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a915d97 | On May 24, 2001, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling around Mars while taking photos of possible landing sites. As it was taking photos, it noticed a dome that resembled a human face. The face was nearly two miles in diameter and it appearded to be staring back at the cameras from an area of the Red Planet called Cydonia. Some say that this is evidence of life on Mars.
In paragraph 2, they tell us that the sensation was short lived. It also says that scientists assumed it was just another Martian Mesa because it was so common around Cydonia. This one had shadows that made is look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. They should not have came to the conclusion that there is life on mars only becuase they saw shadows that resembled a humans facial structure.
In paragraph 7, it states that on April 5, 1998,
Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team took photos that would come out 10 times sharper than the original Viking photos. The photos revealed a natural landform. There was no alien monument. If there really was an alien monument to begin with, it surely would have appeared the second time around, especially because they used a much better camera.
In paragraph 12, it says that the picture actually shows a Martian equivalent to a butte or mesa, which is a landform that is common around the American West. Garvin states that it reminds him of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. That is a lava dome that is about the same height as the Face on Mars.
The Face on Mars is most likely a natural landform. Martian mesas are common around the Cydonia area so it could have easily been mistaken for what appeared to be a human face. They claim to have seen evidence of life based on shadows that appeared on a natural landform. This seems very unrealistic. Michael Malin and his Orbiter Camera team took photos using a camera that would leave pictures 10 times sharper than the orginal Viking pictures, so if anything was actually on Mars, we surely would have seen it. | 4 |
a9196cd | There are good arguements that you can have to be against the developement of driverless cars and for them. There would be benefits going either way but there would also be some downfalls. In my opinion, I argue against these cars.
First of all, the developement of these cars requires a lot of money and time. The manufactures of these cars could be using that money and time much more effectively. A lot of these cars require new special roads that use magnets or electrical currents. These roads cost a lot of money and would replace regular roads that are perfectly fine. Not to mention, most people would probably still have normal cars so the roads would only be for the few who get these self driving cars.
Another important issue is safety. Self driving cars aren't always going to accurate. Technology isn't accurate all the time and driving is something that I feel like shouldn't be left for technology to do. People should have to be aware of their own surroundings and drive their own cars. I feel like people wwould get used to just having technology do everything for them and eventually people wouldn't even have to learn to drive to have a car. These self driving cars are not able to drive in work zones, construction sites, or any type of accident which is where you need to be the most cautious. Not to mention, these cars allow you to do other activivties while you're driving since you don't have to be actively driving the car at all times. People could text or be on their phones or do soemthign else that distracts hem completely. Having a signal might not always be effective. People might also have to wait periods of time to drive themselves and this could cause people to get bored and start to get tired. If someone fell aslep at the wheel and then needed to direct the car, it would just cause an accident.
While on the subject of accidents, those could be a problem as well. It could cause many legal problems if there was some type of accident in the car. People could say that it was the person in the car "driving" or they could say it was the car's fault. Once you blame the car for the accident that brings in the makers of the car which starts a whole legal mess.
In my opinion, these self driving cars aren't a good idea and peopleshould just stick to driving the cars themselves. I think that they would do more bad than good in the long run.They could cause problems with safety, legal issues, and finacial issues. We should just stick to driving the cars like we always have. | 4 |
a9215f1 | Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president.
Dear state senator we should get rid of the Electoral College for many reasons.
One reason is that small states do not get any attention from the upcoming presidents because their electoral votes for the small states are to small like Alaska only has 3 electoral votes unlike California which has 55 electoral votes so the upcoming presidents can just not even think about the small states and go for bigger states like Florida, Texas, and California.
People say "The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational" and Bob Dole said "Abolish the electoral college." Many things can go wrong in the electoral college like their can be a tie in the sytem where is would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president.
Another reason is what some people call the disaster factor, consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people. who would vote for some one to not listen to them and do what they want? then the electoral college is useless in the sense of voting for who you want.
people say that the electoral college avoids run-off elections, however the electoral college is unfair to voters, because of the winner-take-all system in each state. | 3 |
a924b9d | Hi i'm Sara me and my partner joe are going to tell you about "unmaking the Face on Mars." I believe that the Face is a natural land form. Joe thinks that it was made by aliens. "We all know aliens aren't real Joe" sara said. Do you think the Face was made by an alien or just landforms?
Well I believe that you should keep reading for more information. I told Joe that "the Face is a natural landform and heres why." The text that I read said " it was a huge rock." This means that it is clearly just a natrual
land form. Joe said I also read , " i"ll tell you why an alien made it. The text stated that "it would be a great way to engage the public and attrat attention on to Mars. "Joe told sara that "this means even if it wasn't made by aliens that people would still think it was
So what do you think about the face? Me and my partner are still talking about the face. The face is a natural landform. After a while we came up with that it was a land form. | 2 |
a9296c5 | In the passage, many examples were given why Venus is so dangerous to study. Even though the neighboring planet may very dangerous to study, the author supports the idea that Venus is a worthy pursuit by describing the reasons why scientists would want to study the planet, and the different ideas that were created to help scientists gain more information.
The author has given many examples of how Earth and Venus are alike. In paragraph 4, it stated, ¨Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported carious forms of life, just like Earth.¨ Scientists would want to study Venus because there may be forms of life on Venus that no one might know about. The paragraph also stated, ¨Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and icludes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters.¨ Not only does Venus may have different forms of life, but the planet also has features that planet Earth has as well. Scientist would want to study more to see how those formed and how that might lead into more information about the planet. Paragraph 4 also mentioned, ¨Futhermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frams of space travel.¨ During different times, Mars and Venus can be closer to Earth. Scientists are already studying Mars, and with Venus being so close, they would also want to study it too. For the planet being so close, it would not take that much time to travel.
The author of the excerpt has also given information of how the scientists could reach their destination, Venus. In paragraph 5, it said, ¨NASA´s possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray...Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hover Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way.¨ This is an idea of how scientists could study Venus. The author also compared the technology that people have down on earth can help create a solution to get up in space to study. With hovering over the planet, temperatures would ¨still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit¨ as stated in paragraph 5, the pressure would not be as bad. The pressure ¨would be close to that of sea level on Earth.¨ Even though the conditions are still not that great, the survival rate of humans going to Venus would be higher.
The author also gave other examples of how people can study Venus. In paragraph 7, it said, ¨NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the choas of Venus´s surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions.¨ The author of the excerpt is explaining that NASA has tested an idea that may work out for research of the planet due to the conditions. With the silicon carbide electronics, they may be able to help gather information without burning up right when it reaches to Venus. The paragraph also mentioned, ¨Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers.¨ The reason that they would use old technology because it deals with older materials, levers and gears. Modern technology would be more delicate in space. The author also mentioned, ¨By comparison, systems that use machanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces.¨ The author explained why using older technology would help with the other project the scientists are working on rather than using modern technology.
With the challenges of the pressure, heat, and other factors that Venus has, the planet is still worth studying. The author have put it into perspective that even though things may be challenging, there are ways to accomplish what the people want. By explaining how Venus is compared to Earth, it will put more determination of gathering information about Venus that no one has figured out before. The different ideas of how people can get up to Venus is another way to present why Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it has. With the dangerous factors that scientists face with Venus, it is still a planet in the sky that is worth studying. | 5 |
a930223 | If i had to write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable, it would be like this, i would say that it is really valuable because they are telling us what emotions really mean, what they can or just do for us and just why emotions are important to us, in a way that it really matters. First, here are the real main reasons that they really matter and they are, First, its like when you are doing a test, you are really focused on it, you will get really stressed on it and might not know what to do at all and you might need help on it, so the computer could tell if you were stressed and that you didn't know waht to do at all. there are many reasons why and this second reason is its like when your science teacher is grading your lab assignment and you are with your partner and you might be just getting it done or just got it done right away or just maybe worked on it really slow and needed help, well the computer would be able to help you with that. Some people might say that the (FACS) is not valuable and just isn't smart because it might not get the correct percent or because it might not do everything or just a few things wrong, but that doesn't mean that also doesn't mean that it might do a lot of things right either. The last thing that i am going to say that i am arguing that the use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom, is this, like if a computer knows if you are happy or sad, it would do this, it would pull up an ad one might be sad and then the other one would be exciting and just make you happy in a way that you didnt know that you could be happy about something, for example, like a bunch of puppies,cats, someone just getting there drivers license and then getting a new car, something like that. Bad and sad things would be like this, it would be like someone who smokes to much or someone who just passes away, just stuff like that, and i would just feel really bad for you and would just want to help you in any way that i could. So those aere the reasons that i would want a use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom that is valuable. | 3 |
a933833 | i personally don't think its a bad idea or invention in my opinion i think its worth putting to the test. and for students to write down how they feel and then try out the coding system and see if its even a bit accurate on how they're feeling or if it doesn't work and just coming up with random answer on how you are feeling. in my opinion i think it would be kind of good to put to the test in classrooms if it is accurate and does seem to work to scan students feelings in the mornig and afternoon and try to help the ones that are down and all that. so i think it would also be helpful in other places as well if it does end up working and be useful to doctors and what not. so i think it would be a good thing to use in classrooms and put to the test first before putting it in classrooms. so these are my thoughts on whether the use of this invention to read students facial exprssions and feelings is valuable or not. and according to the article they do claim for it to work and that it is accurate but you can't beleive everything just cause someone says it does cuse personally some people will try to persuade people that it work ton get there inventions out there and make money off it. | 2 |
a93459e | "Without the option of smarter roads, manufacturers turned to smarter cars". Certain companies we are familiar with and that are world wide are testing driverless cars, like toyota pruis and BMW. The main concern everyone is having is if they are truly safe.
I believe that driverless cars could be a very good thing if they are put in a reliable companies hands. These cars could seriously hurt the passanger if something goes wrong. If you relate the technology that the manufacturer puts into the car and the technology we have now, alot of the time it will shut off or one thing stops working. We already have cars that we can tell comands, we have had cruise control, we have bluetooth so we can speak to people, and the advances will just keep coming. Those two examples are the kind of things that companies are trying to work through and the law is keeping that in mind. If the companies that have been working on cars that can be driverless come through it will be a huge part of technology and transportation history.
Driverless cars have been worked on for years now and they still haven't become one hundered precent safe. But the technology will better, the cars will get more advanced, and eventually a driverless car will be the next big thing. | 2 |
a935042 | The "Evening Star", while being a planet it still shines bright in our solar system, and it has the heat to back it up. While being the closest related to Earth out of the rest of our solar system (Even refered to as Earth's "Twin", Paragraph 2) , it still is nearly unlivible to most if not all forms of life in its current state. Some scientists however believe that venus was very life sustaining a long time ago, it is believed that it even had oceans! All of this and people still believe that we should make this endeavor and try our hands at getting there and getting back alive, and it is possible; while being extremly difficult. The author of the passage "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" also believes that we should do our best to get there despite all of the challenges.
While Venus is a very hot place, the author lists ways to overcome this obstacle. In paragraph 5 the author talks about how "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study venus." their idea was a blimp like vehicle that would float above the fray of many of Venus's obstacles such as the hell-like heat. The blimp would put the vehicle 30 miles above the surface making the tempature only 170 degrees Fahrenheit, instead of a boiling 800 degrees Fahrenheit. This vehicle would also help stay above the hazardous ground conditions. Making this a reliable vehicle and a good point to make in the authors passage.
The author points out in paragraph 2 how similar Venus is to Earth, and how it is sometimes the closet planet to Earth out of the universe. This point it helpful because it points out how Venus used to be very inhabitable, and how it still could be today with some help from modern technology for life. So for the author this was a very helpful point to include for the arguement.
The author also included how the landmarks on venus point towards it used to having oceans, and this is amazing because so far it has been extremly if not impossibly rare to have found water in other places in the universe. In paragraph 4 the author states that "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life." This is a very compelling point because it proves that Venus was hospitable at some point in its life time, poking at the curiousty of the human race.
Having said all this I believe that the author made a very compelling point towards exploring Venus. Even though there are many dangerous obstacles in the human races way, the author believes that it truly is possible to explore this beutiful planet. In paragraph 8 the author states "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." This part of the passage I believe came from the author's heart, and the arguement made throughout was truly a tremendous one. | 4 |
a935812 | Act now before it's to late. The problem is getting worse than before.''70% of Vauban's familes don't own cars''.We buy cars for no reason. Just to impress girls or to look cool. Me my self i use a bike to go places. I'm not polluting the air or causing mother nature any problems.
Were on the job! People are actually doing something about this crisis. Car pollution is increasing because more people are buying cars. So that means people need to stop driving and find a new transportation like bikes.''Almost 4,000 drivers were fined,according to Reuters''.It's about time people start caring for this world.
In Colombia they have a car free day. That's not a bad idea matter fact we should take that to consederation in the United State Of America. Places like Colombia are trying to reduce smog from cars to prevent bad air. With that the traffic won't be jam and less car accidents will happen. So that means less death rates from cars will occur.
So try helping to reduce greenhouse gas. Be mindful next time when you are going somewere use something else then a car. Don't abusse the prevelage. One step at a time. Anything you put your mind to you can conquer. Just belive in you. You could do it. | 2 |
a93921c | I really think that driverless cars are a good idea and a bad one I think many accedints would happen with driverless cars because humans wouldn't have control over the cars.
Im against driverless cars although its a very cool idea. I wouldn't mind driverless cars because of the fact of how cool it would be to have a car that drives on its own in the future. Im against it because I think it would cause many accedents. People would get injured. Google says that there driverless cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash. This is a good thing that they have driven this much without getting into a crash but i would still need more information to convince me that this car is safe.
I would personally prefer the old steering wheel because i would like to have full control and because I dont know if i could trust a car that drives on its own. I think many of the laws would have to be strict. If the driverless car who would be responsible the car manufacturer or the person in the car.
This driverless car in the future should not be allowed in my opinion its just not safe to have them around because no one is in control of the car. So i would not buy this car i would stick to the steering wheel where i will have control of me vehicle. | 2 |
a9394d5 | Driverless cars should not be coming.
Some people may think that this is a cool and fun idea, but it is not safe for the driver or pedestrians.
There are many flaws to driverless cars that should be addressed and taken seriously.
This situation could be very dangerous.
The driverless cars cannot even fully function by itself.
Having the car be driverless someone could fall asleep from being bored or they are expecting the car to do all the work and not need their help.
If the car ended up needing human assistance, because they are not totally driverless, the person would be asleep and not take over, which could cause a wreck.
They could hit a pedestrian and get arrested or get charges pressed against them.
Even worse the person wouldn't have even been aware of what was happening beacuse they were asleep and that could have gotten them injured as well.
Another flaw to these cars is that it can cause people to become very lazy.
Everyone would get used to not having to drive themselves around so they would start expecting to not have to do even more things.
They would become very dependent of other people and things around them.
It would teach children to not learn to do things for themselves and become independent.
They would expect everything to be done for them by their parents, siblings, teachers etc.
In the passage it said they would have taxis as the driverless cars and then no one would have to have cars anymore.
If they make taxis the driverless cars and they do not need any drivers that would result in job loss for all of the taxi drivers.
Not everyone has a college degree and can get a big job so being a taxi driver is all they can do.
If that is taken away from them they are left with no job and no way to pay bills or provide for their families.
This would cause their families to go into debt and suffer just because there was now driverless cars.
Driverless cars are not something that the world should have.
They can make people lazy, are dangerous, and could cause job loss.
Just because it seems like a cool idea, does not mean it is a good idea.
Other people around the world have to be taken into consideration and all of the consequences of the cars have to be looked at and taken very seriously. | 3 |
a93bfb5 | Sometimes we take advantage of how lucky we are to own or use a car each day. Imagine how much cleaner the countries that don't necessarily have that advantage are.
There are several advantages in reducing the use of cars in our world. Many of the advantages have been listed throughout these four passages. In order to help make our environment a cleaner place, we must take into consideration what the advantages are of limiting car usage.
Heidrun Walter, from Germany, stated how much happier she is without a car. We could share the same happiness she does in using a different method of transportation each day other than a car.
Pollution is high all around the world and a lot of that has to do with the fumes and gasoline which come from cars. If the whole world took part in what Columbia does each year, then our world could be so much cleaner. Even after Paris reduced the amount of cars used for only five days, the congestion had gone down sixty percent.
By reducing the amount of cars which take over the road, the amount of accidents would be profusely lowered as well. Cars are excellent sources of transportation, but they are also the leading cause of death around the world.
Anyone who has ever used a car knows very well how expensive it can be to maintain a car. A monthly gas bill could add up to hundreds, oil changes, tire rotation, and all the other things required in keeping a car will add up to be very costly.
As a result of lowering car usage, people could benefit from it by getting daily exercise. In America the percentage of obesity is high compared to the rest of the world. People rely on cars to bring them places and they forget the fact that they also need daily exercise. Exercise is known to help relieve anger and clear the mind. By walking, skating, biking, or even rollerblading, we would allow ourselves time to think when we are upset or frusterated or maybe even happy! The streets would be much safer if there weren't people who had mixed emotions driving around.
Decreasing the amount of cars on the road defintely has benfitted all the countries that have taken part in it. There are no major disadvantages of being "car free". Most Americans do have abililty to drive a car so the thought of not having a car could be upsetting.
Our communtiy would benfit from this change vastly. It doesn't have to be forever, but decreasing car usage would be helpful to our big world. | 3 |
a941dc2 | I dont really know why wold they need smarter cars then we already need that would just make everything diffrent more then its alrady is why cant they just make other things that the world really needs . for example bulldings for those that dont have an home,or are living under briges. why cant they make hospitals in other places were thy need them insted of cars that are smart how are they gonna help us we alredy have cars that can transport us why cant they use that technology to make the world better bye making smart cars is not gonna make it better some people are not even gonna be able to buy them because of how expensive they are going to be,how are the rest goona get them ,with what money are they going to buys them. people that are now going to know how to us them are gonna have trouble and even mabe cause a acsident because they dont know how to us them . | 1 |
a943ebd | Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger to pinpoint the difference between this and Earth, making heat and physical-resistant machines, and to find possible environment activity.
Earth and Venus may be twins, but that doesn't mean it share the same geographics. In paragraph 3, it says " The atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." Therefore, Venus is way hotter than Earth. While talking about Venus' geographic background, it also says "Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. This shows Venus carries more extreme pressure; Consequently, lots of powerful weather.
In this time, most companies make technology that can hold a certain measure of heat and physical conditions. This may also be a challenge to see how much the projects were built to reach its peak or observe downfalls to if it plays a significant role in human activites.. Back in the day technology was powerful to run very quickly, but doesn't have the ability to hold much temperature. In paragraph 2 its says, "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." Also paragraph 7, "Modern computers are enormously powerful, flexible, and quick, but tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditons." This could a starting point of why the making of better phones, computers, and powerful machines exist as generations go by.
To find human activites around Venus is not easy. Due to strong heat it covers, a human or certain machines can't survive not even under a minute. For example, paragraph 3 says " On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit" and "Such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals." Venus is almost impossible to squeeze through; Consequently, there could be no chance.
Venus is a powerful planet that it can require new inventions to be made while it need better and viewing research. | 3 |
a94515c | The article "Driverless Cars are Coming" describes an advancement in technology and transportation.
In this scenario, Google is engineering a vehicle that transports someone from one location to another without the person driving.
There are both positives and negatives to this so-called solution, however.
As the author attempts to inform the reader about this advancement, he states both positive and negative aspects of these "driverless cars".
The Google car is suggested to use half of the fuel of today's taxis and have the flexibility of a bus.
As a result, the number of people driving around solving the issue of unnecessary, slow traffic is limited and people can save an exponential amount of money due to fuel.
Another positive quality of the car is that, like the article is called, it is almost driverless.
It can do the majority of the driving on its own, involving steering, accelerating, and braking. One of the few problems with this car is that although it is basically driverless, it still requires human interaction for certain situations.
Some of these include human skills such as navigating through work zones and accidents.
This requires the car to notify the human to intervene amd temporarily steer the car.
With this, I see too many issues.
First, what would happen if a driver misses the notification from the car to takeover the wheel?
Second, what would happen if 2 cars moving in opposite directions malfunction?
Third, as the author stated, who would be liable for an accident due to this car?
These are questions I feel are much too serious and should be answered first before this car is produced and sold.
Therefore, I am against the idea of this driverless car. | 3 |
a948dbe | The Facial Action Coding System is a great idea for students to use. With technology advancing so much it is essential for the school assignments to advance along with it. This technology is the next step for students and teachers alike. The FACS should read the facial expressions of students because it could keep students engaged, and addresses whether or not they understand the subject.
The FACS is able to keep the student from getting bored. While working on the computer for so long a student can easily get bored and tune out the lesson. The FACS though, can use its technology to make the content more engaging; like making "computer animated faces more expressive" (D'Alto). By making faces and other aspects of the lesson more interesting students have a higher chance of keeping their interest in the lesson. This is just one example of how useful the Facial Action Coding System could be for the students outside of class.
The FACS also would tell when the student is struggling or is confused with the material. Normally in a class setting a student can ask a teacher for help, but it is not that simple on the computer. Instead of the student continuing to not understand the work the system "could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor" (D'Alto). This way the student can be sure to get the correct information and not miss out on anything from lack of understanding. This is another reason as to why the FACS would be a great tool for the learners.
To close, the FACS is the right step for helping students. Not only does it keep them interested in the lesson, but also helps when the student is confused. This technology can be beneficial to students and teachers because of all of the usefull features that it offers. Since "most human communication is nonverbal, including emotiuonal communication...computers need to understand that too" to fully utilize the technology that is available to help the children learn. | 4 |
a94a96e | In response to driverless car technology I am personally against it. I think there are certain things that we can't be lazy about, and I strongly believe driving is one of those things. Now I commend the enginers who have worked so hard on this facinating technology. But just because I think the invention is cool doesn't mean it is effective in our everyday lives. As great as technology is in the times we live in, it can always make a mistake. I think that risking people's lives by them not having to drive is a risk I wouldn't personally take. Yes, I do see how it would be nice getting to be driven around but it could only be a matter of time until mistakes start to arise.
A point I find very important to make is the danger with mishaps occurring. This isn't just the type of technology can have a small glitch and then be fine later on. If a small glitch were to happen with this technology and results can be devistating. Now I do know that these cars can signal to the driver to take over when something goes wrong, but sometimes it only take a split second and then its to late for anyone or anything to take over.
Another very important topic is the deal with the legal system and that just seems like problems on top of problems just waiting to happen. When I say, "the deal with the legal system" what I am refering to is who would be responsible for an accident? Would the blame go on the driver or rider you could say, or would it go to the manufacturer? Know I realize that laws would be put in place, but I can't help but feel that these laws would be in favor of the big companies that produce these machines.
What I have been trying to say is I have come to the conclusion that the list of cons on having a driverless car are much greater than the list of pros. One thing I am sure of is that if these cars do come out that they will be quite expensive, which might be a hidden blessing. What i mean but that is that while some people might be sad they can't afford this vehicle, they might actually be saving themselves from possible injury and complications. in the future I hope that if these vehicles become available to the public that people will seriously consider the risks before investing their money into a driverless car. | 4 |
a9502ae | There are many reasons why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. If you read the passege, Luke says his life was changed and he had new exsperences. Many the exsperences were seeing wonders and cities he visted. Some of things he visted are Venice, Panama Canal, and Greece.
Luke says there were many things to do on abourd the ship. Sections 6, 7, and 8 tell you the things he did abourd the ship. Some of the things were baseball and volleyball games. Then there were boring things he did on board. He had to get water for the horses and feed them. He also had to be a nightwatch men.
I would aggre with Luke, that joining the Seagoing Cowboys is not a bad idea. He says that it changed his life and he got great things out of it. Section 9 says, that because he did the program his decendents loved to help people and poor countrys. | 2 |
a950ff9 | Have you ever been confused on how the president is elected from two huendred and sevendy votes when you see more than a that many poeple a day. Well I'm not because I can't vote, but I do think that the Electoral College should stay in action. People may not like the Electoral College because it isn't there vote that really dessideds the winner of the eletion. I am in favor for the Electoral College because it does help us out even if we don't always see it.
The Electoral College helps us by avioding run-off elctions, where the votes are too close to desside a clear winner. It does this by in most states the majority of the popular votes dessides where all the votes go. "That pressure, which would greatly complicate the presidential election process, is reduced by the Electoral College, which invariably produces a clear winner."(Posner) In the 2012 election the populor vote in Florida was very close and if the president was dessided form the popular vote Floride would have had little effect on the eletion, but since the Electoral College dessides the winner, Obama had tweinty nine more votes to his campaign. "Most states have a winner-take-all system that awards all the winning presidental candidate."(the Office of the Federal Register)
Some people may thing that the Electoral College sould be done away with so that the president can be dessided by popular votes. If this were to happen then there would be the chance to have run-off elections, since there would be no clear winner if the votes were very close. There would be the complete unbalance from state to state, Rhode Island would have little to no effect on the election, where as with the Electoral College it could be the state to choose the winner.
The Electoral College keeps it so that each state has a bigger impact on the election and saves us from run-off elections from a close number of votes. If we didn't have the Electoral College in place then history would be different for better or for worse, but I think that the Electoral College should be here to stay. | 3 |
a95297f | Twenty five years ago, when NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling Mars, taking pictures of landing sites for its sister ship Viking 2, they found shadowy likeness of a human face. It was captured in the region of Red Planet called Cydonia.
NASA made the picture of the Face public, and the people believed that
the Face was bona fide evidence of life on Mars. The people said that NASA was hiding the fact with conspiracy theories. If NASA would've found lifes on Mars, they would've told the people. It will benefit NASA since that will make them the first to find life on Mars. It also says in paragraph five, "...Defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilation on Mars."
On April 5, 1998 Mars Global Surveryor flew over Cydonia for the first time. Miichael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team took the picture of the Face ten times sharper than the orginal Viking photos. The people was disappointed with the result. The Face was nothing but just a natural landform.
Since not everyone was satisfied with the result, mission controllers prepared to look again. It was difficult since the region, where the Face was located at, was cloudy. Finally, on April 8, 2001 Mars Global Surveyor rolled the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view. They used camera's absolute maximum resolution to take the picture. In this image you can discern things three times bigger than the pixel size, so you can see any object on the Face. The result was no different. It was just a Martian equivalent of butte or mesa.
This is why the picture Viking 1 took isn't any evidence for life on Mars. NASA didn't hide anything from the people, or make up any theories. If you take a closer look at the Face located in Cydonia, you can tell it is nothing but just another Martian mesa, which is common in Cydonia. | 2 |
a952a62 | I think that the face on Mars is definitely just a natural landform. It doesn't really look like a face to me at all anyways. All i can see is the nose. Of course, some people actually see the entire face, and a lot of those people believe that it was created by aliens. They believe that there is life on Mars that NASA is hiding from us.
If NASA did find life on Mars, it would benefit them a lot. It would be stupid for them to keep it a secret for so long. The face on Mars clearly looks like a human's face. If there was life on Mars, they would look nothing like humans, so therefore, they wouldn't know what a human's face looks like anyways. Just like all of the different life forms on Earth. We look completely different than most animals we've discovered. The only animal we look even close to are monkeys, and even then, our faces look much different. The aliens would also have to be smarter than most humans to fly into space, and to build a giant landform that looks just like a human face. If these aliens DID have the equipment to fly into space, then they almost definitely would have found Earth by now, and no scientist
has ever actually caught an alien on Earth before.
In conclusion, If aliens were smart enough to build their own landform, then we would have definitely known by now. NASA has absolutely no reason to hide this kind of information from us, and anyone who thinks so should do some really deep thinking about it. We should trust NASA when they say that it's just a natural landform which happens to resemble a face. | 4 |
a95300b | While reading the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," I'll admit that the idea of a driverless car was cool, but it concerns me about our upcoming future. As I got to the end of the reading my thoughts were more near the negtive side than the positive side. I mean the world today is and always will be coming up with newer things, but I personally feel that we are taking, "The sky is our only limit," a little too far.
In the artical, Dr. Werner Huber, a BMW project manager driver admits," We have to interpret the driving fun in a new way." Today almost everywhere you go, you happen to hear about people texting and driving, which produces the trama of an innocent life being taken away because of some little thing that distracts a majority of us today. How are we supposed to introduce this "fun new way of driving", when there are people who aren't even responsible to drive on the road the right way? Some may say, "Well that's another good reason for driverless cars!", but in reality, it's not.
Also a question that is stated in the artical is,"If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacture?" that question right there is also a major scare to a lot of us in society. On a day to day basis, we are dealing with wars in third world countries, people dying because of hunger, a new disease that can wipe out any country, and so many more things that an everyday individual doesn't even know about or think about. Introducing a driverless car, will only add to that stress and drama. Most people would say that it's another bad idea that car manucturers have pitched.
Finally I'd like to say, It may sound like I'm bashing this entire idea, but really I'm just thinking about it realistically. Another statement that supports my argument is that television and movies have long been fascinated with the cars that could drive themselves. Another projection that many could inturprut the wrong way, especially new drivers. Teens today see crazy things done in movies and/or television shows and go and say,"Well if that actor can do it, so can I!" If they see a driverless car, who knows what's going to happen.
In conclusion, driverless cars aren't the best idea. Throughout the entire artical there are roadblocks and warning signs that show, diverless cars are simpily a pleasure and not a neccesity. Therefore the idea of driverless cars isn't so great. | 3 |
a9535dd | Advanatges of Limited Car Use
Many people do not rely on their cars to take them places anymore in Vauban, Germany. Vauban's streets are completely "car-free" (Source 1 Paragraph 2). 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars. They are allowed to own cars, but they have to park it at a car garage that they also have to pay for. Heidrun Walter, a mother of two says, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." These are only a few examples of the advantages of not owning a car or limited car use. Because of this new trend, there are stores, malls, and building closer to people's homes instead of on highways and an hour away. This way, people don't have to walk twenty miles to get to the nearest store.
Another issue that will encourage people to stop driving is smog. In Paris, they enforced a partial driving ban to the clear the air from all the auto-mobiles' gases and pollutic toxins. On Monday, car owners with even-numbered license plates were forced not to drive or they'd suffer a 31 dollar fine. They same would happen to the odd-numbered licenese plate drivers on Tuesday and so on. People rebelled and reulted in 4,000 driver fines. On the bright side, traffic or congestion was down 60 percent. People can get to their destinations a lot faster without all the traffic and congestion. People can save the planet and their jobs.
Not only can people save the planet and traffic jam, but now they have a reason to exercise and get to their destination in time. They can even plan special family activities on a boring Monday. The residents of Bogota, Columbia have taken this into consideration by avoiding traffic by hiking, biking, skating, or even taking the local bus. There is so many advantages to not using a car as transportation. Everyone can ride their bike to school or work or the mall knowing that there is no added pollution, exercise is done for the day, save money, no traffic. What could be better? Not even rain stopped the residents of Bogota.
Businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza said, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," as he rode a two-seat bike with his wife. People saw and took advantage of this opportunity as well and joined the event. People are crossing borders to see this revolutionary change that these people are making. Reconstruction has taken place too on the uneven sidewalks for bikers, and upscale restaurants and stores have moved up.
People also don't have the choice of getting a car, due to unemployment and their balance. Which supports an advantage of saving money. Americans spend for 50 dollars for gas for their cars to last them for just two weeks, or less. Not to mention the car payment each month. What about the people who can't afford car insurance? No one would need to worry about these things if they just forgot about cars and moved everything closer to their homes.
There are many advantages in not owning or using a car. It can save the planet, energize people, people can exercise everyday without coming up with an excuse why they didn't go to the gym or go for a jog. The best advantag is saving money. Another people quite love is the traffic, because there is none! See whats no cars does for you. | 4 |
a955a53 | We should keep with changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Because it is logical and is very fair, these are my reasons why.
For one, it seems a lot more leveled out. The Electoral College is not as fair, because the electors help the president, the the president helps the electors. They could have past experience or an old relationship of some sort. Braford Plumer quotes, "The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational." He clearly says Electoral College needs to be abolished, over & done with. Because they don't have logical information on everything they do. And they only have practical reasoning, not liberal or conservative reasoning.
Next reason, their method is not bulletproof as they claim it to be. No method is perfect, but the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope in succeeding. Richard A. Posner quotes, "Knowing their vote will have no effect, they have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular vote..." He is saying the way the method is set up, makes it seem worthless to even vote for the person you choose or chose.
Finally, my last reason to why we should keep with changing to election by popular vote is confusion. The Electoral College is unfair to voters. Some candidates don't spend time in states the know they have no chance of winning because of the winner-take-all system. Richard A. Posner quotes, "During 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad." That is pretty selffish and ridiculously unfair.
However, having the election by popular vote has it's flaws as well. Such as the certainty of outcome. Electoral College having a dispute over the outcome of an election is possible, but it's less likely than the popular vote. Richard A. Posner quotes, "Because almost all states award elecroral votes on a winner-take-all basis, even a very slight plurality in a state creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state."
He is simply stating that if there is a difficulty in the popular vote election, they have an electoral vote to choose the winner.
Those are my very important, detailed reasons why we should change to election by popular vote. Recap, fairness is important & is needed in any method, the Electoral College method is not as solid as they believe it to be, & all of the confusion the Electoral College puts off to some states. | 4 |
a95ab46 | IN the Article "Making Mona LIsa Smile", the auther describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables ccomputers to identify human emotions like the Mona Lisa Smile.
In the article it says that she is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgust, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry somethings or technology cant do that or some people cant do that at all and that is suprsing but what they call it is the "Da Vnci Code" an the name sounds cool and makes seans.
Well the whole process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of all faces; all 44 major musals in the model must move like human muscels. Movement of one or more muscels is called an "action unit." Then Dr. Huang relies on the work of psychologist, such as Dr. Paul Eckman, Creator of FACS. Eckman has classifed six basic emotions-happiness, surprise, anger,disgust, fear, and sadness and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles .Here is a example in the article 1. Raise your lips at the corner of your mouth.
2. Than Squint your eyes slightly, to produce wrinking at the corner of your eyes.
3 Holding that, raise the outer parts of your cheeks up, toward your eyes.
According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emoton, moving your facial muscels not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them.
A renowned drama couch, Constantin Stanislavsky, had his actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotons on stage. | 1 |
a95ef0d | Would you ever want to have a job that you could explore the ocean and visit many different countrys and see unique things. It would be nice to have a job like that
In the passage ''A Cowboy Who Rode The Waves''this boy named Luke bomberger, who just graduated high school had two jobs and he got offered by his friend Don Reist to join this exiting event. Luke could not say no.
In the passage Luke said that he enjoyed the job A lot. There was many things he got to do like go over seas,he rescued animals,and more. It states in paragraph 3 that he traveled with 335 horses on August,14,1945. In my opinion that is a lot of horses on one boat.
He got to travel many places like Europe,China,Greece and more. He said that it takes about two weeks to get to cross the Atlantic ocean and a month to get to China. left time to play baseball,vollyball,tabletennis,fencing,boxing reading,and more. it says in the intro in the passage that he traveled 16 times over the Atlantic Ocean and twice over the Pacific Ocean.
As you can see it would be A lot of fun to be A seagoing cowboy. You would get to adventure things just like Luke did. In my opinion that would be A lot of fun to travel over seas and save people and animals. Not only that you will also be able to explore many things like China and Europe. and you might even see very historic things. I hope you think about this job. It could be an opportunity of a lifetime. | 3 |
a962a05 | The author wants us to learn about Venus because NASA wants us to know stuff about our other planets. NASA wants us to learn about Venus to hopefully tell others about what we learned and maybe they will want to learn about Venus too. They can learn that Venus is likes Earth's "twin", its the closesest planet to Earth in terms of density and size and occasionally the closest distance too.
You can learn who was the first to land on Venus and who was the last and how long you can stay on Venus until you have to come back down to Earth for more food and supples. Only one spaceship can go up there because they can't have more than 3 to 4 people on Venus doing the same thing, they don't have that much room on the spaceship for everyone that wants to go on Vensu anyways. Not everyone knows about Venus but if you go to NASA websit and look up information about it you can learn more about the planets around us and see how you can become one of the people to go on the other planets that are around us or just become one of the members on the station.
The average temperature is 800 degrees fahrenheit there so you would need a very high powered suit to keep that from killing you if you go to Venus. 800 degrees is WAY to hot for anyone to go up there and take a look. The ship would need to be checked out to make sure that the teperatures didn't cook the spaceship. The air level would close to the sea level on earth so we would have to be super carefull when we get off the spaceship to get information about the planet.
You can hover over Venus and look out the windows on the spacehip to look at Venus and youc can to try get information on it from there. NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus, soon we will know what they are talking about. Soon NASA will be able to get more information on Venus and if it is ready for living objects to come and live on it and if not then NASA can find another planet and study that one for a couple of years and see if that one is live able. | 2 |
a964bc0 | This article talks about "Making Mona Lisa Smile,". In this article we learn about a machine that can that detects or identifies your emotions, whether sad, happy, angry, confused, or surprised this machine does it all.
This machine found out that she was 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. This software is the latest innovation from Prof. Nicu Sebe of the University of Amsterdam. This software actually calculates peoples emotions like a math homework. The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles, Movement of one or more muscles is called an "action unit".
Dr. Huang observes that facial expression for each emotions are universal even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression. Using video imagery, the new emotion recognition software tracks these facial movements in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa. By weighting he different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions as in da Vinci's masterpiece.
In fact, we human perform this same impressive calculation everyday. For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling by the look on her face. Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried and so on. Yet Dr huang obsereves that artists such as Da vinvi studied human anatomy to help paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions. His new computer software stores similar anaomical information as electronic code.
I think this machine could be very useful in different situations like in offices, classrooms and even in personal homes. I would like it in classroom because it could tell whether students have a problem with something. I think this software could be a great thing for a classroom. Imagine a classroom computer that knows when you are happy or sad. For exapmle, if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen a similar ad might follow it. But if you frown, the next ad will be something different.
A classroom computer could recognize when a student s becoming confused or bored, Dr. Huang predicts. Then it could modify a lesson, like an effective human instructor. The same technology can make computer animated faces more expressive for video games or video surgery. I think if a computer is able to do this it will make boring or less interesting classes more interactive, fun and understandable which makes students more willing to learn and will understands things better.
I think this new upcoming software will help make class more interesting and fun for students because if this software can read someone's emotions it wil surely know when a students is getting bored or if a student is confused. I think the will make students learn more. | 3 |
a966992 | "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," says much about the challenge, and how we might be able to study Venus, but says little comparatively of why we should. The article only talks about why we should study Venus only once in the fourth paragraph out of eight others. Paragraph four mentions how Venus may have been like Earth, "it may well have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." and how it is the nearest planet to Earth, "Furthermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be out nearest option for a planetary visit,". However, these claims it makes are not enough reason to study Venus, they fall short of balancing out the risk with the reward. When you consider what the paragraph says it becomes obvious that with high risk, ineffective solutions, and lacking reasons for study this article misses the mark and doesn't support the worth of studying Venus as well as it aims to. | 2 |
a96bbf7 | The Face on Mars is in fact not created by aliens, but a natural land form. Although you and many other people believe the conspiracy theorists and their ideas, they are simply untrue and illogical. I hope that my evidence will convince you to stop believing in what is untrue.
First off, when the Face was discovered, it was a surprise among mission controllers back at the Jet Propulsion Lab when it appeared on their monitors. However, the sensation was short lived. Scientists figured out that it was just another Martian mesa. Martian mesas are also quite common around Cydonia, the region where them Face was discovered. Although photographing Cydonia became a priority for NASA, very few scientists actually believed that the Fce was an alien artifact. On Aprril 5, 1998, 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 1 photos. When the first image appeared on a JPL web site, it rtevealed nothing but a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all.
Since not everyone was satisfied with the images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera team, because of it being the cloudy winter season on Mars, on April 8, 2001--a cloudless summer day in Cydonia-- Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. In the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars" Jim Garvin says, "We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to the center of the Face in the field of view. Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution." Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters compared to the 43 meters per pixels in the best 1976 Viking photo. The same article also claims that even after all of that work, the picture actually shows the Martain equivalent to a butte or mesa.
Finally, buttes and mesas are not only common in Cydonia, but also common in the American West, disproving that the Face was was created by aliens. In the article mentioned before, Jim Garvin states that the Face reminds him of the Middle Butte and the Snake River Plain in Idaho, which is a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars.
Ultimately, with all of the research scientists have done on the Face, all of the images taken, and the evidence shown, you can clearly see that the Face is not an alien monument, but only natural landform that just happens to have an odd shape. | 4 |
a96f4f5 | In the article it talked about trying to travel on Venus. I would say to my best opinion one day we will have the technology to travel to Venus and stay their for my then a couple weeks and be able to learn more about Earth's sister planet. What i like a lot about this article it that it makes sure to talk about a lot of similarities it has to earth and as well as s lot of differences it has to earth as well. What I found the most crazy about this was that no robot or anything we sent to
Venus could survive the harsh conditions for more then a few hours.
When it comes down to it the aurthor as you can tell heavily supports the thought of traveling to Venus. I support It also because it never hurts to learn new things about someone or something, but I think the thing that is stopping us is the cost that it takes to send something up there and there is no point to just send someone up there to die. What i like about this article is that it talks about a lot of things Venus has in common with earth and a lot of thing Earth and Venus have thats different then each other. Somethings Earth and Venus have in common together is they are both reletivily the same and they are really close to each other in distance. But some differences are is Earth is ble top have life on it and Venus is not because the heat, pressure, and the chemicals in the air.
Dispite the want to travel to Venus and figure it out it seems highly unklikely because how dangerous the planet actually is. While traveling to Venus sounds like a really cool to do sometime down the future right now and I know we don't have the money to support a trip that far away even if its supposed to be close by. One of the main reasons I think scientists want to travel to Venus so bad is because they're always trying to learn new things and you can't punish anyone for wanting to expand there knowledge. In the end traveling there right now seems impossible because of the air, pressure and heat would kill any human very shortly afore setting foot of the planet, but i do beleive that one day we will diffinetly be there one day in the future. | 2 |
a977730 | Senator,
The Electoral Eollege seems highly unfair to the people. The winner, may not even be the majority vote. Perhaps a president received a majority of the votes, but the people then have to rely on electors to vote for them. That vote may not be what the people really wanted.
When it is time for elections, small states have a disadvantage on having a big part in the president's election. A president may win over five smaller states, and yet the other could win over California and still have more electoral votes. Larger states get more attention than smaller states. This is unfair. Some voters feel trapped because they know their vote won't effect the state ruling. Voters lose incentive.
Voters in presidential elections tend to want to be heard and feel as if their vote matters so they can express their political preferences. With electoral college votes, they feel the vote is unfair and they are relying on a few people and hoping they vote for the voters candidate. The people feel as if it's kind of like gmabling. In swing states, people have an advantage there. The "winner-take-all" method induces the candidates to pay more attention to those states. The candidates will campaign there more often and gain more and more attention from the swing state voters. Other states do not like this because they get less attention and the votes in swing states are more thoughtful than one-sided states.
The Electoral College votes, seem not-so-democtratic. It is the electors who actually end up electing the president...not the people. Anyways, this | 3 |
a97eb60 | The residents of Vauban, Germany have given up their cars to live in a car free enviroment. Some of the residents believe that this enviroment makes them happier. The reason behind this is because we are trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that come from tailpipes. This experiment has the potential to become the most advanced experiment in low-car surburban life.
There are many places in the world that are trying this new experiment out. In the United Statesnthe Enviromental Protection Agency is promoting communities to become less dependent on cars. The legislators are starting to act on the bill and experts even expect public transpotation to play a larger role in society.
Also, in Paris, France there were days of near-record pollution. This is another reason for the experiments, to slow down the amount of pollution. Paris enforced a driving ban to slow down the pollution. The ban worked out so good that they even followed up on it afterwards. | 2 |
a984775 | We should keep the Electoral College its a good process and it keeps us from having the problem of elections in which no candidates receives a majority of the votes cast. Like in 1968 with Nixon and in 1992 in Clinton were they only got 43 percent plurality of the popular votes but with the Electoral College which invariably produces a clear winner. The Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no chance of carrying their state Democrats in Texas, an idea of this is like a Republicans in California. The Electoral College needs a presidential candidate to have have trans regional appeal like South,Northeast,etc. With the Elecoral College is un likely than a dispute over the popular vote. It happened in 2000 because that the winning candidate's share of the Electoral College invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote. A example is in 2012, Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and romney.
The Electoral College is widely regarded as a anachronism, a non demorcratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overpowered by declaring the candidate who get the most popular votes the winner. The advocates of this position are right in debatingthat the Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense it is the electors who elect the president, not the people. When u vote you're not voting for the presidential u pick yor're actually voting for a slate of electoes. Both party each selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee but that trust is rarely betrayed however it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. The Electoral college is good to stay.
The Electoral College helps with Certainty of outcome, Everyone's president, Swing states,Big staes, Avoid run off elections. A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible because the total of numbers of votes are 538 is an even number but it is highly unlikely. The new president will have no regard for their interests,that he really isn't their president. The most thoughtful voters should be the the ones to decide the election. So other being equal, a large state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign tham a samll state does. Voters in a presidential elections are people who want to express a political prefernce rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election. | 2 |
a987cd3 | I am against driverless cars,because even though they said the car will alert the driver when the car cannot complete an action. You still have to think about the fact of if the car doesnt stop in time to let the driver get ahold of the wheel. In paragraph 9 it said "even if the traffic laws change, new laaws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident.", because what if the computer system crashes and the driver gets into an accident. It also says in paragraph 9 "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?"
Driverless cars may seem like a perfect thing but in reality theres still flaws to the cars, they may not be big flaws but those flaws even tiny onescan cause a big accident. What if the car alerts the driver that there is something ahead the car cannot navigate itself through and the car doesnt stop and the drivers not paying attention and they get into an accident. Who's fault would that specific crash be? The driver's or the manufacturers? it'd be hard to decide, because of the fact of the car not stopping and the driver not paying attention to the car and its directions and warnings. Plus the car still needs human skills to navigate through work zones and difficult areas that the car itself cannot navigate through on its own.
In paragraph seven it states that the human driver must stay alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires them to. It also states that GM has developed seatsthat vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into any object, and its states that none of the cars developed yet are completely driverless so the human driver needs to stay well aware of his or her surroundings in case of an object being behind the car or difficult areas in front of the car. So what if the car messes up and causes the human driver to get into an accident even though the driver was paying attention to the road and the surroundings around him or her,attempting to get control of the wheel.
In the end of paragraph seven it states that "While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver. While that may seem like a good thing you still have to think of the fact that the car can still make minor or major mistakes while driving the driver around. Even though the driverless car may seem like a wonderful idea i still disagree with them and say its a very bad idea,because the computer system could make a mistake just like any human driver could. So therefore I still highly disagree with the driverless car idea. | 4 |
a988abc | I would first remind them that when the face on Mars was first shown in a picture, we did not have the greatest technology. This tells us that we cannot assume any thing in the picture to be definite because things may be blurred. This is not a major point to go on, but it is just the beginning.
Next, I would explain that messas are very common on Mars and that the shadows are the only factor that are actually giving an illusion of a face. This strays from from their belief that the face on Mars was created or planted there.
After that, I would simply point out that clearer pictures and better evidence have proven the face on Mars to be "a huge rock formation....formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth."
Also, Hollywood has been known to dazzle the mind with some unlikely but fascinating thoughts. Such as the many movies aout the face on Mars pointing the attention to aliens to gain more supporters and the good ratings from the audience. It is basically science fiction. They only provide a perspective from which the human mind can comprehend imagination. Imagining is good, but not with false hope. Books, magazines, and talk shows will do the same thing for similar reasonS. And other propositions from ordinary people for this face on Mars have surely been made over the last twenty-five years.
These things point to the fact that the face is merely a coincidence in a messa formation. | 3 |
a98bccc | Could the Face on Mars be made by aliens? Sorry to say but no the Face on Mars wasn't made by aliens. Back when it first was foundby NASA's Viking, in 1976, I bet a lot of people thought that it could be made be aliens. Since then, NASA has confurmed it as a natural landform.
The picture from the Viking in 1976 was not clear and had 43 meters per pixal. Now in 2016 43 meters per pixal is like anchent to us. In 1998, NASA's Mars Global surveyor (MGS)
took another photogragh of the Face. The picture was a little more clear but NASA still couldn't tell forsure that the Face was a natural landform. In 2001, NASA's MGS took another photogragh of the Face on Mars. The picture from 2001 as the most clear picture of the Face and the latest image of the Face. Each pixel in the 2001 photogragh spans 1.56 meters. That is much better quality then in 1976 with 43 meters per pixal.
Since 1976 NASA has had two other oportunities to get a picture of the Face. NASA confurmed that the Face is a natural landform on the planet of Mars. The picture really shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa. These landforms are common around the American West.
The Face reminds Garvin of the " Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." The Face on Mars is not made by aliens. NASA has confurmed that the Face on Mars is a natural landform. | 3 |
a993de4 | Ever wonder what someone is feeling? Are they mad? Are they sad? There have been many cases in which I could not tell how someone was feeling. But new technology has been created to predict a subjects emotion state based on muscle position. Acording to this creation, the Mona Lisa is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. Does this creation (the Facial Coding System) work? Could it be benifitial? I believe using this technology to read students' emotional expressions could be very benifitial because it could read peoples emotion status, it could detect threats, and it could be used to force information
I believe it is benifitial because it can read emotional states. For example, students in a classroom. Say one student could be happy and another could be tired, but theres that one student who is frightened and needs help and wont ask for it. With this new software the teacher could recognize the students failure to understand and help. In the article it says, "if you smile when a webcam appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." This text evidence suggests that the software can calculate "dislike" and "like" emotions and correct them if needed.
I believe it is benifitial because it could detect possible threats. For example, fight in a classroom. In the classroom keeping student under control is a big must in a public school, but with the new software it can pick up any form of anger and will notify the teacher right away. Students are prone to violence because they do not know right from wrong and it can be very dangerous without proper control. In the text it says, "The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles." What this means is that the new software could calculate a precise 3-D image and determine someone's emotional state.
I believe its is benifitial because it can be used to forcefully remove information. For example, student who cheat in class. During test it can be hard sometime to catch student who cheats, and when you confront them they refuse and say they didn't. With the new technology and software it can detect any fear or another emotions to prove if they cheated or not. In the text is says, " 'The facial expressions for each emotion are universal,' observes Dr. Huang, 'even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression' (like not smiling as broadly)." This means that even though each smile, frown, or other muscle movement is universal and can be detected by the software.
In conclusion, the software can be very useful. Time will continue to grow our technology and soon we wont have to worry about guessing peoples emotions. So students can be unpredictable when it comes to behaving and learning, but with the new software it can predict almost about anything about the student. I believe using this technology to read students' emotional expressions could be very benifitial because it could read peoples emotion status, it could detect threats, and it could be used to force information. | 4 |
a994c0b | It is true that there will be a lot of benefits of having driverless cars in the future, utilizing this invention could mean less human error on the roads, having those cars to be used as public transportation could be really convenient since everyone will have access to a form of transportation especially those who do not have a car to begin with, but driverless cars might be too reliable. Although this is all well and good, there are challenges and hurdles driverless cars will have in the community, safety will still be a concern to some people.
If by any chance driverless cars are widely used and completely implented to our civilization, new laws will be made involving the safety of people when in a driverless car and everyone completely abandoned the concept of driving manually.
Now what if everything else fails and one day the driverless cars stopped working, no one will be able to get to their own destinations with ease, you will also never know when these machines will malfunction since they are completely automatic in terms of driving. Unless the issues are solved and driverless cars are safe and reliable enough, it should not be used by the community yet.
This technology is still new to us and poeple just started working on driverless cars. We as people should be a bit forgiving, and it is okay to give negative opinions about it. It just means those are the things they need to fix and it could help them improve driverless cars. I agree that a driver should be given an option for drivers to drive and use autopilot by simply giving us a feature of turning it on and off. I still do not have a good feeling of relying to machines completely, machines might be rarely making mistakes but they are far too unpredictable unlike having humans behind the wheel, which again, one of the reasons people have a concern about and requested laws and regulations from the government. In consluion, technology is great but it should not be controlling our way of life on a daily basis too much than necessary. | 3 |
a994c35 | The reason I think the the rock that resembles a face is a natural landform is because. We have never seen aliens and we dont know they exist. Another reason is "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bugger than the pixel size,". The last reason I think it was a natural landform is because "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa".
The first reason I think that the face is a natural landform is because. We have never seen aliens before and have no idea that they exist. Some supporting details for that statement are "there was no alien monument after all". Another supporting detail is if they're were aliens we would have of found them by now. That's my first reason why I think that its a natural landform.
The second reason I think that the face is a natural landform is because. "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size,". Some supporting details are "So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!". Another supporting detail is "Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo.". That's the second reason I think the face is a natural landform.
The last reason I think that the face is a natural landform is because.
"What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa". Some supporting details are "landforms common around the American West.". Another supporting detail is "It reminds me most of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho,". Thats the last reason I think the face is a natural landform.
Those are the reasons I think that the face on Mars is an natural landform. One, we have never never seen aliens and we dont know that they exist. Second, "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size,". The last reason is "What the picture shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa". Those are the reasons I think the face on Mars is an natural landform. | 3 |
a99524d | The end of car culture around the world. Cities around the world are banning driving for weather conditions or for experimental purposes. In German suburb driving has been forbidden as well as street parking, driveways and home garages. People have been selling their cars just to move to Vauban, Germany. The limiting of car usage has been a great factor to help the enviroment, and to excersize.
The end of car culture is coming to an end because many people have been leaving their cars at home and taking the bus or walkin to work. People are driving less, and the youth have are not excited to be driving. Sociologists believe the decrease amount of driving is due to the fact that we are able to connect with our friends over the internet and no longer need to see each other in person. In many cities around the world are banning driving because of enviromental purposes. In Colombia, there is a car-free day where cars are being banned with only taxis and busses permited. The goal is to promote altenative transportation and reduce smog. In Paris driving was banned due to the amount of smog. They blamed the smog on diesel because 67 percent of the cars use diesel. Although cars were banned in Paris, congestion decreased about 60 percent in the capital of France, after the five-days of smog.
The limiting of car usage can benefit everyone. This is because around the world everyone drives, nobody thinks twice about it. Driving has been a huge part of the America can life, but it seems it is coming to an end people are relying more on walking and riding a bicycle or taking the bus. Car limiting benefits everyone because it will help people stay healthy and hike or bike to point A to point B. People are becoming more enthusiastic about not driving. Parks and sports centers have bloomed throughout cities; uneven sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rudh-hour restrictions have cut traffic dramatically; and restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up.
The end of car culture is upon us, people have been selling cars, countries have been banning driving, and cities are forbiding street parking, driveways and home garages. The amount of people driving has decreased dramatically since 2005, in the United States. People are taking the bus, hiking, biking to get from A to B. The limiting of cars can help improve your health and help improve the enviroment. | 3 |
a996a9e | Informing fellow citizens about the advantages of limiting car usage. In paragraph three it state, "As a result, 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," saide Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two, as she walked verdant streets where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor." What this statement is saying is that if you do not own a car or those who have sold their car(s), life will propably be less stresstful. You won't have to worrying about wasting money that you can be using on food and things for your children, on gas. One less thing to worry about. This is one of many other advantages of limiting car usage.
In paragraph fourteen it states, "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog...[The smog] rivaled Benijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world." This statement means that car traffic has gone done in a big amount of percentage, not only in the capital of France but in cities of big population. This one other advantage of limiting car usage. | 2 |
a99a129 | SEAGOING COWBOYS PROGRAM
In this essay, I'm going to give you details of why you should sign up to become apart of the Seagoing Cowboys program. The first reason, is you will go on many adventures and trips. Reason two, is you get to take care of animals like horses, young cows, and mules. Reason three is that you'll become an seagoing cowboy.
You get to help countries and animals. To help these countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more, 44 nations will join together to form UNRRA ( the United Nations Relief and Rehabliltation Adminstration). Seagoing Cowboys will take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped oversea. It will make you more aware of people of the countries and their needs. And that awareness will stay with you.
It will much of an adventure to you. You'll have fun on board especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. You'll get to play many games like baseball, volleyball games in the empty holds where the animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, whittling, and games also helped pass the time. Sometimes you will be served as night watchman. That job means to check on the nails every hour. I hope this essay really expired you in excellent, many ways
TO BE CONTINED!! | 3 |
a99aa01 | Radiaton, heat and atmospheric pressures are some of the biggest reason that we have not gotten to explore that much of the planet we know as venus.
The second planet from the sun is said to be the closest relative to the one we live on today. For years humans have thought of Venus as inhabitable, but the author of this article thinks otherwise.
The author claims that Venus is the closest in size and density, in comparison to Earth. He then talks about how Earth, Mars and Venus are all planetary neighbors. Since Venus is one of the closest to us, He claims that it is one of the easier planets to explore. "humans have sent numerous spacecrafters to land on this cloud- draped world" Though we have sent spacecraftsno one has survived for more than a few hours.
As of now Venus is very dangous. With atmospheric pressures exceding earth with 90 times more pressure than us, and temperatures of over 800 degrees, these conditons arent exactly what humans how live on earth, where the max temperature has maybe been 140. But he ask, if the condtions are so bad, why are scientist trying so hard to explore the planet. He goes into how Venus use to have a presense just like earth. "largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, like earth.
I think what the author is trying to get at is, Maybe one day we can send humans to venus and maybe they are start living there. We are already planning on sending humans to Mars in the near future, it shouldnt be long until NASA looks into sending humans to other planets. And the other closest one, as well as it being similiar to earth, is venus.
Even with the dangerous atmosphere of Venus, it still facinates humans to this day. With the overpopulation of Earth, it is time we look into sending people to other planets. And with venus being one of the most similar planets in comparison to Earth, it might not be long until we look into sending humans to the planet. | 2 |
a99ca12 | I think that The challenge of Exploring Venus is worthy to study becuse when you study that you can explore the planet and I think that it is obiously interesting but it is aslo a little hard because you cannot explore the planet closely but venus is the closest in Earth i terms of denssity and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too but mars and other planetary neighbor orbit the sun at different speeds and the difference in speed mean that sometimes they are closer to Mars and other times to venus because the venus is sometimes around the corner in space terms humans have also sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world but sometimes the spacecraft didn't survive the landing for more than a few hours and maybe that explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on venus reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study despite its proximity to us. but venus has also the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solat system even though Mercury is the closer to the sun. Beyond high pressure and heat venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanos,powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning srikes to probes seeking to land on it's surface The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable because venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like Earth but today Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth .The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has one particularly compeling idea for sending humasn to study Venus and there is no easy conditions but survivable for humans. Also human curiosity will likely lead them into many equally intimidating endeavors and their travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation and that's why i think that this challenge is interesting for people to study it. | 2 |
a99d180 | Have you ever wondered what venus is like? Well studying venus can be very dangerous with its carbon dioxide atmosphere, clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid, extremely high temperature and more. Even though it can be dangerous it is a worthy pursuit. Studying venus is a worthy pursuit because it is our sister planet, we are very curious about it, and human can survive venus conditions.
Venus is known as Earths sister planet but we don't know much about it and have never attempted going there. Venus is Earths sister planet because the text talks about how venus is the cloest planet to earth based on size and density. Also Venus has features like vlley, mountains, and craters like earth does and Venus shows that it was most likely covered in oceans long ago and could of supported various life forms. This is why we should explore venus because it is our sister planet
Human curiosity plays a big role into why we should explore Venus. Humans are very curious about the planet since it shows signs that life could of lived there. Also it resembles Earth so much that we want to know more about its geogrpahy. In general we want to know more about this planet and get up close to it and observe it directly instead of from a far. We also want to know what gases there are and so maybe we could build something that wouldn't melt when it lands. This is how human curtiosity plays a role in discovering Venus.
Venus also is a worthy pursuit becuase the text states the temperature is 170 degrees and it states humans can survive on this planet. So even though the temperature and atmosphere seem very dangerous it is worth the exploration because humans can survive so with proper training we could explore Venus. The article also talks about NASA building something to get 30 feet off of Venus so if we can get that close then eventually we will be able to get on the planet.
In conclusion Venus is a worthy pursuit even though it shows many dangers. We can overcome those dangers and make traveling to Venus less dangerous. Since its our sister planet it is worth exploring to find more out about our own planet even. Our human curiosity makes us want to explore Venus in more depth. Also humans can survive on it so with new technology and training they can travel there and be safe. This is why traveling to Venus is a worthy pursuit because it is our sister planet, we are curious about it, and humans can already survive on it. | 4 |
a9ae33c | People need to join the Seagoing Cowboys program. You will have lots of fun, see many of different places, and become aware of countries in need. Helping take care of the animals will be one of your jobs.
Taking care of the animals is pretty simple. They need to be fed (bales of hay and bags of oats are hauled up from the lower holds), watered (two or three times a day), and the animal's stalls have to be cleaned. Another job is being a night watchman. It can be very dangerous.
Another reason to join the Seagoing Cowboys is that you can have lots of fun. On the return trip, when all the animals are gone and the stalls are empty, cowboys play baseball, volleyball, fencing, boxing, and many other games. Table-tennis tournaments are also held.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy is quite an adventure. Having a chance to help people in need, playing games, and taking care of animals. This is a once-in-a-lifetime offer to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. Please join us today! | 2 |
a9aeeba | Have you ever realized how driving everywhere isn't always the best way to get places? Well, there are a few advantages of limiting car usage for fellow citizens. Think about it, cars aren't all that great, yeah they get you to your destination much faster than, let's say walking or maybe even riding a bike, but that isn't always a good thing. Bikes and walking are so much easier than driving everywhere because in order to drive to your destination you must have gasoline in your vehicle. If you were to walk to your specific destination you will not only get excercise but you can also walk with a friend, it will give you time to hang out with others and be social! Limiting car usage will also limit the amount of accidents on the roads everyday. It will end the "texting and driving" situation throughout the streets. The less people driving the safer the ones that do drive will be. People don't realize what cars do that are bad, all of us only see the good in vehicles because we don't want to have to push ourselves to change for the better.
Oh my! $2.56 for a gallon of gasoline will add up very quickly! That isn't the only gasoline that is affecting people either, there is also greenhouse gas from cars driving by. "And that, experts say, is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emisions from tailpipes..." (Source 1: In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars (IGS) Paragraph 5 Line 3-4). The greenhouse gas percentage has gotten very high going from Europe to the United States, it is getting quite out of hand if you ask me. "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." (Source 1 (IGS) Paragraph 5 Lines 4-6). Prices on gasoline stand very high now a days and it is bringing people downhill because the higher the price the less money they begin to have until they can't go out anymore. In result to trying to solve the pollution of gasoline problem the fined who ever it was that was causing the situation. "Almost 4,000 drivers were fined, according to Reuters... [Twenty-seven] people had their cars impounded for their reaction to the fine." (Source 2: Paris bans driving due to smog (PBDS) Paragraph 12 Lines 1-3). I believe that every country, state and city should take at least one day out of the year and make it a no driving day. "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." (Source 2: (PBDS) Paragraph 10 Lines 1-2). If we do the same as Paris we can clear the air and not worry about the pollution as much but there are still other disadvantages for car usage.
Lifting weights? Joining a gym? Those are all good ways to get your excercise but really you could just get in the habit of walking to wear you need to go and get more excercise than you would in the gym. "While there have been efforts in the past two decades to make cities denser, and better for walking, planners are now taking the concept to the suburbs." (Source 1 (IGS) Paragraph 6 Lines 1-3). Making the cities denser will mean that the citizens who live in them can walk to the stores and resturaunts down the street instead of driving. "In this new approach, stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway." (Source 1 (IGS) Paragraph 6 Lines 8-10). Not to mention the traffic while driving! Walking to your destination will make getting places so much more afficient because you won't have to be late to a meeting or even work at that matter if it is walking distance. "Congestion (car traffic) was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five days of intensifying smog..." (Source 2: (PBDS) Paragraph 14 Lines 1-2). If there are less cars on the street and more people on the sidewalks, the world wouldn't be so gloomy. No one is social anymore, they don't care for others they only care for themselves and that is very wrong. If the limit of car usage decreases, the more people will want to walk and be social with others.
Watch out for that....! *crash!* Safety is so important when you are driving, accidents happen so quickly and if you aren't careful it could be you. This is another reason why limiting car usage is a rather good idea because it will cause accidents to happen less often than they do now. Car accidents happen everyday, maybe to a complete stranger or to someone you know, either way walking is safer. "In a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of Columbians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams." (Source 3: Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota (CFDB) Paragraph 20 Lines 1-4). Walking to places is more, what's the word I'm looking for..? Oh! Walking is more social and safe, if you took one whole day without using your car, you could walk and as others catch on to why you are walking they will begin to walk along with you and you will develop the idea that walking is more fun and safe than driving. "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaces by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic; and new resturaunts and upscale shopping districts have cropped up." (Source 3: (PBDS) Paragraph 28 Lines 1-4). More people will begin to go out and walk for fun after getting in the habit of going with you and you can enjoy the world so much more knowing that the air isn't being as polluting and there won't be a many car accidents. You will save yourself and whoever follows through with you to limit the usage or cars and other vehicles.
Get a few of your friends together and go for a bike ride to the mall! There are some advantages of limiting car usage. Being in your car, whether it be alone or with others, is quite boring. You get to places very quickly but also don't have the experience that you could if you try something different. Try walking to the mall or a resturaunt not so close to you and bring some of your friends, see if you have more of a good time walking than you would driving. Driving is too expensive, you need to pay insurance to drive as well as paying to get gasoline. "With all these changes, people who stopped car commuting as a result of the recession may find less reason to resume the habit." (Source 4: The End Of Car Culture (TEOC) Paragraph 36 Lines 1-2). People are beginning to realize that cars are not all that great and don't do good for the world, they pollute the air we breathe. The less people to drive the better our cities will be, they will start to have less pollution in the air, less car accidents and more excercise to walk and bike to where you need to be. Be the one to make the clear the air day, and be a role model, show others why you decided to limit car usage. | 4 |
a9b6b73 | Dear Senator,
We have been using the electoral college method for a long time now. It has brought us our ups and downs, but everything has it's cons. I think this is a very fair method to use and that we should most definetly keep it.
Their is not really a lot of good arguements on why we should get rid of the electoral college. "The single best arguement against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor." (paragraph 11) There is only one really good arguement against this, and not a lot of people look at this as such a bad thing. Yes, people who don't want this method will use this arguement, but when someone else throws an argument backing it up they will have no rebutal to rest their case.
"The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President" (paragraph 3) I know you know this already, but this statement shows how fair this method is.
Now with big states it is easier to recieve more votes because there is mor eelectoral votes. However, it is also very hard because you would have to persuade the state to be on your side and vote for you. " The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population) lose by virtue of te mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution . . . .
The popular vote was very close in Florida [in 2012]; nevertheless Obama, who won that vote, got 29 electoral votes. A victory by the same margin Wyoming would net hte winner only 3 electoral votes. So, other things being equal, a large state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a small state does . . . ."
(paragraph 21)
All in all, this is a good system because it works very well and thier is no problem with it. I think we should keep it for as long as The United States of America can.
Sincerely,
Sarabi | 2 |
a9b6e1f | Studying Venus is worthy this shows in many way. Venus is known was the 'Evening Star" and that's why we get light in the night sky. Venus is the second planet from the sun. Itis very challenging place to examine the earth more closely. Even tho Venus is a very challenging planet for humans to study they are proximity to us.
Venus has a wonderful value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet by itself, but also because the human curiosity will lead us tho more equal intimidating endeavors. They have meet very edges of imagination and innovation. The NASA are workig on other new ways to study Venus and to find more information about Venus. They have found out more about through out the time Venus has the hottest surfce temperature of any planet in this solar system. Astronomers are amazed by Venus because it is may well known.
Venus can be our nearest option for a planetary visit. We should all be very thankful for the people who study the planets. There are many more facts about Venus that humans know because of the people who study planets and Venus is the most important one. The Challenge of Exploring Veunus is worth the study that humans do. | 2 |
a9b8802 | Congestion is in the past
Congestion, the amount of car traffic in a specific area, is significantly decreasing due to a new idea that has sprung:limiting car usage. Places such as Vauban, Paris, Bogota, Cali and Valledupar are participating in a program that's made to decrease car usage. Some of these cities enjoy Day Without Cars, a holiday that "promotes alternative transportation and reduces smog". (Selsky 1) Businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza says that "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution."
Limiting car usage promotes a healthier, cleaner environment for all. By using alternative transportation, such as buses, taxis, biking or even walking, the amount of greenhouse emission is drastically reduced. (Rosenthal 1) The Environmental Protection Agency in the United States are encouraging "car reduced" communites, causing legislators to act. This will cut the amount of money spent yearly by U.S. citizens and the government as a whole, reducing the federal transportation bill. (Rosenthal 1)
Paris, too, momentarily banned driving due to smog. Paris enforced a driving ban (that lasted a few days) to clear the city's air after a close call to record pollution. Although some people were upset, congestion was down 60 percent, and the smog cleared a few days later. (Duffer 1) All in all, diesel usage decreased, leaving a "greener" environment in its place.
President Obama has also wanted "to curb the United States' greenhouse gas emissions," (Rosenthal 1), he revealed last week. Although the United States' rate of car ownership per person and per household has started to decrease, there are still more things that could be done to create a long-term cultural shift. (Rosenthal 1) New York has recently created a bike-sharing program that has done remarkably well. Many cities have proposed plans to make personal vehicle ownership impractical or undesirable. (Rosenthal 1) Even Bill Ford, the owner of the Ford Car Company, suggested an idea to creat cities in which "pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety," at the Mobile World Congress last year. (Rosenthal 1)
Bogota, Colombia specifically enjoys a yearly car-free day in which the only exception of vehicle transportation are buses and taxis. This prevents traffic jams, reduces air pollution, and cuts the many costs to cars. Even in rain, the event continued on; "The rain hasn't stopped people from participating," said Antanas Mockus, the Bogota Mayor. (Selsky 1)
Enrique Riera, the mayor of Asucnion, Paraguay, said that "these people are generating a revolutionary change, and this is crossing borders." Smog reduction, cost-cutting, stress-relieving and traffic-jam-free, participating in this global change is an opportunity you won't want to miss. | 4 |
a9bd3cc | Throughout time, there have been countless sci-fi films and movies of cars that could drive themselves. However, what may once have seemed like fiction is now becoming a reality. Many companies, like Google, General Motors, and BMW have been working on driverless-car technologies since as early as the late 1950's. Although there are many positive sides to these new technologies, many people fail to realize their potentials and feel as if they are dangerous. This, however, is where they are wrong. Driverless cars are a great idea in new technology because they save on feul and money, they provide people more opportunities, and they make driving safer.
Driverless cars can overall save us on an abundance of gas and money. As stated in the "Driverless Cars Are Coming" article, Google cofounder Sergey Brin believes that his idea of a driverless car public transport system would use half the feul as today's taxis. As our feul is a fossil feul, meaning one day it will run out, using as little of it as possible is much more than just a good thing. Also, using this idea of a driverless car public transport system would save us a lot of money. Not having to drive your own car and fill it up every week would save you quite a bit on gas money. Also, you would not have to pay for repairs or damages to your vehicle.
Driverless car's are not only more efficient and green, they also would provide many more opportunities for people all over the world. Most of the population of the Earth cannot afford the luxury of their own vehicle. Since they do not have their own means of transportation, it is much harder for them to get a job. Of course, in bigger cities, like Chicago or New York, there are taxis, subways, trains, and busses that provide people the means of transportation that they need. However, in smaller cities and poorer countries, there are not any means of public transportation. In my town, for instance, there are not any busses, trains, taxis, Uber Drivers, or Subways. The only way to get from place to place is by your own car, getting a ride from someone else, by bike, or by foot. If we had a driverless car transpotation system in places like this, many people would be provided with many more oppourtunities to be able to travel from place to place.
Lastly, Driverless Car's would prevent many accidents, therefor making driving safer for everyone. Technologies are being created in many types of cars that prevent accidents before they happen. For instance, many cars are now being made with breaks that stop themselves when they sense that the vehicle is in danger of hitting something/someone. Some other companies, like GM, have developed Driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing up into an object so that the driver can take control. Many "heads-up" displays like this one are being created to prevent tons of accidents and possible deaths and/or injuries related to driving.
Overall, driverless cars are a safe, efficient, and logical choice for the future of transportation. Driverless cars are a great idea in new technology because they save on feul and money, they provide people with more opportunities, and they make driving safer. With these new technologies, we are slowly making our world into a more efficient and safe place in which to live. | 4 |
a9c4db6 | Venus is sometimes calld the Evening Star. Venus is a planet in our solor system,Venu is the second planet from our sun. Venus is to see from the distant but safe but safe vantage point on Earth. Venus is also referred to as Easrth's twin,Veus is the closest planet to Earth in terms or density and size. Earth,Venus ,and Mars our other planetary neighbors.
Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it present .According to the text a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blaankets Venus. The text also state even more challenging are th clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus amosphere. Venus is sometimes the nearest option for a planetary visit. Astronomoers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system.
NASA has one particularly copelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. According to the text Venus maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touch down on Venus in more than three decades. The text also state that numerous factors contribute to Venus repututation as a chellening planet for humans to study ,despite its proximity to us.
In "Challenge of Exploring Venus" Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it present because it havent been landed on in more than three decades. Venus has the hottest surface of any planet in our solar system,even though Mercury is closer to our sun. | 2 |
a9c51ed | Is using technology to find out how someone is feeling by scanning there face a good idea or a waste of time? In this article the author explains how a couple of people from a university created a program to identify how someone is feeling. Some people might disagree on how these students are using technology to find out how someone is honestly feeling. I think this idea of using this program is a good idea for many diffrent situations.
In the article the author explains how student at a few university's have been developing a program to show how someone is feeling. Student's from the University of Illinois, University of Amsterdam, and Dr. Huang and his colleague's are all apart of creating this program. The article describes how the students created this program and how they tested it on the Mona Lisa. This is a good idea because this program could help a lot of people in there everyday life. This program could help out with people who might have dangerous jobs were people could hurt them badly. This program could also help people who love art get more information from painting they love, becaue they might see a painting and not know what the artiste was trying to say.
This article on how these men and women created a progam that could be useful could inspire others to created somthing they want. It might inspire others to get into science or programming. It could also inform someone who might be intrested in the product that it is developing and could become useful in a lot of ways. | 2 |
a9c7fb1 | Venus is an unknown planet, despite being so close to us. It is hostile, and no human could survive on its surface. But some think it is possible to reach the surface and study Venus up close. It has many dangers in the way of progress. It's clouds contain sulfuric acid, and it's thick atmosphere is made up of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide. The pressure on the surface in 90 times greater than that of Earth, and temperatures reach over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. It boasts the hottest surface tempuature of any planet in the solar system, and has erupting volcanos, powerful earthquakes, and frequent bursts of lightning that impeade probes and rovers exploring the surface. But some think it is still a possiblity to go to the hostile planet. The author of the article believes it is possible to reach and explore the surface despite the danger. The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers in presents by explaining that it may have once been earth-like a very long time ago, that it is the closest planet to Earth for exploration, and how scientists are now testing ways to get on the surface without any casualties.
The author gives support by explaining the fact the surface of Venus was once earth-like, and that it had many of the features that Earth has on it's current surface. It is amazing to think that such a unsuitable planet could have once been eath-like, but being near as it is to Earth, it is not entirely impossible. The author tells how many have made comparisons to Earth based on it's current surface, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because of it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system....Today Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." The feature the author talks about are very Earth-like, so the possiblity of it once being like a "utopain" planet are not dim. He point out the valleys, mountains, and craters that can be seen around the surface. Maybe the craters were the cause of the hostility on the planet, and it's inhabitent were wiped off the planet by a imbargement of asteriods and possibly comets. And the crashs caused climate change, thus shifting the planet into it's demise for supporting life. But if it is so close, couldn't this be true, that Venus was once in the Goldilocks Zone, and while Earth formed, Venus was the planet of life. After all, it is our neighbor.
The author continues to support his ideas of exploration by pointing out the fact that Venus is, at most times, the closest planet to us, Mars being a bit more distant. It is often called our sister planet, as we have very much in common with Venus. The author explains how closly were related to Venus, and why we chose to explore it, "Often referred to as Earth's 'twin', Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of desity and size.....Futhermore, recall the Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel." It is about the same size, and relativly close, so it is one of the obvious choices. It is also noted that in space, time matters. If you don't get to the planet quick, your ship could lose oxygen, your could run out of food, or you might miss the planet when it goes through rotation, making harder to get home and less likely to reach the planet another time. Although it is hard to make the surface of Venus, it is our closest option and is more like us, thus making it more suitable. The question for scientists is how. This question may not be solved for a long time, but already, scientists are making advaces toward the next landing on Venus.
The author also supports his idea of Venus exploration by showing ways that people are making advaces toward a possible landing. New technologies and old technologies alike are being combined to make the landing last, and for futher exploration. The author shares some of the developments made by scientist recently, "Imagine a blimp like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape. Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitide to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over venus would avoid the unfriendly ground condition by staying up and out of thier way." Another advance includes using new material the protect electronics and other computer equipment in the hostile environment, "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the choas of the Venus surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." NASA has made significant advance in the pursuit of getting onto the most Earth-like hostile planet in the solar system. New discoveries continue to be made, and soon the expedition for Venus will be underway.
The author has supported his claim throughout the article that studying Venus would be a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents by explaining it's likeness to Earth, it's closeness in proximity, and how scientists are advancing closer toward the goal of landing. Humans have done things like this before. The 1969 moon landings, for example, were thought to be impossible, but through human drive and motivation, we achieved this goal, and now we are faced with a new challenge, Venus. But with the same human drive and motivation that put man on the moon, people will explore our "twin" planet, and uncover it's greatest secrets. | 6 |
a9cbc46 | Imagin waking up to a peaceful sound, which means that there is barely cars outside. No traffic, no noise. Would in you like that. Many people probably have desired this. People would wake up in a more relaxed, joyful mood. since there is bearly cars outside. You could get to work or somewhere else faster, without traffic being the isue. You could also walk or cruse the road without any accedents. Yes, I think that they should limit the car usage.
To begin with, cars have a negavite effect. in source 1 it states that "In previous bills, 80 percent of appropiations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transport." which this means is that more money is going to repair highways. Instead of this money going to other couses like to student education. I n source 2 it says "After days of near- record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." Cars are cousing air pollution which is bad for the envirenment. Pollution is bad for the air. The air becomes toxic, that one day we will no be able to breath in it. Also in source 2 "cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions." this is one of the ways that car pollution is effecting the earth and its atmosphere. The plants will start to die because the air toxic. this does not just effect the plants or air it also effects us and animals ina way. we are used to breathing clean air that when it's toxic, our lungs will not function right, and we could also die.
Moreover, in many places they are using programs. In source 3 "in a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday,leaving the street of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams." Avoiding cars is a good thing because instead of driving everywhere, they can finally enjoy thier surroundings. They would just go to the place they need to go and back home. That was their life. With that one day they can realize that they are missing out on a beautiful day. in source 4 "New York's new bike-sharing program anhd its skyrocketing bridge and tunnel tolls reflect those new prioities, as do a proliferation of car-sharing programs across the nation." Thes programs can help them by doing new things. Instead of their regular rutin. Trying new things can open your point of mind.
In the other hand, No, I think that they should not limit the car usage. | 3 |
a9da167 | In the article "The challenge of Exploring Venus" it talks about all the dangerous features that the plant Venus has. In the article it states that " Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. This is a postive thing about Venus because people may want to exploer Venus because its like earth. Also Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet of the solar system. This creates the idea that Venus may not be worth studing because of how dangerous it may apeal.
Despite that Venus may be seem like a dangerous planet to study its actually worth studying. Venus is worth studying because the author states that " Venus may be well known because its the most Earth- like planet in our solar sytem. That suggest the idea that its worth studing because of its like earth and people may want to study a planet like earh. Not only is it just a planet like earth but its the only planet that is like earth in the solar system. Also Venus is worth studying because it has increiable things that happens such as erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquackes and lighting that strikesto probes seeking to land on its surface. Thoes event that take place on Venus are worth studying because the events are very exciting and intresting people may want to know more what happen on the planet Venus.
In conclusion Venus is worth studying beacuse of the exciting events that take places. Also because of how Venus is the only planet in the solar system to be like earth and people may want to learn more about how they are so similar. Despite all of the dangers Venus presents its actally worth studying because you dont have to visit the planet all you have to do is learn more about the planet and learn why its so dangerous or why its like earth and why 3 major events take place. | 3 |
a9e2391 | Everyday technology is becoming more and more elabrate. Some of the things humans are creating are phenominal, and some of the creations are junk. All the new idea flooding out of our minds dayley are deffinatly changing our tomorrow, but one in particular that could change us forever are driverless cars.
Scientist are slowly creating cars that will no longer need a driver. They are creating sensors all around the car that detect anything comming twoards them. They have yet to perfect these cars because they can't get the computer to understand the skills of driving in traffic, or anything unusual about the road like road blocks. Also many states will not agree to even let them test these vehicles there because the law states "the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." (P9 L4/5)
Personally I do not think this creation is one of our better ideas. I do not like this idea because I love driving. I love being able to take control of my car and make it go as fast or slow as I want. Driving is a great responsiblity to have. I just don't see how letting a machine do everything for us is fun. Also these driverless cars are "something that was simply too expensive to be practical" (P3 L11/12) All the money put into these cars would make them nearly impossible to buy to about anyone who is not rich.
Many other people will deffinatly disagree with me, and they might say that this will be a much safer alternative. Yes, it could be much safer because we would not have to worry about texting and driving, drunk driving, or any type of reckless driving. What happens if that computer in your car stops work that one time, that time that you had your face burried in your phone or you were drunk.
I am deffinatly not trying to say that these cars are a horrible idea because I see how they could come in handy. I just believe that technology like this takes the fun away during everyday life. I believe these driverless cars could not only be taking away from our fun, but they could possibley even take away from our safety. We never know how well these computers will work, and if they fail to work it might be devestatlng. We are not just talking about the machines getting damaged anymore we are taking about us, humans, becoming injured or even dead. | 4 |
a9e55ea | Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a world with not a lot of car usage? Imagine never driving but walking or ridding a bike to any place you would want to go to. The mall, grocery store, movies all a small walking distance away. That would be great right? You'd be helping yourself and the world by making you fit and the world's pollution decrees. That sound interesting I feel like the world is slowly coming to a stopping point with car use.
A world with cleaner air is what we would have if everyone limited the use of their cars. According to " In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal " Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the united states." The United States produces a greater amount of greenhouse gasses. If we limited the use of our cars the United States would have better air making the United States a better place to live. The United States has a very large number of people already pulling away from using cars. According to " The End of Car Culture" by Elisabeth Rosenthal." Americans are buying fewer cars,driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." Cars are not needed for everyday use because people seem to get around greatly.
Limiting the use of you care can greatly help everyone. The United States has a very large amount of unhealthy people. People who don't get to walk or do fitness regularly to be able to stay healthy and fit. Having limited the use of your car it would as help you mentally. In the article "In Germany Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal Heidrun Walter a mother of two says " When i had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way." If a mother of two says that not using her car makes her happier. In the article "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota." by Andrew selsky a businessman said " It's a good way to take away stress and lower air pollution." So if you ask me the would would be better without using cars everyday it's a win win situation.
People all around the world are taking part in limiting the use of cars. People from Colombia to Pairs to Germany. People all over the word are all trying to help out the world by limiting the use of cars. In the article " Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" by Andrew Selsky the author talks about how everyone took a "car free" This was Bogota's third straight year of no car day the only cars that were allowed to be on the road were those of busies or taxis. The violators that drove their car are faced with a fine of $25. In the text of "The end of car culture" by Elisabeth Rosenthal. She says that the worlds car culture is slowly coming to a end fewer people are getting their licenses and more are organizing their social lives and summer jobs around where they could was or take a buss to.
The world is on a better path with people trying to limit the use of their cars. The world gets better and so do you. In the articel "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota " by Andrew Selsky says that the business in the small town have also boomed " Parks and sports centers also have boomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic; and new restraints and up scale shopping districts have cropped up." So if everyone limited the use of their cars the everyone would win. So what comes now that the world is limiting the use of cars? | 5 |
a9e6fc3 | Dear,state senator i think that we should change to the popular vote because everyone might like that presdent because he promises a lot of changes for us. With the electoral college it does not go down that way the people of the state dont get for the president the electors do and it is sectiond by them to. Under the electoral college voters dont vote for the persident they vote for a state of electors.
I think we should change to the most popular vote because the people dint have any say if we keep the electoral college. The people dont even get to vote with the electoral college they just vote for electors who then vote for the president. Over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the one we have now because they dont even have a say in what they think who should be the president the vote for other people to do that for them. With the electorla college our state only gets a certine number of electros if we change to the popular vote everyone in our state can vote not just a certine number of people. When it comes to vote we vote for members in congress to do the voting for us.
I think we should change to the most popular vote. Under the electoral college voters don't vote for the president but vote for a state for electors. If you were in texes and wanted to vote for john kerry you would be voting for 34 Democratic electors pledge to kerry. On the off chance if kerry won the state wide vote the 34 Democratic electors would go to congress and kerry would get 34 electoral votes now that is a little riduculos. Sometimes voters get confused about the electors and chose the wrong one.
There are some up sides to keeping the elctoral college. There is almost allways a certine out come for a winner. With the electoral college everyone votes not just a region. With the electoral college who ever has the most votes in that state wins that state. With the electoral college it helps find a winner in close electoral states. The electoral college avoids problems in which no candidate receives a majority votes cast. I still think we should still change.
I think we should change because not eveyone votes. With the electoral college you don't even get to vote for the president but only vote for a state of electors who then votes for the president. I think we should change because i dont like the idea that we dont even get a say who our president is only electors vote for the president. I think we should change because if some one wins the state wide election they get all the electoral votes for example if there are 34 democratic electors and some one wins the state wide election they get 34 electoral votes. When it comes time to vote i think that everyone should have a say dont you. | 3 |
a9e8063 | In the passage "Driverless cars are coming", there are many faults, but postive details as well. I am against the driverless cars idea ,because i feel like it has many fault,not really a "driverless car",and is not prefected enough.
I am against "driverless cars", because its programming has many faults. In the passage they say that"The sensor werent there the computers werent there , and the mapping wasnt there.". That shows that the cars still need a lot of work on becoming "driverless" persay. Not only did they have technology issues it has cost issues. The prompt Paragraph 6 States that "Radar was a device on hilltop that cost 200 million dollars."it wasnt somthing you could buy at Radio Shack". The technology that you would need is not cost effective or ready to hit the streets until they get some of the kinks out.
My Second reason for being against "driverless cars" is , because the car is really not "driver less". in The passage it says" In fact, none of the cars developed are completely driverless". the cars need actual humans to assist the car because the car is not programed for traffic or road blocks. Even in the passage it says"This means the human driver must remain alert and be able to take over when a situation require'. You can not simply take a nap and the car will get you to where you need to go you have to say awake and pay attention incase of rerouting.
Thirdly I strong am against the "driverless car" because its not perfected enough. The car doesnt abide by the United States laws in more then one State in the passage it states the "in most states even to TEST a computer driven car is ILLEGAL". California ,Nevada,Florida and even District of Columbia have led the country in allowing limited use of semi-autonomous cars due to the fact of driving laws. THe main idea of the laws are to keep people safe and not in accidents and hurting others. Even if they were legal it says "Even if traffic laws change,new laws will be needed in oreder to cover liability in the case of an accident.
In Conclusion "Driverless cars has many faults, not really a driverless car ,and isn't perfected enought to put on the rode. if the technology fails and somone is injured. Who is at fault the driver or the manufacturer? could you live with creating somthing and somone dies at your fault? its up to you you have to decide. | 4 |
a9ea066 | As I read "The challenge of Exploring Venus " I feel as the main idea is to get people to understand that it is kind aimpossible to get to Venus. It is bassically dangerous to visit because its so close to earth but at the same time so far from it. Earth,Venus & Mars are all close together on the solar system but in real life its impossible to visit all 3 like we could visit states in one day. The authore really wants us to understand how interesting that Venus is because it holds alot of carbon dioxide in bankets,its beyond hot but cold in Venus,and is the biggest planets on the solar system. In the passage, The NASA wants to send people to venus to check out the planet because no human has yet to visit Venus in the last 3 decades. " Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life ." That should just explain to you that Venus is very large soit will definitly take awhile to get there.Hopefully one day in the future the NASA will achieve and get somebody up there to other planets and can show us other non astronstunats what it is like. | 2 |
a9ea38e | The "face" on Mars has become something of an controversy since an image of it was released back in 1976. The fact that people to this day believe it is still something created by ancient alien life bewilders NASA. Conspiracy theorists have concoted thousands of theories relating to NASA withholding information about extra-terrestrial life from the general public. None of which, have ever been proven, and/or ever had any solid evidence to back them up. Therefore, the face on mars is not the result of extra terrestrial life, but more of the result of hundreds of years of weathering and shaping.
As stated above, many conspiracy theorists believe that the "face" on Mars is the result of an utterly alien civilization. That is just not true. They accuse NASA of trying to hide it, yet, there is no evidence to support this. The discovery of an ancient alien civilization would greatly benefit NASA. The amount of funding and support they would recieve would be massive. Those within NASA's ranks that believe there is extra-terrestrial life out in space would have reached their lifelong goal of discovering it. There would be a huge incline of investors and programs willing to support and back-up NASA in all their endevours. Therefore, if NASA concluded that this "face," was the creation of an ancient alien civilization, they would have no reason to put their finding out there into the public, without stating what they believed it truly is.
Another piece of evidence for the "face" just being a naturally formed feature, such as a butte or a mesa, is probably the most obvious fact. If NASA didn't want people to know about it, they would not have had it published for the general public's viewing. If NASA didn't want people to know that they had found evidence of an alien civilization, would they publish it and try to get people to believe that it was a natural formation? Of course not! It would have been a lot simpler to withhold the image and keep it secret rather than publish it. People make mistakes, but such a large government company such as NASA would have thought a little bit more before they published a picture they didn't want out there.
Finally, the last piece of evidence is another obvious one. Back in the 1970's, we did not have the sort of technology we have nowadays. The cameras were not as sharp and nowhere near the amount of pixels today's photography equipment has. The "face" was photographed twice more after the original image surfaced in 1976. The first picture was very blurry and was the main reason that people belived it was that of an alien civilization. In the original photograph, each pixel spanned about 43 meters, versus 2001's 1.56 meters. The second picture taken was a lot less blurry, and was taken in 1998. It showed a lot more and a allowed for almost no question that it wasn't what NASA said it was. People were not convinced, due to the fact that it was taken during a cloudy season on Mars, and was said to have obscured markings that might have led to it being identified as alien. The last picture was taken in 2001. There is no question with this picture. It clearly shows a natural landform with no strange markings and/or features.
The face on mars is not the result of extra terrestrial life, but more of the result of hundreds of years of weathering and shaping. After years of doubt, it is quite obvious that Mars' "face" is simply a natural formation. It is time for conspiracy theorists to put to rest their old, worn out ideas in favor of noble pursuits that can be backed up by solid evidence and scientific fact. It turns out, Mars's "face," is nothing more than it's butte. | 6 |
a9ec2f7 | In this New Age People are starting to realize that drving car is really bad for the enviroment. They realize that there is a better way to get to point A to point B. Alternative transportation. For example In Vauban, Germany Residents of this city has made this city into a Car Free city. They use bicycles or they walk to their destination. this has reduced the air pollution of their area immensily. This has been a growing trend in Europe and it has been getting heard about around the world. They call it Smart Planning.
In Paris, France The population has reached record high polution for the amount of driving. Paris enforced a partial driving ban to try to clear the emmisions and pollution of Paris. On Monday people with even numbered liscence plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or pay a 31 dollar fine. The same would apply the next day to the odd liscence plates. This was very effective because about 60 percent of traffic was reduced in Paris andafter a week or so the smog was reducing and the city of Paris was becoming cleaner.
Another example is in Bogota, Colombia. They have a catr free day every year where evrybody in the capitol city would not be allowed to drive a single car except for city buses and taxis. Every body was crowding the streets with bicycles or walking to where they had to go. Everybody seemed happy and relaxed. Other neighboring major cities in Colombia had started to do it to and it is sparking a revolution across the whole continent to make a free car day. Many recreation centers and shopping centers have risen and flourished. New sidewalks and roads have been reeplaced with new even surfaces and it just keeps growing every year.
As a result there are many ways to change this unsafe enviroment of car pollution. And reducing Car emmisions will be a huge difference in our enviroment. But everything starts out with ourselves to make a change in the world and if we can work together to make this change the world will become a better, and safer place for us. | 2 |
a9f0b6b | limiting car usage can be a great thing to. Lowering the usage of your car can help you get more of an active lifestyle,cuts down on polution and it makes a person more happier.
In vauban, Germany people of a upscale community are suburban pioneers, they are giving up there cars. Vauban's streets are completely car free."Car ownership is allowed, but there are only two places to park"...Owners can buy a space at a parking garage for $40,000 along with a home. Heidrun Walter said 'when i had a car I was always so tense. I'm much happier this way."
After day's with near-record pollution in Paris. They inforced a partial driving ban to clear air of the global city. On monday motorists withe enen numbered livense plates were ordered to leave there cars at yhome or fave a 22 euro fine ($31). It would happen to od numbered plates the following day. The smog rivaled Bejing, china which is known to be the most poluted areas of the world. Diesel was the big blame for it because france has a tax policy that favors diesel over regular. One week had 147 micrograms of particulate matterper cubic metter. Dilivery companys were complaining of lost revenue.
In Bogota, Columbia they have a car free day which is that millions of people drop there cars and hike,bikeor take busses to work or anywere. Violaters faced a $25 fine if they didnt comply. Parks and sports centers are blooming because of this day which means that people are choosing an active lifestyle. The rain was ok but it didnt stop anyone from participating.
In conclusion the car free way is the way to go it helps people be more active, cuts down on pollution and makes people more happier in general so i say put down the car keys and grab a bike and be happy. | 2 |
a9fbd0a | The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" said " Numerous factor constibute to Venu's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite it's proximity to us." One of the reasons why the author said that is more than three decades ago not one single spaceship has touched down on Venus. No spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. It has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely.
Some facts about Venus is that sometimes it's called the "Evening Star". Venus is one of the brightest point of light in the night sky. Venus is the second planet from the sun. Its often referred to as Earth's "twin". It's the closest planet to Earth interms of density and size and tye closest in distance too.
As people may think Venus is just a normal planet that spacecrafts can go to and explor the planet, but thats wrong. On the planet's surface, temperature average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what people in Earth experience. The conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus.
As what the author wrote, all the reason and evidence explains that Venus is a really dangerous planet for people to land on the planet and study it without surviving. | 3 |
a9fc13b | Revealing the Face
Have you ever heard of the "Face on Mars"? Well I have. I'm actually a scientist that works for NASA. As a scientist we are constantly getting information from people about their thoughts on the Face on Mars. We get many suggestions, such as the face being created by aliens. Well as a scientist I'm here to tell you it was not created by aliens.
This face on Mars was not created by aliens, but was created by nature itself. The Face on Mars is a natural landform. I know this because as a scientist of NASA we believe this face is just a huge rock formation. This rock resembles a human head. The human head formed by shadows, giving the illusion of eyes, a nose, and lastly a mouth. Many authors that have researched on this topic believe it will attract more attention to planet Mars.
The Face on Mars has became a very big deal. It has played a role in movies, showed up in magazine articles, and has been a topic on radio talk shows. Many people have come to conclusion that NASA would rather hid information about this such thing. But NASA just wishes that there was an ancient civilization on Mars.
Many people still believe that this artifact came for aliens, but few scientist and have come to believe this is true. NASA takes pictures of the Face on Mars but many aren't satisfied by the quality of the pictures. As a scientist at NASA it is very challenging to capture a good photo because this face is located 41 degrees north martian latitude. This means that the camera has to peer through many wispy clouds to catch the face.
We scientist at NASA have come to conclusion that this Face on Mars isn't created by aliens because of those reasons. Although many others may disagree and believe NASA is hiding information on this artifact. As a scientist that works for NASA, we will continue to look more into this specific topic and hopefully be able to know for a fact that this is created by landform and not aliens. | 4 |
aa03232 | Mona Lisa's 83 percent happy, 9 parcent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal," observes Dr. Huang, "even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression." in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa. In fact, we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day. For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face.
Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinchi studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convery specific emotions. His new computer software stores smilar anatomical information as electronic code. Perhaps Dr. Huang's emotion algorithms are a different sort of "Da Vinci Code"! The Mona lisa demonstation is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much this computer can do. Imagine a computer that knows when you're happy or sad. The muscles called orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus make crow's-feet around my eyes. The muscles will not make lie, so Mona Lisa have wonder parts of human. Empathy may happen because we unconsciously imitate another person's facial expressions. Whoever thought that making faces could reveal so much about the science of emotions.
These are essay, so we can know the Dr., Hung and The Vinci are so good person and very smart because my summary shows that.
I thought the Mona Lisa had not alive at their time, so she is just picuture.
I will find some good art. It will be better than Mona Lisa. We colud get informatin if we have science knowlende. I understood the art world of little. | 1 |
aa04729 | There is many wys a diverless car could be good and bad.
I willl be viewing how it can be good, bad, and my thoughts about driverless cars.
There is a big change that might happen about cars driving themselves to get us and take us to placeswe need to be.
Theres many ways a driverless car can support the driver.
One way it can support the driver is if the driver is very tired, the driver can sleep as the car takes them to where they need to go.
That helps the dangers of falling asleep behind the wheel.
Another way it helps the driver is if the driver is injured and cant drive.
It will help them by getting them to where they need to go with no pain.
There is good and supporting ways a driverless car can be useful.
There is many ways a driverless car can be bad.
One of the ways it can be bad is if we have driverless cars soon the young kids wont need to learn to drive, untill you have to drive the car because somthing goes wrong.
So the problem is what happens when a person behind the wheel doesnt have a license?
Does it danger the other drivers aswell?
Another point is what if the car wrecks, how do we know whos fault it is? The driver or the driverless car?
I think that our world shouldn'thave driverless cars.
I say that because I think it will put our lives at a greater rish than they are now operating a car.
What will hapen if we get hurt while the driverless car is in control?
Theres way too many questions about this type of change that makes me not agree with it.
I can see some ways it can support people but I see those people as lazy.
How will the car know where to pick you up from?
I understand how auto breaks and alerts help us but i just don't see driverless cars becoming a thing.
I have shared the good, bad, and my thought about driverless cars.
There is many ways it supports and many ways it doesn't.
How much change will happen?
Do you think driverless car will help or hurt our world? | 2 |
aa0bd36 | Do you think driverless cars are better than regular cars ?
If you ask me i think regular cars are better. I also think driverless cars are dangerous. Im going to give you few details why i think regular car are better and driverless cars are dangerous.
My first reason i think regular cars are better is because when driving a regular car you have to pay attention. If your car drive by itself you can lose focus and forget where you was trying to go. Its say in paragraph nine that in five different states its illegal to test computer driven cars. My last reason i like regular cars because it keeps people active.
I think driverless cars are dangerous because it has way more technolgy. If driving and you car glitch and brake on it on it may cause accident. Another reason i think its dangerous is because with all that technolgy it can cause a easy fire.
Those are my reasons i think regular cars are better, and driverless cars useless if you still have to put gas in it. Now write me a essay on if you think driverless cars are better then regular cars. | 2 |
aa1175f | Dear state senator,
I believe that keeping the Electoral College is a good idea but I also think that changing to the popular vote is also a great idea. I think we should stick with the Electoral College because you vote for your president, vice president, electors, and where the electors meet all at the same time. I don't think we should change it to the popular vote because then it wouldn't be fair on the people thats running for president or electors, we also wouldn't be able to vote for everything all at once so it would make things very difficult.
Sticking with the Electoral College would be the best fit in my opinon. I believe its best to stick with because everybody knows how to use it, its been aroud for many years and it has always worked perfectly fine and has been fair. Under the 23rd Amendement of the Constitution, the District of Columbia is allowed to have three electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College. The eletoral college consists of 538 electors. The majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. If we switched to the popular vote, it would be nothing like how the Electoral College works. The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice pressident, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. I personally like the way the Electoral College is ran/worked and thats why I feel like its best to keep it the way it has been for many, many years.
If we are to switch to the popular vote, people would b fighting and arguing constantly, there would be no piece. I dont believe anybody would be happy because thats not a fair way to choose how our President, Vice president and the Representatives should be picked. We pick a new president every four years so why don't we just keep it the way it been for a long time so we don't mess everybody up on their decisions. Another reaosn why I don't care to switch is because what if we run into a run-off election. If we run into one of those it would be hard to get out of it just because we wouldn't know what to do. Popular vote would also run us into " swing votes. " If we were to get stuck in a swing vote, everybody would have to re vote and then pray it dosen't happen again.
Now that I have explained myself in much detail on why I think the Electoral College should stay the same, and why the Popular vote should be thrown in the garbage, please take what I said into concideration. I'm sure I could be wrong on a lot of things but I hope I got my point out and accros on why other people and myself think it should stay the same.
Sinceraly,
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
aa14b2b | The electoral college is one of the most heavily criticized institutions in the American government system. It has been considered outdated and anti-democratic. However, without it, the balance of power in America would be skewed to an unacceptable degree. States with large populations would be disproportionately empowered, without the electoral college. This leaves the smaller states' existence to be controlled by the larger states, to the dismay of the American economy and people.
As it stands, most states vote in a way that presents a united front of electors to the electoral college. If just over half of the Californian voters vote for one candidate that they think would represent their interests, the map in source 3 shows that all 55 electors will present their votes to the college. It is better for California to be represented in this way so that the Californian economy would not be adversely effected by their minority voters. That sort of united front is beneficial to every state in the union, for the same reason.
The argument that the electoral college discourages voters of the minority party to vote is a valid criticism, but it is a problem that can be solved without the loss of the electoral college. Compulsory voting would be far more effective if voter turnout is an issue. People who would not have voted otherwise would still likely vote for the candidate they supported if voting was made mandatory.
In source 2, Bradford Plumer expressed dissatisfaction with the way political campaigns involving the electoral college focus on swing states rather than allowing equal debate in all states, but that does not make for a less desirable outcome. Dissolving the electoral college would make swing states irrelevant to presidential elections, as it'd be impossible to win votes in those states by any decent margin. Instead, campaigns would focus on the areas in which they already have an agreeable population, as to encourage them to vote, and get the most voters possible, using their resources. Trying to win states, rather than population, allows for voters to be more informed.
The electoral college might not be the best potential method for presidential elections. It is, however, far more desirable for such a large country than popular vote. Popular vote would lead to neglecting many areas of the economy that are important, but do not have a presence in states with large populations. It would make elections more one sided for each state at the same time. The problems the opponents say abolishing it would fix, would be fixed without it, but doing so would create far more problems than it solved. It is also easy enough to fix the same problems without abolishing the electoral college. | 5 |
aa15257 | Researchers, scientisits, car makers, they all have been trying to make a car that has special features such as drivless cars. Sure it is great to have a car that just drives by itself rather than someone driving it, it can also be very dangerous.
Almost every sngle person has their own crazy, awesome ideas, and when they have that idea, of course they want to create that idea. In this case smart cars that do not require drivers. Although google is already making new cars that have smart and futuristic feautures, they still have not developed a car that does not require a driver, yet. We all know that technology has been rapidly developing today, and without technology, it is has do imagine today's world. What will we do without cars? Will we walk 200 or 20000 miles? No. So to think about it, it is hard to do what we do without technology or without someones crazy idea.
In paragraph 3, it says that people started trying to develop their own ideas on cars since late 1950s. Such as electrical cable cars or cars that use magnetic feilds to move, it worked out fairly well but it was too expensive to cover the costs. I think it will
be the same for driverless cars, it might work out well but it will be too expensive. To make the driver less carm it will either take few years or it will take decades to make them.
Now for people who do not like driving, driverless cars be an advantage for them. We all know that driving can be tiring or boring sometimes so having a driverless car would be nice and driving will be more fun to have the car to move itself just like Dr. Werner Huber said. However, if people are going to make of one these cars, it has to be safe, safety is a big concern for everyone. As today, people are trying and making cars that move by itslef and when the driver wants to drive, it can be turned off.
Although automakers are still trying to make an ideal car that moves by itself as soon as they can, I think that it is wrong to make this kind of car. To safelt drive a car, I think that the driver should drive the car, not just autopilot driving the car as in the traffic law. But to really make a choice, I think that it is better to wait for the automakers to make the car and have them test it so we all can make our choices. | 4 |
aa22161 | The face of Mars is a landform in the region of Mars called Cydonia. Because of limited photographic resolution at the time, the Viking 1 photo from 1976 makes it look like a face. Some people say that the face was made by aliens, but there is scientific evidence against this.
The reason it looks like a face is because the 1976 photograph was blurred. A later photo taken in 1998 makes it look less like a face, but some claimed it may still be a face due to the fact that the photo was taken in cloudy weather. In 2001, a photo was taken that did not look like a face at all, but a natural landform such as a butte or mesa. It is unlikely that aliens would make a landform like this, because it has no actual structure. Statues and monuments made by humans are meant to look like something and tend to be uniform in shape. The Face on Mars, in more recent photographs, doesn't look like anything but what it probably is, which is a natural landform.
Another reason it is probably a natural landform is because theories that it was made by aliens were created purely by the public. There is no actual evidence that would suggest that the the face on Mars was made by anything that was alive, other than the fact that a blurry photograph taken 40 years ago makes it look like a face. There is not any evidence to suggest that Mars would have even been able to support life in the past or is able to support it now.
The evidence against the Face on Mars being made by aliens or an ancient civilization on Mars is far too substantial to be dismissed in favor of speculation by conspiracy theorists or depictions of it in fictional movies. In fact, the face on Mars strongly resembles landforms on Earth that were formed naturally. The most likely explanation for the face is that it's a natural formation that looked like a face in a photograph, and that anything special about it is purely speculated. It is completely illogical to think that an optical illusion means anything, and until there is evidence to suggest that it isn't, the Face on Mars is probably nothing more than a hill. | 4 |
aa23394 | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" The is different attemps and making people smile. A human body feels what it feels and I do not think you can read somones mind. In my believe I think that the technology is good enough to be able to tell a humans emotions.
In the world today there are so many different people out there, some suffer from bipolar deprestion and some just hate the world. To get technology to be able to read someones mind and tell me wheather or not they are happy, sad, mad what ever ther cause is I just dont believe it. Like the story saying In the first paragraph in the first sentence, "She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disguted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." I think that all this would be is a couple number put together to equal your 100 percent emoions.
This is why I disagure with the technology, because If a human can not tell you exacly what emotios they are feeling then how can technology. | 2 |
aa24022 | The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" suggests that Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. From the dangers said in the article, it's more supporting the reasons as to why scientists shoud not pay a visit to Venus. Before a reader can make their decision, the last point made in the article has said that dangers should not limit anyone pursuing a goal. While that statement has been said, there is more mention of the pessimistic side thorughout the entire article. Said author has supported the idea of exploring Venus in poorly way.
At the beginning, it has introduced Venus to be peaceful on the outside. As the author describes the weather conditions beyond the clouds, danger lies ahead. Readers will think to themselves that the article is trying to pursuade them not to visit Venus. In the article, "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades," (2) the author has described the risks all the way until paragraph 5. It isn't until the ending of paragraph six when the author tries to start pursuading to the reader that there are solutions hastily.
Beginning or paragraph seven in the article, the author wrote about the new technology that could advance if scientists were to visit Venus. While this can be pursuading, only new technology and knowledge will be found. According to the article, "Just imagine exposing a cell phone or tablet to acid or heat capable of melting tin," (7) it will be difficult if Venus has melted the robots sent there. If the author had been more pursuasive when they mentioned the possibility of creating new technology, then the negativity would have been beneath.
Last of all, paragraph eight has the smallest paragraph out of all. The author explains that curiousity will drive scientists to meet the challenges of Venus. It can be infered to the readers that the author has made little pursuation upon taking on Venus. In the article, "...human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors," the author did not support their idea for this section. Reading the last paragraph is not enough to truly support the idea of exploring Venus any further due to the lack of motivation.
Author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" has not supported the idea thoroughly. With too much description of the weather, their pursuation not enough to support their idea, and their lack of motivation, the readers can infer that this article is not well supporting the main idea of visiting Venus. Readers can misunderstand the message at the beginning. The author could have lossened the negativity and add more reasons as to why visiting Venus is important. | 5 |
aa29a15 | In the passage "Unmasking the Face on Mars"
a long time ago NASA's Viking spacecraft went around taking pictures of the planet Mars. They caught something incredible a face. Known as face on Mars. Many believed it was an alien artifact or something built by the aliens but im here to tell you its not.
On April 5, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor, took pictures of the "red planet" and proved everyone wrong. The face was just a rock with shadows casting over it making it look like it had facial features just like us humans. If the face was a human's then why can't they see the face all the times they fly over Mars? In the pictures provided you can tell that you can only see the face from a certain angle so where the shadows can cast over the rock formation.
It turns out that it was just a huge rock formation with shadows casting over it to make it look like it had eyes, nose, and a mouth. Malin's team even got a closer look at the face to gather more evidence and to see what else is on the rock formation. The picture they took didn't really show anything except the landscape. | 2 |
aa2c133 | Why the Facial Action Coding System Can Help the Young Schlolars of Today
The Facial Action Coding System is a new software from Prof. Thomas Huang and Prof. Nicu Sebe that can recognize human emotions. This invention was tested on Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa portrait. According to the software, Ms Mona Lisa is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. While the Facial Action Coding Systemmay seem like a high-tech toy, it could have some really important affects to help our schools. Having Prof. Huang's emotion detectors in classrooms would benefit the learning and success rates of students around the world.
The Facial Action Coding System could detect boredom in the classoom. When kids are bored in a classroom, they tend to tune out whatever lesson is being taught and then struggle to try to figure it out later. Boredom has a devastating consequences on today's students such as low test scores and poor grades. Prof. Huang predicts the Facial Action Coding System will help with this issue, saying "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." Teachers being able to see how their students are feeling would give them more insight to create lesson plans to engage all students and bring up test grades and overall GPA rates.
The Facial Action Coding System isnt only useful in grade school through high school, it would also be beneficial in colleges and post-degree programs. The emotion detector would be very useful in the law enforcement schooling and in Med School. In the law enforcement, professiosnals are often called to do interrogations and questionings of suspects and witnesses. The Facial Action Coding System could work hand in hand with lie detectors to make sure interrogators could get the full truth out of suspects. This would also help in their schooling by training future cops to be able to read key facal expressions for different feelings. According to Prof. Huang, "Most human communication is nonverbal,including emotional communication", making this resourse vital for cop trainees to fully understand how to properly get information out of suspects. In Med School, this softare could immensly help future surgeons in their practice. Prof. Huang said, "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive-for video games or video surgery." This could teach our future surgeons the different muscles of the face for possible surgical procegures and teach them how to read their patients emotions. Having this knowledge could help doctors find out how uncomfortable patients are pain wise and even how to properly help patients. Doctors need to have good communication skills to make sure their patients is proprly cared for and having the Facial Action Codng System in Med School would greatly help surgeons in their training.
The success rates of students would increase with Prof. Huang's emotion detector in classrooms around the world. The Facial Action Coding System is vital resource of the future. It has immense potential to better the schooling of the future generation and has great potential for the advancement of the professional fields of work. | 5 |
aa30a4b | The author suggest that studying Venus is worthy because it use to be just like earth and thers alot of things we still need to discover because it could be habbitable for humans to lie on it later in life and if with the right tecnology we could explore and learn about the planet more.
In paragraph 4 the text states "if our sister planet is so inhositable why are scientists even discusiing further visits to its surface? Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most earth like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth. Today, Venus still has some Earth like features that are analogeous to those on Earth. Also in paragraph 5 the text states " Solar power would be plentiful and radiation would exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions but surviable for humans.
thisa rpoves that venus is worth the pursuit despite the dangers it presents. | 2 |
aa3caf0 | I think driveless cars is a great idea in some ways. We certainly would have some complications and arguments. Driveless cars has some positive aspects such as using have the fuel we use today in taxis and offer more flexibility than a bus. Some other positve things is GM has developed driver's seat that vibrate when the car is in danger of backing into an object. The driveless car uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surrounding. There is also some negative or not so good parts of a driveless car. For example, incase of an emergency, we have to take over the "driveless car". There is no playing around which means we have to be focus at all times to be prepared for accidents or road construction. If there a accident, the argument will be if its the drivers fault or the manutacturer fault. That situation will be in a big debate. The cars 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 (7). Who knows if everyone in the future will have driveless cars. I think they would be useful for only certain people and not so much of everybody. | 2 |
aa4589f | I am clearly convinced that the Face on Mars that everyone believes is alien affiliated is just a natural landform. I believe that the Face is a natural land form because if NASA had proof that aliens created the Face or any alien life is found NASA would tell us.
First, I strongly think that NASA would tell us if there were aliens who created the Face because in paragraph 5, the author says, "Some people think the face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars, evidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorists. Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars." NASA actually says their hoping there is an alien civilization on Mars and they shared pictures of the Face to the world so that shows they would be excited to tell us if our thoughts of extra terestrial life were real. Also, in paragraph
NASA puts under the description of the picture that it is just a huge rock fomation and the shadow in the picture just gives the illusion of a face.
NASA always keeps us posted on pictures and information, they tell the world through pictures and research what's going on in outside of Earth like the pictures from the Viking 1 in 1976, the Mars Global surveyor picture from 1998, and the 2001 picture from the latest MGS. If NASA did not want the world to know about these things they wouldnt tell us at all what's going on but they do because they want us to be interested.
In conclusion, I am clearly convinced that the Face is a natural landform because NASA woud inform us if there were alien affairs taking place on Mars. | 3 |
aa4d178 | Although it seems that the main reason for trying to explore and study Venus is just to learn more about the planet, however the author does have another reason. They believe that exploring Venus will allow the human race to conduct more dangerous missions. The author mentions several improvement to our technology and methods of exploration that are proving to be more usefull in trying to learn more about Venus.
Firstly, the author mentions that Venus is the planet most similar to Earth, however, it is more dangerous. In Paragraph 3, it is mentioned that the planet's surface temperature can reach 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmosphere is almost completely made of carbon dioxide making it inhabiltal. Yet, the author mentions several ways that NASA is trying to overcome these obstacles. To begin with, in Paragraph 5, it is mention that NASA believes that a possible solution could be creating a vehicle that would hover about 30 miles above the surface. This vehicle would allow astronauts to remain near Venus without having to stay on the planet's dangerous surface. However this idea won't actually help astronauts study Venus, since the dense atmosphere won't allow any visible sign of the surface without getting closer. Although unable to help astronauts to actually explore Venus, this vehicle can be used as a type of station or base near Venus to collect research or as shelter to the astronauts. This vehicle could be used on different planets as well; eventually, there could be a base on any planet that is too dangerous for mankind. This could be one of the many possible ways to improve our abilities for future space travel. Improvements like these are why the author believes that the human race should continue to try to study Venus.
More important changes for space exploration are the improvements in out technology.
In Paragraph 6 it is mentioned that our current forms of taking pictures and videos can't be used unless close to the ground; however, the materials for these devices would melt if they're too close to the surface. For planets similar to Venus, with hazardes surfaces and inmense heat, a possible solution can be using old technology. Looking back at the article, in Paragraph 7 some simplified devices last longer in conditions resembling Venus. Another use of simplier and older technology can be the use of mechanical computers to send and collect information. Since these computers don't require electronics to work they can be built of stronger materials that can overcome all the challenges found on Venus. Like mentioned in the previous paragraph, these new changes are why the author believes that mankind should keep trying to explore Venus because it will all help in future explorations to similarly dangerous planets.
In conclusion, the author supports the idea that studying Venus is worth persuing despite the dangers because it can help in trying to explore similar planets. The advances that are made in trying to explore Venus can change the future of space travel in ways never seen before. These new explorations can lead the human race to explore the entire galaxy and maybe find life within the stars. | 4 |
aa4f2ff | dear state senator, in my opinion, i would want to keep the electoral college, because the electoral college been around since our founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise. it consist of a presidency election on which who wants to be in office. for instance each candidate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors. which electors are choosen by the political party. you ahhve a right to vote. you can help choose your state's electors when you vote. because when you vote your actually voting for your canidate's electors to help them out.
in your state it shows which electors will represent your state at the meeting of the electors in december of the election year. but then if you think of its actually wrong because its of how many votes can the electors can get not the president. after the presidential election, your state governor prepares a 'certificate of ascerainment'.
over 60% of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we would want to have. this year voters can exspect another close election in which popular vote winner could again lose the presidency, but yet the electoral college has it defenders.
for example like obama had 61.7% of voters against romney who had 51.3% of votes but people say it was a tie which most likely i disagree on that. becuase its a like a win or lose game who ever wins gets the treatment, but really the president doesnt really dont do nothing. | 1 |
aa4ff63 | It is a trep of a liveftime. It can take you on a trip arond the wold. If you like fram anmals you wolud like this tripe on a Cattle boat.
If you are a caring person you would like this tripe.
You would be helping ather countries recover ther food supples and animals.
You can see many things incoieding Italy.
City with streets of water and ivein an castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal. If i could go I would go to Italy and see the city of Rome. If you are a sae going cowboy you schud go ahad and triy this. It is hard to be on a ship for a wil but if you are willing to halp we will esated.
It is the trip of a life time so you shoud go on the cattle baot.
The cattle boat trips were an unbeliveble opportunning.
This is a trip you can not refus.
The cowboys played games on the cattl boat like base ball and volleyball games.
number of famles halp spred a ware nes to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years. | 2 |
aa514e3 | Even though Venus is the "sister planet" of Earth and is closer than Mars, it has a extreme environment. Dispite the environment, studying Venus may help us develop better space travel and planet colonizalion in the future to help our human speices as a whole to evolve and adpat to much harsher encironments than we are used to. Venus may help us learn about how the universe, our solar system, and galaxy were made.
Venus might have alloys and metals that don't exist on Earth. Venus might be the first step to colonization of our solar system. It will improve our space craft knowlegde so we can be ready for the unpredictable environments on other planets. Who knows we may colonize Venus then Mars. If we do colonize Venus, the human population will be able to expand without over-populating Earth. With our knowledge of Venus traveling to other planets will be easier, because of the exploration to Venus the hull, or outer plating, of the craft would be able to withstand extreme temperatures, harsh weather conditions and extreme pressure.
Even though Venus is harsh, I believe that we would be able to over come this challenge and be ready to take on the next one head first with a better understanding of what to expect.
If we are able to get rovers, space crafts, and/or people on Venus, it may help us learn about our solar system and if aliens did one live in this solar system before we did and if so what happened to them and where did they go. Venus is still a mystery to us. Who knows what lives down on that alien, unknown, surface. Venus might be a key to unlocking the secrects of our solar system.
In conclusion, Venus is a worthy pursuit despite its environmental dangers that it holds under and in its atmosphere. It may be the first step to the human race as a whole to live on other planets and explore the galaxy we call home. | 3 |
aa51a19 | Why should you join the Seagoing Cowboys program? There are many different reasons you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. Some of the reasons you should join I am about to tell you.
The first you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is so you could help people over seas and in other countries. A boy named Luke Bomberger got to do all of the things that you could be able to do, by joining the Seagoing Cowboys program.
The next reason you should join the program, is that you could get to see many unique places all over the world. A lot of people do not get to see some of the things that you could be able to see during the Seagoing Cowboys program. After the animals are unloaded and you have some free time, you could so site seeing and do all of it for free! Luke Bomberger got to do this while visiting many different countries for free. Now that is a once in a lifetime opportunity.
Another reason you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is that you could travel all over the world for free! That is a once in a lifetime opportunity. You don't get to travel to places for free very often. Luke Bomberger had the chance to go to many different countries and see many different things in those countries.
The fourth reason you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program; is that when you are in the different countries and you have freetime over in those places, is that you can meet people and learn their about cutures. Luke got to go see and meet new people during his free time while people were still unloading the animals, and probably learned new things about those peoples cultures too.
One of the other reason that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is that you can learn a lot of survival skills on the ships that you are on. If you ever are a capatin of a ship in the Seagoing Cowboys program or in any program, is that you will already know how to control a ship, keep your ship members in order, and know what to do when you are on that ship. Luke Bomberger got to learn a few things on how to contol a ship and what to do when a storm hits and you sail right through the storm.
The sixth reason that you should join the program is that you could meet new people on the ship and get to know them. A lot of people do not have friends or just want to be more social. A way you could do that is by joining the program. After all of the animals are unloaded and you are heading back to your home to pick up more animals, you could play games with some of your ship members. Luke Bomberger got to meet new people and probably made some new friends while on some of those trips, even though he already had a friend that was going with him on the ships and things.
The last reason you should join the Seagoing Cowboys is that you can spend a lot of time with animals. After you are finished with the program, and you need to find a job, you could open a new farm and already know how to take care of most of your animals. When Luke was on the ship he already knew how to take care of the animals but he probable go to learn new things on how to take care of them.
Those are the reasons why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. You get to help people, see unique places, you could travel all ofver the world, you get to learn about peoples cultures, you can learn a alot of survival skills, you can meet new people on the ship and make friends, and you get to learn a lot about animals and how to take care of them. Those are some of the many reasons you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 4 |
aa52b3b | I don't think there should be a limit on car usage if you bought it you can ride till the wheels fall off it's your propery but also recent studies suggest that americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes. But America's love afair with it's vehicles seems to be cooling. When adjusted for population growth, the number of miles driven in the United States peeked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter, according to an analysis by Doug Short of Advisor Perspectives, an investment research company. as of April 2013,the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in January 1995. Part of the eplanation certainly lie in the recession, because cash-strapped Americans could not afford new cars, and the unemployed weren't going to work anyways. But by many measures the decrease in driving preceded the downturn and appears to be persisting now that recovery is under way. The next years will be telling. | 1 |
aa538cc | The Cars we drive today. The usage of car pollution each day we all drive? Do you know how many cars drive in a day and give off gasoline or d iesel and ect gases? Do you drive or do you know anyone that drive an their car gives off pollution? Do you think we the people all over the globe should just give up on cars.............? Let's see what others think about this?
First off, the way car usage is used today I believe we need to cut back on the car usage because as we the people are polluting the air with more toxic that may one day kill Man Kind. Another reason we the people of this globe shouldnt use car usage is in " Article one Source 1: "In Vauba, Germany residents of this upscale community like suberban pioneers for example few soccer moms and executives have givien up there cars". Why well I believe they have given up their cars because not only of the pollution that they can cause but they as people can also wall place instead of driving to places that were mainly just down the street why use gas when you can just walk. My second reason is why driving in Article 1: "Vauban, Germany when cars are only allowed in two places in Article one " Car ownership is allowed, but there are only two places to park-large garages at the edge of the development". The differences in Artice two: (My own words) Paris baned driving due to smog is because when you started up your car and it pushes out all that gas pollution afterwards that goes into the car put not knowing were its going someone could in heal that gas pollution and get sick. for instants " Diesel fuel was blamed, since France has.... atax policy that favors over gasoline" Let's just these gases is used to make up the car. In Article two"Diesel makes up 67% of vehicles in Framce, compared to a 53.3% average of diesel engines in the rest of Western Europe, according to reuters. Meaning the gas used for cars out of the united states for example like France and Europe uses for then we the people in the united states do.
Next off, in Article 3: In " BOGOTA, Colombia its a program that is set to spread to other countries, millions of colonbianss hiked, biked, skated, even took the busto work during a car-free day yesterday , leaving the streets of this capital city eerily deviod of traffic jams". In Article 3, as I have read in BOGOTA, Colombia the rush-hour restrctions have dramatically cut traffic even the restaurants andupscale shopping districts have cropped up majorally. In Article 4 " President Obama's ambitious goals to curb the united states greenhouse gas emissions". Now we are the next step to have or car usage rate dropped. | 2 |
aa5918f | Today, there are advance technology in the society such as computers, cars, cell phones, and etc but no one ever tried to develop an driverless cars. Today in our society, many people tried to develop new technologies because things are getting more advanced an effective. Driverless cars are one of their plan, where the cars has sensors and know what to do. I agree the development of driverless cars because the cars uses less fuel, less car accidents, and there is still alert in the car.
The driverless cars should be develop and introduced to the soiety because the cars uses less fuel than the cars we used today. The text states, "The cars he foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis." From this example we can tell that the cars is great because they used less fuel than the the cars we sued today. Thus, people do not have to worried about they will ran out the fuel when they're driving. Most of the people loved to use cars that used less fuels because they do not have to spend much money on the fuel. The text also states, "Offer far more flexibility than a bus." This example shows that the driverless cars have more rooms than a bus. People to sit in a place where there is not croweded because it's comfortable. Driverless cars solved the overcroweded the problem because it got more spaces. Thus, I agree the development of the cars.
While the driverless cars used less fuel, the cars can drive million miles without a crash. The text states, "Their cars have driven more than half million miles without a crush." This example tells us that the car is safer than the cars we drive today. If a car can drive million miles without any crashing then we considered it's an great car because most of the cars were not safe and it gets into car accident very often.
The most important is that there are still alert in the car. The text states, "...Google cars aren't truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of hallways." This example shows that when there is something happened to the car, the cars will alert the driver that there is something going on but most of the cars do not have that kind of technique. Second, the text states, "Dealing with comlicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents." This example shows that when there is an major accidents or traffic issues then the car will alert you to move out the car quickly before anything happened. In other hand, people disagree to develop the driverless cars. The text states, "Why would anyone want a driverless cars that still needs a driver?" They claimed that the driverless cars should do everything by itself instead having the dirver controlling it. They think there is no difference if we use a normal car. I disagree with them because it's safer if we have a real driver in the car, they'll prevent anything bad happened.
Driverless cars can have more advanced technique in the future when there are more people supporting it. Thus, we should not give up on developing the cars because the cars uses less fuel, less car accidents, and there are still alert in the car that helped people to know what happened. | 5 |
aa59609 | Dear mr. senator i think that we should keep the electoral college eclections. I believe the electoral college is a better system than any other. Some of my reasoning is it is the easiest way to elect someone. Second reason is it is very fast quick to elect. Final reason is it work fine. My mom always tells me you dont fix whats not broke. This method has worked for a very long time.
If a method like this has worked thid long i think we should keep it until it doesnt work. Then when it stops working we could start a new type of election. Many people have used this type of election the whole life and we still use it today so i think we should keep this way of our elections. The first reason is it one of the easiest ways to elcet. In the story it says the "electoral college process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors is where they vote for the president and vice president , and the counting of the electoral votes by congress.
My second reason is it is very fast. They get the electoral votes in and start counting. Within a couple of hours they have tha answer. they can find out who wins in just a couple of weeks. My final reason is it works good. If it didn't work good it still wouldn't be around today. in the story it says that the electoral college was established by our founding fathers. So i think this is the process we should use to elect our people even if it is still an old way of doing things. | 2 |
aa59c89 | Around the world, cars are being used every day to get to place to place. Cars are useful things that get us to places faster than public transportation, walking, biking, etc. But it doesnt seem to be worth all the things its causing. Pollution and smog carpet over cities because of all the car usage in such a small area. Sure cars are useful to going somewhere 20 or so miles away when there is no bus to bring you there, but do we really need them to go half a mile to get to work?
Many places have tried to reduce car usage, some even have special days where the complete ban them from being used. In Bogota, Colombia, for three straight years have had a day called "Day withough Cars". Only buses and taxis were permitted to drive on the roads on this day and anyone who decided to drive on their own, recived a $25 fine. Even when the rain came down, people didn't stop participating. Seeing the results, Colombian cites, Cali and Valledupar, also joined this event.
Some cites have big problems with smog and pollution from cars alone. After days of near-record pollution, Paris decided that it would be best to give the air some time to clear up. They enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air and it seemed to help. The ban was to decrease cars on the road by half, on Monday, drivers with odd-numbered license plates were allowed on the roads and the evens were told to leave their cars at home. The next day, the roles were switched and even though almost 4,000 drivers were fined and 72 people had their cars inpounded for the reactions to the fine, it helped.
In Vauban, Germany, They do allow cars, but it only has two parking spaces; large garages and at the edge of the development, which costs $40,000, along with a home. This place is an experimental district on the outskirts of Freiburg, near French and Swiss borders. 70 percent of the families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here. Citizens seem to be much more happy with the no car zone and seem to enjoy walking and biking from place to place. Vauban, along with its 5,500 residents, are the part of a trend in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere to seperate suburban from cars as a component of a movement called "smart planning".
Many countries and cities are trying to help reduce the use of cars and are doing as much as they can to help out with the pollution and smog. This is an important step to helping our enviorment and conserving the resouces we need to better our lives. This doesn't mean getting rid of cars completely, carpooling and more conservative driving would help a lot as well. Limiting car usage is something we all need to do to live a better life and help our world. | 2 |
aa59ea3 | The Author supports the Idea that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because they call venus the " the Evening Star"
it is one of the brightest points of the light in the sky . but it is very misleading because venus is actually a planet and because each mission they have done was umanned and not successful.
In the Article it says that " on the planet's surface tempetures average over 800 degrees fahrenniet " which means it doesn't matter if it gets that hot in venus they are still willing to study venus. either ways saying in the article " Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system even though mercury is closer to the sun." there are some very good reasons on why scientists want to explore venus another reason why is because there is some stuff that are similar to the earth's surface saying in the article " Today Venus still has some feautures that analogus to those on earth the planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familar features such as valley's mountains and craters "
In conclusion the author supports the idea that studying venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers such as NASA is working on other approaches to studying venus. | 2 |
aa5b031 | The Electoral College is a process put in place by the founding fathers as a compromise for the election of the President. It is a combination vote of the Congress and of the citizens of the United States. The Electoral College is on of the most disputed political topics right now. The electoral college is a proper method for electing presidents because it forces presidential candidates to have transregional appeal and it rules out the possibility of an election where neither candidate recieves the majority of the votes.
The Electoral College doesn't allow a candidate to win by gaining their electoral votes from one region. As stated in source 3, "no region has enough electoral votes to elect a president" meaning that if a candidate were to only campaign in a region that they knew would vot for them, then there is no possible way they would win. For example, in 2012 Mitt Romney was a favorite in the south so he had no incentive on campaigning heavily in other states because that he had won the south over completely. Not only did he not win a major electoral state, Florida, but he also didn't campaign in ohter states for which he gained no electoral votes. Even by some chance that they win, there is a very small chance of them being reelected because the regions that they didn't campaign in will feel disenfranchised and that will cause them not to vote for the president again. So if a candidate doesn't camapign in all regions that doesn't mean he won't win the election the first time, but he is likely to lose the reelection.
With the Electoral College process in place, it rules out the possibility of an candidate not winning the majority of the votes. For example, their have been two elections where a president only had 43 percent of the popular votes, which some people would think that would be enough, but the those presidents had the majority of the electoral votes which is what caused them to win. Even though there is a slight possibility of this happening, there are always those couple of states that are last minute decisions and are called "toss-up states" because nobody ever knows who will win that state over and it might be a state like Louisiana, who only has 8 eletoral votes but 8 votes is enough to break a tie and even win the election for someone.
On the other hand, some people might argue that the Electoral College method might turn off potential voters due to a candidate showing that they have no interest in carrying that state due to what party that state carries, but no one voter can decide an election, and that is because the voter doesn't vote for what president they want, but for what electors they want who in part will vote for the candidate. Though they have a valid arguement the Electoral College is still the right method for the job.
In conclusion, the Electoral College is the proper method because it forces presidents to campaign in multiple regions and it rules out the possibility of a tie in the election. The president is suppose to rule for the people and some people might not vote for a president just because they don't like them but with the Electoral College the right president wins. | 4 |
aa5c6ea | Most people might want to get rid of the Electoral College and change to popoular vote, because of how unfair, voters have no say so in who gets pick president.
One reason you might want to change to popular vote is because of how unfair they can be all because of the winner-takes-all system and this this system is in easch state, and because of that candidates dont spend time in states they know that wont vote for them. Just like you can't pick who you want your president to be.
Voters can't pick who they want their president to be its all the Electoral college. Voters don't even get to vote for the president thay vote for a slate of electors. just like if you live in Texas and you voted for Kerry you didnt vote for him you voted for 34 demcartic electors.
The only argument against the Electoral college is what we call the disaster factor. Americans should feel lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest problem election in a century.
Given that most voters vote one party for president and another for congress they do this becaus ethis think a tie or deadlock will happen but, consider this. In 1968 a shift of just 41,971 voters would of dead locked the election yet in 1976 a tie would of happen but 5,559 voters in Ohio and 3,687 voter in Hawaii voted the other way.
This right here is the most basic level the electoral college is unfair and should let the voters have their voice when voting. | 3 |
aa5fb24 | Close your eyes and imagine you are giving a class and the students seem to not be paying attention but other students are paying attention. You classmates are sad , mad ,angry , tired and just want to leave school .Now open your eyes and think wouldnt you want to read the students mind ? wouldn't you want to understand ther frustration , sadness or happieness .
Teachers should be able to read to use FACS (Facial Action Coding System) to understand the students emotions expessions for multiple reasons .To start off with teachers need to understand the student to be able to connect with each other. A teacher is a leader a person to lean off of but if they are not connected on the same page because the teacher doesnt understand to students emotion epessions they wont get far . As teenagers as young adilessons there emotions are off the charts some ore than others and just like that its not good to keep all of that inside ,teacher with access to facs ( Facial Action Coding System ) cant have an encounter with the student talking about there feelings. Just like that there are many more reasons of why a teacher needs access to facs | 2 |
aa638f4 | People say that driverless cars are the future of driving. If we build these cars people can just sit and relax, and not have to worry about traffic, car crashes, or even just steering the wheel. They however do not know how much money, and or workit takes to have driverless cars of the future My personal opinion about the cars is, I think it will take too much and money and work to have self-driving cars.
Scientist are building new, revolutionary things everyday, so why haven't they found a way to make everyone a driverless car? Well, that is driverless cars arent really driverless; the cars still need a driver. Of corse of the cars have highly advanced sensors in every nook and craney, but in certain situations the car would have to let the driver take over. What is the point of having a driverless car, when the driver has to pay attention at all times to make sure the car can drive in the situation they are in!
Even if the self-driven car provided to be some new technology for everyone to oogle at; eventually it would get boring, they wouldnt be worth the money, and people would stop buying them. Until the time comes when a car of the future is built that can revolutionize the way people look at self diving cars; i will stand by my thought, that self-driving cars, that need a driver are obsoleit. | 2 |
aa66e68 | Have you ever wanted to get away from home, see the world, and have the amazing opportunity to help others?
If you have, this is the job for you!
Sign up to be a "Seagoing Cowboy."
You can travel the world, meet all kinds of people, all while helping many people in need.
Have you ever wanted a way to fill your service time, without actually having to fight?
Becoming a Seagoing Cowboy is the best way to do it!
I served two years in service before I was discharged, without ever stepping foot near a weapon, battlefield, or military base.
While others risked their lives, I was taking care of horses and cattle, seeing the world, and helping others without ever having to be in dangerous situations.
Another reason I was happy to have joined the Seagoing Cowboys is, like I've said before, I had the rare and amazing experience of seeing parts of the world I would never get to see.
I saw places such as Europe and China, but what really was special was seeing the Acropolis in Greece.
I was also breath taken when I took a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, as I called it "a city with streets of water."
I also got to tour an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China.
Without becoming a Seagoing Cowboy I never would have had any of these amazing experiences.
Besides helping out with others, getting to see amazing places, and filling my service time, I had fun on the trip itself!
I enjoyed tending to the animals (and this will be especially fun for people who love or appreciate live stock), we had table-tennis tournaments, we fenced, boxed, whittled, and played many other games.
Of course you could bring books or board games along with you as well!
On the return trip after we had already unloaded the animals we could play baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where the animals had been housed.
Perhaps the best part about this is that when I signed up, I was a normal boy with a highschool degree and working two part-time jobs.
I didn't have to have any certification, degrees, or even a full time job.
I was completely average until I signed up.
If you wanted to, you could sign up right now without a degree or training.
Last but not least, this job will make you aware of how lucky you are that you have the opportunites you have, that your country isn't war stricked, that we aren't completely devastated.
Joining this really helped me and my family realise this fact.
To recap, there are many different reasons to join the Seagoing Cowboys. Get away from home for a time, while visiting places like China or Italy, have lots of fun playing games on deck and tending to the animals, all while filling your service time, plus you don't have to have any special qualification! The whole ordeal really made me happy of my current life; it helped me realise how lucky I am.
For all these reasons I think joining the Seagoing Cowboys is the quintissetnial thing to do. | 3 |
aa71931 | "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author suggetst that studing Venus is worthy but also dangerous. The author tells us how Venus is "one of the brightest points of light in the night sky" and also the second largest plantet with the "nickname misleading since Venus is actually a planet". There so many things to learn about when it comes to different planets. It would be worthy to go study more things about plantets so we can know about them and maybe one day lots of people coud go on one of these plants without just being a scientist. The bad thing about is we still don't have the best ways to get there and back saflty.
There is 97 percent of carbon dioxide in Venus and plus more of a challeng is the clouds of highy corrosive and eve 800 degrees Fahrenheit. It makes it a little hard to be able to go on Venus because of all that. "NASA is working on other approaches to studiying Venus. For example, osme simplified eletronice made of silicaon carbid have been tested in a chamber simulation the chaos of Venus's surface.
stiving ot meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only becasse of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also becasue human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidation endeavors. Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded ot meet the very badges of imaination and innovation. | 2 |
aa7225b | I believe it would be a smart idea because then you can tell how they're emotionally feeling. It could make people happier. And you can tell if it's a real smile by there muscular actions the cheek bones lift the corner of your mouth. But if you got a fake smile, the mouth is stretched sideways faces don't lie professors say.
The facial expressions for each emotion are universal. "Even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression" (like not smiling as broadly) Using video imagery. The new emotion-recognition software. They track these special movements- in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa. By weighting the different units , the software can even identify mixed emotions. Each expression is compared against a neutral face (showing no emotion). The Mona Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much this computer can do.
Imagine a computer thuat shows when you're happy or sad. If you smile when a web ab appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown , the next ad will be different. It could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor. "The same technology can make computer animated faces more expressive- for videogames or video surgery most communication is non verbal ,including emotional communication so computers need to understand that too.
Hold on we can actually "calculate" emotions-like math homework? And how can a computer recognize the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we feel? The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face ; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Movements of one or more muscles is called an "action unit". | 1 |
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