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a0ecb4b | I think that exploring Venus would not be a good way to see how similiar it is to Earth if it contains the same environment to start life and grow food on it.The risks are high and it can be very dangerous.
According to the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author call it our twin sister because of its size and density the only problem is that each time they tried to explore Venus using spacecrafts they have failed."Often referred to as Earth's "twin,"Venus is the closest to Earth in terms of density and size.Maybe this issue explains why not a single spacecraft has touched down on Venus in more than three decades.Accroding to NASA though they will stop at nothing to make sure they have the proper reasearch from Venus to make sure its if its safe to live on.
NASA is figuring out other ways to get close to Venus while doing different types of test to make sure the right spacecraft can handle Venu's harsh conditions "some simplified electronics made of cilicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for 3 weeks."Another reason why they want to get close and personal is because observing Venus from a ship won't be as useful to look at ground conditions."peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere,rendering standard forms of photograpghy and videography ineffective."Not only is Venus being difficult they also won't allow proper photographs nor videos it won't even let the rovers land safely to collect samples."researchers cannot take samples of rock,gas,or anything else,from a distance."
So despite Venus's conditions scientists are figuring out a way have an actual person land and collect the information they need.They don't think Venus is a threat they treat it more as a challenge but since humans are fragile they will continue working with rovers.If machines can barley handle Venus imagine what would happen if we were to send a human he/she would be obliterated."temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit,but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. | 3 |
a0f4aea | The Seagonig Cowboys are a group of people who helped serve after World War 2. They brought horses and small cows to towns that were in ruins. To help these countrys they brought food and cattle. They went across the Pacific and Atlantic ocean to give the homeless food.
People should join this program because it help a town in need of assistance. If they didnt they could starve to death. They need to join this program not just for the people you are helping but to help yourself see the good inside yourself. Take Luke, he is a seagoing cowboy that made 9 trips. That is the longest any seagoing cowboy has ever went.
It clearly states on paragraph 5 that " Besides helping people, I had a side benifit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special." He also says it is an oppertunity of a lifetime. He said he couldnt say no. He says it takes about 2 weeks to get across the Alantic ocean. He went over the Atlantic ocean 16 times and the Pacific ocean twice to help those affected by World War 2.
In conclusion, people should join the seagoing cowboys. There are many side benifits of doing so. You could things you could never see and still help people. So, will you join the seagoing cowboys? | 2 |
a0f8530 | As the author mention that there is different risks to live in Venus.
The author uses explicit evidence to support that "Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it represent.
No spacecraft has touch venus and will be difficult for the resistence of the spacecraft. The inner surface of venus and the tempeture will be tough. It will be a difficult task to live in venus.
As a spacecraft aproches to the land in Venus will be difficult and also the resistence of the spacecraft won't be good as aproching to land in Venus.
The author show us that there hasn't land a spacecraft in decades, "since no spacecraft survided the landing for more than a few hours."
This tell us that when the spacecraft is aproching to the surface of Venus it will destroy trying to decend to the atmosphere, because of the tempeture of Venus. Also this could happen because there is no space fo the aircraft to land. This is why "not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades."
The scientist can't find a solution for this spacecraft land of Venus.
But NASA is working on a experiment to have better electronics in the spacecrafts.
The surface of
Venus and tempeture are to high and it can't be a good idea to have people in this conditions.
The conditions of Venus are to high because, it has a high tempeture and it has a high high percent of carbon dioxide.
"A thick atmosphere almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus"
This make a humen live in Venus more difficult and also it won't be able to survive in this conditions. Also the tempeture that Venus has it doesn't have it any other planet "tempeture average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit." While the scientist are trying to find a way to get the radiation of the solar to have more energy.
It will be difficult to make a new home in Venus because of its not easy conditions.
They have differerent contions in Venus, "erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface."
The tenesion of living in Venus is really high because, if you made a hiome close to a volcanoe and it erupt; there will be a lot of lifes dead.
Also when you trying to make a new home it will be more difficult becuase of the hottest surface tempetures.
But there are some parts of Venus that can help you.
"The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters," this tell us that Venus can be good place to live.
In conclusion the studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the darger it represent. Because of the spacecraft aproching the surface of venus can have an impact and also it can have a dangerly caused. Also, because of the tempeture and conditions that Venus has. The high percentage of Carbon dioxide and also the high tempeture and being the only planet that has the highest tempeture.
And the last is Living in Venus it will be difficult life.
Scientist will make something to be able to start a new life in Venus. | 2 |
a0f9d33 | As we head into the future many new inventions and ideas are being created to better human life. One of these inventions is a driverless car. As crazy and far-fetched as it may seem, computercontrolled cars ,may soon be taking over. Driverless cars may be one of the greatest inventionsin recent Years.
The driverless car could solve so many problems that we all encounter daily on the road. For example, driverless cars can solve the issue of speeding. Since there is a computer controlling the car it will always drive the speed limit, saving people money and lives. Also, a computer will never get tired so there is no worrries of falling asleep at the wheel which can also help prevent many late-night accidents. Lastly, driverless cars can help prevent the growing epidemic of texting and driving, as will as drunk driving.
With driverless cars taking over the road, this can help keep everyone safe on the road and prevent thousands of accidents. With a computer controlling the car that knows everything there is to know about driving safely, this can help insure one's safety while traveling via car. Of course there will be situaions that a human driver is more skilled than the computer, such as when there is heavy traffic and/or weather conditions. With time and a better understanding, the driverless cars will learn to adapt to these situations.
Though it may take some time for everyone to adapt to the change of being a full time passenger in the car, while a computer drives, it will all work out for the better. In the long run these cars will help protect people all over and make the roads a much safer place. Love driverless cars or hate them we are heading towards them and they are here to stay. | 3 |
a1028ad | Is it possible for us to identify human emotions with just a simple picture? Prof. Thomas Haung, of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science at the University of Illinois, is working with Prof. Nicu Sebe of the University of Amsterdam to make a software that is able to recognize the human emotions on Leonardo da VInci's Renaissance painting, Mona Lisa.
You may wonder how a computer can recognize facial movements that we use to express our feelings. Well this computer makes a 3-D model of the face. By this point Dr. Huang gives the work over to a psychologist such as Dr. Paul Eckman, who is the creater of FACS. Eckman has classified six basic emotions such as; happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. All of those feelings are associated with characteristic movements of the facial muscles.
Sometimes we can notice these expressions on our own friends almost every day. Then again we might also end up reading their expression wrong, because we aren't really experts. Yet Dr Huang observes that artists such as da VInci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions. His new computer software stores similar anatomical information as eletronic code.
Wouldn't it be awesome if a computer could read your emotions? Like what if you smiled every time you saw something that you liked, and the computer decided to give you more things simliar to that. Or if you decide you don't like it by scowling or frowning it changes it to something completely different. If these advances were possible it could make learning in school possible to understand if you are struggling. By that I mean you could be getting frustrated with a problem, the computer reads your expression, and suddenly it is giving you an easier version of that same topic you are going over.
I think that these softwares actually could be valuablle for the students in the classroom. If the computures could read our expression and help us by
automatically changing the lesson to a slightly easier version is very helpful. This can show teachers how well a student is progressing in school by the way the computer is understanding the individual itself. So if it is possible for this kind of technology to happen it would be very successful in most learning industries.
This kind of technology can be helpful to some of those who struggle. Sometimes teachers can't just focus on helping one individual at a time every single day when they obviously have other students to attend to. If the computer read every kids facial expression then it could help show the teacher is a student is struggling or not. | 4 |
a106244 | I ,Luke Bomberger, believe that more young men should join the Seagoing Cowboys program beause it is a life changing experiance and because you get to help other nations in need and it also teaches you the true meaning of hardwork. It gives you an amazing oppurtunity to help the world and the people in it.
My first reason hat you should join this program is because it is a true life changing experiance. I got to tour grand castles and see enourmous canals but the most special thing of it all was seeing the Acropolis in Greece. I also got to help a lot of people in need all over Europe and China. Helping these people in need made me more grateful for what I have and it also taught me how to be a better person.
My next reason that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys progam is because it helps you be more aware of people in other countries and their needs. Im very grateul that I had the opportunity to participate in this program. It relly opened up the world to me. I learned that people in other countries need help during times of war.
My final reason that you should join this program is because you will learn the true meaning of hard work.
I had to clean animal stalls and feed and water all the animals two or three time a day. I also had to pull up bales of hay and bags of oats from the lower holds of the ship. It may sound miserable bit it kept me very busy during those long days at sea.
I believe more young men this program because it will help you with an amazing oppurtunity. | 3 |
a107f0f | I believe that there are many advantages when it comes to limiting car usage. Using cars for transportation has been around for nearly a decade, starting with the very first car to run on gas ever made. Many believe that having a car makes life more convenient. But there are many more cons that justify the right to limit car usage.
The first advantage to limiting car usage would be the most obvious one, which is economical purposes. Buying a car usually means spending thousands of dollars all at once or having to pay a bill every month until the full price of the car is payed. This does not include the price for gas or other needs the car could have. Things like oil changes, transmission failure, or even something as simple as a flat tire could cost well over a hundred dollars just to fix all depending on the situation. This is not even considering the chance that your car could just stop functioning and you would need to buy a new car, which would lead to the ugly circle of life you just went through with your old car.
Not only is limiting car use good economically, but also enviromentally friendly as well. Studys shown that cars and other vehicles like this are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. This could be very dangerous in a place where many people live.
Another advantage would be that if there are less cars, there would be less accidents as well. Many deaths that have been occuring over the pass year are all car related. Things like natural storms that destroy cars or drinking and driving could be prevented if car usage is limited. If car usage was limited, the death toll would definitly get smaller.
One last advantage limiting car usage would bring is the gift of excersise. Many believe a car is very convenient due to the fact that it can get you where you want to go in a small amount of time which, in fact, could be very useful for special occasions. However, when it comes to using a car limits to driving to a gas station 4 blocks away from where you live just for snacks, that's when things get out of hand. If you want to get somewhere, there are other ways besides cars that are safe and healthy for you. You could ride a bike, or even walk to where you want to go and still get the excersise you wouldn't get from using a car.
In conclusion, there are many reasons why car usage should be limited. However, that does not mean i don't beileve in the usage of cars. Cars are a advancement in technology for people to get to where they need to go without a hassle. A gift like that should not be taken advantage of. People can still use cars, but in moderation. And if we take the time to walk or ride a bike, you will be healthy, happy, and have a pocket full of money left over. | 4 |
a109d2e | In the artilcle of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus.", the author thought of how could we research and study Venus without any casulties during the expidition. In Paragraph 3, he has clamed that Venus has a thick atmosphere of 97% carbon dioxide with its amosperic pressure being 90 times greater, having the hottest surface, and its Venusian weather presenting additional impedimemts including erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes.
The author could claimed that Venus itself ia a worthy pursuit because he had stated that astronomers are fascinated by also because it had once been the most Earth-like planet in the solar system in paragraph 4. In the paragraph, it had stated that Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have been supporting various forms of life, like Earth was doing. Venus has a surface of rocky sediment and includes some interesting features like valleys, mountains, and craters. This led to a question on how would astronomors study the planet.
In order for the author to find a solution to the problem, he should read the 5th paragraph talking about NASA. In Paragraph 5, NASA's one possible solution is to make a vehicle hovering over Venus to avoid its major disasteral conditions. The air pressure would be close to its landscape as far as the sea level on Earth. I hope that this information should be good enough for the author to used if he's doing some kind of project and I wish him good luck on it. | 3 |
a10b883 | I think driveless cars can be they future of automobiles. But until we can fully control the car its not worth it.
Driveless cars are only useful in certain ways like its good for public transportation and taxis. But does a average middle class citizen need a driveless car....... not really if you have been driving your whole life odds are your not gonna want or need this expensive technology.
I think its dumb to create drivless cars yea it can stop the texting and driving deaths and drunk driving deaths but they should'nt be doing it anyway. The only way drivless cars are useful is buses and taxis but even then your taking away jobs of hard working people. We do not even know how much these so called smart vehicles are gonna cost if its really expensive then its not gonna be used by the middle class people and thats mainly america . Most people dont have 100,000 dollars to spend on a vehicle.
Another thing is that computers have flaws and if theres one mistake that can mean a persons safety at risk. I think they should keep working uncovering new technology and in maybe 10 years from now they make these vehicles avalible to the public. The smart road is effective but it is very expensive. New laws need to be made for these driveless cars like in a school zone you have to drive. but what about all the people that love driving are these driveless cars gonna be in the way of normal cars?. But what if the driver falls asleep while the car drives and he doesnt see the lights and gets in a car accident.
I think if the car fails and someone gets hurt i think its the manufacturer that should be at fault because how are you gonna call a car a driveless car and not be truly drivless. I think if they want this to succeed they need to make this technology drive like a human. I think this is a great concept but i do not think it will succeed. | 3 |
a10c56b | The "Does the Electoral College Work?" document expains all the functions of the electoral college and how it works. Allthough some people might think the Electoral College is useful some people think it is outdated and perfer to do away with it.
The Electoral College is a process that has been used for hundereds of years and was established by the founding fathers in the Constitution. Seeing as it was created when the Constitution was makes the process seem very old. A direct election would make a better election. Paragraph ten states that "Under the electoral college system, voters do not vote for president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president". This makes the electoral college unfair to voters, making it as if their vote does not count.
Another key point is not even knowing who your electors are. Paragraph ten asks a series of questions like, "Who are the electors?", "Who picks the electors in the first place?", or "Can voters control whom their electors vote for?". Also stated in paragraph ten, voters sometimes could get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate. The American people would be much more justified if there was no electoral college and they knew who they were voting for.
On the contrary, the electoral college has some admirable features. one example is that no region has enough electoral votes to elect a president, states paragraph nineteen. Which paragraph nineteen also states is a desirable result due to the fact that a president with only regional appeal is unlikely to be successful.
Allthough the electoral college does have desirable traits and appealing affects, it is an oudated and old method of electing our president. Every single American able to vote should have a vote that counts and is clear as to whom that vote is going twords. | 3 |
a10dbe9 | One could say that the Face on Mars is or was created by aliens. I say it is just a natural landform. My reasons for this statment is three simple things the pictures taken by MGS in 2001, the simalaritys with a mountain range in the US, and shadows!
¨In 2001 MGS (Mars Global Surveyo drew close enought for a second look at the so called face¨ said Unmasking the face on Mars. In 1976 a picture was taken of the ¨face¨ by NASA and yes it did look like a face but then again in 1998 the same picture was taken by MGS. By now the camras had gotten alot better and more sharpe. Then in 2001 MGS took a picture of the face and this time they new it was no longer a face it was a natural landform. Also in 1976 camras had 43 meters per pixel but in 2001 it was 1.56 meters per pixel. That is an amazing change.
If you look at the picture from 1976 the landform does look like a face but in the picture of 2001 you can tell the simalaritys in that landform to the one running right throw the west of the USA. You can esialy see the pikes and valleys and you can also she how the elevation changes. Im not sying aliens are not real but they did not create this landform.
My last reason for why this landform is natural and not created by aliens is because in the picture from 1976 you can see shadows. These shadows are from the pikes of the landform. Just like a normal mountain when looking at it from the top in the valleys you can see shadows. The shadows are what give off the face image.
I hope now you can understand why the face on Mars is not actually a face it is just a natural landform we know this becasue of pictures taken in 2001, simalaritys to real mountains, and the shadows on the landform. | 3 |
a10dc66 | If you had a choice to join this event , would you or would you not.
If you like helping people this is the program for you.
In this program you will be able to travel the world to help people in the other countries.
For example , A war is going on and they need medical or food help than you can go over and help those people in need of those things.
If your going to travel by ship Luke found the time to have some fun on board so maybe you can too.
The ship will feed you and give you a bed to sleep-in.
Luke said``It made me more aware of people of other contries and thier needs``.There are lots of reasons to be a part of this program.
Also you have jobs on the ship like cleaning up the ship or getting the food ready for the other people on board to eat. Also on the ship you may run into a storm so the crew will determan how bad the storm is , and if the storm is to bad you will have to go inside till the storm clears.
Then when you arive in the country that is in need you do what they need like getting a water suply or getting food for the people or getting the medical care the people need need and if you dont believe me than just ask Luke.
Then when you are don with what that contry needs then you can get back in/on the ship or waggon you came on than you can leave and return home and wait for the next country that needs.
So you really should join this program, but im not going to force you. So it`s your decistion. | 2 |
a10dd12 | Dear senator,
I think the Electoral College should be brought down and let the popular vote decide who the president of the United States will be.
First of all, I believe the popular vote should be kept and the Electoral College brought down. I think this because what if some people dont agree with the opinion of others. For example, lets say two people are running too be president of the United States. People vote and everything but then its up too the 538 electors. Then the 538 electors choose who they want as their president, 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President, as weeks go by, the new President is one of the two people that ran too be President was elected. Some people are happy and some people are mad because they put their vote in and they voted on the other person but that other person won and now they are angry. | 1 |
a111d6c | The author thinks studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.I think studying every planet is worthy.Learning every planet is good to know for the people who wants to go to space.For the people that wants to go to that certain planet.Learning about planets is very important to some people to understand many think sthan planets.so many people want to go to alot of planets that nobody have went to.
The author says Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet."Even though Mercury is closer to the sun.Beyond high pressure and hear,erupting volcanoes,powerful earcthquakes,and frequent lightning strikes ro probs seeking to land on its surface.That statement shows Venus is the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our system.
The author also states NASA is working on approaches for Venus to get information and see what they can experiance there."some simplified electronics made of silicon carbidehave been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions".Thats saying that NASA actually sent electronics to go discover Venus and when discorving with that electronic for three weeks.
In paragraph 8 it says,"Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value,not only because of insight to be gained on the planet itself,but also because human curiosity will likey lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors."The meaning for that sentence is trying to discover Venus is not that easy,they have a limit they cant push because it wont work.They dont want to do so much and cause a problem snd shouldn't cause any harm humans or anything els that they dont want in danger."Our travles on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imaginatopn and innovation".And in this last sentence of pargraph 8 meaning is that they saying That you should be opened minded and go ahead and discover every part of earth beacuse theres so much to see its very fun or cool or can say some beautiful places in Earth. | 3 |
a1129e4 | I am against the development of Driverless cars because, it really be a waste of money imagine all the things we can do for other causes. People already a lazy now they wont have to do anything. Its not teaching them how to drive, its encouraging people to be under developed. They won't be able to access the real world they'll be spending alot of their time on social media as they do now. Why is it bad to make Driveless Cars?
First off who would benifeiting off of driverless car? Yeah the rich would have them but, wouldn't they be more of a threat? How useful would they be? So many questions you know why, its new first of all people like new things, like cars, phones, hunting rifles, etc... we want new inovations to drop and when someone reads a newspaper clip stating " Google's cofounder invented driveless cars". The people love that type of things and whats gets them move interested is when you give them details, the new functions, and the accsessability you have in a car that you don't need to drive.
Secondly, we can be useing the funds for another purpose. We can buy things for the uneducated or help the homeless so many posibilities we have and we invest it in a driverless car that has no other function other than take you to your location by gps.
Finally, the importance of a self diving vehicle isn't needed do to the technology that we have already. We have so much that we use it for transportation. We literally have the whole world in our pocket and we're using it for cars.
That's why it isnt a good idea to be making driverless cars. | 3 |
a1138fe | Human emotion recognition software should be used in the classroom. First it could appeal differently to each students larning style, or be modified to teach him/her how the student wants. Lastly, it could see if a student is getting bored with the lesson or if he/she likes the lesson. This could help children learn alot better in a learning enviroment tailored just for them.
First, it could appeal differently to each student. This means that if it notices a kid frowning when showed a hard problem or a large group of text, it could change what it is doing but keeps the concept of what it is teaching. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming bored or confused, Dr. Huang predicts. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective instructor." This shows that the program could be used for the betterment of teaching for different people, not all people learn the same way, so why should it all be taught the same way. The computer could fix that by modifying the way it teaches.
Lastly, it could see if a student is getting bored with the lesson or if he/she likes the lesson. If a student, me especially, dosen't like a lesson or thinks it is boring, he/she wont learn. A computer that reads faces to get the emotions of students would keep the lesson being taught livley and more fun to keep students entertained. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming bored or confused, Dr. Huang predicts. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective instructor." I used the same quote twice once in the second paragraph and now, in this paragraph becauses it strongly supports both of my claims. If a computer where to "modify the lesson, like an effective instructor" students would always be engaged in learning because the lesson would always change to what is needed to keep students entertained.
Human emotion recognition software should be used in the classroom. If used in a classroom, it would greatly keep students engaged in learning. personally, I would love having something like this in the classroom to keep me interested in the lesson. Wraped up, having this tool would greatly improve the entirety of the school learning enviroment. | 3 |
a1199c5 | The United States of American, land of the free, or so they thought. More than half of the population of the US believes that their votes mean something when in reality, they do not. People came to America to be free and to choose how they run their lives. By have the Electoral college it steals away the right we have to choose our own President. In society now, millions of people go to the voting stands to vote when our opinion says nothing to the way we actually pick a President. I believe the vote of the poeple is what should matter when choosing out leader.
the Electoral College is currently the way we decide who will become our President, as many know. Though what most do not know is our votes do not count for anything. The people of the United States of America should have their basic right to choosing who tells them what to do. The way it should go is, everyone who lives in the USA who is over eight-teen should be eligiable to vote, and have the vote count. We should be choosing our President, not some big shot in a suit.
If we were able to choose our President it would be less hectic. All you would have to do is count up the votes of every state in America and round them up. Who ever we choose as the winner should be put to a test, a simulator type thing. We use an example of the world in the most horrific state, no money, taxes through the roof, angry people eveyrwhere with the President, and they have to fix it. If they can fix our home they may become our President. Having shown their ability to lead us correctly.
To quote source 3:
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing a President , they specificly state that "The Electorol College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled". This quote is exactly right. Not only is it "widely regarded" as so, it is true! We need to stop going with the vote of a politician who thinks he has it all figured out.
Where has the Electoral College gotten us? Bankrupt, spending more money on our military than our own health, wasting away this beautiful Earth by building more nucular powerplants to supply us with ticking time bombs! We do not need the Electoral College. We need us. The people of America need to stand up and take back our home. For the people, by the people. | 3 |
a11cb5b | Do yo know why you should join The Seagoing Cowboys Program?
You should join Seagoing Cowboys Program because you can go to different and unique places around the world. Plus I also went to Europe and China to bring food and water for the animals.
To begin, I went to Greece to help bring food and water for the animals. I had a cargo of 335 horses plus the hay an oats to feed them. Knowing that the the Military might draft me they said " When my draft board learned that I was on a cattle boat trip, they told me to just keep doing that for my service."
Also, I went to China to feed the aninimals. It took a whole month to get to China. Then he says" The cattle boat trips were an unbeliveable opportunity for a small town boy."
The cows had to be fed three time and watered two times a day.
In conclusion, these are some of the reasons why people should sign up for Seagoing Cowboys.
In this story i gave many details why you should sign up. Now you can take into intrest about signing up for the Seagoing Cowboys. | 2 |
a11ce4d | In The Challenge of Exploring Venus the author really support the idea of Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents in paragraph 1, it started out as 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. Each previous mission was unmanned because not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more three decades. Venus is also a challenge planet for human to go study. The clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus atmosphere ,Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solor system. Many reseachers are working on innovations that would allow their machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus. NASA is also working on other approches to studying Venus. They look back into old technology called mechanical computer which first envisioned in 1800s and it played an very important role in World War II, calculations by using gears and lever and do not require electronics at all. Striving to meet the challenge of Venus only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself,but also became human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally endeavors. | 2 |
a1247d7 | Unmasking the Face at Mars
Do you ever wonder if the Face on Mars is just a landfrom or created by aliens? I think that the Face on Mars is just a natural landform. I think that because the first image apperared on a JPL web site revealeed that the Face is just a natural landfrom, and there was no alien monument after all.
The first reason I think that the Face is just a landform because in the text it says that the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural land from. Also it said that there was no alien monument after all. That is proof that the Face on Mars is just a landform. Another piece of evidence that the Face on Mars is just a natural landform is it says in the text that," We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view." Even though there isn't that much proof that the Face on Mars is just a natural landform, but I still believe that because we could always find more evidence each year.
I just gave some proof that the Face on Mars is just a natural landform, and it isn't created by aliens. Even thought there isn't that much proof that it is just a landform, it could still just be a landform. With evidence, research, and spacecraft pictures, we could prove that it is just a landfrom and not something created by aliens. | 2 |
a125389 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author claims that studying Venus is worth the possible risks and dangers, because as science evolves technology and experiments should evolve too. Venus, also called Earths's "twin", could be a planet that was actually visited by humans and make the innovation of technology even greater.
The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite dangers, because Venus could have been at one point our most Earth-like planet and may eventually become a planet that is able to sustain life. Venus had at one point contained similar characteristics like that of Earth, and could possibly be an opportunity for sending a human to another planet which could advance technology enough to sustain life there. The author states, "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth...Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit". The fact that Venus could have possibly sustained life in the past means that there is a slight window of opportunity for it to sustain humans and be "our nearest option for a planetary visit" again.
Although Venus has harsh condtitions such as a surface of 800 degrees Fahrenheit, an atmospheric pressure that is 90 times greater than Earth, erupting volcanoes, extreme earthquakes and a large amount of lightning strikes, it would still be beneficial to experiment and gain insight on the planet itself and to help innovate technology. The author believes that there will be a benefit to studying Venus because of the positive future it presents for science, "Strivng to meet the challenges presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors". Experimenting on Venus can lead to experiments on bigger things like other planets, more complex questions about life or "intimidating endeavors".
In conclusion, If humans can get to the point where they can land safely onto Venus and make it to where life can be sustained, it would open a door to new projects and a better understanding of our solar system while at the same time presenting courage to start new ideas and go through with them. | 4 |
a125890 | Dear senator, i argue that we should keep the electoral college. elecotral college is a process that was established by the founding fathers in the Constituitions as a compromise between election of the presodent by a vote in congress(Office of the Federal Register). the electoral process consitsts of the selection of the electors, meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress (Officer of the Federal Register).
the electoral college has 538 electors. a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. your state's entitled allotment of electofd equals the member in the House of Representatives. Under the 23rd ammendment, the Dostrict of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College. Because of this, the word "state" also refers to the Districe of Columbia.
however, under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of ekectoys, who turn to elect the president. one bad thing about the electoral college is what m=we might call the disaster factor, the americsn people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggerst election crisis in a century; the system allows much worse. (Plumer)
All in all, Mr Senator, i think that it would be a good idea to keep the electoral college. the process makes a huge difference between voting for presidents and voting for someone to vote for potential presidents.
Sincerely,
Student | 1 |
a12cb0a | Driverless cars are not good. Why do we want more lazy people, more accidents or less reponsible people. By 2020 the world will be destroyed by all the unnessasary stuff we've built just to make it "better". Now a car that can drive itself is just going to make it worse for all of us humans.
Lazy people, we already have enough. In the article it said that the driver needs to stay alert when to turn the wheel, but what if somebody just falls asleep or might end up in the wrong location. If the person in back is just not paying attention could crash.
Teens need to learn how to drive and still have the same rules, permit at sixteen and six months later their license. This still follows up to my last paragh of how you get in an accident. A teen not knowing how to drive because the world told him there are cars that could do the driving for him. He needs to take handle of the wheel if not he'll crash but there's another problem he doesn't know how to because of the car that supposably can do everything itself.
Accidents, could happen anywhere but especially if you have a driverless car. Since people will know they could go anywhere they want without exhausting themselfs because they don't have to drive the roads will probably be crowded all the time. People will want to take long trips because they don't have to pay attention to road ahead.
Driverless cars should never come. They are not safe we don't need more lazy people. Teens should be able to know how to drive for safety reasons. Many accidents can happen because people put their lives in a car. I know that those 2020 cars aren't going to be safe so that's why I we don't need cars that can drive themselves because they really can't. | 3 |
a1315cd | The development of these cars is a good idea because the cars would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer more flexibility than a bus. Most of these cars can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves but are also designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills.
Google cofounder Sergey Brin stated in the first paragraph "The cars he foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis." This means this car would save lots and lots of fuels when it comes to spending money on fuel for this car. Who wouldn't like saving money on fuel, right?
Also, in paragraph 1 Sergey Brin stated "... and offer more flexibity than a bus." Buses now a days don't offer as much service as we need them too. Buses only stop on streets but we need them to stop by each block. This is why i believe the development of these cars is a good idea.
Most of these cars can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves but all cars re-designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills. For example on paragraph 2 it says "Google cars aren't truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents." This means the google cars will still have to have human assistance when needed.
The development of these cars is a good idea because the cars would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer more flexibility than a bus. Most of these cars can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead required human skills. | 2 |
a13242d | The main advantages to limiting car usage would be less accedents and less polution. People dont really know about how many accedents and how much polution cars are responsible for.
to start off with cars can make you very tense and then posibly resulting in a crash. Without cars people would be less tense and be calm every day as they go to work. For example Heidrun Walter said " When i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way. " In the outskirts of freiburg street parking, drive ways, and home garages are generally forbidden. Their streets are completely car free except for the main thoroghfare. Freiburg does allow car ownership but there are only two places to park, large garrages at the edge of the develoupment, where a car owner buys a space, for $40,000, along with a home. As a result 70% of the people do not own cars, and 57% sold a car to be able to live there. People now walk, take the tram, or ride bicycles to school and work, and yet these people are very happy about it. Planes are now taking this concept to the suburbs. They are doing this by putting new building walking distance from those people insted of the malls were people have to drive in order to get there.
in addition to people being less tense banning cars would result in less polution. Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. After five days of smog rivaled china which is one of the most poluted cities of the world. Diesels were the blame. But finally on monday the smog cleared enough for the ruling French party to rescid the ban for odd-numbered plates on tuseday. This ban also went on to Colombia for three years they have been doing this and they only allow buses and taxies everyone else gets a $25 fine. Eventually two other colombian cities, Cali and Valledupar joined the event. kids now are not even wanting to get a drivers license they would rather walk. these kids get their jobs by looking at the ones that are in walking distance. this is a very good thing because the less drivers the less pollution there is in the air.
in conclusion if we limited the usage of cars people would be more relaxed and there would be less polution in the air pluss people would be gatting exercise so people would benifit from this and our world would be much cleaner. | 2 |
a13314c | Have you ever thought about why there are so many deaths in the world? Most leading deaths are from vehicles and the driver behind the wheel, wether they are texting, talking on the phone, or under the influence. I believe it is a great thing to live in a city where car usage is very limited.
Living in a world where everyone has to walk or ride a bike to go from place to place also means that everyone gets their daily exercise. Today, in society people are usually sitting in a car, others they ride a bike or take a walk. While doing these activities you have to worry about anything hitting you, for this instance a car. What I am trying to say here is less people die as less people drive.
Another reason to limit car usage is weather patterns. You never know what the weather is going to be like, therefore you will never know what you might run into. There have been some cases for pile-ups from smog. smog is a mixture of smoke and fog, making it impossible to see. Diesel fuel doesnt help the case for smog either. The diesel helps the smog by polluting the air around the area.
In Bogota Colombia, a program that is set set to spread to other countries. This program is called "Car-free day", millions of Colombians hike, bike, skate, or take buses to work during this day. This day also brings avoidment to traffic jams. Some citizens say it is a good way to lower air pollution. Less car usage is helping to clean the air. This generation needs to understand that if we want a clean future for ouselves and our families.
President Obama has a goal to curb the United States' greenhouse gas emissions. Recent studies shows that Americans are buying fewer cars and getting fewer licenses as the years progress. It is said that the number of miles driven in the U.S. peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter. Doug Short of Advisor Perspectives, an investment research company says "as of April 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly nine percent blow the peak and equal to where the country was in January of 1995". Some people have cars and the rarely use them, living in big cities where taking a bus or riding a bike would not be necessary if having a car.
Some other things why limiting car usage is a good thing is gas prices, they are so overated now. Gas used to be .97 cent per 9/10 a gallon. Now, you cant find a gas station anywhere without the ranging prices of $2.45-$3.75. That price is ridiculous, who wants to pay $37 for 10 gallions of gas? I sure dont, that is another reason why some people find it easier to ride a bike. They save money! Yes, I understand that the economy is bad. Bad to the point where i do not feel like going anywhere anymore? Things are changing in this world and it needs to continue. | 3 |
a13393c | I think the Facial Coding System is valuable in a classroom. I think this because It can help out a lot. When a student doesn't want to explain thier emotions or don't know how to share emotions this system can be helpful and valuable. And I mean it is pretty cool that a facial system can calculate anyones emotions. And this FACS sounds totally unharmless.
In the article it explains how this system works. I will be wrtiting about how it works and get examples from the article. In the article it says that an action unit can calculate movement of one or more msucles and can detect the emotion. Dr. Paul, the creater of FACS states that he has calssified 6 different emotions which are happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness all with the FACS. Examples of how the FACS can detect your emotion is in your face movements for example, as said in the story when your frontalis pars lateralis muscle raises your eyebrow when you are surprised; your orbicularis oris tightens your lips when you are angry. It is fantastic how this can know the emotion you are feeling.
I think FACS can actually be valuable in classrooms. A teacher can detect weither a student is happy,sad,angry, or surprised. It can be very useful for students that when they want to talk to thier teachers but don't know how to explain themelves this can help. FACS can help out in many more ways, useful ways. So my statement is this technology to read the emotion expressions of students in a classroom is valuable and I also think students would enjoy trying it out. | 2 |
a14214f | Ok so this talk about the solar oplanet this wiil be help to the planet because we nned the solar for the health and to others think what they going to helping .
Venus is called the Evening star is the only one of the brightes point . venus is actually a planet . in the solar planet.
They two has a different speed mean that sometimes we are closet to mArs and others times to venus.
The thick of the admosphere is a big percent of the carbon dioxide,the temperature is so big like is so up because is in the around of the planet solar.
The scientist are try to find the weatherhow going to be on all the days is something similary with the solar planet they are triing to find some thinks .
and the wen they find we going to know what is going to happen.
The NASA has the only one particulary compelling idea for sending humans to study venus because they know how. | 1 |
a1439be | Do you get nagged on for not driving your car or even trying to ride a bike somwewhere because its not convenient for another party? Well these places are doing it to keep people safe and less toxicated and polluted.
Lots of places today are becoming polluted by smog. Which can be limited by not letting people with certain liscense plates drive on certain days or even not allow them to drive for a weeks time. Also making public transportation free for the time being will help them say okay i'll give my car up.
Another reason to give up your cars is because it will cause less accidents less problems and less deaths. Furthermore the counties/states which you live might also recognize you for your perserverance in this act.
Finally the last reason to give up your vehicle is that it will give you less stress from having to repair it from so much use and you wont have to replace it so often. Another reason is because it will save you money and you definetly want more money right who doesnt. you also might get more dates because they see you as a more conservative person so there is your best reason.
In conclusion, taking cars off the road for cetain days or even a week at a time may give you less smog more money and less stress. In the long run you might also score a girlfriend that you might soon marry and have a much happier life in general. | 2 |
a145382 | I think this artical is important. Our emotions are always changing. This new technology can help us in different ways. I'm for this because learn how someone feels is important in some cases. Facial experssions show how someone feels through their emotions.
The creator of FACS is an psychologists named Dr. Paul Eckman. The Facial Action Coding System is able to read an identify peoples emotion. Only the six basics which are happiness, surprise, anger, disgust ,fear , and sadness. The way they found Mona Lisa's emotions was by using a 3-D computer to construct the face. They found all forty-four major muscles, the movement of one or more muscles is called an action unit on the computer.
If the FCAS was used in school it can be a benifit to students and teachers. It can show how student are acting in class to see if they're under standing or not. If someone isn't understanding then the teacher can see and talk more on that subject. If the students id doing an assinment on the computer and get the answer wrong and see confusion the system could reword the question and see if that's easier.
The main idea of the Facial Action Coding System is to see emoition. It can help in many situations. In school we can now see if student are confused or paying attention. | 2 |
a1474d7 | Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author shows this by referring Venus as Earth's "twin", nearest option for a planetary visit, and travels not being limited.
The author says that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents and by showing that this is true he refers Venus as Earth's twin. The author goes to say that, "Often referred to as Earth's 'twin,' Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too." The author also gives an example on why it isn't Earth's twin. "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 planet. These conditions are far more extreme 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 would liquefy many metals." These pieces of evidence show the real dangers of Venus and it's environment.
The nearest option for a planetary visit is Venus. The author says, "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." He also goes to say that, "Furthermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel." With these pieces of evidehce it shows that the planet shows features of planet movement.
The last thing is travels should not be limited. The author says, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosty will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." The author also comments, "Out 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." Not limiting travles can expand reasearch and these pieces of evidence show that they want to do what it takes to study this planet.
In conclusion, these are the reasons why studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. | 3 |
a14c860 | If people in the world can make a car capible of driving around elders, alchoholics, druggies, unmobilized, and more; that car deserves to be given a chance. The "Driverless Car" will reduce car crashes, gas, money on transit, and will be able to mobilize the unmobilized. People's lives around the world would change for the better; and that's why this car should be used.
There are hundreds of car crashes everyday around the world due to careless drivers. Using the "Driverless Car", crashes could be be significantly reduced if not gone. This car could also take a normal tank of gas and cut it in half. With these two benefactors, pollution would be drastically reduced due to less fumes in the air due to gas and leakage when a crash happens. These would all be important factors people have to think about when buying a car and they should want the one that has the power to help the Earth. In the reading the narrator tells the readers that "He believes such cars would fundementally change the world."
Using this car means that the average person can now save money on transit. Then people wouldnt have to spend as much money filling up the tank of their cars or spend half of their paycheck for a car payment just to get from point a to point b. The narrator exclaims to the readers that, "He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system." If these cars start being used, buses would soon disapear; making the air safer to breath due to the Diesel gas and the pollution buses set off.
Lots of people who are not able to drive take the bus, this may be because in their town there are not taxis. There are people who are unmobilized due to not own a vehicle because they're too expensive; or that they could have a medical condition where they cannot drive. These people now will not have to worry about making it to the bus stop on time or making sure the bus is going where they need to be. People could then save time of being on a bus for an hour, to go somewhere 10 minutes away; and be able to be picked up at their doorstep and dropped off at their destination. The narrator tells the readers that, "The cars he forsees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus."
These cars would make the lives of everyone a lot more simple and efficient. Imagine a world with no traffic because there are no accidents; a world without pollution due to less gas use and buses, and a world where everyone has more money to spend on their families and on themselves. Unmobilized people could then feel more independant because they could then get themselves around. The world would be much better off using the "Driverless Car", it would be a perfect way to keep the Earth revolving. | 4 |
a14ed8f | In the our world we are living in, the technology is expanding and is becoming more useful in our daily lives. In addition, the new technologly helps us achieve difficult tasks. The Facial Action Coding System may help teachers in classrooms to better understand the students by knowing their emotions.
In a classroom teachers are expected to communicate with the students. The technology would help read the student emotions, according to the text, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused and bored". By using the students facial movements, the technology reads the students emotion. The use of this technology will help the teachers communicate with the students' emotion.
Secondly, the FACS can help the students and teachers better understand each other in a classroom setting. By knowing each others emotions, allows teh students and the teachers to have an open mind. In the text, "Aclassrooom computer could recognize when a student is becoming condused or bored," Dr. HUang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson,". This can allow the teachers to 'modify lesson' to help the students understand more fluently.
In conclusion, this technology should be used in a classrom because it will improve the communication and understanding between the students and teachers. Without the FACS, the teachers would struggle to read the emotions of students. | 3 |
a1539c2 | Being able to learn and see more things about our solar system is one of our best accomplishments as humans. We sometimes dont appreciate it as much as we should. Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit no matter the dangers because it can teach us more about the planets in our solar system, introduce us to new forms of life, and can improve our ability to discover more things.
Going to Venus manually can be one of the solutions to this problem of computers being delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions. We can gather alot of information by technology, but if we get someone there to see everything with their own eyes and be able to explain things can cause more information to be taken in. NASA is currently working on different ideas to so they can gather more information on "Earth's Twin". Our own curiosity has lead us to these times by encouraging us to want to find out more about not just Venus, but many other planets. By doing this we are just improving our ability to explore and discover.
The text states, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." This is what lead me to believe that we should try to keep pushing for more and more. Our solar system is a mysterious place and we have more places to see and learn about. | 2 |
a157ef0 | I think that in a world with cars that drive for you would be a lot better. Because you wouldn't have to study so much for your drivers test or to get your permit. Because it takes awhile to get all the signs correct and the test it self correct. It says that there are cars that have been driven more than half a million miles without a crash. And every year and day there is car crashes somewhere.
It says that google cars aren't truly driverless, they still alert the driver to take over pulling in and out of driverways or dealing with complicated traffic issues. For me that would be so much easier because to be honest I am too scared to get my own car and to be able to drive on my own, there are so many signs that you need to know, and you need to know how the road works.
Having a car that is able to do almost everything for me is better than me doing it on my own, it's also less stress on studying all of the signs. The only bad part about this is, it would be hard for me to even trust a car that does basically everything on its own. So like it has a mind of its own.
I personally wouldn't get bored waiting on my turn to drive because it wouldn't really be a problem for me at all. Maybe you can listen to music while your in the car that way it can help you not be so bored. And take you where you want to go without falling asleep.
I also think there would be a lot more people getting their drivers license because driverless cars pretty much do it all for you , that means less car crashes. | 3 |
a169df3 | Facial Action Coding at schools?
Class rooms with , Facial Action Coding , ? I think for a classroom with Facial Action Coding would not be such a good idea in a classroom. There are many reasons why it's not a good idea. There are many emotions in a student in a class room that a student wouldn't want to be recogize . For many student there always someone who is in love and does not want anyone to figure it out . In paragrahp 3 it tells readers that " happiness, surpise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness" can all be shown with the Facial Action Coding System. The student might be sad because the girl wouldn't go out on a date with him and show that emotion in class.
For many students I honstley think alot of students would not like it . Another reason why it would not be a good idea to put this new Facial Action Coding System in many classroom is it might distract many of the students. Alot of classroom students are already going through alot of things like stressing, grades, finals, and credits. They wouldn't want that to be pick up by the system for a example a student could be really sad about his grades and doen't want anyone to know. Our minds are only safe place to go where anyone can't go.
Other places would be a better option for the Facial Action Coding like hostiptals and nursing homes. A good reason why I think it would be a good idea at a hostpital because it can help alot of people that are sick and feeling pain. In paragraph 3 it say the system can pick up happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. At a hostpital a patient could be help out with the machine and tell if she or he is sad or happy. At a nursing home he can help out the the old folks by making sure that there not depressed or angry.
What if the Facial Action Cding system shows that 50% percent of the student show that they really get the work. And the other 50% percent do not get the work what would the teacher do? Would the teacher choice be right to choose to get the same work where the 50% percent doesn't understand it and give the same work to the other 50% percent of the class that already knows how to solve the work. I think it not a good idea for classrooms to have Facial Action Coding System at schools.
At schools it might not be a good idea and might be better in many other places. For many students it coulld distract them or if other dont want to show emotions because of there personal thoughts being shown to teachers. Would you want schools to have this new Facial Action Coding System at there school and on computers? | 4 |
a16a21f | Car is a advantage sometimes when you need to go somewhere but the experts,say this is a danger because he reduce the greenhouse gas ,reduced communities.
In passage 9 in lines 2 source 1:In German suburb,life goes on without cars it say"In the united states , the Environmental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities,and legislators are starting to act,if cautiously".
It's important to have a car for deplacement but this is a risk because he affect the pollution of the air. And cause some accident.
In paragraph 10 source 2:Paris driving due to smog it say"After days of near-record pollution,Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city". In paragraph 15 source 2"Colds nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emmission".
Some people when it rain say this is a good opportunity because when the air is polluted and youwhen you have a problem for respiration he give you stress.
In the paragraph 23 and 24 it say "It's a good opportunity to take away the stress and lower air pollution".
At the mobile world congress some company see the vehicle ownership is impratical or undesirable because he want to save resorces.
In paragaph 43 some industry proposed to creates cities in which"pedestrian ,bicycle ,privates cars,commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network"To save time,conserve resources ,lower emissions and improve safety". | 2 |
a17b5cc | The development of driverless cars are becoming better each year and somepeople should like it.It is alot better because people won't get in a wreck as much as they did when they driver cars with the driver taking over.Like it says in paragraph 2 Toyota Prius are being made with motion sensors, cars are really developing well now but back in the late 1950s General motars created a concept car that had a special track.
First and Foremost cars are a being built better with driverless because the people trying to make them are with Google and other companys.They make them better by "Improving their brakes and acceleration, and also navigationg through works zones," as it says in paragraph 7.
Althrough it cost a lot of money to make these driverless cars they come in handy.Say if people tried to go a road trip they accidently fall asleep the car can take over.It is like having auto driver but they can only reach up to 25 mph its not slow and not very fast.
Third of all it is a good thing by having a driverless car because people will know whos breaking into their cars because of the people that are making them are now installing camreas. These cars are really good for the so called
"Alert Driver" they make sure they do not text and drive, and also to make it safer for pedestrians.
In conclusion the development of driverless cars are becoming better each year and some people should like it.They make it safer for everyone.The cars of the future are going to be better than cars have ever been. | 3 |
a17bd04 | In "The Challenge of Exploring venus,"the author suggests that studing venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it present"because venus was probably covered largely with oceans and cloud 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.
The National Aeronautics and space Administration has one particularly 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. Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling venusian landscape. Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms , a velicle hovering over venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way.
Therefore striving to meet the challlenge presented by venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself,but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. | 2 |
a17c573 | Everyone has a car for the most part. It's used for a wide verity of things, like going to work, taking your child to school, and after noon sports, and even going out with the family for a little drive because its a nice day outside. People take there cars and use them for anything so they don't have to walk to where they have to be or want to be. There are many good reasons people can say why they need their car for everything, but have you ever looked at the advantages of limiting the usage of your car?
In the United States, the environmental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities,and legislators are starting to act cautiously. Many experts say that public transport transportion serves will play a much bigger role in a new six-year if the federal transportation bill is approved sometime this year. In previous bills, 80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent found other ways of transportation. If we where to try to not use our cars for a day or two it would probably be the hardest thing on earth for us to do. we relaye on our cars more then anything, but it would make the place we call home much happier and healthier. Just take Paris for example and look at what they have done to prevent people from using there cars because of what it has been doing to the air. They are actually trying to make a different and show people how much better things could be if we stoped using our cars so much.
Paris begins to ban driving because of all the pollution its causes in the air. On Monday's every car with an even number license plate will be ordered to leave their cars at home or they will suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same will appy to the odd number plates on Tuesday. Almost 4,000 drives where find, and Twenty-seven people had there cars impounded for their reaction to the fine. Congestion went down 60 percent in the captial of France and after five-days of intensifying the pollution, it later rivaled in Beijing and China, which is known as one of the most polluted cited in the world. The cold nights and the warm days cause a layer of air to trap inside the cars emission. Diesel fuel was blamed since France has a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline. Diesel makes up 67 percent of vehicles in France. Compared to a 53.3 percent average of Diesel engines in the rest of Western Europe side.
Paris typically has more pollution then all the other Eurpean capitals. Last week Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in London. Delivery companies complained of the lost of revenue, while eceptions were made for plug-in cars, like the hybrids. The Hybrids are much better to use and they hold 2-3 more passengers. Public transit was free of charge from Fridays all the way to Mondays, according to the BBC. The pollution cleared up on Monday for the ruling of the French party to rescind the ban for the odd number plates of Tuesday.
In conclusion, limiting our car usage really isn't that bad. Its actually helping our plant alot. All the smoke and gas is just polluting our air that we need to breath and with all the pollution in the air your just going to breath in a big cloud of gas or smoke. Its just like smoking, you don't want to breath in the smoke that comes from a car into your lungs because its bad and can hurt you just like cigerets can. We can stop this from happening if we give our cars a break or switch to a different kind of car, but really we should just limit the usage of the cars we have now. We can go outside and walk to where we need to be and just fresh air that isn't being polluted and we can exersize, which a lot of people need, so limeting the usage of cars would help not only the air, but the amount of fat people in the world as well. Limiting car usage is going to make a huge change in helping our plant and it would make the earth a better, happier, and healthier place to live. | 2 |
a17d5f7 | In this essay i will disscuss my position on driverless cars, then i will talk about why i support or dont support driverless cars, and lastly wrap up everything in my conclusion.
My posistion on driverless cars is that i don't think they will be safe,
I say this because in the article it say's that they are not all driveless you still have to be alert when you are in the car. And i believe that there will be more
car crashes because of first people not following the rules. Then secondly computers and electrionics all have defects and there's no promise that the car won't not mess up so if it does,there no way to say or make sure the people riding in the cars will be safe. Then lastly like i said cars have defalts i don't believe they will ever be able to make a car or even computers with out the defects.So if the make driverless cars i feel there will always be a higher chance of a crash or something happening beacause it is mostly if not all electronic.
InConculsion i believe that even though it sounds good that driverless cars will not be safe. Because of people not following the rules, and then the car could have defects and make that person, or even others get into a crash. | 2 |
a17d69e | In my opinion i am againest the driverless cars. Why because to me the cars aren't safe yet. I think if we use dirverless cars there would be so many accidents. The cars won't know what to do. Even in the article it says the cars that they have devolpoed aren't even completely driverless. It says that the cars can steer,accelerate and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills.
Other reasons why i am againest the driverless cars is because all the cars the world has made what are they going to do with them. If they keep making driverless cars all the regular cars are no longer going to be in use. That's going to be a lot of money people have wasted on a car that no one is using anymore. Another reason why i am againest the driverless cars is because people might not feel safe to ride in them. Honestly would you want a car to be driving for you on the highway late at night. No the driverless cars aren't safe yet .They can cause a lot of accidents and problems for you and the company that makes them.
So this is it my final thoughts on the driverless cars. I say they should not make these cars because they are going to be a waste on money. Instead of using the driverless cars we can use the money on many more important things that the world needs. Like in the passage it says that only a safe car has a human driver in control at all times. So that's all i have to say about driverless cars. We should not make them but use that technology and money on something else. | 2 |
a1849d8 | Source 1; What is the electoral collage?
The electoral collage is a process, not a place. The electoral collage process consists of the selection of the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice president and the counting of the electoral of the electoral votes by congress. The electoral collage consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. The Congressional delegation one for each member in the house of representives plus two for senators. The 23rd Amendment of the constiton the district of columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the electoral collage. Each candiddate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party but state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are chosen by political party. The state law vary on how the electors are selected and their responsibilities. The presindential election are held every four years. After the president election the governor prepares a Certifiate of Ascertainment.
Source 2; The indefensible electoral college; why even the best laid defenses of the system are wrong.
Under the electoral collage system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors who in turn elect the president. If you live in Texas and vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electores pledged to kerry would get 34 electoral votes. On the off-chance that those electora won the statewide election they would go to Congress and Kerry would get 34 votes. The single best argument against the electoral collage is what we might call the disaster factor. The American people are lucky that 2000 fiasco was the biggest eleection crsis in a century. Back in 1960 segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with the new electors who would oppose John F Kenney. He was a great learder.
Source 3; in dedense of the electoral college; five reasons the keep out despised method of choosing the president.
The number collage is widely regared as an anachronism a non- democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled. The advocates of this position are correct in arguing that the electoral college method is not democrtic in a modern sense. When you vote for a president candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. There are five reasons for reatining the Elctoral college despite its lack of democratic pedigree all are practical reason not liberal or conservative reason. In 2012 election for example Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes. The electoral college requires a president candidate to have trans- regional appeal. The winner takes all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates as we saw in 2012 election to focus their campagign efforts on the toss up states.
After many years of no one has changed anything else about the election camagign or anything. I think its time to do that. Lets put a girl in the office she can do just as good as a men. | 1 |
a186185 | Dear senator of Florida, I personally feel that the electoral college is just plain unfair. I don't think it's necessary to even have it at all because what's the point if the votes aren't equal for all states? it's a very irrational process. It isn't right if a president wins the popular votes but doesn't win by electoral votes and it results in him/her not becoming president. If someone votes for a slate of electors and they end up not even voting for who they're "supposed" to be voting for then what's the purpose of electing them anyway? There is no purpose unless you want the other party to win which i highly doubt that. The electoral college affects the voting of states because if the majority of their state is republicans and they're democratic, there vote isn't really going to matter because majority wins. This process makes no sense to me.
The amount of electoral votes that your state gets depends on your states population and not the size of it. I somewhat understand why they do this but at the same time it doesn't seem very fair. Yeah, i know life isn't fair but for something like this that has a possible way of being fair doesn't make sense not to be. Alaska with only 3 electoral votes should be able to have the same amount as california with 55 electoral votes. Since it isn't actually equal like that i feel that they should just choose who wins and becomes president by popular votes. This way would be a lot more fair because it wouldn't actually matter how many people lived in your state, it would just matter how many people voted for which canidate.
Another reason electoral votes aren't right to me is because if a president wins the popular votes but not the electoral votes then it almost seems likes one of the types of votes is useful. It seems like this because then he/she may not win and become president even though they won the popular votes. The canidates shouldn't have to rely on 2 different types of votes because obviously one isn't fair. I feel that in a situation like this having popular votes is just a watse of time because it seems that the electoral votes are what matter the most. Not having an equal amount of electoral votes for each state really defeats the purpose.
The voting is done by the party's nominee that then elects a slate of electors to vote for the canidate but the problem is you can't always trust that they will actually vote for the canidate that they're supposed to be voting for. This isn't the only issue, sometimes the voters get confused and accidentally vote for the wrong canidate resulting in more votes for the opposing side. This is a another reason why i feel that the electoral college should be abolished for good.
In conclusion, the electoral college is just really not needed in our goverment. It is equal for all states which affects the vote. Also the canidate doesn't win based on only popular votes, they must win they majority of the electoral votes. Lastly but definetly not least, the voting by the slate of electors isn't certain and isn't always accurate. These are some of the main reasons why i feel that the electoral college should be left in the past as an anachronism.
Sincerly,
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a187966 | Im Luke Bomberger and I want to convince you to join the Seagoing Cowboys program. Have you ever thought about exploring the world?
Do you like helping people?
Well what im about to tell you will make you to sign up right now.
Before I started I had two part-time jobs at a grocery store and a bank.
Without my friend Don Reist i would have never found out about the Seagoing Cowboys.
He invited me to go to Europe on a cattle boat.
I didn't say no I knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime.
It was 1945, World War II was over in Europe and many nations were destroyed.
To help these countries recover their food supplies, anaimals, and more, 44 nations joined together to form UNRRA ( the United Nations Relief and Rehabilition Administration).
UNRRA hired ''Seagoing Cowboys'' to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. Don and I signed up.
In August 1945, we received orders to report to New Orleans.
We arrived August 14, the day the Pacific war ended.
we boarded the SS Charles W. Wooster and headed to Greece.
I was 18 when we headed for Greece.
It took us about two weeks to cross the Alantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China.
During that time we had enough time to go sightseeing at a lot of places.
But on the ship you do have to take care of the animals.
And what I loved most about being a Seagoing Cowboy is that you got to explore the world and help people who need it.
But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more then an adventure for me.
It opened up the world to me Im grateful for the opportunity.
It made me aware of people of other countries and their needs.
I hope you join the Seagoing Cowboys because overal you get to explore the world while helping people. | 2 |
a187d56 | The electoral college is unfiar to voters. Electing the president should not be on how many electors vote for the candidate, it should be about how many people in each state vote for this representative. The electoral college is only 538 electors that vote for president which is not everyone that goes to the election booth and votes for president. In the electoral college, voters do not vote for the president but for a slate of electors who in turn elect the preisdent. Over 60 perecnt of the voters prefer direct election instead of the electoral college.
Voting for president should be about the number of people who vote for a candidate. Voting should not be about the number of electors each candidate has. Direct voting is what should be taking place, not an electoral college. Direct voting is when a voter goes to an election booth and votes for who they think should be president. Their vote does not get sent to an electoral college where electors vote for the candidate. Every voter goes to an election booth to vote the candidate they think should be president, they dont vote for the electors.
"The electoral college is unfair,outdated and irrational." This is true because with the electoral college, voters vote not for a slate of the president but for a slate of electors who in turn elect the president. The electoral college's only purpose is so the candidate can have agroup of electors just in case the number of votes is low for the candidate. The electors votes are the only votes that really matter which is not fair to the voters. Out of everyone that votes for president and having only 538 votes count does not seem fair to the voters at all.
Over 60 percent of voters prefer direct election. 60 percent is the majority of voters the rather have direct election instead of the electoral college. Since most of the time it is majority rules then why not cut the electoral college from the voting process? I'll tell you why, because ever since the disaster hat occured in 2000, the candidates still need a chance at winning the election even if they do not get to visit every state during the campaign.
Yes, the electoral college is unfair and irrantional but it has also created a new system known as the winner-takes-all system. This system allows the candidates to focus on the states that they do have a chance winning over instead of focusing on the states that they know for a fact have no chance of winning over. Over all, the electoral college has no point in being apart of the voting process. The only voting process this country should yse is direct voting because it is fair to everyone. The election process should be a fair process, it should not have everyone voting and only having 538 vote count. Even when over 60 percent of the voters choose direct voting, the country still agrees to use the electoral college. All in all I have to agree with Bob Dole, Mr. Senator and abolish the electoral college! | 4 |
a188416 | In the article the author describes a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions and tell people what that person is feeling.
The Facial Action Coding System should be used to read students' emotional expressions because it could help them with their work if they do not inderstand something and the teacher cannot make it any easier for the student.
While others think that this new technology is a bad idea, others think it is a good idea. The text states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored... It could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This proves that this technology could help students with their school work if they did not understand it.
Others say that the new technology coul dbe used to make computer animated characters more expressive. The article states, "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive-- for video games and for video surgery." This proves that this technology can make people happier by just making others smile.
The Facial Action Coding System should be allowed in school and other public places. It would help people understand what everyone else is feeling and if they need someone to comfort them. The new technology should be allowed to make others around them happier then they were earlier. It will make everyone's life easiler because then they will not have to hold in their feelings and they can just talk to the people they feel they can trust. | 3 |
a18c42c | After NASA found this landform, some people think it was created by aliens who once lived on mars. It is obviouly not a face. I can tell you why.
This "face" NASA found is just a landform with shadows casted on it, in paragraph 3 it says, a few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see. The caption noted a "huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose and mouth." The key words in that paragraph are shadows and illusion. That is some proof that this "head" is a landformation, not some alien artifact left behind, while the alien civilization on mars was being ended or moved somewhere else.
If you look at the pictures of this head at the beggining of this story, the first one does look like a face, but the other two don't look so much like a face. That is because technology has also advanced not because there was a face and now it is dieing away. There is another 1976 oicture of the face down farther under paragraph 5 it is also more clear than the one at the top, but remeber the keywords shadows and illusions.
That is all I have to say about this topic, I liked the informative story, and I think the face on mars does look cool. I'm sayig it is just a landform and also I do belive there are aliens but just not any where near our solar system. | 3 |
a18d842 | In the article of making mona lisa smile,the author describes new technology. It show before the new technology and after the way mona lisa feels her emotions,it was how she was before the new technology and they can not fix it. But now because of the new technology is made. A pricess of the computer begins constructs a 3-D computer model of the face. Movement of one or more muscles are action unit. The new technology is relies on the work of psychologists by Dr. huang and Dr. paul Eckman. the coding was call action coding syste of six emothions. The technology can know if you happy or not and it can fix the problem. When you take a picture first raise your lips at the coners of your mouth. Second then squint your eyes slightly, to produce wrinkling of crow feet at the corners of your eyes. Thrid holding that ,raise the outer parts of your cheeks up,toward your eyes,It was how you look in the mirror,while taking a picture. Making a happy face in this experiment also make you feek slightly happy because according to the facial feedback theory of emothion,moving your facial muscles not only expresses emothions. It is a good way to make you more happy and for the others people by this new technology. This technology is good becuase it can make your emotions know and how to fix it. I think monalisa smile will make others people happy to because of the new technology effect. | 1 |
a19008a | today after i tell you some facts about the seagoing cowboys you should go check out the recroting site. now number one, the seagoing cowboys get to see some of the most fasnating and beatiful sites across the world. number two when going we don't just work, work ,work we also have lots of fun. all the seagoing cowboys also gets to go and do things no other person here as ever done.
when we go on trips sometimes yes it does get a little stressful and tiering,but when we drop the animals of we play games and even have parties.
sometimes when we're going home the days just roll on by like water.
when we get to are locatoin and unload the animals, most of the time we spend the night and see all of the senery.
all the time we go see things but olso do things like go meet new people. we go and find new food to try. sometimes we even almost get blown of the ship. which will give you a big adredilan rush. | 2 |
a1902ef | Have you ever thought about limiting the usage of your car ? If not you should start thinking of ways you can transport yourself without having to use your car each and everyday to do certain things and go certain places. limiting your car usages can be very helpful to not only you but the people thats around you. here's some reasons why ...
Sometimes limiting your car usage can be a great choice for you to make. without the usage of your car you can get wonderful excrise without even knowing. example, when your driving your car there's no energy running through your body. your body needs movement. A way you can transport and exricse is a bike. A bike can help you run energy through your body without you knowing unlike like a car. Not only your limiting your car usage but your getting fit and transportation as well.
Cars can be very harmful to your communitiy. The gas from your vehicle explores the air and that can cause a very filthy thing called polution in your communitiy. Some citizens don't think of it that way. people say that Cars are easier and faster ways to get around but also hurtful during the process. this is one of the reasons people are getting sick. cars should be limited of their usage.
This was some points on why cars should be limited of their usage. their dangerus its unkowingly harmful to our citizen. Bikes were made for a reason and thats to transport. Your hurting yourself if you not taking these points im giving you. children get sick everyday and part of th reason is the polution in the world. hop on a bike and get to peddling it won't hurt you your getting fit and saving the world at the same time. | 3 |
a194df9 | Although, some may say its invassive to have this type of technology in the classroom, many experts belive it would be revlotionary to have this in the classroom. This wouldn't only be good for the teachers, it would also be great for the students.
Just imagine you're sitting in your class and the teacher is going on about something that your not that interested in. Sudenly they change the subject to something that you're actually excited about. The passage states "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 would be great for the students because it would cause them to actually enjoy wants going on and the teacher will be able to taylor the lesson to their perferce. It would be even better for the teachers because it would only tell them that the students are bored, it will be able to inform the teacher if they are going too fast or too slow. The teachers will be able to make that adjument on the fly. Which could lead to better test scores and so on.
On the other side of the story, some students and teachers may veiw this Facial Action Coding System too invasive. Not everyone wants to get read like a book. Some students could've been in a bad mood so they walked in class witha bored or upset facial expression. Which can to the teacher trying to fix something that they have nothing to do with. Many students have many diffrent preferces, some students may find one subject interesting while another group of students do not. Then that could put a lot of pressure on the teachers.
Overall, the FACS would be a extreamly valuable in the class room. Not only will it be able to help teachers help their students, it could also lead to much higher test scores and so much more. | 3 |
a196efc | Dear State Senator,
How do you feel about the Electoral College? Do you think that we should still keep the Electoral College or should it be changed by election of popular vote for the president of the United States? From my side I think that we should keep the Electoral College. There are my reasons that conviced me to say this because we have use it for many years now. How is it that you can vote without the Electoral College?
The first reason why I think we should keep the Electoral College is be cause it is not a place, it is a process. So how can this hurt other people to not want this if you can't find it? This process is a very smart thing that the founding fathers established because it is fare to everyone. It is fare because it is a voting decision that the electors elected as President and Vice President. To me making an election is the best way to make a decision so that everyone wont be angry at each other.
The Electoral College is a voting system. Voting is the one of the best ways to pick out things that everyone has a different opinion. For example, evey four years there is an elective going on for who can become president of The United States Of America. This system will allow everyone in the United States to vote who should be the next president. The same thing goes for the governments of each state and county.
When we use the Electoral College it helps us figure out the differents of each election. For example, when a president or government is being elected we can figure out who is grtting more electives. We can see how many people are voting and how many electives did each person received. With that being said we can easily tell which person won the elective and who didn't. We can also see the percentage of votes and how many states voted for each person.
These are my reasons why I said that the Electoral College should stay with us. It is a good way to vote, it helps us see how many people voted, and it is vary fare with everyone in The United States. Its has helped us vote for governments and presidents for many years and hopfuly it will still keep on running. This is why voting is the best way to make things equal with everyone because it is done by electing. Why would we want to take something away like the Electoral College when it was established by our own Founding Fathers? | 2 |
a199d01 | In our Galaxy(Milky Way)there are many stars and as we know we have 8 planets but I am going to talk about one planet in special,Venus. Venus,sometimes is called the ''Evening star''.This nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. It is one of the brightest point of light in the night sky,also you can see it from the earth by looking at the North side. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe ventage point of earth,it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely.
Venus is the closest planet to earth. Venus orbits the sun at different speeds,this means that some times we are closer to venus and sometimes not. Because Venus is somtimes right around the corner in space terms humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloudly world. Everytime a human sent a spacecaft to Venus,the mission was a failure because the spacecraft they sent culd not last more than few hours. Venus has a atmosphere of almost 97% of carbon dioxide blankets Venus. The clouds are highly corrosive of sulfuric acid in Venu's atmosphere. Its temperature has an average of 800 degrees fahrenheit,ans the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than Earth's atmosphere. Also,Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth like planet in our solar system. as in this passage says that long ago Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported life. Today,Venus still has some features that are analogous to thoose on Earth. Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) Is working on other aproaches to studting Venus. For example,some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have benn tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venu's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such a condition.
Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value,not only because of the insight to be gained on the panet itself,but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Venus could be a fierce planet with its very hot temperatures,its atmosphere's pressure etc,but if once a humans find the way to survive there,it might be our next planet to live on. | 3 |
a19a55a | Limiting the usage of cars has personal and professional support all across the globe and yet it has yet to be embraced everywhere. Statistical proof show where it may help and real life examples of some of the effects of reducing, or getting rid of altogether, cars in one's daily life. While "recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by" (Source 4), is that really enough or for the right reason? There are plenty of reasons to stop, or limit, the amount of cars being driven on the roads for every kind of person, from the hippie to the businessman, from the mom to the college student. With so many things in this world that few people agree on, this is a nice change to see in regards the removal of so many cars. Why would they all agree, one might ask. Well, there are plenty of reasons.
For starters, stress. It is no secret that morning traffic jams and 5'o'clock traffic is often enough to send any driver into a fit of unadulterated rage and what better way is there to prevent that than to simply not drive at all? Mother and media trainer, Heidrum Walter attested to this after moving into a mostly car-less community, claiming "when [she] had a car [she] was always tense. [She's] much happier [that] way" (Source 1). If that were not enough, businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza who participated in the Day Without Cars in Bogota, Colombia, after just a day was able to say "it's a good oppurtunity to take away stress" (Source 3). Just one day was enough to de-stress this man and if that does not speak wonders, one has to wonder what does. The event "[left] the streets of [Bogota] eerily devoid of traffic jams" (Source 3), which goes to show how stressful it was everyday, with traffic jams a common occurance. No one enjoys them, so why continue to suffer through them?
Additionally, the environment suffers greatly from the many car emissions let out on the roads. "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). This alone should be enough to horrify anyone out of such copious amounts of car usage. If that were not enough, "transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions" (Source 4). It is clear that cars are only doing more harm to this earth all humans live on and happen to only have one of, so there is no need to continue on knowing this without changing something about that. Even car-pooling could significantly reduce emissions as there would be less cars out there, which is possible through "more flexible commuting arrangements, including the evolution of shared van services for getting to work" (Source 4).
Of course, adding the last two reasons together makes for another very important factor in all of this: everyone's general health. Both stress and high concentrations of smog can do a toll on one's body and the reduction of cars, once again, helps to reduce this terrible down-sides to the easy transportation option. If it must be described as "emissions ... are choking cities" (Source 1), then why not be a bit more concerned. Air pollution can affect those with pre-existing respitory issues and stress can be a deciding factor in how effient and well a person can function. Stress on the road can lead to unsafe driving and a worse performance at work, school, or any other task-oriented location that many go to with the aid of a car.
It is also worth noting that cities that have embraced a no car lifestyle such as Vauban or Bogota have generally improved as a community and have given back anything the newly car-less citizens may have been missing out on through saving them time and money. In Vauban, "stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway" (Source 1). This is not only much more cost-efficient, but also convienent. This is saving both time and money, just like in Bogota where "parks and sports centers [] have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic; and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up" (Source 3). Not only does this help individual citizens and business owners, it helps the overall economy of the city as well.
Individual car use isn't bad. Millions of individuals using cars, however, is very bad. Note the emphasis. Even just making a concious effort to car pool, bike to work or school, use public transportation, or use some sort of alternative transportation could be enough to clear up the air of some of it's emissions, keep oneself and others happier and less stressed, save time and money, and improve their city all in one little decision. It's just a matter of going ahead and doing it, so what is stopping anyone from going out and making that change now? Be the change you want to see and limit your car usage now. | 5 |
a19a880 | I am not against the vaule of using this technology to read students emotional expressions. I am not against it because it is cool and something different. Also the fact knowing a computer can read your emotions is kinda cool. "if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow."
I think that they should not change their current screen to a different screen. I say it should not because maybe that person is bored or confused. But you never know if that person is doing something they have to be looking at or working on. For example say i am playing a game. But i have to do a review over the game fro a project. That probably would make me frustrated because the computer think im bored or confused and have an ad appear.
Again, I am not agaist the idea of using this technology to read students emotional expressions. "A clasroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." It is acually cool to know that a computer know how you feel. Once again i do not feel like a computer should change the screen just because they see you not happy. | 2 |
a19d424 | New innovative technologies are being created time after time. One of these technologies are the driverless cars. These cars create mixed feelings for most people. Either they like it or they do not. For me I do not mind it. So I support the development of the driverless cars.
If you think about it, it really is not that bad of an idea. In the article it says that the cofounder of Google can imagine a time when no one would have the need to buy cars because there would be driverless public transports. I believe this would never happen because people have the need to own thier own things and not share with others because they may think others are annoying. Even so, these driverless cars or at least computer driven cars have been an idea of the past at around the mid 20th century. In the article it talks about how in the late 1950s, General Motors tried to develop a car that used radio signals as a type of sensor. Now, with all the new technologies today, that can perform the task of sensing what is around the car more effectively. So effective that it may reduce the amounts of accidents. In the article it talks about how Google had cars out since 2009 that have driven for more than half a million miles without a crash.
For those who are not really good a driving and are afraid of getting in crashes, these driverless cars are the way to go. These driverless cars can help with breaking if you get to close to an object. These cars do not fully drive independently so you have to be on alert. In the article, it says that these driverless cars can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills. Which I think is a good thing because it gives you the chance to practice your driving skills instead of letting the car do everything by itself and your driving skills decline to a point where you may forget how to drive. Other technologies within the cars may also help you drive too.
From a vibrating seat to the car speaking to you, there is nothing you can overcome. Other applications mentioned in the article are flashing lights on the windshield, cameras watching the driver to ensure he or she is focused on the road, and heads up displays. All which helps you make sure your driving experiences are safe. In the article, it says that these options may be turned off if you feel the need to take on the wheel yourself if you have the confidence.
These technologies for the driverless cars are not ending here. Many car manufacturers such as Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan are coming up with much more ways to implament their ideas of the perfect driverless cars. So because of this, I and supporting the developments of these driverless cars. | 4 |
a1a03f4 | I am certain that the Face on Mars is just a natural landform. It has many features, and it has many people concerned about it. The Face on Mars is a natural landform because it was spotted with shadowy likeness of a human, it resembles the human head, and it actually shows a Martian equivalent of a butte or messa.
This face has many features, including its shadowy likeness of a human. Just twenty-five years ago, something happened that was so hilarious. NASA's Viking one spacecraft were traveling around Mars, then it was spotted looking such as a human. It seemed to them that the face was just starring, just as if it was real. This suprised many of the analyzers.
After many experiments on the Face, they discovered that it is a resemblance of a human head. It is just like an illusion, of eyes, a nose, and even a mouth. According to some authors it would be a great way to engage the public and bring some attention to Mars. They finally realized that is has brung some attention! After that hilarious day it was featured in many magazines, books, and etc. This is a enormous way of saying that this face is very engaging and concerning.
According to Mars Global Surveyor, they flew over Cydonia and snapped a picture of the original Viking photos. The pictures showed that it was an actual natural landform. It wasn't appeared to be an alien monument after all this researching. Even after this stage, people still weren't satisfied with the evidence that they had came up with.
The Face shows a Martian equivalent of a butte or messa. After taking time and time again to review the face, it seems to just show a Martian that is equivalent to a butte or messa. " It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, " says Garvin. Which is a dome with lava that is in the form of a set apart messa, but is the same height of the Face.
As a result, the Face is a natural landform. It has a shadowy likeness of a human, it resembles the human head, and it shows a Martian equivalent of a butte or messa. Research has shown that this isn't just an alien monument after all. There can be more thinking to this, can it? Its just a natural landform, which shows a Martian to represent Mars. | 3 |
a1a0e21 | Dear Senator,
What have Richard NIxon, Jimmy Carter, and Bob Dole, all in their time agreed on?
The Electoral College.
The Electoral College is not a place, its a process.
By the passage of source 1 , the founding fathers established the Electoral College as a compromise, between election of the President by a vote in Congress and the election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. Keeping the Electoral College is important.
Having an Electoral College is a safe way to ensure that everyone get to envoice there opinion. For example, the Electoral college avoids problems and tries to fix eveything so that everyone can be happy. Many people don't like the fact of the Electoral College because they feel that their vote doesn't count. But really every one's vote does. When the American citizens vote and there is a tie between the two candidates then thats another time when we use the Electoral College.
Each Candidate running for President in each state has his or her own group of electors. Each party (democratic or republican) selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee. I strongly believe that we should keep the Electoral College as any force of back-up when it comes down to voting! | 2 |
a1a81a4 | Everyone should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. There are many great advantages of being a Seagoing Cowboy. You get to travel and experience many other great things.
There are many great things you can experience if you become a Seagoing Cowboy. First off, you get to adventure many different and unique places. A Seagoing Cowboy named Luke got to go Europe, China, Greece, and Italy. Also, if you become a Seagoing Cowboy you can see and experience things that you don't do on a normal basis. Luke said, "Besides helping people, I had the side benift of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special. So was taking a gondola ride in Vinice, Italy, a city with streets of water." Seagoing Cowboys also play lots of fun games. On board, the cowboys played baseball and volleyball where the animals had been being housed. They also had table-tennis tournaments, fensing, boxng, reading, whittling, and games to pass time.
There are many great advantages of being a Seagoing Cowboy. You get to go to new places, experience new things, and play lots of fun games. It would be an honor if you would join the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 2 |
a1a8e7b | Driverless cars are a good inovention for the future. Driverless cars can help effect safety,traffic, and the polution in the air. Driverless cars could help communities and the economy in many ways.
Driverless cars could change the way people commute. As driverless cars begin to come in play, less people will have to drive their own car. As many people know, tons people get into accidents everyday because of the people behind the wheel making harmful decisions, if driverless cars were put out on the roads there would be less traffic accidents because there would not be people behind the wheel who are reckless and causing these accidents to occur. Driverless cars alert the drive when needed or when about to come into contact with something therfore these cars will help reduce the effects of human error and give more reaction time to the human in the passenger side.
This could also shorten the amount of people taking the bus to the places they need to go, which would make the polution problem a way less common thing. Also, lots of people with disablities can not drive, with the help of a driverless car those people could get to the places they need to go instead of someone else driving them or them not being able to go at all.
Driverless cars would also just provide convience to the world. Lots of people dread the drive to work everyday or a long drive to Disney, but with driverless cars they would not have to drive there. They could sit and relax and not have to worry about making a traffic accident because of them being tired behind the wheel.
The factories making these cars would need more help. Thus, bringing in more jobs for the people and making the economy stronger. This could also bring in money by the people who want these cars because of the convience of them. Driverless cars could lead to more advancements in technology to help driving become safer which would bring in more money for the economy. The invention of the driverless car could be something that impacts the society and world in a new and modern way
Driverless cars could impact our society in many ways and boost the economy. These cars could change someones life between life and death. There would be less accidents making the health and living rate higher. People with disablties would now be able to drive and live their lifes freely like should always of been. Finally, it will not only help the lifes of humans but it will help the Earth by giving off less polution and by people traveling in less polution dense vehicles which would better the world. | 3 |
a1b24c3 | Though I have not been alive to see most of it, I am sure that the debate on keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote has been going on for ages. Now, the words of a fourteen year old might not mean much to a state senator, especially since it will be four years until I am legally allowed to vote, but please sir, hear me out. I believe that we should keep the Electoral College for many reasons. One, if the president was decided by popular vote, our president might not be the best one for the country. Secondly, if it were up to a popular vote, the president might win, or not win, simply for being a regional favorite.
To start this off, if our president was decided by a popular vote, our president might not be the best thing for our country. As stated in the third article, paragraph 20, "The winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates... to focus their campaign effors on the toss-up states." As you know, toss-up state's make the final vote. Therefore, people in these states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign, and they will be the ones with the most information. If it were up to popular vote, then anyone over the age of 18 could randomly pick a winner. Let's be honest, the majority of eighteen year old's will vote on whoever their friends or family vote for, or even the candidate representing their group (Democratic or Republic). Many people, if the president was decided by popular vote, would make an uneducated decision on one of the canidates, not studying their choices as much as one would with the Electoral College system in place.
Secondly, if it were up to a popular vote, the president might simply win because he (or she) is a regional favorite. As stated in the third article, paragraph 19, "...because a candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president." Also in the paragraph, it states that no region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. If the president was decided by popular vote, however, can you imagine what it would be like? Take Romney, for example. He was a solid regional favorite in the South. Romney knew that there was no incentive to campaign heavily in the South, because he would not gain any electoral votes by increasing his plurilaty in states he knew he would win. If popularity decided the president, residents of the other regions might feel like their vote would not count, and that the president would have no regard for their interests. Say that popularity did actually determine a winner. While most regions might vote for a certain presidents, the ones that did not would feel like that the man running the country wasnt really "their president". However, Mr. Senator, if the Electoral College was to stay, this problem would never exist. With the system we have now, the people vote for your state's electors when they vote for the president. Most states also have a "winner-take-all" system. Therefore, the canidate with the most votes in a state win's that state's electors. This lets the voting be even, fair. A popular vote would make the voting unfair to those who did not want that president.
Now, of course, the other view has to be adressed. As stated in the second article, "Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning... During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all." This quote shows that the canidates might not go to a state they know they have no chance in winning. I can see how this could support changing to election by popular vote, and how it could be reasonable. If our president was chosen by popular vote, then he would visit all of the states, trying to win them over. However, there are some strong arguments against this. To begin with, one man would have to visit 50 states, and even if he only visited the majority, there is still a posibility that the state will not vote for him anyways, in the end. If we keep the Electoral College, then the majority of votes in a state would count, not his popularity. As a fourteen year old, I can relate this to highschool. A student can be the most popular student in the school, but they can also be the most rude and mean. And while another student may not be popular, they can be the nicest in the school. If the president was chosen by a popular vote, he might just end up being the worst thing that could happen to the country.
In conclusion, Mr. State Senator, I think that keeping the Electoral College is the best thing for our country. If we changed to election by popular vote, the man (or woman) might not be the best for our country, and the best man might not win because he is not a regional favorite. I hope, sir, that you will take my letter into account when you go to vote on this topic. | 6 |
a1b39aa | Venus is a planet closes planet to earth. You can get insight on the Twin planet of Earth that does share most features as earth
and unsafe to go.
Getting insight on the twin planet According to the text,'' Studying for Venus, at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above from a ship orbiting safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most form of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere.
Venus planet share some features like Earth. In the text it states,''
The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and ncludes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. At thirty-plus miles bove susurface,temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees fahrenheit but the air pressure would be close o sea level on earth. Venus can be the nearest option of a planatary visit. U can learn how hot it is in venus because its very close to the sun .
Learning about a planet that is high risk that gives you true insight on the planet next to us , where you can see in the sky
is an interesting exploration where its likely to be unsafe to visit. | 1 |
a1b514a | The electoral college is where people go to vote for President and also our vice President. Each canidate has his or her own group of electors. Every elector is choosen by the canidate's political party. Also each elector is carefully selected and are aware of thier responsibilties. Ounce you vote for your canidate you are actually voting for the canidates electors. Which helps the state's electors choose who is fit for president. The presidential election happens every four years on a tuesday in Novemeber. There are at least 538 elector's that atend the Electoral college. Also there has to be at least 270 votes to elect the president.
People may think when they go out to vote for our new president they are voting for that one person but they're not, you are actualy voting for a bunch of electors. There is a group of people from the goverment that get together and select each elector that is trusted to vote for the party's nominee. There's five reasons for the Electoral College. One is certainty of outcome, everyone's president, swing staes, big states, and also last but not least avoid run-off elections. | 1 |
a1b74d6 | Have you ever wondered why the citizens of a country have the opportunity to voice their opinion in which who they feel should be president. Well i found some information in source 1 that talks about electoral college. Electoral college is not a place but its a process that was found in the constitution as a compromise between election of president by the votes in congress and election oof the president by a popular votes of qualified citizens of the country. I think that they shouldn't change to popular vote in the United States because the electoral college is more fair and plus they don't know the outcome of the election of the popular votes of the prsident of the United States.
I support the electoral college because it allows you to voice your opinions in which who you feel should been president. It's also makes you feel that once you voted that your opinion matters. In source 1 they talk about when the "Presidential election is held every four years on the Tuesday afterthe first Monday in November." also you help choose youir state's electors when you vote for President because when you vote for yor candidate you are actually voting for you candidate's electors. In source 2 they explain it in more details. "Under the electoral college system, voters votes not for thre president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." They mean that don't matter if you vote for "John Kerry" and he's a Democratic and the number of whoever pledge to Kerry would be added on to his votes. thats why i like the electoral college.
But one the other hand, there saying that they might change it to the election of the popular votes of the president of the United States. I think they should keep using the electoral college because it actually have better benefits or outcomes because you know who you voted for and from what they told you, you believe they can make it happen. There's some states that have a "winner-take-all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate.
But the bad side about the electoral college is that what happens if thr president you like is a republican but you like the democratic senator? Well i dont know what your going to do then because going to be a problem.
Electoral college is not a place but its a process that was found in the constitution as a compromise between election of president by the votes in congress and election oof the president by a popular votes of qualified citizens of the country. I think that they shouldn't change to popular vote in the United States because the electoral college is more fair and plus they dont know the outcome of the election of the popular votes of the prsident of the United States. | 3 |
a1c0187 | In the story " The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers it presents because Venus is Earth's twin and have many similiaraties, but also have a lot of differences with each other. Venus has weather that we will never be able to handle naturally and also scientists cannot take an samples of rocks,gas or anything else due to the technology we do not yet have.Earth is sometimes located right next to Venus it just depends how fast it orbits around the sun. Earth and Venus are the closest in density and size that's why they are twins with each other.
Venus has really hot weather that we will never be able to handle naturally with out it killing us. We will need special suits to go up to Venus if we would want to stay up there for a couple of days not just hours. Also special foot gear because Venus has the hottest surface temperature then any other planet in our solar system. Venus has many similiaraties with Earth such as having erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes.I believe that if you want to go up to Venus you would need special suits and gear to resist its wild environment and also advanced improved technology to survive.
I currently believe that if NASA want to take humans to another planet with its technology today, it would be a really bad idea because the space ships today would not be capable to resist its 800 degrees Fahrenheit surface. I think NASA should wait until later on technology is invented when making twice as better space ships today. NASA should no risk any humans up to Venus with out being 100 percent sure that they will return back to its family. Its spaceships today can only land for a couple of hours and thats it. I believe that if NASA want to take humans to another unknown planet then we should be 100 percent sure that everything will go the right way.
Maybe sometime in the future NASA will sent humans to Venus without a doubt that they will ever come back. I believe NASA should keep improving there technology and keep sending machines up to other planets then humans. We are yet not ready to have send people to other planets besides the moon.Technology today can currently have humans survive but not be safe.I think that now is not the time to sned people up to the moon with NASA's spaceships and technology.
I believe that studying Venus is a well worthy of persuit and I completely agree with the author, but later on in life when technology is improved. With Venus's climate we would not be capable to go up there and would not be sure of everything. NASA should keep inventing machines that will allow to bring back rocks, gas, or anything else. This is why I believe that us humans are yet not ready to go on a dangers well worthy adventure up to Venus right now. | 4 |
a1c5818 | In the article it talks about a facon mars that has appeared on Viking 1 while looking for a place to land. The face is a natral land form because thats like saying our land forms were made by aliens and thats why we have mountains, valleys, and plains. In the article it says "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appered on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural land form. There was no alien monument after all.". The article also states about the face on mars"What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa--landforms common around the American West."Another quote that proves this is a land form is "Thats a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same hieght as the Face on mars."The photo of mars is a land form because it says right there in the passage it is a lava dome and it is about the same hieght as the face on mars. In paragraph 6 it says "although few scientists belived the face was an alien artifact photographing Cydonia bacame a priority fo NASA whe Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) arrived at the Red Planet in Sept1997, eighteen long years after the Viking missions ended.". | 2 |
a1c6553 | I disagree with driverless cars. Driverless cars are not a very smart idea, just becuase Google has made driverless cars since 2009 they have drove over half million miles without a crash, but Google cars are not driverless they alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of a driveway or dealing with something bad happing near them. The Google driverless cars are not so driverless.
My thoughts about the driverless cars is what happens if the car crashes whos fault is it the person in the car or the manufacturer? What if we get driverless cars what is going to happen to insurance for cars insurance people will lose money and if the car did crash its more money out of your pocket to fix it insted the insurance people having to deal with some payment. Car manufactures like BMW, Audi, ext. have made more of there cars safe for people and I do not think making them driverless would be safe. What if the car goes nuts and the driver has no control?
I feel that if we get driverless cars more people will lose there life then without them. We can not always relie on driverless cars or the technology becuase one day we will not have it. So I think we need to just drop the whole driverless cars and work more on safety. | 2 |
a1cd4ce | Our country's history with cars date back a few centuries. Today, there are many cars from different brands, with different deisgns, and with different benefits. Though all these cars have one thing in common - they emit harmful pollution to the air. We already know that the pollutants given off from cars have caused the greenhouse effect in the world. This has been a main topic for decades, on how to figure out how to solve and reduce the amount of pollutions so that Earth can sustain us. Limiting car usage will reduce the pollutant emission from the cars, it will cause less traffic jam and congestion in parking, and some people are tend to become more relaxed and happy.
The Earth is being effected with harmful gases caused by cars. Our vehicles that we drive everyday, the one we take to work or schools or places you want to see, are the main source of pollutants coming into the air and causing the greenhouse gases. The limited usage of cars will reduce the amount of emission given off. In the article "Paris bans driving due to smog" by Robert Duffer, France has the most amount of smog in the European countries. This smog has caused warmer layers of air to trap car emissions will cause heat to the country. But when they have put a ban in cars for a while, the amount of smog has decreased. Furthermore, if we continue to reduce or at less limit the amount of time we spend driving or riding in the car, we can help reduce the emissions made. Rosenthal states, "...emissions from an increasing number of private cars owned by the burgeoning middle class are choking cities." If we do not limit the use of cars now, not only will the Earth suffer, people will suffer as well. The limit usage of cars can save the Earth and ourselves.
The constant honking, switching lands, and when reached the destination, a parking is needed to be found. With the amount of cars, traffic jam and lack of parking space is evitable. Pollution also contributes to the traffic jam and congestion. Though if limited cars we used congestion will come down. According to Duffer, "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog..." The lack of cars on the road will cause many more people to get to work or school or any place they want wihtout rushing becaus the roads are clear. Moreover, parking space is a hassle to find when there are so many cars everywhere. With less cars means less space for parking, this could save money for the government and invest more on what the country needs. In Vauban, Germany, they had to give up their cars but on the positive side, on the main streets, stores are placed walking distance rather than on a highway (Source 1). With the less amount of cars, highways and roads do not have to be invested in too much rather the money may be used to invest in other important things.
When we are younger, we dream of driving and having a bit of freedom but when we actually start driving it gets tiring. Some people are stressed out when driving and tend to be very prone to accidents. Though when just taking a bicycle or walking it relieves stress. Carlos Arturo Plaza states in the article "Car-fre day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota", "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." Stress will only increase when we get older, taking off a load of stress by limiting the usage of cars can be a breather for all of us. Also, people are happy when they do not need cars. Heirdrun Walter said, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way, (Rosenthal)" When Heirdrum means "this way", she is referring to not using a car to get to places. A person should be happy rather than angry and rage because when in a car, some people may do things that could hurt them.
Roads and highways are always being invested because of the increase in car users. If we continue this in the future, there might not be a bright future if we do not stop it. The limit of using cars can cause less pollution in our air, get people to places faster, and make a person smile. This may lead some down fall into the economy and for the employees but with the increase of other alternative to get to places this can lead into a boom in the economy. The positives out run the negatives in this topic. If cars are limited, parks and sports centers will bloom; uneven, pitted sidewalks will be fixed to smooth sidewalks; rush-hour will be cut traffic; and food places and stores will increase. Even the executive chairman of the Ford Motor Company proposed "parternering with the telecommunications inductry to create cities in which 'pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commerical and public transprtation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety'" (Source 4). In the end, it is up to decide if we would rather continue using cars or not. So go and choose the side that will benefit not only the economy or government but the people and environment. | 6 |
a1cde0f | In this essay I will talk about why you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. My name is Luke and I am participating in the Seagoing Cowboys program. I think people would enjoy participating in this program. Over 100 members participate in this type of program. We have a lot of jobs you guys can do. If I can do it you can do it too.
My friend Jully works here and she feeds the animals. " I really love working here," she said. If you like animals you would love this job. Sometimes when the animals are good we give them treat and sometimes play with them. My close friend Ashley helps me stay up at night and watch the animals. This can be a hard job, but trust me its all worth it. We work at night and sleep through out the day.
The people that work herer are nice. They treat you nicely and the animals. This is a team effort to help the animals. If you want to join this program and can clean the animals or you can help feed them with Jully. Most of the people here love participating in the Seagoing Cowboys progarm. I also love working here.
You should work here because you would be helping the animals. You would help keep the animals alive. I think you would enjoy this type of program
if you like animals. You would enjoy being with the animals and the people who work here. This is a very good job.
In this essay I talked about why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. In the eassay I talked about what type of jobs you can have. I think the people that like all types of different animals would like this program. This a intersting job to do. On our breaks we enjoy playing games. | 3 |
a1d6398 | Visiting Venus would be a worthy pursit despite the danger it presents says the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus". He makes many assuments that give the idea of going to venus is good and would be life changing. The author says all of this knowing the danger that could come from visiting Venus with much support. In a fair arguement, the author gives details in both sides to basically balance them both out to the point that we shouldn't even bother of thinking.
The author talks about the size of both Earth and Venus in paragraph two, to compare them in way. Line one, paragraph 2 states " Often referred to as Earth's twin, Venus is the closet planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too" the authour is trying to give us a aspect of the planets being simliar. The author brings up the density and size of Earth and Venus being the same to show us that if we were all to move there one day we would be able to fit. The author also brings up how far away it is, casue image if it was at the end of our solar system we would never be able to get there as it take a life time to reach the end of the solar system. Earth and Venus being compared like this is enough for us humans to contunie to explore and maybe hope one day we could be on Venus.
The author also talks about Venus probably being like earth along time ago, to show us that Earth and Venus aren't that different after all. In paragraph four, the author gives us compareise to today Earth to long time ago Venus. The author states in line three, paragraph four " Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth" this indicts that life might of occured and if it did thats a game changer. The author also states that the surface of the planet is made up of rocky sediment which include valleys, mountains, and craters just like earth. Venus and Earth once being the same is crazy and who knows maybe they still are in a way we just need to keep on studying it.
Last but not least here comes the danger of pursiting Venus and the diffcults we could face in studying it. Paragraph three states many different kind of problems Venus could bring like the atmosphere, temperatures, Volcanoes and other natural disaters. Venus atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbon dixode, to us humans that is a very thick atmosphere that we wouldn't like to put up with. Also the temperature there is 90 times greater then Earth standing to about 900 degrees Fahrenheit, just image califorina the way it is right now and times it by 90, it would be literally a burning hell. It just gets better as it also indicts that there are erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes and frequent lighting to mess with our landing problems. We may have to risk the danger of our human lives but at all stakes it is worth it, think about what could happen to us if we actually get somewhere with this study.
Therefore all this precautions and dangers in studying/visiting Venus brings i think we can all say we should pursit it. This artitcle gives us a lot of reason why and a lot of reason why we shoudn't but this is why we are humans, we do to achieve. As all is said Venus is worth pursit despite the danger it present and i think we can all agree about this suggestion. | 4 |
a1d87ab | Driverless cars sound like an exciting concept. In paragraph two it even says how people have been fasinating with cars that could driver themselves for ages now. But, in my opinion I believe driverless cars wouldn't be a good idea.
The passage gives many reasons why driverless cars would be good and why they'd also be bad. In my opinion they'd just cause more trouble than regular cars already do. In the passage it says how they have a lot of sensors, and gadgets to make them "safe," but what happens when one or a two of those sensors go out? And then the owner of the car doesn't have the money to go out and buy a new one. They're going to be driving a car that not only is putting themselves in danger, but also the people around them.
Another reason why I believe that driverless cars wouldn't be a good idea is because of what was stated in paragraph 9. What's going to happen when the car gets in an accident and causes damage to another driverless car? We already have laws that go along with regular cars, and to whom is at fault when an accident happens. These cars are going to cause so much more drama than there already is! There are going to be accidents, there is no way we can avoid it. There are going to be malfuntions in the driverless car. There are still malfunctions in the cars we drive today and you see how long we've been dribing them around! Driverless cars are only going to cause more problems that we don't need.
Let's say driverless cars become a reality, and they're everywhere. What's going to happen to the cars we drive today? I absolutly love cars, and the reason I love cars is because as a teenager that just got her license not too long ago; this is what I've been looking forward to since age seven! If manually driven cars get taken away from us how are we going to know who's worthy of driving on the street? Driverless cars are going to be everywhere. They're going to be the cars teens take their drivers test in. How exactly are people going to be able to determine whether or not they're going to be safe on the roads if a car is doing all of the work for them? I just don't see how people expect this all to work out, but then again this is probably what people were thinking when they were transitioning over from hourse and buggies to automobiles.
I believe driverless cars are a bad idea. There are dozens of details in this article to back me up on this. I've always believed why change something that's already good? It's like your mom making your favorite apple pie. It's the best apple pie you've ever had in your life. And one day your mom decides she wants to change it up a bit, and that change just completly ruins it for you. It'll never be the same again because of that one time that she decided to change it up. And that's how I see driverless cars. I see them as something that'll just ruin it for everyone. Manually driving a car gives you such a rush, it's the first thing in your life that makes you feel independent. It makes in feel like you're finally in control of your life for the first time. I feel as though it would be a shame to take that away from the people who haven't experienced it for themselves. | 4 |
a1d96a1 | Imagine being able to sit back and let your car take the wheel. It sounds great right? But what if the car was being driven by a computer imagine all of the possible things that could go wrong. Driving your car rather than having a computer drive your car is the best way to go. Driving your own car puts your own life in your own hands.
With driving your own car you can make all of the choices keeping yourself in only the danger you put yourself in. Nobody wants a computer to put them into danger that they would not put themselves in. Now some people would say that with the computer driven car it could make better choices then a normal human, but with the computer car you are risking putting your life in a computers virtual hands.
Human driving puts yourself in a responsible place and it teaches you responsibility over your actions. With computer driving if it wrecks you automatically blame the computer and you will not take responsiblity over the actions. This is not a good habbit to get in because as teennagers when first being able to drive if you are aloud to blame any small thing on the computer system it will become a habbit to always blame something else even though it might be your part. People might say that with computer driving it would have less accidents, but it is not proven that a computer driver will not have misfunctions.
With human driving your fate is in your own hands you are not putting your life into someone else's hands and deffintley not a computers. With the computers there is too many chances for it to have a bad function and mess up. Also with the computer drivers you still have to be up and alert for any circumstances where you might have to take over so you might as well just take over the wheel all together. With computer driving it puts people in risk of falling asleep behind the wheel which would mean if it came to a point where they needed to take over they would not be able to. People would say it would be relaxing to be able to just sit and be droven for, but you could get a little too relaxed.
With human driving it puts everything into your hands it does not allow a computer to lead to your death or injury. Human drivers can be a little reckless but you have no way in telling when a computer driver will have a misfunction. Driving your car rather than having a computer drive your car is the best way to go. Do not be the one to put your life in a computers virtual hands. | 4 |
a1dc706 | The author suggets that Venus is the hottest surface plant even though it's not the closest plant to Mars, its still one of the hottest planet's. Since Venus is right around the corner humans have a hgher chance to land on Venus when in a spaceshuttle. Venus has a hgher atmosphere of carbon dioxide then any other plant. Although the atmosphere can average over 800 degree, all the carbon is not good for the humans that spaceshuttle the Earth. The autor got this information by sending humans up to Earth to see what it's like up there. Although we mqay live on Earth, traveling up to Earth is far more dangerous then living on Earth. A long time ago, Venus used to be covered with oceans and wasn't so hot how it is compared to now. Although there are still some features to Earth as before and now, the plant got rockier over time and there was a atmosphere change. NASA had an idea to send humans to Venus to study the planet for people on Earth can know more about the planet. The NASA administration say's that Venus cannot form light throughout the planet and researchers are not able to take anything from the planet,such as, rock, gas, or anything else. There once was a old technoology project that took place in the 1800s , those devices made calculations about gears and the levers. Those projects made it easier for physical conditions. Scientists made it a mission to try and understand Venus up close, There are still rescearchers that are building machines to pay apart to try and find knowledge about Venus. As I stated before the atmosphere in our solar system is much more higher than down on Earth,
Scientists say that if we had a solor power the radiation levels would be much more useful for it would not work for the levels on Earth, although ist's much more surivable for humans.
Therefore, as i learned much more about space and NASA from this article. It would be much more nicer on Earth if we had a nicer atmosphere and it would be much more liveable. Scientists are still discoveing information about our solar system. | 1 |
a1de23c | It identifirs the exprestions of ever feeling that was show on our face. The facial expressions for each emotion are all universal buy the different individuals often show varying degrees of expression that are not like a siling as broadway. (Nick D'Alto)
The Mona Lisa is a painting that dosent show much of an exprestion within her smile, but we can somewhat make out that she is somehow is smiling but with another expretion with it. Fpr according to the computer softwar, the Mona Lisa is mostly happy within the picture but also has other fellings like disgusted, fearful and angry. What most people don't understand is that the software has identified that there are more to what meets the eye of an expretion in life. After having many sciencetist look into this, many have found that by making a smile has to create some kind of an exprestion that we can identifie without technology itself. not all emostion can be identified but at least there is a way to show them through actions.
What I say is that the technology that we us today is not always what we need in life to find out about a simple smile where we can just feel and see it with our own eyes. Its just basic reactions from an expretion that we naturally know what they mean. So i say that we do not need any type of technology for experections. | 1 |
a1e35a3 | Why do people hate the electoral College Proccess? It's just trying to choose a more helpful priesident. Although the Electoral College should be abolished for there dispicable disision making,there just choosing a way to get a better prisident. Although there just doing the proccess to help peoples everyday lives, but also the proccess is to help other people choose the right prisident and not just because they can talk proffessionaly on a TV screen but to choose the one with a pure heart about helping the people and not just themselves.
Why are people so angry about the Electoral College? The Electoral College process is showing how to choose the right way for a good prisident."Each candidate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsiblities are...."(office of the federal register, source 1).
this process will help choose a president not by how professional or handsome he look but by the his chocies and background he or she has made in the past."The winner-takes-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the canidates- as we saw in[2012's] election- to focus their campaign efforts on the toss-up states...."(Posner, source 3,3. swing states,passage 20). But why do people hate this process? Just because it is antiquated doesn't mean it is a terible process, but people and there studorn ways will not drop this stupid stituation and go on with a "normal" life.
Even thought this process is antiquated done not mean it need to be abolished and destroy but the true reason why everybody today hate the process is because we want somebody professional but the process chooses the the president right for the cause and not if he professional. We get caught up in this world, but we forget what the true meaning of being a president. Being a president is a honor but it come with difficult task and you need to learn to be a leader and not be the person behind the mask. | 2 |
a1e5e62 | The development of driverless cars is a good thing. Driverless cars can and will play a huge factor in lowering accidents. Things like texting while driving, drinking while driving, and falling asleep while on the road can be avoided with a driverless car.
Texting while driving is a big issue in this genaration with the evolution of cell phones and such. There are lots of people texting and not paying attention to the road. With a driverless car that can be avoided if the car is on auto pilot while you awnser your important text. As stated the Google car can simply announce when the driver should be prepared to take over. This mean that there should be no reason while you should still have texting and driving accidents.
Drinking and driving is another thing that driverless cars can play a huge role in helping out with. There are alot more drunk driving incidents then anything so with a driverless car a person who is heavily intoxicated could not cause harm to other safe drivers. This is not an excuse however to get heavily drunk and intoxicated this is simply a safe measure incase that does end up happening the driverless cars can keep thoes who are responsible from not being hurt by you.
Falling asleep while on the road is another thing that a driverless car can help out with. While this is not a common accident it still happens alot. Some people have worked very long and hard shifts and are to tired to focus on the road leading to accidents. With the car on auto pilot you can catch up on some sleep while the auto pilot takes control.
In conclusion the driverless cars can and will be a big help on the road. They can prevent so many accidents from occuring and it is amazing how anyone can deny that. Sure there may be a few faults here and there but once everything is perfected driverless cars can potentially save life's on the road. | 4 |
a1f1050 | What are some advantages of limiting car usage? Some may say that there is no advantages but many would like to differ, Some advantages that we would have would be less polution , Smog, or even a chance to exercise . But lets talk about polution. Polution takes a major affect on the world and many people might not see this, but limiting car usage can help prevent this . Polution is constantly harming us and the world around us. It destroys are Ozone Layer, causes smog , and much more. And if limiting car usage can help prevent this why not? This is when todays socity kicks in to play. In todays socity some people are just to lazy i'm not saying im not guilty of this
However , i'm not saying that anyone is. See some people decide to take there cars wherever they go, even if it is just three to four blocks down the road. If we just decide to walk more maybe we can reduce polution. Let's say that you have a local Walmart or Supper store about a one mile radious away from were you live and all you need is a gallon of milk or just something to eat, im not saying spending over three hundred in grocries. Just something little why not just walk it? Now im not saying that if there was an emergancy like your kid got in an accident or your wife is in labor to walk them to the hostbitol. You should be able to use your car in those types of situations. But Like i said If we all do that for the little things we might just be able to stop polution.
Other ways to prevent this from happening? In source three the passage written by:
Selsky, Andrew it talks about a car free day! This would be an Excelent way to help prevent smog and air polution. But to make this take a major impact on the world is to get everybody to do this. not just a few states but the whole contry. This will benifit the world and you more then you might think. In passage one written by:
Rosenthal, Elisabeth there was a statement made,
"How much you drive is as important as whether you have a hybrid."
. This stood out to me because a hybrid is an electrive operated car and some of these cars don't take or burn any fosil fules . Wich will also help prevent all of the affects cars have on the world and us. In conclusion , We should all try to walk around a little more then use are cars for little things we should all try to be a little more active and help prevent the world from getting worst then it all ready is! | 3 |
a1f2412 | In " The Challenges of Exsploring Venus" how the author suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents is by comparing venus to earth by saying " Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth.
What i think the author is trying to say is that Venus is very much like earth." even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's athmosphere." Why i think this is a detail that supports the claim is becouse in paragraph 3 the author list all of the negitives about Venus of how the temeture is exstreamly hot and how thick the atmosphere is and how the the clouds are filled with highly corrosive acid. despite all of these things about Venus it is still interesting exslpore and to learn about.
In conclusion our travels on earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but shoud be exspaned to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 2 |
a1f25ca | The "Face on Mars"
may look like an alien has constructed it but the shadows of the bumps make it seem like it is an actual human face. If it were aliens who had built the Face on Mars, wouldn't there be more? The answer to that question would
be yes. The pictures from 2001 show that that the artifact was really just a natural creation. Before scientists had found the Face on Mars, the question is...just how old is it?
In the beginning of the aricle it states,"New high-resolution images and 3D alimetry from NASA's Mars Global Survey spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: A mesa" (UTFONM, 1). Thus meaning that the Face on Mars was not created by aliens. Before the pictures in 1976 and 98' were awful quality, the picture in 2001 shows exactly what the Face on Mars is. The article also stated that the Face on Mars,"...huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by the shadows giving the illusions of eyes, nose, and mouth" (UTFONM, 1). This is proof of it only being a natural landform.
If aliens had created this form, wouldn't there be more of these human looking landforms. There is no evidence in the article that states aliens were the creatures who made the Face on Mars. If the Face on Mars was created by aliens, NASA would have wanted to research it instead of hiding it because they would've gotten paid. According to the article it states, " Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars" (UTFONM, 1). It would have been beneficial to NASA if it were made by aliens.
It makes sense to infer that it could only be a structure made by aliens because who knows the capabilities of these creatures. Although in the article it states," There was no alien monument after all " (UTFONM, 1). There is solid evidence that the structer was not created by an extraterestrial creature. Even knowing it not being made by an alien, when was it created and how was it created? That answer we may never know.
In conclusion the landform found on Mars is not made by aliens. This was proven on April 5, 1988. The purpose of the article was to show people that the Face on Mars was just a natural monument. In the end of the article it states, " What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West" (UTFONM, 1). We even have similar things like the Face on Mars on Earth. All in all the form on Mars was not created by any aliens of any sort. | 3 |
a1fc67f | As soon as the manufacturing of cars came into role, people all over the world have shifted their ways of getting around into using cars. Cars positively bring faster transportion within cities and areas of neccessity. Even though pople spend alot on gas to feed their cars, they see past that and proceed to use their vehicles. Although cars may offer easy access and convenience, they can affect the enviroment with the releasing of carbon gas emissions and smog, trapping in gas.
Limiting car usage can benefit the enviroment and life of residents by ensuring them a safe area of living. If we can limit car usage it will greatly benefit us in different ways. Cars tend to drive people crazy. Traffic is a prime example where people can get frustrated. Whether you're in a rush in rush hour or having to get to some place you need, traffic can make you tense and unhappy. For example, Heidrun Walter, a resident from a car forbidden city - Vauban, Germany - said " When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way. ", with this said you can conlude that car limitation can benefit us emotionally.
To get more in depth, Vauban is an experimental upscale community where streets attempt to be car free. This city is an example of what car limitation can be capable of. Cars have gases and carbon emission that are released when put in use. This can harm our atmosphere by trapping in greenhouse emssions. Statistics from experts demonstate that in Europe passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, and up to an unbelievable 50 percent in the United States alone. The efforts of car limitation can be an advantage into stopping these gases from growing in the near future.
Paris, France is a smog filled European city due to the large congestion and diesel engines. On a Monday motorists with even-numbered plates had to leave their cars at home or suffer a 31 dollar fine. Due to the restriction, congestion over the following five days was down 60 percent. Also opening up, wasthe free charge of the public transit. The restriction of cars opened up great advantages to decline the number of congestion which lowered the percentage of carbon emissions. If the population can take the limitations one period at a time the communities can experience cleaner air and healthier enviroments.
In conclusion, although cars are a covinient and easy way to get around, they can result in the harming of the enviroment and us as individuals. If we can all lower the emissions and sorts of congestions, the world and people can start to be happy knowing they're living in healthy enviroments with the inspirations of these cities such as Paris and Vauban. | 3 |
a201549 | Driveless cars seem to be the next big invention people want to see. It seems like a great idea in general, but it would take a long time to get these cars approved and in a state where it would become the norm to own or use one. The money and time taken to develop these cars would be of better use elsewhere, these cars would cause unnecessary issues, and they also would endorse human laziness.
I do not think these cars should come to existence because of the time and money that they would take to develop. Even if they do use less fuel, the money that it takes to manufacture them is so great that I am sure their selling price would also be rather high, making it hard for common people to afford one. Only richer individuals would be able to afford these with ease. It just does not feel practical.
The passage also mentions issues that could arise between manufacturer and consumer. Where would the blame fall in the event that this new technology fails? Different laws and regulations would have to be created in order for these cars to be safe on the roads. Maybe the car will not know how to react to pedestrians and accidentally hits one and injures them. It would be hard to draw a line of who is to blame in those kinds of situations.
Lastly, I just do not like the idea. Because it endorses human laziness. Humans are already becoming more sedentary and technology is always being developed that makes human life "easier", but the tech just makes it worse. All of these devices make it so a lot of people do not eve. Have to leave their homes or do much of anything. People become obese and develop health issues, shortening the life span of humans and also putting babies at higher risks for health issues. The driverless car would be another one of these technologies that contributes to this laziness.
In conclusion, I do not believe that driverless cars should be technology that we should use in the future. Something like developing the most energy efficient car possible would be of better use. Driverless cars waste unnecessary money in development, would cause unnecessary issues, and endorse the already lazy behaviors of human beings. | 3 |
a2082ba | Childhood is often painted as a happy, idyllic time in our lives, but in reality, it's a precarious era of high emotions and crucial development. One of the best places to demonstrate the vast range of emotions a child or adolescent experiences is the classroom. Triumph, frustration, bitterness, and indifference are all commonplace feelings at school, and analyzing and understanding these are crucial to creating a better system of raising and educating children. That is why the Facial Action Coding System would be a fascinating, tremendously beneficial experiment that would revolutionize psychology.
The Facial Action Coding System is a new software, designed by Prof. Thomas Huang of the University of Illinois, that constructs a 3-D computer model of the face and analyzes the movement of the muscles to indicate emotion: for instance, when you smile and raise your eyebrows, you might be 50% happy, 30% surprised, 12% sad, 5% afraid, and so on. There are six basic emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, and surprise.
If we are capable of calculating human emotions through facial muscles, then we ought to use that power and knowledge to better ourselves. Let us attempt to understand our children, in order to judge and improve the education system.
For instance, a child might be surprised or angry when they do not understand a concept. Through the Facial Action Coding System, the teacher could more accurately guess which of her students grasp a concept and which do not. Additionally, reading emotions would aid educators in finding the best method of teaching for children of types, enabling more to become successful. This would lead a massive decrease in standardized testing and other measures of measuring how far along a pupil is in their studies. The Facial Action Coding System would not only enlighten teachers, but would save the government and schools precious time and money.
Furthermore, school life almost always overlaps into private life. Two students who are dating or are friends will continue their relationships outside of the classroom. Conversely, troubles and victories at home frequently bleed into their school work. If a child is having a rough home life or experiencing personal loss, they might not be as focused on the quality of their schoolwork, or, in extreme caes, act out. Teachers cannot be the sole support system for students, but they do have a responsibility to ensure a child's physical and emotional welfare, whether it means settling petty disputes or recommending therapy. Imagine the multiple lives that could be improved if the signs of unhappiness could be detected and addressed. On a darker note, the Facial Action Coding System would be most expedient in diagnosing depression, mental illness, and the tell-tale feelings that too many youths suffer from before thoughts or attempts of suicide.
Finally, utilizing such a powerful tool in the classroom would revolutionize child psychology. New branches of study could be devoted just to scrutinzing the way a face shows feeling. Experts could see how certain elements and events in life affect a child. A greater empathy would form, shortening the widening gap between generations, especially in this epoch filled with technology and new ideas, and allowing humanity to unite. A more focused, diverse view on society can be discovered through a child's eyes; we can improve our society, piece by piece. And all this can start with the Facial Action Coding System.
There are those who feel that subjecting children to these trials is an invasion of their privacy and imical to their natural development. It is true that a child should not be exposed to an excessive amount of software, and it is a valid complaint that invading their mind can be harmful. However, with responsible adults, the Facial Action Coding System can pick up on the children's discomfort and address their issues, from whatever cause, with more honesty and empathy. The Facial Action Coding System is a victory for psychology, and when used right and in moderation, it will benefit all parties.
The Facial Action Coding System will revise psychology. It detects the six basic emotions conveyed in the muscles of a human face, paving the way for an increase in enlightenment in our society's perception of childhood and coming-of-age. The Facial Action Coding System will assist teachers in determining their students' progress, help them grapple with their unfamiliar, often frightening emotions, and create a fresh look at child psychology. Despite the expense and the risk that scientifically calculating a child's feelings will hurt them, it is at least worth a try to see what a student can feel in a classroom and start making improvements in education and understanding humanity from there. | 6 |
a208781 | I believe that driverless cars are good for the future. With technology improving every year it is very possible. Self driving cars would make traffic safer i believe. Technology is improving every year. Cars are getting very close to driving on their own. Here is why i think they are great to have in the future.
Technology improves every year with new technology be made or being more improved. Since the 1980s technology has improved or advanced in the article it said " In the 1980s,
automakers used speed sensors at the wheels in the creation of antilock brakes. within 10 years, those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers." Also the radars, sensors, mapping, and computers werent there to build a driver less car.The radar that are put on the Google modified Prius werent able to be put on a car before the year 2000 the cost for a radar was two hundred million dollars and it wasnt even small enough to put on a car radars before 2000 were put on hilltops. Now they have mulitple radars on one car. That is how far technology has advanced.
Self driving cars would make traffic much safer. I believe with all the technology put on a car there would be a reduced amount of accidents. With all these sensor put on a car it would be able to detect surroundings. The Dubbed LIDAR uses laser beams to create a constant 3-D model of the car and its surroundings. As said in the article "GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object." Imagine 3 or 4 years from now. We are gonna have technology that doesn't alert the human to stop but the car itself stops on its own if it gets to close to a car or the light turns red or a pedestrian walks by due to its sensor, cameras, and software the will stop.
Auto makers are getting closer and continuing their work to create a self driving car for the future. Mercedes-Benz, audi, and nissan are planning to have cars that drive themselves by 2020. Tesla on the other hand has projected a car that is capable of driving on its own 90 percent of the time. As said in the article "Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car cabable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time." this is great for the future aswell there technology is only gonna advance as the years go by and become 100 percent cabale of driving on their own.
That is why i believe that driverless cars are a marvelous idea for the future. Technology is and has improved. Self driving cars will make traffic much safer. cars are much closer to driving on there own since the 1950s. That is why i feel very positive about self driving cars. | 4 |
a2095fd | There are still some disputes about the true "identity" and origin of the Face on Mars. It is most likely just a natural landform, but some people disagree. Some people believe that it was created by aliens. However, since there is no legit proof of aliens even being real, how could you prove that they did this? NASA also has high-resolution photographs that make it pretty clear that it's just a natural landform. It may have taken several tries to collect all of the needed data to back this up, but the scientists did it so now we know.
As I briefly mentioned before, there is no proof of alien life actually existing. So, then, why are people convinced that it was aliens? Yes, it may have a strange shape, but that doesn't mean anything. There are strange shaped things here on Earth but people don't accuse it of being alien. Now, I do understand that this is in space, and on a different planet, but still; there are way more logical explanations. It's normal for there to be landforms on planets. That's simply the deal here.
The scientists also collected high-resolution photos of the Face. When the best photo was taken in 2001, it was made clear that this was just a landform, similar to some in the American West. It was just a formation that looked suspicious from far away. If you looked at the zoomed in picture, it just looks like a jumble of rocks. People just need to think realistically.
There is, however, a couple small reasons why people see a possibility of this being done by aliens. One of the pictures was taken from behind a small wispy cloud. This gave some people enough reason to believe that there could be alien markings hidden by the haze. Another reason people have for believing this is extraterrestrial work is that there have been some unexplainable sightings and findings that may point to alien life existing. There is no actual facts or proof, but enough has happened without logical explanations to convince certain people of this theory.
I respectfully refute these points. The idea of alien markings being hidden is a stretch. There was an even clear picture taken more recently that showed no alien markings. It proved that it was just a landform. There's really not that much more to it. In response to the few unexplainable things that may point to alien life, we have no way to tell what's really out there. If there is something, then it's doing a pretty good job of staying hidden, or undiscovered because we have no cold, hard proof of anything. For some things there are just no logical answers. There's always going to be something we don't know. It's probably the most reasonable to just stick to the facts we already have, and learn to accept the most likely stories. Yes, it's okay to believe or hope that there is something out there, but people should also realize that they need to think reasonably in certain matters, especially when there's proof, like in this case.
This is a very strong argument. There are many ways that a person could keep going on and on, explaining each detail to its full extent, but I think all the most important information has already been mentioned. People should accept the facts. There is always going to be someone who disagrees, but every argument is like that. There is way more proof pointing to the conclusion that the Face is just a landform. You might still think something different, but I think I've made it clear why I have so much reason to believe what I believe. | 5 |
a20d4fb | I believe that we should not use driverless cars, in my opinion they are an accident wating to happen. The arguments saying we should switch to driverless cars sound far fecthed. The text uses statements such as, "the cars would use half the fuel of todays cars", "they offer more flexibility", and that "they are much safer". These arguments are invalid in many ways that I will explain.
They text says that driverless cars would be cheaper than cars that require a human to handle them, but they are not. Driverless cars aren't even driverless, they still require a human skill to take over when the car cannot comprehend what to do next. Driverless cars would be much more expensive to obtain and operate than a normal car. Driverless cars have many different extremely expensive gadgets needed to even make it semi-automatic, they require position estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an internal motion sensor. A normal human operated vehicle does not require any of those things, so if a person did wish to get a driverless car, they would be paying a substantial amount of money and even more for fuel, to keep up with the parts and technology, and for gas. With a manual car all you have to do is purchase it (for a much smaller amount) and pay gas money and body shop bills should they arise, but still yet, it would be a lot less than the driverless car.
The text also states the driverless cars offer more flexibility than a manual car, this is untrue, they actually offer less. With a manual car, you are the driver and you choose where to go and what to do, with the driverless car you are supposed to tell your GPS where to take you and that's all the input you have. But what if the place you are trying to go is on a road that doesn't show up on the GPS? Now that driverless car is pretty useless. They are much less flexible than a man powered vehicle and much less reliable.
Lastly, the text states that driverless cars are much safer than manual ones, this is invalid. Their arguments for such a statement are, "driving in a fun new way", "you can have in-car entertainment", and "you would be able to text and drive". These are crazy reasons that a driverless car is safe. First of all, driving doesn't need to be fun, you just need to get from point A to point B. Secondly, there should be no in-car entertainment. Playing games, watching tv, etc. should not be done while driving, because the "driverless car" still needs to be operated by a human, this is a deadly distraction. And again, with the texting a driving, this is a lethal distraction that should not be suggested to do, even in a driverless car. If you were to be texting you may not notice your driverless car signalling you to take over, and consequently, you will be in a wreck.
In conclusion, driverless cars should be kept a thing you see in movies, fictional. There are too many risks and dangers to a driverless car and the price would be unaffordable for most. The driverless car is an unthoughtout idea that makes no sense. There are too many problems with the driverless vehicle for it to be reliable and safe, so we need to stick with the manual cars instead. | 4 |
a20e756 | Have you ever wanted to take care of animals? Well, I did. Hi, my name is Luke Bomberger. One day my friend Don Reist invited me to go to Europe with him and of course I didn't say no because I knew this was a once in a lifetime opportunity. So I went with him and that same year 1944 I decided along with my friend to sign up to be a Seagoing Cowboy. Being a Seagoing Cowboy consists of going overseas while taking care of horses, young cows, and mules.
This job may not sound very fun but let me tell you it is. For example, when I turned 18 we were sent to aboard the SS Charles W.Wooster with a cargo of 335 horses plus enough hay and oats to feed them. This might seem like a lot but trust me seeing the Acropolis in Greece was something special. I also had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. These were some of the most fun and extroardinary part of our trips.
There were some fun parts but also dangerous parts. One time while it was raining it was my turn to check on the animals and make sure they were safe but I slipped and almost flew off board. The good thing was that a strip of metal caught me. I was relieved to still be alive but I couldn't work for a couple of days because I had some cracked ribs.
Even though I had to work hard and do some risking stuff. I had a great time. It was quite an adventure that I wouldn't change for anything. Just think you could have an amazing experience like me or maybe even better, but what is certain is that you will have quite an extroadinary adventure. | 3 |
a2141e6 | I belive you should go on a adventure like my adventure. I belive that because I saw so many new things. The trip was long and tireing but I still think you should go on a trip like the trip I went on the seamen were from The SS.Charels, and The W. Wooseres. We had arrived August 14. Luke had said the Pasific war had ended. Luke turned 18 before arriving to Greece. The cattle-boat trips were were unbelievable oppertunity for a small town boy. It took us about 2 weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the united States to China. This is why I am still perswading you to go on an adventure like me.
I want you to know on my adventure I went to ruins I went to Greece. Dont not let your dreams come true if you want to go somewhere just try it. I had a wonderful time going to the places were I went. I'm a towns boy who got a once in a life time opertunity. Go on an adventure of you own have a wonderful time like I did. This is why you should go on an adventure it doesnt matter what you do if its a hike or you go camping or fishing just do it. | 2 |
a21b848 | All arround the world countries are making an effort to reduce their use of cars to benefit the Earth. There are many benefits to reducing car usage all arround the world. Not only does it reduce polution but it also promotes getting out and being active. Vauban, Germany is a car-free community where the voices of a few children can drown out the hum of a car. Bogota, Colombia has established a program called the Day Without Cars where they promote alternate transportation and reduce smog. This promotes people to use transportation that runs on man-power like bikes or even walking. This also falls into the fact that as people use bikes and walk they begin to get more exercize. Although most of the time it is more convinent to use cars to get to a location some places have stores within walking distance so there would be no need for the use of a car.
Pollution has been a problem arround the world for many years, each country is responsible for their own share of polluting the Earth and cars are part of the problem. Cars alone are responsible for 50 percent of greenhouse emissions in America, if Americans made an effort to reduce that number by just half it would mean a world of difference to that country. It would result in America being less responsible for the pollution of the Earth and a safer environment for the citizens. However, other countries have been taking action to help the environment, efforts were thrown towards cities to make it more beneficial to walk and they are now settoing their sights on suburbs. Vauban, Germany is acommunity where there is an advanced experiment that focuses on eliminating the use of cars. Their efforts have proven quite successful as only 30 percent of the families that live there own cars and almost 60 percent of the residents sold their car in order to live there. Bogota, Colombia has created a day where everyone is encouraged to use bikes and walk instead of using fuel-burning cars, those who chose not to participate in this event were fined $25. The effort that was put into the making of thisevent has inspired other countries like Cali and Valledupar to do the same. This shows that people are making an effort to move torards environmentally beneficial habits that cause a chain reaction.
Another benefit to reducing the use of cars is that people will get more exercize than they usually do. For some people the most exercize they get is the walk from the couch to the fridge or the 30 minutes when they are at the mall. Unfortunatley, people do not walk arround the mall every day for their daily exercize routine. Decreasing the use of cars would promote people to use their physical energy in order to get to their desired destination. This would also result in having stores and other services of use closer by so people will be more willing to walk to them. In Bogota, Colombia parks and sport centers have been opening all over the city | 4 |
a21be1a | I do not see this how a great idea because how this is going to help us?, probably we do not even want to know if we are sad or not or a computer telling if I am sad,happy ,angry,or whatever.
Unless if they saw me that i am confused when i am taking a test or doing something that i do not,they are not going to help me and that is for sure.
That is why i think its innecessary.
How can u say that this is true or this would happen? "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" maybe in the future this would happen but it is not going to help me because,my teacher is not going to change the questions because he see that i am getting confused or anything like that.
In conclusion inneed a computer can tell me if i am happy, sad,confused, or whatever but it noy going to helpe me to feel better so it not going to work. | 2 |
a22327b | Imagine walking around with your skull showing. There would be no protection to cover it. The face is what covers it so nobody would see inside your head. The face is just a natural landform.
There is support that the face is a natural landform. NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet, taking pictures of the landing sites that could be their sister ship Viking 2, when they came up on a shadowy likeness of a human face. A couple days later NASA showed the picture for everyone to see. That's the support that the face is a natural landform.
There is evidence from the article that support my claims. "And so on April 5, 1998 when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time Michael Malin and his MOC took some pictures ten times sharper than the origninal Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the picture first appeared on JPL website, revealing a natural landform. There were no alien monument at all." That is edvidence from the article that support my claims.
Others say the face was created by aliens. Photographing Cydonia became a priority for NASA when Mars Global Surveyor arrived at the red planet in September 1997 eighteen years after the Viking missions ended. However, a picture of the natural landform appeared on the JPL website. Some still didn't believe the face is a natural landform.
The face is just a natural landform. The face is what covers it so nobody would see inside your head. There would be no protection to cover it.
Imagine walking around with your skull showing. | 3 |
a226459 | Driverless cars, even the idea of it gives me a massive headache. Thinking about all the promblems that would cause is just dreadful. I mean it's bad enough people now and days don't know how to drive I cant even imagine what it'd be like having driverless cars on the road. I think it's absoutley the worse idea I ever heard of mainly because of all the tremendous promblems it would cause.
Having driverless cars in my mind is very dangerous because anything could happen when a driver isn't in control. Today we already have so many accidents everyday with just everday people. People are not responcible enough to take on such a big task of having a driverless car in their possestion or on the road for that matter.
It's understandable to have the idea of having them because of how much technology has improved over the years. But even now the cars are not fully ready to be taken out on the road when it can't fully take on the challenge of driving around accidents, roadwork, and roadblocks. However it does say that the car can alert the driver when it needs the assistance but, who is to say when a person is paying attention they could be sitting back relaxing and the alert may not
make it to the driver in time. That is a acciedent waiting to happen.
Even though we still have wrecks I think that its less likely to happen if we have people behind the wheel that
are able to control the car at all times. With a smart car there is no telling what it could do and what it could cause. If a person needed to take over and drive and couldn't get the displays that control the car to turn off that could be really bad. If
we keep it like how
it is now
we won't even have that as a issue.
I fully agree with traffic laws saying that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. At least then there is a chance to prevent a accident. When
you as a driver are not in control of the car you are driving. It can become a scary and dangerous situation. You are not only putting yourself in danger but everyone else that is on the road with you in danger. I will stand by what I think and that is driverless cars should stay in the television shows and movies and keep reality where its real. | 4 |
a2274de | Eletoral College would be better than the popular votes and I will be telling you about how in the next few paragraphs. Technically speaking electoral college is a popular vote, but in a different way. We vote for the electors. So that would mean the majority of the population have to still vote. Wouldn't you rather have a well thought out person than some one that isn't that smart or well thought out. Some one that could make a better decision for you.
Voters can still vote just not for the president. You would be voting for the electors who will then elect the president. Voting for a certain elector you could still be voting for the president you want. The popular votes can be tied together, many of the votes before were so close to being tied, and that would be a wreck. Could you imagine what would happen to the people. They would go crazy. Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it won't ever happen. Having an electoral college could cause some dispute, but not as much as the popular vote has already caused. So many arguments and with an electoral college not many would have to deal with those disputes.
The electoral college requires a presedintial canidate to have a trans-regional appeal. So that means no one president can win because of a regional favriote. I mean who would want a president that would most likely favor a certain region because they voted for him. They would feel like he wasn't even their president or they had no say in votes. A president with only regional appeal would most likely not be a good president.
The electoral college makes sure that the electors will pay close attention to the campaign knowing that they decide the election. So the electors will be more thoughtful than some people in the popular vote. The electors can make a better decisions than most of us can. They would be able to make the decisons better and listen to the candidates more than we ever could.
Yes in some ways the popular vote can be good, but think of all the people that make the wrong decisions. The ones that would just vote for how the candidate looks. Not the thoughts and campains he brings. So in many more ways the Electoral college is better than the popular vote. | 4 |
a22b36a | This was what the 21st Century looks like.. People using cars more and more every single day to the point where half of us don't even want to take a lovely little stroll through the garden, over the bridge, and straight to the tree house. Nope. Nothing like that anymore. Ever since cars were created, it's given us a form to transport easier, but it's taken out a lot from the people. Among all the things they could be doing, they choose to sit in the car all day. Not anymore. There are people in different countries and states who are making a wonderful change in the world.
It all starts in Vauban, Germany. People have no cars within their non-existant garages and people are paying thousands of dollars to park their car. Why? Well, consider it as a way to help the environment. Places like Germany, France, and small sections of the United States have banned cars because of the greenhouse gas emissions. With a law that prevents cars, the states and countries can clean up the air quicker without any more polluting gas entering to make things worse.
One of the greatest advantages for car bans is that there are less accidents. With rarely any cars on the streets, it prevents people from dying in car accidents or hit-and-runs. With this, we'll have less deaths and more people coming home safely to their families.
With the majority of the population gaining weight from no workouts, car bans puts us in a different track. Whenever we need to go somewhere, we do it with a bit of exercise. Walking, biking, all that sweet jazz. We can become a better generation with just a little push and removal of something that restricts us from certain things. We've taken advangtage of cars by not putting so much work into getting the strength we need to keep us walking for more than just 20 minutes before our legs grow tired.
The future is close, but we've still got a long road ahead of us to get to our goal. To cross that road, we've thrown all the cars off to the side and we'll walk, we'll ride our bikes, we'll dance our way over the other side. Whatever it takes to get to the other side, we'll take it. | 3 |
a22d402 | Driving is the primary way of transportation, to get from point A to point B. It's a great way to reduce traveling time, and traffic is almost nonexistent. Some people would say it's better than walking, or riding a bicycle. But what if we limited these polluting vehicles and replaced our transportation for our daily routine? Well, we can. Limiting car usage can help us from lots of city and/or regional pollution. It can improve safety and conserve the resources we already have. Saving even more time is also something all people want to try to accomplish. Limiting the use of cars can help make this world a much better, and more breathable, reusable, and not a time-consuming place.
To begin with, the answer to why we should limit the use of cars is stated in the form of pure science: pollution. All around the world, from North America to Asia, every continent has a majorly polluted city. Beijing, London, Mexico City, Miami, New York City, you name it! Major cities nowadays are becoming more polluted than ever before, due to gasoline and diesel fuel used in cars today. Overpopulated cities can have too many cars, and too many cars driven can increase the amount of polluted air around us. In document two, the capital of France, Paris, is home to almost ten million people. After days of an almost-broken record amount of pollution intoxicating the city, Paris enforced a driving ban for two days. Cars and motorcycles were forced to be left at home, or a steep fine will be charged. Even though almost 4,000 drivers were fined, congestion in Paris decreased by nearly 60%, after intense smog. Diesel fuel was the culprit to this pollution, due to France's tax policy that favors diesel fuel rather than gasoline. Diesel fuel cars make up about 67% of cars in France, comparing to an average 57% of diesel engines in Western Europe, according to Reuter's. The smog cleared enough on Monday for the French politicians to rescind the ban. In document three, Columbia's capital city, Bogota, had a goal to promote alternatives to personal transportation and reduce the amount of smog throughout the city. Day Without Cars was born, one day every month where cars are not allowed to be driven, or a fine will be charged. The turnout of people was immense, even though rain showers and thunderstorms poured onto the event. Mayor Antanas Mockus stated that the Day Without Cars "was a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." Parks and sports centers rose from the city streets, and sidewalks have been paved for bicycles and ongoing pedestrians. Limiting car usage is not be a bad thing, considering we need the air we already breathe.
Furthermore, limiting car usage is not a bad solution to the global pollution, and is not a bad solution to improve safety and conserve resources, either. Teenagers all over the world are more prone to accidents than any other age group. Getting your license is great, and driving alone is equally as awesome, but having no regard for safety while driving? Not as awesome as it sounds. For an additional document, it's life itself. Driving on a daily basis takes up gasoline, and lots of it. On average, a normal driver takes up about twenty gallons of gasoline a week, if not, more. Diesel fuel used in pickup trucks and semi-trucks is more expensive, but lasts longer than regular gasoline. Resources have dwindled since the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico of 2011, and regular Americans are running out of the food for their car. On the safety spectrum, looking out for a street to turn at, for pedestrians, and for people that may cut you off sounds like a blast, but safety and crashes/accidents end up to be a result in many driving situations. Many people consider for driving to be unsafe, due to the statistics of daily crashes on highways, and even intersections, which happen to be the most dangerous place you can have an accident. Those types of people have put a hold on driving, and have caused a decline in the nation's miles driven per person scale, stated in document four. As of April of 2013, the number driven per person went down almost nine percent. Factors to that decline may have been the 2008 stock recession, or the fact that cars got smaller and more expensive. As a result, more people started to walk to work, or buy a bicycle, like they use mainly in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Safety is becoming a subject that is mainly disregarded by citizens, and resources are becoming less and less, yet the alternatives for driving, such as walking or taking the city bus, are becoming more and more popular.
Moreover, car usage should become more limited because they are other ways, faster and more efficient ways, to get to your destination. Major cities all over the globe have a multitude of ways to transport people from one side of the city to the other. Taking buses, walking, taking the subway, helicopter, taxis, anything! Except a car. Car use in major cities is almost unheard of, as traffic is everywhere in a big city, and overpopulation can cause the traffic, or at least, be the contributing factor of it. People want to get to another place in sixty seconds or less, and driving in that matter never happens. For example, car use in New York City is busy. Of course, being "the city that never sleeps", cars are not the best way to get around. Walking or taking the subway underground helps get the people around easier and faster. As expected, a large drop in the percentage of teenagers getting there license has occurred, according to ducment four. New York has a new bike-sharing program, and it's skyrocketing bridge/tunnel tolls reflect those new priorities taking place. Driving by young people decreased significantly between 2001 and 2009. Woven into a connected web to save time, new alternatives to the polluting machines we call cars are slowly backing up into reverse, and disappearing from the category of main transportation.
In conclusion, limiting car usage is the best option to acheive all of the contributing factors. Pollution hurts cities and their environments, even their people. The air we breathe is more important than the amount of time it takes reach our destination. Safety improvements need to happen to make drivers have common sense and to not run over someone crossing the street. Resources are limited everywhere, and what we'll do after they've been gone? That answer has not been found yet. Saving time is our number-one priority, and we try to beat our records every time we go somewhere, whether it be using the same mode of transportation, or trying out a new one. Next time, be spontaneous for a day, and don't use a car. Try a new way to get to work; taking the subway and watching a new scene come at you every two seconds; or walk to work and admire the time slowing by around you. Breathe the fresh air like never before. Remember: it's not the destination that yiou should look forward to; it's the journey. | 5 |
a22e219 | Do you want to help others? Would you like to visit some amazing places too? Then you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. I, an experienced Sea Cowboy, can tell you firsthand of the amazing places you will see, and get some good karma for helping others!
This is a hard job, cleaning out animal stalls, feeding animals, and being the watchman are a few things you will do. But, it is all worth it when you put smiles on the faces of the people you'll help, and when you see stunning landscapes and places. Don't worry though, caring for animals isn't all you will do! You will have time to play games with your fellow Sea Cowboys. Whittling, playing cards, reading, volleyball and other fun things can be played when you are returning the ship after the animals have been unloaded. It will be like an adventure, and for some, it will be a much deeper experience.
So, what are you waiting for?! The Seagoing Cowboys program is always glad to recruit another dedicated Sea Cowboy. Join us today, and you will get the most rewarding and exciting experience of your life! | 2 |
a236f49 | Hello Mr. Senator,
I was writting to inform you about a topic that has been talked about for the past year, the Electoral Collage. This process has its pros and cons, but i'm more in the con side; you see the reason why the Electoral College needs to be abolished is because people dont really get to choose who their president is, the people who choose the president are the people in the Electoral College. How the Electoral College works is the state has electors and those electors have to be won by the president for the president to have how many electoral votes he gets from that state depending on how many electors that state has. The trick here is that sometimes the electors can deny the will of the people since the election is based on electoral votes not on popular votes, don't get me wrong people's votes do influence electors in deciding which president won their votes. Overall the electoral college is unfair to everyone because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates dont spend time in states that they have no chance winning over so they got to the "swing" states since they have more chance of winning them over depending on their campaing. I don't think we should be trusting people to vote for us because as we have seen some electors vote for the candidate they want to win and not the candidate their state wants to win. Thats my rant about the Electoral College and I hope it makes you see clearer.
Best Regards, Alberto | 3 |
a23fdd9 | The use of the Facial Action Coding System is valuable for students in a classroom to read. This new technology can tell many emotions that humans may show through their facial expressions. These emotions may include happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. It is an advantage for humans to have technology can detect the six basic emotions.
The Facial Action Coding System is able to "identify mixed emotions" (Nick D'Alto) meaning that the system can figure out more than one emotion at a time. This technology is valuable because not many humans can detect more than one emotion at once. The majority of the time a person can only tell if a person is satisfied or not. An average human can not detect six emotions an a time like a calculator.
In addition to this the Facial Action Coding Sysytem calculates a human's facial expression similar to a calculator. The technology used determines the subject's emotions by using percents, by using math to show the amount of possibly the subject's sadness or anger."She's 83 perecent happy, 9 perecent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." (Nick D'Alto). It is safe to say that no regular human being can caculate another human's emotions using math in this way. That is why the Facial Action Coding System is valuable for students to read, and know about.
This new technology is so impresssive that it can also detect when a person may become uninterested in what they are doing. "Could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" (Nick D'Alto). This new tech system reads whether or not a person is engaged into what they are doing. Isn't that magnificent?
Critics may say that in fact it is not magnificent or even impresssive. The facial Action Coding Sysytem is so advanced in its self that "Your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile" (Nick D'Alto). Thus indicating that regular computers similar to the ones available at schools are not capable of calculating facial expressions similar to the ones being shown, by Mona Lisa. The author Nick D'Alto, also states that "computers need to understand that, too". Meaning that is would not hurt to upgrade the PC people are using, to use the coding system.
It is valuable for students to learn about the Facial Action Coding System. This sysytem was used to calculate the emotions of Mona Lisa, one of the most iconic art pieces created by Leonardo da Vinci.The subject in that painting did not show one particular emotion right away, because the subjects face was so copmplex. Mona Lisa's face was so complex they had to use an advances system to determine the subject's emoptions. Thus indicating why this new technology is valuable for students to read. | 4 |
a248338 | I've heard a great deal of conspiracieshaving to deal with the so called 'face' we at NASA found on Mars in '76. However, I would like to put these conspiracies to an end. When Viking 1 took the photo in 1976, I will admit it came as a kind if shock to us, we all soon figured it was nothing more than a common Martian mesa. And that's exactly what the 'face' was a common Martian mesa. The 'face' is simply a natrural landform; couldn't be any type of alien artifacts due to the following reasons: keeping alien life a secret would benefit NASA whatsoever, it was found in an area where Martian mesas are common, and we have recently taken photos with high-resolution to show that there aren't any buildings or other formations that could've been made by intelligent life.
Now most of you conspiracy theorists won't belive it, but I will explain how I got to this conclusion. The picture was taken around Cydonia, which is an area on Mars that Martian mesas are common to find. We've taken many pictures of these mesas around Cydonia to come to this conclusion.
Another reason the face on Mars is in fact a natural landform, is NASA hiding the fact that there is intelligent lifeforms on Mars wouldn't benefit NASA in any possible way. Finding life in the outer depths of space would be a tremendous accomplishment for NASA. Us finding liforms from entirely different planet would answer the biggest question of them all: Are we the only planet with life? If we'd found proof that we weren't alone we'd gain more funding for our space programs. with more funding we'd be closer to discovering more of the most unexplored area we know of: Space.
Finally, we have proof that it's only just a Martian mesa. Images taken in 2001 shows that there are no structures that could've been made by any intelligent lifeform.
Although the picture taken by Viking 1 didn't show us proof of life on Mars it did show us just how magnificent our universe really is. The 'face' on Mars was simply a natural landform made by nature itself. We have enough credible evidence to make the conclusion that the face on Mars isn't an alien landmark. artifact, or any sort of alien markings. We at NASA hope to one day find proof of other lifeforms in the deeper depths of space, but until then we will let the public know as of now we won't hid any information, such as the possibility of lifeforms from the public. | 4 |
a250110 | The author of the story "The challange exploring Venus" poorly support his claim that we should look into exploring Venus. He does not proparly compare a list of other options and does not examine in detail the dangers of these illogical actions.
Although the thought of exploring Venus the "Evening Star" sounds fun, the author does not realisticly support this idea. He claims that NASA has considered sending humans above the planets harsh terrain in a blimp like vehichle in order to aviod the storms. The idea sounds great until considering that, "reasearchers cannot take samples". In other words even if NASA manages to send humans to Venus through this method reasearchs still wouldn't be able to find anything worth studying. The author does not take into account the irrational sense this would make neither does he consider what will happen if something goes haywire, the power runs out, or if the storms and clouds rose higher.
In addition the author also presents the idea that electronics that NASA has tested in Venus' condition have lasted three weeks before giving out. Therefore it is infered that humans can simply use advanced technology in order to study Venus. The authors reasoning is more realistic in pointing this out, however the author unfortantly has not considered any other planets. The size and structure of Venus is close to Earth, as stated "Venus is the closest planet to earth in terms of density and size". He includes this key detail in order to claim that maybe one day Venus might be "survivable for humans". However the author fails to consider or even mention any other planets and their climates, he does not consider any other options such as Mars. Because even is Venus' size and shape are similar its climate is not. In addition if Venus is the best option he does not show readers why through a series of comparisons which greatly diminishes the article.
Despite the authors attemps at persuading readers that the pursuit of Venus is worth the risk he doesn't consider the facts dangers and holes in the attempt theories. The author does not seem to consider the cliamate change in Venus, neither does he mention the possiblity of other planets. After all what would be the point of traveling through Venus and later realizing that there was a better option. Although the author would like our travels to be guided by "imagination and innovation" they only work if govern by a clear plan and logical thinking. Both of which the are unfortanatly lacking which gives weak support to his ideas. | 4 |
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