as they work hard enough to make this tech one-hundered percent useful in this world. | 4 |
94d4c0f | The Electoral College is how America votes for the President and Vise President, which is a process that the U.S. shouldn't have. Intially, if people are voting for a President, they know what they want and have done their research. Along with that, it gives the Electorial College more rights than the actually people voting for the President and Vise President. Lastly, it's just down right unfair to the voters. The U.S. wants every person to have equal chance at the election for a president and if about 500 people are voting compared to the millions, it's just unfair to the citizens. In the world now, this process is taking away the freedom of decision or making it seem useless to the people. The Electorial College shouldn't be a process we use for voting.
Most people voting, actually care who is running the country and they took the effort to make sure they got the vote in. The votes from the actually people should count because, evidentally, they know what they want. Most people do not go to a place if they do not care for the purpose, but if citizens are voting for their president, it should count, not having other elected officials vote. The elected officials voting, are in the government and that creates a biased vote which is uncalled for. The votes need to be from the people because they see the actual truths of what is happning to the economy, salary, taxes, the process of the government, and much more. It is obvious that having the people vote is a more efficient choice than pre-elected officials.
Secondly, the Electorial college takes away the rights to choose what president they want. Yes, they get to vote for which electoral college member they want but, it doesn't actually add up to the number the citizens actually participate in. As stated in the Constitution, citizens of America have freedom, and they should have the freedom of choosing the Preseident and Vice President they want without out any ifs,ands, or buts. America has the freedom to choose and the Electorial College shuts it all down, which is disrespect to citizens and to the country.
Lastly, it is such an unfair process. As said previously, it geneuinly takes our freedom of choice away. People need to be heard and listened for what they actually want but the government lives their own way and doesn't take into count what the people, that make the country up, want. "Because of the winner-takes-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states."(The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the laid-back defenses of the syster are wrong by Bradford Plumer). This here proves that the candidates are only in for the game and not the real true choice in who will be a perfect official that runs the country all together. Clearly, the process all together is a complete unfair, brutial game to the people.
In Retrospect, having the Electorial College is a disaster and having it as a process makes we use every four years is unbelieveable. It treats the Americans like there freedom is worthless and makes the voting process unfair. If the people take the time to actually stand in line to vote, they hould earn the right of having their vote count in full picture. This process shouldn't continue on, for it is 500 or so people voting for the President and Vise President for over millions. That itself, is outragious and shouldn't be apart of the American voting process anymore. | 4 |
94d6290 | Driverless cars are a bad idea. The reason i say this is because of three reasons. Lazyness,tecnolegy,and expences. This idea is promoting lazyness where people can't drive there own cars and some people will decide to not learn how to drive there car. This is also realying on tecnolegy to much. With new tecnolegy there can also be risks of pepole realying to much on it and sometimes
forget that muchiens are not so realyable. There is alsow human error where the people can realy on it and fall asleep on the wheel thinking that the muchien will take over and every thing is going to be fine and some thin goes wrong.
The way that taht driverless cars are promoting lazyness it to stop driving and let a muchien do it for you. That is not good, driving as become a every day thing around the world. Showing people that a muchien can do it for you they will start realying on muchies for to much things. This tecnolegy alsow will have problums with the manufacturers as in the artical says in section 7, if there is en acedent is to acore whos falt is it the person or the manufacturers. This means that they will have to much hope on the manufacturers and not themselfs making them lazy.
Tecnolegy is alsow a problom there is much to do to fanaly get the end resalt. Look at sensors they been around since 1980s as in the artical says how can we make sure that they won't mess up. There is no telling. The problom is later we will put chips in ower hand to drive them mark of the beast 666. | 3 |
94d977e | A Step in the Right Direction
Cars are a great means of transportation. Unfortunately nothing is perfect. Cars have many advantages, and like everything, disadvantages too. People rely too heavily on their private vehicles especially with the easy accessability of public transportation. Limiting the use of cars limits pollution, which is a growing issue among many people. Among that, there are many other advantages too. Limiting the use of cars is certainly a step in the right direction.
As the ice near the poles shrink, the problem of global warming grows. Global warming has been linked to car emmisions. Limiting cars will limit emmisions of harmful gasses into the air. Sadly people seem to like their cars more than the environment. This is unfortunate because there are so many other ways to get around. For some reason people are just too close minded to try something else. If the amount of cars on the road shrinks, then the amount of pollution going into our envirenment will follow. Car-free days in major cities is a good way to get the car-free trend started. With large turnouts, it certainly gets people open to the idea(Source 3). Saying that, this will not work long term. Getting the ball rolling and keeping the ball rolling are two completely different things. Car free cities is a better long term strategy(Source 1).
Now lets talk about our economy. Most people probably wish it was a little better. Jobs make a strong economy. If people didnt have cars they would be in need of some public transportation. Instead of paying that monthly payment on your car, go take the bus. The demand for public transportation would rise immensily thus the supply would follow; opening more jobs.
All in all, limiting the use of cars has more advantages than disadvantages. Most of the potential problems could be easily fixed with a little bit of brain power. Opening more jobs and cleaning up the envirenment should be reason enough to switch over to a car-free lifestyle. | 4 |
94dfe02 | Do you think there should be technology to tell us our emotions?
Well Dr. Haung does and here is my reasons why.
Facial Action Coding System, a new technology created to show us our emotions. Boredem, students have evolved in many different ways such as a likeness in school. Many students get either tired, bored, or confused. Teachers go by the book and do what they have been told to educate and tech students, but most students get either bored, tired, or confused in the subject that the teacher is teaching. We soon to know the reason is why for that, so this is where the Facial Action Coding System comes in work. Its going to show how these students are feeling and what the reason is why they are feeling that way so the lesson could get modified.
Dr. Huang observed artist such as Leonardo da Vinci who studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotion algorithms information as electrical code. So Dr. Huang used what da Vinci did but put in his own way to help out schools for the students so the teachers can see if they are bored, angry, sad, tired, or anything. | 2 |
94e5039 | Imagine this, Living in a world where pollution no longer exists, where cars have been limiting due to important reasons and where stress no longer affects individuals that drive. Cars have played indeed an important role in our lives since a long time. They do make us get to places faster but they are also making some individuals more lazier than before. They have affected our atmosphere which can affect every living organisms on Earth in the nonfar future. In my opinion cars should not be limited, the companies that make them should just change the way they work.
First of all, less and less people no longer walk or take public transportation in places where every individual in the population owns a car. According to source number 1 paragraph 3 "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way". This is important because it shows that when individuals own a car they are always going to fight against state laws, traffic, people on the streets, meaning that they are always going to stress everytime they ride their car. This could be a lot different if cars were limited for every single individual or if cars somehow where seperated from people's places for walking.
Second of all, our planet's atmosphere has gotten more and more polluted than when cars were not a big thing to people. Pollution is something that some people do not take seriously. It can affect our lives in a big way. According to source number 2 pargraph 1 "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial drivin ban to clear the air of the global city" meaning that the air was being contaminated due to cars. This is important because cars are affecting our atmosphere in a way that can affect us all by destroying our atmosphere and leaving every living organism on Earht with no oxygen.
Last but not least, Scientist's have invented cars that are electric meaning that they dont use gasoline. This is a good thing, because it can reduce pollution for a better atmosphere. Another way that pollution can be reduced is by making more and more individuals use public transportation. This can help by them not using their gasoline powered cars that pollute the air. In conclusion, cars will not be limited in the near future they will just change the way they work. | 3 |
94e7de9 | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smiles," the author tells us how this new technology called the Facial Action Coding System allows computers to recognize human emotions. For many that would be shocking and interesting. This news has certainly peaked my interest. This new technology could be a major breakthough in many cases. The author gave us many examples to go off of but their are so many more. I believe that this Facial Action Coding System can be used for good when it comes to internal or personal problems, helping to improve students learning process', and to improve the overall way we communicate with our computer.
This new technology as I hope, can be used to solve many issues. When it comes to internal or personal issues or problems that occur, it can be quite stressful or upsetting some times. We could use this technology to read the emotions of a student and identify the changes in there mood. This technology, as Dr. Eckman said in the passage, can detect happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. Suppose a student's family member was in a car accident. This technology could identify that something wrong has happened by the sadness on the student's face. Suppose a student suffers from depression. We could code these computers to not only identy emotions but again, alert to us that something is wrong. This, in turn, allows the student to get proper treatment and help.
Another way that this new technology could help, as Dr. Huang stated, is if it could recognize when a student becomes bored or confused. This is a sure fire way to help thousands, if not millions of students stay focused in school and learn. When the program recognizes the students boredom or agitation or confusion, it could make things simpler or change the way they are learning to best keep them entertained and on board. A lot of students in my very own school are hit with such boredom that they doze off in class. With this new technology that can change.
Have you ever had times where you got frustrated because your computer wouldn't cooperate or do the right thing you requested? I sure have and it is quite often. This Facial Action Coding System could help in those situations as well. If more emotions are put into this system it could detect and find a way to change those emotions if negative. They have technology where you can command your computer or device with your voice, but sometimes that does not work either. This new technology combined with the voice commands could help us communicate or requests and objectives clearly so the computer can understand. Although our devices may not be flesh and blood, they do indeed have brains. Uncapable of many things, but never the less it has a control center. We could better communicate with our devices through this new technology.
This technology, like I have described, can have many good and positive uses. I'm sure you could come up with many just as well as the rest of us. As technology advances we learn to accept it and adapt to it. We use it in everyday life. As you can see, I believe this technology could improve humanity and student's lives by identifying problems and finding ways to fix them, improve learning process', and better our communication with computers and such devices. | 5 |
94e8b11 | I think driveless cars will be great for the future and not so great. Driveless cars will be a good experince for us; we don't have to be bored driving anymore, because the car is driving by itself. The negative part of it is the goverment will allow it, they almost banned the hover boards in some states.
First, thing what will be the cause and the effect of this. The cofounder said " Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no needs them anymore." By him saying that he meant there will no more jobs for the employees at the public-transport system. But there is alot of chances of being a uber driver, there won't be a problem driving people around, because your car drive by itself.
Second, the best thing of this car project is it bring alot of money in the U.S.
This project can help alot of people. For an example, there are few people that have no legs that is unable to drive,but by using driveless cars will be more easier for them. All they have to use is their hand to steer it.
Finally, my conclusion I am arguing with the author, because he is saying facts about it | 2 |
94e8b73 | Even though it was 25 years ago does not mean it was created by aliens. After they found it few days later NSA said "It's a huge rock formation.. which resembles a human head..formed by shadows gving illusion of eyes ,nose,and mouth." If your not a sceincetist it sounds more realistic. Right? Next I'm going to tell more facts that it was not an alien that create the human face on mars.
When globa surveyor came in Sept. 1997 they photographed the face as soon as they could get a good shot of the face. Micheal Malin went to mars he took hs team and a camera that too ten times sharper than the orignal camera they took it with before. When they uploaded the picture all NSA found was landforms . Their is no such thing as aliens mountment. Some people were not impressed with this answer and cause it was located differntly in the winter time and alein maring might of been hidden by the haze. The MGS team even went out there again with a cloudless summer day and was 25 degrees in the center of the face and even used a different camera again and made it bigger and sharper. If there was any mountments or traces of aliens or space crafts you could obivously see it, but they did not find anything like that. NSA did find a lava dome that takes form of an isolated messa about the same height as the face on mars.
There is not any life on mars after all not even aliens. It as just a natural landform that freaked some people to thinking their are aliens. But you can not agrue with a sceintifc fact thats been proven over and over again with differnt season and diiferent angles. The answer they kept getting back was a naturel landform. | 3 |
94ea768 | Driverless cars are a new and upcoming thing in our world today. Drivers having to constantly steer and brake is a thing of the past. Now, cars drive themselves and humans are no more required to be the drivers, but the passengers. But many people don't believe that this is the road we should go down. Could going completely driverless put humans in even more danger than we are today? After reading the article, development of driverless cars should be stopped because they cause more crashes, prove technology is unreliable, and show that who to put at blame is unknown and will cause problems.
Development of driverless cars need to be stopped. These cars not only seem to not need human drivers, but means that we're in trusting these cars with our lives. Today, car accidents are a variety of reckless driving, simple mistakes, etc. But what they have in common is they're all accidents that humans have committed. In the article, paragraph 7, it says humans will be notified by the car when a situation gets too complicated or diffcult for it to handle. But by the time the car notifies the passenger, won't it be too late for the human to react and take over? Driverless cars putting us humans in situations like this will only cause panic for us, when we aren't even suppose to be driving, but passengers,
and cause even more crashes. Driverless cars don't need to be developed because they'll just put us in more danger than we're already in.
Technology is the main component these driverless cars utilize to actually be able to drive by themselves. In paragraph 5 it says, "The information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on the individual wheels and reduce power from the engine..." In our world today, technology and manufactured devices malfunction all the time. It's just what happens because humans don't know everything there is to know about everything. What if to say this happened to the sensors in the driverless cars. If the sensors just stop working, causing the car to stop, putting the passenger in a great amount of danger. Technology isn't reliable, so why should we have to rely on technology to drive our cars? It's just more danger being caused instead of being prevented if we develop these cars. We should rely on ourselves to drive our cars instead of technology because it can just malfunction at anytime, without a warning.
Directly in the article, in paragraph 9, it posed the question: "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault - the driver or the manufacturer?" This is a very important question because it's basically asking who's taking the blame if someone is injured by these driverless cars? This could all be avoided if we stop the development of those cars. Forsay, if someone's injured, would the guilt lie on the passenger who's suppose to be watching the driverless car drive or the manufacturers who made the car in the first place? Chaos and problems will arise if this situation takes place. Both people should be at fault though because they're giving technology the wheel and the path to do what it want, even if it's programmed to do one thing. But like I said before, these accidents and questioning who's at fault can be avoided if we take away what causing this all: technology. Stopping production of these cars will take the blame away and make accidents more clearer as who's to blame.
The idea of having driverless cars in our world today isn't not going to go away anytime soon, but proving why it shouldn't be develop and not even being an idea anymore can keep them from being a thing in our world to come. Driverless cars not only take the control out of the driver, but take control of the fate of the passengers' lives too. Development of driverless cars should be stopped because they cause more accidents, prove technology is unreliable, and cause questions of who's at fault for crashes. Taking driverless cars out of our streets and sticking to man-driven cars will make the world a safer place not only now, but for our future too. | 5 |
94f1637 | Dear state senator,
I've come to the conclusion that most U.S. citizens want to abolish the Electoral college. For the reasons being is because the american people vote for the presidents we want for our country, not the state electors choosing for us. As in the source of "what is Electoral college?" (The Office of the Federal Register), state's, "you help choose your state's elector when you vote for president because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors". what's whrong with the electoral college you may ask? Accordingly "under the electoral system voters vote not for the president but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president" state's source two "The Indefensible Elctoral College" (Bradford Plumer).
What Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, and etc. had in common was abolishing Electoral college. Supposedly they are not the only ones; "according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore-thanks to the quirks of the electoral college-won the popular vote but lost the presidency"(Bradford Plumer). As most peolpe believe: the electoral college is unfair, unreasonable, and just simply outdated. | 2 |
94f1fce | Luke joined the seagoing cowboys because he wanted to be helpful. but here is the thing no one else from his town joined probibley because they were to scared to even think about even doing the job i cant believ he was the only one to join that is just not right. so some one else needs to join. but no one will join at all so he is the only one to do the job and if i were him i would be so mad i would just quite.
one reason why people should join because they would go tho diffrent places and meet diffrent people and try diffrent food because in the story it says that Luke went to CHINA and gave tem mules horses and cows because some people eat cow and the also ride the horse and mule but they also use them to transeport goods and to till the filde.
now for the conclusion everyone is good at something and every one gets a oportunity to do something in the world because everyone is diffdent ,way diffrent but we all need to be treted the same way. treat others the way you want to be treated. | 2 |
94f3beb | One small step for man, one giant leap for man-kind. Those were the words spoken by Neil Armstrong seconds before he took a giant leap on the moon.
This is a memorable event in American history because it was the first American to ever set foot on the moon.
Before Neil made it to the moon, no one thought that it would ever be possible to make it that far.
Now we are planning to explore Venus. The author states that he wants to explore Venus no matter what the percautions are. There are always good and bad effects of each action and the exploration of Venus has a lot of them.
First of all, the author states that Venus is the closest planet to the earth when Mars is not; it depends on their orbits around the sun. With Venus a close distance to the earth, it would be easier to explore than any other planet in the galaxy.
This planet has the most Earth-like features in the Milky Way which makes it attract scientists. There are so many valuable reasons why the exploration of this planet is a good idea.
On the contrary, the most difficult part of the mission is Venus' atmosphere.
Carbon dioxide takes up 97 percent of the atmoshere; also the clouds have highly corrosive sulfuric acid clouds.
If that does not damage a spacecraft, the pressure that is 90 times greater than Earth will. The temperatures there way over exceed the temperatures on Earth; the temperature there averages over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. NASA has been working on spacecraft to make it there and they are making progress.
Humans have already sent numerous spacecraft to land on Venus already; however, none of the spacecraft made it on the planet long enough for any human to survive there.
The author constructed his information very well.
The author explained why NASA wants to explore Venus.
Facts were provided to let the reader know that this article is not just opionated but also factual.
I really liked how the author explained why Venus will be a hard mission to achieve, it shows that NASA knows their weaknesses and therefore will be able to fix them.
NASA has many backup plans in case one of them fail.
In conclusion, this was a well written article.
The author knew what he was talking about which persuaded me to think that studying Venus would benefit science.
I also applied my background knowledge of the moon landing while reading this article; I knew that it once seemed impossible to land on the moon but we achieved it, now we are planning to land on Venus and hopefully will achieve that too. | 3 |
94f5165 | Hi my name is Luke! I am here to tell you some reasons why you should join the program. First I would like to say that it is so exicting to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program! So my first reason why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is that you get to travel, a lot! Do you like to travel anywhere? Now is the time to do so! It is fun traveling because you get to see new things and try things that you never knew before. It is fun to explore new things like that.
Before I was given this opportunity I was just a guy who just graduated from high school. I was working a two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a bank. One day my friend came to invite me to go to Europe on a cattle boat. I knew that I had to say yes because i want to do things that i probably wouldn't be able to do in the future like travel and explore. We also signed up to take care of horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. That is another reason why you all should sign up, we get to help animals and that is fun! It is like having a pet that no one really has.
In conclusion, these are all of my reasons why you all should join. We also get to take a break and explore, I had the benefit of seeing Europe and China! I loved seeing Acropolis in Greece! There was a lot of cool things to see. You should join because you get to see, and learn things that you might never see again! But, if you join right now you will get to see everything that is fun and nice, and the honor of helping people, and animals! So go right ahead and join you will have the best time of your life! | 3 |
94f61c6 | In my opinion I think that driverless cars would be a wonderful thing to have. They would make it much easier to commute to and from work or school. They would also make taking long roadtrips much more enjoyable, being that you would not always have to keep starring at the road ahead in the long, boring sort of way that we have to now.
Driverless cars would also be great for public transportation, being that they could exempt the need for a driver, that would allow companies to make more profit, which in turn would allow for better up-keep on the buses, trams, etc. Also allowing for newer and better modes of transportation to be purchased, all around it would benefit the public transportation industry.
Even if we did not have autonomous, driverless, cars the roads would still be better if we had cars that sensed the road conditions and kept track of the driver to help with accident prevention. It would decrease the number of deaths caused each year by distracted driving, and also maybe even help make the human population as a whole better drivers in the fact that we would realize all of the things that we do wrong while driving and maybe try to correct those things.
Then there is the other side to the autonomous, driverless, cars. Yes they would be good because they would decrease the number of accidents that are caused by distractred dirvers, but this may also be a bad thing. Most humans, if you give them something that can make them have to work less, will rely souly on that one product to do all that it can possibly do to help them, but when that product has a malfunction it could be disasterous.
Lets use this as an example, Johnny and a few of his friends are driving up twisty mountain road in his autonomous car, Johnny, relying on his autonomous car to do its job of driving, is paying no attention to the road ahead. The driving system of the car has a small malfunction in the turning system, the road takes a sharp right turn and the cars is going too fast to recognize that the turn is up ahead, the car comes up to the turn, goes to fast around the turn and starts to slip, the car then overcorrects sending Johnny and all of his friends straight into the side of the mountain.
Now see this would have been no problem had Johnny been paying attention to the road ahead, but he thought that his autonomous car had it all under control. The autonomous car would be a great inovation to driving, but when human nature takes over and we rely too much on the product things such as this may happen. | 4 |
94f7198 | Seagoing Cowboys
Just like Luke people should become seagoing Cowboys.
People should join this force because it's fun not only fun it helps you explore the world, like New Orleans, Greece , Venice, and even China. I'm sure there is many more places Luke visited and just didn't talk about.
Boeing a seagoing cowboy isn't always about fun and games. Sure that's one thing but it's also a duty. It's a duty to get you're animals from one country to another, or farmers wouldn't have cattle, butchers wouldn't have cows,etc. but without them some countries wouldn't have cows, mules, and horses. Even know it's a duty seagoing cows are always helping in they're own way. They get animals from one place to another but they are also kind. I'm sure if someone was having a bad day and to pick up a horse, the seagoing Cowboys were there to help.
So please take this information and spread it to others we need more seagoing Cowboys. They are important, thank you for reading. And take my advice and become a seagoing cowboy with your own free will. | 2 |
95030a6 | Have you have wonder if you could go to the store with out diving. In the world today technolgie has change and the world as change. In the world today people are scared or don't even want to drive. Most people say it's not possible to get a car to take you places.
Wouldn't be great to get a car that drives by its self. Google confounder Sergey Brin has been working to get cars to drive by them self so the driver don't have to drive. Sergey Brin said it would only half the fuel you use today, it will also make sure you will be save and it will tell you when you willl need to take over and drive yourself. People in the world today has been getting into alot of crashes and not following the rules. These cars will be so smart it will tell you when you have to take over it will also tell you when you need gas or other things in your car. These cars will be one of the smartest things you will ever see. Just think how smart your phone is, your car will be twice as smarter than anything in this world. The smart cars will stop you when you are about to hit something. Just think when you are driving and you get scared and don't know what to do the car will push the breaks for you and you don't have to worry about anything.
If people are worried about the laws the car will take care of it. Most driver today when they drive they do stupid stuff or drive very carful, but what if you get scared and you have no idea what to do. The new car will take care of anything you will ask it to do. Some people are saying whatever if i dont trust it if you don't trust it you will have control of your car still you don't even have to let it do its own thing. People can sill control it and do whatever you want like it was the same car. Mercedes and Benz, Adui, and Nissan plan to have cars drive by them self in 2020. They are still looking to see what all they can do but they think in 2020 that people today don't have to drive there cars anymore.
How would it be to be able to drive with even touching the car. The world has change so much and it is still changing today. We will just have to wait and see what 2020 brings to us. | 3 |
9504a2b | The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable,in the article it is stated that "The new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements". Also it is stated that "weighting the different units,the software can even identify mixed emotions". "Leornardo Da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscled precisely enough to convey specific emotions"
Another reason why the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable,because in the article it is stated that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". Not only that but the technology could modify the lesson as if it was an human instructor. Another reason why this technology is effective in in the classroom is in the article "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive".
The computer's also need to understand that most human non communication is non verbal there are muscles called orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus that makes crow's - feet around your eyes. But when you are not really smiling in a fake smile,the mouth is strecthed sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle,the risorius. These muscles clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity is fake smiling.
It is also proved that moving your facial muscled not only express emotions, but also may even help produce them Leonardo Da vinci's new software stores similar anatomical information as electronic codes. The computer know's how to detect happiness,surprise,anger,digust,fear and last but not least sadness,Also associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles.
Frontantalis pars lateralis musles raises your eyebrows when your surprised or shocked about anything while your orbicularis oris the muscles that around your mouth tightens your lips. With all that being said the technology in the classroom is very valuable because of all the things that it recognizes like confusion,boredom,sadness and even fear. Also this technology can even modifty lesson's as if it was an human instructor. | 3 |
9504e97 | first of all I'm going to argue about changing election by popular vote for the president of the United States. the Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting the a president that out to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. The advocates of this position are correct in arguing that the Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense.
Second off, but each party, selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee (and that trust is rarely betrayed)...[;however,] it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. Yet it happens rarely. Also there are five reasons for retaining the Electoral College despite its lack of democratic pedigree; all are practical reasons, not liberal or coservative reasons.
Thirdly, a dispute over the outcomes of an Electoral College vote is possible it happened in 2000 but it's less likely than a dipute over the popular vote. The reason is the winning candidate's share of the Electoral College invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote. in [ 2012's] election, for example obama recieved 61.7 percent of the electoral votes compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney... because almost all staes award electoral votes on a winner-take-all-basis, even a slight plurality in a state creates a landslide of electoral-vote victory in theat state.
Finally, the Electoral College avoids the problem of election in which no candidates recives a majority of votes cast. For example, Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had only a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority in the Electoral College (301 and 370 electoal votes, respectively). There is pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a majority of the votes cast; that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presendential elections process, is reduced by the Electoral College, which invariably produces a clear winner. | 3 |
9507ed0 | the vanus is the
one of
since brightest the points of
light is actually a planet often the referred is to closest in distance too venus and mars and others planetary neighbor
sun at differences speed mean that something the humans have numerous spacecraft land on this good reason since no spacecratf survived challenging planet the surface a crucial consideration in this national aeronautics the value seems long time possible solution humans to study on the surface temperatures
but the air pressure would be close ton that of sea survaveble for humans on ground mission to understand maybe we should think of the would think or working on innovations that would to last long enough on other though of computers devices make calculation existing in thos dyas be more delicate by comparison during three weeks in such chaos carbide just image exposing a cell comes acid or heat capable of melting tin to be more and more striving to meet the challenge presented has valiues not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet should not be limited by dangers and boubts but should be expanded to ,eer the very edges of imagination and innovation | 1 |
95100d2 | I will be discussing how I feel about how driverless cars can either help or hurt how we live our individual lives. I think that it falls into both categories but I still belive that it is more than a risk than a reward. In the paragraph the author does manage to show negative affects and more positive affects. He did not talk about how they can contribute to laziness in humans or how they can probably be dangerous for some people to drive.
Now I will agree that driverless cars could be a groundbreaking invention, but in that it will just make the world lazier. If we can just have cars take us where we want to go and then just lay back or text people on cellular phones than the invention would just be another way to contribute to laziness for huamns in the United States. Now in paragraph 2 the author talks about how google have driverless cars that can drive without crash for a half a millon miles and can alert human drivers when they are going to hit something or back into something. What bout when driverless cars become legal for people of all ages, that would probably contribute to a rate of kids who run away from home, to be able to go where ever they want to go by simply putting in where they want to go.
In conclusion, driverless cars may be able to adapt to its surroundings but what about its contribution to laziness. It would most likely be able to be used for teenagers and probably kids who feel the need to runaway from home. I believe that driverless cars would leave a negative impact. This will be coming recently as of late if Mercedes Benz, Audi, and Nissan actually plan to make cars that requires no driver. | 3 |
9512bb3 | Although some may spectate that the Face was created by aliens, it is just a natural landform such as the ones we have on Earth.
Back in 1976, when the original photo was taken, the camera technology on Viking 1 was not very well, and the cloudy atmosphere did not help any. There is really no way to tell what the landform is in the picture. Now in 1998, when the second photo was taken, you can more visibly see the mesa start to take shape as the humanoid face goes away. Cameras have improved in the last 20 years, and are able to capture pictures with greater detail. In 2001, the picture is fully resolved and you can see how the landform is natural. The mesa is just like the one we have on Earth, in Idaho. Also, compared to the 43 meters for every pixel in 1976, the last picture taken in 2001 has 1.56 meters for each pixel, resulting in a higher revolution and seeing the object more clearly.
In conclusion, the Face on the Moon is just another casual landform as we have on Earth, not some alien made product. | 2 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.