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dcbb085 | The 'face on Mars" is not an alien created thing but an landform. The way that we can back this up because is they took a second photo and it was clear and you can see that it was just a landform. People said that the photo was cloudy so then they went out again in 2001 and the pixels are much better. They went out again and it was not cloudy either. It was clear that the photo was a landform. The last reason is that people from NSA can back up that the face is actually a landform. Gravan said "that it reminds me of most Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho". He also said " that's a lova dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same size of the face on Mars", so don't believe everything random thing a person says who doesn't even know the facts. The "Face on Mars isn't a alien or an alien created thing, but a landform that is on Mars. | 3 |
dcbba07 | Dear state senator,
We should definitely strive in keeping the electoral college for so many reasons. We need to keep the electoral college because it serves so many purposes in the united states. It hepls us decide who our president and vice presidents will be and it is a big help on our state workers.
And most of the reason that people want to stop it is because they think that some of the nominees arent getting what they deserve. We do understand that they put a lot of work in trying to become president but not everyone can win. And to be fair, after the presidential election is over, our govenor prepares a "Certificate of Ascertainment" listing all of the candiates who ran for president in our state along with the names of their respective electors.
The presidential election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. You help choose your states electors when you vote for president because when you vote for your candidate you are usually voting for your candidates electors.
Each candidate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen by the candidates political party, but state laws vary on how the elecotrs are selected and what their responsibilities are.
The advocates of this position are correct in arguing that the Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense...it is the electors who elect the president, not the people. So when you vote for your president your acually voting for the slate of electors.
Having this Electoral College is so much help to our state workers. They dont actually have to do everything now...thanks to the Electoral College.
So please strive to help keep the Electoral College.
sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 2 |
dcc56a5 | The use Facial Action Coding System or FACS could be extremely valuable in the classroom. The amount of time students are confused on a subject or do not understand what the teacher is saying because they are moving to fast could drop tremendously if teachers could read how the student's are feeling. The teacher could know that the whole class is bored with a lesson and modify that lesson later to make it much more interesting. Knowing how the student's feel could change the classroom for the better.
Throughout any student's school career there is a moment when they are confused by a subject and was forced to retreive additional help in fear of a bad grade on their upcoming test. Some students would be too shy to stop the teacher to elaborate or could not visit the teacher after class due to time constraints and forced to look up youtubes videos hours on end in order get a grasp on a subject. If the teacher knew that multiple students felt this way in their class, they could change their lesson plan to make things much more understandable for the students just as Dr. Haung predicts. The Facial Action Coding System could bridge that disconnect between teacher and student.
Not only could a teacher make a subject easier to comprehend, they can also make it much more enjoyable. This technology can help a teacher know if their students are bored or not. If the teacher knows this they can make a lesson much more interesting, getting the students engaged, which leaves less heads sleeping desks. This could lead to students having more of a passion towards subjects such as math or chemistry because they are having fun with those topics. Some time if someone doe not find a subject interesting they won't try hard in that class unlike someone who does like that subject.
Knowing student's emotions through this technology could change the experience of school as a whole. If teachers were to follow the readings from FACS students would be able to comprehend and enjoy a variety of subject matters, there could be much less sleeping bodies in class, and the engagement level in classrooms could skyrocket.Just only if FACS and schools cooperated to make the education system better as a whole and makes things a better experience for the student. | 4 |
dcc69b7 | The senate should remove the Electoral college and make the popular vote system the main way on deciding who's president. The electoral college seem's to have many flaw's that can make voting a disaster. Voter's aren't truely voting for a president, they vote for a slate of canidates who then vote for president.
The worst part about this type of voting is the disaster factor (sourse 2:paragraph 11). It clearly says '' segragationists in the louisiana legislature nearly succeede in replacing the democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. This shows that the results of an electoral college can sometimes not be decided by the people, but mostly on the electors of each state. People say the the electoral college is an easier,cleaner, and faster method, but when it comes for the people to vote for president; The electoral college system wont suit what the people mainly would like.
The electoral college is an unfair way to vote for president, During the 2000 campian program, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad.(sourse 2: paragraph 13). These things shows that the candidates dont care about having the smaller states votes, but wants bigger populated states like california and texas. This is often called a '' Winner-take-all'' system since it each state doesn't get to see what there elector is really all about. Also it can show that with the electoral college, electors can vote for a president who is regionally favorable and not nationaly. This can often make the voters feel less satisfied with thier president since there president might not show intrest in there opinions.
The Electoral college also avoids the problem of elections in which there is little to no popular votes what so ever. Nixon in 1968 and clinton in 1992 both had only a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes,while winning a majority in the Electoral College (sourse 3: paragraph 22).This goes to show that the Peoples votes dont usually matter when it comes to voting for a president but the electors do.
Once agian,The senate should remove the Electoral college and make the popular vote system the main way of deciding who's president. This will be benifitial to many states that want to be involved in the election but feel that there saying in things wouldn't matter. | 4 |
dcc75d7 | Dear state senator, to the people voting is the most important part of politics. You out of all people speak politics, so you should understand. Keeping the electoral college would be many more great successful years in voting because of the certainty of outcome, it would take care of the swing and big states, and it avoids run-off elections.
Disputes over the outcomes of an electoral vote is possible. The winning candidate's share of the electoral college exceeds the popular vote. In other words in 2012 Obama recieved 61.7 percent of the votes while Romney recieved only 51.3, and because almost all of the states award winner-takes-all even a slight chance of popularity could change the results. It is very unlikely for this to happen. Although there are many things wrong with the electoral college like making peoples votes not exactly count, it is something to figure out.
For the swing and big states, the voting is slightly different. The voters in the toss-up states tend to pay more attention to the campaign than any other place. They really get into the whole campaign and really listen to all of what the competing candidates say and do. For the big states, the electoral college does them a favor and gives them more electoral candidates. It restores the weight in the balance that large states lose by virtue.
The electoral college does us a big favor by avoiding run-off situations, that could lead tomore complicated situations. The run-off election occurs when no candidate recieves a majority of the votes casted. These run-off elections cause a lot of pressure, and surely does complicate the presidential election.
In conclusion, staying with the electoral college process, it would maintain our problems of eun-off elections, certainty of the outcome and the big and swing issues. | 4 |
dcc7aa6 | I remember the stories my dad use to tell me about how in cuba he would have to walk 6 miles to get to school. Or when he got here that to work he would ride his bike to & from work. Cars are being put into use for no reason, people now a days go in the car to to the winn dixie thats right across the street. Do you know how much money is put into cars? you have to pay for gas, or if your car breaks down or has a leak. Cars are a huge investment and they are very dangerous to our society, the pollution cars cause i horrendous. Now don't get me wrong I would prefer to go in a car on a 3 hour ride to Orlando from Naples, i mean who would want to walk 1000s of miles? but to get in the car to get dropped off at school when you live 5 minutes away? thats ridiculous.
In Germany car use has been dropping and it has proven to provide a cleaner enviorment, healthier living and huge savings. Near the French and Swiss borders, it is forbidden to have hoe garages, street parking and drive ways. The streets are considered to be car-free zone. There are a few streets that cars are allowed, you can park in a larage car garage or at the edge of a development. But the parkng space is not free the parking space in $40,000, along with a home. Obviously that price is alittle bit pricey for people so 70% of theses families do not own cars and 50% acctually sold a car to be able to live there. The Enviormental Protection Agency is strongly trying to promote reducing cars and/or car usage all throughout the united states.
What comes to your head when you think about Paris? love, romance, coffee shops, expensive dinners on the effile tower. How about pollution, having to stay inside because the health cocerns? Paris has recently banned driving due to the pollution revolving th city of love. Motorists ere requested to leave their cars at home or suffer a $31 dollar fine, to some people the $31 dollars did not effect them so they kept driving and were fined. Almost 4,000 drivers were fined and 27 people had there cars impounded due to innappropriate reaction to recieving this fine. After 5 days of what frances citizens would call torture 60% of congestion was down, believe it or not Paris was rivaling Beijing, China known for having one of the most polluted streets in the world! The blame was put on diesel fuel, 67% of frances cars use diesel engines. Paris has moresmog than other european captials like london or brussels. Imagine how much clearer Paris would be if this car ban lasted a year!
Imagine how nice it would be to have zero traffic, no rush to get home. but how would you feel if the reason behind this traffic free day you had to ride a bike or go on the bus? you would probably take that traffic over a little exercise or having to stand next to a stranger. In Bogota, Colombia the have a event called "a car-free day" in this day colombians all gathered as they skated, biked or rode the bus to get to their destination. If you violated this you would have to fance a $25 dollar fine. The goalpf this even was to promote alternative transportation but to also hope for less smog. During this day not even rain could stop these colombians from participating in this event. Some people saw this as a save the world act also to relieve stress.
Cars are a way to travel long distances and should be used every once in a while but the world is asking you please put an end to this, use of cars for every little thing, start to set a goal to live a happier healthier life and create a safe eviorment by ending car use, Start small like riding a bycicle to the grocery store, then decide to take a walk to the neighbors right around the street. | 5 |
dccfda3 | I have to admit, the Face is a really cool thing, but it being made by aliens, come on! It is highly unlikable and unreasonable. The face is a landform that has always been there. There are many factors that go into why the Face could not have been created by aliens.
First and foremost, conspiracy theorists have no proof that NASA is hiding that their was even an ancient civilization on Mars. In paragraph five, there was a quote that said, "... defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars." There basically saying that an ancient civilation would have benefited NASA, if they had actually found one. If there was an ancient civilization people would have found out about it already.
In paragraph seven, on April 5, 1998, the Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia and Michael Malin, with his Mars Orbiter Camera, took pictures of the the original Vikings photo that were ten times sharper. The new photos revealed a natural landform. The camera quality was poor in the original photo in 1976. That explains why the landform appeared to look like a face. As time past and technology improved, NASA was able to make out that the face was an illusion from bad camera quality.
Going along with the previous paragraph, people believe that the cause for the landform in the photo, in 1998, to not have a face is because of aliens! In paragraph eight, the camera, that they used to take the photo with, had to peer through clouds to see the Face. People believed that the clouds were created by aliens so that they could hide the Face. I do admit that clouds could have affected the photo, but they were clearly wrong. In the ninth paragraph, on April 8, 2001, The Mars Global Surveyor took another photo in the camera's highest resolution on a cloudless day, and once agian, the picture revealed a natural landform.
With most of the information in the article, I can conclude that the Face was just a picture that created controversy because of its uniqueness. I mean, it was a face on Mars! It was taken a long time, with poor camera quality, causing the landform to look like a face. It was a misconception that affected our viewpoints on NASA and influenced many aspects of our Entertainment. | 4 |
dcd9634 | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditiond on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. If you image blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or more miles above the roiling Venusian landscap, it would be a shocker. Temperatures would still be tasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would ber close to the level of the sea and Earth. I think the autors statement on this is that when the temperature drops its very hard to communitcate with people going up there, but when it cools down its better for them. The Earth and Beyond it should not be limited by dangers and douts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation.
There devices were the first envisioned in the 1800s an playedan important role in the 1940's during World War ll. The thoughts of computers in those days did caulations for them, which in today's years we know thing about. Many of the reserchers of the NASA is working on other approches to studying Venis. Like some are simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus' surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditiond. There a lot of projects that there looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers. Using mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces. | 1 |
dcda789 | Personally, I feel that the technology called the Facial Action Coding System is not valuable. It may seem interesting that a computer can tell what emoitons someone one is feeling, but it doesn't make it valuable. We can also tell what emotions people feel too.
This technology that they are using only calculates what emotions they feel. For example, in the first paragraph it says, "She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." They've used a computer to analyze what the Mona Lisa was feeling in the portrait. The computer predicted but is not all accurate. She might have felt more fearful than happy. Most facial expressions are universal. That meaning, that if someone smiles you can't think right off the bat that they are happy. They may feel hurt therefore not so happy as you thought.
What's the point of the technology if us humans can tell how a friend is feeling, based on the look of their face. We may not be 100 percent accurate, but we may know how they feel. For example, say you've known someone for a while now, you would probably know what their expressions look like. The only thing you won't know what their thinking but you will know what they feel. Another thing we have an advantage on, is the way our friend speaks. Emotion isn't just based on our looks, it can be based off of the way we speak too.
On the other hand, I also feel that the technology can useful too. I feel that it can be well used in painting espically in a portrait. I say that because it can be difficult to see what a person felt in the portrait. The technology that they use can be used to scan the portrait and tell us what they might have felt. It can go though a deep scan and could scan the 40 major muscles that we have on our face that shows our expression.
In conclusion, I personally feel that the technology called the Facial Action Coding System is not valuable. Eventhough we can't fully tell what somone is feeling we can still predict. The technology that they use is also predicting. It's just more accurate. Therefore it's not all that useful to us. | 3 |
dce42d4 | What would it be like to not have cars in your city? Not having cars in your city can be a great thing, although many people dont like walking places. It can have many advantages if you walk places.
For example 70 percent of Vaubans families do not own cars and 57 percent sold a car to move there."When I had a car i was always tense. Im much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter. Experts say, is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes. Many experts expect public transport serving surburbs to play a much larger role in a new sixyear federal transportation bill to be approved this year. In previous bills, 80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transpport.(source 1)
Alot of the cars can cause bad pollution in the air. After days of near record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. They were going to fine the citizens a 22 euro fine if they brought there cars out because they were ordered to leave them at home. Almost 4000 drivers were fined. Cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap cars emissions. Diesel fuel was blamed since France has a policy that favors diesel over gasoline. Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in London.(source 2)
In conclution limitting car usage has alot of advanteges. One is that people dont feel as much preasure when not driving, and the onther is that cars are very bad for our environment. Limitting car usage could make our world a better place overall. | 2 |
dce820f | Driverless cars are a good idea. The fact that cars could be changing the world is pretty interesting and oddly cool. There are positive and negative ends to having cars that can drive on their own. Positive aspects are that the car isn't really driving on its own because it does get assisted, and the car has sensors that can actually help the car and driver actualy drive. A negative aspect could be that there has to be a law to make it leagal for these cars the drive on the streets and in traffic.
A computerized car can do a lot on its own. It is liable to drive without getting in wrecks and is capable of avoiding wrecks. Televisions and movies have been fascinated with cars that could drive themselves. Humans can now have that ability to do it on their own. They can experience assisting a car without having to do all the work.
Cars now these days all have sensors. Most of them beep or stop or something if it gets too close to an object. This makes the cars smart. Smart cars are much more capable of avoiding accidents than humans are. These computerized cars may be the new start of technology, on a whole other level.
Technology fails a lot of people now and days. Having a law to restrict the computerized cars could be a positive and negative thing. Driving a car, one wants to be safe, and if the car shuts down while someone is driving it then anyone around it could possibly be in danger. Before the law could be made to actually have computerized cars on the streets, the glitches and other small problems in technology has to be fixed before hand.
New inventions always spark new ideas. The inventions always either fail or make it. Computerized cars are capable of finding its way through the hard laws, like everything, it has to pass. Weather the car has sensors and can drive on its own or has assistance driving or even can't get passed in the law right now, there will be a use for the cars later on in the future, and someone will get the invention going all the way, at its full potential. | 3 |
dcf06e8 | I believe that we should change the system to "election by popular vote". If we were to change the way we elect our president im sure citizens would be more pleased with the over all outcome. People vote on who they think is best fit to represent them and give them the best over all outcome. When using the "electoral college" you are not voting for the president but you are voting for a state of electors. It would be easier to simply allow presidents to get the popular vote in order to make the election more fair all around. The "electoral college" is unfair to voters because of the winner-take-all system. It is time to change our voting methods because the "electoral college" system is outdated, irrational, and unfair to citizens.
When people place their vote they belive they are putting in a vote for the president they choose, not for a slate of electors. The "electoral college" is a very non-democratic way of selecting your president. In a way the government is deceiving their citizens by the way our voting method is set up. When people vote they feel a sense of independence because they are allowed to choose who they would like to represent them in congress. But instead once they place their vote it goes to electors rather than a simple vote towards the one they selected. If you were to change the way people's votes were counted it would be easier and faster to elect a president and get him into office to fix world-wide problems.
In all three articles at least one section has made it clear on their opinion to abolish the electoral college. Figures such as Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and even the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have agreed on abolishing the electoral college. When voting for president you are voting for a slate of electors, but do we even know who these supposed electors are! Are votes are being manipulated and we are not even aware of who is doing it. If we can not vote for are president without going through electors we should be able to vote for the electors who are voting for are president. It is only fair that we have some say in everything that is going on. When votes are being placed we should be informed of all that is going on.
If you were to vote for your favorite tv show but your vote had to go through twenty different people all with different opinions you would be frustrated. Now imagine that scenario but with something extremely more significant than a televison show, the president. You are trusting possibly the next four years of your life with strangers in which you have never heard of before. It would only be fair if we could simply change the system to popular vote rather than electoral college.
If you switch to popular vote more people would be more likely to vote because they could have more confidence about their vote. They would feel free to make their own decision and trust it would not be tampered with by a stranger. People deserve a fair vote and with the popular vote that is what you are giving them. Because every living being deserves equality. Changing the system would not only be helpful for citizens but helpful for the congress. Instead of having random members of congress choose the president they can work on serious issues around the world. They can stop worrying about foolishness and do their jobs.
In conclusion changing the way people vote is easier for everybody. It saves time for electors and it gives people a chance to see who they are really voting for. Presidents would have to go to each state and appeal to them in order to get a vote. I belive that is what we need. They would be required to actually work for a position in office rather than speaking on whjat they are going to do and paying someone else to elect them. We should have faith in our president and know who we are voting for before we cast our vote. This system seems more fair and more modern to the twenty first century. This is a system most Americans would agree with. So to end my argument I simply say think before you act and truly try to do whats right. | 4 |
dcf0c21 | Have you ever thought how would venus be like and the struggle it will be to get their? Venus is sometimes called the evening star because its the brightest light in the night sky. Venus is not only a the brightest light is it also a plant in our solar system. In this essay I'll being telling you about Venus and if Venus is a worthy pursuit of danger followed up with reasons.
Venus is also referred to the Earth twin venus is the closest plant to the plant earth. Venus and Earth have the same density and size and both plants are closest by distance. Venus , Earth and also Mars obit around the sun but they have different speeds. Venus was touched down by spaceships more than three decades.
Theirs around of 97 percent of carbon dioxide blankets on Venus. Venus temperture is about 800 degress. Arrounding to The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has particularly compelling idea for sending human to see Venus and studied about it . The condition of surface of Venus and scientist flowing above the plant and feeling to tempertuare going up to 170 degrees.
The question is that Venus is worthy pursuit despite the danger. Studiest said that siolicon carbide have been tested and say that the chamber simulating on Venus surface had lasted for three week and that cause conditions. It a challenge going to Venus now in day because the insight to gain on the plant itself and also on human curiosity will lead to intimidating endeavors.
In coclusion is that Venus is a worthlty pursuit despite the dangers yes it is . By reading that article I say that Venus is a worthly pursuit in danger. Do you think that Venus is a worthly pursuit despite the dangers in our solar system? | 1 |
dcf3a1e | Dear State Senator,
I do not like the Electoral College. The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational. It's basically a winner-take-all system in each state. Especially with California it represents 35 million voters and if they are really close and have a tight margin the winning side of the votes takes it all, which means all the 55 representative votes go for that one side. getting rid of it would be fantastic because we could have other options on having a better vote system that is more accurate and fair to the the people/voters.
First of all, an example of this could be Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney. Like almost all cases award electoral votes on a winner-take-all, even a very slight plurality in a state creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state. Thr popular vote was very close in Florida; nevertheless Obama, who won that vote, got 29 electoral votes. A victory by the same margin in Wyoming would net the winner only 3 electoral votes.
Secondly, this is not the greatest way to vote because first the voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, which in turn elect the president. If you lived in Texas, for instance, and wanted to vote for Kerry, you'd vote for the slate of 34 Democratic electors won the statewide election, they would go to Congress and Kerry would get 34 electoral votes. Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president which wouldn't be what the voters want in some cases.
Third, according to the Al Gore-thanks to the quirks of the electoral college- won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of the voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. Next election the voters can expect another close election in which the popular vote winner couldagain lose the presidency. And yet, the electoral college still has its defenders. The Electoral college is not the best way to choose, it has minimum chances of succeeding in the future. I think a direct vote would work the best for the voters but yet the the electoral college has its cons.
Conclusively, the Electoral College is not the best way to vote. By a bare minimum margin of votes, it could cost the election for the other canidate. The bigger state could be a catastrophy and it would be unfair. Last, the Electoral College is irrational, outdated, and unfair for the most part with its winner-takes-all. | 4 |
dcfe25f | State Senator I do wish for you to change the Electoral College to a popular vote for the President of the United States. The Electoral College is just a longer system of chosing the President of the United States, why go through a longer process intead of the states just choosing the President of th United States. The way the Electoral College is looking to me is just another system why cant we have just one system where it is based on popular votes by the states instead of having the people on choosing what the Electors should say, why not just a straight foward vote.
To me " The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational."Bob Dole id right to say abolish The Electoral College. " What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on abolishing the electoral college. They're not alone; according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore"."Over 60 percennt of voter would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. This year voters can expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could lose the presidency, but yet the electoral college still has its defenders".
" The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse. Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people.
" At the most basic level the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner- take-all system in each state, candidates dont spend the 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 didnt see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voers in 25 of the largest media markets didnt get to see a single campaign ad. If anyone has a good argument for putting the fate of the presidency in the hands of a few swing voters in Ohio. | 2 |
dcff054 | When driverless cars come up in convesation must people will be like "wow so cool", but most people do not know what they are talking about and they think they just want to look cool in front of people with their cool new gadgets. Driverless cars are easilly a good thing, but why? Most likely driverless cars are safer with more advanced technology than we have now and they also can prevent some pollution that the public transportation system gives off in the major cities. Most people think that driverless cars are dangerous or they think they are just some cool technology.
Driverless cars are a good thing to come, but not anytime soon. Driverless cars can prevent accidents from happening. Teenage drivers are the leading cause of accidents worldwide because they are knew to it or they are on their phone while they are driving. Just think if teenagers had a driverless car the accident rate would go way down and the teenagers that are so young would stop getting killed. Driverless cars are not just for teens, but for everyone think of the elderly, in some peoples opinions old people or senior citizens should not be able to drive. Driverless cars could help get elderly to their bingo games safe and on time. Paragraph nine states "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers." Now people know that teenagers are never going to listen and put their phones down because they think they are smarter than the last person who was texting and driving. It says that "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe."(9). Well one way they can do that is with driverless cars.
Google cofounder Sergey Brin believes that driverless cars can replace public transportation such as taxis or busses. Major cities in the United States have the highest pollution globally and that is to blame the public transportation system along with many other things, but public transportation is one of the main factors. Sergey Brin envisions "a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system."(1). We do not know if this will be happening some time in the near future or years down the road. Sergey claims that the driverless cars would "use half the fuel of todays taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus."(1). Well since we know that major cities usually have some sort of public transportation system now they are letting off huge amounts of pollution and using a lot of fuel each and every hour of the day. Something has to change Sergey Brin says he wants to cut the taxis and busses feul in half by using driverless vehicles instead. He states the vehicles would "offer far more flexibility than a bus."(1). We do not know what this statement means, but if it means that he can make driverless busses that recieve better fuel economy than a regular bus that is polluting the earth. That would be a really big improvement if he could accomplish that. Stopping global warmming should be a big topic of discussion and driverless cars could have a big impact on stopping global warmming.
Most people do not think about how the impact on society that driverless cars can bring to the table. People do not think about how the cars could potentially save teenagers lives or their family or anyone for that matter. Also, they do not think about the fact that driverless cars could replace the public transportation system and stop one of the main factors contributing to the pollution or global warmming. Some instances driverless cars could be a bad thing in our world and some people just want to look cool. Citizens have to look at it from a different prospective and imagine a safer and less polluted place. Driverless cars are the future and they are only going to raise more conflicts. | 5 |
dd001c4 | This idea on making cars that drive on there own its sounds pretty cool but the money put into and the accidents that come from it are waiting this would be the worst mistake in history. Any car itself is very dangerous to be in while driving because of maybe your driving skils or other peoples driving skills. The time and effort put into this experiment will be hard and confusing but it would be a big waste of time for the makers of the car and the manufacturers on the company. People and companies say this would be a good investment and the best choice ever but if everything turns out bad your company is going straight down the drain.
There are many reasons this is a horrible idea and a big waste of time and money. This would be very dangerous for the drivers and other drivers on the road anything could happen in a matter of seconds anf you could take someones life or even your own life. Manufacturers say this will be a great acheievment i agree but the chances of this coming out as a positive invention is beyond me. Its dangerous enough on the roads with cars but by making cars driverless is beyond dangerous it will cause so many distractions and so many deaths.
The cost of making these cars and testing them will cost so much money and if the cars dont work and experiments with them dont work it will be drastic. Alot of people will be paying for these experiments with there taxes ands thats not fair for people that work hard for there money to just through it away on the invention. This would also be a big problem in are money and state money because if it doesnt work and they wasted all that money are state could possible become in debt. All this money put into will be a waste and companys will probably be shut down and that will be the end of it for them.
The risks that we are taking are really risky there are so many things that can go wrong and that will cost you and other peoples lifes. Its dangerous enough with drunk drivers and children walking on roads but if the driverless cars get invented this will cause so many accidents and possible alot of deaths. The accidents could be caused by anything messing up in the car sensors or the brakes. The brakes or sensors could stop working or jam up and drivers wouldnt even know if there sleeping that would be it for them and also if people or other drivers are around that could possible end there life just for cars that can drive by there selfs.
All this driverless car stuff is a big mistake and could be a problem in are state in so many ways. It will possible cost lifes and companys to be shut down and become in debt. All this oh it works we tested it a thousand times it dont matter anything could happen and any point and these mistakes at any point will be horrible and the end for alot of people. This invention in all will be dumb and stupid and the money and risks were taking on this is risky. | 4 |
dd03d5e | People in this day in age rely on using cars to get around. Some people dont have cars to get around so they use other resources like cars or buses .but truth be told not using a car is really effective way to save our natural resources . In vauban,germany only the upscale suburban pioneers , soccer moms and commuting executives had cars and so have a car to a lower classmen was just stressful to them."
70 percent of vaubans's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to here." when i had a car i was always tense . I'm much happier this way ," said heidrm walter , a media trainer and mother of two
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In 2006 vauban completed a growing trend,the united states to separate suburban auto use .that was called "smart planning". smart planning became effective and it started to happen . The upper class had a advantage ..money. the upper class got to have a nice cars because they had more money thena middle calss so this was good because that meant less wealth and so less cars then less polution and save natural resources .
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all of our development since wolrd war 2 has been centered on the car, and that will have to change,"said david goldberg, an official of transportation for america
"(Rosenthal paragraph 7). american government is trying to make cars now so safe and afficient . there making cars that are electric to try not to use so much gas and start saving energy#the2k15resolution.
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Diesel fuel was blamed, since france has... a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline. diesels make up 67% of vehicles in france, compared to a 53.3 % avereage of diesels engines in the rest of the western europe, according to reuters ." (duffer 16) diesel fuels arre less used than gasoline so people really have no use in trying to turn big trucks electric because there is on alternative for diesel gas .
In conclusion,cars are less effiective to earth . so by wlaking or using gass less there is less polution and a good natural resource that we have .using diesuel gas is another efective way to use gas and cars wisely. | 2 |
dd03fb4 | The argument of "would this technology be valuable in a classroom setting" seems like it is very one sided.
Yes, this technology would be 100% valuable in a class room enviroment. And in the article it give a reason why it is so valuable! "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor."
With these two reasons we can determine the value that they would have in schools. grades would get better, some may inspire to work harder because someone or something can tell they are confused and need help. Another quote that can support my claim is that "Most human communication is nonverbal,including emotional communication," "so computers need to under stand that, too." What this means is that the one kid who is afraid to speak up and ask questions or the kids who cant speak at all will get better help, because the computers can identify what emotions they are feeling and help them.
A drawback to having the technology in the classroom could mean that we could give off the wrong emotions and confuse the computer it self. and this could mean ruining the techology or worse. Another drawback would be that in paragraph seven it states "Your home PC can't handle the comples algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile." this means that we would have to have advanced technology inside of a classroom, And if it is more younger kids its going to be super hard to keep it from being ruined or broken. Another set back would be People who suffer from Depression, Bipolar or PTSD can change emotions constantly and quickly.
This is why FACS (Facial Action Coding System) CAN be used in a classroom enviroment as well as being succsesful in said enviroment. | 3 |
dd0877c | Using this type of technology of emotional expressions will be very useful for teacher and parents to help their students or children to see if something or someone is making them feel happy, angry, disgusted, or feared. Having this technology in schools will also help parents because the parents don't have to buy a computer that can try to handle this type of technology.
If teachers do a test on students that are getting bulied or getting picked on, this type of technology will help teacher get students to speak up and or find the person that is bullys other students. By showing the student that's getting pick on a picture of students the teacher thinks who maybe the person bulling the student, the student may make a fear face on the picture of the person that is picking on the student.
If teachers see that a student is failing their classes and don't talk a lot in school, the teachers can make a test on that student to see if they are going through things back at home. Teachers can have the students parents to come to the school while the student is being tested, they can have a converation on what makes the student angry or depressed about.
Those are some example why I think this type of technology can really help teachers and parents learn about their students or children that they don't want to speak of. This can also help parents that can't afford this type of technology at home and having this technology at school, parents can bring their children to the school and have them get tested on what's bothering them at school or home. | 3 |
dd0b4c0 | In the article Luke was asked by his freind don to go to Europe on a cattle boat. Luke couldn't say no so when he said yes that would change his life. So then now he has been on nine trips since the first ever trip that he has taken. Luke was always busy tending the cattle during the day. He was having lots of fun even when he got knocked over the boat and broken his ribs. He was playing board games and everything like that to keep him busy while he was healing.
The reason of Luke going on trips across the oceans because he likes it and he was born to do it. Also his freind asked Luke to come with him to keep him company during the trips. Luke was waiting for some thing to drastically change his life and he to his wish off the drastic change. Luke would stop going with don if Luke didn't like the motion sickness,or because there where a lot of storms,or he didn't like tending the cows during the long and tiring journey. If the possibility was that Luke didn't like the sea his freind would be like are you ok and or something like that.
In conclusion Luke loves the sea and he wants to keep going out and adventuring the wild and the unknown. Luke couldn't say no because it was his freind don and he wanted to explore another island. Luke loves the same because he likes tending the cows and he likes his fellow crew mates that are with him on his journeys to the out and the open sea. Another reason that is because he wants to be in dangerous storms and worlpools. Luke want to take the risks in the dangerous sea. | 1 |
dd0c245 | Cars have made an impression in human history. They have been used to get from point A to B for decades. They may help us but they also can hurt us. Gas emissions are hurting the environment and smog continues to grow. Some governments have already implimented ways to reduce these emissions. These have helped the problem and it may even be to our advantage. Many cities have already sought out ways to benefit the people that have chosen npt to use their cars. This limiting of car usage has benefited many countries and the trend seems to be catching on. In the first source, Elisabeth Rosenthal writes that it has made peope even happier than if they had had a car. It has also helped reduce traffic in normally busy streets. The most obvious benefit and advantage to having limited car usage is the fact that the reduced car use has reduced gas emissions. These many advantages may make, not using your car, worth your while.
Limiting car usage can be beneficial to the environment and it can also be beneficial to you. It can make for less stressed people. In Source 1, it describes how in a small town in Germany, many people are getting along fine without motor vehicles. As a matter of fact, some even said that they were happier without a car. Heidrun Walter states that "When I had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way." It may be less stressful because the goverment there had designed that town so that everything they could need was within walking distance or could be reched with public transportation. Many cities have already adopted this idea including New York. Source 3 has also asked people of their opinion and businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza said "It's a great opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." Carlos had said this while riding a two-seated bicycle with his wife. Walking, Hiking, and even bicycling have been generally seen as a way to destress and relax your tensions. Stepping away from the car and just walking may just be the stress reliever you needed.
A usual sight to see in busy cities and on main streets is the amount of cars that jam the street alway the way up during certain hours of the day. This can become increasingly annoying to some people that can be on their way to school or job. A car-free day has had a very succesul turn out in Bogota, Colombia. Source number 3 described the streets of the capital of Colombia to be "Eerily devoid of traffic jams." on that day. So many people might have participated because violators would be fined $25. This car-free day was intentionally placed to promote alternative transportations such as biking or public buses and to also reduce smog. Another example of a type of car limiting was seen in Paris, France. Paris was near a record amount of smog in the air with "147 micrograms of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in London." - Source 2. Paris took action to try and reduce smog with this simple method: Leave cars with even-numbered license plates at home or face a $31 fine. They proceeded on to the next day with the same concept but this time instead of even-numbered plates, it was odd-numbered plates. This reduced congestion by 60 percent in the capital of France.
One of the more obvious advantages of limiting car usage is the amount of emission that can be prevented from not using your car. In Source 2 it is stated that after 5 days of limiting car usage "the smog cleared enough Monday for the ruling French party to rescing the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday." After just five days of the imposed fines, gas emissions into the atmosphere was reduced significantly enough to lift the ban. If five days made such an impact it can also make a huge impact if many more people were to start limiting their car usage. Car usage has already been falling in the United States. In source 4 it states that "New York's new bike sharing program and its skyrocketing brdge and tunnel tolls reflect those new priorites, as do a proliferation of car-sharing programs across the nation." This is talking about how all these factors have come to reduce car sales and car usage in general. Less cars equals less gas which would then equal less air pollution.
In conclusion, there are many advantages to limiting your car usages. You may not only be helping the environment but you may also be helping yourself. Using your car less may even make you a less stressed individual. It has been shown to reduce congestions in busy streets. It has also helped reduce gas emission. Limited car usage has started a trend in many countries and may even be a trend here. It can give us these advantages and many more. | 5 |
dd10951 | As the process of the new technology came out to identify human emotions the value of using this technology. The new technology has play a big rule to read student's emotional expressions exatly and perfectlyt. People are able now day to read other people emotional expression by nature and only by looking to other people faces.
In my opinion I believed that the new technology called the Facial Action Coding System is valubale to read the emotional expressions of students in a classrom and recognize their emotions, because can able to identify a student emotion if the student is happy or sad.
For example, a classroom computer colud recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored and then it colud modiy the lesson, like an effective human instructor. The new technology read students emotional expressions because it has improves accuracy in perceving the emotions of others.
To conclute this essay, the new tecnology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable and is the best way that canidentify human emotions as the new technology has been developed that improves accuracy in perceiving the emotions of others. | 2 |
dd166b0 | Dear The Florida State Senator,
In our nation, we use a process called the Electoral College to be a deciding factor in presidential elections. I firmly belive this system has become outdated as our country has grown. This nation says it is all about the people and what's best for us; it even says so in the U.S. Constitution, "We the people.." And what the people want, and need, is a fair presidential election, which can be established by making the popular vote the deciding factor.
When you think of any differentiation between two groups even back when you were a young child, how did you solve it? You vote. For example, say you and a group of friends are undecided on whether you want to go to the movies or the mall. So, you vote! Voting always has a fair outcome. It's simple. Whatever party has a higher number of votes wins and in this case becomes president. I certainly respect the idea and goal of the Electoral College, but it simply isn't quite effective. It does not make sense why we would get someone to be elected by people who have similar attributes to go represent them and vote for the presdent. It isn't very effective being that the voted Electoral College member could change their mind and vote for whomever they want instead of the candidate the people thought he/she was going to be voting for.
Think about this. Does it make sense that "We the people" voted for one candidate to win, but he still loses the presidency because the Electoral College overturned it? No, it does not. This is exactly what happened in Al Gore's place according to Bradford Plumer's book, "
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses are wrong ." Also, according to the previous cited book, due to the mishaps in Al Gore's case and others, "over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have know." And similar to what was stated in the first paragraph, voters can't always control whom their electors vote for and sometimes vote for the wrong elector. All of this confusion could easily be eliminated if we eliminated the Electoral College.
Direct voting is way easier and way more accurate to whom the nation wants to be the president. It eliminates the confusion some voters may get if they are unsure which elector feels similar to how they feel about each candidate. It eliminates the hastle of electing electors in the first place. It eliminates the uncertainty voters have about each electoral candidate, being that they could change their mind whenever they please. And best of all, it eliminates the unfair, irrationality of the Electoral College.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 4 |
dd170f2 | Bang! That was the sound of a drunk driver just hitting your car. Did you do anything wrong? No, but this guy did because he was under the influence while driving. So many people every year are killed in car accidents. Not only drunk driving but just driving mistakes by people. Do no let yourself feel guilty and miserable for the rest of your life because of one mistake you made. If you had a driverless car there are no mistakes to be made!
Driverless cars are the way to go. There are so many fantastic reasons why driverless cars are good, but I will just tell you the main points. For one of the most important features of all, SAFETY. Safety while driving is a huge concern in our society today. With people driving drunk or sedated or maybe people just make a driving mistake. Sure it happens but do you want that kind of guilt for the rest of your life? With this safety come a lot of things. One being your parents assurance. They no if you have a driverless car that you will be just fine because of the features it has. This puts less stress on them which is ALWAYS a good thing.
Less stress is always a good thing. Whether it is for your parents or if its for you. With the driverless car you can minimize your stress. One simple way is to get caught up on what you need to do while it is driving. Did not get enough sleep last night and are stressed you may have a bad day at school? Then take a nap on the way there and let the car do the driving. Maybe you forogt to do your homework or did not study for a test. With a driverless car it is very simple, you can get more stuff done!
You will always be able to get your stuff done with a driverless car. Lets say you had a rushed morning and could not get your daily breakfast in. Do not risk an accident by trying to eat and drive at the same time. Be a smart individual and have your car drive while you eat. You may also talk on the phone while your car is driving. You forgot to wish your sweet old grandma a happy birthday and are already in the car. With a driverless car it would be perfectly fine to call your grandma while the car is driving itself. One more reason is to enjoy the scenery. You may go on vacation and are driving through the Rocky Mountains. Why miss the great view and once in a lifetime experience? Have your driverless car drive while you soak up that view.
Driverless cars will be a lifetime experience. They will also save you money. I say this because they will not make mistakes like the average person. How many speeding tickets or objects have you backed into? The driverless car will not speed or make traffic mistakes. This being said means that there will be more money in your pocket.
With a driverless car mistakes will not be made. These low occurence of mistakes will not only save you money, but make the world we live in a safer place. Less percentage of wrecks would be a main statistic on why you should get a driverless car. Having a car that drives itself will prevent drunk driving and many traffic mistakes. Do not feel guilty for the rest of your life because of a common mistake or a bad decision. Go and purchase a driverless car and make the world a better place. | 4 |
dd1c507 | we know that driving from one to another is easier but their is alot of disadvantges of that. There are many good things that come out of limiting car usage.
In the text "in german suburb, life goes on without cars" they mention that we have to do with alot of the pollution in the air from driving. if we limit ourselves with driving then we can help the atmosphere become less polluted. It also states that when you have a car you become more tense because of the other drivers driving around you. When you limit yourself in car and walking around it mentions you become alot happier.
Driving from place to place you tend to get caught in traffic jams and it can become very stressfull but in the article "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Botgota" they say if you walk, bike, skate, or anything that doesnt involve a car, you can avoid all of the traffic. With less cars in the streets there are less car accidents with other cars or people. Having this kind of adjustment you could save a life with this doing. There are different ways to getting to work or school without everyone having to use a car. In "The end of the car culture" it states that you could take public transportation or car pool with friends and family.
In the end there are many positive outcomes of not always having to rely on a car. Many people could even get healthy from walking to work or school besides sitting in a car and not doing anything. Yes it is nice having a car to take you everywhere but its not benefiting the atmosphere or your body. Many people forget how nice it is to walk around and enjoy the outside without any traffic or road rage on the streets. Its your decision in the end wether want to limit yourself driving but now you could understand the other ways without having to stress and worry about the other drivers hitting you or you getting to an accident. Life becomes easier. | 3 |
dd226a9 | The FACS (Facial Action Coding System) is a valuable way to help students learn; it can tell when a student is bored and can modify the lesson to make it more interesting to the student. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming bored or confused".
FACS can have many different effects on an individual person. One example would be "...in a false smile, the mouth is stetched sideways using the zygomatic major and...the risorius....these muscles clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity isn't being truthful". Using the FACS people could tell whether or not someone is lying; this is especially helpful if the person lying is and important politician that could one day be leading a country.
FACS could also be used to help understand emotions better. "Empathy may happen because we unconsciously imitate another person's facial expressions". This could help people better understand one another. Say there are two beggars living on the street one of them is a real beggar with no money and the other is faking it just to get more money; FACS could be used to identify people who truly needs help by studying their facial muscles.
In conclusion FACS is valuable to students in a classroom because it can make the lesson the students are learning more interesting to them. It can also be used to tell whether a student is lying or not about cheating on a test or saying they accidentally left their homework at home when they really didn't do it at all. FACS can definitely improve the learning environment for students worldwide. | 3 |
dd32ed4 | A great many people belive that the Cydonia mesa is created by extra-terrestrial life forms or 'aliens'. While this is a very popular opnion that appears through out the media, such as books, magazines, and talk shows, it doesen't seem to have the scientific proof the back it up. The Cydonia mesa was created though natural means and there were cerntainly no aliens involved.
Some people might say that NASA would want to cover the mesa up if it was created by aliens, which make no economic sense. If extra-terrestrial life was found, NASA would get sizeable grants from the goverment to continue with the space exploration program. NASA decribed this as a "huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose and mouth". There was no mention of aliens.
Many imaging devices were sent to find out wether the Cydonia mesa was in fact an alien artifact. Their names were the Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Orbiter Camrea, each one better than the last. Better camreas, better crews, and everyone was trying to figure out this strange land mass. This was hard, because it takes a long time to line up a camera perfectly with an orbiting, spinning planet.
Finally on April 5th of 1998 Mars Global Surveyor flew over the mesa and snapped a picture. No aliens to be seen anywhere. Still, people weren't satisfied. They protesteted that the picture was taken in cloudly weather and thats why there were no extra-terrestials.
On April 8th of 2001, a cloudless, summer day, they flew over again and snapped a picture. In this picture it was crystal clear it was just a mesa. There were no signs of alien life and nobody was able to dispute it.
There was not one thing on that planet that even remotly pointed to the idea of extra-terrestrials on Mars. Even if there was, NASA would report it as soon as possible for financial gain. The money they would get to keep looking would be sizeable. So they decided to look, and they sent up many camreas to get photos. All those photos proved one thing. The Cydonia mesa was created though natural means and there were cerntainly no aliens involved. | 4 |
dd36b35 | If I were a scienctist I would tell people its not a face, its a landform and that its a shadow that makes it look like a face. When the photographers took a picture of it, it was as soon as possible. Plus the camera was at its absolute maximum and so u can obviously tell it is a shadow that makes a face. What the picture really shows is the Maritan the same as a butte or mesa land form which is common around the American West. If there were a peron on Cydonia we would be rich finding the greatest discovery of all time. why not have more then just a man lets have a whole colony right?
When Michael Malin flew over it the team got a picture Ten times sharper then the first picture and when people on the internet who just couldnt wait to see what it was guess what they found out it was? A natural landform there is no alien monument after all. There is absolutly no aliens at all at least not that we have found. | 2 |
dd3e34b | Twenty five years ago something funny happened around Mars.
NASAs Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet, snapping photos of possible landing sites for its sister ship Viking 2, when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face.
They call it "The Face."
The Face is very interesting.
Many people could have different opinions about how the Face could have gotten on Mars or how it was made.
Your opinion could be that either aliens created the Face or it is just a natural landform, but you would need to have reasons to back up why you believe so.
Aliens have been believed to be real, but others do not think so.
There is no real proof yet, but many scientists and other people are still trying to find clues and details about aliens on other planets.
This leads some to believe that if aliens are real, that they could have created the Face.
How could aliens create something as complex and interesting as the Face?
Aliens could not be that smart.
To think about it being a natural landform, it is pretty complex, but it may just be the way that we are looking at it and are seeing it.
The way we see the Face all depends on the way you are looking at it.
Scientists have named it "The Face" because that is what it looks like, but maybe if someone else looks at it, they would not even see "The Face" at all.
They may see something completely different.
If you think that aliens created "The Face" first see if there is anything else that aliens may have been thought to create or where they came from.
If there is no proof to aliens, then how could they have created something?
And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing ... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all.
What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesalandforms common around the American West.
It almost reminds scientists of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho.
Thats a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars.
If these are actually landforms that are naturally formed on Earth, then "The Face" is certainly a natural landform itself. | 3 |
dd41e75 | FACS or Facial Action Coding System is a new technology that enables computers to identify human emotions so when they used it on the Mona Lisa it said that she was eighty three percent happy, nine percent disgusted, six percent fearfu, and two percent angy, in which I dont think is true. What I think about FACS is that we dont need it and that what is the point of using it when we can just figure it out our selfs. So for that I think that FACS is not needed and that it should have been invented for something else.
There are many resaons so why I think that FACS should have not been invented to figure out the emotions of pictures or humans. One reason is that they have to begin by making a 3-D model of the face in order to figure out the emotions which I think is a waste of time and the use of the 3-D printer and because all fourty four major mucles in the 3-D printed model must move like human mucles. Also it says in the first paragraph that when they found the emotions of the Mona Lisa that they say " at least according to some new computer software" which means that theya re not one hundred percent sure.
My second reasons is Dr. Paul Eckman has classified six basic emotions which are happiness, surprise. anger, disgust, fear, and sadness, but then Dr. Huang has said that the facial expressions for each emotion are universal which make the whole thing confusing because Dr. Eckman said six and Dr. Huang said that their are many more in those six which makes it more complex because they have to had figure out those other ones.
Another reason that I think that we can just uses our brain and eyes for find out there emotion or just tell them which is better that using a computer to figure that out. In the artical its says " Perhaps Dr. Huangs's emotion algorithms are different sort of " Da Vinci Code" which mean that they probable have not figured it out yet which can lead to having wrong answers.
In conclusion I think that FACS is a thing that we do not need because you have to go through many steps which can be a waste of time and also that they may have not completed to figure out all expressions which can be tough and because we have the ability to figure emotion out our self and not in need of a computer to help us. That is why I think that we can just use us and no computer because we have the ability to do what we can do. | 3 |
dd43138 | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. I am against the development or these cars for many reasons, such as safety, costs, and time.
I am against the development of the driverless cars because of the safety. In paragraph 9, the author states, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at faultthe driver or the manufacturer?" If a buyer of the driverless car were to get into an accident with the driverless car they would fight that the manufacturer should take fault because they were the ones who created it. Deciding who should take the fault would cost time and money. People should be focusing on the safety of the poor and the people that are dying for reasons that humans have created rather than focusing on funding driverless cars and their safety.
Driverless cars would cost money. in paragraph 6, the author states, "Radar was a device on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars." If just the Radar costs 200 hundred million dollars, imagine all the other sensors that would have to come with the car. Also in paragraph 4 the author states that the driverless cars do indeed need more than just a couple of sensors, "For starters, they need a whole lot of sensors." Sensors are needed to ensure that the driverless cars know where they're going, How the road conditions are, the different speed limits for different states or even countries, and the weather to indicate how fast they should be going. Those are just a few examples of the needs for sensors. Too much sensors costs too much money for the people of the world that have more important needs.
Driverless cars need constant attention at this time and are not completely driverless. The author tells us that the driverless cars are not completely driverless in paragraph 7 stating, "In fact, none of the cars developed so far are completely driverless." In paragraph 7 the author says, "This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." Why would people fund driverless cars if we would have to give constant attention as we do to nondriverless cars. it would just be a waste of money watching a car drive itself only in certain situations. In paragraph 9 the author states, "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." The manufacturers of the driverless cars would have to go through so many people to change the law and that could take time that they would not have because of the money they have put into this project.
The article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," gives many examples as to why driverless cars are great for the people, but they also give many reasons as to why they should not be funded. I am against the Development of these cars. | 5 |
dd43506 | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" I think driverless cars is a bad idea. It could harm people inside the car if anything goes wrong. If anything does go wrong with the car and if it hurts someone or even kill someone, manufactures will be blamed for the accident. The people wouldnt be able to trust the company anymore and the company will start to lose money beacuse people would stop buying their cars.
Developing these types of cars sound very cool, but the safety of these self-driven cars is a big concern. No one would want to take the risk of any problems with the car that could lead to their death. In paragarph 9 in the article it says " if the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault - the driver or the manufacturer?" the manufacturer should be responible if anything goes wrong. They should be responsible because they made the car and after one injury they should just stop the company of making more because they will continue to hurt people will their product. Somethign could go wrong with the car without alerting the driver and it could go out of control without anyway to stop the car.
Human drivers should have 100% control of their car, because if anything goes wrong it will be against the driver not the car. people trust them selfs better than the car. Some cars cant even handle driving their selfs on their own in some tasks and what if it doesnt alert the driver to take over, this could seriously lead to big accident.
If an accident does happen everything will be blamed against the company. The company will have charges agaisnt them. The company will be force to shut down before another accident can occur. The cars will be seen unsafe to drive, this will give a reason to the people not to buy these types of cars. If people stop buying self-driven cars the company will go bankrupt and everything will go to waste.
If new technology is taking over like cars, no one will know how to fix the car without help of the manufacters who knows what is going on. people wouldnt want to be charged just for them to check on the car and to know whats going on.
This is why I think this is a bad idea. People can get hurt or even killed. I rather stay in control of the car than let a computer take over. | 3 |
dd43d5b | The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus' believes that Venus, Earth's twin, needs to be explored.
Venus has very extreme conditions, but according to the author nothing us humans can't handle.
With a little bit of creativity and curosity, humans can learn about Venus.
Scientist have sent numerous spacecrafts to land on Venus, but most have only lasted for a few hours.
With this it is hard to gather information, but why would scientists even want to send spacecrafts to it if they think there is no chance of anyone ever living there?
In the article it states,"Astonomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system."
A long time ago, Venus could have supported various forms of life.
If it could then, than maybe there is a chance in the future for it to.
Venus conditions are dangerous, but the author says we can find ways around them.
For example, in the story, it states,"Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape."
Having a vehicle stay out of the high pressure, high temperature area could be a safe alternative to explore Venus.
The only issue with it would be that peering out of a ship can only provide the scietists with limited information on the ground conditions.
NASA is very creative and has started creating electronics made of silicon carbide so they can withstand Venus's conditions.
For example, in the story it 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." The spacecrafts that were previously sent there only lasted hours, so NASA is making improvements.
Hopefully, NASA can continue on this road to improving and one day get humans to Venus safely.
"Curiosity killed the cat" is a famous saying.
If we do not explore Venus now, human curiosity will lead us to many equally or more dangerous things.
The author supports their idea very well and makes multiple vaild points explaining why we should become a little more creative so we can explore Venus now. There would no longer be any curosity about it, making it safer. | 3 |
dd45719 | The culture of the car has been coming to an end. With many people now choosing to have other forms of transpertation. Now in Germany they are making cities where they help banned car usage. In the romantic city of Paris,France they are now starting to banned cars due to the overload of smog. The city of Bogota,Colobia is having a special day where they banned cars and see the effect of now having cars for a day. The car usage is now being observed to do damage around the world and due to that now cities all over the world is now banning the car usage. This will help to have a healthier earth and healthier people. The benefits of banning cars is going to help everyone and even our beloved earth.
In Germany the people have made a city where they have given up their cars. The city I believe has a better way to maintain a healty and cleanier enviroment than other cities in Germany. The banning of cars has been a great sucess with now people using bikes or walking as their means of transportation. Even though car ownership is permitted,the problem is that there are only two places to park which cost about 40,000 dollars along with your home. The result of that actions is that 70 percent of people do not own a car and 57 percent sold the car to live in the city. One person states "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" says Heidrun Walter. The citizens of this city have been feeling better about having no car you dont have the stress to have to drive you have the calm relaxing time by walking or biking. did you know that "passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 perecent in car intensive areas in the United States."The greenhouse gas has been a problem ever since the development of motor power cars. Now that we are able to stop it lets take that chance to help stop the greenhouse gas and to make cleaner and healthier cities.
The romantic city of paris is having a bit of a problem its that its beautiful city is now being coveres in smog due to the overuse of cars. now that Paris has enforced a partial driving ban to help clear the air they can't help to notice that when there are fewer cars being operated the smog begins to clear up. The smog has always been a problem for Paris it usually has more smog than in any European country. The article states that "Paris has 147 micrograms of perticulate matter (PM) per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in London,Reuters found." The romantic city of Paris cant be as wonderful if it always has a problem with having too much smog I believ that the cars are the ones to blame for this matter that if the city of paris bans its cars that the smog will decrease and become a the romantic city that it is. The article states that "diesel fuel was blamed since France has a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline. Diesels make up 67 percent of vehicles in France compared a 53.3 percent average of diesel engines in the rest of western Europe." That means that it is in fact the motor cars that are the ones causeing the overflow of the smog. If the the cars are able to to be banned in paris we will see a drop in the smog and Paris will return to the romantic city that it is.
The city of Bogota,Colombia has been celebrating the day without cars for over three years straight. The car free day help leave the streets of the capital city without any traffic jams. One problem of the road that many countries have in their capital city is that they have to many cars because of the tourist and the huge number of people who live there which causes traffic jams leaving cars in the streets for hours on end. They have the same problem in Brazil where they have one of the worlds worst traffic jams in history. The ones who delevoped the car free day was trying to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Someone states in the article "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution" says businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza. The stress of having a car in a countries capital can be stressful to some people and that bikeing or walking is a way to help calm someone after a busy day at work. Due to the car free day the city states that "uneven, pitted side walks have been replaced by broad,smooth sidewalks, rush hour restirictions have dramatically cut traffic."The car free day i feel is benefitting everyone from getting rid of traffic jams to clearing up the smog. The replacing of cars for bikes and walking is not so much a bad idea if it will help benefit evryone around you.
In conclusion, the car culture is now coming to its end. That nations all over the world has seen the great benefits from banning cars. The greatest effects that banning cars has is that they are helping to get rid of air pollution,stress,and the grreenhouse gas. These are all benfits for everyone it helps the ither people beside u and the environment. The romantic city of Paris was covered in smog due to cars. In Germany where they have developed a city where there is no car in sight and has everything within a walking or bike distance. The city of Bogota,Colombia making a holiday that has been going on for three years straight to have no cars for a day. The people have been seeing that the effects of having no car is wonderful and that we should all do it to better ourselves and to better out enivornment. | 5 |
dd4c541 | Facial Action Coding System is a potential and valuable way to read students' emotions while in class. Through the use of this technology, it could bring forth various opportunites. The system could open doors to the genuine thoughts of students to let adults better understand a view into their minds . Utilizing this technology will illustrate a positive change to the school by giving instructors insight to a students mental health, engagment with certain topics, and learning style.
The mental health of a student is a vital piece of information that a teacher should know. In the text, the author states that, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication...So computers need to understand that too" (Alto 6). By writing this, he conveys to readers that the software can process your emotions. Therefore, if a student demonstrates a pattern of unhappy emotion, an administrator can then speak to the student and find out what might be going on in their home life or if they need to see a counselor. If a computer could give insight to happy or sad emotions, what other emotions could it detect?
The knowledge of how a student learns or the level of engagment they have within the classroom is a key component to modifying lessons and ensuring the most enriching education for a certain individual. Within the article, Alto inserts a quote from Thomas Huang, a professor, in which he says, "A classroom computer could recongnize when a student is becoming confused or bored" (Alto 6). This means that opportuinities for a student to get a more indivualized education increase, and teachers will have the ability to revise lessons in order to adjust to level of understanding majority of students have. It would also create a tremendous chance for the students who are falling below average to be identified and recieve the propering tutoring needed. Would these new adjustments then lead to a better understanding of learning styles?
Each individual in a classroom has a unique way of learning that requires attention and adaption on the lesson in order to fully let the student reach their potential to excell with their education. The author claims that the technology could, "...modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor" (Alto 6). This gives the information that the system could be able to analyze the way students learn, and give access to various learning styles of their student. This would enable them to then adhere to the students education needs, and therefore open doors to make break throughs with children that had been struggling.
There are many factors to consider when contemplating the use of this technology in the classroom. Although, the overall result of putting this system in place would be positive. The ability to detect students emotions will enable instructors to teach more attentively to each indivdual student, causing the childs achievement level to rise snd their education to strengthen. Enriching education and making it personal to the student will in time increase passing test scores, the number of college graduates, and literacy rate. Schools should consider encorperating the FACS technology in order to obtain a brighter, better future for their kids and country. | 5 |
dd4cacc | People are saying there's a face on mars. This is true, people are also questioning if aliens had put it there, it may just be a historical formation on the earth, reasearches believe it may just be a formation and not created by aliens. People have named this formation the "Face on Mars" it has become to be a very popular sight that people are wanting to see more and more of it. This is so popular that it has been in "Hollywood films, appearded in books, magizines, and even talk shows."
Researchers found this figure on the planet mars, they found this not only weird but very interseting. They thought lets do more research to find out what actually caused this formation on mars. Reasearchers thought at first that aliens had put this figure on the planet because it is a figure of a human face. They took big cameras up into mars and sized the figure so large so they could get closer pictures of the image.
The more research the reasearchers did the more facts they found. They had many sightings like this before and they figured maybe a alien did not put that figure on mars. Reasearchers may have thought this because there had been many different formations on earths surface, it was most likely caused by earths erosion or natural features. They compare some ideas to it just like the "Middle Butte in the snake river of Idaho." There had never been sightings of aliens before why would there be now.
The people that work for NASA believe that it most likely ended up being a formation in mars because of the research everyone has done they have come to find that there are most likely no aliens up on mars. They say this because they went back up and looked some more around the area where the face was found to see if there was a "alien monument." Come to find out there was no alien monument around or even located on mars so aliens did not cause this. Researchers believe that this was just a normal formation from the planet mars that just occured, but did people?
When this all came to take place the first day they let the news out it went viral. People were wanting to know what caused this and how was this caused. When they realesed the news from the NASA they thought the same thing well it had to be aliens. After all this was no formation by aliens it was simply a formation from the planet itself. After all of this was figured out what really caused it, it went more viral than it was before. It was more popular because everyone was talking about it and it occured in Hollywood movies,Books and even talk shows.
People were wanting to still believe that no landform can just make something like this. They thought how could this be. The planets have their wonders and wow's you just have to let the formations take place and see what amazing things can be done. Also have patience to see what really happened to the item that was found. You might just be amazed for once. Most don't think there could be such amazing feautures on the planets. | 3 |
dd565c4 | Are driverless cars really necessary? Most of us know how to drive already so why have a computer do it for us. I personally don't see a need for these kind of cars. As of now they still need a driver behind the wheel so whats the difference?
My main point for not wanting these cars around is the fact that they're most likely going to be very expensive. There are cars that are labeled "luxury" that go for hundreds of thousands of dollars and whose to say that these cars won't be up there with them. All the technology and all of the research that goes into these will come with a pretty large price tag. If it does have a large price tag on it then it will only reach the elite as most luxury cars do now. Most Americans today don't have enough money to buy an everyday car. Only the famous, wealthy population will get to own this car.
How will this car affect others? If this car is affordable to most of the population and most people get one, will we still need to go to a Drivers Education class? The answer will be yes. Since these cars are not yet fully able to drive themselves, you will still have to take some kind of course to learn how to drive these cars. Now the course will change drastically. There might even be a different course made so people could take a course on how to manually drive and a course to learn how to "drive" in an autonomous car. There will most likely be new rules on how to stay safe behind the wheel of a car that can almost drive on its own.
When, and if, these cars become mass manufactured, we might be in for some law changes. New laws on handling these cars, new laws about where and when you can drive and even age limitations. I think with these cars the government is going to make us get a special licence to operate these cars. I would think this licence would be available to people 18 and over who have had 2+ years of driving experience and have taken a course to learn all they can about controlling these cars. This way if they do encounter a rough patch where they had to take control, they would be prepared and know how to take control.
Lastly, are these cars in any way better than manually driving a car?
Cell phone laws won't change so what's the need to have your car drive for you? You would still have to keep your eyes on the road to be prepared for taking control when needed. They are almost synonymous with cruise control. You don't have to keep your foot on the gas but when a stop light, turn or some other action arises that you can't stay at the same speed for, you have to cancel the cruise control and put your foot back on the gas.
What if you just so happen to not be ready to take control? GM has created a seat the vibrates when drivers need to take control. I think something more alerting would be needed so people would know it's an emergency and they need to pay attention.
In conclusion, i think these cars are a waste of time. We should just stick to driving by ourselves so we know whose to blame and don't have to file lengthy lawsuits to see if the company's responsible or not. It would just be another unecessary hazard on the road that no one is ready for. | 4 |
dd5a7fc | Have you seen the Face on Mars? It was twenty five years ago when NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling Mars and snapped a photo of a landform that looked much like a human face. We, NASA, have noticed many people made conspiracy theories about the Face being made by aliens. We assure you this is not true. NASA wishes that there was an acient civilization on Mars that constructed the Face. The Face is a natural landform.
The Face is not an alien monument. Eighteen long years after the first mission and the first photograph was taken, Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) arrived at the Red Planet in September, 1997. Chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, Jim Garvin explained that we felt this was important to taxpayers, so we photographed the Face as soon as we could get a good shot at it. On April 5, 1998, MGS finally flew over the Face and snapped a photo ten times shaper than the orginal. This photo revealed a natural landform. If aliens did create the Face, there would be other clearer signs of alien work. For example, there would be huts, small shack figures or even Egyptain-style pyramids. Therefore, there was no alien monument after all, but not everyone was satisfied, so in 2001, NASA got another photo of it, much clearer and closer this time. It was still just a natural landform.
NASA went through a lot to get the three photos of the Face. The first one in 1976, the second in 1998, and the third in 2001. These three photos have shown everyone very clearly that the Face on Mars is a natural landform. Some even say it reminds then of a butte or mesa, landforms common around the American West. In conclusion, the Face on Mars is, in fact, a natural landform. | 3 |
dd5dacd | Dear Senator of Florida,
What is the point of people voting if they are not really getting a say in who they are really voting for? The Electoral College has a bigger say then the thousands of of people who vote. How can a group of peoples say mean more then thousands of people in the United States. Also, the "Winner-Take-All" sytem does not help anymore then the Electoral college does. What is so special about the Electoral College that they get picked specially to make their vote count on who wins or loses the election?
Their has been many mishappens because of the Electoral College. For example, from an excerpt called "The Idefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses are wrong" says "The single argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disastor factor. The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worst." This shows that the electoral college does do damage to the United States because they let a huge crisis happen during the elections. They could have let it get even worst because they allow it to and make it easy to make things worst in certain crisis.
I feel like you should give the people more of a say because half of the people that vote problably don't even know that they are not actually voting for the president. They probably vote thinking that they are voting for the president not for the electoral college to see who will end up on the board. The Electoral College is overall unfair to the voters. Voters pay to vote, to what pay the Electoral College to vote and make their say so important it is sad. The reason it is sad is because all kids want to do when their younger is vote because they feel like it symbolizes them growing up and like they get a real say in who the next president is or the senate anything just as longs as they get a say. But truthful their not getting a say in who will be the next senate, treasurer, or president their actually picking the board who will be picking for them.
Even the People once wanted to abolish the Electoral College. These People were Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO. Turned out their not the only ones according to the exerpt from "The Indefensible Electoral College: why even the best-laid defenses are wrong." is sates "They're not alone; according to a Gallup poll in 2000 taken shortly after Al Gore- thanks the quirks of the electoral college- won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of the voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." It also states that "This year voters can expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could again lose the presidancy." This show how the elections are in a way screwed up because they already in a way know how many votes a certain person is going to get and how many votes the other person is going to get. They practicly alredy know who is going to win the election before the voting even begins because the board already has it all planned out.
So really thier is no need for the Electoral College because all they do is make the competion unfair for the other person going for the election. Also, because they have cause or been a part of problems and mishappens. In an article it mentions "Perhaps moat worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, were staes delegation vote on president." Also, when you are voting for the Vice-President you are not actually voting the senat picks who the Vice-President is. The Electoral College is overall unfair to the voters and the people running in the election. | 4 |
dd5e511 | the electoral college is pretty bad. you should make the vote go by poplar demand instead of electoral college. one reason is because many people diont understand how it works thus more inclinded not to vote.
everyday pelple want to know whats going on in their government and you erase the fact and make them think the electoral college is the answer. you have to go back to making popluar vote a thing, trust brhu. once in a while ytheir are times when popluar vote wins but electoral loses, this is bad becuase many people like it more but only a few electors care about really voting. whkle everyone really wants to win others dont reqally know. so mr presidnet make it so that people can vote betteryou nederrd to not respond to my letter just know that u read it. if u make po;luar vote better more popel would use iyt thus making the countrty an better place. you alsol need tol think of all the familys that need to understadn what the electoral college is. it is a much harder and complex method thna popluar vote.
another reaspon is the complexity of the big states vs. small states. when they are bigger and they have lees things than when they are bigger. if ou have that cponundrum it makes it very hard. man this essay is getting hard to type. i really want to sleep/. but thats what people who wouldd be voting =for the electoral college would say. they need to be much more carefluol in the way the orgaize their thinking and the way that they controilmathe ranking of stsate vs popluation vs electorla college for these reasons here i think that we should make the elcetorla collger iilleagla and punishable by death. we should switch the the polpuar vote . it would be muich betetr to make it that way and people will eb much more inclined to vote. | 2 |
dd64f5b | Google has always been there for us when we need a fantastic search engine or when we need to figure out what special holiday it is, but little did we know about there lastest invention! Google has been seeking for a better technological future since 2009 with there latest peice; the smart vehicle. Although, this great thought has come to life for the world to visualize, I don't really believe that this invention is as great as the world may see it to be.
For a place which is already called "Lazy America", why would this nation want to progress the other lands thoughts on that belief? The fact that there are cars being made for the laziest of people who don't have the moments of time or ability to sit and drive to go from one place to another is upsetting. These cars are being made for the people who rather text, eat, (etc.) and drive than pay attention to the road. Google had mentioned that their cars must have "the human driver..remain alert and be ready to take over..", but Google is trying to get around that problem so the car is totally self-operated. Not only Google, but many other vehicle companies. For example, in paragraph ten, it states that the "Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drives themselves by 2020." What does this prove? Does this show that America's self worth is our inventions? No, I believe that this shows how unbelievably lazy this world has become.
Secondly, Although this autopilot car may caught the heart and the eyes of everyone who has heard about this invention, I'm positive that these cars could not be afforable to the people who want them most. Because of the amount of time and money that it took to research how to make these cars, it would cost lots of money to replenish those funds and there is only one way of doing that for those vehicle companies and for Google; selling their cars for higher prices. For this reasoning, many of the lower classes and comfortably living middle classes would not be able to pay for the cars. In paragraph one, it talks about how "the car he{Sergey Brin} foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis.." and cars, which is good for our planet and good for the ozone, but if the only people who have these cars are the rich, which is low in numbers of people as a whole, what difference would it make if the many people who cannot afford these smart cars are still giving off these gas fumes and pollution into the air? Many people think about how this will affect the human race and how great of an invention this is. Yes, this invention may have its perks, but it wouldn't make a difference for those who cannot afford the first downpayment of these cars.
Lastly, the amount of regulations and laws that have to be overturn would take many, many years for these cars to even be legal to drive in many parts of the world! "Traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." I firmly believe in this. They say this because when a human driver is always operating the vehicle, they are forced to pay attention for the sake of their lives or others.
The narrator of this article that "..special touch sensors makes sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel" at all times, but even if the human driver is holding on and behind the wheel that does not mean that they are paying attention 100% percent to the road ahead of them, which happens to be a scary thought. Many people fall asleep behind the wheel when the car is fully operated by them alone, so this would not stop many people from falling asleep.. Especially if they don't have to do anything to drive! If those many alert sensors do not alert the sleeping person, that may be trouble. Getting that passed through traffic laws would be difficult; Even for Google!
Although Google has been there for us for about a good decade and a half, helping us with our internet needs, that doesn't mean that they need to continue to move forward with something like this. The smart car, may be a pretty new thing to gaze and gauke at, but is it safe for our everyday use? Would it be safe for our newly founded driving teenagers, who already text and drive? Teaching people that it's okay to be lazy and not pay attention to the road is not something I would want to support and I believe that many people should stand behind this thought. I say "No" to this contraption. | 6 |
dd6559d | The scientists have claim that Earth and Venus are two planet that closest density and size. It been said that venus long ago was probably covered with largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life. Despite of danger in venus NASA possible to study it will proximity to us. And Earth and Venus is so mush alike. Scientists even discussing further in the surfance of Venus. Can scientists could study the surface of Venus depsite of danger there?
It claim Venus will maybe prevent life for human to explore and study it. Despite the danger of conditon od the planet that they could usee modern technology called mechanical compute. It will help NASA what real like compare Earth and Venus.
Today technology maybe will help the NASA to study Venus because of the modern world. Modern technology of cell phone or tablet and other could to help study most curiosity in the our planet. It very powerful and quick to use, but it delicate when it come to extreme physical condition.
Striving to meet the challange presented by Venus has Value, not only becuase of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also becuase human curiosity will likely lead us into equally inlimitdating edeavors. Venus, sometime called the "Evening Star," is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. Earth, Venus , and Mars. our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speed. The Venus numerous challanging planet for human to study, despite its proximity to us. | 2 |
dd770d8 | Greetings Mr. State Senator,
Looking over the Electoral College, there has come to be a few intresting details. Yes, the process is beautifuly thought out but as we look at it deeper it has its flaws. The founding fathers have given us the Electoral College, which anarchist are very unapreciative veiwing it as a non-democratic way to vote.
If the Electoral College system goes, then Americans can have their full Constitutional rights. Using this process voters are not voting for the elector of their choice, voters are voting on higher qualified voters to vote for the elector. The whole process is a violator of the amendment entitled to voting. Having this maze of voting for voters, what if a voter confuses of who the elector is voting for so their vote isint actually going to the canidate of their choice. In 1960 before the election of John F. Kennedy, the segregationists of the Louisiana legislator came very close to replacing all of the Democratic electors with electors who opposed John F. Kennedy. So all the voters in favor of JFK. will be voting agaist him and all the Electoral College votes would be going to the other canidate.
As Bradford Plumer says in an excerpt from:
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defences are wrong , "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters." Plumer makes a very valid point beacuse of the size of states. The electoral College's number of representatives are as big as their states population. So if all of the representatives in Alaska vote on the Republican canidate, and most of the people in California vote for the Democratic canidate, the Electoral College vote in California overules the vote in Alaska.
The Electoral College can make some voters not want to vote, usually because of their state size their vote doesnt count as much. Many voters in larger states refuse to vote because their vote wont really change the Electoral Collage's vote. The voters don't have total control over an elector, so the whole election crisis could happen again.
In conclusion, the Electoral College may have worked when the colonies were small and the votes counted, but today the modern society doesnt appreciate its lack of Constitutional rights. All we ask is for our right to vote to be given to us, so we can take part in our government.
-Student | 4 |
dd7857b | Many people believe that the Face was made by aliens while others believe it's a natural landform. Many scientists believe that it was a natural landform which they are correct. Many people believe it was created by aliens becuase of where it is located till this very day. There are many other things on Earth that were created natural such as many mountains and volcanoes.
First, there has been many people since the pictures have came out that believe that aliens made this but why not think of natural landform. There are many and many landforms that were created naturally and many of these landforms didn't make us believe that an alien were to create it. So why believe that aliens created the Face on Mars? I guess they think that since it's in space and nobody lives on Mars it is assumed that aliens were the ones to create this.
Next, scienctists in Mars Global Surveyor has already proven that the Face was created naturally as said on the text. The first time that they came to see the amazing figure, the figure still looked a little bit fuzzy making people still believe of aliens forming it. When scientist found out of people stll believing it was aliens Gavin states, "It's not easy to target Cydonia." As they take the trip back again and took a picture the usage of their camera made the photo be seen very incredible. You could see everything very cleary making many people believe now that aliens weren't the ones to create such a beautiful figure like this one.
All though there might be still a few people that believe aliens were the ones who made it, many people can agree of how beatiful and creative this figure was made in Mars. As said on the text the Face reminds many people of different things like landforms here on Earth that was by nature and the appreciation of the Face that is still on Mars making history. | 3 |
dd7ad18 | Dear senator, i think that you should change the electoral collage. the reason for that is because i " the foundin fathers establish it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by popular vote of qualified citizens." in which that if we been doing this for century the people votes never really mattered because voters vote not for the president , but for a slate of electors,who in turn elect the president. well i didnt know people need some for some one to turn back around and they deside who they want to vote for. its stupid and a waste of people times because sometimes you cant control who your electors vote for. " the single best argument against the electrol collages." they would call it the disaster factor the reason for that is the american people should consider them self lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century ; the system allows much worse, consider that states legislaturs are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors i " could always defy the will of the people." proving my point making the peoples votes useless. they did this in 1960 , segregationists in the louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the democratic electors with new electors who oppose john F. kennedy. so that a popular vote for kennedy would not have actually gone to kennedy. see theres more reason for electoral collages to be of no use and be bad but i think you got the point right ? people votes should actually matter senator and not be use to vote for some one else to vote so they can end up choosing some one else. so please stop electoral collage.
sincerally, sammy the bull. | 2 |
dd7c658 | I am going to be telling you what i think of technology being able to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom and if i think it is valueable.
I think technology reading people emotional expressions is valuable but then again i don't think is is valuable because being able to know how people feel can actually help the enviornment but then it can't because peoples reactions emotional expressions are different and people are different some people can have bad emotional expressions and it could be harmful, and it could be painful for others. People can have really great emotional expressions, like being happy all the time. It says in paragraph 1 that Mona Lisa is 83 percent happy, 9 percent discusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. People can be the complete oppisate of that and it couldn't be good on other people, But people can also be like Mono Lisa and it makes the inviornment a better place knowing people are happy and not sad, discusted and angry.
I would have to agree and disagree because it basically goes both ways. | 2 |
dd7fb1a | "Driverless cars" sound good until you're in an accident situation and you get blamed. What about people who enjoy driving and traveling for a living? That joy is just going to be tooken away because some people are too lazy to drive their self where they need to go. Then whjen this happens, people start falling asleep at the wheel and not being able to be alerted when the car needs an actual human.
I think driverless cars would be pointless. Like stated in the article "Would'nt drivers get bored waiting for thier turn to drive?" A person like me loves to drive and I would'nt want a car doing it for me. Plus when its an accident or road construction the car would'nt know what to do if the driver couldnt be alerted. It would be so much confusion and problems on the road with driverless cars. But the big focus that was mentioned is "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or manufacture?" 9/10 I think it would be put on the driver but in rememberence its called a DRIVERLESS car. I dont think this idea is just something we need.
If people would really stop and think about how many problems this would bring and not just about how cool it is then they would see all the problems it would bring before it's here. Or maybe they should create this car so they can bump their head on how they are using technology in all the wrong ways. | 2 |
dd80d9b | Innovation for the future. That is what is occuring right now as you read this. Driving your own car is a thing of the past with the new up and coming invention of driverless cars.
New ideas are sprouting on how to make the semi-autonomous vehicle into a fully autonomous vehicle. Wasting your time by driving will be a thing of the past. Driverless cars would be an excellent invention due to the increased safety measures that will enable safer road conditions.
Google cars are semi-autonmous and have driven more than half a million miles without a crash which shows how safe they are. This is due to the increased safety measures that "still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents." This shows how the google cars are able to drive the easy, everyday road trips to work, school, or home; which is what the majority of one's car is used for. Yet, when the car encounters a circumstance that is more complicated, it will not try to navigate through the complicated circumstance, but instead alert the driver to take over. This shows how safe the car is because it is able to notice when a situation is too complicated for it to handle and then alert the driver of the impending situtation. Therefore, google cars would increase the safety of road conditions.
BMW's Dr. Huber has researched ways that will sustain the driver's awareness in an autonomous car, even though the driver is not actually driving. BMW has stated that they will bring in heads-up displays that "can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take oversomething 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." This shows how the driverless cars inventors are thinking of every aspect to these new driverless cars, not only the manufacturing aspect, but also the psychological aspects. The displays will sustain the driver's attention even while they are not actually driving, but will turn off the instant the driver needs to take over. This is much safer than what we have today because these displays are not something available to the majority of people who text and drive. Therefore, the new driverless cars will increase safety due to their innovative way of sustaining the driver's attention.
Also, the sensors in today's car have increased safety, which shows how sensors in the upcomign cars will only increase safety even more. Some vehicles have sensors and "the information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone." The anti lock brake system has created safer road contions due to the fact that the sensors do the work so the driver does not have to. As the driver brakes, the information from the sensors alerts the car on how much pressure to apply and so forth, thus enabling the car to come to a quicker stop which increases the safety on roads. This shows how the driverless cars would be able to do all the work for the driver which increases the safety.
All in all, driverless cars would make the roads a safer place due to technological innovation. The many positive aspects that the driverless cars would provide would make the world a much safer place to be. So the next time you don't feel like driving, think of the up and coming driverless cars. | 5 |
dd83c62 | Studing Venus? Difficult task to acompish but well worth it becasuse Venus is a sister planet to Earth made from the same rock compositon as Earth despite its harsh conditions. My explinaition throught the help of this article should explain why its a great idea to explore venus.
The first reason I pulled from the article explains a very good idea through this quote, "NASA's possible soultion to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientist to float above the fray. This would be an amazing idea being in some kind of spacecraft just on the ouside of the atomosphere of venus to take pictures and such so humans could map out the surface more. The next parpgraph in the article has a contridiction this is quote explains it "However, peering at from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provdide limited insdight on the ground. To fix this problem they should invent more to it such as a smller hubble telescope mounted on ths ship with a lens capible of breaking through the thick atomosphere or some kind of sonar to map the surface.
The next explantion comes from the quote . "Another project is looking back to an old tehnology called mechanical computers". Thease devices are not excatly lighting fast and getting information could be a little slow but they do not have very many electronics in them more gears and swiches old style things like that. Gears in side of thease mechanical computers tend to be made of a heavy material that can hold up better. | 3 |
dd841ba | Are you looking for something to do in your life? If your are then you should join the Seagoing Cowboy program. At first you will have a meloncoly demeanor,but you will get use to traveling and being away from home. The animals you take care of will give you an exubernt feeling. Also, you will be able to vist many different places around the world. You will have alot of fun with to people you meet on the ship. We have alot of things you can do when you get off the ship like you can have fun by doing sports.
You will have to take care of animals from all over the world. You will have to feed them and make sure that they have water. You might have to be a little adacouis when you go and feed the animals. But, you will make them as happy as a person who got just what they want for Cristmas. And when you see them like this you will have an I -am - a - good -person felling. You will also have to help unload these animas off the ship onto the harbor. You will also have to clean up after them and after your self.
It will be a good experence for you. You will make new friends. You will learn how to take after your self. You will also learn how to take care of an animal. You will learn some new things. It will help you mature on taking care of your self. It will help you learn how to handle responce ability. Over all it will an opportunity of a life time for you. | 2 |
dd852e1 | Do you believe that NASA is with holding information about an alien species? Many people in fact do. However, their arguments are severely flawed. There are thousands and thousands of naturally made landforms on planet Earth, and we can only logically assume there are even more naturally made landforms in space. The landform that is debatebly the most 'likely to be made by aliens' is the Face from Mars. Contrary to what the alien theorists may say, the Face is only another naturally made landform since in high quality pictures it appears quite normal, there are no strange markings or anything around it, and its appearance is only an illusion.
NASA and its team has tried many and many times to get clear pictures of the Face. Nowadays, its getting some of the best pictures that's ever been taken. Jim Garven quotes, We photographed the Face as soon as we could get a good shot at it. "..on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global 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," furthermore says the article. The pictures showcase the Face as normal and just like any other naturally made landform.
Another thing about the Face that will throw off any conspiracy theorist's opinions is that there are no 'alien monuments' or 'carvings' or 'writings' or anything else around the landform. "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all," quotes the article. That wouldn't satisfy the theorists so they thought of something else. Which is, "Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze." Try as NASA might, they didn't find anything that could possibly be apart of anything alien. They took more pictures of the Face, especially on days where it would be clear, yet they found nothing of the sort.
Now, one of the biggest things about the Face is that its own 'face' is an illusion constructed by shadows. NASA even described it as so. When they released one of their first pictures of the landform, "The caption noted a 'huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth.'" Illusions are everywhere, and this particular illusion of a face happens to be quite popular. Their picture of the Face attracted much attention from the public because of the allure of a face on Mars. As their pictures became more high quality, it became clear how the formation looked and how those shadows made it look the way it did.
Others may still say now, that the pictures that NASA takes might very well be positioned badly or incorrectly in a way that does not reveal anything crucial to alien life. NASA listened to them though, "few scientists believed the Face was an alien artifact." Mission controllers made their way to look at the landform once again. A direct quote from Garvin about the situation is, "Its not easy to target Cydonia. In fact, it's hard work." He and everyone else went out of their way to take the perfect picture on a "cloudless summer day". We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view. Malins team captured an extraordinary photo using the cameras absolute maximum resolution," says Garvin once again. As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size, he added. So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were! NASA did their best and better at looking at and around the Face in order to see if they missed anything as important as signs of alien life. They returned with no proof of anything at all as the theorist's would've liked.
To summarize, the Face is a naturally made landform ontop of planet Mars. First of all, in high definition and quality photographs the landform looks normal and not that strange. Secondly, contrary to what alien believers and theorists may have liked to believe there are no 'markings' or etc. around it whatsoever. Lastly, the eyes and nose and mouth that happen to 'appear' on the landform are only an illusion made by shadows, as stated by NASA itself. Earth has just as many natural landforms and even more possibly than Mars. With a trick of the light or seeing it as a particular angle, we could even interpret our own landforms as something that was made by our own hands even if it clearly wasn't. The Face is a clear example of overthinking and reaching for an answer that was already there, it is a naturally made landform. | 6 |
dd8656a | In the article of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", it is suggested that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite of thinking the dangers it presents with it. It is also been refers to as the Earth's twin due to density, size, and even distance. Even with Venus being called the "Evening Star", the dangers is still out there. Still, NASA is working other different kinds of achievements on studying and learning about Venus.
"Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to oland on its surface." This explains almost everything that could happen in Venus. No one particulary knows what even is on Venus, only for a fact that it is one of the hottest surface temperature of any planet in the solar system. "Therefor scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks." This explains how almost scary it is to ACTUALLY learn and study about Venus. A LOT of things can happen during the mission to Venus.
We can still make an mission to Venus but that is going to take out A LOT of us. More safetiness and equipment is required especially if you're going to a planet that has the hottest temperature of any planet in the solar system. It is interesting to see how scientists are going to work on the mission to Venus, and especially their safetiness towards it. We can still work, discover, and learn new things about Venus. It is definitely going to be a wild ride to Venus. | 3 |
dd8802c | Dear Senator,
I think that we should change to election by popular votes for president. Why have citizens vote when you're going to decide president by electoral votes? The person running with the most votes should win. Let the citizens decide who they want as president.
The 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century. Which is why people went against the electoral college. It could be worse, nobody wants that. They might be worrying about a tie in the electoral vote.
The election is only a few swing voters away from a catastrophe. The electoral college is unfair to voters. I don't think the electoral college votes are neccessary to decide a president. I am pretty sure ,any people agree.
Many people that were presidence got lucky because of the electoral votes. There are many people that ran for president but lost because of the electoral votes when they shouldn't have lost. Nobody wants a close tie to see who the president is. Electoral college just ruins the point of our rights to vote.
We, as citizens, shouldn't have electoral college to decide who our president is. We should be able to vote and decide the president. The candidates running should win by the most votes. I'm against electoral college. | 2 |
dd89be1 | Its a great idea to participate is the Seagoing Cowboys program because, it is fun seeing all the places ,and taking care of the animals. It is a long trip ,but it is so worth going. You won't even get board because, there is still activities to do on the ship.
It is such a good idea to go and participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program because, it is a splended journey seeing all the sights and the beautiful outside. It is not only fun seeing te places ,but you might be able to even go and visit the places you go and stop at on this journey. Sure it might sound boring because your on a ship for so long ,but it is so worth it once you get on and go on the journey.
This journey is not only about sight seeing but also about taking care of the animals. You might be thinking why would I join just to take care of some animals ,but what I think is that it is teriffic taking care of some animals. If your still not agreeing with me I will support my oppinion so you can understand. It sees in the story, Luke knew it was an opportunity of a life time, so he went for the journey. It also sees in the story, but being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger, it opened up the world to him. He sees, "I'm grateful for the opportunity.' "It made me more aware of the peple of other countries and their needs." I think I made myself clear that it is much more better than is sounds ,and it touches your heart going on this adventure.
This propgram takes a while to reach its destination but while your on the ship you feel like time goes by fast. The activities you can do on the ship are as followed; you can play baseball and vollyball games in the empty hold where the animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling. Those activities also help pass time.
I really think you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because, it is fun seeing the places they go and visit, and taking care of the animals, not only those things but feel your heart being touched on this amazing journey. | 4 |
dd90072 | Dear state senator,
I strongly believe that we should change the Electoral College because voting should be up to the citizens and should be done by the most popular vote. In the end, its us who have to deal with whoever gets picked for U.S. president. While they just pick what they decide is best. It is unfair for the voters because in reality it doesn't really matter what the chose, the Electoral College is what really makes the big impact. There are many supporting reasons for this agrument such as in paragraph 14,13, and 10.
First off, in paragraph 14 it states that the Electoral college is unfair, outdated , and irrational. In other words it is irrelevant to what the people think its just what they want. so that being said we need to abolish this option during voting.
Secondly, in paragraph 13 it shows that seventeen states did not even see the canidates . they didn't even see a single campaign ad so how are they supposed toknow whos running for the spot ? They don't because the Electoral colleges don't really make it happen because it's not like it matters anyways.
Lastly, in paragraph 10 the electors are anyone that is not holding public office . and in parargaph 11 it says that the Electoral College can be a disaster factor. So technically the legislatures are responsible for the president.
All together, i am against the Electoral Colleges because they dont make sense and are very unfair to the voters and people that seriously are into it. We should not have them. | 3 |
dd90728 | Their are so many advantages of limiting car usage, for example having no car might even make someone happy, Heidrun Walter says "When i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Also driving cars can cause a lot of pollution, passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of the green house gas emissions in Europe. France had intense smog because of vehicles, it went 60 percent down after five days of no vehicle use.
Another benefit of no vehicle usage is instead of driving a car, you can go hiking, biking, skating , or take buses to your destination. "It's a good way to take away stress and lower air pollution," said Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two seat bicycle with his wife. The day without cars has seen the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths, which is the most of any other Latin American city. Parks and sports centers bloomed throughout the city on the day without cars in Bogota.
Also, in the United States Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses. Instead of driving vehicles to work, one can carpool with a workmate. New York has a new bike sharing program anits skyrocketing bridge and tunnel tolls reflect new priorities, aswell as car-sharing programs across the nation. Driving by young people decreased 23 percent as of 2001 to 2009.
Even though driving a car might get you to your destination quicker, it is better to go on a train, bike, skate, bus, taxi, carpool, or even walk because when you use a car too much you pollute the Earth. Biking, skating, and walking can also be fun sometimes, so stop driving a car and do something more alternative and less air pollutive, save the Earth. | 4 |
dd908e6 | Driverless Cars Should be developed . Its a great way to save money because there is no need to buy a car or to waist money on fuel. In fact Goodle has has cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009, this has really helped promote the idea about driverless cars.
There are many perks that driverless cars pertain, for example it has driven for more than a half million miles without problems reported. Also if a person wants to take control they have to oppurtunity to do so. They still alert the driver to take over when pulling in or out driveways.
In conclusion I agree about the fact that Driverless cars should prohibited because it saves money and you can still take control. To insure safety Manufactures are also using cameras to watch the dric=vers are remaining focused non the road. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver .This is my reasoning of why I think "Driverless Cars"should be developed. . | 2 |
dd93e56 | Dear state senator,
I belive that the people of this nation should be able to vote for who they want to be president directly. So, I belive that we should disgaurd the old Eletoral College and switch it with election by popular vote. The reason why i would like to change it is becuse the people of this country should be able to choose their president, not a canidate to choose for them. I understand that it may be esair to have a select number of people choose the president. Rather than going to each stae and couting each of the indvidual votes, but this country is ran by the people and their dicisons on how to move foward. Chosing the right man to put in office is the first part in moving in that direction.
The way that the Electoral vote is flawed is that the people don't get to directly choose thier president. The elected candiates could go angainst the will of the people and vote for whom ever they please. Another way that it is flawed is that if the celcted candiates tie, the right to vote gets handed down to the house of representatives. The people have no say in this and the repersntives can vote for whom ever they please. This is a very unfair procses that the people have to grow through to choose the leader of thier country.
This prosess may esair but it is undemocratic. The people should have the right to directly choose thier president. The winner-take- all method is the wrong way to obatin electoral votes. It should be counted on indivual votes so it can have a less of an impact. These are the reasons why electoral votwes are flawed and should be the people that choose thier president. | 3 |
dd94db1 | won't it be so cool to have a car that drives itself. In "Driverless Cars Are Coming"
the author talks about cars that will drive theirselves. i do believe it will be cool to have cars that will drive thierself, but they are unsafe.
the car can hit the breaks by theirselves and drive you to where you want to go. the car will be creaper on gas and will help our world to not die. that's not all, just think about all of the jobs taht the united States can have, if we build the cars here. the driver of the car will have something to noticify them if there is danger up ahead. also there will be least accident with droke driviers.
however, there is a bad slide to the driving cars. the car can't drive in construction sites and accident. also if you get hurt in a car wrack the driver driving at the time could be sued. the company that made the car will not take full responiblity for your car wrack. plus the car will cost so much in inscurate and buying the car itself. the families buy it will go broke. also, how can they tell when someone is in front of them? the united state is very lazy, why will we get cars to help us with our laziest?
in the "diverless cars are coming", it talks about self driving cars. the Cars will help people get jobs, if made in the united states. but the cars are not safe to drive in an accident or working site. the self driving car will be cool but their is a bad slide to them. i am in the medium with the self driving cars. | 2 |
dd96c5f | Have you ever thought about a car diving you? Well that is exactly what is on many automakers minds. They are called driverless cars and they could possible change the lives of humans every where. Automakers are in the process of creating a car that could potenial prevent accidents, end humans from making mistakes on the road and form a safer and more accurate public transportation system. Driverless cars should definitly be developed.
A diverless car could save peoples lives. How you ask? Well humans make mistakes it is a fact. So a driverless car could help when humans are not able to pay full attention to the road. For example lets say it has been a long day at work and your super tired, driving is not the best option for you right now. This is when the driverless car becomes handy. It could drive you home and potenially save you from an accident from fallin asleep at the wheel. This is just one reason why driverless cars should be developed.
Driverless cars could even keep humans safer than ever before. In driverless cars you can be alerted at any time. It could tell you if your about to hit something or even if you are taking your hands off the wheel. If the car alerts you evrery time you could potenialy be in danger you would never get hurt in a car accident ever again. Some people do not realize this but driving is every dangerous and driverless cars could possible make it safer for humans. So getting a driverless car could help you create a safer enviornment for everyone.
Also driverless cars could provide a safer and more accurate transportatioin system. The cars could be used as taxis but save half the fuel of today's taxis. It would cost less than taking a taxi today which would save you money. A driverless car could also be more accurate on time because every houror so it would'nt need a brake or need to eat or use the bathroom. Its only job would be to help you be transported to the place you need to be.
Over all a driverless car could definitly be more useful to humans. Such as preventing accident, picking up on the mistakes of humans on the road and a safer and more accurate transportation system. Driverless cars could be a revolution that no human would want to miss. This technology could possible improve human society. Between saving peoples lives and saving people money why would you ever say no to diverless cars. | 4 |
dd98213 | Do you ever get bored in class?We tend to get very bored in class due non of us wanting to do work and mostly lose attention in class frequently. The idea that we can track our facial movement to track how we feel, can improve or create ads or programs to benefiit our mindset. I claim that the author for technology facial reconiztion, can help many others in class.and hears why.
In papagraph 6 it goes into further detail on how the computer can track your facial expreesion to determine your emotions.It also goes further as the computer will change ads or feature to boost the desired mood."If you simle when a web ad appears on your screen, a simlar ad might follow.But if you frown,the next ad will be different."
In paragraph 6 it also states that they can modify the technology to make an more effective lesson in the class."A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored.Then it could modifythe lesson,like an effective human instructor.
In paragraph 4, it states that human have vary degrees of expression."The facial expression for each emotion are universal,Even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression."By that logic it self, this can futher boost the most desireable emotion to either keep them happy or track their attention to an lesson or assignment.
Going by these fact and logic, I claim for technology to track students emotions.This has shown to help student quiet frquently to keep them on track so to speak.Student grade would start going up, they be more motivated to learn. Now a days,kids are not focused in learning or are unhappy about learning or paying attention in general.Whith this new technology, I think this would be something to give a chance too. | 3 |
dd9b0f0 | Dear Florida Senator,
I understand that every 4 years on the first Tuesday of November, the United States undergoes a change in Presidency. This change should be decided in a properly manner by the people and citizens of the country. This explains the purpose of this letter, to abolish the Electoral College. I have this opinion because it is unfair to the people. Sometimes, the electors tend to provoke the system too. However, if there is a way to keep it, we can use it if there is a tie between the Presidency voting.
The best argument that I have towards this action is plain and simple: it's unfair! Voting is all about going to the poll and having the excitment of knowing that your vote can change the next 4 years of your life, including America's life. This should not include the other electors in the house or the people in office. This is a democracy country, therefore, we the people should decide who the President is. With the Electoral College in process, the citizens votes are not a 100% necassity. The
Winner- Take all voting should be established. It's just floating around because it's the first step in voting. The next step is the Electoral College where Congress makes the next decison. This is wrong because the people need to have the final say on the voting because we are effected the most.
Another important reason why the Electoral College needs to be voted out is because the electors in Congress tend to provoke the voting. According to
Source 1:
What is the Electroal College, you are actually choosing your candidate's electors, not the actual president. Now your trust is in the candidates hands. At this point in time, you probably think its safe right? That those people know what there doing, but chances are that they dont. There goes many other things to stress about! At one point, the candidates did not even vote for the "correct" President which is a stab in the back to the voters. This is why there are trust issues with the voting.
Besides all the negativity that you've been hearing throughout this letter, there is a possibility that we can compromise. First, all the people that want to vote will vote, but the Electoral College will only be needed if there is a tie between the people to Presidency vote. If not, then the people decide. Without the Electroal College present, the smaller states have the same equality and strength as the larger states as
Source 3: In Defense of the Electroal College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president says. That source clearly implies that voters tend to pay too much attention to the campaign but everyone including the people in Congress see it, so what really makes the difference in voting? Without the Electroal College, voting would not be so indecisive.
To sum it all up, the Electoral college is just an unnecassary back up plan when there is not one needed. It is unfair to the citizens and the candidate's electors are unreliable. If there was a way to keep the Electoral College, it would only be for ties. It wouldnt be needed if the vote was a clean win. When the President Election comes in the next 3 years, I hope that you consider my thoughts, because there are plenty people out there with the same perspective. | 4 |
dd9ca3f | Hello there! I'm Luke. What do you want to be when you grow up? A farmer? A surgeon? How about a Seagoing Cowboy? No, it's not a job where you ride seahorses with a Cowboy hat (Although that would be awesome). Being a Seagoing Cowboy meant a lot to me, and if you are a young boy in hopes of helping those in need in this war, it is the job for you! So here are reasons why you should become a Seagoing Cowboy.
First of all, Seagoing Cowboys help countries ruined by WWII by taking care of horses, young cattle, and mules taken overseas to them by us. In a way, you not only help that broken country, but you are helping the U.S. When you help us help another country, they will most likely help us back, forming alliance for war purposes. So you not only help them, but us as well!
Last year in 1947, as a young boy, went on many great adventures to amazing places. Along with helping people, I also went to places like an ancient Greek acropolis, Venice, Italy to ride a gondola, and ancient China, where I excavated a ruined castle. Along with helping those in need, I also got to admire the great Parthenon, or see the Panama Canal. These places are only a small handful you get to go to as a Seagoing Cowboy.
Along with the sights, you get to travel the open ocean. If you are an ocean person, you probably want to become a Seagoing Cowboy. Traveling the sea is an amazing experience, as seing unexplored islands, the galaxy at night, and sparkling blue water is quite a life-changer. Rarely did I ever see a storm out on the Atlantic, so no worries there.
Overall, being a Seagoing Cowboy is the job of a lifetime. I remember doing all these things, and I still do them today! Being a Seagoing Cowboy is a way to forget about WWII, and see the world as a peaceful place again. With the right training, this job can help you see the beauty in this fine world. So if you want to forget about war, and help those in need, see extraordinary sights, and travel the sea, then join us! I'll sea you on the high seas! | 3 |
dda125c | What if a computer can reconize when a person is confused, bord, sad, happy, angry, suprise, or even in fear. There are 44 major facial muscles like when your are suprised your eyebrows raises or when you are angry your teeth and lips tighten up. This could help determain rather a person is not telling the truth.
The text states that "Eckman has classified six basic emotions happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. For example If you smile when a web ad appers on the screen a similar ad might follow. But if you frown to the next ad will be different." This could even help teachers Like if "A classroom coumpter could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, Dr. Huang predicts That it could modify the lesson like an effective human instructor."
The text also states that someday computers will be able to read people. Like a lip reader reads people without sound. Most human communication is nonverble. "To an expert, faces dont lie; these muscle clues are something used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity isn't being truthful.
According to the Facial feedback Theroy of emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions but also may even help produce them." It takes more muscles to frown than it dose to smile.
I think that this could help soliders in combat to read a suside boomer or intaragate people. But this complex algorithm is still a ways away. Whoever thought there were so much science in emotions!!! | 2 |
dda3ee5 | Clearly with all the evidence that I have proves that The "Face on Mars" is just a naturual Landform. Researchers have done way too much to prove that it is not a face but only a landform. Everybody's opinion on The "Face on Mars" doesn't effect the truth behind it. Based on the passage, In paragraph 3, it explains that NASA unveiled the image for everybody to see. They explained that it was just a "huge rock formation" . . . which resembles an illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth formed by shadows.
There is also more reasons as why this is clearly just a natural landorm.
NASA had to make sure they were correct on there research, therefor the orbiter camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper then the original Viking's photo. Which then clearly proved that there so no alien movement after all and once again that it was just a natural landform.
NASA's group didn't yet give up there research on the "Face on Mars". they rolled there spacecraft 25 degrees to center the face in the field of the view to make sure they didn't miss anything. In paragraph 11, It explains that if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you would be able to see what they were. Which clearly proves that NASA did all the research but yet could not prove anything but a naturual landform.
To conclude my argument, throughout all the research proof and examples i have stated. There is absoulty no research explaniations that proves that the "Face on Mars" is anything but a natural landform. Which clearly means that NASA's research is correct and all the research they have done to make it clear was correct. | 3 |
dda8663 | New technology is being introduced to mankind almost every second in this world, and now, the latest techonology is a computer program called the Facial Action Coding System which can identify a person's emotions. The question is whether this technology is actually valuable and for what it could be used for. Experts suggest this technology could be used in a classroom to identify the state of mind of a student to adjust the lesson they are trying to comprehend. But, even though this technology may be helpful to teachers trying to keep students active and engrossed in their lessons, the question arises of whether this techonlogy is actually worth the recources or whether what experts think is a great idea is actually an invasion of privacy.
This technology does sound helpful in the fact that it could gauge the state of mind of a student and help a teacher adjust their teaching methods to accomodate and keep their students students on track. The article did state that the techonology could identify when a student is "confused or bored" and then "modify the lesson" to keep a student engaged. In this way, the technology is useful in the fact that it adapts to the needs of the student. But what can this program do that a teacher's survey could not? By the way the article talks about how a "home PC can't handle the complex algorithms" and about how complex the system is, it makes people wonder just how much this system would cost and how complicated it would be to enstate said system into a classroom. Compared to a quick survey done by a teacher who asks their students how they feel about their methods of teaching, it is seen how the system would be a waste of recourses and money. Therefore, although this system is useful in the fact that it can gauge the emotions of the students, it is not much more useful than a teacher who can do the same thing by questioning their students on their preferences and ideas.
Also, although technology is very much improved in these years, it is still not always accurate and infallible, and therefore may not be suitable for a classroom. The article states that the technology associates each emotion with "characteristic movements of the facial muscles" and then uses those movements to calculate the spectrum of emotions based on their facial display. But some people show emotions in various ways, and the technology most likely cannot accomodate for the many different ways people express the same emotion. For example, if a student has a resting face that seems generally happy, the system might confuse this dazed face as a satisfied face and think that the student is happy with their lessons when they are actually confused or not paying attention. In the same way, if a student has a resting face that looks naturally sad, the system may think they are unhappy with their lessons, even if the student feels they are learning a lot. A lot of students also try to hide their emotions, like frusteration or sadness, with a happier look on their face, and even though the article states that the system can detect a "false smile", it cannot always be accurate as a person may be good at hiding their emotions and displaying a genuine smile. Therefore, since technology is not always accurate and because human beings are so various in the way they behave, the technology would not be useful in a classroom where it may misread a student's state of mind and lead them in the wrong path of education.
Lastly, if the physical problems of the technology have not already been offputting, then maybe the moral problem of this technology will sway opinions against using it in a classroom. If this technology really can "indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one", then this means it can invade people's privacy and indicate an emotion which a person is trying to hide. If a student is feeling sad or feeling stressed about home problems which they are trying to conceal, then the technology detects this and displays it for the teacher and the electronic lesson to see. This is an invasion of privacy, as the teacher does not need to know about a student's homelife or about their feelings outside the classroom. A teachers job should be to monitor how their students are feeling about their lessons, not about how their students are feeling about their life outside of school, and since this technology could pick up on digressing feelings, it should not be used in a classroom where a student's internal feelings are revealed to a teacher. Therefore, using Facial Action Coding could end up being an invasion of privacy that should not be introduced to the classroom.
The Facial Action Coding System is a bad idea for the classroom, as it could incorrectly read a student's emotions and give a misleading output that puts a student off track in their education, and also because it could invade a student's privacy of their inner mind. Therefore, installing this system in schools would be a waste of money and recourses, especially when teachers can gauge how their students are learning by simply asking their students in an anonymous survey how they feel about their teaching methods. In this society, technology is used to fix almost everything, but in this case, scientists should quit trying to force technology on behavioral issues and just let humans interact so they can benefit themselves with communication, no computerized middleman needed. | 6 |
ddb4b6a | Dear Florida State Senator,
The Electoral College has been used to vote forever. The College has 538 electors and the number for each state is dependent upon the population. Therefor, some believe it is out dated but others do not because it prevents ties and prevents a candidate from the South or North from over powering the other whom ever it might be in that case.
The Electoral College has been in operation since well before 1888. in this time the only time it was even close to being a tie as stated in source two paragraph four "... a tie would have occurred if a mere 5,559 voters in Ohio and 3,687 voters in Hawaii had voted the other way."(Plumer). Yes, it may have been a close call but it did not happen and it doesn't say it might not ever happen just that it didn't. without the Electoral College what would of happened in 1968 with Nixon and then again in 1992 with Clinton, they both tied with their competiters far as popularity goes. If it wasn't for the Electoral College they would of had to make up some tie breaker that could possably been rigged or unfair to either one of the candidites.
The way the Electoral College is set up no one can win by staying in their own comfort zone one might say. For instants in the campaign Romney was in, him being from the South and being well known there it did not give him an overwhelming advantage over his competing candidtes. As stated in source three paragraph five "No region (South, Northeast, ect.) has enough electoral voters to elect the president"(Posner). If the Electoral College didn't do this than yes, their could be a descrepence. The Electoral College does have its flaws but what or whom doesn't.
Yes, the Electoral College might seem out dated but it still works and will work for many years down the road. It prevents ties which is a big deal and it prevents popularity in a certain part of the United States from giving a major upper hand. Next campaign look at where the Candidate go and where they don't, then look at the number of electoral votes able to get from those states.
Sencerly,
Florida resident | 3 |
ddc1cdd | Natural land forms are mistaken for 'alien activity' all of the time. Why should this time be any different. It is simply a natural landform.
There have been other natural mesas on Mars that have been mistaken for alien monuments. The rock formation is not even in the actual face, it is the shadows that the rocks ceate when the sun hits them just right. There was a storm that clouded the Face, so the details have been obscured.
There has been no other proof of aliens, only rambungcous conspiericy theorists. If we had more proof of extra terrestrial life, the theory of the Face would be more believable. In the American West, we have landforms that are common to Martian buttes or mesas. "It reminds me most f Middle Butte in 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," says Chief scientist for NASA's Mars Explorations Program, Jim Garvin. The cheif scientist believes that the Face is a natural landform, and that he compares it to natural landmarks on Earth.
More evidence can and will be provided. "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size," sayes Garvin. "So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egytian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were." With modern cameras, we can see the precise details, and with clear sky over the Face, it proves that the Face is just another natural land form.
We know of other natural land forms on Mars, illusions of shadows, no other proof of aliens, similar to natural land forms on Earth, it would be simple to find little details, and with modern cameras, that take sharper pitures proves that the Face is just a natural landform, not alien activity. | 3 |
ddc1dce | In the passage the author tells about the temputures there and how hot it gets.
Despite it not being safe to be on he tells they have a blimp-like vehicle to hover over it he also that even on the vehicle the temputures can still reach up 170 degrees fahrenheit. And they would travel 30 miles hovering above its has alot of storms lighting often his the surface and the air is completely filled with carbon dixode . He infers they collect samples of rock ,gas and anything else in the distance.
He tells how NASA made eletronics made from silicon carbide and tested them in a chamber to simulate the chaos if you were to touch venus's surface by foot. These inventions only lasted 3 weeks in these harsh conditions. Also they made another project using old mechanical computers they were first envisoned in the 1800s and they had a big role in the 1940s during world war II . Sciencetist thought the computers would act up but they made caluclations by using gears and levers
In this conclusion its still not a safe travel but it would be a good experince to go on.
And discover more about venus exploration . To see if it would be safe to leave there one day . That might one day be the second earth | 2 |
ddc4485 | In cities such as Vauban, Paris, and Bogota, people are getting serious about cutting down on the vast usage of cars. The "car free" trend is beginning to spread throughout the world, and even to places in America. By limiting car usage, the state of the environment improves, a more healthy lifestyle is promoted, and opportunities for other innovations are brought into the light.
In Paris, a driving ban was enforced to help clear the air of polluants. This ban lowered the congestion by 60 percent, and according to reporter Robert Duffer, "The smog rivaled Bejing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world." Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gasses in Europe, and up to 50 percent in areas where cars are used more often, such as the United States. The Environmental Protecion Agency is promoting car reduced communities in America, where even legislators are beginning to act. By elimitating cars from the everyday equation, one also eliminates the greenhouse gasses and other pollutants, which makes the planet a healthier place to live.
With less and less cars being utilized, there are more opportunites for people to get active by biking, walking, and participating in other active means of getting from point A to point B. According to news reportes Andrew Selsky and Elisabeth Rosenthal, "The swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occassional distant moter", and "Parks and sports centers have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks." Without cars, citizens are encouraged to get active. Condensed cities allow people to walk to their destination, which drastically improves an individual's heart health, along with aerobic activity such as biking.
An official from Transportation for America says, "All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change." Sociologists believe that America has passed peak driving, and cars are no longer the focus of improvement. The Internet makes telecommuting possible, which is much more convenient than using automobiles because people can feel connected without the drive. This and the rise in cellphones implies that while innovations used to be focused on transportation, telecommuting is the new big thing.
With many areas participating in the eventual elimination of automobiles, many are following suit. Sociologists believe that cars will eventually disappear. By cutting down on our usage of cars, we help the enviromnent, promote health, and focus innovations elsewhere. | 4 |
ddc4ddf | There are many advantages to limiting car usage. Theres less green house gasses emmited. It's less money you have to spend on youre car. You dont have to deal with the dangers of drivning on the road.
When you dont drive your car as much or not at all and you get others too that makes less carbon gass going into the air. Emmitung less carbon into the air helps the enviorment stay clean and healthy. when you dont emit as much gas you help lessen the impact on global warming.
Driving less can also help your walet too. when your not driving as much you dont have to pay for as muh gas, or none at all if you dont drive any. theres also no need to pay for mantinense or broken or damaged parts if any do break.
If your not on the road then there are no dangers of driving on the road to worry about. Theres no need to worry about someone hitting you or you hitting someone. When not driving someone who is intoxicated or texting and driving cannot affect you. | 2 |
ddc5a22 | Some people may think that the Face on Mars was made by aliens. Today I am here to share with you that scientificly it is just a natural landform. It is just a conspericy that the Face was made by aliens. The Mars Global Surveyor captured photos of what the Face looks like from above Mars. The image shows a landform on the planet that seems to look very much like a face.
The Face on Mars is scientificly known to be a landform in the planet. This landform is much like the Martian equvialent of a butte or mesa. The landform just so happens to look like a face. That's why many people believe that the lanform is was actually made by aliens. Do you know how there are craters on the moon? If so the "Face" is almost like that but instead of the crater going in, it's pushing outward. That is the easiest way to describe it.
So far NASA has not found aliens to be real. That doesn't meant that they aren't real. It just means that the face is highly unlikely to be made by aliens. But one day if NASA does discover aliens that might be a possibility that the "landform" was made by aliens. But until that day comes around it will just be considered a landform based on scientific facts.
The first spacecraft to see this landform was NASA's Viking 1 in 1976. Then 18 years later, on April 5, 1998, the MGS flew over Cydonia for the first time. The picture that the MOC was 10 times sharper than the orginal Viking photos. This became very popular at that time in the past. The Face was used in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, and radio talk shows. These things started all the talk about the face being created by aliens.
So in all the Face was not made by aliens at all. It just happens to be a natural landform in the shape of a face. I can see where everyone got mistaken but the facts are that it was not made by aliens. So now you will be able to say that you know a lot of things about the Face on Mars! That is everything that I can explain to you about the Face on Mars. | 3 |
ddc656c | Venus know as the sister of earth. Sometimes called the "evening star" is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky astoronomers are fascinated by venus becaue it may well once have been the most earth-like plaent in our solar system. Venus has the a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus. Even more callenging are the clouds are highly corrosive sulfric acid in venus's atmosphere. This nickname is misleading since venus is actually a planet. Venus is very close to earth but there atmospheres are very diiferent. Earth can handle life but venus can not.
Earth, Venus and Mars, is our other planetary neighbor, but
they orbit
the sun at the different speed. Venus surface temperature average is over 800 degrees fahrenheit, and the stmospheric temperature is 90 times greayer than planet earth.Earth, Mars and venus all three planets have diiferent speed to orbit the sun these diiferences mean
that soemtimes earth is closer to mars and other times to venus. No spacecraft can survive after landing on venus more than few hours. Reasearch says long ago, venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth. But today venus still has some featured that are anologous to those on earth. This information from the article shows how venus still have life on it very similar to earth. Even though venus is full of volcanoes it can still support life.
NASA is working on other apporaches to studying venus. some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the choas of venus's surface and have tested for three weeks in such conditions. to th conclusion o this article there are still researching about venus. however is it really similar to earth and mercury. mercury is more closer to the sun but venus have a high surface temperature but stills holds some life on it. | 1 |
ddca848 | In this article, the author does not do a very good job with explaining why it would be worth pursuing the study of Venus. More was said about the awful climate and the countless risks that would take place rather than the benefits of risking lives and money to learn up close.
Firstly, a lot was said about the extremely dangerous climate on Venus, rather than how we could get around those dangers or why it would benefit us. In paragraph 3, the author says that there are "erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes". All of these terrifying weather conditions are also met with atmospheric pressure that the author says is 90 times greater than earth's. In the same way, the author tries to argue against this point in paragraph 4 when talking about how it could have supported various forms of life long ago, but thoroughly contradicts himself in paragraph 3 when he states that it could now crush even a submarine and liquefy many metals. The author does not show very strong support as to the solution of getting past the dangerous climate that he describes to be so worthy of our pursuit.
Lastly, the author seems to describe only more risks and flaws in the plan to pursue study on Venus. In paragraph 2, he states, "no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours". Later he goes on to counter this by saying that spacecrafts could hover just above the atmosphere of Venus, but its thick atmosphere and bad climate will prevent explorers from taking photos or actual samples. Some of the main points of visiting other planets is to collect samples and research. But the author even says himself that those things would be prevented, and going to the surface of Venus to attempt research would seriously risk lives.
In conclusion, the author does not do a very good job of convincing one to believe that Venus is worth pursuing. He says himself that the climates and risks are high, but doesn't say much about the benefits of exploring this planet. Yes, it did once look strikingly similar to earth, but that was "long ago", and this is a new time with new risks that exploring Venus brings. | 4 |
ddd1900 | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars, and even though he had really good and valid reasonings for the positives, I still wouldn't think that driverless cars would be a good idea. Why, because anything could happen when a car is just being completely controlled by technology. Anything can have malfunctions, wether it's proved to have them or not.
For example, in the 7th paragraph, it states: "None of the cars developed so far are completely driverless." Meaning you would still have to have a human taking percautions at all times. Another thing I don't like, is how the cars alert the driver when it comes to traffic complications, because in paragraph 7 it also states: "They can't navigate their way out of traffic jams, roadworks or accidents." What if the car goes into a freak out mode and ends up having a mind of its own, because it won't know what to do, and starts driving automatically? Also, what if you get into a horrible car accident injuring yourself and many other people? Who would be put to blame here if the car is completely driverless?
These problems and questions I have with the "driverless cars" need to be taken very seriously into consideration.
Inconclusion, I will always prefer a human driving a car, because that to me is a lot more safer for the public, and a lot more safer knowing I am in control of my car. | 2 |
ddd2a8a | The Facial Action Coding System is useful in many ways when telling us someones facial expressions. The Facial Action Ciding System can help us indicate someones true fellings or emoions that they are felling or felling that they have torwds someone else. By looking at A computer it can indicate what your truely felling. When someone doesnt have A facial expression on thier face the Facial Action Coding System can identify what they are truely felling.
Making A facial expression everyday can help you produce the expression more often. Most the time whatever emotion your felling the more this emotion will pop up in your life time. Most emotions can be detected based on your facial expression or the way you move or speak. If your around someone who is always smiling chances are you will be happy to. Based on someones else emotion you can sometimes fell the pearsons happiness, sadness, or anger torwds themself, or someone else. | 2 |
dddade0 | The Adventures of a Seagoing Cowboy
Written By: PROPER_NAME
"Whoosh Splat" those are the sounds of waves crashing against my cattle boat. These are also sounds heard by my crew and I "Seagoing Cowboys." We are people who are hired to take care of horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. You should look for an opportunity to sign up to be in the Seagoing Cowboy's program because you can go sightseeing, you get the satisfaction of helping others, and you can play games to pass time.
First of all, we can play fun games onborad and just relax. While some of you might say, that we can play games anywhere anytime. Yes, that may be true but playing games on a boat is probably someting not many people have done. For example, We found time to have fun on board, especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. We can do these things to pass time when you think things are super boring. Also, you just get a time to enjoy being on a boat wih your crew and relax so you can just have fun.
Second, you get the satisfaction of helping others. People might say they could just do it themselves. They could but the main part of being a Seagoing Cowboy mainly consists of helping people in need. We get to help countries for a good cause. For example, we get to help people recover food and feed a hungry family. The best part about this job is, you get to take care of animals and keep them safe while the family can get set up once again.
Lastly, we get to go sightseeing. Some might say, you could just buy a plane ticket and go wherever you want. While that may be true, we don't have to pay to get here. For example, "Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special," I said. You can stop and see countries you'd never imagine going to. You can stop and see famous landmarks that you've dreamed of visiting. The possibilities are endless!
In Conclusin, You should look for an opportunuty to sign up be in the Seagoing Cowboy's program because you can go sightseeing, you get the satisfaction of helping others, and you can play games to pass the time. My job as a seagoing cowboy is to give families hope and let them be joyous because of you. Being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for me. it opened up the world to me. I'm grateful for the opportunity,"i said,"It made me more aware of people and other counries and their needs." And that awareness stayed with me, leading my family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years. Go sign up now to be a seagoing cowboy! | 4 |
dddc521 | Emotional Expressions
Professor Thomas Huang has created a revoluntionary computer that can read a person's or a picture of a person's emotions. For example the computer has decoded the expressions of Mona Lisa. She is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. Computers that can see if you're bored or happy can really affect what you see on the internet, especially with students learning. On the other hand, teachers and students will want their privacy while they are using the internet and using technology like these computers might cause a problem. Using technology to read the emotional expressions of student in a classroom is valuable because it can keep them on track with things that can interest them by looking at their emotions and show if how the way the are learning is positive or not.
Paying attention in class while watching documentaries and videos can be challenging for most students. Watching documentaries about the things they learn in class can be very repetitive and boring. Technology created by Thomas Huang can help students be on track by suggesting education related videos or documentaries. The computer will read a student's emotional expression and will see if they are bored or happy. If the student is bored, the computer can suggest a similar thing, but suggest a more interesting way of learning it. All this technology can really help a student by making them more focused on what they are learning at the time.
In school, teachers ask students for feedback on what they teach. Students, most of the times, give honest feedback, but on some occasions they give out false information. Using the technology created by Thomas Huang can help teachers see if they need to make things more interesting or keep it the same by their facial expressions. As time goes on, teachers will be able to make their lessons or homeworks be more engaging and more fun for the students participating. This technology can help teachers get specific feedback and fix their lessons depending on that feedback.
Privacy is valued in many places around the world. Schools like to keep things private on the way students learn and the way they process things. Students and teachers have different ways of learning and teaching. Computers that can read your emotions, facial expressions, and see what you're doing might not be liked by
students or teachers who want their privacy. The students might not want people to know what level of learning they are on and teachers might not want people to see the way they teach because they could get criticized. This technology might be appreciated by some people, but can be disliked by other people too.
Using technology created by Thomas Huang to read emotional expressions can be valuable to classrooms because it can show if they are interested about what they are learning at the moment and see if they are learning it in the way they prefer to learn. Students can be easily distracted or bored. Being able to see if they are statisfied can help the computers suggest things that would make them be more interested in. Teachers can also see if the way they teach is having a positive influence on them with their facial expressions. Although having computers that can read your facial expression is interesting, privacy has to be included in the conversation of putting these computers in classrooms. Using this kind of technology can be beneficial to the future of kids and classrooms all around the world. | 4 |
dde0bcf | The author of the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" presents a well written case on why mankind should continue to look for ways to explore Venus. The author presents the article starting off with information on Venus and how its challenges inhibit scientists from exploring it. They present the challenges in an orderly way, how scientists may be able to counter these challenges, and why it is so important to get there.
Getting to Venus will be the easiest part of the task that scientists are faced with. In paragraph 2 the author states "Earth, Venus, and Mars, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds. These differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus". Getting to Venus is the easiest part of the task, but staying there will be exponentially harder. In paragraph 3 the author presents the many challenges scientists have to face to be able to stay on Venus following the logos method. These include but are not limited to "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide...", "clouds of of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere.", and "temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit". That is just the atmosphere, not including Venesian geology and weather.
Despite all these challenges, the author believes scientists should keep trying to study Venus and shows some ways that scientists have already begun to take on the problems presented. In paragraph 5, the author cites NASA's possible solution on how to counter the surface of Venus. NASA wants "scientists to float above the fray" in a "blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape". Despite getting here the author presents another problem in paragraph 6 with scientists getting "only limited insight on ground conditions" because of the dense atmosphere. To counter that problem, the author cites another NASA approach to studying Venus which includes "some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide" and "looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers".
With all these challenges and oftentimes complicated solutions the author supports the idea that through all the trials and errors the payoff would be significant to satisfaction and provoking of human curiosity. In paragraph 4 the author claims "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life". Being able to reach Venus's surface would enable explorers to look for life no matter how big or small and see if it was possible to survive the harsh environment. Even more so, "Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth." which would help scientists to determine how Venus was formed. The author appeals to pathos in paragraph 8 stating "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation". The author wants the reader to understand that mankind as a whole should not shy away from the challenges presented no matter how dire the situation and should face it head on, if for no reason other than the question "Can we do it?".
The author presents their information in an orderly fashion, makes their article easy and clean to read, and appeals to pathos and logos. They go in-depth on the situation, the solution, and why mankind should worry about it in the first place. All in all it is a quick and concise article that was well done and well supported. | 6 |
dde38cc | The advantages of limiting car usage are less air pollution. Less smog would be intensifying in other countries. more people would be released from the stress of owning a car people wouldnt have to worry about gas prices. The rate of car accidents would go down and so would the percentage of deaths caused by car accidents. more money would be saved since less people wont have to worry about spending any money repairing their vehicles or tuning them up.
Crime rates would decrease since less ppl would be able to commit crimes without a car,and no one could have their car stolen from them. Teen deaths caused by drunk driving would decrease as well. The cost of emissions would go down imensly and the U.S would gain alot more money because of less money spent on vehicles and and imports and gas,oil,tires and other vehicle related cost expenses. Limiting car usage is one of the best possible thing U.S American citizens can do to help preserve our earth and its enviorment.
It is best if everyone start to limit their car usage so that our planet can be less polluted and can be smog free. Cars are one of the biggest reasons for air pollution and we spend alot of money and them aswell. So i believe car usage should be limited for the greater good of our earth. | 3 |
dde645e | Dear Marco Rubio and etc., I think that we should not keep the Electoral College and change to election by popular vote for the sake of the people. With the Electoral College, your voice isn't really heard. Votes should be counted individually and America will get the president that they really want.
For starters, there was a situation back in 2000 where Al Gore won the popular vote but didn't become president. That my friend, is unfair. The Electoral College doesn't really prove who actually won. Although, the incident happens back in 1880, I don't think it should happen again. Most of America wouldn't really think of the president as the president. I must admit, the Electoral College is a quick way to send in the votes on election day but it isn't efficient.
Like stated in paragraph 10, voters don't vote for the president, but for the state of electors. The electors are basically anyone who isn't holding office. State conventions, state party's central and presidential candidates can pick the electors. Votes can't always control whom their electors vote for which why you should get rid of the Electoral College. Plus it's a dumb name.
Another reason why is because the people of this country will be pissed if another Gore vs Bush situation happens again. Electors are really in control, therefor if they dislike who's running against their political party they have a shot at voting for whomever they want. That's unjust, and frankly unfair. Especially if a huge state is at risk.
One counterclaim might be that the Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recieves the majority of votes cast.
I don't want to vote and wonder if my voice will be heard. I want it to be guarunteed because that's what the United States is all about. It's all about us being able to choose the president. The Electoral College is unjust and is a waste of time. If you guys decide decide on letting us elect the president by popular vote, more young adults will start voting and we'll know out voices are heard. | 4 |
dde6f61 | Dear Mr Sentor Of Flordia.
The land of the free, the beauty, and streets paved with gold. Thats what people think of this amazing country. The Systems we have here works even know we get insults from around that world. USA changed the world. Back a long time ago back when the application mountains was the border, this land was govered wrongly. It was a long and painful war, alot of blood was spilled, alot of tears were shed. but our for fathers founded this counrty right. Since then changes were made in our laws that helped this courty, but we should never change this goverment.
I love the Electoral collage system, i cant believe anyone would want to chage or modife it. I think this is the perfect way. With the Eletronal Collage there are never a cerntain region i nthe courty that ets left out. For explame the south and north and every other place gets the same amout. ALso there always going to be an out come for the vote. The more popular a stat has the more votes it gets, so big it cause stats to egt more people coming. Fanily There arw no run off elections thank god for that.
Thats why i believe we should keep Eletronical Collage. | 2 |
ddeb7ff | there are many advantages of limiting car use the most important is for our health. by limiting car use we decrease the gas emissions ,also make the stores closer to you than across a huge highway,another reason is that it reducies smog build up many places are doing this for the health or maybe they just cant afford it .
many places in the world are starting to ban cars places like paris,colombia, and germany. in some places its be couse of the cost in vauban, germany it cost up to 40,000 for a car space and a house so many people just have a house not a carman y peolpe like it like this they say it takes stress away. this also helps with gas emissons in europe. in europe up to 12 percent of gas emissions are resposeable by cars and up to 50 in gas emissons.
many peole also like this becuase it makes the stores closer to the poeple since not many people have cars they cant travle far so stores start setting up close and nearby. this also makes more space fore sidewalks and houses insted of stores. this aslo helps with your health beause it incuages iyou to wal kmor insted of taking a car every where.
in places like paris car have really effected the population there are so many peolple that it creates smog so what the peole did was they gave fines out to people that were driving on days they couldnt this brought 4,000 drivers to get fines 31$ and 27 to get ther car impounded. by stoping and lowering the amount of drivers they brouht congestion down by 60 percent and made the smog subside in bogota colombia they have got three straight years without cars there goal was to promote other means of transpotation. by doing this peole have made up to 118 miles of bike pathe and many parks for the public.
these are some but not all the ways that puttin limitations on cars could benifit us by redising smog and the green house gases bing released in to the air and by making stores more accesibale to peole with out cars and making a impact on our health. | 2 |
ddf1b14 | Many uncommon things happen causing people to be very fascinated with a certain subject. Any time something to do with space occurs, many people freak out or become fascinated with the subject. When something to do with space does occur, then usually people believe alien life forms. But with a cleaner and better camera the photos revealed that it was a natural landform and not an alien monument after all.
With an even better camera lense than before the picture is still proof that shows it is a normal, typical landform. Even with small objects you would still be able to clearly see if the object is a landform or a alien life form. The natural landform is equivalent to a butte or mesa. The "face" on Mars is still a like to a normal landform on Earth.
The form can not be life like or be alien like due to the amount of information and facts that NASA has to back up its ideas. The conspiracy theorists don't have as many facts as NASA to back up their information and ideas. NASA has majority of the information and facts which over rules the conspiracy theorists information and facts. | 2 |
ddf1b39 | Dear Senator,
The Electoral College is unfair to not only the state but everyone in the country. If only a few people are allowed to vote as electoral and then the rest is individual whats the point of having both? It does not make sense for the fact that the electoral votes are more imporatnat then the peoples votes. Its not fair because maybe the person who received more individual votes would be a more better president than the person with more eletoral votes. The Electoral College should be changed and who ever wins by the most popular vote should be president because that person may be better off.
To start off with, the electoral college shoudl be changed because in soure 2: " The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenes of the system are wrong" the author Bradford Plumer states "voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." (paragraph 10). What Plumer is saying is that the people who vote dont vote for the president, but for the people hwo come with him. Even though it should be the president you should be voting for. He does control our country and our future of what might happen. So why should the electoral college be voting for the slate of electors? Also in source 1: "What is the Electoral College" the author statea "election of the President by vote in congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens." (paragraph 1). The author is saying that the candidates have electoral votes and individual votes. Why have both though? Shouldnt a citizens vote matter more than a electoral because we know who might be best for us? The electoral college probaly doesnt even listen to the canidate, only their electors slate which is not fair. It should be the canidate who seems to be best for us instead of who works best for the president.
Also, shouldnt the person who wins by the most popular vote be president? In source 2: "The Indefesnsible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" it states "Al gore received more idividual votes than George W. Bush nationwide, but Bush won the election, receiving 271 electorl votes to Gore's 266." Plumber is stating the fact that even though Gore won buy individual votes, Bush still became president because of his electoral votes. This is completely unfair though because Gore had more of the countries attention than Bush since he won by more votes. Bush only got the attention of the Electoral College because of the elector slate he had. Isnt that wha the electoral college looks at? The electoral slate? How about the public, they know what is best for their country and if the person with the most individual votes is it, then let it be it. Furthermore, in source 1:"What Is the Electoral College" the authore states "Most states have a "winner-take-all" system that awards all the electors to the winning president." (paragraph 7). This is unfair because the candidates dont actually spend time in states they know they wont have a chance of winning in, but shouldnt all votes count? They never know if that state wants to pick them so why not show them who you are? In 2000, the candidates doing the campaign didnt send it to seventeen states. They didnt send it to Rhode Island and South Carolina including voters in 15 of the largest media markets didnt get to see a single campaign ad. Now thats not fair because everyone vote should count. If a person doesnt get to see then they wont vote but the person with the most votes should win. So why think that no one would vote? You never know.
Although these reasons state that switching the electoral college is a good idea, there are some benefits of it being there. In source 3: "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president" the author Richard A. Posner states "The electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution..."(paragraph 21).This states that despite the fact that not a lot of people like the electoral collage they help balance the votes of the states and help continue the rights of the Constitution. This helps with th popular vote of the states and gets the most attention than smaller states. On the other hand, even though the electoral college evens the votes of the oublic, what if they choose the other candidate then the one that the public chose? It wouldnt be fair not only to the state but the other people who choose that candidate and the candidate him or herself.
Furthermore, the Electoral Collage should be switched so that the candidate with the most popular vote wins instead of the candidate with the most electoral vote. They should win because the person who has the most votes is better off with the public.
Sincerely,
Fellow Citizen | 5 |
ddf464d | The Face is just a natural landform because there is no evidence that the aliens did it. They didn't find any signs of aliens at all. The Face was just formed from natural landform. In paragraph twelve, it states that it "actally shows the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa- landforms common around the American West." They captured so many photos, from different years, proving it's just a natural landform.
People do make mistakes about things, but this couldn't be a mistake. They have so much proof that there could be no way that this could be a mistake. They have so many pictures, from different years, of the Face and they all look like part of a natural landform. Landforms do create things that we think it's something else, but it's actually just how nature is sometimes. If the Face had some proof that aliens did it then thigs would be different. People do sometimes just image things that they think it's something but it could sometimes just end up being something simple.
Scientists have gone through everything together and everything just seems to add up that it's just natural landform. They've been up to Mars so many times and done lots of calculations about it. They usually know what is happening and if things do exist or what is causing it to do that. It all adds up that it's just a natural landform and maybe there will be more natural landforms popping up in the future. It's only a natural landform, nothing from aliens. | 3 |
ddf54b5 | The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. It is important to study Venus because it is simular to Earth. It is closest to Earth by density and size. It is difficult to study because it is super hot. NASA is working on a plan to find out more about and explore Venus.
Venus is simular to Earth because they have streams like we do on Earth. They also have said there is a chance of life up there. Long ago Venus was probably covered with oceans. Venus has many things like Earth. They still have rocky surfaces and mountains and craters. Venus is also are nearest option for a planitary visit.
It is dangerous to be on Venus because it is so hot. Temperatures can average over 800 degrees fahrenheit and the atmospheric oressure is 90 times greater than what we experience. They could have erupting volcanoes and extreme weather. Another thing they could have is super powerful earthquakes and frequent lightning. They have a super thick atmosphere which could be dangerous to get to.
NASA is trying to find out things about Venus, so we can get new things to possibly go there in the future. NASA is trying to find something that can withstand the heat of it and stay there for a few hours. They could study the life there and find out about it. They want to get close and they think machines will help them do that.
The author supports the idea that studying Venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers. Venus is simular to Earth. Venus once had oceans like the Earth does now. NASA and scientists are looking into possible ways to explore Venus. This exploration will help find new facts about Venus. | 3 |
ddffcfe | Have you been dreaming live in another plane in space? or you even born in there? Some people answers yes, some says no, but surely everyone want to live in the space, to see how beauty the space. And in "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is a article taking abut the problem between us and liveing in space. Before we know more about our Mother plane-Earth neighbor-Venus had some big problem between us! And let us to find out what is those problem betwen us with the secreat plane-Venus!
For a unknow place, there must have some great dangers with it. So, the temperature and pressure are the great dangr for it. in the Venus, "temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit" (3), what is that mean, normaly, when our oven were abut 400 degrees Fahrenheit, we can easly to cook the pizza, beef... many things we need. But in Venus, the 800 degrees Fahrenheit can easly to cook us to well done! Abut the air pressure, the Venus, "atmspheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our planet" (3), will, the deeper of our ocean pressure even not close to 90 times greater than our living place, already was a non-life place, so you will be like a water mix with dust to die under Venus air pressure.
The next problem is why we have to studying the Venus? There is not only one neighber for our mother plane, "Earth, Venus, and Mars, our plaetary neighbor" (2). So the Venus had such many danger, why we don't study another plane which is Mars were way more nicely to us? But, "long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life" (4) just imagine that, and temperatures with the air pressure would be close to our Earth, and with ocean, similar to our earth! If the weather and pressure were normal, that's mean there must had life born in there!
For it all, the Venus had a lot science reasearch can do after study abut it, form the information we know, imagine the Venus had a, "blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape" (5), it's already an be some beatiful place in the Earth, and from today's rock pices left in there, we may can find some animals bone inside there, to know if they had life, hw they may lks like, or to see their live ways. And, "because mst frms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standering standatd forms of photography and videography ineffective" (6), a lot of things about Venus we're still guesing, we really don't know the more deeper way about it. Just from a few picture and video can't do anything, the value of the Venus are infinite!
The author did really good job of exlaining the fact of Venus right now, it showd us how importance of it with the infinite value of Venus. like author said, "Our travels on Earth and beyng shuld not be limited by dangers and doubts but shuld be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation" (8). nothing in world is easy, and everything we did have danger with it. but we can't just limited by the danger, we fight with it, and the sweet fruits after victry is a dreaming plane were waiting us to live! | 4 |
de0bb1e | The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", brings the reader to light on the argument on whether or not scientist should keep trying land spacecrafts or humans on Venus.
An arguement can be made for either side and is just a matter of opionion.
The author conveys her opionion well in the passages, but she doesn't make a compelling case for her side of the argument. The author doesn't give enough reasonable support to back up her claims.
To begin with, the amount of danger that is on Venus's surface and atmosphere poses too big of a challenge for scientists to reasonably accomplish. As it says in the passage, Venus is converes in almost 97% carbon dioxide and the temperature and pressure arounf 90 times greater than what we usually experience on Earth, making Venus's surface temperature around 800 degree. If anyone probes that touchdown on Venus don't get destoyed by any of those, there's a likely chance it'll get destroyed by its frequent lighting storms, earthquakes and volcanoes.
The author claim to the soultion to these challenges are also highly unrealistic. The author states that humans can explore Venus by contructing a vehicle that hovers 30+ miles above the surface. The author gives this solution but doesn't give any support to how it will be accomplished and doesn't give answer to questions like, "How will they transport a blimp to Mars?", " How they enter Mars atmophere without landing first?" or "What will power this?" (If it's constantly in the air that will takeup a lot of fuel.)
One last backset to the author's plan is, how will it be funded? The bills will start racking up everytime a probe is destroyed by Venus's surface and they have to spend millions of more dollars building and sending another spacecraft to Venus. No countries or companies want to spend billions of dollars on a mission that they mat have a chancce of lerning some information about Mars.
The author goals and solutions are just too unrealistics with this day and age's technologies. It is advanced but not advanced to overcome the obsticals that Vensus present. Some day in the future we may be advance enough to achieve this goal. | 4 |
de106b0 | There are a lot advantages and disadvantages of limiting car usage around the world but let's talk about the advantage of limited car usage right now if cars were limited there are a lot of great things that can happen for one greenhouse gases emissions will reduce drastically, the streets will be more safer no more accidents, people will save more money from not buying a car, crime rate will go down, and people can get exercise if they walked or biked to places instead.
Firstly, if cars get limited then greenhouse gas effect will go down that means less pollution and to destory the ozone layer which means a lot of pollution needs to disappear if we don't want the hole in the ozone layer to get bigger then it already is which means more UV light is coming in from the sun because our protection is slowly being eatten away from all this pollution that means we can get burned more easily from the sun and eventually the world can catch fire more easily when even more UV gets in that is why a lot more forests are getting burned it's because all of this dry weather doesn't mix well with a lot of UV light coming in and also all forests can destoryed and not come back and the animals will go extinct .
Secondly, if cars are limited the streets will be safer because less and less people are driving that means no more hit and runs, drunk driving, accidents in the road to cause a blockage making people late or stuck for an hour or so, less lives taken, no more traffic, no more texting and driving, no more cras explosions or fires to cause anymore damage, kids will be able to play more often outside then inside, and no more damage to buildings.
Thirdly, if cars are limited people will have more money if they buy a car a lot of people in the United States are having financial issues where they don't have money to pay certain bill or get things that they need because they have a car which means gas money when it needs gas, when gotten into an accident you gotta pay to get it fixed while its being fixed you gotta get a rental car, and when it breaks down and doesn't work anymore you haft to get a new one but if cars were limited money will be easier to save.
Fourthly, if cars are limited then people can get exercise obesity has increased over the years because of all of the fatty food we have people are gaining weight fast and it doesn't help that people have cars which makes it easier to get around and get even more food to stuff their faces with but if cars get limited then people can either bike or walk to places giving them the excercise they need to lose all that weight and obesity rates will go down and everyone will be healthy and not a lot of people will die from a heartattack.
Finally, if cars were limited then crime rates will go down that means less DUIs, no more theft of cars, theft of household items, hit and run, speed chases, drive by shootings, life will be safer when cars are off the streets, worry free environment, and people won't haft to worry about getting objects getting destoryed in any wreckage of a criminal who is running away from the police.
In conclusion, if cars get limited pollution will drop, no more accidents on the street, financial issues will go away, crimes will slowly go away, and obesity rates will go down from the excersise that people will get if cars were limited people could live a simple life, worry free but they can't because no one stops the productions of cars that people are afraid of because they are dangerous to people and the world so it would be easier if cars didn't exsist. | 4 |
de1769c | In the story the author says it's the brightist planet in space. And every space craft has been a failer that has landed. On it and they have acid clouds and your head can expload. And it's super super hot hoter than the sun even and they have very big storms and lightnign stikes. Even though it's very similer to Earth it's still very diffrent in meany ways. Even not being on the planet and just chillin above it you can still die but its hard to even study it. From above because how dens the planet it. But they are finding ways to go their but it's still very hard to study the planet.
I think the way the author puts it is good they talk about how it looks like Earth like it have reveains rocks lakes and more. But they also explain how bad the condions are their. So even though i dont really care about space that much I think it would be cool. Because for all we know Venus could of had life on it at some point in life so their could be bones of some kind or if their still is life that would be very cool thats my conclusion. | 1 |
de18382 | There is many advantages to limiting car usage. There's less pollution emitted into the atmosphere, Safety is reassured, Time is saved, resources are conserved, People seem to relief stress being car-free.
I read a passage called "In German Surburb, LIfe Goes On Without Cars," by Elisabeth Rosenthal. In the passage Elisabeth wrote about how Residents of Vauban, Germany have given up their cars. 70% of the families in Vauban do not own any cars, and 57% of the families there sold their cars to move here. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," Said Heidrun Walter as she was walked down the verdant streets. Vauban was completed in 2006, this movement of seperating suburban life from auto usage is called "smart planning." This movement can help a lot with the current efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes. This movement is happening all across Europe and the United States. Europe is responsible for 12% of greenhouse gases in Europe while it's up to 50% in the United States. Vauban is home to 5,500 people, it's basic precepts are being adopted from all around the world to try to reduce car usage, to make suburbs more compact and more accessible to public transportation. They're making stores a walk away on a main street, rather than in malls that are quite a distance. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency is promoting something new called "car reduce" communities.
In the second passage I read called, "Paris bans driving due to smog," by Robert Duffer. In this passage Robert wrote about what happened in Paris; It enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of smog. Motorists with even numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or get a 22-euro fine, odd-numbered plated cars would have to do the same the next day. With this in effect, 4,000 drivers were fined that's atleast $124,000 American dollars; Congestion went down 60%. With this partial ban the smog cleared up enough on Monday for the ruling of French Party to rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday.
In the third passage called, "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota," by Andrew Selsky. In this passage Andrew wrote about a day in Bogota, Colombia and how this "Car-free" day impacted not only the City of Bogota but two other cities and probably another country. On the "Car-free" day in Colombia many Colombians hiked, biked skated or took public transportation. The goal of the whole event was to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog or get a $25 fine. "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," said Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife. This event can start a chain reaction and inspire other countries and nations to take a step to reduce all the pollution being emitted into the atmosphere. For the first time in the three year spand the event was held, two there cities joined Bogota. Cali and Valledupar joined in on the "Car-free" day in Bogota, Colombia. "These people are created a revolutionary change, and it's crossing borders," Said Enrique Riera Mayor of Asuncion, Paraguay.
In the last passage called, "The End of Car Culture," by Elisabeth Rosenthal. In this passage Elisabeth wrote about how in America more Americans are buying less cars, driving less and less people are getting their Driver's Licenses. Driving decreased a 23% between 2001 and 2009. Experts say if this trend of buying, and driving less cars continue it'll be benefical implications for Crabon emissions and for the environment. The reduced usage and buyage of cars has a negative and a positive effect. The positive thing about it is that it's less pollution into the air, which means less Greenhouse gases, less traffic, and more safety; but it's negative effect is on the car industry their profits will plumet down quickly. As a result of this issue to the car industry Bill Ford laid out a business plan for a world with personal vehicle ownership is impractical; He's going to partner up with telecommunications industry to create cities where "Pedestrian bicycle, private cars, commerical and public transportation traffic are a connect network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions adn improve safety."
In Conclusion, all of these factors like creating communities where there is no access to cars, banning driving for a couple days, having a car-free day, or just coming up with ideas of making self-sufficent cars can all lead to less emissions into the air and creating less smog; reassuring the safety of pedestrians; and conserving resources. These factors are all advantages of the idea of limiting car usage. | 3 |
de1b341 | I argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College. That is the way we did the voting for years and why would you want to change that. The outcome of that might be a disaster because we haven't used the popular vote to decide a president. The first reason why I think we should keep it is because when we vote for the people that represent us they have lots of experiance in the politics area therefore meaning they have a better idea of who would be a better president. They have spent years learning all about politics so the "most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election."(paragraph 20) In paragraph 16 it says "But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee.", also meaning that the people we select to represent us is trusted people that will have the same vote as you for the desicion of president.
My second reason of leaving the Electoral College is because if the founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise then it should be left alone. Others might say that its a bad idea to have the Electoral College but if thats how the system is set up then it should not be changed because if it does change then maybe everything would be different. Paragraph 15 says "The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who recieves the most popular votes the winner. The advocates of this position are correct in arguing that the Electoral College method is not democratic in a mordern sense... it is the electors who elect the president, not the people." therefore going back to my first paragraph that is why you select people that you trust.
My third and final reason for my choosing is that the certainty of outcome is reletivly high. Like in the 2012's election . for example, Obama recieved 31.7 percent of the electoral vote copared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes. Also in that same paragraph (18) it says that because almost all states award electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis, even a very slight plurality in a state creates a landslide electoral-ote victory in that state. Mr. State Senator i think it would be best if we just left the Electoral College method alone. | 4 |
de1fddb | Venus is worthy of studying because it is alot like earth in it's own way. I would guess people study it because it's like earth and they probably can find life or see if life would be able to substain on that planet.
Venus is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. It is close to the sun. It's so close that you can see it from earth. That's because it is the second planet from our sun. On Planet Venus it can get up to 800 degrees Fehrenheit which is life threatning to go there. This planet has the hottest surface temperature of any planet. The reason being is because they have massive earthquakes, Volcanoes erupting, and lightning strikes. Astronomers study this planet still because they believe that it could have once been life living there, and Venus probably had large bodies of water as well as we do here on earth. They say Venus may be our next planetary visit.
This is why Astronomers and other want to explore Venus because it has a lot of cool and unusual things on that planet. If it's life on Venus or Life can be on Venus I would like to go. | 2 |
de21737 | Using this type of technology can be somewhat unsafe to students in classrooms, beacsue what if they aren't happy and someone uses the Facial Action Coding System, but then reveals how the person really feels.
More into the future it has gotten to a point that companies will stop at nothing for growth and development. But these things can cause a major unbalnce to everyone. Just like the Facial Action Coding System, this thing can be someones enemy, becasue maybe this person can be against the whole thing. And using it on some one that didn't want to be used could lead the person to do bad things.
On the other hand, other people can come foward and say "it is time for change" and be all happy, and the next thing you know is that the world is run be robots. Change is good, but it can also lead to destruction and caos. That is why we have to be careful with what we do in future, because what we do now can harm some innocent life that didn't deserve it.
The passage alson states that Leonardo used knew how "Mona Lisa" felt when he was drawing her. At first he didn't know if she was smiling. But then he just let is go and began to draw. And now we are here, to the future and people wanting to knoww how another perosn feels by using a computer.
Like i've stated before, change can go in a good or bad way. There is no way saying it could be both or could be something completly different. We just got to be careful with what we have now or they may be no future. | 2 |
de232b2 | Studying Venus is a worthy pusuit despite the dangers because we get to know more about Venus and in the future we might get to live there. Venus are almost like earth. One of the challenging thing about Venus is a thick atmosphere. And closest to the earth.
Venus is like Earth because is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size. And also the closest in distance. But the orbit of the sun move at different speed. Since is the closest, Human sent spacecraft to Venus. It is the challenging planet for human to study.
Venus has thick atmosphere. I think it will be hard to survive. The temperature is over 800 degree and the atmosphere is 90 times greater than Earth. Venus also have the hottest temperature. Venus may once have been the most Earth like planet. It was probably covers largely with oceans and forms of life.
The challenge of visiting Venus has value and we get to see how it look like from the insight. Also human curiosity will lead us intimidating endeavors. | 2 |
de241d6 | In this article i am against the value of using technology to read students emotinal expressions , because most people hate being reminded that they are mad. When looking at a person u can tell if they mad sad or really down , and for technology to do that there is no reason we should have a computer knowing were mad, happy ,or anger .
In article 5 for instance you can probably tell how a freind is feeling simply by the look on there face as the article say. In this community today most people just look mean . As Dr. Huang perdicts most humans communication is nonverbal, including emotional coummication . But wen using a fake smile the mouth is streteched sideways . Nobody should use a fake smile just to caculate that they are happy.
The value of using technology to read students shoudlnt be approve , most kids get bored but know alot , but just dont wont to do it most kids shouldnt be read if they dont wont to be read . | 2 |
de27b5d | In the passage the author tells how Venus is "a very challenging place to examie more closely." She also explains the imortance of sending things to explore Venus and learning more about our solar system.
In the passgae the suther continually talks about how dangerous Venus is and how it is unfit for life and needs to be studied. She tells us how "no spaceship survived the landing for more than a few hours." This is very dangerous of course! Ninty-Seven percent of Venus's atmosphere is layers and layers of carbon dioxide and the average temperature being 800 degrees, which makes it impossible for a human to live and breath. Why would the author want people to go to the planet? A person could only survive a short amout of time, even with an oxogen tank.
Astronemers have been fascinated with Venus for years and say it has the most "earth-like" quality of any planet with its low valleys and high mountains. Some even think that it may have been filled with oceans and other life at one point.
In other words, in the future, Venus may be a new planet for earth to explore and visit. With new technology and new ideas, we may be able to see the beauty of Venus. In the passage it says that NASA is studing to send humans to venus one day to find new wonders and glories.
The author makes a point that just because somthing is dangerous, doesn't mean we shold not take risks to have more advances in technology and to push our limits and explore new places. One day earth will be so advanced in technology, not only will we be able to explore Venus, but other solar systems as well. In the end, every planet should be studied, not just Venus. Even though Venus may still have mysteris right now, we will have to wait for what the future holds to unlock them. | 3 |
de28be3 | "Whoever thought that making faces could reveal so much about the science of emotions (Nick D'Alto)." Having the technology to read student emotions in class is not valuable because it would cost a fortune and it would be a distraction.
The software to detect the emotions of students would be too expensive and that makes the Facial Action Coding System not valuable. "Your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile (Nick D'Alto)." Most schools have standard home computers in class, which means the school will spend a fortune to replace the old computers with new and more powerful computers. After replacing the computers schools will still have to buy the Facial Action Coding System, which will most like cost alot of money that could be used for other things.
Another reason the Facial Action Coding System is not valuable is because it would be a distraction in a classroom. "Empathy (feeling someone else's emotional state) may happen because we unconsciously imitate another person's facial expressions (Nick D'Alto)." After being told one student's emotion the other students in that class will unconsciously feel that emotion and distracting them for their lesson.
The Facial Action Coding System is not valuable in schools because it is a distraction and it would cost a fortune to install. There is no need for a computer to tell a student's emotion in class. | 3 |
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