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735327e | The speaker talks about the lastest technology that Dr. Huang and Dr. Paul Eckman were making and working on. The technology, Facial Action Coding System or FACS, detects the emotions that people show, including mixed emotions. FACS can detect actual humans or even painted people's emotions. The speaker talks about using Mona Lisa to test out the technology. This could be something new and interesting to have in a classroom, it could also help both students and the teachers.
It could help both the students and the teachers by detecting if the students are confused, or even bored with a lesson, and then helping the teacher modify it to get the students to better understand it or make the lessons fun. In paragraph 6, the speaker says '"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr Haung predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor."'
This would be a valuable tool in a classroom because it could help students do better on tests and quizes, it would also help students to better understand the materials they will need to understand in the future, or even on ISTEP.
It could also help both the students and the teachers by detecting the teacher's and student's emotions, and if the teacher is mad, or not having a great day, or if the student's are upset, angry, or not having a great day, then they can work together to make the day more fun, or better for both the students and teachers. This technology would also help by students not getting upset with a teacher because they're not teaching things in the way that they can learn about them. It could also help by having the students know when their teacher is getting tired of teaching all day, and they can teach classmates that don't get what they are doing in class. Even by just teaching a classmate that is having trouble understanding what to do, could help the teacher get it together, because they could see how students are learning what they're teaching.
It could help both the students and teachers by giving them new things to learn if they already understand it or giving them different ways to better understand the material they are being taught. This could be a really valuable tool to have in any work place or school because it could help everyone better understand what other people are feeling, like confusion, anger, or even happiness. It could help everyone in the work place or community by seeing how their family is better understanding things from work or school, and increasing their intelligence by just having a technology in their classroom they can rely on to tell their bosses, or teachers, if they are confused and don't understand how to do what they're being told to do or about what to do.
This technology could do a lot of good for not just teachers and students but for everyone. This technology should be in schools work places, and even other places too. It could help many people, in many different environments. Do you agree with this type of technology being placed in schools, and other work places? It feels like it would be a very valuable thing to have in different types of places. | 4 |
7354440 | My position is that self-driving cars should be manufactured and eventually should be sold to the general public. The cars wouldn't fix all of the problems that come along with cas accidents and problems but it can help reduce them.
The reason why self-driving cars should be manufactured is because it can stop ,or help prevent less accidents from happening. If theres less people in the car, then there are less people to get hurt ,and if the car is driving it going to be safe to have the car drive its self because its programed to make the best decision to keep the passenger others safe. BMW is making a car with a in-car safety feature to reduce the use of cellphones being used while behind the wheel. California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia have all allowed limited use of semi-autonomous cars. Companies and people wouldn't want to make or buy the cars if they weren't proven to be as safe as possible. It also said in paragraph 5, that they have cars that auto lock the breaks to make it safer. Self driving cars could also reduce the percentage of DUI related car accidents, and deaths by having the car drive for you instead of anyone risking getting put in jail or getting pulled over. Paragraph 4 also says that the cars will have a lot of sensors on them to detect any obstacles and for the car to be aware of its surroundings at all times.
In conclusion I think that self-driving cars should be made because they can help better the world and the future ahead by reducing the percentage of accidents, and problems that human drivers put themselves at risk to. | 2 |
73599a7 | In 1945, World War ll had just ended. 44 countries joined to create the UNRRA(the United Nations Relief and Rehibilitation Administration. The UNRRA is an administration that helps a country that has lost quite a bit in the war. The UNRRA helped countries that lost food supply, animal supply, and more. They hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to help care for the horses, young cows, and mule that were going to be shiped to other countries.
I think that there are many reasons that people should join the UNRRA. The first reason that I have provided for you is that This is a once in a lifetime opportunity. The second reason I have is because even though you will be working you will be able to spend time with animals and you will see many sites that you would not have seen if you would have stayed home. The third reason I will provide is that not many people can do big oversea trips like that, a lot of people get very seasick. My final reason is that you would know you would be helping innocent people. You would know this because not everybody is in on these wars in fact most people are not in on big wars because they know it will tear apart their family.
I think that there are some claims that Luke has made that I should share. I think that one of Luke's claims that I should share is he said, "I'm grateful for the opportunity. It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs.". I think that he could support this because a lot of people, families, homes, and countries are destroyed and seperated. Another of Luke's claims was, "Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Accropolis in Greece was special." I think that this can be supported because this would be truely amazing. I think that he did a good thing to choose to help the UNRRA, but being able to see Europe, China, and Greece would be incredible.
I think that Luke was a very incredible "Seagoing Cowboy". I think that some details to suppot this are that he lasted 9 trips to nine different countries. This is incredible because that is the longest any "Seagoing Cowboy" has ever lasted. I think another reason he is an incredible "Seagoing Cowboy" is because he decided to help the UNRRA. I bet that at the begining he was extremely nervous and I bet that he wanted to go home to his mom, dad, and siblings if he had any. My last reason that he was incredible is that he kept working even if he got seasick, or if he wanted to go home. I think that work was one thing that he used to get his mind off of things he worried about.
There are some thing that he could've done on the positive and the negative side. First, on the positive side, I thinkthat if he really set his mind to it he could've been a "Seagoing Cowboy" for at least 10-12 trips. I think that some benefits to staying longer would be that you would've been able to do more sight seeing, also you would've been able to spend more time with the animals. One thing that would be negative is that he would've gotten seasick more times than without staying.
I think that I would've signed up for this opportunity because I love animals and I really like being on the ocean. I think that this would be a great chance. I think that they should have things like this in 2016. I think that there are a lot of countries that could use something like this, one that I can think of off the top of my head is Syria. They could use all the help they could get, they could use food, shelter, animal products, and animals in general. I think that I would think the same way as Luke. I think that me and my friends would all sign up and we would do everything together. We would care for the animals together, we would eat together, we would sightsee together, and lastly we would take breaks and stop together. My overall thought is that this would be great but it would also be extremely dangerous. | 4 |
735c862 | The presidential election is an enourmous event that almost all Americans over the age of eighteen participate in. But there is one problem, the system we use for it is outdated, unfair, and just terrible! The electoral college needs to be removed because voters need more power, and there are tons of problems that come with the electoral college.
There are some pretty solid defenses for the United States to keep the electoral college. For example, as stated in in the article by Posner, even though some candidates can dominate regions, "no region has enough electoral votes to elect a president." But the thing is, even though it might not be enough to win the election, it extremely benefits the candidates race. Another defense states in Posner's article is that the trust of the slate of electors that you are actually voting for is "rarely betrayed." This is a flawed defense because it shouldn't be rarely betrayed, instead, it shouldn't be betrayed at all!
Since the trust of voters in the slate of electors can't be betrayed, why not put the power in the voters hands instead of people most of the voters have never even met? The voters aren't even voting for the president in the electoral college system, they are voting for a slate of electors. And in the text written by Plumer, that the voters can't even control who they're voting for! Another claim in Plumer's article to back the last sentence up is: "The House's selection can hadly be expected to reflect the will of the people." That is just ludicrous! Also, voters quite frequently "get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidates."
That just goes to show one of the extreme amount of problems that the electoral college system has. As stated in Plumer's passage, one of the biggest problems the electoral college system has is that "over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct electioin to the kind we have now." But, no one can expect them to listen because, you can clearly tell from their system that they don't care about the common voters opinion, but the direct election system does. In Plumer's article, he loosely states that another thing that can go wrong with the system we have now is the state can possibly cheat and send two slates of electors to Congress. It has happened before so who says it can't happen again? "Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote."(John Plumer) Having a tie is just another terrible flaw in the awful electoral college system that the United States runs today.
Most voters can't even have a say in the election if we don't stop running the electoral college system. But, if the U.S. finally smartens up and changes, the presidential election would have much fewer problems and it would put more power in the hands of the people like a democracy should be. | 5 |
735de2e | I believe that the Facial Action Coding System can be a valuable asset to student in a class room . The System can read the face of the student to give feed back to the teachers on the lesson plan . It can be used to notify the teacher when a student in the class is upset . The System can also make learning "fun" for the students . There may many counter arguements but allow me to explain why .
My first reason it can be a valuable asset to students in the class is that it can give feed back on the lesson . In the text it says " A classroom computer could recongize when a student is becoming bored or confused" and it also says " Then it could modify lesson, like an effective human instructer" . This means that when a student is not getting the criteria the Fscial Action Coding System will read their facial gestures and make the assignment easier or more understandable . People may say " This system wouldnt be balanced because some people may be of grade level " . My claim is that the point of the system is to help them understand the criteria that they are learning to help them get back on grade level .
Another reason this system will be great is because the system can notify the teacher when the child is upset . With this advanced technology we can prevent alot of things from happening in school . In the text it says " Most human communication is non-verbal , including emotional communication " . The system can identify this and notify the teacher to talk to the student about his or her feelings . I believe the system can be a great asset to all the bad emotions or feeling going around school .
My final reason is that it can make learning "fun" for kids . Majority of the time students find the lesson plan boring , the system can read thier emotion and make it fun for them . In the text it describes how it can take the learning games and make them funner and more interacting . People may say " School is not about having fun " but students still need some type of entertainment even in highschool . The whole point of this system is to make the student adapt to the lesson plan , in a fun learning type of way .
The Facial Action Coding System will be a valuabe asset to students in a classroom . The system can adjust lesson plan or criterea for the student . It can help notify the teacher when a student is upset . It can also help make the lesson plan fun for the students . This is my arguement on why the Facial Action Coding System will be valuabe in the classroom . | 5 |
735f77f | There are many advantages to limiting car usage. for example, passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in europe and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States. Another example is that all around the world there are attempts to make suburbs and communitys more compact and more accessible to public transportation with less parking spaces. This is a new approach in which stores are placed a walk away or on a main street. Not like malls who usually are along some distant highway. In vauban 70 percent of vauban's families do not own cars and 57 percent sold a car to move here. In the united states the environmental protection acency is promoting "car reduced" communities like vauban.
In paris after near-record pollution they enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. On monday even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave there cars at home of the would have to pay $31. they did the same for the odd-numbered plates the followinf day. Almost 4,000 people were fined. One good thing though is that congestion was down 60 percent in the capital france, after 5 days of intenssifying smog. Paris typically has more smog than other european capitals. In Bogota, Colombia millions of colombians hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work during a car free day. The goal was to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Carlos Arturo Plaza a businessman said "it was a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." He was riding a two-seat bike with his wife.
In the United States recent studies suggest that americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. This has left researchers pondering a fundamental question: has america passed peak driving? When adjusted for population growth, the number of miles driven in the united states peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter, according to an analysis by Dough Short of advisor perspectives, an investment company. A sociology professor at Drexel University and director of its mobilities research and policy center, MiMi Sheller said that "different things are converging which suggests that we are witnessing a long term cultural shift". She says it allows people to feel more connected without driving to meet people. Demographic shifts in the driving population suggest that the trend may accelerate. Mr. Sivak's research has found that there has been a large drop in the percentage of 16 to 39-year-olds getting a license, while older people are likely to retain their licenses as they age. A study found that driving by a young age decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009.
As you can tell the advantages of limiting car usage are that it helps clear the air, reduce smog and take stress away. It also lowers air pollution and helps with making the greenhouse gas emissions in europe go down. Another thing is that it is a great way to promote alternative transportation. These are some on the many advantages of limiting car usage. | 2 |
7360fc3 | Driveless cars are cool and very furtristic, mainly appleaing to a handful of people. Driveless cars don't use much gas or any at all, there for helping the enviroment. They have to run on something though, and that is battiers or rail ways. Many people are blinded by the fact that they are driveless cars. They don't see what is really happening with the cars,
My statement is that I don't think they should be making driveless cars. There are so many things people haven't consiterd. For example Google hasn't mastered the driveless car yet, it could take them years or even centiures. When they do "master" it they'll have to make more and more cars. If they mess up on one little thing the car wont be able to go or get into an accident.
The cars don't run on gas, which is good for the enviroment but then how would we get around? Google would have to rebuild all the roads, which will cost thousands maybe even millions. They would probably go to the big cites first and then forget about small towns, leaving them with regular cars.
The sensors are probably very fragile, not to mention the most important thing for the car. What would happen if one of your sensors broke? You couldn't just run to the auto store and ask them to fix it, they wouldn't know how or even have the part. There you would be missing important things.
They're so many things that could go wrong with with these cars, but that's also true with regular cars, Since regular cars have been around though we know what to do when our car breaks down. We also have built all the roads so we wouldn't be spending trillions of dallors on that, Plus with these new cars we would lose jobs and millions of people wouldn't be able to go back to college to learn about these new cars. There for I don't think we should get driveless cars. | 3 |
7363097 | The development of driverless cars shouldn't be happening because it will cause people to be way too dependent on the cars when traveling and the developers shouldn't being developing these type of cars. Driverless cars will give the drivers way more distractions then usual because they will be more reliant on the cars themselves. These types of cars will be very costly because they will need new roads. The driverless cars will also be more time consuming because they won't be able to travel through traffic alone and require the driver to step in. Driverless car shouldn't be developed because they will ,make the driver more reliant on them, be very costly, and will be very time consuming.
The development of driverless cars will give the driver more distraction because although the driver still have be aware the driver will become very reliant on the car fro arriving at his or hers destination safely. In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author states, "The information from the sensors can cause the car to apply the breaks on individaul wheels and reduce powere from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone." This information proves that the driver will be more reliant on the cars because although the driverless car will be safer it will also make the driver worry-free. Another reason towards why the driverless cars should be developed is because they're very costly.
Driverless cars will be very costly because will require more equipment to perform such task and will require new roads aswell which will be the most expensive of they bunch. In the article " Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author states, "These smart- road systems worked surprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expenisve to be practical." This information helps prove that the cost for maintaining these driverless cars the work well on a smart-road will be very expensive even without the smart-roads the cost will be very high because they will still require an extensive amount of sensors to operate on its own. Driverless cars will also be very time consuming.
Driverless cars will be very time consuming because they can't operate aswell as a human driver would be able to an the road. In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author states that, "Manufactures are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road." This infromation shows that the driver will still have to watch the road but, the driver wont be as alert because they wont have anything to do and will begin to feel drousy just as if they were watching a boreing program about roads on television.
In conclusion, the development of driverless cars shouldn't be happening because they make driving more complicated. These types of cars will make the human driver more reliant on the cars than themselves because they won't need to be as alert as if they were the one driving. These types of cars will also be very costly because of all they equipment needed to make them driverless and possibly even new roads aswell will be very expensive. Lastly, driverless cars will be very time consuming in manufactering the vehicle and in traffic jams aswell. Driverless cars shouldn't be developed because they will make the driver more reliant on them, be very costly, and will be very time consuming. Driver themselves should be improving and not the vehicel so they can make the roads safer. | 4 |
73679f2 | According to the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" Prof, Thomas Huang and Beckman institute, have made an invention"FACS", that is able to tell someones expressions using technology. The author states the emotions of Mona Lisa's portriat by using the new technology. Do you ever think is the new invention even worth the pay or even necessary? Many people can be against it and many for it. Myself personally I am for Facial Action Coding System.
The article states, you can tell someones emotions by just looking at them. It also states that we have trouble really describing the facial trait. By using FACS, we can get the actual facial traits in someones face.
According to the author, "'even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression' (like not smiling broadly)." When using the Facial Action Coding System it recognizes the facial movements in a humans actual face even in paintings. Using the "While Looking in the Mirror" activity we followed the steps,but what if we were to add something that nobody knew except you. The person looking at you would think you are following the script. When you use that same exact script with the other facial you added, the technology would recognize it in an instant. The author also stated moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them.
In conclusion we all have our opinion, if using the FACS is good or not. The Facial Action Coding System is a technology Prof. Thomas Huang And Beckman institue invented to help people figure out what a painting is offering us in emotions or even what people themsleves are offering. Either wanting to use technology or our own brains, the only person who really knows is the person who painted the painting and the person giving the facial expression. | 2 |
736b2a8 | Do you ever dream about the world having driverless cars everywhere?
Well google thinks so. Google and many others like me think that there can be driverless cars everywhere they go to get people around more safely than a human driver can ever imagine. I think that this is a great idea to begin with because of the fact that there are lots of accidents caused by human error when it comes to driving.
Driverless cars can be benetfical towards a lot of things like for an example, senior citizens who are too old to drive anymore and the handicap people who got an injury that prevents them from driving. It can also be more quicker also than a taxi or bus for the public who normally complain about the buses and taxi's running late. The cars can change the world as we know a world with no worries of an problem with car accidents.
Please don't worry people the car's have sensors that are always on alert scanning around the car sending 3D models of the things around it
to be aware. The sensors came a long way from back then and now even today being made way better than before with faster scanning and alertness with this happening you can bet on it that driverless cars will be a success.
But others are concerned with the computers in the car saying what if the computers crash or if it gets hack they are also saying that what if there is an incident who will be to blame will it be the passenger or the manafacturer. There are a lot of what if but the time of driverless cars is very close and can be happenning in some years to come. | 3 |
736f95b | A camera that detects how you feel. Imagine walking on a peaceful day, you're trying to enjoy a nice spring day. On your walk you have random people trying to take pictures of you at the park. All you are trying to do is enjoy your day. Next thing you know, Goverment camera's using you as a study when you just want to be left alone. They dont even know you and you just want to enjoy the day. In the blink of an eye others have milions of photos of you. Its almost a invasion of privacy wouldn't you think?
This System seem's like it would be cool to use on you'r phone, or with a group of friend's. But as we know thing's can easily lead to something bigger. That's why no one need's it. It would start out as something cool. Something new and people at the park would be trying to show you. Perhaps you like it at first and you take a photo with the person at the park. At the moment you could be okay with it, but then you go to bed, now some stranger has a picture of you and you'r kid. Or individual's thinking something about you when they dont even know you.
That leads into the Goverment. They have millions of camera's and sutistic freaks that just view you and your family as a object. They want to use your looks to make them money, or get what they want. Such as banning things, or zone's where people can't be if they look mad when your not. After all there could be a database that says who you are, what your attitude is, and its open to the public.
So they have this new database for the public. People can look up anyone and see who they are and there attitude, if they are always upset, happy mad or joyfull. Know you have the world to judge you and millions of photos to look at you. They are all random people who don't know you and its just what a computer thinks of you. who wants that?
Regardless of the publuc, friends, or goverment all you wanted to do was enjoy your day. Know you have million's of photo's of you that you dont want people to have. A invasion of privacy, and possibly rights violated. who wants that when all you wanted was to enjoy your nice spring day and get out of the house after a cold long winter. | 2 |
7373a64 | the challenge of exploring venus is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot. however, this nickname, is misleading since venus is actually a planet. In a solar system, venus is the second planet from our sun.
they call venus like the earth twin..
Venus is the closest to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. Earth, venus, and mars,our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds. While venus is simple to see from the distant but safe ventage pointof Earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely.
MY ESSAY.
The callenge of exploring venus is one of the biggest points of light in the night sky, these differences is speed mean that sometimes we are closer to mars and others times to venus. Because venus is sometimes right aroundthe corner in space terms humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud draped world A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent dioxide blankets venus. Also notable, venus has the hottest surface temperature af any planet in our solar system, even though mercury is closer to our sun. astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well once have been the most Earth like planet in our solar system. long ago, venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today, venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such ass valleys, mountains, and craters. Imagine a blimp like behicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling venusian landscape. However, peering at venus from a ship orbiying or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions bacuse most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendiring standard forms of photography and videography ineffective. A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent dioxide blankets venus. | 1 |
73762dd | If you could have a driverless car would you take the chance? Driverless cars should not be developed. I think this because of the cars not actually being driverless, companies not knowing how to make it enticing, and laws preventing it. If you saw a driverless car on the road, would you feel safe? Would you know if the human inside is or isn't driving?
Driverless cars aren't actually driverless. While they can do many raod behaviors without the help of a driver, they actually are not driverless. When they encounter something such as a traffic jam, or the ever so challenging driveway, they must alert the driver to take over. It even states in the paragraph that, "Google cars aren't truly driverless." This is argued however, as it does state in the passage that advancements are being made. These advancements are predicted to creat a real driverless car by 2020. This can also be a problem however, as many companies claiming to have made these cars are wanting to release them before this time, showing that this prediction doesn't matter to them. They could care less if the car is actually driverless, they just want money. If you encountered a driverless car while driving, would you trust that that car is safe?
Manufacturers don't know how to make this technology enticing. After all, what fun is there in being in a driverless car. Many people nowadays have their cars for the purpose of driving them, not riding. They enjoy driving, and get the biggest, fastest, or toughest car they can. This is from a love of cars. Introducing driverless cars would ruin this love and passion for cars. You wouldn't see anymore interesting races, as they would be driven by cars that were automated, and already knew which car would win, they just were running a program to make it interesting. This can be argued, however, as supporters of this say that cars that need drivers would never be removed, and races will stay the same as it always has been. They allso can argue, from the passage, that,"Some manufacturers hope to do that (make driverless cars fun) by bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays." When you think of a driverless car, do you think of a powerful engine roaring to life, a slick racecar speeding down a track, or do you just see something like an electric car, small motor, and not exciting?
Laws prevent these cars from even being researched. The passage even states that,"in most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars." manufacturers only hope is that they, "believe that more states (other thatn California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Colombia) will follow (allowing cars to be tested) as soon as the cars are proved more reliably safe. However, even if this doesn't happen, there is another problem. The passage states, "even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident." This shows that the legal and manufacturing worlds are completely unprepared for driverless cars. If you were to want to buy a driverless car, how much would you think about the laws covering it? Would they be in your favor if anything happens, or would they be complicated enough that the manufacturer themselves can just blow you off?
Driverless cars should not be developed. I believe this because, the cars aren't actually driverless, the manufacturers don't know how to make them enticing, and laws prevent them from even happening. When you really think about driverless cars and their existance, doesn't it seem like common sense to not have have something that can cause such troubles for our world? | 5 |
7383738 | The Seagoing Cowboys program is an amazing opportunity. You get to help people in need, and you get the added bonus of having fun and sightseeing on the trip. If you are looking for work, this would be an amazing job that will change your life forever. You will need to put in hard work and dedication, but this job is worth it all.
Another reason to be a Seagoing Cowboy is that you will be doing a good service. You will be helping countries and the people inhabiting them. For example, "To help these countries recover their food supplies, animals..." This is a valid reason why you should join Seagoing Cowboys. Not a lot of people get the chance to help an entire nation by bringing them cattle, mules, horses, and food. If you are worried that you will not get any free time, don't be. You get to sightsee whenever you land in port and experience very amazing places and things such as the Acropolis in Greece, and taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy. An excerpt from the article "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" would be "Besides helping people, you have the side benefit of seeing Europe and China." Another benefit of being a Seagoing Cowboy is that it opens your eyes to needs in certain poor countries, or countries devastated by disaster. In addition to that, you have to put in a lot of hard work and dedication to feed and take care of the animals onboard the boat. But "Being a Seagoing Cowboy is the opportunity of a lifetime."
That is why you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboy program. It is completely worth it and you will come back from this amazing experience more aware of what needs to be done to help people in other countries. Being a Seagoing Cowboy is a great opportunity that you will treasure for the rest of your life. | 3 |
7388575 | Dear State Senator,
There are many issues concerning the Electoral College and whether to keep it or changing election by popular vote for the president of the United States. The Electoral College is very important considering it has educated canadates. The people do not understand that the United States has many uneducated people. They do not realize that if there is no Electoral College, the people with education will vote to directly decide the president, but so will the uneducated people. The Electoral College wants the best for our country and is trying to benifit the USA, not cause it harm.
Though the Electeral College is a benefit and means no harm, it does have its flaws. Many people when they vote for example, a democratic representative, they expect the democratic representative to vote for the democratic canadate for president. Unfortununtly, sometimes that is not the case. The democratic representative will end up voting for the Republican canadate for president. This issue occurs many times in the Electoral College which is why people are having second thoughts about the Electoral College and wanting to eliminate it so that they can directly vote for the president or vice president they want and think will improve our country more.
The Electoral College is benefitcial because it is educated people trying to figure out by anallyzing and concluding who will represent and run our country the best way possible. In the first article, it says "MOST states have the "winner-takes-all" system", but in the second article it says "Because of the winner-take-all system in EACH state". In the second article, one of the arguments as to why the Electoral College should be abolished is incorrect due to the fact that not every state has the "winner-takes-all" system. Since they got imformation wrong, people can not count this article as a reliable source of information.
Our counrty has been doing very well compared to the other countrys like Korea, Africa, Cuba, China, and etc. People should just be grateful and apperciative that the United States is doing as well as it is doing. The Electoral College is a benifit and it should not be abloished or eliminated from congress, but it should be improved. We as americans should try to advance our country in every way possible, not eliminate something if it does not go our way. We should try to cooperate and improve on the mistakes to make our country better and progress everyday so that today is better than yesterday, and tomorrow better than today!
Sinceraly,
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
738a50a | Spending gargantuan amounts of time making self-driving cars is a bad idea. Sure, there would probably be less accidents and less rule breaking but in the long run, that would cause a lot of unemployment. If people no longer have to drive themselves, that would mean that police men would not need to arrest people from the road. Although that seems like a good thing (and it is meaning that there will be less accidents), not every police man can be a detective. In that case, there would be less job oppotunities and more unemployment with, which seems to be a more important issue than having possible car trouble.
If people would be a little more responsible in the way they drive, there would be no need to make cars that drive themselves. Instead, we should be thinking more into the lines of a beter fuel source. This is why spending gargantuan amounts of time making self-driving cars is a bad idea. | 2 |
738e445 | This letter is to my state senator in which i argue in favor of keeping the electoral colloge by popular votes for tha president of tha united state. As you can see the electoral college is a process, not a place so there for the founding father established in tha constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and electiuon of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. ther are many reasone for retaining the electoral but ther are five of them for why are state senator shuld keep the elctoral and the five are certainty of outcome ,everyonss president, swing states,big states, and avoid run-off elctions. it can be argued that the electoral colleg method of selecting the president may turn off potential voteers for a candidate who has hope of carrying their state democrats .also keeping tha electrol college is becuse it requires a presidentail candidate to have trans regional appeal. its official that the best arguments in favor of keeping the electoral becuase it mostly assertions without much basis in reality and the arguments against direct election are spuriouse at best. | 2 |
7392331 | The problem with the electoral college is that the people really arent controlling who they vote for. Personally i am in favor of changin the electoral college to popular vote. The representatives of the electoral college can basically vote for who ever they want to vote for. The people only influence the electoral college. The people should have the right to vote for the candidate that they want not the one that some representative in the electoral college chooses. These are just some reasons why i think the presidential should be replaced by popular vote.
To begin with, the representatives of the electoral college can basically vote for who ever they want to vote for. When a voter places there vote they arent voting for the actual president they are simply voting for the reps of the electoral college. "The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast." What this means is that basically the election is based on what they decide not on what the people say.
Furthermore, the only thing the people do by voting is that they influence the electoral college's decision. The people dont really get to choose who they believe should be in office. All the electoral college does is get in the way of whom the people choose to be president. The electoral college should be removed and replaced with popular vote. This should take place as soon as possible.
Lastly, the people should have the right to vote for whom they believe should take office; not for some representative that is gonna choose who ever they want. For example, lets say that one votes for obama, they arent really voting for obama they are voting for someone who could pick obama, But the person that they vote for to pick obama could change there mind and vote for the other candidate. So really the peoples vote doesnt even matter. All it does is influence the vote of some representative from the electoral college. I believe that this should be changed to popular vote. In which the people vote for the candidate they want to be president and then all the votes are counted up and compared. Thats the way the presidential should be done. This is the best way for the peoples voice to be recognized and it will make a difference. | 3 |
739ee9e | Driverless cars should not even be advertised in car stores because they sound dangerous. People may think driverless cars sound cool in all, but in reality; what if someone's driverless crashes? Then that person would not think their driverlesss car is so cool then.
Driverless cars are just like other cars around the world except that driverless cars do not have drivers inside them. Driverless cars also have sensors like regular cars as stated in paragraph 5 so that is nothing new to anybody or anything. Driverless cars look basically like regular ordinary car which makes not very interesting to people who are looking to buy them.
Driverless cars are also very dangerous and can cause serious problems to humans on this earth. As stated in paragraph 8, The psychological aspects of automation are really a challenge, Driverless cars can cause so much trouble in people's lves. They can also cause confusion when it comes to having an accident with another driver because as stateed in paragraph 9, "Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at faultthe driver or the manufacturer?" If someone gets into a car accident; they will not even know who's fault it would if somebody got severely injured because the driver would have no control at all over the vehicle so in my opinion driverless cars should not be advertised in car shops.
In conclusion, whether that driverless cars are dangerous or that they can cause problems; they should not be sold to anybody because they would be nothing but trouble and pain. | 2 |
739fc35 | The Face on Mars
"The Face on Mars" is a "huge rock formation...which resembles a human head," as NASA stated in 1976.
Many know that it is just a natural landform like on earth, but some believe that the Face was created by aliens.
The Face is nothing more than a natural landform because we have landforms like it here on earth, photographic evidence reveals a natural landform, and there is no evidence that the Face was built by life outside of earth.
The Face on Mars is nothing more than a natural landform, just like we have on earth.
Jim Garvin, who is the chief scientist of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, knows that the Face is just another landform.
"It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," he said, "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars."
This is just one piece of evidence that the Face cannot be anything more than a natural landform--because it has many characteristics of a landform here on earth.
A second reason that the Face on Mars is nothing more than a natural landform is because of the images taken in 2001 by Mars Global Surveyor (MGS).
Twenty five years after its first photographs, clearer, higher resolution photos of Face came from MGS.
From the 43 meters per pixel in the 1976 photograph versus the 1.56 meters per pixel in the 2001 photograph, there is clearly enough evidence that the Face on Mars is just a natural land formation similar to a mesa.
The rises and dips in the landform just resemble the shape of eyes, nose, and mouth of a human face and nothing more, but after seen more clearly, cracks and crevaces in the land prove that the Face is just a natural landform.
Those who believe that the Face on Mars was built by aliens have nothing to base their beliefs on other than the fact that the landform resembles a face.
No evidence whatsoever suggests that the Face was built by supernatural life.
On the other hand, photos--and common sense itself--prove that the landform is just another landform like we have on earth.
The passage itself proves the authenticity of the landform.
It says that "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 at all," proving that the Face is only a landform.
To conclude, no evidence suggests that the Face on Mars is anything more than a natural landform.
The Face has characteristics of a landform on earth, and images of it from 2001 reveal only a landform.
On top of that, those who believe that alien activity is responsible for the creation of the Face have little to no information to base their beliefs on.
In the end, though, we know that the little landform called the Face of Mars is just one of our universe's great mysteries. | 4 |
73a8c12 | "People are generating a revolutionary change, and this is crossing borders," said Enrigue Riera in excerpt 3: Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota. Limiting car usuage is opening doors to breathing in fresh air rather than filling it with toxins from thousands driving everyday. A day without a car can and will have beneficial implacations for the enviroment along with carbon emissions. Excessive amounts of space is taken up of nothing but parking spaces. Limiting the mobility by vehicle can allow you to be in walking distances from everything you would generally need a car to get too.
You normally go outside to "get some fresh air," but if you think about it is it really all that fresh with how much we are polluting our own home? The Enivromental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities. The legislators are starting the act cautiosly but willingly. 80% of appropriations have gone to highways and only 20% to other tranportation. In excerpt 1: In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars, David Goldburg, who is an official of Tranportation for America, states that "All of our development since World War 2 has been centered on the car, and that will have to change."
Limitation of car usuage can uphold stress reduction along with a happier and easier way of going about your day. Just think, you aren't all cooped up in a car, stuck in traffic, making you late for work or something needed to be attended. Instead, you are getting a daily dose of excerise with some fresh air that you have helped arise by taking a breather and letting go of what society has gotten you attached too. "Different things are converging which suggest that we are witnessing a long-term cultural shift," said Mimi Sheller, in excerpt 4: The End of Car Culture. Reading that statement over allows me to think.. maybe that is for the best; a change. | 3 |
73a96a5 | The technology to read student's emotional expressions we can choose the Beckman institute for Advancd Science at the Univeersity of lllinois . It will be good if we can developed that improves accuracy in perceiving the emotions of others. I think we can actually "calculate" emotions but it different way
like math homework . There are six classified basic emotions - happiness, surprise , anger, disgust, fear, and sadness-and then associeted each with characteristic movement of the facial muscles . For example , your frontails parts muscle (above your eyes ) raises your eyebrows when you're suprised ;your orbicularis oris (around your mouth ) tightens your lips to show anger . In facts , we humans perform this same impressive "calculation " every day . For instance , you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face . Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy , woried etc. For example, if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen , a similar ad follow . But if you frown , the next ad will be different ." A classroom computer could recongnize when a student is becoming cnfused or bored." Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor. | 2 |
73aa6a7 | In the aricle "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" says that Venus is really good to study despite the dangers you might encounter. The article says that you may study it,imagen all the wonders you can find.
Also in paragrpah two it says that Venus and Earth are "twin". They say that planet Venus has the closest planet to Earth, but the density and size are some what close. It also say's that the speed of orbiting around the sun is close to Mars, and also Venus. Yet also Venus is very close to us that the humans have tried to send spacecraft to land on Venus numerous times. And yet each time was a fail since it only survived for a few hours.
Also in paragraph three it says that the atmosphere is very thick in Venus. That it has a 97 percent of carbon dioxide that covers Venus. Also the temperature is very extreme which is why we cannot live in Venus, even though Mercury is closest to the sun Venus is much hotter than Mercury.
Another reason is that Venus has a high pressure and also heat which states in paragraph three. Venusian geology says that Venus has erupting volcanoes, and very powerful erathquakes, it also has frequent lightning strikes that hits on the land.
Also in paragraph four it says Venus was probably coverd in largely oceans which can also supported the various forms of life. Yet also Venus does have some features of Earth, Venus has rocky sediment which includes valleys,mountains,and also craters. Also scientist say that to visit Venus it will take a long time frames of space travel, and also if you want to return form Venus it will be very hard.
Another reason on why Venus can be dangerous to study is that humans are having an idea on sending humans to Venus. Scientist are coming up with a solution have them float above the fray and not land. They are coming up with ideas of having a blimp like vehicle just hovering about 30 or more miles above the landscape. They may have a vehicle hovering over Venus so it could avoid the ground conditions for just staying off ground. The surface on Venus is around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure is close to the sea level on Earth which says on paragraph five.
In conclusion Venus is very dangerous, it has high temperatures and high pressure which the humans can not survive. Earth and Venus may have the same mountains and valleys, but Venus is to hot for us to survive. In conclusion Venus is dangerous to study. | 2 |
73ad80b | Many today are so concerned with driving safely. There are so many things that could go wrong while behind the wheel. But can having a machine drive you around that you have little control over be less hazardous? No doubt cars that have an automatic driving system will be less work to do on our part but is that really safe? Well, what is teh definition of being safe? Safe is what you feel when you are out of harms way. When you feel as though nothing can hurt you. Like there is absolutley anything that could even slightly put you inthe way of harm. But if your driving in general, do you think you are safe? No because anything could happen. So what makes you think that "driving" a self-automated car would make you feel much more safe? Would you not feel as if you are purposely putting yourself in the way of harm?
As many say we can not change the roads but we can change the cars and make them smarter, hence the name smart cars. These cars come with many sensors within and outside of the car, including a sensor on the roof. Not only are there sensors but there is also a camera near the rearview mirror. All of the technology put into the making of this car is sure to make you want to but it. Not only that but haveing the latest technology like this in your car will also make you feel safe. There are also laser beams that update a 3-D model of the car and what it is surrounded by. As much as there are many sensors in these cars to make it safe there are still some things that can go wrong.
There are some cons to this car as well as pros. For example, what if some of the sensors begin to malfunction? This can cause an accident in the case that you are not even aware that some or one of your cars sensors have stopped functioning correctly or just all together stopped working. But another big concern is who's fault will it be if some fancy technology in our smart cars malfunction and its begins to cause accidents? As much as we may feel safe, there is always a chance that something is not right.
But lets not look at all the bad, what about the good? Smart cars are created to steer, speed up and even brake with no help from a human. So does this car require any human assistance? Yes, but only when trying to get through construction areas and other accidents that may have occured. How will someone know when to take over? Well, the car can make the drivers seat vibrate, there willtouch sensors that will make sure that the driver stays focused even if they may not really be driving.
With this information we may ask ourselves: "Are smart cars really safe?" The answer is opinion based and we all decide for ourselves. We are all given the choice to put our lives in the path of death and we are all given the choice to remove any injurous obstacles from our paths. No one can make the decision for you. Before "driving" one of these "smart cars" many should look at the pros and the cons and do much research to determine wheather he or she believes that tehse cars are safe. | 3 |
73adf47 | My thought on drivless cars is that they can be a help but then again they could cause promblems.
I think driveless cars can help because it could help do things a lot faster, and help a lot with other things. It has some good thing like warning you, help on gas miliage, and drive it self. you really wont have to drive ou just sit and let the car take you by it self.
i think it will make promblems because you wont need alot of gass and if u dont need gas no one will make anymoney because you wont need all of it and there will be alot of oil in the ground beacuse no one is bringing it up because no ones needs it to make gas because of these new cars dont need a lot of gas. It will make more promblems because you dont have to drive the car will drive for you and if the car is driving for you and all you do is sit you will forget how to drive and if something happens and you have to take over you will not know because you forgot how to drive beacuse you sit for so long and let the car drive it self.
My thought on driveless cars can be both prostive and negitive. i think more on the negitive because more people will not have jobs that you have to drive because you dont have to drive because you have a car thaat will drive for u. so i think it can be a good thing that we have them but at the same time a bad thing to. | 2 |
73b0af7 | Everyone remembers mars the planet that Nasa was trying to get on to see if it's possible to live on? Well now they changed into a diffrent planet called Venus.
The author of the article "The challenge of exploring Venus" is stating his choice on what Nasa is doing. He is making it very clear that he wants people to explore Venus. He gave a hint in one part of his story. For example he says "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has valuse, not only becuase og insite to be gained on the planet its self." He's is giving his full suport on Nasa's choice to go and study Venus. He also is saying to keep trying even though it is dangerous. In the text it says that "A thick atmoshpere of almost 97% carbon dioxide blankets Venus." This Is saying that its very dangerousover there on Venus and the pressure could destroy everything there.
In Conclusion he gives his full support no matter what. He is hoping that they keep striving to find a way to successsfuly accomplish whatever they need to do. | 2 |
73b4f4b | I am going for driverless cars, I honestly think that this pretty cool. Having cars that can drive themselfs is a really good idea. In this passage the author gave a lot of good reasons why they should have and keep making driverless cars. For one people don't have to drive and some people hate driving. Another thing is that this type of car drove more than half a million miles with out a crash. One last thing is that it's just safer and I'll explain why
For a fact I know so many people who hate driving or driving for a long period of time. For example my whole family it says here "woudn't drivers get bored?" most likely not and if they do if you want to drive you can. "Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over.' So that being said if you want to drive you can it turns right off. If you get bored then start driving.
Another reason why I am going for driverless cars is that it has drove so many miles without crashing. Which is really cool, because today we have so many accident and they don't even drive that far and people are driving. If this car can go 500,000 miles without crashing just think about how less the crash percentage will go down. This car is just so much easier to handle and drive that's my opinion.
One more reason is that it's just safer honestly. I'm going to tell you why, you know that so many people text and drive right? Well if you have to read an important text your not the one who is driving are you no so there for it's just so much safer. You shouldn't have your phone in the first place but just in case. Also if you are on your phone and your not paying attention there are signals in the car if there is danger the seats vibrate or the windows flash so you will know. That's what I like about these cars there always one step ahead of you.
Now that you have read this I hope you agree with me or get my point about these cars. These are just a few reasons why I am for it. I'm not saying you have to agree but I really hope you do. These cars are safer and way easier so drive and to handle. Just think about it, do you like this type of car. If you do it says they will try to have them by 2020 so go ahead and buy one. | 4 |
73b7cf1 | Plan
The idea that author supports the studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers in article says Venus sometimes called the "evening star" is the of the brightest points of
light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur starganzer to spot.
The evidence from the article that supports my claim is on the planet's surface temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times
greater than what we experience on our own planet.
The introduction aand conclusion of this essay is second planet from our sun while is simple to see from the distant but afe vantage point of Earth it proved a very challenging place to examiine more to extreme, and Physical conditon exposig a cell phone or tablet to acis or heat capable of malting tin by comparison systems that use machanical parts can be made more resistwnt to pressure, heat , other forces. | 1 |
73ba914 | "Umasking the Face on Mars"
If I was a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens I would tell them that it is the way it forms over a period of time that makes it looks like aliens did it. I would be using paragraphs 2-3 and 10-12 to support my reasoning.
In paragraph 3 it states that "A few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see. The caption noted a "huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars." That is one reason why it supports my reasoning.
In paragraph 2 it states that "There must have been a degree of surprise among mission controllers back at the Jet Propulsion Lab when the face appeared on their monitors. But the sensation was short lived. Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." That's another reason why I picked this paragraph to be in my writing because It tells you the features and what it looks like.
In paragraph 10 it states that "On April 8, 2001-a cloudless summer day in Cydonia-Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second like. "We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view," said Garvin. " Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution." Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo." That's another reason why I also picked this one to talk to you about because it is a fun thing to talk about when it comes to this subject.
In paragraph 11 it states that "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!" That's another reason why aliens did make it made itself.
In paragraph 12 it states that "What the picture actually shows it the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West. "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," says Garvin. "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." That is the very last reason why aliens did not make that face the planet made it by its own landforms.
In conclusion aliens did not make the face the planet landforms do and it does it all around the American West. | 4 |
73c5c3d | Why you should join the seagoing Cowboys. You should join the Cowboys because it helps others in need. Like in Europe and in china. You can help them go through the hard times. There is a lot of happiness you can bering them. You can help the China repair the damage. And help Europe get food and care for their hoses. You can save someone's life out there.
The sea Cowboys will mean a lot too them.
UNRRA could mean a lot to them.
Just think about all the hard time their going through.
The ware just end and thre is a lot of damage done to them.
The will help care for there horses.
It will also help you make more friends and meet new people.
This could be a opportunity of a life time.
You get to see a whole lot of new stuff.
See new sites. And have fun while my our crossing seas.
You also get to go to Greece.
You can do unbelievable things that might ,save life's.
Just the downer is that you also put your self in danger, but it's worth it because you will become a hero to all those you help over time.
You be seeing amazing sites.
You also travel the high seas. You will get to see the Atlantic.
Just think about all the children you could be saving there life.
For them to have a better childhood. | 3 |
73c8e82 | Although skeptics are proclaiming that there is life on Mars, NASA has scientifically proven the true, less exciting conclusion: the mysterious face seen on the Red Planet is just a natural landform called a Martian mesa. Photographs from different spacecrafts have revealed an image on Mars that appears to have a "shadowy likeness of a human face". Shadows on the object give "the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." Many believe this is a key piece of evidence showing past or present alien life. However, NASA has examined multiple facts to turn down this claim.
In 1976, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft captured the first look at this mystertious figure. While looking for landing sites for Viking 2, its sister ship, the spacecraft came across the Face in a region on Mars called Cydonia. Scientists conluded that the formation was a Martian mesa with shadows creating facial features. Although the claim was made, the image created suspicion in many. What if the Face was an alien artifact? However, on April 5, 1988, Mars Global Surveyor took another photograph, and this image was ten times sharper than the 1976 picture. Again the Face was shown as the same type of natural landform. Finally, in 2001, a third picture of the Face, taken by the latest Mars Global Surveyor, created solid evidence to the past conlusion. Also, a discovery of life on Mars would benefit the comapany of NASA. Therefore, the organization would not hide a discovery of life on the planet, as many skeptics believe the comapany would do so.
The most plausible theory is that the Face a natural Martian mesa. Three photographs from spacecrafts support this claim, and the fact that the landform is in Cydonia, an area with many of these formations, further backs this conclusion. NASA has no reason to hide new scientific discoveries of life on different planets, and the company is not doing so here. Although the discovery of unknown life would be an extraordinary feat, scientists must continue to research into different areas of space, hoping to find evidence for such conclusion. | 3 |
73cc4ce | In the story the aurther is describing why Venus is the 2nd Earth and there coomon and there diffrents and what would be the best matterial to use for the Vehicle Witch Nasa is working with some simplified electrons made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus surface and have lasted for 3 weeks in such conditions . Then Nasa also has a nother project were they are looking to work with the old technology called mechanical computers werefirst envisioned in the 1800's and played a inportant part in the 1940s during the World war ll. But the reason for the old tecnolagy is because if we were to have a cell phone on Venus is because it would melt because of the acid or heat capable of meting tin. You all so have people striving to meet the challenge presented by venus has value ,not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself , but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimedating endeavors. | 1 |
73d2bf3 | My position on driverless cars are that they would be very efficent but would also have negative outcomes as everything does. I would be for driverless cars because i think that the pros of the driverless cars would outshine the cons of it. When it comes to technology there are always going to be negative and positive outcomes to things its just about how much more positive than negative it is.
As stated in the artical it would be very useful to prevent accidents and help drivers that arent in full control of there vehicle yet to learn how to better drive on the road. The rear veiw cameras that have been made to help cars notice when they are abou to hit something is a good start to helping people that might not pay as much attention as others but it can also be negative in other ways. The traffic jam assist could be useful as well as it helps people that are stuck in traffic maybe in busy cities or on a road where an accident has occured
To conclude i think that it would be a good idea and i fully support the driverless cars while also being aware of the downsides to them and trying to work around them. It all comes down to the laws and how the government can make our streets safer for our generation now and future generations. | 2 |
73d69f0 | Are driverless cars the right choice for our future? No i believe that they are not the right thing for our future, because they seem unsafe and our country is already lazy enough. Yes there are some pros to building driveless cars, but there are also cons as well.
In paragraph nine it states that "our traffis laws for our states are under the assumpiton that the only safe way for a car is to have a human under control", and thats beause our traffic laws are based on human error. So basically if a said law is broken then the human gets the bad end of the deal, but if its a driverless car who will get the blame for a traffic law being broken the company that made it or the owner of the driverless car? Also in paprgraph 7 it basically said the car can drive its self unless if it needs human help and that the driver must always has his or her hands on the wheel. Basically saying we are able to regain control if needed, but what if we couldn't because the car is acting up and then we get injured or get others hurt. So what I am trying to say is you never know if its safe.
So think about it. Do you think that driverless cars are right for our future or no? | 2 |
73dcfb0 | Venus, sometimes called the 'Evening Star," is so seeable, that people can spot it by looking through a horoscope. Many people see venus as a star because of its sharp brightness, but venus is actually a planet.
Many people are against landing in Venus, because of the danger it could cause. for example, in paragraph three, venus is stated to be "Temeratured above over eight hundred degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." But despite all this, the study of Venus is a worth pursuit, even of all the danger it presents. Venus is the closest planet on earth, making it easier if people wanted to land. Just like Mars, venus is known to be an earth-like planet and could have possibly had oceans and supported various forms of like.
As more technology advances, NASA has a compelling idea to possibly land on venus safely. In paragraph five, it is stated: "NASA's possible solution to the hostile onditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray." This means that there could be a bump-like vehicle used to hover 30 or so miles above the roiling venusian. The vehicle would be a safe thing to use, because it is made for the rocky textured planet.
Venus is a planet that many people call the "Evening Star." Usually, it is so visable, because people usually see a sharp, brightness. It is known to be spotted easily by looking through a horosope. | 3 |
73e244a | Driverless cars are a futuristic dream for many people. But now that they are becoming a reality some people support driverless cars and some do not support driverless cars. Driverless cars can be dangerous and could fail and hurt someone. Driverless cars should not be sold or used until they fix the danger involved. Making them safe for the public to drive.
Danger is a big worry to the world, understandably to because many people die in automotive accidents. Some beleive that driverless cars can solve that danger involved in driving. But in truth it could be more dangerous than a human driving. The technology involved in everyday life can be troublesome and does not want to work all the time, so the technology involved in driverless cars could easily behave the same way. Most people have had a problem with their wifi or their phone acting up and not working before. The technology in driverless cars could just as easily do the same thing, and that could indanger millions of people.
Driverless cars take away human control and human error, but it gives control to technology and computers, in turn giving way to technology errors. Many people dont want their families getting hurt do to a technology error when they could of had control and been fine. Human control is very important when talking about families and friends. So until they can be absolutly sure the technology wont fail and can maintain control driverless cars should not be driven for everyday use. | 3 |
73ec0b9 | Driverless cars sound like everybody's fantacy, you see and hear about them from everywhere; fictional movies, childrens books, television, but having a driverless car might not be the fantacy you hoped for. There are many problems that come with the driverless cars. While you may be able to get around easily, who would be at fault if technology fails and someone is injured- The driver, or the manufacturer? Surely If you were to be in an accident because the car itself malfunctions causing injuries to you and other people you wouldn't be to blame?
Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert human drivers. In most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars. Why? Because it is rather dangerous. Another negative aspect would be that not everybody would agree with driverless cars, so would this cause a problem? Having normal cars and driverless cars on the streets together?
Having a driverless car will cause issues with navigating through roadwork or accidents, because they might be programmed for certian roads with certain conditions. So if something were to happen such as an accident would the car know when to stop? Or if there was an ambulance coming down the road for an emergencey, would the car know to pull over and let it pass?
Another con to the driverless cars would be that there would be so many sensors to go along with it. These types of cars need to have sensors in every direction, because there are unexpected animals, or children that cross the road without paying attention, they need to make sure the sensors are able to detect those types of things fast.
Technology is going very far but not this far yet, we might be trying to rush it too much, having only driverless cars would pretty much mean getting rid of normal cars, therefore; Many car buisnesses go out of work and many people lose their jobs. That being said, it would be way to expensive to replace normal cars with driverless cars for the billions of people in the world. While there are many benefits to this idea of driverless cars there are just as many if not more cons. | 4 |
73ed5e5 | I think that tthe Facial Action Coding Sysytem or the facs for short is a great tool that could opne new door that were prevasily clouse befor. We should take anvteng of this new tecnoligy to better help the people of today. Imeag you could tell if someone is facking a exspressen or forceing it with this tec we could. We could detormen if someone daprise and help them or cipadiseing with them
One way the athur say in the text is " a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored".
Not olny would this benafaet the studens it would be a great help for the teacher who can't tell can be a way of letting them now. And help the studen that are confused. The text also say "then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instctors". That is one of only many thing it can do by helping the teachers by better understanding the classroom.
It could do all of that by " Classified six basic emotions happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness" by accociated with characteristic movements of facial muscles. We could use this tecnogly more then just the classroomn like a better secroty system or a more exsprenol imeag to help doctores of what the pasent is feeling. That this tecnolgyn could work on pc or maby a phone is just mind blowing. | 2 |
73f5cf4 | Dear State Senator,
We all know that the presidental election process is very important to our nation. Many believe that using Electoral College is not a democratic pedigree, and that using the popular vote method is better. I believe that we you keep the Electoral College in electing our nation's president. There's a less likely chance that there will be a dispute, and we'll avoid run-off elections, with Electoral College. During a presidental election, it is possible to have a dispute over who should be our next president. The Electoral College helps reduce that issue.
In addition, the Electoral College voting method is better than voting by popular vote. With Electoral College, we're less likely to have a dispute. A lot think that a dispute over an Electoral College could not happen. According to "In defense of the Electoral College: Five Reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President", a dispute is possible. A dispute happened in 2000, but it's less likely than a dispute over popular vote. The reason is that the winning candidate's share of the Electoral College rarely exceeds his share of the popular vote. The third source gave an example of the Obama and Romney election. Obama recieved 61.7 percent and Romney recieved 51.3 percent of the electoral vote. Making a certain outcome of the election, and not resulting in a dispute. Also, with Electoral College we avoid a run-off election.
To continue, the electoral college avoids a ruin-off election. It avoids the problem where no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast. The third source stated above, gave an example using the Nixon and Clinton election. They both had only 43 percent plurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority in the Electoral College. When no candidate wins a majority of the votes cast, it complicates the presidental election. The Electoral College reduces any complication involving that.
Although the Electoral College is the method in which we select our president, it may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state. Democrats in Texas, or Republicans in California, have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign, knowing their vote would have no effect. But, no voter's vote swings a national election. Which means about one-half of the Americans eligible to vote, did not. People that vote are people who want to express their political preference, rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election. The Electoral College method is the choice to pick.
I believe that the Electoral College is the method we should continue using when electing our nation's president. We're less likely to have a dispute, and we would avoid a run-off election, with the Electoral College. This method has been working and should continue to work for our nation.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 4 |
73f9445 | In this paragraph it talk about a star call venus even though the star is misleading to a planet call venus. In the solar system venus is the second planet from our sun. Many astronomer never landed foot on the planet they sent numerous spacecraft to land on the cloud draped world. Each of the mision was unmanned, and for good reason, no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours.This is why not a single spaceship has touched the planet venus for 3 decades
because of how dangerous it is. Theirs 97 percent carbon dioxide in the planet venus. Even more challenging is that the cloud is highly corrosive sulfuric acid in venus atmosphere. On the surface of the planet, the temperauture is average over 800 degrees Fahrenheits, and the atmosphere pressure is 90 time greater than what earth have. This condition is far from what we human can encounter. NASA is working on other approaches to studying the planet venus. For example, they are simplifying electronic that is made out of silicon carbide that have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of the venus surface and it lasted for 3 weeks in such condition. Another project was they look back to an old technology called mechanicle computers. The device were first envision in 1800 and played an importance role in 1940s during World War two. Even though computer that exist in those year may be shocking, but the device makes a calculation by using gears and levers and it doesn't required electronic. | 1 |
73fece8 | There is so many of emotions, and only we know if we want to show them or not. Emotional expressions help us to show how we feel, or we can only pretend them, that is why I am against with the value of using this technology to read students emotional expressions. We have to think if they really want us to know what are they feeling? We all are humans, so we know that sometimes we feel embarresed of something, and we do not want to people know that. Adding to these we have to have our privacity.
Our emotions expressions help us to show how we feel. If we are sad we have a sad face, if angry we have a face that reference that we are angry as on the paragraph number 5 says " for instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face". So there is no reason to have the Facial Action Coding enables computers to identify human emotions.
Emotions expression can also being prentend them. Every single person has problems, and sometimes we are shy to let them know to other people, so we need our privacity, and we have to pretend that everything is all right, when maybe is not like that. If someone is sad, but he/she wants to look she is happy, so there is nothing to do, because is her/his decision. We have to think in the point of view. We can see on paragraph number 6 says "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becaming confused or bored" what about if the student feels emberresed, if everybody that he is the one who does not understans a topic?
But also the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions can help, but if the person wants to. Because people sometimes does not know how to tell people how they feel. Also it could help in differents ways to different careers. For example the police career, when they interrogate people, they can notice if they are telling the truth or they are just lying.
In conclusion the Facial Action Coding System anables computers to identify human emtions have to be used only in a special case. We have our own emotions, and our unique forms to show how we feel. If we want to be reserved is our desicion, and if we want to show our emotional expressions it is okay as well. Only we decide how to feel, and if we should show our emotions up. We have a right that is call personal privacity, we have to remember that. | 3 |
74023c3 | Driverless cars
You may think that driverless cars are good but I think that driverless cars are senseless I wouldnt want that I would want to drive my car myself. I waited a long time to get my driving license and drive my own car but no they had to come up with the diverless car and make all the other cars seem useless. Im going to figure out what makes this car so good, and see if would come in handy because its alot of people are craveing this car.
This car seem so crazy because what if my car startes to act all crazy and catch on fire what am i going to do im waisted my money and time on that car and it would be hard to buy a new one . I think we should all this stick with the cars we are use to. Because when you get this car you wont know what to do, and most people dont read manual to cars they just say they figure it out on their own. Once they try that they end up messing something up and having to spend more money on getting it fixed.
The car may come in handy because they have senseors even though sensors are nothing new they help stop the car like when the person driving the car hits the brake the brake sensors each wheel to ruduce speed so the human can gain controll over his or her car again. It can help older people to like when they arent suppose to be driving. This car is like having a driving assistant. They dont wont need to drive the car would drive by its self that would be good for some old people that like to get out a lot.
Most drivers focus on keeping the riders saft but it this car is a smart car so if they had a accident the car can prevent it from happening. In some staes this car is not saft for people to drive so the car comapany must prove that the car is saft.
if some one gets injured in that car should it be the manufacturer fault or should it be the drivers fault i think that it should be the manufacturer fault because they built they car and i should feel saft I it.
Overall i dont that this car is smart to build because i wouldnt feel saft in it.
I think they should come up with another idea for a car because if a lot of people get hurt it that car they might end up bankrupt and sewd so bad that they would have to close down there shop and just start their retirement. This car seem very senseless and I wouldnt buy it. | 3 |
74053ff | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" I disagree with incorperating the Facial Action Coding System into classrooms. Mainly due to paragraph 9. In this paragraph the author states tht the actors are putting on someone else's face. The way I see it is if students know this project is happening the won't be themselves. Another factor would be that some individuals don't produce the same aces as others.
Students often don't ask questions because they don't want to seem as if they don't understand. Forcing a person to get help isn't terrible but it also isn't anyone's decision except that persons. Most students woud probably manipulate this program by seeming confused to get an easier lesson. Who's that helping?
Once students are aware of that this is happening they're more then likely going to take an approach of paragraph nine. A majority of individuals don't show they're emotions because they don't want to burden others. That is they're personal decision. And to be completely honest, that isn't something you can take away. There are ways around everything, as in "feeling someone else's emotional state."
Nick D'Alto, developed an amazing idea that can be used in important situations. Such as mental hospitals. Children, adults and elders spend they're lives locked up for various reasons. A major population of patients just can't express themselve's verbally or don't know how. This causes them to be stuck in a home for years, never getting better. How can you get better if nobody knows there's nothing wong? I do disagree with the FACS program in schools but i would strongly insist the program was trialed in mental hospitals. | 3 |
7414383 | A claim that evaluates the author idea is... No matter how hard they try and study about the Venus and learn how to land there safetly, its still going to be a dangrous. like every time u send some one there to study, the spacecraft cant land for a hours and they get in danger. The author kinda want people to just give it up. no matter what you do, Venus will be Venus. In the article it says "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation". Venus is a earth twin but u should never dream to go there. There is no spacecraft that survive landing in Venus. In the article it says "No spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours". The spacecraft cant survive it because the Venus is so hot. NASA is working on other approaches to studing Venus. They be sending people to Venus just to study Venus. They are trying harder and harder. They are now using some old technology called mechanical computers to study Venus. The mechanical computers were first envisioned in the 1800s and played an important role in the 1940s during World War ll. NASA wont give up on studying Venus. People didnt know what Venus is before. Back then, Venus was coverd by tree and and mountains just like the earth. Now you can see it at the night time. Venus is called the " Evening Star,". It is one of the brightest light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot. The Venus is the dangrous planet that u should never go. No spacecraft servived the landing for more than a few hours. NASA is working very hard to study about the Venus and maybe wanna map everything on it. Venus is the "Evening star," that u can see it at night time. People who wants to study about Venus are now using old mechanical Computers. | 2 |
7414f02 | People all through out the world are realizing the problem we are having with emissions and smog problems. If we dont act soon enough we could lose our lives, maybe even our home(the world). Be like germany and some of the other parts of the world that are taking action to the smog and emission problems.
Limting car usage can have a positive affect on the world. Instead of hearing the sounds of motors constantly running, we can hear the sounds of active kids and bicycles. Over the past few decades, germany and in other places in the world are trying out the idea of limiting the amount of cars that are allowed in areas. In upscale areas in germany such as the district on the outskirts of Freiburg, the streets are "car-free" except the main throughfare where the tram for downtown runs. One way they enforce this is that to live in these area, you can either buy a parking space for $40,000 along with a home. 70% of the families that live in these areas dont have a car because of this. Transportation may be lower, but with the use of parking spots and garages eliminated, everything can be in walking distance rather than in a mall miles away.
As the greenhouse affect continues to grow, cities with major car emmission will literally be choking themselves to death. France had a very serious case involving the smog so in order to clear the smog, they enforces a partial driving ban to clear the air. "On Monday motorist with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The sane would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day." close to 4,000 drivers were fined. the smog cleared enough on monday the ban was lifted on tuesday for the odd-numbered plates. as the smog cleared up enough for this to be possible.
In the past few years Obama has said that the car usuage has dropped for the passed few years steadilly since our peak in 2005. Since then scientist and observationalist has seen that people between 16 and 39 haven't got there liscence as much as before. Scientists don't know if this is a last affect or will it go back up one the people have kids. There have been offered different alternatives to lower emissions, improve safety, conserve resources, and to save time. Only time will tell what happens.
If people were smart enough to just learn to ride a bike or walk to work in the mornings and afternoons, we wouldnt have this problem. we wouldnt have to be so worried about our atmosphere if less people were to drive in a car, and more started doing something less expensive and less harmful to the enviorment. not everybody will listen but if the majority of the people listened to this, we could all breathe fresh air and not be so unhappy with all the conjested roads. | 3 |
7416c35 | Driving while having not to drive seems like the way to drive, or does it? Being in front of the wheel but not taking any part of action that's going on seems like a brilliant future ability, but is it safe? In order to be safe at all times, the bottom line is driverless cars are dangerous because eventually techonolgy will go wrong, which goes along with risking your life, and not all people will take precautions in this situation.
People have been creating a variety of useful idea's thoughout the generation but overall this is one of the most dangerous. This car will have to always be checked because if something ever goes wrong with it, it will most likley crash. For example, if the car is driving on its own and somethings wrong with it, it could go ballistic because the car is controlled by itself and by the time you will take control of it you would be in an accident.
Dealing with the techonolgy of the car, your life is in great danger. Not only are you dealing with your own life, but maybe also the people in your car and drivers all around you. The driverless car does have "special touch sensors," that "make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." It doesn't mean they are paying attention to what is going around them. "If the techonlogy fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver of the manufacturer?" That is the real question about this whole argument.
This whole essay is ties up with the precaution of "risking your life," driving on the road is already a dangerous thing to do but to allow cars that drive themselves adds up. As in the text says, "GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object," there will always be people in this world who will be ignorant to these messages that the car implies. Sometimes the car will exaggerate the precautions you have to take making the driver think less of them.
There are endless of possiblities of things that can go wrong with driverless cars but also brilliant outcomes that can change the future. If people are willing to buy driverless cars, they must be alert at all times because there is a chance something might go wrong. So if you buy a driverless car, are you willing to take more chances of driving on the road than you already have? | 4 |
74253a3 | On the histories of
Venus they thought t it was a star,And gave it a neakname "Evening star".Ten people got creouse and start studing it,and when they learned that it was the secound planet on our solar system they wanted to land on it.
But it was different than any planet .The surface of the planet was hot even thou venus was the second planet it was hotter than the first plant mercury. it was over eight hundred dgrees fahrenhieit,But even thou it was that hot scientes did'say it was imposeble,insted they they said it was a challenge that is stoping them to not land on venus.
even thou they could not land on the planet they are trying to make some machines that's
strong to land on the planet.Like the item that made the 1800s computers it was strong metal,And they said that maybe that will help them
make it to thier goal.
And espesioly because it's the twin of the Earth they have to study about it. what if we found any criture that live deap in side that unic planet.And like they said "human curiosity will likly lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors".
And yes it is worthy pursiut despite the dangers it presents.if one day they landed. it would be easyer to study the planet more and learn about it's spesial place,and if it was like Earth it will tell us more about our planet and learn more our home Earth. | 2 |
742bc2d | Self driving cars seem pretty cool. There are a lot of reasons why self driving cars can actually become something that everyone can use in the real world. For example these driverless cars can help you control the car better , help you be alert, and help keep you safe.
Being able to control a car sometimes may be a bit challenging , but these driverless cars can help you control your car better. In the article it states " The sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce the power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone". This can help people have more control of their car, but this isn't the only thing that driverless cars can do.
When driving you have to be extremely alert , anything can happen when you aren't paying attention, but these driverless cars are extremely smart in fulfilling this task, for example in one of the cars these futurist had made had stated " GM developed driver"s seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing up into an object". That is very useful for people who dont really pay enough attention. these driverless car also asist you in when to steer , accerlerate , and brake themselves, they are made to notify the driver when the road ahead may have work zones and around accidents , this car is being ready to quickly get the drivers attention to wherever a problem occurs.
Texting and driving now in days are a huge problems and having many accidents because of this reason , but then again the driverless cars has a perfect plan for it. In the article it states , " Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over , something not available to driver trying to text with a cellphone. In this way, in the car-system is actually a safety feature , and safety is a big concern". This can help prevfent alot of accidents from happening. this is a huge reason why driverless cars are good for many people in the real world.
This driverless car can help prevent so many crashes , accidents and even money for people"s car insurance , I truly believe if these cars can actually become something that people can use, it would help so much entirely. | 4 |
742c60f | Technology that can read your facial expression! Its a computer softwear that can reconize human emotion. Would this be benfital technology emotional expressions of students in a classroom?
The computer softwear that can read your facial expressionwas devoled by Prof. Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Institute for Advance Science at the University of Illinions. Dr. Huang and his colleague are experts at what they do. They are wanting to understand better ways for humans and computers to communicate.
This technology that Dr. Huang and his colleagues have created would be benfital for intergation, prouduct review,and schools. when it comes to schools there are some pors and cons like how would a school afford it and the only time it would probably be used is if a student gets introuble. Some cons are how can the school affored the softwear, how would one use it, and will probably get trained to use it. Some pros are probably will lower the displin in school and less viilents. So the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions od students in a classroom valuable, no because how would the student us it. theyll probably just paly around with the computer softwear.
In conclusion this is pretty cool but there are some areas where its not gonna help out like school because there are alot of cons. | 2 |
742da12 | I believe Facial Action Coding System is very valuable to students it helps tell where the student is confused, if they don't get any of it at all or if the student totally gets & doesn't need extra help.
I think that Facial Action Coding System is important because, teachers can help students where they left off at. Some students may understand half of the assignment but not all of it & why re teach it all of it when the teacher could just help the student where the student left off. This is also very valuable because some students will say they get it but really don't so they won't look a certain type of way in front of their peers. This makes the teacher job a little bit easier & the a lot less stressful to the student, knowing the teacher knows he or she needs help without saying it out loud.
This would cause less students to fail & higher grades for sure because everyone in the classroom is getting the help that they need.
This Facial Action Coding System also is very valuable because, it lets the teacher know if the students don't even get it at all. A lot of students will not raise their hand for help, to not look like they don't get it while everyone else gets it. This Facial Action Coding System would benefit those type of kids that are shy to raise their hands in class for help. All together this would lead to much better grades for all the students for everyone in the class, it would help the teacher find new ways to explain the assignment using another method. Which is a plus for the students, this Facial Action Coding System works not only for students but for the teacher to.
One last reason i think the Facial Action Coding System is very valuable is because, it focous on the students that really need help. If one half of the class gets the assignment then the teacher doesn't need to keep going over it again if that side of the class already understand. This helps the teacher a lot becuase a teacher goal is to pass everyone in the class & by doing so help the students that need it the most. This would make school a lot less stressful.
This invention helps tell where the student is confused, if the student dosen't get any of it at all or if the student totally gets & doesn't need extra help. I think this invention is one of the best inventions we have ever came across. This invention takes so much pressure of students, they don't have to worry as much about not learning the assignment. This helps the teacher job a lot more easier the invention works hand & hand. This would for sure bring grades up if the student is willing to put in the work to learn the assignment that the teacher is teaching. | 4 |
7430da6 | The author of this passage provides many reasons on why we should explore Venus. The author states many interesting facts about Venus and ways we could adventure the risky terrain.
According to the author in passage two, Venus is the closest planet to Earths size and density. This meaning, if we were to explore this terrain it could be a possible place to start another biome like Earth. In passage four, the author mentions that Venus has mountains, valleys, and craters that resemble those we have on Earth. The author makes a good point in mentioning that Earth and Venus are very different but also very similar.
The author also reveals to us that Venus has an atmosphere made up of about 97% carbon dioxide. This piece of evidence is backed up with passage five, where the author also states that NASA is thinking about usinng the solution of allowing scientists to float above the harsh conditions of Venus' surface. This would allow our scientists to be able to explore and gather more information about Venus all while avoiding dangerous conditions.
The author does an excellent job at continuing to provide statements that support the idea of exploring Venus. At the end of passage five, the author states that solar power would be plentiful, and the radiation on Venus' surface and atmosphere would not exceed Earths levels of radiation. According to what the author states in passage six, many researchers are working on building machines that can withstand Venus' difficult conditions. This would allow the machines to collect samples from Venus' surface for the machines to bring back to earth for our scientists to analize.
At the end of the article, the author provides the idea that us humans exploring Venus could lead to many other great explorations. Overall throughout the article the author continuously provides valuable reasons on why it is worth it for our scientists to explore Venus. The exploration could lead to many great things accoriding to the information the author provided to us. | 4 |
74318fd | The author think that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because astronomers are fascinated by it. And also Venus is the hottest
planet in our Solar System. It brings curiosity to humans, just because its dangerous doesn't mean it should be limited. The body paragraph will get into all the texual evidence.
The text states, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus becasue it may well once have been the most earth-like planet in our solar system." And since Venus is the closest planet to earth that makes humans want to visit even more. But also the text also states, "At thirty-plus miles above the surface, tempatures would still be toasty at around 10 degrees fahrenheit." That proves that even though you could be so far from the surface it is still very hot to us humans, which is very dangerous but can survive. "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."Which is why we should study Venus despite the dangers.
In conclusion, i think that although Venus is basically the most dangerous planet in our solar system. I think that it shouldn't stop us but should want to make us study the planet even more. But find safe ways for us to do so. | 2 |
7434a26 | Imagine you were driving down the road one day and you see a car driving towards you. Seems normal, right? Wrong. You notice the driver is, wait he couldn't be, could he? But he is. The other driver is asleep and both of you are in a work zone. This would result in a crash and there is only one culprit. The driverless car.
We can all agree that technology has come a long way in the past few years, but has it come too far? Many companies are working on ideas for what will be a driverless car. It might seem like a really good idea at first but there are a few reasons that these vehicles would cause problems. First off, the distracted driver. If you were on a long car trip or had up late working before the trip you were making it would you be able to stay awake behind the wheel of a driverless car? We'd all like to say we would but it's not that simple. There are already drivers on long trips that mange to fall asleep while driving. Think about if they were just riding in the car how much worse it would become. The cars could pilot themselves fairly well but what if there was an accident ahead, or a workzone? The driver would have to take over to guide it through the changed route. This couldn't happen if the driver was asleep.
There would also be too many distractions while in a driverless car. People text and drive all the time already but if they didn't have to drive they wouldn't pay attention to the road at all. The companies that are making the cars are suggesting ideas of how to get the driver's attention when it is their turn to drive, but how well would it work? One of the ideas being suggested was entertainment systems built into the car that would shut off while the driver needed to take the wheel. Which isn't a bad idea until you consider the driver's own personal devices that they would bring with them.
In conclusion driverless cars are NOT safe. There are too many thing that could go wrong. The cars are not entirely to blame as much as the lack of responisbility of people, but untiil the cars can comensate for that lack of responsibilty they are not safe for roads. They need a lot more work before anyone should consider purchasing one. | 4 |
743acd8 | I feel that keeping the Electoral College is the wrong way to go. That changing it to election by popular vote is a better decision. Because the people of our nation should be able to choose who they want to be the president not the 538 electors. Why not have the whole nation vote for who they want and who ever has the majority of the votes win? That sounds like a fair election to me! The electoral college has so many faults, that just one little tiny mishap can cause a huge disater within the election.
The electoral college does have some advantages. Like swing states, or avoiding run-off elections . But it also has disadvantages for example it takes so many risks, its unfair to voters, its outdated, and irrational.
The electoral college cheats the people who are voting. I mean they didn't sign up or vote for the electors
NO, they did it for the president. So why not give them that chance? It makes it easier on other people and the election is a fair one.
The picking and choosing of the electors is unorganized. Each year its a different person.
Sometimes state conventions, sometimes the states party's central committee, and sometimes the presidential candidates themselves.
Voters that go and vote for which ever president they want, really aren't even voting for the president their voting for that president's elector. Which is someone who goes and votes for that president that picked them as their elector. And sometimes the voter that is actually voting for the elector to vote for their assigned president will end up voting for a different president. Also voters will sometimes get confused about all these electors and vote for the wrong candidate.
So in conclusion, changing from Electoral College would be the best choice to make. Because election by popular vote for the president isn't so complicated, is more reliable, isn't so risky, and most importantly the voters get a fair election. | 3 |
743db8f | The advantages that not having cars can bring is that they wont be that much air polution anymore. In German there is a city that doesnt allow people to have cars and will get fined if they have there car parked there. Also in Paris that happens and there is more people that are riding bikes and the smog that is caused by the air pollution is going down. In Colombia they are build new sidewalks and parks and sport center have bloomed through the city. Now President Obama want to do the same thing and has noticed that every years less and less people are not getting their licenses.
In Paris on Mondays motorisrs with even-numbered licenses plates were ordered to leave there car at home or have to pay a $31 fine. In the story "Paris bans driving due to smog" by Robert Duffer they say "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, and after 5 days of intensifying smog..." since people were not useing their car it droped down the smog. so that proves that the car were what was causing the smog to cover the capital city. Robert say "The smog cleared enough Monday for the ruling French party to rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday." This also means that the people were starting to notice that the smog is going down and decisded that it wouls be better if there are no more cars on the street anymore.
Now in the story "The end of car culture" by Elisabeth Rosenthal its is talking about how the President is seeing how Americans are buying less cars, driving licenses and getting less licenses as each year goes by. Elisabeth said "The United Stats, with it broad expanses and surburban ideals, had long been one of the world's prime car cultures. It is the birthplace of the ModelT;the home of Detroit; thep lace where Wilson Pickett immprtalized "Mustang Sally"." This country is were people have made a name for them selves by building cars and putting things out there to get them from place to place. They should made the people decided what to do. Let them want to walk to where ever they need to go to evey day and not have to force them to do something you tell them do to and if they dont you will fine them.
In Colombia millions of people are all ready used to the no car law. They have taken it in like its nothing. They only alow Buses and Taxis to drive 7 million people and it has been 3 years and people are doing just fine. people have gooten used to it and dont care and dont let anything stop them. Now in Germany they allow people to buy car only if they pay $40,000 for a car space and a home. 70% of Vauban's families do not have cars and 57% have sold there car to move there. Passenger cars are responsible for most of the green house gas.
People need to start thing about the way that they are treating with earth. Without car people are doing normal thing. In Paris, Germany and in Coloumbia people have taken in the law and have lived with it. i think it is somthing that could be good but a lot of people need cars to get to work and take there kids to school everyday. | 2 |
743f56b | Do you think the author did a great job on suggesting that studying Venus is a worthly pursuit despite the dangers it presents? It seems like the author did a pretty great job. the author included both sides of the claim and wiht amazing supposrting detail to justify his or her answer. The author aslo doesn't uses any first pronoun in his or her reading. Therefore, the author did a great job explaning his claim.
First the author gives you some background information about Venus, that was an amazing job. Not everybody is going to understand what your talking about unuse you inform them with some information. The text states in paragraph one, "Venus, sometimes called the Evening Star is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot." Another quote from the text states in paragrapgh one, " However, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet." The auothor states how Venus and Earth may once been the most look alike planets. The auothor also states why humans can't get to the land on Venus.
Overall, the author did amazing job at explaning how he felt about this stiutation. Includng details and supporting his claims perfectly. | 2 |
7440bf9 | They should change to election by popular vote. The people have a right to decide so shouldn't they. We elect electors and not the president that's not right. They electors have changed the votes around. The elctoral college should go. Athough there is a positive look to it.
Letting the people vote is the right thing. "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of elcetors, who in turn elect the president."(Bradford Plumer). So the poeple dont truely decide who becomes president. At least not if we choose the electors and the elctors choose the president. The voting system needs to change.
Who's to say that the elctors dont change the votes around. "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."(Bradford Plumer). So is that possible. The people of the United States don't have control over the elctors except the fact that they choose them. The electors could totally go against the people even though, say one person may have had more votes against this other person. Then the electors liked the person who was loosing so the choose that person anyway. Who's to say that they havent done it before. "It happened in 2000, when Gore had more votes than Bush yet fewer electoral votes, but that was the first time since 1888." So this did accure twice.
"The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens."(Ofiice of the Federal Register). So it does have a positive side to it. It's a good thing to have to keep the power balanced through out the voting process. So having the Electoral College may not truely be a bad idea. Although there will always be that inbetween group known as the electors.
So they should still change the Electoral College over to elections by the people. The voting system needs fixing. The elceltors have chance the vote twice who's to say they won't do it again. The Electoral College can be good at some aspects. Still the power should always remain with the people and that's how it should be. | 4 |
7444b30 | The concept of the automobile in the early 1900s was enough to make others pursue the dream of having one. As car dealerships made better looking, faster, high performance cars, the more people wanted them. After World War II when cars became inexpensive, more and more people had them. But it's also becoming an issue. Recently, that trend is going down.
To begin, the car industry has been at an all time high. We're making cars so fuel efficient, it almost seems impossible. We even have hybrid cars, which run on electric and fuel (respectively). But with all of the cars out there, especially in the US, the pollution in nations and our own cities are at an all time high. China's air pollution is the worst in the world. Nations have been taking the initiative to partially ban car use for a few days. Paris for instance, banned motorists with even-numbered license plates from using their vehicles, switching to odd-numbered the following day.
Furthermore, we have Bogota, Colombia who took a different approach to the rising air pollution. Instead of what Paris did, they banned automobile use in general, for one day. Buses and taxis still ran, but private vehicles did not. This seeminly little feat over time has done wonders on the city. More and more cities, including nations, are beginning this practice.
To sum things up, we see that there are advantages (and of course disadvantages) to limiting car use. Companies may lose money if they transport items. But as a whole, it's only a few days. Or even one day, that no one drives a vehicle. It's a perfect time to ride a bike, and lower air pollution in a city. | 3 |
744604b | I would say that we keep the Electoral College because it has worked over the past century so why change it now. The people voting don't always know what they want in a president they might be undecided and just choose the best looking one. I mean yeah some have their facts straight and know how the president they are voting is going to help the united states become a better country overall. When people have to much freedom they don't know what to do and do wrong choices so i think choosing a elector is a good thing they have studied the president and have heard countless promises that he has done. I mean he or she most likley will vote for the candiate running for president you did because he or she is a elector he or she gets the people who also voted for the same person as he or she wants.
I mean we people are still voting we still have the vote just that our vote goes to choosing a certain elector instead of just directly leaving it to the people to vote for a ceratin candiate running for president. By this the number is much smaller since each country is weighed and is worth certain points and decided by electors you choosed to trust to vote for the same president you did. You still are in control just that you choose somebody he/her is not likely to change his or her mind and vote for the exact person you want he or she to vote for. It stated in the article that "Each candidate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen by the candiate's politcal party." I say that if the candidate political party chooses the electors then they must be good and the party must be sure the elector won't change his mind out of no where.
This does make the candiate running for president try to convience the electors he is the one they need and that he will help our country be better. This also helps the candiate running for president know what states he should go to since some states they already know they lost. It stated in the article that "A solid regional favorite, such as Romney was in the south,has no incentive to campaign heavily in those states, for he gains no electoral votes by increasing his plurality in states that he knows he will win."So this keeps the president from having to go to every state because its just no based of popular vote and want every individual person votes for.
I think the Electoral college is great and well organized the process is good and the only thing is does is make the voting process more easier and ordered. I think we should keep it i mean it has had his troubles her and there but it has worked so good for such a long time. We don't want to change it and create choas since a lot of people are not use to change and don't take it quite well. I hope this is the way we keep on voting i think its great and that changing it would just make things harder on everybody. | 4 |
744cdf9 | A face on mars real or fake. The explaination for the human like face on mars is natural landform. It is natural landforming because in the artical it state the the human like face was fromed by shadow. " the caption noted a "huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . fromed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth.'' In my conclusion the alleged face on mars is from natural landforming. THn on April 5, 1998 Mars Orbiter Camera got a picture better the the Viking did. then it turned out it was a natural landform so in the end aliens did not create it. " And so on april 5, 1998, when
Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Micheal Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camara (MOC) team snapped a picture ten time sharper then 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.'' | 2 |
744e5b8 | I believe that the so called face on Mars is just a landform. One reason i believe this is because everytime we took a picture of the "face" it looked different. This is because the shadows are at different lengths throughout the day. It also looks different each time because the cameras where becoming more advanced and the images are having less and less pixels.
The reasons i believe that the landform on mars is a landform because shadows change how the object looks, the cameras were bad and were very pixelated making parts of the photograph look blurry, and mesas are very common in Cydonia. Like on Earth shadows can make objects look like something they aren't. Like I said mesas are very common in the area so there is a good chance that it is a mesa.
Because of this information thats supports the claim that the face is a mesa i believe that the claim is true. The technology over the time of taking the photos became more advanced therefore the cameras were able to take less pixelated images. When the last image was posted to a website in 2001 many of the people who thought the landform was a face or an alien artifact stopped believing. One scientist said that if there where buildings or aircraft on the surface that cameras would show if it was real or fake. | 2 |
7456322 | Driverless cars have been argued and talked about for years. There are many aspects that make the driverless car seem irresistable. However, there are a few concerns about driverless cars that are completely understandable. Driverless cars are a positive asset for this country. These cars will shape our future and change our world for the better. There have been many bumps in the road for the developement of driverless cars. This will not deter the developers though and many people are still working on them today. Not only will they help form our future, they will help improve the present.
Currently, only a few companies are working on driverless cars. Some of these companies include, General Motors, Google, and BMW. The birth of driverless cars started with special tracks that the cars could drive on. In the late 1950s, General Motors worked on a car that would run on a certain road. This road sent radio signals to the car itself and this is how the car would drive. This supported the idea that we didn't need a smarter car; we needed a smarted road. This system worked incredibly well; however, this idea was too expensive. After the reality of special tracks failed, engineers started working on smarter cars. This created a problem at first because the technology was not yet advanced enough to create driverless cars.
In 2013, BMW had developed a car that could handle driving up to twenty-five miles per hour. The driver still had to pay attention to drive occasionally and the car wasn't perfect. Google had been working on a car that could drive itself since 2009. In the reading it talks about how the technology to create driverless cars was not there. Sebastian Thrun, founder of the Google Car project mentions, "There was no way, before 2000, to make something intersting." He is refering to the driverless cars. The cars made in 2009 were suprisingly successful. However, the cars were not one hundred percent driverless. The google cars still needed a driver that could take over in certain conditions. This brought up the arguemtn, would people want a driverless car that they had to drive. However, in a few years the technology should be able to make these cars almost completely driverless. The argument of allowing driverless cars is on-going. There are many facts that make using driverless car seem like a good idea
One of the facts that support the driverless car is that by using driverless cars, we would use half the fuel of today's taxi system. This means we would save more money, and save the planet at the exact same time. The driverless car would have more flexibility than a bus as well. You would call the car to your house and then let it take you wherever you needed to go. A driverless car would allow for shorter travel times because the driver would be able to take breaks. This would result in the driver arriving places quicker. Driverless cars would decrease the amount of crashes as well. These cars would eliminate human error while driving. Stop lights would not be run, and police wouldn't have to chase after cars because they would have to go the speed limit. This would cause the crime rate to go down as well. The last thing needed to have driverless cars on the road is making in legal in more states. A passage from the reading states, "California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Colimbia have led the country in allowing limited use of semi-autonomous car." The cars driven in these states have been relatively sucessful. The rest of the country should use this as an example and consider allowing driverless cars.
Driverless cars are an idea of the future. However, that future is closer than many believe. These cars will limit gas, reduce crime rate, and decrese travel time. Driverless cars are an incredibly brilliant idea for America and soon the whole planet. The technology will soon allow for completely driverless cars. This will improve the world. Driverless cars are a positive asset for this country. Hopefully, driverless cars will be incorporated in daily life soon. In conclusion, instead of stressing out about driving, people will be able to sit back and let the car drive. | 3 |
7457ea1 | In different cities like Germany cars are really not needed as much as there are needed in America. A city such as Vauban, where cars are rarely even used. Most places have area's for cars to be parked "Forbidden", Around the French, Freiburg, and swiss borders. Vauban's streets are completely "Car-free", except for main thoroughfare. There are places that allow cars , like Freiburg's Downtown and a few streets on one edge of the community. There only two places to park-large garages at the edge of the development, by this car-owners space where he bought for $40,000, along with a home. only 70 percent of Vauban's families don't own cars , and 57 percent sold one just to move there. Cars are rarely needed in Vauban that people are immune to it. Some people say they are Healthier and Happier than most with cars.
Media Trainer, Heidrun Walter A mother of two says "im much happier this way". As she enjoys and loves to walk the verdant streets where the chatter of wandering children and the swish of bicycles just drown out the occasional distant motor. Vauban completed in 2006 , is an example of a growing trend in Europe. The U.S and elsewhere to sepreate suburban life from auto use, as a componet of movement called"smart planning". Automobiles are the linchpin of surburbs, where middle class families from chicago to shanghai tend to make their homes. If you prefer a car instead of walking all over the place, there may be slight changes you will have to make towards your car.
Like passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in some car instensive areas in United States. No matter if they have cars or not, Vauban home to 5,500 residents within rectangular square mile, may be the most advanced experiment in low-car suburban life. David Goldberg, an official of Transportation for America, a fast-growing coalition of hundreds of groups in the U.S.
More and more countries and cities are banning cars due to some of the cons that they do have , like pollution , leakings, car wrecks and many of congestions on streets and highways. There having more car-free days than anything else , cars are just not that important anymore in Europe. The end of the car culture is literally coming to an end. Even in the United States, Americans are buying fewer cars, Driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. Cars are just not that important anymore. | 3 |
7459fff | Driverlees cars are coming and there are my whole thing on the driverless cars is that is there safe for the road safe on highways do they need gas in there how long can it ride does it need to be charger up well the psotive thing is that the diver less cars have gone miles without anything
happen to them but the only problem with them is that they still need help when pulling out of drivewyas or dealing with complicated traffic issuess, they have problems navigating through roadwork or acciends so what does that mean does it still need are help with thoes things well for the car to be smart you must need a lot of sensors in the car when google had use the toyota prius they had estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, rotating sensors on top of the car and a video camera near the rearview mirror plus all thoes thing you have four more sensors in the car evan a gps but the one thing on the car thats good is the sensors on top of the car why it has a laser beams that constanlty updating usesing 3-d model and check the surroundings of the cars and with that help the car can mimic the skill of the person that inside the car of ther driver with thoes sensors in the car diverless cars can but the brakes on its self or it can just turned the whole car up thats a good thing cause most people won't get into lot of crash.
in 2013 the bmw had made a thing called "traffic jam assisant" what the car can handle up to 25 mph, but with that we still goiing to have to hold the wheel of the car thats not a driverless car but what it can do is steer,accelerate, and break with other things the car might need are help such as going throught work zones are around other cars accidents so that means for us that we must always be ready for anything that could happen.
with that gm has made a thing for us inside the car that has sensors in them that tells you somthing going to happen you seat will vibrate when the car is in danger backing up into an object with the google car it tells you when you have to take over the wheel but there laso thinking about putting cameras inside the cars for you can be watching the road and while the car watches the driver. | 2 |
745fe37 | Most of the people on Earths examinated that visiting a different planet such as Venus is endanger places to explore but the author from "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" denied what others thought was wrong. The author suggest that visiting is one of the greatest planet to visite, need to investigated, and how it impact the people who live on Earth and expecially the planet Earth it self. Venus is oftenly "reffered to as Earth's twin".
The author included that Venus is one of the greatest place to visited. The text says,"Venus is the closets planets to Earth.." This texts show that it's not far from Earth, and making people should take their chance to visited. The other texts support that it's would be the greatest opportunity for the people who would be willing to put his life at risk for good and worst,"a crucial consideration gioven the long time frames of a space travel". "The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable but what are the options for making suh a mission both safe and scientically productive?". This both evidence from the texts exaplain that throught the worst part it would make things better.
More people such as young adult, who studies about the Earths' revolution or who is a scientist, Venus is a great place to study about the enviromental as such, weather;climate, the population and the atmosphere. The author is making a comparison about Venus and Earth, how they alike. They could make a comparison about Earth and Venus; how they are alike and are different. "the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere." "and the atmospherc pressure is 90 times greater than what we experince on our own planet." This texts support the evidence about the comparison about Earth and Venus how are they different. "such as enviroment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals." This means that in our planet; Earth how it is difficult for people to survived due to such as hurricane and tornado.
Venus would be the greatest helper for Earth it self in many goods. The contact is the insight of the condition it form lights and how it would impact magnificent the solar system that produced from Venus are because Venus is "the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system.." The author also described it as "powerful earthquakes" that form "lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface." This evidence means that Venus has a strong power that would form the bigger lighting than Earth and it would be the great helper for the humans to uses to make our solar system a better one.
Venus is oftenly "reffered to as Earth's twin" . Many people on Earth should take a chance to visit Venus and learn about the magnifcent circumstand between both planet, Eath and Venus. The main reason is Venus one the greatest helper an impact the people who lives on Earth many way. One of them the people would learn many entity on Venus by exploring and investigate how things work. People could also make assuption or making comparison about Venus and Earth and they would learned to make the Earth a better place to live and give a credict to the Venus for helping the people live in Earth. | 3 |
746e361 | The landform on Mars is quite interesting, and there could be many thoughts on how it came to be. With already known knowledge and knowledge that is soon to come, people like to guess. With the already known knowledge, we know so far that aliens have not been found on Mars yet, therefore they couldn't have possibly made a mark.
Like Earth, Mars is a planet just with different features. Our earth forms mountains and hills due to erosion and our plate tectonics. It's naturaly formed by the planet. No living organism created the rocky mountains. So with that, it is able to be assumed that Mars can form it's own hills and mountains as well.
Something else that is credible is that no life form has been found on Mars yet. Who knows if Mars has erosion or layers under it's surface that is able to move? On
Mars, there is no life that could have possibly created such a piece of art. Earth itself makes beautiful art like the Grand Canyon and
Niagra Falls. Naturaly, these landforms formed by Earth. Nobody knows exactly if Mars is able to do that, but with the relyablility we have today it has not proven that any life form could have created the Face on Mars.
If these markings were to be made by some kind of living organism, we almost certainly would know about it. Especialy with all of the high technology we have today, we would be able to see any kind of life. Maybe if we explored undernethe the surface of Mars, then we could get more information to see if Mars could have created it or if these aliens are living undernethe.
It's a great way to assume how it happened by comparing Mars to Earth, but it could also be irrelevent. Earth, unlike Mars, has an atmosphere. It keeps in heat, but changes. Earth also has water and life. If this were to be a cause of the rocks, hills, and mountains, then it could be said that the face on Mars was not created by erosion, water, or anything like that. It takes a lot of studing and even more knowledge to figure it out, but aliens don't seem to be logical quite yet. | 3 |
746e6d5 | In the story "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" Luke Bomberger is a boy who crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times. He also crosed the Pacific Ocean twice. His friend Don Reist invited him to go on a trip with him on a cattle boat. In his point of view he thought it was an opportunity of a life time, so he couldent say no.
Don and Luke signed up to sail over seas to ship animals to other countries, states, cities, and more. On one of there trips they received their orders to New Orleans. But Luke turned 18 wich ment he could be drafted to military service. Luke kept going on his journies over seas instead of joining the military. Luke was verty exided that he went to a lot of places and crossed many seas.
On one of his missions it took about 2 weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China. But they loved caring for the animals and sailing it kept them busy. Luke and Don had fun on board they made up games. They liked when after the trips when the animals have been unloaded. Luke thought being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more then an adventurer. Luke and Don loved what they were doing. | 1 |
74706c5 | The so called "face" on Mars is clearly just a natural landform.
If it was a face, then why would it be the only one we see.
If this was a face, would it have been the only living being on Mars.
If it were a face, it does clearly resemble that of a human, but no human has been to Mars.
You could say maybe humans began civilization on Mars but we had to leave for whatever reason and when we got to Earth we suddenly went into a stone age, and that face was from a human that died on Mars, but that would have to have been millions of years ago and the "face" would no doubt have been buried in the sand.
If you are not yet convinced that this is just and landform that coincidentally looks like a face yet, then here are some more arguments.
In paragraph 7, it talks about how they took a much better quality photo of the "face" and it appeared to be nothing more than a landform.
You could also argue that maybe the sand covered up the facial features, but why wouldn't it have done that a long time ago?
Wouldn't that mean that whatever kind of species it was died recently?
If so why don't we see millions or thousands or hundreds or even tens of this species?
Was it the only one ever to exist on the planet.
If it Mars were sustainable for this creature, then it would clearly be sustainable enough for more creatures to appear just like it.
Also NASA scientists are no doubt more qualified then any average citizen when it comes to topics about other planets, and even they appear to think that it is just a landform.
If it was a face, this would prove that there was life on Mars which could benefit NASA, so they ultimately would have no reason to keep it from us.
This "face" is just a landform but people seem to think that it proves that there was life on Mars.
While there may have been life on Mars, I don't think that this landform proves it. | 3 |
74733b7 | Transpotation has been a key part of many socities around the world today; from getting to and from jobs, visiting familes, and running common everyday errands that life brings. But, in some areas, they are opting to go car-free, and in many ways, it is making positive impacts within these evolving areas. From lowering emissions and greenhouse gases, to providing a more stress-free way of living, opting out on cars can make huge positve effects that everyone should look into.
Cars, especially in the United States and other leading nations, have many suburban ideals that bring them to have one of "the world's prime car cultures". The U.S, for example, is the birthplace of the Model T, one of the first cars that was ever made. However, over the last decade, America's love for cars has gone down slightly, and is headed lower each year. Looking into the future, this shift could have great affects on today's socities; which includes letting off fewer carbon emissons into the enviornment. This decrease would happen because transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions into the atmosphere, just behind Power Plants. Passenger cars are responsible for 12% of greenhouse gases in Lowering the amount of car emissions will additionally help achieve President Obama's goals of helping the enviornment and doing something good towards it during his time as President.
In addition, France is a prime example of how lowering the amount of cars on streets will have positive outcomes on the enviornment. Because of excessive amounts of smog in air in Paris, they came up with a clever system to reduce the amounts. An alternate day schedule is what was put in place, allowing motorists with even numbered license plates to drive one day, and odd-numbered drivers the next. Failure to leave their cars at home on the days that don't apply to them resulted in a 22-euro fine, which didn't stop some drivers. But, despite their reactions, the idea had many postive impacts and cleared the air of smog. Countries all around the world have seen the impressive facts come to life that reducing driving can lower the amount of emissions we put into the enviornment.
Limiting the amount of cars on the road also has other advantages other than the postive impacts it can make on the enviornment. Germany, for example, is experimenting by forbidding street drving, driveways, and home garages near the french and swiss borders (Vauban). As a result, 70% of Vauban's families do not even own cars and 57% sold a car to move there. One resident says "When I had a car I always always tense. I'm much happier this way". This idea shows how being car-free can lower stress levels | 4 |
7473c7f | Imagine that the technology will be able to read people's emotional expressions and understand what they actually think about. The technology has been continuing to develop, and it makes more convinience world today. Dr. Huang had enthusiasm to use the new technology, called the Facial Action Code System (FACS), for figuring out how it possible to know that the actual emotion of people. The reason why, people sometimes make fake face for hiding something. Using famous paint "Mona Lisa", Dr. Huang look for what the actual emotion of the women for instance.
The "Mona Lisa" is a remarkbly famous paint, also it is known as mysterious painting. Some people can see the paint of the women is smiling, on the one other hand, some people disapprove it. Dr. Huang figured which FACS would calculate what is the exactly emotion the women has; the FACS can figure out the emotion by looking movement of the muscle. Similary, he avocates that people actually can add this system on the computer in the future. By using advantages of this technology, it will give more profit for their work or educational system alot. The only disadvantage is when people work with such as this technology system, they would require to make smile whenever the situation. Meanwhile, it will not be able to help in the normal life such as when talking with family or friends, because sometimes people do not have to know.
People could finally understand the actual emotional expressions of the Mona Lisa because the FACS created. The FACS is available for figuring out the actual emotions of people by looking their muscle system. It is incredibly an amazing however, people require to consider the situation of using this technology. Because it possible to occur some problem without propriate thinking. Today, most people have been spending convinience life by using technology, but it is significant to consider what is honestly neccesary for us. | 2 |
747407c | Bang! Your brand new driverless car has just made a mistake and you rear ended the other driverless car infront of you, whose to blame? You weren' driving the car but you own the car. How do you explain the accident to your insurance? Driverless cars may with daily commute, but the risk heavily outweight the advantages. These cars should not be developed because: they are more prone to accident, harder to properly regulate and the idea simply isen't practical.
Imagine that you are taking a long, overnight road trip and everyone in the car is tired from a busy week. Good thing you have a driverless car that can drive for you right? Wrong. Engineers have yet to deveop a car that requires no human help at all. For this reason, a human still has to be there to navigate the car. Since the car does most of the work, the human is more likely to pay less attention to the car. What happens when the car requires human help but the driver doesen't pay attention? Does it just keep driving into the construction sight and run into a worker? Or does it stop in the middle of the road and get rear ended by the car behind it? "The psychological aspects of automation are really a challenge," admits Dr. Werner Huber, a BMW project manager driver. And what prevents people from hacking into the cars and taking control of them? If hackers can hack into the white house, then surely they can hack into a soccer mom's station wagon.
The goal of having regulations on drivers are to keep the drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe. So how do you regulate a car that doesen't have a driver? Who is at fault if the car malfunctions or is hacked into and causes an accident? How will the person who owns the driverless car's insurance policy be affected if the his is responsible for the accident? Also, what if not everybody can afford a driverless car? How do you regulate cars when there are both driverless cars and cars that require drivers on the road at the same time? These are just a few of many questions that must be answered in order dor driverless cars to be developed. For these reasons, I beleive that the challenge of regulating driverless cars is is to complex and would create to many issues; therefore the development is not a practical idea.
Inconclusion the development of a driverless car is not practical unless dramatical innovations occur. The creation of a driverless car greatly increases the risk of an accident and simply isen't practical for insurance purposes. The idea of having a driverless car may sound very interesting to some, but the risks far outweight the advantages. For these reasons. I beleive that, unless some type of revolutionary technolgy is developed, driverless cars will never successfully be developed. | 4 |
7476964 | Do the computers tell people emotions or what they think? why does the mona Lisa smile make people smile? There are three facts bout why the can not tell emotions or expressions.
The first piece of evidence is there are six different type of emotions and the software would not be able to figure them all out. The six types of emotiond are happyiness, sadiness, angry, disgust, fear and suprised(Dr. Paul Eckman). i believe that computers cant tell if the software can tell whether or not if people have the right or any emotion at all.
In the fourth paragraph Dr. Huang states that " the facial expressions for each emotion are universal," (Dr. Huang) "even though individuals often show varying degrees of expressions"( like not smiling broadly).I agree, each individual has their own exprssion that can happen anytime.
The Mona Lisa makes people smile because of how interesting the expression is on her face and how you dont know how she feels. Mona Lisa could be mad, happy, sad, scared, worried, any of these emotions can express how she feels in the painting.
The auther that wrote this artice is stating that software may or may not understand if you have emotions or any expressions. it can not tell because the software is not alive to tell if you are in a mood or not. | 2 |
7477a07 | If there were driverless cars i would go crazy because i hate walking. Its not that im lazy its just that it wouldn't feel right without any cars. There should not be driverless cars because everyone doesn't enjoy walking very much. It probably would be some type of other transportation instead of cars such as a train, bike, bus etc.
Just imagine if there were no cars, train stations would be crowded. There would probably be arguments all the time. It just wouldn't feel right. If this was to happen i would try evrything in my power to try and stop it.
What's going to be on the roads, the world would just look empty as if nobody was ever on earth. I dont think everybody in this world would get the mindset of not having a car. Some people might think it's possible, but thats not humily possible. It would have to be some type of debate for something like this to happen, but honest opinion is that it'll never happen. Only if everybody thought the same then maybe it can be pulled off. There should be a debate for this. | 1 |
747c708 | There are many reasons why others should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. They will experience unique adventures, beautiful countries and cities, and will have the chance to care for and grow closer to God's magnificent animals, like I did.
The first reason to sign up for this program is that they will experience unique adventures. These may include meeting new friends, trying new foods from different culters, spending weeks on the bright blue sea, and roaming around new places. I had a great time seeing and doing all of those things while I was a Seagoing Cowboy.
Another reason to become a Seagoing Cowboy is the ability to discover beautiful new countries and cities. They could see mysterious English castles, eat delicious European foods,sail across long, flowing rivers through France, smell many different plants and animals in Asia, and much more! It would be an experience of a lifetime and all their friends back home would be jealous of their trips.
Last but certainly not least, the new Seagoing Cowboys would have the chance to work with amazing animals! If they love hard-working animals like these, this job is for them. They get to take care and feed these magnificent animals such as horses, cows, donkeys, and mules that would be taken to the countries that are in need which they would be headed to. They can have fun and help others at the same time!
In conclusion, becoming a Seagoing Cowboy would be tons of fun and knowledgeable, too. I would definitly recomend it. They would have a blast experiencing unique adventures, sightseeing in beautiful countries and cities, and caring for the wonderful animals God put on this earth for us. | 4 |
747e866 | You will like to join the Seagoing Cowboys because you will take care of the animals that are on the boat. You will get to sightsee and go to different countries that you have never been before. After the animals leave the boat you get to do things on the boat like reading, Table-tennis tournaments, boxing, and more fun activites. Everyday you maybe need to go to deliver the animals to a new country and you will get to feed them and take care of them. This boy named Luke graduatied and his life changed after he said yes to go on a cattle boat.
First, Luke graduated high school and he had two part-time jobs one at the grocery store and one at the bank his friend Don invited him on a cattle boat to go to Europe he said yes and he knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime. When it was nineteen fourty-five World War two was over in Europe and the UNRRA hired Seagoing Cowboys to take care of the animals that were shipped over sea. Luke and Don singed up to be Seagoing Cowboys and in August nineteen fourty-five they received their orders to report to New Orleans and Luke says, "We arrived August fourteen the day the pacific war ended." so they both got their seaman's papers and boarded the SS Charles W. Wooster, that was headed for Greece. Luke turned eightteen which meant he could be drafted for the military service. By the time he was discharged in 1947, Luke made nine trips which was the most of any Seagoing Cowboy.
In conclusion Luke was a good Seagoing Cowboy but, he was not working for a couple of days because he cracked his ribs on a rainy night. Luke was knowed for making the most trips that a Seagoing Cowboy has ever made. Luke had a total of sixteen times that he croosed the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War two. Luke was a nice caring man who help on the ship and the people. Luke opened up the world to him and had a grateful opportunity that made him more awareof the people of the other countries and their needs. | 2 |
7486d70 | Do you believe aliens are on mars? I am a scientist from NASA and I am here to tell you that there are no alien life forms on mars. Recently we have discovered a landform on mars that has the appearance of a human face. Many believe the face is ancient alien artifacts, and some believe it is a landform known as a Mesa or a Butte. This article will explain why this "Face" is not an alien artifact.
About 25 years ago a spacecraft oribting mars called the viking 1 was searching for landing spots for its sister ship called the viking 2. In 1976 Viking 1 took a picture of something that had the appearnace of a face, NASA could not explain it at first. After some research that mission controllers came to the conclusion that is was another martian mesa, they were common in the region of Cydonia on planet mars. A few days later NASA decided to unveil the image for all to see. The face on mars became a huge hit in pop culture it was featured in movies, books, magazines, and even on radio talk shows. Many people begain to think the face was evidence of aliens on mars and were confused because NASA would want to hid ethe evidence of aliens on mars. "Some people think the face is bona fide evidence of life on mars." Although few scientist believed the face was an alien artifact, Photographing Cydonia became a tp priority. NASA took pictures of the face every chance they had. In 1988 Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time and took good pictures of the face. When the photo was seen it was proof of no alien life it was just a landform on mars. Many were not satisfied and wanted more proof so in 2001 the Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough to take more detailed pictures. When the scientist got the picture it shows a martian butte or mesa and the scientist compared it with the Middle Butte in the snake river plain of idaho in the american west. When it comes down to it there is no alien life on the planet of mars and the face is nothing but a landform with the appearance of a face. I hope this article has helped you decide if you think it is alien or a landform. | 2 |
74891cf | The idea of the computer monitering your facial expressions is not the best thing. There could be people who do not want their facial expressions to be read. Some people may want to keep their emotions to themselves. It can go both ways if there is someone who is feeling sad then the computer can tell and your teacher can get to see what the best option is to cheer you up.
People can be very hard to read so the idea of the computer being able to tell how you are feeling is really neat because that way humans do not have to do so. People can be able to tell if you are feeling happy,sad,mad and even confused or sick.
In the passage the author states that people have trouble telling emotions apart. In the article it said "Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions".
The article specifically stated that people are unsure of what to look for when to see how someone is feeling. I think it would be a good idea to make computers see hoe you feel, but some people might not want their facial expressions to be read by a computer. That is like someone taking a look at you when you are in the shower nobody wants it to happen but if it does they do not feel that great.
There is many different ways you can look at this claim. An individual who is feeling sad will get noticed and problably be sent to talk to someone. When it comes to talking to people i know i do not like to do so. some of the things that would go into this would be not as easy as they imagine it would be. Some people might not like to talk about their feelings. I know i sure as heck do not like to talk about my feelings.
Then again there might be a whole lot of people that would like this to happen to computers. It could be valuable because if a teacher is teaching she or he might be too busy to notice how someone is feeling. normally a teacher can tell what type of day someone is having by the way they walk into the classroom. Nobody wants to feel sad but if they are a person might be able to make them happy by cheering them up.
I do not know if someone would want this to happen or not. The right aproach would be is to have a survey to see how many people would find this useful. People could do a lot of good by having this in schools to tell what type of day a student is having. Everybody should have an opertunity to talk to someone and make another person feel good if they are not having a good day. | 4 |
748d54a | Why others should become a Seagoing Cowboy. If you become a Seagoing Cowboy you would have a lot of fun exploring and touring places.
others should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys because you could go to many unique places. They could go on adventures and explore them if they participated in the Seagoing Cowboys. Luke also toured an excavated castle crete and marveled. If you go to the Seagoing cowboy program you would have a lot of fun being there, because you can tour places go places you never been and do interesting things there. Going on adventures would be the best thing for some people in history that haven't ever went on a trip before.
Here are some reasons why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. Having fun and touring places would be the best thing ever. Joining the Seagoing Cowboys program would be a good thing to do. | 2 |
7490c48 | Hi, i'm Luke, and one day I was working at the bank and my friend, Don ask "Hey Luke, you want to go to Europe on a cattle boat with me!" How could say no to that type of question? I'v always want to do this.
The UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of all the horses, young cows, mules that were shiped oversea. Don and I signed up for this adventure!
I loved helping people and animals, and i'm here to say you should sign up and be the best Seagoing Cowboy you can be.
You get to help other people and animals. Before I got here I was a small little town boy, and I really never got to experince the majic hidding behind of being a Seagoing Cowboy. I even got a little of the benefit of seeing Europe and China. I also went to Acropolis in Greece was special. So was taking a gondola ridein Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water. I also got to see an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China.
Also, when I help out other people first, it makes me feel good second off it perpares me for hard work along the way of my life. I also got to be a night watchman I did get hurt a little but, before the week was over I was back to work, and better than ever.
I came here to try to explain how much I loved this trip. It prepared me for life. I hope you will join and become a Seagoing Cowboy. The phone number is below
(555) 444-7774 | 2 |
7491084 | I think the use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is a good idea. Olny because in paragraph 3 it explains how the computer can recognize the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we feel. Dr. Paul Eckman has classified six basic emotions and he explains really good how the six basic emotions express how we feel. Dr. Paul Eckman explains it in paragraph 3 he says this
"For example you frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when you're surprised".
Then that's when Dr. Huang comes in at he says "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal".
Dr. Huang uses things like video imagery, the emotion-recognition, it tracks the facial movements. It can track the facial movements in a real face or in a painted face of Mona Lisa. Dr. Huang explain that " by weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions."
In paragraph 5 it says that "Its a fact that humans perform this same impressive calculation every day". It also says in paragraph 5 that "you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face" and 9/10 times that's ture. When your with a friend and he/she is mad your going to know and ask he/she wht's wrong.
Paragraph 6 says "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." That's something I never knew or heard about!
Dr. Huang and other DRs. is stating things I never knew about in this artitcle. The artitcle is well explained.
This is why I said it is a good idea becaue they explained it really good. They had facts and had a good reason for it. I think this artitcle will make you think it's a good idea. So that's why I said this was a good idea. | 2 |
7494af5 | What is it about Venus, that make danger worth it? We all can't help to be curious even when it might require some danger. What is so important about Venus that cause us to try harder? Why are we so attached to Venus?
What type of danger is causing issues for us to find answers?
Scientist have sent spacecraft to planet to research and get evidence, but theres been a few issues. They have tried sending spacecraft to Venus but they have not had a sucessful one in over 3 decades. The thing about Venus is that it's temperature reach around 800 degrees fahrenhait, the atmosphere pressure is 90 times more than ours. Which can cause many issues for spacecrafts.
Scientist have found that earthquakes, volcanoes, and even lighting are located on Venus. In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus." they say the believe that Venus might just have been the most Earth-Like planet. How? they believe that at some point Venus was the home to oceans, valleys, mountains, and even could support certain life form. What if there right? but they can only know if they have true evidence from Venus.
What if Venus was once a place where life could live, what happened? Scientist have been working hard on creating a spacecraft that can handle heat, but also pressure. "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" they talk about working with NASA. They came up with the idea that maybe if we create a type of hovering car that could be close the Venus, but not on Venus. A car that could handle some pressure and some heat, without being destroyed. In the beginning they thought it would be a great idea, and yes it would get them close to get some information about Venus. The only issue is that if they really wanted true answer. They would have to get evidence that would surpport there questions. One day we will get up and personal with Venus and get our answers.
"The Challenge of Exploring Venus" Is the danger worth it, yes. Think about all the things we could teach and show people. Share with them the amazing information we never knew about Venus. We are never going to get answer if we don't search for them. Danger is always going to be a issue. Curosity is always going to be the reason we push harder and ask more questions. | 3 |
74a0072 | "The Seagoing Cowboys program have been looking for others to join." I spoke with power as I said that. People who want to have been scarce lately. I stood with confidenece announcing that we need more people. "This can be a wonderful change for those who want to help, and you would get to see many intresting and unique places." I looked at the group of people listening,and they were not convinced.
The assembly was over. The meeting of people who might join had been not quite intrested. I shook my head. I needed something to show that would make them want to go. Our next trip will be near Greece. I had already talked to my boss, and we will get to visit the Acropolis. I thought about that could be the way to show how great our team is. I continued to think that if we bring the others along they might want to join. I smiled after my boss was on board with the idea. We would finally get people intrested.
The day we set aboard hundreds of people joined. The first day we established what we did. For example like bringing animals, food, water,and other supplies. I mentioned how we have taken hourses and have had to take care of them. Anyone with animal intrest gleamed as they wanted to join already. I continued to explain that we feed and take care of the animals. Not long after we had people who wanted to join as soon as they could.
As the days continued, I talked about how we get to see many places while traveling. I told them about going on a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, and seeing the Panama Canal on my way to China. The others marvaled at the adventure, but I didn't stop there. I told them about me getting to tour a castle in Crete. As before, others we amazed and they too wanted to join quickly.
Lastly, for those who were not intested in traveling or animals I disscussed the times we had fun aboard. I talked about how we all played baseball and volleyball in where the animals had been housed. How we played table tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing whittling,games, and reading. How it was an adventure. It got everyone talking and more than I had hoped wanted to join. I got excited, and I was ready to teach the others.
I thanked everyone. I told them that to me it was more than just an adventure. To me it showed me how I get to help people in need. That it has me aware of other countries and their needs. It just makes me happy that I get to help them be helped. All people on the boat cheered and congratulated me. I smiled. I was ready for another journey aboard. | 3 |
74a2b0a | Autonomous cars are the cars of the future.
They will be able to drive themselves without any human interaction needed.
Autonomous cars would be far more intelligent than any human driver, preventing numerous crashes that are due to driver discraction.
Autonomous cars will forever change the way people commute.
Autonomous cars would change the way people commute to and from work.
They would also change the way people travel.
With no human needed at the wheel, autonomous us cars can make traveling long distances a lot more enjoyable.
It would also allow the human occupants to do others things rather than just sit and look out the window.
Autonomous cars are also a lot smarter than the average human driver.
This comes from the fleet of sensors that are stored on-board. These sensors include cameras, GPS, inertial motion sensors, automotive radar, and the most important of all, LIDAR.
LIDAR uses laser beams to map the area around the car.
This generates and 360 degree 3-D model of what is happening around the car.
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming", the author points out many good atributes of the autonomous car.
The author claims that autonomous cars would use one half of the fuel used by the taxis of today.
Less fuel used could mean less toxic emmissions and a cleaner environment.
The author also states that the autonomous car would have more flexibility than a bus.
Today, a bus runs along a predetermined route.
A public-transportation system that used autonomous cars would be far better for those pepole who do not want to stay along that predetermined route.
Autonomous cars will also be a lot safer.
The article reports that Google's fleet of autonomous cars have driven more than half a million miles and have not had an accident.
The autonomous car would be a lot safer for the people riding inside but also for the people around it.
Autonomous cars are able to see everything that is going on in its sphere of influence.
This is something a human driver could not do because we do not have a 360 degree range of vision.
The autonomous car is driving its way into our everyday lives.
Its will make the world a safer and cleaner place to live in.
The autonomous car will change the way people commute forever. | 3 |
74a6173 | You should become a Seagoing Cowboy. I became one when I was 18, and it can open up many opportunities, and adventures.
There are a lot of benfits that come with it as well.
I was a Seagoing Cowboy for two years, and made 9 different trips.
One of my first trips was to Greece.
We delivered 335 horses and brought along enough hay and oats to feed them.
We also got to go to places like Coastal Europe, China, Italy, and the Panama Canal.
Being a small town boy I didn't get to experience many things.
I worked on a farm most of the time.
Now being a cowboy I get to do the same thing with more opportunity involved.
Getting to help people in so many different places is amazing.
When we aren't doing our job we can go visit the community and experience there cultural antiquities.
We don't always work.
When we're done unloading the cattle we sometimes use the animal holds to play games.
We play baseball, volleyball, table tennis, fencing, boxing, and boared games. We also read, and whittle to help pass time.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy was an incredible experience, and I would love to do it again.
I got to meet a lot of amazing people and experience different cultures.
If you wish to do the same you should become a Seagoing Cowboy. | 2 |
74a9dbc | Exploring Venus
Venus is the closest planet to us in our solar system, which means we should explore it. At least, that is what the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" believes. However, he does not support this claim very well as he gives only one vague reason to explore it, he names several dangers and obstacles of exploring it, and provides very few actual solutions.
First of all, he does a good job of naming the several dangers and obstacles of exploring Venus such as the extreme atmosphiric pressure. The main problem though, is the temperature wich as the author states, "average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit," (Paragraph 3). This poses a problem as most metals and other materials melt at such high temperatures. However, the author fails to give very many solutions to these issues.
The author only provides two solutions to the numerous problems that he previously stated. Those solutions were to stay above the atmosphere where it is not as hot, and to create mechanical computers that were more reinforced. These solutions would be all well and good had he not brought up a problem with the first in which he states "peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only little insight on ground conditions" (Paragraph 6) thus, it is not a true solution to the problem at hand. But maybe there is good reasons to keep trying to come up with new ways to explore Venus.
Sadly, the author only provides one vague reason for which scientists should still try to come up with new ways to explore Venus. This reason of his is,"It may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system" (Paragraph 4). The problem with this is that it does not go very deep into why it being similar to Earth matters. A scientist at NASA might understand any signifigance in that statement, but an average person might not. For that reason it is a very weak argument.
In short, The author does not support his idea for exploring Venus very well because he only gives one vague reason to explore it and he names several dangers and obstacles of exploring it while providing very few actual solutions. Had he named more solutions and reasons to explore Venus it would have supported his idea far more. He named too many dangers without ways to properly combat them, which is why the author's support for his claim was weak. | 5 |
74aab02 | Their are so many things you can do to help keep the envierment safe to live in. Some countys world wide have already started taking these procations to protect the earth. The thing these countries have decided to change in their everyday life is to take cars away or start limiting the use of them. Now this might sound like a big deal but their are many advantages to this appeal of motor use.
Some advantages of cars being limited or just not used at all, would mean we would be saving more money. Just think about all the money you throw away to put it towards your car. Their are bills, repairs, new car if you get into a bad acident, ect. The list just goes on and on. Their could be so much more you could spend your money on and it could make are economy richer.
In source 3: car-free day is sprinning into a big hit in Bogota by Andrew Selsky it states that " In Bogota people who violated the car usage would be faced witha fine of $25". This is another way of showing you how much money you are wasting on your car.
Another advantage to not owning or using a car would be the pollution levels in the earths atmosphere would go down. In sourse 2:paris bans driving due to smog by Robert Duffer it states that "after days of near-record pollution, paris enforced a parital driving ban to clean the air of the global city". Now the people of the world should have never let pollutin get this bad. The french more of paris had smog (a type of pollution) for at least a week. In sourece 4: the end of the car culture by Elizabeth Rosenthal it states that "As of April 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was on January 1995". So the cars limitations is actually helping lower the number of miles which means the pollution rate is also going down.
Their are many advantages to not using or at least limiting the use of a car. such as reducing the money that is spent on one which wouls help the economy out. Also reducing the the polluction that cars produce. These are just some of the small advantages that come with the reduction and limitations of cars in the world we live in today. | 4 |
74abe2d | I think this technology would be very valuable in classrooms. Being able to know about how a student feels about a subject could be very helpful. This would enable Teachers to adjust thier teaching style and make it easier for the student to understand the subject. Not only would it help the teachers, but the entire class as well. Teachers would be able to see if students needed individual help or if they needed to go over it as a class again.
As said in the article, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." This also supports the fact that this technology could be valuable in classrooms. Not only the teacher could be able to change the lesson for a student, but the lesson itself could change for the student. This would make the student be less bored and more excited and enjoy the lesson that they are currently learning.
As technology evolves, we will use it more and more for the better use of people. This could possibly be the first step for making school a better place for students to enjoy learning. They could have personal computers that would adjust to thier learning speeds and needs. This would no doubt make school more enjoyable and easier to understand for students that are having trouble. | 3 |
74b1690 | I am aganist the development of driverless cars for many of reasons thats a bad choice for people to agree to aproved this. The purpose of driverless cars is bad idea just without thinking it I already know its going to cause some problems. As for one reason what if theres a sitution where the car doesn't know how to respond to the type of sitution. Second reason what if the car has a issue that can indanger your life , third reason driverless cars can increse many people grow obeasted.
They said that the cars knows some situtions that could happen but theres of things that could go wrong. What if theres something that some traffic works for got to put a sign will the car know not to avoid it no it will not know. Say if you told your car to take you to a place maybe the cars GPS could go wrong it could take you somewhere you might know of. What if there was a fire nearby and your car wasn't programed to avoid fires.
What if you told your car a command but doesn't respond then your stuck trying to frigure out the problem.Say if the car took you a wrong turn but you tried to tell it to stop but doesn't your gonna have to wait so it can finsh its distenation. Another command you might tell yout car to do was to give u control of the car but it doesn't let you have control what im trying to say your car now has 100% control.
Driverless cars is bad for your health theres many reasons why. Ok one many people are going to take advantage of the cars by not walking or just taking the car everyday. That doesn't seem healthy its more like making people more lazy than they are today. These cars is just making a loop hole for people that can't walk to many place thats something to understand but for those people that can chosen not to. So I say let the people that can't drive that actually need these cars not those who use it for no reason other than being lazy.
The Driverless cars is a great idea but maybe they should revise it before they make it for everyone. Also they should make sure that the car should respond to commands and know all the situtions that could happen in everyday lives of people with these cars. | 3 |
74b1e76 | On May 24, 2001, NASA discovered a large, shadowy figure that resembled the shape of a human face on the surface of Mars. Some are to believe this figure was created by "aliens". Was it? Or is this mysterious likeness just something as normal as a natural landform?
Viking 1 photograph of the Face on Mars was taken in 1976. The camera's absolute maximum was 43 meters per pixel. By looking at the photograph, you wouldn't be able to make a definate conclusion about what exactly the figure was and how it got on the surface of Mars.
Later, on April 8, 2001, Mars Global Surveyor was able to capture a photograph with an absolute maximum of 1.56 meters instead of 43 meters per pixel like in the 1976 Viking photo. The picture was ten times sharper than the original Viking photo. Jim Garvin even said, "You can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size. 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!"
Garvin also mentioned that they don't pass over the figure as a face very often and that what the image actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-- landforms common around the American West.
Like I mentioned in the first paragraph; some are to belive this figure was created by aliens. Was it? Well, after receiveing all of NASA's evidental information, I would have to say it was not. The Face on Mars is just a natural landform created by natural causes; not aliens or even previous human life that may have once exhisted on the mysterious planet. People may have been hoping this was the time in history where aliens could've been discovered, but as we can tell, that moment in history is certainly and obviously not now. | 3 |
74b2fe5 | What I Think
I dont think the alien made the face because, how could aliens make a face like that and where could they get the materials to make it pop out like that? I think the Face is a natural landform because, first of all, if the aliens crated the mask, how did space scientists find it? Second, how did they get the materials to make the mask? Last but not least, how did the aliens make the face like that? I dont think aliens made that face because how can you posibly believe that aliens are are real? Aliens arent even real because if they were real, their head would not even be like that. Take a really good look at the photo to see who you think made the face. If you take a good look at the face you could tell that the face is made from a real human and not a alien. Where could aliens get sement from to even make the face pop out like that? I dont believe that aliens made a face like that because it is impossible for a type of species to do somehing such like that, aliens arent even real because scientist have been looking for them for a long time and they have not found one yet. That scientifically proves that aliens are not real they might be somewhere hiding or scientists havent found them yet. I dont even think aliens are a species.
Thank You | 2 |
74b325a | if we go to the second planet from the sun the gravity would be more tense and would have different affects on humans. the gravity on venus would pull them down more than earth because it is closer to the sun by two planets away. but we also need to think about the air and the atmosphere because if we just go there then we might die. the air on venus is un supportive to humans and the water is not there or it might be a type of water that if you drink it it will kill you. the storms on venus are acid storms, the rain is acid. so i think the only reason why the author is saying that venus is a challenge is because not only the facts above. but also that the fact is that on the serface, temperetures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit. and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we humans experience on earth. so he also might be saying that it might be a challenge because if we take a rocket, it might be torn apart if we dont have the right mesurements. | 1 |
74b3cad | A Cowboy Who Rode he Waves Essay
Intoduction
Luke had turned 18 before he arrived in Greece, he said" I could be drafted for military services" ( paragraph 4). It took Luke to get across the Atlantic Ocean eastern coast of the United States 2 weeks, and 1 month to get to China. Luke had made a least 9 trips, more than any Seagoing cowboy. By the time it was 1947 Luke had helped people he said " Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China" ( paragraph 5). Luke had visited Venice,Italy he rode a gondola because the streets were water. He also " took a tour in a excavated castle in Crete, and the Panama Canalon his way to China" (paragraph 5).
Reasons A few reasons why you should to join the program that Luke is in because 1: he is a night watchman. That seems exicting because he gets to watch over the animal.2: he got to to visit a whole lot of places like Venice, Europe, China, and the Panama Canal. 3: he was on a boat so he got to visit the places like Europe and China. The last reason is to keep himself busy is caring for the animals during th crossing.
Body What Luke likes about being Seagoing Cowboys is he metioned that this would be an opportunity of a lifetime. When he first got on the boat he was exicted to visit the coolest places. The First one he visited was Greece that was the place they headed first. Then it was Europe that was where the boat was headed toward. Venice it is last he said " So was taking a godola ride in Venice, Italy, acity with streets of water.
Conclusion They are so manythings that Luke learned that ws really acurate of being a night watchman. Like helping people benefit of seeing Europe and China. Going through new expirence places like Europe, China, Veince,Italy. I am sure he probably visited more but, who knows. Luke learned that they'res a lot to handle of being a military watchman. The opportunity of a lifetime if he didn't take who knows of what could've happened to his life after he took the opportunity I am also sure he said hello to my New Life. | 2 |
74b7fb1 | Have you ever seen anything unusual and thought that it was just a natural landform, but other people thing it was created by extraterrestials? Well, some people argue that the Face on Mars was created by aliens and some people believe that it was created natural. I believe that the Face formed naturally. I believe this because of the camera quantity and the shadows and clouds of the planet.
First, I am going to discuss the camera quality. The quality of the camera is important so that the picture of the Face is clear. When the scientists first took the picture of the Face in 1976, there was an unclear picture. As time went on the cameras got more and more advanced that to the point you could see every detail of the Face. In 2001, when scientists took a clear picture of the Face, they identified it as a mesa, a natural landform in Western America. Also, they said that if there were any other alien landforms like egyptian pyramids that it would show up in the picture. Last, in the passage it states, "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." This quote from the passage proves that the Face is a natural landform and not created by aliens. This is how the camera quality prove whether or not the Face was created by aliens or is a natural landform.
Next, I am going to discuss how the clouds and shadows of Mars prove that the Face is a natural landform. First, the shadows of Mars gives the Face an illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. In the passage it states, "Huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, mouth." This shows that the Face is not really a face and it is actually a natural landform. Next, the clouds on Mars can throw off the cameras vision of the face. When the MGS took a picture of the Face when it was cloudly on Mars the picture was unclear and scientists could not see the Face in detail. Although, in 2001 when the MGS explored Mars, it was not cloudy. MGS was able to get a clear picture of the Face and scientists identified it as a natural landform and not an alien creation. This is how the shadows and clouds of Mars prove that the Face is a natural landform.
Finally, the camera quality, shadows, and clouds of Mars prove that the Face is a natural landform. The better the camera quality the more proof there is to say that the Face is a natural landform. Also, without the clouds and shadows of Mars, the Face is easily identified as a natural landform. To conclude, this is how the quality of the camera, shadows, and clouds of Mars prove that the Face is a natural landform. | 4 |
74b9f2a | Earth's twin is kind of hot. Venus is Earth's "twin," but it far much more hot than Earth itself. It is a whole lot more closer to the Sun than Earth is and that make space travel to get to Venus harder. There could be many pros and cons to go to Venus. There are also many dangers to going to Veus to study it. The atmosphere is by far one of the biggest reasons not to go there. WIth NASA's new and improved technology, space travel there could be a lot safer than how it is now. The author does a good job depicting the struggles of space travel to Venus.
Venus is the same size as Earth and that could be good or it could be bad. Life could be possible because it is almost in the goldilocks zone, but scientists would have to find a way to help with the heat. It has a rocky surface just like Venus and there is evidence that it was possibly covered in water at one point. The planet is one of Earth's best choices of survival. Since Venus is almost the same size as Earth, it should be safe to travel there.
The atmosphere of Venus is by far one of the biggest risks when attempting to visit this planet. The atmosphere is made up of 97%
carbon dioxide which would kill you within minutes. The air on the planet is too thick to even breathe so if all the carbon dioxide didn't kill you, then you would die of suffocation. The atmosphere is very hot and scientists say that the ground reaches temperatures up to 800 degrees farenheit. The atmosphere of Venus is the biggest problem when trying to visit the planet.
The technology that NASA has developed over the years is astonishing. They have developed jet airplanes that can take you to outerspace in insane speeds and they have also reduced the time that it takes to get there. Even a good old spaceship will do the trick, but the space company has made some serious upgrades to them over the years. They have even tried to make shuttles made of silicon carbide, which can help an item withstand the heat that is brought upon Venus.
Earth's twin doesn't seem so fun now. The auther does a great job depicting the struggles of space travel to Venus. Although it's almost the same size as Earth, it is still very dangerous to approach the planet. The atmosphere makes it almost unreachable since it is so hot and thick. But the technology that NASA has developed would no doubt increase the chances of surviving the travel to Venus. | 5 |
74d22bc | Is venus not safe but survivable for human life? This is the main question scientist are asking themselves. What are other ways scientist are are approaching for Venus? What is on Venus that scientist find so valuable that they will risk there live for to find out? These are the questions the ( NASA ) is wondering about traveling to venus.
Venus is the hottest next to the sun the atmosphere is not easy living conditions but is bareable for human life. The text states, NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientist to float aboe the fray. The author states, at thirty-plus miles above the suface, temperatures would still be toasty at around170 degres Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to the sea level on earth. The text lastly states solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed earth levels,the conditons are not easy, but is survivable fo humans. The text lastly states, a vehicle can hover over venus far better then a human can and avoid the unfriendly ground conditons. This states why venus is not safe for human life but survivable to withstand.
What scintist find so valuable on venus is the variouse form of life and the land that is inhabiting on it. The texts states, Astronomers are facinated by Venus because it may well pnce have been the most Easrth like planet in our solar system. The author states, Long ago Venus was probably covered largly with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. The text lastly states, The planet has suface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys mountains and craters. This concludes why scientist find Venus so valuable to sacrfice human life to travel to Venus.
The other ways that scientist are approaching for venus is by using technolgy the can withstan the velocity of Venus. The author states, For example, some simplified electroics made of silicon carbide have been tested on a chamber stimulating the chaos of Venus suface. The texts states, modern computers are enormously powerful, flexible, and quick, but tend to be more delictate when it comes to extreme physical conditions. The author lastly states, By comparison technolgy can be more resistant to pressure,heat,and other forces. This shows the many other ways scientist have thought about other then using human life to research about planet earth
This concludes about are physical human life on venus is safe or not. This states also why is so important on Venus that they would sacrife human life to travel there in the first place. There also show the Idea's that scientist had thought about traveling to venus. Quote to the passge " Or travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by danger and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imaginations and innovations. This all shows in the essay Why Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the daners it presents in the passage. | 4 |
74dfb32 | All we talk about is being able to be our own person and to be able to do things on our own but having electoral college isn't gonna help with that. Electoral college is when you select a group of electors to chose who they want to be president and you choose the group of electors which you want. Every group of electors will have their own opinion on who they want to be president so you have to be very cautious on who you pick. Popular vote is a more independent way of letting us citizens know that we can be able to vote without the help of our electors. Senator, it would be outrageous for us to be so dependent on the electors when its unnecessary and we can vote on our own.
There have been times when people choose the wrong electors and they can't go back to change it, so why not just vote on your own and have the ability for clarrification and honesty on who I vote for. I feel like having an electoral college is a waste of time and it's only making things more complicated. If you should have a system it should be one that makes peoples lives easier not even more stessful. Also the voters can't control who the electors vote for so you make be telling the electors one thing but they will be doing another. These are the things that us citizens need to thing about. Should we have to doubt our electors? no, we should trust that they will vote for the president that we asked them too.
Voting for president is very serious because, that president will be representing where we live and what we stand for so it can't be something that we slack off on, it needs to be something that we are proud of and the only way thats going to happen is if we choose our own president without our electors to do that for us. Us citizens should be proud and honored that we have the opportunity to choose our president because not most people have that chance and electoral college will be taking that for granted. Popular vote assures that our vote counts and it gives us the independent character that we need to be strong.
Senator, I think that if you want everyone to fell secure and trusted then you should keep using popular vote. | 3 |
74e1e4e | Venus the evening star since its the brightest point of light in the night sky. Humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world and each missiion was unmanned since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours and nvere touched venus in more than tree decades. The thick atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide and the clouds are even more challenging since their is highly corrosive sulfuric acid in venus's atmosphere and on the planet surface temperatures average is over 800 degrees fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than we experience on earth and the environment would crush even a submarine. Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported forms of life and has familiar features suah as valleys, mountains, and craters and In conclusion if we could possibly bulid something to survive venus we could find some amazing things like if it ever ahad water and find maybe remains of past forms of life. | 1 |
74e6cc1 | Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? That's what Google cofounder Sergey Brin envisions. A public transportation system that has no drivers. Therefore driverless cars should be a thing that all people in the world should have.
First of all, driverless cars have always been a thing in a person's imagination. " In the late 1950s, Gerneral Motors created a concept car that could run on a special test track." This means that for a smarter car you need a smarter road. Special equipment will be added to roads so the cars has a set path to follow. At times a human driver is needed for when there may be a situation when pulling in and out of driveways, or traffic and roadwork. Google modified a Toyota Prius that has sensors around the car so therefore it can mimic human driving skills. Therefore driverless cars should be a thing that all people in the world should have.
Additionally, driverless cars should be a thing that all people in the world should have because they can be autodriven and controlled when ever. This means that if there is a situation when the driver doesn't think that the car can handle the roads ahead they can take over just by placing their hands on the wheel. This will stop hundreds, no thousands of accidents that happens daily.
Next, there may be some problems with the task. For there to be a smarter car there has to be smarter roads. This means that sopecial magnets will need to be placed in every road in the world, or the ones that it is legal in. Doing this will be the most expensive project ever, and it will take some time too do so.
In conclusion, driverless cars should be a thing that all people in the world should have because they will make our lives easier with hands free driving to school, or anywhere a person needs to go. In addition it will have the drivers driving skills, maybe even better. Therefore driverless cars should be a thing that all people in the world should have. | 3 |
74ec2b2 | Nearly everyone in the United States has a car, if they're of age. Many people would probably argue that they need cars. How else would you get somewhere? Well, there are plenty of alternatives to driving, and other ways to just cut back. Limiting car usage has become rather popular recently. Even though there are some disadvantages from limiting car usage, there are so many more advantages that are extremely beneficial.
Pollution has always been a big problem almost everywhere in the world, and cars have a huge influence on it. Pollution can affect people's health and damages the environment. In Paris they put up a partial driving ban to clear up horrible smog. "Congestion was down 60 percent in the captial of France, after five-days of intensifying smog..." (Source 2). It only took one day of a driving ban to clear up the smog. Imagine how much less pollution there would be if people limited driving for multiple days, even maybe weeks, or months? It's not like you have to permanently give up driving, just limit it when you can.
Limiting car usage can also help reduce stress levels and make you happier. It might sound crazy at first because, well how would you get places? Wouldn't that cause more stress? Vauban, a city in Germany, is a city that "forbids" parking, driveways, and houses with garages. They strategically put stores and buildings within an idealistic walking distance. "'When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way,' said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two" (Source 1). If a working mother can do it, so can you. When you're always inside and juggling your kids and their needs, you'll most likely be tense and always feel busy. When you have no other option, besides paying over fourty grand for a space in a parking garage, than to walk somewhere, you'll get to be outside and experience socialization and the fresh air. In my opinion that sounds way better than being confined to a little car when you have to go somewhere.
Obviously there are uncountable benefits that come from limiting car usage. I don't know about you, but honestly I would prefer limited car usage. Until someone takes action to start making it easier to access places we would normally need our car to get to, limiting car usage is not going to be easy. | 4 |
74f76a7 | Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit because it is one of the brightest points of light in the sky... That is a good point to start an investigation.
It is called ''The Earth Twin'' because Venus is the most closest in density, size and distance too. Humans have sent a lot of spacecrafts to study a phenomenom related with the speed of the planets that are in our solar system, all of the times that humans have sent spacecrafts trying to stdy Venus they just got the destruction of them, that could be the reason of why Venus have not being touched in the past thirty years, that is why humans want to know new qualities, more than the ones that we already know.
One of the factors that makes Venus one of the most challenging planets to study is its thick atmosphere, which is composed of almost 100 percent of a kind of ''blankets'', under those ''blankets'' are clouds containing sulfuric acid. Humans just cannot go and walk in Venus as we did in the Moon, and that is because Venus has a lot of extreme environments, which are too different to any environment we can find in the Earth, these conditions are the insane temperatures, Venus has the hottest surface than any other planet in our solar system, not even Mercury has a surface like that. The temperature in Venus could reach a level of 800 degrees Fahrenheit which is a totaly unknown temperature for humans. Another extreme fact of Venus's environment is its atmospheric pressure which is more than 90 times greater that the pressure we experience in the Earth. But that is not all about Venus, the geology and weather that Venus presents include erupting volcanoes, earthquakes and sometimes it gets some lightning strikes.
Humans are completly surprised by Venus and its environment today, because there are astronomers who could be totally sure about Venus having oceans and a few forms of life a long time ago, those who can be sure about it say that Venus still has some features similar to the Earth, some of them are valleys, mountains and craters.
NASA has an idea for sending humans to study Venus, it will be so complicated to do, but the astronomers say that is the only way to get more information of Venus, having humans in the surface of Venus they could take samples of rock, gas, or anything else. Astronomers say that if they really want to know more about Venus they have to be there and experience all its difficulties despite the risks. They take all of its difficulties as challenges. Many others astronomers are working in machines that could be send to Venus, maybe that is because they think that step the surface of Venus is completly impossible.
Despite all the work required to go to Venus, people think we should not have any limit, they think we have to have curiosity in what we want to do, or in this case, what we want to know, that is why workers of the NASA, with their imagination, keep thinking in new forms to get the information that they want to get, and they are working using all their innovation, and of course... Their imagination. | 5 |
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