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c7a806f | It's FACTS That We Don't Need FACS
Being in school brings out a mix of emotions in every student. Wether the student is stressed, happy, or sad depends on many different variables. A student can feel these emotions because of a situation at home, a problem with a friend, and obviously because of the lessons or schoolwork going on in class. Can a machine truly and effectively montior these emotions? Is a machine like this really needed in the current education system? It's not, The use of the Facial Action Coding System to read the emotional expressions of students in a calssroom is not valuable.
First of all, human emotions are complex. The article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" gave us several examples of muscles in the human face that were used when expressing emotion. A couple examples of these are the "frontalis pars lateralis," and the "orbicularis oris." Although these muscles and the parts of the face they move are an important part of dictating emotion, that's not all there is to understanding emotion. Body language is a massive part of emotion. The FACS may register a happy smile, but it won't see slouching shoulders. The text even states that, "Each expression is compared against a neutral face (showing no emotion.)" This means the FACS reads a blank expression as showing no emotion. What if someone with a person with a blank expression is conveying emotion through body language? Being a student and teenager, body language is a huge part of communication. With the FACS not being able to read body language, that's already a giant hole in its value.
Next, how useful would this technology be outside of an elementary school setting? The answer is absolutely not useful. In elementary school the teacher caters to each students' needs. They're able to do so because you have the same 20 to 30 kids every minute of every day for 180 schools days. But, in middle school and high school students have seven to eight different teachers throughout the day. Middle and high school teachers don't have the one on one time to cater to their students. As cold as it sounds, middle and high school teachers simply might not even care about their students feelings. At least not to the degree an elementary teacher would. Teachers in the upper levels have a strict set of standards that they need to teach. Students must then master those standards to pass the class. There isn't enough time for an upper level teacher to care about their students' emotions.
Finally, students are kids. Kids experience a plethora of emotions throughout the day. Even though, "The facial expressions for each emotion are unviersal," what would one use the information gathered from FACS for? Dr. Huang believes that, "it [FACS] could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." The fact that the text states that FACS is just as effective as a human teacher completely renders itself useless. If Dr. Haung, the software engineer of FACS, believes that this machine performs on an equal level to a human, there is absolutely no need for the FACS. As previously mentioned, upper level teachers do not have the time to modify their lesson plans due to their students emotions. That fact alone removes the need for the FACS.
In conclusion, the use of FACS is not valuable to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom. The FACS does not have a place in the current education sytem. With evidence from the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" it is clear that the FACS is only on the same level of reading emotions as, "an effective teacher." This renders the FACS not only as useless to students in a classroom, but also as a likely massively more expensive alternative to human teachers. | 6 |
c7a8763 | In " The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy oursuit despite the dangers it represents. The author gives many supporting details to his claim. He claims that there are dangers in exploring Venus as a whole, yet he also states that it would have a harsh impact on humans if scientists where sent to Venus also. He also claims that scientists should send mechanical computers due to the lack of protection the current technology has.
According to paragraph 3, states, "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth; such environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the seepest parts of our oceans and would liquify many metals." This piece of text by the author states how dangerous exploring Venus could be. He starts by stating that humans encounters on Venus would be extremely dangerous because of how dangerous Venus could be. He next gives an example on how if humans sended a submarine that could hold the preasure from the depest of the oceans, in Venus, the submarine would be completely destroyed and melted.
According to paragraph 5, states, " The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus." This piece of text by the author shows how NASA has an idea on how to send scientist to Venus without some problems. NASA states that they can send scientist by a blimp-like vehicle hovering over several miles over the ground yet they would have some dicculty solving the atmosphere problem. This offers another challenge to how humans are able to explore Venus.
In conclusion, the author states that there is many challenges in discovering Venus. Yet he gives many examples on how humans or machines could be able to discover Venus. With these exmaples he is able to state, there would be many other challenges that humans or the robots would have to encouter. These challenges include the heat and preasure of Venus. Also, the carbon dioxide atmosphere sorrounding Venus as a whole. | 3 |
c7aa884 | The article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" the author talks about how in the future there is going to be cars that are operated by a computer. I am against the development of these cars. The reason I am against it because depending on a computer isn't the smartest thing to do.
As I said in the introduction depending on a comupter isn't the brightest thing to do because a computer can fail. The reason I said "fail" was because it can be hacked and the system can shutdown. One of the reasons it fails is by hacking because anymore that has the capacity and resorces to hack a computer can hack into it easily. An example is how people around the world try to hack our high secerity system to get secret files that only the government has use of. People can hack into the system a cause the car to go out of control of someone they dislike which cause an accident. The second reason the system of the computer can fail at any time. An example is if the car is in motion the car can stop while you are in the highways which can cause a serious accident. Driving a driverless car can cause a debate of whos fault the accident could be like in article it said "If technonlogy fails and someone is injuried, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer".
I disagree with driverless cars. Since it can cause many problems such as accidents,debates to have them or not, and the technology can fail in many ways. An example is the system shutting down and hacking. When people buy this car in the future it s will cause so much damage which will hurt our society and people will start losing trust on the technology which effects the companies. | 3 |
c7b6811 | After reading the "Driverless Cars Are Coming" I began to have mixed feelings about self driving cars. As a child I always dreamed about having a car that could drive itself. Just because thats all I saw in movies while I grew up. That gave me an Idea of how cool it would be having a self driving car. Now that I've read about the negative aspects of self driving cars, I have a whole different point of view about it. Let me tell you about it.
Though it would be fascinating to own or see a car that could drive it self; you have to think of the bad out comes of it too.There are many quotes they say
things like " don't let a machine do a mans work". Those who made quotes like that must had a good reason for it. Having a car that drives itself is like letting a computer control you around on the roads, the bad thing about that is if anything bad was to happen you are responsible for what happens.
Even though Google has made cars that are able to controll themselves ever since 2009, without a crash they aren't truely driving themselves. Those cars alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents. That shows how much little machine can do without a humans control. For example, if a person was to own a car that drives itself and got in a car accident they would be the one paying the big bills not the car nor the company that made the car.
Those are reasons why I believe self driving cars should be aloud on the roads. I also learned that just because something looks "cool" or "fascinating in a movie its not always great or safe to have. Not saying car companies should stop trying to build cars that drive themselves, but they should be trying to figure out a way to prevent accidents. | 3 |
c7b6de6 | Don't you want to help someone and wake up in the morning feeling good because you know that you saved lifes. Or seeing all different
parts of the world. Or maybe you can meet new people and make more friends. You can do that by joining the Seagoing Cowboys program. You will have a blast meeting new peole and making new friends.
It dosen't matter were you are you can always have something fun to do. You can take a gondla ride in Venice, Ital, a city with streets of water. Or you can tour an excavated castle in Crete and marveled ath the Panama Canal on your way to china. But thats not the most important thing to do. The most important thing to do is help and save peoples lives. You can only do that when you are finished or taking a break. You can always have fun on the ship too. Like if you finished taking the animals to their countries you can play games like baseball, and volleyball games. Or table-tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and also games.
Once you start the Seagoing Cowboys program you can't stop. You can have all sorts of different dutties on the ship. There is something for every one. You better be perpared because you can see some really scary things. Like for example, some countries just finished with their wars so they can look really bad. But you can always help thoose people in all sorts of ways. But most of all is that you help and they know you care. So don't you want to help people and save lives. If you do you can always join the Seagoing Cowboys program.
Don't you want to join and have the time of your life today. The Seagoing Cowboys program is very important to the people. They will be truly grateful of what you did or what you will do. They need your help and they need it bad. why would'nt you want to join its really fun and you get to see the real world. You will really care about the people and they will really care about you. So don't you want to come sign up today and have the time of your life. they will really thank you and I bet you will thank them too. | 3 |
c7b9371 | Dear Senator,
The Electoral College should not be the deciding vote for the president of the United States of America. Every popular vote of the people should be counted towards deciding the next president. If America is a democracy and in a democracy people pick the leader then every citizen's vote should count, not just the majority.
First things first, only a few states have taken action towards my claim. Those being Maine and Nebraska. These states have made a "proportional representation", which is unlike the "winner take all" that the other 48 states have adopted. The text states "Most states have a winner take all method system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate" (What Is the Electoral College?7).This portrays that with the "winner take all" method various amounts of U.S. citizen votes have gone unaccounted for.
Multiple occasions have dimmed the surface of our elections where their voices aren't heard. The author says "faithless electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please" (Plumer 11). Going into this further, that means that one person can disagree with hundreds of people's votes for his own vote of the opposite party. Also, if a tie was to occur int the total electoral votes then the outcome would be put into the hands of the House of Representitives. If the people were to vote in the first place this occurance would have never came close.
On the other hand, it is much harder to calculate the total number of the popular vote being that there are millions of people voting. It is much easier to count and not dispute over a hundred or so votes than a million. But, having people know that their vote doesn't make it to actually voting for the president makes them not as ethuisiastic about voting. The text says "no voter's vote swings an election"(Posner 23). This explains why only about one half of eligible American voters voted.
In conclusion, America is a democracy, which means people elect the president, not a elector but the people. The author states "The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational." (Plumer 14). This further explains that electors cannot make decisions without being biased toward their party. Also portraying well, the feelings of many Americans who feel the same way. | 4 |
c7bc7d4 | This is the 21st century and technology is developing. The future cars and hoverboards may just be around the corner. Dr. Huang and his colleague have developed a new way for computers to communicate with humans. They can now read our face expressions.This is great because we can use it in our everyday lives. We can use it to tell how are friends and family are really doing, If a student understands what is going on in the classroom or not, and for video games.
Family and friends are something that is very close to us and we are always trying to look out for them. Sometimes we just can't figure out what is wrong with them or how they are feeling. Now the computer can help us figure out what is wrong. It would be much easier to just have a computer tell you how they are because of their face expressions then to have a hard time figuring out what is exactly wrong with your friend or family.
This computer can also be used in a classroom. Say a teacher is teahcing the class something new. There is always a kid that doesn't understand but doesn't wnat to say anything because they might get made fun of. Instead, they just sit there and try to undertsand but never do. That's where the computer comes in. The computer would be able to read the student's facial expressions and would be able to change the way that the lesson is being teached so that hte student would be able to understand exactly what is going on.
This computer could also be used for video games. With this computer, you could make the video game expressions more realistic. This would be amazing to do because it makes the game look like it is happening in real life. Video games have came a long way in history and they are still developing. This would be a huge step for video games and I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't be the last.
So because of you being able to tell how your family and friends are doing, and because it can help with students being confused in the classroom and because it would help develope video games, the computer should be able to read our facial expressions. | 3 |
c7c591e | In 1976, a NASA Mars Globe surveyor called Viking 1 took a picture of an area on Mars that looked like a face. Although some believe the Face was created by aliens, I believe it is a natural landform because the pictures provide visual evidence, it would prove there is life on other planets, and it would bring in money for NASA.
NASA has taken 3 pictures. The first one taken in 1976 looked most like a face, but NASA said that it was the planet's "unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." A second picture was taken on April 5, 1998 that was ten times sharper than the original picture taken by Viking 1. Web surfers were dissapointed to see a natural landform. The unsatisfied viewers claimed that the whispy clouds hid the alien markings on the Face. April 8, 2001, on a cloudless summer day, they took a picture with each pixel spanning 1.56 meters compared to the previous 43 meters per pixel. The new picture revealed exactly what NASA claimed the Face to be, a mesa.
The discovery of life outside of Earth would be exciting. It would provide a chance to exchange scientific knowlege and possibly food or animals. It could also reveal new technologies that could put the world years further than it would be without this help. This excange could change both planets for the better and improve the lives of all species. NASA wouldn't pass up this chance to better the planet.
Some conspiracy theorists may claim, "The Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars- evidence that NASA wold rather hide." This is untrue because the defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization because it would bring in more money. This could be spent on new technology that could lead to new discoverys in space.
This proves that the Face on Mars was not caused by aliens. It is a natural landform that is claimed to look like the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, which is about the same height as the Face on Mars. If an alien civilazation were discovered, though, we would not pass up the opportunity to change both our world and the aliens' world for the better. | 4 |
c7cbcd3 | Dear Senator,
I feel that we should change using the Electoral college. The popular vote is much more effective. Using the popular vote to decide who becomes president would show who the citizens of the united states want. The popular vote shows what each state has voted for, using the Electoral college takes the right away for the people being able to vote for the president that they favor. Instead of using what the people voted for they come together to chose the candidate they predict would be the best and do the most for the country and that's not fair. If voting is important to this country then congress should understand that when the poeple vote for something everyone wants it to be their decisions that makes one of the two canidates become president not who the Electoral college believes would be best. If we could overcome the debate between what process works better more people might vote.
Although some citizens believe that the Electoral college is a good idea. I feel that if they compared not having the electoral college and only using the popular vote durning voting periods they would feel they system is more effisent. One example is big states could make a tremdous impact on which canidate wins the electon. These states have more people with more opinions that should be used durning the time of the electon for the president.
Some of the problems with the Electoral college is not only do voters not vote for their president, Back in 1960 " The Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Deomcratic electors with new electors who opposed John F. Kennedy ( So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy)". "In that same vein, faithless electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please" That is not what we are promised as a country. It states that the electoral college is suppose to cast a vote on what their state wants and what their state has chosen. That year the right to do so was taken away. Voting is a serious matter. Popular vote would clearifiy what each states popular favor is, who they want, and which candidate their vote was to be casted for.
I hope with all the information that I have just provided you with above will help to show you that the popular vote isn't only what most people want it's also the better choice. | 4 |
c7cf4b9 | Our Earth is having a huge change by contamination, gloval warm,etc. Scientists are thinking further by searching life in other planets, this project wolud be a great idea, but this take a lt of time of investigations and stuff like that.
The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents, because we can have another planet in where in which we can stand and life there, astronomers are facinated by venus, according to the paragraph 4 it says " It may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system... Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth", we can conclude that they were talking about finding space to stay there.
The reasons why we junt can go there and set
a new planet is, because of the conditions right there. In paragraph 3 the autor states one of the most significant reasons, it says "Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun... Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface", this the dangerous problem in this project. The planet's surface temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than
what experience on our own planet.
Scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risk. According to paragraph 6 it says " Many researches are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaninfully to our knoledge of Venus" this paragraph let us know that they are working to reach there and looking to survive more time.
Well, this project can change the entire world and our lifes, because if there are life, we must hacve the opportunity to be there or people who want to be in Venus could be. We need more time to improve our experiments and this could be a grat and amazing change. | 3 |
c7d73a4 | You should become a Seagoing Cowboy, like in the article "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" for many reasons. One reason, is that you get to help animals and people after WWII according to the text, "World War II was over in Europe, and many countries were left in ruins. To help these countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more,"(2). You get to transport animals to new areas to graze. You'd be able to help people get out of poverty.
You could also get to see places you don't usualy see. For example, "Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special,' he says. 'So was taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water.' Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete"(5). Most people would never see those places in a lifetime.
Speaking of lifetimes, most people who live average lives will probably never get a chance to do this. "The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small town boy,"(5). After the job, you may never do it again.
While riding the boat, you still get time for fun activities like "Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time."(8) So, you won't be completely bored while riding to the next area.
Luke(the charicter from the story) also said that "being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure 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 their needs.' And that awareness stayed with him,"(9) So over all, you get to make memories of the places you've been, and help people and animals in need, better understanding the world around you. | 3 |
c7d7af9 | Imagine driving on your new car that can drive itself with the help of your "assistance" only at certain times. While you are paying attention to the road your daughter or son may need your help with spilled drink, unlocking a device, or even a "quick" glance at them. You gave the automatic driving system your trust just for a few seconds, but in those few seconds anything can happen; an acciedent can occure while your back is turned. Now with this example the people should think twice before buying a driverless car.
Self driving cars seem to be "the future" for cars, though many people do not agree with self driving cars. There is one big variable for these types of cars such as public safety. The first priority for the driverless cars should be for public safety, can people actually count on the many sensors and cameras attached to a car? As of today nothing is perfect, just like the sensors and cameras, there will be some type of system error at a point in time. After the accident, as stated from paragraph 9, "who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer"? The first accident will cause the public to go againts the public and the company will lose its only consumer.
Cars that can drive on their own can be very exciting. Since 2009 Google has started a project of a driverless car. As stated on the second paragraph, "Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash..." A big question comes along next to these big projects such as, what will the car do if it comes along an accident or a road construction? Google's answer to this is " they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues." Driverless cars can do many things a normal car can't do.
The driverless car that Google had tested is just a single individual that was properly observed and was better taken care of. For the half million miles it had driven, consider the half million people that might drive these cars compared to one test. From one to half a million is half a million more risks that Google had invented. Even the company knows that a car is not a car without the driver. The driverless car still needs a driver so that the car an alert the driver when needed. Now what if the driver was not alerted fast enough or not alerted at all do to a malnfuntion? There are many flaws about the "future cars" that manufacturers can not control.
Now if the driver had just stopped at a rest stop or the side of the road to see what the child needed at the back of the car, the whole family would not have to risk their lives because of the driver trusting a computer for just a second. Think twice before buying a driverless car, because nothing is perfect in the world. | 4 |
c7d948c | In this passage "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author gives alot of reasonable reasons why we should and should not travel to venus. I like this project that the scientist are doing because it gives us a little bit of a thought of what would life be on another planet, but also how are we supposed to know what would life be on another planet if NASA cant even get close enough to know how the ground is even with it being 700 degrees how would us on earth suvive just floating around a planet. Throughout this passage their are alot of useful resourses 1940 computers etc. but their are resourses that the author didnt even mentin that NASA could use to get a better look at Venus such as a telescope. The author states that some call Venus "Earth's Twin" by size and and density and also states that Vesus used to or still does have water on it just like earth itself. NASA and the scientist should continue to do research on Venus and should send humans up there to do more that has been done. | 1 |
c7dd9b0 | In paragraph 2 the author states that all the trips to the planet have been unmaned for a good reason the spacecraft didnt last longer than 3 hours thats why it dangerous and hard for us to study the planet. The planet woud be fun to study but almost imposible the temperatures are over 800 degrees fahrenheit that would be imposible for anything to survive on the planet that meaning humans. Venuses atmosphere is also way to dangerous for us to even breath in. The planet is so attracting to NASA because the planet is related in shape in form they belive it could have had oceans and could have supported some form of life. The earth is are closes planet and it know as earths twin. NASA claims that a trip to venus would be possible, hard but survivable. The problem is with the plantes surface being so hot that they would not be able to take samples of rock or gases so what would be the point. They are working on something that would make the spacecraftes last longer in these conditions so they could retrive samples. They have some projects in the works that have lasted 3 weeks in such conditions. the trip to venus with humans going could happen but i dont think it will anytime soon. It could be possible but we will have to wait to find out. | 2 |
c7e3380 | When I participated in the Seagoing Cowboys program I was allowed to explore and learn about new things. This program is an opportunity of a lifetime, here are the reasons why I think you should take this wonderful opportunity of a lifetime.
Taking this opportuniy had opened up a whole new world for me. I think you should join because you get to see unbelieveable historic buildings, sculptures, and you even get to visit old towns that have water for roads! Another reason that I thought was cool was to help other people in need and even only if you help one person you feel like a hero, this is the whole point of this program. You also get some free time, you do not have to work 24-7, for example " The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the emptyholds where animals had been housed. Table-tennis tornaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games had also helped pass the time." The learning of the awareness also opens up opportunities to host and run facilities about this issue of people in need.
I think these are some of the reasons why other people should join the Seagoing Cowboy program. You can learn a lot from this program. I think you should sign up for this program it would change your life just like it did mine. | 2 |
c7e42ce | My thoughts on the google driverless car is simple. Once they are truly able to be autonomus and safe then you can put them out on the streets. So as of right now I think that they should not be on the streets. Stating my opinion and further explain I think that they will never get to a point full reliablity.
But once they are affordable for the average person. I know that people will but them like hot cakes. But what happens when an coustomer that has a self driving car hits a person without a self driving car; the car company and every one involved in the accident will go to court and fight. The car company will come out on top though; the big name car company will fight so hard that they will get a bill passed that bans all humans from driving!
This is also a reason that I am not for driverless cars. I dont want to be the person that is taken to the supreme court and goes against a big name car company, I dont wish that upon any one. I feel as If 90% is not enough for a car to be in charge. The car can not go through enough simulations to know how to travel through white out conditions, or even dangerous off road terrains. When you truly think about the cost and the time to get these on the road its not worth it. I would compare this to texting and driving how many teenagers had to die before we realised it was a problem?
How many will have to die for this inovation. We are not ready for this technology yet... Or maybe we are to prepared for this.
In this society hackers are becoming more and more dangerous. I know these autonomus cars will have to have google maps or be connceted to some kind of network. What happens when cars start getting hacked and maipulated what do we do about? What kind of insurance would be needed and how expensive would it be?
Even though I am against this, I still reconginze that there could be positives to this. Every day driving tasks would be handled in a fluid and orgainzed manor. When you are in the car you could truly connect with the people inside. Long trips would turn into exiting family times. There would be no need for all seats of a car facing forward.
Now refelecting on what I wrote I have realised that there is more that just safety in Inovative decisions. You have to consider what the majority of the people want. I know that many people will like this idea. My generation would be all over this, we are just a bunch of lazy tech heads. I think that self driving cars will connect with many people. Many people exept for me. | 3 |
c7e56eb | In a big city or a rual area all you see are cars flying past you at high speeds and releasing their gas fumes into the atmosphere. Having no cars is a great solution to having no traffic and less polution. Without cars our air would be fresh and it wouldnt take as long to get from place to place.
Although many people have cars and drive them regularly it is not always the best choice. Having no cars would be a drastic change to society but it would also be a major change in the way we travel and breathe in air. In Vauban, Germany the residents have gave up on cars. The streets are car free. "As a result, 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move there". This piece from the text tells us that hardly any one is driving a car their. One of the residents says "When I had a car I was always tense. Im much happier this way" this lets us no that without a car the resident is much happier and is not tense. Car release greenhouse gas emissions from there tailpipes. In the article "In German suburb, life goes on without cars" it says that "passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States". That is insane to think that much is released, but its happening daily from everyday car users. The environmental agency is trying to promote car reduced communities. Polution got so bad in Paris that they had to enforce a partial driving ban. After enforcing this the texts says " congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog". So limiting their drving in Paris reduced the smog. It is not always the best choiceto drive all the time exspecially if you job or social event your going to isn't far. In "The end of car culture" it says " organize your summer jobs and social life around where you can walk or take public transportation or car-pool". By doin those things it will reduced smog and gases getting into the air.
By not having any cars it would reduce polution, give us safer air to breathe, and it would be easier to get from place to place with any traffic. Cars release tons of gases and polute the air. WIthout cars it would reduce that problem. With less cars on the road and mostly public transportation it would be easy to get around instead of getting caught up in traffic. So not having cars wouldn't be such a bad thing after all. | 3 |
c7e5b0f | I think that self-driving cars can be a good and a bad thing. They can make driving safer, but they can also make it more dangerous.
I am in favor of self-driving cars if the problems can be corrected. So far the cars being made by Google are not completely self-driven. There still has to be a driver behind the wheel to take control when needed. A self-driven transportation system would be beneficial to people who need to be taken somewhere. It would be a great improvement. It would help in an emergency situation, such as if someone is injured, they are alone and cannot drive, the car can pick them up and get them medical care.
The self-driving cars also would improve the economy by reducing gas milage. The cars do not take up as much gas as other cars. The improved economy would allow for more money to be put into important projects that can benefit people and improve the world. The car sensors would also reduce the number of accidents. If people don't get into car crashes or accidents, there are no medical bills to pay, leaving more money for the driver for important exspenses.
People having more money can lead to a better life, such as paying for college, or a new home.
The self-driving cars are our key to the future, a better world. The cars improve life by saving money and by not using as much gas, reducing pollution, providing better air to breathe. There needs to be more research done to complete a fully-automated car, this new transportantion system needs to be put into place as soon as more can be done to fix the issues the cars are having. So in conclusion, The sooner the problems are fixed and the cars are being produced, the better life people will have thanks to driverless cars. | 3 |
c7e5fc4 | After I graduated from high school I made a life changing choice and that was to go to Europe with my friend and while I was in Europe I joined the "Seagoing Cowboys". And I want you to make that same choice. And I dont want you to just think that im asking you to join for no reason im asking you to join because the benifits are really good.
I also would want you to join because you can travel all around the world and help animals who need help. Wouldnt you want to travel around and help animals in need? And on top of that you meet new people and it may seem like work but it dosent feel like work at all its actually pretty fun.
If i were you i would join right now. The list of reasons go on and on but if I were to write them all down I would need to write a book. So instead of me writing a book why dont you just join and I promise you will love it. And if you dont you can always quit but I highly doubt that you wont love it. You can either take the information that im giving you and go for it or not even try at all. But the choice is yours to join the "Seagoing Cowboys". Please and thank you. | 2 |
c7ed399 | Joining the Seagoing Cowboys Program is one big honor, and a very tough one. It can be fun and exciting to! There can be serious times, this is a job for saving people and animals so in these times you have to be focsed. There are also times that are just incredible, in your spare time you can go sight seeing.
I, myself went to China and Eruope. Though that wasn't all, for me I thought going to Arcopolis in Greece was awesome. So was taking a trip to a gondola ride in Vinice, Italy, which is a city with streets of water, it was amazing! I also went to a castle in Crete and the Panama Canal on my way to China.
Joining the Seagoing Cowboys Program can also be a bucket full of fun!
Especially when were on our return trips after the animals have been unloaded. We (The cowboys) played a bunch of fun games that keeped us ocupied and having fun! We played some of our sports were there was empty hold were the animals had been housed. In those places we played sports such as baseball and vollyball. We also played Table-Tennis tournaments, boxing , fencing , and whittling. Reading was another thing to do to pass the time, but not as fun as the sports!
Joining this place will give you a lot of memorise to remember, such as saving animals or even people. You will have memorise of fun times or the sad. Or times you've fallen, or the times you've fallen and gotten up. It doesn't matter what kind of memorise they are, you will never forget them.
I know I will never forget the memorise that I have made here they are truly unforgetable. If you join you will make a differnce and one you will never forget. So I recomend you to sign up, to make a differnce in the word and to help the people and animals in need. We always have space for new recuits, so sign up today! One thing that I can asure you is that you won't regret it, I promise. So What are you waiting for? Hurry up and make a differnce! | 3 |
c7ee763 | I think drivless cars are great to our future, Having to hold onto the steering wheel while driving this car is accurate , the safety in this car should be built great if not better than a automatic car we drive everyday. This car is a serious and deadly situation , you have a car driving you around and you are not doing just about anything. This idea would benefit alot of drivers for the future , espcially older people that do not long to put there life in danger nor others.
The greatest of our future is evolving with new things as in this car. It will be half the price for gas because it will only be like half a tank price as now days. Genreal motors has a made a test track and it seems to be doing great. In order for this smart car stuff to happen though we will need smarter roads to deal with instead of the roads we have today. These cars will be built and ready for your safety.
The driveless cars will have a video camera mounted on the rear wheel which is safety right there. These cars will have a lot of sensors as in for safety. But today the word is all about safety just image the future as in how much safety will be a concern. For the General motors to come up with such a smart idea we should take this idea and see how great it is. This future car should stop car accidents also. Not to sure on how the car will do on ice or other probiems but im sure General motors will figure this out and get the show on the road. This invention is great and should deffinailty get you happy just thinking about it. I hope this car becomes a invention before i die , i would really love too see it and i hope you would too! | 2 |
c7f45ff | The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit depite the dangers by giving us an idea of what NASA is working on to get around the danger, giving us reasons why Venus is a sister planet to the Earth, and by showing us some key items that we could research. Venus is the closest planet to Earth in density and size. It is often referred to as Earth's twin because of this. However, their are some dangers to eploring the planet more in depth.
The author states, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth today." The author put this piece of information in to show that we should do more research to show that life once exsisted on Venus. This planet could hold forms of life ,but we don't have any research to prove it. Going to Venus, depite the dangers, would give us more evidence or materials to prove that Venus is even more or less similar to Earth, This would also help us understand our solar system more as a whole.
The author states, "NASA has one particuraly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape." The author put this piece of infomation in to prove that NASA is trying to come up with possible solutions to explore Venus. However, they arent working out so well as a vehicle like this would prevent them from collecting any rocks or gases to bring back and research. Studying Venus could lead to an abundance of solar power and the radiation would be minimal.
The vehicle NASA is planning will not allow researchers to take samples of rocks, gas, or anything else or that matter. The author states, "Peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmoshpere, renddering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective. More importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance." This is to explain that the dangers of going to Venus far outweigh the saftey. There is lots of research to still be done on Venus.
The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit depite the dangers by giving us an idea of what NASA is working on to get around the danger, giving us reason why Venus is a sister planet to the Earth, and by showing us some key items that we could research. The author states, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." The author put that piece of information in to explain that the dangers are worth it. | 5 |
c7f6c0e | In 1976, the Viking 1 took a photo of what seemed to be a face on mars. It looked like it had eyes, a mouth, and a nose, but really, it didn't have those features. It was a just natural landform. It was not created by aliens.
It is, in fact, a mesa, or butte, like on earth. It is a platform of naturally formed rock on the surface of mars. The shadows on the mesa make it look kind of like a face, when it is actually just a natural formation. The picture showed the differet cracks and dips in the formaton that made the shadows on the mesa. In America, there are lots of different mesas, such as the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho.
It may look like a face on Mars, but that is ecaue of the Viking 1 didn't have the most accurate cameras. The pictures were taken more than 35 years ago. They didn't have cameras as advanced as we do. The Viking 1 took those pictures in 1976. Each pixel spanned 43 meters. That is not a very defined picture. In 2001, the Mars Global Surveyor took some pictures of the "face" with a more advanced camera at its highest resolution. Each pixel only spanned 1.56 meters. That means that its a very accurate picture. It showed how the "face" was actually a mesa.
There are always possibilities of alien life having to do with the formation, but that is a very very slim chance. Conspiracy theorists are not necessarily profesionals. NASA scientists can easily see how the face is just a formation. They would probably be really glad if the formation was made by extraterrestrials, but they know that it wasn't made by aliens.
In conclusion, the "face on Mars" is just a land formation called a mesa. Scientists have taken more recent pictures with the Mars Global Surveyor to prove that it is a land formation. There is a possibility it was created by aliens, but it is illogical and not likely. NASA's scientists know that it is really just a mesa. | 4 |
c7f9f5e | In the article "Driverless cars are coming," the author presents both positive and negative things about driverless cars. I think that driverless cars are a smart way to prevent accidents and help with texting and driving issues. So I agree that driverless cars are a positive thing.
One way a driverless car is a good thing is that it can prevent accidents caused by texting/talking and driving. I know this is a bad thing but people are going to text and drive either way so why not make it safer. In the article it says that the driverless car would warn the driver when it needs to be driven manually. So if a driver was texting and something was ahead they would be warned and the driver could stop texting and pay attention to the road. This is just one way a driverless car is a good thing.
The second reason why a driverless car is a good idea is safety. Safety is a big issue when is comes to driving. Anything could happen , you could fall asleep while driving , you could be inder the influence and the driverless car would help keep you and pedestrians safer. You might say that the driverless car would encourage under the influence driving but I would say that if someone is going to drink and drive they are going to do it regardless of if they have a driverless car or not. So why not make it a little safer. If you were driving intoxicated it could do most of the work for you and help avoid acciddents. Also , if you were exausted and fell asleep at the wheel the car would warn you if there was something ahead so it would wake you back up. These are just a few of the wasy a driverless car would make the roads a little safer fro everyone.
In conclusion , I think that driverless cars are a good thing. They provide extra safety for the driver and pedestrians. Also, it can help with the texting and driving issue.There are many reason why the driverless car is a good thing , these are just some important ones. These are the reasons why I agree that driverless cars are a positive thing. | 4 |
c7fa2e7 | Can you imagine smart cars that can drive for you?
Well I can,these cars will use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer wa more flexibility than a bus.
I think the driverless cars is a really good idea.
It can also be helpful in lots of ways for people.
It can be helpful because you could do other stuff in your car while you are driving.
Such as change your baby's diaper, make an important phone call or text.
You could also watch a movie if you have a build in dvd in your car, or even play games on your cell phone.
If there is an emergency to where you need to be driven to the hospital, the car could take you to where you need to be.
This car could maybe even save someone's life.
I also think that
the driverless cars is a good idea because, they are safe.
The cars are safe because they have smarter roads, so it is better for the smart cars.
The google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel.
There is also a rotating sensor on the roof, and a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror.
The car is being monitored to make sure that no damage is to be done.
The most important piece of technology in the system is the spinning sensor on the roof.
It uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings.
This is to
make sure that the driverless car can mimic the skill of a human at the wheel.
Humans drive when they are needed, this is also another reason why I think that the driverless cars are safe.
Tesla has agreed for a 2016 release for the car being capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time.
If the automakers continue to work on the solving the promblems, there is a good chance for the cars.
I think that they should make the cars sooner for the people that needs them the most.
The idea still grows ahead of us, as we are grwoing closer to the car every day. | 2 |
c801518 | In this article it talks about the face of Mon Lisa. Many of people have wondered and thought what Mona was feeling or was trying to express. Will now they came out with a new software were it recgonizes and tell the experssions of ones face. To me I don't like the idea of the software, it can be subatage to someones art. In parapgraph one in the beginning of the sentnce it gives you bunch of facial expressions that Mona is giving. The software indicates several expressions that she is making. In paragraph 3 says when the process begins, the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face. They recognize the the muscles and what the face is expressing.
To me this software of a cheat cheat to art. Art is meant to be looked at, to be studied and to make you more intrested in the art. You can have a millions of questions about an art piece the cool thing about the Mona Lisa is that it is a very famous painting, why because it was unique, people wondering for many years to see if she is smiling or no or what she's is expressing. in paragraph 5 says,"We humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day." Which is a good thing becuase we learn more about the face and how they make it with expressions.
A software shouldn't be able to tell what they're expressing it just makes you not observe the photo anymore as much, because now that they may know what she's expressing she won't have the much popular attention to it like it did before. Says in paragraph 6,"The Mona Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows how much this computer can do." Really it even says imagine a computer knowing when your happy or sad, to me thats just invasion to a person, you can always tell you how you are feeling and many just decide to keep them to themselves.
Many people have their way of expressing themselves and sometimes you can be curious of how they're feeling. Which is good because the more you look at something you study it and you put piece and piece together until you solve it. Look at pragraph 7, it gives you something to do while your looking in the mirror, to make a face expression, and the face they told you to make was smiling. It's showing how easily you can describe someone face just by describing the face and the muscle form. It's not always good for everyone to know what you're face is expressing because thats just dull. It's not important for people to know, which will just make you more curious of you. Just as long as you know what your feeling, and thats what I think the artist that did this painting was trying to achieve.
This is my opinion on the software. I think that it is useless. It really is something that is happening now in this world is that technology is taking over us and what we do. We barley use our brains to study or read over something because we use the internet for that. We don't play outside or even try to look at new things in the world because were distacted by our phones or the tv. Most people are barley active and decide just to lay around and look at a screen. Now this is another thing less for a person to worry about, and slowly things that we are capable of doing by ourselves and using our head wouldn't be neccary because there's a sofware to that for us. Artist express themselves in art and they want people to figure it out and admire their painting, not a software to tell us. We become intelligent more each day if we use our head and take time to think about and thats something that is good for the people. | 3 |
c801796 | Limiting car usage has so many benefits to it, you may think "Oh my gosh, I need my car!" when in actuality this is better. Limiting car usage is great because you can save money on gas. We all know gas prices are going up, why worry when we don't need cars? Just think about how much money you spend on gas.
In addition, conserving car time can be beneficial to our health. If we don't get our lazy butts out of bed just to sit in a car and get fatter then we would be so much happier. Remember that new years resolution you made to lose more weight? Well ride a bike to work everyday, or ride a skateboard to school. We will stay in shape this way.
Not to mention, fuel creates pollution in the air, someof us are OCD about the air we breathe. By biking places, you can keep the air cleaner. Thi s is also quiter and brings us all closer. What if you biked to work with your friend instead of by yourself?
In conclusion, there are so many reasons why limiting car usage is the way to go. Think about how many times you can talk to your neighbor besides the regular "Hey, how ya doing?" when you see each other. The world can become so much closer to itself, just by not driving. | 3 |
c8019ba | The face is a landform because the planet must of formed it a long time ago. Or some where there was life on that planet and they died right there where the surface rose up andnformed its face . Most people think it was created by aliens but it was clarified as a natural landform.
We took picture ten times more sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appered on a JPL web site,revealing a natural landform.
When they unveiled the image for all to see the caption noted a huge rock formation thee author thought it was a good way to attract attention to mars it certainly did.
But before they could see the face they had to go thorght wispy clouds and they had to wait for winter to be over. But after all that on a cloudless summer day they finally got to see the face. | 2 |
c803055 | The electorial college should be thrown out and the popular vote for the president should take its place because the elctorial college is unfair and the people don't really have a voice.
The electorial college should go away because it unfair. Electorial votes are unfair because the canidates only focus on the bigger states, "During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the canidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campain ad." Votes dont even get to vote for the president, they vote for state electors. "Under the electorial system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." This is why we should despose of the electorial system and just go off popular votes.
Another reason why we should replace the electoral college for popular vote is because the people don't really have a voice in the electorial system. Voters do not directly vote for the president but they vote for the slate electors who then vote for the president. We the people should have a direct vote for the president. "Consider that the state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people." so in other words we have put our trust in people to have a voice for us when we could just do it ourselves. "voters sometimes get confused about electors and vote for the wrong candidate." Even though the electorial system is all kinds of messed up there is an upside to it, "perhaps most of the worrying is the prospect of a tie in the election vote. In that cases, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president." They use the Representatives to break a tie so there wouldnt have to be a run-off election. With popular vote you wouldn't have to have a run off because there is not an even number of people registered to vote in America. So i urge the popular vote to take the place of the electorial college system.
In conclusion, the electorial college system should be exicuted and popular votes should be subsituted because the electorial college system is unfair and the people don't really have a voice in the election. | 4 |
c80a861 | "Venus, which has often referred to as Eart's 'twin,' it is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasnally the closest in distance too." Was stated in the article "The challenge of Exploring Venus". The author argues his point that studying Venus is a wothy pursuit despite the danger it presents by inform the data that collected by different reaserchers.
The article first described the climates and the condition on Venus, also how it is different on Earth. " A think atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even moore challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere." By giving out more information of a planet that is unknown to audience, it creates a more clear setting of what it is like on Venus. "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth; such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals," describes how much hotter it is on Venus and the living condition on that planet gies up more backgrounds.
After enough description of cruelty on Venus, it leads to author's point, "If our sister plaet is so inhospitable, why ae scientists even discussing further visits to its surface?" He also gave out the reason in the next sentence," because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system."
In paragraph 4, he states that although Venus has more pressure and extreme hot temperature, there is still some features that are similar to Earth, such as valleys, mountains and craters on the surface of Venus, just like on Earth.
In paragraph 5, NASA's data was used as an evidence to prove author's point. Although the temperatures would be still a lot more higher than Earth, but the air pressure woud be close to the sea level on earth when it is at thirty-plus miles above the Venus' surface. This prove that it is survivable for human, just not easy conditions.
In the end, author emphases that "venus is a worthy pursuit depite the dangers it presents" by stating how this study could benefit human. "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." Also he mentioned the study shouldn't be limited by dangers and doubt. | 3 |
c814755 | When people hear the term "driverless car", they think about how they won't have to be so aware while behind the wheel. But this is wrong. Driverless cars are still a long way off from being deemed worthy for the road. There are still a number of things that can go wrong even after they are. And these things that can go wrong can ultimately stop the development of driverless vehicles.
One such example of what could go wrong is mechanical failure. In the article, it says that there are sensors all over the car. But what if these systems were to go awry? If a sensor malfunctioned, there would be a huge blindspot for the car. And that blindspot could have a pothole or a wall hidden in it. And what happens in the event that the car just goes out completely? The sensors, the cameras, even the engine goes out, possibly stranding a driver for hours in a place that they have never been to.
The article states, "If the technology failed and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?"Most drivers take risks in their cars by texting, calling, eating, or drinking in their cars even if they aren't driverless. Then they wonder why they crashed their car into another car or tree.A lot of drivers don't pay as much attention to the road as they should. The driverless cars would still require drivers to keep their eyes on the road, and not on their phone screen. If a driver isn't paying attention when the car says that it is time for them to drive, then that creates problems. The car could stop in the middle of a freeway, either slowing down other people or getting the people inside in an accident. Then that would lead to the driver blaming the manufacturer of the vehicle for not making it safer for them and their family. It creates prooblems for both the driver and the manufacturer, and if they are not careful, the manufacturer might have to shut down their driverless cars project.
On top of what the risks are, the cost of these driverless cars might discourage people from using them completely. The manufacturer would have to build the car, put in the sensors, the computers, and the mapping. Even with the advancements in technology that we've had in the last few years, that won't be cheap to install. Then the people that buy the cars would have to replace them in the event that there is a malfunction or it is simply overused. Then there woudl be the price of the car itself when it is initially bought. People would be willing to almost literally throw away money to have a car with a few fancy bells and whistles.
The concept of driverless cars on the road can lead to serious problems for all who travel. | 4 |
c816199 | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" it discusses the possibility of cars that humnas do not have to drive are coming. Driverless cars are not a smart choice for drivers shoud make. There are too many risks of dangerous incidents that could happen that could caused danger to other drivers and the drivers would lose the freedom from driving their own vehicle. Driverless cars are not a smart investiment because it only prolongs the laziness of today's people.
A car was made for there to be human control over it; that is the reason that the "driverless" cars that have already been created have not been completely driverless. The car needs that control from a being with feelings and not just a computer. This argument could be the same as the argument over robots; should robots be a common household item? The argument being robots having no feelings and not understnading everything humans do. Say for instance scientist and enginers do create a "driverless" car in paragragh 7 it states that, "Manufaturters are also considering using cameras to watch that drivrs are remaining focused on the road. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver"(Driverless Cars Are Coming). So even though these cars are suppose to be driving themselves they still need the driver to be able to take over at any point during the ride. That is not be a "driverless" car. Futhermore, paragraph 8 states, "Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver?"(Driverless Cars Are Coming). It continues on to say, "Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?"(Driverless Cars Are Coming). But the question stands; why would someone want to wait on a car that at any point would need the driver to take over, which could be extremely dangerous, when they could be driving the enitre time and would not not have to worry about any of that? They would not because it makes no sense to put their life and the people around them lives in danger when they could just continue to drive their own vehicle just as they and everyone else have for centries.
In conclusion, the concept of a "driverless" car should stay just that a concept. It is not a smart descion to make and it only put the lives of everyone around in danger. Driverless cars are not only driverless but they are also careless; there is not any emotion behind a streering wheel if there is not a human being behind it. A computer does not know what to do in the different aspects the roads throw at drivers, like humans do. The driverless car should not be a development that should be taken seriously any time soon because it is extremeley dangerous and the cost of hospital bills from the incidents with a driverless car are going to be well over the cost of making them. | 4 |
c817b31 | As we look back through the records of histroy, humans have made and continue to make an extraorindary advancment in technology. These transformations in technology have worked and cooperated with humans to make life better. In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," new advancements in self-driving cars are presented. Though there are many drawbacks of the idea as of right now, humans will make another historial breakthough as they always have. I believe the idea of driverless cars should be promoted due it being more safe, efficient, and helpful to our everyday lives.
The first reason of why I support driverless cars is because of how much more safer it is. If you look out to our world today, machines have replaced so much of what used to be the works of humans. That was because of machines being more capable of precision and safety. Many factory works have been transferred over to machines who do not have to rely on anyone else and additionally does not have to be concerned about safety. In the same way, we can see how much more safe driverless cars are. Google has proven this because their "cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash." In our world today, there are car accidents occuring every minute of our lives. If we can reduce the amount of accidents through driverless cars, then the lives of people will be more safe. Because of how driverless cars can ensure the safety of humans, I support it.
The second reason why I defend the idea of driverless cars is because of how dependent society can be towards these cars. Although driverless cars are not as developed as we wish to, they will be completed to perfection in the near future. With driverless cars being perfected by manufacturers, they will be more cooperative as they can coordinate themselves with other driverless cars so accidents will not happen, and they will find out the shortest distance and time to a certain destination. Google's cofounder Sergey Brin envisions of a more sophisticated car that enables more efficientcy than that of the human: "The cars he foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus. He believes such cars would fundamentally change the world." With the development of these cars, they can replace all the cars humans drive with a great transportation system for public-transport and commuters. I support driverless cars because of how they can steer the world into a better place.
Lastly, I endorse self-driving cars because of how helpful it will be to humans. If you were in in an emergency situation where you couldn't drive but needed to go to a hospital, driverless cars would literally save your life. Not only that, but if you are a child and you have no one that can drive you to your game, or grocery store, or friends house, you never have to ask anyone ever again for a ride. A driverless car would always be there to help you in your times of inconvenience. Because of how convenient driverless cars can be, it is one more step of why I defend driverless cars.
No matter how crazy an idea or an invention of technology may be, they were made to make the lives of humans better. Every invention had its own times of adversity: The lightbulb, computers, planes, and even the car itself. Every piece of technology had to go through numerous amounts of trial and error to become what it is today. This concept applies to driverless cars as well. We are merely in the stage of development and trial and error so that driverless cars can be made to perfection for the comfort of human lives. I support the idea of driverless cars because of how safe, efficient, and life-changing it will be to humans. | 5 |
c8189de | Is There Any Advantages Of Limiting Car Usage ? Well , my fellow citizens there is actually advantages of limiting car usage like gasoline money , traffic , take a away stress , and lower air pollution.
In The Source ,''Paris bans driving due to smog''. By Robert Duffer . One Advantage of limiting car usage is you dont have to pay gasoline anymore . Can You Believe that gasoline prices are going higher. ''Diesel fuel was blamed ''.; ''Diesel makes up 67 percent of vehicles in France , compared to a 53.3 percent average of diesel enigines in the rest of Western Europe , according to Reuters''. This means that we should stop driving cars cause imagine have to pay gasoline money like everyday. Another Advantage of limiting car usage is No traffic ! .''Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five days of intensifying smog. The smog rivaled Beijing,China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world''.I absolutely hate traffic ! This means that We , Us ,Citizens should stop drving cars and start walking , biking , and taking buses.
In the Source , ''Car free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota ''.Other advantages of limiting car usage is take a away stress and lower air pollution .''Millions of Clolombians hiked,biked,skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesturday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams''.This means that Colombians understand that they dont want any traffic or anything like that.''The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog''.They , Colombians do this every year becayse they care about thier economic system.''It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution,'' said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife ''.These Two Married coupled opened thier eyes to the real world .
These aren't the only advantages to limit of car usage. There are like people that cant drive or dont know how to drive or that they dont want too. As You can see Some people that cant drive is probaly because there forbidden to or they have a problem or they just dont want to and just take the bus everywhere they go or walk or that they dont know have to drive and dont wanna learn. These aren't advantages, these are issues / problems that people have on thier own but My Fellow Citizens we have to face the fact that there are advantages of limiting car usages.
In Conclusion , You See My fellow Citizens. There are advantages of limiting car usage . Gasoline Money , Congestion ,Take away Stress ,and lower Air Pollution. | 3 |
c81baf7 | Cars are creating an harmful environment with problems such as smog and traffic. Reduction on car usage can help these problems. Although cars may be a faster transportation, they add on to the havoc of the environment. Reducing car usage has many advantages. It would help develop a better environment and improve people's well being.
An advantage of reduction of car usage is it helps develop a better environment to live in. Some areas which have cars create a lot of smog which is unhealthy for the environment. For example, "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog" (Duffer). Smog is formed by cold nights and warm days which causes the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions. Without so many cars, this issue can decrease. It will help the environment progress and be safer for everyone. Statistics show that "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States" (Rosenthal). Cars are causing air pollution. If cars are still the dominant transportation, the environment will still suffer from air pollution such as smog. It's safer to use a large vehicle such as a bus to get around because a bus can hold many more people than a car and would ultimately give off less gas than the population of people who use cars. Another safe way around town would be vehicles which don't give off gases into the air such as bicycles. A safer environment is a better environment.
Another advantage of reduction of cars is improvement of people's well being. With air pollution from cars, humans inhale toxic gases which can be detrimental to their bodies. If car usage plunders, people's bodies will feel better. A businessman said "It's good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution" (Plaza). Lowering the number of cars being used helps relieve stress. Nobody wants to be stressed out from traffic or being late to work. With cars there is always a place where there is traffic. Ultimately, reduction of car usage has numerous effects that benefit the society. A media trainer and mother of two stated, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" (Walter). Without a car, you don't have to worry about being severely injured since most of the population would transfer to the use of bikes or walking. Because the population would start a trend of riding bikes and walking, most of the roadways would now be unecessary to have and they could be built into something fundamental such as a park, a housing area, or a food market. There would be less worries altogether and this could be more beneficial to the society.
There are many positive effects from reducing car usage. Environment will progress and people's well being will improve. It's beneficial for everyone to limit the use of cars and find other transportation. There would be a safer environment from less smog and rush-hour restrictions. Also, the environment will be people-friendly from more parks and sports centers. Limiting car usage effects society positively. | 5 |
c81ccdf | Using dirverless cars can be very dangrous in the world and I do not think they would be a very good idea to have around, they could have things wrong with them in many differnet ways, cars need someone to control them. They are for transportation, they are made for someone to drive them and making them driverless is not the best thing to do.
Driverless cars could always have its bad things so say youre driving on the street and there are people walking on the sidewalk, maybe the car just starts to swerve and drives into the people. Would that be the peoples fault that are in the car or the people who made the cars fault, who knows because its really not the people fault that are in the car, but its not really the makers fault either.
The driverles car could always just have a malfunction, maybe say you are on the highway going about 60 and all of the sudden youre accelerating and end up going 90 then when to comes to stop it doesnt. It crashes and makes a big wreck well the people in the car are now hurt and we just want people safe, in the article it says "most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe" the best way to do this is to make sure we do not end up with driverless cars.
Drverless cars wouldnt be so bad maybe if it was only like the parking and backing up, maybe it could come in help with the people who are not very good a parking and things, but they should not be totally driverless. Lets say you get pulled over because of the car going to fast, now would that be the people in the cars fault and would that be a liability for them or the makers of the car. Well does the car just know when its going to fast or to slow and how.
I do not think that driverless cars would be a good idea, it can cause people to get hurt and cause many things to go wrong. To many liability issues that would be put apon the person in the car, even though they would have nothing to do with what the car is even doing how fast its going and where its going. | 3 |
c81e8b2 | What happen on Mars. In May 24, 2001. One of our spacecraft took many photos of a human face that look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. People think that this is a symbol of life. What they dont know is that we have studied this symbol for a long time and there is no symbol of life on Mars.
NASA sent one our space man Michael Malin to take some pictures with a better camera, revealing that their is no sign of alien life on Mars. "But not everyone was not satified." In April, 1998 we sent another spacecaft to take pictures of Mars but it was to cloudy witch made it look like an alien markings.
April 8, 2001 cloudless day, we sent another one of our viking spacecarft with a better camera so that we could see what we were really into. "Malin team captured an extraordinary photo using maximum resolution."What the picture actually shows is the martian equivalent of a butte or mesa lanforms common around the American West." | 2 |
c825455 | Car usage is a big deal it is killing are planet and are kids before us. We need to cut back on driving everywere, if you live in town then get a bike if all your doing is going to get some milk, or picking up some extra toilet paper. You dont have to drive everywere but if you do have to go long distance then car pull. I believe, this is just a theory but I do believe that this world will die and everything in it will burn to the ground if we dont do soething aout how mch driving we do everywere back and forth.
The first thing is get a bike people dont believe in walking or riding a bike anymore. They think that you can drive everywere but one day nothing will work no cars no planes just your two feet and a bicycle if that. Everything will just be a pile of scum when the apocalyps happens. The only way to delay it woud be to limit the usage of cars and dont drive if you dont have to, and dont drive 3 cars somewere if you can all fit in one. So what im trying to say is stop waisting this world away and go green.
They have cars now a days that will blow your mind they even have eletric powered cars no gases to polute the air. My air your air car companys are being smart and making cars that are fuel eficiount, or they dont run off fuel at all. It sounds good but if you really think about it it probably uses just the same amount of gases to make these extremely perfected cars. For instance, I was watching a tv show yesterday and this guy was killing people because they was driving a "gas guzzler" and he cared so much about his envorment that he would literaly take there life because that ment so much to him. I would never do this but theres some psychos out there thats for sure.
Last but not least the mass of how much people drive, it is rediculous. People drive just to go get their mail box to get mail, thats sad I dont care who you are thats ridiculous. Also when people go hunt they ride fourwheelers why would they ride a fourwheeler to be with nature thats kind of defieing being with nature. Why would you go out in nature and kill it by rideing your fouwheeler. If this keeps happening the world will be no more. Because all the polution for the exaust from all of the motorized vehicles is slowly but surely killing planet earth.
In contrary to all of this, none of this will ever happen in mine or your life time. Because the earth is a amazing God made thing. And it will last as long as he wants it to. Just like all the American money in God we trust. But im not woried about my generation im woried about thee ones before me. I will be just fine but my kids kids are the ones im worried about. Thank you for your timee. | 2 |
c825e74 | Why venus is worthy of studiying,Take this as an anology venus is that girl thats hard to get yet when you do get her she is so enjoyable.Venus is worthy of exploration because once upon a time venus was like earth.Here are three reasons why we should furthermore explore our sister planet venus.
Giving enough time venus can be inhabitable agian as it once was like our own earth some time ago venus looked like earth.I know this because in the text it says"Venus was probably covered in largley with oceans and could have supported various forms of life,just like those on earth.Today,Venus still has some features that are analogus to earth.(Challenge of exploring venus)."This shows how venus was at one point in time inhabitable and can somehow revert back to its old ways according to the text.
Another reason to keep studying venus is that it is completely possible to do so.Why you ask,Because there already is techonology being develpoed to initate study.The technology i speak of is a technology that can withstand the harsh conditions of venus.A great display of this is in the text in paragraph seven when they talk about it.Here it goes,"Nasa is working on other apporches to studying venus.For example,some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such condidtions".This shows that nasa is on to something and that there is hope and purpose in studying venus.
The final reason is that this can be the way to human evolution due to us not knowing the future we prepare.What if one day earth is uninhabitable like venus,where would we go?What if we can go to venus and live on there.The thing about evolution and innovation is change and we can prepare for anything.This human evolution thing is backed by nasa themselves in paragraph eight."Our travels on earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation".This shows how we should think of things like this to move forward.
There it is my three reasons why we should furthermore explore venus.That shows how earths twin sister has purpose to be studied,remember venus was once like earth. | 4 |
c82d4bc | Although the idea of driverless cars might sound life-changing, I see very little aspects on how this could positivly affect our world. Therfore, I do not support the idea of driverless cars. Driverless cars would take away jobs. They could possibly also take away "milestones" in our lives. It seems to me like this idea came from pure laziness.
Firstly, driverless cars will take away a huge milestone in upcoming generation lives. Remember when you first learned to ride a bike? Now think about the time when you first sat behind a car's steering wheel. This milestone that I am talking about is learning how to drive a car. Future generations will have no need to complete this with the idea of driverless cars. The permit test and drivers test may not exsist in the future with driverless cars around!
Secondly, driverless will be responsible for the disappearance of road police officers. Today, we see these men and women monitoring the road and keeping everyone safe. We will not need them anymore, because of driverless cars, no matter what, driverless cars would most likely obey all speed limits posted. You may be thinking,
"well won't it be a safer environment if driverless cars obey the speed limits?
Yes, you are correct. But what if a glitch occured in this technology generated car, and it decided not to follow it's regular "code." This would be a huge issue on the manufacture's part.
Lastly, the idea of driverless cars put into action frightens me. Think of how lazy we would all become. Technology is already immensely over-taking our world, and driverless cars are solving not one issue. Yes, being chauffered around could be relaxing once in awhile. But what happened to earning the things you worked for? To me, driverless cars are the start of us, humans, being handed everything on a silver platter.
In conclusion, I do not support the idea of driverless cars. Why not? Driverless cars will take away milestones, they will take away jobs, and they will make us lazy. What's next? No need to walk around anymore? Will we have everything at the push of a button? Who knows, it is up to us to start voicing our opinions to decide what happens with these ideas. | 4 |
c82e0f2 | The face is a natural landform because aliens are not rule. Well aliens can be rule if someone makes then and sand them off somewhere but not the point. The ponit is " the face on mars." Yes it can be created by an alien if them were rule but there not so it maens one thing the face on mars is a natural landform. NASA can be making it up to like they can go up to mars and put the "face" were it is or something can move it. NASA can do something like that but I hlop they didn't.
The face on mars could also be from someone going up tp mars and on one knowing but someone would have seen it go up. All I need to say is i think it is a natural man made landfrom or a natural landform. Bad new is no one will know wath happen or how it was made. | 1 |
c83262d | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author makes a strong point to argue that observing venus is worth taking a risk for. He backs up his claim as well, ranging from strives in science, to just the insight itself.
The author states many strong reasons for his claim. To start off, one of the reasons the author gives for a observitory visit to Venus is because it, "Can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit." This shows that he is trying to back up his original claim with the fact that its perhaps the closest option we have for these visits. Also the author strides to say that it will give more knowlage on Venus if we study it. "Not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet (paragrpah 8)." This also backs up what he is saying because the fact that more can be learned from Venus alone, is a huge reason for some to go observe this planet.
In conclusion, the author makes a point to say a observitory visit to Venus would be behnificial and supports his claim very well using facts and explaining what and why some of his reasons should be taken seriously. Therefore, the author did a great job in backing up his claims and explaining them thuroghly. | 3 |
c838d4c | Driverless cars can be undeniably dangerous, but they have the ability to be safe as well.
With the developement of autonomous vehicles there are less drunk driving accidents and less reckless driving accidents.
With more and more teenagers learning to drive and getting their license the number of reckless driving accidents from teens have skyrocketed over the last five years.
As well as the increased risk of drunk drivers, which is always a problem but even with those risks taken care of; the car itself has some serious safety issues and economic issues.
With the American economy always fluctuating from good to bad this new developement could end up causing a huge disadvantage in some of our lower class citizen workers.
"...a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system"(1).
However with that in mind the ammount of low income jobs, such as the taxi drivers, would end up erraticated would be to large to count and more americans could quite possibly fall below the poverty line once again.
Also the article states that right now there is no such thing as a driverless car but a driver assitence car.
These cars can drive by themselves 90% of the time, except in special circumstances like road construction and accidents.
With cars like this they still require an aware driver at all times and the car needs a way a communicating with the driver when to take over.
"GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in daanger of backing into an object.
Other options under consideration are flashing lights on the windshield and other heads-up displays"(7).
However with these warning systems in place they should help the driver but instead these warnings could scare the driver.
What if a drunk man was in the drivers seat because his car can drive on its own so he believed it was safe, but he is told to take over by his vibrating chair.
WIth that man not being in his right state of mind in a special situation, such as a cinstruction zone or accident where you are suppose to be extra careful can cause more harm then good.
Finally there is the problem of eventually if there is an accident with a driverless car because the systems failed, who would be at fault the passenger in the car or the manufacturers.
That is the question everyone is asking for when these autonomous cars are used in our everyday lives.
Now autonomous cars have both their advantages and their disadvantages but they are the future wether we like it or not.
The future is full of improvement adn failures; and however this one comes out, and improvement or failure, it is still being aimed for to improve our future.
The autonomous car is ineveitable for our future, however don't be afraid but instead be prepared for the outcome whether it be good or bad. | 3 |
c83d850 | "Is this a face created by aliens or a landform" many wonder. This specific picture of a so called "face" on Mars has captured the eyes of many. The picture that NASA has showen or released to us resembles a face like landform on Mars in 1976, but in the picture that was taken in 2001 clearly shows it was just a landform. Many people thought that there was possible life on Mars, but they are yet to discover if there really is. Many landforms like this so called "face" are found in the American West.
This "face" is just another theory that there is life on Mars.
Many people want to believe that there is life on Mars, so when the Vicking took the photo it just made them think that there was a greater chance of life on Mars.
There has been many thoughts on if this picture could really be a face or just a landform, but with improved technology NASA discovered that this "face" had occured naturally, not created by aliens. A face that was created by aliens wouldn't stick out as far as this natural landform, nor would it have stayed on Mars for over 30 years. Landfroms usually occur naturally, so who knows how long this "face'' could have been there when there were photographs taken of it , but then again it could have just popped up the day that Vicking landed there.
In 2001 they went back to see if this was an actual face or just a landform and with the higher quality cameras they could simply zoom in, which they did, and see that this was just a naturally occuring landform that formed over time. Naturally occuring lanforms happen over periods of time and that is simply what happened on Mars, it just happened to look a lot like a face.
In conclusion, this ''face'' is just a natural landform that formed over the years. There has yet to be life discovered on Mars, just landforms that have shapes of faces. Aliens did not create this face, nor was there an actual face in the Mars surface. There should be more pictures taken of this ''face'' so that it will prove that it occured naturally. Therefore, there are no faces or life on Mars surface. | 3 |
c83eee5 | I think that the use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students ina classroom is valuable because as the article says ¨a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored then it could modify the the lesson, like an effective human instuctor¨ I think that is a good thing because I myself get distracted with work that needs to be done because I either dont understand what is being asked or I get bored with it.
So I think that if we had a program for our computers that could identify the emotional we have then it wouls help alot. If our computers could reconize our emotions and then modify our lesson so that we werent bored with it or so that it coul dbe understood better then I think the students would learn alot more, also I think they would be more willing to do their work.
Another thing the article brought up that I think is a really good point is that ¨most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication, so our computers and smartphones need to be able to understand that too.¨ I think this would help a lot with people misunderstnding with one another is actually trying to say. | 3 |
c83f44f | I think that this system that they are creating will be useful in the classroom because if a student is confused then the computer can recognize that so that the perticular student may be helped to learn the lesson. In the article it states that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, Dr. Huang predicts. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor. this shows how the syetem can be used for good in a classroom and help kids who may have learning disabillites have an easier time understanding the lesson and learning more.
Another reason that this system can be useful in the classroom is it could make a computer animated faces have more expression so say the lesson the student is learning is online using an animated instructor the system would code the instructors face to have more expression when explaining the lesson leading the the student to learn more aprehensivly. In the Article is says that "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressivefor video games or video surgery. Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication, notes Dr. Huang. So computers need to understand that, too." this shows how it can makes animated faces have more expressions such in Video games, Video surgeries, and classroom lesson.
This essay shows how the FACS (Facial Action Coding System) can be useful in a classroom and to better the future of our students and schools. | 3 |
c83f4c0 | Ok, well Luke was a Seagoing Cowboy and he got to see many intresting sites when on the job. The artical states that Luke got to see what it is like to be in those countreys. But yet, in the end on their way back they did have lots of fun playing many games on ship.
The first reason you should be a Seagoing Cowboy is because you get to help other people, animals, supplies, and you get to feel what its like to be in that place. And you do get to see some pretty amazing sites. You do get to go over sea, and you will be with other people so you won't be lonly. And you can be under 18 to join the Seagoing Cowboys.
The second reason you should join is because you will not be lonly, you will have friends there, also you can get friend or family to join if you want. you also can play games on your way back. And it is the UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) who are hiring you to work for them. And yet why wouldn't you want to join, it is a one in a lifetime opportunity.
Some people say that you should not join reasons why, well frist off they that you can be killed which is true but yet very low chance of that happinging. They also say that its not worth it and that all that stuff is going to be gone anyway but yet before you can lose the supplies why not use them to help. And they say that you can end up bringing crimanals but yet the Seagiong Cowboys would most likly will bring criminals to safe places but yet make sure that they don't hurt anyone.
In concusion you should join because you get to help people and animals, you get to see amazing sites, you get to have fun, and you do not have to be lonly when working for them. | 3 |
c841116 | We found a face on landforms on Mars. Some think it was an alien life form and others think it was just a shadow. The faces on the landforms are shadows that show an illusion of a face.
If you look at the face in the pictures they all look like huge landforms with a face. Most of those pictures with a face shows the eyes, nose, and mouth all look darker than the face itself. Other scientist here proved that the eyes, nose, and mouths on these landforms are shadows. "The caption noted a 'huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose and mouth.'"
All the pictures of a landform that had a face, the eyes, nose, and mouth were just shadows showing an illusion of a face. So now the mystery of the faces on Cydonia are solved and they are just illusions that look like a human head. | 2 |
c841d22 | I really enjoyed being a Seagoing Cowboy. It was a really good experience for me and I learned a lot along the way. I think anyone in for an adventure would be an amazing Seagoing Cowboy. You should really be a Seagoing Cowboy for these reasons.
One thing that made it really enjoyable was playing games with the other cowboys after we droped off the animals. We played things such as volleyball, table-tennis, fencing, baseball, and boxing. We also had a lot of extra time to whittle and read. Another thing that we had fun doing was seeing the amazing sights. I have been to an excavted castle in Crete, and the marvolous Panama Canal when I was on my way to China. The place that was most special for me to visit was the Acropolis in Greece. Another thing that was really special was taking a, "gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with steets of water." All of things are a really good experience for people. The last thing that was really interesting was working with the animals. I had some experience from helping my aunt Katie at her farm when I was a child. On the ship we have to feed the animals, give them plenty of drinking water, and clean the stalls three times a day.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy is a really fun job to have. I had a lot of good experiences along the way. Being a Seagoing Cowboy " made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." | 3 |
c84ddf6 | Driverless Cars Are Coming?
Who is ready for driverless cars? Driverless cars have been seen on television shows as well as many movies for quiet some time now. However, car companies are making that fantasy into reality. There are so many disadventages to driverless cars, but here are a few. The first main problem of driverless cars is the safety of human life. Secondly, the money we tax payers would have to pay on new roads. Lastly, the drivers being too tired to drive themselves. Are most of these problems worth being lazy?
Human life is such a miracle on its own, do we really need a piece of techonogly to take us to the grave? Driverless cars steer, accerlerate,and brake themselves, but what if the cars do that at the wrong time. I certainly would not want to be in a drivers seat without having control. Technology is never perfect, and not realible enough to run a car. Granted that most cars are made of technology, but not driven by technology. I would not want any of my family being harmed because a driverless car having a malfunction. Technology does not have a life, but we certainly do.
Taxes, more taxes, and even more taxes doesn't that sound fun? Well, if you want driverless cars that is what you will pay! Most people earn hard earned cash, but those who don't we pay for them. Taxes goes towards schools, street repairs, lazy people, and many more things. Is it right that we would have to pay for another problem? If we switched to driverless cars we would need "smart-road sytems". This system is way too dangerous and expensive to even consider. What about all the country roads and streets? Would these driverless cars still be able to function?
Over the past one hundred years, us as a nation have begun to be too lazy. Laziness and being tired are two completely different things. Have we seriously gotten lazy enough to have a driverless car? Why would you buy a car if you could not fully drive it? If you are that lazy, there are buses, subways, and taxi's. Plus, if you were really that tired, would you really want technology driving you around? Would you feel safe in the arms of technology?
In conclusion, the idea of driverless cars may sound "cool", but what about the safety concern? Of course there will always be safety issues while driving normally, but what if you cannot control these issues? Human life is already being taken over by techonolgy, but do we need it to take us to our grave faster? Our hard earned money will be flying out of our windows for new roads. Lastly, our laziness will only hurt us in the long run, if we are not careful. Are you ready to lose control of your life because of driverless cars? | 3 |
c84f8c1 | I would agree to computers that can identify humans emotions would be pretty cool for our inverment. it would change our inverment becaus ealot of people can just go to a computer and if the happy or sad it would say. I think that it would be good, because the people that hate computer would probably end up liking it. It would give them something new to learn on. It can also recognize the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we feel. Mr. Eckman has classified six basic emotions, and they are happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. Your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) will tighten your lips to show anger. The same technology can make computer- animathed faces more expressive. Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emothins, but it also may help produce them. You can feel other peoples emotional. it may happen becasue they unconsciously imitate another person's facial expression. this is why i think it would be a good idea to make computers that can see how someone is feeling. If there sad,or mad. | 2 |
c85920b | Driverless cars are an amazing thing. Technology has improved quite a lot due to the fact that we can know make these. Even though they seem cool there are actually many downsides to driverless cars. Driverless cars should not be used on the roads. Driverless cars may seem cool to everyone now but nowing the downsides will change people's minds.
One of the first issues with driverless cars is the issue with driving in traffic. When one is in difficult traffic the car can not drive itself. It would need to human to take full control. If the point of driverless cars is to not have to pay attention and let the car do all of the work then the cars should be fully equipped to drive itself in traffic.
The biggest issue with these driverless cars is the legal issues. If one gets into a crash because the technology of the car freaks out then whose fault is it? If someone else in another car is injured who takes the blame: the human or the company who made the car? Many laws would have to be changed in order to put these cars out on the roads. Liability laws are set in place for humans driving cars because that is the way the world works; humans drive cars, cars do not drive humans.
Lastly how "self-driving" are drivereless cars. There are not any cars out right now that are one hundered percent driverless. The driverless cars right now can accelerate, steer, and brake but, they notify the human in the car when there are sites up ahead that involve human interaction. This would be things such as work zones, accidents, etc... Due to these issues the human driver would always have to be on alert. These cars are not equipped to handle the roads yet.
All in all, these cars may seem like a cool idea but they have many downsides. This world is not ready to put out driverless cars on the roads until we know they can fully drive themselves without any human interaction and liability laws are changed. The risks with these cars are not one that the world is ready to take. | 3 |
c85a60e | In the text provided, it discusses the advantages of limiting car usage. The acticles show, without car usage, there is a more safer enviorment. People are finding alternatives to getting around and not having to stress themselves about a car. Not using a car means people are able to help the enviorment physically and spiritually. Limiting car usage has a more postivite affect then using a car.
Restricing the usage of cars means an advantage on a safer and healthier enviorment. When using a car it polutes our air making the enviorment harsh. In the text it says "The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog." This quation shows that reducing the use of cars can cause harsh conditions, such as smog, to reduce providing a safer enviorment for people and creatures living there. The text also says "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pittted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic; and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up." This evidence proving that with out the usage of cars the surroundings of a harsh city improved from things like uneven sidewalks, that could have caused people to walk on streets causing traffic or accidents, fixed to smooth sidewalks that people can use safely. The text also says "If the pattern persists - and many sociologist believe it will - it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the enviorment, since transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions, just behind power plants." This evidence proves that limiting the usage of cars can lower the amount of emissions polluting the air we need to survive. Reducing the pollution in our air would conclude in safe, more efficent, and long-lasting enviorment. Therefore, limiting the usage of cars have a more sufficent amount of advantages then not limiting the usage of cars.
Reducing the usage of cars also have advantages on people's well-being and happiness. Without the stress of sitting in a tiny box in todays new trafic jam, yelling at the car infont of you, behind you, or next to you, you could be out enjoying the fresh air not having to worry about being late because of an accident you weren't even in. The article says "'Its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution' said a businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife." This evidence shows that without the use of cars people can be stress free, promoting a healthier enviorment with a smile. The text also states "He proposed partnering with the telecommunications industry to create cities in which 'pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety.'" This proving that with less usage from vehicles people are able to improve their living conditions by making minor adjustments. The advantages of limiting the usage of cars is more beneficial then not reducing the usage of vehicles.
Limiting car usage has more advantages and is beneficial to the safety of our enviorment. Without the reduction of car usage the enviorment and well being of living things on earth will continue to get worse. Without the limit of car usge, earth will continue to become a gaint ball of smog. | 5 |
c85ac45 | Luke became a Sea Cowboy because he can take care of the horses,young cows,and mules that where shipped overseas. So Luke and Don signed up. Luke turned 18 before arriving in greece. Luke Bumberger had 2-part time jobs. Luke's life changed soon arter he got out of high school graduation.
In August they recived orders to report to New Orleans. In August they arrived when the Pacific war eneded. In 1947 Luke made nine trips. Luke just noticed that he was on the cattle-boat trip. W.Wooster, headed for Greece-with a cargo of 335 horses.
It took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Oceanfrom eastern coast of the United States and a mouth to get to china. They had to get fed and watered two to three times a day. Bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up fromthe lower holds of the ship. Stalls had to be claened. Luke also found time to have fun on board,especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. Cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments,rencing,boxing,reading,and games also helped pass the time.
But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an advance for Luke Bomberger. It opened up the world to him. I'm grateful for the opportunity," he says. And that awareness stayed with him,leading his family to host a number of international students and exchange vistitor for many years. | 1 |
c85eac3 | In the passage "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto. I belive that the new technology the Facial Action Coding System is valuable. It could help in schools by helping you not be so bored and confused. Also, it could help you tell how your friends are feeling, even when they are trying to hide their emotions.
This technology could be what schools need to keep their students awake and interacting. In the passage Dr. Huang says " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". If a computer could predict when a student was bored or confused and do something to change that it would change the amount of people who actually learn something drastically.
The software can help get rid of unwanted ads that annoy you and bring up the ones you like by something so simple. In the passage it says" If you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similiar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." With the new software doing that it would save alot of frustration from having to click the x button on all the ads that you dont care for.
WIth the new technology it i that it is a benefit to our generation. All of the old paintings that we could look at and tell the mood, history teachers would have a field day. I belive that the new technology the Facial Action Coding System is valuable | 3 |
c860efb | Cars of the Future
Driverless cars are really the thing of the future, alot of people already dont like to drive. Say it has been long day of work or even a hard day of practice. With driverless cars some of your stress can be releived, just put in your destination and boom your car starts to drive itself to the location. The cars use google maps to navigate around, the cars are also extremley smart knowing when to stop and go at lights, knowing to stop at a stop signs etc. I bet your interested in one of these cars right now and who wouldn't be its an awesome idea that even im looking forward to.
Sergey Brin Google cofunder has been working on this driverless cars from about 2009, these cars have been tested to drive over a half million miles without a crash. Although these cars still need a driver, it is mostly for when pulling in or out of parking spots or driveways. But with more work with the cars this problem much like driver needed cars could be a thing of the past. These cars also include sensors which can break for you, tell when objects such as other cars are coming up.
I believe these cars are amazing in pretty much every way, One of the main problem people are worried about is what if you end up in a crash. Who is to blame the company of the car or me. This is something I fell can be fixed easily, with the sensors on the car they basically work like cameras so the people in the accident would first see if either of the people where in control of there vehicle, if one was and it turns out it was there falt the person would be charged the bill, but if neither where in control the company would have to take care of bills, insurance, etc. In the conclussion of the argument even if your not interested in the car you could just take control of yourself if you think you need to.
At the end of the day I beleive that driverless cars are a wonderfull idea, and that everyone should have one. These cars could stop tons of accidents from adults not paying attetion to kids beeing on the cellular devices, just in general bring accident rates down by hundreds. Maybe you dont trust your child enough to drive so you get them a google car and not really have to worry about the saftey of your child at all. So once again I really enjoy the idea of these cars, They could probably one day save someones life, so why wouldnt you want one. | 3 |
c863729 | I think that driverless cars will be a good idea becasue youo have these people that think their the best drivers ever and the go out and cause all kinds of wreck. Then you have other people that are just trying to go on a nice drive and theres idiot drivers that get mad because they are going to slow or their car is to nice to be in the country or they arent real country folk so they shouldnt be out there there are just all kinds of people that have road rage and i think once we do get driverless cars or if we ever do that most of that road rage will stop there minght be a few fights here and ther but not many. Another plus is we wont have people that when they get pulled over they get into a high speed chase and ingure other people that will be my concern is how they will work police cars in with the cars and what if there are drugs in the car will it recanice that and call the cops itsself or notify the police itsself or are they just not going to think about those parts of the car.
Another thing to think about is price how much are they gonna be are they gonna be 10,000 or are they gonna be 1,000,000,000,000 thats my main concern is how much are they going to be because if they are 10,000 an average human could afford it but if they are 1,000,000,000,000 only a few people might be able to offord them and how are they gonna keep them from being stole or robbed are they gonna put like a high tech security system on them or one like they have now just a car alarm are you gonna have to start them with a key or will they start there will there still be sporting events that involve cars or not there are so many questions you can ask because this idea and its like are they ever gonna release those answers to the public or not. Thats just my point of view on it you may have a diffrent point of veiw or someone esle may have a point of veiw on it and they think I'm wrong but thats my point of veiw on it. Thats all i have to say about this topic so yeah bye. | 3 |
c86d82d | I believe that this is just a landform. The "face" on mars is cleary just a landform. There is no proof aliens are even real. I will be explaining why I think it's the cameras fault, it's just a landform, or shadows were to blame.
If you look at the first photo it does kinda look like a face, but as the years go by there are better cameras and the "face" don't really seem like a face any more. In the worse case, this could just be the scariest landform ever. In paragraph 10 it explains "each pixel in the 2001 image spans a.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo," this would mena that the camera used in 2001 was better than the one used in 1976. The photo in the 2001 photo looks like a lump in the ground.
In paragraph 12 Garvin states "It reminds me most of Middle Buttle in the Snake River of Idaho," this wouldmake sense because it would be a landform. It might just be a little likely for it to look like a face. In paragraph 7 is clearly states "there was no alien monument after all."Landforms are just sometimes diferent and this is one of them.
Maybe shadows are just to blame. In paragraph 3 it said " huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion od eyes, nose, and mouth," this would mean that maybe it was the angle the photo was taken or the time of day.The moon could've just been turned right to make it look like eyes a nose and a mouth.It was all just an illusion.
I believe that the "face" on the moon was just a landform and nothing else. I believe that there are always answers. i believe that it is just a landform, or the cameras fault, or it's the shadows to blame. | 3 |
c870af2 | Many people have cars its there way of transportation however there are places where there is no need for a car, and not having a car has its advantages.
In source 1: in German suburb, life goes on without cars says that "vauban streets are completly car free." the reason for this is that there streets are filled with bicycles and the wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor. In the United States the Enviromental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities. the reasoning of this is because there is less space for parking. The United States are promoting new communities that are less dependant on cars. there saying private owned cars by the burgeoning middle class are chocking cities. :80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transport.
Source 2: Paris bans driving due to smogs says that driving is poluting the air because of the feums and littering. The people who did not follow the order of leaving there cars at home "suffer a 22 euro fine because there banning the cars to clean up their citie streets from all the pollition. Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of france from banning the cars. the pollution on diesel fuel was bad and there ar 67 percont of diesel vehicles in france.
Source 3: car free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota. Transportation for them was they biked,skated or took buses to work during a car free day leaving the streets of his capitol city eerily devoid of traffic jams this has been the third year that cars have been banned for that day. the goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. when you did not do as they said and violated it would be a 25 dollar fine. when it rained it still didnt stop the people of bogota from participating in what they where trying to acomplish " its a good opportuninty to take away stress and lower air pollution" said businessman carlos. from banning cars and stuff for proventing smog parks and sports centers also have bloomed thoughout the cities. reducing car use has hepled with pollution and has brought many opportuinuties aroud your comunity.
Source 4: the end of car culture president Obama ambitious goals are to curb thr United states greenhouse gas amissions was unveiled last week. over the years that go by many Americans have been buying fewer cars ,driving less and getting fewer license. with less car use there are being a culture shift. the less use of cars provent car crashes people dieing and smog and more public areas beacuse there is more space.
Reducing use of cars has alot to offer and its is good for the community. it really comes down to how your feel about the situation accuring. | 2 |
c875917 | This is my deatlis to back the witer on his claim how how studying venus is both worthy and dangerousand to explain how the author backs himself up on his claim. He gives alot of good points but a huge point that stood out to me was wehen he said how venus is sometimes called Earth's twin becuase in distance venus is the closest planet to us in denstity and size so pretty much Venus is a mini Earth. Another thing that the author toched on is that Venus nickname The Evening Star the writter put that piece of info about Venus becuase he is explaing how Venus is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky which makes it simple for anyone to spot even a simple stargazer. The last point of evedince the writter used to suppports his claim is the dangerous part oif hsi calim he said that NASA has been studying how they are goinhg to send humnas to study VEnus but the dangerous part of that mission is the surface conditions. | 2 |
c881343 | Wouldn't it be extravagant to go and study another planet? That planet to explore, would be Venus. Venus is a lot like Earth. The most similiar out of all nine planets actually. There are risks of visiting Venus, but the pros out weigh the cons. There are ways of safely exploring Venus, from a distance away. There is a whole lot that we do not know about Venus. There could even be signs of a life form. Nobody knows. The author does a phenomenal job supporting that it would be a worthy pursuit, despite the dangers is presents, to visit Venus.
Venus is the most like Earth. There is a reason that scientist call it our "twin" planet. (Par. 2) Although the living conditions on Venus are a lot more dangerous than Earth's, it is possible to come up with the technology to have a device on the planet. The device would help scientist from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) study and find out a lot of information about the planet.
Scientist are intrigued about Venus. First off, it is by far, the most Earth like planet in our solar system. (Par 4) A long time ago, Venus was covered with oceans and maybe even life form. The author informs us about how it is filled with valleys and mountains. Sounds like earth to me. I think that the risk of another aircraft exploding would be worth finding another form of life on a different planet. As does, the author of this article.
They are talking about having a space craft go to Venus. That would be the first of many. There could even be human life in there. If there were to be human life in the space craft, they would have to hover around 30 miles above the surface of Venus. They would have to do that because the pressure is 90 times greater there, than it is on earth. It is also 800 degrees Fahrenheit, there. (Par 3) If the space craft could hover around 30 miles above the fray, the scientist could survive. It would be around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, and the pressure would be the same as ocean level on Earth. From there, scientist could see if there is any life form, or oceans on the planet. Finding one of those things out would be worth it, despite the dangers that could come from it. These conditions would not be easy, but they are survivable. Another con about hovering above the planet would be that you can not get any samples of rock, or gas. (Par 6)
I still support the author's statement, that it would be worth taking the risk of studying Venus, depite the possible outcomes. Venus is Earth's twin planent. We could see how close the two really are. If there were humans on Venus or not. If there is water on the planet. A spacecraft hovering over the fray of Venus would be a great idea. Then, we could study the planet, and get more information than anyone ever could imagine. The condiions would be harsh, but the outcome would be worth it. Venus is a planet that is extremely similiar to ours. It would take risks to be able to visit it.
If there was life form, or it was possible to live on, that would be life changing. | 4 |
c893eb9 | Luke never expected all of his friends to be in the same carrer that Luke was in. It was a dream come true, luke had always wanted a job that paided good and was awsome to do.
"COME ON!" Shouted Luke. " We are gona be LATE!" Luke had just graduated from high school. He didnt want to go to collage because he didnt have any big carrer plans. Luke was later intuduced to a perfect carrer. His friend wanted to take him to Europe on a "cattle boat" to help people. Luke later discoverd that THIS was the perfect carrer.
17 years old and nothing to do with your life is the worst thing ever. luke had nothing to do with his life untill he went to Europe. Luke discoverd that if you put your mind to anything you can acomplish anything. But Luke had nothing set as a goal for life.
After Luke had gone to Europe 9 times he relized this is his life now. This is what I am ment for. he dicided to go start collage and make his whole life happen. Luke made some new friends along the way to.
This is definetly somthing Luke will remember for the rest of his life. One day he will tell his kids... Yes I went to Europe. | 2 |
c893ec0 | Innocent and young, children grow accustomed to the utilization of cars in society. Hot Wheelz, battery-powered Barbie SUVs, Hess Semi-trucks, and other deviations of play-friendly cars introduce the car culture to Americans from nearly the first day out of the womb. Mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, neighbors, and grandparents depend on their cars daily. This reliance on cars consequently impacted America's environment. However, limiting car usage reduces society's carbon footprint, slowly eliminating the encompassing pollution and stress of the developed car culture.
All vehicles alike release carbon emissions into the atmosphere, polluting the air and smogging our cities. Suburbs, especially, rely on automobiles to provide needed transportion. Experts state that car transportation in suburbs "is a huge impediment" (Source 1) when discussing "efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes" (Source 1). In the car-intensive areas of the United States, passenger cars hold responsibility for "up to 50 percent" (Source 1) of greenhouse emissions. This constant car usage pollutes American skies. Elisabeth Rosenthal states that car usage reduction "will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment" (Source 4), especially in America "since transportation is the second larget source [of emissions]" (Source 4). Cutting down on cars for alternative, public, or group transportation provides a solution to the car epidemic of suburban America.
In other societies where limitations of car usage occured, the majority of its denizens replied positively. In the car-depleted suburb of Vauban, Germany, "57 percent sold a car to move [to Vauban]" (Source 1). The influential idea of a suburb without traffic jams and long drives to stores attracted 5,500 current residents of Vauban. Futhermore, car bans in Paris reduced emissions and cleansed the air "after days of near-record pollution" (Source 2) and "five-days of intensifying smog" (Source 2). During this ban, "congestion was down 60 percent" (Source 2), relieving traffic and pollution. In Bogota, Colombia, a "car-free day" (Source 3) promotes "alternative transportation and reduce[s] smog" (Source 3). One Colombian businessman commented cheerfuly, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." (Source 3). The relief of traffic results in the relief of stress, which city-drivers appreciate.
In America's evolving society, and the evolving global economy, limiting car usage stands benefically. Reducing smog, eliminating the stress of traffic, and preserving the environment, low car-usage societies appeal in all current circumstances. Progressively, the world may see a day where car usage is antiquated. | 4 |
c8948b3 | Brock was walking in the woods along the creek. At the edge of the water, he saw something that made a body type figure. Brock went down to see if it was a body, but when he got down there, it was really hard to see if it was a body because of the running water. He went back up to where he saw the body, and he coud see it clearly again. He took a picture of the body figure and sent it to the Elkart County Lab. They went to take a look at it and they posted the picture sent from Brock online. Most of the people who saw it, including some of the scientist, thought it was some sort of alien figure. They dug it out and found it to be a rock formed into a body shape by the shadows of the water, and the erosion that has been done to the rock. I believe that the Face on Mars is just a natural landform because it isn't an alien formation, you can see what it is made of, and there are other landforms that may look real, but it isn't real.
One example that proves my claim is that the author explains in the excerpt that it isn't an alien formation. The author states that Micheal Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. This photo revealed that it was just a natural landform, not an alien monument. The author also states that it has unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh.
Another example that demonstrates my claim is that according to the author, you can see what it is made of. The author shows that the huge rock formation, which resembles a human head, is formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth. The author also states that Garvin said, "as a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger that the pixel size, so if there were objects in this picture like, airplaines on the ground, or Egytian-style pyramids, or even small shacks, you could see what they were!"
A final example that proves my claim is that the author demonstrates that there are other landforms that may look real, but it isn't real. The author states that scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa when the face appeared. This shows that they have seen things like this before and they knew that it wasn't real, or alien like. Another example that the author proves is that Garvin said it reminded him of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the face and perhaps alien markings were hidden by haze. Also NASA can be hidding information about the Face. But, you can see that the Face is formed by shadows, and not an alien haze.
Now I hoped I gave you enough information to convince you that the Face is just a natural landform, and not created by aliens. | 4 |
c89cf64 | World War II was a very difficult time in the world.
Many contries were destroyed and grew weak. Europe was effected by it the most.
Contries such as Germany, France and Poland were devestated by the effects.
The seagoing cowboys helped many of these contries rebuild there animal, economy, and farms.
World War II destroyed 15 diffrent contries.
Many of the contries lost lots of thier crops and farms. Without thier farms they can't get food or vegitables.
The Seagoing Cowboys bring Horses and cows and other live staocks to these contries.
They give theses cntries an extra boost in growing back there farms.
The Seagoing Cowboys program takes ordinary ranchers and bring them and horse cows and other livestock and bring them to other contries.
They also bring hay and feed so they can feed them while they are on the boat.
While you are at the contries you are allowed to visit some sites on you free time.
So while you work you can alway plan your next trip. Stated in paragraph 5 it talks about the benifets of traveling to all these diffrent places.
Have you every been in need of help and you had that lonly feeling.
That is the same feeling that these people have.
They feel lonely and abandoned. The Seagoing Cowboys take away that feeling and relace it with joy. They make foriegn farmers happy that they can finally farm and take care of their animals.
The program helps so many people in so many ways.
Yes, it might be hard to leave home, and go to another country, and work. The feeling of helping people fills that heart with a much better and richer feeling-the feeling of love.
In the end all your hard work will pay off and you can sit don knowing you did a good thing. | 3 |
c89eda8 | For decades, humanity has been using cars as the daily mode of transportation. New innovations are starting to question whether the original car should be replaced by a smart car that could drive itself. However, these cars have multiple flaws that only confirms that it is not yet time for a re-invented car.
The greatest flaw of driverless cars is that they are not fully driverless. These cars, many of which can drive themselves up to ninety percent of the time, require drivers to stay at the wheel. Traffic issues and and irregular roadwork problems are always unique and require drivers to take over and fix the situation. Some cars even alert the driver to take over when pulling out of driveways or fulfilling other everyday situations.
When the cars are not completley driverless, new law issues emerge. As of now the majority of states deem selfdriving cars are not as safe as normal cars and prohibit any use of them whatsoever. Even if selfdriving cars were accepted, states would have to decide if the technology were to fail whether the driver or the manufacturer should be blamed.
Lastly, driving is a great experience reguardless of new technology. Many people enjoy having the time in the car to reflect while driving. If drivers were not forced to look at the roads they would most likely look at in car entertainment systems in hopes of recreating a fun driving experience. This would only take away from the feeling conveyed when traveling.
Driverless cars are not ready to be released to the public. They are still flawed in various ways because of how they still require a driver in order to drive with common situations. The tradition of driving should be, as it always has been, an experience shared by all people. | 3 |
c8a1b23 | Would you make a choise to do the Seagoing Cowboys program? Well if I were Luke I wouldn't go beacuse there are alot of other things he could do. He could stay in his home town and do the job he already has.
If I went I wouldn't be able to see my family every day. I like to have an oportunity to see my family a lot like you do most of the time. We go play cards and go out to eat all the time. When you aren't with your family for a while, don't you get scared? I like my family and I have them by my side to help me with what I need.
If I went on the trip and started a job on there, I could probly make more money than working at a store. It would help me with things like getting a new car because I would have a lot more money. I could make a lot of money but it is a dangerous job. I could die from it if something goes wrong with the boat or if I fall off the side of the boat. Would you really risk your life just to make more money and buy nicer things for my family? I know I wouldn't.
If I were on the boat, I wouldn't have much of anything to do. I would have my friend but what could I do with my friend. I would be awake while my friend would be asleep. If we were up at the same time we couldn't plat football or anything like that. So that means we couldn't do a lot of things to do together.
After thinking about it I still wouldn't chose to go on the Seagoing Cowboys program. Think about all the things I talked about. I wouldn't be able to see your family. I can probly make more money but risk your life. I can't do anything on the boat. So I would not chose to go on that trip. | 2 |
c8a1bfd | I am against this kind of technology because I want to keep my feelings to myself and not letting other people know. It's my decision if I want to keep my feelings from other people and to not let know my true feelings.
This sentence "But in a false smile , the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risorius. To an expert, faces don't lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a smiling"
This sentence tell us how they recognize if they are faking a smile of not or knowing if that person is telling the truth or not. And don't want some technology to know if I'm faking something or not. It's my personal business if I want that. Other people can use that for things but they have to ask for permission because how would you feel if someone found out about your true feeling and it was secret yet someone was snooping around of knowing how you feel. | 2 |
c8a4759 | Being a Seagoing Cowboy is an honor and would be a great opportunity for you. A Seagoing Cowboy is a wonderful job to have. You get to go over seas and help out and take care of animals.
I was a small town boy and thought I would never be able to go and see sites like the Panama Canal or take a gondola ride in Venice, Italy. But since I became a Seagoing Cowboy I not only got to do my wonderful job ,but also get to see beautiful world natral wonders while doing it.
While being a Seagoing Cowboy I learned what the job was. It was about helping others. A Seagoing Cowboy is the best job in the world for me because of all the opportunities to help people and not only did I get to help peopleI belive I made a difference in their life.
I also had fun while on the sea. I got to bond with people and begin new friendships. We mostly had fun on theway back since all the animals were picked up andwe didn't have to water, feed, and watch them. We liked to play fun games like volleyball and baseball games in the empty rooms were the animals used to stay. It's also fun to have table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling and games for fun too.
But being a Seagoing Cowboy is more then an adventure it helps you come aware of the people who truly need help. Being a Seagoing Cowboy also opens your eyes as well as heart to the other people around you. | 3 |
c8ac4d3 | We should have the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom. We should have the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom because they can help students learn better, shows how we feel in the moment we took a picture or video, and it will also help us feel someone else's emotional states in a video or play.
One reason why we should have the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is because it will help students understand a teaching better. In the text in "Making Mona Lisa Smile" it states that "A classroom computer could recognixe when a student is becoming confused or bored". It also states that the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom could modify the lesson just like an effective human instructor.
Another reason why we should have the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is because it can show how we feel in the moment we took a picture or video. It states in the text that the technology has six basic emomtions happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness, this can help us understand how one feels in the classroom if they are sad and the technolgy shows that they are sad, a teacher or anyone can help the student out outside or inside school.
The last reason why we should have the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is because it will make us feel someone else's emotional states. For example in the text it states that a drama coach had his actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as ways of creating emotions on stage, and that we feel someones empathy because we unconsciously imitate another person's facial expressions. This can help students feel what a person is feeling in a video and express it in an essay.
Overall, we should have the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom. We should allow this because they can help students learn or understand better, shows how we feel in the moment we took a picture or video, and it will also help us feel someone else's emotional states in a video or play. | 3 |
c8ad17b | This has to be a natural land mark. If it were a face built by the Egyptians don't you think we would find more facts leading towards that theory? This landmark had something special to it,this land mark has unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. If it was an Egyptian Pharaoh the Egyptians would have had to have access to a type of modern tecology to get up to Mars. Not only that but they wouldn't know how to store or make food last in space. The journey up to Mars is a long one. “So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!” If we had saw these type of things then maybe we would need to look further into it, however we didn't so we have no proof that they lived on Mars long enough to build this "special mound" or "Egyptian Pharaoh ". What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa—landforms common around the American West. “It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." People have seen these similar mounds on Earth, However this particualr mound on Mars had some unsual shadowing to it and the picture was taken on a cloudy day making it hard to make out what this could have been. " But not everyone was satisfied. The Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in April ’98—a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet."Then when we had a clear summer day we took another one with better techology, finally revealing it in fact was not a Egyptian Pharaoh just a mound of dirt though some remain spectiable of this "face" and how it got there.
"Nevertheless, on April 8, 2001—a cloudless summer day in Cydonia—Mars 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. “Malin’s team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera’s absolute maximum resolution.” Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo". In conclusion some people will always remian spectiable of anything, you just have to look at the facts and deiced from there. | 3 |
c8b339f | In 1976, Viking 1 took a picture of what looked to be a a human face on Mars. A few days later the picture was reviealed to the public eye, and it was starred in hollywood film movies, books, magazines, and talks shows. But in 2001, new high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA's Global Survey spacecraft revealed that it was only a mesa. Though there are many credible reasons to believe that it was only a mesa, some people still believe that is an alien artifact.
Yes, one might think that the mesa looks like a face from an egyptian Pharoh, but after closer examination, it was only a natural landform. We are able to prove this because on April 5,1998, when Mars Global Sureyor flew over for the first time, a picture was taken that was ten times sharper than the original Viking photos that showed only a natural landform. When the picture was unveiled to the public eye, it had a caption that told people it was a mesa that resembled a human face only because shadows that were on the rock gave an opticl illusion of eye,nose, and mouth. Also on April 8, 2001, Mars Global Surveyor drew close enogh for a second look and used the cameras absolute maximum resolution to take an even better picture that again showed that it was only a mesa. From these pictures alone you can tell that there wasn't a face on Mars and that there isn't any extraterrestial beings living on Mars.
in conclusion, the "face" on Mars is nothing more than a natural landform that you can probably see on Earth. Also if there were to actually be life on Mars, it would be a major break through that would help better fund NASA, so what would be the piont in trying to hide it from the public that funds our research? There would be no piont in doing so which means that there isn't any life on Mars and the face is only a mesa or butte. | 3 |
c8b7e84 | Was the Face on Mars really created by Aliens? Or was it just a very unusual rock formation, even for Mars? Well, the answer is no, it was just a natural landform. This giant rock formation, which stretches for about two miles from end to end, isn't uncommon at all. Actually, it is a mesa which just has shadows that cast on it a certain way, which makes it look exactly like a face.
I know what you might be thinking. How could it only be a natural landform? It looks exactly like a face, so it must have been created by something or someone. Well, there are actually plenty of reasons why it is just a normal landform with unusual shadows. For example, the Face was found in an area of Mars called Cydonia. Cydonia is actually known for its common Martian Mesas. This means that it isn't too shocking that it is natural.
Don't get me wrong, a face is a pretty rare and unusual thing for a mesa to look like. Even though this one has strange shadows that give it features of a face, it is still just a mesa. After multiple pictures that were taken of the Face, the one taken on April 5, 1998 was the first one to fully reveal that the Face was indeed just a natural landform. Even though the picture clearly showed that the Face wasn't a man-made structure, some people still weren't convinced. They said that the picture was taken on a cloudy winter day, so many skeptics thought that maybe there were alien markings that were just hidden by haze.
No matter what people believed after they saw the picture taken in 1998, the picture taken on April 8, 2001 was the one that proved to the skeptics that the Face was a naturally occurring landform. Since the picture was taken on a cloudless day the next time around, there were no excuses for those who thought the Face was made by aliens. This picture actually showed that the Face was a martian, and it was about the same size as a butte or a mesa. Buttes and mesas are landforms that are commonly found in the western regions of the United States.
There you have it. The Face sadly wasn't built by aliens, it was just a natural landform that happened to have some pretty neat features to it due to shadows. There is no way around it, because the pictures don't lie. It is even more obvious that it is a landform because ones just like it exist on Earth! Even though it would've been very interesting for it to have been actually created by aliens, it was just a natural landform in the end. | 5 |
c8b9f6b | The challenge of exploring venus is dangers to study. They should not do that challenge of exploring, because that is really dangers. That could hurt people and it can kill you. The author is tell not to do it. Author explain what happen there and what inside there.
That venus is really hot thing. The venus have carbon dioxide. Venus hae 97 percentof carbon dioxide. Then there other thing that can hurt us which is acid. The acid is not normal thing what we used. The acid is really highly corrosive sulferic of acid.
Venus is really hot place, it almost hotter then sun.The venus temperatures average is over 800 degrees. 800 degrees is hotter then what we have in summer, 3x hotter then what we have in the summer. Venus is powerful pressure. The atmospheric pressure is 90 time greater powerful.
The conditions far what humans encounter on earth. It could diving the deepest part of oceans and can happen metals liquefy. Not only that can happen, also notable because venus is the hottest temperature of any planet in solar system. That why author try to stop people to go by and study for it. Then he told us it dangers just because all of that. | 2 |
c8bec0e | The last ship to try to land on Venus was three decades ago. Astronots and scientists have been tryong to beat the challenges of Venus. NASA has been working on technology that could survivle the harsh conditions of Venus. They have been testing silicon carbide electronices. NASA been trying to make a blimp-like vehicle that could protecet the astronots that are in it. Scientists have also been working on mechanical computers.
The blimp-like vehicle can be used as a research area as well as a living area for the astronots. It can go higher in the air meaning it can avoid the storm, earthquakes, and erupting volcanoes. NASA has not found a way to use the vehicle to help reasearchers get samples from Venus. Scine they are in the air above the gas clouds it would be hard for researchers to get photography or videography of Venus surface. They have been fooling around with silicon carbide electronics.
NASA and its scientists has been useing silicon carbide electronic in a testing chamber that is set like Venus. This new technology could be used on Venus when NASA figurs out a way to increase the survability time of silicon carbide electronic. They have not figuer it out yet and could be decades before they figer it out. They also have one more item they have been test that is mechanical computers.
We used mechanical computer in 1940s dring World War II. Scientest think that we can make the parts immune to Venus's harsh conditions. They could be made to resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces. This is one of the of projects that will hopefuly beat Venus's challenges.
There are three ways NASA has been try to beat Venus challenges. We have yet to try them on Venus. If one of this ways works we have the satitfation of completing the challenge Venus gave us. | 2 |
c8bf3bc | Hi i'm luke,i'm here to conveince you guys to join the Seagoing Cowboys. It was so much fun for me. We got to go to so many places. One of the places was China. It takes kinda long to get to those places but, hey at least it's fun.
For the Seagoing Cowboys you just don't travel you also have to do stuff. One of the things are taking care of the animals on the boat thatare traveling places. That's why were called the seagoing cowboys. All because we take care of animals on a boat while the boat is moving.
If you do join the Seagoing Cowboys you have to be carful becuase sometimes you might fall and get hurt. I had my ribs cracked one time because I slipt and fell. It hurt but I still had to do what I had to do for the animals. I got a little time off but, not a lot.
The Seagoing Cowboys are fun. So, if you ever do think about doing it JOIN! I joined and when I turned eighteen. I didn't have to join the army all because I was doing the Seagoing Cowboys. If your a boy and dont want to do your army service do the Seagoing Cowboys. | 3 |
c8bf57b | The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," suggests that Venus is a pursuit worth while to the dangers the planet enviorment presents, and he is right. Venus is known as the Earth's "twin" Because of how simliar it is to our planet. The reason why Venus is called Earth's twin is because astronomers are mostly fascinated because as stated in paragraph four, "once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." The author continues on paragraph four on how
Venus was mostly "covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth." Which hints in where the author is going with this. In paragraph five the author goes on how NASA (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration.) Has a "compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus." By sending a bimp-like vechicle hovering "30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape."
Letting scientists float above the fray and hostile conditions. But even a vechicle hovering above the atmosphere would not be enough because nothing can penetrate the brightness of the light making videography and photography "ineffective." Also scientists can't just take rock samples they would need to get up close. The author then goes on that rather see them as huge risks we should "think of them as challenges." While that the author continues on in paragraph seven that NASA has been working on numerous other approaches that affective for the studying of Venus. They've been testing electroinics made out "silicon carbide" Have been tested many times in a chamber simulating "The chaos of Venus' surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." Later NASA tested on more older technology dating way back. They are called "mechanical computers." and were used during the 1800s and during World War ll. The difference is that this old technology doesn't require eletronics at all. It is mostly geared up by levers and gears. The author goes on in pargraph seven on how modern computers need to be more "delicate" when it comes to very extreme weather. The author then goes on and compares how the modern technology wouldn't be able to uphold the phyiscal challenges compared to the mechanical parts which are more effective and more resitant to the heat,pressure, and numberous other forces. By the end, human curiositly would most likely beat the challenges Venus' atomsphere, and many others. Dangers shouldn't limit the imagination many scientists try to make a reality. | 2 |
c8c318d | Why do you think it is a alien?
Were walking 41 degrees north martian latitude to The Face on Mars my partner saw the face before I could. He called my name in shock when I saw the face my jaws dropped instantly. My partner saids to me wow an alien face how cool i looked at him like he was crazy and said " an alien face are you serious? youv'e got to be kidding that is clearly a landform right there." No way that is most definetly a alien face. So we head back and I told him i'm going to prove you wrong partner. He saids, alight we'll see about that."
You think before we go back we can hang out a little I feel like you don't know enough about me. Well ok I mean you our new and all so let's grab a bite but as he was telling me about himself I couldn't stop thinking about The Face on Mars. I'm thinking in my head so ik don't interrupt him while he's talking. I say there is no way that is an alien face that's just not possible. I have to find a way tho prove him wrong. Maybe I'll need my Mars Orbiter Camera team to help with this one. They'll snap a picture ten times better than the original Viking photos.
So came the next day I called them and ask can they help me and they said sure we will love to. On April 5, 1998 when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time. Me, my crew ,and also my partner snapped some pictures of The Face On Mars we took more than one because I want him to really understand this is not an alien. On April 8, 2001 Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. We had to roll 25 spacecraft degrees to center the Face in the field of veiw.
Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution. Each pixel in the 2001 iage spans 1.56 meters. What the picture actually shows is the the Matian Equivalent of a butte or mesa-- landforms common around the American West. So I proved to my partmer that is not an alien face on Mars it is a landform. He was kind of sad but he'll get over it. | 2 |
c8c7f71 | Do we need to know what peoples emotions are in the classroom? This new face decoding system can tell your emotions by your facial movements. This new technology says that Mona Lisa is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry.
The process starts when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face. All 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. An action movement is the movement of one or more muscles. Dr. Paul Eckman, the creator of Facial Action Coding System. Eckman has classified six basic emotions. These emotions include happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. Each emotion is associated with characteristic movements of the facial muscles. When you're surprised your frontalis pars lateralis muscle raises your eyebrows. When you're angry your orbicularis oris tightens your lips.
The facial expressions for each emotions are universal. Even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression, like not smiling. Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements in a real face or a painting. Each a expression is compared against a neutral face, showing no emotion. Humans perform the same calculations everyday. Dr. Huang a creator of Facial Action Coding System says his new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code.
With this new software if you smile when a Web ad appears another ad similar will follow. If you frown a different ad will appear. Dr. Huang predicts that a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then the computer can modify the lesson like an effective human instructor. Most human communication is nonverbal including emotional communication.
This new face decoding system can tell your emotions by your facial movements. Although to an expert faces don't lie, these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a smiling politician or celebrity isn't being truthful. Moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotion, but also may help produce them. | 1 |
c8cacc0 | Driverless cars will be helpful for people in the future. There are many pros to a driverless car, if the cars can be made and used then they could help give parents and kide more freedomes. Driverless cars can help with safety on the roads.
Driverless cars could give parents and kids more freedom. They could do this by allowing the parents more free time, because they wouldnt have to find the time out of their schudule to drive their child to a friends house or to a move. The car could pick up the kids and then the kids could text or call their parent to let them know that they have gotten to the place safe. This could also help with being on time, The car would come around the time that it was told so kids would not be able to say they were late because they lost track of time. For the kids, they would have more time to make plans and to hang out with friends. They wouldnt have to wait on a parent to get to their house to pick them up, because their parent is at work. The cars could also help with car pooling if needed they could find the fastest rute to pick up everyone in the group. These are some of the reasons that driverless cars could give parent and kids more freedom.
Driverless cars could also help with safety. For example it would help with drunk driving. The cars are driverless so the intoxenanated person would not be driving, and it would get the person home safely and without putting other people in danger. These cars could also help in dangerous weather, instead of people driving the same speeds in bad weather the car could take them a good speed for the condutions on the road.
Driverless cars give parents and kids more free time and can help keep the roads safe. Kids could do more things with their friends, parents could have somemore time to themselves relaxing at home, there would be a decrease in drunk drivers, and it would help keep people safe in bad weather. This is why driverless cars will be halpful in the future. | 3 |
c8cbdb6 | source 1
The upscale community are suburban pionners, they have a limit of car driving, there is only two places to park a car if you're the owner, one of them is in a large garage that the owner buys for $40,000, along with the home.
Many percent of the families do not own cars, and other families sold their cars because it was to tense to own one and to expensive, a lot of the families are happier walking and ridding bicyles, but the parents most be very careful with the children.
Vauban its a growing trend in Europe and the Unites states.
David Goldberg, an important official of transportation in america said that since the World War II alot of the economy was centred in cars, when there is many families that can't afford the money for a car, and all the bills that the law ask for it, and he thinks that needed to change.
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Paris enforced a partial driving time to clear the air of the city, Mondays people with cars or any kind of motor were ordered to not drive, or pay a $31.00 bill, abaut 4000 drivers were fine and agree with that.
60 percent of the capital of france congestion was down after 5 days of intensifying, rivaling Beijing China, that is one of the most polluted cities in the world, Paris has the most smog in Europe, after Brussels and London.
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Bogota, Colombia, millions of people took buses, walked, biked, skated, etc... during a car free day. Its the 3rd time cars have been baned in this city of 7 million people, violators faced a $25.00 bill; the goal of this event is to promote transportation and reduce smog, not eveen the rain stoped poeple from bogota.
its a good way to take away stress and pollution, this event was huge, eveen people from other countries came.
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President Obama have goals to curb the United States greenhouse gas, americans are buying fewer cars, but getting fewer licenses, as each year go by.
The number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005, according to an analysis by Doug short of advisor.
people between 16 to 39 year olds have been getting license, people between 19 to 21 year olds have not bothered to get drivers license. | 1 |
c8ced2c | Shuold we join The UNRRA
In this passage a Cowboy who rode the waves Luke was a seagoing cowboy. Luke Bomberger is his full name. There are many reasons why Luke Bomberger join the program to participate in the seagoing Cowboys. Luke was a awesome seagoing cowboy.
My first reson i think Luke join the program was because he got to take trips to alot of countrys to help animals. Luke thought it was fun being a segoing cowboy. Luke also found time yo have fun on board, especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. Another reason he join the program, because he knew it was a opportunity of a lifetime. Luke help other countrys with thier needs and to provide food.
My second reason why he wanted to be a seagoing cowboy is because he wanted to help countrys animals, and be a great man. Luke claims that the cattle boat trips were an unbelievalbe opportunity for a small-town boy", he says. Besides helping people Luke had the side benefit of seeing Europe and china.
My third and final reason is he made about 16 times he crossed the Alantic ocean,and pacific ocean twice. Luke And Don both signed up for UNRRNA (the united nations Relief and Rehabilition Administration). Don is Luke friend that help him to get to be a seagoing cowboy. Don Resit is his name he invited Luke to go to Europe on a cattle boat. It took them some time to take tips.
Inconculsoin This was a Good passage, I think it kind of wanted me to be a seagoing cowboy but only if i was in back in the old day. Luke was a great
seagoing cowboy he had the most trips of any seagoing cowboy witch was nine trips.Luke liked to help animals he also liked to help people get thier food and he sometimes provides for them witch he does anyway. Luke was Maybe one of the top best people of being a seagoin cowboy. | 3 |
c8d0a57 | I do agree that "Driverless Cars" could be a good thing it is a large step for the human race. It would take technology to a whole other level.
In paragraph 5 it states that "sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine,allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone." Which means or brains or slower then the advanced technolgy that there is to come. Where our human instinct "fight or flight" ,such as panic or shock might accure , a compuer would do as programed to act with no feeling and just steer away from harm.
In California, Nevada, Florida ,and the District of Columbia they have started to allow some working w/ the cars and the Google company is hoping soon more to follow as soon as the cars are more reliably safe.
Automakers are continuing to work out problems abd should have all the problems worked out by 2020 , and they grow closer to the destination everyday. | 2 |
c8d2ad9 | Automobiles are the key essential to people's everyday life. It allows them to get from point A to point B. But the outcome from the rise of these machines, are the amount of pollution they had cause. Limiting there usage seems the right action to do. Our specimen has been living for thousands of year without automobilies. What's the point of using them if their risking the life of our enviroment.
An advantage of limiting cars could be that it lowers the amount of air pollution, which causes global warming. From Beijing to France, being as the most polluted cities in the world. Imagine the amount of smog and intensity that the people have to face, having gasoline being spewed on you. On the contrary, the city of Vauban being built in 2006. It has been a prime example of a glorious city without the needs of automobiles. Kids to adults living an prosperic life, riding bicycles or just taking a stroll down the sidewalk. The store is only a few blocks away, basically all you need is a pair of legs. The whole fault in our system is due to our lack of judgement. Having our malls or stores being built nearly miles away from homes, on paved roadways or highways. Obviously an automobile is needed, but this will only cause the major destruction of our enviroment. Limited transportation is when we really can tell if were able to stop this rapid growth of pollution.
Our generation of kids and adults, thinks that a car is mandatory. But in reality, not every individual should own a car. From 2001 to 2009, the decrease of teens from the age sixteen to twenty one obtaining driver's license. Has dramatically declined, due to the realization of the amount of money they could save. From taking public transportation or car-pooling with friends. It could help them save money, rather than spending money on gas. Which could range from $1.50 to $4.20, depending on the circumstances. These kids or adults could use that amount of money saved for future plans. Their are more pros than cons when limiting the usage of cars. The people of Bogota, Colombia celebrate a day without any vehicles. All you can see, is the broad smiles of the people's faces and utterly shocking the most, is that the streets are busy with people rather than automobiles. Imagine if were able to do such a thing, the amount of stress that would vanish. Dealing with traffic or pondering your mind to the amount of gas you need. It would simply just vanish in a blink of an eye.
If we were able to create vast systems of high tech highways to subways. Then we can manage to build programs or new forms of transportation. Without the hassle of using a vehicle, to spawning industrial factories where they are made from. An prime example is New York's recent bike-sharing programs and its skyrocketing tunnel tolls. The main priority of this creation is to lower the usage of cars. Being one of the America's highly populated and dense cities. The scale or outcome of this program of limiting cars, could decide the factor if changes are possible. Then if so, then this new system can be an advantage or an example of what we can do to lower our usage of cars. That creates the majority of air pollution across the entire face of this planet.
In the end, the advantages of limiting cars or any form of transportation. Could lower the amount of air pollution, and the oncoming production of resources that affects our enviroment. But mainly create an atmosphere that will all humans alike to every single organism, to be able to live a prosperic life. Without the haze of dense smog, and stress of traffic jams. Thus, we can make or generate of new era of internal happiness. | 4 |
c8d2ca0 | Have you ever wanted to travel the world? Well guess what , I did whenever I was in the Seagoing Cowboys program.
It allowed me to see the world like I never thought I could .
It was in August of 1945, me and my friend Don Reist received our orders to report to New Orleans . We arrived on August 14th the day the Pacific war ended . We both got our seaman's paper and boarded the SS Charles W. Wooster we where headed for Greece . And aboared that ship was the cargo of 335 horses ,hay,and oats to feed them .
Being in the Seagoing Cowboys allowed us to be able to see the world while we where headed for the the places we where suppost to go . What the Seagoing Cowboys was, where assigned to take care of horses , young cows , and mules that were shipped over seas. It also put me on a lot of unique adventures and also a lot of many unique places.
I had turned 18 before we arrived in Greece and that meant I could be drafted for military service . When my draft board that I had been on a cattle-boat trip , they had sais to me "Just keep doing that for my service " . By time I was drafted from my draft bored which was in 1947 I had made nine trips in totall , And that is the most of any Seagoing Cowboy
It was worth my time to be able to take those Nine trips . I was in Europe and also China . But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was my favorite of all time . It was also very fun to take a gondola ride in Italy , Venice
the city with streets of water . Being inn the Seagoing Cowboys
was one of my favorite things you can say different but I loved it . | 3 |
c8d4629 | Studing venus is not a worthy pursuit despiting the dangers it prevents, becasue it is dangereous, it can kill anything that lands on it, and becasue it is not a healthy planet. "Venus is one of the biggest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amature stargazer to spot." "In our solar system, venus is the second planet from our sun."
Venus is dangerous because in paragragh two it calims that each previos mission was unmanned, and for a good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. This issue exapins why not a single spaceship has touched down on venus in more than three decades. Numerous factors to study, despite its proximity to us. A thick atmosphere of almost of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfiric acid in Venus's atmosphere.
Why it kills things that land on Venus is becasue on the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times grater than what we experince on our own planet. These conditions are far more extreame than anything humans encounter on Earth: such an enviornment would crash even a submarine accustomed to dividing to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals.According to paragragh 3 its aslo notable, venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though murcury is closer to our sun. Beyond high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes to probes seekignto land on its surface.
NASA has one particularly compeling idea for sending humans to study Venus. Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditons by staying up and out of their way. At thirty plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees fahrenhiet. but the air pressure would be close to that od sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful, and radtiation would not exceed Earth levels. not easy conditions but survivable for humans. Claimed paragragh 5.
Acording to paragragh 4, long ago venus was probably covered largely with oaceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet's surface is rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountians, and crators. Many resaerchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last longer enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus. Paragragh 8 claims our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 4 |
c8d81fe | Dear Senator, my name is PROPER_NAME and I think we should change the popular vote because us voters aren't even voting for a president and that is not right. That's just saying we have no freedom of anything because we aren't really citizens of the United States Of America. We aren't citizens because we can't even vote for our own president so how are we supposed to be "proud americans?" These electors can defy the will of us "proud americans". "And that those electors could always defy the will of the people."
The state legislatures are responsible for this happening. "Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors." Here's an example of what almost happen to president John F. Kennedy. "Back in 1960, segregationists in the Louisana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy." This was a way of not giving John F. Kennedy his earned votes. "(So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy.)"
These electors do not even vote for the people their party's candidate and cast. They vote for whomever they please. "In the same vein, "faithless" electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please...." Richard Nixton tried to cheat also. "Oh, and if a state sends two slates of electors to congress?" this is what happened. "It happened in Hawaii in 1960. Luckily, Vice President Richard Nixon, who was presiding over the Sentate, validated only his opponent's electors, but he made sure to do so "without establishing a precedent."
this is why we should change the popular vote. There is too much cheating and mischief. | 3 |
c8dc41b | Venus is the second planet in our solar system, and despite how close it is to Earth, is largely unexplored. The reason why its been untouched for around 30 years is that Venus is too hot and has too much atmospheric pressure, which would crush and melt any spacecraft on its surface. Another reason is that there are clouds of corrosive sulfuric acid. However, NASA is working on ways to study Venus more safely.
In the passage, the author talks about why astronomers are facinated with Venus. They talk about how how the astronomers think that Venus used to be more Earth-like than it is today, with its valleys, mountains, and craters, in paragraph 4. Though in pragraph 3, the challenges presented by trying to study Venus more closley have more negatives than positives. One of the biggest problems in that Venus has the hottest surface temperature of the planets in the solar system, despite that Mercury is closer to the sun than Venus. Another problem being faced is the immense atmospheric pressure, which is around 90 times greater than Earth's.
The author also talks about how NASA is trying to find ways to counteract these problems. One example that they give, in paragraph 7, is that simple electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber that closley emulates the surface conditions of Venus. NASA has found that the technology lasted three weeks under those conditions. Another way that NASA is trying to solve the problems of Venu's surface is by using old, mechanical computers, which don't use the same kind of technology as regular, modern computers, but gears and levers instead.
In conclusion, putting a spacecraft on the surface of Venus may be a possibility in the future, or we may never find a way to keep a spacecraft on the surface for more than a few weeks at a time, which is cost ineffective. But as the author says in paragraph 8, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts, but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." | 3 |
c8dd865 | Venus is a planet that is like Earth, only without life and water. It is the second closest planet to the sun. This makes it the hottest planet, hotter than Mercury, which is closer to the sun. This planet is special, though. It keeps people from examining it closely because of its conditions. The planet is too hot, the pressure is high, and it also has a thick atmosphere that makes it hard to see, but we can overcome that with some ideas and by studying it more.
Venus is like Earth in a lot of ways. It is believed to have had water and life on it before, and it even has physical features like Earth. It also is almost the same size and density as Earth. Scientists want to explore this because it is there first option for space travel. Earth is sometimes closer to Venus than it is to Mars. They want to find out the best way to make it hospitable for people to live there. They have sent unmanned probes there to scout out the territory and to find samples and more evidence that could help them. However, the probes don't last long because of the harsh atmosphere.
There are a couple reasons why it is hard to study. The planet is simply too hot and melts metals easily and quickly. The pressure is higher than our ocean, meaning it can crush us and even a submarine easily. There is also a thick atmosphere made of 97% carbon dioxide that blocks our vision. There are clouds of highly corrosive sulferic acid in the atmosphere too. There are also casual earthquakes, lightining, and volcanoes erupting. Scientists want to discover more things about Venus because it was like Earth, and the won't stop.
There are a couple of things that scientists have though of so far. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has though of a flying craft that is in the air above the surface of Venus. This way its not too hot and the pressure isn't too high. However, this won't work because they still can't see past the dense atmosphere. There are more tests like putting things in a simulation of Venus's surface to see how long it could last. There is also a thought of making the machines not so fragile like our technology these days that can be more resistant to the forces of Venus.
The author thinks that overcoming the obstacles and challenges that Venus has for us has value. He thinks this because it will lead us into more exciting "endeavors." The author thinks that our travels shouln't be limited. He believes they should be expanded " to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." I believe the author wants to know more and is curious about the unknown. The author does a great job showing all of the dangers and benefits of traveling and examining Venus. Even the title shows that it won't be easy. The planet is currently too hot, it blocks our vision from above, and the pressure is too high, but we can overcome that by making more ideas and by studying this planet more. | 4 |
c8e4d24 | The article "Unmaking the Face on Mars" explains how the Face on Mars was not made by aliens but was actually made naturally and is called a mesa. The Face was not made by aliens but does remesble a human head, the Face was also a natural landform, and the Face finally is just a mesa even though people still believe that it was created by aliens.
The Face was not created by aliens it was actually just a rock that was shaped like a human face with a nose eyes and a mouth. A quote from the article that supports my answer of how I know that the Face was not created by aliens and the it was actually just a rock that was shaped like a human face with a nose, eyes and a mouth is "A few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see. The caption noted a huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars." This quote supports my answer because it explains how NASA said that it was just a rock formation that resembled a human head. Another way of how I know that the Face was not created by aliens but was resembled a human head is it was also a natural landform and not an alien monument after all. A quote from the article that supports my answer of of how I know that the Face was not created by aliens but was resembled a human head is it was also a natural landform and not an alien monument after all is "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." This quote from the article supports my claim of how I know that the Face was not created by aliens but was resembled a human head is it was also a natural landform and not an alien monument after all because it explains how the rock formation was a natural landform after further reasearch was done and revealing to the world that the Face was not an alien monument after all. Finally, not everyone was satisfied so NASA did some more research and on April 8, 2001 they took a great photo of the Face and found that it was indeed a mesa. A quote from the article that supports my asnwer of how the Face was not created by aliens but was just a butte or natural landform is " 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." This quote supports my answer by explaining how the Face was not alien made and was just a natural landform.
In conclusion the Face was not alien made but was just a natural landform. The Face was not created by aliens it was actually just a rock that was shaped like a human face with a nose eyes and a mouth. The face was also a mesa, and new high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASAs Mars Global Survey spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is, a mesa. After reading my essay I want you to think about how the Face was not created by aliens but was actually created naturally. I also want you to think about all of the reasons I have stated eariler in my essay that support my claim of the Face not being created by aliens but naturally. | 4 |
c8ebe7a | There are many car free cities. Germany suburb life goes on without cars, Automobiles are the linchoin of suburbs. They to to say that it is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas, passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of green house gas. In Paris driving has been ban to clear the air of the global society, motorists were orderd to leave there cars at home or suffered a 31$ fine. Almost 4,000 drivers were fined and people had their cars inpound for their reaction to the fine.
Cars have been banned with only buses, taxis permitteed for the day. the goal was to promote alterenative transportation and reduce smog. Not even the rain has stopped people from participating, "its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution,' said Carlos Arturo Plaza. a day without cars is an improvement campaign that begaN in Bogota in the late mid-1990s.
In the United States, recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. The question was asked; has America passed peak driving? the United States, with its broad expanses and suburban ideals, had long been one of the world's prime cultures. But Americas love affair with its vehicles seeems to be cooling. When adjusted for popullation growth, the number of miles driven in the united states peaked in 2005 dropped steadily. Americans could not afford new cars, and the unemployment weren't going to work anyway.
There are many car free cities. mostly because of green house gasses or many other cuases. Such as stress' and air pollution cars have been banned to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. There are been efforts in the past two decades to make cities denser and better for walking. | 1 |
c8ecd5a | The ship was going back to the main land and we had just gone threw a bad storm,luckily not many had gotten hurt. I walked back to the to the other man who having a boxing match. "So, what are you doing when we get back on land?"Don asked. "I'll hopfully convince some young men to join the program. Last time I didn't get lucky."I told him. "Get ready cause we are almost hitting land." Don told me.
I got of the boat and smelled the fresh air of New York. I had rented a home their to live in while I got some men to participate in the program. I put my stuff in the house, took my keys, got in the car, and rode of into the city.
Once I got there i started to walk around and found a group of men by an abandon building.
"Hello there I would like to talk to you about a program called the Seagoing Cowboys-" The boys interupted me and started to laugh.
"Wow there we aren't to do some silly Cowboy thing. What are we going to go riding aroung town on ponies?"one boy said. All the others started to laugh while the boy started jumping around yelling "he ha".
"This is a serous matter and I would like you boys to listen."Luke said frusterated.
"Whatever."the boy said rolling his eyes.
"After WW ll many countries in Europe were left destruction cause of the war. So 44 nations joined together and created UNRRA who hired "Seagoing Cowboys". Seagoing Cowboys took care of animals that were shipped overseas. It isn't only that it's also an opportunity for you to go out and see how other countries work. I think you people might like it yourself."I said but none of the boys seemed interested.
"No thanks."they said and walked away. Except one boy.
"Uh, can you tell me more about this program you are talking of?"He asked with wide eyes seeking more information.
"Ok well I went to this one place where I......"I told him more and more about how exicting it was. I later learned the boy's name was Billy and Billy was the first one who sighned up.
The next week me and Billy looked and looked through the city to find any other young men who wanted to join. We only found ten. Later that week I called Don and asked him where he was at.
"I'm somewhere near you."He said.
"What do you mean?"I asked then I heard a knock on the door, "Sorry I'm gonna have to talk later someones at the door." But it didnt matter cause he had already hung up.
I opened the door and there was Don. "How did you get here so fast and still call me I mean there is no such thing has phones that aren't conected to walls! Or are there?"I wondered.
"Nah could never happen," Don said, "I'll rented the house next door."
"What really?!"
"Yep I'm here to help."
"Great cause i need alot."I said.
The next day Don and I met up with Billy.
"Billy this is Don." I said.
"Don this is Billy."
"Ready Billy."Don said.
"Sure am."He responeded.
That whole week we worked really hard to get people to join the program. Two months later and we were already nearly 200 hundred people."Ok tomorrow I'm suposed to turn in the forms with all the names."I said. "Where do we turn all of them in?"Billy asked while eating bannna. "New Jeresy.'I told them. "Here we go!"I said. | 2 |
c8f48f9 | Automobiles have become a necessity to keep our world functioning. Unfortunately, there are irreparable damages that cars can cause to the environment, which is one of the arguments used by people supporting the idea of driverless cars. The process of creating these cars undoubtedly takes a lot of money, along with other issues. While the development of driverless cars prompts a progressive future for the automobile industry, there are too many issues against this form of driving, like safety regulations, how the current laws on driving will be affected, and how to deal with accidents and lawsuits, so driverless cars are not an ideal thing to continue developing.
The number one concern involves how safe these cars can be. Although companies like Google take safety measures and thoroughly test the cars, there still is an element of uncertainty. With normal cars, it's up to the driver to pay attention to the road. The driverless cars claim to have sensors that detect any unusual activity, like Google's Toyota Prius, which has a LIDAR, a sensor that will use laser beams to update a 3-D model of the car's surroundings (Paragraph 4). This is one of the many sensors that each have a unique job and are needed to keep the car functioning. One problem that arises with these sensors is the reliability of them. Technology fails all the time, like a phone or television, and there are people that are hired to fix those issues. With driverless cars however, if someone were to crash or be stuck on the road for an unknown reason (because this technololgy is relatively new), will there be someone that can immediately fix the car? Because of the little reliabilty in this technology, there are a variety of safety concerns that would repel buyers.
The process of getting these cars on the market for normal people will take a long time. There will certainly be a number of government officials that will oppose this new technology because of how much it will change the laws involving driving. The laws currently reflect situations involving human beings behind the steering wheel, which is deemed the most safe form of driving. There are still states that oppose even testing the cars. Even if the rest of the states follow the few that already allow testing of driverless cars, there are too many changes that will be made regarding the law system. Since the biggest priority is safety, the laws will need to emphasize a back up plan from manufacturors if anything was to happen to the car-not involving the person behind the wheel.
With this new technology, lawsuits will start to become a blur. Deciding who was more responsible for the accident will get increasingly difficult. It will involve having to figure out every time the driver took control of the wheel, and whether the other cars were driverless or not (which will also have to be evaluated). This will make every lawsuit become more complicated than necessary. If there was a situation where the manufacturor was at fault, the credibilty of them and the reliabilty of the car will decrease. There will need to be new regulations set for any situation possible, in addition to the many laws involving normal cars. Driverless cars will become increasingly time consuming to deal with instead of making lives easier.
There are too many issues against this form of driving, like safety regulations, how the current laws on driving will be affected, and how to deal with accidents and lawsuits, despite the fact that driverless cars claim to make driving safer and easier. This branch of the industry will cost a lot of money, and would be a waste if it were not successful. People today like being in control of their environment, and driverless cars will take that away. | 6 |
c8fb95a | The painting by Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa is very famous around the world and people wondered for years. What was Mona Lisa's emotions?
her emotions are 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted,6 percent fearful,and 2 percent angry. And you would ask how do you find that out well its this new peice of technology called the Facial Action Coding System.
Do you think this technology should be used in clasrooms to read students emotions. Yes I think that it should be used in classrooms because it would help in so many situations. For example if the teacher hands out an assignment and it shows that the students are confused then that means you could go over it with them and find out what they dont understand. Also the tehnology could find out what the students are feeling in class or if they are getting picked on and you could find out their emtion by it. The third example would be that if the students enjoy the subject or class. And if not change up your teacheing style a little bit to make it more enjoyable.
I think that the Facial Action Coding System in classrooms. It would have so many benifits. | 3 |
c902512 | Citizens in the USA , Vauban, Germany and Paris , Bogota,Colombia all have to make changes. Greenhouse affect and pollution from cars is out of proportion. Its about time to make a diffrece so greenhouse effect and pollution dont end everything.
Vauban, Germany has taken extreme measures for an experimental district on the outskirts of Freiburg. Vauban streets are car free for the people who live there. People can own a car but have to pay $40,000 for a space in a garage.70% of families dont own a car; and 57% sold a car to move there. Heidrun Walter said " when i had a car i was always tense , I'm much happier this way''.Vauban has come to be a trend in Europe , United States has started to plan a movement called '' smart planning''. Experts say that ''to reduce greenhouse gas we have to drastically reduce emission from tailpipes''. Passenger cars are responsible for 12% og greenhouse gases in Europe , and up 50% in car-intensive areas in the U.S.A . Vauban has mad suburbs more compact and more accessible to public transportation and less space for parking. In this new approach stores are placed a walk away on the main street , better then mall in a distant highway.
In paris we never really think of near record pollution we think about love but arent we wrong. Paris enfored a partial driving ban to clear the air of global city. Drivers where order to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22- euro fine ($31). 4,000 drivers were fined and 27 people had their cars impounded. Congestion was down 60% in the capital of france after five day of intensifying smog. Smog is very rivaled in Beijing , China which is know for being the most polluted cities in the world. Diesael fuel was blamed since France has a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline. Smog in Paris has cleard enough for them to recind the ban for odd-number plates.
Bogota , Colomia has a car free day leaving the streets emty. This was third straight year cars have been banned with only busses and taxis permitted for a day. Businessman Carlos Arturo said '' its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution''. The day without cars has started in the mid-1990s , it has 118 miles of bicyle paths for people to use. Parks and sports centers have also bloomed throughout the city . Restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up. The rates of car ownership per household has come down two. If this pattern persist greenhouse gas effect will go down.
Transportation is the second largest source in America ; But people not buying cars will have a negative implication for car industry. Mimi Sheller states diffrent facts 1)internet makes people communicate without driveing 2)the rise in cellphones and car pooling has facilitated more felxible commuting arrangements. A study last year found that young people dereased 23% between 2001 and 2009 .
Lastly Citizens in the USA , Vauban, Germany and Paris , Bogota,Colombia all have to make changes. Thier changes have madE it less smog. People are more commute to having no cars ; the get out more and enjoy thier walk to the park to the store more then being rush to drive in traffic. When the now car day comes to America people will be mad but have to understand you cant pollute the world you need the world to live. | 2 |
c905591 | Driverless cars are have been under development as various companies, including Google, look to achieve this goal. Although driverless cars provide a new form of transportation and advance the modern world in the aspect of technology, the integration of these cars on the roads display a variety of concerns. The development of driverless cars should be halted as these cars pose various scenarios that can be harmful to both the passengers and pedestrians creating confusing situations for the driver and many these vehicles pose issues regarding the law.
The development of driverless cars and the implementation of these innovations on the roads creates threats to both the citizens in and out of the vehicle. The article discusses how the semi-autonomous cars present today are still dependent on the driver to take over the wheel as navigation becomes an issue for the driver. When such a situation arises, the communication between the driver and the vehicle can cause a confusing scenario for the driver. The article states "the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." Expecting the human to be alert when a situation arises is a lot to ask, considering the fact that the driver could be distracted as he or she may feel that they do not need to tend to the vehicle. In addition, modern innovations such as social media being readily accessible allow for the driver to easily alter their mind from concentrating on the road. Another key point is the manner in which the communication between the car and the human driver is not as innovated as required. For example the article states that the Google car "simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over." Although the announcement is a plausible form of communication, it is likely that the human driver is distracted enough to ignore the command to take over. The other forms of communication, like the flashing lights and other heads-up displays require the driver to be looking straight at the road, and not down at their cell-phones. Overall, the lack of effective communication endangers the pedestrians and the other passengers in the vehicle.
An alternative reason that the development of driverless cars should be halted is due to the various issues they pose to the law. The article states that only four of the nations fifty states allow some form of limited use of these cars. In the case of an accident, liability becomes another source of issue. Because there is no human controlling the car, the driver cannot be expected to take the blame for the accident, and nor can the manufacturer whose responsibility was to create the vehicle. Although various car companies, including Telsa, Nissan, Audi, and Mercedes-Benz claim to release these autonomous cars in the future, it is hard to believe that any one of these companies is ready to claim responsibility for a death or injury that occurs in there company's innovation. In addition to this, the article claims "in most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars." If the large portion of this country restricts working on this technology, safety and proper productivity of the car cannot be guaranteed as companies will focus more on the sales they are achieving. The numerous amount of issues that the development of these driverless cars pose against the law have the potential to create chaos in public transportation as no one can guarantee a safety net.
The innovation of autonomous cars should be halted as these vehicles pose various scenarios in which the safety of the people is put at risk. These cars introduce the human driver to confusing scenarios that can result from distraction on the road. The law also opposes the development of these vehicles as they believe in the minimal safety that accompanies these driverless cars. Because autonomous cars oppose the safety of the citizens, their development should be stopped immediately to avoid dangerous situations and issues in the future. | 5 |
c906156 | Venus, whats it made out of? What are the dangers? Why haven't we gotten so much information on it? There are lots of questions people have about Venus. "Evening Star" they call it. It's not really a star but it is very bright. Venus is the closest planet to Earth despite Mars. Venus is made of gas and the surface is 800 degress Fahrenheit,which makes it impossible for any spacecraft to survive on its surface. In paragraph 2, it states that humans have sent numerous spacecrafts to land on the planet, but can only last a few hours. It is worth trying again and again to try and get up to Venus and try to study more of it. Heres why.
Venus is a gas planet,right? The tempature on there is extreme but we have devices that can actually get close to the planet. In paragraph 7, it says that in the 1940's during World War II there were devices that could make calculations without using any electricity at all. They are mechanical computers that can possibly stand the heat near Venus. The modern day computers are powerful and very useful but they cannot stand a chance between the extreme heat on Venus. It would just melt.
Even if technology does not work, we still have humans. In paragraph 5,it states that they can in fact send humans to Venus. They can send scientists to float above the planet. They wouldn't be comfortable because they would still be in 170 degree tempature, but they can still with stand it. The author compares it to a jetplane that can hover across storms and extreme weather at a high altitude. The scientists would be miles away from the planet but they can still make observations while being far away.
Venus is a beatiful planet, but if you get too close to it you might just burn to a crisp. Thats why we have NASA and other wonderful reasources to study Venus.Tune in next time on, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus"! | 3 |
c9068a7 | "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 curisoty will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." The author of the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author supports his idea well by giving details on what challenges Venus gives, reasons as to why scientists are fascianted on exploring the planet, and plausible solutions on how to explore Venus despite the complications.
The author presents details as to why Venus is a challenge to explore by giving descriptions on its envrionment. In paragraph 3, the article states "...Venus has the hottest surface temperature on any planet in our solar system..." and "...planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit..." These statements provide a sensory detail of why humans aren't able to withstand the conditions of Venus, because it is extremely hot for us to withstand. Another example is, "...Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface." This demonstrates the complication as to why spacecrafts have a hard time landing on Venus to explore, which is weather and environmental factors impose a threat to damaging the spacecraft.
The author in the article helps support his idea by giving reasons as to why scientists are fascianted on exploring the planet Venus. In paragraph 4, it states "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." This examines why scientists are curious on exploring the planet because if it has been the most Earth-like planet it "...could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth," as stated in the fourth paragraph. Another example is "...Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel." This exclaims that since Venus is not that far away to travel to compared to other planets, it cuts down space travel time which is beneficial to humans since they cannot live hundreds of years.
The author continues to supports his ideas by proposing plausible solutions on how to explore Venus despite the complications. In paragraph 5, it says "... a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way." This example provides information on how a hovering vehicle would help astronauts to avoid the environmental factors making it easier to explore Venus by aerial view. In paragraph 7, it states "Another project is looking back to an old techonology called mechanical computers... these devices make calculations by using gearws and levers and do not require electronics at all." This example helps exancuate on how old technology can help collect data on Venus by being able to be more resistent to its conditions compare to modern technology that is delicate.
Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagnication and innovation. The author highlighted points as to why Venus would be a difficult planet to explore, but expunds on the solutions and inspirations why its a worthy pursuit. The author exclaimes his points by giving details on what challenges Venus gives, reasons as to why scientists are fascianted on exploring the planet, and plausible solutions on how to explore Venus despite the complications. | 5 |
c909c7d | Dear Mr. Senator,
My name is PROPER_NAME, I'm here to talk to you about keeping the electoral college. The electoral college is a prodess that our founding fathers established. Its said to be in pur decleration as part of the 23rd amendment. For so the district of Columbia is allocated 3 elctors but only for the electoral college. With saying we vote every 4 years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. When a citizan votes for their candidate choice they are also voting for the candidate's electors.
There are ups and downs to having the Electoral College. For one the peoples opinion should matter. They were given a gallup poll in which over 60% of the voters prefer a direct election. In 2000 we had our great fiasco which was the biggest election crisis. Eventually the electoral college fixed it. When ever the votes are tied the house of representatives get involved which can change the whole election.
With saying all of this there are 5 reasons to keep our lovely electoral college:
1) Certainty of outcome:
Disputes are possible but very unlikely to happen. There are a total of 538 million votes. So its very easy for there to be a landslide of a vote.
"In 2012's election Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney recieved all the basis."
2) Everyone's President:
One region (south, northeast, etc.) does not have enough votes to elect a president. In saying that no favorite candidate recieves any electoral votes just because he increased his plurality in states that for a fact he can win in.
3) Swing States:
The winner-take-all method shows the candidates that they should pay attention to the toss-up states. These states will pay very close attention to the candidates campaign, showing that they need to focus on their campaigns. The toss-up states are more likely to be the thoughtful voters and the most thoughtful votes should decide the election.
4) Big States:
"A large state gets more attention from presidental candidates in a campaign than a small state does"
5) Avoid Run-Off Elections:
The electoral college avoids having an election in which no candidate recieves the majority of the votes.
Thank you,
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
c90a358 | According to the article, I think this technology would be very useful to students in a classroom. The article states "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal." The video imagery tracks these facial movements in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa. Each expression is compared against a neutral face. It also can be identified by mixed emotions.
The classrom computer could recognize when a student is confused or bored. That's not what we notice everyday in life on a computer in class. This computer will be able to recognize our emotions as if we were happy or sad. If we smile, a smiliar ad will appear on our screen but if we are unhappy then the ad will be different. It can modify the lesson like an effective human instructor. The same technology can also make computer-animated faces more expressive! So that could be for video games and also video surgery.
This tecnology will even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one. Its all about muscular action units. In a real smile the zygomatic major lift the corner of your mouth. But in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using the different muscle, the risorius. Not all computers can just detect our facial expressions just like that. This technology can do just about that!
In conclusion, this technology would be great for students to have in the classroom! Not only will this technology detect their facial expressions but moving your facial muscles can help produce them! This technology would be able to indicate very specific emotions that not us humans would be able to tell what kind of emotion someone else is having. This will show us how technology is getting better and even smarter. How interesting technolgy is getting everyday. | 3 |
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