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790e12b | Is reading espressions by computers good
Everyone experences diffrent things every day no matter what they do. People may always be distgusted by going somewhere or even leaving something valuable for something thats not worth a probably a penny. A lot of people are happy for there own reasons might be seeing the sun shine. Or even hearing birds singing we dont need a computuer for these when we know how to read emotions. A computer desgined to read or emotions on calculate emotions, facial expressions, and impressive calculations no bodody needs a computer to read what we our feeling.
When someone asks if your ok from what they are seeing from your eyes face or acting they try to help they dont calculate emotions for someone. In paragraph 2 "how can a computer recognize the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we feel?".
Do we type what makes us sad and a robot answers with a question or something silly or something out of subject for the answer. In paragraph 3 "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".
If it just looks at the human muscles than theres in issue becuase we could be hurt and not be sad, or something else it could just be we hurt something or just lost a tooth we don't need the calculations to tell us how we feel.
Facial expressions is when we are show if we are happy, sad, angry, and surpirisesd. In paragraph 4 " emotions are universal," observes Dr. Huang, "even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression" (like smiling broadly)." Everyone can read peoples expressions unless they just look the same everyday of the week. Therapists are trained for this to see how people are to read to see how they feel if they feel bad or good. In paragraph 4 "By weighting the diffrent units, the software can even identify mixed emotions (as in da Vinci's masterpiece)". The computer might be better for paintings made by people or even a pictures in a book, and games.
We can preform impressive calculations in our lives to help each other everyday. In paragraph 5
"For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look non her face." Not everyone is good at looking at facial expressions or how somone is acting out if someone takes the time to help there friends out or even somebody they can see that they can read emotions well enough without a computer.
The conclusion is we dont need machines helping us with our emotions. If we do we gotten lazy or even just they cant read it or they dont want to read the facial expression on there face. Some of us are glad we can help others for not ourselves without the help of tech we dint need tech in every part of our lives. What we need is people that can help or even want to help us out. The computer is looking for what we normally hunt for when making sure someone is ok we dont need it to calculate emotions for us, looking into our facial expressions, and we can perform impressive calculations on our own if we try to | 2 |
790e742 | A lot of arguments can be made after reading the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming". It is actually a very interesting article to read.
A lot of people would actually like the idea of having self driving cars.
Me on the oher hand, not so much.
I completely disagree with the idea of having driverless cars on our roads.
Having self driving cars seem cool as it is, but they can pose many dangerious threats and safety concerns.
First, there's always the possibility of the cars malfunctioning at one point.
The article says that the cars can accelerate and brake by themselves, but what if that didn't happen because something with the car went wrong?
It can put
civilians lives in danger if that were to happen.
Secondly, when the driver is waiting for his or her turn to take control of the car, they could really get bored and lose focus on the road.
So when the car alerts the driver to take control of the car when the driver isn't paying attention, it could lead to a minor or severe accident.
I know the article said they can put on some sort of entertainment to make sure the driver doesn't become bored, but there's still a possibility of that malfunctioning as well.
In conclusion, I really disagree with the idea of having driverless cars.
The idea may seem to captivate many peoples interest, but there are too many risks that come with this idea.
So to limit the amount of future possible accidents, I would say it's best for our safety to just leave cars the way they are now. | 3 |
790efcf | This article is about the unmasking the face on Mars. So the people went to Mars were Garvin and his other friend that went. They took pictures and they seen a face.
Now Garvins' friend said it was a alien that had done this. But there were no proof that aliens did this. They saw no movement on planet Mars. So they called it Martian mesa. On the red planet name as Cydonia. That's where it happened. The face looked like an Egytain Pharaoh. Something funny happened to Mars around/about 25 years ago. Now if I was up there I would start researching this object. Knowing what this was. Where it came from and other things that are important to the shape figure.
So now we know that the people up in space looking at this object are saying it was something that has been there for 25 years, they don't know who done this. All the NASA knows is that they probably know where it came from and things they aren't just saying the full information. So this was about unmasking face on Mars. | 2 |
791322a | Venus the "Evening Star" would be a worthy pursuit to study despite the many risks and challenges that come along. Venus has insights just waiting to be discovered, observed and samples to bring from the Earth. Exploring Venus does have it's challenges but should in fact limit us to explore the planet.
Humans exploring Venus should not be stopped by the challenges that our sister planet throws at us. The reason for this is because NASA is looking at how humans or Astronauts can stay on the planet without perishing to the harshest conditions Venus has. Instead, Nasa wants humans/astronauts to stay on the planet's atmosphere where it is the least hostile conditions the planet has to offer. In the article, paragraph 5 it states,"NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the roiling Venusian landscape. Just as our jets airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way." Furthermore in the paragraph you would find that the atronauts will recieve Solar power. Another obstacle that was a problem in order how to get fuel."Solar power would be plentiful..." A solution like this helps the idea that exploring Venus to study will not stop human curiosity.
Another challenge that NASA has to find a solution for is what materals and technology to send to Venus for the astronauts to use. The temperature for the humans that will visit Venus will have to live in tempertures of 170 degrees Fahrenheit. This is a problem for common metals that are in mordern day technology. The atmosphere of the planet would melt the metals that there composed of. Instead, they working on how to change the materials of the tech they want ot be along side them to the planet of Venus. NASA has simplified electronics devices and gadgetsout of silicon carbide. This can be found in paragraph 7 and states, " 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." Another solution that NASA has come up with was the idea of using old technology that has to be used mechanically. Such devices from the 1800's and used frequently in World War II. These are used by levers and gears that make calculations and do not require electronics at all. This information can also be found in paragraph 7. It states," Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers. These devices were first envisioned in the 1800s and played an important role in the 1940s during World War II. The thought of computers existing in those days may sound shocking ,but these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all. Modern computers are enormously powerful, flexible, and quick, but tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions." This is NASA's other soltuion to record the studies and findings found on Venus.
In conclusion, Venus has many obstacles and dangers. However, this shouldn't stop us to explore the face of the planet and disocver more what the planet lies beneath the dark envious clouds it has. Venus is worth studying and despite the dangers it presents, human curiosity will only allow us to futhermore find solutions to the planets obstacles they have waiting for us. | 4 |
791384e | In this essay using the technology system "Facial action coding system" the emotional expression of students in a classroom can be valuable.
The new technology system could help For example like not smiling broadly using video imagery In paragraph 5 technology you can see if your friend are pretendind to be emotional of course most, of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc. It's saying in the quote that humans are not good at describing facial action "coding system" can see and know what really are people's feelings.
By using the new the new "Facial Action Coding System" in a school system can be valuable to the school system because computers can recongnize when a student is becoming confused or bored the coding system can make computer animated faces more expressive for video games or video surgery.
Conclusion i think that the "Facial Action Coding System" is not a bad idea it can detect when you're happy or sad is a good idea for the students. | 2 |
7913c3a | My position on driverless cars is very nutral. Like the passage stated there are a lot pros and cons when it comes to this topic, such as numerous types of road blocks like accidents and construction. When it comes to the diverless car getting to an accident people are confused on who it should be to blame the manufacturer, or the passenger. I personaly believe the passenger should be to blame, it doesn't matter how advanced the technology is something is bound to go wrong so you should always be on alert.
When it comes to some of the pros there are some strong ones. Driving will be a lot safer once a majority of people own a self driving car. There will be almost no accidents do to texting, falling asleep at the wheel, and drunk driving. Once we get to the point of almost everyone owning a self diving car they will most likely be eco-friendly. | 2 |
7917200 | It could not have been an alien because landforms like that are very common. Also the suns shadow is one of the only reasons it looks like a face.They are not just common on mars though there common on earth as well. The last picture they took was to the point were you could see rocks small enough to be gravel so it was not made by aliens or they would have left something behind.
On April 8th, 2001 it was a cloudless summer day they rolled the space craft 25 degrees to center the face in. The took a picture 3 times bigger than the last. Each pixel
spans 1.56 meters but the old picture taken in 1976
is only 43 meters per pixel. So if there was anything in the picture you could see what they are.
NASA would not keep this a secret because it would benfit them. More people would likely fund them because they want to know more about the aliens. Plus we are NASA scientist we have seen the information first hand.
So in conclusion there is no doubt that "The Face" is not something made by an alien but it is just a land formation.We have pictures and there was just the rock and ground.Also Jim Garvin says "it reminds me of the Snake River Plain of Idaho. | 2 |
79192bf | Driverless cars are featured in the a lot of sci-fy movies, but are they really as wonderful as movies make them seem? This question is what is being adressed in the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming". A fully driverless car would not be optimal because the whole idea would be too expensive to address, nobody will pay attention to the road at all, and things could easily go wrong with a machine.
First I will explain how the whole idea of these 'driverless cars' would be too exensive. As stated in paragraph 3, "...they require massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical". Now in this situation, they are talking about these roadways that would control the driverless cars. But, even if we didnt make the roads entirely like suggested in the article, we would still have to change roads all across America in some ways because they wouldn't be fit for a car to control. This would also suggest that off roading, or back road driving would be very challenging for any vehical, or computer to handle.
Second, I will explain how people will not pay attention to the roads at all. How exactally can you be certian that someone is doing something they are supposed to do? How can you force them? You can't. The most ideal way that these 'driverless cars' would be used, would be to assist companies with deliveries, so the driver of the truck could sleep and the truck could continue driving through the night, less stops = ideal time of delivery. But if the driver has to stay alert the whole time to take over in rough situations, they what even is the point of having automated cars past the point of assistance?
Lastly, I would like to address that things go wrong with machines all the time. So what would make a 'driverless car' any different? If we have to constantly be worried about how the automated car is running, or how the condition of it is, then we might as well just take that effort and apply it to ourselves. I can bet that these cars will not be 100% accident free, and neither are people. So if they arent really gong to benefit us in a large way, what would be the point of all the effort that would go into making this possible? Here's the answer; there isnt one.
In conclusion, a fully driverless car would not be optimal because the whole idea would be too expensive to address, nobody will pay attention to the road at all, and things could easily go wrong with a machine. So to answer my questions; no, driverless cars are not as wonderful as they seem. Yes they are a nice thought and after being perfected could probably help out the shipping industries a lot. Personally, I wouldn't want to drive on a road filled with people not paying attention. In worse case senarios, everyone involved would be caught off guard causing more harm than good. | 4 |
79240bb | Driverless cars are the future of transportation. The technologies that we have right now limit us in what we can do in the field of driverless cars but sometime in the near future we will have fully driverless cars. Car engineers are already pushing the envelope on what they put in cars as far as technology and computer systems. There has also been a rise in the number of cars that are running with electric engines, which will be necessary to driverless cars. These three pieces of evidence are all reasons why cars of the future should not require an active driver.
The technologies that we have today are amazing to older generations that thought that having a car was crazy. Even with our advanced technologies we still do not have advanced enough technolgies to have fukky driverless cars. As the passage stated, "Google cars arent truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents." This statement shows that even companies that have the latest and greatest technologies are not able to make a truly driverless car. Even though we are not able to make a fully driverless car today, our technologies are still advancing at a higher rate than ever before.
The technologies that we have in cars toaday are truly amazing and extremely advanced compared to what the standard of technology was in a car ten years ago. That is because car engineers are working their hardest to put as much technology as possible in the cars that they are making. The 2017 Ford Focus is supposed to be able to park for you and it is able to tell you when you are okay to change lanes on the interstate. Tesla has projected for a car to come out this year that is supposed to be 90 percent driverless. These are just two examples of car engineers trying there hardest to put the most technology in vehicles as they can. As you can see this is being done by both luxury brands, such as Tesla and BMW, and by everyday brands, such as Ford. One of the main problems with running a carr that is completely driverless is that there needs to be a main frame that the cars computer systems can run off of, and that main frame starts with an electric engine.
Almost every car company now a days makes at least on vehicle with a completely elctric engine. This is good that electric engine cars are starting to be made usable and can now start to be perfected because electric engines are necessary to a fully driver less car. A fully driver less car will have a lot of computer systems that are necessary to opperate the vehicle. These computer systems will all need a main frame to run off of which means the majority of the car is going to be elcetric anyways. Wouldn't it make sense for the engine to be on the smae page as the rest of the car. Just think, instead of you have to go fill up your fully driverless car with gas and then having to go charge it, you could go charge it and refuel the engine at the same time.
The technolgies to make a fully driverless car are not avalable to us yet but they will be in the near future. Car engineers are already making cars partially driveless so it is only a matter of time until they are fully driverless. Electric engines are already found in a lot of cars and they would be necessary in a fully driverless car which means we are going in the right direction. It is only a matter of time until we will have all of the technologies necessary to have fully driverless cars. So the question is, will you be picking up your next car from the dealer ship or will it be driving to your home? | 4 |
7924343 | In this article the author explains how it would be a worthy pursuit to explore Venus but some what dangerous for humans. Based on this article the author does a good job evaluating the task for humans to seek exploring Venus. Some strong points the author brought to my attention is that the ground level temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater then earth. In most cases, a temperature of 800 degrees Fahrenheit would melt anything and a atmospheric pressure that is 90 times what we experience would crush us and anything that we would bring to it. The author suggest a method that would fix that obsticle, the author says if we were to fly a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles we would be able to survive in Venus.
A couple things that the author didn`t bring to my attention was the cost and time it would take of the misson. In the article the author gives us a method of how we would be able to suvive in Venus, but the author did not inform us about the cost and time. In my opinion I would feel like the mission would cost a lot of money,
time and to build the mission . Another obsticles that the author did not bring to my attention is how would the fueling system work if we can not touch the surface of Venus. Would we be able to carry enough fuel from earth to venus and back all without touching the surface of Venus? I still support the claim the author is trying to show us but is it enough to have NASA use it as a method to venture Venus? The important part of exploring a new planet would be be taking samples of rock, gas and other things that would point us to the direction of finding a way to make venus survivable, but the author brought it to my attention that we would not be able to do such thing. My conclusion to this method is it would be a good way to venture a new plant but it has more obsticles then just the article suggest. | 3 |
7929404 | Is driving a car really that crucial? Do people really need their own personal means of transportaion? Around the world people are limiting their usage of cars. The advantages of limiting car usage are lower pollution, you can decrease your expences by not having to pay a car payment or insurance, and many people have started to limit car usage so you dont have to worry about standing out socially.
Pollution is a big issue when it comes to driving because cars cause a lot of pollution. In Paris a partial driving ban has been passed to try and clear the smog out of the 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" (Duffer 11). 4,000 people were fined but congestion was down 60 percent. This was done becuase paris has more smog than other European capitals. Smog is not the only reason you should limit your car use if you dont have a car at all you are probably saving a lot of money.
If you limit your car use to the point where you dont even own a car you can save a lot of money. You wouldn't have to pay your car payment and you wouldn't have to pay for insurance either. The downside of this is you would have to rely on other means of transportation and it would be hard to if you lived in a large city. If you lived in Vauban Germany however, you could bet away without a car. " While there have been efforts in the past two decades to make cities denser, and better for walking, planners are now taking the concept to the suburbs . . . . Vauban, home to 5,500 residents within a rectangular square mile, may be the most advanced experiment in low car suburban life" (Rosenthal 6). In this suburban area people have given up their cars and turned to "smart planning". Some people are not worried about the money or pollution involed but are more concerned about they will be accepted socially.
Social acceptance is what holds some people back from limiting car use. Even for those people limiting car use will not be a problem because in the united states car use has declined. "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 there after" (Rosenthal 32). This means that either Americans are going to keep steadily declining from using cars or this is just the younger generation and once they grow up they will have to get cars to go about their routines as adults.
The main reasons for limiting car usage are lower pollution, not spending as much money, and not having to worry about social acceptance. It is for these reasons that limiting car use is not only good but it is an advantage. | 4 |
79373e8 | "What it that? How did it get there? Will we be attacked by marshans?" Yes, these are the questions that a lot of people asked NASA when they found an interesting photo on Mars. The picture is supposedly a "face", but to astronomers, it is just a rock formation.
Hundereds of people think that there was a human head on Mars, but from what astronomers had to say about it, it was the truth. In 1976, NASA got their first look at the "face" on Mars. A couple days later NASA relased the image of the "face" to the public the caption was simple as it states in the text, "huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." After that, it was a pop icon, attracting people into learning more about this planet.
The "Face on Mars" became very popular when it came to scaring humans. According to the text it states "It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows-- even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years!" In films, as always, Hollywood would "tweak" the truth to have more people come and see the movie. This was partly the cause of people believing that there is life on mars. However, astronomers are saying that there could have been life on Mars because, of dry river and lake beds on the surface of The Red Planet. Still, that does not prove that there were marshans.
Astronomers are still trying to convince people that there is not life on Mars. According to the text it states "What the picture actually shows ins the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa--landforms common around the American West." This is showing what it really looks like. Besides, from background knowledge it is not possible for a human to live on Mars. There is no oxygen for us to breathe, no water, and no food. Nothing.
Technology has advanced in the past 25 years, showing us clearer pictures in space. This is incuding the "face" on Mars. It will forever be a mystery, but from what astronomers have said it will always be a rock formation. | 4 |
7939eec | To our fellow citizens the advantage of limiting car usuage allows us as citizens to be able to save money for smart planning. For example in Source 1, it states that" the United States seperate suburban life from auto use, as a component of a movement called"Smart Planning"." Smart planning allows us as citizens to be able to walk the places we have to go. There are 5,500 residents that live within a rectangle square mile away from a store. But instead we have those that rather drive a car and waste not only there gas, but the money they could be using for other things.
On the other hand, in France they use diesal fuel which was making up 67 percent of their vehicles compared to reglar gas thats makes up 53.3 percent in Western Europe. In Bogata, Columbia they took many other ways to travel and get to the places they wanted to go to. Which did not cause so much traffic jams during that time. They made a goal at the time to promote alternatove transportation and reduce the smog.
After Bogata,Columbia started that other places such as Valledupar and Cali joint the even that was taking place. Other places developed places to park at. The sidewalk you walk on were even made smooth. Traffic was no longer conjested. In America the car rates are starting to decrease . For example in Souce 4 it talks about how Obama's ambitions to curve the greenhouse gas were unveiled. Since the gas prices has risen so high, their are fewer people buying cars. The driving rate has went back down to where it use to be at in 1995. It also says that the car rates went down because most people are not able to purchase cars. Some people rather walk around or take public transporation or car-pool with others because the rates of gas are getting higher and higher.
Younger people driving has decreased. Younger people behind the wheel are at risk. Anything could happen. To improve safety the have created transportation in most states so you het on a bus, car-pool, plane, and walk just to get to the places that you need to go.
In conclusion, limiting car usuage is a better way to save money and it also a safer way for you to travel. | 3 |
793c4ff | Studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite how dangeous it may be. The author states many pros and cons about studying venus. Venus is much like earth. In paragraph 1 it states "Often referred to as earths "twin".
One of the pros is that we could get more information about venus. According to paragraph 8, "... should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." I personally think that if we found a way to land on venus and study the rocks and gasses, then we could find new things that we dont have here on earth. We will eventually find a way to land on venus and study all the organisms if any. NASA is working on a new ship to send on venus right now. So far it has survived the climate for 3 weeks.
A con is that it can be very dangerous because we have no idea what gasses or rocks venus might be made up of. In paragraph 2 it states "...since no spacecraft survived the landing for more and a few hours." Venus can be very dangerous. We can only see what its made of by studying it from far away. Even with NASA's technology we still have trouble seeing venus up close because of the atmosphere it is made up of.
Venus has many pros and cons, but we will eventually find a way to land and collect samples. Scientist are finding new ways of technology to help with that problem. | 3 |
793e363 | Did you ever think the face on Mars was made by aliens? Sorry to break it to you, but it wasn't. You may be thinking either I am really crazy or really smart. Don't worry I have evidence from the article to back up my reasoning. I don't think the face on the moon was created by aliens because the face is surrounded by landforms, the pictures weren't as good as they are now, and when the picture was taken it wasn't under the best conditions. Which leads me into my first reason.
I don't think the face on Mars was made by aliens because the face is surrounded by landforms. I think this because of many reasons. One of which is because the article says, "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa, buttes and mesas are landforms common around the American West." The next piece of evidence to support this is that there is another landform next to it that looks like the same type of landform. Where there are landforms there are usually more than one example of them.
The next reason I don't think the face on Mars was made by aliens is because the cameras weren't as good as they are now. It was 1976 when that picture was taken. Technology has advanced a lot since then. We have laptops, cell phones, slim computers, early stages of robots, and even tablets with greater processing power than space shuttles that landed on the moon. Cameras have also progressed a lot. The cameras we have now can zoom in and see you armhair from fifty feet away! That's the second reason I don't think the face on Mars wasn't made by aliens.
The last reason I don't think the face on Mars was made by aliens is the pictures were under some of the worst conditions. For example, the sky was clouded, the cameras weren't very good, and it is very hard to target Cydonia. Once they fixed most of those conditions you could clearly tell that the face was actually a landform.
In conclusion, the face on Mars can only be a landform. Once again, this is because the face is surrounded by landforms, the pictures weren't as good as they are now, and the picture was taken under some of the worst conditions. That's why I think the face on Mars wasn't made by aliens. | 4 |
7941894 | The technology used in the story is valuable while it reads facial structure, it can evenpin point what exspetion Mona lisa has. They can figure out what she has by the computers information.
First, the calculations that this computer has made is reflecting on her facial features. Paragraph 1 says, "She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent discusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. Tis shows how the computer calculates to her facial features depending on muscle in the face. In paragraph 3 it states," The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer modle of the face, all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles.
Second, the desciption of this software take out different inits of emotions by you face structure, In paragraph 4 it states, " The new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements, in a real face or in painting face of Mona lisa. By weighing in different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions".This shows how the device works and what is exactly calculates.
Finally, the many ways the computer claculates your facial structure depends on how you feel. In paragraph 6 it states,"The Mona Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much this computer can do". This shows how the demonstration of Mona Lisa makes a person feel happy and how they choose to mrket their product. Pragraph 6 also states," The same technology can make compuer animated faces more expressive". This shows how they could furtther their computer development.
This computer is valuable and helps people figure out how people are feeling. The computer will be a good peice of equipment on the market is it is able to be used by proffessions and teachers. | 3 |
794bb5f | Cars. Everyday the average citizen uses a car to get around wether it be for groceries or just going to their job. It has gotten to the point that many people cannot imagine the idea of living without a car. For those few people who have made the switch to not using a car daily however, have experienced some good things about life without a car. In the passage set it explores the different positive side effects that can come along with not having a car from real life situations. There are many different things that can happen with just this one change and some of these examples you might not have thought about before.
The first two sources talk mostly about the environmental changes that having no cars could bring. Source one focuses on the greenhouse gasses that are produced from car usage. The article states "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe . . . and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." This is a huge deal because greenhouse gasses are belived to be responsible for global warming which could become a huge threat. Source two continues to bring up the air pollution problems that are ocurring in places around the world. Air pollution can cause a variety of problems from people having problems breathing to plants dieing. The problem has gotten so bad that "Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city". The problem of smog has gotten so serious that a whole community had to ban driving which is insane that it's gotten that far. Limiting car usage could take car of our Earth the way it takes care of us.
The last two sources, sources 3 and 4, look at the way that limiting car ussage could improve our communites. Source three talks about how that cutting back on car ussage could benifit different parts of our surroundings. Near the end of the passage it says "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city". It then continues to list off individual things like rush hour traffic being cut down and sidewalks that were in poor condition are perfect again. The last source talks about the economic benifits that having less cars operating could bring. As a result of the recession people were forced to get creative on how to save money in order to get by. One thing we did was cut back on the amount of gasoline we used which in turn led to us cutting back on the amount of driving we did. This boosted our economy and there in no reason why it can't continue to boost our economy even further if we cut back our car usage even further.
In conclusion cutting back on how much we use our cars has many advantages that will benifit every person living today. There are even more advantages that were not mentioned in the sources above that will improve the world even more. Along with there being a ton of advantages, there are little to no disadvantages. Think to yourself of at least four advantages of increasing the amount of car usage. How many could you think of? | 4 |
79504b3 | People all over the United States, even the world, drive their cars to get to where they need to go; work, school, the mall-- its a normal thing. But, the increasing number of greenhouse gas emissions are not normal. Imagine our world crumbling down, our air supply at its all-time minimum, the exeding amout of smog forming around us, our families and friends too ill to breath; all because of cars. Along with many advantages, there should be a limit of car usage worldwide.
In the article 'Paris bans driving due to Smog', it explains the drastic change in smog formation, leading Paris officials to temporarily ban driving. Though a small percentage cictizens citywide ignored the ban, the pollution was lessened enough to end the law after a day. Adding on in a different source written by Andrew Selsky, Bogota started the revolution of a car-free day once a year which promotes "alternative transportation and reducing smog". The productivity of this event has caused other countries to do the same, lessen vehicle usage.
Although there are a small number of cities and countries that have reduced their car usage, people can not hold the reliance on those multiple thousands of responsible citizens. Said in 'The End of Car Culture' by Elisabeth Rosenthal, "... Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." and that is without putting an effort like Vurban. Vurban is a small city in Germany that has little to no cars. Stores are purposley placed on a walkway or a main street which eliminates the excruciatingly long car rides needed to get to a specific place. Because of telecommunication, sociologists believe that sooner or later people of America will take iniciative and there will be no more vehilces, that the internet will be our form of connection. Therefore, eliminating the threat of greenhouse gasses.
During times of panic and frustration one is tempted to blame. If the beautifully lush world we live in goes crashing down, we all are the ones to blame. We, the ones who use our productivity wisley, will know we did our part; limit the usage of cars. | 4 |
7953bda | The use of technology that is able to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom would be very valuable. There would be a number of benefits if there was such technology availiable. This technology would not only benefit the students in more ways than one.
If schools had technology that could read the faces of students and modify the lessons, it would increase the students chances of success. In the article, Dr. Huang claims, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." If the lesson was altered to improve the facial expression of the student, there is a huge chance that the student will become more engaged in the lesson, resulting in success. When a student is bored in a lesson, it is more than likely the student will not pay as much attention to it as well as they would if they were truly interested. Confusion may cause frustration which would lead to a more difficult learning process.
A student who is actually interested in a certain lesson has more of a chance to become excited about the lesson, making the learning experience more enjoyable and easier to learn. In the article, Dr. Huang says, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication." This being said, most students will more than likely not verbaly express when they dislike a certain lesson. Most would show their unhappiness through facial expressions. Because a teacher may not be able to fully read a students facial expression, it would be more effective if computers were availiable to read the expressions and alter the lesson for the student.
Technology that is able to read the facial expressions of a student would benefit the student and the teachers. The student would be more engaged in the lesson, and the teacher would have a better understanding of what grabs the attention of his or her students compared to what drives his or her students away. The new technolgy would make a students more confident their skills, leading to a better, more successful educational system. | 4 |
7959082 | The author suggest that studying venus is a worthy pursuit because, venuse have been the most like earth planet in our solar system. they belive that long ago venus was probably coverd with large oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth."venus can sometimes be a nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel". NASA has been thinking of many ideas to help humans explore venus, possible solution to the hostile condition on the surface of venus would allow scientist to float above the fray of venus. bump like vehical hovering over 30 or so miles above the roiling venusian landscape. like a jet airplane travel at ahigher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over venus would avoid the deadly ground conditions by staying up and out of the their way. researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of venus.
NASA have come up with example of tool that can help build a safe ship for human to travel to venus. some simplified electronics made of silicon carbibe have been testred in a chamber simulating the chaos of venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in venus conditions. mecchanical computers which is an old technology might help people explore venus. peering at venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited on ground. most light cannot penetrate the dense atomoshpere, rendering standard forms of photograhy and videography ineffective.
Even though venus is the close to earth twin there are still many dangers to exploring the planet. the atmospere contains 97 percent carboin dioxide. the clouds are highly corrosive sulfuric acid in venus's atmosphere. on venus surface tempertures aveage over 800 degrees fahrenheit. the atomospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what humans experiance on our own planet.
The condition on venus are far more extreme then anything humans can encounter on earth. the enviorment would crush even a submarine diving to the deepest parts of our oceans. venus has the hottest surface temperture than any planet. high pressure and heat, venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like eurupting volcanoes. powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface.
striving to meet the challenge presented by venus has value. because human curiosty will likely lead us into many equally intimidating enveavors. travelers on earth and beyond should not be limited by danger to explore venus more. venus should be expanded to help meet the edges of imagination and inovation.
i think that the more NSA workes together to make tool to go see mre of venus them they will be able to explore more anytime. | 2 |
7959105 | Many scientist believe that studing venus can be dangerous but it is worthy to learn about it. The author has very good point that we should find out more about Venus. They say that Venus has been covered in oceans in the past. It may have provied life like earth did."Often refered as Earth "twin ", Venus is the clsoest planet to Earth term of density and size , occasionally the closest distance too." states the author. This means their might have been life before in Venus.
Even though it is dangerous to explore I feel that we should beacuse it is important to learn about our planets. Venus reaches the average 800 degrees Fahrenheit. "The atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experienece on our own planet." Those are hard chellenges that scientists have to phase when exploring the planet. It is so intresting to learn about our planets. We can compare them. "Venus has the hotest surface tempertrue of any planet" staes the author.
Today Venus still has some of the same feature that are the same. Like our planet, Venus has valleys, moutains and craters . The planet also have strong earthquakes, and tunderstorms. Thsi makes it extra hard for scientists but its makes it hard. In text it states that
"Solar power would be plentifuol and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions but survivable for humans.
In coclusion, it is challenging but anything is possiable. I do agree with them."Our travels on Earth beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expand ed to meet the very edges of imagination and innovations." We should not have fear of exploring. That is what the author is saying. We should all agree with this. Life may be hard but we should explore. | 3 |
795b70b | There are many reasons to join the Seagoing Cowboys program. For example you can travel on a boat and explore many new places. You also get payed so when you get home you have money for everything you need. It's a great opportunity for your family and you. You could help your family with bills, food, clothing, and many other materials.
The job also wouldn't be hard if you already know how to feed and water cattle. You wouldn't be doing your job every second.You do have to feed them two or three times a day.You also have to clean the stalls, paragraph six states this. When your done doing your job you have free time to do games and look at the ocean,paragraph eight has this included. You're also not alone you can make friends with whoever works there. If you work as watchman you have to check all the animlas each hour.
This program could help with your future, you could be asked to do the same job on a diffrent ship with a diffrent crew. Or you could be asked to do something that pays more. However you could be watchman instead of caring for the animals.
There are some cautions that could lead to danger. When it get's rainy the ladder can get slippery and you want to be careful to not fall off the ship. Paragrapgh seven includes this information.
It would be great for you to join this program! Anyone is welcomed to join at an acceptable age. Any job you do, you will get payed. The trips could take long but the longer they are the more you get payed. Join the program if your looking for a job that can support you needs. | 4 |
795d85a | It would be so much better if no one drove a car. If people didn't drive cars there would be less air pollution to worry about. A healthy planet would be better for us all, rather than a smog filled polluted planet. Not driving is way better for the environment.
Also, the streets would be less crowded and people would be able to get around faster. No one likes waiting around in traffic. It would be much faster to just bike or walk. Biking and walking also help you exercise and stay fit. It would keep everyone in good shape.
There would be so much less noise pollution. In Vauban, Germany, a city without cars, all you can hear is the swish of bicycles and the chattering of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor. Cars all together cause so much noise, and noise causes people to be so tense. The world should be filled with sounds that are gentle to our senses.
It would be so great if for even one day out of the year no one drove. We should just give it a chance and see the positive effects it has. Lets all give not driving a shot! | 3 |
795e021 | Here in the United States, we have a problem of obesity. So one of the advantages of limiting car usuage is if we do get rid of cars, more walking would be involved, make the streets safer, and stop the polution of the air? Car-free cities seem to be more safe.
Obesity is a big problem in the United States. So instead of us just getting excerise of maybe 20 feet to walking to the car, and then the 45 feet to walk to where we need to go. Lets get rid of cars and if you need some where to go, then walk and dont be lazy and get some excerise. Excerise is not bad for you, and is actually very healthy. Walking is also a good way to relieve stress and get things off your mind. Sometimes people get mad or upset while driving adn there emotions get in the way of there driving and it ends up badly. So if we get rid of cars it would also decrease the number of accidents. When your walking and you get upset or mad you wont have to take it out on the car or anyone else around you. Walking instead of driving is a better motive especially when we have a high obesity rate. There are so many people in this world with insecurity issues and instead of them not doing anything about and wanting there parents to drive them to go hang out with there friends or go to the beach or whatever the thing is, walk to your friends house or walk to the beach that way you feel better about yourself when you get there and feel like you accomplished something and feel like you feel better about yourself.
In a lot of cities and or countries, there are a lot of "non-safe" streets. There are always car accidents, people dying in these car accidents, there used in some kind of violence. Car accidents are one of the most caused death. This is because people are in a rush so they have to do over the speed limit, people driving recklessly and feel that "oh im cool" or "watch me do this" and ends up in something that they thought at the time wouldnt of happened because they thought they had control. So if getting rid of cars would deffinetly dramatically decrease the number of deaths we have just by getting rid of the cars. Just think of how many lives will be saved! Most of the time thefts are not captured because they always have a run away vehicle to get a way. If we stop using cars, what are they gonna use to get a way? If they try using public transportation to get away, with other people on the bus, he would look suspicious, and get caught. The streets would be a lot safer, especially for adults that have children. Children get snatched up in what? A bicicyle? No, a car. So it would be a lot safer for kids and teenagers to go out and have a good time and not worry about a lot going around them.
We already have more pollution problems then we need. People just dont care anymore about how or where they live and they will just throw any kind of trash they want on the ground. So driving cars just helps the people already littering, the cars are just polluting the air we breathe. So instead of us Americans not giving a crap about what were doing to the wonderful beautiful planet we live on, we should start, and help, but not driving the things that pollute are air.
In a result of limiting car usage, Mr. Goldberg says " Many experts expect public transport serving suburbs to play a much larger role." So this means that by approving it this year, there will be more public transportation then people driving there personal cars. Getting rid of cars would decrease a lot of the problems we have now. Some of you might think, "well what if we work for a living and need to get to work?" Well, you can awlays WALK to the public transportation area. Studies have shown that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less, and getting fewer licenses. This leaves us wondering, "Has Obama passed peak driving?" Is it gonna make us get lower in obesity, make the streets safer, and stop the pollution of the air? Getting rid of cars will decrease a lot of issues that we have in the world today, so getting rid of or decreasing the car-usage is a positive, not a negative. | 3 |
795e183 | Have you ever thought about purchasing a driverless car? Well In this passage it states that there is some bad flaws to having one. Like in 2013 BMW announced the development of Traffic Jam Assistant. The driverless car that can handle drving functions at only speeds up to 25 mph. But the google car, only tells the driver when they still have to steer the vehicle in some many ways these cars are not safe to be released to the public. Because if they do more laws will have to be made and will cost money. Also that will take some time to be passed. Like even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in case of an accident. If the technology fails and someone were to be injured then who`s at fault the person who drove the car or the manfacuture. So in this case The author made sense of it being a negative aspect. I believe there may be one day there might be a driverless car in the 8th paragraph but maybe passed 2020. So in conclusion the author stated hard facts that prove right now in this present there not safe for us to drive in, but maybe in the near future they will be safe enough to drive passed 25 mph, also work sites or work zones and or other accidents the car will be able to adknowlege a accident to prevent another one. Also the cost of these cars will sky rocket to only the high end rich people will be the ones purchasing one. High end computers already cost over 30 thousand dollars, thinking about a car theat drives for you will be in an anmassive price range. Another thing is what would happen if one of these cars got into an accident to think how much damage to them? Would it do and how much will it cost to replace a car that will barley come out. Would they also have to make changes to the roads to make them drive or will they know exactly where to go? | 2 |
7969ad0 | The Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. Some people say that we should have facial recognition in the computers in schools so that if the student looks bored or confused, the computer will change it up a little bit for their liking. It will also be able to help teachers know when a student needs assistance or needs a more energizing lesson. Using this technology in classrooms is valuable because it will help teachers change their actions and might help the student become more engaged.
Schools all over the world would really benefit from the Facial Action Coding System. By using this, there could be a possibility of more engaged students and finally result in higher test scores. Dr. Huang says,"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." Not only will teachers result from this, but students will as well. Just by using the computer system, we will be able to tell how a student is feeling in that classroom or during a certain lesson. If we could see the facial expression, be able to figure out why, and change something to fix it, that would be very effective in the school setting.
Although this would be really great, many people could say that not all students have the same feelings about things so if a teacher changed his or her lesson based on one student, then some of the other students might not be as engaged or delighted. It wouldn't be right to do something based on one student rather than twenty-five. If a few students are very engaged in this lesson and they are paying attention and getting something out of it but other students are confused, if the teacher decides to make a change for the confused students, the students that were engaged in the lesson may become unengaged or bored. That would be the downfall of using this sort of technology.
A very appropriate setting for the Facial Action Coding System would be online schooling and home schooling because both of those are mainly based on the one student taking that course or class. If the camera on the computer sent a signal to the online schooler or home schooler, it would be easy to make a change in the lesson to try and get the student more engaged. Having a student pay more attention and be more engaged in a lesson could actually help raise test scores because if someone was doing something that was actually fun and they could actually retain the knowledge, it might be effective.
Using the Facial Action Coding system in classrooms is valuable and effective. It will help students become more engaged and pay more attention. It will also help raise test scores at least partially because they will be able to remember what they learned when it was something that they liked. While some might have contradictory thoughts, it is mostly a valuable piece of technology that should be used in many schools across the world. | 5 |
797044e | I believe that the Face is just a natural landform on Mars because no one has any reall proof that it is made by aliens and the astronauts might have just gotten lucky and taken the photo when the shadows were in the right place.
I think that there is no proof that aliens made it because even NASA said that is was just, "A huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth," I believe that this quote means that not even NASA thinks that the Face was formed by aliens they just believe that it was just shadows on the rock. Another example from the text that makes me believe that it wasn't made by aliens is that, "People think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars- evidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorists. Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars," I believe this supports the claim that there is no proof of aliens because if there was then NASA would have already put in the papers so that could get money to go and explore Mars but, since they haven't put out any information about Mars obviously they haven't found anything to prove that there is life on Mars.
The second reason I believe that it was not aliens who made the face is because the astronauts might have just taken the photo when the shadows were in the right place. I believe this because the text states that, "What the picture shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa- landforms common around the American West," I believe this piece of evidence supports the claim because it proves that the shadows were only causing an illusion there was not eyes, or nose, or mouth they were only shadows that were in the right place. The second piece of evidence that I believe supports my claim is, "
Scientists figured it was just another mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like and Egyptian Pharaoh," I believe this supports my because even the scientists believe that it was only shadows that made it look like the rock had eyes, nose, and a mouth.
In conclusion, I believe that the Face is not made by aliens because there is no proof it is made by aliens and the astronauts might have just taken the picture while the shadow made the rock look like a face. | 4 |
79705f2 | Would you be able to tell an emotion of someone just by looking at them? Prof. Thomas Huang thinks so, with the help of his latest invention, the Facial Action Coding System. This is a software that is able to "read" emotions of the users, and formulate a new type of lesson to make it more interesting. The Facial Action Coding System is being used to calcuate emotions for promotional, visual, and learning benefits, and for students in the classroom, this technology seems like a plausible idea.
One of the many uses of this coding system is for promotional uses. The artical reads, "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 (6)". This goes to help companies know whether or not you enjoy their product. The software will learn what you like and it will know your emotional preferances towards certain ads. By using this technology, it can recognise if you are pleased, and will give you ads you can enjoy and feel comfortable watching. This use of technology would be useful in the classroom because it would limit the content of ads that are not helpful on computers. When a student sees an ad pop up on their screen, confusion will arise and that will let the sofware know not to play ads like that again. This software will help restrict content and make using the internet more enjoyable for students.
Visually, the software is important to society. An important use of this software can be used during video surgery. The sugery can be seen in more detail and the doctors will be able to percieve emotions clearly. This is not only useful for doctors, but for students as well. By being able to recognise the emotions that people are going through, like pain or fear for example, students who are training to be surgons can watch these videos and take notes on how to improve technique and accuracy. These students will use the technology to recognise flaws and be able to improve upon them. The Facial Action Coding System is useful visually, from video games to video surgery.
While these two aspects are important, one of the main uses for this technology is for learning and growth purposes. "'A classroom computer could recognise when a student is becoming confused or bored (6)'", Dr. Huang says. By being able to see when a child is becoming confused with his or her lesson, the computer could adapt the lesson to be more entertaining or effective. This use of the software could be vital in being able to properly equip students with the knowledge they would not have learned well otherwise. The technology could be used almost as a human instructor. The computers are able to understand facial movments and read reactions, which will also show us what the teacher needs to change in the lesson. This software could change the entire education system just because of the ability to read the student's emotions.
The uses of the Facial Action Coding System are uncountable. You can use this to encourage and limit promotions, enhance the visual aspects, and improve learning in the classroom. This software can be used as a guide and as an administrator for students while they are learning new material and surfing the internet. Technology like this is valuble for a student in order to live up to their fullest potential. | 4 |
7972b02 | Humans are very curious creatures and with that curiosity we have gone on to explore and understand many concepts of life. We've gone on to explore our planet but now its time to exlpore others. In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus",the author explains about what challenges lie ahead in trying explore Venus. Even though the author explains the challenges that come with exploing the planet he is able to make comebacks on how to solve these challenges. With this strategy the author does a good jobs supporting the idea that studying and exploring Venus is worth it overall.
In the article the author presents the following problems,
"no spacecraft surivied the landing for more than a few hours, a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide, clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid, 800 degrees Fareheit, atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater, erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting stirkes" With so many problems that the author has presented, it seems like it isnt even worth going to Venus . But then he starts to provide solutions. To avoid all of the harsh conditions the author explains that NASA would have scientist float above to fray, which just means that scientist would just float above Venus and study it from afar. Along with that there would be a bunch of solar energy and low radiation. So far this only provides a solution to dodging harsh conditions but we still cant get close enough to get a sample of anything. For that to happen we need to send something down into Venus. The solution the author provided is " 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." They also think that mechanical computers woud work too. Which makes calculations by using gears and levers, they also can be more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces. Making a robot of this could mean it would have enought time to collect samples from the planet. Now that we have the solutions why should we go through all of the trouble just to study Venus? Well paragaph 4 states ,"Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well have been the most Earth-like planet in our solsr system. Long ago Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit." If Venus was once like earth then maybe we could learn about our planet by taking a look at Venus and not only that it can be very close by in terms of traveling. On the last pragrpah the author explains how exploring Venus will help with on gaining insight but also "lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors"
Overall the author does a good job on convincing the reader that we should explore Venus and that it would be worth it in the end. He is able to provide solutions to the challenges and does a good job explaning how exploring Venus would be beneficial. He is able to convince me and hopefully others that the planet is worth exploring. | 4 |
7979641 | I my name is Luke I am a seagoing cowboy. Being a seagoing cowboy is a lot of work but I managed to have some fun on board with my buddys and I think you will meet a lot of nice people if I could have fun you can to.
My Buddys and I like to play table tennis , volleyball, fencing, boxing, reading, and whittling.
There are a lot of responsirbiltes, you have clean the stalls and have night watch. You get to see a lot of amazing places, I have been to italy and China. You have to be very careful when its raining it can be very silpery and watch where you step if you know what i mean (poop).
Another reason why I became a seagoing cowboy is it held some new adventure so if you are the advertures type you might want to be come a seagoing cowboy someday.
I'm just trying to say it is a great opertunatie to becaome advertures person or an exicting person and you never no maybe you go down in history some way some how. Even if you don't go down history you will have a lot of story's to tell the grandchildren. | 2 |
797a3de | I think I am against the Facial Action Coding System. I do not think it is a good idea to use this on humans without their consent. Technology is important but I still do not think this is a good idea.
Using this on humans isn't a good thing. If they want to keep an emotion hidden then I don't think it is a good idea to uncover it. How can the world be a positive place if the happy people who made you happy weren't actually happy. What if that person had a death of a family member and wanted to keep it a secret but some random person starts snooping around and tells everyone that that person isn't actually happy. Since the article can tell a fake smile from a real smile it could possibly happen. Now if the person gives you consent then it is fine but nobody should be able to read someones emotion.
Now the thing about the facial recognition being in a classroom might make it more interesting. It there was a way to make school more interesting than that would be great. I'm not sure how far it would go to make the students happy. It says that it could modify the lesson like an efective human instructor but how far would it modify it. Also if this became a thing would it take the place of teachers. If so than that would be a bad thing. So many people would lose their jobs. It says that it would be able to tell if I am confused which is a good thing. That way I wouldn't have to ask the teacher to come help me. They would just know and come help me, but I still think it is a bad idea.
I'm just not sure that it is a good idea to have something that reads emotion. I feel like some things that are better off covered up will be uncovered. Technology will consume our world if we are not careful. | 3 |
797e976 | Dear Mr. Senate,
The Electoral college method is not a very good system. The avrage American probably doesnt know that they are voting for slates insted of the president. This is why we should change it to popular votes. Everything would be so much easier and we would have a clear answer on who won and who was our president.
When we The people vote we dont want to vote for slates. We dont wsnt to put our trust into someone who we have never met into voting for the person we want. We want to vote clearly for who we want. Over 60% pf the people would prefer a direct election over the type of election that we have today.
The way we select who is president now is unfair. With the winner take all system the candidates dont spend much time in states they know they wont win in. This is why we need to change the system. I ask you for the people change this unfair system. | 2 |
798836c | There are many reasons to join the program . Today im gonna convince you that people should be able to join.
I think it would be a great idea to join the seagoing cowboys program because... It would benifit them, they would be able to explore the world & i honestly think that would be great for them to experience the world. Another one is being able to help the animals with trouble that have been injured or left on the streets.
A good thing is you get to spend time with animals all day long! I think that would be fun. What i think is more fun is spending your time in the ocean, imagine being in a boat & all of the sudden you hear dolphins! How great would be?
Its not all just about helping animals once there all prepared & token care of you get to play with the cowboys! Baseball anything you desire they'll play. What its really about i s opening yourself up to the world & being grateful for trying the oppurtunity & giving it the best you got! & being aware that other people need needs. Not just you, but other people will appreciate you.
But honestly my conclusion you should sign up because i think it would be fun & adventoures! | 2 |
798dcd3 | The Electoral College is "unfair,outdated,and irrational". if the Electoral College is unfair why should should the U.S keep this process in our goverment? who really knows? But on the other hand popular votes is a great way to keep voteing fair and rattional to the U.S citizens.
First of all,their are many reasons popular votes are way more usefull and fair then the Electoral College, say one canidate gets 80 percent of the U.S votes but the other candiate wins because of Electoral College vote it just makes no sense. a large anount of americans are considering the Electoral College vote the diaster factor the reasons for that their are many to say such as unfair,outdated,and irrational and much more."it can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a canidate who has no hope of of carrying their state". that qute demostrates how some people dont even vote because the Electoral College gives no hope to some potential voters.
Second of all,popular votes are more logical and sensefull then other voting stratigies. to most ameriacns it just makes more sense to use popular voteing procsess then the Electoral College because they actaully have say in the potential president. if potential voters are not voteing because the Electoral College then why have it?" the Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in wich no canidate recevies a majority of the votes" this quote explains how canidates can not get majority rule over the other canidate. Electoral College should be replaced with majority rule.
On the other hand, Electoral College avoids the run-off elections,"the Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no canidate receives a majority of the votes cast"this quote explains how Electoral College makes the voteing process easier and has less pressure on canidates and voters. also the Electoral College restores some of the weught in the polyical balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apprtioment of the senate decreed in the constitutuion.
last,popular votes/majority rule are in all a better way of voteing in the U.S because of the fairness and rights the U.S citizens all deserve,yes the Electoral College votes are easier but in the end who really wins? noboby does. | 3 |
79966fb | The face is a natural landform becuase it is the Martian equivalent of a mesa, like landforms in the American West, and Michael Malin and is MOC (Mars Orbiter Camera) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos.
The face on Mars is a natural landform because iut is the Martian equivalent of a mesa like, landforms in the American West. The Author stated that "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake Rivedr Plain of Idaho. that is a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same hieght as the Face on Mars." says Jim Garvin.
Michael Malin and his MOC team snapped a picture of the face on MArs tens times sharper than the origanl viking photos. Thousands of web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL website which had revealed that the face on Mars is a Natural landform, which did not satisfy everyone that there was no alien monument after all.
In conclusion, the face on Mars is not an alien made monument it is a natural landform made from the sand/soil of mars. It has been scientifically discovered that aliens did not make the face on Mars. | 2 |
799b4e8 | Venus is one of the closest planets to Earth and is also reffered to as our sister planet. We have sent many probes to Venus, yet many have not survived more than a few hours. Venus may be very close to us compared to other planets in our solar syestem, but it is far different in its characteristics. In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author shows how Venus is dangerous but still worthy of studying by giving us evidence and examples about Venus and its features.
The author gives us statistical evidence on how our planet is different from Venus. He explains that its temperature, atmosphere, and its acidic clouds are making the planet uninheritable for humans. The author writes, "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds that are highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. On the planets's surface temperatures average over 800 degrees Farenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." (3) The other spits out many facts that support his claim that exploring Venus is a very dangerous job. 800 degrees Farenheit is very hot and would not eb suitable by a human. In fact, all of these feaures would make it hard for a human to live on Venus. All these points can help prove that Venus is still worthy of studying even though there are many dangers because it should interests scientists and others to find out how these conditions came to be, what could survive in these harmful conditions, and even possibly how to make it possible for humans to live there.
The author also uses examples to support his claim that Venus is inhospitable for humans. Humans have many needs in order to survive on a planet and Venus does not qualify for many. The author writes "such an environment woud crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to teh deepest parts of our oceans and would liquify many metals." (3) In this quote the athor is referring to the pressure of the planet inside the atmosphere. If a submarine could not survive the pressure, I doubt a human could either. The author also says "Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in out solar system" and it has "erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface." This is impreessive beause even probes that are specifically made for going to Venus, cant even survive on Venus. This proves that Venus is very dangerous but still worthy of studying because it challenges scientists to find new ways of making stronger probes and new ways to study this planet that prove effective.
The author uses many peices of statictcal evidence and examples to prove his point that Venus is worthy of studying even considering the dangerous conditions. It is worthy because it has insanely harsh temperature, atmosphere, atmospheric pressure, and other harmful characteristics. Would you want to study Venus considering its deadly differences? | 4 |
799ccdb | Do you drive a car? Well if you do then you haven't heard about countries all over the world who are limiting their driving. People all over the world who have stopped their driving are saying that it is a good thing. Some people are happier without a car then when they did have a car. People are having car free days. In America, people are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by.
In Vauban, Germany residents have given up their cars. Their streets are completley car free. You are still able to buy a car but there is only two places to park and you have to pay alot of money to do so. 70 percent of the people who live in Vauban do not own cars and 57 percent sold their car to move their. People who live their say that they are happy and stress free without a car. In the United States. the Evironmental Protection Agency is Promoting Car Reduced communities and Legislators are starting to act.
In Bogota, Columbia they have a car free day where citizens are not allowed to drive cars. The only transportation they are allowed is buses and taxis. The goal they are trying to enforce is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. The turnout was large, and for the first time, two other cities, Cali snd Valledupar, joined in on the event. According to Carlos Arturo he said that "it's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." The day without cars is part of a campaign that began in Bogota in the mid-1990s. Parks and sports centers have bloomed throughout the city, sidewalkes have been replaced by smooth sidewalks, and new resturants ans shopping districts have cropped up.
The United States had long been one of the world's prime car cultures. It's the birthplace of many cars. But America's love of vehicles has been cooling. The number of miles driven in the united states peaked in 2005 and dropped thereafter. At the Mobile World Congress they stated that '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." Driving has decreased over the years. Not having a car does not stop you from meeting your friends either. There is the internet, cellphones, car pulling apps which has made shared van services more popular.
To conclude, not having a car wouldn't be such a bad thing. Many people would aslo agree to this. In Columbia they have a car free day, in Vauban, Germany nobody drives there. Also in the united States their is a lower presentage rate of people buying cars and getting their license. People are happier without a car and that says alot about how stressful having a car might be. Not owning a car might be more safe for your everyday life. Not having a car definetley helps make the environment a better place. | 3 |
799dcff | A teacher lies at home sick and specialized substitues had been low all month. Her students at school sit unprepared for their upcoming test with a major lesson still to be taught. It seems as if this crucial knowledge will be absent as well as the teacher who is the only one who could both provide the information and make sure it is understood to her students. However, thanks to the technology provided by the Facial Action Coding System, her students will be prepared. An incredibly valuable resource in the classroom, the technology provided by the Facial Action Coding System has the ability to recognize the surprise, anger, and fear, that make up confusion on the faces of children in the classroom and adapt lesson plans and learning objectives that would contribute to an overall increase in performance.
As stated in the article, in response to this recognition of confusion, the computer who is instructing the lesson would change certain aspects of the lesson in an attempt to make them more comprehendable to its audience. A powerful teaching software paired with the Facial Action Coding System would form an adaptive learning program that could compensate for a teacher's lost days due to illness, or a lack of teachers alltogether. The only thing necessary in future classrooms could be supervisors for the students and their smart computers; a place holder for "an effective human instructor"(Huang). In America alone, many schools face a deficeit of proper teachers capable of teaching specialized subjects. Computers with this adaptive learning software would be capable of more effectivley teaching various subjects due to the many safe sources of information available on the internet. The computer's ability to recognize where an individual may struggle is crucial because it would also be able to recognize what alternative methods were effective in helping the student to understand where a teacher may have formely failed to do so. These specialized learning programs would effectivley cause a general increase of performance in schools across the nation resulting in a more educated group of students prepared for college, and eventually the workplace.
A technology such as the Facial Action Coding System would have a tremendous impact on the work force by reducing the rate of drop out students and increasing the rates of educated students attending colleges. The new generations that have been schooled with this technology will be more likley to find specialized and higher paying jobs, or to discover solutions for local, national, and international issues. In reality, a technology such as this is revolutionary, and the impacts made as a result of its widespread use would be groundbreaking. | 4 |
799fa1d | The challenge of Exploring Venus
In the story the author is talking about have Venuse is Earth sister and how Venuse may have had life form on it. Venuse is a posible living place. NASA need to do more resurch on Venuse but it is hard to do when Venuse has only been bored a few times and its hard to see through a scope.
Venuse is known as the "Evening Stars because it is just a dot in the lends. Besides the sun Venuse is one of the brightest pionts in the sky. The planet Venuse my have once been like our own lively. No this planet that we call our sister is just filled with dusty mountains abd vallies.
NASA is tring to find out more information about Venuse. Why? Because NASA is truying to find a way to give Venuse back life. NASA is not only trying to give Venuse back life, but also to see weather it is living grounds. In order to make sure Venuse is the right planet to give life to NASA has to find out the presure and the oxigen levels.
In conclusion NASA is trying to find ways to make othere planets our home because Earth is falling apart. Venuse is our next step to a new home. NASA is trying to find a way to make Venuse our new home. | 2 |
79a09b9 | Bustling traffic fills every available lane on the highway on your drive home from work. It's rush hour again, and it's more of a slow, steady crawl rather than a drive. You can't roll the windows down to relax and get a breath of fresh air, because the air simply isn't appealing; It's all emissions from the other cars, and the smell of burning gasoline is simply naseauting. It's moments like this when you recall the stories in the news about cities all over the world limiting car usage, and wondering how useful or effective it really is. Banning the use of cars has advantages such as helping to reduce pollution, reducing stress, and conserving resources.
Pollution is a prominent problem in every society today, and often times you witness "Go Green" campaigns on the television, with celebrities trying to persuade you, and call you to action on trying to save the Earth. A great way to actually help reduce pollution, is through a "No Driving" campaign. In the document written by Robert Duffer, he discusses how Paris partially bans driving in order to "clear the air of the global city." A system was put in place that allowed drivers who only had odd numbered license plates to drive on Monday, and only even numbered plates the following day. This helped to reduce congestion on the streets, and reduce the smog polluting the air to a safer amount. Before this was put in place, it was said that "[The smog] rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world." In "The End of Car Culture" by Elisabeth Rosenthal, the author also discusses how "If the pattern persists-and many sociologists believe it will-it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment..." This is expressing how a lower percentage of car usage compares statistically to a lower percentage of carbon emissions in the air, which stresses a healthier environment. Maybe now we can roll down some windows while on the highway.
Stress is a major factor in everyone's life; It makes things difficult, wavers a person's focus, and isn't beneficial to your health in the slightest. These "No Driving" campaigns are actually helping to reduce the amount of stress in people, by giving them a chance to do some stress relieving activities, such as bike riding or rollerblading. In the first source, "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" which is also by Elisabeth Rosenthal, a mother of two and media trainer named Heidrun Walter stated "When I had a car, I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Walter was able to stroll on sidewalks and smell the fresh air, all while listen to the sounds of nature and children playing, free of the sound of cars. In Andrew Selsky's article, "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota," Selsky informs the reader that Bogota makes renovations in the district on parks and sidewalks, so that during the time of "No Cars," people have enjoyable options as to how to get around the city. With such dedication to a project, it would be surprising to not be satisfied with those results.
Non-renewable resources are what power our daily lives, from gasoline to coal, once it's gone, it's gone for good. With these campaigns to ban driving, we are helping to hold on to what we have, and in a way, realizing what we have before it becomes something we had. In the second article, Paris banned driving to reduce smog, which they blamed on the use of diesel fuel rather than gasoline. The use of diesel fuel may be helping to conserve gasoline, but it's used in Paris because of a tax on gasoline, and is simply a prefferable price. By not driving at all, the citizen reduced smog, and conserved their resources for another day. In Rosenthal's second article, she discusses how Bill Ford put forward a proposal on partnership, hoping to "create cities in which 'pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety." With the conservation of non-renewable resources, we are helping to ensure a future for those who success our generations.
There are so many advantages to driving, like being able to travel long distances faster, and being able to carry things with you wherever you go, but they are advantages of circumstance, and ultimately the use of cars is a price we pay with our health. The advantages of using other forms of transportation outnumber the advantages of car usage, both in the health of the people, and the health of the planet. If not using cars can reduce stress levels in people, or reduce pollution in a matter of days in densely populated cities, or even conserve the resources we can't renew, we should have banned driving already! | 5 |
79a4025 | The driveless car has its pros, and its cons. My position on the it is positive rather than negative. The driveless car has many features and positive perks. But it still has its bad perks. Driveless cars come off to me as a pretty good idea and i support the idea.
Driveless cars come off to others as a bad idea to invest time and effort on.
But the Driveless cars also have their pros. Driveless cars would change the amount of fuel we use by decreasing the amount by
half, not only that its saving half our fuel it is also a great way for our technology to advance leading to other inventions that could just keep improving our everyday technology. Driveless cars would also be a way to prevent people from drunk driving or even just normal wreaks.Driveless cars would be good for new drivers would dont know the roads or where they are going.
Drivless cars can be a harm, or just a plain bad idea. Some people may want cars to continue being the same, or they just may not trust technology. Driveless cars could be a bad idea considering that technology could crash or fail at any point and time.Driveless cars would consume lots of materials, and cost a lot per car made.
Driveless cars dont seem to be that bad of a idea to me. Driveless cars would help new learners know the road, or even teach them a little about it. They may be a fortune when making them, but its a great way to conserve our fuel. They also could lead to other inventions for improving our future.
Driveless cars can be a good and bad idea for the future. Although, advancing our technology with driveless cars would be a pretty great improvment, but not only a improvment but a
great way to teach young drivers the rules of the road and how to drive. They driveless car would be a perfect innovantion for our future and whatever else it inspires. | 3 |
79a90a9 | dear, Senator
Electoral college would be better to use to elect a preseident then a popular vote because its just logical. This was the way the founding fathers had made america so we should keep it that way. Also why would you change something that has is'nt broken. To choose a popular voting would be to outragious to even consider changing for the united states.
when the fathers of our country made the united states they made the electoral college for a reason. they wouldn't make it so that we would fail aas a nation. They made this method to make it easier on us in the future but also make it effective. from the beggining of the u. s. we havent had much of problems in electing a presidet because of how effective and easy it is to follow trough with the way we elect now.
If the electoral college hsa been working for this many years then why would we risk losing it over a way that might not even work. Yeah it might sound like a great idea to use a popular vote, but some of the greatest idea fail and if we fail with this idea it would ruin the whole country. There would be crime blowing up everywhere you look, riots, robbery, fights, gang wars, ect.... Never fix anything that isnt broke.
In conclusion dont change the way we elect a president. this way was made by the founding fathers that created the united states and it hasn't failed yet. Also if it's not broken dont fix it. electoral voting is way better then popular voting for many reasons.
sicerly. Drake | 3 |
79a9cda | Do you want driverless cars? Well, they are coming. Driverless cars have been on their way since 2009. These cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash, but they aren't compeletly driverless.
Driverless cars are the way of the future. Top manufacturers such as Google, BMW, GM, and Telsa have found interest in driverless cars and are pursuing making this a reality for everyone. They and I believe that driverless cars will be the safer alternative. However because of driving laws in most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars. A few states have led the country in allowing limited use of semi-autonomous cars these states include: California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia.
Driverless cars are on the way, and are becoming more and more of a reality everyday. Technology advances and manufacturers push to make they're dream a reality for all of us. Driverless cars will make for a safer and cleaner community as they will use less gas that means there will be less polution caused from vehilces in the air. So, are you ready to let go of the wheel and let the car drive you? | 2 |
79b53f9 | The author thinks we are still going to explore the planet Venus in the future, Venus once had some simlulary parts with earth. Scientists still would like to explore the planet and test some of the rocks there. Even though the Planet Venus is Earth like, but Venus is hoter then Earth, so we still can't visit the planet.
Scientist believe that the panet Venus long ago did have living form on it. They also believe that is possible for humans to go for a planetary visits and possibly survive. One of the danger on Planet Venus's is the\ high temperatures, high carbondixide level, and the Atamsphere there still needs more testing to be sure.
Scientist say Venus is survivalbe, but they needs more test and experiment before sending humans for plantary visits or sending humans to live there. Venus once had some simuler parts with Earth such as mountains,volcanos, and oceans. Many Scients says that we would need more time to be sure that we know the Planet Venus is safer and that we need to get every information we need by sending spacecrafts into the Plant Venus to explore more. | 1 |
79bbd9b | Why are the streets always so jammed!? Everyone asks that all the time almost everyday around 5:00pm. The reason for is because cars being excessivley used nowadays. There are several different advantages that can happen when limiting car usage. The world would be a better place if less cars were used on the roads.
To begin with, why do we the peole use cars? The reason is because it can get us from A to B really fast. But that's only 1 positive for the usage of cars. Think about the negatives and disadvantages of using cars. My 1 main reason of the usage of cars is that it make the world less active. Walking or running is a daily form of exercise, and the usage of cars is limiting the numbers of that. In section 1 Hedrum Walter says that he always was tense when he had a car, he's much happier without one. This is why we should limit the usage of cars. We don't want the people to be tense all the time, we want them to enjoy and relax when using transportation other than cars. Walking will take longer but is better in the long run. You don't have traffic jams, you can go places and areas that cars couldn't fit through and you have many different ways of getting to a particular place rather than just a road. The only repercution that you have to worry about with walking is the rain. But heres the thing, In section 3 Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus said "The rain hasn't stopped people from participating." This means rain isn't a problem when walking on the streets. Cars may offer more protection but its more dangerous than walking. This is why places like Germany, Paris, and Bogota are trying to carry out the experience of a "car-free" life.
In addition, another advantage of limitiong car use is limiting riots. I know we have all heard of people screaming and arguing in the cars of people in front or behind them. This is a big problem nowadays and it's because of the use of cars. If we can limit the usage of cars than we can hopefully reduce the level of aggrevation on the streets. Alot of accidents happen everyday dealing wiht the usage of cars. Cars provoke alot of deaths if you think about it. If we could limit the usage of driving cars than this will limit the amount of deaths per year by cars. That's the number 1 disadvantages to the using of cars. Walking and biking are my 2 favorite types of transportation because it's smooth, and it's more conveinant. Less accidents and injurys happen when walking or riding a bike. This can also help the streets be less packed which will allow for easier access to certain places. DUI is the main worst tragic that comes from the usage of cars. Many people die everyday because of drunk drivers and thats not respectable. Just imagine if the same person who caused an accident in the car while drunk was drunk on the streets while walking, he more than likely couldn't of caused an accident if he was walking and not driving a car. Just think about all of the disadvantages that cars promote.
Last but not least, comes the president (Barack Obamas) most valuable reason to limit car usage. Obama wants to curb the U.S greenhouse gas emissions, and by that he wants to get fewer cars on the road. In section 4 it shows that "studies suggest that americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." This means that Obama's goal is prevailing. Paris came to a conclusion that they decided to ban driving due to smog. In section 2 it states that Paris air became so polluted that they enforced a parial "driving ban" to get rid of the air pollution. They blamed this problem due to the diesel fuel. They figured out that diesels make up 67% of vehicles in France, as to 53% in the rest of Western Eurpoe. In section 2 its pretty much the same reason except Bogota's goal is to "promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. The violators faced $25 fines." They figured limiting car usage was a good opportunity to take away stress and reduce air pollution. In section 4 the last paragraph tells you what Bill Ford plan was. He wanted to create cities in which "pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial, and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, onserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety."
These are some advantages of less car usage. Many good things will start to happen if everyone could lower the usage of cars nowadays. We don't want the world to have polluted air, we don't want to promote car accidents, and we also don't want under age drivers on the streets. So take in mind the disadvantages of usage of cars and compared the to the the advantages of limiting car usage. | 5 |
79bd60c | I think you should join UNRRA, because this won't just be some boring fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games, it will be the most fun you've probably had in your whole entire life. So how about you come on down and try some of our activities. They will make you smile.
If you tell your friends or family about us, we will give you and those people a year of coming in when ever you feel like it, for FREE. If you were to come in and join in that is totally fine, but that is a little dangerous, especially for the little kids. The best thing about the buisness is that if you bring a kid in under 6 years old you get their cloths for FREE. Thats not all you can go to the snack bar and buy any snack for just $1. It's fun, fun for the kids, and we have delious food.
That is why i think you should come down to UNRRA. I think the kids are going to love it justa as much as I do. So why dont you come on down right now to have some fun. | 2 |
79bdc9f | The author supports his opinion very well by giving good reasons why it would be a great leap forward if we were to explore the our "Sister planet." he even gave examples of how we could explore it with even being in such a dangerous enviroment, as he said in the in the story" imagine a blimp like vehicle hover 30 or so miles above the roiling venusian landscape." Even thought it's a dangerous mission if we send more unmaned ships and drones to venus we could find a easier way to send the first human there.
The author also sates some of the downsides such as "A thick atomosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus." And he also states "On the planets surface, temperatures average over 800 degress fahrenheit." which would be deadly for any human without a special suit. Even though this mission could put
somebody's life at risk is could still be a huge leap forward for space travel and the exploration of the universe. If the world were to ever collaspe unto itself we as a race would need to sutible planet to make our new home, And if we make venus safe for humans in my opinion that would be one of the top choices.
In conclusion venus is a very dangerous planet, but if scientist just study the planet for a long time, We might be able to make it suitable for a man or woman to finally explore the surface of our " Sister Planet." This may take years or even centuries but the author firmly believes that if we just keep sending ships and drones that we can have enough knowlege to explore the planet further. | 3 |
79c21a0 | You should join the Seagoing Cowboys because not only do you get to help people but you get to see amazing sites around the world like I have and you get to travel all over the world. The text states,''Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China.''Another reason you should join the Seagoing Cowboys is you also get to care for animals and bring food to them so you could get a bond with animals so it would be easier for your job of taking care of them. The text states,''They had to be fed and watered two or three times a day.''One of the other reasons you should join the Seagoing Cowboys is that you could have fun especially on return trips when the animals were uploaded.
The text states,''Luke also had time to have fun on board,especially on return trips after the animals had been uploaded. One reason I joined and you should to is you be can with you friends if they sigh up and you all can have fun taking care of the animals on the boat. The text states,''Luke and Don sighned up. Another reason you should sigh you is if you turn 18 and on a boat you have a chance To get to do that for your service so you can do what you like for service instead of the military. The text states,''When my draft board learned that I was a cattle-boat trip,They told me to just keep doing that for my service,''
One other reason you should join like me is that you could always be busy. The text states,''Caring for the animals during the crossings kept Luke busy. One important reason you should join is it can toughen you up because of how much you have to carry like the oats and hay. text states,''Bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship.''One reason I joined and you should to is that you can also feed and water the animals so you can learn responsibility and know what to do with animals.
The text states,''They had to be fed and watered two or three times a day.''One exiting reason you should join and I did is you get to see many countrys and their sites which are very beautiful. The text states,''Besides helping people I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China.''Another reason you should join to is you get the benefit of helping people in need and you know you did the right thing and that is a great thing to do. The text states,''It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs,''
One other reason I joined and you should is you get to be with a lot of other people and it is very wonderful to get the good feeling because you helped someone. The text states,''To help these countries recover their food supplies animals,and more,44 nations joined together to form UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administation).One other reason I joined is you get to take of young animals and ship them over seas and you just get to encounter many different animals. The text states,''UNRRA hired ''Seagoing Cowboys''to take care of the horses,young cows,and mules that were shipped over seas.''The last reason you should join is you get the pleasure of feeling good because you know you did something right by helping these country's in need. The text states,''It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs,'' | 3 |
79c8844 | When the world was introduced to driverless cars, one thing came to my mind. Where is the fun in learning how to drive if you can't control what you drive? Yes I get that it could prevent traffic jams and take you the most fastest way to your destination according to traffic, but just because you are able to do what ever while the computer takes you to the place you are going, doesn't mean you can. According to traffic laws, the driver of a vehicle must be awake and alert to his/her surroundings. This is called defensive driving.
Where do I stand on this situation? I honestly can say that I am against driverless cars. I think this becasue, just because you are not driving doesn't mean you don't have to pay attention. According to the artile, BMW made a car that was somewhat driverless going 25 miles per hour. Then it finishes by saying that the steering wheel has presure sensitive fibers so it can make sure you still have ahold of the steering wheel at all time.
So in concluson, driverless cars are unsafe for now. Now I'm not saying that this will never happen, but for now, it is highly unlikely that something like this will become avalible in the near future. More materials might come out and make cars more safe than they already are, but it still won't protect us from computer driven cars. This is because computers are electronic, meaning they can be tampered with, hacked, and even shut down while in the middle of something. Also they can malfunction and take you to the wrong place or even drive you off a cliff or into water. So until then, all cars need an awake and alerted driver. | 3 |
79c9ad0 | The automotive technology today is very complex as far as the car flexibility and technology within it that makes it smart. This includes its self parking and driving abilities that makes it almost driverless. But how much 'driverless'? there are many factors of a driverless car that our current cars posses, but really there would need to be better technology for a truely 'driverless car'.
Driverless cars are in the near future, but not as it is portrayed. The smart roads are too expensive and too massive of an upgrade on our roads now. the smarter cars still need human driving in cases of smarter maneuvering, like around accidents and such, that the smartest of the car couldnt do itself.
A 'mostly' driverless car is more reasonable. With the technology we have cars are virtually almost driverless, but the driver, hence it needs a driver, needs to be alert and take over when its needed, like maneuvering around things noit programmed to function around in the car, that needs '[smarts' more that the technology has.
Driverless cars would need a self-aware technology that no technology we currently have posseses. The smart cars would have ti have far more complex programming. The sensors in driving assisting only go as far as assisting in maneuvering in congested traffit and parking. There is also an alert system of object or another car collition, self braking, which is a large aspect of an driverless car.
Perhaps there is a change in the destination path of a driverless car. it would need to be able to change its course, but in many instances like a blockage oir accident it would eed programming to move through or around it, that only the human driver can posses the knowledge of doing. What would the car do if another car collided with it and damage it if the car opperaqted itself?
Nearly driverless cars are in the future, but i dont believe we will create the technology to have a virtually driverless car. | 3 |
79cbb62 | Dear Senator,
The Presidential Election is one of the most important events that goes on in the United States. At the core of this election is the Electoral College. The only problem is, the college has many flaws. Like in Source 1, it states that our Founding Fathers established the Electoral College as a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and election by a popular vote from the citizens who qualify. As you know the E.C consists of the selection of electors, meeting of electors where they vote for the President and Vice, and the counting of the votes by Congress. There are 538 electors, 538 votes, and it takes a majority of 270 votes to win the election. This flawed system has been around too long and it needs to be altered. I am in favor of getting rid of the E.C and going to winner by a popular vote.
If the Presidential candidate is favored by more than 50% of the country then he or she should win. Like in Source 2 history shows that in the past candidates have clearly won the popular vote, but sill lost the presidency race. The problem with the current system we have in place is that the people who are supposed to have a direct voice in the government do not. Instead the people vote for other people who they are supposed to trust vote in favor of their opinion. I can see how some people believe in this system of trust, however some history has shown us otherwise.
History has shown that electors can go against the opinion of the public. When you vote for electors most of the time they in turn vote for what the people want. The only thing is you are not ensured that this will occur. In the end it is up to the elector who can decide however they wish. Personally for the U.S. it would be more effective to go to winner by popular vote, not only because of the unsureness of the electors, but also because that is what the people want. Another valid arguement to get rid of the whole Electoral College process is in Source 2, it states that sometimes voters get confused with the electors and vote for the wrong candidate. That could be detrimental to the country if the wrong person for the job was elected. If it was the popular vote sytem the selection of candidates would be clear and easy to understand, which leads to less mistakes when voting.
The view of getting rid of the Electoral College is actually quite popular. In Source 2 it tells us Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S Chamber of Commerce, and others have all agreed that we should abolish the Electoral College. Going all the way back to the beginning of our country we started off on the base priciple that the people must have a direct voice in the government. That is the reason our country was made a democracy. The Electoral College has bent those principles and hasn't fully allowed the voice of the people to be heard. With the popular vote put in place their are no middle men, it is just the people voicing what they want and who they want to represent them.
Looking over the information that has been presented it is clear that the Electoral College has to go. The system is flawed for many reasons such as the popular candidate not winning, voices not being ensured that they will be heard, and the confusing system of not voting directly for your President. If the change of winner by popular vote in the election is made none of the previous flaws will be present. The popular vote sytem will ensure the people get what they want and the process is completely fair. For these reasons it is in our society's best interest that our government makes this change. Abolish the Electoral College and bring on a new age of simple and fair elections!
From,
A concerned citizen. | 4 |
79d0b37 | The founder of the Google Car project, Sebastian Thrun, said "There was no way, before 2000, to make something interesting." Now, there is something extremely interesting in the process of being developed, driverless cars. However, driverless cars are raising some concerns to states, most of which have them banned. People should not be concerned about the development of driverless cars due to the fact that the positive aspects greatly outweigh any possible negative consequences. If driverless cars continue to develop, safety will increase, new technological innovations will be discovered and the environment will benefit.
The first positive aspect one should consider when regarding driverless cars is the increase of safety. Driverless cars are thought to have in-car entertainment systems much like the dangerous cell phone use currently being used in cars. On the other hand, in-car entertainment systems will be turned off instantly when a driver needs to pay attention to what is happening on the road or take over for the car. According to the passage, "In this way, the in-car system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big concern." Distracted driving is one of the leading causes of death, especially for teenagers and the use of driverless cars may be able to virtually eliminate this threat. Also, one of the biggest threats on the road is other drivers. In the case of driverless cars, other people being reckless on roads or not paying attention will be all but eliminated, making the road a much safer place.
Furthermore, not only will the safety of everyone on the road be dramatically increased, but new technological advances and innovation towards driverless car will be discovered. Driverless cars and the sensors that operate them are nothing new, however, the creative ways developers are using them to mimic human driving is. The passage states, "In the 1950's, General Motors created a concept car that could run on a special test track." In only a short span of time since then, technology has developed to the point of being able to put a self-driving car on any road. The rapid evolution of technology will only be aided if driverless cars are further developed. In fact the passage says, "Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time. Mercedes-Benz, Audi and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020." If driverless cars continue to develop then the technological innovations made to these cars could be as unimaginable as driverless cars on this scale were in the 1950's.
Lastly, the development of driverless cars will not only improve technology, but it will also yield environmental benefits. According to Google co-founder Sergey Brin in the passage, "The cars he forsees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus." Using only half the fuel of today's taxis would have a huge environmental impact for the better. Less fuel would be used and the fuel that is used will be able to go a longer way. With constant searches for new places to find fuel from drilling and fracking to importing, being able to stretch the fuel has more positive aspects than one. Harmful fumes given off would be reduced if fuel was cut in half and also the demand would decrease, making the needed supply decrese as well. This could greatly reduce the use of fuel extraction methods that are harmful to the environment. Also, less fuel needed would help to prolong the far future when fuel might be at risk of being depleted, making development of driverless cars would have a positive impact on the environment.
Thus, the combination of increased safety, technological innovation and enviormental benefits make the development of driverless cars a positve step towards an interesting future in which no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore. | 5 |
79d3919 | I believe that using the new software, the Facial Action Coding System, has promising application to use it is in a classroom to read the emotional expression of students in a classroom. So the teachers would know how their students is feeling, and how they are doing in class.
The reason i agree with this new technology is because, well in the passage it says "The facial expression for each emotion are universal" observes Dr. Huang, "even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression" (like not smiling as broadly).They use a video imagery, that tracks these facial movement. By weighting the diffenet units, the software can also indentify mixed emotions. So even if the students don't show facial expression, the technolgy can tell how they are feeling, and so the computer can change it up and help the student learn better.
Also the second reason why I agree is because the computer will know when you're happy or sad. For example, if you smile when a web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad migh follow. But if your sad, the next ad will be differnt. Also it can help students learn better, in the passage it says "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." So if a student is confused, the computer will make the lesson more understandable. So the student will learn better and don't need to struggle and will help the teacher.
The third reason why i agree is because the computer can tell if the students are lying about their emotionn. It says in the article "but in a false smile, the mouth is streched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle". The computer will spot when a smiling is fake or not.
In conclusion i believe using the new technology to read the emotional expressions of the students is indeed valuable.So the student will understand better in class and every student won't behind, and will make the teacher life easier. | 3 |
79d4a24 | Seagoing Cowboys need more members. The benefits of becoming a Seagoing Cowboy are visiting exciting places, becoming more aware of people who need help, a young man might not get drafted into the army, and there is ways that the boys find to have fun after the cattle has been unloaded.
Being able to travel all across the world is a benefit of being a Seagoing Cowboy. Many take tours and go sightseeing at each destination they arrive at.
A Seagoing Cowboy will become more aware of the people in need that are around them every single day. Luke Bomberger was a Cowboy and after he was discharged his family hosted a good number of exchage visitors and international students.
Another reason someone might join the Seagoing Cowboys program is that they might not get drafted in the army if they are the correct age of 18. They army would see that they are already helping out in the war. They would be helping in the war by bring cattle to the countries that lost most of their cattle and fields.
After the cattle had been unloaded all of the boy on board the ship would play baseball and volleyball in the hold where the cattle had been. Whittling, reading, table-tennis, fencing, boxing, and other games were used to pass the time.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy let the boys visit exciting places and become more aware of people who need help. A young man might not get drafted into the army and there is ways that the boys find to have fun after the cattle has been unloaded. All of these reasons lead up to joining the Cowboys as soon as possible. | 3 |
79d5f4a | In this article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", the author describes how the FACS enables computers to identify humans emotions, but it isn't that reliable. For instance, you could look as happy as the sun, when the clouds are gone, but be so sad. We rely on technology to do all of these things for us, but computers are not always right. This is a really cool system, but I don't think it's 100% accurate. Some of us will rely on this system to see what their emotions are, but they can't actually tell. There are many advances in this article, that I can't really tell where the disadvantages are.
For example, us humans rely on all this technology when we could just figure it out ourselves. You can't rely on a computer to tell you your exact emotions. It's just like looking something up on the internet, coming to find out that it wasn't the right answer. The internet is not always right, there are many questions, and many wrong answers to those questions. So I don't think that the computer can tell yur emotions. That would be cool, but it wouldn't be right. You could be smiling so hard that your face is about to fall off, and even though it's the fakest smile, the computer would read it as happy.
Secondly, you could be so happy, but look like you're the most depressed person on earth, but the system isn't going to think that. The thing about this system is that we find it so satisfying, because "oh my gosh, a computer can tell my emotions!?", but the answer is no. We want to believe it's true, but in real life, I see the happiest people look so sad but they aren't. We see what the computer sees too. We can see what we look like, just like our computer can for this system.
Finally, if we can't tell what we are feeling, how is the computer going to? It's not. In the article, it tells you to look in the mirror, raise your lips at the corners of your mouth, then squint your eyes slightly to produce wrinkling at the corners of your eyes. then holding that, raise the outer parts of your cheeks up toward your eyes. After the it asks if the mirror can give you a suggestion of your emotion, or can your partner. Honestly, the answer for that is no, only you know how you're really feeling.
The FACS is not valuable for many reasons. Computers can't tell how you're feeling, nor can anyone else. Also, the internet is not always reliable, which it has gave people wrong answers. You could be so happy, but look like you're just a mess, and the computer wouldn't say you're as happy as you are. | 3 |
79d77f2 | I think that Popular vote would be better than the Electoral College because then the votes would be fair. The Electoral College is not fair for some states. A lot of people say that one vote cannot do the job. I agree because they should let the people decide what president they want to have. Some people may disagree on that. Maybe other people want just states to vote, and get it over with. It would be an easier way to choose the president, but i think popular vote would be a lot more fair than Electoral College.
The popular vote allows people to vote on what president they want to vote for, it would be kind of difficult to count all those votes, but it would get the job done in no time. The Electoral College in the other hand, allows votes from states to be made. It is an easier method to get the states to vote for the president, and it takes less time. The popular vote would be the best way to go. Others may have different opinions, maybe they like the Electoral College better than the popular vote. I would choose the Popular vote over the Electoral College.
Many people say that the Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and or irrational. Even a person, that goes by the name of Bob Dole, said to Abolish the electoral college. The Electoral College also avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives majority of the votes cast. It is said that this method may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state. It also requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. They should really try to make the Electoral College the best method that there can be. Popular vote is already a challenge, but they should also try to improve the popular vote method. | 2 |
79db7bd | The article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is an article that explains why studying Venus is such a challenge and tries to create the idea that studying Venus is worth people's time despite the threats that are present on the planet. Although the author presents some evidence that explains why people should invest time into studying, there is not enough evidence presented to show that Venus is worthy of exploration despite the danger that it imposes. Rather it explains the lengths scientists today are taking to tackle on this challenge.
A major issue of this author's attempt at suggesting that Venus is worthy of pursuit, is that the author mainly explains why trying to explore Venus is a challenge. As the title suggests, it really isn't trying to pursuade the reader into thinking that Venus is worth exploring. While the author does give us a reason as to why scientist are still trying to visit the surface, there is nothing explicitly written about why travelling to Venus is worth pursuit besides "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." and "recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for planetary visit". The evidence that he uses to explain this is with the geology of the planet. However, this is not enough to support the idea that Venus is worthy of pursuit despite the dangers it presents, thus making his idea lackluster because of it's lack of evidence to support the idea.
Despite the issue mentioned above, the article does a great job of explaining different methods and studies and the circumstances that scientists and researchers are are trying to overcome to study Venus. Giving figures of the percent of carbon dioxide blankets on Venus to the atmospheric build-up of Venus. The author thouroughly explains why Venus is such a difficult planet to explore and gives insight to how scientists are trying to overcome this obsticle. Using evidence from NASA showing how they are using simplified electronics made of silicon carbide that have been tested in a chamber stimulating the chaos of Venus's surface to create more useful devices that can be used in exploration. The ending of the article "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." really helps to show a viewpoint of why scientists should invest time into studying Venus.
The article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" suggests that Venus is quite a challenge to study and gives many reasons as to why that is. However it fails to support their idea that it is worth studying despite it's dangers. This is shown through how the article is more about how scientists are trying to study Venus, instead of why we should study Venus. | 5 |
79de37d | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" it states many reasons why, how and when these cars are coming. My position or point of view on this matter is that it is a negitive thing. There are many reasons stated on how it can be positive, such as fuel and less time consuming, or negitive, such as safety and money. I will tell you many of these reason and why i find it a negitive solution in the next few paragraphs.
The positive ideas stated in the paragragh are less fuel, safer, and you dont have to completely manualy drive a car yourself. In this article one of the many reasons why driveless cars would be safer is they can steer, accelerate, brake themselves, and they notifie the driver when the need to take over the controls for certain situations. Safety is a be concern to modern drivers, the article states manufactures want to bring entertainment to the cars while you enjoy your trip. These displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over. In this way, the in-car system is actually a safety feature.
The reasons why these cars have not been made yet isn't because we don't know how to make them or even manufacture them. Which leads us to our negitive effects, It's because of the law and expense of redesighing a mass restruction of all the roads. According to the article, Lawmakers focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and safety is best acheived by this if the drivers are alert. Another concern is what happens if there is an accident? Who is to blame the driver or the manufacturer? The article says that these smart cars will have to use the binary code. These smart-road systems worked well, but required massive upgrades to existing roads, somthing to expensive.
My position on the article is that driveless cars is not the way to go because of money, safety, and the need for future generations to know how to manualy drive a car. Its not safe in some aspects such as what if the driver isnt fully alert to perdict when they need to take over. Yes the fuel is half as much as it use to be but the road construction op front is way to expensive for us to do for the cars to be as safe as possible. Future generationd will not know how to fully drive a car and if something were to happen where they would need to, they wouldnt be able to. That's why my position on this argument is that it is a negitive idea and we should just stay the way we are.
In this article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" it gives us many good facts aon why cars driveing themselves should be a thing and why not. My position on the matter is that cars should be incontrol most the time. But there are many postitive ideas on the subject and if the laws change may help us to be safer in, on, and out side the car. | 3 |
79dfcd7 | Dear Mr. Senator,
I believe that the way our elections are run are not what is best for the United States. The Electoral College is changing the way that we originally set out to vote and is making things unfair for the citizens who vote. I propose that the Electoral College is taken away all together in order for elections to be more fair, and more like the original intention of the U.S. With most states following the winner takes all idea, the winner of the general public may not be the candidate that wins the elections. These times are rare, but they happened before there is nothing that is stopping them from happening again.
A lot of voters who are not very well educated may not even understand what the electoral college is or what they are actually voting for when they vote. Instead of voting for the candidate that they want as the next president, they are voting for a group of electors that decide who will win. Sometimes, the electors that are assigned to that candiadate will not vote for them. This process also seems to disriciminate against the less populated states because they don't have as much a say in the college and are often forgoten in the rush of propaganda and aren't really aware of who they should pick and why they should pick them. In The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Bradfor Plumer, Plumer explains that one of the best arguments against the Electoral College is that the rate of disaster is so high. In 2000, there was a elctoral crisis based upoun the Electoral College, because Al Gore recieved more individual votes, but George W. Bush still won the election.
Another reason that this process is so unstable is the way that it makes voters feel about voting. In large states, where this a majority of either republican or democrats, voters may think that if they are in the minority, and the other party will surely win the election, what's the point of voting. If there was no Electoral College, the votes that they put in could contribute to the greater pool of that parties voters, while with Electoral College the votes are pointless and basically disapear. That, to me, is robbing the citizens of the U.S. of thir right to vote. According to Richard A. Posner, the Electoral College restores some of the weight that the large states hold in a presidental election. However, the large states may not have all of one party and those other votes can really make a difference.
Some argue that a few votes can not do a lot and that the Electoral College is a far more organized way to conduct the voting. But every vote counts, and if every voter understood why they were voting for who they were voting for then the president may be a majority favorite. It seems unfair that the president of the United States, the most important man in the country, is not truely picked by the voters, but by the Elctoral College. The Office of the Federal Register says that the electors that are selected are chosen by the candidates political party but that stae laws differ on how they are specifically selected. This way does not seem like the best way of performing the task and I can see how it results in issues. Trusting the weight of the United Stated on the the backs iof only 538 electors is not the most stable way to perform an election. Why trust a select group with this descion if the whole United States can contribute to it?
I think that it is criticall that we change the idea of an Electoral College to the idea that all of the people in the United States are able to contribute equally to who should be the next president based on what they believe is right. Bradford Plummer believes that one of the most worrying thoughts is that there will be a tie with the electors. If that were to occur the elction would fall into the hands of the House of Representitives, resulting in all the states, no matter what their population is, having the same amount of votes, casuing a president that may be very far away than what the majority of the United States actually wants. This may seem unlikely but in fact there have already been many close calls. In 1968, only 41,971 votes would have deadlockes the election. In 1976 a tie would have happened if 5,559 voters in Hawaii, and 3,687 voters in Hawaii had voted the other way (The Indefensibel Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong, by Bradofrd Plummer.) A tie may occur and if it does, A lot of citizens would be very upset that the president did not win by popularity, but by the Electoral College.
There are many reasons that the Elctoral College is unfair to the voters of the U.S. State inequality, diaster, ties, and people loosing the urge to vote. The list goes on and on and if this doesn't make you see what is wrong with this system than I don't know what will. I hope you take this information to good use and use it to tear down this unfair system once and for all. If we really want to be a democracy, than we have to do away with this system. Many of Americans believe that this is the best way and several have published interesting papers on that topic that may chaneg the minds of people who are still for it. I hope this dream to get rid of the unfair and terrible system that is the Electoral College is accomplished soon.
Sincerely,
A Concerned Citizen | 6 |
79e3483 | The progression in the development of driverless cars is not a recomendable idea and would do more harm than good for drivers. With self-driven cars, drivers would become lazy and unfocused in their driving. The development of such cars would not only pose threat at every turn for the passengers of a car, but would also deprive drivers everywhere of basic driving skills and knowledge.
The main reason that driverless cars would be a danger to society is simply that they are electric, and malfunctions occur in technology frequently. It is stated in paragraph 7 that the vehicles would be equipped with "driver's seats that vibrate" or "flashing lights on the windshield" to warn the driver of upcomming terrain that the car would not be able to maneuver on its own. The problem in this is that if a battery were to go out in the flashing lights or the vibrating seats malfunctioned, the driver would not be alerted of the forthcoming danger, and a crash would be innevitable.
Another threat posed by the innovative vehicles is the driver becoming too comfortable in the vehicle. When the driver places all of his trust into an electronic to keep him safe, he loses his focus and edge needed to be prepared for potential dangers on the road ahead. If another car or other unexpected object, such as a deer, were to pull out infont of an electronic vehicle suddenly and without warning, the chances of said vehicle stopping on its own are slim to none. In paragraph 8, "in-car entertainment" is promised to "'interpret the fun of driving in a new way'". Including in-car entertainment to drivers is doing nothing but promoting distracted driving. It is included in the article that this form of entertainment would be safer than texting and driving because the system would shut itslef off when the driver of the car was needed. This claim leaves a great amount of room for error, such as the fact that people often fall asleep while watching a show or movie because they feel relaxed, so it is innevitable that this would also happen to a driver being distracted. A self-driven car would be promotting laziness and unawarness in drivers and would lead to more crashes because of this.
The development of a driverless car is not a logical idea for numerous reasons. Drivers would be more likely to become distracted from the road and from doing their job as a driver in a car that only partially required their attention. A self-driven car would be unreliable and unsafe to the driver, passenger(s), and others around the car. Cars were designed to be driven by a driver, and manufacturing them to be driven by themselves is encouraging people to place their trust and safety into something that is not dependable and reliable. To conclude, producing a vehicle that is self-driven will promote drivers being lacidasical and unfocused, and will thus lead to more crashes and failures on the road. | 4 |
79e39c3 | "The Face" is a land formation and my proof is that NASAHas sent astronauts in tospace to orbit Mars, and these astronauts ahve taken many pictrures. These picturesclearly show that it is a land formation. Also NASA has taken high resolution images and used 3D altimetry photos. The pictures they have taken with them clearly show that it is a land formation.
Some information in the text states that when they put pictures of "The face on the internet that it revealed a land formation. Other information statesthat theyb took photoes of "The Face with digital images, which enhances the picture three times more than a pixel picture. It also statesthat that NASA took a photo with "absolute maximum resolution. So this picture clearly depicts "The Face" as a land formation. Then the article goes on to say that if there were anything around "The Face that it would be very clear and easy to see, such as airplanes,shacks, and pyramids.
The article then says that it is the "Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa. Both of these examples are natural land formations made over time,and since that it has been proven of water on Mars what if the surrounding area of "The Face" eroded but "The face didn't. | 3 |
79ecfd6 | In the article ''Driverless Cars Are Coming" I thinks this is a very crazy idea, because it is very dangerous! Anyone to even consdier we should have driveless cars is out of their minds. According to the paasge it says "That the only safe cas has a human driver in control at all times." I feel like no one should ever put themselves in danger because of this stupid invention.
"If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault the driver or the manufacturer.?" This is another reason why this is a crazy idea, what if something goes wrong? What if someone were to have an accident, it would more than likely put the driver at fault . Although some people find driving boring and might just someone drving them around instead, this would be a big pro to them.
Everyone should consider the possible outcomes of these driverless cars and how much damage they will cause. Also what about the cost for this "Fancy Driverless Car" who is willing to pay thousands or maybe even millions of dollars for these vehicles. Why even think about spending this much money on something that might not even work or be dangerous.
My thoughts on the " Driverless Cars" may be different from anyone else but just think about the outcomes of this stupid car. People get into plenty of accidents with still controlling the car. These driverless car are nothing but trouble. | 2 |
79f0b51 | Dear Senator PROPER_NAME,
Just recently President Barrack Obama, won the presidency in 2012. He recived 61.7% of the electoral vote, but only 51.3% of the actual population voted for him. Now, you might be thinking. So what? But there is something wrong here, and that is the "winner-takes-all" basis. Starting this of I will talk about what I think is wrong with the elctoral College, and how we can change it. In reading this letter I hope that I may persuade you to take this into consideration.
To begin, the Electoral College was created when the founding fathers thought it would be good to have a, "
compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and end election of the President by a popular vote or qualified citizens.
" This states that the electoral college votes for President and Vice President by counting the number of electoral votes by congress. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. To win the Presidency at least 270 electors must vote for that President, but what if we the people vote another way than what they think?
The Presidential electon is held every four years. Most states have the "winner-take-all" system and most of the time we "help" the state electors chose who to vote for. As I said before in the 2012 election President Obama Recived 61.7% of the electoral vote, while the "people" voted only 51.3%. Now the "winner-takes-all" basis caused for him to get all of the votes in the Electoral College, rather than not having the College, and dividing the respective votes to the respective canidate. This ensures that everyone who votes has a say in who will become the next President. Even some of the small states that feel that,
"The residents of the other region are likely to feel disenfranchised-to feel that their votes do not count, that the new President will have no regard or their intrests, that he really isn't their President."
Furthermore, if we take the Electoral College out we will have a direct way of voting, and it will not take alot of manpower to do. We are in the great age of comuters, and this is how we would do it. Everyone stays home and when its time to vote, they pull out their smartphones, tablets, laptops, or desktops. Then they simply enter their social security numbet to make sure everyone gets only one vote and then,
BAM
, the computer takes all the numbers on who vote for who and this then creates a voting average on who won the most votes. Then the computer takes up the average from all of the states, and
DING DING DING, WE HAVE A WINNER.
Easy as that.
In conclution, we have all of the tools we need to remove the Electoral College and have, "We the people of the United States" vote for who we think should be in office. As I said we are in the age of technology and the voting now is slightly corrupted. If the people are voting for one thing and not getting it, or not getting the apropriate result then this is a parlementary goverment where the high ranking officials vote not us. So I beileve, and I hope I persuaded you enough to help argue against taking the Electoral College out, and repacing it with something that can give all of us a voice.
Thank You,
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
79f27ad | Society has made the car industry accelerate rapidly and over the years the amount of money these automobile company's make only increases. However, its time to look into the advantages of limiting such car usage in our communities. Studies have shown that the use of cars only increases the amonunt of stress we have. Without the usage of cars we're able to release such stressors Carlos Arturo Plaza stated in Andrew Selsky's article "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota". Its one thing to make the decision to start this movement on our own, but when a community becomes involved it makes a stronger impact. Car usage in America has only grown since it began however, the amount of cars being bought is beginning to show decrease. Many people are realizing that there are numerous amounts of ways to get around their city. Some are even carpooling. Although choosing other options such as the bus may take time it is still well worth the wait. We will find that many other options and opportunities come into play when we cut down on and get rid of the use of cars in our communities.
Various factors come into play when it comes to world pollution. One of the factors being the use of automobiles which increases the amount of air pollution thus damaging the ozone layer. The use of cars is second nature to us. We love the sense of indepence we get at the age of 16 when we can finally get our license. To point out, no one thinks on whats happening as we purchase cars. Instead, we rely on diesel gas to do the trick. Imagine cutting out the use of cars. With this detuction of car usage the amount of destruction done to the ozone layer will diminish tremendously. We will be able to experience clearer air just like the communities that participate in this action. For instance, in an article done by Robert Duffer titled "Paris bans driving due to smog" we can witness through testimony the wonders done by banning car usage. Normally Paris has high amounts of pollution but in order to change this the city enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air temporarily. The fact that the city had cold nights and warm days doesn't do anything to help because these nights and days only allow for the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions. After the banning of car usage Paris was finally able to experience clear air. "Paris typically has more smog than other European capitals... Last week Paris had 147 ,micrograms of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter compared with the 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in London... " (excerpt from source 2 "Paris bans driving due to smog").
To be clear, no one's against car usage, but after considering the costs of using cars you'd realize its not worth it. Residents of Vanban, Germany find this statement to be true and have therefore regulated their lives around it. Elizabeth Rosenthal created an article on the residents from Germany titled "In German Suburb, Life Goesn On Without Cars". Here she discussed what the community has done in their no car movement. Residents here do not regret their decision to get rid of their cars and actually like it better than dealing with the uncontrollable and frustrating traffic jams. Not to mention the countless amount of car wrecks that come along with it. In this particular part of Germany the government has assisted in the movement. There are no street parking spots, driveways or home garages. Some might think its absurd but when theres no cars theres no need for such things. They have even improved sidewalks and made the city commute friendly with stores only a walk distance away. A mother from Germany gives her account of living in Vauban and states the following: "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" She is a media trainer and a mother of two. In previous bills, 80 percent of the money from the government had gone to highways and 20 percent to other transports, but with the smart planning movement that will change within the next 6 years.
All in all, many factors come into play when discussing transportation within a city. However with the deduction of car use a city can recieve many benefits including an increase in money for other government spending, clearer air, happiness, more money in their pockets among many other things. We just have to decide whether enough is enough. The facts have proven themselves worth it for many other countries, why can't it be successful for us as well? | 5 |
79f463b | in making mona lisa smile they talked about making a facial action witch can i tell if you are happy, sad, bored, confused, and sad. if you are happy they will play adds that are like the one u smilled about if your sad they wont play ones like that and ill change that add. they also are going to be in school computers so it can tell if your cnfused or bore becuse if your bored they will try makinging it better and if your confused it will help you out more. i know peple might think its wired and a bad idia but i think it would be a grate idia becuse it could help kids get there work done more and help them understand it better. if your at your house and your depressed or sad the computer could see it and show a vido of somethinf that would mae u happy. i could also tell u what percent u are like 70 percent happy 30 percent happy. Dr huang perdicts "then it could mdifly the lesson like aneffective human communcation". | 2 |
79f5ecd | The Seagoing Cowboys program
"A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" article talks about how Luke participated in the Seagoing Cowboys program, the adventures he was in, and that he visited many unique places while in the program. It also made me or somebody else reading it want to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program also.
The Seagoing Cowboy program lets you meet new people who also joined the program. While traveling on a cattle boat on the sea can be a bit dull but with new people that you just met can be a bit entertaining. Whenever your done doing you work which can consist of unloading the animals you can play many different activities. You can play volleyball, basketball games in the empty holds where they house the animals. To help pass the time they box, read, fence, and they also hold table-tennis tournaments.
The program can also includes you to visit many unique places. You get to go to many new countries that you haven't seen before. You get to visit many new places like Greece, China, Europe,you also pass and see the Panamal Canal.
To some people the Seagoing program can be a opportunity to see many new people from different countries and see how people live differently. It can also make a huge amount of inpact on the people that they vistit because they might even help them. It can make them aware of the people in the other countries and their needs.
The Seagoing Cowboy program can let you meet new people, it also lets you vistit many different and unique places you've never been to. It can also make a huge inpact on you and other people you visit in the countries you go to. Whenever you want to join a program, Will you choose the Seagoing Cowboy program? | 3 |
79f7075 | Technology improves every minute and it seems like there is no stopping. Reading emotions on a persons face can be confusing sometimes, so Prof. Thomas Huang, of Beckman Institute, and Prof Nicu Sebe, from University of Amsterdam, worked together to come up wiht technology that can read human emotions. Using emotion reading computer can be useful when it comes to school, because teachers and students deal with different emotions from their classmates/ colleagues every day. The first benefit is that it will help teachers and student figure each others emotion. Second, is it will make others be more active. Lastly, it lets others know what your emotions are.
First of all, because there are so many facial expressions that teachers often have difficulty reading their students emotions and lots of times that causes confusion among each other. For example, the text states that, "The facial expression for each emotion are universal," observes Dr.Huang, "even though individuals often show varying degrees od expression'(like not smiling as broadly)." This technology will be able to help teachers and or students have an easier way of reading each others emotion. In advance, it can calculate the different types of emotions that a person may be expressing all at once. The text states, "By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions (as in da Vinci's masterpiece)."
Secondly, it will help others be more active, that meaning students will show more happier emotions if the teachers can understand them. More over, Understanding students emiotions will help teachers have more of a positive way of viewing their students. In addition, recognizing a student emotional expression when learning a lesson can help the teachers teach more effectivly with the help of the technology. For example, the text states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confusd or bored, Dr Huang predicts. "then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor."
Third, although letting others know your emotions can sometime be scary because some emotions can mean weakness, the computer can give specific emotions that a person is expressing. When you see a friend or
teacher sometimes it is very hard to tell their emotions that they are expressing, but maybe with this technology it will be easier for us to understand them. Because most human connect nonverbally, our emotional communications is considered nonverbal communication and the computer has those skills. The text says, "Most human communications is nonverbal, including emotional communication," notes Dr. Huang. "So the computers need to understand that, too."
In conclusion, using this technology in classrooms can be very useful. It will help teachers and student figure your emotions. | 4 |
79f7f20 | Some people like to drive while otherss don't and some countries are making bans or just limiting the usage of cars. This can have more advantages than disadvantages.
When people drive cars they let out pollution into the air which harms the atmosphere. The advantages to this is that if people don't drive that much anymore the pollution can be stopped at a certain point and cause no harm anymore of course the air might still be polluted but with a less perentage. People would definitely use money on something else thtne to try and get the new car or just use it on gas. There are alternatives to limit the use of cars.
Sociolagists believe if this continues with people limiting car transportation that "it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the enviroment, since transportation is the second largest source of America's emission, just behind power plants." so if we all got to think about it we are basically doing a favor to oursleves by helpiing the planet by limiting the use of cars.
Another advantge that this idea might have is that the peoplw in the community could stop spending more money due to cuts in the job. They waste money on gas on new cars, etc. When really you could be doing something bttter with taht money.
Most poeple dont even really need cars they use them for the heck of it. Teenagers use it just to go around with friends or go to work but really they could limit that use and find another way of transportation. This isn't saying to just stop using your car but just findfing a way to say that if you dont really need your car but just using it for fun then you could limit that use and instead of driving to places that are close to you just walk there.
The author of "The End of Car Culture" Ellisabeth Rosenthal even said that her own kids being 19 and 21 "have not even bothered to get a driver's license...." they find other ways to get around she said "they organize their summer jobs and social life around where they can walk or take public transportation or car-pool with friends" as i said before there are alternatives to limiting the usage of cars and this could be one of them if you are with friends and all are going to the same palce then you ca just share one car so that not all of the cars are ut it can avoid traffic and cost less money to you also.
In conclusion, I say that there are alot of advantages to limiting the use of cars and we could most definitely make more. | 4 |
79ff04e | Studying Venus is dangerous but there is good insight we can find in this.
First,In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author says "Earth's "Twin", Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size". Since it has a lot in common with Earth it is good to have a litle insight on this planet. In the article it says that" The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features sich as valleys, moutains, and craters" this shows how much Earth and venus have incommon. This also gives us an opertunity to take a planetary visit to Venus in the future. Despite the dangers it could cause on someone.
Next, in the reading it says that Venus has" A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxid blankets" This is one example of how dangerous Venus is. In the article is says" Also notable, Venus has the hottest surface temperatue of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to the Sun" This is another example of how dangers Venus is. However going to Venus is not a bad idea beacuse life form could have been there in the past. People believe life forms could have existed beacuse of the examples like caters, moutains, and valleys. Despite Venus being the hottest planet in our solar system.
Then, on that note Venus is not the cloestet planet to the sun but has the highest tempature than all of your planet's in the solar system. However studying Venus can give us insight on what to make to prevent for somone or something burning on its surface. While we have been studying Venus all we have seen is a look from a ship orbiting above the planet, that gives us little intel on it surface. We get little intil from that beaucse " most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere". However if scientists seeking to conduct Venus will have to get closer to the planet.
Lastly, in the reading it says" Venus, sometimes called the "Evening Star," is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky" but not all people know that Venus is not a star it is a planet. However to a amateur stargazer it may just look like another star. Venus is called Earths twin beaucse of how alike they are in distance. Some scientist think this is intersting and want to look into this planet despite the dangers of it. Some scientist have looked into Venus but only have sent unmanned trips. The reasoning is the ship would only last a new hours at the most on Venus.
In Conclusion,Venus is a every intersitng plaet to look into. Despite the dangers it can cause. | 2 |
79ff0f8 | I am a scientist at NASA and I am going to be discusing the face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. I will tell you how the face on Mars is a natural landform.
NASA used their new high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from Mars Global survey spacecraft reveal the face on Mars and the face was really a mesa. A mesa is an lava dome. On a JPL websit the revealed that it was a natural landform but not everyone was satisfied. On April 1998 the camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the face. Skeptics thought alien markings were hidden by haze. On April 8, 2001 a cloudless summer day Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution. This proved the skeptics wrong. This picture you could dicern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pizel size. If there were objects in this pitures like airplanes pn the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were. What hte picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or messa.
In conclusion NASA used their high-tech gear to find out what the face on mars was. The face was really just a natural land form. Those are the reasons that the face was not made by aliens. | 3 |
7a07c96 | Limiting the use of cars seems like a crazy idea but if you really think about the importance of cars now a days does not seem like a big deal. People are starting to realize that cars are not the only way of transportation. According to the article, the number of people driving tend to decrease every year(Source 4 (S4) paragragh 41 (P41) ). On the other hand driving can be more beneficial than walking or riding a bike at times. The purpose of the essay is to explain the advantages of limiting car usage.
For all you nature lovers, limiting cars would seem like a good idea. If more people walk or ride bike's, the percent of air pollution would lower(S1 P5). In the United States, it is proven that up to 50 percent of greenhouse gas is caused by cars(S1 P5). Cars can be very dangerous if they are driven by the wrong people. Driving under the influence can cause many accidents because drivers tend to go to fast or drive really reckless while intoxicated.
Choosing to walk or ride a bike instead of driving can be more benefical because of the amount of exercise people can get out of it. One con to driving is having to worry about traffic(S3 P20). When not driving you do not have to worry about anything slowing you down. There are many advantages to walking instead of driving that many people do not realize. For example, when walking you do not have to deal with bad parking, being fined for bad driving, or even washing your car which can be a hassle at times(S3 P21).
On the hand, there is nothing wrong with driving at times. A car can be more useful than walking when it comes to going long distances. Now a days everybody is always in a rush and based on where you need to go a car can get there at a faster rate. Accidents can still happen while walking or riding a bike just maybe not as frequently. People can even use smart cars if they are so worried about air pollution(S2 P18).
To wrap things and get to the point, driving less cars can be more benficial. Walking and riding bike's and avoid less traffic and accidents. The percent of greenhouse gas caused by cars would probably go down and air pollution would not be such a big problem. Another benefit of walking is getting exercise. While cars do cause many problems as far as pollution and accidents, they are not a bad idea. | 4 |
7a0b369 | In this article about the development on driverless cars, i was persuaded to support the side of the argument that is against driverless cars to be used in everyday life and to take the place of human taxi drivers. I am against the idea of computers taking over human jobs because i just personally do not think it is a safe and smart decision. I think that no matter how hard Google, Nissan, or any other car manufacturer tries, there is absolutely no possible way for anyone to take into consideration everything that can be accounted for when driving at any point of the day. There is no computer system or screen writing that can tell the future and predict what will happen a few miles up the road and prepared to take the actions necessary when they are seen best fit. While i understand that sensors would be placed into the smart-cars, i believe that the human eye and the human neurological system is much more precise, accurate and aware of the many things going on around them when driving on any street that a sensor
may not be able to comprehend in time to safetly steer the passanger out of the way of danger. In paragraph 9, its stated that if the technology in the smart-cars fail or have a malfunction which causes injuries, who would be to blame, the smart-car manufacturers or the human who was in charge of operating a car that is supposed to operate itself? Many questions like this, i assume, are being raised in many different forms on the account of public safety. For the obvious reasons, this is why many states refuse to allow tetsing of the computer-driven cars. Also, it is clearly stated in the traffic laws that "the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times", as stated in paragraph nine. It is only common sense that many consumers of automotive transportation would rather drive the car they have purchased instead of the act of driving being s\done buy a robot whom they as the consumers do not undertand the full properties of. For this and all of the reasons listed above, i believe that we as society are not ready for smart-cars and would like to choose to stay safe and in-the-know of what and how we use transportation. | 3 |
7a0e3ae | It is in the best interest of the people that you do away with the Electoral College. When people vote, they want it to be a direct vote to the election, not a vote for their chosen candidate's electors. The Electoral College should be abolished because it doesn't guarantee your vote, the House's selection can't be expected to reflect the will of the people, and swing voters could cause a catastrophe.
To begin, the Electoral College should be abolished because it doesn't guarantee your vote. As stated before, when you vote, there is no say in who actually wins the election. You are voting for electors who then vote for the President. While it is a rare occurance, those Electors may betray you and vote for the other party, cancelling your vote totally out. If a candidate gets the most popular votes, that doesn't guarantee them as President, because they still have to get the Electoral College's votes. In the third source titled, "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" by Richard A. Posner, it reads, "It happened in 2000, when Gore had more popular votes than Bush yet fewer electoral votes, but that was the first time since 1888." This sentence means that President Bush won with fewer popular votes and more electoral votes. If their was no Electoral College, Al Gore would've won the election. The people would've thought that Al Gore was going to win, and they were probably in for a surprise when they saw that Bush had won with fewer popular votes. It just goes to show that an election can go either way, and there is no closure for a candidate until it is actually announced who won.
Next, the House's selection can't be expected to reflect the will of the people. Say a Republican candidate gets a majority of the popular votes, but the Democratic candidate wins because he is chosen by the Electoral College. The people of the United States might actually feel betrayed because they felt that the Republican party could benefit the economy and society best, and that President might not be up-to-par and disappoint the people. Also in the third article, it reads "...to feel that their votes do not count, that the new president will have no regard for their interests, that he really isn't their president." The statement really says a lot about both sides of the argument. If there is an Electoral College and if their isn't an Electoral College, people could still feel this way. If a candidate who has less popular votes wins, then those states that voted for him/her might feel as if they "will have no regard for their interests".
Lastly, swing voters could cause a catastrophe. Swing states could be considered manipulative because they all know that the popular vote rests in their hands. Will it be Democratic or Republican? You never know. The candidates focus mainly on campaigning in these states because these are the ones that are half and half, states such as Ohio. While there are thoughtful voters, there are also ones who could care less about who the President is and just want to keep America on the edge of her seat while they decide who they want to vote for. In the second source, "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" is says "In 1976, a tie would have occured if a mere 5,559 voters in Ohio and 3,687 voters in Hawaii had voted the other way." The states are swing states and they truly determine the fate of the election. As said before, those states get the most attention from the candidates, who try to make themselves as appealing as possible. In the second source as well, the author says "During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad." Rhode Island and South Carolina are states that are almost entirely for one party so there is no use in the opposite party going there to try and persaude them to change their minds because it is most likely not going to happen. While they may feel neglected, it's just how it is.
To conclude, the Electoral College should be banished because it doesn't guarantee your vote, the House's selection cannot be expected to reflect the will of the people, and swing voters could cause a catastrophe. | 5 |
7a0e845 | Would you like if your emotions are being detected withouht your consetiment? Technology is every day beging more capable of new things, in terms of artificial intelligenece. The new software has been developled so that it can read or decode the emotions of others. Dr. Eckman has classified six bassic emotions - happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness-, he assocciated each emotion with movements on the facial muscles.
It is important to know how the muscles in our body , in our face works , and what an amazing way to know through technology. But at the point to that technology knows what are your emotions to then use them on "what you need" is not correct. I am not saying that when we want to search about emotions through technology there should not be anything on it. But what if we are trying to hide emotions for our or others good and technology just cames and reads or decodes your emotions how would you feel?
It is also important to know the basic of emotions, because that how you express yourself. | 2 |
7a12686 | Dear senator I have a problem with the current voteing procesess. You see senator with Electoral Collage the votes can be swayed very easily, all one would have to do is threaten or bribe the voter into voteing for that particular person. This in-turn could effect the outcome of the voteing procesess greatly be it by leagal or ileagal means. Beacuse of this i think the voteing procesess should be based off of the popular vote so that it would be difficult for one to do what was stated above. But this is only one persons opinion there is also the other side of this.
There is another group that thinks that the voteing procesess should stay the same. i think that this group thinks this because they know how to get around the system or play it. Doing so makes it easy'er for them to have someone that they trust or control on the top of the game. But then if this ocuurs are we really choseing our president, i dont think so. Even still that is only my opinion.
This is what I think the outher group wants to achive. You have read what i thought on this subject and i hope to bring you over to my side on this argument. There is curuption every were and we need to stick together, if we dont then who can we trust. Make your vote count and help make the U.S a better place. Hope this helped you decicde on who to pick. | 2 |
7a163c8 | In "The Challenge of Exploring venus," the author suggests that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.The author is right he should go to explore Venus. Venus is the closest plant to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. Venus is one of three planets that orbit the sun at different speeds. To have beter knowledge of our future we need to know everything around us.
One reason, why we should explore Venus is because there might be life on that planet since it is so similar to Earth. In "The Challenge of Exploring venus," in paragraph 4, the author says that "...long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. It is explaining that Venus had oceans like the Earth and might have life in it. In paragraph 3, the arthur also says that there is erupting vocanoes,
earthquakes, and lightning strikes. The Earth has the same features as Venus.
In addation, the NASA is trying their best and finding new beter ways to travel to Venus and how to survie. in paragraph 7, the author says "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics mad of silicon cabide have been testedin a chamer simulating thr chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conitions," that is explaining that NASA is trying their hardest to find new ways to get to Venus. In paragraph 6, the author also explians a way that they try to get to Venus wich is, "....many reasearches ar working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to conribute meaningfully to our knowledge of venus.
There is also another side, it might be really dangerous and millions of people can die from going to Venus. In paragraph 2 the author says that, "....each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landind for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades." That means that lots of people died after the landed on Venus in a few hours, no one can stay on Venus more that a couple hours, but Venus is worth of going there and exploring it becasue it can help us alot with our future.
In conclusion, we should go to Venus and explore thing in there. We should go because in is really similar to Earth and lots of people are really excited. Venus has great things and great adventures waiting for us humans to explore. | 3 |
7a17b43 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Studying Venus is a good idea and learn more about the Venus from other planet and Venus has a pretty good nickname and The National aeronautics and Space Administration has one particulary compelling idea for sending humans to study venus, Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape.
First, studying Venus might be dangerous but it good to learn more about other planets than alwys studying our panet and Venus sometimes called the "Evening Star," is one od the brighest points of light in the sky, making it simple for even an amateur strgazer to spot.
Second, Venus is the most closet to Earth in terms od density ans size, ans occasionally the closet distance too. Earth, Venus, and Mars, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds. These difference in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus because Venus is sometimes right around the corner in space terms humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world.
Third, Venus is a thick atmosphere of alomst 97 percent cabon dioxide blankets. Even more challenging are the clouds of ighly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet.
In Conclusion, their is alot of ways to study and some of them are not the same as someoe who wrote it and studying Venus or Mars are very good to study in other planet it because Venus and Mar are the closet planet in Earth. Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only becuase of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeovers. | 2 |
7a1b4b5 | The use of the new technology called the Facial Action Coding System, that reads the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. Our world today mostly depends on computers and machines to do most of everything. Many inventors and scientist have discovered so many technological things and as the years progress, we get smarter and smarter and come up with more discoveries. Since we depend so much on technology, its a norm to use it, so mostly everything scientist, inventors and doctors come up with is valuable or useful.
Dr. Paul Eckman, the creator of this new technology the Facial Action Coding System, has worked with many other scientist and doctors to create this technology, that enables computers to identify human emotions. This is a very valuable technology that our world needs today. There are plus and down sides to this argument of the technology being valuable or not. It is valuable because it can be use for many things throughout the world, for example paragraph 6 states, "A classroom computer could reconize when a student is becoming confused or bored." This technology would help the teacher see what he or she needs to do to be able to make the class more exciting to make students learn and pay attention more. Paragraph 8 states, " To an expert, faces dont lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a smiling politician or celebrity isnt being truthful." The technology would be valuable in a situation like an important election, where if a person running for something is lying about something, you would be able to tell using the help of the FACS.
In conclusion there are many reasons why we should or should not use the Facial Acting Coding System. We depend on technology most of the time, so this would be just another cool addition to our collection of discoveries we already have. Knowing the exact emotion of your mom, dad or friend from a computer software, would be very useful to see if there telling the truth or not. You would be able to know how they feel about you in many different ways. This could be really great for the furture, for parents, teachers, leaders and more. It could help us possibly come to discover more technologies and use them to create a better world. | 3 |
7a1ec62 | Do you know you love farm animals ? Do you really love the open sea ? Have you ever tried them both together ? Do you want to try them together ? Well now you can sgin up today in the seagoing coyboys . You get to help the animals you love,and get time on the sea and you get to see all the sites.
If you want to travle and you love animals and the sea a seagoing coyboy would be a great job for you ! If Luke can do it so
can you . It might be a riskie job sometimes but it might be great if you
like it things like that. You can have the time of your life on some of the trips. If you like going to unique trips like Europe and China this would be a great job for you.
You might have the time of your life when you do not even know it . Great oppunites like this do not just fall from the sky. This may be a once and a life time oppunite do not take it for granted because you might not see this again. If you are lucky you be on the next boat to Europe or China. Hopefully you will make the right choice and join the seagoing cowboy's program.
This job may be for you it also might destory you so you might want to see if you get sea sick or if you can not stand the smell of animal dong or you do not like leaving town you might not want to take the job then. If you are ok with the smell of animal dong and do not get sea sick and you love leaving town this might be a great job for you. | 3 |
7a1fe31 | There are many advantages of limiting car usage. Elisabeth Rosenthal writes "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" to show that limiting car usage helps to "reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes..." Their goal is to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases being released into our atmosphere because it is destroying Earth. The gases are destroying the ozone layer drastically, and if this continues Earth will be gone. She also wrote "The End of Car Culture" explaining that the number of cars bought has reduced, bu in reality it is a good thing because it reduces the amount of pollution in the air, and money could be used on something more productive. Cars have not been the main priority of in America. People began to carpool, ride bikes, ride the bus, etc. This will "save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety." Additionally, Robert Duffer writes "Paris bans driving due to fog" explaining how "Paris typically has more smog than other European capitals..." In Paris, many people are using cars, and they release the bad smoke into the atmosphere. By all the gases being combined together, it creates smog which is deadly. It can cause many health problems to humanlife and the nature. Another article to support that it is better off to limit car usage is "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" by Andrew Selsky. Selsky quotes a business man Carlos Arturo, "'It's a good oppurtunity to take away stree and lower air pollution.'" Even citizens agree that it is necessary for people to limit how much they drive because it streeses people out. They don't have to worry about spending a drastic amount of money on gas, or repairing the car. It is easier just to ride a bike which helps you save money, and even get a good execrise. It also limits air pollution because less cars are being driven and not alot of harmful gases are being released. Overall, there are benefits in not having a car. | 3 |
7a20045 | Driverless cars are coming may be good or bad. The passage support mutliple good and bad reasons. I myself am against driveless cars. The passage indicates that, " Automakers are continuing their work on the assumption that the problems ahead will be solved. Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves."(Driverless, 10). Many cars are being taken in to be a driverless car as you can in the sentence quoted above from the passage.
Even though driverless cars may become popular I am against this because stated in the passage. " The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph." From my own point of view the car can maybe lose control. ( Driverless, 7) People who accept these cars has to realise that the car can be harmful in many ways. " These smart-road systems worked surprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical." ( Driverless, 3) The sentence before states it may require huge upgrade to roads. If the roads take to fix that means the other regular car drivers cars may get damaged. The cars may get damaged because it is a massive road ,for cars that are driverless.
The passage may state a good reason such as, " something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone. In the way, the in-car system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big dream." (Driverless, 8) But what if you are texting and the car alerts you that it needs human access and you are so concentrated on your phone you do not pay attention. Therefore the car keeps using the non-human program and it would be a possibility you may wreck something or someone.
Most driving laws concentrate on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe at all times. I agree with this quote from the passage, " traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only car has a human driver in control at all times." (Law, 9) In some states it is , "illegal even to test computer-driven cars. California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia have led the contry in allowing limited use of semi-autonomous cars." (Law, 9)
Antilock brakes an ddriver assistance still seem a long way from the dream of calling a driverless cab to take you wherever you would like to go. So they are not as driverless as you think. In the passage stated , " The sensors weren't there, the computers weren't there, and the mapping wasn't there. Radar was a device on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars. It wasn't something you could just buy at Radio Shack." " So just how driverless will the cars be in the near future?" (Assisting, 6) Now as you can see and read over the cars are not all that driverless but the cars are a very high price. The cars are not worth it.
I supported against because I felt cars should always be human controlled. Just in case of an accident you may can save your life if you are focus on the road. These were good and negative resons stated throughtout but citizens have to realise that would hurt the some profits because the cars are so high in price that no one will buy the product and some car places will lose businesses. Those are my reasons to go against driverless cars. | 4 |
7a2207b | "The challenge of Exploring Venus" I belive that studying Venus is a big thing . It takes alot of work becasue Venus is another planet you cant live in Venus. scientces till this day dont know if Venus is a good planet to visit. It has proved a very challening place to examine more closely. Venus is the closest planet to earth in terms of destiny and size.
Humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world. Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since so spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. thats explains the issue why not a singal spaceship has touvhed down on venus in more than three decades. Thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus. on other planets surface temperature average over 800 degrees fahrenheit, and th atmospheric pressure is almost 90 times greater then what we experience on our own planet
Beyond high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes,powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface. If our siter planet is so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface. long ago, Venus was probaly covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth.
At thirty-plus miles above the surface , temperature would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on earth. solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survuvable for humans.researchers cannot take samples of rocks,gas, or anything else, from a distance. Therefore, scientist seeking to conduct a through mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personaldepite the risks. Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contrbute meaningfully to our knowedge of venus. | 3 |
7a24b91 | Driverless cars sound like a really good deal, right? A person doesn't have to drive all the time, they don't have to use up all their money on gas, and they don't have to spend thousands of dollars on a car because the driverless car is a form of public transportation. The development of driverless cars should be a good beginning to the future.
The making of driverless cars isn't for a person to buy it, though it could be possible. The driverless car is a form of public transportation for everyone to use and be a part of. The car is loaded with sensors that will know when and where to be on the side roads, highway, and main roads to get the passenger to their destination in a safe and effeciant manner. Also, in the driverless car, a passenger will have a bit more privacy than on a public bus or in a taxi. The car does have a camera for saftey reasons, but they aren't distracted by lots of other people.
Another useful part of the driverless car is it will use half the fuel to run than public transportation does today. Using less fuel is not only environment friendly, but it saves money. This means the driverless car doesnt have to stop as often for gas as a normal car would. The "driver" of the car also doesn't have to drive all the time. Although, the driver does have to be alert the entire time just to be sure that there arent any difficulties. The driverless care will notify the driver if there is a difficulty like "pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues."
The driverless car is not perfect, though. If there is a wreck in a driverless car, whose fault is it? Would it be the driver or the car? Do you have to switch to a different driverless car if you want to go a certain distance? These questions are still awaiting to be answered. An accident in a driverless car can be from the driver missing an alert or the car malfuntioning and not alerting the driver at the correct time. There could be different types of driverless cars, like a certain type for the highway and one for in a city. These questions are not yet answered in certainty but will be soon.
Although the driverless car can have son setbacks, it is still a postive impact for the future of the world and the way we will live. The driverless car is the start of a new world. They are in the near future for us and could help virtually everyone who is a part of it. | 4 |
7a2aaa4 | My name is Luke Bomberger, and I joined the seagoing Cowboys program, and you should too. It helps animals that might not make it otherwise live until they get wherever they are going, then someone can take care of them and make sure that they are okay. All you have to do is feed them, clean them, and clean there stalls. It is not a hard job, and there is also plenty of time for sightseeing and other things once you arrive at your destination.
The seagoing Cowboys program helps animals stay healthy and alive while they are going to different places around the world. It makes sure that they get to a place where someone will take good care of them, or use them for milk, meat, eggs, and other things. The seagoing Cowboys program is very useful.
All you have to do in this job is take care of animals and clean them and there stalls up. It's not a hard job. It doesn't even take long to clean there stalls if you keep up on the work. There is also sometime between pickups of the animals for yourself, or for playing with friends in the empty hold after animals have been delivered. Delivering the animals is always fun, seeing the smiling faces of the little kids riding there first horse, seeing there first cow, or anything else. It's guaranteed to bring a smile to your face.
There is a lot of time for sightseeing once you get to your destination , and other things, such as riding a gondola in Venice, Italy, the city with streets of water. The sights you get to see are very beautiful sometimes, and tourist attractions are always fun to go see. It's an amazing thing to be able to see all of them while your still technically working. The sights are amazing, from mountains to mansions, you have the opportunity to see it all.
In conclusion, the seagoing Cowboys program is a very helpful thing, and it woul;d be wonderful if you joined. We always like a little extra muscle. It really is awesome to go sightseeing, get tours of famous places, and see all the tourist attractions that you wouldn't even have a small chance at seeing if you weren't a seagoing Cowboys. Please join us, and have some fun while your at it. | 4 |
7a2b44a | Cars have been around since the early 1900's, but now it seems there is no need for them. The younger generations have not been getting drivers licences and technology is making it easier to ride with someone else or telework. It is an all out war against automobiles and the United States isn't the only one fighting in it. Vauban, Germany, Bogata, Columbia, and Paris, France have all joined the war against personal cars.
How to win a war against cars; stop owning them. Vauban, Germany's population is doing just that. Over half of Vauban's population sold theirs cars so they could live in Vauban, and over seventy percent don't own a car. If people don't own cars, then there is no need for parking. Now, without parking lots or garages all over the place stores and schools can be closer to home. For those that require a car to get to a farther away work there are two parking garages, but to own a spot in one of them one you must buy a home there and pay forty thousand for the parking space. Residents of this experiment have even gone to say that without a vehicle they are less stressed and happier.
Joy was not what Paris communters felt when France closed down the streets to certain vehicles for one week. Why would they close the streets; smog bad enough to rival one of the most polluted cities in the world. Paris is usually the European city that has all the smog, 147 micrograms to London's 79.7. So the government decided to do something about it. For five days they alternated from even licensed-plate cars could drive to odd licensed-plate cars could drive. To appease everyone without cars the government made public transportaion completly free allowing those without vehicles to still get to where they needed to go.
In the war against cars public transportation has played a big role. Take the city of Bogata, Colombia for example; every year they have a completly car free day where everyone takes public transportation or walks. Due to the day without cars public transportation is better than ever, as are the sidewalks. Busses have nicer interiors and are more accomodating, and old, cracked sidewalks have turned into smooth, flat sidewalks that are safer for everyone.
Some might say that it is impossible to live without cars, because of illnesses and the lack of safety. However, in Vuaban, Germany people are less stressed which acounts for many immune systems shutting down. In Paris, France they were able to clear their city of smog in five days, without smog there would be nothing to hide the sun on a nice day letting people get vitamen C also while keeping their lungs clear. In Bogata, Colombia public transpotation and sidewalks have improved tenfold since the day without cars started as has safety. Without cars there are no accidents, people cannot injure others by drunk or reckless driving, and it allows the police to watch for crime instead of speeders. Overall our society would benefit grately from becomeing carless. | 4 |
7a2d72e | The Seagoing Cowboys program. Why is it such a good program? I'm Luke Bomberger and I'm here to tell you why the program helps and why you should join. The Seagoing Cowboys program helps the world. Here are some reasons why the program is helpful. And, maybe why you would want to join.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy takes alot of time, but is an opportunity of a lifetime. I got to travel the world. I got to see Greece, China, Europe, and etc. And, the best thing is I got to help people and their countrys.
Also, something really cool is you still get to play the sports you like such as. Table-tennis, fencing, boxing, reading,and whittling. We played baseball and volleyball in empty animal holds to help pass the time. Last, being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure, it opened up the world for me.
In conclusion, the job may have been hard, but it was worth it. I got to give people hope again. I got to travel and see things I never thought I would have. That is why you should sign up for the Seagoing Cowboys program. Help the world through its hard times. Be a hero and help. Would you like to help and give hope? | 2 |
7a31834 | The Face on mars is a natural landform. I say that because the unusual shadows that's out in space. The camera that NASA was using wasn't the best at the time. And the evidence shown was of the Face on Mars is that it's a natural landform. That's my three reasons why the Face on Mars is a natural landform.
In space there are a lot of mysterious things out there and unusual shadows are one of them. NASA unveiled the Face on Mars for all to see. The caption under the photo said "huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth". NASA is basically saying that its a big rock formation that looks like a human head because of shadows. That's one of my reasons why the Face on Mars is a natural landform.
My second reason why its a natural landform is the technology/camera. In 1976 technology wasn't at it's best back then. But, the Viking 1 captured a photo of what is predicted to be a Face on Mars. Nevertheless, on April 8, 2001 a cloudless summer day in Cydonia Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. "Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maxiumum resolution". Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo.
My final reason why the Face on Mars is a landform is because it is a landform. Scientists figured it was just another Martian Mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. Also the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa, landforms common around the American West. "It reminds me most of a Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," says Garvin. " That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isloated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars."
In conclusion, the Face on Mars is a natural landform. It's a natural landform because the unusual shadows in space. The cameras they had to take the picture with. And finally, that it was a landofrom like a butte or a mesa.That's why i think the Face on Mars is a landform. | 3 |
7a34bee | Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit because us human beings love to study more than our planet . Studying Venus is very risky due to the fact that its the second planet closest to the sun, so our chances are very low to get a something similar to a rover on Venus without it melting or getting destroyed by the atmosphere in paragragh 7 it states that ''modern computers are enormously powerful,flexible and quick, but tend to be more decliate when it comes to extreme phyiscal conditions '' . Venuses atmosphere is almost 97 percent of carbon dioxide blankets and it is very thick . It also averages over 800 Faherenheit that is 90 times greater then what we experience . So if our devices go on Venus it could be destoryed , even if some people volunteer to surf Venuses atmosphere is very dangerous because any of our devices can enterupt Venuses '' daily routine '' putting our people in harms way.
In paragragh 4 it states that astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may once most Earth-like planet in our solar system . Also, the planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys , mountains , and craters . In paragragh 2 Venus is also referred as Earth's '' twin '', Venus is the closest planet to Earth in erms of density and size , and occasionally the closest to distance too , so it would be a good story if we found a safer way to study venus . In paragragh 8 the author states that , " 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 .''
Venus has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely but challenges like that make it real easy to study other planets if we accomplish our first task . In paragragh 2 it states that ,''each previous mission was unnamed ,and for a good reason , since no spacecraft survied the landing for more than a few hours.''So we do have some research that is unknow to us for good reasons so if continue too keep running test and mission and fix our mistakes Venus can be very easy and safe to study . | 3 |
7a43765 | Wouldnt it be great to hear that Just by citizens limiting car usage they are kind of making the world a better place? Instead of driving from place to place, they at the park, or taking a nice walk around town, or maybe even having a little fun ice skating. Its exciting to hear by just walking anywhere instead of taking a car or a motor vehicle, you are making the enviroment better. Also who doesn't love less traffic in the streets? Limiting car usage has so many advantages, you maybe just have to get out of your car to see it. Imagine walking down the street and hearing the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional sound of a distant motor.
In Vauban Germany, most streets are completely car free. Heidrun Walter said "when i had a car i was always tense. Im much happier this way." Passenger cars are responsible for twelve percent of greenhouse gas emissions in europe, and fifty percent in some car intensive areas in the Untied States. Polution is a huge problem, not only for us but for the enviroment. Just by limiting cars,you can reduce gas emissions. In the the passage it says that in the untied states, the enviromental protection agency is promoting "car reduced" communites, and legislators are starting to act, if cautiously.
Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. Almost four thousand drivers were fined, and they also had thier cars impounded due to some of thier reactions to the fine. large traffic went down in the capital of france after five days of intensifying smog. In the passage it says that cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions. They blamed deisel fuel because france has a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline. All these car fumes and bad polution can cause many dangers and car usage has a big part in this problem. By limiting car usage, the smog in paris cleared enough on monday for the ruling french party to rescined the ban for odd numbered plates on Tuesday.
In another place, Bogota Colombia, it was the third straight year cars have been banned with only busses and taxis permitted for the day without cars in this capital city of seven million. They did this so they can reduce smog. The people who didnt follow the rules while this day was in progress, they faced twenty five dollor fines. this day can do good for many people and can give you many opportunitys that you havent got to do before. In the passage a businessman named carlos arturo plaza said "it's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air polution." he said that while riding a two seat bicycle with his wife. the usage of cars is not always need, having a little fun wont hurt, taking a walk, going to the park is always a good thing. Even if it rains, that wont stop the people from participating in this day.
Car usage isnt the worst thing in the world but there are many advantages when you dont use them. Polution decreases, as well as smog. you have a day to enjoy the outside world. while you do that think of the gas emmisons you arent putting in the enviroment. People dont really notice it but polution has a big effect to global warming. Just by limiting your car usage, you can be doing a favor not only to you but the enviroment and the world. Now isnt that great to hear? | 4 |
7a4ba63 | Many people think that the face on mars is a monument created by aliens, but these people are mistaken. Scientists have many sources of evidence that shows that this face is just a natural landform on Mars.
First, after NASA unveiled the image for all to see, the image caption said," huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." This tells us that right away NASA never thought it was anything casued by aliens. Also, in paragraph 5, the texts states, "Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars - evidence that NASA would rather hide." But when you think about it, this wouldn't make much since. Defenders of the NASA budget wishes there was an ancient civilization on Mars because it would help out their cause for NASA.
Next, NASA sent more scientists into space to do more research. When the Scientists got there on April 5, 1998 Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera took a photo ten times sharper than the first Viking photos. Then in the article, it says, " Thousads of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." This shows us that after they went back into space with newer cameras and better aquipment the Face on Mars was just a natural land form.
In conclusion, the Face on Mars wasn't actually a face at all. The article states," what the picture is really showing is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West. " It reminds me most of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," says Gavin."That's the lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face of Mars." | 4 |
7a4f314 | With the new driverless cars there are both negative and positive aspects. The technology is upon us, but it is unsure whether our society is quite ready for this new and dramatic change. Not only would driverless cars change our own habits, but it would also change how the world works around us.
Driverless cars would positively influence the world around us. Common mistakes that are made daily while driving could be prevented when an individual is using their driverless car.The text states that drivers could engage in multitasking such as texting while driving until they are needed to take over.
In today's world, cell phones and popular social media demand our undivided attention. With smart phones and other possible distractions, a smart car would allow the driving individual to focus on ohter things while they move onward to their destination.
The text states that laws are very focused on keeping drivers, passengers and pedestrians safe. With safety being a main concern, driverless cares could greatly impact an extremely common cause of death. Car craches happen daily and with the help of advanced technology could easily be prevented. When a typical driver might go to fast on a dangerous road, a driverless car would be watching the driver and correct the speed, making sure that no person is at risk. Although, a driverless car may correct common mistakes,
Since their was a demand for transportation, technology and the ability of man has come a long way. Where once unpredictable conditions were used such as horses, there was an advancement to Henry Ford's automobile that changed the way America and eventually the world went through everyday life. A driverless car would most effeciantly fit the needs and wants of the modern world.
Although a driverless car may be deemed as a positive change, there are also negative alternatives. The text states that the expense of these cars are simply impractical, along with the idea of smarter roads. The text also states that although driverless cars would prevent many instances, a driver would still need to remain alert and ready to take control in the case of a car crash or road construction. Another example of an issue would be in the event of a car accident. The technology may fail and if an individual is injured, it might be difficult to know who is at fault. Driverless cars could be deemed as an
idea that needs more advancment and control before being avaliable unto the public.
In conclusion, driverless cars would have a positive impact on society, preventing accidents, transporting the distracted people of the modern world. Driverless cars are definately something to be considerd considering today's technology. | 4 |
7a50491 | The author uses many things to describe about studying venus. First, the author describes that Venus is the second planet from our sun, Second, he says that Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of destiny and size, and occasionnally the closest in the distance too. Finally, he describe that NASA is also on other apporaches to studying Venus.
First, the author describe that Venus is the second planet from our sun. While Venus is simple to see from the distant, but safe vantage point of Earth, it has proved a very challenging to place to examine more closest. Venus is the closest planet from the sun so it has more powerful than the other planet.
Next, the writer says that Venus is the closet planet to Earth in terms of destiny and size, and occasionnally the closest in the distance too. Earth, Venus and Mars, the other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speed. They all had a different speed from the sun. These difference speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other time to Venus. Venus is sometimes right a round the corner. In space terms, humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud drap world. each pervious has unnamed, for some good reasons, spacecraft survived the landing for more then a few hour. This issue explain why not
a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades.
Finally, the writer describe that NASA is also on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplied 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. Another project is looking back to an old technology called machanical computers. By comparison, systems that use machanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat and other forces.
In conclusin, the author uses many things to describe about studying venus. He uses so many good things to study about Venus, describing that Venus is the second planet from our sun, the closest planet to Earth in terms of destiny and size, and occasionnally the closest in the distance too. He also describe that NASA is also on other apporaches to studying Venus. A lot of people study about Venus. | 4 |
7a5185a | The technology called the "Facial Action Coding System", or FACS, that enables computers to identify human emotions is a way to destroy the teacher's way of teaching because Dr. Huang quoted, "A Classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," and "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor". In this argument, if the computer can do such, then there is a high chances that the job to teach will be replaced. In an intellectual student's view, it is best to be taught directly from a human teacher since it has emotions, efforts, and its struggles.
There is also another reason why this technology isn't the best to teach. The author states that, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," notes Dr. Huang. "So computers need to understand that, too." It's only because then the teacher can't be that person who only teaches, it got their students as their great friends to talk, to trust, and to learn from them. Without teachers, then what do the computer teach? There is so many informations in a computer, yet the teacher teaches only one subjects. It's best to be taught by a teacher who can be your friend you trust and to learn, as well.
Another reason why it is not best to have FACS is because of this text that the author states, "For example, if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a smiliar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." This is what is not great in the classroom. The students might not be entirely happy, or frown. They would be bored most of the time, and if that happens, an ad will try to make the students smile, which means it can leads to inappropiate ad such as pornography, online games, etc. It's a valid reason that FACS shouldn't be in the classroom, and isn't worth to have it.
Another reason that FACS shouldn't be accepted into the classroom is because the auther states this from the paragraph 6 about ads example. They can be a lot distracting if you're taking a test as well as quizzes. Ad changes based on your feelings, which means it would bring out games that makes you excited, and play that game, which will causes a huge amount of distractions in the classroom.
In conclusion, it is best not to bring a FACS to a classroom. You'll only get distractions from it. It's also recommended to be taught by a teacher since it can teach you one subjects you choose, and possibly makes you better than before. The emotions may be important, but in a teaching matter, a computer technology that can identify emotions isn't important at all. | 3 |
7a59c2c | Driverless cars are not only a great thing for common folk, it is also a revolutionary idea that is being put into action right now. Picture a world where routes are more accessable, anybody could use this product, and less accedients would happen because AI driven cars. Back then, we didn't have the knowledge or technology to even test these sorts of ideas. As time goes on, man has created and gained the needed knowledge and technology to improve on our daily lives and society. Driverless cars are one step into the future.
Since it would be more time and money consuming to build better roads, we can only resort on the car. The car can easily be modified, manufactured, and tested. You can't go on and magically change the bridges or the humans that drive can you? The only thing er can do is better our cars for everyday citizens. GPS can finds ways to guide the car from destination to destination. You won't have to deal with angry drivers or crazy trafic because the driverless cars will know where to go. They will also do it with ease. You and your family could get to said destination with ease and perfection. Taking the fastest and safest routes whilst the passengers and enjoying their time. No more trafic jams or late meetings. All thanks to driverless cars.
Driver licenses will become a short coming with these types of cars aswell. There would be no reason for testing to see if the driver can drive because the car will be doing the driving! The only thing you'd be doing is buying the car. Anyone, from elder to todler, will be able to get in the car and enjoy the view of the city as the driverless car is criusing about the streets. And as you are in those streets, you can possibly use other types of innovative ideas that have been implemented into the car. Voice commands, television, games,etc... They can all be placed inside the car to fit the needs of the buyer. All of this is possible because cars are so easy to modify.
When driving, you have so many negative things being pushed into your general area as you are driving. Civilians, clueless drivers, bikers, drunk drivers, and you, are in risk when driving. With the car being AI controlled, you won't have to deal with any of those hazards. If the car detects strange or threatening behavior in it's area, it'll simply take another route or avoid the danger. Driverless cars don't have to deal with emotion. They're not angry or scared. Driverless cars deal with the task that has been givin to them without hesitation.
Some will accept the future, few will become it. Driverless cars are nothing more than the surface of a brighter tomarrow. Better roads, easily accessibility, and fewer accidents are todays tomarrow. The more wider our ideas get, the better we become as people who inhabit this world. Driverless cars are one step into the future. Are you willing to take the step with us? | 5 |
7a5d972 | Wouldn't it be fantastci if you are just sitting in the driver's seat and listening to music, reading a magazine, or just amusing yourself as your brand new Toyota does all the driving for you?
The Google company is thinking of smart ways to impress people with a car that drive automatically.
The invention can eventually come up with positive advantages having a spinning sensor that "is necessary for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a human at wheel."
There may also be negative aspects on this where the driver or manufacturer can seriously interfere with the law.
I develop an agrument for the driver less car because the car includes rotating sensors, can prevent the driver from causing accidents, and can be very financial.
The driverless cars can have a positive aspect by sensing the outside world that atually make the cars highly productive.
For example, many companies started the invention with special test tracks and used their knowledge to actually develop the car to use the outside world.
Berkeley "used magnets with polarity that surprising worked well to use massive upgrades."
Companies even developed special sensors "to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings.
This demonstrates that companies use their intelligence to create a special car that can make their ideas benefical to any.
The second reason to why driverless cars are benefical is that they can prevent any major accident.
For example, as the car steers the driver must be alert which helps the "touch sensors to make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel to take over when a situation is required." This proves that the cars can help the driver to not run into a severe problem by having helpful aids like vibrating seats that wake up the driver.
Financial purposes and causes is the most essential thought to explain the purpose of driverless cars.
People becoming really interested in the driverless car can make the company have a high financial cause.
Also, it can help other companies to improv the same idea for an excessive business.
For example, if the idea improves "Audi and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020 as the truly autonomous car strectes on ahead of us."
This proves that when business is excellent other companies indeed will introduce their new inventions.
The driverless cars made by famous companies is likely to connect the outside world, prevent servere accidents, and become very financial in the business. For example, using the rotaing sensors makes the car run successfully, vibrating chairs can make the driver not run into accidents. | 3 |
7a6088e | What i think about using it on students. I think thats they should use it but i also think they should't. Why i think they should use it is because what if something illegal has taken place and someone dont want to say. Then the teacher can tell that the kid knows something but dont want to say what it is. i also think it would be a good/cool thing to show the students. Some classes teach you about tecnology so i think it would be helpful and a good example to show around. Aloso i think that it would be helpful to social studies to because thrn you could use it to see war pictures and see how the people in the pictures were feeling at that time.
Why i think we should not use them for students. I think that if we used them on student it would invade there privacies. I think that some kids would feel more safe if people did not know how they felt. I know that if someone used that michine on me i kinda mad but not that mad because i would think it was kinda cool. there are some pros and cons to the michine that i think would invade some peoples lives that would make then feel uncomfortable to ettend school. in my opinion i think that they should have them in school for school related things not for persanal reasons. and i also think that it would be a cool thing to use if u went to a musium or use them for old pictures you could use them on old family pictures to see how your ansesters felt during that picture. I honestly think it would be a good idea to have them in school for school related reasons but could be used for persanal reasons if the teacher or owner of the device says you can use it for them reasons. | 3 |
7a65a07 | When in class one of my least favorite things to do is computer work. It's an excuss for teachers to not do their job and be lazy. All while we students are working. I understand how work on the computer might be convinent, but it is at the cost of our educations. Though if work on the computer has to be done in class I would not mind if my facial expression was read so more enjoyable content could be presented.
I think that if this technology was used in a classroom setting learning new information would stick in your brain better if you were in a joyful state when learning it. Since the system can identify confusion as well you would be better able to understand the information, provided that it will be altered to simplify the lesson to where you could understand easier.
All in all, I believe that the Facial Action Coding System would be benificial to the classroom setting. I feel that it could help a lot of kids in their learning. That is just what we need in our country today, better education. | 2 |
7a68d8c | The use of technology to read peoples emotion is a good thing to have. While reading this article I found lots of good things about this computer, such as how if a teacher had one they could find out if their students are liking the lesson or just not wanting to listen at all. In the next paragraphs I will explain how the use of this technology is a good idea.
My evidence to supprt my claim is in paragraph six it says,"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." I choose to use this evidence, because alot of teachers don't know if their lesson or what they are teaching is actually going to be a sucess or if the students are just acting like they are listening. At my school, alot of students don't listen to the teache teach. This new technology could detect if the students are confused or just plan old bored, and this could allow the teachers to maybe change the way they are teaching the lesson, maybe make it more interative.
The other evidence I found to support my claim is in the fourth paragraph where is says,"By weighting the the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions." With this technology, it could help doctor, nurses, theraphist, and even school counselors, to see the real emotion that their patients are feeling at a certain time. I know that alot of patients at a doctors office like to hide what they are feeling so that they look tough, well with this type of technology any person that has a patient of some sort will be able to know the emotion they are feeling so they know what they could give them the help that they need. This might be the only use for this technology, but the help it could give to the people who are hurting, upset or have any other emotion, this new technology could help all them.
In conclusion, to my claim I think that this technology will be very useful to alot of people who like to hid their emotion instead of sharing it with the people they should really be sharing it with. So, overall this technolgy that can read people's emotion would be a great device that many people like doctors, nurses, and even school teachers can use to help the people they got their job to help. | 3 |
7a699e0 | Twenty five years ago , NASA'S Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet.
There was a face on mars but it wasnt really a face it was a mesa. But to me it kind of looked like a face popping out oof the mars planet. But it is kind of wierd that someone pictured a face on the earths planet like that. I think it became popular.
Some scientists believed it was an alien articraft, but it probably was but i think it wasnt. I just think it was a rock shaped like a face to me. The face of mars is located at 41 degrees norht martian latitude. If i was in space i wish i would be the first one to discover that face because i could probaby get famous or get a lot of money. The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the face. Perhaps alien markings were hidden by haze.
What the picture really shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa. But thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site. There was no alien after all. But a few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see.
But the caption noted a huge rock. No face at all.
The Face on Mars has become a pop icon. So it is popular. It starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows, even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years. That is amazing this face on mars has a become very famous and very known. Some people think the face is bona fide evidence of life on mars, evidence that NASA would rather hide. | 2 |
7a6c02a | After I read this article, I already have my own opnions about this situation. Many people would think that if they do not need to drive everyday, and they do not need to focus on if there are some drangerous things in front of the car, these will make their life become easier. I know it is so great, but every thing has the two sides, there still has something problems about the driverless cars.
Nowadays, more and more people are use car to do any things they want. Cars make their life become much
more easier. So people have an idea about if we have a dirverless cars, what thing will happend, whether or not these cars will bring us more benefits. From my aspect, I disagree wiht it now. Let's imagine, if we go to the very steep mountains, and the zone which have a lot of swamps, whether or not these car can make quick responding in the dangerouse situations. Safty is the most important thing in our life. I think we do not have an ability to produce a very perfect driverless car.
In the other hand, driving is kind of skill in out life. Many people still interested in drive cars, they like have a competition sometimes. There are some beneficial things about drive car by ourselves. Practicing driving car is kind of way to help us try our best to focus on something. And some people will feel better if they drive cars by themselves, because driverless cars will make them feel like that someone controls their lives, then make them uncomfortable.
From the articles, some interesting opinions also sounds like good for us. Such as develop the smarter road, and " traffic Jam Assistant". Those are more possible to produce, although some problems still between them.
If I will choose the way to develop our car, I would not choose Diverless cars. The little personal reason is that I have even drive, so I think it will be funny if I practise more, and become a good diver. | 3 |
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