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7663e9d | Are you for or against driverless cars?
I am for driverless cars.
Driverless cars could decrease the amount of accidents.
Also, if you get an important phone call, you can answer and not have to worry about getting in an accident.
Driverless cars seem like a great idea to me.
It would be great to have because then drivers won't usually have to worry about crashing.
If there is an area on the road that needs to be driven by a human, the car can just give a signal to notify the driver of like road construction or if there was an accident.
If there are smart cars, there should also be smart roads.
Smart roads would most likely eliminate all chances of a crash or accident.
In conclusion, I think driverless cars will be in the very near future.
I feel like it would make driving a lot safer.
It could possibly eliminate all possibilties of a car crash or accident to occur if smart roads were built.
In the future, we all might be an owner of a driverless car. | 2 |
76648c5 | The author starts by giving us examples how Earth and Venus are similar to eah other and giving us information how Venus could be a planet were they used to be life before. He or she was explaning the diffrences how the degrees are diffrent and their higher on Venus but he came to the conclusion that how it could be a livible planet. So on paragrah 5 the author says that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that they have the idea of sending people to explore it so this menas they are actually serious about this. The author explains how they are some bad stuff before sending people so they are comimg up with ideas how the mission can be complete with no failures so this mens that we have the knowledge but we dont have the right things to complete this mission. On paragraph 8 it blow my mind that hes actually right about how we are curios about anything we cant reach with our hands so we try harder to obtain the impossible, we have a huge universe but we will never be satisfy until we reach a dead end. | 1 |
7664b2d | Making Mona LIsa Smile
Everybody wakes up with different emotions everyday , those emotions that we have gives us an idea on what type of day were going to have , so we give off a look that tells somebody if were happy , sad , or angry . Face expressions tells another perosn how you are feeling today , so they know how to come to us to have decent conversation . In this essay i am going to explain how face expresion is important and talk about how computers can read students emotional expressions .
Imagine being in the computer lab when all of sudden you log on to do your research in the computer can recoqnize your emotions by using the camera to look at yor face . And by scaning your face the computer can tell that your not having a good day or , having a bad , or just maybe can be sad . Will that make you feel awkward ? , Do you want your compurter knowing how you feel everyday you log on ? , well i am going to tell you my opinion , in the artical " making moan lisa smile " they specififcally talk about how computers can read your emeotions , by scaning your face expressions I ceratinly feel like that is its great idea because , it would make me feel better if im havinga bad day , that the computer can read my expressions. I mean would if a fellow student doesnt have any friends to talk to if there havin a bad day , well the computer can identify there emotions and give off and alert to the teacher who can talk to that student , that will help alot in school .
In the artical " Making Mona Lisa Smile " is stated that , the facial expressions for each emotion are universal , so that gives us an idea on that the problem is universal . It also stated that " We human perform this same impressive calculations everyday , you can probably tell how a friend is feeling " . That tells us that if we humans have the same expressions everyday it would be easy if a computer can do the same ,because were feeling the same as yesterday and we can easily recoqnize how a friend is feeling . Tecnology can be easily read how a students emotions are . it also stated that " The mona lisa demostraion is really intended to bring a smile to your face , while its shows just how much a computer can do .
I know reading all this makes you feel a little awkward because who would come up with an idea if computers can read students emotions , I mean should a computer really care ? , to answer yes because just as a teacher they should care how your feeling because they can make you feel better , give you a little talk for the day . If your feeling sad , or if your just to happy for the day , they can calm you down . But if a teacher doesnt know then to help that a computer can give off an alert to the teacher to tell how your feeling , your emotions . | 3 |
766bc64 | I think we should keep the Electoral College. long time ago our founding fathers established it in the consitution . so why change it now ? the Electoral College process consists of the selections of the electors , the meeting of the electors where they vote for the president and vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress . The Electorl College consists of 538 electors . A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president .
on the 32rd of the constitution it said the District of columbia is allocated 3 ellectors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College .
we been doing this for years and my opionion is we shodnt change it.... under the electoral college system , voters vote not for the president , but for a slate of electors,who in turn elect the president. in each party , selects a slatee of electors trusted to vote for the partys nominee and the trust is rarely betrayed . did you know barack obama won beeing president because of the electoral college popular vote .
The Electoral College aviods the problem of elections in which no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast . yeah Electoral college have some problems but it doesnt mean you should take it down . you can fix the poblem easily ! in my opionion it can help people with there elctions and also the election by popular vote for the president of the united states . | 2 |
7673fe9 | Hoverboards, robots and driverless cars? This is technology we have invented in the new age. We are gifted with the presence of new technology every year and somehow we seem to abuse it or take it for granted. Which is why I believe we should not have driverless cars. We should not have these driverless cars because technology malfunctions all the time and because this technology can be abused. Let's journey into an idea that should remain in a mad scientist's lab.
We should not have driverless cars because technology malfunctions all the time in present day society. Paragraph 4 of the text talks about LIDAR, a program that keeps the car updated of it's 3-D surroundings. Being a driverless car, what if LIDAR stops working? Does the car sop working altogether? Or does this machine simply keep going with it's routine? This puts the driver in danger, the pedestrians in harm, and in all cases the other drivers on the road. This is a common technological malfunction that can happen to any driverless car anywhere in the world. The text in Paragraph 9 also touches on the same subject of the technology failures. As the text says, " If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver of the manufacturer?" This piece of evidence illustrates why a driverless car is dangerous. A simple technological malfunction can happen and it can put the customer at risk, and even the company.
Lastly, a driverless car should not be developed because this piece of technology can be abused. We see crimes around the world daily, monthly, and even yearly. We aslo see that these crimes are getting worse and worse over the time period. If we implement a driverless cars, who knows what limits and boundaries these crimes will break. These cars can be used for anything: drive-by shootings, hit and runs, and even kidnapping. Who is the car to say what is morally right and wrong? The car does not know and it may not ever know, which is why it needs to not be developed.
In conclusion, driverless cars do not need to be developed in the world. Driverless cars put people at risks with technology malfunctions and can tarnish a company's name with multiple lawsuits against it. Driverless cars also can be abused for multiple things. Society has made many technological advances, but this is one that needs to remain untouched. Maybe this is better for the sake of a company's fortune, or maybe it's better for the people of the world. | 4 |
7677c38 | Luke wanted everybody, including himself, to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program beacause he wanted to help the countries that they were going to. He wanted to help the countries recover their food supplies, animals and more. There would be 44 nations that would join up together to help the countries in need that they were going to.
In August 1945, they recived their orders to report to New Orleans. They had 335 horses in the cargo plus enough hay and oats to feed them. It took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China. They were caring for the animals during the crossings. Luke said,"Besides helping the people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China."
You should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program because there are countries that are in need. What if our countrie didn't have food supplies, or animals, or other things that we need to survive. If we helped their countries when their in need, then they would help our countrie if we were in need. That wouldn't be good if we won't share what we have that they dont have.
If we don't help the countries that are in need, then we might have another war because they would be angry at the countries that have all the things that they don't have. Also what if there were terrible storms that would wipe out all the people that don't have shelter in that countrie. See we have shelter that would protect us from dangerous storms and we also have money to repair what the storm did. But they dont have any money to buy shelter. They also don't have any food to eat, but we do.
In conclusion, you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program to help the countries that are in need of. It's not fair if we have something that they don't have and we won't share it. If you don't want to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys progran, then you could also donate some things that you have to the program. | 3 |
767cfeb | As the years go by there had seemed to be more and more polution in the world. Most of that polution had been seen to be produced by cars, which some people wouldn't know how to live without. However, studies have shown that some cities around the world have actually decreased the usage of cars. A city that has virtually no cars would be Vauban, Germany, and other cities such as Paris, France, Bogota, Colombia, and even some in the United States have joined in the decreasing of car use wagan. In turn of not using cars as much the polution has gone down in those cities.
To begin with, Vauban, Germany, in this German city " Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district on the outskirts of Freiburg, near the French and Swiss borders. Vauban's streets are completely 'car-free'-- except the main thoroughfare, where the tram to downtown Freiburg runs, and a few streets on one edge of the community. Car ownership is allowed, but there are only two places to park -- large garages at the edge of the development,where a car-owner buys a space, for $40,000, along with a home."( P2, In German Suburn, Life Goes On Without Cars, Elisabeth Rosenthal) And in Paris, " After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. On Monday motorists with even numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day. Almost 4,000 drivers were fined, according to Reuters ... [Twenty-seven] people had their cars impounded for their reaction to the fine."(P10-13, Paris bans driving due to smog, Robert Duffer) That might seem a little bit harsh to some people but in turn " Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog ...(P14, Paris bans driving due to smog, Robert Duffer)
Then there's Bogota, Colombia, where, " In a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams. It was the third straight year cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the Day Without Cars in this capital city of 7 million. The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Violaters faced $25 fines. The turnout was large, despite gray clouds that dumped accasional rain showers on Bogota." (P20-22, Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota, Andrew Selsky) This is a pretty good sign from Colombia, showing that it's being consistant with it's program and not stopping despite the rain. Also, now even the United States is using less cars, " America's love affair with its vehicles seems to be cooling. 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 Doug Short of Advisor Perspectives, an invesment research comany. 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 in January 1995." (P 32, The End of Car Culture, Elisabeth Rosenthal)
To conclude, it's great that more and more cities are pitching in to reduce polution due to cars. There are great advantages coming from the reduction of car usage, the best being less polution and smog. If more cities join in and the current cities keep doing what they are doing there could possibly be an even more dramatic decrease in the polution produced today. | 3 |
7683eee | "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is talking about Venus and how similar it is to Earth also that it's the hottest planet in our solar system as well as that we still might not know as much as we think we do. "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors"(Paragraph 8). The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" thinks that we should be studying Venus because there still might be some things we don't know about Venus also if we do study it we could potentially might explore its surface one day.
So how the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers, is because he explains in detail why we should be studying Venus. He also explains how we could study Venus surface a safe way and not worry about it's temperature."Futhermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel"(Paragraph 4). The author believes that if we study Venus we could find safe ways to do this and not have to worry about it's temperature and we could explore more of Venus as well as discovering new things.
So the author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because in the article, he explains that we could figure out safe ways to go on Venus surface. He also says we shouldn't just stop our curiosity there because we are limited by the dangers as well as doubts. | 2 |
768684b | Driveless cars are becoming a new idea and have been an experiment to try and make a perfect driveless car. Many different people have worked to come up with a flawless car that doesn't need a human behind the wheel. Although the idea is intriguing, i am not for driveless cars. There are many pros and cons of a drivelss car, however the cons out way the pros.
Pros of a driveless car: less human errors, uses half the fuel of today's taxis, far more flexibility, and they're just cool. Less human errors would occur since they wouldn't even have to touch the wheel in the first place. In the article it discusses how less fuel would be used which ulimately helps save our budgets and environment. More flexibility would occur because wherever you desire to be, your car would be able to tke you and pick you up. Now, driveless cars are just plain cool. Who wouldn't want a car to make all the decisions while you just relax until you meeet your destination? Although there are pros, the cons are just to great.
Cons of a driveless car: more accidents, not totally drivelss, disputes between manufactuerer and owner, expensive, too many chnages need to be made. Having a car that can drive for you is cool but the danger is just too high. The name of the car is very deceptive because to this day they aren't completely driveless, some still alert the driver when it is unable to drivve throug hcertain condidtions such as roadblocks or accidents. More accidents would occur because humans would rely on the automobile to drive itself when in fact the human must still be alert and awake. In paragraph 9 it discusses how there would be disputes between who would be responsible if the automobile system shut down. Should it be the manufacturer or the human in the car? Too man y laws would have to be instilled just because someone wants to make a new invention. Even with all these cons, the list could go on and on.
Many people would love to have a driveless car, however they wouldn't want all the risk and cons that come with a driveless car. The invention would be cool and unique, however it just isn't practical. In my opinion driveless cars should stay in movies and not be out on the streets. They are dangerous and there would be far too many disputes brought on by owning on. Driveless cars would indeed fundamentally change the world like the article implies, the change just wouldn't be for good. | 3 |
7689936 | Have you ever wanted to drive a car but never do anything? Well now a days they have cars like that and I'm here to tell you that it is a great idea to buy or use one. One good reason is for old people who may have bad vision or are sick. Another good reason is because some people may be injured to where they cant drive. Another good reason is because you really dont have to learn to drive, but you will still need to learn the rules of the rode.
For all you people ages 40 and up who may have bad vison, sick, or mabye just to old to drive you wont have to worry if you have a car that drives itself. If you want to go to see your grandkids instead of them always coming over your house you can go over there without making it hard on your back or eyes. What if you want to go to the store to get some food? What about when you want to just hang out with your friends or family to spend time together just because. I would most definetly take this car into consideration.
For people who are injured you wont have to use that injured arm or leg, you just sit back and relax as the car takes you to wherever you want to go. If you need to go to P.T you wont have to worry about over working your injury while getting there, you just think about what you are gong to do. Or when you need to go to work, you wont have to worry about making yourself more sore after you 9 to 5. So this would be a great rent car for when you banged up.
Last reason is because you wont have to learn to drive because all you are doing is basically taking a cab. You wont have to worry about how fast your going, you wont have to worry about getting pulled over, you dont have to worry about if you are going the right way because all you have to do it put in where you want to go and it will takes you there. Yeah you might want to know the rules of the rode just because you might have something go wrong with the car, but the point is all you have to do is just sit back and relax.
Have you ever wanted to drive a car but not do anything? Well i just gave you 3 great resons why you should. So I have you take my thoughts into consideration and i hope you go out and buy you one of the best cars invented. | 4 |
7689f1a | Driverless cars don't sound real but they can be created manufaturers have made cars with their own charger included or charging stations. Us humans never thought that we could get this far and we finally did to some people it isn't real. To me as a person reading this it doesnt seem real doesnt seem as if it would happen and that we couldnt do it if we really thing on this it could be a bad thing cause what if someone was careless. Of their car and was to cause an accident and possibly kill another person thats not a good thought but we have to add thewhat if it is a big possibility that it can happen yeah it would delete. A lot of drinking and driving and lots of people drinking under the influence and killing people but if they make the cars and peple can still open the car doors and drive themselves. You still have crazy driver and drunk driver and people under the influence that are on the roads with innocent people driving with their families. Their are a large amount of dangerous people in the world just having cars to go do things for you wouldnt stop hunger and any other problems that the world has. My opinion to these cars that they are planning to create I think it would be a waist of money cause we dont thing about the. Bad weather that we get and how the weather can cause crashes so still I believe no they should not be produced. | 2 |
768dd33 | Join the Seagoing Cowboys
Hello its Luke. I was wondering if you would like to join the seagoing cowboys. I enjoy it very much. You can make a difference in so many peoples lives. The seagoing cowboys are a group of people who help others during the war. We take and bring things overseas.
If you join the cowboys then you will get to go to different places.You will be able to meet new people, some of the people you meet are excellent mentors and friends. While on the cowboys you may be able to go places you will never get the chance to go again.Also the cowboys do what they do for a great cause. We help so many people. The cowboys all started because of the 44 nations who joined together to create the UNRRA. The UNRRA stands for ( The United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Administration).The UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the horses, young cows ,and mules that were shipped overseas. Besides helping people you can get the side benefit of seeing and adventuring the place town or city your in.
There are many good reasons to join the Seagoing Cowboys. It is a great thing to be a apart of. Other then helping people you get many benefits. So if you have a good heart and like helping people this may be the job for you.I will look forward to seeing you join the Seagoing Cowboys. | 3 |
768ecbe | Dear Florida State Senator,
Although many could argue that the Electoral College is a fair system of deciding the president, far too many people consider it non-democratic and unefficient for it it continue being our way of electing our leader. A new system of election must be created to make up for the pitfalls that are inevitable in the Electoral College. A country that is supposed to be a democracy does not have the voting system that such a proud democracy deserves.
Defenders of the College may say that the possibility of a tie is very low or that the electors chosen are confirmed not to betray the wants of the voters, but just because the possibility is low does not mean you can simply allow the flaws in the voting system to exist. A small hole in a fabric can only grow bigger, and the same goes for our electoral college. If we can't repair or replace the fabric that is our Electoral College, soon there will be problems too big for us to deal with in our current state. The electoral voters may keep the public in mind for now, but there have already been cases where electoral voters put their own wants ahead of the public.
One thing that the Electoral College does not promote is the power in the hands of the people. Although people can vote for whatever candidate they want, the elector is the real deciding hand in the process of picking our president. If one wanted to, an elector can completely disregard the decision of the voters and choose who they want. Considering the ratio of electors in some states to people, it seems completely non-democratic for the votes of some to be more important than the wants of the common people. Some start to feel that they shouldn't vote because their one vote wouldn't have the power to change anything, and wouldn't even ensure the election of the president they want. Another thing that lowers the morale is the absence of candidates in states that can't be won very easily. If a candidate is pretty sure he can't win over a state, he won't visit it because it wouldn't be worth his time. He also wil prioritize large states over small ones because they have more electoral votes. All of these can make a state or person feel as if the election isn't really in their hands, and when people feel like their vote doesn't matter, they don't vote.
Besides the power it takes away from the common man, some could say that the system itself is very inefficient compared to what it could be. Even though it has a very low possibility, the fact is that a tie is possible due to the electoral college having an even number of votes. It would then go to the House of Representatives, who might not even have the want of the people in mind. Since most of the time Congress has a party that makes up a majority of it, it would be very unfair to allow them to pick the president. It's also possible that even if a majority of the people vote for a president, the electoral votes elect the other candidate instead, like what happened to Al Gore in 2000. An election like this just has too many holes and pitfalls to be efficient. The holes need to be repaired before we can actually use this as our primary way to select a president, or else we're setting ourselves up to have problems in the future.
The Electoral College may be functional, but is largely inefficient and is not in the best interest of the common people. The vote for a candidate is not even in the hands in the people, but rather a minority of chosen electors. In a country that prides itself on the power the people have, and the control they have on how their country is run, the people have surprisingly less influence than you would think. We as a people need to speak up against the overrated system that is the Electoral College, and develop a system that fits the needs of a true democracy like America should be. | 5 |
768f1ef | All of our development since world war II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change. Do you know what are some of the risks of car-intesive areas? Well, passenger cars are the responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in europe... And up to 50 percent in some car-intesive areas in the United States.
There's many ways to reduce car pollution, for example as is said in Source 2: Paris bans driving due to smog, congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France (Paris) after days of near-record polllution because Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. but Pasris isn't is the only one who's making a change, as it shows in Source 3: Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota, Bogota has given a new beginning with the implementation of a program "The day without cars" in which cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for. In both cities the weather spread out in good changes and reduce drastically car pollution.
But, why is limited car usage important? Well, there is many reasons to get benefits beause of it, for instance, suburbs are becoming more compact and more accessible to public transportation, also in this new aproach, stores are placed a walk away, on main streets, rather than in malls along some distant highway.
Therefore, pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources,lower emissions and improve safety, so remember driving is a vanity not a priority. | 2 |
7690141 | In my opinoin driverless cars cand be both negative or positive .The reason why is because have a care that has half of the feul of todays taxis is a good thing .That factor can save people money because they may only have to go to the gas station once or twice a week instead of 3 or 4 times.Another positive factor is the cars are more likley to not crash instead of crashing.The death rate of car fatallity in the world can decrease alot if this is possible.A third positive factor is the cars will be advanced for danger situations ,it will apply the brakes if needed in case of an emergency.
In the passage there are also negatives in this also .One major
negative factor was in paragraph nine when it
stated "If technology fails and someone
is injured who is blamed "? To me that is a huge issue ,in about 20 years drivless cars
maybe be a thing if i get in a drivless care while i have to count my lucky stars so i wont become injured or even worse die?If the manufactuers cannot make the care one hundread percent safe,why even bother putting it out there for the public to find out ?My last negative factor is that the cars will have to adapt to the roads .Not every drivless car is just going to hop on the bandwagon and be like every other car out there ,its gonna have to adjust .What if doesnt and something tragic happen,again we will have to blame the manufacteres for there creation .
In my opinion i think we should just wait on driveless cars until we have new technology and ensure that we have the best car out on the road for the public. | 2 |
7690736 | Have you ever wondered if this "Face on Mars" was created by aliens? Well, I am sorry to dissapoint you however, because it was, in fact, not created by aliens. There is much evidence to support that it was not created by aliens.
To assume simply because a rock formation looks like a face that it is an alien artifact is illogical. Martian mesa's are infact very common where the Face of Mars was discovered. It just happened that one of them happened to have weird shadows that made it appear to be a face.
In 1976, the quality of the cameras that took the first photo of the Face of Mars on the Viking 1 were inadequate. On the Viking 1 photo, every pixel was 43 meters, meaning the photo would be very distorted. In 1998, it was taken again with a better, yet still not great, camera that would reveal the rock formation merely only looks like a face because of the weird shadow. In 2001, the photo was taken by a MGS with a good quality camera. The camera on this MGS had quality of 1.56 meters per pixel. Meaning if there were structures or a Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you would be able to see it. This proves that the rock formation was not created by aliens.
The martian mesa is very common in the region where the Face of Mars was found, yet Garvin says "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." He continues by saying "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face of Mars." It can be proved that this is not an alien structure as, not only is it common in that region in mars, it is also common in Western America.
There is strong evidence that proves that this 'Face of Mars' is not an alien structure, and instead simply a very common martian mesa that just happened to have shadows that made it appear to be a egyptian face. An alien structure on mars would be interesting, but I'm afraid this Face of Mars is not what it first appeared to be. | 4 |
7692a92 | Around the world we have been seeing trends of reducing automobile usage. Reducing automile usage would have a number of advantages but it must be approached in the right way. If the US were to attempt to "limit car usage" as the prompt states, the movement would undoubtedly recieve a lot of push back and would slow to a stop. Reducing car usage by building public transportation and smart suburbs would be ideal. This would cut down our co2 emissions and be reduce the number of car related injuries and deaths.
First, if there is one thing I know about American politics, its that political parties will oppose just about anything, no matter how advantageous or logical, "limiting car usage" is no exception, if the Democratic party were to suggest such a thing, it would create an upoar from the Republican and Libertarian parties. This would become more controversial than gun restrictions, we would have another surge of anti-environmentalism propoganda, Limbaugh would be spitting "tree-huggers" again, and more likely than not, our country would drift even further away from any sort of environmental solutions. Trying to limit car usage on a Federal level would be met by utter failure.
However, there is a right way to approach this issue in the US. If we were to ask for grants to build public transportation systems, encourage car-pooling, and build efficient bike paths, car usage could be significantly reduced.
The advantages of reducing our use of automobiles in the US are well worth the cost. Transportation is the second largest contributor of co2 emissions, just behind power plants. (Rosenthal, paragraph 34) Cutting these emissions, even by a fraction would have great benefits to our environment. David Goldburg, an official of Transportation for America states, "All of our development since World War 2 has been centered on the car, and that will have to change, how much you drive is as important as whether you have a hybrid." (7) The US has been moving towards a lower car use trend since the recession, "recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by" (29).
In summary, reducing automoblie use in the US should be a goal, but it cannot be approached through laws or restrictions. We can model our suburbs and cities to be more friendly to alternate transportations, and we can build public transportation systems across America. The reduction of co2 emissions from cars will curb our contribution to Global Climate Change and make a better future for generations to come. | 2 |
7694be2 | Dear state senator
I'm against the Electoral College, and i wish it would change to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational, and there are many reasons why it should be taken out.
Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president(Source 2), this is unfair to voters because the people are not the ones that really choose the president. Also, because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, they focus only on the tight races in the swing states(Source 2). Why should we put the fate of the presidency in the hands of a few swing voters?
Another problem with the Electoral College is its method of selecting the president, which may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state(Source 3). Knowing their vote will have no effect, the voters have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign that they would have if the president were picked by popular vote(Source 3). If we're not voting for the president, but for the electors who will choose the president, then why are we voting at all? I say that it is our right to be able to choose who our next leader is going to be.
With all the evidence I have listed in this letter, I hope you, state senator, will change your mind about the Electoral College. We must do what's best for our country, and the Electoral College is not fair to us, the people of the United States. | 3 |
7696be8 | For decades people have wonder what would it be like to have driverless cars. Today some engineeers are inventing ways to make the driverless car more productive and less risky. Engineers are trying to make the diverless cars that use less fuel than what todays cars use. They are also making the car more flexible. In my opinion driverless cars could be bad for our futrure generations.
Driverless car could be potentially bad because eventhough the car is driverless the car needs a person on the driver seat. What is the point of a driverless car if a person needs to be in the drivers seat in case of an emergency. Diverless cars still alert drivers to take over the car when pulling out or into a driveway. The Driverless cars also needs assistant when their is traffic issues and roadwork. Driverless cars are not totally driverless.
The second reason that driverless cars are bad is because they need a sensing detector. This could be bad because if the sensing detector doesn't work it could cause some serious effects. The serious effects that could cause is if the sensor doesn't work the person could get into a
crash, getting killed, and or killing a person. To use sensoring detector in a car requires huge amounts of money. The driverless cars need massive upgrades to existing roads.
The third reason that driverless cars are bad is because if people get into a accidents who's fault is it. The fault could be the drivers because he might not been putting many attention to the driverless car. The fault can be the driverless car for not alerting the driver. Their is nobody to blame for it.
In conclusion driverlesss cars are bad for now or potentially for future generations. The reason is because engineers have so much things to improve on the driverless cars. This car could cause a major distruction if not made right
by the engineers. The engineers of these cars also need to work on getting the car to drive more by itself and not needing a human to drive it. I hope that the driverless car can improve for the future genration and be more safer. | 4 |
769bbc9 | The author claims that Venus is a planet we can study, and possibly inhabit someday. Venus is reffered to as earths twin, mainly because it's around the same size, and is just a bit closer to the sun than the earth is. Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system.Scientists would like to explore it someday.
Venus long ago might have had oceans, and supported forms of life. Similar to earth, it has rocky sediment and includes features such as, velleys, mountains, and craters. Venus also has a thick atmoshoere, of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets that covers the whole planet. The temperatures on Venus average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmoshperic pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience here on earth.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has one perticularly compelling idea for sending humans to Venus. NASA has the idea of sending something, similar to a blimp into the sky of Venus, where we can study the area there. The vehicle would be able to avoid the dangerous ground conditions by staying out of their way. The blimp would be thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exeed Earth levels.
I think, leaving earth to find a new planet would be a great idea. We would find more and possibly alien resources. Meet other life forms and make friends with them, to form an alliance. If exploring Venus will succeed, then we have everything we need to explore possibly another planet. It would be great to take over another planet, and live there with new people. | 2 |
769f7db | Although Scientist believed that the face was an alian artifact, i dont believe so, maybe it was just a wierd shape on mars they had saw, and assumed it was an alian,it could have just been how mars looked from where they were, or how it just looks in general. perhaps it was just a natural landform on mars, i think so. after more researching, comes to find out it was actually a natrual landform on mars, scientists are not always right, 50% of the time they are false, an the other 50% of the time the are positive. i think people were just wanting it to be a alian, so scientists did all this research, to find out and see what it was.
when scientist decribed this face they seen on mars, "A shadowy likeness of a human face" "an enormous head" "Was staring back at the cameras from a region of the red planet called -Cydonia", yes it does sound like it would be an alian based on how theyre decribing it, but wouldnt you think it could be anything other then an alian?, i think so, not everything with a shadowy like figure of a human has to be an alian, it could be anything really. Like just some natrual figure on mars. therefor this was not an allian artifact on mars, turns out it was just some natrual figure on mars. | 2 |
769ffb8 | The topic has came up latley about "Diverless Cars." some people agree to this idea, some don't. Some people belive this idea is great for people who want to relax a little bit on a road trip, some people says that this car isn't able to identify possible road hazards.
People today are having a big dispute over cars that drive themselfs. Some belive this idea is great, but I don't. Driverless cars are not able to adapt to dangerous road condititons like rain or heavy snow fall. In some cases while the car is driving, and an animal scurries onto the road in the middle of the night, and the car does not see it, while your not paying attention, there is an accident. When there is road construction, and you manually have to drive you car, and lets face it, everywhere you go there is constuction. You'll basically be driving the car yourself. Another reason as to why the car is a bad idea, if someone else hits your car, and one of these very expensive sensors break, then you might as well buy yourself a bike. Another example as why the car is a bad idea, is that humans will get to lazy, they will lean the seat back and think "This car will drive itself, no need to work." and when there is an accident it will be the person who thought "Nothing can go wrong." fault.
In recap, I do not belive this world is ready for the driverless car, simpily because anything can happend at any time, and the simple fact is that they are to expensice and humans can not be trusted to pay attention to their surronding. | 3 |
76ad1db | Well first of all we have no evidence that it was aliens that created the face. Though it is possible. I am sure NASA would love to see life on mars. But it is believed that it is like a butte or mesa. A
butte or mesa is a landform common in the American west. Some facts even show it maybe be a mesa. Scientist say it takes form of a mesa. They are both the same hieght and same sturucture.
Also from the new pictures from Mars Global Surveyor in 2001 shows great detail. It was taking in a cloudless summer day. There for the image of the picture wasn't ubstructed by any clouds. So the scientist at NASA could study it and determine if there was life on Mars or not. But as I said before Scientist have narrowed it down to either be something similar to a mese or butte.
So as I said before. The scientist at NASA have study that image for a long time. And have narrowed it down to be either a mesa or butte. But there is still some hope that there really is life on Mars. But for now all we can conclud is that the Face on Mars was formed naturaly and not form aliens. | 2 |
76afaf5 | The Sea Cowboys, If you like helping people and love animals this is the job for you. This program helps people in need and animals in need. Joining the Sea Cowboys can help make a diffrent in peoples lives.
This job a hard job, They need people that are tough and can handle a lot of things. Sometimes the seas were rough and it is hard not to get sea sick. There is a time to have fun on board and there is a time to be reponsible and work hard.
Being a sea cowboy is a very good oppertundity, You can travle around the world and can explore new things. After you become a sea cowboy you will have lot of responceabilty and will be more aware of your surondings and be grateful for what you have because some people dont have those things.
If you worked as a farmer or worked with animals you should join the sea cowboys. You can make a diffrence. | 2 |
76b2040 | There are advantages of limiting car usage, but not as much as you thought. According to Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother, when she had a car, she was always tense. Now that she told it, Walter seemed to be much happier. In Freiburg, Vurban's streets are "care-free". But, once you go to the main thoroughfare, cars will be sworming down the road. Most people may think, "I need a car to get to where I need to go faster." "I can't live without a car."
In 2006, trend in Europe grew... No cars or anything. Automobiles are the linchpin of suburbs where middle class families from Chicago to Shanghai make their homes. Passanger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. 50 percent in some car intensive area in US. Home to 5,500 residents within a rectangular square mile, may be the most advanced experiment in low car suburban life.
Levittown and Scarsdale, New York suburbs with enormous rich people homes with private garages were dream towns back in the 1950s. The US is promoting "car reduced" communities, and legislators are starting to act. | 1 |
76b6a48 | Humans are challenging to study about Venus. Venus is an planet which is very close to the Earth. Sometimes, Venus is the closest to the Earth and other time to Mars that is caused by the right around the corner. Before, we have tried to send numerous spacecraft but didn't survive the landing for more than a few hours. Therefore, any single spaceship has never touched on Venus in more than three decades. However, why do we still challenge to the the planet Venus and why is it a challenge?
As a first reason, Venus has similar points to the earth. There is a possibility that long time ago, oceans had been covering the surface of Venus, and had life like the Earth. On Venus, there are also mountains, valleys, crater as like the earth. What more, Venus is an option of a planetary visit. Air pressure at about thirty miles from Venus would be close to that of sea level on earth which contains that not perfecrt condition, but survivable for humans.
For a second reason, It is not easy to reach to the Venus. There are not only alike things to each other for Earth and Venus. For example, the temperatures are totally different. Temperatures on the Venus's surface, it is over 800 for average. As the article says, "The atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet"(Par. 3), there is a huge difference between the atmospheric pressure of Earths's and Venus's. At Venus, you will be having high solar power which is plentiful, and radiation is not similar to the Earth.
As third reason, we haven't even take the samples of the Venus. Researchers haven't collect any samples of rock, gas, or anything else from Venus That could be our challenge. If we could take their samples from there, the research would be easier and helpful. In fact, "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus"(Par.7). They are using an old technology which is very powerful, flexible, and quick. NASA thinks that those computers will be useful for studying Venus.
As a conclusion, there are some advantages that human challenge for the other planets. As we are studying other planets, Venus is a good planet for a future of us caused by many reasons. Yet, we are still on our way to know about the Venus, human need to keep looking for the importance of challenge to the Venus. | 3 |
76c44e4 | The details that the author is showing through this article are the most interesting thoughts on how we should explore venus more deeply. The main thought on why we should explore venus more is because it could be the next planet we could inhabit and survive on. Venus could open a new curiosity for humans to explore into and expand off of. Venus is one the planets that closely resembles earth in the most importnant type of ways.
Venus is one of the planets that us humans could live on and strive if we just learn better ways of living on it. As the author talks about how this planet is inhospitable mainly because of the temperatures and the atm on the surface of it. The author states " almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus". This is one of the challeneges we have to face in order to live on this planet and make this a better planet to live on and make one of the greatest achievements humans have done in a long time.
Planet Venus is one of the planets that could open the door to curiousity and new exploration. Venus is giving us new ideas by giving us a challenge to just even step a foot on it. The author states " Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape". That is one of the many ideas we have came up with just by thinking of getting close to venus and trying to explore it indepthly.
This planet is one of which that closely resembles earth in the most important ways that scientists have ever seen. The planet has the most important features on its surface that closely resembles earth and it is like looking in a more acidic mirror. The author claims that " Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those of earth". This shows that Venus once had the features that earth did but a long time ago. Venus had many thing that closely resembles earth but something happened and now its kinda like a wasteland.
This planet had many features that could call it a twin ton earth but something happen and I don't know but it could be the next earth humans live on. This planet still has many things that we can explore but can't at this time period. Venus could also open new things to have been made towards this travel of this planet. This planet could show a lot of things in time. Only time could tell when we would able to step foot on this planet at least once. | 3 |
76c4a29 | Driverless cars will soon come into the human race and take over the driving so that all the human will have to do is be ready in case there is a miss moulfuction. The world is getting lazier and lazier as the driverless cars get popular in some states, however, in other states the driverless car is illegal to have and test drive the driverless cars. Driverless cars would be great to have but what would power them. Would they be solar powered or battrie powered, if the were solar powered and you needed to got do something and it was a cloudy day with no sun? When the driverless cars come into the human world are they going to be a big hit or are they going to be a flop? If human don't have to driver unless they have to it will give people more tme to do work if they need to. If some one worked for a big newspaper it would give them just a little bit more time to get a story done compared to when they had to drive to work.
If some one needed to be to a certin place in a rush would the driverless car be fast enough to get them there? Could the driverless cars be wifi capatable, however, that would put the price of the driverless car at an even higher price. Driverless cars are driven by a binary code, what is the probability of some one hacking into the control system and cause the car to do what they want it to do and not what the driver wants to do. The driverless cars have the antilock breaks so that could be a plus if it hit a slick spot in a major snow event. Will the driverless cars be two wheel or four wheel drive, if they are four wheel drive the driver could go almost anywhere. Driverless cars could help in wars becuase the commander could lead his troops in to battle and what if the tanks where driverless then it would give the fighter in side more oppertounity to fight out side the tank insted of in side of it. Drivers around the world would probobley enjoy a little more freedom in the world of driveing. The police force would not have to worry about drunk driveing and texting wile driveing. | 2 |
76c4ac9 | This technology Is greatly valuable and could be put to great use. Software of this type can be helpful and accuracy in many cases. By being able too detect someones emotions could help law Inforcement develope better evidence In investgating in crimes or help on court cases like muder screeming facial emotions can give great evidnce in cases of that soft. I do also feel that this technology can and will be great too have I also think before we use this sotfware that we make sure It Is accuracy effort for It too be main ter m and hands lawinforcement to use It .
Dr. huang stated " using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks facial movements in real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa. By weighting the different units, the software can even idenify mixed emontion . Each emotion conpared too a neutrul face which is showing no emotion. In fact humans perform this same impressive (calculation) everyday. " Dr. huang observes that artist da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely eough to convey specific emotions.
Facial Action Coding System would be vauble too us people in many different ways. It could help fight crimes cases for lawinforcement creteing vauble envidence. We could also use for reveal the emotion of people In need of help. | 2 |
76c50bd | The use of technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable, it can detect the emotions of someone trying to hide their emotions, it can detect how you or someone else feels, and computers can find out if you like, hate, or confused about something.
If you smile when a web add apears on the screen of a computer a similar add will appear, but if you frown a different add could apear.
In a real smile the zygomatic major lift the corners of your mouth, but in fake smiles the mouth is streched sideways using the zygomatic major and the risorius.
It uses muscular action units to indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced smile.
With Facial Action Coding Systems people can see genuine or forced facial expressions, feeling of people with just their facial expression, and could allow computers to find out what you like or dislike. | 2 |
76c8528 | After reading the passage I came to the conclusion that some ways I think it's not valueble . FACS would be a smart tool for case workers or counslers . Some case workers deal with people who have emotion diseases such as post dramaic stress diseases in that nature . I feel like the creator could've made the tool for more serious reason, not that the emotion FACS was pointless but who would want to just find out their emotion and they can already feel it or going through it.
I feel like people would want to find out things more important like , whats going with that person , is the person feeling sick , is the person healthy . FACS could been about how's the day going to go , whats the weather going to be like . I feel like FACS is all hype in some way because it's basic , like yay we can see how we feel right?
They took all this time and objects figure how someones doing or feelings , instead of how we're living . Anyone can figure out someone's emotion expresses by their body language , their tone , how their speaking , when their speaking and etc. Often people may not want to speak on how they feel , alot of times teens want to keep their problems and emotions to them selves. Students are diffrent from adults, and also handle emotions diffrently.
FACS would be valueble if they come with conclusions to that person emotion at the time , plenty of ways technology can do things. If the FACS were a solution to a person with a bad day it would be valueble. Due to the fact their making this like it's a cool invention when FACS is exposing peoples feelings and then wat after that? I feel like the FACS should be upgraded and do more with it . | 3 |
76cac0c | All over the world many people use cars almost everyday all day their is never a day that someone would rather walk than drive but, is it really helping us? Many people have never wounder how life would be without cars and, the people that do don't like it even if it may be the best for us. People need to understand that being without cars would help not only them self but everything around them as well. Using a car everyday is bad for the air but, wailking will keep you fit and, clear the air. Every year the air get worse and worse but, when just one person would rather walk than drive they are show cleaning our air.
There are many way of get around without driving that will improve yourself and the world around you. Many pepole and animal get ran over by cars and there careless owner. This show that cars are killing us intwo ways by the air and by getting hit by one but not using would stop all that and we can slowly clean the world. people get kill by car | 2 |
76dc873 | In this article, "A Cowboy who Rode the Waves", Luke finds a love for being a Seagoing Cowboy.
There are many things to like about it.
Some examples would be; you are helping people, you get to see new places, and you have a lot of fun while traveling!
On Luke's trip, the Seagoing Cowboys, he helped the countries whom where in ruins after World War II, as it states in paragraph 2.
The atricle states World War II had just ended in Europe.
The UNRRA hired the Seagoing Cowboys so they could take care of the animals such as; horses, young cows, and mules.
Paragraph 2 states they shipped these animals over seas.
Another thing to enjoy about being a Seagoing Cowboy is, seeing new places.
Many people enjoy seeing different places and the intresting structures built there.
Paragraph 5 tells us that, Luke got to see Europe and China.
It also states he toured an excavated castle in Crete on his way to China.
Lastly, the boys had fun while traveling.
Pargraph 8 states, they played baseball and volleyball in the empty holes where the animals had been housed.
They also had table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and more to help pass the time while traveling.
Luke had a great time in his days as a Seagoing Cowboy.
If you like helping peolpe, witnessing new surroundings or fun games with your friends, you would like being a Seagoing Cowboy. | 2 |
76e4447 | You should join the Seagoing Cowboys because you will not only see things that almost everybody you know will never see,you can even learn things while your out there,like learn how to fish,take care of animals and you might even be able to learn how to sail your own ship. Not only that, you can even find a family and settle down and have kids,but before you say yes and sign up for this cowboy program that sounds incredibly awsome and jump on the ship and die for some super crazy reason,it won't be my fault. There are some dangers out at sea and I can tell you how to avoid them. Step 1,if you see some people come aboard from diffrent places try to stay away for a little because you dont know what kind of disease, or sickness they could have. Say you bring a little bit of medicine if you get sick and you become best friends with someone from China or Japan and you or him didn't know he brought a deadly disease aboard and if you catch it,your more than likely going to die, so keep watch if someone is coughing or sneezing. Step 2,Try not to get night watch,the reason being is that if you fall overboard there is nothing anybody could do for you because you will be out there all alone. One of the best things about the trip is that you get to go to new places and you can get new stuff. Like if you go to like Japan and all the other places you can get new plants,inventions,new farming products and many more. The best part is,you can sell it. In the story it says that he did because they sort of needed him and he wanted to help. If you do go you wil not only be helping other people you can be helping even more by bringing new ideas and farming products and you can even tell them how to properly farm or even how to farm. You will also help yourself in helping other people,even if it's just a thank you. | 3 |
76ed4ba | Since some many years, scientists around the world are trying to expand their exploration projects. After the U.S. could send a man to the space and be able to walk in the Moon, it made other scientists to be facinated with this types of explorations and look for planets to explore. One of those planets is Venus, a planet that according to the author of "The Challenges of Exploring Venus", is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it represents. He supports this idea by giving the way that scientists see Venus comparing to us, coditions that are familiar to the Earth ones, and projects that can help humanity to be able to explore Venus.
At the begining of the article, the author gave a way of how scientists see Venus to support his idea that Venus is a worthy pursuit. In paragraph 2, the authore says "Often referred to as Earth's 'twin', Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, ad occasionally to the closest in distance too". This evidence shows that most of the scientists that are related to the space exploration, think that Venus is the Earth's twin because of its shape. This clue shows that Venus has important similarities with our planet that cna hel Venus to support human life.
Later on, the author gave examples of the natural conditions that are equal to the Earth ones. In paragraph 4, the author says "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 as valleys, mountains, and craters". By showing this, the author explains that Venus has some factors that are the same ones that the Earth has. All of them are natural so it has a connection to where we are able to explore, and how its conditions can support human explorations.
Lastly, the author gave more examples of projects that can help us to survive in Venu's environment. In paragraph 6, the author says "Many researches are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long nough to contribute meaningfully to our knoledge of venus". In this part, the author shows that many scientists are tryng to find a way to get more information about Venu's conditions, by doing this, they can be one hundred percent sure that Venus is like Earth's sister.
In conlusion, the author supports his idea that Venus is a worthy pursuit depite the dangers that it represents by giving a lot of facts and examples of what the scientists and researches have found at this time. He made a great article by giving evidence and supporting them with facts. | 3 |
76edc07 | Senador first I want to say that I dissagree with the idea of the Electoral college becouse the people needs vote for the president that they want"that's democrastic". One of the reasons is that the Electoral College is unfair,outdated and irrational. The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachorsims,not democratic method of selecting a president that ought to oberruled by declaring the candidate who recieve the most popular votes the winners. Its entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the nation popular vote. There's a few reasons for retainig the Electoral College despite its lack of democratic pedigree: the first one is that a dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible ,but it's possible,but it's likely that a disputate over the popular vote. Other is that the Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in wich no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast. For all that reasons and more I think that you need put off the Electoral College,and let the people pick for the presidents that they want. | 2 |
76eddd4 | Is the Face on Mars a mesa or is it made by alien life? Well, the answer to that world-wide question is that it is a mesa. In other words, a natural landform that has been there or been made over time by the planets rotation. I strongly believe that the Face on planet Mars is just a natural landform, because we have almost like it on Earth, there are no signs of alien life in the pictures or scientific research, and the pictures taken, show that there are shadows that create a facial look in the natural landform.
First off, we have a natural landform located in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. The one on Mars is almost equivalent to the one here on our planet. In paragraph 12, it states, " That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." This is plainly saying that the one on planet Mars could just be a lava dome of some sort just like the one here on Earth.
Also, there are no signs of alien life through the pictures taken from the cameras. How could this alien life we talk about create this Face, when there is no evidence of this alien life? The pictures were taken mutiple times in different years to make sure of this. They had people questioning, so they did further research. For example in paragraph number eight, "...peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by daze." The skeptics that wanted the benifits of actually finding alien life wanted actual proof that it is merily only a mesa. They ende up being proved that it is only a mesa.
To also say, the photographs that were studied have been intereprted. They have been interepreted to the point that they can pin-point certain material. They proved that by when they said that is merily shadows that the mesa has, from depth, that create the face like look. For example in paragraph number three, it states "The captain noted a 'huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth.'" The images were showing that there were some dips in this mesa that created it to look as if it were an actual face.
There are people who say," Just because the cameras say that there is no life on Mars, doesn't mean that there is no life." To prove that wrong, it states in paragraph number 11, "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size." Also later on in the paragraph, "...if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian pyramids... you could see what they were." Meaning if there was any 3-d image, it would have been picked up and been able to ananlyze. The Face is obviously a natural landform that has been there from the beginnging. Also, people used to say and still say " look at the man on the moon." There is no man on the moon, there is a mesa that was shaped that looks like a Face. The Face n Mars is just another incident of what happend with the moon.
In conclusion, the Face on Mars is just a natural landform like the one here on earth and the one that appears on the face of the moon. I strongly hold my belief that the Face on planet Mars is just a natural landform because there is almost an exact replica here on earth, there are no sientific signs of life, and the pictures that were taken, that have been analized, show that shadows create the face. Will there one day be life somewhere else besides Earth. I will never know, but as of right now and the scientific records that are based on this essay, this Face that people say might be made by aliens is not logical. This Face on Mars is a mesa. Once you can find scientific data that proves there is life on earth, than everything said for years ca be proven wrong. But as of right now, no. | 5 |
76ee5d1 | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author describes a new type of technology that can read peoples face and tell them what that person is feeling. The author also said that the technology would be helpful in classrooms.
I do not think it would be helpful in classroms because students could abuse or overuse their ability to change the lesson. The new technology also has possibilites of eliminating jobs for teacher, teacher aides, and tutors. The author states in paragraph six that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming bored or confused, Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor. Modifying the lesson could also give students different point of views and different ways to do stuff in that subject. The new technology also woudnt be good in a classroom because some classrooms could have a student with a disability to where that student can not control their face and the computer could misread their face and change the lesson when that student might not want it to change.
I think that the author has a good idea, but the idea should not be in a classroom. I think that the new technology should be at art galleries so it could be an easier way for artist to describe their painitngs. The new technology shows a lot of advancement in the world but there is still some things you can not change about school and that is eliminating the teachers. | 3 |
76ee970 | Everyone shows emotion at some point in their lives. Whether it be joy, sorrow, or even anger everyone has expressed their emotions in one way or another. Now there is a computer software that can recognize six emotions. Reading the emotional expressions of students in a classroom using this technology is valuable because it could tell the instructor when a student is confused, it could modify the lesson, and it could help people feel more empathy for each other.
Students can become confused very quickly when an instructor is teaching about something. This computer software could stop this from happening and overall help students have a better experience at school when trying to learn. In paragraph six Dr. Huang talks about how this could revolutionize a classroom, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." This would overall help a teacher know when someone is confused so they can help them after class or talk to them more in-depth about the lesson. This invention could hep out many of students that find lessons to be very hard and don't know how to do whatever the instructor is teaching. This software could also modify the lesson that an instructor is teaching so that it is easier for a student to grasp.
Many teachers present day don't necessarily care if the students are learning what they are teaching, but just the fact that they are teaching it gives them a clear concious. This computer program could give the teachers an alert saying that someone isn't getting the lesson because they are confused with a certain topic that the teacher talked about during the class. They could then modify their lesson so that it is easier for everyone to learn. An example of evidence from the text of this is when Dr. Huang talks about how using this technology teachers could modify their lesson so that it would be easier for their students to learn, "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This helps point to the fact that it could help everyday teachers know when their students aren't completely grasping the lesson that they are teaching. This technology could also help people have more empathy for each other.
People present day are always talking about how nobody has any empathy for each other. This software could fix this especially in the classroom. A student would know when their fellow student would be sad and they would be able to talk to them and help them overcome the sadness. Another reason empathy may happen would because we unconciously imitate other people's facial expressions. Here is a quote from this article where the author, Nick D'Alto is talking about how this technology could cause empathy, "Empathy may happen because we unconciously imitate another person's facial expressions." This would help people show more empathy for each other. Overall this would be a great addition to the classroom.
Having this software in a classroom setting would stop students from becoming confused from a lesson, help modify the lesson so that an instructor could make the lesson more understandable for students, and give people more empathy. These reason give evidence that having this computer software in a classroom would not only benefit the students but benefit the teachers as well by giving them that peace of mind that their students get the lesson that they are teaching. | 6 |
76ef15f | It is suitable to argue for the development of driverless cars because they could easily be the newest innovation to improve the future of automobiles. Not only would they be more fuel efficient to aid economic aspects and contribute to conservation and improvement of the environment, but they would also greatly improve upon current systems of public transportaion.
Ideally, the Google Cofounder, Sergey Brin, could create the automoblie that he envisions. This would mean that the cars "would use half the fuel of today's taxis" (Passage 1).
Shortening the usage of fuel contibutes towards economic benefits because it would require less spending for the gas. As well as this, the decline in usage of fuel would benefit the environment both by using less natural resources from oil reserves, but also by emitting less harmful gases into the atmosphere which are currently destroying the ozone layer and causing issues such as global warming.
Improving upon current methods of public transportation, Sergey claims that he envisions these fuel efficient, driverless cars forming a "public-transport taxi system" and offering 'far more flexibility than a bus" (Passage 1). This would be an improvement because buses currently have limited range of motion and also move slower and use much more fuel than these new cars would. Also, public transportation would become a more attainable luxury for working class citizens who may usually rely on buses. With driverless taxi-like poublic transportation, a more suitable and enjoyable commute could be possible for those who can only pay a small amount for the service.
Although some may be concerned about the safety of driverless cars, the Google car has been opperating on the roads for 7 years without any accidents or crashes (Passage 2). It seems this would be even better statistics without crashing than most actual drivers today. This technology could be designed to be alert and tentative, reacting to every mishap, something that even some actual drivers today have trouble with due to distractions.
Driverless cars would greatyly improve the lives of people wanting to commute and use public transportation and aid the environment and economy with its benefits. | 4 |
76f504c | Venus is sometiimes called the "Evening Star" is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. However, Venus is actually is a palnet. Examining Venus is very challenging because of its thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide around it. Even like this the scientists are trying to came close to Venus became Venus may well once have been the most Earlth-like planet in our solar system. We, the humans should pay a vist to our sister planet.
Venus is second planet to the sun but it is the hottest planet in our solar system because "beyondhight pressure and heat,Venusian geology and weather present additional impediment like erupting volcanoes,powerful earthquakes and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface". These are a few reasons why we can't get close to Venus, even though we want to.
The National aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) is trying to send humans on to Venus. The scientists can peering Venus from far above the planet using ship orbiting and hovering safely can only give the insight of ground on Venus. This is not enough for scientists to really learn what is going on on Venus because they can not get a samples of rock,gas and anything else from a distance. | 2 |
76f7d05 | I believe the Face is just a natural landform. I disagree that the face is created by aliens. First, the "Face on Mars" has since become a pop icon, so of course there will be fasle information in magazines and etc. Second, What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or messa landforms common around the American West. Third, Mars Global Surveyor also drew close enough for a second look. When the first time on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Micheal Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera MOC team snapped a picture ten times shaper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, realing.. a natural landform. Like all the others are coomon landforms around the American West. There was no alien monument after all. But not everyone was satisfied yet. Others still not believing there were no alien monument. Prepaps said skeptics, alien marking were hidden by haze. On April 8, 2001, Malin's team captured an ectraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maxumum resolution. Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo. Garvin also said, "So, if there were obejects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian style pyramids or even small shacks you could see what they were!" Overall, Mars Global surveyor, Micheal Malin, and his Mars Orbiter Camera MOC team did their job of going back three times and checking about the alien monument skeptics were wondered about. | 2 |
76f8404 | Has anyone ever noticed that face shaped rock in Mars? Well back in 1976, some NASA Vikings saw a rock in Mars. They were all talking about it and wanted to know what it was. They told a few people and scientists. They came to a conclusion and made some guesses about what it was. Some said it was an alien's face and some said it was a man's face. It is now 2001, and the argument is currently still going on. Now I'm going to tell you from my perspective whats going on now.
So I'm a scientist, I'm currently in outerspace with other astronauts. We see what everyone is talking about. It does look like a face. From people's opinion it looks like an alien made the face, a real person, and other exotic ideas. Honestly from my opinion it looks like the natural planet. Of course it looks like a face, but I don't think a man or an alien just came and stuck their face in the planet. Like come on people, let's be real.
It is now October 24, 2002. Today we go back up into space, we go back in 3 hours. Right now I'm having a conversation with one of the astronauts, John, he thinks an alien made the face. This is what he asks me "How could you not think that is an alien's face?" My response: "Because the face is no where near shaped like an alien's face. There probably is life on that planet, but their face isn't in the planet." His response: "Oh come on, that is totally an alien's face." My response: "Look at the the way the face looks, it doesn't look anything like an alien." His response: " Well if it's not an alien then what do you think it is?" My response: "I think that was just naturally formed there."
His response: "How so?" My responese: "Look at the picture, it looks natural. Also, you know all of those big wholes in the earth, they were naturally formed, no one just came an dug that big of a whole in the earth. If so, they would probabbly be stuck inside the whole." His response: "You might be right, but that still doesn't convince me that the face was naturally formed." Then I said "Okay John, how did the alien's face get in the planet? The ground there looks awfully hard. So I don't think it would be possible for anyone or anything to make a face print in it."
"I don't know how, the alien does know." Then I said "Exactly you don't know how it got there. The alien does, if he did it. All I can say for myself is that the alien didn't do it, nor a man. I believe that it was naturally formed. So I'll let you think what you want to think." A few hours later, after him thinking about it, he came to the conclusion that maybe it was naturally formed. | 4 |
76ffc78 | "Using details from the article, write an essay arguing whether the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable". Yes, I do thing using this "Facial Action Coding System" is valuble and it could help alot in classrooms and it is a new way of learning. The technology behind this is the computer uses a type of formula to see what muscles are being used more and see how much wieght is being used on every muscle.
Lets all be honest here! I know im not the only one who gets bored or off topic when im learning a new thing or two in class. Or even in genral like if you wanted to learn something new just on your own and you watched videos and go through diffrent web sites to figure it out. But while your doing all an add pops up all of a suddon and it carries you away from what your doing. Lets say if the lesson your trying to learn is in bright colors or in a game format and it really has your attention. Would you then click on the add? Im pretty sure you wouldn't.
Usally in class I even get bored with topic we are on and i may zone out at times and the reason is that the things we learn about arn't really eye opening topics. Like i usally dont want to learn about them but if teachers/computers mixed it up a little and made it fun then that would help me and alot of other students out way more.For example "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human Instructor". The computer may add some bright colors to the lesson or make it into a type of mystery game that makes you find out what your learning through the game. That would make it so much better to learn the lesson and us student would be more intrested in the lesson.
This technology may not be for everyone.Some people may be ok with the normal old boring way of learning and that may be the best way for them to learn new things. Other people may think that there are workers watching what they do on the other side of the computer. Such as the "FBI" becasue people have been reporting things like that and they may not trust this new process.
Honestly other that i think that this is a great idea and we should try this out sometime in the future. It will be a very helpfull piece of technology for the new ways people learn. | 3 |
770370b | Dear Senator,
I feel as if we got rid of the electoral college it would just cause us more trouble that we are dealing with at the moment. the electoral college helps us so dramaticly, and some people just don't understand how much it really helps. Everyone might think they know so much about the electoral college, like if we got rif of it everything would just be fine. No one really knows what really goes on all the time. I could not imagine if we were to ever et rid of the electoral college that has been there since our founding fathers.
If we we going to change the election to by a popular vote thngs would get out of hand and horrble things could happen. Large states as Texas, California, and Minnesota would have a "winner-take-all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate. People not in those states would get angry and things would get bad. It takes 270 out of 538 to be elected president and if changing to popular vote for the election would be thelargest state elector would be the president.
Yes there are things that are wrong in the electoral coleege but nothing is perefect as we all know. In Texas if you wanted to vote for John Kerry you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry, and thats just one thing that is wrong. Another thing wrong about the electoral college is a tie in the electoral vote. If happened the election wouldbe thrown to the House of Representatives, where state dlegations vote on the president. Then the senate would then choose the vice-president. Because each state casts only ne vote, the single representive from Wyoming, representing 500,00 voters, would have as much as the 55 represenyives.
When youvote for a presidentiial canidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recives a majority of the votes cast. Nixon and Clinton both had only a 43 percent chanceplurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority in the electoral college. There is pressure for run-off elections when no canidate wins a majority of the votes cast; that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presidential election process, is reduced by the Electoral College, which invariably prodeuces a clear winner.
If the election changed to a popular vote things as we know it would change drasticly. | 3 |
7703b3c | Having this technology available for students in the classroom would help inform the teacher or instructor if the student is having trouble with online work and could easily be known with this software.To back up this claim,the text provides the statement"a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored".Having this software could also help young doctors who are wanting to be in the medical field, just as the state texts "the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face all 44 major muscles", menaing that this technology could easily make the learning of human anatomy much more easier to learn and to understand.
This software could easily turn around the boring day for a student with just knowing their facial expressions,having an instructor change the way they teach to help students be more active and more drawn into their education is what we want.When Dr.Huang says" then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor" just goes to prove that with this software, teaching would be more effective than before due to the educator changing how they teach to better fit the needs of a student while still helping the rest in their own ways.With this technology in class teachers will also be able to tell when a student is lying about a certain thing such as turning in their online homework, this software could help and inform the teacher that the student is lying and have this problem resolved.
When talking about students in a classroom and with this technology I instantly think of doctors and anyone else in the medical field.This software could help us better understand the human anatomy of the face and could make the new upcoming doctors more advance than those who didn't have the chance to learn with this new software.Of course people could learn the facial expressions through this software even if it wasn't in their time, but I believe in human interaction or face-to face so to call.We as humans already do this calculation everyday when we meet up with friends or family,as stated in the text " in fact we humans perform this same impressive calculation everyday" meaning that even before having this technology at hand, we already had an idea of how someone felt just by their facial expressions but of course with this technology we can better understand how someone is truly feeling. | 3 |
7707835 | Would you be willing to figure out what is going on in Vebus? In the articule The Challenges of Exploring Venus there are scientist that want to find more about Venus. Venus is referred to as Earth's "twin". Would you be willing to explore or send Items to explore Venus, so we can know more about it?
Its would be amazing if NASA could get samples of the rock, gas, and other things on Venus. The reason it would be amazing is so that we can know how Venus is just like our earth they call Venus Eath's "twin" so it would be amzaing if they had a lot more in common. NASA is willing to send people there but the only problem is that it is to hot there for people to go there and land there and take samples. The only way NASA said they could send people was if thyey could hover over Venus at about thirty miles or so, that is about how high a jet airplane fly. NASA would like to make things so that humans do not have to risk there lives to get samples so NASA is making some things in the articule it says this
"NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplidied electronis made os silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulatiing to chaos of Venus's surface and hahve lasted for three weeks in such conditions"(7). Nasa finally thinks they have found somethng they could use that was made a lon time ago. it is called the mechanical computer the device was first envisioned in the 1800s and played a important role in the 1940s during WWII. the reason scientist believe they can use this is because the device makes calculations by using gears and leavers and do not need electronics at all, so they are saying systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces.
After all would you decide to help out and figure out more about Venus? Scientist are doing a great job so far with everything they are figuring out about what could be more helpful to them. They also know that is can be safe for them to hover over Venus instead of landing on it and having a horrible tragidy. They have a lot of leads of what they can use and lets hope he can find more out about Venus in a couple of years. | 2 |
7708e34 | No, i dont think we should have driveless cars that is a hazoired sitiouions.
Because in that type of thing the driver is not in controle of what so ever the driver has no purpose to be there at all and it can be a very dangerous on there part because like instead of the person controling the car that is his life in his own hands
But say the car is in controle he/she will be putting there life in a computers chip they have to be 100% sure with that in order for it to be ok but i bet 50% of the people won't even care about there own life why you say.
because they will be to busy enjoying there new drivless car what if perhapes the car has a milefuntion on the passenger and it hits a person say kills that person what would you blame that on the person or the car the peron had nothing to do with it why because he/she was to depended on their new drive less car.
You also have to think about the legal lieablitiy with this new found car you have to have a sertain amount of mature level to drive a regular car but a drivless car thats crazy you can fall asleep at the wheel kill sombody and say it was not your fault you can blame it on the people that make these cars thats noun sence what would that .
Family think they will still press charges on you and the people that make because its they fault for the milefunction but yours fault fo not paying attention. It would be madness for all plus what human skills would be requird for this to get purchesed if not any you telling me you would fell 100% comfterable with.
A baby in the front seat of a car not me i surely will not feel safe aswell as comfterable
In concluesion no i think that driveless cars are hazirodes sitiuions. | 3 |
770a4ad | Using technolgy to read emotional expressions of students in a class is valuable. This generation today is capable of taking technology to another level, so why not take advantage of it? Bringing the Facial Action Coding System to existences can be a great thing.
It's fairly easy to know how somebody is feeling simply by the look on their face, but that usually just gives off one emotion. With the Facial System in use it will be capable of giving off multiple emotions on how somebody is feeling. Also, with the system it will be easier to detect Whether somebody is lying or telling the truth. It'll be easier to detect because the percent numbers from your emotions with identify everything your feeling whether its, gulit,mad,sad etc. Another thing that is cool about this system is that it's not just used for the computer it also can be used for game systems and video sugery.
Being able to read emotions from other people using technolgy is cool. supporting this movement can be a big step for this generation. Also,bringing new technology into this world can change the world in many ways. | 3 |
77147ae | "There is an amazing program I joined called the 'Seagoing Cowboys'. It is amazing." I told a group of people outside a restaurant. "Well, you can't convince us to join if you don't give us reasons." said a man wearing blue overalls and a plaid shirt. To me, he looked a lot like a farmer. He looked just like a person the 'Seagoing Cowboys' were looking for. "Let's see. Well, first of all, sir, if I may ask, are you a farmer?" I asked the man wearing the overalls. "I sure am." he replied. "Do you enjoy taking care of horses, young cows, and mules?" I questioned him. "Of course I do. Why?" he asked. "The reason is, the 'Seagoing Cowboys' are a group of people who go to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. "Interesting," he said "Tell me more. "Other than helping people, I had the honor of seeing Europe and China. I also got to take a gondala ride in Venice, Italy, which is a city with streets of water." I added. "I always wanted to see Europe." the overalls man said. "Well then, if you want to take care of animals and visit other places in the world, you should join the 'Seagoing Cowboys!" I exclaimed. "I think I will!" the overalls man said. "How do I sign up?" he asked. I gestured towards the sign up booth. "Right over there" I replied. As he walked to the booth I smiled with happiness. "Another job well done Luke." I whispered to myself. | 2 |
7715f1d | The author supports that going to Venus is a worthy pursuit by giving information as to why it is important. He describes the importance of it for humanity and the future for humanity. The author says the importance of going to Venus and the dangers that come with trying to get to it. Imagination is one thing the authors says to support the idea of going to Venus, as it is dangerous and even though it is dangerous people shouldnt let danger get in the way of their imagination and curiosity.
The author states many things that contribute to his idea of not being afraid of danger. In the text 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." This states and supports the idea that the author has as to why people should travel to Venus. The author is saying to not let danger or doubt get in the way of imagination that we could accomplish
impossible tasks as getting to Venus.
Another reason the author explains is that information that could be gathered from Venus. It could give knowledge as to why it is the way it is or many other types of information. Much knowledge can be gathered from the planet. In the text it states, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but talso because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." This staes that it is important to gain insight on the planet and as a way to lead us to as equally intimidating endeavors.
The author states another reason as to why Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers and the reason is that innovation in technology can be improved making technology that we dont have. Innovating technology can help in the future. The text states,"NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus." "For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." The text also states,"Another project is looking back to an an old technology called mechanical technolgy." "Systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces."
This explains the reasoning for needing to go Venus. There can be innovation in technolgy that can be improved to make it better than before. To not let danger or doubt get in the way of challenges being accomplished to not let the danger in the impossible stop humanity from extending into more things. This is why the author supports the idea of traveling to Venus. | 4 |
7728caa | I agree that is is a piece of landform. I agree because of what NASA is saying. I agree with them for what they have said in paragraph 7 which was "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on JPL web site, revealing...a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all".
In pragraph 12 it says that "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West". In paragraph 10 the text says that "Each pixel in the 2001 imange spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo".
When they first looked they saw a face, then the second time they looked closer it was just a regualar piece of landform. The person that wanted to publish it so that way everone can see it wanted it to be every where. Well it crtainly did go every where, a lt of people were talking about it and looking at the newspapers.
In the text it says that "The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars". In paragrap 7 it says that "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on JPL web site, revealing...a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all".
In paragraph 7 it said this "When they flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper then the original Viking photo". Also the "Face on Mars" has since to become a pop icon. | 3 |
77298de | Cars have become a part of our modern day culture since the invention of the first model. Many countries around the world have an abundance of car buyers and users, however others are taking into consideration alternatives. The advantages of limiting car usage include relief from stress of cars upon individuals and reduced emissions in the environment.
Cars put forth a lot of stressful trouble upon users. These vehicles are designed to transport a person or people from point A to point B, however cars are for personal use that can cost an immense amount of money. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter about her new "car-free" lifestyle (Rosenthal,3). This ideaology is spreading throughout all Europe as more alternate transportations are provided by the government. As Selsky mentioned in Source 3, locations, such as parks and sports centers with uneven sidewalks, have been replaced with broad, smooth ones for citizen's use. Moreover, many cities have provided a bicycle program to promote less usage of cars. These steps towards change help convince people that there are alternatives out there, and that we aren't limited to just buying a car and license to go to places.
Additionally, the limitation of car usage help establish a better and healthier environment for everyone. Cars emulate lots of dangerous gases that may harm our precious earth, many of which are responsible for the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect causes gases to be trapped in the atmosphere which harms our ozone layer and creates a smog-like appearance on our cities. Paris is an example of a polluted city as civilians battle against threatening smog from emissions of diesel cars in France (Duffer,8). Many actions towards progressive behavior have increased the likelihood of limited car usage, such as tolls throughout cities and fines up to $25 for violators of laws. These enforcements will ensure that the environment is capable of maintaining generation after generation at a stable pace.
To conclude, many countries are pondering choices of opportunites to promote less usage of cars, while some are on their way to solve these issues, limitations on car usage have a variety of advantages for ourselves and the environment. These limits help reduce stressful situations, as well as provide a healthier ecosystem to live and prosper. | 4 |
772bf01 | In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author explains why we have yet to travel to Venus and supports with evidence why he thinks we should in the near future. The author supports this idea thoroughly in the presentation of the dangers that traveling to Venus may present, and informing the reader of the advancements in technology and ideas that may allow humans to one day study Venus from up close.
Thoughout the article, the author uses current technology and past human experiences with the planet to portray the difficulties space travellers may have researching the planet. In paragraph three the author explains the harsh environment on Venus that causes spacecraft to malfunction and stop working. The author says, "These conditions are much worse than anything humans encounter on Earth," and that the atmospheric pressure, "...would crush even a submarine," and, "liquefy many metals" (Paragraph 3). These claims support the idea of the planet being challenging to observe with rovers and spacecraft and presents the idea of humans wishing to overcome challenges simply for curiosity's sake.
Additionally, the author explains the progress humans are making in their pursuit of the planet through the creation metals and machinery capable of withstanding the harsh conditions of the hostile Venus. The author presents the idea of a hovering craft on the planet that can escape the severity of the surface; The author stating the conditions were not easy, "...but survivable for humans" (Paragraph 5). The author justly displays this plan by also weighing the negatives. The author states that, "...peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the surface can only provide limited insight on the ground conditions..." (Paragraph 6) The authro's support of the argument through evidence from both sides shows an understanding of the full scope of the issue and allows the author to affect one's opinion more effectively.
Finally, the author claims that the value in reaching Venus lies in the exploration of human curiosities and the opportunity to learn from an environment so close to home and so unwilling to allow humans to look in. "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" (Paragraph 8). The author believes that the true reward in the exploration of Venus lies in overcoming the challenges we will face along the way and through evidence and reasoning supports the idea that the journey is worth it.
The author of this article supported the idea that the study of our hostile neighbor Venus was worth the risks it presents. The article lays out the dangers and the potential ways of overcoming them, while also presenting the good and bad of the options. Although opinionated, this article presents an idea that is based in sound logic and upon reasonable evidence. The author of this article did an excellent job in explaining and supporting the idea. | 4 |
772e8cb | Unmaskin the Face on Mars
Have you seen the face on Mars? Do you think it was made from aliens? well i will tell you why the theory that it was made by aliens is false. I will also tell you why it is a natural land form. Also I tell you further what the scientists have found out about the three pictures taken.
There is a theory htat the face on Mars firts photographed in 1976 was not made by aliens. First many people think that the face looks like an egyptian pharoh and was made by aliens. Although there are some people belive that aliens do egsist and that the aliens did this face there is no true evedance that aliens do eggsist and also that the aliens did this face. Another thing people are saying is that the NASA is hiding things from the public but the NASA tells evertything to the public about teir investigation so there for there is no true evedance that the NASA is hiding things about their invesigations to the public.
The face on mars is a natural land form because there is no true evedance that the aliens built htis face as a matter of fact years after there have two more pictures taken of the face on mars one in 1998 and the last one in 2001. In fact there is a scientist that even said that the face was not made by aliens the scientist's name is Jim Garvin. Jim Garvin studied the pictures of the face on Mars and said that there was no alien monument after all. There for that prove that the face on Mars was not made by aliens. There are still some people not satifed with his answer. Garvin even compared the face on mars with buttes or mesas here on earth. Garvin also said that these kinds of land forms are common areound the American West. Garvin also stated that it reminded him most of the Middle butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho.
The face on Mars caused many theory like that some peopl said that the face on Mars was made by aliens. here is what scientists have found out. Once they NASA took the first picture comotion started like the one were they say that it was made by aliens, but the scientist Jim Garvin said that if it indeed it was and egyptian-style pyramid or even small shack you be able to see what they were. There are three pictures of this face on mars every picture more enhanced than the other and indeed scientists like Jim Garvin say the the face on Mars was not made by alians and it is a natural land form like a mesa.
In conclusion there are people that say that the face on Mars was built by aliens and that it is a face if an egiptian pharoh, but scientists have answered this question and they say that it is just a natural land form like a mesa. So what do you think? Do you think that the face on Mars was made by aliens? belive what you think but acirding to evedance it was not made by aliens . What do think? | 4 |
7736261 | He is going to jion becusae he is 18 know and he has to go to the military service. He seling the Atlantic Ocean ti takes teo weeks they are going to China. He helps out on his Katie's farm as a boy had prepared .Luke for hard work but no not for the dangers at sea. Luke also toured an excavated castle in crete and marveled at Panama Canal on his way to China.
Bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holdsof the ship. Stalls had to be cleaned. One rainy night after makeing his hourly report to. The captain the slid down a slippery ladder on his backside. Table-tennis tournaments ,fencing,boxing,reading,whittling, and games also helped pass the time.
But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an abventure for Luke Bomberger. It opened up tho world to him. he is grateful for the opportunity. It made him more aware of people of other countries and their needs. And that awareness stayed with him leading his family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years. | 1 |
7736d47 | Its hard reading peoples facial expressions. Some people dont have the type of face where others can take a peek at their face and know whether they are happy or upset. Life just is not that easy. Although being able to read someones facial expressions can get in a way of teaching a student, make others feel bad, and perhaps the technology can misenterpret a facial expression.
Students and teachers alike may feel highly uncomfortable knowing that technology is veiwing their face at every point of the day. Humans now live in the 20th century where technology is booming and will continue to improve. In the article it states that a computer classroom will be able to defrentiate ones emotions and change an ad to best fit the persons prefrences ("Making Mona Lisa Smile"). Thats fine and dandy until they change from ads to actual lessions. Lets say that a student is watching a class video independently as are the other students. Perhaps the video is for biology and what is being shown is a dissected frog. Of course watching a frog being dissected can make some students disgusted, but in the end of the day the student still has to learn all this since it is required in the class. Perhaps in order to achieve a good grade in the class the student has to sit through and watch that video to learn.
Having technology constantly viewing ones facial expressions can be pretty unfortunate. The technology can apparently know if someone is happy or sad ("Making Mona Lisa Smile"). If it can tell if someone is happy or sad can it tell if someone is lying? Lets say a female student asks the teacher for permission to use the restroom. Perhaps this teacher is strict and does not allow restroom passes unless necessary. Telling the teacher in front of everyone that she is on her mentrual cycle is embarrassing for younger female students; even more so if the teacher happens to be a male. Now having technology that can pinpoint the fact that this female student does not have to urinate would be classified as a lie. Therefore the teacher would say no knowing she is lying about having to pee. This of course puts the female student in a difficult position; leaving her to feel bad and embarrassed about being caught in a lie. There are two choices now she doesn't go to the restroom and risks staining hersle with blood or she tells the teacher in front of everyone that she is on her period and be embarrassed about that too. Having this technology can be greatly embarrassing for many other students too.
Technology is bound to mess up at one point. All humans and technology are not perfect. There is not such thing as perfect, so having technology that reads human expressions around may be cool until is messes up and reads ones expression incorectly. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored...," ("Making Mona Lisa Smaile"). For exapmle if a student is intrigued by a subject and understanding what is being taught then there is no real reason for the subject to be changed. Imagone that a student sitting in class deeply engrossed in the sunject to vome to school the nect day and have to sit through a boring lession just because a computer read their expression wrong.
It is normal to be excited over new technology. People need to be level headed though and ask themselves whether or not it will be beneficient towards whatever purpose the technology is bought for. The new software Facial Action Coding System can be pretty appeasing when thinking of it at first. Actually owning it and installing it in a classroom can lead to bad consequences like: A student not learning well, making others feel bad, and the risk of the software making mistake. | 6 |
77387d5 | In May of 1976, a space ship that was looking for a landing site on Mars snapped a very interesting photo. The blurry photo clearly resembled a human face. The picture led a lot of people to think that the structure was build by aliens. However, this statement has been proven wrong by scientific evidence. The structure wasn't built by aliens because a more up to date photo of the same spot has proven that it is just a mass of rock.
Up until around 1998, a large amount of people believed that the image of the blurry face was evidence of an alien civilization. On April 5, 1998 however, scientists were finally ale to take another picture of the same spot with more up to date technology. The new image revealed that it was just a bunch of rocks.
Scientists say that the blurry face could've been caused by a thick haze that was on that part of the planet when the original photo was taken. They said it was a cloudy day when the photo was taken, so the fae could've been created by the combination of the clouds and the shadows.
Now that a more up to date photo was released, some people have dropped the whole idea of an alien civilization, however, some people still believe that there could still be alien life elswhere. This could be true, but as for the blurry face photo, it was all just a trick of the eye. | 3 |
773930f | Is Technology Valuable in the Classroom?
New software has been developed that improves the accuracy in perceiving the emotions of others. The new software can now detect exactly how other people are feeling even when they are trying to hide their emotions. Facial Action Coding System has promising applications for a variety of industries. Mona Lisa being on of the pictures used to detect her emotions that were captured long ago.
Dr. Huang and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate. If the Facial Action Coding System was apart of the classroom, it will essentially distract students from their work. If school corporations were to bring Facial Action Coding System into the school, I personally think the schools should make it an elective class due to the fact that it may make students distracted from their work.
The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Movement of one or more muscles is called an "action unit." Dr. Paul Eckman, the creator of the Facial Action Coding System classified the six basic actions as happiness, surprise, amger, disgust, fear, and sadness, and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles.
During the process, each expression is compared against a neutral face, also showing no emotion. Although, I think that having the Facial Action Coding System in schools, we perform "calculations" on one another each day. Humans can tell when a friend is feeling "down" or simply having a bad day. Just like when humans are watching movies, one can figure how the person is feeling by watching the actions around them happening or by their expressions presented on their face.
The Mona Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much this computer can do. "A classroom computer could regonize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. Having a computer in a room would also help modify the lesson as if the teacher were there. Today, most human communication is nonverbal, including emotion communication making it almost impossible to figure out what one is thinking or saying.
According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even produce them. Each person expressed their emotions differently. Empathy may happen because we unconsiously imitate another peroson's facial expressions. Designing the Facial Action Coding System helped humans learn the process of changing facial expressions and reading each others minds and emotions. Whoever would have thought that making faces could reveal so much about the science of emotions! | 2 |
7739354 | You hear it all, throughout breaking news; to protesters trying to make a difference in our world. Pollution is dangerous and people don't fully understand the costly effects to our everyday living. Transportation is a way of means by transitioning from one place to another. The most popular way of transportation is the vehicle. A fast and easy way to get to your destination with just a turn of the key, or in this case now-a-days, the click of a button.
Acres of land being towed to create bigger roads, or streets because of the vast majority of people using cars to get around. With each car means more gas or diesel, more gas equals more money, and more pollution. Our atmosphere can only take so much from the faulty mistakes we choose to do everyday. Places like Paris and suburbs in Germany are becoming more aware of how much cars can effect our Earth. After days of near record pollution Paris decided to enforce a 'partial driving ban' to clear some of the air in the global city. The way they enforced this was motorists with even numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home. The same would apply for the odd numbered license plates the following day. After this, smog and congestion decreased by 60 percent in the capital of France. Other places like Bogota, Columbia is having 'car free day' where millions of people would enjoy their day outside hiking, biking, and taking buses for work during the day. These decisions and actions cleared the streets in Bogota and avoided jams, leaving the people to have a nice day enjoying the outdoors. Carlos Arturo says "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution."
This doesn't mean give up cars all in all. Rather, limit the use of driving your car. America's love affair with vehicles seem to be dulling down. After 2005, the number of miles driven started to decrease. Part of the explanation to this lies in the recession, because tight budget Americans could'nt afford new cars, and the unemployed were'nt going to work. Sociologists believe if these patterns of decreasing numbers of car owners and people driving-- that it will have beneficial outcomes for carbon emissions and the enviroment. On the opposing side this has a negative effect for the car industries.
The positive effects will benifit future generations to come, with clean air to breathe and a fresh start. By limiting car usage there would be less traffic jams, more people getting in touch with their surroundings and even losing 3 to 5 pounds while they're at it. Transportation is a way of means by transitioning from one place to another, it doesn't always have to be a vehicle with so many other options you can choose from. Make a difference in the world, one less car at a time. | 4 |
773b6f8 | The development, of driverless cars, is not a good idea. The driverless cars are non-reliable, lack safety, and are illegal in most states.
Driverless cars are not well reliable. Paragraph 7 states, "They can steer, accelerate, and break themselves, but all are not designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." This example tells us that we can not fully rely on driverless cars to lead us safely. Paragraph 7 also states, "This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." From this example we can tell that driverless cars are not alert and road ready if we have to continously check and be alert of any mishap.
Driverless cars not only lack reliability but they also lack safety. Paragraph 9 states, "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." This example tells us that driverless cars are less adequate than human drivers. Paragraph 9 also states, "Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident." From this example we can tell that driverless cars can cause accidents and are not protective enough to depend on.
Driverless cars not only lack reliability and safety, but they are also not allowed in most states. Paragraph 9 states, "As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer driven cars." This example tells us that you can't even practice or test drive driverless cars in some states. Paragraph 9 also states, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault--the driver or the manufacturer." From this example we can tell that if a driverless car causes an accident, no one knows who to blame for the effect.
Driverless cars should not be out on the road. They are non-reliable, lack safety, and aren't legal in most states. All these issues contribute to why driverless cars should not be planned on or even invented. | 4 |
773c30a | The author explains his idea very well by saying that it's worth exploring Venus. The author persuades the reader into thinking that Venus is worth exploring because the planet use to be habitable. Venus is still a mystery waiting to be solved. The author also gives scientist's solutions to every danger of Venus.
The author says the planet use to be Earth's twin. Venus use to have similar features to Earth like valleys,mountains,and craters. This is why scientist still want to explore the hot planet. One of the solutions to exploring Venus the authors says is "a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape."
The author makes this seem inevitable because as he said "human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors."
In conclusion the author uses and facts and his own opinions to explain his idea very well. He engages the readers into his passage by explaining all the cool aspects of Venus. Finally he supports the idea by saying "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." | 2 |
77418ee | Driverless cars are a good thing to have at times because they have the technology to make a change for the future. Smart cars have the capabiltiy to sense things that are coming when drivers have their focus on something else. The cars are amazing because they have the an opertunity to change driving in new ways.
With time computer-driven cars will be better than they already are because with time new ideas will keep coming and they will be put to the test to see if they can make them better. They will make thier ideas for the cars better and keep testing new theories for them like in the article it says" Sensors are nothing new, of course. In the 1980s, automakers used speed sensors at the wheels in the creation of antilock brackes. Within 10 years, those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers."
Driverless cars are getting better as the years go on and technology improves. Google founder belives that " technology has finally begun to catch up to the dream". He belives this because before 2000s nothing was improved enough to make things that we have today like technolgy has grown alot since then to be albe to understand the math that it takes to make sure these cars are going to be able to do the job they are programed to do.
Even though driverless cars are good they still have flaws that are not good like their technology can malfunction and that wouldn't be good for anybody in the car if they don't know what to do. In the article it stated that "if the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?" With this being said it puts things into perspective that probably were but not thought
as much until it was brought up. Also they don't always know what to do in situations like if there are work zones or finding a way around an accident that had occured. One thing that is also put into thought was the money that these automakers and manufacturers are putting into these cars because they are not cheap to build.
Driverless cars are something that will be in the future becuase of the technolgy for cars rapidly growing and manufacturers finding new things all the time. In the article it says that " the road to the truly autonomous car stretches on ahead of us, but we grow closer to teh destination every day".
As time is being put into this more ideas are poping up and more adjustments are being made to make these cars better than the last. | 4 |
77421ce | I don't believe these cars should be made. You have to look more deep into this. Think wisely what these cars could be made with or think about the earth. People need to research deep information about these cars.
I disagree with this because people should have cars that are easily to manage. Or to fix, because we might have to spend about thousands of dollars trynna get this car fix because it's different than a regular car. You could of had used this money on a new car or bills.
Driverless cars are dangerous to humans and the community. This car is running of electric and maybe other stuff we don't know about. It's basically a computer controlling it. One day this car can get you into an accident.
These cars are not a good idea to drive. I don't think it's safe to drive. We don't know who controlling it from behind. Who ever made this idea is crazy. Hopefully they tested this project or machine out before they give it to use for humans. | 1 |
7746d26 | For the vote for the president of the United States, the election should not depend on popular vote, but for the Electoral College. The citizens of the United States should understand that when they vote, they are voting for the Electoral College, and that their vote will not necessarily determine who the president is. The Electoral College should be picked more carefully to avoid "the disaster factor", but not completely abolished.
As stated in paragraph 1, the electoral college is a compromise between the congress and popular vote. This can serve as a check that determines the president. Just like children are taught in elementary school about science projects, multiple tests can determine the best result. Relying on one voting could put the wrong president in place, and our country is at stake in this situation. If the president presents his campaign to multiple groups of people, it can show what people want in many scenarios. This can determine what the best choice really is.
In paragraph 9 of source 2, it states how many presidents have wanted to abolish the electoral college. It seems that they all could have one thing in common: they recieve the popular vote, but not the Electoral College vote. I could frankly say that this makes them sound like sore losers, and because one of two parties didn't vote in their favor, they want to get rid of it. I'm sure they might have some legitimate reasons as to why they want to abolish the Electoral College, but I wouldn't doubt that being a sore loser is one of them.
In paragraph 11, the author talks about the 2000 fiasco. Although he makes some good points about the legitimacy of the Electoral College, some points can be made about the popular vote as well. Many people in the popular vote can choose their vote based on things that don't relate to the campaign, and some people running for president depend on it. They will spend their time trashing the opposing candidate which will cause the voter to think "This president says that the other is bad and I believe them, so i will vote on the person that told me so". This is just one example of how just like the Electoral College, the popular vote can be illegitimate as well.
Although there are many reasonable reasons to abolish the Electoral College, it should not be abolished so that the vote is based on many trials, rather than just 1. We should carefully select our Electoral College, but getting rid of it could put the wrong president in place for the wrong reasons. This is why the Electoral College should continue to be a part in the vote for the president of the United States. | 4 |
774757d | The Electorial College is something in the United States that needs to be replaced. It is an irrational system that takes the people's power to vote away from them. The system has flaws that leave the possibility of disaster open to happen. It takes the power to choose the goverment officials from the people, and gives it to a group of people who can vote either way. Why would we keep this?
The Electorial College is a way to choose the Presidential canidate who wins the election. It involves a slate of electors (according to Source 2) who cast their votes in. The people in each state vote for the winning electors of that state. The electors pledge to a canidate and thats what people vote for. Once the people choose a winning elector group they go to Congress and cast their votes in for who they want, and that person then gets so many votes. The problem is that the electors aren't required to vote for who they said they would, so if the elector suddenly decided to change his mind after he or she won, the people's votes are basically invalidated and a different elector gets the votes. This effectively removes the people from the equation in who gets elected. All an elector would have to do is win over the people, then he or she could just change their minds and cast a different vote than what they said they were going to do. The people who vote don't even vote for the Presidential canidate in this system, they vote for a bunch of electors that they hope will vote for what they said.
This is not an irrational, unrealized fear. It has actually happened before. According to Source 3, in the 2000 election, Al Gore had a majority of popular votes, but less electorial votes, so he lost to Bush. This isn't even the first time it has happened, it has happened previous times throughout U.S. history. This is a clear example of how flawwed the Electorial College system. Between the possibility of the people's votes not counting for anything, and that they don't even actually vote for their preffered canidate, this system needs to be replaced.
Some may argue that the chance of an elector not casting his or her vote that he pledged to is very slim. Why would you even be ok with taking such a chance? It's better to be one-hundred percent sure of what will happen instead of ninety-five percent. Also, since most states in the U.S. award electorial votes by a winner-takes-all basis (according to Source 3), if one side of the votes wins, even by a slim margin, they get all the votes. This seems unfair, since if they won by a slim margin at least some of the state thinks it should be a different vote. It would make more sense if the states awarded both sides of the vote if it was a close win for one side or the other, but they would award the true winner with more votes than the narrow loser.
Another problem with the E.C. system is that states that are largely of one belief ( Republican or Democrat ect. ) have no real reason to pay attention to the opposite side of the canidacy. Since the state would be largely one thing or the other, it is irrelivant if thirty percent of the state votes one way if seventy percent of the state votes the other, since the landslide victory style of electorial vote giving is present in most states. This also means that states that are biased and small states get almost no exposure from the opposite side of the canidacy because they know they have almost no chance of winning their votes. This seems to force the voters to choose one canidate's electors because they don't know enough about the other.
In conclusion, the Electorial College needs to be replaced with a more fair, balanced system. It has the potential to allow the electors to defy the will of the people who voted them in, invalidating the people's votes and making them pointless. It also has candates only focusing their ads and visits on the states with more votes and the states biased towards their party. Finally, it has almost all the states have a landslide "winner-takes_all" style of awarding electorial votes. This means if one side of electors only wins by a slim margin, the other side gets nothing, even though since they lost by a small number they clearly have a sizeable amount of voters for them. The Electorial College needs to be removed before someone takes advantage of it's serious flaws and takes the votes of the people and makes them useless. | 5 |
774ced1 | Venus and the Earth the differentes is the Earth is more bigger then Venus the nickname is Evening Star and the samalier is they both are floating onthe air.
Venus and the Earth
the different is Earth is more bigger. The Earth is different because living can live in Earth. I also think that they both are grate in their time. The different is Venus is small and shiny the can help the Earth to bright at night. They are beautiful too mose of girls like it. Also the Earth have oxygen to breath but the Venus does not because it live on the sky.
the samalier Venus and Earth they both float on the air. Also they
oth are useful. They both grate at their place the Venus is good for night time it gave light the Earth is good for living thing and people. They both have grateness.
The Venus sometime come around the corner in space. Onetime the cloud - draped world it's take few hours. This explain that the spaceship touch down on Venus more then three time. This explain that the spaceship are real.
I don't understand some of it so
I am just going to right another makeup story okay.
I thinks People loke Earth more because they can live in there and they have the best oxygen in the Earth. Venus is too small for the living thing the Earth is the grate place for them. So they will chose the Earth if tell them to pick one to live. | 1 |
774e049 | My Thoughts on the Story "Making Mona Lisa Smile."
Lets be real first before we get started on the real thing. Who came up with all these weird names for facial expressions and facial muscles, my goodness I thought I was surely going to get taken out of class from laughing so hard at these weird names.
I think that using technology to read someone emotions is horrible stupid. I mean come on why invade someones privacy. Why trust a computer when it can mulfunction, and calculate wrong. Yet some might say its a good thing to invade others personal emotions by using technology to see what their feeling and figure out why their feeling that way. Not everyones facial tissue or muscles are the same nor can you predict what their facial expressions mean as of emotions. Using a 3-D computer model of someones facial structer you can see the muscles of the face in different forms and can tell what emotions are showing.
Example: Your orbivularis oris (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show your anger. So the people who agree with using this technology would rely on the 3-D facial model of someone and look for muscle tightening or high raises of the eyebrows, or tightening of the jaw.
People who do not agree on this would say you can not always believe what technology says. Maybe someones facial expressions are natural. For instence someone who was born with difunctional issues; a lip attacthed to their nose, if someone were to use a picture of someone with a lip disorder and the persons lips are tight they assume it is cause they are mad. When in reality they might just be sad because their lip is stuck like that, and your assuming it's tight cause their mad.
Paragraph 5 talks about humans calculating everyday. well for one when the author says, ' You can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." What makes you think it's a she it could be a he or a she. Don't assume genders author. Simply some people have trouble showing the right emotions too. For instance you could be happy and have a frown on your face and if someone were to send it the the facial computer and ask what is she/his emotions right now. Well the computer would say they are confused, when really they are happy and just had their face rested in a frown.
In paragraph 6 it says that, " most human communcication is nonverbal, including emotional comunication. So computers need to understand that, too." Dr. Huang notes said.
So why do computers need to understand how we feel? If we want someone to know how we feel, we will let them know. What's the point in wasting time working on a computer to figure out how someone feels when you could simply ask and not waste money and time on a computer that could malfunction? The author say's that the Mona Lisa demonstration is intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows you just how much the computer can do. Well it surely didn't bring a smile to my face.
Instead it made me think of lot's of questions on stuff like; what happens if your so called computer malfunctions? Where will everything go? Surely you have everything saved? Have you tested it on many people more than 20? Were those people all the same? Or were they different? Do you know what people will think of it, or how they will react to all this new technology? Why did you use technology? What happens when we go into a blackout and you can't rely on any of the technology? People will want answers and then turn on you cause you relyed on something that can't function without electricity.
Paragraph 7 explains some "encoding" emotions and what to do while looking in the mirror then the author says that those instructions are for a face that looks happy. Now if your smart and I shall hope you are, we both know if you go to a mirror and force your eyes to squint and force your lips to move upwards, and then raise your cheeks up. Lets just say that will not look like a happy face, it will look like someone who doesn't know how to smile and is trying ot force a fake smile that looks horrible wrong.
Paragraph 8 talks about how a muscle clue can tell when a politician or celebrity isn't being truthful. Well what if someone asks them a personal question and they don't want the whole world to know? And you go and use that computer on their 3-D face you made and tell the world they were lying to that question. Hm well you just ruined that for them and exposed them. Now I know what your thinking they wouldn't do that, and maybe your right or wrong. Their is always someone who can hack or get the full version of this what do you call it FACS, and that person would probably spill it to the world and thank you for creating that machine. Then you're sucked into the law suits and drama and people who would sew you for ruining the world or someones life.
In paragraph 9 the author says, " According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them." Does it really? I mean you can't force a smile, and we all know faking a smile does not make you happy. These facts are from someone who probably just used a couple peoples facial expressions to get to publish his or her's book so why not ask more than a couple peoples opinions and what they say about all this.
I understand why you would want to read a studens emotional expressions during class to see how they feel and what you could do to make it better, but what if it doesn't get better and you try everything you can and their still sitting in calss bored and tired and not giving a rat? Then your stuck with a machine you don't need anymore and less money than you had because you wanted to spend it on a machine then asking the student's what they thought could help them.
Most people would spend money on machines to try to help kids because thats all their used to doing spending money on kids to make them happy, when in reality you just need to have them suck it up and pay attention reward them with things that don't cost a lot or something that doesn't cost anything.
This is my opinion and my thoughts. | 4 |
774fac3 | I perosnally don't think it's a good idea,because most people don't really pay attention to the road if someone,and or,something else is driving for them.Driveless cars are pointless if it's not fully automatic,why is it called "driveless" when you still have to pay attentoin and drive at certain points in time ?
With the driveless car there could be less accidents,because of the sensors and flashing lights in the car,but overall the driveless car still isn't a good idea because there will have to be some sort of binary code on the road for the car to read,with that it would be way to expensive to pratically work .
In conclusion the driveless cars' wouldn't be a good idea,because people wouldn't really drive anymore,they're just partially driving and that wouldn't be fair to anyone who loves driving, if in the future they made every car "driveless".
In the future,how would having driveless cars' help our economy out ? How do they plan on saving fuel?What if the car just shuts down,who fault would it be? Those are the things that i want to know.Say the car is driving by it's self and it crashes into something who would really be blamed,i think it should be the car manufacturer , because if it isn't the persons' turn to drive,why should they be the reason that the crash happened ? | 2 |
774fcce | Driverless cars is a great way for transportation.
First of driverless cars save millions of dollars.
It save you money and the goverments money. Here why, these cars will use half the fuel todays cars use. With that being said you can use that extra gas money for something more important. These car not only save money but they save you that extra time to relax unless the driver has to take over to go around traffic or around an accident.
Second driverless cars are safe. These cars have sensors to detect if theres a car accident, work zone, or traffic near.
When that occurs these cars have alerts such as seats vibrating or the car turning of any distraction so the driver can take over and be alert.
Driverless cars are also being worked on to include cameras to watch that the driver is keeping an eye on the road and isnt distracted.
This can help issure that drivers arent distracted and are ready and alert.
Driverless cars are a great way to begin a new future. There special features and alerts can keep these drivers safe and happy.
This is a great way to help reduce accidents. Not just that but driverless cars also save you money.
Nothing like a great wait to enjoy some extra relaxing time inbeteween your drives. | 3 |
77539b9 | I am for the use of self driving cars, most accidents that happen on the road are due to humman error. self driving cars are one safer due to reduced human error, they are more cost efected due to the fact that once all cars are self driving they will no longer need road signs as cars can communicate with each other, and also due to that fact it is more time effective and in being time effective will be more cost effective as well.
Humans error accounts for 90% of all road way accidents the other precent is due to mechanical failure. As Google has shown with it having driven more than half a milion miles without a crash that cars are cappable of being safe, you can make the argument humans are in these cars but the car only alerts the human inside if it can not make it through the problem its self, which these problems such as accidents are caused by human error to begin with the car can not account for something that is not supposed to happen because it should not happen with all self driving cars. which leads me to my next point that it will be better for the goverment and tax dollars.
Self driving cars are computers they can communicate with each other, they are programmed to read the road and communicate where they are and how fast they are going to the cars around them so all the appropriate changes to speed can be made in a fashion that humans cant due because we can communicate to each other from 2 miles away, and since humans no longer need to communicate at all all road signs that are required not to ensure that traffic knows where its going will be a thing of the past. with this out of the way there is no more need for upkeep of these signs and communication devices they can be taken down and recycled for something of more use or recycled for money saving tax dollars while also making the envioment better by reducing all the cluter along the road ways. it will also shorten how much time is taken to reach a destination which might just extend out time on earth.
Time is the most limiting factor in someones day, you can do a lot of things but you cant just make time out of thin air. commutes in the city of Las Angeles can take hours just because of traffic. with cars that communicate these times would be reduced so signifigantly they would be minimal to none, therfore if this was to happen we would save so much on gas, emmisions on cars would be lower causeing less money to go to making the air cleaner, green house effect would go down due to emmisions being less. This by its self might make it so we can stay on the earth longer cars make up a lot of emmision that goes into polluting our air, so in turn you might just be saving yourself from getting cancer if you switch to a car that gives off little to no emmsions. You might even be able to save money by swtiching to a self driving car, the Goverment could give tax subsides to those who buy the car becuase it saves on accidents, emmisions, and taxes to keep the signs up. another point is insurance, you would no long need insurance beacuse accidnets would no longer be a problem saving you thousands of dollars over your lifetime.
self driving cars are the way to a better and more safe future, they dont have the human error that accounts for 90% of all wrecks that happen on the road today. they are more effect for taxes sake causing our taxes to go to something you might actually want funded like school, the possiblities are endless. lastly they are just going to save you money, tax subsides from the Goverment, insurance isnt required anymore, and it saves you time allowing you to do what you really want to do with our day. Just like the old saying "time is money" are these cars will save you a lot of both. | 4 |
77581db | Could you imagine what it would be like if we limited the usage of cars? We could save money on gas, who doesn't love saving money?! More money in our pockets means buying more items that are useful to us. And muse about how much pollution would decrease! We could all breathe in sublime air, clean air! Instead of huge car garages and parking lots we could save a lot of room, and use that room to build cheap houses for people in need.
Gas prices are hefty these days. They used to be a whopping 5 cents! Now they are around 2.90$ almost three dollars! Could you even imagine how much money you would save a month? If you pay for 5 gallons of gas everyweek you would be saving around 60$ a month! You could go out, buy extra groceries, have fun with it! I remember back in 2014 gasoline prices waged to 5$ in some counties. Me and my father had to walk to our favorite stores, but it turns out that we very well like the sun beating on our skin, so we usually walk, and we rarely use our car unless we travel far distances.
Pollution will always be a big problem on Earth. We may not have cars, but we still have ships, and guess what? They can cause pollution, too! It would be so much better (and healthier!) if we all could breathe fresh air. If pollution were are main problem, "plug in cars, and hybrids would be an exception", as quoted in
Paris bans driving due to smog.
Whew, I'm sweating thinking about how much excersize you could get if there were a limited usage of our cars! Everyone uses their phones, and sits on the couch all day long. How boring! You could go outside with your friends, walk to the mall, or walk to a store. Most of our daily life would be revolved around if we could move our feet. I walk to and from school, and I enjoy it, although the nasty gasoline smell and strange puff of smoke that comes out of the car -- I do not, and Heidrun Walter is with me. In
In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars , Walter states, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way (after she sold her car)."
Being car-free wouldn't be so bad after all! Thanks to technology, we can breathe cleaner air because of hybrids and plug-in cars. Pollution is deadly, I know no one wants to die this way, especially if it can be solved. Car-free? No problems. | 4 |
775de31 | "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," is an article about trying to explore Venus and the obstacles that need to be overcome. It starts first by telling the reader some information about Venus, such as that Venus is similar to Earth in density and size (paragraph 2). Then goes on to say a few challenges like the earthquakes and temperature. However, I don't think the author supports the idea of studying Venus though it is dangerous.
First, the author doesn't give any information on what we could get out of studying Venus. In paragraph 4 in the last sentence the article speaks as if it will later talk of the productiveness of the mission, however the author says in paragraph 8,"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 intimidation endeavors." The quote doesn't say any physical reward that could help anybody. Knowledge is pointless if it cannot be used, which the knowledge from or of Venus is pointless becuase it can't be used.
The author also speaks of the challenges but doesn't solve them well. Firstly, the challenges they spoke of include a mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere, sulfuric acid in the atmosphere, an 800 degree surface, atmospheric pressure is 90 times stronger than Earth's (The author says it's enough to crush a submarine.), liquefy many metals, erupting volcanoes, earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes.
The first solution the author speaks of is from NASA and is a blimp-like vehicle as he put it, and would be about 30 miles above the surface to escape the ground conditions. The issue is it's still pretty hot at 170 degrees Fahrenheit and still doesn't have access to new information due to light not being able to go through the atmosphere. The next solution was eletronics made from silicon carbide that have done well in similutions of Venus's surface, however it has only been done with simple electronics, which they probably need bulkier electronics to be useful to gather information and send it from Venus's surface. Then the last idea of a solution was a mechanical computer, which is a machine doing the calculations through gears and levers (paragraph 7). The proble with using the machine is since there is no electronics, how will they recieve information from it?
Due to the lack of quality of solutions and the little explanation of reward for studying Venus the author doesn't support the idea that studying Venus is worth it though the dangers. The only reward being the gaining of knowledge is pointless if we can't apply that knowledge, and conditions on Earth are definetly not as bad as Venus. Lastly, the solutions don't work well enough to be useful. Such as the blimp, it's useless to get close and not gather any information from the planet. Therefore, the author has little support that is beneficial in supporting the pursuit of studying Venus. | 5 |
775ec96 | Have you ever wondered how the job of a Seagoing Cowboy would be like? Hello my name is Luke and I will tell you why you should become a Seagoing Cowboy. I will tell you the many adventures I had as a Seagoing Cowboy. I will tell you some reasons you should become a Seagoing Cowboy. You might find out that you had the best job of your life.
First, I wil tell you the reasons why you should join the program. It was a unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy, (He mentioned in paragraph 4) not only did I help people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe,China, and Acropolis in Greece which was special. I also got to care for animals (as mentioned in paragraph 6). Helping out at aunt Katie's farm prepared me for hard work but not for the dangers of the sea (as mentioned in paragraph 7).
When I was serving as a nightman on my second trip, I still checked on the animals every hour (as mentioned in paragraph 7). One rainy night I injured my ribs but didn't fly off the ship and though I still couldn't work for a few days I was happy to be alive (as mentioned in paragraph 7). I had a fun time on board, especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. The other cowboys and I played baseball and Volleyball in the empty holds where the animals had been housed (as mentioned in paragaph 8). I'm grateful for the opportunity and I t made me more aware of other people of other countries and their needs (as mentioned in paragraph 9).
In conclusion should join this program because of the sight seeing and fun you'll have. You could maybe have fun with the animals you are taking care of. You could have fun after you are done taking animals. You can also go sight seeing. there are so many thing to enjoy if you join the Seagoing Cowboy program. | 3 |
775ee7f | The author supports this idea very well, becuase he has dine lots of research. Trying to visit planet Venus can be very dangerous becuase of what it has on and around the planet. "Humans have sent many spaceships to Venus but no spacecraft had survived the land for more than a few hours", said the author. The only reason that we can not stay on the planet is because, one there is a thick atmosphere of alomst 97 percent carbon dioxid. Two becuase in order to get on to the planet you would have to go through clouds and clouds on Venus are not like clouds on Earth. But on Venus they are highly corrosive sulfuric acid. Three on the planets surface the tempertures reach over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Four the atmostpheric pressure is 90 times greater that what we have on Earth. And these conditions are far more extreme than ANYTHING on Earth. With that kind of atmostpheric pressure it woukd crush a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest part of the ocean, and it would liquefy many metals. Venus has the hottest surface than any planet in the Solar System, even though Mercury is closer to the sun. Venus is just like Earth, there are some features on Venus that Earth has. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment, and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountians, and craters. NASA has one particulary compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. But with the technolgy that Earth has today i think that we could send something to Venus to do research. To see if were to be able to send someone there and take samples. But striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has vlaue, not only because of insight to be gained on the planet itself but also because human curiosity will likely lead us to many eauality intimidating endeavors. | 2 |
77658a1 | How could a computer help improve a student's time in class? The new Facial Action Coding System developed by Prof. Thomas Huang enables computers to transfer human facial expressions into emotions. This is a valuable technology system for teachers and students to help improve learning and teaching inside of a classroom.
The new technology could greatly improve student learning inside the classroom. In the passage Dr. Huang predicts that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." Such a technology could help teachers and students both. This would enable the teacher to slow down the lesson to help students catch up and learn or this could help teachers impliment new strategies to keep students focused and interested in learning. A teacher could possibly be able to tell if students are confused or bored but with this new system a teacher could be fully able to control the class and keep students attention.
Another way that the new Facial Action Coding System could help is to see what students understand a topic and what students need extra help, one on one with a teacher. This would help improve a students time in class by making the student more efficient and also could help teachers become more efficient with time. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." By having a computer in class a teacher could use the time with the students more effectively and this would translate into better homework and test grades from the students. In addition to just helping students with the class the system would allow teachers to see if a student is sad or upset and the teacher would be able to try to improve the students mood. A student who could be helped emotionally at school will value the new system and all of the capabilities of such system.
In online classrooms where the students do all work on a computer, the computer could generate strageties for each individual student based on a students emotions and facial expressions. "If you smile when a web ad apears on your screen, a similar ad might follow." This would allow a computer to give students a better opportunity to learn at the pace that suits that student on that particular day. This could also allow the instuctor of the class to institute different styles of lessons and more entertaining ways of learning the content of the class.
All of the capabilites of the new Facial Action Coding System are extremely valuable to not only students but also teachers. Being able to learn better within the classroom will be greatly valued by students and also teachers. Also a more direct learning experience with a better connection from teacher to student. Finally, better strategies for teaching and learning could be developed with the new technology system. All of the possibilities are very valuable to students in a classroom. Let's improve the education of students. | 5 |
7768a3c | There are many reasons to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. There are many things you do in this program. Such as taking care of animals for all the animal lovers out there such as horses, cattle, and mules. You also get to travel around the world and meet new people. Most importantly you get to help people that have gone through some thing terrible such as World War II. Many of the animals are just taken in by people while unloading them. You dont just take care of animals. When you're half way across the country you to have some fun. After unloading you have some free time. So while you are there you plat tenis, baseball, vollyball, tabletennis tornaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittleing,and games also help pass time. But you don't just play games you also get to explore China, Asia, Europe, Austrailia, and Africa. You can take tours of France, Italy, Greece, and many more. Joining this program can open up many new opportunities. I think it can make you more aware of what is going on in different countries. | 2 |
7768aa7 | It is hard to imagaine a world with no cars, but would living in a world with none actualy benifit us? Truth is cars are doing more damage then we think. Automobiles have been with us since the late 1800s and have become a very popular and efficient way to travel, but could having these peices of meatal harm us rather then benifit us? Many people believe so, In some countries such as Germany have banned the usage of automobiels. In Vauban, Germany residents have given up their cars to live there.
Vaban, German is a experimental new district on the outskirts of Freiburg, near French and Swiss borders. The streets of Vauban or completely "car free". In this city car ownership is allowed, but only for the coast of $40,000 along with buying the house that is a seperate payment. As a result of this coastly parking space nearly 70 percent of Vaubans families do not own cars, and 50 percent sold their cars to move to here.
Many people that are not familarized with this way of living would probraly considered this type of lifestyle to be difficult and unefficient but infact ressidents have stated that they are "much happier this way" and stating "when i had a car i was always tense". Automobiels are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in some highly car intensive ares in the Uniteed States. Aother countries such as Paris have enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. The reasoing being for having a ban of cars is that the smog in Paris became so overwhelming that they where said to be able to compete gaints Bejin or China which are one of the most polluted cities in the world. Bogota, Colombia have also started a campagine in which they ban cars for one day and only allowing buses and taxies. The idea behinde this is to promote alternative transporation and reduce somg.
This has been going on for three years stright and and has statred to become popular and has influenced cities such Cali, and Valledupar to join in on the event. This campaigne started in the mid 1900s. The result of havingt his ar free day has made parks and sports centers bloom througthout the citiy, dysfunctional sidewalks have been replaced with smooth sidewalks, traffic has cut dramatically, and shopping districts have cropped up. Countries such as Germany, France, Colombia are not the only ones that have noticed and taken action for the green house gas emisiions. President Obama has gone on stating that since 2005 number of miles driven evey year sine then have gone down. Also the rates of car ownership per household and per person started to ome down two to three years before before the turndown. If these patterns persists many sociologit believe it will have a benificial ipmact for carbon emission and the enviornment. | 2 |
77697a7 | Some people think being a Seagoing Cowboy is boring but I can tell you that they are wrong. Being a Seagoing Cowboy is a amazing opportunity for everyone because you can travel around the world. You can see countries like Greece, China, and other countries. You can see marvoules land marks like the Panamal Canal, and you can see important countries like Acropolis, Greece and Venice, Italy the city of water. You also can meet other people around the world, and help the people in need. As former Seagoing Cowboy said '' I'm grateful for this opportunity.''
The next reason why you should be a Seagoing Cowboy is becuse you can see animals that you have never seen before. You can also take care of them until you reach the country that there supposed to be in. The next reason is that you can eat foods in other countries. You also can also be one of the reasons why some of the destroied countries are now one of the best countries in the world. Then you can learn more about the country and the animals you took care of.
Then here is the last reason why you should be a Seagoing Cowboy, you can also use up your free time. Seagoing Cowboys like to have fun they play games like Baseball and Volleyball. Then in the empty rooms were the animals were housed is now a Baseball field, a Volleyball court, a Table-tennis room, a Fencing stadium, a Boxing ring, and other games. You also can read books and whittle in your alone time. So you see being a Seagoing Cowboy is not boring it's fun, and a great opportunity of a life time. | 3 |
7771f66 | as the author said " studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents". its also called the " evening star" is one of the brightest points of light in the noght sky, and its also the esecound planet from ourr sun, its simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point ofpoint of Earth, it has proved a very challnenging place to examine more closely.
And its also called the Earth's twin, becues the closest plant to shape like earth in tearms of density and size, and its the closeset plant to earth, somtimes its vence that closest to earth and somtimes its Mars, humans tried sending space crafts to land on venus, but none of them manged to servive the landing for more then few hours and that explains why no speaceship manged to go there yet for more then three decades. and thats why human need to study it more more.
one of the reasons it have een chalnging to use to reach mars becues it has an atmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide becues the cllouds of corrosive sulfuric acid in venus's atmosphere. and its also very hot there the temreture reaches "800f' and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater then what we experience on our own planet. these conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encouunter on earth; such as enviroment would crush even a submarine accustomes to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals. and it has the hottest surffece if any plant, and also a while ago Venus had ocians just like earth and it could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth.
and thats why we need too study venus more becues if anything happend to earth we might have a secound place to live in. | 2 |
7775977 | This use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable.
As stated on paragraph number six towards the end, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". We can always detect on the way a perdon is feeling just by looking at their facil expression that they are giving .This new computer technology thing would turn out to be somehting very succesful to a way that the teachers would now be concerned to where exactly it is that the students might just need help. This proves that we can not always prove how a person is feeling to help them out because they don't speak up even though it just might be because them may be feeling scared to ask a simple question.
Teachers would feel a relief on even aswering a simple question that would turn out to help out and improve on something for as simple as it may be. | 2 |
7777397 | You should join to help and say I helped that country. I think you should because there are things you have and other people don't. I also think that it should almost be a requirement to help people to go to heaven. I think alot of things should because I am like that.
I think a lot about others believe it or not. I love other people and apparently Luke did also. He understands the true meaning of love. He even knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime to help people in Africa,Asia,Haiti, and other places like that he had to understand that time is too valuable and other people give that time away to you to make you a better person and he is using it that way. Not saying this is all good there is downs too. Every rose has its thorns.
It is a lot of time that people spend with others. It was better for Luke I think because he was a good person. He had a heart of steel to make himself not say no to miss out on people in his family to go help other families. I think that was the best thing to do for anybody. He missed his mom,dad,aunt,brother/sister,nephew/neices,and his other friend to go help other people. Which makes me wonder if he's a Mason.
I know that he had to miss out because that was so much time taken up ,not wasted but taken up. He spent 2 weeks on each trip and then did it 16 more times! Reasons not ot would be. You could die in fog. I'm not sayin I wouldn't go but I wouldn'tlike to have the thought of dying in my brain. I bet more than once or twice he thought of dying and cried.
I know I would go but I wouldn't go 16 times because of the fact. There are sharks,squid,octopi,and plenty of other animals. The oceans are the most unexplored places on earth. People die millions of times a year because of the ocean and I have a high paranoia level so my paranoia would keep me on my toes. I would be so scared at times. There are 60 foot sharks named megalodons and can swallow me whole. There are plesiosaurs confirmed in the pacific. There is a six gilled shark that is 20 feet long. almost all sharks can taste a drop of blood 400 yards away. If they swim underneath a boat with 335 horses and 1 of 335 is bleeding or in labor. (the tissues and blood)I would die. I would probably have a heart attack.
I can't stand my paranoia. My friend was going to let a train go over him to prove he wasn't scared but I put a little paranoia in him because under a train gets hot enough to crystalize a rock and make it look like silver. What would it do to my friend. Back to the water.
Plesiasours started as lizards. Lizards have a third eye. It senses changes in lighting. Ripples and vibrations shift lighted areas. Horses make alot of noise and stomp alot. Stomping causes vibrations.
I was swimming in a river and I thought about rivers monsters when a log touched my legs I freaked out! I swam as fast as I could screaming "jeremy wade jeremy wade"I was out of the water and on my grandpas house boat. I said hit the sand dam. From then and on I never went past clear water.
I don't think about stuff like look down its a log or stuff like that. I almost pee my pants when I see a spider. I think its because of me watching national geographic channel everyday and knowing what every animal does and how it hurts you.
I thought one time a jamaican cockroach could kill me .At the time I was three or four. My finger now was about as long as this cockroach. it stood up and it ran towards me. I was in my moms work and there were alot of animals there so I ran into the pig room. That was the day I figured out my mom would get me a mexican rat. From then on No roach came near me .But my fear is still here. | 3 |
777c76a | Many years ago, we invented the automobile. It was a huge breakthrough, that was heard around the world. Many people never even dreamed of getting from place to place without some sort of muscle. But today, vehicles are a huge help to our daily lives, but could the emissions be damaging them.
Over the years car emissions have cause thick, gray, clouds to form over busy cities. This is called "smog". Many towns are reducing the amount of cars they let citizens use. In one case, Vauban, Germany, the streets are completely car free. The only place where vehicles are allowed is along the outskirts of the city. As much as 70 percent of Vauban's failies do not own cars, according to Elisabeth Rosenthal.
It was shown that passenger cars are the cause for up to 12 percent of greenhouse gases.
Many cities have reduced the amout of vehicles they allow to be frequent on their streets. In Paris they had near records of pollution. They enforced a partial ban on driving to try and clear the air. If you were caught driving there was thirty one dollar fine you would have to pay. According to Robert Duffer almost 4000 drivers were fined. Many people did not like this idea of no vehicles. Eventually the smog cleared and they took the ban off of odd-numbered plates on cars.
As more and more communities are starting to rid of vehicles, pollutionn is starting to decrease. Though many people are not fond of the idea, they began to except the fact that life is possible without cars. Many communtities have made it easier for citizens to access the essentials they need to supports their families, such as grocery stores. In Vauban stores are being placed on a main street instead of on a highway.
Some cities and communities are taking it to the next step in reducing pollution form automobiles. Recent studies have shown that less and less cars are being bought. The answer to help reduce pollution may not be just getting rid of cars, nut maybe using more electric cars. Some communities have taken this step of producing and using more environment safe vehicles. Though cars are a help in getting from point A to point B, they are a burden on the environment in emitting fumes that pollute the air. As many communities and towns are starting to find other means of transportation, the vehicle era may become exstinct. | 3 |
7781e65 | I belive the advantages of limitng a car usage. The first reason I say that because we have most of the people who are not driving with the right responsible license. Also we have some who are getting in severe car accidents. With that being said there are pollution in the air. License plates where odd numbers. The avantages of limiting a car you dont have to pay for any car ticket or parking garage fees.
As a result half of the families don't own cars about 50% of them sold there cars. It somehow made them feel a whole lot better. When you have to think about it your car is an example of a baby. You have to feed you car gas. Which why some people perfer cathcing the train. Or even riding the bus or even there bicycles to where they have to be. There always a smarter way to saving gasoline and burning gas.
In Vauban you have there reseidents walking. Even we we people taking the suburbs, as a public transportation with less space for parking as if your where driving your car. They are increasing numbers are pravite car owned by burgeoning middle class cities to help out in another way of transportation. Most of the public transport serving surburbs play a much larger role. Even number license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home for odd- number plates.
Drivers were fine according to Reuters. 27% of peole impounded for their reaction to fine. Beijing,China known as the most polluted cities in the world. Freezing nights caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions. The gas was blamed since France ha sa tax policy that has favors diesel engines In my own way there are alot of advantgaes of limiting car. But as of some people its a hard way.
Colombias hiked,biked skated ot took buses to work. During a car-free day yesterday leaving the streets of this capital city eerrily devoid of traffic jams. Recent studies say that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and also getting fewer licenses as each year passes by. In America the number of miles driven dropped steadily. All the diffrent changes and diffrent counties and cites people who stopped car commuting as a result of recession. inconclusion based on the passage information displayed. I believe them are advantages of limiting a car. | 2 |
7784a34 | I feel like it should and here's why. First of all what happen is someone is depress and dont want to tell anyone about it so they kill their self because they're depress the facial Action Coding System could have help that poor boy or girl because someone would ask her what's wrong and talk about it with him or her and know they feel that someone there for them and how much they're needed and wanted so they don't kill there self matter as fact there are happy right now because someone is there for them and they feel wanted and they can love life agian. My evidence why I wrote that satatment is the passage it said "she's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted,6 percent fearful,and 2 percent angry" I think everyone should have this because it could save a lot of people lives because so many people take their lives away so fast and young because of depresion and lot are teens if high schools and jr high haves these i feel like it would change the world for the better. Some peolpe don't like it mabye it's because they're the stress ones that need help and think that no one cares and is to scared to show they're depress and they rather keep to them self. My oppoion is that every school and family doctor should have this to save lives and more. | 2 |
778b1c3 | There mostly comes a time in the future when cars will be able to drive themselves. Many companies, such as google, are getting more and more interested in these cars. There are many positive and negative thoughts about this. Is this a good idea? Should driverless car be allowed? Are driverless cars something that will cause a postive influence? Shoudl these cars be allowed to be driven? No, they have to many contraversal statements to be put on the roads safely.
Driverless cars are very contraversal. These driverless cars have many things that could go wrong. For example, they have driving functions that can go up to 25 mph but the driver must still control the car after that. In most streets, road ways and most definetly high ways, the speed limit is more than 25 mph. So the driverless car wouldnt be driverless since it can only control up to 25 mph. A driver must still take control of the car.
That would bring up anothr contraversal apsect. Would the driver in this car take anything seriously? The driver would thnk the car is driving so they would slack off and do other things while the car is in motion. This is not safe at all. They would be paying less attention to the road andmore attention to the other things. Which could easily cause an accident since the driverless car isnt fully on its own. So thats another negative aspect towards a driverless car.
Is this even legal to have a driverless car? Most drivng laws are made to keep the driver, passenger and pedestrians safe. Mostly all lawmaksers know that is best achieved with alert drivers. So if trafic laws are written for cars with a driver, can a driverless car take the road and still agree to the terms of the law. No, the laws are written for alert drivers. The driverless car would have control.
Who would be responsible if one these driverless cars were to wreck? If the driver is stating the facts, they would say the company who made this car would be. While the company would say the driver is repsonsible. This would most likely result in a lawsuit and more complications to wether the car should even be allowed. It would cause more negatives aspects, implications adn problems towards the driverless cars then good aspects and statements.
One might argue that the technology is advancing so cars shoudl also. Which brings up another contraversal statemnet. If technology continues to advance, like it does ever day, these cars would never be fully ready to be driven. More and more things will keep being added to them, causing people to question wether or not its fully safe to drive on the roads.
Google has had cars that could almost drive safely since the year 2009. They drove a decently long distance without a crash, but only in specific conditons. These cars can not be driven independently yet. They still alerted the driver when pulling over, parking in a driveway or when they had to deal with complicated traffic issues. One issue would be navigating through roadwork or accidents. Some of the basic things are not fully operatable by the car yet. This causes the diver to still drive operate the driverless car.
There are many assumptions that go with these driverless cars. There are many things that could go wrong with the driverless cars. Many things are still being worked on so that they are safe. Does the need work on it more and more as the years go on and technology approves? Who would be truly repsonsible for any accidents or damages? Will laws even allow the cars to even be driven? Driverless cars should not be allowed. The driverless cars have to many negative aspects. These driverless cars have to many contraversal statements to be put on the roads safely. | 4 |
778e6fd | The article about driverless cars makes cars without drivers seem great the only part they did not mention is. What happens if the car bugs out completly and explodes with the driver inside. Since we don't know how much technology will be in them there is no way of knowing if something like this would happen. Other things that seem to good to be true is uses less fuel the car would need to be arrow dinamic and lighter for this.
I think that a driverless car would be good for long trips for incase you fall asleep it will wake you up but also keep the car steady and reduce the risk of a person dieing from falling asleep at the wheel. It would be bad because if the technology needed you to look forward the whole time your driving then it would be a boring trip.
Then there is the problem of whose fault is it if a crash happens a near impossible thing to figure out. The person at the wheel could have taken control and then crashed or the technology could have bugged out and both parties could it was the other's fault. It would be an endless cycle of arguing back and forth.
Inconclusion the driverless cars could be good if they were able to be in control the whole time even if there was anything out of the ordinary. The whole debate about a crash and who's to blame would be constant and niether party would be happy. Just think if you won and the person fixing your car holds a grudge they could mess with your car to get back at you.
Another problem is if they have a recall and those are the only cars out. Then if everyone of them are on the recall list then people would be layed off for messing up so bad. Some people would have to run all the way across town to there job and many other problems would occur. | 3 |
7797857 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the possible dangers it may present. Traveling to new places of our world is something that can help better our overall konwledge of things and expand our thoughts. The most intriguing and beneficial tasks usually have the most downsides to them but that doesn't mean we should simply walk away from them. Even though visiting and touching down on planet Venus produces many dangers, it can still expand our imagination and innovation, complete something that has never been done before, and find better ways to travel there safely.
Touching down on the planet Venus will most likely have several deadly dangers to it. "On the planet's surface, temperature averages over 800 degrees fahrenheit." That is notable to be over the limit of what a body can withstand even with the astronaut suit on. "Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes and frequent lightning strikes." These conditions aren't like any type of bad weather that we have here on Earth because they can much more easily take the life of people. Visiting the unusual planet of Venus does have many downsides within it, but that doesn't mean we should automatically stop trying to come up with ideas and conclusions and how to get there safely.
Our travels within Earth and beyond it should not be stopped just because of a few flaws. Visiting various new places can only help expand both our imagination and innovation. "human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." Us as humans should learn that we must take risks every once in awhile if we want to expand our knowledge on various important things. "Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, dspite it's proximity to us." This reasoning should make us want to strive for more factual evidence on Venus and pursue our understandings. Learning more about the planet could possibly help make new advancements that would increase our overall knowledge.
Sending a spaceship to Venus with living astronauts inside of it is something that has never been done before. Astronauts should want to make a change to that record because it is good to participate in something that's new every once in awhile. "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." It is scary to think about all of the possible threats this task has to offer since it is known that "not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades" but you also have to think about all of the good things that taking part in this mission may bring. It is okay for people to take risks and step out of their comfort zones because doing this will help our society strive as a whole.
Learning more about Venus in general and the flaws it has will continue to better our information and help us create things that will get us on to the planet safely. "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of the Venus would allow scientist to float above the fray." This idea of blimp-like travel will allow there to be a safe environment for the ones exploring because it would keep them up and away from the unsafe ground conditions. Another approach that NASA has already made is "simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." This idea would possibly only be beneficial for a short period of time but it will still allow us to view a newer part of our world. Once NASA and other teams start to gather up more information from the many trips they take, then it will be much easier to find a safer route to Venus.
Despite all of the dangers that are presented by traveling to Venus, our world would be more advanced in our understandings of some of our neighboring planets. Going to new places and taking risks in our lives can potentially do great things for us like improve our techonological advancements, help us come up with better conclusions and all together just make record history. It's not a bad thing to do something different for a change because you never know what incredible possibilities it may lead to. | 4 |
779e9e1 | Cars should be able to drive themselves. That would help the risk of drunk drivers. It would would allow the pollution to go down since the car uses half of the fuel of today's taxis. Also it could open more jobs around the car industry. So cars should be able to drive themselves for the safety of drunk drivers, lower pollution ratings, and to open more jobs to the people in the car industry.
Drunk drivers are really ruining people's lives, or there own life. If Google succeeds in creating this driverless vehicle than that could reduce the chance of drunk drivers getting in accidence tremendously. People would be able to get to there destination safer than they would normally. This could help the decrease of drunk drivers today in our traffic.
The pollution in today's air isn't nearly as bad as what it can
get in 10 years. Cars are one of the main source of the pollution in the air now, and if we can lower that we should. Since the driverless car would use half less the fuel, then thats less the pollution. People should take in consideration that the driverless car would help in great amounts with this problem. The driverless car will lower the pollution in our air.
Many people in our country are jobless. If the driverless car is created fully, who will tend to its needs. This allows knowledge to spread to mechanics. Assistance with the car would need to mandetory. If its going to be a safe car then it needs to be a safe car from the axcel to the body work. People will gain the knowledge to help construct the car. Jobs are important to people because they need to provide for families or themselves. With the driverless car people will be able to have a job and maintain it.
The driverless car should be created. Drunk drivers will be handled with. The pollution in the air would lower. It would also raise the jobs that would be needed to maintain safety on the car. So cars should be able to drive themselves for all of those reasons stated the safety of our people, the pollution in the air, and the jobs in the community, that all would be helped with the
driverless car. | 3 |
77a962b | There is a new technology that can read your emotion feeling that is called the "facial action coding system". Now I have read an article about that technology and I kind of understand what that technology mean. I think that technology is good for the human becasue example when you have someone in your home that has mentel problems and that person can't talk maybe that person has some problems with taliking so you can use that technology to see how that person feel and what that person need from you. here is another example for the schools, pretent you are a teacher at a school and your school is using the facial action coding technology system in computer, let say your students is using that computer to do school works or maybe serching someting that you tell them to do if they toutch the computer you will know how they feel, are they bored?, are they sad?, do they have a problems with that? or do they want to do your work or not. It depends on how they feel you might change your mind sometimes if they are really in a sad satuations. there might be a lot of kids at school that they don't want to come to school sometimes because they have a problems with their bodies or a problems inside but they still have to come to school for some reason if we that . computer at school we can see how they feel we will know are they feel sad or not sometimes we should give them someday to become happier from sadder school should understand thses kids so everyone will have a happy life with that facial action coding system. They should have sell those computer out by right now because as soon as we have that system more people will become understand another people and they won't hurt to the other person as much as becfore because they will understand a person from inside so i believe they won't hurt each oher not as muvh as now. If that new technology come out people will become less faker than before because they can't hide the truth anymore we will find out if that person is lying or not. If that new txchnology the facial action coding come out there will be alot more happier in the world I believe that the world will become more visiable and we will understand eachother no matter what language we are speaking now we will become a really really big family with that technology. And the last thing is I wish that new technology facial action coding will come out soon. | 2 |
77b1295 | The Electoral College has been used since the time of the Founding Fathers. "The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and the President of a popular vote of qualifed citizens." (
the Office of the Federal Register , 1). The process of the Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, meeting of the electors, and the coutning of Congress' electoral votes. The electoral College requires a majority vote of 270 to elect a President and your state is entitled to the allotment of electors. Even the Electoral College has a few flaws in its system, such as when voters vote in the election, they actually vote for the slate of electors, and "the single best argument against the Electoral College is what we call the disaster factor."(Plumer, 11).
The Electoral is critisized as a system that only seems to fit in the past and doesn't belong in the present, not democratic in a modern sense, the electors elect the president, not the people, even with the critisism it have recieved over the past years, it has stayed here and is still being used. "There are five reasons for retaining the Electoral College despite its lack of democratic predigree; all are practial reasons, not liberal or conservative reasons."(Posner, 17). The certainty of Outcome, it's very unlikely to have a dispute over the popular vote. Because most states are award electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis, the slightest plurality in a state can createa landslide electoral-vote victory in that state, there is a possiblity of a tie, but it is very unlikely. A presidential candidate is required to have a transregional appeal, no region has enought votes to elect a president themselves. A candidate is highly unlikely to become a sucessful president with only just a regional appeal, the candidate must have appeal to throughout the country to become everyone's president. Swing states have voters that are more likely to pay attention to the campaign and recieved the most attention from the candidates. "The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast." (22). The Electoral College reduces the pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a majority of the votes cast.
"Under the Electoral College System, voters vote not for the president but for a slate of electors, who elect the president instead."(Plumer, 10). The best arugment against the Electoral College is the Disaster Factor. The 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in the country but the system can allow for much worse to come. State legislatures are responsible for picking electors, and those electors can defy the will of the American people. In 1960, Lousiana's segregations almost succeeded in replacing Democratic electors with new ones that would oppose John F. Kennedy, the candidate running for president at the time. There is always a chance of a state sending two slates of electors to Congress, it had happen in Hawaii in 1960. Vice President Richard Nixon validated only his opponent's electors. This can very well happen again. The Electoral College is unfair to voters, bexcause of the winner-take-all system in almost all states, the candidates don't spend much time on states that they knew they have no chance of succeeding.
"It can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state- Democrats in Texas, or Republicans in California, for example." (23) Voters in presidential elections are people who don't think that a single vote can decide the swing of an election but they want to express a poltical reference. Even with its flaws of the Electoral College, the pros of it are just much greater and outweighs than the pros of going against the Electoral College. | 3 |
77b2dc7 | I think people that want to make a difference should particepate in the sea cowboys. Before I joined the seacowboys I kust finished high school and I was working two jobs. I was working at a grocery store and a bank. When my friend Don Reist invited me to go to Europe with him on a cattle boat I couldn't say no. I knew it was an opportunity of a life time!
What we were doing was for the countries that were left in ruins we have to give them livestock so that they don't die of starvation. On the two month jouney I turned 18 before reaching Greece. That meant that I could drafted for the military service, but when they found out I was on a cattle boat they said to keep doing what I was doing for my service. By the time I was discharged in 1947 I had made 9 trips (more than anyother seagoing cowboy). That is what I did for two years.
If you are thinking about joining the seagoing cowboys I highly recomend it. The seagoin g cowboys need strong ,smart and people that are willing to go away from family for a while to help other people. We are leaving this year on july 5,2016. Bring things that you know you will need. Try to only bring the nesecities. | 2 |
77b5b31 | Would you participate in the Seagoing Cowboys progam? I would so I can visit many places and take adventures. It seems really fun to go to Europ, China, or anywhere else he goes. It just seems really exciting to go journeys and adventures with friends, and explore the outside world.
In the passage it says "It took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China." To me i don't think i would be able to stay on a boat for two weeks and a month its jsut alot of sitting down, and you dont get any rest. Its alot to do when your travling for two weeks and a month.
My argument about Luke's point of view is that it would seem pretty cool to sail and go on journeys with Luke.
He seems like a person who would love people to come along with him on his jouneys and help him explore new things, and keep watch for things, animals, and maybe people. Luke just seems like a very active person who loves people to help him explore.
I think this because he's very very active and he likes to explore. He enjoys his doing what he does if he can travel for more than two weeks. If he can explore and help out . That really shows that he loves his job. | 2 |
77b81d0 | Driveless cars to me is just anither innnovative "American creation" that will be brought into this worlds lives. Driveless cars are the new idea being brought into car manufactoring to possibly help and chane our world. The upmost new technology will be involed making the cars "smart", safe, easy to use, and "fun".
I believe it will be a great idea to continue this development, just for the wait to see how this being apart in humans lives would effect us. This will be the new thing and because of the change tat is coming to our world, know one knows the effects that could occur with the models being out and about in the world.
These models could possible create conflicts that should be handled before these activities are amongst the everyday human life. In the article, the author explains how laws are more towards the drivers and not the cars. Now with driveless cars, the decisions should be disscussed now on new lawmaking before they're out and about.
Other than saftey issues, I believe just as in the article, that driveless cars would be fascinating new idea and a change in the world that people would want to see weather its the new "fun" thing, or a fail that could use work. | 2 |
77b828a | If a computer in the classroom that can read human emotion's was implemented then it could be a excellent help to students.
Students in a classroom are all very diverse when it comes down to emotion. A teacher may not be able to recognize these emotions and teach a lesson wrong in which a student cannot follow. Say a student was angry or sad toward a test score, the teacher may keep teaching in a way that ignores the way a student is feeling towards the class. With the computer identifying the emotion a teacher may change up teaching methods to help said student.
This latest computer technology was created by Prof. Thomas Huang of Beckman Institute for Advanced Science at the University of Illinois used work of psychologist Dr. Paul Eckman. This technology uses 44 major muscles in the face movement's to create an calculation of what emotion the user is expressing. The computer idientifies the user with six basic emotions, happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear and sadness. By recording the movement of one of the favial muscles the computer can identify a person with any combination of the six emotions. In the painting of Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa", the computer calculated, "She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry."
This technology can change the way we interact with devices in our everyday activites. Alto says in the article, "For example, if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different."
This kind of selection can improve our experience while browsing the internet. This can help identifying the food we like, clothes we like, trips or hobbies we'd enjoy.
The educational value in this is grand as that using the technology of recognizing emotions, the computer can shift lessons so the student can follow along with. "A class room computer could recognize when a student is feeling confused or bored, 'Dr. Huang predicts. 'Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This can speed up the learning process and change the way the world educates today. The future is now and the future is change. | 3 |
77bc471 | Human emotion. Once thought to be something held exclusive to humans, can now be interpreted by computers. Allowing anything with a camera to read the muscles in ones face to tell the emotion they currently portray. There are many different outlooks on the future use of this technology, but one in particular focuses on using it in the classroom.
The technololgy used to read our emotions is known as the Facial Action Coding System or FACS. It models a human face and all 44 of its muscles, and looks for certain cues to tell them emotion being conveyed by the subject. FACS can tell when one is happy, sad, angry, cionfused, surprised, disgusted, and afraid. FACS can even tell the difference between "fake" emotions and real ones. This means that it can tell if a facial expression is being forced, based on what muscles are being used.
On the subject of use in the classroom, it could be very benificial to students and teachers alike. It can read when a student gets confused on a topic, and can then adjust the lesson to fit their needs. It can tell when a student is feeling drowsy and upset, or when a student is attentive and alert. This way teachers can recognize when a student needs assistance. This technology, in all, can be very useful if applied to them classroom, and even the rest of the world, properly, making it a very impressive step into the future for mankind.
Just think. A computer able to read the human face to determi9ne what emotion they feel. Skepticism is understandable, what with the advancement of AI and related movies such as The Terminator, where AI has tooken over the human race, but a future like that is to be left in the world of fiction. This technology is the next step into the age of human technology integration, like we've already seen with the introduction of smart devices. Mankind will only continue to move forward and innovate, even beyond percieved limits. | 3 |
77bed99 | I think having this technology would be a great idea for school. When a teacher is showing a other student how to do math or something else ,but there is a other student also asking for help. It will make the computer notice the face expression and it will try to help the student figure out the math problem. That type of technology used in schools is helpful.Lets say it was used in all the computers in the world. It will be violating private privacy.The technology would not be accepted by certain amount of people who need private privacy they would put a sticky note on their camera.One to support my claim on how it would help schools is "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored","Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." That is why I think having this could help have better grades and may like the subject more.One other benefit for this is if they put these type of computers in a office.To see if your employee is having a bad day at work. Trying to help him with their bad day to make sure they are happy when they are working. Making the working background a better place.They should also use this with lie detectors to show if he is actually lieing or just breating hard on purpose to lie. They would also try not to lie. This tecnology would be a grest resource. I have evidence to show if they In conclusion lieing. "The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. " Movement of one or more muscles is called an action unit". in conclusion having this could improve most of our daily lives ,like in school,work,or in courts when trying to see they are truthful. Having this in
classrooms would be super valuable for student who are confused in subjects. | 3 |
77bf5ff | "Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore?" Google cofounder, Sergey Brin, stated. I am all for driverless cars. I believe that driverless cars will be our transportation in the near future.
In paragraph one, Goofle cofounder, Sergey Brin, stated "He believes such cars would fundamentally change the world." I think it would be good thing, because the driverless cars would use less fuel. "This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." The driverless cars would not be completly driverless. The driver would have to stay alert through traffic jams, road construction, bad weather, and accidents. The car would give off a signal like a beeping noise when the driver needs to be in alert. "Gm has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object"
"Manufacturers are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road." "While the driver watches the road, the car watches the drivers." I think that is a great idea to put that kind of camera in a driverless car. Just incase an accident happen they could tell if the driver was paying attention, or if the car just didn't give any signal that the driver needed to take control.
"Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers." Some people may think that driverless cars are dangerous. Others may think that the driverless cars may cause more accidents. "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" Some people may feel like it was the manufacturers fault, and not theirs.
I belive that our future transportation will be driverless cars. I just think the drivers must pay attention at all times, even if no one was arround. I feel like it'd be a great thing. It would save money, and would take less fuel. I think driverless cars would be something for each state to think about for the near future. | 3 |
77bf743 | Luke made a good idea to join the Seagoing cowboys. But he also made a bad disision to take time out of his time to make it where he could play with his own friends and if I were him I would join but I woulnt because it would be bad if I couldnt get to hang out with my friends.
He might have joined because he wanted to help other people because he might have wanted to help load the cattle and not hang out with his friends but if he were to travel to anouther place away from his friends he would be sad and so would I.I dont blam hiim for being able to cry and wine like a little girl but we all have our own ideas. He wanted to change his life by doing good for otherr people and not just his self. Luke wants a experiance adventure with the seagoing cowboys but he cant do that if he dosnt have experance.
Luks parents wouldnt let him go if he didnt argue with them. You know why he wouldnt have arguied with his parents they might have sugested him going over to join the seagoing cowboys. That is why I think he should go. | 2 |
77c5de3 | I think the FACS is a pretty clever project. It's mostly accurate and was made with real studies and facts from human facial expression. I think the FACS is a very intresting concept but I do not place it as valuable.
For one, the FACS can't be accurate all the time. Humans are complicated and it's often very hard to tell how they're feeling. Most people like to "fake" their emotions. They're smiling but they're actually feeling awkwardly uncomfterble or angrly calm. It can be easy to trick the system, many can fake a genuine smile and confuse the system into thinking wrong.
Another reason is that the FACS doesn't provide any real benefits to anyone. Sure it can be a little fun to test out different emotions to see different ratings but it dosen't actually provide any information that can be very useful later on in life. People have different faces for different emotions, none are the exact same. Similar yes, but it varies and mistaking an emotion for something else may bother said person.
In conclusion, the FACS can be accurate but holds no value to society. It can be good fun, goofing around with freinds when boredum hits you but it's nothing else. It's a one time game that'll get boring quickly and thrown away for the next big project. | 3 |
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