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7e3f003 | Dear state senator,
The Electoral vote should be converted to election by popular vote. By using popular vote, the majority of voters will be satisfied when it comes to the election of the president. When you use the Electoral College System, you dont vote for the president of your choice, you're voting for the how ever many representitives that pleged for them.
(Source 2, Paragraph 10)
Over 60 percent of voters would perfer a direct election to the kind we have now.
(Source 2 Paragraph 9)
Even the voters would perfer majority rule. The map in
Source 3 shows that some states have more representitives then others. Thus meaning that many states were treated unfair when it came to elections because they didnt have many votes to represent them. Especially during the 2000 campaign. Seventeen states did not recieve any candidatesat all.
(Source 2 Paragraph 13)
If some states dont get represented the people wont be happy. If the people arent happy then hectic will end up breaking out. As well as if the people arent happy, then they wont do what they are told because they are unhappy with it. People would like to vote to express their political prefrence more so then thinking a single vote could decide an election.
(Source 3 Paragraph 3)
In conclusion, the citicens of the United States would be more appreciated if they got to choose themself and put their own political input in on who became the president. Then so, Americans will be happy and riots, political protests, and/or hectic will not break out in the United States of America. | 3 |
7e41fa2 | Can you read other poeoples emotjons? Chances are you can. Even if you don't think so, you make thousands of obserbvations about other peoples emotions every day. These observations are based on superficial movements in the face of whomever you are obseving. There is techninoly called FACS (facial action coding sysyem) that can do the same thing. It has been suggested that this program should be integrated into schools to help better educate students. The ideas is that if this program can read a students emotions and realy that back to the teacher in real time, it can help the teacher educate that student in a way that is personalised to his or her emotions. I think this is an invasion of the students privacy and I do not think that this technology is appropriate in the classroom.
As stated earlier, this program is a way to read peoples emotions, and wether or not that is good or bad is another discussion. Focusing on education, this technology would give teachers complete access into their students minds, and it would take individuality away from the student. By not allowing the student the option to keep his or her emotions secret, you strip that student of his or her intellectual freedom. Your emotions are your property and if you don't want people to know what you are thinking that is your right. By stealing the students intellectual freedom you would put that student in a very bad place both physically and emotionally. It is an invasion of the privacy of the student.
Not all students can be tought. Some people just aren't fit for school and wether or not you can read their emotions is irrelevant. Some people just are not meant to be in school.
If a person who is completely disengaged from school, gets their emotions read by this technology, and the teacher tries to change that students disposition towards school it could end up making the sutuation worse for that sudent, and the teacher.
In conclusion, reading students' emotions is not the answer to better education. A technology that can estimate the emotions of humans is a dangerous concept, and could cause anarchy if not preperly implemented and school is not the place to introduce this technology. Eventually the world may be in a place where mind reading programs, and advanced technologhy may be a part of our education, but that time is far in the future. | 4 |
7e494c8 | Rows, upon rows, upon rows of students glued to a computer screen while a facial recognition technology scrambles to fix the plague of boredom that has overtaken the students. The new facial recognition technology could be valuble, but not nearly as valuble as teachers. Sure, the technology is cool and new but it cannot connect on the personal and emotionel level that a living, human techer can.
Furthuring the development of facial recognition technology for the purpose of education is unnecessary. Teachers are one of the most important jobs there is, we can't just replace a teacher with a computer program. Some of the best and most memorable people is have ever met have been teachers. Humans are complex creatures and in the text the author states that the program can dectect just 6 basic emotion "Eckman has classified six basic emotions", how could it teach us better than a fellow human. Teachers also teach us not just lessons on school subjects but life lessons as well which a computer program cannot do.
Although having a computer program teach might be cheaper in the long run as you don't have to pay them after you buy them, but think of what is really more valuable; education. | 2 |
7e4ede0 | If you want to get anywhere in life you have to find a way to get there. Cars are practically a necessity in modern life; you have to go to work, see family, and do other things that are miles apart. Everyone needs a car or vehicle to get around but not everyone has acess to it. Also cars can be death machines, yet they have to be used everyday. So enginners and technicians are attempting to find a way to make them safer and easier to use. The driveless car.
Cars are a responsibility, not a privilege. When you turn 16 you can apply for a drivers permit and then eventually get a license. There are people however that can't do this. Mentally and physically disabled people aren't always allowed to get a license and while I understand it's for safety they're people too. Immigrants aren't allowed to drive becasuse they require documentations. People with DUI records aren't allowed for safety reasons and for breaking the law. They have lives and have to go out and do things just like the rest of us. With driverless cars they could go do those things and get around. "He envisions a future with a public tranportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system."
Car accidents are the most common form of accidents. Thousands of car accidents everyday, but that doesn't stop the use of cars because we need them. Sometimes the accidents are the driver's fault but sometimes things beyond our control happen. That's why with driverless cars the road would be a much safer place. "allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone. Further improvements in sensors and computer hardware and software to make driving safer are also leading to cars that can handle more and more driving tasks on their own." It would also remove the risk of texting and driving which is a leading factor in car accidents, "Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over-something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone."
Do we really need jets, sport cars, or labtops? We already have planes, cars, and desktop computers. Yet we have them because they make life way easier, we as a species keep making luxuries for ourselves. Houses, clothes, wagons, cars, sweets, entertainment. We're not going to stop improving things. We may not need driverless cars but if we can do it then we're defenitely going to do it. It's human nature to want the best, and the driverless cars could improve a lot of people's lives with its easy use and safety advanatges. "Cars can handle more and more driving tasks on their own." "He believes such cars could change the world."
Driverless cars are the future. We will continue to improve and expand on previous technological feats to create near perfect feats. I believe that from it's accessibility and its improvement on safety that the driverless car is the way to go. We now have the technology to do this, we just need time and more expirementation. It's bound to happen. | 4 |
7e517f2 | The reason why the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents is because of how interesting it is to examin when you are close to the planet itself. Essentially when thinking of traveling from and beyond, we should not be limited by dangers or even the doubts of such exploration, buy we should expand and exceed to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation that comes from exploring such subtances in space. The true reason for us to examine Venus is for the innovation and progress in science that comes from it and how Venus is the closet planet to have identical features as earth.
Even if our sister planets are out of the question for examination due to dangerous conditions, astronomers are fascinated by Venus since it has the potential to be the most Earth-like planet in our entire solar system. The text states that, "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." This quote indicates that Venus has similar features to what Earth has; therefore, Venus is the nearest option when looking at planets that are similar to Earth and also the consideration that we have a pretty long time frame for space travel. There aren't many options for a safe and scientifically mission, so this is our best option for porductive wise for us in the space enviroment of exploring. This is one solid reason for the author to say that the trip to Venus would be a worthy pursuit, but would have dangers to it, but we will be able to expand our innovation in the science world.
NASA has a plan to allow scientist to go to Venus with a blimp-like vechile which whould hover 30 feet above the Venusian landscape letting them examine the features of Venus. The quote provides, "At thirthy-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth." The quote indicates that the scientists may feel toasty with that 170 degrees of Fahrenheit on them, but the pressure that is psuhed on the would be the equivalent of the sea level which is on Earth. Overall, these are not the easiest conditions, but it is survivable for humanss to live and stay productive in the task at hand. This is another solid reason for the scientist to travel to Venus and to expand there knowledge and space innovation as well, even with hazardous conditions that are presented during there examination.
By having the will and courage to travel and observe the features of this planet, which has the potential to be similar to the planet that we live on, Earth, we are able to expand our thoughts and innovation of space and able to progress in our space knowledge as a whole. Even though there will be dangers that are presented during the journey, you will be protected by science itself, with its blimps from NASA or the will for observation in comparing Earth and Venus's features. Overall, it is a worthy pursuit to examine and observe the potential to be the identical planet to Earth from its features. | 4 |
7e5452d | Development of cars will improve our society and make everyday life much easier. People will be much happier and more free with cars that drive them everywhere without worrying about traffic. The advantage of having a car that will talk to you if anything goes wrong is beyond amazing. This break through will lower many accidents and safety always has to be first. The development of cars should be continued further because it will help people with disabilities to go through life easier, the frustrations of always being alert while driving could be made easier, and the technology developing more could lead to other break throughs.
A supporting idea is how people with disabilities alwasy have it harder than others when driving cars. It doesn't matter if your old or even deaf, anybody with a disability will tell you it is harder to drive under circumstances like these. In the deaf world, the deaf people believe that they can do anything a hearing person can do and that is true but in driving accidents happen all the time. Not being able to hear just makes it worse. If someone did not hear a car behind them honking because there is something coming towards the car or the traffic light is green and he hasn't noticed, many things can go wrong at that moment. Having a car that will alert you with flashing lights will be a much safer choice than leaving it to how alert a person is. Everyone is human and everyone makes mistakes but in the development of cars mistakes will be avoided. The mistakes that will be avoided can even save lives. Senior citizens will probably say that having a technology based car that would make it easier for them to get in and out of their car is what they have alwasy wanted. When a person is old and fragile they want to be treated with grace, cars that are more developed will hopefully give their hips a rest from the other cars that are hard to drive and sit in.
Another aspect that will go away with furthur developed cars is the frustrations of a driver always having to be alert. People will make mistakes in driving and with a car that will be watching a driver and ready to correct that mistake, it will make it much more safer for the driver and others that could be potentially hurt from someone's mistake. Accidents can happen in a second and if these futuristic cars can prevent all the deaths each year, then why not furthur develop cars. The developments will have drivers that are at ease. Not always having to be alert and jumpy at the wheel makes everyone happy. The way google uses their cars to have alerts will be perfect for any driver. The story talked about how flashing lights will be put into the cars and sounds to alert the driver of any mishaps. If the technology reaches to even more developments it will be great, for example the drivers will not even have to drive.
The third supporting idea will be how the development of cars could lead to more break throughs in anyway. The cure for cancer could just need a tweak and the develpoment of cars could push that nodge. Yes, cars are totally different than diseases but if one truley thinks about it human beings could begin to furthur develop their brains more in any aspect of technology. Leading forward will have scientists and manufacturers working together in furthur developing cures and even inventions that will help any person with a disability. The help that will be pushed from all this technology just makes the idea of developing these cars more. The technology that will be developed will inspire many things. The break throughs will come from more ideas once developed.
Many people will apose the idea of developing the technology of cars. People believe that people will become lazy but the truth is people are already lazy. Many people die from car accidents and most of the time it is because someone was lazy to focus on the road instead of the radio or forgot that they were drinking. Break throughs with cars will allow people to save lives and put safety fisrt. The development of car should not be stopped but continused because furthur developed cars will help people with disabilities, it will allow alerts to be made for the driver to always be on the watch, it will also lead to other break throughs down the line. Supporting the idea of developing cars should be voted for and people need to realize that change is good. | 5 |
7e56af4 | The Face on mars has to be a natural landform. My reasons for believing that is because there is no proof of aliens on Mars, there is no possible way that a human built because the only thing that has gotten to Mars is a bunch of probes, and even if we did have a human on Mars we wouldn't have the equipment to build something like that. There are no signs of alien life so how can it be made by aliens ?
The face on Mars is a natural landform. In the article it says JPL web site said that it was a natural landform. That means there is no possible chance that it was built by aliens. I think the reason why the radio, Hollywood, magazines, and TV said all that stuff was so that they could attention. People in the world for some reason are drawn to all that. They are drawn to the idea that there is a possible chance that we aren't the only ones out here in universe. The people that did all of that most likey just wanted attention, so that can they get more views or followers.
An ancient civilization on Mars just wouldn't make any sense. We had ancient civilizations too, but we didn't bulid every single butte in America. Natural landforms are so interesting that people just immediately think who made it and how it got there. There is no possible way that an ancient group of anything made that because there is not enough advanced technology. Even if aliens did exist and they did have technology why would they waste there time on building a face on Mars ?
If you are saying that it's not natural then thats like saying that the Middle Butte and Snake River where made by aliens. Just think for actual second about how that makes no sense because I don't go outside and see aliens trying to build a landform. Even if aliens did make it then how come they aren't still around or left any clues behind? Did they just all of the sudden build an amazing landform and just leave? No they didn't because if you put your hard work into something you are going to stay with it as long as you can and see how it ends up later in life. If there was aliens they would've left something so that we would know it was them.
The Face on Mars was not made by aliens. It says in the article that it is a natural landform. I don't believe everything that scientist say but I believe this one because it makes sense. All the proof you need is in the article and I added some things such as, how we can't find any aliens, how there are no signs of them now or even in the past, and that if they are real they wouldn't have that type of technology. | 3 |
7e60dc6 | Showing the Students Emotions: Is it a Good Idea?
What if teachers could tell how your feeling? With this new software that is out, they could possibly do that. The software is called the Facial Action Coding System, and it could tell you what your feeling at that point of time. In my opinion, if teachers had these it would not be a terrific thing. Having them constantly knowing your emotions is not a good thing at all, and could make them mad, or make them very happy. In this essay, ill tell you about why I am against this device being in schools.
Everybody has been bored in a class before, its compleatly normal, but its in a way the teacher cant see it. Students probably would not like having their teacher use the software on them, to then have the teacher mad at them for being bored, or to have the teacher worried there not doing something right. In paragraph 3 it explains that the Facial Action Coding System begins when the computer constructs a 3-D model of the face, which will include all 44 major muscles, so they can see how your feeling. It can classify 6 diffrent emotions, such as happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear and sadness. I think that your emotions are your emotions, and that if you are feeling down or sad, that you can tell someone, not have it put down on a screen.
This tool wouldn't be that valuable in school beause we are already surviving without it. You could just tell emotions from looking at a persons face, as stated in paragraph 5, and you could just ask them what is wrong. I dont think you should use that type of technology on the students in a highschool or elementry school because it. Using this on a class of highschool students could come out with a whole lot of responces because students in highschool feel alot. I know I woudnt want to have my emotions checked on a screen. It just doesnt sound right to me.
The Facial Action Coding System is a wonderful idea, you can see peoples emotions, which is really brilliant, but I just dont think it would be good in classrooms. It could have the teacher know if your bored, if your sad, mad, or in disgust, which as a student, I know I wouldnt want my teacher to know that information about me. This device showed the gloomy looking Mona Lisa was feeling, which is tramendous, but I dont think it would be a good idea for students in a class room. | 4 |
7e65183 | "Car-Free Cities" gave the reader a broad perspective on the advantages of limiting car usage. The world would become a more eco-friendly and overall good place if we were to make this change happen all over the world. The passages give great reasoning to why this change should happen.
Limiting our usage on cars would help the enviroment completely. The amount of pollution would have a massive decrease. "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced partial driving ban to clear the air." This statement comes from the passage, "Paris bans driving due to smog" and gives an example on how having driving restrictions would make the world more healthy for the economy. Using other ways for transportation could help prevent the enormous amount of pollutants in the air, like bicycles or car pooling. "They organize their summer jobs and social life around where they can walk or take public tranportation or car-pool with friends." This example shows ways we can have transportaion instead everyone individually using cars and causing more pollution.
Instead of driving, riding a bike or walking to the places you need to go could be a huge stress reliever. People need to go outside and get fresh air, this can happen if we decrease the use of our cars or vehicles. "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." This statement was said in the passage, "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" and gives a perfect example on how using diferent types of transportation can relieve one's stress and lower the pollution on the world and the economy.
When no longer using so many cars, and vehicles the traffic would decrease majorly. Not as many people would be driving if car-pooling or using other ways of transportation like bikes. This will also make the number of wrecks or accidents go down since not as many people would be in the situation for this to happen. Having less accidents would also save lots of lives, so many people die or get severly injured from car accidents and this can be a way to keep so many deaths or injuries from happening.
The idea of having a car-free environment is a great plan for the future and would be a positive change for the world and the environment we live in. | 4 |
7e6545b | The author supports his or her idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents by explaining why Venus should be studied ,the reasons why studying Venus is difficult, and the solutions to the problems caused by the climate of Venus.
The author supports his or her idea by stating the reasons why Venus should be explored. The author states in paragraph 4, "Furthermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel." The reason stated supports the authors idea because without a reason to study Venus there would likely be very little reason to justify studing Venus without a proper incentive.
The author further supports his or her idea by explaining why studying Venus would be so difficult. The author explains in paragraph 3, "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." If there were no explanation on why it would be diffucult to study Venus there would be no way for scientists to figure out solutions to the various problems of studying Venus.
The author then goes on to explain possible solutions for the obstacles of studing Venus. The author states in paragraph 7, "Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers." The author also states in paragraph 7, "...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." By explaining possible solutions the author proves that there is hope in studying and that attempting to study Venus isn't a futile effort.
The author supports his or her idea to study Venus by explaining why Venus should be studied, why it is so difficult to study Venus, and by explaining possible solutions to studing Venus. if there were no reason to study Venus then Venus wouldn't even be attempted study. Without an explanation of the problems of studying Venus there would be no form of figuring out a solution. With the help of possible solutions, more effective solutions can be found in the future.
3. explaining the resons wy its hard to explore | 4 |
7e6ee52 | Cars will always be one of the greatest inventions of all time, among the wheel and electricity, but they have some terrible side affects. Cars are one of the leading causes of pollution in the world. They are also very expensive to own and operate. By limiting car usage, you could cut down and costs and protect the environment.
By not using cars, it could drastically improve the environment. In Paris they banned driving because of smog, and now they have no smog and a much cleaner city. If driving limits were placed everywhere, then this could happen worldwide.
Everyone knows that cars are very expensive, to buy one knew can set you back tens of thousands of dollars. And then a few years down the road it breaks down, to fix it can costs you thousands. Not to mention inssurance and gas. Just imagine how much money you could have if you didnt ever have a car. You could practically buy a house with the savings. That could happen to everyone if we limited the use of cars.
In conclusion, there are many advantages to limiting car use such as saving the environment and saving money. We need to follow Paris's example and cut out car usage in cities to create a healthier world. | 2 |
7e6f8db | To Whom it May Concern:
The Electoral College is the cause of many political disagreements and problems whenever mentioned. Although established in the constitution, it is seen as undemocratic by many. The Electoral College takes away the ability of citizens to vote for their president; instead they are voting for Electors, not always loyal to the canidate. As a result, I believe the Electoral College should only be used in instances of a tie between two canidates.
Each presidential canidate has a group of Electors, which will be part of the Electoral College process after the popular vote is taken. The Electoral College proccess consists of the selection of electors, the meeting in which the vote for both President and Vice President occurs, and then the votes are counted by Congress. (Office of the Federal Register)¹ When the popular vote occurs, and the canidates are selected, the votes are tallied, and then the electors of the two canidates attend the meeting, and then the final decision for President is made. This is viewed as undemocratic, because there have been instances where the Electoral College dissagrees with the popular vote. Such as the case of Al Gore in 2000, who won the popular vote, and then lost the Electoral vote and therefore his presidency.(Bradford Plumer)² This caused over 60 percent of voters, to wish for a direct election opposed to the electoral proccess, according to a Gallup poll, also occuring in 2000. (Bradford Plumer)²
Anotherr issue within the electoral college, is the electors themselves. While they may claim to be loyal to their canidate, loyalties can be bribed, changed, or electors may even be replaced with only a certain party (Republican or Democratic). Which occured in Louisiana in 1960. The segregationists almost replaced Democratic electors, with ones who would instead oppose Kennedy, as a sabotage attempt at Kennedy's Presidency.(Bradford Plumer)² There have also been cases in which the loyalty of the elector was switched, and the citizens were seemingly forgotten at the electoral college. While there are over millions of people residing in the United States, there are only 538 Electors, and the fate of our country is put in Electors who can't be trusted.
Over 60 percent of Americans oppose the Electoral college, but there are still some which still believe in the compromise established by our founding fathers. The Electoral College provides a smaller chance of election ties, and an equal vote from each state. While a tie is possible in the popular voting system, it is also possible in the Electoral College, with 538 electors, 269 votes from each side can cause a huge dissagreement within our Legislative System, which could be avoided by using only the popular vote. When politicians and presidential canidates are looking for votes, they most commonly travel to the larger states, because of the larger population. A larger population provides an even larger chance of obtaining voters. But, this leaves the small states with no attention from canidates, and a smaller population weakens the states chance of the canidate they desire. Every vote counts for a canidate,5,559 voters from Ohio, and 3,687 from Hawaii stopped a tie by voting. (Bradford Plumer)² Even the small states contribute in a presidential elections, their votes are just as big as ours, even if their states ae small.
The founding fathers formed the Electoral College as a compromise, and hundreds of years later, I believe it is time for a compromise once again. The popular vote, should become the deciding vote for who is elected as President, Vice President, etc. With this, the chance of a tie comes, so i propose that the Electoral College remain only for the purpose of a tie in the popular vote, or if state legislature has reason to believe this canidate is not the best for America.
¹Excerpt from "What is the Electoral College?" by the Office of the Federal Register,from www. archives. gov/federal-register/electoral-college/about. html. In the public domain
²Excerpt from " The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best laid defenses are wrong" from Mother Jones by Bradford Plumer. Copyright © 2004 by Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress. All Rights Reserved. Permission Pending. | 6 |
7e7ed1d | Do you wonder why the program is good well some resons are they help countries recover there food supplies, there animals, and more. They also take care of a lot of animals like horses and young cows. They also take care of the mules that get ship overseas.
In paragraph 1 it states that luke was wotking two part-time jobs in a grocery stare and a bank. Then his friend Don invited him to go to a Europe cattle boat. Luke in paragraph 1 it says he couldn't say no.
And then in paragraph 2 it talks abou them helping countries with there food supplies and with animals. UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys"
so they could help with the horses and mules the were shipped overseas.And then after Luke and Don heard about that they signed up to take a shot.
Then they started going out to sea. In August 1945, they went to New Orleans. And when they arrived in New Orleans it was August 14th. Did I tell you that Luke turned 18 before they got to Greece, which for him that means he could be drafted for military service.
Luke said that "The cattle boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small town boy." He also said that helping people was the best part.And he said that he had the side benifit of seeing Europe and China.He saw lots of places like Italy and China and Europe. They also had to cross the Alintic ocean to get to China and It says in Paragraph 6 that it toke a month to get to China.Also for Luke he loved taking care of the animals so that toke up most of his time during the crossing.He also helped out his Aunt whenever he could get the time so he could prepared for hardwork. But not fot the dangers of the sea.
Even though he was working alot he still had some fun on the boat. He did fencing, boxing, reading, whittling. And games let him pass through time. He also played baseball and volleyball. And did I say that he couldn't work for a couple of days because of cracked ribs. Well I just told you and he was lucky to be alive.Luke even said he was lucky for the opportunity. He also said it made him more aware of other people in countrie and thier needs. He never gave up and he kept going even though sometimes it hurts. | 3 |
7e7f4f7 | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" sounds very interesting, but my arugement on this is article is against it because it sounds very unsafe. What if the driverless care malfunctions and you arent paying attention and get involved in the accident? Will the company of the car help you or give you another car or maybe even pay what is costed for the whole situation? Probably not. Its not worth making or even buying one of the driverless cars. Even a car itself malfunctions.
Driverless cars can cost up to millions of dollars or even more. Driverless cars sound like you need to get one and leave the old one. The fact that the driverless car may be really expensive is ridiculess. Only famous people can afford it. Maybe other weathly people can. Not just anyone will be able to afford the car. Any person can afford a car at least that works even if it is an old car. Cars can cost lots of money when you can buy something else.
Many, many people want this car because you dont have to drive but when there is an alert you have to drive. Also it requires a driver anyways. Many people want this car because you can just get one and it will drive by itself so that person can get one his or her phone while the car is in operation itself. This is ridiculess! You dont need a car that will drive by itself so you can enjoy being on your phone. You can go home after whatever event you went to and get on your phone and enjoy it.
This driverless car is not always safe because it can malfunction and cause a really bad accident and it can injure a person big time. The company may or may not help you out in this situation. Why? because the company may think is your fault for not paying attention to the car for being on your phone or doing something else, when the car alert you. The car wont always operate on itself unless its monitored and controlled by someone. Maybe the company is right, but technology malfunctions all the time. It is even worse when malfunction on a car.
This article does sounds like it is a great idea to get a driverless car. Probably anyone may get this car. I disagree for companys to make this types of cars. They should even have a law for making driverless cars that can cause an accident or injure someone. What is the whole point of making a driverless car if it still has to be monitored either way. Doesnt not sound interesting or cool. It is a very dangerous idea. Technology wasnt made perfect and it wont be perfect either. | 3 |
7e84242 | Technology is a part of the world today, and it is causing it is grow profoundly. Most people use it everyday, and it is a great tool to use making science, medical, and other occupations develop greatly. Cars are still improving with sensors, windshield wipers, and steering. Once more technology is perfected to cars, then something great can be created, driverless cars. These are dreamt about, the thought of them being furturistic is false. They are coming sooner than most know, and they will be a great invention. With lots of hard work driverless cars will help people in their everyday life, and prevent human error.
Having autonomous cars will make soicety a better functioning place. Once perfected, and these cars do not need any help of humans, this will greatly help everyone. So much time is wasted behind the wheel, people drive hours everyday.
If that time behind the wheel could be used to do something productive, then humans would be more efficent. Drivers might not be getting enough sleep due to the amount of work they have to do. If they have a long commute to work or school they can finish their work in the car. Humans would not have as much rage and would be less stressed. So, once humanless cars are perfected the life of the average human would become easier.
Human error behind the wheel is a major cause of death. People might not be thinking always and run a red light. Hit another car, and someone could die or sersiously be injured. A major problem today is driving under the influcence of alcohol or drugs. People can not always control their actions when impacted by these substances. This could harm themselves or others around them. With humanless cars these problems would disappear, if we have technonlogy taking control. Running red lights, or not using a turn signal, would no longer happen. People on the roads would be safer and less likely to die or be harmed.
With the work of many, and putting more trust into technonlogy humanless cars can help people or even prevent errors. According to the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" there are cars that can steer and drive by themselves but they just need to be perfected. Car companies like Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan they plan to have autonomous cars by 2020. Once our soiciety can put trust into technology, these wonderful cars will become a great help. Driverless cars will save people time or maybe even their life. | 3 |
7e86a5c | Space travel is not new to humanity nor is it something that has not already been accomplished. With the breach of Mars's soil having already occured scientist and space explorers have set their sights on the next challenge, Venus. Venus is sometimes closer to Earth than Mars and at other times Mars is the one closer to Earth, but of the two Venus is the closest match to Earth "in terms of density and size" and thus has been named Earth's "twin" making it a place of great interest for scientist, and those interested in space exploration because no other planet comes as close to matching Earth's conditions. Studying Venus could give hints about the future of Earth.
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author gives strong support to the idea that the pursuit of studying Venus is a worthy cause despite the dangers presented by the task. Knowledge of Venus would be extremely beneficial because Venus is one of the most interesting planets in Earth's solar system because of it's similarity to Earth. With the large number of similarities that Venus currently shares with Earth it wouldn't be terribly surprising or strange if Venus was once a planet "covered largely with oceans and" that "could support various forms of life". There is no way to tell if any of this is true, however without being able to travel to Venus and explore the planet. Only by exploring the planet and studying pieces of the planet such as small bits of land can noteworthy discoveries about Venus be made. Confirming or disproving the Earth-like Venus idea is not the only reason why studying Venus is a worthy pursuit. Another reason is that "human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors" and the curiousity of humans and their travels on Earth "should not be limited by dangers and doubts" according to paragraph 8. This statements shows that gaining the ability to study the planet Venus is about more than just the planet and also expands to include the breaking of the limitations that stop exploration due to "dangers". By expanding to meet the challenge that Venus presents humans as whole will prove that they have the ability to explore and learn about nearly everything removing some of the limits of human exploration.
In conclusion the author's support of the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers is extremely strong because the author gives noteworthy reasons as to how the pursuit would be beneficial to exploration and humans in general. The author states that the pursuit of studying Venus will open doors into the pursuit of studying other dangerous places, or areas of interest such as animals, and others. The author also sites the idea that more knowledge of the Earth's "twin" could in fact help give insight on Earth as well by giving humans an idea of what Earth could become in the future and perhaps by studying Venus scientist could find a way to prevent Earth from becoming Venus-like. The author's reasonings are strong and prove to be thought invoking and the author avoids the idea of risks that are not needed. | 4 |
7e86c35 | The FAC systes is not neccessary in a students classroom. It does not give people a fair shot to handle their emotions the way(s) they would like to handle them. Something that may be bothering a teen or a child is their business. They should have the option of sharing how they feel and what it is that may be bothering them. Or even if there is nothing bothering them, students may be happy. They should be granted the right of expressing their emotions freely.
If a student feels they want to talk to anyone about their emotions, they should verbally explain them. Having a machine explain a persons feelings may be inaccurate, or teach students to depend on technology to do everything for them. Technology is what creates laziness. For instance, the text states that " we humans perform this same impressive " calculation" every day." That quote alone explains the "natural" way of life. people are naturally able to read emotions from other able organisms. any organism with a facial sturcture is able to recognize emotions. The text also explains what happens to the major muscles and bones in a face whenever someone feels a basic emotion. I feel that we, as people are able to do the same thing.
In fact, verbal communication isn't even required in order to be able to read a persons emotions. That is a statement from the text that is proved to be true in everyday life. the complications and inaccuracy of the reading from the computure may be caused due to natural genetic facial structures and expressions. a person may feel happy but due to the sturcture of their face they may look angry. just because of the way their face is genetically structured. Therefore, being that a machine is not capable to distinguish a natural facial structure from a mental emotion, causing the readings from the machine would be inaccurate. | 3 |
7e89431 | Do you think technology can read your emotion? In my opinion I believe technology can't read your emotion. First of all, emotion has to do with what you're thinking about, a face can lie, and a drawing doesn't always mean it's happy when there is dark around it.
First of all, when you try to see someone's emotion you don't really pay attention to their face you pay attention to how they act and how they talk. Someone can be hyper and talkative some days and the next they can be smiling but not hyper or talking to anybody. Kids come to school and put on a happy face when actually they don't want to be there. It's the same with everything else.
Secondly, a face can lie. Everyone has something they're thinking about but nobody knows exactly what they're thinking about. Everyone hides their emotion a certain time in life; therefore, you can easily smile but it doesn't mean you're happy.
Lastly, in the story the author talks about how they can also use the new technology they made to know the emotion of drawings like Mona Lisa. When you look at the picture of Mona Lisa you see her smiling but the picture has to color and the smile does not look like a real smile, it looks like a fake smile. Also, in the picture of Mona Lisa the background is of a lonely lake or pond which is also without color. Color shows alot of emotion depending on the colors you use, like dark colors determine sadness and bright colors determine happiness but red is in between and usually determines hate; someone being angry.
In conclusion, technology can not read emotions. Emotion has to do with what is going on in your mind, facial expressions can easily lie, and emotion in drawings determine the colors of the the art. | 3 |
7e8b33f | I'd have to say the new technology ''Facial action coding system'' that has been created in Illionois is acceptable. It beyond helpful in my perspective it could really help out young children whom don't understand what the teacher is saying. '' A classroom computer could recgonize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then modify the lesson like an effective human instructor''. This quote states how it the new technology is being used. Especially children who dont understand english. Without saying anything verbally to the computer, and it could help some students outs! It would be extra heplful if it had that ability to translate. The reason why I am saying this because there are some whom don't want to speak and are simply quite and usually just give a face in which the compter can caculate you. And the fact that we humans preform the same expression'' as said in paragraph 5. Inconclusion this would probably help out the students who dont speak for them selves. And increase the ability for young children to be stress free and more understanding in what subject they are currently learning and hopefully be sucessful. | 2 |
7e8e2c9 | Future Cars with Advantage
Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? So of course, the future cars going to be way more better than the cars today. The cars that Sergey Brin will makes would use half of the fuel of today's taxis and will be far more flexibility than a bus. Even though it's too expensive it's worth it.
How much smarter can the cars be? It have postion-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a video camera near the rearview mirror, four atomotive radar sensors, A GPS receriver, and inertial motion sensor. But the most important one out of all that is the spinning senor on the roof. It's safe and fun. People can use video camera when they on a trip, use GPS when they lost or needed to go somewhere that they don't know. This is what we call good life.
Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver? Because it more fun and safer, and safety is a big concern. Most driving law focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe. " Further improvements in sensors and computer hardware and software to make driving safer are also leading to cars that can handle more and more driving tasks on their own." No worry about safety anymore.
Future's cars have way more advantage than the cars now by not needed as much as need today, flexibility than a bus, having a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror. It's also provides more safety which is big concern. Less accident, fun, and GPS, what do we need more? | 2 |
7e9871d | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming", there are aspects that suggest driveless cars are or could be both beneficial and a potential for harm. Combining reality with the article, I firmly believe driverless cars will be more harm than help.
There are so many varied scenes and scenarios that are possible while driving; a person will never be fully aware of what scene could appear in the future. In the text, it is stated that "Human drivers must remain alert" (paragraph 7) suggesting that the "driverless" cars may not be programmed for EVERY possible scenario. The cars' reflexes may not be able to manage fast accidents or random incidents that can occur. What will the consequences be when the car isn't prepared and the human's attention is not in full focus on the road or the car?
Starting after the first Industrial Revolution, the world began to rely on machines and other inventions to provide faster and less labor. As much as technology is honored, faults still have occured. The world has seen machines malfunction and cause injuries or even death. Machines can never be fully trusted, at any second a virus or unintentional happenings can cause a machine to disprogram. In movies, it has been common to base a horror story off of a malnfunctioned item. At any given time, these cars could malfunction and not do the correct thing. For example, the brakes could get locked up and the car could lose the ability to stop. Another possible occurence is the steering wheel could lock or get left and rights confused. A simple malfunction can cause a lot of damage.
While the driverless cars improve and increase in function, humans' trust in these cars also increase. Humans will began to trust more in the cars' ability or drive, and slowly began to lose concentration while in these vehicles. Since technology is such a big role in society, people will focus more on their tablet and phone and let the cars' do all the work. People might not glance up for minutes at a time. If an scenario occured to fast and the car needed human help, the human may not be prepared. In the matter of seconds, we might not be able to react fast enough to get into proper position and get our minds focused on what is happening outside the car.
Technology improves everyday. As said in the text, driverless cars have been an idea for a while; but not all ideas are good ideas. Today's society already relies on inventions for less labor, the last thing we need is a driverless car. The road is not always the safest place. The road is very mysterious and can cause many tragic consequences. Not everyone will use driverless cars, so there will be potential hazards with conflicting into regular cars. The world will be a better place if we stop worrying about how to be even lazier, and more about what has corrupted us. | 4 |
7e9eb24 | The Facial Action Coding System would be a vaulubale asset in a classroom but it could be intrusive to others peoples feelings and emotions.
There are few good reasons why the system could be benificial to a classroom. since it can caculate all 44 majormuslces like the Lateralis or the orbicularis oris. It can get students who are depressed or being bullied help they need instead of waiting around for them to get help themselves. Another good reason why its benificial for the system could be in a classroom is that it can show if a student is confused on a question or problem and dont like getting help from a teacher the scanner can spot them and see if they can get help.
people will hate the facial action codeing system because they wont like people intruding on their feelings even when they are hiding them for a reason. the system can be scary to many people because it could offspring other systems like reading your mind for say. it could be hated for the fact that people dont like talking about their emotional feelings to strangers and the system just sucks their expressions off their face and detects their feelings upsets many people.
The Facial Action Coding System is a perfect system if you wanted to know one's feelings or just to have your computer know what your feeling and understand that maybe some day it can help you with your emotional problems. | 3 |
7ea337f | Depending on where you live, cars are extremely important prop to a daily life. It gets you to point A to point B, whenever, wherever. In most people's opinion, we rely on the use of a car too much. We could easily walk to the place we are trying to get to without it costing money for gas or polluting the air. The decrease in car usage is a good change on the people and the planet.
People in Bogota, Colombia have noticed a problem with our usage of cars and is trying to make a difference. They have a "Car-free day" where you can't use automobiles, and if you do, you have to suffer the consiquence of a fine. "The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog." it says in paragraph 21, Source 3. If one little day of not driving can mke such a difference in the atmosphere, imagine what would happen if we spent everyday like that! The change would be mindblowing! According to Source 2, half of greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for the smog in the United States, 12 percent in Europe.
I know what you're thinking, a life without cars??? Seems impossible but people in Vauban, Germany do it every single day. Many people are completely content with this lifestyle. When I had a car, I was always tense. I was much happier this way." Said Heidrun Walter, a citizen of Germany. People have the potion to own a car much it costs more than here in AMerican and from Source 1, it seems to be a bigger hassle. Elisabeth Rosenthal, the author of Source 4, has two children, one 19 and the other one 21, they have to intention of getting a license. She explains how it's not that big of a prioity to them, the walk wherever they need to get. People seem happier about not having a car, less stress with traffic, no road range, and everything inbetween.
With less lisences becomes less accidents. Source 4 tells us that the difference between the amount of drivers in 2001 and the drivers in 2009 has decreased by 23 percent. That is something we need to work on in America because the amount of deaths by car accidents are increasing this decade than last decade. This can be prevented by not driving and if you are, drive safely.
With the decrease of car use, we can make sure that atmosphere is cleaner, more money is saved, less stress, and less deaths will be increasing. | 3 |
7ea3bbd | I will be trying to convince the population to beleive that the face's on Mars are natural landforms.
Now i will be talking about face one. this face is there in 1976. To my personal vision the face is still sorte of developing, or the picture is really blury. Although it's developing or blury you can still seea face. NASA claim's for it to look or be visualized as a viking. These face's do look like natural landforf's.
They look like wind or a storm formed them. In face one it look's like there is alot of wind when NASA took the picture. In face two it kinda revels a little more . What im thinking is there had to have been a storm or strong wind for face one to be so blury.
These face's seem as if they had alot of time to form. Can that mean there natural.
Think about this if these structure's were man made or alein made they wouldn't look like this so what is that telling us. Another reason is if it was man made it would be much smaller. These faces have to be natural landforms. Also to my understanding NASA has been watching the faces for a while.
Then in picture three it is just totaly blown over. It seem's as if wind just keept blowing over then time and time agian. If it was man made this would not have happend they would have kept it clean.
Although this is my oppinion many other's agree with what im am trying to argue. I also agree that these are natural land form's and are soon going to be wiped away. | 2 |
7ea4012 | How can NASA want to hide this evidence if they wish there was an ancient civilization? The people that think that are conspiracy theorists. They dont have any evidence that NASA would hide this. If they wanted to hide it why would they give it out to the public a few days after they found it? Lets talk about where the face is located.
Many other Martian Mesas are in that area so it wouldnt be surprising if it was just another one. All though it would be enchanting to find out that there is life on Mars, the land mass is not enough evidence to support that theory that aliens or some sort of life built the face. Lets talk about the size of the face.
The face is too big to be a face of someone or something anyways. Unless there is a new species on Mars that is that big or maybe it is a ancient burial site like the ones that the egyptions made. The pictures would be able to see any life next to the face. They would be able to see if there were any shacks maybe house or aircrafts of some sort. Lets talk about what scientists think.
The Snake river Plain of Idaho is about the same size as the face and it reminds him of it. The face could have just been a couincadince. The face also could not have been. Small meteors could have crashed into the mesa to create the facial features of the face. In pictures of the face you can see a lot of different crates next to it. There a small craters and large craters. it wouldn't be surprising if it got hit by a crater.
You can believe that aliens or some sort of life form have created the face or you can believe that it is just natural. The choice is yours. But before you make asumptions you should do your research first. Those are the main facts that i can give you to make a disition on your own. You might even end up doing more research. If you find any facts that can support your claim that a life form has created this please let me know. | 3 |
7ea5cd7 | I have read "Driverless Cars Are Coming" and I am against driverless cars. In the article it states that a person should always be on alert for when the car wants them to take over. Well, what happends when you can not take over the car when it malfuctions? The answer im looking is you crash and may get hurt or even die.
I am not saying that driverless cars are wrong and are going to hurt everyone. I am just stating the fact they dont seem to be realisticly safe for the public. Meaning, I dont think the community should be in contact of something that they cannot control. The article made a valid point when it asked who is to be blamed if the technology fails and someone is injured. How could we ever blame the driver when the manufacturer made it impossable for them to control?
In my own personal opinon I beleve in good a old fashion man and wheel. I dont beleve that technology should take that privilage from those who havent even gotten to experince it. Driving take a lot of responsabilaty and alertness, which is helpful in our everyday lives. Its a sign of maturaty into adulthood for young teens. I also believe its just another reason to be lazy. I mean how hard is it to hold on to the wheel to get to the place that your needed? If your late who gets blamed? I wouldnt say the car, maybe trafic.
In conclusion, I dont believe in magical driverless cars. They just dont seem to be safe and In my heart I dont think anyone should use them. We just havent got the technology to work out all the nooks and crannys that it takes to make the car successful. Driverless cars are not coming, atleast not for me. | 3 |
7ea777f | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" we are talking about how Professor Thomas Huang just came out with the Facial Action Coding System. It is supposed to be able to detect exactly how other people are feeling. Even if they are trying to hide their emotions it can still know how people are feeling. It is the latest innovation at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science at the University of
Illinois. He was working in collaboration with Professor Nicu Seve of the University of Amsterdam.
I am all for the value of using this technology to read students' emotional expressions. All it does is beginnig with the computer construction a 3-D computer model of the face. All 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Then Dr. Huang relies on the work of psychologists, such as Dr. Paul Eckman, who is the creator of the Facial Action Coding System. He has classified six basic emotions. Happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. He then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles. When you raise your eyebrows you are surprised and when you tighten your lips you show anger. This will really help us show how different people are feeling. If they are doing something for school such as a lesson on a computer and the way it is being done is making them bored or tired then it will be able to tell us and it can change the way the lesson is being taught so that they will become more interested. If you raise your lips to the corners of your mouth, then squint your eyes slightly to produce wrinkling at the corners of your eyes, holding that raise the outer parts of your cheeks up toward your eyes. The emotion that you are doing is that your face looks happy. If we have this then we will be able to feel someone else's emotioinal state because wer unconsciously imitate another person's facial expressions.
In conclusion Dr. Huang made the Facial Action Coding System. It can help us tell how others are feeling and tell if they are trying to hide their emotions. It can help us when we get bored when we are on our computers doing things for school. It can help make things more interesting so that we don't fall asleep or stop doing what we need to do. It can also help us feel someone else's emotional state because we unconscioiusly imitate another person's facial expressions. | 2 |
7eaab02 | Have you ever been mistaken by the sight of something? Well, that's what we have been having a problem with. People have been thinking that the Face on Mars is not a natural landform, but trust me, it is. We have some evidence that supports this statement very well.
One of the things that really sticks out to me and really makes me believe that the Face is just a natrual landform is the fact that it has occured to us that it's a mesa. This might just be me, but I'm almost positive that a landform like that couldn't have been made from making something like a face on the surface. I'm sure that as its grown over time, the hills make it look like a face. If some type of alien were to make that I dont think it could've turned into a mesa.
I know the Face used to be a lot clearer, and slowly turned into a mesa but I think it's just the way landform grew in. The face isn't very semetrical, so I'm sure that if it was aliens, they would've been more serious about this and tried to make it more semetrical. In the article, they say that 25 years ago, they were looking for a place for NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft to land. So, assuming that the spacecraft landed sometime later in the future, it never saw any aliens! If they had seen aliens, I think they would've said something, especially after 25 years.
I would say this situation is just like clouds. Sometimes you see clouds that might look like a dog or a whale, but you dont say anyone made those! You wouldn't assume it was an alien. I would say they are clouds that just happened to float by one another that formed into a dog or a whale, depending on what the cloud actually looks like. That's usually the case, a cloud could look like a big blob, but then float next to a different one and form into something unique. That happens naturally, just like the Face on Mars.
With all of the things I have said, I believe that my evidence and what I have pointed out will help other people know that the Face is just a landform. I'm not saying everyone that hears my ideas about this will automatically think its a landform now, but I do think that some of them will change their minds if they think it was made by any kind of living species. There are many landforms that were made just the way they are, even if it doesn't look like it. So, yes, the Face on Mars is just a landform, and hopefully everyone will soon know this! | 3 |
7eabd9d | The author supports his idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers with both the dangers and solutions. First states all the reasons that Venus is very unstable to land on and that no space craft has been able to land on long enough. Second he claims that NASA has two different plans to get there and surviving long enough to get samples and seeing what the ground is like. These both show that idea just might be worthy to pursuie.
First the author starts with all reason Venus is unable to be visited and that we have tried but was unable to land for more than a couple of hours. Venus is closer to earth and is easier to get to. But since both the surface and atmoshere is in chaos a spacecraft couldn't stay long. The article states "beyond high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface". Since all of the weather is messed up it make it worst to get there and stay long enough to bring enough samples back to study.
Second, the author says that NASA has two plans to get there and survive long enough to get samples and maybe even stay to study them. One way would be Send a blimp-like vehicle to hover over Venus surface about 30 or so miles but still the atmoshere would give them limited access to the ground. So they could only take pictures and videos. But another idea is that we can use old tech to send to the ground and could last a long time. The article states " these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all". If these machines go to the surface, gather data, and it could bring it back to study.
To conclude, the author's article supports the idea that going to Venus might be risky but also worth it. The author states in the article the reason it is hard to go by there are ways you could get there. | 3 |
7eba1f3 | Has the thought about limiting car usage not only in the United States but within the entire world ever occured to you?
Whether it has or hasn't there are many advantages to limiting the usage of your car.
To begin with this whole idea about cutting the rate of car usage down is mainly to take away stress, lower air pollution, make cities denser and better for walking, to make suburbs more compact and accesible to public transportation, to curb green house gas emissions,etc..
As of right now in Germany, an expirimental new district located on the outskirts of Freiburg is now a car-free community. The only automobiles located within a rectangle square mile, are trams, busses but no cars. "As a result, 70 percent of Vauban,s families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold their car just to move here." (Elisabeth Rosenthal). The basic percepts of this one expiriment are being adopted around the whole world in attempts to drastically reduce green house gas emissions from the tail pipes of cars. In paris the same thing is happening except for a different reason. Paris is trying to cut down the use of cars due to the amount of smog that the diesel from the car creates. "Paris typically has more smog than any other European capital." (Robert Duffer) Paris even enforced a "partial" driving ban in order to try and clear the smog from the air of the global city. "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France after five days of intensifying smog." After a few weeks this ban cut down the amount of smog drastically to where the smog actually ended up moving toward Beiging, China, otherwise known as the most polluted city in the world. A major crisis in Bogata , Colombia also drove them to create a program that is set to spread to other countries to make them aware of the harmful things pollution from a car tailpipe can do to you.
So in conclusion, limiting the amount of car usage really isn't a bad thing. For one, it has more advantages than disadvantages and it is alternatively a new ideal way of life. With this you will become a healthier person, you will be less stressed out, you will eventually notice that the life you were once living as a stressed out person with a car that you believed made your life easier actually made your life a living chaos. So why wait, go ahead and adjust your life to live with a better lifestyle, and spread the word about decresing the amount of car usage so that one day the whole world can be healthier and happier too. | 3 |
7ebd70b | This technology can be valuable for students in a classroom. It can benefit both the teachers and the students. It can let a teacher know if a student is confused or bored and the teacher can try to teach the lesson in a different way so the student understands it better. As stated on paragrapg six, "A classroom computer could recognize when a studennt is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." If a student is having trouble but doesn't want to show it this technology can let the teacher know and possibly help the student. This technology can be very valuable in a classroom.
This technology can also benefit students who are typically shy, quiet, suffer from anxiety, or those who just don't like asking for help. It will also help detect whether a student genuinely understands a lesson or not. With this technology being able to detect emotions, it can let others know when someone is really angry and shouldn't be bothered.
Companies can benefit from this as well, as stated in paragraph six, "For example if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." This will let companies know if they're doing good in their advertising. They can track the number of people who genuinely liked their ad.
This technology can be valuable not only in a classroom setting but in business and life. It can detect people's emotions and can let others know how the person feels. Companies can get updates on how many people liked or disliked their new ad. People who can't read others emetions well, will now be able to do so. Overall it can benefit a lot of people and it can be very valuable to have this technology in a classroom. | 3 |
7ebe893 | The use of the FACS is both valuable and not valuable. Humans are very complex, and they can learn to adapt. Humans can learn to be more deceitful and learn to hide thiings better. I know because, I, myself, am a human.
The ability to detect human emotions is not valuable because some humans are embarassed when others know what they are feeling, and they would learn to keep their face neutral while feeling because they don't want to constantly be read like a book by some robot.
This technology could be valuable because you could tell when kids in school are getting mad or even have depression or anxiety. Facs could help us to help the future generations of students to talk about their emotions because they won't have to state how they feel, but a robot would be doing that for them.
FACS is not the best idea because some kids like to keep to themselves and just the thought of eveyone knowing how you feel constantly would give them anxiety and make them fearful to feel because of what others may think and so on and so forth.
I dont think that using this technology is a valuable idea because then the government could end up taking the technology into the real world and using it against the people. I am not okay with being read but a robot, personally.
This technology could also help to keep schools safe, by letting the administration know when someone if looking guilty or even if they are starting to get angry because of something, it could help to stop some school shootings because the students would have a certain emotion to them and then we would know to pull that student aside, or it could help students who have anxiety to tell when they need to step out of class and go for a walk or use their coping skills.
I don't have a straight forward opinion on the new technology because it has alot of pros and cons. I talked about a few in the paragraphs above and while rereading my writing, I realize that I have a neutral perspective on all of this due to how many pros and cons there really are, and the ability for humans to adapt. | 3 |
7ec2cc3 | The topic of the story is about venus and about exploring venus because, in the reading it is giving information on the distance frome the earth and how chalenging and interesting it is for venus to be examined. I got this frome the info frome the first paragraph sentence 3. Venus is also is the second planet frome the sun which is in paragraph 1 sentence 2. I can aonclude that venus is a pretty enteressting planet to try to explore.
I think that the author think's that venus is also an interesting planet to study because of the chalenging planet's flaw's I can conclude this because in paragraph 2 sentence 4 the reading states that since no space craft survived the landing for more than a few hours and that it also states that in the 2nd paragraph it states that the reputation of the planet is chalenging do to the proximity.
I believe that most of the reason that venus is to be considered chalenging. Is because of the thick atmosphere and the temprature on the planet I found this information frome p3 sentence 1 throgh 3 and it states that almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blanket's and that the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid's in the planet's atmosphere on venuse's atmosphere and that the temprature average over 800 degrees fahrenhight and that the pressure being over 90 time's greater they experienced.
The planet venus have some comeparenson's to the planet earth that what make planet venus worthy to explore like having feature's like valley's,mountain'sand crater's just like earth. I got this information frome p4 sentence 3-4 which I think why the author also think that venus would be worth studying and how interesting it would be if they could try to actualy atemtp land on venus.
I think that venus would be a cool place to study because having access to better material that it can make NASA landing on venus easier and make the landing safer than before with also knew technology. I would also think that the author would be able to expireince wha venus is like and that it would be an adventure to explore venus and to discover knew thing's on the planet. | 2 |
7ec2f7e | Dear Senator,
I believe that voting for the President of the United States should be based on the present idea of the Electoral College. There are many elements that play into the reasoning for this. The Electoral College is a process developed by the makers of the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. It consists of 538 electors with each state holding a certain amout of these electors based on the population of that state. Candidates try to gain the vote of electors focusing on larger states with more electors. It was something created by the makers and founding fathers of the Constitution and something so important should not be changed.
Presidential candidates focus on gaining the majority vote of large states in order to obtain more electors. A large state such as California containing over 35 million voters should have as much of a say in electing a president as a small state like Wyoming only containing 500,000 voters. The Electoral College makes sure that the "majority" of voters doesn't decide an election and everyone has a say. The "winner takes all" system evens out the playing field for all those little states who want just as much of a say in determining a new president as a large one does. The idea of a Electoral College adds a sense of competition persuading a candidate to influence states with a high number of electoral votes making the race for interesting. Swing states are a huge deal in this process for they mainly decide the election with the ability to change an election in a heartbeat.
If a majority voting system was incorporated into the election system instead of the Electoral College the process would become much more complicated than it already is. Voters should be able to vote not just for a new president but for a slate of electors who aid in electing the president.. These electors are appointed to represent the people in choosing the candidate of their choice who they feel is best suited for the position. Many people against the Electoral College argue that the system is not acceptable because of the possibility of a tie due to the even number of electoral votes. This reasoning is highly probably and has never happened before. | 3 |
7ec3069 | Everyone know cars are bad for the environment, but it is also bad for you. It ruins our planet and stresses us out.
To begin with limiting cars can help our environment. According to the passage "Car-Free Cities" cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emmissions just in Europe. By limiting cars that 12 percent can go to a 6 percent or mabe lower. To add to that cars make a very big amout of smog. In the passage " Paris Bans Driving Due to Smog" it says " Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France after five-days of intensifying smog." that has to be a huge amount of smog fo congestion to be down 60 percent! Most of that smog id made by cars. To limit cars is to limit Pollution.
In addition cars bring people down. In the passage " Car-Free Cities " they ban cars one of the citizens, Heidrun Walter, a media trainer said "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way,". As you can tell with no cars she is a happier person. Not only that but, in the passage "Car-Free Day is Spinning Into a Big Hit in Bogota" businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza said " It's a goo opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," saying bye to cars helps ake away stress.
In conclution, getting rid off cars is a great way to relive stress and fix our environment. Car only pollute our air and gives us stress, without cars will do much better! | 3 |
7ec98f8 | In the introduction, the author is describing Venus and explaining how "The Evening Star." Is the nickname, but beyond that- paragraph 1 and 2 wasn't explaining why you should pursuit it.
However one statement that does in paragraph 2 is "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size." Meaning it's not that far away to reach.
Yet one paragraph that is arguing with wanting to go to Venus is "Each previous mission was unamed, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours."
However one statement from paragraph 4 that shows that they wanna go to Venus is "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." This paragraph also claims that Venus was most likely covered with oceans and still supported different forms of life.
In paragraph 5 though, one of the statement claims "not easy conditions, but survivable for humans." Stating that Venus's climate and other factors made being there a pain, but again, it's for sure possible.
In paragraph 5 as well it says "(NASA) has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus."
Going a little further, paragraph 6 just explains that to understand more about Venus, that they would have to get much closer, and also describes how scientists are working on innovations that would make the tech and gear that is necessary better and able to last longer.
They are doing so because they can't understand as much when they have no evidence
Paragraph 7 has no claims on how you should go to Venus whatsoever, but instead it is talking about older tech used in the 1800s.
However in Conclusion, in paragraph 8 they stated "Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." Another line that they used is "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubt." Saying that no matter how many risks just so happen to be in Venus, perhaps if we were able to get there worry free, we'd come back with things we didn't know from before. | 2 |
7ecef29 | The story about "Making Mona Lisa Smile" describe how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enable computers to indentify humans emotion by writing a essay arguing weather the use of this technology or to read the emotional expression ?
Will I think by using this technology if it bring a smile to my face while it shows how much this computer can do. Then I might have to get it. Like if the computer no if im happy or sad in my emotion then thats a be a good feeling I dont know why but it will. A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. So if you confused on something the computer could help or figure it out for you . I think its good because if the teacher is helping another students work the computer could help the kids or whoever.
So I think it will be good for students to get a smart computer like that so when you do need help like that or feeling disgusted or fearful the computer will help. Like on her last asignment she could feel not knowing how to do things .Then you can calculate emotions like the math homework . In the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face in if you dont know how to work a app it will show you .
But one reason why I dont know about it because one day you can be mad in not let no one know . Or want somebody to know whats going on with you. So I think thats probably one reason . Then you might not want help or want people seeing your emotion even the teacher. so thats the reason I probably would'nt get on the computer for that reason or some people probably just dont like the setting to it or probably want think its useful..
But last I think its valuable in someways in school or at home . Sometimes people dont know whats wrong with they body. They can get right on the computer in so the computer could tell them like your despress or things like thats . So I think its a good learning envoirment for the kids in grown ups . So thats some reason why I thi nk its valuable. | 3 |
7edcf9f | I Think doing a Study about Venus is a good idea .The author suggests that the study of venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents . One reason peolpe want to learn more facts about Venus .Other reason is venus has strong features that peolpe want to learn about . The last reason is that The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was to do a humans study about with Venus .
First of all, The peolpe that study the plantes want to leran more facts about Venus . Some scientists want see Venus close up but they can´t .According to the text is says Scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission ot uderstand Venus would need to get close and prspnal despite the risks . It aldo says that more importantly researchers cannot take samples of rocks gas or anything else form a disstance researchers want to make that happen . The researchers want to leran more facts about
Venus.
Secoundly , Venus has very strong features that the researchers like . Scientists can study more about there features that are on Venus today . According to the text it says.´´Today ,Venus still has some features that are analogous ot those one earth .The planets has surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features. Scientists can learn more about Venus features .
Lastly,
Scientists want to send humans to study Venus . They think it will be a good idea to send humans to study the surface even thought it can be dangers . According to the texts is says .´´NASA? possible solution to the hostile conditins on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. They also say The surface ,temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degress . The NASA´s want to send humasn to Venus this should prove my clams .
Finally, The challenges of Exproing Venus is a good thing . Scientist want to have fun they want to learn new things . The researchers want to learn new things about Venus . The want to put humans on Venus so they can get more fact s they think it could be a good idea . Studying Venus is going to to be a worthy thing for reachers even is it might be a little dangers they can take risks . | 3 |
7edd874 | The studying of Venus is a worthy persuit despite its dangers. Theres is many good thing to come out of this.
The author states that Earth was once like our planet. In parragraph 4 lines 4-10 it states that perhappes Venus was like Earth. by being covered in oceans and could support various life forms. Still today it still has some of these fetures like valleys and craters.
The text also states that they have a unique way that is safe to humans for them to visit Venus. In parragraph 5 NASA has the idea of having a large blimp like structure aporxpmently 30 or so miles above Venus to test. all though it would be hot it would not be as hot as it would be if they were on the planet so it would be safer. NASA is still challengeing themselfs by figuring out how to collect samples.
In conclusion traveleing would be worth the while despite the dangers. Because we could figure out amazing things that we didnt know yet. and could further educate our world about our universe. | 3 |
7ede8e2 | well i think Driverless cars would be reckless and could be dangerous rather than helpful as it says in paragraph 2 it still alerts the driver to take contol of the car when backing up or pulling into places like garages and other things. Also As it Says In Paragraph 3 It reads binary code well in my opinion what if the car cant read the binary code one day what if it just malfunctions and in paragraph 4 it says it needs alot of sensors and a couple of video cameras. after reading this article i still think the who driverless car thing is a reckless invention and not a very good investment with our tax payers money so i really think driverless cars should not be invented and googe shouldnt waste their time on it.In Paragraph 6 it says something about antilock brakes well what if that just dont work and someone gets in a brutal car crash over that malfunctioning. | 2 |
7ee16a7 | In the world we live today, almost everyone owns a car; or even two. The amount of people in the streets going to work and to school is excessive. This is a real issue that is almost not discussed. There are cities in the U.S. that have more cars than there are people in the city, like in L.A., which is something excessive. It would be good to not use cars once in a while. That's why, some countries are doing an event every year where they don't use cars all day. And they'd have to pay a fine of 25$ if they violated the rules.
We have been using cars for a long period of time, and we will keep using them for much more, but it would really help if we did not use them as much. Because sometimes there is so much traffic, is better to walk. When you own a car, you get stressed out. We all hate those "Bad Drivers" and we get angry when they are stopping us or blocking our way, and that gives us stress. Sometimes you relay so much on your car that you even use it to go around the corner, and this does not help your economy at all.
Driving so much isn't helping the environment either. A lot of european cities have smog due to the pollution of so much cars, so they were forced to ban all cars that had odd-numbered plates from driving. If less people were to drive, there would be much less pollution. I don't think it would hurt anyone to walk once in a while. | 2 |
7ef2fa6 | The challenge of exploring venus essay.
How many stars are in the sky? Well there is to many to count and there is about 5,000 every night when you go to to sleep. First, Every planet of something different and one of the best one there is earth because it has stars and it's pieceful but some crazy people in the earth. In our solar system, Venus is the second planet from our the sun. The sun is prob the hottest place there will ever be and You won't be able to get to close and if you try you will get very HOT and may die. Next, how do you think people learn about the planets and walk on some planets ? Do you know who they are called and what they do for us the people in the earth? Well they are called special people that have to wear gear to let them fly in the air and they help tell us about what is going on up there what everybody don't see everyday. Then, they have special equinment they use to help them and learn about every little thing. There are too much gear they use and I don't know what is called. Finally, The earth will be the best planet there is ever and we will learn more things when they find new things to tell us and we will find how many stars there are actaully is becuase there is more then 5 thousand but im not sure how many there are. Earth is in terms of density and size and occasioally the closest in distance too. | 1 |
7efc5dd | Driverless cars have always been seen and thought about in an idealistic world where the human population wears shiny silver jumpsuits and talk in weird tongues. However, with the recent advancement in this feild, our generation will most likely see driverless cars, turning the idealistic into the realistic. Driverless cars are a positive step forward for humanity, but we must stay coherant about the skills used to drive. There are many positive attributes that driverless cars attain. It is a feat in itself that science and engineering have advanced this substantially. However, we can not become completely depenable on driverless cars.
The driverless car frontier is one that has many positive effects. The main attribute to driverless cars is that it eliminates the area for human error when on the road. This not only makes the roads a safer place but it will also decrease the percentage of fatalities by car accidents, which is the number one cause of death for teenagers. However, because driverless cars can also make errros, they still have a driver who in reality, has a lot of the control. This factor will help work around certain variables such as construction done on the road, or an accident nearby. Not only do driverless cars present safer roads, they also have the oppurtunity to be less harmful to the enviornment. Sergey Brin predicts that these cars will use half of the fuel of today's taxis, causing less pollutants to be released into the air, which will make the world a less toxic place. Taking everything into account, driverless cars will most likely decrease the accident rates and pollutants released into the air, creating positive results that will significantly change how people consider driving.
The fact that the technology for driverless cars is available is astounding and contributes to culture growth. This technology offers inspiration and a bridge to discover new technologies that will help the world. Today it is a driverless car, that will decrease the amount of accidents and make drving safer, but the possibilities for tomorrow are endless. This could cause a rise in young people that want to make the world a better place inventing things in the name of science, which could create amazing results. However, even though this technology offers so much to humanity, it could also take away.
When driverless cars are available, humans still must have the skills to be able to drive on their own. When humanity is presented with a new toy or resource, everyone usually becomes lazy and does not take into consideration the skills that they are losing because of it. Driverless cars are not truly driverless, a driver still must be present to deal with the variables that the technology within the car cannot predit. Because of this, it is vital that the general population does not become lazy and still knows the basic skills to drive. As a culture, everyone has become so dependent on technology because it makes our lives easier. Everyone must retain and remember a world without all of the technology and driverless cars to still have a general knowledge of how the world works. Driverless cars are an amazing technology that will be presented to us, do not take advantage of it.
In conclusion, driverless cars present many positive attributes and the technology used to make it will inspire many other new invention and advance the engineering feild in a monumental way. However, humans must not take advantage of the technology that will be given and become lazy, it will make the cars counterintuitive. Driverless cars are the next step forward for humanity, but we can not become lazy. It is truly difficult to imagine of a world where manual drving is considered odd. But, driverless cars are the next step towards turning the world into something completely safe and truly amazing. | 5 |
7efe0c4 | The arts of technology. I think it is safe to say that technology has expanded over time. We live in a world where kids and even adults have technology. It is a part of our socitey now, but remember how hundreds of years ago we did not have technolgy and we did just fine? How we showed emotions throught our and nothing else and now days we have emoticans and what not?
Now we have a computer that reads us. How weird is that? We did not need this but now we seem to have. Kids now days email their teacher in order to get help when not so long ago we had Saturday school to tutor those that needed help. This computer is going to help teacher supposedly read tyhe face expression children make has they are exlaining the lesson. That way they can go back and see who makes expression of confusion and does not.
This will help those kids that are to afraid to say thye need help. See a childs ego can be pretty big when it comes to their education believe it or not. A kid could be too afraid to ask for help because they have a feeling they can do it on their own. The computer target each motion the face makes or when ever a muscle is different or changes in a face. A teacher/studenet relationship is now going to followed up by a computer screen. Won't be long untill the robots take over.
This computer program will probably make it easy for other people to see how they feel towards one another. Maybe some will like the answer and other will not. See thing about this is that maybe the computer will ditect a feeling that the person will not be sharing at all or does not want people to know about this feeling. It could be invady some privacy because this person mught be hdidng a feeling thay do not want show, This computer will read that due to the face muscles he/she will be moving. Whoever reads the results of this person will find themselve in a position they will not knnow what to do.
Maybe this computer program is good for somethings, but in some ocasions it will not be a good source. Also this computer program alterates more the usage of technolgy these days. This will make society more intense and more into technology then what it already is. People should be able to show and tell their emotions if they feel free to. Not by a computer to tell them for them! | 3 |
7eff42e | Driverless Cars are a major form of transportation that will hopefully arrive in the near future. These cars will be able to drive on their own on the roadways. So far, there are cars that are semi-autonomous, where the driver still needs to retain some control. Driverless cars will have a better impact on drivers in the future, such as an increase in advanced technology, an increase in safety, and the ability to assist drivers.
One major aspect of the driverless cars would be the increased advanced technology. This technology will be able to mimic a human driver. Sensors will play a big role in this, and Google's Toyota Prius includes sensors on the left rear wheel, on the roof, radar sensors, an inertial motion sensor, a video camera on the rearview mirror, and a GPS receiver. Also, a spinning sensor on the roof of the car allows laser beams to create a 3-D model of the car's surroundings, which will enable the car to have more control.
Another benefit of driverless cars would be the improvement in safety. Sensors will become more advanced and will be able to detect and avoid dangerous situations. The information from the sensors can allow the car to apply brakes to individual wheels and reduce the power from the engine. This will provide more control over the car and can even have a better response than a human can. As technology increases and becomes more advanced, sensors and computer software and hardware will provide more safety to drivers and passengers and also allow cars to handle tougher situations on their own.
Along with the improved technology of driverless cars, these cars will be able to assist drivers on the roadways. Drivers don't have to completely go hands-off while driving, but the car can make driving easier and safer. So far, none of the developed cars is completely driverless, but they can perform most of the basic roadway tasks. Humans only need to take over in dangerous situations, such as an accident or while driving through work zones. The cars will be able to get the driver's attention when a problem arises, so that the driver doesn't necessarily have to pay attention to the road the whole time. They will only have to pay attention during certain situations that the car cannot handle.
Driverless cars have not fully been developed yet, but manufacturers have been working to create fully-functioning driverless cars, and will hopefully be on the roadways sometime in the near future. There are many more benefits of these cars than there are limitations, and they will make driving much easier and safer for drivers and passengers in the future. | 4 |
7f04a47 | Dear Senator,
I believe the way the American Goverment is run is injust and outdated. I believe this because the way we as America elect a new president is unfair to many people.
The reason I say that is the electoral college is unjust is 538 people should'nt be voting for more than a billion people. The way I believe our new President should be selected is by a majority rule, which ever Canidate has the most votes should win not based off people who vote for our state we live in. Even though the majority of the time the representative from his or her state votes depending on the popular vote from there state, but the reason im saying this is that he or she has the power to pick whatever he or she wants. Also another reason would be that the people only vote for a slate whether it be democratic or republic people in the slate can just change there mind and pick a differnt side. I would understand this system before our time but now we have so much technology people can vote from anywhere they dont have to go put a paper in a box anymore. The system is outdated and unfair to many people. Some people would argue against the point that the representative votes depending on his or her states popular vote, but there has been and will be more of the representative picking against his state if it stays like this.
If this actually ever does get to you I hope you take into consideration some of the points I have given you. Like I said before the Electoral College system is outdated and unfair. | 2 |
7f06e27 | In the recent passages that I have read, I have discovered how people in Germany have started the trend of not driving cars in a certain tow. This trend has sparked new flames in places like Levittown and Scarsdale New York. While that trend has sparked, studies have shown how many people in America have stopped driving and or buying licenses.
In passage two, I learned that Paris enforced a partial driving ban because of all of the [air] pollution. I can't blame them. With Paris being one of the most beautiful cities in the world, why ruin the air around it. I do believe that Paris may be one of the most visited cities in the world because of the Eiffel Tower.
If people visit Paris for a structure that tall, I know tht I wouldn' want to come back with the air being as bad as it is. Just think of all the people with asthma living in such polluted air. In Paris, 4,000 people were fined for driving their cars, 27 cars were impounded for the owners reaction to the fine.
In Bogota, Colombia, a program set out to be a national car-free day. This program was such a succes, they did it three years in a row. The obly vehicle access was taxis and buses in a capitak city of seven million. The turnout was large, despite gray clouds that occasionally dumped rain on Bogota. "The rain hasn't stopped people from participating" says Mayor Anatanas Mockus. Surprisingly, two other Colombian cities, Cali and Velledupar, joined the event. "These people are generating a revolutionary change, and this is crossing borders" said Enrique Riera.
All over America, people are starting to stop buying licenses and driving cars simply because they dont care for them. In my own opinion, I feel like Americans rely on motors far too much. We have turned into a nation of laziness. But as I have read, the love affair, or couch affair, with cars is starting to crumble, just like 50% of marriages in America. As I have read, it appears that teenagers stopped worrying about licenses and cars simply for the fact that walking with friends is somewhat "funner'
When it all comes down to it, cars are destroying our ozone, if cars are gone completely, people with breathing problems will be able to breath easier. | 2 |
7f078cf | I am for the development of driver-less cars. Television and movies have long been fascinated with cars that could drive themselves. Google has made cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009. Having driver-less cars in the near future would make it a lot easier on adult drivers. The drivers would still have to be alert, but the cars would alert them at any time there is danger or at any time the drivers need to be extra careful. I agree with the development of having driver-less cars.
The new driver-less cars have sensors. Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS reciever, and an inertial motion sensor. Automakers use speed sensors at the wheels in the creation of antilock brakes. The information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone.
The driver-less car still needs a driver no matter what technology they bring into the automotive systems. Dr. Werener Huber says that they have to interpret the driving fun in a new way. Some manufacturers suggested that they do that by bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. The display could be turned off when the driver needs to take over. In this way, the in-car system is actually a safety feature and safety is a big concern when it comes to driving.
Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe. Lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers. Traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. Driver-less cars wouldn't be breaking the laws by driving them around becuase driver-less cars have to have a human driver in the car at all times incase something were to go wrong. The human driver would be able to fix the problem.
Automakers are continuing their work on solving all the problems that will need to be solved ahead of time before human drivers can start driving these cars. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020. The road to the truly autonomous car stretches on ahead of us all, but we are growing closer to the destination every day. I personally agree with the making of driver-less cars. | 3 |
7f0cbfd | This technology would be useful is so many ways. Ways that have been mentioned in the article. I am for this technology not against it , it can be used to better and understand alot of people who are stuggling.
This can help students become smarter in subjects they dont understand. It can put the kids who dont understand all in the same class and create a new lesson plan that they will all understand. Like in the article it says ' a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored'. That quote from the article is the main two reasons kids are failing.
This is why im all in for this technology , also when people are going threw things at home this can help them get through it. I think it may be weird at first having a computer that can read how you feeling but for the better it will help alot of people. I also love video games so if this can help advance and make better video games in the future i would love to have it, it can maybe help create classroom games that helps you learn better. | 2 |
7f0e5fd | The NASA was very happy to find out something. It is about time they found something there. It wouldn't have a shocked that they found it. They have problaby found other things but they just don't talk about it. NASA is apart of everything that is how we have a earth.
They usely don't find stuff like this. They always have someone go up there to check one everything for about a year. It is every hard to look after asternots. They get sick and hurt or killed all the time. Sometime people just want to go up their just to be a fun exsperament.
It would be evry hard to do that. I know I could go up to NASA. Some people don't care about anything about the atmosphere.You would have to have alot of guts to go up there. I would be a hard thing to do because you have life and death seasions.
I wouldn't have guts to go up their because it would be to much to handle. I wouldn't be able to take it. I would be afaid of dying or something. I have a long life ahead of me so why do something stupid like that. I would be risking my whole future. It is hard to believe that someone would be that stupid to do that.
I would want to leave life in the earth not in the outer space because you don't know what could happen. It would take a lot of training to be able to go up their. I would have a hardatake if I went up their. Peope are kinda smart that go up their. I wouldn't be that smart to go up their. | 1 |
7f17066 | America: land of the free, the brave, and millions of proud citizens who live in a country that prides itself on its preservation of human rights and everything else that makes up a proper society. However, in order to remain a fair republic that truly takes into account the opinions of all citizens, we must make one major change. The flawed Electoral College must be abolished and replaced with election by popular vote in order to ensure the well being of our country.
Proponents of the Electoral College would gasp in horror at this suggestion, arguing that their systematic method is virtually foolproof. Nevertheless, with a voting method as complicated as the Electoral College, the room for error is far too great. Just look at what happened in 1960, when racist legislators tried to replace the democtratic electors chosen by popular vote in order to sabotage John F. Kennedy's chances. Then yet another electoral disaster occured in 2000. Both of these events could very easily happen again and the consequences of such mistakes are unfathomable. History has been proven to repeat itself, and this is no exeption. Who's to say that electors won't just ignore the wishes of voters or that legislators won't manipulate the system? When it comes to choosing our leade, whose actions will ultimately decide whether or not America will continue to survive and thrive, it would be a huge mistake to leave this resposibility to one group of individuals. After all, nobody is perfect.
Furthermore, advocates of the Electoral College make a major fallacy when they claim that voters in swing states are more informed on election information, therefore it's good that the electoral system causes candidates to only focus on them. Just consider the fact that by completely ignoring all of the other states, campaigners are ignoring millions of individuals who deserve to have a say in who will be in charge. Through this one argument, advocates are essentially assuming anyone who doesn't live in a swing state doesn't care about the election as much and therefore they shouldn't have a say in the matter. This is simply not true. In fact, these advocates fail to acknowledge that if voters in other states are not as educated or interested, it is a consequence of the Electoral College. While politicians are focusing all of their time and effort on the 'thoughtful' voters, other citizens don't get the information they need from seeing campaigns and meeting candidates. They are deprived of the opportunity to make an educated decision like swing voters and that is a fault of the college, not the voters themselves.
The problems with the Electoral College only go on. If a tie were to occur, the election would be determined by members of the House of Representatives, who do an even poorer job of representing the people considering each state casts only one vote. Also, due to the fact that the Electoral College mainly operates with the winner-take-all rule, it is easy for individuals in Democratic or Republican states to feel as if their vote doesn't matter.
It is also important to note that at the end of the day, election by popular vote accomplishes the goal of reflecting the opinion of the public far better than election by Electoral College. The popular vote is a clear statement of voters' opinions and is virtually unable to be tampered with. On the other hand, the Electoral College only complicates the situation by introducing a middle man who is prone to bribery and mistakes. Why should we allow candidates to win because of the electoral vote if they do not recieve the overall approval of the public? Compare the opinions of 538 electors to the opinions of hundreds of millions of voters. Evidently, the opinions of all these voters cannot be properly represented by these 538 electors. It's just impossible both logistically and logically.
For all of these reasons, I urge you to change the system to election by popular vote. It is without a doubt the only way this country can continue to be the great nation that it is for centuries to come. | 6 |
7f1b9d0 | I belive that the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. I believe that it is valuable because you can tell what a student is going through and how they really feel even if they are trying to hide it.
In the article it states that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" this could help teachers out a lot. If the computer can show that many students are bored or confused the teacher can see the results and help the students undersatnd more or just change the lesson plan and spend more time actually trying to help the studens instead of just making them understand something that they dont know how to do.
It could also tell you if the students is going through a hard time in their life at the time. The author states in the article "the software can even identify mixed emotions" so if a student gets scanned on the computer and it shows they are sad you can ask them if they want to talk about anything, or you can just be there for them to make sure that they are ok, and they they get through whatever is going on safely and not by themselves. In conclusion thi is why i belive that this technology to read emotional expressions of student in a classroom is valuable. | 3 |
7f1c9a0 | Autonomous cars are not the thing of the future. At this point in time, our technology can not match real life situations. There are too many conditions and too many saftey standards that are virtually impossible to accomplish while creating a "Driverless Car".
In the subtitle; Sensing the World, it explains how most of the driverless cars act and how they truely work. Many of the first productions were meant to run a specific track rigged with wires, magnets, and etc. This technology would be far too expensive, so we must rely on sensors and other features connected directly to the car. The problem with sensors, video cameras, and laser systems, is that they all can malfunction. The last thing anyone wants to do is to rely on something may indeed malfunction and put them in danger. Even if we were to say that the sensors and other technology was working in top shape, there still are limits to them such as poor lighting, bad weather conditions, and even animals.
Overall, we as human should not rely on technology to perform one of the worlds dangerous daily functions. Instead of progressing AI control, we should focus more on how the car would react if we the humans lost control. We have come this far by manual control, why switch now? Most accidents that occur on the road are drunk driving, distraction, and un safe conditions. Built in technology would be able to counter both driving under the influence and distractions. | 3 |
7f1ca89 | Driverless cars, for better or for worse? I think that driverless cars will be both good and bad. They will take out the human error, but they might also have errors themselves. Humans will become more dependent on technology, and lose certain aspects we have learned.
Driverless cars can help us in the future by taking out the human error. We will have driverless taxis, as said in the text, we will be able to go way more miles without crashes, and cut down on our use of fossli fuels. With this roads will become safer and there will be less deaths caused by accidents, and out world will become cleaner. These cars might have unforseen errors too. They might have errors on the manufactors side and cause death. This will cause the manufactors to build better and safer cars, and take out the error all together.
With the upcoming technology is driverless cars, people will become more dependent on them than we already have. This technology will cause us to lose our evolved instincts, and leave us helpless and dependent on technology. I think that this will hurt us in the long run.
With driverless cars so close to being in everyday use, there will be both good and bad outcomes from it. We will cut down the death totals caused from accidents caused by human error. On the downside we will become very delendent on technology to assist us in our everyday life. I may be wrong on both parts, I guess we will just have to wait and see. | 3 |
7f20880 | First off I want to let you know that Electoral College is a process and not a place. It was established by the founding fathers. Process consists of the selection of the electors, the metings of the electors where they vote for president and Vice President. The electoral college consists of 538 electors and the majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. The amount of members in its congressional delegation, "one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two of your Senators". The candidate that's running for president in your state has it's own group of electors. They're generally chosen by the candidate's political party but that state law varys on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are. One of the best things about the Electoral College is that it's widely regarded as an anachronism and a non-democratic method of the selecting of a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes wins. it also requires a president candidate to have transregional appeal. Always remember "voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election. | 1 |
7f21cc4 | In the article it talks about a man that just got out of college and he is working a 2 part-time jobs working at the bank and the grocery store. So, his friend asked him if he wanted to go to Europe on a cattle boat. Luke said "Yes!" So, next he got to go on his 1st trip.
Lukes friend told him that UNRRA was hiring "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of peoples horses, cows, and mules. Luke and his friend signed up and they coundn't have been more happierin their life if they didn't do that because the got to help other animals and save peoples farms from being destroyed and the food supply. Next they headed for Greece with a ship load of 335 horses and enough hay and oats to feed them.
Luke helping his Aunt Katie had prepared him for all of the hard work he needed for this trip. On his 2nd trip Lukes job was to check on all of the animals every hour. He got to go to many different places like Italy, Europe, China, etc. He says he was "Grateful for the opportunity." The awareness stayed with him, leading his family to a big number of people and exchange visitors for many years. Now, would you like to do something like that? Do you want to do what he did? Just think about it. | 2 |
7f2b3e2 | Dear, senator i strongly disagree in favor of keeping the electoral collage by popular vote for the president of the united states because the electoral collage is unfair to voters. people selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a canidate who has no hope of carrying their states. It is a disaster factor for the american people.
The electrol collage should not be kept as popular votes for the president of the united states. It is unfair to voters. because of the winner take all system i which where each state, canadiates dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning. During the 2000 campaign, seventeen of the stes did not see or heard about the canadidates and voters in 25 of the largest media markets did not fet to see a single campaing ad. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. Abolish the electoral collage!
The electoral college is very irrational. Electoral collage method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state. The republicans in claifornia, knowing their vote will have no effect, they have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular votes .
The electoral collage avoids the problem of elections in which no canidate recives a mojority of the votes cast .
The electoral collage is outdated, a disaster factor for the american people. the american people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiascos was the biggest election crisis in a century. The systm allows for much worse. consider that state legislature are technically reponsible for picking electors. That those electors could always defy the will of the people.
Thats why i think that electoral collage should be kept away from elections because they are unfair & because the electoral collage is unfair to voters. people selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a canidate who has no hope of carrying their states. It is a disaster factor for the american people. voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide on a election. | 2 |
7f318e4 | Welcome my name is Bianca a scientist at NASA. Many of you may know about the strange "Face on Mars," and how there are countless rumors about the famous being a natural landform or bona fide evidence of life on Mars. While scientists belive and have configured it is in fact a natural landform skeptics just do not agree.
However, May 24, 2001 when the photo was snapped scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, since it was common around Cydonia. Just this peticular one had unusual shadows that make it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. When NASA uneiled the image the caption noted "huge rock formation which resembles a human head formed by shadows giving illusion of facial features." They said or reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars. In fact it did!
Meanwhile, conspiracy theorists are just glued to the fact that they think the Face is evidence to life on Mars. They say its evidence that NASA would rather hide than show, but reality is us as NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars!
Although, few scientists believed the Face was an alien artifact conspiracy theorists were driven to prove it was evidence of life. And so on April 5, 1998 Michael Malin and his MOC or Mars Orbiter Camera snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. When the image first appeared on a JPL web site it revealed...a natural landform. Proving there was no alien monument.
After all, skeptics were still drilled to the idea that it is bona fide evidence of life on Mars. Conspiracy theorists said perhaps the alien markings were hidden by haze. So our NASA team on April 8, 2001 the global surveyor drew close enough for a second look. Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution. Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo!
Finally, after all photos were taken and examined the 2001 pictured demonstrated that what the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West. Much like most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars. So after all the Face on Mars was acutally just a natural landform. All rumors have cleared the air. Scientists have configured! | 4 |
7f33796 | By reading this article I am in favor of keeping the Electoral College. The Electoral College is a great way to choose our next president or Vice president. The way the process works is by how many people have voted for that on person. Each canidate has to travel to each and every state and talk about why you the people should vote for him/her. Now some citizens think that there should not be a Electoral College because they think that they are not being accounted for but when really they are. As you can see Under the Electoral College system, voters vote not for the president but for a slate of Electors,who is in turn elect the president. The five main reasons for retaining the Electoral College despite its lack of democratic pedigree; all are practical reasons, not liberal or conservative reasons. These are the reason why i think that we should keep the Electoral college its a great system and its been in the United Staes for a ery long time. | 2 |
7f35d9e | The author thinks that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it has. The planet Venus is the second planet from the sun. Venus is made of almost 97 percent cabon dioxide and has very corrosive sulfuric acid as well. At one point Venus even had a rockey sediment in which invloves valleys, mountains and also craters. The author very much compares this planet to ours, the earth.
The author thinks that the planet Venus is worthy of pursuit dispite the dangers it has because he thinks it is simliar to Earth. On paragraph 2 he states," Often referred to as the Earth's "twin," venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. Earth, Venus ,and Mars, our other planetary neighbor orbit the bus at different speeds." This shows that the author thinks that Venus is very comparable to Earth because of the density and size of Venus. He also stated in paragrapgh 3, " On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we expirence on our own planet. These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encouter On Earth, " In This paragraph he explains how Venus is way hotter than Earth, but then he later on states how we would still be able to survive in these conditions.
Although Venus is not the only one to compare to Earth the author decides to mention it many times throughout the article that venus is the sister planet to us.
Overall the author tends to very much compare Venus to earth quite often. In which is why he thinks it is worthy to explore even though it has its own dangers as well. | 2 |
7f37c85 | Limting car usage is good because of so many ways.. For one, cities all over the world are starting to do more and more about this problem all the time. All of these have been making a huge impact of the massive amounts of smog and pollution created by cars. Owning a car is very expensive anyways.
The massive amounts of pollution in the air is convincing large amounts of people and governments to start creating societies and communities that are car free, or very expensive to own cars in. In some cases of extreme pollution, the government has made it so the next few days, there would be no cars allowed, except taxis and buses. The results from both of these have been very possitive. When France had issued one of the days, the results were 60 % less in on of the most polluted cities in the world.
Cars are responsible for 12% of the greenhouse gasses in Europe. The United States is one of the largest users of cars in the world, so what does that says about us? So many parts of the world use cars for daily parts of their jobs and lives. Some of these include delivery companies, and other jobs with 50% use of automobiles.
With all of the plans of less car usage, prices are going up. Fines on no-driving days, fees to park your car, and lets not forget the one thing you need for your car, gas. Especialy with the cost of gas going up it is cheaper to buy a bike, than to ride a car.
Those are the reasons why limiting car usage is a good idea, pollution, and fees, not to mention every action from governments. | 2 |
7f3c6dd | The Face is a natural landform. First, aliens aren't real. Second, they don't even have that type of machinery to do it. The Face was infact created by natural occurances and it appeared because of a natural disaster. Therefore aliens did not create the Face.
Aliens aren't real. We have seen them on television shows and movies, but they are fake. When we talk about there could be life on Mars, that doesn't mean that it is an alien, we just don't know what it is.Why would aliens even create a big landform of no use, it just doesn't make any sense. An alien definately didn't create that lanform.
Next, the aliens would have had to use machinery inorder to shape it, which they don't have. The aliens would have to have something like a drill inorder to shape it how they want to. It is just like here on earth. Unless the aliens stole our machinery, or they are really strong and they can carve it with their hand or a shovel or something, then aliens definately didn't make the landform.
In 1976, the picture looked unclear and blurry, but it looked like a face. Then in 1998, It looked less like a face, and it was still blurry. Finally in 2001, we found out that it has no characteristics of a face. The explanation for that is that either the pixels weren't sharp enough to see it clearly. Or it is because it was cloudy and foggy.
Another reason that we could have thought that is a face is because their spaceships weren't as advanced as ours now and they couldn't see the landform from that far away and with how foggy it was, like the article said in paragraph 8. We have more advanced technology and we were capable of seeing the real truth about the landform. We have more technology inorder to get clearer picture than back then and in 2001 it was cloudless, like the article states in paragraph 10. Our technology is more advanced that we were able to discover the truth.
Also, aliens couldn't have created it because the article states that if there were any other objects in the picture, and that you would have been able to see them if they were there. If there aren't like any houses or transportation there, then how would the alien survive? Exactly, they wouldn't. So aliens infact couldn't have made the landform.
You might try to say that we didn't create it, so it would have to be them. Well you are correct. We didn't create it, but it is just like what we have here on earth. We have hurricane, tornadoes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. Maybe a natural disaster like that happened there. We may not have created it, but that doesn't mean that something like a natural disaster couldn't havecreates it.
From natural disasters to blurry and unclear pictures. This all can explain a lot of things. Like the fact that aliens aren't real and maybe eroding happened and that was the only place that didn't erode so it was rose up and shaped like that. Or that natural disasters can occur from time to time. Just remember, when you are sitting on your couch and a story comes on about this, aliens didn't do it, a natural disaster did. | 4 |
7f3ff0a | There are many facts that lead me to believe why the "Face on Mars" is not an alien artifact and just a landform. There are many obvious facts that prove scientists at NASA right. According to the text, the face was found in an area where there are many landmasses, such as mesas. This led scientists to believe that the so called "alien artifact" is just another mesa, because of how common they are.
Another fact that led me to believe this, is that NASA would have no reason to lie to the public. If NASA had wanted to hide the fact that there are aliens, they wouldn't have released the photograph in the first place. NASA was made so that we could know more about space, why would they keep something important like aliens from us? NASA would actually benefit from having an ancient alien civilization on Mars.
According to the text, the first picture of the "Face on Mars" didn't have very good quality. Though most scientists didn't believe that it was some sort of artifact, many were curious. They took another picture, with better quality and released it to the public.
As they had suspected it was just another mesa, but of course, some people will always have doubts, even if the facts lead directly to the correct answer. These are some of the reasons why I believe that the "Face on Mars" is not an alien artifact, but a landform that coincidentally resembles a human face. | 2 |
7f41025 | Have you ever wondered how someone is feeling emotionally? Do you want to know if they are feeling sad or angry, even if they are smiling? Well according to Professeur Thomas Huang of the Beckman Instutute for Advanced Science, he believes that we can detect human's emotions by a 3-D computer model of the face by observing all of their 44 major muscles. Still, can a computer really be able to detect human emotions just by looking at muscles. I believe that this new technology called the Facial Action Coding System might not be what can actually detect human emotion.
Throughout the article, Dr. Huang refers to muscles for emotions so they can observe how a person is feeling. He states that your "frontalis pars lateralis muscle raises your eyebrows when you're suprised" (para. 3). He also relates the orbicularis oris that "tightens your lips to show anger" (para.3). What he is saying could be true but people have the ability to control their own expressions, so if someone perfoms one of those expressions, what if they aren't feeling the way they might express?
Another example Dr. Huang uses is the painting of "Mona Lisa". The article states that "according to some new computer software that could recognize emotions" (para.1). In the article the introduction asks if the intended reader can imagine detecting how people are feeling, "even when they are trying to hide their emotions" (intro para.). Throughout the begining of the article they talk about what if you could dectect someone without even knowing how they are feeling, but as the article progresses, they mostly talk about certain muscles that move when you make a facial expression.
So which one is it? Can we actually detect someones emotions even if they are expressing an emotion, or can we only tell by looking at their expressions directly? What I'm trying to say is, at the beggining of the article they try to give it a vibe that you can detect emotion even when the person has a different expression, but then later in the article, they ask you to try to experiment by doing different expressions in the mirror by telling you how to do these expressions and saying what emotion you should be feeling. After you make those expressions they ask if doing the expression "made you feel slighlty happy" (para.9). It later states that "moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them" (para. 9). This sentence says that it may help produce emotions. In other words they still might not know how you are actually feeling a certain emotion after doing an expression.
This article might explain observations like in a fake smile, "the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomantic major" (para. 8), but expressions can vary on different people. Not all people are the same as others. Just because someone might look different when they express a emotion, doesn't mean that right away that they are expressing a different emotion. Now I know some people might say how accurate technology is, but a computer is a lifeless device that maybe could detect facial expressions, but might not know the true emotion of that person.
This article to me was pretty confusing. They tried to get you to believe that researchers have found a way to detect emotion, but then talk about how trying different expressions you make as a experiment show the emotion of the person's expression they made. By doing that, they make it seem like they only know how to recognize your emotion just by the certain expressions they want you to make. So can technology really detect someone's emotions if they are trying to express it a different way? | 4 |
7f42751 | In todays society driving or riding in a car is a completely normal activity. You drive to school, work, extracurricular activities, social gatherings, and everything else that doesnt happen in your own home. Cars are a part of everyday life.
What if I told you that there a cities that are banning car usage? Vauban in Germany is a suburb that has given up cars. Paris banned driving for a few days to reduce smog. Bogata, Columbia initiated an annual "car-free day." Cities all over the world are giving up cars and looking to other forms of transportation. So why limit car usage? Well, the usage of cars produces O-zone harming greenhouse gass emissions, smog, traffic jams, and adds stress to the our everyday lives.
A large amount of the harmful greenhouse gas emissisions that surround the earth come directly from cars. According to source 1 "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." By ending the use of even a fraction of our car usage we would drastically improve the amount of gas emissions produced. This improvement would mean healthier air and a healthier O-zone.
In Paris, France pollution and smog is a big problem. Source 2 states that Paris has much more smog than other European capital cities. "Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in london." Because of this intense smog Paris created a partial driving ban policy to help clear and clean the city air. The policy stated that on Monday vehicles with an even-mumbered lincense plate would have to leave their cars at their home or be issued a 22-euro fine. The next day this rule would apply to odd-numbered licence plates. As a result to this partial ban the city smog and congestion levels decreased by 60 percent. Even this partial change benefited the city greatly by reducing smog and poor air quality.
One growing trend in some cities in South America is "car-free day." Source 3 describes how "cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted." The objective of this day is to enchorage the usage of public transportation. This day was "a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution" according to one businessman by the name of Carlos Arturo Plaza. He is right. Cars are an added stress to a busy day. While driving there is a constant fear of being involved in an accident, getting lost, popping a tire, or having your car break down. There is also the nuisance of heavy stop-and-go traffic, bad drivers, and uncooperative lights. When the amount of cars on the road is reduced there are less bad drivers, less traffic jams, and less stress. That also means that safety is improved so there are less accidents.
By limiting their car usage many cities have improved their enviroments and their lives. In all these cities greenhous gas levels are reduced, the smog levels in Paris have fallen, safety in these cities has improved, and the stress of transportation has become less of an issue. With all of these advantages is there really a question why these cities have been limiting car usage? When you think about the advantages of reducing private transportation these vehicle bans make perfect sense. | 4 |
7f46464 | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author makes a point about this facial Action Coding System (FACS) and how it is useful in the classroom. In this essay, I will explain how this new software is useful. And how useful it would be in the classroom.
One example of this technology being used in a classroom is, "A classroom computer could recongnize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor."
This gives a real life example on how it could be used in a classroom.
The author explains that we already use this in the classroom everyday. This example is, "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face. Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy worried, etc." This tells us that we use this everyday and we dont even know we use it. So we already use it in the classroom.
Another fine example is, "The facial expressions for each smotion are universal, even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression." This tells us that there are too many emotions to count and that it would be useful to teachers to be able to tell what the students are feeling.
Throughout this essay, I have described how the author tells us that using this technology would be useful. I fully belive that this would make the world a better place. We would be able to use it so we wouldn't hurt anyones feelings. | 2 |
7f540a5 | Driverless cars really fasinates me. In the near we will be able to have cars that drive by themselves. In my opinoin this is a really good idea. There are some good reasons why this is a good idea. One reason why is it would make driving safe.
There are some examples that driverless cars would make driving safe. In the article states that it can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves. Also in the article it said it has special touch sensors to make sure the driver keeps hold on the wheel. Lastly these cars will have in-car entertainment and information systems to keep the driver having alittle fun time. Thought these systems will turn off automaticlly when the driver will have to take over and drive.
One reason why driverless cars is a good idea is that this will make driving safe. Reckless driving happens all the time everyday. For that reason driverless cars can use these special features to improve safer driving. For this it can decrease car accidents. In my opinion driverless cars is benifcal for everyone. | 2 |
7f55753 | teacher asks:
What is an electoral college?
my answer:
The electoral college is a process, not a place...
The founding fathers etablished it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the prsident by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. 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.
Under the 23rd Admendment of the constitution, the district of columbia is a located 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the electoral college. for the reason, in the following discussion, the word "
state
" also refers to the district of columbia. The electoral college consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. Your state's entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its congressional delegation: one for each member in the house of repersentatives plus two for your senators...
But I believe even the best-laid systems can be wrong .
teacher asks:
What Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in thier time, agreed on?
My answer:
Abolishing the electoral college!
they're not alone; according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore- thanks to the quirks of the electoral college- won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would perfer a direct election to the kind we have now. This year voters can expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could again lose the presidency. And yet, the electoral college still has its defenders. what gives?... | 1 |
7f5780c | I believe that the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable, because students would try to hide their emotions. Students would probably be going through some tough times in their life, and they need some help but they are to scared to say it to an adult. The teacher might no be interesting to them. Teachers want to know on how to get all the students attention in class and do their work. This technology will be useful for teachers to be more interesting, seeing what makes the students happy, and helping a problem in their life that needs to be fix.
Let's say Alex is a student and is having a hard time at home because of their parents arguing every single time, being scared that they might one day not be together. The Facial Action Coding System will help an adult figure out what's making his emotion change and becoming sad. It will get an adult attention to talk to his parents and fix thing out. It can make you be even happier in the article it says " If you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow". It can help you if your depress in the article it says " But if you frown, the next ad will be different".
In conclusion The Facial Action Coding System is useful to reading the emotional expression of students, or photos of someone that lived long ago and figuring out how they lived, and seeing what emotions they were having in the old days. It helps seeing how the people were treated during those days we wern't alive, and adding new history. | 3 |
7f5acee | Cars have made a drastic impact on the world as a whole; however, times are begining to change in the necessity of cars and personal trasportation. Other countries, such as France, Germany, and Columbia has worked on reducing cars in their society. The benifets from the sucess, expensives, and health qualites have increased in the low-car communities. Accoring to Bill Ford, executive chairman of the Ford Moter Company stated in paragraphs 43"pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve rescources, lower emissions and improve safety." Basically explaining that cars are not as needed and countries all over the world, inlcuding America can reduce, if not emliminate personal vechiles.
In Freiburg, Germany, the streets of this community are car-free, show in paragraph 2. Instead of cars they have trams to assist them in their travels. On average, a car space is $40, 000, not including the actual home. This dictrict is trying to remove the use of cars not just becasue of expenses, but also for health from smog and other possible harms. Cars are quoted as "cash traps" from the continual expenses needed to pay in paragraph 32. In America, they produce up to 50% of gas emissions in certain locations; whereas, Europe only gets to about 12% in paragraph 5. America is one of the most fuel wasting countries and causing damages and polutions. In addition, their expenses of appropriationgo to about 80% of highways androad work and only 20% to other trasportations.
Columbia dircects "Day Without Cars," which is to alude citizens to other forms of transportation and to reduce smog in paragraph 21. If a person were to violate that day and use a personal vechile, he/she would be fined. The affect of this day has decresed smog, traffic, danger, and stress. Communites have more connection and environment becasue of the simple reduction. Plazas, shops, restaurants, sidwalks, and bicycle trails have been upgraded for the citizens to enjoy due to less cars. These countries may increase health from the consistant walking and apprearance of the environment.
In conclusion, by limiting car usage, citizens expensives, enviroment, and health are benifited as shown in these articles. Expenses will be converted to other aspects within the community, like the style in Columbia with upgrades on the society. Smog, gasses, and other safety/ health factors will decreses from a reduction in cars. Overall, the reduction in cars will be benifical of society around the world. | 3 |
7f5de29 | The future is coming. In this modern age, we have personal assistants on our phones, holographic keyboards, and even 3D TVs. It's not that far fetched that soon we could also have self-driving cars as well. Self-driving cars are quickly becoming a reality, but they first should be tested so no hazardous glitches remain.
Recently there have been multiple breakthroughs that have advanced progress on making an actual self-driving car. One such advances was the more advanced sensors that are now put on cars. Now, these sensor help alert drivers to where a possibly dangerous situation is, but in the future they could be used as the "eyes" for the car. No car would be able to drive on it's own without being able to sense which direction it's going. As well there have been multiple breakthroughs with computer systems, which would give the car the know-how in order to drive on it's own. Lastly, thanks to satellite imaging, almost the entire world has been mapped out. This, added along with everything else, could really help realize the future of the self-driving car.
Now even though this idea sounds fantastic, it's not without flaws. Sometimes computers will suffer errors in their programming. Most of the time, this isn't too important, but if it happened to a self-driving car with someone in it, the results could be disasterous. The cars would need to be heavily tested to get rid of as many of these errors as possible. As well, there would also have to be a new set of laws that pretain to self-driving cars. One such law would be if a car crashed, who would be responsible, the passenger or the manufacturer?
Self-driving cars are quickly becoming a reality, but first they need to be tested to make sure they don't have any hazardous glitches. In this modern age, we have personal assistants on our phones, holographic keyboards, and even 3D TVs. It's not much of a stretch of the imagination to think that self-driving cars could arrive soon. The future is definitely coming. | 3 |
7f5f56d | Venus is called the ''Evening star"
is one of the brighest points of light in the night sky and it also our solar system venus is the second planet from our sun. While venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of earth. It has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely. It's important that if we study about venus because it help us to know about happed in the world and it help us to know where the sun come from without the sun we won't be able to live long, and it's important to know about the earth. The venus's reputation as a challenging planet for human to study despite its proximity. In the text paragraph 8 it said "the venus has value not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself , but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally in intimidate endeavors. Venus is the closest planet to earth in term of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. Earth,venus, and mars, our other planetary neighbor orbit the sun at different speeds. These differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to mars and other times to venus. Because venus is sometimes right around the corner in space terms humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud drapped world. Today, venus still has some features that are anlogous to thoses on earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains and craters. I think that the studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers its presents is the venus is to help to stay safe. | 1 |
7f60e1a | Have you ever lose a live one to a car crash before.The future in cars is here with self driving cars that car carsh will not happen again because the make less polution then the cars of today the can sensor in the car and but not less the will save you hundrads from paying to get you car fix.
The car make less polition then the cars today the burn less fiul and get around faster. The use less gas that means the air will be beater. The new car will travel farther then a car today with less gas and the means lower gas prices means more money in your pocket.
The new car will save you handreds of dollers in repares.The new car will not crash that means more money for you and our family. The car stop before it gets into a crash. That will make it you will never need to repare your car ever again. The new driverliss car will be the only car you need becouse you will not have to replace.The are great for new drivers becaouse the will stop you teen son or duaghter from deading in a crash.
The car haves sensers that can senes that something that is around it and stop or speed up to avoud it. The care can tell if your hand are on the will or not. The car will not move if both hand are not on the will. The be less death and less people who try to tex and drive. The new car also have a camrea that whaches you as you whach the road. If you are not the car will pull over and stop.They new car is heare to stay in this changeing world.
The new car use less gas and save the world from being drilled for more oil. The new car is the only car you will ever need just need to up date the car ever other year.There be less death from car crashes and more happy familys out there in the world. The future in cars is here with self driving cars that car carsh will not happen again because the make less polution then the cars of today the can sensor in the car and but not less the will save you hundrads from paying to get you car fix. | 4 |
7f66ed8 | Dear Mr. Senator,
Today I am asking for your favor of keepig the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. This process now consists of the selection of the electors and meeting where they vote for the president and vice president, and the counting of votes by the congress. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors, but only 270 of those votes are required to elect the president. I think that we should change the way that our citizens vote. I also think that we should update how the elections are run.
First of all, we should change the way that our citizens vote. When we vote for a president we are actually just voting for that Elector. So there is a possibility that the Elector could vote for the opposite president and your vote basically not be put in. I think that our citizens should have enough rights that they dont have to have Elector to do the voting for them and we can all just vote for who we want. For instance, it could be just all politics and the Electors get paid to vote for a certain person and thats why most of the presidents who get elected get elected today.
Secondly, We should update how the voting system works. Instead of it being 270 people out of 538, we should just have everyone one vote without Electors. Then everyone would have there say in the voting system and then they could just average it out or figure out the math of who won by percentage. For instance, take the number of all the people who voted for both presidents and take the number of one of the presidents and divide them by eachother and multiply it times 100. Then all the political stuff wouldnt happen because everyones vote counted. Maybe a change in the system would be a good idea.
Last but not least, In The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong, Bradford said that in 1960 segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. So that vote would not have actually gone to Kennedy. So the Electors are not as reliable as everyone thought. Some Electors have also refused to to vote for there parties canidate. My honest opinion is to just change the Electoral College.
In conclusion, I am writting to you Mr. Senator in hopes that you can fix the Electoral College and change the election to a popular vote. If this were to happen, it could make our citizens have a little more rights. We may also update our system a little bit so that the election voting is a little more accurate so that everyone gets to get there vote in. Maybe this could be what solves most of the political problems in the world.
Sincerly,
PROPER_NAME | 4 |
7f681fe | Electoral college should be banned. Many people say that over 60% of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. This year voters can expect another close elction in which the popular vote winner could again lose the presidency. So let me give you some facs about why electoral college should be banned.
Furthermore,Another reason why electoral college should be banned is because under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. If you live in Texas, for instance, and wanted to vote for John Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to kery.
For Instance,Another reason why electoral college should be banned is because legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people back in 1960,.Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president.
In Conclusion,I think electoral college should be banned because its unfair to voters 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, focusing on the tight races in the "swing" states. So this is why electoral college should be banned. | 3 |
7f6ca15 | New ideas, and smart engineering has been making it possible and eaiser to do many thngs. With cuttuing edge technology and knowledge evolving, humans have been acheiving and setting for the unthinkable. From cars traveling faster than the speed of sound, to cars that can drive themselves. Some aren't to happy with the image of that. Think, can cars really drive on their own, and what if the cars crashes who's at fault?
The idea of self driving cars scare many that maybe why it's actually illegal to even test computer-driven cars, stated in passage 9. This is because it isn't a hundred percent safe, though Google has cars that have been driven for a million miles without a crash, stated in passage 2. I think it would make a big change if cars could drive themselves. There would probably still be car accidents, but there would be as many.
Self driving cars would have many pros because there could be less texting and driving, which means less accidents. There would also be less drunk drivers which mean leass accidents, and there could also be less people dying. This would be a deal breaker for parents they could actuallly monator where their kids go. There could be less accidents among teens and in general. Kids wouldn't have to lose their life because they ran out in the street and was hitten by a car all because the child was getthing a ball.
I think that by the year 2022 that cars will be on the market And would help and save many people. "Automakers are continuing their work on the assumption that the problems ahead will be solved. Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time." Its better that it's 90 percent safety than 20 because nothing can ever be perfect but we can always try to be as close to it as we can. | 2 |
7f6d300 | A driverless car is a great idea in many ways but its not as realistic as most people think.
There are so many things that can go wrong for a driverless car.
The problems that would come along with driverless cars are why its not a great idea after all.
Its true that there are alot of positives about a driverless car but there are also alot of negatives.
One thing that comes to mind exteremely fast is software.
Just like our cell phones a driverless car is going to need new updates.
It the car does not get the updates it needs its not going to run as smoothly and as safely as it needs to.
You have to look at it in the eyes that is not a car, its a computer.
Sure cars have computers now but a driverless car is going to be on a much larger scale,
it would be hard to even consider it a "car".
A driverless car would be alot better for the environment but would it be alot better for people?
Just think of how much money a driverless car would cost.
middle and lower class people are not going to afford driving these cars.
In the article it states that a driverless car would be alot better on gas than normal cars.
That doesnt mean that the car is going to be cheaper than a normal car.
Another thing you need to look at is liability.
When a driver gets into an accedent it is usually the one at fault who is responsable for covering the accedent.
The article says "If someone were to get into an accedent with a driverless car who would be at fault?"
Im sure they already know the answer to that.
I believe that the company in charge of making that car would simply say it was "human error" and blame the driver.
People want these cars because they do not want to drive themselfs anywhere.
People are lazy with alot of things.
In the future if these cars do come out to the public driving would be just another thing you do that doesnt involve lifting a finger.
With a driverless car, in the future a person would not even know how to drive.
In conclusion, a driverless car wouldnt be that great of an idea.
With the money a person would have to pay along with software updates and simply being lazy a driverless car would not be a good choice.
Is it a great concept? Of course it is, it shows how the world is always coming up with new technology and evolving.
There are alot of positive things about a driverless car but there alot, if not, more negative things.
All and all a Driverless car would not be an invention that our generation needs. | 3 |
7f759d2 | For a long time now we have been fighting against global warming and polution. Some people why we cant just end the fight quickly. And the reason is simply because we still rely so much on cars. All people need to find so type of way to stop using cars as much. There are some places that are already starting to limit uses. Like in Vauban, Germany who has a ban on cars, Paris, France who can use certain cars on certain days, and Bogata, Colombia.
One way people could limit their use of cars is if they did something like what Vauban, Germany did. Build cities that had no drive ways and no parking lots. That way people had to buy parking garge spots that cost alot of money. According to source one passanger cars are responsible for twelve percent of greenhouse emissions in Europe. Many will think this is not alot but think about how much polution there is, then find out how twelve percent is it will be alot. But when these types of cities are made there will be a reduce in the emissions because little if any cars we be driven here. In source one Heidrun Walter said "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." This showes that without cars in people life it removes a tremondus amount of stress. People dont have to worry about spending money on gas or they don't have to worry about paying large amounts of money for their car to be fit. When there is not so much money at stake you tent to be a little less tense. Obvously creating a city were you have to buy a parking garage spot to hold your car would be a great idea because it would reduce the amount of polution being released and it would make the people living in the city less stressed.
Another ways people could limit the use of cars is if they do something like Paris, France does. They placed a ban on cars with odd numbered licens plates on Mondays, And placed a ban on cars with even numbered licens plates on Tuesdays. They did this because they were having record breaking amounts of polution being released. They were releasing more polution than Beijing, China who is the leading city in polution. But according to article two Paris found a sixty percent decrease in polution in just five days of this even odd ban. This means they lost more than half of the cities polution by limiting the cars on Monday to only even licens and limiting the cars to only odd licens on Tuesday. Cleary this is a very effective method of reducing the amount of cars being used.
A third way cars could be used less is if you have no car days like Bogata, Colombia has. In article three Carlos Arturo Plaza says "It's a good way to take away stress and lower air polution." He is saying that cars a cause for polution and doing this day is a good way of lowering polution rates. This source also stated that other cities in Columbia like Cali and Valledpar are joining in this event. It is also said that other country leaders go to Colombia to watch this event. Afterwards they say the event is awesome. This means that not only is the event spreading across Colombia, but it could possibly spread to other countries as well. Without a doubt this is another effective way to limit the use of cars.
It is clear that cars are a problem. But many people use them anyway, but what they don't think about is how much they are contributing to polution. Some ways to limit car usage are create cities where you have to pay for a place to store you car, have and even odd licens day, and have no car days. So now the shoice is yours will you continue driving all the time or will you limit the amount you drive? | 4 |
7f7af36 | The possibility of technological error and the necessity of modifying the law are among several issues that we face with driverless cars; therefore, driverless cars may not be the most ideal solution to safer roads. Although I believe that updates can be added to enhance safety features and prevent reckless driving, I think that the concept of having driverless cars to such an extent is dangerous.
Technological error is certainly the most significant of the negative aspects that driverless cars present to humans. Driverless cars have their faults just as humans do, and the benefits that these cars provide are often outweighed by error.
According to paragraph 9, "technology fails," and when that occurs, "someone is injured." Another perspective on this topic is human reliance on technology. Even though people can be alerted when something is wrong, not everyone will pay attention to those warnings. They may take advantage of the fact that the car drives by itself, which could lead to dozing off or even to drinking behind the wheel. Humans also couldn't develop motor skills as well. Alertness could decrease because some people may believe that they won't have to be aware of their surroundings while in the car. In addition, coordination and perception could be effected because people may not feel the need to improve on those skills since the car is driving instead. Paragraph 9 states, "lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers." This applies to driverless cars in that it implies that some may become lazy and unattentive while in an advanced car.
Laws may have to change drastically also, and it may be difficult for many people to keep up with the modifications. This could mean that countless people will have little knowledge of the rules of the road. In the article, it is brought up that "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." Contrary to this, driverless car owners may feel that it is unnessary to learn traffic laws because the car itself will be driving. Ignorance results from that way of thinking, and ignorance can lead to unsafe driving conditions and reckless driving. Besides traffic laws, various other laws will need to be upgraded or invented as well. The article mentions that "new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident." In other words, it would be necessary to create laws that distinguish between driver and manufacturer fault. It would be difficult to determine who exactly was the cause of an accident, which means that there could be many aggressive cases between owners and manufacturers.
In conclusion, driverless cars wouldn't exactly be for the benefit of the world. Their abilities are extraordinary, but it is not to be forgotten that with technology comes error. Driver awareness is essential to safe roads, and unfortunately driverless cars can cause less driver alertness as humans begin to rely soley on technology to assist them in their everyday lives. | 4 |
7f80bb9 | As stated in the article, the Electoral College process consists of the selction of the electors, the meeting of the electors, where they vote for PPresident and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. The Electoral college consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. A state's entitled number of electors is equal to the number of members in its Congressional Delegation. There is one for each member in the House of Representatives, and two for every Senator. There are many reasons why the voting process should be changed to popular vote instead of the Electoral College. The two biggest reasons are as follows: Unfair elections and the freedom of the people.
As stated in the third source, the Electoral College is often considered an anachonism and is unliked across the nation. The reasons for which vary greatly from certainty of outcome to big states to swing states. Certainty of outcome means that one of the Presidential Candidates has to be cosen to become President. There are no recounts in Electoral College, whoever they like the most becomes President, and that ins't fair to the people. Bigger states tend to have more members in the electoral college. This can greatly influence an election if a big state like Texas favors one candidate over the other. Swing states are the states that recieve more atention than other states due to bias, greatly influencing votes. In my opinion, this is something that needs to be changed.
Citizens of the United States of America are the ones who are supposed to decide who should be the President of the United States of America. It isn't right to select a few people from each state to decide who the President will be. That power lies with the people, and nobody should be able to take that away. The votes of millions and millions of people are out-weighed by the votes of a few hundred men and women. This is unjust and unfair in every way. If all the people in the United States wanted somebody as President, but the Electoral College disagreed, the Electoral College would win. Why should the Electoral College have more power than all of the people of the United States; they shouldn't. The power to decide who is President of the United States of America should always lie with the good citizens that live here.
I hope that the voting process will change. I hope that it will finally become fair. That it will become what the people want it to be. It should be what the people want it to be. We the people of the United States have the power to change this, and we should work to change it. The voting process should no longer be the Electoral College but should be dicided by the people and only the people. The voting process needs to be fair and needs to be what the people want it to be. | 4 |
7f83b08 | The Electoral College, the real group of electors, is a process in which the public selctes the electors. These electors then cast there votes for the President and Vice President. In total there is 538 electors that participate in the process and a majority of 270 votes as necessary to elct the President and the Vice President. These electors are chosen from each state, one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for you Senators. For the District of Columbia, since it's not a real state, it is awarded three electors due to the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution. The time to vote for electors is every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday. Some people disagree with this system, but the founding fathers of the U.S. had a reason for creating the Electoral College.
During a campain a candidate might have a lot of appeal in one area. For example a candidate might hae a lot appeal in the north where there is barely any state that has more than eight electoral votes and confirm that the votes will go him. Those states with very low electoral vote count will not be enough to hit 270 total votes. This drives the candidate to spread his campain to other locations to get more votes, not only for that but because he has no reason to stay in those comfirmed states. So thismakes everyone across the nation feel that there votes do count.
The opinion that goes against the Electoral System claims that the system isn't democratic and dosen't let the people directly vote for there candidate. Or another claim is that the people don't know who the electers are or what there intentions are.
It is true that it's not democrtic or that the electors are not well known. But the electors that the people vote for are ususally picked out by the candidate or the candidates party, which are the people that you vote for. And by the time you got to vote for the electors they already are comfirmed of who they are going to vote for so that gives no reason to doubt it. | 3 |
7f840dc | 'Umasking the face on mars' well at NASA we are discussing the face with someone wo thinks it was created by aliens. I would have to disagree to that. My arguement would be that it is just a natural landform.
Why do i say it is just a natural landform well because aliens arent real. Also in 1976 you could barely tell it would happen to look like a face way after 2001. If aleins would have created that then when they first created it then why did it not look like a face then? It's just a natural landform that was formed into a face.
In 1976 it just looks like lump on the ground and in 1998 you cant even see where the eyes nose and mouth would be and if they would of created it then surely they would of made it more noticeble. In 2001 it looks like a turtle shell , it has cracks in it and is shap almost like an oval but not excatly and i say an oval because there is no sharp edges. The reason i am explaining the shape and apperacance is because if someone were to creat a face it would take years to form out into one. Later on in the years it doesn look like a face but im gonna disagree on it wasnt created by aleins it is just a natrual landform.
That was my argument on aleins did not creat the face that it is just a natrual landform. It formed into looking like a face but didnt right when someone first saw it so there for how could any know it was suppose to be a face like i said. It just shaped into one over the years. Then people wanna make an opinion that is on aleins creating it. I think it is just a natural landform. | 2 |
7f87a21 | The Challenge of Exploring Venus is an article written by an author. The author uses a lot of evidence to support his claim that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.For example the author says that NASA should invent a "blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the rolling Venusian landscape"
This
is a genius suggestion. This could work because the vehicle would not be touching the hot surface but just hovering above enough for us to even get a glimpse of what the inside of Venus looks like.
The author also states that NASA is thinking of using mecahnical computers. These computers existed in the 1800's and were important in World War II" The new computers would just explode because of the heat and pressure Venus produces. The mecahnical computers would work very well.
The writer did an awesome job of supporting the idea that "Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents." I hope these things are invented or allowed so that astronounts can visit Venus and the world can finally know what exists deep inside Venus. | 2 |
7f8986b | Cars these days can cause a lot of accidents and pollution. This happens mostly because people are careless people. Accidents mostly happens to young teens. Why teens? Well they are immature and most of the dont care about what happens around them. So they will get drunk or use drugs that will mess with their senses and most likely get them involved in a car crash.
Self-driving cars can be very handy. But it will take some time before they come out and are avalible for the world to use. They have a lot of problems right now, but their are people working on it. I honestly like self-driving cars because there wont be as many people dying and there will also be less pollution. Instead of kids getting drunk and driving then crashing they can get a self-driving car and get home or where ever they need to go safely.
But there is a disadvantage to this also. The cost of the car will be very high. As the text states "Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors or the left rear wheel, rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotie radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor." The car is going to be very expensive. Not everyone has the money to buy it.
Eventually the price will come down. But it will take many years for that to happen. But it will happen, looking at the cars from the 1900's to now. People will buy the car for sure. The cars that used to exist are out of style for the modern days. Now everyone drives the newer versions or the cars. It can be expensive or very cheap, but I still support the self-driving cars. Like I said, they wont be cheap but the prices will drop. There will be less accidents and less pollution.
Cars have changed a lot over the years and they will keep changing. Prices will go up, or they will go down. Techonology is advancing and it will keep advancing. I like the idea of the self-driving car and hope it exists soon. | 3 |
7f9994a | A summer day on Earth is not that hot, campare to Venus its way off .
Tan on a nice summer day with a nice 80 degrees Fahrenheit, life is good. On Venus the temperature can reach 100 times that, 800 degrees fahrenheit.
Venus use to have water, and could maintain life a long time ago. Now the surface is hotter, all the water is gone, no space rover can spend more can couple of hours before being destroyed. This challenge more difficult then anyone can think of. The is just so much more to explore in Venus.
Sciencetist can study lots of things about Venus. Can't judge a book by its cover. Venus sound hard on paper, our technologies are getting better. The idea of floating on top of the clouds, is just amazing. Its more safer then landing on the ground, and not a lot of damage is going to accure to the astronaut equiments. The good thing is that, it hovering 30 miles or more above the surface. No need to worry about
storms and other kind of desassters.It will be powered by the suns energy, not much battery power needed to make the machine more heavier.There are some downsides to the idea of floating above the ground, the air pressure would be close to sea levels on earth. The scienctists who observe rocks wouldn't be able to take rock sample.
If the astronauts can make it to Venus, it wont be long to check out mercury. There might be other planet more hotter then Venus, but step by step we can do it. The future is closer, human curiosity grow larger, the farther more we know about space. Venus is just the first obstackle, will it be our last? | 1 |
7f9b49f | In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author states that exploring Venus would be an immense challenge to overcome due to all of the extremely harsh conditions. Venus, also known as the "Evening Star," is an extremely dangerous planet to explore. Even though scientists are aware of these difficult factors, people like the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" still think that being informed about this bright point of light is worth it.
According to astronomers, Venus may have at one point been the planet with the most Earth-like features. Venus is said to now have a "surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." These characteristics are one of the reasons as to why the author states that Venus is a pursuit worth risking many things for. Another reason is because in paragraph 4, the author states "Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit." Although these are all fair reasons to want to visit Venus once again, astronomers have to keep in mind all of the negative characteristics that will set their exploration behind. All astronomers and explorers are well aware of all of the challenging conditions such as the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere and the atmospheric pressure being 90 times greater in Venus than the pressure in Earth. These are not the only challenging conditions; another dangerous feature is that temperatures average over 800 degrees Farenheit in Venus's surface.
Consequently, the author states in paragraph six that there are now many scienstist searching for technology that will be able to stand the harsh conditions in Venus: "Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus." In the previous paragraph, the author informs the readers about an idea that NASA has thought of. The plan for sending people to study Venus would not give the necessary information to be properly informed of this volatile planet. All of these obstacles are not enough to calm human's desire of knowledge about unearthly topics. In paragraph eight, the author says that all of the challenges are not enough to mellow down our curiosity enough to quit studying Venus.
In conclusion, the claim about Venus being a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents that the author of "The Challenges of Exploring Venus" states is well supported by facts and perfectly thought out ideas. Although Venus is an extremely dangerous planet packed with many reasons as to why exploration is currently held back, NASA is still looking for ways to be able to gain more valuable insight about the Evening Star. Just like the author said, learning and travelling should not be limited by doubts, and scientists will not let doubts and fears stop them. | 4 |
7f9f257 | Why does this country even have this system? Where someone else basically chooses for you? The Electoral College should change to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. This should change because the people have the right to have their opinion go to what is being voted on,not some else choice also because it's like people are voting for something they don't want foresfuly. The United States is a what we call a democracy meaning the country is lead by the power of the people.
So when two people have an idea to make something better and another person has a different idea they each want to others to hear their ideas. Each person will have their reasons on why they think the way the way they think and the peolpe will have to make a desicion on what the they think is best for their community and their country. The United States is a democracy which means it is lead by the people. It's the people say. So when someone votes they expect their vote count against what they are going for. You making a desicion and someone else who is higher than you changes it makes voting ironic. Why vote? Just make them do the whole election. "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president"(Plumer). So technacally we are not doing the voting we are just what is called "giving options" to those who are actually doing the voting. We the people demand to be heard and want what we want. In
Source 2: The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the sytem are wrong it states that over sixty percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. Point being be should be heard no matter what.
In the United States we are not forced to do anything really. Especially when it comes to choosing. Everybody thinks differently so why should someone else vote for the choice of the people. It's like we are voting for someone we don't want when someone higher that you is voting for you. Each stae has their own number of electoral votes but it shouldn't be that way because it the president your voting for is in a tie and he need those votes the people would know that their votes are helping the person they want to see win. But when the electors choose something else the people cant think that. Sometime the electors refuse to vote for the their party's canidate. which makes the situation even terrible.
Source 2: The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the sytem are wrong paragraph 11 it says "Electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever the please." So why even waste time on telling people to vote if someone else will choose for you sometimes not what you want.
In the end having to count so many votes could be dificult and when counting it could lead to mistakenly counted. But we the people make our own desion for our own good. Just imagine someone asks you what you want to eat and get you something totally different. | 4 |
7fa0ea9 | All humans can express the way they are feeling. The feelings that are shown are one of the following, happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. Not all are truthful in the way they express it for others to see. Being a high school student, I see many kids who are happy on the outside but inside they are sad. When a person is sad and covers up their true feelings like a blanket, it is hard to understand how to help them. With this being said, we must do everything we can to truly figure out how students are feeling in the classroom.
By understanding the way someone is feeling enables us to help them or accomodate them in some way. For example, a man may go through life appearing to be happy but inside he is truly sad. Since he was wearing a metaphorical mask of happiness, no one was able to understand his true feelings. Prof. Thomas Huang, of Beckman Institute of Advanced Science at the Universty of Illinois, has found a way to understand peoples emotion.There may just be a solution that could help change societal problems relating to schools such as school shootings.
Recently our schools have been not such a safe enviroment due to the high activity of school shootings. Why exaclty do school shootings take place? In most cases, it is because that person was not understood emotionally by his or her peers. Now with the Facial Action Coding System we would be able to understand who throughout our school is feeling the angry, and sad emotions. Dr. Huang stated that, "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal." Since the facial expressions are universal, this statement only proves the accuracy of the FACS. After knowing who these students are allows the councelors in the school to go and talk to them. This breakthrough discovery may be over looked by some but could be beyond valuable and beneficial when it comes to helping students who are hiding their feelings.
The aspects of enforcing safety comes into play with this Facial Action Coding System. But this could not only minimze school shootings, but can also be beneficial in the way students learn. If a student is angry in class, they are most likely not going to be listening to the teacher. They will be focused on whatever it is they are mad at. If we were able to scan such kids, we could sit down with them and help reduce their anger in attempts to put them back on track to learn. The students who show no emotion make it hard for teachers to understand them. When a teacher makes a student smile, or surpirse them they are doing their job correctly. Now for a student who is unable to convey his true emotions, the teacher may not know if the student understands the material being taught.
By having the ability to tap into the emotions of a student is a paramount discovery. The benefits outweigh the negatives in every category. The implementation of the Facial Action Coding System within schools is going to be beyond valuable. This can be the turning point in the education system. By being able to understand how students are feeling, it can reduce violence, and ultimately allow for maximized learning. | 4 |
7fa2c6b | Why should we have to use technology to tell peoples emotions. In the case of Mona Lisa i can see why they would use it there. It states that she`s 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. I wouldn`t have known that if not for tech. Why should we calculate emotions. We shouldn`t have to use 3-D computor model to tell the emotions of people. All we have to do is look in a mirror. Raise your lips at the corners of your mouth. Then squint your eyes slightly, to produce wrinkling (crows feet) at the corners of your eyes. Holding that, raise the outer parts of your cheeks up, towards your eyes. Using technology produces a fake smile. We want real smiles. Besides your home PC can`t handle the complex algorithms used to decode a smile. But we can write down some simple instuctions that encode different emotions. So all i just said is basicly saying i don`t want this to be used. | 2 |
7fa4d7b | Many plantes in our galaxy have been studyed by NASA many times. NASA studys even other galaxy light years away too, but thay cant study plant that far away llike thay study here. Take venas for expmal. Venus is one of the plants that can be study up close to our plant and also vary simler to our plant many diffent ways. Here are some way that make venus worth study to despite the dangers.
To began with, Venus size and density are vary closely related and has a vary thick atmosphere like we do but, Venus is to much for us to handle. Venus atmosphere is almost 97 percent carben dioxide and over 800 degrees fahrenheit which is remarkable for plant to be that hot.
Next was trying to get a drone into the atmosphere of Venus but it so dense and hot that is makes liquefy metals. There alwas volcanoes, powerful earthquakes and lot of lighting happing.
Last NASA thinks there might have been life on it and blue oceans like ours by studying the features on Venus. Studing Venus from 30 plus miles is still hot around 170 fahrenheit whis is still to hot for humens.
In conclusison, NASA still dont have the most information on Venus as thay like consider we can only study from a ship orbiting safely away from Venus so we can only get a insight what venus is like. | 2 |
7fa6c4e | Luke was 18 years old. He just finished his high school graduation. Luke had two jobs working at a grocery store and at a bank, until his life cahnged.
Luke's friend Don Reist invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat. Luke knew this was an opportunity of a lifetime. World War II just ended and a lot of countries needed help, so Luke and his friend started to help. The UNRRA hired the Seagoing Cowboys to take care of all of the animals that would be on the boat. Luke and Don then signed up.
The cattle-boat trips were an unbelieveable opportunity for a small-town boy. Luke was happy that he was helping people but he was also really excited to see Europe and China. Luke also went to Venice, Italy and he even toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China.
Helping out on his aunt Katie's farm as a boy really helped and prepared him for this hard work that he is doing today. Then soon enough, Luke got a new job on the boat. Luke's job was check on all the animals every hour.
Then one night Luke's life almost ended. Luke was going to go see the captain but he slid down a slippery ladder on his backside. Luke almost flew overboard but a metal along the edge stopped him.
Luke had fun on board also. The cowboys would play volleyball, baseball, table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games.
Luke was happy for what he has done. It made Luke more aware of people of other countries and their needs. That awareness always stayed with him. Luke saved peoples lives. Luke is a hero. | 1 |
7fa9598 | You should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because the program will open up your world. You get to visit very unique places. It's some work caring for the animals like having to fed them two or three times a day. But these are just some of the reasons why you should join the Seaoing Cowboys.
Some of the reasons you should join the Seagoing Cowboys are, the places you can go such as China. The seagoing Cowboys also went to Venice, Italy, " a city of streets a water. " Is what a member Luke said. Also when you go your not just working with the animals, when you have free time so you can have fun. You can do some games such as baseball and volleyball games in empty holes where animals had been housed. You can also have Table-tennis tournaments, or do, boxing, reading, and whittling.
My last reason is that you get an opportunity to be aware of what the people in other countries need.
In conclusion, you should join the Seagoing Cowboys because, you can go to new places across the world. You also can learn more about the world and the people living in it, and last, you can have some fun while you're with the Seagoing Cowboys. | 2 |
7faa7c0 | Why should cars be limited? Theres really no reasson why. Its what would happpen with or with out them. I see that all cars are is a deadly machine that can kill anyone at anytime. over a hundred inasent people die every mouth by a car accident or and motorised viache colision.
Theres some places around the world where cars are limited to residents owning a car. For example: Vauban, Germany. Just because theres to many people that do not own any type of transportation have to walk the streets and so the people that own cars have a hard time trying to get places with all the people crowding the streets. when theres to mant people walking it beggins to back up traffice to a point people give up there cars to actual get to their work on time or to see a movie before it starts. I belive cars should be limited to the point where people have to walk. To cut down the obesity rate. | 1 |
7fac76e | Venus is a planet that is similiar, in certain ways, to earth. Earth and Venus both orbit the sun and Venus can be spotted from Earth. In this story, The author supports the idea of Venus exploration with great ideas and facts to support his claims. The authour says how visiting Venus could be both good and bad for humans and gives great reasoning on both point of views. The author never gives their opinion on the subject, but instead gives the reader reasons for both sides of the arguement.
In paragraph 3, the author says how Venus has a very dangerous atmosphere and supports that by saying that the clouds in the atmosphere are full of highly corrosive sulfuric acid. He says how the planets average temperature is over 800 degrees fahrenheit. The authour uses those facts to support the claim that those conditions are far more extreme than any human can withstand. In paragraph 4, he then goes on to say that long ago, Venus could have possibly been the closest thing to earth, being covered with oceans, valleys, and craters, possibly being able to support various life forms. He explains NASA? idea of a bimp like vehicle hovering 30 miles above the planets atmosphere for closer exploration, although the temperatures would still be very harsh.
The author ends off the writing by aying that humans must meet the challenges of Venus in order to conquer space exploration. Human curiosity could possibly come back araund and hurt us in the end, but we must know whats out there in case our planet is no longer inhabitable. He closes the story by saying that our travels on earth and beyond should not be limited, but we should exceed them in order to be great. | 3 |
7fad7ea | Would you like to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program? I hope you would all want to participate. It is a lot of fun. You also get to learn about different animals like what they eat.
A reason why you would want to have this is, you get to save animals lives and get to be with animals. The person didn't agree with me. He said "What if you are alergect to many kinds of animals?" I said you can wear a protected suit that animal's hairs couldn't get into the suit. He still doesn't agree. Then he says " What if you get sick or hurt?" I said we will help you.
Another reason would be, you could be able to see the rest of the world. You also get to see stuff in that country you go to, when you save the animals lives. He agrees and says"That would be cool but would you ever get to have fun on board?" I said yes but you have to make sure that you do your job every hour like feeding the animals.
After that many people joined the Seagoing Cowboys. Especially the people who were at the argument. One week later I went back on board and started saving animals lives again. It was a lot more fun with more people on board with me. | 2 |
7fb27b8 | The 'Face' on Mars is a natural landform, not an alien structure NASA is keeping a secret. Many of the top scientists at NASA wish it was an alien structure. There have been multiple photographs that show no hieroglyphics or signs of alien life. Some of the people on the mission said that it reminds them of landforms on earth. Mars' Face is just a natural landform.
Many of the top scientists at NASA wish it was an alien structure. NASA's funding for projects is dwendeling fast, an alien structure on Mars would be huge for them. Why would NASA lie if there really was life on Mars? They wanted the Face to be an alien form as much as everyone else did.
NASA wouldn't lie about there being life on Mars, if there was they would have funding.
There have been multiple photographs that show no hieroglyphics or signs of alien life. In 1967 the Viking 1 photographed the Face on Mars, 18 years after the mission it was photographed agian. In April of 1998 Jim Garvin photographed the face, "a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos." that photo revealed a natural landform. When the photo was asked to be retaken on a clear summer day, it again showed a natural landform. All the new photos point to the Mars' Face being a natural landform.
Some of the people on the mission said that it reminds them of landforms on earth. Jim Garvin, cheif scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program found that the Face on Mars was the equivilant of a butte or mesa on earth. Buttes or mesas are common around the American west. Garvin even said that "It remeinds me most of Middle Buttle in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," The team that Garvin led to take the picture in 2001 agree that it is a natural landform.
Mars' Face is just a natural landform. NASA wouldn't lie about there being life on Mars, if there was they would have funding. All the new photos point to the Mars Face being a natural landform. The team that Garvin led to take the picture in 2001 agree, it is a natural landform. The people at NASA, top scientists, have all agreed that the Face on Mar's is just a natural landform. | 4 |
7fb3bdd | The Seagoing Cowboys is a wonderful program that helps countries that are left in ruins from wars.
Nations gathered to form the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to take care of mules, young cows, and horses that are shipped over seas. Not only are you helping other countries if you join, but you also get to see marvelous places such as Italy, Crete, and China. The Seagoing Cowboys is a program where you can learn many character traits and a place where you help your world.
When I signed up for UNRRA,
I knew it was a once in a life time experience and that I just couldn't past that chance up.
After I turned 18, I could be drafted in military service. So when my draft board learned that I was on a cattle-boat trip, they let me keep on doing that.
When I was discharged, I had made nine trips-the most any other Seagoing Cowboy had done. In my time, the cattle-boat trips were an unbelieveable experience, and other than helping people, I got to tour many places.
Even on board I had a jolly time.
On return trips, the cowboys and I played baseball, table-tennis, and volleyball in the empty animal holds.
If physical activity isn't your thing, you could have still have read, whittled, and played small games. The Seagoing Cowboys aren't just about exploring places and playing games though. The UNRRA opened up the world to me, as it made me more aware of people in other countries and their needs.
My awareness has stayed with me as I have lead my family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years.
Yes, I do realize that joining UNRRA can be a risky thing. Even myself had gotten into an accident before, I'm even still happy to be alive.
One day I fell down a slippery ladder on my back, but then a tiny strip of metal kept me from flying into the dark and mysterious Atlantic. With that, I couldn't work for a few days because of my broken ribs. You might be scared to join because of your own safety, and I respect that. However, so many other positive things have came from my experience in the UNRRA to out number that one incident.
In conclusion, I believe you should join the Seagoing Cowboys for many reasons. Not only are you getting adventure into your life, but you're also helping others. I believe the UNRRA made me a better person, as it opened up a whole new point of view for me to the world, the world's people, and their needs. So next time someone metions the Seagoing Cowboys, get a little more interested. And when you go and sign up, tell the people Luke Bomberger sent you. | 4 |
7fbdc67 | I believe using this technology to read students emotions and expressions is going to be very useful. I agree with the use of this technology to read students emotional expressions. I believe it is important to, as a teacher and parents to notice when the student or child is not doing fine.
For example in paragraph 5 the text says ".. you probobly tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on his/her face". This text shows that in a school with a lot of kids you can easily tell when one is not in a good mood and when one is. It is going to be much easier finding out how someone feels when having a big technical device help you as well. A statment from paragraph 6 it says "A classroom computer could recognize when is a student is becoming confused or bored". This helps the teacher know which of her classmates understands.
Another thing I would like to add is what if a student is thinking of something bad or personal and the device still reads his emotions? To me don't think thats appropiate. Lets agree to disagree by this statement "They even indicate the difference between a genunie smile and a forced one". This text the author stated was given in the middle between paragraphs 7 and 8.
Someone can be feeling down but with something private going on in their lives they might even tend to hide their emotions and not say a word I mean it has happened. Besides there's a difference from acting and emotions.
However let's get back to the agreement section. In paragraph 8 the author states "According to the Feedback .... moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them". No matter how your feeling there's going to be a way to hide your emotions when you don't want them to be seen or another thing, you can express them. Either way it's good for your muscles.
From this article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" I agreed on using this technology to read students emotions and expresssions is useful. Perpahps further on in the future this type of technology will be used more and will be advanced as well. | 3 |
7fc1003 | 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 between elections of the President by a vote in congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. In the United States people select a president every three years. They would either select their president by Electoral College, or by the most popular vote.
Voting by Electoral College is not safe at all,they should change it to election by popular vote for the President of the United States. When you vote by elecoral vote it is never guaranteed that they are going to vote for who you wanted to vote for. They might even change their mind at the last second ,so you never know what they are about to do. Some rich people can pay them to buy off their votes. Then ,boom you lost a vote it might result to a tie or lost. According to paragraph 11 "In the same vein,''faithless" electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast and deciding vote for whomeverthey please...". You never what could happen ,it is like taking a very riskfull risk and every votes matter .Just one vote can make a very big difference. Further more,voting by popular vote would give you a better chance of getting your candidate to win .When you are the one that elects the President you feel more confident and good .You'll know that you voted for the one you wanted to win and the one that you think that will change everything the way you wanted to. Also ,you don't have worry about anything else ,like people going in the voting box and taking the votes out. Once you vote ,your vote is immediately safe.
In the other hand,voting by Electoral College benefited us .Obama which is the current president of the United States wouldn't probably be president if it wasn't for them. Accordind to the last article "In [2012's ] election ,for example ,Obama recieved 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney....'' That means their votes helped Obama win. Also' the Electoral College avoids problem of elections in which no candidates recieves a majority of the votes cast. Winners take all methods in awarding electoral votes for what they've done.
To summarise my reasonnings Electoral College votes should be change to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Peoples should be allowed to vote on their own. Everybody would be much happier .Without happy people the country would be upside down. Put this question in your mind,what would you do if you were running for president ,and they told you Electoral College would be voting? | 4 |
7fc2116 | Dear John Kerry, the senator for the state of Florida we must keep The Electoral College. Why do we need to keep it? we need to keep it because it is an important process that our founding fathers created, that is part of our constitution. Also, it was established as a compromise between election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The electoral college process deals with peoples selections of the electors. It consists of 538 electors and their has to 270 votes to elect the president. We have a president and vice president without having the electoral college, it would be useless to have all these senators. We have a house of representatives that work extremely hard and it would be rude to get rid of the electoral college and changing elections by popular vote. Leave everything the way its going because the process works awesome and if you mess something up your going to lose your job being the state senator, or your going to get many letters, emails, possibly phone calls of hatred and more. That will not be good for you or your business so my suggestion as a citizen is to not make any changes. Once a statement or rule is in the constitution you cant just take it away or change it that will ruin everything. I mean... its your decision on what you want to do but if I were you I would listen to my opinion strongly. Well that is all I have to say so keep the electoral college and good luck. | 2 |
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