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a511e3b | Cars have been noted to be a big contributor to being a big problem to the enviroment. They are also known from stealing money from other means of transportation. Since people can just use a car people neglect the other means of transportation such as taking a bus and things of that nature. The advantages of limiting car usage is that it is betters the enviroment. It also economically better for other transportation. This is why limiting car usage benefit the world and the enviroment as a whole.
One of the advantages of limiting the car usage is that it betters the enviroment as a whole. An example of this is that is in "In German Surburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" it states that "Cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe." This shows how cars have been a big contributor to being a big problem to the enviroment. Also as well in the article "In German Suburb , Life Goes On Without Cars" it states that "...and up to 50 percent in some car-initentisive areas in the United States". This is one of the benefits of limiting car usage.
Along with this, another advantage to limiting car usage in general is that it is economically better for other transportations. An example of this is, that in the city of Colombia called Bogota are doing fining of people one day a year on Tuesday for three years already and been getting good revenue out of it from other transportation(Selsky). This shows how limiting car usage contributed in a great way. This is causing a change that could only be describe as revolutionary(Riera). This why it is advantageous to limit the car usage as much possible.
In conclusion, this why limiting car usage is advantageous. Since, it can help the enviroment. As well as economically benefit alternative transportations that may included one of the following buses,taxis, and transportation. This is why it is not only imperative but necessary, no a duty to human being alike to better the enviroment and economy as a whole. Unless one wants the future generations to starve, and not have clean air to breath in future years. | 3 |
a511e5c | Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you where apart of the Seagoing Cowboys program. Well I have and it was a great experience. I got to see new places and meet new people.
Also, I have made new memories in different places of the world like China and Europe. I even got to experience new things will traveling like the people that I helped and the places I went. I knew it was the opportunity of a lifetime to join the Seagoing Cowboys.
"The cattle trips were unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy,". Being a Seagoing Cowboy was a great experience for me. It taught me it takes resposibility and hard work to get things done. It also taught me that you can't take the easy way out. I will take this experience to heart for the rest of my life until I die.
To sum my thoughts I think being a Seagoing boy was a fantastic experience. I know if you join you will learn and grow from the new places and new people you meet. This is probably one of the greatest experiences i have had. | 2 |
a51404d | I am against driverless cars for three reasons. they are not fully driverless, they cant fully navagate of thier own, and if the car make a mistake and hit something it would be the driver's fault.
The first reason why i am against the developement of driverless cars is the car is not fully driverless. there is no point of a car that drives on its own if you still have to turn and navigate through construction on you own. if there was to be a car that drives on its on it should be able to fully drive on its own. the driverless car cant controll it's self. it cant control when to stop before hitting somethin.
The second reason why i am against the driverless car is the car cant fully navigate. so you still have to stop for padestrians. if the car cant navigate you still have to stop and take control of the car. i would if i was to have a driverless car i wouldnt want to still have to take controll, i would want to get what i paid for.
The third reason why i am against the driverless car is if you hit something or somebody you will still be held responsible. in paragraph nine it states "lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers. driverless cars are more dangerous and thats why it is illigal to drive computer-driven cars
in most states. "california, nevada, florida and the district of columbia have led the country in allowing limited use of semi-autonomous cars"
In conclusion i am against the driverless car because they are not fully driverless, they can not fully navigate on their own, and if the driver make a mistake and hit something, even though the car drive on its own, it would still be the driver's fault. | 3 |
a51fdac | Today we already have so many technical advances, and technology is in everyday lives. This technical advance is one of the best one's in our day and age. Schools and so many buisness incooperate technology in our lessons and tests and just everday task, that technology is taking over. I think that the FACS would be a great idea to have within schools because it would be a great benefit to those students that may have harder times learning. I believe this new technology could make a difference for the greater good.
If the FACS machine was incooperated into todays schools, it would be one of the greatest accomplishments. Students who struggle, like IED students, could maybe enjoy their everyday lessons. In the writing it says that the FACS machine would be able to recognize that a student is becoming confused or bored. When this occurs, the FACS machine would be able to change the lesson and make it a better fit for the person to understand.
This technology wouldn't only help the needed students, it could help the students that maybe have a little patience problem staying focused at the task at hand. It also may help the kids feel more enjoyed to come to school because they can learn at their on rate and pace. If the FACS were to help student like this, schools may have higher percentages with test and other important task they fulfill.
I think this machine would help the teachers connect more with their students as well. If certain teachers let their students work with technology like this, this would help the teachers learn how every student is different and how they learn. It would also help the teacher learn how to teach better and more suitable to make sure their students succeed and understand things in real life.
The FACS could also help create confidence and self-esteem in certain people who think lower of themselves and who feel alone. If the FACS can understand your emotions, it could maybe help you feel better about yourself by maybe helping you link up to somebody else who has similar emotions so you could have somebody to maybe talk to.
One reason I would think not to have the FACS machine in schools, is that it may be distracting to some students. Also, it may feel intrusive to some students because they may not want their emotions told. And for the easily distracted kids, it could hurt their grades and cause their focus to be on something else like how that the FACS machine can do the ads by determining emotions on them, they might get distrated by this.
In all seriousness though, I do think that the FACS machine would be a great enhancement within the schools. I think this because even with the few cons and repurcussions it may have, I think that the pros outweigh the negativities. I think the FACS machine will be more beneficial then destructive. | 3 |
a52300c | Having Facial Action Coding Systems for classrooms may seem fun to have, but it really isn't valuable. One reason behind this is that students don't go to school to have fun they go to learn, so they don't need their boredom to be recgonized. Another reason is it will cost a lot of money when it can be used to buy other utencils. There are some benefits from having face scanners but it doesn't outweigh the downsides.
For example, students will get bored in class frequently. That does not mean that the lesson has to change just to make it fun. It depends on how the teacher sets up her classroom. Every teacher is different. Some are boring, and others are entertaining. School isn't meant to be fun, but more to be educational.
Another example on why Facial Action Coding Systems aren't valuable is because they are bound to cost a lot of money. The money that will be used on installing that type of technology can be used to buy other supplies that are needed. Some of those supplies include paper, books, sports equipment, etc. That money can also be used to better the school if there are any problems going on. Students will be better off having more utencils to use that having their emotions read.
On the other hand, it isn't hard to see why a school would want that type of technology. They would all like to be more advanced. As stated in the passage, "... it could modify the lesson.." Modifying the lesson can help make it more entertaining. If it is more entertaining, students will be more interested and will focus more on the subject.
In conclusion, there are more reasons on why Facial Action Coding Systems are not valuable than on how they are. For one, students need to look forward to coming to school to learn more than to have fun. Also, the cost for that type of technology could be used for other resources. Instead of wasting money on a luxury, it could be spent on needs that will help the students with learning. People might think it's fun and exciting to have a computer tell how you're feeling about a subject in school but that won't help much. In conclusion, reasons on why Facial Action Coding Systems aren't necessary outweigh the reasons on why they would be. | 4 |
a52306b | The Face on Mars is very interesting. For many years people have thought it was aliend created. But our photographs clearly show the Face on Mars is not alien created because we have the best cameras we could get, but in 1998 they had the best cameras they could get but they were very weak, and the Face is a natural landform.
In 1998 the cameras they had were very weak they weren't like are cameras today. They are only fourty three meters per pixel which is not a lot. The cameras also captured shadows, so that interfeared with the picture and could make it look like something else. Also the cameras were weak and not very strong.
The Face on Mars is also just a natural landform, formed by the winds and rocks and the planet moving. It's also a big rock which is in the shape of an oval which is probably why people think it was alien created. Also the shadows were there because of how weak the cameras were in 1998. The landform the rock formation is called is a mesa.
Also in 2001 we had way better cameras than in 1998. Are cameras were stronger. They also had less pixels per frame. The pixels per frame were 1.56 which is great. The camera also zoomed in and could see the Face on Mars close up. The camera also took a nice clear photo rather than the one in 1998.
Because our photographs show you that the Face on Mars is a mesa. We concluded that it is not an alien created face. The image can clearly show you how it looks and that there is no face at all. | 3 |
a5254a8 | In 1976 Viking 1 snapped a photo of Mars. Viking 1 spotted a shadowy likeness of a human face. Many people think it was created by the life on Mars. Many people think that it is just a natural landform. There was no alien creation after all. I am going to tell you why this is just a natural landform created on Mars.
First, Michael Malin and his MOC took a picture of the "face" and claimed it to be just a natural landform. The picture was more clear than the orginal 1976 photograph. When NASA got a good shot at the "face" they rused out there to the Red planet to get a good shot. Jim Garvin said, "We photographed the Face as soon as we could get a god shot at it." And it was revealed that it is a natural landmark.
On April 8th, 2001 Cydonia became cloudless. And it was easy for NASA to see the mysterious face. NASA took a picture "3 times bigger than the pixel size." So if there was an object like a airplane on the surface of Mars, you would be able to see what the object was. Turns out that the picture showed a butte or mesa.
"It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River of Idaho," says Garvin. The mysterious face turned out to be a butte. Not a Alien artifact. Each pixel in the 2001 photo spans 1.56 meters. compared to 43 meters per pixel in the Viking 1 photo. "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars," said Garvin.
NASA is apart of the Government. The Government lies all the time. So that kinda makes people think that NASA is lying about the "Face" being a natural landmark. The Government and NASA are keeping secrets in Area 51. So they must be keeping this whole "Face" thing secret too. That it's not a butte or a mesa. But that it was created by life on Mars.
In conclusion, NASA still hasn't prooved that there is life in Space. But does this "Face" landmark proove that there is? We just have to wait and find out. This is a story that has been going around for decades. And it is still unsolved. NASA recently found ice caps on other planets. And claimed that there was water on Mars but it evaporated, casusing the huge valleys and canyons on Mars. | 3 |
a526c57 | Imagine having a piece of technology tell you how you're feeling. I do not think that the use of technology to read our emotions would be valuable in a classroom. If they were used, the students may get mad, it could be a bother to the teacher, or it would be costly and takes regular upkeep.
If technology was used in classrooms, it would not be valuable. The students in the classrooms sometimes want to hide how they feel about someone or something, and having a machine track what they feel, could trigger them. A student can sometimes hide their anger about a student or assignment, but if this was applied, it would be obvious. Another reason they wouldn't be valuable is because if it reads the wrong emotion of someone, they person's anger or emotion may rise and become an even larger ordeal. Someone can already tell what is felt just by looking at someone's face for the most part, as the author stated in paragraph 5, so there is no point to have to have a machine do the same thing. A friend would be also able to see if you are faking a smile or hiding what you really feel. The teachers also are another reason they wouldn't hold any value.
A second reason that the machine is not worth it is because of the teachers responses. A teacher may now see how a student feels about something and this could lead to more disiplinary issues. The teacher may feel annoyed if the students become amused and there would not be a point to teaching. In paragraph six, it says, "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." and this shows that they are becoming like a teacher and this could lead to a decrease in available jobs, kind of like what is happening with robots. The placement of these machines in classrooms could cause more stress on teachers and more to worry about on top of the student's needs. They aren't only a bad idea because of the teachers and students, but also the upkeep.
The final reason they should not be placed in classrooms is because of the price and upkeep. The machines would not be a cheap purchase and the schools have better items to buy for the school. The school my have to hire more people to make sure they are always working and this is also using more of the schools money. The device would be like any other piece of technology and would also require updates. The "Da Vinci Code" would not be totally accurate every time, and that could lead to a disruption. Nick D' Alto says, "Your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile." which shows how complicated the machine is and how easily it could misinterpret emotions.
In conclusion, the placement of technology in classrooms would hold no value. They would be a distraction to students, have negative effects on teachers, and entail a large cost and major upkeep. | 4 |
a5274af | The human mind is complicated, but technology can help decipher its emotions. The article, "Making Mona Lisa Smile," by Nick D'Alto, introduces the idea of being able to decode human emotions to help students. A software that understands students' emotions is an undoubtedly valuable technology. Students around the world would be helped in a new and improved manner if they used this innovation. Technology used to read emotional expressions would be very helpful in classrooms because it would help students progressively learn.
A piece of technology that detects students' emotions would assist students and teachers in and out of the classroom. Every student learns at a different pace. However, a certain software, created by Prof. Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Institute of Advanced Science at the University of Illinois, would make each student grasp the material at his or her own speed. In the article, "Making Mona Lisa Smile," Nick D'Alto writes, "'A classroom computer could recognize when a students is becoming confused or bored,' Dr. Huang predicts. 'Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.''' The previous quote demonstrates that the computer software would help students learn in an adjustable manner. After the students' emotions towards the assignments are detected, the assigment would be modified to help the student progress with their understanding of the subject.
In fact, the computer software would not only help students while in class, but it would also help students afterschool. For example, the software would allow students to complete and understand computer homework. This would help the student learn even when a teacher is not with them. Furthermore, teachers' jobs would be made easier. Even if students have further questions, they would always be able to go to their teachers.
Lastly, a software that reads people's emotions would be an extremely valuable tool for students and teachers in classrooms. It would allow students to learn at their own pace and way. In addition, they would be provided with additional school help. In fact, their teacher's would benefit from this because they would get help teaching. So, a software that depicts students' emotions toward assignments would be used widely in classrooms. | 4 |
a529909 | Driverless cars would be very beneficial to our society. It would make an immense impact on our culture and provide simple, fast ways to get around. In the article, many different positives are thoughouly expressed. Because of these specific examples, I believe that driverless cars will be extremely important in America's future and greatly benefit our use of transportation.
The United States, as well as other parts of the world, experience oil and fuel issues. There are frequent shortages of these particular substances, which are extrememly important for our daily lives. In the article, it is said, "The cars he foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus. He believes such cars would fundamentally change the world." In this quote, from the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," Google cofounder Sergey Brin expresses that these driverless cars will be beneficial to America and the rest of the world. He says that these cars will use less fuel, which unfortunately tends to run short. Driverless cars will benefit the the world's fuel issues.
Another positive to driverless cars are the entertainment and noficiation aspects. Drivers will be able to get different things done while driving. They also will no longer need to worry about distraction factor of driving. Drivers won't have to worry about trying to answer a phone call, respond to a text, or change a song and drive at the same time. The article states, "Some manufacturers hope to do that by bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over-something not available to driveres trying to text with a cell phone. In this way, the in-car system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big concern." In this quote, Dr. Werner Huber, a BMW project manager driver, explains that a driver won't need to worry about answering a text. The driver can answer the text or phone call while the car is not in need of assistance. Fortunately, the car only needs manual assistance in areas of road construction or accidents. This feature of driverless cars will greatly benefit driving today.
However, these driverless cars still do obtain some faults. These faults are included in the article. "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents. This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." This shows that drivers must retain some sort of awareness of what is going on around them. They cannot take naps or completely zone out, especially when approaching an accident or work zone. Although there are few flaws to the designs of driverless cars, these flaws should be fixed very soon. The article states, "Automakers are continuing their work on the assumption that the problems ahead will be solved. Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020. The road to the truly autonomous car stretches on ahead of us, but we grow closer to the destination every day." This quote shows that many of these issues should be resolved in the very near future.
Because of these specific examples in the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," I believe that driverless cars will be very beneficial to America and it's many modes of transportation. Driverless cars will use less fuel than our typical cars we use today. They will also require an immensely small amount of attention. Most importantly, any small flaw that these cars possess will be resolved extremely soon. Driverless cars will change our lives for the better. | 5 |
a529ecd | Why is is beneficial to have limited car usage? This is a question that has several answers varying from personal health, to economic gain, to enviromental gain. Though the car has been the symbol of the modern age, there seem to be few 'down-sides' to limiting the usage of these transportation units.
Cars have given mankind the ability to cross great distances in a short amount of time, allowing face to face communication, fast trade between companies and nations, and acess to medical and personal care otherwise out of reach. However, the car has also caused lack of mobility, cutting back on people's exercise as they no longer have to walk very far to get from point A to point B, the overwhelming responsibility and cost of owning a car has also put a mental strain on people, causing needless stress. Of course there are places to go and things to do that require traveling large distances, and no one could be a expected to walk from New York to L.A., so car usage should not be utterly removed, but rather resricted.
So how do people properly regulate their car usage? Several different governments and cities have debated this, trying different tactics and having varied results. As shown in Elisabeth Rosenthal's essay,
"In German Suburbs, Life Goes On Without Cars"
, we are shown the result of a community where 70% of the people do not own cars, but with no less activity than their counterparts in cities wheighed down by cars. There seem to be several advantages in this city without cars, one being that people seem to be happier. Heidun Walter, a media trainer with two children informed Rosenthal, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way,", the lack of cars seems to reduce stress, without restricting life.
So perhaps this is not enough reason for some to limit their usage of the car, alright, there are many more reasons why this is beneficail. One that is quite familiar to all is the issue of greenhouse gas emissions. The majority of cars produce greenhouse gas emissions, polluting the enviroment and quickening the death of the planet, Rosenthal's essay "
In German Suburbs, Life Goes On Without Cars,
", we are told clearly that, "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gass emissions in Europe... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States. " This may seem like very little, but with the amount of cars in the world, these numbers add up to staggering damage to the enviroment. Robert Duffer wrote an essay telling of these harmful effects in a shocking way: "
Paris bans driving due to smog
". This city had so much pollution that they had to ban the use of cars, "Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in London,". This pollution is not only in France, but across the globe, it is only a matter of time before it destroys the ecosystems on Earth, and cars are one of the biggest contributers to this destruction, coming in second only to power plants.
One Colombian city chose not to wait until such things happened, instead choosing to promote limited car usage in a more peacful manner, as described by Andrew Selsky's essay, "
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota
". This city of 7 million people started a program that chooses one day a year to bann all car usage with the exception of buses and taxis, fining violators with $25. One main benefit has come out of this: People are more active phisically and therefore have less stress. Selsky's essay can be quoted saying, "- millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday,". The benefits of more physical movement are obvious, but one is not so obvious: It lowers stress. A businessman by the name of Carlos Arturo Plaza said, "It is a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution". If a simple day can cause such drastic changes in the enviroment, peoples health, and lower stress, why not go ahead and do it?
In summary, while cars help us get from point A to point B quickly, and are very useful when traveling over great distance, they also cause great harm. A simple cut back on using cars would allow the air pollution to be reduced drastically, promote physical movement and personal health, and help productivity and creativity by reducing stress. Why would you not wish to live in a world like that? | 5 |
a52b535 | Cars have come a long way since Ford's model T. Radios, seatbelts, airbags, and advanced brakes systems have been added. Now today, in the span of a few short years, cats can respond to voice commands, sense a driver's blood alcohol content, and even shut themselves down if the driver is being unsafe. The concept of a completely driverless car is enticing, offering advancements well-within the reach of today's scientists and technology, and providing a new level of productivity to passengers.
The world may not be ready for driverless cars, but the advancement of this technology should be continued. Google and Tesla have already received promising results from their tests. According to evidence, the experiments they conduct do not put anyone at risk, so it is odd that some states ban even the experimentation of these driverless vehicles. The article lacks any evidence of expense to the common man, but assuming it offers him little trouble, the advancement of these vehicles can only be beneficial. With advancement of technology like the microchip, more and more complex devices are available to the public. Just look at Apple products. They release an ever increasing number of new products every year, each with better technology than the last.
The 3D modeling sensor is the most important, promising piece of technology in the car industry. Other devices such as phones and tablets have made significant advances in the past decade, with the inclusion of voice activated functions and 3D Touch. The fact that the scientists know what the problems are is key in their development of a 100% driverless car. They know that their experimental cars can move from point A to point B with little issue unless their is something out of the ordinary along the way. Construction, reckless drivers, and wildlife can be unforeseen obstacles. Cars aren't the only technology that is attempting to see the future. Current handheld devices can listen, understand, and apply knowledge from the Internet to respond in no time at all. Scientists must figure out how to apply reactive technology like Apple's Siri or IBM's Watson to their vehicles. In this way the cars would be able to adapt to any situation, allowing the passengers to enjoy a worry-free ride to their destinations.
Imagine how much work could be accomplished in transit. Either that or long commutes could be used as a time to take a power nap. In any case, a completely driverless car would provide its passengers increased time to accomplish tasks that they could not previously because they needed to be attentive to the road. Students could study for the day's final, relax, or socialize without a worry that their lives are in danger. If every United States Citizen had a driverless car, the odds of an accident would decrease dramatically. Current GPS devices function in a way that the don't disturb others of their kind. If the cars were linked in some way, the odds of an accident would drop to near zero.
The advancement of driverless cars is an open door for both scientists and the public. It offers benefits to the every growing, technology driven population of the United States. Cars will never not be a part of every day American life, so it only makes sense that they would continue to advance some of the most precious technology to them. | 5 |
a52d490 | Venus is a difficult planet only able to be seen from great distances, since Venus is a very dangerous planet. The urge to explore Venus and study is what brings innovation and the creation of better technology that can hopefully achieve the goal of learning about the strange and dangerous planet.
The article begins with a reason why scientisists are fascinated by Venus even though of its many dangers, and the reason why is because it may have been the most Eath-like planet in our solar system, though this may be true it can also be false and Venus was always the way that it is. The article goes on to say that it has Earth-like features which can further prove this but if Scientists further study Venus we may find about what happened to it or what is causing all the mayhem in the plant. In the article it says the pursuiting Venus has value and goes on to say "not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equal endeavors." This is a good reason because the more we learn about things better the knowledge we have and the more strides our species can take in future, studying venus may be able to bring better technology or prepare us for any possible threats in the future, using the knowledge we have have gain from studying it. The author also says that the pursuit of Venus and beyond is a good thing saying " 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 shows that even if we don't ever achieve our goal of exploring Venus we may still be able to have better technology as a product of that goal.
Exploring different planers is tricky and dangerous but as long as we try to achieve that goal our society can benifit either way, that being with better technology or vast knowledge about a planet. | 3 |
a5301b8 | i think that if the Facial Acton Codingn System really works then you should be able to use it on students but only if the say its okay to. I think its important to understand what you studentds feel when theyre in class so you know to make it more intrestingor changling. If theyre bored or if they are overwelmed then you should know how to make them feel confterbol so they will enjoy learnig and want to do the work.
The "FACS" can be helpfull in some suituations but for most students when they are confussed and need help they will ask for help. I think that students are at school the should have some privacy and if they are upset and want to talk about it wish someone they will but using a computer to read someones face is invading theyre privacy.
I think its unnessisary to read studnets just to see if they need help when you can just ask them or look at theyre grades. If a students says it okay to read theyre emotional expressions then i think you could. I think this could be used better at hospitals or maybe a store to see what people are into and what theyre not better then students at a school trying to learn. | 2 |
a534657 | Everyone seems to be so excited by the thought of the driverless car being in our grasp. Sure, it is an amazing development in technology, but I do not support it. The article demonstrates most of the reasons I am againt driverless cars.
The first thing that comes to my mind after reading the article, was even questioned in the eighth paragraph of the article. "Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver?" That is a good question, and it helps raise other questions. As in, if the car needs a driver, is it really driverless? As well was as what is the point of having a car that drives itself if the driver still has to be present and alert to use it? Under those circumstances, it seems that the driver may as well just drive the car to their destination manually, because a driverless car is not truly "driverless" if a person has to take the wheel at any time to drive.
Another point that seems important, is the technology. How reliable is it? From the sound of the article, the technology being used in driverless cars is still in testing and experimenting phases. We have not had the technology very long, how do we know it will not fail once we actually implement it in our lives or release it to the public? Another point for this and my first argument, in order for a car to be truly driverless, wouldn't we need the car to have an artificial intelligence advanced enough to calculate possible outcomes of a situation and make decisions on its own? It just does not seem like the technology is quite ready.
The big factor that seems to matter to just about everyone, is the cost. The article does not seem to include cost as a factor. I don't think something that costs a ton of money to use or create would be particularly useful, especially in an early state such as mentioned in the last paragraph. The thing is, it has to be marketable and accessible to the public to really be considered a success. Something that is does not fit a wide target market will not make a profit, its as simple as that.
In conclusion, it does not seem that "driverless cars" are quite ready to become mainstream. There is not really a need for a driverless car that requires a driver to be there anyway. The technology is not quite advanced enough. The target market might not be there, it might not make a profit. Maybe driverless cars are just a fad that will come and go, but time will tell. | 4 |
a53d268 | In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. The author provided reasons on why exploring Venus is so important.
The author beleives that Venus should be explored because it is "Often referred to as Earth's "twin," Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of size, and occasionally the closest in distance too". (Paragraph 2). Another reason why the author believes that Venus should be explored is because "It may have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system."( Paragraph 4). These two reasons explain why it can be beneficial to explore Venus. To prove that Venus was and is so similar to Earth the author provided details such as, "Venus was probably covered with oceans and could have supported various forms of life," and "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." (Paragraph 4). Providing these details helped support the idea that Venus is so similar to Earth. Proving that Venus is so similar to Earth can show people that it might be worthy to explore it. The author also talked about ways that could possibly make exploring Venus safer. In paragraph 5 the author says, "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray" giving this information can show that there are safe options that are in the works for exploring Venus.
The author's use of supporting details was well used in supporting his idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit. The author also stated possible disadvantages and dangers that could happen which helped improve his claim. If the author only used the positive affects and left the dangers out I think it would have hurt his article. Overall, I think this article was written well with plenty of supporting details. | 3 |
a540d37 | In the article " Driverless Cars Are Coming" the author represents both sides of this argument.The two sides of the argument are that we should have the driverless cars and we shouldnt have them.
To start off, we should have these driverless cars because it wouldnt cause so much pollutin we would have less taxis and they are easier then buses. So by using these cars we can make the percentage of polutin down we could change global warming and stop the ice from melting and the polar bears from diying. We could stop rivers and lakes from drying up and we could possibly stop the ocean level from rising and flooding. With these driver less cars we could change the world and yeah thats pretty chessy but its true we could save thousands of lives from these cars because that put out any pollution so there for climate change and global warming would help fix alot of things thatb humans cant really fix by hand it has to be nature. At the rate that the world is putting of pollution we are killing alot of animals and people. We could stop deforestation these cars would really save the world if we used them and it would be for the better.
On the other hand these cars are somewhat pretty bad because all the eletricity that just one car needs would cause us to burn more coal which would cause more pollution the it did befor we got them. yeah they might be better for drivning and slowing down the percentage for pollution but it wouldnt stop it. It would slow down dramatically but not enough to change alot of things we need are car that runs on something that wouldnt use energy or gases because both cause pollution. We could have had these type of cars sooner but we didnt have the eletronics that we have now we didnt have the computers or the sensors we didint have any of that. yeah if they would started we probably couldve figured out a diferent way to change how they are built and how the put out gases.
Finally, after putting both of these together it still is pretty hard to choose because both are ok but we just need something better. we could start off with this and try it out and see what happens but then differnt manufactors would try be better then one another and it would cause things to get out of hand and then they would have the government involved and it would cause a huge fight and people would be a mess. Honestly its not worth all the trouble and the mis understandning and confusion.
Basically we dont need it we might as well keep going and looking for better ways then to do this and cause a huge mess. | 3 |
a5456c7 | The conviniance of the cars would be nice, but what if the car malfunctioned and it crashed? Would the car owner be responcible or would the manufacturer? Whould the cars be able to be hacked, like a cell phone or laptop?
How would the person or people in the car know they are safe?
I would not feel comfertoble having a computer driving me around and deciding if it takes me through a bad naughborhood or if it takes the long way around. ""The psycological aspects of automation are really a chalenge," admits Dr. Werner Huber, a BMW project manager driver." If I were to be put in danger, would that compurter be able to get me out of that danger? I don't think so because, again, it is a programed computer. The car is programed to follow the laws set forth. If going over the speed limit to get away from a person trying to harm me or the people I am with is the way that we stay alive, then that's what needs to be done.
If the car is programed to go the speed limit, how many police officers would lose their job? There would be no speeding, so there would be no need to have them on the road as much.
What would happen if there was a fire? If the vehicls are programed to go the speed limit, how will the fire fighters get to the house on time? If there is an acident, because the person in the car has no control over it, how will the peramedics get to the scene on time?
If the car doors are locked and there is no way to get out in a crash, there will be more of a chance of people dieing from a car crash than before the cars come out. The officers would have to cut the person out, if that can be done. If the crash is so bad that the person can't be cut out what does that say about cars manufacturer?
In comclution, I think that having driverless cars could cause more damage than good. Yes, it would be more convinient, but safe I dont think so. | 2 |
a546e10 | The Seagoing Cowboys program is fantastic because you get to do a lot of things. This is a once and a lifetime opportunity. Trust me you'll want to join just like my friend Luke didn't only like it he loved it.
First you get to see the world when you go travel on the boat ride home and back but, you don't have to go sit around and watch from the boat. When you get off the boat you have a reward. If you like to see stuff like Europe, Italy, China, Greece then you'll love it. If you don't believe me ask Luke he's the one whos been to all those places. He said that the boat trips were so unbelievable for a small town boy like him.
Also you will get to help people outside of your community. Like bring them food, water, and animals. It all ways feels good to help people in your own way. But it really effects peoples lives in the way you can help them. And it really doesn't take much to help those people.
But don't worry your not alone on this trip if you want company. You can make friends on the way like Luke did because after you give the animals to the people who need help there is room for things like Volleyball, Baseball, Table-tennis, Fencing, Boxing, Reading, and Whittling. These are all good things to pass the time after some hard work has been done.
So if you like to travel, help people, make friends and more then the Seagoing Cowboys program is for you and if noy maybe trying to recommend it to one of your friends who might like because I know Luke did. | 3 |
a549027 | Venus has the hottest surface temperture out of all the plantets; even though, Mercury is close to the sun . Did you know that ? Well if not maybe you should read "The Challege of Eploring Venus". The article pours out information about this evening star;however, you obtain more then just knowngle from this article. To contuie, the article expresses emotions and the author's feelings about the dangerous pursit to explore this marvlous planet.
So, did you know planet could have babies? Well I don't know if that entriley true, but Venus is the Earth's twin. Which I don't think should be taken littralle, because they're own twins thanks to looks. Which is pretty segrgated, but oh well. So back on topic Venus is classified as Earth's twin, because Venus is the closest plant in density, size, and distance. Also did you know astromers have theory that Venus couldv'e been Earth-like. They're fascinated that Venus couldv'e been covered with ocean and couldv'e even supported life. The astrometer only belive this, beacues the features that are analogous to those on Earth. Venus has valleys, mountains, craters, and even a rocky surface. This really helped support why Venus is worth the risk, because look at all this inforamation we know. Yet, how are we suppose to belive it's true. You see humans are very heavy headed, which means we are not very open minded to knew idea. To contuie, people are going to fight weather it's true or not. Humans need to see it in order to believe it.
Consquently, you may not think that humans need to see it to believe it. So, to get into our next topic some of the things I'm telling you about Venus may not even be true. We need to head into this challnge head first and hope for the best. We need to stop being scared of the what if's and be more scared of that nots. Many reseachers are working on innovtion that can help us obtain the knowlege of Venus, which is such a succes. For example, NASA is working on an invention to help reseacher fload above the heated surface. On the other hand, forms of light can't penetrate dense atmosphere, which would be tough since Venus atmosphere 97% carbon dioxide. To contuie reseacher can't get rock,gas,or any kind of phyical samples, but that why we need to keep pushing. If we wanna find out Venus's secerets we need to get up close and personal despite the risks.
To wrap things up, Venus is a strange planet that we don't quite understand, but it we just stay strong we can find a way to discover the truth. Also who know what the knowlede from Venus could help us do. Venus has value weather you see it or not. The author shows his feeling swithout being so in your face about it. The pursit to Venus means alot to his as shown in the text. The author even talks about how the values of Venus are needed. They even bring why it's has value, innovation that make it possible, and pours tons of instersting facts about Venus to presrated you into seeing his point of view. | 2 |
a54cdd4 | The Facial Action Coding System, or better known as FACS, is a new technological advancement that can detect how a person is feeling. It holds promising applications for a variety of different things.
Prof. Thomas Huang collaborated with Prof. Nicu Sebe to innovate this technology. The Facial Action Coding System is a very complex.
It recognizes the muscles in the face and compares them to a neutral face; this is how the system can tell if you are feeling happy or sad. Eckman, the creator of FACS, organized six different emotions for the system to recognize. These feelings are, happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. The computer constructs a 3-D model of the face and identifies muscles such as, the orbicularis oris, which tightens your lips to show anger. This action is very similar to what we as humans do every day, except this is much more accurate.
I am for this technology becuase I think that it could help our students fully understand the material better. Every student learns differently, and that can make lessons more challenging for some more than others. The Facial Action Coding System could potentially modify the lesson to make it easier. I also think that this type of technology is important for students that have trouble focusing. The system could potentially make the lesson more exciting; this would possibly help the student focus better. It could also help the world of animation. Dr. Huang predicts that it could make computer-animated faces more expressive; this would be helpful for video surgery. FACS can do so much more for the technological world, making it useful in many different aspects. | 3 |
a54dbd6 | Technology is always improving. From a simple toaster to a toaster that can make several pieces at once. This facial recognition is a new way of detecting the true emotions of someone. I think the use of this technology is useful to all students, parents, governement workers, and etc.
Facial expression does not have a set of rules you have to follow. For example, when someone is very angry, they might cry instead. In result, the computer might take it as sadness. Most of the time, facial expressions are easy to recognize. In paragraph 2 of "Making Mona Lisa Smile," it says, "Each expression is compared against a neutral face" (D'Alto 2). Everyone has different neutral faces. Most people have a good way of keeping in their emotions, making their face look blank.
When expressing emotions, certain muscles are tied to certain emotions. In paragraph 3 of the article, the author says, "... your frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyes raises your eyebrows when you're surpised; your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger" (3). Most of the time when you are surprised, you raise your brows. Also, when you are mad, you make a face, and tighten your lips.
When in school, you can use your facial expressions to show how you are feeling. In paragraph 6, the author goes on to explain that, "'A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,' Dr. Huange predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." Several teens do not speak up when they do not understand something that was taught during class because they do not want to be embarrassed. So if you are at home, on a computer, you will not have to speak up you can just act the same, and the computer will change it to help you understand more efficiantly.
In conclusion, facial recognition is a great way to get students on the right track in school. It can help the teachers decide if their teacher techniques are effective or not. Also, facial recognition can help people understand how others are feeling in certain pictures. If someone throws on a fake smile for a photo, the computer will recognize that. Many different emotions, have different ways it can be shown. The computers detect multiple emotions including: happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness (3). | 3 |
a54e4af | In the passage, the author talks about the use of car usage. In my opinion, I think that we use cars to get place like, school, work, the store, to sporting events, to doctors appointments. We use cars every day. Teenagers can drive because they need to know how to get places without relying on some one else to do it for them. Beinging able to drive helps people alot. It may not seem like it, but, everyday some one gets injurded in an automobile accident. We the people have the right to drive when we can.
The Enivironment Protection Agency (EPA) is promoting "car reduced" places, and the legislators are starting to become a part of that. Many companies like that do it alot. Just do what ever they want we they want. I think if you want to drive you can drive. There are some bad things that happen to people when they drive. Sometimes it is not even their fault. Of course they go to court and try to get things settled. Usually the person how caused te accident wins the case because their lawyer makes stuff up to make the person that didn't cause the accident to make them look like the did. Thats called "Tappering with evidence". Which is against the law.
With the new cars comeing out, like the cars that don't need gasoline, that don't need a key, the companies are trying to prove a point. Gaoline can cause serious damage to the world. It sends toxic waste in the air everytime you hit the gas petal. Thats why companies like Ford, Chevy, Jeep, Mersaidnces Bin, VMW, and many other ompanies. It is OK to drive around but it can be harmful and dangerous. One of my favorite bands Black Veil Brides, they use an electric tour bus because they don't want to harm the people and it saves alot of money. They love the people in the world and they want them to be safe. You can pay up to $2.75 for a gallon of gasilone and $3.75 for diesel.
Not everything in this "country" is go for your health. Gasoline can kill people just by smelling it. It is highly flameable. If you are one a bus and you start smelling something weird like diesel or gasoline, it would be smart to go to the driver and tell them because if you don't alot of people can get hurt just by you not speaking up and telling him/her. Even through you didn't put the gas in the bus, you can still get sued because you didn't tell them. People die everyday because of stupid stuff like this. Even on a plane. You smell diesel, you go to one of the flight addentents and tell them. They are required to tell the piliot what is happening and they must can their airport. Just telling someone that you smeel it, you can save alot of people.
Just because cars can be dangerous, it doesn't mean that you can't speak up for what you believe in about it. Family loose loved ones because of drunk drives, texting, not paying attention to the road, and, not wearing their seatbelt. People make stupid and careless misstakes everyday. People don't understand that. People don't care. It's your choice. You make the desenion. Be a smart person and you make your own choice. If your car usage is dangerous like driving a AMT on a highway, you're going to jail. Driving a car with a subinbuted drivers liesense, you are going to lose your car. It's up to you. That's all I have to say. | 3 |
a54fa0a | The "Face on Mars" isnt a alien artifact or building. It looked like a face because the photograph tooken in 1976 is outdated, and not as detaild as the on tooken in 2001.
In paragraph 2, the artical states: "Scientist figured it was just another Martian mesa, common on Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." giving you the idea that its not actually a face, and that its actually a Martian mesa.
In paragraph 7, Michael Malin and his MOC took sharper more precise than the original photos tooken before, proving its not a face its a Martian mesa. Also on paragraph 12, it says looks alot like a mesa, common in the American west.
The "Face on Mars" isnt alien artifact, its a Martian mesa. There isnt nothing to hide because there isnt anything living on mars.
The pictures tooken in 2001 show nothing of alien artifacts or buildings, its just a Martian mesa, That looked like a face in the picture from 1976, but it dont look like a face in the 2001 picture. | 2 |
a556f77 | So, you want to tell me that the rock and craters on Mars are aliens? Myself belive it is not myself and fellow scientist find this to be true. Back in 1976 I got my first glipse at the figure on the surface it made me think it was alien until the Mars Rover proved it could not possibly be made by aliens.
When we first released the piture it set the world on fire as much talk about the face on Mars it made us look like we made the discovery of a life times work we all shared the cridit for finding the face. Nasa became the biggest hit around some took advantage to that some did not others did.
Allthough we proved it to be a natullary formed crater by using the Mars rover. Even after this a group of them left because they belived aliens were real and belived aliens created this monumentail artfact which would change space to how we know it to be today.
Mars did look like it had small shacks which they thought was house arfound the massive rock. Mars has a very rocky layer on its top it gives Mars the ability to have craters which from a distance look like shacks.
The one thing the told me is what I can't explain it to this day I have no respouce to it they said do you see the crocked grim on its face every time we look at this figure it has a differt face which is hard to explain.
I'll tell you what I told him though is that you can never underesitmate the force of gravity. Gravity pull masses on to that face of Mars shaping differantly every time.
As conclusion the belivers in aliens started a foundation. The foundation was called alien were here. They could not prove that they were right so they foundation had to swith to make more sense to have an resonable idea the new foundation also died off. The new foundation has The Brithish were here which everone new so they had no purpose they ended up giving up on any chance of company. Well as you can see I'm doing well and listing to aliens are not here dot net people the chance was silm, but it is a cool artifact. Still to this day in time when people first see that piture they think aliens are amoungest which they could be right, but they are wrong has a better chance of happing around here in the USA. | 2 |
a55a0fd | Beep.. Beep.. Beep... That is the sound of someone's heart monitor at a hospital. can you imagine waking up in the hospital after a car wreck. Well it's happened plenty of times, but the accident was never caused by a driverless car. What about the new laws they will have to make for these new cars? These cars will never happen, and if they do they will cause many accidents in the future.
In the article I had just read it says "Even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident." Say you were to get in a wreck while driving a driverless car, and the car wouldn't use its break so you went through a stop sign and hit another car and someone was killed in the accident. Who's fault is it? Is it your fault for hitting the other car, or is it the manufactures fault for not safely making your vehicle?
Driverless cars are not safe and never will be. Technology always has a glitch somewhere. In the article Driverless Cars are Coming, the talk about sensors in paragraphs four to seven. "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." This was said in paragraph seven of the article. But why would they make these driverless cars if they can only reach 25 mph.? Most people would want a driverless car for interstates and highways, because those are the most boring roads in history.
Driverless cars are not safe, they can cause many accidents and who's at fault, you or the manufacturer? Companies just need to stop trying to make driverless cars because they aren't going to be sucessful for society today. Cars need to be human driven and that's all. No driverless cars are coming, not now not ever! | 4 |
a55b2d1 | In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author talks about how intersting studying Venus is although it might have some dangers. The author does a very well job supporting this claim. He tells us how Venus is like Earth, how unique it is, and how there is a lot more to be discovered.
In paragraph 2 of this article the author talks about how Earth's and Venus's relationship. In the article it says "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too." Venus is not that far away but yet there is alot that we do not know about it. What we do know is that Venus still has a lot of cool features that Earth has. In the article it says "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." this is why studying Venus is worth it beacuse you get to find all these connections with our planet.
"Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun," this one of many reasons why its so hard to study Venus. But it is also something that makes it unique. since Venus has a thick atmsphere of 97% carbon dioxide and clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid it is hard to land spacecrafts on it. Venus's unique atmsphere is what makes it challenging to discover more about Venus.
The author also talks about how there is alot more to be discovered on venus. In paragraph 6 it talks about how many things that we are doing is not enough to really see what is on venus. The aurthors says "researchers cannot take samples of rock,gas,or anything else, from distance." This shows that we really can not do anything until we can actually get on the planet. Untill then there will be a lot of unknown things about the planet Venus.
In conclusion, the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," did have a lot of evidence to back up his claim that although studying venus comes with dangers it is something that you should do. | 4 |
a55c186 | Hay you should go join the program of the cowboy or cow girl rode the waves.!
Why i say go join the progam is because you have the big's opptunity of your life to see and do neww thing's you never done befor. The resone that you should do this is because you can have that great's time of your ife to get out of the house and go arounld the word not only to see or eat but just be friendaly. Why not join this porgram to help your animals that you love.
You wnat be on your only becaues my dear old friend Luke the cowboy who rode the waves not onld did it one time but he did it nine time's he was loving to all the animals and he did do it all by him self he did it with his friend. I fill like every kid in the age of 17 shounld go and helpand become betterat wat they where used to likr playing on the phone or being on the phone. Kids like him just porbly was in the house playing vidoe games
Those are the the thing's that i think you should do or look into one day if your kid is being or doing bad in or outof school. Make sure that when me or engoht body go or do this they are better then be fir cause they have matte new friend's and did ne thing's. | 2 |
a55e6fa | What do most people think can do things better, people or machines? I, like most people, believe things are done better by hand. Would someone want a lifesaving operation done by a living doctor that knows what is going on and where things are, or a robot that is programmed to do it and could malfunction. I believe that driverless cars pose a threat against people and cars should remain in human control at all times.
Cars do not actually see the things that surrond them. If the driver decides not to pay attention and one of the cars sensors were to malfunction then the lives of many people hang in balance. Road constructions and traffic jams could pose a threat as well. When these things happen do the cars just shut down or try and get through themselves. Either way major safety hazards will arise. Just like in paragraph 2, right now "driverless" cars cannot even get out of a driveway alone. Unless some major ajestments were to come soon, driverless cars remain a huge threat to safety.
What if someone were to get hurt in a driverless car accident? The car malfunctions and the driver could not take control and gets hurt. Who willingly takes responsibility, the driver or the company? Like stated in paragraph 9, to figure this out the country would have to make more laws. All that will waste a large amount of time for both the companies that make driverless cars and congress who makes the laws. Driverless cars will give people trouble before they even hit the road.
I believe that driverless cars pose a threat against people and cars should remain in human control at all times. No matter what driverless cars do not have the instinces and emotions as humans. Cars cannot see what lies 500 feet in front of them, only humans can see that. Technology fails too much and letting cars drive for us poses to great of a threat at this time. | 3 |
a566308 | The study the ability of humans to read subatle changesin facial expressions, thast they appiled reverse correlation technique to reveal visual features that mediate understanding of emotion expressed by the face. Suprising finding were that (1) the noise added to test face image had profound effect on the facail expression and (2) in most every istance the new expression was meaningful.
All 44 major muscles in the mode must move like human muslces. Movemment of one or more mucles is called an "action unit" Then Dr. Pual Eckam, creator of (FACS) Ekman has classified six basic emotions- happeniess, suprise, anger, disgust, feat and sadness. In the text it states,"The soft wear is the latest innovatiobn from Prof. Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Institiute for Advance Science at the University of
Illinois." Dr. Huag and colleague are experts at developing better ways fo humans and computers to communicate. The faical expressions for each emotion are univeral, observers Dr. Huang, even thought individuals often show varying degrees of expression (like smiling broadly). Using video imagery, the new emotion-recqizing softwear facture these movements.
The study the ability of humans to read subatle changesin facial expressions, thast they appiled reverse correlation technique to reveal visual features that mediate understanding of emotion expressed by the face. The process begins whwne the computer constructs a 3-D comupter Model.
The study the ability of humans to read subatle changesin facial expressions, thast they appiled reverse correlation technique to reveal visual features that mediate understanding of emotion expressed by the face. Facial expression not only expresses emtions but also even help reproduce them. The thought of making faces could reveal so much about the science of emotions. | 1 |
a56b9af | Although, many people may think that going to Venus despite the dangers is not a good idea going to venus can also be benitfical with new safety measures, and technolgy.
One reason is, Venus is a sister planet to Earth but we don't know alot about it so we need to go there. Going to venus can be benitfical in may ways. One way is thet it can give scientist good research that they don't have. It can also give them a way as said in the article "to examine more closely". Lastly we could gain more knowledge on living conditions in Venus.
Even though, Venus is not the safest palce for anyone or anything to be NASA has came up with new safetey measures to ensure the people's safetey. For one as said in the article Venus is a hot place. So NASA has came up with the idea that the people that will be going to venus would be floating on top of venus so that they will not only be safe but alive. Another way to ensure saftey is to use silicon devices since metal melts on Venus, and studies have shown that using silicon is efficient, and in the article is said to last "for three weeks".
Furthermore, not only do they have saftey measures they also uses technolgy. From past reasearch it is known that Venus burns metal so that means that to have good resaerch you have to find somthing that is not meatal to conduct your resarch. So NASA has made another project when they look at old technolgy, and they realised that mechanical computers would help when researching Venus. Mechanical computers conduct "calculations by using gears and levers". Also mechanical computers does not need electronics at all.
In other words going to Venus can be very resourcful and problaly become of use in the future. | 3 |
a56bdf8 | Dear State Senator,
While I normally don't have any complaints, and being the person I am not many things "bug me", but I recently found that I disagree with a certain argument. And while it is near voting times, I believed it's best for me to send you my side on this continuous debate to change your mind on the matter. The electoral college has had its share of arguments and I would like to make my side seen knowing I have quite a bit of logical arguments. Please read with an open mind.
The electoral college is unfair in many ways, this one however can be seen as minor. The electoral college gives an easier way to get tie, and although a tie hasn't been a main focus, it can prove to be a problem. I read an article stating that if a tie were to happen the election would be thrown to the house of representatives, where state delegations vote on the president. This would anger a heap of people for many reasons, one stating it would almost rule out their vote.
Secondly, the electoral college simply takes away from voting in general. An example of this is lets say Obama won popular vote, he should win because thats what America wants right? No, because what if another president won electoral vote? that president would win and take away the point in voting. This is unfair because we the people would like to have a better say in who becomes our president.
In the article I read, it stated "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. unfair, outdated, irrational" I agree completely. How is it irrational? Well simply because it is just an extra step added on. In all reality our country would be fine without it. Popular vote is exactly what we need, and that alone is enough. And while I do believe it's good to go an extra step, it shouldn't go when not needed. This to me is most important because I could argue all day long and in the end this would be my argument.
Thank you for your time and please take this into consideration, I realize that it has its upsides but it is just unfair, outdated, and irrational. And please notice the other downsides aswell, while I did not have the time or room to include them.
Your friend,
PROPER_NAME | 4 |
a56c345 | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author states positive and negative aspects of driverless cars.
The development of these cars would be a total waste for the economy.
There is no need for driverless cars when the cars we drive today, on our own, are just fine.
If the driverless cars were manufactured and sold, the roads would have to change, the driver would get bored not feeling in control, and the money to build the car is too expensive.
That's a lot of twist and turns for the car's road ahead.
For example, if the cars were to develope, all the roads would have to change to safely fit the requirements of the car.
In the text the author states that the cars require massive upgrades to existing roads, something that is simply too expensive to be practical. That statement just shows how in order to create these cars, the roads would have to improved for safety, and that amount of money is horriftic.
Another reason why we shouldn't have driveless, the driver in the automomous car becoming less needed in terms of driving.
The driver is required to have his/her hands on the steering wheel at all times in the car.
That means the car gives off the illusion of the driver being in control, but the driver may also feel inferior to the car's abilities.
This would cause less people buying the driverless car.
The equipement needed to make the driverless car safe and secure is sensors.
In the article the author writes how Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotatin sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor.
That is a lot of equipement for just one car!
Not to mention the safety sensors also may be unappealing to the cars' design and to the buyers.
The sensors used for one car can also add onto the amount to manufacture the car which causes the prices to increase.
If the prices increase, less people will buy the car.
In the text it states that the cars simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over.
Which means the cars have a notificatin system that notifies the driver when the road ahead requires human skills.
That system is a good thing to have in the car, but what if it breaks. The driver is at risk of an accident if not alerting about upcoming driving obstacles.
Then the law would have to determine if the driver or car was at fault.
Less people would buy this car to avoid the uncertainity of being at fault or in an accident.
Overall, driverless cars should not be developed because there is not a safety and money-efficent way to do so, yet.
Unless the time comes, cars should stick to being controled by the driver.
If the cars change, it doesn't mean people are going to buy the autonomous car.
The road ahead for this driverless car is shortly coming to a dead end. | 4 |
a56d095 | Driverless cars coming soon are they dangerous. Having driverless cars can be dangerous to both drivers and pedestrians. Manufactures could go under. Drivers would have to be alert at all times and the car would need to be quick on response to road conditions.
If we were to have driverless cars it would present a huge hazord not only to the sdrivers but to pedestrians walking. Can be harmful to drive if the breaks go out and the car wouldnt stop. Say that someone is driving down the road and they have an electrical problem. Well the person or persons in the car may not know about it until its too late and the car is on fire or spinning out of control. Can be harmful to pedestrians because the car could lose control and maybe hit them. Say if a little kids ball goes out into the middle of the street and a little kid runs after it how would the car know to stop. It wouldnt so in that case the kid would get hit and then whos faul;t would it be the divers or the person who made the car.
Having driverless cars would hurt manufactures because if they are too expensive then people wont buy them so they wouldnt be making money. If an accident was to occur who would be at fault. Some may argue the diver for buying such a car. Others may argue that the manufature didnt make it right and it needs better saftey features. If they get so many complaints then people stop buying them and then there bussiness wouldnt be making money so it would go under.
In the passage it states that it means that divers would have to remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires. This is talking about when you have to go through work zones and or around accidents that the driverless cars dont know how to navigate thrtough such road conditions. IT states that the car would need to be quick enough to alert the driver and get his/her attetion. "What if the car isnt quick enough?". Then we come back to the situtaion about getting into accidents and who is to blame.
All in all having smart cars or driverless cars is a huge hazord and is very dangerous not only to the passengers but also to pedestians. Having such cars could put bussinesses and manufacturs under. We would be having the risk of something going worng all the time. | 4 |
a572f95 | All over the world people have been limiting there amount of car usage. In Source 4 labled
The End of Car Culture in paragraph 29 states that "President Obama's ambitious goals to curb the United States' greenhouse gas emissions unveled last week, will get a fortuitous assist from the incipient...". The United States is trying to do as well as the other countries who have already started this movement. The countries that have started are VAUBAN, Germany, Paris, and BOGOTA, Colombia. The way these countries have started this movement is amazing.
First off in Vauban, Germany the streets are completely car free. They have a tram that runs from downtown Freiburg to the main thoroughfare. In section 1 paragraph 3 " As a result, 70 perecent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 perecent sold a car to move here." Car ownshipd are allowed, but you can only park in two places. In 2006 Vanuban, completed a growing trend in Europe. They are calling the movement "smart planning".
Second in Paris after days of record breaking pollution Paris ban driving for a little while to clear the air of the city. Sectin 2 paragraph 14 "Congestion was down 60 perecent in the capital of France, after 5 days of intensifying smog...". Diesal fuel was to blam since almost all of Frances cars run on Diesel instead of gasoline. The smog finally cleared up Monday for them to take the banned off of driving.
Last in Bogota, Colombia they statred a program that spread to other countries. This is the thrid striaght year that cars have been banned. So instead of driving cars they hike, bike, skate or take the bus. if you drive a car there you are faced with a $25 dollar fine. In section 3 paragraph 27 "The day without car is part of an improvment campaign that began in Bogota in the mid-1990s.".
All of these countries have come up with some amazing ways to stop the use of cars in there countries. From Colombia, to Germany, and Paris they have made it easier for there citizens to stop using cars and take another way that won't pollot the air or make "smog" as some countries call it. So lets see if America can be the next countrie to join the movement, it could be by riding bikes, walking or car pooling! | 3 |
a57fd78 | I think the rock that landed in mars was meybe because it had came from a diffrent place or maybe because the rock was to old or to heavy. The rock may have move to Mars or landed in Mars maybe because something hit it and it just went to a diffrent place and it landed in Mars.
The rock maybe have laded and make or had a face shape from the way it landed. Im not so sure if it had landed like that to make a face shape. That's what I am thinking, is that it was like that from the way it had moved or it had changed. Some pople are surprised that they haved found a human face in the or in a planet. I know its kinda wierd but u never know what could happen.
They say it had a human face. They say it had eyes and it had a nose and it had a mouth in the face. They should be scared because what if it was aliens that did that and that made the face. I would be scared but maybe it wasent the aliens maybe it was just regular. It just could've been Something regular or sothing natural that just happen. | 1 |
a58a003 | Do you believe in aliens? If so do you believe them living in outer space or perhaps on a different planet? Imagine if you worked for NASA and you found pictures about an "Unmasking face on Mars". What would you do or even think about if you had seen faces on the surface of Mars?
I work for NASA and I have have found pictures about a face on Mars and through my perpectives I believe that its an alien on the surface on Mars. The reason why I believe this is an alien because the face is an absolute landform of an alien. These photos were taken 1976, 1998 and 2001. In 2001 the face evolted more like a face of what humans it was of humans but I've been doing research that these faces are from aliens.
Although it does look like a human face theres no body connected to it unless the body is stuck underneath the surface of the planet, but through my research I insist it's an alien. I do not have proof it is one but theres no proof of it being a human either. When the Mars Orbiter Camera went around Mars the face still had no evidence if it was either a human face or an alien artifact.
In my case I still prove this to be an alien. We've done plenty of research and nothing has been found is it is a human face or an alien. My question is if that it was a human why wouldn't have we known it was a human if it died. Where'd the rest of their body go? Perhaps it was trapped under the surface but in no question I still believe this is an artifact of an alien. | 2 |
a58a879 | In Vauban, Germany many people have given up thier cars.
Residents saying that they find that there are many advantages to not owning a car. Such as reducing the gas emissions from tailpipes, saving money, and being much happier.
For instance, an advantage of not having a car is a decrease in gas emission. In the article "Car Free Cities" its sites "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in the United Stated." This shows that cars are infecting our greenhouses with gases and potentionaly harming us.
Furthermore, not owning a car will save you money. In the article it states "Car ownership is allowed, but there are only two places to park-large garages at the edge of the development, where a car-owner buys a space, for $40,000, along with a home." That statement shows that it's not really reasonable to own a car when you have to pay to park.
Lastly, people in the article say they are much happier after they sold thier car to live there. There a woman named Heidrun Walter who says "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." this statement shows that residents of Vauban like separating suburban life from auto use.
To conclude, there are many reasons why the residents of Vauban, Germany have given up there cars. They benefit from many advantages such as reduced gas emissions, saving money, and being much happier in their life. in the end there many advantages to living in Vauban. | 3 |
a58d8b9 | My position on driverless cars is that there shouldnt really be driverless cars. If there are driverless cars think of how many more accidents there would be. There shouldnt be a car that can help you pull out of your drive way. The artical states that having driverless cars would be more efficant but what if its not what if there are more accidents in the US due to driverless cars then there is involving humans, it also states that it can help drive its self by accelerating itslef, braking, and steering. Humans need to be alert when behind the wheel. Driverless cars takes that away.
The automotive companies really need to think this desicion more thouroghly, because yes they would be making alot more money by coustomers buying the driverless cars but if the cars truly arent driverless like the artical says then one persokn is gonna think that its okay to fall asleep or something else and then BAM!! You have gotten in an accident and whos fault is it? Its your fault not the cars fault.
Yes driverless cars help with paying more attention but that should not be a reason to just do whatever you want behind the wheel because you thing its safe. The artical states that the BMW auto motive company had announced the development of " Traffic Jam Assistant" the car can only handle driving functions up to 25 miles per hour what will happen if an accident occurs of that speed limit?
Driverless cars should not be a legal thing there is too many things that could go wrong and too many lifes at stake. Should driverless cars be banned? Yes, or, No you decide. | 3 |
a58fd7c | Sir I belive that u are wrong when u say that the mesa was made by extra terestrials. I believe this to be tru because, mesas are a common land mass in tharea that the "face" was found, There is a sharper image of the mesa that shows that it was not made aliens.
In paragraph two of this article
line two states " Scientist figured it was just another martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian." other evidence in this article that backs my state ment ar as follows. " Defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars."
In paragraph 6 of the article line 2 state "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing... a natural landform." Line 3 states "There was no alien monument after all."
Hence there is no way that the mesa could had been made ny aliens. The evidence is every where in the articles about it and there is even more in the article i showed you. So again there is no way in this scientific feild that would support your theory that the mesa was made by aliens. But I do see where you might have thought that on first glance. | 2 |
a59d236 | Cars; most are used by workers, mothers, and pretty much all people in any urban area, they get us from point A to point B. But, as much as we use automobiles do we really need them? They produce smog, indanger our chiildren and folk, and make life more stressing for us all. This can be fixed though, many places around the world have stoped using cars and even went to the length of banning them! Most importantly though they have opened our eyes to the atmoshpereic destruction that is caused by cars and ways we can do without them.
In Paris, a few days after near-record pollution, France banned driving for a couple days to clear the air or drivers will be fined up to 22 euros, or 31 dollars in America. "Congestion was down 60% in the capital of France, after five days of intensifying in smog that rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world," says Robert Duffer, a journalist for Paris (Robert Duffer, par. 14). This amazing number just shows how even reducing the use of cars cut back the smog by over half! Imagine what our air could be like if we didn't use cars, it would help the ill and our children could breathe easily. And surprizingly enough, there are places already that do this act of banning cars and enforce it.
In Vauban, Germany-- there is a community of people who live in this fashion. Street parking, garages, and even driveways at homes are banned from this quaint suburban area. And, if you do own a car you have to pay almost $40,000 to park it, needless to say over 70% of families of the area don't own a car and 57% sold theirs to move to the area. A mother of two and resident of the area, Heidrun Wlater, says, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," (Elisabeth Rosenthal par. 3). And true to their word these kinds of urban areas have become popular in Europe and even in New York.
Car free areas have not been limited to just Europe though; in America, with its large areas of urban annd suburban ideals, is now changing the way the way we think about cars. In April 2013, the miles driven per person was 9% lower than it was in January 1995 (32). Although small, this cultural change in the way we are using cars is significant. Michael Sivak, a research professor at the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute says, "What most intrigues me is that the rates of car ownershipper household and pe person started to come down 2 or 3 years before the downturn, I think that means something more fundamental is going on," (Elisabeth Rosenthal par. 33). The fact that America is changing the way we use cars is just another indicator that we should stop all together and join this car-free revolution.
To wrap it up, cars are hurting the air and they need to be cut back before we burn a hole through our atmoshpere. We're not alone in this car-free quest, many areas Europe and nothern America have started to implement this way of thinking. And lastly, this ideal is most needed in America's packed cities, the hazzard of smog and other pollution is hurt our citizens and needs to be stoped before it has long-term effect on our children. Please consider this, car in the long run are bad for the economy but, as well our health. It's snowing on Mt. Fuji. | 4 |
a5a15b6 | Dear Senator,
I belive that we should get rid the electoral college. The electoral college help so much on deciding on who becomes elected for president.
For starters the electoral college is a process that the founding fathers established as seen in "What is the electoral college?" To be exact the electoral college is a process of 538 men and women from each state in the united states that are chosen to represent their state. The amount of electors varies on the size and population of the state. Say California has a population of 2 million there will be more electors than Rhode Island if it had a population of 1 million. These electors vote for the president and the vice president. For the president to win the majority of the votes they need at least 270+ votes.
The electoral college we can do without. It is just 538 votes out of millions in the United States. I belive that all people should have is the election where everybody votes not another one of just 538 people. The majority of the people in the electoral college would also be esier to bribe than the whole country. Who picks the electors? It could be legislators that pick them only to opose one canidate like what happened in 1960 against John F. Kennedy. Also larger states have more say than a smaller state would have making the election in a way less reliable. I belive that each state if the electoral college is to be a thing should have 3 chosen representatives for one president.
The only reason i see the electoral college working is if the vote comes to a 50% to a 50% tie. The electoral college should be a back up plan in case the vote is too close of a tie. A complete tie is amost impossible but if so the college would work perfectly if there was not an even amount of electors. Say 537 or 535 instead of 538 where the electoral college could be a tie aswell.
That is why i belive there should be no electoral college. | 2 |
a5a575c | I think driveless cars would decrease the percent of accidents we have a year. Driveless cars would make driving easier and keep a lot more drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe.Driveless cars have different
functions built in; a driver can benfit from the functions added to the car.The driveless car makes the driver aware of heir surrroundings and obstacles.It also grabs the driver attention if needed.
The driveless car has all types of different functions; the driveless car can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves. The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, it also has special touch sensors to make sure the driver keeps a hold of the wheel. These designs are cool, but they are all designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills.The human must remain alert and be ready to take over at anytime necessary. The car also has the ability to alert or quickly get the driver's attention whenever a problem occurs. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver ; making the roads safer to drive on.
In conclusion I think the driveless car is benitfical for all who has an license. With that being said the driveless car should be legal in all 50 states, and should not be just allowed limtied use. If we do make the driveless car legal, then we would have to changes to the laws for cars; but change is something that happens on a daily basis. Us as humans must keep evolving and creating new tech to better our lives. I believe the drivieless car would better the lives of all people who drive . | 3 |
a5ada4d | Driverless cars a becoming a part of the not too distant future. Experts have said that they are still developing this technology and they are not completely driverless. I feel that they may never be completly driverless. They just don't have the right technology to make this idea work. I believe that this is a bad idea because it is not safe, it's pointless, and there would be no relaxation.
The driverless cars may seem like a good idea to others, but the manufactures cannot be sure that the car won't have serious problems when driving itself. I would not want to be in a car that could drive itself on an interstate and then suddenly stop working and cause a severe car crash. I understand that they are atill developing this technology and that they are still testing these vehicles, but I also think they should keep them away from public roads until they develop the technology they need. These cars are not quite ready to have passengers. They may one day be the great thing everyone imagined, but we are not there yet.
Not only are these cars unsafe but they are really pointless. If you bought a driverless car thinking you would never have to drive or at least think that the car would drive itself most of the time, you would be mistaken. There is no point calling a car driverless if it isn't. The price of these cars would most likely be extremely high. You would be sadly disappointed if you spent alot of money for a car that says it can drive itself when really you do still have to drive in certain situations.
Most people would think that they could let the car take control and that the passenger could just sit back and relax. Unfortunately, you can't. The car still requires you to be aware of your surroundings and have at least one hand on the wheel. You may ask how can they tell if you are following these rules. The answer to that question is that they would have a camera that would be able to detect if you are paying attention or not. They would also have sensory triggers in your steering wheel that lets them know if you have your hands on the wheel. If you were driving for a long time and you wanted a break for a little while then the car could take over, but you aren't really getting a break because you still have to pay attention in case something were to happen.
Driverless cars may one day be a gigantic break through for industry and technology. Until that day comes when they can completely drive themselves withought needing a passengers assistance, there really is no point in buying them. The saftey, pointlessness, and lack of relaxation makes these cars unprepared for passengers and being out on the open road. They still lack many aspects that must be met before they are ready for use. | 3 |
a5afdd7 | The senator should keep the Electoral Collage because it keeps balance, order, and also actrecy.
It keeps balance because if the public were to vote on who is the new president of the Untied States some people might fight and argure over who's the new president, why he should be their, and a lot of other reasons. The population might think he will be a great guy and a good president, and that everything will turn out ok. Then when they are elected it turns out he might not be such a great president after all, he's probably going to make all the wrong decides and choices for this nation after a becomes president.
In the Electoral Collage they look at how many votes both of the candidates get, they also look at what the candidates have in mind for our country and all of the other plans they have enstore for it. Of course the public will have to vote on which candidate they want for this nation to serve as our president. After looking at the candidates background, what their going to do, then they will make a discision who becomes president of the Untied States.
The Electoral Collage is a good thing to have around because without it the whole voting process will be out of order. Thanks to the Electoral Collage things will stay in order and in place. And in the end we can find and get the best president for this nation. | 2 |
a5b09cd | Lukes point of view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program is that the reason to join the program is because it makes you more aware of the people from many other countries and what their needs are. People out their may be suffering from illnesses or they can be dying. They also can be or get killed in and by wars. We should care more about the people out their while we still can because we are safe but others are not. We can save lives. The military helps us a lot by keeping us and our country safe. We don't want our population to drain down really fast because we are all family and together we can save lives. Can you imagine what Luke Bomberger had gone through. He had to check on animals every hour, he could have died by slidding on a slippery ladder on his backside. He also couldn't work because he had cracked ribs. Him and the crew had to be fed and watered two or three times a day. They had to work really hard. They had to drink a lot of water to stay hydrated because if not they would be kind of weak and would be tired most of the time. They probably wouldn't have enough strength for all that hard work they had to go through. | 2 |
a5b3af7 | The Electoral College vote draws many emotions. It has many supporters and many enemies. There was a huge debate over the 2000 election where Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College. I believe that the Electoral College destroys some of the integrity of the Ameican democracy. I believe this is due to the winner takes all system of the Electoral College.
The Electoral College says whoever has the majority of votes in a state recieves all that states votes. I believe this corrupts the system because so many peoples votes go unaccounted. If one party has 51 percent of the vote the other 49 percent of the votes don't count. This is why I believe that we need to abloish the Electoral College.
In a true democracy the people vote for a president and the ideal behind the Electoral College is that it eliminates uneducated votes. I believe that it doesn't do this very well and may actually harm the system even more. Peoples votes elect electors who elect the President in the Electoral College system. These electors are put in a spot of significant power. The question is who are these electors. It is very possible that they can vote for the opposite party of that which they were elected to vote for. Scandals like this have occured in the past what is stopping them form continueing in the future.
Another major problem of the Electoral College is with the winner takes all system if a state is known to be a majority one party or another there is no use for someone in the minority party to vote because they have no effect. This allows citizens who are supposed to help elect Americas leaders to be unable to have any say in the goverment. The ideal behind a democracy is that the people rule and the Electoral College is destroying the democracy because it is restricting people form taking active particiapation in what they are entiltled too as a citizen. Without the Electoral College there might be some uneducated votes but the popular vote upholds the integrity of the democracy that America thrives on. The popular vote also eliminates the chance of any major scandals that could majorly affect the presedintial election. | 4 |
a5ba699 | Driverless cars are a smart idea in my opinion. There are multiple benefits of having a driverless car, and even though there are disadvantages as well, the pros out weigh the cons in this case. The inventors of these types are cars are extremely bright people and know what they are doing. There have been studies shown how beneficial driverless cars can be and I agree with them.
The next new thing in technology car wise would be a driverless car. Sebastian Thrun said that it would not have been possible to make something this interesting before 2000 because we did not possess the equipment and tools we needed to accomplish much. However, as time has gone on and technology has become better, we are able to make driverless cars now. The people that are working on the driverless cars are making them as safe as possible. The cars contain many sensors to warn the driver when assistance is needed. For example, in the passage it says, that the drivers seat will vibrate in case the vehicle may back over something. There are also flashing lights on the windshield as a warning sign. The inventors have also created cameras to make sure the car can watch the driver to be sure they are alert. A driverless car would be an amazing accomplishment but as of right now the car cannot do everything by itself. The drivers would still need to pay attention and be ready to take the wheel at any moment. Since the driverless car is still a work in progress, it cannot drive through construction or accident cites easily. The inventors of the car are making it safe with all the sensors and warning signals needed, but sometimes that is not enough, accidents still could occur. If an accident were to occur I do not believe that the manufacturers should be blamed. They have made the car the best they can and would not allow people to drive it without warning them about how the car works. In my opinion it would most likely be the drivers fault for not paying attention or neglecting the warnings of the car. A driverless car will be a fantastic accomplishment to be made. However, we as the potential drivers have to take caution and understand completely how to handle the car.
I know that someday there will be driverless cars that can travel through accident and construction cites without any help. However, until then we must work with what we have and try our best not to jeopardize the chances of building an actual driverless car. We as drivers can accomplish this by being alert when riding in a driverless car and being understanding if an accident were to occur. | 4 |
a5bb8c7 | Driving can be a danerous thing in the wrong hands. Technology in general can be dangerous in the wrong hands. In the artical "Driverless Cars Are Coming" it gives two aspects of driverless cars/ vehicals. They give the negative, and the positive aspect on this subject. Technology is advancing. nd as the years go by they just get better. The more practice the more the technology can get better. They state both positive and negative aspects of the driverless cars. And they both
give good responses and give great evidence to support their views, but with technology evolving, my postion would be to alow the driverless cars.
In the artical "Driverless Cars Are Coming," they talk about all of the positives of having and allowing driverless cars. And they state that technology we used today is not new and we have been using them for yeras. "Sensors are nothing new, of course," they are saying that they have been advancing the sensor for years, so what make people think that they can not evolve the driverless cars? "Within 10 yeras, those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers," So this statement from the artical proves that these technologies are helping us, they are helping the peopel from dangerous stituation like car accidents, and even death. The technolgy being created today are being transformed into a saver way of life. So many people die from reckless driving, but with the driverless cars that they are trying to advance, can help us get into less accidents, and help us safer people.
"Founder of the Google Car project, believes that the technology had finally begun to catch up to the dream," which means that our driverless cars are coming, ironic to say this is the title of the artical which is "Driverless Cars Are Coming." throughout the years people have been improving little things like vibrated seats, cameras, and lights, to get to the even bigger picture, which is the driverless cars. If they can improve on little things, and make them great, i think that they can start to allow driverless cars to be tested and driven around.
Yes there is still not a technically driverless car that drives itself, the driverles car had human assitance, but that can always be improved. Nothing is impossible, when their making semidriverless cars and having sensors, etc.
So many people have accidents and sometimes die from driving, and not having their eyes on the road. the most common now adays are the texting and drving. If we proceed with the driverless cars, you would not have to worry about texting and driving, looking away from the road, and having accidents.
If this driverless cars come along, and people crash and it was not the cars fault or the manufactures fault, but the owner of the car, and does not want to admit it, like if they did not give the car fuel or something, but it was not the cars fault. People would audamaticly put the driverless car to shame. They would blame it on the car, and many people would have many agruements. People aways same themselves over something else. But in my opionion, if people just stay responsible that will never happen.
Tesla has prjected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that drive themsleves by 2020." This means that they plan to be done with all their test and have driverless cars on the road in 2020. "We grow closer to the destination everyday." this mean that with all the advancements with technology the driverless cars are truely coming. And they truely should. I think once they come people will accept them. | 4 |
a5c16f9 | Luke had no idea that his life was about to change. He has two part time jobs at a bank and a grocery store. His friend Don had asked him if he wanted to go on a cattle boat to Europe because after World War II it left most cities in ruins. Luke had no choice but to say yes. So in August of 1945 Luke and Don went to New Orleans to take apart in helping families. After getting their papers from the seaman they went and borded the SS Charles W. Wooster, they headed for Greece with a cargo of 355 plus horses and enough hay and oats to feed them. Luke ended up turning 18 before arriving at Greece. Luke realized that he could be drafted for military service but everyone just told him to what he's doing now as his military service. On his second trip he served as night watchman after doing his hourly report to the captian it was a rainy night and the ladders were slick and Luke slipped down the ladder on his backside and almost feel feet first out of the ship into the dark Dark Atlantic Ocean. But a small piece of metal caught and saved him. He was happy to be alive. But he couldn't do anything for a couple days because of some cracked ribs. Luke said it's more fun on the way back because when they drop off the animals the stalls are empty and they can play games like baseball, table tennis, and volleyball. They all say it's one thing that cuts time off the journey. Luke also made nine trips the most anyone has ever made. THat is why Luke likes being a Seagoing Cowboy. | 1 |
a5c90b9 | Scientist have clues that can lead up to life on mars, but we have no proof. Recently scientist found water on mars, which is needed for life, but we have no set in stone proof that aliens do exist. They are still searching for the proof that they are out there some where, if there is any proof at all. This could all be a search for nothing.
25 years ago an interesting shape was found on the planet Mars. This shape is the shape of an egyption face. Many thought it was a sign of life outside of Earth. It went viral. Really it was a landform common around the American West. The process of creating this was done over many years, many life times. It was not aliens, it was the work of plate techtonics.
One day scientist may find solid proof that aliens exist. They are getting closer and closer to new evidence to new things, some we didn't know existed. But for now, aliens are still mythological and the face is not an alien artifact. | 2 |
a5cc40d | The FACS( Facial
Action Coding System) is a computer software that can scan the muslces of someones face and tell the emotions that person is feeling. The FACS seems like a very useless peice of software.
In the article, you read about how they used this software to "decode" the face of the Mona Lisa. The software was said to have worked and was able to tell the emotions she was feeling that very day. She was eighty-three percent happy, nine percent disgusted, six percent fearful, and 2 percent angry.
Using this type of software on students in class will be useless and also a waste of time. Decoding the face of a student in class wont change anything in the class room. Paragraph six, line six, the author is telling how we can use the software to tell when a student is becoming confused or bored in class and is able to modify the lesson for the that student. Using this software would only be effeciant to those who learn on computers. A teacher could not use this software on a big class full of students because she would get differnt emotions from many different students. The teacher would not be able to give a lesson for just a couple of students in class based on the FACS
The FACS( Facial Action Coding System) would be useless for students. Online schooling could use this software but students in a class room would make the software useless | 3 |
a5d516b | Are you struggling with your work? If so the technology to read emotional expressions would help. It could help by knowing if you are stuggling and changes the lesson so that you can understand it ,you just have to look confused. It could also change other technology like video games.
The computer can recognize facial features and tell if you need help or not. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." Dr.Huang predicts ( Making Mona Lisa Smile paragraph 6)
The computer could change the lesson so that the student could understand. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human Instructor." (Making Mona Lisa Smile paragraph 6)
It could also change how we do outside of school. "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive- for video games or video surgery." (Making Mona Lisa Smile paragraph 6) It could also change video game faces based on how you feel on them.
Facial recognition technology could help our society not just by changeing schools they also change everything else that has to do with techology. | 2 |
a5d517d | The Seagoing Cowboys is a great program. It pervides once in a life time chances and you get to help others as they are struggling. The Seagoing Cowboys takes about 335 horses plus enough hay hay and oats to feed them, so you will need some experience with large cattle.
While our main goal is to help others in need we also have fun while doing it. We have some time for sight seeing, and on the way back to the United States when the cattles is gone, we like to play games like basball and volleyball in the empty holds. We also like playing games like table tennis, fencing, and boxing.
I for one am very grateful that I got the opportunity, it made me more aware of people in other countries and their needs, and that awareness has stayed with me all my life. It is an excellent experience. But its not for everyone like i said earlier you should have some experience with cattle, and there is a lot of hard work involved.( Especially when your the night watchman.)
Over all its a thrilling and exiting eperience that really gets you to realize others needs. So if your a Cowboy that love adventures, and doesnt mind getting dirty and working hard, the Seagoing Cowboys program is definently for you. Come on what are you waiting for sign up today. | 3 |
a5d543d | My opinion on driverless cars is that it is a good development. It can drive for you while you are texting or something so that wouldn't be a problem or not. Also it will have cameras on you to see what is happening in the car as well as out of it. I think it will be more usefull while on long drives and what not.
It alerts you if there is a problem so even if you are distracted by a phone call or something you will be alerted. But i think there should be more tests done on the driverless car such as braking, accelerating, steering, and turn signals. It will have 3-D ssensors outside the car so just in case a animal runs in front of the car it will brake automatically which i think is a good feature.
Driverless cars will come either now or later so we should all accept it and consider it. People will not like the idea but they probably haven't tried it out either so they have no real argument as to why this is a bad idea. This is my opinion on driverless cars. | 2 |
a5dceeb | The Facial Action Coding System can tell how someone is feeling by looking at there face or a painting of them. It showed how Mona Lisa was feeling just by looking ar her picture. Now that is pretty cool if you ask me.
I think this technolgy in the classes room would work out so weel for students. Having a coputer that can tell when you are upset or happy or even bored is pretty cool. They talk about how it would sense when someone is bored and the computer would be able to chage whatever its going to someone or interesting for the student. That would help keep students focused on what there doing in a fun and cool way.
It would be an amazing idea to have a computer like that. i think this because fit he coputer can know hwen you bred and be able to fix that it would be great. More and more studensts would want to pay attenion. The computer would make it into something cool and insteresting for the student. That if could stop students from losing focus.
I mean come on we have all been there when you really dont want to pay attention to somthing that doesnt spark your insterst. Students would guess there way out of the work because it would be do boring for them. They wouldnt try which ends up bad for everyone but mostly students.
There are some tihns that could become a probelm though. Like the computers cant hold up all that imfornation on to one small computer. Also schools would have to pay about of money just to give them out to the students. And it would cause about more money to make it the conputers. Some parents may even think there child is being watched and that it might not be safe. There are so man thing that will have to thouhgt of and talked about . That maybe it is best just to keep things the way they are.
One last reason why i think it would be a good idea to have these in school is because teachers will beable to understand there students a little more. getting to know how they are feeling about things. When a teahcer finds out there student isnt doing there best they can do a better job and make suree they are doing everthing they can to help.
Althought this is a very great technology there are many bumps thy will need to look at. And right now may not be the best time but way down in the futue i hope someone can make it happen. I think it will work really well with students and help them much better. If they do make them out for everyone. I will be first in line to get one! | 3 |
a5e12ea | The author suggests that studying Venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because "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 imtimidation endeavor." I know this because in the text it says "NASA has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus." In the article it also says "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."
In the article it also says "NASA is working on other approches to studying Venus. This is why the author suggest to study about Venus.
NASA has an future plan to send humans to study Venus because NASA wants t o experiemnt life on Venus. I know this because in the article it says " Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans." Another reason would be "scientist even discussing further visits to its surface." Final reason would be because "Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us." This is why NASA plans to send humans to study about Venus.
Venus is a identical twin to Earth because Venus in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closesy in distance too. I know this because in the article it says "Earth, Venus, and Mars, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds." Another reason would be because "scientists disscus further visits to its surface." Final reason is because both Earth and Venus are very identical and scientist plan to expand human life and have people start studying Venus. This is why Earth is identical to Venus.
NASA is approching to studying Venus because of its Atmosphere. I know this because in the article it says "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could of have supported Various forms of life." Another reason would be because "NASA's possible solutions to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray." Final reason would be "scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand would need to get up close and personal despite the risks." This is why NASA is approching to study Venus.
The author suggests studying Venus because of humans are curious about this planet. I know this because NASA is approching to studying about Venus. Another reason is because NASA has future plans to send human to Venus. Final reason is because Venus looks similar to earth. This is why the author suggest studying about Venus. | 3 |
a5e1346 | Yes, Facial Action Coding System is great way to see how students feel, because not everyone shows there emotions. FACS is going to help many students when they show how they feel. For example, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, Dr. Huang predicts. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." It will help to develop better ways for people and computers to communicate.
How FACS works it starts with a 3-D model of a persons face it will have 44 muscles in the model and they have to move like human muscles. FACS technology will show a persons emotions like happy, mad, surprised, angry, sad, and scared. It will know when you move a muscle, and it can detect what emotion the person is doing. For example, "your frontalis lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when you're surprised; your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger". This Technology is safe and will be very useful for many people.
In conclusion, FACS will develop more and it will help many students in school, home, and just in general. This technology will be very useful and very productive. Facial Action Coding System will develop better ways for people and computers to communicate. | 2 |
a5e4cbf | How can a computer detect how you are feeling? In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto it talks about a computer program called FACS (Facial Action Code System) can detect how you are feeling. This could be valuable in classrooms because it can help students learn better and be in better moods through out the school day.
In class a lot of students do not care because they are bored or sleepy or in a bad mood. This new technology could help solve that problem for many students worldwide. In the article Dr. Huang says "Using video imagery, the new emotion recognition software tracks these facial movements-in a real face or a painted face...". This quote explains how the computer system could help with students moods. It could also help teachers identify how students are feeling and how to go about approaching them and trying to solve the problem.
If this technology could be put in schools around the world it could lead to school being less frowned upon and become a more positive thing.
Students go to school to learn. But not all teachers teach in a way where all students can understand it. If this new technology could be put into schools there would be less failing students and more college graduates. In the article it says "A classroom computer could recognize when a students is becoming confused or bored, Dr. Huang predicts. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instuctor". The tecnology in schools would be great for students. This could make it a lot easier for teachers as well.
Computers can help us feel better by using software to help understand how we are feeling. In the article " Making Mona Lisa Smile" it talks about how a computer software call FACS can identify our emotions. This technology could be valuable in schools because it can help students learn better and help them be in better moods. | 3 |
a5e7068 | Dear, state senator we should keep the Electoral College because its better and its unique. Its better because the Electoral College consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for Presdident and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. Each candidate running for President in your state has his or her own group of electors.
The Electoral College is really a progress. Its also better because you can help choose your your state's electors when you vote for President becuse when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors. They are generally chosen by the candidate's political party. Its better in alot of ways.
The Electoral College is unique in many ways. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a Compromise between election of the President by a vote for President and Vice Preident, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the preident, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. | 2 |
a5e97e6 | Dear Mr. Senator,
As you are most likely aware, the Electoral College is a long-debated, controversial process. I believe that it is in the best interest for the citizens of America that the Electoral College be abolished. Under the Electoral College system, voters do not vote for the president but rather for a slate of electors who will vote for the president. Voters cannot control who the electors vote for and it is not unheard of that any given elector may be "faithless" and refuse to vote for their party's candidate and instead cast their deciding vote for whomever they want. The people of the United States of America are speaking up. According to a
Gallup poll conducted shortly after Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency in 2000, over 60%
-a majority- of voters prefer to have a direct election over an election through the Electoral College.
One may argue that the infamous 2000
Bush Vs. Kerry election is rare, but nevertheless, it happened, are we going to wait until it happens again to make a change? We take pride in being a democracy, we take pride in living in such a place that was created by the people and for the people , but is the power really in the hands of the people? The power may be in the hands of the people, but only the 538 people who belong to the Electoral College. The system in place is flawed and the outcome can be manipulted to favor one political party over the other. In 1960, segregationists in Louisiana nearly succesfully replaced the Democratic electors with different electors who would decieve the voters and then oppose Kennedy when voting.
Another con of The Electoral College is a dilemma that has to do with the number of electoral votes given to each state. The Electoral College works in the same way that The House of Representatives does. The number of electors alloted to each state is subjective to the population number of that state. Take a state such as California for example. California is alloted 55 electors. States such as South Dakota and Alaska cant compete with the great power coming from the larger states. In the Congress, the Senate was created to balance it out, but there is nothing in place to balance the importance between large (high density) states and small (low density) states. Even more worrying is the situation in which there is a tie. In the case of a tie in the electoral college, the election would be given to the House of Representatives, where state delegations would then have the deciding vote.
The Electoral College is outdated, unfair and impractical. The citizens of The
United States are more than capable of making descisions for themselves and do not need electors to make it for them. It is a non-democratic method of selecting a president and should be abolished.
Thank You. | 4 |
a5eaac8 | The new technology called the Facial Action Coding Sysytem that enables computers to identitfy human emotions is a geat idea. I am all for the new technology. I plenty of reasons why.
One reason the new technology is a good idea is so you can tell wheather a child is bored or no in school. In the text it states,'' A classroom computer can recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,'' Dr Huang predicts. Also in the text is states,'' The same technology can make a computer-animated faces more expressive for video games and video surgey.
Second reason the technology is a good idea is because the computer can can tell how your feeling one day and how your feeling the next day. In the text it states,'' The computer has six basic emotions- happiness, suprise, anger,disgust, fear, and sadness, and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles. Also in the text it states,'' For example , your frontails pars lateralis muscle ( above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when your suprised; your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger. The technology system has diffrent emotions.
Finally a third reason why the technology is a good idea is because it helps produce your face expressions. In the text it states,'' According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emtion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them. For example; coach Constantin stanislavsky, had his actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage.
The new technology is a great idea because One it can tell wheather a child is confused or bored, Two the technology can tell what face expression and how your feeling one day or the next, and finally Three the new technology helps produce your face expressions. | 3 |
a5f0875 | More and more advanced technology is coming about these days. Though most of it is positive, there are always downsides to all new inventions. Driverless cars are one example of new technology. Google founder, Sergey Brin believes that these new cars could change the world but maybe not for the better as he might think. This invention is dangerous and can cause more harm than good.
People need to be the ones who are in full control of the car at all times. Having a car that does most of the driving for someone could be extremely dangerous. The car does call for some human control. This brings the chance of potential danger. You would get used to not having to drive.
All of a sudden, you must react fast and you might have to take control of your car. For you to have to take control it is probably already a scary or dangerous situation and having to react fast to controlling wouldn't help.
Everyone has expierenced a time when their technology did not work. This could pose a threat to peoples lives when it comes to these cars. One of the driverless cars could stop working one day while in the middle of driving, like cars tend to do. An accidnet could easliy be produced from such a thing happening. The driver unaware of what just happened to the car and once again having to take control quickly would be very harmful.
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming", a passage says that the driverless cars can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves. All types of technology and products expierence malfunctions. The cars would most likely be no exception to this. This means that a car might not brake when its suppose to or it might accelerate at the wrong time.This could put the passengers in the car in a life threatening situation.
The article says there are ways to get the drivers attention when he or she needs to take over. Inventions like seats that vibrate and an annoucement made. As before, if the car was to have some sort of malfunction or had a defect it might not do these operations when or how its suppose to. Once again the people in the car are in danger that could have been prevented.
Driverless cars can cause a lot more danger than a normal car. They are not a safer or more efficient way of driving. Driverless cars should be banned
from being tested or produced. Do you want to take the risk of putting your life in the hands of a car driving itself? | 3 |
a5f1644 | In the article it says that it is a rock formation and the shadows create an illusion to the eyes. Mars is made of rock, dirt and other things. If you look at it today you will see a few landforms and few flat surfaces. From what I know mars has sandstorms. Their may have been a sandstorm a few days before that created this landform. If you look closely at the image dents, cracks and dust maybe sand. it happens here on earth, out in the desert. It has sandstorms and afterwards you have this pile of dust and dobre that creates this moutin or hill.
In '76 you couldnt tell as time went on better camera quality and better technolagy. In the picture tooken in '98 the top of it the point were further out and compare that to the 2001 image and it looks as if it had been reshaped or knoked off. Their was a sandstorm since '98 and now you get this diffrent image. you would know it if you had taken a better look at it. | 1 |
a5f215c | The electoral college is not a place to be harmeed its a process. Therer a amendment of the the electrol college and it is amendment 23rd. we should keep awere electrol college it is a good place to learn about the presudents. We deserv this dont let walk away from us.
most people runing for presudent has there own group of electors. it is chosen by the candidate's. you do not have the right to take ower electoral college. most of use wont this out of all of use 1 person did not vote.
The presidentaial election is held every four years on tuesday after the first monday in november. when you vote for presudent you help to choose your state electors. most state have winner take all that gets a prise for the winning presudent. which is why we need to keep ower electoral college. We have a right to vote we can help choose state electoral.
The electoral college consists of 538 electoral. The amendment 23rd gives us ower rights. we can vote you cant take away awere electoral college let us be. We can do nwhat we wont we can vote just like others have before. | 1 |
a5f3eba | Pollution
The cars in the world have created a serious problem of polution or also known as smog. In places like U.S and Europe states are trying to get citezens to stop using car on a every day basis and maybe use a bus or any other means of transportion to stop spreading smog.
Vauban,Germany is one place where citezens have to live withought a car. It is one place where cars are not allowed but if you really want one you have to buy a large garage worth $40,000 and buy a house. Which is the reason many of the residents dont have a car there and if they were to travel they travel by bike or any other eco-friendly transportion. Which would help enhance the look of the city and have you save gas money for a day or so.
In Paris,France they had banned cars for a few days till all the smug in the city is gone. People had to use plug-in cars, hybrids, and cars carrying three or more passengers were aloud. Publick transportation was free of charge from Friday to Monday. Alot of smog had cleared up by Monday for the French party to rescind the ban od cars on Tuesday.
Bogota,Colombis had their third straight year ban of cars. With only buses and taxis permitted for the Day Without Cars in the capital of 7 milion. Their goal was to have the citezens use more public transportion and reduce smog in Bogota. And because of that cause two more cities in colomia named Cali and Valledupar joined the Day Without Cars event.
In U.S lately since 2005 the car sales have been going down and down and the ownership rate of the typical has gone down at a fast pace. Expets in university of Michigan's Transportion Research Institute belice that there is somethign more fundamental going on in U.S. Many sociologists belive it will have a beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the enviorment, since transportion is the second largest source of America's emissions. Even in NewYork there has been more bicycle sharing and subway transportion to help get rid of the smog in the city created by millions of cars in the city.
People have been learning to help the earth by stopping the transportion of cars which has been becoming less and less of a issue so if more states and cites were to join together in lowering the usage of cars and maybe more sco-friendly transportion then maybe we could enhance our image of the earth from global warming. By using the public transportion given or just getting a hybrid car. | 2 |
a6038b5 | The author feels that further studys on Venus are dangerous but worth the time and effort. In this passage he discribes the conditions and states the challenges that come with the exploration of Venus
Venus, our lovely "Evening Star" or our "Sister planet", sounds beaustiful doesnt it. Don't be fooled by the nicknames of this planet, have you ever heard "Looks can be deseaving? If so you shoud keep that in mind when you are thinking about Venus. Venus is the second planet from the sun but
has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in the entire solar system, even with Mercury being the closest to the sun. With an atmosphere of almost 97 perent carbon dioxide, and temperatures 170 degrees miles away, living there would be impossible. On the surface there are erupting valcanos, huge earthquakes, and probes that land on its surface have been reported to be shocked by lighning. Venus got the Sister planent name due to its similar dencity and size to planet earth, there also is a therey that Venus was one coveredwith oceans, rocky sediments similar to valleys and mountains and could have been obtaining
some type of life forms.
Humans are known for their curiosety, even when it could leave them dead. In order to do any further reacurch on Venus, technologys that can withstand insane amounts of heat would have to be created then tested. Scientists have yet to explore enough of Venus, it is difficult to collect rocks, dust, or gasses for any type of examination. I feel that in the future, a scientist will create a device that can help explore the surface of Venus safely amd effectively.
Reading this passage really made me interested in learning about venus, and i also feel that further exploration would be worth waiting for the correct technology. Further studies would be effective because we would know more about the mystories of space. | 3 |
a608acf | Everyone has dreamed about aliens living on mars at least once in their life. As exciting as it would be to discover living beings on mars, there is no evidnece today that would support that theory. Here at NASA, we have been debating this topic for more than thirty years. The Face could not have been created by aliens because there are no alien markings and there are landforms very similar to the Face here on Earth.
When analyzing a digital image, you can dicern things 3 times larger than the actual pixel size. If aliens had created the Face, there would be some kind of marking that the aliens would have made. On our 2001 trip to the big red planet, we used our best cameras with their absolute maximum resolution. The images that we took showed no sign of any martian markings. This proves that aliens could not have created the Face on Mars.
Here on Earth we have many different types of landforms. One of which looks very similar to the Face on Mars. This landform is called a Mesa. These landforms here weren't created by living beings. They were created by natural causes, like erosion. So, since the landforms here weren't made by creatures, why would the landform on Mars have been made by creatures? There is no evidence that proves the Face could have been created by alien life forms.
In conclusion, although everyone here on Earth would love to discover that the Face was created by aliens, there is no evidence that can prove that theory. There are not any alien markings and there are landforms on Earth that look very similar to the Face on Mars. | 3 |
a60e958 | In the future, we think about things that may be invented. Maybe a robot assistant, or somthing that involves great technology and knowledge. Some people have had a vision or have had inventions that have been created. Not many people think that some of these invetions are entirely safe, such as driverless cars. Driverless cars are safe. This can be observed by facts, technology, and manufacturing. First, driverless cars are stated to be safe, you can look at facts that represent that. Although the cars are not entirely supported with facts, they are still included. Google has used driverless cars since 2009. Their cars have driven half a million miles without a crash. This is a strong fact that driverless cars a very safe. Second, technology is a big part of safety in driverless cars. However technology may not be able to control everything, it is a extremly helpful. Driveless cars a progamed to know where they are going and how to get there. The know how to not back into object or other cars on the road. Sebastian Thrun, founder of the Google Car project, believes that the technology has finally begun to catch up to the dream of antilock breaks and driver assistance. There is still a lot of technology ahead in making these cars into something even bigger. Last manufacturing plays a big role in the safety of these driverless cars. In 2013, BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant." Car manufactures have designed the car to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through works zones and arounds accidents. No cars have been invented that are completely driverless. but I think in the futures manufatures can make that happened. Driverless cars are in fact safe. You can see from the facts, technology, and manufacturing. I recommend you to read the article, "Driverless Cars are Coming," and read even more facts about how these cars are safe. | 3 |
a60ed5f | Have you ever wanted to live on another planet? Venus may have once been the most Earth-like planet and may be survivable for humans. Which is why Venus is a worthy pursuit.
It is the closest planet to earth so it would take very little time to get there.
In the text, "Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel.". So if we end up going to another planet it would likely be venus for times-sake.
It could be inhapitable soon after we reach it. The text states, "thirty-plus miles above the surface, tempatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels.". So if we were to discover a way to Venus and a way to fly above it we could live (technically not) on Venus.
People love challenges and this currently seems one of the most challlenging of all. In the text, "researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else from a distance. Therefore, scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks.".
I would rather think getting something without being able to reach it would be quite challenging if you are not psychic.
This is why Venus is a worthy pursuit. It is the closest planet to earth, it could be livable, and it would prove a challenge. Can you see any reason Not to go to Venus? | 3 |
a613efa | The author supports the suggestion that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers by providing benifits and solutions to exploring Mars.
In the text it states 'Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like plantet in our solar system'. This shows that by studying Venus we may learn that Venus was once like Earth.
In the text it also states 'recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit'. This shows that Venus is the easiest to get to in terms of speed/time.
Finally they provide ways that space agencies are working on solutions to exploring Mars. For this, the text states 'NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray'.
These support the authors' suggestion by showing reasons as to why we should study Venus and the fact that agencies already are researching solutions to exploring Venus. | 2 |
a61fb39 | well the ather thinks that aenus is not a bad planit. onr thing about venus is that evin thow is not that clows to the sun is more hot there then eny other planit.
it is very exstren there for a man to live there it is so bad now man or humen can live there not only cuz is vere hot there.
venus was alsow like erth it had water is was the only thing clows to erth but i think like is to hotthere the water eviperet the is why i think is good to study abut venus.
NASA
wan's to try so see if some of the mechens and work
out in venus some of thime are taking this as a risk andsome of then are taking this as a chling.
thes things colde be hard to do but not imposable these people are going to try to do what they can they are triying to make life in venus so hat is why i thing the athere is intrestid in venus cuz is the closes thing to erth. | 1 |
a61ff31 | The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because being able to detect the students emotions can be very beneficial to many instructors and teachers in different ways. It will be efficient because it will let the teachers to know what the students are interested in or what they like, instead of trying to figure it out on their own. Also, the students will be able to get a better understanding of what they like to do during school and what helps them learn.
"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," according to Dr. Huang. This could help the teachers and instructors to know if they need to change anything about the way they are making the students learn. For example, if it shows the student being bored, they could do an activity that is more interactive and involved, rather than just sitting there and doing a worksheet. Also, if they seem confused, it gives you an opportunity to help that individual one on one. You are able to go at their pace and be patient with them so they can learn it in their own way.
Overall, this technology could be very beneficial and efficient in the school environment. It is going to help teachers gather knowledge about their teaching styles and if they need to change any thing about the way they are making students learn. Also, this is helping students to realize the certain ways that they learn and giving them knowledge as to their likes and dislikes of school. The new technology allows the teachers to have options as to what they do throughout the school day that interests the stufent and helps them learn better. | 3 |
a620dab | Studying Venus can be a worthy pursiut despite the dangers. Venus is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky and the nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. It is also the second plant from our sun. '' 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.''
Studying Venus may despite the dangers it presents but it also is a worthy pursuit because scientists are still discussing futher visits to its surface even if it is inhospitable. In the text it states'' Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us.'' This shows that it is worthy because of the reputatation and is great to study for. The text also states'' Astronomers are fascinated by Venus becuase it mat well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system.'' This shows that the planet surface is a good planetary visit and its mission is safe and scientifically productive.
The dangers of Venus may include the surface temperature, its high pressure and heat, the erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes. In the text it states'' researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance. Therefore scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks.'' It will be a challenge but the researchers are working on innovaitons that would allow the machine to last long enough to contribute to there knowlegde of Venus.
Even though Venus had its dangers it still strives to meet the challenge becuae it has its value and it also will human curiosity will likely lead us into mant equallt intimidating endeavors. This is why scientists are still willing to study Venus because it is worthy even though it has its dangers and is inhospitable. | 3 |
a621e0c | The technolology to scan your face and tell your emotions is kind of creepy. Having a machine in class to tell teachers how the students are feelling is just a little weird to me but it also could be very usefull. In the text it states that the software in the computer could see if you are confused and will change the lesson so the student will better understand.
The main reason why this is creepy to me is it reminds me of the Movie Tremator. In the movie Arnald Swartsnager comes back to the past to protect the future leader of the human rebelian aginst the superior robots they have built. Well to make a long story short the robot that Arnald Swartsnager plays can scan Robert Oconner's face and asked him why is your face leaking. Yes I know this technology is far more advanced than the movie ,but that is how I can relate.
I can also relate to how the computer could tell if you are confused and change the lesson so you can learn the way you do. In the text it states the computer can tell if you have a fake or forced smile or a guinine smile by the rincles under your eyes. The text also said you can probly tell what mood your friend is by the look on their face,but the person could be hiding their true emotions from you so the computer can tell if you are mad at that person at that time and place.
In the story the author includes how most video games and surgery cames have non verbal comunications,and how your home computer could never process this information like how your feeling that day.
I personaly would like to have this technology in our classrooms,and our homes. This would help out alot of men. For an example its your one year weading anaversery and you ask your lovley wife what she wants to eat. A simple question,but you rember that she can never tell you where she wants to eat. Or the example your kids come home acting odd you ask what is wrong but you dont get a responce. So you go in to there school computer and watch what mood he or she is in.
So I have told you my thoughts on the subject time to recap. I first thought it was odd and kinda scarry due to it reminding me of a movie and the robots. Then we relised that this technology can be great for the students who dont fo very well in school becaouse they do not get the lesson. | 3 |
a62419e | the aurthor suggestion was a very convensing and belieavible i say this because we as humans are growing in population and one day we are going to need a place wehre we can fit all our people it may not be soon but if we keep groing like this i have no douts that we will fill this earth the aurthor has make this point clear in the story when he says " astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well be once have been the most earth like planet in out solar system. long ago," this shows his hope of finding something that we could rely on and this shows why it is worth exploring if we can make life in other planet then it it both benifical for us humans and animals. and some other reason why it is worth exploring venus is because we can obtain another planet to ourself a way bigger thing than a country "the planet itself but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally " this is also why it ais worth exploring venus so we humans can have knowlage and experieance what it is like to be on another planet . | 2 |
a624fc4 | Some people think the "Seagoing Cowboy Program'' is a great program. Some people think otherwise. I think it is a great program, it helps people recover their food supplies, animals, and more. The UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that are shipped overseas. Particapating would be a great way to help out.
My first reason why you should join the "Seagoing Cowboys Program" is because it feels good to help people out who are in need. You would want them to help you if you were in trouble and needed to recover. You would get to sail the oceans, take care of animals, and do other fun activities. It does not get much better.
My second reason is that it changed my life and it could change yours too. It will feel tremendously good to help people recover. It is fun, but you can still make an impact on someones life. As well as taking care of the animals you would get to go sightseeing and do other activities. So all though this is like a mission to help others, it will still be very enjoyable.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for me. "It opened up the world for me". "I'm grateful for the opportunity." "It made me more aware of people in other countries and their needs." "That awareness stayed with me, leading my family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years."
So in conclusion, I would recommend joining the "Seagoing Cowboys Program" because I had a great time, but I still learned a lot and had my life changed. So if you decide to participate in this event, you will not be disapointed. There are many opportunities to help others and many opportunities to have a great time. | 3 |
a62b401 | Dear Mr. Senator,
I am fed up with the electoral college. The system allows for so much disaster to occur. It isn't strict at all and it allows a varity of things to happen that wouldn't end well. The people deserve to make the decisions. Because the electoral college systems has so many holes and problems with it.
One of the best arguments against the electoral college is what we call the disaster factor. One big example of the disaster factor is the 2000 year election. In this election Al Gore had more votes than George Bush, but still lost by 5 votes because of the electoral college. In 1960, segregationists in Louisiana almost succeeded in replacing the democratic electors who oppose John F. Kennedy. If they succeeded and the popular vote went to Kennedy, it would not have actually gone to Kennedy. ("The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses are wrong" Plumer)
Second off, one of the most worrying things is if there is a tie in the electoral vote. If that happens the election vote would be given to the House of Representatives, where the state delegations vote for the president. The vice president vote is given to the senate. Each state only casts one vote which insures that 55 million voters and 500,000 have the same power. Given the size of those numbers, and that people in those states may vote one party for president and one party for congress, the House's decision could hardly reflect on the peoples choice. We have come pretty close to this happening too, in 1976 a tie would have occurred if 5,559 voters in Ohio and 3,687 voters in Hawaii had voted differently. ("The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses are wrong" Plumer)
There is a few reasons that opposing opioninated people use to justify wanting to keep the Electoral College around. One of them is that the president has to appeal to multiple regions. A candidate can not just be a favor of the south and get elected, he has to campaign and be desirable to all the regions. This is good because a president that was popular in just one region would not be successful, because everyone else in the other regions would feel like they do not regard their interests. Unfortuanitly this is solved by popular vote, since it is by individual not by state. Other votes in other states balance them out. ("In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president" Poser)
The Electoral College has many reasons for it and against it. But I strongly feel that we should get rid of it for the reasons shown above. From the "Disaster factor" to the threat of a electoral tie. Of course other people feel differerent and have different opinions but I feel like popular vote is for the best. Thank your for taking the time to listen to my opinions.
Thank you,
PROPER_NAME | 4 |
a62eb30 | The future technologies are improving, and the driverless car becomes popular these days. People dream about driving without the driver; car of course, taxi, bus, train, and air plane. It can bring us convenience. A lot of companies already started working on their driverless vehicles project, it will take huge part of the market in the future.
Driverless car can lead our future technology. It seems useful and practical. However, everything has their pros and cons, so does driverless car. In my opinion, driverless car can't driving without the driver, but it can help drivers drive easily and safely. Here is my articles to support my opinion.
First, it can ruin people's job. A lot people make money from working in the transportation company, if driverless car gets popular, nobody will need a taxi driver or a bus driver anymore. Pilots of trains and planes will no longer needed as well. It is hard to get a job these days even if you graduate the decent college, the driverless car will make this worse.
Second, the sensors and auto systems can help the drivers to drive, but it can't control all process of driving. Sometimes the computer doesn't work properly as our desktops or laptops do, it can cause errors any time. Sometimes driving needs human's ability, especial it's a sudden situation.
Third, the problem of responsibility. For example, if your driverless car hits the person in front of you, it is ambiguous to figure out who has the responsible for the accident. The car company, and the customers will argue to blame each other.
Driverless car can bring convenience to us. It seems very helpful, but it also has obivous problems. People are improving technologies right now at this time as well. But the important thing is people should think more carefully of pros and cons of the future technologies rather than just chasing the benefit in front of them. | 3 |
a635fc8 | Everyone has been faced with a challenge at least once in their lifetime.Whether it be a small or big challenge we always have to find a way arounf it.In the passge The Challenge of Exploring Venus scientists are curios at exploring venus despite being very dangerous for the information they can gain from earth´s twin.The author has a good claim on why they should continue to explore venus because we are going to have to face a challenge like venus in the future, it was just like earth, and it is the nearest planet for us to visit.
One of the many reasons we should continue to study venus it that it is the closet planet to earth in similarites.Venus was once inhabitated by oceans and all different lifeforms.¨Venus still has some features that are analogous to those of earth¨If scientists can understand how venus is what it is now from being filled with life forms to being dead and dangerous then we can use that to our advantage of earth and maybe stop it from happening to us.
Another good arguement that the author puts up is that scientists will most likely end up facing a challenge just like trying to explore venus.¨Also because human curiosity will likely to lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors¨.Despite venus being a hard challenge, scientists are coming up with new technology and have already made technology that can withstand the forces of venus.Venus is also a great lesson into what we know scientists can accomplish like if we were to get a full study of venus then if any other challenge just like it comes along we will be preprared in the sense that we already got experience.
One of the final really good arguements that the author uses is that we are in such a good position to explore another planet.¨Futhermore,recall that venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit¨The author is saying that we are lucky that we have such a close planet to study.Unlike saturn or neptune we do not have to spend so much money on fuel or time waiting for the satalites to get to the planet.We should take advantage of the fact that venus is so close to us even though it comes with more dangers.
Venus is like one big brick wall that if passed, can hold a lot of secreats that will help scients in the future understand how it was just like earth, how we can overcome even more challenges, and how we can study more planets using technology that we used on venus. | 4 |
a63a502 | There are some reasons why you should join the seagoing cowboy program and how you join the program and what you have to do while you are there. You will be going to other places helping people and help others like animal like from a war or something like that.
The reason we want you to join because if you like to helping people you are going to help people too. Like if they are in the hostpitol you can help them or if they are out their then you can help them by telling them whats wrong and will maybe be tell you something like if they got hurt or maybe not but you can try your best to tell them whats wrong.
Another reason why we want you to join is that if you like animals then you can help animals like Horses, young Cows, and Mules we really want earth to be a happy place and that. We want animals to stay alive becasuse if we wouldn't have animals we wouldn't have any protien in our bodys and we wounldn't be as strong as usually.
Also if you join the program you will be going on trips like to China, and Europe so if you like to go trips and helping people and helping animals you can join this program.
So if you like this program you can join and you can change the world. You can also save someones life and you can help over thousands of people that were in a war. | 3 |
a63a862 | I am both against and for this new techonology device. It has both good and bad things to it and I will explain both why I think its a good idea and why I think its a bad idea, Here is why I think its a good idea. It can be a good idea for the guidance office of a school if a student is there for help. They can tell if the student is happy, sad, angry, or disgusted. It can help them understand what kind of emotions that practicular student is feeling, It also can be good with the example the author provided where if you smile on your computer a web ad appears but if you frown the next ad will be different. These examples are great ideas of why this technology device can be a great and helpful device.
This technology device could also be a bad idea and here is why, The device could be used on a student that doesn't really feel comfortable about giving their emotions to another person. If students have so much freedom with this device to read anyones emotions it could result in someone getting uncomfortable. Not everyone is going to want their emotions to be exposed. So if you give this device to some people they could easily humilate someone by exposing their emotions at the wrong time. For example, it could go wrong if a boyfriend was to use it on his girlfriend without the girlfriends permission and could ruin their relationship just like that.
In conclusion to these arguments supporting the technology and going against it. The device should be used in hands that are supposed to have it. Someone who has experience with the device and not anyone who is new. Someone who is mature enough to use it with polite manners, Not someone who is going to use it on each and every person they see. But use it with permission and not without someones consent. | 3 |
a63b06d | Studying venus is a worthy persuit despite its dangers. The author has a few reasons of why he thinks this. Some of them are to find out what it is made up of. Another one is to try and find out why there is no life on mars. Also even though he thinks they should explore it he talks about the dangers and how really dangerous it is. There are a lot of risks to exploring venus but it would be worth it.
One thing that the authro does well to support his idea is he gives a lot of compelling resons of why he thiks venus is worth exploring. One of the reasons why he things its worth exploring is because they can find out what venus is made up of by taking rock samples. I think this is a good reason becuase it explains how the author wants to explore venus despite its dangers. Another reason why he thinks it should be explored despite its dangers is becuase they can figure out why there is no life on venus. I also think this is a good reason becuase it proves why venus should be explored even though it is dangerous according to the author.
In conclusion the author has a good point of why venus should be explored despite the dangers. One of his reasons is to find out why there is no life on venus. Another reason is to find out what venus is made up of. I think these are good supporting reasons because they prove why venus should be explored even though it has dangers. | 2 |
a63e5a3 | Can you imagine you not having to drive your own car? Well in the future driverless cars are coming to you. Many car brands are in on driverless cars. However, I am against driverless cars because of their many side affects. You may still want a driverless car because of the advantages but I do not want a driverless care due to it's many disadvantages.
Driverless cars are coming in the future. Most people are excited about driverless cares because they blocked out the disadvantages. Other people feel how I feel, that driverless cars are dangerous and cause many problems to whomever may get in behind a driverless car. Driverless cars have advantages to a certain exctint but I feel they are unsafe to all humans no matter how they work.
Driverless cars are expensive to make and would cause you to have to upgrade roads just so they can work which would cost millions and billions of unneeded dollars. Driverless cars are not so driverless, they still want you to take over the will as much as they neeed you to. Whenever their is an accident or something that the driverless car can't handle the human in the car has to take over and drive. This is very unsafe because humans may become unalert and unaware due to the fact that they are no longer in control of moving the vehicle they are in.
Driverless cars are unsafe because if a human were to fall alseep they are unaware to their surroundings. Humans are unaware of the fact they have to still drive in oder to be safe and not cause damage to anything around them. A human has to pull in and out of the drive way in the driverless car. If the driverless car is so great, how come humans still have to drive? That is one reason why we should stick to humans driving their own cars.
A driverless car the car will drive at a constant speed of 25 miles. In some cases that may be to slow. If their was an emergency the car would drive way to slow and could possibly put a humans life in danger due to the slow speed. In a driverless car, the point is to not have a human driving the car at all. In the driverless cars they still want humans to drive, humans tend to get bored and lack intrest waiting for a situation to happen.
Safety is such a big concern in driverless cares. Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car as a human driver in control at all times. As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars. California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia have led the country in allowing liminted use of semi-autonomous cars; manufacturers believe that more states will follow as soon as the cars are proved more reliably safe. If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault--- the driver or the manufacturer?
On behalf on all humans I feel we need to stick to human driven cars. In driverless cars we would have to always worry about our safety. We would have to worry about the " what ifs" and all the possibilaties that could happen being in the driverless car. Many humans could be injuried or seriously hurt due to being in a driverless car. If anything were to happen in the driverless car who will the blame be put on, the person who made it or the person in
it?
In conclusion, drivers should go the safer route and drive themselves around instead of relying on a monitored car. You still have to worry about the possibilaty of something happening to you or anyone else in the car especially if you have any children. Drivers are much safer driving themselves around not having to worry about something happening to them or them putting their life in danger by entering the driverless car. Driverless cars may be cool but very unsafe until proven than can be safe and well organized all humans should stick to taking their self everywhere like we have over the last hundreds of decades. | 5 |
a63fa18 | 1/27/15
Dear State senator,
The Electoral College is a system where electors vote for the people off of the states votes . Where some eletors may stera from the beeten paath , but there is no reason to change the system now.
Most people do not understand what the Elecoral College system, but in; "
In Defense of the Elector College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing th Ppesident
"(by Richard A. Posner ) points out its "
it is the electors who elect the president, not the people. when you vote for a presidential candidate ypu're actually voting for s slate of electors..
". Meaning a group of people in each state vote for the the presidnt . This is importent to know because it lets peopple know that their vote narow down the choeses . Although the electoral college system givesthe eletion an electon a "winer takes all " feel .
Some people may believe that their vote doesnt matter because of the electoral college system, but as "
What Is the Electoral Collge?
"( bay the Office of Federal Register) points out that "
Most states have a winner-take-all' system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate .". Which says that in some states the electors vote for whom-ever the majoratiy of the state voted for. That is suggnifucnt because it shows that the peoples vote do matter.
On the other hand the elector college system is not perfict. Eventhough most states have "winner-take-all" system, there may be a "
' fathless' electros have occaionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please ." as informed by "
The Indefensibel Electoral College:Why even the best-iaid defense of the system are wrong
" ( by Bradford Plamer ) is showing that though the electors are asspost to vote off of the states over all vote , that some electors will follow their own personal oppion. This shows that the systom is not as good as gold .
The Electoral College is where electors vote for the people , but they vot off of the over all moajoraty, and the system my be fladed a little . Changing the Electoral College would be like changing the Constatosion . | 3 |
a63ff90 | I say that making driverless cars would be great you would be able to talk in a car more efficiently, watch your kids, play games do all the things you've ever wanted to do in a car, done! Technically the technology has been out since the 1950s so why not let's move towards the new age!
Google seems like the company leading in this technology so far. In 2009 their cars could already handle everything but pull in and out of driveways and navigate through roadwork or accidents. Originally many thought that self-driving cars would begin with smarter roads. Back in the 1950s General Motors (GM) made a concept car that drove on a track embedded with electrical cable that sent radio signals to a receiver on the front end of the car. Engineers at Berkeley thought magnets would be the answer, using alternating polarity. The car read the positive and negative polarity as messages in binary code. Both of these systems worked well (and I know you're thinking "then what was the problem) but they were way to expensive.
Now back to Google. Google has recently produced a modified Toyota Prius equipped with lots of sensors. One on the rear left wheel,one that rotates on the roof, an inertial motion sensor and four automotive radar sensors but the most important sensor is the one the spinning one on the roof named LIDAR. LIDAR uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of its surroundi | 2 |
a644369 | Smog, acid rain, high carbondioxide levles, all of these things are due to pollution. In many contries the leaders have put a ban towards cars. Paris France, Vauban Germany, Bogota Colombia, and even the United States of America have/are thinking about putting a ban on cars or other transporting objects. Their are many advantages to limiting car usage; limiting pollutians in the air, saving money, and having a healthier life style.
Cars can cost a pretty penny espically if their new, and many low/middle class family's have trouble keeping up with the bills that come with a car. Car payments alone can run up to $300 a month. Then theirs insurance, and if your car happends to need a change of oil, or breaks theirs another 200-300 dollar payment. That's why people are starting to buy fewer and fewer cars each year. After the peek in 2005 car percheses have droped tramendiously, with less people deciding to get a license.
Not getting you license dosn't mean you cant get around, it just means that you have to find other means of transprotatin. Biking, walking, even riding on your skateboard can get you from point A to point B. Cars are bigining to become obsoliet, not being used in larg suberbs, or highly populated cities. People have started to walk to work and that has a large impact on health. With people having privet cars they dont feel the need to have phisical activity every day. This could be contrabuting to obeasity. With cars being out of mind people are starting to get exersize just by walking to work. Cars have also contrabuted to many deaths all over the world. With new technology comming out many drivers get distracted. Wether its talking on their phones, trying to pick up something thats' dropped in the back seat, or even trying to dig something out of your purse. Not all drivers are a fault tho, many other accidents happen because of padestrians not paying attention. These accidents could be prevented though, by just getting rid of the use of cars.
Passenger cars cause 12% of greenhouse gass admitions in europe, and up to 50% in some car-intensive areas in the Unites States. If we got rid of most privetly owned cars though, it world bring that pecentige down tramendously. In Paris the record high pollution finally had them pass a partial driving ban untill the thick smog cleard the city streets. congestion was down 60% in the streets of paris, and after 5 days of intensifying smog it had finally cleard.
Cars all over the world are slowly becoming less and less used. This could help the pollution, health and save money. these advantiges to getting rid of cars is going to become a topic thast we will talk alot about for ages, until cars become compleetly and totaly obsolite. | 4 |
a6447b7 | Their's many other ways to go from one place to another, not everthing has to be involved with four wheels and a motor. Over the time it has been noticed of all the damage of what any big or small vehicle can cause to the Earth. Causing the increase of air pollution; Beijing, China, Paris, and other states involved with too much traffic. Considered as smog, known as one the most polluted cities in the world. Residents have been limiting their car usage to have a safer enviroment making them give up their cars in certain places that they'd stay in. In other places it's been said that driving has been ban due to clear the air of global city. A Car-free day has been added to help reduce the chances of driving. The president himself has set goals to manage the use of vehicles to decrease the percentage.
Many residents, suburban pioneers, have gaven up their car in a community such as Vauban, Germany. Street parking, driveways, and also home garages are forbidden in the new district that it mentions to be in. According to source one, In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars, it states in paragraph two that no cars are allowed, completely "car-free". Seventy percent of the Vauban's family do not own any vehicle, while fifty-seven percent of Vauban's have sold a car to move in to those streets. Due to the happening of car-free, few residents have been happy of the cause. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter, in source one. It's a great effort done from the residents wanting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of tailpipes also . Since in Europe, twelve percent of the passenger drivers ase responsible for that cause. Then comes to the United States where fifty percent of few car-intensive cause that problem as well.
It's an example of a growing trend in variety of places to separate suburban life from auto use, as in a component of a movement called, smart planning.
Because of an increase in air pollution, driving has been banned in Paris until the air is clear of the global city. For every car usage that was to be found they were to fine 22-euro, $31. It was like a schedule to be follow, every Monday the even-numbered plates were to leave their cars at home and on Tuesday's the odd-numbered plates would follow the same rule. Those who don't follow the rule were to be fine, others were towed due to their reaction of recieving a fine. Nearly four-thousand drivers were fined and twenty-seven had their cars impounded according to source two, Paris bans driving due to smog.
It's been said that in Bogota, Columbia a Car-Free day was started from a progam that was spread to many countries. Millions of the columbians ; hiked, biked, skated or took buses every time it was consideres a car-free day. Like Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus mentions in paragraph 23 source three, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution as well". It gives people chance to explore places not only in fours wheels but at foot or in any other particular way. All the driving rule is not done for unfairness or harm but to be more careful and safe with the enviroment that we all live in.
Obama set himself goals to curb the U.S' greenhouse gas emissions. Suggesting American's to buy fewer cars, to drive less, and recieve fewer licenses as the year goes buy. Few people would do what takes to help, others keep on going with their own lifes. | 2 |
a645234 | a time in the futur where no one needs to buy cars because there will be a fleet of driverless cars is not a safe futur. In paragraph nine the article says "most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers." Making a driverless car removes the alert driver wright out of the eqation. And a car without an alert driver isnt a safe car, at least not in law makers eyes.
In states like California, Nevada, Florida, and the district of columbia it is illegal to test computer driven cars. The rest of america should follow suit though the article says, " manufactures believe that more states will follow as soon as the cars are proved more reliably safe." For the time being there not safe enough. though there are constant development being made to the driverless car. There are still to many hole in the ideal to make a safe apperance on the road.
one of the advancements is that the cars have "Traffic Jam Asstancet." the article say they can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." If the driverless car cant handle a workzone or accident. Then it diffinitly can't handle roads with wondering children and dogs.
drivers get distracted while driving there self driven cars. they couldn't handle a driverless one. | 3 |
a645a4b | I think free car cities would have ups and downs. its downs would be not having quick transportation and waiting for public transportation. its ups would be saving money on gas andglobal warming would start to decrease. if this does happen i would like it very much.
In todays world car companys are starting to build eletric cars to eventually to stop making cars that run on gas to be eco friendly. also not having cars would not be to intellgent because how would over 5,000 to 7,000 people get to work everyday by bus or taxi or train it would be a nightmare. After all that they all have to take the same bus home. It would be absoulte caios in the city nobody would no what to do with out cars.
The good part of not have cars is that people would get tko save money becuase there not speanding it on gas. Also the the traffic would go down beause theres no cars on the road. Personally i dont think car free citites would work like people think it would everybody woul have to ride in public transportation and that would be like a war because everybody would be fighting for seats. it might work for the first two weeks but after that it would be awful.
The bad part about have no ars is finding ways to get from point A to point B because everybody would be using transportation and the other half of people would be walking. so the buses would be crowded and the sidewalks would be very busy. I think cars should be in all cities, but there cars should be eletric not running on gas. after that the car companys should make eletric buses so everything would be eco friendly.
Finally after my opinion on car free cities i came to conclusion that i didnt agree with this topic beacuse with out cars people would be crowding the streets and it would be hard to get round by walking becuase the streets would be packed. Since my opinon is strong my argument would win and pople would agree that car free cities would not work like people think it would. | 2 |
a64b3b8 | "In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities, and legislators are starting to act, if cautiously". Car redution helps the environment more than what people think it would. "President Obama's ambitious goals to curb the United States' greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will get a fortuitos assist from an incipient shift in America behavior:recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by". Not having a car is better for you and the environment because not only would you be excercising by walking but there will be less pollution in the economy. Cars waste to much gas and have a lot of unnecessary waste in them that could end up to be one day global warming and kill of all the good air we breath in now. People should look in to not having a car and start walking, biking, skating and do more than what they use to do when they had a car.
Paris, Germany, United States, New York, Colombia and many other places are starting be more car free because they heard what cars can do to the environment. According the text " in Colombia has a program that they started that spreads to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day the other day, leaving the streets of the capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams". The more and more people hear about this program the more people will get into the habbit of not havng a car or not using a car to go everywhere they have to go to. "If the patterns persists and many sociologists believe it will- it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment, since transportation is the second largest source pf America's emissions, just behinfd power plants".
Most people who are involved in the program see a huge difference in their community like the streets are cleaner, there are no traffic jams, the streets are safer, and there's less pollution in the air. As we all know that cars are sometimes important to us to get to where we need to get but is it really that important to us to have a car not really because if we would stop being lazy and just get up from our couches and walk, bike, or skate to where we needed to go we'll see that having a car is not as important as we used to think. In Colombia two other citizens joined the event and found that "these people are generating a revolutionary change, and this is crossing broders". So really one program can change the whole world if people just joined and saw for them selves what a huge impact it can be on others.
More parks and sports centers have bloomed throughout the city and there are more smooth sidewalks and restrictions have dramatically cut traffic. "Different things are converging which suggest that we are witnessing a long-term cultural shift". New York also started there own program which is this biking-sharing program and it's skyrocketed bridge and the tunnel tools reflect those new priorities, and of course a proiferation of car-sharing program across the nation. In some cities you have to take a car like in San Francisco because everything is so far away and you can not walk to where you need to go it will take forever to get there walking which is understandable. But in other cities or places were everything is close to you then there's no point of taking a car instead of walking to the place you need to go to. Cars waste a lot of gas which means that gas prices go up way to much because of the usahe of cars instead of biking, skating, or walking. You get more done when your walking, biking, or skating because you are less worried about running out of gas or having to push the car to the nearest gas station. | 4 |
a6526c3 | Freedom without a car
Around the world in different countries millions of people live life without a car. They either walk, run, jog, ride their bikes, or go on the subway just to get to work or go somewhere. Here are some facrs to know why life without a car is the beat way to life.
First, Having a car is wonderful by choice if you want it. A lot of families are so much better without a car. One women from Vauban says in source 1 "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." So not having stress is one of the ways that you wil get rid of and not having your blood pressure up. Let's say if you wanted to buy a house in Germany, you have to pay for that house monthly and on top of that have to pay an extra $40,000 just to park you car. That's a same that you just bought a house and have to pay for a parking place and dont froget about cellphone bills, morgages, water and electric bills, and much more. Without a car will bring less money out of yor bank account.
Also, to having car payments you have to pay for gas too or your going to be walking to work while your JAG sits at home in the garage. Diesel fule has a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline in France. If you have a car that doesnt run on diesel the sorry hun you have to go somr place eles to get you gas. Car traffic... who doesn't like coming home from a long day of work and then have to wait in car traffic for longs of period of time. You are actualy waisting up all of your money and gas just sitting there waiting for traffic to move.
Last, maybe in the future there will be not that many cars being made. Studies shows that Americans are buying less cars. In source 4 it says that Americans can't afford new cars and with so many people not able to work and people getting into car accidents who knows they might invent moder bikes. With the government asking for so much on us and with the prices of gas getting up to $4.00 a gallon people want to save their hard working money. And without emassive amounts of money coming out of your bank you can maybe plain for a family vacation that doesn't cost as much as a car payment for 2 years.
In conclusion, to my perspective I don't want to pay for a car thats going to be more than what my house costs. Without a car I can go on long walks and be adventureous. See something that I haven't see since I was in a rush in the car. You never know what or who you will see when you are living free without a car. | 3 |
a652823 | From the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars", it leaves two questions unanswered. Is it natural or not? Is there other life or just things happening to be that way? My vote goes to natural non-life forms.
There is no acurate way to say that there is life forms but if there were other life forms and the government isn't just hidding things, then we would have found out about it by now. When the picture was taken it could have just been cloudy and maybe the rock formation has been there for awhile. "'As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image three times bigger than the pixel size.'"
This face or figure that we say we see isn't really that at all. For instance a car doesn't have a face but yet you could easily imagine it having one. If we see two slits and a larger one below it, to us, this resembles a face. This figure juts from it's frame because over time things change. The mars dust or sand could just as easily have been blown by wind and formed this "creation".
In this article,"'It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho.'" The plain in Idaho could be natural and so why can't this "face" be natural. There is nothing wrong with nature's beauty giving us questions and allowing us to make accusations.
So therefore, there is no other life forms. There is no "face" on mars. This is all just a mixup and it shows up one way our minds work. One way we can see nature's beauty. Instead of trying to argue, why not trust science? | 3 |
a65543a | The electoral college has been used for many years. Most people think that it is a place and not a process , well it is a process. the electoral college is the selection of electors. for the process they need 538 electors, for 270 electoral votes. Each canidate has their own group. The presidential election is held every four years to elect or keep the same president for 4 years. I think that its the way to vote ,and its worked for so many years why fix it if its hasnt had a problem yet.
The electoral college is well known and has always been the way to pick our president. its a non-democratic method of selectiing the president. the other side who are for popular vote think that the electoral college is unfair and that there is not a certainty of a fair outcome. i say that if the outcome isnt fair then how are u supposse to win as a president. Having more votes as a canidate is not fair but thats how you win by having more votes.
My opinion on that is why would losing be fair thats the point one canidate wins and one loses. of couse the other person who lost would have anger and therefore be upset and say that the electoral is an unfair jugdement. The candiate wins because of the majority vote in their designated states. if the other canidate dosent have as many states he could only win by the collected vote within the states that he/she has.
popular vote would be awful and much harder to do as a process. that would mean that every one in the United States would vote who they want and it be sent to the capital to see whos victorious. Popular vote has no process or stragey or base plan to vote , and what if states dont like this idea so they revolt against the goverment. states might get together with there senate and riot in order to stop this.
In my opinion popular vote is messy, controversial and just down right uncalled for there is a plan within the electoral college and i think that they should keep was has been working. yes we are evolving as a whole but somethings are left to be the same and not tamperd with. | 3 |
a655a6f | Even through driveless cars are coming people maybe quick to think like what if the car get into a accident? or what if something bad happens?I do feel that people today may take advantage of the fact they dont have to put they foot on the gas.Any crazy person would find they self putting they full trust into technology like that,like falling asleep while the car is still moving. Now I would tell you why a google car is a good car and many ways.
First
I will start off by saying a car that can drive on its own is a great car that anybody can come up with. Then when you think about it it takes alot for a person to modified Toyota prius uses position estimating sensors on the left rear wheel a rotating sensor on the roof,a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror four automotive rador senors and more. A google car also have cameras to while you watching the road the car is watching youso it say in paragragh 7 last sentence. It aslo have a seat vibration when the car feel it need its extra help when there is traffic problems or road damage.The car aslo have a brake that brakes on its own when the car feel that its to close to a another car or any object. As it say in paragragh 4 last sentence it say the combination of all this input is necessary for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel.When they ask why would anyone want a drivless car that still needs a driver? I feel if that was the case to where you really was that lazy you should really think about riding in a cab. I really dont see what the problem is when there are people that are driving cars
getting into accidents and you think that a automatic car wouldnt do good while the driver is sitting
in the seat doing anyting but watching the road.
Finally,I say that people want so much from a car. They get to speaking crazy stuff like we all do know that we are talking about technology and not a real human brain car.The only thing I could say is that I feel a car like that wouldnt last because all it take is for a senors or something to go out and that car can go out of control. Thats why I say its a good car something to try out but never put your trust into technology never put your life on the line like that because you will never know what could happen. | 3 |
a656bc3 | As our society progresses so does the development of new innovative technologies.
In this article the author presents information about the development of driverless cars.
The article states the possiblity of it being used as a new form of public transportation which would heavily affect the lives of many people.
I believe that their development offers a safer form of transportation and the technological development that comes with them is indespensible.
The driverless car's development can lead to safer roads.
Google has had cars drive independently more than half a million miles without a crash.
Although the driverless car is not completely driverless since it ensures that one is alert and at the wheel ready to take over if things go awry.
There are many ways a driverless car could determine if someone is attentively at the wheel.
In 2013, BMW announced the development of a car with special touch sensors to make sure the driver keeps hold of it.
The car could steer, accelerate, and brake itself but was designed to notify the driver when navigating became to difficult for it.
GM has also developed it's own notification system.
The driver's seats vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object.
These new safety deveopments help ensure a higher degree of safety on the road.
The development of driverless cars also fuels the development of new technologies.
Since scientists are focused on solving the problems that arise when developing this new technology they may invent something that may someday find a new purpose.
For example in the 1980s antilock brakes were created using speed sensors and within 10 years the original sensors were improved upon and used to detect and respond to the danger of uncontrollable skids or rollovers.
These new sensors respond by applying the brakes and reducing the power from the engine.
As the problems that are solved become more complex the greater the scientific achievement will be.
In this essay I discussed why I believe the driverless car is a positive development.
I feel this way because of the new safety aspects it posseses and the technological innovation that will surely come with it's creation.
The impact it could have on society could be irreplacible. | 3 |
a657a2a | I am against the idea of the driveless cars. What would be the point of getting a license if your not the one driving the car. It takes the fun out of driving. I am also against the idea because it will make people want to look at their cell phone knowing that the car is driving and not them and it will create a habbit when it is their turn to drive the car.
What happens if someone got into a wreck and died? This could change the world as we know it. After these driveless car will be flying cars then everyones own personal rockets and so on. This will also make people lazy by having a car drive itself. What would be the point of even having a car. I understand that it would be fasinating to just be able to sit and look around at stuff on the way to your destination or even just relax. Why not just stop and explore? Why not just have gas stations fill up your gas for you, or even robots do your own homework or chores?
I conclusion, I think that creating driveless cars is not a very good idea because it will just make people lazy. It will make them more distracted than being more foccused on the road. They will text more and call more when driving on the road. | 2 |
a658683 | The story "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" Main purpuse was to in form us of the stugles of trying to find a whay to get humons on Venus, Then giving us informashon of why its so hard to find a whay to live on Venus, for example Its eghat hunders degrees Farenheit, and that the presher is ninedy times more preshere than are planet. Then give us some examples of how there testing on how to live on Venus by tresing things at the bottom of the ocecn.
The main reason why they are doing this is, because Venus is the most like planet to earth in are soilersiston, so if we need to we can go thare to live if the earth is going to be distored.
So with this informashon I can conculed that this arical is to infrom us of what is going on with space trave in the fucher. | 1 |
a65cf4d | Do Aliens Really Exist?
Do you think the face on Mars was created by aliens? Well, I think the face is just a natural landorm. They're isn't that much evidence that proves aliens creating this unknown face. People think just because it looks like a face means its a sign of life. However, they're is enough evidence to prove that this tremendous unknown face is just a natural landform.
First, NASA said the face looks like a sign of life but figured it was just a another Martian mesa, because stuff like this is common. But the face's unusual shadows made it look like an Egyptian Pharoah. Later on, NASA unveiled the image with a caption noted "Huge rock formation which resembles a human head, formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes,nose, and mouth." The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars with the Face.
Second, in paragraph 7, it says when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. When the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing a natural landform. After all, there was no alien monument or any sign of life. People were still not satisfied, it says in the text. However, some people just need to face the facts when it comes to disappointment.
Lastly, another reason to prove that the unknown mask is just a natural landform. In paragraph 12 the author says what the picture actually shows is the martian equivalent of a butte or mesa- landforms common around the American West. Then says" Reminds him most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." Finally, Gavin also says "Thats a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the face on Mars. " Which means they go through the same process to be created-landform.
However, their is a possibility that there are aliens on mars. The face on Mars does have eyes, nose, and mouth. Which makes the formation look like a human face. In paragraph 8, the author says that if the camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the face, alien markings must've been hidden by the Haze. However, there's not enough evidence to prove this sign of life on Mars.
Finally, after all, there is enough evidence to prove that the face is just a natural landform. Their are also many other reasons to prove this correct. Aliens do not exist on Mars. Maybe NASA will find more evidence to prove there is life on Mars but right now there isn't enough to prove that. The bottom line is that there is no sign of life on Mars.
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a65e1f2 | Who knew that a planet referred to as Earth's "twin" could possibly provide so many unknowns to humans? Venus is the second planet in our solar system and is the "closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too". Venus has a more harsh environment than Earth. With a surface temperature of over 800 degrees, and a thick atmosphere of nearly 97 percent carbon, Venus is not tolerable for humans. Despite these presented dangers, the author of the article suggests that studying Venus is worth the risks.
The author of the article mentions clearly in paragraph three the intolerable living conditions of the planet Venus. Although the author has knowledge of these dangers, they claim that studying the Earth-like planet is worth it. In order to back up their claim, the author provides facts in the texts to convince the reader of the following: "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth." This excerpt for example, may cause the reader to make inferences about other similarities between Earth and Venus, and would spark more interest in learning about Venus.
In addition to similar physical features, the author mentions how Venus is "our nearest option for planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel." This is a very vital fact, and significantly backs up the authors claim. Many planets and stars are several hundred light years away, making space travel and new discoveries by humans difficult. The closeness of Venus would allow humans to visit Venus, if there was a safe way to get there.
Leading off of the previous statement, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been formulating a solution to "the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus... Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape". This would allow scientist to get extremely close to the surface of Venus, yet not close enough to gather samples from the planet itself.
The author of the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author was able to effectively support the idea that studying Venus is worth the risk, as it is the nearest planet to visit, as well as the idea of a blimp-like vehicle allowing close access to the planet to make new scientific discoveries. Despite the dangerous temperatures, and atmosphere composed of nearly 97 percent carbon dioxide, the author provided many examples as to why studying Venus is worth the risk to make new discoveries, and gather beneficial information about Earth's so- called "twin". | 4 |
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