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aa7230b | The challenge of exploring venus may sound dangerous to humans but also intersiting to explore. Maybe could see why its called "twin" or how its like in venus. In the text it shows how earth and venus are alike "venus is the closest planet to earth in terms in density and size".Knowing is almost alike to earth seems worth going and risking to land on venus or at least try too. They say that its hard to land on venus cause of the heat and the carbon dioxide
in the text it says "a thick atmophere of almlst 97 percent".
It may cause some danger for humans but we could invent technolgy to go to venus and land safe without somthing bad happening. NASA says they are planing to visit venus and not land on it they plan on flying above the fray.This could also be somewhat safe for humans and they will still see whats its like on venus. In the text it shows how this could be possible "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of venus would allow scientists to float above the fray" . Also another reason it could be possible is because in the text it says jets fly over to get away storms this means they could fly above the fray of venus. And also us humans can torlrate some temperatures before it gets too hot in the text it says "still be toasty at around 170 degrees fahrenheit" "but survivable for humans ". This visit has pros and cons it could be a good idea and also bad for humans | 2 |
aa73fcb | Cars are becoming a dying trend all over the world. More and more people choose to walk, ride bikes, take busses, or use alternative forms of transportation. Car companies seem to be losing business also. With more and more drives becoming pedestrians each day, it seems that private automobiles will soon be replaced by the old method of transportation, walking. This new option of transportation seems to be becoming a trend everywhere.
Less cars means less polution. Major cities that are filled with cars seem be becoming more and more polluted each day. Big cities such as paris have taken major action, such as to temporarily ban driving, to reduce smog production. An article from the Chicago Tribune states"After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city"(10). Pollution is becoming a big problem all over the world. Alternative transportation is one way you can help stop the pollution all over the world.
More exercise is allowed without cars. Withour cars, people are forced to get up and move to their destination instead of just sitting down your whole life. Obesity is becoming a big problem now all over the world but it has a very big impact in America. More people need more exercise and getting rid of cars is an excellent solution. Even with riding a bus, you would have to get up and walk to the bus stop. Alternative transportation could be the new big thing in exercise.
You can save money without a car. Due to inflation, cars cost a ludacris amount of money in modern day. People spend their whole lives trying to pay off an automobile. Not only do you have to pay off the Automobile itself but you must also pay for the gas, parts, and tools that come with it, which price continues to rise. It is also getting harder to find money and jobs as unemployement also rises while many salaries fall. It is very important to save your money and current day and maybe spend it on something more useful than an automobile.
As automobiles begin to become scarce among many counties, more and more benefits come with alternative transportation. The benefits of being able to save money, the ability to get in physical shape and to exercise more, and the ability to be smog free are all extremeley important in today's society and enviornment. Automobile businesses are even thinking of partnering with other companies that produce products such as bikes, busses, or even making more sidewalks for pedestrians with alternative transportation. Our economy may be falling but our enviorment is flourishing. Giving up cars and Alternative transportaion may be the next big thing. Use alternative transportation to save our earth and for the benefits that come along with it. | 4 |
aa771a5 | Venus is simple to see from a distance but it is challenging to see up close.The author of ''The Challenge of Exploring Venus'' suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers its presents. Here are the details that support this idea.
Venus has a repuation as a challenging planet for humans to study. But astronomers are fascinated by Venus. It was once known as the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life. Today Venus still has some features that are analogous to Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit. Its basically more like Earth thats why they call Venus as the ''twin''.
NASA are compelling ideas to send humans to study Venus. Solar would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Temperatures would still be toasty at 170 degrees fahreheit but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. These conditions are not easy but they are survivable for humans.
Many researchers are working on innovations that are going to allow machines to last long enough to contribute in Venus. Also, NASA is working on different approaches to studying Venus. For exampe they are making electronics made of silicon carbon. They have been tested in a chamber simulating Venus's surface and it had lasted for three weeks. Most technology have not even lasted a few hours. Which can be a better way for humans to study.
Humans are full of curiosity and can lead us to many things. Studying Venus is worthy but it has many dangers. Like the author said ''we should be filled with doubts and should be expanded to meet very images of imagination and innovation.'' | 3 |
aa79930 | Can you imagine in the future where you see floating cars and cars driving with no one in them? I can not, because I believe cars where a bad idea from the beginning. Why use cars for transportation when you have your own two feet? Driverless cars are a bad idea because they give human beings reasons to not get out of their house, they can cause accidents, and the cost to make driverless cars will be too expensive.
Driverless cars will make the human population obese and ignorant. It will cause people to not communicate with others. For example, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020. By 2020, driverless cars will be the big hit and everybody will want one. They can pick up their kids from school; go get groceries whenever they need, so the parents will not have to walk around the grocery store for so long; eventually it will be able to anything you want it too. Without the daily driving and walking we do, the human race will soon become fat.
What happens if a driverless car causes an accident? If there are no humans in the car but your car is totaled, how will you change car information? How will you talk to the other person to see whos fault it is at? How would your car drive home if its been in an accident? Driverless cars can not do everything.
The cost to make driverless cars is going to expensive. Where do you expect to get the money to make these cars? For example, they need a whole lot of sensors; cameras to watch that the driver is remaining focused; and the most important bit of technology in the driverless car is the spinning sensor on the roof. Dubbed LIDAR, it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the cars surroundings. All this fancy technology has to come out of someones pocket. Who's pocket do you think the goverment will take it out of? You are correct, the American's pockets. All our hard earned cash going to a car that we do not even need.
Remember America, driverless cars are useless and not needed in the society we have today. Driverless cars are a bad idea because they give human beings reasons to not get out of their house, they can cause accidents, and the cost to make driverless cars will be too expensive. | 4 |
aa8946d | Honestly a car thats drives for you is pretty inpressive becuase the only time you would need to drive is when an accident occurs or an work zone. another thing is when you are about to bump into something you seat vibrates your selts before it happens.
The only time you would really need to drive is when accidents occurs is mainly on streets. Highways have alot more lanes to drive in the more u avoid the crash the car might not make you drive . Also accidents dont happen alot in one day so you wont be bother to drive .
Yes i know there's a lot of contruction now a days but at least you know you will make it safe pass it if you drive. Highways arent a big concern with contruction so no worry's there. The only problem is when you headed home theres will be a lot of contruction because of pot holes .
The cool thing is no more dents in the back of your car because you backed into a another car. Also when you parallel parking I know its hard to see but no more your selts will let you know when the seats vibrates. When its night time it can be
hard to see whats behind you thats why your side view mirrors will light up if to close to something.
That is why I think smart cars should be able to get sold because less problems to worry about when it comes to contruction site or accidents and backing up. | 3 |
aa8b0c1 | I think that when picking the president that the people of the united states should be the ones to pick instead the electoral college makes the choices of who we get for president. When you vote along with everyong else i think that the majority of the votes should get that presedent instead of everyone voteing and then it getting sent to the electoral college and them getting to pick who they want wich i dont think is right i think that the people should pick who they want by the votes. The one with the most popular vote should win. When you vote for a presidential candidate you are actually voting for slate of electors. The electoral college consist of 538 electors and a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. If you where running for president and you didnt have as many votes from the people as the ofter guy you can still win the election cause of the electoral college is the one that makes the decision to who we have as the president.
each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee. It is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not wing the national popular vote. This is a very rare thing to happen it has only ever happen twice it happen in 2000 and 1888. People think that they should abolish the electoral college because they think it is not right that they get to vote for who actually becomes president they think it should be the citizens right to pick who we want as president rather than letting the electoral college vote for us for president. In columbia they are allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the electoral college. In conclusion i think that it is not right that the electoral college gets to pick are president for us but i think that we should be able to pick are president by popular vote instead of haveing that electoral college. | 2 |
aa9455b | I think that people should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. Think about all the great things that will come out of joining the Seagoing Cowboys, it is more than just an adventure.
One reason you should join the Seagoing Cowboys is because you get to see different places along the way.
During one trip I had the benefit of being able to see Europe and China.
Also being able to see the Acropolis in Greece made it more special.
When you join this program you will see it as a opportunity, for me it was an unbelivable opportunity for a small-town boy like me.
Another reason to join this program is there is also sometimes where you get to have fun on board.
We would mostly have fun on our return trips after we had unloaded the animals. We would play baseball, volleyball and other stuff like fencing, boxing, and reading.
This program is not just taking care of animals you get time to entertain yourself and do somethings you want to do.
The last reason you should join this program is you might not just see it as an adventure but it gives you the opportunity to help others.
This adventure was more than adventure to me it opened my mind to the world around me.
This will make you aware of the people of other countries and their needs, this trip made me.
When you help these people it will make you feel special.
You should join the Seagoing Cowboys Program, It is an amazing experience. Think about you get to see new things, you get time for lot of fun on board, and you the special feeling of helping someone. I hope you will take time to think about joining the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 3 |
aa95fab | Imagine a world where emotional reading is performed by robots, and raw human emotion is simply binary code. This could be a reality if the classroom is converted into such a world. The use of the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable, due to the lack of the software's ability to decipher verbal emotion, the ability of humans to naturally perform the same techniques as the software, and the cost effectiveness of this kind of software within a classroom setting.
The first reason why the use of the FACS within the classroom would not be valuable is due to the inability of the software to understand verbal emotion. When a student is confused and or emotional about a topic, often they will express this through verbal communication. The FACS is not able to register this kind of emotion, at least not this early in it's development. As cited in paragraph six of the article, " 'Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication,' notes Dr. Huang. 'So computers will need to understand that, too.' " This statement also brings about the issue of emotional expression not on the face, including body language and stature. These reasons defend the idea that FACS is not a valuable software for the classroom.
FACS also is not valuable because it is not diverse enough in its usage nor its abilities. Teachers and peers can easily spot emotions just as easily, and often more accurately, than this machine. As cited in paragraph five of the article, "In fact, we humans perform this same impressive 'calculation' every day." This would lead this invention's discovery to be unneeded and unneccesary, unless in it's applications of the distinguishment of the emotions of century old art pieces.
The software itself would not be cost effective, with the extravagance of it's research. As cited in paragraph one, "The software is the latest innovation from Prof. Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science at the University of Illinois, working in collaboration with Prof. Nicu Sebe of the University of Amsterdam." This two Professers are of very renowned within the hierarchy of education, and the software itself is a product of the two researchers. This would lead one to believe that the software would not be cost-effective, especially within a state-funded school district.
To synthesize, the Facial Action Coding System would not be a valuable tool within the classroom because it lacks the ability to de-code other sensory based emotional expressions, can be replaced by humans, and is far too expesive. Although the software is useful, it is not practical nor diverse enough to be used within the classroom. If the FACS could be more efficient, especially with it's purpose, it might be a candidate for a positve addition to the classroom, but presently, it serves no new purpose. | 5 |
aa96539 | Cars are very important to the life of a modern person. The car gets you where you need to go in the time that you want to go in. There are ways to limit car usage and still get your transportation to where you need to go. There are some advantages to not using cars all the time. One advantage is that if we stop using cars, then pollution will drop drastically. Another advantage to us not using cars is that we get plenty of excercise while we do other things than just sit in our cars.
Paris, France. Known for being the city of love, but doesn't have a certain love for cars. They banned car usage after days of near-record pollution(source 2 paragraph 10). In order to make sure that the residents don't use their cars still the placed a 22-euro fine ($31) for anyone still driving(source 2 paragraph 11). After only just a few days, congestion was down almost 60 percent in the capital of France( source 2 paragraph 14). In the United States, most kids these days aren't driving as much as they used to. They are buying fewer cars, driving less, and getting fewer licenses each year( source 4 paragraph 29). If this keeps up, then alot of sociologist think that this will have a huge effect on the environmet, which will lead to the end of pollution problems(source 4 paragraph 34). This advantage of having less car usage will not only help the earth, but it also will help the things on the earth including us humans and animals.
The final advantage that limiting car usage is that we will have plenty of excercise. A mother of two that had a car but the sold it in Germany said " When i had a car I was always tense, I'm much happier this way"(source 1 paragraph 3). She usually walks down the street to and from wherever she goes. Excercising is great for your health and you can just start by walking, biking, skating, roller blading and many more ways to get to where you need to go. In Bogota, Columbia millions of people hiked , biked, skated, or took buses to work (source 3 paragraph 20). "It's good oppurtunity to take away stress..." (source 3 paragraph 24) said businessman Carlos Artura Plaze when he was asked about the banning of cars for the third straight year in Germany( source 3 paragraph 24). Stress isn't good for your health and excercising is great on removing that stress from your body. Excersisng is a great advantage to limited car usage because you reduce stress, work out, and feel better all while you get to where you need to go at the same time.
The advantages that everyone gets from limited car usage is that the pollution will go down, and you get better excercise. If pollution goes down then you will have a better earth for everyone to enjoy, but you can't enjoy the earth if it's congested with polutted air. You also get great excercise when you walk, bike, skate to wherever you need to go instead of sitting in a car to go to your destination. These are only some of the advantages that you get when you choose to limit your car usage, but there are plenty more that you will experience as soon as you limit the usage of cars. | 4 |
aa9c596 | In this article " Making Mona Lisa Smile", this article tells us about how many emotions we have and how to identify them. In futuristic terms their has been a new software created to identify human emotion by just scanning facial expressions. The software is called FACD ( Facial Action Coding System) and from the paragraph it seems that it has various promising applications and for different industries. In my own opinion, I do believe that this technology is very valuable in so many different ways.
The reason why I suppport the claim of this technology being valuable is because, we can detect when something is wrong with a child or anyone for that matter. As it states in paragraph 1 " She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry".
This software has a remarkable way of just identifying your emotions and putting it into percentages.
So say if a child is depressed this software can give us the information we need to see what we can do to help a child, teen, or even an adult fight depression. This software can help us identify with mental sicknesses.
In paragraph 5 it summarizes how we can identify our friends expressions by the look they have on their face. Later on in that paragraph it tells us a doctor named Huang observes the remarkable artist Da Vinci and how he used human anatomy to help paint Mona Lisa's face. Even Da Vinci had a code to use to determine the emotions of people. The point is if we use this type of technology we can help a lot of peole around the world to identify with them, to have empathy, and mostly to help them.
Another reason why having this software as a valuable assist is because, if we unlock the science of emotion who knows what type of treatments we can do to help people who face anxeity, ddepression, suicidal thoughts, etc. Their are so many possiblities to just an expression. We can figure out what's wrong with them?, why are they this way?, and maybe we can figure how long they've been that way ? This tool doesn't just need to be used in schools, this tool can be used in the hospitals, therapists offices, etc. I just believe we use this technology we can change the world and make it will little bit better.
In Conclusion, This technology helps us in many different ways. Like for example how many emotions we're feeling and rate them from greatest to least We could discover new emotions we've never even heard . Also we could give people therapy if they have anger issues, we can treat people who doesn't even know what's wrong. This technology can do many things and solve many issues emotionally. Like I said I do believe that this technology can be pretty valuable and discover many emotions. | 3 |
aa9d793 | Driverless cars, although fascinating and revolutionary, are not a good idea. There are many flaws about the current driverless cars that are on the road today. Humans need to operate it in order to navigate through complicated circumstances, smart roads to help solve that problem are very expensive and non-practical, and there are many legal troubles stirred up by these vehicles. These problems are simply not worth the idea of a smart car. In my opinion, driverless cars should stay off the road.
There are many flaws that come with driverless cars. One of these flaws is the fact that the skills of a human operator are required to navigate these "driverless cars" through complicated situations, such as road construction or driving around an accident. In the passage "Driverless Cars Are Coming", the author states in paragraph two, "...Google cars aren't truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways, or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents." If a human operator has to take over the "driverless" car periodically, there is no point in even having a car that can drive through simple traffic with ease. One solution to the fact that a human operator must take over when facing roadwork is the idea of smart roads. Smart roads would use a cable to send radio signals to a receiver on the front of a car. The trouble is, replacing ordinary roads with these smart roads would be "simply too expensive to be practical," the narrator states in paragraph three. Legal troubles involving driverless cars are a whole different issue. In paragraph nine, the author explains, "Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault--the driver or the manufacturer?" Driverless cars are bound to malfunction at one point or another. New laws would have to be established in order to properly provide justice in the case of someone's injury or death. This problem is too tedious and not nearly worth the idea of a driverless car.
There are too many reasons to go against the idea of a driverless car. Human driving skills will be required and used anyway, smart roads are very expensive and non-practical, and there are many legal troubles involving smart cars. Perhaps in twenty or so years when these problems can be efficiently solved, smart cars will be a good idea. But in this day and age, with these problems, driverless cars are not worth it. Smart cars should stay off the road. | 3 |
aaa4906 | Dear fellow citizens.
Having a car could sometimes be great, whenever you want to go somewhere really fast a car can be really convenient, or sometimes your work can be really far and you need that car to go there sometimes quickly, but then theres that traffic and the aggresive drivers who want to kick your butt because your honking the horn at them to move faster, then they come at you with a baseball bat and their waiting for you outside of your car for you to get out, then they start hitting your car with the baseball bat cause you didn't come out, then you start driving off as fast as you can away from that crazy person when you see a cop car in the corner and they turn on their sirens for you to stop the car they come up to you and tell you to give them your licence and registration. You convince the officer that your gonna be late for work, you tell him about the aggresive driver story but he doesnt believe you cause he's one of those curropted cops and gives you not only a speeding ticket but also a ticket for having the lights brokn that the aggresive driver broke with the baseball bat. Then you go rushing to your work when you see your boss looking at you all disapointed, he tells you to go to his office. When your in his office he tells you to pack your stuff cause your out. Then you go home really depreased cause you don"t know how your gonna pay the tickets not only that but you have no work and you have to pay the rent next week or else your out. Then you have nothing to pay the rent and your out of your house homeless with nothing and you go to jail for not paying the tickets.
See how much problems someone can make for having a car. Driving can cause a lot of stress with the traffic or it can be really "tense" like it said in the article. Automobiles can be really dependent for people and it can sometimes cause trouble.
reducing car usage can also effect your health in a possitive way, just like vauban's city, 70% of people do not own a car, most walk or use bicycles which is really healthy you could be more social and can hear the "chatter of wandering children" said in the article by Heidrun Walter, and according to her, life could be more happier without a car.
cars causes polution, it makes the air much dirtier and creates smogs. And it affects peoples health, we shouldn't be using cars as much as we do today, Im not saying we should ban cars forever but we need to do something about this, there should be a rule or a program like the "car-free day" thats in bogota according to the text. Or have a day in which the government announces numbers in a cars plates and those cars that have those numbers in the plate can't drive or else they'll be fined. something like this have worked in Colombia, and other countries were amazed.
With modern technology, I find cars unnecessary If you want to go to a friends house just to talk to him, when with the technology you could just text them or call them with your cellphone, theres already social media for that. In the article it says that , theres also virtual jobs where peoples work are in their own house and they don't even have to go outside, maybe if we increase those types of jobs people wouldn't have to drive that much and cause that much polution and smug. | 3 |
aab18b3 | "New high resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA's Mars Global Survey spacecraft reveal the face on Mars for what it really is: A mesa." the author says in "Unmasking the Face on Mars." NASA has taken more than just one photo of the face over a period of 25 years.
Taking a closer look at the photos of the Face on Mars, chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Priogram, Garvin says, "What the picture actually shows is the martian equivalent of a butte or mesa- landforms common around the American West." Garvin makes this statement after he discerns the picture in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size. "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," he added.
"Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution." Garvin says. "So, if there were objects in this picture such as airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!"
"The face on mars has since become a pop icon. It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, and radio talk shows." the author says in paragraph 5 of the artice. The face has gone public, showing pictures to web surfers. "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL website, revealing... a natural landform." says paragraph 7. "There was no alien monument after all."
High-resolution images and 3D altimery from NASA's MGS spacecraft gives us evidence that the Face on Mars is in fact, not created by aliens. There has been multiple sitings of the face by NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft. The pictures that came back to NASA were analized and they were found the face to be a natural landform. | 2 |
aab39bb | The face on mars have to be a alien because back in time they did not have spaceships. If they did have spaceships back in the past we would of already discover it by now. It's probably a alien because it was buried in the ground for so may years that face is actually popping out. They should unburied it to see if it's human or not. If it is they have alot of research to do if not they still have alot have research to do. They should try to see if a body goes with that head. It could be a decovery of a new world. At the end of the article they said " that's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." They can also look up any information about mars having a volcanoe. That no one knows about. but if we just know found this it is more likey to be a alien. Because we been going to mars for a long time and it's weird that they just know recover that face. What happen if it's not a alien or human what if its just a rock that turned into a face. | 2 |
aab55ee | Luke's point of view the seagoing cowboys program is great. it's becuase you learn new some inpornt tips and skills. it theches you thing. like how skills you'll need later on in life. after you make nine trips you'll be ready to get drafted to the military. when you get ready to go to the military they tell things that you'll going to need there. They helped luke prepare for hard work. on your second trip you serve as a nightman. luke loved being on board because all the wonderful and fun things they do.
It opens up the to you. you will ride in a cattle boat every where you go. you will learn how to servie in the pacific war. you will broad a lot of different boats. you have to maked nine copmte trips before you can be drafted to military or the army. They have a lot of tools and skills that you will need when the program ends. in the program it takes a lot of hard work and you need to be strong because you have to lift a of boxes. you will glad that you went when the program is over. | 2 |
aab740b | Have you ever thought about keeping the Elector College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United State? As living here in Florida most people advise to go with the Electoral College because the Electoral College always finds a way to make at least all the votes to be equal.
To begin with, electing by the Elector College is way better than voting by the popular vote inthe United States because the Electoral College actually tries to even itout with everyine's votes. For example, in the passage
What Is An Electoral College?
by the Office of the Federal Register it states that " The electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are.." This means that most states have a "winner-take-all" for the winning candidate's.
In addition, don't you think at the end of the day the Electoral College is better? I mean because if we vote by the most popular vote on president, then that means the one who gets the most popular vote might have a group of his electors and cheat off by that.
In conclusion, the Elector College is why better then picking by the most popular vote for president. | 1 |
aab8548 | With the election coming up in 2016 the debate for how the election should be run is now in dispute. So what does that mean? That means that some people disagree with the way our election is run and some dont. In my opinion the electoral voting system is unfair and outdated.
Now there are going to be a lot of people that disgree with me, but let me tell you my reasons. My first reason is the electoral college is not fair to the small states. Because small states only get a small number of electoral votes canidates do not visit the small states that often. So how is that fair?
My second reason is why not just let the poplar vote choose who is the president? After all the poplar vote is the only honest way of doing things. The canidate that has the most votes in a poplar vote should win every time. That way is fair.
My third and final reason is with the electoral voting system there is actually a chance of tying. if they tye what do you do now? Should we flip a coin to see who wins possibly one of the most important descisons?
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aac4bfe | The article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" was a interesting factual article to read. My opion on driverless cars is they're not a good idea. I am against driverless cars. My reasons for this are an increasing rate of accidents, technology failing, and the cost. In the following paragraphs are reasons why I am against the ideal of driverless cars.
Starting off, my first reason for being against driverless cars was the increasing rate of accidents. Not all drivers pay attention to the road while driving (especially teens) and riding in a driverless car, coming into a situation that requires a human being to take control of the wheel can lead to accidents if they're not paying attention. The rates of car accidents are already high till this day, just imagine how high the rate would be having driverless cars. It may not even be the drivers fault, a glitch can happen with the car causing it to get into a accident injuring somebody, as said in passage 9; who's fault would it be then? The person or the manufacturers fault? That is my first reasoning opposing driverless cars.
Next, my second reason was the technology failing. We live in a society where technology advances EVERYDAY, but there is always a complications with technology. Updated technology isn't always perfect. For instence the computer system in the car could crash, shutting off the whole car, there might be a hay wire causing the car to spin out of control, causing an accident, and even a more dangerous situation the car could explode or catch on fire due to the technology. An example of today's most updated piece of technology that went bad is the "Hoover Board," many people could just be riding on it, and it could burst into flames. The same thing could happen with driverless cars.
Lastly, my last reasoning was the cost put into the car. Many companies say they plan to have driverless cars by the year 2020, the amount of the Driverless Car would be a ridiculous amount of money. If someone were interested into buying it the first thing, they should ask themselves "is it worth it?" Knowing the bad outcomes that could possibly happen. Not only would the car be super expensive, but also having to fulfill the tank with gas, and gas nowadays isn't the cheapest. But the most important question asking yourself before buying the expensive piece of technology, is it really worth how much it costs?
In conclusion, I am against driverless cars. The reasons are, increasing rate of accidnets, technology failing, and the cost. I myself would not buy this knowing the reprecautions. That is why I am against the ideal of Driverless Cars. | 3 |
aac60d1 | I agree and disagere with The Challenge of Exploring Venus i got becasue i got reasons why we should and sholdn't explore venus.
My frist reason is that we should explore veuns becasue venus is the brightest point of light in night and to spot and its nickname is misleading but back a long time ago it was probably coverd by largely oceans and could had various form of life just like in Earth today.
My second reason is that it is actually a planet in our solar system and is the second plant from our sun and it is the closest planet to earth in terms of density and size and the closest in distance to earth we should land in venus and study more but it is dangreous.
For my diagare reson is the venus is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide and more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric scid in venu's atmosphere and its surface temperatuers are average over 800 degrees fahrentheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what they experience on our planet no thats a lot and dangreous.
MY second disagre is that is it over 800 degrees and it is the hottest temperature and that it is a challenging planet for humans to study they examine more closely they sent a machine to last long but with the tempuarture
and they cant take rocks or gas from a far distance and we are looking back at old technology called conditions computers
Venus is the nerset option for a vist but we have to extaime it more and closely it has to be safe and scientificaly reductive amd of course it is closer to earth and it is a planet and a long time ago it was almost like earth but its tempuarte is higer ut sicentice are studying machines to survive long in venus. | 2 |
aac6485 | There is always a constant arguement about keeping the Electoral College or changing the election by popular vote for the president of the United States. I personally feel that we should abolish the Electoral College and change the election by popular vote. I don't think it is fair to our voters who vote for the president when they are really voting for the state of electors. The Electoral College really has the final say on who is going to be elected president of the United States. The citizens of the United States should be the one who elect the president instead of the Electoral College.
First of all, the Electoral college is a little outdated now a days. The Electoral College has been used for a very long time and it should be changed. To me I believe that it just makes sense to have voters to vote for our president instead of the winner-take-all system. It wouldn't even make sense to vote if you know that the Electoral College is going to actually elect the president. Abolishing the Electoral College is just the best way to go.
Next, The Electoral College is just unfair to the voters who vote for the president. It is because of the wininer-take-all system. The candidates dont't go to states they know they are going lose in. Instead they go for the swing states so they can a better chance of winning. Some states wouldn't even see the candidates at all. So abolishing the Electoral College is the best way to go.
In conclusion, people are alyways debating on keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. I believe that we should abolish the Electoral College and let the election go by popular vote. I dont think the Electoral College is fair for voter because they actually elect the president. If we abolish the Electoral College then the people can vote for our president the right way. In the future hopefully this will happen because the Electoral College is just not relavent anymore. | 3 |
aac6aa3 | Driverless cars should be allowed when they are safe, and when they are complete. You still should let people drive regular cars though because doing this is taking away people's freedom to drive if the cars become fully driverless. Just think about all the teenagers who won't get to expeirience driver's ed and getting their license and how exciting it is.
Also if there is a technical problem with the driverless cars it could be a hazzard. If they are going to make them driverless they should at least make where the person can manually control it incase of failing technology. The car also since it isn't a human it doesn't have the reaction time that our brains allow us to have. It also doesn't have judgement and any skills to fix itself if the car breaks down.
It would also make people mad because they have a right to drive and some won't like it if you take that away from them. Also some people are control freaks and always would like to be in control of their vehicle. You also couldn't own your own car as the story says because it will be more of an automative cab system instead of your own propery. So no more making your vehicle the way you wan't it, it would also take away people's hobbies of fixing up cars.
The other thing is that it would cost people and the government more to keep the cars up and running with all the technology and also how many cars there will be to satisfy people. Also what would we do with all the old cars? Would we just junk all of the old cars? The smart cars would also have to be able to adapt to ever road condition as well if they are driverless and it would be hard to program all different cars for different conditions. It would also cost a lot to fund this in the first place and to get people to warm up to the idea.
I think that if we do the driverless cars then it should also be affordable for people to use. I also don't think that technology could mimic a human's actions when they drive because a human body is way more advanced than technology is. If something happend to the car while you were in it what would you do? would you have to call someone, because the normal person couldn't fix the tech inside of a driverless car to get it back up and running. People in the story even said that we would need smart roads as well to make this work. They also said what would happen in an accident and if it would be the fault of the person in the car or the car manufacturer. Also they would need to make countless new laws to even make this car legal and able to drive on the roads because as of now the cars are only legal in three states and the capital.
So that is why I am against the use of driverless cars for now mostly because I don't think they would be safe to use. | 3 |
aac896c | In 1976 something weird was discovered on Mars. Viking 1 spacecraft snapped a picture of something that almost looks like a face on Mars. It could be the sign we need to find out if there is life on Mars. A lot of people are saying it is a face, while others do think it is just a natural landform. There have also been pictures captured from 1998 and 2001. This face has became a pop icon, it has appeared in Hollywood films, magazines, books, and even radio talk shows! Although there has been quite a few reasons to think it is a face I personally think it's just a natural landform. Now yes, I do have many reasons for my thinking. In these next couple paragraphs I will state my reasons.
One of my firsts reasons for thiking it is a natural landform is that there are many landforms naturally made just like that around Earth. So if they are natural landforms on Earth they would probably be natural landforms on the planet Mars. In the article Garvin says, " it reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. That is a lava dome that takes form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars.
My second reason would be that it sorda resembles a face but not really. Theres a very high chance that could just be a mountain and the shadows resemble the eyes, nose, and mouth. As you can see in the picture from 2001 it almost doesnt even look like a face. It is more like a mountain of some sorts there. If you do look at the 1976 photo from distance it does resemble a face, but as the camera quality improved over time it does not look as much like a face anymore.
Another reason is that it is very very unlikely that bthere is an imprint of a face on the planet of Mars. Even if it was though it would basicaly always look the same and not change looks like it has. Now a natural landform will change looks over time. It will rott or decompose and stuff. Which in my opinion it has decayed somewhat. It definintaly has not stayed the same, because all 3 pictures have a significant difference to them. That could be rom better camera and technology quality. To me though it seems as if the better quality makes it look less like a face.
Now though I have a few more reasons this will be my final reason. This "Face of Mars" is the some of the only proof we have to think that there is life on Mars. So it makes me more and more right. It is just very unlikely or maybe even impossible for that to be a face. It is not unlikely that it is a natural landform though.
I do realize there are many reasons why I am wrong and why it is a face but I think it is a natural landform. So in conclusion It is more likely for this , Face of Mars, to be a natural lanforn than for it to be a face. | 4 |
aac8ca7 | The electoral colleges shouldn't be taken away. Just because of its minnor flass it still should be keept because of the "winner-take-all" system it just awards electors to the winning presidential candidate. The out comes of the electoral colleges are almost certain and no hassels to figure out who won and who didn't. Also it is less likely for there to be a run-off election because of the balance in the electoral colleges.
But it just can't be perfect there also some deffects like when under the eloctoral colleges you don't voto for the president, but for a slate of electors which they vote for the president if the got the most votes. Also the electors can vote for whom they want so even if who you voted for got the most votes the elector might choose a different president. Ading to that there has been some errors like two slates of electors beingt sent to Congress.
There is also an oposite side to this and it is the people who don't want to vote under electoral colleges. Because they want themsels to choose the president but some times this also back fires because there is no controll over who they choose there can be a winning land slide or a tie then it will take way more time to choose who will be the president. Besides the majority of the population wants direct vote because they feel in comtrol of who will make it or not. | 2 |
aacafda | Imagine a computer being able to read your facial exprssions to be able to tell if you were board or confused at school. Then that computer being able to take that data and improve your learning experiance at school. Well based off of Dr.Huang's research collaboratrion with Prof. Nicu Sebe from the University of Amsterdam, that might happen soon. They were able to find out the Mona Lisa's facial expression using a brand new computer software from Prof. Thomas Huang.
It is said in paragraph 1 "Dr.Huang and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate." Which is great news.
This Is great news for schools because; it will make learner better for students who are having trouble in class. According to Dr. Huang in paragraph 6 he pridicts; "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or boared, Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This could also help with non verbal communication, and emotional communication. Shy students wouldnt have to be quiet and have unanswerd questions if we brought this technology into schools.
In conclussion, this technology would be a major break throug in class rooms and the world itself. Teachers would have closer bonds with students who are having trouble learning and that would improve test scores and the learning department itself. "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal." is what Dr.Huang said in paragraph 4, which he is right, it could be used in video games, the medical field, schools, and our everyday lives. | 3 |
aacc50f | "The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational"(Source 2 paragraph 6).The first passage was about them in favor of doing the Electoral College. The second story was about them not in favor of them doing the Electoral College. The finnaly story was about not sure about it but they were more on the not having it side. I think that we should not have it beacause it's just to much.
To begin with, I think that we should not have a Electoral College because it's way to confusing. " Do voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate?"(Source 2 paragraph 2)This quote means that the voters get confused sometimes when they are voting for a candidate. So if the people are voting for the wrong people then this whole thing is just a confusing mess.
Futhermore,I think that we should not have the Electoral College because it's unfair."The advocates of this position are correct in argung that the Electoral college method is not democratic in a modern sense... it is the electors who elect the preident, not the people"(Source 3 paragraph 1).This quote states that the people are not the one who chose the president it's the electors. So if the people are voting and the votes dont do nothing what the point of voting?
Finnaly,the last reason i think that we should not have that Electoral College is because it dont doing the people anything if we take it away."It can be agured that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state-Democrats in Texas, for example or Republicans."(Source 3 paragraph 9). This is saying that it may turn off potential voter but is all a good thing. It is not a good thing beacause most of the people that vote for a candidate are not ven getting pick.
Now you no why i take that we should not have a Electoral College. It is best to not have on because it way to much. | 3 |
aaced97 | Trying and studying new things can turn out to be good even though there could
be negative tihngs about it. In this article the author tell us on how studying venus can turn out to be good even though it has some dangers in it. He talks about how Venus is almost identical to Earth and why we should try to study it.
In the second through third paragraph he mentions on why he says scientists
don't like to really study Venus. He mentions how the planet is hot for us too study and how 97% of it is covered by a carbon dioxide atmosphere. Also he mentions how our spacecraft can't last more than a few hours. He says that none of that should stop us from studying Venus because there is lots of good things about that planet.
He mentions how Venus was once a Earth-like planet in our solar system long ago. He also says how Venus was probably covered by ocean and had life in the planet just like Earth. He mentions in a praragraph on how some Venus has some analogous features just like Earth. In prargraph 4 he says " The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and crates." Also he says how Venus could be our closest option for a planet visit because it is right next to earth just like Mars is.
In other paragraphs he mentions how NASA is trying to send some humans to go out and study Venus by sending them there. He mentions how they can use a hovering vehicle to stay out of the storms to be albe to study the planet. The paragraph also says how it would be 170 degrees fahrenheit , but the pressure would be close to sea level on Earth. It also says how the conditions may not be be easy, but it could be survivable for humans.
Studying Venus could turn out to be a good thing for all of us humans. There could be new things to learn about the planet that could probably help us here on Earth one day. Even though there is some critical conditions on the planet it shouldn't stop us from studying it. So all we have to do is give Venus a chance for study. | 3 |
aacf8d1 | The topic on driverless cars and be very controversial and tricky, and there are many different views on it. And this is rightly so, as there are plenty of possible positive outcomes from making automated cars, but there are plenty of issues regarding safety, laws, and money as well. As for my opinion, I think they can be very helpful in the future, but still need more testing and time to work out the many problems that come along with this topic.
I personally believe everyone could benefit from automated vehicles. They could help prevent accidents, as even if a drunk driver were to get into one, they could still avoid trouble if the path home is simple enough. The cars could help the elderly/disabled majorly because it could save their lives as well as the lives of others if one were to have any kind of accident whilst in the vehicle, and could also bring the convenience of not having to be transported by others. This applies to teenagers as well. We would not have to worry about reckless driving as much, and transportation could be cheaper and more reliable in the end.
A major disadvantage is that there is still a large risk of an accident occuring. For example, if a passenger gets bored and decides to stop paying attention to the road and the car comes upon an obstacle it can not get across, there is a large possibility of a crash. There are an abundance of ways to counter this though, as shown in paragraph 7. The cars could have sensors in them that automatically flip on the brakes when it detects something, or the vehicle could have some kind of alert that notifies when the driver should take over. Automated vehicles can cause conflict between the manufacturer and the consumer as well. Also stated in paragraph 9, issues could arise if the technology failed.
In conclusion, I believe these vehicles have an astounding amount of potential, but are still rough around the edges. I think we should give it time for the concept to mature more, and for more laws regarding safety to come out related to it. If the dedication is large enough, we could very well have much safer roads in the not-too-distant future. | 3 |
aad2362 | There are mny factors that influence using technology to read emotions in the classroom. The technoogy can influence certain lessons based on given understanding. Facial expression evaluated by these computers could help teachers. This kind of technology could benefit the future as well. Lesson planning, teacher help, and futue technology are three factors that contribute to using emotional expressions for the classroom.
Facial exression are a elling sign of the current state of emotion a person is in. These emotionas are universal for people to understand, such as a smile representing a good mood of a friend. Now computers are able to tell emtions based of facial muscles, which has led to innovations in the classroom environment. For example, if a student is working on a homework assignment and gives off a look of confusion, the computer can tell that the student is struggling to understand whatthe question or problem is asking or how to solve the problem. This new technology could benefit the student in that the lesson could be mdified to help the comprehension of the learner.
This technology could help teachers ina sense that they have easier communication with their students. Since teachers have to teach a multitude of students, it can be difficult for the teacher to see who is struggling with the material presented, Most communicaton between people is done through that of emtional communication rather than verbal. From that this formof technology can help teachers know who comprehends themaerial, who is confused by the directions or the material, or those who simply do not understand the content. Using this facial expression technology can be of beneficiary to those in educaion.
Emotion technology can be of benefit to not only the school evironmwnt but also can open new doors for the future. Even though the algorithm is not compatible with a normal PC at home, this technology could benefit in the future for new innovations such as helping a students interest levels for at home assignments. The only slight flaw that could go against this facial software is that computers cannot detect genuine emotion. Such as a person hiding certain emotions that are not shown on a facial expression. However more advancement and developments of this technology in the future could benefit many people in different circumstances.
Many factors of Facial Action Coding System can help benefit students in a classroom. Three factors significantly hold value to the influence of this software. Students can be able to have customized lessons to maximize learning in that subject based of assinments completed on the emotiion recognizing software. Teachers will be able to communicate better with students in helping undrestand the content and what needs to be focused on more. Future softwares can be made from this intial technology that can recognize students understanding and comprehension of the material from at home assignments on possiby a PC. Overall, the ability to recognize emotions of students from muscle movements of the face is a great advanncemet for the classroom enviroment, and once more developments are made, man students will benfit in being able to understand the material beter. | 5 |
aadba76 | Having a limit on car usuage has many advantages to it. This limitation mainly benefits the people and the enviroment.
A major advantage of the limitation is to help the people. Many of the people like not having cars avaliable. In
In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars , a family says " When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way.(Rosenthal)" Not having a car takes pressure off of the people, because they don't have to worry about filling up on gas. They also like it ,because it encourages more excercise. Instaead of driving to the store or the park you can walk or take a bicycle. In the artcile
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota, some of the staticstics show that "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughtout the city;uneven, pitter sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut off traffic; and new restutants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up". This is an example of how progresive this change has made on cities. Also metioned in Selsky article " Its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution". Most of the people say that not having cars takes alot of stress off of them. The positive impact on the people is just one of the many advantages of limited car usuage.
Anouther advantage is helping the enviroment. By limiting car use has really impacted the enviroment. Rosenthal states that "experts say, is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes.... Passengers cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe". This just shows how much of an impact not using cars has been. In article two Duffer explains why Paris created limitation on car usuage. Paris had a huge smog and to help clean it up and to prevent from getting worse, Paris made a law that only certain number license plates could drive on certain days and if you drove on the wrong day than you would be fined. But this helped France get their fuel numbers lower. In Selsky article he talks about how Columnia has a "car free day". On this day no cars are allowed with the exception of buses and taxis. "The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog". Alot of the people like to participate in this event. In Amercia research has been found that "Amercians are buying fewer cars,driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by" (Rosenthal).With this information we can be lowering our pollution on our own. Many people did not like the limitations, but learned to like them considering the end result of a healthier enviroment. These two advantages of limiting car usuage is just a couple of the many. | 4 |
aadeafa | In this essay of the Electoral College it is questioning to see if the Electoral College realy works. In my point of view I think that it does because it gives certain reasons to show it does and if it didnt work the would've changed it a long time ago so it shows you that it work and thats why its still around until this day. The Electoral College is a process , not a place. The founding fathers establised it in the consitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in Congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens.
One of the reasons i think that the Electoral College actually works is because The Electoral College works is because it process consists of the selection of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. The Electoral College helps pick the president and vice president and if didnt have that then it wouldve been total chaos because with The Electoral College it is way easier and faster and is a better process , The Electoral College consists of many electors and electoral votes this is really important because under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College. For This Reason, in the discussion the word state also refers to the District of Columbia. | 1 |
aadf956 | Scientists are claiming that it is worthy to explore Venus even though it is risky. However it is dangerous to explore venus, but scientists are willing to do it anyway. Scientists challenged themselves to explore Venus due to human curiosity. Their goal is to expand the the view to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation.
It would be interesting to know what is Venus cabaple of.
Studying Venus would be worth a risk. However not a single person can land on Venus for no more than an hour. In the article of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" it say "researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance." it gets interesting when those material are denied from Venus. Therefore, scientists are challenging themselves to explore Venus and study it.
NASA is also working on other accessbility to studying Venus. They are attempting to use an old technology, mechanical computers, the first device envisioned during World War ll. Modern technology is smarter but when it comes to physical conditions, it does not have the capablity of preventing itself. New technology can not resist heat.
For more information, NASA is allowing sending scientists to float above the fray. In the ariticle of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", it say " solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans." from this phrase, you can tell that scientists are really pensive about exploring Venus. Even though it is a difficult condition, they are willing to explore it, at least it is survivable for human.
All in all, scientists claimed that studying Venus is a worthy even though it wil be difficult. Scientists challenged themselve to make an outcome. In paragraph 8 of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", it say " our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the every edges of imagination and innocation." to show that scientists take these challenges seriously. | 3 |
aae7267 | Can you really trust a car to take you from point A to point B safely? There are many possible things that can go wrong while a person is not controlling their car. I think that there is not a safe way for a car to drive a person all by itself. If you don't know the next action that your car is going to take, how can you stop anything bad from happening? Will the car be able to determine where to stop if it is approaching a stop sign? There are too many "what ifs" with a driverless car for me to feel safe to ride in one, or to even have one driving on the street around me.
To me, there are a variety of things that can go wrong when you are allowing the car drive all by itself. There are too many questions that need to be answerd about these new cars. For example, how will the car react to a sudden change in the environment? If another car gets to close will it swerve out of the way potentionally causing an accident? Even if the car notifies the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, what will happen if the driver isn't notified in time? Also, if one of the sensors on the car were to be broken or damaged, then how could the car continue to drive on its own? Would it notify the driver that a new part is needed? If the car were to get into an accident, who would be to blame, the driver or the company that created the car? Would it depend if it was on manual control or automatic? These questions are the main reasons why the driverless cars need to be improved before I will even think about ridding in one. I know that I would rather know exactly what I am doing and how it will be done instead of having a car try to do it for me.
I think that driverless cars are a terrible idea. There are too many problems that can occur during the driving process, and I don't want my life in the hands of a car that can't see or think the way that a human does. If during some parts of the drive it requires a human to take the wheel, why have it automatically drive you? Wouldn't it get tiring waiting for your turn to drive, especially when you aren't sure when the car is going to have you take over? You must stay focused on the road and have both hands on the wheel, so you could very easliy just drive the car yourself without the worry. This way you can control the situations that you get into, and not having a car get you into trouble that you might not be able to get out of. I think that it is much more safe to have a human that can respond quickly to change and can manuver through obsticals than to have a car, that might not see everything in its environment, drive automatically through it. | 3 |
aaea0e6 | You should join a Seagoing Cowboys program. It is very fun to see some things for free with us. Young man, would you want to join the Seagoing Cowboys program? No! Why? It doesn't seem fun. Well you should join my friend Luke, he loves this job. No! Well I'll tell you it is fun
This is a fun thing that a young boy could see practically something every day. Well it doesn't seem cool. A kid did this every day once his friend asked him, it was a chance of a lifetime and he took it. Chance of a lifetime. Will I get to see the Great Wall of China? Maybe. Great, I'm in!
See folks chances of a lifetime rarely happen so join today. It is cool sites just ask my friend Luke. Luke sum this thing up. Well when I was a city boy and I was invited on a trip of a lifetime and it was fun. I reconmend you join now. | 2 |
aaeb21e | The advantages of limiting car usage is outstanding not only is it good for the earth but it changes peoples lives, it makes the people happy and they tend to enjoy life more. In fact in the article "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" it states "70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here." The article also says that Heidrun Walter, a mother of two, was always tense when she was behind the wheel and so she gladly gave up her vehicle and now lives a very happy life in Vauban.
In Paris they banned driving due to the increase of smog, they planned which days the people could drive on. In the article "Paris bans driving due to smog" it states "On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home, The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day." At first many people refused and were fined 22-euro ($31) but the people who didn't helped lighten up the smog.
In Bogota, Colombia, the people have a car free day where they walk or ride their bikes to the places they need to go but there are still buses and cabes that the people can take. If the people were to take their own car they would be fined $25. In the article "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" it states "The day without cars is part of an improvement campaign that began in Bogota in the mid-1990s." The article also says that millions of colomibians have biked, hiked, skated, and rode on buses to work.
In America the people are driving less, buying fewer cars and getting fewer license. The article "The end of the csr culture" states "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." The reason why the percentage is so low is beacuse of the cash-strapped, the americans couldn't affored to buy new cars. | 2 |
aaecbd6 | Have you ever thought about what life would be like without cars? I bet you're thinking about all the cons but see no pros. Did you know that "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"? Imagine how low those percentages would be if we stoped using cars. For the past years there has been efforts to try and make citites denser and better for walking. This would not only be good for our environment and ecosystem but also for ourselves. We could use the fresh air and excercise.
"In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency is promoting "Car reduced" communities, and legislators are starting to act, if cautiously. Many experts expect public tranport serving suburbs to play a much larger role in a new six-year federal transportation bill to be approved this year." "In pervious bills, 80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transport." In Paris, after an intense near-record of polution, they enforced a partial driving ban to try and clear the air of bad gasses. After a few days of doing so, they noticed that car traffic had lowered 60 percent after several days of intensifying smog. In BOGOTA, Colombia, they they created a program that's set to spread to other countries in hope for them to do the same and had a car-free day. Millions of Colombians participated and did everything possible to avoid traffic jams and leave the street empty. Their goal was to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. "It's a good apportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." All of these are many great advantages that are caused by limiting car usage. | 2 |
aaf384f | Whats up with the electoral college? Can we really trust it? Ofcourse you cant and all that apose can stand up and walk out the door .The presidental race is a fake!!! So the goverment wants to tell you that you need to be a citezen to vote but what are you voting for? The electoral college is a fraud, your supposed to send your personal opinion to vote for the president of your country, not some lazy bum that sits in a chair all year and when time comes to put his vote in he overides yours and the peoples votes for you and not even care because they are getting paid to?
It only takes two hundered and seventiy votes from the electoral college to elect the president when theres over two billon residents in the united states? You mean to call this a demcracy when its really a underground dictator ship. I dont know how hard it is to bribe a person in a high postion but it is hard to bribe a whole country and thats why I belive we should get to actually vote for the next presdent theres no trust into the peoples belifes i mean yes theres alot of bandwagon fans and people who really have no idea of whats going on in their country but i promise you we wont fool around and compirmise the whole system beliving in our own belifes!!! these fancy bosos mignht thuink they know what their doung but they really dont there just a bunch money thisrty pigs and it isnt fair to the people to rely on theb electoeral college to pick the fate of our country as long as we live on it
The fact that we cant even pick the electors make it even worse i mean how are we even supposed to trust them i dont know who they are do you? how do you know what the legislators a caplble of they could have been bribed and no one would even know i mean the goverment already has alot of secterts and they could be asdding on the them and you wouldnt evem knowwhy beacuse its the goverment there broken up into little pieces of fruadery its incredibly anoyying to know that if you even try t fight about the rights of a cietzen you'll lose not even having to walk into the court room because the goverment runs that too!!!
When I read the title for source two i automaticlly agreed with the incredbly percise source because I have been asking myself the same question ever since i first learned about it in middle school. Every time i would ask the teacher I would always get the same responce "thats a good question let me get back to you on that." I know that its not the teacher because im pretty sure the presidnet cant even ansewr that. Even in source three it dosent answer my question and its the electoral colleges defence but their defense isnt that strong sorry to tell you that it gives me five reasons but there not strong reasons and I belive source two out battles the both source one and two.
So in conclusion i have stated in almost every pargargh DO NOT TRUST THE SYSTEM!!! I may be little kid but when I speak I bark and I hope the readers understand why I wrote this. | 2 |
aaf980b | To think that scientists have been able to program a computer to tell what emotion someone is feeling at that moment is pretty amazing. It would take a lot of thinking and considering to then finally be able to tell a computer when a person has this or is showing that, that they would be showing that certain emotion. However, part of me thinks its not all it is said to be.
Many people these days are very good at hiding their emotions and feelings. They may seem all happy and joyful to someone but on the inside they could really be hurting. Or it may be the other way around. They could act very sad, but actually just be trying to trick someone. If you were to put a computer up to someone like that, I just do not think it would be smart enough to detect that. Think about actors. They are one of the best people to hide true emotions. They are the ones that have to fake being happy or sad or mad or in disbelief. They can trick anyone into thinking that. On the inside though, we do not really know what it is they are feeling. In the passage it says that the computer detects the certain way the muscles in your cheeks are. It also is the way your eyebrows are. If your eyebrows are raised, this can show surprise. When your lips are tightened this can show anger. The computer has to be able to tie all of these things together. What if the person is showing all of these signs and it is their certain way of showing that one emotion. Everyone has their own way of showing each and evey emotion. For example, if a person is angry they do not always tighten there lips or lower their eyebrows. They could keep their eyebrows and lips the same but still be angry. For me, I just do no think that these computers are going to be as accurate as what you may think. Sure, it is most likely going to get a lot of peoples emotions but not everyone. It is talking about bringing it into classrooms to test people in a class emotions. It is going to be the same as doing it on the street. Not everyone is going to show their true emotion and the computer is not going to detect each and everyone of them either.
So for this new technology that these scientists have discovered, I think it could work and I think it could fail. It all depends on how smart the computer is going to be or if it is just too smart. For many I hope it works, but I guess we are jsut going to have to wait and see. | 3 |
ab09a9a | Car usage around the world has skyrocketed pollution levels tenfold. In Paris, France they had to ban driving for 2 days to help clear out the fog in the city (Source 2). Some cities have even stopped using cars altogether, many of the townspeople believe that cars just cause more stress in peoples lives (Source 1).
In Colombia, the Day Without Cars is becoming more and more popular each year. It's a great way to lower stress and air pollution (Source 3)!
Since 2005, car usage in America has gone down every year, with less people getting a license and less cars being bought each year (Source 4). It begs the question: are cars growing away from our culture? Many people would rather use public transportation or car-pool with friends than drive to work or other activities. Public transportation traffic is woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety (Paragraph 43).
So maybe you should ask yourself if driving really is the best way to go, because it only causes stress, pollution, and it's a danger to your safety every time you drive onto the road. Maybe it's just best to limit car usage and pull out the old bicicle or take the bus and meet new people. | 1 |
ab0ab21 | The mona lisa first is the most best masterpiece the painting of centery. She did not want to smile for the camra and so she did not she had mixed emotions.This story is telling about the program on the computer that gave mona lisa a smile, because she could not smile, she did not want to. That was the case she did not want to smile, so they had to come up with a way to give her a smile. So they came up with a way and got her a smile for the photo and now she is smileing thanks to the computer program. We would think that she would just smile but she would not have it and so they had to give her a fake smile.
So this story is them talking about how they made this program. When they put the smile on it was perfect. Mona lisa smile was not the greatest but could of fit the bill. Leonardo da vinci did not want her smile so they made a program and copywrited her smile and made it fake. Like they said "she was 83 percent happy,9 percent disgusred 6 percent fearful,and 2 percent angry."
The computers softwear that was created by thomas huang created the computer that can see peoples reactions to things. Her emotion was very inportant to leonardo da vinci her emotion was the part of the art because without the computer then she would be missing on things on her face. As in the mouth and her chin,nose and cheeks part of her cheeks. Like they said she was a little upset and they did not know how to get her is good mood so thomas huang created the computer that can notic emotion like as in sadness,anger,happy,nervisness,fear,disguest. All of the emotions every single one there are more emotions. So that means anybody gets there hands on this device then they can find out how anybody is felling. This device could mean the end of every thing. | 1 |
ab0d3ab | Venus is our planet sister. Saying that is way to tell that Planet Venus is near our to planet, but there's a difference between Venus and planet Earth and the differece is important to know it's very important.
Planet Venus, by reading the this article you might find clues about planet venus that you never knew before. Planet venus also called by another name "Evening Star" Venus is one of the brightest point according to the author it says " It light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot". The author use this sentence to show how the Venus planet or Evening star shine. It also tell us that Venus have an atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide. Planet Venus is also the second planet from our sun, which is very important to.
The distance between Venus and Planet Earth. Venus and planet Earth are close not really really close but they are close according to the article "Challenge of Exploring Venus"
the author tell us that " Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too". That sentence that the auhtor use describe and also give us information about which planet is the closest planet to planet Earth which is Venus. By the reading the article it's also says that Venus was propable covered largely with oceans. Planet Venus also have somethings in common with planet Earth. Planet Venus has a surface of rocky they also have valley and mountains like planet Earth does.
More about planet Venus. Planet Venus and planet Earth does not have the same temperatures, according to the author information it says that "Planet Venus have a temperature average over 800 degrees". If we take our times to think about this sentence think about one hundreds (100) degrees, one hundreds (100)
degrees is very hot but if one hundreds (100)
degrees is hot think about (800) degrees it must be very hot in Planet Venus. Reason why planet venus is hot, planet Venus is hot because is close to the sun and we all know the sun is very hot and their atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than we experienced in our planet must be very dangerous.
This article give a lot of information and clues about it. It also give information about the wheater and atmospheric and it can be dangerous there. | 1 |
ab0ec19 | Would I want technology to read students emotional expressions,no cause I would'nt want people in my head knowing how i feel that's ain't nobody problem to know how i feel. TO me that's weird that technology can do that.
Why would they want that,some people like to be by they self when they in they feelings.
In paragraph 1it say that at least according to some new software that can recognize emotions.
But it can help to tho cause how about if somebody sick but they dont know thats how we can know if that persin sick, just thinking. How do it work what they do ti find out the emotions of the person, do they put plugs on they face.
How do Dr. Huang know that he can do this ,like how he know this wont hurt nobody doing this. so by weighting the different units the software can even identify mixed emotions.
In paragraph Dr Huang observes that artistssuch as Dda Vinci stidied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions. He got a new computer software stores similar anatomical ibfornation as electronic code so they both are working on the same thing. | 2 |
ab0ffaa | Have you ever read the article The Challenge of Exploring Venus. It says that there are many reasons why it was alike and how it does not seem alike Earth anymore. There are reasons of temperature the pressure on how it is not alike. They said Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and had various life forms.
How is Earth and Venus alike? In the article it said it is the planet most alike so I guess we are not that alike then. Scientists thought maybe a long time ago that Venus was like Earth. They Said that is was probably covered largley with oceans and could have supported various forms of life. It says that Venus has a rocky sediment surface. That includes valleys, mountians, and craters. So if Venus and Earth were alike would part of Venus be steep because of the oceans?
Venus and Earth have some major differences. It has a ninety-seven percent cabon dioxide atmosphere blanket. Which Earth's atmosphere blanket is way thinner but getting up there from all of people's realsing carbon dioxide. The cloud in Venus are highly sulfuric acid which is not good because if people lived there we would die from the acid rain and would not have any food to eat because it will also die. There would also be no water for us to drink. So no matte what we would most likely die there.
Venus and Earth have a huge temperture difference. Earth's normal temperature is like high 80 degrees Fahrenheit the low is like negative 20 degrees Fahrenheit. In Venus its average temperature is 800 degrees Fahrenheit. We would be burnt to death. Venus is also the hottest plant in our solar system even though it is the seconf planet from the sun. Another thing that Venus and Earth are different in is the atmosperic pressure. I do not know what Earth's atmosperic pressure is but is no where near what Venus's gets. Venus's atmosperic pressure 90 times greater than Earth's.
There are also things to think about because of Venus's high amount of everything and is the size of Earth what thing will do. Like how rapid the weather will change will have to be cautious about it changing like in a split second or will it take over years for the weather to change. I wonder what the lowest temperature will be. Does Venus have volcanos? If so how bad will it affect the people living there. We also have to think about things like earthquakes and how the building will hold together if they happen. How many time will lightning strikein like a minutes. Will Venus have enough water to with stand people and grow crops. Is it even safe to live there? What will be the days or even how long the day will last.
Scientists want to study Venus so in case Earth ever does stop working in the case rotating and obiting the sun we have somewhere close in distance to travel to. There are many dangers in traveling to Venus, but there are people out there will to risk the lifes for our future to see if we can live in other planets.
In conclusion, I do not think that we should send people to somewhere that we know is not safe. There are no many reasons why I do and do not like Venus. I also think we should send people there to see if humans can with stand all of it. My main reason I think that we should not is because of water, food, and the acid rain. I also think that it will be fun to discover another planet. I always wanted to go to Venus when I was little. I remember always arguring with my family of what planet was the sister planet of Earth I was alway right even as a little kid. | 3 |
ab12472 | What is a normal day to you? Waking up, brushing your teeth, eating, then getting into car to go to work, right? That last object in that list, getting into your car, puts a strain on the environment, commonly known as pollution. Although the amount of strain that an individual may put on the environment is miniscule, the combined output of all cars in a city may be enough to damage your lungs! In Beijing, China, people wear masks outside to prevent inhalation of the dense smog surrounding the city. This has led to the development of the "smart planning" movement, in which city planners build dense suburbs in which cars are unneeded. Shops are a walk away, and your neighbor lives five minutes from your home. You may be asking "Why do I care about this? I don't have heavy smog in my city." Well when car use starts to increase in your city, that will affect both your health, and your happiness.
First off, limiting car usage will make you happier. "How will this make me happy?" Think about this, you go through your usual morning routine, and you only have five minutes to get to work. That's perfectly fine because, good news, your job is a three minute walk from your house! This drastically reduces stress as said in this quote from "In German Suburb, Life Goes on Without Cars." by Elisabeth Rosenthal. "'When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way,' said 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."
Secondly, the smog from cities with high car usage is becoming unbearable. "Paris typically has more smog than other European capitals...[Last] week Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter compared to 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in London, Reuters found." In Paris, after a few days of "near-record pollution," enforced a partial, temporary driving ban. "On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following da y." The congestion levels of Paris were down by an astonishing sixty percent after five days of the smog. Imagine that, in five days smog levels reduced by sixty percent. Imagine what the whole world could do if everyone pitched in to this trend. "[Automobiles], experts say, is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emmisions from tailpipes....Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emmisions in Europe...and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States."
Lastly, a reduction of car use can vastly improve the economy. In Bogota, Colombia, the local government have begun to enforce a "Day Without Cars" in an effort to curb rising pollution levels. This has been happening for three years, and has increased profits for small shops and eateries in the area. Because of the large number of walkers and bikers, shops were able to make a larger profit with walk-ins that just happened to pass by the store. This is what caused more stores to open up, thus boosting the local economy. Even businessmen are enjoying these days as stated by Carlos Arturo Plaza. "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution."
To end this off, cars use can be greatly reduced. It is a matter of willpower, which everyone has, but some are too lazy to tap into it. The reduction of car use will have long term effects on both you and the globe. By minimizing the time you spend in a car, you are increasing your happiness, decreasing pollution, and helping boost the economy! If you think cars are a necessity in today's shrinking world, think again. New York is a perfect example in which rush hour traffic makes it impossible to get to work on time by car. Even in new small suburbs, cars are becoming a thing of the past. Tomorrow, instead of driving to work or to the store, try walking. You just might enjoy it. | 4 |
ab12904 | Isn't interesting when your computer can detect your exact facial expression without telling it what expression you're making? Image going to school or out somewhere with that kind of technology and detecting what expressions or feelings your friends or family are having. Dr. Huang and his colleagues have figured out a way to do that with the Facial Action Coding System.
The Facial Action Coding System is a computer that contructs a 3-D computer model of the face. Using the 44 different muscle joints that a normal human face could make. The Facial Action Coding System can classify six different emotions such as happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fear and sadness. When a new emotion is shown then it associates itself with the different muscle characteristics. Then, by weighting the different units of the face, the software can detect mixed emotions. Mixed emotions are when you are feeling two or more emotions at once. Making it more challenging for anyone to figure out how someone is feeling.
This kind of technology makes it easier to figure out how people are feeling, and it would help humans understand the situation more if the knew what kind of emotions were going on. The value of how far technology has gone is going to change society for the better good. The FACS (Facial Action Coding System) could go to schools, organizations, busnisess, and etc.. For example, if the new technology went to schoold nationwide then the teachers could detect whether a student or some students are confused or unhappy about the lesson they are teaching, and then the teacher can look at the system and find a way to improve his/her lesson so every student can understand what is going and maybe even enjoy the lesson. By doing that schools could increase there graduation percentage and more students could succeed in school, and less people would drop out and actually finish their education to get the kind of future that they need or want.
Another example of how valuable this new technology would be is in a business organization. For instance sales are something you have to show alot of emotions in so the sales person can persuade the consumer to buy what they want them to buy. By using the new technology it can help the new salesman out by giving him pointers on how to improve his/her speech that they are giving the consumer to make it sound better or maybe even more reasurring to the buyer. Therefore, it will make the sales person more money, fullfill their job and keep their job longer. I mean, that could happen in any kind of business, it's a promising application for any industry in the making.
In conclusion, this new software can be helpful in many ways, not just for scientist to create and use in their experiments, it could help the whole entire nation and even help the economy or even politcs. There are so many new opportunities and open doors with something like that to help generations after generations. The value of this software is priceless. Each facial expression and emotion are universal, so why wouldn't you want some small computer to help figure those out for you. | 4 |
ab18f69 | Is there really life on Mars? This question was asked by millions in 1976. A face was detected by Viking 1, a spacecraft, when it was gathering pictures and information for another landing spot on Cydonia. But is this really an alien? After NASA has collected other information and pictures, it is certain that the Face is just a natural landform.
The Face is a mesa, which is a common land feature on Mars. "Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh (p.2)." The shadows and poor camera quality had made the mesa look like a face. "Although few scientists believed the Face was an alien artifact, photographing Cydonia became a priority for NASA...(p.6)" Though, most scientists didn't believe that it was really an alien artifact they still were going to prove that it wasn't an alien artifact. Photographing Cydonia became a new priotity.
When scientists went back to get more pictures they still found the same answer, only more certain. It is not an alien artifact. The pictures they captured only make it more clear that it isn't. "And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the firts time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos (p.7)." After, the new picture was taken, not all were satisfied. So, NASA went back out to Cydonia to capture another shot. This time, each pixel captured 1.56 meters, which is very detailed. There is no way the picture could have been misinterpretted. The Face is just a natural landform.
Opposers say that this information is bona fide evidence. "Some people think that the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars-evidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorists. "These people think that NASA is just trying to hide it from them. This is not true. "Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars (p. 5)." If NASA hopes to find life on other planets, why would they hide it? "But not everyone was satified (p.8)." NASA has went back to Cydonia three different times, and the thought that it is just a mesa has gotten more certain each time. The "ten times sharper" camera proves that is just a natural landform. Some may say that NASA is not trying hard enough to figure it out. "We don't just pass over the Face very often (p.9)" "In fact, it's hard work (p.9)." As you can tell, targeting Cydonia is not very easy, and NASA still got three shots just to prove them wrong.
The Face is just a natural landform. It is not an alien artifact, and if you don't believe me by now you aren't using logic. NASA worked hard to get the three pictures that reveal the Face. It is a mesa, which is common around Cydonia. Any landform can have shadows that look like a face, this one just happened to be on Mars, where we are looking for life. | 4 |
ab1dd33 | I belive that ths face is a natural landform. I belive this because, on May 24. 2001. on that day go back 25 years. NASA we went around the planet taking pictures. Then we spoted the face! We had to know more, it was two miles end to end. It was Viking 1 that took the first photo of this face, in 1976.
I know this is just a natural landform because, we took a close rlook at this face. We found out that, it was a huge rock formation. Which just seemed to look like a head. then the shadows that makes it seem like there are eyes, nose, and a mouth. Which are all caracterstics of human face. The public thought different though. They are the ones who made the mars face so popular. It appered in hollywood films. This face also made apperences in books, magazines, and radio talk shows. The public thought it was alien life on mars.
While the public and other scientists thought this face was bona fide evidence on mars. We as in NASA say its just a natural landform. But we do wish there was life on mars.
We still tried to get more and more photos of this face. In Sept. 1997, we thought it was important for tax payers to find out if this was just a natural cause, or life on mars. A couple years later on April 5, 1998. We got another picture of this face, this picture was ten times sharper the the first photo ever taken. Which this photo proved to everyone that. This face is a natural landform, and not an alien monument.
But apperently after taking all this time, not everyone was satsified. The people still belive that, it is alien monument. SInce mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it wa sin winter in april 98. it was a cloudy time on mars. So we ended up doing more recearch on this face. It was April 8, 2001. We made contact with a spceshuttle in space. We aske them to take a picture of the face. Their resposnse was that they do not past the face very offten.
They ended up taking a picture of the face. They had some diffecalties getting the picure. But they took the picture. On that day it was a clear day. So no one can say that it can still be alien life. What the picture actully shows is that the martian equivalent of a buttle or a mesa. You can refur to those as like landforms in the mid west. People say it remids them of the Snake River Plain of Idaho. | 3 |
ab1fcc9 | Being a seagoing cowboy is oppertonity of a lofe time. Read my three reasons why you should be a seagoing cowbaoy.
You can help people in need. Like giving them food taking them to medical attetion if needed. Plus helping people is the greatest feeling in the world. Like even the little stuff like helpin an elder walk across the street picking someones books up. Just help people in need every day.
You get to see and meet new people every day. Becomig friends with someone is the most wonderful thing. Helping some one in need then becoming there friend is great. You can learn new cultures in making friends. Just be nice to friend and people you don't know.
You get to see expirence new things. You can see things you proably never heard of. You can see the been in chicago. You could see one of the temples in greece. Just go out there and do somthing diffiernt.
Being a seagoing cowboy is just a different thing to do. If you like helping people this for you. If like going out and making new friends then be a seagoing cowboy. If you like seeing new things and adventure you would be pefect. So it is now your dission to be a sea going cowboy if you like to do all these things this is for you. | 3 |
ab23678 | Would you risk your life to search for answers that might just end up dissapointing you? Well I'm asssuming that the author of this article would. The author talks more about the bad things about Venus than the good things, which doesn't help his/her claim that it "is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents". In this article, the author talks more about the hardships Venus's enviroment would provide than the benefits, he/she talks about how hard it would be to build a spacecraft to even withstand Venus's envirmonet, and he/she doesnt't provide any points or ideas to why we should want to visit there.
The author mentions that Venus's atmosphere is 97 percent carbon dioxide. Not only is the atmosphere 97 percent carbon dioxide, it also contains "clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid". Temperatures on Venus average around 800 degrees fahrenheit, Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet, which would be impossible to maintian human life, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times what we have here on earth. All of paragraph 3 is just talking about the negative's of Venus, which doesn't support the authors claim that these risks are worth finding out any information.
In paragraph five, the author talks about how NASA is trying to build a spacecraft that can withstand Venus's envirmonet. He/she explains in paragraph 2 that no spacecraft that has been sent to Venus has ever survived the landing for more than a few hours. The author talks about how NASA wants to build a blimp that will hover 30 miles above the surface of Venus so that is can avoid the harsh conditions on the surface, although right after this, he/she states that even 30 miles up off the surface, Venus is still going to be around 170 degrees Farenheit. The extremly high air pressure, heat, harsh storms, etc will all have to be concidered when trying to build a spacecraft that will be able to survive on Venus. Once again, these paragraphs are not explainging much good that is coming out of a manned trip to Venus.
Throughout the article, the author talks about very little benefits that come when sending a man to Venus. Scientists do believe that Venus was once covered with large oceans and might have had a variety of life forms. But this means nothing to us now if it's all destroyed. We will never for sure know if there was once life there, all of the evidence is gone. Honestly, what is the point in even going to Venus? Temperatures of 800 degrees would have burnt everything. Besides, why does is matter to us if there was once life there? We should focus on Earth and how we need to start taking care of it, before it ends up like Venus. There was no solid point in this article that honestly pursuaded me to want to send someone to visit Venus.
In conclusion, I do not think the author supported his claim well, he talked more about the negative parts of Venus, about how hard it would be to build something to trasport them there, and he/she never really states anything persuading the reader about why it would be good to visit Venus. Although it would be intresting to find out stuff about Venus's past, no one will ever know the absolute truth. | 5 |
ab293cd | "The Challenge of Exploring Venus"
In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author explains the dangers of exploring our sister planet, but he also explains why we should. The article gives that Venus is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky but also unable to land on being that it is covered in a thick atomsphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide and covered in sulfuric acid clouds. He explains how "striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because human curisoity will likely lead us to into many equally intimidating endeavors." The pursuit of traveling to Venus is worth it since the knowledge that we'd gain and could possiably lead to other greater discoveries is to great to pass up.
The author explains the risk that apporach in traveling to Venus such as "the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atomshpere..." If we were to take the challenge to travel,we have a possiablily of getting samples such as rocks and dirt and even the smallest bit will help our knowledge of our sister planet. The author also states "... no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." But the author provides us with ways to aviod this problem by creating a "blimp-like vechicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape." Proving that those who we'd send would be able to study but also protected from the planets sulferic acid clouds.
The pursuit of traveling to Venus is worth it since the knowledge that we'd gain and could possiably lead to other greater discoveries is to great to pass up. Though the dangers of the travel,we will have multipule opporutinites to gain insight on the planet. Which we many one day successfully live on with the knowledge collected if we choose the make this journey. | 3 |
ab2b805 | Here is what ive learned from this passage Earth venus and mars are are planetary neighbors. they use spacecrafts to land on venus for clues and what the planet venus is all about. and Scientist havent got any really good and frequent data,and thats because the spacecrafts break for more than a few hours. i really interesting fact is, a spaceship hasnt land on venus for more than 3 decades. Venus is a challenging and a hard planet to learn from because it nhas so many things that messes up our data. On Venus, the reason why we couldent land there and our machines break all the time is that the the temperature on the surface of venus averages around 800 degrees. these conditions are extreamly dangerous. no one ever encountered that on our planet earth long ago ago they believed that venus did have water on its planet and could have been wild life there. studying venus is really cool in my opinion and the dangers of it. one day we will find a solution and be able to land on venus and explore and learn even more about it | 1 |
ab31560 | I think the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because it helps us to define how exactly you are feeling. According to the passage it says "In a real face or in the painted face of Mona Liza. The software can identify mixed emotions". This technology was made by Prof. Thomas Huang, "an expert at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate" as said in the passage.
In my opinion i think Prof. Thomas Huang did a great job on making this project for humans and computers to communicate. Lets say if your happy, you smile to the computer this ad will pop-up and they will add another one to keep you smiling and if the next ad frowns you they will do their best to keep you smiling. The project is called Facial Action Coding System, which can detected your expression Human vs technology.
The computer detected
The Mona Liza expression, she intended to bring a smile to your face.
In conclusion these are my reasons why i think the use of this technology (FACS) to read the emotional expression of students in classroom is valuable. | 2 |
ab31ce4 | What would the world be like with autonomous cars? Cofounder of Google, Sergey Brin, belives the world would change completely. Television and movies have also been interested in driverless cars for the longest time. Now many manufacturing companies, such as Mercedes, Toyota, and Nissan are investigating this possibly innovative technology. Driverless cars could prove to be a great solution for the environment, driver saftey, and world innovation.
As Sergey Brin invisions, driverless cars could help the environment immensely. The driverless cars would be much smaller and more flexible than the buses mainly used for public transportation today. These new cars would have the ability to replace this bulkey public transportation. Also, since noone would have the need to buy a car, less cars would be on the road. This would cut down on the fuel used today by half since there are not as many cars. With less overall cars on the road there will not be as much greenhouses gases
released into the air, conserving the ozone layer and help correct global warming.
Not only would driverless cars provide helpful to the environment but also to driver saftey. Most traffic laws focus on the necessity for driver, passenger, and pedestrian saftey. With the driverless cars that have spinning sensors on the roof, named LIDAR, the car would be able to detect pedestrians more quickly than a intoxicated, distracted, or drowsey driver. The cars would alert the driver, if a saftey issue it could not deal with arose. This would keep pedestrians safe and possibly prevent many crashes caused by human errors at the wheel.
Driverless cars could also help by being a world innovation. Since the human race is so curious and determined, if a world innovation of driverless cars occured, it could prompt anyone to make the next "Big Thing." It has already brought major compaines like Google, Benz, Nissan, Mercedes, and Telsa into a phase of competition to create the fully capable driverless cars. Also on the way to this new invention, some company might stumble across a another world innovative idea. The invention of these driverless cars might help in uniting the world for one purpose as well as continuing the human goal to always improve.
Driverless cars are a very new idea. With so many people working on this world innovation, it could possible be the next "Big Thing" only to lead on to more improvement in human technology. These driverless cars also provide an alternative option to decreasing the greenhouse gases in the environment by eliminating the need for so many cars on the road. Saftey would also be improved with the creation of driverless cars so people who are impaired by alcohol, drowsiness, or emotions, would not cause as many crashes. Allowing the creation of driverless cars has so many benefits for the environment and saftey the world will be changed forever, for the better. | 4 |
ab3211b | Although many people think that the "Face on Mars" was created by aliens, I believe that it's just a landform. Before spotting this landform, NASA had no further information on alien's on Mars. Also, the camera that the team used was at its' maximum resolution, meaning that they wouldn't miss a thing. Lastly, the team could enlarge the picture three times bigger, so they could see things located on the ground.
Before the team at NASA spotted the "Face on Mars" they hadn't heard anything about there being a possibility of aliens on Mars. Therefore, I think It's highly doubtful that this could happen.
Although the first look that the team took was a little hazy, they went back with a higher quality camera, which they set at the maximum resolution. With this camera it would be very unlikely for them to missunderstand an alien creation as a landform.
Lastly, on top of having a high quality camera, the team could enlarge the picture up to three times bigger. This helped them so much that it allowed them to see things as close as the ground. After this, it was positive they couldn't miss a thing.
Considering that before the NASA team spotted the "Face on Mars" there was no further evidence of aliens living on Mars. Plus, with the extremly high quality camera that the team used, and the enlarging of the picture I believe that this is an extrodinary landform, alothough some prefer to assume differently. | 3 |
ab32abd | Imagine a life without cars....There would be no noisy horns blowing, no polluted air, less car accidents, etc. I can give you a million reasons why the world would be a better place without everyone driving a vehicle.
We constantly try to make the world safer and go green by recycling, planting trees, clean up parks and beaches, drive hybrid and electric cars but we need to do something different like drive less and walk, carpool, or ride bicycles to get where we want to go. It will make the world more efficient , peaceful, and reduce stress among the people who wake up late and rush to school or their jobs.
As you inhale and exhale, your body takes in the air around you, which is filled with bacteria, cigeratte smoke, gases, oxygen, etc. We would make the world cleaner if gas wasn't polluted in the air. The gases from vehicles destory our trees which provide oxygen to us human beings. You wouldn't want people to get lung cancers and lung diseases from them everytime someone tries to take a walk outside just to enjoy the view of mother earth. Driving less will allow the air that we breath to be safer and less polluted. So, what happens if people drive more and forget about health? Well, eventually our ozone that protects us from the sun will break down and it will cause something that is called "the greenhouse effect".
On the daily basis, there are car accidents and non survivors of a crash. It breaks my heart to see a family die because of a drunk driver on the news or someone crossing the street is hit by a car and the driver drives off as if nothing has happened. If people drove less, the rate of car accidents and deaths by hit and runs will decrease. When people drive they are unprepared for anything that might happen under the wheel, that is why seatbelts and airbags were created but a seatbelt and an airbag may not be reliable when a car is flipped over and a person cannot get out of the car because their seatbelt is locked and sometimes the car may explode. You will have no worries if you drive less and walk or ride a bicycle more often.
Being happy and in peace is better than being stressed out. Driving less will take away stress from your daily routine. Going for a walk or riding your bike around the neighborhood will make you feel revied and you'll get to enjoy the pulchritudinous nature around you. You'll even want to ask yourself "where has this been all my life"?...God has created the world so precious and I know he took his time making it. People take hikes, vacations, and trips to the beach to enjoy the views of world. It would be best to take a break from driving.
You can get plenty of exercise if you walk to work or school instead of driving. Think of all the obese and lazy people that do nothing for themselves and drive around thinking that it is okay to not exercise at all. Walking or riding a bike will decrease stress, and your chances of getting heart disease. Most people in America die from heart disease and cancer. Just by taking a walk or a ride on a bicycle, you may save yourself from the ugly illnesses.
Finally, the advantages of limiting car usage are allowing the air to be safer and less polluted, decreases car accidents, takes away stress, and allows you to get the exercise you need everyday. If people take time out of their day just to take a walk they will be wanting more and better things for the earth.
All the people of the world will be proud to say that they've done something great to save what we've got left.
Driving is a privlege not a priority. So, the next time you decide to drive think of all the good things you'll be able to experience and how much you'll be saving the world from disaster. | 3 |
ab410e4 | Scientists wants to keep on exploring venus even tho it is dangerous. One reason I think they should is because they should get information about things they brealy know about. My second reason is because they might find someuseful things if they keep on studing it. My last reason is because it might not be as dangerous as people make it out to be. These are some reason why scientist should keep studing venus.
In addition I do think that the scientist should keep studying venus for some of these reasons. Reason one is because of the information that they can find id they keep looking into it. My second reason is that they might find some useful information if they keep studing the plant. My last reason is because it might not turn out to be a dangerous place as people say it is.
In conclusion I do think its a good idea for people to keep studing venus. My first reason was because it could give the scientist more information on the plant. My second reason was they might find some useful information that coild help them. My last reason was venus might not be a dangerous place as people make it out to be. So i think this is why some scientist should study venus more. | 1 |
ab45303 | The Dissapearene of the Electroral College
The United States of America has come a long with in regards to its legal system. For example, the new laws that are currently being added to allow gay couples to marry. That shows true progress, however there are other laws that we have, which simply are not needed anymore and are quite outdated. An example of this would be the Electoral College. The system that it abides by is horrendous and unjust. In the eyes of many the Electoral College should be removed from the law and will make Democratic decisions within this country much better.
Now there are quite a few well known people who believe that the Electoral College should be abolished. These people include Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter,and Bob Dole just to name a few. One of the biggest controversial events that had to do with a failure of the Electoral College was the election of 2000. In this situation Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the precidency due to the methods of the Electoral College. It all seems to just be an irrational method as well as a waste of time. This is to be believed because you have citizen voters who add up to the popular vote, yet afterwards it is then turned over to the electors who may be unfair and corrupted. The votes would be much simpler and much more fair if it was a direct popular vote. Not to mention that over sixty perecent of voters whould prefer a direct election as oppossed to the method of voting we have now.
(Source 2, Brad Plumer)
The way that the Electoral College works is selection of electors, then a meeting of electors where they vote for the President and Vice President, and finally the elctoral votes are counted by Congress. All thats done is adding a middleman who makes a decision for the people who spent their time to vote for the candidates they elected. Also with this "winner-take-all system
(Source 1, The Office of Federal Register)
it leaves those who "chose wrong" left with nothing, however let it be noted that in Maine and Nebraska there is a variation of "proportional representation". Finally, after the election the governer of your state prepares a "Certificate of Ascertainment" which lists all the candidates who had run for President in your stae as well as a list of the representing electors.
Along the lines of voting not only do voters practically have no say in who they are voting for due to basically voting for representing electors thus its up to the electors to vote for a President and Vice President, not the people of this nation. For example, if you lived in Texas and wanted to vote for John Kerry, you would end up voting for a slate of thirty four Democratic electors pledged to Kerry. With the very small chance that the electors won the statewide election kept in mind, they would then have to go to Congress and as a result Kerry would have thirty four more electoral votes. To be honest this whole system seems to be rediculously unnecessary and tedious. As said beofre a direct method of voting from the citizens would be more beneficial to the whole nation. In the end, that is one of the most important things to keep in mind because that is what will end up being affected the most which is the entireiety of the U.S.A.
Lets not forget that in this whle voting via the Electoral College, there is a very apparent disaster factor looming above their heads. When you put it into context that a candidate that a majority of the population of voters appealed to and voted for did not end up being elected because of the choices of the electors theres going to be a huge problem as a result. Not to mention the fact that many are afriad of the chance that there will eventually be a situtaion where there is a tie. Furthermore, this can also be taken into account in a vice versa manner because if there is a candidate that lost the popular vote but won the votes of the electors there will be ridiculous amounts of uproar to follow. In the close there are just too many comlexities and problems that follow the Electoral College and it would be for the benefit of all if it was abolished. | 5 |
ab47cd1 | Why do you think ther is a face on Red Planet called Cydonia. Well ther is not the olny thing that is up ther is a wast land of nothing. Dont let consperisetheres out ther fool you. I will show you the facts and prove to you ther are no aliens up there.
In the story it states that the faces up there are olny land forms. Land forms are shaped over thousinds of years. As the years go on the land form gets smaller and smaller. Also the planet can not suport life.
All the consperisetheris out ther dont know what they are talking about.
They dont have the evidens to provide like everone else hase. nasa is a groop of scintest the consperisetheris are a groop of craze people.
thes is why you shud not blesve everthing you see on the internet. lisint to the scintest. leav them in charge . | 2 |
ab4898e | The Case of the Driveless Cars
How many movies have you seen that depict the future with advanced technology such as holograms or even driveless cars? How much of a reality could that be? The case of driveless cars has been something that has been going on for awhile. Even around 2009 Google came out with their first almost driveless car. Although driveless cars are depicted as futuristic and magical, really driveless cars seem like more of an endangerment to our economy, our safety and our time.
To begin, the manufacturing of driveless cars is insanely expensive. Where would all this money even come from? We would have to fund it to provide research for a car that doesn't know how to back out of a driveway yet. There has already been 200 million dollars spent on radar a device on a hiltop. So why waste money on something that only goes up to 25 mph and won't even drive if you don't have your hands on the wheel? It seems like driveless really just means assissting. But assissting to who? Obviously not the wallets of the buyers.
Secondly, the driveless cars are supposed to help for the better of the people, they say it would be "safer". But where is the proof that it is safer? Many states have already banned the use of any self-autonomous cars, just leaving out four states who have left them limited use to test out the cars. How can the world just expect for these cars to be safe when we already have superstition over these cars and those who don't will barely let them use the cars too? They also suggest since the driver will probably be bored that they should put in some entertainment in the car. But what happens when, the car stops and has the driver do what they're supposed to, but they aren't prepared because they were entertained by something else? It's unsafe to assume that having all these distracting things around people who are supposed to be driving won't effect how they do in a sudden situation. There is also the hastle of having to reconstruct the roads, which goes back to the point of money and also safety. It is never safe when there is construction going around, especially when they have to reconstruct the whole road in order to make the driveless cars work. This also leads to the third point.
Time is very limited in this day and age. We barely have time to do anything, we have so many errands to run, so many things to do, but it's like we never have enough time. If the expansion of driveless cars would continue we would have to reconstruct the roads, delaying many people with getting to work or going to school, or just everyday things. Then we have to go to the government too, to repeal the ban put over on many states. So, naturally, that will take forever too, because when does the government ever get such controversial things solved super quick? Why waste the time of millions for something we aren't sure of yet?
All in all, the manufacturing of driveless cars is pointless when the car isn't even really driveless. It seems more of a hazard to the economy, the safety of many, and the time of others than it does as an ensuring safe way to get around. In the case of the driveless car, the driveless car lost. There are too many negative effects for it to ever succeed. | 4 |
ab490fb | What do I think about the Facial Action Coding System? I think the Facial Action Coding System is a great step in upgrading our tecnology but I just don't think I could see myself ever using it. I don't think it is necessary to have because some people might not want others to know how their feeling that day. In the passage it is saying that you are able to detect exactly how other people are feeling, even when they are trying to hide it, which I think is invasion of someone else's privacy. I just think that someone else's emotions and how they are feeling is for them to know and them only. I think that this innovtion could hurt many people because if someone had a family member pass away and this computer is saying they are 99 percent sad and if someone were to ask them they could get angry or put them in a worse mood than before. I also think this new innovation could work out in our prison systems to help us understand if a murder really does feel remorse for the family or if they are saying it to get the less severe punishment. I also think it would work great in couple theropy or even any group theropy to see if them talking to a counceler is helping them or making it worse.
The Facial Action Coding System could be used as a new and improved lie detector test but only through emotions as said by the author of this passage, "to an expert, faces dont lie." I also think the Facial Action Coding System could work out really great in a classroom because I know from personal experience that when something is hard or challenging then you wish for the assignment to get easier and with the Facial Action Coding System you could do that without a teacher even being there.Another reason I dont think it would be the best idea is because staring at a computer screen all day everyday would eventually hurt your eyes or maybe even worse. That is why I think the Facial Action Coding System could be good and could be bad for the people. | 3 |
ab4cdb9 | I am against the development of driverless cars. I am against the development because "if the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault?" There are many reasons why the development of driverless car are not safe.
I am against the development of driverless cars because its could not be safe at all times, "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." Laws are written to keep people safe, if thats the law then driverless cars might not be safe.
Driverless cars may not sound or look dangerous but you never know."In most states it is illegal even to test computer driven cars." It is illeagal in some states probably beacause they are not proven to be safe yet. If they were really safe I think that they would allow them to just test drive them.
Laws about the driverless car are going to change if they do make a safe driverless car. The laws are probably still going to be strict ans safe. "Even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of in accident." If an accident did happen and there was no law who would be blamed for it, the driver shouldn't be because its a driverless car.
"Television and movies have long been fascinated with cars that could drive themselves." Just because we see it in movies or tv shows doesn't mean it real or safe. There are some good things about driverless cars, but there are alot more thing that are bad or just not safe about them. | 3 |
ab4d119 | Cars were invented by Harrison Ford to allow humans to have easier and safer access to transportation.
Cars and automotive vehicles were designed to enhance safety and allow passangers to efficiently arrive to their destination.
Cars were engineered to be driven, powered, and handled by humans, not to be self automated devices.
Humans as a whole should not have automated cars. Having a trasnportation vehicle that is soley reliant on detectors is not a safe way to travel from place to place. Whether the distance is near or far, accidents are always prone to happen, and those chances only increase with a human not in complete control behind the wheel. The article states that "the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires," but can this really be achieved when the driver has the ability to become more distracted, stop paying attention, or even fall asleep when the car is being dirven for them? Having a self driven car allows many more opportunities to be distracted while on the road, and it is not garunteed that the driver will immediatley snap back into attention when human control is needed. If the car is unable to handle itself in dangerous or unknown situations, should people really be letting the car drive on a road where there are many unpredictable factors? The article says "flashing lights" and "vibrating seats" will notify the driver when danger is near, but this is simply not an efficient or probable solution if the driver were to be asleep or distracted, which would give anyone a slow reaction time. "...safety is best achieved with alert drivers." Haveing a self driven car would simply make the driver much too reliant on the vehicle they are in.
The world is becoming too dependent on technology, and if we allow ourselves to be driven by an object that was invented for us to drive, we are only furthering this conflict.
Becoming too dependent on technology has made us oblivious to the world around us, so just think how worse that could be if we allow cars that give us room to be side tracked while on the road with a countless number of individuals. If automated cars become a reality for everyone, what other things will we let do the simplest things we can do ourselves? The text states "Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore?" This statement simply is not true in the context of self driven cars. We will still have cars, we will just fail to know how to use them ourselves.
Cars are a widely used object world wide, but not everyone can afford them. The cars we have today are expensive, so what will the cost of a new, self driven car will be? If the goal is to "...release a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time" becomes reality, there will only be a select demographic of people who will be able to afford these cars. The more cars companies and manufacturers make and the less cars people are able to buy, the more in debt these companies will be in. Neither party will be benefiting from self driven cars.
Some individuals would argue that we as a society and race need to push ourselves forward and take advantage of the new technology being invented so we can take the next step into achieving greatness. This is a very broad notion that can only pertain to certain inventions and situations, the automated car not being one of them. Allowing all technology and inventions to take over our lives will only result in the lack of knowledge of how to take care of ourselves and the people that surround us.
We need to learn to become more independent on the things that are handed to us in order to keep the humanity we have. This is what seperates the living beings from the computers we come in contact with everyday. Others would even argue that the self driven car is safer to handle and will enhance the protection of others, but how can this be true if faulty technology is inevitable? Faulty technology will also result in confusing and frustrating lawsuits, as demonstrated in the article. "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?"
We simply cannot rely on computers to do all our work for us, it is impractical.
In conclusion, having self driven cars would only hinder our development as a society and lead us further into a future where independence of technology is greater than what anyone can handle, and will ultimatley lead to the decimation of the individuality of humans. | 6 |
ab500d0 | Venus is a simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of earth, it has proven a very challenging place to examine more closely. Since Venus is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. To despite all the dangers and challenges from Venus we can gain more information about it. It has proved that it is a challenging more than a danger place to examine more closely. Also NASA could be studying old to new technology.
Putting the danger away in foces more on what inforamtion we can all gain on. To understand how this plant Venus is very difffrent from others in the solar system. In the passage states "Its nickname is misleading since venus is actually a planet from our sun". Known how Venus got its nickname "Evening Star". Also how Venus and Mars our neighbor, orbit the sun at diffrent speeds. In the Article states that "Venus is sometimes right around the coner-in the space terms-humans have sent numerous spacevraft to land on his cloud-draped world.
Venus is know for its danger instead for its challenge. In the article states that "numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputaion as a challenging plant for humans to study, depite of its proximity to us". Venus is not any other plant in the solar system caused by its temperatures averge is over 800 degress Fahrenheit. In the passage states "even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric aicd in Venus's atmosphere". It is more as in challenge to learn and understand how this plant is diffrent from others plant in the solar system. Tacking this as a challenge then a danger.
On the other hand, old technology into new technology can safe and learn from other plant like Venus. "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus ther need electronic made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venu's surface." Meaning NASA have been gaining new ways and studying what technology is best for venus. Also old techology is been used for this project. In the Passage states that "Another project like this is looking back to an old device called mechanical computers". With new and old devices they can studying new way to get cloeser and safer to Venus by stusying Venus.
Venus is a worthy pursuit depite of its danger if everyone tacks it as a cahllenge. By gaing more information about Venus and tacking the challenge. How old to new technology is bening used. All the danger could trun into safely. With safely we can study all of the unanswed question. By tacking the challenge and getting closer to Venus with safely caution. Leaving all the danger in the past in foces mor eon hoe to get their closer and safer. | 3 |
ab5f7d5 | Dear state senator with all do respect I feel like electoral college is unfair. Why you may ask? because in reality us the U.S citizens aren't getting to actually vote directly for who we want. for example in paragraph 10 in the second source it is stated that the way that college electoral voting works is by letteing the people vote for representatives that represent the actual candidate. In other words lets say that more than 100 people vote for a certain candidate well those 100 peoples vote will not all be counted because that particular candidate may only have 37 representatives.
in addition that makes our votes less valuable! The voting method should actually change to popular vote, because that way it is equal or even and no one is being left out and every persons vote counts. Also the popular vote for president of the U.S is better because in that case there is more possibilities of candidates to last either longer or even have a better opportunity in being elected as president.
The whole point of having popular vote is so that us the citizens feel equal and also free because this is a free state and the whole meaning of this nation was that we the citizens get to pick our president. Another thing why I feel like popular vote is more better is because it would make the governments job so much easier. For example all they would have to do is collect votes and see who has the most. Instead of having to know that the votings are unfair with college electoral voting..
These were my reasons why I feel like popular voting for a president is a much more better choice than college electoral voting. | 3 |
ab616aa | There are many advantages to limiting car usage. There is smog in densly populated areas that is affecting peoples lifes. They can get deathly ill because of it. We need to limit car usage because of the harmful thing that can come from it.
In dense cities there is smog that is polluting the air and making it hard to breath. If you live in an area like this for a while it can get you really sick. It can give you lung cancer, amonia, and many other things. Living in a place like this has been proven to be almost the same as being a smoker. It will hurt your lungs very badly. Breathing this air can also make the quality of life alot worse. It can make you depressed, or angry and can cause alot of other problems.
Limiting car usage will save alot of teenage lifes. Teens between the ages of 16 and 21 have the highest death rate for drivers. Limiting car usage can save many lifes. It will also save teens and adults alot of money. Paying for gas, car repairs, and for the car itself can save alot of money. There are many people struggling to live with a nice car. If they did not have to pay for that car or the gas for it it can greatly help them. Not paying for gas alone can put food on the table.
These are some of the advantages to limiting car usage. It will save many lifes from cancer, car wrecks and alot of other things. It can also help poor people feed there families or help pay for there house. There are many advantages to limiting car usage and i feel it would help alot more than it would hurt to stop using cars. | 3 |
ab65c05 | What my position is on drverless cars are that they are not a bad thing, but everything has a good and a bad. I personally think that driverless cars are not bad because you can save more lifes. Driverless cars are one big step into the future.
Driverless cars can save lives, think of this what if you get an emergancy text and you need to pick it up but your driving and dont want to look at your phone and crash, a driverless car can eleminate one of thoes big task. It could also save you money insted of drinking and driving and having to spend money on a a taxi home you can save money by geting into your car and not having to drive at all. Driverless cars can also help lift a huge weight off your sholders when it comes to long distance travel.
I also think that driverless cars can help people double tasking like if you need to do something else and cant drive or pullover because your in traffic.
driverless cars can also be a bad thing to, like what if your in traffic and you car doesnt stop because it cant stop, and your to busy reading that text or answering the phone, you might crash into people. Driverless cars can also be a bad thing for taxi drviers because people simply won't need them and they would start to lose jobs. Another thing is that people might get to distrated and end up crashing and hurting themself and others. One more thing about driverless cars is that who's to blame if you do crash? Would it be you or the manufaturer?
Driverless cars are soon to be here even if it's a bad thing or a good thing. automakers are starting to make driverless cars apear more often now. The story said by 2020 more driverless car will be poping up. | 2 |
ab6c995 | The Face on Mars is not what everyone thinks it is. Hollywood shows, magazines, and radio talk shows can exaggerate to make the landform sound like more than what it truly is. As a NASA scientist, I believe that you should know exactly what this historic landmark is, so you know the correct story for years to come.
First, you never know what publicity will do with the next big story. Media usually talks up the whole situation, to display the story bigger than it is. In this case, many people are under the impression that the landform is a face created by aliens, because of the media. Once a story is out in the public eye, people have different view points as well. "Some people think the Face is bond fide evidence of life on Mars-evidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorists." This excerpt from the article states that many people believe that NASA is hiding something from the public, something that they don't want everyone to know about. However, NASA scientists, like myself, know that this is no extraterrestrial impression on the face of Mars, but rather a small mountain or hill that seems to resemble a face.
To back up what NASA has already said, you could easily have a prediction of what may have caused this mound to form. "....landforms common around the American West. 'It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho,' says Garvin." Garvin clearly gives us a connection that we can relate to. We don't all have the privilege to go into space, however we can understand what a landform like the Face may look like, if it is similar to a landform on Earth. Mountains, canyons, hills, or valleys are all form by different forces. The Face may have been formed by the winds on Mars, eroding away the rocks around it until there was a small hill left. Water could have possibly carved around the mound, leaving this landform. There are various, reasonable explanations for how this landform could have been formed.
In conclusion, the Face may be seen as multiple things to the public eye, but the experts at NASA know this landform is nothing more than a coincidence. This landform could have been formed by various causes, but it is merely a lucky chance that this mound would have the features resembling a human face. Although much talk may lead you to believe the Face is an alien creation, trust the expert scientists. The Face is nothing more than a normal landform on the face of Mars. | 4 |
ab71e49 | Most people who reach the age of 16 are elated to be able to learn how to drive. When they reach that point in their lives, they feel independent, responsible. They would not like to have that priviledge taken away from them. In fact, though most teens start to question authority more around the age of 16, they would do anything to stay out of trouble and would never risk the chance of having their driving priviledge revoked. Driverless cars would eliminate the entire experience of learning how to drive and all the pleasure one feels from it.
Driverless cars are an brilliant idea and would reduce the number of casualties and deaths that are caused by car accidents every year.
They would also, however, bring up new problems that would need to be solved. Not everyone would be able to afford a driverless car, as they would no doubt be extremely expensive, therefor not everyone would have one. If there were to be a mix of car types on the road, there would be the issue of accidents caused by cars with drivers. Would the person with the driverless car be considered faultless everytime just because it is assumed that the driverless car has everything under control? Would the person driving their own car be to blame because they should be responsible enough to watch where they are going and navigate the roads safely?
Another issue that would arise would be NASCAR. If driverless cars became the norm, what would be the point of racecars? Many people would lose their jobs because they had only worked in one position for a long period of time. The men and women in the pit stops would lose their jobs, as well as the drivers themselves. Companies that are funded by NASCAR would be in trouble as well because who would they have to help them out?
Driverless cars would eliminate some jobs, but also create some others. Companies that make computer-driven cars would have a ton of business, therefor increasing the employment rates. That also increases the chance of theft by the companies' employees. With the new demand of different, more expensive parts, employees would more than likely be tempted to steal from one company to help another if it meant a larger paycheck. Which ever company was doing the best would have to be extremely careful and might even have to hirer extra security to protect themselves and their products.
Driverless cars would both solve and cause problems in the future, should they become the norm. If not everyone could afford the new, expensive cars, who would be blamed for the car accidents that are bound to happen? Sports that include car racing, such as NASCAR, would be eliminated and thousands of people would be left without jobs and, potentially, on the streets. Though the new cars would create new jobs as well, they would also cause new thefts by employees in companies to better the flow of there income. Driverless cars would cause more problems than they would be worth in the long run. | 3 |
ab74e1a | Did you ever wonder what getting sea sick feels like? Well in this prompt I going to talk about a guy named Luke who wants to covince people to join the Seagoing Cowboys program. Well I think people shouldn't join the Seagoing Cowboys Program because of getting sea sick, maybe getting lost, or even dying.
First, getting sea sick. People who get sea sick probaly die of the disease or even get really sick. I can infer this is the number one reason for not going on boats people came up with.
Secondly, maybe getting lost in the ocean. Lots of people had this problem before but maybe not today. People can die or even just end up somewhere away from their families at home awaiting for their arrival. I can infer this happend alot to people who forgot which way to go to land.
Last, dying. This has happend because of either disease faling off the ship and being stranded or even starvation or drought. Another reason is because of other people attacking them. I can infer this happened often to people who did not pay attention to where they were going or to anything
To conclude this essay I'm going to list the three main reasons I thought not to join the Seagoing Cowboys program one getting sea sick, secondly getting lost, or even dying. Would you still join this program after you read this paper? | 2 |
ab7926e | Have you ever heard of the face on Mars? Well if you have do you think its was made by alien life or it is just a natural landform. I think it is a natural landform because there has been no signs of life on Mars. Also we have spacecrafts taking pictures on Mars so if there we would know about it. This is why I think it is a natural landform.
So if you think that this " Face" was created by alien life then you are wrong because I can tell you that there are no life on Mars what so ever. We know this because we have spacecrafts flying around Mars taking pictures every second of everyday of every year. This is why it is just a natural landform.
It looks like a normal rock on Earth just with a face that was created by the way it was formed. This is one reason that it is a natural landform.
Another reason that is a natural landform is because my good buddy Garvin says that " What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms common around the American West. It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." Which is a lava dome that takes the shape of an isolated mesa around the same height as the face on Mars. Im am telling this because land masses can form anywhere and look like anything. That is another reason it is a landform.
My last reason it is just a landform that you can find anywhere is that the first photo was taken in 1976, back then we didnt have the technology we have now. In 1976 we had a camera that had the range of 43 meters per pixel, which is not good. Now in 2001 we had a camera that had 1.56 meters per pixel which is the best at the moment. The picture in 1976 does look like a face but in the picture in 2001 it looks like a normal rock with a lot of cracks in it. That is my last reason of how it is a natural landform.
Those were my reasons to try and convince you that the rock on Mars is just a natural landform. My reasons were that there has been no signs of life on Mars. My second reason was that it looks like every other rock i have seen on this Earth. And my last reason is that we have a lot better technology then we did back in 1976. You can believe what you want to believe but it is just a normal rock like anything else. | 4 |
ab7f92e | The discovery of the Face on the surface of Mars was thrilling for the public. As a scientest working for NASA, I am constantly debating with others whether or not the Martian mesa commonly referred to as the Face was created by aliens. Many people think that it was created by aliens. However, I disagree with the fact that the Face might have been created by aliens. It is simply another Martian mesa located in the region known as Cydonia.
One of the main reasons the Face was not created by aliens is because there are multiple Martian mesas throughout Cydonia. Martian mesas are commonly found throughout Cydonia, and it would be logical to think that the Face is just another Martian mesa. The only difference between the Face and other Martian mesas is that the Face contains unusual shadows making it look like an actual human face.
Not only are Martian mesas commonly found in Cydonia, pictures taken by spacecrafts have proven that the Martian mesa does not look like a face. Although many people have said that the photo taken by the Viking 1 in 1976 resembles a face, unusual shadows made the Martian mesa take the appearance of a human face. Also, the photo taken in 1976 by the Viking 1 does not have very good resolution. In order to see the Face, the photo taken in 1998 by the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) had to be taken through wispy clouds which has led some skeptics to believe that the alien marking were hidden by haze. However, the photos taken in 2001 by the Mars Global Surveyor are much clearer and have much better resolution. These photos reveal the truth about the Face; it is just another Martian Mesa.
In addition to the fact that the photos reveal the truth, it would be illogical for NASA to keep life on Mars a secret. If NASA was to announce to the public that life on Mars has been found, it would significantly help NASA. More people would support NASA and hope more would be discovered about the life found on Mars and would encourage the government to provide NASA with large amounts of money to learn even more about life on Mars.
Although it would have been cool to know that the Face was created by aliens, there is too much proof to support the fact that it is just another Martian mesa. With such advanced technology in use today, NASA will hopefully make huge discoveries in the near future. | 4 |
ab81c08 | The face on Mars is 100% just a natural formation of rocks and sand/dust. Pictures show this, everytime NASA does take a picture of it there are the same results. Plus if it was alien why would NASA publish the pictures. If this was proof of aliens it would put people into freak out mode.
The first thing is that giant rock formations aren't uncommon in the cydonia section of Mars. In fact there are a whole bunch of different kinds of rocks just like the face, only that those are normal looking. They don't look like faces. The article even says that the picture actually shows the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West. Even Garvin says ''It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho,'' then he keeps going to say ''That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars.''
The second thing is close up images. Over the years NASA has been taking pictures of this formation. Each time they take a picture of face, the face starts to look more and more like a rock formation. NASA even publicly posted pictures on the web, and all diferent kinds of media to show what the formation looks like. So, NASA must of been pretty confident in what they were saying the picture was. Plus NASA is made of the top of the line professionlas. They aren't made up of people who dropped out of highschool. They are made up of people who have graduated from some of the most advanced and instutionalized colleges.
My third thing is if it was alien, why would NASA publicly show the pictures. In the article, it makes NASA look like they were trying to get people to get away from the alien idea. By the sound of it, I would take a guess and say if it was alien, NASA would do everything in their power to keep the images from getting out into the public. Another thing is that at one point people were saying that the picture taken on April 5, 1998, was not liable because of the fact that 98 was a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet. So, NASA on April 8, 2001, took another photo in the year 2001 and 2001 was not a cloudy year for the Red Planet .The photo even further backed up the fact that the formation on Mars is just another giant rock, not some alien face or artifact.
So in the end why would this be an alien face or aritfact. NASA has publicly proven that it is just a formation of rocks and dust/sand. Plus if NASA didn't wan't us to know about aliens or anything of the sort, why would they publicly anounce and show pictures of the Face of Mars. That is why the Face of Mars is not related to anything alien at all and is just another formation in the cydonia sector of Mars. | 4 |
ab84f00 | Dear State Senator,
For years, the presidential election has been running with an Electoral College, one in which the public does not vote for their choice canidate directly, but instead for a slate of electors to have a final deciding vote. Although the system could have worked like a breeze when first originated-- a point to be reckoned with, since I do not see how the system ever correctly displayed the citizens of America-- the Electoral College method has proven itself to be un-deomcratic, unfair, and an unjustly irrational system.
Simply stated, the Electoral College does not allow an accurate representation of voter's beliefs, taking their votes and twisting, manipulating them into a deciding vote from electors. The popular vote can be seen as an input/output machine, the people's own votes going in the contraption, and once inside, the input is stretched and exagerated to output a "neater" electoral vote out of 538. While some argue that the Electoral College vote is usually rather close to the popular vote, it just isn't the same as when the Constution loosely states America as a 'for the people, by the people' nation.
Several times throughout history, the Electoral college has swayed the presidential election in a completely different route than what the outcome of the popular vote would have been. The perfect example, constantly brought up in arguments against the Electoral college, is the 2000 election with main canidates of Republican George Bush and Democrat Al Gore. Through the popular vote, it is clearly seen that a majority of voters chose Al Gore to be their president. Through the process of the electoral college and manipulation of votes, though, the Presidental canidate ended with George Bush winning the election with a 271 electoral votes versus a 266 pointed toward Gore, thus creating an entirely different viewpoint of the people.
The idea of an Electoral College is also what has swung possible voters out of voting rooms, the voting method's 'winner takes all' outlook overriding. With the set up of the Electoral college, popular voters decievingly decide for a slate of electors instead of a President. For example, if a majority of Florida electors voted for Bush, the entirety of Florida's 29 votes are down for Bush, even though not all electors really did vote that way. Those citizens in states who do not fit with what large majority of voters believe are discouraged in voting for their own canidate knowning that, no matter what, it's almost certain their state will end up giving its votes to the canidate they oppose. This can lead voters to not voting at all, creating an even less accurate election while the country pushes citizens to vote, frowning down on them if they do not.
Besides major points, there are many smaller faults wiithin the Electoral college. In example, there is always the possibility of a slate voting for a canidate that differs from the one they have pratically promised to vote for. The fate of our country is put into the hands of the 538 members of the electoral college, opposed to the vastly greater full population of American citizens. Also, with the 538 Electoral College members being an even number, although rare, it is more likely for there to be a tie than if the popular vote was used in deciding the presidential canidate.
A pro Electoral college argument is that the citzens in swing states-- states that are likely to go either way in an election instead of an almost certian outcome-- are more likely to pay attention to ad campaigns knowing that their state is most likely what will decide the winner of the election. Advocates say that they are, on average, most likely to be the most thoughtful voters, and that the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide our nations outcome. This outlook is littered with flaws, first starting off with the fact that swing states get more media coverage than the rest of the nation. These voters are valued more than others and are given more information to have an informed vote. Besides the fact that it is proposterous to value the vote of one citizen over another, this isn't fair to members of other states who recieve virtually no coverage due to canidates feeling like the state's vote has been secured since day one. The nation as a whole should recieve all the facts together with equal coverage, so that each and every voter can become a thoughtful one, and not only those located in swing states.
All in all, the decision to abolish the Electoral College is a backed up one, the facts and details there to support, meanwhile advocates for the practically ancient method don't have many solid counters to prove their point.
I hope you take this letter and it's claims into consideration.
Thank you for your time,
Floridian citizen PROPER_NAME | 6 |
ab866a6 | How do you feel about driverless cars? Sergey Brin, Google cofounder, is working on a profect called "The Google Car Project". I personally think that with google cars a lot can go wrong. I believe that becuase it is easier to have car accidents, easy for the equipment to malfunction, and who would you sue if you were wrecked by a Google Car?
First, with Google Cars people aren't controlling what is happening. Although there usually is a person in the car of a smart driving car, a lot of the time that driver is probably not paying attention to the road. Most smart driving cars have built in techneques that make it so that the person in the car has to at least have their hands on the wheel. For example, "In 2013, BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant." The car can handle driving functions at speeds of up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel."
Second, with Google Cars it would be easier for a wreck if the car malfuntioned. It would be easier for the car to malfuntion becuase, for example, say you were in a Google Car and you got a warning that your break fluid was low, you wouldn't know becuase you weren't paying attention to your car. Also, they have made a sensor that goes on the roof of your car so that the car can see all around your car. If that sensor malfuntions, the car wouldn't be able to see where it was going and you could wreck. For example, "The most important bit of technolofy in this system is the spinning sensor on the roof. Dubbed LIDAR, it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings."
Lastly, who would you sue if you were in a wreck and you or the car that hit you was a smart car? Would you sue the person driving, or the car manufacturer? Or say you were driving a smart car and you broke the law, drivers fault or manufacturer? These are very important questions. For example, "Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in case of an accident. If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?
How do you feel about driverless cars? Sergey Brin, Google cofounder, is workng on a project called "The Google Car Project". I personally think that with Google Cars a lot can go wrong. I believe that because it's easier to have car accidents, easy for the equipment to malfuntion, and who would you sue if you were wrecked by a Google Car? | 4 |
ab87c93 | The Face on Mars is just a natural landform because, in my opinion i dont believe aliens are real. Here are the reasons why i think the Face on Mars has become just a natural landform.
On April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a pictue ten times sharper than the original Viking photos.
Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting for that image. When the image appeared on a JPL web site revealing just a natural landform peopole finally knew that there was no alien monument after all.
Another reason why i think The ''Face on Mars'' is just a natural lanform because, ''The Face on Mars'' has since become a pop icon. It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows, even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years!
Some people think the Face is evidence of life on mars.
April 8, 2001, Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. They had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view. Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's maximum resolution.
As a rule of thumb, you can turn things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size, so if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small item, you would be able to see what they were!
In this argumentative essay i have tried to convince people that the Face is just a natural landform. | 3 |
ab888fe | Is this technology that is able to read students' emotional expressions valuable?
I think the value of using this technology to read the students' emotions is really important. It is important because you can determain if students show some sort of depression in there life and you can be able to help them prevent suicide. " A classroom computer could recongize when a student is becoming confused or bored." This would help the teacher be able to help students out or try to teach them in a different way so it doesn't seem so bored or confusing.
This new technology can help in so many different ways. Us oursleves may or may not see how another person is feeling, we might think they are feeling happy but deep inside they can be sad. That's where the new technology part comes in, it is able to see what a person is truly feeling like for an exmaple the Mona Lisa painitng. " She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." This was all determined by the Facial Action Coding system.
Like I said in the beginning "Is this technology that is able to read students' emotional expereinces valuable?" I know it is and hopefully you'll understand what I'm trying to say. | 3 |
ab8bca9 | After my high school graduation I worked in a grocery store and bank. Life couldn't get anymore boring. Then, my friend from school, Don Reist, invited me to go to Europe on a cattle boat with him. Of course I said yes, I mean, it was the opportunity of a life time. In Europe, the UNRRA was hiring Seagoing Cowboys. After long and hard thinking, Don and I signed up.
It was the best desicon ever. I got to travel all over the world, take care of animals and have fun on board. The other cowboys and I played volleyball, baseball, fencing, boxing and other sports to pass the long time on the boat. That's what I loved about this job. A once in a lifetime opportunity became a full-time job for me. I got to see England, China, Italy, Greece and France. You also should join the Seagoing Cowboys.
In conclusion, Seagoing Cowboys opened a whole new world for me. Hopefully it will for you, too. Don't hesitate to join the Seagoing Cowboys. Sign up, today. Thank You! | 2 |
ab8f0aa | Facial Action Coding System, a new technology that enables computers to identify human emotions. Personally, I think that sounds like a good, well-built, successful invention. There are a lot of technologies and experiments that haven't worked in the past, but I think this could actually get the researchers somewhere. Technology seems to be increasing everyday and I feel like the new Facial Action Coding System is a good step to make and push forward for the future. The process is starting with a 3-D computer to make a model of a face.
That includes all fourty-four major muscles in the model must move just like you see on a real, living human. Without the muscle movement features, people would not be able to tell how this creature persay, is actually feeling emotionally or physically. The fact that the professers, and scientist are putting that much thought and detail into this object, is mind boggling. The author then explains in paragraph six, that the Mona Lisa demonstration is actually intended to make the people looking at it, smile. It also shows how much the computers can do and make. While looking at this newly invented object, it should make you think about how it was all created and how it all came to be.
Personally, I feel like this new invention called Facial Action Coding System could make a good impact on the kids in the future. Most people nowadays love technology and know how it all works. I feel like it's a good invention and could impact not just humans, but also the world. More jobs, careers, and opportunities will take charge with this new object at hand. I think it could become something new, helpful, and entertaining. | 2 |
aba1c2e | Landform or alien? The face on Mars looks pretty cool right. This face of Mars made it to hollywood and radio talks and books. People were egar to see this face, once they saw it then there was alien talk. We all know its cool to think there might be life out there, but it's just a natural landform.
Even though this face is so detailed with the mouth and the eyes and nose, it's just a natural landform. NASA even said it for themselves. " Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing... a natural landform. There was NO alien monument after all." So, If a professional NASA team says it's a landform, i'm not going to argue on the debate.
However if your still not conviced I have more to prove. I haven't heard any information about aliens being true or alive. So, why would we still believe and hold on to the fact that there may not be life out there. NASA hasn't said anything about aliens but they have said that things happen. Such as the face on mars.
Although there are many, many facts about the face on Mars, I would get if you came up to me and said "Aliens did this to Mras because its so detail and how could that be if no one has been to Mars, so there are aliens." Only because we don't actually know if there are aliens ,but in the end its just lava that created this dome like face. "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa" Thats a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars.
In conclusion there are no aliens and its just a landform. NASA said it's just a landform and there isn't really information about aliens so im going to say that it just happened to be a lucky landform that just happened to show up as a face. | 3 |
aba7d09 | Was there another Earth like the one you are living on right now? I and all the NASA researchers ask you this question in a sense that you will understand. Venus is the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago Venus was probaly covered with oceans and life forms. We know this because Venus has surface features that look like Earth's. Through the use of technology, researchers found valleys, mountains, and craters on Venus, leading us to think that it is extremly similar to Earth.
Venus is the second clost planet to the sun and regulates a 800 degree temperature on it's surface. The atmosphere is also covered in thick sulfuric acid and carbon dioxide clouds (author 3). These vile conditions make it impossible for technology to touch the surface. You may ask if it's impossible why are we still trying. The answer is that Venus is extremly similar to Earth and could possibly reveal secrets of the universe.
Through technology researchers have found reminents of valleys, mountains, craters, and oceans. Making it possible that a form of life was once there. Was there life? What happened to the planet? These are questions that are fueling researchers to uncover the true nature of Venus.
In conclusion Venus is analogous to Earth. Reminents of oceans, valleys, and valleys were found. From this knowledge scientists infered that Venus could have supported life. Unfortunelately we are having trouble testing this theory since Venus' surface is 800 degrees. If we can somehow collect data from Venus depsite the danger, it would be vital for Earth and the human race in general. | 3 |
abaa5bb | Our Town Does Not Need Cars
Green house pollutants from motor vehicles has been a major issue in America. Many discerning towns have made strides to stop the car exaust epidemic. I believe that our town should join the pollution free bandwagon.
Initially, living without a car will result in a happier planet. As stated in Source 1 line 5
"Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emission in Europe . . . and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." Our town needs to join the fight against pollutants. if we don't stop these greenhouse emissions Earth will be a disgusting wasteland of smog. As stated in source 2 " Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." If we dont do something quick, Our home will reach this point.
To continue, life without a car would equal less stress. Imagine not being having to pay for gas, financing, insurance, and maintenence! As stated in Source 1 line 3 "When i had a car I was always tense. im much happier this way, said Heidrun Walter." Imagine our neighborhoods without the noise of motors. I believe life would be alot better.
To sum up, our suburbs would be increasingly better without cars. Life would be simpler. And our planet would be healthier. Getting rid of cars is a win-win situation. So please limit your car usage in our town. | 3 |
abb482e | Statement: ["A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming bored," Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson,"]
Response:
The ability to read students' emotions is not valuable in the least.
Teaching lessons should be mainstreamed for a general audience, allowing formalleability and flexibility.
Sometimes it's not even the lesson causing a student's disinterest or boredom.
And many childeren can have vastly different emotions based on not only being in school but about their day in general which have no application in the real world.
School curriculums are fine tuned to be the best tool for teacher and student, they allow for order and organization.
Allowing a computer to alter that, even slightly, can have devastating effects.
One computer doing so may not be an issue, but, allowing for every student's computer is another question entirely.
What is that question?
It is this: Could we still maintain order throughout that?
One little bug, one little glitch and a student could be so off track that his or her school wouldn't know what to do.
Keep the schools on track and organized.
Sometimes it isn't a lesson causing disinterest or confusion in a student.
Let's set up a hypothetical.
Joseph heard a dog barking outside, he tells his friends, they did not hear it.
Joseph is confused as to why they did not hear it.
Joseph's computer perceives Joseph's confusion as confusion towards his lesson and alters it accordingly only to confuse Joseph more as to why his lessons were changed.
It start a cycle that loops in on itself again and again.
Joseph understood his lessons and was now thrown wildly off track.
Proving that a computer making a decision based off of Joseph's emotions alone was massively ineffective.
Many students have vastly different opinions on learning and have many different emotions when going to school.
A computer sees the emotions but not the reasoning, whereas a human being can ask said student to understand him/her.
A computer cannot make sound judgement on a students emotions without knowing the reasoning behind such things.
It can perceive a students anger and relay it to the teacher but now the teacher must confront the student about why he is angry.
The student who is already upset will not want this interaction that the computer forced upon the two.
All in all people need to be left alone to allow for them to learn how to handle their emotions, and furthermore they deserve the privacy of having said emotions to themselves.
In conclusion, information on a student's emotions is
not valuable in the least, and allowing a computer to make judgement off of said emotions is ineffective and much too risky.
Teaching students should be mainstream and not alterred to fit the student's emotional state.
As with the case with Joseph, a computer would not understand that Joseph is not confused with his lesson and then cause more confusion instead of aiding it.
And finally, students have too vast of emotions for one computer program to accurately interpret and furthermore human beings deserve the privact of their own emotions. | 4 |
abb588c | Imagine you are doing school work and it gets boring. what if there was a way that your doing a lesson and your confused and it is boring and the computer see's you're emotions and changes what your doing or gives you help on a problem. Just by looking at your muscles in your face this softwear can see things like that.So yes i think its a great thing to have in the classroom. Students might not fall asleep in class or if a student needs help the teacher wouldnt have to.
I think its a great idea because it would be very helpful for the teachers and the students. Okay, lets say a student is feeling sad and having suicidal thoughts or there getting bullied but everyone thinks there happy. The administration could use the coding system to identify if anything is wrong and help the student. It could turn a lot of things that could be bad into good and help students in schools.
I also think its a good idea because the teachers can use it on kids that are confused as stated in the article. Lets say there is a student doing an online lesson and they get confused but the teacher is busy and the computer reconizes them struggling and helps them. It could save a lot of time and even help students pass classes without trouble.
There are a lot of schools that could use computer programs like this one and i think its a great idea to introduce this one into schools. It could be very helpful to everyone so i agree that it could be very useful. | 3 |
abb62a3 | The author figures that is a worthy pursuit despite the risks and dangers because its the closest thing to Earth. In paragraph 2 the author states. " Venus is the closet planet to Earth in terms of size and density, and occasionally the closet in dinstance too." The author also believe that venus is an Earth like planet in paragraph 4 the author states. "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could've supported various forms of life, just like Earth. It also states "Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The author believes that NASA has some big plans for studying Venus despite the dangers. In paragraph 7 it states. "Some simplified elsctronics made of silicion carbide have been tested in a chamber simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for 3 weeks in such conditions." This explains why the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. | 2 |
abba911 | When people see something on the internet or on the T.V they instantly assume aliens but i assure you that the face like object on mars in not an alien artifact. Twenty five years ago we took a picture of mars and there appeared to be some soart of face like figur, when the photo hit the media people all over where convinced thet the object was an aliens face.
But nevertheless even if there was a civilization on mares us in NASA would binifit from it. But studies even show the the object is equivalent to a butte or a mesa-landformes common around the American West. The reason it lookes like a human head was because " a huge rock formation... wich resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth"
We know this because when we took a picture in 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo." So of there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyption-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!"
So in the end there is really no dibate weather it is a alien or a land form because here at NASA we have the cold hard proof from all of the photos we have taken to all of the research we have done on the object that the object is just a plain old landform. | 2 |
abbcf44 | I disagree with the topic about driverless cars.
It will be too much money. There is a possibility of it malfunctioning. The drivers still have to be cautious. Plus some of the states doesnt want this to even be in there state. Driverless cars are dumb and doesn't any make sense. If this does happen to our country, there could be some danger to it.
The topic about driverless cars will probably be too much money. Look at electric cars, They're a lot of money but doesnt use gas. The driverless car you will still have to get gas. It might take a certain gas which could be expensive. If a certain part quits working on the car, It could be really expensive and you're going to be losing a lot money that way. This is why the United States should just stick with the same old cars that are cheaper than driverless cars.
Another reason why there shouldn't be driverless cars is it could malfunction. They've been working on this since 2009 and it can barely drive by itself up to the speed of 25 MPH. Imagine just driving down the road and the car just stops. It could be a bad situation. You could also be just sitting there and it starts going really fast and you can't control it. This driverless car could be really dangerous if it had a malfunction.
When having a driverless car, the human being thats in the car has to be cautious when driving. The driverless car needs help in traffic situations, parking your car, and driving through a constrution zone and even around accidents. Whats the point of having a driverless car if you have to do all the hard parts. Why dont we just have assistance with stopping when a car or and item is behind the car, or even when were not paying attention when there is something in front of us. Honestly we just need to keep the maual cars and have some assistance attached because then we wont have as much problems and we will be a lot safer. Thats why we shouldn't get driverless cars because we still have to be cautious.
Having a driverless car is dumb and pointless. As I stated, The car could be very expensive leaving our country in debt. Also if it malfunctions, It wont just be our safety that is in danger, we will also lose money trying to fix the car. If we have to be cautious by watching the road, whats the point of even having a driverless car. This talk about driverless cars should stop. They put the driver in danger and they put pedestrians in danger also. Driverless cars should never happenen and i hope they don't. | 4 |
abc1902 | This story talks about your facial emotions like Dr. Huang observed. He observed that the artisit such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enought to convey specific emotions. It helps them because if you're feeling sad you might go to the art muesum and see a picture that has a happy family and they can put a smile on your face. Another thing is that there is a muscle called Orbicularis Oculi Parrs Palpabraeus make crow's-feet around your eyes if you didn't know about that. But also, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce. Also, in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using the Zygomatic major and a different muscle called The Risorius. But to an expert, faces don't lie, these muscles clues are somtimes used tto spot a "smiling" politician or celbrity isn't being truthful. For example if you're feeling sad and your friend tells a funny joke you can fake a smile your friends won't even relize your faking a smile. Also a renowned drama coach, Constantin Stanislavsky, he had his actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowing (what a great way to practice) as a way of creating these emotions on stage and i think that's a really great way to practice because if they go up on stage and don't know how to do a really great emotion their drama teacher might get angry. In conclusion i think have a drama teacher teaching you how to do an emotion right and having computers to tell if your happy or sad or angry is a good thing to have in the world. | 2 |
abc960f | People that drive often tend to get into car accidents and serious conditions of severe accidents. Certain people in Germany have different residents that upscale their community to suburban pioneers to executives to have ever gone before to have never given up their cars. Like some people in New York they sometimes have to walk or run to certain places to get where they need to get and sometimes without transportion they tend to just not go places. In Florida they have ways of driving and getting where you need to get to like the city bus, friends,walk.
Automobiles are the linchpin suburbs to everybody where middle-class families from Japan to Washington D.C. Many owners of cars love to have big sales and auntions to expensive cars because those are the ones to bring the most money to the company,business. The most people in the state to bring the most money in is Florida because customers love to go to car shows espcially when they have car auntions the most they made was over $800,000 to campaign to raise for more business to have enough money to build more car shops. While certain people have been effected to make cities denser for suburbs. | 1 |
abcb3e7 | Can we actually " calculate" emotions like math homework? And how can a computer recognize the subtle facial movments we humans use to express how we feel? I think if we had technoligy like this to see emotional expressions if students that would sovle a lot of problems. It tells someone how they are feeling without using words. Yes I do think it's valuable but at the same time I dont agree with it because theres such a thing called privcy and I dont with anyone wants to be read like a book because if the world sees us all as the same no one would be special. At the same time no one can tell you how your feeling beside ourself and I don't think a computer could tell the full story. I know thats not all the feelings in mona Lisa's face, there ahs to be more to it, there always is. Dr. Huang relies on the work of psychologists but what if they are wrong? We don't know for sure, we just relie on people who tell us what we want to believe and we have no choice but to believe them. There is more to emotions then just happiness, suprise,anger,disgust,fear, and sadness. What about curiosity, passion, stress, guilt, excitment and etc but you get the point. | 2 |
abcc9c9 | My position on diverless cars is that I believe that it should not be made at least not in these next 5 to 10 years. There for i am against the development of these kinds of cars.Like it says in the artical Brin says he believes ,believes such cars would fundamentally change the world.In what way will it change the world ? It will not change the world not even if he says that it will take up half of gas and oil but there will still be enough that would finish it.Becuase so many will be driving them and so many will be useing up all those resorces .And also saying that in the artical that no one buys the cars becuase they wont need it anymore becuase of his new invention will it would put out hard working people into the streets and replacing them with people who know how to create those types of cars.
Now so far in his state ment the cars he has created have not carshed YET!! Can still be crashed or into a crashed accident.And when its into a crash then who will the driver blam or sew for the damage that is done ? Will the driver have to pay becuase he or she wasnt driving the car was. There for its bad to even think about these self driven cars without thinking all these possible things that could happen.And if there cars are so driverless then why do they still need the driver to be in alert ? Becuase the car can not pull in or out driveways or deal with complicated traffic issues. As said in the artical beuse there still not driverless so why have a car that suposely can drive by its self if it cant even pull out or in or drive it selfs when there is a traffic issues.I mean might as will drive it you're self. Now if these types of cars are made will then will new roads will have to be made? If so then wont that cost alot of money then that money will be taken out of our pockets and put into those roads.That some of us wont be able to use becuase we have no self driven cars.
Also this wouldnt teach the new drivers to be responsiable becuas epart of driving is the responsibility.And if these were to be made then many ppl will be out of busines becuase were are they supose to go for there driving licesenes if they dont need one becuase they have self driving cars .They wouldnt have to worry about them driving becuase there would be a hallogram driving for them.Cars of today should be left alone and those cars that are being planed for everyone should be made 5 to ten years from now once its all thought about.There for I am against the development of these elf driven cars. | 4 |
abcd1c4 | Imagine one day your on your way to work and suddenly theres a crash right in front of you, the first thing you try and do is avoid being apart of the wreck.
If your in your "Driverless car" you cant do anything to avoid the wreck because the car cant respond as fast as a human being. Also what if the car sensors mess up and you cant do anythog about it your pretty much done for.
If people are getting to lazy to drive their own cars I think we will have bigger problems then just trying to develop a driverless car. Also imagine the cost of a driverless car. Half of Americans are in debt right now. How is someone going to be able to afford a driverless car. Imagine the amount of money being put in to the research for developing these driverless cars. Also what are you suppose to do if your driving down the road and see a resturant that you want to stop at how are you suppose to tell the car to immediately go there.
Also of your going on a road trip there's no way your goung to make it all the way to florida without having to assist the "driverless car". It is almost to difficult to develop a driverless car that is comepletly driverless. | 2 |
abd1c6d | Driverless cars, am I for or against the idea of them? I am against the thought of driverless cars for two main reasons. One, drunk drivers and two, kids using the cars.
Technology has been becoming more advanced over the years from phones all the way up to cars now. In paragraph four lines one through two says, "Without the option of smarter roads, manufacturers turned to smarter cars."
Smarter cars are not going to make the world safer because not everyone will be able to afford the new "smart car". These new "smart cars" will probably be hybrids running on electricity instead of gas. Which will make gas prices for normal cars sky rocket.
Now thinking of driving safely that means no drinking, texting, or sometimes even eating. With these driverless cars more than likely people will go out to drink and take there driverless car with them thinking it will still be safe to drive even though they have been drinking. Just because the car drives by its self you still have to hold the wheel. "special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." paragraph seven line three. Thinking of safety also includes the protection of kids. Teens will think that it's okay to take their parents driverless car because all they will have to do is hold the wheel which is wrong because in paragraph seven lines six through eight reads "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." In conclusion the driverless car would not be safe for this generation. | 3 |
abd24bc | The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is a technological facial recognition system that tells about a persons emotion from their smile. Here are some points to talk about when thinking of this topic.
If your'e really truly invested in using the FACS system you could very well be doing yourself good and bad, here are some reasoning. Let's start with the pros, first off it would be a pretty good technological advancement if we could get the facial recognition to work for us. Second, if it does work we can use it to tell how people are feeling if they come into work school or home and they do not seem like they have had a good. The FACS would be a pretty amazing system to have and use in the future, whether it be the near or far future. Now with the cons, first and foremost the program could completely bomb and not even work at all and just say a random amount of percentages for your facial expression. Second of all, is there going to be a cost? will it be free? The passage is saying that they would have it in school, so would the computers the children were using already have it embedded into the software? This is a hard thing toputout there for everyone to have access to.
There are so many questions needing to be asked and answered about this program, and this will be a hard but ground breaking system. This FACS system could possibly be one of the best inventions known to man. Let's hope it would be a real true thing and nothing fake. | 2 |
abd3595 | I think that using the techonogy to read student emotional expression of student in a class is valuable because it help to see if a student is happy/mad/sad .Like in the passage it's talking about how they are using this new technology call ''The Facial Action coding system ''Which mean -a system enables computers to identify human emotions . They are aslo using the 3-D computer model of the face ,As they can aslo calculate the emotions . As because you can see what is wrong with your friend/family .
One reason why I think it's valuable for technology to read your emontional expressoion on studnets is by the promgram ''Facial Action Coding System'' why because just by using a video as it sates in the passage 4 ''using video imagery the new eemotion recognition software tracks these facial movements ''they can see what kind of emontion you have and for them to help you out I am guessing or at less it can be valube for making them feel better .Also because is the system is what emotions that person has it can let other people know and just to keep an eye on them .I feel like it will work on other person as well it will help me out because sometimes my mom/daad get a serious face and I don't know if they are happy or sad .
It aslo can be valuable for student's in school because in that way you can help them out to feel better or sometines you just don't know wehn that person is feeling happy or sad as it states in the passage 5 ''You can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her/his face '' and the new technology can help you read their emotions the way they are feeling .Another reason why it can help on students with the new technolongy by the imagine as it states in passage 6 and just by the imagine the computer will know when you are happy or sad .This can help us by helping them out and for them not to feel that way becasue sometimes when student's get mad they do thing they know should't do but all that sadness or anger can take them over by casuing harm .As it will be nice to stop the harm from someone doing it. Another example is this Wed ad as stated in the passage 6 as well now this wed can see your other emotions as an example .''If you smile when a wed ad appears on your screen a similar ad might follow .But if you frown the next ad will be different .''A classroom computer could recongize when a student is becoming confused or bored '' As Dr. Hiangs predicts then he could modity thr lesson because they want the student's to pay attion in the classroom for them to learn and not make the class boring or for student to get lost and never asking question but as that to then the teacher will know what makes them get bored and what makes them get fouces . This will help for many toher student in school by not causing hram if they mad and aslo by helping student not get bored or lose fouces .
Now on my personal life I will say that the technolngy will help me by seeing how are people feeling when I see them walking around with there face down or just seeing them happy .Like for example lets say that I am walking around the hall way and see my freind wih a serious face or just them not talking to I will like to use the technolgy and see what is wrong with them and try to help them out with the feeling they have and just try to change their mood .Another reason why I will like to help is by seeing how does my mom feel when she looks at me like just take a picture of her and see what are the emotion she has or as in passage say in 7 an ''encode ''different emotions like make her look at her self in the mirror and follow the steps it say and see what are the emotion she has. But yes the technology ''The Facial expressio for each emotion are universal ''because it can help out in many awlays
As you see I do valuable the technology to read the emotional expressions of student in a class because it can help in many way to see the way they are feeling in there emotion and in there way of learing .Just like Dr. Huang he doesnt want his student to lose fouces and doesnt want them to feel sad either .Just like it will help in school for the student's .Also as using the 3-D computer mood just by seeing an imagine it can see what kind of feeling you are having . As yes it will be value to use later in ;life well it will help me with my friends and even my own kids and students at schools . | 3 |
abd3b0b | The first reason why I think the new technology to read the emontional expression for students in a classroom is valuable, because it will be helpful for students who are sad/depress These causing can be caused by bullying, a depresion, home issues, etc. In need of help from bullying meaning if the student is getting bullied we could help the stduents asking who is bullying them. Teachers can figure out why some students are have trouble during class time it can be causing by the bullying. It also can help to see if students are going threw a depression, so if the students are going threw a depression teachers can send their students down to the students consonlors and try to help their student by having a meeting and asking questions.
The second reason why I think the new technology is vauble is because the teachers figure out students why they have a lack of communication with the teachers or why being late to school almost everyday. These causing can because of depression or of bullying. Social media doesn't help either because thats the main problem or because of cyberbullying or because of schools.
The third reason why I think the FACS can help teachers figure out why student by not having suscide thoughts and etc. Being sad or lonely can lead to sucide thoughts for stduents which nobody wants. The text sates "Accroding to the Facial Feedback Theory Emotion, moving your facial mucles not only expresses the emotions but it also may help produced them." The FACS can help the teachers
The new technology says what your face expression is going to be to tell if you're sad, happy, surprise, anger, disgust,fear, or depressed, etc. Dr. Paul Eckman the creator of FACS (Facial Action Coding System) in the text it states that "associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles." you can tell by these epressions by your facial mucles for example your eyebrows, around your mouth. Those are reasons why I think FACS (Facial Action Coding System) is valuable for schools in the classroom. | 3 |
abd70b9 | The Seagoing Cowboys is a great program, but being one is better. The cowboys go to fun places like China and Europe. But it is also a lot of hard work too, Luke had to care for the animals during crossings, the animals had to be fed and watered two to three times a day, bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship.
After the animas had been unloaded the cowboys would had some freetime to play volleyball and baseball. They also play table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing to help pass the time. When they have a long trip and a lot of freetime they visit places, like when Luke toured an excavated castle in Crete, and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China.
Seagoing Cowboys could go basically anywhere. They went to China, Europe, Greece, and Crete. At the age of 18 Luke could be drafted for military service, but since he was on a cattle-boat trip, they told him he could do that for his service. So if your a Seagoing Cowboy it counts as being in the military service.
My conclusion is being a Seagoing Cowboy can "open someones eyes" to the needs of animals. Like Luke said, "It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." Seagoing Cowboys are very persistent, and if you like animals you should join this program. Because when Luke fell and slid on the ship, he almost fell off because he was helping the animals. And when Luke cracked his ribs on the ship, he didn't quit, he kept being a Seagoing Cowboy, and continued to help the animals. The Seagoing Cowboys care more about the animals than they do themselves, and that is great. Because it might be hard work but the animals need all the help they can get. | 2 |
abdde55 | Today there are programs like NASA that are always looking for ways to explore our planets next to us. We have already sent probes and rockets to mars for exploration, but in over 30 years we havent sent one space craft to Venus, despite it being called "Earth's twin" Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of size and density, but it is the one of the most inhospitable planets that humans can step on. In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author supports his idea well by explaining the benefits of exploreing Venus despite it being so cruel for humans to walk on.
In pargraph three the author quotes that, "almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus, surface temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater then what we experence on Earth." The author first explains the inhospitably of Venus to then explain that when we adapt to the conditions there are plenty of benefits and knowledge to gain from the planet. In pargraph four the author quotes that "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." The author explains us the value of exploreing Venus to include the fact that there could be life forms we have never saw before that have lived only on Venus. Comeing back to how the author supports his idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it offers.
In pargraph five the author explains ideas NASA has that could eventually take us and machines to Venus. he quotes that, "a vehicle hovering over Venus would advoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way."
The author adds the quote in beacuse he wants to reinforce the idea that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it offers. But he also looks at the downsides to hovering 30 miles above the landscape, citeing that from souch a high distance light cannot penetrate the dense atomsphere and that researchers can't take samples of rock, gas, or anthing else, from a distance. The author supports his evidence by looking at bolth sides of the problem and offering possible solutions to them.
He contunes in pargraph seven citeing other NASA approaches to haveing machines last longer on the surface of Venus. That if by useing mechanical computers and simplifyed electronics made of silicon carbide they can withstand the heat alot longer. In comparson to todays modern electronics which don't use gears and levers that can be built to withstand heat. The author cites this beacuse he wants the reader to know NASA is thinking of possible ideas of sending a durable machine to Venus, to withstand the chaos of the surface and send data back to people on Earth.
In "The Challenge of Exploreing Venus," the author supports his idea well that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. He first explains what the dangers are like. Then explains all the benefits of exploreing Venus. Lastly he explains ideas on how to overcome the challenges to send people and machines to gather data about Venus. In conclusion the author wants the reader to know the benefits of exploreing Venus are greater than the challenges and dangers on the surface of Venus. | 5 |
abde127 | I highly disagree with "Driverless Cars". I have many reasons for my opionion being. After you read my essay, do you agree or disagree with me?
Technology is really starting to put a big impact on our world. Its starting to take over. Soon we are going to have robots doing almost everything for us. Doing our homework, making us food, babysitting our siblings, cleaning up our messes and so on. Do you really want this? The only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. You're risking your life in a way because anything could happen. Absolutely anything could go wrong. If the technology fails, you get into a severe car accident, what are you going to do? I dont think its worth getting in an accident or even causing an accident of someone else.
I highly recommend not driving in a driverless car. Be safe, for yourself and others. Car accidents could change your life in the worst way possible. Keep yourself out of harms way. | 2 |
abe7f2a | Is the "Face on Mars" real or not real? Some may argue against this, but I feel that there isn't enough proof to conclude that the "Face on Mars" is real. There are many reasons behind this statement. The original picture was taken during the cloudy Martian winter and the photography business has improved so much since then that the new image are proof that there is no face. I feel that the "Face on Mars" in not actually an alien-made structure because The original picture, which is what started the theory of Mars having a "face", was taken during the very cloudy Martian winter, the photographs taken of the "face" have changed a lot over time, and the newest 2001 image has basically proven the "Face on Mars" not to be real.
First off, the original picture of the "Face on Mars" was taken during the Martian winter which was very cloudy at the time. The photograph had obviously had to have been different than the actual so-called "face" because of this. If you were to try taking a picture when it is very foggy outside, would you be able to get a clear picture? No, you would barely be able to tell what the photograph was supposed to be of. Imagine taking that same photo from several hundred yards away. The picture would be even worse than before.
Secondly, the photograpy business has changed a lot from 1976 to 2001. One of the most well known atributes of a camera is its pixel size. The more pixels you have in a certain area, the better the photograph. The original image from 1976 had pixels that were 43 meters per pixel for the photo. 25 years later, during 2001, the new photograph taken of the "Face on Mars" had pixels that were nearly 30 times smaller than the original. This image's pixels were 1.56 meters per pixel.
Finally the most recent photo of the "Face on Mars" has basically proven the theory of the "Face on Mars" to be unreasonable. Afterall, the new image shows that valleys and craters in this structure. You can now tell that what was thought to be the eyes, nose, and mouth of the "Face on Mars" are just mere indentions on the structure. The "Face" really looks nothing like an actual human face. There just simply isn't enough proof in the new photograph to logically think that the "Face" is alien made.
As I said at the beginning of this explanation, there is still a lot that can be argued about. The fact that this structure os probably at least several thousand years old plays a huge factor in the theory. Mars's winds and stroms could have possibly worn away the details on the "face". Also, the valleys and craters could have come because of an earthquake or some other natural event. This is an argument that may last forever.
All in all, there is simply not enough proof to make the conclusion that the "Face on Mars" is alien-made. The time period has changed. The photography has changed. In fact, NASA wishes that there was enough proof to call this alien-made, but they think that there just isn't enough yet. This may truely be a mystery that will never be solved. | 5 |
abe938a | The reason why he join the program is because he know's how the people are like. So that's why he is doing the program to help people with there lives. Luke what's to convinc the other Seagoing Cowboy program. To help the other people that need help and can't eford it. The opportunity he made for the Seagoing Cowboy. It made him more aware of people of the other countries and their needs.
Luke what a awarness stayed with him, leading his family to host a number of interatoinal students and exchange visitors for many years. It made him more express and enjoy the world. It made him see the hole world and he said it was a good a opportunity to join the Seagoing Cowboys. Luke found time to have fun on board.
He want's to help the countries and the world to make it a better world. He whats the Seagoing Cowboys and he want's them to help with the awarness to help the people and the children with there homes and contries. | 1 |
abeef31 | I have met somebody that thinks the face of Marsis an aliencreated abject. He says this with no information at hand. I am writing this to convince him that it is not an alien created object with some first hand knowlege. " The face of Mars is defenitly an alien created stucture because there is now way thats natural,"said Earl. "Well I am going to show you three reasons why this cannot be a alien created object.
"The first reason i have to support why this is not alien made because after a NASA Surveyor revealed that the images were a naturaly formed stucture and that there was no alien monument"said Spencer. This is a big give away if it was aliens we would be able to tell" said Spencer.
" The second reason I have to share is that it is an illusion" said spencer. " Yea but the aliens probably wanted it to be like that" said Earl. " No because Mars has many natural disasters such as eruptions and Mars quakes, dont you think that could have formed it?"
"The last reason I have to support my theory is this." said Spencer. If aleins really did make that don't you think they would keep track of it the stucture?" said Spencer. "Look at these photos,you see it has parished?"
In conclusion, Earl was convinced that it wasn't aliens that did it. Spencer did a great job of convincing him and now we can all look at that face and know it is not aliens. | 2 |
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