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cda1813 | The "Face on Mars" may seem like is was created by aliens but it is just a coincidence that the landform looks just like a face. The "Face on Mars" is in fact just a mesa but with "unusual shadows that made it look like an Egytian Pharaoh". In my opinion,it may seem like a alien has created the face on Mars but I belive that such a thing as alien do not exist.
The picture of the face being in 1976 did not have good quality with the high technology we have today. So when Michael Malin and his MOS team took a photo of the face recently people were shocked to find out that the face is just a natural landform. Also, not many scientist belive that the face is a alien artifact either. The face on Mars is just a "huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth."
The "Face on Mars" may seem like it was created by aliens but it was just a coincidence that the natural landform resembled a human face. The shadows around the face make the landform seem like it has a mouth, nose, and eyes but it is just a mesa. In conclusion, the face that was captured on a region on Mars, Cydonia, is in fact a natural landform and was not formed by aliens. | 3 |
cda310b | The Electoral College is a "process" "between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens" (1). The Electoral Collage was created by the founding fathers and was written in the Constitution. The Electoral Collage should be kept instead of popular vote because the Electoral Collage is easier to decide who becomes President and it is chosen by a better educated person.
To start, the Electoral Collage helps in deciding who is gonna be the President. "Certainity of outcome, everyones President, swing states, big states, and avoid run-off elections" (Posner). The reason is that the winning candidate's share of the Electoral Collage invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote" (18). "This is a desirable result because a candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president" (19). "...the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election" (20). "So, other things being equal , a large state gets more attention from presidental candidates in a campaign than a small state does..." (21). "The Electoral Collage avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast" (22).
Secondly, when voting for Electoral Collage "you are actually voting for your candidate's electors" (6). "Each candidate running for President is your state has his or her own group of electors" (5). "The electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are..." (5).
Although the Electoral Collage sounds simple, there are some problems that occur. "...According to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore--thanks to the quirks of the electoral collage-- won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now" (9). "Under the electoral collage system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president" (10).
To conclude, the Electoral Collage is easier to decide who is becomes the President and it is chosen by a better educated person. "Voters in a presidental elections are people who want to express a politcal preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election..." (23). | 2 |
cda556e | Join the UNRRA Seagoing Cowboys
Did you know that many European countries are in ruins from the catastrophic World War 2? What are we doing,what are we doing this for, and why should you join are the most asked questions. By the end of this you will want to join myself along witht he rest of the crew.
We are helping the people who's homes and lives were destroyed. We help in recovering their food supplies, animals, and much more. We also try to relocate them to an area where they can thrive. Somewhere they can live in peace with the war ended.
We all do this for the good of the country and the innocent people who were wrongly invovled in the war. We are trying to help the ones who can't help themsevles. So ,with our help, they can sleep in their own beds instead of on the ground where your house used to be. Imagine you were in their place with no idea what you were going to do. Without knowing where your next meal was coming from, or even worse, your children's meals,
You should join us and help the many people in need. You would see the happy faces of many for helping them in this time of extreme need. You would be saving people and children all across Europe. You would be venturing and be able to sight see. See the places you dreamed of. Seeing the sparkle in people eyes is enough to make your heart nearly glow. You will give them a home and even inspiration to help humanity.
In conclusion, you should join us in our little adventure helping humanity. You have learned what are we doing, what are we doing this for, and why should you join. I think everyone would be suprised if you turned down this great oppurtunity.But hopefully, in the future, there will be no need of groups like these becuse mankind will cease to continue to have wars and catastrophes like this one. | 3 |
cdabeb5 | The author actually supports this idea that venus is worthy to pursuit despite the dangers it presents very well. They do give us some information that may make us think its dangerous but he give us more information that supports his claim. In the passage the author talks about how Venus is very much like earth. It states that "Often refered to as earths twin venus is the closest planet to earth in terms of density and size,and occasionally the closest in distance too"This shows how the author believes that Venus is like earth and if it is it means that was the authors suggests is very true.
Despite some dagerous things in venus there was also beauitiful things. In the passsage it states 'Long ago Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like earth" .This sentence explains to us the wonders of that Venus may have been that shows us and makes us see that venus had beautiful places and they had nothing to do with danger. Although yes Venus may not be safe now it was safe long ago. People who would have studided it before were not in danger because Venus was very much like earth. If venus is like earth than it is not dangerous because earth is not dangerous. In the passage it also states "Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth. The planet had a surface to rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys,mountains,and craters". This statment explains to us the safe things venus has because mountains and and valleys and craters arent meant to be dangerous they are meant to be a place where people can go and study and see the beauties of the planets.
The Author does do a very good job suggesting what he believes. There is no doubt that Venus would be an amazing place to pursuit despite all the dangers. Some examples of why it is a good place to pursuit are it state in the passage" venus can sometimes be our nearest option for plantary visit,a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel"This is saying that Alot of people love to pursuit earth so why not venus if its the next closest thing to earth. It would be good to pursuit beause there can be new features that can be found there may be life over there that we may not know about and if people would pursuit studying venus they can be the ones to find out further things about venus. Thats why stdying venus is worthy to pursuit because you can find very interesting things. There are more better things than dangerous things it outbeats it .All this evidence from the text is showing what the author suggests about venus and how it is very much true and he gives very good expmples of that and how he supports this idea very much. | 3 |
cdae844 | In the story Venus is sometimes called the ''Evening Star'' is one of the brightest points in the night sky,making it simple for even an amateur stargaze to spot. The nickname was misleading because Venus is actually a planet. Often referred to as Earth's ''twin'' Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size,and occasionally the closest in distance too. Venus is sometimes around the corner in space terms humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud draped world. Each previous mission was unmanned and for good reason,since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. On the planet's surface,temperature average over 800 degress Fahrenheit,and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than we experience on our own plant. Also Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system even though Mercury is closer to our sun. Long ago Venus was maybe or probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like Earth. Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere,rendering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective. Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow their machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to their knowledge of Venus. NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions. Studying to meet the challange presented by Venus has value,not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. The author wants to know everything about Venus and will do anything to get the information he wants. | 1 |
cdb7f7e | Do you think teachers should have the technology to read the emotional expessios of students in a classroom? I think it is valuable for teachers to be able to read the expressions on our face, because if a teacher can't read what a student has trouble with then they will keep geting it wrong. Or if a student is sad the teacher need to know so she can try to help you. Also a teacher should be able to tell when we are happy so they know we are going to try are harded to keep up the good work and make the teachers and prantes pround so we can be happy all the time.
Let's say your getting fustadued at a teacher and the teacher can't tell so she won't help, beacuse your afraid to tell her then you get in trouble because you went off on the teacher. The teacher send you to the office and then your parents have to come in and talk and you tell them what happend then they wont beleive you because they would of thought you would of said something or at least asked for them to help.
If your happy and a teacher can tell thats always a good think because then they wont try to make you mad because they dont know what made you happy or how. so the hint is just teast others like you want to be treated because if you don't karma will come back your way. The way the teachers see it the more work your willing to turn in the less the will give you so dont burn your bridges.
Now do you think we teachers should be able to read there studens face? Well i do because if there not able to school can be so much harder and there will be conquinces like grades drop and you just don't want to do anything anymore. So therefore thats why I think teachers need to have the technolgy to read our faces. Students would like school so much more if the teachers were able to understand what has happened and how much pressure it would take off of us. | 3 |
cdb8035 | Diverless car are a great idea and it world be fun to have them driveing around. Why not have cars around that can drive themself there would be so many positive thing that come from it, like it make for beter safe cars, tecnology world have to get beter, and good to start for new driver.
First, driverless car world be good for make a beter safe cars. At the start the car may not seem safe at first,but that why the we can just keep making them. So they first one not safe so we look and learn from your miskates just like we did for are space prgram he didn't get it right for the first time. If don't get it right the first time don't give up look at what you did wrong and learn from it.
Next, technologey well get beter. Your world today is constedly evoling, we got the hoverbored, Iphone7 Ps4&Xbox1,just a lot of new things all together,so why can't we have driverless cars? I think people asked that same question that why in 2013 the BMW annouced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant". The BMW company is readey to move on with the world and with new technology,why not follow in their footsteps.
Lastly, it a great way to get new driver ready for the rode. I now some people lean beter though audio and that what you can get though driverless cars. In the article they said something about google talking to you when yoy need to take control sometime. I know the compiny can dessin that to help new drivers of the rode and from we can worry less and less about new drivers.
So people might say that cars are safer when hand drive at the article say that ,also that people world get more lazy they they are now and cause more acidateed,But it simpley not true driverless car till require you to ready at all time if simething does go wroung and the car warrons you then you're resposible for it not the car. You can trust the car but not the driver.
Overall I think it world be a good idea to have driverless car take less strees out of drivering. When your in traffic just sit and think to yourself or watch tv thinking that you are going to be later for a imported meating. In not they car fult it the commuity. | 3 |
cdb8686 | Having cars is great for getting around efficiently but ther are some down sides to driving motor vehicles. Some reasons are the way it affects our atmosphere and how it decreases our phisical activity. This is why we need to cut back on driving motor vehicles.
My first reason is the way driving affects the atmosphere. In Paris the government enforced rules stating that "motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine." This is because the cars were emitting smog which is a gas that lingers in the air polluting it. The smog was getting worse than Bejing, China "one of the most polluted cities in the world."
The second reason we need to cut back on driving motor vehicles is it is limiting our phisical activity. In Bogota, Colombia they started a movement "a day without cars." the were fining everybody with the exceptions of buses and taxis. On this day a lot of Colombians hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work on this day. "Municipal authorities from other countries came to Bogota to see the event and were enthusiastic." Some effects of this movement were straight paved sidewalks and sports centers for people to enjoy.
In conclusion, if we cut back on driving motor vehicles we will have cleaner air and no smog and we will get more phisical activity by using other methods of getting around instead of using a motor vehicle. | 3 |
cdc1cff | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Throughout the reading he talks about how it'll put an impact on daily driving and how modern day cars will be self driving and automatic. In 2009 Google had made a vehicle that'd support the idea of self driving vehicles by creating and designing one himself.
The positives and negatives of being able to own one of these vehicles or being able to have the oppurtunity of them being manuafactured throughout the United States or other countries could have an impact on the world itself. In paragraph one it stated that Google cofounder Sergey Brin had envisions of public transportation systems where fleets of driverless cars became the new form of taxi transportation. The vehicles he foresees would use half of the fuel of todays transportational vehicles. What that means is that the environment around you would have less smog and less toxins in the air. With that being said it could dramatically change how people would be able to get to work everyday. Instead of using a bus and waiting for the stop it'll open up another door for them to use the cars that are self driven and that could be more effeciant with the time of them arriving to their destination.
Now,we will be discussing the negatives of having the cars built. The cost of the technology that needs to be put inside of each cars could cost more than the actually shell itself. If it uses an amazing amount of wiring and sensors then they will also run into electric problems and the hassal of spending all of the time and money on one car. With the gps reciever,four automotive radar sensors,a video camera that is installed near the rearview mirror,and many other things that are needed to even start the "self driving program" just isn't worth it in my opinion. The system will always have a flaw and so will humans. But humans have the skill of being able to get out of sticky situations. The computers inside of the car won't be able to sense all of the risks on the local street or on the highway compared to a humans abilitys and sight. The computers on the vehicle only examine the surroundings and the speed. But how close is soon? An accident could be avoided in most cases because of manual driving. Having a computer that is only set to go a certain speed and to use just the programs on it to avoid certain things isn't worth the time of a regular driver.
In conclusion,I myself would not purchase a vehicle that is assisted and needs all of the technology of doing something that I could do independently. It is a very vague opinion on my part but to me it is a fair share of laziness and the inability to drive a vehicle with basic knowledge. | 4 |
cdc231b | Earth as we know it has been striving for many years but our population is growing rapidly due to everyone havng children and deaths. We can only do so much one day this planet we call earth will be like the rest of the planets. Not being able to live on because of bad conditions. Nasa has been doing other approaches to studying venus. they tried to send a couple space crafts to venus but the rough and cloudy planet made the spacecrafts fail due to the enviroment. Nasa has been doing test to figure out something that can stand the venus enviroment. They haven't sent a spacecraft to venus in three decades. ''The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familir features such as valleys, mountains and craters.'' Venus is the nearest option for us. Venus was probably covered largely with oceans so it probaly could support human life but we still have to take the risks. how would we live on a planet that doesnt even have what we need to survive. A thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide blankets Venus. would we be wearing suits around all day the averge temperture on venus is roughly 800 degress fahrenheit, we dont get past 105 degress fahrenheit. Yes the planet sounds to good to be true but if that is what we have that is atleast like earth we should give it a try. considering the fact of life on another planet is fascinating. We can make the trip to venus but you cant even see it you will by flying over dense clouds and if you go under the clouds it's very hot. In conclusion Venus is like earths sister and if we can find a way to make it liveable to humans we should try it. | 2 |
cdc6945 | In "The Challenge of Explorating Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it persents. The author supports their claim with the excitement in their tone, never negative about a situation, just eager to figure out a solution. In the passage, it is talked about how important the explorations of Venus really is by how comparable it was to Earth in the past. It most likely was once, the most Earth-like planet, "probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life..." (Paragraph 4)
Dedicated to the study of Venus, the author claims how not even the dangers will get in his way. They will just simply work their way around them. What makes the study of venus so important is the large possiblity that it used to be just like how Earth is now. If that's true, first off, the only way to be able to know that for certain is to study it. Secondly, we need to know the dangers of what our world could become. In paragraph 8 of "The Challenge of Explorating Venus", The author says, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." In this quote, the detrmination of the author clearly shines through. There are many "challenges" of venus, like the clouds in the atmosphere made up of highly corrosive sulfuric acid, and how the surface temperature would liquify many mentals. But like in the quote, the studies of Venus need to be continued so that people aren't left to wonder if our would could become like Venus.
The author supports his claim by presenting us with what we could be left without if the studies woudld have to stop. We would be left with no explination of the future of our own planet. Left without the knowledge of what Venus is like. Left to wonder. No one would ever get anywhere if they just gave up when things got hard, and that's what The author is trying to prove. The studies of Venus are extremely valuble, so why would they quit without trying to find a solution. Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers it presents. | 3 |
cdcc97e | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. These cars have been thought of in 2009 and have been driven more than half a million miles without a crash. The negative way is that most people will still have to be alert and this will cost more money, and depending on the crash of both veichle and drive we will not be able to fiigure out who has done it.
Most people are having a hard time focusing on the road just because of texting or being on the phone with others. There were positive ways of the driverless cars,but there are limits these cars can face.
There are some positive ways of the driverless cars. In 2009, google cars has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions. These cars read the positive and negative polarity as messgae in the binary code.There were also sensors at the wheels in the creation of antilock brakes, they have become more advanced in the pass ten years. Further improvements in sensors and computer hardware and software to make driving safer. Driverless cars will give the driver more time to text and finish phone calls with others. Also help in keep drivers, passengers, and pedestrains safe while driving in control.
The negative way of observing driverless cars were the price of how much all this will cost, how most people would react, and weither or not whose fault would it be if a crash has happened. Even though these smart-road systems in the beginning worked, the requried massive upgrades to existing roads and that is way to expensive to be practical. These sensors that car needed you would not just go buy at radio shack, but some where at a highly expensive manufacturers. People would need to be alert the whole time. Some signals would be sent out if you needed to address the wheel, such as a viberating seat, announces when the driver need to take over, or flashing lights on the windshield. Manufacturers are trying to set cameras to watch if the driver is paying attention, but means we are being watched and our privacy will be invaded. Some countries are allowing limited use of the driverless car because traffic laws are written with the objective that is only safe if a car has a human driver in control. If technology fails and someone is injured whose fault is it the driver or the manufacturer. Something could have broken and maybe a signal was not given to the driver causing them to crash. It could aslo be the driver was heavnily intoxicated and could not take control of the car.
In conclusion there are positive and negative ways of the "Driverless Cars Are Coming,". The positive side of seeing this is that there will be less accidents. Cars will also be able to drive independently letting us have more time to text or be on the phone. Sensors will be way improved in near future with the brakes and sending us alerts. The negative way of the driverless cars are that America will be pushed more into debt because of the expensive parts that are needed, if there is a crash no one will know who has done it, and how fast will people react to the signals of the car. | 4 |
cdd506f | Have you ever had a feeling when you absolutely can not wait for something? Well that is how I feel about getting my license. I feel like when you have them you will have the oppurtunity to do much more then sit at home. I don't really think I would enjoy the driverless cars just because i love driving, but older people might enjoy it.
Driverless cars would take a lot of trust to be able to get in the vehicle and let it drive you at a high speed rate. To me at this moment i think driving is a blast and I don't understand why people do not like it. The idea of being behind the wheel of something that can travel you to just about anywhere in the world if you have the time and money to drive there. If we did end up creating driverless cars then we wouldn't worry about speeding a whole lot or the elders driving really slow.
I would worry way to much in a drverless car, eventhough I know the technolgy is through the roof. In my head there is way to many bad things that might happen: going off the road, the car has a power outage, the car just randomly starts to go faster when it needs to slow down. It is just that anything in the world could happen no matter how good our technology is there is going to be atleast one accident. Anything could happen I think it is too risky.
There is this feeling you get when you just can't stand to wait any longer. with driverless cars i think it would ruin the fact that you have your drivers license. Yes you can still go to a lot of places but it just isn't the same and it wouldn't be as much fun neither. I think they shouldn't develop these cars in my lifetime. | 3 |
cddb65e | The article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," describes a new techology called the Facial Action Coding System(FACS for short), this system enables conputers to read facial expressions to identify human emotions. This program can be used in classrooms to find out when a student is bored or confuse, this can help teachers chage their lessons to something that can keep a students active and focased on there studies. As long as the software can only read emotions, read if a student is lying or not and make help make lessons more active, I am for its use in schools.
This program can only read six basic emotions- happiness, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness- and each are associated with different characteristic movements. The way it reads your emotions is by constructing a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles in order for the program to read each emotion. In class this can be used to find confused and bored students and then help the teacher change the lesson so that they can understand it better or become more focased on the lesson. This can help effectively raise grades for students who are prone to becoming confused and bored.
Now this can also be used to figure out if a student or convict is lying or not. Muscles called orbicularis oculi palpabraeus make crow's-feet around your eyes. But in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risorius. Now if someone is fake smiling or keeping a strait face while lying the program can use that to help notify people if someone is lying or not.
The program can help make classes and students, more active and controlled. When knowing if a class is confused or bored can make a big diffence because the lesson or teacher can then be changed to the students likeing so the class can continue on focased and active. Which helps students whom are prone to get distracted.
As long as this program can help students in these ways than schools should invest in this program to keep their students active in their lessons. So then schools wont have to continue constanly be trying new things to figure out how to keep their active and focased. | 3 |
cde0de4 | We as a people should get rid of the Electoral College, and change it to popularity vote to elect the president. People dont vote for the president but instead vote for state electors, And all together the Electoral College is just not fair for the voters.
When people vote they should vote directly to whom they want president instead of letting state electores vote for whom they want without our vote counting. "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect th president." (Bradford Plumer, Mother Jones) Which is stating that we only vote for representatives of our state, at which vote for they want for president. "Because each state cast only one vote, the single representative from Wyoming, representing 500,000 voters, would have as much to say as the 55 represatives from California, who represent 35 million voters. Given that many voters vote one party for president and another for Congress, the House's selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people." (Bradford Plumer, Mother Jones) So the voters really don't get to vote who they want, it's the representatives who vote for the president they want.
"It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational... It's hard to say this but Bob Dole was right: Abolish the electoral college!" (Bradford Plumer, Mother Jones) The electoral college is unfair to the voters and should be taken out of the voting process all together.
Most people would agree and say that the electoral college is unfair to the voters because your vote really dosn't matter it's all up to the state represetative to vote who is president, and thats why the electoral college should not exist. | 3 |
cde8ee7 | The author explains that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents by explaining why there numerous facters to contribute to Venus. The author wants us humans to contribute or learn and study all about venus. The author wants NASA to give humans the chance into studying venus because its has a possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus.
" Nasa is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chameber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions."(paragraph7) The author explains that we need to study all about venus becuase maybe sooner or later we could be using electronics that is from that planet or like something that is from that planet that we made into an electronic.
In conclusion the author provides many textual evidence to support his idea of studying Venus and despiting the dangers of Venus.
The author explains that Astronomers are fascinated by Venus becuase it may well once been the most Earth-like planet in iur solar system, this shows that our scientist and our atronomers are going to also get in involved with this study and would want to know alot more about Venus becuase maybe we just might inhabit this planet soon. | 2 |
cdef38a | Driverless cars can be very useful in the near future. When we all recive one, that can be alot more safe for us but only if we all get them. Having a computer that is programed for our safety can be very helpful protectiong our lives. We all should have driverless cars as soon as they get out because they can save lives and help free up our very bussy scheduals.
If we get driverless cars everyone has to have one for this to work the best in my oppinin. If we all have driverless cars on the same roads as some other normal cars, that can bring danger to us. Trafic can't move as smoothly as wanted because the driverless car would have to worry about the normal car and consily deal with his driving decitions. This will end up slowing down trafic and possible making the human take over which is not the goal.
If everyone had driverless cars they will be no chances that the cars will crash. They are programed and in comunication with the other cars relaying information back and forth of where it is going and what lanes it needs to be in. The cars will let you in and you will never be hurt in a car crash again.
Having a driverless car can free you up to get some much needed free time, or get some last minite work done. If the car is driving you can sit back and relax. You can even just sit and look out the window and see all the things you would have missed driving with your eyes always 100 percent focest on the road. No more consitly worring about what the person ahead of you is doing or some one comes out of nowhere and hits you, causing your death. With the computers everyone will be driving the same, meaning you can get to your desination fast and safe.
All in all the driverless car is the safest and smartest idea I can think of when it comes to the future of driving cars. It has so many advatages to it you couldn't cover it all. To the safety of your body, to getting what needs to be done. Taking away driving is the most resonable thing you can think of doing. Driverless cars is just the smart way to go. | 3 |
cdf420a | If you think the face in mars was created by aliens your wrong. Am about to tell you why your wrong. Am also going to convince you that the face is just a natural landform.
First of all the first picture was blury but we took new ones and they are better.''Michael malin and his mars orbiter camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the orinal viking photos''.The camera also can see anything if ther was life down ther. Michael malin also said ''as a rule of thumb you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size,''he added.''So if ther were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks,you could see what they were!"
In the passage it says that the face is nothing but a land scape form"what the picture actually shows is the martian equivalent of butte or mesa-landforms common around the american west. This also happens on earth sometimes. "It reminds me most of middle butte in the snake river plain of idaho"says Garvin.
So if you still think that the martian land form, as it should be called,was created by aliens, than think twice because thats all the information i need to prove you wrong. | 3 |
cdf4b4f | Discovering neighboring planets and learning what makes up these planets may be the best discoveries that man kind has found. These planets all have flaws of living in some way, shape, or form, but this does not stop scientists from wanting to see what lurks beneath them. The newest mission that scientists and astronauts want to start, is figuring out what life is like on a planet called Venus. Although Venus may be the closest relative to earth, no man should step foot on this planet due to its lethal flaws and the amount of risks needed to be taken.
Similar to earth, Venus more than likely has had life on the planet. Life on this planet could have meant microorganisms or even plants and animals, but facts and evidence shows that living was possible at some point. Even though life may have been possible then, there seems to remain 0 life forms left due to the dangerous conditions, "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on earth." Evidence even shows that this environment would crush a submarine and even liquify metal. Any form of life would die off instantly, including our own. The average body temperature of a person is 98.5 degrees Fahrenheit. temperatures on venus multiply that number by more than 8 times. not even the strongest pieces of equipment that our own planet contains would have a chance to withstand those numbers. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration did give a valid solution that could very well be possible, "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 rolling Venusiam landscape." Studies may think this is the safest route, but the conditions are still not worth risking valueable people's lives. Earlier in the article, the author presented even more impediments such as erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes. These natural disasters alone can devestate the trip. Along with all of the cons of making this mission possible, scientists will only be able to grasp a few pictures and key samples due to the fact that they will be 30 miles above the planet itself.
The study of a new planet is always going to be a fascinating sight, but with all of the dangers and doubts presented in the article, The authors points lean towards a useless mission that could put scientists lives in danger. The trip would help earn little to no evidence at all and no human being can withstand the forces that this planet presents. | 4 |
cdf6869 | The face on Mars cannot be created by aliens if the NASA cameras did not see any people/aliens. On that fact if NASA did see any aliens on Mars they would have kept it top secret and wold have not showed the images to the world. Not saying its true but if NASA had shown an alien on Mars the world would freak out and we wold destroy each other.
Now tell me if you seen an alien on Mars what would you do?
All I am saying is in 1976 if aliens did make that face then why are we still here? Why haven't the aliens came yet ? Because if aliens were to make that face on Mars then that means they seen NASA's cameras circling their planet so they would've found a way to get them down. But I think it's a big pain in the butt to the people that think thier is alien life on a planet in our Solier System.
I also want to no part in this discussing because if you don't want to belive me that is on you to look crazy if front of the world so do what you think is best about it I have to get to back to work. | 2 |
cdff3b2 | Dear Mr. Senator,
My names is PROPER_NAME. I am 14 years old, born and raised in the beautiful city of LOCATION_NAME and I am writing to talk to you about the Electoral College. I've done my research, and according to the article
What Is the Electoral College?
by the Office of the Federal Register, it was first established "in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens." What I understood from that text is that it was made to keep equality and fairness between the government and the people. If that is so, why is it that the people have no say in it? I believe that the election should be based on the popular vote because the people should get what the people want.
The Constitution says "We the people, by the people, for the people," yet the people have limited power. I understand that in order to form a more perfect union of our nations, their must be laws and rules and people who govern, as well as enforce, these laws and rules. All I'm asking for is a bit more freedom and power as a citizen of these United States of America.
I'm not the only one who thinks this way. "...according to a Gallup poll in 2000...over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." Their has been several cases in which the candidate has "won the popular vote but lost the presidency" (Plumer). For instance, the election in 2000 with Al Gore, where his opponent, George W. Bush, received 271 electoral votes and he received 266, eventhough Gore won the popular vote. Instead of voting for a group of people who vote for us, what's the harm in letting the people choose our nation's leader?
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradfor Plumer, has a section titled
What's wrong with the electoral college in which he questions "Can voters control whom their electors vote for?", to which he replies, "Not always." If "we the people" are supposed to be the one's with the freedom, then we should have the freedom to at least choose who we're going to have as our President.
"At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states." (Plumer). Take Mitt Romney, for example. He ran for president in 2012, and, knowing that campaigning down South, where he would already be receiving the votes, would not gain him any electoral votes, he didn't campain there at all. This is why they focus on the "swing" or "toss-up" states, and make the other states feel left out, like "the new president will have no regard for their interests, that he really isn't their president." (Posner)
To prevent the states to feel left out and to prevent an injustice such as this one, we should end the anachronism that is the Electoral College. "...The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. And the arguments against direct elections are spurious at best." Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO have all agreed on it at one point in time: "Abolish the Electoral College!" (Plumer).
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME SCHOOL_NAME
CITY_STATE | 4 |
ce00d53 | Dear State Senator,
I strongly believe that we should change our election to popular vote. The Electoral College has a ton of problems that can not be worked out. In the artical "What is the Electoral College?" it states in line 7 that, "most states have a "winner-take-all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate." I understand how majority rules, but the number electoral votes should be proportional to the popular vote. I am aware that, "The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no canidate receives a majority of the votes cast." as stated on line 22 of In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President. However, I would rather be in a situtation where I know my vote counted for the president, than use the Electoral College and avoid ties that could still happen. "It is the electors who elect the President, not the people." as stated in line 15 of In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President. In The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong, it states that "That those electors could always defy the will of the people." What is the point in voting if the will of the people can be defied? I strongly believe that we should change to popular vote. | 2 |
ce01b85 | A computer that could detect and read human emotions would benefit every student in the classroom, not just those who are shy or may become confused. A computer such as the one described in the article would allow teachers to better reach their students than previouls before. While restrictions on this technology would be necesary for its implimentation, the software could prove to be invaluable in a classroom setting.
The software in this article can be used to improve the quality of material in a lesson, while not allowing the student to complete an assignment without thinking critically about it. However, a system like the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) could be seen as a means to increase the number of students in a single class. This would not be the case, a resurce such as this would be used as a teaching assitant in the classroom, not a replacement for a teacher. In the article, Dr. Huang suggests, "...it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." FACS could be used as either a secondary lesson plan if the students in a class cannot comprehend the material or as a studying assistant when the students arrive at home.
A system that could detect when a student is stuggling or bored would allow the the teacher to be more effective when engaging their students. Often times, what happens in a
classroom is students become confused and do not want to ask questions and fall further behind, hindering their learning process. As Dr. Huang predicted "A classroom compter could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,". A classroom computer such as this ensures a student remains on task, and does not fall behind if they become confused by the material being taught to them. The addition of the computer would be an tool to improve the quality and effectiveness of the teachers lesson.
This technology has numerous applications in the classroom and could be used to more effectively communicate ideas and material while still being limited in its capabilities. Thus creating a safe and more engaging learning environment, catching students who fall through the crack and bringing them up to the same level as those who fully grasp the topic. | 4 |
ce03364 | Dear Senator,
Some agree and some disagree about it. The Electoral College is a process, not a place. I am one of those people who agree with it because it avoids run-off elections and because of the big states populatons.
I agree in what the third source said: "the electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast." for example Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had only a 43% plurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority in the Electoral College (301 and 370 electoral votes, respectively)." So the way i see it is its kind of a back up plan. To ensure others that there will be something there just in case popular votes or what not doesn't work as planned or correctly.
I also agree with what is said in the third source about evening out the larger states compared to the smaller ones. For example, "The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that larger states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the constitution..." The reason why i agree to this is because since the state is larger then others, there are more people there, so therefore when they do vote the popular vote will be larger than the smaller states. So the Electoral College equals things out.
Run-offs are avoided and big states compared to smaller ones are equals, that is why I agree with keeping the Electoral College the same. I mean it was made like it is for a reason. Why do others want to change something if there are very good and valid reasons for why its already being the way it is.
Sincerly. | 3 |
ce0be14 | I think other should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys progam because you can see lots of fun stuff that some of your friends couldn't see. I will give you more infomation about the Seagoing Cowboys program right now.
In the Seagoin Cowboy program you can tralvel all round the world to help countries that were left in ruins, but in the Seagoing Cowboys helps thoes people in that country. But beside all that you could see a country you haven't seen before. You can travel across sea on a boat, and on that boat they played games on it. They played baseball, and volleyball. They played in the empty holds where animals had been placed. They had Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whitting, and games also pass the time. If you like any of that I think you wold like it. Luke Bomberger was part of the Seagoing Cowboys program and "it open the world to him." He side. "It made me more aware of the people of other countries and their need." It could also be a opportunity for you, " a small-town boy" to apart of the Seagoing Cowboys program.
This you would be a grate program is you like the activeies and hleping other and sight seeing. I think this would be a program for almost any one that like any of those things. I mabey just convieds you that you wanted to be in the Seagoing Cowboys Program. | 2 |
ce0fa56 | Most would agree for FACS (FAcial Action Coding System) to be put into school programs to tell how students feel via emotions. But as a fellow student I am againts facial action coding system. The only reason to for me to be against is that each human expressses emotions differently. Some may express them but others prefer to keep their own emotions to themselves. Because if you read someones facial expressions in a classroom through FACS is basically an invasion of privacy. Having someone constantly tell what you're feeling, and having the power to read others as well.
"A classroom computer could recgnize when a student is becoming confused or bored Dr. Huang predicts". That is the only facial expression I would agree to be read by FACS, In order to tell when a student is bored with homework or confused on a subject to help the teacher help their students when they feel those emotions. But using FACS to tell if a student is depressed, sad, angry, or happy is in my opinion an invassion of privacy. In the article it states "To an expert, faces dont lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity isn't being truthful".
FACS can glady tell their emotions but not children. Because if used in our school programs, we are slaves of our own emotions. Some will try to hide their emotions but will be unable to. Most will not use any emotions while in school, in order to hide what they don't want seen. Using FACS in school to tell what emotions students are feeling shouldn't be used in my honest opinion.
FACS should be used differently In some other aspects. Such as "The same technology can make computers-animated faces more expressive for video games or video surgery". FACS should be used to better the world and the people living in it. Not using it to invade their lives, and telling what they feel. | 3 |
ce1060a | I think it's better to have a car because people that are driverless would get all lazy because they don't have to drive. People that needs to learn how to drive wouldn't be able to because they cars drives by itsself. People shouldn't be lazy to drive. Maybe one day when your in a hurry and the car you got is driving so slow that your going to be late to your appointment or whatever you going to. It would nice if they cars could tell them turn her or watch out or something like that. So the car can warn you guys incase of accendent.
People should be responsible to drive theirselves to wherever they want to go. What if the car breaks down?? They won't have a way to go anywhere without it working. They would still have to buy the pieces or whatever to fix the car. if it was your own car you wouldn't even mind to buy the stuff you need because you know it's yours. Most people would be walking to places they need to go for the same reason of not having a car. The car could hurt the drivers. Safety is the most important thing in any car in the earth. People that drive with car be getting into acciedents imagine having cars that drives themselves. It would be worser for people. If the car goes to the other way where its not suppose to and get hit the person is the one that going to get the consequences for the cars action. | 2 |
ce18845 | Do you belive in Aliens? There are lots of people that belive in Aliens but there are also lots of people that dont belive in aliens. There is not really facts or proof that aliens exsitst but there is not much proof or facts that can say there not real or where real. Im A sccientist at NASA and the Face on Mars in not really a face afterall. It is just a Land form.
25 years ago something funny happened around Mars. NASA's Vicking 1 space craft was sircling the planete snaping photos of possible landing sites of its siter ship Vicking 2, when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. An enormous head nearly two miles from end ot end seem to be stating back at the camers from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia.When you think of aliens you think of green figures with big heads and big eyes right? Well when you were thinking about big head were you two miles from end to end big? No proubly not. If there were aliens with heads that big I am pretty sure that we would have found one by now at at least seen one , or had some kind of eveidence.
Scienstis figured it was just another Martian mese , common enought around Cydonia , the only thing that made this one uncommon was the unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptiam Pharaoh. The shadows are not all going to be the same on/ by all of thease Martian mesa's. Some are going to be weird/Unusal. People schould expect that and not expect the first unusal shadows to be something this important. An Alien head. A few days later NASA unveilded the image for all to see. The caption noted a "Huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illustion of eyes , nose and mouth"
This face on Mars gave NASA a lot of attention. This idea of a face on mars ended up in Hollywood films , appreaed in books , magazines , radion talk shows and even haunted grocerty store checkout lines for 25 years. The face had become so pouplar there were proubly people out there trying to say/prove the head was actually a head and not a landform. That could of made lots of people belive that there is really a head. Some people think that Face is bona fide evidence of life on mars-evidence that NASA would rather hide says conspiary theroirtst. Meanwhile defneders of the NASA bugget wish there was an ancient civization on Mars. If there was a face on Mars why would NASA try to hide something that huge. That could get there space program more attention and prossibley more money even.
The "Face " had its picture taken 3 times with 3 diffrent cameras.Each time NASA took a picutre of the face the picture was more clear. The first picture was in 1976 , the secound picture was in1998 and the last and most recent picture was in 2001. In thease picutes you can almost see a face in the first picture taken in 1976. When NASA took a picture of the face in 1998 you can tell there is not really an entire face there. In 2001 NASA's photo is more clear than the other two and you can tell that there is not a face. It is just a landformation. Some people argure that in April '98 it was a cloudy time of year ont he Red Planet. The camera on Board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the face. Phehaps , said skeptics , aline markings were hidden by haze. Nevertheless , pn April 8, 2001 - a cloudless summer day in Cydonia- Mards Global Surveyor drew close enoguht for a secound look."We had to rool the spacecradter 25 degresseto center the Face in the deild of weird," Said garvin. "malin's team captured an extraordinary photot using the camers's absolute maximum resoultion.
What the picture actually
shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa- landforms common around the Amercian West. "Thats a lava dome that take the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars"If you still belive in aliens that is okay , if you dont that is also okay. But to belive that the "thing" in the picture was a face and not a landform is kinda bizar. You call tell in the 2001 picture that it is not a face after all if is just a landform. There was no alient mounmet after all. Yes there were clouds and we didnt have the best technlogy but now we have advanced tencholgy and we have pictures of the that are clear. (All of my evidence is in the article Unmaksing the Face on Mars." | 4 |
ce18d67 | I believe that the Electoral College vote should be abolished because they are not giving citizens their rights to vote, there is certainty of outcome, the winner takes all method that they are doing, and the voting electors are not voting percisely. That is why I believe that the Electoral College should be abolished.
To me I believe that the Electoral College is cruel and unusual punishment, because they are not giving citizens their voting rights. They make it seem like the citizens are going to be the ones voting for the president but in reality the citizens are actually voting for electors whom are going to be voting for the president. The Electoral College is regarded as an anachronism that should be overuled. Its declaring the canidate with the most vote to be the winner, which is not really giving the citizens the chance to vote for they want to be their president. Advocates are arguing about the Electoral College not being a modern sense, and how it is the electors voting for the president and not the people/citizens. When citizens vote for the president they dont actually know that theya re voting for a slate for the elelctors.
They Electoral College has a massive rate in certainty of outcome. Just like the dispute over outcome of votes that happened in 2000 can happen again, because the electors are not being fair with the votes. This is becasue the winning canidate shares his popular vote with the electorals. Just like Barack Obama was elected for president, he only recieved 61.7 percent of the electoral votes compared to the popular votes of 51.3 percent. Almost all the states award electoral votes with the winner-takes- all mehtod that they created. A tie can be possible in electorals votes but, the total number of votes is 538 which is an even number but, is not very likely that it would happen.
The electors are not voting fair or percisely. It can and has been argued that the Electoral College ways of selecting the president may turn voters for a cannidate who has no hope for running a state. Democrats in either Texas or Republicans in California dont pay not type of attention to the voting or even to the president that was picked by the popular votes. The Electoral College has no intention in trying to change thier pursiut for electing a president so that citizens will have a chance to cast a vote on picking who they believe should be president.
I believe that the Electoral College should be abolished, because they are not giving citizens their rights to vote, certianty of outcome , the winner-takes-all method, and electors are not voting fair and perisely. I also believe that if they use something more mordern that it would make it esaier for voting and electing so theat they wont have to worry about the problems with electing a new president. | 3 |
ce1d3dd | The development of driverless cars is a good thing. Reasons why driverless cars will be better than cars fully driven by humans include gas usage would be lower and accident would occur less often due to sensors and built in entertainment devices turning off unlike cell phones.
The first reason why driverless cars would be better than human driven cars is gas usage, in paragraph one it says Google cofounder Sergey Brin foresees a car that would use half the fuel of today's taxies and offer far more flexibility than a bus. Lower gas usage means the world would be able to keep using the same fuel resources for longer before we have to start looking for alternatives to power cars.
The second reason why driverless cars would be better than human driven cars is saftey. In paragraph 4 it says "The sensors in driverless cars create a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings" this means that the car will be able to sensor things and avoid them that the driver might not be able to see or react to as fast as a computer. In paragraph 8 it says "entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. Such displays can turn off instantly when the driver needs to take over something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone. In this way, the in-car system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big concern"
the displays that would keep drivers entertained while waiting to drive could be instantly shut-off and then put the driver in charge a person using a cell phone isnt shut off and is a constant danger while driving.
In conclusion driverless cars are a good idea because they will be safer on the road and less expensive in the long run as they shouldnt crash as often or use as much fuel as cars driven by humans do now. | 3 |
ce215cd | May 24,2001 the face on Mars was not made by aliens. NASA thought they saw aleins land on mars and creat the face. This is a mission to find how it was made and who it was made by.
A few days later NASA showed the picture for everyody to see. Authors reasponed it would be a good way to engage the public adn attarct go Mars and it certainly did. The "Face on Mars" has since become a pop icon. It was on books and magazines, raido talk shows and haunted grocey store checkout line for 25 years. Mission controllers perpared to look againg at the Mars. One summer day in Cydonia Mars Global Surveyor drew a close enough for a second look. We had to roll a space craft 25 defress to center the Face in the field of view said Garvin.
This is what is think about the face on Mars. That's a lava dome thta takes the form of an islolated mesa about the same height as the Face of Mars. This is what I think about the Face on Mars today. | 2 |
ce2c085 | " The Electoral College is a process, not a place." retorted by the Office of the Federal Register. The Electoral College was established by our founding fathers. The main reason it was established was because it was a compromise between electing the President by a vote in Congress and electing the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral College is a timely and outdated process that consists of selecting the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for the President and Vice President, and counting of the electoral votes by Congress. Yes, the Electoral College has helped the United States of America but it has also caused us many major conflicts that no citizen can change. Many Americans are not heard and by demolishing the Electoral College and bringing our "old friend" popular vote back in majority of Americans will be heard. This is a free country right? Do we have the right to be heard and vote for ourselves? I strongly believe we do. I vehemetly feel that the United States of America should use popular vote due to the fact Electors can turn sides, in reality voters are not even voting for the President they're voting for the electors, and there is often a major conflict also known as the "disaster factor".
"...electors could always defy the will of the people." Stated by author, Bradford Plumer. Once Electors are voted for they have our trust and votes in the center of their palms. They could either listen to the people or break our trust. Majority of times more than 15% of electors turn sides and vote for the opposing party. In a survey taken in 2000 more than 60% voted for popular vote by citizens because they were unwilling to put they're vote in the electors hands. Looking at the correct statistics don't you believe it's only fair to the American people that we use popular vote? More than half of America believes it is only right to use popular vote. What about the other half? Well, thinking about the situation, in the end, they will still get what they want and what is needed. But the real question here is, what do you think?
Lets take a quick look at reality here! When voting for the President of the United States of America you are technically voting for electoral votes. Majority of America does not realize that because of the Electoral College you are voting for their votes. As an citizen of the United States we have the freedom to speak and vote for whoever we want. When voting we are basically putting our votes in the hands of the electors so if sides are turned doesn't that basically mean our freedoms/rights are being violated? I advocatly believe it does and the only way we could possibly fix it is by establising popular vote. So why are we waisting time?
Last but never least, popular vote should be established because almost every four years the Electoral college runs into major problems whether sides being turned on or just the system running low. Believe it or not voting is not supposed to be such a chaotic process. Assertions are made with not much basis which causes majority of the problems we face. If we get rid of the Electoral college entirely all the conflicts will vanish. Our founding father would be proud to know that we got rid of the system that was giving America major problems even if we much appriciate our founding fathers.
In conclusion, I vehemetly feel that the United states of America should use popular vote due to the fact Electors can turn sides, in reality voters are not even voting for the president they are voting for the electors, and there is often a major conflict also known as " disaster factors". | 5 |
ce2e7ba | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author supports his ideas very well I say this because he is very informitive about his thoughts and facts, it's almost like if it is his dream to travel beyond Earth, and he is very passionate.
The author is very imformative to support his ideas that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because in the article it says," If our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing further visits to the surface?" or "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." These is some strong evidence he gives to why Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.
It almost seems like if the author's big dream was to visit Venus one day because in the article it says" 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." and " Astronmers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system."
The author supported his idea very well that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. | 3 |
ce2ef24 | Cars! Cars! Cars! Some might say that you cant even live without them. Which is why cars and motors have become a serious problem all through out the globe. Passages like " The end of a car culture" Source 4; By Elisabeth Rosenthal and
" Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in bogota " Source 3; By Andrew Selsky, Explain and show to the reader that The pollution that is caused by engines have become a serious problem through out the world and we need to limit car usage now!
Source 4, Explains The actions that our president Barack Obama is Taking to make the world a safer And (Cleaned air place). By limiting car use it can help us tramendisly but what you do to make that happen is key. As written, Studies show that americans are purchasing fewer cars, licenses, and also driving as more and more years go by. Some might have a different opinion or perspective and say that cars are their life and that is the only way they will function. While others see and appreciate the advantages of limiting car usage. Many things including Less traffic, less accidents , more safety , and better health come as positive outtakes for lessening auto-motive use. One thing sup0risingly that is good for your health as a result of no cars is cycling. "New yorks bike sharing program and its skyrocketing bridge and tunnel tolls reflect those new priorities". I can see that just by leaving your car once a week at home and using a bike, You can get a workout , arrive at your destination quicker, and you might even get into the habit of leaving your car at home more often. So it does'nt hurt to try it once, Plus you can also save about thirty bucks which is fine by me and my wallet.
Source 3 , Explains the rules and laws that some countries are making to prevent less auto use and cleaner air. Andrew emphasizes on the progam in Bogota,Columbia that makes a mandatory car-free day(two days) throughout the well populated city. Over all it was a great turn out ,but know matter where you go their is always going to be some of those hard headed people who just dont like the whole concept. Which of course those violators are fined with twenty-five dollars. I think this was a great idea in showing that the city does care about the enviorment and care about the peoples safety and health." It is a Good opportunity to take Away stress and air pollution..." as well.
Cars! As much as we love them they are some what damaging so it wont kill you if you just give it a rest and try cycling or walking ,you can benefit from it in many ways and it might even save some ecosystems. Lets try and limit car usage , It wont hurt us! | 4 |
ce30566 | Should we keep the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the President of the United States? We should change to election by popular vote for the President. "Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL- CIO all agreed on Abolishing the Electoral College. According to a Gallup poll in 2000 shortly after Al Gore won popular vote from the Electoral College but lost the Presidency. 60% of voters would prefer a direct election like the one we have now."
What is wrong with the Electoral College? The Electoral College system voters vote not for the President but also for a slate of electors, whom which in turn to elect the President. The Electoral College is an anachronism. "The Electoral College is not a democratic in modern sense, its the electors who elect the president not the people." For exmaple President Obama received 61.7% of the electoral vote comparison to 51.3% popular votes casted for him and Romney.
"Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast." 1968 - Nixon; 1992 - Clinton only had 43% plurality of the popluar vote, while winning majority in Electoral College. "Pressure for run - off elections when no candidate wins a majority of the votes cast; the pressure which would complicate the presidential election process, which is reduced by the Electoral College, which invariably produces a clear winner."
"Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state." In 2000 Fiasco was the biggest ekection crisis in a century. State Legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people. The Electoral College is unfair to voters because of the winner take all system in each state. The candidates don't spend the time in states they know that they have no chance of winning, they only focus on the tight races.
Should we keep the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the President of the United States? We should change it to election by popular vote. The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and is irrational. Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole are in agreement for abolishing the Electoral College. | 4 |
ce34d62 | Dear Senator of the state of Florida,
I belive there is something wrong with our voting system. Evidence has shown that our electoral system has shown some minor errors. In the election 2000 George W. Bush won because he had more electoral votes than his oppenenet Al Gore. But, Al Gore had more popular votes than Bush. If this great country of ours is a democracy, shouldnt be the president decided by the people for the people.
The electoral college has been around for 100-200 years now. When are founding fathers came to this country, they never said to have a voting system like this. The people voted and those were counted and that was how the president was decied. IN the 1960's John F. Kennedy was running for president. In Lousiana race and segragation was still happening. The legislature of the state tried to change the electoral vote so all the pouplar votes would count against Kennedy. so the votes of the voter will have never counted.
But the system of working is also a good thin. the votes can be avergae easier. | 2 |
ce356c9 | I think that this story is interesting about how they thought that driverless was a good idea. But people thought thay it wasn't safe and dangerous on how they would be without a driver in the car. The main idea of this story is basically telling us on how the world would be in the future and how they would achieve thay goal to make. Automakers thought that it would be easy for people so that they wouldn't have to be the one driving but the thing is you never know if there will ever be a problem.
In my opinion about having driverless cars is not a good idea for our future. The reason for that is because basically automakers are making a robotic car that drives itself for the person to get to places. But when you make a robot, you can never be sure if it will ever have a problem. So say your driving to work and then something happens to the robotic car. Then it's the automakers fault for not making models to see if the driverless car would be find on its own. How the automakers say how they can make the car easy for you to not chech your phone while driving and making it do everything by itself so you don't have to do anything is not so smart. What if something doesn't work and then your stuck not figuring out what to do. To me, I'd rather be old fashion and to be able to do everything myself because then I would know that there wouldn't be able problems because I did it. It doesn't make sense though to why they would even think about having driverless cars with no one in them. Your basically just getting no where with that.
This article is very interesting and can make people either like the idea of driverless cars or don't like it. Everyone has their own opinion and no one has to agree with each other. I just don't like the idea of driverless cars becasue they basically robots driving you and a lot can go wrong unless u make early models to test them first. But you also never know if the car would last either. Like if the automakers make the car be run on gas or make be a batter you have to charge. My opinion on all of this is basically welled explained and there's is no reason to change what is now and make thing seem different. You just never know what the future holds for us. | 3 |
ce37922 | I would claim for the value of using this technology to read students' emotional expressions. i would like to help students with their problems like anger depresson and what ever they have. The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) would help with students' emotions. This software could indentify any emotion you have and the face exprestions you have and it would calculate ever days feeling.
First, it would indentify any emotion you have. Just like Mona Lisa they found out that she was eighty-three percent happy, nine percent disgusted, six percent fearful, and two percent angry. "The facial expressiions for each emotion are universal,"abserves Dr. Huang, "even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression"(like not smiling as broadly). Dr. Huang used video imagery, and tracked the new emotion-recognition software and the facial movements. In the real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa. the software can even identify mixed emotions (as in da Vinci's masterpiece) by weighting the different units in every expression is against a neutral face (showing no emotion)"
Finally, calculating your emotions. Are you asking yourself if the software can calculate emotiond like math homework? This process begins with the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face. The forty-four muscles in the modle mus move like human muscles. Dr. pual Ecjman has classified some basic emotions like happiness, surprise, anger, digust, fear, and sadness and then associated each with chracteristic movements of the facial muscles. An example they give is, "Your frontalis muscles (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when youre surprised; your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger." Its pretty intrusting how it can determined your emotions.
My conclusion is that the technology to the software would be a great thing to use because it would helpin so many emotions and it would help students in so many ways. I think its intrusting in how Dr. Eckman invented the FACS and can determined in how students feel. | 2 |
ce37fb3 | The Electoral College, to begin with, is the electoral voting of the President and Vice President. In the articles "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer and "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" by Richard A. Posner, both articles argue on the subject of if the Electoral College should be kept or if the election should be changed to popular vote.
Although it is true, according to the article by Richard A. Posner, that larger states get the majority of attention when it comes to votes, it is still possible that regardless that the legislatures choose the electors, the electors may "defy the will of the people", according to the article by Bradford Plumer. It is stated that electors have declined the voting of their party's candidate and went on to "vote for whomever they please. . . ."
Furthermore, in the article by Bradford Plumer, Plumer states, "the electoral college is unfair to voters." In other words, the popular vote basically gets no say in who they are choosing for presidential candidate, only who gets to choose the candidate. Even as stated in the opposing article by Richard A. Posner, Posner states, "the electoral will not win the national popular vote." This is stating that basically the popular vote is powerless in voting for a presidential candidate.
Moreover, Posner explains in his article, "The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast." However this has happened before where there has been more of a "tie," Plumer backs this up quoting that "In that case, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president." In short, if the Electoral College fails, they have Mommy and Daddy to back them up. In this case, the simpler route would be to have the election dependent upon popular vote.
In conclusion, it would appear as the electoral college is "unfair, outdated, and irrational." This goes to prove the electoral college has no place in deciding our votes for us. | 4 |
ce42bad | The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as compromise between election of President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of a qualified citizens. Each candidate running for President has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party. You help choose your state electors when you vote for President because when you vote for your canidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors. I think we should keep Electoral Colleges. It gives people a chance, help with responsibility, and it is competitive. Thats why i think we should keep Electoral College.
Initially, it gives everyone in the political group a chance. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your state's entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: on for each member in the House of Representitaves plus two for your Senators. The District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College. Everyone in the political group votes. That means if you already did'nt ruin your reputation you have a chance at becoming the president because, everyone on at one point and time in the political party is equal. It also make sure everyon is heard, it makes everyone useful for something. The Electoral College gives everybody a chance which is probably the best detail about the system.
In addition, Electoral College also hekps with responsibility. Laws are vary on how the electors are selected and what thier responsibilities are. It can either take away responsibilities or give more resonsibilities. This can help people out alot, people won't get task that they can't handle and other people won't get task that would bore them or would be to easy from. It also gies people restrictions that had already had problems or that had did something something that was'nt alowd. This is helpful to those who are'nt very skilled at something, those who are probably to skilled at something, and those who are probably just in the middle. This is also another great detail why we should keep Electoral College.
Finially, it is competative. Most states have a "winner-take-all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate. This would make would people work harder and strive for higher expectations. The competitiveness level would be even higher becuase everyone is going for the same goal, this would make thing even more exciting to watch and here about. So the Electoral College dose not only just make the system good but it also makes it exciting and competative, which would helpe people want to learn more about the election. Thats another big reason why we should keep Electoral College.
In conclusion, Electoral College is very good. It gives people chance to strive for greatness, it helps people with responsibility, and it is very competitave. I think we should keep Electoral College it is a great achievement to our country and is a advantage to our election. It lets everyone be heard, it teaches people how to deal with the roles they have to play the system, and it makes people work harder. I think Electoral College is good for us and we would be dumb not to keep it. | 2 |
ce4e3d3 | Is limiting car usage a benefitial way to reduce many uneccessary smog and pollution in any part of the world? This is a case of many opinions. Many people say it is beneficial to the environment and where they live in. Others disagree about limiting car usage due to slow mobility going from place to place that might be far away. In my opinion, i do support the idea that limiting car usage is a helpful way to reduce smog and many other pollutants that might spread in the natural world. For example, reducing smog from the air helps animals and humans to breath better air and reduces the risk factor of getting a decease from the pollution or smog. Also, it just not only cleans the air but it helps citizens live a helathier life by always staying physically active either going from place to place.
It is a great way to reduce smog or pollution by limitng car usage and helps stop cars and truscks to stop generating many malitiant gases that may cause deceases. According to Source #3, its states that "Millions of columbians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day." This is a great example and idea of living in an environment that has reduced the amount of pollution generated by cars and trucks. Not using cars can also help the animals in the environment they live in. Animals also have a roll
Penultimately, the limiting of car usage also helps citizens live a healthier life by staying physically active and helps them stay in shape. Doing exercise everyday can also help reduce the risk factor of getting inmobile. Transportation like walking and jogging to places and not using mechanical transportation is the best way due to the fact that we dont produce pollution or smog.
Finally, limiting the car usage can help reduce pollution and smog for many reasons. It can help the environment we live in and helps citizens stay physically active and healthy. It also helps animals live better due to the air they breathe. We need to take part on cleaning the place we live in and so if we caused smog and pollution into the air, Why not make a change and reduce what we already created? | 3 |
ce51886 | The electoral college,they decide what we vote on based on what they think our state would choose for president. To me the country has it all wrong, I think we as US citizens should let our votes decide on who should be president. Even though things may get done quicker I think everyones voice should be heard. People like Bob Dole Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon have tried to get rid of the electoral college. Plus the electoral college cost Al Gore his presidency would've also liked to have their voices heard in the 2000 election. and im pretty sure people would agree with me the 60% of the population of voters would like their voice to be heard.
The electoral college has a weird way of how they run and choose. Like the example in "whats wrong with the electoral college" it saiys that "if someone lived in Texas and they wanted to vote for John Kerry you'd vote for a slate of 34 democratic electors pledged to John Kerry and then John Kerry would have 34 electoral votes." If it were based on popular vote the points would be split to the person based on the number of votes they got.
Even though other situations like in 2012 when obama won the election he recived a 61% of the electoral college's votes while the popular votes he recived was 51% a 10% difference, even though he still would've won it would've been more fair to let the popular votes decide. Some say its best to have a bias voter choose because they wont choose someone based on what everyone else's opinion is, like how the south favored romney over obama but to me that could be bad beacause what if who we choose actually has good ideas the college wouldve just go for the other guy.
The "winner-take-all" method happens in swing states like Florida,us and other states have a big part on who we choose to run our country we usually pay attention to all the debates and campaings because we think our leader should know what he's doing swing states and big states are places a presidential campaign would take place the like to ensure they get their votes where it counts to guarentee a lead. the electoral college doesnt go to good for people who dont agree to their sides view like "republicans in California or democrats in Texas" their voices arent heard the popular votes might've gotten some points to save their canidate.
in conclusion the electoral college is blocking the right to vote for who we want and have their voices heard even if that person were a republican in California. the popular vote should have some say on who will run the country. | 3 |
ce5391a | Have you ever seen powerful, advanced, and self-piloting vehicles in a movie or cartoon? Many people dream of the moment that they can get into their car to go to work without even touching their steering wheel. Some people believe that a driverless car is a good idea, and should be developed, while others think that it is a poor idea, and that driverless cars should not be developed. Driverless cars should be developed because they are safer, more convenient, and have the potential to speed up the development of other devices.
First, driverless cars are much safer. Driverless cars have already proven to be much more reliable than a human driving. In the article, it states, "Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash." Furthermore, how could there be drunk driving if there's nobody driving the car in the first place? Cars that can operate on their own would decrease the risk of crashes exponentially.
Next, driverless cars are far more convenient than driver-required ones. The simple fact that you do not have to physically operate the vehicle is reason enough to know that they are more convenient than what we use today. To be able to get up in the morning, get inside your car and with no worries drive to your destined location is such a great concept that it almost sounds too good to be true.
Lastly, the development of driverless cars increase the possibility of speeding up the progress of other devices. The knowledge that we gain from developing these cars can be directly related to the technology we build our next GPS upon. In order to make such a car, we require powerful and reliable sensors. These same sensors can be used and applied to other devices and increase production speed of later products.
In conclusion, driverless cars are a good idea because they are much safer, a lot more convenient, and will improve our own technology for the future. I understand that some opponents to this concept may say that they would not trust being driven around by an automated vehicle. However, these companies that make these cars have to be perfect in what they do, as they would have to for this project to work. These companies will always be pushing for your safety, and statistically already are safer. Cars are already an important invention that we have used time and time again, but the future is now, and for the future to even be given existance, it requires change. | 4 |
ce5b0bc | The author suggest that studying Venus is a great idea. Venus is Earth's twin. Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size. Venus is the closest in distance too.
The author says that it has some dangerous heat. "At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit..."
There's no device or machine that can take the heat without melting or exploding. "Modern computers are enormously powerful, flexible, and quick, but tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions."
Even though the the heat is dangerous in Venus you can still study it. "Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans."
People can make a machine or device that can resist the heat. "Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to constribe meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus."
The author showed us both the good and bad side of studying Venus. "More importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance." Venus could be explored with a machine that uses mechanical parts. "By comparison, systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces."
In conclusion, the author made great points to prove that even though its dangerous you can still study Venus. Even if its from far distance you can still study it. | 3 |
ce5eebd | An computer that can read your face expressons is and good way to see how teen emotions are, in the article the aurthor say that if you're on an classroom computer it could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, as an result of an basic device trying to read your mind almost i wonder how many people will find this important or good it's not bad but maybe some people don't want others trying to get in they're life but its probably for the best then sooner or later there will be computer detecting when people is under an huge amount of stress and can put an ad up so that person could maybe get help with their situation or something like that so many people will never tell whats wrong with a smile in their face since people are scared of others hurting their feelings so why not use an device that can read face expressions we might be able to help so many people because its an way to try and get to know a person you never know what might happen if an person dealing with intense stress might do it can lead to bad things in their life and others around them so to me its an very important for people who has low self esteam about to get as much help as needed just to prevent some things from happening, you'll never know when that person might be screaming for someone to help and it better to deal with somethings with help because everybody who think
their alone they're not many people are willing to help, but for the most part creating devices that maybe do even more than just reading your face expressions it will do a lot of help for people to create an device that can help people. | 2 |
ce5f251 | In the article, "Unmasking the Face on Mars", the author is informing the readers about past discoveries of a shadowy object that looks like a human face. The article shows the reader three pictures of the "face" in different years. These years include: 1976, 1998, and 2001. As the years go by, the image of the "face" becomes more clearer as the picture before. NASA's Viking 1 first captured the first picture of the "face".
People everywhere are fascinated by what scientists have discovered on Mars. The "Face on Mars" has become a pop icon. It appeared in a Hollywood film, books, magazines, radio talk shows, and even checkout lines at the grocery store. Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars. Defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars. Few scientists believe that the Face was an alien artifact. I believe that the face on Mars is a natural landform, and was not created by aliens.
It is still not scientifically proven that there is life or was life on Mars. To this day, scientists are still trying to figure out if there is or was life on Mars. On April 5, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time. The team aboard captured a picture that was sharper than the previous picture. This picture still revealed a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all. I know, that after this, people are still not satisfied. Remember, that the camera had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Skeptics say that alien markings may have been hidden by the haze.
Since this might not be enough proof to convince you into thinking that the Face was formed naturally... we decided to go take a picture of the face once more. This time it was clearer and bigger. If there were things on the ground, you would be able to see what they were. The picture shows the Martian equvalent of a mesa- landforms common around the American West. In America, most of our landforms are created naturally, and Garvin said that the Face reminds him of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho.
I think that the only reason why people think that aliens formed this Face on Mars was because of the books, magazines, and film. The film could have incorporated ideas into someone's head into thinking that aliens did create this. The Face is just a natural landform. Aliens couldn't have created this "face", because it would've taken them a long time, and how would they know what humans look like?
The atmosphere around Mars could have helped shaped this. Maybe the air, shifted the dust and rocks on Mars, moving it into an object that looks like a human face. There are many possible ways on how this face was created by the natural enviroment. | 4 |
ce69f4d | Today I will be talking about my opinon on driverless cars. I think that driverless cars are not really that safe because if cars have trouble with actual human driving them what makes people think to make cars without humans driving them. I also didnt think General Motors created a concept car that could run on special test tracks because, I asked my grandma who is a retired lady from General Motors and she had no clue at the time.
There are a lot of people in this world that have many different opinions about cars that can go places without a human driving it. Cars can be smart at times like it says in the passage but, there not that smart to not have a person behind the wheel in my perspective. I think that would cause a lot more accidents and there's already enough of those every day.
I can say one thing though. If we could have a car without a person driving it that can be good for people that does not like strangers in cabs driving them around so maybe if there was cars without humans driving them that would be good and people could be a lot more comfortable. Also, that could prevent kidnapping as well. Because i've read articles about people getting kidnapped by a cab driver which could be the worst feeling ever.
For the most part, there are good and bad ways to not have a human driving a moving vehical. But not all good opions are safe either. Even though many others could have different responses and opions about how they think about driverless cars, these are jus mine. | 2 |
ce6c762 | Think about having driverless cars in the future, it would be nice right? Although, driverless cars both have positive and negative sides to it. It can be helpful, but it can also be harmful.
The first positive example for driverless cars is that anyone can be in the car and they would not have to even be driving, and they can just enjoy being in the car and would not even have to worry about driving anymore. The driverless cars can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves. In paragraph 7 the text states that although the car can do all those things, the driver still needs to focus on the road and pay attention and stay alert to when the driver must take over.
Another example, for why driverless cars are a postive thing is that they have a system that the car reads a binary code so it represents letters, digits, and other characterisitcs to the computer. One example from the story is the BMW announced in 2013. This car can handle driving functions up to 25 mph and the skills it has is that it navigates through work zones and around accidents. Driverless cars can be helpful in that way because therefore, cars can have their way out other accidents.
Although, the cars be helpful it can also cause damge. Think about someone driving and all of a sudden something goes wrong in the car that the driver can not fix. Both the car and driver will be hurt because the technology failed and whose fault would it be? That is why in mostly all states they have a law that it is illegal to test computer-driven cars because anything can wrong in the experiment. These cars can be capable of anything, but they can also be capable of causing any damage.
Finally, one example from the article is that if technology fails while somone was being used to test the car they would not know whose fault it would be if it would be the driver or the manufacturer. Also, mostly all of the states have a law that it is illegal to test computer-driven cars because they know that the cars are not reliably safe. "Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver?" says Dr Werner.
Driverless cars would be really fun to have, but it can also be very scary. Technology nowadays has improved, but we do not know if it can be helpful or if it can harm anyone or anything in the future. | 4 |
ce714ad | If I were you I would participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. It is a great opportunity of a lifetime. If you were to join this program you would make a difference for the countries that had ruins after being in or around World War II.
One reason I think humans, such as boys, should join this program is, because you could get a chance to take care of horses, young cows, and mules that had to be shipped overseas. Doing this could make a difference on these animals life. Think about if you were in this situation, wouldn't you want someone to participate to help you and take care of you.
Another reason I think you boys should join this program is, because it could be a chance to open up the world to you. In the ending of you joining this program will most likely make you proud and grateful for this opportunity you got. Wouldn't you like to be opened up to the world and know a lot about it? I know you would, because before I joined I did to.
My final reason I think all boys should join this program is, because it could open up many opportunities to yourself. I, Luke, made nine trips overseas the most of any Seagoing Cowboy. That was a great opportunity that I got. It made me feel proud and I know it would make you feel proud also. You only live once so hey why not, this opportunity could lead to many awesome opportunities.
In conclusion, I think boys that have the opportunity to join the Seagoing Cowboys program should do it. If you were in my place, you would want someone to do something good to now wouldn't you? So go sign up for the Seagoing Cowboys program. Wouldn't you want to help out things such as animals after a war? Well than that is why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program with no hesitations! | 2 |
ce7d585 | Have you ever seen a smog cloud before? Or even been a city that has a really high level of it? It's typically caused by the vehicles, and how much that they're used in the area that you happened to be in. There are some places that have days where your not aloud to drive. There are some places that people don't even own cars, and places where people only go by bus, bike, car pooling, or train. But there is one thing we notice about all of these people, and the places that they live in when they have people consistently going by other means, and not using their car. It's been a problem that has been up in the air for the longest time, and people are starting to do something about it, and probably without even knowing it.
The city of Vauban, Germany is pretty normal. it consist of normal homes, normal people, and just normal everyday life. Except for two things. "Vauban's streets are completely "car-free"-except the main throughfare" (Parragraph 2, Source 1). Even if you owned a car, "there are only two places to park-large garages at the edge of teh development, where a car-owner buys a space, for fourty-thousand dollars, along with a home" (Parragraph 2, Source 1). The other crazy thing about this town is that Vauban is "home to five thousand-five hundred residents within a rectangular square mile
" (Parragraph 6, Source 1). Their town is free of the green house emissions that are caused by passanger cars. It's there way of smart planning, and other cities are starting to try to find ways to become cleaner, and better at being somehow like Vauban. People here say that it reduces the stress of driving, and traffic jams, and makes life simply easier by not driving. But imagine if you were banned from driving in a place where you were used to driving everyday.
Paris decided that "after days of near-record pollution, they would enforce a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city" (Parragraph 10, Source 2). some 4,000 drivers were given a fine of thirty-one dollars, and there were twenty-seven cars impounded due to disobeying the ban. however, after 5 days of this ban going in to effect, "Congestion was down sixty percent in the capital of france" (Parragraph 14, Source 2). The people driving isn't really the problem, it's the fact that "France has a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline" (Parragraph 16, Source 2) and they're saying that becuase it makes up such a higher percentage of vehicles in France compared to the rest of Western Europe that it's causing their smog levels to go up higher as well. Gradually the smog lifted off of the city of paris, and they were finally able to start letting certain amounts of cars back on the road without fines. There are some places that they have days that are car free?
In the Latin-American city of Bogota, they have a day that's car-free. "Millions of columbians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work" (Parragraph 20, Source 3). They only face a small fine of twenty-five bucks if they decide to drive, but msot people don't have to worry if they don't have a bike or don't want to walk. Buses and taxis are still aloud on the roads. Even on the days where "gray clouds dumped occasional rain showers on Bogota, the rain hasn't stopped people from participating" Parragraph 22-23, Source 3). It's not just 5,500 people who don't do it, there are seven million people in the capital city who don't drive. It's been going on since the 1990s. The city has planned, and made efforts to have these days so that they can also take part in the reductin of the emiisions of green house gases. "The city has seen the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths; and uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth ones" (Parragraph 27-28, Source 3). Many places are trying to encorporate designs in to their cities to do these things, and to become better at traveling in means other than your personal vehicle. but even without our knowledge, people are starting to limit car usage without being told to, it's just inch by inch.
People are beggingin to drive less, and "America's love affair with its vehicles seems to be cooling" (Parragraph 32, Source 4. however in the past few years, americans have bught fewer cars, and "the number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and has dropped steadily therafter" (Parragraph 32, Source 4). reseachers are intrigued that car ownership per household had gone down, three to four years before they noticed this. This pattern continuing, which they believe it will, would "have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the enviroment" (Parragraph 34, Source 4). Other odd things have changed too. "There has been a large drop in the percentage of sixteen to thirty-nine year olds gettign a license. "A study last year found that driving by young people decreased twenty-three percent between 2001-2009" (Parragraph 41, Source 4). Plans are being put in action to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, and to put more ways into cities for people to travel alternatively to their normal going by car. The way that we're building cities, new suburbs, and things like that are beginning to incorporate other ideas from around the world to help not just everyone including yourself, but also the enviroment itself.
Meeting new people really isn't all that bad, and traveling by bus, train, transit, taxi, car pooling, bicycling, tram, trolley, walking, skating or even the interesting inventions we see by people all the time. There are many different ways that you can avoid having to drive your own car. It isn't a hassle. It's also a stress reliever, and helps you not get worried about how your going to avoid that five o'clock rush hour traffic jam that you have to sit and yell at people in. Not only does it probably save you money not having to buy gas every couple of days, it also helps you and the enviroment. Breathing cleaner air helps you to live longer than breathing air that has all that smog, and nastiness in the air. Your city is only a step in a new direction, and it's only a matter of how you want to do it. There's optoins, like you hear in the insruance commercials, that you can take and be just fine. There's a lot of advantages to the limiting of car uses, and the car-free days. It's just on you whether or not you want to take that route, make a change in your daily habit, and find that simple way to limit your car usage. | 5 |
ce81872 | If your a person who loves to work or take care of animals and loves to go on trips that you have never been on before, then join the "Seagoing Cowboys." There is lots of people who come here all the time for jobs like these and you can have fun sometimes on board.
UNRRA hired Seagoing Cowboys to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. Some animals were shiped over the Alantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
Not only helping people and animals, but you also get to meat other places such as Europe and China.
Sometimes on board if the animals are already uploaded you get to play baseball and sometimes volleyball. It is a lot of fun here and there.
Some of the jobs there are, being a night guard, watching over the animals, taking care of the animals, taking care of people, and others.
But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger. It opened up the world to him. Im 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, leading his family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years.
So come on down and Join the "Seagoing Cowboys." | 2 |
ce835ba | Dear Mr. Senator,
I would like to argue with your decision of getting rid of the electoral college. I would like to argue with you because the Electoral college is a piece of history, we could some problems if we keep the electoral college, but there are a bit of problems with this voting system. So Senator this is my letter that i want you to read so you can rethink the decision of getting rid of the Electoral college.
The Electoral college is a voting system that depends on the popular votes to see who gets the electoral votes in the president race. The founding fathers established the electoral college in the constitution, which means this voting system has been with this country since the beginning of the United States. To get rid of the Electoral college is like getting rid of a piece of this country. The founding fathers made the electoral college so the president and vice president could get chosen. There are five hundred and thirty eight electoral votes possible to get. To win presidency you must have two hundred and seventy electoral votes. These votes are one of the most important things. So I want you Senator to imagine getting rid of a piece of the constitution, just imagine ripping a little piece off. Guess what you can't because the constitution is to important to this country to take anything off of it. This is one reason Senator that the electoral college should not be disbanded.
The Electoral College has the ability to get rid off problems such as avoiding run off elections, which means that no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast. The Electoral College also has swing states, which means the people in the state pay close attention to what the candidates say and vote for who they feel should win so that the winner take all method isn't in effect. A good example of a run-off election is the elections of Richard Nixon and Bill clinton. Both of these presidents had forty three percent of the populare votes, but dominated in the electoral votes. A good example of a winner take all method is the election of 2012 where the candidates focused on the voters in the toss up states or the states that listen and vote for who they think is better. Another example of a run-off election is if a candidate does not win a majority of the votes vast than the presidential election would be greatly complicated. The complication is then reduced by the Electoral College, which chooses a winner. The Electoral College can save a lot of things for just a voting system.
Although the Electoral College helps a lot there is a couple problems with it. When you vote you vote for who you want to vote for, but when that vote gets put in the Electoral College doesn't have to put there vote to who you voted for. The Electoral College is also unfair to voters because of the winner take all system. During the 2000 campaign some states didn't even get to see their candidates. Some states didn't even get to see a ad on tv for their candidates. The Electoral College is also known as the disaster factor because of the crisis in the election of 2000. The electors are chosen by the legislatures and the electors could always defy the will of the people. The Electoral College can be fixed, so don't take it way that way it can be fixed and arranged.
The Electoral College is good because it keeps us away from problems, even though it has some, and is a part of our history. This whole letter is to explain why you the senator should not take the electoral college away. I have to say it has problems, but those problems can be fixed by some simple solution.
From, PROPER_NAME Student of
SCHOOL_NAME | 4 |
ce8a5b9 | The Mona Lisa's mood was never really made out to be one emotion.Looking at this painting would have anyone confused as to what was running through he r mind at that exact moment or what was going on around her.Leonardo da Vinci captured what seems to be a smirk or even a face of mixed emotions.
The Mona Lisa is known for having a multi-expression face,but in this day in age it can be determined by people all over the world exactly what she felt in that exact moment. "She's 83 percent happy,9 percent disgusted,6 percent fearful,and 2 percent angry...It's the subject of Leonardo di Vinci's Renaissance painting,Mona Lisa--at least according to some new computer software that can recognize emotions." With this new amazing software it will be easier to read people and use this to analyze different types of people.
This advanced technology works much like us."In fact, we humans perform this same impressive 'calculation' everyday.For instance,you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face''. Not only can this new tech help with human expressions,but this software can also help with education. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored...Then it could modify the lesson,like an effective human instructor." This new discovery can help the avarage student through a stressful and confusing class meaning grades would go up and students would be more succsesful in their acadimic career.
Finally,this technology can change the education world and everything else for the better.Making everything easier and stressless to the world. | 3 |
ce8c005 | The face found on Mars is not made by alien. On April 1998 Michael Malins took a picture that was ten times. The autor is comparing the Eath to Mars how the the Earth has a of landforms so and Mars has a landform that look like a face.
The face could have been formed like that and back then we dont have the technology we have now so the camara could have been messed up or gliching out." Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meter pre pixel in the best 1976 Viking Photo."
The way and distance of the Viking 1 spacecraft could have made a diferance from what the picture looks like then what it is in real life. The camara resulution could have been better the dhould have sent another spacecraft up were the the picture was taken to see if the rock is really a face. The rock is most likely made up of natural landform. | 2 |
ce96a53 | The author states that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because, venus is a really hot planet and the earth is in between venus and mars but venus is closer to earth. Scientists start to study venus but it's very too hot to go to venus so scientists try to make inventions that will get information on why venus is so hot. Venus is dangerous because it is soo hot and you wouldn't make it in the conditions there.
In paragraph 3 the author states " Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments". It also states some examples of the dangerous things like "erupting volcanoes,powerful earthquakes,and frequent lightning strikes ". Scientists are still trying to visit to venus surface even tho it's inhospitable because they are fascinated by venus because venus use to be the earth's most-like planet in our solar system. Scientistist wants to know what it is that is making venus sooo hot because like in paragraph 4 it says " long ago, venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life". Then scientistst study that venus is the hottest planet and they are now trying to study why venus is so hot.
Now NASA is trying to send humans to study venus. NASA also has a solution for scientists to go study venus in paragraph 5 it says " NASA's possible solution to the hostile condition on the surface of venus would allow scientists to float above the fray" NASA made this solution so that scientists would study venus but at the same time they would be safe while doing it . NASA is now workin on other approaches to studying venus. In paragraph 7 the author states " some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions". This also shows that tying to study venus is dangerous because you wouldn't make it very long on the planet even if you've invented things to try and help.
The author is trying to get out that studying venus can be very dangerous because of the conditions venus is going thorugh. Venus is the most hottest planet and it is not the best planet to be studying because it is very dangerous. | 3 |
ce9e15e | In 1976 there was a mysterious face found on the planet Mars. I'm a scientist at NASA space station discussing some accusations about this face. Some people are beginning to believe that the face was created by aliens. However, that is not the case here. This mysterious face was simply created by natural causes and happens to just have distinct features of a human face.
My first reason as to why this face is a natural landform is because there is no scientific proof that aliens have ever existed on Mars, or anywhere else. If there is no proof of these aliens living then how could they have possibly been able to create such an artifact. Plus, believing that this was caused by natural causes is way more believable then relying on unproven research that aliens once existed.
My second reason to this being just a natural landform is scientists believe the nose,eyes, and mouth of the figure are created by shadows giving it an illusion of a human face. This attracted the public which is exactly what NASA wants. So, NASA is using the illusion of this human face to attract more attention to their program and Mars itself. By doing this it is making most people believe the face was created by aliens, which it in fact wasn't. Evidence of this is when the article, Unmasking the Face on Mars states, "Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars."
My third and final reason this mysterious face is just a natural landform is that is resembles features of landforms common in American West. For example, Garvin states, "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars," Garvin also says. If this face resembles American Western landforms so much then it must be a natural landform itself.
Although there are reasons this face wasn't created by aliens there are some conspiracies involving NASA. One is that people believe NASA has already found traces of life on Mars and would rather keep that sceret from the public. This is believable because NASA wouldn't want to alarm the public of extraterrestrial lifeforms and create panic. Although it could create panic, NASA should want to inform the public because it could cause support of NASA and thier findings instead. For example, people could start donating money to the company to help with further research and have more knowledge about what they do.
This mysterious face on the surface of Mars is no more than a natural landform. It was not caused by aliens because there is no scientific proof. NASA wants the public to believe it is a cause by aliens so they could get more publicity for it. I mean, this face has already starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows, and even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years. It's had enough publicity and does not deserve anymore because of the fact that it is just a natural landform caused by natural changes, not aliens. | 5 |
ce9e198 | I think yes, it can help students with their feeing becuase my first reason is becuase emotions matter alot. My seconed reason is becuase reason a article can halp people feel better if they pay good attions to what the story says. my last reason is becuase showing feelings they the way we look.
My first reason it can help students becuase by the way people read the story and look at the foto there is a lot of ways to look and read it. If there is a person who really is feeling sad they can read a story that has a lil og exititing moments on the story and with happy pictues that shows the feelings of the story. It can help alot beuase by looking at the pictuce and really paying attintion to the story it can grab the readers attintion. Once th author got the readers attiontion the reader is going to be focesed of what the book is about and going to make them change their feelings.
My seconed reason by reading the article it can change feelings. It can make then get into the feeling they want to get into eather it can be mad, sad, happy scared, exited, ect. There is a lot of feeling people can get into if they into what the author want to tell them by reading.
My last reason is by the way they look. Not alot of the people show they way they feel. If people dont show how they feel it becuase most of the idea is becuase hey are holding there feelings down deep in them. If they not showing it most people say they dont show it because they dont want to make people worry becuase they are in a bad mood and just dont want to get bothered. They try to show they are stong but deep dow they are holding a hard feelings they they going to remember at some other time becuase they are heoding it in them and they are the people who just dont want to do stuff at a surten time. The people who show there feeings i think they are the people who have the most good time becuase they get rid of that feeling.
Inconcluion that is my three reasons why it think it can help people when they are in the mood they dont want to be in. | 1 |
cea013b | Dear State Senator,
To be honest we should not keep the Electoral College because there unfair, outdated, and irrational. There unfair to citizens and the states who vote. In my opinon I think all the electors care about is just the winnings from the presidential candidate. I would like to call the Electoral College the disaster factor. I agree in Mr. Plumber saying. Bradford Plumber said in his writing of The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wong, "In the vein, "faithless" electors have occasionally refused to vote for there party's candiate and caste a deciding vote for whomever they please...." I think there heartless. That's another reason why I don't like them. Now look all they care about is themselves. I pretty sure most of the voters or the states don't know this but did you know when we the voters "vote for the presidental canidate" we're actually voting for a slate of electors? Electoral College lack democratic pedigree, also there practical reason, liberal and conservative reason. What I found out that is also not fair is to the citizens and state who vote, is that the winning candiate's share his share of popular vote with the Electoral College. First of all, we voted for the candiate not for the electoral. We don't know the electoral. Knowing this, we the citizens just might not vote anymore. The electoral is not sharing the presidential house, we choose one person to look up too. Not the greedy electoral. Some states don't even vote anymore because they know that there vote has no effect. It's hard to say this but Bob Dole was right: Abolish the Electoral College!
Sincerely, PROPER_NAME, A citizen of Florida. | 2 |
cea84d3 | Have you bever seen land that looks like a face?
There's a Face on Mars ,however; some people think it was created by aliens.
Some people do not think that like me.
It is located in Cydonia and the space craft arrived on September 1997.
Scientist discovered by looking for possible landing sites.
The Face is just a natural landform and it wasn't created by aliens.
Only some scientist thought is was from an alien but I know it's not.
The text states, "Although few scientist beleived the Face was an alien artifact."
The few scientist thought that it was made by aliens therefore, they didn't have any evidence.
Nevertheless, NASA unveiled the image for all to see and the caption was noted a "huge rock formation."
So at the beginning they figured it was a rock but they didn't say anything about it being created by aliens.
Evidence is a very important thing for scientist.
Many people learned what the "Face" was when they revealed it to the public.
The author reveals, "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing... a natural landform."
They said it was a natural landform because they zoomed up on it and could see no aliens..
For 25 years the face has been in magazines and it has even been in hollywood movies.
All of them said it was a natural landform.
Many people were excited about the Face.
If aliens created it they would have left evidence, like a shrine, monument, or you could see them in pictures.
After publishing it the author says, " There was no alien monument after all."
That proves that it was not created by aliens, but many people disagreed.
Everyone were not satisfied because they thought aliens created it.
Although, some skeptics said alien markings were hidden by a haze.
But the scientist did not think that, so they went out again and looked for the face to take more pictures.
The Face was located in Cydonia it is a hard place to locate.
The picture from 2001 was more clear than the one from 1975.
The pictures didn't show any monument of aliens and they could not tell they were even there.
Lots of evidence proves aliens did not create the Face.
What the face is described is a butte or mesa- landforms common around the American West.
The article states, "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho."
That states it looks like a landform from Earth.
This proves that no matter what people think it was not created by aliens.
The Face is just a natural landform and it wasn't created by aliens. | 3 |
ceb15d0 | First, I like the way the author write the introduction, because in the article on paragraph 1" sometimes called the evening star and Venus is the secont planet form our sun" shows the author really knows what he/she is talking about. He also support it by including Earth, Venus ,and Mars are goes by different speed; Venus is sometimes right around the conner but sometimes we far from it and closer Mars.
Second, I can tell that the authors research about the past ,because in the article in paragraph 2" each previous mission was unmanned, no spacecarft survived, and not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades" shows he actually know about spacecraft and about 3 decades ago. Also, in paragraph 7 he also conclude about first envisioned in 1800s and 1940s during World War ll.
Third, I like the way the author use to describe Venus because in paragraph 2 and 3, he/she describe by saying" Often referred to as Earth twin" and in paragrath 4 the author suupport it by saying" it may well once have been the most Earth like planet" and " probably covered largely with oceans and various forms of life".
Finally, in the author included about how NASA will be keep challenging to get to the Venus safely and how they will going to working on a machines that last long enought to contribute meaningfully knowledge of venus. This shows that the author researched about how NASA Challenging to get to Venus. To support my sentence, In paragraph 7 " eletronics made of silicon carbide have lasted for three weeks".
In conclusion, the author is good at introduction and the explaining details ,because I can actually imagine how the Venus will be look like just by reading this article. | 3 |
ceb1c5f | What would it be like to live in a society without the use of cars? Well some cities and even countries have begun to limit car usage such as VAUBAN, Germany where "70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars"(Source 1). There happens to be many advantages to limiting car usage such as: less polution, less stress, and better cities. The positives of limiting car usage are very great and would have a positive effect on any city willing to set up these limitations.
The first advantage of limiting car usage is the effect it will have on the enviroment. According to Source 1, "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". All this polution and emission not only effects the enviroment but also leads to "intensifying smog"(source 2) wich is not only bad for the enviroment but also bad for people. The use of cars may not be the only source of emmision, but it is "the second largest source of America's emissions"(source 4). Many cities have already realized this and have begun limitations on car usage. Just think if all cities put a limitation on car usage how much fewer the percent of emissions would be and how great of an effect it would have on the enviroment.
Another positive of car limitation is its impact on cities, towns, and comunities. Bogota a city in Colombia participating in the limitation of car usage has seen the positive effects on there city. Bogota "has seen the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths" wich means more people biking wich means less people using cars wich means healthier people(source 3). This city also has seen an increase in the building of parks and sports centers, restraunts, shopping districts, and smooth sidewalks. Limitations on cars also leads to an improvement of the town's people, because people such as Carlos Arturo have used the limitations as "an opportunity to take away stress"(source 3) or Vauban's Heidran Walter who just feels less tense and "much happier"(source 1). Not only will these limitations positively effect cities but positively effect the overall mood of the people too.
There is a long list of advantages of limiting car usage. The advantages include: a healthier enviroment, improved cities, and happier people. Limitation has already started in many cities arouend the world, because these cities see the many advantages to limiting car usage. | 4 |
cecbf38 | I have never liked Government intervention on desicions that should be left up to the people who feel the effect of mandate. However, Government intervention on limiting the amount of car usage may prove to be a genuinely good cause. It may prove to accomplish what Government was first formed to do; help shape the world to make it a better place to co-exist, not only with each other, but with the whole Earth.
At fist, it may seem a little crazy in our day and age to actually reverse the climb of our use of technology and innovation, like vehicles. After all, isn't that what we're supposed to do? Isn't it natural to constantly evolve as time passes? Well, cars aren't natural, and they destroy what is.
We are facing dangerous pollution; "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city" (Source 2, 10). This is alarming to me and many people who care for the Earth. Every day, we're facing new headlines of negativity, and although whether Kim Kardashian's dress fits or not is upsetting, I think we need to focus on more important things and expell the negativity we're always bashed with. We could be developing things that will really make an impact, like new breakthrough sciences on space, medical sciences, and so much more. Instead, "All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change" (Source 1, 7).
But, there is hope in all this. Already, we're seeing improvements. "The number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter, according to an analysis by Doug Short of Advisor Perspectives, an investment research company" (Source 4, 32). Maybe reversing the climb of our use of cars isn't so hard after all; we can hit the ground running.
A reduction in the ownership of cars has also shown a surprising improvement of psychological well-being. In Vauban, Germany, they have almost completely cut out automobile use in their community. "'When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way,' said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two, as she walked verdant streets where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor" (Source 1, 3). It sounds like people can be much happier without the constant buzz of cars coming and going. The mention of children also makes me think that it would be a much safer environment to raise children without the stress of parents having to worry if their children would be safe with so many cars about. I think everyone remembers their parents telling them time and time again to look both ways before crossing, and then double check, and then hold their hand, and watch out for right-turning traffic. A reduction in automobile use, in this case, is directly related to the stress parents have over their children when doing something so simple as crossing the street.
In addition, a reduction in automobile use and ownership gives the local Government something more beneficial to focus on, rather than spending millions on re-paving roads; "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted 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" (Source 3, 28). With this change, local Government can focus on really improving the standard of living; more job openings with more buisinesses, easier travel (despite what one might think) during rush-hour, and a higher level of general safety with less danger of car accidents.
All in all, I think it will be a hard transition to go through if Government does plan to get involved in the reduction of car usage. It's easy to make bad habits, but it's hard to break them. However, if we do succeed, we will see a huge improvement on the environment and the standard of living, and it will be really worth it. These are not views or opinions; these are facts. | 4 |
cece966 | Dear Senator,
Thank you for taking the time to read my letter. I would like to bring something to your attention that has been on my mind recently. I think the electoral college is important in picking our presidents and i think that it needs to stay apart of our voting process. The Electoral college is in our history and the founding fathers didnt put it there to just be removed. The Electoral College needs to stay apart of our voting process beause we always have the certainty of outcomes, Everyones presidents, and it avoids run off elections.
With an Electoral College we' ll always have the certainty of outcomes because the winning canidate's share of electoral college invaribly exceeds his share of the popular vote. Also its highly unlikely for a tie in the electoral college unlike in popularity.
In the Electoral College everyones president. This is such a big part because the electoral college requires a presidental candidate to have trans-regional appeal. No region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. A candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president.
The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast. There is pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a majority of the votes cast; that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presidental election process, is reduced by the electoral college.
In conclusion, the electoral college is a great thing for the united states and states. its very much what our founding fathers intendid it to be and it should never be take away. Its neccessary and needed in voting for presidents. | 3 |
ced362b | From my opinion I think this is one of the best technologys I ever heard about. I think this technology would be a great use for students and should be allowable at schools to read the students emotional expressions. If this technology can be worked by students then it is most definitley I would love to work with this technology. I am pretty sure more students would work with this technolgy and have fun with it. And when I saying if students can work on it, I mean by making a class for this technology and have the class make more brilliant ideas and make more technololgy like this emotional reader. That is why I think this technology should be allowed at schools for the use of students and also teachers.
In schools we have many classes like Math, English, History and etc. But it would be nice to have a class about technology and have this technology in the class so students can learn how to use it and how it was made. Time bye time the students are going to know more of this technology and then this could work for the help of many students. Once they come in to class if you see them in a different mood the teacher can either send you to the office or she can do it her self to see what type of emotional expression does the student have. So this machine would be very good and it would help the school a lot with their students.
With this type of technology it would tell us what the other person is feeling or what were they thinking if we know. Like we can get a picure of Abraham Lincoln and we can read how he was when they took the picture. Not just with Abraham Lincoln but with everybody in the old age that has an original picure or painting of themselves. It would be very cool to see what they were feeling. And I am pretty sure whoever invented this machine would make a ton of money if he tells the world what he has created.
So like I said in the beginning, this is probably the best technology I ever heard about before either then the technolgy apple. This technology would be a great use for students at their schools. Not just for students but for teachers too and maybe they can have this technology at jobs and other places. Me personally if I had this technology I would use it every time I wake up and evety time I go to bed so I would know how my day went. And finally this is why I think this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom shoud be valuable. | 3 |
ced3bda | Dear senator,
Getting ride of the Electoral College would change so many things. We the people vote for who we want as a president. It should be that the person with the most votes wins. We the people should have a say in who runs our country. I mean we do because we get to vote and all but even if we do vote the Electoral College votes diffrently. Just becasue they and you are in higher power shouldnt mean that you get to pick everything that happends to this country. Yes, I understand that there are really stupid people in this world who make stupid dicisons but we should at least get a vote on like new laws or building something new in town. If we had votes on things like getting stuff torwn down and building new things it would change atol of places. But becauser of the Electoral College we dont have a final say in anything. During the presidency electon one of the candidates will win by the votes of the people but lose beacuse the votes of the Electoral College. That is not right. When the people vote for something or someone they should be able to have a final say in what happends. Say your voting for a new ice cream flavor, well say there is 20 regular people voting and there is 5 from th e"electoral college". Say 13 of you like the new flavor but the other 7 dont like it. Wouldnt you think the 13 should win? But the 5 electoral people still have to vote, and 3 of them vote against the new flavor so there is no new flavor. Wouldnt you be mad if you and the other 12 people who wanted the new flavor didnt win because of higher people above you said no? i know i would. Im giving you all these reasons why the electoral college isnt fair because it needs to change. | 2 |
ced486b | What is a Electoral College? A Electoral College is a process, not a place. My 3 reasons what is a(n) Electoral College is : Why do we need a Electoral College, Whats wrong with it, and 5 reasons why we choose a president. We have to find out whats going on with this Electoral College. If we don't something might happen. We will find the truth about the Electoral College.
Whats wrong with Electoral College?
Voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president ,
according to paragraph 10 . Again they said if you live intexas, for instance, and wanted to vote for John Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry. All the votes that people vote for really aren't voting, there just voting for the slate electors. The electors choose which one they will vote for, but is that any fair, for the people, they make a choice to vote, there not being forced to vote by command. People like to vote because they want a new leader or, for instance, somebody like President Barack Obama. He is going into his 6 year as president.
Why do we need a Electoral College?
The Electoral College consists of 539 electors, according to paragraph 3.
A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for the president and vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. The Founding Fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and the lection of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens.
What are the reasons why we choose a president?
The reasons why we choose a president is because of the swing states, and the big states. Swing states is a winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates as we saw in [2012's] election to focus their campaign efforts on tht toss-up states. Next is the Big States, the electoral college restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population) lose by virture of the mal-apportionmentof the senate. The Big States are like : Texas, Californina, and Florida. But this doesn't annoy me because people still have a chance to vote whether or not, the votes don't to the congress.
In Conclusion, Electoral College is a well-known thing when to choose a president or vice president or even governer. Elecotral College is important, you can say that because maybe you agree to it but i still don't because the votes aren't really going to the votes to the congress, the votes really go to the slate of governers or the senate but the the senate or congress are really the real people that can choose the president or vice president. | 2 |
cedeccc | ~How far would you consider too far? I ask this question for the sake of driverless cars that are starting to become a thing and starting to be tested. They already have been considered illegal in some states, California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia. These have some positive aspects, but for now we are going to look at the negative aspects of driverless cars.
~These cars have many sensors, a few cameras, auto brakes/accelorators, and GPS', but if the wiring is wrong or anyhting happens to them, they will malfunction and could easily cause serious injuries or even death. The GPS' would need to be updated every-so-often because new roads are built and some roads are closed. If the GPS is not updated, then you could easily go off road or not even be on a considered road. Some GPS, like one that i own, is very old and does not have some of the newer roads on it, but it has only roads that do not exist anymore.
~"Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?" is a good question because I know i really like to drive and be focused with just driving and the radio. Most drivers also really like to drive on their own and be in contol of the car, going fast, or slow, and stopping. A manufacturer said there would be "in-car entertainment", but if you think of that there could be so many things that are considered "in-car entertainment". Kids, if they are in the car, then they could easily have a movie player playing like some family cars have. If the adult has something other than a radio, it could actually be more dangerous than what they think. This is because the warning signs, depending what they are could be ignored if they are distrcted with other things.
~Warning signs. Some may think they will help and get the drivers attention, but others may disagree. The warning sign of a voice going throughout the car and making everything else stop playing is a very good idea. The other examples of the warning signs that were mentioned were not so good. A vibrating seat could easily have a person thinking, if they are on a bumpy road, that it was just a bump and not the seat/car telling them to get the wheel and go around what ever is in the way. Flashing lights could easily be blown off as another car flashing their brights and not think as much of "oh, I need to start driving!" They would more-than-likely think that their brights are on and they should turn them off.
~Technology breaks and we all know it. If one thing were to break or stop working, the person, in the driverless car, and anyone around them is in possibly a lot of danger and the driver is puting others and him/herself at risk. The car is wired up and probably carefully looked at, but if one were to actully buy one they would not know if something is broken or messed up. The technology most likely has batteries and they all probably need to be replaced every once in a while or charged, but if someoen forgets to... then the car will not be working properly
~Who's fault would it be if someone were to get in a crash? the company or the driver? This question struck me and made me think. I thought it would be the companies at first, but then i thought a bit more and cme up with a conclusion: If the person owns the car and paid for it and everything, it would be the owner of the cars' fault because they knew what they were getting themselves into." The companies might be at a bit of a fault, but not much. The fault would be the owner/driver of the car.
~In the end, i still think of this driverless car as a very negative thing. It make use less gas, but it will not be less of a danger. There are already things on the road (drunk drivers, car chases, etc.) that we all have to deal with, so why put another danger onto the road and put us all into more risk than we already are? | 5 |
cee22f0 | Car's get us where we need to go. You can say that we relie on car's. Car's have thier pro's, but also have thier con's. They have a big inpack on our atmosphere, with all the carbon dioxid they give off. Experts say that, it's a huge impediment to curret efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes.... Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe.... and up tp 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States. All these gases are inffecting out atmosphere. For example, PAris typically has more smog than other European capitals.... Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussles and 79.7 in London, Reuters found.
In Bogota, Colombia- in a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day. Leaving the streets of this capitla city eerily devoid to traffic jams. The program is to promote alternative transpotation and reduce smog. Programs all over the world have been started to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. New York's new bike-sharing program and its skyrocketing proliferation of car-sharing programs across the nation. Diesel fuel was blamed, since France has a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline.
In 2006, Vanban was completed as an example of a growing trends in Europe, the United States and elswhere to separate suburban life from auto use, as a component of a movement called "smart planning" Vauban, home to 5,500 resident within a rectangular square mile, mat be the most advance expreiment in low-car suburban life. As of April 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to wher the country was in January 1995. So evey body is giving up thier car for a day why cant you? | 3 |
cee8c0f | This story is about discovering mars. Witch is pretty exicting because this is a big planet and every planet we discove is a new chance to find other life than the earth because if we have more knoledge about what outer space than we can go to the planets and maybe use the for our selfes or if their are any plant we can use / grow them here on earth.
So about 25 years ago NASA'S Viking one space ship was circleing the planet taking photos for a posible landing ship viking 2 when it spotted the shadowy likness of a human face.
An strange head nearly 2 miles away. The face on Mars have scine become a popular icon. It has been talked about everywhere.
It was a bid hit on NASA's Alot of people wanted to see the Face On Mars. The Face On Mars has starred in a hollywood film along with magazines and other products that could cause talk about The Face On Mars. Scientist bealived that the faces wher Alien artifact.
This story was about how the Face on mars was regonized all over the world and scientists are still trying to figure out what this face was, was it an artifact or was it just a strange dent/ crator in the mars land. But even till this day the world may never figure out what this strage face was or where it may have came from . | 1 |
ceead0f | Everyday people die in car crashes with them driving manually. So why would they trust a vehicle with a computer programming the vehicle? I believe that the driverless cars would be a tragic disaster in the world because, there could possibly be just as much car crashes. For example, Google cofounder, Sergey Brin, said that they would have to put sensors everywhere on the vehicle. What if one of the sensors were to brake or just go out while driving a person? Or if little kids were riding their bycicles on the streets and get hit by one of the vehicles?
These vehicles would not make a good impact on the world. Yes, it would be fun to experiment with but it wouldn't be when the vehicle goes dead on the streets and you have to get out and walk the rest of your destination. It could be possible that the GPS they were talking about putting in the car could go out and run a red light or stop sign and seriously injure or kill the passengers.
Have they ever thought about a tire going out on a highway? You not having anywhere to go? Or having to wait on someone to come and get you? I believe that when they say the google car always lets you know if you are going to get into a car crash they are over-exagerating. Because, when you are driving you always have this think called a blind spot. If you have a blind spot then there is no way that the vehicle can see everything.
They say that the car can only speed up to 25mph, but when you are driving on
highway that isn't really helpful. Or if you are in a hurry to get somewhere that wouldn't be helpful either. The author says in paragraph 7 line 3-4 that they have special sensors to make sure that the person is holding on to the wheel when driving. Who would want to do that when they here that a vehicle is driverless? It wouldnt be driverless when the driver has to hold on to the wheel.
When people are driving a car manually cars will still malfunction here and there. So why would someone want to risk their own lives off of a piece of technology? I wouldn't trust my life with a piece of tecnology and i know that there has to be people out in the world that one hundred percent agrees with my statement. Question is would you danger your life with a driverless vehicle? | 4 |
ceec53f | It seems that others still believe in the theory that the natural landform was created by aliens, even though the face on Mars was finally unmasked.
When it was first just discovered, scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, which was common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyption Pharaoh. Only a few scientists believed that the face was an alien artifact.
Scientists wanted to prove that the face was just a landform and nothing more, so they soon come up with a plan. On April 5, 1998, when Mars Glabal Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. The first image that appeared on a JPL web site revealed a natural landform. There was no alien monument.
However, not everyone was satisfied with the results. It took another journey; Mars Global Surveyor went for a second look in Cydonia on April 8, 2001. 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. The image was three times bigger than the pixel size.
With these final results, the questioning of the face on Mars should be concluded. The picture actually shows the Martian equivalent of a buttle or mesa - landforms common around the American West. The human shaped face on Mars was no alien artifact after all, it was only a natural landform this entire time. | 3 |
ceed91e | hey guys this is tyler, i'm a reporter, today i'm going to give you three reasons why it's a challenge to explore venus.
- my first reason is because venus is a very very hot plant if you so much as enter the plant, the atmosphere it will crush you do to the tempature and the extreme conditions on the plant.
- my second reason it has been claimed that it is more dangerous to see up close.
it's the second planet away from the sun but it is also considered our planet, earth's, "twin" among other things the reason why it's considered our second planet is for density and size also distance.
- my final reason it's thick atmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide blankets venus for a even more challenge the clouds have a high corrosive sulfuric acid in the atmosphere. the pressure is 90 times greater than what we exprience on our own planet. the conditions are far more extreme than anything humans can encounter on earth.
i'm going to end this report, thanks for reading and i hope you enjoyed it.
thank you:) | 2 |
cef65f8 | Cars driving cars? I never thought that the day would come when cars are driving themselves, yet it is right around the corner. Which leads me to be scared do to malfuntions of machines causing injury, But still very excited because of the techonology is very fascinating. Their are so many cars with people driving that get in accidents due to impairment and i believe that this technology can really benefit our society.
Their are many things that a car with no driver can lead people to think. Like it may lead people to think that maybe sitting in a car and not driving may get boring. Although if they are a passenger in a car are they bored?
As Dr. Werner Huber added "We have to interpert the driving fun in a new way." In addition to that some maufactures are bringing in-car entertainmet and to me that sounds pretty cool. In contrast to that people may think that this might become a safety hazard. The maunfactures think this can be safer do to the progress in the heads up display system which some cars may have and this can allow people to send a text message and keep their eyes on the road watching for when they may need to take over in driving. Finally this leads me to question why the goverment in some states are blocking this technology? To that i can answer with maybe the fear of change. They shouldnt be afraid of that though cause the world is constantly changing and most times change is healthy.
Their are so many cars with people driving that get in accidents due to impairment and i believe that this technology can really benefit our society. Also all these questions can lead to all the answers to. "One small step step for a human, leads to one larger step to mankind" as JFK stated. So lets embrace these ideas with a good welcome. | 3 |
cefa430 | Cars without drivers are the future. It will allow many things to become obsolete but for good cause. It may be because of the recreational aspect of there being too much stress in extended periods of driving. It could also be because of the added safety that these cars will create for the occupants and pedestrians. Either way, people will begin to see the wonders that is driverless cars.
There are an abundance of people that dislike driving for extended periods of time. This will make road trips much more bearable so that the driver does not have to use all of his or her concentration solely on driving.
Although, the driverless cars of the present are not truly driverless. They still rely on humans to do some of the work to go around speific things like accidents or complicated traffic issues. As such, it may not be perfect, but it does more work so that the driver does not have to. This was partially the goal of driverless cars.
If these cars become a reality and the need of human drivers becomes obsolete, accidents will be greatly reduced. Perfected driverless cars can lead people into an era where people do not have have to rely on their cars to not let them die in an accident. Instead, we will rely on the vehicles to not cause an accident. It will also cause drunk driving to become a thing of the past because the car will do the driving in place of the drunken person. Rather than thinking solely of the recreational aspects, the safety that comes with these cars will cause them to become adopted into states more easily.
As such, driverless cars should be sought after by companies and people so that they worry less on the road and its dangers and more on having a family friendly time in cars like sedans. | 3 |
cf043c2 | If someone wishes to travel somewhere, such as a normal commute, proably the first transportation method they think of is a car. Cars are everywhere. They're the things hiding in a home, waiting for someone to enter the depths of the dark garage. Unless the grage is truly empty of the world-killing machiene, such as in Vauban, Germany where people have done the unthinkable: got rid off cars.
Though it may sound proposterous, or even critically insane to even concider giving up a car, the citizens of Vauban are a lot happier to be rid of the burden. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happpier this way" (Rosenthal, In German Suburb, Life goes On Without Cars). As you may have forgotten, car payments, maintnance, check up, oil changes, and gas are all part of owning a car which may be a financial strain for most.
Again, those robots that you move with pedals and a steering wheel are seriously affecting our Earth. We're Earth murderers. "Passenger cars arw 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, In German Suburb, Life goes On Without Cars). Fellow humans, we are not the only species on planet Earth. We are so used to cars it's like watching something interesting on TV and trying to pull away from it; it's nearly impossible. "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clean the air of the global city" (Duffer, Paris bans driving due to smog). Less driving cars is less greenhouse gasses that destroy our Earth.
In our society today, cars are the dominant transportation method. When you go outside in today's world it is most likely not the sound of nature, but a manmade vehicle. Without cars, a whole new world will come forth, or most likely the beautiful world we forgot about that is mercilessly trapped beneath unessesary layers of greenhouse gases. When Paris banned cars, it improved the pollution stuck in the air. "The smog cleared enough Monday for the ruling French part to recind the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday" (Duffer, Paris bans driving due to smog). If we stop driving cars, it will help most people financially, help our Earth, and ease the worry and stress over the maintenance of a car. Once again, we are not the only species on Earth. Can't we all just share? | 4 |
cf095da | "Making Mona Lisa Smile" is an article in which the auother describes the new technology Facial Action Coding System. This newly invented technology can detect your mood just by your face. It constructs a 3-D computer model of your face, all 44 major muscles. Using this technology to read emtional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable.
In the article it said, "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." When students are on a computer atempting a lesson, it can calculate their expressions and send feedback to the teacher. If the teacher wants to, they can modify the lesson if the feedback wasn't good. For example, the students can frown if they don't like it, and smile if they do. It's a good way for a teacher to get feedback of what the students actually think.
Most schools are turning to you do everything on computers. Some schools make it where you have to purchase a computer and you take it home. They don't have to buy textbooks, everything is just on the computer. When you miss a day because of snow you aren't actually missing a day. You do the lesson for that day on Elearn at home and you don't have to make up that snow day. Even at home you can get feedback from students because they do their lessons on their computers. You can learn a lot from facial expressions and Facial Action Coding System is a good way for teachers to learn what students like and what they don't, even from home.
Some people will argue that students won't be truthful and they will just make it a joke. The Facial Action Coding System can tell if you are being truthful or not. For instance, the article says, "in a false smile the mouth is stretched sideways, using the sygomatic major and a different muscle, the risorius. Faces don't lie. These muscles are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity is being truthful."
The Facial Action Coding System is a good way for teachers, principals, and guidance counselars to get feedback. It's valuebale in the classroom as well as outside. Maybe the next move is putting it in big cooperations or little companies! | 4 |
cf0d95b | Driverless cars are unsafe and in this situation technology is being used in an unnecessary way. It promotes that you do not have to pay attention to the road while driving because your smartcars can "steer, accelerate, and brake themselves." This will cause more auto-related deaths due to less attention being paid to the road. The driver also may not notice the car as it signals the driver that they need to prepared to take over. Computer systems are not always completely accurate and should not be trusted to drive our cars for us. If there was a computer malfunction the car could lose control creating a wreck not only putting our lives at risk, but the lives of other's. Driverless cars are not as safe as human driven cars due to inacurate computer systems and inability for drivers to recognize when they are needed to take control of the car.
In the article it is written that the cars still are not truly driverless, probably because it is known they are not completely safe. They all still alert the driver in a situation when the driver would need to take over. Because traffic laws have decided that the only "safe" car has a human driver in control at all times, it is illegal to test computer-driven cars. In the case that an autonomous car would get into an auto accident, there would be a lot of controversy over who is liable for the damages done.
Driverless cars are not as safe as human driven cars due to inacurate computer systems and inability for drivers to recognize when they are needed to take control of the car. There is not guarantee that the technology is going to work correctly and in a time when the computer system malfunctions, there would be much controversy over who is liable, manufacturer or driver. The cars are not completely driverless due to the fact that it is not safe and most laws declare that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. It could also cause more auto-related deaths because people would not feel the need to pay close attention to the road as the car drives for them. | 4 |
cf0e733 | Well, if i'm being honest with you. I do not believe it is a good thing to do. In certain states, yes. But when it comes to school and kids' education? No. If you put these kinds of computers in schools, all they would do is distract the kids and make them focus on what the computer is doing itself instead of the work. Sure, it can read when you're bored or unhappy. But that doesn't mean it's alright to distract the kids from doing their work.
Alright, so i think it's cool that a computer can tell emotions and how you are feeling and this and that. But in all reality it is just another electronic thing that we do not need in the world. Every year, people and companies come out with more and more stupid ideas for electronics. All i am hearing on TV anymore is about the new iPhones or the new Mac Books. They are cool and all, but you literally just came out with a new one last year. Like it says in the story, "Moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them."
In conclusion, these new tech designs and programs and electronics are pointless and unuseable. There is no point in putting something in a school that will just distract the kids from learning. Maybe having them at popular restaurants and stuff would help. But in schools? No way. Kids nowadays have a hard enough time learning in school, putting these computers in the schools is not going to help them learn anything quicker. | 3 |
cf176af | Elisabeth Rosenthal once asked, "Has America passed peak driving?", (30) having people go out of their way to think about the inquirable question. There are plenty of advantages of limiting car usage. America, nor any other country on this planet, really need cars. Sure, cars help us to get to a location faster than walking or biking. But it also smogs up the environment we live in and creates a stressful tension within you.
In Source 2, Paris, one of the world's most famous sightseeing locations on this planet, was days of near-record pollution. Paris strictly enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. (10) For almost a week, there was an intensified amount of smog roaming the streets of Paris. Congestion was down 60% in the capital of France. (14) This smog was causing frigid nights and warm days the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions. (15) Not only was there smog in Paris, but also rivaled one of the most polluted cities in the world, Beijing, China. Paris decided to particially cut down motorists chances of driving and leave their cars at home or would have had to suffer a fine. This well-known city was car-free for almost an entire week.
In line with Source 2, Source 3 explains multiple ways of transportation. Why drive cars and pollute the air, if there are plenty of other ways to getting to your destination. Bogota, Colombia has set up a program that is set to spread to other countries. This program consist of having a car-free day once a year for the last 3 years, Day Without Cars day. More than 6 million of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses and taxis to work, Bogota's streets were traffic-jam-free.(20) "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," said Carlos Arturo Plaza, a businessman. (24) No stress was within the city of Bogota that day. Their goal is to promote better transportation and reduce smog. (21)
Enrique Riera, the mayor of Asunción, Paraguay, noticed the enthusiastic changes being made and said, "These people are generating a revolutionary change, and this is crossing borders." (26) Fellow citizens, their are several advantages of limiting car usage. Maybe the next time you think about going somwhere, try taking a bike or walking. It's easier and reliefs stress among yourself. Plus, when not driving a car, you're able to decrease the amount of pollution being put into the air. | 3 |
cf1bac9 | Outside of Earth is a mystery to mankind. Slowly through the 20th and 21st centuries we have been exploring the space around us. A close neighbor, Mars, is one of the most famous sci-fi planets of all. Movies, books, etc. have been made based on Mars. Martians or even just plain old aliens have been the tall tale of our time, but could a discovery change the argument between aliens being fake or real. The Face on Mars is a turning point for all people. I am a scientist at NASA who strongly believes that the Face is just a landform on Mars surface because over time the picture quality has gotten better and has made the pictures of the Face come out clearer making it easier to see the definition of the shape.
The first sighting or picture taken of the Face was in 1976. The Viking 1 was circling the planet, snapping photos for possible landing sites for its sister ship Viking 2 when a picture was snapped of what looked like a human face. Regular citizens were shocked at the photo along with scientists. This picture as seen is very blurry. Definition of the landmark is not very clear and with that picture comes many questions; What is this thing? How did it get there? Why is it there? So many questions that no one could answer. So us as humans jumped to the most conclusive answer would could come up with and the answer was that it was made by aliens. NASA quickly turned down the accusation because there was no evidence supporting the idea. In the text the author said, "Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo." This shows how different the picture quality is between 1976 and 2001. Also many people were not satisfied with the picture eighteen long years after the Viking missions ended. So on April 5, 1998 the Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking pictures. Thousands of people wanted to see another glimpse of the Face maybe even a better one. The image appeared on a JPL web site, revealing a natural landform. After eighteen years of conspiracy it was proven that the Face was a mesa.
In conclusion the picture from 1998 is how I prove that the Face is just a natural landform. The picture quality has changed dramatically and has put conspiracy theorists in their place. I strongly believe that NASA tried to be on the peoples' side, afterall no one really knew what the Face was at first. As we continue on discovering our universe we will surely come across many inccidents like the Face and maybe one day the outcome won't be the same. | 4 |
cf1d8ab | The electoral college is a symbol of mockery and deprivation of our rights. Voting using this system to elect our leaders is proven null and serves to be removed. Implementing the popular vote in society will not only modernize it but give america its full name for democracy. For many years presidency has debated its ability to be renounced from Electoral college votes or the popular vote. The electoral college is a symbol of our rights as a US citizen being swept under our feet. More formally, this needs to be changed so the people of the U.S can have a greater say in our government, and those who run the country. Granting this power, we will not only modernize but become more democratic(Plumer-Paragraph-9).
According to the article " The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer, Not only do citizens agree with changing our system our own appointees do to. Major figures in politics like Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole and the U.S Chambe or commerce all agree to the abolishment of electoral college voting privaleges. A poll of over 6/10 voters agree that a direct election should be implemented by the people. This topic can be contreversal though. The best argument that reinstates its purpose says " Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president". So whats the contreversy about we elect them so they elect what we want. The best argument against this is the disaster factor. In the 1960's, segregationists in Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing democratic electors by electing electors who oppose John F. Kennedy(Plumer-Paragraph-10-11)
There are numerous factors that contribute towards the banishment of the Electoral College. Ranged from the favoritism of big states with big populations hence the higher amount of electoral votes, to the possibility of a tie in electoral votes. The system is unfair and a symbol of non modern democracy. Direct voting offers a chance to citizens of the US the ability to exercise voting and become part of the government in which we follow. If we always lived in this system, improvements must go on as time progresses so we as a nation can improve to become better. Changing our government is just another major step in our progress to becoming the most sucessful nation.
Changing our system so the voters of the US governize america by direct election is a essential change. According to the article "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president" numerous stories have been told that the Electoral college is an act of anachronism(Posner-Paragraph-15). If the people of the US work hard to remove this we can modernize society forever and make US a better democracy. If we fail to do so, we risk taking a major step backwards in time causing another seggregation act. We have been deprived of many of our rights for too long throughout history and now we have the ability to change. The electoral college has been a shaded act of seggregation and need to dperived of its rights and shut down at a notice. | 4 |
cf1e807 | The electoral college is a process where electors are sent to choose who the next president will be. Electors usually vote for who they said they were going to but can change this vote. I think we shouldn't have the electoral college anymore because, The people don't get to actually choose who they want to elect and voters can change who they're going to vote for.
The people who are voting for their president they wanted elected arn't actually voting for him. In source two, it says, "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors who in turn elect the president." This means that even if the president gets the popular vote, it doesn't mean he will always win. Electors can and will avoid the states that they know are not going to vote for the person they want to win the elections, and will avoid those states. In source two, it says "Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, canididates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states. During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all." Sometimes the voters don't even get to see the electors they're voting for and some states don't get them at all. The electors also purposley avoid certain states because they know that they won't vote for them or give them a chance to swing the election.
Voters can also change who they're voting for on the spot and no one can say or do anything about. In source two, it says "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." People voting for who the wanted to win the election could be accidently voting for someone else because of the electors work. The elector shouldn't be allowed to change his vote, because that is cheating people out of who they think should win and making it seem like their vote didn't even matter. Some states also have more electors than others, making it so that the person one state votes for will get more votes than the other states.
Some people think that electoral college system should still be there. Source 3 says, "But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee (and that trust is rarely betrayed)." Even if the electors that are selected and its said that the trust is rarely betrayed, the electors can still betray the person they're voting for and it can happen and it has happened before. It also doesn't say anything about the electors avoiding states that they know won't vote for them and going to states that can swing the election.
In conclusion, people don't get to vote for who they want to and electors can do basically whatever they have to do to win. People vote for the president they want to win and can be cheated out of that by the electors. The electors are allowed to move from a state they think won't vote for them to one they think will. The electors can also change who they're voting for during the elections. The electoral college is a system that cheats voters out of who they want to vote for and seems like a outdated and non-democratic method. | 4 |
cf1f159 | Cars that drive themselves. Seems a little like a science fiction movie doesn't it? As soon as I heard this theory, it reminded me of the Jetsons. Self-driving cars just seem a little too farfetched to be believable. Not only are they fantasy-like, they seem expensive and unnecessary. Cars that drive themselves are not something that we should introduce into our daily lives.
Picture this- New York City, a busy afternoon. If you've ever seen a movie set here, you can just image the thousands of taxis swarming around like busy bees making honey. The only thing is, this honey is money. If self-driving cars were introduced into society as a serious addition, there would be millions of Americans who would eventually lose thier jobs. As the author states in paragraph one, "Google cofounder Sergey Brin... envisions a future with a public transport system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system." This means taxi drivers, bus drivers, and eventually car dealers and manufacturers will slowly lose their jobs.
Besides the point of job loss, think about the safety of these vehicles. What if a driver is just driving along one day, and suddenly the technology fails. What if there's the tiniest glitch, or maybe even a hacker? What if the driver loses total control of their car? This is a very negative and scary possibility that can risk many people's lives. Technology can't see in real time through human eyes and react to situations like we instinctually can. There are just some things that should be left to people, and I think driving is one of them.
In conclusion, I honestly think self-driving cars will just cause more problems than they'll actually fix. The cost of manufacturing and retailing these cars is potentially very high. Not only that, but you may be risking someone's life. Cars that drive themselves should just stay a dream. | 3 |
cf2728d | Cars that can drive themselves have been a fascination for many years, but exactly how safe are these "driverless cars?" Sure, not being in charge of drving your own car could be fun right? But, that is exactly the problem because you are not in control. The driverless car is just creating new paths of destruction. And sadly, I believe this new technology is more of a downfall, than a fun upgrade.
Not in control of drving can be very dangerous, even though many saftey aspects are taken into hand. For instance "Google cars arent truly driverless: they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues." And with trying to bring in car entertainment, "displays can be turned of instantly when the driver needs to take over." But being suddently alerted might not give someone enough time to take control of the situation! Plus, all of these statements call for the driver taking over at some point of time, because something is not safe for the car to do. Should'nt that say something?
Not only are driverless cars very unsafe, but they area also very expensive. Engineers at Berkeley tried using "magnets with alternating polarity" to create a smart-road. "But they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was too expensive to be practical." And would'nt this concept be the same for smart driverless cars? Think about it, manufacturers are making massive upgrades to existing cars. Bringing in a lot of brand new technology to create the driverless car, who could even afford one?
Your dreams may be crushed, driverless cars are just plain unaffordable, unreliable, dangerous, and pointless. And even though everyone is telling you not be afraid because with techonoolgy these cars can "mimic the skill of a human at the wheel", dont you see that technolgy is what they are relying on? Technology can be very unconsitent and risky, what "If the techonolgy faills and someone is injured?" A person should be with their hands on the wheels at all times and be in control, not technology. Because would you want sensors to be in charge of choosing your life? | 4 |
cf28308 | It is vary dangerous to explore it because because of the extream heat and the high pressurebut i think it would be worth it. I think it is a vary interesting planit because i would like to know if there is any other life than what is on earth. I dont think that earth is the only inhabbited planet.
In The Challenge of Exploring Venus the author says there are valleys, mountains, and craters. I think it would be nice if they could think of a way to explore venus but i dont know if that will happen because we might not be advanced enough. If we where able to get on the planet with out dieing we might find out that there was life on it or there might still be life on there that had to adapt to the envierment.
There are alot more planets out in the univers we shout see how far we can get. We might find other planets with life on them. I dont think we should just focus on this one planet. All they are doing is waisting recources on one planet that they could be using on other panets. | 2 |
cf315d3 | In "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. These computers can actually "calculate" your emotions. Dr. Paul Eckman is the creater of the Facial Action Coding System. Dr. Eckman classified it in six basic emotions- happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. These are calculated by facial expression, the movement of the muscles on our face. This seems quite very interesting and out of the ordinary, but would the use of this new technology to read student's emotional expressions be valuable in a classroom?
In my opinion, yes. This technology could really help the comprehension and learning of students because as the author mentions the prediction of Dr. Huang in paragraph six, "A classroom computer could recognize when is student is becoming confused or bored," and this is exactly true because if teachers could recognize the students emotions then they can also modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor, which the author also mentions. When we think of the word "communication" we automatically think "talk" and that is not quite right, because how the author also mentions towards the end of paragraph six, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," so knowing this fact, how would we expect for students to speak up and ask questions about a lesson they are confused about?
I would also like to mention is that if we had this new technology teachers would know what is wrong with a student. A lot of times students are going through things at home, which could keep them distracted in class. If teachers know the student is angry or sad, the teacher could have a talk with him or her. Get it out of their mind and try to keep them as best concentrated in the lesson as possible. Teachers would also be able to see who isn't concentrating and call them out in class to get their attention.
In conclusion, these computers could help so much because teachers never know how that student is really feeling, we could think their head is down because they are feeling sick but maybe they're just sad or angry. They also could tell if they're confused and simply try to teach the lesson another way around. Maybe the student is feeling "fear" to ask a question about something he or she is confused about because they'd feel embarrased infront of their classmates. Whatever the case is, this new technology would really be valuable in a classroom, and it could help the school community in general, making it more easy for teachers to teach and mainly for students to learn. | 4 |
cf36e7d | Hi I am a scientist at NASA discussing the face on Mars with Jacob that thinks that the face was created by ailens. I will explain to Jacob that the face was not created by aliens beacuse us sientist figured that it was just another Martian mesa wich is commen around Cydonia but only this one had unusal shadows that made it look like it had a face. Our caption noted a huge rock formation wich made it look like a human face. Some authors reasoned that it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars by saying that aliens had created that human face on Mars.
We sent out a Global Surveyor to see and take a picture of the ''face". It arrived at the Red Planet in Sept. 1997 18 years after the Viking mission ended. It would get a photo as soon as It can get it. When Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Mihael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. When they took the photo thousands of web surfers were waiting to see the image. When they saw the image they saw that it was only a land form. There was no alien monument after all.
As you can see if there where objacts in this picture like a house or something else you would be able to see it on this picture. What the picture actually shows is a Martian butte or mesa that are landforms commen around the American west. It remids me of the Middel butte in the Snake River Plain in Idaho. | 3 |
cf3b381 | Venus also called Evening Star is the second planet on the Solar System and is more similar to earth than any other planet. the scientist believe that at some point of time Venus might have been covered in oceans just like Earth and might have supported life forms that was able to live in venus. it is also the closest in terms of size and density.
Venus has hot surface on the ground that make it impossible for the life orm to exist in venus. Venus surface is so hot that it can even melt down a sub marine that is designed to be in a harsh environment undernearth the ocean. thats the reason that no human has ever touched the Venus surface before. Scientist have tried many times to research the Venus surface but all they can do is to reasearch from Earth because every atempt to land on Venus has been unmanned and for reasons since on spacecraft has survived the landing for more than few hours. that is the reason why no spaceship has touced down on Venus surface for more than three decades. Venus is covered by 97 percent of Carbondioxide blankets. there is also Sulfuric acid that cover the Venus atmosphere. Venus surface is 800 degrees fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times more that on Earth. Thats is way too hot and dangerous for a human to live in. They also have similar features as Earth like volcanoes erruption, powerfull Earthquakes and frequent lightning. it also have Valley, Mountain and craters. Nasa came with a idea for a vehicle that can go upto 30 mph and is like a fighter jet that never touches the ground. Taking pictures of Venus from a ship that is orbiting or hovering safely above the planet is providing limited insight on ground condition because light cannot penetrate the thick atmosphere that covers the planet. Scientist are working on inventing mechanical computers like the ones they used in World War 2. Nasa is also working on equipment that they can use on Venus. they are testing those equipment or materials on harsh enivironment similar to on Venus but the longest they have survived is 3 weeks.
Dangerous and challenging it is Scientist believe it is worth it because we can gain knowledge about the planet. Venus has harsh environment but if we can figure out a way to travel between planet it will open many opportunities and space travel will be posible and humans might be able to live not only on Venus but on other planets too. | 3 |
cf3e46a | What do you thing about driverless cars? Driverless are can be a good thing for this world becasue it would save more gas, there wont be any more gas to polute the air slowly like cars are doing now. Driverless cars would be better on traffic cause it wont cause any accidents if the car is smart eneough to knoe its surroundings.
Driverless cars would be safer to use then regular cars drivin by humans. If we are driving the car is more of a chance of an accident happing then there is if the cars are driving them self and have technology to know there surrounding. The cars knowing there surroundings make it safer beacause the car would know what to do and what not to do while is in motion.
Having cars that run on electricity would be better beacause gasses would polute
the air and have cars that no longer uses gas is a plus becasue there would be less air polution. The less air polution there is the healthier the earth would be without gasses.
Driveless cars would save you a lot more money then having a car that runs on gas. maybe having a drivelesss car would cause less accidents to happen. Or maybe the insurance pricess would lower becasue there would be less accidents happing so they wont have a choice but to lower the price.
That is why I believe that having driverless cars would be better in the future. Saving more lives, having less air pulution.And not only that but also people would be out more if its safer to own a car maybe car companies will make more money then what they make now. Less clumbsy driving less peoeple get hurt while driving. so maybe dirverless cars can be a good thing to the future. | 3 |
cf44547 | Dear Senator,
I believe that the Electoral College should not be changed becuase it brings to does not bring many problems to the government and that affects our states way of working. It changes the way we choose how the elections work. Even though it avoids certain things and helps others it should not be changed.
The Electoral College makes the people basically choose one thing and then have the slate electors choose the president for them and that does not seem fair. In the source titled "The Indefensible Electoral College:Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong", it said " Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." It seems unfair to have people waste their time voting for this and then to have something else make the decision. In lines 17 of the same source it states," Who picks the electors in the first place? It depends on the state. Sometimes state conventions, sometimes the state party's central committee, sometimes sometimes the presidental candidates themselves."There is no freedom of speech when it comes to this.
Some people argue that the electoral college is a good thing to have. There is no favoritism or run-off elections. In the source titled," In defense of the Electoral college:Five reasons to keep our despied method of choosing the President," it states,"No region (South, Northeast, etc.) has enough electoral votes to elect a president. So a solid regional favorite, such as Romney was in the South, has no incentive to campaign heavily in those states, for he gains no electoral votes by increasing his pulrality in states that he knows he will win." This is so that there is no winning just because of one place. Also in that same souerce in line 26 it states that," There is pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a majority of votes cast; that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presidental election process, is reduced by the Electoral College, which invariably produces a clear winner.... It can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state-Democrats in Texas, for example, or Republicans in California." The Electoral college is a way to keep things fair.
These are the reasons why the Electoral College should be be kept. It helps the elections be better and not so biased. I hope you review these reaons.
Sincerly,
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
cf482bb | Most people either own a car themselves or know someone who owns one either way most people own a car. The fact is though that the advantages of limiting car usages adds up to about a billion but today im here to present just a couple to you.
As Ms. Walter says in the article "'I'm much happier this way'" (3) and see she owned a car and she always felt tense but now without a car she can hear the sound of bicycles and "'...chatter of wandering children'"(3). Many people just like her either own cars because they don't know how to live without them or they don't own cars and they are less tense and can hear the wonderful sounds of mother nature. Just think about it; how often do you hear birds chirpping or kids playing at parks or even leaves rustling? if you were honest you would say almost never because its true all of the motorized vehicles that we have in this world drown all of the best sounds out. We simply don't hear them anymore; no instead we hear a train running by at tweleve in the morning or the screech of tires at six in the morning on the way to school or even worse we hear tons and tons of car horns going off all at once just because someone isn't moving at a red light. Seriously do we even know how horrible all of that is and guess what its all because the human population wants to be able to get places faster.
Most people are noticing this now but in the past no on noticed that our own way of trassportation was and is polluting the world. In Europe 12 percent of the greenhouse gas emmisions are caused by passenger cars. Also "...up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States"(5) are greenhouse polluted because of the cars. The human race can stop this "In this new approach, stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway"(6). See thats the thing we can change this and we can survive with out cars. There is no disadvantage of limiting car use because we can live without them. Infact there are only advantages; we can stop polluting the earth, we can have a safer world, and we can finally hear mother nature and concentrate on something better in our lives. The thing is that we dont even have to go without cars because we have created electrical cars that are rechargable; yes they are very expensive but if we just used those then they would be alot cheaper. By having a car we are polluting the earth and by not having one we aren't; not polluting the earth is a advantage of limiting car usage.
The fact is that the advantages of limiting car usage out weigh the disadvantages of limiting car usage which is why having a car can help or hinder us; just depends on you look at it. | 3 |
cf4f88f | Using technology to read student,s emotional expressions some student's are bored some sleeping and some stressing doing the test but the others are happy and working in the test averyone has the percent of the emotional.
taking about Eckman i classified some basic emotions too people now are bored, sleeping, stress, sad, and fear because they want to pass the test and do good this work everyone has something in hi's face.
The facial expressions shows some emotional like happy , anger ect.
every day we have differnt caract or diferent emotional feeling and i don't know how Monna Lisa can be really intended tom bring a smile for us face. i thonk i cant recognize how my best friend feeling is just lokking her eyes cause i know her i and I know when she is happy, sad, bored, confusedand fear, I think people show the feelings but some people can's see because they don't care about it. I think that techonology is a great idea for us or some people who want to know feeling about some people important in their life. I think every emotional has one special moment sometimes are not special but its life and we can't do something abou it. Sonetines we have mixed of emotions like the Monna Lissa. She look happy but at the same time serious. Her smile look like different she can't smile like us. The reson of that is now she is just a painting. Leonardo da Vinci's paint the Monna Lisa but he die that the reason she doens't have the aye browns and thats why she sook serious. That is the reason she look like with different emotional feeling cause she don't have eye browns and she look likr that. we can see the movements in the people face and we can take an idea of how they are or how feeling and emotional are the face show everything. My conclussion is everyone have different emotional but if we want to know their feeling or emotional we need to stay with that person we need to meet the people spend time with him/her we can't say oh I need that techonology to see my wife feeling or my husband felling or a fried I mean is a good techonology but we need to spend time with the person the techonology can't do everything to us. We have the option let the techonology do that for us or do that for people if we really care about his feeling or emotional. For me the better option is the second one meet the people and ask some question to show the special boy or girls they are special for me and i want know more about him.
I like how the techonology work but we need to do the staff for us. | 1 |
cf521a2 | Dear Senator,
People have different opinions on the Electoral College. Some feel that it should be changed, and the president should be elected by popular vote. To explain what the Electoral College is, the Office of the Federal Register writes
What is the Electoral College?.
Bradford Plumer writes
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong, to explain the problems with the Electoral College, and lastly, Richard A. Posner writes
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President to explain why we should keep the Electoral College. It has been made clear that we should not change the Electoral College.
It is true that the Electoral College may be confusing (Plumer), but it has worked for all these years, thus we should just leave it the way it is.
To start, The Electoral College was established by the founding fathers as a compromise between election of the president by vote in congress, and it also considers the popular vote of qualified citizens (Office of the Federal Register). The founding fathers wanted us to use this system. They knew it would succeed.
Next, Plumer writes, "It's official: The electoral college is unfair..." This is not true because the number of electorals each state gets is always decided by the number of members that state has in the House of Representatives, plus two for the senators (Office of the Federal Register).
Additionally, Richard A. Posner says that "There are five reasons for retaining the Electoral College despite its lack of democratic pedigree; all are pratical reasons, not liberal or conservative reasons. He then goes on and says, "A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible...but it's less likely than a dispute over the popular vote." In the Electoral College system, their will always be a certainty of outcome. Plumer goes against that and writes, "Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote." This cannot happen. Posner also writes that "The electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have transregional appeal." The north, for example, does not have enough electoral votes to elect a president (Posner). The president is everyone's president.
Also, The Electoral College considers swing states and big states. Plumer writes "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters". This is not true because of the idea of swing states and big states. Swing States, also known as toss-up states, are the states that pretty much decide the election. They could go either way (Posner). "The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senete decreed in the Constitution. " This means that the larger the state (in population, not size), the more their overall vote weighs.
Lastly, by using the Electoral College, we are avoiding Run-Off Elections. A run off election is when no candidate recieves a majority (Posner).
In conclusion, you and I both know the Electoral College has some flaws, but overall, it makes sense to keep it the way it is.
Yours truly,
Emily. | 4 |
cf64f64 | Have you ever thought of being the only person in the car, and not having to drive? The idea of self-driving cars have been around since the late 1950's. Yeah, sure, it'd be cool to have a computer automated car, but this would take away the fun of driving.
Then again, it would cost less gas to have a coumputer dive your car for you, but if you wanted not to drive you could just call a taxi or catch a bus. The positive effects of self-driving cars are endless. The negative effects are also there to opose the positives.
Let's say my grandma is physiclly disabled and can't drive, a self-driving car could take her places without her having to call a family member or friend to come assist her. This is one positive effect. Now let's look at another senaro. Let's say it's a very hot day, and everything that's in the direct sun light is over 100 degrees. the sun would eventually fry or over heat the circuts inthe computer programing. The people cooler climates would have same but oposite effects. The wires and electical currents would freeze due to the cold climate.
So would you wanna have a self-driving car, or to drive the car yourself. the positives and negatives show. This is my postions on the "drverless/self-driving car". I will stick to traditional driving, with my foot on the pedal and my hands on the wheel. | 2 |
cf67ce2 | My name is Luke Bomberger I want you the reader to join the "Seagoing Cowboys." The reason I would like you to join is because you cant take care of animals while we are transporting them across the Atlantic Ocean.
Another reason I want you to join the "Seagoing Cowboys" is because we transport food supplies,animals, and more. During the crossing I had to cre for the animals. They had to be fed and watered two or three times a day. Bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship. Stalls had be cleaned.
On my second trip I served as night watchman. My job was to check on all the animals every hour. The cowboys and I played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time. | 2 |
cf6c1cf | Venus is a interesting planet cause of its Evening star which it a bright light and is a second planet of the sun when you look at Venus the density , size and distance gets the attention till where you want to discover the parts and ideas of it. the diferences about a spacecraft is that people wanted spacecraft to land on earth but it didn't work due to no survival that couldn't land more than a few hours thats why this planet is challenging for humans to study the reputations want people to be confused and get the meaning of this. Atmosphere is thick 97 percent carbon dioxide so temperatures goes up 800 degrees F and on earth the atomsphere is 90 times greater.
Sister Planet and Venus are the same thing its the better planet in the solar system which used to be covered in oceans and could supported peoples life just like the Earth. its rocky sediment and has features which are valleys, mountains, and craters.
NASA is working on venus the samples of rock, gas etc. are not working to take the samples its rough so a scienctist knows thay venus needs to be close to do their own vperonsal depsite risk for it to last. NASA working to get other people to study this and have advice. | 1 |
cf6d57c | It is a landform because a landform is a pack of dirt compressed for years whitch means it isnt an alien from mars also called martians martions live up to 100 years on mars because its so hot and they have adapteed to it
Martions can not live on earth all the chemicals and gasses in our atmosphere will kill a martion and a mesa is a rock that is shaped like a face but isnt a face so i know that it is not a martions face and the mars rover drove for ever just to find life on mars and it didnt find anything not even water which a planet needs to have water to provide the nutrients and other good stuff that helps us live on planet earth
The mesa shows thta it has evelept rock like textures so that prove that it is a rock not a martions face a rock can form in many different sizes and shapes do you see the cracks on the left side of it it has cracked over the years and it take rocks years and years to start to break away bit by bit | 1 |
cf6dc8a | Many people seem to believe that "The Face on Mars" is alien activity. However, "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same heigh as the Face of Mars." In that quote Jim Garvin, cheif scientist for NASA's Mars Explaration Program, states that he mainly recongnizes it from the land forms on Earth, rather than seeing it as alien actvity.
When the first picture was taken in 1976, technology was not as great as it is now or even in 2001. Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared oto 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo. Meaning the qualtiy of picture taken in 1976, which convinced most people of alien, did not have great or even decent quality. On April 5, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonis for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOS) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the orginal Viking photo.
After taking the picture thousands of anxious we surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing.... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all. When this statement was said not everyone was satisfied. The Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in April of '98-- a cloudy time of the year in the Red Planet. The camera in board had MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics alien markings are hidden in the haze. Which that is a resonable argument, but not being 100% postitive is too risky to throw into the public.
Garvin made an arguement that states, "As a rule if thumb, you can descern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size," he added. "So, if there were objests in this picture like airplans on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shack, you could see what they were!"
Using all of the evidence and arguments, and just by seeing the picture, it was just a strange occurence that a natural landform found on Mars was shape as a human face. Also the fact that the picture was taken about fourty years ago changes a lot. The amount and the quality of technology has changed tremendosely. | 4 |
cf6e865 | The Seagoing Cowboys program started after World War Two ended in Europe. The program gives young cows, horses, and mules to the countries that got destroyed in the war. They put the young cows, horses, and mules on ships then sent them to different countries.
I had two different part-time jobs and when my friend told me about this opportunity to join the Seagoing Cowboys I thought it was a once in a lifetime opportunity.
I joined the Seagoing Cowboys on the day that the war in the Pacific ended.
My very first trip was to Greece. The ships had cows and horses on them. The Sea Cowboys had to feed them twice a day, clean out their stalls, and give them fresh water to drink. There was another job to be done on ths ship there was the night watchman. The night watchmen had to check in on the animals every hour then report it to the captain. This job can be very dangerous at times because one rainy night I went to tell the captain and slid down the ladder and almost went overboard into the dark, churning ocean. A small piece of metal saved my life. I was okay but I did have two broken ribs.
I Luke did the most trips of any Seagoing Cowboy. I did sixteen across the Atlantic Ocean and two across the Pacific Ocean. I would want people to join the Seagoing Cowboys because when you are at the country that you are helping you get to visit many tourist attractions. When I was in Greece I got to see the Acropolis. The Acropolis is an ancient structure built in ancient times. I got to ride in a gondola in Venice, Italy. I toured an excavated castle in Crete. I also marveled at the Panama Canal on his way back from China.
On return trips after the animals were dropped off the men had fun. They had baseball and volleyball games in empty stalls, they also had table tennis tournements, along with boxing tournements. I also found time to have fun reading, whittling, and other fun games to pass the time at sea.
The Seagoing Cowboys would be a great way to help out others in need. I had a very amazing experience as a Seagoing Cowboy. I would want other young boys to have the same experience as I did when I joined the seagoing cowboys.
Luke says in the article, " I'm grateful for the opportunity. It made me more aware of other people and countries' needs. Luke kept helping other people in need even after his adventure as a Seagoing Cowboy by leading his family to home a couple of international students and exchange families for many years. Luke had a great experience as a Seagoing Cowboy and he would want you to have the same experience as he did. Join the Seagoing Cowboys and help other people in need all around the world. Help the whole enire world by giving other people the things they need to survive. Luke did not notice how lucky he was until he joined the Seagoing Cowboys. Luke and others of those who served other people on the Seagoing Cowboys boats will have the right to say that they made a difference in this world. Luke would want you to make a difference. Join the Seagoing Cowboys today to make a difference in the world. | 3 |
cf6e8bb | The author of the passage suggests many reasons why Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers it presents. In this essay there is going to be many reasons to help support the author. Scientist could learn more about different planets if they ca successfully study the surface of Venus. Then scientist could try to discover new planets and galaxys out in the void of space.
The author explans that Venus is a very dangerous planet to study due to its surface temperature and its atmosperic pressure could crush about anything that trys to land. In the passage the author tells us facts about Venus, "a thick atmospere of almost 97% carbon dioxide blankets Venus. On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." Which shows that Venus could melt any metals with ease and could crush submarines.
The author also states that long ago Venus was probably like earth. In the passage it states, " the planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." Which both Earth and Venus have the same kind of surface sediment, mountains, and craters.
In conclusion this eassy will support the author's idea that in the furture we will be able to go to Venus for more studies. We can gain more knowledge of space and can explore more of space. Mabye in the future we could find more hospitible planets to continue human life. Thats why this essay supports the author's passage. | 3 |
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