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8101828 | The author supports his/her idea well with all the details they gave of the temperatures and conditions of Venus. Although it seems near impossible, the author leads one to believe that exploring Venus' surface may be more possible than it looks at first glance. There are metals that could survive such conditions.
While floating 30 or so miles above the surface of the fireball-like planet might give us more insight than we already have, to really acquire significant information, we need to get right down on the ground. On the planets surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit. While that may be hot enough to melt a chinsy-built little robot, the author makes a valid point that a system of steel gears and levers would be able to withstand such conditions for a long period of time. If we could send a mechanical-built robot down to explore, it might be able to survive on the surface of Venus long enough to collect some of the information we need. Perhaps a machine made out of tungsten, it'd be heavy, but the melting point would be significantly higher.
In conclusion, the author makes many valid points that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers that come with the exploration of the planet. Harder metals with hotter melting points are obviously going to last longer. Even floating 30 or so miles above the surface in a space ship could potentially give us more information than we already have. If we have the resources to make landing and exploring our sister planet possible, why not get all the way on the ground and get as much information as possible though? | 3 |
8102b68 | The using of cars has caused much of the worlds green house gas imitions, in America as much as 50% of the imitions are caused souly by transportation. Many people feel that this is destroying our atmosphere and that we should cut down on imitions by walking, biking or car pooling. Efforts to cut down keep our atmosphere clean and breathable. Some communities such as Vauban, Germany have illiminated car use entirely.
Vauban is a new experimental suburb where there is no street parking or driveways and the only place to park is in a garage where you must buy a space for 40,000 which has cut the car ownership rate down to only about 30%. There are as many as 5,500 residents in Vauban and most of them say they like it much better without having to worry about a car. In many suburbs however the houses are much to far apart for them to be car-free, though many areas are considering developments like this one so they can clean up the air.
Other cities, such as Paris, are fourced to ban driving for days at a time in order to clear the thick smog that hovers above the city. On one day odd numbered plates won't be allowed to drive and on the next day even, volaters are fined $31. As many as 4,000 drivers are fined. Only once the smog was sufficently cleared did they allow both plate types to drive. Limiting driving can prevent problems like this from occuring in all cities.
In Colombia they have a day where all cars are banned, chalanging the inhabitance to find alternate routs of travel for fear of the $25 fine for violators. The day without cars began in the mid-1990's for Bogota, a city with a population of 7 million, has participated, but last year two other cities in Colombia joined in. Dispite the rainy weather many people still hiked or rode their bikes. Many citizens say that it keeps the cities air clear and that its nice to have a day without traffic jams filling the streets. The Day without cars is an event that many countries hope to adopt.
Studies show that many people from the newest generation aren't bothering to get a licence. Cell phones and apps make car pooling easy and the internet allows you to interact with friends without having to drive to visit them. Experts are hoping this trend will continue and that it will cut down the gas imitions. With increased use of social networking technology hopefully people will also become more aware of how they are affecting their planet and move to help others cut down as well. | 4 |
8104655 | In a future with drriverless cars more people could be satisfied with life. Instead of planning out a trip months ahead. You can just call a cab and be on your way then and there. More people in poor communites need rides to school, work, ect. The fact that
50,000 people or more in the U.S. Dont have a car or any form of transportation.
The better the tech the better the ride. The government should wait a few good years befor letting them go. The tech is good for unmanned missions but just some more work needs to be put into it. The manufactures who make the car need to be carful. If there vehicals break down with people in them then whos to blame. It's not the computers fualt. Its the programer. Many people would support this. In fact the whole nation would.
Acceptional use. The cars themselvs need an exceptional use policy. They should also be in every city. The rides should be free. But if your going out of town or state they should cost 100 dollers for every hundred miles out of state or town. Making these would be a dream to people.
The future holds promise for these cars. None the less
making these would cause contraversy. But with so many people using them why take them away. Statistics should be kept on them. Life is getting better. So whats your choice. | 2 |
8107605 | Driverless cars would have never crossed our mind 50 years ago, but today, they are already being developed and tested. Driverless cars are wrong beacuse they could cause a lot more accidents from technology malfunctions, they could potentially cause many law suits and problems in our world, and they will make humans even more technology dependent and incapable of taking care of themselves if somehow we lost all electricity and had to operate cars by ourselves.
Driverless cars are owned and operated by the company who makes them, humans have little to no control on what happens in the car. So if the car crashes, would it be the manufacturers fault or the humans fault? Driverless cars could potentially cause many unneccesary arguments and law suits between manufacturers and consumers. If someone is riding in the driverless car, and the car crashes, the manufacturers should be the ones to blame unless they develop a technology to enable the humans to take complete control if neccesary. Many arguments could be made that the manufacturer didn't program the car correctly anf that is why the person was injured or even so much as killed. This could result in manufacturers of big companies paying millions maybe even billions of dollars in law suits.
Driverless cars could cause a lot more accidents because there isn't someone physically watching the surroundings of the car, and technology as simple as calculators can malfunction sometimes, so would you really trust a car run by a computer with your life? Driverless cars have no human physically driving unless it enables the human to drive, and even then it will be hard to avoid the accident because the car wouldn't inform the human about the incident unles just milliseconds before it happens because they can't predict the future and neither can we. The amount of accidents would most likely skyrocket if driverless cars became an everyday thing because of the lack of control and responsibilty a human has in the car.
Today we have many different things that involve technology. We have phones that we depend on for almost everything we do in life, we have computers which we use to store information, we have calculators so we don't even have to remember how to do simple math on our own. Almost everything we do in life has some sort of technology to make our lives easier. Now we might not even have to drive our own car. Driverless cars could mean that people never have to learn how to drive, and then what would happen if for some reason the world lost all electricity, wifi, and communication signals? That means no more phones computers, calculators, and no driverless cars. People are so dependent on technology today that giving them another thing to be dependent on to not have to drive themselves is going to cause a lot of problems if the world has an extreme crisis. Hardly anyone would know how to drive, which means very little transportation and it will be ahrder to communicate with people.
Driverless cars should be illegal because it could potentially cause ven more uneeded law suits and arguments, it could cause a lot more deaths in car accidents, and it would make people very uneducated on how to get places if the technology somehow stopped working. The world is just fine driving themselves, and on top of everything else we depend on technology for, it would be nice to keep at least one thing we have to do for ourselves just for the sake of human independency. If we create driverless cars, we will truly not have anything left to do for ourselves and there will be extreme crisises if something were to happen to our electricity. | 5 |
8109b66 | I read the article ''A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves." This article is about the Seagoing Cowboys program. The Seagoing Cowboys program is people that help recover food supplies for places that just got done with war and to take care of horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. I think it's good to help people in need. There are three rerasons why people should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. Those reasons are that your helping people in need, to expeariance other countries culture, and to for the adventure and amazing views.
The first reason why I think you should join the Seagoing Cowboys is that because your helping people in need. It is good to help people in need because it shows other people that they are loved. It is also good to help people in need because they just been through a lot. They just been through war, and war is not pretty. It is also good to help people in need because it shows that you care.
The second reason why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys is that its good to expeariance other countries culture. It is good to expeariance other countries culture because it is good to know what they do in there country. It is also good to expeaeriance other peoples cultures because it is goood to know how they live or if the countries poor. The last reason why you should expeariance other peoples culture is that it is fun to learn new things about other countries.
The third reason why people should join the Seagoing Cowboys is for the adventure and the amazing things you get to see and expeariance. You get to go to China, Greece, Europe, Crete, italy, and many more countries. It would be fun to see The Great Wall of China, or the Panthenon in Greece, or other amazing sites in other countries. It is a honor to see an amazing site that most people don't see everyday.
In conclusion, I think it would be really fun to be a Seagoing Cowboy. It would be fun to help people, expeariance other peoples culture, and see amazing sights. People should really consider being an Seagoing Cowboy. | 3 |
811355b | Have you evere want to chage whay you were learing becaus you didnt understand it are it just go boring. There is an technology that can help fix thata and it is called the Facial Action Coding System. I think that theis system is a good idea to have in a classroom for students.
In most classrooms there is only one teacher and he/she cant get to every student at the same time. If they implement this system into schools arounld the would then the program can alter it slef for that student tto help him or her to better understand the infromatin they are learning. this system can also he the teacher beetter understand what their student can undersand and what the need to work on.
Another reason this system is good for students is becaus it can benift them when they are learning a new langauge, the systme can aluter the program the student is wourking on to an easer or more diffeclt lesson.
So have you ever want you lesson to change so you can better understand it. the Facial Action Coding System is a good way to sater with. In all this system is a good way for schools to hel their students lean and understand infromather better. | 3 |
811be0e | You like your car right? What if i told you that not only are you putting yourself in danger but everyone else in the world as well. You might not know it but you really are and its a big problem. There is many ways to fix this but in this case we could try using the easiest. That is to limit the use of cars. Now hold on before you throw this away like paper continue reading on so you know what kind of help you could be doing if we limit the driving for not only you but everyone in this world. Limiting use of the car you drive today will improve your safety, pollution, and others safety as well. Dont just stop at a red light, stop hurting the things around you.
Buckle up, safety first. All those sayings that your parents or drivers ed teachers have told you are not just for them to control you. They actually mean to help you but your just so excited about driving you dont even pay attention. See if you have a car, you must pay a forty thousand doller parking space in Vauban. Its a car free zone and some people actually like it. As a result 70 percent of Vaubans familys do not own cars and 57 percent sold there car to mover there. When your in a car, you always feel so tense dont you? In my opinion its because your afraid of getting hurt or into a crash. If we limited the time of driving you wouldnt have to be so tense because there would be less people around you.
Now the world is dying. Dont feel frightened or ashamed but this is sort of your fault. You cant see it but when you drive a car, gas comes out the back and into the earths atmosphere. This is called pollution and it isnt one of the good guys. In our case its a bad guy that need to be and should be stopped. It wont be one of those quick novels either and will take a lot of your support but it could be done. Limiting everyones driving uses will help try saving the earth from what we are doing to it. Paris typically has more smog than other European capitals and just last week had 147 micrograms of particular matter. This is the danger to the world and the earth just wont stop fighting back.
Look out! Wow that was close from hitting you. See there in the road is a line that forms a lane. A lane shows you the area you can drive on and all you have to do is stay in the lane. You put oher peoples lives at risk if you drive anywhere besides that lane and even yourself. Dont be selfish enough to just worry about yourself but aware enough on where your going and how you are to get there. Causing a car crash will get you nowhere in life except the hospita which believe me is not one of the best places to take your new friend. Limiting the use of cars will help you keep your awares up and about in case the worst of evemt could happen.
So limiting a car usage is not such a bad thing now is it? instead of thinking of yourself think of your safety, the pollution, and others safety. It could make a real difference in the world if we could just limit the use. Need to go somewhere? Try using a bicicycle or skateboard and you will find it might be a little slower but will get you where you need to go with almost no damage warrantys. You never know, you might like it so much yo would have your own personal spongebob car free zone on your door that you bought after selling your car. This does not inlcude the spongebob car free zone bicycle either which is sold seperatly from the store nearest you. | 3 |
811c907 | The development of driverless cars is a good idea.The features that these cars have are more advanced.Less car accidents would accur with the driverless cars.The drivers in these driverless cars would be more alert.The development of driverless cars is a better option for drivers.
First, the driverless cars have features that are more advanced then the ones where drivers have to drive all the time.One driverless car for example like the Toyota Prius has alot of features that are advanced.In the article it states the features,"The Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel,a rotating sensor on the roof,a camera mounted near the rearview mirror,four automotive radar sensors,a GPS receiver,and an inertial motion sensor."It also states the more important feature in the driverless car."The most important bit of technology in this system is the spinning sensor on the roof,dubbled LIDAR,it uses laser beams to forma
constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings...the combination is all this..is necssary for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel.""The combination of all these advanced features are well put together.
Second,there would be less car accidents with the driverless cars.Even though its driverless it still alerts the driver.The car detects danger faster and can save people from having accidents as when they would be driving by themselfs they would realize the danger too late.In the article it states ,"Within 10 years ,those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out control skids or rollovers." It also states that ,"The information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on the individual wheels and reduce power from the engine,allowing far better response and control than human driver could manage alone."These features would help the driverless cars have less car accidents.
Third, the drivers in the driverless cars would be more alert.The driverless cars have the combinations of features and more features been added to them that car drivers will be more alert then ever.In the article it states,"Manufacturers are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road.While the driver watches the road , the car watches the driver."The car also lets the driver when to take over.When the driverless car can't do something in a especific situation it alerts the driver.In the article it states,"The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over."It also states,"GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object."These features help keep the driver alert with the driverless car.
The development of
driverless car is a better option than the normal cars.The driverless car has more advanced features which have more techonology then the normal ones.There would be less car accidents with the features that it offers.The driver would be more alert in the driverless car then in the normal car. | 4 |
8120133 | Mona Lisa face expressions are different than others face's, depending on how the person look with no smile, no anger, and no saddness. The emotional communication is nonverbal, showing the more emotion there is though our face's. Smile' are all differnet depending if it's a real one or a forced one. Faces don't lie, Smiling isn't being truthful they said. Willing to put on a face, it usually works most of the time, but not only to expresses emotion, it's tells us how they are feeling today or what they are going though.
When actors fake a smile or a frown they don't feel it really, they just make the face to prove or hide what they are feeling or showing. They act the show and give what's on the paper and have the same movement that we humans have to use when we express how we feel.
We have six basic emotions. Happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and there is sadness. They associated with each of our characteristics movements of the facial muscules. "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal." We have some software tracks on these facial movement that our brain follows, it can find out you're mix emotion and expression by you're neutral face. This not means what you can really see without the tech and just see the real feeling and the real smile or their sadness. This Facial Action Coding System is identifing the moment of the face right that minute, but not what they are feeling right after or before.
What I'm tryig to say is that our computers are blind and won't see what's really happening, our faces can lie to computers but not to people who know's what they been though and can see in other human their self. You got to see it deep into their eyes and smile if they are really happy or just really sad within their ife. It's different how the Da Vinci code is, with converting their specific emotoin with the new electronic code. | 2 |
8121481 | The Seagoing Cowboy program is hard work but it is pretty fun. You get to help people that endured the 1945 World War 2 restock on food, animals, and more. All of us together make 44 nations that have joined together to help the people in need. The Seagoing Cowboys were part of the UNRRA ( the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) organization. A Seagoing Cowboy will take care of the animals including the horses, young cows, and mules that are on board. You get to see amazing monuments and you get to sight see and have fun. This is an opportunity of a lifetime so you should join this amazing program.
One of the reasons that you should join the program is because while you are working, you get to enjoy the wonderful views that the ocean gives you and you get to see building that you would have to pay a lot of money for. I got to see Europe, China, and the Acropolis in Greece. When you are having a bad day you can just look out and see the beautiful sunset and marvel the sights that you can look upon.
Another reason is once the animals are unloaded, you are able to find some time to yourself and have fun on the ship. You are able to play baseball, volleyball, and tennis. The Cowboys also did fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and other games to pass time. You would find an empty stable and gather a few people to play with you.
You should join the Seagoing Cowboy program to help the UNRRA. You will enjoy having lots of fun with us but not only that, you can see marvelous evenings and daylights. You can also admire the beautiful buildings the you will see on the trips that you take. | 3 |
812b075 | Technology today is becoming more and more advance throughout the centuries. Scientists are developing new equipment and methods to improve the daily lives of humans. However are these new technological advancements really effecively improve the lives of humans? There is no dought that technology has improved the work and efficiancy of humans; howeve ther ae some tasks that can never replace a human and heir ability to understand each other. A new technology called the Facial Action Coding System has been developed to enale computers to identify human emotions. Scientis want to put the technology into use in the classroom in order more efficiantly econgize the emotions o students and better help them in the classroom. This may sound like a good idea on paper however, using this technology to read students' emotional expressions is a bad idea because no computer can understand the empotions of an human better than a human and everyone is different and unique.
Human emotion is a complex pocedure and the emotional expression alone cannot identify the true feelings of a human. Only the understanding and sypmathy of a fellow human can read and understand a human's emotion outside the expression itself. As the author continues to describe the echnoloy behind the Facial Action Coding System he begins to explain an everyday occurance where human are able to identiy their fello man's facial expreesion. The author continues to say that even though humans are able to efficianltly know and uderstand the emotion of other humans they are less likely to decibe said emotion. This passage claims that although humans are able to identify the emotions of other umans they are not as effeciant and calculated that computer technlogy. Humans more than anything have a gift to understand each other with the slightest expression. If a student is strggling an compuer may miss not understand the degree of destress the student is in. Computers are unable to show the same amount to sympathy and unerstanding of a human. If a student is struggling it is more effective for ehe instructure o hlp the sdnt.
Every facial expression does not mean the same thing for everybody. Every man is diffeent and a comtuter should not lable a person's emotion through facal expressions alone. The author decribes the technology behind the Facial Action Coding System and its knowleg of muscle tructure to identify emotional expressions. In the passage Dr. Huang, one o the developers of the Facial Action Coding System said " the facial expressions for each emotion is universal...even though individuals often show varing degrees of expression" (D'Alto 4). This quote implis that every human is capable of showing the same facial expression to express to describe the same emotion, saying it is "universal". Althout to a certain extaint human emotional expressions are widely identified as very simular, there is no definate expression to a definate emotions. Computes requre calculate and measunments to succesfully idenify a human's emotion. It is very easy to convincly fake an emotional expression and facial expreeions don't always corospond with it's respectd emotion. Everone expresses themselves in a different way and not everythig is definate.
In conclusion using technology to read students' emotional expressions is a bad idea because no computer can understand the empotions of an human better than a human and everyone is different and unique. | 3 |
812bb51 | The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" suggests that exploring and studying Venus must be done despite the dangers. They support this idea by stating how similar Venus is to Earth and that Venus could have been like Earth many years ago. They don't ignore the dangers though.
The author makes a point to mention the dangers of conducting research on Venus with statements like "almost 97 percent carbon dioxide," and "highly corrosive sulfuric acide in Venus's atmosphere." They still combat this with reasons to continue though with statements about how similar it is to Earth, and that it "could have supported various forms of life".
Venus could have supported life forms and we might be able to research them if we were able to get to them. The author brings up computers that are entirely mechanical. these computers could be build to withstand the intense conditions of Venus. It is possable for us to research Venus further but how many lives is that worth? Our Author did a great job at informing us, but they didn't give us enough reason to make it worth the risk to research Venus. | 2 |
812cb25 | I think that you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program because ,It helps animals, you can have a great story to tell to your chilldren, and you can have fun. Well if that did'ent convinc you than, hears something that might, Luke Bomberger him self said "He found time to have fun on board, especially on return trips after the animals had beeen unloaded."The Cowboys also played baseballand volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass time." Before all of that Luke and the crew took care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shiped overseas. When Luke and his friend Don they were sent right to work. Luke was a little ahead of him self becaus he helped out his aunt Katie on her farm as a boy , but his chalang was the dangerous seas.
Now Luke was in his early 20s and he was on his second night of wachman job, that ment that Luke had to check the animals every hour. It was a rainy night ,he was making his hourly report to the captin. on his way down he sliped down aladder on his back. Luke shot feet first to an opening on one side of the boat but a small strip of metal stoped him from falling into the dark, cold,tarorizing Atlantic.
He had crackend a couple of his ribs. In Lukes life time Luke had made nine trips the most of any Seagoing Cowboy.
Being Sea going Cowboy is much more Than a great time its an opportunity for you it giving you achance to see the word, and it shows you how much we are given in are country than other people around the world.
That awareness stays with you forever like it did with Luke Bomberger. After you do this you can tell stundents and others about what you did to help others ,and you might even make an impact on others. For being in his 20ntys Luke was a smart young man for what he did.
So what chose are you going to make during your life , help ,or let animals die and people that need the food to servive and let them die to die?
Whats your chose? | 2 |
812f0ba | In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author writes about the idea of exploring Venus. The author mentions many obstacles, that make the exploration of Venus hard, but he also talks about why it is important for us to explore the planet.
One of the most important reasons, to explore Venus, is the fact that Venus could once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. The author writes
"Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life". The author also brings out the fact, that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit.
In Paragraph 8 the author writes about how exploring the planet would not just be for the information, but to feed the curiosity that humans naturally have. According to the authors opinion, if we can defeat the problem that is exploring Venus, we will be more confident and innovative facing equally intimidating endeavors in the future. The author expresses his opinion about exploring by saying
"Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expnded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation."
So in Paragraph 4, when the author says "The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable" he means that the insight we would gain and the satisfaction of feeding our curiosity makes Venus a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. I truly hope,that the challenge of exploring Venus will be defeated, because it could possibly change the way we see our World. | 3 |
812f71f | Some reasons to join the Cowboys. Joining the Cowboys would bring a change in his life. They were hiring for more people. His friend took the advantage of inviting him. This job would help him get a job in the sea.
When he takes this job it would help him to be smarter in the seas. The results of him taking this job was that he did not need to go in the army, instead they said you keep on doing your job. Luke was luky because they were hiring. Since Don invited him it said, "Luke couldn't say no. he new it was an opportunity of a life time." If Luke wanted to get a sea job when he got older he could say, " I have expireance in the sea."
The way it changed Luke's life was outstaning. Thanks to Don 'Luke's friend" he was able to get this job. Luke new being a cowboy was a tough job, but he took the job anyway. | 2 |
8131512 | I think this is a natural landform. I believe this because there is more evidence to support this idea. So in these next two-three paragraphs I am going to tell you why.
The first fact that clarify's that the face is just a landform comes in the last paragraph in the article. In this paragraph it clearly states that the picture actually shows a Martian equivlant of a butte or mesa - landforms that are common around the American West. "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," says Garvin.
Another paragraph that supports the evidence is clear and correct is in paragaph eleven. "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size," he added. "So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" This supports me evidence from the paragraph above by telling how much you could see in these pictures.
In these last few paragraphs I have given you evidence from the article that support that the Face is a natural landform. So I hope I persuaded you to believe that the Face is a natural Landform. | 2 |
8131b15 | Hey have u ever wonder what it wood be like in other countryes well u could find out if you were on a cattle boat as what some people would call a sea cowboy and if you've read the articale a cowboy who rode the waves u would know that luke bomberger was a sea cowboy and from just reading things he seaid like going acropolis greece was special and so was thaking a gondla ride in venice, italy that just made it sound fun to be a sea cowboy but we might never get to know what thats like since we haven't had a war that left a place in ruines sicnes i think ww2 so now we may never get to know what it was like to do what luke bomberger did in the years after ww2 but we can only imagen how cool that would be to do what he did but it's 2016 now and we have new things were worrying about and most people have probaly forgot what this is or most just don't know or care but i think its cool that he did that and i want to do it to some day. | 2 |
8133ef2 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author supports the idea of studying Venus despite that it has many dangers. The first way the author supports this claim is that not a single spaceship has landed on Venus in more than three decades. The second claim the author makes is that Venus's surface has very hot tempratures. The third way the author supports this is that he states that astronomers are fascinated by Venus.
Not a single spaceship has landed on Venus in three decades. The article says that no spacecraft has survived the landing more than a few hours. NASA wants to send humans the Venus despited this fact.
The second claim is that Venus has very hot tempratures. The surface of Venus averages over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmosphere pressure is over 90 times greater than what we experience on Earth. Venus has the hottest surface temprature of any planet in our solar system. The author states that these conditions are not easy, but they are survivable for humans.
The author lastly tells us that Astronomers are fascinated by this planet. He states that it was once the most Earth-like planet in the solar system. Venus today has some features that are analogous to Earth. For example, the planet includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters.
Despite that Venus could be dangerous to physically study, the author does support it. The planet is hot, no spaceship has landed on it in decades, but it is still fascinating for astronomers. Venus has value, and if it is studied more, astronomers will gain insight on the planet. At the end of the article the author states that "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." That is how the author suggets that studying Venus is a worthy persuit, despite the dangers. | 3 |
8136c43 | The driverless car is a great concept but I don't believe that our technology is prepared for it yet. There are too many things that could go wrong and that's if the government even lets these cars out on the road. It would be a really great idea, especially on longer trips like our family trip down to Florida every year for spring break. In reality I just can't see it being that safe and successful.
The writer talks a little bit about having special roads for these cars and this is just a concept of mere fiction. There is no way we can embed every single one of America's roads with an electrical cable, it's just not a possible thing to do. With America already in so much debt, I can't see how making these roads a reality would actually help the United States in any way.
Now we are going to scratch the smart road thing because we all know that it's ridiculous, and move on to a semi-possible option-smartcars. My first topic here is that machines always malfunction eventually. No matter how well the manufacturer makes them, they will always malfunction in some way or another. I'm sure these cars will cost a fortune, and with that cost no one will want to update them every three years. Not wanting to update these cars puts everyone at risk for malfunctions. Personally I know I'm bad about taking the time to update my phone, so I'd be really bad about updating my car. Whether that be the cars data recognition is worn out or the technology simply isn't up to date, malfunctions will happen.
When these malfunctions do happen, who is to blame? The car for not working properly or the person for not updating their car? Technically, it is the cars fault for not stopping and rearending another car, but a car can't pay for the damages. I could see a lot of law suits coming out from this, may it be between individuals in an accident or a customer verses a manufacturer. I think manufacturers should really do themselves a favor and say out of this technology advance. Accidents are already not fun we don't need to add another complicated measure to the process.
When I first read about the driverless car I thought it was a great idea, and not until I dug a little deeper into the concept did I realize that there are some things about a driverless car that our society isn't ready for. We don't have the money to help this idea be successful, nor do we have the mindsets of Americans to make it successful. I believe within my lifetime that it could be good to have driverless cars, but for now I can only look at it as a great idea with bad reprecussions. | 4 |
81388a1 | BAM!!!!. Knowing that you crashed your new driverless car due to a technical failure, must suck. Driverless cars should be a dream not a goal. I am against the development of these cars, Its dangerous!.These cars require lots of attention because you never know your car could crash at any time.
The main reason why I am against driverless cars is because the danger it could cause. technology always fails at one point in life and using it on cars could cost a life. As said in paragraph 9, " If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault--the driver or the manufacturer?". Driverless cars requires lots of attention even though they're "Driverless". These cars arent smart enough to recognize signs or advanced problems, paragraph 8 states "Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver? Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?",
Driverless cars coming soon, What? before even thinking about driverless cars think about the money it will cost to upgrade roads !. These cars will not work off-road unless they want to put more more in these extras roads. In paragraph 3 it says,",but they require massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical. Building these car will also require lots of money to biuld and buy.
Thinking of getting a driverless car in your near future? I don't think so. Risk yourself and your money if you want to be in a situation of life or death. Driverless cars should be a dream not a goal . I am strongly against the development of these cars. | 3 |
8138994 | Abolishing the Electoral College may be the best choice because the most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the elecetoral college. Also at the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters.
If a tie occurs the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president. Each state casts only one vote, the single representative from Wyoming, representating 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representatives from California, who represents 35 million voters. Because of many voters vote one party for president and another for Congress, The House's selection can hardly reflect the will of the people. For exapmple a tie would have occured in 1976 if a mere 5,559 voters in Ohio and 3,687 voter in Hawaii had voted the other way.
The electoral college can be unfair to voters because the winner-take-all syntem in each state, candidates fon't spend time in states the know they have no chance of winning. For example during the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad.
The elctoral college can have many good things but it still is not good enough for us to keep it. If the winner-tak-all systm didn't exist candidates would spend time in states even if they know they have no chance of winning, because they will not lose anything or maybe have at least a liitle chance of winning. | 2 |
813954b | There has been a lot of dispute about the electoral college, therefore causing much confusion. The president should be elected by popular vote only. This allows all voters to be treated equal, avoid untrsutworthhy electors and everyone will be given the same amount of knowledge about the campaigns.
The electoral college creates an unfair set up for the voters. The winner-takes all system gives all the electors to the presidential candidate who won. This system disregards that the opposing candidate received any votes, because all the electors are given to the winner. This doesn't give a chance to the candidates whose party is not necessarily popular in that state. Candidates, therefore spend more time and money campaigning in states they know their party is popular in. According to Bradfor Plumer in 2000, 25 of the largest media markets did not see a campaign ad, because they lived in one of the seventeen states that had no campaigning. Some candiates don't even campaign in some states based on this. According to an excerpt from
Mother Jones by Bradford Plumer most candidates focus on the "swing" states where it is close competiton. In the case of tie in the electoral vote, the house of reprensentatives vote. This means one vote represents the whole state. How is that fair for a state like Wyoming that has 500,000 voters?
Another popular dilema of the electoral college is untrustworthy electors. The electors are chosen in different ways. According to Bradford Palmer in 1960 there was a problemwith the Louisiana legistlature choosing bias electors. Segregationists wanted to be rid the democratic electors and replace them with electors who would not vote for John F. Kennedy. In another case, there has been a history of electors voting for whom they want instead of their party's vote.
Voters often are not update onall the campaigns due to the unfairness of the electoral vote. There's no doubt that the electoral college is a confusing subject, but this often creates confusion in the ballot box too. There has been times when voters have casted votes for the wrong candidate. The voters know about the presidential candidate not the elector. States often do not get the same level of campaigning as eachother. According to
Slate Magazine a larger state gets more attention from the presidential candidates than a smaller state does. Over 60 percent of citizens who vote would like a direct election instead of the kind we have now, says Bradford Palmer.
The electoral college has caused enough confusion in its lifetime. The United States should change to using only the popular vote to allow all the voters to be created equal, avoid untrustworthy electors, and everyone will be given the same amount of knowledge. This will prevent bias people and a more knowledgable campaign. | 5 |
813a77a | My approach on drivless cars is, everything works perfectly, the car coudln't get better than that. It has sensors to notify you that there is an accident ahead, or a road blocik ahead. I got the following details from the passage. I would honestly buy one, it seems much, safer than the average car. When you drive the average car now people tend to get drunk and reckless drive. But the Driverless car prevents that because there are alot sensors.
I would rather drive the Driverless Car because it is much safer for younger drivers. The whole entire car is like a human steering the wheel, I read this part in the passage. " The combination of all this input is necessary for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel." So the car is like a professional driver. Drunk drivers would be safer driving the driverless car, instead of a 2012 Impala. The driverless car is a much safer car for the community.
I have came to my conclusion that the driverless car is safer than an average car. The driverless car can steer itself, the driverless car has driven more than half a million miles without crashing, and the driverless car mimics the skill of a human at the wheel. So the driverless car couldn't be more safer.
The driverless car should honestly have alot of buyers because it's a good idea, I would rather have my son safe then sorry between driving an average car and an perfectly tested Driverless Car. It just seems alot more safer, I honestly think with all the upragdes it needs it is definitley worth it. | 3 |
813c0d2 | Driverless cars are a new develpment for the future. Driving these cars is known to be a better, and safer way to drive while on the road. Many car manufatures have started to develop cars with many tools that could help drivers who own driverless cars. It is a benefit for new drivers and experienced drivers on the road.
As new drivers learn the rules to the road, they sometimes get intimidated and scared of the multiple events around them. For example, there may be loud honking from cars and trucks, accidents getting cleaned up, or construction workers at work. Driverless cars can help solve this problem as more people engage in them. Although it wouldn't be required to drive in a driverless car, people are still to be cautious and alert while in the car so they could take over when things start to get challenging and out of the car's ability. Having a driverless car is safer than having a manual-driven car.
Driverless cars can cause less accidents for many drivers. For example, in the 21st century, a majority of people are on their cell phones because of work or talking to a family member or friend. Sometimes they feel that they have a very important email or text message to send and the message can't wait. They pick up their phone and shoot them a quick message and by the time they look back at the road, they are too late. They had already ran into another car.
Most deaths on the road are caused by texting and driving. Driverless cars are said to be safer because they have certain gadgets that help the driver know when to take over and when there is danger ahead. For example, driverless car manufatures developed dirver's seats that vibate when the vehicle is too close to an object while backing up. Having that source of warning can help the person in the driver seat know when to take over. Another example is the in'car entertainment and information system. This replaces the need to text and drive, which is something not available to people who own manually-driven cars. This develpment is safer than the cars we use today.
As this new develpment is processed, there are many ways that driverless cars could help people who are in a hurry to go places and have many things to do. For example, if someone is in a rush to get to work and their tie is not tied or their make up is not done, they could just start the car and not worring about driving and waiting until they get to a stop light to finish getting ready. With all the gadgets that the driverless car has, it benefits the many people who are used to running late.
Driverless cars benefit people of all ages, who can drive. New drivers will have more confidence as they go on the road for the first time and experienced drivers could finaly relax in a way that they haven't before in a car that requires manual driving. Driverless cars are in ways safer that many manual cars that are sold today. Although there are many steps to make this new develpment officialy real, and with the help of new technology, it can happen real soon. | 4 |
8141a69 | My argument is in favor of changing the election by popular vote for the president of the U.S.A. This is because the Electoral College is unfair. The citizens are voting for the candidate's electors. The Electoral College is a process which consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is needed to elect the president. The presidential election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. You help choose your state's electors when you vote for president. After the presidential election, your governor prepares a Certificate of Ascertainment. Which lists all of the candidates who ran for president in your state along with the names of the electors. This is sent to Congress and the National Archives as part of the official records of the presidetial election.
Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, agreed on abolishing the electoral college. They are not alone. According to a Gallup poll in 2000, over 60% of voters would prefer a direct election.
Under the electoral collegen system, voters vote for the slate of elctors, who in turn elect the president. Sometimes the voters vote for the wrong candidate. The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. The biggest election crisis was in 2000.
So, it is official that the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The Electoral College depends more on the big states than on the small states.
My argument is in favor of abolishing the electoral college, because it is not fair that we vote for someone else and not the president. | 2 |
8145b0e | Dear Mr. Senate,
I believe that we should change the Electoral College to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. I think we should change it because it's unfair to voters, you can't trust that the electors will vote for who you want to vote for, and then there is the 'disaster factor'.
First off, the Electoral College is unfair to voters. As Bradford Plumer pointed out in the article, The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong,"The electoral college is 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 only on the tight races in the 'swing' states."So basically what he is saying is that if one state already has a lead and the canidate has no chance of winning he isn't going to focus on them. The canidate is only going to focus on the states where he has a chance of swinging the vote towards him(hence the term swing states).For example during the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the canidates at all.
Second of all, you cant trust that the electors that you vote for are going to vote for the president you want. For example, what if you want to vote for Obama and so you vote for the elector that says he will vote for Obama, but then when its time to vote the elector changes his mind and s/he votes for Romney instead. Now what? You put your trust in one person and s/he didnt vote for who you wanted. Now you might have to wait another four years to have a chance of getting a different president.
Last but not least, one of the single best arguments against the electoral college is what we might call the 'disater factor'. In the article, The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong,it states,"Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people. Back in 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. In the same vein, 'faithless' electors have occasionally nrefused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please."
The oppsong claim states that we should keep the electoral college. Some reasons stated in the article, In Defense of the Electoral COllege: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President,are,"A dispute over the outcome of an ELectoral College vote is possible-it happened in 2000- but it's less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. The Electoral Colllege requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. The winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates-as we saw in [2012's] election- to focus their campaign efforts on the tossup states. The elctoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution. The electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast." | 4 |
814c2ae | The development of driverless cars should be stopped immediately. I do not see the point in them, considering a person would just be bored sitting in the car with nothing to do. Many people enjoy driving and being in control, and driverless cars would take this feeling away from them. Additionally, I would not feel as safe in a world with driverless cars. Especially when they are first available, driverless cars would only endanger everyone around them. Their mechanics or sensors could suddenly fail at any time. Also, it will take a while for the manufacturers to perfect the cars, so therefore these cars will be even more hazardous at first. In addition, I am positive the computer geniuses out there would surely find a way to hack and take control of the cars somehow and commit murders. Detectives may not be able to find out who is committing such awful crimes, considering it could be anyone, and it would not take much effort. Furthermore, driverless cars will be completely pointless; the driver will always have to keep a close eye on what the car is doing and make sure it does not do anything wrong. What is the point of driverless cars if they are not actually driverless? I understand numerous car wrecks are happening currently because some people just do not pay attention, and everyone wants the number of wrecks reduced, but driverless cars will not help whatsoever. People will continue to be distracted by their phones and other electronics and think that since they are not controlling the car, they do not have to watch the road. This is a mistake. If people stop watching the road altogether, more wrecks will occur. Mistakes will always be made. The number of crashes may go down slightly, but the feeling of unsafeness will only increase for the people inside the car. I do not agree with the idea of driverless cars and the production should be stopped immediately. | 3 |
814c6b5 | I think that limiting car usage is great for the environment. There are a lot of benifits that come from it. If we use car less then greenhouse gas emissons will decrease and thus cleaning the air of smog. Some of the benefits that limiting car use is that: 1. it decreases poisonous smog, 2. lots of cities in the world are doing it, 3. and last but not least it could promote other ways of travel. Its about time that the world start changing some harmful habits.
To start of, Reducing car use is very effective when trying to get rid of smog. In some cities such as Paris, smog is a big pollution there. In Paris they even went head to head with Beijing,China which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world. Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of this globally known city. by enforcing this, some days cars with even numbered license plate could drive. The next day odd numbered cars could drive. If you were caught then you were fined. so by paris doing this congestion was down a whopping 60% in Paris after just 5 days.
This would cut down greenhouse effects tremendously. So far reducing car use sounds pretty good.
Furthermore Paris isnt the only place in the world to do this. Bogota,Colombia in a program that's set to spread to other countries, miliions of Colombians either hiked, bike, skated, or took a bus to commute around the countriy to their destination. This is known as a car free day. This car-free day left the streets of the capitol void and empty of rush hour traffic. Even the U.S. goverment is considering the international event that is also helping the environment at the same time.
Another thing to reduce greenhouse gas is if people would find a more alternative way of transportation. City buses could count as an alternative,because think if a bus could seat 30 people. Think if all 30 people had their own car, then the emisson amout would substantialy increase 30 vehicles rather than 1 vehicle . Other ways of transpotation are things such as bikes, skates/skateboard, or just walking. none of those alternatives release any type of emissions.
In a way not using cars sounds great in many ways,but there are those people out there that rely on the usage of cars to transport themselves such as anyone with physical handicaps. Maybe this is the start of something new but what happens to this earth is all on us so it what we dicide to do with it rather we wont it to last or we can just let it go and lose the one planet we have left. | 4 |
8152488 | Car free cities can have a advantage due to being able to get from point A to point B without causing any harm to the enviroment, but the price is risky to have a car, in some countries, your better without a car. Such as in "In German suburb, life goes on without cars"By Elisabeth Rosenthal. And in "Paris bans driving due to smog". By Robert Duffer.
German residents in VAUBAN are know as "suburb pioneers" because of them not having any motor vehicles. An additional affect is that in order to put your car in a parking garage it will cost you an additional $40,000 along with a house. Another in paris "almost 4,000 drivers were fined for 22-euro $31 U.S dollars, 27 people had there cars impounded for their reaction to the fine". An extra effect was that the city had "cold nights and warm days causing the warmer layer of air to trap car emission".
In another passage they show that in Bogata,Columbia "millions of Columbians hiked,biked, skated, or took buses leaving the capital city free of traffic jams". It was the third straight year says the Author:Andrew Selsky,"cars had been banned in order to set there goal to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog". The day without cars was part of a campaign in the mid 1990s.
Another source by Elisabeth Rosenthal was "The End of Car Culture" showing and sharing information that in America recent studies show that people in America are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer license,
Car free cities have a positive affect around everyone by helping reduce air pollution like smog,and to avoid injuries from traffic jams. | 2 |
815397d | Do you think aliens are real? If not, good for you! If so, let me tell you how they aren't. I'm a scientist for NASA and I'm currently studying 3 figures on Mars that look kind of like faces. It all started twenty five years ago when NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft spotted a shadowy figure of a human face.
When the images were shown to the other controllers they were surprised, of course. Unfortunately that surprise didn't last. The scientists just figured it was just a Martian mesa, except the shadows on it had made it look like an Egyption Pharroh. The image was released a few days later for everyone to see, the authors believed it was a great way to attract attention to Mars. That's exactly what it got, attention.
Although the "Face on Mars" has become a pop icon, it is believed by some that the face is evidence that there was once life on Mars. Which some claim it's evidence that we'd rather hide. I would like to dissagree with that statement though. On April 5, 1998, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team had snapped a picture even better than the orginal pictures. When the pictures were surfaced on the internet, it appeared that the "faces" were just a site of natural landform.
Three years later after people still weren't satisfied, we decided to take another look. The pixels were better in the second picture, that even if there were aliens you'd be able to see them! Luckily the picture actually shows landforms common around the American West. | 3 |
81563a6 | In 1976 NASA's viking 1 space craft, while looking for possible landing sites for its sister ship, spotted somthing that looked like a human face. Although the face on Cydonia may look like it was a human face, when the first picture of the face was taken, cameras were not advanced enough to see what it really was. Although you may say that NASA is trying to is trying to hide evidence of life on Cydonia , many other scientist also believe that the face was just another Martian mesa. Also the discovery of alien life would benefit NASA.
NASA unvieled the image of the face to the public for everyone to see. Face became a pop icon, It starred in Hollywood films, appeared in magazines, and on radio talk shows. Very few of the scientist believed that the face was an alien artifact, it
became a priority for NASA
when in 1997, Global Surveyor
MSG arrived on cydonia NASA said they would photograph the face as soon as they could get a good shot at it. Another time on April 5, 1998 Another global surveyor flew over Cydonia and got a picture ten times better than the original Viking picture. The picture revealed a natutral landform, the face was a butte or mesa, landforms that are common around the American west.
This evidence shows that there was no alien monument after all. The face was simple what the Scientist thought it was when the picture was first taken of the face in 1976. IT also shows that the theorist were wrong about NASA wanting to hide the evidence that there is life on Cydonia since alien life would actually benefit NASA. | 2 |
8159b69 | Do you think aliens are real? If they are can they make landforms and make them look natural? IN 1976 NASA captured a photo on Mars that looked like a face. Some people thin that aliens made the face. I know that the face is not made by aleins and is a natural landform. The reasons I know this is because there are things like this that happen on Earth. Also NASA says that the face was only shawdos that made it look like a face and they also sent other ships with better cameras to take pictures.
First is that things like this happen on Earth too. The Grand Canyon was a natural thing that happened. Landfroms are common in the west U.S. Rock formations hapen everywhere on earth. Also NASA says this is the equivalent to a mesa. People still did not belive it was natural.
Another reason I know this is natural is because NASA says that the eyes, nose, and, mouth where only shawdos and where not there. People still belived that is was aleins. NASA sent another space ship up to mars to take pictures. So they sent the Mars Global Surveyor up. It can takes picture up to 10 times better than the Viking 1.
Last is the Mars Globoal Surveyor. It flew over cydonia and snapped a photo that was 10 times better than the Viking 1. In the photo you can see that it is only a rock formation. Also in the photo you can see it has not dark spots that where the eyes,nose,and mouth as you can see in the Viking photo. You can still see a what appears to be a mouth in he rock though. In 2001 the MGS took a photo and it has no markings that llok like a face.
In conclusion the face on Mars was proven wrong by Nasa's Mgs. The face is not real and it was only a formation with shadows.Aliens did not make the face. With better technology you can see that the face is not there and aleins did not make it. | 3 |
815b88f | Technology Getting Smarter
As humans, some of us may not realize how smart technology is really getting. The Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify different types human emotions. Think about how this new kind of technology could change the world. This Facial Action Coding System could be incredibly valuable by reading the emotional expressions of students in a classroom.
In the article D'Alto states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson.." With this technology students may be able to understand lessons more quickly and easily. This coding system could also help more troubling students excel in the classroom while saving the teachers time. By modifying the lesson, the Facial Coding System would also keep the attention of learners. This could train students to become exception learners as they grow.
In paragraph eight of "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author describes how the muscles in the face change according to your mood. It also states "But in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major muscle..and the risorius." This tells the reader that this facial coding system is accurate on its reading by reading every single muscle on the face and correlating it to different moods. Because this technology is accurate, there may be little to no mistakes in reading a student's face in the classroom.
The Facial Action Coding System could change how students would learn. This technology would help students excel and grow to become more intelligent individuals. This could help the following generations behind us smarter and more understanding. This facial coding system can help students achieve their learning goals in the classroom. This new technology would be valuable in the classroom for students. | 4 |
815d549 | m-beleve or not belive e- some people tend to base things on opinions instead of real facts like how people might say ' well how can you be so sure that aliens didn't make the face ' my rebundal would be 'the image first apperared on jpl website revealing ... a natural landform there was no landform . there was no alien monument after all.
l- i can connect this by simply looking at the picture and back couple years and to now how scientist reported no life for is on mars you will be boiled to death because it's also no oxygen so how can an alien create a face when no life form have been found yet.
con- in concluision i want to to say dont always go with assuptions they never always go the way you planned and also dont belive a tall tell ask the person if they have real science based facts if they check out then believe or not belive. | 2 |
81636c9 | Are you a person that loves helping other people, going on adventures, and having fun? If you are you should join the Seagoing Cowboys/ Girls. I will be talking about reasons to join the Seagoing Cowboys/Girls and also details from Lukes claim.
The reasons you should join the Seagoing Cowboys/Girls are you get to help other people, you get to take care of animals, and last but not least you get to have fun. Helping other people is awesome because then they look up to you. Caring for other animals is kind as well because then they will start to trust you and other animals will do the same. Yes it can be a lot of work becase you have to keep them clean, make sure they have food and water, and you have to make sure there enviroment is clean, but its worth it. Again last but not least you get to have fun! Who in the world does not like to have fun?
On board you get to do games like table tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, baseball, and volleyball.
Luke claim is it is an apportunity of a lifetime and it's an adventure, you get to freetime and do cool things, and it will open the world to you. Before Luke became a Seagoing Cowboy he worked two part-time jobs he worked in a grocery store and a bank. His friend Don Reist invited him to go to Europe in a cattle boat. Luke thought this was a chance of a lifetime and he couldn't pass it up so he went. When Luke was on his way to China Luke toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal. Now thats an adeventure and it shows how he had free time to do that. Being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger as he says. He says it opened the world for him. It allowed him to get a bigger picture of the world, and see what it was like. He says he is grateful for the apportunity and if you get an apportunity like that you should be glad to.
In conculsion this sounds like a lot of fun to me . All thought it is hard work and you have to be dedicated to it. In the long run though it would be worth it, because you get to help so many people. If you like going on adventures, helping other people, and having fun. Then a Seagoing Cowboy/Girl is the right job for you. What do you like most of being a Seagoing Cowboy/Girl? | 4 |
8166d77 | Being able to read a students emotinal expressions with technology isn't valuable. Like most classes, lessons aren't done on a computer so whenit is time to use the computer what will the emotion recognition be for. Aslo spending
a lot of money on something that can't help with leaning can be the cause of many prolems. The money that would be used on the new technology, could be better use in other parts of the classroom or certain clubs.
Having to us a computer just to tell if someone is happy or sad, is a waste of time when you can tell with your own eyes, "...we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day" (D'Alto). Even though the software uses technology to calculate every muscle in the face and give a detailed response to that persons evey emotion, one facial emotion can tell a lot about a persons day or just they way they act. Many people throughout the day show one emotion to hide the other because it brings tension to the ones that care about that person. "...carefully reproduce smiling and frownign as a way of creating the emotions on stage"(D'Alto), this is an example of how facial expressions are used just to put on a scene.
Waisting time and money on 3D printers and computer software is useless when your main software is your own eyes. Schools always complain about they never have money for sports,clubs, and materials for classrooms, but alwys have time to update thier technology. Being able to tell how a person really feels is a cool way to learn more about them, but one emotion can be figured ut by that one persons facial expressiosn. | 3 |
8172a02 | The ways emontions work is the way we are feeling at that exact moment. We may feel sad, depreesed, angry, happy, excited, or just fantastic. Emotions is how we express ourselves. Emotions can do with a lot of things love, care, affection ect. Emotions is just how people coupe with things like depression & things like that.
"FACS" Is "Facial Action Coding System" It can tell how people emotions are & how they are feeling at that moment. The system can just look at you & tell you how you are feeling but by percentages. It can 10% sad 85% depressed & 5% hungry thats how their scanners work
Their technology is like te best in the world klike very hi-tech in this matter for thm to see how you are feeling is very amazing & can do magineficent things in this world
Once you learn everything you can about their facial scanners you can turn that frown upside down | 1 |
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Senator i believe the electoral college should be consider changed by congress because of the many people in this great country wouldnt trust electors for voting. I think every single confirmed vote should be counted and registered because that is the true meaning of voting for something or someone .Out of the 538 elector it would be a lie not to think one of them had a favorite or been bribed or rigged elections i think its hard to trust a bunch of men and women who a majority of the states no nothing about. Ialso think swing states should be considered like every other state there is instead of calling them "toss-up states" that anyone could over take .
Even as the text says Who are the electors, they can someone not holding a public State office, who picks them , and we cant even vote on who the electors should be.
The system is a disaster in it's self why are we taking a million public citizen votes and only letting one man or women "Turn it in" its non-democratic and it has no real use this off i completely disagree and do not feel that the electoral college is needed it seems like a waste of our U.S money and puts us in debt by paying these 538 people Tons of cash to vote on something a simple as Voting. now there is only one thing i believe is right in the voting system is that big state (size and population) does deserve the bigger ammount of electoral votes then smaller states like Florida, New York ,California ,Texas and many other states Since the population is so dense
By changing the voting system to popular vote i think makes people feel more involved in whats actually happening instead of just one measly vote. people complain about other people who dont vote well thats one of the reasons why 1 person out of a 4.5 million population state no one would care cause then those go right to the electoral college then thats what actually matters so at the end of the day people could careless who ran the nation. But at the end of the night anyone who knows about the electoral college wants it to be changed | 3 |
817914a | Many people think that the "Face on Mars" is a martian civilization trying to get our attention. Well they are wrong about their claim. Many people would love for a civilization to be on mars but the face is just a natural landform. People are getting worried about possible life on Mars. Conspiracy theorist are trying to make everyone believe something that is not true.
Many people are wondering if the face on Mars is part of martian life or if it just a landform that coincidentally looks like a face. Many peole have asked u "Why and how does the face look so much like a life form?" The face is what was once a mesa or large hill of sorts. And it is about 2 miles long from one side to the other. Also there is a possible lava dome under this formation. These landforms or mesa are just the ones we have in the American West, they are everywhere and are extremely common. Just plainly the face looks like a face out of pure coincidence. No matrian life form would make this and if they did we would know about it.
Many conspiracy theorist are asking us "Why are you hiding the fact the martians have built this 'Landform'?" If we did have in fact proof that there is in fact life on Mars we would want everyone to come and join us to help us with finding more alien life. We wouldn't just hide one of the largest finds in the world if we id find life on Mars. It would encourage people to look everywhere to try and find more life. But since this is just a landform and not a race of aliens we will have to wait until we find life somewhere. Plus it would help us at NASA as a whole beacuse we don't have much funding and our budget is being cut a lot. This would help regain public view and help all of the people here have better wages and help with finding more things about space.
One of the most asked questions "How do you know that there isn't life on Mars?" If we did know there was life on mars there would be a lot of more activity on the planet. The face would have had more detail to it. Another reason why we don't find life on Mars is becasue we would have seen symbols or structures on the surface. It would have been more productful place that what it is now. And if there was any life it would have been long dead and covered over with the dust on Mars. This landform is nothing to get all excited about.
This is just a landform and is just coincidence that it looks like a landform. There is not life on Mars and everyone needs to calm down. We have given high resoloution photos and it is just a mesa. If we do find life or hints that there was martian life we will alert everyone. | 4 |
817dbc6 | Venus the second planet from the sun and very dangerous. A thick cloud of carbon dioxide and heats to high for the humen body, but desipite all of the dangers the autor of this passage still wants to go. Despite all of the dangers is this really worth to pursuit.
The aurtor gives us a idea in paragraph 3 of how dangerous Venus is. A 97% thick cloud of carbon dixoide. Heats high enough to kill a humen, up to eight hundred degress! Thunder storms with frequent lightnign strikes that would kill a humen if stuck by one. Lastly its atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater then earths that would crush a submarine, machines built to withstand pressure! Many more dangers await us on Venus but the possiblity behind all of these dangers is amazing.
The reason the autor wants to go to Venus is just because of human curisotiy and insight of the planet itself theres no real claim for anything else. (NASA) is the only scientific reason stated but even then all the text the autor shows is making a craft to just hover over Venus nothing about actuly exploring the plant. The autor's aproche to this subject could have been more enhancing if they would have given scientfic reasons then just for human curisity.
Venus the sister to earth if she had deadly wepons and was ready to strike you if you got close. The autor makes good points on why we should go there but if you were to ask me I would build and wast recorses on this if this was the convincing paper. | 3 |
81826e1 | Driverless cars are very convincing but i honestly think its not convincing enough. Driverless cars have some good and bad strategies to them, Drivers would be just wasting their time sitting there waiting their turn to take over the wheel. What do you think about the Driveless cars are they a good thing or something bad?
My opinion about Driverless cars are that there really not all the way high expectations. They seem attempting but not that very attempting. Driverless cars are kind of like human control cars the only difference between the two cars are that with Driverless cars you dont have to put your foot on the gas pedal,i think that driverless cars are not that really safe neither.I have reasons why I dont think there safe.
My first reason about the google Driveless car not being safe is that if something goes wrong in the car fails, in the person cant control the wheel or the break in time they could be really injured.Since the driverless car is made up with technology the car might have a technical problem and the car can blow up in that just my opinion not saying that the car is really going to blow up.
My second reason that the Driverless car is not a good idea because,its going to be to much complication between the person that invented the driverless car and the person who might get hurt.The law wouldnt know who to blame because it would be hard to tell, Was it the person not paying attention?or was it the Driverless car not being so driverless?.
I think the driverless car would be better if it could do everything without a human still have to watch the road,and pay very close attention to everything thats going on. I think if the driverless car really wants to be a driverless car it shouldnt need a human to still take control over the wheel or to monitor that everything thats goin on. If a driverless car going to be a driverless car it needs to be really do everything i mean everything that a driverless car would,yes they have everything down pact navigation,automatic brakes,cameras to back up,speed that go up to 25mph, and that can even allcurate by themself. It just need more.
Driverless cars are cool but not that cool that i would drive it. I think that driverless cars need more detail left to them more safety features, and more technology features and thats my opinion about driverless cars. | 3 |
8183909 | The technology fro read the emotionals expressions, its something aswesome. For example, in the articule is used the picture of the Mona Lisa, because this is a great example, she has detected many different emotions in her smile, something like, stay happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. She have many emotions in her face, can be change her smile. "The process begins when the computer consturucts a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles". " The facial expressions for each emotion are universal". "In fact the humans perform this same impressive calculation every day. "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face."
In this articule explain us how the computers now can check one smile and know if is a fake smile or a real smile. In conclusion, the computer now encode different emotions if write down some simple instructions. This help us for can know if the Mona Lisa is smiling or had another emotion in her face. Not only with the Mona Lisa, can use that with anotner person. | 1 |
81852ee | Using technology can most time's bring a smile to your face, but not always. Everyone may get frusterated with it for one little thing, but it helps you with some things. Technology is statrting to become a great impact on most people, even facil expresstions can tell an emotion of someone. Technology like a 3-D computer could help someone bring a smile to there face like anything els would.
The process with a 3-D computer modle is a modle of someones face, muscels have to move like human muscles. As it explains in the article "All 44 major muscels in the modle must move like human musscels. Movement of one or more muscles is called "action unit." A guy named "Eckman" classified six basic emotions-happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. for example the article say's "your frontails pars, lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises your eyesbrows whe you're suprised; your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger."
Facial Feedback is a theory ini the article that tell's you "Theory of Emotion, moving your faciel muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may help produce them." puuting on a face sometimes works actually from what I've read in the article. You can tell when your friends are not happy by the way there face expresstion is, if there head is down or not smiling at all.
Face expresstions, are easy to read on most peoples faces if you look at your friends you could mabye see if there sad or happy. In the article it talks about Mona Lisa's painting an how they could tell by her emotions by using software. As in "Useing video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facil movements-in real life or in the painted face of Mona Lisa." | 1 |
8185666 | I think this idea of driverless cars would be mostly positive and would benefit the world extremely. How i see it, is that people are trying to make the best of things while on Earth. This new thing that might possibly be coming out, could be the start of our next big industrial revolution.
The proof that I have that explains it will be efficient is from Google cofounder Sergey Brin. He says, it will use less gas, be more flexible, and change the world. The driverless vehicles that he envisions use nearly half the gas of a regular taxi and still be as efficient. That would mean less polution in the world and would benefit us and the Earth as a whole.
A second reason he says will be useful is that it will be able to fit more people on rather than a bus let alone a taxi. This would mean more people would be able to fit into one vehicle at a time. If this could really happen, then this could potentially increase the population in America.
The last benefitting reason for this state of mind would be the vehicles changing the world. It could possibly motivate the world to become more futuristic as you could say and more technological. Meaning this can possibly start an extreme industrial revolution.
With all of my detailed proof, I think having driverless cars would benefit the world, as we call home, efficiently. Looking to the future is something we do quite a lot, and if these vehivles are the future, then I'd be glad to ride in one. | 3 |
8186437 | I think you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program because you get to help people and visit many different places while on your trip.
For me joining the program was a great opportunity.
You were never bored, caring for the animals during the crossing kept me busy and on return trips we played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed.
Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time.
Besides helping people, I had the side benifet of seeing Europe and China.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy made me more aware of people of their countries and needs.
Thanks to being a Seagoing Cowboy I lead my family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years.
I beleive that you should be a Seagoing Cowboy because you can benifit from it in many ways and you have a fun time doing it.
You get to help people and you get to visit places that you haven't been to before | 2 |
81886f2 | Driverless cars would truly be an immense change in the daily lives of every driver in the world. A future where getting a license is no longer heard of and taking driving tests would just be a part of history would be the effect of these cars. Imagine how current parents and grandparents say how they grew up without televisions or cell phones, later on they will be saying how they had to drive their own car, and it will be mind blowing to everyone's future children.
My personal opionion on driverless cars is against them. I don't see how it is necessary for all cars to be re-done and have so much work put in to the idea of driverless cars, when we could just simply drive them ourselves. I don't see the importance of it. I believe to have a license and be capable of driving is a grand achievement. Every child looks forward to the day they can pass, first their permit test, and then later on, their driver's test. What happens when the driverless car stops working and is only able to drive with an actual driver? The skill of driving is very important, and it would be a shame to see that skill no longer necessary to learn in the future.
I can think of many more downfalls to the driverless car than positives. Not to mention, the amount of problems that can come about with these vehicles. If the car suddenly goes out of control or the car has to pull in a driveway? The driver will need to take over. I don't see a high possibility of these cars becoming available considering the innumerable amount of mishaps that happen when driving.
The article mentioned that automakers are continuing their work on the assumption that the problems ahead will be solved, but how can they be positive? Things can easily go wrong with this make, and to me, the effect isn't worth the risk. Car crashes are very harmful things mentally and physically to a human being and who's to say driverless cars will stop them?
In conclusion, i can't picture driverless cars being the official cars of the future. In order for them to have their full use, everyone would have to have a driverless car. Expenses, weariness of the model, and people who aren't willing to give their driving ability up wil be the ones to put a stop to driverless cars. I think some may own a driverless car, but there will never be a time when driverless cars are the only cars being used. | 3 |
8188cea | Would you think it would be safe if your car drove you not you driving your car? I think it would be negative thing if that were to happen. It does not reallly seem safe even if it is tested, something is gonna go wrong and someone will get in an accident.
First, I don't think it would be a good idea becuase it says in the article "The human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires. The necessitates the car being ready to quicly get the driver's attention whenever a problem occurs." So if the human isn't paying that much attention and crashes, whose fault is it, the human or car? Because the car isn't that advanced and the human wasn't paying attention. I think if they come out with a "Driverless Car," it should really be driverless and the person behind the wheel doesn't have to worry about anything. It also says in the article "Traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." I agree with this because if it is snowing and the roads are icy, would you feel safer if a human was driving or technology in your car? i would think that most people would say human, because they might not test the "Driverless Cars" in that condition compared to a human that has experience and can do things easier. The article says, "Automakers are continuing their work on the assumption that the problems ahead will be solved," but can it really be solve? You can test positively on a sunny day but when it is windy and rainy and the wind is blowing on the side of the car, will the problems be solved then? Will it have better control than a human? I would be really surprised if it did.
Second, if it gets in a crash, would it be okay to say it was the cars fault? I know it says if it needs the humans attention it will vibrate. But can you always count on that? I think that not everything is perfect so at times it might not vibrate and it will crash. Will the human be able to sue the company. or will the company stick by their product, even though it is in the wrong. I think if one person gets in a crash and says it didn't vibrate then every other person that gets into a crash with the same car will say the exact same thing. And then it would make people not want those cars and trade theirs in for a new one. So is it really worth risking your life all for some car, that you knew it had a potential in messing up?
Third, the article says "While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver." It goes back to do you want your car to drive you or do you want to drive it? It is like is your car the boos or you? And that should be an easy answer, I wouldn't let the car drive me it doesn't make sense I bought the car so I could drive to places.
I would never want my car to drive me. It just seems too dangerous, and not safe. Even if you do it in an accident I would want to be driving knowing I did everything in my power to not get in that accident than knowing it was some technology that made me crash and potentially die. I just wouldn't want to wonder "What if?" And I hope you wouldn't too. | 4 |
818e2c1 | Our society today is filled with lots of extravagant ideas including new and improved technology. For years, cars have been driven and made to where the person that is driving the car has full control of the car. Each year, manufacturers and futurists find new ways to improve cars. Automakers find problems that they can solve to make a car easy to drive. They also find new ways to improve the safety and efficiency. Google cofounder Sergey Brin has discovered something that might change the way we use cars forever.
Driverless Cars. That is something that no one would ever imagine. A car has always been made to where you have control of what direction the car goes and when the car should stop. But as you see in movies, there are driverless cars. While driving this car, the driver has almost no control over what car is doing. Ths driverless car has sensors that tells the car if it should go or stop. The sensors can also cause the car to reuduce power from the engine. Some may think that this change might make a huge impact on our future, but many others disagree. I am a part of the people that disagree about there being driverles cars in the near future. There are many reasons to support my argumentantive decision. One reason is because this would be absolutely unsafe for the driver and its passengers. Many of today's technology has many faults and disadvantages. If for some reason something goes wrong with the wires or the engine of this driverless car, who know what could happen to any driving the car. The car may catch on fire, it may crash on its own because you have no absolute control of the car, or it may even stop working.This may also
cause conflict between the driver and the manufacturer of the car. The blame could be put on the driver that the car was not properly taken cared of. Another reason why disagree about there being driverless cars in the future is because these cars may also be very expensive. Technoogy can take a very long time to process and the manufacturers have to make sure that nothing terrible happens to the car and its driver. It also probably cost tons of dollars to make a car like this because of all of its technology and hard work. The makers of the car may put a huge price on the car and Americans may have conlict and troubles with not being able to afford the car that they want. This can also cause the manufacturers to lose a lot of money and that would not be good. In this driverless cars no one really knows how it will behave and what it might destroy.
In conclusion, I disagree with the idea of making driverless cars. These cars can be very dangerous and it can be unaffordable. Everyone wants a car that works correctly. And everyone wants a car that they have total control upon. Being safe and secured is all that matters when it comes what car you are driving and who is completing its actions. | 4 |
818fef2 | The Face on Mars is a natural landform because it as made by the events that are happening around the plant. Alien could not do have not done this because they would have been on the picture to.On the article 8 it said"The Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in April '98-a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet", maybe it had somthing to do with the cloudys that where in the sky. Maybe it was the Planet it self that created the Face on the Mars because of the heat. Like our planet it have different larys like the cruse, mantle, outer core, and the inner core. Like other planet it must of have lava to because it was created like our planet. It is more likly that it was created by heat and cooling, Article 12"That's a lava dome that takes the from of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." | 1 |
8193171 | I think it is a great value cause we have never had anything like this. It could turn out to work very positivley. For all the people in need of help. It may make people's lifes easier. Less bulling in the high schools.
This is a great idea because if you could read people's minds you could. Figure out what is triggering their anger find the source and make a stop to it. Or someone could help their friend if they are feeling angry or just sad. It states in paragraph 5 "For instance, you can probaly tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face.
This is great technology they have found it can help develope better technology useing as a example. But also it's very advanced technology. It can help us humans out by giving us information on things we couldn't get with just a bare eye. It states in paragraph 5 "Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc."
It can also help out people with deprssion. This could save thousands of lifes. It could make people try and prevent people from trying to kill themselves. It states paragraph 5 "Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc.
In conclusion I think this technology is very valuable because most people wouldn't have thought. That we could have developed something this advanced. It will help people solve problems easier. It will help other people understand what others are going through. But I think that it will be one really helpful thing to many americans. | 3 |
8197f4a | the author supports his idea well because there could be fossiles we never even knew exsited on venus and they say that venus is the closest twin to earth so its worth a shot right? honestly we should because what if they discover that venus was like earth and it just changed and killed everything else off and all the oceans and seas evaporated and thats why theres such a thick cloud above it. i honestly think that they should try because what if venus was like earth and there were other types of life forms on there that werent human it could be ground breaking and what if earth is headed to turning out to be like venus. and if we do find fossils and other things to indicate that there was life on venus and it just all died off because of the heat. we could learn how to prevent it happening to earth with future generations. | 1 |
819ef1b | Imagine getting into the driver's seat of a car. Now picture yourself sitting down and starting the engine, and just sitting in the driver's sit while the car continues to drive and nagivative around the town. that is what a driverless car would feel like. But what happens when someone gets in a wreak, do they blame the car, or the person sitting in the driver's seat. People think that driverless cars are the future, but what if the cars are not all the way driverless, how much money will it cost, and what does the law say about having driverless cars on the road.
First, the text states that " In 2013, BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant." The car can handle driving functions at speeds up 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel."
Not all of the driverless cars are actually driverless. Some of the driverless cars make a sound when the driver needs to take over and start driving. So, the car is not completly driverless.
Second, how much money would a driverless car cost. The automobile companies are using more technology when buliding driverless cars. Is the technology going to cost more. In paragraph 4 the text states that " Google's modified Toyota Prius uses postion-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a roating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the review mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and inertial motion sensor." All of those items in a car can not be cheap.
Finally, what laws are on driverless cars? In the states of California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia it is illegal to test drive a computer- driven car. Most of the laws for automobiles are made of humans being behind the wheel and in control of the car. Also the text states " even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needs in order to cover liability in the case of an accident." That law would be in place so if someone driving a driverless car where to get into a wreak, the law would know who to blame.
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," we learn how driving driverless cars can be dangerous, and costly. | 3 |
819f0be | The emotional expressions a person uses can tell a lot about that person and how they are feeling at that very moment. New technology has been helping people decode each others emotions. The use of this technology can help people understand each other just a bit better than before. People are becoming more aware of how to decribe our emotional expressions that are on our faces. Just like with the Mona Lisa painting scientists says "she's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry". The Mona Lisa painting can help us understand that even though it was painted many years ago we can still tell how she was feeling by her facial expression. This shows that we can do more than just decribe what we are feeling at the moment. This shows how we can keep people entertained.
If somebody is bored of a television show or a commercial then they will not pay as close of attention to the computer then when you like the show or commercial. How would the computer keep the person entertained? This issue can be solved by the Facial Action Coding System, because the computer could recognize that person is bored and then change the type of show or commercial to what they like. If the computer reads that the person is enjoying the show or commercial, then the computer will leave the type of show or commercial the way it is. This all can be showed by what facial expression a person uses at the computer.
This way people are more entertained with what a person watches.
The Facial Action Coding System would help show if a person is actually learning or not while teaching. The student's face can be recognized as confused or bored. This will help a teacher recognize that they should try a different technique as they are teaching. When a person is having "mixed feelings" on a subject then that issue can be addressed, so the person is no longer feeling that way. In the article Dr. Huang says " Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," so this tells that people can know each other better with this technology.
Our faces have 44 major muscles that helps tell our emotions. These muscle helps scientists see if a person is pretending to be happy or is a person is genuinely happy. These muscles can tell if an important celebrity or politician is perhaps lying about liking a certain idea. This is a valuable tool to use, because if a country is wanting to go at war with another country then we can analyze the people's emotions on the idea to see if it is truely a good idea to do. Another way it is useful to know a leader's emotions is to see if they are scared or bluffing about an event that may or may not happen based on their emotions.
Our emotional expressions can help people understand their true feelings about each other. This is a valuable source to know at school, watching tv, and even during a war. We communicate a lot of ourselves through our emotional expressions. This is by showing what we are disgusted in, what we are scared of, or even what we like just in general. This technology can show us how a person from 100 years ago was feeling in a picture, because a picture can say a thousand words just like our emotional expressions can. | 3 |
81a1bfb | Dear,Senator
I think we should in take concideration in the next few years about changing are election to popular vote. I feel that are state would benefit in a positive way with the way that popular vote is set up. looking at the past history the electoral college is not benefiting us in a positive direction. i qutoe this from the article "over 60 percent of voters would pefer a direct election"with that being said lets look at the cons of the electoral college.
To begin with the electoral college system the people like me dont get to vote for president i have to vote for someone else to vote for me in that i feel like my vote doesnt count because what happens if i vote for a elector and he doesnt go for my person to win. That just makes me feel dumb then if the elector does vote for the same person asme its not really even final becuase that vote doesnt go towards the president it goes toward the state elector and its basically there choice. another con in the electoral college system is that the same fiasco in 2000 will break out again. were the legislatures are responsible for picking electors and they dont take in to concideration of other people votes. the con that could mostly impact america is a tie in the electoral vote. another reason the electoral college is an stupid way to vote is that the big states get better privelges than the smaller states they out rule the smaller states. Its final the electoral college is unfair outdatedand irrational.
the only reasons the electoral college is alive now is the cetainty outcome,everystates president,swing states,runoff elections .run off electionsn means basically there will never be a blow out in the voting polls it will always be compitive with that being said with the presidents trying to run for president the will actually try to reach the peoples needs to meet there satisfactory. the swing states is sayiong that there one state isnt going to decide the whole election. | 3 |
81a634b | The author is clearly for this new technology that reads and evaluates all the different mixed emotions a person has. After reading the passage I personally think it's invasive and unessiscary.
This program monitors people to find out exactly what they're feeling. In one scenario it says it would help students on an online schooling course. If the computer thought they were at some point confused about what was going on in the lesson, the program would help and change it to make it easier. While this is useful to the student, I think the computer could easily be fooled by someone coniving that might have just wanted an easy pass. If that would be the case, then the program is basically useless because no one's truely learning anything.
Another reason this is a bad idea is that it could make it a lot easier for hackers or identity theives to act and ruin people's lives. In paragraph six it says, "if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." The program goes that deep to watch you for something as simple as your ads that it's honestly terrifing. A hacker could find a way to monitor you the same way. Technology has made it so easy for people to get their identities stolen and this new technology might just make it easier.
In addition to being potentially dangerous, its also virtually useless. It says in the passage, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication, so computers need to understand that, too.” The first part of the quote is true, however, theres no reasoning for the second part. It really just leaves you hanging, it would help their case more if they gave a solid answer as to why computers need to know, otherwise it's simply an opinion. It gives examples of why its useful, but its for gaming and entertainment purposes, which is nothing that would dramatically improve human life.
In addition to that, the program is invasive. People generally use the internet for research, students especially. The ads are already annoying and in the way, theres no reason for them to be custom to how the person feels. Plus not everyone wants to be put in the spotlight and exposed like that, how they feel is their personal buisness, their life and opinion on certain situations.
Regardless on how anyone, myself included, feels about this new technology, its probably going to happen in the future. Our generation has only ever known technology, and if anyone at all likes it then the producer is going to give it. It's a fight between morals and greed, and I doubt the attitude of this generation is going to change. | 4 |
81a7447 | I think that this type of technology could be very helpful but it could also be very scary if it isn't used properly. But, if it is only used for classroom use I think it could be very effective. There are plenty of ways this new technology could help schools help students learn better. Especially, if it could help kids learn the best way they can.
Face recognition is also used in the new IPhone X and there are already a whole bunch of new conspiracy theories about it. I think that is because humans have never seen this kind of technology used before, which can lead us to overthink and come up with crazy ideas in our heads because we don't fully understand this new technology. I feel as though Facial Action Coding System would get the same reaction at first which could probably affect schooling in general. Parents might hear negative stuff about this new technology and send their kids to different schools or start home schooling them, which would not be very good for the school's image. Of course, the talk would die down at some point but people might still be reluctant at first.
On the other hand, I think once all the suspicions do die down it would be a tremendous help to the school. As the passage was saying, that it could recognize if the student is getting bored it could change the way the lesson is being taught. I think this would help because everyone learns in a different way. It also was talking about if the student was confused and I was thinking maybe they could even just re-word how the lesson is explaining the material.
But, I do think the ad thing could be kind of annoying. Yes, it might help somewhat, but I, as do many other people, don't really like ads to begin with. Especially if they just pop up out of nowhere and onto my screen. It could help promote more things but I don't think that most people that are on the recieving end of these ads would be very fond of the idea.
In conclusion, I think that this technology could be very helpful ,maybe even cool, if used correctly and with a lot of testing and patience. You're gonna need patience because of all the theories I talked about because no one knows how long that could last. But, nevertheless, I think that it would be entirely worth it. | 4 |
81a7cb4 | I believe that we should study and explore Venus further. I agree with the author about this because I'm interested in ourter space and planets. I'm not just saying this because of my interest, but also because if it's so similar to Eath than let's study it more. They referr Venus as Earth's twin so let's see what makes it it's twin. The passage adds than the atmosphere is different in Venus and we would need to be preapred for that.
Going and exploring Venus is a risk but sometimes we just have to go in and take that risk. Life is all about taking risks and going for it. We never know what new studies we could find in Venus. Personally I would like to know how Venus has similar feature like Earth but has a totally different atmosphere. It also has earthquackes, volcanoes, and lighting strikes just liek Earth.
I like the idea NASA had that we should send humans to study Venus. For this to happen we would need to have them float above the surface. We wouldn't know if it's safe for them to land on Venus's surface jus yet. The conditions would be the extreme temperature and more. But these conditions are survivable for humans.
After reading this passage, we could go study Venus a bit more. They talked about the conditions it would have and, what would we need to do so it can happen. It's possible for this to happen so we might as well go. It's a challenge but not an impossible one. It would be cool to see if sciencist find more discoveries about Venus | 3 |
81bb7ab | You should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program!
Here are some reasons why I believe that some people should.
It's a chance of a lifetime, not everyone gets this opportunity so you could be very lucky. You would get to help people recover their valuable items from World War II, like helping them recover their animals, food supplies, and more, 44 nations joined together to form UNRRA. It is not all just work you would do also, you would get to have fun, the cowboys played baseball and volleyball in the empty holds where animals have been held. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time. In the end Luke is beyond greatful for his amazing opportunity, it made Luke more of people and other countries needs and not to take anything for granted because not everyone gets the opportunities we do.
So you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program because it's the chance of a life time, not everyone gets this opportunity so you could be very lucky. You would get to help people revover their valuable items from World War II, like by helping them recover their animals, food suplies, and more, 44 nations joined together to form UNRRA. It is not just all work that you would do you also get to have fun! the cowboys played baseball and volleyball in the empty holds where animals were held. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and playing games helped the pass time. In the end Luke is beyond greatful for his amazing opportunity, it made Luke be more aware of people and other countries needs and not to take anything for granted because not everybody gets the opportunities we do. There are my reasons I hope you think about participating in the Seagoing Cowboys program! | 2 |
81c231f | Driverless cars can become the future of technology. Google is slowly developing the technology to make sure this car is safe.Google is doing their hardest to make the dream of the driverless car come true.Google cars are not truly driverless yet, they still make the driver know to take over, when something goes wrong. Cars like this would fundamentally change the world like the internet did to the world now everyone uses it too, why not new cars too.
Driverless cars can be a good thing. The cars would use half the fuel that normal cars use.
The cars are far more flexibility then other public transportations. Driverless cars means no one buys cars because there is no need for them anymore. Google is getting really close on developing this car.
Driverless cars would change the world like cell phones did to the world now everyone has one, why not a driverless car. Everyone would have to get used to the idea of not driving the car. We still have a while until Google gets it right. I mean the car has not crash in million miles so that is a start. For now just keep your mind open to new things and ideas for the future. | 2 |
81c3e64 | Car usage is not what you really think it is! People can go on in life without using cars just as well as they do now. This essay is to inform you about limiting car usage.
Life can go on without cars. We as people do not actually need a car to survive. There are plenty of ways to get around without a vehivle. About 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars. In 2006, Vauban completion was an example of a trend growing in Europe and the United States and elsewhere to seperate suburban life from auto use. Planners would like to make cities denser and better for walking. That's why walk ways are placed on main streets andd not the main highway.
Almost 4,000 drivers were fined for driving with even numbered license plates. Twenty seven people had their car impounded because of their reactions to this fine. Car emissions were cause because of cold nights and warm days. Some people blamed fuel as a tax policy favor diesel over gasoline. Everything was going bad with vehicles and tax policies.
Less cars around the world would cause less problems. There wouldn't as many vehicle fines as there is now with less vehicles. | 2 |
81d1074 | I am against the idea of designing Driveless cars. For the simple reason, they may be more likeyl to cause accidents and you would be held responsible for the accident although you weren't controlling the steering wheel or the gas pedal. Althought it does seem like a good idea to have driveless cars, what were to happen if one day you got in an accident and the other drives tried to hold you responsible? If we all got to where we are driving driveless cars, there would be nobody held accountable for the accident and how would the accident damage be paid for? The good thing is that if you were on along road trip and needed to take a rest you wouldn't have to pull of to the side of the road you could just keep going and the car would drive for you. I have to say I do agree witht the vehicles that assist you when you drive tough busy areas or work areas, that is fine but if we were to make a car that did all the driving we would get bored and probably fall asleep driving. Which in the long run will cause accidents, as I said before accidents would be hard to decide who caused them. So I would say in the long run drivelss cars are a bad idea. | 2 |
81d1258 | What are the advantages of limiting car use? Eventhough cars are a really fast way to get from one place to another there are many other ways for example a train,air plane or boat. There are too many cars on the streets and many crazy drivers. People should stop using cars because cars make greenhouse gas and it's causing the air to be polited. Another advantage for limiting car use is that less people are going to be geting killed because of car axcidents or because of drunck drivers. Also if people stoped driving cars aand tok there bike to work or were ever they go more people would be in shape becuase they would be doing some excersice too.
Too many cars on the steets are poluting the air and thats not good for us because we are cutting down trees and we are going to run out of air to breath at some point if we continue like this. Thats why poeple should stop driving cars and ride a bike to there job or take the train. Also cars make geenhouse gas, cars are responsible for 12 persent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the united states. We are also going to have less death because many people die in car axcidents and becuase of drunk drivers and less kids are going to be getting hurt or killed if there on the street because they dont have to worry about cars hitting them. For example if a kid is playing with a ball and the ball goes to the street the kid is probably going to go get it but he wont get hurt because there are no cars on the streets.
Eventhough cars cause greenhouse gas, air polution and death they are also very help full because if you have to go late at night to get food you have a fast way to get to the market because u have a car right out side your door. Also if something happens to your son in school or if u or someone needs medical attention you have a fast way to take them to the hospital or to get to were they are. But theres a down side if you go out to see what happend to you son in a hurry you probably going to have a car axcident and get seriously hurt or worst. Too many people use too many cars the streets are always crouded with cars at all times and some of these people drive crazy or they try to show of there car by going fast and end up getting killed or killing someone els.
This are some of the advantages of limiting car use less people would die,we would have more air to breath, and there would be less green house gas effect. And i think think that it is a good idea to stop using cars and take your bike to work because you would be helping earth and will be getting some exersice at the same time. And you would also be helping to to save earth and have a better future for you kids. Well this is what i think but what do u think? | 3 |
81d143e | This will be about my opinions and what I think on the matter of driverless cars.
I will explain why I think like I do too.
I think you will agree with me.
I think driverless cars would be good and nice.
Some computers can detect danger faster than the human eye can catch, or the human mind to comprehend.
For example if a small animal runs in front of your car you may hit it due to you driving so fast, and the sudden relization that an animal just ran out in front of your car.
Another plus of driverless cars are you are less likely to get injured due to the computer inside your car.
For example, say you are driving and you are extremely tired from a long days work.
If you fall aslepp at the wheel, the car will stop due to your hands no longer on the wheel of the car, resulting in a safe stop.
This is my opinion on why driverless cars would be safer. There are many dangers as well, but I belive the pros outweigh the cons in this situation.
I hope the reader of this will belive the same way after reading what I just typed. | 2 |
81d2ec4 | Driverless cars are cars that can opperate and drive on roads wihtought a human accelerating, decelerating, and steering the car. Personally I am both for, and against driverless cars. Just like everything in this world, there are positives and negatives to them. Driverless cars can make it easier on people in their everyday life, but they could also be dangerous to pedestrians or others around the driverless cars. I will now tell you my opinion on driverless cars giving facts to support why I think so.
Starting with the postives, driverless cars can make life easier for everyday drivers. It could potentially reduce the percentage of texting and driving becuase the human is not really the one driving, and operating the vehical needing to give their full attention to the road. When the car is driving it's self, it is more aware of what's around it because it can see and sense the whole car without any blind spots, but this is not including work zones or other special road conditions of course. Also, it may be able to reduce speeding tickets and reckless driving.
Although there are many benefits to driverless cars, are they really safe? There actually isn't one car in the world today that is completely driverless. All of them need some type of human assistance, if it means backing out of the drive way, getting through a road constuction, or making it through a tricky road. We all know technology is advancing everyday by the second, but with that being said technology fails all the time. There could be a glitch with the system, or it could just completely crash and we would be relying on the car to continue to drive its self. Doesn't sound very safe in my opinion.
With smarter cars comes smarter roads? Some companies such as General Motors has led themselves to belive if you update roads, putting some type of magnet, or metal device in them to sensor to the cars, they will have no problem driving on roads. Although, that sounds brilliant would it really work? General motors made a smart track, embedding electrical cables to radio signal negative and positive energy to the front end of the car. It was very succesful, but not every road is as smooth runnng as the track was.
Say a company figured out how to create a driverless car, and humans weren't really needed to opperate it, only if something was going wrong, would the laws change? I belive every person who is going to be driving one would need a special license, and they would need to go to a class to learn proper techniques of what to do, and how to react if the car started loosing control and something was going wrong. There is also big contraversy on who would be at fault if the car did have technical issuses and ended up injuring or killing somebody, the cra manufacturer or the individual behind the wheel. Althoug, theres are positives that are really cool, and exciting about driverless cars, they are dangerous and would change so much about the law, and driving on roads. I personally don't see driverless cars becoming a thing on the roads any time soon. | 4 |
81d3e02 | Throughout history, mankind has depended on hands-on work for critical purposes.
However, technology has evolved as a tool to assist us to do labor more efficiently and quickly.
It is an important decision whether or not to support driverless cars because it can affect the conflicts due to this choice.
Human error has been a common factor for automobile accidents across the nation, which has claimed many lives.
Driverless cars can be another tool for the human population that could save lives.
To begin with, manufacturers have tinkered on this project for many years by several strategies such as General Motors and their concept car that ran on a unique test track.
It began in the 1950s, using binary code to alert the car system.
Unfortunately, upgrades in that period of time were too expensive to be used widespread.
This began the alternative option of smarter cars, rather than intellegent roads to assist drivers.
Likewise, the government is obstinant on testing for every single liability smarter cars can be held for.
It is above all priorities for the smarter cars to ensure complete saftey from dangerous hazard conditions on the road.
To prevent such conditions, developers considered the use of driverless cars to assist drivers instead of total control at all times.
Furthermore, scientists and engineers have added ideas from each other, enabling cars to even sensor dangerous obstacles.
For example, the BMW "Traffic Jam Assistant," is one of the many cars that can preform driverless to a certain extent, allowing for a human driver to access the controls if necessary.
This evidence concludes that driverless cars are potential as a wonderful tool to help in the saftey of others in a vehicle.
Driverless cars could be the next common technology among the human population like computers or phones.
From this, humanity will continue evolving and strive through conflicts similar to this subject.
However, another choice for us, individually is whether or not to accept change. | 2 |
81d56c1 | The mission to Venus is one that has been on a consent want and need for men and women but due to Venus challenging surface and atmoshphere, it causes many set backs for NASA but they dont allow that to stop them. In the text it claims that, " While Venus is simple to see from the distand but safe vantage point on earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely" (Challenge 1). It's possible to see Venus from Earth and enjoy the beauty as it comes, but many others want a closer look of the beauty and dangers of Venus. NASA calls them missions and this is where the most results of a planet come to piece together the study. It's clear that missions are dangerous but, "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours" (Challenge 2). Sending unmanned spacecraft before actual people is there way is studying without harming the people that are willing to risk a lot.
Earth and Venus are two planets that are very interesting due to their layouts and the features and each one holds, each planet may have things that we won't know until we discover them. In the passage it explains what Venus is to us, shown
here, "Often referred to as Earth's 'twin,' Venus is the clost planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too" (Challenge 2). This may seem like great news the two planets are alike and are close together but understanding a planet that has never seen people is hard. Not only that huamns have never stepped foot on the planet but the overall income it may take to build a spacecraft, only for it to last couple of hours on the planet. Many issues come to the surface when taking about sending a spacecraft to Venus most often it's, "Numerous factors contribute to Venus's repution as a challening planet for humans to study, despite it's proximity to us" (Challenge 2). After counting up the possible outcome of a mission to Venus, it's always a outcome very little information and the need for more. This make NASA went to explore a planet that is so close but has countless dangers.
The dangers of one planet similar to the planet that many people live on would be far fetched until meeting Venus. That means the yes Earth and Venus may be twins but ones not like the other. Earth is a place of great colors and has a sence of beauty until looked upon by Venus, shown in the text that, "Such an environment would crash even a submarine accustomed to driving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals" (Challenge 3). When saying that Earth and Venus are twins, it can be seen more as Venus is the evil twin and doesn't mean to but just is. Venus is a present waiting to be open, it's a like present because it's never known what's in store for the person or persons opening it. The text explains that "Venusian geology and wather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to lond on it's surface" (challenge 3). The climate of Venus isn't a remake of Earth it's clear that it's hold a lot more dangers to the study of the planet. Also Earth shares those dangers but not at the scale that Vensu might.
Although Venus is dangerous up close Astronomers are still looking for answers and enlightment on the planet. The reasons for them still wanting figure out this planet is due to, "Venus probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like those on Earth" (challenge 4). At one point Venus have have been a on point twin capable on inhabiting lifeforms to live out thier days. Now Venus seems like it's been in a bad mood due to the change. since the overrall climate of Venus giving many scientist a hard time with the study of the planet shown in the text, "Researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from distance" (Challenge 6). The consent change in weather and how it already is makes it hard for researchers to reach the surface to gather information. Leaving the scientists in a tough spot and not being able to do much other than just look and admire.
Scientists are not willing to tap out and say game over, they are determind to unfold the secrets of Venus and the hidden life that it may or may not take care of without anyone knowing, Scientists are hard at work with, "Some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulationg the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions" (Challenge 7). They made a carbide that would be able to withstand the climate and treats that Venus throws that it, this could help with the resreach. There is a meaning behind travel to Venus and it's clear that many want this. Shown in the text that " Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insighted to be gained on the planet itself" (Challenge 8). It means a lot to people that if this was capable of doing they would be helping with it because it would help further the span of life for many humans. Venus is a planet much like ours, it may hold some differeance but in the end it's clear to see that every planet does. No doubt that the dangers of space are anywhere and everywhere no matter where the mission is taking place but it's the bigger picture that matters. | 5 |
81d7947 | The article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" is something new the world is bringing. When I read this, their are both possitive and negative things happening. I am against the idea of having driverless cars. There could be many things that can go wrong with a car driving on its own. I strongly belive having all these fantastic ideas that your driverless car can do to be save but, this could be more deadly then somone driving on their own.
Driverless cars are just like robots. Robots can easily break down for all different reasons. When a robot breaks down, it starts to act all crazy like and the person can no longer control what the robot is doing. That could happen with the driverless car. If a person was on a highway heading somewhere and their driverless car starts to break down, it could start acting up. It wouldn't just put the driver in danger, it could affect someone else in the car or on the road too. The driverless car could start to not be able to control itself and go off the road or, have buttons on the car to turn on to do something not needed. Anything with a driverless car could be bad or go wrong.
To get your license, you have to take driving test and go threw classes all just to get your permit and license. Wants you finally have your license you can go off and drive. The people who were able to get their license were smart, responsible and independent people. When your on the road, you should
always be careful no matter what. You are the adult driving with your license being save. Why have a car driving you around places. What's the point working so hard to get your license when you have a car driving for you. All that hard work would be pointless. Also, in the article it talked about how the person with the driverless car would be board just waiting to take a turn to drive.
In conclusion, people who get there license want to drive. They like to drive. Why have a car drive for you when your smart enough to drive somewhere. It's more safer to drive on your own because, your smart and always aware when something is wrong. Your driverless car can detect that too but your alive, not your car. Lastly, in the article it talked about how it was illegal to have driverless cars in some states like California, Nevada, Flordia and District of Columbia. If other states allow driverless cars, the people in the states that can't get them would be mad and jelouse. They would think that would be unfair. If you only own driverless car you would have to rent or buy a car just to go to those states like Flordia to go to Disney World. I strongly belive the savest way is to drive on your own without anything controling you. | 4 |
81d8662 | Venus sometimes called "Evening Star". This nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a palent. In our solar system, venus is the second planet from our sun, while venus is a simple to see from the distant but safe vatnage point of Earth.The Atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus. Onthe planent's surface, temperature average over 800 degrees.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration of
"NASA"
has particulary compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of venus would allow scientistic to float above the fray. NASA is working on other approaches to studying venus. Like some somplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of venus's surface and lasted for three weeks in such conditions. Striving to meet the challange presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many aqually intiminating endeavors. Our travels on earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the every edges of imaniation and innovation. | 1 |
81e3c04 | Have you heard of the Seagoing Cowboys Program? Well, It is a program that you will be able to take care of mules, young cows, and horses that were shipped over seas. You should join because it is helping Europe and Asia take care of animals and supplies.
One reason to join is that you help animals travel from one place to another. You will be helping European and Asian countries recover their animals, food supplies, and more. You will visit many countries helping them recover and saving animal's lives as well. And I was happy with what I was doing.
As I said in the first paragraph you will travel to many places. You will able to have some free time when you are at a country because I got to travel to Crete and see an excavated castle and also marveled at the Panama Canal. It was fun to travel all over the world to help people.
On this trip I learned my way around a few countries and how it feels to help people just because you want to. You might get hurt along the way but at least you are doing what is right. By doing this I was drafted into the military when I turned 18 and when they learned that I was on a cattle-boat trip, they told me to just keep doing that for my service. So as I did I saw how much distruction wars could do. By that I became aware of what people need.
To sum up my thoughts, I think you should join The Seagoing Cowboys Program because you are helping animals and people, you visit many places, and you learn things along the way. And I have exprience of getting hurt during these trips but that should not stop you from helping your world go through horrifying events. So, in future reference I advice you to do what is right no matter what. | 3 |
81e4082 | Have you ever wanted to travel for work and see new places? Well, as a Seagoing Cowboy you can do just that with a little extra included. I am going to tell you why you should join the program. I bet you should want to join the program after reading this.
Firstly on the starting bell, I think you should be a Seagoing Cowboy because you can travel anywhere for work and have fun. Evidence from the text that supports my opinion is that Luke headed for Greece with a cargo of 335 horses. Also, Luke passed the time with table-tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games. Both of thiese examples show that he had a lot of work to do but when he finishes early, he speeds op time with fun activities.
On the other hand, being a Seagoing Cowboy could be helpful at a young age because when you are 18 when you start and quit at 24, you could have some skills that could be usefull for an other job. Evidence from the text that supports my opinion is that Luke turned 18 before arriving in Greece. As well, Luke had to feed the animals two to three times a day. Both of thiese examples show that if you become a Seagoing Cowboy and quit, you could be very good at your job if you become a zookeper afterwards.
My conclusion for this essay is that if you join the program, you could be informed by going to new places. Also, you could get new skills that could be usefull in the future like feeding animals and cleaning. If you do decide to join the program and become a Seagoing Cowboy, be aware of the risks but in all together it is a good idea to join. | 3 |
81e7d02 | It is not a brilliant idea making driverless cars. Why you may be asking? Well first of all cars would still need a human to drive in case of an emergency. Second, most people including me love to drive. Lastly, it would cost a lot of money trying to built driverless cars and special roads.
If Sergey Brin envisions a future with driverless cars; he should probably save all that in his brain. In my opinion, this would bring a huge debat on saying goodbye to cars and saying hello to driverless cars. I am saying this because I think the world isn't ready (talking about technology of course). Even if they do find out a way in making this project work they would still need a person to be alert at all times for any emergency. Which means that you still would need a driver in a driverless car. Which is absurb because it would all be a waste of money.
The majority of people in this world own a car. That mean's that there is a good chance that they also love driving. Whether it's racing or just simply going to the store. It would be completely boring if we just sat there and having absolutley no control of the car what so ever. Dr. Werner Huber mentions that they are thinking of displaying an entertainment system so the driver wont get bored. So then what's the point of all this?
Lastly i think it would cost a lot of money trying to built these driverless cars and special roads. In the article it mentions that google has already made a car and a road but end up saying that it is not something you can buy at a radio shack. Im guessing it would take forever to built roads.
In conclusion i think it is an absurb idea in making a driverless car. First it would still need a driver to be alert , it would be boring and lastly it would cost a lot of money. | 3 |
81eaec9 | I agree that we should give these car a chance to fundamentally change the world. My personal view of this is such a great idea. I strongly believe that these automakers would make the roads safer.
In this generation we have many people who like to text and drive or even snapchattng and drive .Why would we want teenager or even some adults to be on the road that aren't paying attention to their phones and the road ? Is that what we really want ? No we don't. With automakers the drivers would not have to worry about paying attention if they're driving right. Yeah maybe i see where their coming from, not passing the law because if the technology fails and causes an accident . But why would there be an accident if there would still be a driver in charge of that as well . A human brain with technology would be a perfect combination making it safe for everyone. There is so many kinds of problems in this world right now with driving and people not paying attenton to the roads . That is why if the techology does fail the driver would be in control and would be notified because the techology would give the driver the attention and giving the wheel to the driver. They would have sensors, computer hardware and software to make driving safe. The driverless cars would not only make the roads safer but it would make it better for the driver as well. It would be life changing.
So I think that driverless would be a great why to start off something different and would not cause as much accidents. It would be a smart idea to pass this law | 3 |
81ee842 | Imagine if you could realize your friends emotions all the time. Facial Action Coding Systems might be our new way to know how someone is feeling. New software is being developed to better comunicate emotions. What if we had this technology in schools? To better understand our peers and know if they are okay. This would be a tremendous advance in schools nowadays.
If we had this technology in school teachers could better understand their students. Teachers could find out how the student are feeling and adjust according to what the students are thinking. This machine would help classrooms everywhere because if a student is board of the lesson odds are they are not going to pay attention. A student is not always willing to talk to a teacher and tell them why they are not doing well or what they dont like about class. You cant always be perfect at guessing how someone is feeling by what you see because they could be hiding their emotions from you. People would think that the machine would not work right and it would be false information being read. The machine is constructed by callibrating it to recognize all 44 major muscles in the model to move exactly like humans move. The machine has six basic emotions happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fear and sadness. And along with the characteristics are movements of the facial muscles. Each one of the emotions are designed to be read of human facial movements to detect emotion. All the steps to constucting this machine are great and are taken off of human facial movement.
Facial Action Coding machines could help teachers and staff stop suicidal thought or actions from occuring. Teachers are at school to help students and just the regular teacher dosen't always catch a student having a horrible day or getting bullied constantly. This machine could help teachers find the kids that are having it rough and sit down with them and talk. This machine would take away the amount of suicidal thoughts and even suicide at high schools all across the country.
This machine would help in many different catigories. If teachers started using this machine and making kids feel better everyday it would make students want to come back to school and want to learn. This would increase grades and student to teacher bonds. The students would carry that home and that would help parents. Kids would do more choirs and help around the house more. They would stop being so hostile twords their parents. This machine could bring so much good to schools and communities all across the world.
Although this machine would be great to have in schools it could be taken as a privacy issue. Students might not feel comfortable if a teacher or elder has a machine that can read how they are feeling. This could be an issue for many parents as well. If a parent does not want this in the school their child goes to they are more than likely to take their child out of that school. This could provoke other parents as well to get the wrong idea about this machine. The parents could see this as a danger in a school because they would no nothing about the machine or the students could be frightened from this machine.
To conclude my essay I think this device would be a great thing to have in schools. It could prevent kids from being bullied, having suicidal thought or even being board in class. It would help teachers get the right idea of what to teach in class and get the idea of students that might be having a really hard time. All in all this machine would be a great tool to use in schools all across the world. | 5 |
81f1656 | Would you like to go on a life changing adventure? People should go to Europe and see what amazing things they learn, and what they didn't know about Europe.
Plus, if a best friend of yours asked you to go to Europe with him ,you knew that it would be an opportunity of a lifetime.
But you will never know if you don't go. People should go because you get to spend time off of work and just relax and hang ou twith the family. Go to just enjoy the precious time with your family there.
Just go and get out there and adventure because you might have teenagers in the house who's always on their phones, well here's your chance to change that around to getting them off their phones and get outside and play more often.
In conclusion, families should just go to whatever place they want to go. To have fun and just get out there and have the time of your life. Instead of just getting out of the house to go to the movie theater. Whatever advetnure you made, that awareness will always stay with you. | 2 |
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Driverless cars would be a good thing. It would be a big step in technology. Take some risks out of being on the road. It would also save some money. A car that drives itself would be a great achievement.
To begin, if the car drove itself then it wouldnt be as dangerous. When people are drunk they wouldnt wreck because of them being careless. The car can take over and have heads up display. Somthing not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone. This makes that a safety feature, and safety is a big concern.
Secondly, The car can save gas money. With the car driving the proper speeds and everything the car wouldnt waste gas. Sergey Brin foresees that the cars would use half of the fuel in todays taxis and offer more flexibility than a bus would. The cars would be a good change for the world and the environment.
Finally, The cars would be a big jump in technology. It would be a big advancement. Radars used to be a big deal now anyone can get them. There are already some cars that can already drive themselves a little but there not ready for the streets. Tesla thinks in 2016 they will release a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time. Mercedes benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020. Every day we get closer to having an automated car.
I think the automated cars would be good. The roads would be safer. Cost less money than spending gas all the time. It would be easier to drive the car. The car could be easier to learn.
Overall the driverless car is a great idea. | 3 |
81f7222 | I think being a Seagoing
Cowboy seems like fun yeah, maybe you do have to do work but you can have fun while doing it. From
Lukes experiance
I would probably go and try it. So
Luke is kind of persuading me to do it so I am persuading you to do it now.
One reason I think that Seagoing Cowboys isn't just about the work is because while the animals are unloaded then you are returning home you get to play gameslike volleyball, baseball,fencing, boxing, and a lot of other older, cool games."But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger."(paragraph 9). To Luke it was more than just alittle adventure with his friend it was something that opened up the world to him."It made me more aware of people of the other countries and their needs" And that awarenedd stayed with him, leading his family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years."
To Luke it wasn't an adventure it was an new oppotunity for him that could be for you too. Everyone get new opportunitys everday. | 2 |
81fbfc0 | Cars are an everyday thing, you need them to get to work, to school, to pick up your kids, but what happens when the cars drive themselves? People have long dreamed of cars that drive themselvs, but most people dont know that google has had them sence 2009. Those cars arent compleatly independent, they need a persion to control them, or rather "help" them, like on high trafic areas, or around crashes. there are many advantiges and disadvantiges to the automatic car, but should we have them? Well, there are many reasions we should.
Its no surprize that every single car is as save as phisicly posable. At google, there cars have drove half a million miles without a crash. thats because every car is compleatly loaded with sencers to keep that from happening, let alone the persion in control of the car. another amazing feature this car has is that you can not use the automatic drive without both hands on the wheel, so the driver must pay atenton. That also makes it imposable for texting at the wheel.
Its no secret that aoutmatic cars are the future, with its advanced safty features and its convenence. All this car really needs is suport. Tons of people are compleatly against this idea of cars driving themselvs, but they have no reason to. Its safer, and easyer. This car will only get better with time, so hopefully, everyone will come around in time. so know you know what happens when cars can drive themselves, the real question is, will my story drive you? | 3 |
81fde2a | Would you like to go on a trip to Europe. Then when you graduate go to seagoing cowboy maybe next time he goes he will bring you with him .
It is really fun you get to go to China you get to go across the Alantic ocean . You can also go across the Pacific ocean.
You can play all kinds of sport s like volleyball,baseball,and table tennis. You an also dance if you want toan. It is so fun there you can do every thing there on th ship ride there you can feed the animals and play with them maybe if they let you.
Another reason is that this trip is a once in a life time. If you like animals and peole you should go on this trip and it is also a once in a life timetrip so if you had a chance to go i would go.
You can help animals such as horse sheep it will be alot of fun . Next time you should go to Europe with your friends. | 2 |
81ff8cd | How to know how a student feels in your class? This could help all teachers to get an idea of how a student feels in their class. Although having a great relationship with each student, some might dislike the way a teacher is teaching. The use of the technology should be used because it's important to know how a student feels in the class whether confused, bored, or any emotion.
The reason to know how a sutdent feels in class is important or good is because the student should be paying attention to the teacher in order to learn. But something can be throwing the student off. It can be not understanding what is happening in the classroom or it can also be something inner with the student. In the passage it stated " 'A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,' Dr. Huang predicts. 'Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.' " As said knowing how the student is the teacher can change the lesson. Although teaching how a teacher wants to teach, it's some times good for a teacher to change their way of teaching so the student can understand mor and also not to be confused. Weather it's something the teacher doesn't like to do it's better to try out new things.
Nowadays it's important to know how student feels espically for high schools. Not all sudents will always want to be in school sitting at their desk listening to teachers. Want to miss school just to not be bored. But if the class were fun they would stay. If they had any friends in their class they wouldn't pay attention to the teacher and would just sit there talking to their friends. "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional comunication." Most students wouldn't tell the teacher how they feel in the class. They'd rather say nothing and just sit in class and fail. The teacher would try to ask the student how they feel but the student will tell the teacher but nothing change.
As it can be seen it matters. Some times it's the students fault making their own decision. If the teacher is good teaching and all the students are happy and that the teacher can see it it's fine because they won't have to be worried about their way of teaching. | 3 |
8204f35 | Venus is a challenging plant to explore but who doesn't like a challenge. However Venus
is the second plant
from our sun which makes it a little challenging to expoler. but also Venus nickname is a evening star becuase of it bright light points in the night sky. Now why
wouldn't you want to explore Venus?
Venus is Earth twin because of the camparison about how the size and density are the same. also that Venus it the closest to the earth. Venus speed is different from the Earth because of how the Earth, and Mars orbit around the sun sometimes the earth gets more closer to Mars than to venus which causes the speed difference. Venus is sometimes right around the corner in space. So our NASA friends had sent several spaecarfts to land on venus which none of the survived execpt for a few hours or some didn't even make it. but it also makes Venus more interesting to explore the plant and how to make the spacecarft last longer then a few hours.
The NASA sent somes humans to study Venus about their hostile conditions on their surface by hovering or a ship orbiting over Venus. Venus limited the ship to insight the grounds conditions so they wouldn't get rocks, gas, or anthing else from distance. so the scientists are trying to seek conduct mission to understand Venus but there are risk they have to take but they are not go to think of them as risk but challenges.
NASA is working on study Venus by building the ships to last for three weeks or more. so they are looking back at their own old mechanical computers and trying to fix what they did
wrong. They can now build
ships that flexible, powerful, quick, and they can handle the strong physcial conditions down there.
Venus is a challenging plant to explore but who doesn't like a challenge espcially when they came up with more ideas and built better ship to explore Venus. Venus has this curiostiy about it so i dont see why wouldn't want to explore Venus even if there challenges you have to face. | 3 |
820e6c3 | Imagine a world without drivers and how the age of driveless car can become a part of society. With the advancement of technology in todays world, driverless cars
will become another way of how people travel, Anoher way on how danger awareness comes into play, and how safe a driverless can be important to everyday travel.
Everyone has been on a public tranportation before and has either found it helpful to get from point A to point B. But sometimes they want the feeling of not having to deal with others on the bus such as yelling kids, people fighting on the bus , and other issuse that may cause discomfort. They want the feel of having been in a lemozine, where they dont have to deal with anyone else and have a smooth transition from point A to point B.
While having to not deal with others while traveling, there comes a more issue on whether it is safe to have a driver or not.
It can be said that having
driverless cars can become a way of traveling, but what about the safety aspects of it? Imagine that this idea of a driveless can becomes a success.In passage 4 it said that,"The Combination of all this input is necesarry for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a himan at the wheel".
This would mean that someone wouldn't have to worry about driving because the car would be able to do that for them. It would be safe too because according to paragraph 3, it talks about built in sensors that can sense danger that a human drive might not be able to notice, such as the detection of skidding, speeding, or rollovers. This would minimize the likelihood of an acccident.
Having a driverless can become apart of society as a whole, whether someone is travleing to a party with friends or to not having to be focasing on the road itself while focousing on other things in the car, such as kids, pets, and other things that might become a distraction. As stated in Paragraph 8, sitting in a car for hours can become boring and knowing that someone cannot watch a movie, text, or even sleep, it can be stressful. But with the Driverless car, it would come equiped with heads up displays and car entertainments, so the passenger would never feel bored.
Imagine having a car that drives for a person without that person in control of it. Think of how the age of technology would become more advance and how impotant it will impact the way we travel. Imagine having a driverless car that
will become another way of how people travel, Anoher way on how danger awareness comes into play, and how safe a driverless can be important to everyday travel. | 3 |
820ece4 | The Face of the Alien on Mars
Have you ever wonderd what the face on Mars is? I have and I'm here to tell you about what I know about this face or piece of land on Mars. Would you discrice the land to be something the alien's made. Well working with NASA has tought me some things. And I will tell you what this face on Mars is now let's get started.
We found out that the face is just a landmark of Mars it's not a face. The way the cloud's were facing and the shadowing made it look like a face. And Now that we know it's not something another race made we don't have to worry as much. We also know that we took that photo in 1976 and again in 1998. We have inproved our cameras by a good amount since the last time we took it. Then when we took it in 2001 the image was much clearer and we could see the photo.
From the text it say's that we took 3 photo's of the site as year's went on. In fact we didn't have high-resolution or 3D image's back then. So we didn't really have the technology back then and now we do. Sending another robot take's year's to get to Mars and time, taking photo's that is another problem. Now that we have better technology for this we can take better picture's.
To explain this the cameras that we had back then really didn't have good pixle resulution. So we really couldn't get a good picture to capture this exciting moment of history. Plus we can now get excited about our trip to Mars later on. And we know what to expect a little bit. They said that we would take off to Mars in 2020 or around that time. And we need trained and willing people to take on the mission.
Now to sum this all up into one paragraph, ok let's see if i can do it. The face of the Alien on Mars really is a landmark not really a alien. By the look of the picture, the weather during the shot of the photo had dust and other partical's that were in the way. And the shadow's made it look like it was a face. And when we attempt to reach Mars in 2020 we know what to expect when the day come's. I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed typing it. Hope that you learned something from this. And I hope you have a good day and I will see you in the next one. | 3 |
821138b | In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author claims that the idea of studing Venus is a worthy persuit, even despite the dangers we may face. The author of this article, however, did not support their claims efficiently enough for others to also support that idea. I know that based on the lack of detail, value, and the previous issues we have face while studing this planet, all prove the authors lack of effectivness aswell.
The author of this article gives us many facts about the planet itself, but not why it would be a worthy persuit to travel there. An example of how the author does this multiple times is how in the concluding paragraph they do not give the examples of our benefits in the exploration of Venus. The author informs us that "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation". The authors reasoning alone show no real support to the idea of why its worthy.
The lack of value and reasoning show that the trip would be a waste of time. The authors' thought on value is that there is insight there to be gained, but did not provide evidence to what that insight may be. The author also said it will lead us to "equally intimidating endevors" but that is likley not the fact, these will just take many of our resources and give us no real benefit for our future.
The many previous issues that we have faced while researching this planet prove no point in why we should go there. The author stated that "the planets surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet". With that information there would be no way for it to be an "option for a planetary visit".
To conclude, based on the lack of detail, value, and the previous issues we have faced while studing this planet, we all can prove the authors lack of effectivness aswell. After seeing all the facts and how there was no evidence for why we should continue to explore other than "imagination", I do not belive that the author supports their claim of persuit, at all. | 4 |
8215d3b | The venus is this issue explains why is not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Numerous factors contributed to Venus's reputation
as a challenging planet for humans to study , despite its proximity to us . In the space they are looking for the plants whats they have on the planted like the earth is beging the sun like the Mart and Venus is beging the sun too.
The atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus . Even more challeging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. On the planet's surface,temperatures average over 80 degrees Fahrenhei, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planets.The conditions for far more extreme
than anything humans encounter on Earth; Also notable , Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planets in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun. Beyond high presssure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like eruptions , erupting volcanoes , powerful earthquakes, and frequent ligthning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface's.Today , venus still has some features that re analogous to those on Earth .The planet has a surface of rocky sediments and includes familiar feautures such as valleys , mountains, and craters. 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 value of returning to venus seems indisputable , but what are the options for making a such of mission in both safe and scientifically productives in venus. | 2 |
821add8 | Have you ever wondered if there is life somewhere else besides Earth? Well imagine being able to know more about space and its planets. Knowing what is it like and how each planet has its enviroment, but just the idea of knowing more about each planet sounds amazing. As the author suggested that studying Venusis is worthy even with the dangers it has, he supported his idea with facts, opinion, and examples.
The author supported his idea with facts. He gave us facts that are true and explained each one of it. One example of the facts he used is the tempeture of venusis and many other facts about the planet enviroment as well as features about Venus. As the author used the fcats he gave us it supported the idea that Venus is planet worth to study and know more about.
Another way the author supported his idea is by giving his opinion. The article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is an opinion based article because he gives his opinion throughout the article. One of the bigest opinion the author used was that he thinks that Venusis is worth studying/ exploring even if there is danger. As the article talks about it with evidence, he also includes his opinion as well as other people too. An example of another opinion besides the author is the Astronomers he included that Astronomers are facinated with the idea that Venus may one day be most Earth-like.
The last thing the author uses is examples. Example of how things they can use to try to study Venus. In paragraph 7 it talked about how NASA is working and trying to approach to study Venus. NASA has been thing aboot examples/ project that could help them study Venus without any troblue. One the projects they are trying out is an electronic made from silicon carbide which it has lasted about three week in the same condition that Venus enviroment is. Another project is something that has been used during the WW2 is a mechanical computer which it can be helpful as well.
The author has developed his idea with good information as well as good facts, opinions, and examples. All this shows that the author has a well developed arguement that supports his idea. | 4 |
821cbea | What I think about driveless cars is that I think it will cause more accidents. The reason why I say is because today we have alot of accidents already with people not paying attention. So just think about how many we are going to have when people won't pay attention to their car's warnings. Also stated in the text people will try and blame the manufacturers because the driver wasn't paying attention. The invetion I feel like it would cause alot of unnessesary deaths.
I do think though that sometimes it maybe the manufacturers' fault. The rason I say so is that they may have accidently put in a faulty part inside the car. Also the passage did state that the car was going to be made by Google, so it would be safe to assume that all the sensors would be on a wireless network of some kind. Wireless networks are known to be hacked or they shut down fpor some reason. This would most likely cause the cars' "safe" functions to not work as they are supposed to. Those are just some ways that smart car accident could be manufacturers' fault.
Lastly I think that the smart car could be a good idea for these reasons. The idea of letting the driver know of oncoming danger is crucial to parents and newbie drivers. It could actually save lives like telling people that ther is a truck coming or they are getting too close to a cliff. The text also said that it can tell drivers if ther is an accident,traffic stop, or anything in the way that would hinder the driver. I think that the idea in the text of it being on autopilot in some situations but will require the driver to drive sometimes. This would mean that the car will try to save the driver from dangerous situations, but it doesn't mean it voids the act of driving entirely. These were some pros that I thought were the best.
All-in-all I think it isn't that good of an idea just because so many bad things can lead to the deaths of many. If the companies making the smart cars tweaked a few of the ideas and made sure to test every car for faulty parts then I guess some people will be ok. The people that won't, which makes me still think is a bad idea, are the ones that don't pay attention or care for the well being of others. A idea that the text said was that they make the car record the driver to see if they are paying attention. Another idead that I think should go along with this is that the drivers that don't pay attention get severe punishments and have their licenses revoked. Even though I think this is a bad idea I am not against it, and I would like to see what inventions will be made in the near future. | 4 |
821f6ff | In todays world of technology, not everything made can be trusted. There have been many flaws in the sources of technology that we use today.
One reason why this stands true is the "Driverless Car" was first discovered in movies and television. Taking something from an animated commercial, tv show, or movie and making it into something that we can use in real life could in some situations, be very complicated to do so. How would the car know when and where to come get you? Will they always be reliable? Often, some of todays people can't even trust that their cell phone is going to keep all of their information private. Making it hard to trust developing technology.
In addition, some of the ways that creators have come up with to make this happen is way out of our budget. As said in the section, instead of building "smarter cars" we could invest in building "smarter roads". This means that instead of putting all of the technology just in the car, it would also be included in the road system. This would cost millions, billions, maybe even trillions which is way out of our price range. The nation has too many things to take care of just to put all of our money towards something that we don't absolutely need.
Lastly, how would we know that the sensors built into the vehicle are going to work all the time? How would we trust them? Failed sensors could result in many incidents such as car accidents, fires, or car pile-ups. Even if we do develop the vehicle, we can't always trust it because accidents do happen. Using this car in todays society could risk many lives, even if we're not in the vehicle. Yes, it would be a success for our world of technology to make this happen. But is it really a success for everyone? There's no problem with today system of people driving on their own so why change it.
Ask yourself, do we really need this "Driverless Car" added to todays technology? Will it really benefit us that much? Can we trust every piece of technology handed to us? | 3 |
82269ec | The study of Venus is an exciting but dangerous journey to go on. The planet being so similiar to ours it gives thoughts or ideas on what's there. The only part about it is that the dangerous conditions of the planet is holding us back a little in the devlopment of learning about it. The author belives its a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents and I think that as well.
I feel like the author supports his idea very well throughout the passage. He puts alot of benifits of visiting Venus and he shows examples of how we can overcome the dangeours of Venus. He states," It's worthy because its the most Earth-Like planet from the features like the rocky sediment , valleys, mountains, and craters and how if it's similiar to Earth". We could also explore and find more Earth like things to help us or either just cool things to discover. He also states, "How learning about Venus could lead us into many equally imitanding endevaors and expand our innovation and imagination for other planets".
In conclusion I feel like the author provides good enough points and details to overcome the dangers of Venus. He made good points on how Venus is the closest thing we've seen to Earth and we should see if we can find more Earth-Like things about it or even new things we've never seen before. | 3 |
822846d | Dear Senator,
Change is not always a good thing. The Electoral College being changed is definetly not right. Many may be persuaded by fleeting emotions into a strong desire for changing the Electoral College. This however isn't as good an idea as people may think it is. It's unnessecary to fix something that isn't broken.
The Electral College so far as been working extremly well. Its a benificial system that our founding fathers created. The Electoral College has kept balance and silenced the chaotic voices of the citizens. According to source 3, "A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is less likely than a dispute over the popular vote." This is a fact because the human mind is fragile and tends to let anger or ego get the better of them. This will then be the cause of uneeded casualties.
A lot of people find the idea of changing the Electoral College to be satisfing. In thier mind's this will make things more "fair". Source 2 implies that, "The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational." Many will believe this because their not able to see the big picture. The Electoral college as stated in source 1, "is a process, not a place." It's not about being unfair or cheating. The electoral college is valid system that has allowed the election of a president to go as smoothly as possible and it is in every way superior to the popular vote method.
So let's be realistic and leave things as it is. Comparing popular vote to the electoral college is like comparing a newborn baby to an adult. The fact of it is that the electoral college is the more reasonable method to use whereas popular vote is unreasonable because it'll only give birth to more problems. The Electoral College has been and still is the best method to elect a president for our great country.
Your's Sincerly,
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
8228980 | The question is how do I feel about driverless cars? I'm going to tell you why I think it's a bad idea to have driverless cars. In my story i'm going to tell you why I don't like the idea, why a homan should always be controlling the car, and the consequences of a driverless car that could happen.
The reason I don't like the idea of a driverless car is there are so much money going to be wasted. Thousands of dollars wasted if all of a sudden your car is smashed. So many peoples lives will be at risk if they don't have a driverless car. How can you even feel comfortable knowing that you can kill somebody? In my opinion I don't like the idea of letting the car control my movements and the car makes a noticeable noise or sound that alerts me. I know some people would even fall asleep at the wheel. What if all of a sudden your car doesn't make that noise or sound without you noticing? I'll rather just control the car myself rather than letting it control me.
In my opinion I think that humans should always be at the wheel controlling it. It lets you control your actions not letting a computerized vehicle do it. What if you do get in a crash at least you know your at fault not the vehicle. Wouldn't humans get bored just sitting their? I know that some humans might fall asleep at the wheel and that can lead to a lot more problems. This is why I believe humans should control the car.
Lets talk about the consequences of a driverless car. Some consequences of a driverless car is injuries. No one wants to get hurt say your car loses signal and you fell aslepp and hurt yourself. Another consequence is if you hurt or even possibly kill someone else. That'll ruin someone's feelings of a driverless cars. The last consequence I can tell you but certainly not the only ones out there is possibly killing yourself. That can hurt so many feeling in your family. How would you think your family would feel if they said my "cousin" died from a computerized vehicle? That'll be the last thing I would expect at least right now in 2016.
There are a lot of more reasons why I think driverless cars are a bad thing. Just think about it me and you might think the same things. So I told you the reasons why I think driverless cars are a bad thing, why humans should always be controlling the car, and some consequences of a driverless cars. Not saying this could affect you personally, but I think this could hurt a lot of people in the long run. | 3 |
822982a | The presidental elections are a huge deal in the United States and everywhere else. We all sit on anticipation to see who our next leader is hoping that they will make great changed for their country and their people, eventually making it a great place to live. Not many people are well informed about this system we have here, and some are. But could you imagine if more people find out that they aren't actually voting for the President but instead your are voting for the people that are voting for the President? Does that make any sense? As you very well know there are two sides to every story Senater. Many people agree with the Electorial Collage and many people don't. However my personal belief is that you should not support the Electorial Collage. I believe that this system is unfair, it doesn't give Americans full control over elections and who's running the country as well as the fact that many people voted for the Electorial Collage may make the wrong decisions which could jepordize the election and lets not forget about the winner take all system.
To begin with, the first reason I don't think you should support the Electorial Collage is because the system is unfair and it doesn't give Americans full control over elections and their results. During Election time people are tricked into thinking that they are voting for the President. They play Presidential ad for campains and the candidates go give speeches around the country. But if your not really voting for the Presidents, then why are they wasting all this money and wasting your time having you watch the ads. Source two it says " If you lived in Texas, for inatance, and wanted to vote for (John) Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of thirty-four electoral votes. Who are the electors?" amd in source 1 it says "THe fouding fathers established it in the Constitution as a comprimise." But honest is it really a comprimise is you're not involved? People want to be involved in this type of stuff, believe it or not it matters to them. And because you are not really told, people could go on for years thinking that their voting for the actual President but instead they are voting for politicans and hoping that they make the right decisions. Are we really going to leave the fait of our country up to hope and up to people that don't really know what their voting for. This is not fair and it doesn't live up to American values.
Another reason that you shouldn't support the Electorial Collage is because many of the politicans that people vote for make the wrong decisions and could jepordize the future of our country. Everyone makes mistakes but in presidental elections you can't, it is veyr important that things are monitered closely. After all you are voting for a person who is going to run and represent your country. But many politicians feel that since they have power that they can do whatever they want. Even go as far as rigging election votes so they can win. in source two it states that "Those electors could always defy the will of the people." In other words they may not listen to what the people want and instead be selfish and listen to what they want. Now of course we know this isn't right. "Electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please." This isn't fair to the people, because by doing that you are saying they don't have a say. And people have a lot of trouble trusting politicians, would you blame them it's not every day that you come across a person who wants the best for their people and puts them first instead of themselves.
The final reason that you shouldn't approve or support the Electorial System is because of the "Winners take all" system. In this system candidates really don't bother going or speaking or visiting the state their running in. This basically means that the people who vote for them are making a blind vote without really knowing the person. Before voting for anyone in any situation student council, Goverment, and ect. You need to know that person. You need to make sure that they share the same values that you do. You need to make sure that they are the best candidate for the state and not some random street alcoholic. People have enough trouble trusting politicans as it is why make it worse? "During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didnt see the candidates at all." This statement also includes political ads, they saw none at all. And you expect them to vote for the President of the United States without prior knowledge how is that even allowed? That is why I call it a blind vote.
However even in the midst of all that wrong with Electorial System people have found right in it. For instance source 3 says that "But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee (and that trust is rarely betrayed)." Although this statement has some truth to it, it also has some false. The problem that i have with that statement is that there are no facts to back it up. Sure you believe that our trust is rarely betrayed but actually you don't know. Politicans are very secrative and protected at all cost. You have no ideas what going on in their office unless they make a public announcement on it and sometimes that's even a lie. We don't know our politicans really well on a personal basis, sure you might think you do because they go on tv shows tell you about their life but how much of that is truth and how much is lie? Sometimes politicans lie to protect the people from pain or ect. But you shouldn't being doing that in the middle of one of the most important elections the country ever has. And if we mess up some how the only way we fix it is either impeaching the president or waiting another four years to hopefully make sure things go right and get a good President. Are you willing to take that chance?
To reiterate the bottom line is that these Electorial Collages are important. The people we select in our office are important. However if we let our people become involved in actual Presidental elections we are leaving the future of our country up to hope and to people who make the wrong decisions as well as the "Winner takes all system." Is that really what we want for our country? People need to be involved thats why its called The United States of American. We are suppose to be united. Sure our government could be a little corrupt at times but maybe by letting people become more involved we may actually be looking forward to a brighter and better America. Which is what we all want. | 6 |
822adb5 | Driverless cars on coming soon, and most people aren't worried or see the danger of any of this. To have many self driving cars on the street is dangerous and unless the cars have been tested and are fully operational with no common errors or bugs.
Before creating driverless cars, it is very important that they have been vigerously tested and confirmed to be safe. Regulations in most states state that it is illegal to test the computer-driven cars. Safty is a huge factor in deciding weather or not the driverless cars should be everywhere on the street, however they won't be "everywhere" for a while. The technology is well known to be expensive, but this can still be at a great risk.
Google's self driving cars are still in development, but recently in the last few months they've gotten into wrecks, and in one case, hit a man on camera, however he is fine now. A situation like that scared a lot of people and changed their mind on these cars. Whether or not the car was still in development doesn't matter, what matters is that these self-driven cars have the ability to do this damage. This isn't even my greatest fear about these cars yet.
Buying a self-driven car has what benifits? Bragging rights? It's a two-hundred thousand early adopter fee, because it's very enforced that you don't fall asleep even if your car is driving for you. The driver still needs to pay attention to the road because at a time that the car doesn't know what to do next, as it goes onto an unmapped road in it's data base, it will alert the driver to take over. In a similar case, the system fails, because computers fail everyday, the driver is not paying attention because his new car can drive by itself, then the system fails as the car is going sixty miles per hour on a road with many other cars. Accidnets can occur if the driver believes that their new car can do everything by itself.
My main issue with these cars is what if someone hacks your car? It sounds silly and far fetched at first, but it has already happened. Some kids in their parent's basement decided to hack a car, just to see if they could, and they sucsessfully did. There was a bug in the software of a particular, non self-driving car, took control of the steering and disaled the breaks. If this can happen to human-driven car, then the odds of this happening to a fully computer operated vehicle will be more copious. If some kids had the ability to do this, imagine all of the car crashes and injuries that could occur if many or most cars on the street were self-driven.
The rise of self-driving cars is a bad idea, it's going to happen, many companies are working hard to be the first, and there is money to be made. There are a lot of problems that rise up with cars that drive themselves, being the drivers themselves not paying attention, the computer shutting down, malfunctioning, or being hacked. There is too much risk in a rise of this caliber. | 5 |
822db5c | Driverless cars appear to be the future of road but they have many down sides to them. Computer controlled cars can have glitches and many other technical problems when being used as the futures transportation. If the computer does giltch whos fault is it for the injury or death of the person. It could go either way but man contolled cars have only one or two people to blame for the accident that may happen.
"Todays driverless cars can steer, accelerate and brake themselves, but are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills" This quote said in paragraph 7 shows that these cars can not do everything so it is misleading to the user. The user will sit down in the car and tell the car where to go and the user most likely fall asleep or get tired of waiting for their turn as said in paragraph 8. Then when the car comes across a situation it can not solve its self many things could go wrong and then whos fault would it be for the accident the car would cause. The rules of the road most of us are taught as a child would be changed a lot also. They would have to develop a new way of giving tickets to those who break the driving laws with the new driverless cars. The new driver safety laws would give many police officials confusion
when giving driving tickets to people.
The driverless car as of now sounds like bad news, it needs more to it so that we can keep our people safe on the road. In the near future dreverless cars would and can be a very useful addition to the road. All we need is more time to this idea of driverless cars and it has the potential to change driving as we know it. | 3 |
822ec7e | Value of Face Action Coding Systems in Schools Today,
I believe that in some cases face recogniton in classrooms could be slightly valuable but overall I think that there would be more negative effects than positive effects when it comes to Face Action Coding on school computers. Some negative effects of the Face Action Coding System could be things like innacurate face readings, more difficult or ineffective way of learning, or minimization of comunication and decreased likelyhood of relationships between students and their teachers. These examples lead me to think that facial recognition is not important for schools to have for their students.
If the face coding software was inacurate, your work would be effected in ways you might not want it to be or you could come off a different way than you are really feeling. In the text it state that the software can detect if a person beomes confused or bored with something if you make a certan facial expression. Once this happens the information would get relayed back to your teacher so he or she can make ajustments for your assignment if needed, but what if the facial expression that was made was totally erellevant to your assignment. As I do assignments I sometimes think about other things and make facial expressons about my thoughts. Maybe the expression of confusion or bordum might cross my face and get relayed back to the teacher when the facial expression made was not made because of the assignment. These are examples of how facial recognition could be giving incorrect information back to teachers.
If the computer could tell ever emotion you had towards your assignment you would never need to actually communicate face to face with your teacher. The author shows in the text that as the emotions are detected, the teacher would give modifycations to the assignment without you even asking them to or asking for help. Most communication between teachers and students is done by asking questions about assignments and how they feel about something in the class. I believe that students should be able to speak face to face to the people assigning their work instead of turning away from most communication between students and teachers.
To me I can see the Facial Coding System effecting the learning of students. In the text it states that it can modify the assignmets just like a teacher would if it detects signs of being confused or bored. If a student is neither bored or confused but the computer detects that by their facial expression, then it could change the assinment even if the student didn't need the assignment changed. This would either give the student a break by making the assignmet too easy or it would push the student out of where they need to be by making the assignment harder. This would then effect how the student learns.
In conclusion, facial recogniton in classrooms will lead to more problems than it would help by bringing it into schools. I would rather share my emothions to a teacher when I felt the need to instead of a computer telling emotions back to my teacher that may be innacurate. I also would rather have a teacher giving me modified work so It would help me in learning. This is why I disagree with Facial Coding Systems in schools today. | 5 |
822fb2e | Studying the planet Venus is worth studying but its worth despite the dangers of it because Venus is second closes planet to Earth. People often called Venus as 'Earth's twin" because of there terms of size. Scientists believe that planet Venus probably is coverered with large about of oceans and could support any form of life. Another reason why we should discuffer is that in Paragraph 4 it talks about how is that Venus have some features like for exsaple Venus has a surface of rocky sediment has valleys, mountains, and craters. The planet Venus can be our somewhat be our nearest option for planetary vist.
The reason that its hard for scientists to study Venus is that no spacecraft could survivr in a landing formore then a few hours. Another reason why its defficult to land in paragraph 3 it says "On the plants surface temeratures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric is over 90 times greather than what we experience on our won planet." This gives a exsample of how dangerous and hard it could be to study Venous. NASA had an idea for sending humans to study Venus, and that idea is creating a possible solution to the histile conditions on the surface of Venus. That would allow people to float above the fray.
Finally i believe that studying the planet Venus is worth studing for but its worth despite of the danger of it because we can probably discuffer life or any lifing thing in Venus. We possably find some resourses that Venus have that could help us or change thing. | 3 |
8230435 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author provides a compelling and efficient argument to support the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. Using statistics, factual information, and specific plans being developed as we speak, the author convinces the audience that exploring Venus is worth the risks involved. The author throroughly describes the immersive learning possibilities that could be discovered by studying the foreign planet, the surviveable and safe travel conditions for humans, and other exploration options to ensure a safe and efficient venture to Venus.
First of all, the author immediately combats the argument of Venus being too dangerous to venture. When discussing the exploration of Venus, most people are turned off by its reputation as a dangerous and challenging planet for humans to study. While the author doesn't stray away from these harsh extremities, they make sure to prove how these details seem insignificant and how safe travel can still be executed. The author thoroughly describes the plan provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to allow astronauts to float above the fray and avoid the hazardous conditions. They provide specific qualities of the plan, such as the air pressure being close to the sea level on Earth, the abundance of solar power, and the containment of radiation, to prove how humans would be kept in a safe atmosphere. They even provide a real world connection between NASA's possible solution and a blimp-like vheicle hovering around the ground to make it easier for the audience to understand. The author combats the speculaiton of Venus being too dangerous to explore in order to further support the idea of it being a worthy pursuit.
Furthermore, the author heavily emphasizes the learning opportunities that exploring the foreign planet would undoubtedly provide us. While providing simple, yet interesting facts about Venus, such as it being the planet closest to Earth's density and size, may be enough to intrigue the audience into wanting to learn more about the planet, the author takes it a step further. The author goes in depth about the possibility of Venus being the most Earth-like planet in our solar system long ago. They detail the planet's environment today, consisting of Earth-like structures such as rocky sediment surfaces, valleys, mountans, craters, and other geological findings. They also state "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." This information opens up an entirely new realm of possibilites for the audience to consider, and is more likely to interest them as it directly relates to our life on Earth. The way the author has set up the comparisons of Earth and Venus have allowed the audience to view the exploration of the planet as an opportunity to see a planet that could be like us; a planet with living, breathing forms of life similar to what we see everyday. The author uses this information to encourage the audience to view the pursuit of Venus as a chance to gain information on the things we see in our everyday life, and not just complex ideas that are difficult to understand and most-likely won't affect them.
Finally, the author provides numerous options being developed for humans to embark in safe and efficient travel to Venus. When discussing the potential plans to explore the planet, the author states "Many researches are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus." This quote makes it clear to the audience that scientists are doing whatever it takes to develop multiple, efficient plans for space travel. The author also goes onto provide different examples to further convey how close scientists are to developing the safest plan possible. They specifically mention the use of simplified electronics made of silicon carbide and explain how they've already been tested in a chamber that simulate the conditions of Venus's surfaces, yet how they're still being improved upon. They also describe an old technology called mechanical computer, noting how this technology has already been used frequently in the 1940's and how it can be incorporated into space travel now. The author has given detailed descriptions of the efforts made and the options available to provide a safe embarkment for humans to support the ideas that Venus is a worthy pursit.
Clearly, the author has efficiently and convincingly supported the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. By describing all the information about the existence of other life forms and the similarities to Earth that we could potentially learn from the study, the author proves how worthy Venus is to be discovered. The author also rebuttals one of the main concerns for traveling to the planet by explaining how plans are being developed to make travel and living conditions surviveable, safe, and efficient for both humans and machines. In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author was able to convey and support the idea that Venus is worthy of exploration. | 6 |
823226d | Dear Senator,
I think that Electoral College is not the way to vote in the future. We should make a change in our goverment and make elections by popular vote. For these reasons we should make changes. We don't know who the electors vote for. The Electoral College is unfair. Popular vote is more accurate.
If we are going to have Electoral College lets at least know who our elector votes for. "Can voters control whom their electors vote for? Not always." By this I mean, not letting him choose who ever he's going for. As in of showing that he took everyones vote and made them all count. Even if the guy he's going for wins the election, we can say it was fair.
The Electoral College is not fair. First of all we don't know who picks the electors. We don't know if there truthful as in putting in votes. I'm sure they have to have certain requirments to become an elector but we are not the ones chosing them. In the 2000 campaign 17 states didn't even see the people running in the election. Also in an Electoral College ties exist so then it has to be thrown into the House of Represenatives where the delagations will vote on the president. Making our votes worthless because the people in the goverment get to chose whos next to become president.
Popular vote is more accurate. By me saying this is that everyones vote counts. There's no electors invovled causing you to fall in doubt. Even though it says that Electoral College electors "...that trust is rarerly betrayed." I still think that the people will cofide more in popular vote showing them that they didn't just vote for no reason.
Electoral college is getting more and more complicated causing people to doubt. We should change because we don't know who the electors vote for. The Electoral College is unfair. Also because popular votes are more accurate. Electoral College is irrational and not accurate. | 4 |
82342be | Cars are a big influence in our worlds society, everyone wants to be able to drive and many people do drive. But as good as driving seems there are also many negative things that occur when driving a car. But the affects of limited driving can potentially have a positive impact on our lives and our enviorment.
In our world a large number of people drive cars to get to work, school and many other places. Due to people driving, there have been serveral negative effects to our planet. Due to people driving from place to place there are very high polution levels in our atmosphere, from the exhuast that the car lives off. For example, in Europe cars are responsible for twelve percent of greenhouse gas emissions and in the United States it is fifty percent of green house gas emissions. This can potentially damage our enviorment and hurt our planet. But not all of this has to be negative. Many countries have been setting up days or even banding cars in general to decrease levels or pollution and promot limited car use is a positive thing. This is an attempt to help clean up our enviorment. On the positive side if we were to stop using passenger cars for transporation our enviorment would be alot cleaner more suitable to live in. If we stop driving and even owning cars it could potentially have an impact on our personal lifes and make us more relaxed and feel happier. For example a women by the name of Heidrun Walter said "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way". Many countries are currently making a serious effort to stop the use of cars in all. Some countries have completely wiped out the usage of cars and have gone to riding bikes, walking, and even taking the bus. These efforts can only have a positive effect on our enviorment. If every country tries to enforce the fact that cars are damaging our enviorment then potentially the pollution levels and the smog levels will begin to decrease and maybe even depleat.
Passenger cars in the world is a bigger issue then everyone thinks. But if everyone pitches in to the idea that no cars equals a better society then I believe that Passenger cars will soon be gone for good. Passanger cars in the world are coming to an end and our enviorment is going to be healthier than ever. | 3 |
8235368 | What I think about the facial action coding system enables computers to identify humans emotions is weired i wouldn't want that on my computer or phone or for other people. I wouldn't want that because it seems like someome is looking at what you are doing pretty much like a stacker and i think that is weired. I think we shouldn't have that because what if someone is hacking that program and gets to my phone or computer that means they could see what we look like and what we are doing. It says using videos imagery the new emotion-recognition software track these movements in a real face. So what I think is that they will have access to our camera and they could see our face and how we feel and that is weired. So i thin we should NOT have that because you never know what else the can get access to. | 2 |
8236b4f | According to the author of the "Challenges of Exploring Venus," he believes that it is a good idea to pursue more knowledge of the planet Venus. The author feels that getting to know our sister planet is important, and that there are ways to explore this planet safely and effectivly. The author gives great examples of ways too explore the planet safely and effectivly, also he gives reasons why it would be beneficial.
Pursuing and expanding our knowledge of venus is beneficial in many ways and can be safely done. Venus having an average of 800 degrees fahrenheit on its surface, make's it virtually inhabitable to humans. These conditons are so extreme the author explains that "such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed too diving to the deepest parts of our oceans." Venus has very harsh conditions and it make's it virtually impossible to explore it from the surface and proposes a tough challenge on finding alternatives ways to explore it. Although, NASA has proposed an idea to explore the harsh planet. NASA believes we can explore the planet from a distance approximately 30 miles away. The author explains that the pressure would be comparable to sea level on earth, tempature would be around 170 degrees. The author states that "Not easy conditions but survivable for humans." The mission would propose great danger and it would be a expontential battle, but with the right people and technology it could be done and accomplished. The benefit is the knowledge gained from this great planet that has had the world beat for a long time, it is time to step up to the challenge and explore Venus for the people of this world.
In conclusion, the author supports the exploration of Venus, and is open to finding ways to explore this harsh planet. He believes that the knowledge we would gain from Venus would be very beneficial to the people. He believes that mankind has endured many other harsh endeavors such as the exploration of Venus, and the curosity of mankind will likely lead us to exploring the great hot planet of Venus. | 3 |
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