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99986d6 | Driveless cars may be a great idea for the future. Many people probably support this idea, but not me. What I think about driveless cars is not positive. I have many things in my mind why I think driveless cars are not worth it.
First off, driveless cars are pointless. And the reason why they are pointless is because why do we need to change the way cars are? I think the cars that we have now are perfectly fine and they are easy enough to drive. I see people driving cars everyday without trouble (well, most). Why waste money on such a simple idea? I bet it is expensive to make intelligent cars. And not only make the cars intelligent, but we also need to make smart roads. It must take a very long time to make smart roads for smart cars because we have over hundreds of miles of roads (if not, thousands). This is time consuming and must be expensive. This is what I mean by pointless.
The cars we have and the roads we have now are perfectly fine. It is simple and cheap.
On paragraph 1, it reads, "The cars he forsees would use half the fuel..." Why not make drivable cars use half the fuel instead? Like Ford's Eco? It is easier to make drivable cars to use have the fuel.
How far can technology go? What happens if there was a mulfunction to the driveless car? That is what I have against. Technology has a limit, and I bet that making driveless cars are complicated, and there will soon be a wall. Driveless cars are pointless. They are complicated and expensive. Technology must be advanced to make smart cars. I do not see it happening either. I have doubt that they will exist. The best thing a car can do is assist you with driving. I am against the development of these cars. Not that making driveless cars is absolutely bad, I simply think that they are not worth to be developed. | 3 |
99a0329 | The author supports the idea of studying venus with ahuge ammount of facts. like that venus use to be able to hold life like eartdid or that its super hot and too hot to put anything from earth on beacsue it will melt but personally i think that the author had no point in what he worte. he made it clear that no one can with stande 170 degree temperature and that no metal is gping to be able to withstand the heat either. so with that temerature no human life and no robot could go to venus. right? no. the author also made it clear that venus was like our twin and it use to have charestics like pur plant.
From the water covering the planet to the air. but now venus has a thick aptmosphere and we could never live on venus. that not the only reason though there is no water source its to hot and we couldnt breatth beacsue of how this the aptmosphereis in venus.
We nor no animal could withstand the heat on venus but the author argued that we could but in all reality we couldnt and it sint even a smart idea NASA is putting money into to something that wont worl and its pointless beacus eit 170 degrees and no one wants that. wed die. metal will melt and until we come up with non melting metal no one will live on venus | 2 |
99a411a | Dear State Senator,
The Electoral College is widely awknowledged for serves a purpose as a method of selecting a president and vice president, not a legitimate college. The Electoral College was established by the founding fathers in the Constitution as a compromise between having the President elected by a vote in Congress and an election by a popular vote of qualified citizens. This process of choosing a president needs to be modified into popular vote for the reasons that the Electoral College was established to actually vote a slate of electors, voters feel disenfranchised, and is unfair to voters.
To begin with, the Electoral College was actually established for voters to vote for a series of electors, which then get together to have the final decision. Stated in "What is the Electoral College?" by the Office of the Federal Register, " The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise...process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress." This means that under this system, voters don't vote for the president, but for electors who then elect the president. The voters sometimes aren't told full front that they are chosing someone else and not always can they control who their electors are voting, leaving many puzzled. Voters aren't to be puzzled. They are to vote who they'd like because it allows them a freedom to express who they want because they are strongly awknowledged of the troubles of their society and how they should be handled.
In addition, the Electoral College makes voters feel discouraged and disenfranchised. According to "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" by Richard A. Posner, it is stated, " No region...has enough electoral votes to lect a president...residents of the other regions are likely to feel...that their votes do not count...that he really isn't their president." This means that voters feel that the presidnet they chose is their president because they believe their votes count.
Futhermore, the Electoral College is unfair and irrational to voters because the candidates they "vote" for don't spend time with them. Sizes matter to the candidates. According to "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer, it is stated, "...the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-takes-all system in each state, candidates do't spend time in states they know have no chance of winning..." This quote conveys that because some states are small in population and size, they will not help the candidate succeed. This is immensely discouraging to the voters because they feel worthless for not being big in size. Candidates should not have an excuse to not thank all their voters because every vote counts, not matter how small.
Admittedly, the Electoral College allows a clear and certain outcome because it exceeds the popular vote, however, the method is actually turning off potential voters for a candidate. The popular vote allows every voter to express their opinions because the overall vote chooses the puopular president.
In the final analysis, a change is needed because with the Electoral College many candidates are losing potential voters considering that the qualified feel that they arn't doing much by voting considering they aren't voting for the president, but a gamut of electors to vote for them. They alos express the feeling of discontent and unfairness because they feel that they don't count and know they have no chance at winning. | 5 |
99ae33c | The united states has this ellection system called the electoral collage. The electoral collage is a system of voting for verious comities. When the founding fathers of The united states made the constitution the electoral collage was a part of it.
Why would any one want to change the electoral collage because i would like to know. In my oppinion in is the best thing i know of for a working government. Over the years there has been a larg number of amendments to the constitution, but that was to adjust it to the chang in todays tecnology. Under the 23rd amendment of the constitution, the District of columbia is theated like a state for purposes of the Electoral collage.
The electoral collage consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electorsvotes is required to elect the President. Most states have a "winner-take -all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate. So another words whoever gets the most votes wins but the odds are which ever side has the larger amount of people voting republican or democrat is normaly who wins. because if your a republican your most likly to vote democrat.
Everything that is rong with the electoral collage. Under the electoral collage system, voters vote not for the president but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. If you lived in texas, for instance, and wanted to vote for Kerry, you'd vote for slate of 34 democratic electors pledged to kerry. | 1 |
99b0b02 | The new technology of being able to identify a persons emotions by their smile could be very useful for many different sorts of things. If teachers everywhere were to have this computer technology to tell the emotions of their students they could find new, better improved ways of teaching their students. Wheather it be a college professor trying to find what their students emotions are to a middle school teacher it would help all around. The new technology can help everyone all around the world in different ways to find different kinds of information about a person. Like their peronality based off of wheather or not they are angry, sad, or just happy. I believe that you would be able to tell alot about a person based off of their emotions.
In the text the author talks about how Mona Lisa's emotions were very different when Davinci had made his master piece of her. It is said that her emotions were 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. The reason I think the new technology would be able to tell alot about a person by their emotions is because the advanced computer can pick up 4 different emotions altogether. One of those emotions are going to have a bigger percentage om the person than others depending on how they are feeling.
I think that the new technology can come to a conclusion of helping eveyone improve the society we live in today. Because every one has different feelings and thoughts about many different things that are going on. If the technology was used to find out how people are feeling about those different things that are going on then they could help to give ideas to make those changes. Then everyone would be able to use their voice and stand for something they think should happen. | 3 |
99b452f | Most people would say that driveless cars are a pretty good idea. But I don't believe it is. Most people would get in accidents more often.
The reason why I say dirveless cars are not the smartest idea is because if you have driveless cars everywhere there would be a higher chance of getting into an acccident than just you driving the car. This would likely happen because what happens if the system malfunctions on you and you are just there driving not knowing that the system isn't working, and then before you know BANG you hit another car.
Now, some people are saying "well in the article it says that you need to be aware of you enviroment" which in other words you need to know what is going on outside of your car. But, lets be real most people now and days don't really look at the road. They are texting or doing something while not looking on the road. So, what I am trying to say is driveless cars are not woth the wait nor the money. Most people in this world will probably be doing the same exact thing when you are the one drive the car.
So, some of us can be clear to most of you guys. That driverless cars are not woth it and that most if not all of us will be doing the samething as before and nothing will change. | 2 |
99b9e95 | The Face of Mars is a natural landform and I'll tell you why. For many years we have been taking pictures and observing it to look at what it really was. We just got a new sattelite and we took the pictures. It's not what most of the media thinks.
The new pictures taken from the spacecraft show that it is clearly a mesa formed rather than an ancient artifact created by extra-terrestrial life. It was formed just like the landform would on earth and the pictures clearly show it's not even a face anymore. Everything adds up to mesa and the thought of ancient artifacts are pointless. There is no life evidence on Mars. You guys are called conspiracy theorists for a reason. The word theory is a guess. This isn't a guess. At NASA we figured out it is a mesa landform and have proof.
That is why you are wrong and no other theory could counter our results. Science facts against a civilian's thoughts, facts win. Science prooves yet another thing on another planet. HD pictures are hard proof that it is a natural landform. | 2 |
99bba77 | Advantages of limiting car usage
This exert is about the enhancing effects of not using cars. The "smart planning" movement is one in which people have abandoned the idea of using auto-mobiles. the movement probably began because the town of Vauban charged forty-thousand for a parking spot. this and a few other key points cause these people to walk, but also the point of the movement expanding has became another topic to asses.
The movement began in the small town of Vauban. this happened because of the outrageous prices for parking. Although that is a huge factor, there many other topics of the early movement. as a result of the parking situation seventy percent of Vauban's population do not own a car, and fifty-seven precent of the popullation sold there car to move there. "When I had a car I had a car I was tense. I'm much happier this way."(paragraph 3 lines 4 & 5) The people in this town enjoyed the idea and started this movement.
lets talk about sex baby lets talk about you and me lets talk about all the good things all the bad things that may be lets talk about sex a little bit alitlle bit baby all through the night ill make love to you like you me to i guess its the woman in you that brings out the man in me i know i cant help my self ohhh it feels like first time it feels like the very first time like virgin touched for the very first time oh nanana come on come on ilike it like it come on come on, oh i may be bad but im perfectly good at itthe taste in the air blah blah blah blah blah sticks and stones may break my bones but chains and whips excite me
I found your hairband on my bedroom floor the only evidence that you've been here before and i dont get waves of missing you anymore its more like tsunami tides in my eyes never getting dry so i stay high drink on days sleep on the nights i dont drink like everybody i do a few things different about myself stuuble and fall with a headspin im null my minds on you but my hearts just num so am i close to you right now if its over and if theres no cance we'll work it oooouuuuuut oohhwhoa you and I
It ended over you and i and i said thats fine but your the only one who knows I lie im under pressure 7 billion people in this world trying to fit in keep it together smile on youre face even though your heart is frowning but hey now its no good we both know its a cruel world but i will take my chanceees as long as you love me we could be starving we could be homeless we could be broke as long as you love me ill be your platinum ill be your silver ill be youre gold as long as you love me i figured it out i figured it out from black and white seconds and hours seconds and hours it takes time to see it right, i know how it goes i know how it goes from up and down man the mirror he sees things in a different light like us do they ever like us ohhhhhhh you and I!
we dont want to be like them we could make it till the end nothing can come between you and i | 2 |
99be5d5 | Cars can have a really bad effect on society. It can cause stress, car accidents, and money issues. Limiting cars has alot of advantages, it's a stress reliever, no car accients or worrying about how your gonna have to pay your car insurance.
In Vauban, Germany residents are living without cars. One women Heidrun Walter, a mother of two, explains how she is much happier without her car. 57 percent of people have moved to the community when they heard about the community. It is said to be called smart planning. Cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in the U.S.. You don't have to worry about how your going to make it to your favorite store or market without a car because stores are places a walk away, on main street. The Enviormental Protection Agency is promoting car educed communities and legislators are starting to act.
Paris enforced a limiting driving ban to clear the air of the global city. Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France just after five days. France enacted a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline.
Bogota, Colombia created a program called the car-free day. Powerful people from other countries camre to Bogota to see the mindblowing event. Parks and sports center have been createdbecause of this event.
In the U.S. Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting feweer licenses as each year goes by. Rates of car ownership per household and per person strted to come down two to three years befpre the downturn. Teens are starting to organize their life around when they can walk, take public transportation or car-pool.
If we were to limit car usuage will the enviroment get better or stay the same? Nobody is saying to get rid of all cars, people are just saying that we can limit the amount of cars we use or the amount of time we spend driving them. Limiting car usuage is a very big step in a revolutionary change and also has alot of advantages to them. | 2 |
99bfa74 | It could be of good use. For example say you have a student that isnt having a good week. Lets say you cant fully tell if they are in a good or bad mood right. You could just bring the "FACS" Machinery and let that be the judge. We could also say that there are people who know how to hide emotions physically. So looking at them might let you think they are happy but really they are sad, lonely, depressed, ect. That would be another good momment for that to be there. To let you know how the person is really feeling.
There are both pros and cons to having this machine ill go over the pros first. Some pros are that you will be able to tell someones mood. Aswell as that you will be able to tell if someone is lying about there true feelings which could really be a problem when it comes to things like depression leading to suicides and things. Finally being able to know someones emotions could work to your favor as a teacher say someone is confused but to shy or scared to ask. Use the "FACS" machine to get them out of there. Some cons would be things like it could take priceless time out of your teaching to use the machine. They didnt give a estimate of how long it takes but i'd expect it to be a pretty long time. Also it could take a big price hit on the schools around the nation, I couldnt imagine this being a cheap device. Finally it could be useless. Some teachers wont take time out of their class to use it because frankly they just dont/wont care. Which would be a total bust seeing that the school would waste so much money just for it to go to waste.
I honestly think its amazing how someone can tell you how they are feeling at that moment. The diversity must be off the walls. it must be 1 in a million to get the same feeling. Its crazy the things we can do now a days with technology. People are coming up with more and more ways to initiate a more satisfactory lifestyle. Its always good to see someone take that inititive and start something like this. Seeing this I wonder what could be next. | 3 |
99c2931 | Driverless cars are a technology of the future. If perfected, driverless cars can solve many of the problems caused by drivers today. Driverless cars will also benefit the environment due to the little gas they consume. Finally driverless cars will benefit those who are not in the shape to drive. The technology of driverless cars helps more than it hurts.
First of all, there are too many problems when it comes to driving. Some are minor and some are major. When you introduce driverless cars to the road, many of the problems will be easily solved. Some drivers are stupid and aren't very aware of their surroundings while driving. They make lousy mistakes like running into mailboxes, running stop signs, and even crashes. When driverless cars are involved you are less likely to get into an accident. All commutes will be more efficient, and there'll be less accidents out on the road.
We all know that money plays a major role in everyone's lives. People try to save as much as they can and it will be easier to do that with driverless cars. These new cars will consume less gas, which will allow you to avoid spending all your hard earned money on just traveling. It isn't just money you're saving but also the environment. Using less gas means less fumes that are getting into the atmosphere. Pollution will be less of a problem, allowing us to live healthier lives.
Its ineveitable that people drive their cars even when their not supposed to, when their drunk, tired and even on drugs. When these types of people get behind the wheel, you're not going to expect anything good from it. So driverless cars not only benefit those who aren't in shape to drive, but also those who were first at risk of danger. Less DUIs will be given to wreckless driver, assuring others on the roads more security. No more innocent people will become victims of dangerous driving.
Driverless cars will be the next big innovation of our daily lives. They prevent drivers from making mistakes on the road which lead to bigger problems. Driverless cars also saves the consumer's money by being more fuel efficient, and saving the planet. Finally, driverless cars assure everyone more safety by preventing wreckless from getting behind the wheel. Driverless cars will benefit all of us, allowing us to live safer lives. | 3 |
99cacc1 | Have you ever been to China or Europe well if not you could join the Seagoing Cowboys. We will pay for you to go to withus we will even pay for all your food as well.I know that your demeaner will change when you go with us to China or Europe but to go you will have to do a littel work in order to help the people in the countries
that we have to go to.We will have to diliver cattel and other animals like horses. We alsohave to give themfood to feed the animals.This is a once in a life time chance.If you join you will be helping 44 other nations and not to minchen the millons that do not have homes to live in.
Millions of people are counting on you to come and help them.You will be gone for long periods of time you could be gone for months at a time before you get home.You will be abel to sign up at the age 17. You do not hve to be gregarus to join and you are never to old to join.When we are thair you can go and see monuments, museames, and restounts becuse it will be a few before we go o another job to help the people in need.When we start going home there will be lots of free time becuase thiar will be no animals to take care of so you could play volleyball or baseball with freinds or with the other workers that are there.
When you coe and you help some one you will feel like an angel that just went back to hevan.We might go to other countries to help them as well as Europe and China. When you join us you might even start helping people in your own comunity like hobos or friends that are haveing truoble paying bills.When you join us you might be more aware of the people and there needs such as food and water.when you join you will meet hunderes of people . You will also see lots of new places inthe world. You will see new states all over the world in all sorts of countries. | 3 |
99cb3da | The author supports his or her evidence by giving us what Venus is like before astronauts try to explore Venus. They give a brief paragraphs of what Venus is like and the last time NASA to explore Venus. Venus is a hard planet to go even though it right behind the sun. Human being can probably not handle the preasure that is on Venus so it can be dangerous. Venus can be a good planet to discver in the article it mentions that we us has human beings, havent touch the surface of Venus. The author also gives us the similarites that Venus had before Earth was around.
NASA has explored the moon and that's how far we have been and we never wen't farther than that. It's good to learn about Venus and it's ways and were it is located in our solar system but trying to put a human being on planet that has servre weather, temperatrue changes, and not the right oxygen can be very dangerous. Despiteing danger can be bad because that person will ony focus on the good things they heard about that planet and what it was like. They never focus on what the danger part of going on a such a dangerous trip. NASA should could do more reasearch on Venus before they go anywhere. It cool to strive for a new challlenge in Earth historty, but if this mission was succesful trip people will only focuse they would'nt focus on the flashbacks of putting other people that have families life on the and the have chance of dieing on g this jounrney to Venus. | 2 |
99d442f | Could you imagine a life without a car? Well it seems that many people can. In many cities driving is being ban and officials are putting in place car-free days in order to reduce air pollution emmitted by cars. Communtities are even being built that do not allow cars.
A community in Germany is has been built were it is car-free. Ther is no street parking, driveway, home garages. in this new experinental community car ownership is allowed butyou must park in a large garage at the edge of tcomunity and the car owner must buy a space for $40,000, along with a home. This has now become a growing trend to not uscar and rely on other forms of transportation. Many people feel that this has taken a weight off their shoulders. othr places are adopting the idea of living car free. If this continues it could drastically lower the amount of air polution.
Gremany is not the only place making efforts to reduce pollution and cut back on auto-useage. In Paris after near record pollution a partial driving ban was inforce to help clear the air pollution. For a day all the drivers with even numbered license plates were ordered not to drive their cars or be charged with a $31 dollar fine and the next day drivers with odd numbered drivers license were ordered to do the same. After five long dats of smog congestion went down sixty percent. Although delivery companies lost revenue, the temparary ban lowered pollution in paris.
In Bogota, Colombia car-free day is a huge hit. this would make it the tird year in a row that cars were banned with only busses and taxis permitted to roam the streets. thye goal of this day s to reduce pollution and premote alternative forms of taransportation. The gloomy weather of the day with gray clouds and the occasional poring down of rain didnt stop the citizens of Bogota from hiking, biking, or skating there way from point A to point B. The turnut was huge and created an enthusiastic enviornment for all who joined in.
In conclusion, the occasional banning of cars, and comunities built were seeing a car would be strnge is an excelant way to reduce pollutin. The air we breath is what keeps us going so we must take drastic measures to ensure our health and keep our air clean. | 2 |
99d4eb9 | In 1976 a unusaul photo of what appears to be a human like face was located on the big red planet Mars. This at first got heads turning and questions popping in every scientist mind at NASA. From the article it states that twenty five years ago NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling around Mars, while snapping some photos for a landing site for its sister ship Viking 2. In the article it says that it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. The real question is the photo taken was it the face of an alien?
In the article it states that there must have been a surprising expression on the faces of the mission controllers face back at Jet Propulsion Lab. Soon after the misson controlls saw the photo they, have firgured out it was just simple another Martin messa, common enough around Cydonia. In the article it says that the unusual shadows that made it look like an Eyptian Pharaoh, it is also very interesting to hear what they compared it to.
In the article it says that after a few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see, and the caption read, "huge rock information...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 atrract attention to Mars.
In the article soon after being published it most certianly did catch the attention of the people. It even has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows, and it even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years! Now some people even think the face is bona fide evidence pf life on Mars, and evidence that NASA would rather hide.
In the article a few scientist believed the Face was an alien artifact, photographing Cnydonia became a priority for NASA. In the article mission controllers prepared to look again, and said "it's not easy to target Cydonia," says Garvin. Mars Global Surveyor is a mapping spacecraft that normally looks striaght down and scans. In the article Mars Global Surveyor said, "we just don't pass over the Face very often," he noted.
In conclusion about this whole Mars photo of a Face is clealry not another alien artificat, its just clearly just a natural landform. In the article it also states that in 2001 in April the redid the photo. They had to roll the spacecraft 25 degress to thecenter of the face to get a clearer shot. Now I must say in the article it states that what the picture was actually shows is the Martin equivalent of butte or messa-landforms common aroundthe American West. | 3 |
99d56b3 | The author made a great point about how we should still or should study Venus. Even though it might be dangerous there is a goood reason why we should still study it. For example lets say you want to do a carreer that is about being a mechanic but you want to make your own car. what would you do to accomplish that? well of course you would study and even though it might be dangerous cause you might get shoked or might crash for a few times. Anyways back about Venus, Venus is a very very hot planet. We are still studying other planets like how they were made. Even though we still can't get stuff on Venus we can still study what things we could send to venus and again the stuff may not be able to survive or last long but it's a attempt we should try. In paragraph 5 says that NASA possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Vnus would allow scientist to float above the fray. Even though there is a problem there will always be a solution to a problem , just by studying can that be possible. | 2 |
99d5f44 | What do you think this discovery is that appears to be a face in the crust of one of Earth's neighboring planets Mars. Scientist at NASA have proven with evidence that the supposable Face on Mars is not alien made. The Face that has appeared on Mars is not a sign of life on Mars, but really is just the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa, that are a common landform on Earth.
NASA has conducted three missions to the red planet just to inspect the giant landform and each time they have came back with the same result. Thirty-nine years ago the Face was discovered and was realized to be just a Meas. Twenty-one years later NASA launches it's second mission to inspect the Face once more. Michael Malin and is Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original. The results of this mission were the same as the very first, the face is a natural landform. Just after that in 2001 NASA used a high quality camera with maximum resolution. Just to reveal that the Face was what they had suspected all along, the landform they had concluded on thirty nine years ago.
The area where the Face was discovered,Cydonia, is actually known for having landforms that are similar to the one that some believe to be of alien realtion. There could be mutiple of these landforms that look like a huge face, but they just haven't been discovered yet. These landforms are most definetly a mesa because they are the exact same heighth and width of the mesas that are found here on Earth.
Even if this hoax that people say that the Face is a sign of life that used to be on Mars was true NASA would definetly release it to the public. The reason being is because this would be a huge benefit to the space program. The findings of Martian life would be amazing to hear and would bring much more funding to the exploration of the planet, but this isn't the case.
In conclusion after three NASA space missions, three similar pictures, and the smartest people together they all reach the conclusion that the Face on Mars is just a natural landform. What more evidence could you need, millions of dollars have been spent just to try to convince the public that the face was obviously not any kind of sign that there is life on Mars. The theory is very illogical that the Face on Mars is something of alien or Martian decent, when its just something that you can see here on Earth in the American West. | 5 |
99d659c | Everybody's got a car, right? Having a car to many is either required, out of convenience, or even as a status symbol. What if I told you that cars are becoming becoming a burden to the rest of the world. The negative aspects of everybody owning a car have now taken a physical position amongst the world's issues. Not everybody has realized it yet but there are several cities in other countries that are choosing to take on the issues head on. Let me tell you a bit about a couple of them that I have found to have taken the most drastic of steps and by the end of this, I intend for you to have chosen a side to stand with on the issues that lie ahead.
First off, we have VAUBAN, Germany. According to Source 1, the city has made it outright difficult to own a car here. You would be hard-pressed to find anywhere to park as the city has made street parking, driveways, and home garages illegal. You are able to own an automobile but you must go out of your way to drive to a garage at the edge of the district or pay up to $40,000 for a parking space. The city is trying to make its citizens less dependent on automobiles by designing the whole district to be easily accesible through alternative means of transport and by foot. Their example must be getting our attention because the Environmental Protection Agency is also promoting "car reduced" communities. Are we looking at the future of suburban environments?
Next, we have Paris, France. Recently, according to Source 2, the city of France has put a restriction on the amount of cars driving in its streets to reduce their monstrous smog levels. The plan was to have cars with even numbered license plates drive only a particular day and have the cars with odd numbered license plates drive on another day. The plan worked and because of this decision smog levels that leveled near the ones present in Beijing, China which is said to be one of the most polluted in the world have gone down to a reasonable level and they are no longer living in such toxic conditions. Maybe the rest of the world can adopt a similar plan when the need arises.
Lastly, we have Bogota the capital of Columbia. According to Source 3, in Bogota, there is a program in place that banned all motor transportation except for public transit and taxis for a day. In a city of seven milion the need for transportation is pretty high but the citizens who participated managed without a hitch by using other means of tranportation such as by bicycle. This event is part of a long campaign designed to promote smog reduction and alternative means of transport. The campaign has also seen the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths throughout the city. The city's culture has had no major trouble adapting to the change and places of commerce and recreation have begun to crop up to facilitate the change of pace.
All of this change is beginning to affect our own country as the government is taking notes from the success of these campaigns happening in other countries. According to Source four, studies show that we are seeing a reduction in the ammount of people buying automobiles and earning drivers licences. Is this because of choice or is it because of Americans not having access to enough money to buy new cars? According to the author of this article, Elisabeth Rosenthal, we are seeing the end of the Car Culture. With this thought in mind, which side will you stand with when it is time to decide our future? | 3 |
99d6eba | The author supports his idea on studying Venus despite all the dangers and doubts, in a understandable way.
The author states facts from The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and pursuade in a detailed way of showing that humans can go and study Venus.
The author also states that Venus was "the most Earth-like planet in our solar system," which means that Venus was similar to Earth and closest to planetary visit.
On paragraph 5, the author states that we can have blimp like vehicle floating above Venus fray or 30 miles above Venus's landscape, which is 170 degrees fahrenheit.
The author claim there can be air planes and jets flying over the storms of Venus. The author also claimed that the radiation will not exceed earths level.
At the end of paragraph 5, the author states "Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans." The author claims all these facts on paragraph 5 from NASA.
On parahgraph 7, the author states that NASA is working on approaches to studying Venus with mechanical computers that only use gears and levers.
The mechanical computers would last longer than modern computers with silicon carbude.
The mechanical computers were tested in a chamber simulating the chaos od Venus's surface amd lasted three weeks.
The mechanical computers were used in 1800s and an important role in the 1940s World War II.
At the end of paragraph 7, the author states " By comparison, systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces." which means that mechanical computers would be very important to studying Venus.
With these details and facts the author gave us, shows how the author was supporting his idea on studying Venus.
The author had facts from NASA and provided details on in a understandable way.
The author stated "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." this quote shows how his idea of studying Venus with all the chalkenges and doubts, can possibly happen. | 3 |
99dad83 | I personally believe that while this technology is great, it will likely not be useful in the average classroom.
Right now, the cost of this program is just too much. Consumer PCs are not equipped to run it, which is a huge limiting factor. Next is the set up. You can't just have a single PC running it, you would need multiple due to how many kids there would be in one class. Finally, there would be so much work needed to help code in such a complex lesson for classes. Making lessons for school is tough and boring work now, imagine having to make every possible outcome for one lesson every time you wanted to teach. It would be extremely difficult.
Now don't get me wrong, this technology could be used to great extent in other fields, I just believe that now is not a good time to implement that into classrooms everywhere. It would be better to test it on a smaller scale before releasing the program. Perhaps you could test it inside of one school, or inside of one class to see how effective this would even be at getting these bored students engaged again. Because in the end, that's what its about, keeping the students engaged.
If they want to use this technology in the class, they really have to zero it in as to what it will be used for. Dr. Huang said that the program can be used to detect when a student is becoming bored or confused with a lesson, and the lesson can modify itself to help like a human instructor. But thats it, we can just have a human instructor! There's no need for that right now. I'm not saying there's no possible application in the future, I'm just saying we have a solution to this problem, and we've been using it for as long schools have existed. | 3 |
99dedf4 | I think that we should keep the
Electoral College because changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States can be bad. It can be bad because if majority of the people pick a president and he's not a good president and they are just picking him to pick him then he might not be a good president , he might just be popular aka well known. We should keep the Electoral College because it is fair and it is going by all of the votes , not just the popular votes.
"The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes, is required to elect the President."
Which means it is a non-democratic method. When you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. The Electoral College has a better chance of having an outcome than the popular votes. "
In 2012's election, for example, Obama recieved 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney."
Which means the Electoral College is a much more trustworthy system than the popular vote. Electoral College has something called
"Swing States''
Swing states are states that often pay close attention to the campaign and they really listen to the competing campaign. They are the most thoughtful voters and the most thoughtful ones should be the ones to decide on everything.
"At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-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"
That is incorrect because the electoral college pays close attention to every state to see which ones would be good to pick. The Popular States says that the electoral College system is out of date and lame , The Electoral College avoids run off elections unlike the popular vote system. I am ending my claim by saying we should keep the electoral college because it is a more organized system. | 3 |
99e00e2 | In this article i will show you how we shouldn't let danger and doubts get in the way of what we should go do and research. We can study venus even with the danger that we might get hurt or injured but that will have to be tested. That is why we have technology so we can explore these type of things without geting hurt or injured. He or she whoever wrote this article agrees heavily that e should explore more crazy places that we haven't been. We jus cirling around earth finding the same things when we can goto another planet and figure all about the life that used to live there or already does. In the article it says"Our travels on earth and beyond should not be lmited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation". This shows that we should stop being scared go explore more stuff and be advetures courages something differnt. | 2 |
99e37ba | Dear state senator I feel like we do not need to keep the Electoal College and we need to change the election to popular vote. Even Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all agreed on abolishing the Electoral College and I agree with them. Over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people. Back in 1960 segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. Most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown in the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote for the vice president. The electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner take all 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. During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all. It's offical the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best known arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. It's ghard to say this but Bob Dole was right, we should abolish the electoral college.
The electoral college is 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. The advocate of this position are correct in arguing that the Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense, it is the electors that elect the president, not the people. when you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible it happened in 2000 but its less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. The reason is that the winning candidates share of the Electoral College invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote. | 2 |
99e65f8 | This technology would be useful in many ways. This technology could be very valuable, but it also could be too much for us to handle.
With technology like this it might make learning things online more interesting.
Imagine reading a boring documentory about a hero you are writing about for class, as you continue to read the article, a suggested website pops up with interesting facts about your person with more information.
Now you are more interested and the computer has done its job to change your feelings on this presentation.
We could use this technology to do many other similar things like that.
Maybe one day you are just down in the dumps and all these videos you are watching are just making you feel worse and even more bored than before.
Then a suggested video pops up and you are able to watch it and laugh and it was able to take your horrible day and turn it into just another good day.
These are the nice things this kind of technology can do for us.
Although you might think it is strange to have a computer know exactly how you are feeling when you sit down at in front of it.
There would never be a dull moment in front of the computer though.
Maybe you are just sitting around and you get bored and have nothing better to do so you get up and you make your way to the computer and play with the emotion detector just by making faces at your computer seeing if it can guess how you are feeling.
Technology is advancing quick, it is nothing like it used to be, but either you have to run with it or get ran over.
Things are changing fast we have to change with them.
This is why this technology is so valuable, we can use it in many ways even if its not important.
We can still get use out of it, so why not make it a thing? In the article it says "She is 83 percent happy, 9 percent digusted, 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry" talking about the Mona Lisa painting.
Now you cant tell me that that is not cool at all.
Its pretty amazing what they can do with technology these days so we might as well adjust to it instead of push it away.
That is why we should be able to have technology like this. | 3 |
99eb2f4 | "Driverless cars are dangerous." My friend says "What if the computer and systems fail and you have a accedent?" Another tells me. My friends say driverless cars are a bad idea ,becuase the could cause accendents ,there not reliable and that they are way to costly. While I think driverless car are a okay idea, because they can alert me when to stop when i have manuel control of the vehicel, it gives me control when the car can not monuver through accedents or rough torain and it has autopilot so i don't have to drive to much.
Driving cars can make accedents happen. If the driver is not paying attendtion and doesn't take control in areas the car can't drive through or if its system fails to work. Though they can also preventg accendents by alerting the driver of the areas that the car can't drive through. It can also help you drive by giving you alerts of the things that are behind the car while backing up, provide a autobrack option when it senses something in front and the driver doesn't put on the brakes.
Yes driverless car can be unreliable at times. For example you have part that is broken on the car or the system and computer may not be wroking properly. Yet if you do not trust a driverless car i can also give you the option to drive the car yourself. Plus it helps you drive by giving alerts if you are about to crash with somethingthat is behind you as you drive and the autobrake that stops the car automadicly
if the driver is unable to.
One of these cars would be extremly costly. The price for a car like this would be more than what a normal person could win in a year. Some say that the car is not worth the price and that is to unreliable to buy. I say the price might be
worth it.
I gave my reasons to my friend. Though they still say its a bad idea I respond with
"Its my money and i will buy what i want with it.". Though my friends stand on the orther side of the arggument I stay with my the side that states driveless cars are a good idea. Driverless cars are a good idea, because
they can alert me when to stop when i have manuel control of the vehicel, it gives me control when the car can not monuver through accedents or rough torain and it has autopilot so i don't have to drive to much. | 4 |
99f273c | We as humans need to get in the habit of not useing car as much us we do. There are many advabtages of limiting car usage because are future is our hand. Study show that car are big part of the green house affect. There are many countrys that are trying to stop the use are automobiles . There are citys ,and towns around the world that have rules that stop you from useing your automobiles many people like it.
Country around the world are trying to stop the use of automobies like paris after a day near-record pollution,pairs enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. People that did not leave their cars at home they were fined 22-euro the advantages of limiting car use is that you dont get stuck in traffic , it better for the erath that u live in , and you can save money. In a german suburn it is forbidden to use a automobiles as a result, 70 percent of the familys dont have cars,57percent sold there cars to move there. The people that live in these suburb say that "when i had a car i was always tense. i'm much happier this way". MOre and more citys and towns are starting to do the same.
"all of our development since world war II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change' said David Goldberg. If we dont stop useing automobilse we are going to be in trouble. There are many advantages of limiting car usage by this time we can stop useing the car. | 2 |
99f3568 | I'm Kaitlyn a scientist at NASA. Since the year of 1976 there has been many people trying to figure out what the 'Face on Mars' is, but more importantly how did the face get there? Did anliens do it? Was it just a blur in the picture? Through the years people have been trying to figure out this mistory.
I can asure you that it was not aliens. Since the year of 1976 we were able to get better and clearer photos. On March 5, 1998 one of our Mars Surveyor flew over the "face" for the first time. Michael Marlin took a picture ten times better than the original image. We thought that would for sure clear up all the alien talk. The image showed a natural landform, but that didn't satisfy everone.
The picture was taken during a cloudy time on Mars. Since the camera had to look through clouds skeptics said "alien marking were hidden by haze."
Once again Media was talking about how there is still a posibility that the landform was created by something not of our world. We were stuburn to prove them wrong.
It is not easy, but we tried again. On April 8, 2001 we had another chance. Soon Marlins team captured an extraordinary photo. Now they used a camera even more high tech than before. You could see the details in the photo. This time the photo was taken on a clear day. We studied the photo here at NASA, and you can clearly see the photo is of a landform much like a butte or mesa, which are often found in the American West. Thanks to the upgraded technology you can clearly see it's just an ordinary land form. | 3 |
99f5857 | First, Face is just a natural landform because even if it was created by alians there should be some type of building or something some where a round the Face like a building. Think about it. Do you really think that some alian is going to build something like that and leave it there? There is so much things we don't know about Mars, but aliens are not real. According to the text,"Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars."
Second, when we took a picture of the Face in 1976. It was because of the weather that it looked like a face. Another reason is because of the angle that we took a picture in. It might also have been the camera. Because of the angle that in took the picture in, the shadow of the mountains made it look like a face. According to the text,"The caotion noted a "huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving illusion of eyes,nose,and mouth."
Next, in 1998, we decided to take another picture of the Face. The tecnology became better and so we got a better view of the Face. It does't look as much like the face we took a picture of in 1976. This time it looked more like a crater. It wasn't a face after all.
Then, in 2001, we took another picture because it was so popular. According to the author,"It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows-even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years!" You might think that aliens are real. According to the text,"Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars-evidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorists." We have been searching Mars for a while now and if there was any life form on Mars we would have found it already.
Finally, Face is just another natural land form. According to the author,"What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West." So it wasn't created by any living thing. It was created by nature. Face is just another natural landform on Mars. | 4 |
99f6a46 | The Famous Face in Space!
Above us there is a mysterious world out there. A whole complete different area that us humans aren't that familiar with. We have traveled there many times, but there, we can only go so far. The only way we have access to the farther part of space is through specially made robots. Scientist have built robots and satalites that are able to do the job for us. Right now we have these robots on mars helping us get information! In 1976 scientist discoverd that there was a rock shaped figure of a face on Mars, and what everyone wants to know is, "How did this face appear on this planet?"
The "Face on Mars" became a huge senstaion. It was starred in Hollywood movies, books, magazines, and even radios talks. This rock shape of a face was famous for over 25 years in a grocery store checkout lines! This face contains eyes, nose, and a mouth! That's all that it needs to start up a huge debate on rather this face belongs to an alien, or is it just some little birthmark on the planet Mars.
I am not some special scientist, nor have I done research on this face, but i don't believe that this is a face of an alien. Very few scientist do believe that this is the face of an alien. I find this hard to believe because technology has gotten more bigger and better. I could understand why back then so many people believed this accustaion, but it is 2016 now. This face was found in 1976. Technology has grown severly and yet we have no proof stating that this is an aliens face, nor do we have any proof proving that aliens are real. We have information sources in space and on mars right now and they have been there for years, and not once did these sources find information on any aliens living in space.
Many scientist and non-scientist have made several different theories about this face. Many have different oppinions too. Some believe that this is the face of an alien, and some also believe that this is just some other makebelieve story. Although there are pictures of the face proving it is there, many like to make their own predictions. We are all clueless about this weird mark on Mars, but i would hope that we can believe our specially trained scientist. They have been doing this for years, and I believe that if they say something isn't real or didn't happen that way, then we should believe it because if we can't believe them, then who else do would we believe? | 3 |
99fcac2 | I feel that driverless cars can be benificial to the human race. Driverless cars may be benificial but many people are most likely against or skeptical about driverless cars. These cars are cars that do not need humans to control them and they can move on there own. A lot of driverless cars have already been invented but they are not fully driverless. As stated in the article "Driverless Cars are Coming." it is said that the company Google have had these types of cars since 2009. So they are nothing new to society it's just that a lot of people have never heard of this concept. I feel like it's a great idea. Just imagine having a taxi, or "Uber" now a days, to drive you wherever you want to go. Driverless cars will require less gasoline than other types of cars. They may not even require any gasoline nobody really knows yet. Google modified a Toyota Prius to use estimating sensors on the rear left wheel and a 3-D rotating sensor on the roof to judge what items are around it. The rotating sensor is used to establish how the car drives. The sensor on the roof does this by seeing what items are around it and making a three dimensional shape of what the car or the sensor see that that item is. General Motors created a futuristic road in the 1950s. They did this because they thought that it would be better for cars to have to drive on a road instead of the car having to do all of the things a driver can do by itself. They found out that it would have costed a humongous ammount of money and it was not practical. After that some college students/Engineers at Berkeley tried something similar except instead of cable it was magnets. They tried to make the car read in binary code which they would implement into these things called smart-road systems. This also required a large sum of money and again it was to expensive and not very practical. With the smarter road systems out of the way it opened up a new oppurtunity for manufactureres. They could now work on smarter cars. Nobody knew how much smarter though. Sensors in the Google cars were nothing new. They started maked speed sensors at the wheels of cars to activate antilock brakes back in the 1980s. Since then the sensors have just become more advanced and now they have been able to detect and respond to certain things that could be hazardous to the driver. The information in the sensors cause the car to activate and reduce power to the engine and other things such as brakes. Further improvements are being added to sensors to make it more driver friendly and safer for the drivers. No car manufacturer has made a car that does not have to be driven yet. They do not drive themselves most of them just assist the driver so he or she doesn't have to worry about all of the things that are essencial to driving a vehicle. In 2013 BMW (Car Manufacturer) announced that they are developing "Traffic Jam Assistant." This car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 miles per hour. Special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps a hold of the wheel. So the main question is why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver? Well actually psychological aspects of automation are really a challenge and we need to interpret the driving in a fun way. So basically we need to make it a fun thing for the drivers to not have to drive. So car manufacturers were talking about activating a heads-up-display (HUD). These HUD's would make the trip to wherever your destination is less boring. Me personally I don't think it's such a good idea to have a HUD in a car because people will have trouble focusing on the road. People would probably like a nice thing to do while they are bored but what if in that little instance that the car just happens to lose control. You will be paying attention to something else and not the road. People have there phones anyways so I don't even see what the big deal is about these HUD's in cars. Just a waste of expenses is all I see. So to answer the question. Yes I am a fan of the driverless car and yes I do think that they should be implemented in our lives, but I also think that the car manufacturers should talk over some of the features that they're wanting to put on this car. | 2 |
9a00c0a | What is the closest planet to Earth? The Evening Star give us the brightest light. The closest planet to Earth is Venus. As human studies, Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. Humans study more and more about Venus everyday.
The Evening Star give us the brightest light because it's too close to the Earth. Venus has more power of light than other planet. Mercury is closer to the sun but Venus can get more power than Mercury. Venus has has more power to gets the hotness. Venus is vantage point of Earth. The author says, "Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely," (paragraph 1).
As human studies, Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. As humans study, Venus's atomospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our town. When Venus has low power of hotness, the weather on Earth has changed. The author said, "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus," (paragraph 3).
Today, solar systems are useful on Earth. Today, we're using computers, cell phone or tablat with solar. The author says, "By comparison, systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces," (paragraph 7). Humans are still working on Venus to get more powers, even though we got lots of power from Venus already.
Humans didn't want Venus's power at first because it's too hot and now, they want it because it's safe. In the paragraph 8, the last line, it said "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation". | 2 |
9a044fd | Venus is a worthy because Venus is closer to earth and it's a good planet. Sometime people called Venus is a Evening Star. It's the one of the brightest points of light in the night sky and it's making it simple for the amateur stargazer to spot it. It's on paragraph one and two that saying all the things, how nice is Venus. A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioside blankets Venus. When that even more challenging for the clouds for highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. People thought that Venus is a star but it's the planet that by earth.
When peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited sight on ground conditions because of the most of forms light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere and rendering standard forms of photography or videopraphy ineffective. The more importantly researchers cannot take like samples thing of rock, gas, or anything else. | 1 |
9a04aa2 | A computer shouldn't be able to tell peoples emotions. Having emotions is a very personal thing between you and only you or if you choose to share them with others. Thats what makes people so real and relatable to. A computer shouldn't be able to determine somes emtions or be creditiable enough to do that because its not a human a lot of malfuctions can happen. Your taking the realness out of the human and puting it into a computer.
Them wanting to use computers to show peoples emotions might make people feel very vulnrable. "Even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression" (like not smiling as broadly).
Which is saying that they are calculating our different facial expressions. Also they shouldn't use math to calculate people feelings what if they calculate wrong? How do they know our emotions can even be calculated with numbers? We aren't calculators that you can just punch in numbers to figure us out.
That will be very hard no one should feel like there feelings are being told off to everyone. Its no ones business espicially a computers job to be telling your emotions that what makes you a human being. Not everyone wants to be like da Vinci painting Mona Lisa. Some people just want to be themselves. Without having to put their feelings on display. That should be there choice not some computer, doctors, or scientist choice. | 3 |
9a08fed | Hey! The names Luke Bomberger,And it's really "cool" to be a Seagoing Cowboy,How bout' you be one to? When your a Seaging Cowboy you can go and explore places that look interesting to you,oh...and I went to Veince,And I guessed it was pretty intersting and also,Italy and China. I "graduated" in highschool and I had two part jobs until someone offered me a job as a Seagoing Cowboy,Well..I couldn't resist,but to say yes.
Anyways....
Theres also different reasons to join the Seagoing Cowboys,its not all about exploring new things if you already knew, You can learn play stuff like "sports" or learn values or get some pointers of working as a Seagoing Cowboy.
Will you ever help someone,So we can make it seem like were "useful hard workers"? Hope so.. :|
But....
Im glad to be a "Seagoing Cowboy",And I hope join us and we can do lots of things together to help eachother out,remeber im Luke Bomberger and Im a Seagoing Cowboy!
Bye Bye :P | 2 |
9a0920a | Technolgy is changing and fast.In this aricle "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author descirbes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding Sytem can identify human emotions.They used Mona Lisa because of the many varity emotions she has on her face.In our generation we as students are changing the way we study/learn.It has been proven that we will be seeing stuff like this.
The new technolgy called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to idenitfy human emotion is by using video imagery.The software tracks these facial movements into a real face.The text state"His new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code".This is concluding that the use of this technology to read emotional is
some-what realiable.
In this article the use of this technolgy to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is vaulable because if students ever get bored during a lecture ,and the computer see it, it could change the way the letcure.The text states "A classroom computer could recongize when a student is becoming confused or bored".This states that having this new technology could mean that students can find ways to study or learn a new way.
In conclusion,The way technolgy changes in a classroom as the author says means that the use of this techonogy could be used in a classroom is valuable. | 2 |
9a09520 | I think it should be the most votes each president because it should be majority rule so if many people pick one president and the other only gets a couple the one with the most should win because the peoples voice should choose who is over them.
Also because if everyone vote for this one president there electoral college can still vote for the opposite of them and go against the ones that want to vote for that particular president.
The electoral college vote is unfair to some people because they only have like a 50 percent chance to get the president they want in the white house.
If the congress or whoever was to abolish the electoral congress vote I think we would see numerous of changes in our past history and our future, so in the end it is basically like all of our votes are going to be voting vor the electoral votes then it goes to the president voting. After so long many people are going to stop voting, but not all because some people like it this way. the reason to that is because so many people are going to pay attention to their votes not being counted to the presidents voting stand. And since they know their vote is not being counted many people are going to stop voting. | 2 |
9a0a834 | Curiosity is in the nature of humans and curiosity has gotten us to many places. If Chrisopher colombus did not travel to India, the british would have not found North America. Likewise in space exploration, we must be curious about the planet Venus. Venus is a planet that is very similar to Earth in many forms. The reason for studying space exploration is explained in the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus". Although the Venus' conditions are very absurd, but the doors that it can open are well worth the hardwork needed to explore the planet. That is why the author explains that Venus is a planet that is worth exploring due to exploring Venus is able to open more pathways to other types of space exploration and the planet has very close relations with Earth.
The author explains that it is true that in order to take step into the future, we must start space exploration. And the only way to do this is to start with a planet close to us. The author tells us that sometimes "we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus". If we are so close to Venus what is stopping us from exploring it?
There are an abundance of things that stop us form exploring Venus. But the author must first talk about the similarities and differences between Earth and Venus. Earth and Venus are suprisingly very similar in many ways. Due to this fact, Venus can help show us what may happen to Earth in the future. Earth and Venus have very similar "density and size". But they are different in that the atmosphere is "thick" with "97 percent carbon dioxide" and the temperatures of the planet "average 800 degrees farenheit". The planet also contains "highly corrosive sulfuric acid" and an atmospheric pressure "90 times greater" that Earth. This is highly alarming that a planet so close to Earth can also be so different. This sparks a curiosity in the brains of many space passionate people.
In culmination, the start of advanced space exploration starts with Venus. It is impossible to be unable to travel to Venus and expect to travel to other places in space. The author wants people to understand that exploring Venus is not pointless, but instead it can answer the many questions we have about our planet. Exploring venus is a challenge that people need to overcome. That is why the exploration of Venus starts a great leap in space exploration. | 3 |
9a10719 | Driveless Cars Are Coming
So you know how in the movies that take place in the future and they have really high tech cars that run on there own and fly in the sky? Well the world probably is going to have them type of cars. So companies/car manufactures are creating a such thing called driverless cars. Google have even started to create cars like that. The cars are pretty high tech but they is still in the beginning stages of becoming driverless. Right now Google cars aren't truly driverless, the cars alert the driver to take over when pulling in or out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues.
First, so to me I think it is pretty awesome that we are creating driverless cars. I think it is pretty awesome that technology is evolving into something spectacular. Probably in a ten to twenty years we will have flying cars. Also it not just Google that want or is creating driverless cars it is Mercedes- Benz, Audi,Tesla and Nissan. I also believe that it is amazing what some of the cars will be able to do. Some cars like Google's Toyota Prius that they modified uses sensors. The senses is all around the car. With them sensors they combined all the input that is very highly necessary for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel.
Secondly, although I believe that this is the next step to a futuristic world there are still some downfalls of the driverless cars that they probably need to improve. For one out of everything it is probably really dangerous. The cars can easily not work at all or stop working while in the middle of a busy highway which can harm so many people. With that they wouldn't know who was at fault the driver or the manufactuer who created the car. Also the price of the cars to me is probably going to be a total downfall. The car may really be pricey. It can probably be in the mid hundred of thousands or even millions.
Lastly, I really do believe that this will be an great idea on all parts. It will take so long to master the perfect car with everything intact. I myself will probably love to have a driverless car in the future. I really hope that Google, Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan will be able to create the perfect driverless car and possibly more. That would be an awesome experience.
Conclusion, so that is my postion on driverless cars that is in the making. I think it would be an awesome thing to have on the streets if it is safe. If it is not in anyway safe I don't think we should have them at all out on the streets. This is an start to an future where probably everything is smart technology. Like it said in the text, " The road to the truly autonomous car streches on ahead of us, but we grow closer to the destination every day." | 4 |
9a12acf | While it is incredible that Prof. Thomas Huang has developed this mechanism to read anyone's emotions, it should not be implemented in the classroom. As humans, we have the basic right to freedom of speech which allows us to speak our opinions, but it also allows us to keep some things to ourself, and that includes our emotions.
Some peole are better at reading emotions and body language than others, and nobody can do anything about that. But sometimes students conceal emotions from teachers for reasons, and sometimes kids just want to figure out how to perform tasks on their own. If a student is taking an online course and appears confused, it's best to let them decide whether or not they need to be taught more about the subject or it they are jsut struggling with a certain aspect of it. Also, if a student's face is 45% concentrated and 55% confused, they may not want the computer to bombard them with a lesson and break their concentration, which would end up frustrating the student. In paragraph 6, the author says, "Imagine a computer that knows when you’re happy or sad." While it could be beneficial for a computer to know what emotions the students in the lesson are feeling, what would it do if the student was overwhelmed by emotions that weren't related to the lesson at hand? Woult the computer be able to decipher what emotions were related to the lesson and which were just carried over from their home life or other things?
In paragaph 6, the author says, "Imagine a computer that knows when you’re happy or sad. For example, if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." there are already many people who are against the idea of personalized ads, and think they are an invasion of privacy. Imagine a computer almost reading your mind to get ads best for you, I personally can't remember the last time I smiled at an advertisement, even if it was for something I wanted. I've always seen ads as an interuption of the task at hand, and the last thing I want is for an ad to break my concentration with something that I want while I am doing something productive.
In paragraph 7, the author explains that while this technology is out there, it will likely not be available anytime in the near future, "Your home PC can’t handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa’s smile." Even though this technology will likely not be implemented into classrooms for a while, it is still worth discussing whether it ever should. | 4 |
9a150e3 | I think driverless car are cool and should be a thing in the future, because it will be better for the environment, people will no longer get lost, accidents on the road will be a thing in the past.
The first reason to why I think diverless cars should be a thing is, it will be a lot better for the environment. In the article it said the driverless car will use half of the fuel the cars we have now. With todays technology we already have cars that use less fuel so think of how much less fuel the driverless car will use.
Second reason is people will no longer get lost. People always have trouble getting to place to place they don't how to get to, and always end up lost. well that situation will be solved when driverless cars are a thing, because all you really have to do is sit in the car and relax, and the
GPS will do the rest of the work for you.
Last but not least, accidents probably won't be a thing after diverless cars are a thing. Humans are not perfect and will make a lot of mistakes. Computers are a lot better than us at not making mistakes and probably better at avoiding them as well. So why not just let the sensors on the cars do its thing and just sit back and relax.
So as you can tell i really want driverless cars to be a thing in the near future. so we can, use less fuel and save the environment, not have to worry about getting lost, and finally to never get into accidents. | 3 |
9a18591 | In "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" two men joined a program called Seagoing Cowboys. It is an oppertunity to send food supplies, animals, and more to the people effected in World War II.
Some reasons you might want to join is being able to know you did something good by helping out those in need. By shiping food to people who are starving and giving them materials to build them shelters could really help out many people.
Not only knowing that you did good in someone's life is not all though, on the boat, you can go places and see places that you may not be able to see. Taking care of the animals can be fun, too. You can play with them and have some fun.
You can have some really interesting oppertunities too while your on the boat if you join the Seagoing Cowboys. You can see some amazing places and objects you may never see if you weren't on the boat with the them. Learn something new everyday while your on this boat! In paragraph 9, Luke said, "I'm grateful for the oppertunity." Also in paragraph 5, Luke said, "Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greese was special. So was taking a gondola ride in Venice Italy, a city with streets of water."
Not all of the Seagoing Cowboys is all work though. During return trips you can have a lot of fun. I paragraph 8, Luke said that the cowboys play volleyball and baseball games in the empty holds where the animals were kept. Table-tennis, fencing tournaments, boxing, reading, whittling, and other games also pass time while returing home.
Join the Seagoing Cowboys program today and learn something new. See something, learn something, do something good for someone else, and have fun! | 3 |
9a24bd9 | What will life be like with Driverless Cars? It would be a great thing to have
driverless cars because there will be smart- roads, It will be safer, and
you will not need to drive all the time.
The first reason why driverless car are a good thing is
there will be smart-roads. " many futurists believed the key to developing self- driving cars someday wasn't so much smarter cars as smarter roads." If there were
driverless cars the smart-roads would keep us safe.When you drive on the smart-road you are going the right speed,and the car will have control so you won't make any mistakes.
The Second reason why driverless will be good to have is, it will be safer." automakers used speed sensors at the wheel in the creation of antilock brakes."
The wheel will help you to stop faster and make it easyer for people who can't move their feet fast. Driverless cars are also safer because a human is not drive in. Also the driverless cars have new sensors to help the human stop faster.
Some people think driverless cars are bad." Why will anybody want a driverless car that still needs a driver?"
Driverless cars still need someone in it. Driverless cars are great when you don't wan to drive.They also use half the fual of todays taxi. Why wouldn't you want a Driverless.
Finally the reason why i will want a driverless cars is; it is safer, Smart-roads, and you don't have to drive youself around. Driverless
are good of people who are on the run and don't have time. Plus it would be great to have a personal drive. | 3 |
9a25c95 | In my opinion im against driverless cars because not everyone is a bad driver , some people woud like to drive there own cars without anybody help or maybe people are causios of what they are doing . Driverless cars could be a good help but then again not everybody needs one . Some might like the driverless car and soe might not because what if the car your in messes up and spins out of control or crashes into something or someone . Then the person in the car wouldnt know what to do or how to react , driverless cars could be a positive thing and a negative like if someone was in a hurry and they needed to fix there hair or clothes while driving the car would come in handy or like i said if the car spins out of control or something , i dont think most people would like the driverless car if you ask me . Driverless cars might even cause more accidents not all cars work the same and one car might fail and cause a accident or someone getting hurt or even killed because of tecnology . i dont think all cars should be driverless some people might like to drive themselvs at there own pace and there own speed . | 2 |
9a371d4 | Why We Should Not Allow Driverless Cars
Automated Vehicles have been around for quite a while now, many people have grown very fond of them, actually. With all of the new advances in technology today, many new upgraded cars are being released. But are driverless cars really a good idea? Considering the malfunctions, technical difficulties, and the laws on driving.
People all over the world use cars everyday as an easy way of transportation. There are many laws and safety regulations to follow when driving, as every driver knows, but how would they fall in line with driverless cars? If nobody is technically driving the car, how can anyone be punished for accidents? This is something that needs to be further looked in to.
Furthermore, every new invention is going to have its flaws. Putting something as big as driving into technology's hands is quite a scary thing. One small mistake could result in a huge accident. Deaths are already a big problem when it comes to driving accidents. We should not make this a bigger problem than it already is.
Another thing, we all have that one friend who can just never seem to work any kind of technology right? What happens if that person gets put behind the wheel of a driverless car? Even with training or a handbook things could get confusing, that goes for anyone. This is a big piece of technology, nothing like a smartphone or a computer. Peoples lives could be in danger when exposed to a driverless car. Nobody wants that, do they?
Lastly, I know that having a car that drives itself sounds amazing and totally worth it, but is it really? How do we know this is not one of the biggest mistakes to ever be put on paper? There are so many deaths caused by vehicle accidents already, why would we take the chance of increasing those numbers? We should just eliminate this problem before it even begins. | 3 |
9a40be1 | For many years some NASA workers have been trying to find life on Mars. But their search has bee unsuccessful. No matter what they tried ,they could not find anything that could brng life. But no matter what they would not stop trying.
After so many years one of NASA's spacecrafts captured a picture of what some people say looked like a face. NASA tought that they had finally found life on mars. But after some reacherch they figured that it wasn't a face' that it was a landform. But some people weren't satisfied.
Scientists believed that the Face was an alien artifact. They also said that it looked lake a head of an Egyptian Pharoh because of an unusual shadow. But before they thought it was a Pharoh, they figured that it was just another Mratian mesa.
But then the scientists finally figured out that the picture actually shows a Martian equivalent of a butte or messa. After that some people believed what they wanted. But some believed that it was a landform. A guy named Garvin, said that it reminded him most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho.
That it was a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa, about the same height as the Face on Mars. | 2 |
9a46d11 | A driverless car is a scary concept. Some say that it is completely insane, but that is what they said when Neil Armstrong came up with the idea of walking on the moon, and now walking on the moon is no big deal. In my opinion, with a lot of hard work and problem solving, driverless cars could become the next big thing.
There are many things that have been done to make this idea become reality. For example, Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, and a GPS receiver. With modifications on these resources, they could potentually work. Of course, the driverless car will not be 100% driverless. The driver would need to be alert and ready to take control when needed. GM has developed ways to alert the driver. For example, they have made driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. Google and GM have taken great precautions in developing the driverless car.
In conclusion, driverless cars may seem scary at first, but I believe that with hard work and dedication, driverless cars will one day be no big deal. | 2 |
9a4aba9 | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author tell me about the technology called Facial Action Coding System. Im will being find details in the passange on how the technology identify human emotions.
Frist I will be telling you what's the Facial Action Coding System how it works. It is a technology that Dr. Paul Eckman created he has classified six basic emotions on it. scuh as (happyiness,suprise,anger,disguts,fear,and sadness.) what this technology does is show the emotions that universal. the new emotion recongnition software tracks the facial movements.
Now I will be arguing weather the use of the technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. I think this is a bad idea for the technology emotional thing to be in class room to read students emotion becuase if a student is upset for a reason and the emotional mechine read there feeling maybe the student didnt wanna tell there personal binusness about there feelings. I also think its a bad idea because what if the technology mechine tell you your feeling a suertion way but then the mechine got it wrong, then the teacher would be naging that person on about there mood.
I told you all about how the Facial Action Coding System works. I told you my opinion how its bad if they have the technolgoy in the class for it to read student emotions. and how it would effect the mood if the mechine got the emotion wrong. | 2 |
9a4d82b | In all four sources they have advantages of limiting car usage.
For example in Source 3 "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" by Andrew Selsky it says "Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving he streets of this captial city eerily devoid of traffic jams. This example shows how they limit car usage in Colombia.
Another example would be "When I had a car I was always tense." Im much happier this way" said Heidrum Walter." as she walked verdant streets where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor." This quote from the article shows how walking turned out pretty good for her instead of driving all the time.(Source 1)
In source 4 Elisabeth states that "New York's new bike-sharing program and its skyrocketing bridge and tunnel tolls reflect those new priorites, as do a profliferation of car-sharing programs across the nation." This example shows how a program for bike sharing worked out great instead of using your cars.
In conclusion these examples from these four sources inform citizens about the advantages of limiting car usage. And there are some really good examples that inform you about limiting car usage. | 1 |
9a5435b | Autonomous cars may seem like an amzing step forward as mankind continues to advance in technology, making our daily lives much easier.
However, with much development still needed on the concept, driverless cars may end up being more of a burden than a blessing.
The developmet of autonomous cars should be hindered as they will pose as they may pose as a threat to the privacy and safety of drivers.
Although manufacturers have come a long way in the advancement of automobiles, they still are not able to create a fully autonomous car.
As it is stated in paragraph seven, drivers must still remain alert and be ready to take control of the wheel if they are to enter a situation that recquires them to.
This may sound like a good reason why these cars should continue to be developed, but if one is not driving all the time then this could lead to problems.
If a driver is not driving for a period of time they will most likely lose focus on the road because they are not actively doing anything in the situation.
If a driver isn't focused and an event occurs that they need to take the wheel, then may not be able to react in time.
Even today in standard cars drivers are more likely to falls asleep at the wheel on highway roads that have them going in a long, straight path at the same speed. If this occurs when they are activly driving, then what will happen if they are just sitting in the seat while the car is driving itself? What's to stop them from falling asleep?
Would we then have to place our lives soley in the hands of our cars?
We've all had our computers randomly glitch or shut down without warning atleast one time or another.
Now imagaine if that were to happen with our driverless cars.
Someone could be on a highway with cars going 70+ mph and the computer operating their car could stop working.
Imagine the fatalities an event like this could cause.
The problem with technology is that it is not always fully reliable.
With this being the case, few people would be able to get into an autonomous car and get on the road trusting their safety with the car. As it is stated in paragraph nine, in the event of an error like this we don't even know who would be at fault.
The driver, or the manufacturer.
In conclusion, the development of autonomous cars should not continue until the technology is available in a way that driveres can be ensured that the technology will not fail on them. in the event of a driver less car, consumers of the product should be able to know that they are 100% safe.
Until this safety is made definite, driverless cars should not be placed on the market. | 4 |
9a54873 | Why would anyone want to become a Seagoing Cowboy, you might ask. There are actually many resons why someone should become a Seagoing Cowboy. Like I said, "The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy."
If you are working as a Seagoing Cowboy, thyen you know the feeling of when you acomplish something great. It's all one big rush of happiness, excitment,and sucess. Later on in life you will get to say, "I helped someone and I'm proud" That is just one of the many reasons.
If you like working with animals, then this might be a job for you. When I was working for the Seagoing Cowboys program, I got to work as a watchman. When you are a watchman you have to check on the animals every hour. That was an amazing experience, trust me.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy isn't all work all the time. You can find time to have fun like I did. I got to play exciting vollyball and baseball games. Along with that, I had time to read, box, fence, whittle, and play in table-tennis tounaments.
When you are a Seagoing Cowboy you get to visit amazing place such as I. You can get the chance to go to through the Panama Canal and tour a castle in Crete just on your way to China! That's not all! You can take a gondola ride in Italy, and see the Acropolis in Greece. Just think of all the amazing places you'll go.
When I was Seagoing Cowboy was the best time of my life. It gave me wonderful chances and a life full of excitment. It could give you that too. All you have to is join the Seagoing Cowboys program. You will not regret it, I promise. | 3 |
9a57298 | Driverless cars are something that has always been in the minds of big
inventors such as Sergey Brin. However, much controversy comes with this specific topic. There are both negatives and postives to these driverless cars. But, I think that they are a good idea and could really impact our world for the better because, we already have some of the technology, it would be better for the environment, and it would be safer.
First, driverless cars are not a new idea. It might seem like a new idea, but in reality we are already half way there. We already have antilock breaks and sensors, plus Google has been having these driverless cars for years now. In the article it says, "In reality, Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009." It also states, "Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor." Not to mention the spinning sensor on the roof that constantly updates the car's surroundings. Sensors are nothing new though beacause, "In the 1980s, automakers used speed sensors at the wheels in the creation of antilock brakes." If we already have all this technology, why don't we just go the rest of the way and push harder to make independent cars a thing?
Secondly, it would be much safer and cleaner for the environment. Everyone talks about how we need to take care of the Earth and be cleaner, resulting in cleaner, more fuel efficient cars. With driverless cars, we would have the oppurtunity to cut down on gas and make the world a little bit more of a cleaner, safer place. This is because the cars, " would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus." Sergey Brin, the Google cofounder says that, "He belives such cars would fundamentally change the world."
Finally, these driverless cars would be much safer than cars that are dependent on a driver all of the time. Of course there would still be risks and things that could go wrong safety wise, but I believe that we would all be safer with these independent cars. For example Google cars, "have driven more than half a million miles without a crash." There would be many many sensors on the car to make it safer and more aware of its surroundings like the 3-D scan on the top of the roof. Plus, the cars would have the ability to get the drivers attention when needed like vibrating the drivers seat, or flashing lights on the windshield. All of these things would go into making these independent cars safer than cars with a constant driver.
In conclusion, I do believe that driverless cars are the way to go. I think this because we already have so much of the technology to make them, it would be cleaner and safer for the environment, and it would be much safer than cars today. Plus how cool would it be to have a car that does most if not all of the driving? | 4 |
9a5b643 | The challenge of Venus. Venus is sometimes called the evening star why because it's one of the brightest points of light in the night time. The nickname evening star is misleading because Venus is planet its the secound planet of the sun. Venus is a worthy pursuit. Venus is planet not a star it the secound planet of the sun.
Venus is a planet. Venus is often referred as Earth's twin Venus is the closest planet to Earth terms of density and size. Venus is occasionally the closest in distance to Earth. The diffrences of Venus is the speed sometimes we are closer to Mars then Venus because Venus is right around the coner and they have sent many spacecraft to land but not many have lasted a few hours. Venus is referred as Earth's twin planet and closest to Earth.
A thick atmosphere of 97 percent of carbon dioxide blankets Venus. On planet's surface the average temperatures is 800 degress Fahrenheit and the pressure of the atmospheric is 90 times greater what we experience on our planent. Venus has the hottest temperature of any planet in our solar system. Venus is blanket by a 97 percent of carbon dioxide and has the hottest temperature of any planet in solar system.
Scientists are discussing further visits to its surface. Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because its was once most like planet in our sytem. Venus can probably could been covered by a ocean and could supported various forms of life. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been sending people to study Venus. Scientists still discuses about futher visits and NASA has send people to study venus.
The author suggests that studying Venus is dangers yes he's right because Venus is one of the hottest planet even though Mercury is closer to our sun beyond the high pressure and heat Veusian weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes. So yes its dangers studying Venus many space craft haven't lasted hours in venus. | 2 |
9a5e60c | Most people are with the fact that we vote for Electoral College but unfortuntley , im not. I am in favor to change to Election by popular vote for the President of the United States. voting for Electoral College dosent make sense and its completly unfair to the people voting and their is a certainty of outcome..The reason why i am against the Electoral College Vote Is cause we think were voting for the president , when were not and its confusing and it dosent make sense.
For example , In the article " Does the Electoral College Work?" source 1 ,pharagrapgh 15 , it states that "Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense,"when the people vote , their voting for a slate of electors. So when we vote , its actually were voting for the electors who get to vote for the president , not the people and its really unfair .Each party selects a slatetrusted to vote for the partys nominee.
In addition to my previous point , the second reason why i am against the Electoral College Vote is because its not for to the people who are voting for it .As it states in pharagraph 3 , because of the winner-take all system in each state, candidates dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning in. For example , "During the 2000 campaign , seventeen states didnt see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didnt get to see a single campaign ad."
A dispute over the outcome of Electoral College Vote is possible- it happened in 2000- but its less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. in pharagrapgh 18, it states that the reason is that the winning candidates share of the Electoral Collge is invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote.
To conclude , I am against the Electoral College vote because its unfair, confusing and makes no sense ." Its hard to say this, but Bob Dole was right: Abolish the Electoral College! | 3 |
9a6133a | Who doesn't have a car now days? It seems like everyone is dominated by these four wheeled creation of technology. On the other side, many places and countries in the world have decided to put a stop to the use of cars. This idea of giving up their cars came with many advantages to everyone, some of this benefits are the following. When cars are used less or left completly unused, this helps stop pollution, people feel better, and it improves the economy of car users.
First of all, the most important advantage is that being car-free can stop pollution. One city that had to ban car use for a few days is Paris. Due to all the smug the action that they took is, as stated in the article titled "Paris bans driving due to smug", on monday motorists with even-numbered license plates had to leave their car at home and not use it or else they would get a fine of 22 euro, which is equivalent to 31 dollars. And the same thing had to be done for the odd-numbered plates the next day. As the article says "The smug cleared enough Monday for the ruling French party to rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday". This shows how much damage the cars cause in the air, in just a day there was a huge improvement in the amount of smug. It's a demonstration of how much we can help by just taking public transportation and leaving our cars for a while.
In addition, another benefit is that people feel better. The source called "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" has this quote that businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza said "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution". And it is true that cars can cause drivers a lot of stress, for example, the simple task of driving to work on the mornings can cause stress because we have to be constantly preocupied of not having an accident or even hitting a pedestrian. In Bogota this measurements has been taken really well by the community and it has worked just fine. Taking stress away is something we are always trying to do but we dont realize how simple it can be if we just used our cars less, they are a cause of this stress after all.
Another advantage is that it improves the economy of the car users. Based on my personal experience, my parents can spend over 80 dollars a week just in buying fuel for our car. Imagine all the money you can save if you didn't have to spend on fuel anymore! Another very expensive thing than comes with the use of cars is that, when it breaks, you're going to have to spend hundreds and even thousands of dollars on the repairs.
To conclude, there are so many benefits we can recieve by limiting our car usage. Three of those are the ones I talked about, it can stop pollution and smug, it can make people feel better, and it can improve our economy. | 4 |
9a638cb | Have you ever thought of a world with cars driving themselves? The thought of not taking control of your own vehicle is mindblowing. Driverless cars in the future are not a good idea because the technology is not reliable enough, state laws will take a surplus amount of time to change if they change, and if technology fails the person or manufacturer held with consequences will not be known.
Driverless cars in the future are not a great idea for the future because they are not reliable nor completely driverless. Within the article, it states;"Google cars aren't truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents." This factual information from the text solidifies the fact that the cars are not completely driverless. They need human assistance in order to be safe. Regular cars in the present day need humans and so do the driverless cars. There is basically no difference besides the fact that it can drive on its own for a temporary amount of time.
Futhermore, the cars are not a great decision for the future because the state laws will take a very long time to change, and that is if they do change. Societal issues within the U.S. take many years to change because it goes through a long process in the White House and finally the Supreme Court. Not to mention the state governments. In the article it states that: "Traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars." This evidence shows that the process of changing laws will take a great amount of time.
In additon to, if when the technology fails and someone is severely injured the conflict will rise because the government will not be sure of who to punish. Will the driver be accused, or the company that created the car? The creation of this car will cause massive issues within the court system and many societal issues. In the article it states: " Even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the care of an accident. If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at faul-the driver or the manufacturer?" This validates the reasoning of why the conflicts will occur within the creation of the vehicle.
Some may argue that driverless cars will help drivers become more relaxed and driving will be a much more entertaining experience. But, this is incorrect because in the article it states: "The human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." This means that the human has to stay attent to driving regardless of the car being able to drive itself.
Overall, the idea of driverless cars in the future are not a good idea because the technology is not reliable enough, state laws will take a surlpus amount of time to change if they do change, and if technology fails the person or manufacturer held with consequences will not be sure. Driverless cars could be helpful in other ways, but to be the primary source of transportation is not an ethical way of thinking. | 4 |
9a6aefa | A claim that the author uses is that there are allot of different kinds of percents that affect different things at different ways. Another reason for exploring Venus is that they try to look at different kinds of atmospheres at different times to see if anything has changed overtime. One explanation about the evidence is that they all try to complete everything that they try to do and they do it in a good way so that nothing bad will happen.
The last thing about Exploring Venus is that they all have to meet the challenges and accomplish the challenge to have new challenges happen so they could do those to. Venus has allot of dangerous things happening there because of how much light it has coming. Venus is the closest plamnet to Earth. No other spaceships has landed on Venus for allong time.Venus has the hottest planet surface. Venus has more things that Earth doesn't have.NASA has found out how to send people to go to Venus with a hovering vehicle. All the challenges has value when you get it done correctly. | 2 |
9a6bbd2 | Have you ever thought so far into the future you think about automatic cars?
Some old cartoons even involve a driverless, flying car.
If a cartoon can do it, why can't we?
But then again cartoons aren't realistic.
Maybe driverless cars are.
There are many benefits and doubts about driverless cars and I will state some in this essay.
First, one benefit would be you could multitask in your car if you're running late, drinking your morning coffee, etc.
You could now text while driving now too without it being a safety hazzard.
If this car were created you would still be able to control it if you were getting into an accident.
The car would also alarm the driver in case of an accident were to occur.
It would also give you a heads-up display, which would help the "driver" be prepared to take over.
Some companies actually have something similar to a driverless car such as Google.
The Google car isn't exactly driverless because you still have to control the car, but so would an actual driverless car if needed.
But this would be very beneficial for some people.
Although some people would love this idea there are some doubts and cons about this driverless car.
Therefore, the driverless car seems like a great idea, right? To some it might be, but others may have some concerns.
One might be the video camera a company may want to include to watch the driver, but that would be an invasion of privacy.
Many may agree with this.
Another would be what if the weather conditions outside were outrageous? Then there might be some technical problems with the car and could cause danger to the passengers in the vehicle.
The car could have many malfunctions because of the high usage.
The car doesn't only have some concerns about the people inside, but the people out of it.
Some states even have a law against cars like these.
Safety is a big concern for everyone for this driverless car.
So there you have it, pros and cons of this driverless car.
I may not drive now, but one day I will be and I wouldn't want to be on the roads with a concerned driverless car.
But everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
You may agree to disagree on these statements, but only the future knows what will be in store for us and we'll just have to wait and see. | 3 |
9a6daae | I personally think self-driving cars is the way to go for now and in the future.As long as the driver is alert and responsible behind the wheel,there should be little trouble.Smart cars are equipped with motion sensors to help detect any danger.So the number of car accidents could potentially decrease.Nearly the entire world revolves around technology now,including cars which use GPS systems that can work well with self-driving cars.
Driving would be less stressful because the GPS system would navigate where to go,and a car that can drive itself too would make driving much easier.Companies like BMW already use cars that can handle driving functions up to 25 mph,but there are also special touch sensors.The touch sensors make sure that driver keeps their hands on the wheel at all times.But the law isn't convinced of self-driving cars.Which is why human driven cars dominate the roads.
Driving laws focus on the safety of drivers,passengers,and pedestrians.Law makers think that humans should be in control the car instead of having machines do everything.Which is why traffic laws in certain states don't allow self-driving cars on the road.States that include California,Nevada,Florida, and the District of Columbia,have classified computer driven cars as unsafe.Making it illegal for these cars to even be test drove.Automakers claim that the concerns being made will be handled down the road,and I beleive so too.Computer driven cars are very helpul to people who can't operate human driven cars.In my opinion, I think self-driving cars would be better for most of world.Because I beleive they can drive safely better than any human can in a regular car. | 3 |
9a70680 | Using tecnology to read the emotional expressions in a classroom is valuable because we could truly obtain information in the classroom. Using a computer can display what is being shown in the minds of the future generations.
Altering computers with this new technology could prevent students from ever falling asleep while studying, or taking a text. This is because computers could alter the way they process information, to fit the needs of the one that is using it. Dr. Huang says.. " A classroom compter could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored.".." Then it could modify the lesson , like an effective human instructor." Doing this could improve grades, and up the positive emotions in a classroom environment. According to the Facial feedback Theory of Emotion, "Moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them." Using this science, we could alter the way we view things, and even maniulate people into having an emotion you want them to have at that point in time.
Emotions being read by technology, coud potentially be better for our society. Looking at something you enjoy is better than constantly being frusturated while looking at the same ad over and over. Using this , we could further enhance our abilities in the classroom. | 3 |
9a721dd | Have you ever wanted to know the advantages of limiting car usage. Well you will be surprised of all the postive reviews the news has brought us to read. Limiting car usage has so many advantages that we cant see for ourselves such as citizens getting more exercise in Vauban, Germany. Less accidents and traffic jams occuring in the major cities and highways in our world, and there are less deaths that happen in our world today by deadly crashes for poor driving.
Based on source 1 it explains ''how people get better exercise with banning car usage''. Imagine living a healthy life by walking everywhere you go you would be so much more healthier with your lifestyle and how much you change dramatically by folowing the rules unless you want to get a very expensive ticket from the local police officers. I would recommend you to take this opportunity because it's only going to benefit you and everyone else if you tell them the same information.
Based on source 3 in Bogota, Columbia it explains to us ''how there is less accidents and traffic jams that are occuring everyday due to the limited car usage based on number 20 in source 3''. But they still offer bus and taxi transportation for individuals that want to travel or go to work based on what they decide to do. So imagine a world without rarely any accidents that get our citizens killed just for lack of use from driving cars.
Based on all the sources ''it also tells us that less people have death casualties ocuuring daily from car drivers that use it with no responsibility and no courage''. With less people dieing life would be so much better for everyone to hang out with there families and there friends or girlfriends and boyfriends. Limiting car usage can make this ocuur so much successfully by the bad ones to just take a bus or taxi instead of getting in the cars to just hurt someone by accident or on purposeby there lack or driving.
Altogether limiting car usage makes our world have so many advantages that we have never had before. Such as the less accidents, and traffic jams that drive people nuts. And having so less deaths our world has to face everyday from someone lacking there driving skills. Now lets get in those buses and taxis and forget about our cars please. | 3 |
9a726e0 | I think we should visted other plantes. I feel like this because maybe it will just just other plantes but it might help the eath to. I think we will find things on other that will have the world shocked. I also do think it is worth going to venus to see whats over there are to try to get things back that they will be have something to bring to bring back home. Or also i feel like they should send people over there to see if there is life or others things that might live over there. So I think it is worth to pursiut going to venus even though it might be dangers but I think it will be better when you come back and come back and tell people about how venus is and also your name will last in history evn after you die your name will still be known as the first ever to went to venus. It will also help us on our back history like wars and thing like that. It also help us look back on old technology.
One reason why I feel like we it is worth going to venus is because we will be able to look back on our old technology. I feel like that will be grate because our world is becoming more about technology everyday so that will be able to help us out an lot. The text states"Another project is look back to an old technology called mechanical computers" So go over ther and find this technology it will help us understnad more about back then. So all of the details we don know now we will know
Another reason why it is worth it is because we will have have good devices that whelped us back in our old wars witch means the device could help us win a big time war. The text states"these devices wewe first envisoned in the 1800s and palyed an important role in the 1940s during would war 2" This is important because this mean during wa we will be able to go back and used the things we used to.
So these are the reason why i feel like it is worth going back to to venus. It will help us out now big time time even though it is old. | 3 |
9a7288b | The author 100% supports the idea of sudying the venus. He states that " this is the most eath-like planet in our solar system." he also talks about how the options of returning to venus seems indisputable but he mentions why not. not only did he mention that but he aslo talks about what the planet could have been and could it be useful with the research we can find out.
the author talks about how this is a good idea because its the most "earth-like" planet." he says with the reasearch we can find out alot, even though there is alot of dangers it would still be worth it. also he says that venus could be helpful and some how useful because of the statement "its the most earth-like" planet.
The author definetly supports the idead of researching venus because he states very useful and smart reasons on why this could a bad idead but could also be a good idea. | 2 |
9a7419c | Venus is called the evening star . It's one the brightest points in the sky . It even makes it simpler to see an amateur stargazer .
Venus is the closest to the
planet to earth in terms of density and size and occasionally the closest in distance too . The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents .
The author is completely right because humans curiosity will lead you to many equally intimidating endeavors . The author wanting to do this study is not wrong some people will argue this and say this is not a good idea to put a human being life at risk . Agree to disagree because alot of people wants to know if theres life on many different planest such as Mars , Venus and maybe the dawf planet Pluto and maybe there is . The author supports his ideas with good points although risks are important to consider and its also an important factor in this because we dont want to send people just to die . The author said in paragraph 2 " Since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours it explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades . " Which means astronomers dont have very much to live .
A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus you would have to wear a good good mask to be able to breathe . But theres even more challenging things like the clouds those aren't any type they have a highly corrosive sulfuric acid . These conditions are far way more extreme than anything humans encounter on earth . In paragraph 6 it states that " researchers cannot take samples of rock gas or anything else from a distance ". So how are we going to know if theres life on planet Venus ? However many researchers are working on innovations that would allow machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus . NASA is also working on some other approaches to studying Venus . For example NASA worked some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide . They have been tested yes in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus surface and have lasted atleast three weeks in such conditions .
Many ways are being created to do this study . Researchers have made this study easier and easier just a tiny bit . Modern computers are enormously powerful , flexible and quick but there more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions
exposing a cell or a phone its capable of melting . In conclusion Venus is a nice planet to do this study on . I'll even study and do some research myself . | 3 |
9a753b3 | Twenty five years ago the was a face like figure on Mars ,but a lot of other people thought it was aliens. The Face on Mars has no evidence that the face was put there by aliens. All that evidence shows that it was created by nautral landform. They looked into making new and better cameras.They also would use the cameras to see if there were any ojlects such as small shacks, airplanes on the grouynd,or Egyptain-style pyramids.Even defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civization on mars but they new there wasn't.
Mars Global Surveyor was mapping a spacecraft the would normally straight down and scans the planet like a fax machine in narrow 2.5km-wide strips.They had to roll the sapacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view. The team captured an extrodinary picture using the cameras absolute maximum resolution. Each pixel in thr 2001 image spans 1.56meters,compared to 43 meters per pixel in tyhe best 1976 Viking picture. Now on the camera you can make a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size.After they made new editions to the camera they were looking for small shacks and other things to prove the people who thoughjt that aliens made, The Face, wrong.Especially after ythe people thoght it was an alien saw the pictures some people got ride of the idea of aliens ,but somne people still thoughtit was an alien .
In conclusion The Face is not an alien. The Face is just a nautral landform that is the Martian equivalent to a butte-mesa- landform common around the American West.All the evidence that in have explained to you show sthat it isn't an alien. | 2 |
9a7bab7 | Self-driving cars are a thing that you here about in movies like 'Back to the future' or 'Irobot' never something that happenes in the real world. Although since 2009 Google has been developing a car that could possibly drive it's self. These cars can be endless it can span from help keep you safe while you drive, or making smarter streets or smarter cars.
Some states believe that the self-driving cars could be a very dangerous thing, but would it really be if Google makes it so that you would still need to be very alert when you are driving this car need to keep you're hands on the wheel to avoid traffic collsions other unperdicpiable outcome and the car takes care of blinkers, lights, telling you before you hit something etc.
Smarter streets are more of thought process than a put into to play process because of money factors. Smart streets would be an amazing development. Sensoring the rodes to correspond with the cars.
Smarter cans is something more affordable have a driving car would be very usefull if you're running late for a job you could be getting read while you are the self-driving car.
Millions and millions of people can gain form self driving cars in the long run. | 2 |
9a7ebcc | The aurthor suggested studying Venus is worthy but it does come with a lot of dangerous things. The author knows that venus isn't really the safest to be in and knows the danger it has but it's also the closest planet to earth. They call Venus and earth twins becuase they have same density, size, and occasionally the closest in distance too."Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its prximity to us". People in NASA take a lot of time and a lot of risks in outer space but it also helps learn and understand the Earth and some parts outer space.
"At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to sea level on earth. Solar power would be plentiful and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans". NASA is still studying Venus, have some simplified electronics and are being tested." Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades".
They create new things to help us travel and explore to get their safe. Earth is very different to the other planets of course so that's why we need the right materials to do the experiment and the right people. NASA needs people that are highly trained and went to school to study and knows everyhting. Also someone who has been working in simliar type of things so like experience so we can continuing studing Venus. Venus is worthy to study for ,the author says dispite the dangers becasue everyone knows theirs going to be dangerous things but it's worth to keep studying for and learning and putting technology on Venus. | 2 |
9a8210e | Should more driverless cars be made in the future, do they really help? There are positives and negatives of the driverless cars. A positive, according to the passage is "that cars have sensors that make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." Having that sensor can keep the driver alert of the road and drivers around. Another positive would be" the seats vibrating, they are to alert the driver when the car is in danger of backing up into an object". That is important because things such as vehicles are closer then they really are in the mirrors. So when your backing up, you could be closer then you think and without the alerting of the vibrating seat, you could tap someones car, which would lead to some very exspensive bills for you or worse losing the right to drive. This all sounds great but, there are negatives too to these amazing cars, unfortunatly. Say you have and older driverless car and the sensors don't work as quickly and you hit someone from behind. You say you were paying attention or your car didn't say anything, who's fault is it really then? Is it your fault, should you be charged or let off because of a "bad" car? We all know technology is nice, fast ,and very helpful but, we also all know you can't always depend on technology. It shuts down or gets viruses, or could just die on us at the very time we need it. If you were in a car accident and you were the one that had been hit by a young driver and the young driver says "my car didn't do anything", you would want to say the young driver was probably on the phone but you don't really know. Say the driver wasn't on the phone and the car really didn't do anything to keep her from hitting you. What do you tell the police, who do I blame?
I think the positives stand out more then the negatives because they really do help. A elderly with there lisence is on the road and she/he has to slam on there breaks but just couldn't do it fast enough because there so slow and old, the "Smart Car" can help by alerting her/him quickly before she/he sees that everyone has slowed down because of an car accident up ahead that she/he can't see. Teenagers are young and dumb, they are always destracted by there phones, if there eyes are on the phone then whos watching the road? Teenagers get in horriable accidents everyday because they do silly things like texting while driving. The Smart Car can keep them focus and alert them on whats up ahead as well as what's around them. Some Smart Cars won't let you move or do anything untill you put your seat belt on, a seat belt can save you. Smart Cars can save lives.
More of these driverless cars or Smart Cars should be made. They really have brought down the number of accidents. I actually have a Smart car or a smart truck and it doesn't let us down. It will not let you turn on the radio or start the car unless everyone has on there sear belts. It says "welcome" too everytime you get in, such a nice car. Our car has cameras on all four sides of it. the most usefull one is the back camera, it shows everything behind us. We are a big family so when we go grocery shopping, it's a lot of food, sometimes we can't see out the trunk window. How would we know if a car was coming or a family was walking by? What if a dog ran pass or a child ran pass, the Smart Car quickly alerts us by blinking rapidly and making loud beeping noises, the TV in the front of the car shows us what's behind the car or whatever the cameras are showing so my Mom can quickly stop the car so whatever's passing through dosn't get hurt or we don't mess up our nice car. The Smart Car saves lives and money. I can't wait to get my own! | 4 |
9a83f8f | From a sunday drive to a cross country road trip, automobiles play an important role in how we get around. However in recent years more studies have been developed showing the negative about cars: how they affect the environment. Some people believe automoblies are almost single-handedly destroying the Earth we so despirately cherish. Perhaps we should all take into consideration how our car usage is affecting the environment around us. I believe that automobiles are a detriment to our society and we should pay attention to how much we use them.
Smog has become a huge problem especially in highly populated areas where there are lots of cars running at the same time. An interesting solution arised to reduce the amount of polution from cars in Bogota, Colombia as talked about in Source 3. The article tells of a government made holiday that bans car usage in order to reduce the amount of pollution; the government even took it so far as to fine the people not participating in their "Day Without Cars." I think this is a marvelous idea because people need a little encouragement to do the right thing and it helps reduce the issue we are facing. Another example of an idea to reduce car pollution is shown in Source 2, this time being in France. It talks about how Paris typically has a higher pollution rate than most cities and the government felt a need to change this. They were willing to ban all gas operated cars for as long as it took to clean up the air. There were exceptions to this rule though in the case of car-pooling more than 3 people, driving a hybrid or electric car, or public transportation vehicles in order to still have everyone get where they were going. It is refreshing to see that some places in the world are taking a stand in resolving the issue we find ourselves right in the middle of.
For a while now cars have been the king of transportation, it seems about time to change things up a little. In source 1 it talks about an experimental german community that forbids the use of cars. By making everything more accessable to the public in nullifies the use for cars. It seems that the main problem with our settlements is we built them around cars rather than building them for people. Another part in source 1 tells about the effort put out by the United States to promote "car reduced" communities. They are planning on doing this by making a bigger portion of the federal transportation bill focus on public transportation than on highways. I believe we are heading in the right direction to reduce our usage of cars and focus on alternate forms of transportation.
In the end it can be said that limited car use is a matter we need to pay very close attention to. | 4 |
9a84d5f | Driveless cars in my opinion it could be a great experiance but also my biggest concern in safetywise not being the one controling the car and also being to didtracted in case of having to take over of the car it's the biggest concern. As new technology its being made we depend more out of it and making everything easier for us and this cars are just another advantage of newer technology. Having one of this cars could be helpful but it also makes me think a lot about it.
Driveless cars could be a big consern in fact "I don't think not many people could afford such thing also replacing a new part of the car if it's not funcioning as it suppost to could be costly as well. This car are a great idea but I'm not agree to it also I'm not against either because many other people could actually be interested in such thing, but we should still have drivers in cars for more safety. All the concerning of this cars is not being able to control it and how safe are they. Also laws need to be made and also the prices of the cars. Now that many different companies of cars are developing this technology, there for what about if the technology fails. What could we do? it the company of the car going to take care of it what law its going to defend us in case of a technology fail? What would happend to the cars that are already here? Also the smart cars? having to change cars when every new technology its made could be pretty expencive.
Lawmakers say that safety is best achieved with alert drivers, meaning that the driverless cars still need a human but how do people suppost to be alert if not having to do nothing just concentrating could be boring.
All the discution will have answers as automakewrs continue their works and lawmakers aprove the idea and make safety laws about the car and just being alert and know how to control the car and take good advantage of the newer technology. | 3 |
9a8599f | Most people know the dangers and risk of venus but why would anyone be detrermined to explore Earth's "twin". exploring this planet will allow more knowledge to the experts and allow to educate the society. Despite the dangers, we might get something good out of taking the dangerous risk.
Why would a scientis put people at risk for such a planet? The author is giving the idea that it might be possible for humans to study Venus. The author says " Venus would allow scientist to float above the fray." (paragraph 5) If you even had a chance to explore something different and be part of it, would you?
"NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus"(paragraoh 7) NASA is coming up with different technology to be able to move farther to study Earth's "Twin". " electronics made of silicon carbride have been tested" this is one way they are trying to advacne technology to be able to study Venus. The scientist would taker such a risk to because NASA is inhancing their technology. NASA is even building " mechanical computers" which was important to World War 2 becasue of the calculations it made. If this computer made calculations for the war then it would probably have a lot of effect to the scientist on exploring Venus.
If you had the chance to ecxplore Venus and be apart of what's goign to happen would you? Even though Venus is a dangerous risk, people and experts would love to know the knowledge that the planet will give us. We also woudln't have as big as a risk if these technologies would work out. Maybe the scientsit aren't so wrong on this mission I mena they are experts. Scientit would love to the risk to expirence Venus, give information to others, and have our society grow more in education. | 3 |
9a8c8da | I think that keeping electoral college would be a great idea for many reasons, we have had the electoral college for many years now and it has been great it has many good benifits to it. but many people are against it they believe there vocies aren't being heard but it is just be revised by that people that know what is best for the country.
One of the reasons the electoral college must stay is that the will be a certainty of the outcomes, they will know exacty what will be coming out as a result instead of being uncertain for example(source 1) Obama recived 6.1 percent from the electoral vote and 51.3 percent for the poplar votes. It was an uncertain vote because the college don't know what the people would pick as a result. but many people think that it should be like that because they are voting for a slate of elector and not for president.(sourse 2)
Another good reason why the elctoral college is a good idea is that it balances the state votes. The states that are larger such as Texas and california have a much larger population so the votes would be larger but the electoral college balances out and the smaller states such as new jersey and main have a small population so the votes wold be smaller. The larger states get more attention from the presidential candidates than the smaller states, so the electoral college balences it out.(sourse 3)
Also the electoral college avoids run-off elections. The electoral college give more for a cleary response, for example,(sourse 3) nixon in 1968 and clinton both had 43 percent plurlity of popular votes but the electoral votes gave them a more accurate result of 301 nixon and 370 cliton. the electoral college gave a more accurate result of who sould of win the election.
That's why I think that the electoral college is better it gives certainty of outcome, balances out the big states, and avoids run-off elections. While popular vote does give us the same certainty. | 4 |
9a958aa | Cars have always been used to get from point A to point B. That is how the people in society know what cars are for. However, there are other alternatives when is comes to going form one destination to another. Citizens should limit their car usage. It helps with the terrible traffic on the street. Also, there will be no more pollution in the air. In addition, citizens can be able to enjoy the world.
Everyone has been caught in traffic, whether it is going to work or school or meeting up with someone. Everyone has been in traffic before. People can prevent traffic form happening. There is carpooling, it can help limit traffic on the streets. Just like it states in source three, "...millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams." There are other ways to avoid and stop traffic. Not everyone needs to take their own personal car to work. They can either car pool or take public transportation to save money because gas isn't cheap these days. In addition, traffic somtimes end up leading to accidents. There are several people who died in a car accident due to someone speeding because he or she doesn't want to wait in the traffic. However, if everyone just finds another alternative way to get to his or her destination, then no one has to die. Just like it explains in proclaims in source four, "pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial, and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emission and improve safety." This qoute listed some alternatives way to get somewhere. By doing these things it will not only limit the traffic but the resources and the safety of other people. Traffic isn't a fun place to be in, so find another way to get to his or her destination can prevent traffic.
Air pollution is everywhere we go. Whether someone travels to Japan, India, or South America. There willbe air pollution there. It might not have same amount of air pollution as other countries but there is still pollution. Why? Because there are people who uses his or her personal car not thinking about what happens to the air that they breathe. However, there is a solution to limit the pollution in the air. Limiting car usage or find another way to get to the certain destination. Mr. Sivak even claims that "A car is just a means of getting from A to B..." Cars is just a means of transportation. So are bicycles, trucks, buses, traind. However, all these have one thing in common, they are all going form destination A to destination B. Biking, walking, skating are some way to stop the gas from the vehicles from polluting the air. Actually, by using these methods pollution can be reduced. For example source three states, "...uneven, pitted sidewalks have bee replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic..." When people don't use his or her car and decides to find another way to get to their destination it helps reduce the traffic.
There are several people who say that they know what the real world is since he or she travels all the time in their car. However, do people really know the sounds of kids laughter when walking down the side walk or a bicycle bell violently ringing at someone to get out of their way? Not a lot of people know this because they are usually used to their vehicles getting them places. People will argue that they have heard all of those before and that they were happier. But Ms. Walter thinkgs other wise, "When i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Ms. Walter has been walking on the streets and she hears the swish of bicycles and the talkative children and occastional a distant motor. These help people better appreciate the world that they live in because not everything will last forever. In addition to this, less cars means more people walking which means that several people will end up walking pass a shop and look what is inside. For instance in source three is explains, "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed through the city; uneven...and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up." It helps by walking to find new stores or restaurants people never heard of.
Several people believe that the only way to get somewhere is by car. That isn't necessarily true. Skating, walking, biking, car pooling or public transportation can help get anyone from point A to B. Yes, it will take longer on foot than by car but it helps the environment, it stops from the air getting all the gasoline form the cars. It is faster than being stuck in traffic. Someone who is biking to school can be five minutes late while soneone who is took their car and got stuck in traffic can be an hour late. Limiting car usage is a way that everyone can explore the world than being stuck in that four or tw door car. Limiting car usage has its downs but it also have its perks. | 6 |
9a982b7 | That isn't a face. This was made by aliens. This what some people might have said when they heard about a face being on Mars. The first picture was taken in 1976.The picture was taken by a spacecraft named Viking 1. I believe that the face is just a natural landform and is not made by aliens.
First, in the passage it tells you that when they first looked at the image it shocked them. They thought to themselves that it looked like a face. Then, from the minute people saw the photo everyone agreed and called it a face, but no one knew how it formed.
Next, there was a disscussion amoung scientist about the face. Few scienctist believed that it was an alien artifact. So from reading this I take the einfitive to believe that the face isn't made by an alien. It is just a natural landform created.
From reading the passage it also gives proof to why it couldn't be an alien artifact. For example, the pictures, it shows you the different and sharper pictures the spacecraft took and as you go along and you see the 2001 picture you see that the picture doesn't look like a face anymore and just looks like a natural landform.
Another example is in the last paragraph, when Jim Garvin, chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, said That the picture actuallly shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa, which are landforms that are commonly around the American West.
In conclusion, there is a lot of proof to why the face that was found on Mars isn't an alien artifact, but is a natural landform. The pictures show it and it mentions it in a couple of paragraphs to why it couldn't be a face. So in the end, the face is just a natural landform not a face or an alien artifact.There isn't enough facts or data to prove that the face is an artifact. | 3 |
9a99c0a | Cars are meant to have a driver behind the wheel and alert at all times. Driverless cars could be dangerous in so many ways. If the car is driverless and it needs someone to navigate it through a specific road condition and the driver is not paying attention, a really bad accident could be caused. Although the car is driverless the driver should still be alert, so who's fault is it for the accident? Huge unessacary accidents could be avoided if cars had alerted drivers at all times.
The danger that everyone's life is in around a driverless car is serious. A car cant sense everything, just think if a pedestrian was crossing the street from behind and the car didnt sense him, the pedestrian would be hurt. If a emergency vehicle is coming, flying down the street and the driver is not alerted fast enough the car could do the wrong thing and get hit by the emergency vehicle and everyone in the car could be seriously hurt. This could all be avoived by cars having alerted drivers at all times.
If a car is driverless and it needs it's driver to take control fast and the driver's attention is elsewhere and his reaction isn't quick enough he could be seriously hurt. The attention should always be on the road. If someone has a driverless car they would let their attention wander becuase their car drives itself. If somene is in the middle of texting and the car alerts them to take over and they are not quick enough they could crash and hurt themself or someone else. This could all be avoided by not using driverless cars.
Driverless cars could cause alot of conflict when or if someone gets hurt. If some gets hurts who will the blame be on the manufacturer or the driver? The car is meant to be smart and not hurt anyone but if it does who's to blame for it? If there is a crash and someone's car gets messed up who pays for the damages, the driver or the manufacturer? How will this all be figured out if this car is meant to be more safe than a human being driving the car and staying alert at all times?
So yes, i believe that driverless cars should not be developed any further. Cars are meant to be driven by a human being not a automated system. There are accidents all the time with humans being the driver, to think of the car driving itself i believe the accident rate would be doubled maybe even tripled. It could be dangerous and unsafe for everyone in the surroundings of the driverless car. Unessacary accidents could be prevented if the further developement of driverless cars is ceased immediately. | 4 |
9a9eeae | Venus is a planet in our Solar System, Venus gets often referred as the Earth's "Twin" due to the density, size and occasionally the closets in distance too. we will never realize or really understand the stuggles and experiments people have to go through just to visit Venus ." Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades."
Its not any bodys fault that nothing good has come from Venus, Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. Imagine also a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 miles above the roiling Venusian landscape. Jet airplanes travel and fly over many storms. NASA is working on more apporaches to study Venus and learn more , the good and the bad. They have enormously powerful computers that works with mechanical ,pressure, heat and other forces.
"vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way." temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit so humans would feel nice and tostey but its also not easy conditions, but survivable for humans. The Challenges of Exploring Venus can be very scary but also very worth it. | 1 |
9a9f450 | In the story of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus,". The author is planning to move people to the planet. If people where to live there it is going to be to hot. In some
people often referred to as Earth`s "twin," that Venus is the closest planet to Earth in the terms of the density and the size is occasionally the closest in the distance too. When Earth, Venus, and Mars, are the other planetary neighbor, that orbit around the sun at differnt kinds of speeds. Venus is also sometimes called the"Evening Star,".
With how thick the atmosphere of almost 97 percent of carbon dioxide blankets over the planet of Venus. Some other challenings are the clouds of the highly corrosive sulfuric acid on Venus`s atmosphere. Also on the planet`s surface, the temps are also averaged over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, it has a atmosperic pressure that is about 90 times greater than what we have expected on our own planet. This planet also has volcanoes, and has a verity of earthquakes.
The NASA uses mechanical computers to study with about Venus. All of these devices where first envisioned in the 1800`s. It also played an important role in the 1940`s while World War 2 was going on.
On our travles on Earth is beyond should not be limited by all of the dangers and the douts but should be expanded to meet all the very edges of imagination and the innovation. | 1 |
9aa26b9 | Luke's particapation in the seagoing cowboys program allowed him to experience adventure and visit many unique places. luke visited very unique places like China,Italy,Europe, and even Greece. In the text it says that luke knew it was the oppertunity of a lifetime. This evidence proves that in the program seagoing cowboys Luke was visiting many unique places. In conclusion, people like Luke can help change the world and have fun while doing it.
Luke joined the program because he wanted to help other countries recover there food supply and animals. i know this because the text says he cared for animals which is what kept him busy. This evidence proves that luke is very caring. The text also states that he slipped down the ladder and broke his rids. This evidence proves that he was still caring even though he cracked his rib because he still was helping feed them and help them as much as he could. One of the last reasons why that seagoing cowboys place allowed him to visit unique places is because he got to go to China ,Greece,Italy, and Europe. How many people do you know that can do that on a daily basis. In conclusion,luke is a very hardworking person and he deserves whatever comes to him.
In conclusion, Luke is very hardworking. Luke is also very brave and couragous. Luke is very dedicated to what he does. All of this evidence proves that the seagoing cowboys place can go a long way. I wish more people in life were more like him and then we would know peace. | 2 |
9aa64b9 | The aothor support this idea in the article pretty well. Venus is the second planet from the sun.Venus also has one of the hotter surface temperature of any planet in our solar system.Venus is called the "Evening Star''
because it is one of the brightest point of light in the night sky.Venus has the cloest density and size to Earth. So people reffer this planet as twin planet of earth.Venus is survuvable fo human son it is worth pursuit despite the dangers it presents.
Venus is survival for human because Venus used to be one of the planet like earth in our solar system along time ago.'' venus was probably coverd largely with oceans and could have support various froms of life, just like earth. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters.'' this evidence tell us that Venus the most likely going to be where the human move when the earth no longer liveable in the future.
Another reason that Venus is worth pursuit despite the danger it presents is it is closest to the earth.'' furthermore, recall that venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel.'' The Venus is close to the planet we live so if something were happen to it we have to move to Mar or Venus. So, we have research do our resarch on it so we stay there before we find a planet that suit us.
The idea that we should do our research on Venus even if we know the danger. But there is going to be alot problem when we do it example '' however, peering at venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on the ground conditions because most froms of light cannot penetrade the dense atmosphhere, redering standard froms of photography and videography ineffective. More importantly, researcher cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance.'' We will face the danger but it will also evole the human kind by alot.
This very help full in the easy. People does not care about the future so that they are worried that something may happen to the earth . So research have tosearch for away that will make human live in Venus or Mar so that human does not extienct. This article give me more about Venus in many way. | 3 |
9aa7059 | Using this technology in a classroom would be valuable because if students weren't interested in what they're doing it could tell and could modify the work to make it more enjoyable. It could also help if the student is having troubles and could tell the teacher to help the student if the student is confused or needs help to get a better understanding of what is going on. It could also help if the student is having troubles outside of school because it can tell if you're sad or mad.
This technology is valuable in the classroom because if the student is loosing interest and getting bored it could notify the teacher and the teacher could make the lesson more interesting. Making the lesson more interesting could help the student in school and maybe make their day better. Making the lesson more interesting could help students get a better understanding of the lesson and help bring grades up.
The technology could also help if the student doesn't know whats going on and needs one on one help and maybe a tutor. Since this technology can read facial expressions it can read wether or not the student is confused because the student will have a confused look on their face. If this happens the teacher can ask the student if they need help and even if they say no the teacher will know thats a lie because the technology says otherwise.
Since the facial action coding system tells wether you're happy, sad, or mad it can help with problems outside of school. If the student is having troubles outside of school it will affect the behavior and what the student does inside of school. The technology can tell if this is happening and can let the teacher or someone else in the school and they can get help for that student. If that student gets help for those problems that can help with grades and behavior in school and can turn their life around for their well being.
Use of this technology can help improve students grades and test score because of it being able to tell emotions. If the student is confused it will know. If the student is losing interest it will know and the teacher will become aware and can change the lesson or work to make it more enjoyable and interesting for all the students. | 4 |
9aaa5b7 | In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author supports his idea by explaining and reasoning why scientist want to invest they're time in Venus, How Venus can have chances of human survival, and how Venus can be a challenging planet to research, but argues it out by saying its not impossinble with time and effort.
The author tells the reader how Venus can have chances of human survival the reader provides this in his article because he wants to persuade you that if scientist have chances to survive Venus, then more likely their chance of researching Venus is more likely to be accepted and successful. " Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans." (paragraph,5) the author explains the positive conditions of Venus and how it could be possible for scientist to survive in those conditions.
The author then states why scientist want to invest they're time in Venus. The author does this because he wants to persuade the reader that, it is a good idea to make time to research Venus because it was once like Earth, and they want to invest time to know what caused Venus to change into a dry rocky surface without water. " If our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientist even discussing further visits to its surface? Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." The authors purpose of the text is to tell the reader why it is that they arae willing to invest their time into Venus, the author gives his reasoning as Venus being just like earth with supporting life form, in which the author could be implying that if life on Venus existed and it disapeared their research could have results to why it happened and how can we prevent it from happening to Earth.
Lastly, the author supports his idea by how Venus is challenging, but argues the idea of not being impossible. What the author tries to tell us is that Earth and Venus are alike, and that although its challenging its closest to Earth and quicker to provide transportation and how reasearch could fastly be involved and be progressed. In their benefit because of what the author is trying to do is give positive information, so then the reader will be persuaded. " Often referred to as Earth's 'twin' Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closet in distance too. - Because Venus is sometimes right around the corner - in space terms- humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world." The author tells how variety of humans have sent spacecrafts, and how it wouldn't be rare or that much of a risk to start sending more spacecrafts since they already have before. In that case the authot is trying to convince the audience that if this was done variety of times before there shouldn't be a conflict in trying it again with improvements.
In conclusion the author supports his idea by explaining and listing his reasoning to why scientist should invest their time in Venus, and how the auhtor emphasizes the possiblities to have reference from Venus to use in Earth, since they're like-wise. | 4 |
9aaed08 | Luke had no idea that his life would change so soon after his high school graduation. He was working two part-time jobs in agrocey store and a bank when his friend Don invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat. Luke couldn't say no.
In 1945, World War 2 was over in Europe,and manu countries were left ruins. To help these countries recover their food and supplies,animals, and more, 44 nations joined together to help the nation they are called the Seagoing Cowboys to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shiped overseas.
By the time he was discharged in 1947,Luke had made nine trips-the most of any Seagoing Cowboy. I had the side benifit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acroplis in Greece was special,he says. So taking a gondola ride in Venice,Italy,a city with streets of water. A cargo of 335 horses plus enough hay and oats to feed them.
It took two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eatern coast of the United States and a month to get to china. Caring for animals during the crossings kept Luke busy. They fed the animals three times a day water,bales of hay,and bags of oats. Stalls had to be cleaned.
Being a Seagoing cow was much more than an adventure for Luke. It opened up the world to him. "Im grateful for the opportunity,"he says. It made him more aware of people of other countries and their needs.
In conclusion Luke had the best time of his life being a Seagoing Cowboy he didn't no his life would change so soon after his high school graduation. In 1945 world war 2 made places get ruined so he decied to go to Seagoing Cowboys. He help animals like horses,young cows,and mules too. He had so much to do but he did it and yes it was hard but he did what he was suppossed to do. A Seagoing Cow boy was more than an adventure for Luke. It opened the world up to him. He is gratefull of the opportunity. | 1 |
9aaf6d5 | The author does not support his/her idea to study Venus very well. The author presents mostly negative effects on humans researching Venus. He or she should have showed more facts for their side then for the negative side of visiting Venus for research. There are many dangers with sending humans to research Venus and the author states this.
The author states in paragraph 3 "A thick atmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide blankets Venum. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere." The author goes on to talk about how NASA had the idea to send a hovering vehicle over to Venus to explore but if the clouds are corrosive how do we know how far they go. The temperature at Venus is also dangerous conditions for humans.
The author states that NASA had ideas to study using the vehile or simplified electronics. In paragraph 7 it states "some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." If we send electronics over there to get pictures and calculations how would we put it on the surface and take it off of the surface. The author needs more details about this idea before stating it as a good idea. The author thinks that the hovering 30 or so miles above Venus is not a good idea because the scientist can't get samples to study Venus's atmosphere. The author states "Therefore, scientists seeking to conduch a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks." The author isn't to worried about the humans getting sent up there and thinks they should do it in dangerous conditions.
The author states facts on previous missions but these do not support his/her idea. Previous missions to Venus were unmanned. The author also states in paragraph 2 "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for a good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." If spacecraft didn't survive it how would humans.
The author needs more facts supporting his/her idea instead of against their idea. This article should be more like a argumentable essay with stating facts from both sides. The author makes this article more of a persuasive for the opposite of what they want. They need to get more facts and ideas for not only their side but for both sides. I think that this article was more opinionated rather than using facts to support the articIe.I also think the author did well with stating facts opposing his/her side but did not give me enough information to support their idea. | 4 |
9ab1d8e | Studying Venus is worthy pursuit, traveling is fun, but, have you ever explore to a whole new plante? If you haven't then you should. There's alot of beneficial for exploring planet to planet. Venus is the closet planet to earth from time to time.
Its also the shineast planet at night. At night when you look up to the sky, you see the moon right? Beside the moon there's alot and alot of stars. But do you realize that they're only two stars that shine so bright, the brightest ? They're the brightess stars beside the moon. What more crazy is that both of them are not just stars,one of them is planet, the planet venus.
Even thogh
i've never been to any other planet than earth, i can tell that venus is actually really dope. You can even see venus from earth. and it look soo close to the moon at night, its probably close to the sun too but we cant see venus during day time.
Although no one lives on venus, Venus got quite alot of things like earth. Venus got surface of rocky sediments and includes familir features such as velleys, moutains,and craters. Venus is like a twin to earth, they got so many things in common,if only were able to live on venus but theres a thick atmosphere of alomost 97 percent cardioxide blanket venus.
Venus is also very hot,Human would definitly not survive on venus cause of the heat. Even though Mercury is closer to the sun, beyound high pressure and heat,Venusian geology an weather present additional impediments like erupting colcanoes,poweful earthquakes, and frequent strukes to probes seeking to land on its surface. | 2 |
9ab4613 | All over the world, major cities are trying to reduce their use of cars. From Germany, to France, to Columbia, and coming back to the US, people are limiting car use to reduce pollution, or live better, or even to save money. In some places, there is one day every year that doesn't allow cars. In other places, there are whole communities that dont allow cars year round.
In Germany, there is a community in named Vauban that doesnt allow cars unless you have the money to pay for a parking spot that is on the outskirts of town. The revolutionizing community makes peopl epay $40, 000 dollars just for one parking spot. This wonderful new place has reduced the amount of greenhouse gas produced in the last few years drastically, with 70% of the population not owning a car. This has encouraged many other countries to start somehting just like it.
The city of love may not be so lovely if it's so smoggy you can barely see. Paris was gaining so much air pollution from the amount of gas that was released from driving hta tthey put a ban on driving. This ban consisted of a few new rules to help prevent the smog from overpowering the beauty of the city. On Mondays, even numbered license plates were not allowed to use theie car for anything. This same rule applied to the odd numbered license plates on Tuesdays. This helped limit the amount of driving, in return limiting the amount of smog. Smog is created when the area has cold night weather and warm day weather, causing the air to trap car emission. Diesel can be a big contributer to this and is the main gas type in France. France favors diesel because of their taxing system, but it seems they don't care too much about their environment.
What would happen if every country had a day with no cars? The city of Bogota, Columbia has had a Day without cars once a year for quite a few years. Just recently, other Colubian cities have joined in and even Paraguay's captial has participated. What this day is supposed to do is promote the use of other types of transportation, for example; walking or biking. It also reduces smog and the amount of air pollution, in retalliation, improving the city. In Bogota, there is a $25 fine for those who do not participate in thsi environtmentally helpful day.
Although the amount of driving in the US has decreased since 2005, there is more we can do to help the situation. The average number of miles driven did peak in 2005 and drop from there, in return, dropping other statistics as well. As of April of 2013, the number of driven miles has dropped 9% below the peak, being the same as in January of 1995, says Doug Short of Advisor Perspectives. The roads have even become safer due to the amount of young drivers dropping 23% between the years of 2001-2009. Even if the number of miles hadn't peaked, there still wouldn't be as many drivers on the road because of the recession. Americans couldn't afford to but cars due to the amount of money lost during that horrible time.
All through the world, people are trying to slowly save their environment by reducung car use. From one day to a whole year, everything helps to save our world. The German community of Vauban has made it nearly impossible to own a car. Paris, at one point, had to put restrictions on their driving. Columbia has an annual day of no cars. The US is working on lowering thier use of cars and dropping their average miles to help clear the air surrounding them. Even if it is walking from point A to point B, it helps the community and lowers air pollution. | 4 |
9ab59e3 | Is there an advantage to limit the car usage ? There alot of diffrent advantages like promoting,protection and bills .lets talk more about the advantages a little more . lets get this moving !
The frist advantage is promoting. the united states who is promoting the new communities that are less dependent on cars , (rosenthal) if you think about its a good thing because then it gives us less usage and thats a good thing not a bad thing for the people who think so its not .promoting is like you trying to sell somthing to someone and making it sell .thats what you call promoting somthing. the goal is to promote alterative transportation and reduce smog,(selsky)
The second advantage is that the protection. If the usage is reduce then the the greenhouse gases will reduce emissions from tailpipes ,(rosenthal) and thats a good thing becuase if you think about it it cant be a bad thing and never will be a bad thing .The greenhouse gases are a good thingnot somthing bad it helps plants grow. Millions of colombians biked,skated or took buses ,(selsky) and that even uses less green house gases.
The third advantage is bills. There will be bills passed 80 percent of apprpiation have gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transport, (rosenthal) and that makes it better if we have bills passed because that mean that we can do more if the laws are passed by the government. It was the third year cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the day without cars,(selsky).
Well at last i can warm this up the three advantages are that promoting , protection and the bills . That all helps limit the usage of the cars. well thats all for now. | 2 |
9ab8619 | There are so many reasons why people don't want to participate in the Seagoing Cowboy program. Maby because they think that they might fail at it or maby they just planly don't want to participate. Well I think you should. You get to visite many amazing places. You also actualy are helping others. And if you do paticipate you get to go an advture and just by participating it might open up the world to you and learn new things.
You can visite many paces. In the text it said that Luke went to Europe and China. In the text it Luke Siad "Seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special," and that show that he had a good time and saw some thing new. He also explaind "Takeing the godola ride in Venice, Italy," and aviasly that ment he had a lot of fun. In the text it also said that "Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the pacifice Ocean twice to help in the Wars. In the text it said that when they were on the boat and theydid what they were to do witch that is rair scince they have to take care of the animals they find some thing fun to do so they don't get board. One of the games that they played was volleyball. They made that balls out of stuff they found around the boat. In the text it siad "Hepls pass the time.
I think from reading this people should participate it the Seagoing Cowboy program. I think it would an amazing epereance to gome thing you didn't know you had an iterest in and find that you did. I would love to do the program. I want to see new places that i have never seen and at the same time I am helping others at the same time. Maby people think it is an opertunity just to see other places but that is only a fraction on what all this is realy about. I just have one question for you. Would you participate in the program. | 3 |
9abbe35 | Now you may be wondering if the face on Mars was created by aliens? I'm gpoing to be completely honest with you, but no it is not. Now you may be saying "Oh you work for NASA so you're just trying to cover it up." Yes I do recall getting hired by NASA, but I do not recall us ever trying to cover up an alien artifact.
In 1976, scientists just figured out it was just unusual shadows making it look like a human's face, but this was the only Martian mesaa in Cydonia that made it look like it has a face. Now ever since then, the "Face on Mars" became a pop icon. It was in a movie,books, magazines, radio talk shows, and even griocery stores. Do you know how long? 25 YEARS!
If there was life on Mars or any other planet and we were trying to hide it then that will be pretty much not smart to do. I mean the NASA budget wish. So in 1998 we took another picture but as it turned out it was...natural landform. But as everyone know. NOT EVERYBODY WAS SATISFIED!!! So on April 8th, 2001 we took another picture and all you saw were landforms for example like the American West. So there is no proof that "The Face On Mars" were created by aliens. Any questions? | 2 |
9abea88 | Even thouugh exploring venus is a dangerous pursuit and there are many dangers many reasearches still want to study venus. Why is studying venus a worthy pursuit you might ask. It is a worthy pursuit for several different reasons. One reason studying venus is a worthy pursuit is because it will help innovate or technology of today for the better of tommorow and because we should fear these dangers but they should not stop us from learning and making new innovations. One example from the text to back this statement up states, "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."
In conclusion to this i believe that we should go visit venus in the safest way possible so that we might know more about our solar system. I also believe it may help us advance our technology. And with that lets go to venus. | 2 |
9ac0f34 | I believe that driveless cars are a bad idea . There are so many things that they still would have to improve before they would be safe. They arent totaly driveless anyway because you would have to stop and start driving when ever you come to construction or and accident on the road. Im going to tell you some reasons why i dont beleive they are a good idea.
The first reason I dont believe that it is a good idea is because they dont know how to drive through construction or accidents that have happens on the road yet. You could be driving down the highway and as many accidents that happen you could just come around a turn aand then you would have to be watching very closley to know to start stearing the car. This could cause some mayjor issues as in causing other wrecks to happen. I know if I was driving down the road with a driveless car I would be kicked back an relacked. If you come apon a wreck though you could also be in a wreck because you were not ready.
My second reason I don't think they are a good idea is because they wont have a clue who to blame if there was an accident. If you got in a wreck with someone would it be your fault or the other person or would it be the cars fault that you crashed? They wouldn't know who to blame for the wreck. If someone was to get killed in these cars the family and friends would blame it on the cars. They could have big problems with this because it may have been prevented if the car wasn't driveless.
My third and final reason is what would be the price for these cars? I know that they most likley wont be affordable for some people. Yes, the rich could pay for this car because they have a lot of money and they dont have to worry about anything but thereselfs. What about the middle class and the poor? They already have to worry about there house payment and many other things. Will these cars be manditory for everyone to have so we don't have driveless cars and regular cars on the road at the same time? If so many people will have some serious trouble buying the vechile because they are short on money.
This is why I believe that these driveless cars are not a good idea. Yes, some people may think they are the best thing ever. Some may just not care. I truley believe that we will be much safer and the other cars are more dependable if we just stayed with the old fashion you drive the care with a gas pedal and a brake. New technology is a good things but in this case I think that they are taking things a little too dar. | 4 |
9ac9cfc | There are a lot of mixed opinions about driveless cars. Some are against it and some totally support the idea of it. I support it because I think that it will be easier and faster way to get somewhere and it can be safer which is very important. And while others are against it because it can be dangerous and involve a lot of reckless driving which can lead to accidents. Technology these days have improved from before and it is better now which allows us to make better technology.
Sensors are very important for a driveless car and have improved over the last decade and they can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine which allows better respnse and control than human driving could manage alone. There have been furthur improvements in the sensors and computer hardwawre and software which will make driving safer and it is leading to cars that can handle more and more driving tasks on their own. Even though some of the technology needed hasn't been made yet some believe that we are catching up to technology necessary to make a driveless car. Though in the past couple of years several car brands have started developing cars that can handle driving functions such as they can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves but they are all designed to notify the driver when the car requires human skills such as navigating through work zones and around accidents. Manufacturers are also considering putting in cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road. They are also hoping to bring in heads-up dispay signs that can turned off instantly if the driver needs to take over. The in-car system is actually a safety feature which is a big concern, While those who are against it think that it can be reckless driving and cause accidents and it can lead to conflicts regarding who is at fault with injuring someone.
I think that as time goes technology will get better and advance more which can lead to manufacturers making driveless cars. Safety is very important and I think that it can be safer and a faster way to get somewhere. There are manufacturers making cars that are not completely driveless but I think that soon we will have driveless cars selling everywhere. | 3 |
9acbdd6 | Many people today don't have cars. More people like to walk or ride a bikes. In Vauban, Germany 57% sold their car to move here. Out of the 57% a feww eople just loves being without a car. In Paris they enforced a parial driving ban to clear up the air of the city. In other places the city in Dogota, Colombia had a car free day. Residents of this upscale community ar sunurban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives hvae given up their cars.
The problem with this world is pollution. If more people rode their bikes, skateboards, or evene walked to whereever they are going it wouldn't be as harsh on the planet. if people stopped driving cars around we probably have more people living longer today. But we don't, so i think no one will stop driving cars and kill this beautiful planet. Durning the "car-free" day in Source 2, it tells how if you are caught driving you will be fine. Almost 4,000 drivers were fined. People just doesn't care now a days about what we can cause in the future. Beijing, China is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world. In a program thats set to spread to other countries, millions of Colomians hiked, biked, skated or took the bus to work durning a car-free day, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily dovoid of traffic jam. It was the thrid straight year cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the day without cars in the capital city of 7 million. The goal is to promote smog. Violators faced $25 fines. The turnout was large, despite gray clouds the dumped occasional rain shower on Bogota. Street parking, Driveways and home gargages are genarlly forbidden in this experimental new district on the sidewalks are not allowed and no running on the grass.
President Obama's ambitous goals to curb the U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will get a fortuitous assist from an incipient shift in American behavior. Recent studies suggest the Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. That has left reseachers pondering a fundamental question. Has America passed peak driving? As of April 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9% below the peak and equal to where the country was in january 1995. If the pattern persists and many sociologists believe that it will have benefical implications for carbon emissions. Many teens just are that into the whole driving thing that they rather sit in a room all day and play their games with other poeple on line. I know many of kids that go home and right when they get in the house they are all ready on the game. Its just carzy how someone can just sit down all day and play and play and play on a game that isn't really that fun.
As a result in the car world. Cars are hurting the earth and we need to stop it. we need to stop driving everywhere and start walking. besides, most Americans need exisues. So come on America, get off the couch and lets start moving. | 3 |
9acc5ac | I think the claim would be that the new technology that they called the Facial Action Coding System is and good and bad idea because some times it could brake down and you don't have anything else to use to see what your face look like when you are not happy.
Some times it work because some people would now how to keep it up and nothing would happen to it but if something did happen to it they wold know how to fits it real fast then you would be able to use it again if not you could build a new one if you would want too.
They would show you if your really happy or surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness by using the new technology that they built for you to see if you feel bad or anything you need to. now if you don't now already.
They might even make you look at youself in the mirror even if you don't really want to so you can see what you look like even if you really don't want to look at your face even though you look pretty.
If they make a paintting of you would keep beause you should it will make you have some feeling inside your body telling you that you are very pertty and you should be happy about it but if you think that you are very ugly then their is something wrong with you cause everyone is pertty in thier own ways even if you think your not. | 1 |
9acd11d | The automobile is a production commonly used by individuals all over the world. But utilization of this transportation vehicle arouses environmental damage as well as stress. Limiting car usage around the world would be greatly beneficial.
Limiting automobile usage would decrease hazardous rates of air pollution in regions at which cars are commonly driven. The tailpipes of cars release toxins, often produced by the automobile's fuel, that severely pollute the environment once in the air. According to experts, "passenger cars are responsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50%...in the United States"(Source 1). This amplifies the dangerous impact automobiles have on the environment. Paris, a car-using country, reached extreme levels of smog due to automobile emissions. According to Reuters, "Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic matter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in London"(Source 2). Due to this, a ban was made on car usage and the smog eventually cleared. Automobiles' emissions of greenhouse gases are utterly harmful for the environment.
Decreasing the utilization of automobiles would also ease stress levels among the community. In Vauban, Germany, cars are practically forbidden causing the suburb's streets to be free of the persistent humming of a motor. "When I had a car I was actually tense. I'm much happier this way,"(Source 1) says Heidrun Walter, a citizen of the car-free city. This illustrates how the loss of automobiles can bring tranquility to a region. Bogota, Columbia hosts the Day Without Cars, a day where the driving of an automobile is not permitted. According to Andrew Selsky, due to this occasion, "pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks" and "rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic"(Source 3). Lowering the usage of automobiles would relieve individuals of tensity caused by driving.
Automobiles are an excemplary form of transportation but their impact isn't as beneficial for other purposes. Car emissions of greenhouse gases promote global warming and traffic only tenses drivers. Limiting the utilization of these vehicles would decrease if not diminish their negative impacts on the world. | 4 |
9ad2e47 | I have mixed feelings about the FACS technology it could be great now but when people or robots with their own minds want to do bad or harm the people of the world this would be a great start. See, now this could be used as something just for fun then it's gonna get upgraded to federal level and be able to decieve criminals. Then a deranged rogue is gonna get the hold of it and try to take over the world. Sounds like a movie doesn't it, but stuff like the FACS were in movies way back when and now have we them in real life. I can't be the only one that sees this happening.
But the good side I heve for this technology is that it can help people. Or help people to help other people. Like such, what if our friend is acting wierd. Which they commonly do. Just out of the ordinary behavior like being more quiet or not wanting to spend as much time with you as usual. So you trick i mean tell them stand in front of your wierd computer, your FACS. They do it, it scans the 44 major muscles in their face. It tells you that she's 20% mad, 10% happy, and 70% sad. So now you help her with he predicaments and you guys live happily ever after.
Some other ways the FACS may be good invention is that it can be used as a lie detector. As said in paragraph 8 you use different muscles for a genuine smile than for a false or fake one. It can be used by the FBI in interviewing or interogation. Or you could see when a politician is faking it also conveyed in pagraph 8.
So yeah, I dont really know how to feel. There's bad good way this thing couls affect the world. But there's pro and cons to everything I guess. | 2 |
9ad9ce8 | Mars is a planet in our solar system. Have you ever wondered if there was life on it? I have. Mars is a long way from our home on Earth. About 25 years ago NASA found a landform that looks like a face. NASA has researched this landform ever since they found it. Some people belive that the fae has to do with some typwe of alien or live activity on Mars. I'm here to tell you differet.
Life on Mars. Does that sound like a logical explination to this "Face"? If there were life on earth, wouldnt NASA have found it by now? You have to have water, food, oxygen, to live. There has been no proof of any of those things. Say there were aliens living on earth. Would that make a difference in how we lived? My opinion it would. There would be different things, different looking people maybe. You can not live without water or oxygen. Oxygen is not on Mars or in outer space. There has also been no proof of water on Mars either.
The article says that for almost 25 years, NASA has been looking for proof on what this thing is. If Someone were to say that aliens lived among us, would you believe them? I know I wouldn't. Aliens are things created to scare us. Maybe there are such things are Aliens., maybe there aren't. We will possibly never know the truth. | 2 |
9adc8c8 | The Seagoing Cowboys program is a good idea because you are able to explore many new places, you are able to help people, and you can serve your service as a Seagoing Cowboy if you are drafted to the military. From the amazing experience Luke had you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program.
It is an amazing opportunity to help people and to explore new places it also served as work if you were drafted to go to the military. Luke could help people because it was World War II in Europe and many countries were left in ruins so he had to help recover their food supplies, animals, and more. Luke also got to explore new places while being in the program he got to go to Europe and China he got to tour an excavated castle in Crete and see the Panama Canal on his way to China. When Luke was drafted but he didn't have to go to war because he served his service as a Seagoing Cowboy. This evidence proves that Being a Seagoing Cowboy is a great opportunity. Although, there are many dangers to the sea during this job such as slipping and possibly falling out of the ship. However, there are many more good things than bad thisng during this job it is hard but you get to help others whle putting yourself in danger.
Based on the evidence in the passage and what Luke's experience was like the Seagoing Cowboys program is an very good opportunity. It allows you to help others in need, it also lets you serve your service in the military if your are drafted, and during it you may also get to explore several new places you have never been. | 3 |
9adfa36 | Because Venus has all proprties that humans requied to inhabit.
Also, Venus had an extremely temperatures that humans can't survived.
As the author said "the temperature of Venus pass the 170 degress fahrentheid", this means that humans can't resist this temperatures.
Years ago scientist fund something interesting in Venus but also dangereous, venus can be inhabit???, how we can travel to Venus???
Also the Nasa do programs to send people to Venus and study the ecosism.
Venus the secund planet of the solar sistem. Scientis fund that Venus maybe can be inhabit, because they fund properties that Earth posees. But now Venus is like pangea, a dangerous planet with dangerous gasees, earthquakes, etc.
and now, the humanity want to know how to lived in Venus.
Venus is a planet that we can study, survived etc. But also it take a lot of time to do programs and prepare the people, also we are close to put the first step on Venus.
thank you.... | 1 |
9ae8066 | They say driveless cars are coming, can you imagine a car driving itself while you just sit there till it needs your assitance? We have also been used to such standard and modern things untill 2000 when the invention of computers took a new awakening. Technology has brought our world a whole new living life style that no longer requires the standard way of things anymore. It has brought spectacular things that affect us all. I believe driveless cars are just the begining of this dramactic change.
Although there are a rew drawbacks I think druvless cars would be a great asset to our world. In the artical it states we woudl have less accidents and more motor safety control.These cars would make the world a better place by time. As an example, driveless taxis would use half the fuel of today's, less pollution and better control over our oil. They would also offer far more flexiblity than buses. Such cars are bound to change the world we live in.
I think we, the people of the world, would or eventually could be overwhelming excited about this change.Television and movies long have been fascinated with cars that could drive themselves. At first it would be a shock and we would need to learn how to drive them properly. It would aso be a fun expercience to go down in history to be in the generation of drivless cars. If you think about it we have already been partciipating because every new annual year our cars upgarde with the newest techonolgy.
Driveless cars have some minor setbacks but automakers are continuing their worls on the assumption that these problems will be solved. For an example, Tesla has prpjected a 2016 release for a car capable on driving autopilot 90 precent of the time. Mercedes Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that drive themselves by 2020. The road to the truly autonomous car stretches on ahead of us, but we grow closer to the destination every day. The knowledge of how these cars can impact our world in a magnificant way will also greatly expand. | 4 |
9aef82b | The world has become a plastic bag of pollution, sufficating its inhabitants and holding in all the problems in this world. The major, and simply solved, problem is automobiles. Citizens should reduce car usage to improve there lives and take advantages of the benfits that follow. The people of Germany, Paris, Columbia, and The United States has, at least, tasted the benefits of such a simple change.
Vauban, Germany has recreated itself to become a car-free community. Residents agree with and support the cause saying " When i had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way(doc 1)." The stressors caused by money problems and dangers from cars, make the people of the world stressed. In addition to the relaxing effect of this kind of community, this life style reduces the amount of greenhouse gas emission expelled from tailpipes that is "choking cities(doc 1)." In this specially made community, cities are denser, with more public transportation and overall a cheaper way of life. The Enviormental Protection Agency agrees, this is a change for the better.
Paris, France has gone to the nessisary extent of a partial driving ban to clear the air from the cancerous smog on the city. After banning a majority of cars from the rode, "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five days of intensifying smog(doc 2)." Thats all it took, one day to make a difference, but most people of the world cannot fathom a day without their car. With the amount of people moving around this global beauty, smog covers the city, and yet nothing serious has been permanently done about it.
Bogata, Columbia has a special day every year: A car-free day created to promote the use of alternate transportation and reduce smog. Citizens and businessmen all support the cause, when one day made into " A good oppurtunity to take away stress and lower pollution(Doc 3)." Although one day isn't nearly long enough to undo the harm that cars have done to the world, but at least it raises awareness that can spread even quicker, than a thickening smog, throughout the world.
The United States has demonstated the effects of their awareness of these problems. Evidence and researchers both notice and support that people are getting " Fewer cars, Driving less, and getting fewer liscenses(doc 4)." The decline can be tied to not being able to afford a car, but evidence refutes that by saying that it is a more fundamental revalation. People are starting to become aware of the endless benefits of a car-free world, but are stuck in this world which is consumed by them.
Stuck in this automobile-centered world, people cannot see nor fathom the idea of no automobiles, and believe it to be impractical and undesirable. But if the world were to alter itself, to better accomidate this lifestyle, cities would represent a whole new meaning, " Pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, comerical and public transportation traffic woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety(doc 4)."With some changes, people will soon see the world in a new light. One city, state, nation, and world at a time will make the change.
My fellow citizens, join me, in this revolution to evolve this incompatent world.
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9af0764 | Using technology to read students' emotions is something of great value and could be useful to have in the classroom. According to paragraph 2 a computer can, "Recognize the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we feel", meaning teachers could know when their students are confused and get them right back on track. Teenagers have become very good at holding in how they feel, it's best authorities know. Emotions are key in todays society.
Technology is advancing rapidly it's best people use it when helpful. This technology could be put to use in many ways whether that is finding out how well students are learning, or figuring out how students feel on a personal level ehich could be depressed, anxious, unexcepted, etc. In article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", paragraph 5 states, "Most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried etc." This rains true in the classroom, when students get confused, some won't even speak up but hide their "facial trait." Technology could be used to hurt or help, and it's best students recieve more help.
How others feel is very important. It dictates the way they do everything whether someone is angrily making a cup of coffee, or joyfully talking to friends at their sons' soccer game. In paragraph 6 it states, "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This provides an additional help to keep students on track and not stressed. Students are valubale, and any technology used to help them in life should be considered valuable as well. | 3 |
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