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c63d535 | The Facial Action Coding System can be helpful in many situations. However, a classroom setting would not be improved with this system. This system is an advanced technology that should be used in a more serious setting such as court trials and government activities. In a classroom setting, many children will not become interested in learning by changing the version of an online acitvity.
This software has many qualities that should be used in more complex situations. According to the article, this software can tell if someone is being honest and truthful. The software could be used to solve crimes between suspect instead of being persued in school work. This software will not change a child's opinion on a lesson because the software does not know the child's personal likings. Changing a virtual lesson does not change the fact that the student views it as work. If the software detects the student is becoming bored, changing the lesson may confuse the student.
Overall this software is extremely useful for certain situations, but a classroom setting is not in need of this software. Many students are tired throughout the school day and are attempting to finish a lesson. Changing the online lesson may become aggravating to an older student especially. The Facial Action Coding System may not be as accurate for a classroom setting. Many people show no emotion when attending class, which may allow the software to read the emotion as bored. Everyone has different facial expressions for each emotion. An intrigued student's lesson could be changed to a new version because the software found their facial expression to be bored.
Every student has a different outlook on school. Some come in ready to learn and others are trying to complete the day. If a student knew about this software and thought it could help them stay interested in their lesson, a teacher should allow them to experiment. Otherwise, if the student did not know about the software, this is an invasion of privacy. The Facial Action Coding System should be optional in a classroom setting, because many students would not be interested. A software can read the expression of a student, but can not change their perception of lessons or schooling. | 4 |
c646a09 | I'm strongly against with have driveless cars,the chance of having car accident are higher,technology has arrived but not fully fuction,and the cost for driverless car.
The chance of a accidents are higher. "Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver?"Drivers will have to be alert to any happening."Wouldnt drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?",This lead Drivers most like falling sleep or more like geting distract from the feedom of useing hands lead to texting or active invole using your hands. Drivers will not have enough time to respond to take over car. Which leds to next problem technology.
Technology has arrived but not fully fuction. Technology has adavance some much in little amount time. What took developers decades to do in the past. will take developers today a matter of months at most. but we still have problems beacuse, technology has adavance some much we have to face new problems."Automakers are continuing their work on the assumption that the problems ahead will be solved."Although we have driverless cars today it require a human.
The cost if driverless car. the car will cost a fourtue."For starters, they needed a whole lot of sensors."it took years to develop and technology in the car. the coverage for driveless cars most be expenisve beacuse of cost car and the danger it brings."order to cover liability in the case of an accident. If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at faultthe driver or the manufacturer?"
Reasons why i strongly against with have driveless cars,the chance of having car accident are rise,technology has arrived but not fully fuction,and the cost for driverless car. | 3 |
c647936 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. I agree with the author that scientists should study Venus. I will be giving three reasons that supoort why they should study more about Venus.
My first reason that supports my claim is that it's a good idea for scientits to study more about Venus because in the text it says, "often referred to as Earth's "twin," Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too." because they say that Venus is like Earth's "twin" it would be nice to get to know more about Venus and how they are alike, what things that have the same and different.
But I also think it's a bad idea to send people to Venus and study more about it. It's a diffuclt task since the text says, " on the plant's surface, temperatures avergae over 800 degrees Fahrenheit." Venus has the hottest surface temperature, so it would be hard for people to even stand that. In the text it also says that it's been more than three decades since a spaceship has landed on Venus. Since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours.
On the other hand, I still think it would be a good idea to keep studying more about Venus. But to keep people safe, they should invent things that they can use so they can land on Venus without any danger. For example if NASA's wants to send people they should find ways where they can walk in Venus but keep the people safe. Since the text says, " researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance." because of their saftey. However researchers are finding ways to innovations that would allow their machines to last long enough to contribute.
In my conclusion, I think it's a good idea to study more about Venus since it's next to Earth. And so they can study more about it and find ways to make it stay for us humans to be there, if anything happens in the future. We can always go to Venus to live but only if they find ways were we can stay alive there. | 4 |
c6490ff | Driverless cars are the future. Sergey Brin is the creator of the Google Cars. He believes such cars would fundamentally change the world. They are made to take people to where they need to go without them really even having to drive. The only time the person will need to take over is when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents. These cars would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus.
My opinion on these new inventions is that I do not think these cars are needed and i don't think that they will be the next big thing. A lot can go wrong with them. The car could malfunction and possibly get a lot of people into a crash. The article says that the car is made so it automatically sensors the driver when they are needed. They are supposed to have seats that vibrate to notifty the driver, but what if the driver doesn't notice it and they end up crashing and hurt a lot of people.
The cars are also supposed to have cameras to watch that the drivers are remaining focused on the road. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver. But what if the camera breaks and it takes a while for the owner to get it fixed. Then how is the car going to watch the person? Plus by having these it just makes us all a little more lazier. Driving can be fun and nice to know how to do. I myself, enjoy driving. I personally think it's fun.
Our lives are being taken over by technology. Everyone now a days depends on it. They're lost without it. By making cars that will drive us around, without us barely even having to drive it is stupid. They're also most likely going to be outragiously expensive. The name also does not make sense. Why call it "driverless" cars, if people are still going to have to drive it.
The article states, "If technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault--the driver or the manufacturer?" In my opinion, it all just depends on the situation. If the car itself has an issue then its going to be the manufacturer's fault, but if the person just wasn't paying attention, then it is the driver's fault. To come to a conclusion, driverless cars are not worth all the hard work and time. They may be in style for a few months, but then i think people will get tired of them and just go back to their regular car. | 4 |
c64b6c7 | You think technology can read emotional face expretion?
Yes I think because the new technology are very avanced, cameras have many fuctions and are very smart for take of pictures, the new cell phones have this technology one example is Iphone 7 or Galaxy 8 this smartphones have many technology, they know when are you sad or happy they have a special camera.
The news computers have many technology they are the best for this work because you can modify of system , you can put one camera and stard to work, you need create of program for analized of expretions and you can suporting with other student .
One need put of front to the camera and other need take picture and analized in computer, the next step is analized the facial expretions and see the muscles his face, eyes, cheeks or his smile the computer need analized the information and procces.
First student have a natural smile and computer detected this, he is happy, next student are crying, computer analized he is sad. but when student have pockarface the computer no detected nothing because no have any emotions, but what happen when one student make falce smile, but this is really good, I think of the computer detected he is happy.
I think of people need make manny technology because actual computers can be trick. | 1 |
c64bdd6 | Imagen this say a presidents term is up and your congress wouldnt you want a say in who you might work with or would you just have to keep up with two candites that you dontknow.
we as a nation should keep the electoral college vote heres why our founding fathers put that in the constitution,this makes congress think harder about this decison.
the founding fathers made that decision the hard way acording to the article the founding fathers put that in as a compramise what this means is they had to do a lot of work to set the system up the way it is its not right to just change the system like that and ruin their work, it has been that way for many years and it has worked alright look at jhon f kennedy we had the electoral colege system in place look how it turned out. Another example george washington look at him first president and his term turned out great so we had a bunch of sucsess with this system its not worth changing with the results it got.
this system makes congress think about its nominations for president for example the article said the electoral college consists of the selection for the electors this means congress hs some time to meet and think in wich to vote. the passage said the electoral college consists of 538 electors so this means they got to reach a consensus and with a concensus everything is put to tghought so the bad things of each candatite is put to tgought.
the passage did say the electoral college is unfair and outdadated but with the results we got from this system however the results have been great this means we had failures but we had some succsess so this system does work and when it does the results have been great. the article did say this winner take all system is unfair to voters but this system has shown great results with various presidints.
the system makes congress think and it has been put in place a long time ago by the founding fathers but it works so congress go look at some future candatites and vote for the best one, citizesens dont let the failures of this system persuade you to not vote go out there and trust the goverment we have gone this lets continue to move fowrward with our countrys economy and vote for the president. | 3 |
c64f6b6 | Making this use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable because some students like to keep their emotions to thereselves. Another reason is some students have more of a serious face so you can't tell their emotions. Last reason is people have mixed emotions.
Some people like to keep their emotions to their selves because they dont want people to know whats going on. An example from the article is "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communcation." This means that some human don't like to communcate especially with their emotions.
Some students have more of a serious face, so you cant tell whether their happy or sad. An example from the passage is "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." This means that you can tell when a person is happy or sad, but some people can have serious face, but can really be happy in the inside.
Some people have mixed emotions. which means like mood swings etc. An example from the passage is "By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions." This means that the person can either be sad, happy, serious, or mad.
Therefore the use of technology to read the emotional expressions of stuudents in a classroom is not valuable because some students want to keep their emotions to their selves. | 3 |
c651ee9 | Being able to read the emotional expressions of students can be innovating. Many student can have problems, but with this technology it can be solved in minutes. The use of this technology is valuable to read the emotional expressions of students because if the student is having problems the teacher can help them with their problems, the teacher is aware of what her students emotional expressions are, and other students can help other students according to what emotional expressions they show.
The use of this technology is valuable to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom because if the student is having problems with their emotions the teacher can help them out. According to the passage it states " Shes 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." This means thats as the machine shows the emotinal expressions of the student the teacher can see what he or she is lacking in and maybe help with that.
The use of this technology is valuabke to read the emotinal expressions of students in a classroom because the teacher is aware of what the students emotional expressions are. Accoridng to the passage "there is new computer software that cna recognize emotions." This means that the teacher is going to be aware if what her students emotionak expressions are going to be.
The use of this technology is valuable to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom because other students can help other students according to what emotional expressions they show. According to the passage this machine can detect facial movement to see what the emotional expression is about the student. Therefore this means that other students can help other student if, lets say for example if a student is 90 percent disgusted, then other student can help her to feel better.
This technology could be innovating to many schools in the world. It can help detect if students could be depressed, or have trouble at home, it can help teachers to help their students out. All in all this tchnology is valuable because it can help a lot of kids from suicide or many more things because if the machine detects that they are depressed the teachers can help. | 3 |
c6544e8 | There is a use for the technology being able to read human emotions. Emotions are fundamental and a visceral characteristic of people to communicate. So why not have artificial intelligence to aid in helping that, especially in class?
According to the paper "Making Mona Lisa Smile", it speaks of classifying emotions using the Mona Lisa and its stats. It was impressive, but does humanity need it? Answers point to yes. It could improve the people's satisfaction of the technology like the examples of , '...modify the lesson' and, "make computer-animated faces more expressive". It can help students to alter the work to be understandable and inviting if it alters itself for lessons.This can help the student retain the information and be invigorated to learn as boredom leaves the students face. There are also many other possibilties as online communication becomes more vital that others can tell how the others feel to aid in situations where it is important in class discussion and whatnot. It can also help with therapy to keep track of the patient. This technology can provide with many benefits, but can be countered for it being slightly invasive too. Although, sometimes tools have both sides of the table, it is needed in classrooms.
As it is somewhat taxing for computers now to read emotions, emotions are valuable and important to know for technology to be able to utilize that would be a tremendous help in the classroom. | 3 |
c660bab | Dear state senator,
By my own opinion i really consider of having the votes based off popularity and also facts . I belive that some of the people that do want to become president someday will not become that because their votes mainly deals with the electoral colloges and what they really when the counts of the votes should be really counted off what the people of the united states really think or who they think our president should really be. Some people think we should have a black president or a white president green,purple,or blue it really doesnt matter in my opinion i think i am speaking for everyone when i say that wewant a person that would make great descisions for the umited states a person that is welling to go above and beyond to make our countrymore better and a safe place to all . And at the end of the day people in america doesnt want or think that it is right to have a female president sitting in the seat of a president,i say simply because the people of the USA doesnt think women have enough power or orders, or authority i think women should have the same rights as men. But at the end of the day i think that the people of the united states should have a right to choose who they want to serve as or president , someone who would make change and make the USA a better and safer place for everyone. Someone whois very well educated and have a outlook or reach of things. It shouldnt be based off the electoral colleges because america might disagree with their descison and cause a whole lot of chaos. | 1 |
c663629 | In today's world technology has taken over. Driverless cars are starting to develop. Is this a good or bad thing? Some may see it as good, but in my opinion driverless cars are a bad thing.
Driverless cars have more risks rather than a human operated vehichle. One of those risks or concerns that was pointed out in the article is what if the technology is to fail? If the car is operating on it's own and a wreck happens; who is to blame? Is it the manufacturer for faulty technology or the driver? Either way this would cause more problems with who's fault it would be if a wreck were to happen and could cause major legal troubles. Another thing that goes along with technology failur is the safety of everyone in the vehicle and everyone around. The technology would not be able to sense a problem or poor driving conditions like a human operator would be able to. The technology would not be able to react and adjust to these situations.
Another downside the article pointed out was the driverless cars are not entirely driverless. The car would still need an operator to be allert and ready to take over. So what is the point of a driverless car if they still need an operator? The point the article made, "Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?" This is a relateable statement it would get boring sitting there having to be allert but not doing anything. It would get really tiring after a wile. The article talked about putting in-car entertainment in the cars, but if someone were too invested in the entertainment of the car they would not be allert if the car would need the operator to take over. This could cause crashes and put the safety of people in danger.
Driverless cars are not a good idea. They have not figured out the legal work that would go along with it. If a car were to crash they have no way of knowing who is at fault. The safety of people is put at risk. The cars are not even completly driverless they still need an allert operator ready to take over if a problem occured. Driving should be the responsibility of a human not a computer. Driverless cars are not where our future should be heading. | 4 |
c6694d5 | Imagine a world where everything you need is within walking distance. This is what our society could become if we stop relying on cars. If we stop using cars we could largely cut down on greenhouse gasses and polluted air. No cars means no stress of dumb drivers, DUI, and car-related deaths.
First, if we stop using cars as the main mode of transportation, buildings would be closer to homes to accomodate people walking to them instead of driving. This saves money because you don't need a car, gas, or insurance. A closer and more condensed society means communities could be formed where everyone knows everyone, like back in the old days with city-states and villages.
Secondly, cutting back on cars means cutting back on air pollution and greenhouse gasses. Less greenhouse gasses equals a cooler and more healthy earth. Air pollution is a big problem in places like china, france, and some european countries. If we get rid of most cars, the air there will be much more pleasant and breathable. The sky would also become more clear.
In conclusion, cutting back on cars could be beneficial to the whole world, communites would be formed, everything you need would be in walking distance, there would be less car related deaths, and greenhouse gasses and air pollution would greatly decrease, making the earth and its people healthier. | 3 |
c6781db | In the story Cowboy who Road the Waves i have to support why people would want to do his job. There are many reasons. Who would like a job that you got to see the world and travel. I would like to see the world. whaty about you?
In 1947 the world wars finaly ended WW1 and WW2 had a spand of 30 years. There was alot of mess to clean up and you had to be a certain person to do it. The see cowboys where just the right people. Luke said in the story that it was a fun job. But also hard. You got to see the world and do many activitys. You had lots of free time. But it was very dangerous he even broke his ribs doing it.
Luke stated that he got to see many countrys. He had free time to do what he wanted. All whole he did alot of good. But he wasnt at home very often and that ment he had no permanit home. He just traveled.
I think this wound be a great job for someone who wants to travel. Not have a family. Or wants to have a abnormal life. I dont know if i would want to do this job or not. All in all i think it would be a great job. | 2 |
c67fbd3 | I think that driveless cars are great because for example say if your on the road and your hands start to get tired you can relax and let your car do all the driving and driveless cars can also be good for people with arthoritist or people who have bad hands regardless of the causes.
I think driveless cars are good because if your on the road and your hands start to get tired the car can do all of the work until you feel like driving again but you still have to be cautious and be aware of what your cars are doing. The car to me sounds great because in the story it quotes " The combination of all this input is necessary for the driveless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel. So basically if you have a driveless car and your not holding the wheel the car would still drive perfect do to it having the skill that make the car drive like a human is
behind the wheel. These cars also have problems you have to be ready and grab the wheel if your car lights blink indicating that you are about to hit someone or something.
Driveless cars would also be good for people to have arthoritist because if the car drives it's self the person behind the wheel wouldn't really have to do anything only when the time comes. The story indicates that the people in the car entertainment are trying to make driveless cars fun because i know if someone just sitting in there cars doing nothing but listening to music they would get bored but i also know people with arthoritist would love these cars because they will not have to use there hands they could just sit back and listen to music. Driveless cars can be perfect for many people of all kinds and they can help in the society.
Driveless cars can also be great for people that wants to have fun
if they dont feel like driving. For example i dont recommend this but for people that drink and drive driveless cars can be a little bit better and prevent them from getting into a car accident. In the passage it states that this car has many alerts like the windshield wipers they flash if your about to crash or the seats shake so this is why this car is perfect.
In conclusion now you know why i think driveless cars are perfect because they are good for the roads and good for people with arthoritist. | 3 |
c680658 | You should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. This would be a great opportunity to see diffrent parts if the world. I think for the most part it would be a great time and a good experens for people.
Oneof the reasons for this you would be able to see new shights and see new thangs. Now whould that be fun to see new thangs that you never seen before. Think about that for a second thank about all of the monuments great things that in your every day life you whould mot get to see. Luke said " it was a great adveture."
There is outher reasons to here is one more reason. You whould get be on sea and see the ocean every day. Now you tell me whould that be nice just to wake up and see and smell the ocean. Luke said" he loved being on the ocean. Maybe if you were you whould get to see a whale on while on the ocean you know.
Here is one more reason to tie it all up animals you would get to take care of animals. Now i'll tell you this if I got to wake up to an animal happy to see me. Whould that make you happy. So in conclution whould you like this job cause I know Luke did.
So whould you agree whith me would you like this job. Or do you not it's all up to it's not my choice its your. If you want to know my apinon I whould take the job it sounds fun. It whould be fun. | 3 |
c6833df | In your everyday life, just about anywhere you go you will see people traveling from place to place in their own veichles. Is the idea of us, as indivisuals, not owning our own motor veichles even an option? The idea of not being able to transport where you need to be when you need to be there is a terrorfying thought. But, when put into consideration you will find it some what reasonable.
Just think about it, all the toxins released into the air and all the traffic we can be stuck in for hours at a time! Reducing the clutter and the use of oils is enfact very possible. Residents in Vauban, Germany have copletely almost completly cut owing cars out of their community. 70 percent of Vauban's familys don't own cars while 57 percent sold their cars to move there. With mostly "car-free" streets with the exception of the main thoroughfare, Vauban has forbidden driveways and home garages. Though car ownership is aloud if the car- owner buys a space to park it, Vauban is leading an example of an alternative way that communities can live reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
This example has most certainly envulenced Paris enforcing a partial driving ban. pollution, a large issue in the streets of paris, is being reduced with a driving ban fining anyone who did not leave their cars at home. After five days of this ban, congestion in france was down 60 percent.
Though completely banning cars may be found inconfiniate or extreme, Bogota, colombia, takes place in this uprising craze by devoting one day a year to "The Day Without Cars". By doing this they strive to promote alternative transportation and reduce clutter in this capital city. Violators of this event would recieve 25$ fines. The community who participated in this event have found alternate transportation, and comfort in a break from the clutter. Businessman Carlos Arturo is quoted "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution", he rode a two-seated bicycle with his wife to get from place to place. As more Colombian citied participate in the event Municipal authorities from other countries came to Bogota to see the eveny and were enthusiastic. Enriqur Riera, the mayor of Asuncion, paraguay stated that "These people are generating a revolutionary change, and this is crossing borders".
These changes are most certainly revolutionary and are changing the way we see our lifes and the way we see transportation. The idea of us working, learning, and living without indivisual automoblies is becoming to look like a huge possibilty. The fact that there are communties taking part in this act, reducing polution and clutter, show that this very well could be part of a change for us and the way we live. With the owner-ship of automobiles and drivers liscenses going down in america, Mimi Sheller, a sociology professor at Drexel University and director of its Mobilitier Research center, stated that "Different things are converging which suggest that we are witnessing a long-term cultural shift". | 4 |
c68354d | Limiting car usage has many advantages. It would have advantages like less pollution in the atmosphere, congestion bewteen the streets would be reduced, and people would be more interactive with the outside world. The limitation of car usage has showed many improvement all over the world.
According to the first source in the passage "In german suburb, Life goes on without cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal, it states that passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emission in Europe and up to 50 percent in some areas of the United States. In source 2 "Paris bans driving due to smog" by Robert Duffer, it says that when there is cold nights and then it is warm during the day, the warmer layer of the air traps the gas emissions from the cars. There are all statements that prove that the gas that is emitted into the air by the car affects our atmosphere. If there is tons of cars out during the day all at the same time, they are all polluting the air which affects us all. The amount of pollution coming from factories and other things is already way too much for us to be adding even more gas emission into the atmosphere. Also, there are not only little cars but different sizes of cars ranging from extra large to small. Some cars let out more polution than others but when all the pollution from all the cars come together, it is a gigantic problem.
Congestion is something that happens in many places where cars are used alot. In Miami, congestion is a big problem and it is very stressing specially during afterschool hours. In souce 2, it says that when France passed the law in which even- numbered or odd-numbered license plate had a certain time where they could not drive, the congestion went down up to 60 percent in the capital. Imagine the amount of congestion that was avoided each day by passing that law. In source 3, they state that they had a car-free day in Bogota, the capital of Colombia and it left the streets devoided of traffic jams. They also assure that it was a great way to take away stress. Stress is often caused by very long traffic jams in very populated cities such as Miami or Bogota.
If the usage of cars was limited, people would be more interactive. We would see more people walking and riding bikes. We would car-pool with friends and instead of just driving to a place where the person is going to be in a car from point A all the way to point B, people would interact more with one another. Talk to people while they walk, use public transportation and it would benefit local bussiness even. In sorce 1, they say that in the new approach of limiting the access of cars, stores would be placed by a walkside, somewhere you can walk to instead of being placed inside a mall along a distant highway. In source 3, it says that the limited amount of automobiles has lead to the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths, parks and sports centers have bloomed and even the sidewalks have improved!
The advantages of limiting the car usage are so great. Not only do they reduce pollution and congestion but also make people become more interactive with the outside world. It is something that benefits us all in many ways. | 4 |
c68a3c9 | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming", the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless car. I think that the idea of diverless cars is a bad idea. Driverless cars can lead to lots of money being spent to constructe these cars, they have to be up to date with the latest roads and can cause a lot of damage when these cars get into accidents. Many of these problems is why computer driven cars should not be built.
Right now cars are being used everyday to get to certain destinations like school and work. Now manufacturers want to make these cars that can drive themselves without drivers actually driving the car. In the late 1950's, General Motors created a concept car that could run on a test track but the track was embedded
with an electrical cable that used radio signals to make the car run. These smart road systems worked well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was too expensive. And now that technology has been advancing, these cars have to know where there is a traffic jam or an accident has occured, but mainly these cars have to be updated because more and more roads are being constructed to make the trip a lot faster. But when cars get into accidents, there can be a big problem.
Now that driverless cars are becoming a thing, laws need to be made in order for pedestrians to be safe, which is a big concern. It is mostly illegal for people to test drive these car becase they don't know if the car is even safe for a person to drive.
Manufacturers believe that the more states will follow as soon as the cars are proven more reliably safe, but if there is an accident or the technology fails who it there to blame, the driver or the company that made the car?
Even though technology is improving in cars, there will always be a big fail. And even though people want the lastest things from the market, they may not alwasy be the greatest and saftest.
That's why I think that cars like these shouldn't be made because then there will be a huge contraversy weather or not these cars should even be on the road due to safety issues and technology problems. | 3 |
c68a503 | Dear senator, I am PROPER_NAME and i'm writing to you about the issues of the electoral voting process. Im in favor of changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States for a couple of reasons. First, I will know who I am voting for instead of thinking I am voting for the person I wanna vote for, And second the votes will be fair
To start off with, If we keep the electoral voting process then we will continue not knowing who we are voting for , The text asked itself a question "Do citizens sometimes get confused and vote for the wrong canidate?" And the answer was sometimes this process is to confusing for thed citizens to understand and it is not fair to use we have the right to vote but who are we voting for? What are we voting for? If we don't know who we are voting for then why vote. I understand having electors reduces the chance of having a president who can't carry our state,Eventhough the text says is takes away the chance I still think it reduces it I mean look at the Bush family they did a horible job and guess who elected them the electors. But still we have the right to vote for who we want but thats not the case, The case is that we vote for the the electors to represent our vote. I also dont agree with the winner take all vote because is I vote for someone i want me vote to go to that person not switch over to the other because he or she has the majority of the votes.
For my next statement, I will be addressing the fact of unfairness the winner take all rule is not fair as a add on the bigger the state the more electoral votes it gets is not for every state should count as a equal amount of votes because its like the little states doesn't get any say in who gets to represent us. "Do you have a older brother or sister? If you do then you know how it feels to get the remote tooking away from you and not get to watch what you want." And that is the same case here.
So I urgue you senator to help us citizens toi change the way the voting process is set up so we can understand who we are voting for and help us make a fair choice so our vote can stand for something.
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So come along! We are waiting for you down at the docks! Join us, it is a great expierence! We're always open to have new crewmates to lend a helping hand! I am sure that you will enjoy your trip! | 2 |
c68cdfd | Why should technology be able to read emotional expressions? Some people probaley thing it's a good thing others probley don't. With the technology we have today they have been able to figure out how to read emotions on the computer. It's a bad thing because people should be able to open up to you, they shouldn't be afraid that they feel a way that they didn't want you to know, and it's not right.
People should be able to open up without a computer telling them how they feel. According to the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", "According to the facial Feedback Theory of Emooion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them." In this quote it shows that it can read your emotions but that some people can't open up, but ones that can might be hiding something. But what if they didn't want them to know and that computer just told them.
Also, people shouldn't be afraid to open us but with the computes they might be afraid to open up. According to the article,"Eckman has classified six bacis emotions happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness and then associated each with characteristics movements of the facial muscles." In this guote it shows that The computer can tell those emotions but if someone is afraid to show they are sad but the computer can tell you are faking. Then you will have to open up but what is you don't feel safe and that's why you haven't opened up.
Finally, the computers reading your emotions making you open up even if you didn't want to is not right. Yes, if the computer can tell your sad and upset about something and you are not okay that could save you life but you are scared. According to this article, "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." A friend will open up to you don't need a computer to tell you how you feel. What happens if the computer is wrong? Then your family and friend might think you are sad but you really aren't then what happens. The computer can be wrong not everyone is the same.
It's a bad thing because people should be able to open up to you, they shouldn't be afraid that they feel a way that they didn't want you to know, and it's not right. People don't need a compute to tell people the way they feel and their family. You might not feel safe to open up to a family member but the computer tells them then they know. The computer can be wrong and tell you feel sad but you really don't. Open up to the people you can don't let a computer tell you how you feel. | 4 |
c68e728 | People in America vote for a candidate running for president believing that their vote counts, but in reality it all comes down to the Electoral College. According to "The Indefensible Electoral College: why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer, "over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election tot he kind we have now." We, as a country, need to change to election by popular vote for the president of the united states in order to have fair competion instead of the people of America voting for a potential president only to find out the vote was worth nothing.
To begin with, majority of the nation wants to abolish the Electoral Congress because it's an unfair process. Bradford plumer states, "The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational." It should be that the voters vote for the president, but we are just voting for electors so they can vote for the president putting our nation's future in danger. The Electoral College used to be the the right way of election but now it's known as something from the past. Traditionally, the Electoral College was "a compromise between election of the president by a vote in Congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens, (paragraph 1, by the Office of the Federal Register)" in which the founding fathers established this process of election knowing that then it was the correct way. But now, this process is "outdated (paragraph 14, Bradford Plumer)" and there needs to be election by popular vote.
Another key point, former presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter, agree with "abolishing the electoral college (paragraph 9,
Bradford Plumer)" as do Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO, and the Gallup poll in 2000. Majority wants to get rid of the Electoral College in order to lets the popular vote decide who become president. also, voters cant always control who their electors vote for. Bradford Plumer notes, "The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century." The Al Gore election is an example of the unfairness that the Electoral College is pursuing. Al Gore won the popular vote against George W. Bush nationwide, which means the people wanted Gore, but he did not recieve enough electoral votes to win the election.
In the Electoral College's defense, the Electoral College, as illustrated by Richard A. Posner, "restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution," meaning that a presidential candidate will give more attention to a larger state than a smaller state. Without the Electoral College, the president wouldn't have "trans-regional appeal (paragraph 19, Richard A. Posner)," meaning that no one region has enough electoral votes to elect a president so the Electoral College requires the "trans-regional appeal."
To conclude, our nation needs to change to election by popular vote for the president of the United States instead of election by the Electoral College because this process of election is unfair to the voters of this nation. Also, majority wins and the majority of the country wants to repeal the Electoral College then we should make a change. If we want this nation to be the strongest it can be then we need to make choices that will positively affect our country and the people of our country. | 4 |
c69b9c3 | Driverless cars are coming in the near future. There is debate for whether or not we should allow them on the public roads. People say that driverless cars are perfectly safe and that it can save the amouont of gas used currently by a lot. I think that we should allow driverless cars because they can reduce the amount of driving related accidents, car companies are already planning to release them to public consumers on specific times, and we can reduce the amount of gas used.
Driverless cars can reduce the amount of car accidents and reckless drivers. The driverless cars use sensors so it makes it safe for the drivers. Sensors are already being used on cars, for example, the Toyota Prius uses sensors on the left rear wheel,a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, and more sensors. The sensors are very advanced so they can detect and respond to danger faster than a human. The sensors can tell the car to apply brakes with a better response time and control than a human could possibly do. Sensors are only getting more advanced so it can only get safer in the future, and it is perfectly safe to use them on driverless cars. Some people may say that it is possible that a sensor fails to work or technology can get messed up, but the chance is rare and it would cause far less car accidents than if a human had full control over the wheel. The smart cars still allow control from the human and the car alerts the human if they and the car are in danger, so if something were to happen, the human could take control and try to stop it. The car still allows people to steer, accelerate, and brake themselves. The Google car announces when the driver should be prepared to take over. GM made driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger. Google has been testing driverless cars since 2009. Some companies are also considering using cameras to watch the drivers to make sure that they are alert and paying attention in case something happens where the human would need to take control. There has been over half a million miles on them and no crashes so far so it is perfectly safe to the consumer to use.
The driverless cars can also be used to reduce the amount of gas used today by a lot. Google cofounder, Sergey Brin, said that the cars he foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus. People spend a lot of money on gas and it is expensive so if we can reduce that amount by half, then people can use that money they're saving on more important things and can possibly improve our economy.
Companies are already planning for the future. Car companies are making driverless cars and have set dates to when they will be available to consumers. Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan for the release of driverless cars by 2020.
Driverless cars are in the future and companies have already planned for them, they are perfectly safe, and they can reduce the amount of spending money on gas. Driverless cars can do way more than they can do bad, and the bad is no worse than what is going on now so we should get ready for driverless cars in the future. | 4 |
c69ec85 | Dear Florida senator,
I am writing to you today to address what everyone is talking about which is in fact the Electoral College. It has been that topic widely talked about so i decided to research what it actually means and why it causes contreversy. People have viewed the Electoral College as an anachronism and they argue it should be overruled by popular vote but it is a very strong way to select electors and it wouldn't be in use at the moment if it wasn't the right way. According to Bradford Plumer, the single best argument against the Electoral College is what is known as the disaster factor. After reading "What Is the Electoral College?" by the Office of the Federal Register, it provided me with information like how it was established by the founding fathers in the Constitution. The founding fathers are very respected individuals mainly because they were of very great intelligence, so that proves how they came up with something professional.
Though it may seem that the abundance of people are in favor of changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States, there are people like I who believe and wish for the best like how keeping the Electoral College is the way to go. In 2000, a dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote happened but it's less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. I agree with Richard A. Posner that it avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast, I am not the only one who agrees because the facts also prove him right. With being a senator or anyone in office comes alot of pressure, Yet luckily with the Electoral College comes reduction of that pressure. It provides a clear winner when there are times of crisis like for example a run-off election.
The states with a larger capacity (the large states) receive more electoral votes , that is why people argue that it may seem unfair that some states get more participation in the election than others but it is actually very fair since there is more people in that state. I personally believe that the people who argue about the votes are those in the smaller states who feel they dont get the right to vote, it may look unfair but if all states got the same amount of electoral votes given than not everyone in the larger states would get a saying. Also, that is not mentioning the Swing States which are the ones who focus on the "toss-up" states. With that pressure the toss-up states are more likely to pay attention the campaign and are the most thoughtful voters and that just proves they deserve to get a majority of votes given.
Considering it may look like changing the election to popular vote may be the right option because it has many small reasons, it is better to have 5 strong reasons than a million unimportant ones to keep something very important. So I congratulate you and the people in office for keeping an open mind of what "we the people" have to say but also for knowing that what is in place now is right and should stay this way. | 4 |
c69f642 | Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit because scientists believe that one day humans can learn to live and adapt on it. Venus may have well been the most earth like planet in our solar sytem. Although Venus has it's own challenges and risks, scientists are still discussing further visits to its surface. Astronomers are fascinated by Venus.
Venus is sometime call the "Evening Star", because it is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. In our solar system Venus is actually a planet, the second planet from our sun. Venus may seem a pretty simple planet to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth, it has been proved a very challenging place to study closely. Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closet in distance too. Venus is a very difficult planet to study and that is probably why not a single spaceship has touched down on it in more than three decades.
Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenge planet for humans to study. What's challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. A thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide blankets Venus. The temperature average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit on the planet's surface. The atmospheric pressure is 90 times larger than what we expeirenced on our own planet. These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans have faced on Earth.
Despite all the challenges and risks, why are scientists so fascinated by this planet? They believed that long ago Venus was probably covered largely with oceans. Today Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has faamiliar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. Scientist somehow believed that Venus could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth.
With all the challenges and risks, Venus is still and will be a worthy planet to study because one day us humans can live and breathe on it. One day it can be exactly like Earth. They don't call Venus Earth's twin for no reason. Despites the danger it presents, Venus is a worthy pursuit. | 3 |
c6a39e7 | Driverless cars have always been a big idea for the future. However, there are some really important pros and cons for driverless cars. Driverless cars can be very dangerous to not only the individual driving, but also to everyone around. Perhaps driverless cars isn't such a good idea. Your biggest concerns would be the technology failing and the safety of everyone around it.
Safety is the MAIN key to a driverless car. Since a driverless car would be driverless, not only the driver would need to be alert but everyone around it would need to be, which is common sense for any type of vehicle or transportation. Considering the fact that the human being is always in charge of an accident with a regular car. That woudn't be the case for a "driverless car". Now even though the driverless car have sensors and other types of monitoring to prevent accidents and disfunctions, who's to say the driver isn't paying attention when they need to be and something goes wrong. In paragraph 9 it talks about how traffic laws are wriiten to assume that the human is in control at all times. That's completely understandable, if the human doesn't do what he needs to do to make sure his manufacturer is working correctly, it would be his fault for not taking care of it.
For everyone else around a driverless car, would always be in great danger. No matter how well the car itself is functioning, you dont know if everyone else is paying attention to their own vehicle. Pedestrians around the driverless cars have no control over what it does. If something happens to a pedestrian, who's responsibility is that? If a sensor on the car isn't working properly, which it should be, there would be more deaths and injuries to people around the vehicle and to the person inside of the vehicle. The minor issues of a driverless vehicle could cause a huge problem.
Even though having a driverless car seems like such a good idea, there could be many things to go wrong. For example, the manufacturing could disfunction in the middle of driving. Now someone that would condone a driverless car would say, "You would need to make sure everything is properly working before taking it out on the road." That's actually not all you would need to do. Not only do you need to make sure everything is working properly, you would need to make sure what ever is functioning the car is functioning correctly at all times. One of the biggest concerns could be a driver might not know what could be wrong with a car and if something is wrong with the system, he wouldnt know and the car would just break down or stop working.
Driverless cars could seem like a good idea sometimes when your lazy becuase you don't have to worry about actually driving the vehicle yourslef. Of course people are going to find a driverless car fascinating, but the most important thing you would want to worry about is safety and having the best functioning technology. Technology can always fail, so no matter how well it may seem to be working, anything could happen at anytime. | 4 |
c6a49f8 | From saving money to having less polution, limiting car usage has its advantages. Many believe that having a car is needed to operate in today's society. While others think it is a last resort when all other transportation opprotunities are unavailable. While they both have good points, it is said that less car usage has its benefits.
A good benefit is less polution. In source one of " In German Suburb, Life Goes on Without Cars" by Elisabeth Rosental discusses of a Vauban, a tighted fitted community suburb that is a growing trend in Europe. Despite having to be restricted to using your vehicle, passanger cars are only responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe while the United States experiences 50 percent in some car-intensive areas. Then in source two of "Paris bans driving due to smog" by Robert Duffer tells about a ban that France enforced to help clear the air from the world known city of Paris. With cold nights and warm days it caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emission and that was when it was enough for France. Due to such a ban, enough smog cleared from some passangers could drive again.
Another is more communitiy interaction. In source three of " Car-free day is spinning a big hit in Bogota" by Andrew Selsky tells of Bogota, Columbia and its program of spending its citizens to experience a day without a car. Millions Colombians either hiked, biked, skated or took the bus to work. Instead of one single person being stuck in their car through traffic, they had many people placed in one bus. Due to such a wonderful opportunity many people felt less stressed. More people were seen together then by themselves that even parks and sports centers were blooming throughtout the city.
Another benefit would be less traffic. In source four of " The End of Car Culture" by Elisabeth Rosenthal discover in recent studies of new generations buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer lincenses. As people ride the busses more, carpool with friends or even just mobiliy connected with friends instead of driving less traffic has occured. Since this has been going on pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commericial and public transportation traffic are woven into connectednetwork to save time and consverse resources.
Cars, the nicotine in a cigerate, can hurt our earth. From studies shown limiting car usage can bring its advantages. | 4 |
c6a6763 | Since our beautiful country was born we've always used the Electoral College system to elect our presidents. It's time that we modify this old rule and change it to the popular vote, because it's simply unfair to all the hardworking people that leave work early and have to wait in line for hours to fill out a little white paper. The Electoral does not allow for everyone's voice to be heard. Clearly, the Electoral college must change to the popular vote because of the winner take all method, & the confusion.
To begin with, the Electoral college is outdated because of the winner take all system. Even if the votes are off by one, whichever partygets the most popular votes gets all of the electoral votes; the United States are basically saying everybody else's voice that voted doesn't matter. This winner takes all system also deals with population, the bigger the state the more electoral votes. This ancient system is clearly stating the citizens of the smaller states votes do not matter. Although, the winner take all method induces the candidates to focus on the toss up states, it's still unfair to everyone.
In addition, the Electoral college is irrational because of all of the confusion and trust issues. Many of the citizens in our country don't even know what an electoral college is! Plus the fact that most people think they're voting for the president, but in reality they're voting for the slate of electors. It's also possible the electors that represent your party votes for the other candidate! Another major reason the Electoral college must be abolished is because the citizens do not even get to choose their very own electors! It's like buying a new car while being blindfolded and believing the dealer the car runs fine. Everyone's going to have skepticism so they should at least let the citizens choose their own electors. Then again, the Electoral college avoids run off elections.
In conclusion, the Electoral college was once a good idea for a starting country, but we now live in a elite dynasty that must have a few modifications on how the citizens elect their leader. | 4 |
c6b5ee2 | The New Smile Technology
What does the face do when you smile? Our faces do a lot of things when we express something. With this new teachnology it can help in a lot of ways for example teacher could know if the student understand the lesson. The expression of student could be like smile,worry,or even confused.
Sudent can have alot of expression in class. If they're taking notes in class. The teacher is explaining the lesson and asking questions. If a student smile or noddes at the teacher. This shows that student have a good comphression about the lesson. According to the article it said,''According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotions,moving yourfacial muscles not only expressions emotions,but also may even help produce them.''
Student can also show worried because maybe they might not understand the lesson. This new teachnology can show the teachers which students feel like this so the teachers can talk to them. This can also help if the student is getting bully in school. The new teachnology can show if there lying beacuse it knows a fake smile and a real smile. According to the article,''They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one.''
Student can feel confused because of the lesson of the teacher is teaching. They might not understand the teacher explaination about the lesson. When they show confused there eyebrows get close and there mouth get together. This technology can show teachers how student is having a difficult time in the class. According to the article,''A classroom computer could recognize when a student is being confused or bored.''This shows that the teachnology is helpful for student.
This teachnology can be so helpful for student because teacher can know there expressions. The teachnology can show the teacher the expression that the student have. The teachnology can show if the student fake smiles,worry,or confused. The teachnology is valuable for show the expression of the student. The understanding of the students in class. | 4 |
c6b7a24 | World War II is now over in Europe. However, many countries still need help to recover their food supplies, animals, and alot more. A Seagoing Cowboy's job is to help take care of and ship cows, horses, and mules to these countries. There are many reasons more people should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. We would be helping alot of people and get to see amazing sights.
One reason more people should join is that we would be helping people. Many of the countries were left in terrible condition and need us to help them out by bringing animals over. The people joining would also be helping the Seagoing Cowboys. The Seagoing Cowboys need help taking care of the animals and cleaning the stalls. Bales of hay also need to be pulled up from lower holds of the ship.
Another reason more people should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is that they could see amazing things in the countries they visit. It is an unbelievible opportunity to see Europe and China. Seagoing Cowboys also get to see amazing sights in Greece and Italy. Such as the Acropolis and taking gandola rides.
Some people say that they would not like to join because they think we will not get any freetime and we have to work the entire time. Yes, we do have to work but we still get time for fun. Especially as we return from the trips. We get to play baseball, volleyball, and table-tennis. We also get to fence, box, read, and play other games on board.
In conclusion, it would be great for more people to become Seagoing Cowboys. You would be helping us and other countries, get the opprotunity to see the amazing countries, and still get time for fun. More people should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 3 |
c6b85ec | do you want to have your computer reading your emotions? well new software has came out were it can actually read emotions based on your face muscles. I think it would be a great idea because if we get bored then it can change pace or something to make us energisted and the computer could help if you are confused.
the computer could change its pace so we dont get bored. for example if you are sitting in math class working on your computer and you start falling asleep, but if we had this in our class. the machine will keep us awake. "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming bored ..."(6).
second if you get confused and a teacher is helping another student your computer could help you with that problem, but i do see where other people are coming from with it envades privacy and it not ethical but i don't belive it for a minute.
in conclusion, computers can help us with our every day lives with students being confused or bored, and even hospitals someday. till then lets keep innovating. | 3 |
c6ba9b3 | I personally believe that driverless cars are a good idea and can be very useful. There are also some major points that are needed to be pointed out before a person purchases or drives one of these cars. I can see people taking advantage of these technologies and abusing the things the car may provide. The buyer should always take into consideration that these car could malfunction and be aware that these cars are not always going to be reliable.
If the driver were to be carless and text and drive the car could possibly malfunction and you could be putting your life or someone else's life at risk.
Manufactors are coming up with new techniques to help alert the driver of any danger that could possibly occur before the incident could even happen. Vibrating seats are providing the driver enough time to stop the car when it is about to run into another object. Flashing lights on the dash board are used to alert the driver if the car thinks they are being distracted from the road. In these cars the manufactors are installing video cameras to watch the driver inside that car and to watch for any danger the driver might encounter outside of the car. GPS are installed to monitor where the car is in case of a crash or if the driver is lost on the road the driver can use it to find there destination. Motion sensors are being put into cars to help the driver drive safely. The motion sensors help the driver know how far away they are from hitting another car or even a person. They are also used to apply brakes when the car is coming to close to another object. They are hoping to soon put in a display where the driverless car system can be shut off when the driver wants to be in control. "The car read the positive and negative factors in binary code, they functioned surprisingly well but to make the massive upgrades needed would be far to expensive for them to even make it practical."
The main focus that these manufactors have is to keep everyone on the roads safe. Take this into consideration, these cars could possibly change the human way of driving. Each and everyday new technologies are being discovered and giving humans another reason to become more lazy. These developments will eventually come into good use when the time comes, but that is if the people using them will have enough common sense to understand they can not abuse the advantages these cars provide and if they do it could lead into bigger consequenses. | 3 |
c6baf8a | How does the author support the idea of Venus being dangerous but still worthy of studying?Well in the article we can see that there are many ways the author supports this idea.For example when the author talks about Venus being inhospitable,also when NASA shows how there might have been life on Venus before and when the author talks about how Venus atmosphere is a huge risk.All of these reasons show how the author supports the idea of Venus being dangerous but still worth studying for.
First of all when the author talks about how inhabitable Venus is it shows us what the author knows about Venus.For example when the text says "Venus has the hottest surface temperature" it clearly shows us that no human can live there because of what conditions it's under.Also in the text when it says "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus" it shows that the planet is worth studying for but can also be really dangerous.We can see that this is one reason why Venus can be worth studying for but can also be very dangerouse.
Second of all when it says that NASA has discovered many different reasons where Venus used to have life show us another reason to where why it's worth studying.There has never been another planet that has been found to have anykind of life but in the text when it says "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life" this also shows us that Venus is worth studying.When the article says "weather presents additional impediments like erupting volcanoes,powerful earthquakes,and frequent lightning strikes" shows us how dangerouse Venus can be.Based of the information in the passage it shows that Venus can be worth studying but with a slight risk.
Lastly when the text talks about how Venus atmospheres are super risky and dangerous.In the text when it says "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus" it shows us how dangerous Venus can be.In the text when it also says "today Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth" it shows us how Venus still can be worth studying even in our present days.These peaces of information from the text shows how Venus has its ups and downs from studying it.
In the end we can see that the author supports the idea of studying Venus is dangerous but worthy when the text talks about how Venus is inhabitable,when NASA talks about Venus having some life before and when it shows how the atmosphere can be risky.All of these examples shows us how the author supports the idea of risking to study Venus but also being worth.So clearly in the end we can see how does the author support this idea by the information that is in the passage. | 4 |
c6bc72e | Many things have happened that we thought was gonna change the world but this might really do it driverless cars.I think there are very good
reasonings on why there should be less accidents,deaths,and people hit by cars are just to name a few.
Alot of people that has been driving for years had still
get in accidents we cant make sure everything goes right thats why they should have driverless cars one reportly drove more than half a million miles without crashing.You try
drivinging that long and crashing not once.Right now in thecars
you still have to take over for driving in and out of driveways or dealing with
traffic issues.
In this time of age technology has gotten very advanced Google's modified Toyota Prius uses many new technology like using position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel ,a rotating sensor on the roof,a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror,four automotive radar sensors,a GPS reciver,and an inertial motion sensor.The most important bit of technology is on top the roof.Dubbed LIDAR, uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings.
There are cars that are some driverless but the driver has to do some and that's why they are trying to make advance in technogly and change the world. If they can start making driverless cars it will become a common thing but everything has to start out to something even if others dont have the same opinions.
I think driverless cars is a very good idea and has been tested and shown that they have technology to do it so why don't we put it to the test and let technology move on and advance. | 3 |
c6bcaaa | The face on the surface of Mars...It is said that the land formation on the surface of Mars resembles a human face. There is no true face on mars' surface,it is merely a lava dome that takes on the form of an isolated mesa that is about the same elevation as the surface of this red planet.
Nothing more than a huge rock formation that resembles a human face, in the sense that there are irregular shadows that create the odd look of eyes, a mouth, and a nose.This illusion may have made its way to movies, magazines.etc... But just because they mention the name of a planet
that does not make what they say scientificly backed up.
We have already photographed the surface of this grand land structure, and yet it has proved to be nothing more than I have just stated.
through research and diligent study we, scientists, have proved scientificaly that this land formation on this astronomical body is, indeed not a face or an alien monument.
And to wrap up the matter, Nasa has already sent a team of photographers to collect more photos. The pictures support the fact that, this lava dome is just that, a lava dome. | 2 |
c6bd099 | Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it represents because it been known that Venus is similar to earth. Venus is a extrodinary planet and humans can survive there . This planet is excellent for flying in outer space. Venus has impacted the way humans are exploring other planets.
Venus has had bad reputation for the extreme temperatures ,but the good side of is that you can still survive. It states in the text," At thirty-plus miles above the surface,temperatures would be toasty at around 170 degress fahrenheit ,but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth." This is explains that the conditions are hot ,but it won't be that harmful to your skin. You can take cold deep showers and see the happiness of others. It would also be healthy for you because the sun will help you get in some of your vitamins. Another reason, why Venus is a good place because of the rocky surfaces. In the text it states ," Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various form of life, just like Earth.Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky features such as valleys,mountains,and craters." This was very long time ago, but since sciencetist haven't been sent always up there is there a possible chance that you could play around or touch the ground,how or smell your surroundings. Also, you could even ride your jet airplane because you will able to avoid the conditons like snow and rain since your above the sky . Another reason, would be that using your phone could be a possiblity. The cool thing that no one has ever invented a device that can stand in hot conditons you could be the first person to have people live there. It states," Modern computers are enormously powerful,flexible,amd quick ,but tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions. Just image exposing a cell phone or tablet to acid or heat capable of melting tin." This is trying to say that the phones of computers will bust into flames because your exposing so much heat into the technology. The bright side of that even though it can cause damages you'll be able to explore nature without always being dependable on your phone. People will stop being so addcitive they can be more social with other humans. Venus has a lot ways it can change humans and also the inventions that can be invented.
Venus is planet that has been related to earth and its totally true because you can live their without dying . People could use their own imaginatons make up anything.The planet could be more of a green planet. Yes , Venus has it's risks , but what is the ponit of living if you don't know what is furher ahead than earth like Venus. Venus has a way of livng new experriences . | 3 |
c6beb17 | Hello. My name is Luke. And I was in the Seagoing Cowboys program. This program will make you experience the oceans and go to places where you never been! I'll tell you a little story when I was in it.
I had a friend named Don. He and I were best friends. He invited me on this, trip, to go to Europe on a cattle-boat. I couldn't say no, it was an opportunity that was to exiting to miss.
So, it was 1945, the war was over in Europe and to help the countries that were shattered, we would recover their food, supplies, animals and much more. And there was this group called UNRRA. They hired "Seagoing Cowboys". So, we signed up.
We arrived August 14. That was the day that the Pacific war ended. We got on the SS Charles W. Wooster. It was headed to Greece. There were 335 horses and enough hay and oats to last the trip.
I had turned 18 before making it to Greece. I was discharged in 1947, and I had made 9 trips. And besides helping people, I had the chance to see Europe and China.
On my second trip, I served as a night watchman. My job was to check on all the animals. One stormy night, after making my hourly report to the captain. I slid off a ladder on my backside. My heart raced. I couldn't work after a couple of days because when I slid, I cracked my ribs.
I had some time to find some fun on board. We played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds of where the animals were kept in after the trips. And some more games like table-tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, and whittling also helped me pass the time.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for me. It opened up the world for me. It helped me understand. The rides can be fun, but the adventure can be better | 2 |
c6c30d3 | I think that we should not have driverless cars. For example you have to be very concitraed to do this. Two it would take a lot more money they would be more expinsive due to that they are a new and better product.
There not 100% sure that it will keep you safe. If something happen then they maybe wont take the resonsabitily for what happen. They would use the contract that you had made with them to get out of this.
"District of Columbia have led the country in allowing limited use of semi-autonomous cars; manufacturers believe that more states will follow as soon as the cars are proved more reliably safe. Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault—the driver or the manufacturer?"
Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars. Even California, Nevada, Florida, they think that you should have humans drive in sted of some type of robot. Even if they did
allowed it they wont know if there is someone going to be there or crossing the rode and if that person get hurt you are the one they will be suwing and not the compony.
I do like the idea of a car that can drive it self but i also dont agree with it because one reason it is good is like if you had a long day and you just want to go hame the car can drive you there when you set the (GPS) to do so. A bad reason we should not have it is what if its driving you home at night and a kid is playing and his toy goys out in the street and the car hits him and you didnt know it. All the car will do is keep going like you wanted it to. Then you will end up going to jail because you didnt know what was going on but yet still you killed
a kid without even knowing. | 2 |
c6c4bd8 | Driverless cars can make a big impact on today's society. These cars seem to change the world and seems to help out drivers during certain situations. Driverless cars can have positive or negative features about it, but it would defintely help today's society and cause a lot less accidents and wrecks if drivers are careful and follow the law. These cars can also reduce stress on a driver. It's all thanks to sensors.
First of all, sensors are what seem to make driverless cars successful on the road. Sensors pretty much do most of the job for drivers. Each one of these sensors are preventing wrecks, less stress for the drivers, less stress for a driver trying to stop or accelerate, sensors are great notifications for work zones, or a reminder for the driver to pay attention to the road and drive following the law.
Although, sensors aren't nothing new, these sensors are just being put into these cars. A rotating sensor on the roof can be very important to the Toyota Prius out of any of the sensors that are also on the Toyota. "This sensor uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings." This can show everywhere around the car and the driver would have a less likeable
chance of hitting someone from behind or even just barely missing the edge of another car and then having to pay for that damage that the driver did. With that being said, "sensors have positively impacted cars from out of control skids and rollovers." This also indicates fewer wrecks or accidents.
Also, these sensors are great notifications for drivers that don't exactly pay close attention to what they are doing or don't have a grip on the steering wheel. "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." Sensors can function without a pedal or gas brake, but still need the driver to keep a grip on the wheel while driving.
Sensors are what is making driverless cars successful while on the road. This all helps drivers with their driving just by keeping it simple and not having to worry about stopping or accelerating or being worried about wrecking because you can't see the person from behind. Sensors are making each driver aware of what they are doing and to check for their surroundings. It's a good way to stay alert for a situation that might be coming up. Without these sensors, driverless cars would be pointless because that's what is making these cars more advanced and what makes everybody love these cars. The same amount of wrecks and stress would still come into play. Driverless cars are a successful way to drive to prevent injuries, accidents, and stress with these sensors. | 4 |
c6c4cc1 | Venus is a planet that is like the second planet Sun. It is bright and has it's own good. It is also close to the Earth, which they call it Twin. It is very easy to spot. Not alot of humans studying Venus can actully be on the planet for too long.
It's got "a thick atmosphere of almost 97% of carbon dioxid"
which meaning the air around it is very thick and it is not an easy area. Getting close to it is impossible, studying it is impossible, and thats why were are still on about how to really get a real definition of what venus is, a hard to learn lesson.
They say that Venus is a place that we can't really figure out but we still learn about it because it was once a place that was filled in with water, and was supported it in with various forms of life, just how where we are living, the Earth, today. Venus is close to the Earth whcih is an easy place to visit, and it is covere with a sediment surface of rocks and have the similar features of what we have now in the Earch. We are trying to learn about Venus so the NASA group is trying to discover hoe it works and so they came to the point of flying jets and stuff around there. They are also trying to test some testing therte to see what it can handle or hold. They using some divices that was used bnac in 1940 which was during the World War ll. Venus is resistant to heat so when using teachnology there, it all is gonna have to be used in different.
We try to do what best we can to get to the Venus and to study it by using imaginations, and innovations | 1 |
c6c6853 | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the authors describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. It begins by the computer constructing a 3-D computer model of the face. If more than one muscle moves, then it is called an "action unit." I think this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in the classroom is valuable.
There are times that in the classroom, students do not want to do their work and the teacher does not know how are they feeling about the work she is giving. That is when the teachers can find out what the students are feeling. The teacher can also use this program for assignments for the students.
The program is also useful for researching projects or assignments. Maybe the teacher wants the students to see if a picture of a certain person is happy or mad. The program is helpful because when you try it on yourself when you are mad or sad, it might actually make you day better. | 2 |
c6c979c | Others should not participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. It is a very dangerous and risky thing to do. The waves can also make people scared because they don't want the ship to flood and sink.
The Seagoing Cowboys program is not good for your body. It can get you seriously injured like when Luke Bomberger slide down a slippery latter on his backside and cracked his ribs. Luke Bomberger almost died by flying over the edge of the ship, but a small strip of metal alonge the edge stopped his slide. That is a way you can die participating in the Seagoing Cowboys program.
Another reason the Seagoing Cowboys program is bad for you is because you can get sick. You can get seasick by being on a boat too long. This could lead to you throwing up. You can also get homesick by being away from home, sailing too much. You also take the risk of getting killed or drowning and never seeing your family again.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy is bad for your body. You can risk getting sick, injured, or dying. Therefore others should not participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 2 |
c6c9bf9 | The invention of the automobile was one of the most important inventions of all time. Everyone uses cars! They're everywhere! But what are the effects of car emissions? Are they even worth using if they cause negative effects on people and our environment? Many people are trying to cut back on driving, or even live without cars. Why are they doing this? Well, let me inform you about some of the advanrtages of limited car usage throughout the world.
In Vauban, Germany, there is a suburb where people have decided to ban cars all together. The neighborhood roads are completely car-free and even having a garage is usually not allowed. About 5500 people live in this suburb and 70% of these people do not own cars. For the other 30%, there is a parking garage that is located on the edge of the community that requires a $40,000 payment to use. This trend is growing immensely in Europe and there could quite possibly be several communites that would mirror Vauban and what it is all about. This effort to ban cars is based on the idea of reducing pollution as well as reducing stress, and many members of the community insist they live happier and less stressful lives since moving into Vauban.
Bogota, Columbia is the home to nearly 7 million people, and in Bogota there is an annual car-free day, with hopes to reduce smog and promote alternative transportation. There is also hope that this idea will spread to other cities and to other countries around the world. For the people who decide not to participate in the annual car-free day, a fine of $25 would be handed out. This "holiday" if you will, could be revolutionary potentially and if implemented year round, could really put a dent in the ammount of pollution throughout the city. Even the mayor of Asuncion, Paraguay revered the program, saying it is "generating a revolutionary change".
Officials in Paris, France put a partial driving ban on the city in an effort to reduce smog in the city. The ban worked like this, on Monday, drivers with even-numbered license plates would not be allowed on the road. The next day, it would be the drivers eith odd-numbered license plates that would have to leave their cars at home. Nearly 4000 people were fined due to the enforcement of this ban, for somewhere around $120,000 total. The strictness of the ban was due to the seriousness of the smog and the fact that it was intensifying. The dissapearance of the smog resulted in loosening of the ban and less negative feedback from drivers.
As you can see, these places have been limiting car usage and found at least some sort of benefit from doing so. Maybe if these restrictions or all together bans were implemented in more places, pollution in the world would be hindered. | 3 |
c6cfd2f | Many kids should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. This program will help other kids, and adults, to be more aware of people in other countries and their needs. This can open up the world for everyone in many ways.
In this case, this program helped Luke find time to have fun on board. The cowboys played many different sports at this program.
They played sports in empty holds where animals had been housed.
Table-tennis tounaments, fencing, boxing,reading,whittling, and games also helped pass the time for the Seagoing Cowboys when there was nothing to do. This was cool.
Some children might not want to go to this program, but if they do go then they would have a great opportunity to experience what it is like to do new things that they have never done before. Being a Seagoing Cowboy is much more than an adventure for everyone. Even for Luke Bomberger.
This program is helpful for young children to get a chance to discover many things, and it will give them a chance to make outstanding, new friends to hangout and play with, too. Anyone who wants to become a Seagoing Cowboy, can travel to this camp and have a really great time there. Also, anyone can even visit many unique places. | 2 |
c6d5387 | Luke Bomberger was living a normal life till his friend Don Reist asked if he wanted to go to Europe on a cattle boat. Luke couldn't say no to that once in a lifetime opportunity! It's World War II in Europe and many countrys are in ruins. They need help taking care of their animals and shiping them over seas. Luke and Don signed up. "We arrived August 14," Luke said. They where traveling over the Pacific ocean and going to Greece with 335 horses and food for them. Luke turned 18 before they got there and wanted to sign up for tthe military service. "By the time be was discharged in 1947, Luke had made nine trips, the most of the Seagoing Cowboys." Luke loved this new life of cattle-boat trips and helping people. On his free time be would explore Europe even more. It took him 2 weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the United States and then a month to get to China. Caring for the animals kept Luke busy and they where fed and watered two or tree times a day, and stalls had to be cleaned. Luke has had some training on Katie's farm as a small boy and helped him where he is now. "Luke also found time to have fun on board." Luke said. There is many things to do on the ship such as baseball, vollyball and table-tennis. Luke did Seagoing Cowboys for many year later and loved every bit of it. | 1 |
c6d5ed1 | Joining the Seagoing Cowboys progam can benefit recovering countries and yourself. If you enjoy helping people in need and traveling the world then you'll want to sign up for this progam. Some reasons why you should the program ar being aware of other countries and their needs,experiencing several countries' history and culture, and helping ruined countries.
In paragraph two, the passage explains that many countries were left in ruins after World War two. It states,"To help countries recover their food suppliers, animals, and more, 44 nations joined together to form UNRRA(the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration). UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas.
In paragraph nine it said that it opened up the world to me. I stated "It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs. It stated that the awareness stayed with me and it lead my family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years. In paragraph five, I stated," The cattle-boat trips were an unbelieveale oppurtunity for a small-town boy," I also said,"Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acroplis in Greece was special." In the passage I said ."So was taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, acity with streets of water." I also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canalo on my way back to China. I had the privilage of traveling around the world and experiencing different cultures and several coutries' history.
In conclusion, I believe that you and many ruined countries will benefit from this progam. It is something that you will always remember and will stick with you throughout you're life. You will also benefit from it greatly for many reasons that I have already stated before hand. | 3 |
c6d8db3 | I believe we should continue in the making of autonomous cars. There is much to be discovered on it as well as much to be put into it. I would be very careful if I drove one yes, but I do believe the car is capable of what they need and whatthe people need. Yes it will still need human assistnce once in a while during the times of "...navigating through road work or accidents." Which will keep the ddriver still in control and not putting others and themselves in danger. As said in the text "The google car simply announces when the driver should be prepaired to take over." This may become a problem seeing as most people think that if a car is auto-drive then it needs no human-asscistance and they may just leave it be and let it do it's thing. They decided that to make it easy to tell the driver " Hey, you should help me drive." To help with this they put in a vibrating chair to vtell the driver that they should take over. Itis said in the text that some states will welcome these cars once proven safe. This is why I believe they should continue their work. They have things to discover and things to apply to it. They will correct any mistakes and learn what needs to be done. I believe that these cars will one day be perfected and "driven". | 2 |
c6db974 | I believe that driverless are something that should continue being developed. Sometimes risks must be taken in order to advance in deptartments such as transportation. I believe that if we allow this to continue, it could lead to great advancements in transportation and will lead to making long distance travel much easier and much more safe. I'd like to ask anyone who is against the development of driverless cars this simple question: "Can you imagine a world where there are no car accidents caused by tired drivers or by people who are texting while driving?"
Some might say that these cars are currently too unsafe to test. I personally disagree with that idea, as it sets a bad example for future experiments. Cars themselves would not exist if they had not been tested by someone brave enough to try them. Neil Armstrong would never have set his foot on the moon if he had not been brave enough to test the rocket that had been built for his crew. If we are too afraid to try something, even if it isn't as grandiose as stepping foot on a heavenly body, then what will that be saying to the ambitious young engineers that would like to build a rocket to send the brave young astronauts to Mars? We cannot sacrifice scientific advancement for the sake of safety.
To say that the cars being currently tested are unsafe is seemingly an exaggeration in itself. For example, cars with the "Traffic Jam Assistant" have sensors equipped in the steering wheel to assure that the driver has both hands on the wheel at all times while the car's autopilot is in progress, assuring that the driver can take control at any time. This is actually something that is already quite common in airplanes. Would people who argue against these cars be afraid when a pilot puts their airplane on autopilot as well? If not, then I don't quite see why someone would be so afraid of these cars.
To say that these cars are too radical to test is just not true. These cars are driven by computers when not being driven by their human passengers. Computers are capable of doing calculations in a matter of seconds that humans might take hours to do. Some might contend that computers can make mistakes. I must rebuttle that humans make mistakes far more often than computers ever do.
Stopping development onthese cars would be detrimental to not only progress in the field of transportation, but in the field of scientific advancement as a whole. We cannot continue to fight new ideas simply because they could possibly be unsafe. Mankind did not reach the top of the food chain by running away from the unknown; We reached the top by running toward the unknown. | 4 |
c6de3c2 | In the article A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves, Luke Bombergerwas as able to particapate in the Seagoing Cowboys program which allowed him to experience adventures and visit many unique places, from Luke's point of veiw. This might convince others to participate in the program as well as Luke did. First of all in paragraph two it states what you do in the begining of being a Seagoing Cowboy, first you have to take care of horses, young cows, and sonetimes have to ship mules overseas. this is important becaues if you do not know how to take proper care of these types of animals you could lose your job and chances of being one of the Cowboys. Next you have to take orders in and ship them your self. It states in paragraph three you have to ship cargos such as loads over one hundred horses puls enough hay and oats to feed them. This is important becaues if you do not know how to ship the orders or don't know were the shipments go to you could lose your job. After all those requirements of being a Seagoing Cowboy or Cowboy (for short) you get to visit amazing unique places such as what it states in paragraph five, Besides helping people , I had the side benefit of seeing Europe,Venice,Italy with a city with streets of water, and on his way to China Luke saw excavated castles in Crete an marveled at the Panama Canlal. But seeing the Acroplolis in Greece was special," he says. This might excite the other people who want to participate in the program becaues, They might of dreamed of going to one of these countries or cities in there furture and this could be there chance to go. Later on after visting your favorit places there can be a risk. As it states in paragraph 7 Luke risked his life by serving as night wtchman as his job was to check on all the animals every hour. One rainy night after making his report to the caption , he slid down a slippry ladder on his backside. he was happy to be alive. But he couldn't work for a couple of days becaues he cracked one of his ribs while slidind down that ladder. this can be a risk becaues you could die just watching the animals but in is a little unlikly if your a very careful. Last but not lest in paragraph 9 it states that, for Luke Bomberger it opened up the world to him. "I'm grateful for the opportunity," he says."it made me more aware of people of other countries and there needs. This could let the person who is thinking of joing this program that this job is not only about hard work to take care of animals and take and deliver them to other countries, it is not about seeing your favorit countries its about what happends when your done with the job wether you come out like nothing happend and you feel like the same or you feel like you have accomplished something imortant. That is what could get the person insterested in joing the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 4 |
c6e52e5 | The use of the Facial Action Coding System in classroom computers seems like a smart and innovative idea, but not every student may agree. The technology could effectively see if a student is bored or confused, but may not be able to detect if a student is really learning. This new technology may not be effective and could disrupt a student's learning and the system of schools in a number of ways.
Every student is different and unique in their own way. Their hair color, skin color, height, and race. This statement is also true when it comes to a student's unique and preferred learning style. Some students may learn better by taking colorful notes or just plainly listening to a teacher's lecture. Some students learn better by filling out charts and organizers, but some students may learn better by watching a video. The idea of the Facial Action Coding System is to make an online lesson less confusing or boring, but if a student can't grasp a concept from an online lesson or video then the system is useless for that specific student.
Going along with the topic of different learning styles, the technology is valuable only for computers. This causes leaving out how a student learns with paper notes or a textbook. In most high schools and schools in general, there is usually always an online version of the textbooks. It's not rare to see high school students carrying their paper textbooks because it is easier for them to grasp the concepts by being able to read and feel the pages of a book. A computer with new technology is also useless for that student.
Students who learn by watching videos or having an online lesson have to battle the risk of getting distracted. It's easy enough to get distracted by opening a new tab and playing a game, or browing to find fresh conspiracy theories to read. It is possible that this new system could be as easily as distracting. Students may spend their time trying to falsely give the system a face, mimicing the movements of the "orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus" muscles that signal a genuinely happy face. This leads to a student spending more time trying to trick the system rather than paying attention to the lesson and disrupting their own learning by doing so.
The Facial Action Coding Sytem in schools would "modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor," as Dr. Huang predicts. If there is technology that modifies a lesson to be more effective for a student then the positions of techer would become less valued. Teachers would go to college and spend great deals of money only to become a backup instructor for the new technology and more like a chaperone for students. If everything can be found online, including textbooks and lessons, then what position does a teacher hold?
Altough the new Facial Action Coding System proves how innovative and resourceful technology is becoming, it could become less effective and valued by schools. It seems like a good idea for computers to become emapathetic and understand nonverbal communication like humans do, but not when it makes human interaction and teaching less valuable. It seems like it could be a great and effective system for workpaces, but it may not be the right match for students in school. | 5 |
c6eb28d | Driverless cars are a very intriguing and thought provoking concept that manufacturers and society have toyed with for decades. The possibility of reducing the risk of human error is very tempting and a reason for why many people are in supports of having driverless cars. Although, not everyone shares the same opinion regarding cars that don't require human control. I do not think that completely driverless cars are the best way to go because of the high risk of a computer error, but minimal human interaction could possibly be very beneficial.
Many companies such as BMW and Google have been working on developing driverless cars. While these cars have had some success on the road, there are some situations where a human driver is needed to take control of the situation. One example of this is a construction zone. Cars can have a radar and know how the road twists and turns, but in construction zones that is all thrown out the window. There are usually new boundaries created by traffic cones that the sensors on the car might not be able to connect.
Even though I am opposed to cars that are completely driverless, I do think that the integration of this technology can be highly beneficial in some areas of driving. One place that I feel like computer-assisted driving can help is when a person is backing up. Often times it is hard to see everything and it can be very easy to hit something or someone while reversing in a car. A computer that generates three dimensional images of the car's surroundings, such as the LIDAR system used by Google, could assist drivers by helping them see things that they previously weren't able to see. I also think that an automatic brake that is activated when the car is dangerously close to an object would be beneficial as well.
While there are risks and rewards to a driverless car, I feel like the risk of a computer error is a great one that could cost money and lives. Driver assistance, including cameras for backing up and an automatic brake to help prevent wrecks, is something that I would be open to in the future. We could soon be seeing these driverless cars on the road as many companies plan to have models out in the next five or six years, but I doubt they will be completely driverless. | 4 |
c6eb3cf | In my opinion the author did support his idea.The author wrote about the challenge of exploring venous, In the essay he typed he covered some key points about how life is there and how he thinks that there might had been living things and oceans there before. He also talks about how NASA is working on other approaches to studying venous. In which he also says in the text that "travels on earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts."
In paragraph three he talks about the atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets. It also says that the planets surface, the temperatures average over eight hundred degrees Fahrenheit which is most then its expected to be here in earth. It aslo talks about the atmospheric pressure being 90 times greater than what we experience in our planet. Which in this case he is trying to explain how the living conditions in venous are, which are " More extreme tha human encounter on earth." Basically the author covers the temperature and the state of living in venous, but he also talks about how NASA is working on other approaches to study venous..
The author wrote that " The National Aeronautics and Space administration" (NASA) are trying to send humans to study venous, and he continues talking about ways that NASA would allow scientists to float above the fray, which some people would believe that it's impossible. He gives examples of how jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude in order to fly over many storms and how they could manage a vehicle hovering over venous that could avoid the unfriendly ground coditions...etc
Not only did he talk about NASA'S plan but at the end of his argument he stated " Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors..." I agree with the author on this one because not only are humans interested in what could be there they're interested in what type of form life there is surviving in those types of weather and living conditions.
In conclusion in my opinion the author did support his idea. The author wrote about the challenge of exploring venous, in the essay/argument he typed he covered some key points about how life is there and how he thinks there might had been living things and oceans there before. He also talks about how NASA is working on other approaches to studying venous. In which he also says in the text that " Travels on earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts." | 4 |
c6ec467 | The Face of Mars
What if the Face on Mars was actually created by aliens? How would have the world reacted? Well we wouldn't know. The face on mars is actually a mesa that happens to be shaped like a face. We know that the face on mars was not created by aliens because there are no signs of life, as far as NASA knows there is no life on mars, the Face of mars is just a mesa, but if the Face was created by aliens we would be able to see symbols and signs but all you can see are just small vallys and ridges. Aliens did not build the face on mars.
As far as we know there is no visible life on mars. The reason for this is because mars is inhabitable. The conditions are mars are to harsh for any living organism to be able to live. There have been many expiditons by rovers that have roamed the red planet for years and still have not seen any forms of life. The author states, "There was no alien monument after all." With all this it would be almost impossible for a life form to be able to live on Mars.
Eventhough there is no visible life on Mars there has never been a sign of life ever being on Mars. Again with all the probes and missions to Mars there has never been a one-hundred percent fact that there has been life on Mars. The Mars rovers have taken over 100 samples and still have found no signs of life ever being on the planet. When the author quotes Jim Garvin, We photographed the Face as soon as we could get a good shot at it. The reason for this is because the planet has no life on it and if the only exciting thing that the scientists at nasa could find was just a mesa that looks like a face.
All in all this is not a creation made by aliens it is a mesa on the Red Planet Mars. NASA has released facts about why this wonder of mars is just a normal natural landform. Nevertheless, on April 8, 2001a cloudless summer day in CydoniaMars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view, said Garvin.", the author also gives us this peice of information, "Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo." With this all being said with the high resoloution picture and the quote from the scientist at NASA you can say for sure the Face is a natural land form.
Although some people might say this is not a natural land form. They might say that it is a alien artifact left by some martians or some garbage like that. Some people dont under stand that crazy land forms canjus occur naturaly. The author gives the reader a wonderful example of this on our own planet, "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesalandforms common around the American West. It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, says Garvin. Thats a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars. So if we on earth believe that the mesas in the American West can be made by the earth doing what it does why cant Mars make its own land forms.
The face of mars is just a natural land form in one of Mars's mesas. There are no signs of life on mars, There have never been any signs of life on mars, and the Face of mars is just a cool looking formation made by a mesa biome. So what will you be doing accepting that the Face of Mars or looking to every little nook and cranny of the web of lies called the internet to find out what the real truth is about the Face of Mars. | 5 |
c6f8f44 | The scientist of NASA think it is worthy to explore venus because there are things on venus that you can't find on earth like you can on venus. The scientist think it is a good plant to search and see what matreials there are on venus and how it is just too dangrous to go there by human it is possibale to have robots to do all the exploring despite the really bad heat and radiation coming of from the planet.
In other
details no only is it wrothy it is also dangrous because you can die from the over powering heat and gasses that my come off of venus. the Atmosphere is just to thick because it is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blanks of sulfuric acid in the plants atmosphere. The tempature is a wopping 800 Degrees fahernheit and the atompheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experiance in earth .
NASA wants to send a man made vehicle to hover over venus so that way no humans risking there lifes just to see what lies beneath all of the thick clouds on the plant venus. one of the proplems are not geting close to the surface of venus | 2 |
c6fb45a | I see why you think that aliens could have formed it. In 1976 it looks like a face and we all were surprised about it, but we needed more evidence. The picture quality was not the best so we went back out there in April 5, 1998 and we snapped another picture of the so called "face".
The camera that we used was ten times sharper picture than the first picture that we took. We looked at the picture that we took and there was no alien monument after all, but the picture still wasn't that well of quality. Not everyone was satisfied.
On April 8, 2001,a cloudless summer day in Cydonia, we decided to take another picture but with better quality. We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the face so we could clearly see it. We captured a photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution. Each pixle spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 photo. It was clear that it was just a land form and no signs of alien form. | 1 |
c701de7 | In the text the author suggests that Venus is worth the pursuit despite the dangers it presents. He supports the fact that Venus is the sister planet to us and that it could have once been another earth and had all kinds of life and water on it. He proves in the text that he supports it strongly because the way things are they arn't able to conduct a thorough study and mission. They need to have a closer look and intake on the plannet to do the right amount of work needed to be done.
In the text the author plainly state's that what they are doing and how hey are studying Venus isn't effective. It would be if they where to go and despite the danger's get a closer look. He thinks strongly that the way things are they are unable to get samples and find out actuall good data on the sister planet. As it states in the text "More importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance" (Paragraph,6). This shows that the author believes that it is important to get closer in on the the planets survice to conduct the proper evaluation and tests.
The author feels as though it is worth the while to try and work around these dangers. He feels this planet has alot to offer them on as far as information goes. That their is a good possibility that this planet could have been another earth. As it shows in the text "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system" (Paragraph, 4).This goes to show that because of the planet possibly being an old earth It makes the research more valuable.
The authore suggests that Venus is worth the dangers to get a good look at what really lays along the surfice. He supports this strongly believing that Venus is a sister planet and could have once even been another earth. He shows in the text that he supports this strongly because the way things are they arnt able to get a good read on things their that they arn't close enough. To him getting closer means getting more in tell and samples. They need to have a closer look on the planet to get better evidence and facts support behind if this planet really used to be a earth once. That is why he strongly supports it and thinks it's worth the risk it could help better earth since its our sister planet. | 3 |
c70b97c | Can you see the future where there are driverless cars? Driverless car are next big thing in the future. Driverless cars would fundamentally change the world The author presented a positive aspects of driverless cars.
Google cofounder Serdey Brin can envision a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars from a public-trans port system.This system would be more flexiable
and would use half of fuel of today's taxis .Google has already made a driverless car, but a person has to control the car when has to pull in and out of drive ways. Driverless would have to use sensors aournd the whole
car for the car to drive propely. Google has modified a Toyota Prius by putting senseors aournd the car. Google's car had driven miles without crashing. There will be times when a person will have to take over and drive the driverless car beacause the driverless car can't navigate through construction site, drive ways, and heavt traffic.
Google and GM have made systems to alert the driver in the car to take over and drive the car. States will have to make new law for driverless cars. People have their doubts about driverless car like what would happen if the alewrt system doesn't work or crashs from the driverless car will cause problem. Then people will not know who to blame the driver or the manufacturer? Automakers will continue their work on the assumption that the problems ahead will be solved. Soon other car compionies will follow and make driverless cars.
The author is postive of driverless cars. I am also positive about driverless cars in the furture. By then I'll be driving. Driverless
cars will be the next big thing. | 3 |
c70d2f1 | The Author describe how you can see emotions in the image of Monalisa. Many peaple can to think that the Monalisa is happy because she's smile but she can have fews emotions in the same moment. Leonardo Da Vinci's try to speak in this image that the emotions is how a mirror. Is for this the Author speak in the article that Lonardo Da Vinci probably knows study the emotion of person. I think you can see the emotios the other peaple because the face is how a mirror. you can look how you feeling in the moment. Is you are tired, sick, sad, happy, disgusted...
But sometimes we can't see all the emotions, because Monalisa looks that she is happy but she can feel others emotions that you can't see maybe.
My conclusion is you can see the emotions in the face but NO all the emotions.
This happen with the expressions of my classmate they look very serious for the exam, others look tired but they maybe can be others emotions that I don't know. | 1 |
c70e02d | Have you ever thought of joining the
"Seagoing Cowboys."
Like Luke Bomberger he thought it was an amazing program. Seagoing Cowboys take care of live stock that are being shiped to countrys or states. Luke Bomberger was asked to join with his friend Don Reist Luke could not give up this amazing opertunity so he toke it. Luke Bomberger decided to become a Seagoing Cow boy.
The year was 1945 World War ll had just ended in Europe and many outher contries. The army had just sent some Seagoing Cowboys. The Cowboys were sent to help restore food supplies and animals. 44 nations joined together for the UNRRA. The UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys." Luke and Don signed up to help with rebuilding Europe.
Luke signed up for the trip to go to Greece he turned 18 befroe going there. Besides going to places you would have the benifit of seeing sites such as Acroplis in Greece, or taking the gondola ride in venice Italy, a street with water. A Seagoing Cow boy also has very long trips to get to places somtimes like when Luke toke two weeks to get to the Atlantic Ocean or when it took a month to get to China. Seagoing Cowboys also have to care for thre animals and might run out of food to give them on one of there trips. A Seagoing Cowboys has thre advantages and their disavantages.
Seagoing Cowboys would have to leave their familys behind but they new that they would see them again. Seagoing Cowboys had a lot of fun on the trips that they came back from droping of the animals. They like to play games such as table tennis,fencing,boxing,reading,whittling,and games. The games helped pass time until they got home to see there familys. One night Luke sliped and broke some ribs his crew would not let him work until he healed up. Seagoing Cowboys are like your family that is away from home.
When your part of the crew you have your own little family. When you go to what all the bad things in the world are you want to help them out . When Luke was done created awarness and that stayed with him. Luke hosted a number of internathinal students and exchange students visitors for many years. So go out there to help the people who really need it. | 3 |
c710937 | In the article, "Driving Cars Are Coming", there should not be a development of driverless cars. Driverless cars can cause so much stress safety wise and court wise. There should not be driverless cars.
First, Driverless cars can cause alot of stress on people and there safety. There is no proof that these cars can handle the main streets and highways, the author explained that these cars have only been tested on tracks that were specially made for these cars when he said,"General Motors created a concept car that could run on a special test track." Also the people oppurating these cars may get lazy while the car is in motion from just sitting there and might ending up falling asleep, the author described the fact that these cars only alert you when human assistance is needed but what if the driver falls asleep? The author says, "This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." That is why the cars are not up to standards for safety.
Second, Driverless cars can also become a great dibate in the court house. Everyone has different views on who to blame if the car was to get into an accident and the driver or passengers were to be injured.The author says,"If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" Also new laws would have to be made if these cars were to be made and out on the market, because of liability issues. The author says,"Even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in case of an accident." So the law and courts would be stuck arguing over these vehicles and the liability process.
In the end, the author made many valid point in this article discussing these newly thought about driverless cars. But I feel these cars should not be made because of the safety of the people driving these cars and their passengers and the people around them. Also it would be to big of a hastle to discuss liability issues and create new laws. Thats why i feel the driverless cars should not be produced. | 4 |
c711ade | Cars with automatic driving, can you believe it? I personally believe driverless cars will be unsafe and unnecessary. There is no reason that we can't drive ourselves.
While the car drives itself, people still need to be aware of the things sorrounding them in case of an accident. Roadblocks are detected making the human take over on controls. If the person were to not pay attention, what could be the outcome? Wrecks, fatalities, and problems. Say that the person who is in the car pays no attention to the road. Instead he/she is playing on their phone. That causes danger to everyone else around. There is no way to monitor these people without invading privacy. Also, laws would need to change in order for these new drivers. Making things harder to adapt to. Not driving most of the time would take away the natural ability to drive.
There are some upsides to this invention. These new cars take half less gas than a normal taxi, saving money. As stated in the text "the cars he foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis." "It would also offer more flexibility than a bus" states the text. Get this, you would not have to pay for a car. There could be a public-transport taxi system that is cheap and affective.
In all, these cars could cause a major problem. At the moment there is more evidence against the cars than for them. It's cold hard facts. These should not be used, we should continue to navigate manually. | 2 |
c71cdd0 | Driverless cars! what a big leap in technology!, My position on driverless cars is that i think that its a very good idea to be able to drive on our own stll, even though the car has acess to be able to drive on it's own. It would make people feel safe to be able to prevent an accident if there was a mounfunction.
How ever the way technology is improving is truly fasinating, but there will be people out there that would like to drive on their own and be able to take breaks often. But like I said in the previous paragraph they would feel more safe if they where able to control on their own as well as wanting to take breaks here and there.
"Within 10 years sensors have become more advanced to detect ands respond to danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers. the sensors can apply breakes on individual wheels and reduce power from an engine allowing far better response and control than a human drive ever could." quoted Google Cofounder Sergey. There could be serious monfunctions, we cant predict that cant happen. So i think it would be safer if we had the ability to choose to drive or not.
But in a way this could really help us out in the future, say that a driver is not paying attention to the road and they are about to hit a deer.. a sensor could very well come in handy to keeping anyone in the car safe and it also can prevent damage to the car. In other wods this could go either way it could be good but also have some concerns.
So in conclusion i belive that if we keep working at the technology we could very well have a success at driverless cars, but untill then i think we should really think out the pros and cons of this situation before we advance to the next step. This could very well be and amazing break through but also could lead us in to some complications, so in other words i belive that we should have thwe choice to drive and be able to have this advantage to be able to have this as an easy safe thing. | 4 |
c71d08f | In 2009 Google created "driverless cars". They weren't fully independant but they were the beginning of something great. Driverless cars will save the lives of people who would otherwise die in a car crash. Driverless cars will create jobs for people who need jobs. People are getting lazier and lazier, and they don't want to drive themselves anymore. Driverless cars are the future.
Car crashes are caused when a driver isn't paying attention or they are intoxicated. This could mean the driver was texting, eating, changing the radio station, or even falling asleep at the wheel. With driverless cars people will be able to do whatever they want while the car is driving without worrying about crashing. They could text all they want or even sleep. The driver just needs to be prepared to take over the wheel if the driverless car runs into a roadblock and needs to go on a detour or needs to be parked. Driverless cars will take people who are out with freinds anywhere they want to go. Having friends in the car with you is one of the most distracting things to a driver, with all the talking and laughing. Things can go bad really fast. These cars will also help keep intoxicated drivers off the road. Some driverless cars can independantly complete ninety percent of the tasks required. This will get an intoxicated person very close to their home if not all the way there.
Driverless cars will create jobs. Jobs in programing, design, manufacturing, and upkeep of the cars. Some might say that driverless cars will take more jobs than it gives. These people say that taxi drivers and bus drivers will lose their jobs. Yes, that is most likely true but they will create so many more jobs. The amount of jobs created will be more than the ones lost. As Spock once said "The needs of the many outway the needs of the few, or the one."
People are getting lazier and lazier, they don't want to drive themselves anywhere anymore. This is one of the reasons that we need driverless cars. As society evolves we see that people are getting lazier. Lazy people don't want to drive anywhere. This is where driverless cars come in. Driverless cars will take lazy people who don't pay attention to their destination safely and without accident. People might say that driverless cars end up making people lazier by allowing them to do little to nothing and still get where they want to go. Yes, people might get lazier but it is better than people dying form crashing their car.
Driverless cars will save lives of people who would otherwise die in a car crash. Driverless cars will create jobs for people who need jobs. Driverless cars will also help people who are very lazy. These reasons and many others is why we need driverless cars. Driverless cars are the future. | 5 |
c7215de | I think in my opinion we shouldnt have driverless cars. It makes it seem like we're lazy. We dont need driverless cars because we all know how to drive. So does taking your permit does not matter? Since we have someone else to drive with us? So does that mean we dont have to learn about the saftey and the law of driving? So will everyone in the future not learn how to drive but will have driverless cars?
In this article is it says it can be dangerous.
As it states on paragragph 9. " If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault? The driver or the manufacture. Guys, You guys cant always depend on things being done by its self. we already have alot of advantages in this world adn u guys wanna make a driverless car? It's smart but we need to learn how to do stuff on our own and not depend on other things or someone else.
So yes, This is my opinion. This is how i fell about this. I certainly dont agree on this. Once again this is just my opinion. If you dont agree then i wont be mad. Everyone has their own opinions. | 2 |
c721711 | I think that we should use facial action coding because it lets use humans know that we can make things smarter or similer to use. Even though people belive that the computer is not important. The computer could do use good. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". this can give teachers a chance to know if the lessons he/she gives will help the students or not.
If we started makeing and useing facial action coding we could help kids do better in school and find better ways to help each other. " for istance you can probaly tell what your friend is feeling by the look on there face". if someone is unsure about the way they feel they can just go to the compuert and find out everyone would know them self better.
Alot of people think it will not be a good thing because it takes away natral way of life. But really this would let every one have a way of being comfortable in sertan situations. It would alow people to progress on there studys and alow them to find ways they learn best.
These are the reasons why i belive we should use facial action coding. the world would be simpler. Every one may have a chance and learning in better ways. A new way of life would be created with facial action coding. | 3 |
c7238b0 | Theres multiple things with the diverless car i agree with and things i disagree with. I think that developing the "Traffic Jam Assist" is a great and important idea. I agree That the cars can steer, accelrate, and break them selfs, but all are desighned to notify the driver when the road ahed requires human stills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents. Because perhaps the smart car isnt as smart as it thinks it is, the car ahead of you collides with the on coming tafic on a green light when your smart car is going the speed limit. The car couldnt see what was happing infront of you but you can conrtol the breaks and call 911 to report it. If your smart car would have had all control it would of smashed through the other cars like a bullet, Causing you to be ingerd also. I also strongly agree with the driverless car because drivers tend to get tierd/bored of not driveing for a long period of time because, most people do get bored easy and not driveing can cause alot of bordom on a long road. It could cause the driver to fall asleep and not notice the danger infront of their faces. The text states " Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?" "The psychological aspects of automan are really a challenge," admits Dr Werner Huber.
I do infact disagree with the thought of manufactuers considering to use cameras to watch that divers are remaining focused on the road. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver. I beleive that drivers desirve their privacy. Even if they are supposed to be driveing their not going to want someone/ something watching them the whole time. They could have really bad anxiety with they know that theres a camera on them the whole time and it could destract the driver. | 2 |
c72c7ff | When I first read the Article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" I was sheocked at how this technology was able to read emotions off of a painting. It described her as 83 percent happy, 9 percent discusted, 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry. This is all identified by software innovated by Prof. Thomas Huang, in collaboration with Prof. Nicu Sebe. Dr. Huang and his colleaugue are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate. I think it's a good idea becuase it could help people better understand the emotions of people who don't communicate as much.
"The facial expressions for each emotion are universal" says Dr. Huang, "even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression" Using video imagery the new emotion-recoognition software tracks these facial movements; in a real face or a painted face of Mona Lisa. This sofware can also identify mixed emotions; each expression is compared against a neutral face (showing no emotion). This really shows how much a computer can do. Dr. Huang said "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored", "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." Your home PC can't handle complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile. But we can write down simple instructions that "encode different emotions.
I think that this is a great step towards the future and the possibilities could be endless when understanding emotions. It could not only benefit yourself, but others around you in how your feeling. | 2 |
c72e753 | The electoral college has existed since the founding fathers established it in the consistution as a way to elect a presedential canidate. What the electoral college is, it is a "compromise between election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens." What the electoral college does instead of electing a preseident through a popular vote, it is electing through a electoral vote, that means if you are voting your votes are actually counted towards the electors of the canidates. Each candiate has it's own slate of electors, in wich you are voting for them, and they will make the decision of deciding who is president of the U.S.
A presidential canidate can have more popular votes then the other candiate, meaning votes favored by the people, but if a president has more electoral votes, which is votes by the electors then they are elected as the president. The benefits of the electoral college is this, 1. Presidents who are favored greatly in a certain region of the U.S., will most likely not have a electoral appeal. That means such as president Romney can have a strong appeal in the south, but he will gain no electoral vote. 2. " The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recevies a majority of the votes cast. For example, Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority in the Electoral College. There is pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a majority of the votes cast, that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presedential election process, is reduced by the Electoral College, which invaraiably produces a clear winner." 3. "The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Consistution... The popular vote was very close in Florida nevertheless Obama, who won that vote, got 29 electoral votes. So other things equal, a large satae gets more attention than a small state does.
We need to put an end to the Electoral College now. The reason why we need to start now is because it isn't fair for a group of electors to vote for the president, when the votes of the people are pretty much worthless. Electors of the candidates sometimes don't even vote for the their own candiate, they sometimes vote for the opposistion by betrayal! As for the popular vote it would be much easier to vote only by the people. Like our consistution says by the people for the people. Even though the problem of Al Gore and George W. Busch occuer more than a decade ago the issue can occuer again. That's why we need to place only a popular vote where we can avoid problems like in 2000 and have the people's vote count! The Electoral College is unfair because it is unfair to voters, the iea of winner-take-all system in each state candiate don't even spend time in states they know they will not gain favor in. "Focusing only the "swing states" which is a more tighter race." Worst thing that can happen if there is a tie in the Electoral College, and in that case the vote would be thrown to the House of Represenatives, and who knows what can happen in that matter.
Electoral college is fair to the eye of an elector. Is it though favored by the people knowing that their popular vote is pointless of a final president? | 3 |
c737af8 | Limiting car use to many people wouldn't sound like the greatest idea but however it can be very affective. In the article " In German Suburb, Life goes on without cars" it states that 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said heidrun walter, a media trainer and mother of two, as she walked verdant streets where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor. Driving cars can cause many problems on the road or on the drivers life.
Not driving a vehicle can have many advantages, such as the driver having a less chance of getting injured on the road because of an accident. You never know if you are going to be safe while behind the wheel. You are always at risk while operating a vehicle. Also you can save money by not driving, you wouldnt have to spend money on a car and also not pay for gas and maitenence of the vehicle. In Paris they had to enforce a partial driving ban so that they could clear the air of the global city. This shows that so much carbon dioxide is let out into the atmosphere. Motorized vehicles destroy our air, all pollution of smoke and buring fuels dirtys the air.
In bogota, Columbia , an event took place to help cleanse the air in columbia. Two Colombian cities, Cali and Valledupar, joined the event for the first time. "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," said a buisnessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife. A study found that the driving of young age people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. Younger people may be getting more atheltic and excersising by running or riding a bike.
In conclusion, limiting car usage could be a good thing and help our world. People can save more money, less lives would be at risk and there would be less pollution. I personally think riding a bike to places is fine. People can begin to be getting more fit and healthier by walking, running or riding a bicycle to there destinations. But if where they want to go is to far they can always take a taxi. | 3 |
c737e6f | People should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because this program helps other countries during World War 2. We help these countries with their supplies.
We went to these countries when the Pacific war was over. Our ship even provided us something to pass time. This is why I think you should join the program.
The UNRRA hires Seagoing Cowboys to help take care of animals before we get to the countries. To pass time you would play table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games. You are able to do a lot of sight seeing, like seeing Europe and China, or seeing the Acropolis in Greece. You help countries with their food supplies, animals, and more. You even talk with people with other nations that help you.
This is why I think you should join the UNRRA. You are able to see Europe and China. You help other countries recover their supplies. You talk to other people from other nations. This is your opportunity of a lifetime. | 2 |
c73ee2a | Hello, This is Ruby from scientist at NASA. I wanted to talked about the "Unmasking the Face on Mars" that it was created by aliens. First of all, I don't think it's a natural landform becasue it just can't be. So, that mean the unmasking was created by an aliens.
For this argument, I come up with three reasons for that. My first reason is, how can the unmasking face can be natural landform?The answer is, it was created by
an aliens."How do you know?" Even other scientist said
that the unmasking face was natural landform I still think it's from the an alien. My secod reason is, the unmasking face look like a human face so the point is the aliens might look like human,us. We don't know if it is a natural landform or not. So, it can be but the only reason for that is, it was created by aliens. My last reson about the unmasking face is, natural landform can be but there's no provement for that .
In conclusion, I wanted to tell you that
the "Unmasking the Fcae on Mars" is created by an aliens. Why? because that's the only way there's an unmasking face. I'm positive that the "Unmasking the Face on Mars" was created by an aliens. | 1 |
c7423a9 | Luke has many more adventures coming up and you can too. You will be able to visit many unique places just like Luke did.
Being in the Seagoing cowboy program will also give you the oppertunity to help people by sending food and animals over sea with you. You would have to care for the animals too as to help on the trip.
A seagoing cow boy can visit many places. Luke got to visit Europe,China,Acropolis,Greece, ride a Gondola in Italy,and tour a castle in Crete.
Besides visiting all the great places when you are still onboard there is plenty to do besides feeding and watching the animals all day. Luke played games and you would be able to also. There is baseball,volleyball,tennis tourments,fencing,boxing,reading and more. You don't have to sit around and do nothing.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy is a great idea. You get to help people in need of resources, visit different unique places,and even have fun onboard. You can do all this maybe more like Luke did. | 2 |
c7430fd | When the Constitution of the United States was written our founding fathers decided on an Electoral College as the way to ellect the president instead of a direct vote. The Electoral College is a process that makes a compromise between the popular vote of the citizens and the Congressional vote. When citizens vote for president they are actually voting for a member of the Electoral College that is going to select their president, rather than the citizens voting for the president themselves. The Electoral College is made of 538 electors, the number of electors from each state varies depending on the states Congressional delegation. Washington D.C. is counted as a state for this process and alloted only three electors. The electoral college should be kept in use because it simplifies the outcome and allocates more power to the larger states.
The Electoral College should continue being used in today's government as a form of selecting the president because it simplifies the outcome of the vote. When voting with a popular vote system a debate over the outcome of the vote is very likely and will probably cause some constroversy. When the votes form the electoral college are counted the margin of victory is much higher which simplifies the result of the poll. During the election of 2012 Obama only recieved 51.3 percent of the vote, however he won the vote of the electoral college with an astounding 61.7 percent, a increase in the margin of victory by 10.4 percent. With this wide of a margin of victory a dispute over the victor of the presidential election is unlikely and almost impossible to argue against. Some might argue that the Electoral College is flawed because electors can choose not to vote for their canidate. It is true that this has happened in the past, "in 1960, segregationist in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded on replacing the Democratc electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy." P.11. If this happened the popular vote for Kennedy would have gone to his adversaries instead. It is true that electors can choose not to vote for the canidate they pledged to and that this has happened in the past however the electors rarely betray their party's nominee and a tie in the electoral vote is extreamly unelikely.
Additionally, the Electoral College sould be kept in today's democracy because is allocates power to the larger states. It only makes sense that the larger states with a larger population should get more of a say in their government, and recieve more electoral votes than a small state with fewer people. With this system political infulence is restored to the larger states making the canidates focuss on the more populous areas. More power to the more populous states also means that run-off elections are avoided. In 1992 and in 1968 run-off elections were avoided due to the use of the Electoral College; "Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had only a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority of the Electoral College" P.22. A run-off election extreamly complicates the election process however the chance of this happening is greatly reduced when using the Electoral College which almost always produces a clear winner.
The electoral college should be kept in use because it simplifies the outcome and allocates more power to the larger states. The Electoral College avoids the outcome of a run-off election. It also greatly reduces the chance of a dispute between the victor. Most people do not like the Electoral College because they are not directly voting for their canidate however many people fail to realize hat it is rare for an elector to betray his nominee. Electors rarely betray their canidate because they are chosen by the canidates party or the canidate themself. The Electoral College gives political weight to states and is very useful in deciding the new president with no debates over who won. | 6 |
c7463ad | The author in ¨The Challenge of Exploring Venus,¨supports the idea that studing Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. Venus is a planet in our solar system and the second planet from our sun but also sometimes referred to as Earths ¨twin.¨ Venus is close to Earth my density and size and occasionally by distance.Not one spaceship has touched Venus in more than three decades and because of the issue of the missions being unmanned and no spacecraft survived the landing. Studing Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger because astronomers are fasinated and NASA has a compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus.
Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit because astronomers are fasinated by Venus. In paragraph four it says ¨ Astronomers are fasinated by Venus because it may well be once have been the most Earth like planet in our solar sytem. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth.¨ This means Venus could have been a planet that was more like our planet Earth and had similar features. Similar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. This features that Venus has means that at one point Venus could have been a planet just like Earth is.
Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit because if NASA is compelling an idea for sending humans to study Venus it might work. In paragraph five it says ¨NASA´s possible sotuion to the hostile conditons on the surface of Venus would alow scientists to float above the fray¨ This means scientists would be able to float above the fray with NASA´s possible solution. In paragraph six it says ¨Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to out knowledge of Venus.¨ This means researchers will work on inovations to make machines last very long and can last for them to have as much information about Venus when they get back to Earth ground. NASA is also working on other ways to help on studying Venus. For example in paragraph seven its says that ¨ some simplified electronis made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulated the chaos of Venus suface and has lasted three weeks in such conditions.¨This means that they made eletronics with silison carbide and tested it in a chamber to venus and lasted three weeks.
Venus is a worthy pursuit to study because NASA has compelling ideas and astronomers are fasinated. NASA did a test of silicon electronics that lasted three weeks and astronomers say the planets surface has similar features as Earth. The author is right on studying Venus. | 3 |
c74a14f | So you say the discovery of the face Cydonia that was founded in Mars back in 1976 was created by aliens. I seem to disagree with your argument. As we have done more research here in NASA back in 2001 each pixel in the image spans 1.56 meters compared to 43 meter per pixel in the best 1976 image which means with the new and more improved technology we got a closer and better resolution of the face Cydonia on Mars which you so think was created by aliens. The recent image of Cydonia from 2001 has better pixel quality so that we can zoom in more to see if there are any other objects other than Cydonia such as cars or houses in which we both know don't exist in the red planet. Cydonia has unusual shadows that make it resemble a human head with it giving us an illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. What the picture actually show is the Martian equivalent of a butte Mesa which are also landforms that are commonly found in the American West. So as you know that after the discovery, photographing Cydonia has became one of our main priority for us here at NASA to prove that it wasn't created by aliens. I hope that after you heard my side of the argument you have a different view of Cydonia as it formed by itself in the red planet. | 3 |
c74afc4 | Dear senator
I would change to election by popular vote because electrol college we can not vote for the presidents we would have to vote for how many number a of slate pledge for the person you decided to vote for and the electors can be anybody not holding public office. the person that picks the electors it depends on the state sometimes its state convention,sometimes the party's central committee,sometimes the presidental candidates themselves. the american people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century in the text it stated "the system allows for much worse consider that states legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and thet those electors could always defy the will of the people". but perhaps the most worrying is the prospect od a tie in the electrol vote.
The electrol college isw unfair to voters. during the 2000 campaign seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all and the aguments in favor of it most assertions without much basis. it hard to say this but bob dole was right: Abolish the electral college. | 2 |
c74f1c4 | "Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore?" This seems to me like a bad idea. The driverless car, while having some good qualities, is overwhelmed with bad qualities. The risk and danger of driving would greatly increase due to the cars being more in control. Not only is this dangerous, but the cost of the vehicle will increase because the product is new and "advanced". When adding up the time being taken to drive a car rather than take a taxi, the taxi takes a greater amount of time to deal with. Some of the negative aspects of the driverless car are much greater in numbers than the positive.
The risk of the driverless car is much greater than the risk of simply driving oneself everywhere. Like taxis, putting your life in someone elses hands is always a greater risk. The driverless taxis just double the chances out wrecks considering that the car still has more kinks than anyone cares to recognize. In the reading, it was stated that the car can brake on it's own. While that could be seen as a convienience, it can also be seen as a danger. The car may brake when it's is not supposed to which could cause a wreck. The driverless cars are still not totally able to navigate through traffic with ease. Having a regular car seems to be the safer option, because the driver is in complete control.
The driverless car is much more costly to manage than a car controlled by the driver. The product is new, so the initial cost will be much higher. Also, the technology is supposed to be more convienient and user friendly. These positive aspects always seem to cost more than a regular car. The driverless car will have such a large initial cost, the owner of the car will be owing the company in which he bought it money for a long time.
It always seems more convienient to take a taxi rather than drive yourself in a big city. In larger cities, taxi services are found everywhere, but in smaller towns the number of taxi's are much smaller. It is unneccisary to take a taxi in smaller town because the traffic is more manageable. The taxi services are only needed for large cities to handle all of the traffic. The new driverless cars are still not managable on their own in high areas of traffic.
The number of cons seems to outweigh the pros. Safety is always a big issue to everyone because it is important that everyone is safe at all times. As the world progresses money seems to be more of an issue. Driverless cars are seemingly too expensive to buy in the first place, let alone the price of gas being a taxi service. The convienience of a taxi is always so pleasant until they are unneccisary, like in smaller areas. Personally, the driverless cars just seem to have too many negative qualities to be worth production. | 3 |
c753797 | In this article the author makes sure to provide all the facts but altimately the good outweighs the bad.Venus is a challenging planet for humans to study.A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus.It has clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acide in its atmosphere.Its temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit.It has the hottest surface temperature out of all the planets.Its atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than Earth's.Venus wasnt always inhospitable scientists say it was probably just like Earth.Venus still has some features analogous to Earth.The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable but we don't really have options for making such a mission both safe and scientifically productive.Recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit,a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel.
The author makes sure to include a couple solutions to the problem.One solution would be to allow scientists to float above the fray.A vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions.They would have solar power and radiation would not exeed Earth levels.It would be survivable for humans.The downside in that researchers wouldn't be able to take samples of rock,gas and anything from a distance.Electronics made from silicon carbide have been tested.Lastly the author states that our travels on Earth should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 2 |
c75f7b4 | Cars are one of the most important transportation in the world today. The reason the number of cars being sold is going down is because they are getting too expensive. Some people that do not have jobs are not able to afford getting a new car. There are people that have to sell their cars just so they can get a house to live in. Todays society does not have many cars because people have more technology today like cellphones and laptops. Several people that dont have a car either can't afford it, use a cellphone and walk places, or ride a bike places. Not everyone has the joy of driving a car so they don't bother trying to buy one. The newer cars are way over priced and noone is going to want to over pay for a vehicle. Ever since 2005 the amount of cars getting sold has been steadily dropping. When 2013 hit, the numbers of miles driven per person dropped 9% and was equal to the amount in 1995.
First, The percentage of people driving on the road went down because of the expense of the newer vehicles. The ones that were unemployed had no way of getting a new car because they did not work. Some people just did not have a good paying job to where they could be able to afford a new car. Every year more and more people loose their job so when they need a new car they will not be able to get one because they will have no money. Because of the expense of cars now the rate of ownership per household went down severely. The more the price the cars go up the lower the rate for people buying cars. Car dealerships are never going to sell any cars if they keep raising the prices.
Secondly, the people that have to sell their cars to buy a house should not have to do that. Everyone needs to have some kind of transportation but they cant with the prices of everything now a days. The prices should not be so high so people can afford to have a car for transportation and a home to live in. The world is not getting treated fairly especially the ones that are trying to get a job and noone will hire thems so they are not able to afford a car and a car payment. Noone should have to walk places to get anything because people make fun of them and there shouldn't be any judging. There are reasons the people without transportation have to walk and i believe that should change. The world should be better than what it is right now, there are so many disrespectful people in this world that think they are rich. People should never have to give up their vehicles or house for anything.
Finally, Todays society is going down because the prices shot up like a rocket these past few years. People are severely suffering because of them going up extremely quick and that should have never happened and i believe it needs to be fixed as fast as possible. The ones that are trying to get a job deserve to be able to afford a car but since noone wants to hire anyone they cant afford anything. Then, the ones selling their cars is not good they need to have a way of getting around especially if they have kids that needs to go to school or the doctors. The people suffering should not be suffering since they are trying the best they can. | 3 |
c760686 | Introduction-
People, Muesums, and Schools are still wandering "to this day" if Leonardo Da Vinci made his famous painting of Mona Lisa with a smile on "her" face, well, in Paragraph 1(Lines 1-2), there is a descripion of how Nick D'Alto is saying that Mona Lisa is Eighty-Three percent happy, Nine percent disgusted, Six percent fearful, and Two percent angry. The new technology system being described in the
Facial Action Coding System (suggested by Dr. Huang) could possibly make a big difference of how Mona Lisa "REALLY FEELS", and how it would be easier for students to learn about whether or not "She" was made "HAPPY" in Da'Vinci's paintings.
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Some students in the Twenty-First Century are not willing to learn about certain topics in school because of all the other amazing internet resources and games they think are part of computer freedom, but inspite of Three- Dimentinal vision, Mona Lisa could have been much angrier than what she might have seemed like in her face, and she might have been fearful because of her hair style and her looks "in the dark!" Maybe, there was a possibility that a demostration of Mona Lisa could test how well with a(n) computer with "2020 Vision Software", or have a(n) emotional sensor flashdrive to attach to your PC Engine when you want there to be certain conducting over feelings from your computer technology. I think that this kind of technology is kind of un-realistic, but it would be a good source for what the person studying in will thinks about what he learned in the past "Once enough of the Life-Story of the person has gone by." In Paragraph 3 "Lines 18-31", I would imagine that constructing a computer that has a lot of functions and features could lack the knowledge of a person's understanding of how to "USE" the computer properly, which will turn out to be more like "TRASHWARE" than "SOFTWARE". The biggest part I think the Facial Action Coding System "Is Worth" is how you can just control anything in your "IMAGINATION" to discover the strong ways that you can make video games from your imagination, show how you truly feel, and picture yourself " in that video game." Dr. Huang is not a bad "Pre- Innovator", but he could have added specific date(s) to his context.
Conclusion-
If a type of computer with 3-D software were to exist, then there would be a great possibility that by Two- Thousand Twenty, there will be the greatest chance of a computer with special features existing "if Dr. Huang will start planning how the computer he's wishing to come out will be invented." | 1 |
c7619b0 | I am all for having this technology to read students emotional expressions. As a student myself, I get bored easily during class. Honestly I am bored right now.... Maybe if the teachers knew that us students get bored during class, maybe then they could find a way to keep students busy. Maybe even make school/school work a little more fun. The text says "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." Well that right there would help the teachers as well as the student. If this facial recognization can tell that we are also confused then the teacher would know what we need help with. Most students are shy and don't want to say anything when they are confused with their work. This whole thing would just be so much easier, honestly I don't understand why this isn't already a thing. The passage also states," Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." Seriously am I the only person that thinks this is a great idea? The students that have a hard time in a classroom setting could seriously use these. This would probably help home schooled kids! All I am saying is that scientists need to jump on this and get it out here, where us kids that struggle in school can actually enjoy it and graduate. This is a great idea and i will stand by my opinion until this is a thing. The fact that there could be something out there that could not only the older school setting, but also the kids that have ADHD that can't focus. My nephew has the hardest time in school not just because of that, but because most teachers now days are lazy and un considerate about what goes on in the classroom and I have seen this first hand. This facial recognization thing could be an amazing thing for students all of the globe. | 3 |
c762f49 | It would be a cool thing to have for something to read your facial expressions. But i don't think it will work very well because what happens if someone doesn't show much facial expressions. You just can't go by what their facial expression is. What if someone is having a bad day but is showing no facial expression about it.
The facial expression machine would be fun to have until we need something more new that can read facial expressions and nonfacial expressions. The reason we need something more new i becuase the fact that the machine can get it wrong if the person isn't showing a facial expression. Like you can't just tell by that becuase they can go wrong. The person may not show emotions that much so they can hide it really well. Also people don't really like to tell people how they are feeling.
So if they did have a machine that can read facial expressions but can't read emotions that they are hiding isn't a very good machine. They just need to build a machine that can do both. All because someone can be something else then what the machine picks up. So they need something that can do both so it can be right. All because of the reason someone don't show a whole lot of emotions. Plus the person can be lying to the machine and the machine picks up that you are happy but really you are not. | 2 |
c76391f | We will be talking about The Challenge of Exploring Venus. And how it even got its name. It has another name for it called evening star. i heared that it's really dangerous though. Im about to give you some every important information you need to know w\about Venus/Evening Star.
The detailes that author gives you is incredible he tells you everything you need to know. The evidence is information like its referred to as Earth's twin. Venus is the closest planet to earth in terms density an size. Venus is out of a thick atmosphere of alomst 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets. Even NASA wants to send people to study the planet Venus.
NASA is working on other approaches to study Venus. He tells you everything you need to know about Venus. There devices they use were first envisioned in the 1800s. it sounds shocking but its true. If I was you if you want to learn more about it get into deeper articles about it.
The conclusion on this article is that Venus it a plant that should be study on or even looked at. Because you never know what you could find on that plant. They think it might have value into it an i think they are right. Just because it might be dangerous or even doubts on dying. Its ok to take resk on something that could or can change the world inot something different. | 2 |
c765c60 | Car Free Cities
Many people use cars for different reasons, some to get to work, some for their jobs but i bet these people don't know what they are really causing when they step into their car. Some people throughout the world have been reducing cars in their cities, and the changes they are making have huge advantages on the city.
"Automobiles are the linchpin of suburbs" says Elizabeth Rosenthal. Stating that automobiles, or cars, have made and astronomical change in the suburbs, or small neighborhoods on the outskirts of big cities. Some pros about not having cars are that more people are exercising and losing weight, and reducing the pollution in the air. Some even say you can get where you're going faster when not using a automobile.
"It's a good oppurtunity to take away stress and lower air pollution", says businessman Carlos Arturo. Implying, you dont have to stress over being late for work by filling you gas tank up, its a sign of relief knowing you can get places without your car. Redusing car yuse also helps you save your money, by spending money on gas, or even waiting on taxis to get you where you're going can also be tough.
In colclusion, there are many advantages on why you should limit car use in big cities. Even though some might not agree, its still a risk to take and make your city a cleaner, more happy place. Even though this might be a incipent to car limiting, it might be able to grow througout the next coulple of years if people work together to stop automobile transportation. | 2 |
c766758 | Imagine yourself as a teacher and one of your students clearly skipped your class yesterday and is lying about where they were yesterday, and all you see is a smirk, well what if you could teel if they were lying by a device that could read their facial expression. Well i think it can and should be brought to teachers and schools to really crack doown on well, reckless teenagers.
In paragraph three the passage states, "The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Movement of one or more muscles is called an "action unit." Then Dr. Huang relies on the work of psychologists, such as Dr. Paul Eckman, creator of FACS (Facial Action Coding System). Eckman has classified six basic emotions- happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness-and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles." What this can prove is that the process of expression recognization requires no harm to the face or person and is created by the studies of not only technological professionals, but also psychological preoffesionals as well.
To conclude, it would be a whole lot nicer if teachers and all educators knew what students were really thinking when being taught. And what would be neat is if students also new the real expression teachers made and what they really felt about the students. | 2 |
c766a61 | Do you want your car to drive you in the future? or perhaps would
you rather do it your self ? Google cofounder Sergery Brin wants to have driveless cars for public -transportation taxi systems . The driveless cars would use half the fuel of today's taxis and off far more flexibility than a bus but what would happen if the car ran out of gas. No one knows how dangerous this could be for humans in everyday life . Driveless cars shouldn't be aloud on the road.
Driveless cars shouldn't be aloud on the road because of safety hazardous. One example of this is that the car could malfuction its self while driving automatically. In the article it nevers explain what the car would do in a car accident or even when damaged. It could hurt the driver and other drivers on the road. There is no such thing as a driveless car because it doesn't have the smartness and the physical view and skills as a human do. " Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over."
Driveless cars could be a better for humans to sit back and stretch and give time for the driver to eat something maybe check a text message. It could also be better if the driver doesnt realse something near by. Thats why they have
sensors that can that detects
danger and out of control skids or rollovers. The would accelerate and the car would stop. However driveless cars can't drive through workzones and around accidents. If the driver was looking for something and happen to look up and the car did not alert the driver that he/she
is in a construction work zone and is about to get hurt that would be the car and the companies fault.
Google cofounder Sergey Brin wants to have driveless cars in the futue. He wants to use them for public transportation. Driveless cars are very dangerous and could be a risk to everyday life. | 3 |
c76c83a | Driverless cars are dangerus to other people. Do the cars still run on gas or are they the new kind that run on solor engergy? What happens if something brakes in the cars GPS and takes to some place els?You can't really tell what kind of truble these cars can be.
Driverless cars are dangerus to other people.How can you know when there's some one infrunt of you like a child on a bike?Will the car stop?Probly not with out it being to late for the child. In fact the car might just go out of control and drive on the side walk running over people.
Do the cars still run on gas or are they the new kind that run on solor energy? Ok for one if the cars run on gas how smart is that.How are you going to tell the car to stop at a gas station to refill. But if it's on solor energy how long will it last with out sunlight on a ranny day?.Say in the middle of the road you run out of energy and your stuck.
What happens if the GPS brakes and takes you yo a diffrent place?You might end up on the other side of the contry or even in the ocean. And if you can't correct the car you might be suck in it for hours.I'd rather not take that chance.
In the end these cars are dangrust to everyone.Are they still good for the envierment?Can you stop the car if it starts taking you to a diffrent place? Will it really stop when needed to? You think about it and see what you think mabe you'll even get inside one of these death traps build for a family. | 3 |
c76ecf7 | FACS
Telling somebody their emotions is cool, but it is also
useful. The online classroom and classroom is a good setting to have the technology in.
It can detect if a students emotions about the subject they are learning. Having FACS is valuable in the classroom.
Being confused in the classroom sucks.
Being too shy to ask questions is very common among young people.
Having FACS will make it so kids won't have to ask for help directly.
The technology will recognize if the student is confused and could modify the lesson.
Also students may not like or understand the way a teacher is teaching.
With FACS the technology will recognize the facial expressions a student is making and will alter the way the computer is teaching the lesson to a better liking of the student.
Having this technology will improve grades in the classroom.
Having Facial Action Coding System in the classroom will greatly improve student's attidude towards school.
With no longer having to embarass yourself by asking a "dumb question" and getting taught at your liking is very valuable.
FACS is the next big technology to be in the classroom. | 2 |
c77265c | In my opinion and support from the passages reducing car use or stopping car usage all together is a great thing. It's safer, helps the environment, and saves money.
Reducing car usage to almost none makes it a lot safer for kids to run around the streets and play and for parents to not stress about their kids getting hit by a car. There's also a lot less accidents without cars on the road. Think about it, 2 cars hitting into each other both people could possibly die, but if 2 bikers hit eachother both are more than likely able to walk away from it with maybe a couple bruises and a broken bone.
What if you never had to pay for gas ever again? That'd be awesome right? All you have to do is not use your car anymore and just ride a bike, walk, skate or find other means of transportation. You'd save lots of money. In Vauban once car use was out of the picture everything was placed in walking distance and there wasn't even a need for cars any more unless you were traveling out of the country somewhere.
Also, reduciong car usage helps keep the Earth a lot cleaner and the air would have a lot less pollution in it which would also make it safer for us to breathe and healthier for us to breathe in. Congestion went down by 60 percent after 5 days of reducing car use in the Capital of France. | 3 |
c77359d | The Facial Action Coding System is a very complex computer software that is able to read your face to tell what emotions you are having. So let's say you are sad and someone wants to see what you are felling they could use this coding to see what was your emotion and the computer would tell us that you are sad. This from of technology is unpresidented their is nothing else out there like it. This Facial Action system have many uses that can be aplied to schools, art, and law enforecment. This would help teachers to be able to see what emotions that this person is having because it is important what your students are trying to learn.
In a school where you are teaching math you would like to know what a student was thinking Dr. Huang said that "when a student is becoming confused or bored," you would be able to tell with the Facial Action Coding System. This system will be able to improve what the instructor can teach us because he can see what we are thinking. These classroom computers will be able to tell us what we fell about the subject so lets say we are confused and the teacher knows that he could explain what is being taught to you in a different way so that you get it. The instruct can also see if you are bored so he can tell you to snap back into it or let the class take a little break. This new technology can give us huge advantages in schooling and other types of fields that need to be able to see what was happening.
Over all this new computer coding system will be able to give us advantages in being able to make our everyday lives better with the improvement in our education ,and the ability to see when someone is sad. This new technology is amazing and can be used in our everyday lives because it is so functional to us. The schools need a new break through in teaching and this will be able to help us improve it. This tehnology won't be cheap though because of the harsh computer software that it uses that it will need a more intense computer. This Facial Action Coding System will be a break through in education and many other fields that will help teachers and other educators. | 3 |
c77637c | Hello there, my name is Luke Bomberger, and I'm here to convince you to participate in my favorite program, the Seagoing Cowboys. To be apart of this program is an opportunity of a lifetime. It all started when the 44 nations joined together to form the UNRRA. They hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. We went everywhere, including Europe, China, Greece, and even Italy! I even have a spectacular story about me in Greece. I turned eight-teen before arriving in Greece, which ment that I could be in the military, but when they realized that I was a Seagoing Cowboy, they told me to just keep doing it for my service.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy I was even the one who made nine whole trips. The most of any Seagoing Cowboy! Being apart of this, was one of the greatest opportunities for a small-town boy like me. It was helping out on my Aunt Katie's farm had prepared me for the hardwork for the animals like by feedding and water them two or three times a day, feeding the horses bales of hay and bags of oats, and the stalls even had to be clean. One thing I can say about that part, is that it did keep me busier than ever!
There were too many fun times we had, but there were times that we didn't. On my second trip, I served as a nightwatchman, and my only job was to check on all the animals every hour. After I made one of my hourly reports, I slid down a very slick ladder. My heart was like a bullet beating so fast in my chest. I almost fell into the Atlantic Ocean. My ribs were so cracked, they said that they can't even work for the next couple of days, so I didn't.
Although there were scary parts of all the trips, there were fun parts too! I always had fun on board, especially after the animals had been unlodaded. We would play baseball, volleyball, table-tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games all helped pass the time. It really opened up the world for me, and I am grateful for the opportunity. | 4 |
c77ce2b | The essay is about car polution and getting ride of car polution. People have been selling their cars to have a "car free town" and other countries wanted to try this "experiment out" in their countries.
Getting rid of cars can help the Economy with polution. It also could help people save money on gas and use that money for something else. And getting rid of cars can help countries with polution problems. Could also put a stop to the Polution comeing out of a cars exshuast pipe. And alot of the european countries has polution named "
Smog
". Could also stop crashes and Traffic jams. And many other countries are going to have a week or a day without cars just too reduce the polution of the world. Could help save us and plant life for us to survive and breath healthy. Could also Help people get more inspired to go out and ride a bike more or walk to be a bit more healthier. And people arnt driveing as much in "2005" People are rideing bikes going outside and walking. They want people rideing bikes more. They started to create alot of bike paths to place people work or stores to go too. Driving went down by 23 percent in 2001 and 2009 that is good to help stop polutin in our world... Well its a start to it. With out cars we probably be more safer in the world. The world will be a lot healthier instead of takeing the car everywhere you go. | 2 |
c77e108 | Driving can be a huge hassle. Having to spend money on gas, making sure to not go over the speed limit, and being a safe driver at all times to avoid any accident. There are many advantages to limiting car usage. Such as helping out our economy and reducing pollution, having alternative ways to get places, and not spending money on a car. In not driving you would be the one to benefit from it.
Living in a world that constantly looked beautiful and being able to breath in clean air would be a wonderful thing. We could all make this happen by not driving so often or at all. Cars let out gases that ruin our air. Excessive driving with all the fumes coming out damages our air. Not driving can make a remendous difference. In "Paris bans driving due to smog" according to Duffer in paragraph 5 he described, "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog." After banning driving, France managed to make a stunning change.
Transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions, just behind power plants. There are many alternative ways to get places. Such as riding a bus, walking, biking, and so much more. Public transportation is nothing to be afraid of. Doing so helps our community. In the passage "In German Suburb, Life Goes on Without Cars" according to Rosenthal in paragraph 7 he suggests, "'All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change,' said David Goldberg, and official of transportation for America, a fast-growing coalition of hundreds of groups in the United States . . . who are promoting new communities that are less dependent on cars."
Spending money on a car takes big bucks. There are an abundant amount of other alternatives than spending money on a car that damages the ozone. There are other ways to put your money into good use than spending it on a car. The amount of people wanting to do this could lead to negative implications for the car industry. In "The End of Car Culture" according to the author in paragraph 6 she implies, "Companies like Ford and Mercedes are already rebranding themselves "mobility" companies with a broader product range beyond the personal vehicle."
In conclusion, there are many advantages of limiting car usage. Help not just your community, but the world. Every little thing matters, no matter how miniscule your action is. Not driving helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions, saves a big part of your money, and you have alternative options for transportation. Think of the ways you will be helping our world. | 4 |
c781ab6 | Within countries around the world people are coming together, whether it be the polititians or the citizens, they are all beginning to put an end to the use of cars on a daily bases. In Germany there is a suburban city where the majority of its' streets are relatively free of cars and the residents of this "car-free" city seem quite content. Germany isn't alone in wanting to rid the world of cars along with the pollution and stress it brings, Paris, France is another of the handful of places that would prefer to begin an anti-car revolution. There are days in Paris that, when the smog is too much to bare and the air is hardly breathable, they are forced to enforce a partial driving ban. After about a week the air was noticably cleaner. While Vauban, Germany and Paris, France have joined the fight in kicking cars to the curb in their own particular ways, three cities in Colombia have also decided to become a member of the ever growing "car-free" city club by starting a program that sponsers a car-free day once a year.
Taking a closer look at the suburban city of Vauban, Germany, it is easy to see the reason as to why the country would create a city free from cars along with parking spaces. When thinking of suburban cities most people create a mental image of large buildings spread far apart from public homes or neighborhoods with long winding roads and intersections packed with automobiles. Considering most of the popular suburban cities throughout the world match this description, it is not completley inaccurate, but most people fail to also imagine the abundancy of smog and other forms of pollution that invade the cities because of the gaseous fumes released by cars and other vehicles. Vauban has greatly decreased the amount of air pollution in their city by simply eliminating the amount of automobiles out on the roadways. According to the article titled "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal in paragragh 5, cars are the cause for up to twelve percent of greenhouse gases emersed into the air in Europe while in some areas of the United States the amount of gases released into the air is around fifty percent. By eliminating the amount of cars used in Vauban, Germany they are creating friendly air for its' residents to breathe. Going back to the image most people in the world assume a suburb would look like, winding roads seem to take up the majority of space between stores and residential homes. In Vauban they have reconstructed the roadways and car garages into walkways and new stores so the residents have more access to the places they need to be. The elimination of the amount of roads and highways have helped Vauban to also put forth more money into other ways of transportations as opposed to using the majority of money on the contructions of highways and such. When reading the article "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal in paragragh 9 it states that in most of the previous bills passed has claimed that nearly eighty percent of appropriations have gone to highways while an estimated amount of twenty percent has gone to other forms of transportation.
Next on the list of cities that are attempting to put an end to car use would be Paris, France. Within Paris there are gorgeous sights to see and the majority of them could be seen and reached by a simple bike ride and there is really no need to fill the air with more pollution with an unnessasary car. This is what most of the people in charge of Paris believe which is why they created partial driving bans. The smog within Paris, France can, at times, rival even the amount of air pollution in Beijing, China which is infamous for being the most polluted cities in the entire world as was said in the article titled "Paris Bans Driving Due To Smog" by Robert Duffer in paragragh 14. While Paris officials wanted to completley eradicate driving completley so that the smog would disappear, they knew that with the millions of drivers in Paris that it could not be completley banned all at once. To help illiminate the smog and still keep from having too many issues with its' citizens, Paris decided to make it so that one day the drivers with even numbered license plates would not be permitted to drive their vehicles and the next day only drivers with odd numbered license plates were banned from driving. They continued this pattern for a week. Of course, there were some people who decided to drive their cars whether or not it was banned, so the officials came to the conclusion that anyone who broke the partial banning rule would have to suffer a twenty two euro fine. According to the article titled "Paris Bans Driving Due To Smog" by Robert Duffer in paragragh 12, nearly four thousand drivers were fined throughout that week. Regardless of the people who went against this rule sixty percent of congestion was illiminated in Paris after that week.
After Paris on the countdown of cities to help the cause of limiting car usage comes Bogota, Colombia. In this heated city nearly seven million people populate, they have a program where one day out of every year that cars are completley banned from use. Everyone in the population participates by hiking, biking, skating, or taking buses wherever they want to go according to the article "Car-Free Day Is Spinning Into A Big hit In Bogota" by Andrew Selskey in paragragh 20. By this city promoting the use of buses, taxis, and other forms of transportations they're reducing smog and the amount of traffic jams and accidents throughout their city. After three years of this day being made two other Colombian cities have joined in to participate. The cities being Cali and Valledupar, Colombia. The day without cars was part of an improvement plan that began in Bogota in the mid-1990s according to the article titled "Car-Free Day Is Spinning Into a Big Hit In Bogota" by Andrew Selsky in paragrapgh 27. By participating in this day, the people of Bogota have seen the construction of one hundred and eighteen miles of bicyce paths and added parks and sports centers all over the city.
Within the United States of America there are thousands upon thousands of cars used every day, but this may not last forever. Across the span of around eight years the amount of young people driving and obtaining their licenses has drastically decreased according to the article "The End Of Car Culture" by Elisabeth Rosenthal in paragraph 32. More people are taking buses or taxis or simply walking or biking to their destinations because with the growth in population over the last few years the traffic jams are unbearable and seem to take more time then to simply bike to work or school. If a car is used and is needed than most people in America seem to take to car-pooling with a friend or neighbor which in turn helps to decrease the amount of air pollution in the country. | 5 |
c783ce5 | The auther suggeats that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despire how dangers it's on the present. The auther suggest stadying venus becauses is worthy,pursuit and dangers.evenggely is a star and it call venus or for his nickname is misleading. The since sctually say venus is a planet in our solar system ,Venus is earty to see it from the distart by a safe vantage. It had proved a very challenging place to examine more closely. Maybe this issure explains why not a single spaces had touche down on Venus is more then thee decades of numerous
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In my conclusion;venus is one of the humans curiosity will able to stady by lead used into many equally intimidat endeavors. Venus and the earth our travel and beyond that shoud not be limite or dangers,doubts of imagination and innovation. | 1 |
c7871eb | Well when we 1st hear about the Electoral College we think it's some college where students go who drive BMW's, Audi's, Nissian GTR's, Nissan Skylines,Honda Civic SI's,Toyota Supras,Chevy HHR SS,Ford Focus RS,Subaru STI's,etc. But is it really a college like that? No unfortunately not as a matter a fact it's not even a college to physical go to if you thought it was a college you can physical go to then you are the biggest chunk that ever stepped foot on this earth. According to paragraph 1 it says " The Electoral College is a Process not a place the founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens." So when you hear that it's not a place and its a process yay! we're learning.
But let me stop you right there happy readers who are learning, that's not the question so wait heres the part when you feel like the biggest chunk again... the question is Does The Electoral College Work? Aha see you thought you won the 4v4 but really it's just getting started. Like how can you win if you don't know anything about the process college well thank godness im here because im gonna educate you goats. According to paragraph 2 "The Electoral college process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice president,and the counting of the electoral votes by congress". So what i think it's saying is that this is how like our wonderful presidents get elected. this is the voting system that elects vice pres,pres,meeting the to runners and electors thats the electoral college in a nut shell. But you guys are still scrubs you need to know a little more before we can answer this question.
Actually no we don't need to learn a little bit more you guys aren't chunks you are Pros at this we all are you know why? So let me tell you why our founding fathers started this in 1769's or something like that but ever since they made this system it's been going on until 2015! so the answer to that question would be yes it does work because it gives the people a right to choose who they want and the president doesn't get to much power and without this system we wouldn't have any presidents you know what i mean.
- Clown | 1 |
c7930e4 | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" should there be driverless cars? There are a lot of negative and postive things about this movement. My opion on driverless cars is that sometimes it could be good and sometimes is could be bad like for an example. when your very tired and you need to go somewhere your car can take you were you need to go without you having to drive it. If you are ever in a hurry your car can drive you without you being late.
Now for my opinion on the bad things about driverless cars. Driverless cars are also bad because you could be texting and you would'nt here your alert that the car gives you when it can drive at that certain part in time and you end up crashing into something or hurting someone. This means a human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires.
I think that driverless car would be a good experiment because we would be able to see who could handle it and who can't handle it. Some people might think that they can handle it and they go and bye a driverless car and go to start it and dont no what to do but the other half would no what to do right off bat. I also think that the car would be more expensive than any car that has ever been made because if what it does this car is basically the future.
But why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver half of the time? Well i guess ill tell you why. Most of the people think that it would be fun sometimes because not often you get to drive a driverless car its interesting in my opinion. But in a way the car system is really a saftey system if you pay attention to what all that you are doing but if you don't it could be hazert.
Most of the driving laws focus on keeping people safe but what is you arent the one who crashed who's to blam? Traffic laws will even change new laws will need to be reinforced. If you crash into someone who also has a driverless car who crashed into who. | 3 |
c797511 | The idea of driverless cars has been an idea for many years. Now it's actually happening, companies are starting to test cars like this for near years usage. I think cars should be driverless because it helps people save money, the cars are safer, and they're modern.
Driverless cars help people save money by people not having to buy cars. The passage states in the first paragraph that, "Google cofounder Sergey Brin, envisions a future with a public transportation system with driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system." If people just call the taxi service they won't have the need for a car, so they'll save a bunch of money. With that buses and taxis would use have the fuel they use today, so it could also help with pollution. Also with the taxi system people can be picked up quicker than with taxi services we have today, so people can get to their jobs faster or anywhere.
With driverless cars they're also safer than normal driving cars. The passage mentions an idea of having cameras on the driver to make sure they're alert and paying attention. The car itself has the power to control brake when needed and reduce or increase power from the engine, the car is better at response and control than a human driver alone. There is still the possible mishap of having an accident, but the accident could either be the driver or the car's fault. When the car knows of construction work or too much traffic about to happen the car alerts the driver to start driving, so the car can avoid any accidents happening on its part.
The driverless car is so much more modern than the normal driving car of today. Modernizing cars started in the 1980's, automakers created the antilock brakes and now those have grown to something bigger;the wheels of today detect out-of-control skids or rollovers. The car also tells the driver when to drive for example, GM has developed seats that vibrated to tell the driver to take a hold of the wheel. What's truly so modern about driverless cars is cameras on the rear wheel, rearview mirror, also rotating sensor on the roof, GPS reciever, and inertial motion sensor. All those features are being tested on a Toyota Prius, but the best feature of all is the 3-D model of the surrounding around the car to show the driver what their surroundings are.
I'm personally for driverless cars because they help save money, they're safer, and they're modern. Of course there is still things to work on the cars and some legalizing to be done for states. Driverless cars are the thing of the near future that's for sure. | 3 |
c79938a | In the modern days so much technology is being developed. Now google is starting to make driverless cars. Many people are amazed with the idea of a driverless cars. But to me the idea of driverless cars are a scary thing. The cars still need a human to be able to controll the car when the computer can not. Like when there is an accident a human still need to be able to opperate the car in a safley manor. Yes the cars alert you when you must take the wheel, but at the same time i feel like they shouldnt be called driverless cars if they are not completley driverless. Just like if a human was under the influence of drugs or liquor they wouldn't be able to fully opperate the car. This is why I think we shouldn't have driverless cars unless they are actually 100 percent driverless. If anything I woild take an Uber to where i need to go or I would take the city bus. | 2 |
c7a66e5 | In the article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author, starts by talking about how Venus is part of our solar system and some facts about the planet. They try to support thier ideas on studying Venus as a worthy pursuit and dangers by first listing the similarities it has with our earth and then transitions toward thier topic. The author explains very well, many times by using examples and facts to support their idea about how Venus is a worthy pursuit in the scinece field, but at the same time they also counter with the many dangers that are eminent.
First, the author describes the dangers with facts and statistics about Venus and the amosphere and how dangerous and harmful it is. Like in paragraph three, they stated "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide" Which readers know is impossible for humans to survive under. Then they talk about the temperatures which is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. The author does a really good job at then comparing the temperature on Venus with the temperature on earth by telling us that is is over 90 times greater than what is experienced on earth. Comparing is an effect way of making readers understand the difference and especially when it shows the numbers written all out. Then, they continue to support thier cause by talking about frequent natural disaster that cause havoc which some already excist on earth. This makes Venus looks so much more harmful and uninhabitable than it already did.
Later in the passage, they transition to the benefits of studying about Venus and it is a somewhat smooth transition since the aurthor has already set up thier claim in paragraph two by stating plenty of similarities between the earth and Venus so readers can get and understanding of Venus. So in paragraph four, when the author entered, it was very smooth with a question on why the scientists even bothered and they countered by answering the question which helped support the authors overall claim. Another thing that shows how well the author has supported the idea of Venus worth studying is they list more similarities like in paragraph four they talk about how Venus had similar features like "valleys, mountains, and craters." This gave readers a sense of imagery and later supports the imagery and landscape by giving a reason of why that is important like it is out nearest option for travel. This make the author sound much more credible.
Finally, in the article, the author supports both of thier ideas by talking about NASA and thier ideas on the space travel. Paragraph five and six help explain why traveling to Venus is so hard, but still so worthwhile. They state, that it is diffcult by listing the extreme conditions even if they were to get close and still survive. Then in paragraph six they list the risks and the sample and different pictures they could have taken but the dangers were too high. This helps show readers the real limit and possiblity at the same time.
Therfore, the author throughly explains thier idea and supported it very well with different techniques and different ways of explanation. The author has already done very well in adressing how traveling to Venus had its advantages but getting there and actually surviving the dangers is very hard. They did very well in explaining the dangers with facts and statistics. Then later also explained throughly with claims and backup information. This shows that this author was very prepared and supported thier idea exquisitely. | 5 |
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