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aec7837 | All scientists at NASA know that the "The Face" is a natural landform known as a mesa. But some people think that Nasa is lying to the public about it being a natural landform. I'm here today to argue that Nasa is indeed not lying.
My first reason for knowing that NASA is not lying is that a drone was up in space taking pictures of it close enough to show the world tha it was just a natural landform. Viking 1 is the name of the spacecraft that took this photo and some mission controllers were suprised to see a face popu up on their screen. The chief scientist for NASA'S Mars exploration program said "We photographed the Face as soon as we could get a good shot at it ."
They also got more icture to deduce that it was actually instead of a face it was a natural landform. Thats my first reason for knowing that NASA is not lying.
My second reason for knowing NASA is not lying is because the landform is called a mesa. Mesa's are more commonly found in the American West. So by thinking hardly about this it comes to mind could people that dont believe, could possibly being saying that this mesa isnt a mesa but something NASA is trying to cover up? But then the question comes to be WHY would Nasa be trying to hide some of this information from the public? Well it comes down to the simple fact they arent trying to hide anything from the public about the face they are giving us the true information and some people just dont thig thats the real actual truth.
My thrid reason for knowing that Nasa is not lying they made the pictures into digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size so if anything was on the surface such as a shack you could tell what it was. They do that so if they see anything that is a undertiminable object you can clerly tell what it is. The pixels arent as good as they could be today but they had a pretty lea view of what it is. they have the best cutting edge technology and are way more advanced than the open world is today so its highly unlikely that their system wasnt processing right. thats the end of my thrid reason.
So some people believe that the face is actually just a natural landform but some people such as conspiracy theorists dont. I say that the conspiracy theorists have a point on why Nasa could be lying to the public. They probably think this because of the goverment owning and controls Nasa that Nasa is lying to us like the goverment could be because of their secret projects. The reason the goverment doesnt tell s about some of their plans is because its to keep the United States of America safe from the har of foreign countries. Those were the reasons conspiracy theorists think like they do.
All that information can signify that Nasa is not lying to us. Though some people may think they are because they are apart of the goverment .But i think that Nasa is doing a great job and woudnt lie to the press. If they lied to the press they would be utting the U.S goverment a bad public view. | 4 |
aed12e6 | The Election by popular votes for the president of the United States is what I'm am arguing for. Having a president by the people who vote for him/her will make everyone happy& make everyone more comfortable. Having this argument is being done for all the people that agree with me. We as American Citizens should have a say so in who we chose as president. Good president, bad president. Either way, we should decide. It's only fair.
If we all voted for the Electoral College, voters would not vote for the president, which would make most people discusted. Another thing, say you lived in Texas..and you wanted to vote for John Kerry, you'd vote for 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry. They would go to Congress and Kerry would get 34 electoral votes. Who are the electors? They're could be anyone not holding public office. It depends on the state who picks the electors, anyway.
There are fives reasons for retainging the Electoral College despite its lack of democratic pedigree. All are practical reasons, not liberal or conservative reasons. one of the reasons is, "certianly of outcome." Example, in 2012 Obama recieved 61.7% of the electoral vote compared to Romney's 51.3% of the popular votes. A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible because the total number of votes, 538, is an even number, but its highly unlikely.
Another of the five, "Everyone's Prseident",No region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. So a solid regional favorite, such as Romney was in the south, has no incentive to campaign heavily in those states, for he gains no electoral votes by increasing his plurality in states that he knows he will win. A candidate with only regional appeal in unlikely to be a successful president. So why only use certian votes?
That is just a couple reasons why I am arguing today about Electoral College Process. I certianly disagree on the Electoral college.
THIS SUCKSSSS. Lol | 2 |
aed76f0 | Throughout the years, the human race has evolved, and developed new forms of technology. We've managed to create and discover many great things, such as discovering fire, electricty, finding the cure for terrible diseases, and we must admit that all these things have changed our lives completely, whether it's in a bad, or in a good way.
We have now recently created a software, that allows computers to recognize our emotions, all by reading our facial expressions. They are now debating if they should include the software in school computers, this way the software would know whether the student is enjoying, struggling or getting confused by the lesson, which is exactly what they would need to know in order to modify the lesson. I personally believe that it would be a great idea to allow schools to have acces to this software, it would be a great help, since for many students, verbal communication is just not their thing. "Most human communictaion is nonverbal, including emotional commmunication," notes Dr. Huang, sometimes it isn't easy to open up to people, especially teachers. Most students fear that teachers are going to yell at them or judge them instead of helping them out, and unfotunately this type of situations still happen in our school. Everyone deserves a chance to be heard or understood, even those who dont have the ability, or simply don't feel comfortable communicating verbally with others, this shouldn't even be up for debate. | 2 |
aedb3b2 | How does the Electoral College affect the selection of the presidency and is it a positive force? Many may answer "No." or "I don't know." to these questions, only doing such because that's what they've been or what they've heard others say. While many have negative feelings, or no feelings at all, towards the Electoral College, it is a very useful force in electing the President because of its certainty, its transregionality, and it lets "the most thoughtful voters" (Posner Source 3) decide the election.
Swings states let candidates to campaign where it really matters. Being a voter in a swing state means you have to have extra close attention to the campaigns and the candidates, leaving you to be more thoughtful than voters in states that aren't swing states. And in turn voters in these states will definitely receive "the most information and attention from the candidates" (Posner Source 2). Voters from these states at the end of the campaigns will no doubt be the most informed voters in the nation, giving them the right to decide the fate of the election for the future.
A successful president must be voted for across the regions of the United States to fufill the wants and needs of its diverse people. While popular voting can be skewed naturally to one region or another due to their preferences and populations, the Electoral College ensures that one region can't win a campaign alone. If the President was to win due to popular vote and only because of regional appeal, "residents of other regions are likely to feel disenfranchised..." (Posner Source 3) and that their president will not best represent everyone's interests.
The use of the Electoral College allows for a more certain winner over popular vote, therefore avoiding election crisis. Although there was one "fiasco" in 2000, as Bradford Plumer calls it in Source 2, the chance of this happening is very small since "even a very slight pulrality in a state creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state." (Posner Source 3) For example, in 2012, Obama recieved 61.7 percent of electoral vote while he recieved only 51.3 percent of the popular vote.(Posner Source 3). A 1.3 percent from a tie is much, much more close than the 11.7 percent that that the Electoral College gives us.
While some may still believe that the Electoral College is outdated and unneccesary, the usefulness of the swing states, its transregional approval system, and its certainty over popular voting proves it to be the best method of selecting our presidents for now and for the future. | 5 |
aedc5c8 | In the story the author presented both sides fairly. He stated the positives and negatives of driverless cars. I belive that driveless cars could soon be a common thing everybody uses.
First thing that might be a big problem is that they use radars and those can cost two hundred million dollars, that right there is a down side. One of the positives of the car it can do is that BMW announced the "Traffic Jam Assistant." The car can go as fast as 25 mph, but you have to keep you're hand's on the wheel. The car can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves. It is all design to let the driver know the road ahead requires human skills, such as nabigating through work zones and around accidents. BMW's project manager driver said that it hopes to bring in-car entertainment and information systems. Some of the display can be turned off when the driver must take over. The in-car system is a great safety feature. One of the biggest down fall is the law. The law focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe. They also said that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. Because of this most states, it is illegal to even test computer-driven cars. Some manufactures believe that even more states will follow as soon as the cars are proven more reliably safe. One of the biggest question is that if the technology fails and someone happens to be injured, who fault is it? Is it the driver or the manufacturer? I believe it would be the drivers fault because it was there fault they decide try to have a driveless car. This is one reason many people won't want to buy those type of cars. Even thought it has a big problem it can also be use for good things. Google cofounders said he can foresees they the cars will use half the fuel of today's taxi and is far more flecibiloty than a bus. Everybody wants to save money of gas so everybody would want to own one. He also stated that the cars would change the world. Another good thing is that if you're running late and you don't know that fastest way to get there, you can get you're car to drive you there while the car is taking the fastest way. If you are on a road trip and you been driving for six hours stright, you might get board of driving. So that's when you activate the car to drive by it's self, instead of stopping and taking a break and take long on the trip. If the car is driving when you're taking a break, then you will get to you're desination faster. But that could still be a while before we can do that. Driverless cars have a lot to work on before that can truly happen.
What to I think about driverless cars? I believe they can become a everyday thing we use. The only thing few thing stopping use from that is money and the law. Once we can get the more to start making these and we make a driveless-car that can meet the requirements, then we can start pumping out these cars that everbody would want to have. Just by nameing a few thing they could possibly do, is making everybody want to have one. | 3 |
aee28d3 | Can you imagine riding on a car that you don't have to drive but it keeps moving it byself. That sound crazy but amazing! Google cofounder Sergeny Brin came up with the idea of making a new type of cars he called " Driverless Cars." Looks like the manufactures will control you while you drive. It will be like your car is your driver.
First,
the cars that coming up soon was amazing inside and its techologhy type of cars, they cn steer, accelerate and brake themselves. Driver's seat attention whenever a problems occures. GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. The cool things about this car is there will be cameras to watch the drivers so that drivers can focused on the road. While the drivers watched the road, the car watches the driver. This will an awesome car that ever made in an entire world.
Second of all, let's look at the information about Driverless Car to deep deepber. Sometime new things are not always great and they could be our life failer .Imagine
you're on the roads riding a smart car and you don't have to do anything. All you do is to sit in the car and do nothing.One thing that I'm worry about is what if technology fails and you're in injuired, who fault would it be, your fault or the manufacturer? We have to think what will cause a head of time before we came up with the idea of making things.
Don't you think we should think more about safety first in every thing we do. For example, in school the teacher and adults think safety first that's what first come in their mind. It's not that they're afriad of to take responsibility
or anything. All they want is to help the kids, the students to be in safety and learn comfortable. I believe that driverless cars would cause a lot of damage and trouble for the passger and driver. It's techology, we never know things could be wrong while we ride on it.I feel like this new coming up cars is not safety for us.
Driverless cars will be making into an amazing cars, will have everything more like cameras and GPS. You don't have to worry about anything, it will tell you what is things go around you and let you know. There will be cameras to watch you driving, so that you can focus on the road. While you watch the roads the car will watched the driver. This car will me amazing! | 4 |
aee6430 | The face is actually not a natural landform because as you see in paragraph 3 it says "A few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see.The caption noted a 'Huge rock formation. . . which resemles a human head . . . formed by shawdows giving the illusion of eyes,nose,and mouth." The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attention to mars. In paragraph 5 it says The "Face on Mars"has since become a pop icon.it has starred in hollywood film, appeared in book,magazines,radio talk shoes ,even haunted grocery store chechout lines for 25 years! Some people think the face is bona fide evidence of life on mars evidence that NASA would rather hide,say conspiracy theorists. Meanwhile,defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on mars. Paragraph 3 talks about how 25 years ago
something funny happened around mars which was the face that actually appeared on mars. NASA viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet snapping photos of possilbe landing sites for its sister ship viking 2 when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face an enormous head nearly 2 miles from end to end seemed to be staring back at the cameras from a region of the red planet called cydonia. On the left here it shows pictures of the face that appeared on mars it shows 3 different pictures from (1976)(1998)(2001) side by side a viking 1 phonto from 1976 a mars global survey image from1998 and the latest image from 2001,theres another photo after paragraph 5 and it's a 1976 1 photograph of the face on mars. Also in paragraph 8 it says but not eveyone was satisfied. the face on mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in april '98 a cloudy time of year on the red planet.the camera on board images had to peer through wispy clouds to see the face perhaps said skeptics alien markings were hidden by haze. In paragraph 9 it says mission controllers prepared to look again it's not easy to target cydonia says garvin in fact it hard work. | 1 |
aee6bc7 | I think having the Facial Action Coding System would be great technology to have in schools. In pragraph 3 it states " Eckman has classified six basic emotions - happiness, surprise, anger, disgust,fear, and sadness" (D'Alto, 3). If you mix these emotions together you can see all the mixed emotions a person can have and fee and not just a basic emotion. Someone could have a mixture of happiness and disgust at the same time and the system would have recognized the emotions the person was feeling.
This technology would be really effective to have when students are testing or doing a lesson. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts." Then it could modify the lessons, like an effective human instructor. (D'Alto 6)". This claim that the author made really put things more into prespective on how this new technology would be a great idea to have in schools. Not only would this type of technology help the students but it would also help the teachers. If the student looks confused and the computer recognized this, the teacher can then figure out other ways help the student with the lesson and have a better understanding. The computer can also modify the lesson for the student, so they don't struggle as much while doing the lesson the teacher had asked them to do.
"To an expert, faces dont lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity isn't being truthful. (D'Alto 8)." This could also help when students are lying. Some students don't want to get in trouble so what they then would do is lie. This would help when the teacher thinks the student isn't being 100% truthful or honest. I also think that this would be very useful in other places and not just schools. This technology can be used when anyone in general isn't being fully honest and can help in any situation.
In conclusion, I think this would benifit a lot of schools and a lot of other places. This technology can help many students on homework and the teachers with any troubles they might run into while teaching a lesson and help students have a better understanding with what they are learning. | 3 |
aee6bc8 | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," it talks about the development of cars that can drive themselves. The article talks about hoe companies are working on cars who can completely drive on their own with no human assistance. I am against the development of these cars. I am against it because how can you have a car that needs no human assitance, I think it would be a safety issue, and laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe.
How can you have a car that needs no human assistance at all? Even the smart cars that we have today still need human assistance. Firstly, the cars tha we have today still have to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills. The smart cars can't not navigate through traffic such as, work zones and accidents. Secondly, in the article it says, " Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver?" I agree with that, who would? The whole point of having a driverless car is to not have to drive and manufacturers are no where clsoe to that kind of car. Lastly, the cars that we have developed now can only accelerate, steer, and brake themselves. The cars now have ways to notify the human when the road ahead requires human skills. The manufacturers are not close to developing a car that can drive itself because as of right now all of them stil need a lot of human assistance. They can't really do much by themselves.
I think that driverless cars would be a big safety issue. I do not think that a computer is as alret as a human. In the article it talks baout how driverless cars are a big safty concern. Firstly, what would happen if there was an accident and the computer was the one driving? Would it be thr drivers fault or the computers? Secondly, if something ever went wrong and there was an accident and someone was hurt who is at fault? is the driver or the manufacturer at fault? Lastly, what if the computer is controlling the car and it doesn't see something because it isn't as alert as a human? If the computer hit soemthing would the human's insurance cover it? This is why i think driverless cars would be a safety issue.
Laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe. Firstly, in the article it says that lawmakers have agreed that safety is best achieved with alert drivers. This means that they think safety is achieved when human drivers are the ones driving and not a computer. Secondly, some states are already against driverless cars and no one has even onvented one yet. In California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia it is illegal to even test drive computer driven cars. Lastly, in the article it says that presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. This means that the laws are based on human drivers are more alert and safer than a computer.
This shows why I am against the development of driverless cars. Driverless cars need human assistance, they are a safety issue, and laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers and pedestrians safe. | 4 |
aeea8fc | According to the story you should join this group because you get to travel the world and see things you never seen before like in the story it says" I had a side benefit of seeing Europe and China". You aslo get to see the needs that other countries dont have like Luke said in the story "It made me aware of people of other countries and their needs".
There will also be something for you to do all the time because you will have to feed and water the animals two to three times a day according to the story. You still can have fun to as it is mentioned in the story they still played baseball table-tennis,fencing,boxing,reading,and whittling as it helps pass time too.
What Luke is trying to say is that if you get this job the world will open up to you, you will see more things you will also see the needs that people dont have like I mentioned in the beginning. You will get to travel you might even host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years like Luke did. All he trying to say is this job will help you all lot and you are helping other people to. | 2 |
aeeb0be | Think of all the things we humans have accomplished. We know how to fly in the air, breathe underwater,
and travel on water. And now wehave cars that can be driverless. Im going to discuss my opion on driverless cars
First, off the saft of the car. The car is safe, it has sensors that are more advanced to detedt and respond to dangers on the road. The information given from these sensors can cause the car to apply the brakes, its reaction is alot better than a human one. The car can handle driving up to 25 mph. On the other hand there are special tough sensors that make sure
the driver keeps a hold on to the wheel. Even though the car can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, they are still dessinged to notify drivers when the road needs human skills. The driver musr be alert the whole time if there comes a time to take the wheel. Manifactures bring entertainment in the car, but also safty, it alerts right away, so the system of the car is safe, and safty is of more concern than entertainment.
Secoundly, expenses.The dream of driving cars without human assisnt is almost her, but the prices or high. The techonlogy they use Is advanced and cost alot. and the question is, will we be able to afford such cars. Some devices cost about two hundred
million dollars. The cost should probably be reasonable if they would liek people to by there cars.
Thirdly, The laws of the driverless car. they should have laws about safty and regulations about these cars. New laws can help strengthen the safty of those driving this car.And if someone gets hurt than its the drivers fault if there are any indications that the driver was reckeless. But if there is proof that the manifacture is at fault then they should face the repricutions.Maybe later in our future we can have more states approve of computer driven cars.
I belive that these cars will be safe and that are furture is advancing, As long as these cars are safe and can prevent
accidents, then me as a driver is on the side of driverless cars. | 3 |
aef0757 | First it would just be plan cool to be all around the world not to mention if you got picked and you were a Seagoing Cowboy you did not have to go to war. Not to mention you got to help out with nation getting back there food supplies back up. Plus you did get to do a lot of sight seeing when you are a Seagoing Cowboy
The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small- town boy," he says. "Beside helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special," he says. " So was taking a gondola ride in Venice,Italy, a city with street of water. "
Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China.
It is not all just fun and games for Luke. 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. Caring for the animals during the crossings kept Luke busy.
They had to be fed and watered two or three times a day. Bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship. Stalls had to be cleaned.
Helping out his aunt Katie's farm as a boy had prepared Luke for hard work, but not for the dangers at sea. On his second tripLuke served as night watchman. His job was to check on all the animals every hour. One rainy night, After making his hourly report to the captain, he slid down a slippery ladder on his backside. Luke's heart raced as he shot feet first towardan opening on the side of the ship. A small strip of metal along the edge stopped his slide, keeping him from flying overboard into the dark Atlantic. He was happyto be alive. But he couldn't work a couple of days because of cracked ribs.
But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger. It opened up the world to him. "I'm grateful the opportunity."
he says.
"It made me more aware of people of countries and there needs." And that awareness stayed with him, leading his family to host a number of international students and exchange vistors for many years. One more think thought is that you need to be prepared you couldn't just walk in with no traing and say "Can I join you people." | 2 |
aef34f4 | There are many advantages for limiting car usage. For example the article
German suburb, life goes on without cars, explains how many people have gone without a car and how they felt. In Paris when driving was banned, traffic went down 60%. Car free day was a big deal in Bogota, Colombia.
In germany, suburbs went on without cars and some had a positive affect and some had negative thoughts about it. Parking in streets driveways and garges were forbidden. If a car owner wanted to park they would have to buy a space for $40,000. Heidrun Walter, a mother and media trainer said " When i had a car i was always tense. Im much happier this way." Automobiles are a big deal or resource in the suburbs, but people who decided to not drive their cars, reduced greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes, cars are responsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions and up tp 50 percent in some car intensive areas in the united states, which is stated in paragraph 5. Ever since world war 2 everythings been centered around a car. As a call of action, the enviromental protection agency is promoting " car reduced" communites.
Paris banned driving because of smog ? To reduce the amount of smog, paris banned cars from being driven and if driven you would have to pay a $31 fine! Not only did the smog reduce but also congestion reduced down to 60 percent in the capital of france. Warmer air trapped car emissions due to cold nights. When the smog cleared by monday, the ruling was removed.
In Bogota, Colombia cars had been bannd for 3 straight years. Millions of colombians hiked, biked,skated,walked, or took busses to wherever they wanted to go. The goal was to reduce smog and alternative transportation. Even when it rained, it didt effect people ad what they were doing. Two other colombian cities joined the no cars ruling. Even buisnees men like Carlos Artuto Plaza didnt use cars, but rode on a two-seat bicycle with his wife. Enrique Riera, the mayor of Asuncion , Paraguay visited to see the action of no cars and quoted " These people are generating a revolutionary change and this is crossing borders."
In conclusion, advanatges for limiting car usuage are too many, for example reducing smog, reducing gas or diesel fuel thats being used for cars, banning or limiting car usuage has effected alot of countries and citys and also helped reduced congestion!!! | 3 |
aef4027 | Have you wanted to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program before? Well, you should join the program because you can see different parts all over the world, it can be one in a lifetime expericence for you. You can help other people who are in danger or in the need of your help.
First, you should join the program because it can be alot of fun for you. You can meet new friends and you can have a job. One of the jobs could be a night watch man. You can go out at night and see if anyone or anything has escaped from the boat. You get to travel on a huge boat, too. Now that is a double bonus for you.
Secondly, you should go because you can help other people. Somewhere, other people who need your help. Helping other people can be good for you.
I mean like you can change into a really nice percon or a whole new person. God will be very proud of you if you help other people, he loves that! Pretend you were needing help and someone helped you, you could be that person, too.
Finally, You get to travel all around the world. You can explore new places and have fun doing it. You get to travel on a huge boat called the SS Charles W. Wooster. It's a really noce boat to travel on. You can to new places all around the world and you can take pictures or even right it down in a journal.
You should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because you can have a blast of a time, you can help other people who need your help, and you can also travel around the world. Luke Bomberger joined the program and had a great time, you can too. Come join the Seagoing Cowboys program, it can change your life! | 3 |
aef7d8a | I think using this technology in a classroom would be a huge breakthrough. Teachers wouldn't have to work as hard to figure out what he or she needs to do to help a student learn what they need to learn. This technology can tell what their emotional state is when in the classroom. If they are bored they might not like the way their teacher is teaching them. So the teacher can modify the way she teaches that specific lesson, so that the student has a better attitude toward that subject.
This technology can also help councelers talk to the students that might be having personal problems like bullies, or family issues at home. Kids wouldn't be able to hide their emotions as well with this techlology being in every classrom. For example with a false smile the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major, and another muscle called the risorius. You cant download the software on a normal computer, so schools would have to pay for the device its-self. It would be extremely expensive but it would help many students in classrooms, or some that need counceling.
Humans perform this type of calculation every day, for instance when you ask a friend if they are ok, because they look depressed or angry. We can perform this calculation as accurately as the current technology we have now. For example Leonardo da Vinci used this type of calculation and knew exactly how her face needed to look in order to get the emotions he was looking for.
In conclusion this technology has many benefits for students and children that need counceling for personal problems, and or family problems at home. | 3 |
af057d8 | The Face on Mars was not created by aliens. NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft spotted a shadowy likeness of a face. Scientists figured it was another Martian mesa.
MGS flew over Cydonia for the first time on April 5, 1998. Michael Malin and his MOC captured a photo ten times sharper than the orginial photo. The image appeared on a JPL website which revealed it was just a natural landform. That meaning there was no alien monument. The pictre shows the Martian equivalent to a butte or mesa which are landforms common around the American West. It reminds Garvin of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho.
It is a lava dome which takes place of an isolated mesa, the lava dome is about the same height of the Face on Mars
In conclusion the Face on Mars was not created by aliens or any other life form. It was a natural occurance on the surface and the shadows from the sunlight created spots on the "Face" to look like an egyptian pharoah. Therefore the Face on Mars was not created by aliens. | 2 |
af0b4d5 | The use of this technology to read the emotional expressing of students in a classroom is valuable. Teachers and parents may say this will now better help them to know how well their student is actually learning based off his or her awarness to things. While others may say the use of this machine is uneccesary. My belief would have to be this technology would be a great fit to help you better understand how one may feel about something or someone.
A person who would argee to this technology being a benefit might say it will help them better understand their child. Teachers could say this would benefit them in their part of teaching only because knowing how their student feels on such things will help them to make sure to have new ways of teaching for their students to now be happier in the classroom. The author states, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional conversations." By saying this he wants to show that this maching could benefit someone while having a conversaton because their emotions are not always detectable.
While one could also say this machine is benefical someone could also disagree by saying this machine could give to much information to the wrong person. While having this machine a person could detect an emotinal or sad state of mind that you are feeling but you would not want them to know. Hiding your emotions from the world may cause you to be stressed out all the time, and holding in those emotions could hurt you as a person such as changing you completely. Allowing yourself to be completely open to a human is something that takes time, it could take even longer for someone to allow a machine to scan their emotions.
Some can say they have mixed emotions about this machine. They may state it will benefit the teachers to better teach their students, while also saying the reason they are against this machine is because it could mentally break down a person. Not allowing yourself to show these emotions or allowing yourself to hide these emotions hurts. Although, explaining things to someone may be considered easy to some when stating they already know exactly what they feel and how to do with it, but is this true?
Everyone can state their own opinion whether it may be they are for this machine or they are against it but not every one will agree with eachother. Stating your own opinion has its pros and cons, some opinions can get you in trouble while other opinions can benefit you down the road. This machine could have its own benefits to helping someone who is seeking for help but it could also break someone as a person for this machine is allowing others to recognize how one is feeling. Whether one is for this or against it there will always be things that we have to face even if we do not like them. | 4 |
af0d2ca | The
School system needs more , its things going on in students lives that makes them angry and sad coming into school. With them feeling this way makes them not wanting to do the work or learn at all. An thats where this Facial Action Coding System Comes in. The System being able to pick up these emotions would give the chance to notify the adult in charge and maybe can get help.
Teachers aren't all perfect, yes they educate in the best way possible. But student could be confused or bored in,and can even come to school feeling sad or angry about things outside of school. Teachers wouldnt be able to pick this up. Thats why we need this Facial Action Coding System. Facial Action Coding System can do things ,like said in the article it can pick up if a student is confused or bored. Then modify the lesson like an effective human instuctor.
In conclusion this is why we need the Facial Action Coding System. To Better the school system , by not just teaching. But thinking of how the student feels. Like if sngry and sad , the machine picks it up and we can ask the student. Just trying to help can make a student better. If feeling bored or confused we can also help by getting better with teaching method ,so students wont feel bored or confused. That way wteachers are really educating students | 3 |
af0e18e | "Hey" said Jerry "Did you hear about the face found on mars?" I said "Yes I did." Jerry said "I think that this face was created by aliens." I said "You really belive that aliens created this face? You know aliens aren't real, right?" Jerry said "I still think that it was made by aliens, and we don't know if aliens are real yet. Who knows, what if the aliens came before we launched our rover."
I said "I know that it could just be a rock formation and that the sun was shining on the rock in just the way that it looked like a face. Also who knows we could have just been in the right place at the right time." But Jerry always has to counter argue with me because he just wants to be right. "Have you heard that people all over the world are also saying that it is a formation created by aliens." Said Jerry
"Listen" I said "Just because you say what other people say does not mean that every body is right" Jerry said to me"I know for a fact that this is a monument made by aliens because no astronaut has gone to mars yet. Who would of made this if no one was there, I know that there is no way for you to prove to me that this was not made by aliens."
I said to him "There is a way that it was not made by aliens. It was made by natural formation." Jerry said "do you really think that, what kind of answere is that, saing that it was made naturally. Wow some people." I said to Jerry "what about this it was made by the rover running over rocks and they tumbled to make the face like appearence."
"Ok you got me, but i still have my own opinions." Said Jerry. "I knew I could do it" I said. "Finally I did it, Jerry listen, It was made of a lava dome." Jerry said to me "ok you win. | 2 |
af12c8a | Dear Mr. Senator,
It has come to my, as well as many other's attention, that the presidential election is something that could potentially have disasterous outcomes. You, and many polititions like yourself, have been using a system called the Electoral College that people such as Richard Nixon, Bob Dole, and Jimmy Carter have been suggesting to demolish for years now. Personally, I find it quite alarming that although this process has been with us for all of this time, we have found the flaws yet still continue to take the risks. This is not simply about picking a president anymore, this is about the freedom of America.
All in all, the Electoral College at face value seems like a good idea for choosing a winner. It seems to make sense that we would choose electors who the president trusts that would elect him president, but when you think about it, something feels rather off. First of all, the general public places their ballots in the appropriate box believing that they are voting for their ideal candidates. In reality, however, they are voting for their electors instead. Most people who vote are unaware of this factor, and the lack of information pertaining to it is unsettling. Not only that, but the electors are not chosen by the people. Does this not contridict "By the people, for the people?" Where exactly do these people fit in?
Furthermore, the electors cannot always be trusted with voting for their respective candidates. This is something referred to as the disaster factor. While most who are picked by the candidate themself are trustworthy, electors are people who are not in office, therefore may not be as trusting. Electors are an uncertain factor and in some complex cases, even two slates for electors can be sent which could create a hectic mess. If you are going to vote for a president who you wish to win, and your vote goes to an elector that won't come through, it takes all of the power away from the people and places it right back into the state's hands.
Another thing to consider when pondering the validity of this process is the potential of a tie with electoral voting. In this case, the election would be in the power of the House of Representatives, and the representatives from each state would decide the winner. We have had many opportunities for a tie during the elections, one even being the difference of 5,559 in Ohio and 3,687 in Hawaii. The problem with this is the loss of power within the nation. Once again, the people will no longer have a say in the voting and the energy it took them to decide on a candidate and go out to vote will be for virtually nothing. The people will no longer be represented. If something like this were to happen to our country, surely people from every state would be outraged.
Now, you may be thinking to yourself, why should I be worried? Sure, it is unlikely to get a tie in the electoral votes. However, something as huge as deciding the leader of this country should not have even a single flaw in it. Horrible and unexpected things happen everyday, why couldn't we get a tie as well? Now, the main problem with getting rid of the Electoral College is the possibility of run-off elections. In defense of this, the Electoral College is the main reason that we have run-off elections in the first place. It prevents people in certain areas from voting because they feel as if they will have no say in the final result. Even if people still voted for the fun of it, it was only because of chance or political preference. With an election by popular vote, the chances of a run-off election would be significantly lower as people would realize the power they had in deciding it.
As you finish reading this, I ask you to consider all of the points I have made. I am certain that choosing to elect by popular vote would have more benefits than sticking to the old and flawed plan, the Electoral College. Endless proof points to the conclusion that this theory is correct, as the process of picking electors to elect the president is redundant and confusing. Finally, with all of the things that could go wrong, using a new system would be one step forward in making our nation even greater.
From, PROPER_NAME | 6 |
af1daa8 | In " The Challange of Exploring Venus" the author suggests that studing benus is a worthy pursuit dispite the dangers on presents. The author talks about how thick the atmosphere is and how hot venus planet surface is the goes in to talk abput how venus may have had the same life on there planet as we do on earth today and that
" our travels on earth and beyond should not be limited.
The author talked about very many good points that he has about looked into teh caulculations on what it would be like to expose a cell phone or tablet on yhsi planet he says " just imagiane exposing a celll phone or tablet to a heat cabable of mealting tin. " he also talks about how everything that lands on venus hasnt servived very long within time of landing. the athour does say that meeting the challange presented by venus has value , not only because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating invators "
saying this he is saying that if we could all figure things out and find wways to pit this stuff together like where he talks about how we could you nalmost blimp like things to float above the eartth we could maybe find a way to work together and do it.
Inconlusion this passige " the challenge of expoloring venus very well erxplains what the author is trying to say and he goes into great depth of everything that he has studied looked at and maybe even the people at NASA he could have talked to. he serves a very great [point that one day we could travel to venus. | 2 |
af2214c | Driverless Cars i first heard of on the news 6 years ago in 2010. I was alittle kid, around the age of 10 or 11 so it quickly caught my attetion. 'Cars that could drive without mom i thought'. So that could mean on are trips to Chicago to see are cousins we could all watch a movie, instead of me, my brother and sister. But as i got older and studied more i relized that cars that could drive themselves were not exaclty coming to the public as quick as the creators talked about them.
Shortly after the beggining of the article the author tells about Google cars that drive independently under specific conditons since 2009. So whats the problem since they can drive by themselves. A main stance that is repeted in the article is that what will happen when road constuction happen, other drivers on the road and accidents. I gurantee most people driving dont wake up and say, before i go to work im going to have a car crash. Thats a big step they have to figure out before they ask lawmakers to change the laws of self driving vehicles.
Fault is a big concern in this matter as well. Lets look 10 years into the future,
you just got your tax return and your looking into buying a self driving car. So after a week you say, 'hey, this could really be usefull'. And you buy it. Weeks passbuy and one day you put it in selfdrive while you at a stop light to send a text. The light turns green and it begins to move alittle to faster than usaul, you look and know ones in
front so you say everythings good, you look down to send the text and all of a sudden a car comes out of no where and crashes into you. The car is sposed to stop have sensors to tell it to stop when a another vehicle is near, but this time a malfuntion happens. Is it the car companies fault,
this agurment can go extremely deeper than you think.
But as i read the article my stance still stood on the exicitment of the fact that the car could drive its self. But I cant still ignore the possibal crashes that could happen. And the fact that the companies will try to say that they are not at fault for eny crashes that happen in with human control, or self driving control. But for now i would have to say that an incredibal amount of test shold take place, and driving certification centers know the specs of the vehicles. | 3 |
af28d71 | Dear, state senator i think that the elctoral collage should not be here anymore. In source 2 the auther states that the voters vote not for the president,but for a slate of electors who in turn elect the president. The problem with that is that the electors can be anyone who is not holding public office. When i vote i would like to know who i was voting for not letting electors vote for me then they would just be wasting their own time.''Inthe same vein ''faithless'' electors heve occasionally refused to vote for their party's canidate and a cast a diciding vot for whom ever they please. Plus that winnier take all thing i really dont like because i like other people to have a chance to see what they say.
Perhaps in source 1 they have a winner take all system that awards all electors to the winning presidental canidate. The electoral collage is a prosses not a place. It was established by the founding fathers in which they put it in the constitustion as a compromise.
By the way in source 3 the auther states that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the popular vote. There are five reasons for retaining the electoral collage despite its lack of democratic pedigree all are practical reasons ,not liberal or conservative reasons. The first reason is certainy of outcome. the second one is everyone's presidents. the third one is swing states. the fourth one is the big states. the fifth one is avoid run off elections.
Soo yeah honestly you should listen to source number 2 he knows what he talking about so be smart choose wisely. | 2 |
af29c9b | I think that a Facial Action Coding System would be helpful in a classroom setting. I think this because it could show the teacher what students needed help by the ones looking confused or frusturated. This definitly could be a helpful tool when it is more available.
To go more in depth of how this could be beneficial to a classroom would be it helping confused students who are maybe more shy than others and dont ask the teacher for help when they need it. This program could be in their computer and then it could tell the teacher who looked confused about the work and they could go over and help them easier. Also like it says in the article "Then it could modify the lesson, like a effective human instructor." Which is another great idea!
This may not even just help the students, but it could help the teachers become better teachers. This could be done because lets say the students go home and 90% of them look confused or frusturated well the teacher could see that and could either explain it again the next day or make the assignment easier to do. Which from my experience of being a student that would be super nice to have.
Finally if the teacher was really dedicated to their job they could see if students were bored in their class, if so they could try to make it more fun. This could make students pay more attention in class and could increase the graduation rate and even the grade point average of students since they will be having more fun in class and would be more likley to participate.
In conclusion yes I do think we should get this when it becomes more available to public. I think that there is just so many more positives to having these Facial Action Coding Systems than negatives. It could really be a beneficial thing for schools to have in the classroom. | 3 |
af2a216 | The author supports his idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers that it presents very well. He gives many examples on why we should continue to try an study Venus. Many include ways that humans can study Venus, and ways that we can electronicaly study Venus. The author also describes the conditions that the surface of Venus has including the air pressure and the temperature of avrage over 800 degrees Farenheit.
The author of The Challenge of Exploring Venus states many resons why we should contiue to studyVenus. One reason is he describes a possible solution for humans to get a closer look at the planet. In paragraph 5 the text states "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray". Another reason is they are making devices that could possibly help scientists study Venus. Also in paragraph 7 the article states " NASA is working on other approches to studying Venus. For example some simplified electronics made of silicone carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions".
In this article the author gives many reasons as to why we should move forward with studying Venus. He makes it clear that we can invent a way to get humans a closer look at the planet. He states that we can make a way for humans to explore the planet without being harmed. All of these are good resons that support his idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers that it presents. | 2 |
af2c054 | Do you like adventure and fun. If you do the seagoing cowboys program is a great opportunity to do something great. Its not just adventure you make new friends, you have fun, and you see new things. You help people that got affected by world war two. Its a great cause for helping others.
You have time to have fun and you can sightsee its a great chance to do something great with your life. My thoughts on the seagoing cowboy program are,its great you help people recover from world war two. World war two was a horific time for everyone and you get to help people who was affected thats good. You should participate in this there are things you never seen before and you get to tell your family you did something great for a living.
Do you want to work at Mcdonalds if you don't participate in this limited time offer. You get new friends, to see new things, help people feed them help them be a good person insted of sitting at home doing nothing so please help. You need adventure in your life not a boring old job. So if you get a chance to help people through rough times do it you get a chance. | 2 |
af30d86 | Is it a landform? There is a big thing over if the Face on Mars is just a landform or if it is alien related. As NASA is reseaching it and there is just threories over it. As NASA belives it is just a Natural Landform.
Yes indeed it is a landform NASA has found that it is just big rocks and shadows giving an illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. As the first pics can to the internet the JPL web site revealed a natural landform and there was not a alien monument after all. And the picture acually shows Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa. These are landforms common around the American West.
Yes there is theroies behind it being alien related but there is a lot of imformation that can back it up on it just being a natural landform. So I think NASA has solved the face on Mars just to be a natural landform. | 2 |
af34318 | The conflict of whether or not scientists should study the planet Venus has been up in the air, no pun intended, for sometime now. Many individuals think that studying Venus up close is too dangerous, whereas others disagree and think risks should be made. In the article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author thinks studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers, but does not support this idea very well.
The author describes the potential dangers that could result from studying Venus which contradicts their idea that the observations made through studying Venus overweigh the risks. The author is aware of the fact and describes how, "no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours" (paragraph 2). Right off the bat, the author gives their audience the mindset that it is not a good idea to study Venus. Having that fact in the first few paragraphs of the article sets the tone for the rest of the article. In paragraph three, the author goes into great detail about several of the potential dangers that can come from studying Venus because of its, "clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid" (paragraph 3). The frightening environment described strays the audience even further away from believing that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. Not only does the author describe why dangers are present on the planet Venus, but they also gives analogies in regards to the danger present including the fact that, "such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans" (paragraph 3). At this point in the article, the idea of having a human explore and study Venus up close in unthinkable. The author tries to justify the dangers by explaining technology that will be used in order to allow individuals to study Venus. The author describes, "a vehicle hovering over Venus" (paragraph 5). At first, the technological advances that could be made sound like a good idea, but the author goes on to say how, "tempertaures would still be toasty at around 170 degress Fahrenheit" (paragraph 5). This fact completely shuts down the idea of the hovering vehicle. The author contradicts their ideas by explaining the dangers in depth and giving reason as to why studying Venus is not a good idea.
From the very first descriptions of the idea the author is trying to bring across, the audience is turned away from the author's opinion. The tone set sways the audience toward one direction of the conflict while the author is in the other direction. The author went too far into detail about the dangers that can come from studying Venus and di not have evidence of how it would be safe and possible at all. The author's idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers was not supported through their ideas or evidence. | 4 |
af388ed | Are you interested in traveling? Are you interested in meeting new people? Are you interested in being kind and helping? If you are interested in any of those things then you should join the Seagoing Cowboys!
You are wondering what the Seagoing Cowboys are, right? Well it is a group of people who get together and help all over the world with taking care of animals that would would typically would would find in a barn.
What we do is they take care of horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped over seas. It is a fun thing to do because you can be helping animals but also see all over the world and get to see cool and new stuff! Chances are you most likely haven't been to most place we go to.
I remember one time we had to ride a cattle-boat. people were alittle mad that they had to ride on a cattle-boat with a bunch of cattle. We were on a cattle-boat trip. It was pretty amazing and we also got to see Europe and China! People started to lighten up after they founf out that we were going to two wonderful places! It was the best trip we've ever been on!
Usually it takes about 2 weeks to get to the place we want to go. That's because we take a boat and sometimes we run into some bad weather, but if you just relax an denjoy it it will go by super, super fast! The bad weather can be bad that is why we have to take as much protection as we can! So, if you do join the Seagoing Cowboys make sure you have the right gear and you dress for the weather. Sometime it can be very cold when we are on the boat and then it can be SUPER hot when we get to our destination. Just make sure that you are always perpared and never not perpared!
If you get sea sick or homesick easy then it is not a good idea to join! If you get sick when we are there then you can't go home you have to stay with us at all times! So, it might be a good idea to bring stuff tha helps you feel better. It might be smart to bring medicine with you so you do not have too buy it somewhere else where it is expensive.
Well I hope that you join because we need sone extras hands! If you would like to sign up then PLEASE DO SO as soon as possible! Thank you very much! | 3 |
af3fbe6 | The article, Making Mona Lisa Smile, the author tells about a new technology called the F.A.C.S. It stands for Facial Action Coding System. The system enables computers to identify human emotions. I think that the use of this technology, to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. Yes, there are some aspects of the technology that cause some concerns to people, sure.
Though it may be difficult to except this new technology for some, but in my opinion I would have to say that I think this is a valuable form of technology. They gave the example of how they used the famous known painting by Leonardo da Vinci,
Mona Lisa. This painting includes the portrait of Mona Lisa. She is smiling in the slightest with her hair down and her emotions appear to be happy. The Facial Action Coding System (F.A.C.S.) used the painting to see if it could recognize her emotions. The results appeared to be "83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry". Of course we cannot really know if that was her real feeling at the time but the system concluded that was what she was feeling at the time.
They make the point that we can tell if a friend of ours is happy, sad, angry, fearful, etc.. Though we can not tell for sure, and we definitely would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys all the possible emotions we have. The computer system would make it so we would be able to identify what emotions we were having if needed. The new computer software would store similar anatomical information as electronic code. The F.A.C.S. enables the computers to identify our emotions to an extent that we can not. The system would be helpful in many different situations.
If we had computers that could do such things as they said in office buildings, hospitals, etc..
it would help out a ton. In office buildings they could be used by many people to determine if you're happy with your job or what you're doing at the time being. In hospitals it would be helpful to determine how the patient is feeling. You could put one computer in every room to help and see if a persons facial expressions could tell how they feel at the moment. It would benefit the nurses or the doctors so they would know how often to check up on the patient.
The most helpful place they could be would be in schools. Many teachers give out assingments on the computer most of the time now. If we had the F.A.C.S. in our schools it would help to tell the teachers if we are learning. Our facial expressions give off a lot more information then we would think. As the author said in the article in paragraph six, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" If we had the Facial Action Coding System, it could help the teachers by reporting to them if we seem like we either have the information learned or if we were having difficulties with the homework.
Our face tells a lot, according the the article and Dr. Huang. With the F.A.C.S most of them can all be told. It is a valuable system that most schools should have to determine the emotional expressions each student has. It could raise grades if the teachers would know if we were struggling just by the facial expression we make while doing our homework, test and projects. It is a very advanced system that could cause some problems for sure but the benefits would be outstanding. | 4 |
af4293b | My position on driverless cars is, that they wont be as safe as cars driven by humans. i believe this because they wouldnt know when to stop, they might go out of control, and they wouldnt be very surportive during deflict stiutions.
First i believe they wouldnt know when to stop because they might be road block and they wouldnt be able to identify the objects. Examples from the passage are, the cars will probably have a hard time navigating through work zones and around accidents. The cars will also have to deal with complicated traffic issues , such as navigating through roadworks or roadblocks that lie ahead for the autonomous car.
Second reason is, they might go out of control. The car might face some technical deflicties and someone will most likely get injured. If some dies get injured who will be at fault? wil it be the driver or the manufacturer. I believe it will be the manufacturer because they made the car and they didnt make sure if it was safe for the people to drive arounfd in or not.
My last reason is They wouldnt be as surportive during deflict stiutions. i think They wouldnt be very surportive because the car might not know what to do. For example, if there was roadblock and the car didnt or couldnt indenify them and the car crushes. What if the car was told to go somewhere and went to wrong way? will it be the cars fault. And if the car got broken down for no reason during traffic will it be okay for other people.
In conclusion i believ that driverless cars wont be as safe as cars driven by humans. i believe this because they wouldnt know when to stop, they might go out of control, and they wouldnt be very surportive during deflict stiutions. | 3 |
af44b3f | He joined the programe for many reasons to help familys out with yard work and things like that when the husbands and fathes were at war. Also he helped with grocery stores and lots of bisnesses and he helped countrys recover food. He said it was an opertunity of a lift time to do this. He helped a lady at a farm all by her self. He went on a ship to go other places and help and on board he found some time to be him and just have fun. On lukes second trip he served watch men. He was to check on all of the animals and it was rainy out and he sliped and fell down very wet steps he almost slid out of the boat but a lucky peace of meatal beam was there and he stop right before he went out of an open side of the boat. but this put him on medical leave so he couldent work so I bet he was a little upset that he couldent help on the boat or where ever they stoped to help on land. He had fun with table tennis tournements fencing boxing reaidin and whittling the games he played helped pass time on the bout and just relaxe for a wile and have some fun. He said being a seagoing was much more than an adventure for luke boberger. He is greatful for this oppertunity he says and made it more aware to people in other countrys that that had food and nice people to give it to them. | 1 |
af44cce | The article 'The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is very convincing. The author had many great points and was also compairing Venus to Earth. Definitly will grab your attention. A really great con of exploring Venus is that it has many common things to Earth. In paragraph 2 it states that Venus is often referred to Earth as a twin. Also it states that Venus is the second planet in our solar system. Another con why Venus is a great topic to explore is that if there was ever a time in a life time that we had to live in another world, Venus is the answer to that problem. In paragraph 5 it states that
NASA has particulary compelling ideas for sending humans to study Venus, but it the temperatures would be toasty at sorund 170 degrees Fahrenheit. Not easy conditiond, but survivable for humans.
Over alll I think we should continue reaseaching about Venus and exploring Venus, not only because it would help us humans learn more about our solar system, but it could be a new home for our community. | 2 |
af45e2b | The electoral college is something that has been loved, hated, and debated on for some years now. We couold abolish it or keep it the way it is. Some say the electoral college is undemocratic and unfair to the voters and the candidates. But some say it is the best way to vote. I'ts seen both ways but is there anything we can do about it? Good or Bad.
The Electoral College is a compromise between election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The group of electors for your state are selected by the cnadidate"s political party. So when you vote for a specific candidate you are voting for the electors he is supported by.
So why do people want to aboplish the electoral college completely? Because there are some serious things wrong with it. "perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote" (Source 2, Paragraph 4). How can there be a tie in the election of the president? Perhaps because sometimes the electors get to thinking in another midset and vote for the wrong candidate...Yes that is poosible. When people vote for there candidate the electors are the ones being selected and aren't always the way they were in their chosing so therefore there can be a serious tip in votes if the electors don't vote for the candidate of the party they were selected by. "In 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore-thanks to the quirks of the electoral college-won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a diect election" (Source 2, Paragrph 1). The people don't want the electoral college anymore, Who's to say they ever did?
But even know some don't want the electoral college there are some who prefer to keep it. "each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee, and that trust is rarely betrayed" (Source 3, Paragraph 2). So when the party selects their electors they are most likely to select the candidate of the party they were selected by. There is also regional appeal,if a president only has diserably mojority of vores in a certain region of the country he is "unlikely to be a succesful president"( Source 3, Paragraph 5) . This is because if a president is only desired by a certain region and not the rest of the country, the wants of the rest of the country aren't met and he most likely will not tend to the needs of them, and ultimately doesn't have a chance of being selected as president. Finally, when no candidate for president has a clear majority of votes, the electoral college's votes gove a clear winner and a candidate is selected.
Concluding, both sides have reasonable arguments to if the elctoral college will stay for good or be abolished completely. But it's up tp you to decide which side your own because this is a democracy.. Isn't it? | 4 |
af4b7f5 | There are many advantages to limiting car usage. The majority of people that own a car have a lot of stress due to gas money and paying for the car. Owning a car is a serious expence. There are other types of transportation that can be useful for the people.
According to Source 1, in Vauban, Germany 70 percent of the people that live there do not own a car, and 57 percent sold a car in order to move there. People were starting to realize that when they owned a car they would always be tense. After getting rid of the car, they have been much happier and less stressed.
Since there are less cars in the streets of Germany, people have stopped and realized how beautiful everything was. Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two, is now reilved as she walks the verdant streets where she can hear the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children.
In Paris, France due to the cold nights and warm days, the car emissions have been trapped by the warmer layer of air. Sometimes, weather can be the effect of something bad happening to your car. In the everyday world, people have been killed and have been in serious accedents. Not only because of the weather but also because of the lack of resposibility and concentration it takes to drive a vehicle.
As said in Source 3, in Bogota, Colombia many people do not drive cars. The majority of Colombians hike, bike, skate, or take buses to work or wherever they need to go. The goal of this is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Carlos Arturo Plaza, a buisnessman, said "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," while he was riding his bicycle along with his wife next to him.
As people ride bike or hike or even just walk around their city, they can see and learn many new things just by being more aware of their surroundings. Cars have been in this world for a long period of time already. It's time to take a break from the madness and start realizing how beautiful life is and how beautiful it can be by not destroying it with such a machine. Not only will there be less stress, but the world will be a lot more safer than it was. | 4 |
af4c619 | Driverless cars seem to be a great adance in todays technological society. However in my opinion I feel as though I personally would not use driverless cars while going to work or dropping my kids off at school. I would find it almost pointless to create let alone own a driverless car.
I personally would only use driverless cars on road trips when your tired of having to consintrate on the road you could just lay back relax and enjoy the scenery. I suppose the existence of driverless cars on a highway would be helpful in the sense of having less traffic jams or collisions. However, I feel that the car should have an on and off switch, in the sense of the driverless feature not the turning the car on and off we already have that.
Safety is one of my top concerns when I think about a driverless car. How will it detect the police when they need to get pass to an emergency? How will it pull into a gas station so it can be refilled for gas? A few new cars today have alot of new cool safety features such as stopping when sensing an obsticale ahead or cameras on side view mirriors and even a camera to assist in reverse driving.
Another thing abput driverless cars is what they mentioned in paragraph nine. Who would be responsible if the car crashes and someone is injured? The driver or the manufacturer? Also some states believe that the cars are not yet safe enought to be driven so they ban testing the driverless car in their state. Does this mean that we wont have safe driverless cars until the next few generations?
In conclusion I believe that driverless cars are useful but need alot more improvement before being sold to the public. If the improvement in technology makes streets safer to drive on then great. | 3 |
af570fc | I believe that the use of techonology to read student emotional expression is valuable. It be awesome to read somebody's emotions thorugh a machine. it would tell you alot about what a person is feeling and thats important to know. their are many excellent and well reasoned examples of why this technology is valuable.
My one reason i believe this is valuable technology is if somebody was feeling depressed and was not willing to open up to anybody that individual could do self harm to himself. If they know how that individual was feeling maybe they would have helped he/she. in the passage it says " a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused and bored". Then Dr. Huang says" then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor. This technology could become really usful for many different situations. Thats one of the reasons of why this makes this machine so valuable.
The creator of FACS[ [Facial Action Coding System] Dr. Paul Eckman has "classified six basic emotions". The machine can read happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. this type of technology can aid and solve world wide problem. For example what if an individual person or more were having issues with a certain subject at school but dont know how to ask for help. The Computer would make " 3-D computer model of the face" and they can anaylze what they might be feeling about the subject. then thats when the help comes.
Another example is reading different emotions is some how very important. It can be used against people who have commited crime. An example is if a person who murdered somebody and nobody knew if he was being honest or not, the machine can read his emotions and has a better chance to tell if the person is lying or not. It can be used for celebritys and politician as said in the article. This can identify many human being feelings and it doesnt take to much time.
In conclusion their are still many reasons why i believe this technology is valuable. This type of technology would be nice to have around and would be really usful. It would prevent many accidents and help solve probelms. Techonology like this cant go to waste and should be used to our adavntage. this is my reason why i think this technology is valuable. | 3 |
af5819f | How do I know the author supports this idea? I know the author is supporting this idea because he is giving examlpes on how studying venus can be very dangerous, but he also explains to you on why people take that risk to keep studying venus. The author also gives out facts about Venus to give you a better understanding on why some people still study Venus. Some facts he gives out are
"Venus is the second planet from our sun. While is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth, it has proved very challenging place to exaimine more closely."
With this statement this gives us a better understanding on how dangerous it can be to study this planet. This statment also gives us a prespective on why people want to study this planet as well. The author then explains how NASA has one possible idea for sending humans to study Venus. The author continues to give facts about how challenging this study could be. He states
"NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray."
This does sound very exciting and interesting. Even to think about studying or sending life to this planet to study is very dangerous but is very intreaging. Do I personally think it would be a good idea? I most definalty do not. I would not agree to go to a new planet that we know nothing about due to not having certian amount of resources needed. Yes, we do have some knowledge, but we do not have enough knowledge to make me comfortable engough to even think about going. But for others that risk is something they would take.
The author does make great, peruassive statements in Parargaph Eight like, "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 equallu intimidating endeavors. Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited bt dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the verty edges of imagination and innovation."
Studying Venus is a risky and challenging task to take on. If this is sometihg that you find interesting or something you are very curious about maybe this is for you. After reading this article we now know the risks and challenges of studying Venus. The author did a great job explaining risks, giving us back ground information, and explaining why others would want to study Venus. The author most certainly does suppport this idea with the information he gave. | 3 |
af5cb4d | The planet Venus is also known as the ''Evening Star," due to how it is one of the brightest points of light in the sky during the night. Venus is also sometimes referred as the Earth's ''twin,'' this is because Venus is the closest of the planets to Earth when comparing density size, and occasionally distance. Even though Venus is safe to see from a distance, but it has been proven that Venus is extremely dangerous when to close. Venus's physical conditions are so lethal that trying to study the planet isn't worth the risk.
Furthermore, An article called "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" states reasons otherwise, as how a way a human can examine Venus with a special kind of technology. Venus's conditions are so lethal that trying to study the planet isn't worth the risk. The atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide surrounds Venus. Along with the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in the atmosphere of Venus. In addition to, the planets conditions are very high compared to Earth. For example, in paragraph 3 it states, "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet."
This information reveals how lethal the planet Venus truly is when compared to Earth.
Secondly, NASA is working with an old electronic that further supports the idea of studying Venus. Even though this electronic is stated to survive the lethal conditions of Venus, it isn't going to be retrievable from the surface of Venus, as humans can only get as close as 3 miles from Venus's surface. Including, the piece of technology is extremelly old and outdated. For example, in paragraph 7 it states, "These devices were first envisioned in the 1800s and played an important role in the 1940s during World War ll." This information proves against the authors point, and shows how invailed and outdated the technology is.
To conclude, The study of Venus was attempted and failed. Knowing more information about Venus will have no purpose because the living conditions are unstable. Venus's conditions are so lethal that trying to study the planet isn't worth the risk.
The temperatures are way to high and the air quality is sad. There is no technology at this moment that can survive the extreme physical conditions of Venus. Even if the technology is new or old. After all, Earth is ten times better. | 4 |
af5df6e | Venus can be a scary planet when it comes down to its features. The writer to this story certanly convinced me that we should not study Venus anymore. We have tried to land spacecraft on the planet before, but none have last no more than a few hours, so how are we supposed to study it when it just keeps destroying our spacecrafts. We haven't tried it again in a decade. The reason to this is that Temperatures vary around 800 degrees fahrenheit. Venus has a thick atmosphere of 97% carbon dioxide. If us humans even take a step on Venus we get crushed. Venus has a 90% atomic pressure, which is greater than what we have on Earth. It could even crush a submarine and those are supposed to outstand pressure from the ocean. Venus isn't a very pretty planet either, it has a familiar features as valleys,mountains, and craters. We could use spacecraft to hover over venus about 30 miles or so above it. Even if we did that we couldn't take sample rocks or gas. Are technology gets better throughout the years, so maybe one day well figure a way out to oustand that heat and pressure. Even if we do that though, what would be the sense if we cant even live on the planet. Half of the stuff we use today will never outstand the heat or pressure that Venus has. Including phones,cars,and houses. This shows you that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. | 3 |
af642c8 | In the article of the "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author states how sicentist can tell if you're happy, sad, mad. I think we should use this device in classrooms and all around the world. If we used this in classrooms it would make teaching way easier. Wouldn't it be neat if we didn't have to tell people how we feel just think about it. But then again it may turn out bad cause we could lose so many jobs. Cause if we have a robot to see if we are sad or not we wouldn't need to tell people how we feel like counclers or doctors. Now if we did use facs it would help people way more to be honest but then again it may not what if it reads your emotions wrong and get sad mixed up with mad that could go really bad. It could also save expensices with the computer you dont need breaks it will always be there to read your emotions. One way computers could mess up what it dignaoses the wrong medicine to someone for being sad then it could possible kill that person or maybe it will make. But then it again it could prescribe the best medicine to you. In conclusion it would be best if we used computers in classrooms. | 2 |
af651d3 | Everyone says bigger is better. I don't believe that. When you go for something too big, many things could go wrong. A perfect example would be trying to develop a "smart" car. This would consist of making a car with a driverless driver, where the driver doesn't have to drive or pay attention at all. I don't think there should be driverless cars because it is too expensive, very dangerous, and if something does go wrong, who is too blame?
One reason we should not have driverless cars is because it is too expensive. It says in the text, "These smart-road systems worked suprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical" (Paragraph 3). In order for us to have smart-cars, we need smart-roads. And just as I quoted up there, it is simply too expensive.
Aside from the financial part of driverless cars, the technology is not all where it needs to be. Making them very dangerous. It says in the text, "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" (Paragraph 7). This makes them dangerous because as soon as the driver becomes off-alert something bad could happen. Then, if they do not fix the problem by themselves, someone could get hurt. Which is why the driverless cars can be very unsafe, along with so many bad, unseen things happening.
Driverless cars make the roads unsafe. And because of this, if something does go wrong and someone gets hurt, who is too blame? It even asks this question in the text when it says, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-- the driver or the manufacturer?" (Paragraph 9). Who would be considered responsible and why? Adults who wrote this don't even know. This would cause a lot more fights and court cases. Or if they establish a law, would it effect the outcome on who would buy the car? To prevent all this from happening is another reason why we do not need smart-cars.
They says driverless cars will make driving safer. However, all I am seeing is reasons not to even try to make them. First, they are way too expensive. Second, they are too dangerous. And third, who is to blame if someone gets hurt? These are all reasons I believe we do not need to make or produce smart-cars. | 4 |
af75b07 | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author explains how driverless cars could be better for humans to arrive at their desinations but he also explains the negatives of the driverless car. Driverless cars is something everyone has wanted in their lifetime but it has never actually happened until now. Many car companies want to make driverless cars. Driverless cars could be more negative than postivie, because they could be more dangerous, they are useles, and gas prices may raise up very quickly.
Driverless cars could be more dangerous than safe for people to use. They sound like a better way to drive, but you still need to know how to drive in order to use this car. If the traffic is bad or there is road work, you need to drive manually. GM says they will have a drivers seat that viberates but what if the driver ends up falling asleep and the driver needs to drive but doesn't feel the vibration? The driver may end up in a car wreck and you may never know if the wreck could be serious one or just a minor one. Either way, the person got into a wreck. Many people still get in wrecks today but they won't depend on the car, it's all on them. The car may even slide while in a snow storm and if you drive on your own, you have a grater chance of preventing that.
Driverless cars can be very usless and a waste of money. Car companies will waste thousands, maybe even millions, of dollors just to make this car. Either way we will still need to learn how to drive. The car cannot drive everywhere. Like it stated in the article, we will still need to stay alert. After a while of just sitting there while the car drives on its own, it will get boring. You may even end up just driving like we do now. You will also need to drive in cartain cases since the car cannot drive through everything.
Since the driverless cars will have to use more energy, they will need more gas to run on. Gas prices have a grater chance of rising unexpectedly since the cars may need to run on a different fuel. If the cars do run on a different fuel, it could be harder to get than gas. Gas is already a bit expensive, just imagine if driverless cars do became a big thing? The fuel for driverless cars may be regualr gas that we have today or a different fuel, but either way there is a greater chance of fuel prices getting higher.
Having a driverless car is fun to think about having but not everyone will think about the negatives to it. They think they will arrive to their desination safe and sound without having to do anything since the car brought them. Not nessecarally. People will need to be alert and sometimes drive on their own. Having driverless cars could be dangerous, usless, and may make the gas prices raise. People will need to think twice about what they want in thier future. | 3 |
af816ec | The electoral college is a time worn system. Some people hate it, others defend it to their dying breath. The electoral college is no longer a good way to select our nations' leader because the power no longer rests with the people.
Through the electoral college system, we put our votes into the trust of strangers who may or may not decide to vote how they want and completely disregard our voices. Plus with all of the corruption in government as it is, it wouldn't be the most difficult thing to buy a voter off and potentially change the outcome of the election. Or the electoral college voters could end up clueless or untrustworthy, as Bradford Plumer, Source 2, paragraph 10, points out: "Can voters always control whom their electors vote for? Not always. Do voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate? Sometimes.", proving the point that the people are not in control.
Granted there are a few small benefits to the electoral college. It usually prevents the confusion of ties inside states, and, as Source 3, paragragh 20, Richard A. Posner says, " Voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaignto really listen to the competing candidatesknowing that they are going to decide the election. They are likely to be the most thoughtful voters, on average, and the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election."
The problem with the overwhelming power given to the swing states by the electoral college is that it does not represent the American idea: that no one group of people is in control, that everybody has an equal say in the matter. When a state like California votes for a candidate, that candidate immediately has an advantage from the start. And all the people in California who voted for the other candidate are not heard at all.
Corruption is, again, a major problem with most politics, including the electoral college. In 1960, segregationists nearly replaced all of the democratic electoral voters in Louisiana with voters who would instead oppose John F. Kennedy, and potentially cost him the election. But while a small group of people can be bought off and turned to vote against the majority, it is impossible to corrupt the American people. It would also cause candidates to have to pay more attention to the smaller states and the states that the candidate thinks they will win over automatically due to their current party.
The American people need the power to elect their leader back in their hands again. The electoral college was a good system years ago, but with time comes change. | 4 |
af85030 | Dear state senator,
I believe we should change the election process. You should change it to an election of popular vote and give the people power to decide not on the electors for the candidates, but just on the candidates themselves. It would be a much easier process, and at the same time, a much less expensive way of electing presidents.
There was a Gallup poll in 2000 that even states that 60% of the population of voters prefered a direct election instead of using the electoral college. That year, Al Gore won the popular vote, but, thanks to the electoral college, he lost the presidency.
Also, the electoral college is an unreliable way to elect the president because the people can't know for sure who chose the electors. Anyone could have chosen them!
This is why we should change the election process to an election of popular vote and let the people decide on the candidates themselves. It would save money by not having so many people in the electoral college to pay and it would be a much easier and fair process. | 2 |
af8ac7c | New technology is constantly popping up every day thanks to cell phones, computers, and all kinds of other devices we use on a daily basis. Since we keep obtaining new technology, we also obtain new services that this technology can perform as well. One of the newest type of technological programs is one known as FACS or Facial Action Coding System. This program allows the technology to be able to detect the emotion on a person's face and which emotions they are currently feeling at that time. There is a possibility in the future for this technology to be used in classrooms everywhere to assist teachers and students. While the FACS program is indeed a good one, I personally am against the use of it in the classrooms. Here's why.
The author writes in paragraph six, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student it becoming confused or bored." He then proceeds to say, "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." To me this sounds like teachers are getting a break when they should actually be stepping up.
Growing up in a time where school is all about standardized testing, good grades, and college, I can speak for every kid in the country when I say that we need our teachers now more than ever. If a student doesn't understand a subject or topic, then it should be the teacher's responsibility to either help the student out themself, find another source of help for the student, find a way to make the sunject matter more appealing, or move the student into a different level of that class that may be easier for them to understand. There shouldn't be a computer that just changes the lesson and makes it easier for the kids because who is that going to help?
While it is on the teachers to do their job and make sure that their students are able to succeed, a lot of the weight also falls on the students as well. Kids should be able to take control of their own academic future and have the intelligence to ask for help when they need it. It teaches multiple valuable lessons to kids when they do so. It teaches them to not be shy or embarrassed and ask for help when help is needed, and it also shows them that not everyhting in life will be easy and come without a challenge. As kids we should be able to stand up for our education and future and have our teachers, not computers, help us like they're meant to.
In conclusion, I think that it is a bad idea to have FACS technology in the classroom. As a generation in today's day and age, we are already criticized for being soft and not pushing our kids in school. If we use technology like this, will it really do anything but hurt our case as one of the smartest countries in the world? I believe that this technoloy should stay away from the classroom because it lets teachers get away with not helping their students, allows kids to get through school without getting help from the person who got a college degree to teach them, and it makes us the soft country that many people in the world think we already are. | 4 |
af8c1c9 | A Seagoing Cowboy is a cowboy who travels overseas to a different country and take animals/supplies there that they are in need of. This job takes a lot of work. You have to watch all the animals every hour, clean their stalls, and feed them. This job does take a lot of work, but it is a unique experience one will never forget. You get to Help other countries in need after the war, see amazing countries and sights , and have fun with new friends you get to meet while traveling. It is a great experience.
After World War ll, several countries were left in destruction. This meant that someone needed to help fast, and get the people food, animals, and other supplies that were needed. 44 nations came together as UNRRA, also known as the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, and hired "Seagoing Cowboys", like myself. We help deliver horses, young cows, and mules to the countries in need. It feels so great to help other people, and I will never forget all the smiling faces I saw when I arrived with their animals. It is a wonderful sight.
When you visit several countries, you never realize how wonderful and amazing they can look, even after a war! Places like Europe, China, Greece, Italy, and the list countinues. After we deliver the animals, we get to have a little bit a of fun before we go back, so we get to go to tourist attractions, and popular cities in the country. I was able to take a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, where the streets are made up of water. I also got to see the Acropolis in Greece. Those trips were pretty special! There are so many great things to see and do in every country, so no matter where you go, you will have a great adventure exploring the cities, and having a ton of fun!
While being on a boat, traveling to a country, you have to watch over the animals every so often. That is not the case on your way back, when the animals are gone from your boat at the country you just visited. Since the animals are gone, you can do whatever you want to do to make the time pass. We do things such as table-tennis, volleyball, boxing, fencing, baseball, reading, and more fun games. You really can't play things games without people to play with, which is a great way to make friends. Since you probably don't know the people working with you, you can get to know them, and make new friends. This is one of my favorite parts of being a Seagoing Cowboy, because without becoming friends with your co-workers, you job isn't fun. It's a great way to open up, and whats more fun then going over-seas with your friends and having a good time?
In conclusion, becoming a Seagoing Cowboy is an amazing experience because you get to help others in need after the war, see amazing places/sights, and have tons of fun while making new friends with the people you work with. You will have so many great memories of your time at every country. Become a Seagoing Cowboy today! | 5 |
af908be | Dear State Senator, We should forget about the system of electorial college to vote for a president. It just isn't fair, reason why is beacause you are electing people to vote for the person who is trying to be president of the U.S although that doesnt mean that you both are voting for the same person that's trying to be president of the U.S. The electorial college system is corrupted and needs to stop being used to elect a president.
To begin, In the source 2 they state the following "60% of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." Reasons why is because the electorial college is unfair it can make the person who had most of the votes lose because of the people who voted for the person to vote for a president choose the other runner up and make the person with the most votes actually lose. This is why people wish to have a direct election so they wont have to worry about their vote not going to the other runner up president.
Secondly, The reason why the electorial college is wrong is because we dont have our own voice; but the slate of electors do which can be pretty much anybody. For example in the article "What's wrong with the electorial college" they state (If you lived in Texas, for instance, and wanted to vote for John Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors that pledged to Kerry) these elctors can be anyone and still doesn't have to be voting for him though.
Although, If the people can rebalence the electorial college system then it can be somewhat a good thing. I can see how it can be somewhat balenced already; stated in the first source "the whole electorial college has a total of 538 electors. The president you wish to elect has to have a majority of 270 electorial votes in order to win." That means they need to have 270 more votes than the other president too.
Finally, so should the electorial college be abolished? unless people can find ways to limit the loosing president to come back with electoral votes, then yes this system should be banned.
Sincerly,
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
af927c0 | i am all against driverless cars because there are many problems with this and there always will be, but for example cars will be more like trains. Yeah the cars will use half as much fuel as todays taxis, but I mean how would you drive to a secrect camping spot or something and there wouldnt be any more movies where a car crashes into a wearhouse because the car brakes as soon as it senses the wearhouse, and how would you out run the cops or some maniac in a car chase? you wouldnt. Our knowlegde on how to drive will change and there will be a generation that doesnt know how to drive manually for example it the article it says that and it would be pretty sad. The best way i can put it is it would be sad that it would be like we are losing or free will or our right to drive how we want. | 2 |
af97c77 | Why would we need technology to read our emotions? I'm against technology to read students. The technology to read emotion is useless and waste of time. Not only that computers doesn't know emotions unless it's operated in and most time it probably won't be right. Mostly students wise, why or how would it influence our students to grow and learn from that.
Technology reading our emotions won't benefit us from anything but waste of time and money.
Our home PC can't handle the complex algorithms that decode emotion which means advanced technology. Won't have enough money to support ourselves,the school and student. The article only gives reason examples of how the software works not why it's needed. Paragraph 6 states, ""Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," Nots Dr.Huang". Why would we have the need to ask computer to know how someone is feeling.
Computers aren't human and won't understand even if it was to read our emotions. They won't truely understand how we feel. In order for even the computer to read our emotions we need model of the faces and learn human anatomy for the muscles structure. "all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles." If we human can already tell the difference between other humans being expression than why would have the need to let computers know our emotions?
Students wouldn't learn anything from this technology. "Dr.Huang and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate." Wouldn't we want human to interact more with other human being and go explore each culture around the world more? Technology today already is influencing us a lot to connect with others and the technology around the world but as more technology are invented, humans would lose communication with other human beings.
In my opinion, technology itself and ourself is seperating us, human beings from each other and more closer to our technology. Human communication with another human is more enjoyable and better than to communicate with computers. Most of us would spend million of bucks to get the newest technology but not even a thousand or two to go out and explore the world to interact with other humans being. So no, I wouldn't value the technology that will influence students when they won't learn anything or benefit from. | 4 |
af9cca5 | The Facial Action Coding System is a new innovation that can change classrooms forever. Imagine lessons that are specifically designed to fit your learning style and interests. Using this technology, you can learn lessons that enhance as they go.
If you are in a class with a bunch of other students, the way the lesson is administered can be very generic. Some students may get bored with the way the lesson is being taught. By using the Facial Action Coding System, the computer can identify that a student is bored. It can then go on to modify the lesson to better engage the student. The methods that best help students learn are unique to each individual, so using this technology can make for more engaged and enthusiastic learners.
Some lessons can move too quickly or can simply be difficult to understand. The Facial Action Coding System can detect confusion in students and make changes to the lesson to help the student better understand. The technology can slow the lesson to a pace best suited for the individual. It can also modify the lesson so it is put into terms that the student easily understands. This allows students to move at their own pace and have a better understanding of what they are being taught.
The Facial Action Coding System can also detect when a student is enjoying their lesson. This information can be used to enhance teaching altogether by providing a baseline method for planning each lesson. It can be used to determine what methods are most commonly understood and allow for the modification of lessons for people that don't have access to the technology. By getting a baseline, the information can then be utilized in classrooms even without the technology.
Although there is no definite way to ensure that students will completely understand the things they are taught, the Facial Action Coding System can definitely enhance learning for a better understanding. By being able to detect satisfaction, confusion, and boredom in students the technology can allow more students to learn and enjoy what they're learning. | 4 |
af9cd90 | Wouldn't it be great to be able to drive to places without anyone actually driving? I think that would be fantastic! Today, I am going to talk about driverless cars. I think that driverless cars should continue to be developed because, they would make the world a more productive place, the cars are still in development and they would be cheaper in the long run.
First, I will talk about how they would make the world a more productive place. While we are driving we spend so much time paying attention to the road, but what if didn't have to? We would have that time to do other things, like maybe work on a new great project that could change the world. With driverless cars, taxi drivers wouldn't have a job. That means that they would have to find something else to do. They could become doctors and bring us back to health; They could become officers and protect us from the dangers in the world.
Next, I will talk about how they are still in development. I think that a lot of people are judging driverless cars by the way they are working now. We shouldn't give up on them so soon; Scientific discoveries happen all the time. Someone will find something that completely changes driverless cars for the better. Besides, they already show so much promise. In test drives, these cars could survive more than half a million miles without a crash. Mercedes Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have driverless cars by 2020. Let's wait until then to judge driverless cars.
Lastly, I will talk about how they are cheaper. The driverless cars that Google cofounder Sergey Brin foresees would use half the fuel we use today. Fossil fuels are becoming an issue, but what if we had one less use for them? Without the need for so much fuel that wouldn't be so much of an issue anymore, and we would have more time to plan for whenever the time may be that we run out of fossil fuels. Also, if we perfected the driverless car there will be a lot less crashes. Without so many crashes we wouldn't be paying for repairs as often. We also wouldn't pay for the medical bills and such associated with an automobile accident.
In conclusion, I think that we should keep working on driverless cars. We should keep developing them because, they would increase the world's productivity, they are cheaper in the long run and because they deserve a chance. It would be great to be able to drive somewhere without anyone actually driving. | 4 |
af9e3fd | driverless cars would in my view be a dangerous invention, why I feel this way is as a sudent driver I would feel more safe having a being with a consence and a soul rather then be at the mercy of technology
that could go wrong at any given time just as your iphone can give up on you in the same sence a car with no driver can do the same.
Wherefore if driverless cars come into use, and an acident may occure then who would be at fault the driver or the manufactor?
In this since lets say their is a driver behind the wheel with this technology and theirs a problem the car and as the car begins to malfunction the driver tries to get control of the vehicle but its to late the car
crashes killing the driver or an inoccent bystander who's fault is it the technology or the person, at first people might say the machine but if the person had a chance to control the car but did not then who takes the blame.
Those are thoughts that would go through my mind if i were for this invention and to people who beileve in this technology it would be smart to take into consideration would you rather be in control of your life or a machine. | 2 |
afa4abd | The use of the the Facial Action Coding System technology in a classroom is valuable. The FACS helps people read the emotional expressions of other people. This is valuable in a classroom because it can let teachers know how students are feeling of the lesson they are being teached and it can help them know how students are feeling in general.
One reason why the FACS is a great technology in a classroom because it can let teachers know how the students are feeling towards their lesson they are teaching to them. When students are being teached something, they some times show expressions on how they feel but tend to hide them. "A classroom computer can recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. This can help teachers find out why aren't students understanding the subject; they can either be bored or confused. Students are some times scared to ask for help, but teachers knowing when students are confused, he teacher can help them individually. This is a great tool to use when students are failing classes, or having trouble understanding a lesson. Without the FACS many students could be failing their classes due to not knowing what they are doing. It is helpful for teachers to recoginze the students expression towards the subject, so they can figure out if students are confused. Knowing that tecahers can give them extra help.
Another reason is it can help other people in the classroom figure out how their classmates are feeling. Students aren't always happy and some times have something tough going on with their lifes, they need that little motaviation
to help them feel happy. "Imagine being able to detect exactly how other people are feeling, even when they are tryingto hide their emotions," notes Nick. Some times classmates aren't really feeling happy, they could often have trouble smiling for several reasons. The technology can help others know how they are feeling so they can help other people with their problems they are facing. The FACS is very useful for students who have friends in their class. Friends some times lie about their emotions. The FACS can let them know their emotions and can help them if they show saddness.
In conclusion the Facial Action Coding System to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. It is helpful in many ways. It helps teachers know when students are confused and are hvaing trouble understandin the lesson. It also helps classmates know how their friends in the classroom are feeling, by finding out their expression. | 4 |
afb061d | Dear State Senator,
I think that you should keep the Electoral College because people want to vote for who they want as president. People dont just want to have anybody as president they want to have someone that they thinks knows what they are doing, they want to vote for that person to become president. They vote for the slate of electors who in turn elect the president. You should keep this going because when I get older I want to vote and im pretty shore that theres other people who want to vote when they get older to. You should keep the Electoral College going. Another reason is we want to have a president that we can trust. We just want to vote for who we want to. We just dont want anybody to be president. The Electoral College is a non-democratic method so there may be know reason we should shut it down. Please dont shut the Electoral College down, you should keep it going and not ever shut it down. Everything else about the Electoral College is good. This is my letter of why we should keep the Electoral College going and I hope that it will keep going.
Sinceraly, Kevon | 2 |
afb25f6 | Hello my name is luke soon after I graduated My best friend asked me to join a program were we help victims of World War II.My first impression of the ship was that it did not look good but as soon as I got in it was pretty nice there was a man waiting for us to give us the keys to our rooms and work clothes.
The first trip I went on I had to feed the animals, wash their pins, and check on them on the hour. The job I had was not as bad
as it sounds their pins were actually clean the majority of the time so I really did not have to do much work, beside handing out food and checking on the animals.
In our free time on the ship we could play baseball, volleyball, widling, and basketball. when we get to our stop we get off deliver the animals to the victims of the war. After were done with that we get back on the ship for another three weeks to go back to America.
When we get back we spend two to three months at home then we go on another trip. When they called me to notify me about the next trip and that the boat was leaving in three days I had to hurry up and get my stuff packed. I got my friend Don from his house and we drove New Orleans and boarded the SS Charles and headed of two see
this time aboard I had night watch duty so I had two check on the animals hourly and see if they were okay. when we were done with helping people we had free time so Don and I went to visit some national landmarks. It was a wonderful experience for me I had a lot of fun helping people and seeing the landmarks like the Panama Canal, an excavated castle in Crete, and I alsogot to take a gandola ride in Venice,Italy.
that is why I think you should go on the tour it is a fun time helping people and it is a great experience to tour the world. that is why u should join. | 4 |
afb3938 | NASA is over reacting over this face on mars because they think aleins did it, they been taking alot of photos, and they been showing it to the public. NASA should stop this because it could be just a natural landform.
NASA thinks aliens made the face because it looks like a face. Studys show that it could be a natural landform like a butte or a mesa just like we have on planet Earth. NASA argues that aliens could be hiding their markings behind a haze. Critics argue that it could be a natural landform. NASA took a photo of the face and it appeared to look like a butte or mesa.
NASA should stop taking photos of the face because they already have enough pictures of the face to look at. In 1976 the took a photo of the face by using Viking 1. Nasa argues that they can get better views when take new photos. critics argue that you dont need that much of photos to figure out what the face is. In 2001 they used the Viking to take a photo of the face and they got back a good photo. It showed that it was a natural landform and it looked like a butte or a mesa.
NASA should stop showing it to the public because they know what the face is, and people dont need to worry about it. The face starred in a Hollywood film, and appeared in books. NASA argues that they need to get the information out to people. Critics argue that people dont need to worry about it and get freaked out about it. The face was on talk shows, checkout lines for 25 years, and in magazines. This shows that the face was out in the public for people to see.
In conclusion NASA is over reacting over this face on mars because they think aliens did it, they been taking alot of photos, and they been showing it to the public. I think NASA should stop taking photos and reasearching the face because its a butte or a mesa. | 3 |
afb761e | Would the use of technology to read emotional express be valuable in class?
The use of technnolgy is very useful in th classroom, it helps students with many tasks. Using tecnology to read emotional expressions would be great way of helping teachers knowing how their student feels during class or during a lession. The process of using to technology to read emotions is when a computer conducts a 3-D computer model of the face. The face has 44 major muscels that the computer memorises. Eckman has classified 6 basic emotions "happiness, surprise, anger, digust, fear, and sadness".
Most facial expressions are universal, even though many people show many kinds of emotion video imagry can track these kinds of facial movements. When you look a friends you can tell how their feeling by the look on their face. But most people struggle at describing how they feel. Using this technology at school will let teachers know if a student is having a bad day and they can help them feel better or make their day better. Classrooms can start by having a Classroom computer letting the teacher know if a student is understanding the lession by their facial expression. If most of the class show a facial expression that they are not understanding the lession the teacher may change the lesson to make sure students learn it. Most students in class room are to shy or pershaps scared to answer or question thinking they will get it wrong, with new technology teachers will know how the students feels about gettin answers wrong or feeling shy in the class room. | 3 |
afbbbf8 | Think about the time you felt extremely tired. That time where you could barely keep your eyes open, everything you heard was a blob, because you were simply zoned out. You were feeling tired. For me this time would be sitting in my english class learning about Shakespeare. I felt as if the time were never ending in that class. Students all around me had the same facial expression on them. Facial expressions are a huge key of communication. When you are out in public you see many faces around, and you can easily assume their emotions and what they are feeling. With technology being a huge factor in tody's society, we can now use it to determine someone's emotion. I believe that using technology to read emotional expressions on students could really bring forth value in classrooms.
Students all over the school have different things going on. They show and deplict off different emotions at an instant. Sometimes these emotions make it hard for students to concentrate in class during instructions or new lessons given by the teachers. Referring back to the article, "Making Mona Lisa Smile", Nick D'Alto, the writer, writes about a new software called the Facial Action Coding System. The new sytem was developed to determine the accuracy of emotions of people around us. If this software were to be implemented in our school, then this could be an advantage in shaping a better society. The software will help teachers determine the emotions students are feeling at the time of lecture. D'Alto quotes Dr. Huang, of the Beckham Institute for Advanced Science at the University of Illinois, predicting that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". Once recognizing the emotions of the student, Dr. Huang continues predicting that the software can "Then modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This will help better the student's understanding in a certain subject without feeling sidetracked or confused with the activites of the teacher.
Although many may argue that the use of this software may bring negative impacts, many like the high cost of implementing it to a public school for everyone to use, or what if the software doesn't work? I could reply by stating that students struggle daily in trying to understand a certain subject in school, this leads them to fail classes or simply drop out of high school. Developing this new software will help students understand their lessons in school and stay focused. The software will also help counselors and teachers determine the emotions of their students. Sadly, many high schoolers have committed suicide because people don't understand what they are feeling, implementing this software to schools will help reduce the rate of suicides and drop outs. In paragraph four of the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the writer states "By weighting the different units, the software can even indentify mixed emotions." This could help people to better understand each other.
In conclusion, technology has greatly impacted our society and future generations. Things all over us are changing, some changes are good and most may even bring forth new ideas, many like this new software. Placing this new software in schools will help keep them out of confusion with their emotions and education. By the use of this software, students will no longer be falling asleep because the software will help the students concentrate better by adjusting to the abilities of the student to learn. The new system will also help decrease the rate of suicide and drop outs in schools. Implementing new technology will only help make our future better. If we have the chance in changing the world and societies for the better, why not start by understanding each other and our emotions? | 5 |
afc9a75 | Driverless cars may be in out near future. I personally think that driverless cars will be a neat addition to the worlds automobiles, but may also be bad due to of safety issues.
Fully automated acrs may be a cool idea depending on hopw manufactures persue these ideas. Immagine needing to go on a long trip and not having to stay awake for the whole drive, then immedately crashing when you get to your destination. immagine being able to sleep while you travel the world in the comfort of your own car. Imagine not having to focus on the rad at all and be able to take part in conversations and games while driving on the road. this could be our future, but may not be a a very safe one.
In the story it says,"Presently, Traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in controll at all times." I agree with this statement because what would happen if an automated car "looses connection"or "dies while on the road" resulting in a collision causting people their lives? who would be at fault? You? the Manufacturer? things like this have to be discused before you can even think about seeing a fully automated car in any future. Regulations need to be set so we can pass laws that allow SAFE automated cars in all of the world.
Automated cars will be a neat idea to bring to life, but it might be a little bit further into the future than you might think, but it may be the next big step in public transportaton. All we need to do is to figure out what to do if something happens while on the road. | 3 |
afd6035 | Driverless Cars in my opinion is a little off the charts due to the fact many things can happen. The author states that
" If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufactureer?" And the Author states that;
"Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." Driverless cars is a bad idea.
Driverless cars are off the chart because some states such as : California, Nevada, Florida , and the District of Columbia have led the country in allowing limited use of semi-autonomous cars. Now thats nowhere near half the country. If driverlsess cars do go on there will need to be more laws and regulations. Driverless cars are off the chart for many ways and reasons.
The author states that " If technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer? I personally think it would be the manufactuers fault for 1, making the product. 2, not knowing all things that can go wrong in accidents. And 3, not being able to help the driver out in sisutations like accidents,or traffic jams. Manufacturers would be in charge do to the fact they made the car and they should know everything that goes with the car both good and bad.
Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. This statement I feel is so True because if a human isnt in charge of the car then there are many chances bad stuff will happen. But in reality theres a human behind all the computer work and GPS's . But as a person not driving yet I feel if a car is controlled by computers it can cause and led to many accidents and injuries. So Driverless cars is a bad idea and will aqumilate many accidents and injuries. | 3 |
afe12bb | Dear Mr. Sentaor, Personaly I believe we should keep the Electoral College. Because it would be better for our country. The Electoral College is a process. This process consists of the selection of electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice presient. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is require to elect the president. Under the 23rd Amendment of the constitution, the District of Columbia allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College.
I am aware that the Electoral College has some flaws but nothings ever gonna be just the way you want right? Under the electoral college system, votetrs vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. Also the electoral college is unfair to voters. It is unfair becuase of the winner-take-all system in each state. Candidates dont go to states they know there not going to win in. The Electoral College is outdated and irrational. But the best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality.
In addition there are also good things about this electoral system. For Example, the Electoral College resotres some of the weight in the politcial balance that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the senate decreed in the constitution. The Electoral College also avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recevies a majority of the vostes cast.
Furthermore, The Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state Democrats. But of Course no voter's vote swings a national election American population did vote in 2012 election.
In conclusion these are the resons why I believe that we should keep the Electoral College. | 2 |
afe183e | Making new discoveries can be hard at times. Especially if there are a lot of obsticles that are in the way, it can be quite difficult. We have an entire universe to discover, such as planets that can be further looked into. The planet Earth has two planets that are very close at times. One of which we already have looked far into so why not look into the second planet that is closest, Venus.
Venus is a planet that we are able to see from Earth, even if some of us aren't professional stargazers. This planet is very close to us at times and is why it can be somewhat easy for us to see. From what we have been able to see from this planet, is that Venus is a, "cloud draped world." As we have looked father into it, NASA can tell that there are mountains, valleys, craters, and also has rocky sediment. The look of Venus has similar things as Earth does. The way that Venus looks, it seems that it would a cool and different place to live.
With every good thing comes a bad thing. Venus looks like it would be a good place to live but also has some flaws. The spacecrafts that have gone have been unmaned. It's good that they were because Venus gets very hot. Although Mercury is closer to the sun, Venus still gets hotter. The reasoning for this is because of all the gasses that are surrounding it.
Having another planet that we could be able to go to would be extrordinary. With technology always evolving, I have no doubt that we will be able to visit Venus one of these days. Since we are always evolving, we could find ways of being able to go to Venus despite the dangers. If NASA has been able to go to Mars, then in a matter of no time we should be able to go to Venus. Venus could be the second Earth, we are twins in terms of density and size.
I think that what the author was stating in the passage could really be put to use. Even though there might be a few flaws along the way, I think that we would be able to go to Venus if we kept persuing it. If NASA is always looking into new ways of spacecrafts going to Venus, they could find a way for the spacecraft to safely go there. After that then they could look into more things on Venus and make new discoveries. Venus would be a great idea to keep persuing. | 3 |
afe48e0 | In the article of the Mona Lisa smile, there is a new technology called Facial Action Coding System (FACS). It read Mona Lisa smile symply from a computer software and tells what percentage of their emotion she is in. According to the article this can give you any details of a person in paragraph 6 "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confured or bored." I actually think that is smart because any you cant see when a person is sad but they have a smile in their face. It tells you how they are feeling that exact time.
For instance humans perform the same emotion everyday either if you are happy or sad. In the article it says that they are "44 muscles just like human muscles" that can tell your emotion and the percentage of ur emotion. Sometimes they compared it to a real a nuetral face to see the difference. Or it can go the other way if the person in not smiling they can put a smile of its face.
In the article that FACS can create your status about how you feeling that day if your sad or happy. It explains that Mona Lisa that could be sad but still have a smiling. | 2 |
afea0e5 | May 19,1950 9:30 A.M.
"Wow, I Just had a dreamed about when I started to become a seagoing cowboy, man those were the doy days." "Well time for breakfast" I said. Then Like went downstairs and ate some bread. Then I went outside and went to the store and buy some food. Then he went to his family's house to talk to some of the visitors.
May 20, 1950 11:00 A.M.
the next day I got up and did the some the same thing as yesterday but today was a bit different because today My friend Don was trying to find me. Don was able to find me at the ice shop and said that we need to go the Seagoing cowboys program today to teach any of the people who has signed up.
1:34 P.M.
When got there, the place when they held the program was different becaue no one was there. Then we was a sign that said" ANY EXPERIENCED SEAGOING BOYBOYS COME IN." "Ok then" said Don. Then we When inside there were some old Seagoing Cowboy I remenber.
1:40 P.M. 1950
Then an old man got up and said, " Thank you you all for coming, I am her to tell you than we need your help." "What kind of help?" asked some Seagoing Cowboy. Well we need you all to go on a little trip back to Europe to help some People out over there becuase some the Students over there needs some adive about some of the jobs you did back in 1945. "Ok, sure thing" said most of the Seagoing cowboys. but some of the rest asked 'what, why??" Well the ship leaves the next day so pack some of your things you well need.
May 21, 1950 Noon
Don and I got on the Ship and into a bunk room. "Well just like old times" said Don
"yup" I said back. "Well I am going to explore the ship do you come?" I asked. "How about we unpack out things." Don said "Ok" I said.
June 2, 1950 9:00
"there is a thunder storm out side I wonder if lighing is going to hit the ship?" I asked. The odds of that .. BOOOM!!! Then the alarm came one and said everyone to get to the life boats. Don and I tried to pack our thing but we only pack hlaf of our things and that fell over board while we got in to the life boats.
June ? 1950 ?:??
Don and I woke up one the beach of a nearby city with a few Seagoing Cowboys. "Where are we??" asked Don "I don't know" I said. | 1 |
aff4169 | I believe the face ia a natural landform because other planets have rock formations that look like certain things but now that there is one that looks like a face they think that it is alien related. As stated in the text," ...few scientist thought that it was an alien artifact...". There could be no alien relations to it. It could just be a rock formation that formed itself into a face over time.
As stated in the text,"A few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see." So basically NASA wanted to put it out in the public to get publicity and to attract attention. As stated in the text,"...it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars." So as the end result it did attract attention and it became a pop icon.
it turned out that alot of people were wrong because as staed in the text,"...when the image first appeared on a JPL web site,revealing...a natural landform."there turned out to be no alien monument at all. So most peoples theory about it being alien related was wrong and they found that out once they saw the website. It was just a unique landform on Mars almost like most planets. | 2 |
aff6bdc | I think that they should have more people join/help with the Seagoing Cowboys program.
I think they should have more peoople beacuse then it will incluse having more help instead of having so many animals with not so amny opeople. For example, if you had ten/10 cows and one/1 person then it would be harder . But if you had al least five/5 people helping then you would have half as many which might/would have a big effect on how much more help is nedded/wanted.
What if you put it at a diffrent point/thought. As in, what if those cows and horses were going to little kids? And they were for example going to use them for 4-H because if then would it make other people want to join? For the kids sake? Would you think that would make more people join? More people help? More people to "get involved"?
I think if we brought it to people's attention that, joining this could possibly "save an animal". If you really think about it you could even save a farm, because cows produce milk and some poeple cant even afford milk and thing that you could get from these animals that are in this program. The following problem about the farm.
And a cool part about helping would be you could go overseas if you join the program. And if you have a mind like Luke then, as qouted in this passage " I would be glad to have this opertunity. And another great benifit out of helping/joining, is as said in the story, "Table-Tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and alson games to help times to pass by.
"It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs". And if you think about it with this being quoted/said in the passage it could teach people a real lesson about others inneed of others help. So this could be
"Learning Opertunity". So this is could teach people another reason on how they arent the only ones ineed.
All these reasons are things that support my answer on how I think that they should have more pople join/help in the Seagoing Cowboys Program. | 2 |
aff76f4 | What is the Face
What made the face? Was it aliens or just a coqencedince? People have been asking this same question ever sence 1976. Well, in my opinion i think that it is just a big coquencedence. The photo has been inhaced so much that you can tell in just a mountain or rock but defently not a symble of alian life.
The face of mars is defentilly just a rock formation in 1976 when the rock formation was found they thought it was a coquencidence and they were right. In 1998 they took another photo of the "Face of Mars" they had a beter camera with more pixels in it. This photo still does look like a face but you can also kinda see it starting took look like a mountain. Then the last photo that was taken of the "Face of Mars" was in 2001 and you can obviosly see that the so called face is just rock formation. The authore put this quote of someone from nasasay this As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size, he added. So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!". As you can see the even people at nasa dont even belive that it could be a monument of anything. The aouther of this passage also says "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesalandforms common around the American West.". Again as you can see the so called face is just coquencedence.
Some people still belive that this rock formation is a symbol of alian life. There main aurgument is that "NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorists.", and all i have to say about that is if there was life on mars nasa would be the first one to say somthing they dont relize that NASA would make so much money off of it.
The most recent photo of the Face has shown that if it was civilized we would see it. As you can see that the "The Face of Mars" is just a rock formation. People think that its a big conspiristy theroy, but it isnt its just a big coquencedence. If there is Alians out there and some way its a symbol I just hope next time they make it a little more clear. | 3 |
affa314 | Emotions are something everyone expierences everyday. On some people, emotions are hard to see by observing. However, on others people, emotions can easily be seen. Computers that can calculate emotions allows for humans to know instead of guessing a persons' emotions.
Humans and computers have been existing together for a long time. Computers have helped humans keep information safe and gain more knowledge. Computers have always been known to do just that; keep information and knowlegde. But is that all computers are good for? In the article it states, "Dr. Huang and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate." This line demonstrates that experts are developing new technology that could allow for computers to interact more with humans. By developing the technology, new opportunities will arise and improve the quality of life.
A common issue in this era is people accusing others of doing something they did not do. If someone accuses another of an emotion, that could possibly make the person mad even if that was not their original emotion. In the text it states, " 'Most human communication is nonverbal, inlcluding emotional communication,' " This line supports that humans tend not to communicate. Therefore, accsuing someone of a certain emotion could be wrong. Another line in the text states, "Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc.", This line proves humans have trouble recongnizing certain facial expressions. Without the help of computers, humans struggle to read emotions of people such as their friends. However, happy, sad, anger, worry, etc. are not the only emotions especially for a teen.
During school, teenagers show mutiple emotions. Some may be more obvious than others. A common emotion for teens in school is boredom or confusion. Sometimes a student does so well at hiding it that the teacher does not know what they are feeling. Which is why computers could help figuring out the emotions. In the text it states, " 'A classroom computer could recongnize when a student is becoming confused or board, ' Dr. Huang predicts." This line demonstrates that students can get bored and confused with what they are doing in class. A teacher may change their teaching style but some may not know what is going on inside the students mind. This quote states, "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more exspensive-for video games or video surgery." This line supports that showing emotions when in front of a computer screen will have a wide variety of benefits. Showing facial expression could possibly improve games and other online tasks.
Computers have improved many things in life. Calculating emotions is one of many amazing abilities of technology. By donating money to experts, who develop new technology, can allow them to create more ideas and show the world the successful invention. | 4 |
b0066a7 | How would you feel if we had a technlology to read students?
face
I feel like that technology can't tell if you happy, sad, anger, or disgusted by anything because you can just make any face in it can just say what it is i mean i'm not saying that technology not smart now days, i know that technology can do all type of things i feel like we don't need them type of thing in the classroom. I feel like people don't want to show they feelings a lot of people want keep things to they self.
We all want keep a lot of thing to are self the face scan reading people emotional not right but if people something deep i feel like you should share because you can't hide a lot in things in life i feel like it the sametime we should and shouldn't have this face scaning emotional.
I feel like people think it good to have for them self i feel like we should get it because a lot of human perform this impressive "calclulation" everyday because you can probably tell how friend is feeling simply by look on her face. But to be on the safe side we can tell how people are doing because some people be lying about how they feel.
Would you every use technology to read students emotional?
Yes so i can tell how they are doing and if the feeling well or bad today i feel like students should show they feeling because we would know how i person feel intel they tell us. | 2 |
b006918 | Technology has it now to where it can take an image and define how much and what kinds of expressions are being made. Some say that this can help in the classroom, but will it really? I do not believe it will because yes, it is a neat feature and all and it can help but it will be too expensive, standard computers will not be able to handle this feature, and ultimately, it will not aid the students in reading comprehention.
I really like the idea behind this Facial Action Coding System, or FACS, but I truly believe that it will cost far too much money. How will the poorer schools be able to pay for technology that uses this feature? They will not be able to just pay for the programming, but all new computers instead. From what this is sounding like, it will not be cheap either.
With its "complex algorithms," your computer that you use at home for your everyday use cannot maintain this programming. Even with today's super high-tech equipment, you still will not be able to do it. I do, however, believe that one day as our technology improves more and more, that it just might be possible to run this FACS program on your everyday PCs. Until that day comes though, you will most likely have to spend a fortune just to have this feature.
All English teachers teach their students about proper grammar and teach them about improving reading comprehention. If all of these schools transfer over to these computers with the FACS system, it will not help. This program has a contant running video camera that can tell when you are appearing confused or bored. As 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." When you express these emotions, it will take the level of the lesson down to make it easier to understand. With doing this, you can just appear like that all the time so that way you do not have to read at the level in which you are supposed to be reading at.
It is appearant that I am against having the Facial Action Coding System to be brought into our schools because it is too expensive, your standard computers cannot hold the programming, and it will not aid in students' reading comprehention. For these reasons solely, that is why I am against this programming. | 4 |
b00bbd3 | In 2005, the number of miles driven in the United States peaked. All of those miles contributed to global warming by emitting green house gases. Germany, France, and Bogota have realized the effects of driving cars and are taking action. There are many advantages to limiting car usage.
Since the mid-1990's Bogota has has been celebrating The Day Without Cars. This program had millions of columbians hiking, biking, skating, or taking buses to the places they needed to go. Car-free day left the streets free of traffic jams. Once Bogota stated to reduce car usage, they replaced the narrow, uneven sidewalks with smooth, wide ones. Throughout the city new restaurants, shopping districts, and even parks and sports centers have bloomed. About 7 million people participated in Bogota's Car-free Day.
A city in Germany called Vauban has given up their cars. Vauban's streets are completely car-free. "70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here," says Elisabeth Rosenthal. Vauban is a growing trend in Europe and the Unites States. Since there are no cars in Vauban, stores were placed withing walking distance.
Paris, France banned driving due to smog. Robert Duffer states, "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." The car banning started on a Monday. Drivers who did not comply were fined 22-euros ($31). Nearly 4,000 drivers were fined and 27 people had their cars impounded. After five days of intensifying smog, congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France. However, citizens did complain about the inconvenience so exceptions were made for hybrids and plug-in cars. The smog cleared enough for the ruling French party to rescind the ban.
Barack Obama's goals to curb the United Sates' greenhouse gas emission unveiled last week and will make a shift in American behavior. Recent studies show that Americans are buying fewer cars and getting fewer licenses. Passanger 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. Limiting car usage has many advantages. The advantages include less greenhouse gasses, less smog, closer shopping areas, less traffic, and a healthier environment. | 2 |
b013adf | When cars were first introduced into society it was the most awestruck phenomenon to occur. There was nothing better than the sight of a person's first car and the feeling of independence that came with it. But now that technology has shorten distances between countries and has made telecommuncation so much more accessible. People should engage in limiting their car usage becuase it betters personal health, improves the enivronment, and leads to economic prosperity while still gaining all the benefits that come from using a car.
When the usage of cars is limited it often leads to better health benefits. This is true becuase when people are restricted on their driving it forces them to resort to healthier, more proactive altertnatives. For example, instead of driving somewhere people are now having to get out and walk or ride a bike. This leads to regular exercise without having to think about it and decreases overall stress levels. In the article "In German Suburb, Life Goes on Without Cars" Heidrum Walter, a media trainer and mother of two explained, "When I had a car I was always tense, I'm much happier this way". Heidrum, a citizen of the Vauban community in which everyone has given up their cars, describes how the non-usage of cars has bettered her life and in turn has actually made her a happier person. In addition, when a high usage of cars is present it creates brutual smog that can perpetuate health issues. In the aricle "Paris bans driving due to smog" Robert Duffer states how congestion lead to smog in Beijing in which he states "Beijing, China is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world". The impact of this is that when people are more active and choose not to exasterbate their driving usage, it will lead to global decreases in smog and in fat related illnesses such as obesity, high blood plessure, diabetes, and other various things that have plagued the nation and taken the lives of so many people.
Limiting Motor Vehicles usage reduces the amount of carbon emissions and pollution in the air. Cars exert so much greenhouse gas emissions that degrades the air in the environment. In the article "In German Suburb, Life goes on Without Cars" Elisabeth Rosenthal gives the analogy that, "...an increasing number of private cars owned by the burgeoning middles class are choking cities". Elisabeth Rosenthal further quantifies the extent to which cars have increasing become the culprit of pollution, "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States". The impact of this is that when cars are used less often it betters the environment which is what mankind relies on for survival.
An increase in a healthy workforce and better environmental communities leads to greater economic prosperity. When people choose to drive less it often creates a riple effect. This is true because a healthier workforce is present it leads to more productivity. In addition, a more prosperous environment and less pollution exerted decreases operational costs. As a result Andrew Selsky in his article "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" explains the various economic effects that less car usage has made, "Parks and sports centers have bloomed throughout the city.....and new restaurants and upscale shopping distrcits have cropped up". The impact of this is that with more economic leverage communities are more equipped to invest and strengthen other areas such as education and job creation.
In conclusion, people should limit their driving and/or car usage because it provides three benefits. First, when people have to resort to proactive alternatives it improves their person health and decreases stress levels. Second, not using cars eliminates all the environmental harms that come from a car such as greenhouse gas emissions. And lastly, when people are more active and the enivronment is no longer depleted, communities experience greater economic longevity. | 5 |
b015474 | You should go to the Seagoing Cowboys program. You should go there, because you get to see all over the world. For xample that shows you get to go all over the world is that, Luke went to China, the Atlanic Ocean, and the United States of America. Another example is that you get to go with your friends sometimes to trips on a boat, like when Luke went to Europe with Don. Also Luke went to go to different Countries and States, that's way more fun other then just saying in one country and state.
You should also go to Seagoing Cowboys program, because you get to see different animals and plants, that where unloaded on the boat from different states and countries. Maybe if you went to this program you would get to see different animals and plants from different States and Countries. Plus Luke crossed the Atlantic and Pacific twice to help people affected by World War ll. Sometime these program can be fun,and sometimes it can show you lessons ,and sometimes you just have to help people that doesn't have a life like you.
In conclusion, this shows why some kids for example Luke went to the Seagoing Cowboys program. These kids went to this program, because it is fun and exciting. This program is an opporunity of a lifetime, it gives you a ton of fun and excitment, and it can help you learn and get better in school, and education.
Do you think the Seagoing Cpwboys program is fun, and would you go to the Seagoing Cowboys program? | 3 |
b019bb7 | Dear Florida State Senator
With all do respect i dont think having the electoral college is a proper way to nominate a president, or any senate for our country.
i strongly agree that we should have the idea of changing it to election by popularity. to be known as a good person or a good citizen in your state or anywhere you have to be a great rolemodel & an excellent example to our world. From what i discovered in a passage electoral college is unfair.
who are the electors ? and who picks out the electors ? it dependes on the state. voters sometimes vote for there electores but sometimes the voters get confused on who they voted on. somtimes the wrong candiate.
yes i do think that people who are running for president and senate should have the right to have a chance to become something big, but in my perspective i think that peoiple who is known and well common to there state will be a better outcome to whatever they run for. its like for an example, we live in the Florida state , we've know a woderful and handsome man that helps around our state and town of plant city, giving us more and devoring most of his time helping the enviroment and creating a diffrence. The man would have a greater chance of being nomitanted to being a president unlike the other man who only came out of his shell a year ago and have no idea what this man is capable of. Who will we have better trust on?
When you win a contest or a bet we usally get what we accomplished for, when a elector wins , it takes all. well only the electoral collge works up on this. so please state senator, please change the process on how we are voting now, i think it would be alot more acceptable to vote on a preident on popularity. The united sates wants to be in the hands of a trusted person and someone the whole world can look upond. | 2 |
b01c708 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author explains that studying Venus is a worthy approach despite the dangers. The author impressively supports that the mission to Venus is worth it despite the dangers that might come with it. In the article he provides examples, uses a credible source, and also views the other side. By doing these things it made his point credible and also stronger to the reader.
In the article he provides the example of a floating car above venus to show that a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the conditions but it would provide little sight. He uses to example to illustrate what it would be like to avoid the conditionsby showing this is what the would have to do. He also provides examples to an alternative by saying that there could be electronics to avoid the risks. By providing both of these examples it gives the reader some relateable examples to get an insight into his point.
NASA is a world wide administration that has credibility over the course of its govern. By providing examples of what NASA is doing to show that it should be done, then if NASA is working on it then it makes his point credible. He quotes NASA'S approches on studying Venus so that it can avoid the risks to show that it is possible to explore Venus without the risks. A NASA solution would be that a person could float above the fray. They also have considered sending electronices so it is possible. He saying that it might be difficult but it is attainable. This supports the claim that he supports his claim impresively because he uses sources.
In most arguments the person views the other side so that they can provide an alternative to what they are saying. He uses cons such as no mission has had a man, 97% of carbon dioxide blankets Venus, the temperature is 90 times greater than Earth, and that it could crash a submarine. But then he says that Venus has benefits to that out way the dangers. The benfits include: it is the brightest point, it is close to Earth compared to other space travels, long ago it could support life, and it will expand the edges of imagination and innovation. He provides benefits to out weigh the cons of exploring Venus. He does a great job of explaining why exploring Venus has value and can provides insight to other counter arguments that might rise from others opionions. This is why he does an impressive job supporting his argument.
In conclusion, the author provided points in the argument to make the opinion more credible and also stronger to the reader. In the article the author provided examples, a wide known credible source, and viewed the other side. He impressively supported his opinon that the mission to Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers. Without his evidence to suppport his opinion the article would have not had such an impact on the reader. This is why he did an impressive job supporting his idea. | 5 |
b01e9df | You've been waitng for six months now and today is finally the day you take your driver's test. You are beyond excited because you finally get to drive without your parents. There is something so exciting about being behind the wheel because you are the only one in control. Being able to drive your own car car feels awesome. Driverless cars do not get you that same feeling as if you were in complete control. I am against the development of driverless cars, because the driver isn't in control, technology screws up, and who's to blame in the scene of an accident?
There is something so satisfying about being able to drive your own car. Knowing you are in complete control can be a little scary.
Being the person in control can make you more responsible and aware of your surroundings. Driverless cars are not like that, even though they can alert you when there is complicated traffic, you could still doze off or be in the middle of watching a movie. When Google can make cars completely driverless what is the point of "keeping your eyes on the road" if the car is already doing that for you.
Technolgy today is very impressive and has come a long way, but still isn't as perfect as the human senses. If you are "driving" down the road in a driverless car and you fall asleep. All of a sudden the car crashes because dirt flew into one of the sensors. If you were actually driving the car you would have been able to avoid this situation and been aware of the surroundings. There will always be glitches in technolgy and something could always go wrong.
In case of an accident who is to blame, the company or the person in the car?
Well it is a driverless car, right?, so the driver should be able to do things that normaly can't be done when driving. The company of the driverless car might say it was the drivers fault becasue they were asleep or texting. In general there will be conflict between who's fault it was. In reality if it was a normal car it would have been the driver's fault.
Driverless cars wouldn't be able to give you the thrill of being behind the wheel, technolgy is not perfect, and in the event of an accident who is to blame. Driverless cars really show how developed technolgy has become. When it comes to safety, we already have drunk drivers so the roads don't need driverless cars getting into accidents as well. | 3 |
b02736f | Many people believe that owning and using a car or other motorized vehicles is an advantage. But is it really? Citizens might be able to get somewhere faster or not have to exert the energy to get there. But is it worth polluting the air, taking up all that space and creating traffic and frustrated citizens, and creating the mindset of a lazy, human being? Maybe instead of spending money on a car, citizens wouldn't be in as much debt, some kids might have college already paid for, and some citizens have their housing paid for. Therefor, this is making happier, stress-free, citizens.
The pollution of the air is a major arguement for people who support the non-usage of cars or other motorized vehicles. In Source 1: In Germany Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars, Elisabeth Rosenthal claims that motorized vehicles play a major part in the pollution of the air. Rosenthal says that Europe is responsible 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the United States is resposible for up to 50 percent.
Most of the time, traffic causes a driver to be frustrated. What causes traffic? Vehicles. So why does everybody drive them? In small, well-populated suburbs, traffic is a major issue. With the dense population and the majority of those citizens driving vehicles, traffic is very easily created. Thus, making more citizens frustrated and creating road rage. Road rage also causes more accidents which causes more deaths. Making driving, a dangerous thing. Although, citizens still drive motorized vehicles. Most of the time it is to get to a certain place in a short amount of time, but if a destination is closer than one mile, there is no excuse to use a vehicle to get there. But most citizens do. This creates a lazy mind set.
The average cost of a brand new car is roughly $30,000. If citizens avoid buying a car, it would be a great benifit for them. $30,000 can payoff college, or help with bills or debt, or payoff housing. With more money, this creates happier, and less stressed citizens.
The creation of "car dues", and "car-free days" could make a huge difference in the environment, economy, saftey, traffic, and even the health and stress of a citizen. Although most people still believe that having a car is an advantage, it can be. But not having a car or not using a car as much is a much greater advantage. Not just to an individual, but to society as a whole. | 4 |
b02a203 | it would be fun to take the pertunity because you get to see new places and new sights and you get to live like a cowboy. for a wile and that would be fun to do if you normaly arent. countryand you get to do new thing such as riding horses and stacking hay.
And it would also be intersting, becaseu you get to new thinks like syack hay ride a horese agian and you get to live driffrent like get up early and you got to feed the, animals and you got to drees diffrent like put on boots so that you dont get muddy.
And there is something eles in valved the war when the war was over they had to give out food becaseu every thing was disrioed so they had to give out food and give out stuff that was needed.
And that is why it would be fun interesting and dangrous so next time never move somewere there is going to be a war | 2 |
b02d2d6 | Cars are like beneficial disadvantages; they allow you to arrive at your destination in a short amount of time, but they add to the world's pollutions growing issue. Individuals in every single part of the world own cars and millions of cars are on our streets and highways daily. Whether it is to comute to work or visit a friend in the next town over, individuals are constantly on the road. While cars do simplify our lives today, in the near future cars will become a burden, due to the amount of pollution they produce and the stress they cause upon individuals. Limiting car usage in all parts of the world will bring more joy and persistent smiles.
Cars play a dramatic role in the amount of pollution that is in our air today. Which is also essential for our survival. Limiting car usage will decrease the amount of pollution we have today and the disgusting greenhouse gas emissions. "Up to 50 percent" of green house gas emissions alone are caused by car-intense areas in the United States acknowledged by Elisabeth Rosenthal, in the article "
In German Suburb, Life goes on Without Cars
". Furthermore, in the capital of France due to "intensifying smog 60 percent" of the individuals were in a severe traffic jam explained by Robert Duffer, in "
Paris band driving due to smog
". The smog was caused by cold nights and warm days and the warmer layer of air enprisoning car emissions and pollutuion; pollutions being caused by over usage of cars, meaning car usage should be limited if not haulted all at once.
Individuals participating in events like Car-free day and living in towns like Vauban tend to be a lot more joyful and enthusiastic. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" said by an individual named Heidrun Walter, who moved to Vauban for a more jubilating experience. Cars add stress due to having to be stuck in agonising traffic and having to pay for ridiculous gas prices. Also, by limiting car usage you'll witness and hear more individuals enjoying themselves walking the street, and "the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drowning out the occasional distant motor." described by Robert Duffer, in "
In German Suburb, Life goes on Without Cars
". Evenmore so, by abandoning your vehicle at home you won't have to deal with enebidable traffic and "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution" brought up by Andrew Selsky, in source 3 "
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota
". Carless stress-
less .
Before saying cars are benefitial think of all the disadvanteges that they hold. All the disadvanteges out weigh the advantages. Pollution no matter how big or small is a humungous issue that can be prevented little by little by limiting car usage. Also, limited smiles will become persistent smiles if you limit car usage across the nation. More smiles and less cars is the way to go. | 4 |
b02e983 | The author suggest Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents and i completly agree with that . But im here to prove why his idea is valuable and correct.
The author supported his idea in many ways but one way he really showed me how well it was supported was when the article stated "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too". What the author is trying to prove with this is the danger despite it presents by being really close to earth. Something else that is really important for us to know is the speed and space. Yea it might not be as important but the author wrote it because he thought it was something important to know . What he means with speed and space is that, With speed it means that sometime Venus is closer to Earth but also sometimes Mars is closer and this because the rate of speed going through. In space is the numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world because of humans. | 2 |
b030b4d | The author starts by telling us all the bad things and dangerous possibilities of Venus if we were to go there but then starts telling us of all the benefits knwoing more about Venus would have. Yes, it is very dangerous and could end badly but shouldn't we know about planets around us? Venus is the most earth like planet besides earth. We should know what is on it, what it is capable of, etc. We cant let fear limit us to exploring the unknown.
In the text the author says "Often referred to as Earth's "twin"" by saying these type of things the author is making Venus seem less scary. The author belives Venus is somewhere we shoudl explore, we should know more about it becaseu its the most earth like, its the closest, we could discover many new things, and it has many factors we should know more about. The author tells all the benefits of going to Venus. The author says "to understand Venus we would have to get up close and personal despite the risks. Or maybe we should think of these as challenges." The author is very set on persuading us into beliveing that Venus is worth exploring. Exploring Venus would further are knowledge of space and how other things work, its worth the risks. We just have to be smart about it.
He supports his beliefs by explaing NASA's new ways of approach on visiting Venus. The author explains in depth teh old computer systems, he talks about electronics being made of silicon cardide, etc. The author is telling us many ways we could things that make this trip safer, easier, and to have a higher chance of success. Paragraph 7 is all about new, smarter, better things they can do to make the Venus trip safer and more possible. He also connects it other things and trips. Humans curisoity will lead them there, mayeb lead them places worse. The need to know the unknown is what motivates us to do the crazy, smart, furthering our knowledge things we do.
In Paragraph 8 the author says "striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only becasue of the insight to be gained, but also becasue human curiosity will likely lead us intomany equally intimidating endeavors." "Our travles on earth should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagintion and innovation." Further explaining that no matter what it will eventually happen and when it does it will good because it is better, and safer to know the unknown.
This all supports his belief that going to Venus would be insightful, and good. The knowledge that can come from this adventure/ exploration are worth the risk. He proves this by using evidence from NASA, explaing how its safer to know the unknowns, and simplify suggesting that since its so earth like we should know more about it. It has potenial and we need to eb the first to see adn obtain that potenial. | 4 |
b0314a4 | Humans should study Venus despite the dangers it could cause. Venus is one of the planets that is close to earth. It is often called Earth's twin. It is sometimes called the Evening Staras well. If we were to study Venus more we would learn more about its past.
Venus is a very dangerous planet to explore. Every mission to Venus had no humans on it. The reason their weren no humans is because the spacecraft would only last a few hours. Venus is filled with carbon dioxide. The planet is also very hot. The temperatures are usually over 800 degress Fahrenheit. Clouds of sulfuric acid is in the atmosphere. Even though their is alot keeping us back from visiting this planet, that should not keep us from learning more about it.
Astronomers say that Venus could have been the most Eart-like planet. According to the aricle, "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." (The Challenge of Exploring Venus p4). This quote shows that Venus could have been like Earth. We'll never know if this is true if we don't learn more about Venus.
NASA is trying to find ways to send people to Venus. They are making machines that colud last for three weeks on Venus. They are thinking about ways we could live on Venus in the future. We should try and study Venus even though it could be dangers. According to the article, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imaginations and innovations."(The Challenge of Exploring Venus p8). This quote tells us that we should not limit ourselves. This why we should try to study Venus despite the dangers. | 3 |
b033285 | Have you ever wondered about what you might do after highscool?
Some people might say college, others might say, just find a well paying job, and others might not even know what they want to do.
Well, if you're one of those "I don't knowers", becoming a Seagoing Cowboy might just be the job for you.
Seagoing Cowboys have many great experiences and adventures.
There are many resaons why you should join this program.
One reason why becoming a Seagoing Cowboy might be good for you, is because of the water and animals.
If you find an interest in riding at sea, and you have a love of animals, (like me), this program would be suitable for you.
In paragraph 2 of, "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves", it states that it was the end of World War II, so the UNRRA started hiring people to take care of the animals that were being shipped.
Paragraph 5 quotes me, Luke, ""The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy," he says.".
So, if your looking for an amazing and unbelievable opportunity, and animals at sea are your thing, this program would most certainly be for you.
Another reason why this program might be for you, is the joy of helping people.
From previous knowledge, I have learned that many people feel better about themselves when they help someone out.
If this is you, you're the one for the job.
Again, in paragraph 2, it says that it was the end of a World War, and a group was formed to help these countries.
This group, UNRRA was hiring Seagoing Cowboys.
As part of the group, a Seagoing cowboy, not only gets the expiernece of helping someone with their animals, but the life changing experience of helping others in countries that lay in ruins after the war.
Finally, (in my opinion, the best reason of all), you can have fun.
Yes, you heard me right, you an have fun while being a Seagoing Boy.
The article says, in paragraph 7, I, Luke, one night, while on guard, almost died.
Besides the almost dying part (which hurt a lot!), the adventure sounds amazing.
Paragraph 8, even says that," Luke also found time to have fun on board."
It goes on to say that I was able to play volleyball, table-tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, and whittling when the animals were gone.
Paragraph 5, says that I had a benifit of sight-seeing while being a Seagoing Cowboy.
I even had the oppportunity to go to China, Europe, and Greece.
Thout sounds pretty fun.
If you don't mind work, and love to enjoy yourself, a Seagoing Cowboy is the job for you.
In conclusion, all of these reasons contribute to the fact that you might enjoy the job of being a Seagoing Cowboy.
Maybe, one reason calls out to you more than the other, but that's okay.
Besides, we're all in the same boat.
So, if you like fun, animals, and the joy helping people, this is the job for you. All aboard, your future awaits you. | 3 |
b035579 | In the world of technology there is a new FACS. This is where computers can identify human emotions. Although this could be in away very use full, people take there emotions serious and isnt something to use as a learning tool. Schools having the ablity to read us is a push to far into more personal area. I do not think that this technology is valuable for school.
Yes true that understanding how someone feels can better help you understand the situtation and what to do in such a situtation. "imagine being able to detect exacly how other people are feeling, even when they are trying to hide their emotions." The best way to understand is privacy. There should be things that we keep to are selves.
Money could be a facter in this as well. IN schools all around the country, there are schools with more money then others. This new program take into consideration "a home pc cant handle the complex algorithms used" could the school aford to have the reqierments needed to have this exessable?
Faces dont lie. You can tell alot for someones face. Anything that you do could express something about yourself. Having myself known at any given time is unusaul to prosess. One that I couldnt see taking place.
How people feel have a big impact on others, people imitate others expressions and emotions. Not everyone feels the same but having your own feelings is improtant and people should have a choice to keep that to themselves. | 3 |
b03c95d | The Electoral Colleage is not a Colleage like it sounds, but it is a process. It is a verry complex process and sofar since our goverment was started it is working fine, right? Well you are wrong. First, let me give a breif explanation what the Electorial College is. It is a process thst our goverment has ben using for a very long time that was started in the Constatution. What it does, Each state has a number of people in it pledged to a Presadent, such as Obama. When the people vote, it goes to those people and then they vote on who got the majority. Sometimes, this dosent work. Some of these "people" dont stick to their pledge and vote for someone els, like if 70% of the votes were for Bill, he is supposto vote for Bill. He dosent half to and can vote for Bob instead, and this is the big problem with tis method.
Flordia has 29 people representing it. Places such as California and Texas have 55, and 38, But if you look at places such as Hawii and Alaska, they have around 3 or voters. They have less voters because there population is less than the places with higher amounts of voters. Here is another problem, the bigger states like Texas, California, Flordia, etc. have a MASSIVE advantage ofer these places with less people. I beleve that votes should be directly by how many people choose someone and whoever gets the higher vote, wins. It's WAY simpler than the way currently used and the more simple something is, the less problems occur.
One arguement agenst this way of "the higher vote wins" is that it is possable that the votes are so close that there is no clear winner, but with the current way, if there is a tie in the electorial colleage, then it goes to the peoples votes. In 1968, if just 41,71 votes would have made it a tie, and thats extremely close. Dont YOU want to vote for the presadent, or would you rather vote for someone to vote for ho you want and they could be corrupt and vote for the oppasite that they are supposto vote for wich has happened.
If people decided to rid of this mess of a voting system called "The Electoral College", wich would be a big leap to accomplish due to the ammount of supporters, would be a great accomplashment. It would also lead to those 29 people in flordia living off of doing practicly nothing and getting money having to get a real job to get money. These would be the people that try and not get rid of it and tell the good parts of it and most likley lie like most goverment people do, all so they can get money, withought doing practicly anything. In the 2000's, Al Gore recieved more votes than his opponent, George Bush. Bush wone even though more people wanted gore, and this happened because the Electoral College gave Bush more votes, making him win the election. Dosent is seem wrong that the people wanted Gore, but we still got Bush?
Not all of these people working in the Electoral College are like this though, Some might actuially beleve it's a good idea to keep it and are a part of it not for the money. When people advertise for who to vote for, they dont advertise in Alaska or Rhode island, They advertise to the states with the most Electoral Colleage members are, such as Flordia, Texas, and California. | 4 |
b03d8d2 | Having driverless cars can be safe but they can also be dangerous. Having driverless cars can keep the driver alert if there is ever a problem on the road, but the driver sometimes can get distracted and I mean why wouldn't they if they have a driverless car.
The problems of having a driverless car is that the driver could fall asleep and they don't hear anything or feel anything when the car is trying to get there attention if there was a problem on the road. In the passage it states that "New laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. if the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault the driver or the manufacture."(9) This quote shows that if we have driverless cars then they still need to be new laws and they need to think about the safety of everyone.
The advantages of having driverless car is that the driver doesn't have to drive the whole time and if there's a problem ahead on the road the car would warn them about it. Also they can be less car accidents, because if there's a problem the car would get the driver's attention. In the passage it states that " GM has develop driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object." (7)
The idea of driverless cars needs to be though carefully and they should see and think about the problems and the danger the driver's would be in.They will aslo need to see the advantages that the driverless cars have. | 2 |
b040412 | Luke was just about 18, one of his friends asked him if he wanted to go on a trip with him and the Seagoing Cowboys. Luke said "Yes". At that moment when he said yes his life was going to change.
When Luke was abord the ship, takeing animals to Europe they had various jobs they had to do, and time flew by and later arived at their destionation. Luke saw some amazing things like the Panama Canal, and the Venice, Italy, he also saw the Acropolis in Greece. If you were to join the Seagoing cowboys than you could see that to. Also Lukes time that he would had served in the military was spent with the Seagoing Cowboys. Luke mad nine trips, the most of any Seagoing Cowboy.
If you aint interested yet than thats your loss, but if you were to join up with the sea going cowboys than you could sea all those things. Also you could get some great memories with joining up with the Seagoing Cowboys. Lukes storie is a great exsample of what can happen if you can do the right thing for outher people and could make you a better person.
If you want to join than go to any area where they have aplications and sing up and your suvase will start. Also if you want to know were your first shiping is you?l get informed as soon as they get back on your aplication. | 2 |
b051cda | Automation is certainly an idea of the future. Early on,inventors have wanted to make life easier for the average Joe. We have allready come so far with automobiles themselves. Making them safer, stronger, faster, more reliable. But now it seems like that just wasn't enough. Now, we are close to the "next big step" in the automoblie industry: driverless cars.
We have been striving to invent automated cars for awhile now. In the 1950's, General Motors had taken a crack at automated cars. The projetwas scraped becaus ethe modifications to the roads were too expensive. In the 1980's, cars had spped sensors installed for the antilock brakes. So really, i has been a progression of innovation to get to where we are. But smart cars have always been known to have some sort of flaw.
To me, the smart car is a bad idea. It's innovation but not in a good way. These new brands of cars will make drivers lazy and even more reckless on te road than they were allready.
The first issue with the smart car is that it still requires a drivers attention. They have tried to counter this problem by installing cameras to watch the driver. The report also mentioned installing entertainment systems into the vehicle. This is an invitation to disaster. If your purpose is to keep the drivers attention, why would you want to install a distraction? A driverless car would'nt be very driverless if a driver was needed in an emergency.
Another issue is how this new technology would hit the industy. Based on the report, this is mostly just a Google project now. So let's say Google wanted to monopolize on their new line of automobiles. How many other car manufacturers could potentially lose buisness. The auto buisness is allready hurting from foreign competion, so why do we have to take more jobs out by coming up with automated cars?
Automated cars are reliant on technology. So does any vehicle, but this one hangs heavy on it. What happens if your hardware shuts down? Would your average mechanic be able to fix a computer? No, they wouldn't. Anothernexample of where jobs would be lost. You couldn't go to your local repair shop anymoe, you'd have to have specialized workers look at your car for much more.
In short, smart cars are very expensive and uneccessary. If we still need a driver, your computer isn't a driverless car. If we do invest in smart cars, we will find even more jobs being taken over by specialists. Whats wrong with just taking a turn at the wheel? | 3 |
b05523e | Do you think the Face on Mars is real? The Face on Mars is not real because it's a natural form. If there was something that made this, they would leave tracks. But there's nothing.
The Face on Mars is not real because it's a natural form. Scientist says it's a "mesa." Which is common in Mars in Cydonia. It also said that NASA said "a huge rock formation which forms a head, eyes, nose, and a mouth." So everything is made out of bunch of rocks. Michel Malin and his Orbiter snapped the picture ten time bigger than the original picture in 1998. So then it revealed a " natural landform." Theres nothing special about. It's was just land. Later on, Malin's team did a second picture but bigger in 2001. Gavin said there were other objects like shack, airplanes, pyramids, etc. They were all made natural. Also, in Earth, there are many landfroms that looks like things. Like Middle Butte in the Snake River. And it is almost the same size as the Face on Mars.
Just because it's on Mars doesn't mean it made by aliens. It's made out of natural. Sometimes strange objects appear around the Earth. Thats because it's normal to the us and enviroment. It's just a natural form. Its just the lack of conspiracy theorist. | 3 |
b057e26 | I entered a program before called the seagoing cowboys how it all started though was because of my friend don reist. I was working two part time jobs at a grocery store and a bank and when my friend invited me to go to Europe on a cattle boat.
I got to travel a lot to. So here is why I am asking you to join the program just like I did.
I know you probaby won't do it but I am just going to try my best to convince you so the first reason is since the (UNRRA hired seagoing cowboys to take care of the horses,youngcows,and mules that were shipped overseas.) That means you would get to help out other countries and their disasters. Another reason you should join is because you get to travel all kinds of places in the world ( Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the acroplis in Greece was special". he says)which he is actually me. One more reason why is because (luke/I also found time to have fun on board,especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty hold where animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments,fencing,boxing,reading,whittling, and games also helped pass time.)
So there are 3 reasons that I wrote out of why you should be a seagoing cowboy and if your a girl I suppose you could be a seagoing cowgirl. Now I am not forcing you to but just convincing you and I hope that convinced you because all of it is really true. So if you don't want to that's fine but if you do Great I didn't write all of that for nothing! | 2 |
b05a09a | Dear Senator Whatever,
I infact am not for Electoral College or changing election by popular vote. I don't like that if you vote for one person, the rest comes with, that's rediculous, what if I want this president but not all his stupid underseers, then what? Another thing, I also dont love how they get to choose a giant room full of democratic dictators, and have them vote, and if they vote differently than the people, then we are forced to go with their choice. That completley demolishes the idea of our freedom of voting. If they dissagree your gonna throw it to the representatives before back to the people who are the real back bone of this country?!?!"Perhaps the most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where the state delegations vote on the president."
"The American pople should conciderthemselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse. Concider that the state legislatures are techinically responsible for picking electors, and those electors could always defy the people."
I myself am a libertairian and i dont much like that this test is asking of me to do something storngly against my belifs and i just think is plain aweful.
All government is inefective and should be dissolved.
-M | 2 |
b05a300 | In a way it can be useful. Not always for the most part it can be used for looking over old style paintings to see what the person in the picture or how the person is feeling, Showing us the emotion if the characters eyes,smile,ect. Other than that I dont think it would be very useful to us. mostly just for looking for different kinds of emotion in a persons looks
To support these claims it tells you in this short passage showing and telling us what they were doing anda normal home computer cannot use or do these kinds of things, But only a very special strong kind of computer can do this, Telling us only people with very strong computers can really do this kind of thing and also telling us it wilbe very hard for normal kinds of people to do this even if they wanted to invest this kind of money for a very strong computer only to tell the kinds of emotion someone in a painting or a picture in general. This is the evidence I have to support my first paragraph in conclusion from what I gathered from this passage it may be more useful later on if it can do even more such as helping solving crimes or something along the lines of "helpful". | 2 |
b05d10b | I could see how someone could think that theres some kind of aliens living on Mars and thats what created this human face looking thing. there are more reasonable explantions, then the aliens. This rock formation is actually very comman in mars.
This is a natural formation that happens on Mars. it is very similiar to a formation we have on earth. It was very difficult to figure this out, but thanks to the the new technology we have today we can have better images, and a better understanding of what this is. We have gotten very good answers and clear evidence, even with the difficulties to finding this formation.
It is a more solid, and proven answer to this rock formation. most theories people have created ,dont have good backup infromation in thier statements. In conclusion there are many good reason to why someone could say that alien could of done this, but with the proper equipment we can find out the more reliable answer to this kind of situations. | 2 |
b05fcf7 | Well the author is saying that Venus is the most like Earth than any other planet we have seen. Venus has oceans covering a bunch of the planet. The author also explains that there could be various forms of life that could be living on Venus, but we don't have any information because Venus is a super hot planet and when we send something down to land on the planet it melts or gets destroyed just because how hot it is.
Since Venus has a possibility of life I think we should keep investigating this extremely hot planet to see what it has to offer. If there is any life on Venus we need to keep exploring the planet to see where the planet leads us and if we don't find any signs of life then I say we move on to another planet and just keep exploring. NASA is saying that they are looking for ways to further investigate the planet and take notes on what they see.
So therefore, Venus is the most like Earth and NASA is trying to figure all the ways to find information about the planet and see if there is any life or it's just a dead planet. This author has kind of the same mindset as me and what I think we should do and figure out things. | 2 |
b06624a | I think you should join the Seagoing Cowboys. It is very fun, who wouldn't want to travel around the world and go to many new places? Who knows? You might meet some nice people and make new friends? I have, I've met people from places I never thought I'd go to before. But I did and here I am. Telling you that if you get on this boat. There is no turning back. But trust me, you wont regret it.
When you go on this trip to many new places. You get to meet new poeple. Now they may not look the same, act the same, or even smell the same. But that doesn't mean that they are any different from us. Most of the people I've met are really nice and caring. They don't talk hateful to you or anything. Even the people on the boat are nice. They have manners, they will respect you and everyone else on the boat.
Now, I've been to many different places before. Nine in fact! The places that you go to are amazing. So many have different languages and different cultures! For example China. Now that place was bueatiful! Somany bright colors. They even have a different language!
I've gotten to see things I've never seen before. Not to brag or anything but of all the places I've ever seen. They all had so many different landmarks. It's kinda like their culture. They all have something different. Which is what is so cool about being on that boat. When you go places you see so many new things. It's amazing!
Now have you made up your mind? If you haven't then I guess that is you loss. But trust me on this one thing. When you get on that boat, you feel free. Something that you don't feel when your stuck in town all the time. But if you decide to go, then good for you. But it isn't all fun in games. You have to work too. Now it's either you get on that ship or you stay here. Your choice, not mine. | 2 |
b06a1a8 | Though completly giving up the usage of your car seems like an extreme for most American citizens, it is a look in the right direction towards the future.
All over the world peopole are using less gas power and more leg power, riding bikes, walking, skateboarding or even using public transportaion, to lessen the air pollution caused by traffic.
The only information useful to make an explanitory essay for this topic is two sentences saying that " After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city," but having this is only one reason Americans should cut down on their car usage, the enviroment, it doesn't mention any other way that it would help except for making a few people happy, fining 4,000 people 31 dollars for driving, and it would cut down traffic only slightly, because, buses would be on the road which, sure, could take up to 10 cars off the road, but if everyone stops using their cars and happen work in exceutive offices they will use the bus, not bicylcles or skateboards only putting more busses on the streets and adding even more air pollution.
So I think i'll help beta test this essay writing test that SCHOOL_NAME was "randomly selected" for, but this prompt given with these writing selections, doesn't make any sense unless you wish a dull and dry essay with just regurgitated facts from the writing selections. So, here goes something.
In the state of STATE_NAME students from 3rd grade and up are all familiar with the infamous TEST_NAME, it was what was required for so many years and what we've all gotten used to. Once I personally hit middle school, we had midterms and finals for only one year, the following year they were removed and we were given interm exams for every quater to determine how much we were absorbing in the classroom. We were graded on these fairly, (not very heavily; 3 grades at the max.)
Up until about 8th grade I had never heard of an EOC, it was first introduced to me in my U.S history class. We took a test that our teacher had formulated and we all studied for weeks. I figured this would become apart of my highschool life, and I wasn't wrong; 9th grade Geometry EOC, and a Biology EOC. It was dreadful, (since it was taken on a computer in a freezing computer lab,) but we all survived because thankfully it was only for those two classes. After those two weeks of testing for the entire school it was fun and games and preperation for the challenges that were to come in our next year of schooling; for me this would be my relaxing yet exciting sophmore year.
Sophmore year had been going just fine up until one day in my french class we were informed that this year starting as early as January we would be tested with an EOC FOR EVERY CLASS! Students were confused and a bit outraged at this new information. We asked hundreds of questions. "What will they be on?" "Is the district making them?" "Are you serious!?" Our teacher,(well informed on what had seemed to be everything,) knew of our fate to come; five months of overall testing occuring through our hallowed halls. We were baffled that classes like P.E, Art, Culinary, Fabrics and fibers and even Swimming would have end of course exams. What questions would they even ask on these? How long has the district been planning this? Then she told us, "We don't know what will be on them, all we know is that this test is created by teachers sending in questions to the district. The district is literally making it up as they go."
We asked many more questions full of confusion and rage. When she then realized they have only made one test so far, a spanish test with no level. This test would be taken by spanish speakers and spanish learners all the same. This wasn't fair! It wasn't even comprehendable! We would be taking the same test as the French AP students!
This narrative explanitory essay is about the over load of testing that will be put upon the students of LOCATION_NAME. This "random selection" even if it was completly random, is just one the many irritating aspects of a SCHOOL_NAME students life at school for the next couple months, but maybe even up until we graduate!
I hope someone is reading this, and I hope I helped with your writing exam. | 2 |
b06b493 | The idea of a software being able to tell you wheither a person is feeling sad or happy is just a fascinating thing to even think about. By using Leonardo da Vinci's Renaissance painting, Mona Lisa- they figured out that she was 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. That just absolutely blows my mind! Would there be any type of misdetections using this software? How much would it cost schools to use these types of softwar?
I personally support the value of using this technology to read students' emotional expressions. They say the web cams on computers could recognize when a student is confused or bored. They also say they it would be able to modify the lesson like a human instructor would. This could be the next step that we could take into making education better for the kids and for the schools. The only problem that stands in the way for many schools is whether or not they would be able to afford such software. What if these softwares could be used for other purposes?
What if there is a possibility of using this software to not only help out in schools but help out in other major sinerios? One major one that comes to my head is using it as a lie detector. If the software is able to detect how someone is feeling and what their emotions are could it be able to detect whether or not someone is lying? The software would still use the 44 major muscles in your face but they would only have to tweak some things to make it capable of doing such thing. With the same software they could quite possibly make this happen. Or maybe something like this has already been invented but i haven't heard about it.
it's just amazing.
In paragraph 7 of this article they give this information of how you can tell the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one. I never knew that by looking at these small detals of someones face you could tell whether they were happy or not. This article not only informs me about a new software that can tell you how you're feeling but it also gives you on how you can tell by just looking at someone's face. It just really blows my mind.
All in all i think that using the software in the classrooms would be a great idea. It would be very helpful in the classrooom and quite possibly in other areas. If you guys do think about using the same software into making a lie detectorthen count me in. I'd love to be the next person to help out the community or even the world. | 4 |
b06b61a | Have you ever thought about people making driverless cars? People are trying to make driverless cars. I think it is a good idea to make driverless cars, but a lot of people think it is very dangerous. I think it is a good idea because, blind people can ride in driverless cars, it is easier to multi task especially when you have a kid, and when you are traveling far distances you can get a good break. Let me tell you more about the advantages of owning a driverless car.
One advantage of owning a driverless car is that a blind person can get from place to place in a driverless car. Usually a blind person would have to have a dog and a stick and walk. Blind people can get from place to place and easier with a driverless car. You can get from place to place faster with a driverless car, rather than walking everywhere.
The second advantage of owning a driverless car is that it is easier to multi task. When you have a kid or kids it would be great to have the car drive itself, so you can take care of your kids. When multi tasking you can sleep when going on road trips. You can also eat food while the car is taking you somewhere.
The last advantage of owning a driverless car is that you do not have to do anything. You can sleep the whole time and still get place to place. Or you can do what ever you want while in a car.
Personally, I would like the cars to be invented. In the passage the bad thing is when coming upon construction is that the car will tell you when to start driving manually. The other bad thing is that you have to have your hands on the wheel at all times. Other than that I would love to own a driverless car. | 3 |
b06ed7d | Unmasking the Face on Mars
This landform was not created by aliens because, it was naturally made. Scientists figured out it was only another martian mesa because it looked common like the other landforms. After taking another photo people started to become less satisfied.
It says in the passage, "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." Then it says, "But the sensation was short lived. Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." It also states, "But not everyone was satisfied. The Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in April ’98—a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet." Although it may look like a human face it's just a landform.
This proves that the "Face on Mars" is just a natural landform. Most of the proof that there are aliens, are just myths or fiction or science fiction to get people worried or scared. They only released this to the public to get attention. | 3 |
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