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84efabc | I think the idea of Driverless Cars are not a good idea. But that does not mean there not a good idea. It would be great to not have to buy a car, that can save a whole lot of money. But it also can be very very dangerouse.
However,
I guess it gives the driver some rest while driving. Honestly theres more things that could go bad. In the story it said 2013 BMW can acceleerate steer and brake themselves" I feel that that is pretty cool and handy becaused maybe you dont see something everyone makes mistakes and if it can brake itself it could save a life . So that helps a whole lot . In the passage it says " it alerts you when it needs you to take human control" I feel that that is really good, because if it didnt and the driver had fell asleep or anyhting , it may not end well.
The reason im aginst this idea is because I am one of those people who trust myself before other people expecially before a machine. It said in the passage " If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault the driver or the Manufacturer?" So basically if your in one of these machines and something does not go right it may turn off, something might be wrong inside the car anything can happen and you wreck in it . Know you didnt wreck the car is supposed to be safe but you own this car and you inside of it harmed someone else now what ? Now you could be the one in trouble for this.
Then, we can take this to another level. Say theres babies or todlers in the back seat. I honestly feel that parents would feel more safe with them in controll of there car with there kids in it than a machine . Anything could happen at anytime and thats just not safe. You could always think of worse case sanario, your car hits some one they could sue you or even worse the could be seriously harmed and now you have to live with that.
Anything could happen is the way i feel with this situation . And the article said " it is even illegal to test computer dirven cars in California, Nevada , Flordia , and Distric of Columbia. Those are places where its a lot of people and a lot of traffic I feel like its a accident waiting to happen. But some people may be willing to take this risk. And some people may suceed it could help many people . Save a lot of money for people and maybe they can do better things with it. But I honestly feel like this should not happen. | 3 |
84f0f81 | We are coming to an era where driverless cars will be what everyone wants except, workers. Many people drive others, and soon none will have a job. Plus the money that it sounds it will take to make these cars with complete sensors, and to have them running. Finacially the car sounds way out of budget for most people, cars to today are that have high end gear are excluded for everyday people to get, because they dont have enough money to buy them, or that more high classed men, and women earn to only have to most richest technology for themselves. As well the improvment to having to make many more laws for theses cars just to keep people, and children safe.
Men, and women in the driving service mainly depend on that job. Many as in Bus drivers, Taxi drivers, and those who drive the rich, and famous. They may say that the driverless car will still allow them to keep their job, but the more advances they make the more the cars will take over jobs for others. Most depend on the mid-pay salary, and a driverless car wont let them keep their jobs for long. If cars can take over a human's job it can over any other.
Money may not be a total problem for some, but they'll need to take more and more just to make each car, as well as paying the people who work on the cars to make them safe, and secure. Testers will need to be paid for their part as well of checking the car functions right. In hind sight this car will take more money from us, but will also expect us to pay high prices when it comes out as well. If they ecpect all venders make money don't they need us to some how have money to purchase what they sell to us. The sensors themselves sound painfully expensive for us.
Laws now are so strict for any car. We must go a certain speed limit, we must use our mirrors when we are driving, we have to make sure no is coming into on going traffic. The car will make it harder for those who won't have one. The car will have to set to a certain speed limit, will it even have to use mirrors if the car is driving itsself? The laws take time so even if they hav one they'll still probably have to wait to use it. It will back track everone, and everything.
Even though there are bright sides to owning a car such as they come with the safety sensors to stop and watch for children on the move. The car will be able to send signals in any case that someone may be injured and can't call for the help they need. It's camera's will sure be able to make sure breaks are completely functional when it comes to on going pedestrians. The human able to drive the car any moment it has trouble getting through traffic makes it sound easier that there will be less accidents. in all the car sounds as if a protective shield for a human.
In all togetherness the car sounds like a money bucket waiting for us to soak into it. It surely will amek many lose their jobs at one piont even if they have a human driver setting, they probably won't even think twice, and just say no to using it. The time, and desicion it to ahve so many laws will trul back track those who would like to use it, but will haqve to wait since they're will be many people undecisive about each law. The car sounds like a death trap waiting for people to invest in it thinking the product is truly safe. | 4 |
84f61b7 | If it were a real martian creation then you would be able to see possible life forms around it and it wouldn't be facing towards the sky, it would be like a statue, plus it would have been a really fantastic descovery and we would try to make contact with the martians and see how they live and survive on the planet so we could possibly live there one day. NASA would send space crafts and rovers to Mars so we could study the creatures. Finding out how to survive on mars and the other planets is important and is something humans should learn how to do just in case if something happens to earth and we aren't able to go back to it. But as you can see in the pictures it's just a messa, a natural cause in nature, something that happens on earth, but it just so happened to look so much like a face from the possible clouds and blurry picture from the first. Many people at NASA want wanted that to be a statue or something that a living creaturs has made, but as you see in the pictures it starts to look more like a natural cause of natural cause. | 2 |
84f8bd2 | Ever tried to walk a block to the store to get some things or walk to a friends house just cause it was so close? Many people don't nowadays because their are motored vechicles available for you if youre over 15 with a license or permit. We have to start reducing our car usage. Their are always many alternatives that can not only be relaxing and stressless but better for our enviroment. Some good alternates to driving would be to walk, bike, ride the bus, subway, train, or jog.
There are many advantages to reducing the usage of cars but one of the biggest may be that we are harming our enviroment, half of the air population in the United States comes from vechicles. We can't keep continuing to ruining our future generation's home. If we use cars and increase our car usage the effects of this are left for our kids and grandkids to clean up after.
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8500192 | Goals are a vital key to most individuals life, whether they are a teenager, child, adult, or student. Ones goal may be to ace a test, anothers may be to pay off past student loans. Specifically, a teenagers goal may be to take the formal test to apply for a learners permit and eventually test for a drivers liscense. Driving is a symbolic step in a teenagers life signaling freedom and independence from their parents, however, with the ever-so-quickly evolving technological and engineering professions, this key factor is a teenagers life could be bypassed, similar to how an exit may be bypassed on an expressway. In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" driverless cars may be an option of the future. Driverless cars can be a beneficial investment.
Autonymous and semi-autonymous cars are evolving, rapidly, into safer vehicles than human-operated vehicles; tests have shown this since the 1980's when automakers used speed sensors at the wheels of vehicles in creation of antilock brakes. Now, if a person is in danger of skidding out of control or rolling over, the cars brakes can prevent this. Its also extremly prevalent here, in Indiana. A cars antilock brakes may assist an individual to stop at a slippery intersection on ice once the car notices that it is not decelerating at the rate expected by its computer. Another reason why driverless cars are a beneficial invenstment is BMW's development and release of the "Traffic Jam Assistant." We all know that traffic jams in bigger cities such as: Chicago, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and even on freeways like Interstate-94 can be frustrating. However, with this stylish invention ones semi-autonymous car may handle the driving functions, that of a human, at up to speeds up to 25 mph. If one does not have to worry about focusing on the constant start-stop of the traffic, their trip may become substantially more enjoyable. Moving forward, driverless cars can be a beneficial investment because teenagers may like driving a semi-autonymous car versus a normal car better. Dr. Werner, a BMW project manager driver stresses, "We have to interpret the driving fun in a new way" One way that this could be done is by bringing in-car entertainment and informaton systems that use heads-up display. These displays can be turned off when the driver is needed to take over. This also doubles up as a safelty feature, which is a huge proponent in passing laws permiting these types of cars.
In conclusion, driverless cars are a very promising option of the future, with which I support. They are proven to be more succcessful and could benefit modern america, as well as, the rest of the world by helping Indians in India with the subpar driving conditions with which they endure. They can also help Americans with heavy traffic jams in megatropolis' such as New York and Chicago. I believe that Driverless cars can be a beneficial investment and you should too. | 4 |
8500af6 | Driverless cars are something that Google has been working on for years, some of the biggest car manufacturers in todays market are planning on having autonomous cars in production by the year 2020. There is still a lot of planning and designing to do before we will be able to drive these cars, but they will be in our future! Making driverless cars is a great idea and i am for it. Most states have driving laws that make it illegal to drive or even test these electronically driven cars, manufacturers are getting hopeful that when these cars are ready, safe, and fully advanced the laws will be changing.
First, todays trffic laws are "... written with the assumption that the only safe cars has a human driver in control at all times.", which means that the manufacturers must make a car thta keeps the driver, passenger, and any pedestrians safe. Manufacturers believe that once these cars prove more reliably safe that more states will grow onto the idea of driverless cars. Having driverless cars is a good idea because they also will only use around half of the fuel used in todays average taxi. So far Google has had these cars drive half a million miles without a single crash!
In conclusion autonomous cars should be a part our future. These cars have been test driven around 500,000 miles without a single crash. Driverless cars use sensors to keep a full 3D picture detecting all the things surrounding the car. Even though there is still some planning that needs done I believe the world should give these new cars a chance when the time is right. | 2 |
8505e01 | I believe that in this passage Luke becomes a seagoing cowboy and travels all over the seas and Luke really wanted to see China and Europe, Luke takes trips all over and thye author of the story chose Luke and showed us what Luke did as a seagoing cowboy. Evidence from the passage to support my answer is the author talked about what Luke did as a seagoing cowboy. Another peice of evidence from the story to support my conclusion is it was World War II and it happened in Europe duing that time so Luke helped his friend out and helped him with saving people with food and money and also, a shelter. These peices of evidence supports my conclusion by being stated in the text.
Reasons to join this program is it can be a be change in life to help needed people out in different countries. Also, there could be a country you really wanted to go to and that program is going there so you could go sightseeing at that country. | 2 |
850bbf9 | The use of Driverless cars is a new and upcominh innovation. The real question though is, are they safe? The world will never now completely because there are a numerous ammount of problems that can occur. Also do they cars place to big of an economic role in the world? The use of driverless cars are unsafe and too exspensive for society.
The first reason of many is, whose fault is it if the car crashes? This is a debate that society will never truly know because there are too many reasons for both sides, The car could be faulty and crash and harm people, or the car will crash because the human operating this car wasn't paying attention at the right moment. The debate is endless and society will have to discover how to judge the situation. In the article it states: "As a result, in most states it is even illegal to test computer-driven cars. California, Nevada, Florida, and the DIstrict of Columbia have led the country in allowing liminted use of semi-autonomous cars" (Driverless Cars Are Coming). This quote states that many states are creating laws about this topic because of the chances of accidents. If driverless cars are being prevented on roads in some states, then why should we take the chance in any other state?
The second reason is that they are just too exspensive. The cars will need to have special sensors to make them a hundred percent safe. This will be too costly and will take a toll in economic debt. The sensors will need to be placed in every road and this will be way too costly. The article sates this about sensors in roads: "These smart-road systems worked suprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too exspensive to be practical" (Driverless Cars Are Coming). This statement makes a lot of sense especially since the debt is burrying our economy today. Also the other option is to have smart cars with 3D mapping sensors, but these cars will be too costly for many of the Americans today so there will still be accidents occuring. So the real answer to this is that driverless cars are too exspensive.
The third and final reason is will the drivers pay attention still? The cars may be driverless in many situations but the human driver is still needed in certain situations and these situations can be very dangerous. The article states that "In fact, none of the cars developed so far are completely driverless. They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills" (Driverless Cars Are Coming). The impact can be very harmful and dangerous especially if the operater of a car doesn't pay attention when needed. If a driver dozes off because they think they won't need to pay attention then they could possibly run through construction, go around accidents or if the car malfunctions. The drivers will misuse their privliges with these cars and they will not be safe in our society.
The use of driverless cars are unsafe and too exspensive for society. The reasons kisted above state just some of the many reasons why driverless cars would be useless in todays world. The cars are not proved safe yet and they will be too heavily priced for everyone to get one. The use of these cars are useless until they are proven completely safe and they are cost efficient. The real question though is, would you want your parents, kids, or even friends to drive these cars if you knew they are not proven to be 100% malfunction free? | 5 |
850fee6 | Dear Senator,
In my opinion we should change the presidency election to be based on popular vote. I can speak for a lot of citizens here when I say that it is a way of representing our country as a democracy, and is more efficiant.
The electoral college is a better representation of a democracy. Instead of voting for your president, you're instead voting for electors. That's not what we're trying to do. The political parties of Florida are trying to get their candidate to be elected. The electoral college is a bit unfair to the other parties that aren't gettin represented. Since most states have a "winner-take-all" system, not all voices are being heard. With popular vote everyone's voice is being heard! We are a democracy right? Democracy means that all citizens have a say in the government. Which plays into the voting topic. We vote because we have a say in what goes on in the government, and what the decisions they make. With the electoral college, we vote for electors that vote for the president, even though the title of the event is called the presidential election! Not the electoral election!
Another reason many people prefer the popular voting system is because it is more efficiant. This is because we can't always count on the electors we vote for to reperesent us correctly. Electors might change their mind at the very last minute and decide that they like the opposing candidate's view, discarding their loyalty to us. Now the opposing candidate has more electoral votes casted their way. Voters can't always control who their electors vote for. That's not what I would call a trustworthy system. With the electoral college, it is a slighter chance that a tie could happen. With the popular votes, there is more votes being casted to almost prevent this from happening.
The popular voting sysem is a better way represent this country as a democracy, as well as being more efficiant. This sounds like a better America to me already. SO please keep all this in mind next time you go to work.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
851502e | The use of this technology, reading facial action or emotion of exspressions of students in a classroom is valuable. This technology is valuable especially valuable to the students, do to the fact it can help improve classes, your everyday way of liiving and finally help with the health of school teens or just humankind in general.
This technology is valuable especially to students since it can better your everyday classes. Since this technology is capable of reading your every emotion it would be able to sense when you might be totally struggling in a class or it would also be able to let you know what your best subjects are. Since this technology is based off of a computerlized system it would be able to be installed in all classes. With technology like this in the classroom it would help students with career goals, or just set them up for the future ahead of time. Sometimes it can really be challenging for a student to know or not if they will do well in a class or not. But that problem would be solved when the emotion reader is used. With the help of that technology it could help a whole school system.
This technology would be a great help to school system by letting teachers know when a students having a bit of a rough day, when shown to counselors, they would be best for the future of a student or parent. This technology is something that would be wanted by any and everyone.
But finally the technology used to read facial emotions, is valuable to the students because it helps determine career pathways or future plans, helps layout a visible coarse set determined by a counselor and student and lastly is the best new and advanced way to prevent teen health. | 3 |
8515e83 | The automobile has been around for decades but it's only now that we can see the devastating effects car emissions have on the ozone layer. With the obvious change in the environment, people are starting to use cars less. If people would limit their car usuage there would be less polution and happier people.
Car pollution is probably the number one disadvantage to car usage. In 2014, Paris had to ban people from using their cars because the smog was too bad. "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial drving ban to clear the air of the global city." Limiting car usuage in Paris would be very benficial for their people and enviornment.
In sources one and three though they had the right idea about the advantages of limiting car usuage. In Germany, one suburb is car free and residents reported to be happier than when they did have cars. In Bogota, there was a large turn out of people to particpate in their car free day. A business man says " It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution".
The automoblie maybe out the door anyway. In source four, "driving by young people decreased twenty-three percent between 2001 and 2009." Less and less people are getting their licenses and more people are starting to take the public transportation and carpool. This is really significant because itt's the young people that are gonna live with decisionn that are mad today.
Car limting advantages out weigh the disadvantages. More care free cities and days and more people riding bikes and taking public transportation and carpooling can lead to many great advantages. Some of the advantages would be less air pollution and happier people. | 3 |
85197aa | People may wonder how someone is feeling or what they are feeling, but they don't really know whats going on. It may look like someone is happy, but really they are not. The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable because it will get wrong emotions, students will not like it, and it will disrupt personal feelings in the classrooms.
This technology will get wrong emotions of the students in the classroom. In the classroom, there may be students that generally look tired maybe from their parents genes, but teachers may mistake what the technology says about their facial expressions. The student with lazy eyes may understand what is going on and is enjoying it, so that doesn't mean that a teacher needs the extra technology to look for facial expression, but instead looking for the students who need help on a subject. in the article it says, "...we humans perform this same impressive 'calculation' everyday." In this case, students will know what facial expression someone is making in the class, but not the emotion that they are feeling.
Students in the classroom may not like the idea of having something scanning their face all the time. This technology will make the students feel uncomfortable in the classroom. It will also effect the students grades and performances. The article mentions that the computer technology has six basic emotions that are programed such as, "...happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness..." The technology may get the facial expressions right, but not how the student initially feels. Teachers should ask the students first to see if they are comfortable with this idea.
The technology will disrupt the students personal feelings. The student may feel insecure about themselves because of the technology and may become less productive in the classroom. These factors could hurt the students learning abilities and more focused on the technology. It will become a distraction in the classroom and if students keep the distraction, they are going to be in a dilemma to get their things done. In this case their feeling toward the work in the certain class seems to be pointless to the students.
In conclusion, the use of the technology is unvaluable because of the fact it gets the wrong emotions, students don't like it, and it disrupts the students feelings. Many schools may think this is a great way to understand the students emotions toward the subject and topics in a classroom, but they don't realize that this technology will cause students to digress in the classrooms, and make it more difficult to stay on top of their work. | 4 |
8520c0b | Everything is not what it seems!
Everything is not always what it seems!People often make the mistake of misunderstanding what things actually are!They really dont see the big picture!
They only care about the significance of the object, or believes something entirely different!
On May 24,2001,an amusing discovery was made!While NASA's Viking 1 space craft was circling the planet Mars, it spotted shadowy likeness of a humanface!This was spotted from a region of Mars called Cydonia.This has been around since 1976, it was also another picture taken by a Viking 1.
A little while later, NASA chose to reveal the image for everyone to see!They called the image huge rock formation" because they believed that's what it was and how it formed.Soon after, the image began attracting attention. The image became a pop icon it has been included in a Hollywood film,in ,magazines,radio talk shows,and grocery stores!
Some people think and say that this "Face" is bona fide evidence that there is life on Mars.These people are conspiracy theorists.Few scientists believed the Face was an alien artifact, that's when Cydonia became a priority for NASA.On April 5,1988, when Mars Global surveyor flew over Cydonia, the team snappe da picture ten times better than the other Viking images.The conclusions were no aliens at all!What the picture actually shows is the Martain equivalent of a butte or mesa,which are landforms common around the America West.
In conclusion, the "face" on Mars are just rock formations with illusions and shadows. If the image was really an alien artifact NASA would have been doing more research on the planet plus, they send all types of robots, or ships, and surveyors! | 3 |
8521413 | Dear Mr. Senator,
It has caught my attention that " The Electoral College" may not be the best suit voting system for our nation. The people expect a Democracy were every single vote counts. Unfortunetly that right is being stripped away, for the goverments own good. We go to vote for a fellow canadite, not a slate of electors. Electors in which are not guarenteed to to vote for your desired canidate. The states seem to over look the fact 60% of voters would perfer a direct election to the kind they have now.
Under the electoral college system, we the voters do not vote for president we vote for the electors,based on popular vote we choose the electors that repersent our state, that elect the president for us. The people involoved in the elections are those with political preferences, and it is not fair to strip them of there right to vote directly for the leader of the free world. For example many men and women follow the election when it comes time every four years, to see who is going to be the best head of house, he best comander and cheif, and the best leader of our country. The president should be a person the people respect and trust with everything they have. But unforutnetly the Electoral College does the deciding for us, all the devotion of politics and reaserch for our favorite candidates goes to waste.
In additon the next vaild argument against the electoral college is what many may call the disastor factor. Consider the fact that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors who could always defy the will of the people. For example in the 1960's the Loisiana legislature almost succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors that oppposed John F. Kennedy. And in the same cercumstance other electors have occasionally refused to vote for there party'd candidate and vote for whom ever they please. Yet perhaps one of the most worrying things is the situation in which the electoral vote becomes a tie. In that case the election would be given to the house of representatives. In which, the state delegations vote for the president and the senate elects the vice president. Beacuse each state only cast one vote, the single represenetive of california represents 35 million people. Hardly able to reflect on the will of the people.
To conclude, the electoral college is unfair, untrustworthy, and bias. This great nation is a democracy, the people choose . Not the representitives of the candidates who do not always express the will of the people. I must agree with my fellow 60% of voters in there desire to iradicate the electoral college. | 3 |
85215b2 | Hi, I am PROPER_NAME and I really recomend that you join the Seagoing Cowboys program. This program can be hard work at some time,so be ready for that. There are also many benifits to this trip. I myself had a very exciting and memerable journey, and if you decide to join you will have one too.
If you join the Seagoing Cowboys program you get to see tons of new places. I got to see places like Europe and China. I also met and created a bond with new people, While I was there I saw new cultures. This program allowed me to be aware of other countries and there needs by not hearing about them, but actually witnessing it. I also had some fun on board with the other members of the Seagoing Cowboys club. We played games like fencing, boxing, and even table tennis.
Now if I told you that the Seagoing Cowboys program was all fun and games, I would be lying. There is a lot of work to do. One time I fell down a slippery ladder. I didn't die,(because if I did I couldn't have wrote this.)but I did get hurt badly and I cracked my ribs. There are many responsibilities while on board. I had to work with animals. I had to load and unload them off the ship. Also on my second trip I was the night watchman, and my job was to check on the animals every hour.
Even though there is is work to be done the Seagoing Cowboys program was a great opritunity for me, and it could also be a great opritunity for you.Helping out at my aunt PROPER_NAME's farm prepared me, and maybe you have some preperation too.This trip taught me more than i could have ever learned at home.The Seagoing Cowboys program really opened my eyes.I hope I go again,and I hope I see you there. | 3 |
85225fe | A cow boy who rode the waves was about a person who helped the envirment,the artical tells about a person not to give in to the bad. Then it tell you to belive so you can sugged.
The man in this artical was a person who cares for nature so he joins the UNRRA to give supplies to people across in world war 2. His life changed in 1945 when world war 2 was over 44 nations joined together to form the UNRRA. the UNRRA hired him too check on the animales hourly and give a report to the captan of the ship.
In Ausgust 14 1945 he came with 335 horses plus enough hay and oat to feed them . It took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from China in a mouth it took 2 weeks to cross. stalls had to be cleaned and more had to be done.
In counclusion the cattle boat trip were an unbelievable opprotunity for a boy ,but because he belived and achevied is dreams he was a Cowboy of the sea who crossed the Atlantic ocean 16 times and the Pacific ocean twice to help peolpe affected by world war 2. | 1 |
8525a80 | Dear senator,
I am writing to you from the villages charter school in The Villages Florida. I am concerned with the way electing the president is done. I feel that the way it is done is not only unfair but illogical.
To begin with, I feel that the way the president is elected is not a fair way. I feel this way because a state can not controll how big or small it is, therefore giving it a small number of electoral votes lowers the importance of your vote If you live in a small place like rhode island, this makes people less interested in voting. If a president goes to his home state he usually gets the votes from there. so if a president was from texas then he will already be going on a great start.
If popular vote was used instead of electoral vote the voting system wold make people not only want to vote more but to know that it realy counts for a reason.
there are many things wrong with the electoral college, however one main issue is when there is a tie, when there is a tie in the electoral college votes the descion is then pushed to the house of representatives, and the vice president is chosen by the senator. this is a huge flaw because of how mant replublicans are in the house. this makes it unfair for a democratic representer get the job.
In conclusion i feel that the way voting is done should be changed and made to poularnvote insteadof electoral college. Thank you.
Sincerley
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
8527f2f | so you want to take all the cars out of the city ok cool. this will save the pepol like 1,000,000 dolers a year and will reduce polution and stuf i dont know. i gess its a good idea but on the other hand nah i mean lookif pepal want to ruin the world with gas thats there choce man. but i just relised that the thing seid to agrewith the pasige or whatever so yah. ummmmmmm i dont know the eirth is cool so why distroit with gasis or something. look to be honist i can give to hoots about this stuf or whatever but like i said the thing wants me to give two hoots so yah.
next paragraph wow so i gess if we dont have cars then like whell have more munny or something i dont know. uggggg this is so boring. teinkal twinkal littal star how i wonder what you are up above the world so high like a dimind in the sky twinkal twinkal littel star how i wonder what you are. thats me sining i sing soooooo good i should go on amarican idal or some thing. you know my friend wants to go on the voice but dude let me tell you something dat girl can not sing likr o my gosh that girl sonds like a cat diying. but its cool(its not).you know i was going to get back on subject but now i dont care. so i think im going to go to the elington mall with my mom on saterday but i dont know. you see i want to but i also want to hang out with my friends. we have this park neer where i live caled adventer park and you see i want to go have a adventer with my friend there but i know they probly wont want to because there lazzy and boring but its cool. you see i want to go to the mall with my mom because theres this bordgame shop there that may selll d&d(thats dungis and dragins)and i realy want to play that but its like if i go to the mall with my mom then where going to end up being there all day and i dont want that. because if im there all day shes going to make me get shoes and stuff and i hate geting shoes.
look another parighraph wow any way lets say i do go and get d&d then i dont know what i want to be maby ill be a dworf or i might be a wizzerd. elfs are cool byut there realy mean. ill most likely be a humin. but the problom with being a humin is that you dont get the intint skill hight like you do with being some thing else like maby if i waas a drowf i would get to be realy goo at a axe or if i was a elf i whould be realy good with a bow or if i was a wizzerd i whould be realy good with magic. and the thing is i want to be good with magic but there not as good with sowrds and stuff which sucks. plus they are usly looked down when in a town because they usly caus drama. the thing is a elf whould be good too but it maters are we takin lotr elf or like sant patricks day elf because lotr elf whold be good at magic but whould also be good at sowrds and arows and stuff like that. but like a lepricon/elf thing whold be good at magic ive seen them opin portals to other dimentchins and fly. but the thing is you gamne pointsin a serton area by working on them like maby i work on my magic whall fiting a drgon then i get + 2 magic ponts. yah any way now im bord about talking about that sooooo....you tink that you guys are going to read this laff then give it out to techers as a dont wright something as bad as this tipe of thing because that whould be funny. like one day im sitting in class and all of a sudi i netre this i whold laff so hard oh man i whould just laff and laff. hahahah yaaaaaa.... sooo hows life minezs good im reeeeaaalllly tierd lik goodnis me i may fall aslep right now just thinkin about it. any way im going t0 finish up here so i can take a nap soo bye love you.* mic drop | 1 |
852ed3c | Cars have become a huge part of a lot of peoples' lives. What they don't understand are the benefits and advantages of limiting car usage. Some of the advantages, such as reducing pollution, should be fairly obvious. However, some of the other advantages aren't so obvious. That's why people don't get rid of their cars. If drivers knew these benefits, they would most likely want to give up their car.
More specific benefits that fit in the category of helping the environment include the fact that up to 50% of greenhouse gas emissions in parts of the United States are from passenger cars. (Rosenthal, Source 1) Researchers say that if the ownership of cars in the US continues to go down as it has been in recent years, there will be many "beneficial implications" for carbon emissions and the environment. (Rosenthal, Source 4) In fact, there was a one-day ban on a certain number of cars in France that cleared up a considerable amount of smog that had been in the city. (Duffer, Source 2)
Living without a car can also be calming. This has been shown numerous times. In Vauban Germany, a town without cars, one citizen said that "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." (Rosenthal, Source 1) A businessman from Bogota, Columbia, where they have an annual Day Without Cars, said that "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." (Selksy, Source 3) As shown here, a person can have a much happier and healthier life from using their car less.
Another product of the Day Without Cars in Columbia is increasing business and opportunities for such. 118 miles of bicycle paths have been built. Bad, unkempt sidewalks have been replaced with newer and smoother sidewalks. Sports centers, shopping districts, restaurants, and parks have also been constructed. (Selsky, Source 3)
As stated here, limiting car usage has many advantages. It helps the environment, reduces stress, and helps development of communties and business. Additionally, it can help save time and improve safety. (Rosenthal, Source 4) It also reduces traffic, (Duffer, Source 2, and Rosenthal, Source 4) so those who decide to continue to use their car can also receive some benefits. | 3 |
8530412 | Senator i argue that the state shouald change the system to change the election by popular vote. The people say its unfaire the way the vote for president.
But on the outher hand in peragraph ten it states that the electoral college voters vote dont go to the president,but they go to state electorsm, who in turn elect the president. this may seem fair but its unfair to voters. Becase of the winner-takes-all system and in each state candidates don' spend time to know who they are electing.
First of all not only are candidates wanting to vote for the person thay want to they dont have a chance popular vote wont win.
but on the outher hand elctoral vote seem to work out for some candidates. Voters in presidentialelections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that single vote may decide an election.
i belive that bob dole was right to abolish the electoral college it makes it fair to the candidates. | 2 |
8531c68 | I'm against driveless development beccuse when it's snowing outside and you have to walk to school with no buses. mom and dad has to work,live a mile away. Or when your a senior in high school what's the point of doing drivers ed to drive. What if you get a job you far from there how are you going to get to work everyday on time so you want lose your job. If your grandma have to go to the doctor to old to ride the bus hows going to take her for life support. Some one in your family is having a baby and you call 911 they don't get there in time and you don't know how to deliver a baby the what.
Anyone have a stroke in your family 911 doesn't t come in time chance the person dies cause you didn't have a car to save him or her. People need cars for important thing in life with out cars the whole world will be walking there whole life. If you don't like to ride plans,trains,or riding a crowed bus for hours or days you use a car navigaion has short cuts to get there faster. If there wasn't for cars there will be no intertament in the world. | 1 |
85333dd | You may be thinking that the face NASA discovered was created by aliens. However , it wasnt here's why...
"On a cloudless summer in Cyondia -- Mars Gobal Surveyor drew a close enough for a second look." Malin's team captured a extraordinary photo of the face on Mars by using a great camera with a maxium resolution.
In fact, a camera that has a extraoridnary resolution you can distern in a digital image 3 times bugger than a pixel size. Using these kinds of cameras you can see what the object is right away.
NASA includes in the passage that the face on mars actually shows a "Maritan equivalent of a butte or mesa". They state that the face on Mars looks like American West landforms.
When NASA unvelied the photo on thier websites they said thast is was resemble a human head that was formed by shadows giving the illusions of eyes, nose, and mouth.
Aliens never created that face on Mars it was just a natural landform like on earth. People shouldn't believe in people who are not professionals in science, however
NASA has experience and the brains to figure out scientific problems and figures. | 2 |
853426d | I strongly dissagree with the argument that aliens created the face on Mars. The proof is that a little while later after the face in Mars was found scientists figured it was only a Martian mesa, something that was common around Cydonia. The only reason why it looks like a face is because it had unusual shadows on it.
The other reason why I beleive aliens didn't casue the face was because the authors of magazines and other articles thought it would be a good way to enguage the public and attract attention to mars and it worked. Plus when Mars Global Surveyer flew over the area one more time to get a better shot at the face it reavealed that it was just another normal landform and not an alien monument.
Another reason why I think that there was no aliens involved was that someone even compared the landmark to the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. Plus if you think about it If there were aliens on Mars don't you think that they would've found lots of land formations like the face. | 2 |
853463f | In this discussion, we will discuss the positive and negative apsects of driverless cars. With the article at hand I will show you what details support these both arguements in aspects of driverless cars.
The positive aspects of the car are that the car will can autopliot for you.
Here in this article it says, "They can steer , accelerate , and brake themselves , but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents."
The another positive aspects of this driverless cars are that it can save fuel as half of today's taxis and offer more flexiblity than a bus. It will save money for building another car or perhaps save fuel for the world. For the ability to move around as much more than the bus it can be a time saver if anyone is in a rush.
The nagative aspects of the car is that what if the technology fails and whose fault is that. Is the driver or the manufacturer's fault? Here in the article it says, " Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. If the technology fails and someone is injured, who fault is that---the driver or the manufacturer?"
The another negative aspects is that it still cost a millions of dollars to build this new technology car. Here in this article it says that, " The sensors weren't there, the computers weren't there, and the mapping wasn't there. It wasn't something you could buy Radio Shack."
My conclusion is that we must wait till the development reaches safety level to even commercial it to the world. | 2 |
8538010 | I'm fore the value of using this technology to read students emotional experssions why, because it would be neat that a scientists can scan on a computer to read students or anyone's emotions to see how they feel. In paragraph 3 it says that Dr. Paul Eckman had classifed 6 emotions which were happy, sad. surprise, anger, fear, and disgust on a painting so by weighting the different units of the software which can even identify mixed emotions. Dr. Hang predicts that it could modify a lesson which can be like an effective human instructor the techonogy can make computer animated faces more expressive, such as video games or video surgery.
Paragraph 7 it shows you a list of what you can do that list will show you how you can see the expression, In fact those instructions for a face that makes you look happy it is all about those muscular action units which they can indictate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one. So in a real smile which it says in paragrpah 7 " zygomatic major " which means that the muscles that begin at your cheek bones which will lift the corners of your mouth.
According to the Facial feed back theory of emotion which is moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotion they may also even help produce them Constanin had his actors carfully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage. I think this idea it great it would be a good invention of soemthing to read people's emotion it could happend because unconsciously imitate another person's felling and also facial experssions. | 1 |
85442bc | There are many positive and negative outcomes that could come from the driverless cars. I believe driverless cars shouldn't be created for public use because they'd be a waste of money and energy. They'd be a waste of money because they aren't really needed to help society progress. They would also be a waste of energy because people are wasting time trying to prefect them when we don't really need them. Driverless cars would also take alot of resouces,like metals and cables, that could be used on more important things that we could actually benefit from. Some car manufacturers could cause more harm to people rather than helping them because they're not fully prefecting the cars and it causes more damage than neccessary. I also believe we shouldn't have driverless cars because people will spend too much time on these cars and changing the driving laws that even if they may think the car will know what to do at every moment if an accident occurs they still won't know who to hold responsible if someone is injured.
If the cars were released to the public then the time it'd take to change the laws would give time for the cars to malfunction even more. They'd also waste time and money trying to make the roads compatable with the cars by using electric wiring instead of the basic roads we use now. Finally I think we shouldn't have these cars because even if they do perfect them then safety will only be provided 90 precent of the time making the chances of an accident higher and they would cause more navagational problems. | 3 |
854619a | There are many dangers that come along with studying planets. Along with the dangers, there are also countless benefits to learning more about different planets. In the passage, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author addresses the point that Venus is worth taking a closer look at and focusing on, no matter the dangers it could put one in. Although many people believe that the author doesn't support this idea well, the author provides researched evidence and past experiences all throughout the passage to support this idea.
In, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author includes well researched evidence to support the idea that Venus is worthy of studying further. When explaining NASA's ideas on sending humans to Venus, the author states, "NASAs possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray." This provides evidence that shows what a solution is to avoiding some of the difficulties that occur when trying to explore Venus. The author was able to support his idea throught the use of NASA and it's research. The passage continues to come up with a plan on the best way to float above Venus when the author says, "At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth." This factual evidence that is included ensures that the author is supporting this idea to the fullest of his potential. Researched and factual evidence that is provided all throughout the passage shows how the author supports this idea thoroughly and well.
The also supports his idea of studying Venus depsite the dangers because he includes past experiences that make this idea stronger. When explaining past explorations to Venus, the author states, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." Facts that have been presented that occured in the past help the author support his idea that there is reasons why people should look into further studying Venus. These past facts present the idea that Venus once looked like Earth did, and if that is true, there are reasons why it should be looked into further. The passage later explains examples of NASA's approached to studying Venus when the author says, "Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers. These devices were first envisioned in the 1800s and played an important role in the 1940s during World War II." The idea of looking back on past resources to help the studying of Venus would help the process. This past project is a key tool that helps support that Venus should be studied even though it can be extremely dangerous. Using past experiences such as the ones included helps support and grow the authors idea.
Ultimatley, it is understandable why one would believe that it isn't smart to look into studying and experimenting with Venus; however, the examples of the researched facts and past experiences help to support the authors idea that despite the dangers, Venus is worthy of studying. There may be many dangers that come along with studying different planets, but based off the evidence the author provided, Venus has avoidable ways to make it safe to study. | 5 |
85473b6 | On Mars this ''Face" is not actually a face at all. It is a natural landform on the surface of Mars. May 24,2001 they made a discovery of a human face with the NASA's Viking 1 spaceship. It was neraly two miles from end to end. Scientists have discoved that it was just another Martian mesa it was close to be around the Cydonia. But this one had shadows that made it kinda look like a Pharaoh from Egypt. NASA only put on the newspaper"huge rock formation.....which resembles a human head.....formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes,nose,and mouth." They put that on there to get the people worked up and make them worried and excitied. If it was ailens like they believed, dont you think that they wouldnt of stoped the search?
They said it was good for the people and the taxpayers. I dont think that would of stopped them. I think that sciencetist found out that it was just a landform and didnt want to tell people about it. So they stoped the Viking Mission search and told the news that it was for the taxpayers. \
Apil 5,1998 was when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia. The team snapped picture. They were shaper pictures than before, people were waiting day and night for this one picture of them. When they got out it proved that it was just a landform. Even then people like you, still didnt believe them. So the people came up with that " The Face on Mars is located at 41 degress north martian latitude where it was winter in April 1998.It is a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet. The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face.Pehaps, said skeptics aliens marking were hidden by haze." Why would people say this? The camera they used was ten times shaper than before on the Viking Mission. Even if it was cloudly they still would of gotten closer and got a clear image of that is looked like. And they did but you people still wont believe them.
So since they didnt believe them the people got want they wanted,another picture.So on April 8,2001 a cloudless summer day on Cydonia. Mars Global Surveyor got close enough to take another shot of the "Face." They pixels are 1.56 meters while 43 meters per pixel in the Viking Photo of 1976. "So has a rule of Thumb, you can discern things in digial image 3 times bigger than the sixel size. If there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egypian-style-pyramids or even small shacks,you could see what they were."
The picture they took is actuall shows in the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa. Which are landforms common around the American West. They said it reminds them of the Middle Butte in the Snake River of Idaho. And that is a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars. | 4 |
8549366 | Some people say the face on mars was an alien artifac, but others think its just a natural landform. With supporting details from the article, I will assure you that it was just a natural landform.
In paragraph seven, it states that the first picture to come out on a website (JPL) was a natural landform picture. It also says that there was no alien monument after all. If you actually read the article it says that the face is made of shadows. If you put it at a different angle then I bet there wouldn't be a face, there would just be bumps on the planet mars like any other planet. In paragraph twelve, the writer tells us that the picture shows the Martian equivalent of a butte or messa. Those landforms are common around the American West. Lastly, aliens aren't real so how could something unreal make a face on mars?
I know some people might want to belive that it was aliens, but it wasn't. Sometimes the earth/nature makes its own natural landforms, and we have to love it for what it created, not give all the credit to some unreal creature. | 2 |
854b4e9 | The author suggests that studying Venus is important for a few reasons. The first of which is that Venus is one of the most Earth like planets in our solar system. The second one is Venus could have once been able to be compatable for life. Another thing that the author brings up is that Venus has powerful earthquakes and frequent lightning strikes. The final reason is that the author brings up the challenges that NASA is facing in trying to get to Venus. What the author is getting to is that when we finally figure out how to get to Venus this could help us get to other planets as well. That is why I think that the author wants us to study Venus.
The first of which that the author brings up is the fact that Venus is the most Earth like planet in our solar system. Venus has a rocky surface similar to that of Earth's. It also has valleys, mountain, and craters all of this is similar to that of Earth's and can be used to maybe help us more understand out planet. Another thing that the author brings up is that Venus is similar to Earth is that scientist believe that Venus was once covered largely with oceans. This means that their could have been life on Venus such as plants. Another thing that was brought up was in paragraph three where the author talked about how Venus has powerful earthquakes and frequent lightning strikes this is something that we also share with that is also happening here on Earth. If we could go to Venus and study all of that it could help us understand how to know farther ahead of time when we may have a a earthquake. The final thing that the author talks about is all of the challenges that we will face trying to get humans on the ground on Venus. The troubles that we face is the atmosphere and the pressure. These challenges make it almost impossibe for humans to withstand becase the pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience here on Earth. So what the author is getting at is that if we are able to get through all of these challenges and get boots on the ground on Venus, it would mean that when we are to explore or study another planet we can overcome these challenges much faster.
So that is why I think that the author wants us to explore Venus. The first reason being Venus is one of the most Earth like planets in our solar system. The second one being that Venus was once able to be compatable for life. Third is that Venus experiences earthquakes and lightning striks just like Earth does. Finally the last thing that the author brings up is that going to Venus could help us travel to other planets with knowledge on how we can overcome the challenges from Venus. That is why I think that the author wants NASA to study Venus farther and learn more about it. | 4 |
854c999 | In " The Challenge of Exploring Venus,'' the author suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The paragraph pretty much talks about what Nasa
and Venus . By the author suggesting that studying Venus is worhty he also state that venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit . The value of returning to venus seems indisputable.
example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus’s surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions. Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers. These devices were first envisioned in the 1800s and played an important role in the 1940s during World War II. The thought of computers existing in those days may sound shocking, but these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all.
Peering Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere rendering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective, so it despites the danger.
Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiously will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. | 1 |
854f4a6 | Car-Free Cities:
"In German suburb, life goes on without cars," "Paris bans driving due to smog," and "Car free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota". This and many more reasons about the advantages of limiting car usage in cities around the world.
In many places around the world goberments have been working on plans and laws to reduce car induced smog and pollution. this has brought the creation of entire citites and comunitites as well as country wide bans of car usage in order to reduce smog and other car related problems.
For example as in the following excerpt from "Paris bans driving due to smog", by Robert Duffer, from the Chigago Tribune. "After days of near-record pollution, paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city... On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day." the ban was enforced causing up to 4000 drivers to be fined, acording to Reuters (an international news agency), of which some had their cars impounded for their reaction to the fine, although thanks to this ban the smog cleared enough Monday for the ruling French party to rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates on tuesday
I believe that, if the smog could have been reduced so drastically with only one day of partial car baning, then the amount of smog and pollution can be reduced much more with open colaboration from the people all around the world.
One mayor discomfort from opposing parties would be "how can people live without cars?" But, people are already living without cars as explained in the excerpt "In German suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars", by Elisabeth Rosenthal, form the New York Times. "VAUBAN, Germany-Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars. Street parking, driveways and home garages are generaly forbidden in this experimental new district on the outskirts of Freiburg, near the French and Swiss borders. Vauban streets are completely car-free -except the main thoroughfare, where the tram to downtown Freiburg runs, and a few streets on one edge of the community. Car ownership is allowed, but there are only two places to park-large garages at the edge of the development, where a car-owner buys a space, for $40,000, along with a home. As a result, 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here. -when I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way,- said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two, as she walked verdant streets where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distan motor." As proven by this excerpt, life without cars is posible and as pleasant to the people living like this as it is good to reduce pollution on cities.
Many in Europe have taken the "Vauban" way of life for many suburbs in the cities. Another program is the "Car-Free day" in Bogota, Colombia. as explained in the excerpt "Car-Free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota," by Andrew Selsky, from the Seattle Times. "BOGOTA, Colombia-In a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, sated or took buses to work during a car free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams. It was the third straight year cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the Day Without Cars in this capital city of 7 milion. The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Violators faced $25 fines. -It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution,- said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife. For the first time, two other Colombias cities, Cali and Valledupar, joined the event."
In conclusion, many cities all around the world have problems dealing with pollution generated by cars. taking this universal problem into account the goberments have placed into action plans, laws, and experiments to reduce the pollution on their cities and countrys. life without cars is a posibility that more and more people are trying to turn into a reality. Creatin bans on usage of cars, new holiday-type days without cars to promote the usage of alternative transport methods in various countrys, and even hole cities were cars can't be in. a citie without cars can also be beneficial in taking away stress, reduce unnecesary costs, and in all just having a better life cuality breathing clean and safe air while enjoying the peace and tranquility of and entire citie without cars. | 3 |
8552d2d | A new technology called the Facial Action Coding System allows computers to recognize emotions. As mentioned in the article, this technology can be useful in many formats; including psychology, art, and acting. Reading human emotions can be beneficial in some areas, but it is not valuable in the classroom setting because each student learns differently, computers should not be used as teachers, and the cost is not worth few benefits.
In the article, Dr. Huang predicts that with the new technology, the computer can recognize when a student is confused or bored and change the lesson to fix it. While this seems helpful, not every student learns the same way. A lesson that some students will understand, other students will be confused on. It would not be fair to the students who understand the lesson to make it easier because they might become bored, which the computer would then have to modify the lesson more to fix. The Facial Action Coding System is able to read human emotions, but it cannot satisfy the need of each individual student in a classroom. This technology also is not valuable to the classroom because a computer instructor is not valuable to the classroom in the first place. Computers should not be used as teachers because it can unemploy teachers, completely change the education system, and possibly bore students. The education is fine as it is without adding a foreign techonology for students to adjust to. This system should not be implemented in schools because of budget costs, also. The technology is probably expensive and is another thing the school would have to budget for and taxpayer dollars would go to. Recognizing emotions is not important enough to be worth that amount of money.
All in all, this technology is not the most beneficial or valuable device to be using in the classroom. Because of the cost, different learning styles of students, and familiarity of a human instructor, the Facial Action Coding System should not be put into a classroom setting. While this technology is helpful in other areas, it does not have worth in the education system. | 4 |
855dc06 | The
ADVANTAGE
of
LIMITING
car usage is a
GREAT
idea just think not having to worry about a bill for your car,tags and , license that would be great because you could work more on church offering and house bills. Cars are
RESPONSIBLE
for 12%
of greenhouse gas emission in just Europe!! Thats crazy and that is not even the same as other areas. In some car-intensive areas of the United States are 50%
! That is bad for us to breath in and it is also bad for earth. We are harming earth with this fumes also we have tooken an avanage of having cars we use them for everything. Sometimes we need to just put the keys down and go for a walk we dont always have to drive everywere we go. Yes I understand we need to drive sometimes because some thing are just to far away to walk because their is other things that need to be done. But you could walk down to your mailbox to check you mail and walk to the corner store if they are not too far away. Walking is very healthy it helps keep your body in shape. We dont have to drive everywere we go. However, go on ride with mom/dad can be nice time to have bonding time and all but it can also happen on a walk. Most of all , 80%
of
APPROPRIATIONS
by law goes to road work it would be so much better if we could cut that in half when only 20%
goes towards are transportation. Do we really need this big old highways? No not really what happen to taking the back/dirt roads what happen to having a nice drive I mean if you are going to drive why not enjoy it. Instead, we rush around so whats the point of driving if you are just going to rush around and get in trouble for going to fast down the road. If you think about it we do not need to use cars as much as we do, we could really cut down on that. We as Americans have become very lazy we drive everywere if you live in town why not walk sometimes it is not going to kill you. If you live in the country like I do walk to the mailbox or corner store if oyu have to go to town drive there then park somewere in town Then, walk around and get what you need done. Like I said before why worrie about car payments, gas, your license and, tags they cost a lot of money. If you do drive why not cut down on how much you drive you will save money in gas also, you will be helping limit gas emission being released into the air. | 3 |
8569767 | The author does not support their idea of Venus being a planet worth exploring despite the risk and dangers very well. There are examples or facts that the author provides to the reader that are sometimes insignifigant to the point. The author also provides information that is very detrimental to their claim and only makes their aruement weaker. The reason why the information is detrimental is because the author fails to give any counter arguement that would be convincing enough to to at least have the reader understand their side.
To start, in the third paragraph the author list many reasons why Venus is difficult to explore and ather information on. Later in the fourth paragraph the author talks about how enthusiastic scientist are to explore the planet and how it may have been like Earth at some point. If the author were to reorganize the fourth paragraph giving the teorey that Venus was once like Earth and then going on to give the inputs of scientist it would have made more sense going into the fifth paragraph. In paragraph five the author writes about how NASA has ideas on how scientist can observe Venus without entering its toxic and dangerous enviornment. The author also explains the conditions the scientist would be under if they were to make this idea a reality and said conditions would make any who oppose this idea less open to the thought than they already are, which is not the point of the article. In paragraph six the author talks about how while scientist could observe Venus if they were to go through with the plan NASA has it would ultimatly be for nothing as scientist would have no way to gather information worth sending back.
The author does have points that support the claim but said points were either useless to the overall idea or were organized in a poor manner. The author also provides arguements that counter their claim and says nothing to counter those arguements back. The author also talks about human exploratiom in the article but it essientially amounts to nothing. The reason why is because the author later goes on to talk about machines on the planet itself making most of the information provided before hand obselete. If the author left most of the article out the claim may have actually been supported well although the information provided woul have been lackluster. | 3 |
856fe6e | Dear Senator,
I highly recomind keping the Electoral college. I personally recomind keeping Electoral college because in sourse one it states that the "Electoral college was established in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens."... The Electoral College is "widely regarded as an anachronism" a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be over ruled by declaring the canidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. This way it is fair. Did you know that when you vote for a presidential canidate you are really voting for a slate of electors?
It is possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. In the Electoral College they avoid the problems of the elections which no canidate recevies a majority of the votes cast. Also the Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states by the population lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the senate decreed in the constitition.
As a citizen of the the United States of America i feel that if we use the Electoral College, it would make things so much easier on us.
sincerally,PROPER_NAME | 2 |
8575877 | Technology can be good uses for a lot of things in life espiecally for emotional,mental,and physical reasons. Technology has came a long way for many years and it becomes better every single day. Some people think technology is a bad thing but it actually does a lot for people and different sitautions in life. Expression can increase your emotion just as simple as a smile or a quick laugh.
Using the Facial Action Coding System could help improve someones emotional state by quickly seeing what their emotions are and if they are feeling down you can give them a hug and increase their emotions. If the Facial Action Coding System was a real life tool we could see many changes in peoples behaviors as well. Having a good behavior can make a good impact on your life and also a good reputation. The world can be seen as a different place if we all have good behaviors and good emotions because people will be a lot respectful and mindful of other human beings.
If someone used the Facial Action Coding System on other artist's pictures they could see how they felt at the time during the picture. Back when Mona Lisa got her picture taken she could have expierenced many emotions and no one truly knew how she was feeling but now that there is technology people easily can tell how she truly felt. As of today many people are left in their feelings and they don't know how to talk about their problems so they just keep them inside. With the technology it would help a lot of people express their feelins without feeling embarassed or scared. | 3 |
8577b23 | Students can be dificult to understand some times and you may not know how they are feeling weather thats happy, sad, angry, or confused. Now there is a techonology called Facial Action Coding System that enables computers to indentify human emotions and it can be used for many differnet purposes. One way that has been introducesed to use it is by letting teachers use it to read students emotions. I think if we used it in class room settings, in schools, and for students it would be very valuable to their education.
For instance say a student is not under standing the concept of the lesson the teacher is teaching the Facial Action Coding System will be able to detect that the student is confused and the teacher can see that and go back and explain it again or they can work one on one with the student. Another way it could be helpful is if a student isn't being their usaual self and isn't focusing on their work the Facial Action Coading System can tell you if they are feeling sad or angry and the teacher can confront the student about it and maybe help them with that problem so they can get back to being focused in class.
The Facial Action Coding System can also tell if emotions are being faked or if they are real. It can do this by useing a little bit of anatomy by looking at which muscles are being used in the persons face. In a real smile the muscles called orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus make crow's-feet around your eyes. But in a fake smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and the risorius. This can be seen sometimes without FACS, (Facial Action Coding System).
That can be used in situations like for say a student seems like they are doing fine with the material being taught in class or just seems happy but the teacher can't tell. They can use the Facial Action Coding System technology to determine wheather they should confront the student about it or not. If a teacher understands what their students are feeling they can change their teaching methods if needed to help their students succed in class. Some times the student may just be bored of the subject and it may be because of the way the teacher is teaching it, but if the teacher knows that they can spice it up a bit to make the material more enjoyable for that student to learn.
I think the use of The Facial Action Coding System would be very valuable in class rooms not for just the teacher, but also for the students because the teacher will be able to curve the way they do things for the better of the students education. This will also help the teacher build a healthy relationship between their students , because they will be able to better unerstand them. The more the teacher better understands their students the more they can help them recieve a great education. | 4 |
857aa7c | the electoral collage is a process that helps use vote for the preaident and vice president. and they count the electores votes and it is desited by congress. and most states have a winner takes all system. sorce federal register most people dont like the electoral collage process most people prefer the derect election insted. and over 60 percent prefer it. and according to a gallup pull in 2000 taken shortly after algore thanks to the electoral collage he won the popular vote but lost the presidensy. sorce federal register a argumant over the outcome of the electoral collage vote has happend in the past. there was one in 2000 but thay dont think it will happen eny time soon. and the only reson the electoral collage votes exseeds is becase of the popular votes. for exampal in 2012 obam receved 61.7 percant of the electoral votes when he only had 51.3 of the populare votes because they based it on a winner takes all vote. sorce federal register the electoral collage vote hast to have a presidential canidet that hast to have no trans-regional appeal. because the canident with only regonal appeals is unlikely to be a sucssesful prasident. and the residents of the other regions are more likly to feel that there votes dont count. sorce federal register the electoral vote helps balens out the biger states votes. like in florida when obama won with 29 electoral votes. but its proven that a biger state gets more atention than a smaller state because it gets more attention from presidential canidets dering campaning. sorce federal register.
the electoral vote avoids problems in some cases were a canidet dosent get a mager vote. and the reson they have the electoral vote is so wiel the elections are going on a canodet dusent drop out. and thay do this so thay can have a clear winner. sorce fedral register.
the elector collage vote is regarded as a non-democratic methido selecting a president. and when you are voting for a presidentioal canodent you are actoly voting for a slate of electors. and it is posible that the winner of the elector vote will not win the populer vote. sorce richared a. posner. | 2 |
857f300 | There is a debatable path in the future between the use of cars and driverless cars. This is shown throughout the article, "Driverless Cars Are Coming." Although driverless cars are a huge step in the development of technology, there are numerous potential negative aspects that can arise.
Driverless cars should not be used in the future due to the possibilities of a significant increase in the amount of accidents, and the failure of technology.
To begin with, driverless cars should not be used due to the fact that driverless cars are still dependent on human activity, in some situations, which could increase the amount of accidents.
When a person or driver is in a driverless car they may think that the car is in complete control and fall asleep or participate in other activies that would normally distract a driver.
However, this can cause a problem because driverless cars are still dependent on human activity in some situations.
In the text it states, "This means that the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires."(paragraph 7).
If the human driver does not remain alert this can result in an accident.
This is a negative aspect of driverless cars because they are made to be more simple, however, they can result in accidents just as easy as a normal human driver.
Additionally, another factor leading into the idea that driverless cars should not be used is the potential failure of technology causing problems with the law.
In the text it states, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault - the driver or the manufacturer?"(Paragraph 9).
This is an interesting point brought up in the article because the possibility that the technology fails and results in an accident can cause numerous problems. As seen in technology today; it is not perfect and problems arise daily.
This would not change in the future.
If an individual's driverless car got in an accident due to a technology error, the individual would blame the manufacturer causing an increased amount of dissagreements.
More laws would have to created due to this possibility.
In the article it states, "...even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident."(paragraph 9).
This shows that the use of driverless cars are not as easy as it sounds due to the potential failure in technology.
In conclusion, the use of driverless cars should be prohibited due to the fact that it would increase the amount of accidents and the potential failure in technology. Although it is a major stepping stone in todays technology, it risks the saftey of individuals all across the world. | 4 |
858bec6 | I trully believe driverless cars have the potental to be great and do great things,but on the other hand I don't think driverless cars are worth someones life.
First off there are already many flaws that could eventually lead to destruction or even worse death.Many semi-driverless cars now require drivers to be ready to take over in difficult situations like:navigating through accidents and work zones.What if the car demands the driver and the driver is unable to react fast enough?This could result in loss of control,and could even result in an accident;and anyone with a valid driver liscence knows that a crash in a work zone could end with death.
But even if they did fix these flaws,how would you get people to trust being driven by someone they cant even talk to,or talk back,or even see.Peorsonally I can only trust computers to wash my cloths,or tell me when my food is done.
How would the government see driverless cars?Would they be seen as a safer way to travel,or killer robots at heart.What if one malfunctiond and killed a person or people.In fact in most states it is illegal to even test computer-driven cars.Let allone drve you to work every morning.According to most traffic laws the only safe car has a human driver in controll at all times.
Are you really ready to put your life,or someone elses life on the line for overated technology.So why fight what we allready have.When our best technology is the one we use every day,the one that God gave us, our brain. | 3 |
858fb4a | Yes the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. The Facil Action Coding System technology is valuable because. It could help the students learn lessons easier and better. As it says in paragraph 6 line 7 through 10 stating that "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. Students that have the Facial Action Coding System technology avilable to them would learn faster then some of the other students in the classroom. The FACST (Facial Action Coding System Technology) can see and understand the emotion of the student in the case if a student is getting confused or not. Sometimes a student might be messing around and want to lie and be funny and act like he is confused but the FACST (Facial Action Coding System Technology) can understand the student better and figure out if the student is really confused or just lying. When the FACST (Facial Action Coding System Technology) recongizes that a student is really confused or lost. Say if it's a reading assignment and the student speaks and only understands spanish and if the spanish audio is going to fast. The FACST can see a bit of confusion and worrying on the students face and it could modify the lesson to make the audio go slower so the spanish speaking student can understand what he is being read better. The FACST could also recongize if a studemt is depressed or sad and the students or parents and teachers don't know about it yet it could possibly just email it to the teacher of the student amd to the parents. Saying something for example you'r child today wasn't very focused and seemed a bit depressed you should have talk with you'r child. By doing that the FACST might also be able to prevent students like teens maybe that are in deppression but their parents don't know about it yet from commiting sucide. So overall the FACST (Facial Action Coding System Technology) is very valuable and useful in a classroom for the students teacher and parents. | 4 |
8590b7f | venus is
a verry interresting planet to explore and study. Its one of the most earthed like planet out there . It has alot of simularities to earth such as being very identical. About the same in shape, and having similar natural erruptions. Its also one that is closest to our sun. Those were some characteristics between the earth and
venus.
The planet itself has alot of interresting characteristicks to it. Its true that it features alot of interresting factors, such as extreme wheather, climate change and more. The author said despite the risks to their missions, scientists will
proceed on finding ways to study the planet itself upclose. the results of their experiment could lead to more knowledge about the other planets. The scientists, believes that the planet itself, had a very stable climate simular to earth. They even said venus probably had life on it. But what was puzzling to them was how the climate changed overtime and what happened during a certain perod of time and changed the whole planet to what it is today. The author said in paragraph 7 that nasa was working a vehicule cappable of substaining extreme climates. For now, the climate on venus is not human like environment at all, meaning if we were to explore venus right now, we will
need a device that will give us the abillity to hover about the clouds of venus. But even this idea required alot of highly developped machines that will be able to substain the cold and the hot temperature of venus. curiosity might lead us into discovering new ways to live and new ideas. This earthed twin planet might not be habitabal now but scientists will find new ways to adjust to the environment and who knows maybe there will be some sort of live on there. maybe some underground alien civilization that could lead to more discovery. venus is also one of the brightest start in our solar system making it even more interresting to study. The earth probably was not habitable several billion years ago. way before there was life on earth, the planet had a very unstable climate that no life could of
endured. most of the planet was filled, with rocks, lava, volcanic erruptions and probably ocean. our planet ened up going through some serious phases to turn out the way it did, but it took billions of years for earth to ajust its climate. The same could be said for venus, maybe one day we might inhabit the planet itself but for now, we have to find ways to overcome the obticles in our way.
New things are being dicovered all around the world all thanks to curiosity. Some people might find it risky to live the life of a scentist explorer, but I personally think its an awosome job. I would love to explore any new planet because why not and also new dicovery lead to new knowledge so the more you know the better. this article had covered alot that interrested me and also i think its realy worthy pursuiting studies about venus. | 4 |
859107e | There are so many variations and models of cars in the world today. One very questioned type is the idea of a driverless car. There are some manufactures who have taken it upon themselves to try and make this car a reality. Driverless cars seem to be like pretty cool thing to have and show off, but they shouldn't be allowed.
These cars have a high expectation and a possibility of maybe changing the world. Driverless cars just aren't a human. A car should be fully controlled by a human being. They could help, but it involves too many risks rather than rewards. These cars can't react to every possible situation that presents itself. If a situation comes up and the car doesn't know what to do, how till the driver know. Will the car give the driver enough time? Another problem or delay is that there would have to be so many traffic laws changed or new ones and the same for laws after an accident occurs. There will be countless questions about what happens if the technology of the car fails or if someone gets injured. Who would be the blame for this? It is best for society to keep the cars the way they are now and have humans be the control.
Technology is well advanced in the world today. It is also what fuels the world every second of every day. The technology in a driverless car could depend on a life or injury. Why have a life depend on technology? Say no to driverless cars and be in control. | 3 |
8592385 | Using this technology to read students' emotional expressions is a vaule. It will help the students' that start to feel bored or confused. Once it detacts those emotions it can change the lesson.
The FACS (Facial Action Coding System) as the protential to help students, and teachers in the classroom. FACS can read the students faces and tell wither they understand the lesson. It will then change the lesson to something that will help the students better understand. The FACS can also detecte when a students is getting bored of a lesson, and will change it to a more pleasing one. It will change to better acommidate the student's needs.
FACS can also help the teachers better understand their own students more. Since the FACS system can read the six basic emotions; happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. It will help the teacher know what their students are feeling. Teachers will know more about their students, and will be able to form a closer bond with them. The FACS system will help the teacher understand what the student need more help with, and what they are more intrrested in.
The FACS system can read the facial muscles, and this is how it can detacte the emotions of people. It can even identify when someone has mixed emotions, and compares each expression with a neutral face. This is how it can regoinze when students are feeling bored, confused, or any other emotion. The inventor of the FACS system, Dr. Paul Eckman, is the one to classify the six basic emotions. He also was the one that asscociated each with characteristic movemetns of the facial muscles. Like when your frontalis pars lateralis raises your eyebrows when you are suprised, and you orbicularis oris tightens your lips when your angry. All this can help the system tell when the students in the classroom need a change in the lesson.
The FACS system can be very helpful to the students and the teachers in everyday classrooms. It will change the lesson to better accomidate the students that start to fell bored or confused. This is the reason why the FACS system is a vaule. | 3 |
859c17a | The challenge of exploring Venus they sent people to go discover it and it is really close to Earth it's closer than any other planet's. Venus is called Evening star it's one of the brightest points of the light in the night sky. It is going to talk about how it is going to be different there and it's simple to see from earth because it is kinda close.
The National Aeronautics and space administraion(NASA) has an idea of sending humans to go explore Venus to see how it is there. They want to study it so they know how life works there so scientists could know about it. NASA possible solutiin to the hostile conditions on the surface Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. The temperatures woild still be hot at around 170 degrees fahrenheit but the pressure would be close to sea level from earth.
NASA is going to be working on studying venus like some simplified electronics of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulatiing the chaos of venus's surface. So they can get an idea how it is going to be when they get to the surface so they will be ready because they already did some testes for that. The only thing it only lasted for Three weeks in conditions.
There is another project from an old techology called mechanical computers. Computers existing in 1800s may sound shocking but they calulations by using gears and levers they dont not require electroics at all. Now we have computers that are more powerful, flexible, and quick but they tend to delicate when it comes up to extreme physical comditions.
To meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of its insight to be gained on the planet itself. Humans will lead us into many equal intimidating endeavors. On earth shouldn't be limited by dangers and doubts to expanded.
NASA should just study it more to see if there is any danger that can cause to humans. They should do more testes and try out new things and not to be scared of it because if they don't study it well and send people to live there they might now live the best. So NASA did a good thing about sending people to study venus. They will know now what they could had done better for the next time they send humans back there again. | 3 |
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Change the Electoral College,These citizens deserve to have their voices heard! Many citizens are not aware of the main objective of the Electoral college, and thus tend to debate in order to change how a president gets elected or leave it untouched with no mistakes fixed. For example, in "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" Bradford Plumer states that 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 in winning. Bladford Plumer also stated that the Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational. In my firm belief, I am in favor of changing the Electoral College, I'm sure of the consequences this will impact on society and history itself, but we need a system that grants equality with the citizens and the government. And the states that candidates are most likely willingly putting their vote on is on countries with significance.
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However, not everyone has the same view. In" In defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" Richard A. Posner stated that the winner-take-all method of awarding the electoral votes induces the candidates- as we saw in 2012's election- to focus their campaign efforts on the toss-up states. Posner also stated that the Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that states by population lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution. Posner also said that the Electoral College avoids the problem in which no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast. To back his claim, he states that Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had only a 43 precent plurality of the popular votes while winning a majority in the Electoral College (301 and 370 electoral votes, respectively).
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Continuing, it is clear that the Electoral College does have it's advantages but also contains disadvantages as well. I'm fully aware of the consequences this may have upon the Constitution and the Senate. Now, I am not stating to get rid of the Electoral College itself, but try to adjust and fix some tideous and unfair treatments to make it all equal. Even though this could mean losing some interest from nominees, at least our system treats everyone with no difference. There are no superiors or inferiors in life.
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In conclusion, I, not demand, but at least to try to have some concern for our population. Bad reputation may mean a high loss of income from other states, knowing that this country has done some very sinister deeds that are simply despicable. Listen to the complaints and hear their calling, after all, presidents always tend to drive their country to a better future, or am I wrong? | 3 |
85a7ee8 | In Nick D'Alto's article, " Making Mona Lisa Smile", the author suggests that Dr. Hung's new facial regonation would be useful for many things including using it in a class room to read stusdents' emotional expressions. I agree with Dr. Hung that the software would be useful to help decipher mixed emoitions. In his article, he uses the Mona Lisa as an example, and I personally think that it was a good example to help show her conveyed expressions.
Dr. Hung invented the Facial Action Coding System, which helps identify the emotions displayed on the human face,and paintings such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. If this technology was used in a classroom setting, I think that it could be used to help teachers understand if some of their students are enjoying the lesson. Or it could possibly be used to tell when the students are lying to their teachers. The Facial Action Coding System shows the six basic emotion that are associated with the movements of ones facial muscles. The basic emotions are happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. This technology can also identify mixed emotions.
Humans perfom the same amount of emotions everyday. For example, a friend could probably tell how you feel by looking at your face. But some people might have trouble describing what each facial expression means. Dr. Hung had oserved had aritists like leonardo who had studied human anatomy that had helped them to paint human emotions. Similarly, Professor Hungs Facial Action Coding System is able to be electorically stored with some information about human anatomty and emotions.
Lastly, there are fourty-four major muscles in the human face. For example. a muscle called the obricularis oculi pars palabraeus is the muscle that makes the crow's-feet shape around your eyes. Experts can tell a real smile from a fake smile by the way your mouth is moved. Facial muscles can help produce emotions, by the movement of your muscles. With the help of the Facial Action Coding System, I think that teachers could easily figure out the emotions that their students faces are conveying. This coding system seems to be revelotionary to me because of it can decipher emotions and it could help many people such as students, teachers, and even the government.
In conclusion, I personally think that with the help of this technology teachers will be able to read into their students emotions better. Also, teachers would be able to tell if students are lying to them. The value of this technolgy would be able to help them read the facial expressions of many people with diasbilites who have trouble conveying emotions. I beleive that is this type of technology were to be used in a classroom that it would be a great help to many teachers. | 3 |
85af2b9 | Believe it or not there are ways people may be harming the environment without actually knowing it. If you really think about it though there are many ways you can help prevent harm to the environment. One of them is limiting car usage. The advantages to giving limits to this could be very helpful to restoring our world.
A city in Germany has gone the extra mile to solve problems due to car use. What the residents of Vauban, an upscale suburban community have done is, they have all given up their cars. Street parking, driveways, and garages are not allowed. The only way to park is to buy a parking spot along with your home for $40,000. Because of this movement 70 percent of families there do not own cars and 57 percent sold theirs to move to Vauban. A media trainer and mother of two said that when she had a car she was always tense but now is much happier. This no car movement is called "smart planning". A reason it started is because studies have shown that passanger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in europe and up to 50 percent in america. The basic ideas from Vauban are being adopted around the world attempting to make suburbs more compact with less space for parking. Now in the US many agencies are promoting car reduced communities. Also legislators are starting to act. Many say public transport in suburbs will play a much larger role in a new 6 year federal transportation bill to be approved this year. More suburbs like this one could change the world.
In Paris there had been days of near-record pollution. To help clear the city's air Paris enforced a partial driving ban. Monday, moterists with even numbered liscence plates were forced to leave their cars at home or pay a $31 fine. Rejecting the fine resulted in having your car impounded. As a result 60 percent of congestion was down in France's capitol. The smog due to car usage was cleared enough on monday to rescind the ban for odd numbered plates the next day. In Columbia a similar day is taken place every year. A car free day where people hiked, biked, skated and took buses to work instead of driving their cars. If you violated this you would be fined $25. Even in rainy weather people participated just to help lower stress and air pollution. This campaign has sparked a revolution. It has also created the construction of 118 miles of bike paths, parks, and sports centers. It has caused the replacement of pitted sidewalks with broad smooth ones, cut traffic, and new resturants and upscale shopping districts have appeared. If every country had a day like this we could make a unbelievable difference.
According to recent studies Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less, and getting fewer liscences each year. Even though America has basically been the birthplace of cars and is one of the world's prime car cultures its love seems to be cooling down. The number of miles driven in the US peaked in 2005 and steadily declined in the years following. In april 2009 the number of miles driven per person was 9 percent below its peak and equal to where it was in 1995. Part of the problem has most definitely been recession but as the economy recovers the decrease in driving has not changed. According to a research proffessor at University Of Michigan car ownership per household started to lower two to three years before the downturn. If this trend persists it will have benificial implications for carbon emmissions and the environment. One of the things causing this is the internet which allows people to feel more connected to eachother without driving to meet friends. Also people car-pooling and biking have helped. There has been a large drop in peoples age 16-20 getting their liscence. They organize summer jobs and their social lives around where they can walk or take public transportation, or carpool. Between 2001 and 2009 driving by young people decreased 23 percent. All of this helps conserve resources, lower emissions, and improve safety.
In conclusion there are many advantages to limiting car usage. Many communities have taken part of this trend and it is rapidly being recognized around the world. Taking part in this helps the community and environment. Anyone can do it. | 4 |
85b5320 | Are you for or against the development of driverless cars? I am for the development of these cars. It sounds interesting to me. It can help those drivers who is unable to drive because of some kind disabilt in their body. It keeps a driver from falling a sleep behind the wheel and hurting someone because if the car is driverless, you can fall a sleep with out hurting anyone. The details that agree with what I wrote came from the passage. This is the first thing in the passage that agree with what I wrote. The line about the steering came from line four. The part about the cars steering themselves came in the passage part, number seven.
The passage says the cars can steer themselves. The details that agree with what I wrote came from the passage. This is the second thing in the passage that agree with what I wrote. This is the public trainsport system line that came from line three. The part about public trainsport system came in the passage at part number one. The passage says that the public trainsport system will some day be driverless. The details that agree with what I wrote came from the passage. This is the four thing in the passage that agree with what I wrote. This is the half fuel of today's cars line that came from line three. The part about half fuel of today's cars came in the passage at part number one. The passage says that the cars will use half of the fuel of today's cars. That is sounds easier than it is. It is realiy hard. Driverless cars are possible. The cars so far still need a driver for some of the things. The car can do the steering. That sounds easier than it is. It is realiy hard, it just take some time. Driverless cars are possible. The cars so far still need a driver for some of the things. The car can do the breaking. That is sounds easier than it is. It is realiy hard. Driverless cars are possible. The cars so far still need a driver for some of the things. The car can do the accelerating on it's own but it still needs a driver. I am for the development of these cars. It sounds interesting to me. It can help those drivers who is unable to drive because of some kind disabilt in their body. It keeps a driver from falling a sleep behind the wheel and hurting someone because if the car is driverless, you can fall a sleep with out hurting anyone. I hope this essay showed my place on the subject of driverless cars. | 1 |
85b6c46 | The Seagoing Cowboys Program can convince people because if you had Luke's job you can see the Panama Canal. You can also help people who have been hurt in the war. The job Luke had was to take care of young cattle,horses,and mules. So you would have a chance to take of animals just like Luke did. You can also be apart of the Military Forces and help wounded people. You can also see things that you probably never seen before like Italy,Panama Canal,or China.
It takes two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China. You would also care for the animals during the crossings and it will keep you busy. When the war was over the towns were lefted in ruins. So you will be apart off the UNRR ( the United Nations Relief and Rehabiliation Administion). The animals had to be fed and watered two or three times a day. Bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship. Stalls had to be cleaned.
Working on farms as a little kid can be great for preparation for the had work but not for the dangers of the sea. If your job my be watchman you have to check on the animals every hour. The job makes you aware of people of other countries and their needs.
In the UNRRA 44 nations will join together and help the animals and people hurt from the war or ohter serve injuries. | 2 |
85bf4eb | Do you really think aliens exist? It is belived by some that on mars aliens shaped a type of face on the planet. Others belive it is just a natural land form with a funny shape that looks like a face. If you are one of those people who think aliens shaped it you will think differnt by the time your done reading the essay.
Something very mystereous happened in mars 25 years ago. NASA discovered a landform in mars that looked like a very large face. When NASA looked closer in they decided it looked like a pharoh, which is like an old egyptian god. Ever since NASA revealed the mysterious face has become a big pop icon, has starred in movies and multiple talk shows. There has been only very few scientists who belived the face was made by aliens. NASA was very interested in the face so they started taking closer and closer looks. NASA used more powerful lenses which let you get a better look at it. NASA finnaly figured out it was a natural land form. They even went back more than one time to check and everything still proved it was just a natural landform.
What do you think, Is it an alien or is it a natural land form? Facts have proven that it is a natural land form. But all people will never agree if it is an ailen who made it or not. Hopefully this essay proves to you that this face is just a natural land form, but the world might never know. | 2 |
85c1eef | Here are the reasons that the "Face on Mars"is not real. I will tell you why it is not real. We know that no human has ever lived on Mars as far as we know. That is what we belive. Everyone can see the "Face on Mars "different. It also variys on what each person thinks.
We here have had also weird land forms happen here on our own plant .Sometimes we see rockes even here that look like faces but we do not think they are human face's or an animal face's. Landforms can be sometimes surprising on how they form. They can look as if it was something when it really is nothing at all. That is what happened at Mars a landform formed and it got the shape of a face but we know that Mars has not had live of people on it yet of course .We also know that no human has gone to Mars or landed their to proove it is a face when we know it is not. No human has lived on Mars so how can we say it is a human face when NASA has done alot of reascearch that only people have lived on earth not on any other plant so far. People also know that aliens do not exsite. Landforms can sometimes counfuse us to think something else that does not even excite at all. But like always NASA well be doing more rescearch to show people it is just a normal landform that just some people think it is face but it is not.
Hopefully this essay has helped you to believe that the "Face on Mars "is not a face after all it is all just a story that you can either believe media and the people that told you that or the real resceacrch people that one day will show that it is just a landform. But for now some people think something else and other people think other things. NASA is the people you should believe not the media. Hopefully I have my point across this essay to the people that think it is a human face. I see why some people can think it is a face becaus eat first you can see the face. But no it is not a face. Face or not face we will one day see who is right the people that think it is a face or the people that do not think it is a face. Also you can see in the pictures how the landform changes and if it was a face then it probaly would not change. | 3 |
85cd3d9 | Have you ever seen an alien artifact? There are people out there who claim they have seen pictures of one. Some may say it was an alien face they saw. The face people may think is an alien artifact may not be an alien. It could simply be a natural landform. Most people call it the face on Mars.
The picture that was shown revealed that the face on mars is equivilent to a butte or mesa. The butte and mesa are landforms coomon around the American West. Garvin, a NASA scientist, said
"The face is a lava dome that takes the for of an isolated mesa about the same height as the face on Mars."
Garvin says that NASA had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the face in the field of view. Another team of NASA scientist has captured extraordinary photos using the camera's absolute maximum resolution.
There are many reasons to believe that the face on Mars is an alien artifact, but there are more reasons to believe that it is just a natural landform. Scientist have done many research on the face on Mars to figure out if it is a landform or an alien artifact. All of the reasearch is there, I think it is a natural landform. | 2 |
85d6bbe | In the article "Driveless Cars are Coming" there are many opinions on if we should procced on with the thought and dream of driverless cars. The article supports both sides of the argument and makes vailed points for both sides.
Although postive points brought up in the article there are some negative. In the article in paragraph nine, there are many reasonable questions brought up in the article regarding the safety of not only drivers but pedestrians. What is to happen if the technology glithes and someone ends up dying? Who would we blame for these accidents happening? People may argue that we have made many advances in technology but to this day we still have everyday household items blowing up. One other negative feature about having driverless cars is brought up in the article as if there was an emergency on the road what was that car supposed to do.
Although there are some negativies to having driverless cars there are also some postivies. Like in paragraph seven the article brings up some postivies to the situtation as the car having more features making driving safer and less diffcult. Another postive thing mentioned in the article about driverless cars is the thought of us using less fuel. With the use of less fuel is that we are saving our enviroment by our pollution rate going down as well. Another postive thing about having driverless cars is the safety of the person driving the car may increase such as if the seat belt is not put or put on correctly the car will not start.
The article " Driverless Cars Are Coming" shows both sides of the argument. Although there are negative aspects of the car. There are also some positive aspects that wil increase the safety of drivers. | 3 |
85dd935 | Emotions are what you feel on a daily basis sometimes you can be happy and something you can be sad. In this passage "Making Mona Lisa Smile" students from the University of Illinois collaborated with Prof. Nicu Sebe from the University of Amsterdam. They developed better ways for humans and computers to communicate. The technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because it can how how the student is feeling and it can help see if the student is enjoying what it is learning.
One facial expression can give it all away of how you are feeling. Facial Action Coding System can identify mixed emotions, each expression that is being made is compared to a neutal face that is not showing any emotional. If a student is having a bad day or something is wrong with them the software will instantly let them know how they are feeling. As in the painting "Mona Lisa" they were not sure what her emotions "she's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disguested, 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry."
Another reason it is valuable is it can help see if a student is enjoying what it is doing. For example in the passage it says "A classroom computer coul recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." If that were to happen it would be able to modify the lesson such a effective human intructor.
The use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. Examples of why it is vaulable are while a student is working on a lesson the computer can find out how a student is feeling and seeing if a student is enjoying what he or she is learning. | 3 |
85dedad | Yes I think that the technology to read the emotionanl expression of sutdents in a classroom is valuable. If a student is becoming bored or confused. This will then help teacher to undersand a student and be able to help them so that they will undersand what they are learning in the classroom.
If a teacher is not able to help a student then the student will fail and may get behind in school. When a sudent how play sport or other activites will not be able to do the activits becues they will be trying to get the grabe up in the class. The technology to read the emptional expressions of student will also help teacher changer they way that thay teach the students helping then become a better teacher. This technology will help undersand how to help a studnt if the sudent is sad or anger then the teacher can try and help the student get throw the problem. thji swill then help the sstudennt get focued on the lesson the on the problenm.
Th estory sayes that "A classroom comuter could recomize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts . "then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instritor." This will help people to become or awere of what macks students bored and what students had truble lerarning. This will them help teacher find new was to teach the sudent in the classroom in a way that will help them learn. | 2 |
85e497c | Things aren't always as they appear, just because it looks that way doesn't necessarily mean that it is that way. The formation on Mars does look like a face but it is just a land formation it's not like land formations are rare. Coincidences happen all the time, this is just one of those times. You can't judge something based on how it's looked, you have to really pay attention.
Formations are a very common thing, both on Earth and on Mars. It is nothing strange, what is strange is that it looks like a head. But even at the picture was taken in 1976 with a much lower quality of camera so things wouldn't have looked as clear as a more modern camera, the other picture was taken in 2001, technology would have advanced and improved much in that time span as it was 25 years later. The quality would have improved so it would have been much easier to see and to know what it really was, it was just a coincidence and coincidences are just as common as land formations.
Coincidences happen a lot, and this is just one of the instances that it happens. It may look like a face and something that was made but when you look at it again, with a different perspective you see what it really is. Like sometimes you will have food, like chips and it will look like a face or an object, but just because it looks like that doesn't mean that is that. Or sometime you will see something, but then have to look again to see if that's really what you saw, it's the same concept. Just because you see it doesn't mean it is that or that is even there. Magic is a good example as it is just an illusion, it's happening in front of you but that doesn't mean it's actually there, because when you see how it's really done it's not so magic. The clouds may look like animals floating in the sky but they are still just clouds. All of this brings it back to the same point, that the land formation may look like a face that was created but when you really look at it and realize what it is you know what it really is, just another land formation.
You may say that aliens made something like this but that just doesn't make sense. That's like saying that people made the Grand Canyon or that people made the Rocky Mountains. These things would have made by what was there and things that affected them, not by people or aliens. There is no evidence that aliens even exist, so with lacking that proof how can you say something that never existed or at least something that is unable to be proved existed made this.
It all loops and loops and loops. You end up with the same thing and it just becomes repetitive. You can say that aliens made this but you lack proof, where as it's just a land mass has plenty of evidence to back it up. It is just a coincidence that it looked like a face. | 4 |
85ec1a2 | The SCP
Would you like to be part of the Seagoing Cowboys program? If you don't, I am going to tell you about a text I read about a man. In this text, it says that a man named Luke Bomberger was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a bank when his friend Don Reist invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat. Luke couldn't say no. He knew it was an oppurtunity of a lifetime.
It was 1945, World War II was over in Europe, and many countries were left in ruins. To help these countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more, 44 nations joined together to form UNRRA, a relief and rehabilitation administration. UNRRA hired ''Seagoing Cowboys'' to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. Luke and his friend Don signed up for the Seagoing Cowboys program. In the text it also says that Luke went on cattle-boat trips. He also got to go to many places across the country. He also found time to have fun on board, ecspecially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded.
The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger. It opened up the world to him. "I'm grateful for the opportunity," he says. "It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." That oppotunity of a lifetime is good to have because you could experience adventures you have never experienced before, and that is why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 2 |
85efa6e | In the story "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" Luke was a cowboy rode the waves. he helped people in Europe after War World 2. Luke went to Europe to help people that didn't have shelter, food or animals. When Luke just graduated highschool his friend Don asked him if he wanted to go to Europe. Luke knew he couldn't pass this opportunity of a lifetime up.44 Nations joined together to form
UNRRA [ther United Nations Relief and Rehabilitaton Administration.] "UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the horses, young cowes, and mules that were shipped overseas. Luke and Don signed up." Luke wanted to help people if he didn't go he wouldn't like to help people.
'Luke did get some free time when he was on the boat he got to see Venice, Italy he also toured an excavated castle in Crete and mareled at the Panama
China" he got to see many things many people don't get the chance to ever see. It was an aventure for him. "it took about to weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to china" It was hard work to keep ever animal safe and alive on the long journey and animals could have died of sickness and cancer and a lot of other thing like not getting any excercie. " Heping out on his aunt Katie's farm as a boy had prepared Luke for hard work, but not for dangers at sea. On Lukes second trip, Luke served as night watchman. His job awas to cheack on all the animals every hour. One rainy night, after making his hourly report to the captian, he slid down a slippery ladder on his backside. Luke's haert raced as he shot feet firt toward an opening on the side of the ship. a small strip of metal along the edge stopped his slide, keeping him from flying overborad into the dark Atlantic. He was happy to be alive. But he couyld not work for a coulpe of days because of vraked ribs." He was really happy to be alive and he was ok with craked ribs because he was alive.
Reasons that people like Luke became or are going to be a Seagoing
Cowboy is because they like to help people in need that need food a shelter. They don't just do it to go to Europe and see everything and to have fun, they do it because they care about other people. | 1 |
85efad1 | I am for the development of driverless cars. For some, driving is not their strong suit and a system like this would help out a lot of people. Most car car crashes result from people lacking the ability to drive well. These driverless cars can help people who might have had too much to drink, people who are not good at driving, and many more types of people that drive. Not everyone will want this system in their car so it should be an option for the driver if they want to drive or not.
If these driverless cars are safe and can function well, then there will be less accidents and driving would be one less problem for people to worry about.
If there are going to be smart cars then there needs to be smart roads as well. "General Motors created a concept car that could run on a special test track. The track was embedded with an electrical cable that sent radio signals to a receiver on the front end of the car. Engineers at Berkeley tried something similar, but they used magnets with alternating polarity as messages in binary code. These smart-road systems worked surprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive." This passage shows the reader that this smart-road system could work because it worked in the past. The only problem is that it is an expensive system. In the future money can be made to make this system a reality. Google modified a Toyota Prius with a sensor system. "The most important bit of technology in this system is the spinning sensor on the roof. Dubbed LIDAR, it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings. The combination of all this input is necessary for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel." This shows the reader tha the car can have the skills of a human driver and that there is a way to make driverless smart cars. This same system can be used for future driverless cars.
I am for the development of driverless cars. Driverless cars can make life easier for many people. There are smart car systems that can very possibly be used in the future that can make these driverless smart cars a reality. This idea should be used in the future and can totally change that world we live in. | 2 |
85f1655 | "Driverless cars are coming" is an article that informs the reader about cars that can drive themselves; but they also yield warnings about these autonomous cars.
The thought of driverless cars is fascinating! Since 2009, Google has had cars that could drive by themselves under specific situations. This gives the driver a whole new expirence from what has been expected for years. Yes, drivers still have to stay alert and navigate through various traffic issues, such as driveways, constuction work, accidents, etc., but driving just got a whole lot easier.
Automobiles are already on their way! In 2013, BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistance".
With this function, drivers don't have to worry about the stop and go, but they can worry more about their destination. GM has also added to the technology. They developed seats that would vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing in an object. Now drivers wont have to worry about that blind spot that alwys urks them, because GM has their back.
But don't think that this is all fun and games just because the car is driving for you. Manufacturers are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road. Dr. Werner Huber, a BMW project manager driver says this," We have to interpret the driving fun in a new way."
Various manufacturers are hoping to bring in-car entertainment and different information systems that use heads-up displays.
So, overall driverless cars are becoming our future. I am completely for this idea. Those of us in the technology era have learned to adapt and this is just another way. People are coming up with new ways to make our lives easier and autonomous cars are just the beginning. | 3 |
85f35d3 | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", the author describes a new technology that allows computers to identify human emotions. The author also describes how this new technology can read the expressions of students in a classroom. This seems like an extremely valuable peice of technology. There are many ways that this can help students with there education. This technology can help students understand what they are learning better, which can result in a better education.
For example, this technology can help a student that is having difficulty on a lesson they are learning just by identifying there emotions. In paragraph six of the article it states, that a class computer can identify when a student is becoming bored or if the student is having trouble understanding the material, then the technology can change up the lesson so that the student does not get bored or confused. This results in a better education for students. With this type of technology students will be more educated and that will help future generations to come.
In the article, the author describes to us, this new technology, Facial Action Coding System, which can identify human emotions. This is indeed valuable to students in classrooms. This tech can read students emotions and modify the lesson, so that the student understands the material. the Facial Action Cosing System will soon be essential for learning in the future so that students can be more educated for when they are out in the real world. With this tech students will soon have an education that is right for them. | 3 |
85f4c1a | Luke is a cow boy from the farm and he has two jobs. He works at the bank and the grocery store. When his old friend , Don Reist, invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat he could not say no. It was an oppertunity of a life time he left. He was helping other animals each and every animal that was hurt in every war that was going on.
Luke recived orders from to go to New Orleans. he did as he was told so he went to New Orleans and helped to take care of th animals as he was told.
Thier was many reasons why he joined but when he was eight teen he was alowed to join the army. When he told abuot his jurney here they said '' you just keep doing your service in helping out animals. '' It was a big honar for him to help animals he went all over the world to help animals.
He new that this was the best dission he ever made in his whole life. One reason he joined is that he was helping animals and felt like he was a hero to the animals like saving people after big events. He was proud of helping animals and loved to be with them till they get back home safe and soud.
Luke was always on an ocean and he went all over the world helping animals. He was always doing something with animals till he slipped and broke his ribs but he would always helping animals even if he was hurt.
Another reason you should join is an adventure waiting fo you. It will open the world to you like it opened the world for Luke and he was grateful for that. You will learn the needs for other countries and it will stick to you. | 2 |
85f4d7b | You would get a lot of different answers from a lot of peopleif you were to go up to sme and ask them on what they think about the driverless car. But if you were to go and ask me that question i would have to say that I don't think we need to really be focusing on that as much as we should for other thngs in this world, it isnt as safe and could be very dangerous, there isnt anything wrong with having others drive themsleves.
First, I personally believe that there are more serious issues going on in this world that we should be focusing on more and putting more ofthe money twoards that then spending millions trying to get a car to drive by itself. A driverless car is not something we need to be worrying about when we can keep it easy and simple like it has been for many years and just have drivers driving the car.
Secondly, it has yet to been passed by the law due to safety percautions. As of right now the driverless cars are not as safe as a car that has some one driving the vechile. So with that reason whhy there I dont feel like what the need is to try and create something when we are all doing fine and would be doing even better then the driverless car.
Lastly, why fix something if it isnt broken? i get that driverless cars could be helpful for some people at times but to solve that problem that's what taxi's are for. Everythng has been fine with having the people drive the car themselves. People will be more alert then the driverless car itself so it is just best to just keep it as the way it has been going and let the people drive the car themsleves because there isn't anything wrong with doong it like that.
In conclusion, if you were to want to hear my opionin on what I have to say about the driverless cars I would say I think they are neat and could be somethng big in the future to come. As of now though I think that there are bigger things going on in this world right now that we should be focusing on, they are not proven to be as safe then what it is with having someone driving the vechile. And there is not a big problem on having people drive the cars themsleves so there isnt a big need for a solution like this. | 3 |
85f5495 | Getting rid of the electoral college would be illogical and irrational. The electoral college was established in the Constitution by the founding fathers to compromise between the Congress and the people. It is seen as non-democratic to the modern day system because the electors elect the president, not the people because when you vote for a presidential election you are actually voting for a slate of electors. Many people say that "what if they go against your wishes" but the truth is that it rarely happens. So there is no reason to wory. We must retain the Electoral College depite it being "non-democratic" because we will be certain of our outcome, avoid run-off elections, and Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states have.
"A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College is possible - it happened in 2000 - but it's less likely than a dispute over the popular vote." in paragraph 18 meaning that winning the candidates share of electoral votes over powers his share of popular votes. "In 2012's election, for example, Obama recieived 61.7% of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3% of the popular votes cast for him and Romney." in paragraph 18 shows how almost all states award electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis. So even if there was a slight popularity it creates a land slide in that state.
Having an Electoral College avoids the problem of having an election where no candidiate recieves the majority of votes. For example in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both only had 43% plurality of popular votes. Which meant they were tied and meant of a run on election. However, having the Electoral College produces a clear winner. In paragraph 23 it says "It can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state - Democrats in Texas, for example, or Republicans in California."(paragrpgh 23) Meaning that they might not even vote if it's not going to count for anything.
Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states have by population. For example in the 2012 election the popular vote was very close in Florida and Obama got the vote with 29 electoral votes. "So, other things being equal, a large state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a small state does..." because they mean more. (paragraph 21)
Many say that the electoral college is unfair to voters because of the winnter take all system in each state. However, why would you soend time in a state that you know they have no chance of winning. It would be a waste of time and money. That is why they focus on the swing states.
The Electoral College method of selecting the president could cause potential voters not to vote anymore because they don't see why they would if it doesnt count for anything. However no voter's vote swings a national election. "Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think what a single vote may decide on an election."(paragaph 23) This just shows how we should let the electoral college decide who will be running our country, not the people. | 5 |
85f6410 | I am about to tell you about the best job ever. I think that being a Seagoing Cowboy would be a fun job because you get to travel the world. You also get to see new places likeLondon, France, and even paris.
I know why luke loves his job as a Seagoing Cowboy. Because the author made it sound like the best job u can get as an 18 year old boy and travel the world too. Also the author got lukes friend get luke to come with him to the amazing journey as a seadoing cowboy. That is why I think luke likes his job as a Seagoing Cowboy. I know more reasons why people should go join this program. Because it would be awusome to travel the world like that on a boat all around the world. Those are reasons it would be cool to travel the world.
those are the reason why I think luke and I would love to be a Seagoing Cowboy. someday I think I will be seagoing cowboy but if iI pray on it maybe it will come true and I will be a a happy that my dream came true to be a
Seagoing Cowboy and I hope I will see you there too. | 2 |
85f8412 | Dear Mr. Senator, I am not in favor of the electoral college because it doesnt allow the peoples vote to be sincere "we the people" is what our country is based off of and by having the electoral colloge set in place we cannot be the people. We are endowed certain rights and freedoms by the government and getting a vote is one of them but with this electoral college propaganda we cannot not give our sincere vote that counts. Truly I do not understand the electoral college to an extent that some do but i dont have to. I know enough to know that this system of voting is unethical and not right. Anyone in there right mind will know this is a terrible system of voting.
For example barrack obama should not have won and wouldnt have won the second time if it werent for this scrub system of voting.
Much like taking this test we are waisting our time. We are endowed by our creator certain unalianable rights that cannot be taken away. There is a lot wrong about our government and elecoral college doesnt strike the surface. It is foolish to think electoral college is the biggest problem america has. Not just america but the world. The world is falling apart and all these hypocritical media people are freaking out over the electoral college. They need to grow a pair and take off their mini skirt and open their eyes a little bit. Riches on earth mean nothing. Moth, famine, and thieves destroy here. But riches in heaven is what matters. This country would never even have became independent if it was run by the people who are running it now. First of all this country was founded on God and now the government wont even allow us to have a Christmas party in schools because the word CHRIST is in it. They want us to have a "holiday" party instead. they will all see one day. On judgment day. All we can do is pray for them because thats all that can help these distranged men. Love Joy Peace Patience Kindness Goodness Faithfullness Gentleness and Self-control ol ol. Love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self-contol o ol.
Ok i am missing weightlifting class to write some bogus essay that doesnt even count. really you are really making us do this? this school district sucks and everyone knows it. everyone.
its time to let go of the mini skirt and grow a pair. and become a school district that actually allows us to learn. | 2 |
85f8a7e | Car usage to some people doesnt matter. Some people say that they would rather walk than drive a car. Heidrun Walter said ''when i had a car i was always tense. Im much happier this way". Most normal people would rather ride in a vehicle but these people have a good point. Not only does it make them happier to walk but it also is better for the enviornment. There is less air polution. The biggest thing is smog.
Smog is a very big consern in todays socity. After days of near record pollution, paris enforced a partial ban to clear the air of the global city. With no vehicles on the road, that means no smog. Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of france, after 5 days of intensifying smog. Cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions.
Diesel fuel was blamed, since france has a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline. Diesels make up 67 percent of vehicles in france, compared to a 53.3 percent average of deiselengines in the rest of western Europe, according to reuters. Delivery companies complained of lost revenue, while exceptions were made for plug in cars, hybrids, and cars carring three or more passengers. Public transit was free of charge from friday to monday, according to the bbc.
Vauban, completed in 2006, is an example of a growing trend in europe, the united states and elsewhere to seperate suburban life from auto use, as a component of a movement called smart planning."All of our development since world war II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change," said David Goldberg, and official of transportation America.
Most people would freak out if they had to loose there vehicles. But if you look at it the way these people do then it wouldnt be that bad. Smog is hurting the world all over. There would be less car accidents. And there would be less gas and oil sources being used. It helps the world and some people said that it makes them happeir and they arent usually as sterssed or mad ever sence the got rid of there cars. | 3 |
85fbd81 | The way we approach people on a daily basis differs using our emotions and nonverbal communication. We are able to tell when someone is angry, bored, happy or even disgusted. With todays technology students across the world use computers in nearly every class. Now we have all been in a point where the lesson we're learning isnt the most interesting to us and we get bored and give up. What if there was a way for your computer to tell when you're bored and switch the lesson to accomidate to your wants and needs. Well there is the Facial Action Coding System is a way our computers can detect our emotions through facial expressions. Using this in a classroom would
be very beneficial to students everywhere.
A student learning on a computermay become easily drained with the lesson. The answer to this may be the Facial Action Coding System. " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." Dr.Huang (creator of The FACS) states in the article.This coud be the answer to an incresing college rates and decreasing the amoumt of highschool dropouts.
The Facial Action Coding Sytem would be extremly valuable to classrooms across the world. Possibly helping the economy, increasing rates in schools everywhere and helping students get the education they deserve. | 2 |
85fc106 | Have you ever heard of a driverless car? Google has had driverless cars like this since 2009. These cars have driven more than half a million miles without a single crash. These types of carsstill have to have a human operate them when pulling into drivways, going around accdents, or having to deal with complicated traffic issues.
My position on driverless cars are, they should not be a thing. There would be more car wrecks than there are now. What if the car ends up turning at the wrong area and does not pick up that there is a car in front of them. The car would end up crashing and could the result could be life threatening. The car could have a bad sensor and just keep driving straight. Then, the car would end up hitting a pedestrian or another object.
There are positive sides to the driverless cars though. The cars will save individuals more on gas money. The driverless cars use only half of the fuel of today's taxis. They say that the driverless cars are also more flexible than a bus. You also would not have to have your hands on the steering wheel at all times. You can relax and just watch your surroundings. The car will alert you when you need to take control over the car again. You also would not have to buy a car because you could the driverless cars would be a public transportation like taxis.
There are more negative things about the cars then there are positive. What if the car just shuts down in the middle of the highway? More people are going to hit you and it will affect more people. What if the sensors are very sensitive and will detect a branch in the middle of the road? The car will stop and people will hit your bumper. There are a lot of dangerous and life threatening things about the driverless cars.
The driverless cars seem very neat but, they also seem very dangerous. Too many things could go wrong, like a sensor could go out and you could hit another vehichle. The car could miss the turn and you could hit a pedestrian or another object. If the sensors are very sensitive, they could detect the smallest thing like a small tree branch and cause your vehichle to stop in the middle of the road. These cars will cause more crashes than the regular human driving cars. They also say that the safest vehichle, is a human driving vehichle. In my opinion the driverless cars are a very bad idea to bring into this world. | 4 |
85fc7c9 | Facial Action coding is not useful i don't think technology can read someone's emotions because in paragragh 2 it states that "how can a computer recoginize the subtle facial movements we humans use to ezpress how we feel" so how can we technology read someone's emotions.
Can the Facial action coding really read how humans feel like how can you read how he/she feel just by looking at them in paragragh 4 it states that "each expression is compared against a neutral face(showing no emotion)" if the computur compares your face to another one how do it really know how your feeling how is ti getting the presentages and is it really right about how you feel.
The computer can tell you how you look or how it looks like hoe you feeling but in a picture it probably look like how you feel but how do the computer really know how you feel after or before you took the picture. what if you just did a regular smile but you felt sad would the computer read that you are sad and not happy.
In the Mona LIsa it looks like she is happy in the first paragragh it states that "she's 83 percent happy 9 percent disgusted 6 percent fearfuland 2 percent angry" how do the computer know that she is angry how can a computer read the perfect percent of how you are feeling.
I think that people don't need a computer that can tell them how happy,sad or mad because that's their feelings so how do they know that they are feeling that way. In my opion only one person can tell you how happy or sad and mad you are is your self because those are your feelings and some people choose to express their feelings but some don't. | 2 |
860245a | Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Venus is sometimes called the "Evening Star," and is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. Venus is the second planet from our sun. It has also proved a very challenging place to examine. It is the closest planet to Earth, and occasionally the closest in distance too. Not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us. The clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere is more challenging. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. Astronomers are fascinated by venus. One of the reasons why they are fascinated is because it have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar ystem. Venus
was covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Venus still has some features. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus.
NASA'S possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels, not easy conditions, but survivable for humans. Scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risk. NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. | 1 |
8605f18 | In the passage the author gives facts and statements to pursaude us that exploring Venus is wortht he trip. The author includes details on how we could do it, and how difficult it would be.
This passage includes the author stating how he thinks it would be beneficial to go to Venus, he thinks it would be very interesting to be able to explore this planet. He knows it would be extremely dangerous and hard to explore Venus. He says in the passage that there are ways of keeping information with out electronic devices, in paragraph 7 he states "systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces."
I personally think the author did a very well job of telling how exploring Venus would help us, but yet every adventures has its dicfficulties. In the reading he is trying to tell how its dangerous, but its do-able. With out preparing and studying, there will be no trip. They want to get closer to venus to be able to find out what the planets texture is like, but as of now they would only be able to hover over it in a ship. Scientists want to figure out ways to get on Venus by using machines that can withstand the weather on the planet, in paragrapgh 6 the author states "Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus." | 3 |
860b60b | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author gives readers details on how Venus is Earth's "twin." Venus is the closest planet to Earth in both size and distance. The author discusses with readers why scientist want to explore Venus and how they are taking the steps to do it. The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" supports their idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers by explaining how humans have the technology, why exploring Venus is important, and by informing readers on the dangers of exploration.
First, the author supports their idea that the danger of exploring Venus well by explaining how humans do have the technology to explore Venus. The text gives examples of many advancements that have been made in order to explore Earth's sister planet. The author writes, "For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks." This quote shows that the author's idea is well supported because it gives an actual example of the technology that has been created in order to explore Venus. Space exploration has been advancing and improving for years, so eventually humans should be able to explore planets with the worst conditions easily. Another way that the author's claim is supported is when they discuss that the technology needed has been around since before humans even traveled to space. The text discuss a device that has been around since the 1800s and played a significant role in World War II. This goes to show that humans have more than enough resources to travel to Venus no matter how dangerous it may be. In all, the author supports the idea that exploring to Venus is worth any danger that humans could face well by giving information on the technology that humans already have to do it.
Secondly, the author supports their idea that going to Venus is worth it because they discuss how important it is to explore Venus. The text discusses that out of all the planets in the solar system, Venus is most like Earth. The text reads, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well have once been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various froms of life, just like Earth." This quote displays that the author's idea is well supported because it tells the readers how important exploring Venus is. By studying Venus, scientist could learn more about different forms of life. There could have been different plants and animals on Venus then there is now on Earth. If scientist were able to figure that out, it would be an amazing discovery and could improve the world's knowledge on space overall. Furthermore, the author talks about how much more convinient it is for humans to travel to Venus. Since space travel can take years, Venus is one of Earth's only options for exploration. So, the author's claim is well supported because they talk about how significant the exploration of Venus is for science.
Finally, the author's idea is well supported because even though they support the exploration of Venus, they still discuss the possible dangers of Venus. It states repeatedly in the text that Earth's conditions greatly differ to Venus's. The text says that "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for a good reason, since no space craft survived the landing for more than a few hours." This shows that the author's claim is well supported because they are acknowledging the fact that the exploration of Venus is not an easy task. Sending humans to Venus can be a fatal misson, so it is a good thing that the author can explain that, while still supporting their claim. Another way the author shows the danger of exploring Venus is in parapgraph three when it reads," These conditons are far more extreme than anything the humans encounter on Earth; such an enviroment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals." This shows that the author's idea is well supported because they still acknowledge the fact that going to Venus is extremely danger for both humans and any sort of machine. In summation, the author's idea is well supported because despite the fact that they are for the exploration of Venus, they still informed the readers on the dangers.
Consequently, the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" supports their idea that exploring Venus no matter the dangers well by explaining how humans have the technology needed, why exploring Venus is important for science, and by informing readers on the dangers of exploring Venus despite the fact that they believe that it is worth the risk. The author of this text informs readers well and has an open mind while writing since they did explain the dangers. The readers can form an opinion on this subject since the author both dicussed how exploring Venus is important and how it may be extremely dangerous to explore. | 6 |
860fd6e | Dear Mr. Senator,
Although it seems irrelevant and unnessary, the Electoral College is very helpful and is needed more than people think. The Electoral College is helpful in three ways: one; there is a certainty of outcome in the votes, two; two types of states to persuade, and three; helpful to avoid run-off elctions.
The Electoral College helps keep the certainty of outcome in the votes.
"The Electoral College is widly regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the canadidate who receives the most popular votes the winner."
source three:
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Richard A. Posner
The Elctoral College also gives the candidates a second chance at winning the election. Although someone won the popular vote portion of the election, they [the canidate] could still lose the election at the electoral portion. The electoral portion of the election is where the elected representatives go and vote for the president again and have a final deciding vote. Even with this prestegous process sometimes there are instenses were the "underdog" wins the electoral votes and
NOT
the popular votes. Although these instenses are little to non-exsitent.
"But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee (and that is rarely betrayed)... [;however,] it is entirely possible that the winer of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. Yet that as happened very rarley. It happened in2000, when Gore had more popukar votes than Bush yet fewer electoral votes, but that was the first time since 1888."
source three:
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Richard A. Posner
With two types of states, swing states and big states, the candidate can get wrapped up in trying to get the most votes in one particular type of state,-typically big states- they dont notice how the oppisite type of state could benefit them in the long run.
"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 toss-up states..."
"They are likely to be the most thoughtful voters, on average (and for the further reason that they will recieve the most information and attention from the candidates0, and the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election."
source three:
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Richard A. Posner
On the other side of this arguement would be the big states (Texas, Califrnia, Florida, etc.) who usally vote the same party every election.
"The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balnce that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mak-apportionmentof the Senate decreed in the Consitution..."
"So, other things being equal, a large state gets more attention from presidential campiagns than a small state does..."
source three:
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Richard A. Posner
Lastly, Th Electoral College helps aviod run-off elections.
"The Electoral College aviods the problem of elections in which no candidate recieves a mojority of the votes cast."
"There is a pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a mojority of the votes cast' that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presidential election process, is reduced by the Electoral College, which invariably produces a clear winner."
source three:
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Richard A. Posner
In conclusion, we need the Electoral College to help us with three things: one; provide a certainty of outcome in the votes, two; two types of states, and three; helpful to aviod run-off elctions. Prsonally, this is the only logical solution to our nation's voting system.
Sinceraly,
A concerned citizen | 3 |
8614f41 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author states that Venus is simalar to Earth. But it is very hazardous. However, the author also states that scientists want to study it. The author suggests that studying Venus would be worth the dangers that Venus presents through many ways.
One way is by explaining why studying Venus is worth it. He does so by explaing that Venus might have been once like Earth. He also states that this is why scientists want to study it. In the article, the author says that "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largeley with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth."
another way that that the author suggest studying Venus is worth it, is by using problem and solution. the author lists problems with studying venus, and getting signifigant data. He then presents sloutions to those problems. Then he explains why those solutions are effective.
In conclusion, the author evaluated very well on supporting the idea of studying Venus. He first he establishes the problems with studing venus. Then he explains why it's worth it. Not only that, but he then introduces solutions to the problem. | 3 |
8615067 | Driverlesscars should not be manufactured because they are run by computers, they can be dangerous, and they are unrealiable.
All driverless cars are run by computers. Computers can't be realiable because most are due to malfunction or fry at the very least. They use sensors to view the surroundings so the car wont run into anything, but what if the sensors don't catch something and the driver goes flying into a ditch or hitting the car infont of him. With conspirises of goverment spying on people nowadays, this is just giving them an even easier way of doing so with all the cameras and computers the maufactures use. Also with how easy it is for people to hack into computers and softwares today, just imagine someone hacking into a drivers car and either killing him or using him for something.
Driverless cars can be very dangerous. If/when it malfunctions a driver would have no control over the car and he could end up driving off a bridge or into oncoming traffic. What if the driver falls asleep at the wheel and the car can't wake him up in time for him to go around construction, he'd go right through it. This also just makes it easier for people to drive drunk or underage kids driving undetected. It is just causing dangers to happen to the driver and everyone around him.
Since the driverless cars are run by computers they are less realiable. One simply does not soildly realie on just their phone to store all their photos and music, they will back it up with their computer. You can't do that with a car. A person can't just realie on a driverless car to pick them up or be on time. Or if someone decide to chnage where they want to go mid-route. Computers simply cannot be trusted to do a humans job.
Overall, I am againt the development of driverless cars. If this comes to happen, soon people will expect things to hlep them learn, then that leads to not gong to school anymore, and then we'd just be making even more stupid people famous. It even making people more lazy than they already are. How bad is it that they are so lazy that they can't even drive their own car. Driverless cars are run solely by computers, they are dangerous, and unrealiable, which shows they should not be manufactured. Does the U.S. really want to be known as the laziest and dangerous country on Earth? | 3 |
8618ef2 | What is my position on a driverless car? I believe with enough improvments and optimization it could be a great substitute for real drivers and offers some great advantages with some disadvantages as well. As they currently are however I don't believe they can be substituted fully instead of a real driver. However with enough improvment and bug fixes they certainly could be.
Why couldn't they be used fully now? They aren't really as reliable as they need to be so they can't be used instead of real person. Driverless cars don't seem to have the ability to deal with unknown stimulus such as an accident on the road, therfore it is ill equip to make an apropriate decision to avoid these situations. And it appears the they can't handle speeds that you would find on the highway. Driverless cars aren't perfect but they do have some advantages along with the disadvantages.
First of all they have bulit in GBS so they wouldn't get completely lost like a human can. If there tech is advance enough they could avoid danger more effectively since a computer can react faster than human. There would be a decrease in mortality rate on the road because there wouldn't be as much danger paying attention somewhere else like being on you phone since you aren't the one driving. The amount of money you'd spend on gas would decrease since it would always drive the most cost saving speed.( while staying in bounds of the speed limit of course) You could be more productive with your days since you would be spending less time driving the car.
But currently they aren't advanced enough to take over driving fully from a person. The GBS tachnology that we currently have is faulty and will often make mistakes. The Cars sensors could malfunction causing it to speed up or slow down to rapidly causing a accident. They Currently can't make the apropriate decisons to avoid a accident or navigate around a roadblock. Also it can't really go speeds that you would find on a highway safely.
Now here are some of my suggestions to where they could get to the point where they are useable. There would need to be a large amount of servers set up to help the cars to make all the correct calculations. The censors on the cars would need a serious improvement so that they would be able to take acquire the correct data from the envronment. They would also need a better built in computers to process and interpret all the data. All of this development would increase the number of available jobs around the world helping out the economy. The driverless car isn't a reality but with enough effort it sure could be. Of course i'm no expert so take these suggestions at face value.
So in conclusion no they shouldn't currently be developed. They have a lot of problems that need to be addressed before hand. However in a few years they certainly could be. Technology needs to catch up with the concept because it currently isn't as reliable as they need to be. People also need to change they're perspective on them if they are going to go anywhere. They have a lot of potential and I would love to see them live up to it one day. What about you? | 4 |
861f8cd | Hello to begin off with im going to say a few opions of my own in which way to agrue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote. I would have to go with electral college because better who would want a rich person voting last that would not be fair. So now im going to talk about few things why i picked this response.
To Start off with is why did i pick this, i pick this because the electoral college is a moving process full of educated students looking to make whats best out of what ever they have. ''the founding fathers established it in the constitution'' that students over 18 can vote. but the cons of this is their still young a their still growing up I get that. The electoral college process consists many of the selection of the electors like meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice president also counting of the electoral votes by congress.
Getting to a close to end now so let me keep giving you infor mation why i pick electoral college instead of popular vote, popular vote in my opionon is in my way letting the poor still be poor. this is why i pick electorcal vote. | 1 |
8623f4a | I feel that the author of the story "Making Mona Lisa Smile" identifiy that Facial Coding Systems enables computers to identify humans emotions becuase i feel that technology do read the students emotions and i think it is vauable because you would never know what is going on with a student if you dont know what there emotion is .
The only reason why i feel that way because i feel that if if they didnt know the emotions they wouldnt know if we are nad or sad like in the text it says " when your looking a mirrior you raise your lips at the corners of your mouth " which makes you seem mad , So i feel that if technology didnt know what our mood was then theres no point of it .
Other reasons why i think the Facial Coding System should know our emotions because when they ask a question i feel that you should show emotion in the question they ask like things like why you feel that way , when you felt that way , & when will you change your feeling about the way you feel .
In the text it says that humans perform a impressive calculatiion everyday i see that because when you say or do something the author feels that way because you wouldnt know when you read something you have emotion and that can change the way you feel about everything . | 2 |
8626564 | The Face on Mars is a popular pop icon dating back to 1976 when it was first dicoverd. This face-like landmark has even sparked the minds of conspiracy theorists into believing this is a bona fide sign of aliens or other acient mars civilization. Although it may look like supernatural it has been proven that its nothing more than nature at work.
In Cydonia, the area in which this landmark was found, it is quite common for Martian Messas to form although in this case the shadows gave this land mark facial like features as mentiond in paragraph 2 of "Unmasking the Face on Mars". Paragraph 3 continues to bring this point our by saying "The caption noted a "huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth."
If thats not enough to convince someone that its just a natural landform then paragraph 7 mentions that when Michael Malin and his MOC team snapped a 10x sharper picture of this formation, it appeard on a JPL web site that revealed it to be nothing more than a landform. Afterwards they went back a while later, as mentioned in paragraph 10-11, and took another picture that was even clearer and closer to the point of where if there was anything such as an airplane or shack hidden in this rock, it would be seen. When taking the picture it mentioned in paragraph 12 that it was in fact nothing more than a butte or messa which is a common landform in the American West.
All of this evidence can prove that it was not anything created by the supernatural but was in fact just a natural landform coincidence. | 3 |
8628ef4 | Driveless cars should not be
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" the author gives positive and negative aspects of driveless cars, but the negative ones stand out more. There are just too much negative aspects we cannot overlook. These driverless cars are too expensive, still need a lot of human assistance, and are not safe.
Driverless cars are too expensive, if we were to just have driverless cars then that would cost a fortune. Why would you want to spend millions of dollars on a car? The author says, "Radar was a device on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars."
These cars would be taking away millions of dollars and they cant garantee that it will be a good money investment.
Why would you want a driverless car if it still needs a driver? These cars still need a lot of human assistance to operate, wouldnt you get bored sitting in the car and waiting until it needs you? The author states, "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents" That means that you still have to be very alert of what is going on because the car might need your assistance, and that just proves how they are not driverless cars.
Driveless cars are not safe, why would you want to be in a car that can cost you your life? They are not safe for the driver or anybody else on the road. The article states, "...in most states it is illegal even to test computerdriven cars...If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault--the drver or the manufacturer?" The cars a re suppoused to alert you when they need your assistance but what if the flashing lights go out, or the part where its supposed to be alerting you fails? The government has not approved these cars yet so no one can garantee that its safe enough to drive.
Driverless cars should not be out in the road were they could cause harm. These cars are too expensive for no reason, they dont garentee safety and they arent trully driveless. The author might give some good aspects but the negative ones overrule, and one cannot overlook that. | 4 |
862b7d7 | I am all for driverless cars.
This will make life easier on us as humans.
Cars that are programmed with computers and sensors will more than likely react faster than our human brains can.
This will lead to a great decrease in the number of car wrecks and fatalities involving cars.
Paragraph 7 says that in 2013 there was a BMW made that can steer, accelerate, and brake without a driver.
Technology is becoming more and more advanced everyday, and we should be optimistic and not shy away from this new innovation of vehicles.
Wouldn't you prefer a driverless car if you were incapable of driving.
The technology isn't quite there yet, but Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have driverless cars by the year of 2020.
In year 2016, or this year, a projection was made by Tesla that a car will be released with the capability to drive on autopilot 90% of the time.
All in all driverless cars can lead to safer cars, and easier lives for us. | 2 |
862c467 | I'm hear to tell you my oposing opinion on the use of using technology to determine someones emotions. And whether or not I agree or disagree with the authors statements.
I do not think that we should use technology to determine people's emotion(s), It wouldn't help us out on advancing as a soceity. Also not everyone makes the same facial expression for the emotion they are feeling so its going to be based on generalized facial expressions which won't be accurate. And also what kind of information would be collected by the way peop[le are feeling and how would that help us old in our daily lives. Also having some camera watch you the whole time while your online doesn't seem like the most enjoyable experience for everyone. Dr. Haung predicted that it would help for video surgery, but i dont see that helping much at all because knowing someone's emotions won't effect the way that the surgeon will go through on the operation.
Those are my opsing thoughts about usuing technology to determine someone's emotional state. | 2 |
862c8a6 | Have you ever heard of or saw the "Face on mars"? In 1976 NASA's Viking 1 spacescraft was circling the planet and taking pictures ,as usual, when it noticed what seemed to be a human face. When the photos were released many people were impressed while others believed that the "face" is evidence of life on mars. Scientists believe that this is just a natural landform. If this was evidence of life on Mars it would have been a great benefit to NASA.
When NASA unvieled the photos of the "face" on Mars critics believed that this was proof of life on Mars and that NASA would want to hide this information.
Defenders claimed that this theory was invalid because life of Mars would benefit NASA, so why would they try to hide it? To further their claim that the "face" didn't prove life on Mars NASA decied to take more HD pictures of the landform.
In 1998, NASA took picture of the face that were easier to see and 10x sharper than the originals. After these pictures were relased people still weren't satisfied and said that alien markings could've been hidden by the wispy clouds. Mission cotrollers said "It's not easy to target Cydonia"... "In fact,
It's hard work". In spite of all the complications on April 8, 2001, there was a cloudess day in Cydonia and the team was able to get very clear, defined pictures. The pictures showed that the Martian was like a butte or mesa, like the landforms around the American West. "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," said Garvin.
Despite what the critics tried to argue, there was no way that the "face on Mars" proved life there. With more clear photos of the "face" and reasons to justify that NASA had no benefit for hiding life on Mars, scientists proved that the "Face on Mars" was just a natural landform that had a shadowy likness of a human face. | 3 |
862d957 | Emotions are the basis of human nature, emotions make humans- humans. Why should a computer be able to dictate the emotions of students in a classroom? There are more forms of emotions than the six that Dr. Eckman classified. There is more than being able to "modifly a lesson, like an effective human instructor." This technology shows no value to the everyday classroom, or everyday life. It does not help with the problems in the classroom and there is no need for an emotion reader when there are 30+ emotion readers in that very room, the students and teachers.
To start off, the article states itself that:"In fact, we 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." Humans have the capacity to know the emotions of someone else by looking at them, and even talking to them. These computers can not communicate effectivley with empathy the way people can. A computer is programed to a degree of settings rather than a human brain that has access to every possible feeling and emotion there is. To continue, there are about 25 students in a classroom on average with the ratio of 1 teacher. Dr. Huang states that: "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,[...] Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." Many flaws can arrive when this technology is scanning multiple students at the same time. To modify the lesson for every emotion in that classrom would make the lesson more confusing for the students and it would send the technology into a breakdown not having the capacity to handle all of these newfound emotions. An "effective human instructor" would be able to provide a simplified lesson to those that struggle while still maintaning the focus of the other students in the class. It has been proven that students memorize and learn better with paper rather than computers, maybe that should be a sign that these technological advances should stay away from the classroom.
In conclusion, Dr. Huang stated himself that:"Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication,[...] So computers need to understand that, too." The technology has flaws, the developers knowing that it would not understand many things. Why bring flawed software into classrooms that hold the future of the society? Science cannot keep using these students with uncanny importance to the world as test subjects. Keep the software out, let learning and growing in. "Can we actually “calculate” emotions—like math homework?" Yes it is possible, but it should not be the route in which we help education thrive. | 3 |
862fb5a | The author shows that the idea of studying Venus is a good idea even though it is dangerous by using many details from the text. The author uses descriptive evidence and examples to show us what to expect. It is also showed in the passage that the author gives us possible solutions to our current problems. Finally, the author also gives us facts to further prove their point. So the author uses many different types of ways to show how the studying of Venus is a good idea even with the many dangers that come with it.
The author uses descriptive evidence and examples to prove their point and to give us a visual in our head to show us what they means exactly. For example, the text states, ¨A thick atmosphere of almost 97 perecent carbon dioxide blankets Venus...Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus`s atmosphere.¨ The auhtor uses adjectives like thick and highly to show us exactly whats going on, to give us a visual in our heads. The text also states, ¨...such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals.¨ The auhtor is giving us an example to imagine and for us to fully understand just how dangerous this environment is. This shows that the author uses descriptive evidence to prove their point, as well as examples of just how dangerous the planet is.
Another way is, the auhthor also gives us problems and possible solutions to those problems, they use problem and solution. For example, the text states, ¨A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide...clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid....NASA`s possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray.¨ This evidence shows that there is a problem with how dangerous Venus`s atmosphere is, so the author then says in the paragraph after that NASA may have a solution. The text also states, ¨However peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditons...researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance...NASA is working on other approaches...simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus`s surface...¨ This shows that the author gave our problem once again about how the scientists can`t get anything done from a far, so they then continued to tell us readers how NASA is working on a new type of electronic to whitstand Venus`s surface. This shows that the author states a problem and then a solution to further prove their point.
Finally the author uses facts to prove their point. For example, the text states, ¨...some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus`s surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditons¨ This evidence shows that author is showing us that this is a soultuion to a problem and in doing so they are giving us facts to prove their claim. The text also states, ¨At thrity-plus miles above the surface, tempatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit...¨ This evidence shows that yet again there is another possible solution to on of our many problems and to give better reasoning to their claim the author uses facts. This proves that the author uses facts to further encourage their point of view.
So the author uses many key ways of proving their point. They used problem solution to further their reasoning. As well as examples and descriptive eveidence to show us what exactly was happening. Finally they used facts to help persuade us that this is worth studying. That is how the author proved that studying Venus is worth it even with the risks involved. | 5 |
8638ed3 | I think this claim would be very usefull in a students environment. The resone I feel as why this facial action coding system would do well in schools is because. The student mind is very fragial and kids might be sad from being bullied and might not express how they feel. With this type of technaloge school can lower the risks of suicides or school shooting by trying to help the child in any way they can. And also can stop kids that bully eachother or can even provent harmful perents at the childs home. It is sad to hear that one of your fello class mates has just commeted suicide. And me of all SCHOOL_NAME students should know how that feels and if there was something that have could provented that I would have done everything in my will to. one of my close friends dies 1/1/2018 from commeting suicide #lilpesoworld #neverforgotten #alwaysinourhearts | 2 |
863925d | I strongly believe that the use of this technology to read students' emotional expressions is a good idea. This use of technology can be very useful and valuable for many reasons.
The first reason why would be because if a student does not understand the material effectively, the computer can identify this and try to make the problem a little easier for the student.
In prargragh six it states,
" A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang. " So computers need to understand that, too."This could help students pass classes because the teacher can not know if everyone is understanding the material all at the same time. The second reason would be because this technology could prevent suicide or other serious case senarios. ."In paragragh six it also says, " Imagine
a computer that knows when you're happy or sad." This means that the computer would be able to indicate if a student was sad or angry. If the computer indicated this kind of feeling upon the student everyday, then the teachers would be able to talk to the student to try and figure out why they are so sad or angry. These talks could prevent a student from making that bad decision. The final reason would be because it could prevent a sickness from occuring. Sometimes you can tell when a person is about to have a seizure or heart attack just by their facial expressions. By the computer being able to indicate that, it could save someones life. In paragrapgh one it states, " Dr. Huang and his colleagues are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate." When a person is sick or having a health issue they may not be able to talk and tell you that they are having an issue, so this technology could identify this behavior and give the teacher a sign or warning that there is something wrong. Some people may not want their teachers to know what their emotions are, but I strongly believe that having this new technology will keep kids safer, and smarter in a various number of ways. | 3 |
863da41 | My opinion on driverless cars is that it is a good thing for everyone. If we had a public- transport taxi system, we wouldn't have to use as much fuel if it goes the way Sergey Brin envisions this. In 2009 Google had them independent under specific conditions. These cares have been driven up to half a million miles without a crash. These cars would change everyones daily function in a positive way.
Google has also modified Toyota Prius to use position- estimating sensors, rotating sensors on the roof, video cameras mounted near rearview mirrors,there is alot of technology in this car but there is something way more important in this car. It is a spinning sensor on the roof, Dubbed LIDAR, it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the cars surroundings and you could use that if the car was driverless. You could do this to see where to have the car go if it is auto.
In 2013, BMW announced the development of Traffic Jam Assistant. The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 Mph, but special sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. These can steer acurate and break themselves, this is a machanic that driverless cares will have to have. Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving- Driverless 90 percent of the time. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan have plans to have cars to drive themselves by 2020.
Driverless cars will help tramendasley with everyday people that need to go somewhere but cant drive, teens without a license, elderly people who cant drive anymore many people. When this gets here I hope i can test this out for myself because it would be a positive side to everything driving. By 2020 many car brands will have this in there hands and everyone elses hands. | 2 |
8641177 | It is a tough disition ,but i would have to side with No. The first main problem is that almost all states say it's illigal to use them, so good luck traveling. Another issue is that the cars don't travel that fast, so long distance drives could double or even triple the time it would take to get there, vs you driving. If the car somehow crash who would be to blame? That can be another issue, if it came to legal resons who would be to blame? Another key reason is Drivers will be less aleart due to them well . . . not driving, creating an issue if the car needed a driver and they wern't prepard because they were sleeping, on the phone, or ect. Even if the drivers were paying attention the driver would still have to drive making it not a self driving car.
Self driving cars still have a long way to go ,but it is intresting to see how they are now and how they can improve. Mabey I'd switch my mind even in the near future ,but for now, i'll stay with my own driving skills. | 2 |
8641cda | This debate about self-operating cars has been in the new for years now. Google say it that they have made one of the first ones. But as our technology has progressed farther, so has our ideas about things. There are many pros and cons on this situation but here are just a few pros and cons,the car keeps you alert, its can cause accidents and it may cause lots of money.
I will start off with the pro of keeping you on task and alert. This is a major pro in this world. Why do I say that? Well, the car has sensors that make you put your hands on the wheel so it knows you are focused. In other words you will not be able to text and drive at the same time. This is the answer to this tradgedy.
On we go with this debate but now on the cons of a self-operating car. There a just as much cons than there is pros. A major con is the accidents. There hasn't been any accident according to the passage but there will be some in the near future. If this happens, who is the blame going to be put on. On the manufacturer? Or what if the person gets injured? The real quesion that it brings up is,"Who to Balme?"
I shall now talk about another con in this peice of machinary. This self-driving car can be very helpful in many ways but the next problem we face is the money. Money is allways a problem when it comes to technology. This car will have to be covered insensor which allow the car to react but it will be very expensive. It also says in the story that the roads will have to be rebulit because of it.
At the end of the day this self-driving car can be both a good thing and a bad thing. But it can keep your eyes on the road, it can cause accidents and it will cost alot of money. | 3 |
86464c6 | Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Well Venus is the second planet from our sun. It is also proved a very challenging place to exmine more closely because Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth. Venus is also the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, it is also clostest in distance too. Venus is sometimes right around the corner in space and humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on the cloud-draped world, and since they went there they don't survive for more than 2 hours.
Also numerous factors talk about Venus being a challenging planet for humans to study. They say it's even more challenging the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric in Venus. The temperature that the planet holds is 800 degress Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what they experince on our own planet. This is more extreme than anything humans can hold on Earth. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, it's amazing because even though Mercury is closer to the sun Venus is still hotter.
Venus has once been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. They even say Venus was probably coverd with largely oceans and could also supported various form of life, just like Earth. So basically they are saying it Venus was some what like the Earth. So now in day venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. Venus can also be sometimes be our nearest option for a planetray visit. Venus seems indisputable.
Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks. But they thought it as challenges. Also now many researchers are working on making machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus. So it can be stronger than humans and they can last longer with Venus. There are still NASA working on other approches to study Venus.
So this is all the inforamtion they have for Venus. It is very powerful and hard to do awhole thing about Venus because humans going over there can die about in 2 hours. | 3 |
864ba12 | Dear State Senator,
What do you think of the Electoral College and how it plays a unfair role into elections? Shouldn't the man or woman with the most popular vote be the president? It isn't fair for the people because if more people want that particular person elected then why shouldn't he be elected? He has more people on his side after all doesn't he? These are all questions you should be asking yourself because you as State Senator have the power to abolish our states Electoral College system. There is in fact several great facts about why we should do away with the Electoral College system. Three of them might be that the Electorcal College system isn't fair between all 50 states, the winner-take-all system isn't fair towards voters, and also the "disaster factor" is completely wrong. The Electoral College system is a despised part of our should be fair elections.
Our senator have you seen how the electoral vote works? According to the third paragraph in Branford Plumers writings called "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" it clearly states as a very vaild point that the Electoral College voting system isn't doing it's job. To be precise the voting isn't up to the people at all. What happens is that we the people all go and vote for a president and one obviously has the popular vote. What happens is that the electors put our votes in and say we have mabye three hundred thousand people voting from our state and well you see we don't get that many Electoral College votes towards the president we want. Then say another state gets mabye two hundred thousand and that side has the more people in it's state then us and then they get more electorcal college votes then us but we had the mroe people. Does that seem very fair to you? To continue from there we have the Winner-Take-All system which basically does what the name applies which is that if say one side gets mabye ten more votes towards one canidate then that side gets all the Electoral votes towards that canidate and does that seem right to all the other people just because they got 10 more votes? No it doesn't and its a crime towards all the other people who voted for the other side. Next theres something called the "Distaster Effect". The "Disaster Effect" is basically that the electors don't have to put in the popular vote. The electors who are chosen by the state legislature actually look at all the votes and vote for a canidate. The more electors that put in a particular vote win and they take all the electoral votes dude to the Winner-Take-All system. The catch to that is the elecotors actually don't have to use the pouplar vote and they can vote for whomever they want to be elected. This is not for the people at all and not even close to it.
Now that I have given completely valid reasons can't you see that the Electoral College voting system is biased to serve only the goverment and a few select people. If you used the popular vote system everyone could vote for whom they choose and then we would have fair elections so the true canditate of the people is chosen.
Sincerely,
A Concerned Citizen | 4 |
864d7af | It is not value of ad pop ups from a computer to detect student or teachers emotion, it's not right plus i think it's a watse of time to try and collect every emotion of evryone who uses a computer, cause at some point in time the people will start to get angry about the whole emotions crap and maybe get rid of them, they may like at first but one day their just gonna get rid of it.
Like in the article it said "how can a computer recognize the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we feel?" six emotions the computer has to track, "happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles." A computer that can sence and track muscle movement and emotions, kinda werid and freaked out to me if i had this computer and i think most people around the world would stick to just regular computers or laptops and not buy this emotional computer ad poping up crap. I would think more than emotional computers, thinking more advanced or just regular old computers thats what i would do if i were creating computers.
I think we shouldn't nchange anything at all about computers if it's gonna lead to a riot or people rising up to the company because of the computers, "we want regular computers back not the stupid emotional ones anymore!" u know... i would do the same thing as well. | 2 |
864e49e | Today, many people all around the world rely too heavily on their cars. There are many great reasons that car usage should be limited. Car usage should be decreased because owning a car can be stressful, dangerous, and cars give off unwanted gas and pollution. Although cars have been used for many years, it is not too late to take action on this problem.
Many people today would agree that buying and maintaining a car is very stressful. It is very expensive to own a car, and it takes a lot of hard work to keep the car in good shape. "I am much happier this way," states Heidrun Walter (Rosenthal, 3). Walter states that she is much happier without a car due to all the stress that comes with owning a car. Walter also states that while she had a car, she was "always tense," (Rosenthal, 3). This is probably because of the expenses and time she had to sacrifice while trying to take good care of her vehicle. This includes buying the car, paying for gas and insuance, repairs, and washing it. People will save themselves a lot of time and money if the amount of car usage is limited.
Not only are cars are stressful to maintain, but they are also very dangerous to operate. People run the risk of severe accidents every day when they drive their car. In Source 4, the author states that new forms of public transportation will "improve safety," (Rosenthal, 43). The most occuring accidents are car accidents, which happen everyday. Families will have to worry less about losing people they are close to. There will be less unecessary accidents, such as drunk driving, and using phones while behind the wheel. By reducing the amount of drivers on the road, the risk of these accidents will become much lower.
One last reason that car usage should be limited is that cars give off lots of unwanted gas and pollution into the air. Recently, Paris faced "near-record pollution," (Duffer, 10). This was caused by the extreme amount of emissions from their cars. The main cause for people wanting to reduce the use of cars is because of this unhealthy gas. Cities all over the world are making efforts to help reduce and prevent the emissions. The only way to do this is limit the usage of cars. "Transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions," (Rosenthal, 34). If the change can be made, then it should, in order to keep the environment safe. There isn't much time before the pollution gets out of hand.
Although so many people rely on cars so much, they do not see the advantages of not using them. Most people don't put into consideration how harmful these vehicles are to the environment. On top of that, they cause uneeded stress and danger. Because of these reasons, the usage of cars should be limited. | 5 |
865ce43 | Limiting car usage can be a good thing some people. There are many advantages for limiting car usage.
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president obama's ambitious goals to curb the united states greenhouse gas emissions, uneiled "(Rosenthal 29) this may have americans buying few cars and spending less money on gas and that means fewer cars are being sold and less money gas is making. In Bogota there is a day without cars (Selsky 27). This can help people learn how to tranport many different ways thne relying on cars. Their have more options then do just use a car. different cities are joining this event its not us Bogota. If there is limiting car usage then peole wouldnt have to worry about spending all their money on gas and insurnce and worrying about their cars braking dow and getting into a car accdient.
'"New York's new bike sharing program and its skyrocketing bridge and tunn el tolls reflect those new prioities,as do a proliferation of car-sharing programs found." (Rosenthal 37). Getting your driver's license should'nt be a priority. There are many other ways for transportstion. You can walk , take bus,take a train many other ways then you drving .
Limiting car use can be a good thing because people wouldnt have to worry about gas money and oil change and reparing broken parts. people who put cars as their priority uselly spend more money on their cars then do on themselves. | 2 |
86687d9 | Do you really want to visit Venus? Because I sure do. But the problem is it's extremely dangerous. Mostly because the temperature there is 90 times greater than our normal temperature. A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. That sound dangerous, and it is dangerous because it could hurt and possibly kill someone.
Venus is our sister planet. Some call us twins because of the sizes we both have. But, Venus is the closest to the sun like Mercury is the first panet next to the sun. So Venus is the warmer part of our sisterhood, and Earth are the cold part of our sisterhood. It's sort of like Venus is Anna because of her warm personality. And earth is like Elsa, because of her frozen powers, so she is extremely cold when it comes down to things. Earth at the moment is like Elsa because of its winter landish time of the year.
To be truthful, trying to go to Venus is a good way to learn more about the planets and to see if there is any living sources out there in the galaxy. But at the same time it's a good way to get killed.(not saying you should do it for the fun of it or for suicide.)
You should at least make some sort of suit that is safe for acid to hit it and so it doesn't melt your suit. It will be pretty cool to finally go to other planets and explore them.
For this entire essay I learned about new stuff. I learned that there is acid rain in Venus. There is a thick atmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide blankets Venus, I thought that was cool to learn. I also learned that Mercury is the first planet in front of the sun. I totally forgot about that, so I was surprised. So that's what I learned. | 2 |
866a03f | Using the Facial Action Coding Sytem is a great idea to have in a classroom. When a teacher is teaching sometimes kids don't understand what they are teaching about, but if they have an asasignment on the computer and they use the system it will help a lot of teachers out. If the student gets confused on a problem and the computer can read that they are confused and it notifys the teacher the teacher can go over and help the student.
In the classroom there are some students who don't like speaking out or ask questions because they are shy or don't feel smart because they have to ask questions but in this way they won't have to deal with any of that because the computer reads that they are having trouble. In the article it says that Dr. Huang could read how Mona Lisa was feeling just by a computer telling him. This system could also be a way to teach kids how to read how people are really feeling because in today's world no one can fully read how people are feeling.
In paragraph 6 Dr. Huang says " most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication, so computers need to understand that too" computers should understand that so they can read how people are feeling to make things easier. The computers in todays society hare very good technology but i think this would make it better. In most schools nowadays the students already have lap tops so this would be a great idea.
All schools should have this system. This system will help out students dramaticly. This system wont make them get out of there comfort zone to ask a teacher for help instead the teacher will come to them. | 3 |
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