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7a6d548 | Electoral college votes are used to elect the new president, It consists of 538 electors and a majority of 270 must be won by a canidate to be elected. The ammount of electors is the number of memberis in its congressional delegation; One for each member in the house of repersenatives, Plus 2 for the senators. There is also a pouplar vote which is used to see what canidate is the more pouplar one, But this is not used to select the winner. I think the pouplar vote should be used because if the pouplar vote for one canidate but electoral vote is higher for the other the one with the pouplar vote is clearly the one people want more.
I think that the way someone is elected as president should be changed from who has the most electoral votes to who has the highest pouplar vote. For example say you were and 16 other people were sitting at 8 different tables, 2 people are at all the tables, Your voting on which is better mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes, you all have different numbers, and say yours is the highest, which ever you voted for would would basically win unless no one voted for it, Which isnt fair in a real election. In a election the candiates focus more more on the stated with more votes such a california or florida, And if they get the bigger states vote they've pretty much won.
All in all the electoral college isnt fair, the pouplar vote is how we should elect our president, so lets change this and see what happens, Maybe it wont work out that well, we'll just have to try and see. | 2 |
7a738ab | In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the authors support to his knowledge of Venus is very informative. In the article the author provides information about the planet to inform the reader that even though it may be hard and risky that it'd be outstanding to be able to put humans on the planet, but because of it's "thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide" or blazin temperatures no space craft or human are able to last on the planet without getting crushed or burned to crisps. Venus atmosperic pressure is 90 times greater than what us humans and living things experience on earth making it impossible for someone to last on the planet, with all of its cons many would rather admire from a view but some would rather get closer.
The evidence from the article that would make you want to avoid venus as much as it may seem nice and plesent the information provided would make you not want to put a foot on the ground of Venus. In the article it states that the planets weather consists of "erupting volcanos, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning stikes to probes seeking to land on it's surface" not hospitable for any space craft nor human life.
Astronomers believe venus to have been "covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." According the the knowledge of the article "the planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters" stateting that Venus and Earth are and where once similar at a point in time. NASA believed to be coming up with multiple ways for humans to set foot on the planet without any complications, at the moment NASA's only way of getting near the planet with stable temperatures and pressure is by having a "blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape."
In conclusion the author puts into words that visiting Venus by foot seems impossible but by the rate of the technology and people willing to help with making it happen setting foot on Venus will be sooner than many believe. In the future humans will finally reach the land of Venus but in the mean time many more features about the planet are yet to be seen and uncovered. The space craft can only provide so much information from a distance that with better technology a space craft may be able to get closer to the planet for more indetailed information. As far as that is it's closer than you'd think and the author's information and details of the planet in the article are very ear listening for any reader looking for information of the planet. | 3 |
7a7889a | When you live in the United States, you use cars everyday, so you wouldnt understand the positive impacts of limiting car usage has on everyday life. Some small towns in Germany, Paris, and Colombia are car-free citys. In the passage
In German Susburb, Life Goes On Without Cars , writen by Elisabeth Rosental, She tells her readers that a suburb in Germany, Vauban, has street parking, driveways, and home garages generally forbidden. Rosenthal states that not having a car can actually bring happiness. "'When I had a car I was always tence. I'm much happier this way,' said Heidrun Walker."
In the second article,
Paris bans dring do to smog , by Robert duffer, he tells the reader about the struggles Paris faced with polution in the air. He states that they made a system where one day they would have even licence plate number stay home one day and the odds would stay home the next. After trial and error, They came up with a solution, And it helped the smog go away. If cars were banned completly the air we breathe would be so much cleaner, and less foggy. "The smog cleared enough Monday for the ruling French party to rescrind the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday."
In the third passage
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota , by Andrew Selsky, It talks about a car free day that takes place once a year in the town on Bogota. The passage also states that people hiked, biked, skated, and took buses to work during the car free day. Selsky states that the goal of the day is to promote alternative transportation and reduse smog, Which brings back the fact that not using cars reduses polution in the ait. The other reson banning cars is a good idea is because it redused stess, because you dont have to deal with traffic, find a parking spot, or worry about being late to work because you have to stop to fill up your tank in the morning. "'It's a good oppotunity to take away stress...' said buisnessman Carlos Arturo Plaza"
The last article the End of Care Culture , written by Elisabeth Rosenthal, talks about how "americans are buying fewer cars, driving less, and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by". i beleive people are finally coming to the state of mind where public transportation is the faster, easier, and more afisiant way. Another reason it is better than having your own cars is that it is safer. "'...public transpotation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resousrces, lower emissions and improve safety."
The main advantages of limiting car usages are happiness, lower in polution, lower in stress, and increase in safety. | 3 |
7a7d479 | You should join the Seagoing Cowboys. It is a very fun program that helps the people of Europe. It is an nice adventure.
This is about helping the people who were affected by World War ll and having an adventure. It is sponsered by the UNRRA ( the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Admistration). Luke's experience was the best one.
I feel that Luke did get the point of this program, because he talked a lot about traveling and helping. Of course it's alot of work, but it is also fun and you can see new places. Here is one statement that luke stated, "
I had the side benifit of seeing China. Luke was the one Seagoing Cowboy that had made nine trips. That was because he had such a great experience, and you would too if you join this program.
If you join the Seagoing Cowboy program you won't regret it.
Here are some of the benifits that you get, if you are an animal lover you get to work with animals like horses and cows. If you like adventures you can go to places you've never been before. There is a lot of work, but that's not all afterwards the Seagoing Cowboys get together and do fun activites like table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, and whittling. They also play baseball and vollyball. Come and join the Seagoing Cowbays you would love it there! | 2 |
7a7e7bb | The Face on Mars was at first just a shadowy likeness of a human face. Yet, as we focused more and more into the Face the more superficial it became. Is it a Martian? Is there life on Mars?
Well, from the evidence given, it is very likely that the superstions are false, and the Face is just a landform.
The Face was captured again on April 5, 1998 by the MOC which gave a sharper photo. That alone was enough proof to show that the Face is just a landform. Even though it was very cloudy around Mars around that time, it would still be difficult to pass over the Face. The MOC scans over the planet with narrow 2.5 km-wide strips which would make it very hard to miss over the Face.
Lastly on April 8, 2001 NASA captured an extraordinarry photo of the Face. It was a cloudless, summer day which squelched all objections of it being too cloudy around Cydonia to capture a good photo. Each pixel in the photo spans 1.56 meters, whereas the best photo in 1976 only had 43 meters per pixel. The photo was so spectacular that you could zoom in 3 times the pixels size, so even if there were life, small shacks, or pyramids on Mars, you'd be able to see them.
In conclusion, the Face on Mars is just a landform. the 2001 photo gives enough evidence that even if there were life or monuments on Mars you would be able to see them. The photo in 1998 was also a good photo, so good that it would be hard to even miss over the Face. Also, even if there were life on Mars NASA would have no reason to hide it, it would help their company more than it would be a detriment to it. The article states, "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or messa--landforms common around the American West." | 3 |
7a7fea1 | Dose the American citzens vote even count any more in the election for president? American citzens over the age of 17 have a right of having a vote for a president for America. The popularity vote is not having much of effect as the electoral college, the ellector college is also a non-democratic metod of the choosing of a president. these cause the election to be kind of fixed.
The electoral college consists of 538 electors A larger amount of 270 electoral votes is ruled to elect the president. According to a gallup pollin 2000 Al Gore won the popularity vote but lost the presidency because of the electoral college. More then 60 percent of the voters choose a direct election to the kind we have. The electoral colege has a large advantage over the popularty vote.
The non- democratic way of choosing a president tha should be changed by the candiate that gets the highest popularty vote the winner of the election. It is not democratic because the electors who elect the president, and not the people. It is as if that when you vote for a candidate you're voting for slate electors. it is possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote.
The popular vote also has a down side to it the votes coould choose a president fo the wrong reasons. This could cause a disaster and be a very bad thing for the American people. The electoral college pays very close attention to that a looks at both candiates reasons of there decsions. In 1960 , segregationists in Louisana legislature nerly succeeded in replacing the democratic electors with diffrent elecotors thta would oppose John F. Kennedy.
The popularity vote almost has no effect to the president election and that should change because the people that live here and pay taxes should have a effect on who leads it. | 3 |
7a8028c | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) hope to visit Venus and make a closer look to the ground. We often called Veus as Earth's twin cause is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too.According to the text "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." NASA been wanting to visit Venus cause Venus is sometime right around the corner in space but every time they sent spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world, no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours.According to the text"On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 time greater than what we experience on our own planet." This type of conditions are far more extreme than anything humas encounter on Earth. For example, Venus has the the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar sytem, even though Mercury is closer to our sun. NASA has been working on other way to study in Venus. they are even trying to bring back an old technology called mechanical computer, these devics make calculations by using gears and lever and do not require electronics at all unlike
today computers. According to the text "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". As you see NASA are really trying to find another way to study there and how they are gonna live while they are in Venus.In conclusion,As you know NASA are doing everthing they can for a way to live and how they are gonna study the enivoments. If they keep on trying they are gonna be able to survie in that atmospheric, one day they are gonna make it to Venus. | 2 |
7a80a79 | The use of technology to read students' emotional expressions might be the new advacement of science. This technology uses different muscles in the face to uncover what a person might be feeling at the moment. In Paragraph 4 it states, "By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions." This use of technology uses the muscles, orbicularis, zygomatic, and risorious to distinguish any fake emotion. This software will help many students and careers to come.
This technology should be placed in classrooms as a helping tool. Teachers can not read students minds and help each individual when they are confused. Using this technology will make the job of teachers so much more easier. The students will now, using this technology, advance in school and understand every single topic that they are faced with. As it states in Paragraph 5, "His new computer software stores similiar anatomical information as electronic code." This shows that the information gained in this software is reliable and should be taken advantage of for our students. Students finally have a way to rely and get help. By using this emotion recognizer it will help understand non-verbal communication better, giving us a sense of the human body and how it expresses emotions by not talking about it. Paragraph 6 reinforces this idea by saying, "A classroom compute could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored... then it could could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." Although it has its cons the idea of this technology over all will benefit the students. By modifiying a classroom towards how the students are feeling will improve grades rapidly and the knowledge that the students will consume.
The more technology kids are exposed to in the classroom the more they will learn. This device will improve generations and help them to actually understand what the teacher is talking about. It will help universities get through a career easier and more positions in the job industry will open up. This software will help many students and careers to come. | 4 |
7a86c92 | Limiting car uses will change the enviorment in a dramatic way.
VAUBAN
, Germany
- residents don't use cars, they dont even have room for cars. The only way to get a parking space is at your house which you have to buy for $40,000, along with a home or large garages at the the edge of the develpoment. Streets are completely "car-free" besides a few streets on the edge of the community. 70% doesn't even own cars. Heidrun Wlater, former car owner says "When I had a car was always tense. I'm much happier this way." They are healthier and less tense because they walk, and bicycle keeping their self fit and active.
PARIS
, France
- banned driving due to smog. Even-numbered plates one day then the next day odd-number plates, the ones who did use there cars they got a fine of 22-euro ($31). They did that for five days. 4,000 people were fined and 27 people had their cars impounded due to there reaction to the fine. A car being droven every other day helps out with the polution. it cuts back on the polution if it's not running putting it in the enviorment. It's like if you drive once a week then you are only putting a little bit of polution in the enviorment. You aren't putting as much as you would be if you drove everyday a week.
BOGOTA
, Colombia
- They walk, bike, hike, skate, and take buses to work during the car-free days. It's been the third year in a row that they have had this day. The goal is to reduce smog and it works. Violaters are fined $25. More cities like, Cali, and Valledupar joined the event. They are taking a stand against polution and cleaning up the smog. The bicyclers made 118 miles of bike paths. Just for this day. "This is a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," said business man Carlos Arturo Plaza.
United States of America , President Obama's goal is to curb the green house gas emissions. Everyone is asking "Has America passed peak driving?" In 2013 Americans drove 9% per person below the peak which in January 1995 that's where we were. Cars per house hold has came down. There are cellphone apps now a days thet help out with car pooling. Instead of driving yourself to work ask your co-workers to switch days with you. Some days you drive them to work and other days, they drive you to work. You both would be saving on gas and putting less polutuion in the air. People from the ages 16- to 39- years-olds are just getting thier license, while older people maintain their license was the research Mr. Sivak's has found. Many people just get jobs where they can walk to work, use public transportation or car pool with friends.
Walking, riding a bicycle, hiking, and skating are all ways to get somewhere without creating polution. If there is a way to cut back on polution then you should take that oppertunity. Car-pooling with a friend, or co-worker is also a way to cut back on polution. Instead of two cars coming from an area to go to the same area they should just use one car to go to that area instead of taking to cars for it. My point is save the enviorment and create less polution like Paris, Bogota, and Vauban. They created way to help out the enviorment, you take a stand and you make a change. | 4 |
7a87575 | Future, a single word with various meanings. Since the evolution of men the human race has create or invented various things to make life easier. As time progress so does people, new artifacts are introduced to society but they become useless over time. Everything becomes harder to create since its already invented but only make them better is whats left. All this changes in people's life are for a better chance to see the future.
As stated in the beggining of paragraph 2, the men have facied about what would it be like to fly or have a personal non-living helper. At the moment people has look through those wishes and start taking over them. Since before the most advanced technologyother companies as stated in paragraph 3. This means they have wanted to grant those wishes. Going further, the idea of a driveless car will make a positive impact to humanity due to fact manufactures are focusing on the safety of the people. Having this smart machines will not only reduce car crashes but car accidents, deads due to a wrong turn or not stopping in time will have a considerable amount of positive views. This car project will watch out for humans as the end of paragraph 7 stated.
But not everything will be that easy as the article "Driveless Cars Are Coming" have stated too many times, a driver would still be required and that will might lead to dissaster. Mistake is a common word used to describe the human race, they declare war on themselves and don't share the goos they have. Once the human take over the wheel, distractions will come as they always have.
People might think its crazy but leaving the control to a smart machine sounds much better than leaving it to someone who doesn't know what he's doing. The possible accidents will be stopped because the car will be alert and will respect the law. I would trust my life to smart machine rather than a human. | 4 |
7a876a7 | "The challenge of Exploring Venus?
The famous "Evenig star" also called the planet of venus. The star with more misterys and reason for be studied. Venus is a planet,one of the that componed our solar system.
Venus the point of light in the night.
The planet with the second place in our sun. This paper will talk about the mencioned planet Venus and their curiosides that has as why do have the second place,the elements has venus,if has life in venus.
Venus is the second planet in our solar system, also Venus is the closest planent to the Earth according the density and size and distnace too. ? Venus,Earth and Mars our other planeth neighbor,orbit the sin at different speeds. Tha? is means we are closer to mars and other times to Venus." Our Earth run around of the sun doing a eje of simetry. That is way sometimes We are closet to Venus. Venus is a little planet and always are closet to the corner. "Talking in space terms"
During the whole existing the humans are sent spacecraft to find out information about if exist life over there. But each mission was unmanned and the scientifics can tell since no spacecracft survived the landing for more that a few hour.
According the article, some factors contribute to the reputation of venus as a challegin palnet for humans study,despite it is proximity to us. Venus after mentioned as a little planet is a one a planet with 97 percent of carbon oxide,that's means we were the carbon dioxide for survived. Venus has corrisive sulfuric in the atmosphere,that is a danger for us health. According the article "It has a temperatures over 800 degrees Fahrenheit because Mercury is closer to the sun and sun is closest to Venus".
The NASA is back of all that. They are studing all about venus. Some studies show NASA's possible solution to the hostilecondition on the surface of venus would allow scientist to float above the fray. In space terms and referent to the article. "Venus was probably covered largely with ocean and could have supported various forms of life" The studies show that venus accordin the information "The Venus planet has a surface of rocky sediments and includes familiar such as velleys,mountains,and craters". That's means Venus can be our another option for a planetary visit.
In conclusion, I can say that Venus is a option that we have if sometimes will happening on our Earth. That is a option for life. Venus is a planet that it will be Innovation and Technology for survive. Venus is a despite the danguerous,we can have resistant to pressure. Venus can be our salvation. | 1 |
7a8d7c3 | The idea of a driverless car has been an idea only meant for science fiction films. The concept of the whole idea seemed as though people would not see in their life time. Until now, engineers and scientists are closing in on the idea that self driving cars are a thing of today. Top car manufacturers are now developing ideas and ways to bring us closer of this once fascinating dream, into a reality. To wake up some day and simply send a text or call a local business to send a driverless car to give them a ride to where ever they need to go. Also, the amount of time saved for people not having to car for their cars and take them to body shops and pay high prices for problems in the engine.
But before the idea can pick up even more on its popularity; some people may ask what would its use be?
There many young adults and teenagers who still have not received their drivers liscense and have to wait on a parent or guardian to come pick them up from school, activity, or sporting event. With the self driving car, those people may some day just call or text a business operating the cars to come and pick them up and drive them home. This method would relieve the stress of the parents having to drive there and wait on their loved ones. This method may also be used to replace the tradtional taxi driving system. The traditional taxi system was said to be unsafe under certain situations. for example the taxi driver can manipulate the customer if the customer is unaware of the streets and driver can then take the longest route to charge a substainally high price for a drive that was not suppose to take as long. With the driverless car, the car will not manipulate the customer and reach its destination at an efficient time and price. Along with the amount of fuel saved from the driverless car, our economy may no longer rely on fossil fuel as a sufficient source of energy for our cars.
Another reason why the driverless car idea might be successful is the lives it could save for the drivers who are not paying attention. some cars may not be driverless but the ones who can break before the driver can react is amazing. A popular car with the system that the car can break before you can react is Subaru. Subaru has always been popular with its safety features, but now, with the newest models, the car is now capable of stopping itself before an accident can occur. How this works is that this car isn't necessarily driverless, it is still a driver needed car. But what makes this car stand out in safety is its sensors in the front and the back of the car. it is used to detect any situations or actions of other drivers that can start an accident. In one scenerio, a lady is backing up her car from her driveway and is distracted by her child in the back, not realizing she was still backing up the car's sensors detected an oncoming vehicle and immediatly stopping the car. The car saved the lady and her child from injury and the lady will notdeal with insurance for damages and costs of repairs. This is just one of the dozens of scenarios that can happen when a driver is not paying attention and could lead to serious accidents. With smart technology we can save the lives of millions of drivers whose accidents could have been prevented.
in conclusion, the idea of driverless cars is still a thing to be worked on and in need of improvement. But we are not far from seeing cars without drivers driving safer and more efficiently than human drivers. Not to mention the growth the economy will have from people switching from buses and uncomfortable rides with strangers. driverless car will not harm other drivers or harm how we see cars, instead we will see them as a safe, efficient, and well protected vehicle for transportation. Even if we do not succeed in having driverless car, we still have had many advancements from keeping drivers safe and preventing accidents that could be saved. | 4 |
7a92d80 | Senator, we should keep the Electoral College. The Electoral College establishes judgement and fairness by giving upcoming presidents a fair shot. People have voices and the popular vote can be biased from state to state. The proccess if mature because they chose unbiased electors, and there is a majority of 270 electoral votes. The Electoral College has 538 electors, which gives a good amount of unbiases people. They figure this amount by one for each member in the House of Representaties plus two for the Senators, which you could be one.
The Electoral College is one of the best ways to keep a fair election. We people do not make the brightest decisions sometimes, and the Electoral College keeps us from making the wrong decision for who is going to be our next president.
People can be easily affected into turning on a candidate. They could not realize that the candidate would be a great president. The Electoral College gives the candidates a fair chance. The member of the Electoral College are fair and know what is best for the country. The specific Electoral electors for your state vote what the state wants, and is not biased on what other senators or electors want. This gives the people a good amount of say in the election.
Electoral Colllege keeps the people in line and gives the people a sense of establishment. The election of the president is every four years. This gives people time to decide on a new president and who they want representing their votes. Overall the Electoral College is one of the brightest decisions that America has made. For one the Electoral College gives people a fair chance in becoming president. Also the Electoral College helps make the voting process a lot easier.
We people don't yet understand why there are not more people realizing that there is an Electoral College, and what underlies is a great idea and even a better reality . | 3 |
7a9384c | Luke the Seagoing Cowboy
I would love to do that again.
That was fun, thanks so much Don Reist for asking me to go.
I loved to be a Seagoing Cowboy, since I'm a small-town boy.
I want other people to go on an adventure and see things they have never seen before.
I say this because I went on a adventure I got to help animals.
I had lots of fun on the boat.
I did things like table tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, whitlling, and games.
It was the life of a Seagoing Cowboy I am living, that I have never lived before.
"I'm grateful for the oppertunity to see the things I saw.
It opened up a whole new world for me.
"Besides helping, people I had the side benefit of seeing Europe an China."
I loved to do it I had lots of fun with the people on the ship.
The animals I met where so fascinating.
There were 335 horses plus!
I would definantly go back another time.
I hope you want to be a Seagoing Cowboy as soon as you hear how fun it is.
I have to go now I have to sign up again for a Seagoing Cowboy.
See you later. I'll tell you what fun I had this time. | 2 |
7a94c66 | First, readers... in the story " A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" Lukes participation in the seagoing cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and go to many places across the sea! In this story He will tell you in his point of veiw. How he feels about the program and why he would want to join. Personally I think I would join from the sounds of it. I think he loved it and the opportunity was great because he took it and you might end out just like him.
Second , I think that you should join the program because you can go on amazing adventures. And you might travel by water day and night. I bet you can even have lots of fun in europe. And by adventures I mean going through the ocean and climbing mountains. When you travel on water you will go on boats and cross oceans."Let us say that you can go to europe to florida to england. Yeah thats how fun it is see that's why should join.
Third, another few reasons you should join is because. You might even see whales, dolphins and fish and I know some people love to eat fish with fishing poles. And you should join because you don't know you might even make new friends. I personally love to fish because you discover new fish and if you want you can eat them. So those are the reasons for you to join this program.
In conclusion, I am trying to persuade you to join. Well I did the best I could do to persuade you. I hope you deeply consider it. It's Lots of fun and you will go places you dreamed of going. See I know some people get sea sick so I am not forcing you to go but I hope you will take the opportunity to get out and have fun everyone! | 2 |
7a95534 | Technology is a semi-new thing, therefore using it to benifit peoples learning is a major aspect of technology. Technology is used for entertainment, and creating ways of excitment in people. However technology is also used as a weapon in negative ways, like look at the internet for example; this form of technology is used for positive reasons and negative reason. However when used in positive ways the internet is and can be used a an amzing source of positivity and a benifital tool to those who use it.
Classrooms in america are getting more strict and incressing in difficulty mainly, due to the amount of difficulty it takes to master areas in which people want to succeed; like the job field for example now days jobs are harder to access therefore schools are tying to give their students an upper hand in this field.
Monotorying has always been a thing ever since it was possible, there are positive and negative sides to this phenominon. There are companies who use monotring as a negative thing; like say spying on an employs dailey activities besides work, however companies can use this form of monoturing on checking to see if there is something a employey has problems with a spesific thing at a job site.
Overall I think that technology along with it negative aspects can be a positive tool twards benifiting peoples lives, just like educuation. Educational staff are only seeking healty lives and suitiable jobs for those they teach and support. So therefor teachers and staff using technology is postitive ways can be a benifical tool.
Emotion tracking technology is a new advancement that could weave into a new direction and form of how our schooling sysetem works. this could be a very good thing for us a society as a whole. I personally thing that is a great idea for students that have near given up on schooling and the system itself.
Technology is used for entertainment, and greative ways of exciting people. Therefore in conclusion i do belive that using positive forms of technology to help further students learning and productivity is a major step in the right direction. Collages nowadays are only accepting students that are determinded and not afriad to go that extra step for themselves and others, and if teachers use a form of technology can futher those skills, then this can be a very good topic of disscusstion. In conclusion i would like to see a new and improved form of technology that will help teachers and staff get the knowledge to kids and young adults in need for a better life than say not having the new and impoved technological advances we have as a society now. | 2 |
7a9a64c | "Driverless cars are coming" im not so sure that is a good idea for driverless cars, the name doesnt even sound safe. There are many arguments on the subject of having this new idea or not. Some believe it would be a great addition for the future and others think they should not be invented. In my own opinion i believe that the driverless cars should not be a thing for the future. And there are many reason to why i think that.
Although it is known that many people in america are wanting driverless cars im not so sure that it is the best thing we need. There are some advantages to this like how they may be safer when it comes to the new features they are including. But the dissadvantages by far overcome them. For one, driverless cars are less work and basiclly for the most part you just have to watch the road unless you would like to take control, however, that is a huge problem in this day in age because, everyone is creating new things so everyday jobs arent as hard for people to do but that is just adding to the lazyness of americans. Its one thing to create things like a stove so you dont have to create a fire just to heat your food but to go all the way to not even having to drive your car thats a little to much. This problem is just like the idea of elevators so you dont have to walk up and down stairs thats just a creation made out of pure lazyness. So i think driverless cars are really pushing it when it comes to inventions for the people that make us the lazyest country.
The driverless cars may seem to be more safe although think about even the most high tech items you know of even those get messed up and malfuction sometimes right? So there isnt any doubt in my mind that the car wouldnt either. So if you were to be in the car and say it was supposed tos stop at a red light but it got messed up and it didnt stop it could cause a crash and that could do some real damage to you and the others in the crash. And who would they blame was at fault? would you get the blame or would the car? Its hard to trust internet programed things especialy when it may come to your life. If a person was driving they would know to stop at a red light. But with the driverless cars those are just computers that can mess up at anytime.
It might be dfficult to see eye to eye because now days our natural instinct is to go for the thing that makes your life easier. But we all need to see that even though it may be easier and less work it is also a accendent waiting to happen. Although the new car has safty percautions and you can take control of it doesnt make it perfectly safe and it doesnt make it a good idea. And it might use less gas making you able to save you money but that also means the owners to the gas are lossing there money it all works like a chain reaction.
Making the right decision is important for us to do because of our future generation. Think about how this would be a bad effect on our life and society. in my general opinion the phrase "driverless cars are coming" should not come into affect becuase of the dissadvantages and the bad effects and the pure lazyness that would be put into the idea of the car. So i dont think we should get driverless cars. | 4 |
7a9cd44 | Many people argue over the fact that the Electoral College is benefitial or not. I'm writing this letter to you Mr. Senator to explain the good and bad effects the Electoral College has. The Electoral College is a process, it is a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral College keeps the elections balanced, it keeps the elections organized. It may have some bad effects. For example, many argue that the people's votes aren't what choose the president.
The Electoral College mantains the elections balanced, "It avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of vote cast." as stated in the article by Richard Posner. It balances the votes by a larger state compared to a smaller state. In article "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to kep our despised method of choosing the President", the author states that a larger state has more popular votes rather than a small state. The author says this, "The popular vote was very close in Florida [in 2012]; nevertheless Obama, who won that vote, got 29 electoral votes. A victory by the same margin in Wyoming would net the winner only 3 electoral votes." As that being said, the author is explaining how larger states get more attention from a presidential candidates in a campain than a small state does. This is when the Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment.
Another benefitial effect the Electoral College presents is the organization of the election for President. As said in the article, "What Is The Electoral College?", "The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress." That is a huge amount of work but that is what keeps the elections well organized. Each candidate running for President in a state has their own group of electors. After each election, the governor of your state prepares a certificate presenting all of the candidates that ran for your state. As stated in the article by the Office of the Federal Register, "The Certificate of Ascertainment also declares the winning presidential candidate in your state and shows which electors will represent your state at the meeting of the electors in December of the election year." The Electoral College is what mantains everything professional.
The Electoral College may have some effect that aren't positive. For example, many people believe their vote goes to waste. As stated in the article by Richard Posner, "Democrats in Texas, for example, or Republicans in California. Knowing their vote will have no effect, they have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign they would have if the president were picked by popular vote." Voters want to feel involved and have interest in the political system. People also fear the tie in an electoral vote. They feel like the government will choose whoever will benefit them the best and they won't take the people into consideration. In article, "The Indensible Electoral College: Why even the best laid defenses of the system are wrong", the author says the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. He believes it's anachronism.
People may have different opinions about Electoral College. People have different opinions about everything. I wanted to explain how the Electoral College benefits our society and how it doesn't. It keeps the elections balanced, organized, but it makes others feel like their vote isn't worthy or valuable. I hope this letter helps you with your opinion and how you feel about the Electoral College. | 4 |
7aa0c2d | Throughout the years of my life I noticed something about my family that didn't really bother me as much as it does now. My family seemed to have a dependance on motor vehicles. Everywhere we went we drove there, whether its down the street or around the corner, a car must be used. As of now I can see the affects of those actions, like global warming, pollution, and the hole in the ozone layer , as well as huge amounts of stress. All of those should be a good enough reason to limit car usage.
By reducing car usage you can reduce the harmful affects too much usage can bring to the world. In the article "Paris bans driving due to smog" by Robert Duffer, Duffer discusses how in Paris the smog was so overwhelming that they actually had to threaten citizens with fines to make them keep their cars at home. Now i know some people were against the "keeping your car or you will suffer a 22-euro fine"(Duffer 11), but im sure they will understand when they aren't walking around paris with medical mask over their mouths.
Responsibilty comes along with owning car, from keeping the gas meter from going below "E" to changing the oil and tires. All of those responsibilities can bring an abundance of stress on anyone. So reducing car usage would reduce the amount of stress on a car owner. As explained in the article "In German Suburb, Life goes on without cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal, A community in Vauban, Germany has gone on without the use of cars. The amount of stress on the citizens must be extremely low due to the fact they don't have to the deal with the responsibility of taking care of a car. Heidrun Walter, one of the citizens there stated "When i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way,"(Rosenthal 3). Less car usage in the end will reduce the amount of stress placed upon someone.
The reduction of car usage is gonna benefit the car owner in the end and everyone else because it will help our environment and also reduce unhealthy stress. So instead of driving everywhere try to ride the bike, carpool, or even ride the city bus. Pursuing these actions will benefit you as well as your community. | 3 |
7aa58e8 | The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because in the passage it states "Eckman has classified six basic emotions happiness, surprise, anger ,disgust, fear and sadness" based off this piece of evidence the computer that he has designed to detect your emotion will determine how the student is feeling like for example : the sudent is smiling but the smile she has might have a little sadness in her) so the computer can detect that it was a fake smile. Another piece of evidence from the article is "she's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." based off that statement you can already tell that the technique Dr.Huang created works.
Finally in the passage it states "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." based on that statement if you smile while your lookig into the computer the next ad will be something about happiness but, if you frown while your looking into the computer then the next ad will be something about sadness.
In conclusion, Dr.Huang's studies and experiment's has been a success because it worked on telling how Mona Lisa was feeling and her emotions. It would be valuable to the students in a classroom. | 2 |
7aa9df6 | Dear, State Senator
I belive that in favoring of keeping the Electoral College.Therefore many people have different minds set if which they should have Electoral college. Here 's some background information stated in source 1 What Is The Electoral College "The Electoral College is a process not a place'." The founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise betwwen of the president by a vote in congress and the election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.'My reasons for this is because electoral college can be helpful,have people to rethink, and understandable.Many people thing of electoral college as torchure or even the wrong way to vote.Electoral college have different ways and similar ways from changing to the election by the popular for the president of United States.For example states in source one "The Electoral College consists of the 538 electors"."A Majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president." Now as you can see in my essay there particular things I would like to talk about.Pertaining about how can electoral college can be helpful in a different ways of changing the president vote.For example what might you think what would be helpful?Stated in source two people thinks "Under the electoral college sytem voters vote not for the president but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president". Now as you come to mind this particular information is not only talking about coloubia is talking about the electoral collge also.According To Source Three "And if an electoral tie seems unlikely,consider this:In 1968, a shift of just 41,971 votes would have deadlocked the election;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".People should rethink about their desicions before they pick and choose.According to source three "The Electoral Collge requires a presidential candidate to have transregional appeal.The Electora is widely regarded as an anachronis, a non-democratic method of selecting a presiendt hat ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who recieves the most popular votes.There are many diffent aspects of Electoral College.
Most importantly electoral college is that it can be understandable.It can be understandable by allowing people to knowing the method of electoral college.According to resource one "Electoral College method is not democractic in a modern snese...it is the electors who elect the president not the president.
In conclusion I strongly I favor of Electoral College because its can be helpful and let people rethink about their decsion and understand the concept of voting for your president.
Sincerely,PROPER_NAME | 2 |
7aaa76f | Some think that the Face on Mars was made my aliens. Some think that its a natural landform. Some even think that the similar earth landforms were formed by aliens.
I believe that the Face is a natural landform. The large landform on Mars is very similar and naturally made like landforms on earth and even more specifically the American West. A very good example of this is the Middle Butte in the Snack River Plain of Idaho.
The landforms such as the Middle Butte in the Snack River Plain of Idaho are made from a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars. Knowing how the formation in Idaho is formed increases the evidence showing how easy it would be for Mars to have a similar landform. it is very well a natural landform, just on a different planet. Mars is such a similar planet to earth that the lantural landforms could be, and in this case are, very similar.
No matter what you believe, rather it is a natural formation or made by an ancient life form or aliens, all the evidence and proof points to, and proves, that the Face on Mars is in fact, just a natural landform that is most likely an equivalent of a bette or mesa. | 2 |
7aac16c | Driverless cars should not be aloud. The roads are already unsafe, it could harm other people and It would be very costly to afford a driverless car. If we invented driverless cars it would become a problem. "In the late 1950s, General Motors created a concept car that could run on a special test track. The track was embedded with an electrical cable that sent radio signals to a receiver on the front end of the car."
The roads are already unsafe. People are already reckless drivers and don't follow the rules or pay attention to the roads. If we were to get driverless cars, do you think people would more careful? Cars have sensors, cameras ,GPS etc. already built into cars. Why do we need cars that can drive by themselves? It is unnessisary for us to drive driverless cars. In the 7th paragrapgh is says " The human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when a situation requires." If the car is driverless why would we have to take over it should be safe as possible?
Driverless cars could harm other people on the roads. If a car is incontrol, a human will not be able to stop it. With all of the technology getting put into cars we could be in big trouble in the future. Do you want a car that is driverless? More accidents could happen, if a driver is in the front seat and the car is driving by its self, and the person is not paying attention to the road and something is going on with the car do you think that would be safe?
Driverless cars could be very costly to people, with everything they are trying to put into cars, the cars could be very high in price. So why make them? If only a couple hundred people can aford them why waste all the time to build one. I think driverless cars should not be aloud. Think of someone you know in one, its very unsafe.
In conclusion, cars should not be driverless. The roads are already unsafe as it is, it could harm other people on the road, and it could be very costly. Driverless cars should not be aloud. | 3 |
7ab004a | This is for the facial recination i say yes to it becuse it can modify the students lesson so that the student is not bored with the lesson. Sure it might cost a little to make this happen for the students but they are this nation future. The program that they are using will let the help out the students to get better grades with other thing .
To help in thir life when they are in math class and they do not understand what is going on the computer will send them a little message to ask them to see what they need help with in the lesson. The program that they were using reconized a 600 year old painting that is all kinds of other things wrong with the painting . they were able to get the stats from the old painting they were 83% happy 9% distigusted 6% fearful 2% angery . The computer will scan all 44 mucle's in ure face that make the emotins that you feel every day. The emotions that you feel in ure day are happy,sad,cheerful,mad, these are some of the emotions that you feel in a normal day in ure life.
The thery of emotions are when you make a face it helps tell how ever that you are feeling. World renowned drama coach Constantin Stanislavsky. He tells his actors to reproduce faces to help them out better with all of there things that they are doing to help them be better actors. In one part of the story it says imagin a computer that imagins when you are sad or happy when and add pops on ure screan and it can tell that you are not interested in the add so it finds better adds when it is time for one to pop up.
Most humans have a nonverble type of way when they see each other. When leaonardo devinchi painted the mono lisa he had information the human body. That he had found out when he was diesecting peapole so that he could find out more. The Computers that he dose with all of these things . The devise all have all of the soft ware on these little electronic codes that help if distiguise between which faces that the person makes when they are happy fear and other.
With having this kind of tech we can do amazing things like figger out who is going to freak out and kill somone or somthing elses that is crazy when peapole go crazy for som odd reasone. This will prpobly save somone life in the long run with this kind of tech that is avalible that we are able to use. With it will give you facial feedback when ever you are using the device that has this program on it that you are able to use with it . these are my reasone for all of theses things. | 2 |
7ab444a | I was discussing the face with a friend who thinks it's created by aliens and I think it was not created by aliens. These are my reasons why I think it is a natural landform. NASA and other scientist said it was a natural landform. The face was equivalent of a butte or mesa says NASA.
The face is ether a buute or mesa landforms because it is common around the American West. That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the face on Mars. It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Sanke River Plain of Idaho.
If it was an airplane on the ground orEgyptian-style pyramids or even a small shacks, you could see what they were. Few scientist belived the face was an alien artifact. Defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars.
Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Lab saw it and thought it was another Martian mesa but it had an unusual shadow that made it look like an Egyptain Pharaoh. It had eyes, nose, and mouth as a human. Not everybody was satisfied that it was a natural landform.
These are the reasons why I think the face on Mars is a natural landform and not created by aliens. The face is just another mesa on the planet Mars. Do you think it was made by aliens or just another natural landform on Mars? | 2 |
7ab50d9 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents, but the author does not supports this idea, and only gives a few reasons why it would be beneficial to study it. The author suggests that it is a worthy pursuit because it is the closest planet to Earth, in size and in distance, there might have been life on Venus previously, and humans should not be held back by the thought of danger, but the author does not show why each of these reasons make it worth to study Venus.
To start with, the author states that Venus is the closest planet to Earth in size and distance. This statement does not support the idea that studying Venus is worth going through all of the dangers. Yes, it may be the easiest planet to get to, but Venus is not an easy planet to land or conduct research on, especially with the "high pressure and heat" and also "additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes" shown in the third paragraph.
Additionally, the author states that humans should study Venus because it "was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life," shown in the fourth paragraph. Although Venus has features similar to Earth's like "valleys, mountains, and craters," it does not mean that Venus supported life. Also, in the text, it says that Venus was "probably" covered in oceans, which shows that there is no proof that this statement is a fact. The author does say that it would be beneficial to study Venus for scientific reasons, but in the second paragraph, it shows the conditions on Venus are not sustainable considering "no spacecraft (has) survived the landing for more than a few hours."
Lastly, the author states that human's travels "should not be limited by dangers and doubts," in the eighth paragraph. By stating this, the author shows that he/she understands the conditions of Venus, but that does not mean humans should be held back. This statement, again, does not show why it is worth it to study Venus, just that humans should not be held back.
In conclusion, the author does not support his/her idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit. The author does give reasons why it would be beneficial to go to Venus and study it, but never shows why it is worth it. Yes, it would be helpful to know if Venus did support life at one point in time, but the author never showed if it would be worth all of the time and money. To wrap it all up, the author did not support his/her idea at all; that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. | 4 |
7ab5932 | well lets talk about the cons first since were at it, first the cost for driverless cars are going to be out rageous and with that most people will not be able to get them. while that was only one problem the other is that taxi drivers would be fired as who wants someone they have to pay for driveing people around when they could pay once and never have to pay again for the same thing. as for the laws mass law change would cuase some problems and one thing they brought up which is very true if these driverless car were truely driverless who would have to pay if some one got in a wreak or accident and ended up kill or injuring someone.
now lets talk about the pro's of having driverless cars, less fuel is wasted now that is great becuase as we all know petrolium is rather expensive since the world only has so much and if would could figure out a way to use solar energy, the cars could truly be revolutionizing and make all the diffrence. just like in the artical it would truly have more flexability than a bus which would revolutionize transportation and even help thos people who know very little about where they are and where they need to go. it would also majorly decrease the amount of crashes and most likly if it works like how they say it'll work than we could almost swear there would be no crashes.
all in all i think that this idea is facinating and very intersting but it does have its problems, if you look at it from the view of people, opinions change but what i think will never change i believe that it would be great to an extent now im not saying its terrible but instead of less fuel, why not just make the cars solar powered and make sure there is no toxins being released into the air, i remmeber reading some where that we use billions of gigawatts of power, and the sun makes that same amount of power in one second so if we could use solar power we could truly have a gas free would. on to the main i think it is a good idea. | 3 |
7ab6a22 | Is it or isn't it? I think that it isnt. There are too many reasons why it is just a landform and not a human. For example it says "A few days late NASA unveiled the image for all of us to see. The caption noted "huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head" this is why I think it is a landform.
Another reason I think it is a landform is because as we got closer to the ground of Mars is got clearer and clearer. It came out to be a mesa. In the 70's they didn't have to best cameras so it looked a little blury and came out to be a face.
As cameras got better and better it became clearer and clearer. If they were to do it today they would really see what it was. The text says "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size," he added. "So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!"
This means that it was proven that it was a land form. If it was a human or a living creature we would be able to tell. Some people think it was a conspirasy. I think it was because if it wasn't we would still be looking at it.
So people can think what they want but I think it was a landform. Is there life or Mars? If there is will we ever know? | 3 |
7ab9574 | In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.
In the article, the author state that Venus has dangerous conditions for human life to explore. "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere." Even though Venus has harsh conditions, there are still interesting facts about the planet that astronomers want to look more into. "Astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may as well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life."
In Paragraph 7 the author explains how sceintist are trying to make other approaches to studying Venus. "Some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." Even though Venus is dangerous, this pushes scientist to innovate more to make their exploration successful and it will be effective on other planet explorations. | 2 |
7ac3dde | You may have heard of the new driverless cars! You may heard all the cool technology it has and how you will be the coolest if you have it. But even if you will be the coolest will you be the safest? That is the real question you should be asking yourself. My personal opinion on these high tech. driverless cars is that it should not be the next big thing in the world.
I say that these cars are no doubt cool but I still would not buy one and put my life in risk. I keep saying how these cars are not safe and I believe that because you never know when the car will just start messing up and put you and everyone around you in danger. All technology messes up and has glitches every now and then so who is to say these cars won't. Even though the company says the driver still will not be able to text and call. I know for a fact people will. People will think that the car has everything under control when that is truly not the case and they will stop paying attention to their surroundings. We need cars that people have to take control of and pay attention so they will stay aware and off their phones. Also if you fall asleep at the wheel it says that the seat will vibrate but if you are a heavy sleeper of if you were just extremely tired who is to say that vibration will wake you up in time before crashing? Also I believe people would get extremely bored just sitting there and having the car do all the work for them pretty much. Even though it says you have to keep your hands on the wheel you are still not steering you are just holding the wheel to let the car know you are still in the car and "paying attention".
These companies are saying that safety is their main concern but I just don't believe that is the case sadly. Never knowing if when the car may mess up is just down right scary. I just strongly believe these cars should not be on the roads. I believe they should just stay at car shows and be looked at but never driven.
Another thing in paragraph 9 it states that " traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver." I totally agree with them it is important that a alert person is behind the wheel controlling a automobile. These traffic laws make it illegal in some states to test self driven cars.
In conclusion I just stongly believe we should just stick to driving the cars ourself. We include technology so much in our daily lives already. Is it really necassary to have cars that can control themselves? Not it is not. All the reasons I listed above are really could questions you and the people who make these cars ask themselves. | 4 |
7ac5274 | I don't think they should make driverless cars. Cars are made to make people safe driverless cars won't be that safe. Who would put laser beams in a car.I dont think that if they do make driverless cars that Google out of all the car companies. Goolge putting in a rader system, GPS, and other piontless things.
Sebastian Thurn the founder of the Google Car project thinks, antilock brakes and driver assistance still seem a long way from the dream of calling a driverless cab to take you wherever you went. He also believes that the technlogy has finally begun to catch up to the dream.
In 2013, BMW announced the development of the traffic jam assistant. The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 MPH, but special touch sensors make sure the driver is keeping thier hands on the wheel.GM has developed car seat the vibrate when the driver is in danger.
Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for there turn to drive. The psychlogical aspects of automation are really a challenge, adimts Dr. Werner Huber, a BMW project manger driver. Some displays can turn off instantly when the driver needs to take over someting not available to drivers.
Automakers are continuting their work on the assumption that the problems ahead will be solved. Tesla has a projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time. Mercedes- Benz, Audi, and Nissan will be able to drive themselves by 2020. I believe that they shouldn't make driveless cars in the future. | 1 |
7ad05e0 | The world is always inventing new things. From phones, computers, and even houses. One thing the world is having the most conflict about is driverless cars. Driverless cars would be on the next level and most people arent liking this idea.
Driverless are are what the name says they are, cars without drivers. To make this possible inventers have programed goole inside a car to opperate the car and tell it where to go. Most people are unaware that driverless cars arent truly driverless. They have to have a person within the car to stay on alert, pull in carpools, and park the car.
In my opinion I think that driverless cars are going to be a great invenion for this world. First, many people wouldn't have to worry about crazy drivers because the cars go the speed limit, never run red lights, and it self opperates. Second, let's say the car hasn't been paid off or google has a locator on it so people would come and pick the car up when the time had come.
Some may say that the world isn't ready for smart driverless cars, and most will say go on to the next step. Driverless cars will be in the world one day and since we have people willing to come together and make the future even better than it is today, smart cars will help make that stride twards success. | 2 |
7ada6b1 | Think of a time where no one drives anymore. A time where no one even knew how to drive. A time that could possibly be the beginning of a new era or the end to a great one. This will all come with the power of someone to sit in a car and do aboslutely nothing. The car would do everything for you. " They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the drvier when the road ahead needs human skills" these cars could bring an end to a tradition that has gone on for hundreds of years. the tradition of a parent teaching their child to drive. These cars are going to be the end to the world we know today.
There are hundreds of crashes every year from people not paying attention while driving. That number will only go up with these cars. The cars can drive themselves; however, what if when the driver is needed the most they are to busy texting or playing games on their phone. It has been a privelige for the past 60 years to get to learn how to drive. To get that responsiblity to sit behind the wheel of a car. With these cars they are giving that responsiblity to just about anyone. Has this society really downgraded so much that we are to the point of the safety of those around us doesn't matter.
"Google cars aren't truly driveless", but what happens when they become fully drivless? More bank robberies, shootings, bombings, etc. With this cars we are giving these people easier ways to escape from the police from being put away for their crimes. These cars would allow murders to get away and not have to worry about their prints anywhere since the car drives it self. If anything these cars will be the beginning of a worse generation.
"In the 1980s, automakers used speed sensors at the wheels in the creation of antilock brakes."
These cars have been in the making for over 30 years and they still haven't come out with a safe and easy way to make it work. That should be a big red flag to get people to realize how unsafe these cars could be to everyone. What would happen if the car didn't brake in time and because of that it kills a group of children who's to blame there? The car becuae it can drive itself. The maker because the car should of stopped itself. Or the driver who sat back and didn't do anything to stop the car.
The privelige to drive has been pasted down over the years and now there is a possiblity that it will eventually stop. The idea of a car driving itself should be terrifying. However, to a lot of people it makes sense, since we are to an era where phones can type by themselves. So why can't cars drive themselves. This idea of no one driving could end the world as we know it or be the break to an new era. It's up to the people in this generation to decide if we want to pass the experience of actually driving down to our childern or if we don't find it useful to them. If we don't then we might as well get rid of all the cars we have now. | 4 |
7adcf3e | Do you believe in aliens on Mars or forms of life in other plants? Have you ever wondered if there is a superior race living amoungs our solar system? If you do then I am sad to say it simply is not so. For there has not been any signs of alien civilization proven for all of man kind to see.
The face,for example, was not an alien monument but a natural landform. On April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Even though thousands were waiting for the picture to appear on a JPL web site, what they found was a natural landform. There nver was nor never be an alien monument found on Mars. The Face on Mars where simply like landforms common around the American West. Garvin said " It reminds me most of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. That is a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars."
In conclusion, as pictures are taken on the side of Mars there is no physical proof of an alien race on Mars to leave behind a monument. You have been disappointed but some things are better of as a story for all to hear. | 2 |
7ae56ec | Driverless cars or drivers driving a car? Technology is good but too much can be fatal. Driverless cars will be inefficient, expensive, and make people lazy.
Driverless cars will become inefficient because after a few years they'll need repare and could get viruses in them. Driverless cars so far require of human skill so people still need to be aware. Therefore, probably causing many accidents on the road because of unefficiency from the car. Drivers would get bored to await their to turn to drive. So far there are no laws that approve driverless cars, because it requires a human to drive a car.
Not only will they be inefficient but will cost many companies a lot of money to develop. In the late 1950s, General Motors created a concept car that could run on special track embedded with electrical cable; however, it required massive upgrades to exisiting road, something that was too expensive to be practical. Not only will it be expensive for companies but also for the state making roads for the driveless cars. A radar that would help with the transportation of driverless cars can cost up to two hundred million dollars.
If driverless cars ever came to be that would make people very lazy. People would be picked up whenever they need to go somewhere without causing them a little of activity but to walk to a car. Yes, it could be a benefit when you have an emergency and can't drive yourself around. Yet there are numbers and places you could call in case of an emergency. Humans will eventually rely on technology so much that soon they'll invent chairs that require no getting up from them to go to the kitchen. People need to be active and with driverless cars there'll be a lazy society.
Technology is becoming to powerful and needs to be limited. With driverless cars there will be a lot of economical expenses, many inefficencies, and laziness among the country. | 4 |
7aee2ae | The author supports this idea well because they give alot infromation, and deatils about Venus, and how venus is the second planet from our sun. The author suggest to study Venus because is important to know about it and how it's bad or good. Humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world. The mission was unmanned, and for a good reason because no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hour. This why venus could be dangerous because not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. I choose this evidence because expalins alot about venus, and how spacescraft don't want to go down their because no one survived the landing, and how Venus could be dangerous. First, it talks about how Venus,and Mars our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds. Then it talks about 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus even more challenging are the clous of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere and the planet surface, temparatures avarage over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. | 2 |
7af26d3 | Dear state senator,
The Electoral College that was established by the founding fathers in the Contitution is important to all of us. Every candidate that is running for President in each state has its own group of electors that the political party of the candidate chose. I am however, not in favor of keeping the Electoral College but to change it to be an election by popular vote for the president of the United States, the reason being that it is unfair to the voters and outdated.
The Electoral College is unfair to it's voters. If the candidate has more electoral votes than popular votes then they have a higher chance of winning. "Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prewfer a direct election to the kind we have now" (Plumer, Paragraph 9). The president is the leader of the United States and if most of our country votes on a candidate they think suites the best but the other candidate wins, that would make many voters dissapointed. "Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning" (Plumer, Paragraph 13). Every vote counts, and the candidate that gets the most popular votes deserves the win.
Since our founding fathers established the Electoral College it shows that it is outdated. "The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational" (Plumer, Paragraph 14). This is the twenty-first century, and we need to make our elections more modernized to where every voter is happy. A voter should not vote for an elector and hope that the candidate wins but be able to vote for the candidate itself. Even though there are many people against the Electoral College, it still has its defenders. "This year voters can expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could again lose the presidency" (Plumer, Paragraph 9). As there are people who believe that whatever our founding fathers established we need to keep our tradition going and not change a single thing, but maybe it's time for a change. "Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than poeple who thing that single vote may decide an election" (Posner, Paragraph 23).
"It's hard to say this, but Bob Dole was right: Abolish the electoral college" (Plumer, Paragraph 14)! The voters think the Electoral College is unfair and outdated. People vote for a candidate but the outcome is not what they were expecting. The candidates that get the most popular votes deserve to win!
Sincerely,
Dissapointed voter | 4 |
7af3b06 | In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", it tals about how scientest are working on new technology to overcome the chalanges of Venus and its complications. In the begining of the artical it talks abou how Venus isthe second closest planet from the sun and how it is one of the two most similar planets to Earth. Since it has similarities to Earths' size and density scientest have sentunmanded spacecrafts to Venus to investigate.
Unfortunatlly no space craft has survived acording to the last two sentances of paragraph two. In the beginning of paragraph three it states how a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent of carbon dioxide engulfs Venus. The clouds on this planet are also highly currosive with sulfuric acid in them. The planets surface averages about 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmospheric presure is 90 times greater than on Earth. This concludes that Venus has the hotest surface tempreature of any planet in our solar system. Venus also has obsticals like erupting valcanos, earthquakes, and frequent lightning stikes on the planets surface.
With all these complications though scientest still are curious about this dangerous planet. In the second sentance of the fourth paragraph it explains that astronomers are curious because it may have been the most Earth like planet in our solar system. The planet resembles a surface with rocky sediment and includes things such as valleys, mountains, and craters.
In the fifth paragraph it states that NASA is coming up with possible solutions to avoid most of these issues. One of them is inventing is a small vehical that resembles a blimp floating 30 miles above Venus's landscape.
Now this doesn't get the scientest what they want exactly what they want because due to the planets atmospher light doesn't peneatrate very well making it difficult to observe ground conditions. It also limits the amount that you would see in pictures and vidoes of the planet. Many researchers are working on new inventions so macheines will last longer on the harsh planet.
For example in the seventh paragraph NASA states that it has been working on electronics made of silicon carbon and they have even tested it a chamber concluding that it lasted in the harsh conditions for three weeks. They are also recyclaling old ideas from the 1800's, they are trying to use a computor that does calculations,but theinvention uses gears and levers, meaning that it doesn't require any electricity to work.
Scientest are working hard to accheve this goal to explore this harsh mystery planet. They accept the challanges that come with it and they strive to succeed not only to gain insight but to quench their curiosity that all humans have about this planet and the possibilities that it could lead to. | 2 |
7af41ea | The Office of the Federal Register and Richard A. Ponser have introduced multiple communities to a process adressed as The Electoral College. This process most people find very convinient and efficient, is one way to vote for the President. The Electoral College allows societies to obtain a more educated vote towards a possible future President. The people vote for an elector instead of directly towards the presidential candidate. Having citizens whom have received a political education vote for the society's convenience, is definetly more efficient than having busy adults worry about the presidential candidates.
Students, as we know, study and work hard for a career they will accomplish in the future. These electorals have received the needed political and even physcological education to benefit a society with an educated vote. When citizens in a community vote for these electorals to have them vote the to-come President, it is an assured weight of stress taken off their shoulders. Source 3 says, "The advocates of this position are correct in arguing that the Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense... it is the electors who elect the president, not the people." However, notice how it says the "electors elect the president" yet the people elect the electors. So yes, it is not fully democratic yet still has somewhat qualities of a democracy process. The Elecoral College is part democratic with more educated votes to benefit our society because in the end, the people who know more about the country's convinience are the electors.
Be that as it may, having electors vote and elect for the people is very much convinient considering their supirior knowledge within politics and our country's best choice. This argument is common sense. An average human would rather have a science teacher take their biology test than having a math teacher take it where her/his field of knowldge lands nowhere near science. | 3 |
7af72ba | Throughout the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus,"
the author suggests that studying Venus would be valuable despite the many dangers it holds. A major portion of the article gives insight onto why studying Venus can, and is, dangerous.
Information about how studying Venus can be very valuable is rarely provided.
The author does not adequately support their idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers.
Though the author of the article belives that studying Venus would be advantageous, the evidence provided is not strong.
In paragraph 4, the author writes that Venus is the "most Earth-like planet in our solar system" and "could have supported various forms of life."
The author does provide much context into these claims and only describes geographical features.
The author then does not mention this idea until paragraph 8.
They conclude the article with very similar statements as mentioned before.
The article does not contain information on why studying Venus would be valuable, but more so on why it is dangerous.
Most of the article describes and tells about the many dangers of studying Venus.
This directly contradicts the author's viewpoint.
In paragraph 2, the author provides evidence against their idea.
The text states, "Each previous mission was unmaned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours,"
and "Numerous factors contibute to Venus's reputation."
When first reading the article, the text immediately leads the reader to believe that Venus is extremely dangerous.
The author includes many other shocking facts including, but not limited to, "97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus... temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit.. atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet."
Reasons such as these lead readers to form a negative opinion about the explorations of Venus.
Though the author does bring up different solutions to make a trip to Venus more safe, they also bring up why the solutions would not work.
For example, one solution includes floating 30 miles abouve the atmosphere.
However after describing this system, the next paragraph provides reasons why this would not work well.
As stated in paragraph 6, "...researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance.
Therefore, scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks."
The author also notes that photography and videography would be ineffective.
Paragraph 7 also explains that modern computer can not work near Venus's surface as the high temperatures melt most of the metals.
Though the ideas that the author brings up are valid, they are discredited, weakening the points.
In conclusion, the author does not properly support their claims that studying Venus can be valuable despite the dangers.
The article consists mainly of reasons why studying Venus can be very dangerous rather than why it is advantageous.
The article provides evidence agains the author's viewpoint and show that studying Venus is too dangerous and that the risks do not outweigh the outcome. | 5 |
7af7ad9 | NASA is fighting to be alble to to go to Venus . They have been researching diffrent methods on how to sustaine life on the planet . In the text it says that "Our travels on earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers but should be expanded .."(8) Yes we are trying to figer out our planet earth still but there may be diffrent ways we can help explore the ocean and lower in the earths core .
We have never been affriad of danger and we always try and try again . with the man on the moon and rovers on mars. NASA has been coming up with an idea on how we are going to the hostile planet."Venuse would allow scientists to float above the fray . Imagine a blimp like vehicle hoveroring over venus 30 or so miles above the rolling vensian landscape."(5)Even if it not on the planets surface as close as we get is good progress and we have presisted with danger still in the path in front of us .
NASA
has gotten us far with one big idea .So planets like venuse are always worthy pursiting with all the dangers . | 2 |
7af9f3a | The Mona Lisa is an old painting. Painted in the 1500s during the Italian rennisance by the renowned artist, mathmetician, and architech Leonardo da Vinci. So what does an old painting have to do with the current age of modern technology and industry, it makes a good test run for a new advacement in computer tech. In this day and age technology has gone leaps and bounds beyond what was possible, such as be able to read and caculate the emotions which could be useful; considering the fact that it works on the face of a painting.
How we caculate the emtions on a face is rather simple when we are given the six base emtions. A base of six emtions is good to work with and the author states that ,"Eckman has classified six basic emotions—happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness—and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles"(D'alto 3). From these six emtions and reading the facial expressions we can caculate out of one hundred percent the level of emtion. It feels odd to put emotions on a scale if 1 to 100 as it raise the philisophical question if emtions can be quantified. The more interesting question is how can this computer software read mixed emtions on the face, and with that question in mind Dr Huang gives us this answer ,"By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions (as in da Vinci’s masterpiece)"(D'alto 4). With this computer being able to read mixed emotions and caculate a number from there is a marvel. It does bear a question. What must the computer see tomread these emtions. Where does this idea that we can read emotions stem from in relatin to this advancement in science.
The key that opens the gate to reading emotions isnt hard to find as regular people do it everyday. In the article the author says that humans do the same caculations as the computer everyday, and then provides us with this ,"For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face"(D'alto 5). Most days one can look to their friend and family and see something there. When a mother smiles at her children and her children smile back it is obvious that they are happy. The same is also true when a son and father argue, as when one is angry the other is bound to follow. Humans are emotional creatures and our emotions can and often drive the emotions of others. What da Vinci did to impress people through his art was that he captured emotion, it can be hard to translate emotion of life to canvas however ,"Yet Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions"(D'alto 5). art in all forms is expression and the Mona Lisa is an expression of the emotions of a lady capture too last &or a long time. The fact that the computer can read and detect emotion in such an old painting is amazing but it does allow one to think in doubt of this new technology. What happens if someone is faking emotion to get by.
Insuarance of success is nice and the doctors who havemspent time and hard work want to be as efficent as possible, so it makes sense they are confidant in their software to read real and fake emotion. The doctors explain that the computer reads muscle movement, and what these movements do is ,"They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one"(D'alto 7). If this is true then the efficency must be incredibly acurate. The movement of muscles in genuine emotions must be relaxed and not forced like in fake smiles. This forced smile tense the muscles in a way that makes them look different to the computer. Truly facsinating as even humans could use this recongnition in small ways. The best utilization of this is pointed out when the author says ,"To an expert, faces don’t lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a “smiling” politician or celebrity isn’t being truthful"(D'alto 8). This is rather scary in though and yet intriguing in its own right. When people put up false fronts one has to ask why should i trust this person. A better question raised is what does this mean for people going forward.
Overall else this technology is intriguing and ciuld be useful to people. It could find use in court to tell if a suspect is faking emtions, it could lead to identify false fronts of politician. The uses for technology that advances foward like this, is that there is no limit to what can be done but imgination. Useful, intriuging, and slightly scary, the expectations place on this device will be something for many to look foward to. | 4 |
7afcfe2 | The author is right study Venus, in the text it says that it is earch twin and that Venus has mountains and other things like earth so they could have had life there a long time ago. Even though it will be a struggle to study Venus it would be worth it beacuse it could be a second earth. It would be hard to get on the surface of Venus the average temperature is over 800 degrees.
The study of Venus would be hard but NASA has one compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. They would have to hover/float above the fray at about 30 or more miles above the landscape and the air pressure would be close to Earth sea levels it wont be an easy conditons for humans but surviable. However they would have to get close to Venus surface so that they could get rock samples. That's why the author says they would need to make a machine to last a long enough time to cotribute meaningfully on Venus. Venus is our sister planet it is inhopitable,still today Venus still has some features like Earth. The planet has a rocky surface and has valleys,mountains, and craters. In the text the author says;"Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit".
Venus can one day be a livning condtion for us people on Earth that's why the author wants us to study the planet in the last paragraph the author says;"Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expaned to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." | 3 |
7b00389 | Driverless Cars would be a great thing to have in the future or bad thing in the futrue. It doesn't allow for many mistakes to occur because of the fact that the car is drivning itself. Th only possible problems are when the driver does have to control the car, he or she will not be ready and the car will crash. However the car will not crash on its own causing less crashes and less opputunites for cars to crash. In my experience with driving, there are numerous amounts of people who cannot drive properly, this will limit the amout of driving the person actually has to do, causing less problems to occur. However the price of the car and all of it gadgets is a serious issue. It is to assume most people cannot afford something that high tech. I think this will cause more problems in the aspect of drinking and driving because people will see it as they aren't driving so it is okay, when in relaity it is not okay. I see driverless cars be a horrible idea in the future becasue all the senors needed for the car to work, and the lawsuit issues with the driver or manufactuer problem.
All of the senors needed for the car to work can be an issue. What happens if one of the senors malfunctions and doesn't work, what happens to the car. The car most likely will either not work and become a regular car. "Position-estimaitng senots on the left rear wheel, a rotating mirror, four automotive rada senors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor. The most improtant bt of technology in this system is teh spinning senor on the roof, Dubbed LIDAR." These are just the beginning of the senors needed for the car to work. The likeihood of something breaking is high and the price to repair that one piece will mostly likely be high as well. If the Dubbed LIDAR wasn't to work then the car wouldn't be able ot preform properly, and cause more accidents, injurys, and even deaths then what is currently happening today.
The complacations betweem whose at fault, the dirver or the manufactuer, as well as the legal state of the car in states, is a serious problems that the Driverless car cannot, for the most part control. "In most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars." It isn't even legal in most states to practice this car. Obviously the car isn't the safest as of right now, in 10 20 years maybe, but now in present times no. Also whose is at fault if someone is to crash, the driver or the manufacturers. The driver is preconcevied to beleive that the car drives on its own, so they won't brother ot even try to drive the car properly. However the manufacturer feel as though they were warnerd so it's the drivers fault. Hosently the whole situation is confusing, but one way to solve the problem is the elimante the cause of the problems, the Driverless car.
I see driverless cars be a horrible idea in the future becasue all the senors needed for the car to work, and the lawsuit issues with the driver or manufactuer problem. There are too many problems still witht he car, that is not to say that inthe future maybe, but I just don't see it happening. The idea seems like a good idea but it is just something cannot be carried out properly, and that is the number one problem with the car. I would like to see the car be successful but i just won't happen, with some serious steps taken. Once the car is fully Driverless and no work by the driver is needed then the car will be successfull but until then it will not work. | 4 |
7b00f6a | Reading someone's emotions from this new technology could be valuable. Like in school enivroments. It could show how a student is feeling at one particular time. It can even get rid of certain ads that you don't like and show more that you do. This can also be a terrible thing. If someone didn't tell you how they felt or didn't want you to know how they felt this would be violating their privacy. This does have some ups, but there definitely are some down sides.
Dr. Huang states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." So this could help some students with learning and underestanding assignments, but what if there isn't much more you can do to change it. You can never really know what's going on in someone's life twenty four seven, not unless you talk to them. This technology should be limited to how and what they use it for. If they use this technology in a wrong way and someone could take major offense to it and could feel their rights as a person has been violated with people going in their privacy to figure out their feelings.
Second, this could not only just violate their privacy, but if said person have certain conditions and feel like people are probing in their life where they shouldn't be this can cause harm to said person. There are people who rather keep to themselves on a daily basis to better help them cope rather than people using technology to scan them and read their emotions.
In conclusion, sure this technology could be good for certain aspects of every day things technology does not know all that a person goes through on a daily basis. Not all people are the same. This technology can be good, but it has some down sides, which in some cases can be major. I believe scientists should put more thought into this and if they do decide to use this that they should be careful for what they are using in for. | 3 |
7b00fb7 | Dear State Senator,
In this letter I would like to explame the importants of Electoral College. This'll explain what it is,its defenses to the attacks on getting rid of it,and finally why it was created in the first place.
The Electoral College was a process created by the four fathers in the Constitution to established the election of the "President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens."-
Source 1: What Is the Electrol College,paragraph 1.
The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. Majority electorcal votes for President is 270. "Congressional delegtion: On for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators."-
Paragrah 2,What Is the Electoral College.
Yes this involves in the 23rd Amendment of the Contitution that Washington D.C or District or Columbia is allocated 3 electors and is treated like a state in the Electoral College. The electors for a candidate running for President has a group of electors generally by his/her's political party.
Many believe there is something wrong with the Eledtoral College. Even some like "Richard Nixon,Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S Chamber of Commerce, And the AFL-CIO"-
Source 2: The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong.
They all have in common is that they want to abolish the Electoral College. However the party will get to "select a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee."-
Source 3 paragraph 2.
However rarely do you actually see it's possible for the winner to get eletoral vote but not popular vote. in 2000, when Gore had more popular votes then Bush. But the agurement falls apart since it happens rarely. It was the frist time since 1888 that's about 112 years that this has happened. It's even highly unlikely it will end in a tie-as 538 is an even number it is divied to the states.
It was started by the founding fathers in order to have a informed government. It is rumored that they believed that the common person the person who votes for popularity is to uninformed to choose who will be President. So in the Constitution they put it as a "pompromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress by popular vote of qulified citizens. | 1 |
7b084d9 | in source one they talk about banning driving in germany and how does it affect them but in the U.S.A if u took that baway we would probaly freak out unlike a small town in germany completly has no cars in there small town. In Levitton and Scarsdale new york some cars rare overpopulating us and causing emission smoke throughout the air and litereally choking us with fumes. The United States Of America is starting to reduce car control in some citys it is said that 80% of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20% to other transport.
In source two it talks about paris france and its trouble with cars stsrting with the pollution or smog it has gotten so bad that the french party made a rule that people with even number plates can drive on monday,wendsday,friday and sunday while people with the odd plates drive on tuesday'thursday, and saturday. Even though china is the most polluted place paris is more polluted than any other european capital. It says in source two that paris had 147micrograms of smog per cubic meter last week wich is a lot of pollutoin to get rid of.
in source three we talk about bogota wich is the site of a program that began in mid 1990s it has also seen the construction of 118 bike miles,the most by any latin america city. I am talking about car free day wich is celebrated to promote a pollution free world in bogota there are no cars only taxis and buses. If u ride a car on this day you will have to pay a $25 fine the turn out is always large despite the rain. "The rain hasnt stopped us before" says Bogota mayor Antanas Mockus.
in source four we talk about the decrease of car usage in the U.S.A in 2005 is when the we peaked in driving but from there we dropped by 9% to 2013 this was equal to the country in 1995. if this keeps up it can have a negative impact on car companys because the eill be loosin money but a positive impact on the enviorment becasue car emission is the second most cause of poolution,no cars no poluttion. In the ages between 16-39 has dropped in obtaing a license while older people are more likly to get ther license. A study shows that driving by young people decreased by 23% between the year 2001 and 2009 | 2 |
7b0bb8f | "Life goes on without cars."(Rosenthal).There are many advantages of limiting car usage. Two advantages to limiting car usage is it reduces smog and it helps with greenhouse gas emission.
To start of with limiting car usage helps with the reduction of smog. To illustrate,in the text "Paris bans driving due to smog"(Duffer) the city of Paris decides to put a ban on driving:"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 10). This ban was put to good use by some but others still did not follow with the ban about 4,000 people were fined. People will still find away to break a ban or regulation that is put out . This just shows how many motorists are actually out on the streets of Paris but still a good number of people went through with the ban. Many people did participate inthis ban,it helps reduce the smog that is desperatley needed in this city. To further illustrate , in the text "Car-free day is spinning into a big hot in Bogota." (Selsky). Bogota, Columbia decides to put into place a car-free day to "reduce smog. Violators faced $25 fines."(Selsky 21). Also like the ban in Paris this ban was put out to help with the cities problem with smog. In a capital city of over 7 million and people trying to get to work and on with there day of course there would be a problem with smog. The smog can cause many problems with the enviroment and health of the people in that community,especially in a city with a hot climate like Colombia. Also two other cities joined in this car free day: Cali and Valledupar. In both of these stories the ban / limit on the usage of cars is for the one problem that many big cities face like Paris, Botoga , Beijing and many more:smog.
To continue , limiting car usage also helps with greenhouse gas emission. For example, in the text "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars"(Rosenthal) one of the reasons that Vauban, Germany decided to become a car-free suburb " is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduc greenhouse gas emission from tailpipes..."(Rosenthal 5). "Passenger Cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emission in Europe"(Rosenthal 5) by having this city in Germany go car-free its going to help that 12 percent of greenhouse gas emisssion go down. Also, with that many cars in Vauban the enviroment is healthier which makes the people in that city healthier more stress free. Another example is in the text " the End of Car Culture."(Rosenthal). With less Americans buying cars and driving less " President Obamas ambitious goals to curb the greenhouse gas emission"(Rosenthal 29) is beginning to happen. The greenhouse gas emission will be reaching a decline with the miles that people are driving going down. If the driving rates continue to go down and Obamas goal to reduce the greenhouse gas emission in the U.S. will go down and the country would not be responsible for up to 50 percent greenhouse gas emission in some parts of heavily populated car areas in the United States. Limiting the usage of cars can help with greenhouse gas emission.
In conclusion, There are many advantages to limiting the usage of cars. Two advantages to limiting the usage of cars is it reduces smog and it helps with greenhouse gas emission. Having a limit on car usage helps with the well being a the community. | 4 |
7b132ff | Driverless Cars is a great idea, these cars would make a huge change in the world because these cars would be really helpful, but there are some adventages and disavenges of the use of these cars, one adventages is that can drive by themselves, but a desaventage is that if the sensors don't work what would happen?.
Driverless cars would be really helpful for people and mostly for people that travel a lot they fall sleep, these cars would help them by taking control and so no one get hurt. Driverless cars have sensors that help to create a 3-D model of the car's surroundings so this would help the car to see if there is any danger and if the is the car will notify the driver to take over and take another options. Cars like these ones are a great idea, it will allow the drivers to take a rest when they are tired.
Cars like driverless cars are not perfect and they are not 100 percent safe, these cars can be really expensive too and not everyone would buy them. About safety the sensors that these cars use what if they don't work? what would it happen? if the sensors don't work the cars will not alert the driver if there is any danger and this will end up in an accident and would not be good for the manufacturer and the owner, these were some reasons why the manufacturers want to put cameras in the cars so the car can see the driver and know whether the driver can drive or cannot drive.
Some manufacturers like GM they have developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger. Other car that tells the driver when they should take over the car is the Google car. Cameras in cars can help a lot because while the driver is watching the road the car is watching the driver. Some manufacturers are considering bringing entertainment for these cars and information system that use heads-up displays. Such displays can be turned off when the driver needs to take over. This new tegnology in cars is really good, but how much these will cost? No one knows yet. I strongly agree with the develop of the driverless cars because this will really help peole and will help to reduce the cars accidents.
Driverless cars are defenitly are great this new tegnology will allow the driver to take a rest and then take over any time. The sensors that the cars have help to avoid any danger. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have these new cars drive themselves by 2020, the cars they try to make will be the best option to have less cars accidents in the future. | 4 |
7b17381 | Driverless cars, the future of the world. There could be many disadvanteges with driverless cars. One disadvantage would be that there could be malfunctions within the hardware inside of the vehicle. Another would be if someone would hack into the mainframe of the car and take control of it without the owner or driver knowing about it. One last disadvantage would be based upon the driver of the car. My position on driverless cars is that I'm really not a big fan of the idea so I don't really aprove of it
The first disadvantage would be if the hardware in the car was to malfunction. Say if the technology in the car was damaged and the car started to not act properly. That would probably cost thousands of dollars to repair. Also if the car was to not function correctly the driver, passengers, or other people outside of the vehicle may be injured. That is the first disadvantage of the driverless car.
The next diadvantege would be if someone had hacked into the the cars mainframe. If someone was able to hack into the car without the driver or owner knowing it can be very dangerous. It can be dangerous because they can track where that person is at alll times. They could tell if they're home or not and the owner can possibly end being robbed. Another way it would be dangerous is that the person that had hacked the car could control the car and may end up hurting the driver or people around the car.
The last disadvantage would be the driver of the car. If the driver of the car was reckless and irresponsible it can affect him/her or even the people around them. Like in the article it says,"The car can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but are alll designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills." If the driver was to ignpre that notification it cause an accident and many people may be injured.
So like I said, my opinion on driverless cars is that they shouldn't be made and used in public. There are many disadvantages of self driving cars, but I only chose three. The first one was hardware malfunctions. The second was if the car was to be hacked. The last one was all depending on the driver it's self.
That is my position on driverless cars. | 3 |
7b190b5 | In this article the author talks about how NASA took pictures in 1976 of a rock formation on Mars that happened to look like a face. In the article they bring up reasons to believe that is is a natural rock formation instead of an alien, yet there are still people who believe that it is an alien.
In the article when the author starts talking about the Face on Mars they give many reasons as to why the Face is a natural landform. One way you know that the Face is a natural landform is because 18 years after the original picture was taken NASA went back and took newer pictures that showed that it looked as if it was just a big boulder on Mars. In the article it states, "And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos.... revealing . . . a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." This shows that the Face was just one or a couple of years, but it went away and is now shown as a flat rock surface. Another way you know that it is a natural landform is because in the article it says that when the original NASA picture was taken they captioned it saying that it was a rock formation. In the article it says, "NASAs Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet, snapping photos of possible landing sites for its sister ship Viking 2, when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face....A few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see. The caption noted a 'huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head'." This explains that even though the people at NASA also thought that it looked like a face they still said that it was just a rock formation that happened to look like a human face.
There are many more reason to believe that the Face is a natural landform and there are really no reasons why someone should believe that the Face is still on Mars, but we aren't getting good enough pictures. In the article it mentions a lot that the Face on Mar is just a landform and that even though people have come to believe that it was an alien they really should believe that it is a landform because there are so many more reasons to belive that. | 3 |
7b199f3 | Dear state senator,
I do not agree with the idea of the electoral college. The United States' president should be elected by popular vote and not just by a specific amount of electors. One great reason why the president of the US should be elected by popular vote is because the citizens won't really get to choose what president that they want to have for the next one or two terms. It is also unfair to the people that vote for their president (according to source 2.) We should really stick to the president being elected by popular vote.
The president should be elected by popular vote because the people are practically not voting for their president. The majority of voter aren't voting for the president, but they're voting for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president(as said in source 2.) The electors that actually elect the president can be anyone not holding public office. The citizens that vote can not always control whom their electors vote for.
It's official that the electoral college is also unfair to voters. Voters are voting for other electors to then elect the president. What if to say there was a tie after voting for the candidates? The election would be handed down to the House of Representatives, where the state delegations vote on the president. The electoral college is also unfair because of the win-take-all system in each state. Candidates won't stay in states where they know they a zero percent chance of winning, they'll only focus on the states with tight races.
So there is why I agree that the electoral college should be abolished and the government should change the voting system so that the president is voted by popular vote. We need to abolish the electoral college because the presidents that are being elected are not being elected by the citizens, but instead the president is elected by the electors that are elected by the citizens. The electoral college process should go no further because it is unfair, outdated, and irrational. I really long to see a change in voting systems soon. | 3 |
7b1c1cd | As time progresses, so do classroom education and the technological innovations applied to it. While teachers search for helpful methods to engage their pupils in education, the world of science develops more and more inventions, such as the Facial Action Coding System, to improve standards of living. Despite its putative effectiveness in other fields such as advertisement or marketing, Facial Action Coding System technology possesses no place of value in a classroom and would serve as a hinderence to a student's learning process.
Although this software may serve as an effective source of profit for online corporations, it has no valueable place in classrooms. In the sixth paragraph of the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author illuminates the possibilites of success human-emotion-recognizing computer software provides in terms the world of marketing, describing how analyzing the emotional response to a Web ad popping up on one's computer screen can mold the variety of its future ads to a more preferred selection (6). While this software may be helpfully applicable to marketing schemes, its analyzation of human emotions would only deter from a student's learning in the classroom due to its possible misinterpretations and miscalculations. Verbal human communication is relied upon to determine what about a lesson plan confuses a student, and although a computer might register a student's confused expression and recognize that the lesson pace might be too fast for this individual scholar, the computer would be unable to pinpoint what exactly the student fails to understand. Other events may be weighing down heavily on a student's mind, causing their face to contort and convey the emotions brought on from factors outside of the learning setting. A change in emotion not caused by a difficult lesson plan would cause the software to possibly alter the lesson pace when the student did not require any adjustment and ultimately generate frustration in the already distressed student.
Although each day, more and more opportunities to develop and improve technology and learning are created, sometimes these brilliant innovations do not mesh well with education. Despite the proposed effectiveness this software can serve for marketing companies, Facial Action Coding System would only produce obstacles to a student's learning process, ultimately diminishing any value it could potentially possess in a classroom. | 5 |
7b1d35d | Having a car is a pain, you have to worry about every littile thing. Cars are not good for the environment, the pollution from the cars is destorying everything. That is why people are limiting their usage of the cars. I am going to tell the advantages of limiting your car usage.
In paris they banned people from driving their cars because of the smog. They enforced this ban to clear the air of the global city. They alos said if anyone is driving they would have to pay a fin of 22-euro which is 31 dollors. The smog cleared enough on monday for the ruling french party to rescind the ban.
Since some people have stopped driving thie cars construction on bike paths. People in colombia have huiked, biked, skated or took buses to work. This has help prevent trafic lams, and brough down pollution. This is to help promote alternative transportation and reduce smog.
In bogot the rain hasn't stoped people from limiting their car usage. Limiting car usage is a great opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution. For the frist time two more colombian cities cali and valledupar joined the event. They are starting a revolutionary change and is crossing borders.
The limiting of car usage is helping the pollution problem alot. People are also going on hikes, bike rides, skating to work to help. The day without cars is improvement campaign that began in the mid-1990s. The car limiting usage is a really good thing that we are doing. This is just what we need to help get rid of pollution in the world and keep it save. | 2 |
7b20057 | The Challlenge of Exploring
Venus
The article is about venuse that some time called be the Evening star.
Venus is actually a planet in the oue solar system. is on the brightest point of light in the night sky. It is the closest planet to the earth. and occasionally the closest in distance like Earth, Venus, and Mars, the other neighboer orbit the sun at different type of peeds mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and the other timer to the Venuse. We as a humans have sent numerous spacecraft to the land on cloud draped world. Venus reputation as a challenging planet for the human to be study by despite its proximity to us.
`The 97 percent carbon diocide to a thck atmsphere of almost venuse. The planet surface temperatures average was over 800 degrees Fahrenteit. The atmospheric pressure 90 timer up graster the other planrt. venus has the most hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solae system. Venusian geology and the weather temperatures present additional impedimente-s like ower earthquakaker, they can kill people or make people sick. sacientists even discussing further to it surface, Astronomers are fascrinated ny the venus becanuse once have themost Eath like long ago. Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth.
NASA has one particulartarly compelling idea for swending human to study Venus as possible has the solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of venuse thta wopuld allow scientists to the float above the fray. air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth.
Venus is from a ship orbiting that safely for above the planet can porvide only limited on the ground of condition because most form of the light cannot penetrate the dense.
venus surface and have lasted fir three weeks such conditins. these devices were the first envisioned in the 1800s and plaed am important role in hte 1940 during world war ll.
travelesls on Earth could be had but beyond should not be limeited the dangers thing that is happen should dould be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 1 |
7b28c77 | I believe that we should leave the world of driverless cars alone. I think there will be too many problems with the cars in the future. For example, what if there's a glitch or other problem with the car while someone is driving the car and injures somebody. Whose at fault for the accident?
If we move forward in the process of creating driverless cars it's going to cost a lot of money for the project. They would have to come up with the money to buy the car, the cameras, the computers, the GPS, etc. It would cost a ton of money. Not to mention all the labor costs, and what about the roads? They would have to find a way for the car to drive on the road. Doing anything to the roads would be bad enough. How much money do people want to spend just trying to make a car that drives itself. We would spend all that money and then the car would have too many problems.
Roads are being made and taken up all the time. to make this car they would have to find a way to make the roads to where the car could drive on them and then find a way for the car to recognize where those roads are. What are they going to use so the car can find the correct roads that are safe to drive on? That is definetly something that they would need to figure out.
Another problem is what are they going to do with all the other peoples' cars that don't drive themselves after they do all this work just to make a driverless car? Are the roads still going to be able to be driven on by old cars that aren't driverless? I think that there are too many questions that need to be answered before we even consider making a car that drives itself.
If we do create a completely driverless car, how much will it cost? They would've spent propably thousands if not millions on the car, so how much would it cost? If they make the car, I think it would be one of those things where only certain people could get it because it would cost so much. Just for them to break even on the car they would propably have to sell it for a ton of money.
I believe that we should not move forward in the project to build a driverless car. There are too many quesions that need to be answered. They would have to find many different way for the car to work, like the roads, GPS's, the computers in the cars. There is to many things for them to work out. I don't think the world is ready yet for driverless cars. Maybe in the next fifty to a hundered years or so, but not yet. The world just isn't ready for it yet in my opinion. | 4 |
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Next, sign up are in Europe and this boy Luke sign up. He was having a life time on his adventure. He went to Panama Canal and Crete and China. Luke crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War II.
Then, it takes him two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean to get to China. Luke was busy the whole time. Be care full when working because one rainy night Luke slid down a slippery ladder on his backside, but he is still alive. He also found time to have fun on board, especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games and table-tennis tournament, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time.
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7b3945a | Dear state Senator,
I am writing to you today to tell you the Electoral College is not fair, takes power from the people, and is very unclear in many areas. There have been many instances that prove this point and we need to change before the power of presidency goes to someone who doesnt deserve it.
In the 2000 presedential election Al Gore lost. How is this possible if he won the popular vote which is the real voice of Americans? Well the electoral college decided otherwise. Someone who was supposed to be representing your vote at the meeting of the electors decided he didnt believe in the thousands of votes people picked and voted for whoever he felt was right. This is unfair to the people, and the presedential candidates.
How can someone justify our government as a democracy, and then turn around and say were putting the powere of voters in the hands of members of Congress and The House of Representatives who may not believe in what the states popular vote is and pick who ever they want? They can't. This process takes away peoples votes and gives them no say in the government. If we don't change then were taking away peoples rights.
As if that was'nt enough to get rid of the Electoral College theirs more. What if theres a tie in the Electoral College? I mean it's very possible 135 members vote one way and the other 135 the other. Well in this situation the house of representatives would decide. This means the same state that has 100's of millions of voters would have as much say as a state with thousands of voters. Where does the millions of votes from the other state go? Down the drain. This is why the unjust electoral college system must be stopped.
Wether your a voter who got cheated by the electoral college or Al Gore who got the presidency taken from him you should realize the electoral college is unfair, unjust, and must be stopped so people can have there vote back. | 3 |
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Thosse are the reasons why I think you should sign up for the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 2 |
7b48329 | The author supports his claims by giving the reader information on how Venus is a challege to explore, with it's thick atmoshphere, and hot surface. "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrisive sulfuric acid in Venu's atmosphere." The author also claims that Venus is very hot like flaming hot, over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and that is one of the main reason why it's so challenging to land on Venus. "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 time greater than what we experience on our own planet."
The reasons on why scientists are still discussing about Venus today is because Venus is the only planet that use to look like earth with its rocky terrain and with that Astronmers are fascinated. "If our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing further visits to its sureface? Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." However it is dangerous and that's the only thing that's stopping NASA from sending a human to Venus because of the harsh conditions, and also Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth; such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals." The author supports his claims by providing pros and cons on "The Challenge of Exploring Venus."
The author explains on how NASA is studying Venus and how they can get images by sending a little ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet so it can provide limtied images on the ground surface. "However, peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standard froms of photographyand videography ineffective." Many researchers are working on machines that would allow the machines to stay on Venu's surface longer. "Therefore, scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks. Or maybe we should think of them as challenges. Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to out knowledge of Venus."
Venus is a challenge to get to with its hot surface, with its thick atmosphere, and atmospheric pressure. But scientists and astronomers are facinated by Venus, because they believe it had oceans and could have supported various forms of life. | 3 |
7b4925f | The author suggest that studying Venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because of human curiosity, imagination,innovation and wanting to make those embitions real.According to the article in paragraph4 it state that "Long ago, venus was proably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth". this statement show us that the author also want to pursuit his study because Venus was once like Earth and this might push, the author of wanting to know the cause why venus is not like earth anymore.
Another reason why the author want to pursuit his study is that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit and that no spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than decades. The author might wan to be the first to touch down on Venus after each mission failed. As the author states in paragraph 8, he want to pursuit the study because he believe that our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers.
Further more, he is fascinated about studying Venus because Venus has the hottest surface temperature out of any
planet in our solar system, even though Mecury is closer to our Sun, According to the statement on paragraph 3. If Venus is hotter than Mecury even though, they refferred at Venus as earth twin , the author would definately want to pursuit hi studying to known other reason for Venus of being hotter than Mecury.
In conclusion the author want to be able to reach the planet venus and able to take some sample of rock, gas from the planet Vennus to Furthermore srudy the planet. According to the article statement " more importantly researchers cannot take samples of rock,gas or anything else, from a distance. He believe that even thought the astronauts want to use a hovering vehicle over venus to avoid unfriendly ground conditions, the author does not believe that this way of stuying Venus is enough. | 3 |
7b59f1a | My name is clint i am a sciencetist at NASA the face of mars is like nothing we have ever seen befor we have been doing some research on mars and we are to beleave that there is aleion life formes on this planit we have goten picturs of mars over the years and have pictures of what appers to be faces in the cirfice of mars we have been trying to learn more about it bit it is hard to do with just pictures we need somone to go up there and evaluate it that way but we can't get anyone to volinteer because we dont know what is out there so people are scaird to go sometimes i just want to go my sealf because i am varry cureious about what is going on on mars that we cant see with a picture i want to explor it all and find out new things about mars i think there would be a lot of interesting things going on on mars and i want to find them out NASA wants to know what is going on there but not as much as i do so help me find out what is going on on mars | 1 |
7b5cdd2 | In ths artile "Driverless Cars Are Coming" they talk about how cars can drive on their own. Although, it talks about how the driver still has to stay catious. If drivers still have to be catious and take control when theres road construction and what not, then what's the point in having a drivless car. To me it's just having like to drive yourself just without pushing the brake or gas. You still have to keep your hands on the wheel.
I just dont feel that drivless cars are safe. I'd rather have to drive my own car then to have the car doing all the work because then again it says in the article that you still have to be aware of where your going and if there is any road construction, also you have to have your hands on the steering wheel just for it to activate the sensors. My question is, lets say I live in a place where there is bad weather, of course the huge trucks are going to come clean the snow, but sometimes pot holes form into the street. So do the driveless cars go aorund them or do we have to be catious too, and even if the car does go around the pot holes, how does it know not to hit the car next to them, or to go on the grass, or even the side walk.
Some people get motion sickness when they are in a car. As an example, someone I know gets motion sickness if they sit in the passanger seat of the car, but are fine if they are driving and handling the car. What if a person gets sick everytime they go into the driveless car because technically they aren't driving it. In the articale it stated "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel", in concern, what if a driver lost an arm and isn't capable of holding both hands on the steering wheel for the sensors and is used to driving with one hand.
All these concerns have to be thought while processing these cars. Drivless cars to me just aren't the new thing and a lot of more accidents are going to happen. Not a lot people read the manuals, they just buy the car and drive it. How are they going to know they have to navigate through work zones or around accidents? Why would there be accidents if we relied on a driveless car to take care of our driving for us? Drivless cars seem cool and interesting but when you start to realize the facts into this it's not so great after all. | 3 |
7b64361 | Have you ever thought you seen something and you look really close and it's something else? Or have you thought something was one thing but it was different? That's what they think happend with Mars. They think there is aliens and that aliens are making faces.
I think people are going crazy. People are watching to many cartoons and they are starting to think that aliens are real. People on talk shows, books, and magazines are talking about it. There is a face on mars and they think it's aliens creating them. I think they it just happend from natural landform. To me it looks like an Egyptian-style pyramid. I didn't see any aliens in the photograph. There aren't homes where they could live. At first scientists thought that it was a Martian mesa, because that is common around that area.
What do you think about the whole thing? I think that people need to go up to mars and really see what is going on. So, we can go and show everyone this there aren't any aliens, and they are just a myth. | 2 |
7b65be9 | In the aticle "unmasking the face of mars" they wanting you to believe thats there is some sort of rock formed as a face. This is wrong do not believe them. Need some reasons well here is three. They are doing this for money,they want to make it popular,and it took them a long time to make the very last conclusion.
In the article "unmasking the face on mars" people are saying that they see a face form with eyes,nose,and a human head. I believe that there is no face if you ask me. If you look closely to the picture in paragraph five it's clearly just a rock. NASA people are trying to proove there is a face is being shown. Trust me they are just trying to make a big theory.
Look at the article it says "the face on mars has since become a pop icon". It has starred in a hollywood film,appeared in books,magazines,radio talk shows and all. They want you all to make this formed rock popular they want you to make a big deal about it can't u see. There putting it on T.V,in movies,and on books its all for the money. Do not fall for any of there tricks. | 2 |
7b6980b | Would i buy a drivless car? Well, in my opinion and how I feel about these "driveless cars" I would not buy one; nor drive one. Why would you want a drivless car when your the driver and you want to drive and
have a car drive for you? I know the car doesn't drive for you literally, but it does most things that drivers need to know and do at serious times.
Honestly, I bet people only get a driveless car because three things. One, the driver is lazy or he just really doesn't like to drive. Two, people think its cool and it cost alot of money so they buy it and show off there smart car. Three, the driver that has a driveless car, isn't the best driver. Everyone would want one because of those three reasons, I mean yeah it would be cool to have a car that can do most of the things in the car for you but why? Thats like having someone else drive for you. Would you want a driveless car if you wanted to drive? | 2 |
7b69af5 | Dear Senator,
The reason for writing this letter is because in a recent topic brought up to the nation the Electoral College was being revised to see new changes in the way we choose our president. The Electoral college is a fundamental way on how we control the voting process for our president. In an article "What is the Electoral College" by the Office of the Federal Register it had an interesting statement that stood out. In the text it said " The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election by a vote in Congress and election of the President by popular vote...". This is telling us that the Electoral College that was established many years ago is the same thing that people are voting for now, because people today are fighting for voting by popular vote but the current Electoral College is the same thing. The current Electoral College is working fine, this is one of the reasons it shouldn't change but there are more reasons as to why it shouldn't change.
The current Electoral College has worked greatly to our nation even though people don't see it that way but it has. Another reason that the Electoral College should stay the same is because many people want to abolish the Electoral College even though its helped them choose a president that is either fighting for the nation itself or fighting for the people. The reason that people want o abolish the Electoral college is in an article "The Indefensible Electoral College: why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer. In the article it states " It's official: The electoral college is unfair... Abolsih the electoral college!". This is telling us that some of the people in the nation want to abolish the Electoral College because they want their own system of electing a president.
The Electoral College has been named man things and has been tried to change but it can't because that is the only way people as a nation know how to choose a president. In the article "The Indefensible Electoral College: why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer it says " ...The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. and the arguments against direct elections are spurious at best..". This shows us that even the people that are fighting agaist the Electoral College are making random statements that either go for it or against it because they don't know what they are fighting to achieve.
The Electoral College is the same thing people are trying to change because in the article "What is the Electoral College" by the Office of the Federal Register it states " The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect a president...". This textual evidence shows that the Constitution was actually compromising what the people are fighting for and what is already used. This also tells us that the current Electoral College is what is needed and shouldn't be changed.
In Conclusion, the Electoral College shouldn't be abolished or changed to popular vote elects the president because the current system is working fine and the reason people are fighting agaisnt it is because they might not know what they are fighting to change or maybe they think that the Electoral College is changing the vote so that they government has their chosen president rather than the peoples president. All those ideas are things that people think when their favored senator, mayor, or President loses their chance. The people just need to realize that the current Electoral college was made by the fathers of this country in order to compromise what they are fighting for and what is already used. These are the reason why the Electoral College should not be changed. | 3 |
7b69c8e | My claim is going to be on the negative aspect on driverless cars. The one of the reasons that I am going to use is road problems. Also the next problem that I am going to be talking about is a pass for the drivers crime on a crash. The next thing I am going to talk about is the finacial rate. These are the most troubling thing that are running around in my mind.
The first of the many problems is the road problems that can hurt any one on the road. If there is a sewer problem in the middle of the street that the city workers are working on the driverless cars won't have a way to detect the workers. Yes they might install a camera or a sensor to indicate that and alert the driver, but it can alert him to late and the result on that is there is already a crash. Also the car can't tell whether their is a red light or a green light it can only go to the direction it was programed to go to. There can be many more problems that anyone else can say that I'm not saying and think to your self's "why do they need to alert you before the car doesn't know how to drive a certain way".
The second reason for the negative aspect of the driverless cars is the passes on a crash. I think that if a person is going to court for getting in a crash because of his driverless car. I am not saying that he should get punished for buying that car, but they should understand that that they should be watching the road. And if someone says that the were sleeping while the car was driving they should go to jail for it. Their might be a worst punishment for it, but they should already know the bad side of the driverless car is not a game.
The last reason i am going to talk about is the finacial rate. Well I should call it money problems for everyone, but I wanted to sound smart. The company will have to sell them expensive prices because of the hardware, software, and other technology that is being combined with the car is not cheap. The people that would want to buy or rent it would have to do alot of work just to buy the car. Buy alot of work I mean he has to win the lottery and still work to still make payments on the car.
There is alot more reasons but i leave it up to the different people that are going to write about it. I hope to the people that read this that there is a positive and a negative side to everything. But it is your life but make the right choices and make sure don't make any mistakes. And i wish you the best and the wish you good luck out there in the driverless car world. | 3 |
7b6ab51 | Yes the use of this technology, facial action coding system can be valuable because if the student are bored or confused the teacher will chang up the lesson. For example when they chang the lesson up they can make it more fun for them and when they are confuse they can slow it down for them and try to help him with it. What this is that more people will pare attention more and will know wants going because it's not boreing. Another thing is when they are confuse they will know how to do it then because the teacher had slow down the lesson and the sturdent will know how to do it then.
Another example is if you are sad they will be a dd that pop up to make you smile if that ad don't work another ad will pop up. What this mean is that this technology can make you happy when you are sad or when you are angry it can make you lagh. So what I am trying to say is that this technolgy can chang the day of your life. This technolgy can help other peolpe out with they life how to tech the lesson and lot more so this will be perfict. | 2 |
7b6cbe9 | My position on driverless cars have a very negatice impact on it. I have a strong opinion on why I think driverless cars are very dangerous and a waste of money or time. It requires lots of skills and time for it to become somewhat of a driverless car, even with it needing a human behind the wheel just incase something goes wrong or the driverless car doesn't know how to react to it. The driverless car I think personally, is a very outrageous idea to even begin to think or waste any sort of knowledge on it.
Starting off that the driverless car hasn't fully became self sufficent on its own. In parargraph 2 it states, "Google cars aren't truly driverless". So why call it driverless when it still needs help of a human to get it through issues and hard tasks. It also states that the car still needs help with dealing with "complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents". Don't you think humans would be parnoid or get bored of always having to wait for the car to let them know its their time to take control to take over. How would humans stay focused on the road at all time when the car is doing somewhat of the whole job. In paragraph 7 it says " considering putting cameras to watch the drivers are ramining focused on the road", but do you realy think that will have a healthy and safe out come? No.
Coming on to how
much money it will take to put these skills and fixing up the issues for these driverless cars. Starting off how will you get people or maily the goverement to helo you out with these risky cars.The cares require many sensors according to paragraph 4. They need sensors for many things on the car and in the car for it fuction properly and effectivly. They need them for brakes, roating sensor on the roof, a video camera in the near and back mirros, a gps, ect... Many sensors just for the car to take off. That right now is big bucks that maybe isn't worth it, when its not even mangable byitself. But if you have't thought of it yet, the roads and highways still need sensors for the cars to pick up on what they need to do. And what if they don'y work? Was it just a waste of money? It also states in paragrapgh 5 that " required massive upgrades to exsisting roads, something that was simply to expensive to be practical".
Now coming in with thw law. Law basing off the cars off if they are safe enough for people and for their surroundings. It states in paragrapgh 9 that "onlt safe car has a human driver in control at all times". SO why put people lives in danger just to test out a driverless car. Also states " most states its illgeal to even to test computer-driven cars". They are still trying to figure out if these cars are even relibly safe for people to even get in them or the cover on their laiblity. Who will they balme when someone gets majorly hurt over a driverless car? " driver or manufacturer".
At the end of the day, i think personally that driverless cars are just a waste of time. A waste of a discussion with all the negative consiqunes that these cars can cause. I don't think these cars deserve to still have a chance to continue to progress in the future or have a chance to develop. These cars aren't meant for people to be driver themselves or family on an everyday life. | 4 |
7b6d0b1 | Electoral College is a great thing and some people might think its not, but there is some wrong things about it like voters vote not for the president, but for slate of electors who in turn elect the president. I'm not going to keep it because its not a good idea and people want to vote for who they want and not vote just so someone can pick who they want like their choice didn't matter. My argument against the electoral college is we might call the disaster factor. The american people consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for mech worse. Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people. Back in 1960 segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new elecotrs who would oppose John F. Kennedy. ''So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy.'' In the same vein, faithless electors have occasionally refused tovote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please.
Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president. The Senate would choose the vice-president. Because each state casts only one vote, the single representative from Wyoming, representing 500,000 voters,would have as much say as the 55 representatives from California, who represent 35 million voters. Given that many voters vote one party for preident and another party for Congress, the House's selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people. | 2 |
7b6d1f8 | Since the 1950's everyone's dream was to have a nice car but it is coming to a point in time where the car culture is coming to an end. You might be thinking that this is horrible and how will i get places without a car. No, it's not horrible at all, it's actually very beneficial in other ways. It can help people become free, less dependent, and it reduces the amount of greenhouse gases tremendously.
The first reason that limiting car use is a good thing is because it can help people become free and less dependent. It has caused people to not always be in a hurry and made them less stressed. In Bogota, Colombia they had a car-free day where people hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work. People felt so free and they felt they were doing a good deed so some got rid of their cars for good. Cars are becoming less popular in the world as we speak. For example from 2005 to 2013 the number of miles driven in the U.S. has reduced by 9%, which is equal to where the country was in 1995. Another example is that a study last year found that driving by young people decreased by 23% between 2001 and 2009. Also shopping centers are moving to places where they can be walked to rather than on a way off highway somewhere. "What intrigues me is that rates of car ownership per household and per person has started to come down two to three years before the downturn," says Micheal Sivak who studies this trend at the University of Michigan.
The next reason is that increasing the use of cars will help the environment greatly. Passenger cars are responsible for 12% of greenhouse gases in Europe and 50% in the U.S. All of our development since World War 2 has been centered around cars and it hasn't helped the environment any. For example, in Paris they were going to have two no car days to reduce the smog. The first day they said that no one with and even numbered license plate were allowed to drive and odd would be the next. After the first day was over the smog was reduced by so much that they didnt't even have to use the next day. This is just a small number of people. Imagine if everyone would participate even just for small periods of time.
In conclusion, now that you have learned that life without out cars can make you feel free, less dependent, and have the environment. Have you changed your opinion? "giving up cars is a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two-sear bicycle with his wife. | 4 |
7b6d3f8 | Have you ever woderd why the president was selected a certain way? Well i bet you did not know that it is called the electoral college. I am Going To tell you about how our president is choosen and why some people dont like thre way they are choosen.
Did you know that in the Electoral College there has to be a total of 538 Electors. Most of 270 votes are needed to elect a new president. Each canidate running for president has there own group of elector. The peresidential Election happens every four years on the tuesday after the first monday in november. then we all vote and they do all these tallying on how much electoral votes they got. Not all people agre with the voting system some say its not what we the people really want sometimes. Some People belive that it is the Electors who get to choose.
Some people belive its not fair.
We belive its not far because the electoral are using us for our votes we dont get anything out of it. The state legislature is the one who picks the electors. They are chooseing people they knoe will not be our side. The electoral college is unfair to voters beause of the winner take all rule. The electoral college is unfair,outdated and irrational.
Electoral college method of selecting the presidents messes with potentional voters alot .The Electors Has no hope for who they are eleted for they just do what they have to do to get there votes. Knowing there vote wll have no affect .
All electoral college voters vote for a slate of electors who elect the president .The Electors can be anyone not gholding public office.
Now you see our big issue with the electoral college they are unfair and dont acre about our votes. the electoral college just throws our votes in the ditch somewhere we need to stop this nonsense they are not giving us what we want. | 3 |
7b6d47d | Dear, State Sentor
I feel that you should change to the popular vote for the President of the United States. That way they people can really choose who they want to be president instead of the government having to jump in and help the people choose who they want as president and some people dont vote because they know it doesnt matter.
With Electoral College the voters don't vote for a president, they vote for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. For example the Jhon Kerry ''voting'' if you were in Texas you voted for a slate of 34 Democratic electors that pledged to John Kerry. The Electoral College is a process that makes voting easier for the government. They have to select electors, then they all have a meeting to vote for the President and Vice President, and then the counting of the eletoral votes by congress. It consists of 538 electors. But a major of 270 electroal votes in order to elect the President. Another example John F. Kennedy had a popular that vote would have went to him.
The Electoral college is unfair to voters,because of the winner-take-all system in each state, the candidates dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, which focuses only on the tight races in the "swing" states. It as become unfair,outdated,and irratonal. The electoral college is widely regared as an anachronism. We are in need of a change because this has been going on for years and years. So why not change it up i think it should have been done a while ago but it never to late.
The electoral college requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. Which is not every fair some people are'nt as rih as others so they sould'nt descrimate people by the way they look or dress. Because for all you know they look gurst so your not going to try and listen or understand where they came from. But they could be President material they just dont have the outter look, that everyones looking for."Don't judge a book by it cover."
The swing states go through the most with the electoral college,because its a winner takes all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates as seen in election. Voters in toss up states are more likely to payclose attentionto the campaign. They get the most feed back for the government. Also they get attention from the candidates as while. The bigger states dont get much attention. | 3 |
7b6f235 | the author thinks that we will studied more about Venus do too human curiousity. But knows its very dangerous to study Venus
Its dangerous to study Venus because its air is much thicker than earths and isnt even oxygen and the temprature is greater tha earth,Venus has the highets ground temp even tho Murcary is closer to the sun than Venus. Venus might be a good option to sudies tho becasue it says that it may at one point have been like earthand had oceans but we cant get too its surface to to our ships not making it threw the gasses and the ships just burning up. Scientist are working on a ship that will hover over Venus and take recorderings of it but the ship wont be able to land on the surface to stuided it. Scientist have made a cilicin that can go trew the rought terain and weather of Venus,they tested this with a special chamber simutlation,The rover lasted up to three weeks.
Scientist will study more about Venus and make new invetions that will be able to with stand the chaos of Venus. One day we will learn what Venus use to really be like and learn about its histroy. | 2 |
7b71e51 | The face on mars could not be made by aliens because the face on Cydonia change over time, its a rock trasformation , and there woukd have been more things to prove life on mars. The thinking that aliens is a bit over bord.
The face on the red planet "Cydonia" changed over time. If there was life on Cydonia the face wouldnt have changed like it did. In 1976 it looked like a shadow face. 1998 it had a white tent to it. 2001 it had racks like a rock. The face would had stayed the same if there was living life on it.
Another reason is it looks more like a trasformening rock. People tend to already had a picture of what soemthign is in there head. When the people that took the picture saw this thought it looked like a face. When you tell poeple what something looks like they wont fight you because in there head they seen it. The rock is just a time changing thing. 2001 it dosent even look like a fcae that they try and make you see.
On earth we have thing to prove that we live on here. On the red planet they only found this one thing. If there was life there would be more things to prove it and sooner. 1976 to 1998 is 22 years. In 22 years there has been only one "face" found. 1998 to 2001 is 3ish years. The same "face was there but it was different. So 25 years has pasted on anf there has only been one thing the shows that there could be life on the red planet.
Now I under stand that it does look like a human face yes. And different people have went up there just to take picturse of it. But if there was life on this planet it dont you think it would have shown itself a little bit more and not hide for 25 years giving us one piece of evidence that its real.
If there was live on plante Cydonia it would had been more things to prove it. Also The face didn't stay the same. Another reason is a rock is more believibale then aliens. Just something to think about is they did think there was life on a different planet but earth dont you think they would tell people and not try and hide it for as long as they can. They would want the world to know more about it. | 3 |
7b729ba | Luke Bumberger didn't have an clue that he will ride waves. Before he started riding waves he work a partime job at the grocery store and bank , his friend Don invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat he wouldnt say no because he knew it was a lifetime opportunity. In 1945 WORLD WAR TWO was over in Europe and many towns and countries was left in ruins. To help those countries recover their food supplies, animals 44 natoions joined together to form UNRRA the United Nations relief Rehabilitation Administration hired the seagoing cowboys to take care of the horses, young cows,and mules that were shipped overseas. Luke always wanted to ride waves because it opended up the world for him he said im grateful for the opportunitys, before luke and his family host a number of international students and exchange visitors for lots of years he said I found time to have fun on board the cowboys played table-tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, and whittling. But after Luke realized after being a Seagoing Cowboy he wanted everyone else to ride waves ,and explore and have fun while doing it so that's why him and his parents wanted to host students to be succeful and succed in life and to do what they dreamed. | 1 |
7b73775 | The face of Mars present in the region of the Red Planet called Cydonia. Isn't made of the made-up creatures called aliens. It's simply made from the rock there. In the following information will be able to support this claim.
Yes, the mission controllers back at the Jet Propulsion Lab must have been surprised when the face appeared on their monitors but that was very short lived. The scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa. That thanks to the shadows made it look like a face. And mesas are known to be quite common enough around Cydonia which is how they figured that out.
So a few days later NASA unveiled the image so everyone could see it. The authors reasoned that it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars. So much that people started to think the Face was "bona fide" evidence of life on Mars. Conspiracy theorists stated that the Face was evidence
that NASA would rather hide from the public's view.While that was happening the defenders of NASA budget wished that there was an acient civilizatiob on the Red Planet.
Although very few scientists believed that the Face was an alien artifact. A photography of Cydonia became a prioprity NASA.So Michael Malin and his MOC team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. So when thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing a natural land form. Many were disappointed by this finding.
So as you can see the Face was really just a Martian mesa. That caused a huge outbursts that shouldn't have that big of a deal. Which wasn't that big deal. | 4 |
7b76d55 | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology enables computers to identify human emotions. The invention of the Facial Action Coding System lets us read human emotions better than we do now, but is it valuable in a classroom?
In my opinion having a Facial Aciton Coding System in our classes would not be our number 1 priority, for example getting better access to wifi servers that would allow us to use our computers for projects on google without it crashing. In the other hand in paragraph 6 when the author stated "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson like an effective human instructor." I really liked that idea, because it could help out some students whose strengths may not be in that subject. In my case, that could help my me on better understanding my Geometry homework, but my computer would end up crashing and the whole purpose of the experiment would be destroyed. There is another thing we could do also, we could refer back to what we used to do and just ask our teachers to help us. We do not need a computer to explain the lesson better, I have seen there are a lot of visiual learners who have questions in my class and I don't think the computer could talk back to them and give them an answer they want to hear.
In conclusion, while the idea of having a machine identify your emotions sounds cool and fun, it would not be an essential to the classrooms it would just save us money to refer to the system we use today, which is to jsut ask our teacher. | 3 |
7b7b596 | Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars becaude nobody needs them anymore?
I can't, google cofounder sergey brian envisions a future public-transport system where fleets of drivers cars from public-transport taxi system.
I believe driverless cars should not be introduced to the human world.
Google made a car that deives by itself but in times needs the driver to take over.
When it backs out and when there is a construction issue on the roads. The driver must take control and move the car around.
I believe that is dangerous because if the car's motherboard crashes what is going to happen to the car.
The track which is embedded with an electrical cable that sends radio signals to the front end of the car. What would hapen if the track went down. thats a danger because id people get use to having their car drive for them and they never drive they can forget the rules of the road themselves. When they take control they wont remember what the rules were because their cars were always driving for them.
THe driverless car can steer, accelerate, and break themselves but also need the driver to be alert to take over when it needs.
What would happen if the cars were to give out or not catch the sensor that the pole gave them.
THey would crash and the driver could be in danger or hurt.
i believe that driverless cars are to dangerous for people to be driving in them.
i also believe that driverless cars will makae people lazyier then they already are. therefor i believe driverless cars should never come out. | 2 |
7b7b6b3 | Between years 2001 and 2009 driving by young people has decreased 23 percent because of new innovations including compact suburbs, more bicycle paths and public transportion. There are many benefits for limiting your car usage including better moods and more compact easily accesible cities, a large decrease in pollution and its cheaper.
In Vauban, Germany, Majority of there population of over five thousand have given up cars for simple reasons. A resident of Vauban stated that while using her car she felt , " tense" and that "Im much happier this way". having a car can be very stressful because you have to be alert one hundred percent of the time. You also have to deal with other drivers on the road who might not be as responsible as yourself. One big reason for leaving your car behind could be the traffic jam. traffic jams are frustrating and cause bad moods and later on accidents. Another advantage is a more compact way of living. In Vauban, they have placed their shops on a walk way rather than in a mall to increase their accesibility to pedestrians and bike riders.
Pollution has become a large threat to the world today because of cars and their exhaust. Cars are said to cause twelve percent of the greenhouse gases found in the atmosphere. Paris enforced a driving ban on monday for even numbered license plates because of the near record pollution problem in the city. These people had to leave their cars at home or be fined a thirty-one dollar ticket. many still disobeyed and some had their cars impounded. this shows us that car pollution is becoming out of hand, and limiting your car use can help the enviornment and lower the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
After 2005, studies show that the rate of driving began decreasing because of the recession. Americans could not afford to buy brand new cars ,and people without jobs just couldnt buy a car at all. Cars are becoming expensive which is why peole are taking alternate roots. this decrease in car buying will hold up the car making companies but could give people more money to spend on other things.
Throughout the years car use has decreased because of carless communities, new banning laws, the growing numbers of greenhouse gases, increasing costs and and the growing trend of walking, riding a bike, and using public transportation such as trains and buses. | 4 |
7b7bb8c | The article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" is very useful to a classroom computer, it would help make the students interested to learn about the subject they are learning about. The article talks about how the FACS (Facial Action Coding System) acually works, by someone showing an emotion in front of the computer, the computer can track your facial structure by your facial muscles.
In paragraph 1, the article is talking about how Mona Lisa cually feels in the picture becacuse it shows that Mona Lisa is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. In paragraph 4, the article is talking about how the computer is using video imagery, as a way of telling how you would feel, as if your smiling but not as broad as someone would if they were acually happy. In paragraph 6, the computer could track your facial structure to see your emotion on what your mood would be, by giving the situation of when a student saw an ad on his computer, if he were to smile then the next ad that pops up would be similar, but if a ad popped up and you would frown then the next ad that would pop up would be different. it would help in a classroom by seeing if the student is enjoying the subject they are learning about, because if someone likes somthing they would become more involved in the subject, if a teacher is trying to see what the students were interested in, the computer would be able to track the true emotion of a student. instead of a student acting like he likes it or faking to speed things up in the lesson or getting it over with, the computer would still track the person's true emotion by seeing in the emotion is too broad. even if the computer would cost too much or if it wouldn't be vlauable enough to instal it on every computer it would be worth it to keep the students entertained and paying close attention on the lesson. | 2 |
7b7e5ba | using facial expresions are a good way to tell someone u are mad or happy. but sometimes u cant tell the diffrence unless people smile all the time. for instince when i walk i have a mean face that dosent mean im mad i could be happy but its just how my face is. u shouldnt need technology to tell someone if your happy ot sad all they gotta do is look at your face and they should already know if your mad or sad.
if the person isnt sure they should ask and see wether if your mad or sad. mona lisa smiling is just showing that shes happy or that she was happy while taking the picture. to be honest i think u can smile and feel something other than happiness. like when someone is mad and they smile just to seem like there happy.
i really dont get how u can calculate emotions like its an emoiton not a math question u either ask if the person is mad or sad or u just guess off the facial expressions. thats how i see it in my eyes itll be much easier to just ask then to do reasurch.
i think the smile should be used to show happiness people can be happy for just a moment then change there face which i understand i do it all the time. mad face should show if your mad. sad face should show that your sad. it shouldnt have to involve technology to find out how the person feels. mona lisa is a wonderful painting but i think she was happy in the picture because she smiled. | 2 |
7b823fe | Dear Florida Senator,
Our country, the United States of America, elects our presidents by something that is called the Electoral College. The Electoral College is a selection of 538 electors who vote to elect the president. The popular Presidential vote ties into the Electoral College by when a person votes for a presidential candidate, that person also votes for their chosen panel of electors from that state. Many citizens of the United States believe that this electing process is unfair and takes away the freedom to elect our President, but the Electoral College is fitting for our country because the candidates can campaign in all regions and that there will not be as big as a dispute in the Electoral College election than a popular election.
To begin with, the United States should keep the Electoral College for the presidential election because the candidates campaign in all the regions. "The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have a trans-regional appeal." (Source 3, stanza 19). If the United States only had a popular vote election, the candidates would only campaign to the big states(higher population), and not the the smaller states(lower population). Then the smaller states and regions we feel like they are not involved or matter in the election. "The residents of the other regions are likely to feel disenfranchised-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." (Source 3, stanza 19). Also, a presidential candidate does not want to stay in a region where he will know he will win. The presidential candidate wants to be desired and win the elections in as much regions as possible, so more of his campaign electors go to the Electoral College. "This is a desirable result because a candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president." (Source 3, stanza 19).
Secondly, the United States should keep the Electoral College for the presidential election because there will not be as big as a dispute in an Electoral College election than in a popular election. "A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible-it happened in 2000- but it's less likely than a dispute over the popular vote." (Source 3, stanza 18). And most of the time in an Electoral College vote, the popular vote candidate wins! "...it is entirely possibel that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. Yet that has happened very rarely." (Source 3, stanza 16). Also, in a popular election, anyone can vote. That means citizens who don't know many things about the candidates or the politics can choose the future president for the United States. In the Electoral College vote, popular voters vote for a candidate's electors, who are knowledgeable about their candidates and politics, and who are carefully selected by the candidate's party. "Each candidate running for President in your state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party" (Source 1, stanza 5).
In conclusion, the United States should definitely keep the Electoral College for electing the president because it is fair to all the regions and there will not be as big as a dispute in the Electoral College vote than the popular vote. In the popular vote, if a person's desired candidate did not win, they could lash out, maybe violently, at other people in their community who voted for an opposing candidate. Also, the Electoral College vote is fair for the smaller states, for in the Electoral College, they get a number of electors based on their state's population. This is better than in a popular vote, where the whole state of California could vote for one candidate and the state of Rhode Island could vote for an opposing candidate. The California candidate would have more votes than the Rhode Island candidate, for Rhode Island is considerably smaller than California. Over all, the Electoral College election is the best way for the United States to elect their president. It's the way it always has been, therefore it should stay that way.
Sincerely,
A Concerned Student | 5 |
7b835c7 | Cars have been a great tool for transportation, but has it really helped us. or is it that we are just too lazy to walk to our friends house or go to scool. I think that with out cars we would be fine. we just have to get use to it like we do with most things in life. Cars have helped us with time and comfterbility but i feel like is also hurting us,because we are getting use to a bad habit because we always want to use our cars when ever we go anywhere. I people in the united states are starting to realize that because in 2013 the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in january 1995. that means that some people are starting to stop using theyre cars because we are witnessing a long term cultural shif. With out cars i feel like pollution wouldnt effect us as it is right now, the cars is whats causing pollution because of the gas. most kids are starting to not care about cars. the reason for that is because they have found it easier to communicate because now we have all this smart phones and we dont have to be going to our friends house becayse we have facetime and things like that on our phones. now a car is just a means of getting from A to B when baert doesnt work. We can live with out cars its just a thing of getting use to. all we have to do is give it our best and we would actually be helping the world because poluttion wouldnt be as bad abd people will actually walk to places unstead of been lazy and driving theyre cars everywhere. | 2 |
7b83f05 | No i think having technology to read a emotional expressions of students. I think that is really not a good idea . Why because somebody dont like to know how they feeling some people don't like to express their feelings cause it's nobodys bussnies . Tell me would you let them use and technology to read your emotions somepeople would say yes somepeople would no because either the way it goes your still messing being in somebodys else bussnies and some people don't like when they do things like this makes people think that where watching their life . No i disager with the technology to read emotional expression becaue it's like their trying to find a good way to gets us totechnology againts use and try to take over are emotions think about it. Think about how something bad can happen ifthey use the technology to read expressed something can go wrong to where the technology ain't gone be working like its is supposed i think they trying to use itn against take over are mine makes us feel how they want us to feel say what they want us to say | 2 |
7b844a4 | I think many people would love doing the seagoing cowboys program. If you are a country type of person or even a city person you could still do it. I am about to tell a few reasons you should do it. Here are some If you like animals, if you like exploring, if you want money, and even if you like to try new things, this would be a great thing for you.
the first reason is if like animals you would love this job. We take care of cattle. You get to feed them, brush them, clean their stall, and even lead them off the boat. You have to take care of almost 335 horses plus hay and oats to feed them.
Also if you like to explore the world around you this would be a good opportunity to do so. We have visited Europe, China, and other places. I seen the Acropolis in Greece, I took a gondola ride in Venice,Italy. I also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the panama Canal on my way to China. There are some other reasons to join the program.
Another reason is you could get paid. You could get payed by the trip or you can get paid every hour. I do not know how you get paid or how much you get paid. All I know is if you want money then join this program.
The Second to last reason you might like this is because we travel far distances. If you like to travel you should do this. It took me and my crew about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China. Even if you do not like long distance trips caring for the animals will keep you busy.
The last reason is we can still have fun by playing games in our spare time. Me and my crew play Volleyball, Baseball. Table-Tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time.
I hope you read this and thought it through. I am glad you took time to read this, and hope to see you on one of my trips. We will have fun orking with the animals together. Hope to see you There!!! | 3 |
7b84689 | In this essay iwill show you or convince you to join the Seagoing Cowboys. I will tell you about experinces and diffrent thing you will see or visit during the Seagoing Cowboys trip. Also I will tell you dirrent things you will learn.
You should join the Seagoing cowboys because you can have a great experinces! The experinces you will have is going to places you have never or got in to see before. You also can met other people from diffrent places around the world and see thier culture. Also you can look at diffrent animals that you never thought was real or you never seen! But the most best part about it is being on a boat looking at the ocean it a new way for some people to travel!
The Seagoing Cowboys are a way to learn things. You can learn how to run a boat or work sales or even drive the ship. Also you can get out of your house and do something instead of working or laying on a sofa. You can learn how to transport cattle andlearn how to work cattle because you dont have cattle or live in the city. The Seagoing Cowboys is a great oppertounity to go somewere new.
In this essay I have shown and telled you about the experices,things you will see,places you will visit,and thing you will learn. | 2 |
7b8a8d4 | Do you think people should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program? People should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program beacaue of these three reasons because they would get to go on many adventures, also because they would get to meet new people, and also they would get to experience new places.
They should join the program because they would get to go on many adventures. The text states it was a great adventure for luke.
also if they join the program they would get to meet new people. The text stats "it made me more aware of people other countries". The text also states that lead him to keep meeting new people.
Last if they join the program they would get to experience new place. the text states that they had to go to china. The text also states that they had to ride on the Atlantic Ocea.
And that is why I think more people should join the program. beacause of those three reasons. | 2 |
7b8e1ca | The idea of having driverless cars is quite the phenomonon. Not having to touch the wheel of brake or even look out the windows of the car. This is all very possible in the next ten years or so. The problem that lies within this idea is, how safe will the cars truely be? you can only trust techonology so much before it will fail on you and people could die. I think it is a geat idea if we could get them to be where there would be no wrecks or accidents involving them.
These cars copuld be a major blessing or a dreadful curse to humans. A lot of humans already hate driving in the first place, would they even listen to the car telling them that they need to take over the wheel. It all seems like such a lot of time and money to do so. The world is working perfectly fine without driverless cars. Nothing is more trustworthy than the human hand itself. Creating new laws to accompany the liability of the wrecks and all the lawsuits that would be filed if someone were to be injured or even killed in a wreck involving a driverless car. A lot of manufactureres woiuld be going out of business because of the fines that would be put on them. Its not as small a deal as forgetting a screw that could cause damage, you could end someones life becasue of one tiny mistake.
It is a good idea and all but the amount of work that would have to be put in is immense. The lives that would be lost or the people that could be hurt is not worth the luxury of being driven by your own car. Some people disagreee, they will most likely change their mind when they realize how catastrophic driverless cars really are. Besides, right now, the so called "driverless cars" still need a driver in many situations becasue of difficult road conditions that the car cannot evaluate quick enough to maneuver around. All in all, driving isn not too terrible w-to where we would need to risk someone elses life because we did not want to drive. Driving is fine and I am sure people can deal with that. | 3 |
7b92a70 | why would anybody want to be in a car that controls itself? What if the car breaks down in the middle of now where. What if a hacker hacks the car and drives you off a cliff or into a ocean? What if the car crashes and will not allow you to get out of the car before it blows up? Driverless cars are dangerous because you dont know what will happen once you're in a machines control.
Smart cars are not able to pull in or out of driveways, dealing with traffic, working their way through roadwork or even an accidents. Driving in and out a driveway is easy but a smart car is unable to do such a thing. A smart car has techology that i is a spinning sensor on the top called Dubbed LIDAR. that uses lasers to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the cars around it. So it should be able to pull in and out of driveways and also be able to coraperate in traffic.
Another example is what is a super smart hacker or terrorist hacks into the smart cars system and start creating crashes. Even if the Google cofounder Sergey creates a safe enough password someone will find a way to crack the code. There are lives at steak with these driverless cars. What if someone had a enemy decides to hack into their car, and drives them off a cliff. who will be responsable Google cofounder Sercey.
in conclusion driverless smart cars are dangerous they are just trying to make the work high tech and easy. And when i say easy i meant less work for man kind and our future. We should just leave driverless smart cars to the television and movies. | 3 |
7b9c495 | Driverless Cars are not something that we need invinted. The only reason people would want driverless cars invented is becasue they're lazy and don't want to drive themselves. We are able to drive our cars we have now, Drivers Ed classes will have to undergo new information to teach, and people who already know how to drive a regualr car will have to learn all the new ways that are avaliable to oporate the cars. It will waste a lot more time and money when driverless cars come out.
There is nothing wrong with the cars we have now. We are fully capable of driving cars ourselves. It's a lot more accurate and safe if humans oporate vehicles and not technology. What if an accident occurs when the car is opporating itself? Do we blame the car since it was the one driving or the person behind the wheel because they could have taken over? A lot of lawsuits and money could come from accidents with driverless cars. If we stay with regular cars we won't have to worry about wether to blame the car or the person behind the wheel.
Drivers Ed classes will have to be taught differently than they are now. Teachers will have to take the time to learn new material they have to inform everyone on that are taking the classes. And the classes will probably be a lot more expensive since you'll still have to learn things they teach now plus all the new information with driverless cars. People will be less likely to take drivers Ed because of the cost rising. So there is less moeny being taken in by the school that offers the class and less fully educated drivers on the road opporating vehicles.
People who already know how to drive the cars we have now will have to learn the new laws of driverless cars and how the road ways will be different. It'll be a lot of unnecessary time take away from them just to learn something we don't absolutly need to know. And it'll probably cost them more money in some way by learning these new regulations brought on by driverless cars.
Driverlesss cars are a waste of thought and technology. They will just make us more dependent on technology and cause us to be more lazy. We're alright with driving the cars we have now, Drivers Ed classes will have to change to fit what is needed to be taught with the new cars, and people who have already learned how to drive will have to waste time learning new things about driverless cars. | 3 |
7b9eb4f | Electoral College is unfair because If you only have a couple of Democratic electors than the vote that everyone in Ohio , Alaska , South Carolina , is pointless and would only count for a couple of votes.
The fact that Electors can refuse to vote for a president and the party their on what the people picked that elector for is ridiculous, because the Elector could just pick the President on the Republican side.
Electoral Vote can be easily
Manipulated by the state legislature by "replacing the Democratic electors with electors who would oppose the President.
If a candidate only went to a place that has a lot of electoral votes and he knew those people were gonna pick for the Democrats then he basically has a huge advantage, and if the Republican candidate got a bunch of other states with 3-6 electoral votes then it gonna take him alot more states to catch up to the Democrat who only need California to boost him up
Tremendously .
The 3 states a candidate needs most to win is
California
Texas
Florida
If the Democrats got those 3 states by 122 electoral votes.
The winner-takes-all rule is horrible , it should be however many votes that candidate had so if Mitt Romney had the most electoral votes in California it shouldn't mean that he wins all the electoral votes it should just mean that he gets the 33 votes and Obama gets the other 22 votes.
Im in favor of either taking out Electoral votes or just making adjustments to it , so it's more fair for the people that are voting. | 3 |
7b9f86d | I think the face is just a natural landform. I think the face is just a natural landform because a shadow can appear and make the rock look like it has a face, scientist have no proof that aliens excist, and the camera can't always take a good shot of the face.
First, the face is just a landform because a shadow coulod have appeared and make the rock look like it has a face. In paragraph 2 it say only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. This indicates that the shadow on the rock can make unusual apperance. Also in paragraph 2 it says Scientist figured it was just another Matian mesa, common enough around Cyndonia. This also indicates that things like this are usually happening.
Next, the face is just a landform because scientist have no proof that aliens excist. If aliens doesn't excist then aliens couldn't have mad the face on mars. In paragraph 6 it says few scientist believed that the face was alien articraft. Indicating that aliens are not proven to be real.
Finally, the face is just a landform because the camera doesn't always take a good shot of the face. In paragraph 8 it say's that the camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see th Face. This indicates that the camera might not have got a good shot of the face. In paragraph 9 it say's "It's not easy to target Cyndonia," says Garvin. In paragraph 8 it also says "We just don't pass over the face very often.
Based on the evidence provide i think the face is just a natural landform because a shadow can appear and make the rock look like it has a face, scientist have no proof that aliens excist, and the camera doen't always take good shots of the face. | 4 |
7ba0526 | In the article about driverless cars, it talks about how driverless cars can help people. But can they? Driverless cars can be very dangerous in some ways. People can fall asleep just as easily as driving a normal car. They fall asleep in these driverless cars because they think "Oh it's in control, I can snooze for a bit." When no, you can't. You have to be alert at all times. In paragraphs 7-10 it talks about how authorities and the law are getting involved with these driverless cars ideas. If the law doesn't approve of the driverless cars ideas it's beacuse they are aware of the people and children walking across the streets or crossing roads. If the driver in the driverless car isn't paying attention to the pedestrians, the car might not stop in time for the driver to take control.
Driverless cars do have benefits though. It does help alert the driver with any dangers up ahead or construction up ahead and has the driver take the wheel. But like what is said before, there are still some issues. Driverless cars cannot navigate on its own, you have to steer and be in control at all times if you want to get somewhere. The car isn't Knight Rider. We still have to pay attention to the car and its surroundings and one day, it might be too late, and you crash because you couldn't get ahold of the wheel because the car wouldn't shift it to you. In paragraphs 4-6 it talks about sensors in the cars, which is a good thing, but they could malfunction and then you're messed up from then on. The sensors help to alert the driver with anything that is out of its control. But it still can't navigate and that isn't very helpful, now is it? These are reasons the cars can be dangerous.
So in conclusion, driverless cars aren't all that great. They still have faults and could easily malfunction and then you don't have any control over the car anymore. These cars are not safe for anyone, and a drunk driver could easily take advantage of that. No car is going to be perfect, it'll still have dents and scratches in the long run and just like any other, it willeventually crash. Drivers need to be aware of these cons instead of focussing on the pros. Because no car will be perfect nor will it fully develop to drive on its own. It's not a living thing, its a machine for transport. Try focussing on what could go bad, before you get behind that driverless car and find out in the long run. Are "Driverless cars" really driverless? Think about it before you buy one. | 4 |
7ba3171 | People who like to go places should be a Seagoing Cowboy because you get to explore things you probably never seen before. Another thing is you get to take care of horses, young cows, and mule that were shipped overseas. You also get to help peope if you like helping people with some type of problem.
If you ever want to go to China or Europe you have a chance to if you are a Seagoing Cowboy.
Plus you can also have time to have fun on board, especially on return trips after the animals have been loaded. The cowboy played baseball and volleyball games in empty holds where animals had been housed.
In 1945 it was World War ll over in Europe, and many countries were left to ruins and to help these countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more, 44 nations joined together to for UNRRA. then the UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the animals that were shipped over sea.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy can change you life for eternal. It can also open up the world for you and make you feel grateful for opertunities like that. I would recomend being a Seagoing Cowboy because it can make you feel good for being helpful in life and one day you won't regret it. | 3 |
7ba4828 | Most people were raised on fairness; what everybody wants. So shouldn't voting be the same way? Thats why America should have popularity voting because electoral voting is unconstitutional, it doesn't give little states a say so and it's plain unfair.
First of all, Popularity voting should be the way we vote because it's constitutional. Abraham Lincoln once stated that "this is a nation for the people, by the people, and from the people"; its part of the constitution. Also, this is one nation under god and the almighty father believes in fairness; wouldn't you agree the people deserve a say so? Popularity voting allows the people to show what they support instead of electorals not serving the people justice. Electoral voting allows segergation because some states don't get a say so, but the question is aren't we one nation? The constitution says all men are equal;so what makes a man in California better than a man in North Carolina? So that's one strike for electoral voting.
Furthermore, popularity voting gives little states a say so. Did you know that small states like Rhode Island, South Carolina, and other 15 states sometimes don't get to see candidates? It's unfair that electoral voting only aims for states with high electoral voting. Popularity voting will change that giving little states a say so will heighten the ratio and maybe change the outcome. Popularity voting allows small states to put their opinion in on who they want as president because they are part of the country as well. Electoral treats smalll states like they don't matter and it's time to change that; Electoral voting now has two strikes.
Finally, popularity voting is just fair. Everyone born in America was born into the land of the free, land of the equal, land of the brave, so why shouldn't voting be like that? Everyone deserves the right to pick who they want to represent them, and if not its abusing their rights. Popularity voting is the clear choice because electoral voting is unfair, they obstrain your rights and your freedom of speech; you deserve to say who you want in office. They rather put you on mute and say you don't matter; we have to stand up. Electoral voting that was your last straw.
In conclusion, America should have popularity voting because electoral voting is unconstitutional, it doesn't give little states a say so and it's plain unfair. Also popularity voting is now the most popular voting style. We as Americans are tired of being treated unfairly and we are sticking to our national slogan; three strikes your out so good-bye electoral voting. | 4 |
7bae5dc | No way can that actually be made by aliens. The pictures don't lie, it is a natural mesa. We haven't even found life yet so how can we assume this is made by aliens.
The face is really just an illusion. It is just a Martian mesa with unusual shadows that, ironically, make it look like a face. We only released it to the public to get an attraction to Mars. The program didn't mean for all these conspiracies. All we wanted was some publicity for mars.
We even took another, better picture to prove it. I know not all people believe us that it isn't an alien monument. If you look at the picture though, it is clearly a natural landform. The picture was ten times sharper than the original. Still you doubt are findings about the landform.
Again, I think whole-heartedly that it is natural. You can believe what you think it is. We don't even know of life on Mars, how can aliens make it if none are even there. You can be a fool and think that it is a alien monument, but the pictures show it. It is nothing but a perfectly natural monument on the possibly populated Mars.
You may never believe me unless you go there and see it yourself. Personally it easily shows to be a natural landform. Many believe to this day that aliens made that structure and that it is impossible to have a natural sturctue of that likeness. Then again many more believe that it is perfectly natural and just an illusion. | 3 |
7bb110b | This new technology would be valuable reading students emtionals because we can tell how they feeling, can help them out in class and when you like a certain ad. This are reason how the new technology could be valuable in class for students.
The first way it would be valuable for the students in the classroom by telling how the students are feeling. When we look at our friends face we can tell if they are sad, mad, happy etc. With the new technology it can tell use what emotiones they are really happening. For example the author states" the software can identify mixed emotiones." The technology can tell us if we should go talk to them, leave them alone and try to give them advice. This is one way how the technology would be valuable in the students in the classroom.
The second way it would be valuable students of the classroom by it can tell if students need help. When teachers teach they don't know if students are getting the lesson. With the new technology a classroom computer could send an alert if the student not getting the lesson. For example the author states" A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." This well help teachers if they need to change there plans for the lesson or say it in a different way so the student won't be confused. This is the second way the technology could be valuable because help teachers know if students getting the information down.
The last way the new technology would be valuable for students in the classroom is by seeing if someone likes a certain ad on the computer. In the article the author states " when a ad pop's up and you smile it could send similar ads but when you frown it send a different one." So when a video game ad pop up the student good like that ad and go to website. This well help because the computer well know certains ads you like and dislike. This is the last way the technology can be valuable for students in the classroom because the computer well recognize what ads student like.
This are three ways the technology could be valuable to students in the classroom because it could tell how students are feeling, how students could be help and what ads do students like. | 3 |
7bb3a15 | A vacation to Venus, scientist are studying to prove that there could not be any human life on Venus. Studying Venus is not a worthy pursuit depite the dangers because it is to hot,no form of light , and the atmosphere is not safe for and human or animal life. Venus is way to hot for any animals or human life on this unqie planet. In the next it states that "On the planets surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit." This proves that this is way to hot for human and animal life on this planet. The text also states that "Also notable, Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to the sun." This also proves that even though that Venus is not so close to the sun as Mercury is the planet Venus is still hotter than anything in the solar system. On this plant Venus there is not form of at all. In the text it states that " Most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmoshere, rendering standard forms of photography and videographic in effective." This proves that because of the atmoshere there cannot be any light because of how strong the atmoshere is. Venus dose not have a safe atmoshere for humans nor animals. | 3 |
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