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9df4209 | When it comes down to air pollution cars are one of many the factors that lead to air pollution. The pollution made by cars could start smog to build up in major cities and suburband areas. This can become a major factor in many other developed countries. There is one way we could put a end to this and that is to limit car use.
There are countries all over the world that are starting a new trend in order to limit the use of cars. The trend they are starting is a car less suburb wich bans all cars from the community. This method is better because they build things in walking distance so there is no need for car use. This is a good way of reducing the air pollution and also a good way in saving money. this is a great move for the poeple who are jobless so they wont have to spend money on a car or gas. These suburbs are a good place to live because the air is less polluted and you save money.
This movement is also starting in major cities such as Paris and Bogota. Paris was one of the most polluted places in Europe until motorist with even numbered license plates were ordered to leave thier cars at home and the same would apply to the odd numbers the next day. As the days went on the smog in the air had reduced and also the traffic had dropped. In Bogota motorist were also orderd to leave thier cars home. When the people were orderd to leave the cars at home they started to ride bikes and carpooling to get to thier destination. The other countries saw how this helped car pollution and traffic jams they started to ban cars as well.
This movement has vehicle makers to start changing the way they make thier cars due to these events. This new trend has redudced the air pollution majorly and the use of traffic jams have dropped. If they continue with this car banding the world would be a less polluted place and people would save money and live better. | 3 |
9df51e9 | A electors college is a process , not a place. The electoral college was established it is the constitution as a conpromise betweet election of the presendent by a vote in congress and electection of the presendent by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The election college it like what person you want to br the presendent , maybe you dont vote for that person maybe someone will vote for them. youcan votefor anyboby only if you think that person is good for the comminuty.
I think the vic presedent is like to help out with work or it the presendent retired maybe the vic presendent will take out now the vic presendent will be the new presendent. In the story it say that each member that vote in the house of representative plus two fie you senators. You help choose your state electors when you vote for presendent because when you vote for your condidute you are actully voting for your condidate's electors. the certificate of ascertainment also declares the winning presendent candidate in your statae and shows which electors will represent you r state at the meeting.
In the story they ask you what is wrong with the electors college. I think the problem is that one the off-change that those electors be anyone not holding public office. The single best argument agaisnst the electorsal college is what they might call the disaster factor. they the people in american should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse. is the most worrying the prospect of s tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrwn to the house of representatives, where state delegation vote on the presendent. And the thing is that the senate would choose the vice-presendent. because each state cast only one vote, the single representative from wyoming, representing 5000,000 votes would have sa much say as the 55 representative from carofornia, who represent 35 million votes. | 1 |
9df9b34 | I thinks the new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enbles computers to indenify humans emotions is good things like what the author says on paragraph 3 because that can helps the people if the computers can indentify people emotions like if they happy or sad and if it can makes people feels better if the computers help the people like taking them to a websites where they can read a story or others like playing games, listen to music and watching news that make them relaxing.
Also I thinks what the sciencetists says on paragraph 1 "Developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate", this means that they said like it better for all people if they developing a software that can recognize emotions.
Another good things about the emotion recongnition like what it says on paragraph 4 because the software can also recognize faces on a pictures.
If the new computer software that can tells people emotions, sciencetists should make them more valuable like adding more news features to it and that will make more people to like them. | 2 |
9dfcfb9 | The electoral college is our countries way of voting, but we need to change that and what i mean by that is that i think we need to have our voting system on the peoples popular vote, for many reasons first off, easy to comprehend you dont have to be nervous and accedently vote on someone different you can obviously see who your voting on. secondly, president can win just by popular vote and not worry about the electoral college votes.
To start off, the electoral college is confusing when i first learned about it i could barely understand, but when your voting on a president you dont have to worry about voting on the wrong person because you vote and your states vote is different. also when you vote by poular vote you chboose who you want to be president and not worrying about your states vote. also theyr'e aren't any hassels involved like understanding how the electoral college works. also the vote that you cast can not be who you wanted due to the elctoral college because you cast a vote on the electors and they vote which isn't fair to the people because they could vote for someone toltally different then what you wanted.
In addition, the nominees for president now can get popular vote and still loose which isn't fair to the people and the nominee because he can get tricked and the people do to which is cruel. also if if i was a nominee i would wrather win by a popular vote becacuse it means the people get to vote for who they wanted instead of a elector and it means the people really wanted me as a president so it shows that they wanted me and that i win by there election vote. now instead of that we have a system to where i could be running and get popular vote and loose which is cruel and unright to the people cause it means they wanted me.
To conclude, the elctoral college is our countries way of voting but i would wrather have the president win by popular vote because first, easy to comprehend and you get who you wanted to vote for. secondly, you dont have to worry about winning popular vote then loose cause you didn't win electoral vote. | 3 |
9e01a54 | Do i think we should use this technology on students? Yes i think we should use this technology on students beacause then you might be able to prent fight suicide and more. Ithink its valuable because, if a student is going through a rough time and you use this program you would be able to fidout whats wrong and try to help them.
The other reason why it would be valuable is beause you can help students with bullyin to help them fom getting hurt and not wanting to continue their education due to mean people and neglagence. On top of that we can find out so much me about ur emotions if we were to san teenage minds going through adolesence because they are hanging constantly.
Therefore scanning our emotions will help us find out so much about the human phycological aspect with our emotions. With emotions once we figure out what makes up emotions we will probably mak a robot that can think and feel like a human.
See now the reason why itwouldnt be a good idea is beause it could stress the kids out and make their time worse in schools and in the public life. If we were to let a computerscan the teenagers emotions they might feel scared uncomfratable nd more and they might not do it. | 3 |
9e091e4 | I can just imagine how the near future ahead may look. From time to time I ask my great grandmother questions about the life she had growing up and im always amazed by the comaparison to the life that I live. I have grown up with technology at my fingertips, techonology from the alarm that wakes me up to the music I listen to on my ipod when I go to sleep. Growing up I don't remember getting lost and having to ever ask for direcions when traveling out of state with my family. We simply used our GPS system. I like watching movies on the car when we go places, and I life the rear camara on the car that helps us drive safely. These new techonologies have made our lives much easier and thanks to those bright minds that have created and innovated the techonlogy we have.
As time goes by, we as a society must make progress, and its clear that we have. Along with progress comes some disagreements and possible dangers thanks to time and acceptace from our society we have made great improvements from, lets say the time my great grandma was just a young girl. From these I can say that when the question of driveless cars comes up I am all for it. I believe that having to get inside a smart car that "could drive themselves", is not a bad thing or idea at all.
"In the 1980's auto makers used speed secors in the creation of anti lock brakes. Within 10 years, those sencors became more advanced. Since 2009 Google has had cars that could drive themselves under under specific conditions." The improvents cars have made have been done for own advantage and yes, one could arugue the dangers of having a driveless car, since a driveless car is not the same as just having better brakes or a Google car that still has a human in control of it but it's evident that since the past there have been innovations made to cars and our everyday lives that has only led to greater things through out the decades.
These new cars have challeges to overcome and these challeges are the reason some oppose the idea and in some states it is even illegal to even test computer driven cars. Some question their safety and liability in the case of an accident but like anything new it has to start from somewhere in order to improve. To this day auto makers are continuing their work on the assuption that problems ahead will be solved and as a member of the future I look foward to those soutions and the positive changes it may bring and I want to be able share progress stories one day of how far we have come. | 3 |
9e09cc5 | Luke Bomberger worked two part-time job at the grocey store and at the bank. Then his friend invited him to go to a Europe on a cattle boat. It was hard for him to say no but Luke said yes it was a opportunity of a lifetime.
World War 2 was over in the Europe,and many countrys were ruin. To help recover everything 44 Nations joined together to form UNRRA. The UNRRA hired the Seagoing Cowboys for they can take care of the horses,young cow,and mules were shipped oversea.
In August 1945, they had received their orders repoets from New Orleans. They had arrived on August 14 that's the day the Pacific war ended. Don and Lke boarded the ship the SS Charles W. Wooster, and then they headed to Greece. THe SS Charles also had a cargo of 335 horses plus enough hay and oat so they can eat.
Luke turned 18 before arriving in Greece.
It took about two weeks to criss the Atlantic Ocean from the east coast of the united states and the a month to get to china. Luke was really busy because caring for the animals during them crossing the ocean. Also he had to fed them and watered two or three times a day. Bales of hay and bages of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship. And then he had to clen the Stalls.
On his second trip Luke had to served his night as a watchman. His job was to check on the animal every hour. On this one rainy night after making his hourly report to the captain he slid down a slippery ladder on his backside. Luke's heart was racing as he shot first toward an opening ont he side of the ship . A small strip of metal along the edged stopped his slid keeping him from flying forward overboard in the dark Atlantic. But he couldn't work for a couple of day because of his cracked ribs.
Luke also had fun on his trip because when the unloaded the animals the cowboys played basketball and volleyball. Also they played table-tennis tournament, fencing, and boxing.
But being a the Seagoing Cowboys was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger . It opened his world it was a greatful opportunitiy for him. It made him more aware of people of other countries and their needs. Alot of visitor came over the year to exchange the students to visit. | 1 |
9e0bd1d | With this new process in voting for the president called electoral college it would be a new start to voting history.''The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast''. This would mean no candidates wins with more votes. With this new method of voting it can be critisized about selecting a president who cannot run this country. Both candidates running for president has either his or her own team of electors who all have there own unique job as a party.
But with this system it can cause problems with bugs, viruses, and etc. People often ask whats wrong with the electoral college? ''Under the electoral college system,voters vote not for the president,but for a slate of electors,who in turn elect the president''. The new voting system is not fair to voters. Because of the winner takes all in each state. ''Its official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly asserrtions without much basis in reality. And the arguments against direct elections are spurious at times at best. Its hard to say this, but Bob Dole was right: Abolish the elctoral college!''.
Dispite the electoral college method voting is still possible. The reason is that the winning candidate's share of the Electoral College is because it eceeds the presidents votes. Most states have a winner take all method to figure out who represents your state. It would work but it would be very different then our old presidentual voting.
So with the electoral college method, i think it should be abolished. Only because we dont need a change in our voting system and to have more than one president.''It can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidatewho cannot run a state''. So oters can expresss a political preference rather than people a candidate who lost a election by a single vote. | 2 |
9e12467 | After reading "Driverless Cars Are Coming", driverless cars seem to sound theoretically pleasing, however in reality, are a bad idea and should not be continued to develop. These driverless cars have multiple, negative aspects that outweigh the positives, including a major precaution, saftey. They also take away from the driving experience, and add to the dependency on technology.
First of all, the article enters with "Google cars aren't truly driverless." This shows how driverless cars are not even at the level of functioning alone without the driver being alert, defeating the purpose of the "driverless" car since a human would always have to be present in case something went wrong. Something that manufactures attempted to do was to have "smart-road systems", but they "required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical." This proves that the costs for the modified roads would be too much to fit the driverless car's needs, so that idea for using the cars would not work. The articles says the cars need "a whole lot of sensors." Later, it describes the multiple sensors and states "the combination of all this input is necesary for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel." This proves that the costs would probably increase due to the new technology as well as the variables that could go wrong increases as the amount of new sensors increase. All of the senors could not mimic the skill of the humans because everything can be constantly changing, from the condition of the roads to the weather. Others might argue, "Further improvements in sensors and computer hardware and software to make driving safer are also leading to cars that can handle more and more driving tasks on their own," however, manufacturers are not at that point of high level saftey and can never guarentee one hundred percent safety. Furthermore, driverless cars can "steer, accelerate, and break themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills." This again describes how driverless cars will never be driverless. "The human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." "This necesitiates the car being ready to quickly get the driver's attention whenever a problem occurs." This illustrates how unsafe the driverless cars would be. Any mishap to a sensor or system control could result in terrible consequences. Since the cars would be using new technology, it would be unreliable, because technology tends to fail often. This failure could result in injury or even death, a risk that people should not take. In addition, not only are the cars unsafe, but they also prevent drivers from having fun while driving or getting the full experience. "Some manufacturers hope to bring in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays," which are more things that can distract the driver. This would create drivers that rely on technology, and if something went wrong, they would not know what to do. Later, the article informs readers that "in most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars." This is because most states know driverless cars are not safe. To account for these new cars, laws would have to change. "If traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident," adding to the trouble of making these cars a possibility and possible conflicts that could arise. When asked in the articule, "If technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer," this question highlights the position that driverless cars should not be developed. When describing the production of these cars, manufacturers are all about technology. However, technology is bound to fail at times and can be flawed, especially in the beginning process. As techonolgy increases, risks are increased which can be applied to the cars, since more systems would be added. Instead of developing these cars, manufacturers should look to improving the cars produced currently, such as making them more eco-friendly. Cars already have some sensors that aid and assist the driver, but could not take the place of a real human at the wheel.
Overall, the development of driverless cars should not progress. Due to saftey factors, technology failure, costs, and possible liability issues, driverless cars should not be produced. There are too many risks that could go wrong due to a system malfunction. Humans should not need to be dependent on technology in order to drive. Driverless cars could not replace a human dealing with everyday, constantly changing driving conditions and unexpected events. The cars could attempt to mimic human skills, but would not meet them. | 5 |
9e1614b | People have always thought about diverless cars to be a long way into the future but its not as far as people think. Google has had driverless cars since 2009. I think people should support the development of these cars. The reasons I think people should support are they can be used to replace old taxis with new driverless ones, less crashes, and the car would be more helpful. I think driverless cars is a brilliant technological advancement .
The public transportation system will benefit greatly from the driverless cars. The driverless cars would replace the old taxis with newer better cars. The cars would use half the fuel of today's taxis. The driverless cars would alse offer more flexibility than big busses and use less fuel than them. These smart cars will change the transportation system for the better.
Google's driverless cars have been driving since 2009 under specific conditions. The cars have driven more than half a million miles without a single crash. Even though Google's smart cars are truly driverless yet they still have not been in a car crash. If a drunk person where to drive a normal car most likely that person would crash and hurt or kill themselves and people around them but if they were to be in a driverless car the car would just drive the person home with no problem. I believe if more people were to buy these cars when they come out then the amount of car crashes would go down.
These cars would be more useful. With letting the person in the car do something else while the car is driving. It would allow people to get things done while the car is driving for you. This car will be very useful.
With theses reasons and more I believe that people should be supporting the development of these facinationg cars. The smart cars will improve the public transportation system, there would be less crashes, less people dying nad geting hurt, the cars would be more helpful. Thats why I believe these cars would be a great technological advancement. | 4 |
9e16dd7 | The Face on Mars is something that is just an opinion of many people .There is no proof that this is real. The Face is something that people assume that aliens made it.
In paragraph twelve it says that the landform was common to the Middle Butte, which is on Earth. So, maybe the lava carried to Mars and created the same shape,which is probably at the same time .
In paragraph nine ,they said it wasn't an easy target to look at . Maybe, what they were looking at wasn't correct. They might've saw it wrong and just guessed what it was.
In paragragh one , the planet Cydonia
was two miles away from Mars .Maybe
Cydonia and Mars had once crashed into each other and created a weird shaped. Years later the shape wore off and created a human shaped face.
People can't prove that aliens made the Face ; they can't even prove that aliens are real. You can't assume anything until you know somthing about it . They may have all the picture and other details , but that doesn't answer anything. They don't have that fact of what really happened.
The Face of Mars is just something to keep people busy and on the edge of their seats . Even if it was real they wouldn't tell us . The Face was formed by posibbly by a collision or the lava like the Middle Butte .
All of the things that scientist say is based on opinions . They stated very few things that were actually facts . The Face maybe somthing else , it's not just what we see , niether
what's really there. | 3 |
9e1754d | What would I say if I were a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens, when I don't? I would first off say they're are no such things as aliens. There is no evidence that aliens are real. The only evidence we have are pictures that people send in of "UFOs" or "aliens" being spotted. Seriously those pictures could be easily edited with the power of the internet.
The Face is just a natural landform! The Face, like many other landforms, looks (hince the name) like a face! Have you ever past by a hill, rock, or any other landform that kind of looks like a human or any other human part? If you have than you know what I'm talking about. Sometimes you start thinking "why does it look ike that?" or "what if someone's body is buried there?".
Although the Face looks like a face, it may have not been built by aliens. Like NASA said when they unveiled the image for everyone to see, it's just a "huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth.". The Face was just formed by shadows and your eyes playing a little trick on you.
We don't have enough evidence to prove that aliens created this, so it's much better if we stick to my idea. It's all the work of your eyes, shadows, and the form of the rock. If only we could go to Mars and figure out the truth. | 2 |
9e1909b | Politicians and the public have argued for years over one burning question: Should the Electoral College be discontinued? I believe the Electoral College should not be used in the United States anymore. To understand the faults within this system, one must understand the system at its basic level. The Electoral College is a system that consists of 538 electors. Each state has a different amount of electors, granted on the size of that state's population. When the election is held, the voter votes for the electors, not the candidate directly.
The first fault one can find while examining this system is the "winner takes all" policy that most states have. In paragraph seven of the first souce, the article states, "Most states have a "winner-takes-all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidental candidate." This system seems unfair, especially in states where the vote for electors is won by a small margin. The votes cast for the candidate who lot the electoral votes in their state are not counted in choosing the president, which hinders the ideals of democracy in this country. In paragraph nine of the second source, the article reads," according to a Gallup poll in 200, taken shortly after Al Gore, thanks to the quirks of the Electoral College, won the popular vote but lost the presidency." This crisis in 2000, when George W. Bush won the electoral college, but Al Gore won the popular vote, displays the lack of clarity with this system. This election was a prime example that the president is not chosen by the popular voice, but rather by the Electoral College, which does not accurately represent everyone.
The second fault with Electoral College stems from the first issue: people are not voting beacuse they feel as if their voice is not being heard. Stated as a counterargument in paragraph 23 of source three, the article states, "It can be argued that the Electoral College method...may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope for carrying their state - Democrats in Texas, for example, or Republicans in California." People are choosing not to vote because they feel as if their voice is being shadowed by the major polictical thinking in their state, and this mindset corrupts the institution of democracy in the United States.
An argument made by those in favor of the Electoral College can found in paragraph 20 of source three, "Voters in toss up states are more likely to pay attention to the campaign...They are likely to be the most thoughtful voters, on average and the most thoughtful voters shoule be the ones to decide the election." This argument is opinionated and has no substantial evidence behind it. According to source 2 in paragraph 13, "During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all." This was due to the candidates spending their time, money, and efforts to win over "swing states", the states that could go either Republican or Democrat depending on the candidates that year.
The Electoral College is a system that should not be used anymore because it does not properly consider the opinions of all voters, turns away voters who believe they will not have their voices heard, and leave states without seeing ads or candidates during the election because these candidates are trying to win over other states. | 5 |
9e1a696 | In 'Making Mona Lisa Smile', the Facial Action Coding System purpose is described as to enable computers to read human emotions. Should it be brought into classrooms? I believe that it should, as it will engage students in lessons, content will be taught more efficently and effectively, and students academic performances will improve.
If emotion reading technology is brought in to classrooms, it will spark interest in them. As Dr. Huang explains," A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored...Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This could help students focus on the material, better helping their comprehension and understanding, therefore improving their academic performances.
Overall, the Facial Action Coding System should be introduced to classrooms. Students will value the impact it will have on the content being taught. Why keep the facial reading technology from students when it can benefit them? | 2 |
9e1c9be | I think that the face is just a natural landform. Sure, it was insane to discover a face on Mars, but couldn't it be some work that God had Created? The face is quite the story teller, and it will absolutely bring the attention to conspiracy theorists. But God is the creator of the universe, this could very well be some random thing that's just on Mars.
There are a lot of random items just like this all over Earth, things that make scientist believe that there is life on other planets-which could possibly be true-but these questions are unexplainable to science. God is the answer to all the questions we need to know. So this face on Mars, could simply be something very random.
The article expresses that the face is indeed false, and just an ordinary natural landform. Sometimes there are people who try to figure out how and why these kind of things happen, such as this face on Mars. but sometimes science can't answer these questions. | 2 |
9e2113a | Contrary to popular belief, there is nothing unatural about the supposed "Face on Mars". Though many would like to believe in the supernatural, this oddity is nothing but a rock formation. There are several reasons as to why the theory of aliens making this formation is preposterous, each reason stronger than the previous.
First and foremost, if these photos of the alleged face were the work of possible Martians, NASA would have found further evidence by now. Even if the cameras used to take these pictures weren't of the highest quality, said cameras would have been able to at least catch some photos of further signs of life. Things such as houses or buildings, for example. Now, if some one would like to argue that the aliens lived in caves or other natural formations of the sort, how would those people like to argue the fact that there are no visible creatures in any photos? Do they expect people to believe that every living thing on Mars decided to hide from a satelite they would not even be able to see from the surface?
Additionally, even if NASA had found this further evidence, why would the company try to hide it? Not only would releasing such infrormation to the public leave NASA with all sorts of world renouned achievements, it would be more than beneficial for the company's financial standpoint. Releasing statements as big as signs of life on Mars would do wonders for the company. The more achievements, the more sponsors will see the potential in investing money in a program such as NASA. Adding to that, the more sponsors, the more projects NASA can fund, and by extension, the more the foundation will be able to learn and teach the public.
Probably the most obvious piece of evidence that busts the idea of unknown life, is that these photos were taken in 1976 (according to paragraph 5 of Unmasking the Face on Mars) . Technology at that time was still fairly primitive, especially for space travel. The photo just happened to be taken at the right time, at the right angle, by a pilgrim piece of technology. Further pictures, such as the ones taken in 2001, reveal that the "face" is just a mesa, with next to no details that resemble that of a human complextion. Think of it as the
"...Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho..." (paragraph 12)
All in all, this "face" on Mars is no different from other conspiracies. Things like the picture of the Loch Ness Moster, the famous photo that was confirmed to be faked. Another good example is the "Bigfoot" craze. Both cases are similar to this one because all are just photos that are hard to be certain about, that sparked international interest. Not only are they similar that way, but each one has been debunked with solid evidence. The face on Mars is simply a clump of rock, nothing to be even slightly concerned about. Unless, of course, you are an individual who likes to be concerned about clumps of rock. | 5 |
9e219bb | Mona Lisa Smile's
The new technology to read anyone facial expressions to how much would it take to identify a human emotion.
They use Mona Lisa smile's to see how its calcutlies, but its show she's 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry. Identify the movements of the muscles, but a Dr. Paul Eckman classified a six basic emotions like happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and saddness. Like Dr. Huang said, " the facial expressions for each are universal observe, even though individuals often show vary degrees of expression".
The emotion recognition software tracks these facial movents in real life faces or a painted of someone face. It can identify mix emotions by weighting the differents units in da Vinci painted.
Actaully humans perform the same impressive everyday. probably could tell a friend feelings just noticing by their face. some of us would have trouble noticing their emotion traits like happy, sad, worried, and scared. Like a sciencist would says, " a classroom computer could recognize when a students becoming confuse or bored". Dr. Huang predicts " then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructors".
In Dr. Huang notes most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication, and cumputers need to understand that too. To a experts a face don't lie about a muscle clue are sometimes use to spot a smile is not being truthful.
A drama coach contantin a stanislavsky for his actor to reproduce a smile and frowning as a way of creating emotions on stage. Even showing empathy for that person to make them feel great for them selfs.
Faces could reveal so many emotions even through body it can be noticable or not but we all human that show so much emotions. | 1 |
9e26c1d | I am very much against the idea of putting my life on a machinge. I no not agree in putting my life and others in danger because I am to lazy to drive the car myself. So many things could go wrong when letting a machine work for us such as more distractions, machine breaking down, WIFI disconnecting, and overconfidence are all things that could cause accidents and death all because we want a machine to do work for us!
The fact that people are actually considering risking their lives so that they can places faster and more convienently is very concerning. We are actually hoping that one day we can sit back in the car and let a machine take us places and actually believing nothing would go wrong. I don't trust in machines at all. I am a student at Guerin Catholic were computers are needed, and I see someone having problems with them everyday. If we cant trust simple electronics like computers to be working for us everyday, then how are we suppose to expect a car that needs sensors, lasers, GPS, WIFi, and so many other things to work 100% of the time. We are risking our lives and those of others trusting that all this will work properly.
Today we have laws that prevent us from using phones and other electronics in cars, because they are distractions and can cause accidents. In the text we learn that some manufactures are wanting the car to control 80% of what happens so that in unexpected cases we humans can take over. I seriously doubt that is someone were in a car in which the did not do anything but sit for 80% of the time that they would not be doing something else. If we allow people that much time to have a machine control the movements of the car we cannot really expect someone to just be 100% ready to take over the job to prevent something dangerous from happening. It just won't happen! If we have people texting and talking on phones inside of cars were we are the only ones in control of what is happening how are we to expect people to be resonible enough to know when they need to take over in command because the machine warns us. The law clearly warns us to not talk and drive and yet we do it. What would be different when the machines says, "take over now"?
In our world today we already have a lot of technology in control of part of our lives. We drive machines, use computer, phones, GPS, WIFI all to help us in our daily lives. We of course know that the are not 100% trustworthy, because we see them breaking down all of the time. Now imagine a car on a road with about 50 other cars around. Are we seriously thinking about about installing a system in these cars that drive them for us. What would happen if one of them suddenly broke down? It would be a catastrophe! This car would cause a major accident and could possible ruin everybody else around them. They indeed would be very convenient if they worked 100% of the time, but since we know that won't happen then we shouldn't do it. There is just to much at risk!
Something else we should think about is what will happen when a car breaks down, hitting another car and killing the other driver? We known today that there are laws that specifically tells us who is to blame in certain accidents. In a world with no drivers or with drivers who control the car 20% of the time, then who are you gonna blame. If you blame the company which built it they will simply say "well you bought it. What happens now is your fault and not of my concern". Is it really your fault though? How can you be to blame if your not even in control of what you are buying? The answer is your not. Truthfully there is no one to blame excpet for those who though all this would be a good idea!
These are all very good reasons that we should think again about what we are about to do. Companies should overlook the money and start thinking primarily about peoples safety and the danger it will be if all of this actually comes to reality. After seeing and analyzing all these reasons are you really going to risk your life by letting a maching drive you, or are you going to put in the extra effort and drive yourself? | 5 |
9e291ab | People in today's society practically depend on their cars to get them to and from work, to buy groceries for their families, and just for the purpose of getting out of the house. Although, with billions of people driving cars every single day, it has quite a negative effect on the environment. It is in our nature to think that without a car, you could not go anywhere or do anything for that matter. Recently, cities around the world have been banning the use of cars and charging citizens with fines if cars become in use. The reasoning for this is the increased amount of pollution that diesel fuel is causing. Thus, making it difficult to breathe, walk outside, and live our everyday life.
One major problem in the use of diesel fuel has been the pollutants in the air which lead to an extreme amount of smog. Recently, Paris has had more smog than any other European capital. They knew that something had to be done to stop this, so they started a new "car-free" law. This resulted in a fine of $31 for the citizens who used their cars. Soon after that law had become intact, almost 4,000 drivers were fined, and just about 27 people had their cars impounded that day for their reaction to the fine.
The United States of America had long been one of the world's most prime car cultures. It is the birthplace of some of the very first car models. A lot of big cities in the U.S have a huge amount of driving going on. For example, New York City, San Fransico, Miami, Los Angeles, ect. This is leaving the country with a large amount of pollutants in the atmosphere. After President Obama's ambitions to decrease the amount of diesel fuel use, recent studies have shown that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and are even having a decrease in the amount of licenses permited as each year passes. In 2013, the amount of miles driven per person was about 9 percent under the usual American peak. With the large amount of citizens living in this country and the number of people only rising, this small decrease has had a very positive effect on the environment.
With almost the entire world in on this new, "car-free" trend, people have been perfectly fine letting go of their cars and taking on the world just by foot. In the city of Vauban, Germany the citizens there would much rather pioneer their way through life than to own a car according to Heidrun Walter, who is a resident of Vauban. "I'm much happier this way." She claims. Back on the other side of Earth, people are becoming more and more encouraged to use plug-in cars, hybrids, and cars carrying 3 or more passengers. This decreases the amount of fuel being burned, and a happier and healthier environment for us all to live in.
In conclusion, I believe that the decrease in the amount of cars in use has recently had a very positive effect on our environment. This has all come to show that you don't always need a car to get where you want and to do the things that you need to do. Or, if you feel the need for a car that you can rely on a friend for carpooling or purchasing a plug-in car which are becoming much more popular and useful in today's society. Always remember to keep our environment happy and healthy, and always making each day better by putting the amount of diesel fuels burned by car use and the effects it has into consideration. | 4 |
9e31ec8 | The Mona Lisa is said to have many different emotions. Eighty-three percent happy, nine percent disgusted, six percent fearful, and two percent angry. Due to a new computer software, from Professor Thomas Haung of the Beckman Institute for Advanced science at the University of Illinois and Professor Nicu Sebe of the University of Amsterdam, we can calculate the emotions of people and how much of certain emotions they are feeling at the time. I believe this software can be very helpful to people in many different fields: in an office, at a restaurant, and especially in classrooms.
This new technology can be a very helpful tool in teaching all different types of students at their pace instead of teaching a specific groap of kids at one pace. In a classroom, it can be very intimidating and nerve recking to raise your hand and be the only one with a question. With the new software, the computer will detect if the child needs help or not by the facial expressions he, or she, makes and explain the lesson in a way that child would understand. Also, it can help teachers with the way they teach and the way they give out work. Since the computer can detect emotions, it can also detect they way the children are responding to the way the teacher is teaching and the homework he, or she, is giving them.
In conclusion, I think the bnew software will be very helpful, especilally in schools. It could be both beneficial to students and teachers and help strengthen the education systems. Most kids do not like to learn because it is too hard and because they can not comprehend it, but if learning could be made more understandable, or easier, lack of a better term, then a greater amount of students would be more open to learning and actually trying in school. | 3 |
9e34d7d | Driving canbe a fun thing to do and it also can be dangreous, so there shoud be ways to make it easier for people to drive. I know if i were to be driving that i want to be safe as possibally and be able to drive with out no big accident. There is already to much stuff happening to drivers from texting, bad wheater,or freak accidnts. Why not to stop all of that by supporting driverless cars or smart cars.
I feel like that driverless cars is a good thing to have and there are not the many reassons why to not have them. For starters there been a whole lot more accidents with out driverless cares because with driverless cars they can help you. There had been many accidents that happen because of brakes or steering wheels but with driverless cares or smart cars that can help out a lot of people by them being able to break their selves. When backing up a car their motion sensor can pick that up by warning you if your to close to a car or not because it is hard to back into tight spots. Looking out the mirror can be hard to do espically with younger people driving so that right there is why driverless car are a good thing for people. With that technology can take a stress out of peoples life and driving is one of the most dangerous things to do.
Like in paragraph two tv and movies have been fascinated with driverless cars so it is time now to have them instead of going against it. The future is hear and old things will have to go like typerwritters are not well known because of the technology we have now. For better examples Googles driverless cars had been here since 2009 and havent had a crash yet. As it was saying in paragrph seven they are really driverless cars people still have to the same thing but the only thing driverless cars are doing for people is assisting them. Them are my reasons why i think that driverless cars are a positive thing. | 2 |
9e383cf | The electoral congress, made by the founding fathers for the people to vote for the President and Vice President. Also there is a process that consist in the counting of the electoral votes by congress. "the office of the federal Register". There are also issues with the idea of having the electoral congres becuase the voters get confuse and vote for the wrong candidate, but today those erros do not happen. The candidate is the person who is going to be the next President and Vice President.
To begin with, Having the electoral congress is a great idea, it is an easy method of choosing the candidate that the people want to have for four years guiding taking care of the Precidency, and there are reasons of having the electoral congress, if you are part of the united states you can give your opinion and vote for the person that you think is going to the right one.
Secondly, The electoral congress keeps the organization of counting the votes and declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes (The winner). when you are voting for the cadidate you are voting for a slate of electors that were choosen by the congress, and the people will decide who they wanted to be their president and this is all about the people, and their opinion because they are the ones who vote for the candidate and they want him or her to be the president. the congress has some erros but as time is pasing, it keeps getting better and having less issues because they have a modern techonology, thats now is taking care of the votes and keeping it orgainze.
In conclusion, many people today prefer and thank to the founding fathers of creating the electoral congress becuase is way more better. every one who is part of the united states can vote for the candidate that they want. the electoral congress was a great idea and everyone enjoys it becuase they are the ones who give their opinion to the congress and choose the candidate that they want to have for four years, giving benefits to the united states and there is a perfect example of our current precident who is doing a great job taking care of the united states. | 3 |
9e3c014 | My oppinon on driverless cars is that i dont like it. It just makes it more easier for people to not do anything. Even drunk drivers wont get pulled over anymore because they would have that to drive them. Cops cant do their job of pulling people over anymore after they do this so cops might loose jobs cause they would have driverless cars. No one would be buyong cars anymore because of it fuel would be used half as much for it. Televison and movies have been fasinated by cars that could drive their selves. Under specific occasions google has had cars driving since 2009. Their cars have been driven more half a million miles without a crash. They arnt truely driverless yet they alert the driver when they need to take over the wheel when traffic is really badd or going through road work. Futurists believed the key to developing self-driving cars someday isnt just the smart cars its smarter roads. How much smarter did the cars ned to be? in the 1980s automakers used speed sensors at the wheels in the creation of antilock brakes. within a decade those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out of control skids or rollovers. The information from the sensors could make the car apply brakes. In 2013 BMW anounced the development of traffic Jam Assitant the car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph,But speacial touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. They can steer in traffic and other road construction. This necisates the car being ready to quickly get the drivers attention whenever a problem has occured. Why would anyone want to drive driverless cars,because its easy on you and you dont do anything anymore since they did this. Displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over something not to the drivers trying to text with a cell phone. In this way the In car system is actually a safety feature, and saftey is a big concern. Most driving laws focus on getting the passengers,drivers,and pedestrians safe and let know the law makers that in these cars are safety. Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time. Mercedes benz,audi,and nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020. The road to the truly autonomous car streches on ahead of us, but we grow closer to the destination. | 1 |
9e3d44e | The Evening Star is the brightest point of the night sky, it makes it simple for a amateur stargazer to spot. The nickname Evening Star is misleading since Venus is a planet. Venus is the second closes planet to the sun. Venus is simple to see but safe vantage point of earth.
Venus is the closest planet to earth refering to density and size, and the closest in distance. Sometimes earth is closer to Mars and sometimes closer to Venus depending on the speed. humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on Venus but each mission was unmanned, this reason is because no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. No spacecraft has landed on Venus for a few decades. Venus is a challenging place to study.
Almost 97% carbon dioxide blankets Venus. in Venus's atmosphere there are clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid. On Venus's surface the temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheroc pressure is 90 times greater than we experience on our own planet. Venus has the hottest surface area of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun.
Astonomers are fascinated by Venus because it 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 variours forms of life, just like earth. Venus still has some analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has one particulary compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA'S possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. A vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit.
Peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atnisphere. More importantly, researchers cannot take saple of rock, gas, or anything else from a distance. Venus would need to get close and despite the risks.
NASA is working on other approaches to study Venus. Some simplified electronics mad of silicone carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted three weeks in such conditions.
Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the plannet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very eadges of imagination and innovation. | 4 |
9e404d4 | Has there ever been a time where you're looking at your classwork or homework as if it were the worlds most difficult equation? This new technology "FACS'', is an amazing program that recognizes facial expressions and woild be more than helpful in our schools. I personally think that this technology is a bridge to better understanding. This new technology would help teachers know what students need help on, it would cause test scores and grades to rise, and it would be a great advancement in school technology.
First,there has been so many times where you don't understand a problem or a material and you don't say anything. Maybe it was because you were too shy or the teacher or instructor had already reviewed it many times. This technology could help students get the help they need. Teachers will know when students are having trouble and when they are ready to move on.
Second, if the students got the help they needed and started to understand more, grades and test scores would go up. Our education would start to advance more and more. Our graduates would be much more skilled and instructed. We would have so much more to offer our country and citizens. We would be recognized for our high test scores and good grades, we would be offering a much better education than any other country. Our students would actually understand the what is being presented to them.
Third, our technology in our schools would be much more advanced. The future is going to be full of technology, and we should know how to use and control it. Technology has its pros and cons, but it will be able to help us much more than it will hurt us. We will have access to easier and faster ways of learning. FACS is one of those easier and faster ways.
FACS would help us greatly by helping teachers know what students need help on, increasing test scores and grades, and advancing in our schools technology. I truly do believe this program should be in all schools becasue this will help educate the youth that will be building a better future for us. | 4 |
9e46632 | Imagine being able to detect exactly how other people are feeling, even when they are trying to hide their emotions. Well there is this New software that has been developed that can detect how others are feeling better than humans can.
I believe that the value of using technology to read students' emotional expression is important and it should be used. Since this technology records facial expressions, the same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive- for video games or video surgery. Another reason is "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication." Another purpose we can use this for is as a lie detector, because in the begining of the article it said that Mona Lisa is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. So if somebody is lying i'm pretty sure they would be scared to be caught.
Imagine how much video games will improve with this technology, and medical help too. Also think about all the criminals that will get caught because the new technology will prove that they were lying. As you can see these are the reasons why I think we should use this new kind of technology. | 3 |
9e49aed | Scientists have developed technology that allows computers to read emotions on a persons face. This technology can be used in a multitude of areas such as video games and even inside the classroom. Being able to read the emotions of students holds value due to possibly reducing boredom, keeping students attentative, and helping students become less frustrated.
In the classroom students often become bored due to not being interested in a subject they are learning. Unfortunately many teachers do not seem to notice when a student is bored. This is because "most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication." Since students are not usually verbal about their boredom, it is up to teachers to notice it and try to aid in making students more interested. Luckily, new software can detect when a student is bored. This can lead to teachers being able to effectivly teach without causing students to be so bored.
Along with boredom, a computer that can recognize emotions could also help keep a students attention. Similarly to how the computer would react to a bored student, a student who appears to be staring off into space could trigger the computer to "modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." The computer could change the lesson to be more interesting to keep students paying attention, and over time the method of teaching could be personalized for specific classes. This could drastically increase how well students do on tests, since they would learn more.
Just as with boredom and attention, a program that recognizes emotions could help out frustrated students as well. "A classrooom computer could recognize when a stident is becoming confused" and it could begin to help them personally, recognizing when the student begins to understand the material better. The computer could ensure that every student recieves the attention they need in order to succeed.
Understanding the emotions of students is highly important. It can lead to better lessons for each student and overall better education. This is priceless in ensuring that each student has a great life. Recognizing emotions is an important part of this process, making the technology that recognizes emotional expressions extremely valuable. | 4 |
9e4b505 | In "The challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents."A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus". "Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere". "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own plant". "These conditions are far more extrem than anything humans encounter on Earth; such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and woukdk liquefy many metals. This claims that the evaluates how well the author supports the idea of studying Venus is dangers.
The claim of the evaluate the author supports the idea of studying Venus because it's a different planet and have more interesting things there then on planet earth."Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may we once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system"."Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth". "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys,mountains,and craters"."NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus"."For example, some simplified electronics made of the silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions". "Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers". "The thought of computers existing in those days may sound shocking, but these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all"."Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun." "Beyond high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface". These are the reasons why the author supports the idea of studying Venus.
In these parargraphs i've just writen i explained with supporting details on why/how the author supports the idea of studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. | 2 |
9e4dbb5 | Students may have probelms and can be mad or sad in sometimes but some people don't like when someone comes to them and start asking then about how they feel, some studens could prefer woek on their problemas by themselves.
First of all, using a system that shows how you fell could be a little bit too far, it's ok to care about other but knowing how they fell could disrespect their privacy "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored", what about is sad because he is having family problems? it would be rude to ask him why are you feeling sad in front of a class.
People actually feel bad a lot of times, and some people don't like others to stay on their bussiness. I would be really wierd to see how someone feel wtith helpa from a compute, if you are trying to help somebody, it not honest to know how someone else feels with a computer system, if you really care about someone, whn you are about someone, you should ask them how they feel and if they don't anything is because he don't want other people to knwo about it, people shoul respects the other's feelings.
Using a system that shows how someone feels in students is disrespectful, because you are not respecting their privacy, they should never use those systems at school. - | 3 |
9e4fee7 | In the article the author gave many pros and cons to reasons driverless cars coming.
I do think that driverless cars are coming for many reasons.
I think driverless cars are coming because like the author said technology is advancing and google cofounder Sergey Brin sadi he believes the cars would use half the fuel and would fundamentally change the world.
These cars should be made because they would help all types of people and make the roads safer.
They could help older people who cant see as well as others or drive as well as others and they can help out high schoolers who are not yet licensed but want the freedom of being able to go places.
I also think that this will happpen and should happen becuase in paragraph 10 the author says "Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020."
That just says that car companies are doing all that they can to come out with the cars that can drive themselves and making every advancement that they need to to get the cars made and on the road.
Lastly i think the driverless cars will cause alot less crashes and alot less injuries and deaths because if cars can drive themselvse then there is a lot less chance that the car will crash into other cars and cause lots of injuries and deaths.
In conclusion driverless cars would be a great advancement for the world and for the economy and would cause less car crashes and injuries.
Therefore i do think driverless cars will come and be very succesful soon. | 3 |
9e599a1 | Many people have heard of the "Face" of Mars. My friend and I were arguing about if it was ancient bona fide evidence of life on Mars, or a natural landform. We argued a bit, but he finally believed me after i told him the real facts. Here is my evidence of the "Face" being a natural landform.
Beggining with the first image ever uploaded on the "Face", many believed the "Face" to be some sort of alien artifact. NASA stated it was a rock formation, and this would be proved over a period of years. Firstly, when the picture was taken, scientist thought it could have been an ancient artifact, but then found out it was just a mesa, but with unusual shadows to give its appearance. This is stated in all of paragraph 2,
"There must have been a degree of surprise among mission controllers back at the Propulsion Lab when the face appeared on their monitors. But the sensation was short lived. Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." Next, much better photos were taken, almost 18 years after the original image! This is stated in this sentence, "We photographed the Face as soon as we could get a good shot at it. And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his MArs Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos."
Finally, a final picture, taken in 2001, was the key to finishing the research and to prove it was just a mesa, beggining with "Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo." and is also stated in "So if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!."
Nevertheless, the controversial photo was disproven. This shows how much a popular photo can become a question science can, or cannot, answer. So it is finally over and done with, the "Face" was actually a mesa with a shadow, taken at the perfect time to show a face. | 3 |
9e5cbf8 | In more recent human years, travel has grown and grown and grown, when taking a horse from one side of America to the other would have taken countless years in the past, now we get in our cars, hop on to US1 and drive for a few days and we are on the other side of the country. Cars have connected people all over the world, allowing them to reach loved ones, and friends and family easier then ever. Although with every good thing comes some bad. Cars run on gas, and when they use the gas they cause pollution, that is slowly destroying the earth, second driving a car can encourage people not to walk and exercise since they can just push a pedal and go as fast as they need for as long as they need, finally running a car costs lots of money. Having to fix up the car and pay for gas to run the car, people without cars would have lots more money to spend on other nessesities like food and water.
But with todays technology it doesent really matter if you drive or not, cars are becoming more fuel efficient and even hybrid, the amount of benefits to negatives really does not balance out, being able to go anywhere or being 0.00000001% help for the environment, also driving cars creates jobs for people everywhere, designers, mechanics, gas station workers, etc. So although, yes not driving would help the environment, it would also cause hundreds of thousands of people to lose their jobs, crippling the environment and destroying america, a country that basically survives off car sales. When your wife is giving birth and it takes 30 mins to drive to the hospital, are you going to be happy that you sold your car to save the environment? | 2 |
9e5ccc7 | People are arguing about keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. People saying its a bad idea for keeping the electoral college and they want the popular voting for the president. The passage "Does The Electoral College Work?" is about keeping the electoral college or changing the system by popular voting. Its showing the negatives and postives about the two agreements. My two sources shows why not to keep the electoral colleges. "Source 2: The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer is about wrongs about electoral colleges such as the winner-take-all method and more. "Source 3: In Defense Of The Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" by Richard A. Posner is about how Electoral Colleges votes are good and how its hard to use electoral votes by citizens. Im against Electoral Colleges because its unfair and worthless.
Im aganist Electoral Colleges because its unfair. Its unfair because your not voting for the president, your voting for a slate of electors and thats not fair at all. Its not guranteed that the person you wanted to become president will be president. The quote i have shows how electoral colleges are unfair. this quote states that "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races inthe "swing" states." The candidates does not know the states because they havent been there for awhile to understand the states problems. They cannot fix it if the candidates doesn't know. Electoral college is outdated and irrational to the voters and not fair towards them either. This other quote I have can show how electoral colleges are unfair also. This quote states that "The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor." The disaster factor is that the state legislatures are responsible for picking electors, and that those electors always defy the will of the people. The system contain worse for the people and its truley unfair.
Im against Electoral colleges because its worthless. Its worthless because the electoral college dosen"t care about the people. Its lacking on everything in the system such as responsiblities and fairness. This quote states that "There are five reasons for retaining the Electoral college despite its lack of democratic pedigree; all are practical reasons, not liberal or conservative reasons." This shows that the electoral college is lacking in things concerning the system to the electors and president. Its worthless to the voters if its not helpful. My other quote that shows how its worthless is that "It can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrrying their state." Democrats in Texas are one of the reasons about Electoral Colleges. Their votes will will have no effect, they have less incentive to pay attentionto the campaign.
Im against Electoral Colleges because its unfair and worthless. Its unfair to the voters and worthless if its not involve with the voters too. People can like the Electoral Colleges, but I think its not good for the United States of America. | 3 |
9e5d535 | I do feel that this would be helpfull in a lot of classes. Not all the students understand the lesson all the time so they just dont do the work, but with this tool in the class room the computer would see that the student is not understanding and will change the lesson so thst eveyone gets it and is on task doing there work.
I dont feel that this should be used for anything else but to read students emotional expressions in class. This is helpful to the teacher aswell because not all the time do they see the ones that are not understanding what is going on because as long as most of the students are getting the esson they don't see the one's who are not. Most students who dont understand the work will not say anything and just sit there and look like they know what is going on but don't. So this will be good for picking them out so that they can get all the help they need. This is also good for when a teacher might feel like noone gets the work because of how the class looks even though they all understand it they just dont look like it the computer would let the teacher know that everyone is fine with the work and understands it.
In conclusion i do feel that this new technology would be good for all schools and that it would be a big help. | 3 |
9e62098 | The electoral college is how presidents get elected. But when people vote for president they do not dierectly vote. The electoral collge does not work and is irrational. It does not help anyone and can cause a candidate to lose the presidential election. It just does not work anymore.
The ellectoral college does not work. "The Indefensible Electoral Collge: Why even the best-laid defense of the system are worng" By Bradford Plumer says " The single best argument against the elctoral college is what we might call the disastor factor". They are talking about how Al gore got the popular vote yet George bush won. This is a prime example how the electoral college doesnt work. The voters were cheated into there win. This just shows how unfair it is. "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defense of the system are worng" By Bradford Plumer says "Can voters control whom their electors voe for? Not always."
This basically says it is possible for u to have no input in what u vote for. If your vote does not count then why should u vote. The system doesnt work and needs to be tossed. The whole point of americas goverment is that your voice matters but apparently the electral collge is free from the rule.
The electoral college is out of date acorrding to the article. "In defense of the electoral collge : Five reasons to keep our despised method of chhosing the presidant", says " The elctoral College is widley regradred as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a presidant out to be [Overruled} by declatring the candidate who recives the most popular votes the winner". This article speaks the truth. Being a democratic like america the people rule and if this method is not democractic then off with it. It does not benifit us and will do more harm then good. "In defense of the electoral collge : Five reasons to keep our despised method of chhosing the presidant", says" The electoral collge avoids the problem of elections in which no candidte recieves a mojority of the votes cast." But that should be the reason one is elected. If they are most popular than why do they not get the vote. If they did the best campainge they should get the victory.
The electoral college is old and illogical. It is tired and needs to be replaced. AMerica is a new country and americans like new things. Change may not all ways be fun but it may be right. WHy should americans go through this hell anymore. Elctions are you as an individual trying to get the one who you approve into office. This is wjhy the electoral college is old and needs to retire. For america. | 4 |
9e6c4ac | Who wouldn't want a driverless car? They're the next big thing and all everyone wants to be is seen with one of those cars. However, are driverless cars really that good? Can you assure your safety and other passengers safety? I think we shouldn't use driverless cars and put our trust in them. First, the system can malfunction. Second, they're not that helpful. Third, they'll cost a fortune.
Driverless cars aren't all that safe. Driverless cars are just like hybrids and any other cars. They can easily break down in the middle of no where. Why would you put you're trust in a computer controlled car? Remember that anything can go wrong. Next, driverless cars aren't really "driverless". According to the passage you still have to stay alert on the road for accidents, construction, and etc. Sure they alert you when you're going to run into something and brake themselves and accelerate, but you still need to stay intent for when to take control of the car. The "driverless" car can't do everything on it's own. Lastly, do you really think those car are going to cost like any other car? Well you're wrong. Driverless cars would probably be the last thing your budget could handle. Driverless cars would cost thousands of dollars with all the sensors, cameras, and GPS all included. They even have laser beams that makes a 3-D model of the cars surroundings. Now that's fascinating. I see why you would want an driverless car.
Driverless cars are great and everything, but i don't think they're worth it. First, the car can malfunction. Second, they're not that helpful. Finally, they'll cost a fortune. They're trying to get in our heads making the car seem cool and the next big thing, but come on let's be honest. All they really want is our money. A human programmed the car, and what do all humans do? Mistakes, we all make mistakes.Think about it, would you really spend thousands of dollars on a car that you can't put you're trust or safety in completely? | 3 |
9e6c4ed | Exploring Venus will be dangerous but humans can get knowledge about Venus and see more than any telescope can show us.
Venus is the second closest planet in space and the hottest planet in our solar system.
But if we can explore it then we will understand how it works and if there is life on Venus.
Even the slightest life form will be amazing and then we can do experiments on it and see how it can substain life on the hottest planet.
Danger will come when we explore Venus but it will be worth it if we can survive on it and we will find a way to explore it without the ship melting or exploding.
A good reason that we need to explore Venus and find a way to substain life on it, is that it is the planet that is the most Earth-like planet in our solar system.
This planet could have had oceans and life form many years ago because there was craters, valleys, and mountains at one time or another.
The text states, "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familar features such as valley, mountains, and craters".
Venus is sometimes the nearest option to planetary visit.
If we make it to Venus then we will be able to explore more planets and understand more about our planet.
When we make it to Venus we will have to hover 30 or plus miles above the surface so the astronants will not have to deal with the dangerous conditons and temperatures that come with the planet.
The text states, "At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit".
If we could survive on this planet then we would have plenty of solar power and that's how we would get our energy to power our ships, houses, and ect.
The text states, "Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels.
NASA is finding a way to visit Venus by using silicon carbide and this concoction has lasted up too three weeks in a simulation.
The text says, "some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the choas of Venus's surface and have lasted up too three weeeks in such conditions".
They are also looking at mechanical computers that is old technology that was tested before.
They are looking at older computers because the newer computers are delicate and can not take a hit or it will break.
For example try to take someones celephone and put it in an acid or heat that is capable to melt tin that is what the modern computers will do if they take them to Venus.
Venus is one of the hottest planets but is the most interesting planet.
It is like the Earth in many ways.
Venus has many challenges and it is in human nature to complete challenges and take them head on.
Venus has many beautiful items but also has many destructive storms and volcanoes.
We need to expand our minds and create new inventions and innovations to expore this beautiful planet. | 3 |
9e6ccfe | The author suggests that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it present."vening star is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even an anmateur stargazer to spot". this quote is telling us that the eveing star is really bright and its the most beautyfull star of all stars in the sky.
"often referred to as earths twin venus is the closest plant to Earth in terms of density and size and occasionally the closest in distance too". this quote is showing us the closest planets to the Earth. venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar sysrem, even though mercury is closer to our sun. The national aeronautice and space administration NASA has one particularry compelling idea for sending humans to study venus. NASA possible solution to the hodtile conditions on the surface of venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. imagine a blimp like vehile hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling venusain landscape. At 30 plus miles above the surface temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees fahrenheit but the air pressure would be close to that sea level on earth. Solar power would be plentiful and radition would not exceed earth levels not easy condition but survivable. in conclution this story is all about eart and the venus . | 1 |
9e6d437 | The development of driverless cares are a negative impact to the society here is why. Technoogy has been
improving everyday new items in the market
have been coming out and lately everyone has to have the new items . We were born in the 21 century now we have smart phones that can track friends or family around to see where they are at theres computers that can speak for the
mute many more things.
Now they have created a new invention which is driverless cars a car desgined to drive itself around without human sensory . According to the article in verse 2
it notes that " Google cars arent truly driverless they still alert
the driver to take over when pulling in and out of the driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues "
by issues they mean " navigating through road work or accidents" Are driverless cars really benefitful for our society ? If you think about how many things are placed in the car wouldnt you think the car would be expanisve to buy. This would mean that certain people are more likely to get the car and others would probably be vechile less because if the world gets rid of cars and places new cars that drive on their own wouldnt you think people would be either calling a taxi or find another way for transportation.
Now in verse 5 it states that " senors can cause the car to apply brakes on individuall wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manange alone"
what would happen if the satiltite glitches and the sensors dont pick up the signal?
There would be more accidents caused then when people actually drove the car.Also would the car even come with emergency brakes like todays cars do in case of an emergency.
In todays society there had been notifiers letting citizens know not to tex and drive due to driverless cars wouldnt you think that the human brain would be devious and be tempted to reach for a cell and text. Now that the human isnt driving maybe there could be other things going on the driver wouldnt be aware because they were to busy being distracted by the items in the car or in their hands | 4 |
9e6ea7f | Venus is worthy of continual human study. The author makes this statement very clear. Despite the clear dangers of human exploration on Venus, scientists feel there is much to learn about this possibly once inhabited world. "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life" (4). Venus contains many features unilike the Earth, but scientists claim "it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system" (4). Studying Venus would be an extreme opportunity for the scientists around the world to develop new technology and gain knowledge about "our sister planet" (4).
With Venus's "thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide" (3) it is an extremely inhospitable planet. The planet has an insane surface temperature of 800 degrees, making it impossible for humans to land a space craft and gather data. Since this surface temperature is hot enough to liquefy metals scientists have had to adapt their thinking of how to innovate a creating that could withstand this heat. NASA has imagined a "blimp-like vehicle [that could hover] 30 or so miles above" (5) Venus. Scientists at NASA have been brainstorming innovative approaches to making Venus exploration possible, like a silicon carbide, mentioined in paragraph 7, that has been tested in a chamber similar to the conditions on Venus's surface. They have also been comparing technology from decades ago called "mechanical computors" (7). The brillant technology used today is fast, but has become more delicate, whereas back in the 1940's "these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all" (7), making them perfect for Venus exploration beucase of their higher resistance to pressure and heat. An energy sorce on that planet is already provided as "solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Eath levels" (5). These challenges of the dream of one day taking man to travel to Venus is keeping human curiosity working to create the inventions needed.
In order to learn about Venus the space workers need samples from the planet. With the idea of a hover craft to simply fly around Venus 30 miles above the surface we cannot gather samples of rock or terrrain and "most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective" (6). This means there would be no reason to travel the to dangerous Venus if they could not bring any knowledge back to Earth. The more scientists understand that to bring valuable knowledge back to Earth, they need to overcome the callenges and risks of this mission "to contribute meaningfully to our knowlege of Venus" (6).
The author of this article does well in presenting the knowledge needed to claim the value of a dangerous mission to Venus. Of all the evidence proving the meaningfullness of information about this planet, that used to be not unlike Earth, human curiosity and the yearn for exploration of the unknown is more compelling. It gives scienists at NASA a ryhme and reason to create machines that can withstand hundreds of degrees of heat and obstacles to overcome to bring home samples of a planet "dense and [sized]" (2) like Earth. "While 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" (1). Exploreres and innovators must find a way to get up close and personal with a planet that has been out of reach of our spaceships for three decades. The author ties this entire article together by claiming, "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" (8). The adventures humans go on should be determined by the great minds working to invent machines to over come the seemingly impossible. A mission to Venus for humans to study is beneficial to scientist who will stretch the laws of nature to invent new technology that could be used in the future for more than this mission to Venus and people around the world will be able to know valuable information about "our sister planet" (4) Venus. | 5 |
9e70c0b | Dear congress, 1. I belive that everything you guys do is amazing. Except onr thing, the Elecotoral college. In my opionion having one is just a waste of time, money and effort. Why spend money on Electores when you can just spend that money on anything else, you could let the people of the U.S decide thatb for themselfs. Accoring to a artical i read about the year 2000 , 60% of voters would rather have a direct election from popluar vote then to have the Electoral college (source #2).I f more then half of the U.S popluation(which is in the millions)wants there to be no electoral college and have the president win due to popular vote, then what are we waiting for?
2. Think about it, if the people where the ones to pick the u. s president they would choose someone that they think would be best for the country. There might not be any conflict in the white house about who picked who , because they didnt choose anyone. The electoral college consist of 538 members each state having more or less depending how big there state is,for exampel texas would have more then ohio since its much larger. or florida aving more then new york ect......
A majority of 270 electoral votes most be given to a party for that president to win.
3. In conclusion, i think that a electoral college is use less and they should let the people decide on their president. | 2 |
9e753f8 | Technology has made amazing advancments throughout the years.There's this new talk about driverless cars and from my point of view I can say that it's a good idea but it could be a bad one.
According to the passage Google has been testing on trying to perfect a car to drive by itself but needs some improvement.I can say that this is a good idea no only does it give the drive free time to do things its also safer.Smart cars notify you when your in danger so that you can know when you have to take over the car and drive yourself.This however has its faults.The reason I say this is because why would the cars be named drivereless cars if you still need a driver to take over when its time.According to the passage by 2020 Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that drive by themselves.The technology we have can get us there but how we use the technology is what is going to get us to that point.
Next I say that this is a good idea because it relieves stress off off poeple who can't drive themselves.It enables elderly people and people with amputated limbs to get around and get to the places they need to go.With the technology we have and the constant demand of improvement it won't be a short time until we actually have a driverless car.Also it helps people if there is an emergency in their car they can just turn around and pay attention to that emergency instead of waiting until they get somewhere to do it.If the emergency isn't that bad then in that case its ok but if it needs imediate attention then why not have a car that can drive for you and you can get to whoever needs your help right at that moment.
However, I say that it is bad because someone can fall asleep behind the wheel and can cause an accident if the car is unaware that someone is still in the car.But in all reality with the sensor technology we have today and its constantly improving there isn't a reason that the cars sensors shouldn't pick up that a human is still inside the car.Also accroding to the passage people are thinking that entertainment and information systems would solve that problem. "We have to interpret the driving fun in a new way."Dr. Werner Huber, a BMW project manager driver said.This quote shows us that we are not the only ones thinking, "Well what if I get bored and fall asleep behind the wheel."
In conclusion I believe that driverless cars are a good thing to think about and could be a possibility in the near future.However, there are some faults and that is why people are working to fix those faults so that our world can be a better place.One more thing that the driverless car offers us is less gas usage which means the non renewable source if oil will stick around for a longer period of time.One more thing that the driverless car downfalls us at is even though we can have a driverless car it still requires alot of work.With the technology we have anything is possible.We the people,by the poeple, for the people.We as Americans can help make the driverless car dream come alive. | 4 |
9e7f5bd | Would you owe a "Driverless cars." if possable? Driverless cars should be stopped from being created. Driverless cars sensors can suddently stop working and can cause an acsedent. They can also are not fully in control someone always have to be in alert and ready to take over. The also mentions 'safety is best enforce within alert drivers."Driverless cars" should stop being funded because it can cause an accident, a human will still have to be aware and ready to take over, and the law also states that.
Driverless cars sensors are nothing new of course, but they may also fail at occations. When sensors fail at anytime it may cause an accident. If the person in the vihcle dose not know what is going on it may lead to a extream unfortinit case. It may leave the passengers extreamly hurt, or even worst it may lose a life. In which case we do not want to occure. Technollogy may fail.
They are also not fully controlled on it is own. Someone always has to remain ready to take over when ever is needed. Why will someone want to do that when not having fully controlled or no controlled at all. People would offten lose sight of the road. People may also get annoyed. They also say that they may place cameras on vhicle to watch the driver stay foucesed on the road. If the car cannot do that on it's own i belive it should not be a car to be able to use.
Lastly the law it's own belives that 'safety is best reenforceed with drivers alert. When only people think that it is not quite a big deal but when the law belives the same way it is something major. As that have been said most states it is illegar to even test a driverless car. Some of those states are The distric of Columbia, California, Nevada, and also Florida. Whitch i agree and it is a great idea to enforce.
That is why Driverless cars should not be funded nor try to be created. Driverless car sensors may fail and can cause a tragic. They are also not self conntrolled on it's own. The law also said 'safety is best reenforce with alert drivers.'
Would you still want to own a car like thing? I hope this changed your mind if so. | 3 |
9e83f64 | Driverless cars look like they will be used on the roads in the very near future. I am for the idea of driverless cars because i believe they are safe and are capable of more than just driving people around.
I believe driverless cars are more safe than actual cars that are driven today. These driverless cars have the capability of something more than just driving on their own. Driverless cars make sure the driver is paying attention to the wheel at all times, as stated in paragraph seven. In paragraph seven it is said that none of the cars developed so far are completely driverless. This means that the cars can "steer, acclerate, and brake themselves, but are all designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills". It is also stated that manufacturers are considering installing cameras that watch the drivers to make sure they are remained focused on the road. The statement "while the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver" means if the driver were to fall asleep, the car would alarm the driver that they are in danger and they need to pull over to rest.
I think that driverless cars seem safe, and maybe even safer than cars on the road today. Sensors are very important in these cars and thats what will make them so safe. The technology being used in the cars are important as they will help the car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel. Information of the sensors can cause the car to brake or reduce power from the engine. This passage states many times that the cars are being made to alert drivers when going through tough situations such as accidents or roadwork on the roads ahead. A manufacturer "has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object", which will also help the driver to be aware of their surroundings and will reduce accidents.
These new technologies are definitely going to be beneficial in acting as a human would drive or to keep the driver alert. I believe driverless cars are a very good idea in order to keep people safe on the roads. | 4 |
9e8ccf4 | Having a driverless car in the future would be very useful. The automakers are working diligently on making smart cars more effiecient, but why would we use a smart car that would still need assisting? It will take a while for automaker to get the car to drive without a human assisting them. Driverless cars can be very challenging and may cause issues for people.
Driverless cars still needs a driver on alert while driving. They need a driver's human skills for work zones and accidents. It is going to be difficult when the driverless car alerts the driver. The driver would probably get bored waiting for the alert. Some would probably text while the car is in control or sleep. Automakers should find new way to make the driving experience more fun and safe at the same time.
Having driverless cars may have some benefits. Using the driverless cars for a public-transport taxi system would use half of the fuel we use today. They would be more flexible than a bus. Driverless cars are useful when the driver need someone or something to take over the wheel. Sometimes, the driver will need sleep after a long drive. Automakers are working hard on making the car more efficient and fix any problem that could happen in the future.
Is it really safe to use driverless car? What if it breaks down on us or malfunctions? At an accident, Woud the driver be at fault or the manufacturer? Many problems will occur. In the ninth paragraph, it says, "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrian safe." Driverless cars will have some safety issues. The car still need a lot of work to be on the road.
The driverless car still needs improvement. It will cause many issues. It still needs a driver one alert. Driverless cars should not be on the road until it is very safe and efficient to use. | 4 |
9e8effb | Well i think we should chang them becuase some people can get confussed about who they vote for. I think it be good to chang them becuase a president could get a lot more votes but when the other voter get one or two more Electoral College votes then they would win. I think they should be chang becuase there could be 500,000 voter but then for california 55 voter represen 35million voter. Like in 2000 seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all even Rhode Island and the 25 largest voter didn't even see a campain ad.
It not even the people who elect the president it the electors who elect the president. It says that Gore had more populare votes then Bush but lts electoral College votes that help him win so they say that if u have more electoral votes then populare u win. When he increased his plurality in some states he increased his votes that shows a bad president to people and he won't now what to do the people don't feel like he there president. | 1 |
9e93646 | There are so many reason why using a car can destroy our community,personally I think using your car less would be a good idea. There are some advantages of limiting car usage,as you know the fume inside the car could give you a lot of problem with heart your lungs when you breathing air. By limiting our car usage we could have a chance of protecting the new generation from the polluted gas that comes out of the cars. In some country many people are happy even they are not using cars to go anywhere example In Germany life goes on without the usage of cars.
Alright look I get that cars are a good transportation device because when your have a long way to go It could be very hard to there and you want to use a car that is acceptable,but like If you have to go somewhere that is 1 mile do you really need a car to get there. You don't have to have a car to have a happy life just look at this little paragraph i have search up."As a result,70 percent of Vauban families do not own cars,and 57 percent sold a car to move here."When i had a car I was always tense."I'm much happier this way,".
When we use cars a lot it cause us to buy a lot of gas that cost a lot of money. A study last year found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. Many teens and adults died from car accidents it might because they driving to fastor someting else. All that I am trying to say is that cars can be good for the community or it could bad for the community. That is all and why I think it a good thing to have the advantages of limiting car usage. | 2 |
9e940ef | I think the face on mars is a land form becasue. Only a few scientist thought it had something to do with aleins.
I tink it is a huge rock formation like said in the story. And I also think they said whatever they could just to have the chance for tax payers. To pay to help build the rocket or rover to get pictures of mars and study the surface. And I think it it was real it would be more detailed by maybe making hair eyebrow's or mustache. And standing up. And it is two miles lonf I dont think something would do that. And there is landfroms in the united states like the snake river of Idaho but we never mad that and it looks like a snake. A lave dome in a mesa is the same hight as the face of marrs also. And I dont think it would have a bunch oh holes on its forehead if it was made because usually things are made good and if they can fly a space ship to mars they have to be pretty smart. Other wise they would not be able to build it. And I alsp thought it was fake cause the other mountain by it.
So I physicaly think it would be inpossible to make soemthing that huge of a human. And I think there would be a giant hole around the face because were they needed the rock or whatever it is on mars to make the face. And its like a cloud kinda just because it looks like a bunny or dog dont mean someone made it look like one somethings just happen that way.
So my final opinion on this is that it is fake and noone could make this unless you had thoulsands and thoulsands of people. And nasa said after they took pitures it was just a quensedence that it looked like a humans head. I could see why people say that cause I see eyes a nose and lips. | 2 |
9e9556c | For years, the United States has been mass producing and using cars. It may sound surprising, but America has already reached its peak when it comes to buying cars (source 4). More and more people around the globe have begun to realize the benefits of using alternative means of transportation. Places such as Vauban, Bogata, Paris, and even New York have implemented programs to encourage the limitted use of cars. The idea of giving up such a comfort may sound tragic at first, but reducing car usage has many advantages.
We use cars everyday for pretty basic purposes. To get to work or school or to run errands are just a few examples. Now, imagine what would happen if a car were not available to you. It probably would not be the end of the world. You could catch a bus or ask for a ride from somebody. If you really needed to, you could even ride your bike or walk to wherever you needed to go. People in the past tended to fear using alternative transport, for varying reasons. Maybe friends or family are not willing to give rides. Maybe the sheer thought of walking a mile may seem terrifying or ridiculous. The most common reason is probably that having a car is just too convienant, it seems that there is no need for any other way of transportation! But life can and should be adjusted to fit into these sources of transport. In Vauban, Germany, for example, residents have given up their cars in favor of a life without them (source 1). I just proves that contrary to popular belief, cars are actually not a neccesity!
Citizens in Vauban, Germany walk or ride bicycles when they need to go someplace (source 1). It's almost needless to say this, but they have a much healthier lifestyle than most car-owners in the United States! They are not afraid of walking or riding a bike a bit to get where they need to. Not only are these people in better physical shape, but one mother, Heidrum Walter, tells us that when she had a car, she was always tense, but now that she has given it up, she seems happier (source 1). Carlos Arturo Plaza, in Bogata, Columbia, says that using his bike on their annual no-car day reduces his stress levels. There is a direct corrolation between physical activity and mental well-being. The more activity, the better you feel. By limitting car usage, we are also encouraging the physical exercise that comes in place of it, making us a happier, healthier community.
Maybe the most important reason to reduce car usage is to protect our enviroment. By obtaining and burning fossil fuels, we are both running out of this resource and posing the threat of spills and air pollution to our environment. The gasoline we use to fill our cars certainly won't last forever. It won't even last for much longer at the rate we are burning it at. Also, spills can be devasting to the ecosystem it impacts, as we have seen in the past, for example the BP oil spill. Perhaps the biggest disadvantage to the gasoline we use to fill our cars is the air pollution it leaves behind. Transportation is the second leading source of emissions in the US, behind power plants (source 4). Also, in Paris, the smog from automobiles got to be so bad that they set laws to ban cars on certain days (source 2). Just by reducing car usage for a few days, the smog cleared tremendously. It wouldn't be hard at all for each individual in this community to cut back on the amount of time they spend driving in their cars, if for no other reason than to keep our Earth clean.
Over the years, we Americans have grown accustomed to relying on cars for our every need, but we can't do that anymore. As a community, we need to open our eyes and see the changes happening around us. Cars are not a neccesity. We don't even need to completely get rid of them, but it is neccesary for us to cut back, for the sake of our health and our environment. It may take some getting used to, but I promise, it is more than possible. In the words of Bill Ford, we can soon move forward to a world where "pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions, and improve saftey." (source 4). | 5 |
9e9a1d4 | Technoloagy has improved the world, with new technoloagy humans acomplish jobs quicker, but there are some technology that shouldn't be allow to be use by humans. One of the technology is driverless cars. There should not be any driverless cars on the road conserdering the safty of everyone, the moneny that the goverment and taxes needed and the improvement is just not that useful.
Google confounder Sergey Brin invented a transportation system that could drive independently under specific conditions. But "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 isssues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents." If the cars still needs human to operate then why even have a driverless car? This improvement of tecnology is useless, improving car to driverless yet still need driver to oprate and drive.
Furtheremore, the driverless cars are computer driven cars, there are no garrenties that the computer will not make any misstake. Even smartphones and GPS these days have problems and makes misstakes. So, there could be a chance that the computer driven cars will make misstakes, rather the misstake will cost a life or more. "Most driving law focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safty is best achieved with alert drivers." The lawmakers know that if a driver is not alert, accedients will happen.
Adding to the point, driverless cars "read the positive and negative polarity in binary code. These smart-road systems worked surprisingly well, but they require massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical." The money that is need to build these code on roads inorder for driverless car to work better are way to expensive, why waste the moeny on a fancy road when now there are still holes on normal roads?
In conclusion, humans should not use driverless cars. It is a waste of moeny and investment. While the car is called driverless car, the irony of still needs a driver to operate is just unecerary. Also, for the safty of the drivers, passengers, and pedestrians it is to dangerious to drive a driverless car. The technologys are not perfect. Driverless cars that are controled computers and computers will make misstakes, when is this does happen who is it that to blame? The drive or the computer? | 4 |
9ea622e | Experiments and new ideas are paving the way for new cultural changes. Cars are emitting more and more pollution every year. Researchers and studies show that by limiting the use of motorized vehicles the harmful gases trapped inside the ozone will eventually diminsh.
In Vauban, Germany they have given up theirs cars. "Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in ths experimental new district" says Elisabeth Rosenthal. According to the article, 70 percent of Vauban's families do not even own a car, and 57 percent sold their car just so they could move into this suburban lifestyle.
Paris, France decided to give this experiment a try. After five days France recorded that 60 percent of the capitals congestion went down. This has made more clear skys and easier breathing habits for residents.
The United States is now thinking about trying this new change. Researches say that since the recession not many people are buying cars now a days. They dont have a need for them as much as they did before. Numbers have been going down steadily since 2005. "If this pattern persists-and many sociologists believe it will-it will have beneficial implications for carbon emmsions and the environment" says Elsiabeth Rosenthal.
With this new cultural shift, it could be better for people, industries and most importantly the air we breath! | 2 |
9eb8719 | I believe that the Face was a natural landform. Now in this esaay im going to state 2 reasons why I believe that it's a natural landform.
The first reason I believe this is because in papragraph 7 it says" Thousands of anxious web surfers were waitin when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing....a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." This part of the prompt tells that alot of people wanted to know what the faces were and they found out that the faces were natural landforms. This sentence also shows that they went out and found that it was a natural landform. That is just one of the reasons why i believe that the faces are natural landforms.
The last reason I believe that they are natural landforms is in the 11th paragraph it says" As a rule of thumb, you can discern thigs in a digital image 3 times bigger tht the pixel size," he added. "So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they are!" This paragraph tells how there was no way that with that camera they couldn't miss the fact that it was a natural landform. So, if there were alien prints they could see them with that camera though the lences.
Those are just some of the reasons why o believe that the faces are natural landforms. | 3 |
9eb908c | "All of our development since World War ll has been centered on the car and that would have to change' said David Goldberg, an official of Transportation of America. It is imperative that our fellow citizens take the initiative to limit car usage for the whole purpose of saving time,conserving resources,lowering emissions and improving safety for ourselves and others .
Limiting car usage is an effective way in reducing our air pollution(smog).Most of our greenhouses gases are the result from the use of car or fuel engineered automobiles.
Source 1:In Geman Suburb,Life Goes On Without Cars states that "passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of the grennhouse gas emissions in Europe.. and up to 50 percent in some carintensive area in the United States", this means that most of our greenhouse gases are resulting from the overusage of cars that emit an abundance of CO2 into the atmosphere which generally has a negative effect on the enviroment. If car usage were to be limited that would mean the greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced which will then lead to a reduction in air pollution. Implementing the reduction of car usage would have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the enviroment,since transporatation is the second largest source of America's emissions,just behind power plants.
Car usage has contributed to cities low safety level. This is because cities are more denser with the use of more and more cars. If car usage were to be limited that would mean that these cities would be better to walk around in and other alternative transporatation methods such as bicycling and public transit have an easier way of getting around to save time according to
Source 4: The End of Car Culture.
This implication may have a negative result in lost revenue in the car industry,but which is more important the world we live in or money? There are many more alternatives than using cars that emit greenhouse gases such as plug-in cars,hybrids, and cars carrying three or more passengers as stated in
Source 2: Paris Bans Driving due to Smog.
With the reduction in car usage that would mean that the resources that were needed to support the vehicle would be conserved because there would only be a small amoun of it being used. With the reduction in the usage of the fuels then the the remaing amount would be for other purposes that would need it or be saved over time if the US were to need it in the future.
To conclude if limiting car usage would be in then it would just have a positive efeect in the worl we live in. Not only will limiting car use would reduce the amount of smog being produced but it will also increase the United States safety level and conseverve the resources as well. | 4 |
9ebb468 | Extensive analysis of the text idicates that the use of driverless cars will drastically improve the world and the quality of living in our society. New sensor technology today like the dubbed "LIDAR" allows for safer, smarter, and more efficient driverless cars. Driverless cars are the future of todays society, and should be embraced instead of restricted.
First and Foremost, in reality, driverless cars are not truly driverless; the car mearly assists the driver in driving to make it easier and safer for drivers. Driverless cars utilise on board sensor arrays and outside communication to effectively make sure the driver and the passengers are safe in transit. While inside a driverless car, the driver must stay alert and be ready for work zones or accidents. New iterations of the driverless cars are catering to the concern that drivers in driverless cars could go offtask whilst driving which is a mahor safety concern. They responded by allowing the driver heads up displays and the ability to turn off the autodrive at any time to take control of the driving.
On the other hand, laws in many states ban driverless cars, because the current driving laws all revolve around the driver controling the car, not the other way around. Also, lawmakers argue that cases of an accident including a driverless car would be much more complicated, because no one would know who is at fault---the driver or the manufacturer. This issue with lawmakers in certain states is holding back the driverless car industry greatly.
To conclude, certain automakers are still evolving and revolutionizing the driverless car industry. Tesla announced a 90% autonomous car, and Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have manufactured driverless cars by 2020. The driverless car industry obviously has many more hoops to jump throigh and has a lot of potential, but it is still a theory and not yet a concept. Although struggling through public and leglistative support, the driverless car industry still strives and continues to make big leaps into the future for mankind. | 4 |
9ebbf14 | The author explains that we should study Venus and what the dangers that this may presents and if we could get past those dangers and yet surive on this planet is that, no spacecraft have a successful landing on Venus yet because of its conditions that the planet has just in its atmosphere. In paragraph 3 it exaplains all of the diffulcties trying to get a spacecraft on Venus "97% of it atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide, the planets temperature in general is over 800 degrees, and the clouds are made up of sulfuric acid."(Paragraph 3). This shows us that the dangers and how risky that this might bring to us, if we do land on this planet.
The way that they author puts this article is that if we get past all of the dangers that this planet holds is that we could find some very useful sciencetific evidence that may come important to us. And if we get past the dangers of the clouds the heat we could prove that we can overcome those coditions that many planets that may have in the future that we may study. In paragraph 4 it explains why we still want to go after this planet and discover it fetures that it may have "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may once have been the Earth-like planet in our solar system"(Paragraph 4). This explains why we want to go after this planet and how much we want to get samples from it and I think that the author really shows a good job on what the dangers are than actulaty explaining why we want to go after this planet.
Many this can come into a good way of exploring this planet more since we haven't actullay landed a spacecraft on the planet yet is that in paragraph 5 it shows prof that NASA still want to go after this planet and send humans there eventulay, "Because of the hostile conditions on the surface of Vensu that they would allow scientists to float above the fray"(Paragraph 5). This shows us that we still want to go after the planet and try to study what is going around the surface of Venus but we would still not be able to go onto the planet and collect samples from the planet that we would want to do that in the future.
I think that the author shows more on there side more of the dangers of the planet than just stating out the factor reason why we want to send humans out to that planet and get data from it, I believe that in all that the author evenly explains why we want to go after this planet and get data and why we shouldn't go after this planet, because of the dangers that it holds. | 3 |
9ebd4a9 | The author suggest the studuing of Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.In the story the author put out information on the value of returning to Venus seems indisputable.The author had put information in the article about striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value.The author expresses his feeling on the topic by writing our tavels 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 the story the author stated human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors.Due to the fact that Venus may well once have been the most Earth-like planet. I believe our curiosity will make us strive to explore Venus.Since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours it would be untouchable by human we couldn't last a second on venus.
One of the dangers of Venus is its thick atmosphere of almost ninty seven percent carbon dioxide.Another danger of Venus is Venuses temperature.The atmospheric pressure is ninety times greater than the atmospheric pressure we deal with on Earth.The environment of Venus would crush a submarine accustomed for diving the deepest parts of our oceans.
To wrap it up Venusian geology and weather are highly dangerous and cause trouble to the probes seeking to land on its surface.The paragraphes before show that the author believes the exploration of Venus is worth it despite the danges Venus presents. | 2 |
9ec345f | Driverless cars. Possible or not? Either from personal transportation to public, people have been wondering; "Is it possible?" I belive that with the technology that we have today, it is very possible. It would reduce accidents massively, but it is technology. If the self driving mechanism would malfunction, that car could become a hazard to the driver and anyone around it. But it is still an interesting idea to think about, considering what everyone sees in movies.
Many companies are already trying to construct working self driving cars. For example, the first people to truely test this theory out was General Motors in the late 1950s, while nowadays companies include; Google, BMW, Tesla, Mercedes- Benz, Audi, Nissan, and GM are a few. A few issues that they have to make a fully functioning model are that it would be too expensive to truely make it functional, especially if the maufactures use magnets to run on a set track down every road. Another issue they have is that they cannot steer themselfs around accidents or construction. But with those issues aside, it would be a lot better for the enviroment, lowering exaust by about half of what it is today, and it also would lower accidents.
All in all, self steering cars are the future of our lifes today, although an expencive option, it would be worth it. Whether its smart roads, or smart cars, would be benifitial to how we deal with things now. They would lower accidents, and allow idiots to text on their phones while driving. Just look out for the stray dog on the roads, and you'll be fine. | 2 |
9ecb756 | Some advantages on limiting car use can be actually very favorable for the enviroment as well as for the people. If the usage of car is limited there would be less pollution, less car accidents and no more "stuck in traffic". As of that it would be a healthy way of life, more excise and more time to pass with other people.
One thing that could be a good way to start this "Limited Car Usage" would be what the city of Bogota, Colombia is doing: The Day Without Cars. This is promoted as a program when in that day cars are banned with only buses and taxis permited. This inspires the people to walk more, ride a bike, and if something is very, very far they could just take a bus or a taxi. This would make a great impact on people's life and maybe it would soon be joined by other cities or whole countries like the cities of Cali and Valledupar have already done.
In Paris, France driving was banned due to smog, not exactly like that, but it was partially banned to clear the air of the city. For example one rule they had was that on monday motorists with even-numbered licence plates were ordered to leave their cars at home and that they next day it would be the odd-numbered plates who would have to follow this rule. Thanks to this little rule congestion was down 60 percent in France's capital and the smog was cleared off.
In America is almost the End of Car Culture. There have been recent studies that suggests that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. By this alone you can see that "We are witnessing a long-term cultural shift" as Mimi Sheller said. Now yes, this whole "No Car" or "Car Limiting" rules can have a negative implication for the car industries, but in general for the rest of the people this would be a good impact in their lives.
In general "Car Limiting" can only make a positive impact in the lives of most of us and also in the enviroment. And as Bill Ford said at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelora, Spain: "Pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety". | 3 |
9ecc83f | Did you know that in our solar sytem, the planet Venus is referred to as Earth's "twin" in terms of size and shape? Since Venus, Mars, and Earth are closest to the sun, scientists believe that Venus and Mars may have once had real life growing on these planets. Such as a source of water like lakes or oceans, or even plants or terrain. Earth, Venus, and Mars also travel around the orbit in different speeds. This means at some point Venus is closer to Earth and at some point Mars is closer to Earth.
Its believed that venus may have had some forms of life long ago. In paragraph 4 the auther states "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus becasue 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. It may seem a nice worthy pursuit to study venus and go there, but Venus does have its dangers. For example in paragraph 3 the authur states " A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere" and " On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees farenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet".
Despite Venus's dangers, Astronomers still have the curiosity of studying the planet. NASA are finding possible solutions and ideas on how they can send humans to study Venus in a safe manner. NASA has come up with a possible solution which is "Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape. Temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Farenthei, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on earth. This concludes that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because studying Venus could lead to many science discovers. Its stated in paragraph 8 " Our travels on Earth and beyond shoukd not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation". | 3 |
9ecd3e3 | Do you want to live and see your family another day? If you say yes to this then help us take a stand against these driverless cars. These cars can not guarentee your safety with just a few cameras and sensors. These cars also basically do not do much to help if we're the ones that have to, park, pull out of spaces, navigating through work zones, and around accidents. Your life is more important than relaxing while a car drives for you and can most likely wreck and cause death to you and many others.
First, Driverless cars can not save your life with some cameras, a GPS system, sensors, and a inertial motion sensor. A lot of people might be thinking that this is a good idea, an idea to let a computer drive for you but no one is thinking about what could happen if something malfunctions on the car and you wreck and get injured or possibly death. Also there might be a possibility that the Dubbed LIDAR (camera that uses laser beams to create 3d models of the car's surroundings) gets broken by hail, a storm, or even someone breaks it off. These cars never said anything about how this car can guarentee the driver's safety. That should give everyone the general idea that they might not really know what could happen to you but they don't want you to know.
Next, These "Driverless Cars" aren't doing much driving for you if you have to be the one to do some of the most simplest things that even the computer can't do. Your the one basically doing most of the driving since they need you to park, pull out of spaces, navigating through work zones, and to go around accidents. Does that seem like you should even spend way more money because of how much they put into it, for no reason? They should've made more extensions to the vehicle if all it does is steer, accelerate, and brakes themselves. These cars they are trying to put out there on the market when they only do 3 small things for you and could still possibly malfunction and cause the deaths of innocent lives.
Finally, You shouldn't be letting a computer drive for you. Your life is way more important than relaxing for a few minutes and for you to most likely wreck and kill innocent civilians. These cars can possibly danger the lives of families. There is no point in buying a car that could kill your family or a loved one just for you to relax for that short amount of time to get to your destination. These cars already didn't say anything about guarenteeing your safety let alone trust your life with a copmuter.
In Conclusion, Your lives matter to the world more than a smarter car to save you a few minutes of relaxing. Don't be the one that takes your hands off the wheel and could possibly kill the people you love. The people you care about in that car could be dead in seconds if you let a computer take over your car for that small amount of time. Rise up today and take a stand against the people that are building cars to kill innocent people or even the ones you love dearly. | 4 |
9ecd631 | Intro-
This new facial software could be the next step to communicate with people without the use of words. Created by Prof. Thomas Huang and collaberated with Prof. Nicu Sebe, they have inventited a computer software that can reconongnise what a human's emotion's are (Par. 1). The new software would scan the 44 major muscles of the person, it can detect wether the person is lieing about what they are feeling or not (Par. 3). This facial software would change the way we see people, as it shows what people really are feeling.
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The software created by Prof. Huang and Sebe is reliable on computers. It would scan the face and construct a 3D model of the students face with all 44 major facial mucles and would have to have a phychologist, such as Dr. Paul Eckman to judge the appereance of the face to see if it shows the 6 emotions such as happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust and surprise (Par.3). This could help tell the emotions of students or if they are telling the truth on how they feel. Any student is bound to be emotional, the scanning system would be able to tell which emotion is being told because certain muscles would be activated in the face (Par. 8). These uses seem very standard but are they useful?
With only being able to scan faces, there really is not much use to this. People can already judge other people's facial expressions by noticing key differences to how someone smiles, if they are faking it or not (Par. 7). There are already lie detector tests that can prove if someone is telling the truth or not, which seems like the most cheap option. Though it doess have many uses, it can properly tell someones facial features with emotions. Better than most people can judge, a computer will be able to show what a specific person is feeling. Since humans are universal, most scanning will be accurate at telling people's emotions (Par. 4). Of course the purpose of this facial scaning can be anything us humans can already do for eachother, but the software has full knowlege of what we are feeling.
Conclusion-
The software can change our view on how we see eachother. All uses for this softtware are amazing but with even our own selves mostly capable of judging others and being accurate, it makes this software useless. We humans can already tell what we are feeling, we know ourselves better than any computer. Even phycologists have to properly tell what the emotions are and they are human not software (Par.3). This could be benifical but there are already lie detector tests that can be more accurate as it even measures pulse, which can differ with emotion. There are more downsides than upsides, but who is to say that this software wont improve in the future? | 4 |
9ece952 | The technology to read students emotions isn't a very useful thing. Not everyone wants you to know how they feel when it comes to their emotions. This could be useful to determine pictures and see how they were feeling at the time of the picture. Most people wouldn't want others to know how they feel somedys.
FACS which is a way to identify human emotion can become used in the wrong way. Some people could use it on others who don't want other people knowing how they feel. Some people just want to keep their emotions to themselves so that others can't see or know them. This could become a privacy issue when it comes to how people use this device. They could use it on people that don't want them to know what they're feeling. This device could become useful to see how people felt in movies, books, or even paintings. I don't think that humans should use it on other humans unless they had permission to do so. When people hear about this device they may think that it isn't worth it, but it could be useful when it comes to things that happened long ago. Seeing other peoples emotions can be harmful to them unless they allowed you to do so. A lot of people want to hide their emotions and keep them to themselves. Emotions are something that can be shared or they can be kept away inside somebody. They can tell people or they can hide it, either way its up to them. This is why this device isn't helpful to the world. Again it may be helpful with things back then but seeing peoples emotions right now, it isn't something that is very useful to the world today. Todays society wouldn't like this product very much because if they wanna know a persons emotions all they have to do is ask. They don't need a fancy device to tell them how that person is feeling. Besides some people dont want you to know hoe they feel one day or maybe at all. Peoples emotions can be kept to themselves and shouldn't be told to someone with a device instead they could just ask.
So this device isn't helpful to the world today. In today's society people dont want others knowing their emotions. If they want to know they can ask and if that person wants to tell them then they will. This device is an invasion on peoples privacy because not everyone wants you to know their feelings. This device wouldnt be used by very many people in the world today. | 3 |
9ed9135 | "Therefore, scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks". This is just one of the the examples that the author uses to support the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.
The author is clear when he describes Venus being an important planet to discover. In the text, it says "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our sloar system". They also state, "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters". The author is giving background on Venus and how Earth-like it used to be. This is the important part of Venus in the article that the author is describing.
Next, the author makes sure to describe the dangerous part of Venus too. For example, he says "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere". The author is describing that Venus is a very dangerous planet to discover. As in the texts, it says "...temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet". He aslo describes previous missions to Venus, stating "...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". This is more evidence that the author supports the idea of studying Venus despite the dangers.
In conclusion, the author does a excellent job supporting the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presnts. The author supports this idea with evidence from the text. He concludes his idea at the end by stating, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expaned to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation". | 3 |
9ee0c20 | The anachronism that is the electoral college is a system that unfairly represents voters and can possibly lead to catastrophe. The much simpler solution would be election by popular vote where every voter in every state matters rather than the system of the electoral college that discounts many voters opinions. The arguments against popular vote are either illogical or inconsequencial and we as a nation should pay no heed.
The biggest and most obvious problem with our current electoral college system is that it unfairly represents voters in the states. An example of this unfairness towards voters propagated by the system is expressed in "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" by Richard A. Posner where it is stated that in the 2012 election between Romney and Obama Florida gave all of its electoral votes towards Obama when he only won 61.7 percent of the vote. This method completely exludes the opinion of the minority, that 48.3 percent of people in Florida who didn't vote for Obama got their say taken away, their opinion no longer mattered to the election because all of the electors were given to Obama by a small majority. A second unfairness to the voters is the attention taken away from any voter not in a swing state. In the article written by Bradford Plumer named "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" it is said that in the 2000 election that seventeen states got no attention from the candidates whatsoever. This system gives undeserved attention to a few swing states which will decide the election because of our outdated system of the electoral college. If popular vote was instituted the attention given to voters of all states would be equal as every vote from every state matters.
A problem with the electoral college that could possibly outshine the unfairness of it would be the potential for catastrophe that it brings. As is stated in "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer the electors presented by the states according to popular vote are not even obliged to vote for the candidate they said they would. Even though this may be a rare occurace a single elector betraying his party could cause misrepresentation of millions of Americans. Another possible disaster would be a tie vote in the electoral college. This situation, as explained in the same article, would cause a vastly unfair election incomparable even to the unfairness of the normal system. This horrible system consists of each state getting one vote for the president which when you consider that some states have many times the population of others means that millions upon millions of people could have the same say a a couple hundred thousands, an injustice unthinkable in our society and one that could be stopped by instituting a popular vote system.
The arguments against popular vote presented in "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" by Richard A. Posner are unrealistic, unsupported, or insignificant. The argument presented as "Certainty of Outcome" says that a dispute over popular vote would be much more common but provides no evidence to support the claim, invalidating it. The article's second argument states that candidates would have more incentive to stay in their region if popular vote were implemented but this entire argurment relies on the fact that there are not enough electors in any one region in order to elect a president. Although this is true it doesn't matter because the same is true of population, no one region has an overwhleming population advantage over others and population is what matters in popular vote. The third arguement is the most illogical stating that the electoral college's tendency of causing only swing states to matter is actually a good thing because it increases the education of the populations of those states by the increased attention by the candidate, therefore the educated would decide the vote, making it more accurate. This is a parochial and shortsighted viewpoint, not considering the fact that the system of popular vote would make candidates pay attention to all populations, making all voters more educated rather than having some elite educated aristocracy in the swing states. The articles fourth argument is possibly even more deluded than the third, stating that large states get more attention because of the electoral college which balances out the fact that states have hugely varying populations but the exact same thing would happen in popular vote because some states have larger populations and candidates need larger populations for election in popular vote. The electoral college in this instance changes nothing meaning that the argument leads nowhere. The only argument presented in "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" by Richard A. Posner that has any merit is the fifth which shows that popular vote could lead to possibly complicated run-off elections. Although that is a disadvantage of popular vote I believe that the vast unfairness and averting disaster is worth the cost of slightly complex run-off elections.
To support the eletoral college one must rely on unrealistic or insignificant evidence. This "evidence" can be easily refuted and outwieghed by strong evidence from the opposing side. To support the electoral college you are supporting unfairness and catastrophe and to any reasonable person that is not a very intelligent idea, making the need for popular vote irrefutable. | 6 |
9ee0e40 | In "The challenge of exploring Venus" the author suggests that the studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because of the human cuirosity. they shoud be able to strive to meet new challenges and explore new things
Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite danger because In paragraph 8 it says " but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." also another example is in paragraph 8. it says " our tarvels on earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanding to meet the very edge of imagination and innovation." this proves that venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger because danger shoudn't stop people from doing what they want to do.
Another reason why studying Venus is a worthy despite the danger is because people find new things about Venus if they go study Venus. in parargraph 7 it says " For example, some simplified electrnoincs made of silicon carbon have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have been tested for three weeks in such condition."
This proves that studying Venus is worthy despite the dangers it presents beause people like to know whats going on in Venus
and it is important to study Venus and see what son it. there a lot of new things there. | 2 |
9ee622a | The driverless car is the whole new way for the public transport .The car that can drive it self you won't have drunk or sleeping problem while they are driving.
If you have a driverless car that have bben control with the computer you will have less accident than what we have right now but what will happen if you get hack by the terrorist or that kind of people what can you do they can steal your car away really easy or they can kidnap you while you are riding the bus or they can do a car bomb without any chance to get hurt imagine what can the terrorist can hack to the main control system of the driverless car they can destroy every thing i will be a mess countless people will die the building and everything will get destroy and right now we don't have a way to protect the server from the hacker yet i want to know how can you prevent this thing from happening but if yo u can't you shouldn't do this at all don't put people live in to this kind of risk for your profit.
I didn't mention about people that will lose their job to these driverless car what can you do about this the money that they get and feed their family are you going to snatch their job away and let them starve to dead just so you can sell your driverlesss car.
By the way what will happen if your main computer that command your driverless car error or overheated is that mean all the traffic will be shutdown and you cannot do any thing until you fix that
The last thing i will mention about is the signal that you sent back and forth from the car to the gps or the controller how can you control the car when there is a place that got a bad signal right now some place you can't even get a good signal with wifi then how can you do that with all this driverless car system
I think their is to many problem to fix before you start this system you need to think about the people that work for the public trasnport and all the bad thing that will happen. | 3 |
9eea4e6 | There is many different advantages to limiting car use. The most important advantage to with this experiment is less gas emissions exit the exhaust pipes and cause greenhouse gases. This is a major advantage because our economy is filled with so much pollution and can and has caused serious damage to our health. The Environmental Protection Agency is promoting many car reduced communities. Paris, France enforced a driving pan to clear its air of smog and toxic gases. Any motorist who got caught driving was forced to pay a fine of $31. If refusal to pay the fine came to, The drivers car was impounded. The main cause of this smog in Paris was caused by diesel fuel. Diesel vehicles make up 67 percent of vehicles in Europe.
Another main benefit from car and driving reduction is exercise. Instead of driving people can ride a bike, walk, jog or even run to get to their destination. In Bogota, Columbia there is a program that is possible to spread to other countries. Millions of Columbians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car free day. In America studies show people are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses each year. This can help stop the obesity rating not only in the U.S. but also in many other countries.
Finally, Another advantage is people can save a whole lot more of money each week, month, and year. People of every country spends hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions on their car. Whether it is for gas or buying a completly new car, People are consistently spending hard earned money on something that can be avoided with a nice relaxing walk. With citizens not spending money on these so called "necessities", they will be able to buy more important things. For example, Many people will be able to purchase a newer home instead of living in a weekly rent pay of an apartment. This can give many people the feeling of accomplishment and the feeling of control over their life. They will also be able to purchase food and drink so they don't starve or dehydrate. Many people go hungry everyday and suffer from dehydration. With vehucles gone people can save the necessary money needed for more life saving things. | 4 |
9efb395 | Can you believe there is a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System that can identify your emotion? I believe this system would be outstanding to use in a classroom because this system can look at a students face and determine their emotion. Just like any new system there are going to be advantages and disadvantages, so those need to be taken into consideration. In summary, I stongly believe that schools should begin using the Facial Action Coding System in school.
What is the Facial Action Coding Sysytem and how does it work? This system is a computer that builds a 3-D computer model of the face that you are testing. Then, the computer analyzes the face movement. For instance, when the muscle above the eye moves and
eyebrows are rasied the emotion is conveyed as suprised. Now, there are also many other emotions that the computer can read like happiness, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. In summary, this system is a process that works by analyzing a face and the face movements of a person to determine their emotion.
There are
many outstanding reasons why this program could be valuable for students in a classroom. First of all, this system can show how students are feeling. When a student is feeling sad or scared someone will know and they can help the student that is feeling those emotions. In addition, this program shows many emotions. For instance, a student will know when another student is happy, sad, suprised, angry, scared, or disgusted. Now, most of all classrooms have the shy students who are scared to talk, so by using this, the students teacher or other classmates can recognize the shy students emotion and help them through it. In wrap, students and teachers would be able to talk more easily about their emotions with one another by using this program.
Using the Facial Action Coding System could potentially be useless for students to use in schools. Many people aroud the world use different facial expressions for different emotions. By using this program, it could become inaccurate due to students not using similar expressions for each emotion. For example, some students don't smile as broadly as others so they may not be considered as happy as other students convey. Now, home PC's can't handle complex algorithms, so how is a teachers outdated PC going to handle this program? Many teachers still use PC's that are out of date and very ancient, so teachers won't be able to demonstrate how this emotion reading system opperates. In addition, students may also not be able to utilize this system becasue their PC might be unable to handle complicated algorthisms as well.
The Facial Action Coding System could become valuable to students in classrooms. Although the system has many disadvatages like reading an emotion inaccuratly; I strongly believe that this system could work wonders for students in classes everywhere. In summary, because of the ability to recognize many emotions, this program could become extremely valuable to students in classrooms all around the world. | 4 |
9efdabd | The Face on Mars is a natural landform it has been a pop icon since it started in HollyWood Films, Books, Magazines, Talk shows, and haunted check-out lines for more than 20 years!. How could The Face on Mars be created by aliens if aliens aren't real? Why would NASA go through all that trouble to make a fake Face on Mars.
The face is a natural landform because, before it was a face NASA captioned it as a "Huge rock formation". It was a humans head it was also formed by shadows, which made it seem like the huge rock formation had eyes, nose, and a mouth. But it was just an illusion. NASA knew that if they were to put the "huge rock formation" on Mars they would attract a lot of attention. The were right! As soon as the huge rock formation was on Mars that's when NASA started getting all the attention NASA knew was coming.
So this is why I state that NASA's "huge rock formation" is NOT fake, like I said earlier why would NASA go through so much trouble just to make a fake humans head on Mars? | 2 |
9f0da63 | Exploring Venus
I love the thought of humans trying to explore venus and one day maybe even making it there alive. I personally think that this moment in time would be a bad ideal to try and do so. There are of course pros and cons to exploring Venus such as research and a better understanding for the planet. But the cons can be very deadly for only gaing some information. A trip to venus could be almost pointless considering that a human would have a very little chance of making back to earth.
Exploring Earths sister planet Venus to me is by far way to dangerous to any human. With tempertures up to 800 degrees Fahrenheit and a atmospheric pressure 90 times greater than Earths. Making this planet almost impossible for even spaceships to land on. Venus could have a atmospheric preesure the same as Earths, with a Temperture not as hot as 800 degress and would still be almost impossible to go to, Do to the fact that the planet is "coverd with erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes".
If NASA found a way to get human life to Venus it would be almost pointless to go. Anyone who would make it to venus would be very unlikely to make it back to earth. Since venus is coverd mainly in natural disasters there would be nothing to do there. Collecting information would be very hard and pointless as well considering the author stated that "The planet Venus has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys and mountains" Nothing that Earth does't already have. This means that if you gatherd information on Venus and brought it back to Earth there would be no diffrence and Humans wouldn't be able to tell that anyone has even been to the planet.
Although I am against the fact of Human life going to venus does not mean that i will be in the next one hundred years. I personally think that we just dont have the right technolgy to make the trip from Earth to Venus. Right now we should focus more on what we need in order to make sure everyone is safe. Humans should start to find a better material that can adapt to the very harsh conditions that venus has to offer. Aswell as a forsure way there and back. Humans would need a material like no other to even live on venus. So before NASA trys to visit the planet they should find or make substance that will fit the conditions of Venus.
I fully support the Authors ideal that studing Venus is a worthy pursuit and im sure one day Humans will make it there. The Author does a great job at suppoting the study of venus although the dangers. I think that humans shouldn't try to go yet considering the dangers it has to offer, It would be almost pointless to go right now, and We just dont have the right technolgy that we need in order to survive on the planet or make it there and back. I support the Athours statment that "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of Imagination and innovation". Just this quote in general tells me that the Author really cares about this topic. | 4 |
9f13fa5 | The main question is does FACS truely work? If so how does it work? Do you have proof that it works? How can a computer tell emotional expressions? If some people have trouble figureing out other people emotion then how can a computer find out. How long does it take to find the emotion. These are only a few questions I have to ask.
How does the software work? FACS the Facial actio coding system said that in the mona lisa picture that she was " 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry how do you know that you can't just look/scan a picture or a face and or a painting to find out if she is happy or not. Prof. Thomas Huang was the sciencest that was working on this prodject to get it working and truely work but He is haveing alot of problems about it haveing to fix bugs and better ways for the software to run smoother and faster. The man all behind this who thing is Dr. Paul Eckman, he is the creator of FACS.
I feel like this 'Software" wont last long. There is gonna be problems and bugs that your gonna have to sink alot of money into. You have to be willing to have more then one colleague helping BUT lets get down into it. The 'Software" dont need to be in classrooms its not valuable for example how are schools going to pay for it and how are we going to install and hook up all the right wires. What if the school is 3 stories high. How much is it to install and hook everything up. | 2 |
9f14487 | I think that people should participate in the 'Seagoing Cowboys', because you will learn things, know things, and see things that are new to you. You would also be very amuzed by half of the things you see, such as long ago history buildings, and even musumes. This event that you will take, will open the world up to you. It will show you how other people do things, and how they get treated.
If I had the chance to be a 'Seagoing Cowboy' I would take the chance, because there is so many opportunities that you will take such as lifetime events. You would see things and stuff that you probally have never seen before, I would love to see Europe an Africa. Like Luke went to a castle that was most likely beautiful and amazing. It would also be a good family trip or good friends trip, if you went with one of them.
Many people are instrested in history so it would be a good trip full of amuzed things. You also could probally visit the history building, were special events took place. People would even ask you to try or do something and that would also be a lifetime event that you always wanted to do. Most people don't like doing this stuff because it 'takes to long to get there' or something, but like i keep saying, it's a lifetime event that you would want to take because maybe you will never be able to do it again, but you can atleast tell people you have been there. While you are there enjoying them places, take pictures so you will always remember that moment, they say if you take a picture it will last longer.
In this story that i just wrote, it tells you good reasons to take the chance of becoming a 'Seagoing Cowboy' .The fact that it would be so amazing and cool, and it once a again, a lifetime event. I would like you to think about what you would see and adventure while you are going adventuring to these amazing places, or maybe you don't want too, I would still like for you to think about that. So, for now on I want you to think about what i told you, and think about becoming one. | 2 |
9f16331 | As a scientist at NASA, I think the face that was captured on Mars is just a natural landform and not something that was created by aliens. When Micahel Malin and his group of Mars Orbiter Camera snapped a photo ten times bigger and clearer than the original viking photos, People were excited and were watiting when the was image was first posted on JPL web site, it revealed.... a natural landform. Yes, there wasn´t any alien statue. It has nothing to do with aliens.
Even after that. People stilll believe that perhaps the real alien monument was hidden by a wind since it was winter in the Red Planet. So, mission controllers are preparing to look again for some real eveidence. They said that it was a real hard work since they don´t pass around that particular alien statue look alike very often.
As they keep looking, they finally take the picture they wanted to take but it was not a good quality. ¨As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size,¨ explains Garvin. Guess what they found? but before that, he also says that if there are any objects or anything on the planet, they will be able to see it by zooming it. When they actually study about the photo that they have taken, there is no such things as alien monument or anything extraordinary. Garvins expressed his thougts, ¨It reminds me most of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain in Idaho,¨ and added, ¨That´s a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the face on Mars.¨
So, I hope you understand my point now that you know NASA have studied Mars over and over for a lot and a lot period of times and still, there are no alien discovery. If there are ever any alien discovery or something
extraordinary that NASA have found on Mars, or say any planet. It is most likely that we will want to share it to the public about it. No, we wouldn´t want to keep it a secret because we wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars. | 2 |
9f181dc | Aliens
Some people don't believe in alien lifeforms on other planets; they would say, other planets can't support life there due to multiple things: no oxygen, water, food, etc. We scientist respond to this with, "We have all those things here, there has to be some other planet like us."
Humans need food, water, and air to live, but that doesn't mean that aliens do. They could be like plants and create their own food inside their bodies. As for water, NASA has discovered that there used to be water on the moon, so what is there to believe there couldn't be any water anywhere else.
People can be very religious and about the Bible and God, but other people can be all about evolution and not creation. If humans evolved from animals, then we might not be the only ones. Which means that if humans can evolve into humans, then other organisms can evolve, also.
The Face on Mars might be a butte or mesa, but that doesn't mean other organisms don't live outside of the Solar System. We can't leave here, so we won't ever be able to know. Life beyond Earth may be just a myth, but it also may be something truly amazing. | 1 |
9f1e1e7 | The author claims that studying Venus is worthy despite the many dangers. Throught the whole passage the author gives pros and cons about exploring Venus. He mentions facts that are good and bad about the planet, and trys to convince the reader that this idea to explore the planet, despite its dangers, is good.
In the first paragraph the author is trying to pull the readers attention in. He gives examples about Venus and explaines why he thinks it is worth being explored. The author states little facts about the planet, but is careful not to mention its dangerouse factors yet. He simple states that another name for Venus is the evening star. He also goes on to say that Venus is the second planet to the sun, and continues with these simpe facts.
As the author moves on through the story he starts to explain more of the cons of exploring this planet. He says that the temperature is well over eight hundred degrees Fahrenheit and aslo that the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we epxerience on Earth.
By telling the reader this information he is proving that even though he is listing all the dangers of doing this and exploring the planet, that he is going to convince you that this is worth exploring. The author goes on to say how powerful this planet is by saying that we have sent space crafts to Venus before and it hasen't lasted more than a couple of minutes, so why would we bother sending a human. He then explains what technolgy that we would be using to make this happen. He says that the computers we have now coulden't work because they are to delicate and can break easily. However we have very old computers avalible to us. The computers that helped us in World War two in the 1940s. He goes on to explain how his would work. At the end he says how he knows that this will be hard but that our travel on Earth should not be limited by dangers and doubts, but that we should explore these dangers.
I feel that the author did a very nice job. He stated what the problem was. He then continued to go on and explain the pros and cons of both sides. He gave many facts that suported his statment in the begining. He also was very organized with his thoughts and how he organized his writting. | 3 |
9f244ee | When looking at the Facial Action Coding System and seeing what it did for this peinting, I think it would be a great idea to use in the classrooms to reqd the students emotional expressions. Dr. Haung observes that many artists likr da Vinci did, and he relized that tney studied human anatomy, this is how they were abel to paint facilmuscles precisely. Dr. Haung relized that by haveing a machine like this one, doctors would be abel to performe better surgery by useing video surgery and or better graphics for video games, beter quality images of human faces and better muscel pictures would become a huge hit in the medical field.
Dr. Eckman and Dr. Haung were both abel to figure out that if you raise your lips at the corner of your mouth, squint your eyes slightly, and raise the outer parts of your cheeks toward your eyes, your lab partner would be clueless on what emotion you were performing. These are the instructions on how to look happy says Dr. Haung. The Facial Action Coding System can even detect when you are forcing a fake smile instead of a real simle.
This is why I feel that putting the Facial Action Coding System into schools acros the globe would be a good thing. Not only would this give the schools feed back on how their students mental state changes throughout the day, but also this machine would help detect early signs of depression and posibly signs of bullying. When students tell teachers they are not getting bullied or hurassed, the Facial Action System might be abel to detect when a student is lying an d or not wanting to share all of the details in his or her life.
These are all the reasons I personally think the Facial Action Coding System should be placed in schools everywhere. People were interested in the face and how the mucels work even whe da Vinci was alive all the way to today when we are atill intdrested in how the fave and muscels not only work, but how they can be minipulated and how each emotion brings on different muscels. | 3 |
9f32820 | I think that everyone should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program because it gives you a chance to see amazing things like different places and land forms that you may never be able to see unless you join. You also get to help other people and give them food and animals and shelters to help rebuild their homes and country. The program teaches you about other countries and their needs and going to expirence that in person helps you understand it more. You get to meet new people and have fun with them and do something great for their country at the same time. knowing that you are saving peoples lives is a great feeling and it lets you know that you have done something good in the world. The Seagoing Cowboy trip is a once in a life time chance to see amazing places and help people rebuild their countries and you get to help people and save lifes. I think that everyone should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 2 |
9f32834 | The Use Of Technology To Read Students Emotional Expressions In A Classroom
I believe that using this technology "Facial Action Coding System" to read students emotional expressions in a classroom is not right because that's like taking advantage of the students privacy on what they could be thinking and looking at. Watching the students faces and not understanding them and why they have the face expression and then using the Facial Action Coding System to help you determine the feelings or the mood could be harmful due to the fact that what if that students had something they didn't want to say or want anyone to know about, but the teacher made it their business to figure out what was wrong by using a technology that could help them.
I found my evidence in paragraph 5 and how I know this is because it states that "We humans perform this same impressivde "calculation" everyday which mean we have the same face everyday that no one seems to read but for instance some people can tell a friends emotions by just looking at there face and even the look they might have gave or had." This could also be used in different by mixed emotions that someone might have and can be compared against a netural face.
The new technology software stores similar anatomical inofrmation as a electric code that help the teachers study the students and paint a facial muscles. Precisely just enough to convey the specific emotions as most students can have a nonverbal emotion including communication so using the computers to figure that out is to under the complex algorithms to determine the mood of each student in th classroom.
The new technololgy could modify the lesson like a human instructor for example Dr. Huang predicts that the "Facial Action Coding System" could be really good use becuase he feel that the painting of Mona Lisa inspired him to recognize studetns emotional expression in a classroom on wtheater if they are bored or feeling behind, and using this technology could prevent the confusion.
As I came to my conclusion I noticed that in a way it would be good to use the new technoolgy but in reality it wouldn't help with anything because at the end of the day trying to read students emotional expressions in in a classroom could be real life stressful I wouldn't want that kind of pressure on any teacher to if they try and read a students expression adn they figure out something they didn't want to know it could be bad on there part. In other words I wouldn't want this new technology in any school becauswe that's too much troubloe to go through with ebery single student an trying to figure out the students emotional state. | 3 |
9f37d8c | In the passage The Challenge of Exploring Venus the authur talks about how we should study Venus even though it is dangerous. He believes that even though expolring Venus can be dangerous that shouldnt stop us from trying to explore it anyway.
A claim that the author makes to support his idea that we should explore Venus is that " Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value". He believes that exploring Venus could be valuable to us on Earth. Some evidence I found in the text that supports hsi claim is that he says " not only because the insight gained on the planet itself, but also becasue human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. So hes basicly saying we might as well take on this challenge because our curiosity as humans will lead us to more challenges just like it.
So in conclusion that is my essay about the authros claim on exploring Venus even though it could be dangerous. | 2 |
9f3a294 | Can a computer system percieve emotions of humans? The software that perseives the emotions of others has improved accurate descriptions of people. The Facial Action Coding System has percieved the emotions of Mona Lisa and has tryed to accuratly grade the percentage of each emoition from the picture. The program bases off of 6 basic emotions which fall in to more complicated catagories. According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles no only expresses emotions, but also may help produce them.
The program is going off of the physical emtion but not the mental emotion the person is having. This flaws the percentages overall. Being another individual you can see what the persentages are and agree with them by looking at the picture in person. The mental emotion of someone may be a lot diffrent then what they are expressing physically.
In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System may be a bit flawed but has improved accuracy quite a lot. Even here is says, according to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles no only expresses emotions, but also may help produce them. The system is very accurate when scanning others. | 1 |
9f3ee0d | I think driverless-cars wiil have a positive impact on society. the reason why I think this way is because, it can provide transportation to everyone. It will also cut down the use of fuel, so it would make the world much more green. different car companies are still working on the cars to make them more safer and to make them more efficient, transportation wise. Nissan, Audi, Mercedes-Benz plan to have driverless cars by 2020.
Although there might be some challenges with having the driverless car out on the road, companies have improved on many problems the cars had. One of the problems would be braking. Companies have created new ways to help the driver in the driverless car be more safer. New ideas such as vibrating seats to let the driver know when the driver is in danger of backing into something. Another one is announcing when the driver needs to take the wheel when there is dangerous road conditions it cant handle.
Even though self driving cars look like it is ready to take the, many people belive the car is still dangerous. the reason why is because the laws in some states say that a vehicle must have a person fully operating the vehicle for it to be safe. so, in conclusion self driving cars will have a great impact on the world. | 2 |
9f40ce0 | I honestly dont think driverless cars are a good idea. Yes, there are benifits to driverless cars but I personally think there are more disadvantages than advantages. I my self personally like the fact that the driver does not have to drive the car all the time. I think it would be a good idea for handicapped people.
I do not think it is a good idea for many reasons. It states in the article that the cars are eqqipted with a gps, but what if there is a current construction or hazard in the route it takes you? How will the car beable to pass another car on a two lane highway? How about drunk drivers? If a drunk wants to get in a car and drive, that car would allow it, but whenever it is time for the driver to take over, 99.9% of the time that will not happen.
I think there will always be manuel driven cars and trucks around. If someine needs to tow something a driverless car would not be able to tow anything. Farmers, personal buissness' and many other people would have a big issue with this.
Although the world is nearly going to all electronics, mechanics will have to go back to school to learn about these new cars. Most manuel driven cars never have peoblems on the road, because everything is mechanical. Switching everything over to an electronic sensor will mess everyone up. If a laser goes out for surroundings around the car, the driver cannot do anything to help it.
Driverless cars is a bad idea. Drunk drivers will be a huge hazard. Along with many other road hazards. I think it is a good idea for handicapped people, and disabled people. | 3 |
9f4170d | The use of this technology (Facial Act Coding System) to read the emotional expressions of students is valueable. It can bring more joy when browsing through the internet, using for educational purposes, or even for video games or video surgery.
Using the software (FACS) to detect a persons expression during a session of internet use could help you feel better instead of having a negative feeling. "For example, if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow." Using your expressions, the software could help you have a more enjoyable time. "But if you frown, the next ad will be different". This technology would help in how you view the internet.
Using the facial recognition software would not only help with the Web, it would also help out many students that have a tough time learning lessons. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." Using the help of the software would be useful in helping the student become less bored or making it easier for the student to understand. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor". Being able to recognize how a student is feeling would help out the student by switching up how the lesson is taught; making it easier or more fun for the student.
Finally, the Facial Action Coding System would help in making video games or video surgery. "Most human communication is nonverbal". Using the technology to improve video gaming would create a beter experience.
This is why being for the Facial Act Codding System would help improve the lives of people in many ways and forms. It would make browsing the internet more fun, having a better understanding of the lesson for the students, to even having more realistic video games. | 3 |
9f4432e | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author has many good points. The author talks about Venus and why we should explore it. They point out that, despite the dangers, it is worth it. They have many good points behind their claim and even have some ideas that many scientists have about exploring Venus.
The author brings up the point that silicon carbide has been tested in Venus's surface conditions and has survived for three weeks. They also bring up the fact that machines made of gears and levers that don't require electronics can be made more resistant to pressure and heat. They also brought up the fact that scientists have thought of making a blimp-like vehicle hovering above the landscape on Venus can solve our problem of not having to land on Venus to escape the choas of the ground conditions. The only flaw in their plan though is that we would not be able to see through the atmosphere, with pictures or eyes, because it is so dense.
While the author brought up many good claims on why we should explore Venus's surface, they're still not fully great or perfect ideas and need some help. The ideas have some flaws, which the author points out. Although most of their plans are good ones and could probably work though. I think the author made good points to get me to want Venus explored despite the dangers too. | 2 |
9f4696c | Facial Action Coding System doesn't seem to bad until there comes a day where you want no one knowing how you're feeling. In the article, the author explains what this technology can do. So far, the article does a job identifying your emotional expressions, "according to some new computer software that can recognize emotions" (D'Alto 1). I am against the value of using this technology to read students thoughts or feelings. There are days when you want your own thougths and feelings kept to yourself, privacy, and as well as being able to learn something new everyday.
There come days when you don't want peope knowing how you're feeling and for some odd technology to just assume your feelings is just not adding up to me. The article shows a picture of the young Mona Lisa sort of smiling. Yes, she doesnt seem to happy, but is she? Only she knows. I dont agree with the computer system judging her feelings. "Shes 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearfull, and 2 percent angry" (D'Alto 1). To me, she looks like she's being forced to smile but like I said, only she knew her feelings while the picture was being taken. I don't believe that should be a thing, no one should be told how they are feeling. If we as humans dont really have a reason to judge, why should technology be able to.
Along with that, the article talks about "a classroom computer could recogize when a student is becoming confused or bored" (D'Alto 1). Recognizing it could allow teachers to change their lessons, due to students being bored. How come? Daily there are students who complain about how boring a class is. No one forces them to come. Students come to school to learn, we don't expect to have fun. If a technology were to let teachers know when students were bored they'd be changing subjects seconds, by seconds. Students in that case, would be happy to act bored just for the sake of it. Less learning would accure if it were for the technology to detect kids who don't care about school who are constantly "bored". No one said school is fun, but neither should a technology detecting students feelings should get in the way of learning.
In the meantime, we have trouble understanding people. To allow a technology to have the power to easily understand thoughts, feelings of us humans is just critical. Allowing a technology to determine your friend's feelings is overrated according to my calculations. "Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisly enough to convey specific emotions" (D'Alto 1). I don't believe something so ordinary could barge in and make us feel disturbed knowing not someone but something knows the way we're feeling.
Therfore, I am against this value of using this type of technology to read students emotional expressions. I believe there are different types of people in this world. There are days where you don't want to share your feelings to people, so why technology. If we are willing to share our thoughts, we will. Not have something so unusal do that job for us. | 4 |
9f477c5 | From the early 2000's to the present day, the number of people who own cars throughout Europe and the United States has gone down. Although personal motorized vehicles can be convenient to own and use, there are many advantages to not owning a car, such as a decrease in air pollution, experiencing other sources of transportation, and an overall cultural shift.
Air pollution is a big issue all around the world. Cars are responsible for twelve percent of the greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and fifty percent of the greenhouse gas emissions in some highly populated areas in the United States. Cities such as Paris have banned cars for a few days in order to reduce the greenhouse gases emitted into their atmosphere. Congestion of environmentally damaging gases went down by sixty percent in Paris after their cleanse, where as before the cleanse, they were suffering through five straight days of heavy smog. Cars are the second most source for carbon emission in the United States. Lower amounts of cars owned results in less pollution in the air, which creates an all around better environment, a huge advantage.
Without personal cars, people resort to using other new and exciting forms of transportation such as biking, walking, hiking, or using buses, taxis, or the transit. In Vauban, Germany, the residents live a new lifestyle without personal cars. The community is small, and there are just a few streets that are easily accessible. The residents in the community experience a life that is close to the people around them. In Bogota, Columbia, once a year they have a car-free day, where the population must find other ways to get around instead of their personal vehicles. The car-free day is very popular, and as a result, has allowed the city to invest in one hundred and eighteen miles of new bike paths and sidewalks, new parks, and new sports centers. In the United States, some people decide to just set up their life around their home. Everything they have to get to is within walking distance of their home. The number of miles driven peaked in 2005, and then declined hevily afterward. In New York, the bike sharing program and the car pooling programs have allowed for less personal car use. Driving by teenagers all throughout the United States has decreased by twenty-three percent between 2001 and 2009.
The decrease in personal vehicle use is leading to a revolutionary cultural change that is crossing borders and making it's way around the world. Since World War II, the development of the world has revolved around the car, but that will soon change. From Vauban, Germany, where there is no car use at all, to the United States, where in 2013, the number of miles driven per person was equal to that of 1995, this cultural change is making it's way into each home. Some explanations for this change are the internet and city centers. The internet allows people to feel connected to family and friends without having to drive to see them. City centers have made the suburbs less populated, which results in less driving back and forth. Some possible results from a cultural shift away from the use of personal cars are less dependence on the car industry, and overall smaller, closer, and more community-driven cities based around transportation such as biking and walking. In the long run, this cultural shift would be an advantage to the world.
In Europe and the United States, many people have already made the shift away from personal car usage. People of the world can partake in a cultural change of less car usage, experiencing different forms of transportation, and all the while positively affecting their environment. | 4 |
9f4e1b8 | In "The of Exploring Venus" that they want sent humans to study the panet. The scientices double think to send
humans to Venus because the condition aren't easy and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience. NASA still wants to approach to Venus to study the planet knowing the danger. According to article Venus has the hottest surface out of all the solar system even though it's not the closes planet to the sun. Besides all the pressure and heat, Venus presents additional impediments like volcanoes erupting, earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes.
Besides all the dangerous things in Venus, scientist say it's the most Earth like panet in our solar system. Long ago scientist believe that Venus was covered with large oceans and could have been some way of life. Today, Venus still has some feature that the Earth such as valleys, mountains, and craters.
In conclusion, I believe that Venus has it up and downs but I believe that it is worth scientist to keep on studing the Venus because it's the most Earth like planet in our solar system. | 2 |
9f4fbfa | The driveless cars are a good development because it could fundamentally change our world. The driveless cars would stop the driver from getting tired of driving around because the car drives itself. Also the positive turn of this is that the driver can take a break and admire their sorroundings. Including, the driveless car let's the driver take control whenever the driver wants. Another good thing about this car is that it lets the driver know what's ahead of the road for them so that they are aware of what's going on.
The driveless car lets the driver know when they have to take over by flashing lights in the windshield, driver's seat vibrating, sensors to make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel, or like Google's cars that tell you when so. Also, the driveless cars are in someway safer because drivers tend to fall asleep or let their minds wonder of, so by having the driveless car your making it safer for those around and even the people in the car.The driveless car is a good benifit to have because it's safe and it's an advantage for drivers. It's also a good for those who hate traveling in cars making it a new and exciting experience. | 2 |
9f5396a | if we look back at time in the united states young people were thrilled to be able to drive. but in more recent years studies show that the young in the united states dont really have the same thrill anymore actually there really not interested at all they find alternative ways to get to were there going like public transportation carpooling biking or just good old walking and really its not a bad idea at all if we can get others in the US to limiting the use if there cars it could do the world a lotta good
If you take a look at Colombia for instience they have a day where in bogota 7 million people are banned using there cars for a day they find alternatives to get around like biking hiking walking busses and taxi cabs doing this is a good way to stop air polluion and also to promote alternatives transportation and if people violate it theres a fine of $25 a bussiness man by the name of Carlos Arturo Plaza says "its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution"
in Germany theres one suburb that carry on's with lives without cars street parking driveways and home garages are grenrally forbidden Vaubans streets are completly car free except the main thoroughfare where theres a tram that takes them downtown in this expermintal upscale town on the outskirts of freiburg car ownership is actually allowed but theres only 2 places to park there are large garages at the edge of the development where a car onwer buys a space for $40,000 along with a home due to the outrageous price 70 percent of the families that live in Vauban dont own cars and 57 percent sold there cars to move Vauban in clousion i think if we could all take a page from everybodys book i truely think we could spread awareness and maybe cut down or even get rid of most of the air polution not just in the united states or columbia or in germany...but get rid of air pollution in the whole intire world
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9f552a6 | The idea of driveless cars seems to be very unsafe. Though the idea would be an industrial breakthrough for 2020, there are still lots of worries to be had.
One reason that driveless cars should not be supported is because they are not proven to be 100% safe. Every machine has a glitch, and a glitch from a driveless car could cause an accident or an injury. Who's to say for sure that the computer will know when to stop just at the right moment. For example, when driving down a busy street there are lots of other drivers. Some may not be as skilled as others. At anytime, there could be a distracted or intoxicated driver who swerves infront of you. The human instinct would tell us to turn into the other lane. Unfortunately the computer's mind might just stopthe entire car causing a chain accident of crashing cars.
Other than safety, another issue with the invention may be the usage of gas and battery life. With so many features added to the vehicle, there would probably be a bigger chance of the car battery burning out. Yes, turning off the car does refresh the battery life, but the battery could possibly die during someone's ride. The same scenerio goes with gas. A self driving car will not pull over to the nearest gas station once it's on E. Also, a distracted rider, who could be asleep the entire time, would most likely not notice the amount of gas left. If the car runs out of gas or battery life, the car will stop leaving someone straned. The only way to avoid this situation would be to alert the rider itself, probably with a tone. Though it may help, there's still no garuntee that all people will be able to hear it.
Besides gas battery life and safety, bad roads may also be a problem. Every person who's ever driven a car has atleast seen a pot hole, or a large hole in the street. Sometimes they can be really big and hard to avoid which just causes most drivers to go around them. Once again, a computer cannot think like an actual driver. The consequence of this would be the driveless car running straight into the hole. The hole's aren't usually deep enough to cause an injury, but they could but lots of wear on someone's tires. The tire could burst or in extreme cases become jammed, which could also leave someone stranded. The computer of a driveless car may not have enough artificial intelligence to avoid these hazards.
In conclusion, with a driveless car there are lots of worries to be had. People who choose to risk their lives in this hazardous vehicle should think twice. The safest thing in someone's life is their own self mind. Saftey cannot rely on technology. | 5 |
9f55388 | Driverless cars could be one of the best inventions in the world if they worked 100% of the time and did not need any help from a human. For now though they are still a very useful invention. There are many reasons why they would and will be in the future. Some of the reasons are, reduced human errors, reduced accidents, and less fuel usage.
If driverless cars became fully automated to the point that a driver does not even have to do anything; is when human errors connected to driving will be close to eliminated. Humans may interfear with the car every so often and cause it to do something unintended, but for the most sake it would have no errors. Being able to drive without ever having crashes would be awesome. For one there would never need to be arguements about who hit who or money down the drain because of one stupid mistake. It would help people save money if they had a car that never crashed because there was no error. It could possible help the economy if people did not ever have to put money towards fixing their car after a crash. It could also reduce the amounts of death and injury from car crashes. Which would also reduce their money spent on hospital bills and inshurance. Driverless cars could be helpful in many ways, and reducing human error could help save people money and injury.
Accidents are very bad no matter how it happens. One way accidents should not happen is car crashes. If everyone followed the rules of the road, there would be no car crashes, but not everyone follows those rules. If there was driverless cars there would be no accidents, because every car would follow the rules of the road. Cars do not text and drive last time I checked. They also do not drink and drive, call and drive, or eat and drive. They do one job only, drive. We think phone calls or responding to texts is urgent no matter the time. Well, we are wrong, I would rather keep my life rather than risk it for a text or phone call, and the same goes for drinking and driving. I would rather take a cab home than risk drinking and driving, not only because it is illeagal, but because it is also dangerous. Your life is the most important thing in the world, and a driverless car can help you savor that. For no one wants to die a death that could have been avoided.
Less fuel usage in cars would be amazing. One reason is no one likes to spend extra money if they do not have to. Lower cost is something we can all agree on. Also it would reduce our usage on the oil we are using up. If the driverless cars would reduce the fuel usage it could help us savor what we have less of, because at some point it will be gone, and when it does we need a backup plan. If we could cut our fuel usage in half right now, it could give us some time to think of something else to fall back on when we get close to losing all of our resources. Driverless cars could be the first step towards that goal.
Driverless cars could have a huge impact on the world we live in today. From saving lives to saving money to saving our resources, driverless cars are expected to help the world a lot. They will be able to help people that are careless today, which could end up savning a life down the road. Driverless cars will be a new start to a new beginning. | 4 |
9f55d5a | In " The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author did well by giving some good points to his audiance to puersuade them why Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers and I think he did well by providing important data about what Venus has, shows an example what NASA is doing with studying Venus, and asking questions to grasp the audiance to be intrested to what he needs to say.
The author did well by showing some facts about Venus. For example in paragraph 2 he says that " on the planets surface, tempretures average over 800 degrees Farenhiet, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater then what we experience on our own planets". In addition he said that that these conditions are far more extream than anything humans encounter on Earth. And I think he did good in a way to give us some facts about venus to make us intrested to why Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers.
In addtion to why the author did well was becuase he was asking questions to the audiance. when you ask questions, that would automatically get there attention becuase if the audiance doesn't know the answer to the question then they would want to know why. In paragraph 4 the author asks "Why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface?" or "but what are the options for making such a mission both safe and scientifically productive? see by asking questions you might get the audiances attention and they would start to be intrested to what you have to say.
Another reason why the author did well was becuase he restated to why he is doing this and why Venus is important. Usually when it come to writing sometimes authors usually don't renstate why they wrote or the purpose of butI think that he did good by doing this. In the paragraph 8 it says "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only becuase of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also becuase human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. 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." And these are the reasons why I think that the author did well by supporting the idea why Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. | 4 |
9f5b732 | The Electoral College is an important process of voting in the president. Many citizens believe that it should not exist and the president should be voted in by popular vote. It's not that simple.
Without the Electoral College, the president might not be thoughtfully voted in. The Electoral College exists for the congress to decide who becomes president and vice president. In the society we live in today, many of the young are voting for who promises stuff that they care about, but not the candidate who is the most qualified and truthful. Congress examines all the information and chooses who would represent the United States the best and who would run the country with an iron first and improve the nation.
If Congress didn't use the Electoral College system, the nation could go corrupt. The "popular vote" could be only by a few votes, and the other half of the nation could get extreamly angry and rebel in protest. This could possible start another civil war. By keeping the Electoral College, this would not happen. The country votes, and that counts a little towards the new president. Otherwise, the country is satisfied with the Electoral College system and is used to it by now so won't get upset if who they voted for isnt chosen. Congress, who carefully reviews each candidate, chooses who is the most qualified and votes. Depending on the population of each state, the sentors and representatives get to vote too.
The Electoral College system has been part of the United States voting system since the Constitution was signed, and should stay as our main system of voting to keep this country as it originally was and true to its meaning. This is the most effective way of choosing the best candadite for keeping our nation united and strong. | 3 |
9f5f865 | Driverless cars are seen in fantasy films, books , and Tv shows but none of this truely wonderful dream been seen in the real world.. That could all change because by the year 2020 a lot of the big car companies such as Mercedes, nissan etc are planning to maek Driverless vehicles. The invention of driverless cars can be a good or bad thing it depends on the way you look at it.
Driverless cars are coming with a lot of new technology such as cameras to see if the driver is focused on the road, on the windshield there will be heads-up displays, the car would use half of todays fuel, and more flexibility then a bus. Some cons of driverless cars can be the price of such technology in a vehicle, the price for companys to manifacture the car, and always if the technology fails and someone gets injured, hurt, or dies on the road who would we blame for the incident? Who is justice served to the driver or the manufacturer?
In conclusion I think they should not create a truly Driverless car there are many cons that come along it and the biggest and most important i believe is going to be the price of the vehicle. A car with a driver is a lot more safer then we know if a incident happens we know who was responcible and why and how it occured. A pro they should add to Drivered car that they are going to add to driverless car is the fuel efficienty, because that is going to help us humans and the planet we live on. Goodbye and as always have a nice day. | 2 |
9f5fa28 | "Hello everyone and welcome to Cloud Nine News. Today we are going to talk about a spectacular program called The Seagoing Cowboys. I'm Alex your host and this is Lucy co-host!"
" Hey laidies and gentlemen! But I'm not the only new person today give it up for Luke. A very experienced Seagoing Cowboy." The last of Lucy's sentence was hushed by the croud cheering and clapping.
" Thank you everyone but it's not me that you need to cheer for it's the Seagoing Cowboys. I'm here to tell you about what they did for me. The oppertunity was astonishing for a small town boy like me I remember saying on my first day, the cattle-boat trips were an unbeleiveable opertunity for a small town boy like me. It's true too I mean it was a great thing for me. I thank my old friend Don Reist for my going." The croud cheered.
" Besides the benifit of helping people I got to explore many different places. I got to go to Europe. I got to go to China. I even got a tour of an excavated castle. Not only the oppertunity was great but being able to travel was amazing."
" The crew was awsome. When all of the cattle or whatever animals we had were off. We played baseball and volleyball where the animals were. Then we did table-tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games to pass the time."
" Wow! Maybe i should join and be the first Seagoing Cowgirl..." Lucy decided to but in.
" That'd be really neat," Luke praised the idea. " I think I'll tell captain about that."
" Okay now any questions?" Alex sounded desperate to get off the cowgirl idea.
" You with the red shirt!" Lucy called excidedly.
" How long were you in the program?"
" I don't remember how long but I know that I went out to sea 9 times!" Luke answered.
" You in the blue shirt with the neat sign!"
" It's not a question it's a comment. I'm going to join the program!" After the boy said that murmers spread across the room most saying "Me too".
" Well there you have it the reasons and answers to questions about the Seagoing Cowboys Program see you tomarrow night with a laundry cleaning women..?"
" Bye Luke!" Lucy called before the show ended. | 2 |
9f60771 | By limiting car usage, research has shown there is less greenhouse gas emissions, a promotion in alternative transportation, and can result in a new and improved safe society.
To begin, the advantages of limiting car usage reduces the amount of pollution that is emitted into the air, resulting in a more environmental friendly neighborhood. According to research in Vauban, Germany, "...Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe...and up to 50 percent in some car intensive areas in the United States." (Source 1) Many locations around the world are taking this act into perspective--including not only Vauban,Germany--but also Paris,France, Bogota,Colombia, and even cities in the United States that are reducing these numbers drastically and making a beneficial change in the environment. "If the pattern persists--and many sociologists believe it will--it will have benefitial implications for carbon emissions and the environment, since transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions."
Next, with the declining usage of cars, citizens are left with alternative transportations that are beneficial. Many people have gone from driving cars--getting from point A to point B--to visiting parks and sports centers, which can lead to an increase in physical activity. Another advantage to giving up your car can also lead to less trafic. According to the new routine in Colombia, "Colombians hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work during a car-free day...leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams."(Source 3) In Paris, officials are enforcing drivers to clear the air of the global city with a partial driving ban. With this new ban in play, "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France." (Source 2) Since the change, public transit from Friday to Monday was free of charge. As you can see, these changes are coming into effect and are changing the world in various positive ways.
Heidrun Walter said, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way--referring to giving her car up. (Source 3) Businessman Carls Artuo Plaza also says, "This is a good opportunity to reduce stress and lower air pollution." (Source 3)
In addition, the reduction of car usage leads to a safer environment. According to Mr. Sivak's research, "There has been a large drop in the pecentage of 16- to 39-year-olds getting a license, while older people are likely to retain their licenses as they age."(Source 4) A study found that driving by young people decreased by 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. With this evolutionary change in peoples everyday lives, many large numbers are drastically going down, revealing numerous advantages. The number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak, the rates of car ownership per household and per person has started to come down two to three years before the downturn, and demographic shifts in the driving population all reveal that people may find less reason to resume to their car-driven habits.
To conclude, the limiting of car usage can improve the environent, can result in numerous transportation opportunities, and can lead to a safer society. | 4 |
9f623df | The Face could not have been made by aliens. If NASA found aliens, they would probably publicize it, mainly to shut the conspiracy theorists up. "Oh, NASA killed JFK because he knew that theywere going to fake the moon landing." OTHER_PII, I am going to hit you with this ridiculously oversized algebra book if you don't shut up. 1. JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, a Communist, and 2. NASA wouldn't fake something that big.We might be Americans, but that's stretching it. Now, the Face is a natural formation that the article said "is a lava dome in the form of a mesa." The Face might look like an ancient Egyptian pharoh, but there are billions of galaxies in this universe. If each galaxy has 1 planet with similar conditions to that of Earth, and they all had life forms on them that are presumeably far more advanced than that of humans, the sky above us wouldn't really be visible, as spaceships would be flying around it all the time. NASA has tried communicating with aliens. They have failed because aliens don't exist. Therefore, aliens and moon Nazis do not exist and cannot create statues or anything else as they are fake. The face is a natural made Martian landmark, and Martian is just a term used to refer to something that is related to Mars. As you can see,the Face is just another rock on Mars. | 2 |
9f62f3a | So close, yet so far away. Venus, also known as the evening star or Earths twin is so close yet we know so little about it. Witch gives us all the reasons to find out more, after all wouldnt you want to know what your liveing by? In the artivcle " The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the auther has meny great points describeing why we need to know more about Venus, and why studying Venus is a worthy prusite despite the dangers that may come along with it.
In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the auther talks alot about why we need to explore Venus. He/she says how no humen has ever been to Venus and how it may be for the best because no space ship has lasted for more then a few hours on Venus. In the text the auther said," Numerous facotrs contribute to Venus's reputation as a challangeing planet for humans to study, despite its proxinity to us." The auther is saying how althow resrving Venus may be dangrous it is worth it to know more about the planet. The auther tells how NASA is working on differnt approaches to study Venus and how they are looking back on old technology called mechanical computurs, witched played a inportant role in the 1940s durning WW2, but was orginaly invented in the 1800s. The reason why they are thinking about useing mechnal computurs is because they are more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces.
All together NASA is trying to find new ways to study this misterous planent that we live so close to. It may take years before we can truely study Venus but in the long run knowing more about Venus will positivly effect us just due to the fact that we know more about our surroundings and mabye one day, far into the feature we will find a place in Venus, a place where we can call home. | 3 |
9f66ed4 | I'm in favor of changing to election by popular votes for the president of the
United States, under the electoral college system they voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors.
According to the aragument of changing election by popular votes the author says that the electoral collage is unfair to voters because of the winner take all system in each state, this shows that is unfair to vote for someone who takes all the system in each state, the author also mentions that during the 2000 campaig. seventeen states didn't see that candidates at all, this includes South Carolina and voters iin 25 of the largest media markets, one evidence from the text is when the author mentions that the election is only a few swing voters away catastrophe.
The electoral college is a process that consists of electors the majority of the electal votes is required to elec the president, each candidaate running for President in your state has his or her own group of electors, for this reason in the following discussion, the word "state" also refers to the District of Columbai.
In sum they both are a good way to select the president but to select the president by popular votes is more acordable than the other argumenet. | 2 |
9f6cb41 | I feel that this could be very usefull in the class room. It could help teaches see what the students are thinking via their emotions they might not think are showing, but their facial mucles are. You could read a whole crowd of people if you where in a lecture teaching about the complex system of the worlds goverments which I am sure every one loves (not) you could see this and change your approach. It would greatly help teachers all around the world I feel if they could get their hands on this technology.
Now imagine if you are teaching a class and all your students where not paying any attintion to the way you are teaching. You could change that if only you knew this complex system of facial mucles better to tell if what they where feeling about your teaching. Then you could change your teaching style in a way that they prefered to learn so they are not so board. Now there is a computer system that can read emotions by looking at what facial mucles are being used. This would help you reach your students better. "In fact, we humans preform this same impressive "calculation" every day." said Nick D'Alto. He even goes on later to say " Yet Dr. Hyang observes that artist such as da Vinci studied human anatomu to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emtions. His new computer software stores similar anatomicl information as electronic code." This shows how largly it would help us keep in connection with eachother if we knew what they felt about a certian subject becasuse we are only human and can only handle so much.
Yet this is sadly still not at the point where every if any teachers can have this beacuse "your home PC can't handle the complex algorithims" said Dr. Huang. So it wil be a while untill we each have powerfull enough softwhere to use it or they can simplify it down to be downloaded on a regualr PC which most Americans own. We can however look forward to the day that this kind of tecnology is avalable to the masses to use to further society and possibly save trroubled lives and reach all students. This is why this could be usefull to help teachers teach better to further our society and make sure that every one has the information our teachers work so hard for to get our students to grasp. This is why we need this. | 4 |
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