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ad2e904 | I would keep the Electoral College because it consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and Vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. If people want to change the election for popular votes is basically your generallly chosen by the candidates politcal party...and what their responsibilities are. My response to that not everybody is chosen by politcal party.
Now, if people want to change the election by popular voting is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. You help choose your states electors when you vote for presidents because when you vote for your candidates you are actually voting for your candidates electors. My response to that is..sometimes presidents want to be president because "they want to change everything in the United States like ..taxes..and health insurance. For example like Obama care he has change the health insurance and people dont like that. And 2016 theres going to be a new President in the United States. | 1 |
ad2f95c | The new technology that Dr. HUANG is coming up with is a good idea because I can detect when people in the classroom are trying to hide therre feeing.
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At least according to some new computer software that can recognize emotions. 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. Dr. HUANG and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate. The MONA LISA demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it showa just how much this computer can do. Imagne a computer that knows when you're happy or sad. For example if you smile when a web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different. a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. | 1 |
ad31471 | The face on Mars was not created by aliens. You may think this because it was on Mars, and some may think this was a sign of life on the planet. But, this is not true. It was not created by aliens, but by shadows. It was formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. As I said, this was just an illusion.
This happend 25 years ago, and people are still fussing about how this was created by aliens. This is impossible because there is no life on Mars. This "face" is just a natural landform. Many years ago scientists thought it was a sign of life too, but this was short lived. Soon after they thought this, they figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, where the spacecraft was circling when they found the face. This Martain mesa was just like the others, except it had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh.
Soon after the scientists saw this unusual Martian mesa, they released it to the press so everyone could see. The "Face on Mars" has since become a pop icon. It has starred in movies, magazines, radio talk shows, and as the passage says "Haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years". This is a perfect example of why you shouldn't trust what you see on movies, online, or read in magazines.
In the passage it says,"Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars, evidence that NASA would rather hid, say conspiracy theorists. Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an acient civilization on Mars." If you pay attention to the last sentence, it says,"Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an acient civilization on Mars", the key word in this is "wish". This is just more proof that this was just a natural landform.
In conclusion, the Face on Mars was not created by aliens. It was just another Martian mesa that had unusual shadows that looked like a face. This story and picture was released to the press, and people belived that it was created by aliens, and that it was a sign of life on Mars, but that is not true. This is why you should not believe movies, radio talk shows, and what you read in magazines. This shows that the "Face on Mars" was not created by aliens as a sign of life, but a shadow. | 4 |
ad31adf | This idea could be good because students could get there lesson a diffrent way that makes them learn better. Another way is could be good is because the comuter would tell the teacher if you are confused or bored with the lesson they are teaching. It could also help the teacher and telling you if you are happy or sad.This system could be the solution come kids were looking for.
This would be a good idea to have in classrooms because it will be a different way of learning. In paragraph 6 it talks about how the computer could modify the lesson so it will be like a actual teacher. This will be good because some people dont learn the way there techer teaches and if they had this it will make learning easier for those kids. Also those kids wont be bored by the way there teacher teaches. The wll be more interested in there topic they are learning about.
Next, another way this will be good is it will tell the teacher if you are confused or bored with the way he or she is teaching and it will modify your lesson so it will help you learn the best way that is for you. In paragraph 6 it says " A classroom computer could reognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" this is good because the teacher could try and change the way she is teaching. This will make it better for the students because if the teacher changes then there attitudes will. The student will actually enjoy the lesson and not be bored or confused. Another way the system will help is it will tell you if you are happy or sad. If it tells the teacher if your happy or sad then they will know what to do to help you.
Lastly, In paragraph 6 it says "Imagine a computer that knows when you're happy or sad" If the system could do that then the teacher will know not to give you a hard time. If the computer knows that then they will know to give you some time to cool of and gain composure. If all schools had computers like tihs kids will have better grades and not be so bored and confused in class like so kids are now. The teachers could use it to show if they are not having a good mood or if they need to chage the way they teaching there students.
Having a computer like this in school could be a good idea because it will tell if you need to learn a different way, it will tell you if you are confused or bored on what the teacher is teaching about, and it will tell the teachers if there students are happy or sad. Some people need this so they can have better grades and days at school. | 4 |
ad3380a | All across the globe, a revolutionary idea is being set in motion. The idea of essentially banning cars from the streets has sparked as much interest as it has critism. The automotive industy has been booming since World War 2, and although the positive effects of cars can be seen in our daily lives, we seldom take into consideration of the negative impacts of cars. Effects such as pollution, traffic, and cost have impacted our lives as automotive users, even if we have not realized it.
Pollution is one of the primary concerns of a world that is constantly driving, yet it is something people hardly take into account when driving. In theory that is understandable, considering the last thing a person is thinking about when they're driving is what their car is spitting out into the atmosphere. However pollution doesn't go unnoticed for long. For example, the city of Paris, France enforced a partial driving ban in order to decrease the almost record breaking pollution across the city, stating, "[The smog] rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world." The smog did clear from the city and previous driving laws were reinstated, however this shows how car pollution has a negative impact on the world around us.
Another negative impact of driving is traffic. Traffic is a driver's worst nightmare, and it affects all of us at some point in our lives. In Bogota, Columbia, citezens participated in a driving-free day, where everyone was encouraged to either hike, bike, skate, or use public transportation in order to reach their destination. This event, in which millions of Colombians participated, was reportedly "leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams." This program left a positive mark on the city of Bogota, and will hopefully soon spread to other countries, reducing crowded, traffic filled streets around the world.
The world runs on money, just ask any Wall Street broker. This is a paradox concerning both car owners and people looking to purchase a car. The question remains, if we're all trying to save money, why spend thousands of dollars on a costly car? According to a census taken in 2013, "Part of the explination certainly lies in the recession, because cash-strapped Americans could not afford cars, and the unemployed weren't going to work anyway." This shows that the number of people buying cars is steadily decreasing. Another costly problem of cars is fuel. Buying gasoline for your car every week can get incredibly costly, especially when driving a large truck or sports car. This shows how the cost of cars can have a negative impact on our lives.
In conclusion, the use of cars is steadily declining. Cars just aren't a very positive motive for transportation anymore considering the effects of pollution, traffic, and cost that cars produce. | 4 |
ad394ea | Our social lives now a days practically depend on cars. The truth is, we don't need cars as much as many of us think. There's probably more advantages than disadvantages to not owning or using a car as often. In articles one, two, three, and four it talks about reasons why we should'nt use a car and what happens if we do so often; you tend to have a healthier lifestyle, it helps the environment and ozone, and it reduces stress. So really, limiting car usage helps both you and the environment stay healthy and clean.
People tend to have a healthier life due to limiting their car use. In part of Germany the majority of the residents dont own cars. "As she walked verdant streets where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor.", Article one. This shows how unlike some parts of the world, Germany has many people outside riding their bikes, walking around and many children playing outside other then being stuck inside at home or in a car. In Article four it states, "They organize their summer jobs and social life around where they can walk or take public transportation or car-pool with friends.". This is in New York, one of the cities with the most traffic and cars on the streets. New York made a prgram called the "bike-sharing program" which has showed great responces and has kids like the ones before mentioned being social and being more active with friends.
Limiting car usage also helps the environment and ozone. In Paris there was a lot of smoge for days and they had to take action. "After days of near record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city.", states Article two. After this ban the smog cleared a few days later. This shows how easily car can pollute the air and the environment. In Article four it states, "Since transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions, just behind power plants.". Cars are one of the main reasons for the environment being polluted and it can be stopped easily if people car-pooled, rode their bikes or walked.
Not only does limiting car usage and using a different alternative keep us active, it also reduces our stress. "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," said Bussinessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife.", Article three. This was in Colombia where they had a day where no one could use their cars. The people felt relieved to have a day where they could just relax and go outside and get some fresh air. Also in Article one it states, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way,"." This was also in Germany in a place called Vauban where more than half of the families didn't own cars. This shows how using a bike or walking other than using a car helps you reduce the stress that you have that also includes driving around others that block your way or speed.
In conclusion, limiting car usage tends to help others have a healthier lifestyle, it helps the environment and ozone, and helps others reduce stress. The chairman of the Ford Motor Company in Article four states, "Pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve saftey.". There's probably more pros than cons in limiting car usage because all it really does is make our lives harder. The long term effect of using cars is more important than the short term which is getting to your destination which you can do any other way and it's healthier and cleanier for everyone. | 4 |
ad3c2f1 | Using technology to read students' emotional expressions is a very bright idea. Using this type of technology in the classrooms could get out of hand, but I believe it would extremely useful. All it takes is a little time to get use to then it would be a huge help. When working on assignments during class on the computers, or being assigned a video, the computer would be able to read our emotions and try to put a twist into the lesson, and not just any twist, it would help the students catch onto the lesson and learn from the activity. I believe that the Facial Act Coding System would be a great help, especially for teachers use.
When learning something new in class it can be a bit boring. Especially when reading articles on the computer or even watching videos. Students fall asleep or even get on their phones. Even if the teacher hands out guides during the videos, no one can catch on and keep their minds on the video. Teachers try to find the videos that give good lessons, but are also attention grabbers. In the article Dr. Huang predicts, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor."
I believe that this technology would be extremely valuable and could possibly even bring students grades up. Even if it was just a little assignment here and there, the computer could recognize the boredem and help with the lesson. I feel as if students would concentrate more often and actually be doing good in class if the FACS would be set up on school computers.
Teachers I believe would want look into this technology, it could even help the kids remember more and do better on test. Test are always a big chunk of your grade and not everyone does their best, but with this technology it can help students remember information and actually keep the information well known in their minds. | 3 |
ad3e1c9 | Space exploration is a growing topic. NASA has sent rovers to Mars and landed people on the moon but they cannot seem to figure Venus out.
The author of this article titled "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" has explained why Venus is such a hard planet for space explorers very well.
Venus could have been a planet just like Earth, according to the author. The author of the article first hits the readers with information about Venus and compares it to the planet we live on. If Venus is so close to being Earth's twin then why is it challenging to explore it? In the third paragraph the author states, "On the planet's surface [Venus], the temperatures average 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. " These facts are on of many reasons as to why Venus is challenging to explore.
NASA is looking into these invention or solutions that need to be addressed to even have a chance at making to Venus. The author said that there are things that could be done to help us get to Venus' surface but it is not around yet, which is another reason it is challenging to explore Venus. We cannot succsessfully make it there yet.
Venus is dangerous. From what space explorers can tell the planet can be similaer to Earth or was similar to Earth. The author says, "... peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective," this means that touching down on Venus'surface isour best chance on discovering what might have been living on Venus or what may possible show up. NASA has been trying to find other life or signs of life for many years and the planet that finally may show signs of possible life they're unable to reach.
The author has presented may facts and statistics within this article. They brought up the fact that space explorers cannot reach the planet/reach the planet and survive, how it is different from Earth, and why NASA wants answers to the questions they have on Venus. | 4 |
ad4257d | In the story "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" it gives information about a certain group called the Seagoing Cowboys program. One reason to join the Seagoing Cowboys program is you get to take care of animals for your service to your country in stead of having to be in the military. According to the fourth paragraph when Luke turned eighteen before getting to Greece, he would've had to automatically draft into the military. But, when the draft board learned that he was on a cattle-boat trip, they told him to just stay their for his service. Point being if you serve by being a Seagoing Cowboy you wouldn't have to be in the military enless you choose to be in it.
There are many reason's provided in the story to be a Seagoing Cowboy but one that also seems to stick out above some of the others is the sight's you see. According to paragraph five it says "The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy," he says. "Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece wasspecial," he says."So was taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water." Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China." Which means that if you're a Seagoing Cowboy you get to see a bunch of unique places that most people don't get to see everyday.
For my last reason that I found stated in the text to be a Seagoing Cowboy is it opens up a new world for you. As stated in the text paragraph nine "But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger. It opened up the world to him." which shows that it teaches you and what caring for others does for you and last it shows sights you don't get to see 24/7. To conclude the paragraph being a Seagoing Cowboy is much more than seeing things you haven't seen before outside of pictures and going on adventures it's a great learning experience.
If you join the Seagoing Cowboys program you will get the great delight of caring for others, adventure, sight-seeing, and a great learning experience. All the information above is my reason's or benefits of being a Seagoing Cowboy. Think about the reason's to see if being a Seagoing cowboy is what you want to be. If it is then please call: 555-2424. | 4 |
ad4d5c6 | The face on Mars is actually just a natural landform. The "Face on Mars" has became a pop icon, it has starrd in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows and even haunted grocerys tore checkout lines for 25 years. Its the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa- landforms common around the American West. " It reminds me the morst of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," says Garvin. "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars."
When,
NASA unveiled the image for all to see, the caption noted a "huge rock formation, which resembles a human head, formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose and mouth." The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars.
Though, When Mars Global Surveryor flew over the Cydonia for the first time, Michael and his Mars Obiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting, revealing a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all
For example: As a rule of thumb, you can discern 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 shacks, you could see where they were." The picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa- landforms common around the American West.
Although, some people people think it was created by aliens or that few scientists believe the face was an alien artifact, but actually its just a natural landforms common around the American West. | 2 |
ad4e3d6 | I will be talking to you about how scientist's are thinking of putting things on the planet Venus and i wll also talk to you the fasinated thing our planet Venus has to offer. Let's get started shall we.
Well Venus is sometimes called a Evening Star. It's so bright that young stargazer would be able to find it. Venus is very hard to get a good look at, it's the second planet from the sun. It's name can be misleading, and the planet is refrred to earth as our " twin" plaents. We haven't been able to send a spacecraft over there yet because of the fact that the stuff we send over there are not able to survive for less than an hour. Scientist's have onle been able to send robots and teven they can't find a safe landing sight.
The clouds on Venus very corrosive since they have sulfruic acid in them. The air is also 97 percent carbon dioxide. The planet also has the hostest surface, it's tempurature can reach 800 degrees Fahrenheit. The atmospheric preasure is also 90 times greater than Earth's, but despite the planets dangers it would be a worthy pursuite. For example the planets atmospheric preasure is so strong that it crush a submarine that can go into the deepest part of the ocean.
Scientist's are fascinated by the planets Earth-like apperence. They think that long ago there use be a form of life that could have been very much Earth-like. The main reasonfor why astronomer's are so fascinated by Venus is because it looks very much like Earth. For example it has valleies, river bank's, and even mountains. Scientist's are thinking of sending a blimp like aircraft that can fly or hover at least 30 if not higher miles the planet's surface. The tempurature would range around 170 degrees Fahrenheit. The best part would be that there is plenty is solar power.
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ad553ad | Have you ever wondered what the electoral college is? If you answered no I would say me to, but in this essay im going to explain why i am for it. I havent heard of the electoral college till now. So sit back and read this.
I think that we should do the electoral college, so everyone has a say on who they want to be the state senate. Under the college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. While others might say no we need to get rid of the electoral college, because the senate might be bribing the voters, so he knows that he/she has their vote for sure.
This is where it gets tricky. Alot of people might disagree with you because you have a different point of view than them, but it is ok if you disagree with them, because its your vote that counts. This might be what they say "It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational". The biggest arguments are, because people say that one of the runners in the campaign did something they wasn't suppose to do.
At the most basic level, The elctoral college is unfair to voters. That is probaly something you would say if you was against the electoral college. It's ok to go for what you believe in. You might get judged but who cares it's your opinion don't listen to them.
I personally think that we should keep it. The Electoral college is widely regarded as an anachronism a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who recieves the most popular votes the winner. It's the electors that elect the president not the people. When your voting for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. Each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee. it's nearly impossible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. Believe it or not its has happened very rarely. It happened in 2000, when Gore had more votes than Bush yet fewer electoral votes, but that's the first time since 1988.
There is 5 reasons for retaining the electoral college despute its lack of democratic pedigree. It may have ripped some people off, but at least we got people as good presidents. You may not like them, but they have helped us over the years that we were in debt and need. Like right now the president's wife is helping the obese kids at school by putting in whole grains and healthier foods. Those are good reasons, but not as good as these.
Certainty of out come.
The reason is that winning candidate's share of the electoral college invariably exceeds more than enough. Because almost all the states award electoral votes on a winner take all basis, even a vey slight plurality in a state creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state. A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible. But the stakes are highly unlikely to happen.
Everyone's President
The electoral college requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. There is region that has enough electoral votes to elect a president. some people has no incentive to campaign heavily in the states that they are regionally favorited, becuse they will not gain any electoral votes by increasing their plurality.
Swing States
The winner take all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates. Voters in the toss up states are more likely to pay more attention to the campaign. So they know that they are going to know that they are deciding the election. They are also likely to be the most thoughtful voters.
Big States
The elctoral college restores somke of the weight in the political balance that large sates lose by virtue of the mal-appointment of the senate decreed in the constitution. The most popular vote in 2012 was by the state of Florida. Obama won that election with only 29 electoral votes. Bigger states get more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a smaller state does.
Avoid Run Off Elections
The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which the candidate recieves a majority of the votes by the cast. When neither of the candidates recieve majority vote it becomes more intense, because they start trying their hardest so they can win the election. Well there is the five reasons.
It can be argued but only one will be victorious. Will we keep the electoral vote? Or will we get rid of it? So if i persuaded you to keep it pick, then keep if i didnt, then pick get rid of it. Which one will you choose. | 3 |
ad5a5d8 | Dear State Senator,
I have very mixed feelings about the whole Electoral College or regular people voters. Honestly there are very good points / arguments for both sides. You could possibly say that the Electoral College is a "cheat" or you could also say that the people voting isn't the best idea based on immaturity / judgment people give.
From the start everyone has learned how to play fair in the game and what a cheater is, I believe that the voting of a president is similar. Remember when you where a kid - or watching your kids - playing games, laughing, and having a good time, then all of a sudden, uh-oh, some one is being accused of lying or cheating. This is why I argue that there shouldn't be an Electoral College, the state can change the people in the Electoral College and start what is considered the disaster factor, in 1960 this occured in order to vote against John F. Kennedy. Although many members of the Electoral Collage are honest and refuse to oppose another canadet, many also will.
I also believe that the Electoral College will do and has done what is right for the United States. If we did change the election to popular vote then I garentee there would be more conflict and the country would start to fall apart. Honestly though, the legal voting age is 18, and teachers, parents, peers, and even commercials are encouraging them to vote, at 18 you may be a legal adult, but in reality most 18 year olds are still in High School or just getting out of. With all the influence and responsibility going to there heads these "adults" are obviously going to vote as soon as possible. Not even just 18 year olds, but also actual adults will vote just to vote. Now, tell me this, do you really want the leader of your country chosen by the people? It's a natural thing that people will pick someone just because of there skin color or religion, people judge by instinct, I know I wouldn't want the president to be chosen just because if he was Catholic or Christian.
Another reasonof self conflict I have for the Electoral College is the time spand it has been. Times are always changing, from new electronics, maturity levels, and all around peope, so why have an Electoral college when it was made so long ago? Doesn't it seem very out dated? Then again, we have had it for so long and it helps many difficulties with the voting process, including ties. For example, what if there was no Electoral College and after all the people voted and there was a tie, what would we do?
So given this, think again who you want to pick who should rule over you, after all it is a "winner takes all" draw.
Sincerly,
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
ad62155 | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author explains both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. The author talks about from what the driverless cars have in store from the areas the driverless cars need help on. In the end, I am more than sure I am against driverless cars.
One reason why I am against the making of these cars are that the word "driverless" in the word driverless car, isn't true. The car is not one hundred percent driverless. The car will alert the driver when needed assistance. Such as heavy traffic, construction zones, and accident scenes. The narrator states, "In fact, none of these cars developed so far are completely driverless." As you can see, the car doesn't live up to it's name.
Another reason why I wouldn't approve driverless cars are that they aren't as safe to a human being in control of wheel. Technolgy is not that advanced to where it doesn't have glitches and issues. It still do. Not saying us humans don't, but wouldn't you rather be in control insteading of trusting a certain thing that is not one hundred percent accurate? Even traffic laws stated that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times.
In conclusion, driverless cars are not what the claim to be. Their not guarnteed driverless and they aren't safe. From not even being real to their name to having issues. I hope I won't see a driverless car on the road anytime to see. | 3 |
ad6312d | Do you know what the Electoral College is? It's a process that the founding fathers established in the Constitution as a compromise between election of President by a vote in Congress and election of President by popular vote of qualified citizens. I think that we should change the way we vote by changing to election by popular vote for the President of the United States. I feel that this is a good idea and a good way to vote, let me tell you why. It's a good idea because it benefits the public, everyone knows exactly what kind of impact they're making and so it doesn't mess up the votes and or voting. Let's continue, shall we?
It's a good idea because it benefits to the public. The public wants to know exactly who and what they are voting for, they want to know exactly what their vote means to the election. More than half of the time they don't notice what kind of an impact a vote can make or what exactly they are voting for. Also when they do elect a President, the end up getting mad over their finances or taxes because the President trhat they voted for affected it in a negative way. They wanted to elect him because they wanted a better economy, to benefit them, not to restrict them from not having what they want. This is only my first reason, I have two more to go.
Another reason of why I believe that it's a good idea is because it let's the public know what kind of impact they're exactly making on the election. We all don't want to vote and not know what kind of impact our vote can make. We want to know that we can make a difference on who we're voting for, or who we vote for. They want to know and be sure if they vote for lets say "Billy Henderson" that he will lower gas prices and boost the economy, make this world a better place and help all the needy, instead of "Robert Metinguey" who will maybe to this and maybe do that. We want to know for sure what we're voting on and how much of a difference it can make. Not to be worried about if it won't happen.
The last reason I have to give for why this a good idea is so that it does not mess up the voting process. According to the Gallup pole in the 2,000, taken shortly after Al Gore, thanks to the quirks of the electoral college, won the popluar vote but lost the presidency. Over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. This is what im talking about people. People are losing their elections due to the electoral college. One of the major reasons of why people are wanting a change, there should be no electoral college, only a popular vote for the election. We all want a better Government. I only there was a better way to vote.
Well, there you have it. My reasons are final. I feel that we should change the voting process because it would benefit the public, so everyone can know exactly what kind of impact they're making and so it does not mess up the voting process. Don't do it for the government. Do it for your own sake. If you wanna make a difference, be on my side, and we can. Together. Now my only question to you is, are you willing to make a difference? | 4 |
ad644f3 | Venus has been a challenge to navigate over the years. The author defends the need for exploration well, and in many ways. They explain that in certain conditions, humans could survive there, give a possible solution to the problem, and explain how Venus is closely related to Earth.
First, the author appeals to human nature's need for exploration by explaining how Venus is capable of being inhabited. For example, "At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans." This shows that the author wanted the reader to know that living on Venus is not far fetched.
Next, the author explains how scientists are working on a solution to explore the harsh conditions that have kept them from properly gaining much knowledge on the planet. They do this by saying, "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." By telling the reader this, the author gives hope that even though Venus's atmosphere is violent, it is not impossible to explore.
Last, the author gives facts on how Earth and Venus are similar. They describe this by explaining how "it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." They go on to say, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." With this knowledge, the author implies that there could be more similarities than just terrain.
In conclusion, the author fully backs up their claims as to why exploring Venus is worth the risk, and they do it well. They do this by explaining how humans could survive there, giving a possible solution, and comparing it to Earth. | 4 |
ad66e8e | Alien made of naturally made?
The so called "Face on Mars" is not a face made from aliens.
The Face is just a rock formation with shadows on it.
There is no reason to believe that the Face is make by aliens.
The "Face on Mars" is just a Martian mesa.
In the text is states that "scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, ony this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh."
That states that they just figured that it was a mesa at the time being.
On April 5, 1998 they truly found out that it was just a rock formation.
The information in the text states "and so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all."
Not everyone was satisfied though. "The Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in April '98-a cloudy time of the year on the Red Planet.
The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face.
Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze."
The people were still thinking that there were aliens that made the Face.
The mission controllers prepared to look again.
"On April 8, 2001-a cloudless sumer day in Cydonia-Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. "We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view," said Garvin.
"Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum rsolution."
Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the vest 1976 Viking photo."
They found that the picture was actually shows in the Martian equivalent of a butte or messa.
Therefore, the "Face on Mars" is just another rock figure with shadows.
They have solved the mystery of wether the Face is alien made or naturally made. | 3 |
ad6dc88 | Would you ever dream of a taxi cab that has no driver and can drive you around? Google is making cars that require no drivers. Although this is a very neat idea, it is extremely expensive. This idea would work if all of America was urban land and not so many non urban areas. I think driverless cars are one of the biggest wastes of money we have came up with so far.
Driverless cars seems like a good idea and all but i dont think it is necissary. All it does is cost more and more money that does not need to be spent. We would have to buy sensors for all highways across the world which would be extremely expinsive. This is money we do not have and we dont need to spend money on this anyways.
Experts say that the will need roads that are embedded with electrical cables. We also thought of the idea of magnetic roads, but to have magnetic roads that make our cars work we would have to do massive upgrades to our highways. But this is too expensive, so we have to make the cars smarter rather than the roads. To do this we need tons of sensors, a rotating sensor on the roof, and a GPS reciever. All of these also costing a whole lot of money.
Making driverless cars is a bad idea in my opinion, but if experts are set on making them then they probably will. Driverless cars will cost us an enourmous amount of money. They will need to heavily modify highways, cover the cars in all sorts of sensors and cameras, and test them thousands of times to make sure they are safe. If taking all this time and money is worth it to the experts, then let them do it. But we need to be smarter with our money rather than wasting it on senseless things such as, driverless cars. | 3 |
ad7124b | To start this off it would be a great idea to study venus because it's some much different then earth. When looking at it from earth soemthimes it called Evening stars. Which is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky.
Venus is alot different but at the same time alot alike. Venus is like earths twin its closest planet to earth in desity and size. Sometimes we arent as close to venus as we can be to mar. Mars, Earth, and Venus go around the sun at differsnt speed even though they are close to one an another.
To conclude these two planets are very close but canbe very different. Earth has two planet that arent alike and different then it. Mars and venus, but these three can be really similar but very different in many ways. We have life here on Earth but mars and venus do not that we know of. | 2 |
ad72f66 | Most people own cars and rarely do you see anyonw without one. Well, there are many benifts that come with limiting car useage. For starters one would be much happier without a car. Because when you have a car your always tense. And that can come from almost anything when your driveing.
Another great benfit of limiting your car useage is beacause of traffic. owning a car, your often stuck in between cars waiting for lights to change or for people to move. But if you limit your car useage then you won't be stuck in traffic jams. You can move from point A to point B in no time.
Again there are so many things that can benfit you from less car useage. For example in Paris they ban driveing because of "smog". Limiting your car useage will also lower the pollutiion in the air. Like I've been saying all this time car useage is something that only causes stress arond the world.
There is more than just these three things that benfit you if you use less car useage. You can also lose wait if your walking all the time. Its a great way to burn those calories if thats what you want.
You will also be super healthy because you will excerciseing alot more than you would with a car. Your body is moving and thats all that really matters. There are so many advaanges of no car useage.
Another thing that is that your body will become stronger. Because since you will be walking or running to where ever you need to go you will improve your strength. You won't be weak or like a noodle but muscle will be built.
So like I've been saying there are so many advanages to less car useage. Mostly becaus ein the end you will be happier, calm, and well excrised. Something that is alot easier than what we may have thought.
Those are the advages of having less car useage. because its more benfital than what everybeody may think. | 3 |
ad789c5 | Driverless cars are coming to the roads and that could potentially be a bad thing to have on the roads. These cars could cause accidents, hurt car dealers business, and hurt cab business.
Driverless cars could cause a major increase in accidents on the roads. Autonomous cars can cause the driver to not have to focus on the road. In the article it stated that sometimes the car will be need for the person to drive like in traffic on highways or out of driveways and parking lots. So since the car doesn't need the person in the car to drive all the time the person in the car can get distracted by there phone or the radio and not focus on the road. These driverless cars could also hurt car dealerships because people will want these cars. A lot of dealerships could potentially go out of business because no one wants the cars they have. People will be buying these cars from Google. These autonomous cars could also hurt the taxi business. People will want to be picked up by these autonomous cars so they dont have to worry about there driver.
These autonomous car shouldn't be made because of the increase in accidents that could happen and car dealerships and taxi companies could go bankrupt. Driverless cars are not a good thing to have on our roads. | 2 |
ad78cf2 | Driverless cars are another one of the world's technological marvels, that not only take away the prevalent nuisance of driving for long periods of time, but in terms of safety and efficiency, prevail. When flexibility increases, prices decrease, and the safety of consumers is protected, then there is no reason that semi-autonomous cars should not replace the commercial vehicles that we see today.
One of the key issues that consumers have today in terms of purchasing a vehicle is the fuel consumption. Sergey Brin, the cofounder of Google, provides evidence that suggests that these vehichles would use around half of the fuel that the vehicles today consume. Not only that, but Brin continues to state that the flexibility is increased as well, surpassing that of a bus.
Safety is also increased as a result of these vehicles. The fact that these vehicles are semi-autonomous and not completely autonomous enables a human driver to take control whenever they deem it necessary to do so. For example, Google's semi-autonomous creations are "not truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways and when other complicated traffic issues arise."
Sensors are what enable these vehicles to perform the tasks that astonish many to this day. Due to the fact that sensors have been used since the 1980s, vast improvements and tests have been conducted over the years to ensure that the safety of the consumer and those around he/she are preserved. The article even states that "Within 10 years, those sensors [from the 1980s] had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers." These vehicles allow for the potential decrease in drunk driving, which further emphasizes that safety is not only preserved with semi-autonomous cars, but is heavily increased.
There is a common misconception that by implementing the production of these vehicles, drivers will "get bored of waiting for their turn to drive." Although this is an issue that many psychologists are considering, some manufacturers are working to eliminate this issue. For example, the article suggests that there are a few car manufacturers that are hoping to rid of this anxiety by bringing in-car diplays and information systems that use heads-up displays. Not only is it a source of entertainment, but also an additional safety feature, which is also a major concern that is alleviated with semi-autonomous cars.
The fact that so many automobile companies, such as Tesla, BMW, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, and Audi, are striving to integrate the idea of semi-autonomous vehicles into their production vehicles, provides even further assurance that the benefits undoubtedly outweigh the harms. Furthermore, this article explicitly states that, as a nation based on progression and safety, semi-autonomous vehicles are the means of achieving the road to a truly autonomous car, and a road to a dramatic increase in safety. | 4 |
ad7c1bb | A Seagoing Cowboy is a job that you dont see that often. So why not try it out this job could change your life significantly. But if you dont want to try it then thats you choice.
The first reason this is a good job is because you can expirence awesome adventures. This is good because you get to see places youve never seen before in your life! This man got to go on an adventure to Europe to help Fix things.
The second reason this is a good job is because you get to visit uniqe places that youve never seen. This is good because sometimes nobody have seen these places. Half the people you see probably havent even heard of the places you get to see doing this job.
In conclusion this job is good but it is not meant for every body. So before you voluteer, think into it to really make sure you think this job is right for you or others. | 2 |
ad81c8e | That the author did good job at explan the evidences like he saws,
"Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a veicle hovering over venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditition by staying up and ount of their way" That it is imported to study Venus even if it dangers.
Venus ounce look like earth, like "Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long age, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." That it tells us that it you'st to be livible.
Venus is a challenging planet to study like it saws, "numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us." Venus is a challenging to travel to even if it so close.
Traveling to Venus isn't imposible like it saws, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imaginatin and innovation." It is posible to trave to Venus.
Venus is a challenging planet, that we like to study about and learn how it was formed. | 2 |
ad846b2 | Even though it has a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide and the clouds are high of corrosive sulfuric acid Astronomers are still studying it or trying to. They are fascinated by it because it may well once have been like Earth. In some ways it's a lot like earth such as erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, frequent lightning strikes, and maybe long ago was covered largely with oceans. In other ways it's not such as an average of 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atomosheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience here on Earth.
Venus can sometimes be our neasrest option for a planetary visit, this is crucial considering tha long time frames of space travel. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. This getting in the way of spacecraft being able to get around NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions would allow scientists to floar above the fray. Just as our jets and airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earths levels.
Since we can't be on Venus reseachers can't take samples of rock, gas, or anything else from a distance. Therefore, they who are seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close despite the risks. They have come up with many ideas such as simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and they have lasted for three weeks in such conditions. Also mechanical computers that make calucaltion by using gears and levers and don't require electronics at all. By comparison, systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resisant to pressure, heat, and other forces. | 2 |
ad85676 | Venus is one of the brightest point in the sky called the "Evening Star". Venus is actually a planet in the solar system. Venus is the second planetfrom our sun. But our earth is more closely. Also earth is often referred a "twin" Venus is the closest planet to Earth due to the density, size, distance.
Same with Mars. These two planets Mars and Venus are close to earth. But all three of them orbit the sun in different speeds. The digfferent in the speeds are meant sometimes that we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus. Not a single spaceship has touched on Venus in more than three decades.
While also Venus is a challenging study for humans. Even more challenging for us is that the clouds of highly corrosive sulferic acid in the Venus's atmosphere. Also noteable just to let you know that Venus does have the highest temperature of any other planet in our solar system. Even tho there are some orther planets that are colser to the sun. Like Mercury it is closer to the sun more than Venus.
Astronomers are also so suprised. Because Venus has been that one planet that is most alike to Earth to our planet in the solar system. Astronomers say that "long time ago Venus was covered with largely oceans and could have supported various from our life, just like Earth." Until this day Venus has some features are analogous to those on Earth. Just like the planet surface as of the familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters.
Lastly Venus is the planet that is most likely to be like Earth. It has some features that are alike. Venus however would allow scientists to float above the fray. Venus is our sister planet that is so alike to Earth. Although Venus has a higher temperature than Earth. | 1 |
ad87f74 | Feelings, we all have them, whether you are happy,sad, or angry, friends or family members can mostly tell when you are in a certain mood,but what if a computer could do the same exact thing.
Author Nick D'Alto wrote an article called,"Making Mona Lisa Smile" which is about computers that can read emotions, thats crazy! Nick talks about how computers can spit out precents of feelings like in paragraph one he sated,"She’s 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." Thats a computer scaning the Mona Lisa picture created by Leonardo da Vinci. NIck stated,"The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles." So, these computers use musclkes in your face to figure out the emotions you are felling. So, how is this helpful to students in a classroom? Well, Nick gives an example by stating from Dr.Huang from Beckman Institute for Advanced Science at the University of Illinois,"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,” Dr. Huang predicts. “Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.” Not only would it see if a student is bored or confused but the computer would help make the lesson more interseting to the student.
The big downfall of all of this would be prices, such as video games because, the computer would help better tell a story line and have the player thinking how the character feel ( let them feel more in the game). The article stated,"The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive—for video games or video surgery." But, other than that these computer can be very valuable to humans in the future and example more about humans emothions towards school, eachother, etc. Not the mention teenage boys can be excited and if they are in the middle of class on youtube or something, how would that be stopped so the student doesnt get embrassed.
Wrapping all of this up, computer are used on a daily schulde whether its at home or school, computer could help slove depression by putting students into a great mood, help humans on tests or problems in life. Computers do alot of things for us and this could be a big step into sloving problems and emotions people are feeling. | 3 |
ad8b905 | Join the seagoing cowboys you will be able to help other people. Sometimes you can sea cool animals or take tours of old castles and ruins on your way to the drop point. You can find new freinds and traditions from the other seacow boys. If you get board we play games after the animals have been droped of we play games like table tennis tournaments or voly ball baseball fencing boxing and reading and righting games help him pass the time. The trips can be dangerous if your watching the catle at night.
Its a once in a life time event. Have you ever been to Japan or China. No, will if you join the seagoing cowboy you will. If you have never gone boxing or play the games listed in the first paragragh you will. Plus you will get to help people in need. The trip can be dangerous just be carful going up the latter and make sure it is dry when is raining.
The trip can be dangerous if you are not carful. Playng game can help pass the time. Finding new freinds and triditions isn't hard. The sites are amazingly cool. So will you join the seagoning cowboy? | 2 |
ad980d6 | Limiting cars is a total advantage. So many problems would be solve, for example car accident. In source 1, paragraph 3 it states,"When i had a car I was always tense". This quote means that when you have a car it make your life more complicated. Also it can give you many worries because cars can brake.
In addiciton, believe it or not cars can damages us to. The way it can damage is us by polluting the world. In source 2, paragraph 14 the narrator says, "Beijing, china, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world. The significance of this is that the fact that there contries are so full of people driving its polluting the world. It is really good they increase people driving because the smog, which is whats polluting the world is geting bad.
Moreover, riding a bicycle is more covinient then driving a car. In source 3, paragraph 24, the writer stated that, "It's a good oppurtunity to take away stress and lower air pollution. This means that when you dont drive it can reduce your stress. Riding a bicyle is so much better because it evens help you workout. In a car your not doing anything, so its not helping you.
In the end riding a bicycle is not the only oppurtunty you have. On source 4 paragraph 39, it states the fact "they can walk or take public transportation or car-pool with friends. This means that you have alot of chances of going somewhere instead of driving. Those are my reasons why people should not use cars. | 3 |
ad9b8f0 | 3/27/1945
Dear, jimmy
I heard you may want to be a seagoing cowboy. Being a seagoing cowboy is a great adventure and it teaches you a lot of things. Well let's make you'r decision final.
One good reason to be a seagoing cowboy is you get to help pople who have sufferd and have lost many realitives. You can draft for military service, but you do have to be 18 to draft for military service. I have had the most time of any seagoing cowboy my time is nine trips. Mabye you could beat my recored one day. Besides helpig people you could have the benifit of seeing places such as Europe, China, Greece, or Italy.
When your traveling the high seas it could take a while to get to your destination. For me it took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States, and a month to get to China. You may have to take care of the animals for the crossings and this will keep you busy for a while. Some thing that you will have to do to take care of the animals is to feed and give them water two times a day. Also you will have to pull up bags of oats and hay from the lower holds. last but not least the stalls will have to be cleaned. once on my second trip I served as a watchman and I slid down a slippery ladder luckly a long strip of metal kept me from going into the seas.
There will be some times when you can have fun on board especially on the return trips because there wont be any animals in the stalls.
When we could have fun we would go into an empty stall and play tabble tennis, fencing, boxing, reading,whittling,vollyball, and even baseball.
But being a seagoing cowboy was much more than an adventure. It opened up the world to me. Im very gratful for this oppurtunity. It has made me more aware that others may need are help.
from Luke | 4 |
ad9c9d2 | In the article it states that Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life. It then adds on that Venus has a rocky surface and has familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters.
NASA is also working on getting people to somewhat like hover over the earth. The passage describes it as "a blimp like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the Venusian landscape." The author later goes on to say that the tempature would be about 170 degrees fahrenheit and that the living conditons wouldn't be easy but definitaly surviveable for humans.
In conclusion, the author does talk a lot about how NASA is improving the drones that we send. In the article it states that we have put a new and improved drone on earth but had it simulat being on Venus to see how it would handle the conditions. In the article it said that the drone has been able to survive for about 3 weeks now. | 1 |
ada100d | To: Senator
When hearing about the Electoral College, most people think of a group of individuals casting votes based on the popularity of the candidate in their state. What they don't know is that "the Electoral College is a process, not a place"(source 1) Some people, like Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Bob Dole, have all thought that the Electoral College should be abolished and be replaced by the popular vote. According to a poll taken in 2000, 60 percent of voters believe the precidency should be decided on the popular vote (source 2). After thoroughly researching, the Electoral College should be replaced by the popular vote. The current system of electing isn't exactly democratic and there is a chance for there to be a tie in the votes.
Most states have a "winner-takes-all" system (with the exception ofMaine and Nebraska) that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate in their state.(source 1) There may be an arguement that no state has enough votes to give the presidency to someone; however, this system basically casts away the other votes of those on the side of the opposing candidate, making it undemocratic. Besides that, there is also the chance that a few of the electors go rouge and vote for the opposing candidate. To be a democracy means to listen to the voice of the people; however, the college may not always listen.
The electoral College consists of 538 electors, meaning that the possibility of there being a tie is likely. When there is a tie, the fate of the potential presidents lie in the House of Representatives. When the election results are in the hands of the House, the selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people. It will be more likely that they will vote for the candidate in their party rather than listen to the people's vote. Not only does it ignore the rights of the people, but this gives an unfair advantage to the candidate who's party is currently in power.
In conclusion, the Electoral College is a "non-democratic method of selecting a president..." (source 3). Instead the choice of presidency should be at the will of the people, not in the hands of electors. In the words of Plumer, the elctoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. | 4 |
ada370c | When taking the action to limit car usage, that sets up many great advantages for you. It provides advantages in many different aspects in your life and also the community. Across the world states, countries,cities, and towns have all decided to limit their car usage and have found many great advantages in doing this.
In German suburbs the action to limit car usage has taken place and people have already taken part of the great advantages. From the text, Heidrun Walter claims "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," meaning that her life without a car is better then when she did. Also the fact that not having a car limits on the expenses a person would have to waste. This also influences your money saving and gives you more money to handle more important thing. Further into the article it states "...is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes...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." This means that cutting off on cars will | 2 |
ada7e66 | Dear Senator, recently there has been much debate about whether the Electoral College should be retained or not. After reading the artices, it is very clear to me that the Electoral College has worked efficiently for many years and, therefore, should be kept as a way of voting for our country's president.
First of all, even though a dispute over the outcome of an Electoral college is quite possible, it is much less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. Imagine if an argument broke out about the outcome of popular voting. There would be absolute chaos and too many different opinions. Even though many voters would argue that they prefer direct voting, the product of that would only overcomplicate the system and make things run less smoothly.
Secondly, the Electoral College should be kept because it restores the weight in the political balance that the bigger states lose by the virtues of the mal-apportionment of the Senate that was decreed in the supreme law of our country, the constitution. It also makes a tie highly unlikely.
Lastly, the system of the Electoral College helps to avoid the problem of run-off elections. There is a lot of pressure for elections in which no candidate gets a majority of the votes cast. If it were not for the Electoral College, that pressure would greatly complicate the presidential election process. The Electoral College reduces the risk of a run-off election and produces an obvious winner. According to article three, since almost all states award the electoral votes on a winner-takes-all basis, even the smallest plurality in a single state can create a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state. Each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for tht party's nominee, and that trust is hardly ever betrayed. Some people argue that the Electoral College is unfair because because it is possible that the winner of the electoral vote may not win the national popular vote. Although that is true and it is possible, it is also incredibly rare. It happened once in 2000 in the election betweeen Bush and Gore, but that was the first time since 1888.
All in all, I believe the Electoral College has proven to be consistently successful in the history of our country. After all, it has given us great presidents and, hopefully, it will continue to do so in the future elections to come. | 3 |
ada9687 | The face on Mars is just another fake thing happening in this world. Honestly it is just another natural landform. Scientist might have been shocked when they saw it back in 1976 but know they are understanding and learning that the face is just a natural landform.
The face is just a natural landform because their has been 3 pictures to prove it, you cannot always see the face, and only few scientist even believe it is an alien artifact.
The first reason why the is just a natural landform is because their has been three pictures of the face. On the first picture it may have taken just to find the face but everybody was shocked about it.
Scientist and NASA could not believe it either but it took them another 22 years to get another picture of the face which the pictures were a lot clearer and you could almost tell that it looked a lot more like a natural landform.
This picture was helping scientist and NASA out to it would help them find out more about the face and help them discover what it actually was. Then they had another picture 3 years later in 2001 which blows it out that it is totally a natural landform. It is really easy to see when you look at the picture in 2001.
This is why the three pictures help identify the face is a natural landform.
The second reason why the face is a natural landform is because you cannot always see the face.
Sometimes when you look at pictures and you see the face you might be wondering what is that. Especially when you see the picture from 2001 that just looks like a pile of sand and part of Mars natural landform.
When you zoom out and see the picture from 1976 the one that is not a close up you can easily see it is a face but then when you zoom in you might be like what is that.
This is why when you see the face and you cannot always see the face it is a natural landform.
The last reason why the face is a natural landform is because only a few scientist believe it is an alien artifact.
This means most of the scientist believe it is a natural landform.
Also if you cannot see that it is a natural landform then you must be blind because it is kind of obvious.
Just because some scientist believe it is an alien artifact does not mean you should believe that too.
Also you can obvouisly see that it is not a alien artifact it is just a natural land form of Mars.
This face is just another natural landform that just makes Mars, well Mars.
If only a few scientist believe that the face is an alien artifact than that has to mean that the face is a natural landform.
In conclusion, the face is just another that is not made up but not really a human beings face or a alien face.
The face is just another natural landform of Mars that people get confused about. The 3 reasons why is because of pictures, you cannot always see it, and only few scientist believe it is an alien artifact. This is mainly why the Face is just another natural landform on the Red Planet, Mars. | 4 |
adae5e9 | It's cool to study different things about our Solar System, but some things in Space can be very dangerous, like trying to examine Venus closer. In the passage, it says, While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely. I chose this piece of evidence because it talks about studying Venus, on how studying can be a worthing pursuit despite the dangers it presents.
In the beginning, it talks about Venus can be a very safe planet to research if we are far away from it. But it also says, if we get closer to it, it can be very dangerous since it is one of the hottest planets in our Solar System.
In the passage provided, it talks about Venus's temperature and it's thick atmosphere. Also talks about not being safe trying to get closer to it because it makes an example saying, "Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape. Temperatures would be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans.
In the end, it talks about if you try and visit Venus, it's worth it not just because of insight, but because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Our curiosity should lead us to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 2 |
adaef95 | I am against the driverless cars cars for many reasons and how it would affect us humas when driving or assisting the car. I am against the driverless cars becaus it will take the things or places that humans would want to do on their own instead of a car taking them there by itself. It also would get us fustrsted because we wouldn't know when to control the car or if when controling it every other time while driving. Driverless cars could also make humans not want to have the car anymore because we would want to start driving by ourselves. Also it would make us teenagers wanting the car because we aren't driving it and we dont even knwo how to control or dive a car. We don't have our license or permit yet. It would lead to the teenagers turn to drive and they don't know how to use the car which would to either a car accident or the death of a teenager because of the driverless car.
The affects of haveing this car is a lot. One affect of having this driverless car is that it would need a lot of gas just for one car. Another affect is that the car it self could lose control and something bad could happen to the driver. It would also need multiple battery changes because the car driving by itself takes a lot of battery juice from the car. The driverless car could also affect us because there could be times that we would want to drive on our own and the car want let us. The car could shut down on us while it's driving. It requres massive upgrades to existing roads, as it say's in the paragraph 3 sentence 5. It also needs alot of sensors and when those sensors are in they could brake or die and it cost more money to get them and fix them then any ther normal car.
When having these cars there are many reasons why we should'nt have them. Looking at the reasons ahead would at least help people realize that we don't need a driverless car in the car. As it in paragraph 9 it say's '' if the technology fails and someone gets hurt who is at fault the car or the maufacture. Driverless cars are good ideas but there dangerous to us humans. | 2 |
adb6a5a | I don't think the use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. Sometimes people don't want others to know how their feeling and why their feeling like that. Also, some people might think it's invading their privacy if they didn't give the person permission to read their emotional expressions.
Reading other peoples emotional expressions without permission can cause the person to get angry because they might not want others to know how their feeling. I think it would be better to see how the person is acting and if you see that they aren't acting the way they usually do then you can ask them how their feeling or if their okay instead of using technology to read someones emotional expressions. For example, in the text in paragraph 5 it talks about how you can tell how a friend is feeling by the look on their face. Some people don't like others knowing how their feeling because they might think that the person is going to go off and tell others. They might be afraid that their going to make fun of them.
Using technology can give you false information if not used properly. It can read that your happy but in reality you can be sad or angry you just aren't showing it because you don't want others to know. Also, it can read that your sad but in reality your trying to show people that your happy so they don't ask you whats wrong. If the person who read your expression through their computer goes up to you and tells you they know that you aren't happy it can make the person feel angry because they were trying so hard not to let people know that they aren't upset.
Sometimes just asking someone in person how their feeling can be better than using technology because now and days thats all people use so most people don't communicate in person. Asking someone how they feel can make them feel better if they know they have someoen they can talk to and not through technology. Some people can fake their expressions so using technology won't always be as right as asking someone in person how their actually feeling.
These are a couple of reasons why I think the use of technology to read peoples emotional expressions isn't valuable to know how someone is feeling. | 4 |
adb7b2b | In sept . 1997,Twenty five years ago something funny happened around Mars. NASA's aircraft captured a photo of a landform in a human shaped face many people belive that the landform could of been created by aliens.
The picture of the face was not created by aliens. On April5,1998,Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the fist time. The Mars Orbiter Camera team took a picture ten times better than the Original photo. The picture revealed a natural landform not the face many though really exsisted.
On April 8, 2001 --a cloudless summer day on the planet mars the Global surveypr had a second chance to look at the landform. This time each pixel in the 201 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 23 meters per pixel in the viking photo. you can now see thing better in the photo it shows butte or mesa-landforms witch are comon.
The evedience scientist have gathered has showed there was no face created by aliens | 2 |
adbaac9 | Driverless cars are a huge step in technology and may workout to be very useful, but there is always that percent chance that it will fail. For example if I were to own one of these Driverless cars I would
Be worried about one thing, and that is running into other cars. I wouldnt want to own one of these because I personally do not trust them.
A huge problem for me would be liability. For example, If I am in one of these driverless cars and a surrounding car near me runs a red light and I go head on with them because this driverless car could not react in time because it doesn't have the senses of a human. If my life was not taken would it be my fault that I got into a wreck or would it be the manufacture's fault? Just like the article said new traffic laws will certaintly be needed in order to make this possible. There is a reason why only 3 out of our 50 states are currently allowing limited use of semi-autonomous cars and that is because people do not trust these things. If these companies are releasing these cars in 2020 then they better change the law to make it safe for the driver and the companies by four years. I also do not think that they can make these cars as aware as some human drivers are. For example if the car gets hit it has nothing to lose, but the human inside the car is trying to protect their life.
I personally believe that they should prohibit these cars from coming out in the United States. They could possibly release them in another country and then bring them to the U.S. if they workout in other countries. The reason for that is because our liability laws are not where they need to be yet in my opinion. | 3 |
adbad2a | Put this in perspective: a technology that could depict human emotion. Luckily, Dr. Huang of the University of Illinois has created this new technology called the Facial Action Coding System, which enables computers to identify human emotions. He used this new technology to depict the emotions of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. The uses of this technology are endless, but one specific use could be in the classroom.
The use of this technology in the classroom has potential to be very valuable. For instance, if a teacer is teaching and a student is confused or bored, there is a way to teach that specific student in another way that may benefit him or her. Depicting these emotions would be done by way of computer. There would be a classroom computer and when it picked up confusion or boredom, it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor. The technology benefits the teacher and the students.
One special use of this technology is how it can modify the lessons being taught by teachers. People are all different and learn in a variety of ways. Some people are visual learners and some people can learn just by listening. The technology can use the different models of teaching to benefit each student.
Because of Dr. Huang, the Facial Action Coding System could be used in places all over the world but in particular, the classroom. His technology can change the way of teaching and create more opportuinities for students to learn. Also, the modifications of teaching students can be done to fit each student and how they learn. Students and teachers will have access to a whole new environment for learning that will benefit their education. This technology will be able to depict students' emotions of confusion and boredom, change the way of teaching, and create lasting impacts on the education of students. | 4 |
adc51a2 | In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars. Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district on the outskirts in freiburg. Car ownership is ownship is allowed, but there are only two place to park large garge at the edge of development, where a car ower buys a space, for $40,000, along with a home. &0 percent of Vauban's families don't own cars and 57 percent sold car to move here. Vauban, completed in 2006, growin trend in Europe. Many cars has their own unqiue from other cars which people love and feel for it. Passenger cars are reponsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emission Europe. Vauban, home to 5,500 residents within a rectangular square mile. Almost 4,000 drivers were fined during driving and have been impounded for their action. The end of car culture. Their are a lot of thing happening in car culture happen in technoloy and may improve with cars. | 1 |
adc6971 | The Face on Mars is just a natural landform. This face has only come out once and we have not found any other faces planted on Cydonia, the region the face was located at. The face has been fading, There is no real proof of the face being kept there by aliens, and there was no alien momunment after all.
One reason is that the Face on Mars is just a natural landform because the face has been fading. The text states that they have tooken pictures of this Face on Mars and both times they have the face becomes unnoitcable. For Example: When one of the people went out and took a picture, "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa - landforms common around the American West."
Another reason for the Face on Mars to be just a natural landform is because of no real proof leading to aliens being there. The passage states that no aliens have interloped the area or anything. The text showed that overtime the face has deceased of showing up. The Garvin states that the Face has come down to looking like "Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, that's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars."
My final reason that the Face on Mars is just a natural landform is that there was no alien momunment or alien archifact. The text states that on April 5, 1998 they got the first really well took picture of the Face on Mars. When they uploaded the picture, nothing of the sort of alien industry being there. The text also stated, "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 monunment after all."
The Face on Mars was incredible to see. The people were craving to see the alien life become on Mars and as so was the NASA people. Everyone was stoked to have maybe a new set of living creatures come out. " 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!" Although, the Face on Mars was the only face that could be seen on there. The more pictures taken of this Face on Mars the more everyone found out that the face was more of a natural landform. "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." | 4 |
adc8e8b | In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author does not support the idea that studying Venus is a worhty pursuit despide the dangers it presents.
He states that it is a worthy pursuit to study it, but in the beginning he starts by listing off the reasons why we haven't done it before. The text states, "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for a good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours". The last trip was "more than three decades" ago, but the landscape itself is not safe. The "temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit" and the "pressure is 90 times greater" than on earth. To put that into prespective he says that the "environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquify many metals". That kind of environment would be extremely hard to get to, especially to study. The environment is dangerous from the pressure, temperature, and the fact that there are "erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes".
NASA has been developing "possible" solutions to these risks. "Or maybe we should think of them as challenges." the author wrote. One possible solution would "allow scientists to float above the fray". One of the problems with this such solution is that "the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere" prevent in-depth scientic discovery and any sort of collection of rocks or gases. In this scenario they would have limited vision and be at temperatures of about "170 degrees Fahrehit". This is, "Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans." according to the author. It is survivable, but they have limited vision and cannot collect anything to study unless they alter their plans and place themselves in far more danger.
NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus, such as "some simplified electronics" which when placed in conditions simulating Venus have "lasted for three weeks in such conditions.". They looked at older technology as well, some dating back towards World War II. The author of the article speaks about these things in development, but gives no information on how they could be used. If the devices were to be used like a probe, getting past the "frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface" would be another added difficulty.
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the article does not support the idea of studying Venus despite it's dangers very well. He talks about the dangers and possible solutions, but never what they would be able to get out of those missions to study. All in all, the article does not have sufficient data to say that the outcome is worth the risk. | 4 |
add07c0 | This new technology is valuable in the classroom. This is due to the fact that it can recognize different facial movements. This then helps the software be able to tell what kind of emotion he or she is expressing. Knowing the emotion of a student on the subject they are learning, can really tell someone how that student feels about the learning process. This is critical because it will make the learning process of a student much easier depending on how they learn, and also depending on how they are in character. Using this new technology will help students learn in a much better way in the classroom.
A teacher in the classroom might not be able to look around at every student and be able to tell if the student is learning the subject well. Using this new technology could enhance the ability of a student to learn better. By recognizing if the student is confused, the computer will automatically modify the lesson. This is very critical because not every student in the classroom learns the same way as others, modifying a lesson based on how they learn could most certainly teach a student the lesson better. As stated in paragraph 6, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," after recognizing this,
the computer will then change the format of the lesson. Thus, making the student's comprehension better.
Students in every classroom vary not just in the way they learn, but also in their behavior. A student might not be able to express and talk about their feelings. There is always an introvert in the classroom who might be afraid to speak up. In paragraph 6 it is stated, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," this means that the computer will be able to effectively understand what someone is thinking without the use of words. Using this system will help a student, who is not able to express him or her self clearly, use his or her's facial expressions as their voice.
Knowing the ways students learn could enhance their ability of learning that subject much better. This new technology is able to tell just that. Teachers can't go around to every student of every class and ask them how they feel about the lesson. Also, there is no need for an introvert student to speak up if they don't want to. This only puts them under a lot of pressure, thus decreasing the chances that he or she will learn. The use of this technology in the classroom could even add a sense of love for the subject. The Facial Action Coding System could make the way students aquire knowledge better and can make their futures brighter by simply reading their emotions. | 4 |
add5865 | Today I am going to tell you why you should go to Seagoing Cowboys program.
Seagoing Cowboys program is a program where you go out on a big boat and you go on the seas and travel to different crountries.
I am first going to tell you why you should go. You should go to the program because you get to see all different kind of countries like Greece, China, and Europe. Why would you not want to go to different countries. Other people might say it's way to dangerous because you might run out of food or the boat might sink and you might get lost while you are out in the seas. You will not run out of food because the person who is encharge packs 6 months of food. If the boat does sink, there will be another boat behind us. You will not get lost because there will be other people there with you and there will be maps.
When you get to a country like Venice,Italy there will be a city with streets of water so we can stay in the boat. What you can see at the different countries is where people live, what kind of houses does the people live in, and you will be aloud to take pictures so you will never forget your time at the countries and the boat.
So that is why you should go to the Seagoing Cowboys program. You will have alot fun while you will be on the trip. So make sure you pack alot of clothes and pack your bag for a avdevture. | 3 |
add6dbe | The author has sort of a dream of going to Venus. He claims that it is possible because they're both epual in size and similar in some areas.
Besides the point Venus can reach up to extreme levels of heat from how close it is to the sun and all the fumes or carbon dioxide. Speakin of carbon dioxide majority of Venus think atmosphere is almost 97percent carbon dioxide. Reaching over 800 degrees on average, and the atmaspheris pressure is 90 times greater that what we experience on Earth, it can get pretty hot.
It makes since to try to go to Venus, because we want to know if there is anymore life out there besides Earth, it makes since, but Venus would almost be impossible for a while until we get more/better technology to travel to any other planets. We might try to go to other planets before that on because it would be impossibly to try to live or stay there. We are more likely to go to Mars before any other planet, because it is also similar to earth, but atleast it not super hot like either Venus, or Mercury.
We want to see if there are any other life out there so we want to try to go to other planets to try to see whatelse is out there, and as the author wants us to try to go to Venus, might not be possible for a while, but I think it will be possible soon. | 2 |
add97e8 | Driving to some people is time consuming and boring. Imagine if you had a personal assistant or even your own private taxi service. That service could take you where ever you want and you dont even have to drive.
You could take a nap or catch up with friends, even enjoy a nice meal before you start work. Some people who work late shifts and even start early in the morning would prefer sleeping then driving to get to thier job in the morning. Well maybe one day, but that day could come sooner than you know it.
Movies, Television, Art and much more have inspired the creation of new tech. This includes self driving cars; ever sence 2009 the trails of making a self driving car comes to life. With test from google and BMW working with new tech to advance cars to be self driven. Some say that this is a great idea but others would disagree. With new tech comes a lot of software and coding one wrong thing could lead to injury and even death. This is why people would rather not have a self driving car out on the road.
Driving out on the road is not a toy or game when going at 60 miles an hour, any thing could happen. This is why cars that can drive them selfs are not available to the public. Many test are still being done and even though there isn't a self driving car out on the streets yet; there are still cars with new tech intalled from the test. Cameras, motion sensors and alerting systems are beginning to be more comin. Dangerous enough when you don't see something out in front of the street and possibly hit it; a sensor could prevent that or a alert that lets you see it before any thing happens.
So even though we don't have self driving cars out on the road we do have some sort of tech that comes close to it. Sooner then later could you see a car that drives it slef but for the mean while its always better to be safe then sorry. | 2 |
adde2f0 | Dear Senator ,
The stretegy we still use to elect our president is not always effective. During the times that the United States was becoming a country , many senators argued that having states with more electoral votes is extremely unfair. By doing so ,you are telling the people of that state that their vote is not worth as much as someone that lives for example in California. Using electoral college made George W. Bush president when most people preferred Al Gore. With the help of our advanced technology , we could accomplish giving equivalent votes to each person of the United States regardless of their location. If we wouuld have used popular vote since the beginning of history, we could have avoided having presidents such as George W. Bush that have caused catastrophes in this country. The winner-takes-all system portrays no justice. It is no coicidence that the president constantly visits countries with the most electoral votes.+
Sincerely , PROPER_NAME | 2 |
ade13bf | Having driverless cars will be insanely dangerous. It's understandable that many comanys want to make this type of car because, well, it's 2016. The future is now, but there's a very important reason why they haven't come out, and that's becuase of how dangerous they are. Also the cost of the creation of a driverless car that is safe will be beyond the imagination.
Starting of, In 2013, BMW started developing "Traffic Jam Assistant", on paragraph 7 it states that the car speeds up to 25 mph, but it has special sensors that make sure the driver is still holding to the wheel. It's like that for the majority of smart cars. The cars can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, yet they still require human assistance. These companys can make as many "driverless" cars as they need but none of the ones that have been developed so far have worked as 100% driverless.
Secondly, these producers often don't realize that it's not only expirienced adults that are going to be driving thsese cars, but teenagers too. Teenagers aren't the most smart when it comes to safety on the roads. They have their friends, phones, radio, any type of distraction and now they also have to worry about if the driverless car is going to need the help of a human?
Finally , technology is unexpected. We've al seen the movies, and all though they are fiction, it can definitely happen. No on egetting in their driverless car cna know if the technology will fail while the driver is in a busy road or if it'll act up when leats expected. It is a very dangerouse situation if your driverless car suddenly syops an dyou don't understand why. There's already a million things that can go wrong with regular cars, now imagine the things that could happen in a car that you, yourself aren't even in control of.
Driverless cars are very dangerous. There's not a way possible that a teenager could handel that much responsability. The driverless cars will not ever be 100% just the car, they will always need human help. Everything could go wrong with technology. Tesla has projected a release this year for a car capable of driving an autopilot 90% of the time, as said on paragraph 10. Audi, and Nissan are planning to have a car that can drive itself by 2020, the future is now. | 4 |
ade54fc | Dear senator,
We should change the electoral college to an election by popular votes for the president of the united states.
I believe that everyone should have a say in who their future president should be not just a group of selected officials . Sure some of the peoples choices may end up bias or thoughtless but atleast they get to feel as if their a part of the state. like stated in "what's wrong with the electoral college" sentence 11 "Those electors could always defy the will of the people." meaning that sometimes the chosen electors neglect their positions and use it the wrong way. The selcted electors may end up going against the people and/or choose a bias decision. No matter how you look at it their still human and they will make mistakes.
Electoral college shouldn't only allow government official or "qualified" citizens to bare that huge responsibility because if they make one wrong move then everyone will blame them but if we have popular vote everyone will have a say in the presidential voting. If we have electoral votes your only giving specific people power while as the other citizens sit down to watch complete stranges balance their countries future in their hands. like stated in "what's wrong with electoral college" sentence 13 "At the most basic level ,the electoral college is unfair to voters" meaning that electoral votes is unjustified to the people.
Electoral votes should be abolished because it isn't justified for all of those hardworking citizens who always pay their respects to this country. It even states in "what's wrong with electoral college" sentence 14 " It's official : The electoral college is unfair ,outdated, and irrational." meaning that the electoral college has been here long enough, it's not justified ,and it's irrational. Something like that should no longer exist. The citizens should have a say in who will become their new president. They should have a majority vote .
Like stated in "choosing the president" sentence 15 "the electoral college is widely regarded as an anachronism"meaning that the electoral college is really old and we no longer have any need for it. The electoral college is something that was meant for the past. There may have been some sort of issue that they could not properly deal with ,so they created the electoral college in order to deal with it. But now we have more advance ways of doing stuff so we don't need electoral college any more . We can now change our ways for voting so that it'll match our time and period.
Electoral votes is filled with holes/bias. So we should find a new way of chosing our new president who is willing to change our couontry for the best and not corrupt our country. | 4 |
ade71b5 | This Facial Action Coding System could be good in a couple ways but its unnecessary. Computers might know what your emotions and help in a couple ways to know if you're confused about something or do not like something you see on the internet. Just because you look at someones face, it doesn't mean that they feel some type of way. Someone could be smiling or laughing but that doesn't mean that they are truely happy. It's the same thing by having a serious face.
A face expression doesn't always show someone's emotions. Other people do not care about other people's emotions. It's better to notice things with your own eyes than a computer or machine to tell you how somebody is "feeling". The article says you can tell how a friend is feeling by just looking at their face. That's true because you know that person very well.
People do want to hide their emotions for their own specific reason. We all have that moment when we would want to keep our feelings to ourselves. We wouldn't like for systems to know our emotions. | 2 |
ade79ec | Imagine a world full of driverless cars, transporting people from place to place safely. This method is very fascinating because it promotes safety, and has part of an advanced technilogical system that advances what functions it can complete. These cars are good and will change the future for the better.
They will promote safety by automatically using techniches that should be used at the time of need. The text states, "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves..." This shows that in case of an instance, for example backing into something, the car can prevent it from happening in a safe matter. They have part of an advanced technilogical system by using new technology methods. The text states, "Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensore, a GPS reciever and an inertial motion sensor." This proves that they use a lot of new technology on it that can do functions that other cars can't do.
These cars are better because they are safer, and more advanced with technology. They do functions that other cars can't do and lower the risk of death. These cars are good and will change the future for the better. | 2 |
ade8a9b | THE SEA IS CALLING ME AND YOU
To Whom It May Concern,
Have you ever met someone who is or was a seagoing cowboy? Well, if your awnser is no then it's all about to change. Hi my name is Luke, and I am a seagoing cowboy. I really want to encorage other's to become seagoing cowboys because we need more people to complete the jobs. So come on out and serve your country with the seagoing cowboys!
First of all, I have multiple reasons why should join us. Like its a lot of fun. Ok, so you didn't hear this from me but some times after we drop the cattle off we like to go into the empty stalls and play games like tennis and volley ball. Due to that this job really dosen't feel like a job at all. If you like to have fun and take care of animals then a seagoing cowboy is the right job for you. Also, this is a once in a lifetime chance. When I was offered this deal I jumped on it immediantly because I knew that if I didn't that I would never get another chance like this again. Plus, you probally wont have to join the military. For me this counted as my service.
Futhermore, we do many things in this program such as take care of animals. I get to go down everyday to feed them and I always am able to pet and play with them. As I said before we also play many games to keep us entertained because we have alot of time on our hands. So everyday is like another mini party. As you probally know we have to drive a huge boat filled with animals across the ocean. So we alternate drivers. We always want to make sure that everyone gets a chance to have fun and sleep. But, even though were making amazing memoriess all of us need to do are fair share of the work .
Finally, I have many memories of my own to share. Starting with I made a record by heading out on a cattle trip 9 times! Maybe you could also set a record? I know that I have made it pretty clear that I have had fun. But I have also gotten my share of bumps and bruises over the years. Beside that is no match to the pain I felt before this job. Here I feel safe and in my old life I didn't. I was working 2 part time jobs. One at a grocery store and one at a bank. Plus I didnt get very good py and I wasn't happy. But now I am. Everyday is amazing thanks to my job that is so great that it dosen't even feel like one.
So in conclusion I love my job! I think that you should try it out. If it dosen't sound appealing to you then just give it a spin. I really do belive that you will like it as much as I did. Maybe you can set a new world recored! Or maybe just a pearsonal one. But which ever record you want to set or what job you pick, just pick the one that makes you happy. Dont go out and do somthing boring like I did at first. Just find what you love and do it. You only live one life one time. So why not live it to the fullest?
Best Wishes,
Luke! | 4 |
adeba74 | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" it talks about how technology is used to read human expressions. I'm going to give my opinion on technology reading students emotions. I think that it is good for us to have something like this because it will help us see what people are thinking. In the article paragraph five the author says that we could identify each others expressions but we don't really know what each one means for example being happy, sad, or angry can have different looks and we might not know what they are. The author also states that with his computer he can tell what people are thinking if they are upset or excited, who knew that one expression could mean so many things. Sometimes the muscles are used to show if a politician or celebrity is telling the truth, it can also tell if someone is doing a genuine or forced smile. That is my opinion on "Making Mona Lisa Smile" and I think it would be amazing to have. | 2 |
adeefca | At night time, when you look at the evening star, you're also looking at a planet called Venus. Venus is also known as Earth's "twin," which is a very incredible planet, one that is almost similar to Earth itself. However, we don't know much about the planet itself. For astronomers and scientists, exploring venus had lead to nothing but failure one drone after another. The author from the article explains in great detail on why these group of scientists shouldn't give up but instead should push themselves harder to reach that goal.
Venus is a complicated planet for scientists to explore. "humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world. Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours," (Paragraph 2). With the temperatures being an average of 800 degrees Fahrenheit on the planet's surface, the thick layer of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide in its atmosphere, and the surface having a pressure that is 90 times greater than our ocean floors, it's very difficult almost impossible for scientists to even understand the basic's of the planet. The author also explains "why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface?" (Paragraph 4). Well, in (Paragraph 4) the author also tells us that "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth." After hearing that fact, who wouldn't want to learn more about Venus and, with the advancements of technology and discovring new materials, the goal for exploring Venus may come true one day.
With the issue of trying to explore Venus means scientists needs to come up with a new approach which in (Paragraph 7) explains perfectly well, "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbine have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions. Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers. These devices were first envisioned in the 1800s and played an important role in the 1940s during World War II. The thought of computers existing in those days may sound shocking, but these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all. Modern computers are enormously powerful, flexible, and quick, but tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions. Just imagine exposing a cell phone or tablet to acid or heat capable of melting tin. By comparison, systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces." Even with the advancements of technology today, we still need help from technology back then too.
With our thirst for knowledge and understanding a force we don't understand yet, pushes us to do wonderous things. The author of this article helped show us if we managed to successfully make it to Venus and study the forces within it. We may have a second Earth in our solar system and our journey to the stars will have finally begun. | 4 |
adf1541 | Now we have so many school was used the computer ''teacher'' to teach the students. It was pretty cool to see, now in the world we already have this kind new technology. But is we can make sure the computer ''teacher'' they can same with humen teacher, or even they can better than human teacher? Is the computer can like the human to read students' emotional? I think the answer will be: yes, the computer they can read students' emotional.
People usully have six basic emotions- happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. So for this six basic emotions, people awasy can look the others face to read they are emotion. But is the we can make sure we read was all right? People make the emotions was used face muscles made. Yes, if a person don't want show they realy emotion to peolpe, they can make a emotions by theyslve. So when they do that, is we can still just look they're face to read they are realy emotion? That will be very hard, and was very eazy to read wrong emotion.
People was eazy to read wrong emotional, so what about the new technology the ''Facial Action Coding System''. The Facial Action Coding System can help the computers teacher to identify human emotions. They have all 44 major muscles in the computer 3-D model, and when they move the muscles was like human muscles. So they are can just like human to read human emotional. And maybe they will better than human. They read the emotional like doing the math homework. They will check all you muscles to read you emotional, even you try to make a not really emotional. Because the face muscles was do not lie.
So the computer teacher, will better than human teacher to read the students' emotions. They can find out students emotions and do right things to help the students. The new technology the Facial Action Coding System was very useful and they can more help the teacher find out students emotions. | 2 |
adf8adf | The author explans that Venus is the second planet from our sun, and that stuyding Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers; The solar power would be plentiful and radiatio would not exceed Earth levels. Like it says in the passage "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has one partticularly idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray."
The author explains that some simplified electrons made of silicon carbide have been tested in a charmber simulation the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for the three weeks in such conditions. The author also states in the paragraph that another project is looking back to an old technolgy called mechanical computers. These devices were first envisioned in the 1800's and played an important role in the 1940s during World War II. So the author has supported his idea that stuyding Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers, and has also had interasting facts about Venus. | 2 |
adfb0fa | How would a person guess one would survive under the conditions Venus presents? Astronomers, space geniuses, and article writers alike believe that it would be well worth the risks to explore the planet. The author supports their claim that Venus is worth the risks to explore by saying that it is the closest in regards to planetary visits, the conditions it presents are not easy but survivable, and human curiosity will eventually lead us to it.
The author states that Venus has many features that are analogous to Earth. In paragraph four, the author states "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." this sentence is helpful in relation to the authors point because it states that astronomers believe that Venus used to be extremely similar in relation to Earth. It also states, "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." this sentence further proves his point by explaining the parts of Venus that are similar to Earth.
The author also states that Venus' conditions are "not easy", but they are survivable. In paragraph five, the author states "...temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels." These two sentences prove that Venus' conditions are more extreme than Earth's, but that humans would be able to survive with the technology and manipulation that exist today. The authors point is proven because it is stated that the conditions can be survived.
Lastly, the author states that human's natural curiosity will lead them to visit Venus, or do something with more or equal risks. In paragraph eight, it is stated that "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." This statement is proving the authors point by saying that although visiting Venus presents risks, so do many other things that humans have accomplished. Visiting Venus has both value to the planet and to humans.
The author is stating that Venus is human's best chance to explore another planet. Venus is closer than other planets, replicates Earth's conditions in a more extreme way, as well as the fact that humans are naturally curious. With enough will power from normal people and astronomers alike, humans can make visiting Venus possible. | 4 |
adfcc71 | I would tell them that it was just a rock as said in the article "huge rock formation" ,i also can prove that it is not an alien because in the article it states that "arrived at the Red Planet in sept 1997..." they went to mars to take pics of the unknown formation to prove to everyon that it was not made by alien the NASA described it as an "natural formation" ,even though this still left others with questions NASA said "the crema on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the face " which means that the picture wa not as clear as you thought it was with the clouds in the way NASA stated " what the pictuure actually shows is the Martin equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West..." These are all reasons that state that the landform was not created by aliens. | 2 |
adfe724 | Building driverless cars will absoultely help with nothing. Sure they will drive you without anyone in the front. But what
if a wire brakes and makes the car go faster or it loses control of the car. Without drivers they would just cause a bigger mess than what the world is already in.
Driverless car seem cool and awsome in some sort of way. Sure it will help the car stop faster in order for no one to crash. But that won't help with anything. The driverless car could maybe not even sense that it is headed towards a crash and that will cause a big problem. The cars would need a lot of experimenting to do.
Sensors are nothing new of course, but the sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids and rollovers. Lets look at it this way, say you are in a driverless car and you know that your car should not be on skids. Well the sensor does not sense it and you automatically crash. This could be a big problem for the driverless car.
To make all these driverless car would cost a lot of money. Where would we get all the money just to make one car? That would mean that they would start taking more money from our checks and taxes. The creators of the cars would do anything just to build a car that no one would really use.
Building these driverless cars will help in no way. They will use good money just to create something useless but also helpful. Sure they will help with the crashing in some ways and also help sense that something bad might happen, but the truth is that there are some worst reasons for why we should not build driverless cars. | 3 |
ae00902 | I agree we should use the Facial Action Coding System to read students' emotional expressions in class to help teachers create a better teaching system and for students to recieve a better education. Students sometimes don't get the proper education they need all because some are either too shy to ask questions when they are confused or they zone out because the teacher's teaching method is their learning method. With the Facial Action Coding System those type of problems can help make a teacher a better teacher and a student a good student.
When you walk in a class you see most students looking at the teacher but that doesn't gurantee you they are listening. "A class computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" is what Dr.Haung predicts the Facial Action Coding System can do. If a student is confused but is to shy to ask so they rather stay in doubt, the computer will let the teacher know and she or he will be able to go to the student and make sure he or she understands. When a student is bored, this new technology will let the teacher know that their student is bored and the teacher can then also help their student by asking them what way they learn better, becuase maybe the teacher's method of teaching is not the student's best way of learning but doesn't say. "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication" with the help of this new technology we can automatically know how the other person is feeling and we won't have to ask that person how they are feeling, since sometimes humans don't like to express their emotions when they are sad, upset, or confused.
The use of the Facial Action Coding System would lead to a better learning system for the students and will even help teachers understand their students. Humans will be able to commicate and understand each other with the help of this technology. And if a student is upset and fakes a smile this new tecnology will be able to see right through it and the student will get the proper attention. Simple face expressions can lead us to discover so much emotions within a single person. Like they say actions speak louder than words which in this case facial actions do speak louder than words. | 3 |
ae02008 | Dear State Senator,
I understand there has been some contreversy between keeping or changing the Electoral College by popular vote for the president of the United States, But We need to Keep the Electoral College, and these are the reasons why.
First things first, the Electoral College is a process,not a place. Also it consists of 538 electors but a majority of electoral votes needs to be 270 votes in order to elect a president. So each Canident has a 50/50 chance of winning or losing. The elctors are chosen by the political parties, which i can see how people would have a problem with that,but if they dodnt choose the canadents for us we probably would even know which person to elect as a canadent.
The presidental election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, giving the citizens more than enough time to decide if they are happy with the president they have or if they should elect a new one, usually there happy with the president they elected which means that the Electoral College process is working.
Although the electorla college system is for the voters to vote for a slate of electors to elect the president the citizens still get a say in the election towards there president of choice. if the citizens could just elect a president from there personal votes then they would probably make the wrong decsion on who to choose, they might be fooled by the flashy ads on tv promising change when in reality, there promises are lies. Thats why having a slate of electors help to vote for a president if so important because they know how to point out there lies and know what there true intentions are.
Some say that the Electoral College system is 'Unfair' to the people but i strongly disagree. Infact, the Electoral College helper the people choose the right president for our country | 3 |
ae0a4a4 | Dear Florida Senator,
There has been much controversy over whether or not we should keep the Electoral College or have it removed and vote on the president based on popular vote. I believe the best decision is to change to an election by popular vote for the President of the United States. If the system would change, people would feel like their votes actually matter more then they do now. They wouldn't have to worry about the electors flipping sides. Some people though, do say that the way the election is now is completely fair in the case of votes are based on population.
To begin with, if the Electoral College was to be taken out of use, more people would feel like their vote matters. Although you may think you are voting for your choice of president, you are not. As of now, when you cast your vote, you are actually just voting for your candidate's electors, as said in "What Is the Electoral College". In the 2000 campaign, voters in seventeen states didn't have a chance to see the candidates at all. Those candidates went mainly to the "swing" states, or states that were not certain on who they would be voting for. The states unvisited, such as Rhode Island and South Carolina, were passed over because the candidates knew they would or wouldn't have their vote no matter what. The ones who questioned their vote did not have the chance to see either candidate in their state. In, "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President", the Romney and Obama election is mentioned. It brings up the fact that Romney knew that throughout the South, he was going to get their vote. He realized that there was no need to go there because he didn't need anymore popularity in the South because he had already gained their electoral votes. Those who opposed Romney in the southern states felt that their votes would not matter because majority already knew they were voting for Romney. If the system were to change, which I believe it should, more people would feel their votes mattered no matter what state they were in.
In addition to feeling like your vote matters, people never know if the electors would flip their desicions. The slate of electors is not picked by the people. It is said in, "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid jdefenses of the system are wrong", that sometimes the state conventions, the party's central committee, or the presidential candidates themselves choose who will be their electors. That being said, you don't know whether or not the electors will follow your choice of president or not. For example, in 1960, some electors refused to vote for their party's candidate and they chose whomever they wanted. If we were to switch the way things are now, that would not happen. A poll taken in 2000 called the Gallup poll, showed that over 60% of voters prefered a direct election rather then the kind we have now. This took place when Al Gore recieved the popular vote, but lost the electoral votes. You can see that the current system has its flaws.
Many people say that it is fair for all states because of their amount of electoral votes. For example, in "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President", Florida, which has a much larger population than Wyoming, recieved 29 electoral votes for Obama while Wyoming only had 3 electoral votes. This, at the same time though, makes candidates want to only go to the larger states to try to get their votes. The smaller states once again feel left out and unappreciated.
In conclusion, I strongly feel that we need to change to an election by popular vote. Above all, it is more fair to the people. Citizens would feel that their votes matter more than they do now. People wouldn't have to be worried about if the electors would flip on what they had voted for. Although some say its is absolutely fair throughout all the states, there are still the set backs that come along with keeping an Electoral College. I agree with former presidents, Nixon and Carter, that we need to abolish the Electoral College. All of these reasons show you the problems there are with the current system of electing our President and I know you will agree. | 5 |
ae0c1d5 | I personally am not for driverless cars. I think that a person needs to operate a car not a computer. I think we need the brain of a person behind the wheel. When people hear driverless car they might think the car can do everything anot be be focused on the road for an emergency to happen.
There is alot of problems with technology now such as cell phones, computers,ect. There will be a big problem if something happens with the car and a wreck takes place who is a fault the technology or the person. All people need to be safe on the road or walking on the road so we need an alert persom behind the wheel.
People won't be focused on the road and if something is about to happen someone needs to be ready for an emergency so I think there will be alot of accidnets with the cars people will not be foucused like they are now not reliying on technology.
We rely on technology to much now. I think people will be bored behind the wheel and wait on their turn to drive. Technology is expensive to create and to buy. The cars will be over priced and won't sell that many. Not everyone will be offord one. So i think cost will be a problem with the cars to and taxes will be raised on the people to fun these cars and I don't think people will like that.
Driverless cars are not a good idea. They will not be safe because people will not be focused on the road anymore and that can be a problem for passegers or people on the side walks. Funding will be a problem I feel many people won't be able to buy them and with technology means people will lose there jobs and that's not a good thing. | 2 |
ae0e8ef | This technology to read the emotional expressions of studnets in a classroom is valuable because a computer can make your day better by showing you funny ads or just cherring you up. This technolgy is very useful becuase it can help you whenever your tired it can wake you up. When you smile about an ad the computer can show you a cooler ad. Also the computer can show faces toward you just to show you that it knows how you feel right now. How can you tell when sombody sad or happy or not this type of technogly can help us show how sad they is or how mad they is.
The Mona Lisa is an example of happiness because the painting is to make you smile by the way Mona Lisa smiles on the painting. For instance,you probably tell how a friend is feeling simpyl by the way they face look or how they body type is. Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human emotion to help paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specificemotion. Da Vinci is the first person to decribe soembody emotion of the way they look,the example of the Mona Lisa was to show how Mona Lisa was felling when he was painting the way she looked inside. The facial feedback theory of emotion,just moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions but also may even help produce them.
The way people are now of days don't like to show how they feel because they feel like they can't tell nobody nothing of how they feel. These computers can help us show how they feel,the compurters can help them with there day. This type of technolgy can help us when a teacher looks at how we feel about how confused we is when he tyring to teach us a lesson. These type of computers can help evrybody out in the world that needs some cheering up or just wanna be happy. If these computer go viral a lot of people can get help or just feel happy and our killing can go down and our depression wouldnt have to exise no more. | 3 |
ae0e9f6 | Are smarter cars really better? What are these cars capable of? Driverless cars should come to an end because the driver must be alert at all times, the driver might get distracted or bored and they are illegal in most states.
Driverless cars can drive themselves. It's like watching a pet bird. You still have to be around to make sure nothing happens. In the 7th paragraph, it states,"They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents. This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." You are just babysitting the car and you could easily get bored because it's not a baby.
Why would you buy a car you can't even drive? "Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver? Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting on theit turn to drive?" You could get distracted fast, especially if you have a short attention spand. For instant, you have to drive 3 hours and you have nothing to do because you are not driving. That's a cause for distracting and then diaster."Safety is a big concern." and thats why it's not legal in most states.
Smarter cars are illegal in most states. In the 9th paragraph, it states that "Lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers. Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars."
These cars are illegal because there is a lot of untested things that could go wrong. "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedstrians safe." If these driverless cars are crashing into each other, no one going to be safe.
Smarter, driverless cars are not better if people are getting hurt. Distracted drivers, that must be alert at all times in unsafe, illegal cars are bad thing for society."We grow closer to the destination every day." Drive Safe. | 3 |
ae1199e | Dear State Senator,
I think we should get rid of the Electorial college because they are unfair. There are only a few reasons to why we need the Electorial college. I think we should get rid the college because it is a non- democratic method of selecting our president. It shoule be overruled by declaring the candidate who got the most popular votes. Its the electors who select the president not the people. When you vote, you are actually voting for a slate of electors.
Another reason why would get rid of the Electorial college is because of the winner takes all system. Canadiates dont spend time in the states they know have no chance of winning. They only focused on the tight races in the "swing" states. During the 2000 capaign, seveteen states did not see the the candidates at all including Rhode Island and South carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets did not see a single campaign.
It can be argued that the Electorial College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state, demo crates in texas, or reblicans in California for example. Knowing their vote will have no effect, they have less incntive to pay attention to the campign thean they would have if the president were picked by popular vote... The voters in presidential elections are people who to want to express a political preferance rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election.
Whats wrong the Electorial College?
When we are under the Electorial College system , voters vot not for the president, but they vote for slate of electors. For example if you lived in texas and wanted to vote for [John] kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 democratic electors pledged to Kerry. On the off chance that those electors won the statewide election, they would go to congress and Kerry would get 34 electorial votes. These electors could be anyone not holding public office. Plus voters can not control who the electors vote for. Voters end up getting confused because of the candidates the electors vote for. | 4 |
ae11a0c | Using technology to read the emotional expression of students in a classroom is valuable, beacuse if a teacher wantes to see if the students are understanding the subject that the teacher is teaching it is faster and easier to use this technology. And by doing so the teacher can find new ways to teach the class in a more understanding way. This technology can also be used to teach class about the human face for anybody who wants to be a doctor for that. And it can teach students on how to program This is why this type of technology should be in schools all around the country.
Going on with the idea of new teaching meitheds that the teachers can do. Theachers can show their students more about the human emotions than before. Theachers can show students on how to code new emotions and expressions in the already exesting program. Computer programing is hard to do if someone doesn't know anything about programing, and the students might just give up and do something else. But by experenting with the FACS code it might make things more understandable for the students and more exciting. Then that is opening up more corears for the students to pick from.
In conclusion, is having this technology in classrooms good for both the students and the teachers, the answer is yes. The reason is that the teachers can use it to read the faces of the students to see if they are understanding the lessons or not. The technology can also be used as a new way to teach a subject, like for students trying to become doctors that work on human faces. It can also be a gateway to get students excitied about computer programing. | 3 |
ae1326b | The "face" is just a land form. You might ask why or maybe even how. Well one if NASA keeps saying that there is nothing there its just a face then yeah its just a land form shapped like a face. NASA would get a lot of money if they found some life form on a planet so they wouldnt keep it quiet. There are many land forms that look like that. So if the MGS on the planet kept looking it would find more land forms that looked like that. If it was an alien how is it still alive. All living things need water to survive. So wheres the water at? Also the people found beter cameras to use to take the picture. It was much clearer and you could tell it was just a land form. Michael Malin an his team messed up the first time because when they took the picture it was winter and very cloudy on the Red Planet. The camera lense had to look through shallow clouds to see the face. So some people said the alien face was hidden by haze. So Micheal Malin and his team tried again in April 8, 2001 to take another picture. It was perfect because it was a cloudless summer day in Cydonia. The picture was clear perfect nothing could have told you that, that was an alien face. Some even said it looks like something here on earth. Either a pyramid in Egyptian time or maybe even a mountain. You can make up myths and say that its an alien face, but all the facts say that its just a land form. The land form that looks like a face. It is the "face" that helped NASA look closer at there pictures and work on there camera work. The "face" has helped people learn more about the night sky and the planets and even the world. But the "face" is just a land form. | 3 |
ae173ca | Unmasking the Face on Mars
After reading this passage did it make you think about if you were a scientist at NASA? Well it made me think if i were a scientist there and someone thought the face was aliens, and i would have to persuade them its not using the passage to the left. So today that is what im going to be writing about. Heres some resons stated in the passage that lets me know its not aliens, Research showed that it was a Martian mesa with unusal shadows that made it look like an egyptian pharaoh, research showed it was only a natural landform, and it also shows that its not easy for scientist to find cydonia and not everyone was satisfied with results.
As stated in paragraph two scientist stated that it was just another Martian
mesa thats common around that part of mars, and it had unusual shadows that made it look like an egyptian pharaoh. A few days later after that mars relsed a picture to the public with the caption "Huge rock formation" the picture was captioned huge rock formation to show to the public that the "face" they seen in mars was just a natural rock formation. the artical also said that it was also formed by showdows giving the rock things that look like eyes, nose ,lips, and mouth.
Further more even after eighteen long years some scientist still thought that the land formation in mars was a alien artifact, so in 1997 they went back and did more research and wanted to get a better picture. so on April 5th 1998 when Michal and his OCD team snapped a picture of "alien artifact" ten times sharper than the first picture. thousadnds opf web surfurs were waiting on the oicture to be relased to see if it really was an alien artifact, and when the picture was finally revealed all it showed was a natural land form. it showed a natural land form because the camera was better and they wanted to prove that it was just a land form and not an alien monument after all.
In Addition alot of people were still not satisfied with what scientist found out in 1998. they thought that the face o mars is located at a 41 degrees north martian latitude and it was winter in april 1998 and it wes a cloudy time of a year for the red planet and they had to look though alot of clouds so some of the markings were a haze. And mission control said that its not easy to find that part of mars and that its hard work and that they dont pass over the face very often but in 2001 on a cloudless day in cydonia mission control went i for a second look and they rolled the camera 25 degrees in on the center of the face in the field veiw and the picture was 3 times bigger than before and the picture still showed that it was not a face and that it was a natural land form and it looked like a couple of land forms on earth.
in conclusion all three of the times they went to mars and
took a picture it always showed that it was not a face and that it was a natural landform instend. | 4 |
ae24b49 | I am totally for the development of driverless smart cars in every way. Of course their are multiple reasons why someone would not like the idea of smart cars but their are so many pros to match the cons such as possibly less accidents, less energy wasted on driving, less gas used from driving, more civilized and smoother driving. The development of smart cars is a great step forward in civilization.
Many people would be scared that theire would be a malfunction of sorrts or a possible miscalculation in the car that would result in a crash or a possible death of a person. My response to that is that people crash and are killed due to the human error of drivers everyday. As long as the car is built properly and that all safety issues and regulations are met I think that smart cars may well be safer than any human behind the wheel.
People use so much gas and cause so much pollution while driving. I think that if smart cars do become a reality they would drive straighter and steadier therefore reducing the amount of gas used and reducing the amount of pollution caused by human drivers.
So many acciddents are caused from someone falling asleep at the wheel. With the reality of smart cars becoming so prevalent the amount of accidents caused by sleepy drivers are sure to fall. As shown in the passage a driver will be alerted when the car is ready to become human driven.Therefore the driver may wait or sleep until their vehicle alarms them to wake up and take the wheel.
How many times a day does an average person get mad at another person for poor driving. Someone may have not waited their turn at a four way stop or maybe someone was driving ten or so under the speed limit. Well with the revolutionary self driven smart car those anger issues will become a thing of the past. People will no longer be upset about the poor driving of another human being due to the self driven smart cars natural instinct to drive well and civilized under most situations.
Those were the reasons why I am fully in support of the creation of self driven cars and that is why I believe that the development of driverless smart cars are a huge step forward in civilization. | 4 |
ae25a55 | Inroduction:
In this article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" it talks about how Venus is the hottest planet even though Murcury is closer to the sun. It also talks about the NASA how they sending humans to sudy Venus.
The author suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers its presents because its cool to learn all the things about Venus but its also is a dangerous place to go to study it. I say that because in paragraph 3 they said
"Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere". You wil have to keep ur helment on when you go to Venus because Sulfric acid is a very dangerous chemcial , and if you inhale that or your skin come in contact with that ; you might died. Venus is the hottest planet, Vnus had the hottest surface tempertaure of any planet in our solar syate, even when Murcury is closer to our sun. For example " On the panets surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenhiet, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we exprience on our own planet". I chose that because it explains how hot it is and how dangerous it can be.
Another great example is that "Beyond high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and wether present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes , powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface." The reason i chose that is because Venus can cause alot of dangerous things but also its fasinating what Venus can do and how Venus is. NASA is using so much technology so they can get as much information on Venus and how it works. So they going to keep senidn humans to that planet to figure out is Venus was just like Earth. For example " Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system". I chose that because it just texplained why NASA keep sending humans out to Venus.
Furthermore "Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth." I chose that because they getting more and more details on how Venus was just like Earth in some ways. For example " The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familar feature s such as valleys, mountains, and craters." I cose that because that can be another option for humans to go there if something happenes to Earth and we can have somewhere else to live. For example "NOt easy conditions, but suvivable for humans". I chose that because it lets you know that even though its dangerous its still a good place for humans.
To sum things up I think its worthy to study Venus because you can learn so much about Venus and how its so much like Earth. For example "Our travels on earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expande o meet the very edges of imagination and innovation". I chose that because even though its dangerous you should still go visit venus and have a good imagination on how it would be if it was just like earth. It's a lot different and experiental because you get to leave earth and study more thing then just whats on earth. It's also challenging but its also so cool to see so much different things and it can be scary because you soooo many miles away from home; every second you in space is a year that pass by.
Conculsion:
Just go to have fun but also study and see kind of things you will find out , out there. For example "Earth's "twin", Venus is the clostest planet to Earth in term of density and size, and occasionally the closest
in distance too." Thats also a fact that Venus can be just like Earth because its right next to the Earth. | 4 |
ae27b85 | The author claims studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it brings. Venus is the second planet from our sun and is referred to as Earth's "twin". Venus is the closet planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and is sometimes the closest in distance too. Venus is also a very challenging planet to examine closely. Exploring Venus will be very challenging for humans but it will also comes with benefits if we succefully can do it.
Exploring Venus is it that challenging? Venus is very challenging for humans to explore or examine. In the text it states "humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world. Each previous mission was unmanned, and for
good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." This proves exploring venus would be very challenging due to many factors humans would have to deal with. Venus surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atomospheric pressure is 90 times greateer that what we experience on Earth.Venus also has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. These conditions are very dangerous, and this type of an environment can crush a submarine used for diving into the deepest parts of our oceans. These are just some conditions, but all of them are very harsh. We will need to construct a spacecraft that can handle all these harsh conditions in order for us to land on Venus successfully.
Despite all the challenges we would have to deal with, exploring Venus will come with benefits. Studying Venus would be a huge accomplishment for humans. Exploring Venus will come with a good amount of benefits. In paragraph four it states " Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." This means if we successfully examine Venus we can find out the history Venus. We would be able to awnser our human curiosity. We can possibly also see if there is a way to convert venus into being more habitable. Exploring Venus will come with so much benefits that are beyond our imagination.
In conclusion Exploring Venus will be very challenging for humans but it will also come with benefits if we successfully can do it. Venus is truly worthy of pursuit because of all the unawnsered information we would recieve from Venus. The author also states in paragraph 8 "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 3 |
ae2834e | Driverless cars? I feel as if they arent safe on the roads, like they are moe likey to get into an wreak. What would the driver do when the car was drivng its self. How would the car alert the diver quick enough to make the driver take the wheel. I just feel like these things wouldnt be safe on the roads.
Who would be responsable for the wreacks caused by these cars? the driver wasnt driving so how is it there fault? Would u blame the car or the person in the car? I just dont know what we would do if something where to go wrong with these cars while there on the road. How would we know who was responsable. These cars may be cool and may look fun, but what would we do when somthing goes wrong and the car doesnt seem fun or cool anymore. When someone gets injuied in the car would they take it off the market?
I just feel as if driverless cars are not the best thing that the everyday person would need, I feel as if people on the roads would be safe with out those cars on the roads. Also these cars might not even work when u need or what if the driver falls asleep and what if the car doesnt even know where it is going. How would we know that these cars would be a hunderad percent safe, or at least close to a hundered percent safe. This is why I feel the roads would be more safe without them on the roads. | 3 |
ae317f3 | I strongly believe that we have found something on mars and that it is just a natural landform. Their are many ways people can take this matter but since I am a scientist at NASA I can tell you what really happened. People may or may not believe me but I know what happened and I hope that you can listen to what I have to say. Aliens in my opinion are not real and I strongly think that they only way that a face would be on Mars is by a rock formation that happened.
When we looked at the pictures that they found of the rock formation there we saw a head,nose,and a mouth but ther were also formed by shadows. Then came Mars Blobal Surveyor and helped out and got more pictures from the rock. They got pictures that were ten times sharper then the orginal pictures. After all they concluded that there was no alienen moument at all and that is was made out of rock.
The people thought that it was a alien moument and got frustrated and that we were wrong. Of course there had been things about it on tv shows and radio talked and maybe even in grocery stores. You might think that we wnated to hide from what we saw because it wasn't what we would have hoped for. The truth is that we didn't want to make up something that wasn't real because then everybody would believe that and then it would be also bad for NASA. NASA goes into outer space and we find stuff that we haven't known about and that interests us and makes us what to go out there more.
When people then make up things about hiding it they only think about what people around them that are saying. They don't go up to space and they don't see what we see in space. Even if there were life we would share that but lieing to people about life in Mars is not right. It's not fair for people to think that their is life just because we saw a face. We even had help from other people to help us. They helped us with the pictures and with those pictures we could also tell there wasn't life.
I concluede that what we have found is real and that there was only a rock foundation. We don't want people believeing that wrong thing and for NASA then that also would be bad because then we couldn't discover all new things that we found to everyone. I hope that I have convinced you why there wasn't an alien monument but just a rock formation from Mars. | 3 |
ae3994d | Nick D'Alto's article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" describes the capabilities of new software called the Facial Action Coding System, and provides a few examples of its possible uses. In the text, the author states that the technology, which evaluates the movement of facial muscles to determine emotion, could be beneficial in places such as a classroom settting. Using software such as the Facial Action Coding System could be valuable in a classroom setting as it could improve the quality of learning for students.
The new emotion-reading technology could help in the classroom as it could make sure students stayed engaged in the lesson. Often in school, students become bored easily, due to lack of attention long attention spans, uninteresting lessons, or boring teachers. This technology could help eliminate bordom. In the article, Dr. Huang states that "a classroom computer could recognize when a student... [is] bored" which would be beneficial, as it "could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This means that this technology could tell if students are bored, and could alert the teacher. If teachers knew when their students were loosing focus and becoming uninterested in the lesson, they could change it to bring students back on focus, which would improve the productivity and use of time in the classroom because teachers would not be wasting time teaching students who are uninterested, and therefore, likely not listening. By eliminating this bordom factor, teachers would be more effective with their teaching time, and students would recieve a better quality of learning.
The technology could also help improve the quality of students' learning because it can make sure students are not confused. Often, when teachers ask if everyone understands the material, students who do not understand, will be too emabrassed to ask for help, or the teachers, with such a large class, will not notice if one or only a few students are falling behind. Furthermore, in the article, Dr. Huang states that "'most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication" meaning that most communication is picked up in other ways, such as visually. Unfortunately, often in a classroom setting, teachers must face away from their students when writing on a white board at the front of the classroom, or in similar situations, which means that without the visual connection, much of the communication between students and teachers is lost. The new technolgoy could help with this problem, as it could identify students' emotions even when a teacher's back is turned, and thus could alert teachers and help them improve their lessons to fit their students' needs. It could also help evaluate emotions that teachers do not notice, such as if a student is confused, they may try to hide it. This new technology could identify these emotions and help the teacher make sure all of their students understand the material, which would lead to an improved quality of teaching and learning.
The quality of learning in a classroom setting could be improved by teachers knowing the emotions of their students, which would make new technology such as the Facial Action Coding System, valuable in a classroom setting. This technololgy would be beneficial because it could identify whether students are confused or bored, which would make class time more productive and interesting, as well as make sure all students understood the material. This would improve their quality of learning, and make school more meaningful. | 5 |
ae3c7be | In the 21st millions of people rely on cars as a way of transportation. Whether it be a way to get to work, parents dropping there kids off at practice, or a teen going to high school. Since millions of people drive daily it can have a costly effect on our enviroment and atmostphere.
Vauban, Germany is the very first suburban community that generally forbids street parking, driveways, and home garages. By this community having a completly "car-free" zone they are contributing in preventing more pollution. If there was a thousand communitys with car restrictions like these it would impact the enviroment at an astanishing rate. Humans have been centered around cars since WWII imagine the amount of pollution we have created on the earth.
Paris is another city that has banned driving due to smog. They have issued a partial ban to clear the largly populated city of intensifying smog. By making the partial ban it has redused the amount of smog by 6o% and rivaled the most polluted city Beijing. Limiting car usages isn't as hard you think and for people to contribute it gets others involved.
In conclusion driving cool cars is what every man wants to do but it can have terrible effects on the earth. | 3 |
ae4a601 | For many people politics is a very serious topic that people strongly believe in. recently, there has been alot of contraversy about keeping the Electoral College process or changing the election by popular vote, in my opinion the Electoral college process was established to prevent the option of President by popular vote that just dosnt seem fair. Citizens are going to be angry either way the president is elected because its about who is running our country and representing it, not about how he or she is elected.
We as American citizens should have the right to choose/vote for the president we want representing our country . From my knowledge, Under the Electoral college system, voters vote not only for the president, but for a slate of electors. "Richard Nixon, Jimmy carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. chamber of commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time agreed on getting ride of the electoral college!" for example Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. Why dosnt the goverment just give us what we want?
if 90% of votes go to a candidate, then why would they not get the presidency? its common sense.
The electoral college process has the govenor prepare a "Certificate of ascertainment" listing all of the candidates who ran for president in your state along with the names of the respective electors. the certificate also declares the winner of the election so people arent even aloud to have a say in the voting process. "during the 2000 campaign seventeen states didnt even see the candidates at all, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didnt get to see a single campaign ad." I think that is completly irrational. The electoral college is widely regarded as a non-democratic way of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes.
If the electoral vote happened to be a tie then the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president. of course we would have no control over the vote if that happened so we would just have to accept it.
I hope i have made my point across about the Electoral college system. your feedback is always a good thing | 3 |
ae4bf83 | Facial Action Coding is used to find the emotions of people based on how their muscles move in their face. As should by Mona Lisa she is "83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 perfect fearful, and 2 perfect angry." Therefore the FACS has show. Mona Lisa's emotions just by the coding. As you can see FACS would be great to help out around the world.
Facial Action Coding could help a lot in schools with helping people learn better. Dr. Huang states "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," This shows that the classroom with FACS means a classroom where learning can become better. If a student is confused FACS can modify the lesson or help get the student unconfused. Also instead of students zoning out in class Facial Action Coding System will notice it. After FACS notices the student zoning out it can make sure the student zones back into the lesson. FACS can tell is someone is faking being happy. These are all reasons why VACS can help with everyday life.
In the end Facial Action Coding System could change how the school systems and the everyday life of humans are changed. With VACS no ones emotions would be saves, so it would be easy to tell if someone is scared, tired, sad, and happy. Mona Lisa was just a example what would you do it that was you? | 3 |
ae5972c | Voting has been a legal write of all people since our country was established, but is the way we vote recieving some resistance? The electoral college is the way we vote now and the way weve been doing it for years. So why change it? For the sake of fairness and accuracy. People from all around the country don't think that the electoral college is a intelligent way of voting. So they are fighting changing the electoral process to popular vote rather than voting for a state of electors.
Our best arument we have to go against the electoral college is the disaster factor. Document 1 "
What Is the Electoral College?
" states, "Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people." This is basically saying we can't trust our electors to really vote for what they are assigned. That is like not being able to rely on the school bus to take you to school in the morning, its not a great sense of doubt.
Another reason not to use this outlandish method of voting is that the total number of electoral votes (538) is an even number. Which means there could be a tie. Another thing worth mentioning is that one candidate can win the popular vote but have fewer electoral votes. That is exactly what happened to Al Gore and that was largely part of this bogus system our country continues to uphold.
The electoral college should be abolished. It has caused nothing but problems for us in the past years. From ties, to innacuracy of votes, to causing re-counts. The electoral college is not putting America in the right direction. Most people don't like change, I am one of those people. Although, this change is for the better. And it should be strongly considered in the comig years. | 3 |
ae5a636 | Dear State Senator of Florida,
I believe that we should keep the Electoral College. The Electoral College has been a huge part of America since our founding fathers, who established this process. This process helps keep America in order in and in line. Where would our country be without it? We would be lost and confused with no direction to follow. The Electoral College helps keep America's voting process organized, which is key to a well functioning country. Which is why I believe that we should absolutley keep the Electoral College so that our voting process stays organized and because it has kept our country functioning since the very beginning.
I believe we should keep the Electoral College because it has kept our country functioning since the very beginning. Our founding fathers were the ones the establish the Electoral College which means it has been around since the beginning of our country. We should not change this tradition of America because it has seemed to kept us running smoothly for this long so why would we want to change that for no reason? If we stopped this tradition and changed it to all popular vote from citizens we would be hurting America in a huge way. It would completely change our ways of thinking, living, and running of America. Yes, a lot has changed in America since our founding fathers and yes change is sometimes for the better in our country because things are obviously different now then what they were 200 years ago but change would not be for the better in this situation. Let's say your grandmother, Mr. Senator, has had a peach cobbler recipe in your family for ages and it just takes your breath away with all the flavor and its divine taste, but this recipe is very old. If your grandmother's old recipe taste so delicious you would not want to change one thing about that recipe. Well same with the Electoral College. Its extremely old but it has also kept our country running well and has not failed us yet so we should not change this process just like you would not want to change your grandmothers peach cobbler recipe. This is why I think we should keep the Electoral College because it has kept us going since the beginning and you do not change something just because it is old or thought of being outdated.
Voting for someone to be the head and leader of an organization is an extremely big deal, especially when that organization is a country with laws, citizens, and many other important topics. America needs to have a president willing to stand up for what is right, be there for his people, and run America in a smooth and organized fashion. If the elections were based upon popular vote then imagine what could happen, someone running for president could act like a person who is willing to take on the huge responsibility and stand up for what is right, but when everyone votes for him and they get into office then they turn into a total coward and someone not determined enough to take on the responsibility or take on America. With Electoral College those running for president are also being voted on by Congress and qualified citizens. This makes things run much more smoothly because citizens are still getting to put there two cents in but only if they are qualified which is much more reasonable. Citizens are a huge part of America, they have a lot to do with America running smoothly or not, which is why they should have a say in who runs their country, but no so much of a say that its unorganized and completely on their own opinion. I mean lets face it, us citizens have our flaws and dont always make the best decisions or have the best opinions. Having qualified citizens voting and Congress members voting make it much more understandable. Most Congress members will have been in Office for a very long time which makes them wiser and better to understand the whole voting process, the way America runs, and laws. Most will be able to pick out the better qualities for president out of each of the members running for president. This is why I belive we should keep the Electoral College because it keeps voting organized.
The Electoral College is what keeps our voting process in order. When something gets old you do not throw it away if it still is of good use for you and the Electoral College is definetly still in good shape and is doing our country well so we should not change it because it has kept our country functioning from the beginning and so our voting process stays organized.
Sincerely, a fan of the Electoral College | 4 |
ae5bbc2 | The advantages of limiting car usage is very important, to us and everyone. that is why we must learn to take care of our car and stuff. Our car help's us get around and go to different places. Like , the mall, walmart, resturant, shoe place, and tones of other places. Scientist and researcher's use their basic knowledge to discover the limiting car usage and sometimes predict. But american's love for car's have been cooling . so far , so good automobiles have been an important travel for us now and back then for the people. Dufferent things are converging, which that we suggest are witnessing a long term -term cultural shift. With changes, people find less reason to resume the habit. many studies have been tested now and last year.
It has been that young people, decresed down than back then. Automobiles are like surbubs. there where middle families from every where tend to make their home. 12 percent of greenhouse gas emission's. In the US, the environmental protection agency (EPA) goes around various countries and check the enviroment for our car's. that's why you have to be very careful and be also caution. Cars has been banned to, for buses.
The goal is to promote transportation and reduce smog. violator's faced $25.00 fins and it wasn't pretty either. day's without cars is just days without nothing. this world we live is full of many things to learn and new evidence that has to be proven.
So, you should always thank technology and the impact it has on. for you, and for everyone else. Different things are coming and different pact is forming. all the development since world war II has been centered on the car. that will have to change then and now . so here's all you need to know about limiting car usage. | 1 |
ae61d9c | ' The Challenge of Exloring Venuse'
Venus something called the Evenig Star'' it one of the is brightest star. its secon planed in our from our sun. Actually Venuse is palned.
Firstly Vanues closes plnet in the Earth's its also second planet after son this make dengers its present.
our planetary neighbor, arbit sun make different spead this means hat some thing closer to Mars and other time Venus. its make more chalenging planet to our stading.
Secondly A thick atnosphere of talmost 97 percent carbon dioxide blenkets Venus thins make more dangerous such an crash event
Vanuse geologly abd warther present additional impedimts The Nationanl Aeronautc Spaace Admistretion has idea sending human to Venus to explore
hower, peering at Venus ftom a ship orbiting safely only limited insight on group conditons because most can provide only limited
Finaly The national Aeronautics and sppace Administration has complelling idea that sending human to the Venus however sending expedition is not safty for humans. Striving to thhbe meet the challenging Our travel on Earth and beyoun shoul not be limited by dengers and doubts. | 1 |
ae6d012 | In the passage, the author believes that studying Venus is a good idea even though it has many dangers. The author gives many different reasons as to why they think that Venus is a worthy exploration. I do not think that the author supports their idea very well in the passage. The author did a poor job of supporting the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it carries.
I believe that the author does not support their opinion well in the passage. This is because they heavily focus on the negatives of exploring Venus, rather than the positives. For example, in paragraph 2, the author says, "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." Because the author included this, it automatically leaves the reader with a negative connotation towards the exploration of Venus. The author then continues to show more negatives of the exploration of Venus in the third paragraph. The author states, "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth; such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals." Once again, this makes the reader think negatively about Venus. Since the author included this in the passage, it gives the reader another reason to think poorly of studying Venus.
Another thing that the author did poorly was not including any counterarguments to the cons of exploring Venus. It seems that the author does not care about the negatives of Venus' exploration and completely ignores them. They should of included counterarguments against the cons that thy stated. If they did this, it would further prove their opinion. Instead, they just give ideas of how an expedition to Venus would occur. The author then makes it worse. In paragraph six, the author goes on to give more negatives of the process of Venus' exploration. They say, "However, peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere." This claim adds more negative to the passage. The author poorly supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit.
The author does not support their opinion that studying Venus is a good idea even though it has many difficulties. The author displays too many cons of studying Venus instead of the pros. The passage leaves the reader with a negative opinion, rather than a positive one. The author poorly executes their goal of persuading the audience that it is a good idea to explore and study Venus. | 5 |
ae6d438 | I know some people don't like to go to school and they just want to stay home and play video games or sleep. Rather than going to school, but your parents still force you to go to school. And teachers look confused and saying whats wrong with our students. And don't know what to do. And most teacher are tired of students sleeping and thinking its a waste of their time and most quit.
Professor Thomas Huang from the Beckham Institute for Advance Science at the University of Illinois and many more. Are working with this computer that can identify your emotion without showing them and they tested with famous painting the Mona Lisa and the results were incredible. And what if the teachers can use this computer software on us so they can get some feedback and fix the problem why do students don't want to come to school and I know this machine could be very useful to others schools and be useful to the cops or any force. By helping them what they are and justing getting to know a little something about the bad guy. So this could be a huge impact to everyone. | 2 |
ae7dc92 | My position on driverless cars is that I would enjoy to see them traversing the roads. They can alert people of hazards on their path at anytime due to the sensors they have, smart cars can do most of the work while the driver just has to stay alert just incase of complicated traffice issues, and it's possible to text in the car while it's driving itself.
The smart cars can alert the drivers of anything hazardous coming up in the roads with its sensors. Therefore if a driver is doing something else the car will immediately alert the driver to take action to avoid any problems or damage. The text states "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." This textual evidence supports the point that these cars can alert drivers of hazardous or required human skills. Then they can also do all the work only need help when in need.
The smart car can do all the average driving, but will request assistance when handed complicated traffic problems. Smart cars can do drive by themself most of the time and they can alert the driver to get aid. The text states "In reality, Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009. Their cars had driven more than half a million miles without a crash, but so far, 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." The textual evidence given supports the point that these cars can do the work as long as it's not too complicated and in need of human skills. Then they finally can help people who text and drive due to its safety functions.
The fact that smart cars can drive by themselves and actually alert the driver to take actions can mean that people who text will be able to live better. The functions of the smart car has heads-up displays and an alert function that vibrates the driver's seat to alert the driver to take action of problems. The text states "Some manufacturers hope to do that by bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone. In this way, the in-car system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big concern." Those are my supporting details about my position and thoughts on driverless cars.
My position on driverless cars is that I approve of them and think they should be thought of and finished. They can alert drivers of any hazards, so they can take action, they require no help unless confronted by complicated traffice issues, and people have the ability to text in the car unless of an emergency that has been alerted to the driver to take action of what's happening. | 5 |
ae807e5 | Have you ever just wondered if there could be life somewhere else from earth?
If so then how about the face that they found on mars. Many people dont agree that it's just landform that built it's self up and just happened to resembul a face. Others would disagree and say that it is just land and that shodows were the main purpose of the enitre thing that made it look like a face. Why did the face on mars not look the same in 1976 i looked like a smilly face at first.
When the picuture was taken it was taken in many different angles. That shows that there is a posability that the picture that they took at the time was in a way that made it have shadows an some sides. The camara that took it could have been faceing in the direction that the sun was shining and got some of the light make shadows on the landform.
The scientist that looked at the picture taken by Viking 1 says it was only landform shaped in different ways. Makeing it appear like something that is not really there. Garvin says that it remindes him of a lava dome around the America West it's about the same height as the face that they found on mars.
When they first took a picture of the face in 1976 it looked nothing like a face it only looked like a smily face and even that was hard to tell. After a couple of years in 1998 in looked like an oval shaped box and it was sunken in. And in 2001 is when started to shape into something over the years in changed and over more years it will change even more. After that and so on because that's just what landforms do they change but, you can't always see the same thing you sole once.
I can see why some people don't see why it could be a landform And that its actually something else it does look like a face .it could actually be a statue and not just land shaped in to something but the thing is of it was really a statue or remaines of something or someone But,then why wouldn't it looks fuler or have actuale face there would be bones. And if there was a statues then why is it only it's head you would a lest find the other parts of the statue but we haven't and that's because it only a land form shaped into something almost everyone beleives to be actuale life.
In conclution that object that was found on mars is only land built up that looks some what like a face and not a statue or remains of a living person or creature. but something that was a different landform a long time ago before it became what is know as the face on mars. | 3 |
ae8766b | Imagine what it would be like to drive past a car with no driver. The thought of driverless cars is really something to think about. But after reading the article, its clear that even though it shows some good qualities, driverless cars should not be an invention we soon incopperate into our daily lives.
In the article, the author makes some good points about some of the cons of driverless cars. Such as, the need for new traffic laws, accidents and the safety of the pedestrians and drivers of other vehicles. As of right now, the traffic laws are written under the assumption that a car is only a safe car if it has a human driver controlling it at all times, which makes it illegal in most states to even test cars that are run by computers.
The safety of these driverless cars is concerning as well. They do have many cameras and sensors as the article points out, but technology has not be perfected yet, so the sensors or cameras failing is a possible outcome of these cars. Then, a failed system in these cars could cause an accident. This comprimises the safety of other drivers and even pedestrians. Then, if a person is harmed in an accident with a driverless car, who is to blame? We have to make new laws just for the purpose of having driverless cars when we could just drive our own cars.
Also, a downfall of driverless cars is that people lose jobs. Driving services would no longer need human drivers to control the cars. This puts thousands of people out of jobs which raises the unemployment rate. Which then causes the government to need to give more money to support families becasue now someone from the family isnt bringing in money because they lost their job due to the driverless cars now transporting people instead of driving services using humans.
In conclusion, driverless cars seem to cause more problems than getting rid of them. Driverless cars should be left as a fantasy and human handeled cars should continue. Ever since transportation vehicles were used humans have controlled them. Why change it now? | 3 |
ae89cec | "It's offcial: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational" (Plumer, Source 2). Many do not like the electoral college for these reasons and many others such as it can be a distaster or because it is just plain dumb. Also there are a few reasons why the electoral college should be kept such as avoiding run-off elections or big states, but those not in favor of it out weigh those in favor of it. The people who despise the electoral college are in favor of popular vote since it is the better choice.
For various reasons the electoral college is unfair such as not everyones decisions count just those few people in the electoral collge. In a popular vote election everyones vote counts not just those who are considered better than us because they hold authority over people. Those people can also be sneaky and can change votes to be in favor of their choice of president. They will even take bribes sometimes just becuase they can even though us other people do count.
The system should not even be here today because it is outdated way past our time. "It's hard to say this, but Bob Dole was right: Abolsi the electoral college!" (Plumer, Source 2) and many others do agree with this statement because it rather true that we do so instead of let a bunch of monkeys run our states and country, but I am pretty sure that sometimes they could even do a better job than those in office right now. ".....over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now" (Plumer, Source 2) every day as we continue that percentage continues to grow and that data was recorded in 2000.
Lastly, the electoral college is irrational like seriously what idiotic person came up with this. I will say this again, but a monkey could of made a better system than this. "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president........Who are the electors? They can be anyone not holding public office. Who picks the electors in the first place? It depends on the state. Sometimes state conventions, sometimes the state party's central committee, soemtimes the presidential candidate themselves. Can voters control whom their electors vote for? Not always. DO voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candiate? Sometimes" (Plumer, Source 2) I know this statement says it all becuase how could one simply not want popular vote after reading this.
I know that electoral college vote can help and not cause problems, but there are more problems while there is one easy fix which is popular vote. "It's offcial: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational" (Plumer, Source 2). | 4 |
ae92436 | Citizens are often using cars to get from work and back, however if citizens were to stop using cars there could be some advantages like traffic can be reduced, new buildings can be built, and habits of car use can be stopped.
If citizens were to cut down on using cars traffic would be reduced. According to Robert Duffer a person from the Chicago Tribune he states that "congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France after five-days of intensifying smog" (Robert Duffer, paragraph 14). With that being stated by Robert Duffer it should be clear to people that with reduced traffic people are able to get to places where they need to be in just a short matter of time, citizens won't have to worry about being late for whatever it is citizens have to do. Robert Duffer also states that almost 4,000 drivers were fined according to Reuters (12) Citizens should realize that with almost 4,000 people being fined it should tell citizens that they should cut down on car usage to help prevent smog and to also save them money.
Along with citizens cutting down on car usage to reduce traffic if they were to cut car usage new building can be built. According to Andrew Selsky from the Seattle Times he states that "parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city uneven, pitty sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up" (Andrew Selsky, paragraph 28). When citizens cut down on car usage many new things can be built and explored by citizens but if citizens were to not stop car usage then new things wouldn't be built and old things couldn't be replaced or fixed. Andrew Selsky also states that it has seen the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths (27). There is many citizens out in the world that would rather ride bikes than to use a car just to prevent pollution, with 118 miles of bicycle paths there shouldn't really be any car use. Using bicycles could help change the world so much more and less pollution could be created.
Not only with citizens cutting down on car use for new buildings to be built, citizens can stop their habits of car usage if they give it a try. According to Elisabeth Rosenthal a lady from the New York Times she states that "with all these changes, people who stopped car commuting as a result of recession may find less reason to resume the habit" (Elisabeth Rosenthal, paragraph 36).Citizens stopping car commuting could really help those citizens with habits of not being able to stop car commuting which could result in saving the earth and air pollution. Elisabeth also states that a chairman of the Ford Motor Company proposed a partnering with the telecommunications industry to create cities in which pedstrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety (43). While the chairman of the Ford Motor Company is stating this information maybe citizens will change their minds about car usage just to improve safety or to even safe time.
All in all this why citizens should car usage to reduce traffic, new buildings can be built, and to try and stop habits of car use by giving it a try. Citizens trying to do these could help stop air pollution and they could also save themselves money. | 4 |
ae9554b | I think driverless cars sounds so fun, but a good idea? I don't think so. I think that sounds like a bad idea and a bit reckless.
Driving a car as a human you have control over everything, besides the other drivers. How fast you go, which way you turn, how close to the lines you are, it is somewhat safe this way but cars are still deadly no matter how much control you have. You need to have control over them, not a robot. Also in paragraph 2 is talks about how you will still have to navigate through roadwork and accidents, and when pullling out of driveways so what is the use if your still going to have do something or another. It would also be so much more expensive to sell and make. When that money being wasted could be helping getting America out of debt or for something useful but instead why not spend it on something we do not even need.
In paragraph 9 it talks about accidents and who would be responsible the driver or company? And if it is the company they could sue the place and depending on how bad it is they can have the whole operation shut down. It seems like a big ordeal that could simply be avoided by sticking with normal cars, they are already dangerous enough with humans in control imagine a car controlled by a robot machine... | 2 |
ae95733 | The idea of making driverless cars should be made because it can cause less accident and can save peoples lives. If google has self driving cars then the people should have them too. The reasons why is safety, fuel efficient, world saver .
One of the reasons Company's should start the making of driverless cars is the safety of the people. Many people in the USA have accident do to the fact that they drive wreckless and dont really know how to use the cars. Acordding to the text "
The cars he foresees would use half the fuel of todays taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus." This quote states that with the use of driverless cars
there would be alot more fuel effiecient cars and that would help the people get to places.
The next reason is fuel efficient cars meaning that cars should use some other type of energy other than gas. Cars should use electricity or solar power because petroluem the main source of gas is running out in the earth. It also take a long time for it to be formed. A quote from the text " The cars he foresees would use half the fuel of todays taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus." this quote was said by Google cofounder Sergey Brin, Stating that driverless cars
wont be needing fuel.
Cars with fuel also harm planet earth becuase of the type of fuel they are using which is gas or diesel. If all cars would be solar powered or electic would save the earth from global warming or from other disasters. The fumes from gas powered cars and factories heat up the earth's atmosphere causing places like antarctica to break apart and destroy the animals habitats. Antarctica is mostly made out of ice do to its location. Global warming can also heat up the earth's oceans causing more rain.
Overall driverless cars should be put in production becuase it can save peoples lives, stop global warming and be fuel efficient. | 3 |
ae95a0c | VIsions of self-drivng cars have been around for awhile now, but with the technology that has been so greatly improved in the past several years, that vision is becoming more and more realilistic. I am against the development of these self-driving cars. Though the cars do have some benifits and are cool i think that the cons of having self-driving cars outweigh the pros. Having these cars is promoting our society to become even more lazy than we already are, so far the cars are not very efficent, and are just not very safe.
My first reason why i do not support futher development of these self-driving cars is because it is promoting people to become even more dependant on technology and lazier. Driving a car is not in any way a difficult task for the average person, the only physically demanding thing it requires you to do is step on a pedal and turn a small wheel. The rules of driving ar ealso not overly complex, and in most places as long as all drivers are alert and focussed it is not that dangerous. I understand that technology is becoming more prominant in every day life because of the way it makes things easier but it is getting to the point where nobody will have to do anything anymore.
My second reason for why i do not support this technology is because so far the cars are not that efficient. Yes they have all these sensors and in normal circumstances work perfectly fine, but when there is any situation on the road the human driver must take over. These cars are also set up so the human driver has to almost just as alert as they would be in normal car. If the human has to be just as alert and may very well need to take over if the road or traffic conditiions are out of the ordinary, what is the point of having a self-driving car? Even if they could work it out so that the car is one-hundred percent efficient on its own, it would take quite a bit of money for that technology and as simple as driving is i do not find it to be worth the effort.
The last reason i dont think there should be further progression on the development of self-driving cars is because it just isnt safe. It does not matter how much you improve technology, or how well the car is able to drive on its own, technology acts up and stops working without warning. Driving is something that if not done carefully can lead to severe damage of objects and people. If the technology were to act up, and not even be able to alert the human in the car that something was wrong, the consequences would most likely be severe, and since the laws are so muddy it would be difficult to determine anything legal after.
I am against developing self-driving cars because i think it will promote laziness, i dont think the cars are very efficient, and i dont think they are safe. The amount of legal issues and possible complications that could arrise from further development of this product i do not think is worth the slight convience. Though the idea is neat i hope it is not pursued. | 4 |
ae9e460 | Personally I don't agree with this technology product. If you're in a classroom wouldn't you think the teacher would know if the student was feeling mad,sad,or happy? Why rely on technology when humans are more than capable of doing these things theirselves.
The article states " You can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." Which goes back to my reason for not to use technology when humans can do it with a simple look. I belive it is a waste of money and time. For instance, what if the machine they use to find out children's emotions doesn't work properly or doesn't work at all. Then you just lost a lot of money and you wasted time. Yes it has some benifits like for example, It could be really hard to notice when somone is faking an emotion but this 'technology' could tell you what emotion they're feeling. So it has some good things about it but i think humans can tell if someone is feeling a certain emotion.
It could turn out to be a really big deal in the future, but I dont think that it would be that great to have. The teachers and other students can tell when another student or somone else is mad, sad, happy or almost any other emotion so why waste money on technology when it is going to tell you almost the exact same thing as a human will. | 3 |
aeaa1eb | Venus is the second planet from our sun. Venus is also the most like Earth. We know little about this plannet. One thing is for sure we do know is, it is dangerous. Is Venus worthy of pursuit even though it is dangerous?
The author of the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" propposes it is a fantastic idea. The dangers are a small risk to take to gain more information about this planet. The author states all of the following reasons to support his point.
Venus is the most Earth-like planet, this may mean that the planet could support other life forms. It is the closest in size and in some cases distance to Earth. Venus has shown to have earthquakes, erupting volcanoes and lighting. These are all things that happen on earth as well and no other known planet. Venus probably had large bodies of water at some point as well, making it able to support life forms of some sort. The structure of Venus is made up of rock, valleys, mountains and craters. Earth and Venus have multiple simalarities.
There are also many dangers to visiting Venus. The atmosphere is made up of 97 percent carbon dioxide and has great amounts of highky corrosie sulfur acid from clouds. The pressure on Venus is 90 times greater than Earth. A huge danger is the temperature of the planet. Venus can get to over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. All of these things are a hazard to life.
The author of the article states all the pros and cons, but also states the knowledge that would be gained. As the phrase goes knowledge is power. The Information gained from pursuing Venus would be a huge advancement in history. | 3 |
aeb20e5 | Mona Lisa is a famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci. There is many theories of Mona Lisa being sad, or feeling many other emontion but no body knows the truth but Da Vinci.
Based on the text evidence,
" Making Mona Liza Smile,"
a new software called Facial Action Coding System has been developed to try infenitfing Mona Lisa's facial expressions. She could have up to six different basic emontions.
First of all, Mona Lisa overall expressions use she is 83% happy.
Based on this article, " the software can even identify mixed emotions (as in da Vinci's masterpiece). each expression is compared against neutral face (showing no emotion)." This is saying that even that she shows no expressions, she is certainly happy but might be having mix feelings as well.
Another reason Mona Lisa can be feeling disgusted, fearful, or even angry but yet she's very mysterious. In the text it says, " most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc."
If humans have trouble figuring out if something is feeling happy or sad, how can a software be able to do such thing.
The software FACS is interesting becuase it's able to know your emotions with any movement you do. For example, in the text it says, " even though individuals often show varying degress of expressions. Using a video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks thsee facial movements." If a gental move can determine an emotion, this software will have a challenge on finding out Mona Lisa's emotions because it's just a painting.
Therefore, Mona Lisa will be mysterious until the software identifies her emotions. Mona Lisa is and will always be a unique peice of art. | 1 |
aeb4515 | The Facial Action Coding System could be useful for panting and people as well. If you look at at painting at someone you really cant tell if they are happy or sad. If you use the Facial Action Coding System it could tell you how they are feeling in the painting and if they are happy or not. You can easliy tell if a person right infront of you is not happy but sometimes you cant. You can use the Facial System on them and it can tell you how they are feeling. Computers can also help out a lot on what you dont understand.
For instance in the Mona Lisa painting you cant tell her emotion in her picture. If you use technology it can help you out and tell you if she is happy or sad. It gives you a percentage like shes 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry. It can give you an estimation on how she is feeling in the picture. The computer has an 3-D computer model so it has all of the face major muscles so it can tell your emotion on your face. It can show your surprised if your eyebrows are raised up or if your angry yuour lips would be tightened to show anger. You can also write down different emotions that you do in the mirror and see if someone can reconize what emotion you have. It can tell if you force a smile and if it wasn't a real one. Technology is creating better ways to communicate with humans and developing different things for humans to interact with.
I believe that it would be very different and amazing if they use this on people ands paintings0. It could tell poeple a lot of things they are wondering about people in the world or even paintings that they see. It shows us that technology has plenty of ways to interact with us and give us new things to experince and learn about. | 2 |
aebd3a5 | Today I'm going to tell you why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys Program. It's a great program. You learn a lot, and if you going ( whats included in the package is a tour of an excavated castle in Crete and a marvling site of the Panama Canal. I hope I can convince you to join the program. Im going to tell you 3 reasons why you should join. Hope you like it.
The first reason that I came up with is that if you join you get to see alot in only one trip. What I mean is that if you join you get to sea the ocean, sea and all those wonderful animals that live in the ocean. And if you like animals thats way better. The second reason that I came up with is that if you join you get to visit diffrent places. Like how Luke did he got toured on an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal. He also got to take a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water. And a lot of othert wonderful things. The last reason is that if you join you get to have a little free time when. You done dilivering the animals. You could play in the area the animals were in like baseball, volleyball, etc. You get to have a lot of fun while your in the trip.
I hope you changed you're mind and sooner or later join our program. I promise you you'll have lots of fun while your in it. So if you can please you the Seagoing Cowboys Program. | 2 |
aebe3cb | Car use can be a good or bad thing depending on how you look at it, but most of the time people have strong opinions on car use.
Ask anyone if they want to walk 10 miles in the freezing cold weather and a large amount of them would tell you no. Rarely anyone nowadays appreciates the importance of gas consumption, global warming, polution and other situatons that happen when cars are used to often or frequently but that never seemed like a problem did it?
Riding bikes or walking of course will save you all of the trouble of having to fill up you're car or pollutting the air and so forth but i feel that it will also be an important insight to appriciate everything before it's gone.
Meaning that if you have a car, you automatically think that will make evrything easier which in some cases it will but in life, we always ahve to go through things that are hard to get us to soemthing better.
Getting to the point of why material possessions can sometimes cause people to think that we can't live without certain things is a lesson as to why nobody really "needs" anything and that goes for transportation purposes as well.
We all come into this world with nothing, and we leave this world with nothing and if no one can be happy without material possessions then i feel that we havent learned a very valuable lesson that used to be here when nothing stopped us from walking to a friends house to say hello or to simply send a letter in the mail if you wanted to talk to someone. The use of technology and updated versions of things have changed our world completely and no matter what way you look at it, there will always be an opinion that is different from you're own.
Limiting car use may be useful to others who feel like they want to relieve stress or just want a sense of contentment as they walk down the street and take in thier surroundings instead of worrying about you're mirrors and the annoying person behind you honking thier horn for you to move quicker. And concluding if we took the time to really think and take in our surroundings we realize that this world has become complex but there are many ways to fix it. Transporation has just made it a little easier. | 2 |
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