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b51348e | The Electoral College is a great wide spread idea that we should keep using for generations to come. Using this method to choose a president is highly sohphisicated and orginized, which helps important desitions. Also following the fact that the founding fathers established this as a compromise between both sides of the arguement. Not only does this presidential election choose just some president, but a president that you would agree with his/her terms.
Every vote counts, in this matter. Your vote helps the chooseing of not only the president but the vice president, whom also has a important role in the Electoral College. This election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday during November. On that day you would vote for the state's electors, which helps this certain process of chooseing a president. After the presidential election, the govener will prepare a certificate called "Certificate of Ascertainment" listing all canidates that ran for president and respective electors. The certificate also has other important duties such as, declaring the winning presidential canidates. They will then be sent to the congress and the National Archives, which is where the offical records of the presidential election is held.
Not every person agrees with these terms of an electoral college, but they are not wrong. Voters can not always control who they are electing for, voters would become confused in the long-term process, and seeming to be confused could jackup the canidate your voteing for. There could also be the problem of accidently sending two slates of electors to the Congress, but luckly last time that happened in 1960, the problem was resolved before chaos was released. Lastly the elecotoral college can be unfair to a majority of voters. Although it may seem bad, it could be the Hypocrites saying few lies that traveled fast around.
Another five reasons that help justify the electoral college are certainty of outcome, everyone's president, swing states, big states, and finally avoding run-off elections. having certainty exceeds share of popular votes. To have a president that a majority of people can agree on helps the risk of disagreeement. Swing states are more likely to have thoughtful voters. Big states helps restore balance in political issuses. Most importantly elctoral colleges helps avoid unknown problems of elections.
For these resons we should keep the Elctoral College stable as it is for future purposes.
It will help the United States stay on track with political issuses and other nessesities. | 3 |
b518165 | Every vote makes a difference. Every single vote plays a role in electing a president, whether it be directly, or indirectly. The Electoral College has caused a lot of controversy with that thought. "The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational." (Plumer 14) Where are the facts behind the argument against it? We all hear people complaining and saying these things, but they have no facts as to why abolishing the Electoral College would be beneficial. The Electoral College is working in the peoples' favor and i believe we should keep it.
There are so many uneducated voters. People that vote for the presidential candidate at the top of the list because they have no clue who any of the people are anyway. If the president was selected by just popular votes who knows what the nation would be like. Every vote counts. Yes, this is true even with Electoral College it just a process to make sure that the votes being sent in are educated and well thought out; not chosen out of laziness. Do we want the people who vote just to say they voted to have a huge say in who runs our country? I sure don't. I'd rather have a trusted group of people who are very well educated take our votes into huge consideration and seal the deal. "But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nomonee (and that trust is rarely betrayed)..." (Posner 16). Richard A. Posner goes on to tell us how many times the trust has been betrayed... the most recent being in the election year 2000 and then the only other time the electoral vote did not reflect the popular vote was 1888. There's no reason to change a system that isn't broken.
Obviously the system has its flaws, but nothing is perfect. Sure the Electoral College messed up twice, but that isn't some mass amount that was detrimental to our nation. "The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens." (Office of the Federal Register 1) It's a compromise that has worked for so long; there's not enough valid reasons to change it.
The Electoral College gives the right amount of representation to different sized states. "The Popular vote was very close in Florida; nevertheless Obama, who won that vote, got 29 electoral votes." (Posner 21) The majority of the state was in favor of Obams's ideas so 29 Electoral votes would work in their states favor, instead of having an almost tie vote which would make a smaller difference in the outcome. The Electoral College votes are like each states individual votes for the candidate that would make the majority of that one state happy, or that would benefit that one state. So yes, the popular vote may not always win, but the outcome of the presidential election is based on which person was the favorite of the majority of each individual state.
All in all, the Electoral College works for this nation. It worked for our founding fathers and it's still working for us, no matter what people want to argue. If "60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." (Plumer 9) then the majority of our country should be able to come up with a valid argument against it. | 5 |
b51cad7 | I think Drivless Cars would be useful. I feel like they could help alot especially with people that may be handicapt now maybe they can drive. Driveless Cars are the furture and in the future I feel as if anything is possible. If you are handicapt from the waste below and you can move your arms then the Driveless Car could be for them.
Just because they sre handicapt doesn't mean they shouldnt be alowed to drive a car. Driveless Cars could probably stop alot of accidents and prevent damage from being done to something or someone else.
Driveless cars drive on their own unless they need help like in construction sites and around accidents then thats when hat person can help out, but, other than that a handicapt person could drive. Drivelesscars may make everything easier on anyone and evryone. Make sure to stay alert just becuase you aren't completely driving doesn't mean you get to sleep at the wheel.
In conclusion I think that driveless cars would be very helpful and I don't think it wil make us lazy it's just a way to help. Like what if you are coming home from work and you are tired, the driveless car would help you out, but, just like in a normal car you can't fall asleep at the wheel. You never know when tyhr car might need yiour assistance in a situation. In 2020 Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves. | 2 |
b51f7d0 | We should not use this technology in the classroom ,it is not a valuable.Human expression is just not determined through the face. Also, this takes the jobs of teachers and lessens the teacher-student relationship.In addition, not all students react the same, when not being able to comprehehnd a problem. The technology of a computer determining emotions I find fault in.
Humans express their feelings through many ways, but here at
Merrillville Highschool I often see girls laughing and smiling,but their leg is shaking, which means somethig is wrong. In paragraph 3, it says, "Eckman has classified six basic emotions-happiness, surprise,anger,disgust,fear, and sadness." How can you based that on Mona Lisa, when you cant prove that she was like that. This ineffective computer program use muscles in your face to determine someone's feelings , when ofter cases people can be nonchalant about something and really the feel something else.
Yet alone, this also takes another teacher's job, which ruins alot of lives. Teacher's are essential to the classroom and when a student don't understand a problem they don't expect a computer to understand.There's more to a student , maybe its not the problem they don't understand. They may be thinking of something else they don't understand and the computer notice that and change something they already was working on which confuses them even more.The teachers would notice that because they are human and they would know and seen that student recent behavior changes.
Students have different reactions to various situations. Students have different aspects and different way of seeing things. When some students they sit there and show they dont get it.On the other hand, students may act out in order to get some attention or just wont try at all. Study of human emotions can't be just determined through face muscle.
The Face Coding program I found an abundant amount of flaws in, it will not be valued in the classrooms.Humans are complex creatures and express emotions other than just through their face.Futhermore , this threatens human teacher's position at work.A human's emotions can't just be decided or determined through facial expressions there's more to it than that. | 4 |
b52cc68 | Self driving cars are a hazard to society.By passing a law that would allow us to drive without using our hands give drivers a reason to be lazy and text while the car is moving on its own.
I believe that texting and driving is the worst issue even by itself but now you have teenagers driving and texting in a car that fully operates on it's own. In paragraph 7 it states that : ''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.'' But what if the driver isnt alert? the driver could be sleeping, texting, looking for something in the car or simply zoned out. there could be an accident or a death a lawsuit will be filed and the creaters of that contraption will have to pay large amounts of money.
In self-driving cars they always have something wrong with them. usually its a bug which means that the technology either fails or there is something wrong with the car. In my opinion i like the way driving is now and now that they have self driving cars there are many ways that they could go wrong. you could possibly have a child in the passenger seat of the car that is curious and wants to know how the car works and by the time that you realize your car is gone it's too late. You could have a burgular sneak into your car and hijack your car. in paragraph 4 it states; '' the most important bit of technology in this system is the spinning laser on the roof that updates the cars surroundings.'' How can that be the most important thing on a self driving car and you dont even have a camera available so that the owner can see what is going inside the car who is inside the car and what they are doing in the car.
i think that now all companys want to do is steal your money and now that they have cars that self-drive people become excited and curious and they want to know how the car works and it's not worth getting injured or possibly dying for. but now that you have self driving cars companys will make millions and millions of dollars off of them and with that money they will possibly make more and more and then stop once they realize that an innocent person was possibly hit by a self driving car or killed in a self driving car. they claim that they always think about a person's safety when all they talk about is the new upgrades and how well the car can drive. which in that case proves that Self-Driving cars are indeed dangerous and should be watched in close caution. | 4 |
b52e1cd | Nothing like chilling in an 800 degree oven and having pressure thats 90 times greater than that on earth while studying a planet. Thats what it would be like to study Venus on its surface. But scientists want to some how find a way to study it, Safely. There are three big things that the author writes about in this article that may be a safe alternative or possobility to study Venus like floating above the atmosphere of venus, using simplified electronics made of silicon carbide, or using something called mechanical computers.
First things first the author talks about hovering above Venus's atmosphere to avoid all of the most of the dangers. High heat, crazy high pressure levels, Ect. The author of the article says, " Just as our Jet airplances travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid all the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way." This is a safe alternative to landing on the surface because it takes away the problems that they have been having all together. But the problem he has with this is that the only things they can do to study it is observe they can't take samples of rock, gasses, or anything else. But it will get them a basic view of the planet nothing much more.
Another thing that the author stated may work is using simplified electronics made of silicon carbide. This will help because because of the type of material. The author states within the article, " Some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks." This is why it could help because it lasted three weeks where regular things couldn't even last 3 hours on venus without getting comepletly abliterated. So if they where made out of the silicon carbide they would be able to get it on Venus get samples of gasses, rock, and anything else they could find then get out of there before it gets destroyed hopefully.
The last thing that the author talked about that could work is using old technology called mechanical computers. The devises where envisioned in the 1800 and helped out in world war II. But the author says, " The thought of computers existing in those days may sound shocking, but these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all." This would help because of the fact they could get it on Venus and not have to worry about the electrical boards of the vehicle frying. Because there will be no Electric envoleved in the process. If they made it out of a heavy duty metal or maybe even silicon carbide it may allow it to work on Venus and get samples of gasses, rock, and anything else on the surface of venus.
The three big things that may allow the exploration of Venus to be a possability are floating above the atmosphere of venus, using simplified electronics made of silicon carbide, or using something called mechanical computers. These ideas could help visually see the planet close up, Get on the planet safely, and move around the planet and get samples of evidence. This would help out NASA in the great race of space with all the things that they could discover from the planet of Venus. So while we are sitting here on earth one day there may be a man in a comepletly different situation of being in extreme heat and pressure. But all in all the author supports his idea and gives a few good options on how NASA could safely and efficiently get up to Venus and explore it. | 4 |
b535764 | Venus, the planet right next to us, but the planet that can never be settled on. Throughout the article ''The Challenge of Exlporing Venus'' The author expresses the dangers and reasons why humans on earth have not been able to explore our neighboring planet. With that fact, the author still advocates for studying Venus and sites evidence for why this is needed. Overall, the author supports the study of the planet Venus because it's studies could inrich new knowledge about it to Earth. He supports this idea by stating Venus is similar to Earth, The study of Venis may allow fetaure pathways to increase it's study, and items learned form the experiment could lead to human settlement on the planet.
The author's claim of studying Venis could inrich new knowledge to Earth is supported through the two planets being so similar to each other. This is so because according to the author the two planets at one time shared similar charcterisics ''The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountins and craters.'' (The Challenge of Exploring Venus, Paragrpah 5) This evidence is relevent to the claim because the author proved that Venis and Earth are alike. Just like Venis, Earth has valleys, mountins and craters. The author's goal is to use this information to better know what this planet is, why it's important, gaining better human knowledge about the panet.
Futhermore the study of Venis is useful according to the author is because the planet could help NASA and other space comapnies in discovering the rest of outerspace. The author belives in if comapnies like NASA study space it would lead to better ways of getting more knowledge about the planet, '' Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribue meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus.'' (The Challenge of Exploring Venus, Paragraph 6).
This is meaningful information because it supports inovation in space and what the author invesions of the future. The author's claim is support Venis can be a steepingstone into humans futher knowledge of space. This suports inriching new knowledge to Earth
Finally the author's call for the study of Venus could inrich knowledge to earth because there is a chance that humans could settle on the planet. This can be said because the explorations of Venus could be survivable for humans, ''Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans.'' (The Challenge of Exploring Venis, Paragraph 5) This information that the author gives is motivation for humans to discover the planet Venus because humans in the future could settle on the planet. This would support the claim because in the future if earth continues to have issues with climate change and globle warming there might be exploration to other planets. Having more knowledge about Venus could gives humans a chance in the distant future to inhabit a new planet.
Overall the author suppirts inhabbiting Venus because he or she belives that humans on earth can benufit from it. The author sites in the article that the Earth and Venis are similar planets, increases in techonolgy could go along with the exploration and the study could give humans in the distant future to inhabbit Venus. So the aiuthor looks upright. | 5 |
b5365be | "Travels on Earth should not be limited by dangers and doubts." The author supports this claim well through the article to lead readers to believe that they should expand their imagination and innovation.
Venus is one of the best planets to observe over all the other planets. It is dangerous, but is the closest planet to Earth and is referred to as Earth's "twin." People have sent spacecrafts to Venus before to see the conditions, but have only lasted a few hours. People are smart enough to realize that humans could not handle the conditions on Venus. This does not mean that people should stop trying, because there are already some solutions to solve this problem.
It is a challenge, despite how close the planet is to Earth. The fact that Venus is so inhospitable makes astronomers want to solve the problem of the conditions even more. What also makes them fascinated is that Venus once use to be the most like Earth. The author states, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." Scientists predicted that Venus was most likely full of oceans and various life forms, just like Earth. This is another reason that scientists want to find out about the mysterious planet.
NASA already has ideas of how humans could study Venus. "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray." What the author means by this statement is that humans need to avoid the bad ground conditions and stay above them, like airplanes fly above storms. This means that humans could survive the conditions about thirty feet above the planet while observing it. The problem is there is limited eyesight. The author states, "Many researches are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus." NASA has already found a way to observe from afar, and researches are still working on ways to increase what humans know about Venus. By using this statement, the author is stating that people are being very cautious about the dangers, and would not allow a person to risk their life by going on a spaceship to Venus. NASA will wait unless they are sure that the machines can take the conditions.
The ideas that researches from NASA have so far include, simplified electronics made of an element called silicon carbide. The author wrote, "Electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." More projects include, mechanical computers that had an important role in World War II. People find it shocking that these old compters could help find more about Venus. "These devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all. Modern computers are enormously powerful and quick, but tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions." It is a risk to go to Venus, but the precautions, technology, and science that are being used to solve the problem of the inhumane conditions could make it safe to observe Venus.
The claim the author made about studying Venus despite the risks is proven by what he states in the article. He stated solutions to the risks and dangers of Venus. He stated why Venus is an important planet to observe. He wrote how NASA is still researching ways to solve the condition problem. If there is a solution out there to study Venus that will be safe to humans, then the risks on Venus matter a lot less. This statement is especially true since what is on this planet could lead to major discoveries and is scientifically productive. The author states, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." Humans observe risky things all the time, including the depths of the ocean. People have solved many dangerous problems, but still continue to find intimidating endeavors, because humans are curious, imaginative, and innovative. Venus is the nearest option for a planetary visit. The discovery of what is on this planet could lead humans to amazing discoveries that could not be found out if humans play it safe. The author claims this statement in the article and proves that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. | 5 |
b5403e4 | For the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" I am against the development of these cars.
I am against the development of these cars because, It's driving itself by computer program.
It may not seem all that bad but programs can crash and get hacked, if everyone had a car like that I wouldn't buy one because look at the accidents we have people speed through red lights when you have a green light.
I love the feel of driving i wouldn't wan't a computer to do it for me.
Fact of it is, what if you get in an accident who's fault is it? the car or you? That can cause major sueing, car payments ans sueing of the car company who made the technology.
Back in paragraph 8: Yes, this could be helpful when needing to call or text someone, but when people text they take there eyes off the road and even with a driverless car crashes can still hapeen. Too much technology is taking over our world because it comes to an end where that's all we have now, we keep advancing to the biggest and fullest.
Could these driverless cars help support hadicaps, people with arthritis who can't grip the wheel very good?
What about young children? Kids like to be ambitious, they could hop right in the car not knowing how the vehichle works, but that's ok the car is driverless computer programed.
In conclusion this isn't the best thought out technological program. You need to write up pros and cons and go from there. | 2 |
b55418f | I think that the technology to read the emotion expression of the students in the classroom is valueable. It can show how people really feel and waht types of emotions they have at that time. This can aslo help people when they are drawing pictures to see what moods they have in their pictures .Yes I think that this well be helpful this can help people in the further when they are making pictures and they want the picture to have a certain mood.
One good example that they use in the storie would have to be when they tell about the that the "Mona Lisa is 83 percent happy , 9 perecent disgusted , 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." I think that can come to good use like how do they know all of this form one picture. An how can this one 3-D computer do all of this on a picture . How can the computer tell the model of your face and how can they tell all 44 major muscles in in your body . They also tell how you can do is your self by looking in the mirror . An thy give you you the steps to try it out youself and what you need to do. I think that this computer is going to be good use for people thta studie pictures for a living it can tell them thing that they would not be able to see with there eyes. The storie tells about the muscles called orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus and what it dose to the picture . An you cant do this on your computer at home and that it wont be able to handle it .An your facial muscles not only expresses emotions.
In conclusion I think that this would be good to have in a class room setting. I thin that this would rely help people that want study this kind of thing in collage . An it would be as geat idea to put it in schools so that they can start when they are in school and it can help them if thats what they want to do they get done with school. I that this 3-D computer will come in good uses on other old pictuers to tell the mood in the pictures. | 2 |
b558b1b | Electoral college is a process that makes it look like you're helping the electors choose a President but in reality under the electoral college system voters vote not for the President, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the presisdent. The electoral college is also unfair to voter because of the winner take all system. A tie in an electoral college could leed to the elction being thrown to the house of representives.
Electrol college is just un fair to voters because the winner take all system candidates dont spend time in states that they know they can't convince to vote for them, so they only focus on the states that are very tight race so they get more votes from them. During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get a single campaign ad(Bradford Plumer)... .The Electrol College system is unfair and irrational which should be stop a or chaged to a better system where the citizens can properliy vote for thier leader and a have a new mind set on how to work the system
In the Electrol College system voters dont vote for the president, but for a slate of electors who then elect the President. so they cant realy elect president but they can elect people to vote them. For instace if you lived in texas and wanted to vote for [John] Kerry, they would vote for a slate of 34 democratic electors pleged to karry(Brad Pumer). So when your "Vote for President " you are actualiy voting for an electorr that represnts the president they want to vote for One large flaw in the electorl college system is when candidates have a tie, then the election would be but in the house of Representatives where the state delegation voteson the President.
But Electoral College are not all bad. Electoral College consist of 538 electors, a majority of 270 electoral vote is required to elect the president(The Office of the Federal Register).. This is good because that is most of the electoral votes, so it shows that more people actually wanted that candidate. Their are also 3 electors per state which is could help when it comes to making a choice because they are 3 so their can't be a tie. But in the case of the Elctoral College system the bad outways the good.
In my oppinion i think that their should be a change in the system to make it fair and let people actually vote for there leader and not for someone else to make the choise for them. Also their should be a way to make electors vote for what the people want. The Electoral College system should just be redone and made less basis. | 3 |
b55f366 | The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because student can know what other people are feeeling just by taking a picture.
In the text it states that "Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements-in a real face..." This mean that this Dr. Huang can take a picture and can tell how you or a friend are feeling. Another example in the text its states that "By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions." This means that when someone takes a picture or paints one of you, they can tell if you are happy, sad, anrgy, worried, or evean scared. Final example is that in the text its states "....Theory of Emotions, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also many even produce them." This means that even if you don't feel emotions than they can change that for you to feel more happy or even sad.
In conclusion these doctors can just take a painting or a picture of something and can tell what your feeling, I think that this is valuable to the student because it gives us a chance to see people where feeling back in the day. | 2 |
b5608ce | How Dangerous can be Exploring Venus
In the text "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author suggest that studyng Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author mentions in the text the reasons why he thinks that.
First of all, the author start giving us details about Venus. He mentions how is it called, what is its position on the solar sistem. At the end of the first paragraph the author uses a sentence so he can grab the attention of the readers by saying that Venus is simple to see from Earth, but that it has proved that venus is a challenging place to examine more closely. Which means the author has the enough evidence to prove that is not a good idea to go to venus.
Secondly, on paragraph three the author gives us more specific details. The author mentions the thik atmosphere in carbon dioxide, how clouds are highly corrosivesulfuric acid, the temperatures average, and that the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than we experience on our own planet. This shows the reasons why humans can risk their lifes if they go to Venus so they can explore more about that planet.
Lastly, the author don't just describe bad things about Venus. On paragraph four the author tell us that Venus wasn't different from Earth and that's why astronomers are fascinated by Venus. The text says that Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and because of that it could have supported various forms of life just like earth. However, Venus is not like that anymore, it is still can be dangerous for human to explore there, not just because of the problems humans will face in the planet but the obstacles they have to face during the trip.
In conclusion, the author tries to persuade the readers to believe that studying Venus closer can be dangerous. It has many changes from what you see, how people think it is or how it was from how it really is now. The author supports this idea well, by using information of Venus. | 4 |
b560a94 | Would you go to a planet just to see how it works? Many people may say no but some will say yes. Venus is a very interesting planet with many extreme cirmustances. Venus is the second closest planet to the sun but yet hotter than the first closest planet; which Mercury is the closest to the sun. It would be a great idea to study Venus beaus eof these reasons and more.
staring off, the people studying Venus must know of the dangers of the planet itself. the passage says, "On the planets surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater that what we experience on our own planet." This explains just two of the hazards Venus brings to the table. another thing is the carbon dioxide blants 97% of the planet. this means that only 3% can be oxygen but most likely the percentage is a lot less.
Although the hazards are high, the ways to overcome it are greater. NASA as possible plan to the hostile conditions of Venus' surface. They are planning to make a blimp like vehicle that 'hovers 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape." this will keep the men and weoan studying "high and dry" meaning they will be out of the hazardess elements but close enought to learn what they need. The conditions are survivable but not all that luxurious. temperatures would be around 170 degrees fahrenheit and the pressure would be the same as earth's sea level.
Furthermore explaining their equipment, they are working on many things like improving mechanical computers electronics made of silicon carbide. Using the mechanical computer aproach, the equipment will be more durable than a regular computer or laptop or phone. The simplified elctronics
have been tested in simulating chamber set to be like the extremeness of Venus and have lasted up to three weeks. using simulators will make the conditions less foreign and give a understanding of what the people will endure on the study.
In conclusion, there are many reasons why it is safe to go to venus and learn. these are just a few examples. NASA is working on more thing to keep these explorers safe. Venus does have a harsh climate and hazardess conditons but the reward will outweight the risks anyday.
Many things will be made to help with the safety of the exploration so i ask you this: would you be up for the tasks given the still present risks? | 3 |
b567018 | Do you know what the electoral college is? I didn't know what it was or what it did until the seventh grade. Well if you don't know what it is it's a group of 538 people who vote for the next president of the United States. But I don't think we should vote for a president like this. Now your wondering, why dosent this guy like the way voting is set up? Let me tell what I think it should be.
First of all I think it removes our voting right as an American citizen. Some of you are probably asking yourselfe, "how does this remove your right to vote?" Well you see if the Electoral college votes and whoever they vote for wins. Your basically voting for nothing because the Electoral College is basically the vote that counts twords the election.
Another thing I would want to change is if the Electoral College is the main vote we should just not vote. Whats the point in wasting our time to vote if it doesent even count. I thi9nk voting should be by popular vote because it lets the citizens choose who they want there leader to be.
Finally I think If we could choose the president it would be better becuse the people would get what they want. If they dont get to choose there leader than there is no point in doing this stuff at all. This should be a real democracy and let the people vote.
In general I think voting should be by popular choice and not by the electoral college. As the people of the United States we need to vote for our leaders and keep our rights to vote in this country. | 2 |
b574b32 | For some people having a car is a neccesity, but for others it can just be stressful. I believe it is much safer with out cars. There would be less accidents ,
less pollution and it would save people a lot of money .
In Paris they had to enforce a partial driving ban to clear the smog. If there were drivers out on the road they got fined. This didnt stop everyone, there was counts of 4,000 people being fined for driving. Just five days after the partial ban congestion went down 60 percent.
Just Imagine if five days of no driving caused congestion to go down 60 percent, how much would it go down if cars were eleminated all together.
There are some disadvantages to not having a car. Such as not being able to get where you need to go on time, biking or walking far places, getting sweaty before work or school ect.
Driving can also be very stressful, for example when businessman Carlos said "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution,". This statement suggest that it is stressful to drive a car.
In conclusion, I would definitally want to have a car so i could get where i needed to go on time. I would also like to reserve the car only if i really needed to use it. | 2 |
b574dda | In the old world, people didnt have car's, they did everything on foot. They got food, ran erronds, and just to get out of the house with the family. So how come now adays people are so dependent on their car's. Places around the world are implimenting rules or laws now to stop people from abusing the car.
Since the car was invented it has always had the same issue, not the engine or the interior, but the environmental issue. And now that people around the world are realizing that, they have created rules and laws to ban or reduce the usage of cars. A community in Germany called Vauban have given up their car's to help the environment, and people love it. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter, a mother of two.
Paris "The Love City" in France has Banned cars because of the high amount of smog it creates. After the law was placed, only after five days, congestion was down 60 percent.
Paris has the most smog compared to any other European captials, they had to do this or the smog would take over the city. And since the ban has been posted, smog has been clearing and is now much more limited in the area.
Major cities like New York were built in a narrow way, so its more congested when too many people are driving, and the buildings are much closer together so its more convinent to walk or bike to places rather than drive. New York has implimented a new bike-sharing program, and it is a hit. And around the nation a similar program is the car-sharing program. It encourages people about car pulling, it is when multiple people go to work or school in the same car, it puts less cars on the road and has plentiful benifits. Like less carbon dioxide in the air, less traffic, and saves on gas money.
Bill Ford, an exeuctive chairman of the Ford Motor Company, pitched a plan to live in a world that owning a personal car was impractical. He proposed to partnering with telecommunications industy to make a city or many where the "pedestions, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emission and improve safety."
Banning cars around the world isn't a solution because they are more convinent than taking a train or walking, but their needs to be a cut down on the amount we use a car, we abuse it. Eventually all the greenhouse gases might end up destroying the planet we live on. But their are solutions, implementing a world day were we dont use cars would help tremendusly, their are other means of getting around other than car. For example Biking is a great form of excersice and will get you to were you need to be faster than walking, while getting in shape at the same time. | 4 |
b575740 | "When you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors."
This shouldn't be the way candidates win. The election should change, the candidates should earn their votes, win by popular vote.
If the process of voting changes to "win by popular votes" then at least the candidate would win fairly. If you think about it, wouldn't you want to win fair and square? don't you think you should earn your votes? or in general, if you think people should earn their votes then you should get an understanding of what is trying to be explained here.
I'm not the only one that thinks that the election should be by popular vote;
"over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now."
plenty of other people think we should vote directly instead of having the Electoral College system.
Nobody wants to vote for other people other than the one running for President, well at least 60 percent of the people don't.
The electoral college is unfair and it is why I think the election should count by popular vote. The electoral college is unfair because sometimes candidates don't a have chance to visit states so it's difficult to gain votes from those states the people who vote aren't really voting, it's the electors who are a large state gets more attention from presidental candidates in a campaign than a small state does (basically what I meant in reason 1)
The point here is, I think we should get rid of the Electoral College since it has been proven that it is unfair and just have a fair voting system from now on. Maybe put on a debate to see what people would prefer. | 3 |
b578a65 | Venus is an interesting planet for various reasons.
Scientists believe that Venus is alike to earth. It has about the same density and size compared to earth. In the article it states in paragraph 4 that "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported varius forms of life, just like Earth." This quote helps state that it is a interesting planet and alike Earth they want to study and learn about it knowing the conditons.
Another example of how Venus is an interesting planet is because of the atmosphere and the ground conditions it has. Astronomers believe humans could survive there, however it wouldn't be easy with the conditions it has. A beam of light can barely pass throught the atmosphere; this causes the standard cameras to be ineffective.
In conclusion, Venus is a very interesting planet and despite the dangers it has, it is worth it to study. It will be harder to study knowing that you can't take anything from the planet back, or the fact that in order to do anything you need to actually be there on the planet to get a better understanding. | 2 |
b57b6c9 | This articles is about the facial action coding system enables computers to identify human emotions. It is important to understanding how other people feeling and emotionall. This technology should valuable expressions of students in a classroom. It importand to understand or learn about facial action so that we can understand other people what they feel how they feel. Sometime we said a word that peple won't want to hear or hurt them. Able to understand they emotion and feeling we have to undertand how the person facial is. In this artile said " In the real smile, the zygomatic major lift the corner of your mouth". The fake smile or false smile is the mouth stretched aideaways using the zygomatic major and different muscle, the risorius. That one Importand thing we all can learn from this article. Also if eveyone understand there will be deeper relationship, deeper friendship and deeper family. Everyone is different so which mean they can pretend to be happy or pretend to be sad you also can tell from using facial action coding system and identify human emotions. To understand facial action is importand for everyone and students in classroom should be using and valuable the technology of facial action coding system. Thank you | 2 |
b5804d9 | Venus is a well-known or maybe to some well - heard of planet in our solar system. It's also known as the "Evening Star." NASA has a "particularly compelling idea", for sending humans to study Venus, as the reader may notice from the text. We are told that Venus may have some interesting things being discovered that may lead to new studies. It's dangerous and takes caution, but is it worth it?
As the reader can tell from the text, the author states mutliple reasonings for why it would be worth it for humans to do such studies on Venus. One of those might be for the fact that Venus is often reffered to as Earth's "twin." This is because Venus is the closest planet to Earth within being of terms in density and size. Plus, it's super close to Earth so it's one of Earth's closest "neighbors." It's found within the text also that Venus may have contained bodies of water such as Oceans and who knows, maybe lakes here and there. Due to the planets' surface of rocky sediment, it's possible that there were familiar features sich as valleys, mountains, and craters. It is said that maybe once there has been or maybe still is some form of life on our neighboring planet.
Another thing that ties into why it would be worth the study is that what if we could send humans to maybe live on Venus? It's definitely a work in progress due to temperatures going to around 170 degrees Fahrenheit.
Surviving human lives on Venus wouldn't be easy due to these conditions but that is why NASA is digging deeper into what can be done to make it suitable for human lives. Though one other thing shared with the reader is that the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth, which is a holdback but it's of course possible for adaptation in the right conditions which need to be discovered. If it's possible that other forms of life lived on Venus then why not humans too?
The third reason for studying Venus being worthy is that human curiosity can lead to an endorsement of new ideas. Of course that is why NASA is such a thing. The way our bodies work have been in discovery for years and years. Which leads to the idea that if we can figure out how and why our bodies function in certain conditons on Earth, how could and would our bodies function on a planet that is closest to features alike the sun.
These reasons explain to the reader why the author might believe that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers; because, who else is to make these discoveries and what if NASA were to find information that could help us learn a bit more about our own planet. Plus, more about the human life can be something that we learn more and more about. And lastly, who's to say that curoisity killed the cat? Well of course it's everyone; but, with new studies and leads we can figure out how curiosity saved the "cat" and taught that "cat" new things. | 4 |
b580903 | Their are many reasons to join the seagoing program. You get to travel the world and see many
sights
and go to places you'v never been. You would travel the ocean to other countries and see diffrent styles of life. You would get to see ans those are some of the many types of places you would get to go. You would get to see the whole world the good part of the world and the bad part of the world.
Lukes claim states that it was an oportunity to be a sea going cowboy and great to be able to go to places like
Eourpe, China, New Orleans, Luke got to vist greece and venice italy these are some of the things you get to do by becoming a seagoing cowboy. luke i quate said But seeing the Acropolis in greece was special,'' Being a seagoing cowboy has it's ups and ans those are some of the many types of places you would get to go. You would get to see the whole world the good part of the world and the bad part of the world. some off the bad part off the trip is that Luke almost fell off the boat in to the deep dark ocean.
Luke had the longest year than any seagoing cowboy. He traveled for 9 years dilivering animal across the world. he saw many sight in his travels like the acropolis in greece. He whent all over the world saw many thing good and bad. Luke had lots off fun on his trips around the world, he did good thing for good people and their countrys.
Luke was a good seagoing cowboy he was a seagoing cow boy for nine year's. That is the longest years in seagoing cowboy history. He
literarley made history. he was a great seagoing cowboy and he tried as hard a he could and did his job to perfection. If his friend didn't tell him him about the seagoing cowboy he would off never helped out his country and all the other countrys he helped out.
Well i guess this is the end about our good friend Luke.Luke was the best seagoing cowboy there could ever be. He risked his life to help the other countrys after the war. He dileverd them cows and other animals so they could get food. He was a great seagoing cowboy luke was not that old whe n he was discharged in 1947. In conclousion Luke helped many people during his years as a seagoing cowboy | 3 |
b5822cd | The Electoral College system is not something American citezens should experiance. Theis system of voting has many flaws, even some of the top political leaders such as Rixhard Nixon or Jimmy Carter agree. I beleive that we should get rid of the electoral college system and change it to election by popular vote for president for these reasons, It is unfair to voters and the electoral college has a big disaster factor.
The electoral college system is very unfiar towards voters. Under this system voters aren't even voting for president, rather they are voting for a slate of electors who vote for the president. Ins't that the whole point of voting for president that you actually vote for president? Well under this system it is impossible. In source 2 it gives the example, "If you lived in Texas, for instance, and you wanted to vote for [John] Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry. On the off-chance that those electors won the statewide election, they would go to Congress and Kerry would get 34 electoral votes". As show in this statement when voters want to vote for president they dont actually vote for president, in turn they vote for electoral votes. This defeats the whole purpose of Americans voting for their president. This goes against the American ideal that American is a Democracy in which people vote for their leaders. Another reason why this system is unfair to voters is because of its winner-take-all system in each state. According to source 2 ", candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states. During the 2000 capmpaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all," This in turn is unfair to those people in the states where candidates didn't visit. As mentioned in source 1 "Most states have a "winner-take-all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate". This statement is not at all fair. It is saying that the electors of the winning candidates team are rewarded while the other electors on the other side are not. How is this in any way fair towards the oposing teams electors? All of this is caused by the winner-take-all system caused by electoral college, which again is unfair to many American citizens.
Another reason why we should get rid of the electoral college system is because of its disaster factor. Americans should considers themselves lucky due to the whole 2000 election crisis which was the biggest in a century. This system allows for much worse to happen during these elections. Getting rid of it is one of the only ways to solve that problem. This system causes many problems, for example source 2 states "Back in 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. (So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy. P)" This shows that this system has caused many mishaps in the past that could occur again. The American people should not be subject to these disasters. Another disaster factor that goes along with the electoral college system is that some electors have not voted for their own party, causing a disturbance in the voting. Source 2 states "In the same vein, "faithless" electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please..." In no way shape or form is this fair towards the candidates party's. This infidelity can sway the predicted outcome of the election. Resulting in a surprise for many of America's citizens when they see the voting results. This electoral college system can cause many different problems resulting in disasters. A few have already happened in the past, as mentioned, and America shouldn't have to endure another one. This is why we should eliminate the electoral college system and change to election by popular vote for president.
All and all, the electoral college is unfiar and disasterous. It causes many issues with the voting for President in America. Many Americans believe that is system is definatly not working. This is why we need to change to election by popular vote. Famous politition Bob Dole one stated, "Abolish the electoral college!" and he seems to be right. | 5 |
b588d39 | I have been serving as a "Seagoing Cowboy" for a great amount of time and I think you should think of being one was well. There are many reasons to be one, you get to help countries recover animals and supplies, you get to see different countries and their most interesting places, and you get to have fun on the trips too.
One of my first reasons is that you get to help countries recover animals and supplies and help their people. It was an extremely great honor to help the countries that were affected by World War II. It also opened up the world to me, it made me more aware of other countries and their needs. If you join then you would feel like a better person because you would know that you helped multiple countries recover from a giant war that affected many people.
Including helping countries, you get to sightsee and explore them as well. From what I saw, every country has many beautiful and wonderful places to explore and see. I've seen many places in different countries such as, a castle in Crete, the Panama Canal on my way to China, and I've even taken a gondola ride in Venice, Itay. I got to see these many places just by signing up in this program. That is another reason why you should participate in being a Seagoing Cowboy.
Finally, on the return trips after the animals have been unloaded, there are games that we play in the empty holds where the animals have been housed. So if you think that this job would be tireing and no fun you're wrong. We played many fun and competitive games on board such as baseball, volleyball, table-tennis, fencing, and boxing. Even with an exhausting job you still have a great opportunity to have fun while still helping many countires.
In conclusion, I, Luke Bomberger, extremely recommend being a Seagoing Cowboy. Not only do you get to do great things to help, you get to have fun and see the world. Those are a few of the many reasons why you should join this program. Being a Seagoing Cowboy changed my life greatly and it opened up the world to me, I have no regrets signing up for it, I'm sure you won't regret it too. | 4 |
b592a97 | I think that the author has a good point her beacuse it teaches the reading that Mars is not the only chicos with this we get to see that ther is other chicos that we can pick if one day we have to leave plant earth. Venus is a instreting plant because its sometimes cloeser to us then mars and it can help understand how to take care of earth. With this we get to see what we can change and what. We dont need to change about our plant Earth and what we do need to chance. Earth is a good plant but Venus is a plant that we dont fully understand as most plants Venus is a plant that is new to the human kind.
What Venus have that we dont which is good that the envioment can cush a submarin and the conditions. That it might not let a human leave in Venus is dangerous. But can be really helpful like if its amosphere is so strange can take some samples and can use it to help the earth be more protective. It can help us understand why its like and if one day and see if some one can live up there. Vensu us the hottest sureface temperture in our whole solors system which is perrt col if you ask me its hooter then the summer on the earth because its cloers to the sun.
`I think that us as human need to study Venus close and see waht it really is can see if it can help us understand our plant more and more. We need to watch it closly to send people up there and see if tis right for humans. but yeah i think that Venus is a cool plant to study more cloly because its reaslly insterting to see how a differtn platn works everyday. We need to study it more so we cansee why its called the Evening Stare why its cloer to the sun why we need to talk about more to peepole so they may see how insterting is to study a plant like Venus. | 2 |
b5937a4 | I would say that driverless cars could be dangerous in many cases.
There could be an accident if there was a driver just going across the road and the driverless car malfunctioned.
The driverless car could crash straight into the driver no matter how people see it.
The article stated that driverless cars can't see the road themselves but they can sense when something is coming near it.
Even if a driverless car sensed something near it; if the car was going at any type of speed like 25 mph it would probably hit somebody that it might not have sensed.
Anything bad could happen with these new generation of cars, sticking to how regular things are is better than taking a risk of someone getting hurt.
The moral of my essay is to tell people that even if people say there is no harm done by making these cars, the truth is anything could happen and it could malfunction anytime.
My answer would be no to having driverless cars even if they made it a bit safer that doesn't mean it wouldn't accidentally crash into someone.
Driverless cars would work better as a gps not as a car that could move on it's own. | 2 |
b5941ec | " The advantages of the limiting cars usages "
Time ago cars where just a little aspect to people use . But now cars are an obsesion, a way to go anywhere without walk , the car has become the foot of society in adiction of it . Streets parking , driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experiment new distric on the outskirts of freiburg, near the French and Swiss borders. Vauban's streets are completely "car-free", except the main thoroughfare, where the tram to downtown Freiburg runs and a few streets on one edge of community. That is one of the mainly reason why cars are becoming the food of society. But people don't know that they are wrong because it has become an obsesion and we all are making our future and if we still like this is not going to be good, because in 2006 is a good example os growing trend in Europe ,the United States and elsewhere to separate suburban life from auto use , as a component of a movement called "smart planning."
Another situation that comes to this theme is the reduce of greenhouse gas emmission from tailpipes cause to by the ecsecive use of cars in society . The passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emission in Europe what some peoples should say is't that much of greenhouse gas emission but believed or not it's and no body make sence of it that's why is an adventage the limiting cars usage in any place not just in one , because here in the Unite States is up to 50 persent in some car-intencive areas and that is someting to really worry about. Vauban , home to 5,500 recidents within a rectangular square mile ,may be the most advance experiment in low car suburban life.
David Goldberg , an official of transportation for america , a fast growing coalition of hungreds of groups in the United States ,who are promoting new communities thhat are less dependent on cars what is good in so many aspects less greenhouse gas emission ,more fisicly effors by people and less adiction to cars that is what society has now like Mr. Goldberg added :"How much you drive is as important as whether you have a hybrid." | 2 |
b595104 | To Whom It May Concern,
The Electoral College that is used when electing the president is a flawed system and should be replaced by and election by the popular voted. The Electoral College does not always show what the people want and it is unfair to voters in certain states.
The Electoral College should be replaced with an election by popular vote because it is not always a fair representation of what the voters want. This means that if most of the popular votes can be for one candidate, but the other candidate wins the majority of the Electoral votes. This is shown in the article
In Defense of the Electora College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Richard A. Posner. In thsi source the author states,"But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee (and that trust is rarely betrayed)...[;however,] it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral voter will not win the popular vote. ... It happened in 2000, when Gore had more popular votes than Bush, but fewer electoral votes"(Posner, Line 16). This shows how what the mahjority of the people want to happen, will not always happen in this flawed system.
This system is also unfair to voters in certain states. Candidates usually campaign in what are called "swing states" that could vote for either candidate, but this means that many states that candidates are confident of winning in or states they are sure of losing in, will not be campaigned at all. This unfairness is shown in the article
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradford Plumer. This article says,"Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they have no chance of winning ... During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all,including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't see a single campaign ad"(Plumer, Line 13). This unfairness causes voters in some states to be uninformed about the candidates which could cause them to vote for people they wouldn't if they had seen some campaigning.
The Electoral College is a flawed system that is unfair to voters and does not always reflect what the citizens want.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 4 |
b5962cc | In foreign countries, residents appear to prefer suburban areas with no vehicles than urban areas with the sound of motors filling the air. "German suburb, life goes on without cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal, "Paris bans driving due to smog" by Robert Duffer, and "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" by Andrew Selsky, and "The end of car culture" by Elisabeth Rosenthal talk about the bannishment, or the non-use, of cars. These foreign counties are making new ways to create a more modern, peaceful, safe and healthy life for all of us.
In Vauban, Germany, residents do not use cars, 'they gave up their cars'. "Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in thi experimental new district on the outskirts of Freiburg, near the French and Swiss borders," stated Source 1, "Vauban's streets are completely
'car-free'
- except the main thoroughfare, wher the tram to downtown Freiburg runs, a few streets on the edge of community." Residents would simply sell their cars, put them in the large garages or where a car-owner buys a space. Heidrun Walter, mother of two, said "When i had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way."
Paris, due to how polluted the air, partially banned the use of cars. "On monday," Source 2 states, "motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-umbered plates the following day. 4,000 drivers were fined." Ever since Paris banned the use of cars, congestion went down 60 percent. Deisel fuel was blamed since France favors them. Paris banned cars for the health of its residents.
In Bogota, Colombia, there was a program that was used once every year. "it was the third straight year cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the Day Without Cars in this capital of 7 million. The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Violators faced $25 fines," stated Source 3. Later on, two other Colombian cities participated, Cali and Valledupar. Authorities from other countires came to check out the event. "These people are generating a revolutionary change, and this is crossing borders," said Enrique Riera, the mayor of Asuncion, Paraguay.
In the United States, each year less cars are being bought and driven. "When adjusted for growth, the number of miles driven in the United States peaked and dropped steadily thereafter, according to an analysis by Doug Short of Advisor Perspectives, an investment research company," stated Source 2. Most young drivers do not care which car they drive, it's mostly about the freedom they get to have a driver. The U.S. might consider wether to make ta decision about the decreasig of cars. | 1 |
b59e6e2 | The article presents good information for the pros and cons of driverless cars. The high advances of of "televison and movies has been fascinated with driverless cars". Not all companies agree on the idea of driverless cars; therefore the price of these cars will be very high.
The article states that humans will still have to be in the drivers seat of these cars incase there is a problem or a human needed activity is ahead such as "navigating through work zones and around accidents". The cars will have many options for the driver and for the car itself such as being warned when the "vehicle is in danger of backing into an object". This new technology could help to reduce the likeliness of accidents to occur.
The article also includes mentioning the laws about these new cars. "In most states it is illegal to even test drive computer driven cars". In regards to the previous sentence, we can hypothesize that even though some states will approve the test driving of these vehicles, does not mean that they will allow them to be sold to the public in that state. A question that the article mentions is "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" Different judges can opose the idea of it being the cars fault because there is never a proven way to know that the technology will always be able to withstand any problems.
The new technology could be considered 'boring' for those who enjoy driving and can do so in a safe manor. Yes, this could become boring waiting for your turn to be able to drive. The companies making these vehicles are not trying to make it easier to drive for the driver such as when someone has to drive for hours at a time. They are making these improvements to some vehicles to make driving on the road safer especially for new drivers. Warnings are a great thing these cars of capable of, such as warning you when you are about to back up into something.
Once again, there are many pros and cons to the driverless cars. The price of these cars will definitly be expensive, but they will be a great thing to own if you are new to driving, or you feel the need to be safe. In the future, these cars may be a requirement by law and the human driveable cars may be no longer in the making. | 4 |
b5a1979 | Would you want a driverless car? While driverless vehicles may seem cool, there are reasons to why they aren't the best invention . Driverless cars aren't exactly the best invention because technlogy does and will fail, they still require human attention, and they tamper with driving laws.
Driverless cars rely highly on technology. Technology always seems to find a way to misfunction. The more we rely on technology the more dangerous situations we are put in.We already have repairmen for mechanical functions of vehicles, but with driverless cars we would need different repairsmen that are practically technicians.
Driverless cars seem cool because you don't have to actually pay attention and drive. So you think. Driverless cars still require that humans pay attention. Some have sensors that make sure
the driver still has his or her hands on the steering wheel. Many crashes today are mostly because the human was not paying attention. So why would we allow the human to pay even less attention to the road? These cars can easily alter humans into thinking that they dont have to pay attention to things as much. There is no point in having a driverless car if the driver still has to pay attention to the road.
Driverless cars oppose many driving laws. Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times(Paragraph 9). Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident(Paragraph 9). In some states, driverless cars are not allowed to be tested, mostly for safety reasons. If the technology in a driverless car fails and creates a crash, who is repsonsible for the crash, the human in the car, or the car manufacturer? This question alone can create many arguments.
Do you still want to try a driverless car? There is a lot of evidence to support how driverless cars aren't a smart invention. Some reasons that support the claim against driverless cars are the fact that technology isn't fully efficient, driverless cars still require human interaction in order to function properly, and driverless cars challenge current driving laws. | 4 |
b5a3a7b | The suggestions of the auther studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers is well backed up by alot of inforamtion and knoweldge about Venus . Venus being so close to almost being the same as Earth is why studying the planet isn't a bad idea . Astronomers are eager to study or learn more about Venus is because the planet may be well once have been the most Earth like planet in the solar system . Scientist believe that long ago Venus was proably cover by some features that Earth has . The features from having surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys , mountains , and craters .
Although Venus is intresting to study or learn about is pretty amazing , it is not as easy as you think it is . Venus can be really dangerous . Venus being so close to Earth sometimes , humans have sent numerous spacecraft to our sister planet known as Venus . Reportedly that even though many spacecrafts have been sent to Venus no spacecraft has survived the landing . This may be the reason why it is not very safe for humans. Venus atmophere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide . There is more dangerous elements in venus like atmophere .The cloud are highly of corrosive sulfuric acid in the atmophere . The temperture can be a danger in the fact that the planet's surface temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit . Also the atmosphere pressure is 90 times greater than what people experieance in Earth . Venus has teh hottest surface tempereture of any planet in our solar system .
There has been many ideas of to get a spacecraft to Venus safely , one of those ideas is to float above the fray of Venus . However peering at Venus from a spaceship orbiting or huver the planet safely is only going to give scienttsit the the features of only limited insight on the groung or the surface of Venus . Scientist thinks hovering or floating around Venus fray is not really a good study is because they cannot get smaples of rocks , gas , or anything else from that far of a distance . There has been many approaches when it comes to visting our sister planet , one example is the mechanical computers . This device was fisrt envisioned in the 1800s and played an imporatant rle in the 1940s during the World War II . Although these ideas may not be proven to work the curiosity will continue later on.
One day the knowledge and information scientist already have of Venus will be the the reason there is going to be a possible solution of getting to our sister planet safely . From the value of Venus not only because human curiosity will likely lead the human kind to many other intimindiating endeavors . Risks will be made for the human kind to visit our sister planet , Despite the danger , Venus is should be a worthy pursuit of studies . | 4 |
b5a5183 | The car is one of the most important inventions, but it's taking so much in our life style
The car is one of the most important inventions on the human history, they give us a big adventage in the second world war, and after that, they do our life more easier, because with they we can travel big distances and be fast in other places like work or malls etc, but in the actuality is so nessesary.
In the "world of today" the cars are an obligation to everyone, because the people can't go walking to every site because today all the paces are so far from our houses, the people who lives in the suburbs just can't go to anywhere walkin they need a car or take the public transport, so they need other way to go anywhere without a car, like in the city of Vauban Germany, the people in Vauban goe's to the soccer games to the mall leave theyr childs in the school and everithing whitout a car!, the people in Vauban don't have a car because it's so expensive have one, in Vauabn if you want a house with a parking site you need to pay $40.000 dollars!, that's so much money and as a result of this the 70% of the Vauban's families don't have car, and a 57% of this families sold his car.
As a result of the experiment in Vauban's, the suburb's goes more small and more closely to everything doing the people more happy with this new life style, maybe we can lear something with this people. | 2 |
b5a6e5f | There are several advantages of limiting car usage. First and foremost, limitations will seriously reduce the emission of greenhouse gas and the production of smog caused by diesel fumes. Beautiful cities are being polluted as we speak, and that is something that could be so simply reduced. Limitations on cars will make the air cleaner.
If car usage is limited, as it has been some places, it shows to make the surrounding ares calmer. In places such as Vuban, Germany, where cars are almost completely gone, residents say they are much happier and less stressed out (Rosenthal, 2009-New York Times). Rush hours and traffic jams will be reduced, leaving more time to make cities beautiful again. Bike paths are being reconstructed in many places, in attempt to make as little imapct on the world as possible. Try a week without using a car. Use other commute options to get where you need to go. People see that they are less relient on using car commute (Rosenthal, 2013-New York Times).
Alternative transportation is encouraged. In places all over the world, people are stepping up and making a change in the way they transport themselves. Sidwalks are being remade in order to accomidate walking pedestrians (Selsky, 2002). Shopping centeres and diners are being located in closer ares, making it easier to walk or bike to them. Bill Ford of Ford Motor Company expressed his wishes for transportation by saying he wishes cities to have "pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety," (Rosenthal, 2013).
Instead of spending so much time with car developments, limiting car usage would mean more time to other ares of development. David Goldberg of Transportation for America made and fantastic point by saying, "All of our development since World War 2 has been centered on the car, and that will have to change," (Rosenthal, 2009). Instead of spending so much time creating things that will ruin the world, why not use that time instead to try and better it? Construct something useful. People are doing it all over, and it's proving to work very well.
All in all, having a limitation on car use will be much easier and helpful than people realize. The more we actively work on changing the world from preventable harm, the better our surroundings will be. Even if a car is driven on occasion, it will reduce the greenhouse gas dramatically, making a positive effect on the way people live.
Sources:
1. "In German Suburd, Life Goes On Without Cars," Elisabeth Rosenthal, 2009.
2. "Paris bans driving due to smog," Robert Duffer, 2014.
3."Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota," Andrew Selsky, 2002 4. "The End of Car Culture," Elisabeth Rosenthal, 2013 | 4 |
b5a9e91 | The using of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is very valuable thing. Acorrding to the article, it says, "A classrom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." This shows that it can help the student make sure they understand the lesson the teachers teachings. It can also help the teacher see what they nedd to explain more, or what the students are getting stuck on. The article also says, "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This helps me explain on what i was saying, that it could help the teachers modify the lesson so the students can understand more of the lesson.
This technology can help the students and the teacher to strat communicating even more now. It can show the teacher how a student feels about somethinbg the teacher is doing. Also, it can help the teacher see if the student has something going on in thier life that they are not doing thier work. That way the teacher can ask whats going on to the student. It can maybe lower the chances of the students failing thier class. This can help the student go on to collage, so the percent of students going to collage would go higher.
How do you know that's this technology could be helping students pass thier classes? What it this is the key for all humans to get smarter? These are thing that we should be thinking about. If we would of hev it already, think about how far we could be right now with technology. Just think about how many docters, or laweyers and all those important people we need. Not just that but world peaces. the most thing people wish we could have. peace amoung all humanity.
Well that's what it think about if we had thats type of technology. I agree that we should have this type of technology in the schools. It will help the teacher to find other ways to teach, or other way to make thing easier for the students. It also, help the kids learn faster, and also understand the lesson. | 4 |
b5aa1d8 | You may think that the Face on Mars was created by aliens. That is not true. The Face is just a natural ladform. There is a lot of evidence to support my argument. Like it is simply just a mesa, the photo Malin took, and there are many similar landforms around the American West. Certainly it wasn't created by aliens!
It is just a mesa. First, Martian mesas were common. They were very common around Cydonia as said in the article. Second, it did look like a face. That is because of the unusual shadows that formed to look kind of like an Egyptian Pharaoh. Third, it gives an illusion. The illusion is of eyes, a nose, and a mouth. These are the reasons that shows that the Face is a Martian mesa.
Michael Malin's photo shows that it is a landform. First, Malin's photo was taken ten times sharper. It lets it have a more clear image. Second, people think that the alien markings were hidden by haze. Though on the second picture it still doesn't show any sign of alien markings. Third, on April 8, 2001 another photo was taken. That day it was a cloudless summer day. Malin's tame captured a fantastic photo. It still didn't show that the Face was created by aliens. The photos that Malin and his team took were very useful.
It is similar to the world in a way. Using photos of the Face they would be able to see if there was any sign of life. Like small homes, or shacks. Second, it is defenitly equivalent to a butte or mesa. There is so much information to prove that. Third, it has landforms in common around the American West. Gavin stated 'It remids me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. It is similar in a way to America.
Now you know the reasons why the Face on Mars was not created by aliens. There is so mush evidence to prove it. Like my examples which are it is actually a mesa, Michael's photo shows no signs of aliens markings or their homes, and the Face is similar to some landforms in the American West. There is a lot more evidence to prove that the Face on Mars is not a creation by aliens, but a normal Martian landform. | 4 |
b5abb88 | The concept of a driverless car seems very interesting and even mind-blowing. There could be many ways that the world could benefit from the development of these cars, but thinking deeper into it, these cars could also be quite a problem. Technology is not always the most reliable source. Having a self-driving car based on technology will not always be reliable either. Sometimes, things malfunction, and if these cars are self-driving becasue of technology, these cars will most likely malfunction as well. Therefore, I do not support the manufacturing of driverless cars.
Regardless of still being able to take control of the car, drivers may still find it hazzardly to be sitting in a piece of metal and technology and just rely on that to get them where they want to be. If the car malfunctions, and the person inside the car gets injured, it would not be their fault, nor the other people driving on the road with them. Most likely, it would the be the manufacturer's fault because of faulty design or poor assembly. Example of a malfuntion of these cars could include simply losing its directions. Sitting in a car that has no idea where it is going could be scary. Though the driver could take control if need be, this would still be concering if the driver was not paying attention, and therefore arriving at a place they did not want to visit. Even if the car could be perfected, there is always the thought of bad weather and icy roads, or roadblocks and accidents. Again, taking control could be an easy solution, though one not might have the time to do so.
Driverless cars still would need a lot of work. They would need to be tested over and over again, even if nothing is wrong with the car to enusre safety. It would have to be tested in different weather conditions and different roads with accidents and roadblocks on them to test the feature of letting the driver take back control of the car. There very well could be fewer accidents with these cars, but problems can come with solutions. While self-driving cars is a wonderous idea, I believe there are still too many risks. Today's technology is getting to the point where it is very possible, but technology will always be technology; there will always be some kinks that need to be fixed. | 3 |
b5af145 | When I got involved in the Seagoing Cowboys program, it allowed me to do many things I had never done before, and go places I had never seen. If I hadn't of joined the program I would have had to stay where I lived and would've never seen the places such as China, the Panama Canal, Italy, Europe, and Acropolis.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy, I was able to see the other side of the story from people on the other side of the world. When I lived in America, al So, I joined in on the Seagoing Cowboy program, thinking that just maybe, I would be able to make a difference in this world. Having prior knowledge about what exactly "hard work"
I was able to get many things accomplished that other people in that program that normally people wouldn't be able to do. Besides just helping devastated people with their homes destroyed from the battles of World War two, I was also able to have unique adventures to places that you don't typically go to everyday. Besides from that, when I was on my second year of being a Seagoing Cowboy, I was serving as night watchman. I was making my hourly reports to check on the animals every hour when I had slipped on the ladder and I went feet first towards an opening on the side of the ship. Luckily, a strip of metal along the edge of the boat had caught my fall and kept me from flying over the edge into the dark Atlantic ocean. Altough I had a few cracked ribs from the inccedent, I was able to find some sort of fun to do while I was waiting for the animals to be unloaded. All of the cowboys decided to get together and play baseball and volleyball in the empty stalls where the animals had been. We also found games to do like table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and game helped us pass time. Not only that, but being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than just an adventure for me. It opened up a whole new world for me. I'm grateful for the opportunity. It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs. Being able to see this, I was able to recruit many international students and exchange visitors for years, and maybe, you will too.
With some background knowledge and determination, eventually you will be able to become a Seagoing Cowboy too. | 3 |
b5b01ce | The way the author supported his claims were ways of providing examples. He defined his examples in a way to make worth of pursuiting Venus despite its dangers. He did this by comparing them to the actual project of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus."
First off, he explains that Venus is our neighboring planet. Despite of Venus being close to Earth; we don't know much about it. However, later in the article he mentions something interesting that catches most people's eye. He mentions, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." This caught my eye, especially, because it goes with the idea of Venus being an interesting and worthy pursuit to discover and learn from. Despite of Venus having no life and probably not worth to look at. But all of that changes when he states how the conditions actually are.
Furthermore, as said in the question, despite all of the dangers, it will be worth to study Venus. Since we'll be able to know what actually happened long ago. In paragraph three the author states, "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus," also he states, "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit." These are the dangers of Venus. When considering to send some sort of probe or satellite to investigate this planet these are the circumstances we must consider. The way he incoorperates this idea fully just shows how incredible and extreme these conditions are, to even try and land a rover on Venus.
Lastly, in paragraph five the author starts explaining ways to study and investigate Venus without having to worry about its weather extremes. The author explains, "A vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way." He shows us that it has even more worth to study Venus. We are now able to study Venus but at a different angle. This ties in with his idea of pursuiting Venus because we have the chance to find out more about it. Even though it is not the best insight of Venus, gives a perfect example that every little detail we learn about Venus is important and nteresting.
Tying all his claims together, he shows us that Venus is worth the danger to pursuit the planet. The way he compared and contrasted with each detail supports his claim strongly. As the author states, "Not easy conditions, but survivable for humas." Meaning it is not going to be easy, but it is definitely possible. | 4 |
b5b5033 | Can a facial action code system accurately detects human emotions? Making Mona Lisa Smile is written by Nick D'Alto,and it points out the fact how computers can tell how emotions by calculation. A technology known as the facial action coding system enables computers to indentify human emotions. Some of the advantages of the computers is that it can observe, calculate and identify the human muscles.
One way the computers can identify how emotions is by observing the 44 major muscles bone in human. Creating a 3-D model of the face the computers has been able to observe this muscles and where they are located in the body and their movement, in paragraph one the text states that "
the process begins when the computers constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. without observation of this mucles movement in the body the computer wouldn't be able to indentify the muscles that actually produce this emotions. Therefore they also need to calculate like humans.
in anothert different way the computers have been able to calculate this bones that makes this emotions in the body through the producers. The producers observes the way human tell emotions by calculation, on paragraph five the text states that " in fact we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" everyday. for instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling by simply looking on her face. Calculation is one important thing the computers need to do for better result without them calculating like humans they would probably give us wrong result, and they can do this by observation of the bones shape. whereby can tell emotions.
Way other way computers would provide specific answer like angry, happy... is by knowing the parts of the body to identify the positions of the bone. Emotions as we know can be told by looking at the face at an individual face, on paragraph 7 it says "while looking at the mirror: raise your lips at the cornersof your mouth, then squint your eyes slightly, to produce wrinkling ("cow's-feet) at the corner of your eyes, holding that, raise the outer parts of your cheeks up. toward your eyes" basically the computer has to identify parts of your body to detects the bones which can produce excellent result.
In conclusion, we can now see that computers can actually detect exactly and maybe more accurately than human's. struggling everyday to find out if he or she has actually forgiving you about yesterday would be more easy than ever. Through calculation and observation we see the ability and capacity of how this technology can make our life easier, teacher wouldn't have to confirm if students understand the topic if they act like they do. | 3 |
b5b6164 | I think that studying Venus is not a worthy pursuit despite of danger it presents. It is not a danger because Venus is all the way in the sky and cannot just come down. In the past Venus was the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. "Long Ago", Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth Today'. Venus can sometimesbe our nearest option for planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel. The author is just saying information from the past and is not informing us with new evidence to support his claim. NASA is working on approaches to studying Venus, some simplified electronics made of silcon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venu's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions. They are looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers. These devices were first envisioned in the 1800's and played an important role in the 1940's during World War ll. These devices make calculations by using gears and levels and do not require electronics at all. This is why I think that Venus is not a worthy pursuit despite if presents. | 1 |
b5b8a2a | The Face on Mars was discovered by NASA'S Viking 1 in 1976. It is in an area called Cydonia. The Face attracted attention to Mars because many people believed that it was created by aliens. It was used in a Hollywood film, books, magazines, radio talk shows, and grocery store checkout lines. People began to believe there was life on Mars.
The Face is actually a mesa, or a huge rock formation, with its shadows making it appear to be a face. Jim Garvin said that if there were any objects in the picture of the face, such as airplanes or small shacks, they would have showed up. Therefore, civilization would have been seen in the picture. The Face also compares to something on Earth, which leads to the fact that it is a natural landform. It is similar to Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho.
The Face on Mars was a huge attraction to people everywhere. It is a huge rock formation, or a mesa, with shadows that make it appear to look like a face. If there were any civilization near the Face, it would have been seen in the picture. The Face was not created by aliens. It is a natural landform in Cydonia on Mars. | 2 |
b5bc455 | The Lively Impacts from a Dead Engine
Personal automobiles and cars have played a major role throughout the world since the invention of the car in World War 2. Cars have been a very successful invention and many people drive their own every day on their way to work, school or other places their feet cannot carry them. Though the car has fulfilled its duties in making the lives of humans easier, it has also contributed to many negative events. For example, car emissions get trapped in the atmosphere and cause living things to breathe in dirty air around them. Therefore, a revolutionary idea has been spreading around the world: using personal automobiles less. The new aspect of using cars less has promoted a happier society, a cleaner environment, and an open attitude towards alternative transportation.
First of all, by establishing an agreement to decrease car use, people have been said to be happier and stress-free. The continuing congestion and traffic jams that are among most areas of the world, create an enormous amount of stress for the people driving. Many develop road rage or irritability and are unhappy after suffering from a long ride home because of traffic. Some believe that cities should become more like Vauban, a community in Germany in which the citizens have given up their cars, because those who live there are not focused on driving and are pleased living in such a manner. Heidrun Walter, a mother who lives in Vauban, portrays her love for this car-free community when she states, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" (Rosenthal). By living in an area with little or no use of cars, the society becomes more cheerful and has less stress to cope with. In addition, with no cars people are forced to spend more of their time outside to get from one place to another. In Bogota, Colombia there is an annual car-free day, in which anyone who does use their car has to pay a fine. Many spend their day outside walking or riding their bikes to get around and believe that the car-free day is "a good opportunity to take away stress..." (Selsky). As they exercise more without cars and enjoy the great outdoors, they wear bright smiles on their faces and look at things with a positive attitude.
With a smaller amount of people using their personal vehicles, less gas emissions are becoming a part of the Earth's atmosphere. Humans breathe in the gases that are polluting the air and can become sick from it. The environment suffers from the dirty air and may not be able to sustain life if there is not a stop to the large amounts of pollutants being emitted into the air. In the United States, passenger cars are the cause of "up to 50 percent" of greenhouse gas emissions while in Europe they are "responsible for 12 percent" (Rosenthal). This means that the car use in the United States is ruining the air around us and assists greatly in creating a disgusting environment. In popular and global cities, pollution is even more noticeable and overwhelming. For example, in Paris smog has become an everlasting issue. The climate in the area contributes to the smog filling the air along with the use of cars: "Cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions" (Chicago Tribune). To reduce the smog in the area, an elaborate plan was taken into action. Cars with even license plates could not drive on certain days and cars with odd license plates could not drive on the other days. By doing this, the air in Paris cleared up dramtically. Therefore by promoting a system where car usage is not as common, the environment can become healthier and cleaner, which benefits the citizens of the Earth.
Last, declining the use of cars creates an open attitude towards alternative transportation methods. Those who live in car-free communities discover new ways to reach the destinations they have reach throughout the day. Some will utilize their body and take advantage of nature by biking or walking from one place or another. Others might us public transportation or will car-pool with those who do own a car. As previously mentioned before, Colombia participates in a car free day, which means "Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses" to get where they needed to be (Selsky). Their use of other means of transportation on the day without cars, exemplifies that it is possible to live using other ways to get around. Some people are against the idea of using other transportation, but if they were to see the impact the alternatives have, they would be more accepting. These days many young people tend to get their license later by waiting until they reach their twenties, suggesting that they can live a happy life without relying on a personal automobile. Instead of using their own cars, they find other ways to get to work or school. These people become acclimated to organizing their lives "around where they can walk or take public transportation or car-pool with friends" (Rosenthal). Younger people who commit their lives to walking or public transportation, become aware of the fact that driving a machine that can negatively affect the world is not a necessity. Their awareness then can continue passing on to each generation and can ultimately prevent the excessive use of cars throughout the world.
In conclusion, a life without cars might be a life worth living since it contributes to a stress-free society, a healthy environment, and an acceptance of other means of transportation. By relying less on cars, people can eliminate the variety of negative impacts on the world. The Earth can become a happier, cleaner, and more accepting place with a dead engine. | 5 |
b5bca3c | I have read the article of ''Unmasking the Face on Mars.'' When I imagine that if I were a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens.
First of all,in September,1997,one of the chief scientist man said ''When they arrived at the Red Planet,''We felt this was important to taxpayer. A few days later NASA was unveiled the image for all to see.''Jim Garvin also say that ''We photographed the face as soon as we could get a good shot at it.'' Which mean they were trying to shot a picture of the
Face that they saw in Mars.
Second,on April 5,1998,when Cydonia was for the first times,the two men had snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photo. It revealed a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all. When the Face was located it was in April a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet. One man said ''Alien markings were hidden by haze.''
After that,the mission trying to look again. In April 8,2001 a cloudless summer a day in Cydonia,Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. Garvin said ''We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view.''Malin's team also captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution.''The image of 2001 spans like 1.56 meters,compared to 43 meters in the best of 1976 Viking's photo.
Finally,Garvin said that ''If there were objects in this pictures like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian style pyramids or even small shacks,you could see what they were.''he said.
Lastly,the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms common around the American Wests.''That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars.''After all that happened nobody was not really sure which one was the right one. | 2 |
b5bd747 | No one has ever landed on venus so the author is saying this because no space ship has survived landing for more than a few hours. maybe the issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on veunus more than three decade, venus really is a challanging planet for people to study.
Venus has a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide covers venus, even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfric acid in the atmophere. On the surface, temperatures average over 800 degress F and the pressure is 90 times greater than our planet. The conditions are extreme than anything humans encounter, due to the pressure and th heat of venus.
Beyond the pressure and the heat venus has geology and wather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to the land surface. It'll be dangerous even trying to live on venus but if you want to live on vnus be prepared for these desasters. Like for example our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over venus would advoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way.
This is why NASA is working on a wat to approach and study venus, like some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tsted in a chamber simulating the chaos of venus surface and have lasted for three weeks in the conditions of venus. Imagine a blimp like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the rolling venusian landscape, that'll be very cool and amazing to see and watch on TV.
Just if you ever think about wanting to go visit venus..make sure you bring lots of water and a cooling suit that'll cool you when you attempt to walk along across venus. | 3 |
b5bd8b8 | Exploring New Places
"Studying the planets is a amazing thing," said my science teacher. When studying the planets there is a lot of information to take in. The atomposhere on Earth is very different from the atmosphere in space. In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Scientists should study Venus because it has similarites to Earth, they have the idea of sending humans to Venus, and also studying the dangers of Venus can help scientists conclude their idea of what it is like there.
Venus is known as Earth's twin. In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" it states in paragraph 4 "Today, Venus still ahs some features that are analogous to those on Earth." This proves that Venus has some identical features to those that Earth has. It also states in paragraph 4 "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." This also proves that Venus has some similar characteristics like Earth. This is how the Earth is similar to Venus and why scientist should continue to study the planet, consdering its dangers.
The idea of sending humans to Venus is a topic up for debate by many scientists. In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author explains how NASA has the idea of sending humans to Venus. It states in paragraph 5 "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray." This shows how scientists have come up with a way to send humans to Venus, even though no human has set foot on another planet. The author also states in paragraph 5 "Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not excceed Earth levels." This also shows how the radiation of Venus is not much different than Earth's and it would not exceed higher on Venus, so a human would be safe from radiation on Venus. Sending humans to Venus is another reason why the author suggests studying Venus is a worthy pursiut even though it has many dangers.
With many great exeptions of studying Venus and sending humans there, the author also shows the dangers of Venus. In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author states in paragraph 3 "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 proves that is dangerous to travel to Venus with high tempertures that would burn a human alive. The author also states in paragraph 3 "Also notable, Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun." This also proves that Venus has expentionally high temperatures that no human can face. These are the dangers that the author takes into consideration when sending humans to Venus.
In conclusion, the author from "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. After evaluating the article, the author supports the idea of studing Venus. Scinetists should study Venus because it has similarities to Earth, they have the idea of sending humans to Venus, and also studying the dangers of Venus can help scientists conclude their idea of what it is like there. | 4 |
b5c151d | Driverless cars are the way of the future.
As all things do, they have their pros as well as their cons.
The driverless car could potentially put taxi services out of business, however, put new jobs out there for mechanics or service people for these cars.
The driverless car would eliminate the dread of long drives to far distance places as well as save in fuel economy.
People will see driverless cars in a decade or less and this is why.
A driverless car is optimal for more reasons than not.
It gets rid of dreaded cars rides and makes crashes much less often.
A computer can comprehend things much quicker than a human can and therefore, could prevent a crash by simply realizing another car is headed towards it before a human could even recognize danger. A huge thing on these cars is the safety.
The cars themselves are not 100 percent driverless as they need people to ocassionaly take the wheel in tough spot situations like a crash or up and down driveways.
A person could be watching something entertaining and the car could instantly turn it off when they need to take the wheel.
As stated in the text, a cellphone could not do this.
Another pinpoint on safety could allow the car to watch the driver to make sure he or she or paying attention to the road in need for the driver to take over.
This would prevent a driver from falling asleep at the wheel or simply not paying attention to the road.
The only major thing preventing these cars from getting in the hands of people is the law.
Most states do not allow self-driving cars to be driven legally on roads.
But soon, other states will legalize this when the cars become more reliable and safe.
The driverless car will start a new era in the world of technology.
People will begin to realize that the human race has come a very long way.
The cars themselves are
very safe as Tesla has said, but the people don't have their trust in them yet.
When the people believe that the cars are reliable, they will become legal in all states and everyone will be able to get their hands on one.
The people have the power to say that the cars are safe by simply saying that they are.
If everyone agrees they are okay, then they are.
In 2020, drivers will become skilled workers and the common man will not drive. | 3 |
b5c7c78 | Dear Mr. Senator,
Freedom to vote for authority figures in America had been an ideal image of government all across the world. However, is our priviledge to vote really honest and are the results of elections really in our hands like we think they are? The Electoral College System undoubtedly should be abolished because Americans have the right to have full control over who is elected President and, although some may believe that Electoral Colleges avoid the occurance of a run-off election, run-off elections may be avoided with much more reasonable methods.
Clearly, election should be determined by popular vote, and not the Electoral College because Americans earned their right to have full control over the representatives in their government. According to Source 2, "state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and... those electors could always defy the will of the people." The defenders could be completely indifferent about the voters choices, or situations where swing states are borderline one party or another, and the Electoral College allows a limited selelction of people to make the final decision of millions (Source 1). The ballots that we vote in don't even effect the results of the election. It is as if these elections are trying to illude citizens from the fact that the only votes that contribute to the adoption of a new president are the electoral votes. Why bother letting us vote for a president, if only the defenders get to make the decisions?
Unquestionably, the Electoral College is not a sound system for presidential election in the United States. In Source 3, Posner states that when there is an unclear plurality in the results of an election, the Electoral College makes it much simpler and more efficient by reducing the number of voters, eliminating the inconvenience factor. This statement appears as a faulty reasoning to have an Electoral College because it is obsurd to remove Americans' right to vote. Maybe, rather than restricting our rights, the result of a run-off election could be resolved by an Electoral College, but the initial vote should be made only by the citizens, fairly. Depending on the defenders to make the final decision of the leaders of our great country is an overly-cautious effort to avoid a tie, which could be easily resolved.
You cannot deny, changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States would be extremely beneficial for our country. Citizens would regain their Constitutional-right to vote for the leaders who make major decisions for the entire country. The Electoral College is useful to produce a clear winner in elections, but is evidently not completely necessary and is unfair to voters who want and deserve a say in the outcome(Plumer 13, 14). Abolishing this system would cause for a drastically more fair election and greater citizen satisfaction for multitudinous reasons. Please consider. Thank you.
Sincerely,
John Doe | 4 |
b5c8650 | In the artical "the challenge of exploring Venus" the author suggets that studying Venus is worthy. The question would be, would you like to study and explore the planet of Venus? In the solar system the planet Venus is the second planet from our sun, Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantag point of Earth. Venus is clostest planet to Earth.
Studyng about another planet is really not that bad espically with facts and information you will learn about a certian planet like for example in this situtaion you are talking about the planet of Venus. Planet Venus is bad as you think , you learn alot about it in this text that you , yourself probably didn't know.
The author provides alot of information that you will probably be suprised about for example did you know that the tmpatures are over 800 degrees fahrenheit and the atmospheric prssure is 90 times greater than we on earth experience. meaning its way too hot, then here in earth. Unlike planet Mecury which is closer to the sun. Venus is more likely to experince impediments for example erupting volcanoes , earthquakesand mostly lightning strikes and land on its surface.
Venus still has surface of rocky sediment and also include familiar features just as earth like valleys ,moutains, and craters. Imporantly researchers cannot take swamples of rock , gas or anything but from a distance , therefore scienctist seek through mission to understand Venus. Venus tend to be more delicate when it comes to physical conditions as the example the author uses "just imagin exposing a cell phone or tablet to heat of melting tin" the author here is trying to get your attention and make you think about it and have you wondering what would happen if you wer too expose someting like that to heat.
In conclusion studying a planet is not bad nor is dangered to anyone unless you are going pshically there. So therefore the author is telling you its a good idea to study about Venus andf meet new information about the planet. | 2 |
b5c8cca | The challenge of exploring Venus showed a great amount of evidence to support both opinions, supportive of the idea or not. As we lnow venus is 170 degrees on the surface but ships can take it. Then theres the fact that no spacecrafts sent by humans has ever lasted more than a few hours on the surface of venus.
there is a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets on venus, and even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in venus's atmospher.
Venus distance wise is a time consuming yet possible feet. Venus and mars are the closest neighboring plants to us and Venus more than mars shows there could have been life long ago on this planet. Venus consists of valleys, mountian ranges, craters , and many believe oceans once inhabited this planet. Talks of NASA doing a human ran investigation thirty miles aboves venus to do reaserch.
NASA belives that Venus has not easy condistions but survivable for humans. There has been talks of even sending people down there to do research in the future and that could go bad knowing the knowledge you have on this planet. the challenges would be very intimidating and unpredictable.
In the end these talks on further exploring Venus is very intresting and inthink is should be done at the right place and the right time. Us as humans are curious creatures and should have all the knowledge we can gather on these forigne planets before human exploration. A lot of questions un answered and a lot to answer. | 2 |
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Joining the Seagoing Cowboy program is only a few yeha's away. I joined the Seagoing Cowboy Program and I will never regret it. If you join you help people regroup their lives. Also, Seagoing Cowboys delivers supplies to countries in need of food, water, animals, and more. If you also love sight seeing this program is for you.
Seagoing Cowboy programs help milloins of people all over the world. Seagoing Cowboys never turn poeple in need down. Sort of how shortly after high school I could not turn down the thought of helping poeple. In the real world helping people is inventable. There are other ways to metiforically help but this way is major.
See when you help people it feels good. Forst, you get to help people in need and fell a sort of magic inside of you. Secondly, you get to see beautiful sights. Third, you get to have a blast. If you fit the requirements to be a Seagoing Cowboy, being a Seagoing Cowboy is for you. | 2 |
b5cd4cc | The Electorial College is the way us United State citizens vote. "The foundinding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens." said a passage known as "What is the Electorial College?" written by, the Office of the Federal Register. There is what people say is a argument wether or not to keep this Electoral College method or go back to our popular votes. I believe we should keep the Electoral College, without it there is no possible way to believe that every single person who voted actually paid attention to who they voted for and the people they voted for belief's. The whole point in voting is to choose who you best believe depending on beliefs and what they say they will do. You should not vote if you beleive the one guy has the best hair or you like his tan ect. So i write this to you my state senator that we should keep our ways since it's there for resons and those reasons are... number one, you will be certain of the outcome. Number two, the electorial collge shows that no matter what you choose it will be everyones president. Number three, since the US have big states the electorial college keeps that ballenced.
"A dispute over the outcome of an Electorial College vote is possible -it happened in 2000-but it's less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. The reason is that the winning candidate's share of the Electorial College invariably exceeds his share of popular vote." says a reason I agree with in a text called "In Defense of the Electorial College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" from "Slate Magazine" by Richard A. Posner. I agree with this manely because it is highely unlikely to get a tie in the Electorial College because there is a even number of a elctors.538 to be exact.
"The Electorial College requires a presidential candidate to have transregional appeal. No region (South, Northeast, ect.) has enough electoral votes to elect a president." from "Slate Magazine" by Richard A. Posner. I agree with this reson manely because even if you get the popular vote doesnt mean you become president, the expression "Everyone's President" in this text means to me that with the Electoral College you won't have the good percentage of the voters who voted and not cared who they picked gets stopped with the Electoral College.
"The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balence that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution..." from "Slate Magazine" by Richard A. Posner. This quote from the same passage as reason one and two came from just basically states that even if you have a big state with a big population doesnt mean the majority in that state that voted for someone will nessicarly get that same person. This helps keeps this system balenced.
Everything that i have stated that was from these passages i strongly agree with. Well Senators, you might have to argue something like "But how do we know the Electorial electors are actually voting for who they should be voting for?" Or another one would be "what if the voters have a hard time figuring out which is which Electorial elector." Well thats a simple one because yes it can happen but its as rare as someone who puts ketchup on pizza. And if they dont know the facts about who is who maybe they shouldnt be voting because seriously like i said dont just vote to vote you should vote if you know information about what you are doing and who you are voting for snd most importantly why? So I have listed my reasons and beliefs now its up to you to agree with me or not but just belive that the Electorial College was made for a reason, and that is to make voting much more fair and simple. Have a nice day. | 4 |
b5d0ba1 | People today and years before us have always wandered if there has been life on Mars. With one photo taken of a mysterious figure, people think they have come closer than ever to knowing if there was life long before us on another planet. "Unmasking the Face on Mars" is a topic commonly talked about. Some say the Face was created by aliens, while others say it is the natural landform that caused it. Pictures were taken, and a conclusion have been made whether or not aliens created it, or if it was caused by a natural landform.
In 1976, Viking 1 was orbiting Mars to find a landing space for their sister ship, Viking 2.
While scouting out Mars, Viking 1 comes across an image that could likely show life on Mars. The pictured appeared to be a face, but was debated for a long time. A couple years later in 1998, the Mars Global surveyor (MGS) took a shot of the "Face" which revealied a naural landform.
The image shot in 1998 was ten times shaper and more clear than the one taken in 1976. Once the second picture was taken, it was released to the JPL web site showing all, that it was caused by natural landforms and that aliens were not the case. People began to say that the aliens were hidden by a haze since the camera it was taken with had to zoom through the clouds in order to take the shot. The people needed specific evidence to believe that aliens do not exist, so the MGS did just that.
To prove to all the people, a third picture was taken in 2001 by the MGS. The image was shot with the most powerful resolution. It showed the mysterious figure on Mars turned out to be a butte or mesa. These were landforms comman in the American West. With the high quality picture we now know that life on Mars never existed, and the so called "Face" was formed over time by natural landforms. | 2 |
b5d5592 | Driving smart cars that drive by themself has it's pros and cons. People can come up with a great deal of reasons on why we should or shouldn't have them. Every time someone thinks of the furture they think of fyling cars, cars that drive by themself. But is the furture really that far away from having driverless cars? Should people be allowed to drive cars that drive themself? In my argument against the development of these driverless cars you will hear the pros and cons having this and why we should or shouldn't have them.
First let's start off with the pros of having driverless cars. One would have to be that it would save a ton of fuel, and protentionly help the earth as the yers go by. Driverless cars could also save a bundle of car wrecks everday. By limiting the careless drivers that are in a hurry to get places or not paying attention. Another pro is that it would help people that would be killed by drunk drivers. It would bring down the numbers of death due to car wrecks. It would save a mass of time on the roads for people who are traveling, because there would not be tons of traffic jams due to the lack of car wrecks becasue they won't be in a hurry and driving wreckless.
Now for the cons of having driverless cars. For starters it would cost a bundle of money to make all these smart cars. What if you don't want to get a smart car that drove itself, would you have to? Also would everyone get rid of there old cars and where would they go? Another thing is as a mass of us know technology does not always work when we want it too and is not always on our side. So the car could stop working on us. In the article it said that they made a road that was smart, but that would cost way to much money to replace all the roads and a ton of time spent doing it. The whole car would relay on sensors that could go out at anytime, whenever they wanted to, and however they wanted too.
In my personal argument, I would not trust a car that could give out at anytime it wanted to nor would I want to. Another reason it would cost way to much money to make. Although it could save a big deal of car wrecks due to wreckless drivers, the cars could be just a dangerous. As I stated before technology is just something that is unexpected and you can't really relay on it. | 3 |
b5d5729 | Some people say that "The Face on Mars" was made by aliens but what the face really is a natural landform on the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa also known as landforms that are common around the American West. Martian mesa, are common enough around Cydonia for it to be a resenable answer. Only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh.
The reason that the rock formation resembles a human head is bacause shadows. An the shadows gave the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. Sientist only gave it the name "Face on Mars" because, it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars. The sientist went back to Mars and found the "Face" and took another picture of it on a clear sunny day you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size. So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were! This shows that "The Face on Mars" is just a landform and that there is no Egyptian alians on Mars. The rock formation just has a wierd shadow on it that gives it the unusual nose,eyes, and mouth formation. | 3 |
b5d8339 | In a class room situation it would be so amazing to be able to see how everyone is feeling and how they feel about a certain subject. So, As a example if you used this system in a math class you could give out equations and make the students solve them. Another way this could be used is if you put it in a musical classroom and let the students play music would the music have a effect on the students emotions? I think a amazing place to put this system would be in the cafe during lunch periods just to see what the effect of food does to the students. So, In a math situation where you give students equations to solve and see what their emotions are about the equations it would be great to know how well they feel about the problems.
So, If the students where sat down for a hour and a half with a math problem and where confused the system could alert the teacher and the teacher could provide extra help. While in a musical classroom we could see what the effects of a musical piece has on students to see if musical classes are worth keeping in school systems. In lunch periods where we get to talk to all our friends and relax seeing what kind of emotions that adds to a students day could be really helpful.
I think overall adding a system like this into a classroom situation would be very helpful. As long as it was accurate it could help students out a lot more and provide better grades over all. Also, This system could be used a teachers asssistant and help the teacher know who needs help. These are some reasons I think adding a system like this into a school enviroment would be very helpful. | 3 |
b5d9d54 | The author tells us a lot about Venus in the article. They give us real evidence and facts that we never even knew about. The author tells us how people got to see venus and if it effected them or not. The author talks about how we need to learn more about this subject. It talks about how Venus is very dangerous , but how we should always learn about it because it is important.
In the first couple paragraphs the author talks about how Venus is sometimes called the "Evening star" and how it is the closest planet to earth. It talks about how challenging it is to examine Venus closely. When they say this they mean that if people really tried to go and examine venus it would be very dangerous because Venus is about 800 degrees Fahrenheit. No spacecraft has survived the landing for more than a few hours. The last time someone lasted awhile on Venus was three decades ago. The author talks about how it is one of the hardest planets for humans to study.
Venus is covered in almost 97 percent carbon dioxide and the corrosive clouds that are sulfurc acid in Venus's atmosphere. The author decribes this by telling us that this is more extreme than anything humans have ever encountered. Since Venus has high pressure and temperature, it is the hottest planet in our solar system. The author explains this by telling us the temperature and pressure of Venus's atmosphere. Even though Venus is dangerous to visit, astronomers still plan to visit Venus. Astronomers want to visit Venus still because it is the most earth like planet in our solar system.
In this article they talk about long ago when Venus was covered with forms of life. It says that Venus was probably covered largely with oceans. Venus includes familiar features of valleys, mountains, and craters. NASA is trying to get more humans to study Venus by allowing scientists to float above the fray in a blimp-like vehicle hovering over Venus. It wouldn't be easy for humans but they would survive.
At the end of this article they talk about how humans really need to know about Venus. For humans to really understand how Venus is, scientists would have to get up and personal even though it could be very dangerous. Researchers are working on making machines that would last long enough on Venus without it being dangerous. Some electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber with Venus's surface and they have lasted about three weeks which is very good. We have to try our hardest to meet our challenges even though they are dangerous. We should always try to meet our imagination. | 3 |
b5dd327 | The Electoral College was created with good intentions, but it has many vital flaws which allow for very unfair outcomes. The electoral college is an outdated, and irrational way to choose the president of our country for the next four years. It allows for silly tricks to be played - you can win the presidency with a mere fourty percent of the country in support of you. You can completely ignore some of your voters, as you're guaranteed to either win or lose heavily biased states, and you can gain massive numbers of electoral votes due to one more vote for a side in a state count. The system even allows for massive corruption to go unpunished, which is one of the biggest offenses in our country.
The electoral college's biggest flaw may perhaps be its ability to elect a president that doesn't even appeal to half of the country. According to source two, Al Gore "won the popular vote but lost the presidency." Al Gore had a signifigant victory in popular vote for the nation, yet still was denied presidency due to the electoral college's vote assignment system. If we did away with the electoral college, each and every person would have an equal say, and would be equally important to the candidates. Even source three agrees that the trust in our electors is occasionally betrayed, albiet rarely.
Currently, the candidates can completely ignore portions of our country. Republicans have a strongly biased voter base in the south - so much so that generally speaking, the Republicans never have a single rally or major ad. According source two, states like South Carolina almost never vote Democrat. It's so rare, that if you lost, you offended the group that has voted unquestioningly for your party since the system has been put into place. If the electoral college system didn't exist, the thirty percent of southern Democrats would have a say, which would make advertising and campaigning all over the country much more vital.
The electoral college system also allows for an astonishing amount of corruption with no punishment. If a state manages to vote one hundred percent Democrat, rogue electors can still cast their vote for the Republican candidate - and this isn't against the rules. We're essentially putting the next four years of our country into the hands of 538 electors, and holding them to the lowest possible degree of accountability. Again, source three clearly states "and that trust is rarely betrayed." While it's rare, it's still more than possible, and can be quite disasterous.
Some may argue that the electoral college system puts into place a system of certainty and safety, for both the candidates and the people. This, however, is quite far from the truth. According to source three, "the residents of other regions are likely to feel disenfranchised." While this source claims that ignoring biased parts of the population, this is quite far from the truth. People are being entirely ignored by the powerful politicians that are supposed to represent them. That doesn't sound very democratic and fair to me. People begin to feel discouraged and that their vote doesn't count, and this is quite close to the being the case. Only one-half of elligable citizens voted in the 2012 election, which means that one half didn't. Half of our country isn't bothering to vote in the elections because the electoral college system completely negates their vote.
Our country prides itself on being "the land of the free, and the home of the brave," yet our people are being discouraged at every turn by our government. The popular opinion of our people is that the government is out to get us, and there's not much evidence to contradict that. The electoral college system allows for the government to be run by men who didn't fairly win over our country, and isn't accurately representing our views. It's rife with corruption, and allows money to buy power. If we remove this system in favor of a popular vote election would encourage more popular policy, make our government closer to the people, and have little to no negative impact on our country. | 6 |
b5dda6c | "Imagine being able to detect exactly how other people are feeling, even when they are trying to hide their emotions." The author of this article explains why emotional technology is helpful. Looking in perspective of people in school, in work, or just living people are creating technology that is more intelligent than the smartest person in the world. Seeing what life has come to now, why not add another ingredient to making artificial intelligence work more and make our lives a little less complicated. Along with several other opinions, others should also think of the great posibilities this could have in store for the future.
Starting off, this new "emotional" technology could be very useful in plenty of ways leading to just knowing instead of the unknown. As said in the article, "Then Dr. Huang relies on the work of psychologists, such as Dr. Paul Eckman, creator of FACS (Facial Action Coding System). Eckman has classified six basic emotions—happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness—and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles." Using psychologists's intelligence, the technology will be pretty accurate due to the research and major ability of the creators. Readers may say, "Plenty of people make plenty of different facial expression and emotional expression!", but according to a psychologist's claim he agrees to disagree. "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal,” observes Dr. Huang..." (paragraph 4, line 1) "Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements—in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa." (paragraph 4, line 2) Taking from those quotes, there is thechnology for all of the worries in the world!
One of the worries could include the relationships. Those worries include friendships, love, family, etc. The author said in the article, "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." People may have friends that hardly open up or just need help, but don't know how to talk about issues concerning themselves or the relationship. Normally people could tell if something is wrong because of the time span of the relationship, but if they can't they can rely on this technology. "Yet Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions. His new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code." The facial expression of the companion that people may have may be different, but this new technology can make relationships way less confusing. Involving communication, as said in the article, "They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one." This quote proves that communicationa and relationships can benefit from this new age technology.
"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,” Dr. Huang predicts. “Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.”" Yes, the new computer science can make education more efficient. It seems as if the technology would be used in a classroom both the teachers and students could benefit. While teachers are doing their job students will either be intent and getting the main idea, or be bored and confused. "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive—for video games or video surgery."
Students can have a more fun and easy education with new software for classes like computer science, anatomy, etc.
In conclusion, whether people want this technology for school, work, or just plain life it is suitable. The future of many people could benefit in the use of emotional truth behind many things like family aspects, political aspects, or commercial aspects. Having this technology could eventually lead to better learning industries and just a better future for people in general. | 5 |
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b5ede70 | Limiting car usage is a good idea. Limiting cars usage it a wonderful idea for many reasons. most people have the ability to live there life without cars, this would help cut back on pollution, and for most people it would be cheaper. Although some people may see this as a impossible way of living some of us do not.
To begin, people can live without cars people have done it before us and eventually people will do it after us. As shown in source 1 these people in Vauban, Germany have given up a life of cars for a simpler much quiter life in the suburbs. Life in this city has been condensed down into a one square mile area where people are able to go on with there everyday lives without having to get into a car to go somewhere. Life in this city is does not go completely without cars if these people need to leave the city they can simply walk to their very own parking space in the parking garage right on the outskirts of the city. these people have the ability to keep there cars but they have to buy a parking space when they buy there house you also generally wouldnt need your car unless you were going on a long drive that required you to leave the city. There is also the fact that there will be a day soon when we run oout of fossil fuels and what is a fossil fuel? gas. there will soon enough be a day where we dont have any gas and we will not be able to drive cars everywhere that we want.
Next, this would be one of the most effective ways to cut back on pollution. as shown in the 2nd source paris was struggling with a very bad polution problem that they needed to deal with. Paris was having the same sort of problem that beijing, china is having and beijing is the most poluted city in the world. so they banned all the cars that ended in a even number on monday and a odd number on tuesday. Just doing this for one day cut the amount of pollution in half. Imagine our worldwide polllution levels if driving was limited. The second largest form of pollution is cars so limmiting driving could even drop cars a few ranks back. Every part of getting to fossil fuels that fuel our cars is more and more pollution. gas is a very large pollutant and it causes alot of problems for our nation and one day there will be no more gas.
Furthermore, limiting driving would almost be cheaper for the people as talked about in source 4 less and less people have been getting there liscenses and driving cars because it isnt needed as much anymore. there are more ways of public transit that people are taking advantage of such as the mans son who takes the Bay Area Rapid Transit instead of driving his car. some might say that taking these other forms of transportation might take longer and yes they might be right but they are also much cheeper instead of having to pay a large amount of money to first, buy a car and then, buy gas. which the gas prices only seem to be going up lately. They have the ability to buy cheep tickets for the ride on the train or maybe a bus. As i spoke about earlier we will one day run out of fossil fuels. Gas is a fossil fuel and leading up to the time where we wont have gas anymore the gas will just keep getting more and more expensive because the less gas we have in our community the more that it will cost. also the more that people will want it one day most of us will not have the money to drive cars not because of the cost of the car but because of the cost of the gas.
Coming to a end, there are many other ways to travel other than buy a vehichle and some may be easier for you cheeper for you or better for the environment so why keep on hurting the environment when you could simply make the world a better place by just not driving a car. there are many reasons to limit driving but we could easily do it because people can live without cars, it would help the environment and cut back on pollution, it would also be much cheeper. | 5 |
b5f3117 | Dear
Senator ,
I would like to keep the Electoral College because i think it works out better than the popular vote. If we had the popular vote then there would be an unfair voting cast and we would be introuble. I think they would abuse the voting if it was by popular vote and plus it only requires 270 electoral votes to elect the president and theres 538 electors. I think we should just keep the Electoral College for a couple years and then switch and see which ones better and keep that one.
In some states they have only a limited number of electors depending on how big or small the state is. Also the winner takes all system should go with both presidents because they both worked hard to get there and shouldnt just be left out they should seperate the electors evenly some people cant become the president or vice president so they shouldnt leave out the vice president. It states in the article that over 60 pecent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now.
Also it says under nthe electoral college system, votes dont vote for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. Theres also rumors of the Electoral College like people calling it the disaster factor because people say it cause to much drama and is risky. I understand if there was a tie in the Electoral vote then it would be all up to the house of representatives where state delegations vote on the president. It should just be up to the citizens to chose who runs for president so that way there isnt such big arguments over who became president. Thank you for your time. | 2 |
b5f6a6e | hello the face on mars is just a nautral land mark. Personally I don't belive in aliens , I don't think that aleins made that face on Mars. Do you guys see in pargraph 7 thousands of people were waiting for that alein moment and what did they get nothing . In the last parogrph of the story it said that it shows that the picture actually shows is the martian equivalent of a butte or mesa , that is a common landform in the american west . he says that it reminds him of the middle Bette in the Snake River plain of idaho. That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the face on mars that what Garvin says .
Here is more resons why I think why that it is just a nautral landform. Mars has now water all the water the is there is all traped in the ice so how are the aliens actually geting a drink plus what about the temputers they must be freezing so would you want to live there. If there was any civilition then way havn't we seen any aleins there there is no phisical eveidence that there is any there. so you can believe on anything you want but i hope you make the right choice and agree with me. | 2 |
b5fd748 | Dear state senator,
Electoral Colleges are very important and should be in every "state". Electoral colleges are where electors go to meet up and vote for president and vice president. This is a great help because they are more educated in politics than the average citizen is. With the knowledge in politics they can be trusted to make a good decisionon who to vote for.
The Electoral College has five hundred thirty eight electors. Each state has an elector for each of the members in the House of Representatives. Not only does each candiddate running for president have their own group of electors, but you will get two of your own. The electors are very hard working also. They have to count all the votes made by congress. If the Electoral Colleges aren't in Florida then who else would want to count all of the electoral votes congress. No one has the time to do that unless it's in their job description.
Although an Electoral College can cost a lot of money to build they are still worth it. The bulding of the college will also be beneficial because it causes more jobas for the unemployed. Electoral Colleges are fundamental and will help improve the state's current voting system.
Sincerely, PROPER_NAME | 2 |
b5ffb8f | Have you ever wondered what the face on the moon actually is? It is a huge rock formation. The rock formation certianly looks like a face, but this does not mean that there is life on Mars. The rock formation has been brought very much attention. The attention has people asking if the face is evidence for life on Mars or just a natural formaion.
As said in the article, "Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars." This tells us that the defenders of the NASA budget tells you that if NASA found life on Mars; they would most likely tell it. "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform." This sentence is telling us that a web surfer found the image of the face to be a natural formation. Both of these support my claim of the face being a natural formation.
Evidence that supports my claims are in the article. "There was no alien monument after all." "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform." "Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars-evidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorists." NASA also unveiled an image for the people to see and it was captioned, "huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth."
When some people keep saying that it looks like a face; it sure does, but it is not one. The "Face on Mars" is nothing more than a natural rock formation. The rock formaiton doesnt show any evidence for life and if it did, NASA would tell everyone.
When someone is reading things from magazines, the internet, etc, it does not mean they are always going to be true. People need to not blindly trust the internet, magazine, etc, they need to do more research.
The face is a natural rock formation. It has had lots of questions raised about what it is, but we have figured out now that it is a rock formation. This is no evidence for life on Mars, we still have yet to find that. NASA has let us with the truth of what the face actaully is. The face we see on Mars is a rock formation; now kids know the truth about what it truly is and now so do you. | 4 |
b602165 | Lukes point of veiw of convincing others to participate in the seagoing cowboys program was sotomething that luke wanted to do and he wanted to try and inspire other to also participate in the seagoing cowboys program. And enjoy it as much as he does.
The passage states," It made me more aware of people of other contries and their needs''. The passage also states, " And that awareness stayed with him, leading his family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years. So those are impotant details to support my anwser. So that proves why luke point of veiw of convincing others to participate in the seagoing cowboys program.
The author also states,'' But being a seagoing cowboy was much more than an adveture for Luke Bomberger.'' The author also states, '' It opened up the world to him.'' So that are some more important details. So that proves why luke was convincing others to participate in the seagoing cowboys program.
Even though it may take alot of time to go places to places many people may not like having long trips. The text states,'' It took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the united States and a month to get too china.'' THe passage also states,'' They took cre of animals and bales of hay and bags of oats had to pull up from the lower holds of the ship. So those are some more details. So that proves again why luke keeps on convincing them to participate in the seagoing program, if they didn't want to they didn't have to.
So that's why it's really lukes idea and kind of there's to choose from . So that's my anwser for the question and there's many details in the passage that's support many anwsers. | 2 |
b602291 | Dear Mr./Mrs. senator
I beleive that you should consider voting against the electoral college. Now you may ask why, but, I assure you that the electoral college is a way for corrupt presidential candidates to win the office and make this great nation a horrible place. To back up my reasoning here are 3 reasons as to why you should consider voting against the electoral college. Segregationists replacing voters of one canidate for another, the election could become a catastrophe if a tie were to happen, there is a chance of a "disaster factor" happening.
In 1960 segregationists in Louisiana nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose J.F.K. (Source 2, Bradford Plumer, The indefensible electoral college: why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong, P. 11, line 44) Imagine if the corrupters had been able to corrupt the election, we might have had a fiasco bigger than the 2000 presidential fiasco. If we were to continue to turn our backs on the matter we would soon be run by fatasses who spent all their time gaming and would claim they know exactly how the sytem works, opposed to a real man who spent all his time rising from the bottom up and knows the system by heart. Who do you think would win if those 2 people were to run for President? Not the one who should.
Some people claim an electoral tie is impossible, but, in 1968 a shift of just 41,971 votes would have deadlocked the election, if that doesn't seem so bad lets take a look at how many people are in the United States alone. In 1976 a tie would have occured if a mere 5,559 voters from Ohio and 3,687 from Hawaii had voted the other way. (Plumer, P. 12, line 80) The election is really only a few swing voters away from catastrophe, and possibly, the worst government shutdown these United States have ever seen. So, if 41,971 voters from 1968 didn't seem like alot, then lets look at the 9,246 voters from 1976, ties are seemingly getting closer and closer, what will happen when it is too late?
There is always the off chance of a "disaster factor" occuring, like the one in the 2000 Al Gore VS. Bush Presidential election. Imagine if that were to happen again, only, this time, we put a blood thirsty, war hungry, nuclear savage into office. Imagine the Iraq and Afghanistan wars from 2000-present and then imagine them being fought on our own soil, imagine, instead of little Iragi children fighting against an invading force, your children fighting against an invading force, and that is just one of the minor things that could happen. Imagine if we put a man in office who thought the way to answer everything was through nuclear war, imagine what would happen to the United States. These are just a few examples of what could happen if another "disaster factor" were to happen again.
These are the 3 reasons as to why i beleive you should consider voting against using the electoral college. Imagine if We the People actually got to vote OUR favorite president into office on OUR own terms instead of some idiots a political party throws together, imagine how much better off we would be than we are now. | 4 |
b605521 | Soccer mom gave up there cars in a upscale suburban community. On the outskirts street parking,driveways,and home garages are forbidden near the french and swiss borders. But caar ownership is allowed,but there is only two places in the park,where a car owner buys a home and garage for 40,000$.Also 70% of Vauban's families don't own a car,and 57% sold there car to move here. some people with even number cars where to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine (31$).After five day 60%of congestion was shut down in the capital of france. Diesal was the blame,since France has a taxes that favors diesel.67%of vehicled in France are made up of diesel,compared to 53.3%of diesel engines in western Europe. In the thrird straight year cars was banned only buses and taxis for the day without cars in the capital of 7 million. Violatirs got a 25$ fine. the day without cars began in 1900s. there are 118 miles of bike paths.
Obama's goals was to curb the united states' greenhouse gas and it suggest americans will buy fewer cars. the unites states was the birth place of mustang sally and wilson pickett. As of apirl 2013, the number of miles driven is 9% under the peak ,and it is were we where in january 1995. things are different which that suggest we are a long term culture shift. the percentage of 16-39 year olds getting a licese has droped. young people driving has decreased by 23% between 2001-2009. pedestrain,bicycle,private cars, are woven into a connected network.
it would be ok to have a no car day. | 1 |
b606f8d | In American society today- and other countries also- it's safe to say that only a little bit more than half of teengers are wanting to get their driver's liscense. It is the same way with adults too. More people are choosing to move to smaller communities where shopping centers and restaraunts are a walking distance away. At first, it was all about just following the trend or a new law. Now people are realizing that not driving everywhere is benificial in more than one way.
In Europe, this trend is growing rapidly and has been for a few years now. Countries like Germany, Frace and Switzerland are examples of where a large percentage of their population don't drive cars. In Vauban, Germany it is against the law to park anywhere except for parking garages and if the car-owner purchases their own parking space, with a home also, for $40,000. "As a result, 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here." ("In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" P3). Greenhouse gas emissions are produced from 12% of car-owners in Europe. With less cars, it is said there the city has a less tense and/or stressful vibe to it, and the pollution level has decreased dramatically.
In America, the love for cars is not as strong anymore either. In April 2013 the number of miles driven per person was 9% lower than it was in January 1995, and 23% of people weren't driving between the years of 2001-2009. "In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency is promoting 'car reduced' communites, and legislators are are starting to act, if cautiously." ("In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" P9). Though reducing the amount of cars being driven has a positive impact on the environment, it will have a negative impact on car indistries across the U.S.
Paris, France and Bogota, Columbia have prooved that having less car-owners has decreased pollution levels. In Bogota, there is a Day Without Cars where only public transportation is allowed. Citizens will suffer a $25 fine if they are driving their own car. Paris, France temporarilly banned driving, and if they were found driving a 22-euro fine was charged. Both countries saw immediate results in the ammount of smog in theit cities.
It is obvious that not owning a car or choosing to walk more than driving has effected places like Europe, America and South America in a positive way. As more people realize that limiting car usage is good for the environment and benificial to their everyday lives, less people will be driving and the world will slowly see start to see a change. | 3 |
b60a3d8 | Personsonaly, I think that being able to read students emotion would help in the classroon more for the teacher than the other students. It may show when the student is unhappy, tred, mad, or sad. Believe it or not i think this is huge especially in a classroom.
In the exerpt it says that Mona Lisa is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. Two minuets ago i would have never guessed that, but it's a good thing to know that. If it were to be a student, to knwo that he/she is maybe angry is very helpful in that it shows that we cant push them or tell them to do something the same way we normally would. We need to descelate the situation and make this person more on the happy side before we do anything else.
Yes it is a little odd to think that a humans facial structure can be generated on on a comuter, but at the same time it was only amatter of time before this would happen. in fact, this happens all the time for movies and video games. The face has 44 muscles and the computers generatin of the face must have the same exact 44 muscles in it in order to read and produce a human like analyzation of a face.
Weather what we have right now is that acurate, i'm not sure, but what i do know is that it is impresive.
People like Dr. Huang relie on the work of a psychologist like Dr. Paul Eckman who is the creator of FACS which stands for Facial Action Coding System. The exerpt says that Eckman has descovered the following emotions due to the muscle movements. Happy, sad, angry, disgust, fear, and sadness. The example given in the text is the frontal pars lateralis muscle or above your eyes rise when you are suprised.
Overall i do believe that this would be helpfull to read a students emotion to show how to aproach him or her and to show what to say and how to say it. Everything is dependent on how you say things nowadays. If you say one thing wrong that person may go off on you or may take it really well you just never know, but if that person is angry then you may want to aproach that person with care instead of just going at them full speed. | 3 |
b60b996 | Reading the emotional expressions of students in a classroom can be valuable. In the text it states "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becmoing confused or bored,' Dr, Huang predicts. 'then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor."
Also it could help you know when your friend is feeling down so you could help them. So all in all you are getting a great classroom expercience.
"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored' Dr. Huang predicts. 'Then it could modify the lesson, like a effective human instructor" So this could be the begging of a new era where everyone would be really happy to get back to class and learn because they never get tired of it. And we would get better grades and more interseting classroom studies.
Well lets draw out a classroom problem that the computer would know when to change your lesson. So lets say that your in math class (everyone pretty much doesnt like this class anyways) and you have just came up on a really diffullct problem, (like this hasnt happemed? Right?) and you get stuck. What would you do in this situtation? You would probably give up? Right? Well by know the laptop would have deticted that your getting really confused and mad , and by know would give you a new problem or help you out. Am i correct. Maybe, maybe not. I dont know. But people around the worl would probably want this computer by know because it would help a lot.
But there might be problems with this new toy, because not everyone shows there emotions the same. So how would you know what there feeling? That is a question that might have come up already and I know I probably want that answer. So how would they know what other people may be feeling? And will this product even be allowed in school? | 3 |
b612d98 | Has anyone ever thought about driverless cars and have you thought about the good and the bad about them? Well i sure have found out a lot about them and I know that people have different mind set about these care because of how they are set up and I can tell you i agree with how they are set up and i like it and here is why.
In the article about "Driverless cars Are Coming" I agree about have them
because in paragraph seven the text states that these driveless cars are made to have the seats vibrate when you car is in danger when back up on another object. I also agree because in the text it says that the law is focus on keeping driver, passangers safe. They have made a whole bunch of sensors to put on cars to make them safe.
Driverless cars are a exellent idea I think because in the text it clearly states everything about the car and it tells about it and I agree with the idea because of what the law requires and howthey have mad it safe for people and there objects for there cars I also thought it was a good idea because of the way the they put the sensors in the car. | 2 |
b61aeaf | The Face of Mars has proven to be one of NASA's most mystifying cases to ever be solved. Twenty five years ago, as NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling Mars, it snapped a photo of a startling image resembling a human face. After releasing the image to the public, many people became fascinated in the "face". This rolled the ball for many people to believe there was an ancient civilization on Mars. However, modern technology and expertise of numerous scientists have discovered the face is merely a natural landform. The use of more efficient cameras have diminished any hopes of alien life on Mars.
NASA's Mars Exploration Program has already identified the area on which the face is found as Cydonia. When the face was first seen in the Jet Propulsion Lab, scientists figured it was a Martian mesa, which were common enough in Cydonia. Although it was abnormally figured in the shape of a human face, scientists already knew mesa's were prominent in the area of Cydonia. Also, modern technology, such as a Mars Global surveyor camera, has revealed the fact that the Face on Mars is nothing but a natural landform. The camera's absolute maximum resoultion picture ensures that no "alien markings" were hidden by haze, as some skeptics argued. In the 2001 image, each pixel spans 1.56 meters, whereas pixels in the 1976 image spanned 43 meters. Therefore, the better camera quality ensures the truth behind the Face on Mars: a natural landform.
Some people argue that, due to the cloudiness on the planet, alien life could have been hidden by haze. However, NASA sent the Mars Global Surveyor on "a cloudless summer day in Cydonia" and captured another photo. Garvin explained "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size." Garvin knew if there were any pyramids or shacks, the camera would have been able to capture it and he would have been able to see it. Thus, there is no chance haze could have hidden the aliens. People also argued that the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars- evidence NASA would rather hide. This is not the case. Authors thought this would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars. Therefore, the belief of life on Mars is simply just for the public. It has been in Hollywood films, books, magazines, and radio talk shows. The Face on Mars was used to engage the public, not neccessariy to inform.
Proven from better camera quality and scientific knowledge, people can know believe the Face on Mars is just a natural landform. If any civilization was there, the Mars Global Surveyor would have been able to seen it. Also, mesa's are common in the Cydonia area, where the face was found. In conclusion, better technology from 1976 proves the Face on Mars is a landfrom, and there is no chance any life on Mars exists based on the face. | 5 |
b6273ed | How to be a Cowboy Who Rode the Waves and Seagoing Cowboy program that allowed him to experience adventures that to be a cowboy. If you want to be a cowboy you would need to have a farm and some animal. The cowboys have a hard job to do because they would need to feed the animals, get the animal food, and wash them off and clean the stalls. A cowboy can be helpful for the animals so they would need some food and some water to stay alive. Alot of Seagoing Cowboys have alot of adventures with there animals. Luke can be a good cowboy because he helps his animals feed and have plently of water to live. Luke can travel alot with some of his animals and be a good cowboy traveling. It is fun to be a cowboy and with some animals. Luke has been through alot of countries were left in ruin. Luke helped some of the countries to recover their food supplies, animals, and more, 44 nations joined together to form UNRRA. The UNRRA hired Seagoing Cowboys to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. So Luke and Don signed up. Then they were proud of them to do that. Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canel on his way to Chine. Luke traveled across the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to Chine. He was caring for the animals during the crossings kept Luke busy. Luke had to fed and watered the animals for two or three times a day. Also he had bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship. Stalls had to be cleaned out. That is how to be a Cowboy Who rode the Waves. | 1 |
b627738 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests hat studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents and supprts this idea carfully by giving clear evidence in the text. He goes on to describe the likelyhood of the past on Venus, the conditions in which sutdying the planet would take place, and how studying the planet may benifit the human race.
To begin with, the author makes a valid point by starting off with an explaination of the likely hood of Venus's features being closely related to those of Earth. The author goes on to tell the reader about the crucial consideration of visiting Venus. In the artical, it clearly states that "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solr system." (Paragraph 4.) And goes on to tell, in detail, how "Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth." Giving clear examples of the likely hood that life could have very well been on Venus.
Furthurmore, the author also claims that the conditions Venus demonstrates, while studying its features and possible living conditions, could very well be possible given the right equiptment and procedure. The artical claims that Venus can, very well, be studied, and that "Many reasearchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningful to our knowledge of Venus." (Paragraph 6.) Given this example, it seems as though the author has a very well thought out point.
In addition, the author goes on to explain how benifitial studying Venus can be for the human population, and for the sake of science and curiosity in itself. For example, in paragraph 8, the author states "Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." In other words, this tells us that we can and will gain from the planet, and possibly grow knowledge wise of the unknown mysteries on Venus.
To wrap things up, the author states clearly the facts on how dangerous studying and taking in information on Venus could truely be through-out the artical, but also gives valid points on the subject to support to his idea that "studying Venus is a worthy pursuit depite the dangers it presents." Including how it benifits, and the likely hood that the past could become a mere future depending on technology and the studys that can be found. The author makes very clear and considerable points in his argument. | 4 |
b628717 | The founding father's wanted a good amount of power to the people so the president wont have full control over the country. With the electoral collage in act it will give less power to the people, gives more power to the electors, and the disaster factor.
The electoral collage gives less power to the people. This is true because the people have to vote for a elector instead of the president himself. People may get confuse on who is voteing for who. Ultimately the only types of votes that actually matter end up being the electors votes. Sometimes "faithless" electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please. This makes the peoples votes almost worthless.
Electoral collage gives more power to the electors. The founding father wanted to give power to all the people; not small groups of them. Stae legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people. This means the electors have the vote not the people. When the actual people vote they basically fliped a coin hopeing that some person they don't know voted for the right guy. The electors vote is what matters; not the peoples.
The single best argument against the electoral collage is what we might call the disastor factor. The 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse. State legislatures pick the electors, and these electors can disregaurd the people's votes and pick who ever they want. Back in 1960, segregationists in the louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy.
The electoral collage system is a bad idea because it gives less power to the people, gives more to the electors, and it is a disaster factor. | 4 |
b629788 | I think for the election for presidency its should be counted on the popular vote. Why I think it should be on the popular vote is because it should count on what the people vote on,not on the electoral college. We should be the people to have the vote on the president and not just a piece of it. Plus the electoral colleges don't even vote on the president,they vote on a slate for the electors who then vote for president.
voting should be on the popular vote now because the electoral colleges are not even voting on the president they're voting on the electors who vote for president. When if there was a direct vote we would then be voting just for the president. Yes sometimes we would vote someone else for president by accident ,but not as much as the electoral college does.
thats why I think we should have a direct vote instead of having the electoral colleges voting for us pretty much. It just sounds like it would woork better if the people voted for president and not the people voinng for elctors who then vote for the president. | 2 |
b62c722 | When I was little I remember always watching these films about super hero and their really cool cars that would drive themselves. Well, although many take a certain side when it comes to for and against these driverless care, rarely do any think about what it would do to help society and improve or technology.
Our knowledge of technology has completely changed the way we design, make, and see new products. In 2009, Google reinvented the way humans look at cars. Independently run cars have come to the attention for the United States today.
We, as humans are particularly biased when it comes to not having to do something. In this sense, Americans are blind to the negative effect these driverless cars have. Driverless cars are a way for Americans to get out of taking time to drive somewhere, making them completely lazy. Cars like these are a hazard to the community and to the lives of many.
It is stated in a recent article that came out called "Driverless Cars Are Coming", that "there cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash"(2). This is their job, to influence you to think that the new and improved cars that they have invented, are good for society. The article given to the side a measuring scale, that's all it is. To see how far technology has come along but even more so seeing how much we could improve.
A driverless car is just bad new at this point. Without it being fully developed and driverless I fear that we would start experiencing more and more tragedies. The danger hazards of a driverless car are off the charts.
Before we start thinking about selling these Google invited driverless cars, we should work out all the kinks and bruises that could easily turn the new technology in to a bad thing. | 3 |
b62cbf6 | In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents, but he does not support his idea that well. The author mostley stated the bad things about studying Venus and very few positive things.
The author states "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system". This statement supports his idea but not good enough. "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation" says the author. I love this comment, but he does not eplain why he thinks this.
When I read this I disagree with the author because he puts a lot of negative information into
the aticle. "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours" this tells us that if we wee to try this mission again we wouldn't survive, and if you add on "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth" this is telling us we would not be able to handle it because we have never incountered such temperatures and and dangerouse acids.
The author of "Challenge of Exploring Venus" should have put more positive information into his article rather than putting a lot of negativity. The author's article was detailed and provided a lot of information, but not enough to back up his suggestion to study Venus. | 3 |
b62d43b | The Electoral College is America's current method of election. A process created by our founding fathers that consists of the selection of electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. Many Americans believe that this method is crucial because it's certainty of outcomes and the way it avoids run-off elections. However many people believe it creates more of a problem than a solution. Problems created under the electoral college system include, big states recieving more attention than small states, the disaster factor, and the winner-take-all method which causes unfairness among voters.
Each state has a different number of electors based on the number of members in it's congressional delegation. A lot of the time bigger states tend to have a larger amount of electors, for example the state of Hawaii has four while the state of texas has 38. This causes more attention to go towards the big states. Another example of this dilema is shown by an excerpt from Bradford Plumer whcih says "each state casts only one vote, the single representative from Wyoming, represetning 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representatives from California, who represent 35 million voters. Given that many voters vote one party for president and another for congress, the House's selection can hardly be expected to represent the will of the people".
The current system of election leaves room for multiple disasters to occur. Disasters such as the 2000 fiasco in which Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency. Another issue caused is a question of the electors loyalty to their candidate. Perhaps the Elector of a certain state decides against the election of their party and casts a deciding vote for whoever they please. This creates an unreliable system they could change the fate of an election in an instant. Even more serious issues could arise such as a state sending two slates of electors which Hawaii did in 1960.
Lastly, the Electoral College is a faulty system because of it's winner-take-all method. Most states have this method in which the winning presidential candidate is awarded all the electors. Due to this the candidates don't spend time int he states they know have no chance of winning, and only focus on tight races in the "swing states". As stated in an article by Richard A. Posner "During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, icluding Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single ad.
All in all, the Electoral College is an unreliable system of election. It causes many issues to arise and is all around unfair to voters. Many important people such as Richard Nixon, and Jimmy carter agree that America should abolish it all together. The issues caused such as unequal attention on states based on size, unfaithfulness of electors, and an unfair winner-takes-all method prove the the Electoral College undeniably, causes more problems than solutions. | 5 |
b631510 | Making Mona Lisa Smile
In the article " Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions "The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Movement of one or more muscl is called an "action unit." Then Dr. Huang relies on the work of psycologist, such as Dr. Paul Eckman, creator of FACS ( Facial Action Coding System ). Eckman has classified six basic emotions---happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness-- and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles. ''
" A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. " Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor" The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expenssive--- for video games or surgery. The Facial Action Coding System is a great help because then we can determine is some one is happy or sad , depending on face expression that they make in the picture according to the computer.
The Facial Action Coding System does calculate a little bit of the persons emotions depending on your facial expression. It even shows how you can try this at home. According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them. They detect the muscle " orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus '' | 1 |
b6352d7 | The article "Making mona Lisa Smile" I learned about a new type of software that can recognize a persons emotions. this process is based on all 44 differnt muscles in our faces. The software scans your face and sees what muscles are moving and how, based on the emotion you are feeling. This is a huge step in technology and I feel could be both very instrumental and not for our future use of computers at the same time. We use computers constantly nowadays, we are always on them, and we do need them to grasp certain concepts, like emotions better, but I feel this new software might be invasive to a lot of people.
My opionion on this technology is that it is amazing and very useful. one point brought up in the passage was using the software for students to see how they are grasping a lesson. It would be very helpful for my laptop to know when I was frustrated and be able to help me, or better explain my lesson to me. I also see its use in videogames, having better computer-animated faces could be very useful and cool in a videogame. I also believe that this software can be used in videogames to see when youre struggleing with or enjoying differnt parts of the game.
This software is very invasive though. im not very keen on the idea of my computer watching me and scaning my face constantly. I think the idea of using the facial recognition to see which kinds of web ads I'd like to see is too much. I know most people are already bothered by the fact that our cameras on our phones and computers are already recording us, but the idea that they are scanning our faces and seeng our emotions will make many people uncomfortable.
Another reason to not use this technology is that it is one step closer to making artificial inteligence comonplace, which I personaly don't thinkl we should do. We can not control our technology if it gets out of hand, and giving our computers all the information we can about emotions, how to create them ,and recognizing them is a bad idea.
In conclusion, I think using this software in small amounts could be very useful. though stated in the article, could be challenging to use on our everyday computers and phones because they can not handle the complex algorithms used. This new advancement is definitely a step foreward with education and how we learn, but may be a step backward with privacy. I feel thast many students will appriciate the technology and welcome it. Only time can tell how this becomes a part of our lives. I do hope it will be a miniscule one. | 4 |
b63917d | I think you should join the seagoing cowboys program because you can travel all over the world, meet a lot of new people, you can even look into many different types of cultures,try new foods , you can even see alot of unique places.
Most importantly you'll be doing this for a good cause, seagoing cowboys dont just travel the world to see new cultures and eat weird types of food we do this to help the people who need us were doing this beacuse they're weak and they need our help to regain there strength to provide for there familys so please join us to help the people who need it, they need you,they need all of you.
In conclusion I think you should join the seagoing cowboys because you will be helping alot of peopkle and animals to gain there strength and do what they do best, so why dont you give us a helping hand in helping the ones who need it most. | 2 |
b63e093 | Driving cars is something we all have wanted to see. And now knowing that they might actually be invented is something many people are excited about. There are so many questions about these newly invented cars. How do they work? Are they safe? What will happen to the cars we are using now? Many people are wondering the same questions. After reading the article "Driverless Cars are Coming" I disagree and am not for the idea of driverless cars because people enjoy driving, many companies will be out of busniess, you will still have to drive, and they aren't super safe.
First off, there are many people in the world that enjoy driving. When teenagers turn 16 one of the first things they want to do is get their license and drive. Driving is something that everyone wants to be able to do. But if we have cars that drive themselves, teenagers will never need to know how to drive. And I am sure many of them would be upset. Yes, in the article is does say that the driver will need to take over but for only certain situations. "This means that human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." So many people will loose the enjoyment of driving, and only be able to drive in those particular situations. In addition, there are people that enjoy sitting there and driving. And if we have self driven cars they will not be able to do that. Instead, the car will drive its self while the human just sits there. Many people will be upset with the fact they won't be able to drive any more.
Futhermore, what will happen to all the companies and busniesses that have to do with the cars we have now? Including gas stations, car autoshops, drivers ed, and mechanic shop? Will all of these places just shut down and leave thousands of people without jobs? Since the new cars drive themselves there would be no need for drivers ed anymore. That would leave all the drivers ed places out of busniess. Secondly what would happen to the cars that we are driving now? Would everyone have to stop using them and go to the "driverless car" or could people still us the same car they have know? In the article it says "The track was embedded with electrical cable that sent radio signals to the reciever on the front end of the car." This makes me wonder would we need new roads with this electrical cable embedded in it, because that would leave to even more problems.
In addition, these cars aren't fully finished and safe. The driverless cars they are making aren't fully driveless they still need the driver to be alert. So what's the fun in driving a "Driverless car" when its not completely driverless? When you think of driverless you think that the driver can be doing whatever he/she watns and doesn't need to be worried about drivng. However that's not the case, the still have to be alert. So the driver will have to stop the activity they are doing, and take over driving when the car needs it to. " Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over." These displays were if the driver was watching a movie, or any other entertainment. But, if I was in the middle of something, and was interrupted and had to stop and take control of the car, I would not be happy. And I am sure many others wouldn't be happy either. And who knows how frequent the car is going to need you to take over. If you were planning on getting something done in the car, you might not be able to if you keep getting interupted.
Lastly, how safe are these cars? No where in the article does it say that these cars are extraordinary safe compared to the cars that we have now. So it makes me wonder, do I really trust a car to be in control of my life. No, especially if it says that the driver might need to take over at certian times. That makes me think that there could be some malfunctions in this car, and risking my life for it would not be worth it. Not only would I be risking my life, but the others on the streets as well. The quesiton also comes up, who's fault would it be "If the system fails and a person gets hurt whos fault would it be? " Technology is known to have its flaws and that is something that could risks lives. I would not feel safe giving 100% of my trust to a piece of technology. Especially since there is no proof to how safe they really are.
In conclusion, I am not ready for the "driverless cars". There is still so much work that needs to be done to make these cars safer and actually drive themselves. Many people still want to be able to drive, and if everyone switches to driverless cars then people won't be able to drive anymore. Also, so many companies would go out of busniess due to this drastic change in the car company, including drivers ed places. The driverless cars aren't actaully driverless which I'm sure will make people mad. The driver will still need to be alert, but not actually driving. These cars aren't exactly safe either, there is still a big chance about a malfunction. I'm sure people would be as hesistant as I would be if I went in one of these cars. Overall, innovations and inventions are great but sometimes its best to just stick with what we got. And in this case I think the cars we have now are perfectly fine, and don't need to be changed. | 5 |
b63e6e4 | Hey people of America do yall agree or disagree with me? I think changing to election by popular vote should chose the president of the united states. Because electoral collage are not always one hundred percent right,also the electoral college dont vote for a president but they vote for a slate of electors,and my last reason is that the electoral college might nominate a bad president for the United States of America.
To start my argument off is that my first reason is that the electoral collage is not always a humdred percent right and we might end up with someone we dont want. for example say if Jhon Snipes is running for president and he has a bad criminal record and he only got twenty percent of the votes and the other canidate had the majority of the vote and Jhon Snipes won. He would probley turn the United Sates into a war zone. See this is the main reason why want someone president and barley no one voted for him os her
Another reason is that the electoral collage dont vote for president they vote for slate of electors. This is bad because slate of electors dont speak for everyone. They might like someone that we dont like and give them the power to run for president and probabley win. so this was another reason why the preseident election shouldnt be picked on the electoral collage.
My last reason is that us the people of the United States of America do not want no scum bag of a president that does nothing what so ever to our country. We want a president that is smart and will take care of tha United State, we want a president that will make us feel safe with the decision that he makes, and finally we want a president that we can believe in and that we trust in.
I gave u all of my reasons why i thunk we shouldent have an electoral collage casting the votes,now its your turn to answer my question do u or do u not agree with my statements about loosing the electoral collage,and if u dont agree with me give me a couple of reasons why u dont. | 3 |
b64812e | Did you ever think about what it would be like to live on Mars, well would about Venus? I think that exploring Venus is a good idea and should be done. One of my reason for wanting to study Venus is that Venus has some simullar traits to Earth. Another reason that we should explore Venus is to learn about are surrounding planets and expaned on are space tecknology to explore furher into space.
I think that we should explore Venus is that it is the most like Earth than any other planet in are solar system. In the text it states that Venus is the closest to Earth in terms of density and size and occasionaly the closest in distance too. The text also states that the panet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters.
I think that we should explore Venus to learn about are surrunding planets and expaned on are space tecknology to explore furher into space.. In the text it talks about how Venus is the closest and would help with space travel times. The text also talks about how Venus's atmosphere is almost 97 perecnt CO2 blankets. The text also talks about how they are looking into makeing a thing like a air blimp to float over the land about 30 miles high. The text also talks about them making a vehicle that can with stand the surface of Venus (which is around 800 degrees fahrenheit and enough air pressure to crush a submarine) for three weeks.
In conclusion I think that we should explore Venus more. For these reason of exploreing Venus for both its simuliays to Earth and for scientific space tecknology advances; I believe sending missions to Venus is important. | 3 |
b649349 | Some people believe that the Face was created by aliens but some say the Face is just another landform, if you read this essay you will find out why and if the Face is a landform or not. Some scientists believe that the Face was just another landform
because they had the same thing happened with the Martian mesa.
A few days later people had the chance to see the picture. NASA let the people see it so people would be attracted to Mars. The Face haunted the media for 25 years.
People thinks the Face is a landform because the face was located at a cloudy place. They didn't stop with the picture. They increased the size by three so they could get a good look at it. The picture actually shows the Martian of butte or mesa. They waited until summer to take another look at the landform and NASA told the world that the Face was just a natural landform. | 1 |
b649997 | Scientists have been trying to figure out what the face is on Mars. It turns out that the face, is not really a face. Scientists discovered that the formation that everyone is seeing in the photograph is actually a landform called a Butte, they are most likely found in the American west.
This formation was so astonishing that it was featured in a Hollywood film, Magazines, Books, radio talk shows and even haunted grocery store checkout lines. People thought that this kind of evidence should be hidden. A few scientists believed that the face was an alien artifact, but phototgraphing Cydonia became a priority for NASA when MGS arrived at the Red Planet in September 1997, they photographed the face as soon as they could get a good shot at it. MGS is a mapping spacecraft that normally looks straight down and scans the planet like a fax machine. Eighteen years later they decided to end the mission, they felt that it was important to taxpayers.
On April 5, 1998, MGS flew across Cydonia for the first time. A team of Mars Orbiters took a picture ten time sharper than the original photo. An enormouse amount of web surfers waited for the pricture, but when it posted they weren't so satisfied. There wasn't and alien monument after all. NASA just does not pass over the face very often.
On April 8, 2001, MGS drew close enough for a second look. They had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in field of view. The picture showed the Martian equivalent of a butte or messa, which again are landforms common around the american West. It reminds people of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho.
Each of the pictures pixles in 2001 had a span of 1.56 meters compareed to 43 meters per pixle in the best 1972 image. If there were to be objects in the pictuer such as a plain on the ground or Eqyptian style Pyramids you would see them. So after all there is no face on the panet, it is just a landform called a butte. | 3 |
b64c616 | in germany people dont have cars like they do in america. in germans people have to have a big place to park there car like a large garage. but i it costs 40,000 dollars to buy the garage. so 70 percent of germany doesnt have a car.
on monday motorists are told to leave there car at home or there is a 31 dollar fine. almost 4,000 drivers where fined one day.27 people had there car impounded because of ther reaction to the fine. cars have been baned for 3 years. only buses and taxies are permited for the day. there goal is to promote alternative transport. violators faced a 25 dollar fine.
parks and sprots cneters have bloomed since they have scut traffic. presdient obama has ambitious goals to curb america. studdies show that fewer americans are buying cars and getting less licenses as the years go by.
in america as of april 2013 the number of miles driven was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in january 1995.
new yorks new bike sharing program and its skyrocketing bridge and tunnel tolls reflect the new priortiy. | 1 |
b653a84 | Some people think that aliens created the Face on Mars. Do you belive that to? I think that The Face on Mars is a natural landform here is why. " The caption wrote huge rock formation" which would most likely mean a natural landform from what N.A.S.A. stated when they unveiled the photo of the rock formation. Also has not found any evidence of life on Mars to this day.
N.A.S.A. had also said "That if there were objects in this picture like airplanes, on the ground or Egyptian-style pyraminds or even small shacks, you could see what they were." Also in the pictures that are in the article ther are no signs of any homes or camps or signs of life.
This also proves the theory that it is a landform "what the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West which would mean that this is somthing similar to what we have seen on earth before. The Jet Propulsion Lab said " Scientist figured it was just another Martian mesa.
Also if this was something created by aliens or an ancient civilization wouldn't it be deteroryating over time. From the rearch that NASA has done it seems that it has not changed at all over the past 25 years. So do you belive that aliens created The Face on Mars? I don't but mabye you do. | 3 |
b653f5c | Have you ever heard of the Seagoing Cowboys program. You should join because you get to travel all over the world and you get to help people in other countries. It is a really unique program, with very fun games along the trip.
The first reason you should the Seagoing Cowboy program is because you can travel over the world and go on many adventures. You get to see things you never saw before and do things you never done before. In the text it says, you can see Europe and China. Also, you can visit Greece. The second reason you should join is because you get to help people around the world. In the text it says, it makes ypu aware of other countries needs.
In conclusion, you should join the program. If you think you shouldn't that wrong because you have a bunch of amazing opportunitys. It is a very fun and unique kind of program. So, you should consider joining. They also play fun games like volleyball, baseball, table-tennis,fencing,and boxing. | 2 |
b655356 | Cars play a huge role in our lives. It is the most easy and common way of transportation. In some parts of the U.S.,you can drive a car even if you're 15. Before cars weren't invented,people used bicycles,subways,roller skates,busses....
If you want to go to somewhere by bike,it is gonna take much more time than it takes by car. That's why people prefer driving cars insted of riding bikes or using subway. However,there are some disadventages of driving car. Air pollution is one of them. Our world is getting dirtier every day and it's under risk. The glaciers are melting and the animals who live in the north pole are dying. The people who are aware of this,don't drive cars and protest it. In the article"In German Suburb,Life Goes On Without Cars", Elisabeth Rosenthal says "Street parking,driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district on the outskirts of Freiburg,near the French and Swiss borders. Vuban's streets are completely 'car-free'-except the main thoroughfare,where the tram to downtown Freiburg runs,and a few streets on one edge of the community. As a result,70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars,and 57 percent sold a car to move here. Vauban,completed in 2006,is an example of a growing trend in Europe,the United States and elsewhere to seperate suburban life from auto use,as a component of a movement called'smart planning.'""I think,the intention to forbid the car usage is to divert people to drive bycyles or subway other than driving cars. The other disadvenatge is ;cars make us lazy. Before cars weren't invented people walked. People are gaining weight of not w
In the article"The End Of Car Culture" Elisabeth Rosenthal says:But America's love affair with its vehicles seems to be cooling. When adjusted for population growth,the number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter,according to an analysis by Doug Short of Advisor Perspectives,an ivestment research company. As of April 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in January 1995. A study last year found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009...." Also in the article:"Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota"the author,Andrew Selsky says:"In a program that's set to spread to other countries,millions of Colombians hiked,biked,skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday,leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams."
In my old school,some group of environmentalists showed us a video of how our world is going to be if we use cars to transport everyday. It really affected me and my friends. | 3 |
b655bf5 | The future is almost here. But
it is not going to be a good one. Those driveless cars are going to be a harm. It is going to destroy this world. The cars of of the futre are going to look cool and all that but are not good for people to frive.The driveless cars that are coming are going to be to expensive, not safe, and complicated.
First, these driveless cars are going to be very expensive because they're going to be to advanced and the people are who made tthem are going to want to charge alot. Those people inventing them going to spend alot of money trying to fix the roads and the cars so they are going to hope to get that money all back by making these cars. Like in the article it states that "...General Motors created a concept car that could run on a special test track." So what the qoute says is that if they make a car that is advanced and cant run on a regular concrete road, then they will have to build a road that the car can be on. For that to happen the people who built the car will have to pay extra to make a road that is good for the car and they will have to test it. So going through all that will cost alot of money. These cars they talk about will also need alot of upgrades which will also cost money. so if a peerson wants to buy the car will pay extra just because the car has extra things like upgrades on the motor, sensors and other stuff. Also in the article it says "Google's modified Toyota Pruis uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror,..." So here in this qoute it says some things that they put in or updated in the car. So with all this construction of road and updating things in the car is all going to cost for the person who will buy the car. So thats why these cars will not make it because they will be ti expensive.
Then, anoher reason why im against these cars is because they are not going to be safe for the people. If they get this car it is like still driving because they still have to be ready incase of something happens. Like if there a accident they have to take control or if theres traffic they have to take control. In the article it says that "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." So if the driver has to keep a hand on the wheel they mine as well just drive it. Because what they are saying there is that the car could lose its function and drive of the road. So this car
is not safe.
Finally, the driveless cars are going to be to complicated. Becuase the car is going to have to much on it and the people are not going to know how to work it. Also people when they are in a driveless car they dont want to do anything because its supposed to drive itself but the person has to keep a a hand on the wheel and be alert and be ready to take over at anytime. And all the sensors and GPS and other gadgets is going to be alot to control. If the sensors break what are they going to do nothing because they did not build the car and they will have to go to like a certain car shop cause not anyone will be able to fix a sensor like a break or any other thing in a regular car. In the article it says that it has "four automotive radar sensor, a GPS reciever ..." So for all that to work the oerson will have to learn to work it and learn to fix incase of it being damaged.
So with all these reason of why im against the driveless cars i should of changed your mind maybe. thes cars are not going to be successful because they will be to expensive, not safe, and complicated, So with these three reasons people will not buy these cars. Because they are all reasonable. | 4 |
b65bc0a | The details in this article suggest that this article is presented well. The author talks about how Venus is very simaler to our planet Earth. He spoke about how dangerous Venus is and why it is dificult to go there. Then he spoke about how NASA will try to get there to continuer theyre reaserch. now how similar is Venus to our Earth.
Venus, the second planet from our sun is some what extrordanary. Venus unlike any other planet in our solar system is very similar to our Earth, so similar its referd to as Earth twin. Venus has about the same mass as our Earth, the same density, and is similar in size. But, unlike Earth it is scorching hot. this poses a problem when our scientists at NASA try to study it.
NASA or The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is trying to study Venus. NASA has sent numerous space crafts to Venus, but none of them made it. None of the space crafts could survive the hot 800 degree weather on the surface of Venus. Not only did the spacecrafts have to endour that but they had to withstand the enormous pressure which is 90 time greater than our Earth. Now that NASA's scientist have this information they think they have a solution.
NASA has tryed many times to study Venus but have failed, because of this they have thought of a possible solution. They think the can get a man to Venus by creating a blimp like spacecraft that will float 30 or so miles above the ground. Now its still going to quite toasty at around 170 degrees. Second the pressur would then be around sea level and radiation wouldnt be too high making these conditions surviveable for a human. Having all of this information definately suggests that the auther has presented his point well.
In conclusion the author has done a great job at presenting the information above. First the author has stated how similar Venus is to Earth. Then he spoke about the dangers, problems, and the conditions that NASA needed to overcome. Then he spoke about NASA's possible solution to the many problems they have with getting a man to Venus.
In conclusion the author has presented an informational essay about how similar Venus is to Earth, the problems that we have when trying to study the planet, and the solution that will help us get there. | 4 |
b65e4ea | Citizens of the United States are getting lazier by the minute. It doesn't take alot to do the original duties as we do with cars today. I can understand people who don't like to do alot of stuff or are in a hurry for work, but there are negativities that come with driverless cars. I think we should stay with the cars we have today because there would be more laws created, new dangers could come, and because the cars that we use now would go to waste.
I know as a sophomore in high school, I am gonna start learning how to drive.
As I look in the booklets we have now about cars, there are alot of laws and things to know about driving. It is hard to study about driving knowing there could be driverless cars being invented that could bring new things to learn. It would be a waste of time learning about driving when driverless cars are being made.
Car accidents happen everyday around the world. Just imagine a world with driverless cars and incidents that would come. Teenagers would think it's all fun and games in a driverless car and think its alright to drink, smoke, do whatever and end up in an accident. If you think the cars we have now are bad, just wait and see about driverless cars, more accidents will follow.
Where would all the useless cars go? They can't all fit in a dump nor be able to be recycled. We need cars for daily adventures and new inventions of cars would put them all to waste. It's already hard enough for old residents to drive cars, they would have to learn about a new driving technique when they are so used to using our cars now.
Driverless cars are really not needed, there are more things far imprtant than new cars. We could be finding cures for diseases to save lives, but we focused on cars that could bring danger. The cars we have now are enough, we dont have to waste what we have. It is pointless to make new cars when people are already focusing on the laws that we already have about the cars today. Driveless cars are a waste of money, time, and interest. | 4 |
b669ecd | In this article, a new technology that can recognize and detect subtle human expressions and the emotions tied with them is beginning to become introduced to school districts. For the school's use, the FACS (Facial Action Coding System) will assist teachers and faculty members while dealing with students. Although I believe in the traditional teaching, I do understand how this new system may help students.
Since most feelings are conveyed in actions or facial expressions, the system will be able to detect whether or not the student understands the lesson they are being taught or needs reprimandment or additional assistance. The computer would also be capable of recognizing confusion or boredom and change up the lesson being taught. This technology could help students bring up their grades and truly help them understand what they are being taught.
With this, I think that the FAC system would be extremely helpful to both teacher and student.
This new technology could also help students learn about more STEM-related subjects. If a student wanted to learn more about the workings of the FAC system, the school should give out more oppurtunities related to STEM based classrooms. Not only will this help more students with future jobs and careers, it will also raise the school's popularity. If everything goes well, the school can recieve more money to spend on many classes that will assist students on their journey to adulthood.
Lastly, the FAC system can also help students learn more about social interactions between themselves and others. It can teach students how to be a good friend or helpful, or just how to socialize in general. Reading more in depth of another's face can help with careers, relationships, and everyday interactions. I believe that this would be good for the students to learn how to save face and to support each other.
In conclusion, the FACS can really aid a school and its students; And although a more traditional approach can be helpful, I believe that the new technology can really help guide students to adulthood and help teachers understand student's modern struggles. The new system will generally be a good thing all around if treated right by students. It won't happen right away, but if there's faith involved, I'm sure things will work out just fine. | 4 |
b66fbcb | Imagine if you went to Mars, and you saw a face shaped like a Egyptian Pharaoh? You saw the same shape in Cydonia, and you thought it was the same monument? You thought it was a real human face? What if I came to the end of it, saying it's just a natural landform. NASA reveiled the picture, it sure grabbed the publics attention, What if all that was just a lie to get money off of people that found that picture interesting. They could have edited who knows.
On April 5, 1998, when a team flew over to Cydonia, for the first time a few men named Michael Malin and his team snapped a few pictures. It was sharper than the original Viking photos. When the picture was reveiled, it was just a natural landform. After all that their was not a monument with an alien on it (Unmasking the Face on Mars 1, 2, 3, 7).
The "face" you see in the picture is just a plain landform. The group went back again, it was not easy to target Cydonia again. When they finally found it, they took the pictues where you could see closer than you thought to see if there were pyramids, airplanes, or small shacks. They came upon the picture there were butte or mesa, and natutal landforms. That reminded them, that was a dome of lava, that looks like a form of a mesa that's deforming and looks the same height as the Face on Mars. This comes to the end that it's just a natural landform. ( Unmasking the Face on Mars 8,9,10,11,12). | 2 |
b670f65 | Could this be a total fail? Should we be able to let schools use this device? Could the machine be a waist of time? Should the info provided by the machine lead to somting bigger than just emotions? This divce could either help people or desroy people in its own way: or it could also be a complete fail.
The use of this device in class rooms would be great in a way;so the teachers could see whats going on with one of there students. On a total other note not every one can express there feelings through facial expresions; even some people tend to portray others emotional states wich leads to imataion. So personally I would not want to have this at my school. For there will be a complete disaster (people can always fake ).
In the text the writer was talking about "empathy (the feeling of someone elses emotional state) may happen because we unconsciously imitate other persons facial expreions'(found in paragraph 9).Another example from the text would be we dont neccacerly need a machine to predict others emotuions. In the text it stated that to an expert faces dont lie ;that muscles are a clue .Also that a false smile can be predicted by the facial mucles: in the text it stated that "the mouth is stretched side ways using zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risourius".
In conclusion the machine would not be valuable in a class room. There are many other things to focus on/in class that using the machine would be a complete waist of time. A way students could be checked on instead is by communicting with them or directing them in the correct direction. | 2 |
b672d4e | Do you want to imagine how exactly people feel even though there not expressing there emotions .
If you want tov use this nice improve system the Facial Action Coding System to detect people expressions. The software is easy to indicate people true feelings and inner thoughts on how people are feeling and what's there mood right now . The Facial Action Coding System is valuable to students in a classroom.
The Facial Action Coding System can tell your emotions if your feeling happy, sad , angry, or disgusted. The software is good for people if they don't want to express there feelings towards others. From the article "Making Mona Lisa Simle paragraph 1 "Dr. Hunag and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communciate in a positive way. Plus, it will be a easier way for some comoputer software to recognize your emtions . The FACS can have a positive or negative impact on people emotion expressions .
The FACS can express facial movements to our facial reaction. From the article Making Mona Lisa Smile from paragraph 3 that Dr. Pual Eckman creator of FACS has classified six basic emotions happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles . Plus, your frontails pars lateralis muscle rasises your eyebrows when you're surprised, your orbicularis oris tightens your lips to show anger . In Dr. Hunag words "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal" even though individuals oftyenm show varying degrees of expression".
The FACS can indicate your mood to how you're feeling . Each expression is compared aganist a netural face. For example,
To an expert faces don't lie these muscles clues are sometimes used to spot when a politican or a celebrity is smiling but really isn't being honest . Also, the software can identify mixed emotions as being compared or contrast from other emotions .
In Conclusion, The FACS is valuable for students in a classroom. The FAC can indicate how you'll feeling right now and what's is your facial expression to something either disgusted or surprised . The FAC expresses facial movements to an facial reaction or reaction to something or towards someone . Lastly, Did making a face in this experiment make you feel slighty happy or any emotion . | 3 |
b6779d5 | I feel that this aspect is posatuve. If the car would be driverless then you pretty much wont need to use alot of gas, like in article 1 its says the foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer more flexibility than a bus. They have been trying to upgrade the cars today now they have cars that brake by their selves if the human isnt responding on time, they having systems in the car that help them out if they cant see what they are doing, like backing out of a drive way and they dont see a parked car, they have cameras now to help them out and they vibrate the seats when they are getting to close to a car. Some companies are making computer- self-driven cars. Originally, many futurists believed the key developing self-driving cars someday wasnt so much smarter cars as smarter roads. If they are going to make the cars driverless they are going to need a whole lot of sensors. Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an intertial motion sensor. But the most important bit of technology in this system is the spinning sensor on the roof. Dubbed LIDAR, uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings. Technology already has speed sensors at the wheels in the creation of antilock brakes, just in case the driver doesnt stop on time. They are testing computer driven cars to see if its safe, manufactures believe that more states will follow as soon as the cars are prooved more reliably safe. That is why i think this aspect is posative. | 3 |
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