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bdb1446 | Today's world contains greater technology than ever before, and it continues to become more advanced. Just one example of this technology is emotion recognition technology in which a computer can identify one's emotions from only his face. For example, Thomas Huang used this Facial Action Coding System to read the emotions of Mona Lisa, a famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Experts are beginning to realize that this technology, Facial Action Coding System, could result in great advancements in the classroom. But will it really have great benefits in the classroom? I believe that there could be some tremendous problems with this new technology; but if it is used properly, it could have far greater results. Although there are some dangers involved, the Facial Action Coding System has great potential value for the classroom.
The Facial Action Coding System could become a valuable tool someday in classrooms around the globe. But before looking at the great value that this tool could potentially bring, we must look at the harm that it could cause. One-on-one individual contact is vital to a child's education. Whether at home or in a classroom, a student needs an individual present in order to best teach him the concepts necessary for learning. If the computer begins to replace the teacher, then this Facial Action Coding System is no longer a benefit to the student, but rather a harm. On the bright side, however, the Facial Action Coding System does bring large benefits. Most importantly, it engages the student. Doctor Huang, innovator of this Facial Action Coding System said that, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." It would then recognize that it needed to better explain the topic or rather grab the learner's attention. This could greatly benefit the academic world. Students could be taught individually, at their own pace, and possibly even in their own way. Those more advanced could move on to more advanced subjects, while those struggling could receive the help they need.
Facial Action Coding System, a wonder to us all, could greatly affect today's world, but it must be used with wisdom. It does not replace the teacher, but rather aids the teacher in teaching. Teachers are still tremendously needed for our students, and their personal mentoring is still of priceless value. Yet, along with these great blessings, the Facial Action Coding System could be added to better improve our academic world. The world needs educated men and women, and this Facial Action Coding System, innovated by Professor Thomas Huang, could be the exact element needed better educate our students, and make for a brighter future. | 4 |
bdb70ab | The possiblity of driverless cars conserving not only gas and money but also be proactive in saving the planet would be an irrisitable goal. There may be some "liability" in the manufacturing of these cars but there could be even greater achivements as well. Not including the abundance of money the economy would save on gas alone would be plentiful and amazing.
There is without a doubt some faults in sensatizing in the automotavies being created. There will never not be faults in some sort of new brand from phones to airplanes there will always be a fault somewhere so to completely throw this idea out is absurd and uncalled for. Even now we still have a little help from our sensors an example would be the "Dubbed LIDAR" sensor on top of the car to sense the cars surroindings my mother is thankful for hers im sure.
There is of course problems with driving assist somtimes it is others who cause the accident are technology can not control what us stupid humans decide to do , but mabe it can. With new and inproved drving assit there could be a possible decrease or reduction in accidents and automotavie fatalities. Drivless cars could sense a car coming into your lane sending the car into brake mode stopping it before your hit. There may even be a possibility the trafic lights connect with the sensors to alert the car to stop before running a red light and possibly killing a crossing pedestrian. As the article states " None of the cars developed so far are completely driverless".
Without a doubt there would be at least one legislative pearson who would vote aggainst this. I was in a state of shock to learn that California and Florida are part of the verry few states who are against "semis-autonomous cars". Though they do have grounds for their descison do the fact they extremley populated and condensed they still should be open to the idea of driverless cars. Even thought there are states that do not agrree or even condone this there are still improvements being made to soon create a autonomous car.
In conclusion I belive that no one pearson will understand the importance in autonomous cars. There will always be the possibility of theses cars to the save not only pople and money but the enviroment as well. There will never be a time on earth where we as humans will stop improving are lifes and necesities just rember that the next time somone mentions the autonomous car or the driverless car. | 3 |
bdb73d9 | The author of " The challenge of Exploring Venus" suggest that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author did not support the idea of that. The author gives information on how Venus is a dangerous place to got to, for humans, but not so much on why it is not dangerous and it being a worthy pursuit. As said in paragraph 1 " While Venus is simple to see from the distance but safe vantage point of Earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely". The author gave information on why pursuiting Venus would be not worthy.
In paragraph 2 the author stated " Each previous mission was unmanned, and for a good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for mor than a few hours". That statements is supporting that Venus is not worthy of pursuiting, where the author does not support his claim. The author gave information on the dangers of Venus and not the good things that'll take place by visiting Venus. Also stated in paragraph 3 " These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on earth..." stated by the author. The author gave more information onto why pursuiting Venus is dangerous, the conditons on Venus is moe dangerous compared to the ones on earth. The author is not supporting his claim in that statement eitheir, he is opposing it.
My claim is the author is not supporting his caim onto why Venus is worthy of pursuiting, the author is saying why its not. " Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itslef, but
also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors". As stated by the author, the author is saying that trying to meet the challenge that Venus is presenting is dangerous. So in conclusion the author of " The Challenge of Exploring Venus" did not support his claim, that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. | 2 |
bdbc14e | The Face
The Face that was found on Mars couldn't have been created by aliens. If so where is the proof of these aliens. Ask yourself if you really believe the Face was created by aliens? Dont you believe their would be some sort of evidence after all of the exploring of Mars. In this essay I'm going to write a argumentive explaining why aliens could'nt have made the Face and why I belive it is just a natural landform.
I believe that this Face that was found on Mars could be a natural landform becuase of paragraph twelve. This paragraph says that the Face has resemblance to a butte or mesa, which are common landforms on Earth in the American West. It also states that it has resembalance to the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. These details are not exactly evidence that the Face is a natural landform, but it gives probable cause to think that it possibly is a natural landform.
For those who feel that the Face was created by aliens, dont you belive their would be some type of evidence of a life form on Earth. As paragraph eleven stated if their were other structures like pyramids, airplanes, or small shacks we would be able to see what they were because we could dicern things in a digital image three times bigger than the pixel size. If their were aliens I'm sure NASA wouldn't keep it a secret because they would possibly get more donations or money from people wanting NASA to go up and get even more pictures. Or even for NASA to take people up there themselves like a trip.
Those who belive a alien created the face possibly would say that NASA would keep aliens a secret because it would frighten some people. They also could ask the question how and why did the rock or land for the way it did if its just a land form? For the first statement I can say that could be true, but the question I can't answer. I sure that someone who has studied it could though.
The alien belivers can also say that the aliens hide when humans come to Mars but that is something that can't be proven or disproven.
In conclusion, aliens couldn't have made the Face because their should be some type of proof that their has been life on Mars. Especially since we have photos of Mar's surface and have a rover on its surface. I feel that the Face is just a natural landform because it resembles a butte or mesa and because their is no sort of proof that their are aliens or any type of life form on Mars. Alien belivers could ask the question, how was the Face formed like a face, but I can't answer this question. | 4 |
bdc23a5 | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration also knon as (NASA) are studing the Venus the closest planet to our home, Earth. Venus is sometimes called the "Evening Star" because its one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot
Venus is referred to as Earths twin in terms of density and size and its being studdied for more details about it. Venus has a thick athmosphere of almost 97b percent carbon dioxide that cover it like a blanket. A danger to studying this planet is that the surface is hot very hot and normally has a surface temp of 800 degrease Farenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than Earth making it risky and dangerous.
NASA is on a mission to send humans to Venus but the problem is that Venus surface sometimes gets to 170 degrease Farenheit. Which makes landing nearly impossible. The only way woukd be to hover 30 miles obove its surface. They cant take samples of rock, gas or anythiing else from a distance Therefore scientsts seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and use the risksas challenges.
Striving to meet Venus is challenging But one challenge were willin to take their so many uknown descorvies waiting to be descovered and the risk will later turn in a challenge and that challenge will one day turn into sucess. With out advanced technology and the studying I know we cn make it their. | 2 |
bdc38fe | Self-driving cars a thing of the future that we used to dream about.
With recent technology we are prettty close to having self-driving cars.
Self-driving cars can be the solution to many problems that may occur during the time we are in our vehicles.
However, we solve one problem but other problems will occur also.
There will always be constant arguments about whether these "Self-driving" cars will be a successful impact on society.
My personal opinion on self-driving cars is that they should only be driven by those who can not drive a standard car because of some physical or mental defect.
For example, someone who is paralyzed for the waist below would certainly have need for car to be self-driving so they are not relying on others all the time to get them places.
Once you think about if a driver is not driving their car they are just sitting around doing nothing which would lead to boredom which could lead to more things and so on.
When you drive you have to be alert to the things around them, and keeps your motor skills from becoming lazy.
Another debate that has probably occured is how they are able to prevent accidents with sensors that can control the breaks.
What if something were to happen to the sensors and they malfunction; that could result in an accident or even a fatal one in fact.
Also, people may try to blame their car for the accident and you can not truly figure out who is at fault in the situation.
These are things that everyone should consider about these cars.
These cars sound amazing but are they really worth it.
Like I mentioned in the previous paragraph they could be extremely useful for people who have a mental or physical defect but not so much for others.
Otherwise i can not wait to see what new technology will be introduced in my generation.
To conclude, there will always be arguments on everything so there is not truly a yes this is good or no this is bad, but hopefully it will be a succesful impact on society. | 3 |
bdc77e4 | What is venus? venus is called "evening star" is one of the brightest points of light in the sky. Venus is the closest planet to earth in terms od density and size and accasionaly the closest in distance too. Also
venus is the second planet from our sun. Venus is simple to see from the distant."Venus is sometimes right around the corner, in psace terms humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud draped world. Meaning venus is more than decades.
The tempature of venus is very hot and warm, beyond high pressure and heat. "The atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on earth." They have the hottest surface tempature of any planet in the solar system. Venusian geology and weather impediments erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to land on its surfaces.The temperature average is 800 degrees fahrenheit.
The challenging of exploring venus, lightening cannot be near venus, why? because scientists through missions to understand venus would need to get closer to it but despit the risks. I think many researchers are working on innovations that would allow machines to last longer to acknowledge the venus."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." Computers are very flexible and powerful also smart.
those devcies were first invented in the 1800's played an important role in the 1940's during the World War 2. Venus has values because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors.Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth. The value of returning venus seems indisputable. | 3 |
bdc8a7d | Many people think that the " Face on Mars " was created by aliens.
Due to the lack of evidence on that theory I have all the reason to believe that it is not.
Like, Earth has all these natural landforms, Mars could also have many natural landforms. NASA would even want there to be Martians.
I can also see how your mind could come to thinking that aliens are real.
To those who say that NASA is just trying to hide evidence.
When in fact, finding an ancient Martian civilization would help them, because they can be granted more money to investigate the life forms.
So, if ther was an alien we would try to capture it the first chance we have.
A big reason that I think that you just believe in aliens is you are just trying to stick with the status quo.
There is no doubt in my mind that some part of you thinks that the " Face on Mars " was made by aliens comes from media, movies, books, radio talk shows, and etc.
Don't tell me you don't go to the grocery checkout and see the magazine article that says, " The Face on Mars was made by real aliens.
Like, Earth has many natural landforms, Mar could very well could have them to.
One big thing that jumps out to me is Mars has never seen a human face before, so how could they have made it.
Another fact is that Earth have landforms just like this particular Martian landform.
Those landforms are butte or mesa, which are landforms common around the American West.
So, as you can see that all the evidence here points to the " Face on Mars " being just another landform.
Like, the butte or mesa.
NASA has all the more reason to want Martians.
That, media has an effect on human minds. | 3 |
bdd54af | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", author Nick D'Alto talks about the Facial Action Coding System, a new technology enabling computers to identify human emotions. In paragraph six he briefly talks about how it could work in a classroom setting and I believe that this would be a great new idea to bring into the school systems.
In "Making Mona Lisa Smile", Nick D'Alto starts explaining the Facial Action Ciding System by talking about all of it's potential, like how it can recognize even subtle facial movements and how it works will all 44 major muscles in our face. He then talks about all the places where this softwear would be useful like being able to tell if someone , like an important politician, is tellikg the truth or not.
Although he only brings the subject up once, he talks about how in a school setting this softwear would be increadibly uesful to help teach students more by knowing when they are confussed or borded. If teachers had access to infromation like this they would know when a leason is becoming too much for their students and be able to move on or explain it better. I think that this would be one of the most efficient ways to learn properly in school.
Let say a student has been out of it and sudenly realizes he has no idea whats going on during an important leason in his english class, but he doesn't want to say anything to his teacher because he's afraed he'll get in trubble, or maybe he's just to lazy to ask. That student won't have any idea of what to do for the rest of class. If schools had the Facial Action Coding System then the teacher would know right away that the student had not been paying attention and would be able to go back and explain again.
I believe that the Facial Action Coding System would be a great addition to the learning world. Students would never again have to sit through a class and have no idea what was going on because before they got too confused the system would let the teacher know. | 3 |
bdd685e | There are many ways to explore Venus with the challenges on the way and some of those ways are how Venus is covered with atleast a 97% carbon dioxide, and then finally how Venus is sometimes refered to as earths twin.
The author states in the story called " The Challenge of Exploring Venus" that there is ways on being able to explore and learn more about Venus. Venus has a lot of carbon dioxide on it that its as thick as a blanket. In paragrapgh 3 it states that a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. In this quote " Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere." This quote means that Venus has a lot of information to offer the people if they want to learn more about Venus and how thick the atmosphere is also how the atmosphere of Venus has sulfuric acid.
In the story it states that Venus is refered to as one of Earths twin since its close to the planet earth. Venus being called Earths twin is a way of saying how Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. This quote, " Earth, Venus, and Mars, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds." This quote means that the reason why Venus is refered to as Earths twin is because it has a lot of things in common with other planets like Mars, and Earth itself that are also refered to as Earths twin most of the time.
There are many ways to explore Venus with the challenges on the way and some of those ways are how Venus is covered with atleast a 97% carbon dioxide, and then finally how Venus is sometimes refered to as earths twin. So that is what evaluates how well the author supports the idea that stuying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. Also so people can learn about the planet Venus more but to also be able to explore the planet aswell after they have learned about it so they can try to stay out of danger while being up there on Venus. | 2 |
bdd887b | The idea of automated driverless cars seems like an invention from a utopian future, but it csuses many potential problems when humans are involved. The question of how to punish a robot arises with the invention of this technology, as well as what the affect on humans would be of having everything done for you by robots. Although this idea is promising and could still be used. Automative transport is quite the visionary idea despite its falacies.
The introduction of driverless cars would warrant the creation of new rules of the road, but that raises the question of whether the passenger or the robot recieves punishment. Also, how would one punish a robot for breaking the law? They are not human so any punishment would be unaffective. Also based on the imformatiom given in paragraph 7, humans might be required to remain partially in control, and if the cars are partial human controlled, how would we guarrentee that the person arrested was actually the offender? The robot could have framed the human.
Another negative side-effect of driverless cars would be that humans could become too lazy and unalert. The human is not required to be alert to the situation of the road, so humans might lose the ability of knowing how to drive. There is also an increasing dependance on machinery to do our jobs for us, and machines are known to not be as capable as a human if there is a problem. Also, if a robot malfunctions while a human is in the car, there would be the question of how the human would handle that situation.
Although, to remain positive about the idea, there are several alternatives that alleviate these potential catastrophies. The idea could still be utilized via public transport. Based on the large amount of sensors that are required for the vehicles to work, ass outlined in paragraph 3 and 4, areas that have little interference would be ideal for these automated cars. Subways run underground where there is an asbsence of human activity, this would be a perfect enviornment for automated transport to be implemented. Another place that is devoid of human interferrence is the ocean. There could be automated cruiseliners that can transport people across water, where there is a lack of traffic problems.
In conclusion, the idea for automated cars is a potentially dangerous and complex, but the idea should not be thrown out. The problems with false accusations and how to punish an automated car arise; as well as the fact that humans could become lazy and unalert in their enviornment. These problems could potentially be solved by changing the venue of where automated transportation is utilized. | 3 |
bddb02d | 1.) Topic - Use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable.
2.) Type of Essay - Persuassive 3.) Point of View - 3rd person 4.) Thesis Statement. -
The use of the Facial Action Coding system is not beneficial for students in a classroom, because it shouldn't matter how they are feeling as long as they are learning something, facial action coding system doesn't have anything to do with kid's learning or what they are doing in a classroom, and it doesn't benefit them in any type of way.
It shouldn't matter how kids are feeling in a classroom, because they are there for education not for people to judge how they look between angry, happy, disgusted etc. Kid's go to classrooms to learn, to be taught something, to make something of themselves. Yes, at the top of paragraph one it talks about how Prof. Thoman Huang was able to tell that Mona Lisa was 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry. They did all that with a painting not in a classroom, this technology could be beneficial if it was showing the emotions of paintings and what they felt when they were getting a portrait of themselves.
Facial Action Coding has nothing to do with kid's learning, because its not teaching them anything. If anything its teaching them to not be angry or not be disgusted but to be happy. In this article they are only talking about the Monal Lisa which she was around at one point but now she is not. Kid's learning is not based off of the fact that they are able to do some Facial Coding and see how their friends feel or how their family feels. Kid's are in classrooms to learn about one subject and one subject only, kids shouldn't have to sit there and see how they are feeling through a 3D programing, they should already know how they feel. In Paragraph 5 it says " most of us would have troubel actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worrid, disgusted etc. Yet Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles percisely enough to convey specifici emotions." Nowhere in this passage does it talk about it being beneficial or them using it in classrooms.
It doesnt benefit kid's learning in any type of way the only way it does benefit them is by the coding, they could learn coding and get a good job with that. In paragraph 7 it is giving you tips on how to smile when infront of a mirror, so even if kids did learn how to do facial action coding it wouldn't mean anything for their future. Yea they get to tell by looking at a 3D model of the muscles in the face and they get to see what percentage of happy, sad disgusted, etc. Kids do not have to have a Facial Action Coding system that enable computers to identify human emotions because, kids can easily talk to some people for a good amount of time, and they can tell that in their voice in their actions everything they do they can tell if they are happy, sad, annoyed, angry, disgusted etc. Facial Action Codes do not benefit a kid's learning in a classroom at all. In paragraph 6 it talks about how the Mona Lisa demonstrations is really intended to bring a smile to your face,and it shows just how much a computer can do, a computer could read Mona Lisa's face which is a paint and its not moving, but with a human it would be hard to because they are always moving, the muscles in their body are always moving, they could be happy one minute and be angry the next, so kids wouldn't know which one they are because the muscle's in you face are constantly moving.
No, Facial Action coding is not beneficial for students in a classroom, because it shouldn't matter hwo they are feeling as long as they are learning something, facial action coding system doesn't have anything to do with kid's learning or what they are doing in a classroom, and it doesn't benefit them in a classroom in any type of way | 3 |
bddcbac | Is there a possibillty that we can live a better life without the use of cars? Yes there is many counties have stoped the use of cars because it's cheaper. For example in VAUBAN,Germany they have given up theif cars street parking,driveways,and home garages are generally forbidden. Vauban's streets are car free except the main thorougfare of course. 70% of Vaubans's familis do not own cars, and 57% sold there cars to move there. Many people say that when they had a car there were more tense they say there much happier this way without a car.
Cars come with a responasabillaty thers so much dangrous things that can happen to you while in a car. For example all the accedentd people get in each day hundres ot thousands of people die each year for car crashes. Also people who cause the accedents like drunk driving, or texting while driving ect.. Any little thing can happen in a car that can take your life forever just with a blink of an eye. In other cases like getting pulled over and the incerance you have to pay and all the money we spent daily on gas.
While in BOGOTA,Colombia they have a no car day! It all started in the 1990's where there was traffic jams it was 3 straight years cars been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the day without cars in this city of 7 million people. But a man named Carlos Arturo he rode a two seated bicycle with is wife other two colombians saw hin and decided to do the same. tjis becaqme big everyone stared doing this and they even smoothen out the side walks for the bikes. The streats where busy with bike traffic.
I think we should start walking places like for example if you need to go to the store and you have one right neer your home dont get in your car walk. By doing this it will help us save gas money and get excerce. Many american are over weight because they dont get any excerce. So by not using our cars once and a while it will help us and our invierment it will stop so much palustion caused by cars. we should take some time off our car and enjoy nature. | 3 |
bdde981 | The Challenge of Exploring Venus, is a very detailed, reliable article. It seems as though the author thinks it would be a good idea to find a way to have an exploration take place on our neighboring planet, Venus. In the authors final paragraph they state that "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." wich strongly indicates that the author thinks it would be good to invest in such an exploration. For the most part the author supports his idea well but there are some parts of this article that could possibly make some readers confused.
In most of the paragraphs of this exerpt the author is stating the danger that is involved in making an exploration to Venus. As much as the author states towards the beggining and end of the article how they beleive it would be a worthy pursuit, for most of the body paragraphs they dont seem too optimistic about the exploration. For example in paragraph 2 the author says that Venus is,"a challenging planet for humans to study ". Another example from paragraph 4,"The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable, but what are the options for making such a mission both safe and scientifically productive?". These types of remarks seem slightly reoccuring in this exerpt. They also show that the author seems like they have alot of doubt in NASA's capability to continue with such a major journey.
The writer of this article was very knowledgable about the terms and conditions of mars,and what it would take to be able to do research on the planet itself. The majority of this exerpt consists of diffrences and similarities that venus and our home planet, Earth, have. For example in paragraph 2 the author exclaims that the two planets are referred to as "twins". An example of how they were contrasted, in paragraph 3,"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." As you can see, the detailed facts in this exerpt are clearly reliable.
As much as it may be controversial, because the author did show alot of negative effects to exploring Venus, they did bring up some reasons how it could be a good idea to make an exploration like this, considering how alot Venus and Earth are. For example in paragraph 4, the author states,"Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system.""Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth." These examples show that the author is guving strong reason why it would be possible to make a expidition to Venus.
The article, The Challenge of Exploring Venus, is very detailed, factual, and strong. Although it may not 100% express that the author is trying to say it would be a worthy pursuit to make an expedition to Venus, this article still would give people alot of information on Venus and reasons why we should or should not go there. This exerpt does express that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers, for the most part. It may show more of the dangers and not as much why it would be worthy, but at some parts it does show that it would be a good idea. Some readers might be confused about weather the author thinks its worthy or not, but either way it is still very factual and a strong article to get a lot of information from. | 5 |
bddecb4 | i agree that we should use the facial action coding system, it even told Mona Lisa emotion, she was 83 perecnt happy, 9 perecent disgusted, 6 perecent fearful, and 2 perecent angry. I think that it could help student, beacuse some student are to scared to ask qustion and they get confused, so the system could help us with telling us our emotion. and we humans like to tell people our emotion, and if you don't know how you like for example sad angry you can us the facial action to tell you how you feel.
well it work by the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face, all 44 major muscle. Movement of one or more muscles is called an "action unit." 'The facial expression for each emotion are universal," observes Dr. Huang, even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression" like not smiling as broadly. Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements.
by the way, did making a happy face in this experiment also make you feel slight happy? According to the facial feedback theroy of emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help producethem. | 2 |
bddf5ed | In this article, the author is telling it's readers that traveling to Venus can be risky.
In the article it says ''Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system''. Venus was once covered with oceans and could have had life. Venus still has some features that are similar to Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment, and has similar features such as, valleys, mountains , and craters.
Venus now has a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide. The average surface temperature is over 800 degrees in Venus. The atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than Earth. Even though Mercury is closer to the sun, Venus is still hotter because of the atmosphere. These conditions are far more extreme than any weather on Earth. Even with these harsh conditions, scientists still want to visit this planet because of human curiosity.
NASA is working on approaches to study Venus. NASA is sending humans to study Venus, so we can have for knowlege of our sister planet.
Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus. NASA is using devices that we used in the past here on Earth for studying Venus. Human curiosity is leading us to find more knowledge of our sister planet. | 2 |
bde4c47 | Have you ever been through a major change? You probably have and so has Luke Bomberger, he went from being a rootin tootin cowboy to a seagoing cowboy. So, many people like change, some people hate it. In fact I feel that change is good for us, it helps us come 1,000,000,000,000 miles out of our comfort zone. So if I were you I would take as many chances as I could.
For one Bomberger had a blast traveling to many different places, it says in paragraph 5 he toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled the panama canal on his way to China .Crazy amazing, right? He was admiring one place on his way to another. What a lucky guy.
Another thing is Bomberger Got to go places that many people may never go. For example He had been to China, Eastern coast of the US, and Europe. Way farther out of North America then Ill ever be. He was probably millions of miles away from where his comfort zone (his house).
Also just the over-all experience you get when you do or try something new. Bomberger states in paragraph 9 that being a seagoing cowboy was much more fun of an adventure. Its all about the people you share the moment with also, they could make it adventerious, scary, fun, or sad.
But do you see getting pushed of of a 1,000,000,000,000 building (your comfort zone) can be fun, scary, or of course uncomfortable. So next time you want to say no to some thing, take chances and say YES. | 3 |
bde5adf | Why should you join the Seagoing Cowboys program? The Seagoing Cowboys program was hired to take care of horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas after World War II. The Seagoing Cowboys were hired by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, or the UNNRRA. This administration helps countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more. The UNNRRA was put together to help people. You should help these people, too. Join the Seagoing Cowboys.
If you like going on adventurous trips, this is the job for you! You get to take care of horses, ride on a boat, and feed the horses as well. You also get to see many place like Europe, China, and Italy. Excavate castles in Crete, and marvel at the Panama Canal on your way to China. Sail across the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Also, you get to do remarkable activities on the ship such as volleyball, baseball, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and have table-tennis tournament! Being on the sparkling, light-blue seas will be loads of fun!
You'll be absolutely altruistic by helping other people and animals! Becoming part of the Seagoing Cowboys program will change your life. Take care of precious horses, see astonishing sights, and play wonderous games! Joing this program could open up the world to you. It'll make you more aware of people, other countries, and their needs. You'll be exuberant when you join. Have fun on the high seas! | 3 |
bdea510 | This essay is going to be about why some people don't drive cars. In Vauban, Germany-Residents don't drive cars because it is a "car-free" zone They all sold a car to move here. let me list some of the things that are
FORBIDDAN!
Streat parking
Driveways and home garages
Now those are only two of the things that are
FORBIDDAN
, but let me remind you this is only a experemental new district on the outskirts of Freiburg. Car ownership is allowed, but only through the main gateway can you get to the car-owner. Also this is were a man/woman (or couple) bought a space for $40,000, along with a home. As a result 70% of familes do not own cars and 57% sold a car to move here. Here are one of the statements form one of the residents who live here today.
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When i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way."
Said a Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and a mother of two. Vauban, was completed in 2006, is an example of a growing trend in eroupe.
Here is another example of why cars are not good for... Well a lot of things that will take to much time to explain so i'm going to make this short and sweet.
Paris has baned driving due to smog. Smog is a smoke like substance if inhaled it will most likely kill you. On monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave there cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine which in America is $31.00 and the same would apply to the odd number of license plates the following day. Let me tell you this almost 4,000 drivers were fined, according to reuters and some funny reactions to the fine are caught on camrea 27 people acted out these increadulously funny acts and the look on there faces said that they were not happy, so now their cars are impounded. | 2 |
bdef797 | I do not agree with this technolgy to read students expressions because its like forcing them to show their real emotion when they don't want to talk about or even show if they're sad or happy. Some student's come to school to help use get through with our emotion's through friends that they trust so if you bring that machine to a classroom and point out the person that is sad is clearly none of your busniess unless they wanna talk to you about it. This example "these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity isn't being truthful" how can you tell if someone is being truthful through emotions? We all express our emotions differently, so differently that computers can't tell the difference. I think that the technology is useless and they should use their time to cure sicknesses or to help people besides telling their emotions through a computer. Instead of using their knowledge to make a computer telling the difference between emotion's they should put it into a good use like a cure to all sickness. I'm not calling them dumb or anything like that i'm just saying instead of investing their time and money on a computer they should invest their time to actually helping people. | 2 |
bdfe5c7 | Cars are useful tools for getting around, but can they harm the environment? Foreign countries in Europe and in South America have started to have major cutbacks on cars. They are trying to limit the amount of smog they have in the cities. Places like Germany, Colombia, and France as well as the United States of America have started to decrease the amount of driving. People in small towns like in Europe should not really need cars, because everything is within walking distance. However, cities in America, definetly need cars to get around. America was built off of cars and long distance transportation. That's why there are tons of roads and highways and large towns and cities. It's ok for smaller towns to cutback on their car usage. Cars can have a negative affect on the environment and limiting car usage is a good way to cut back on environmental endangerment.
Limiting car usage is a good way to save the environment. In Vauban, Germany, the people are already going "car-free". 70% of the town's population do not own cars. David Goldberg, an official of Transportation for America says "'All of our development since World War II has been centred on the car, and that will have to change"', "'How much you drive is as important as whether you have a hybrid.'" (Source 1). In France, smog from gas emmissions of cars have been abundant. The government limited the amount of people driving by saying the even numbered license plates are not allowed to be on the road that day, and then the odd the next day. Many were fined for non compliance. "Congestion was down 60% in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog... [The smog] rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world". (Source 2) Diesel fuel was to blame for this because diesels make up about 67% of France. In the capital of Colombia they have A Day Without Cars. Violators faced $25 charges. Businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza states "'It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution"'(Source 3). Bogota has about 118 miles of bicycle paths, the most in Latin America. Many countries around the world have started to lower the car usage. America is slowly starting to shift, but it will be a long and treacherous journey to completely rid the world of cars.
Limiting car usage in the world can benefit the environment. It decrease fuel emmissions and can limit smog. It also decreases stress and air pollution. Many countries around the world are starting to limit there car usage. They have started doing things like Days Without Cars. Some have even quit using cars completely. It is easier for people who live in smaller towns and cities to do this, because everything is within walking distance. It will be harder to get America to make this shift, because this nation was built off of cars. Our entire geography is based off of the automobile. In order to limit cars and in turn save the environment, America will need to change severely. | 3 |
be02925 | Luke has a certain point of view on convincing others to participate in this program.
Luke has this point of view because he thinks the trips were fun on board and he feels it opened up the world to him.
It also made him more aware of the other peoples needs in other countries.
The awarness stayed with him and thats why he feels this way about other people participating i the program.
In the story it states that "Luke also found time to have fun on board."
I think this helps his point of view because he is convincing others to go on this fun trip.
The text also states that these fun activities or games helped them pass time.
Luke's point of view might of changed by having fun and thats a part of why he is convincing others to participate.
In the text Luke said "It opened the world to him."
The text states that he was grateful for the oppotunity.
It also stated that it made him more aware of people of other countries and their needs.
The passage says that the awareness stayed with him.
Why he is convincing others is because he is trying to say that this trip will open the world to you and make you relize other peoples needs in different coutries.
Luke's point of view convincing others to particapate is to show that he had a fun time doing it and he had a more understanding or awareness of peoples needs in other countries.
He is also convincing you becasue he said that the awarness stayed with him.
This changes the point of view by saying if you participate in the program then this awerness will stay with you and make you want to convince other people to participate.
In conclusion Luke wants to convince you to participate in this program and relize the needs of people and to also convince other people to join the program becasue of what learned and what you understand know from the program. | 2 |
be03378 | I think that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because it would be a opporturnity of a lifetime and it would be pretty cool.
Another reason that you should join it is because you would get to see places and cities. If I were to join it i think it would be cool and fun and an awsome opportunity. If you were to join it how would you feel about it would you think it would be a good opportunity.
First, his point of view was to persuade and convince people to join the Seagoing Cowboys program because he went and he had fun and now he's trying to get people to join is because it is an opportunity of a lifetime. In the story it says,"He was working part-times jobs in a grocery store and a bank when his freind Don Reist invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat, Luke couldn't say no because he knew that it was an expeirience of a lifetime." He really wants to persuade people to join but not every body wants to join.
Finally if you want to join it might be really fun if I got asked I wouldn want to go because i think it will be really fun but then that's just me. If you read this I hope it persuades you to join if you like it. | 2 |
be08bc8 | I am for the development of these cars. Technology has become more advance, the cars is a safer way to prevent any accidents, and safer cars means less accidents and decreased in human kills on the road.. Today, many ideas have been spread across to give us human better ways to live life for us today. Its a simple tool to help humans life easier and more sufficant. It will make our world a better place to live and obtain in.
Technology has became more advance. Back then people had to to hand held work to get what they want or needed. Today it ca be simple and easy with just a touch and your all good. Many techonogly we focus on we use everyday to help us maintain our life in order. It can give us possiblities or ideas to expand our technology for better uses and ways to make our lives abit more easier. We use cellphones everyday to connect to one another as it improves to have greater or superior ways to connet and be built better. Why not have cars become more advance.
The driverless cars have been an idea since the early 2000's. Its been built with more advance tools to help make the car more inffucient and safe. The cars are a safer way to prevent any accidents. It warn humans when in danger. How? Its been developed with many nofitcations if any danger is near. It has sensors that can help notify the driver. For example when a driver is backing up near and object the seat vibrates to give thema warning. Another is flashing lights on the windshield and other heads-up dislplay to prepare the driver to take over. Manufactures are even consider to use riewview cameras. The most important sensor the spinning sensor, they have to design to give this such an human like quallity. This sensor detects and mimics the skill of a human at the wheel.
Safer cars means less accidents and a decrease in kills of humans dying in cars. Theese cars are just and idea for now. As they gather and think of more information to help make the car a more productive way to live. Most driving laws are focused on keeping passengers and river and pedestrians safe as possible. They have tested some of these cars in certain states just to give result. Other car companies have been involved to plan the cars to drive themselves.
I am for the development of these cars. It will help seek a better future and inspire other to come up with advance ideas that will contuinue to grow. | 4 |
be0bf59 | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", explains how technology created by Prof. Thomas Huang and his colliague Prof. Nicu Sebe have been devolping better ways for humans and coputer to communicate. Almost all people can read someone's emotion through the expression they give even through a fake smile, and some over look this. Say it's chritmas and your parents get you a bag of grape fruits, you probably are going to be unsatisfied or annoyed, angry even. If it was from your parents though your going to put on a show and smile and and probably say things like "wow, this is awesome". Faking an expression like this will most definently fool your parents, but with this new technology you would simply be able to know how you child is feeling.
The question is though whether or not the use of this technology would be useful in students classrooms be valuanle. To some teachers it might affect them to the fact students keep falling asleep or not doing homework, and maybe just maybe with this technology you would be able to change your teaching style to create a more fun, interesting time in class. Honestly though It doesn't need to be used in classes. Why would you need to use it in the classroom. People have different emotions everyday, heck every second. Why would you need a device that reads emothions for school. This technology would be much better used in a game or a useful tool for phsycologist. There is no reason for it. If you had it would you use it to change the way a student is feeling probably not. Just cause there is technology that can determine somene's emotion doesn't mean it can change the way that person is feeling. Sometimes people need to fake the truth anyways. | 3 |
be0c737 | Twenty five years ago NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet and taking pictures. It cam across a picture that looked like a human face. Scientis then studied it for a while and said it was not a sign of life on Mars that it was just the way a landform in Mars was shapped. They then send it out to the people. The people start freaking out because they have the idea on thier minds that Mars might actually have life for us to live in.
On April 5, 1998 the MOC team snapped a picture ten times sharper that the original Viking photos. The photos proved that on Mars there was only landforms. Many people were unsatisfied with the new photos. In paragraph 8 it says, "Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze. Mission conrollers looked again. On April 8, 2001- a cloudless summer day on Cydonia Malin's team captured an extradinaryphoto using the camera's absolut mazimum resolution. On the picture it indetinfied that Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West.
In conclusion the photos the viking's took are not the face of anything. It is an ordinary photo of Mars landforms. Which were not 100% idenfied untill April 8,2001. Which proves that the photos are just landforms of Mars. | 2 |
be0d8c0 | The author supports the claim very well by incdicating the ways we could battle the cilmate and the other problems such as the ground conditions and the pressure. He or She defends how they feel about it using good information and explains it to the best of their ability.
Venus is a hard planet to view or study because of the heat and the autosphere around it. It would take a lot of planning and work to go to vist and study Venus for a certain amount of time. Luckly this author shows great ways and good reasons to why we should take the chance and plan towards the idea to at least study Venus. The author does list the reasons why it is really hard to visit but he or she does a good way by doing that to list the reasons as to how we could beat them all as so here.
The ways we can survive and reasons to why we should go to venus are a given, it is quite known to be the most Earth-like planet in the solar system. It has valleys, mountains, and craters. Yes the hot temp and the hostle conditions on the surface keeps us from touching down on venus there are many ways to beat that. The author says NASA could make a "blimp-like vechicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roliing Venusian landscape" thats a good way to deal with the landscape problem. "Solar power would be plentiful and radiation would not exceed earth levels." For the hot tempatures that venus has the solar power would be able to power some sort of AC unit in the blimp. NASA has also made machanical parts for machines and ships that can be heat resistant and pressure resistant for the trip to Venus.
In conclusion to the trip and how hard it would be to make all these requirements. Making it to venus is something we must plan hard to do. Studying Venus might give us information we might have never knew. We could possibly find ways to actually get a man down there even through the hot tempature and harsh conditions. One day we will finally get to Venus and then study and work on finding new features and information. This is why we need to take the risks and try for a trip to Venus. | 4 |
be11cd7 | Twenty five years ago the world was amazed by the Face on Mars. NASA'S Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet, snapping photos of possible landing sites for its sister ship Viking 2, when the Spacecraft had spotted a shawdowly likeness of a human face. It had an enormous head nearly two miles from end to end seemed to be staring back at the cameras from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia.
A few days later NASA started studying the face and unveiled the image for all to see. NASA caption the photo "Huge rock formation.. which resembles a human head.. formed by shawdows giving the illusion of eyes, a nose, and mouth. This engaged the public and attracted attention to Mars. The " Face on Mars" had became very popular.
Few scientist believed the Face was an alien artifact. Photographing Cydonia became a priority for NASA when Mar Global Surveyor (MGS) arrived at the Red Planet. When Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original photo's taken.
Thousands if web surfers were waiting for the image. The image first appeared on a JPL web site. The image reveaked a natural landform , evidence showing that there was not a alien monument after all. Because it was winter when NASA went to go capture the image it was some what cloudy and not many people were satisfied with the image.
NASA has provided evidence. Nasa also proved that the "Face on Mars" was not created by aliens , in fact it was created by human form. | 2 |
be12d44 | Its just a natural landform because it says in the article that, the landform reminds them about, most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, says Garvin. That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars. Also scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like Egyptian Pharaoh. Then a few days day later NASA unveiled the image for all to see. The caption noted a huge rock formation which resembles a human head formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars. And for 25 years some people think the face
is bona fide evidence of life on Mars, evidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorists. Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars. Although few scientists believed the Face was an ailen artifact, photographing Cydonia became a priority for NASA when Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) arrived at the Red Planet in Sept . 1997, eighteen long years after the Viking missions ended. They felt this was important to taxpayers, explained Jim Garvin, cheif scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program. They photographed the Face as soon as they could get a good shot at it. | 2 |
be177ee | The idea of a driverless car isn't safe to me. Sergey says that driverless cars are coming in the near future, but the cars aren't even one hundred percent
driverless. The car is still required to have a driver take control if a dangerous accident was happening or if you had to pull out of a drive way. Why can't this "Driverless car" handle dangerous situations and pulling out of a drive way without human precaution? Driverless cars aren't cable of doing human things because it doesn't have a mindset of a human on the road.
Sergey explains in paragraph 5 that the driverless cars have sensors, but even sensors don't always work. If the sensor was to stop working and the car wasn't be able to alert itself an accident can happen. None of the cars developed are completely capable of being driverless without a driver in the car and paying attention, so why name them driverless cars? If the car requires a driver to still be alert at all times and be ready to take over the wheel, shouldn't the driver just drive their own car themselves? It's no point of a driverless car if it still needs a humans caution while it's driving. People who hear about a ''driverless car" would idmmediatley assume they don't have to drive or pay attention at all to the road and the car will do all the road work for them.
I don't agree with the driverless car invention because just how humans can have accicents when driving while having knowledge about driving on the road so can a car that is knowledged on driving by technology, humans crash and computers crash. This driverless car isn't even proven to be reliably safe. Humans are more capable of driving because humans are meant to drive. You can't have a car without a driver. Why teach a car to drive and have the ability to alert themselves if a accident occured like a human when thiers billions of people that can just drive on thier own?
A driverless car isn't needed. | 3 |
be203c9 | I believe that use of the Facial Action Coding System could make immediate impacts in a classroom setting. The idea of being able to see someone's inner emotions could show lots of value for teachers in the class. This machine, after being tested in the classroom, could be used to make even more accurate and in-depth machines that could go even deeper. All it takes is it starting off.
There are many benefits to having a machine that is able to accurately find someone's emotions. The applications in the classroom would help make the day for a teacher run smoothly if there was trouble with a student, or if there was something upsetting a student you could use this device. The value of knowing what your students feel could help mold a curriculum that would be the most effective for their learning. Paragraph 6 mentions that classes could have computers that could detect these emotions, and change the way the lesson is and mold it to work for that specific student.
There is no reason that the FACS shouldn't be implemented into classes. The FACS is just a more accurate way of processing and recognizing someone's emotions and feelings. We, as humans, are always performing this calculation every day, as listed in paragraph 5. We cannot tell every emotion in someone's face, as they could be hiding their emotions behind a fake smile, or hiding sorrow or sadness behind a snarl. With the FACS knowing the emotions of a student in class who is struggling could maybe help the student and teacher find a way to stop the struggle. There is nothing wrong with knowing a student's emotions so a teacher can assist them if they are struggling.
This understanding of emotions and the creation of lessons that could help with those emotions could help graduation rates for schools go up, and help the GPA or work ethic of a student to increase. These benefits all could come from knowing students' emotions as long as the FACS is put into a school's classrooms.
Some may be worried that the FACS could be unaccurate and tell wrong emotions, but claims in paragragh 3 state that muscles in your face also dictate what emotion your feeling. These muscles can also indicate whether your smile is real and you are really happy, or if your smile is fake and that your feeling something different. Trained psychologists and others in their respected fields have contributed to the FACS to try and help create accurate assumptions based on the muscle usage in a person's face.
The evolution and effectiveness of the FACS could increase with the help of its use in the classroom, and the readings could become more accurate and more beneficial to the teacher and the student. The FACS could be used in almost anywhere, but I believe that it would have the biggest impact in the classroom. The effect it could have enourmous, and all it would take is one computer software.
The FACS should be put in classroom, not only to further the research needed to help develop the software more, but to help students who may struggle with lessons in class. The FACS's ability to read emotion will benefit student and teacher when the time comes, all it needs is to find its place in the classroom. | 5 |
be29f81 | There is no question that the driverless car is a technological advancement in today's society. However there is a very, very importanat question that has yet be completely answered. The question is this; is the full use of a driverless car a necessary technological advancement? The answer is yes to this important question, as the driverless car is a necessary technological advancement. The first reason is the infinite possibilities taht a driverless car offers that would benefit society. The second reason is the safety that a driverless car could offer if it's completed fully. Both of these reasons in support of the driverless car could benefit society in many ways. The technological advancement of the driverless car is a necessary one and would benefit society.
The developmentment of a driverless car would offer infinite possiblities that would provide many important benefits. One such benefit is that the driver would have the ability to both rest and relax. some may argue that the driver should never be resting and relaxing when at the wheel. However, if the driverless car was completely developed then there wouldnt be a need for the driver. A car driving itself while the driver relaxes is a better alternative than a tired sriver. Also, as mentioned in the passage, if every car was driverless, the transportation efficiency / speed would excel. If every fleet car was on the same system, the transportation would be both efficient and flawless,
There's a common saying that computers do not make mistakes no matter what circumstance. Of course, if a car is driverless then it will be on a completely computerized system. Think of a car that makes no mistakes. Would this not result in much higher saftey? Think of a driver that makes no mistake. Would this not result in a much higher saftey? A common person would want the highest safety that they have while they are driving. Unsafe driving is a result of driver mistakes, so what if the driver made no mistake. The answer to the concern of unsafe driving is the driverless car, without a doubt. Use of driverless cars would definitely be the safest way of transportation that is possible.
Clearly, the development of a driverless car is one of society's very great technological advancements. The question still remains that the devlopment of driverless car a necessary technological advancemnt. The answer to this question has yet to be determined to the point where it'S certain. People will continue to develop their own answer, until the question is fully answered for them. The answer to the question is yes, as the devlopment of driverless cars is necessary. The use of a driverless car would provide infinite possibilities in today's very problemed transportation world. Also they would provide maximum safety to those wh are being transportated in the transportation world. The technological advancement of the driverless car is a necessary one and would benefit society. | 4 |
be2d121 | The idea of cars driving on their own is something that everyone believes is the future of our generations and they are right. Self-driving cars will be one of the greatest inovations that are coming in the near future. Back then in the 90's, driverless cars was just a joke, but now with the new technology we have today, driverless cars are now something to be taken seriously.
Sure there are many pros and cons to the idea of a selfdriving car that runs soley on the new technology we have created, but that risk is worth taking. The odds of a selfdriving car having an accident compared to a person driving a car is very low. Using the codes that have been imprinted on to the car's harddrive, will most definetly decrease the odds of a driverless car having an accident. If a code was some how incorrect or input improperly then the human driver will have the ability to take over the car. The human driver must stay alert as if he was driving the car himself. To secure the safety of passengers even more, the goverment must now implemnt new laws. Laws such as, who ever sits in the drivers seat must mantain focus on his surrondings while focusing on the road, passengers must be seated at all times, and tampering with the car's driving system is a crime. These laws will help protect everyone driving and those who are driving a driverless car themself.
The less chance of accident happening is fantastic, but also new jobs will be created too. Coders, techinical engineers and hackers will be need in the new driverless car era. You may be wondering "Why would we need hackers for driverless cars?" There are hackers that hack to test how well a
piece of technology can handle against a virus, scripts, and much more. Those hackers can attempt to hack the driverless cars and if they were to succeed then they can alert the manufactures. Knowing that a hole in the operating system in the car is filled, will increase the safety of those who drive.
Jobs will be increasing while also boosting the idea of the neccesity of college. Our generation is no longer based around office work and difficult labor. This new generation is going off the explosion of technology. If we were to slow down on the advancement of technology then we are just slowing down the progress of students.
Self-driving cars will be our next step towards our futures.
Driveless cars will be what is known for the 21st century. New jobs will be created,the safety of others will be improved, school will become a bigger importance, and think about it, wouldn't you want to own a driverless car. | 4 |
be316f2 | There are several advantages in limiting car usage. It helps the environment, lowers the chance of crashing, removes stress, and also congestion.
A reason why limiting car usage is beneficial is that it helps the environment. In source 2, France reached several days of "near-record pollution". This is mainly because of the substantial numbers of cars in France. Since France is dependent more on Diesel rather than gasoline, it emits more pollution causing smog to be more evident. In paragraph 14, it states, "...[The smog] rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world.". China has far more than triple the population of France. Yet, France is able to reach the same level of smog as China. If an abundant amount of people continue to drive cars as the way they do, every country is going to have the smog problem Beijing and France are having. Also possessing so much smog is a safety hazard being that it limits your ability to see from a distance.
In addition, limiting car usage can reduce stress. In source 1, Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two, said " When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way.". In source 3, Carlos Artuto Plaza quotes " its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution". It is not only one person who can vouch on the reduction of stress by limiting car usage. A woman in Germany and a man in Colombia can both agree on the idea that limting car usage reduces stress. When you dont drive a car as much you have less things to worry about. Like, Fearing the possibilty of crashing, running out of gas, dealing with traffic, and several more problems. If someone drives less you would have less stress (in theory). The idea of stress reduction is an amazing advantage someone recieves if they limit their car usage.
Reducing car usage can also lower congestion. In source 2, "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of france, after 5 days of intensyfying smog...". The implication of limited car usage brought the congestion down 60 percent. That is a major advantage since there is a decrease in the number of cars on the streets. This reduces traffic and allows people to reach their destination sooner than they would if it was more congested. The drop in congestion means that there are less cars on the streets so there would be a lesser chance of crashing. This is a factor that can reduce stress. The reduction of congestion is a positive product of the limitation of car use.
In closing, the limitation of car usage gives the advantage of aiding the environment, reducing the likelihood of crashing, stress, and congestion. | 4 |
be32742 | In this passage it mentions many reasons why " the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents." In paragraph 1 it mentions that " it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely." Since the planet is close to earth they can study it. In the passage they say " Venus is sometimes right around the cornor - in space terms-."
Even after the fact that no spacecraft has survided the landing for more than a few hours or that there hasn't been a single spacecraft in more than three decades. You might think that these factos would want them to stop studying Venus. Well, actually these factors make them want to study Venus more. Venus has a thick atmosphere of 97 percent carbon dioxide. It also has a temperature over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater. So you might think to yourself so why would they want to keep studying if someone goes to Venus , they might die. You are thinking just like me but no harsh situation makes them want to stop studying Venus. It's enviroment would even crush a submarine. Even though another planet like Mercury is closer to our sun Venus still has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system.
Most astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar syetem. It was probably covered with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like earth. To this day Venus has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. For example features like valleys, mountains and craters. Even due to all of these almost life-dangering features Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit.
NASA has one particulary compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. There idea would allow scientists to float above the fray. They would use a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditons by staying up and out of their way.
To understand Venus you would need to get up close and personal despite the risks. Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus. There has been some simplified electrons made of silicon carbide that have been tested in chamber simulation the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditons. A lot of the mechanical computers were used on the 1800s and played a major role in the 1940s during World War 2.
Even after the fact that Venus has so many challengs that doesnt stop NASA and sciencetist to stop trying to get there. They are trying many solutions to send a person to Venus, even after its harsh features. | 3 |
be34c50 | The author claims that exploring Venus despite the dangers is a worthy pursuit. Which it may or may not be. They tell us about the dangers in pressure and heat on the surface of Venus and how it may stop us from getting to there physically. The author also explains how we could explore our sister-planet, Venus in a couple ways and tries to put it into perspective for us.
The author starts with talking about previous missions to reach Venus that ended unsuccessful due to Its harsh surface and atmosphere. The atmosphere of Venus is almost 97% carbon dioxide and to add onto that the clouds carry highly corrosive sulfuric acid. Making it difficult already to get a human or anything really through just the atmosphere living. The surface of Venus can average over 800 degrees farenheit along with the atmospheric pressure that is 90 times greater than our own. These conditions are far too much for a human to make it to the surface of Venus which can set back this exploration of Venus.
Moving on further the author states "If our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface?" He/She answers this question with the thought that long ago Venus may have been just like the earth we live on now. Covered in stable land and oceans, supporting many lifeforms, and maybe vegetation. Reason for thinking this is even today Venus has some features that are similiar to Earth. The rocky sediment surface, valleys, mountains, craters all show similiarity between Venus and earth. The author seems to want a return to Venus because we may be able to find more clues for this thought.
The author sees a return to Venus as indisputable, but questions, "What are the options for making such a mission both safe and scientifically productive." They answer this question by proposing an idea by NASA to send humans to Venus. This idea would be a possible solution to avoid the hostile conditions of the surface of Venus. A blimp-like vehicle that hovers over the surface of Venus keeping them from the harsh conditions. An idea like this may work but it still seems like it would still be almost too hot for a person to be safe in. Even 30 miles above the surface of mars the temperature is still about 170 degrees farenheit. Looking down at the surface of Venus from a hovering ship may not be worth it all because you are limited on sight due to the lack of light able to penetrate the atmosphere. I do not think this idea would be worth the time and effort it would take to get there.
In conclusion the author states a few good suggestions that could get us to Venus for exploration but there are also many ways that make this impossible to get a person there. The atmoshpere and surface of Venus just seem too harsh to get an manned aircraft there safely. Not only that I think that even if we did safely get a manned spacecraft to hover the surface of Venus, it would come out as not worth it over all to the lack of exploration that would be completed. I think that we should pursuit studying Venus through unmanned spacecraft simply because it would be too difficult with our technology now to get a person there and back safely. | 4 |
be34efd | In this passage it is giving you information about Vauban's people, they do not use a car as transportation. In paragraph 3 Heidrun Walter states,"When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," so an advantage of limiting car usage would be, that you are happier. Vauban in 2006, was an example of a growing trend in Europe, the United States and elsewhere to separate suburban life from auto use. Did you know passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gass emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in some car-intesive areas in the United States. With all that gas from the cars that is just causing more polution. Vauban, home to 5,500 residents within a rectangular square mile, may be the most advanced experiment in low-car suburban life. But its basic precepts are being adopted around the world in attempts to make suburbs more compact and more accessibleto public transportation, with less space for parking. In Vauban they are saying that they want to make walking to a bussiness or shoping center closer so they don't have to walk as far. Another reason why limiting car usage is a good idea, is that if you walk you get exercise which helps your body not just the Earth. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities, and legislators are starting to act, if cautiously. In previous bills, 80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transport. I believe that we should change those numbers around, and have more people doing what Vauban, Germany is doing and walking or riding bikes to the places we want to go. | 3 |
be3dfcc | The "Face on Mars" is a famous landmark on, you guessed it, Mars! Many people believe that it is just a natural landform, but others believe it was created by aliens. Why do people believe that it's created by aliens? Well, they believe that the Face is bona fide proof that there is life on Mars, and NASA is hiding something from us. In my personal opinion, I believe that it's just a natural landform that just happens to look like a face. I think that because I think the odds of aliens creating a face on Mars out of no where is very illogical. So in this essay, I'm going to prove to you that the "Face of Mars" is actually a landform instead of an actual alien artifact!
One of the main reasons I believe that it is just a natural landform is because according to the article, mesas are something that is common around a region of Mars called Cydonia. And since the face was located in Cydonia, it wouldn't be out of place for there to be a mesa there. So in the beginning, scientists told everyone what it really was, another Martian mesa, but it was shaped like a face. But many people noted something that was in the article in paragraph 2, where it said that the mesa had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. My explanation for this is maybe the mesa was formed a certain way that made it have these out of place shadows, because not every mesa is alike and some may have different shapes than another. Also according to the article, it notes that very few scientists believe that it is an alien artifact, which means there are someone skeptics among scientists, and sure, scientists may be smarter than the average person, but that does not mean they are always correct.
Now we move along to even more important evidence, the pictures. The pictures are important because if you look at the picture of the "Face on Mars" taken in 1976, you could see that it really isn't that clear, but you can make out a face in it. But if you look at the better pictures in 1998 and 2001, you can see that they're a whole lot clearer than the ones in 1976. Right now I'm focusing on the one taken in 1998, which according to the article, it was posted on a JPL website where it was revealed as a natural landform. But skeptics again were skeptic as always, and said that since it was taken during the winter, which is a cloudy time on Mars, that the alien markings of the Face were hidden by haze. My reponse to this is, if there were alien markings, why couldn't you make a brief outline of them in the picture from 1976? And how do you know for sure that there are any alien markings? Many questions arose and taken pictures of the Face became a priority.
3 years later, on April 8, 2001, another picture of the Face was taken. This one was much clearer than the one in 1998 due to there being no clouds. According to the article, the pxiel size in the image was 1.56 meters, and as rule of thumb, if there were any alien markings or another of that sort, they would've been able to be seen in the picture because of the pixels. So the "Face on Mars" was got rid of its skeptics and now many scientists say it is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa. According to the article, Garvin says it remind him of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, because it is about the same height of the "Face on Mars".
So in conclusion, the "Face on Mars" is a mesa plain and simple, and the main reasons are because of the pictures, and overall the really big reason many mesas are common around Cydonia, which is where the Face is located. Another reason why I don't think that you should believe that it is an alien artifact is, there is so much evidence to why it isn't whenever people just pointed out obvious things in the picture, like clouds of haze covered "markings" in the 1998 picture but there weren't ever markings on the mesa as revealed in the next picture taken in 2001. So to end this essay, the "Face on Mars" is a mesa, not an alien artifact as many skeptics believe. | 6 |
be496ae | Today, technology is advanced enough to create cars that are semi-driverless.
However, humans demand more.
People want driverless cars for maximum efficiency.
However, letting cars drive for themselves is dangerous and the development of driverless cars should be halted.
Robots are quite common today.
Semi-driverless cars are no exception.
However, if a car was to become fully driverless, it would be considered a robot.
The artificial intelligence operating the car would be like a brain, making decisions about where to turn and how fast it needed to go.
On the surface this seems practical.
No more drivers would be needed, and robots are more coordinated so driving would become a lot safer.
This is not true.
Infact, if drivers were to dissappear due to the appearance of driverless cars, there would be even more problems than today.
According to the three laws of robotics, robots are not allowed to harm or kill humans.
Because fully independent artificial intelligence have not yet been developed, this law has not come into play yet.
If an automatic car was to be developed, then the law would act upon and restrain the robot operating the vehicle.
For example, if a robot driven car was to crash and kill people in the car, the law would be broken.
In paragraph 9, the author discusses how if technology fails, both the driver and manufacturer would be to blame.
Now with the driver being the robot, more complications would arise, proving that independent cars are dangerous.
Danger also comes from another place, being other people.
The robot can prove to be safer, being immune to distractions taking place in the passenger seats.
Without a human driver, the car is able to be controlled from the outside.
If a hacker were to take control of a robot operated car, the passengers inside would fall victim to the hacker.
Computer development has shown to be advanced enough for a hacker to easily get access to the movement of a car, including locks, breaks, steering, acceleration, and pretty much anything that the robot would be controlling.
This danger is already a threat to society today.
Smart cars can be hacked due to them relying on GPS and other wirelessly connected sources.
100% human dependent cars cannot be hacked due to the vehicle being disconnected to outside sources and dangers.
The final major danger with cars being independent is that despite being an automatic system, its reaction speed is too slow.
In paragraph 4, LIDAR is explained as a rotating sensor on the roof that uses laser technology to generate 3-D models of the car's surroundings.
This is all assuming that everything is stationary or slower paced.
If an animal were to suddenly jump in front of the car, or if a pedestrian was to trip and fall infront of the car, it would crush the obstacle.
Despite being an intelligent piece of equipment, the car's sensors would not be fast enough to calculate the sudden appearance of an obstacle.
The car's artificial intelligence would need to gather, process and use the data all in a split second.
This is also assuming that the brakes work well enough and can stop the speeding car in time.
Whoever or whatever was on the street would be crushed before the car had enough time to stop itself.
This also goes back to the danger of driverless cars killing people, except this time it is a danger to the car's surroundings.
Legal issues woud arise, and the robot would take the blame.
However people have the tendency to hurt other humans so the manufacturers would be blamed for not having a better sensor.
The development of newer sensors and faster computers would increase the cost of the driverless cars and decrease its practicality.
Driverless cars would create many issues and potentially be the number one leading cause of death in developed countries.
These three points are just some of the dangers of driverless cars.
The development of this kind of technology is practical but risky.
However the development of new automobile and transportation technology will not yield to its dangers.
People are willing to sacrifice and explore dangerous things if the outcome is tempting enough.
Advancements and changes will take place, and soon driverless cars will take to the roads. | 4 |
be4b299 | I disagree that this Facial Action Coding System is benefical for the classroom. There are many things about this that could go wrong. This type of tecnonly would not be valuable to our schools.
Although all of the facial recognition sounds good, there are some parts to it that could be bad. There are many things that could turn out to be negative. Here is a question to think about: Is he downgradeing teachers? In the sixth paragraph Dr. Huang of the Beackman Institute for Adveanced Science predicts, "A classroom computer could recgonize when a student is becomeing confused or bored", he continues with, "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." I believe he is trying to say that teachers don't do enough so we have to bring in a computer instructor to make it less boring. This is not only bad for the students, but also the teachers.
This also can be a distraction in class. While the teacher is giving a lecture about an important skill that students need to learn, there are students in the back of the classroom trying to mess around with the facial coding system by trying different faces and causing a disruption. Kids are easily distracted and this is just another distraction from keeping kids engaged and focused on the studies that they will need for the rest of their life.
While a child is learning, for instance, a math program site, they could be trying to get in it but there are ads that pop up ,in paragrah 6 it states that "if you smile when a Web ad apperars on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." If a child looks away from the computer at his/her friend to wait for he ad to be over that he/she doesn't want, and smiles while glancing down to the screen to see if the ad is over, the computer could take this as a happy signal for the ad. So then it will play another one that is similar to the ad that the child did not want.
So, no, I do not believe that this technology would be a very good tool to express in the classroom. I believe that there are lots of things that could go wrong, and not enough right. I don't think that this Coding System would be valuable to our schools. | 4 |
be4c476 | In many schools the physical expression of everyones face doesnt really matter to a computer. The communication with students and computers is a bad idea because it won't have good outcomes to many people involved. The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable because it won't have any affect on the students, it will cost a lot of money to build, and it will be completely useless.
The use of this technology won't have any affect on the students. Many of the students nowadays will not be surprised by this idea. This explains why the use of this technology won'þ affect the students. Another reason, is that if the use of this technology goes to the schools many students won't care. This also helps explain why the use of this technology won't affect the students. The students and their physical emotions towards others aren't important to them.
Having the use of this technology in school will cost too much money to build. The cost's be a lot to program in each computer at very school. This explains that the school budget will be oout of hand. Also constructing a camera that detects emotion in a 3-D face model will be the most expensive piece to the computer. This reason helps explain why many of the computers would be expensive to purchase. Schools being able to buy this will cost way to much money and could even have a budget problem.
Also the idea of using this technology in school is completely useless. Many schools will have no point of having this being in their computer system. This is why many schools will most likely reject this idea. Another reaosn, is that schools will have no benfit of having this for their students. This is why having this new technology is completely useless. These reason show why the the use of this technology is useless.
The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable because it won't have any affect on the students, it will cost a lot of money to build, and it will be completely useless. The idea of even having this technology in our schools won't be good for the benefit of our schools and students. | 4 |
be4c667 | You should be a Seagoing Cowboy. What are Seagoing Cowboy's? Seagoing Cowboy's are the people that take care of animals that have to be shipped over seas. After World War II was over in Europe, many countries were left in ruins. To help these countries recover their food supplies, animals,and more, 44 nations joined together to form the UNNRA. UNNRA hired "Seagoing Cowboy's" to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas.
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Why should you be one? Think of all the good things you are doing. Helping animals is a very nice thing indeed. Being a Seagoing Cowboy is being a wonderful, caring, and awesome person.
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What are benefits from being a Seagoing Cowboy? Oh, there are plenty. one benefit of being a Seagoing cowboy is that you get to sight see. Seagoing Cowboy's travel to a lot of places. Another benefit of being a Seagoing Cowboyis helping animals. Helping animals might not sound so fun,but it is because it makes you feel good.
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You should definitely be a Seagoing Cowboy. Think of all the reasons I just gave. Being a Seagoing Cowboy is something you should definitly want to be. | 2 |
be4fdc7 | Automobiles have proved to be very convenient to our modern day society. It allows people to travel 20 miles in ten to fifteen minutes. By foot, it would take about four hours to travel that distance. Although cars have been beneficial, the limitation of car usage would outweigh the benefits of constantly relying on them. Decreasing the amount of time we spend in them would improve public transportation, improve air quality, and create less stress.
Cutting down the amount of car usage would encourage the use of public transportation. According to Source 1, the essentially car-less suburban, Vanbaun, has made public transportation more accessible. Increasing the use of it would decrease the time it takes to commute from place to place. Less cars on the roads mean less traffic. In small towns, not as many people currently use the system on a regular basis. With the limiting of car usage, public transportation could become more popular in suburban areas, not just metropolitan cities. Some may not want to take this form of transportation because it may not meet their sanitary needs. However, if the popularity increases, cities will be obligated to improve the conditions. Public transportation could be the new primary form of transportation if we limit the amount of time cars are allowed to be used.
Additionally, a large problem in the world today is air pollution and globabl warming. Automobiles cause the majority of this ongoing problem. Less time spent in the car would eventually lead to better air quality. Source 2 states that in Paris, France the smog in the city was near-record pollution. This caused Paris to enforce a partial driving ban to clear the air. Congestion was cut down 60% after this action was taken. Vehicles release numerous harmful greenhouse gases that we have been trying to reduce. These gases not only harm the environment, but the people as well. New and popular alternatives to the common diesel cars are hybrids and electric cars. Less car usage would result in reduction of pollution.
Also, using a car less decreases stress levels. According to Source 3, in Bogota, Colombia, citizens participate in the very popular car-free day. A businessman in Colombia said, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress." Cars do not allow people's mind to stop and rest. A driver's mind is constantly thinking and attempting to get to their destination as fast as possible. If cars were barely used, people could take a serene stroll to their destination, allowing the mind to slow down, think, and relax. Parks and recreation would expand and improve as well due to the smaller vicinity we can reach by foot or bike. New and improved public areas would become more enjoyable, making us less stressed. Stress levels decline as car usage declines.
The increased use of public transportation, improved air quality, and lower stress levels all result from the limitations of car usage. As beneficial as a car may be to people, limiting the use of it is more advantageous than not. Car companies are still widely developing as highways and roads are expanding, but our society should go the other direction and find healthier sources of transportation. | 5 |
be5c2e7 | NASA has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus, because they want to find a solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus. What is their solution? Their solution is trying to imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape, they are wanting to prove that if their jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude that can fly over many storms then a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way.
They want to find the safest way possible so they can send people up to Venus since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. They have to find the right vehicle to get sent up to Venus because there is high pressure and heat that is like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes. Most people would just want to stay out of this and move on but astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system.
They are desperate to find a way to get this right and to actually be known for this. Going to Venus is not a easy task and researches have to take a lot of time into this. Most people are probably thinking why is it taking so long, well each previous mission was unmanned and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing like I said early, then this is an issue that leads up to why a spacecraft has not touched down on Venus. This is a very big deal and they just want to find the right research and the right system so they can go visit Venus successfully. | 2 |
be5caee | Voting for a President is an extremly big deal and needs to be decided properly. People argue the subject that the Electoral College is unfair opposed to an election that is held by popular vote. However, I disagree. The Electoral College is a process in which the most popular vote gets decided on and goes to Congress for the aproval. Voting for a president is a big deal, especially when the decisson is sealed for four years. The Electoral College has had people question it due to its inncodent in 2000 but overall, it is the best voting option.
Many citizens believe that when they vote that is the final process, no other descissons need to be made, but they are wrong. When qualified citizens vote for a president they also help choose their state's electors. The Electoral College process includes the selection of electors, the vote between who should be President or Vice President and then sent to Congress. Many people argue that the process of the Electoral College is unfair because the electors decide, not the citizens. What people dont understand is the Electoral College are actually deciding for us and thats what makes voters "iffy."
Under the Electoral College system, voters vote for the electors that actually decide who the president will be. (Plumer, 10) The issue that gets faced to the voting citizens is they cant control whom their electors vote for. This can be an issue because of whats known as the disaster factor. (Plumer, 11). The most known disaster factor was the big election crisis of 2000. The 2000 campaign was not held very properly, infact seventeen states didnt see the canidates at all. People say that the Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational but in all actuality it is the best way to vote for who will become president. Bob Dole made the comment "Abolish the Electoral College!" but if we had just a popular vote, without Congress having a say in the decisson, the process wouldnt be as organized.
In the year 2000 the Electoral College faced a big issue with the "fairness" of the voting process. At the time Al Gore and George W. Bush were running for president but Bush won receiving 271 electoral votes and Gore 266. (Plumer, 1) This made citizens furious because they saw the Electoral College being unfair to voters. Despite that particular campaign, the Electoral College has not shown much faults. All in all the Electoral College process gets the decisons made faster and more efficenty opposed to if it was just by the overall most popular vote.
The argument of the Electoral College method of choosing their president and loosing voters is very popular. Voters knowning their vote will not have any effect, the less voters choose to participate and listen to the campaign. But in all actuality one voters vote will not swich or make the election any different, that is why we have the Electoral College. The Electors make the decison for us, taking the most popular votes and looking them over putting in their extra votes. "Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election" (Posner, 23). Despite the negative views on the Electoral College, it is actually the most organized "fair" voting process. | 4 |
be5d252 | Its is helping the people and the animals from cities in world war 2 . The UNRRA (united nations relief and rehabilitation administration).hired "Seagiong cowboys". they would go to places all around the world to take care of animals shipped over seas.
In august 1945 they, luke and don, recieved orders to go to New Oleans. they arrived on august 14th. The day the pacific war ended. They got thier papers and borded the SS Charles W.Wooster, headed for greece with a cargo of 335horses plus all of thier food.
They could also see alot of places like Eruope and China. They also saw the acropolis in Greece but caring for the animals kept luke busy for a while. They had to be feed and water 2 to 3 times a day. The stalls had to be cleaned to so they needed help.
The program was a great way to help the people and the animals. We probably wouldnt have as many animals if the seagiong cowboys didnt help. Thats why they need you to join. Its very benificial and you can see places you have never seen before its also a great way to make friends since youre stuck on a ship for days you can get to now them just like luke and don.
In paragraph 5,6,7,8 you can see why luke joined. He tryed something new and liked it . He had a fun time seeing all the places and helping the animals .
Helping on the fram, did probably helped too.
God new what was going to happen in luke life and God was there every step of the wayeven though luke could of died that day he slipped and fell god saved him and he only had some cracked ribs. | 3 |
be6041f | The Electoral College
Dear Mr. Nixon
I think as a citizen of Flordia that the Electoral College should not be apart of our states voting rights because the people voteing do not have a direct vote to the president. Our state just like many others have a "Winner-takes-all system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate." Every election is a unfair election because the people dont get to directly vote for the president.
"What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college!" This is proof that not only basic people of the USA think the electoral college should not exit but people who have been important to this country and other commities.
When voting through the electoral college voters dont vote for the president they vote for a slate of eloctors who then elect the president. Which is not right to the people who do vote an the people running for president, plus its wrong to the country because everyone has the right as a US citizen to elect a president but there not actually voting for the president.
"At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-takes-all system in each state, candidates dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states." This is again more proof that the elecooral college is unfair to all the U.S voters.
"Its official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best argument in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. And the arguments against direct elections are spurious at best. Its hard to say this, but Bob Dole was right: Abolish the electoral college." The electoral college is something that should be taken out of the electing process because it dosent give us as U.S citizens our exact rights to vote for president because its the electors who elect the president not the people. | 3 |
be61aa1 | 2000 was when the 21 centuery began. Since then we have came so far. From airplanes going at faster speed, more advanced phones, more relable machines. What is next? Our technlogy is slowly advanceing every day. With new products coming out each day. What if we could create driveless cars? It might seem like a wild dreams, but we're all a little mad here. Phones seem like a crazy idea when first created. What about driverless cars? Creating these car would help stopping car crashes, would have less popultion, and could save moeny in the future. Let's build these driverless cars for a better future.
Building these cars can save drivers, passengers, and pedestrians. The car send vibration signlas to the driver throught the car when put in danger. A specail touch sensore also will make sure that the driver's has there hands on the wheel at all times. A system can also be add to the car that can trun off devices when the driver needs to take actions. The number of car crashes in still high. What if we could stop this? We might be able to with this car.
Building these cars can cause less poplution. When these cars are made bus, trains, and taxis can be removed and replaced with these cars. The poplution that is cause can be reduced with these driverless cars. With these less cars will be on the road and less poplution will be made. With global wraming still high and the damage that has already been made with these cars it can stop it from rising.
Build these cars can also save the goverment money. Yes, money will have to be put into this project to create and test, but looking at the postive side of this. Less car will have to be made. Less mateirals will be need to buy from expores. Less gas will need to be bought. The moeny that is saved can be put in to help our economy and improving it.
Having a future will driverless cars? Doesn't that sound amazing? Cars the can save more lifes, cars that can save our planet, cars that can save moeny. Our future might be a little bit better if we had these cars. The 21 century promised new technolgies it time we created it. Driverless cars might be our first step to going into a more futurist era. We'll never know what the future has instored for us. | 4 |
be705c4 | There are many advantages of limiting car usage. Limiting car usage helps reduce smog in the cities. In the article, " Paris Bans Driving Due To Smog", the author, Robert Duffer, talks about France banned driving in order to clean the polluted air. According to the text, " Paris typically has more smog than other European capitals". Here it is evident that Paris has major pollution problems. Most of the vehicles in Paris have diesel fuel rather than gasoline, in which they favor due to a tax policy. "The smog cleared enough Monday for the ruling French party". This clearly shows us that the ban on driving in Paris had an advantage in keeping a clean air.
Not only will limiting car usage will maintain an polluted air for us to breathe, but it will decrease traffic jams. In the article, "Car-Free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota", by Andrew Selsky, a program is to "promote alternative transportation". Selsky writes, "Rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic". This tells the reader that this has positive impact on the city.
Limiting car usage could save time, improve safety, and conserve resources. According to the article, "The End Of Car Culture", the author mentions how her children live in places in which driving a car would be useful, however its not their priority because they "organize their summer jobs and social life around where they can walk or take public transportation or car-pool with friends". Although they could have gotten their own license to drive, it would have been a waste of money and time when there is always an avaliable and less cost transportaion.
Limiting car usages indeed does have advantages. The limiting of our car usages has positive effect on our enviroment by the reducing of smog, the decrease in traffic jams, conserves our resources and time, and also improves our safety. | 4 |
be7a989 | After reading "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the authors idea that study Venus is a worthy pursuit, did not meet all criterias. The author provided many facts about the planet Venus, but didnt give a clear explaination on why we should pursuit the study of Venus. In paragraph 8, the author's reason to pursuit the study of Venus was that "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," the author has a valid point on that we should try to go beyond our limites, but he also relies on the fact of human curiosity and the gained insight of the planet itself. He does not take into concideration that we have attempted to explore Venus, but failed because the tempeter is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and has a pressure that is over 90 times greater then we have experienced.
In paragraph 2 and 3, it shows that we know the risks of trying to travel to Venus, with many attempts that have failed, and with the information about the planets thick atmosphere, that is almost 97 perent carbon dioxide and clouds of sulfurice acid, one small mistake could cause the whole mission to fail. With the information we have now, we know that the planet Venus is curently changing and getting hotter, it includes that "not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades." In paragraph 5 and 6, it provides us with the information that even if we are able to travel to Venus, we would have to stay close to the sea level on Earth keeping us at a safe air pressure, we would have to be 30 or more miles above and the temperatures would still be around 170 degrees Fahrenheit.
In conclusion the authors idea to travel to Venus does not lead anywhere, his claim is not well supported and is made up of him own curiosity and he does not give a vaild reason. Travling to Venus is not a worthy pursuit that we should do, without our imagination and innovation met, we are forced to work harder to achieve our goals and to do more. | 3 |
be7c6bd | In "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes the Facial Action Coding System, or FACS, which allows a computer to identify human emotion through the expressions of one's face. The FACS has decyphered the many different expressions portrayed by the famous Mona Lisa painting, created by Leonardo Da Vinci. But it can be channeled into a much more profitable cause; reading the emotions of students in a classroom. It could allow teachers to see how effective the lesson is on the students and how many students are truly paying attention.
The effectiveness of a lesson is essential to the understanding of a class. If students cannot understand a lesson, frustration sets in and the student begins to give up. With the FACS, however, that sense of frustration could end as quickly as it began. The FACS would allow teachers to monitor the facial expressions of teir students, alowing them to probe the student to ask questions, rather than sit in confusion.
The FACS could also allow teachers to see who is truly paying attention in class. With Dr. Huang's software, teachers could tell how effectively the lesson changed the mood of the students, allowing them to see any signs of mixed emotions or emotionless faces. For example, just like how Mona Lisa's expressions revealed her emotional state in paragraph one, it could do the same for students. Also i paragraph 6, it describes a visual perception of certain Web ads could cause certain emotions, just like a lesson. All these emotions could the be associated with many different moods such as boredom or tiredness. The teacher could then switch to an activity which allows all students to actively pay attention to what is being taught.
Overall, the effectiveness of the Facial Action Coding System could be very beneficial in a classroom environment. It could allow teachers to see the cloud of confusion that hangs over the room of students, enabling them to prod the efforts of the students to ask questions. It also allows teachers to see who is paying attention in class, giving them a sense of how effective the lesson plan is, which could lead them to either continue with the same teachings or switch up the activities done by the class.This could help the grades of many students for the better. | 4 |
be81f6d | You should be a Seagoing Cowboy.
It is fun but there is a lot of challanges to come along with it.
There is also some wonderful places you might want to see to.
Bing a Seagoing Cowboy is lots of fun.
There is a lot of sight seeing.
You get ot spent a lot of time with your friends.
You also get to meet a lot of new people in the places that you go to.
There are alot of challanges to.
There is trying not to sink the boat.
Losing your animals.
Taking care of the animals to, and for last trying not to go overboard.
There is a lot of good sight seeing.
In Greece there is the Acropolis.
In Crete there is the Panama Canal.
I also visited China, and in Venice the streets were filled with water.
Thats why you need to be a Seagoing Cowboy like me.
It is fun, challanging, and there is some good places to see. | 2 |
be89c37 | Students in class are often mistaken for having different emotions than what they actually feel. This new software can have both advantages and disadvantages. Here is my opinion on the subject.
First, the good side of this new software being used in schools. If the software is accurate, it can be used to detect certain students who may be thinking about suicide, hurting another person, etc. It can possibly also detect if a student might be using illegal drugs or alcohol. It will detect students who may need help with work or other things.
However, there are some downsides to this software. It's mainly because of invading anothers privacy, like if a student is having thoughts about another they have feelings for. If it is inaccurate, it can be extremely bad for students. If a student is just angry at family problem, the software might say they're suicidal or are planning something bad.
Those are my thoughts on this new software. I personally don't think its a valuable use for students in school mainly because of privacy. | 2 |
be8ce73 | Accoring to the pargraph they are talking about Venus how danger and how hot the surface is and Venus also have the hotted surface even thought Mercury is closer to the sun.
The author should support his idea like saying if we build a spacecraft that can survial for a month in Venus surface we might get to study more and by only sending a machine not sending a human
Venus is the 1 hotted planet even thought mercury is closer to sun and Venus and Mar is Earth neighbro this two planet are the closet planet to Eath in our solar system
Venus is the first hottest planet in our solar system, long ago Venus use to have an a Ocean like our planet Earth, Venus is almost like Earth , it have some feature and NASA also think vehicke hovering 30 or miles above the roiling venusian landscape , like our jet airplane travel ar a higher altitude to fly over many stoem, and a vehicle hovering over Venus would aviod the unfriendly ground conditions by staying uo and out of their way. a t the 13+ miles above the surface the temperature will still be at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit but the air pressure will be close to the sea of level on Earth and Nasa also saying sending human into Venus. | 1 |
be8e329 | Computer-driven cars are a new and exciting thing for people to try, but it's not all fun and games when the driver looses focus due to the lack of awareness they have when not physically driving and controlling their own car. The freedom a computer-driven car gives allows the driver to not always pay attention or possibly fall asleep at the wheel.
I myself wouldn't feel very safe knowing that it was a computer and not a human driving the car in front of behind of me. I agree with lawmakers in most places stating, "the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." If the driver in the car is in control at all times that gives them no opportunies to fall short or not pay attention. The quote,"..they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of drvieweays or dealing with complicated traffic issues, sucha s navigating through roadwork or accidnets." tells that the driver is alerted when there are complicated traffic issues. The driver becomes too dependent on the car to drive for them leading them to believe that they dont have much to do. It says that the drvier is alerted when pulling in and out of driveways, where a child could come out of no where on the sidewalk entering the driveway. The car may or may not pick the child up on its sensors quick enough, and the child could become badly injure, then the driver/manufactorer would have a lawsuit on their hands.
"The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over." If the google car only announces when the driver needs to take over, what if there was a deaf person in the drivers seat? Or someone blasting their music loud enough to the point where they were unable to hear the announcement? That person wouldn't hear them leading them to not know when to take over, which could result in a life being lost.
"If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault--the driver or the manufacturer?" The technology used in the cars are no gurarentee and fail at any moment. Someone could be entering a working area and the car may break down on them right then and there. If there is any possibily that the car could shut down or stop working it's not a safe object to be on the road.
The fact that the drivers become more dependent on the technology of the cars than themseves allows the driver to be unaware of their surroundings. The safety of others (pedestrians) is compromised with computer-based cars. | 4 |
be96267 | I will be telling you about a story called "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves." I think it is a good story. In the story it tells about a boy who signs up with his friend to be in a cattle boat job in the passage it said " The UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys to take care of cows,horses,mules,and more over seas. Luke and Don signed up for the job." Luke got to go all around the earth and deliver cattle. Lukes job on the boat was to check the cattle every hour.
Luke got to go all around the world and see amazing places they had allot of free time so they visited many places. Luke visited greece luke got to see the Acropolis. They saw China,Europe,Italy,and more. Luke got to stay in these places and got to see many things. Luke liked the job working as cattle delivers.
In conclusion Luke had allot of fun and Luke got to see allot of things in other countrys. I think it was a good story. At the end of the story Luke says "I'm grateful for the opprotunity. It mad me aware of people in other countrys." I hope that you saw Lukes point of view and it convinced you to be in the Seagoing Coyboy in the program. | 2 |
be976e8 | Cars are used everyday in work and social life, and they play an important role in transportation, some people buy them for fun and others buy them as a neccesity for daily life. But recently we have been cutting back on the usage of cars and we could extend the life of our planet by simply not driving.
Transportation is the second largest source of America's emmisions and it caused Paris to ban driving for a little while due to smog, environmental conditions worsen by the day and it is apparent. Yet we still drive our fancy cars around like there isn't a problem. "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emmisions in Europe and up to 50 percent in the U.S." states Elisabeth Rosethal from the article "In German Suburb Life goes on without cars." That is a lot of pollution entering our atmosphere.
Americans and other citizens around the world have increasingly recognized this problem and started taking the initiative to change it. In Bogota, Colombia one day out of the year all cars are banned except taxi's and busses. "Violaters faced 25 dollar fines... but the turnout was large, despite the gray clouds that dumped rain showers" Andrew Skelsky says from the article "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota." This just shows what we can do if we try, and for the first time two other cities joined the event. | 3 |
be9cecb | The Face was not created by aliens, but the Face is a natural landform. In the article, it says, "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," says Garvin. "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." The Face on Mars is a natural landform because landforms happens on most planets with solid ground, and Mars is a planet that has landforms, too.
In the article, it says, "Thousand of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." Aliens did not create the Face, but the planet itself did, Mars. People on Earth were nervous because the landform on Mars resembled a human head, in which they called the Face.
In the end, after the Mars Global Surveyor took pictures of the Face, they realized the Face is actually a natural landform. | 2 |
be9f270 | Driverless cars is a goal that car companies want to make possible. So far, much progress has been made and it seems achievable, but should driverless cars be used? In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Even though driverless cars are being produced successfully and are something many people would want, they should not be continued to be developed.
There are more downsides to having driverless cars than there are benefits. In order to use smarter cars, smarter roads may be necessary; however, changing the roads would be cost too much. In paragraph 3, the author states, "...they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was smiply too expensive to be practical." Because a driver is still necessary for a driverless car, another downside is that when an accident occurs, manufacturers will blame the driver, but the driver will shift the blame on the manufacturer. Paragraph 9 states, "If technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault--the driver or the manufacturer?" These are reasons why driverless cars should not be continued to be produced.
In the article, positive points about driverless cars are also given. Google has developed driverless cars that have yet to be in an accident. Paragraph 2 states, "Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash..." However, these cars that have not crashed still have the assistance of a human driver.
Although driverless cars seem to reduce the amount of accidents, a human driver is still necessary to avoid these crashes. The point of a driverless car is to
let the former driver not have to drive anymore, hence the word "driverless." Paragraph 8 asks, "Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver?" If these cars still need a driver to steer the car to avoid accidents, then the driver might as a well be driving the whole time. The number of accidents will not be reduced if a driver is still in control of the wheel because drivers are the reason that accidents occur in the first place. If the possibility of human error is still part of the equation, then the number of accidents will not decrease from having driverless cars.
Driverless cars are not as good as they seem. Smarter roads may have to be created in order to use smarter cars, but that is too expensive. If a driverless car were involved in an accident, drivers and manufacturers would endlessly shift the blame on each other. The number of accidents using driverless cars seem to be reduced, but a driver is still needed to avoid these accidents. This is why driverless cars should not be continued to be produced. | 4 |
bea04ac | Venus is called the "Evening Star" although it is a planet not a star. Venus is the secound closet to the sun and the closet to Earth. Venus is a challenging planet to studay because of its features. Venus has clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid. Venus is also hot enough to melt many metals. Venus temperature is averge 800 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 90 times hotter than Earth. A spaceship that lands on Venus could not last for more than a few hours because of the conditions. Even under these dangerous conditions scientists today are studying ways to safely study Venus.
Venus it is the closet we have to another Earth. Like how Venus use to have oceans and supported some type of life. Even today, the article claims that Venus has things like valleys, mountains, and craters. Since Earth is becoming older and weaker because of human activities, we would need something that is more Earth like. Other than Mars, Venus is the closet planet to Earth. Venus has the weather that Earth has like earthquakes, volcanoes, and lighting.
Even though Venus is dangerous it will still be the best thing to go to since Earth is getting older and weaker because of how long Earth has been living and also because of human activities. I think if scientists researched Venus and found ways to put technology on Venus to discover its features. NASA has made simplified electronics made of silicon carbide. Then scientists even suggested hovering over Venus, but it would still be hot at 170 degrees Fahrenheit. They could find ways that humans could adapt to the planet or they could find ways to make Venus even more Earth like. | 2 |
bea37ee | I am Dr.Monroe, a scientist here at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Otherwise known as NASA. A very popular space agency. Twenty five years ago something very odd happened around around Mars. We had one of our spacecrafts (Viking 1) circling mars, and taking pictures of possible landing sites for another one of our spacecrafts (Viking 2). Later on, we found that Viking 1 had snapped a picture of what seemed to look like a human face. We were very excited to find out what this new finding was, but we later found out that it was just a Martian mesa. Very common around Cydonia. Only this particular mesa had very outrageuos shadows, that made it look like a face.
Though we have stated before to the world that this was just a Martian mesa, some people thought otherwise. For example, one day I was sitting at a coffe shop nearby where I worked with my labcoat on. On my labcoat, it stated my name, and in big letters, the word: NASA. Like I was saying, I was in a coffe shop nearby where I worked, and was suddenly approached by a young man in his twenties. He stood there for a while making sure that I acknowledged him. When I did finally notice him, he smiled, and said that his name was Stan. He told me that he noticed my labcoat and where I worked, and wanted to bring up the topic "The Face". I chuckled at his comment, and agreed to discuss the topic.
He sat down in the chair across from me, and we started talking. He brought up how he thought that we were hiding something to do with the face. I kindly replied that we weren't, and that we explained to all the news stories, and talkshows, that this "face", was just a simple Martian mesa. Even when I said this, he disregarded it, and continued speaking about how he thought that this picture of "the Mesa" was proof of extraterestrial life on mars. as soon as he said this I burst out with laughter. Tears were falling from my eyes, as I thought this was a joke. but, when i saw that he was serious, I immediatley stopped laughing, and apologized. i explained to him that the picture of what he thought was a face, really was just "the Martian equilavent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American west". At this time he then grabbed something from out of his satchel (which i hadn't noticed before) which looked like a picture of some sort. As a took a closer look, i saw that this was actually three pictures on one page.
The pictures that he showed me were pictures of " The Face" in chronological order from 1976 to 2001. He then said to me that that it was possible for alien markings to be hidden. I peered at him with a strange face trying to figure out why this was so important to him, but i answered his question. I stated that "The Face on mars was located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in April '98- a cloudy time of the year on the red planet". even after this was said he shook his head with a tiny smirk on his face. I then grew annoyed at him and then pointed to the third picture taken in 2001. " Do you see here?" "In image three we used a digital image three times bigger than the pixel size. If there were anything else on this landform other than rocks such as alien markings, you would've seen it already." He stared at me with a look of stupidity on his face as i then had a smirk on my face. I was proud of myself for proving him wrong.
After our little argument, he quietly got up from his seat, shook my hand, said nice to meet you, and walked out of the coffe shop. I then realized the time and walked out as well, and went back to work. | 3 |
bea4ce7 | Venus, our sister planet is difficult for scientists to study and learn new things. Due to some circumstances, scientists are trying to make machines to survive the ugly weather. Scientists want to study this planet so some point we can live in the planet so we can survive. Many think we should find another and some say yes study this planet. Venus should be a worthy pursuit.
Venus would be worthy to study because if our planet earth fails we can move there.
Due to the hot and the ugly weather scientists cant do anything about it. They can only make machines that are possibly to survive the weather. Scientists can make history if they find a way to study Venus. If studying Venus comes out succsesful then we can study other planets that we couldn't study before. Some people will say its pointless to study a planet that we cant even send a drone or some type of tool there to study. If scientists can get a few samples of Venus surface then scientists can make a tool that can help a drone move around the surface. The pursuit of Venus will be in every scientists mind.
Venus is a planet that we will learn more about. Scientists will one day make a tool to send up to Venus and study the planet. If they learn about Venus a lot of people's fantasy will come true or not. Scientists will have a goal done by studying Venus and its crazy life. Venus and some other planets will be worthy to study for if the Earth will come to an end. | 2 |
beaaa47 | I believe that studying Venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers because its the closet planet to the Earth . NASA is thinking about sending human to study Venus . Wouldn't it be fun to go visit Venus ? Think about all the stuff you coud learn about like how warm it is , Whats there , and what made people start calling it
" Earth's twin ."
Because Venus is near the sun its very hot there . The temperature average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit , and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater then Earth . In Paragraph 3 it states " These conditions are far more extreme than anything human encounter on Earth ; such as environment would crush anything a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our pceans an would liquefy any metals . "
Venus is referred to as Earh's twin because its the closest planet to Earth in density , distance , and szie . Since , Venus is around the corner in space terms humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world . An spaceship hasn't touched down on Venus o more than three decades .
See learning about Venus is very worthy despite the dangers . Its always great to learn about another planet . Especially the ones near us . | 2 |
beae3b7 | Luke was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a bank. When his friend Don asked him to go on a cattle boat Luke couldn't say no. It was and opportunity of a life time and Luke knew it. In 1945 the World War ll was over in Europe and many countries were left in ruins.44 nations joined together to form UNRRA (the United Nations Rlief and Rehabilition Administration).They hired seagoing cowboys to take care of all the animals. So Luke and Don signed up.
In August 1945,they received an order to go to New Orleans. They arrived on the 14th of August the day the pacific war ended says Luke. They got there papers and got a boat called the SS Charles W. Wooster and headed towards Greece. They were delivering 335 horses and enough hay and oats to feed them. Be for they got to Greece Luke turned 18 years old. That ment that he could be drafed at any time to go to war. When he told them that he was on a cattle-boatr trip they told him to do it for the Military Service. Luke had made nine trips that more then any seagoing cow boy has ever made.
The cattle boat trip was an alsome trip for a small town boy Luke say. besides helping people he also got to see different countries like all of Europe and China but when he saw Acropolis in Greece it was special to him Luke says. It toke Luke and Don abount two weeks to crose the Atlantic ocean from the eastern coast that is a long time on water non stop that would make me sick and never ride a boat again but sometimes you have to do things you dont want to do.
When Luke was little he helped his aunt Katie's farm ou when he was a boy and he has worked hard ever since that is my dream is to work on a farm. It did not teach him the dangers of the sea though. When he was on his secened trip he was a night watchman. He had to check on all of the animals every hour and that was easy i bet because of him helping on a farm when he was a kid that was the same but it was on a boat. When he was reporting to the captin one time he slipoed and fell on the ground and a peice of meatal stop him from going over board.
So that was my eassy on Luke and his life I really liked this story alot i would have wrote more but i am about out of time so thats all i got. I found out that that peice of meatal craked his ribs so he could not work for a acouple of days witch that might of hert his body every day till it was helled but i do nt know because i am not Luke and that is the end of my story. | 1 |
beaf095 | I agree with the author, like he says studying Venus is whorthy the dangers it presents. I also agree with him, because in the paragraph says that Venus is one
of the brightes points of light in the night sky that means that they are really fascinated to study Venus. The challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. So the travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of immagination and innovation.
According to the article Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. Sometimes because of the changes of speed in the orbit we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus. Because of the change of speed previous missons were unmanned, this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Some of the qualities of Venus is that is really amazing Venus as a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets. The more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venu's atmosphere. The planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmosphereric pressure is 90 times greater that what we wxperience on our planet . So that means that these conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth. Also Venus has the hottest suface temperature of any planet in our solar system. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. According to the NASA, it has one particulary compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA's possicle solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray.
In conclusion, scientist should go to Venus and keep studying it. Researches are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus. Also Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions. The challenge presented by Venus has value, so that's why studying Venus is worth the dangers it presents. | 3 |
beb153b | I believe that using this in a classroom will be valuable. However, this could also be a bad idea. It states in the text that your freontailis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when you're surprised. First of all, It is good to know that, because looking at old photographs taken you can see if the person is happy or not. Second of all, the computer can tell if a student is bored, confused, sad, and happy. Which is very good for the teacher. If a student were to be confused on something that they were learning, and did not want to ask in front of the class, it would show the teacher that they need to know more about the subject that they are struggling with. Finally, It is very inspiring how the computer can tell when your actually being serious with your facial expressions, and when you are not. I believe that all schools should try these. This will be the future, and will be good when used in classrooms. | 2 |
bebb184 | Venus our sister planet, with her surface being the harshes of the other planets and her breathtaking carbon dioxide atmosphere that takes up 97%. Venus been looked at for years as the next planet to visit,as so is Mars but lets talk to her yet,Venus has been studied to know that their had been life on her before and what causes the carbon dioxide and what forces the planet to keep its posure. Venus is a really complicated planet and the thought of visiting could be harmful.
As in the 1800s devices where invisioned but not in that way,since World War 2 computers were first looked at in 1940s and the technology they had back them was even close to compare to modern day,as they were slow to load and ares was fast to load .
But think even with modern day technology,we do still fail to communicate so what if we try to vist Venus and then the connection with the commanding officer is lost and now your space floating and that their is a real danger.
So maybe going to venus is not bad idea but its an idea that won't happen but who knows, lets not see whose survives the longest.
But my conclution is why does Venus have to be the go to planet, despite all the carbon dioxide and her 800 degrees Fahrenheit. I know why we picked Venus becaouse it's the exact size of us and the 2nd closes to the sun. | 2 |
bec344a | Driveless cars shouldnt be allowed there a bad sign of bad luck to anyone who drives them at all. They are also not safe even though some people think they are. Think about it why would you want a car if your not really driving it??? What type of sense does that make thats the whole point of having a car and your license is to drive your car. If your not driving it then you should have it its really a waste of money if you buy it. Driveless cars are a bad idea and there not safe.
First of all they can cause a wreck and as it said in the article if somebody gets into a wreck who can they blame it on. The driver, or the car who knows who acually did it. And what if its the cars fault what if it catchs a glicth or something. What if the car has a glicth and blows up who's fault is that the person who made it right??? Who's gonna pay for the persons funneral if they so happen to die.
No one knows you see regular cars dont catch glitch. Regular cars dont drive there selfs because the person behind the wheel drives the car not the other way around. Thats the whole point of them making a car is for transportation but what is the point of having a machine drive you around and thats the whole point of you buyin it. Is for you to have fun driving it if you make driveless cars then teenagers are going to think that they dont need a license to drive a car. There going to get in the car and let the car drive them around.
Theres no fun in buying the car if you cant drive it thats why you bought the car. Whats the point in getting your license if your not the one driving. And also if you havent noticed your putting your life in the hands of a machine. Also 90 mph is fast if you didnt know 90 mph can kill somebody in a mature of seconds if that car gets a glicth.
This whole idea should just go out the window because it cost alot of money to build a car. And now by them trying to build a car that can drive itself is going to cost even more money. Also what if a old person is driving the car and they see the windsheild wipers blink. That could cause and accident real quick who knows whats going or in there head when they see that they could get scared and start swerving. And these are some reasons why they shouldnt make driveless cars. | 3 |
bec7613 | i think that we should use technology to read students emotional expressions because now we don't really see what a student might be feeling so thats why we have technology and with the high techology advances we have now we can try to atleast see what a student might be feeling like or atleast try to figure out what he is feeling or how he or she might be feeling. and it all works out because now researchers have computers that construct a 3-D model of our faces and all 44 major muscles in the model move like human muscles. even though most people dont show that they are happy or upset most of the time they might be and thats why the researchers perform an impressive calculation each day. also i think using technology is the best idea because what else can we use to read someones facial expressions besides the fact that we can recognize some but not all facial expressions. | 2 |
becac59 | The Challenges of Exploring Venus is highley dangerous to land and to live on. Its sometimes called the "Evening Star". Its the brightest points of light in the night sky. in our solar system Venus is the second planet from our sun. Humans have sent numerous meaning lots of aircrafts to land on Venus. Since there not been a successful space air craft that survived the landing for than a few hours. issues explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Venus's reputation as a challenging plant for humans to study. The planet's surface temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit.
Venus is a hard planet to explore on giving the fact that its 800 degrees Fahrenheit. The Solar power would be plentiful and radiation would not exceed on Earth levels. Temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit. Most importantly researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance. Many of our researchers are working on making innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus. Other studies show that NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted up to at least three weeks in such conditions. By comparison systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure and heat and in all other forces.
"The Challenge of Exploring Venus" would take more than a few years for our researchers to figurer a way to collect the data from the planet. NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. Venus has value not because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself. But also because of human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doughts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 1 |
bed3294 | There are many different topics and reasons about becoming a Seagoing Cowboy but i'm not goning to mention them all if I did it would take me an excrutiateingly long time. So in cunclusion I am onley going to mention a few of them such as importance, adventure, and sites.
The importians of the Seagoing Cowboys was an extremley important person to be in that time period for saveing hundreds of thousands of cattle, hoarses and any kind of lifestock that was useful to the people. No matter how stormy it got they always tryed there best to keep on cource and never give up. They worked very hard cleaning stalls, feeding the animals, and giving them waterThey were always honored then and I think we should honor them now as well or better as they did back in the time of world war Two.
Oh and just imagian the adventure they had out on the open sea just having the time of there lives. They probably ran in to some nasty storms just think of the waves probabley huge waves the size of a mountain. In the story Luke almost whent flying off the shp but he got lucky he caught a peice of metal to hold onto. Cuold youjust imagian how much that would scare you, if you would have been swallowed by the hungery ocean. They could have even been flung overboard and eaten by sharks it just gives me the chilles thinking about it.
Oh just thnk of the sites they have seen they have probabley been all around the world. In the story it said that Luke he whent to Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water. That was only one he even whent down the Panama Canal on his way to China! can you imagian dong somthing like that !? It would be spectaculer seeing those kind of sites. He even whent on a tour threw an excuvated castle now that is like the cherry on a sundae don't you agree?
That is why I think past Seabearing Cowboys shoul be honored for there services and not just ignored like they are today. My goal is to get the word out about the Seabearing Cowboys to show there importance to this country. So they arent just forgoten and cast away and not honored. | 4 |
bed37c5 | Driverless cars are a newer technology that has greatly advanced in the twenty first centuary, but they are a long way away form seeing them on the road. It is evident driverless cars have a negative impact on society through safety harzards, lack of legal laws, and unreliable technology.
It is guaranteed driverless cars will be a safety threat to everyone on the road becasue they can not be trusted. Driverless cars would rely only on the car itslef to get you somewhere, and people who no longer have to drive themselves. In doing this people are no longer able to be held responsible for any crashes caused by these vehicles, because they would not be in controll of their own car. It is known that crashes would be much more likely, and this too means more death would occur. Many people will become turned away from driving on the road if they know others are not in controll of their own vehichle.
In todays society there are very few laws put in place about driverless cars, which would create many conflicts if these car were to exist on the roads. It is said in article about the intentions of traffic laws that "the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." This means it will be very difficult for new laws to be passed which support driverless cars since a human would not be in controll of it. New laws would need to be put into place because it is evident when it comes to accidents with driverless cars people would need to be aware of whose fault it is.
Technology will always have issues where it fails to do its intention, and this is why we can not trust it with our lives. The human brain has the ability to think in a much different way than a machine would becasue they are just robots. If these machines which run off technology were more effictive than the human brain then everyone woudl have robots doing daily activites for them. As you can tell this does not occur in our socity today, because they are unrelliable. When driving a car you have to think and predict what could possibly happen. With the human brain we have this ability, but the technology driving the car has the ability to suddenly break and then the person in the vehicle would have there life potientally harmed. It will always be more reliable if you trust human knowledge over technology.
The safety hazards, lack of legal laws, and unreliable technology are all ways driverless cars will have a negative impact on the roads. Driveless cars may seem appealing becuase of the convience of everyone have a personal taxi driver (the car itself), but the negative impact outweights the prositive impact. | 4 |
bed66bb | Avantages for limiting car usage is a real eye opener. Giving up your cars and walking your kids to and from school and then walk to work is alot of exercise. Also it helps out with the enviroment greatly. Some people even say it makes them feel better or less tense "when I had car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way,". This was said by a mother of two and a media trainer.
The pollution caused by cars is a pretty big deal of why we have pollution. In paris they have even partially banned driving. If they do drive then they will get a thirty-one dollar fine if you have an even numberd license plate. Then the the next day it would be an odd numbered license plate "On monday motorists with even-numberd license plates were orderd to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31).The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day."
Some countries even hold programs every year addressing this situatuon. In Bogota,Columbia they hold a car-free day. Where Colombians either walked or rode bisicles or they hiked and took buses to work that day. This program was held for three years straight and who ever violated this program was to be finned with twenty-five dollars."BOGOTA,Colombia--In a program that set to spread to other countries,millons of colombians hikes,biked,skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city errily devoid of traffic jams."
It helps a lot with exercise I believe. A lot of americans are obeiest because of lack of exercise. This whole idea will certainly help out alot with health and exercise. If you just walk from your house to a block away thats helping your legs and cardiovascular muscles get stronger as well. If we do eventually have an car- free day i believe that pollution and obiesity will also go down.
Also the gas prices will go down and we wouldnt have to borrow oil from other countries as well. If we wouldnt drive so may cars and everyone rides bikes and walk we wouldnt need gas stations and things like that. It would also help with people being fined and not being able to pay for it. It would help D.U.I's since you wouldnt be driving while you were drinking and causes of deaths when a drunk driver hits someone else.
Over all I feel this is a great idea to look into. You would be cutting down on the pollution and gas prices. You would also be cutting down on peoples health like obesity and breathing in hasardious smoke fumes. Also you would be cutting down on the number of deaths due to drunk driving, or texting while driving or over all wrecks in general. | 3 |
bedb191 | Driving is one of America's favorite things to do, it is looked at as a right of passage, of sorts, for young American's and yet driving is now becoming less and less imoprtant to them. The decrease in the amount of people who are driving and using cars is not only happening in the United States, all over the world people are limiting their car usage. There is a plethora of advantages to limiting car usage with the main three being that it can make people happier by reducing stress, it allow's people to get more excersize, and it can drastically reduce pollution.
First and foremost, people limiting their car usage can make them considerably happier. One reason for this occurance could be that using a motor vehicle less can help reduce stress. In the article"In German Suburb, Life Goes on Without Cars", when asked Heidrun Walter said that "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way."(Rosenthal,3). She lives in a town where there are almost no privately owned motor vehicles. A business man from Bogota,Columbia has also said that using a car less, or even not using one for a day, as they do in Bogota, is "a good opportunity to take away stress,"(Selsky,24). If people don't have to worry about all of the extra expenses and responsibilities that come with a car, then they will not have any stress regarding them and will be happier.
Likewise, limiting car usage can help people get more excersize and lead to a healthier lifestyle. In his article," Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota", Andrew Selsky describes a program in which cars are banned and only public transportation is allowed on the Day Without Cars in Bogota, Columbia. Bogota has been having a Day Without Cars for 3 years and Selsky says that one of the goals "is to promote alternative transportation"(Selsky,21). On the Day Without Cars,"millions of Columbians hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work..., leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams."(Selsky,20). Implementing a program like this helps people get excersize by promoting biking and walking to work and can lead to a healthier lifestyle by encouraging people to use those methods of transportation on a daily basis.
Equally as important, when people reduce their car usage it can drastically reduce pollution. Robert Duffer says that "After days of near-record pollution,Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air."(Duffer,10) in his article, "Paris bans driving due to smog". Duffer says that in Paris the ban was set up so that all people with even numbered license plates were told to leave their cars at home on one day and the next day people with odd numbered license plates were told to leave their cars at home. If a person violated the ban then they were fined 22 euros. After only five days, congestion was cut down 60 percent according to Duffer and by the next Monday the smog had cleared enough for the French ruling party to "rescind the ban"(Duffer, 19). By limiting their automobile usage for just one week Paris was able to reduce their air pollution by a large amount. In the article, "The End of Car Culture" Elisabeth Rosenthal states that if the pattern of less American's buying cars persists then " it will have benificial implications for carbon emissions and for the environment, since transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions,"(Rosenthal,34).
In summation, there are many advantages to limiting car usage. Limiting car usage can have postitive effects on people and the Earth because it can make people happier by reducing stress, it allow's people to get more excersize and lead healthier lives, and it can drastically reduce pollution. Many sources believe that the advantages of limiting car use greatly outweigh the disadvantages and think that the limited use of motor vehicles will increase in popularity. | 4 |
bedf882 | Have you ever heard about the new technology called The Facial Action Coding System? What's the firts thing you think about when you hear about this? According to the acticle "Making Mona Lisa Smile", Facial Action Coding System is a new sotfware has been developed that improves accuracy in perceiving the emotions of others. We are gonna be talking about how the process begings and what methods they use to make this happen and possible
Firts, how this processstart to beings? The article state that, " The process beings when the computer contructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles". Dr. Paul Eckman was the creater of FACS (Facial Action Coding System).
What methods do they use to make this happen and possbile? Dr. Eckman classified the six basics motions-happiness,surprise, anger, disgust, fear and sadness but he associated each characteristics with the movements of the facial muscles. For example, " your frontails pairs lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when you're surprised; your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger". According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions,but also may even help to produce them. This progrma can not only drescribe your emotions, it also shows when you ae hidding you emotion and when you do a fake smile. For example," intructions for a face that looks happy. Its all about those muscular actions units. They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one"
In conclusion, the FACS use diiferents many ways to make this experiment to be possible and how this program being to funtion. This program is a good way to recognize how technoly has been imporving and what computers can do. Now with this information and knowing how this program works would you want to try this program and see if this its works? If you do would be a good idea | 2 |
bee6b7f | Dear ,Mr. senator
I'm writting this letter to you in the favor of not keeping the electoral college . It take the right of the people away ,we dont get to choose who we want as president because if we dont get a say then the congress chooses for us and that might just create some dissagrements between the peopleand the goverment . In the text it states that the voters don't control who they elect for that kinds of violate our rights as the voters .The text also states that the systems allow for much worse to happen than what happened in 2000 the legeslators are respionsible gfor it and it said that those elctors can also defi the the rights of our people in that case it will all be thronw to the house of representative the electoral college is unfair and irrational althought one might say thast it keeps us from getting to much chaos it actually does'nt becasuse if the people think that your taking there rights aways them wil go against you like nobodies bussiness. Thank you for your time, PROPER_NAME | 2 |
bee8305 | Twenty- five years ago something happened around on mars. Nasa viking spacecraft #1 was circling the planet taking pictures of possible landing sites for the Nasa spacecraft #2 when it plotted a showdly likeness of a human face
A few days later
Nasa uvelled the image for all to see.the caption notes "A huge rock formation...which resembles a human face".
If it was an alien why would they choose mars?Why would they make a human face on mars instead of their own kind? I do not believe that this piece of rock on mars was made by aliens
Although few scientist
believe the face was an alien artifact .photographing Cydonia became a priorty to Nasa.When Mars Global Surveyor arrived at the red planet in September 1997, eighteen years after the viking mission ended.They found the face of mars once agaim
Nevertheless,on April 8,2001 a cloudless summer day in Cydonia Mars
Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look.Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution.What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or a mesa landforms common around the american west.This landformed rock was not made by aliens.This rock is a natural artifact to mars. | 2 |
beed224 | Facial Action Coding System is a new improved software system for find out people emotions and feelings just by their facial expressions. The Reason using tehnology to read students emotional expressions is valuable is because better way of getting close and personal with people, the improved way of helping people with their problems, and just by looking at a picture or word, we can make ourselfs feel that emotion. Those three exaples are ways that this system is valuable.
One reason the system is valuable is because it is a better way of getting to know people. In the story, the author explains how Mona Lisa has different emotions in the famous picture that was made from Leonardo de Vinci. "She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent dearful, and 2 percent angry". Thinking the only way possible to find out is to ask Leonardo. Well, there is a "new software system has been developed that improves acuracy in perceiving the emotions of others". This quote explains how through one scan on the computer, we can find out how they are feeling. This software system is a better way of getting to know eachother, but also it is a better way of helping people through their problems.
Also, a reason this system is valuable is because it is i proved system to help us help other people through their problems. "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeoing simply by the look on her face." That quote explains how facial expressions help. People can only tell if their happy, sad, mad, etc. Just mainly the basics. But with this system, you can tell how they are really feeling and be very specific. Just by raising your eyebrows, it'll tell you are curious. Or just by squinting your eyes when your smiling, the system can tell you are happy. For a computer, that is pretty impressive. Not only you can tell their problems, but it explains how looking at different emotions make you feel the same as them.
One last reason this system is valuable is because by us just looking at picture or a word, we can make ourselfs feel that emotion. "Empthy (feeling someone else's emotional state) may happen because we unconsciously imitate another person's facial expressions". That quote explains how just by looking at a person, screem, picture, etc. we can feel the same exact emotion just because how normal and easy it is these days.
Technolgy has changed many ways over the passed years. Theere was internet coming out, then touch screen, many websites and video calling apps, etc. But now all the way to the fact we can express and know eachothers emotions by just one scan on the computer. A better way of getting close and personal with people, the improved way of helping people with their problems, and just by looking at a picture or word, we can make ourselfs feel that emotion is the reason using technology is valuable. | 4 |
bef1ed0 | i think it's pretty much safe for stop driving cars or give them away,and it making people looking bad in sense to .given your cars away will reduicing accidents more people will feeling safe when they walking in the streets and more parents will let their kids playing in the streets without asitated and the air will be good and everyone breath very well and more people will stop getting ticket from police.
taking some one 's cars away will hurt some people 's feeling and this idea sound good to me because some teenagers keep making some fast cars and racing in the streets and there is some time most of them got their self killed or burning a life in the car if they can especially take those cars away it will be more safeand tey will stop dying in cars accident.
''as a result ,70 percent of vauban's families do not own cars,and 57 percent sold car to move to move here''i think those the talk about in this paragraph are acting smart,if all of those have been following those others example sold their and take the money you could probably feeling better or let them take it away from you won't feel good.
''paris bans driving due to smog''that is the most dangerous part in driving cars when it smog in the air ,people have 55 percent chance to got yourself killing or cars crash. this idea was the greatest idea ever. | 2 |
bef3518 | Luke wanted to be a Seagoing Cowboy. A cattle boat came up and gave him the opportunity to be in the Seagoing Cowboy program. Luke's friend inited him to go on the cattle boat because his friend knew he wanted to be on one. Luke's life changed right after graduation.
Luke did not know his life would change soon. It was 1945, World War ll was over in Europe, and many counties were left in the ruins. UNRRA hired " Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that wereshipped over seas. It says that Luke and Don signed up.
He crossed the Antlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War ll. Luke also found time on board, especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded.
Luke said " It made more aware of people of other countries and their needs." Then awareness stayed with him. The cowboys played beseball and volleyball games on board when Luke was on. There was plenty of games they played on board.
Helping at his aunt Katie's farm as a boy had prepared him is what the paragrph said so what it is saying is when he was little then he went to his aunt Katie's farm and played around and it helped him with his future with animals. | 1 |
bef3e2c | The worthly of studying Venus pursuit despite the danger it presents. studing the Venus comes in a whole bunch of pros and cons.
One of the good things are they get to explore what they have always wanted. They get to fingure out a awhole other life on a different planet. And because if you do study it and really get to go, then youll be maybe the first few people to go in a long time." Humans nimerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world.Each pervious mission was unmanned, and for good reasons, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." So if more people learn about Venus and want to go up to Venus then we would have more people surviving it and having more spaceships touching Venus and maybe a life
up their.
That is why i think more people should study the planet Venus even though it might have some ups and downs, but at the end of the day more people would want to get involved with the space things and we would have more people traveling up their learning all sorts or new things and bringing it back to the earth. | 2 |
bef41bf | The reason we have not got to Venus yet is because all of the dangers that are stopping us from getting there there are many reasons but the main reasons is because it is to hot to land on the surface even tho is is not the closest to then sun it is the hottest planet. So since it is the hottest planest we cant get close to it with out us burning to death. So we cant land there so we willhave to find a way to grt as close as possible without dieing. Another reason it the amount of pressure on the planet is so strong that it would crsuh a submarine that is made for going and being able to stay at a high pressurer and not crush or break but if it where to go to venus it wiuld be crudh like a person crushing a peice of paper. We think we have found a way to get close to it we could use a blimb type of system and stay 30 miles above the planet. The temputrue would still be 170 degrees and thats still hot but if used solor power from the sun it should stay nice and cool inside the blimb. The last reason is our tecnology is not strong enugh to stand the heat it would melt and then there was no point of going to take like pictures and it would kinda be a waste of money so we need tecnology that would help then stay cool and not melt because if we were to go now the temputre is so hot that it would melt ten adn melt just like butter or ice on a hot summer day. So there are meany reasosns that we cant go there yet but if the tecnology gets better and better evry year like it has been we will be able to not just go look at the planet byt to get to go on it. | 2 |
bef8651 | Global warming is a huge concern, and most of the blame is on cars. In
Paris bans driving due to smog"
by Robert Duffer, Andrew Selsky's
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota , and Elizebeth Rosenthal's
In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars and
The End of Car Culture;
they explain everything happens in areas where they suspend car usage, regulate it, ban it and seeing trends of areas where they just do not care about cars. Limiting the use of vechicles can have a emormous benefitcal impact.
One reason for a minial car usage, is that people tend to get stressed with cars in order to do errands or go to work. Following with Rosenthal's article, she mentions a media trainer with two childern named Heidrun. The mother states "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." In Vauban, many people move there with having sold a car; that particular area has 30% of families using cars. Many people want to worry less about having to errands. It is much easier to have things closer to you instead of having to go far. Continuing the essay with Selsky's article, in Bogota, Colombia; they have a car free day where everyone avoid using cars. Selsky quotes a businessman where he says " It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." In this particular day, he has a day to experience no stress and having the positive mind of knowing that this benefits the environment as well as himself. Therefore, limting the usage of cars relives stress even for a day.
Another reason is pollution, this is a huge problem around the world and many are trying to find solutions to less the effects of global warming. In Duffer's article, Paris takes a huge step in reliving their smog problem. They have banned cars, not exactly, they are regulating them by having odd number license plates go one day then evens on another. This limits the use of cars for people, in which later in the article it relieves the smog so they also relive the ban. But in other areas, people do not seem to have an interest in cars like America. Many of America's young people are not really interested in cars. Rosenthal explains how it would have many positive effects, " If the pattern persists- and many sociologists belive it will- it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment, since transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions, just behind power plants. Thus, having less people use cars can be a solution to pollution.
In conclusion, benefits to limiting cars use is less stress due to not having a car and lessing the effects of pollution. All this is a major impact leading into a better world. | 4 |
bef8748 | In "Challenge of the Exploring Venus" there are many dangers that it presents from weather to the conditions we will face if we ever live on our Earth's twin Venus. Venus is the second planet from the sun making it extremely hot and dry the temperatures average iver 800 degress fahrenheit the amount of the highest degress can melt some of our metals making them become liquids .
The weather in Venus can be extreme from their thick atmosphere with at least 97 percent of carbon dioxide making the clouds extremely a corrosive making its rain into acid. Venuses pressure is greater than Earths pressure about 90 times more powerful the enviroment is extremely powerful where humans have never accountered this type of enviroments.
Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any other planets our solar system its pressure of heat can cause erupting valcanoes and powerful eathquakes and frequent lightnings triikes to probes seeking to land on its entire surface.
Earths space administration known as NASA has sended humans to study all over to Venus and air craft but usally they do not suceed in landing at all because Venus has different speeds if NASA do land on to the hostile and extreme condtitioned surface of Venus it would allow scientists to float above the frays making the air pressure close to the level on Earth although the radiations would not exceed to Earth levels. The conditions on Venus is extreme and hostil but Humans can still survive the bad conditions that Venus has. | 2 |
bf00ad9 | The Face on mars was a big controversy throughout the 1970's to 2001, and still is a popular topic of conversation. Many people believe NASA was trying to hide an alien artifact by saying it's a land form, and others believe thats all it is, a landformation. NASA has been photographing this for years, trying to figure out exactly what it is, and trying to satisfy the conspiracy theorists. In 1976, they were taking photos of a region of a planet, and discovered this strange formation with the look of a face. NASA continued to research and take photos. After years of photographing and talking, they finally figured it out.
NASA discovered in 1998, that what many people thought was an alien artifact, was actually just a landformation. From the beginning, the NASA workers had two theories. Some scientists thought the Face was an alien artifact, and most thought it was a mesa, which is a natural land formation. The second theory was right, that all it was was a strange land formation and bad camera quality. There are photos that show the 3 pictures they took of the Face. One was in 1976. That was a time where most people thought it was an alien artifact, because it looked most like a face because of the blurry quality. In addition, the next picture from 1998 showed was it really was, just a land formtion. The third, from 2001, proved people who thought it was from aliens wrong. If you examine the photos closely, you can see that there are cracks in the land, that if angled the right way with clouds in the way, can show the illusion of normal face features, like eyes and a mouth. In comparison that to the photo taken in 2001, it is obvious it's nothing more then land.
Before the photo in 2001, people still thought it was an alien artifact. An article stating that, "Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars," proves a point. Why would NASA not want there to be aliens on other planets when it would benefit them so positively. If NASA really thought there were aliens, why would they show the photos to the whole world? When the first photo came out, NASA stated, "a huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. They put out the photo to attract attention to mars with that caption. It explains what the formation is and how it may be mistaken as something other than rocks.
"What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesalandforms common around the American West. It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, says Garvin. Thats a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars. The study was over and they stopped photographing the face once everybody understood what it was. In this paragraph, a scientist explains the mesa and compares it to a landform on earth.
In the end, the Face ends up just being a landformation, though many people hoped it would be a discovery of alien life. The photos proved that it was nothing more then a rock formation. NASA researched to find the land formation and made it clear that they also wanted it to be an alien artifact. All of the conspiracy theorists have been proven wrong, and the mystery has been solved. | 5 |
bf041d5 | Dear state senator,
I am writing you today because I find we should not be using the electoral college. It doesn't make much sense to make things so much more complicated than they have to be. Why would we vote for a group of people to vote for us? it doesnt make sense, why not just vote on our own, that way we know we voted for whom we really wanted
? voting for an electoral group is like going to vote and saying "Hey, im going to vote today for a group that will hopefully vote for the presisdent i want." I personally would not put my faith in someone who could just so easily change their mind and not vote for my choice.
I do see the reasoning in having an electoral college so that way we are less likely to end up with a tie or any other mishaps. however why would we not instead just have an extra group of say, 50 people to vote if we end up with a tie? I find that would be much easier. people would be able to just vote for whom they wanted and be done with the whole situation.
Remeber the disaster factor? we are lucky that 2000 situation was the biggest election crisis in the century; the system allows far worse. our legislatures are responsible technically for picking electors, and the chosen electors can always go against the will of the people.
what if a tie does occur in the electoral vote? it nearly happened in 1968, a shift of just 41,971 votes would have deadlocked the election; in 1976, a tie would have occured if a mere 5,559 voters in Ohio and 3,687 voter in hawaii had voted the other way. the election is only a few swing voters away from a disaster.
The electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, canidates dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winmning, focusing on the tight races in the "swing" states. During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the canidates at all. If anyone has a good argument for putting the fate of the presidency in the hands of a few swing voters in Ohio, they have yet to make it.
The electoral college is just not a fair nor good way to handle the voting system and i believe we need to change it. | 3 |
bf046f8 | Dear Mr.Senator,
I believe that the United States should switch the precidential election process to popular vote. This is due to the fact that the U.S. has grown up, and as a people we need to vote for who we believe to be a great and capable leader for our country and we can't let other people vote for us. I think that the origanal thought behind the electoral college, compromise, was good in its time, but now is no longer the time for compromise, even if the electoral college has some right ideas, such as helping us choose the correct leader. I believe it is obvious to see we will fail and make mistakes as a result of choosing our own leaders,however it is more important and more benefitial that we make our own mistakes. We need to learn from them ourselves rather than to be stopped and pointed into a direction before getting the chance to decide which path we take. Like I said before the U.S. is a big boy, it's time to take the training wheels off.
To support my idea that America should run off popular vote I shall point out some flaws with the idea the electoral college. The electoral college isn't equal. There are an unequal amount of people per state, and even though we divide power amongst those representatives equally there still isnt equal say among them as individuals, meaning a group of repsentatives from one state and one representative from another state could have the same power. How is that equal? Only in the sense that each state itself has the same amount of play in the election, but they don't, some states actually get looked over everytime the election happens. Another problem is that the representatives don't represent each person in the state or what they yern for in their leader, just the state itself. On top of the fact that the people aren't properly represented right, the people who are actually voting can just vote for who they like, which points to the fact that the electoral college has the possibility to be immoral and completely wrong.
A nation that is run by the people should be run by the people. It was said that "a house divided cannot stand." Now the subject that this qoute pertains to is different than that of the one I am using it in, but it is still true. The government should be as it was intended, run by the people to create a better and greater tomorrow. The people deserve the popular vote.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
bf07b8b | The driverless car seems like it would be a really cool invention, but seems like it could have some issues. The car would be moving somewhat out of your control especially if used as a public transportation vehicle. This would make the older generations worry about their kids and grandkids since they realize it could break down anytime anywhere.
The vehicle could easily be labled as dangerous since the text states, "Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009. Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash" 500,000 miles is good but you have to be under certain conditions. How good would the car work if you can't or live to far away to drive under these special conditions? The car might malfunction or go crazy, it could just simply blow up. Due to these statements this car could be labled dangerous.
The car could also be labled dangerous for its inability to pull in and out of driveways. This could be a hazard for the young kids who are just learning how to drive and think the car can do everything for them like Google makes it look like it can. Backing out of a driveway can be a very dangerous action to accomplish because if there are obstacles blocking the view of the road you can not see cars going past you.
The car can also be a dangerous vehicle because if you are driving and get drowsy or something with nobody else in the car with you, you could run right through a construction site. This is obviously a big concern for a lot of people because a construction site can have many hazardous tools that could kill you instantly even with protection of a car. Its a dangerous car for you and also the people around yo. If someone else on the road wasn't in an automatic driverless car and made a mistake you wouldnt have the chance to dodge the other driver to save yourself you guys would both just crash.
Driverless cars can be very helpful, but overall i see them as death traps. They could take peoples lives over a simple mistake like a malfunction. I would not drive a driverless car or allow my kids to drive one due to safety concerns and lack of control. Afterall those movies with driverless cars often end bad any way. | 3 |
bf09b3d | This stroy is talking abour a planet name Venus. Thier saying that Venus is the Brightest in the evening. Venus is the secound plaent form the sun. Sicencetest are saying that Venus is like Earth's tiwn?.Earth and Venus have the same terms of density and size and occasionally Fomr the closest in distance too.
NASA is wroking on approaching and study Venus. Tos see what dose it have in the air or dose it have and disaes. The aother projects is looking back to an old technology called the mechanical Computers. These devices were first envisioned in the 1800s and played an inprtan role in the 1940s during World War ||.They are going to meet challenges oresented by venus has value and its not only because of the insight by gaind on the plaent itself.
On Earths travels and beyound should not be Be limited by dangers travels abd doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of the imantion. | 1 |
bf09ba6 | What if teachers were able to monitor their student's emotions during class? In the article, "Making Mona Lisa Smile", by Nick D'Alto, D'Alto talks about a technology that was developed that can detect how someone or something feels based off of facial expressions. How the technology works is that there are certains muscle in a person's face that codes for different feelings and if they move a certain way, then the person is conveying a certain feeling, which the computer can detect. This technology is interesting, but it shouldn't be used in school environment. Sure, there are some positives but overall, the negatives outweigh the postivies. This technology is expensive and insufficient, not necessary, and invades privacy, which can be a distraction. The technology used to identify feelings and expressions should not be allowed in a clasroom.
This technology is too expensive to put in classrooms. It requires a good amount of money in order to install in into a classroom. Many classrooms do not have it right now too so it can be a huge blow to a country's capital or economy. Since many developing countries do not have the money to put this technology into classroom, they will lag behind in education even more, since they don't get the benefits that this technology may provide. Not to mention, investing a great amount of money into the technology is nt worth it because even in developed cuntries, there are bigger problems to worry about and more important issues that the government needs to fund for. Also, this technology is insufficient because as stated in the article, "PC can't handle the complex algorithms used t decode Mona Lisa's smile." This shows that there are some computers that cannot handle the complex algorithm, so even if a school wanted to invest in this techology, they need good quality computers, whch is putting a bigger hole in their budget. Although this technology would be nice to have, it is a problem financially and insufficient.
Along with it being a financial burden, this technology is not really useful in classrooms. In schools today, many teachers plan out their lesson before the class starts. With this technology, if a student were bored, the teacher would have to either change the whole class plan or let the student be bored. Also, there will be occasions where one student is interested in material while another is bored. This info really isn't useful because the teacher cannot satisfy both students at once. And then there is the issue with techology these days. In the article, a line states "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication." Since many students are attached to their phones or devices, knowing their emotion really is not useful. They are either bored or not interested in the lesson. All in all, this technology really does not provide much in the learning environment today.
Finally, this techonology can actually be a distraction and invade privacy. By being able to detect a student's emotion in class, the student may feel insecure. This can cause them to become paranoid and focus on their thoughts and assumption rather than the lesson the teacher is teaching. In the society today, cyber bulling is fairy common. If a student is already insecure, then knowing the teacher is monitoring how they feel in a classroom could cause the student to break down. And then there are the group of kids that want to be class clowns. Students can purposely activate a muscle in the face that codes for a different feeling than they are actually feeling. This could make students focus more on messing with the technology rather than paying attention in class. Another conflict that came to mind is if a student is feeling down because of something that happened in their life. Teachers may call on that student. With this device in a classroom, students can find this technology as more of a distraction than a use for the teacher.
In conclusion, this technology has more of a negative impact rather than a positive impact in the classroom. It can serve as a distraction to the class atmosphere, a financial burden to a country's economy, and does not make a huge impact overall in the classroom. Although this technology is very interesting and provide some positives, it should be used just for kicks and giggles and not incorporated into a classroom. | 6 |
bf0ec0f | I disagree with the development of driverless cars because I think it's safer for a human to drive instead of technology. Humans are more aware of their surroundings and technology can only sense it's surroundings. If the technology is good and has been tested multiple times I still wouldn't want to be in one because something could always go wrong. The technology could get a virus and mess up or it could do something the person doesn't want it to do.
Manufactures had to use a lot of senser so that the car could move by itself. The Toyota Pruis uses all kinds of different sensors to make the car have the same skills as a human driver. But what if the sensors stop working? Then what will happen? If there was a accident nobody would know if it was the cars fault or the humans fault, it could be both. If it was the cars fault for causing an accident I wouldn't want have another driverless car and it would be a lot safer for everybody to have human drivers. Manufactures are trying to make sitting in the car more fun by putting entertainment devices in the car while the driverless car is driving. I think that is going to be a huge distraction in the car for the humans. They say if the humans wants to drive then the entertainment will automatically shut off. But what if it doesn't shut off? If the entertainment doesn't shut off then the human driver will be distracted by it and it could cause an accident.
I think it would be better and safer for every car to have a human driver because you can't alway trust technology. So many things go wrong with technology nowaday's and people don't see that as a big deal, but they will see it as a big deal when they trust technology to drive them around and they get into an accident. I wouldn't want technology driving me around because technology isn't always perfect and it just can't be trusted driving people places on the road. | 3 |
bf1a798 | My opinion on this whold driverless car deal is that it's not a terrible idea. I just don't see to much to offer besides a car that is just a waste of time on the road for everyone else. They have to test the car to be better and I understand that it's just that maybe we're not ready for cars like this so soon. As time goes on humans are more dependant on technology and we can't do that forever sometimes it's good for us to not rely on it so much. With cars we drive ourselves around and are alwayed focused on the road and what's around us at all times we become more alert in a way. Now with self driving cars we sort of loose that awareness of being alert all the time while on the road.
This idea is another great idea to keep the crash records down but it doesn't change the fact that humans almost everyday depend on everything to do something for us no matter how simple it is. Humans are getting lazier and lazier by every new invetion that is being produced. Sometimes it's bad sometimes it's good but in this case it's kind of a bad thing because it's another thing that a "thing" can do for us.
Untill they can find a way that this will truly work I will be against it. | 2 |
bf215a7 | The way technology has changed through out the years amazes many. However, a car that can do the jobs of a human? Now that is just terrifying. The development of driverless cars enforces dependence, not safe, and is not fully developed to be driving without a human behind the wheel.
Nowadays, people are already frustrated by having to drive the car themselves but if you throw in a driverless car in to the mix? That is not safe for the people inside and/or outside the car. As the passage states, "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." Also, what if the car is in "driverless mode" and begins to glitch, what is going to happen then? Or, the aftermath of a car accident and someone gets hurt, who is to blame then?
Usually, when people in their adolescence get a car they are thrilled because it is their responsibility to drive that car safely and to be independent. However, with buying a driverless car, all the independence and responsibilty just flies away. In the future, what is going to happen when people feel that way since the car is driving, they do not have to do anything behind the wheel. Or, if someone falls asleep and does not hear, see, or feel the warnings and signals from the car to take control, For example, when the driver's seat starts to vibrate or the flashing lights on the windshield.
A car that is driverless is quite impressive, but then what is the point of having a human behind the wheel. People who are for the development of these types of cars do not get the whole idea behind the problem with these cars. The passage states, "-the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." Big whoop, throughout the years a human's attention spand has sky rocketed downwards. So, even if there was a warning, there would not be a big chance if the driver even saw or heard it.
In conclusion, the development of driverless cars enforces independece, not safe, and is not fully developed to be driving without a human behind the wheel. If we stop this development now, we can stop the risks of what is yet to come in the future on the road. | 4 |
bf24abd | Dear senator,
The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational as Bradford Plumber stated. First of all, The electoral college consists of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vise President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. We should abolish the electoral college because it is unfair to voters. It's all because of the winner-take-all system that in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning. They focus on the tight races in the "swing" states. For example, during the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all - 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad.
One of the best arguments against the electoral college is the disaster factor. The state legislators are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people. In 1960, segragationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. This means that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to him.
Another issue that most people worry about is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. If that happens, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives and the Senate would choose Vise President.
To say the least, abolishing the electoral college is the best idea. According to a Gallup poll in 2000, I am not alone. The Gallup poll was taken shortly after Al Gore-thanks to the quirks of the electoral college-won the popular vote but lost the presidency. Over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. How does the electoral college even have any defenderes left? Even in a close election in which the popular vote winner could lose the presidency.
The electoral college is widely regarded as an anachronism and I couldn't agree more. It is a thing from the past and should stay that way. The electoral college is not democratic in a modern sense because it is the electors who elect the president, not the people. Richard A. Posner even says that when you vote for a presidential candidate, you're actually voting for a slate of electors. | 4 |
bf2560f | Dear Senator,
I am astudent from Lakewood Ranch High School in Bradenton. I have recently been informed about wanting to make certain changes to the election process. I am not of an age to vote, yet I am informed about how the election process works and the role the electorial college plays withing it.
The electoral college is a proces, not a place, which consists of 538 electors. During this process the public casts their vote for their favorite candidate. The votes are added up in each state and whichever candidate has got the most votes is for whom the state's representatives will vote towards. Each state's number of representatives is determined acoording to polpulation with California having the most electorial votes at 55. Electors can change their votes for whomever they'd like, yet it is highly unlikeley. In order for a candidate to win an election he or she must obtain 270 votes out of 538.
Some may argue that the people's votes don't necessarily influence the outcome of the election since electors can still change for whom they vote for, so they request that the popular vote determine who becomes president. This idea implies that all eligible citizens in the U.S. to vote in the election when truth being over half of the nationwide population does not cast a vote, with the leading cause being apathy. Also it is implied that all citizens are informed about who they vote for. During a presidential campaign, a political party will put most of their efforts in "swing states", these are the states with the most electors. This means that people from smaller states will recieve little or no information about the candidates causing the citizens to cast a blind vote.
The main reason of why the electorial campaign should determine who wins instead of the popular vote is the public can be too easily influenced. If a particular candidate is preferred in certain areas, the population in or around that area might be influenced to vote for that individual. Also people can be peer-pressured into voting for someone they might not agree with.
In my opinion the U.S. population is not ready for that kind of responsability. The electoral college was established to help the election proces run smoothly and it has worked for decades without any major flukes or flaws. So why change now? | 3 |
bf264d4 | I agree with the article because the text say " according to some new computer software that can recognize emotions' which mean they can tell how a picture is feeling"
I know, its weired lmao, but its also true. the text also states that
"The classroom computer could recognize when a student is being confused or bored" the class got a new update to tell how people are feeling.. MIND-BLOWING.
I thiink everybody and everyschool should get something like this it's a really cool thing,
You would really know how people really feel if we got something like this. Good way to boost up techology as well, I'll say." Shes 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry, no thats not your science teacher, grading your latst lab, it is the Mona Lisa " so you're saying a computer fugured that out? WHAT!!!! if a compute can do all that then freaking duhh we need that in this broken world. we wouldn't even know how to act if we got this. | 2 |
bf2b842 | Well in source 4 i think kids are getting few licenses because there droping out of school and hav no money and smoke to much and to many different type of drugs. now dont get me wrong not all kids a like thhis but a good 40% are like this. the thing is the people spend to much time in the car there should be a car limmit like more joy rideing for more than an hour or no just driving to drive because you want to. the world need the learn how to put things in moderation. the world today is to codependent we need to be more independent i mean less pointless use or cars or buying and using things we dont need. like more car the more cars we buy the fast the air will thin and so many bad thing will come from that. to make a car free day it would cost the USA more money to have a car free day that to find scientist and try the find a better way of using fuels so what i am saying is unless you get every one here to start hating driving it wont be a car free day ever in the USA.
in the world they need to have one whole day car free i do agree i just really dont think it is posibale to get it to happen to many people work to far from home and need to travel for work.
???OK BYE NOW??? | 1 |
bf2c87b | The author was talking about all off the crazy thing that venus has in common with planet earth, but it would be highly dangerous to go. When the author talks about all of the bad conditions that venus has its makes you really think how hard it would be to get to the hot lava planet. What the author is trying to get you to see is that venus has a lot of dangerous conditions, but that the scientists know how hard that would be.
The author starts off with putting details of venus in our head by saying things like, "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus" and "On the planets surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit". By this the author is trying to tell you how hard it would be for man-kind to be in physical contact with venus. The author is putting physical details in our head about this planet.
After the author starts talking about that he states the question "why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface"? The author ask this to us thinking about whats the point if there is nothing speaical its just a hot rock. Wrong, the author states how venus was just like earth it had it valleys it had its water it had everything earth has. It would be very good to know that if anything happen to earth we always have a back up planet to go to.
The last thing that the author was trying to do was talk about how The National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. When I read that it kinda got me excitied i was thinking we might get to see mars wow thats cool. The author states that "imagines a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the Venusian landscape".
In conclusion what the author is trying to get the reader to do would be make all of the reader think about how cool it would be to be able to go to a "earth like planet". How he uses the details and the things they learned from NASA kinda gets you exicited about what will come in the future. So the author was giving us all of these reasoning about how dangerous it would be but it woukd be very good to know. | 3 |
bf2e2df | I think having self driven cars are going to be dangeres becasue there is alot of problems with cars that you have to drive yourself. Why are they trying to make a car that drives by thereself? It would be cool but its to risk.
Its to risky to have a car drive by its self. Because what if you fall in hard sleep and you get to a work zone. Your going to get in a wreck. Thats putting other people in danger.
What if the sensors mess up and just stops working. BOOM wreck right there.
Theres also good reasons for the driveless car. You can play on your phone because you dont have to watch the road. There would be less wrecks because there is alot of wrecks becuase people are playing on there phone and trying to drive at the same time Or you can do you make-up when you are running late to work or a meeting. You also can save gas. If you save gas more money you have.
If you going on a road trip and you tired just take alittle nap. But they need to put a loud alarm in the car so when you need to drive you will be able to get up and drive when you need to. There would be less people falling asleep behind the wheel and getting in to wrecks.
My conclusion is that the driveless car is both helpful but dangeres at the same time. But I think there spend to much money on them when they could be working on the cars you have tyo drive yourself because those dont work properly either. There always a problem with them so what makes them think that the driveless car will work better? | 3 |
bf2e7ce | Dear senator, voting on a president is a big deal. it decides who has power over the U.S. Now the way we elect our president to me is a very efficient process, this is as you know is electoral college, (EC). For the past 200 some odd years, when the founding fathers created this system, it has worked everytime. yes, there have been recounts but those were human mistakes, not a break in the system. when electing a president, I think we need to keep electoral college
President Obama, in his state of the union adress, said, "If it isn't broken, dont fix it". This is true for EC. it still works so why in the world would we want to change it. Would you fix a car if it ran to it's maximum capacity? Some on the opposite side may say that their is a chance for a tie, isn't that fair though? In any fair competition there is always a chance of a tie.
EC is also the most fair in the sense of political party, (liberals and conservitives). It dosnt favor any one party. It does this by giving equal amount of vote for the size of state and for each to win the greater number of electoral college. "The EC requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. No region (South, Northeast, etc.) has enough electoral votes to elect a president."(source 3) This, in basic terms, means that if the southern region is more conservitive (which it is in most cases) doesn't have enough electoral votes to elect a president. The other regions have as equel of a vote as the south does, thus keeping a nice fair election.
In colclusion, EC is, in my opinion, the best and most fair way to elect our leader. other ways may be more efficient but EC is the most far and it has worked since it was created. So these are the reasons that it should remain in use. | 3 |
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