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bcb1861 | I think that it would be useful in a classroom because sometimes the teacher cant always read the students facial expressions and will keep teaching the same boring class. But if we used the new technology that could read the kids faces and change the course of the class to make it more interesting, then more kids wouldn't be bored all the time and they will be able to learn more about the subject that they are learing about.
The new technology could also save more money by not having to have alot of teachers in the classrooms and they could use for food, newer technology, and maybe a better building. Also kids might not like some of the teachers that are in the classrooms and the teachers might not like the kids that are in their either, so with the new technolgy replacing a teacher would save them arguments with the kids and teachers.
That is why i think that we should emplement this new technology into our school systems. | 2 |
bcb1b3d | Boom! Your teacher just asked how you are feeling and you smile and say "I'm just fine."
Then your computer reads the way your muscles moved while talking to your teacher and realizes that your are bored and not interested. So the software in your computer can tell how you feel. A professer from the Beckham Institute for Advanced Science at the Universit of Illinois has created a software that can read your emotions. The way the software can do this is by seeing how the muscles in your face move. This would be very useful in a class room setting, lets see why.
In the painting of the Mona Lisa the software said she was 83 percent happy, this is judged by her eyes and the form of her smile. The software would help in a class room setting by letting the teacher know that the students are bored or not paying attention. This could also allow the teacher to get those students who aren't paying attention involved. The value of this is unmatchable and could help in a multitude of ways.
The way the software works is by seeing how each individual muscle moves and where it moves too. For example if you move your lips up and make your eyes squint the software will reconigize a smile, which would indicate happiness. A normal at home PC could not run this software, although the researchers are trying to make it a more condensed process.
So the software could be helpful inside of a classroom setting and could help keep students on task and allow teacher to know when the students are not on task. Many problems could be solved with this software. Dr. Huang has made a big impact on the side of emotional feelings and being able to judge if somebody is happy or sad, | 3 |
bcb1ec7 | Everyone's talking about traveling and studying about planets in our Solar System like Mars,Pluto,Mercury,Saturn,and Jupitar to study their wonders.But traveling and studying about Venus is one not heard being often. That's because Venus has a reputation of being a challenging planet for humans to study due to the dangers it presents.
The author stated that scientists studying Venus and it's surface said it's worthy pursuit because astronomers are also fascinated by the sister planet because it may once been a Earth-like planet a long time ago. "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been most Earth-like planet in our solar system".
The text stated that before Earth, Venus may have had life on the planet million of years ago.
The author also gave examples of the planets' surface that are analogous to Earth such as landforms,types of rock sediment,and land features. "The planet of Venus has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familar features such as valleys,mountains,and craters". The quote stated that Venus has similar chracteristics to that of Earth with landforms and rock sediments.
Last thing the author gave in the article is that scientists that want to do a mission on Venus to collect any evidence has to be close and personal and not from a distance. "Researchers cannot take samples of rock,gas,or anything else,from a distance.Therefore,scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risk". It was stated that by understanding Venus more, scientists will have to conduct a mission that is close and personal to gather up samples of Venus to study it more than by distance.
Traveling and studying to Venus is another goal wanted by astronomers and scientists to discover its secrets to see if there was any life on the planet. However, the "sister planet" presents dangers such as being covered by carbon dioxide,clouds filled with sulfuric acid in the atmosphere,800 degree Fahrenheit temperatures, and atmospheric pressure 90 times greater than Earth. But despite of the dangers that Venus lays ahead of us, Scientists are eager to learn about the planet due to having similarities to Earth millions of years ago, having landforms and rock sediments,and wanting to collect samples of rock,gas,and anything else for scientists to learn is what is driving scientists more eager to study and travel to Venus. | 2 |
bcb885a | Being a part of the Seagoing Cowboys was a great experience. I had no idea that it would be as much fun as it turned out to be. For me, this opportuninty meant being able to witness extraordinary places, while being able to help others. For others and yourself it could mean just the same.
I had a great deal of fun on my trip. It gave me an opportunity to see many countries that I may not have seen on any other basis, such as Venice, Italy as well as parts of China, Europe, and Greece. I also chose to spend my off time playing sports and games whenever the chance came along. Your down time; however, would be entirely up to you though, but these are some unique places and things to consider exploring.
My down time was not the most important part of the trip though. It also gave me an opportuntiy to aid others as well as animals, who's homes where left in ruins. After getting this chance to so something more in my life, I knew that this was a great thing that I had invested my time into.
Extensively, I would recomend this as a career path to any who are interested. The years that I was a Seagoing Cowboy, were a great few years in my life. I am very proud of the choice that I had made to do it. This choice changed my life in most every aspect. It opened my eyes to the world and could do the same for you. | 3 |
bcb8d76 | It is an innovative idea from may people to cut down on the use of a motor vehicle. in these passages it gives pros on the better enviormental way of living.
The first source talks about a city that is in Germany called Vauban, where residents have accepted the challenge of no car usage. The city is designed for walking to department stores, grocery stores, ect. But this so what utopia is not all a utopia itself, where 30 percent of families own cars. Also the United States Enviornmental Proctection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities like Vauban. This action to have a car reduced communites was because of the damage done by cars on the enviornment by pollution.
The second and third source is about how a city took matter into their own hands and had a "car free day". In the cities of Paris and Columbia is where it took place. First the reasons why is because of near-record pollution of poulltion in the enviornment of Paris. Where on Columbia the reason for the car frre day was because they want to promote alternative transportation and smog. In Coulmbia this day has been going on three years straight!
In the last source, it tells about how car culture is ending slowly. In the United States pople have been "buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." A study shows that driving by young people has decreased by 23 percent from 2001 and 2009.
Finally, all these sources have explained that a non motorized vehicle is for the best in our health and in our enviornment. it is a new and innovatied way that is being accepted by a numerous amount of the population. | 3 |
bcb9d79 | I believe that disbanding electoral college would be in favor of most peoples decisions. This way everyone has a chance to vote decisively and not having electoral college decide who should be the president of the united states. Electoral college dosent let the people decide who they want to be president. It lets the lets the slate of electors decide which is totally un fair in my decision. People are the ones who elect which president they feel will make the United States a better country. Maby the slate of electors have a different decision in mind than what the people of america think about who should be president.
Popular vote would be much better in my decision because it gives everyone a chance on picking there president and not having other people pick it for them. Say there was a tie in the electoral votes, than they would be passed onto the house or reps were state delegations vote on the president and not the people of america. There is a greater quantity of people than there are slate of electors and house of representitves. The electoral college is completely unfair to voters because in each state candidates dont spend time in states they dont think will help them win presidency. We the people dont have the ability to choose who we want as a president and we want our freedom of being able to do that. There will be less conflicts and anger from the people if they disband electoral college.
But in many eyes electoral college are in favor to those people. They think its right to have the slate of electors vote for who they think would be a better president. The electoral college does avoid the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast. But it could lead to more pressure in the election process, which could greately complicate the presidential elections. There for saying that electoral college isint a good decision to have. People should decide what they want to have for this country. They should be able to take a mark and say we dont want electoral college anymore for the United States.
It would have to be weighted in an election of the people to decide what they want to have. Electoral college method of selecting a president may have a big impact on people by not choosing the president they want. Saying in the peoples minds that Electoral College should be disbanded and gotten rid of because it depends on what the people of the U.S. choose, not the slate of electors. We the people of the United States should have the freedom to choose what will make this a better and stronger Country! | 4 |
bcbbbd3 | As technology continues to advance, cars are seeing advancements in safety and driving capabilities that go further than what the driver can do. Cars the can sense when the car needs to break if the driver is distracted. Brakes that are anti-lock which means they distribute different amounts of braking pressure to wheels that may have more traction to prevent loss of control. All of these things are very good for cars and keeping drivers safe but are we close to seeing the "Driverless Car"?
Cars have features now that can help or completely park themselves with the use of sensors. Many helpful gadgets that may help if human error occurs and can even prevent collisions. But then you have to also consider if this technology were to fail or have glitches that could be very dangerous. We can not know how these "smart cars" will age and how we can update the technology in them.
It is definitely possible to create a self-driving car. Many different organizations have succesfully done it but on closed tracks. These tracks do not have the real world complications that can arise such as road work or accidents that cause the car to go on alternate paths because the original one is blocked. This is when the human must take over and redirect the car.
Although there is this talk of a car that can drive without a human, we have not seen a car that is reliable and safe enough to be trusted without the driver being ready to take over when needed. If the driver has to sit at ready all the time then how is it a driverless car? As a driver, I know what I am capable of and I feel best when I am driving and I am in control. It would take a whole lot of trust for me to just turn my car on autopilot and let it take over considering there are many things that can happen while you are driving down the road. Many questions come up, such as, Will the car react in time? Will the technology even know to react? Will the car safely and controllably avoid whatever obsticle is thrown it's way. All these things change if the driver is sitting back not driving because the car apparently can do it all by itself.
Eventually, in the future, it is very possible to see cars with an autopilot function or other self-driving techniques but we are a long way from cars driving without human help. Laws in all but four states make it illegal to use a car that drives itself because, "lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers" (Paragraph 9). So it is obvious that we have a ways to go from a legal standpoint until you will see cars driving themselves on these American roads. This set aside, the advancements in technology is doing wonderful things in the safety category. Cars can avoid collisions or alert drivers if they make mistakes like going over the center double yellow lines. This helps prevent the awful head on collision of two cars. In conclusion, we are not terribly far from cars driving themselves. It is more a safety and trust concern rather than the technology being there. Cars will drive themselves more and more but with the aid of the driver always being there and capable of taking over at any time. But does this make them self-driving if the driver must be present and paying attention at all times? Why not keep their attention by just letting the driver, you know, DRIVE? | 3 |
bcbbc36 | Computers reading human emotional expressions may be valuable or unvaluable to people. Some may not think it is, but it could help with many things in society. Computers reading emotions could help people understand emotions better than we do now, they can help with the lesson plans of students, and even computers will be able to perceive human emotion.
Computers reading human emotions may help humans understand the look of people's emotions. Most human communication is nonverbal, even including emotional connection. People do not always say how they are feeling so it would help us be able to know without asking. We also unconsiously imitate each other's facial expressions to show a certain emotion. We can understand why we make those faces and why exactly they show the emotion they do.
This can help students in schools. Computers and teachers would be able to understand the student's emotions just by looking at them to know if they are bored, confused, or enjoying class and what they are learning. They could easily modify the lesson depending on the majority of student's feeling on it so students want to learn more and actually enjoy it. Teachers dont have to ask and can get an honest opinion.
Computers reading emotions could also just help technology be more fit to us as humans if they understand how we feel. If computers could perceive emotion, they would show us what ads we liked and which we don't and could be shown more of the ones we enjoyed. Universally, people make the same facial expression for the same emotions so it is easy for the computer to figure out. The computer could also tell if there is a varying degree of expression because not everyone makes the exact same facial expression without change.
Computers reading and perveiving facial expressions may seem scary to some. Some may think it is doesn't allow you to keep privacy, but the technology will help us in many ways. It will help people understand their own and other's facial ecpressions, it can let teachers know what is going on with their students as they learm, and it can allow even computors to know what we want based on our expressions only. | 3 |
bcbfae4 | Do you think that reading the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. I think that it can be a good idea if used properly because if the system can detect how someone is feeling it can adept to the person emotions and make it more intresting or entertaining for the student. This is good because this will help students stay on task with whatever their doingin class. But the only problem i could see with this is some students probably would not want system knwoing how they feel. This could bother the student even more or maybe the system would not even have an effect on certain student's emotions.
But i belieave it would be good to have something like this for exmaple the passage say's "For example, if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different. I thinks is a good exaple because he say's if the student is happy of what he is being shown the computer would continue to do similar things to keep the student going. Also if the computer detect's if the student's makes a frown it would continue to change and adept to the student intill he or she shows signs of change or entertainment.
Another supporting detail is that the computer can also recongnize when a student is becoming confused or bored. I think this is really important because not all students would learn at the same paste. An if the computer can dectect this and help the student this is really helpful because some students or shy or don't know how to ask for help when confused on something. Having the computer detect when a student is bored is good becuase it could change the way infromations is being brought up and make it more useful and entertaining for student's. This would help them remain on task as well as help them learn even more.
My last reason why i belieave this would be a good choose is the way it can change the students mood. Imagine if a student all day was feeling sad/mad about something during school then they go on the computer and it changes its way of teaching to appeal to the student. This is really good because if that makes the student happier they would most likey but more in the mood for school. An example form the text is that "(Putting on a happy face"actually works!) A reowned drama coach, Constantin Stanislavsky, had his actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage. Empathy(feeling someone else's emotional sate) may happen because we unconsciously imitate another person's facial expressions.
So in conclusion i do belieave that having a system that can read student's emotions is a good idea. I Belieave this because the way it can change so quickly to help a student. As well as it can determine if a reader is bored or if he/she is enterained .Overall i think it would help student's improve as well as stay on task. But this is what i belieave do you think that reading the emotional expressions of a student is a good idea? | 4 |
bcc379e | Getting from point A to point B seems like such a big issue when youre in your teens, having to rely on everything else to get where you need to go. Some of us don't know how beneficial it is to not even have a car to worry about. Millions of Americans get in their car each morning to go to school, work, or to the store, but how much could you really save if you stopped relying on your own vehicle all together? It seems harder than it is but the effects are worth it.
Just owning a vehicle, not even driving it, puts a big dent in your monthly pay check with the insurance and paying off the car. Then add all of the gas money, repairs, and possible tickets, you got yourself a load of cash that you could be saving or spending on something else. Just imagine a life where you have deleted your personal transportation for a week. In source one like Heidrum Walter noticed, "When i had a car i was always tense. im much happier this way." It would take a load of off your shoulders, allow you to be less stressed and able to worry about more important things. On top of making your life a tad easier its one more person contributing to the Earth, taking away air pollution.
Multiple cities around the world are having days throughout the year to give up personal transportation, and some places banning it all together. As source three stated, in Bogota, Columbia, "It was the third staight year cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the Day Without Cars in this capital city of 7 million." Not even the rain had stopped them from participationg. The fewer vehicles on the streets, means a better environment for everyone.
Studies have shown that Americans are buying and recieving less cars and liscense each year. With unemployment at a high rate and many families still in and recovering from poverty, it's too much money and stress for a lot of people. From source four, "If the pattter persists-and many sociologists believe it will-it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment, since transportation is the second larget source of America's emissions, just behing power plants." Something as simple as limiting our time spent in our cars could benefit the world so greatly, especially with global warming taking a toll quicker.
It may seem difficult at first but it is defiantly duable and effecient to put away vehicles all together, or atleast more often. Cell phones and all the new apps make it easier to communicate with friends, enabling car pooling and to maximize the fuel spent to speak to others. Gathered from source one, "Passenger cars are respnsible for up to 50% of greenhouse gas emissions in some car-intensive areas in the United States." That in its self should be enough to get you out on your feet to lessen the gas that's being emitted. | 3 |
bcca4b1 | This article, "Driverless Cars Are Coming", should prove to anyone who reads it that the idea of driverless cars should not become an all out reality. The technology is simply not there and even in the future when our civilization is far more advanced, it is so easy for a mistake to be made in the manufacturing of these cars. Also, as humans, we would not cope well with having driverless cars. After years of getting used to them, they would be taken much better but in the begining it would simply be too hard for everyone to stay focused while at the wheel. Therefore, driverless cars, while very advanced, should not be manufactured.
The technology part of this project alone is enough for anyone to object. Cars are already dangerous enough with many people getting in accidents every day. These things could already easily kill a person, without putting all of this very sensitive technology into it. To make driverless cars happen, there would have to be a ridiculis amount of intricate technology worked into the car, and if one thing messes up, who's to say how much damage can be done? Putting all of our attention into our phones is one thing, but to put our lifes in the hands of a machine is much more of a risk.
Even if the technology worked, it would still need some sort of human control at first. Many humans can barely pay attention to the road when they are the only ones driving let alone when they are waiting for their turn to drive. Say, a driver has a particularly hard night and happens to fall asleep in the car on his way to pick up his child. If the warnings don't wake him up, this tiredness could cost many lives. This could result in lawsuits filed against the car manufacturer and others starting to fight and protest. Even in the article it asks, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault - the driver or the manufacturer" (Paragraph 9)? This would be a tough situation to make laws on and a dificult thing to prove if the driver claims the technology failed. How would it be proven? People can barely handle driving now with the new technolgy that they have, and adding more would just make things more dangerous.
Driverless cars should not be manufactured. The technology that we have now is already making life more dificult in general, and adding to it would do less good than bad. There aren't even any claims to why it would be a benificial thing to our society. The reason for that is that it won't be benificial. Car manufacturers are doing it just for the sake of doing it and it could potentially be a very dangerous thing. | 4 |
bccb448 | This photo that viking1 took is just a natrual landfrom. Their is no way a green alien could had made this. It is a huge rock formation because mars has lots of rocks.How can their be aliens but there is any other aliens around. Their is no earth like subtance on mars no plants no nothing.
If we just think about it mars is located 41 degrees north MGS had to go through the wispy clouds just to see the face. I had to talk to Garvin about this and he said "it is not easy to target Cydonia". He had also said "it will take hard work". We explain that the planet like a machine in narrow2.5km-wide strips.
On image 3 times bigger than th pixel size. There is no ufo markeing not even foot prints. If the did have them you would see what was there. If it was acctually not a martain it was butte or messa. We see those to alot in the American west.
It is very hot on mars it could be fromed because of the volcaneo. It is crazy because we have the same figure on earth. So how can it be a alienit is nothing but rocks. pluse why are we focuseing on that one so called alien we should look around mars and see if there is any more.
Does it look like and alien or a rock you tell me. If you listen to what I say you will believe that it is a rock. If it is a alien should mars be a life plant like earth. | 2 |
bcd3585 | I feel that driveless cars are needed for the world it would change the world as we know it. In these cars there are sensors that can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone.
These cars are very important because they can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. The cars can also steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, nut all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents.
Even though the human driver has to be alert at all times to be ready to take over this necessitates the car being ready to quickly get the drivers attention whenever a problem occurs. Some manufacturers hope to do that by bringing in car entertainment and information systems that use heads up displays such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over - something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone. In this way the car system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big concern.
So honestly I feel that dispite some of the flaws that these cars may have it can still keep you safe. Even when you back up your car will let you know if your gonna hit an object such as a car or predestrian. | 2 |
bcd7018 | to begin with people say that cars are the number one things that can help them get around to where they need to be, but to others they say walking or bikes are much more safer or helpful, people have the most advantages when it comes to cars, cars are way faster and easier to drive. i think people should limit thier car usage because passangers cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and up to 50 percent in some cars-intensive areas in the united states. people should limit thier car usage because after days of near-record pollution paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city.
many people usally hicked,biked,skated or took buses to work during a car-free day and thats great exercise the number one thing to keep yu healty and strong its also a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution. president obamas ambitious goals to curb the united states greenhouse gas emissions unveiled,that has left researchers pondering a fundamental question like has america passed peak driving but americas love for vehicles seems to be cooling.
a study last year found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009.
doug short of advisor perspectives research company says the miles driven in the united states pealed in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter according to an analysis. part of th explanitory certainly lies in the recession because cash strapped americans could not afford new cas and the unemployed werent going to work anyways. | 2 |
bcd7375 | The Facial Action Coding System to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. For example the author states ''A classroom computer could recognize when a studeny is becoming confused or bored,''Dr Huang predicts.''Then it could modify the lesson,like an effective human instructor''(Making Mona Lisan smile).
This new system is also really smart in detecting oneself emotions for example,the author also states that''But in a false smile,the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle,the risorius. To an expert,faces don't lie;these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a ''smiling''politician or celebrity isn't being truthful''(Making Mona lisa Smile).
This is important because this new technology system can help a lot with kids education.
Sometimes kids are afraid of asking their teachers for help because they feel embarrased but with this new technology system it will actually make students feel not afraid or embarrased.
Students are actually going to get help without having to ask a teacher because the Facial Action Coding System will be able to recognize if a student is confused or bored and then it's going to come in with help.
Also this new system can help teachers know how students are feeling towards a subject and how they are doing on a certain subject. The new system will make it easier for teachers and will also save them a huge time rather than asking or doing tests to show results on how well they know the lesson.
This matters because I personally think this new system will make a huge difference because I'm one of those kikds that feel afraid or embarred to ask a teacher for help.
This will help alot with students education by helping them with what they need help and by making them feel more secure. | 3 |
bcdb589 | Luke Bomberger was working at the grocery store and a bank when his friend Don Reist came up to him and invited him to go on a cattle boat to Europe. Luke finally said yes when he knew that this was an opportunity of a lifetime. When World War ll was over in Europe they needed people to go to countries to help recover their food supplies, animals, and more,44 nations joined together to form UNRRA. Luke and Don signed up to go on the ship to Europe. They had to be "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas.
Luke's participation in the Seagoing Cowboys allowed him to experience going to alot of places and exploring them. He went to Greece-with a cargo of 335 horses plus enough hay and oats to feed them." But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special,"he says. "Besides helping people , I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China.
Luke had a fun time seeing all these places, you can tell by how well he explaines them. By the way he explaines this, he should really be encouraging people to join the Seagoing Cowboys program. He makes it sound like it is alot of fun. Luke also found time to have fun on board, the cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. By being a Seagoing Cowboy, Luke says that it makes him more aware of people of other countries and their needs."And that awareness stayed with him, leading his family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years. | 3 |
bcdbb5d | Mooo!
Horses, young cows, and mules are interesting mammels.
Luke Bomberger went on a adventer were he could watch these animals.
He also got to go to Europe and China. Dosen't that sound fun? This paper is about the adventer Luke took. There are many other good parts about taking this trip.
Luke had a oppertunity of a lifetime when he signed up to be a Seagoing Cowboy. First he got to see the acropolis. Then he got to ride on a gondola to see Venice, Italy. He said he had the time of his life. He also liked watching the animals.
If you like animals you get to take care of them in a boat or water vessle to Europe or Asia.
Some of the animals need help. There also other fun things to do like tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, baseball, and volleyball.
If you like trips, sports and animals you would be perfect to be a Seagoing Cowboy. A lot of animals need help.
You can help them by being a Seagoing Cowboy.
You can have fun too taking a trip or playing sports. Sign up now! | 2 |
bcdbf52 | This "face" that was found on mars couldn't have been a alien because there wouldn't just be one found, there would've been more. Also If you have read the article about the face it says in paragraph two " Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." So that quote states that the shadows are making it look like a human face.
On April 5, 1998 Mars Global Surveyor flew over to Cydonia and ended up getting a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. In paragraph seven where it says all the information it says " Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on JPL web site, revealing... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." so this means that after they went up to Cydonia they discovered it was just a natural landform, but people still doesn't want to believe it was just a rock that was shaped naturally, not by "aliens."
I understand how people think it is made by an alien because it looks so much like a human as you could see, you see a nose,eyes, and mouth which makes you think someone there had to create that, there is no way nature could just form a perfect looking human face like that. In paragraph twelve in the article it says "That's a lave dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." That prooves that nature could create something like that. Plus it says that it was just shadows making it look like that.
That "face" is just another rock formed by nature and people just need to let it go. There is no aliens found or discovered up there so there is no way. And while they are giving that rock so much attention, they are just making the NASA people just more paid for the attention. That "Face" is just a rock with shadows making it look that way and nothing more. | 3 |
bcde80b | I believe that a driverless car would be benificial in the sense that if you cannot afford to fly in an airplane for long distance travel then you could use the driverless car. The only way you would have to take over for the car is if the situation occurs like an accident or heavy road construction. If you are driving to California or Florida for example it would be alot more comfortable to do so then having to drive all those long hours. You might also have to stop for gas every once in a while but that is acceptable. The benifits of the driverless car are endless. If a certain car company puts in a television into the center dashboard then the driver could move his or her seat back and relax and watch tv. They could also just sit back and enjoy the ride. Much better then having to drive a long distence thus running the risk of falling asleep or getting dristracted by a phone or something like that. if need be the car shuts off the tv automaticlly and moves the seat back in the set position and the driver takes over. The sensors would be able to sense something far down the road to give the driver enough heads up to be able to take control of the car in time. A luxury car company like Cadillac or Audi could also make the interior of the car more comfortable and more enjoyable to make the long distence drive more worth while then flying and going through airport security and all those lines when you could hop in a driverless car and jump on the highway and let the car take over. The car company would also have to make the car more safe if an accident were to occur. I would much rather ride or drive a driverless car then having to risk falling asleep at the wheel. We all know how dangerous that is. Thats a big problem for the U.S and the soulution is the driverless car. This i think would be a great idea for car companys and would make them alot of money. If they could make these cars affordable. There are a few draw backs to this car but i think its a great idea. | 4 |
bce3407 | For years cars have been one of the most useful means of transportation. According to the article Sergey Brin the google cofounder "He envisions a future with a public-transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transportation taxi system." The article also points out the issues with the driverless cars such as that in all states except four, it is illegal to test computer driven cars. The safety of the passenger could be at risk if there is ever a glitch in the system and the harmful effects to our environment.
Most states have made it illegal to test computer driven cars because of their traffic laws. "Traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe care has a human driver in control at all times." That is clealy stated in the article. The dangers behind driverless cars are way more important than their actually purpose. No where in the article do they address the causes to the environment that the driverless will make. Will they be electric or powered by gasoline. More research needs to be concluded before Google and other companies decide to open these to the public.
When a computer glitches the screen is frozen and there is no access to applications. What will happen when the computer operating a driverless car gives out. Brakes and everything could stop. This could cause car accidents which sometimes are harmless but other times can leave someone living there life paralyzed. The system will never be one hundred percent safe even if its 90 percent safe there is stil ten percent of people who could be left with injury or possibly death.
The money lost would not benefit our nation and the economy. The materials used to build driverless cars could be bad for our ecosystem. Global warming has increased over the years do to natural resources such as coal and oil. With more oil to be produced this would hurt and not help our nation.
Driverless cars should not be developed because of safety and the environment. This will not nor ever be a tool that will help America prosper. It will only do more harm than it will help. If they ever are completely built more research should be done, so that everyone on the rode is as safe as possible. | 3 |
bce4012 | I think driverless cars are dangerous. Driverless cars are not on the rode today because there is not enough information about the cars, to know if their are safe or not. Driverless cars are cool to imagine about,but their are things that should be thought about before putting driverless cars into society. BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant." the car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25mph,and the car has special touch sensors to make sure that the driver keeps hold of the wheel. The Driverless car that BMW is presenting sounds cool,but it is not safe. The car isnt all the way driveless, and someone has to hold the cars steering wheel . What if the person in the driver seat falls asleep while the car is driving itself, and the car tries to alert the person to drive, because there is a work zone, or an accident coming up, and the person in the driver seat doesn't wake up. That could be a serious accident. Driverless Cars are fasinating to people because some people may like the idea of " Not holding the cars steering wheel." Plus, you dont have to worry about turning the car at a street corner, or hitting the breaks , but people need to realize that some things that you might find fasinating, can sometimes be things that are not as great as they seem. | 2 |
bce4b7f | Hi im Luke im going to tell you why you should join the
Seagoing Cowboys program. If you join the Seagoing Cowboys program you get to explore the world and you will get to deliver animals to places all the way around the world. You will get to visit Greece, China, and other places all through Europe. You will get to go to Asia and help people who are in need. For more information ill tell you what i did when i was in the Seagoing Cowboys program. I started the group when i was 17 and i sailed all across the world i went to Grecce and i saw the Acropolis. Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. "So i was taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water. If you join the Seagoing Cowboys program it will open the whole world up for you if you live in a big city like i did. I also found time on board to have fun, especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. The cowboys played baseball and vollyball games in the emptu holds where animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time. Thats why im here today to tell you about all the fun you will have if you join Seagoing Cowboys program. But theres only one thing to worry about witch is if its raining and you are out at sea try to be careful i was out on sea and it was raing and i slipuped when i was going up a latter and fell and almost fell of the ship but the railing saved my life, but i couldn't work for a few days because i cracked my ribs. I hope you all will join the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 3 |
bce6378 | Venus is the second planet form our sun, while Venus is simple to see from the distant vantage point we have here at Earth, it has been difficult place to examine closely. Venus is oftern referred as Earths "twin" and is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size this is why we should research Venus as a planet more. Venus is also relatively close to us so we should definetly invest more money researching even though there are some problems.
The athor states that Venus has proven many times before that it is not an easy planet to study. Each mission to land on venus was unmanned and for good reason, no aircraft would last more than a few hours. This explains why not a spaceship has touched down on venus in more than three decades. Many things contribute to Venus's reputaion as a challenging planet for us humans to study. Some of these things are a thick atmosphere of 97 percent of carbon dioxide covers the Venus, even more challenging are the clouds of extremely corrosive sulfuric acid in the atmosphere and on the planets sufare the average temperature is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the pressure of the atmosphere is 90 tines greater than what we experience on our own planet. These conditions are far more intense than anything humans can find on earth. An enviroment like venus's Would crush a submarine accustomed to driving in the deepest parts of the ocean and would liquefy minerals. All these things plus more is why every mission so far has been unmanned, and why there hasnt been a singe spaceship that has landed in Venus in almost 3 decades.
Despite all of the potentially dangerous things about Venus there is still alot to benefit. NASA or The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has an compelling idea for sending humans to study the cloudy planet. NASA's possible solution to the hostile condtions on the surface would allow scientists ti float above the fray and study without harm. It's a blimp like vehicle that hovers 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian. Hovering over venus would avoid unfriendly ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere. The author says "Maybe we should think of them as challenges."
By the end of the article the author says "striving to meet the challenge presented by venus has value, not only becasue of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." | 3 |
bce730f | I am Luke Bomberger and today I will attempt to convince you to participate in Seagoing Cowboys Program. I was around the age of 18 when I started and it was an incredible experience.I really hope that what I say today will influence you to join.
One reason why you should join is you get to help people. The Seagoing Cowboys take care of animals that are shipped overseas to other countries because during the war many people lost their animals. You see, when World War 2 ended many nations formed an organization called UNRRA who hired the Seagoing Cowboys to perform this task.
Another reason you should join is you get see many places and sometimes you get to explore them. I got to take a gondola ride in Venice,Italy. I also got to tour an excavated castle in Crete and I got to marvel at the Panama Canal which was an incredible experience.
The final reason I will use to convince you is it can be very fun. On the return trip we Seagoing Cowboys would play many games where the animals had been held. We played baseball,volleyball,and many other games.
I know that this is a big choice and that giving you a few reasons will not convince you right-off-the-bat but hopefully what I have said has planted seeds in your mind that will eventually grow and in time you will come around. If you are not entirely convinced that you should join go home and think hard about it because it is a huge decision but hopefully you will decide to join. It has been an honor to speak with you and goodbye. | 3 |
bcec00b | The Venus is second planet from our sun. The Venus is the hottest surface remperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun. It is 800 degrees Fahrenheit.
Venus is the closest planet to earth densigy. People sent numerous spacecraft to land on his cloud draped world. No spacecraft survived that land for more than a few hours.
A long time ago Venus is cover with largely oceans and various froms of life just like Earth. Venus still has some feature that are analogous to those on Eart. The planet has a surface or rocky asediment and includes familar feature such as valleys, mountains, and craters. At thirty-plus miles about the surface, temperature would still be toasty at around 170 degree Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth.
NASA is working on other approaches to studying venus. For example, like electronic made of silicon and it been tested in chamber simulation the chaos of Venus surface and have lasted for three weaks in such conditions. They have another project to look back an old technology call mechanical computers. This devices make calculation by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all. Modern computers are enormously powerful, flexible, and quick but tend to be more delicate when it come to exterme physical conditions. By comaprison, systems that use mecanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces. | 1 |
bcec1b9 | The myth of driverless cars on the road have become more of a reality. As the public starts to recognize more and more of this technology, people are realizing just how useful driverless cars can be. The problems that these cars can solve heavily outweigh the problems that the cars might make. Though some have their points in argument, the driverless car needs to be brought the attention that it deserves. I am for the development of driverless cars.
The positive aspects of driverless cars are endless. These cars will give a fresh idea for public transportation. The epidemic is at large in big cities like New York or L.A. All of the taxis, buses, and subways that crowd big cities could be relieved of a large portion of their traffic. And driverless cars would stop much polution due to the amount of fuel they save over the average car.
Driverless cars are also very safe. In "Driverless Cars Are Coming", the article reports that driverless cars "have driven more than a million miles without a crash." They also alert the driver to take over when things get a little tricky for the cars. This is a very smart way to further prevent crashes. The car and the driver work together to produce a safer way of driving. There are many applications, like sensors, radars, and cameras, that mimic the skill of a human behind the wheel of a car. Most likely, even more safer than a human's driving skills.
Some may argue that the problems that driverless cars will produce will highly outweigh the problems the cars will solve. Driverless cars will largely decrease the sale of normal cars in America. And driverless cars are not completely driverless. The response to these points can be answered by the fact that driverless cars will make everyone safer on the road and will provide driving opportunities to those who otherwise may not be able to drive. And that is the number one reason we make things: to make Americans safer and give opportunities to those who believe they have none.
In conclusion, driverless cars are indeed coming. The public needs to be open-minded to the possibility that this might be the future for America. This could be the start of an idea that helps and benefits millions. We grow closer to this idea everyday. As said in "Driverless Cars Are Coming", "...such cars would fundamentally change the world." | 4 |
bcec5a8 | Limiting car usage is great for people and the enviroment. There is less air pollution, less traffic jams, alot less stress, and people going out on the sidewalks enjoying the scenery and having fun! Limiting car usage can be very good in many ways!
If people limit car usage there will be less air pollution. Because cars use a non-resuable gas, (Gasoline and Desiel) they must be burned in order for the cars engine to power the car. After it burns and gets used up the exhaust pipe from the car leaks out the Carbon Monoxide that resides in the car after the gas is burned. When realised into the atmosphere, the gas damages it. Not allowing enough sun to get in, creating smog which is harmful for the human to breathe, and blocks vision for many people! SO if we stop using cars or at leaste limit them, then we won't have these problems that often or even AT ALL! If there were half the amount of cars driving around everyday then we would have a much more beautiful sky than we do now, also we would not have as much fog as some people do. Like Paris. They banned driving for a few days because of smog! "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city" (Duffer Paragraph 1). So if we limit car usage we wouldn't have this problem!
If we limit or eliminate car usage in a certain area for a certain time, then people can go outside, enjoy the scenery and get some fresh air. Because of cars existing you don't really see much people walking on the street unless they don't have a car. People with cars just drive past everything and don't really look around, but people who don't have cars enjoy the scenery, get fresh air, and get excersice. It is proven that people who rather ride a bike or walk to a destination opposed to people who drive a car are more phisicaly fit than those who normally drive a car to their destination.
To clnclude, if people limit the car usage in the world there bwill be less pollution and all around more friendliness between all people and people will enjoy the life around them, rather then sitting in their cars! | 4 |
bcedb66 | The author made many good points into why reseaching Venus is a worth while pursuit. One of the reasons he says is that Venus in some ways is like Earth, in that size and density are the same on both planets.
Though there are many dangers going into the research of Venus, there also are some posibilities. Long ago Venus may have been like Earth, oceans could have been formed suporting sea and other life, and providing water for life forms that may have lived there. Venus has rocks, mountains, valley's, and volcanoes, just like Earth has today.
Since there are many dangers with the studying of Venus scientists at NASA are working on ways to make studying Venus safer and easier. Since the temperature at Venus is usually around 800 degrees, scientists might be using a blimp like vehicle to hover the surface of Venus. Since radiaton on Earth is the same to that on venus' and solar power would be abundant, though life for humans would be hard, conditions could soon be survivable.
Though hovering Venus safely can give a good insite to what the planet holds. It still only gives us limited access to what Venus may have. Pictures and videos are very helpful, but things like rock's, gasses, and anything else Venus has cannot be collected.
Technology has come a long way in helping study Venus, computers today are faster, more powerful, and flexible. Computers today help is detect dangers, and they tend to know the physical conditions that we can take, sometimes more than we could. Machines today can help us make our materials more resistant to the dangers of Venus, and they also help us by using algorithms to discover more safe ways of studying Venus.
The studying of Venus could be helpful, not only by conquering the challenges Venus provides us with, but by also learning about the planet in itself. Dangers should not be the thing that holds humans back from research, but it is curiosity that might be the thing that leads us to conquering more challenges that we face by danger. | 4 |
bceec3e | After World War 2 was over in Europ, many countries were in ruin and everything they had was gone. They needed to get their things back, so to help the other countries, Luke and Don sighned up to be a "Seagoing Cowboy". These, Seagoing Cowboys, were hired to take care of horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped over seas. Not only would you be helping other people you would be doing the right thing.
You would also be able to travel over seas and be able to visit some locations you might have never been to before. You would have an opurtunity to get to help out a WHOLE country! In paragraph 6 it says, "It took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the easter coast of the United States and a month to get to China." This shows that it would take a long time to get to other places, and they did travel around the world to help out other people.
In paragraph 8 it says, "Luke also found time to have fun on board, especiallly on return trips after the animals have been unloaded. The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where the animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments,fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass by the time." This shows that it wasn't boring when they were on their way back from letting animals off of the boat. They would do many things to help pass the time on their long journeys at sea. | 2 |
bcf3683 | Dear State Senate,
The Electoral College is insane. There should not be an Electoral College, the vote should be by popular vote for the presidents. People feel less important when they know that there vote does not go to the entire 538 votes. If you are in a democratic state, like Texas, but are republican, then your vote is not going to matter because the votes are just going to go to the democratic president. When looking back in 2000, Gore had more popular votes, yet he lost the election because of the Electoral College. Thats insane that he lost, because more people wanted him to be presidents, yet that is not how the Electoral College works.
With the swing states, they can really hurt one of the presidents. Lets say Florida, for example, is very close in which president is going to be voted for. That is 29 votes just from that state! If you eliminate the Electoral College, it will be more balanced and that will not make or break one of the presidents. The presidents do not bother with the states that they know they are going to lose, and they do not even visit those states. If we eliminate the Electoral College, then everyone will get to hear from the presidents, and that could give them several extra thousand votes.
Also, the less populated states, like Wisconsin with only 3 votes, feel like they are not important toward the overall votes. If there was no Electoral College, then there 500,000 votes would be a huge boost toward either president. When voting for president, the voters do not even vote for the president! They vote for the state of electors who vote for the president. Who knows if the electors will lie and represent the Democrats or Republicans and then vote for the other side.
Finally, I leave you with my last reason of why we should get rid of the Electoral College. More people in the United States want a popular vote instead. Even Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Bob Dole think we should. 60% of the United States would prefer a direct election!!! That is a direct message to you that we need to get rid of the Electoral College and start using a popular vote!
I hope you consider these changes to the voting system, as I have listed some of the best reasons. The majority of the country would like to see these changes take affect, not just me. I appreciate the consideration, thank you. | 4 |
bcf6955 | Venus is sometimes called the " Evening Star". It is one of the bright points of light in the night sky. Venus is also more closely to earth then any other planet. Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because is our planetary neightbor. Venus is a Earth's twin.
Humans have sent numerous of spacecrafts to venus but for inly a couple of hours. Which actually is a good idea because not one single spaceship was able to go back to Venus more then three decades ago. Venus is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide. Venus planet surface is almost 800 degrees
Farenheit.
The conditions are far more extreme then anything humas encounter on Earth.
Venus could have probably be covered in large amounts of oceans and could have been supported by humans. It could be hard ot go back to Venus becuase of the pressure that spaceship could get. In order to go back, they have to try and make the mission both safe and scientifically productive. But it could not be productive if the solar power is plentiful and the radiation would not exceed Earths levels. It could be easy conditions to some humnas, but not all.
However, NASA is working on some approches to get to Venus. Some simplified electronics made of silicone carbide, have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface. Modern computers are enormously powerful, flexible, and quick. but it can be extremly delicate when it comes to physical conditions. The traveling on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edged of imagination and innovation. | 2 |
bcf9b57 | Nowadays, there is one sure thing we depend on to go from Point A to Point B: cars. Cars are used everywhere to drive to work, school, a park or wherever it may be. However, the total amount of automobiles moving out in the streets consumes up too much gas. This gas being released causes smog, or air pollution, that is harmful to our atmosphere & is one of the main causes of global warming. Next, the elimination of cars improves the safety of pedestrians and people wandering on the roads which has indeed prevented people from dying in countries like Colombia and France.
To begin with, when people are driving cars for whatever it may be, they are unintentionally harming the economy. This happens because cars run off of gasoline and when a car is accelerating, the gas is being burned by the motor engine which after is released into the air. Smog is produced being one of the top causes for global warming & this is an exceedingly problematic effect to the atmospherical being of humans and space. Moreover, Paris has reinforced a temporary driving ban due to these long-term, harmful effects to clear the air of the global city. If drivers refuse to obey, they would get fined 22 euros and up to 4,000 drivers were fined. They were blaming diesel fuel although, after five days of intensifying smog, congestion drastically dropped 60% competing against Beijing, known as one of the most polluted cities in the world.
In addition, the elimination of cars in the streets has benefited society in a way that it keeps people safe. As various countries around the world face the risk of car accidents, innocent deaths, lack of resources, and car commuting, they beign to enact laws to try & stop these risky, dangerous downfalls from happening. In the suburbs located within Germany, residents of Vauban are pioneers doing what commuting executives have never done before: giving up their cars. This happens since street parking and driveways aren't allowed altough the streets are "car-free", a couple are found at the edge of a community as well as the tram running down Freiburg. Plus, without an abundant amount of automobiles anymore, cities become more loose and flow therefore providing a better walking path.
To conclude, cars on the streets may be efficient for people to get to places easily and rapidly, but the substances it releases is harmful to the environment. Smog and air pollution are formed when cars drive greatly contributing to global warming, because they consume up too much gas. Furthermore, not only does it cause air pollution, but it also creates a possibility of putting people's lives in danger by the factors that might affect the consciousness of a driver. So the eliminating of cars does the community good both physically and economically like it is practiced in Vauban, Paris, and Bogota. | 4 |
bcff958 | Do you know that sometime human will not be living on Earth? Earth has limit. So we have to think about the future and implement it.
First, the author says "Venus, sometimes called the "Evening Star." Before Venus is called actually a planet, Venus was not popular. Venus and it was not called anything. But after Venus had called a planet, many things have been discovering bu scientist or other. Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionary the closest in distance too. It means we have a possibility to live in there. Veuns still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. Again, we need to find the another place to live for the future. If we leave this problem as it is, every people will die because Earth is warming up year to year and we are on the crisis.
Secound, we have startedthe project for travel to planet which is not Earth that is easily to go. The problem and NASA have a relationship as traveling planet. NASA had done a lot of project about space. NASA also has one particulaly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. It is not easy to travel to Venus or another planet, but we have possibility because of them skill. It is survivable for humans.
Finally, the auther says,"Venus would need to get up close and parsonal despite the risks. Or maybe we should think of them as challenges." We need to think about it. If we could live in Venus, it must be same as Earth, because there is the enviroment like this that we live. We alive. We have ocean for water, sun light, plants, oxygen, houses, foods, or something. We have to think about these problem, too.
It is not far from right now to travel to Venus and we could it, we could get a chance to live Venus. If we can, we should be more comfortable. We need to study Venus and teach many people. | 3 |
bd040e5 | I believe that Venus is worthy enough to study and go visit even including the danger it might have or will have. I decided that it is worthy enoough because we dont know whats out there, for all we know there could be real life living people in Venus and we just never knew becuse we though it was to dangerous. Now days technology is so good that they could most likley build a body suit that will make you be able to survive in Venus for a certain amount of time or for atleast enough time to go around and see what its about. Even in paragraph 8 in this story it says "Striving to meet the challemge 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". So that pretty much shows that scientist/people think that Venus possibly could have living humans, they just won't know until they can find a safe way to make it there and back. | 2 |
bd04e2e | What are the advantages of limitng car usage? Well ther are some causes of the use of car which is polllution. like it says in the passage, "Its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower pollution" (source 3). Pollution can be really bad for the people. " The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Violateros wil be fine twenty five dollars" (source 3). In bogota they have had a change with limiting car usage. "It was third straight year cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the Day Without Cars in this capital city of seven million" (source 3).
People have been affected by this cause. Bogota has inpired many others to do this. Two Colombian cities has joine with them , Cali, and Valledupar. Bogota are "generating a revolutionary change, and this is crossing borders" (source 3). Bogota just had one thing on their mind, which was to reduce smog. Ther are many other places with this king of cause. Paris has been the one most affected. " Paris typically has more smog than other European capitals" ( source 2). There has been four thousand drivers fined, and twenty seven had their car impounded for their reaction of the fine. " After days of near-recorded pollution, Paris enfourced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city" (source 2).
The United States has been doing some reserach and turns out that, " Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. The United States has been " one of the worls prime car cultures" (source 4). The united states have had the highest population growth of mile driven in two-thousand five and dropped down afterwards. The miles driven was nine percent lower than it was in two-thousand five. Car pullution has been affectig people. This is why they are reducing car usage. Its for their own good.
Pollution has been stopped with limiting the use of cars. People have been riding bikes, walking, etc, to places they have to go. They have sacrificed the use of car but has advanced their lifestyle. The have made a commitment to decrease the population of pollution. There have been talks to start inventing plug-in-cars, hybrids, and car carrying three or more passengers. There are going to find a way to stop pollution.
In Conclusion, pollution has been affecting people lives. They have done everything possible to stop pollution. There are limiting the use of cars, they are begining to transport themselves by bikes, or they walkThere goals are to " promote alternative transportation and reduce smog" (source 3). "The turnout was large despite the grey clouds that dumped occasional rain showers on Bogota" (source 3). All that smog goes up into the air and affects us. The limited car usage is really a good thing for your health and later on in your life. | 3 |
bd0abd2 | The solar system has many interesting planets and those planets have many interesting landmarks. The Face on Mars just happens to be one of them. The face was found in a region of Mars called Cydonia. I feel as though it is a coincedence that a natural landmark on our neighborring planet looks like a human face. Many people say that The Face on Mars is just a legend, but we have scientifical proof of a face on Mars. The Face on Mars isn't an alien creation, but it is a natural landmark.
The Face on Mars is a natural landmark. It's a natural landmark because not only has it been there for a long time, but over the years we have found that it is a natural landform not an alien monument(JPL website). Many Hollywood movies have used the term "that face on Mars," but many people think that the face is evidence of life on Mars. Some scientists have compared the face to landmarks in the USA called buttes or a mesa. Many people also say that the face resembles an Egyptian Pharoah.
On the other hand, some people specifically NASA has used The Face on Mars as a way to show that some things are important for taxpayers to see. Like I mentioned before Hollywood has made many big selling movies about The Face on Mars. Also, many books and magazines have used The Face as a headliner. Some NASA defenders has said that they wish there was some sort of an ancient civilization on Mars to use as a motive.
The Face on Mars is a cool natural landmark. It was located in Cydonia an area of Mars. The Face isn't a legend at all. There is real scientific proof of a face. The Face on Mars isn't a hoax either. Many people think that it is a legend and a hoax, but it is a real natural landmark. The Face on Mars is not an alien creation, but it is a natural landmark. It deserves some attention. | 3 |
bd0afc4 | I think that other people should join this Seagoing Cowboys program because then they can help people all around the world! Other people can be as helpful as Don and Luke. Oh ya, did I mention that you travel by horse! All you horse lovers, this is the job for you.That is not all though, you also get to explore the world while you are on the job. Did I also metion that you get free time aswell.
Luke's claims are "I'm grateful for the opportunity". Also that being a Seagoing Cowboy opened up the world to him. He was more aware of people and their needs now. Luke would want you to at least try out for the program to see if you kind of like.If I were you then I would sign up right away.
I say you should sign up. It can be fun riding on a horse all around the world.
You can go site seeing. Maybe even helpi some people.Like Luke had said, this is a once in a life time opportunity.And at the end of the day you can just think about how many people you just today.Their is no better way to end a day then knowing that
have save a persons life. | 2 |
bd0e1a1 | Have you ever gotten bored during a lecture or lesson at school? Do some classes just seem like they don't fit you, or that you will never be very good at some subjects? Well this could be because of the way you are being taught, whether by a computer program or a teacher. What if a computer could detect when you are not understanding part of a lesson? What if it could alter the lesson, or repeat specific parts so that you know what is being taught? Well that's what Professor Thomas Huang and Professor Nicu Sebe have designed; a computer program that can change and adapt to your needs in school when you are bored or confused.
The computer starts by constructing a 3-D model of the face. Movement of one or more of the major 44 facial muscles is called an "action unit." Dr. Huang then uses the work of psychologists, such as Dr. Paul Eckman. Eckman created FACS, which is an acronym for Facial Action Coding System. He classified six main emotions that humans experience, and connected each of them with characteristic movements of the facial muscles.
Using video imagery the emotion-recognition software, that Dr. Huang has designed, can track your facial movements and detect your emotions. Dr. Huang believes that this software could be extremely useful in a classroom. "The 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."
But what would be better about an emotion-detecting computer than a great teacher? Well, the computer has the ability to tell the students' emotions to a much higher degree than any other human could. The two could even be used in tandem, with the teacher taking advantage of the information the computer outputs about his or her pupils' emotions. If the software is properly used and designed, it could become a great tool in any school. I think that if teacher's use this tool properly, teaching would be easier, and students would learn and retain more information. All this would inevitably lead to better test scores and higher overall GPA.
It might take many years, but I think that if the technology is perfected and used properly, this could be one of the most amazing innovations for years to come. For a teacher to know what his students are feeling and how he can convey information for them to better understand would change teaching as we know it. The Facial Action Coding System could be revolutionary in the classroom. It could make school more interesting for those that find it boring, or those that find it difficult. It could make harder subjects easier on some students. That is why I think we should use this technology to read students' emotional expressions. | 4 |
bd0efb4 | Driverless cars are coming! Google cofounder Sergey Brin thinks that there will come a time when nobody will buy cars because they wont need them. He believes that the cars would be like taxi systems and take us wherever we would need to go. Google has had cars that can drive independently under specific conditions since 2009, but is this a good thing?
I myself believe that driverless cars could be a good and bad thing. Self independant cars would be able to help people out big time. For those who travel, they wouldn't have to stop and get a hotel because if they were tired the car would just drive them while they rest. Many people also do illegle things while driving, like talk on the phone or text. People crash cars all the time for drinking and driveing, texting, and talking on the phone. Having a car that would drive you would lower the accidents casued by these things. Having a car that drove you would save many lives. Haveing cars that would drive themselves would put many people out of jobs. Taxi services, truck driving services, limo drivers they would all get replaced by vehicals that could drive on their own. Also what if self driving cars got into a wreck? Whos at fault for that? The driver or the company that made the car and led you the buyer to belive you would be safe inside of it. How would anyone get justice out of that, they wouldn't.
Now, I believe that there is both good and bad in having driverless cars, but if they were designed properly and taken care of they way they should be, I think that they would help out majorly. People that have ideas for the future have a lot of responsibility on them. They have to make sure that their ideas are of the better good before they let them out into the world. I hope whoever does designe these driverless cars put thought into it rather than just thinking about money. | 3 |
bd0fd0d | I believe that driverless cars can be both good and bad for our world. If the driverless cars are responsive to crashes and quick breaking like they say the cars will be, then yeah i think the driverless cars are a great idea.
The movie industry has been showing us these kind of things such as driverless cars for decades. In the movies you will see flying cars or even driverless cars, so to see Google cofounder Sergey Brin taking a pledge and trying to create such a thing is really incredible. If manufactured right and having the right electronics and gadgets on it, these driverless cars could take over the future when it come to driving or selecting a car.
Back in the 1950's, General Motors created a car that could run on a test track but with an electrical cable that sent radio signals to a receiver on the front end of the vehicle. Engineers at Barkley done something like that but with magnets that will "self" drive the car around the track. The only problem with that is the amount of money it would costs to supply the roads with these magnets they are wanting to put in the roads to control these cars. Also having these sensors and so much technology in the car it would not take much for something to go wrong, have the sensors in the car fail and you lose the front end of your car and causes a tramatic accident. So it is just little things that like that can put such a big downfall on a project like this.
Paragraph 9 talks about the laws that are directed to the regular gas, electrical and diesel vehicles, but what about the new driverless cars, won't you need new laws? Of course we will, that is one of the biggest things made in this case about the new cars, because new laws will need to be made in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. Even if the technology fails and someone is seriously injured, who is at fault? The coming of these new cars seem so close, but yet so far away because of all the technology and work that needs to be done to making something like this happen.
People ask if it's a good idea, I say yes. I believe that these will make the roads safer and keep people more alert behind the wheel. As long as us humans don't rely 100% on the cars to take care of us we will be okay. But as soon as we start to let the cars do everything for us, that is when the tragic accidents start to happen and also when people start to sue these big name companies such as Google and Barkley. I say bring on the driverless cars as soon as possible and see what kind of change it does for our world. | 4 |
bd100e6 | The face on mars is not created by aliens this is a natural landform on earth there already were landforms that were created. We can't say aliens made those too. Such as vocanoes, rivers, and mountains we also couldn't say we built those because we didn't. If aliens really did build the face on mars how come their isn't any proof anything was on the planet? If there was any form of a living species you would have at least seen Egyptian- style pyramids or even small shacks.
Mars is a planet that is know for having rocks on it, there is a possibility that this is just a huge rock that was carved into the planet already or the planet it's self got either hit by and astroid or had been forming it's self in some way. Aliens could'nt have build the face they would've needed soem short of unground passege or even shelter's, none of these things were found when we discoverd the face. We get the picture looks blurry btu even with zooming in you can't see any such thing as if there was an alien.
Scientist has studied the photos the astronots had brought home we saw their were may rocks this could have been a mistake. How would an alien know what a human face looks like anyways? By our understand we could be looking at it and imageing it's a face when really it's just a rock that was formed to look like a humans head.
April 5, 1998 when mars Global Surveyor flew oven the face he snapped pictures ten times sharper then the original Viking photos. Thousands of people anxious to have the photo appear on JPL web site by yet still came out with saying that it was just an natural landform. People were not satisfied, this bring's me back to the point were it was just our imagination maybe we're lookingat it wrong it's really meant to look like one thing but were making it look like another.
We belive that if aliens really did make this face how come their wasn't any type of form in which we can tell their was any type of life form living on mars? Landscapes are usual to see on planest and this was one of them. If there was any type of life form i think Michale Malin would have already taken pictures of them if he had seen anything. He didn't which means this face was actually a natural landform. | 4 |
bd1080f | How you ever been in a traffic jam? Where you find yourself late for work and overly stressed and tensed. This leads many people in thinking of a life without cars, of a place where loud honking and angry people aren't the norm. Well in places like Vauban, Germany peole have decide to smear the lines of the ideal suburban community by banning cars in the district.
The term "car free" zone never got more realistic then the streets of Vauban, where more than 70 percent of people have given up the tradition of owning a car. According to "In German suburbs, life goes on without cars" many people see this new way of life extermly effective. "When I had a car I was always tensed", states Heidrun Walters. Heidrun is a local from Vauban who found herself happier walking around then being behind a vehicle. Residents in Vauban believe that bicycling and walking are more effective for themselves and the enviroment. This leaves the question on how cars are able to be used in a district like Vauban; where ther are no garages, street parking, or driveways. Even though there are few car owners in the district you can buy a car space for 40,000.
Although Vauban bans cars for the sheer annoyance ot them, other places like Paris have a more enviromental issue with cars. In Paris, the amount of smog has became so outrages officials have given ciztens in the parisian streets a temporary ban to help clear the air of pollution. Many drivers felt that this ban was unfair and discouraging, so up to 4,000 ciztens were fined for using there car. Since Ftrance is a Diesel fuel community, researchs are blaming the diesel for the smog problems. Even though the difference for the use of diesel more than gas can be the problem, who to say that the smog will stay gone?
Some countries have taken to this new trend of no cars and make a day out of it. Such as Bogata, Colombia has speard the idea throughout South America- causing milions to travel by walking and using bicycles. The main idea of this program is to promote alternate transportation and reduce fog, says the article "Car free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogato". The turnout for this day was so large two other Colombian cities joined in. "It's a good opptunity to take away stress and lower pollution", said local businessman Carlos Arturo who joined and rode a two seated bicycle with his wife. The ethusiastic outcome made on lookers from other countries stare with awe.
America, who's ciztens are known for driving expensive cars has begun to broaden it's fews on the ideal Utopia. According to "The End of Car Culture", many Americans have been buying less and less cars as the years progress. Some of this new rrefinery stems from the recession, when many people couldn't afford a brand new car. Sociologist believe America is taking a permnant shift in it's cultural stand point. Along with pop cultures help, reseachers believe that it allows people to be more connected without driving to meeting their friends. This only futher shows that the worlds outlook on life has opened to new and intresting ways.
Whether it's giving up cars all together, or having a national day dedicated. People all around the world have began to look at new and improved way of living. Some countries are even becoming inspired by others who have found that a more car conservative life can be better, and places like Paris have seen that without cars their enviroment could be a lot more cleaner and effective. | 2 |
bd1167a | Ignite your vehicle, turn the radio on, and let the toxins extracate to the to world where we slowly contribute to pollution. Would you want to live on Earth where the air is smog and you must have a filtertration mask to go outside your home? Why limit your car usage? Well simply your protect your future, your children, and family from today an on to the future. Highly enough that is a major factor toward the Americas, no the world.
Usually in the morning youd drive to your enterprise that you're working at, or go to school. Realize every year you take your car it creates greenhouse gas. Fifty percent is contributed from the US , Twelve percent Europe as contributed to this greenhouse effect. Will you hold responsibility to walk to work? Or simply try walking to most places nearby thatd you'd drive to. If everyone contributes to this the reduce car usage process that'll slow down our inveitable end, and enjoy the simply pleasures of being motor free. "she walked verdant streets where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out occasional distant motor."
Cant live without a car? Your jobs to far? Well theres a simply easier way to reduce pollution if not a car then simply go to electric, These cars all run on electricity. All you have to do is charge it, and BOOM! A car that is gasoline free and is eco-friendly. Or maybe sell your car and save money by taking public transporation like city buses.
Maybe bike to your job or even jog. Exercise and get work at the same time!
Go out for the night to find yourself intoxicated, what will you do? Most would try to drive home while drunk. Then leading to a misfortunate disaster, or car acident. Streaming through the halls with a blurred vision of uneasiness, finally realizing you're in a hospital soon to be in the ER. Then few moments later the doctor reaveils the ugly truth to your beloved ones. Anthing might happen during those times of intoxication, you might even take a innocent life. Could you bear for a innocent lifes death? Think before consuming alchohal.
In conclusion, igniting your vehicle , return the lifeless box to an uproar of sounds , and let the fumes escape your car. Doing this could cause a invetiable end towards the future. Change the minds of those who once were toxic users undergo a change to hybrids to reduce our decisions affect. Or maybe regret having a car and taking remorse of others or even grieve amongst them, all for your choice. | 3 |
bd12d53 | "Congestionwas down 60% in the capital of france after five days of intensifying smog" (duffer par.14). have you ever thought how bad cars are for this planet?
"Its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air polution"(plaza par.24). I think it is a good idea to banned cars for a few days. This is my opinion because if we take cars away then people will see how much more clear the air is, how much easier it is to breath, what good excersie it is for you, it will open some peoples minds about how the enviroment works and how bad cars are for our economy. "These people are generating a revolutionary change and this is crossing borders"(riera par.26). It is good because there is so much fog and pollution in the air that it is bad for society and how it is bad for us and the planet that we live on.
"amaeicas love affair with its vehicles seems to be cooling. when ajusting to the population growth" (rosenthal par.32).people are realizing that their love with their cars isnt as big as their love for their own life and for their friends and familys lives."as of april 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9% below the peak and equal to where the country was in january 1995. Part of the explanation certainly lines in the recession, because cash-strapper amaericans could not afford new cars, and the unemployed werent going to work anyway"(rosenthal par.32). people now a days dont have enough money to by a car for themselves because there arent enough jobs for all the people becayuse of the big population growth of america.
people are using technology to talk to people, and this means that people dont have to drive as often to go talk to someone. "demographic shifts in the driving population suggest that the trend may accelerste. there hasa been a large drop in the percentage of 16- to 39-year-olds gettin a license"(sivak par.38). younger people dont really want to drive to places if they can just talk to people on the phone. some people of this society are lazy because they dont want to get up and go places when they have their phones, but sometimes its for a good reason even if they dont know it they are not polluting the air as much as they would be if they drove to their friends/familys house.
how do you feel about how cars are affecting this planet and the way it works. these ideas and actions people are taking are going around the globe and it is saving the earth one day at a time with one little idea. | 4 |
bd13c87 | The author of The Challenge of Exploring Venus suggested to study venus is a worthy pursuit despite it condtions and or dangerous risks. I think the author thinks studying Venus is worthy based of the author saying in Paragragh five althought it is 170° F(Fahrenheit) it may be difficultt condtions, but it still survivable for humans.
More evidence of it being worthy of studying is in Paragragh seven saying NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. From one of there examples, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venuss surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions, meaning it is possible to find research. Research is our only way of getting data proven in Paragragh six stating "researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance. Therefore, scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks".
And my final piece of evidance stating it is worthy of studying Venus is in Paragragh's six and eight "peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective. 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. Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." | 3 |
bd15160 | FACS, or facial action coding system, is the use of computers to recognize the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we feel. The use of this technology would be very helpful in classrooms to read students' emotional expressions.
This technology would be extremly effective in classrooms.
Dr. Huang states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a studenrts is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson like an effective human instructor".
If a classroom computer was put in every class, it would make learning more fun.
Not only would it make classes more fun, but it would also be a more effective way of teaching.
If you start to doze off in class the computer would change the lesson to keep you interested.
The computer would keep students attention due to their facial expression like it is forcing you to learn by keeping your eyes glued to the screen.
This kind of technology will grow a brighter generation.
The use of FACS would be very helpful in all classes.
It would make a teachers job easier for them and more helpful for the students to learn.
The value of using of using this technology to read students' emotional expressions would be highly appretiated. | 3 |
bd18a8b | venus is one of the brightest points of the light in the night sky making it simple for an amaterur stargazer to spot. venus is a planet that you can float on and its the second planet from are sun it has proved a very challenging place to examinr more closely. People call venus the earth twin because venus is th closest planet to the earth in terms of density and size. venus, and mars, our planetary neighbor they both orbits the sun at diffrent speeds. these diffrences in speeds in othere to venus will be around the corner in space terms people have sent plenty of spacecrafts to land on the cloud draped world. venus would be a nice planet to study because i feel like is has alot of interesting things to know about like whats in it i would study a planet like venus and the size of venus is simular to the earth so it would be nice to know a place close to the sun. The part about being in venus it is 97 percent carbin dixode its more. challenging then are clouds and it live closer to the sum the. the earths does. Venus has the hottest temperature of any planet in the sloar system its hotter than mercury amd mercury is closer to the sum them venus is beyond hight temparture venus have powerful earthquakes it has alot of lighting streaks its seeking to the land. NASA wants to send people to venus to experiance venus. Venus is a very challenging place to go in visit Venus because the human ceriosity. | 1 |
bd1ac91 | The need for these car free suburbs are very imprtant because the more cars that we take off the road the less green house gas fumes are released. Different means of trying to clear the air have been taken,in some countries on certain days people with even numbered licence palts have to leave then other days odd numbers have to leave their cars. So sume places take it very serious people fail to notice that we are killing our planet we have have to do everything possible that we can to save our planet because we won't have another chance to do so.
A few places around the world have band cars for a day or two so that people would take alturnitive transportation like taxi's or buses so that people are aware that there are other means of transportation so that it can re duce greenhouse gas. Mayors from the bordering cities have come to see what all of the comotion was about and they loved the idea so much that they sre starting to take a stand on the issue.
Studies show that less and less people are driving so that shows that people may or may not be able to purchase a car or just decide that they don't want a car and enjoy taking other means of transportation. I beleave that it is good to car pool or ride the bus but some people might have to own a car or ride the bus so that they can get to work. Some people may not have the money to own a car so they have to ride the bus or take a taxi to work or school everyday. so it doesn't bother them so think about the people who own their own cars or don't have time to wait for the bus or a taxi to take them to work. some people have very busy live and don't have time to wait for people to come and pick them up. so thats one big reason. | 2 |
bd1dd2d | This face is not created by aliens. It is not created by aliens because there is no proof of humanans let alone aliens found on Mars. How would they survive and humans can not. In paragraph nine it discribes how hard it was to even get a picture of this face. If its very hard to get a good glimpse of this image. Its going to be struggle to live and be active on Mars as well. This has to be a natural landform that happens to looks like a face. If someone really did this, they would want credit and all the fame for all their hard work and i think we would have spotted them all ready.
We have landforms all the time on Earth so what makes this time special?
This landform just happened to be a poppin thing for us on Earth. There may have more then one landform that was very close. It so happened to make an image. Its very facinating how natural Earth funtionings can make something so exciting. If you have an imagaination its like the earth has its functions and feelings. Like the weather and natural things like landforms that form. So why scare everyone if we know that these things are possible to happen and can turn out to be something beautiful? | 2 |
bd20056 | Driverless cars would be a great thing for the future but there are also negatives to it. It would also be a lot of money spent to make this invention possible. If you think about it cars are pretty much driverless in a way because some cars can parallel park on their own, and evenstop themselves when it senses an oncoming vehicle that is to close.
The negative effect that this would have on the world is that these cars could possibly malfunction and lead to a wreck. It would let a drivers guard down to a very low level and they wouldn't be focused on the road as much as they would if they were the ones actually driving. This could also take away the law that drivers have to have a liscense in order to drive because some will think "who needs a liscense to drive a driverless vehicle"?. That issue alone could lead to many problems. I believe that vehicles are only safe when a human is controlling it.
The positive effect that driverless cars could have on the world is that it could create many jobs for people. It could help people get places that they aren't familiar with.
My opinion on this is that vehicles should only be driven by a human that is liscensed to operate a vehicle. I don't think people will be safe if driverless cars became a thing because the creators wouldn't be 100% sure that these vehicles are safe to be on the road. Lives could possibly be at risk. | 2 |
bd205b0 | The author for "The Challenge of Exploring Venus,"writes about his studies for Venus and how dangerous it can be. But the author suggests that we should study Venus and its dangers. In this article, it explains how NASA has tried multiple times to visit Venus but the space craft could not handle it. The author makes you feel more encouraged to study this because it wants you to try and discover more features of Venus by having you study more about it.
In the article, the authors uses multiple facts about the dangers of Venus. Such as in paragraph 1,it says, " It has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely." It's good for students to really learn how dangerous Venus can really be. Learning how Venus is alike to Earth and how imbearably hot it can be can say a lot about where its title came from. Knowing how temperatures can be up to 300 degrees on Venus can encourage you to study it more by thinking how and why is it like that in Venus.
The tiltle is called "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," for a reason. The word challenge is used in paragraph 8,"Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value." The author really imphasises the word dangers in his article. By expressing the dangers of the degrees and how space crafters could not land on Venus. Now learning that people have the desire to try and visit Venus, they will have to study and learn different ws to land depite its dangers. The word, "Challenge" encourages people. It makes people want to do it more. By the author putting in the words such as challenging and dangerous, it just makes to readers want to study about it more. Despite how hard it can be.
This article is worthy pursuit despite all dangers because it motivates you to learn more about it. Juat like in paragraph 8 it says,"Should be expanded to meet the very edge of imagination and innovation." The more people can learn about it, the more scientist can get better information. The dangers details encourage the reader. In paragraph 5, NASA explains the work that they have tried to put in by making a space crafter and landing it on Venus. But that has not been possible in decades.
"The Challenge of Explaing Venus," really does its work to encourage the readers the study Venus. It tells about the dangers of it, how scientist have studied it, and how scientist are trying to come up with different space crafters to work on landing on Venus. The author supports this idea by using words to persuade you to learn more about Venus. | 3 |
bd220fc | What would it be like to have a driverless car? If cars could drive on their own many of the mistakes that humans make on the roads would be eliminated, causing less accients and less injuries from car crashes. Driverless cars would make the roads a safe place and cause less stress on the person controlling the car.
Driverless cars are built to allow the car to steer, accelerate, and brake on its own. With these features it would cause less people trying to speed passed each other for going to slow, or cause the driver to not have to take a sharp stop because they we going to quick for a yellow light. The car are also built with a laser beam the would show a 3-D model of the surrounding of the driver, which allows it to know everything that is happening and how to react. If there is some construstion going on ahead or a crash the car also alarms the driver to take control.
Not only are the different types of cars that can cause accidents, but the person behind the wheel too. With there being so many different types of people driving everyday such as: new drivers, elderly, and careless drivers, it would be great to have a car that would control all the different gears that the driver would usually have to do. Since so many teen drivers think that they can text while driving or goof around, an accident is bound to happen, some worse than others, but still they then have to pay for the damage, but with the driverless car it allows the vieicle to take control of the wheel and cause the crash to never happen. Also when it comes to elderly or drunk drivers they never fully have an eye out for what can happen and are not quick enough to react to it, so if the car can pull the brakes on its own then that would save another situation to never happen.
Since the road is such a dangerous place there is no room for texting or making a mistake. It seems like driverless cars are the right thing to do since so many people get in crashes, or cause death from an accident. Driverless cars seem to be the safe choice, and can save many lives. | 3 |
bd2306a | The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" does suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers, but fails to provide enough support to make that statement believable. The author stresses in parts of the article that Venus is valuable and needs to be explored but then counters that with lenghty paragraphs explaining the hazards that come with this. The ratio that Venus is valuable but exploration is dangerous is not one to one. This makes it harder to believe that Venus is actually worthy of exploration. The author mentions that Venus is valuable, but then counters by explaining the dangers that come with this exploration, and finally includes the steps that are being taken to get there which never sheds light on the importance of exploring Venus.
First and foremost, the author does indeed suggest that Venus is important and that it is worth exploring. However, the times that the reader can actually see this written in the article is very few, specifically three times. The first time this happens is in paragraph four and it says,"Recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for planetary visit, a crucial consideration". The next time it is mentioned is a little bit after that and it says, "The value of returning to Venus is indisputable".
The last time is at the end of the article. The quote says,"Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself". All three quotes are supporting the idea that Venus is valuable to exploration, but they are never given any evidnece to back them up making it hard to believe what they adovcate.
Now, besides the fact that there is little to no support for the previous quotes the author goes on to explain the numerous dangers that come with simply trying to explore Venus. The author spends the majority of paragraph three explaing the hazards that Venus presents. The text says," 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". Later on in paragraph three the text says,"Such and environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to divnig to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liqueft many metals". These two quotes raise red flags in many readers minds, causing them to wonder why scientists are even considering exploring such a deadly planet. The author also failed to inlcude a counter to the dangerous conditions on the planet and didn't explain why it is still valuable.
Finally, the author tries to make the dangerous and possibly deadly pros list seem okay and feasible. The author goes along to explain the steps NASA and othe scientists are taking to possibly make a trip to Venus. According to the text, "One particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray". This quote creates a sense of hope for the exploration argument but does nothing to explain to the reader the value in exploring Venus. The text also states,"NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, simplified electronics made of silicon have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions". This quote, yet again, explains how there are possible and theoretical steps and options that can be taken to make exploring Venus safe,
but in the end sheds no light on any benefits, advances, or values that come from being able to explore Venus. The majority of paragraphs five, six, and seven explain more steps and ideas that could be used but, in the end, provide no support for the argument that exploring Venus is worthwhile despite the dangers it presents.
Many people can conclude that space exploration is a positive, beneficial process. However, after reading this article it seems that exploring Venus is not the best idea. The author tires to support the idea that exploring Venus is worthwhile but only mentions it a few times. Then within the middle and end of the article the author stacks multiple counters to his or her argument.The author goes on to explain the hazardous conditons of Venus and steps to get to the planet but never explains the importance of even trying to explore Venus. In the end, the author did not successfully support their argument. | 6 |
bd23c17 | These driverless cars should not be developed becuase technology can crash, safety concerns and lack of knowledge. These 3 reasons all tie up to each other on why these cars should not be developed.
First reason why driverless cars should not be developed is becuase technology is not one hundred percent reliable. Technology can crash causing these cars to possibly not be functioning well which could lead to various accedents and who will take initiative for those damages? ¨If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?¨ paragraph 9. With this being said anyone can buy things that make their life easier, thats what everyone wants right? Not just becuase it makes your life easier means its safe.
Second, these cars should not be developed becuase of safety concerns. As already mentioned technology can crash leading to serious injuries, the sensors could stop working leaving huge possibilities of many crashes. Does this also mean that if these cars replace actual cars does that mean people will become lazier and or not be requiered to drive or have a liscence if indeed this project becomes successful?
Lastly, these cars should not be developed because of lack of knowledge. Again, if these cars replace driver cars does that mean people will become lazier, and or not be requiered to have a liscence if this porject indeed becomes successful? If so, soon it would not be required to know how to drive which would lead many people to not know how to drive which is requiring less knowledge that should be there. It would make our lifes so easy to the point where it might make us lazy, not everyone, but mostly everyone. I beilive we need the most knowledge possible instead of creating more and more things that isolate us from learning.
In conclusion, these driverless cars should not be created due to technology crashes, safety issues and lack of knowledge. Drivers should keep driving and learn more everyday. A wise person once said ¨Life isn´t easy, so dont try to make it¨. | 4 |
bd25752 | The use of this technology to read the emtional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable for many reasons. Some might say its envasion of privacy but think about it, it can help the teaccher see if the student is understanding something or not. To see if the student is upset and the teacher could help out the student a little more.
The computer constructs a 3-D model of the face which reads all 44 major muscles. " Eckman has classified six basic emtions- happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness...accociated each with charateristic movements of the facial muscles." The computer can read the facial expressions and sort them into differnt emtions. The computer can also classify an emtion even if the person isn't really showing it. " Even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression." This shows that even if the person tries to hide their emtion the computer knows the persons emtions. Which could be a good tool for when the teacher doesn't know if the student is feeling well or if the student isn't understanding something.
Even us somtimes can't tell what a friend is feeling because we might not be able to sort their facial expressions out. " Most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, ect." Sometimes we don't know if the person is feeling fear or happy because they are somewhat smiling, and the computer can tell because of the persons facial muscles. " Image a computer that knows when you're happy or sad." The comupter can help with how things pop up on the comupter. If an ad pops out and you smile another similar ad might pop up later on. Same thing goes for if you an annoyed face when an ad shows up so that the next time a different type or something different might pop up.
The computer can also notice when a smile is real or if its being forced. " In a false smile, the mouth is streached sideway using the zygomatic major and a different muscle."
The muscle that is used when the smile is being forced is one of the major muscles which is why it is easy to know if the smile is real or it's forced. "These muscle clues are sometimes used to pot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity isn't being truthful." Even without the computer people can see when a person is faking a smile.
To finish off, yes I do think that having these kind of computers at schools would be helpful. For the fact that it can help teachers change some of their lessons so that some students who are confused can understand that lesson. It can also help the teachers to know if a student is having a good or bad day so that they can help that student out so that the student can learn what they have to that day. | 4 |
bd2797b | Everyone has emotion. From sad to happy to scared to maybe even disgusted. They are all very different from each other but if you take one look at someone you most of the time can tell how they are on that specific day.
when talking about students in a classroom is it really that valuable to know their emotions and how they feel about certain things?
The knowlage of how to read someone is really a good thing to have. Everyone has emotions and a lot of times they are not always the best. in the Classroom as it says in this article that if computers were able to analyze how you or the majority of the class felt about something the teacher would be able to change the lesson or make it more engaging for the students. Also the fact is that if someone is not okay the computers could pick that up and maybe a teacher would be able to talk to that student.
In concluson the use of this technology can be very valuable in the classroom setting helping further education and helping teachers learn how to engage students better. | 2 |
bd2920f | A new piece of technology, the Facial Action Coding System, has been developed and is helping with the learning the emotions of others. Some may say that this technology should not be used in classrooms because it invades the students' privacy. However, finding the emotions of students in classrooms could help teachers with what kind of lessons to prepare and finding out potemial problems that students had. The ability to read the emotions of students in classrooms could be extremely valuable.
Some may argue that having the emotions of students read in class would be a bad idea. If the school could find out what their students were feeling with a computer program, the students may be unhappy with the idea that their school was observing their feeling. In paragraph 8 of the article, the author states, "faces don't lie". If teachers used this technology, they could know the emotions of students even if students tried to hide it. In this way, students could feel as though the school is invading their privacy by finding out emotions that they want to keep hidden. Their emotions can be tied to their thoughts. In most cases, people consider their no one else should be able to know their thoughts and emotions without the person's consent. Some argue that reading the emotions of others will be an invasion of privacy.
Teachers using the knowledge of students' emotions could be helpful in a classroom. If teachers know how students are reacting to different assignments, they could alter the worksheets to make the students more interested and understand what they are learning better. Also, if a computer can understand the emotions of children that are using it, the computer can change the material to aid in the learning. The article states, "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" and "it could modify the lesson". Teachers being able to help students better understand what they are being taught is just one of many benefits to using the Facial Action Coding System in classrooms.
The knowledge of students' emotions could be beneficial to schools. If teachers could figure out the emotions of students, they teachers could potentially find and help students that are suffering with problems. The author states, "faces don't lie". Knowing what is truely going on with students by using this program could help the teacher recognize if a student is struggling with anxiety or stress. Students with anxiety and stress could potentially have suicidal thoughts or actions. By identifying this problem, teachers could get help for the student and help prevent the death of an innocent life. The article also states, " moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them". The teachers could additionally do exercises with students to reduce their stress levels. The technologies like the Facial Action Coding System could help teachers know about students' anxiety and prevent harm to the students.
Though some say there could be several issues with using technology to read emotions in classrooms, there are many more benefits than issues. The system could modify the learning style to one that suits the individual student and could help teachers learn of problems the student has. Using technologies like the Facial Action Coding System to help read students' emotions could be an important asset for schools. | 5 |
bd2967a | Dear, State Senator
The Electoral College is a great process that was created by the founding fathers in the Constitution."The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compronise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens." The electoral college consistw of the electors the meeting of the electors of the voting for president and vice president. The electoral college process consists of 538 electors. When you run for president you have to get majority of the 270 electoral votes its required. Every candidate running for president has there own group of electors."Each candidate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors." The electors are chosen by the candidate's political party.
When the presidential election is over your governor prepares a certificate of ascertainmentits listing all of the candidates who had ran for president in your state. The certicate also says the winning presidential canddidate in your state."After the presidential election,your governor prepares a "certificate of ascertainment" listing all of the candidates who ran for president in your state along with the names of their respective electors."The states certificates of ascertainments are sent to the congress and the national archives.
The electoral college should be keeping the electoral college because its a very important process of how we choose the president. If we just put our say in the votes some people might feellike htey amde the wrong choose in the voting. And if we just let congress picl our president because thats not fair becuse this is our conutry too adn we should have a say about what the presdent gonna do or what are some of he/she plans to do for our conunty."the electoral college is widely regarded as and anachronism a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ougth to be [overruled]by decaring tht candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner."
There a five reasons to keep the electoral college certainty of outcome,everyone's president,swing states,big states and lastly avoid run-off elections. It is possible for a dispute over the outcome of an electoral college vote." The reason is that the winning candidate's share of the popular vote." A presidential candidate to have transregional appeal."This is a desirable result appeal is unlikelu to be a suffessful president". The electoral college restores some of the weight in the balance the large states lose by virtue.
In Conclusion the elecoral college should stay becase it makes everthing fair for the electoral candaiets and so citizen of the united states have a chance to ahve a say in what they want as a president. | 2 |
bd359e0 | I think driverless cars would be a very cool thing to have. Also its outside the box not every car can be driverless but some can. Just look a lamborghini or ferrari they dont have as much technology as some of the newer middle class cars do.
But your paying $500,000 for some thing that doesnt have as many features as a prius or a smart car. But also driverless cars arent really driveless if some has to take the wheel and go around some things that means the cars not really driveless
I would rather drive my car than let a computer beacuse technology will always have problems and errors and if that happens gonig down a highway at say 70mph and your car has a problem and you aren't ready for it you may end up in the hospital. Driverless cars will happen one day but not anytime soon cause some states say they arent even legal to drive a computer operated car. | 1 |
bd3ec7d | While there have been presidents that have run without earning the popular vote, it does not mean that the Electoral College is inefficient, bad, or unnecessary. The Electoral College, chosen by our founding fathers, is a process in which people elect for electors. Then the electors vote for the president. Each state gets a certain number of electors, or electoral votes, depending on their population. This way, no single group of people can sway the voting largely. Instead, only the state would be effected. Without a doubt, the Electoral College has been working well for centuries, and I see no good reason to change it.
For starters, it is much easier than a popular vote to decide. Yes, the chance for a tie is there, but to count each state rather than each and every single vote is much easier nowadays. Counting such a plurality of votes is already a difficulty, even right here in the Sun Shine State. Imagine counting all the votes right down to the last one! Even though a tie is more likely this way, the odds of a tie are so rare, what does it matter?
Another truly great thing is the fact that any president must have appeal to all states, or at least most. Having the favor in the south and concentrating it there will not give you more votes. In fact, it is more likely you will not be president if you yeild strongly to any one region. Doing so may lose you many votes in other areas that may be difficult to recapture. If a president was for say, leaning towards big old California and Florida, but not going very much for the other states, then yes, he may win many, many votes from California and Florida and possibly win the election, if it was a popular vote. But this is not the case. In an electoral votes, winning all votes in a few states is hardly useful. That, of course, plays majorly into elections, which is a reason why some of your favorite presidential candidates didn't win.
Another great thing I am to mention is loss of plurality. What if my buddy and I each got only 40% of the votes. The other guy in Tex. got the other 20%. Who would win? In the Electoral College, the Tex. dude may win a few votes in each state, but rarely will he win any. With the Electoral College, other minor candidates are less likely to screw the whole thing up.
It is true there have been faults. Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO have all antagonized the Electoral College. One reason is that electorals do not have to vote for whom ever they chose in the beginning. If my vote gets some Bob McShnuffle into the electoral voting system, but he votes for someone other than my choice, then there is going to be major pandemonium. Is it fair that your vote and so many others gets flipped just because Bob McShnuffle was unhappy with that president? Perhaps, but this does not happen often. Usually, it does not cause too much of a balance tipping. But the true problem is the word of the people. We have so many speakers for us, but they don't always say the right things that we want. Fortunately, these incidents do not happen all the time. To fret over such things only offers you more problems and less solutions. By having an elector, a representative, someone can't say something stupid and pull the whole country down with him. Instead, this is the best way to address the majority of the people without conflict.
On that happy note, I must mention the electoral college is not perfect. Nothing is. But it is easier than popular voting, counts all states and regions, and naturally avoids run-offs. Of course, its still got its flaws. But you have to admit that those founding fathers did pretty good. Arguably, it has been the best way for the presidential election, and it still is... | 6 |
bd4a2dd | In my opinion, I feel like they shouldn't bother to use the technology because what is it going to solve? I think it pointless, because nobody will speak up on how they feel in the classroom infront of everyone in there. It would probably say how they feel out loud, and maybe someone doesnt want to be pointed out. "You can tell how someone feels by their actions and look on their face", I don't think they'd need a "robot" to understand how someone feels in that exact moment. I think teachers or whoever themselves should go up to that person and have a proivate conversation, some teachers see the facial expressions on some students and wont bother to ask. I feel like the technology would be expensive as well and they would need a lot of them. It would just be a waste of money. Plus, it goes by your facial expressions. I don't believe it would actually tell you how you feel. In the passage it says " even though individuals show varying degress of expression"(like not smiling as broadly) using video imagrey the new emotion-regognition software tracks these facial movements" so it's basically saying if someone fakes a smile it would tell them because how 'powerful' the techonolgy is, but a lot of people are really good at faking smiles and frowns.
Also, once the technology tells you how you feel what's going to make it better. How can the "Mona Lisa demonstration bring a smile to your face by just looking at it". I don't think it's possible, I personally think it wont solve a person's feelings at all, I think its pointless. Some people also fake emotions for attention,so that would be a con about the tecnology. | 3 |
bd4b534 | According to this the technology giving is this passage tells students that they can read your emotions by FACS computer software. They say can read people emotion such as- happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, fear, and surprise. thier process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like a human muscles. As giving the Mona Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much this computer can do. A example they give us for a happy and sad description is, if you smile when a web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different. This technology can also occur towards video games also for example , The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive-- for video games or video surgery. Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication. This passage also lets you know that, your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile. | 1 |
bd4bdbf | Advantages of limiting car usage is less car polliution from the gases released from the car and also better health from using other ways to get around such as walking or riding a bike as a form of excerise.
To begin with limiting car usage opens up other new options If you don't depend on a car so much. More money In your pocket because you not paying for gas nor keep the car maintance up no more.
The more you drive the more you polluting your air from the chemicals from the tail pipe of your vehicle hiking , biking , or skating are easy simple excerise you can you for transpertation. You'll know your environment better from exploring It these methods are better for the earth.
In some cities such as New York they've started a bike sharing program and Its skyrocketing bridge and tunnel tolls reflect those new priorities, as do a proliferation of car-sharing programs across the nation.
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. All these charges, people who stopped car commuting as a result of the recession may find less reason to resume the habit.
Teens of this generation Is starting to organize their summer jobs and social life around where they can walk or take public transportation or car pool with friends. People all around the world are starting to realize the benefits of reducing car usage and taking contol of the situation. | 2 |
bd4db26 | Dear state senator,
You seriously need to change this whole "Electoral College" voting system. It's not right and not accurate. Wouldn't it be fair if the people had a say in this? We..The People?
Popular vote definetly makes more sense in this case. It's proven that an electoral vote would sometimes end in a tie, resulting in a "You're President, You're Vice President" scenario. No one wants to go through a tie cause the election would go to the House of Representatives and then they would decide who is who. That's pretty stupid...if I do say so myself.
Now if the people, us, had a say in this...Then we'd defiently have a winner. No ties, No mistakes, No nothing. Just a plain, clean winner. The electoral college is unfair to voters to be honest. The electoral college is irrational, unfair, outdated and annoying. No one uses it anymore. Due to it being completely unfair to citizens and states alike.
The Electoral College rule says "It requires a presidential canidate to trans-regianl appeal." Don't you think we know that? Then there's the fact that only "Big States" have a say, what about the smaller ones? There are people there too you know.
The Electoral College does avoid the problem of "Run-Off Elections" but that doesn't help the fact that we should all have a say.
Well, Nevertheless, you can understand why im so fed up with this "Electoral College" nonsense. It's stupid, outdated, and unfair. | 3 |
bd4f4fc | Have you ever thought about participating in a seagoing program.
Well Luke Bomberger has. His friend invited him to Europe on a cattle boat.
Luke couldn't say no. Readers should join a seegoing program.
People can have fun have go on lot's of adventures and see lot's of unique places.
Seagoing cowboys get to go to a lot of different and unique places by boat. Luke said he traveled to Europe, China, And he got to see the Acropolis in Greece. In the article he said that the Acropolis in Greece was special.
Luke took a tour of an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on is way to China. The author of The Cowboy Who Rode the Waves stated that Luke went to Crete to visit and tour the castle and marveled at the Panama canal on his way to China.
While on his way to China Luke cared for the animals to keep him busy.
The author wrote in the article that Caring for the animals during the crossings kept Luke busy.
Luke fed and watered them at least three times a day. A seagoing Cowboy has to get hay and oats from the bottom deck of the ship and stalls had to be cleaned.
A seagoing Cowboy can have lot's of fun on a boat. They can play baseball, volleyball, and table-tennis when the animals are unloaded from the ship.
They can also play fencing, boxing, read, whittling, and games to pass time.
Participating in the Seagoing Cowoys program can be lot's of fun.
By seeing lot's of unique places and buildings . Maybe Readers and other people will join the Seagoing Cowboys program.
And you can have lot's of fun with games.
While on the booat you can make new friends. | 3 |
bd50091 | In the passage "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author writes about many differennt things that have stopped us from being able to travel to Venus. One big thing that causes a treat is how hot the planet really is. Another one is the atmosphere. One of the biggest of them all is that the planets are moving at different speeds.
Why is the planet so hot. Now no one really knows why the planet is that hot but not only is it to hot but the pressure in that atmosphere is also very high. The planet averages a temperature around 800 degrees Fahrenheit. The amount of pressure in the atmosphere averages around 90 times grater then what we have on Earth. With these conditions it would make life on Venus for humans inpossible like it talks about in paragraph 3.
Another big thing that causes a problem for use is the speed of the planets. Even though Venus is the closet planet to Earth at other times Mars can be. So because the planets are moving at such different rates in speed this is making it hard for us to send thing to it because the timing of the planets is off. All of these are talked about in paragraph 2.
Although humans may not be able to vist Venus anytime soon these are some facts from the passage that help support that. So I think that the author did a good job at putting information in that supported what he had to say. | 3 |
bd50f73 | The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" pulls the reader in by making them curious about what the planet has to offer. The reader would think, after reading the first one and a half paragraphs, that humans need to do further research and consider the benefits. However, the author unintentionally goes against the arguemen and proceeds to list why this should not happen.
The beginning of the article shows the parallels between Earth and Venus. In paragraph one, the author says, "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and ocasionally the closest in distance too." This makes the reader believe the author makes a compelling argument. Then in the end, just like the beginning, the author circles back to a motivational and positive tone that is not necessarily seen throughout the rest of the article. This is because, in between, there are multiple paragraphs (one of the first containing information about failed spacecraft missions) full of reasons why traveling to Venus would prove dangerous and non-beneficial.
The author seems to list these reasons on and on until the reader seems to forget what the article is about. The benefits illustrated in previous paragaphs are gone and only the difficulties of traveling to Venus remain. The most prominent example is in paragraph 3, when the author states, "[Venus's] conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth..." The author then goes on to explain NASA's point of view and what they are doing to get more research on Venus.
NASA, as the article says, would like to send "scientists to float above the fray." Although the conditions are not as favorable, they seem to be the best option, however, the author tells the reader that there are more difficulties. They explain that the state of the planet makes it hard to see what is actually on the surface. This contradicts the little hope the reader may have that NASA can explore Venus well. Besides the many other ways they are trying to.
After the author lists the final few reasons why exploring Venus is still a viable option, and explaining new and old technological options, they seem to redeem themselves. By the end of the article, the reader gains a sort of fear of traveling to Venus. Instead of the author listing the benefits, like they appeared to want to do in the beginning, the challenges are unveiled, thus explaining why the article is titled, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" and just why it may not, in fact, be a great idea after all. | 5 |
bd55f1f | In the story, The Challenge of Exploring Venus, the author suggests that Vensus would be a place where people could live in. Despite the dangers and conditions
that Vensus has showed the author suggests that Vensus could be a potential new plant to live in.
Vensus could be an option for people to live in. But Vensus has its drawbacks and conditions. The planet's suface temperatues are over 800 degrees fahrenheit and it's atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than on earth. Those condtions would make it inhabitable for the people on earth. Vensus is also the hottest surface temperature in solar system. Vensus is coverd with erupting valcanoes, and frequent lighting strikes.
Vensus is an option for people to live there because there was life on Vensus. The planet has some familar features towards Earth. It had a surface of rocky sediments, valleys, mountains, and creaters. Vensus is also the nearest planet towards earth which makes an option for us.
Vensus is an option for the people to live on if our planet becomes inhospitable. It would be the closest planet
towards us and it would make it easier to travel there. But Vensus has it setbacks and extreme conditons for people to live there. The author supports the idea of living vensus even with it drawbacks. | 2 |
bd55fc0 | How would life be with less usage of cars? Some advantages of limiting car usage would be less congestion, another would be the reducing of smog, and it wil also curb the greenhouse gas emissions. Are cars a danger to the world's enviroment? "After days of near-record pollution,Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." People are trying to find ways of limiting car usage for the world's sake! People also having communities limit the use of car transportation to have to much car traffic.
To begin with, an advantange of limited car usage would be less congestion. If there was less congestion citizens could get to places without the risk of a car accident, the verdant streets of cities would be less crowded, and more space would be available for events such as parades, concerts, field days, and etc. A media trainer and mother of two said,"When i had a car i was always tense." " I'm much happier without the use of it." Without cars communities get more a peaceful sound. "As she walked the verdant streets where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drawn out the occasional distant motor." But less car traffic isn't one of the only advantages to the limited car usage; there would also be less smog.
In addition to, The reducing of smog would also be another advantage of limiting car usage. | 2 |
bd56425 | Imagine a planet where there has been no known life, then flying over it and seeing a face staring back at you. That is what NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft saw when it was circling the planet Mars. Few think that the face was created by alien life. The face on Mars is a natural landform.
The face on Mars is not an alien monument. On April 5, 1998 a better picture was taken of Cydonia, the picture was ten times sharper than the original picture. The picture revliled that it was just a natural landform. That is was not an alien monument.
Scientists at NASA compare Cydonia to natural landforms on Earth. The chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program comared the face to the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, a lava dome that takes teh form of a isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars.
Not everyone believes that the Face on Mars is a natural landform. Some conspiracy theorists claim that is is bona fide evidence of life on Mars. They also say that NASA is trying to hide that there is life on Mars, but defenders of teh NASA budget wish there was an acient civilization on Mars. Theorists belives that the face is a alien monument. The older photos make the Face look like the head of a Pharaoh, bu the clearer pictures form 1998 show that it is just a rock formation.
For some it may be hard to believe that teh Face on Mars is just a natural landformation. The more recent pictures prove that Cydonia is a rock formation. The Face on Mars is just a natural landform like the landforms on Earth. | 3 |
bd5978b | Well in his artical "Driving Cars Are Coming" the author presents both positive and negative aspects of the driverless cars.
Lets start off by poining the good aspects out about the diverless cars. All of the driverless cars are forms of public-transport taxi systemes. They are more flexibility then a bus is.
Also let me point out that these (Driverless cars) have driven more than half a million miles without a crash. So therefore you know they are safe cars on one hand and on another hand they are not safe cars.
Let me give you some bad aspects about the driverless car. Some of those bad aspects would be that so far google cars are not truly driverless cars. They stiil need a driver to take over when pulling in or out of the driveway or dealing with trafic issues such as roadworks or accidents.
These are some positive and negative reason on way the driverless car is heplful an no-heplful. | 2 |
bd5b950 | There are many advantages to come from not using cars as your main source of transportation. Cars pollute the earth. Cars are also very stressful. All technology is stressful. So why not use better modes of transportation.
Bikes are healthy,biking also helps reduce stress. So does walking walking by far is the best mode of transportation who doesnt like walking its healthy its fun plus it doesnt cost any money you dont have to have thousands or even hundreds of dollers to walk you have to have money to buy cars you have to have money to buy bikes even though bikes are better to cars and also does absolutely nothing to our ozone layer.
All in all cars arnt what they are cracked up to be. They are stressful,and they are slowly but surely destroying our world. Cars are expensive you have to pay gas,insurance,an if you havent paid the whole thing off yet you have to pay a car note. Cars do have their advantages. They have their pros and their cons. Their cons outway their pros so start walking,riding bikes,or using trains. Because believe it or not those options are way better than using cars,an in fact they help you lose weight which is a plus. They also helpkeep weight off which is another plus. | 2 |
bd5e3de | In a suburb city in Germany, people have quit using their cars. Why ? so the communtiy can create denser cities and so people can walk with more space and not worrying about any car accidents that could happen while their walking or driving an automobile. Paris has also banned the use of automobiles so that the air inthe community can perhaps not get too polluted with gas, oil, and other chemicals that damage us. Here a are few advantages people can optain with these new rules and laws.
If fewer automobiles are used during day and night, people who walk from work, or ruuning errands can have an easier time breating the less-polluting air. In many locations around the world has residents that don't own or use a car or motorcycle because this can benefit the community by making it safer to walk. I source 4, the passage shares information about percentages of young people that own cars, but rarely use them on a daily basis. Source 3 talks about a couple cities in Colombia declining car use since a variety of people in Colombia have car and motorcycle access, the streets get polluted extremely easy, so residents tried to reduce the amount of smog in the community.
My grandfather who live in Cali, Colombia for example, dislikes relying on his car so much to travel places. Many times, he walks to certin locations beacuse he explained to people who lives on his street the damage car oil and gas can effect the communtiy harmfully. To many people, driving cars is the normal way to get to places, but to others, walking is their best option. | 2 |
bd60d89 | The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irration. Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. The electoral college is unfair to voters, because of the winner-take-all system in each state. 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. Over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. And yet, the electoral college still has its defenders.
The electoral college also has some good reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president. In the 2012's election, obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes. Obama won cause of the electoral college. Because almost all states award electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis, even a very slight plurality in a state creates a lanslide electoral-vote victory in that state. So one good reason is the certainty of outcome.
Also another awesome reason is that the electoral college requires a presidental candidate to have transregional appel. No regions has enogh electoral votes to elect a president, so the south cant elect a president that will do something in favor with the south only. The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast. it avoids run-off elections.
My final answer is that i argue in favor of the electoral college. It would be hard to let every single citizem chose, because some people dont think about others and what it is good for all, people only think about themselfs and what it is good for themself. Plus the even thogh the president will win no matter if he/she won the popular vote. The electoral votes think for the state and what is good for the people. | 2 |
bd6185f | Do you think Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers? I think it can worth it because it is one of the planets that is close to us (Earth). Venus is sometimes called "Evening Star," is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. The things I will get to tell you will explode your mind about Venus.
First, Venus is very dangerous to visit. For example, humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world. Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus`s atmosphere.
In fact, scientists are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ao, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. Venus can sometimes be our neaarest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel.
Finally, NASA is working on other approchaes to studying Venus. For example, 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 in such conditions. Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers. These devices were first envisioned in the 1800s and played an important role in the 1940s during World War II. These calcualtions by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all. Modern computers are enormously powerful, flexible, and quick, but tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions.
In conclusion, these are all the details on how Venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers. They have a lot of factors that makes it so much fun to learn despite it`s danger. Scientist will find a way to reach Venus and study it for years to come. Would you ever study Venus after reading this? | 3 |
bd6ce41 | Technology is seeming to make a break through almost every day as we can now use a computer to tell us how we're feeling. This could help us in many ways as to avoid miscommunicatiom often seen in classrooms and help teachers understand their students better. Let me show my thought process on why this new technology should be used in schools.
As said in the passage "Most human communication is nonverbal, ,including emotional communcation." This shows that having another source to either confirm or challenge your preception of what a student is feeling can help when dealing with situations that need clear communication. Many problems occur through miscommunication and this new technology can help us disyper what a student is feeling. This will allow for us to create a better atmoshpere in which students will feel understood and supported.
While people may say this could be an intrustion of their privacy as many students don't want people to know thier feelings and may feel exposed and as if they wouldn't have any privacy. " We humans perform this same impressive "calculation" everyday" this new technolgy is only helping us prove what we may already know as we can tell by looking at a face what feeling they're most likley feeling. Studies have shown that adults and teenagers use differnt parts of the brain to figure out what a person is feeling and casues huge miscommunication as they both may precieve a different emotion on eachothers face.
These are the reason why I believe that this new technology can be useful in schools by clearing up a lot of nonverbal communcation. | 3 |
bd6f060 | Being a Seagoing Cowboy is an amazing thing to do. You get to do all kinds of stuff on the sea. You get to do stuff you don't even think of doing. Here are some reasons why I think you should join us and become a Seagoing Cowboy.
One of my reasons why I think you should become a Seagoing Cowboy is because you get to have so much fun on the boat or other places you stop. You get to help animals, find new people, and when you drop the animals off at the location, you can even play games in the stalls where they were held. Another fun thing you get to do while being a Seagoing Cowboy is going over-seas. Going over-seas is an awesome experience. I crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific twice.
The second reason I think you should become a Seagoing Cowboy is, because of the sightseeing. When you see those amazing sculptures or ruins of what you know what they were, you can take pictures in your head and tell people stories of what yoiu saw. A couple of the sights that I got to see were, the Acropolis in Greece, I got to see China, and I also got to see Europe. Seeing these things changed my life completely.
My last but certainly not least reason is that you get to be with animals the whole ride. Sure they "cost" some responsibility but they can be fun to play with. Animals are amazing creatures and getting to spend along time with them will make you never wanna let go. When you're on the ship, and you're heading to your destination, you can sometimes get lonesome. But don't forget you have animals to keep you not bored and get your responsibility up.
Seagoing Cowboys are amazing jobs that you can do. Even if you don't like adventures this is still an amazing job. People need more adventures so if you're olne of those peopled, join the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 4 |
bd6f56e | There is absolutely no way that the "face" on Mars was made by aliens. Some people and very few scientists think this landform was made by aliens on Mars. When you think about it,it is not logical. If there were aliens on Mars scientists and NASA would of known about them by now and would of informed us. They have up to date technology now and would of detected a living thing on Mars if there was anything there,which there isn't.
Some people say that NASA and scientists are trying to keep the aliens a secret and keep them from us but there is no reason to. I think if there were aliens on Mars they would of let us know because it would be a bigger benefit for them because people would want to see them and pictures of them. They could get a lot of money so it doesn't make sense for them to hide them from us. Also the "face" became a priority to them and they took many photos and did a lot of research about it. The most logical answer is that the "face" is just a natural landform or rock formation made by nature. The eyes,nose,and mouth are formed by clouds that give an illusion."What the picture really shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa,lanforms common around the American West,". It is a coincidence that is resembles a face but that doesn't mean it was made by aliens.
There is no reason for people not to believe scientists or NASA because there is no evdience that the "face" was made by aliens or that NASA and the scientists are lying to us. Everything about it is not logical and does not make sense,if there were any actual life on Mars we would of know by now. It is just a rock formation and shadows that is tricking the human eye. | 3 |
bd72301 | Alien life on Mars seems a little out of this world. If they haven't made contact with us by now what are they doing? Some of the alien hopefulls say that there are some major signs like the Face on Mars. Well it's not a sign of any sort, because of some reliable research. This resaerch includes increadible images of it from spacecraft and that its simialr to natural formations on Earth. These reasons are why the Face on Mars is just natural, not alien made.
First of all, the Face on Mars was first discovered when the Viking 1 spacecraft took pictures over the Cyndonia region of Mars in 1976. The pictures looked like an ancient Egytian face but after studying them a group at the Jet Propulsion Lab said that it was only a common mesa with shadows that played tricks on your eyes. Then again in 1998 and 2001 clearer photos of the face were taken. They showed that it was only a massive rock.
Secondly, it is been said to be a natural landform similar to those in the American West. The Face on Mars is just a butte which occurs when lava domes into an isolatd mesa. Scientist Jim Garvin says, "It remids me most of Middle butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." So this "face" is almost like a natural landform right here on Earth acorrding to the chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program.
Although, these points are valid how can we tell what the Face on Mars really is untill we actually go there. For all we know the pictures are being obstructed by Martian clouds or that NASA is releasing false images. But, why would a space angency always in need of some more funding for even more research want to hurt itself by not releasing real images. Also why would NASA mess with the most clear, powerful, and detailed images of the Face that they have from not being right there hovering over the rock formation.
In conclusion, the Face on Mars is nothing more than a natural rock formation with some cool shadows. There is full proof evidence that shows this to be true. There is the fact that its just like other formations in the area and on Earth and that there are some amazing pictures of it taken years apart that only get more and more detailed. Other claims do not have this kind of true scientific reaserch behind them. | 4 |
bd79de4 | After reading this passage, I think that driverless cars are good for our world. One reason is that it is a great technological advancement. They will also alert drivers if there is anything going on ahead or
anything that they need to know about. Lastly they drive half a million more miles without a crash than cars with drivers.
These cars are a great technological advance. They are further progressing our world today. We are having less crashes than ever before. If we havemore of these cars, it will be easier on drivers everywhere.
The sensors in these cars are alerting drivers of what is going on. The drivers know when to stop and when to pull out. They are being alerted of anything they need to know. If there is oncoming traffic the car knows before its ever seen. The sensors in this driverless car are leading to cars that can handle more and have more driving tasks without the driver. The farther advanced these cars become the smarter the driver becomes on the road.
Lastly there has been a report that these cars can drive half a milion more miles without a crash than cars with drivers. With less crashes, our roads are safer. Even our young drivers will be safer and better drivers because of these cars. This is much better for parents with children in the car. The number one cause of death for young people is driving. Having a driverless car means no driving while drunk;texting; or high. This means there will be less deaths caused by these behaviors.
In conclusion, driverless cars are better for this world. With having less crashes, we have less deaths. My opinion is still the same. We can have safer roads with driverless cars. Even our most reckless drivers will be safer. These driveless cars cause three big things: less death,less crashes, and less traffic. | 3 |
bd7fb96 | I think the seagoing cowboys program is very helpful and an exciting thing to do for a career. It is an oppertunity of a lifetime.
The seagoing cowboys program will allow you to experience adventures and visit many unique places. in the text it states "it took 2 weeks to cross the atlantic ocean from the eastern coast of the united states to get to china".
If you like to have fun while helping people in need then this a great program for you. In the text it also states "The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed .table tennis tournaments ,reading, whittling, fencing ,boxing ,and games also helped pass the time.
Some people may think that this would not be fun for them and that you might miss your family while you gone, but there is a solution for that. You could bring your family with you and bring things with you to help pass the time.
In conclusion i think that the seagoing cowboys program is very successful helpful and exciting program would love to have more people to help people effected by world war II. | 2 |
bd80d69 | The authors support of the idea of going to Venus is not very well known, we can only infer whether they are for it or against it because they never fully specify. The author give some pros and cons to the exploration of the planet but does not pick one side more than the other. I believe that they author is against the idea of Venus exploration.
The authors pros and cons list combat eash other because, the author gives a pro on the exploration of Venus but instantly combats it with another con to weigh it out. One example of this is in paragraph 5 when the author states that the conditions of floating above planet Venus would be difficult but survivable for humans. However, right after making that statement, the authors first sentence in paragraph 6, combats the idea that it is survivable for humans because the article states, "However, peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standard forms of photography and vidoeography ineffective." From that statement we can infer that the author doesn't really see the exploration of humans going being very useful but, we can only infer because the author never specifies, for or against.
Another way we can infer that the author is against it, is by looking at paragraph 3 when the author is talking truthfully about the planet. The author explains that planet Venus has a thick atmorsphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide and that the planet's surface temperature averages out at over, 800 degrees Fahrenheit. The way that the author describes Venus, is not in a way of much liking or making it sound like a good planet to send our people to. The author explains how dangerous Venus is by listing the weather barreries like "...erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes and frequent lightening strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface.", all in paragraph 3. By listing how dangerous the weather is, listing how hot and unlivable it is, and by saying that the lightening frequently strikes the probes trying to get into the planets atmosphere to land, we can only infer that the author doesn't really think that the dangers of humans being out into this kind of situation, is worth it.
Additionally, one last way we can infer that the author doesn't favor the idea of Venus exploration is that when in paragraph 2, the author states, "Each previous mission is unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." That statment really pushes the idea that the author defiently doesn't not favor the idea of the exploration using man and spacecraft. But once again, we can only infer because the author never gave a clear personal opinion.
In conculsion, I believe that the author does not favor the exploration and does not think that the study of Venus is a worthy pursuit depsite the dangers it provides. The pros and cons weigh each other out, the planet is too dangerous with the heat, the weather, and the obsticles on the surface. The overall thought of the author shows no favor towards the exploration of Venus. | 5 |
bd83954 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.
In the story the author supports his/her idea by saying "On the planets surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." This helps support the claim because the author is talking about the dangerous heat that people would experience on Venus.
The author also supports the claim by stating in paragraph two that
"Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us." This also supports the authors claim becuase he/she is saying that Venus is a challenging planet to study.
In the text the author also states "While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely." This supports the claim because the author is saying that you cannot examine Venus more closely because it is challenging and dangerous.
These claims help evaulate how well the author supported his claim because they explain why Venus is dangerous and challenging to go explore. They also help evaulate how well the author did by giving good examples on why the author said what they said. | 3 |
bd846c7 | How would you feel if the streets were car free in the city you live in? Would you prefer it that way? I would and would not at the same time because there's less traffic. Well some cities are car free like Vauban Germany,Paris and Bogota Colombia.
To Begin With, In Vauban 70 percent of the families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here. if they do own a car the car owner has to buy a car space,for $40,000, along with a home. In Paris cars were banned because of pollution and wanted to clear the air of the global city. One reason why i would prefer the city to be car free is because there is less traffic and you can get some where safely with out having to worry that you might crash or have an accident. One reason why i wouldn't prefer it to be car free is because you would take longer to get to a certain place you want to go. you would have to wait for a taxi or a bus to take to that place.
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bd855df | Hi im Luke. Are you interested on joining the Seagoing Cowboys program. What is that said the man in the blue shirt working at his farm. It's a program were we help ship animals across the world. We have sign ups on friday stop by if you want.
Well did you get anyone said the head of the Seagoing Cowboys. We have a total of twenty people so far taht said they were. Finally we have people because if were going to go across seas to help ship animals we will need alot more people. Where is our next place over seas. It's in Europe and they have a big hawl. I can't wait I said.
On friday there was about 20 people that said they were coming on the sign up sheet and we were already ready for them to come in and listen for our experince with the Seagoing Cowboys. Then when it came time all of them came right in and sat down, so it was my que. Thank you for coming everyone. Today I will be talking about my experiance with the Seagoing Coboys and how I think it's the best thing that ever happend to me. First of I just graduated from highschool and then I got invited to this trip over seas on a cattle boat, and I knew that I would never do that in my life so I said yes. Then when we got over seas I got involved with this program, and my job was to keep everything at night going good. This would include the ship and the animals. But, one night it was very stormy and I slipped and hit the side of the boat and broke many ribs. Which stopped me for doing anything for the next couple of days.
But, there were other fun things to see and to do accros the sea. Like baseball and volleyball because when the ship was unloaded there was alot of free space. Also, when you were shipping things you got to see alot of cool and exiting places. But, my favorite part was having the experiance to do things over seas and working with animals, and our next hawl is Europe so sign up now! | 2 |
bd8bf56 | The face on mars we think it is real.If it was an alien it would look more like an alien than a real human being. Some scientist think its bona fide but we don't because it could be have true thats it a human and could also be a alien.
There is also some evidence on mars. Other scientist think that it could be a alien because of the artifact and photographing.
A scientist names Micheal and his camera team snapped a picture sharper than the original viking photo. People that think the face on mars is real use it for things. The face became a pop icon, it also starred in hollywood films, magazines, books, talk shows, and on grocery store check out lines.
Authors resons it would be a good way to engage the public and attracattention to mars. People belived that it was an alien on mars but others did not. I belive there is a Fifity Fifity chance that there isnt and that there is a alien on mars. Scientist will never know the real answer they only can prodict the correct answers. But from the research we have there the face on mars is not a alien, it is certenly a human being on the face of mars.
Why we say that ? well thats because i think that if the face was a alien face you could not perfectly see the nose, mouth, and eyes as well as you can on a human being thats why i think the face on mars is not a alien. Some people are going to say differently but only researchers will certenly know the truth and whats really on mars. Human being or alien? | 2 |
bd8eae9 | Have you always wanted to help somebody and travel on the seas. Well now is your chance to join the seagoing cowboys. The seagoing cowboys help people in Europe during world war 2 by delivering supplies to those in need. It says that in paragraph 2.
When you join the seagoing cowboys you will not only have a fun time, you also will get to help those in need. In Europe there are millons in need after the war. They need supplies and animals to survive after devastation in Europe. When you come home from Europe you also will have a fun time by playing baseball, table tennis, fencing, boxing,reading and whittling will help pass time. (It states that in paragraph 8) on the way home from Europe. You also will get to meet new people in Europe.
In my conclusion I think that the seagoing cowboys would be good for you. Because if you like serving then this is a big opportunity for you. Luke showed a lot of courage and potential by being a seagoing cowboy, and I think you would too. | 2 |
bd91400 | Why do we want to have driverless cars? There are still things that the driverless cars cannot do themselves. Are they safe? Are driverless cars good for the people? In this arguement These are some of the quesions I'm going to answer in my opinion.
In the future could cars actually drive themselves? That is a question we cannot answer at this time. Right now cars can drive themselves, but not in every situation. In paragraph 2 of the artical it states " Google cars aren't truley driverless; they still alert the driver to take over..." The "driverless" cars are not so driverless. They alert you when pulling in and out of driveways, when complicated trafic issues occur, and when there is roadwork. The car will alert you in any situation where human abilities are needed. In some cars they have sensors that can sense when to stop, or if there is something the driver did not see to stop for. In paragraph 4 it states "... uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rear view window...." They have the sensors for all different things while the car is in motion. But how does that help the car be driverless?
In some cases the "driverless" cars are safe, but remember the car is controlled by a computer. It can still shut down and crash. In paragraph 2 it states "... cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash..." What happends when the car reaches one million miles? Would is shut down and crash? We don't know that because the text in the artical doesn't state that. Would someone want to have a car that could drive itself, but the human still had to be aware of the road? What if the car is on the highway and alters the human, but the human is sleeping? What if the human wasn't paying any attention to the road? That is a safety hazard. In paragraph 7 it states "... the human driver must remian alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." What person is going to pay attention to the road if the car can drive itself? Paragraph 2 also states "... 2013, BMW ... development of "Trafic Jam Assistant"... car can handle up to the speeds up to 25 mph." What person can't drive at 25 mph? Why would these cars be any safer than a regular car?
Why would anyone want "driverless" cars if they really can't drive by themselves? Would any human want to wait their turn to drive their car at 25 mph? Would the human driving the car got into an accident and they were not the one driving? New laws would have to be made for those situations. New roads would have to be worked on so that the new "driverless" cars could work. Woud anyone go through all of this trouble just so that we could wait our turn to drive our own cars? I don't think anyone would want that. So why do we need driverless cars? Just to be lazy, or to just drive at low speeds? I don't think that I would want to be lazy and drive at 25 mhp for my car to be "driverless." Would you? | 4 |
bd92855 | The author supports his idea coreectly because. In the article he talks about how dangerous venus could be. In paragraph 2 the author says," Humans have sent spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world. The bad part is that nun of the spacecraft surrvied the landing because of how hot venus is.Venus tmepertaure is 800 degree is really hot for someone to make it to venus.
The author also says that venus atomshpere sulfuric has a acid that can kill a person. Venus only has 9 percent carbon dioxide blankets which means there is not alot of air up there. Venus is more hotter then Mercury even tho Mercury is closet to the sun venus will be more hotter. Nasa is trying to come up with something to study more abot Venus because its really dangerous.
Something else the author says is that the jet of the airplanes travel a altitude to fly over many storms. Which there trying to replace that beacuse of what has been happening with the spacecraft. Nasa wants to use a vechicle hovering which will prevent them from a unfriendly ground Condition.Useing the vechicle hover would be kindve helpful for nasa to travel. the temperature would drop to 170 which would be a litlle helpful.
This would i have found about what the author has said. Venus a really dangerous planet that no one has vist. Nasa is still working On makeing a way to make it to venus. | 2 |
bd96783 | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming", I am against the development of these cars. I feel there is no purpose for these cars. You will still need a driver for these cars. These cars are a waste of money. These cars are also a waste of time. There is nothing wrong with reugular cars. We have been using regular cars for over 100 years, why stop now?
First of all, these cars will still need a driver. According to the author, " they can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all designed to notify the driver. That defeats the purpose of calling them "Driverless Cars." Why call them driverless cars if they still need a driver. It is not a smart idea.
Secondly, you are wasting money on something that is not effective. The name of the car does not match with the car itself. Why would you buy a " Driverless car" when the car is still going to need a driver. That is a waste of money. The "Driverless Car" will most likely be more expensive than a normal car. Although the car comes with more features, it does not live up to it's expectations.
Lastly, the car is a waste of time. The U.S is mostly low and middle class people. The driverless car will not be sold as quickly as other cars because the prices of the car will most likely be a mini fortune. Not many people would buy this car. Not many people complain about cars today. People are so used to driving normal cars that they would probably rather drive than pay more money for a car that "alerts" the driver.
In conclusion, I am against the development of this " Driverless Car". I think it is ineffective. It is a waste of money. The car is also a watse a time. You also willstill need a driver for this "Driverless Car" so there is no purpose of it. | 2 |
bd968ac | Limiting the usage of car's would have many good outcomes. There would be less polution in our air, it would lower the usage of our fossil fuels and People would live heathier lives without all the smog in the air to cause illnesses.
If all areas of the united states banned or limited the vehile uses here it could greatly reduce the polution in our air. Which would in a long term result cause for better health conditions in people, but we'd sooner realize better health in young childern and the elderly. We would all have cleaner safer air to breath. But it would also help with the enviroment, the number of plants an animals harmed by polution would begin to decrease until the was just a fraction of the amount there is in this time now.
Also limiting the usage of cars will lower our use an burning of precious fossil fuels that once we use them up they are gone. Which this would also save us mass amounts of money that we we could use to keep this country out of debt. Limiting the use of cars will also stop us from having to get our fosssil fuel (oil) from other countries an having debts and money issues with all these other contries. We need to realixe that the usage of fossil fuels all these cars we have is draining our planet which is our home, what are we going to do when its a waste land after we suck all its nature fossil fuels an resources out of it.
Lastly the limiting of cars in the united astates would eventually cause for better health conditions in everyone but we'd sooner realize it in young childern an elderly adults. They wouldn't have such hard times breathing that they do have now causes by all of the polution in our air now. It would take some time but eventaully we'd have cleaner fresher air to breath and this would help decrease the amount of smog an decrease the amount of people with respatory health issues.
These are all things we need to be thinking about when we go into a discussion of limiting car usage these are not the only reasons there are many many more that can be used to help push the movement of limited car use. | 3 |
bd9b557 | A good reason to join the program was that the cattle-boat trips were an unbielievable opportunity for a small town boy. It was because besides helping people you get to see lots of stuff while in the process of doing these things like Europe and China.
Luke turned 18, he was old enough to be drafted into the military when Luke draft board learned that he was on cattle-boat trip, they told him to just keep doing that for his service. By the time he was discharged in 1947, Luke made nine trips and that was the most of any Seagoing Cowboy.
Luke got to explore the world, also found time to have fun aboard after they got all the animals out, they played stuff like Table-tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and those games helped pass the time. Being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger. It opened up the world to him because he says that he's grateful for the opportunity to be a Seagoing Cowboy.
As he speaks he says it made him more aware of people of other countries and their expectations. That awareness stayed with him,leading his family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years. | 2 |
bda11b5 | Snowy days equal blurry camera picture's. With the support of that how could you prove it was made by aliens. As you can see when the picture were taken in December. In December at the North it snow's quit often. Which makes it very hard for a good picture.
On a snow day have you every went outside and looked up. Well its very cloudy. Then your trying to tell me that it was a ancient alien civization. Theres no way we could get a clear picture of what it is on a snowy day. Between the camera distance from mars and the snowy day the only way you could prove that there is aliens their is by going to mars, which has never been done.
The only reason you want this to be true is because NASA would get more moeny for the disoveration of the first ancient civization that we have found. Everyday there is new story lines of "ancient civization" saying they have found something like this, but in the end its just a solid rock with no life.
In support snowy days equal blurry camera pictures. This picture is just showing piece of rock that was taken at the right angle at the right time to show a face. Its not about the money its about us knowing the truth, and the truth is its just a boring rock. Anyways wouldnt NASA hide it from us if it really were aliens. | 2 |
bda130b | The Seagoing Cowboys program has allowed me to go and to experience many adventures. I joined because of a friend, who invited me to go to Europe, so let me be your friend and tell you why you should join.
In 1945, I joined and helped "countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more." Peggy Reif Miller, so we were hired to care for the animals that were shiped overseas. If you join you will be able to help others in need just like I did.
On August 14, 1945 we got onto a boat and headed to Greece. On the trip there
right before we arrived I turned of age, so "I could be drafted into military service," Peggy Reif Miller, but they said to keep doing what I was doing for my service. This just shows how much being in the Seagoing Cowboys program helps countries. Now the Seagoing Cowboys program is work, but it can also be fun. In the empty places that were for the animals we, the other cowboys and I, would play many different games. All the games we played were to mostly help pass the time.
I also had a lot of time to see the places we went. I loved seeing
Europe and China. Please, join the Seagoing Cowboys program, so you can help others just like I did. | 2 |
bda3710 | Stop arguing with me Bob, I know I'm right about the face on mars. How could you think the face was created by aliens, thats just crazy. You have no evidence to prove your point about how you think aliens created the face. I on the other hand have plenty of evidence to support my claim.
When the "Face on Mars" was first discovered the Viking 1 had found it by mistake. The Viking 1 was looking for a place for its sister ship to land, and stumbled on it by mistake. The picture the Viking 1 took resembled a human face but, it was very shadowy and not the clearist picture. When NASA reveled the "Face on Mars" it became the instant topic everywhere. Everywhere you went peope talked about the face.
NASA wasn't done with the face on Mars. On April 5, 1998, the Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Web sufers everywhere were whating for the first image to appear. When the imaage first appeared on a JPL web site it revealed a natural landform. There was no alien monument after. But of course not everyone was satisfied. Sadly it was winter it on the Red Planet. Thanks to all the wispy clouds, the camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Sadly clouds had covered parts of the Face. Some people still thought the Face was hiding alien markings.
On April 8, 2001a cloudless summer day in CydoniaMars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. What was it going to find on a cloudless summer day in Cydonia? What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesalandforms common around the American West. It didnt't show any airplanes or Egyptian-style pyamids.
See Bob I have so much more avidence than you. Your alein markings were proven not true. All The Face actully showed was a butte or mesa. There were no alien Egyptian style markings. The face is just a simple land form on the face of the Red Planet. | 3 |
bda3f1b | "Joining Seagoing Cowboys"
In 1945 Luke was offered to go to Europe with his friend Don and he knew that this was an oppertunity of a lifetime. When he got there he signed up for "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of people and animals. Luke thinks that it was the best experience of his life and that it would be to you to.
According to the text, Luke stated that on his trips he was on a cattle-boat and that it was an amazing experience for him. The text also states that besides him helping people he got to oversee Europe and China, and if you joined you would get to see even more. Luke also got to tour a excavated castle in Crete, so if you went you would probably see something even better.
The text also stated that joining the "Seagoing Cowboys" you get to care for animals during the crossings and you had to feed them and give them water to keep you busy. Also going to join the "Seagoing Cowboys" you have to be prepared for dangers at sea, because if your not you might have something horribly happen to you because you might get the nightwatch job and have to check things and make sure everythings okay and might fall or slip in the process.
Also, when the trips were over you were able to relax or play games while the animals had been housed for a little. Also it opens up a world to people and it makes you more aware of others in different countries in need. It also makes you feel like you accomlished something that makes you feel grateful that you got this oppertunity to make others and yourself feel loved.
In conclusion, if you join the "Seagoing Cowboys" like Luke did then you might bring joy to people's life and to yours. Just know that if you give up an oppertunity to join, then you might regret it for a lifetime, because it makes you feel like you did something that you wont forget. Who knows, you'll probably even persue it and wont give it up. | 2 |
bdaa1b9 | I believe that driverless cars could become a normal thing within the next 10 to 15 years. Before 2000 this was just a dream. Now it is becoming a reality. As stated in the article, the sensors, computer technology, and the mapping was not available before 2000.
There is an up side and down side to driverless cars. There is quite a few up sides to them, and not as many downfalls. The Google Car has drove over a half of a million miles without a crash. These cars are not completely driverless which kind of defeats the purpose of having a driverless car. And honestly I myself would not drive one of these cars because I enjoy driving.
The legal side of driverless cars is going to be the hard part. The companies that make the cars would have to pay millions of dollars to people who got injured because of electronic malfunctions. On the flip side of things, they would make millions off of these cars. The laws on who could have these cars and where they can be driven is going to be a tough discussion as well. BMW claims their car can drive its self up to 25 mph, but I feel like there would be a lot of testing and using of the car before changing these laws. | 2 |
bdaaf3a | From the article called " The challenge of exploring venus "
the author is talking about the planet Venus and how it has smiliar features like planet earth. It is talking about how it Venus was maybe covered with water, and it had maybe contained living things. Another thing is Venus can meet some things that planet Earth has as well, and it's the cloest planet from all the other ones that humans can actully live on. But the author also inculdes how it might be hard to study and get humans on Venus since it has more Carbon in the atmosphere, and also it's more hotter in the plant it self and not able to support anything that lands on it.
When the author talks about the things that Earth and Venus has in common, like for an example the author talks about how Venus maybe had water. In the text it says, "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." Then the author goes on and talks about the things it has on the plant, like in the text it says " Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky ediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters."
Then they talk about how they can still explore the planet, is by staying above the atmosphere, even though it might still be cripsy they'll learn more things about the planet it self. In the text it says, " However, peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective. Most importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rocks, gas, or anything else, from a distance."
So therefore scientists are trying to figure out ways we can find things and see if it is able to contain life on planet Venus it self. Also to see if maybe their is water somewhere hidden on the planet still and maybe find life on there. | 1 |
bdabc83 | Do you care about our Earth? Human's actions towards the earth don't show that they care about it and how they're ruining it. We are destroying the Ozone Layer! One huge way we can prevent this is limiting the use of cars. By doing this it will take more stress off of you. It will also be more safe on the roads with less traffic! Most importantly, we will be saving our earth.
The first reason I believe it will be a good idea to limit the use of cars is taking stress off of us. We all have bad days, between work and school. Imagine just being able to hop on a bus that will take you to your destination. You won't have to worry about any bad drivers. This way you can just relax. Lets face it, we all get a little road rage every once in awhile that will even cause you to drive a bit crazy.
This leads me to my second main point which is less traffic! Some city's have a lot of unwanted traffic! If we limit the use of our cars and use the train we will get directly to where we want to go. Perhaps we use a bus, there may be many bus's on the road going different places but this will still be better than all the fuels we burn and put off into the air that is destroying the Earth.
My final and most important point is that we are destroying the Earth! We are damaging the Ozone Layer! If we cut out all of our vehicles and just have a few buses and trains for each city then this will help our earth and ozone layer very much! All the smog being put into the air is not good at all and it's not healthy for us humans either!
In conclusion, limiting the use of cars will help the earth and us humans in the long run. All the smog we breathe in and the damage it does to the earth is not good! We can help prevent this by limiting the use of cars and bring back buses and trains for our main way of transportation. | 2 |
bdaf17b | The author supports his idea in studying Venus in many ways. Exploring Venus can lead up to many ways to improvise. If we study Venus we can learn more about the planet, such as, if it was once an earth like planet . It could also help us even save the Earth in the long run. My final reason why we should explore Venus is because it can lead us in exploring other planets.
First of all exploring Venus has a tough task, but we can learn a lot about the planet if we do explore it. We could even find out if it was once an earth like planet. We could discover new oils or new rocks. If we do discover new oil we could even put a mining system on Venus and have more oils. Exploring Venus can even help us find new minerals as well. We could discover many new things if we explore Venus ,dispite it having challenges.
Second of all Venus could have been an earth like planet." Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth like planet in our solar system" If this was true we could make more and more explorations and maybe even find out why it heated up so much and if we find everything out it could help us maybe even save earth one day when the sun expands more. It can help us save our planet .
Third of all If we decide to explore Venus we would have to improvise all of our machinery to sustain that heat on Venus. The heat on Venus averages to 800 degrees fahrenheit and also the atmospheric perssure is 90 times greater than what we expierence here on our own planet. We would have to make our machines and robots heat resistant. These innovations could even help us explore other planets. It would make the innovations easier if we want to explore colder planets in the future. This can spark an exploration of many other plantes. It could even help us reach other galexies and explore there. Exploring Venus can help us invent and Innovate many of our technology and it can end up helping us explore the whole solar system.
In conclusion exploring Venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers would help us out a lot. As i explaned in the paragraphs above, it can help us improve and succeed. We would earn so much more about the planet, such as if it were actually a earth like planet . We could also discover many new things such as oils and minerals. Last of all it could help us in exploring other planets. It can help our innovations get easier so we could explore colder planets too. This is why exploring Venus would help us , even though it has lots of risks it could still help us out in the future. | 4 |
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