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c4ae4af | The use of alot of cars can be very dangerous to the world around us. The ways that we can stop this is we can not drive for a few days and see what happens. the government can legally stop us from driving our cars for a few days. Here are some benefits of not using cars.
It will lower the percent of greenhouse gas emitted from multiple places around the world. it will reduce the amount of pollution even in some of the most polluted cities such as Beijing, China. In the capital of France, congestion of smog went down 60 percent all because they stopped driving for 2 days. Bicycle paths, parks, and sports centers will start to pop up everywhere loke in Bogota, Columbia.
As of April 2013, the number of mile sdriven per person dropped 9 percent from the peak of driving in 2005. The number was equal to the number in January of 1995. The number of miles driven by young people decreased by 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. After the number of miles driven per person hit the peak in 2005, the number slowly started to decrease. Part of the reason is the recession, because people that were unemployed or strapped on cash couldn't afford new cars because they weren't going to work anyway. | 2 |
c4b052b | Driverless cars can be very useful,but can be disruptive in many ways. Cars containing no driver can be dangerous on many occasions. The person using the vehical will be on alert for anything that will dissrupt the car and in the cars path. Many things can go wrong in simple ways no one will be able fix and/or do much about the problem caused by the car.
Cars with no drivers can and may be banned in different places of the United states. Some states contains a limit for driverless cars. Cars relating to the Google car will be a danger to many people,no one may see the problem if something of that car does not function correctly. Adding Entertainment inside of the vehical can cause many problems aswell. This will cause wreckage on roads and or unsafe usage of the vehical.
Driverless cars may have many uses ffor things such as going to work or going to places far and wide. But there can be consiquences if the driver or the programer does not use the the system of driverless car properly. Many disfuctions and dissruption can occur and soon no one will be able to fix and/or stop what inventor of the driverless car has created. | 2 |
c4b4df0 | There are a lot of reasons to join the program you could always help all the people that need the help.The people that need the help most are the people that are hurt or need to save their kids so they dont die.People like Luck can or could of helped the people or kids that got hurt in any war we can have some day.People like Luck can help all the kids that arent sick save their moms,dads,aunt,uncels,grandmas,grandpas all thoses people that want to save the people that dont even know.They could help the people that want to save ther cats,dogs,fish,or any animal they want to save they can save.
Like Luck he may have got hurt but when he could go back on the seagoing cowboy experience he still wanted to help all the people,kids,and animals that they want to keep everyone happy with who they love and not lose any of them.They can help anyone that they can get to in like the time they have if they have a time to save as many people they can.In the begining before Luke waned to go on the trip her was working two-part-time jobs one was at a grocery store and then at a bank.Then Lucks friend Don invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat yes he could say no but he didn't want to so he went on the trip.So he did what he could do till he got hurt but when he was better he when to go help the reast of the people that needed help.
Luck wanted to help all the people he could im sure of it but when he got hurt he left just the people that were already helping people get better.So when people want to save people they just didn't want to save just people they wanted to save animals to.Then Luck knew he could help the animals or all the animals that he could in stead of just helping people and kids.So Luck tried to help all the people,kids,and anilmals there.They might have saved every one there no one knows if they got saved. | 3 |
c4b5c88 | The Face of Mars was discovered by one of NASA's Viking spacecraft in 1976. It has been discused that it was created by living organims, called aliens, or that it is just a natural landform of the planet. Although both answer could be true, the reasonable one is the fact that the Face of Mars is just a landform.
In 1998, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team took a picture of what is called the Face of Mars. According to the text, "Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Later on in the text it is stated that, "When the image first appeared on JPL web site, revealing... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all". This passage shows that when the first picture was taken, the technology was not as develloped as it is now. The scientific world has taken a big step toward technology and this new science has given scientists more information toward the solar system that were unknown before.
Nevertheless, after this research people were still not satiesfied with the fact that the Face of Mars is just a landform. They believed that the picture was not taken at the right place.
Scientists were determied to prove them wrong. So, they engage into a new study. It is stated that on April 8, 2001, Mars Global Suveyor took another look to the planet Mars. According to the text, "We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the Field of view," said Garvin. "Malin's team captured an extraorinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution." Each pixels in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo.", this quote shows that the scientists of this research took careful attention to their research to make sure they would obtain correct facts. Later on in the texts, it is explain that what came out of the picture was just a landform like the ones we can find on Earth. For instance, the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho.
In conclusion, even though it might be hard for some people to believe the Face of Mars is just a landforms, all the studies scientists have done shows that it is just a landform. | 4 |
c4c72a0 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it might present. The author includes details that back-up his idea. For example, Venus resembles earth in many ways and so
exploring it might be beneficial for the future. Also, despite all the challenges that would obviously be faced at some point while trying to explore Venus, it is important to have knowledge about the outter space - in which human curiosity could play a huge part of. Finally, researchers can't seem to study Venus without having anything that could be used as a sample, since the conditions there are very much deadly for humans.
Firstly, the Earth has many conditions that humans need to survive, in which Venus seems to have a huge resemblance of. Scientistes found that Venus is the closest look-alike planet to Earth than any other planet in our solar system. The text reads, "Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth." Thus, it could support and hold various forms of life in the future if explored and studied upon.
Secondly, although Venus has many factors that resemble the planet Earth no scientist can study it without having a sample from it to gain more knowledge about it. Unfortunatly, no human could survive more than a couple of hourse in its crucial conditions. Paragraph 3 reads, "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on earth; such an environment would crush even a submarine - and Liquefy many metals." Nevertheless, Scientists and researchers are still looking for solutions to explore Venus safely - for it could be our nearest option for a planetory visit.
Finally, the author believes that even though challenges could be extreme and dangerouse, if the challenge presented by Venus is taken over it wouldn't only bring along important informations but will also benefit our curiose human minds and pushes us to discover and learn more about outter space. Paragraph 8 states, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to bee gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." Nonetheless, exploring and having the chance to gain more knowledge shouldn't be limited by dangers and difficulties, yet should be conquered along with our doubts.
In conclusion, the author includes and mentions many important factors and reasons on why we should take over the challenge of exploring Venus. In great details, he includes of how Venus despite for its extreme conditions could be explored and maybe even support some type of life.Therefore, letting our minds go above what we maximize for it is very important for that it coud lead to more and more discoveries and explorations that could add to our knowledge, in which will be very essential for our future. | 4 |
c4c74ea | The idea of driverless cars sounds very unsafe/ unnessasary. We don't need to be spending more money funding this. Lets start with saying are people really that lazy to not want to drive themselves? We need to be able to have complete control of our vehicle at all times! Anything could happen when putting your trust in a car. The car could completely malfunction and lose all control and cause a huge crash and could really hurt someone. Imagine your car losing control and wrecks into someone and kills them! You would be charged with murder because you didn't have all control. Cars are expensive enough just imagine how much these cars would be! We are too busy spending all our money on stupid ideas like this and we have much bigger problems!
There is some good in these cars like not wasting as much money on gas or if you aren't that good of a driver they do most of the driving. You wouldn't have to worry about drinking and driving home. This also would also help with texting and driving you wouldn't have to worry about watching the road and your phone.
But just because there are a few perks to a driverless car doesn't make it any safer! I completely disagree with driverless cars, i know they will cause many accidents and lead to many injuries or even deaths that could have been saved due to lack of control of the vehicle. | 3 |
c4d0651 | The author says that studies Venus would be beneficial to the world. He says this because Venus is sometimes the closest planet to us and would give us insight to other planets outside our solar system. We could learn about how water works on planets and if Venus ever hosted life. If Venus did at one point have life on its surface that would be the greatest discovery ever made. Next is how we would explore Venus.
If we were to explore Venus NASA would allow scientists to float above the roiling Venusian landscape by having you in a blimp like vehicle above 30 miles. We already know the Venus has had oceans in the past. We know this because of the valleys, mountain, and craters. The valleys are by the oceans Venus had. The mountains are caused by the movement of tectonic plates, and the craters are caused by space debris and asteroids hitting Venus. Furthermore is the life that could have been on Venus in it's oceans.
Now if there was life on Venus that would be the biggest discovery of mankind. There was definatly a possibility of life on Venus in the oceans. Basic life was found on Earth as far back as almost 3 billion years ago, that would have been a good time for Venus to support life on its surface as well. The surface of Venus is so inhospitable now that spacecrafts sent to study Venus haven't survived for more than a few hours. That's because of the atmosphere of Venus which ia almost 97 percent carbon dioxcide. The pressure of Venus is higher than the pressure in the deepest parts of our oceans.
In conclusion, Venus is a really good place to research despite the dangers. We could find life outside Earth for the first time on Venus. NASA has offered a way for scientists to research Venus by putting them into a blimp like vehicle that would be hovering at around 30 miles high. THe only danger is the pressure but in that vehicle NASA would provide it would be like a submarine in our oceans. That is why and how the author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. | 2 |
c4d222a | Have you ever thought of being a Seagoing Cowboy. When being a Seagiong Cowboy "It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." (from paragraph 9). You didn't just see the world you go and help it. If you like helping people this is a thing for you. Seeing people and helping them feels great too not because you get apprecation from them, but since you get to know you did good for the world. Just keep that in mind.
It is a dangerous job though. "One rainy night, after making my hourly report to the captain, I slid down a slippery ladder on my backside. My heart raced as I shot feet first toward an opening on the side of the ship. A small strip of metal along the edge stopped my slide, keeping me from flying overboard into the dark Atlantic. I was happy to be alive. But I couldn't work for a couple of days because of cracked ribs." paragraph 7. That shows Seagiong is a dangerous job and it's very serious trying not to get hurt.
In the process we do have a little fun when we aren't doing much. "I found time to have fun on board, especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. The cowboys and I played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed." paragraph 8. That was some fun on board we do to pass time. Since we were around the world we could go cite seeing and things like that away from the ship. These trips introduced this small town boy to the world.
The world is a wonderful place to see. Like I said off board we'd go cite seeing. "Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing Acropolis in Greece was special." paragraph 5. Seeing the world is speical and not most people can afford to do that.
Thoes are the reasons you should join. When you do this it's adventurous, scary, fun, and amazing. Those words explain it all. So join the Seagoing Cowboys. If you don't you would be missing on a great oppurtinity. | 3 |
c4d3703 | In the year 1945, World war 2 has ended, With a long lasting war comes celibration, Joy, and freedom that has hid from the people for year's comes to spread joy accross the world. However there are sad things that come too, ruins. With war comes death, dispare, loss of hope, and ruins of what used to be a happy place to some people. The is a man named luke and a very large group of people are there to help.
Luke is a person who was influenced by a friend to join the so caled sea "cowboys" who help the broken countrys that were riped apart by war. However he went to many different places like eroupe and china and with that you get to see new places. After the animals dispatch from the boat, that will give the workers of the boat time to relax for a while because they will need to get ready to leave again. that mean's the workers have time to do whatever they want.
When the workers leave the animals to leave to thier new home they most likley have time to do somthing. Also if they are giding the animals by big towns you can most likley see the famous land marks or butifule sights on the way. to Luke it was a great experience.
The docs for a ship must have been near town's so the feel of being in a new place to you is a wierd but good feeling. Seing new places, historical land marks, new people, differnt costoms is wierd and different, but it is what is called home to alot of people. To be on a boat and sailng seas is a dream come true to luke, a one in a life time chance. It must have been a hard and dangerous journy is fun, but saying it was the best thing that ever hapend to you is somthing big, and even still saying that when you alomost die is still somthing.
So in all going around the world, sialing the sea, and helping people is a good feeling and to luke is the best feeling. Luke made the most trips as a sea cowboy. So his adventures were great and long but amazing. | 2 |
c4d4020 | Are there any advantages on limiting car usage? I think that there would be advantages to the earth but not for people. Why I think that there would be advantages to the earth is because it would reduce the air pollution. But there is one problem...How would people go places? The people would have to find a way to get to places.
One way to reduce air pollution would be to limit car usage. In th efirst passage paragraph three Heidrun walter says "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier now." This statement means that when she had a car she was tenesed and without a car she is way more happier. But I feel like they shouldn't limit all car usage but they should limit some. In the secound passage paragraph ten it says "Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of global city." How they parcially banned driving is they would let the odd lisenes plates drive one day and the even licenes plates drive the other day. I thought that was a really good ideal. It would clear up the smog but still allow people to drive places.
The one problem is that people wouldn't have anyway to get to places if they banned cars. I mean they could walk but how would people go and see their families that live in a different state. They couldn't walk all the way to a different state with all of their luggage. In the secouned passage paragraph eleven it says that "On monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine($31). The same would apply to odd-numberded plates the following day." This was meaning that if you wanted to go somewhere you would have to go by your license plate. I mean it would work out really good to do this every other day thing but it would be a pain in the butt because what if you accendently go out and that day wasn't your day to drive? you would get a ticket even if you didn't mean to.
In conclusion limiting peopels advantages on car usage would be a pain. I think it is a really good idea because it would reduce car pollution and air pollution but I don't think that they should limit it. Also people would have many difficulties like not being able to go somewhere because it isn't their day. What if it was an emergency? Limiting car usage would be hard for everybody to follow and I don't think if they really want to do it they should only do it for like one or two days a week. | 3 |
c4d54a6 | In the modern world, it's uncommon to see someone without a car. Most people own at least one, and use it frequently. In America, suburban areas have few public transport options available making it difficult to get to work or to a store without using a car. However, cars are a massive source of greenhouse gas emissions. Not only that, car accidents have led to millions of injuries and deaths. While companies are working to procure cleaner, safer car models all the time, other countries are taking actions to lower the number of people using personal automobiles every day.
In Vauban, Germany, cars are actually banned. This town is much cleaner, and its residents are all happy with the rule. Stores and buildings are placed closer together, making them accessable to more people. Many people bike and walk to the places they need to be. Not only is it good exercise, it cuts down on the pollution going into the air and destroying the ozone. By not driving, no one has to be plagued by the worries of speeding, not going fast enough, getting hit, hitting someone else, or paying for gas. The town, finished in 2006, has done well so far. Germany isn't the only country interested in lowering car usage, though.
Recently, Paris was forced to enact a partial driving ban due to smog levels getting out of control. For a while, they were on the same level with Beijing, which is infamous for its horrible pollution. Car emissions have been, as Elisabeth Rosenthal put it in her article, "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars", "choking cities". Paris' solution to the issue was forbidding cars with even-numbered lisence plates to be driven one day, and then odd-numbered ones the next. Many people were unhappy with this, but the smog quickly cleared up to acceptable levels.
Meanwhile in Colombia, Bogota has a ban on cars as well, though it only lasts for one day a year. Contrasting with the reactions of the French, the citizens of the capitol willingly participate and use other means of transportation. Because of this, the usual traffic jams and wrecks are drastically minimized. This day without cars promotes public transport and lowering smog levels in big cities. Carlos Arturo Plaza, a businessman, vocalized his opinion of the event, saying that "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." The car-free day has led to plenty of changes in the city, such as safer, better sidewalks, less traffic, and more condensed stores and restaurants that are closer together.
While it's definitely more common to see someone driving a car than biking to work, steps have been made towards a cleaner future that doesn't involve nearly so many cars. More Americans are limiting their car usage when they can every year. With cell phones and the Internet, it's now much easier to make car pooling arrangements, as well as interacting through the internet without having to leave and drive somewhere. The younger generation is becoming less concerned with getting a license, and is taking up organizing their lives around not having a car. With the recession, cars are becoming harder to afford and maintain. If people can get around those costs, they will. By limiting car usage, pollution levels are dropping, as well as the casualties that come with reckless driving. | 4 |
c4d960b | Hi, my name is Lucas and I had an amazing experience by being a sea cowboy. I got to visit many places that back then many people cound not visit. Also I made a lot of good friends. When my trip with the animals was over my friends and I would kind of have a party we would play games like volleyball, fencing, baseball ext. Like I said this opportunity opened the world up to me. I am glad that I now understands other countries needs and the people from those countries. When I was done being a sea cowboy my family and I had like foriegn exchange students stay with us. I could also teach my family about the foriegn exchange student. Like what his country was like and what animals I brought to that country. Like I said this opportunity had a lot of good effects come out of it. So if you would like to travel the world and learn what different countries needs I suggest being a sea cowboy. | 2 |
c4d98da | When thinking about technology in school, what comes to mind? To me, projectors, computers, and tablets. But soon, we may be getting something that too personal and shouldn't be used for education purposes. FACS (Facial Action Coding System) is a an algorithm that can recognize facial features of a human being.
Why wouldn't the emotinal expressions of a student be valuable? Well, it's too personal. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" Having a camera that can detect every one of your emotions while doing assainments on computers seems a little above and beyound, especially when you're just concentrating and maybe your facial features aren't really saying what your mind is.
"Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor" It only reads facial expressions, there's no information on why or what's making the student not enjoy whatever the student is doing, you dont know what going on in their head. Why have information only on the students expression when there's no reasoning behind it?
As I read more and more on the FACS, I continue to doubt it, it's too in your face about everything, and having something monitor you every day of school, which is already stressful mind you, just adds more into the mix. | 3 |
c4dd60a | A driverless car seems so cool and nobody would never have to really do anything. But, there are consequences that comes with that project. Well one if a person is going to buy one of those driverless would really have to think about it like do i really need it or what will happen while i have this car. A driverless is alright but what if the manufactures made it that the driver could still have control when ever they want. Without the car alerting them its time to take over whenever the driver gets tired of driving they would just hit a button and the will drive on its own.
What if the driver gets into a(n) accident? Who would pay for the damaged car because it wouldn't be right for the driver to pay. The manufactures were the ones who made the car. So, therefore they shoul have thought like if the car startsto not function right it is the vechiles fought not the driver. It wouldn't make sense for the driver to pay. The manufactures would really have to be the ones to apy for the damaged. If were the driver that had to pay they were the ones that wanted the car but on the other hand it's not the drivers fault for the carnot functioning right.
Why would anyone want to have a driverless car that still needs a driver. Wouldn't drivers get bored of just sitting there. What is the whole point of have a driverless car when the driver obvislously still needs to drive it. Then might as well is not have a driverlesss car. Having a driverless car is a very dangerous thing because not only would the car be movineon it's own but the driver would get distracted. either, by his/her phone or thier kids in the back not acting right. The driver would either text and drive. Also, thedriver would take anvantage of it like they could be drinking and driving because they are not controling the car.
So, honestly in my opinon it is not right to have a driverless car because of safety reasons and money situations as in the driver would have to pay because the car was not functioning right. And also texting and driving , drinking etc. | 2 |
c4deb2e | Limit Of Car Usage
When you think about limiting car usage you might think "Well how am I supposed to get there. Theres no way i'm able to get to my destination without a car." Yes, I'm pretty sure we all would'nt want to walk five thousand miles to visit a friend three hours away, but here me out. Doesnt a car make you all tired? Knowing you have to pay a bill every month, or getting gas four times a week. Just imagine a world where thats not a problem.
In Vauban Germany they are most of the time a car free zone. Owners of cars aren't allowed to have cars in there garage or in the streets or wherever a car would normally be. They have to keep there cars in a space they buy at the edge of the community for $40,000 plus the paying for their homes. Now I wouldnt want to pay all this money to park my car. Most people in suburban homes sold their vehicles so that they could live there without a problem. Heidren Walter said," When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." She says as she's walking down the street she can actual listen to the communtity of children playing and not be drown out from the loud motor in the car.
Now, limiting car usage doesnt mean we all have to walk to our destinations. We could start using bicycles more often and actually get a benifit of working out. Sure it might make you all sweaty and gross. But make a plan to get up a little earlier and then wash up at wherever it is you are to be. And limiting cars doesnt mean every single one of us need to give up our cars. Instead we can find a friend who lives near to us or a fellow co-worker and car pool. Instead of all two hundred employes lugging their cars on the road and getting stuck in torturous traffic. make a plan to get five people in a car and instead of two hundred cars on their way to work, there would only be about fourty cars going to the same place. That would clear up our roads and ruduce traffic. In France Congestion was down sixty percent after reducing cars.
"Diesel makes up 67 percent of vehicles in France, compared to a 53.3 percent average of diesel engines in the rest of Westurn Europe.." ,according to Robert Duffer. People today are now worrying to much on their cars and how much it will cost them. Not worrying about jobs and insurance. The invention of the car was not to see who can get the most miles or whos car gets better horse power. It was about helping people get from A to B, and we can do just that.
There are many people out here who will think that limiting car use is a waste of time and like to keep things the same. But we can be the generation who changes that. If we could go down to one car a family and start car pooling with one another, or even start using bikes to go to places with our friends, we can help make the community a better place. One day just try. Try walking to the super market. Instead of making your mom drive you and your friends to the mall, try making a plan to all ride your bikes there. It doesnt hurt to try, so try to start. | 5 |
c4ecf88 | Cars, they help us get from point A to B in a shorter amount of time, but at what cost. Cars are a large source of stress, produce large ammounts of pollution, and seem, even now, to be going out of style. Cars are a luxury, not a necessity, and now they might not even be as usefull. More and more people are putting down the car keys and choosing instead to take a bike or bus. Cars are just too stressful to be a necesity.
In Vauban, Germany, many people are giving up engines. According to the
New York Times,
"70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars," showing that life can go on efficiently even without a car. Life might actually improve without those money eating tanks. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" says Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two. This car free philosophy is even becoming a trend! There are hundreds of groups in the United States promoting communities that are more independent of cars, called "car reduced" communities. But stress isn't the only thing cars produce. Cars are huge contributers to pollution, and reducing car usage would greatly benifit the enviornment.
Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, and up to 50 percent is some car-intensive areas in the united states, acording to the
New York Times . Paris actually enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city after days of near-record pollution. The ban was enforced with a $31 fine. Even with 4,000 drivers fined, congestion was down 60 percent and the smog cleared enough that the ban could be lifted the next day. Using more enviornmentally inclined sources of transportation will deffinetly help leave a cleaner planet for future generations, and the generations already here. Cars are conveinient for short term gratification, but the long term effects might devastate the enviornment. Cars are not needed, and might not even be prefered for much longer.
A study last year found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009 in the united states. Bogota, Colombia even becan a "car-free day" in wich all cars, besides busses and taxis, are banned in this capital city of 7 million for an entire day. Violaters of this ban are fined $25. "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," said businessman Carlos Plaza. This event is even starting to spread. For the first time two other Colombian cities have joined the event. Using cars is becoming less and less common, and it's a trend the enviornment can enjoy.
In conclusion, cars are a hiderance. Cars are stressful and cumbersome objects, getting rid of them would help reduce stress in the population. Cars are high contributers to pollution, creating smog and causing problems. Also, cars are a comodity that is being used less and less. People are putting down the car keys and picking up a bike. So why not join the trend? | 4 |
c4f0bd2 | Studying Venus is worthy pursuit despiting the danger, becuase many astronomoers are interested Venus. Astronomers think Venus might be the most, "Earth like planet in our solar system."
In the article they say that NASA is figuring out ways they can send people to Venus without being on its surface. NASA is also trying multiple ways to make their equipment more resistence to the heat in Venus.
Atronomers think that venus might compare to Earth. In the article is says, "Long ago Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life. just like Earth." Venus also has some features that look alike to Earth. in the article it also says that there were, "valleys, mountains, and craters" just like Earth.
Another way to study Venus is that NASA is creating ways to go to Venus, but not to be on its surface. NASA is wanting to have Aircraft to hover above Venus. They would use solat power for energy, but radiation would exceed earth's levels. In the article it say, " Not easy conditions but survivable for humans."
The last way to study Venus is that NASA is tesing and making material that can handle Venus's tempature. In the article it says, " Some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulation the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three week in such conditions." Another ways is to use old technology which is called mechanical computers.
In conclusion studying Venus would be a benefit for us. If atronomers are right that Venus is a look alike to Earth. We can get materials that we need or learn how to use new material that we find there. With the help of NASA making new materials and ways to get there. Atronomers can get there in no time. | 3 |
c4f232b | In this essay I will be telling you why we should explore Venus. In The Challenge of Expolring Venus there are many dangers to it but I stll think that we should try every thing in are power to explore Venus.
I think that we should still explore Venus because it would help us out in the long run becuase we the Earth become over popluation we would need some where to go so if we can inhabit different plants like Veuns it would help man kind live longer and fully explore are solar system. In paragraph 8 supports my idea becuase it states that " Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has Valus, not onlye because of the insight to be gained on the planted itself, but alos becuase of human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating enedeavors."
In conclusion I told you why we should try to Explore and inhabit Venus and why it is a good idea for man kind in the long run. | 2 |
c4f88c8 | The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because long ago Venus was once like Earth. In the text it states "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." The author may not be the only one that thinks studying Venus isn't a bad idea because Astronomers are fascinated by it.
Now there is quite a bit of danger when it comes down to studying Venus.
The temperature gets really hot on Venus. In the text it states " On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." That can not be good for the human body. Venus has a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide blankets and sulfuric acid clouds.
Also, in the text it states "such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals." I don't know how good of idea this could be because according to the passage " ...no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades." Now just imagine what it would do to a human without the proper gear on.
Than, again they might think it's a good idea to see if their is ife outside of Earth. This could possibly happen in the near future. I don't think the scientists or the author care about the danger that could possibly happen. In the text it states " 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.
In conclusion, studying Venus is a huge risk. It could possibly take years or decades until a decision is made, or until the proper equipment is invented. Either way studying Venus has its cons and pros. | 3 |
c4f9b90 | They should do the program because in the program you will learn how to be a cowboy. Also you will learn how to travel the seas and survive in cold wheather. So being in the program could be fun because you will learn how to be a cowboy. Luke wants to be a segoing cowboy because he likes to travel the seas and he also likes to be a cowboy. Another reason is because he wants to have fun as a cowboy and he really wants to go travel the seas. He wants to have fun because he never has fun at his house so that is why he wants to have some fun. His house is probably boring so that is also why he wants to go outside and have some fun at the program because he wants to get out of his house and have fun. He wants to go outside and do the program so he can be a cowboy and have fun. To train to be a cowboy you have go through obstacles and overcome your fears so you can travel the seas. You also want to be able to ride the waves so you be brave and save people from your enemies. You also defenitely need to be strong so you can overcome your fears and fight bad guys so you can take them down so that is why you need to be strong. You also need to be brave so if you get put in a bad situation you will know how to get out of the bad situation so you won't get hurt while you are in the bad situation so that is why need to learn how to get out of a bad situation. You also need to learn how to stay calm in a bad situation if you do not stay calm then you will get hurt so that is why you need to learn how to stay calm in a bad situation. You need to watch out for the terrible situations in the terrible situations then you will get hurt. In the bad situations you usually will not get hurt or injured. So if you are a cowboy you need to watch out for the bad situations and the terrible situations because you will get hurt. So that is why you have to watch out for the bad situations and the terrible situations. So you have to at least tryout for the seagoing cowboys program because you never know what could happen at the program. You could have fun or you could get hurt or injured. So you have to watch out for that so you do not get hurt or injured. If you want to be a cowboy you have guns to protect yourself and when enemies try to shoot you then you can shoot them instead. So you might not get hurt if you carry guns on you for protection. | 2 |
c4fcfd3 | The author supports this idea by giving the facts of how dangerous it is but why we should keep trying to study Venus. The author says a lot about the dangers because there are a lot. And says we could find out more about these dangers and how to defeat them. They set out on a mission to simulate the chaos of Venus's surface and it was able to last three weeks.
NASA is working on a lot of different approaches on how to last a while or have a good landing on Venus. The author tells about the things that we could find out if we could be there for a while. They stress a lot in the passage about it being the hottest planet around and it isn't even the closest to the sun. This is a huge thing holding them back the author says and would melt almost all metal. The author supports this by saying that a submarine that goes very deep in the ocean wouldn't even survive on Venus. The author gives a lot of facts and things to support his claims.
If the author has told a fact they have had soemthing to support it. The author says a lot about the things we can't do with Venus and has something to explain why with it. The author had a lot of facts and examples to help him support his and NASA's facts and ideas. I really like that the author will also give statistics because that is a huge way to support a fact or claim. Overall in this whole passage the author supports all ideas. | 3 |
c4fd319 | Having driverless cars is a great idea, but it could also be bad. It all depends on the person in the car and what types of decisions they're making. I think the world could work better with these cars. Although I also believe that these types of cars can be dangerous.
If businesses and manufacturers really wanted to, they could make these dream cars a reality. The cars that we have now are pretty close to being completly driver independent. All we would need to do is give the cars a few more updated sensors to replace the drivers. The updated sensors would act as the human reflexes; therefore creating better driving conditions. Hopefully this would create less wrecks or accidents.
Also these driverless cars should have updated satelites and cameras, so when there is a detour or road construction it will automatically update the cars route. This will help backed up traffic a lot. If these cars could have the best technology that's out there today, they would already be a success. For now that's the only thing that's keeping the cars from success.
Some people may be worried about the safety of these cars becasue at any moment in time there could be a glitch in the computer software, and that small glitch could cause an accident any second of any day. I, on the other hand, am not worried about that, becasue even if one car has a giltch there will be many other smartcars on the road to help avoid an accident. That's why these cars should definatley be on the road.
The driverless cars are coming, and they're almost here. All they need are a few more technological updates and they'll be completly ready for the road. And once they hit the ground it'll all be smooth driving from there. | 3 |
c503e41 | The creation of the Facial Action Coding System has the potential to be very innovative and useful in today's society. In schools, teachers often have difficulty obtaining the attention of students and maintaining it when they have it. This could be a result of the way they are teaching, and how it makes the students feel. The use of FACS in all classrooms would be found valuable.
Problems such as obtaining attention could easily be solved with the use of the FACS. If students are placed in a classroom, and are unhappy and bored, they are less likely to pay attention and learn at the rate they are capable of. The FACS can record these students' emotions and help change the method of teaching used in that class to interest the students. As stated in the passage by Dr. Huang, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." This could potentially change the students attitude towards learning for the better.
A teacher is capable of understanding verbal communication better than that which is nonverbal. Unless a student tells their teacher he or she is confused or bored, the teacher has little to no way of knowing this. Dr. Huang states, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication." The FACS is able to detect such forms of emotion, and make corrections based upon them. This process makes the FACS more capable of dealing with these situations than any teacher.
Emotion is displayed often through facial expressions. Certain muscles in your face respond to specific emotions you are feeling at the time. It is not uncommon for a student to put on a fake smille or expression of understanding towards a teacher when he or she is bored and could care less. A teacher may have some difficulty understanding if the student's emotions are real or fake. Luckily the FACS recieves data from the recognition of movement in muscle tissues. The FACS is programmed to recognize which muscles move during each emotion. To provide an example the author explains, "But in false smiles, the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risorius." SInce a different muscle is used in fake smiling than in that which is real, the FACS can tell the difference between the two expressions with ease.
The facts about FACS suggest that it is a perfect candidate for the use of innovative technology in the classroom. This system can improve the learning rates, as well as the mental growth of the students in a classroom. FACS can easily be proven valuable in all classrooms, as well as in many other environments among modern society. FACS proves that the use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. | 5 |
c506c89 | The name of the boy was Luke Bomberger and he help the world war ,he crossed the Atlantic ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help the people that needed help with the world war two. The war stareded in the year 1945 and it was over in Europe , and many countries were left in ruins .The time that they receive their orders to report the New Orleans was in August 1945 .Luke help all of that people he save every body he was prouded but he was really esoteded he was happy to.''In August 14 we arrived.''Luke says. And the Pacific war ended they were so happy they wher proude to.
And that awarness stayed with him ,leading his family to host a number of international student and exchange visitors for maney years .H help alot of people and the poeple that he love his family .The family they wher so happy of they were scareded but when Luke came he save them and theyv were so prouded for him they thout that they were going to die or that Luke was going to die because that was so scary for him to doit that was so,so, so ,so, scary.
He couded die but he didit so good that he didint die. He was proude of him self because he safe alot of poeple in the town or place. | 1 |
c50f5ae | The author suggests that studying "Venus" is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it can cause. The author is making "NASA" seem that they're willing to take a risk on finding and discovering new things if they were to keep studying Venus.
NASA has been studying a few new features that can possibly help with the search of Venus. To do more study's on Venus will be very challenging due to it's features. Venus is known to have the hottest surface temperature of any planet on the solar system. It's temperature average is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land, but no spacecraft has survived the landing for than a few hours. Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. But that is still being tested and studied.
NASA is planning on having a vehicle hover over Venus and would possibly avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way.
NASA is still working on other ways they could approach Venus to keep studying this planet. NASA and its team will keep working on new ideas to get more information on "Venus". They will try their best. They already came up with new ideas. They will be focused on trying to have a system that will use mechanical parts that can be made more resistant to pressure, heat , and other forces. | 3 |
c51614c | I am against driverless cars and here are my thoughts on this topic. The manufacturing company hasn't fuly developed these car advancements like the car still cannot function properly around construction sites and accidents. I am against driverless cars for reasons such as the manufactures of the company are worried that drivers still need to pay attention and they want to install cameras to watch the owner of the vehicle I believe that would be an invasion of personal time and space. (In paragraph 7) Such things are listed to get the drivers attention incase of the fact that car can not handle something ahead.
I believe from the facts given that this car is not yet ready for the world or the bumpy roads ahead considering the fact that it says the car could still get out of control or technology could have a malfunction. (In paragraph 5) It says that sensors have been developed and tested if something was to have these sensors go off and the car were tobreak and let's say soemone wasnt secure something could happen that would end in injury.
The humans today are greedy as well something could go wrong and they could sue the company for a lot of money. To me this sounds like these driveless cars still need to let the drivers do the work. (In paragraph 9) It says in some states that it's not even legal in Claifornia, Nevada, and Florida. This
just shows even our authority doesn't think they are safe yet. | 2 |
c51810c | A machine identify human emotions doesn't seem to be valuable. The Facial Coding System is not nessesary for students in a classroom. Therefore, it just does not seem to benitficial to the students.
" The facial expressions for each emotion are universal" meaning everybody has there own way of expressing each others emotions. One can say that they are and another can say that they are sad. There's really no for need for a system to tell your expression at that time. You can obviously tell there expression. Plain and simple.
A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused of bored. Instead of the computer idenfitying the students emotions why doesn't a teacher actually go up the student to ask if everthing is fine and ask if he needs help on anything. Rather than a computer doing all the work. Not everybody is going to feel the same, but atleast it's worth a shot to try.
Dr. Huang and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for human and computers to communicate. We already have enough of technology to do those kind of obsticales. That is a everyday thing for us humans. Why develop more technology that doesn't seem to be useful for your emotional expression. Students in classrooms don't even use there textbooks anymore, they now use ipads for online assignments and online textbooks. Technology is just overrated.
Echman has classified six basic emotions happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. These are some emotions that everybody has on everyday. A computer that identifies these expressions on a person is just not nessesary. A student can come to class knowing he or she is happy. The FACS is just in their way.
In conclusion, the FACS is just not valuable to students in classroom. It is much better if we just stop waisting money that e could use for something else. Like putting into education for students that actually want to learn rather than telling students what their emotional expression is by what a computer is reading. Therefore, it is not benitficial nor valuable. | 3 |
c519dc1 | There are a lot of advantages of limiting car usage. Yes a lot of people use cars to get around, but there are other ways to get around. Limiting car usage would probably cause a lot of complaints, but I think once people started limiting how much they drove everyday, they wouldn't see the need as much.
In Paris, for example, they have banned driving due to smog. The story "Paris bans driving due to smog", Robert Duffer states that "Congestion was down 60 percent in the captial of France, after five-days of the smog." Only five days of banning drivers brought the smog rate down 60 percent, that's huge. To make it easier for the people of Paris to get around, they had public transit free of charge for those five days. If driving was banned for a while people woould find other ways to get around, and other people in the community would help them, like the transit bus giving free rides those five days.
Some people may argue that it's a free country and we shouldn't be limited to how much we're allowed to drive our cars. Yes it's a free country but limiting car usage is actually getting people to be active, instead of being lazy and driving everywhere you go. The United States has the highest percentage of obesity. With limiting how much you can use your car it will make people walk places, if they really have to go somewhere. Also riding a bike, or even riding a bus or train. However, unlike your own car, to get to the bus stop or train station, it will take some walking, which is good.
Also another advantage of limiting car usage would be all the things that would be fixed around our community. With people walking more, the community and city people would want to make our area look better while we walk. In the story "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" Andrew Selsky states, "..Pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up." With less driving and more walking to get to places, the community would fix our sidewalks and make more shopping centers and resraurants closer.
Limiting car usage will be hard to adjust to at first, but I think in the long run it's a win-win. It helps us get active and lower our stress from driving, and it helps our environment. | 4 |
c522e8f | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangerss it presents. I used the detsils from the story to evaluate how welll the author supported his/her idea. In the article the author didn't really supports the idea the venus is a wothy pursuit despite the danges it presents. the auther gave te the readed more evidents supporting the idea that Venus has too harsh conditions to studying.
in paragraph 3 it stares off by sayin that Venus atmosphere is almost 9 percent carbon dioxide. than it countines to say "even more challenging the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in venus's atmoshere." all those facts tells the reader how dangeros it is on Venus. "on the planet's suface , trmperatures average over 800 degreees Fahenheit," that tells us that it is wat to hot on Venus to do anything on it. In paragraph 4 the author said that a long time ago Venus was probabl covered with oceans just like Earth. The author did not suppor the idea Venus is a worthy pusuit.
All and all the author and a lack a evedence to support the idea venus is worthy purusit despite the danger is presents. the author and more details to suppor that Venus it not worth it. the author did not do a very good job in supporing their claim. | 2 |
c529e2c | The conditions of Venus and its atmosphere are unbareable. According to the passage the surface of Venus is 800 degrees Ferhenheit. The author states that human curiosity drives us to discover new things about this planet and find a way to make something that would help make the conditions barable.
According to the passage, NASA wants to use a hovering vehicle that would avoid the dangerous surface temperatures. The hover craft would not allow us to get samples of the ground, but only of the atmosphere. The text states that, if scientists want a thorough mission they would need to get up close and land on Venus. Scientists want to do this despite the risks.
Venus is a very fascinating planet full of mysteries we have yet to discover. In conclusion the author thinks that our travels should not be limited by challenges and dangers we face. We should not be limited by the doubts. We should not be limited by fears or the unknown. But that we should push the boundries, innovate, and use our imagination to take us anywhere. | 2 |
c5345d9 | Do you think that the FACE was created by aliens ? Well i think the face is just a land form but thats how i feel about it , I don't believe that aliens are real . On the other hand you might think they are real and i don't blame you because when i was little i thought they was real to ... by all of the movies i was watching about aliens taking over ect .
Although , few scientists believed the face was an alien artifact photographing . So they photographed the face as soon as they could get a good shot at it . On April 8, 2001 a cloudless summer day in cydonia Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look . When they had did they a pixel in the 2001 image spams 1.56 meters , they image was not a face anymore it was really Martain equivalent of a butte or masa . It reminds me of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," says Garvin. "
Finally, now you see that there were no aliens on mars and they aliens are not real . It was just the Martian equivalent of butte or mesa landforms . so now with all this information i just gave you, you should believe me now . | 2 |
c5399a3 | Yes, because with Facial Action Coding System we can find out did someone lie to us or not, we can also find in picture person was happy or not, and we can find person's emotion weather he/she is happy or not.
My first reason Facial Action Coding System we can find out did person front of us lie to us or not. "To an expert, faces don't lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity isn't being truthful." According to me it will be helpful because we can find person in front of us is lie to us or not.
My second reason we can find person in picture is happy or not. In picture Mona Lisa was "83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." According to me we can express how person is feeling while taking picture.
My third reason we can find person's emotion weather he/she is happy or not. "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)." According to me with Facial Action Coding System we can express others feeling if they were not happy we can help them and make them smile.
These are my three main reasons why Facial Action Coding System is helpful in our life. | 3 |
c53c234 | The face on Mars is just a landform. There is no such thing as aliens. Alson there is no life of any type that can live on Mars. "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform."
The picture shows us a part of Mars where the face is just form in that weird way. Makin people think there was aliens on Mars. Mars is not a liveable place. There is no air to breathe, and it is to hot. You wouldn't make it alive in Mars, because you would lose your breath and burn up.
All the picture is show us is that a natural landform has formed on Mars. It is a great picture off landform you might never see again, but it has nothing to do with aliens on Mars. If aliens were real, one of
NASA'S scientists would have found them in outer space by now. The face is just a great form of natural landform. | 2 |
c53c3de | The siggests that studyiing Venis is worhy in pursuit despite the danger it presents becuase he want to explore that place.They say Venus is the planet closest place to the planet earth.But also it has the hotest surface.Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us. Also it says it has a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus.
The planet Venus has many wonders undiscovered.Like they believe back then that Venus used to be just a big ocean.But now its just a big dry planet and thats why they should find more about the planet.Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth.The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, moutains, and craters.Furthermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of spacece travel.
Also notable, Venus has the hottest surface tempeerture of any planet in our solar system.Even though Mercury is closer to our sun.Beyond high pressure and heat.Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like eruptupting valcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface.
So there are plety of things at Venus and plenty of secrets to unlock.But also NASA is working on other approches to studying Venus.For example, some simplified electronics made for silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions.
In conclution the siggests that studyiing Venis is worhy in pursuit despite the danger it presents becuase he want to explore that place.They say Venus is the planet closest place to the planet earth.But also it has the hotest surface.Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us. Also it says it has a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. | 3 |
c53fb5e | I do not think that the use of this technology on the students in the classroom is valuable I think this because we don't need technology to see how someone is feelings or to show us someone's emotions. We can tell just by looking at them that they are fine or not. Technology is used to much in the world. My question is why would we even use that technology, because later on generations won't be able to look at someone and tell their emotions.
In the story, the author gives an example of how we don't use technology to tell one's emotions. "You can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." That example shows that we don't need technology to figure out one's emotions. Even though, its a great invention would be even use it. Its not appropriate to use in a classroom setting. A teacher using that just to see what the kids' emotions are on the lesson. The teacher could just look at them and see how they feel towards this.
The teacher would probably say that it would be useful for that technology. Some students probably wouldn't mine but others would. Students don't like to show their emotions sometimes. Then all of a sudden a teacher can just tell your emotions in a second. The students would probably feel uncomfortable, because the teacher can see how they are feeling. Feelings or emotions are meant for that certain person. That certain person can show off his/her emotions to other students around them.
Also where would you even put the emotional expression technology, because having a huge thing in the front of the classroom would be a distraction. That technology is also a distraction, because students would mess around with it when they probably aren't supposed too. Also the students would keep asking the teacher what their emotions are. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." That quote sounds like its better than a teacher, because it can read the emotions and tell when the students get bored so they can change it.
The invention would be nice, but not in a classroom settings. Its just not appropriate there. In the story, it makes you do a little motions with your face. This is demonstrating that the technology will use the muscular part of your face to determine your emotions at that current time. The technology is cool on how it works and operates, but reading the students' muscular emotions would not be right.
Towards the end of the text, they said they used it for a theatre thing. That is an appropriate place to use it, because you are supposed to show a lot of emotions there. Also they could read your emotions and help improve them because the technology told you what the emotion mostly was. The technology does reveal a lot about the science of emotions, but other places would have better use on it.
Some students like to hide their emotions from the teacher or other students. Some don't want people to know what they are feeling, because its their own business. Students wouldn't want their teachers walking up to them asking what is wrong, and the students said something like how do you know there is something wrong. Then the teacher says I used the emotional expression technology. The student would just feel awkward, because the teacher just figured out their emotions when they probably wanted to keep it to themselves. This is why the use of technology to read the emotion expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable. | 4 |
c5400c9 | Why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program and why you shoudl participate in it.
You should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because if you do you can learn new things about the world you may not of already know. If you join the prgram its a one time chane in the world if you do. You may learn about new cultures in the world and learn about new countries lifestyles.
If you do join you may learn new cultures lifestyles and new locations like
Acropolis in Greece Italy with streets of water. The program is good because you can help people in need of food, water, supplies or any goods.
If you join the Seagoing Cowboys program you may learn new cultures lifestyles more about other countries and its a chance of a lifetime to do so. May learn new belives and it can opens the world to you.
This is why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 2 |
c540400 | the Earth's twin
In this esay we star evaluating how well the author of the book "the challenge of exploring venus supports his ideas about Venus and what are the similary between Venus and the Earth and all the diference .
First of all the author star explaing what is Venus , Venus is one ofthe bightest points of light in the night sky also venus is the second planet in the solar system, venus is calle the Earth's twin because Venus is the closet planet to the Earth in terms of density and size and occasionally the Earth and Venus are closest in distance too and sometimes we are closert to mars .
Secondly the author say what are the reputation of Venus ,Venu's reputation as a challenging planet for human to study because the atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide and the apacecraft survived the landing for more than a few houres also the clouds of higly corrosive sulfuric acid in venu's atmosphere , the plane's furface temperatures average over 800 degrees and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times grater than what we experince on our own planet and Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any other planet in our solar system,these conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth
Lastly the author trie to tell how venus is a good planet to study because long ago venus was covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like Earth also the planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys , mountains and crates also Venus geology and weather present additional impediments like eruptiones, power earthquakes and freqeunt lightning strike to probes seeking to land onits surface , but the author contnue , whit the idea of
Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a plnetry visit.
In conclucion Venus are in some poins so sililar to the Earth bust sometimes are the complety opposite of the Earth and the author have very good informacion to supports his ideas of study and vist the
Earth's twin . | 3 |
c5420b8 | Cars are a very important invention that helps people get from point A to point B. However, they are only good inventions at a limited use. Cars polute the air when everyone is using them in a city, and they also cause multpiple traffic jams and a great deal of stress to the users.
Paris has done the right thing foor the enviorment and the community, They have banned driving on mondays and tuesdays, and the cars are selected through even and odd license plates. This was a very good move, ever since paris satarted limiting automobile use, Smog has gone down 60 percent. This is most definitely proof that cars polute the air. Paris even made it better for the people who did not have cars for the day, by offering free public transportation during the weekdays.
Germany has also made an effort to limit automobile use by starting a community that has almost zero cars. Cars are forbidden in Vauban, Germany. 70 percent of the people in this city do not own cars and rely on bikes, scooters, and public transportation to get them around. A woman from source 1 says, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." this shows that people were not forced to be here for an experiment, it shows that life without cars, or at least a very limited ammount of them, can be very beneficial to not just the enviorment, but also the induvidual lives of the people that it is affecting. The city of Vauban has made an effort to be very dense and they have stores that are next to the residential area so citizens can walk there and not drive.
Bogota, Columbia is a revolutionary city that has made the decision to have a "no car day". Yu would think these people would not be very fond of the idea, but people are very excited for this day. The citizens wwere so excited that on the third celebration of this habitat saving day, it was a very rainy and moist day but the people were still ready to clean the air so they biked, skated, and used public transportation in the rain. Neighboring cities even fancied the idea of this new idea, and decided to join the festivities and had there own "no car day". This change is growin more and more popular since it gives people a sense of communtiy and cleanliness when they are not spreading smog around everywhere, and even more people continue to join in on this revolutionary idea.
Cars were once "the next big thing" and now, they are getting old. This is statistically shown, according to Doug Short's analysis, that as of April 2013, the number of miles driven per person dropped nine percent from wher ethe country was in 1995. Less teens are getting there license too, they are thinking of smarter ways to carpool and ways that they can walk to school and work. The largest ammount of people that are getting their license are older people renewing theirs. The hype of cars is starting to die down becaus epeople are either getting bored of them, or realizing it is hurting planet earth, is more beneficial, and most certainly cheaper to go with a bike. | 3 |
c547463 | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System. This piece of technology allows us to read the emotional expressions of our peers and well, paintings, such as Da Vinci's, Mona Lisa. From this, it has been discovered that Mona Lisa was eighty-three percent happy, six percent fearful, nine percent disgusted, and two percent angry. I believe that the information recieved from the Facial Action Coding System is valuable.
In today's world, we rely so much on technology that it's hard to see a world without it. We all use technology everyday whether it be a computer, cellphone, or even a television. With advancements and improvements in technology, that leads us to believe that the accuracy of technology is reliable. In the article, the author talks about the software. The emotion-recognition software can track anything from a real face to a painting, and tell whether or not the person is angry, sad, mad, or happy. Humans use this same technique everyday. In the article, the text states "you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." Well that's just what the Facial Action Coding System does. Facial expressions are universal. Based on the article, we can tell that technology is more fast and efficient working than ever. Technology is like our brains, it processes things quickly and with accuracy.
Most of the time the human eye can tell how someone is feeling, but we are not always certain because it is difficult for us to desribe facial features. There's no need for that when upcoming technology can do it for you. In the text, it tells us that artists study human anatomy for precision when painting the face. The software Dr. Huang uses detects the small things such as the slight curve of a lip or even the squint of an eye to determine emotions. The Mona Lisa shows us just that. An example from the text is "if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar might follow." This is because even our computers can detect our emotions and follow it with an ad similar to how we are feeling.
From the article, the reader can even try the expressions for themselves to test the accuracy. I think the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. If the student is stressed or mad but not willing to confront a teacher about how they are feeling, the teacher can know based on the technology or even looking for the small things such as a curve of the lip. This may take stress off of students as well as adults. | 4 |
c54f667 | The first time NASA first spotted the Face on Mars was in 1976 during the Viking 1 mission. At first the scientists back at NASA were surprised, but it did not last long. After some research was done scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa. What made the mesa look like a face were just shadows. When the image was revealed to the public it got a lot of attention. Although some believed the face was a sign of alien life, others were not as easily convinced.
The first picture was taken in 1976 when technology was not very great. So in 1997
NASA 's Mars Exploration Program chief scientist, Jim Garvin decided he'd try to get another photo. On April 8, 1998 Mars Global Surveyor flew over the site again. Michael Malin and his MOC team took a picture that was, "Ten times sharper than the original Viking photos," the article says. But other conspiricy theorists think otherwise.
The article mentions that the Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude. It was apparently winter there in April of '98. Skeptics say, "Perhaps alien markings were hidden by the haze." Garvin says, "Targeting Cydonia was not easy...in fact it is hard to work." Mars Global Surveyor noramally looks straight down but in order to get a good picture, they would have to actually move the camera 2.5 km. They also do not pass over the face very often.
On April 8, 2001 they attempted another picture. This time the picture was perfect. It was a cloudless day in Cyndonia. "The team had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view." Garvin said. Not easy work. The article also mentions that each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to the 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photos. I think that this picture did really prove that the Face was only a landform and not some kind of martian marking.
In the end people came to relize that the Face on Mars was really on a butte or a mesa of some sort. Garvin says, "So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground...you could have seen what they were." I personally do not think the Face is part of ancient Martian life but as Garvin says, "It reminds me of most of the Middle Butte in the Snake River of Idaho." I hope now that the others that once believed in the face now relize it really was only their imagination. | 3 |
c551b04 | This world should have self driving cars. I believe that self driving cars will be way more safer than having humans drive. One reason I believe this is because there are many deaths due to drunk drivers. Another reason is becasue people can also cause many accidentys by texting. My last reason is because you would not have to worry about as many deaths due to all of these things if we just had a self driving car. I believe that google should continue to make self driving cars.
My first reason that we should continue to create a self driving car is because that there have been many deaths and accidents every year. If we create a self driving vehichle we would not have to worry about that. One reason we would not have to worry about that is because this car has eyes we dont have. This self driving vehichle can see a an overview map of traffic in front of us. It also makes the car come to a sense for you to drive if they can not handle the situation.
Self driving cars are needed in this world. they are needed because it is so much safer than having someone texting while driving and causiung a big accident that can cause death. Another reason thta we really need self driving cars bis because lots of people get tired of driving overtime and people have a tendency of falling asleep on the road. Don't you want to sit back and relax and not have to cause an accident? Well you can if you allow the study of self driving vehichles.
I know that people have featr of losing there life but they wouldnt have to fear losing there life if there not driving. This planet needs cars like this because instead of a drunk driver causing deaths to family members they could just sit back and let this self driving car takeover. Another reason why we all need self driving cars is because you could just do anything in your car, such as eating, drinking, and texting. Don't you want that instead of losing your life? We should allow self driving vehichles to take over.
I believe that google should really continue to make these cars. I gave you all of the reasons and most of them contain of keeping your life. Don't you want that? You will be more safe and not have to worry about crashing and buying a new car. We should allow it to happen becasue it's all true. People die every day from a car accident so just let this happen. | 4 |
c559d42 | There are alot of good advantages on limiting car usage and the limit on cars usage should be something enforced more often worldwide .Cars are helpful and very useful when it comes to transportation but cars can also be harmful to the earth. Cars are contributing to the pollution of the air and is one of the big reasons why the number of cars used in communities should be reduced.
There are many advantages on limiting car usage for examle if we start limiting the usage of cars there will be less worries about smog. According to the article "Paris bans driving due to smog","Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of france, after five-days of intensifying smog...diesel was blamed ,diesel makes up sixty-seven percent of vehicles in france". This evidence proves that cars are harmful to the air and will eventually become a problem for the people. Bogota, Colombia has a program where people hiked, skated, biked, or took buses to get to and from work. According to the article car-free day is spinning into a big hit in bogota the goal of this program is to "promote alternative transportation and reduce smog".
Most people would probably say that there should be no limit on car usage because people are very dependent on cars for their transportation but are not aware of the pollution and dagers that cars bring to the community. according to the article "recent studies suggest that americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licences as each year goes by". Our president Barrack Obama has a goal to curb the United States' greenhouse gas emissions.
Its not hard to see that the advantages we have on limiting car usage are abundant, and we all should help to contribute to the reduction of cars used everyday. Like ive stated cars are very useful but can also be harmful and with the evidence previously given we should all help limit the number of cars used everyday. | 3 |
c559e18 | The use of the Facial Action Coding System technology is to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom which is not valuable to a classroom. In my honest opinion I believe it is very unnecessary. The first reasoning is that this technology that was developed was developed for a very different purpose than the usage of a classroom. My second reasoning is that the technology doesn't even claim to detect the boredness of the students. Others may argue that it will help students in a positive way but they are completely wrong because it will do up to nothing for them. All these reasonings combined are the main factors as to why i believe that the usage of this technology is not valuable in the school environment.
My first reasoning as to why i believe that this facial and emotional recognition technology is not valuable in a classroom setting is because the sole purpose as to why it was built was to detect emotions in an individual. It was not developed to help students make learning easier in any way. According to the article 'Making Mona Lisa Smile' by Nick D'Alto, "New software has been developed that improves the accuracy in percieving the emotions of others. This new software, the Facial Action Coding System, has promising application for a variety of industries." This is evidence that helps support my claim because it is a statement that explains the purpose of this new technology which is only for the detection of emotions in the face of humans and not to help young students to advance their school life. Also, according to the article 'Making Mona Lisa Smile' by Nick D'Alto, "By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions (as in da Vinci's masterpiece). Each expression is compared against a neutra face (showing no emotions)." This statement/quote is evidence of my claim because again it states the true purpose of this technology and what it is truly used for; not once in that statement had it discussed how it would help students better their education.
My second reasoning as to why i believe this technology is not best fit for the school environment is because the technology is used to only detect 6 emotions and using it to help teachers combat "boredom" within their student is not one of them. The article 'Making Mona Lisa Smile' by Nick D'Alto states, " Eckman has classified six basic emotions-hapiness,surprise,disgust,fear and sadness- and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles." This is evidence because the quote clearly states that the emotions that are detectable are not inclusive to boredome if the technology can't detect boredom
or confusion then how can it help with the students. The article 'Making Mona Lisa Smile' by Nick D'Alto also states, "'A classroom computer could recognize when a students is becoming confusesd or bored,' Doctor Huang predicts." This is evidence of my claim/reasoning because this statement by the creater of this technology even says it COULD happen which leads us to infer that it probably would not happen anytime soon, meaning that although this technology is smart it still may not be able to help students out.
Others may argue that the usage of this Facial Action Code System will help students positively in the classroom but they are completely wrong. This system may not even help them at all. According to the article 'Making Mona Lisa Smile' by Nick D'Alto, "'Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication,' notes Dr.Huang 'So computers need to understand that, too.'"
This is evidence as to why those that argue it is a positive effect is wrong because the inventer of this technology basically stated the technology has more to understand (such as the emotional communications of humans), meaning that this technology may not fully comprehend all of the emotions of not just humans but students if this technology was to be placed in the classroom settings. Also according to the article 'Making Mona Lisa Smile' by Nick D'Alto, "'Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.' The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive-for video games or video surgery." This is evidence because it states what it could do for a students which is adding more cartoon expresions
and thats basically about it. It doesn' really help out a students when theyre confused just because there are more animated cartoons.
In conclusion, I believe that the Facial Action Coding System is not a valuable usage in a classrrom of students. First, the technology was built for asole purpose of detecting facial emotions and not to help students in any way but add cartoons. Second, the technology is not advanced enough to even detect emotions of boredom in students , it can only detect six emotions in which bored is not one. Others may argue that it will positively impact the students but they are completely wrong because it literally does nothing for them. Finally, in my most honest opinion this technology is mainly useless in a classroom which is why it is clearly not valuable in a classroom environment that includes students. | 5 |
c55d6dc | Senator,
I have many reasons to respectfully agree and disagree for the placement of your Electoral College. In many ways I know you have your reasoning for why you belive our country needs our Electoral voters, but it some cases others such as me don't belive that we do. I fully respect your decisions as Senator, but I would like to shed some light upon the situation, from the people's views.
For about 3 years now, I have been researching how the Electoral College works. Upon discovering many news and magazine articles, I noticed that many people are not in favor of the final, decided stage of election. In my eyes I see that I am not getting my full rights and potential as a voter and a legal citizen as I should be granted. Instead, I am voting for other people to vote for me, and I think that is unfair to myself, and my fellow U.S. citizens. I do not believe that all Americans are educated in the field of knowing that they are not getting the majority vote, and that the Electoral College is.
Aside from my doubts in the way this situation works, i discovered and realized that the Electoral College is a more organized and aforable way of deciding things. In the winner-takes-all stand point as most people call it, some voters take advantage of the voting system and choose someone running for President based upon look, appeal, or ethnicity. In situations such as this, I do believe it is important for an Electoral College to step in, for the pure fact of too many random and unthought choices.
My overall decision Senator, would be that the popular vote of the people would be more respectful as a group, than as a seperate election diferentiating between the people, and the Electoral College. With our votes we are deciding who we want to run our country, and who we want to make decisions that are best for us. With other people deciding our views on how to run our government, we are not getting what we want or need. Senator, I leave you with this, is it about the people's rights, or the people's thoughts on the unknown? | 3 |
c561760 | Dear Senator,
I want to change to electon by popular vote for the president of the United States because it is easier and makes a lot more sense. When you vote by the Electoral College, you are actually voting for your canidates electors. When you vote for the electors, it doesn't neccessarily mean they will vote for their canidate. Voters can't always control who their electors vote for, as stated in "Can voters control whom their electors vote for? Not always."
There is a single argument against the Electoral College is best known as the disaster factor. In 1960, segregationists who were in the Louisiana Legislature succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with electors that would oppose John F. Kennedy. They did this so that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy. In almost the same way, "faithless" electors sometimes refuse to vote for their party's canidate. Instead they cast a deciding vote for whoever they want.
The electors and segregationists in the Electoral College think they can do whatever they please. They make decisions that wouldn't be fair to the voters or the canidates. If the voter votes for a certain canidate but the elector votes for a different canidate, this could cause trouble and madness within the election. The Electoral College is not always fair. However, if we switch to the election of the popular votes, the election would be fair. The canidates would be chosen based on the number of votes they got from voters, not by who the electors want to vote for.
People also worry about the prospect of a tie in the Electoral College. If this happens, the election would be handed over to the House of Representatives. Then the state delegations would vote on the president. In this case, the Senate would choose the vice-president."Because each state casts only one vote, the single representative in Wyoming, representing 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representatives from California, who represent 35 million voters". From this context, we can say that the House's selection can barely be expected to reflect the will of the people.
I think the Electoral College is not accurate and the electors in it are not very fair. If someone elects a certain canidate, but the elector votes for someone else, there really isn't a purpose for people to vote. If people don't vote, then our country won't have a president. The Electoral College can take this country downhill in several ways. We should let the people decide who they want to run their country. That way, the voting will be more fair, easier, and not as many bad things could happen while the process of voting is going on. I think the Electoral College should not be the way that our country's citizens should vote by.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 4 |
c5641ea | The Fatial Acting Coding System would actually make a valuable impact not just for the students sake, but also for the teachers as well. Since the teacher would be able to to view the students expressions the students would be more interested in attending school and would have better knowledge of what they are learning. These days students are bored in schools so I think if the teachers could actually know what the students are thinking they woud be able to make school more interesting for them.
By using the Fatial Acting Coding System it could actually make the students more interested in what the teachers are trying to teach them. I feel like if classrooms actually used this kind of technology it would transform the students to actually want them to come to school and be more intersted in learning. The only way that students tend to learn is threw technology and I believe that if this technology is shown to the students then they would be more interesting in school. There is new technology being released every single day and I think that if the students actually got hands on experience with this technology then they would actualy like to attend school because this new technology is their future. Not only could the system make school more interesting but it can also help the student obtain knowledge the right way instead of the wrong way.
If the teachers actually got to use the FACS I would feel that the teacher could actually substitute their way of teaching for another way that the students would actually obtain the knowledge. Most of the time students have no clue on what the teacher is trying to teach them because they don''t just like teachers talking the whole period and the teachers just don''t get that, but by using the Fatial Coding System the teachers could actually know what they students are feeling and teach a different way. If the teacher teaches a different way than the students will obtain the knowledge a better and possibly faster way than before. For example if the teacher always talked the whole time and the teacher knew the students were not getting any knowledge from that then the teacher could take a different aproach. The author stated that when the classroom could recognize the students emotions
and they got confused or bored then the computer would modify the lesson so the student would better understand the information.
In conclusion I think that by using this type of technology it would enhance the students to obtain knowledge that they may need for the future. Overall I think that this system can make school more interesting as well as that the students will be able to get more inforation than ever before. I was always told that knowledge is key and I believe that his system is the key therfore this system is knowledge. | 4 |
c5763cb | Do you thimnlk we should have a limit of usage for our cars? i think we should! my three main reasons why are because , so we dont /waste alot of fossi fuels,wont make lots of polution and so we can save money and tust me evryone loves to save money!!!!!
My first reason why we should have a limit to using our cars are because so we dont waste alot of our fossil fuerol. we go through tons and tons of fossil fuel. It's getting to the point were we might even run out of it and wont have it anymore and wont be able to make gas and trust me we use gas for just about everything!
My second reason why we should limit the usage of our cars is so we dont produce alot of polution. we produce tons and tons of polution every single time we drive our cars and thats very bad cause it polutes our air and it not good for us to breath it in!
My last reason why we should limit the usage of our cars is cause it will vsave us tons of money! i mean keep count everyday how much you pay for gas and at the end of the week add thewm all together and see how much you waste on gas each weeek. also what if your tiers are no good nomore just for a set of 4 its going to bcome up to like $200 dolars !And then what is you need new light or new windshield wipers. ust think how much money you put in to your car. if i were you i would just start walking or rideing a bike!
Just a few moments ao i eexplained to you my top 3 reasons why we should limit the usage of our cars because,we wont waste a tonb of fossil fuel,wont produce lots of polutio and it will save us tons of money! | 2 |
c5773a4 | My claim towards this topic on whether or not to use this computer technology in a classroom would be effective or not. In my opinion yes, im all for this technology in a classroom. Mainly because i know as a student i do get bored and i do get tired when im reading an article and if this technology can read our facial recognition and change the lesson based on how us as students are feeling on the scale of facial recongnition. This article states that the computers in schools now wouldnt be able to handle this sort of technology, so what my main question is. How much would it cost schools to get a hold of this kind of technology and especially this amount of technology. When schools globaly are already asking the government for more money as a whole alot of schools have already asked for over 5 referendums in less than 4 years, in that case how could schools afford 3,000 computers with this technology inside it.
If we were to switch to this facial recognition software why couldnt us students jut all be homecshooled by a computer beause as Dr. Huang states " Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor" so why would we need a(n) human intructor if this technology can act as a human instructor and change lesson plans according to how we are feeling based on facial expressions. In conclusion all i would like to say is that yes this technology could be very effective in schools in the future if schools had the mony to buy all this technololgy. An even bigger point I would like to make is why have school, if this technology can act as a human instructor? | 3 |
c579dd1 | Smart cars can be very helpful in many ways. But, they can also be bad in many different ways as well. These smart cars are good and bad in ways we might not understand. Smart cars are bad because they can't drive into or out of a driveway, they can't go around construction sites or vehicle accidents, they also give the option for the driver to not pay attention to the road.
Driving in and out of a driveway shouldn't be so difficult for a smart car. It is impossible for a smart car to do just that. In the article it states" They still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways."
The creaters of these type of cars should make it where smart cars can do anything. Driverless cars dont make sense of a smart car at all.
Construction sites and vehicle accidents are all around the city or town you live in. Do you want to be notified by a smart car, when to take over the wheel? Smart cars should be able to drive around sites and accidents, but no they can't. In the excerpt it states " They still alert the driver to take over when dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents." We want the cars to do everything, so we don't have to. And then there is another problem with these smart cars.
Smart cars allow us to not pay any attention the road ahead of us. These cars want to driver to be fully alert of what is going on outside of the car. In the article it states " Such displays can be turned off insantly when the driver needs to take over." But, when the car drives for us there is no point of paying any attention to the road. Then this causes accidents that they can't drive through. Now we have hospital bills to pay just becasue we wasn't paying any attention to the street or road in front of our faces.
Smart cars are not so smart after all. Why do we have to take over the wheel in certain situations? If they were so smart, don't you think they would be able to do what we want them to do. There is no point of buying these expensive cars if they don't do what we expect them to. Smart cars should be able to drive in and out of driveways, go around construction sites and vehicle accidents, and do everything so the driver doesn't have to take over. | 4 |
c57bd0d | Germany,France, and Columbia,all have something in common, they are cutting down on car pollution. Car polluton is rising problem in the world, making up almost fifty percent of the United States' pollution and twelve percent in Europe. From making cars distinct from everday life to banning all cars for a day,these countries are trying to cutdown on the car pollution build up.
One of the biggest feats in trying to cutdown car pollution is making it an unusal thing in everyday life for a city in Germany known as VAUBAN.This city does not ban cars but even then only about thirty percent of residents in this city own a car and fifty-seven percent have sold their own cars to move here. This city is a home to a mere 5,500 residents, but they all live with in a rectangular square mile. This shows that it is possible to live without cars as personal transport and still be with in reach of stores, work and home.
Another city taking a big step in the fight against car pollution is the well known city of Paris,France. Paris has enforce a partial driving ban in its streets to hopefully clear or cut the air of pollution. The city has made an odd law, "On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine($31). The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day." When this law was first enforced nearly 4,000 drivers were fined accoding to Reuters. This law was meant to exterminate the smog becuase the city was rivaling one of the most polluted cities in the world, Bejing,China.
One of the other cities creating a anti-car pollution act is Bogota, Columbia. The city of Bogota has created an annual "Day without cars" which is fine with the residents. Instead of cars residents use bikes and buses and other modes of transportation to travel around the city. This event has been rubbing of on a fellow cities in the area. The cutdown on pollution here is slight but will slowly make an impact over time when this annual "Day without cars" begins to take place in multiple other cities, hopefully, instead of these three cities.
Avoiding car usage is a difficult feat to an everyday car user but if you can avoid it then it can really effect the enviorment in a positive way. Making a day for no cars or at least a small amount of car usage can really impact the enviorment. This movement has even begun to start in the United States and hopefully will continue from then on into the future when we eventually have a whole lot of fueless cars for everyone to drive in. | 4 |
c58321c | I'm against these cars 100 percent just for the simple fact that computers are trying to take over this world. They take jobs from people everday and it really sad, and now they are trying to take driving away from us, like one thing where we can still actually control.
That is really funny in my opinion, if it madders? Well, anyways I feel that this is not the way to get around it will eventually have wrecks which will have bad rep if they start wrecking a lot, and they will if you get enough on the road. What I do not like is that you have to stay alert while driving it I could see if you could sleep on the way while it drives. This is crazy you have to stay alert to drive a driverless car why not just drive a real car youself what do you not stay alert driveing a real car? I know I am a good alert defensive drive like everyone should this driverless car idea just comes down to being lazy honestly. On to the gas well this might use half as a real car, but if the goverment was not so messed up then maybe we'd get paid decent money and gas could be a fair price that way we can find a happy medium for everyone. you just need to stay safe do not use your phone in the car if you have to pull over to see where you are going or to make a call/text. Just get a map they still have those you know that would be better to pull over and use in my opinion.
In conclusion, this new "car" is dangerous I think it should not make it on the road we do not need it just drive why are we so lazy. If you cannot be an alert driver in a real car what makes you think you will be in this car. To many people will fall asleep not doing anything and then when something comes up and the do not feel the chair vibrate they will wreck and them and others. Not ever will feel the chair we are not all the same especially while sleeping that will happen someone will fall out. You cannot blame the car ether if you get pulled over and the new laws do not work you will be paying a ticket for a "car" that is to be blamed. So, I really do not like anything about this car nor do I want anything to do with it in the future. Drivers with no experience will have and even harder time learning how to operate this "car" also everyone will probably have to take a new hard test for it, and have to get a new liesences to drive the machine. That just depends on what new weird and crazy laws come out with this new no good "car". | 3 |
c589dc1 | Was there life on Mars? Around 25 years ago, NASA's spacecraft named, Viking 1, was in search for the sister ship, Viking 2. While searching, they spotted on Mars, something in the form of a human face! Could it be signs of Aliens on Mars? It seemed to be looking at
a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia. Among the mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Lab, there must have a number of people shocked to see face on their moniters. It was sensational while it lasted. Scientes firgured it to be another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia.
NASA decided to show the rest of the world what they had seen. The caption read as, " huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." It was reasoned out to be a good to get attention to Mars. It actually worked! Since then that face became a pop icon showing up in flims, books, magazines, radio talk shows, and even haunted grocery store checkout lines!
Many people came to the conclusion that there was life on Mars. Well, they were wrong. Scientists keep trying to figure it out. Soon it came to a dead end. The picture actually shows the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa, landforms common around the American West. "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," says Garvin. "That's a lave dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the face on Mars." | 2 |
c589e9c | This is face is not make by aliens. I would understand why people would think it's an alien that did the face because it's on Mars,"Although few scientists believed the face was an alien artifact,photographing Cydonia became a priority for NASA when Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) arrived at the Red Plant in Sept. It also shows that a human could have did it because there had been a Martian mesa here on this plant before,"But the sensation was short lived. Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa".
It looks like a human did it. It has everything that a human would have," A few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see. The caption noted a "huge rock information, 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 Mar. And it certainly did.
The face on the plant had got very popular and went all around the world." The "Face on Mars" has since become a pop icon. It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows-- even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years!" That could have been to see how many people think a alien could have did it or if a human.
Also people have vist the plant so in some type of way they could have wanted to mark there spot on the plant. It could also be a possibility that it was not a human or an alien that has put this face on the plant it could have been there before anyone have even visit this plant. And after they snapped pictures ten times and it still came back that a alien didn't do the face on the plant.
But they still didn't find out who it could have been that left it there. BUt in the picture it shows a butte or an mesa," What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butta or mesa-- landforms common around the American West. | 3 |
c58e91b | Imagine you are riding in a driverless car and you see a bright red car heading toward you. Would you panic? Or would you go on as if nothing was going to happen? Imagine having very little control of your car when it crashes into the red car that was coming towards you. Imagine finding out that you had just killed two precious, little babies lives because your driverless car lost control. These are the things that you have to think about when it comes to driverless cars. I believe that diverless cars are not completely safe. I think they should be illegal for many reasons.
Vehicles have mechanical problems all the time. You will be driving down the road and your breaks will go out, or your steering wheel will lock up. These things are hard enough to control when the driver is in control of the car, let alone if the driver was not fully in control. In section seven, it says that the driverless cars are able to steer, accelerate, and brake themselves. What happens when you are riding along and something goes completely wrong and you end up crashing into the car that was heading your way? Driverless cars would only exacerbate the mechanical problems cars have today. In section nine it says that if the car fails, and someone is injured, who is responsible? The driver or the manufacturer?
Safety is a big issue when it comes to driving. One of the main issues is texting and driving. If you are the designated "driver" in a driverless car, you would be even more tempted to get on your phone. I believe that this is not safe at all. If you are in the drivers seat, you need to be paying attention to the road at all times, even in a driverless car. In section eight in the passage, it says that some maufacturers hope to bring in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. I think that having these ammentities in the car are very unsafe. Even though the cars have been tested and have been driven more than a half a million miles without crashing according to section two, there are still possibilities for mishaps and crashes. Because of this, section nine says that in most states it is illegal to even test computer driven cars.
Safety is not the only issue when it comes to driverless cars. Owning a driverless car would be extremely expensive. As I said earlier, mechanical failuers happen all the time in cars today. The cost to fix your car when something happens is already expenxive. If you were to own a driverless car and something happened to fail, the cost would most likely be exorbitant. Driverless cars have so many features and sensors. In section four, it says that there are sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera near the rearview mirror, four automative radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor. If one of these sensors were to go bad or to break, it would be costly to fix them.
Overall, I thik that driverless cars should not be legal. They put too many things and people at risk. Even though they have been tested and proven to be safe, there are still many things that could go wrong. In section seven, it says that they are able to steer, accelerate, and brake themselves. If you believe these things to be true and you get in the car without a care in the world, you will not be filled with much exhilaration when something goes wrong. The issue of driverless cars and safety is a big problem to me. When you are in a car that you do not have to pay attention to the road very much, you could be doing whatever you wanted. Even if you were paying attention to the road and your surroundings, you never know what other drivers are doing. Not being in control of the car can be very dangerous no matter what situation you are in. | 5 |
c58f3b3 | If you are thinking about joining the Seagoing Cowboys program, I would highly recomend it. I am Luke Bomberger and I was a former sea cowboy. Being a sea cowboy is a great experence for any type of young man. You use all types of skills like taking care of animals, sailing techneces, and even your athletic side gets used.
You get to explore the world and its uneqe sites like Europe, China, Greece, Venice, and more! I had many advencures away from the ship as well as on the ship. Once I toured an excavated castle in Crete. I also saw the Panama Canal on the way to China and took a gondola ride in the watery city of Venice!
You get keeped working hard cleaning and taking care of the animals but you also get a whole lot of fun! Two weeks may seem like a long time at sea but there are many things that make time fly by! When the animals are getting unloaded you can play games like baseball and vollyball in the empty holds where the animals are being housed. There is also many other games like fencing, reading, boxing, and table-tennis to make the time go faster. The opportunity has made me aware of the suffering and hardships in other countrys. Why can't it do the same for you?
This opportunity is not all fun though. Once on one of my16 trips there where 335 horses and the hay and oats to feed them. All of the animals need to be watered 2 or 3 times a day so you can not get lazy! Stall have to be cleaned too!
If you get a great opportunity like this, do not back down! It may be an advencure just waiting to happen!
Show the people in need that you do care for them! | 3 |
c591447 | I think theat limiting car usage in some cities and towns can be a good thing. It can be helpful because with less cars on the road that means less trafic on the roads. It is also helpul because if your need to get somewhere, now you can walk, run, or bike ride there.
Limiting cars on the road can help public transportation get to their destination faster because there is less trafic. With less cars on the road in helps the Planet by comsuming fuel. By driving your car around the citie, it causes pollution to be in the air, the same air we breathe. According to the article, in some cities like Paris and Bejing, they baned driving your own car due to the pollution it releases in the the atmosphere. If you are caught driving your own car out in pulic you can get finned and even towed away.
In addition to limiting car usage, it can benefit you getting some exercise. To get to places, you would either have to ride a bike or walk there. It can help you loose weight or to get your cardio vascular system going and ready for the day. Even if your destination is far away, you would have to walk to the bus stop, even just a short little walk everyday for many days can help your fitness, and can keep you healthy.
In conclusion, Limiting usage of cars is helpful to the environment and also to your fitness, keeping cars off the road for public transportation the get to destionations quicker. | 3 |
c597562 | Luke's point of veiw of being a Seagoing Cowboy is that being a Seagoing Cowboy is awsome/cool and it's an opportunity of a lifetime. It made him think about all the people in other countries that are fortunite and unfortunite and their needs. Plus when he was 18 he could of been drafted for the military service but when him draft boat learned he was on a cattle-boat trip, they told me to just keep doing that for my service. And by the time i was discharged in 1947, I made nine trips-most of any Seagoing Cowboy. Besides the cattle-boat trips were unbelievable, cause i got to help people like; I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greese was special. So was taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water. I also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China. It took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China. But what kept me busy was caring for the animals during the crossings. They had to be fedand watered two or three times a day. Bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship. Stalls had to be cleaned. Helping out at my aunt Katie's farm had prepared me for hard work, but not for the dangers at sea. On my second trip I served as night watchmen. My job was to check on all the animalsevery hour. But one night after my hourly checkup I slipped on a ladder and almost fell into the dark Atlantic, luckily a small strip of metal along the edge stopped me from falling. But I couldn't work for a couple of days because of cracked ribs. When us Segoing Cowbays got boared when we had to return the animals I played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where the animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling,and games also helped pass the time. But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more then just a adventuere, it opened up the world to me. And I'm grateful for this opportunity. And that awareness stayed with me, leading my family to host a umber of international students and exchange visitors for many year. And thats my point of veiw of me being Luke and being a Seagoing Cowboy. | 1 |
c5a517d | Cars, they are a part of alot of peoples everyday life. They alow you to get around easly whenever you need to, but what would you do without them. Some communitys are giving up cars like in "[Vauban] Germany [where]...[s]treet parking, driveways and home garages are generaly forbiden" (source 1). This may sound crazy but "57 percent [of Vauban's families] sold a car to move [there]" and "70 percent [] do not own cars' (source 1). One of the reson pepole do this is to reduce there emisions to help the enviroment.
Emisions can ahave a drastic effect on citys because, many people driving in a small area can lock the gases in the city causing smog. In Paris "[a]fter days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air ... On Monday motorist with even-numbered licence plates were ordered to leave their cars at home... the same would apply to the odds the next day" (source2). In places like this people don't like having days where they can't use there car, as shown by the "4,000 drivers [that] were fined" (source 2) But, in other places people like having a day without their car.
Places like Bagota, Colombia "cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permited for the Day Without Cars" (source 3), where people enthuaicticly use alternitive transportation to get to work. For some people not driving relives stress, a bussnes man living in Bagota says "[the day without cars is] a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution" (source 3).
Even though cars may seem like an important part of out society today, a cultural shift may be leading america away from cars. "The number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter" (source 4) so even though you may depend on youer car every day in a couple of years cars may not be the main transportation for the US. So you may want to start thinking about using other forms of transport because the age of the poluting cars is coming to an end. | 3 |
c5a5c3b | I, Luke Bomberger, think that it would be wonderful if you participated in the Seagoing Cowboys program. I have three great reasons why you should participate. You would be able to take care of horses, young cows, and mules. You would get to sail overseas. You would be able to have free time on your way.
When I say that You would be able to take care of horses, young cows, and mules I mean that there would be 335 for all the types of animals. You would also get to have the chance to sail over the seas and have fun because you would be able to sign up with your buddy and travel together. The last reason is that you would be able to have free time to see things that people may never get to see in their lifetime.
After reading these reasons that I stated I hope that you consider joing the Seagoing Cowboys. These are the reasons why I think that you should join. You would get to take care of horses, young cows, and mules. You would also get to sail over the seas with you buddy or even by yourself if you want. The final reason is that you would get free time along the way to see things that people may never get to see in their lifetime. | 2 |
c5b1a76 | The Electoral college is a way of voting for Presidency. Electors are the people who consist of that. Their are 538 electors. A majority of the 270 votes is required to elect a president, The 23rd amendment of the constitution states that 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the electoral college. The candidate's political party generally choose the electors. The Presidential election is held every 4 years on the tuesdaay after the first monday in november. Most of the states have a winner takes all system except Nebraska and maine. After the presidental election, the governer prepares a "Certificate of Ascertainment".
These are Cons about electoral college .Voters dont vote for a president,But for a state elector. The disaster factor is the best argument against the electoral college. The electoral college is irrational,outdated and unfair, And the arguments have pros that are assertions without basis in reality. The Electoral college is not democratic in a modern sense. The electoral college is also a anachronism. The Electoral colloge is a process that is full wit pros and it also has its small and enormous cons. | 1 |
c5b7d0c | Driverless cars have devoloped a lot since 2009, many company's such as nissan,bmw and many others said they would have a driverless car by 2020
thats because these driverless cars an amazing piece of work,
Who dosen't want a car that is going to drive for them i mean that sounds pretty cool to me but what about if there is a car accident. Does the car know what to do when there is an emergency? So if driverless cars are going to be made then what is going to happen to the normal gas running cars because i know these driverless cars are not going to be cheap. Driverless cars are great for teens that are just starting how to learn to drive because they wont have to do all the driving the car would do most of it and they will eventually get better and the hang of driving, these kind of cars could also be good for the elderly because some can not see as good anymore they either crash or get hit that is why this car would be great for them less accidents, no more getting lost. this driverless car has it all gps,sensors,video camera, who wouldn't want a car with all these features plus it's going to keep you and your family safe with all the protection it has added.
Driverless cars well they ever be allowed on the streets who knows. Nissan,Bmw and the other company's that are trying to build these cars should go ahead and make them because nobody knows if they are going to work or aren't going to work. Driverless cars should be made because it's an amazing thing that would change the world forever. Finally driverless cars should be allowed to be made because everything deserves a try. | 2 |
c5b8da8 | Dear Senator,
We should abolish the electoral college. It nakes voting unfair and is dangerous to the American society. It corrupts the soul of all Americans and makes people unhappy. If we want our society to live, we should end the electoral college.
The electoral college is extremely biased on the canditates and the voters have only a miniscule chance to elect the right voter. The chance is so miniscule that even an atom couldn't fit through it. On the counterclaim that it could be a tie, which has a higher percentage rate to tie, all of America, or 0.00000001% of the population of America? The canditates dont even focus on the states that aren't swing states, such as Wyoming or Alaska. If a president is from California, he/she already has 20% of the vote in his/her pocket. To make things worse, half of the states are not even into the campaign, voting canditates "they" think is best, not voting the canditates their state thinks is best.
To top it off, people are just so wooed by the canditate's ad, or their wealth, or their eyes, that they don't stop to think what the canditate could do for them. Just two years ago, I found myself talking to a women who needed Obamacare for her ill son, yet she was going to vote for Romney. People are just too dazzled by how things may seem, when it's just a huge marketing scam.
A large state gets more attention than a smaller state does... Is that what we really want in our country? After all these years of black equality and women's rights, we have decided to just completely ruin our entire form of government by being prejuice to other states. Yes, they may have a lesser population, but that doesn't mean anything. It just means that we are not giving people the right of suffrage.
Apparently, the electoral college elects a "clear winner", when the popular vote coiuld do that just fine on its own. Why do you think we have voting day for? I'm sure its so that the president that they didn't vote for was chosen by the elctoral college. Here's some logic, lets choose a selected number of people to vote for president instead of all of America. Isn't that a great idea.
"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...." Really, is that why people vote? So you are saying that people vote just because they prefer, or like, the person other another candidate. So going back to my earlier point, people are just so amazed at their "something", that they just decide to take the effort to vote for them. No, people, that's not why, it's because they think they can make a change in the everyday world.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's all a game of cruel manipulation, Republicans manipulating the government so they get less taxes, Democrats manipulating the government to achieve free healthcare. It's a dangerous game, but the puppeteer who pulls the strings better than the last is the one who always wins. | 4 |
c5bb976 | Venus is a grat place, we should explore it becosue we need to see othere plants and if they are living things on them. How can we make our lifes better. There is a lot of things we can do we can test the ground for acide and othere thing and see if we can live on it. Earth is not going to keep going like it is now, becosue of poloshtion and othere facter's. Venus thick atmospher of alomst 97 percent carben dioxide, is something that can be use by our people to do things.
I belive that going there can help us know more about life if there is othere live can we use them to help us, can they solve our proplems. The average is over 800f so it will be hard to get there but we can do it we can hlod tother and do it. We can use the sun to make power for earth and so we need to go there.
We need more money and resores but we are not working to it, nasa need to fund a porgiact to get there. The planet id rocky and sediment and includes familiar features so we need to use evrething they have to our better, we are not doing that at the moment we need to get there firest.
NASA is trying to send people there so they need people's help and money to get us there and back, people need to know about how it is helpfull to us to get there we have coles of faters to them so we can also get some of there things to make eath better then it is now.
Earth is great but we dont have evrething we need there is alot of things we are missing, and we need them we need heat. We have it but not as much as we need.
They also have storems that are realy big and can kill any of our people and our things, so we need to find a way around that. We both dont have the same air they dont have oxegen and that's what we need to live, venus does not have the most imporent thing needed for us to live as hummesn.
At the end we need more money more man power more people welling to do this and mak us better to get this done. We all need to work togeth as on people, and get this done, with all the heat they have and all the power we can get from that who knows what we can do on earth becouse of it and all thegreat thing we can do when er get there. | 3 |
c5bc641 | World War ll was over in Europe and many countries were left in ruins in 1945. To help these countries recover their food supplies,animald and more,44 nations joined together and formed a UNRRA. The UNRRA stands for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. The UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the animals that were shipped overseas. Like horses, young cows, and mules. So my friend and I signed up. We think you should sign up too.
The UNRRA was hiring "Seagoing Cowboys". This was a chance in a lifetime. It is good to join the UNRRA,because you help out people. It also helps you see new places you never been to. It helps you see new things. It a chance of a lifetime. You can buy things from every place you go too. You can tour around places. You can explore that new pace and you can also meet new people or friends. Maybe even if friends of your moved somwhere else you would probably go there country and see them.
It takes about two weeks to get from the Atlantic Ocean to the eastern cost of the United States,and a month to get to China. Yes that might be awhile,but you can still do things on the boat. You also have to take care of the animals. You have to feed and watered two or three times a day. There is also a thing called night watchman. The night watchman has to check on the animals every hour. Just because you have work dosen't mean you don't have time to have fun. You can play baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds. You could also play table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing,reading, and whittling. The games helped pass the time.
I am just saying that you should sign up. Even though you have to do work you cant still have fun. You can visit new countries. You can tour around buildings. You can also explore the country. You can do many things if you sign up. You also help people if you sign up. By helping ship animals, food, supplies and many more. You wouldn't only be helping one person you'd be helping people. | 4 |
c5bd38a | The study of Venus may be dangerous for some of the sciencist considered before, venus has a really intresting structure what makes science go around the planet. Finally by the information given we can determinate if Venus may not be a planet what we could explore today.The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite
the dangers it presents.
The article "The Challenge of exploring Venus" relates many ideas and facts that makes venus a challenge to be explored today, the article has thought to be a explanation of realitiy to make to known why Venus is far to be explored. The author wrote: "Humans have sent bumerous spacecraft to land on this cloud draped worl. Each previous mission was unmanned, and ofr a good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." The atuhor write a fact that any spacecraft survived more than a few hours in Venus. The risk to send humans are very high becuase even a machine can't resist a big pression and climate change in Venus. Another fact that explain better why is a risk explore Venus is: "The planet surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet" The average of risk from Venus are very high, we have a unknown planet that has a pressure "90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." It is dangerous send today without advance technology someone or something to explore Venus with good results.
In conclusion, today we can not explore Venus. We need more information and what is given from the author is a reasonable answer. The author has reason in be a worthy pursuit with the danger front of ours eyes. The ideas given and the analysis makes think about if we are really prepared to explore Venus, and the answer is we are not ready to explore because it reperesent a big risk for explorers and machines. | 3 |
c5c1b30 | Being able to detect how other people are feeling can be a satisfiying and critical thing to use or to know. When the historical and famous picture that was taken of Mona Lisa famouse painting with her smiling can be a miss lead consuption or an unexpected photo at the time. With the FACS it was able to detect Mona Lisa's expression through the photo. She was 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry. The FACS isnt able to detect what Mona Lisa was happy, upset, angry, disgusted or fearful at the time. The only thing it was able to capture are her feelings but not towards what she was feeling for.
Being able to know that the person that you are analizing can have certain emotion's towards you or towards others is a good thing. If you were to have a significant other or some one that you are intrested in is sending mix signal can be complicated and people wouldn't be able to tell, it can be usefull but, can also be a disadvatage. There are people who tend to be complicated when they aren't wanting to. It would be easy tp know if there were to be a detected FACS. But how would it be for sure that it was towards that one specific person. For instance in the Mona Lisa picture/painting. | 2 |
c5ced33 | The electoral college is how america chooses its president. The electoral college should not be how you think voting works but the complete opposite. It is a process that consist of electors who count the electoral votes. When a citizen votes their vote does not go directly as a vote for the president but it goes for the electoral college in your state. If that state has more votes for one candidate than the other then that state votes for that for that candidate as a whole. If the person I vote for doesn't get the vote for my state then that defeats the purpose of me voting. The electoral college takes away my say in choosing a president, the fairness, and it might have been put in the Constitution by the founding fathers but it is outdated.
The first reason why the electoral college shouldn't be used is because it takes away voters say in the decision for the president. If I vote for someone and the state doesnt pick him, that would mean my vote didn't count. That means i would now mean no one would even care about my vote. My vote wont even help make it a closer race. It's like my vote just vanishes into the air and is never seen again. If there are millions in the country and only 538 votes count. This is unrational to voters.
The second reason why the electoral college shouldnt be used is because it isnt fair. It is especially unfair because of the winner take all system in each state. Candidates don't even waste time going to states they know they cant win but only focus on swing states, which for one takes away the priviledge for the others that want to vote for the candidate to see them. It also takes away from the smaller states who don't get to put out as many votes as California with 55 or Florida with 29. Alot of states only have three votes and even though it could win or lose a races it still isn't fair to the people.
The electoral college was put into the Constitution by the founding fathers but they are not always right. The Constitution says all men are created equal but we still have had slavery. The Constitution has given us freedom of speech but once we step on school property that rule is taken away. The Constitution is not always the right way to go for everything. The founding fathers were very smart men but they have to think of how the country feels now because they were alive a long time ago.
In, conclusion the electoral college should just be put out of work because it is not the best way to elect a candidate, it takes away my say in the decision,the fairness, it was made by the great founding fathers but is outdated by how the counrty is now. Everyones vote should be out into play with the elections. | 4 |
c5d4de9 | Someone takes a selfie, and sends it to their friend trying to make it seem like they are completely happy with no problems at all. However, what if you were able to tell if your friend is really happy or not? There is a facial coding system that can identify other's emotions. The use of this technolgy to read emotional expressions is valuable because, it can recognize facial movements to see how other's feel, the computer can make faces seem more expressive, and it also teaches you more about your smile and whether it is genuine or forced.
It has been shown that Mona Lisa was about 83% happy when the picture was taken, it shows that it was mostly a happy smile. There are usually ablout six different kinds of emotions, such as,"happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness". This shows that there many emotions that could be discovered by just a simple picture. As an example, your eyebrows are usually raised when your are surprised or your lips would be tightened to show anger. The software would usually have mixed emotion, and it is usually compared to a nuetral face that shows no emotion. We humans are actually able to do the same thing, just by the look/expression on their face. Some specific artists such as, da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint specific emotions with facial emotions.
Computers are capable of doing many different things that not even humans can do. One very important thing is creating different expressions for others. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This was said by Dr. Huang, and it was normally used to make even animated faces more expressive. It is true that most human communication is nonverbal, and some computers may need to understand that too. There are some simple instructions that encode different emotions, this was also used to create Mona Lisa's smile.
This system teaches you more about your smile and whether it is forced or not. There is certain muscular action units that indicate the difference between both smiles. For the real smile which is called "zygomatic major" which are actually muscles that begin at your cheek bones, it would lift the corners of your mouth. However for the false smile, the mouth would be stretched out sideways and it would ues the zygomatic major and the risorius. To many exerts they know that it is true thatfaces tell the truth and when a celebrity takes a selfie with a false smile, it is usually a sign that it they are not being truthful. There is an important theory of emotion that expresses and produces emotions.
Facial action coding systems can be used for very useful things. This this technology is extemely valuable because, it is able to recognize how others feel by facial movements, more expressive faces can be made with these computers, it shows the difference between genuine smiles and forced smiles. | 4 |
c5d69ce | When u vote for a president u are voting for the electors at the same time. There saying if u lived in texas and if u voted and 38 votes whent to John Kerry. the best argument that they had against the electoral college is called the disaster factor. In the 1960's the people in Louisiana the people were trying to stop the popular votes go to John F. Kennedy. In Wyoming there were 500,000 voters and 55 representatives from California whr represents 35 Million voters. In 1968 a shift if just 41,971 votes would be deadlocked the election and later in 1976a tie would have occurred if a mere 5,559 in Ohio and 3,687 voters in Hawii had voted diffrent and they were a few swing votes away from a catastrophe. when u vote for the president u are voting for the slate of the electors. in 2000 when Bush and Gore were getting voted for the seprem court had to pick who was president of the united states. When president Obama whent up there he got 61.7% of the electoral vote and 51.3% of the popular votes. People in 2012 thought that a single cote may decide an election. | 1 |
c5e21f4 | The idea of implementing Facial Action Coding System(FACS) into school computers is an idea that has been suggested by the creators of the software. They suggested that the system would be able to recognize whether a student is confused or bored, and change the lesson accordingly. This will create a separation in a classroom between the kids who understand the topic and kids who do not. Since there are so many different levels of comprehension within a classroom, kids will be constantly progressing at a different rate. For the students who are a little bit slower to grasp information, they will always be behind on the lesson plan. On the other side of the spectrum, the children who are fast to understand the information will always be bored and always be ahead of the lesson. For teachers, this divide would be even more difficult than the one that they face today, as they would be aware of all of the kids who don't understand, and will be prevented to continue on the curriculum until everyone is on the right track. Implementing the Facial Action Coding Sysem is a great idea on the surface, but once applied into schools, it will be very hard to control the curriculum in a classroom. That being said, it would not be a good idea to add Facial Action Coding Systems into classroom computers.
There is always a contrast in the level of comprehension between students in a classroom. For the students who don't fully grasp the information right away, the Facial Action Coding System would keep them behind on the curriculum, making sure that they "understand" what is being taught. This system would be a major drawback for these students, as they might be able to fully learn about half of the curriculum, and leave the other half untouched by the time they are tested on it all. Another thing is that once a student is recognized as being confused, the software would have no clue as to what is causing the confusion, and would not be able to assist. Google would be a better platform for a student who is confused on a lesson to study off of. Another thing is that if a student is not interested in the content and doesn't understand it, they will be more inclined to look bored of the situation, and be put into the higher level curriculum, which would set them back even more. While this facial software is a great idea, the system would end up holding back many students who could do better with solely a teacher in the room.
On the other side of the spectrum, students who are always understanding the information within the first few days will not reap much benefit from this software either. They will be recognized as bored, and then they will be assigned to something else for the "bored" students to complete. This would most likely not take them very long at all, and they would probably be finished before the other students even understood the initial topic. This divide will keep the fast students progressing rapidly, and the slow students at a stand still.
This Facial Action Coding System might be hard on students, but the teachers will be getting the brunt of the situation. The teachers will be more acutely aware than usual whether or not one of their students is comprehending the content or not. This will cause the teacher to provide additional lessons to that student, and prevent them from moving on in the curriculum. This software not only creates a divide between the students in the classroom, but also the teacher. The teacher would then have to morally decide whether to stop and wait for a student to understand, or to leave them behind. Many students may disagree, but no teacher ever wants to have to make that decision. That is why putting Facial Action Coding Systems into school computers would be a bad idea.
Implementing the Facial Action Coding Sysem is a great idea on the surface, but once applied into schools, it will be very hard to control the curriculum in a classroom. Some students would have an easy time completing lessons from this software, and some students would find it impossible to make it through one unit. This dilemma would be even tougher for teachers, as they would have to decide whether to leave behind the kids who don't understand, or to make the kids who do understand, suffer through more lessons of content that they already have mastered. While on paper, adding Facial Action Coding System may have seemed like a great idea, implementing this into real schools would provide challenges that would not be combatted by modern day educators. | 5 |
c5e49a2 | venus is the closest sighn of life out of all our planets in our solar system we should presue our investigation to determin if life was a thing on this planet before the planet was a giant death trap with valcanos and craters and storms and lighting preventing our space crafts from entering its atmostfear we should put more research into our space crafts and technology to find out if we can get scientists close enough to better identify the planets surface and find out if there is a reason why the planet is so dangerous for life forms like us so we can design some form of safe travel maybe even bulid a space station so we can be able to get people close enough to do reaserch of the planet . and to suppoert my writing it says in chapter 7 of the story the challenge of exploreing venus NASA is working on other approaches to study the planet to see if there is actually life on venus . | 2 |
c5e85f4 | People think that aliens are real, but has any human being ever seen one? No they haven't. People just assume that aliens are real becuase of TV, comics, books, and movies, but in 1976, Viking 1 took a photo and saw a face on Mars. People think it was an alien life form that created this.
NASA used all there research and what they know to figure out what this was. Some people think that it was just an illusion created by shadows giving it eyes, nose, and a mouth. It reminds some people of landforms like Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho or any landform they think that comes close with it. It could've just been a metreo that hit Mars and formed it. I think it was just a natural landform.
We may never know what it truly is. There have been many weird things in space that we could never figure out. Some of those things are just normal stuff that happens in space and some people don't know that happens. It could've just been a normal thing that happen and everyone thinks it's a big piece of information of aliens.
People make hypothesis way to quickly based off of what they've seen and heard. Not all things are true. No one has truly seen an alien before and if there were aliens shouldn't have people already have seen one? Earth has been around for a long time and nobody has seen and alien life form. | 2 |
c5efa97 | Driverless cars are something that will very soon be a common part of our everyday furture lives. These cars have proven to be a time saving and fuel saving option. They also allow drivers to not have to be in full control as they would have had in normal cars today. Although these would be some very helpful things and would be more economically friendly, driverless cars prove to be very risking and there are just too many questions about ensuring safety for them to be allowed today.
Driverless cars could possibly be dangerous to the driver, other drivers, or people walking around on the street. As of now no driverless cars have been developed that are completely driverless. At any point the car could run into a problem where it needs a person's assistence. This person may not always pay attention like they should and they may not be able to interfere with the problem quick enought to prevent harm.
In these cars the chances of something to go wrong is likely. An accident may occur and the person to blame would be a very good question. The accident may have occured because something went wrong technologically with the car. Another possible thing is the car did not give enough time for the driver to be able to quickly react to the situation. If this were to happen would the driver be at blame because he should have been able to react quicker or should have paid more attention? Or should the car be blamed because it should have sensed the problem?
The chance of something going wrong with the cars and the technology is something else to pay attention to. As of today we can see that there is nearly something that goes wrong with technology daily. The chances of something going wrong with them and causing an accident is very high. The cars review sensors may not detect a young kid laying on the ground trying to recieve his ball that just rolled under the car. This car would then sense there is nothing there and roll over the poor kid. These cars may also read the road wrong or navigate wrong. These errors could cause you to drive on the wrong side of the road or take you down a one way street the wrong way. When you are driving down the road and a situation were to occur that caused you to react quickly how will the car know what to do in the certain scenario?
Driverless cars are definitely a good way in saving your time and energy, but they also can harm you. There are many questions about how safe these cars would be and who to blame if something were to go wrong. Driverless cars are another piece of technology and something could go wrong that could quite possibly endanger the lives of many people. At this time there are too many questions about the driverless cars that need to be answered. But once they are answered and proven to be safe, driverless cars could be the next way of transportation. | 4 |
c5f1310 | Dear Floridas state senator, I am righting this letter to tell you about why I think that we should ude the popular vote for the president of the United State. I have three main resons i would like to touch up on. It will give the poeple of the United States the chance to say who they want in the congree and say who we wnt to be our presedent. The Electoral College is not a democratic way of handleing it. But on the down side it can make things very unorganized, having us worry about every little person we have to put into congress.
In the United States we are a eaqual and fair contry, but with the Electoral College it does not us, the people of our fine nation the one to elect our presadent. It does not give us the freedom of making our own choices n who want to run our contry. But if we use the popular vote for the presadent of the united states it lets us, the people choose. It lets us the poeple the right to use our own opion and our own thought on who should run this country. Every person in this cutry has a voivce they do and they should be able to speak with thier voice.
If we use the Electoral Colledege it is not democratic. It does not let us the people choose. The Electoral Colledge baseecely sees that the citizens of our contrys opions do not matter. They are saying that the Electoral Colledges votes matter the most those are the only once we are worrying about. But thats not true our opion does matter, we are what make up this amazing cuntry not just the Electoral Colledge.
But you see there is up side to using the Electoral Colledge. It can keep us organized and what i mean by that is it will help the pople know who exactly all comes with the vote of the presedent. It also makes it alot esier to just vote for one group instead of voting for all 34 people. It will keep the people from accsadentaly voting for the wrong group. It will help the poeple make there desion on what they think best and not hat they have been told is the best choice.
The popoular vote for presadent is the best way to go. It gives the pople a voice and the Ellectoral Colledge isnt democratic. But the Electoral Colledge keep us, the people organized and helps us make the right decition. | 3 |
c5f6c71 | The 'Face' on Mars is made naturally. In 1976 we did not have
the technology that we have today.
The picture then was only a fraction of pixels that we have now. This allowed us to see the picture much more clearer. We saw that this was just a Mesa which is a lava dome. Mesa are very common in the Cydonia area side of Mars which this is located.
Plus why would N.A.S.A hide this from the public. N.A.S.A now needs funds that would benefits from this. A surplus amount of money would come in if N.A.S.A would have told the public that this was indded a alien monument to something and or that this was once life on cousin Mars. People would want to hear more, learn more about this. This would indeed reboost a Space program that was once on top of the economics stcuture in there respected work.
On April 5th in 1998 the Mars Orbiter Camera by Michael Malin took a picture that they posted on a JBL website. Many people where waiting to see what would have become of the higher solution picture of the 'Face'. Many where dissapointed when they found out it was just an natural landform.
Then on April 8th N.A,S.A checked the face again. Many conspiresters where ranting that there was indeed
alien markings on the 'Face'. So N.A.S.A went to the now known Mesa. They checked every square visble inch on it and still found no sign of alien life.
They said that this is very simalar to the states Middle Buttles located in Snakes River Plain in Idaho. So do you now still believe there is something out there that built a Mesa? | 3 |
c5fc2d8 | I think that joining the UNRRA (the united nations relief and rehabilibitation administration) would be a wonderful idea. Here are a few examples of why it's so great.
First things first, you have to know to know what you do in this job. Here's what you do: you go to different states and continents and give them food and livestock after there has been wars there and fix up most of the tore down buildings to help them recreate their towns again and bring loved ones together again.
But also remember that it is very hard to get a job like this, so if you ever get a job opportunity for UNRRA, then you better take it, just like Luke said,"It was an opportunity of a lifetime."
One other reason why you might like to do
UNRRA is if you possibly like to go around the world and travel, then this would be a great experience. Also if you would like to help people then this would be a great way to do it.
Also after doing all this work when you get back on the boat to go back to the loading station then you get to play all kinds of fun games, like baseball, volley ball, Table- tennis,
fencing, reading, and even whittling!
And at the same time you get payed to help people, travel, and play games!
So if you are ever in need of a job this would be a great way to get one and actually enjoy it! :) | 3 |
c5ffba9 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit depiste the dangers in presents" Anyone would love to explore more than just the Earth we live on. Who wouldn't want to know more than what we know already about our planet Earth! Venus is one of the most interesting planets we would want to find more of or know about especially because Venus is our friendly neighbor other than Mars. Venus can be a challenging planet to study, and a very dangerous planet but it can end up being worthy information.
The author uses very good details to describe why Venus is a interesting planet to study. The way the author started off with " Venus is sometimes called the "Evening Star," is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky..." is a very good way to drawl people into the topic of why Venus can be a worthy pusuit despite the danges it presents. Venus is the one of the closest plants to Earth and people often refer it to Earth's "twin' because of the density and size. Venus can be a really challenging planet to study, the way the author used a details about the atmosphere and surface in paragraph 3 sounds even more challenging then what i thought. "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dixoide..." the author even stated that something even more challening than the 97% of carbon is the clouds! it has "highly corrosive sulfuric acid" doesn't that sound interesing but terrifying? The author stated that humans have sent numerous of spacecraft to the land but none of them have survived more than just a few hours.(paragraph 2).That just adds another reason to why Venus is a worthy pursuit to study. I know more scientist are mostly focused on studying Mars more than any other planet but the author is putting the spotlight on Venus and it's full of mystery's. The author also states that the average surface temperature is over 800 degrees fahrenheit and the pressure is 90x greater than what we experience on Earth, ISN"T THAT INSANE !!! imangine living on Venus and discovering all these other things we didn't even know that it exists. Venus is also being described to once being just like earth long long time ago. Venus still has some features that can be found on earth such as rocky sediment, valleys, mountains, and craters (paragraph 4) this should be most definitely be another reason for humans to study Venus the way they study Earth and Mars. Each planet always has something different within each other, but we can't really study planets futher away from earth like Pluto. Pluto isn't referred to being a planet but it is in our glaxay so it should be considered one, we can't really study those planets well like the Mars, but Vensus is another option to study.
The author used a very good reasoning for Venus to be a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The Earth, The Moon, and Mars should not be the only planets scientists or NASA studying. Venus most likely has more interesting, mysterious places or objects than just the atmosphere and the surface. Venus sounds like one great and definitely a worthy planet to study. | 4 |
c602ff9 | Dear Senator
I am writing this letter to you to tell why i think we should change from Electoral College to election by popular vote. See the thing is Senator the Electoral College seems like a biais to me, its unfair to the people. Many Americans dont vote because they fair that that votes won't go to the right person because in truth and in facts when the American people vote they're not voting for who's to become president they vote for the electors and not knowing that the electors dont always vote for the same person the voted for so all Americans are doing is meaningless voting because they dont really have a choice they may think they voting for Obama and the electors voted for Romney. And thats why most Americans dont vote.
I feel it wouuld be best if all voting is done by popular vote , because either way all of the American people dont get a say in the voting rules but at least they know that there not being cheated.
Because when they vote by electoral college most states dont even get the chance to vote because its small or under populated , which is unfair not because you know a state is small and it might not make a difference doesn't means they dont have the right to vote its totally unfair. | 2 |
c603bae | The Seagoing Cowboys is a part of a group that is called
UNRRA it helps people and animals after the war. the reason you should join is that you are helping people and it is cool to go see other places and different like the Acropolis in Greece and china and europe. there are some ups and downs but it is worth it to see where you can go sometimes you will have to work nights watching the animals every hour of the night you will have to be care full because the dangers of the sea is different than it is on a farm.
It is alot of fun the animals keep you busy and there are games you can play games like boxing,base ball,table tennis,and tournaments on the way over to china or europe or where ever your going they always had fun.
luke was working on his aunt's farm when he was a kid so he was prepared to work daily but he could work all the time luke on night watch hurt his ribs by falling of a slippy later from the rain lucky for a metal strip didn't have him falling over board. Being a Seagoing Cowboy was a live changer for luke he said i'm grateful for the opportunity it made him more aware of other countries and the people needs.
The work on the ship was hard it kept luke busy the animals had to get fed three times a day bails of hay and bag of oats had to pulled up from te lower deck and stallshad to be clean. In august 1945 luke got his first orders. luke said the day of the parcific war ended they got there sign up papers and bored the SS charles w wooster.
Luke never knew his life would change right after his high school gradution but his friend asked him if he wanted to join the Seagoing Cowboys and he couldn't say no so he joind the Seagoing Cowboys and buy the time luke was discharded he had already made nine trips with the Seagoing Cowboys that was the most any Seagoing Cowboy ever had. | 3 |
c60eda0 | The facial action coding system for emotions was developed to detect different emotions. It may seem creepy to know everyones emptions but it can benefit teachers. It can even help out people in general to identify different emotions on people. The technology should be used to read students expressions. The technology should be used in school for its uniqueness, lessons, and overall connection to students and teachers.
With the system, teachers can detect truthfullness in their students. It can help connection with students and their teachers, or even just peers. People can force different faces to convince others to think they are different that how they actually feel. But, with the system you can tell when someone is genuine about a emotion. For example, there are certain muscles that move when someone is truly happy. The muscular units move around, the muscles at the cheek bones lift, and the crow feet around your eyes move.
The system itsself is highly intelligent, and completely new to our generation. The technology is advanced and had never been created before. The sytem can calculate the percentages of different emotions on people. There are a variety of emotions that it detects such as happiness, surprise, anger, disguist, fear, and sadness. It can even be used for ads to see if someone is interested in a certain thing. If they remain happy, they will show similar ads.
The coding sytem can be used by teachers for lessons. Students can appear bored and not interested in class. With the sytem, teachers know when they are into and engaged into their learning in the class. The system would detect the facial muscles to recognize them as uninterested. Then, they can adjust the lesson to engage more students and improve their learning overall.
In conclusion, teachers and schools should utilize this system and work it into their lessons. It has tons of benefits to learning. It is something new and advanced to the society. Also, it can be used to get more students invloved in learning, and ensure excited engaged students. Overall, the coding system can help with lessons, connection, and its uniqueness to society. | 3 |
c6114f7 | In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" a writer states that scientists are trying to study the planet Venus. In his article, he claims that while it is very risky, it may be worth it in the end. he also gives details about how dangerous it really is, and what the planet might have been at one point in time.
In the second paragraph, The writer claims that Venus is referred to as Earth's "twin''. But the only evidence he gives to back up this claim is that "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of desnity and size." but in reality, Earth and Venus are very differnet. Earth is much safer in terms of temperature, pressure, and gas compaired to Venus. Venus has a blanket of gas that covers it that is, "almost 97 percent carbon dioxide." Plus, on its surface, "temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit." with the level of carbon dioxide and the ragging heat that it has, nothing is safe for long on Venus, especially humans. He does state that several spacecrafts have attempted to land on Venus, and only lasted a few hours, but he doesnt state what happened to them. most people would guess that they just melted entirely because of the extreme heat, which is most likely what happened, but we don't know for sure.
Not only is high temperatures and extreme pressures an issue, he also states that there are volcanoes and major earthquakes that happen, plus lightning is constant as well. But there is no context to whether or not scientists are trying to figure out what causes the the powerful earthquakes to happen, or why lightning strikes frequently happen. He also states that, "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life." But there is nothing that follows it that claims what happened or could have happened to cause high pressures, high temperatures, and a high level of carbon dioxide to form.
While scientists believe that Venus was at one point like earth, there are some facts that show that it has the looks of earth in some ways. the writer says that Venus, "has a surface of rocky sediments and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." These features are exactly what earth has as well. But there could be more than what meets the eye. In parapgraph six, the writer says that," peering a Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions becuase most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere." This issue puts a damper on scientists ability to study the planet. But thats just it, what are scientists trying to study. The article says,"Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus.'' Which is great they are working on that, but what are they trying to collect, find, or explore.
Overall, the article is good, but there needs to be more detail in what is happening. they need information on what scientists are specifically trying to study, what they are looking for, and more detail on how they are progressing in studying Venus. With more details about what they are trying to find, it would be easier to evaluate whether or not the scientist efforts are really worth it, or just a waste of time. A planet that is inhabitable by humans or anything living is already a risk as is. | 5 |
c614342 | An opinion on driverless cars can go either way. There is the side of thinking that driverless cars are a good idea or the other side of thinking that they are not a good idea to have. I say that mainly driverless cars would be useful and really cool to have. On the other side of my opinion, I think it would be a lot of work to simply just have a driverless car. There are multiple upsides and multiple downsides that can eventually be overcome.
My positive arguement for having a driverless car has a lot of view points. There is the parts of me that want to have it because it would be cool, and also the side that thinks of the efficiency of a driverless car. When I watched the Incredibles movie. Mr. Incredible had a car that let him change suits while the car was still going and alerted him when something was happening. Using a whole lot of sensors and other implimented things into the car to help it drive itself, the car will be great "The combination of all this input is necessary for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel". Cab service can be provided and more effiecient travel routes can be made to shorten traffic jams or quickly getting to somewhere.
My negative arguement mainly basis off of weither testing and using driverless cars will be safe. Accidents are bound to occur while testing and people can be hurt. Sensors on the cars can detect other cars and routes to be traveled. There is the possibility of someone walking across the road or anything in the area of the car. Will the car have the reaction time in order to stop saftely and not cause an accident with any other cars or people. Other problems can occur and people can disrupt funtions in the car or just over time something goes wrong without anyone knowing. Driverless cars have flaws that cannot instantly be fixed without something happening.
Overall I believe driverless cars would be a good thing. Other considerations as far as saftey and other mishaps will slow the process down to make sure the driverless cars are safe. There are many benifits and many downsides to having driverless cars on the road with other people. A lot of people will like the idea and advertisment will spread quickly once driverless cars are acheived and approved by the states or laws. I certainly would like one. | 4 |
c61a6eb | You should join the seagoing cowboys. I think you should join them because it willl be fun. You and your friends can go over seas. I also think you should do it because its a good cause. This is why you should join the seagoing cowboys.
You will have lots of fun. Things you'll do are help people. You will also get to see animals and have a good time. You can do cool work and fun stuff with other people. This is how fun it would be if you went on the seagoing cowboys.
I think you should join the seagoing cowboys. I think you should join them because you'll see stufff you'll never see in your life. When I was on the boat I saw many beautiful thing. You should also join because you will make new friends. The best reason why you should join is because you will be help someone in need. This is why I think you should join.
This is why you should join the seagoing cowboys. If you are interested in joing contact me at PHONE_NUMBER. You'll have so much fun if you join. I also think this is the one of the most helpfull things you can do. This is all the reason why I think you should join. | 2 |
c61cc1b | In my opinion I am for driverless cars. The main reason that i am rooting for the driverless cars are because it would cause more of a technology revolution. This would be saving extrodinary amounts of time for us. As people say time is money so if the technology advances in these driverless cars and they can drive themselves without any problem and the roads are made specifically than them then it would save time and probably human lives. In the future we can maybe have no car accidents because how advance our technology is to this date.
Right now the driverless cars are not made to be able to go out to our public streets yet. I understand that and I think that too, but maybe in a couple decades or so driverless cars can be the new normal thing to our lives just like as we transition from flip phones to smart phones pretty easily. We all thought it was cool and very helpful. Driverless cars could do the same.
Here are some examples that driverless cars would be better than just normal cars if they reach the point that the driverless cars could drive themselves better than an average person. For example, you're home alone and have no food to eat but you're an underage for a driver's lisence, do you stay home and stay hungry or take the driverless car that is safe and go to the market to get a healthy meal. You would probably pick the option to take the driverless car. Another example is that your legs are paralyzed and you're alone, driverless cars can help with that safely. My last and final example is that maybe the person who is going to drive is drunk, you would not like a drunk driver so it's a lot safer for the drunk driver to take a driverless car than driving on his own.
Even though driverless cars are not that trustworthy right now but I beleive in the near future that driverless cars could bring a lot of options to us and save us
things that we care about. | 3 |
c61d32d | The face, is it martian made or a natural landform? The face is not a alien artifact it is a land form that is formed with facial features like eyes and a nose. The Viking 1 captured a mesa land formation that resembled a face not a martian made artifact. In 1998 a MOC team captured a picture that proved the "Face" was a mesa land form. Then agian in 2001 another team captured a picture of the mesa with a Mars Global Surveyor agian NASA came to the conclusion it was a mesa.
In 1976 a Viking 1 camera captured a bone chilling picture of what looks like a face. As scientists studyed the picture they came to the conclusion that it was an oddly formed mesa that resembled a human face. After they let the picture out to the public the popularity of this mesa sky rocketed it haunted the world for twenty five years before NASA did another expadition to prove it was a mesa.
In 1998 a GOC team captured a picture of this so called face. After further exsamination NASA found the face to be a land form commonly known as a mesa. After studying the mesa the group of scientists compaired the face to mesas in Cydonia, the area the face was found, they came to the conclusion the face was really a mesa that had a peculiar formation.
Then agian in 2001 skeptics lead NASA to do another expadition to capture another picture of the phonomanon. After finding the same evidince as they had the past two times NASA ruled it a mesa. Skeptics had no way of saying the face was anything but a mesa. NASA had proven it three times there was no denying it, the face was a land formation that was rather common were the pictures were taken.
Now NASA could be wrong the pictures could have been edited to contain the secret that there was life on mars. NASA could have tampered with the photographs to mislead the public. But life on mars would be good for NASA, the fact that we are not alone would get NASA the funding to start all kinds of expaditions that would help the United States in the Space race to mars. If there was life on mars NASA would have trillions of dollars to fund there research on the planet. This proves that NASA's findings were correct that the face is a mesa that looks oddly like a human face.
After reading this you should realise the face is nothing more than a mesa land formation that was blown out of preportion. The media took a simple fact and turned it into a alien artifact this concludes the fact that the face was a naturally formed mesa nothing less nothing more. The face is a mesa that looks strangly like a human face that became a pop icon for twenty five years. | 4 |
c61d606 | Some people may think that the Face was created by aliens, but it was not. The face is just a natural landform that is a huge rock formation. No aliens were involved in the making of it. Although it has starred in books, films, magazines and talk shows that does not mean it was created by aliens.
To start from the beginning, NASA was just circling Mars taking pictures of possible places where one of the other ships could land. Then it spotted the shadowy rock that looked like a face. A few days after NASA snapped the photo of the Face everyone was engaged in it.
Anyways, the photo that NASA snapped of the Face was not created by aliens. If it was NASA would be looking for any form of life on my Mars instead of just calling it a natural landform.
It was just a landform that was created naturally like the ones on Earth.
In conclusion, I would like to say there is no actual evidence that aliens created the landform or that they exist. The Face was not created by aliens and is just made out of rock that happened to form into the shape of a face and as time goes on it looks less like a face. | 2 |
c61e4cf | Facial Action Coding System, a program that can determin the emotion of a person. This new program will surely help in the feild of phycology. The use of this program can be almost limitless when used corectly. Now that this program is real how should it be used. Should it be used to help the police find potental victums or used to see how people are feeling at work or school.
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto he talked about its potential use at schools and how it could benefit schools by determinig if a studient is not learning or not happy. The use of this program has pros and cons, but in todays world it might be best to use it.
Anyone who keeps up with the news should be able to say that the world is getting more messed up every day. In the last few weeks there has been another school shooting. To think about what would make a kid go and shoot people at a school or anywhere is hard to imagine. This is where this program should be implented at schools. The program could be used to anylise the daily emmotion level of students. If a studient is always unhappy, scared, or anything that shows a bad emmotion for a period of time the school can then act an see what the studients problem is. Nick D'Alto said that it could be used to help students be more ingaged and enjoy school more. This should not be used, unless the kid is being home schooled or using some form of an online class. This is because there is no way for a teacher to consantly moniter their students wheil teaching and there is not a good way for them to adapt when nessasary in the time that they have. Also kids are already unhappy to be at school and not too mention how teired they are.
For this program to be used at school it should only be used to monater their happyness levels to prevent studients from doing bad things like commiting suiside or doing a school shooting. Any other use would be hard to anylize and or use in the way that Nick D'Alto mentioned. | 3 |
c620a79 | A time without cars would be a very interesting idea, but now that almost everyone has a car some people think that it would be hard to seperate from them. So instead of completely sepereateing from them lets try to limit thier usage. Think of all the benifits not just for you for everyone. Most cars pollute the air we breath, things would be different because think of all the money you could save by not having to buy gas or another car, and also think of how lazy cars have made people today cities would improve if people just walked instead of driving to and from work.
We all know how unhealthy cars can be to the envirorment, but did you know it could get so bad it could really hurt people. according to Robert duffer paris had to place a ban on half of the cars because they had so much smog in thier city. "On monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine" (Robert Duffer). he also said that diesel fuel was blamed and that it is worse than the normal gasoline. once a majority of the people had stayed off the roads for a while the smog eventually cleared up. So once agian this shows how harmful cars can be to an enviroment.
The reason america is having a drop in driven miles in the past years is that with the unemployment rate high and most americans can't afford cars. the article by Elisabeth Rosenthal has showed that since 2005 the number of miles driven has decreased and that the explanation of the recesssion is because of "cash-strapped americans could not afford new cars" (Elisabeth Rosenthal). Another statistic from the passage was that "the rates of car ownership per household and per person started to come down two to three yeas before the downturn"(Elisabeth Rosenthal). Even most middle class people have working cars some struggle to pay thier car payments and with the cost of gas high too they could really have a hard time.
Many people belive that the car is one of the main reasons that people today are as lazy as they are. just think if their were no cars everyone would get exersize by walking too and from work or the store. In Bogota Columbia parks and sports centers have bloomed throughout the city. Just because they have something called a car free day this major event has inspired new bike paths and sidewalks throughout the city. and that was only a day out of the year and most of the people gladly participated. this was the third straight year of this event but it still goes on even when the rain is coming down people still want to be apart of events without cars.
Unfortunatly most people would only see the bad side of things if anyone tried to completley get rid of cars forever. But there are always a good side of things with anything including the car. The problems of polution, the expenses of the things you need to have to keep a car running or with you, and the fact that it help stop the laziness of some countrys and help make them look new. | 4 |
c623b02 | Computer driven cars, the future of cars, but is it safe or dangerous. i think dangerous for three reasons. first off what if the computer driven car malfunctions or is even hacked. secondly will they make new driving laws for these computer driven cars. and last but not least if its safe then why is it illegal.
Computer are the future,but is it for cars. Computer driven cars can be quiet dangerous. What if the car malfuntions. Feor example, your driving in the woods heading for your camping spot, but the car dosen't want to turn. Your heading for a tree and you cant pull the stearing wheel what happens next? Or what if your car is bieng hacked by an unkown person. how would the car company fix it.
Will they make new driving laws? As stated in the story"New laws will be in order to cover liability in case of an accident". "Who is held responsible the driver or the manufature". In the story it states "Presntly, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the safe car has a human driver in controlat all times". I know here already tired of the regular driving laws.
If computer driving cars are so safe why is it illegal? in the story it states "As a result in most states it is illegaleven to test computer-driven car." That dosent sound safe to me. It also states "manufatures believe that more states will follow as soon as the cars are proven to be mor reliably safe." meaning that there not safe now.
Still think that computer driven cars are still safe? i didnt because of my three reasons. What if the car malfuntions or get hacked? Will they make new laws? If it is safe why is it illegal? | 3 |
c624421 | Venus the closest planet to earth
in terms of size and density sometimes called "Evening Star " because it is "the brightest point of ligth in the sky"(para. 1). Venus is known to be very challenging planet to study for the scientists and NASA. The reason why it is very diffecult planet to study is because
its temperatrure is 800 fahrenheit and spacecrafts aren't able to survive. NASA has been sending unmanned spacecraft, for a good reason the space crafts have not been able to survive alone. The author suggests that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents because NASA sees it as challenge, its earth-like
and wants to know its past.
Venus is challenging planet to NASA and many scientists because of how deffecult it is to study it.Venus has a very bad atmosphere with 97 percent of carbon dioxiode which makes it hard for spacecraft to see around. According to the article of "The Challenge of Exploring" it said the "Even more challenging are trhe clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in venus's atmosphere"(para. 3) What quoter is trying to say is that the NASA has to build very strong spacecraft strong enough it won't melt and a flying one. The spacecraft has to be ableto fly because if it touchs the ground it will be destroyed. Some people migth say that if it is dangerous planet why bother studying it, NASA needs to know what kind of planet Venus is for safty of earth and the people.
Venus very much earth like it was said in the article that venuis was filled withoceans long ago. The size of venus is also simialar to earth, earth and venus also travell around the sun at the different speed including Mars. Meaning that eartyh is sometimes closer to venus and sometimes closer to Mars. "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been trhe most earth-like planet in our solar system"(para.4). The want to me progress in exploring Venus because they want to find more similarty between earth and Venus.
In Venus's past it was said that there were oceans. The scientists and NASA teams are trying to figure out how Venus has ended up the way it is now. Looking at the past of Venus shows that is was filled with water like earth. studys have found that Venus most likely supported varios forms of life in the past. In present it very hot and no form of living thing cansupprted by it.
Overall Venus can be studied safely by NASA and many scientists. It is worth studying for since it is so much like earth. It is always good to stay ahead anything can happen to earth anytime. So its best to study every earth-like planet .Even if Venus is dangerous NASA can change that and learn more. | 4 |
c625628 | Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit, alothough it will be a challange. I claim that the author does a good job of supporting this idea. Studying Venus would be benfafitial because it allows us humans to understand more about the closest planet to earth. It would also be benfaftial because it is often referred as Earth's "twin". Studying Venus will not be easy due to the planet having the hottest surface in the solar system.
Studying one of the closest planet's to Earth would be benfafital to us humans because it gives us more knowaldge about it. In paragraph 2 it states " Earth, Venus, and Mars our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at differnt speeds. These differences in speed mean that somtimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus."
Another quote from paragraph 2 would be "Because Venus is right around the coner--in space terms- humans have sent numerous spaceraft to land on this could-draped world. Both of these quotes show that Venus is benfaftial to study because it does not take long to get information about the planet becasue it is close to earth.
Venus is often referred to as "Earth's "twin", which is also another reason why the author used to to support his claim. In paragraph 2 the auhtor states " Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size." In paragraph 4 it states "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Another quote from the passage that supports this idea is in paragraph 4 "Today, Venus still has some features that are analogus to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familar features such as valleys, mountains and creaters. All of these quotes prove that studying Venus is very benfaftial because it is very smilar in some ways to earth than any other planet in our solar system.
Although studying Venus will indeed be benfaftial, it will not be easy due to the planet with the hottest surface tempture in the solor system. In paragraph 3 the author states " A thick atmosphere of almost 97 precent carbon dioxide blakents Venus. Another quote is in paragraph 2 " Since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Paragraph 3 states " On this planet's surface, temperatures avarage over 800 degrees farenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experiene on our own planet. Paragraph 3 also states " These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth; such an enviornment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest part of our oceans and would liquefy many metals." All of these quotes prove that it will be a challange to study the surface of Venus, but in the end the hard work might pay off.
All of these statements prove that the author uses alot of detial througout the article to support the idea of furthuer studying the surface of Venus. It is one of the closest planets to earth, It is also referred to as Earth's "twin", but it will be a challange to study the surface due to the extreme environment that Venus has. This shows that us human's should futur out studys to keep exploring Venus. | 4 |
c62bbd0 | Yes, the idea of the face being a creation of intellectual life, outside of our planet, is certainly quite intriguing. However, the idea isn't entirely ethical, and I do not agree with the theory that it is a product of martian life. However "uncanny" the face is, and aidmittedly, it is quite detailed, so I could see how one would think that it was constructed by intellegent life forms, but it just isnt logical.
We have yet to recieve any other signs of current life on mars, and why would this be the way of reaching out? As far as we have found (although, i would love for this to be incorrect) there is currently no life on mars, intellectual or otherwise, and with no one around to construct it, obviously all fingers point twards it being a natural land form.
There are many other examples of images, resembeling human faces showing up throughout space (although the "face on mars" is quite detailed compaired to some of the others). one common example would be the "man in the moon", which was likley formed by either asteroids, or other natural happenings that occur on the moon. Obviously the face on mars, is not the product of an asteroid impacting the surface of the planet, because an asteroid would imprint, but the face is raised, but it does show that sometime things that look human, are simply a product, caused by nature.
The first picture ever captured of the face, was taken in 1976, by the ship "Viking 1" as we all know the technology (cameras, and photo quality included) wasn't the best, and the article tells us that the resoloution was limited, it says "43 meters per pixel in the best 76' Viking photo". That was when the theory of the face was most avid, and it could very well ahve been partially due to the limited resoloution and quality of the photo. however in the 2001 photos of the face, which were used to conclude that it was simply a mesa, and not an alien artifact, the quality is much higher, which would obviously enable them to reach a far more sound conclusion, than any based off of the 76' photos.
Like I said, the idea that the face could be an alien artifact, is entirely unfounded. The idea that NASA would cover up a discovery like this
is entirely lewdacris, because a discovery of this nature is not only pretty much the entire point of th eprogram, but it would aso attract more attention, and taxdollars. | 3 |
c62bfaa | Are you happy the way you vote today, would you be happy if we were to change the way we vote for president. Because they are thinking to change the electroal vote. I think that we should keep the Electoral College because it has been doing us good for a long time, and if we do change it, it would take a while for us to get used to it.
The first reason why it think that we shouldnt change the Electoral College is because it has been doing us good for almost 300 years. Let me ask you a question, do you change or fix something thats not broken,Than why change the Electoral College. We have had fair Elections in the pass and we still do, people vote for who they want as president of the united states, and if they get the better half of the votes than they are president. As we saw in 2012 when "Obama received 61.7 percent of the Electoral votes compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney....because almost all states award electoral votes on a winner-take-all- basis, even a cery slight popularity in a state creates a landslide electoral vote victory in that state" which is in source 3.
The second reason why I think that we should keep the electoral college is because it would take time for us to get used to the new method. Since we vote every 4 years and if we get a new way to vote there will be a few that wont know how to vote the new way and when it comes for it to vote again people will forget how they voted for the president. So if they vote for the person who they actually dont want its not like they can vote again. But as I said earlier its easy to vote with the Electoral College as its a winner takes all. The electoral vote does have a couple flaws that could be changed easily but in all other ways the elctoral vote is the way to go.
And thats why I think that we should keep the electoral College because one it hasd been doing us good and it will take us a while to get used to the new voing system. | 3 |
c62d306 | Dear senator you should chaange the voting rules from Electoral College to popular vote because the Electoral College is to confusing. Popular vote is a more efficent way to vote for the presedent.
For example in the article Does the Electoral College Work it says that the Electoral College votes by people who are profetionals and popular vote is by the people of the United States of America. This quote explains how the popular vote is better because it is decided by the people not the government.
Another reason why you should change the voting rules is that the Electoral College doesnt even work. In the article it explains how''under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the presedent ,but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president.''This quote explains that the electoral college has nothing to do with the people the vote is not decided by the people why have any people to begin with.
I just think overall you should consider the tip and change the voting rules.
Another reason why the electoral college has to be gone is it is un orginized. In the text ''The indefensible electoral college why even the best-laid defense of the systeme are wrong.''the quote explains that even though both systems of voting work,popular vote is the more dominant rule.
In conclution you need to change the system for the people and overall just make voting a lot easier. | 2 |
c62e70c | In the article "The Challenge Of Exploring Venus" the author
has explained and backed up his idea of studying Venus excellently. The author used clear facts of the harms and conditions that Venus has and why we can't just enter without protection. While the author was stating these facts he also was coming up with ideas of what NASA and other scientist are doing to better the chances of human beings going there and studying the Earth-like planet. The author continuously kept stating ideas of what human being could do to study Venus and not once said that we couldnt. The author was also very confident about his idea everytime he tought of one idea another one was on deck, just in-case one plan didnt seem so possible to humans.
In Paragraphs 1-5 the author is constantly stating facts of what Venus
is now and the harms and conditions that it has. Paragraph 3 it stated mostly why humans can't be there to live or just to study. Paragraph 3 stated for example,''on the planets surface, temperature average pver 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 time greater than what we experience on our planet.'' It also stated, that ''these conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth.'' He/She is baisically stating that the atmoshere and surface temp. is far more for a human to be there studying or living without ssome use of technology.
As the author states harms and conditions he/she also starts to
think of some ways us humans can build some technology of some sort to get us the information we need from the studyings of this planet. He/She started explaining an idea that NASA has compelled to try to get us over to the planet without being harmed. Paragraph 5 it stated,'' Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles abover the roiling venusian landscape. Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way.'' In that statement he/she explained that it would risky but survivable for humans.
As i stated in the first paragraph above the author started
using conclusions of how we were going to use the technology and what other idea NASA may come up with incase one plan went left. In paragraph 6 it stated, ''we only have a limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atomsphere.'' this is where the author starts using methods of how the mission will be preformed because of some road blocks we'll run into. Paragraph 7 it stated, ''NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in chamber simulating the chaos of Venus surface and have lasted three weeks in such conditions.''
The author has done a fantastic job wit backing up his idea with
details, facts, road blocks and the way the missons should go. He/She did an amazingly, confident article of how us humans could study venus, if one plan went left he/she stated other plans NASA and other scientis are coming up with in the studying of Venus. The details in this article would surely help scientist out with procedure of studying Venus. I think the author did a fantastic job with supporting his idea of studying Venus. | 4 |
c636e4e | There is a growing movement in lots of western countries to do less driving. In Bogota, the capital city of Colombia, a "Day Without Cars" has been established. It is an annual event where residents of the city are banned from using cars, and violators are fined. In Paris, residents were banned from using their vehicles for about week due to toxic emmisions, widely blamed on diesel fuel. In Germany, a development neighborhood called Vauban was created and has a strict policy on parking. Car-sized garages, and street parkin are banned, requiring residents to pay an extra 40000 dollars to purchase a parking space in the neighborhood. These ideals are even spreading to America.
Driving will emit toxins into the air, called greenhouse gases. These gases rise into the air, but are trapped by the ozone layer into our atmosphere and make the Earth warmer. This is a bad thing because the Arctic will start to melt and sea levels would rise. Now, vehicles are not the sole cause of this episdemic, but they are a large contributor. In Beijing, China it is said to be so polluted due to tailpipe emmisions that one would get sick if they were to go outside without a mask on to stop from breathing in the chemicals. In Paris, France the airborne toxins reached to a level just under the amount of chemicals in the air of Beijing. The city officials of Paris had to ban use of automobiles for about a week to rid the air of the poisons. If caught, vialotors were fined 22 euros (31 dollars American). This worked suprisingly well, and since the air cleared up, peoplpe are allowed to use their cars again. The Vauban in Germany is a neighborhood that has made it extremely difficult to own a vehicle. While vehicle ownership is permitted, car-sized garages are not included in the homes, and parking on the street is prohibited. If a resident wishes to park their vehicles, they must spend 40000 extra dollars along with the house for a space in a large garage at the edge of the development. This has all lead to cleaner air and happier, healthier people.
It is a well known fact the walking and cycling helps a person stay in shape. It keeps the heart flowing regularly, helps keep the lungs exercised, and keeps leg muscles strong ad healthy. If these ways of transportation are exhibited more often, and vehicles used less, we will not only have cleaner air, but a healthier human population. Walking can also help the brain work with the body to relieve stress, which puts people at less of a risk for heart disease. These factors are essential to producing a healthier population, which could let people live longer, and encourage them to do meaningful things that could benefit other parts of the world. The Internet has also been helpful in keeping people connected with friends and loved-ones without the need of driving to see them. It is possible to to center where you live around places to buy food and necessary supplies, as well as close to your workplace, all in walking distance. Even if that is not possible, finding a bus or public trnasportation route is always an option. It is less expensive than gasoline (tax included), car insurance, and any other expenses that might come with a privatly-owned vehicle. It is also less likely to get into an auto-accident when using public transportaion, and if it does happen it is not your responsibility to pay for the insurance deductible. All these factors and alternative transportaion methods can help to improve life for all people than it is with so many privately-owned vehicles.
The private owning of vehicles is convienient, but is still a hazard to the genearal health of our population. It poisons the air, and gives people an excuse to not walk or ride their bycyles as much, which can diminish their physical health. If we start to use privately owned vehicles less, however, it will promote the general welfare of our people. It is possible to cut the use of these vehicles short and preserve, even raise, our standards of living. | 5 |
c6392b4 | The latest technology called the FACS or Facial Action Coding System detects the emotional state of kids or adults. This technology is a leading way to help students out in a classroom or a work environment. This technology is supposedly able to help find the emotions of a human and how they feel by recognizing their facial features and muscles.
This new technology FACS, known as the Facial Action Coding System reads the facial features and the way humans use their muscles in their faces to recognize their emotional state, whether they be happy, sad etc. This new technology would not benefit our society today for the reason that we have careers and jobs in understanding humans emotional state, the time, money and effort spent in learning this would all be replaced by a robot or new technology, this causes jobs to be lost and people that spent their lives and money learning this career are out of a job because of a technology. FACS is good in a way to survey an area of people but not a necessity to the world today.
Although reading a students emotional state in a classroom is a good benefit and way to figure out whether or not that student needs more help or is the reason he/she are a disturbance in class or failing in a classroom. I believe it is a good thing to have at a school because kids today hide their emotions, and avoid socialization because of their emotional state, and if we have that today in our classrooms we could help kids grades rise, fights lessen, and even could stop bullying with knowing that a kid is in fear, why is he/she in fear? or a kid is sad? etc. These things help us understand what to do in order to keep the school safe and student happy in the classroom.
If the FACS is able to read students emotions and detect if that human is sad, happy etc. then yes this technology would be a great resource in the classroom or school today because of so many things happening over the world teachers and their staff should be able to use this technology to undestand their students emotions in order to help them in a classroom and figure out how to help them in academics for a better future. The article in this passage talks about how the FACS can even adress emotional views from a picture that dated back to the era when Da Vinci was painting, and this even could give us what emotion the Mona Lisa out out and how Da Vinci used facial features to depict emotion in his paintings, this could bring out the views of people back in the 1800s or even earlier.
Though I am not for this technology for the fact that we do not need a machine or computer telling us what state of emotion were in, it could be a great use in the school board today with all the violence and cyber communication that happens. The only good reason to bring this computer or technology into the public is in our classrooms to keep the students in a good school environment so that they can succeed and continue with grades that meet the highest standards so that they can have an education to look upon when they apply for a job, for that is the only reason this could even be worth the money.
Overall the technology or FACS, is a good learning tool for our school board and classrooms today, but only for the student body this could work tremendous and help our society. If there was a way to create a facial recognition system that could help our society and our criminals today and understand how they think then there is a chance that this could go farther in our world. Overall this new technology is not a good source or worth the money to put out to the public, I say this because as our world gets older and our generation furthers themselves, it is too easy to see the emotional state of human beings, we do not need a computer to say it understands better than the human body that gets study everyday. | 4 |
c63b26e | In my opinion, driverless cars are kind of a waist of time. Like it says in paragraph 8, "Why would anyone anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver? Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?". Also it can create other issues like severe laziness, there is already a large amount of people that are very lazy and having a driverless car can make that worse.
Some things that might be good about driverless cars are that they can reduce the amount of car accidents we have each year. It can also help people develop practices like focusing on the road at all times and not texting while driving. It helps by what it said in paragraph 8, " Such displays can be turned off instantly when the drivers trying to text with a cell phone. In this way, the in-car system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big concern." Some negative aspects can be again causing people to become more lazy and people may become dependent on their car since they don't have to drive it anymore.
Overall, even though i said in the beginning that driverless cars are a waist of time, there are more positive apects than negative. If people really start using driverless cars, they might become dependent on their car but they can develop good habits when it comes to driving. If people start developing better habits, we could possibly have a better future. | 3 |
c63b3bc | My position on driverless cars is that they are a misunderstood, underestimated, and misrepresented technological revolution that can change the transportation system completely for the better.
The technology used in these vehicles are designed to be perfectly accurate with sensors, laser technology, and a self updating 3D software that has greater awareness than that of a human driver.
These cars also take advantage of their programming capabilites to more efficiently brake and prevent accidents. The computerization of the "driver" will ensure that texting, alcohol, and other common driving problems are ruled out completely. In addition to these safety features the driverless cars will always roll back to their ultimate and final safety feature; the driver himself.
The technology used in driverless cars consist primarily of sensors and laser technology.
The document describes the LIDAR sensor; "it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3D model of the car's surroundings" (paragraph 4) .
This shows that the LIDAR sensor creates a perfect 3D model of all of its surroundings, meaning that it has a 360 degree field of view, and a higher sense of awareness than an ordinary human being with a field of view much smaller than that.
Sensors are another key technology used in the driverless car.
In Paragraph 5 the document states that "Within 10 years, those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out of control skids or rollovers.
The information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone".
This fact again enforces the boost in safety that driverless cars would bring.
Programs in the vehicle would take advantage of their domain over the individual functions of the machinery, and manipulate it to create a more responsive braking system that will prevent skidding and roll-overs.
Texting and driving, drinking and driving, and driving under the influence of other drugs are just some of the many bad habits that humans partake in that drastically increases the chance of a crash occuring.
These problems would see a significant decrease, as it is impossible for a computer to ingest a substance that would hinder its performance.
Texting is a program completely seperate from what the vehicle would use to operate and drive, so it would not be an issue in the slightest.
Most concern toward driverless cars is the basic idea of a driverless car - it has no driver.
People are reluctant to put their life in the hands of a machine, and rightfully so.
Technology will always have its glitches and quirks that lead to failure.
However, these mistakes would happen much less frequently as technology advances.
As stated in paragraph 5 "Further improvements in sensors and computer hardware and software to make driving safer are also leading to cars tha can handle more and more driving tasks on their own.
Another point to consider is that coded programming will not make silly "human errors" that lead to many accidents.
When active, a 3D software program attached to a fully aware 3D laser scanner will never be caught off guard, and will never day dream.
To further address the concern of lack of human intervention, these vehicles are designed to put full control back in the hands of the driver at the first sign of uncertainty.
This is seen in paragraph 7 with the quote "In fact, none of the cars develped so far are completely driverless.
They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating throught work zones and around accidents.
This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to rake over when the situation requires".
The vehicle will not attempt to navigate an obstacle that it is not prepared for.
One technology that manufactures are considering ensures that the driver keeps his/her eyes on the road at all times.
This is seen in paragraph 7 when it says that "Manufacturers are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road.
While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver".
This reliance on the driver ensures that human interference is always possible.
Driverless cars are an underestimated and somewhat feared technology that can help prevent the thousands of deaths that occur each year due to driving accidents.
With a little research and enlightenment on the topic, one can learn about the levels of safety that driverless cars can bring, and understand just how capable the technology used is now, and how capable it will become in the future. | 4 |
c63c8c8 | L
imiting car usage is a great and helpful action if we do it together. It also has many benefits,, it prevents car congestion, leaves the amount of pollution in the air,. Overall , limiting car usage is healthy for you . It allows you to walk and get to where u need to go. There are many other great reasons to why limitng car usage is good and important but these are just a few.
One reason why"limiting car usage" is a big deal is because it reduces car congestion and car congestion leads to pollution little by little. For example in Source 2 ,Duffer states that Paris has more polluted air than any other European capitals, it had "147 micrograms of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter"; meanwhile other cities had less than 120 . Car congestion also minimizes movement throughout the city.
Limiting car usage also slowly diminishes pollution in the air .Whenever the air that we breathe in is polluted , we are welcoming so many toxins into our body .Polluted air is very dangerous , especially for the little ones that breathe it in . It also can cause health problems. Air pollution also kills many of the living things on earth that we need to survive such as plants , etc.
Last but not least "limiting your car usage " is healthy for you , it allows you to walk and get where you need to go without relying on a vehicle. Also wlaking is good for you it helps you run better and work better. Also sometimes when using other means of transportation you get to where you need to go faster .
In conclusion there are many reasons why "limiting car usage is important . Its not only important for you but also for the environment and those around you. And who knows walking probably is better . | 3 |
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