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d7054db | Cars may have some advantages, but the world, would be a better place if we limited car useage. The benifits of limiting our usage of cars is, it will help improve the enviornment, there are healthy alternitves, and not useing cars as much will decrease stress that people have.
Decreasing our car usage will emprove the environment. In the artical "Paris bans driving due to smog" by Robert Duffer, he says " Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog..." In France they banned even numbered liscence plates from driving, for one day, and one day was all it took for the high levels of smog to decrease. In another Artical "The End of Car Culture" by Elisabeth Rosenthal it talks about the decrease usage of cars throught the years, paragraph 34 says " If the pattern persists-and many sociologists believe it will-it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment." If the people keep slowing down on using cars, which scientist believe it will, there will be better carbon e,issions in the air, and the air will be better. Limiting car usage will help make our environment better.
Walking, biking, and skateing are all excercises that help you stay fit, but they are also a healthy alternative to cars. A artical published in the
Seattle Times called "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" by Andrew Selsky describes the day that is trending all over the world, the day cars are banned. People in these countries, in this case Colombia "hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work" Banning car usage enchourages people to get up and walk, run, or bike because they can't use their car. In the town Vauban, Germany a car free town, people walk everywhere, because the town has no cars. In the town "...where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor." The people in this town are walking and staying fit everyday.
One last benifit of limited car usage is it causes people less stress. Heidrun Walter , a mother of two who lives in Vauban, Germany, says " When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier now." Once Walter sold her car she was relived, she didn't have to worry about making her next car payment, when she would have to get gas again, or how much money gas was. Getting rid of her car relived her stress. Not using cars will decrease the amount of stress in society.
Over all, limiting are car usage would greatly benifit us, it will help keep the environment clean, keep our people healthy, and it will cause people less stress. | 4 |
d7056aa | What's the Electoral College? Many people don't understand or don't know what its used for either. Its mostly used to decide who the president is going to be, but also for the popularity. The Electoral College is a helpful but harmful method, due to not updating the regulations of it. We should keep the Electoral College because thats what we've used since the beginning of our nation. Many people dont relise it but it does help us a lot when we have to decide who we want for president. My few reasons on why we should keep the Electoral College are, what happens with your vote, why we use the Electoral College.
Firstly, when you cast your vote it goes directly to an office to be counted and store for later. The Electors who cast the Real vote for the state look over the balets and decide who to vote for their state. Billions of people cast their votes but really only 270 count and those are the representatives for the states. You many think your vote doesn't count but in reality it does to the Electors of your state. We need to keep the Electoral College for our voters and to keep our tradition.
Secondly, we use the Electoral College to guid our electors on who the people want to lead our country and to help lead our country. Many people don't vote cause the lines are too long or they claim they don't have time but we really know that they don't care. Everyone should care cause we need everyone to vote and help the state electors choose who we want for president or who we want for other helpful positions.
Inconclusion, we need everyone to vote and we want them to know what happens to their vote. So Mr. Senator please dont take away the Electorak College. | 3 |
d70fe0c | Driverless cars are going to be more of a problem for people than they are going to help them. Throughout the article it talks about how much technology it needs for the cars to work. It also talks about how many things need to change for these cars to do any good. Driverless cars are not what is good for the future.
The cars are not even completely driverless which can be very misleading for most people. According to the text, "They can steer, acclerate, and brale 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 drivers are just going to be sitting there doing nothing while the car drives, and they have to keep their eyes on the road and their hands on the wheel. Do the companies not think of how dreadful that is going to be for the driver on a long trip?
The text states, "This means human drivers must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." These quotes from the text support that the cars need a driver to be there ready and alert for them to even work. Making them not driverless.
In many states it is illegal to test the driverless cars because they do not think that they are safe. The text states, "As a result, in most states, it is illegal to test computer-driven cars." Some states are allowing restricted testing for the cars, but most do not agree that they are advanced enough yet to be around other cars and pedstrians. This is not good for the manufactures of the cars.
According to the text, "...manufactures belive that more states will follow as soon as the cars are proved more reliably safe." These quotes from the text suggest that the cars have not been proven safe yet.
Driverless cars are going to take a lot of sensors for them to work. This can make the cars very costly. According to the text, "For starters, they needed a whole lot of sensors." Another example from the text, "Google modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors of the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS reciever and inertial motion sensor." This is just a small list of how many sensors it is going to take for the cars to the ability to drive like humans " The text also states, "The combination of all of this input is necessary for the driverless car to mimic the skills of a human at the wheel." These quotes show that the cars require many sensors that are not necessay for when a human drives the car. The cars require more than they are worth.
However, some say that driverless cars will be good for society. The text states, "The cars he foresees would use half of the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus." The text also states, "Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash..." However, those who say that driverless cars will be good do not see that problems with that cars, such as the laws. The author states, " If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" The people who belive in driverless cars do not see how much more advanced we need to be with technology to pull this off.
Driverless cars are not the way for the future to go. The cars are not safe, and they are impractical. They are going to dissapoint many because they are not fully driverless. Driverless cars have been a bad idea from the start. | 4 |
d710fe7 | Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and accasionally the closest in distance too. the speed between Mars, Venus, and Earth orbit the sun in different speeds. these difference in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times venus
A thick atmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide blankets venus. even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmophere. on the planet's surface, tempers average over 800 degrees this showws how dangerous it s trying to study venus specially with the high percentages that this story has about venus.
Paragraph 4 the authour asks " if our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientist even discussing further visit to its surface?" he states that astronomers are fasinated by planet in our solor system , long ago, Venus was probably covered large;y with oceans and could have supported varous forms of life, just like earth. Today,
Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. | 1 |
d712c51 | In this article about "Driverless Cars" i feel it could be a problem having cars on the roads that isnt operated by an actual person. There could end up being a problem with the driverless cars if they arent ready but the developers dont know if a problem has occurred til its out on the roads. I would think that the developers would wait for awhile just to make sure that nothing major could happen with the car whenever it is out on the roads and hopefully wont cause damage. Some people might be fascinated with cars that could drive themselves but it could be dangerous because without a human operating the vehicle it could crash and damage our community.
Some positive reasons for having driverless cars is that it would be easier and better for people to have them. In movies, they have driverless cars which people think are really cool. If they have driverless cars in the future and something goes wrong, they have sensors so that the driver knows if there is a problem and they have drivers seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger, which is a great thing to have, especially if you almost back into an object or another car. Using a driverless car could also be a new way to actually make driving a vehicle fun.
If the driveless car developers wait for another 10 to 20 years on having them on the road, it would be better and much safer because the more time they spend working on them the better it will be and the less problems and damage there will be.
Also, before 2000 we didnt have the mapping, sensors or computers but now that we do we should spend more time try to fix the issues that they have. If you use mapping on a driverless car, it might not work as well as you might think because what would you do if it gets the address wrong and ends up taking you to the wrong place. GPS's arent always the best to use because they might have to relocate all the time which could mess everything up. | 3 |
d71408c | With the information that has been found there's no prove that the Face has been structured by aliens. Scientist have stated that the Face was form by natural causes, others say that they may have found more information about the Face but than what they are saying. The Face was made by natural landform not created by aliens.
The face wasn't stuctured by aliens so therefore was made by natural landform. NASA has plenty of evidence that the Face was form naturally, for example that it hasn't really been discovered that aliens actually exsist. Throught the years of 1976 and 2001 there were pictures of the face not yet comepletely form so therefore scientist think it took 25 years to form comepletely. Others may say that NASA has more information than what they are telling us. For instants in the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars," in paragraph 5 it states that "evidence that NASA would rather hide." I argue that the Face wasn't created by aliens but from natural landforms.
Natural landforms, created by aliens no one will actually really know what they think. I think it was naturally formed not created by aliens there really is no real evidence about it created by aliens. There could be thousand possibilites that it was form naturally or created by aliens. There are plenty reasons to believe that it was natural causes but not as much as it being created by aliens, after all who doesn't love a good mystery. | 3 |
d716604 | Venus is a very high maintenance planet. When I say this I mean it is highly likely that it could have held many features as Earth holds everyday, but overtime it has developed very harsh conditions and now is hardly explorable.This doesn't stop scientists however, and only antagonizes them to investigate this planet.With their evidence and yearning to learn more however they have developed a lot of questions over this one special planet.
Venus is strongly worthy of being explored for the simple fact that it has had living organisms and bodies of water etc. Yes however; it is very dangerous and usually peoples experiements to last very long. Venus is like Earth in many different ways such as the fact that it has a surface of rocky sediment and it includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains and craters. Venus is the nearest planet for inspection as well which is very crutial to the long time frames of space travel. Venus is also a great idea to further studies on because of the harshness as well, seeing how it evolved to living organisms and bodies of water to harsh conditions and hardly being able to even put different space proof techniques on board.
Venus in all is the closest planet to Earth in its features. NASA is working to find solutions on ways we can possibly investigate this planet, and if they have faith in this planet we should too, because their the experts.The author really backs up his claim of Venus being a worthy pursuit even with the harshness in that he convers all axpects and convers them well with hard facts and help of the other scientists. | 3 |
d719777 | Part of being a teacher is knowing how to understand students. That's why they're are so many great teachers that know how to talk with their students and have a genuine conversations with their teachers. It is an esential part of their job to be able to do this and they should't rely on technology to do part of their job. It's a natural human trait to be able to read someone. While teachers shuold be able to do that, it could also take some weight off of them. Bringing this technology to the class room woud be revolutionary. Teachers would be able to not only focus more on class but get a real sense of how the class feels about a certain topic, if someone is bored or confused, it would be very easy to tell as well.
When you're a teacher you are expected to understand and sympathize with the student at some point. A lot of the time someone will fake being happy or say they are fine when they are not and it dissrupts the flow of class. With this technology, it will really help the teacher when a student is confused but is too embaressed to say or is just upset in general and won't talk about it. This could lead to more sucess in the classroom and help the teachers do their jobs significantly better.
Sometimes in a classroom the topic or the way something is being taught confuses people. They either don't understand or can not really grasp the concept with the way it is being taught. This could really show the teacher using this emotion techonolgy if what is being taught is sufficent or not. As said in the article "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson like an effective human instructor." This will help students pay attention and stay awake during class.
This human emotion regonzier could be a great help for teachers. It could make teaching as a whole a lot easier on the person actually teaching the class and even help students who find school boring. This technology is a great path towards the future of teaching. | 3 |
d71a079 | Should there be autonomous cars in the world today? That is the big question that so many people have an opinion on. I have some thoughts that may seem wrong or right to some people but that is just every other person's perspective. This subject is most certainly an interesting one. This could be a big deal in the years to come for the United States. Kids today could have a future that would be such an opportunity to them.
Autonomous cars seem to have good meaning in evolving technology today. Just how helpful would it be for people if these cars were allowed in every state, what would make people want to buy them and use them instead of regular reliable cars? People today are so dependent on technology it is insane. Don't get me wrong these cars could be a big deal some day, but when is that day? I don't know if i could say that the day is today. It seems like they could have a positive outcome on the world, but what would make them stand out, what would make them something that is unbelievable and that everyone would want. I don't see the world changing this much so dramatically. Maybe in a couple of years. I think that by 2020 it could be a major idea. It would make more sense to have some more experience and develope the software and technology in the cars before making them a product that people would buy and have on the roads. More things need to be developed and more thoughts need to go into the idea to make it more reliable for people when they start to sell them. Laws need to be made, roads need to be safe, people need to be aware, everything needs to upgrade in order to make this project successful.
There are many ways to interpret this concept but this is the way that i did. Other people will take the meanings of this idea in different ways and that is fine. Everyone has their own may to look at things and understand the ways that things happen in the world today. I do hope that this idea works someday, but i am not sure today is the day. | 3 |
d71b7f8 | On earth people have gotten so comfortable in their skin but imagine being able to explore a different planet and see the similarites and differences. We would be able to understand a differnt planet and how it corilates to earth. Studing Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Venus is a worthy persuit because people can study Venus from the closes view and still surivive, trying to sciencefically figure out what Venus has on their planet and how it is like the earth, and lastly that machines to discover what is really happening on Venus despite the conditions.
Studing Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because people can discover what is happening on Venus and discover something new. The text states, " 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans"(Paragraph 5). The author is stating that there is a way that they can still discover what is really on the planet witout being on the planet to find out. Another reason it is a worthy persuite is because they want to study the planet to find out the similarites and differences. " The most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth"(Paragraph 4). This quote shows that they want to discover what is going on in Venus because they want to find out if it is really similiar or differnt to Earth. Lastly scientist are trying to make a machine that can withstand the the conditions on the planet Venus. The text states, " Modern computers are enormously powerful, flexible, and quick, but tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions. Just imagine exposing a cell phone or tablet to acid or heat capable of melting tin. By comparison, systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces"(Paragraph 7). The author shows that these machines are going to be able to withstand the weather and the atomoshpere with the right materials. Without the right materials it is not going to be able to stand on Venus and get information.
Learning about Venus and how it works is worth it depise the dangers it can bring on to it. People can survive seeing Venus by not being so close to the planet, study Venus to figure out the similarties and differences between the Earth, and lastly using machines that have proper material to study Venus in that condition. Venus could bring a lot of history towards us and figure out if its similar to the Earth like they are saying to end the investigation. | 3 |
d71e96b | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worth pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author describes the harsh reality of the planet Venus by explaining the enviorment and atmosphere of the planet. However, he then uses facts, past experiments, examples and the possible solutions, to the issues presented, to explain why exploring Venus is beneficial.
In the beginning of this writing, the author discusses the relations between Earth and Venus by stating, "Often reffered to as Earth's "twin," Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too." The author then mentions important issues of Venus' harmful enviorment: 97% is carbon dioxide, the clouds are highly corrosive sulfuric acid, it can reach up to 800 degrees, the pressure is 90 times greater than Earths, erupting volcanoes, poweverful earthquakes and frequent lightning strikes.
Even though these issues are very important, the author explains why scientists are very interested in Venus by stating , "Astonomers are facinated by Venus because it may well once been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered laregly with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." The author then discusses how Venus has mountains, valleys and craters just like Earth. By giving examples how it was so similar to Earth, and certain features that are still similar, it shows why scientist are interested. By the author using facts and examples from the past, the author backs up their claim of why exploring Venus is a benifit.
Near the end of the authors writing, they discuss how scientist are trying to work with the major issues of exploring Venus. The writing says, "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientist float above the fray." Even though the author says the tempature would be 170 degrees, the air pressure would be similar to sea levels on Earth which is survivable for humans. By the author showing that it is possible for human survival, they show another benfit of exploring.
By the author claiming that studying Venus is a worth pursuit despite the dangers it presents, they sucessfully explain why they feel this way. The author uses facts, past experiments, examples and possible solutions for the presented issues on Venus to show why exporloring it, would indeed, be beneficial. | 4 |
d7203b6 | Now, these days computer softwares are able to do so many things, such as sing (Vocaloid), organize our schedule, and even recognize our emotions.
This new software is called Facial Action Coding System and was created by Prof. Thomas Huang, from the University of Illinois, with colaboration of Prof. Hicu Sebe from the University of Amsterdam. These two profesors are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to comunicate.
The purpose of the Facial Action Coding System is to recognize the subtle facial movements that humans use to express their emotions. The process of creating this new technology began with a 3-D computer model of the human face; all 44 facial muscles were included. With the of psychologists, such as Dr. Paul Eckman. Eckman classified six basic emotions such as: happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. Then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles.
Have you wondered if this technology would be useful for a classroom?
It would certantly be useful in some cases, for example, an investigation. Imagine there has been a case of bullying that ended up with suicide. Everyone who is connected to the victim, which is a student, had to be tested with the FACS (Facial Action Coding System) to whether tell if the student was telling the truth. In these kind of cases would be useful.
However, if this techology, the FACS, was used for only classroom purposes the would only be for Pscychology. This is a High School level class, it wouldn't be used for Elemtary or Middle School. Unless the staff of the schools introduces this technology to the kids. Unless there is a study for kids emotions at school when presented in various different situations.
In conclusion, there are many uses for this software but not exactly for classroom uses. The government, the police, investigators, and phisicans may use these to determine many things. Crimes would be sloved by studying the expressions of a suspect in a trial or interogation. | 3 |
d72438a | The "Face" on mars(the red planet) been there since 1976 which is when it was discovered and was not fully formated yet and still is not formed. So,it shows that it was not created millions of year's ago by some extra-terrestrial bieng(s).Also,when the Viking 1 Mars Global Surveyor(MGS) took the photo in 1976 it looked as if it was just a common landform created by some-type of desert storm,and now that other photos have came in from May 24,2001 from Viking 2 we are shown that it is not a face but a few mesa's(mesa-landforms common around the American west) with shadows on it showing features of a human bieng but are really just hills of sand with weirdly shaped landforms and shadows. Also,on many planets we have seen craters,mountain,and canyons that look like something they're not,and when the shadows are not there you can tell that they are just naturally formed sand hills. Finally,In 1998 the Mars Orbiter Camera(MOC) took 10 photos much sharper photos(5 times sharper)than the original Viking 1 did in 1976 and the photos on the (MOC) showed and revealed to be that there was no alien monument or alien worshipping monument just natural landforms. | 2 |
d726fca | Driverless Cars Are Coming
Why do people think its good to drive cars thats drive them places? Cars can put you in so much danger that you wouldn't expect your self to be in at the time you are drive. So many thing can happen while you are in the car and you wouldn't even know. You can end up going to the wrong place and the car wouldnt even know. so have a driveless car nah i wouldnt want it im all the way against that.
Have a driveless car can be very dangerous you can be in so much danger when you are in a driveless car like in the passage it say that "within 10 years, those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers". How would you know if that is true? Wow by someone telling that it is or somebody testing your car out before you drive it. People dont always tell the truth about there brand you see they siad in the passage that " within 10 years " key words 10 years all of the things they done put ion there cars in 10 years you wouldnt know if the car was good or bad for you. It can turn around in put you im so much danger and you wouldn't even expect that from a car that the dealer told you so much good about.
So much thing can happen while you are in that car. People fall asleep while drive all the time. Some people just dont watch the rode, they be to busy on there phone. Now what if your driveless car was just ride and the machine shut off and have you start drive out of no were. You wouldn't even no because the machine had cut off and it didn't even say anything before it had cut off. An you was just in your car relaxing and on your phone and then BOOM a big crash would happen, that would be your life. You wouldn't want a machine that messes up your life its better off get a car that your can drive on your own 24/7. So much things can happen in a driveless car.
While have a driveless car you can put in a destination and they will end up send you to a spot that you didnt even want to go. You could be going on a road trip and wanted to go to texas and the driverless car just sends you some were else and you would be so anger. You could let a friend brorrow your car to go to a doctors appointment and they wouldn't know how to frunction your car when they see a rode bllock a head like in the passage it had said " They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves. but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigation through work zones and around accidents. This means ther human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires". and your friend wouldn't even know.
So have a driveless car nahh im okay so many things can happen that people diont even think about. It can put you in danger. You wouldn't know what will happen and plus it can send you to the wrong destination. So why do people want driveless cars i really dont know but i wouldn't take that chance at all. The ones who do buy it have fun the ones who don't good thinking. | 4 |
d72abd4 | There are many ways for a human being to convey an emotion with a facial expression. Someone can indicate happiness by smiling, sadness by frowning, or, confusion by furrowing their eyebrows. Each facial expression signifies someone's emotions or thoughts to others. The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is a new technology that allows computers to recognize and identify human emotions. Although the FACS is a creative and unique way of identifying human emotions, using the FACS to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable.
The main reason why using the FACS to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable is because of the importance of expressing human emotions to others. In a world full of new technology that is constantly being improved, it is appealing for people to try out new gadgets and devices. However, as people are connecting with technology instead of connecting with other human beings face to face, the social aspect of humans is failing. In Nik D'Alto's article about the FACS, he excitedly asks readers the question, "Hold on! Can we actually 'calculate' emotions - like math homework?" The FACS's goal is to "'calculate' emotions - like math homework." The FACS denies students the chance to feel empathy for others. If students are constantly concerning themselves with what the computer "calculate[d]" their emotions to be, then students feel like they can only express themselves through technology. As a result, no human connection is made when students are having a conversation face to face. Emotions are meant to be shared and expressed freely so that friendly relationships can be made; they are not meant to be solved like "math homewrk" in a classroom. The FACS takes away the human and social connection between students, which is extremely important for students to build healthy relationships and make smart decisions.
Although the FACS is a creative and unique way of reading human emotions, it is not valuable for students to use it in a classroom. The new software would cause a lack of empahty for others, confusion about how students should express their emotions, and poor social interactions between students. Many new inventions of quicker and higher-quality technology is exciting to test out at first. However, placing the FACS in classrooms causes students to conform to ideas that cause their emotions to not be expressed healthily to others. Students would begin to find it normal to share their emotions with a computer screen rather than the student sitting right next to them. | 4 |
d72e9b0 | Do you think driverless cars is safer than non-driverless cars? Some people think that driverless cars ae better and others don't,but I know that driverless cars are better. There are a huge amout of reasons why driverless cars are better but I am going to name a few.
One reason driverless cars are better is because the smart cars will have the new technology. Paragraph 4 states, "Google's modified Toyota Pruis uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel,a rotating sensor on the roof,a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror,four automotive radar sensors,a GPS receiver,and an inertial motion sensor. 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."All of the new technology allows the driverless are to copy the skill of a human at the wheel. The non-driverless cars doesn't really have all of this newer technology.
Another reason driverless cars are safer because within 10 years the sensors will become more complex and advanced. The sensors on the car will be able find and respond to the dangerous situations,such as rollovers or skids. Accoring to paragraph 5,"Within 10 years,those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers. The information for the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine,allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone."More improvements to the sensors and computer hardware not only make driving safer but it could make the car handle more driving task by itself.
Driveless cars do has its fault too. You can't even test out a driverless car or computer driven car in most states,according to the passage. In California,Nevada,Florida. and the District of Columbia have led the country in allowing limited use of semi-autonomous cars,as stated in paragraph 9. the government still need to make new traffic laws for the driverless cars too. For example,if the driverless car is crashing by itself and someone gets injured who is responsible for the injuries.
In conclusion,driverless cars is the better and safer car because they will have sensors on them and the new technology. With the driverless cars the driver can just relax and let the driverless car do the work. The driverless car will be way more advanced than any other non-driverless car. | 4 |
d730f64 | Have you ever heard of seagoing cowboys? It is a program of young boys that travel with ships over seas to Europe and deliver animals to countries that are in war. Come help and join the program.
If you join the Seagoing Cowboys program then you won't get drafted for the war. I was doing this program and while I was on one of my trips I turned eighteen. I was going to get drafted for the war, but the drafting board heard that I was going on these trips and decided that I was already doing enough for the country and didn't draft me. Another reason to join the program is that you get to see a lot of Europe. I got to see the Acropolis in Greece, I took a Gandala ride in Venice, Italy, an excavated castle in Crete, the Panama Canal, and China. After you deliver the animals, then you get to have a lot more freedom and fun then when they are onboard the ship. There is a lot of open space where the animals were so you can play tabletennis, baseball, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and a lot of other fun games.
You can do all of this and more. Think of how fun it could be if you joined this program. This program helps you for the rest of your life. I am still in contact with the friends I made aboard those ships. Help the country and join the Seagoing Cowboys today! | 3 |
d7367ba | Many people today are accepting the idea of limiting car usage around the world. Though cars are an excellent way to get around they might not be the best for the enviorment. In a city in Germany, Vauban is home to many residents who do not own a car. In fact 70% do not have one and 57% sold a car to move there. These people aren't only seeing an environmental effect but also they seem more happy.
Pollution is also a problem when it comes to motor veichles. When Paris had a record day of pollution they decided to take action and inforced a partial driving ban. In just five days, congestion in France was down 60%. As you can see limiting car usage is already benefitting many and the more we turn to it the most likely we are to be living a more happy and safer life.
In places such as Bogota, Colombia there are days called car-free day. These days only buses and taxis are only allowed, so some people just bike, hike, or skate. The ultimate goal is to reduce smog and stress. Some Colombian cites are joining in on the event as well making this a growing imporvment campaign. This day has made many imporvments to the way of life, making the city look cleaner, cutting traffic time, and creating upscale shopping districts.
When it comes to America we can already see a decrease in car usage from 2005. If this number continues we will see beneficial environmental chages. Though the car industry will probably will be hit hard they already are discussing a plan to partner with telecommunications industry. They want to create safer public transportation and by doing so they would be saving time and conserving our resources.
There seems to be more advantages than disadvantages when it comes to limiting car usage. I feel when everyone gets the idea that a safer and cleaner world is in the best intrest of everyone. then we will be taking the right steps to a new and better life. | 3 |
d737262 | The authors statement is that " studying Venus is a worthy pursut despite the dangers it presents" . What the author is trying to say is even though Venus is dangerous it is very intresting to learn about & heres my reason why i think the author is trying to say this;
In Paragraph one , the author says Venus is called a " Evenning star " , becasue it is one of the brightest points of light in the sky. He also says that the Earth and Venus is close togother .
Also on pargaraph 3 , the author says " A thick atmsophere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus " , basically saying that that is extremly hot there . also they say Venus has the hottest surface tempature of any planet in our solar system .
NASA even wants people to go to Venus and explore the things their but , they cant because it would " toast the people ", athour says .
What im trying to say is that , the reason why the author says that studying "Venus is a wothry pursuit despite the dangers it presents " is because Venus is very dangerous and not a safe place for astronouants to go to , but is very intresting to learn about . | 2 |
d73b983 | A new technology, known as the Facial Action Coding System, was developed by Doctor Paul Eckman. This system attempts to decipher human emotions, which is simply unneeded. The technology detects movement of the 44 muscles in a human face and uses this to label the emotion the person is feeling. In a classroom, this technology is not valuable because humans already calculate emotions more accurately and quickly than the Facial Action Coding System, because common comptuers cannot use the software, and because the system would needlessly waste class time.
First, this technology is completely pointless because humans already calculate emotions quicker and more accurately than the Facial Action Coding System. The only thing the system does it add an extra step to calculating emotions. In the article, it says "you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face."
With the new technology, the computer creates a model of the face, detects movement of muscles on the face, then compares the expression on the face to a neutral face, then after all of that, it finally tells you how the person is feeling.
Why would a person look at a computer to learn what another person is feeling when he or she could do it? This can be applied to the classroom because teachers can tell how their students are responding to a particular lesson. For example, teachers call on students who are not paying attention just to get their attention. Teachers do not need this new technology because they are already great at sensing when a student is confused or bored.
In addition, this technology would be hard to put in classrooms around the United States because it cannot work on a common computer. In the article, it states "your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile." This means that in order to put the Facial Action Coding System into schools nationwide, new computers would be needed which would cost a great amount of money that simply is not worth is. As it is, schools already run tight budgets so the money that is needed for the new technology would take away from other neccessities that schools need. The teachers of schools that have the system would have to be trained on how to use it, not to mention the Technology Department employees. Frankly, the ends do not justify the means in this situation.
Finally, the technology would waste a great amount of class time, for no good reason at all. Multiple times throughout my day at school, teachers cannot figure out how to turn on the Smartboard or projector to teach a lesson. How would the Facial Action Coding System be any different? Teachers struggle to use simple technology like Smartboards or projectors, so using the Facial Action Coding System would just be asking for more problems. The amount of class time that would be wasted trying to set up the system would be ridiculous. As is, my teacher teach until the bell rings, and any wasted time would be time wasted that could be used for teaching.
Although the Facial Action Coding System is a cool new technology, it would not be valuable to classrooms. This technology is pointless because humans already can calculate emotions base on facial expressions. In addition, the system would be hard to implement into classrooms nationwide because the system cannot work on a common computer. Finally, class time would be needlessly wasted. Simply put, the classroom is better off without the Facial Action Coding System. | 5 |
d73f3f4 | The second planet of our solar system is Venus and the reasoning why scientist are studying despite dangers Venus presents. Venus being the sisters with Mercury and Earth it has exceed it's extreme into knowing it's a diffcult site to explore.
The study of Venus is worthy becuase it has astronomer's fascinated about it's past life, people striving to meet their challenges,and NASA's studies on simplified electrons.
Astronomers are fascinated with Venus over it's "earth-like" features. In paragraph 4 it states, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." This explain that Venus was an "earth-like" planet with the same features like Earth.
NASA is striving to study Venus as so many people and meet their challenge. In paragraph 8 it states, " Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." This explains that many people such as NASA are trying to meet their goal into exploring about Venus.
NASA is working on approaches of studies that'll get them in depth with Venus and it's natural features. In paragraph 7 it states, "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus’s surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." This is explaining that NASA is working on big projects so they can get better information about Venus.
The study of Venus is worthy becuase it has astronomer are fascinated about it's past, striving to meet the challenges,and studies with simplified electrons.
This is explaining why the study of Venus is worthy despite the dangers it provokes.This is and important type information because it's informing us that astronomers like NASA are trying to explore Venus. | 3 |
d744efa | Some people may think that the Face is not a natural landform but I am here to give you reasons why the Face IS a natural landform. The reasons I am going to give you are going to be in the paragraphs below, hope you like it and think
''which opinion is better in this essay?''.
The first reason the Face is a natural landform is because 25 years ago something happened on Mars, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet, snapping photos of possible landing sites for its sister ship ''Viking 2'', but when the camera spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face, then they saw an enormous head nearly two miles from end to end seemed to be staring back at the cameras from a fregion of the Red Planet called '' Cydonia''.
Another reason that the Face is a natural landform is because after a few days , NASA unveiled the image which had shadows forming the illusion of eyes, nose and the mouth. But since it became so popular, the picture has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, etc. They also said that defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars. But scientists believed that the Face was an alien artifact.
The last reason is that thousands of anxious people were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL website, revealing a natural landform. But not everyone believed that.
The camera on board MGS had to peer thrrough wispy clouds to see the face, they say perhaps alien markings were hidden by a haze. People are also saying, ''We just dont pass over the face very often''.
But not everyone can be right because some people think its not a natural landform because it could be just a haze from something that was there at that specific moment and time to show that the face was there when it could have really been just a rock and not the Face after all. More reasons to this is that,even though it looked like a face...it couldnt have been, people couldve just seen the face that wasnt really there.
In Conclusion, people have different opinions on what they see and what they dont see in certain pictures. Some people see the face, some people dont see the face at all and that can be a good thing and a bad thing for some people who have different things to say about a certain subject. The Face couldve just been a rock in some peoples opinions, but some people think that it wasnt just a rock, it was an outline of a face. | 3 |
d74a2c4 | In the text it is stated that due to the over useage of automobiles our ecosystem is slowing down as it subtly falls apart. some of the people of the suburbs have tried to shrink down on the size to make them more, "compact and accessible", but also at the same time making efficiency easier to get by because of all the giddy inventors and people who would love to just pay good money for a different kind of car that is clean energy and runs well. Many of the people in this passage talked a lot about making some of the cities more dense so more people could and would walk to any place they needed to go with out spending a fortune on the way to where it is they need to go. near the bottom of the main passage the writer talks about the "Enviromental Protection Agency" discussing this topic as said,"Many experts expect publc transport serving suburbs to play a much larger role in a new six-year federal transportation bill" it is quite obvious that the people spending so many efforts trying to pass this rule really care about the enviroment and all the beings in it.
Not only have local people in the US have been interested in taking care of the enviroment by keeping cars alienated from the situation. The second passage talks about Paris banning cars from being driven and ho wharmful it was like, "After days of near-record pollution, Pars enforced a partial driving bannto clear the air of the global city". Though a smart idea, it was quite hard to enforce due to the large amount of fines written which were about "4,000" who didn't see very fond of the idea of not driving to where they need to go. Though over time this problem did slightly and temporarily solved it's self, another counrty has gained the title of, "one of the most polluted cities in the world".
Beijing China has just been placed in the worst type of economy and climate, because of the, "cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions". The writer claimed it was the high usage of deisel fuel probably because of the large amount of automobiles with a deisel engine which the writer has accumulated a percent of 67 which is actually pretty high. These high deisel emissions was due to commercialized revanue and mass shippments of various products sold everyday nonstop. this also includes overseas and aircraft shipping which actually does make a difference not only just polluting the air and land but also the water.
Some of the places spoken of use a special event to introduce and promote the idea of not being able to use your automobile for a certain time, but in a few Columbian cities they practically have a festival about it, and some of the people even push the idea and construct walk lanes, smooth sidewalks, restaurants, and shopping districts. Even our own New York City has a "bike-sharing program" which helps the enviroment, the city, and maybe even the person, but some of the people who keep their licenses still give off more than we could get in. something that definitly boosts the car emissions is all the new technology that more and more car-makers are coming out with these days. I just beleive it is important that people learn how valuble the Earth is and how little today we respect it as our own home, so my message to all the readers is to mind how often you use your car for little things that can be resolved another sort of way. | 3 |
d751233 | If you were Luke Bombeger why woud you join in the UNRRA program? Iis it because you get to go around the world and help different types of people who servived World War II, or is it because you get to take care of animals. If I were in
Lukes place I would join the program because of both reason s taking care of people who servived and because of taking care of animals.
In the first paragraph it says "Luke Bomberger had no idea that his life would change soon after his high school graduation. He 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 opportunity of a lifetime."
Luke turned 18 before arriving in Greece, which ment he could be drafted for military service.
It took about two weekes to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States, but not for all the dangers at sea. On his second trip, Luck served as a nigt watchman. It may hav ook Luck a long time to go around the Atlantic Ocean for two weekes it was worth it because he helped people in need of food and ofter supplies to stay alive. I would have done the same too because you never know if there would be a
World War III(WWIII). | 2 |
d759791 | Have you ever thought about what the world would do without cars? and we just used bikes or trains or skate boards or even buses? well in Bogota they have a day where you dont use your car and millions just biked or skated and took buses to work or school on the car free day. Its the third year cars have been banded in Bogota and the goal is to reduce smog. The people who didnt perticipate in this were charged with twenty five dollar fines.
Bogota isnt the only place that banded cars. paris actually banded driving due to smog. In paris the people were to leave their cars at home or they would have to pay a 22-euro fine which means thirty one dollars. You would think people would listen to them, but four thousand people decided to drive so they were all charged. All though this seems good becuase there would be no air pollution it wasnt so good for delivery componies because they complained about lost revenue.
Also in Germany they permitly banned cars. seventy percent of the familys do not own cars. But fifty seven percent sold a car just to move there. People say they are much happier this way like a Heidrun, a mother of two " when i had a car i was tense. im much happier this way" as she walked the streets. David Goldburg said " All of our developements since World War II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change" he is an offical of the transportation for america, its a fast growing coalisition with hundrends of groups in the US. They are promoting new commuties that are less dependent on cars.
I feel that if the United States start doing this then the whole world might start. It would make the world a better place. There would be less air pollution or "smog" and you wouldnt have to pay fro gas anymore. Its also a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution. If you need to go somewhere just ride you bike or if its far take a bus, its as simple as that. There would be less taxes and you wouldnt have to pay anymore car payments. " recent studies suggest that americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses asa each year goes by" most people dont drive becuase they either cant afford a car or they dont have a job.
In the end this may actually start happening. Bill Ford which is th eexecutive chairman of the Ford Motor Company was talking about a business plan in which vehicle ownership is impractical. he said that cities that "pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network top save time, and improve safety." and he is completley right there will be no more car crashes or drunk drivers anymore, the world may become a better place. | 3 |
d763419 | Technology that can read your face? Wow, isn't that amazing! I've never heard of anything like it, and i thought no one would ever make anything like this! Also to try and ues it on a classroom of kids? Amazing! To create such technology had to have been super difficult. Although, it didn't seem so impossible for Porf. Thomas Huang and Prof. Nicu Sebe, the creators of the Facial Action Coding System, to create such an amazing computer system!
While reading this artical I thought to myself, "I wonder what it would be like to try and use this technology to read my peers emotions when I ask them if they are okay?", when I ask them I usually grt the sholder shrug, a sigh, or they just don't answer. But to use this technology and get an answer to the question I ask almost on a daily basis, would be amazing! I bet the teachers would love it too, because they could tell if the students really felt on a lesson, or if they just don't care enough to pay attention to what the teacher is saying.
Also if we could use this technology say, for example, two students get into a fight and neither one of them will tell how they feel about the situation, we could just use this to read how they feel, then adress the sitiation the way it needs to be. The technology could also be used for things such as theropy, for those who really don't know how to describe their feelings, or just want to be left alone to think. It could also help with seeing how people feel about diffrent situations, and they just don't want to speak up. Or if a student is getting bullied, and they don't want to talk about how they feel about it, read their face.
This new technology could be a great thing for the future. Using it to try and understand how students feel is a good thing. But also I do feel students have a choice, a choice that means if they want to have their face's read or not. If the student doesn't want their face to be read, then so be it. If the student is willing to have their face read, then so be it.
In conclusion to this essay, I find it amazing how Prof. Huang and Prof. Sebe were able to create something as amzaing as this! Jus t being able to read the face of a human is hard for people to do, but now with this new technology, we can do so much! Because a picture, in this case a face, can say a thousand words. And we can add even more words to the statement with the new Facial Action Coding System. | 3 |
d76797b | Venus is a very unique and unknown planet to us on Earth. Studying Venus would get us insight on what truly the planet of Venus is. Venus gives us many dangerous and hostile conditions, but our knowledge and cluelessness gives us even more curiousity on what the big unknown is. Our knowledge shouldn't be limited to what is possibe but should be limited to what is impossible.
Venus is one of the brightest points in the night sky. Venus is known as the " Earth's twin" while being the closest planet to Earth in density and size. "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encouter on Earth," stated from the passage. Given this information we can conclude that Venus has some unreal features and are unlike what anyone has ever seen. This planet has so much uniqueness about it and should be evaluted to the most possible limits. It holds many unknown factors of what Venus really is.
Studying Venus could bring so much more insight of the planet itself. The passage states,"Venus stil has some features that are analogous to those on Earth," this means that Venus has some features that are like the features that are present on Earth. Paragraph four states," Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in out solar system," this tells us that Venus could of once been Earth-like, but what made it change? Studying Venus could give us significant information on what Venus once was or maybe even what the Earth will turn into.
Studying Venus could be one of the most complicated and dangerous things ever done. In paragraph five it states," NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float about the fray." This possible solution could help scientists observe and evaluate Venus's surface, but would have to avoid unfriendly gound conditions. "Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans," was stated in paragraph six, it signifies that it is possible to observe Venus, but may not be the easiest mission. Despite risks of the mission," many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus. No matter the risks or how dangerous Venus is, studying Venus would be one worthy pursuit and one of the most innovative and significant observations in history.
As paragraph eight states," Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." Studying Venus would be one of the most worthy pursuits despite the dangers it presents, because it would give us information that could change the way we live today. The planet Venus gives us such curiosity that we meet the very edges of our imagination and innovation. Reading this passage, the author gave us ideas on wondering what happened to Venus, was Venus once Earth-like, and if whether or not the impossible is possible when observing Venus. No matter the dangers persented to us on Venus, studying the planet would be one of the most innovative, extraordinary, and unbelievable missions ever accomplished on Earth, that would give us such insight on our world today. | 4 |
d76a09e | The author uses many details to support their idea that Venus has value. They state that Venus is referred to as Earth's "twin" and that it is the closest to Earth when it comes to density and size. I believe this supports the claim because it means that it is fairly close and could be easily acessed for research.
The author also explains that people have sent spacecraft to land on Venus, but the missions were not completed since the crafts did not last very long. This supports the idea that there is not a lot known about Venus. It is said that the atmosphere is made up of nearly 97% carbon dioxide, and is covered with clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid, and that the surface of the planet averages over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. This tells us that Venus may not be the ideal place for human life, but still has plenty of value when it comes to research.
The article tells us that it may have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system, and that it once may have been covered by large oceans and could have possibly supported life at one time. Venus still has some features that are similar to Earth such as valleys and mountains. It also states that it is sometimes our nearest option for a planetary visit. NASA has developed an idea for sending humans to study Venus. they suggest floating above the hostile conditions, but that would make it difficult to gather samples from the ground. We are told that scientists are creating new and innovative electronics and machines to help us get a better understanding of the planet. This gives us hope that there will be a solution if we need to stay above the ground to study Venus.The author explains to us that NASA is working on more devices and even going back to some simplified electronics. I believe they explain this to show that there are still many possibilities when it comes to electronic devices for research.
The author states that Venus has value because of the insight to be gained from researching it, but the author also states that human curiousity will likely lead us to equally dangerous places, and that our travels should not be limited by dangers and doubts. I believe that this statement is true and helps support their claim because if we let ourselves be consumed by fear and doubt, nothing would ever be accomplished. | 3 |
d76d97f | I think that use of technology like this in classrooms could be a dangerous prospect. Many things could go wrong with technology like this and could have some major consequences.
First teachers could end up losing their jobs. All of this stems from what has happened in history. Take factories as an example, factories used to be full of people making and producing everything, but the recent surges in robotic workers has left many without jobs that would have otherwise been a great livlihood. This same thing could very well happen to teachers with little to no warning.
Second off there are people that are affraid to have cameras or video monitors on their children because they are known to have been hacked into and can lead to crimes including kidnapping and robbery. Adding this sort of computor facial recognition software could increase hackability of a schools network or technology. Sometimes hacks can go undetected for days or weeks at a time and once you find out it has been happening it is suddenly too late.
Finaly it would be a huge change for everyone that is currently enroled in pulic schools. Once you reach students above grade 4 it could be a struggle to get them on a different "type" of learning such as a computor program that can mold the lesson to a persons emotions. You also lose a sort of connection to the teacher. Most people remember certain teachers for certain reasons, whether they were funny, told stories, truly cared about students, or were just overall a great teacher, but all of this would be lost because no computor at this point has TRUE intelligence, some may mimic actions of intelligent life but none has achived it yet.
Adding this sort of program to schools could be extremely dangerous in many ways. People would be at risk for losing jobs, school-wide hacks, and a true emotional and phisical loss. | 4 |
d7754e9 | Using technology to read a persons facial emotional expressions is really not a bad idea, just think about a computer being able to tell if your happy,sad,mad ect .In paragraph 1 it states all the emotions that the mona lisa had in the panting when most of the world had thought of her having one emotion,now to think that she acually had almost 5 different things going on in her face in the panting.
"most human communtion is nonverbal including emotional communcaton " this is really cool becasue people in this time don't do a lot of talking,they most likeing have there face in a screen someone and if Dr. Hang decides to be more open with other companies like apple of samsang that i would be easier to tell what someone means though text or picture,becasue it really hard to decifier what someone truely means mean there not pyhsical there with you. Paragraph 8 says that this computer can tell if your putting on a true or false smile in other words if your telling a lie or not.
In conclusion Dr. hang has a truely great thing going on right now this could be a future in the next couple of years if technology it's any better that in is right now, small things like Dr. hang idea or invention can lead this world bigger and better. | 2 |
d77eb24 | Cars; our main source for travel, what we depend on. But consider how things were before cars, and can going back to those times make a positive impact? How can limiting car usage be advantagous to people, the environment, and just everything in general?
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In German Suberb, Life Goes On Without Cars by Elisabeth Rosenthal, a city has already adapted to the idea of a car free, or a non-car dependant city. They did so by having "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." This limit of parking space can cause drivers to just stop trying to drive, becauuse why bother if there is limited to no places to put the car? This change allows for people to be less stressed, and when one doesn't have a car, there's less of a rush to get somewhere because the ability to rush is gone. There's also the need of less polution that causes car usage to go down. "And that, experts say, is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes . . . . Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe . . . and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." The above quote by Elisabeth Rosenthal proves that something must be done to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions, and reducing car usage can do so. Vauban finds is useful, why doesn't everyone?
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Paris bans driving due to smog by Robert Duffer, cars were slowly banned in order to clear the air, sort of like when one puts their body through a detox. When that ended up helping, more cars were banned, and this led to the realization that cars were bad, more or less. The enviropnment needs less cars, which means we need to be less dependant on cars for everything, because soon this so- called need for cars is going to leave us gasping for breath, and that is not a good thing. "Cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions. Diesel fuel was blamed, since France has . . . tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline. Diesel makes up 67 percent of vehicles in France, compared to a 53.3 percent average of diesel engines in the rest of Western Europe, according to Reuters." The usage of diesel, which is ultimately the usage of cars, is leading to a "blanket" of air trapping the car emissions, causing pollution. The pollution is so dangerous to have just sitting there, waiting to be breathed in and choked on. After realizing that the ban of cars has been helpful for the environment, shouldn't everyone else realize it is advantagous too?
The sooner the human race stops depending on cars, the sooner the human race will be able to breath and think carefully and safely again. Everyone is aware pollution is a problem, will continue to complain about it, but then will also continue to fuel the problem, which is quite ironic isn't it? Cars are not worth losing our ability to breath, and if we realize that, then maybe we will be able to breath and see clearly again. | 5 |
d7800bf | Venus often reffered to as the Earth's twin is a close panet like Earth. It has about the same density and and size of Earth too. So Venus should be a worthy pursuit to explore.
If anything ever happens to Earth the closest planets to explore and possibly populate are Mars and Venus. But there are some dangers to exploring these planets. For example on Venus a single rover has only lasted a couple of hours on the planet. So we dont know much about the planet. But that does not mean we cant explore and gain new information about the planet that mey help us out in the future. But the reason scientist and astronomers are looking more into the planet is because in paragraph 4. It states that Venus was probally a planet like Earth that had oceans and could have supported life. Another plus to explore Venus is the chance to figure out what happened to the planet. In the articel it says it used to be just like Earth in a way. So our natural assumption is to asume that our planet will end up just like Venus. But if we take some time and continue exploring the planet we might find some new information and could possiblly save all of humanity in the future.
In conclusion the option to explore Venus still remains untuched but the positives and possibilities that could come out of this exploration are vast compared to the dangers it represents. | 3 |
d780971 | Luke' point of view of convincing others to participate in seagoings cowboys program . The text states , Luke was 18 before going to grece and when the draft board learned he was on a cattle boat trip , they told him to just keep doing his service . The text also states , it took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic ocean from the eastern coast of china to the united states and a month to get to china . The text also states , caring for the animals during the crossing kept Luke busy , they had to feed and watered water the animals two or three times a day . Luke says helping on with his aunt katie's farm as a boy had prepaired him for hard work ,but not for the dangers at sea . on his second trip , Luke served as night watchman . his job was to check on all the animals every hour . Luke said on one rainy night , after making his hourly eport to the captain , he slid down a slippery ladder on his backside , and his heart started pounding . Luke also found a way to have fun on board, especially on return when the animals have been unloaded . At the end Luke said being a seagoing cowboy was much more than an adventure , it made Luke's world open up for him . This proves that Luke's point of view convincing people to go to the seagoing cowboys program . | 1 |
d786da7 | Do we need a Facial Action Coding System in our classrooms? I agree, with using a Facial Acton Coding System in our classroom. The Facial Action Coding System could help teacher know what their students' emotions are, and if the students emotions are in negative mood or positive mood they can change their lessons so they are more interesting for the students. Not only could this help the teachers but, this may help the students be more engaged in the classroom and participate more duriung lessons when they need to. Classroom computers acn already dectect how a student is feeling by giving teh student a certain AD depending on their mood."A classroom computer could reconize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts(Paragraph 6). If you make a facial expression it not only shows how you are feeling, it can also help you produce your facial muscles. In conculsion, it woulcd be a great idea for teachers to use them in the classroom, and they probably put them in work areas so managers know how their emploees are feeling in their work area. | 2 |
d787938 | Advanatges of limiting car usage would be very useful. There are multiple ways in which doing so could benefit us citizens. There are things like pollution, and how cars are a part of the greenhouse effect. Reducing theres certain things could help poeple alot.
We have the reduction of pollution for example. There is so much pollution in this world and in the air. In Paris, they enforced a driving band to clean the air of a global city. What they did was they fined drivers in order to keep them off the streets. Their plan had worked. The smog pollution had cleared good enough that they rescind the ban forodd-numbered plates on Tuesday.
Passenger cars are responsible for 12 of greenhouse gas, and thats only in Europe. If you look at that as a world percentage, its a lot. The article says that it is a huge impediment to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions form tailpipes. Doing so would be a huge advantage to limit the car usage. | 2 |
d78d5c9 | Dear Senator:
Over the years, people have been disputing over the Electoral College. Some people want it abolished while others want it to stay. The Electoral College is not working and and it needs to be abolished. For many reasons, the Electoral College has not worked. It is unfair to the voters, it causes voters to not vote, and it is unfair to the candidates.
The Electoral College is unfair to the voters. According to source 2, :"Voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." The whole point of voting is so that you, along with many people, can decide who will be the next president! Voting for people to elect a president is just not right. It causes voters to not vote because they know that their vote really won't matter. Source 2 also states that candidates don't spend time in small states, "focusing only on the tight races in the 'swing' states." That is causing smaller states like Rhode Island and South Carolina to have less knowledge on the candidates. If I didn't know too much about a candidate, I wouldn't vote at all! Even though people in those states did vote, they might not have known a lot about the candidates and voted for the wrong person.
The people running for office want to win. Source 3 says that someone could have a higher popular vote but lose the election. Is that fair to the candidate? Winning the popular vote but losing the election? No, it isn't. Winning the popular vote means that more people want you in office. If the majority of America wants a certain person to be the president of their country, that means that the winner of the election would be the majority vote. The Electoral College denys that basic right of Americans by not letting them choose their president. That alone is unfair to the candidates and to the voters.
Now you might be saying that the Electoral College has worked for a very long time and shouldn't be changed. Although the Electoral College has been working for a long time, that is the only thing that America has tried. If America used the popular vote, it could've changed elections. The Electoral College hasn't been working because it is causing more and more voters to stop voting and it is making it where only the majority vote doesn't matter. Citizens of America should have the right to chose the president by majority vote.
In conclusion, the Electoral College is unfair to the voters, it causes voters to not vote, and it is unfair to the candidates. As an American citizen, you have the right to vote. The Electoral College is taking that away and it needs to be stopped.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 4 |
d7914dc | Driving cars can be an easy and better way to go from point A to point B, but there are other ways that you can do that without using gas or money. At times it is better to walk or ride a bike, and there are a few reasons why it is better for you to have limited car use.
Cars use up a lot of gas, which means more money you have to spend. There are a lot of people that hate to spend so much money on gas, and it is their choice to drive all around town. It's their money that they're spending. Paris baned driving due to smog. If they catch you driving with an even numbered license plate, then you have to suffer a 22-euro fine. You would be spending more money for driving if you get caught. Sometimes driving a car is not worth the money.
Ride your bike around or walk. People can be lazy sometimes. It is healthy for you to get some exercise and gain some energy. If your job or school is only a couple minutes away, then there is no need to drive your car. If you ride a bike or walk you'll get to your destination before you know it.
Car pool with some of your friends. Taking one car to the same destination with a group of people can't be so bad, it's beter than everybody in a group taking their own car. It's just a waste of gas and money. Think about how much you're saving off of a car pool.
Wasting gas and spending money is a problem around the world when it comes to driving. Walking around, riding your bike, or car pooling with a group of friends can't hurt you as much as a car can. So next time you want to go from point A to point B, think about what your transportation is going to be. | 2 |
d791bad | You're running late for work, but you still have to drop the kids off at work. Or maybe you overslept and have to get to school soon. You get everything ready for the day, jump into your car, and you drive off. Cars are very important in todays society, but limiting your car usage can have its advantages. Reducing the amount of times you use your car could help the environment, the economy, and the developement of the city you are living in.
Pollution is a topic that is heard of everywhere, yet we don't take action to prevent it. Limiting your car usage could help contribute to helping the world get rid of pollution in the air. Paris typically has mor smog than other European capitals due to their usage of diesel fuel. Diesels make up about 67 percent of vehicles in France. Paris has tried to stop people from using their cars so much and is fining them if they are. Eventually, due to so much smog and diesel usage, people will have to stop using their cars so much if they want to be abe to see where they're going when driving.
The economy will benifit from the limited usage of cars. Think about it, if we use our cars less, we don't run out of gas as fast as we usually would. If we don't run out of gas, we don't spend as much money trying to fill the tank. If we don't buy as much gas, the price of gas will decrease due to the amount the pipelines are able to store and generate at the same time. If we limit our usage of vehicles, insurance costs will decrease because people are not driving as often and there aren't as many accidents happening.
The developement of the city you live in will change in a good way for you if you limmit the usage of your vehicles. It used to be that people in thr old days wanted to move out as far as possible from their neighbors for "space". The areas and cities just kept on expanding an dit would take longer to get somewhere in town. People wanted to live in suburbans and have a job in the city. This increased the usage of cars and other vehicles. Now, people are starting to move back into the city, amking it denser. Once you live in the city, you wouldn't have to use your car to go grocery shopping beacsue there is a publix or walmart right across the street from you. People in these dense cities will start to walk or ride their bikes to work.
Parents wouldn't have to worry about being late and still having to drop of their kids. While the parent is able to drive twice to-and-from work, the kids could go to-and-from school by walkin or riding their bikes. This cuts off the usage off the car. Instead of dropping of the kids and then going to work and then going to pick the kids up and then head home, know you won't have to do that.
Limiting the amount of time you use your car for can help the world and yourself. You save money, time, and the planet all at once by using your vehicles less. On the outskirts of Freiburg, Germany, residents in a community are forbidden of street parking, driveways, and home garages. Car ownership is allowed, but you would have to park in a large garage at the edge of the developement. Along with this, you eould pay $40,000, with a home, to be a car owner. These methods are being used more and more to stop the great and unreasonable usage of cars. | 4 |
d795c90 | The author of this story does not support the idea of Venus being a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. in this article, there is only evidence supporting all the challenges that venus brings to us. The author gave no reason or claim to why a dangerous trip to venus would benefit us in any way. The author of this article does include evidence and facts about how hard it would be to get to Venus and all the challenges we would have to undergo to get to Venus.
In this article the author claims that going to Venus is hard but worthy. What makes Venus so worthy? "often referred to as earth's "twin", Venus is the closest planet to earth in terms of denisty and size." says the article of this passage in paragraph 2. but then in paragraph 2 he states that Venus has a "thick atmoshpere of 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets" and "clouds of highly corrosive sulfiric acid" "temperatures over 800 degrees Fahrenheit" and " atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet". The author gave all this evidence of the challenges we were facing to get to venus but he does not say why it is beneficial to us. he gives us more reasons to not want to go to venus.
in conclusion, this author does not support his claim of venus being worthy despite all the dangers and challenges it brings. There is no text evidence or even a reason to go to venus. the author has to include more of the benefits we can get from going to venus, instead of giving us all the challenges. | 2 |
d798cd9 | Do you think a car that could drive itself is very safe? Of course not, people that take drivers test need to be able to pass to drive in public ; If there are driveless cars then these test would not be needed and the roads would be less safe. These drivelress cars are also not safe because they are not fully able to drive themselves, they have a sensor which could have technical difficulties, and if the technology fails it would bring problems to the owner and manufacturer.
The cars need an alert driver at all times, Google has had cars that can drive themselves under certain conditions since 2009 but need a driver to take over during times. In the text it says "they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues," but if the driver is not alert a wreck could happen.
Secondly, the cars should not drive themselves because they need a ton of sensors. The sensors needed in Google's modified Toyota Prius are uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor. All of these sensors and I still have not named the most important one. A dubbed LIDAR is the most important part of the technology, it is on the roof of the car and it spins. In the article it says "it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroudings" but if this is blocked then it cannot sense and there could be a wreck
Overall after those 2 reasons, the last reason would be who to blame when wecking. Accidents happen all the time but in the text it says "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault--the driver or the manufacturer?" because when tecnology fails its noones fault but someone will want justice. | 3 |
d799e31 | The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers very effectively by discussing the dangers of Venus, comparing Earth and Venus, and bringing up innovative methods of getting past the obstacle of Venus' harsh conditions.
The author brings up the dangers of exploration on Venus throughout the article.
In Paragraph 3, he says, "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth; such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of out oceans and would liquefy many metals."
It is explained that the atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide, the temperature is over 800 degrees Farenheit, and the geology and weather make up a dangerous environment.
The author's use of these specific details and descriptions informs the reader how dangerous Venus really is, and sparks their curiousity for the benefits of exploring Venus.
The author explains in Paragraph 4 that Venus was likely much like how Earth is now, with oceans and a supportive environment for the growth of living things.
Today, Venus is rocky, with similar geographical features to Earth.
By providing the reader with this information, the author helps build the understanding of the importance of Venus to humans on Earth.
This new insight teaches readers that because Venus is so similar to Earth, it would be important to gain more knowledge on it.
In Paragraph 5, the author talks about NASA's solution of using a floating vehicle to study Venus in survivable conditions.
He later encourages people to view the risks as challenges that inspire innovation.
Innovation leads to improved technology and better, more effective ways to gain knowledge on Venus.
One example of this innovation is "simplified electronics made of silicon carbide."
Another example is more work on mechanical computers, that "can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces."
The author supported his idea that studying Venus is worth the risks by explaining all of the ways that
scientists are working to improve methods of exploring Venus.
This support is useful because it can inspire the reader and provide important information.
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author effectively supports his idea that studying Venus is worth the danger by listing those dangers, explaining benefits of gaining insight on Venus, and discussing the ways scientists are currently working towards better exploring technology. | 3 |
d79dfff | In this article reguarding the chances of humans living or visiting Venus, the author in the does a good job of telling the reader that Venus may have a chance of humans visiting the planet, but not living there because it is too hot. Venus has a lot of Earth like sructures such as mountains, valleys, and oceans. If I was a scientist i would want to study and maybe even see it from outer space because of all its unique features it has. The planet is very closely related to Earth and would be liveable on if it was not so hot there. Venus has storms just like Earth does, like tornadoes earthquakes and thunderstorms. Venus also has very large mountains and craters to go along with them. These features give the planet one of our nearest options to visit, given among the frames of space travel.
Venus can be seen from humans on Earth because of it being the closest planet to Earth and because of how red and bright it is. The planet may not be as big as Earth, but the brightness of the planet makes the planet seem much bigger than it actually is. Scientists from NASA are coming up with an idea to send humans to study Venus. The author states that the scientists' solution is that they will allow these scientists to float above and survey since they would not be allowed to land on the planet because of how hot it is. They could take videos and pictures of the planet circling around it.
Scientists are stiving to try and study Venus and all the value it has. Not just because it has gained insight on itself, but because of all the curiosity that scientists have on the planet. Scientists should not be worried about all the dangers that come with the challenges of visiting or researching the planet from outer space because scientists shoulf expand and meet their expectations of their imagination innovation. | 2 |
d7a0626 | Mr. Senator I think the presidents should be elected by populer vote.
Thats how it was back when our founding fathers first came to have there frist president and thats how it should be now. I mean if we're going to be judged be our peers shouldnt we be elected by them to. When it comes down to it who exactle is voting for us and can we control who we'er voting for and from the evedence shown in "What's wrong with the electoral college" no we can't. And no matter who are what we vote for all were doing is expressing a political preference it dosent matter at all to them what we want all they care about is what they want and what they think is best. When it my be best for them but not for the rest of us.
If we'er all going to have to live with who wins for the next four years shouldnt we all get a vote. | 2 |
d7a5814 | The advantages of limiting car usage would be better because passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in europe. And up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the united states. Diesel fuel was blamed since france has a tax poilcy that favors diesel over gasoline. Diesels make up 67 percent of vehicles in france, compared to a 53.3 percent average of diesel engines in the rest of western europe, according to reuters.
The day without cars is part of an improvement campaign that began in bogota in the mid-1990s. It has seen the consruction of 118 miles american city, according to mockus, the city's mayor. Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramaticly cut traffic; and new resturants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up.
I think that this a great idea to do and demographic shifts in the driving population suggest that the trend may accelerate. There has been a large drop in the percentage of 16- to -39 year olds getting a licenses as they age, mr. sivak's research has found. A study last year found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. | 2 |
d7a9add | The Electoral College shows many reasons why we should change it to popular vote. Like for instance The Electoral college is not fair, but by voting with popular vote not only will more people vote but more people will vote for who they want to vote and not get confused and vote for the wrong candidate.
Theres many reasons why the Electoral College isnt fair like, how Bradford Plumer stated during the 2000 campaign a variety of states that didnt vote because of not being able to see a campaign ad and they did that because some candidates dont focus on the states that they know theyre not gonna win. But by voting with popular vote you get to vote for who you want, everone gets to vote because every state would be equal and people would vote for the president and not for the slate of electors.
yes, maybe the Electoral College could be good for something for like winning. Also if you think about it, it could be worse like even worse than the 2000 fiasco election, and plus the Electoral College avoids run-off elections so thats a good thing if you want a clear winner.
Other than that popular vote is much more sufficient than Electoral vote because its much more fair and with popular vote everyone votes on who they want to vote and every state gets the same, equal treatment as the others. | 2 |
d7ad755 | I am all for driverless cars in the future because, they can handle driving functions up to 25 mph, they can steer, accelerate, and brake by themselves, and use half the fuel of today's cars. First, the driverless car can help our increasing numbers of accidents decline, by using vibrating seats that alert the driver that he close to hitting something. They also, are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills to navagate through work zones and around accidents. Next, the new
driverless car will use half the fuel of today's cars, which will help our enviournment by not putting so much pollution into our air, and they offer way more flexibility than a bus. Also, Google has cars that can drive independtly since 2009. Their cars have driven over half a million miles without any accidents. Finally, the most important techmology is the spinning sensor on the roof. Dubbed LIDAR, it uses laser beams to form a constanly updating 3-D modle of the cars surroundings. the combination input in necessary to mimic the driving skills of a human driver. In conclusion, I would like to have driverless cars because, it can handle driving functions up to 25 mph, they can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, and also use half the fuel of today's cars, leading to a healthier enviuornment. | 3 |
d7af7ab | Cars are one of the most common things in most countries today. Not a day goes by where a person will not see a car drive by, it has become the main use of transportation and, for the most part, can be the easiest use of transportation. But, so many people have been getting cars lately, that some problems have been arising. For example, the gas that cars release can be harmful to the environment, cars overall have been making people much less active, and we can easily use electric cars instead of cars that run on gasoline.
To begin with, cars release chemicals from the gasoline that can pollute the air. "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." (Duffer 10). This states that the air has been getting so polluted that some cities have been temporarily banning the use of cars because of this issue. Earth has been getting too polluted and destroyed lately, to the point that some people have been trying to predict an "end is nigh" date due to all of these issues with earth. Scientists have been talking about global warming for years now, and the problems we have been having with the greenhouse effect and the ozone layer. "President Obama's ambitious goals to curb the United States' greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will get a fortuitous assist from an incipient shift in American behavior: recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." (Elisabeth Rosenthal 29). So it seems that the lower use of cars by Americans has been helping the atmosphere and postponing the date of the complete destruction of the ozone layer. That was why cars have such a big impact on the environment as a whole.
Next, cars have also been making people less active. One of the largest issues for parents in today's world is trying to get their children away from the computer, television, and cell phone. Technology has lessened the need for toys and books, since children entertain themselves with games on their tablets or books they download also on the tablet. But cars play a big part in this. When a person first gets a car, he/she feels free. You feel like the world is yours because you can go anywhere. But the problem is that people become less social with cars. Instead of going to play a sport with some friends, most people would rather drive somewhere else. It is also the reason the United States is ranked second in country with the most overweight people, vehicles are so unexpensive here that anyone is able to purchase a car and drive to their destination instead of riding a bicycle or skateboard and getting some real exercise. "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks" (Selsky 28). This also shows the improvement on the cities' sidewalks and the increase of people attending parks. Without cars, the streets look better and people recieve more exercise.
Finally, the use of cars is quite a problem but there is another solution: Electric cars. Electric cars are a new invention, and for the past decade they have been atempting at perfecting an electric car. The brand,
Tesla , has already released a few electric cars that seem to work quite well. The vehicles make no noise when driving, and they even have a new "sportsy" look to them, for th young adults that want a nice looking car. But the only problem is the battery. Electric cars are being banned in some states due to the lack of reliability with these batteries. They have not yet been perfected, and can cause accidents. But even with the risk one would be taking while driving one of these cars on the streets, it is still a fantastic replacement for normal cars, since it does not release anything that can harm the environment. So the best solution would be to wait a few years until the batteries get better and the prices drop, then purchase an electric car, but still know when to stop using it and ride the bicycle instead. Combining the use of a battery rather than gasoline, and not overusing the car, you will have the perfect combination, which is what everybody should strive to accomplish. Help the environment, and get the right amount of exercise.
In the end, cars are still one of the most common and one of the greatest things on Earth today. Getting a first car is a dream come true, but too much of it can be harmful. So get some use out of the bicycle, avoid poisoning the atmosphere, and cars will be a vehicle with no reprocautions at all, and it will be the perfect source for transportation, while keeping your morals where they should be. | 5 |
d7b02d4 | The author explains very well why Venus is a worhty pursuit despite its dangers. The author explains that Venus is a good planet to pursit for may reasons. reasons that explain why its wrothy and why its a good planet to try to arrive in. Venus is a good planet acorrding to the author.
Venus is the only planet in the solar system that was earth-like. This planet used to be covered largely with oceans and could have supporred various of life forms. The author is saying that long ago this planet was capable hold life. Even though This planet is noe over 800 degrees and has a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon diioxide this planet eas oce like earth. Thats not all veus sill has some features that are analogous to thopse of earth.the planet has a surface of rocky sediment and inclides familiar features such as valleys,mountains, and craters. Venus is the nearest option for a planetay visit.
I conclution even though venus has very hot tempature cause its the second closest planet to the sun it still has a capability to be lived on.This planet used to have oceans and tempatures that were able to be lived in.it is save to say that this planet used to be capable to hold live froms where one could live | 2 |
d7b2856 | The text is telling the readr that the new technology that is called the (face action coding system). th enformatiom frome the text and according to some new computers softwere that can recognize emotions. The software is the for advanced science at the university of illinois working in collaboration.
the information that the auther said was that she was
(83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry ). thats good infor matin frome one picture and thay scand the picutre and found that out.
What the text did was give me a lot of information and i never know that technolgy do that and it tells peopl waht pople face apretions is so nobody wont be confused.
in the text the process begin when the computer constucts a 3-D computer model of the face of all 44 major muscles in the model must move like a human muscles is called an action unit . the computer scan emotions | 1 |
d7b59ec | It can be valuabe because it will keep students from getting bored and falling asleep or not paying attention to actully staying on track. In paragraph six he says 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." He also says that "Most human communication is nonverbal,including emotional communication and computers need to understand that to."In paragah 5 he says that"The computer can even be used on paintings such as the "Mona Lisa." In paragah 1 he says "The Mona Lisa is 83 percent happy,9 percent disgusted,6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry'. Could any normal person say that about the Mona Lisa I don't think anyones possibly of doing that. Therefore I think that reading the emotional expresions of students in a classroom is valuable becasue it could change the way students and other people learn and think about school They'll be alot more motivated and more focused on their work because the computer is adjusting to how they feel weither if its beening bored or confused it could modify itself to make it not as boring or have the student actully understand it. Its also changing the future if technogly such as video game chartchers and video surgey its making their faces more exoressive which gives gamers a sense of knowledge on how the chartcher is feeling about the certian suitation their in or by giving gamers a certain type of feeling toward that chartcher like their there in the action or have a feeling of like what they would do in the situation or the game. | 2 |
d7b6d6c | People should do the Seagoing Cowboys program because just like I have been in it there are a lot of great things to do out there in the sea. I started out when I graduated in high school when my friend told me if I wanted to go to a trip to Europe. When I accepted to go to this trip to Europe I went to a "Seagoing Cowboy" program where I got to take care of animals like young cows, horses, and mules. This helped me how to take better care for animals.
Besides helping all the animals that I could I went on many trips as well. One of the trips that I went to was to China, and also went to a gondola ride to Venice, Italy, and a city with big streets of water. I even toured to an excavated castle in Crete, and even marveled at the Panama Canal when I was headed to a trip to China.
When I was crossing to the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States
it took two weeks and a Month to get to China. While I was waiting to get to China I got busy because I had to feed the animals and watered two or three times a day. I had to check up on them every hour and report to the captain. When the animals got unloaded I had some time to play baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where the animals had lived. After last that I was happy to go to the trips that I went to and helped me with things I will do in the future. | 3 |
d7c5fc6 | Dear Mr. Senator,
We, the people of Florida are concerned about the Electoral College system. I am writing to you to explain our opinions on this way to elect our president. I believe that the Electoral College should not be used to choose the president of the United States because it lacks reasoning, it is unfair to voters, and misloyalty and mistakes can easily occur.
The Electoral College should be abolished due to the simple fact that many voters do not feel that is fair or have equality during the elections. In the article, The Indefensible Electoral College: Why Even the Best-laid Defenses of the System Are Wrong, it states, "During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't see a single campaign." Various people do not have any connection with the candidates that have a chance to be in control of the country they live in. The candidates only worry about the toss-up states, because they know in the other states they have no chance of winning, which is not fair for some areas and should be changed. States are forgotten and not considered, which is unacceptable when they live in a place of equality.
The abolishment of the Electoral College should occur, because it is irrational and lacks correct organization. When a tie occurs in the electoral vote, the election is dependent on the House of Representatives, therefore the state delegations vote on the candidates. With this said, representatives of small populated areas would have the equality of representatives in over populated states that include thirty-five million voters. In addition there has been accidents where a candidate has more popular votes than his opponent but fewer electoral votes, therefore he does not win. The numbers are not put into thought.
Unlike the popular votes, misloyalty is a large problem and a possibility of the Electoral College system. The people are not voting for the president, instead they are voting for a slate of electors, who supposedly elect the president. The process is very disorganized, because all the states choose the electors differently and have no control of whom they are voting for. In the article, In Defense of the Electoral College, it states, "But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee (and that trust is rarely betrayed)." Its advocates realize the misloyality yet they ignore it. With the Electoral College there are many possibilities that the president elected did not win fairly or without contributing to their success.
The Electoral College has been used for several years, but there is a need for change. Its advocates claim that mistakes rarely occur and should not be abolished for those reason, but I belive they should still be put in consideration and not be ignored.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Campos | 4 |
d7c93c3 | Did you know that 25 years from May 24,2001 a weird shaped face was spotted on Mars.Some say that it was alien life, but I beieve that it was just a misunderstanding.I believe this because weird landforms shape on the face of Earth, there are weather effects on Mars to cause this erosion,and the picture they took in 1976 had clouds and fog in the way so there was a blurr and you could not even tell what the mysterious figure.
Anything can pop up out of any type of weathering.There is weather on Mars and the weather there could have made an annoynomous figure that obviously looked like a face. There are many explanitions for what happened such as the picture being tooken of of content.
The picture was tooken not on land, but in the air over clouds and fog. So it could have really been somehing diffeerent under the fog and clouds.
In conclusion,The landform was nothing but a landform that was coveredin clouds and fog that was tooken out of content. | 2 |
d7c9776 | When people thing of the future they think of the movie "Back To The Future" hoping that one day the society we live willone day become like that. Technology has advanced and scientists have found ways to make the movie fantasy of the 80's come to life. But, are driverless cars really a great thing for this society?
I believe that a driverless car is a frightening thing to see, even thought there are great pros that come with the idea, cons win in my belief. For example, car accidents happen almost all the time and they can be deadly. With a driverless car would be even worst. Who is it that we are to blame? The driver of the manufacturer? This also, questions new traffic laws if they were to be put in plan. It is already worst enough in my belief that we as amaericans have to go to a court a argue our arguement, to then have to sit infront of a judge that decides wether it is my fault of the fault of the manufacturer. It believe that it would not be a fair fight.
Car accidents, and court dates can be deadly both physically and mentally. But you know what is more deadly? Obesity. Did you know that the United States of America has the most Obesity rate in the whole world? Now, do we really want driverless cars that just take us anywhere we want, to the point that the only walking I would do is from the parking lot the the inside of the store? Children are the new face of America the futurte is held in our hands.
It would be insane to see a young adult dead at the age of just twenty-one. We are already fighting obesity and trying to lower the rate, but if we add more to the problem instead of helping it, America's death rate will be massive. More that it already is.
Obesity is one thing but going bankrupt is another. In our modern society today. Our world is surrounded by technology, we thrive off if it, we live, it. We breath it. It is like an addicting drug that not even a reheb center can fix, but it just takes self control, that people today don't seem to have. Techonology is so expensive that people are willing to give to great lengths to spoil their children with. There are more important things that driverless car, that could cost up to more than your house. For example, utility bills, they have to be paid without them you don't have much to live for then, they driverless car is not going to feed you. What is even worst in my belief is if you go bankrupt and loose everything you've worked up for just to then waste is all on a car that could later kill you or make you fatter. Either way you die, right?
In conclusion, driverless cars will be a bad impact on our society, and I believe that if we agree to an aburd thing such as a driverless car that our ecomomic system will have such a downfall. with obese children and poor people walking around that we will enter such a horrible downfall in health, money and large amounts of death rates. | 3 |
d7cf2df | The article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" talks about how humans could explore the planet Venus also it talks about how humans could have a chance to live there. In the text it says, "Astronomers are facinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth - like planet in our solar system." This means humans could possibly have a chance to live on Venus since at some point it had the same features as Earth has right now. Features that Venus had alike Earth are, valleys, mountains, and craters.
Venus is the closest planet to Earth terms as like in density, size and distance. In the article says, " Venus sometimes called "Evening star" is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky." This means we can possibly seea point of Venus's light at night. This means that Venus is so close to Earth that we can see a point of light at night from Venus. Mars and Venus are our planetary neighbors in the solar system.
Venus is so alike Earth, but the differences are in speed. This means thats sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus. This wouldn't help us live in Venus like how Nasa predicts. Humans haven't sent a spaceship to Venus in three decades, because it haven't survived the landing for more than a few hours. This means humans would die trying to land in Venus.
The temperatures in Venus are super high for a human to be able to live with. In the text it says, " Venus has the hottes surface temperature of any planet in our solar system." This shows that the conditions of weather are un - risistable for humans. The article talks about how Venus has the average temperature of 800 degrees Fahrenheit. This means that with the pressure and heat many storm disasters happens such as erupting volcanoes and prowerful earthquakes.
In conclusion the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" gives information on how humans have explored the planet Venus. Earth is close to Venus this helps Nasa to send spaceships to explore it easier. The spaceships Nasa has sent to Venus in the past years don't survive for long. Nasa has gathered information from times they explored Venus. They discovered that Venus have features alike Earth. For example Earth and Venus have mountains, valleys and craters. This means Venus can be our possible nearest option for a planetary visit in the future even though the temperatures in Venus are higher than Earth's. | 3 |
d7d0216 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers in presents. The details that help support this claim is that for example "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus, because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." Another reason is that, " Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth.." the author then begins to mention some of the features that Venus has as well as Earth, such as valleys, mountains and craters. Now despite the dangers that could and can come from taking a visit down to Venus hasn't stopped NASA from trying to find ways to make this mission "both safe and scientifically productive". Within the text it states that, "NASA has one particulary compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus." then it gives examples such as a "blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the rolling Venusian landscape." NASA is still working on other possible approaches to make this mission happen. Sure there may be many challenges effecting Scientisits and researchers from exploring and studying Venus, but that dosen't mean its impossible. Towards the end of the of the text the last supporting details that conclude that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents is the follwoing, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." and "Our travles on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation.". In conclusion studying Venus is absolutley worthy to persue dispite the dangers it presents. | 3 |
d7d09c0 | The electoral college needs to be kept, it is the easiest way to vote for a presidential canidate. People may not like it because the people who are voting for a president really are not voting for the president, their voting for the electors to vote for the president. Which makes sense, but the electoral college is simple and yet very reliable in many ways people dont see.
The electoral college is based of popularity in a state. I can see why people dont like that because certain states like florida has the maximum of 29 electoral votes, but wyoming only has a maximum of 3 electoral votes. The presidential canidates look for states that have the most electoral votes, but they also need more votes than the other canidate so every vote counts.
Citizens may think that the canidates dont care about their state, but they do in more ways than you think. The electoral college has a requirement, trans-regional appeal, which means that a canidate is popular in a certain region of the U.S for example, Mitt Romney he was the most popular in the south in 2012's election. Romney did not canpain heavily in the south so he did not gain any electoral votes by increasing his popularity in the states he knows he would win in.
The electoral college is definatly something to argue about but in my opinion it should be kept. The Electoral college may seem a bit unfair but its also the most easiest desion making tool when it comes to electing. Its been around for years it would make no sense to get rid of it. | 3 |
d7d13df | Dear State Senator,
The Electoral College is a process not a place. When the founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and also a popular vote of approved citizens. That should stay remain the same they should not be any change to the Electoral College system.
The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electorals. When the electors have a meeting thats when they are able to for the President, Vice President that is running for office. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors, majority of 270 electoral vote, is to elect the President. Each state is entitled allotment in its Congressional delegation which means one for each member in the House of Representives plus two for your Senators.
Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated three electors and are treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College. Each candidate that is running in the election has their own group of electors, generally chosen by the candidate's political party. The presidential election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The voters help choose their state's electorals when they voted for the President, when they vote for the candidate they are actually votin for the candidate's electors. Voters are more likely to pay attention to the efforts the candidate put to win the election like the campagin.
The Electoral College system has a method called "winner- take-all that awards all the electors to the winning presidental candidate. After the presidental election the state governor will prepare a "Certificate of Ascertainment" that which list all the of the candidates that ran for office, along with the names for their respective electors. The Certificate of Ascertainment also declares the winner of the presidental candidate of your state. The Certificate of Ascertainment is sent to the Congress and the National Archives as part of the offical records of presidential election. | 1 |
d7dbef8 | Having this type of technology can help people understand others emotions in many ways. It is obvious that this type of technology can not only help others understand students emotions, but possibly help the students who are feeling a certain way. I think that using this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in the classroom is valuable.
Having technology that can help show how a person is truly feeling is hepful in so many ways. For example, helping a person out who is feeling sad. A student in the classom is normally good at hiding their true emotions or how they are really feeling, but with this technology, a teacher could possibly help this student out once finding out that the student was upset or bothered with something either inside or outside of the classroom. Another way this technology is valuable is by being able to notice when a student is flustered or angry about not understanding a certain part of what they are learning. Not only can this technology determine one emotion, but can determain mixed emotions. This could help a lot when a student in the classroom may not fully understand a topic they are learning but say they understand it completly.
Having the chance to use this technology can help students further understand the subject they are on, because the teacher for sure recognizes that the student may not understand it. This also means teachers have more of the oppertunity to help their students out mentally. The use of this technology in classroms is very valubale for many obvious reasons. | 3 |
d7e01ba | There are many reasons I think you should join the "Seagoing Cowboys" program. But I am going to tell you about some of my thoughts. I was just a small town boy when my friend brought up this proposal. I couldn't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity. You get to go to Europe by cattle boat. You get to take care of people and animals. Who doesn't love animals? You get to bring them food.
These animals and humans have been through too much. It is the least we can do. During the trip I became old enough to go to the military, but the recruits saw what I was doing and they told me to stick to it. I was serving my country in my own way.
I also got to take multiple trips, so if you are really into it you get multiple chances to help others. I think I took around 9 trips. But it isn't all work and no fun I actually got to see Europe, China, the Acropolis in Greece, go on gondola rides in Venice,Italy, explore an excavated castle in Crete, and I was astonished by the Panama Canal on my way to China. I wouldn't have seen any of those places if I hadn't taken the risk and become a "Seagoing Cowboy." But don't get the wrong impression it was hard work, definitley. But it was worth it seeing people and animals treated the way they should be.
I also had some cowboys I got to pass time with. We would play baseball and volleyball games where the animals had been housed. We had table-tennis tournaments, we would do fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and other various games.
But being a cowboy taught me many lessons. How to not be greedy because there are those who are less fortunate then us. It taught me to take a risk, work as a team, succeed as a team. I gained awareness about the people from different countries and different races. I almost lost my life on one of those trips but I would have lost my life doing something I truly loved. So that is why I think you should become a "Seagoing Cowboy." So are you in for the long haul? | 4 |
d7e4bda | In Source One the story talks about the advanges of redusing car usage in the German areas. It states that cars produse about 12% of greenhouse gas in Europe and about 50% in major car usage areas in the United States. Also, street parking is generally forbidden on the outskirts of Freiburg. Even though Vauban's street are completly "car-free", except the main thoroughfare. Car ownership is allowed, but there is only two places to park, in a large garage outside their development where a space costs $40,000, or in their own homes. Because of this, about 70% of families in Vauban don't own car(s). Along with 57% of people that sold their car so they could move to Vauban.
In Source Two, in Paris, everyone who drove a car was fined, in two days about 4000 peopole were fined? That isnt actually a alot for a whole city, which is great news. Paris uses diesel fuel instead of gasoline, and now Paris is blaming that on their air pollution. Paris usually has more smog than any other European capital.
In Source Three, Bogota, Colombia has the Day Without Cars, where only public buses and taxis are allowed to drive in the city, anyone driving a car will be fined $25. the Day Qithout Cras started in the mid-1990s, and since then 118 miles of bicycle paths have been built. Parks and sport areas have also been built, along with more restaurants and shops near streets that used to be heavy with traffic, but now leave room for people to stop and visit.
In Source Four, it states that in the United States, young people driving decreased by 23% between 2001 and 2009. Recent studies show that Americans are buying fewer cars and getting fewer licenses each year. | 1 |
d7e7480 | I believe that choosing the president of the United States should be choosen by popular vote and not by the Electoral Collage. I believe this way because I think that the people should have the right to choose who represent their country, not the House of Representatives/Senate. The Electoral College in most cases is unfair to most voters because of the whole "winner-take-all policy". Some states have less electoral votes given to them and that may seem unfair to some. The Electoral College method is basically electors that elect the president and not the people which I think is completely useless.
I believe that the best argument should be between the people and not members of the Electoral College. The most worrying part of using the Electoral College to vote for the president and vice president insteded of using the peoples votes is that the elections are just being thrown to the House of Representatives, where the state delegates choose the president and the Senate will choose the vice president. Candidates dont't spend time in states they know will have no chance of winning. they only focus on the tight races in "swing states" that are most likely to pay closes attention to the campaign. The Electoral College puts most of the weight on the large states because of their large populations.
Getting rid of the Electoral College is a better decison for the people so they get a say in how they want their county to be and not how the goverment wants the country to be. If we use the peoples vote we would get more accurate votes and it would be fair for everyone. The Electorlal College is pretty much what the government wants rather than what the people want which is why many citizens have problems with our current president, so if the people could just get a say in who they think should run the country they should. When we vote for a presidential candidate we are actually voting for a slate of electors and not for the president. Some of the smaller states don't get to see any campaign ads like the larger states do so they are basically putting the fate of the presidency in the hands of a few swing voters.
The Electoral College is hurting our county because we are not getting the accurate votes we think we're getting. Citizens are not going to want to vote anymore because of how unfair these campaigns are. Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think a single vote may decide an election. | 3 |
d7ea7e9 | Sometimes electoral vote elects the right president sometimes. But knowing u can have more individual votes than the other canidate and lose to that person all because they have more electoral votes sounds wrong.
2000 election biggest presidecial controversity since 1888. Al Gore vs. George W. Bush 2000 election Al wins majority individual votes but Bush wins since he had majority electoral votes(271 to 266).many people beleive the electoral colledge should be demolished because the people are supposed to vote for the person they want for president not the state.
538 is the number of electoral votes. But only 270 is needed to automatically become the president. The problem is there are states with 3 and there are states with 20 it seems unfair to some states because they may be small compaired to some states but isn't fair if we just abolish the electoral colledge. it gives the people what they want and it puts the right president in charge.
Its a great idea to abolish the electoral colledge it makes the people happy and if we make a wrong choice its are fault we can deal with it we've been through way worse. | 2 |
d7f2966 | Hi my name is Luke and I am going to be telling you some interesting parts about the Seagoing Cowboys program that might convince you to become a of it soon.
One interesting part that I liked about it was the cattle-boat trips I went on. On the cattle-boat trips I helped watched the animals so they were fed and healthy. I was also a part of helping many people and animals. Maybe you would like to be a part in that.
My favorite part about the whole thing was I got to see many interesting places and famous sites. I got to go to Venice,Italy to see the streets of water. I also toured an excavated castle in Crete. That was amazing! I also saw the Panama Canal on my way to China. I bet you would love to see some interesting historical sites that you might possibly share with some people.
If some of you like fun games like baseball, volleyball, table-tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, and whitting you would sure love to become one of the cowboys. Me and all of the other cowboys played these games after the animals were unloaded from the ship. We played where they stayed at. It was a fun time!
It wasn't just an adventure for me it opened up the world to me. I was grateful for this opportunity. I hope you will be too. If you loved what you heard then please become one of the Seagoing Cowboys soon! | 3 |
d7f7ef8 | This technology is good it can be used help computers understand how humans are fealing and can also be used in schools to identify if a student needs help on a peoblme are confused by some type of question.
If they use this technology in schools the computer can teach more or less of a subject baced on someones faicial expressions to it. It can also be used by teachers to help the students understand how to complete the problme by explaining it to them and useing the ficial identifier to talk to students and students talk to the teacher
This technology can be used in text messageing like emojies but baced on your real ficial emotions and it could be used to help stand scacasm and be used to react to thanges someone told you or you heard about.
This technology would be relly usefull on webcites like youtube by giveing the maker of the videos real reactions when something funny,sad or nasty happens so the maker can go off the peoples reactions and make videos baced to a reaction the maker wants to see in conclusion the facial action codeing system can be used in schools to help the student understand the proplme and teach on there fical expression it can be used on youtube to help the maker of the videos unserstand peoples reactions it can even be used in messageing apps on your phone like emojies to react to something your friend sent you. | 2 |
d7fcf4b | "If our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing further visits to it's surface?" is what the author said to introduce the discussion that scientists have been having. One of the ideas that the author supports their claim was the conspiricy that venus might have been earth before earth. "Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and include familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters" and there are some evidence of previous forms of life. On the planets surface temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. So that would be a set back on the idea of exploring the planet and also Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system.
NASA's possible solution to the such hostile conditions is to have a blimp-like vehicle floating above 30-50 miles in the air to study the planet. Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many unfriendly ground conditions. This possible solution would put them at like 170 degrees Fahrenheit but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on earth. "Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans".
However, flying over Venus from a ship or hovering object would be safe but it would only provide limited "insight" on groung conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, More importantly researhers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else form a distance. But for me I think its a great idea, I like the solution to the issue. | 1 |
d7fd73d | on the earth cars or any motored vechle are generally accepted due to how long we have had them in our society. Cars are creating green house gases that are polluting the earth. in the France cars have been banned and have lead to geat things. Making suburbs much more compact then they are right now will lead to less car usage.
"All of our development since World war 2 has been centered on car,and that will have to change" said David goldberg, an official of transportation for America. but nothing has gotten better since all this years. pollution of greenhouse gases in the uk are up to 12 percent and in the united states an estimate of atleast 50 percent in most car intensive areas. Mr. goldberg also stated "how much you drive is as important as whether you have a hybrid" which is also something that is not taken into account.
In paris there had a offical ban from drving your cars, people who were caught driving cars were fined up to 22-euro($31).Cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emisssions. Caris typically has more smog than other european capitals with paris having up to 147 micro grams of particulate matter (pm) per cubic meter compared with 114 in brussels and 79.7 in london, reuters found. Congestion was down 60% after just five-days of intensifying smog which even rivaled places such beijing and china.
Suburbs and cities are very wide leading to one of the main reasons for motored-vechile. But there have been efforts in the last two decades to make cities denser which have lead to greatly less car usasge. Places like vauban,home to 5,500 residents within a rectangular square mile. Vauban having made its suburbs compact and public transportantion has lead to it being a very well success.
People do not understand what effects cars are having on the world but hopefully them will before this issues go even farther. With cars creating greenhouse gases that are destroying the atmosphere in large sections of are planet. But places such as paris have been finally trying to make a differences and put a partial ban on cars. and one of the best ways could be to make cities and suburbs more compact. Hopefully now you have taken something away from this. | 2 |
d80032d | The Facial Action Coding System is it useful? Yes, it would be useful because people might be able to be into things that they would probably get board with. Students may finally be willing to learn stuff on thier own instead of being forced to learn something they are not intrested in. this can all come true if we make the facial action coding sytem available to stores around the world.
The Facial Action Coding System is a program that can read a person's emotions. When a person is frustrated the program can alter the screen to help the person better understand something or to help them become less frustrated. This program can also inform a teacher that a student does not understand what they are doing. This also can help the teacher do his or her job better. the advnced science at the university of illinois working in colaboration with prof are developing better ways for humans and computers to comunicate.
This program is able to help read emotions and determines what a person is feeling. It does this by reading complex algorithms that were also used to decode mona lisa's smile. This program picks up the smallest details like when you raise the corners of your lips. Also it can pick up when you squint your eyes you produce a wrinkle called crowsfeet at the croners of you eyes.
This program should be available to stores world wide because it could create a solution to much confusion and frustration. This program could make people want to learn stuff. Also this program can be cool and fun for people to try. Another thing would be that Ferinsics caan use this to tell what people are feeling and determine if the are nervous about somthing or not. | 3 |
d80564c | Come to Seagoing Cowboy Pogram
Seagoing Cowboy Program is the best program anyone could go to in their life.
If you come to Seagoing Cowboy Program, you wouldn't regret it one bit.
You will have a once in a lifetime opportunity if you go to Seagoing Cowboy Program.
In the beginning,
if you have nothing to do, then go to Sagoing Cowboy Program.
If you go to Seagoing Cowboy Program, it will be a once in a lifetime opportunity and it will be a time you will never forget.
Luke got a chance to go to Europe on a cattle boat.
He knew he could never pass up a once in a lifetime opportunity, so he went and his whole life changed.
Luke and Don signed up to recover these countries food supplies, animals, and more.
"UNRRA hired Seagoing Cowboys to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas."
If you love helping animals, then this is the right job for you.
Luke and Don had the chance to travel all over the world and go overseas to a different country.
"But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger... it opened up the world to him.
It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs."
Luke Bomberger and Don Reist could never had done something that is as amazing as the Seagoing Cowboy Program and they will never forget it.
"In August 1945, they recieved their orders to report to New Orleans."
To sum up my thoughts, you now see that Seagoing Cowboy Program is the best progrmathat anyone could ever go to in their lifetime.
You wil have a once in a lifetime opportunity if you go Seagoing Cowboy Program.
If you go to Seagoing Cowboy Program, you wiil have the best time of your life.
Go to Seagoing Cowboy Program in the very near future. | 3 |
d809e7a | NASA received a photo from Viking 1, in 1976, and it appeared to be a face. In 1998, a higher resolution picture came in and in 2001 an even higher resolution picture came in. NASA scientist thought aliens created this. But they didn't it was just a Martian mesa. A few days after they figured out it was a Martian mesa, NASA unveiled the image for all to see. The caption on it noted a "huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes,nose,and mouth." Authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars. And it certainly did! The
"Face on Mars" has since become a pop icon. It starred in a Hollywood film, appears in books, magazines, radio talkshows- even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years! The picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa. The "Face on Mars" wasn't an actually face. It was only a Martian mesa. If scientist actually proved aliens are real I'm sure they won't tell the public. | 1 |
d80af93 | We drive places all the time. Everytime you turn your car on you pollute the atmosphere. There are many reasons for why we need to cut back on cars. Starting with how much the parking spots cost in cities,The pollution in our atmosphere, and the crowding of all the cars .There are way to many people on the roads.
First, Vaubans streets are completely car free,(Author Elizabeth Rosental, paragraph 2). As a result of going car free,70 percent of Vaubans families do not have cars , and 57 percent have moved here and sold their cars because of it(Paragraph3). When i had a car i was always tense. Im way much happier this way, said (Heidrum walter,a media trainer and mother of two). Parking spots can cost up to 40,000 dollars a year. Why spend that!
Even though some streets are completely car free some are not. The pollutin is going straight up in to our atmosphere. Paris enforced a driving ban to clear the air of the global city to help out(source 2,paragraph 10). People were getting tickets becuase they were using them way to much (paragraph 12). I cant beleive that just because of cutting out ussage of some cars people are experiencing nicer days all around in the atmosphere. Beijing,China is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world(source 2, paragraph 14).Wow, thats some shocking statistics!
The crowding of all the automobiles is out the roof! Whats most interesting is the amount of cars per family ,says Michael sivak,paragraph33).If this pattern persists it will be a huge affect on the world we live in(paragraph 34).They understand that some people need them for there jobs , they just want us to help and save when we can(paragraph43). This is going to help the generations to come.
Last, the costs of the parking spots for cars in the city,the pollution going into our atmosphere , and the crowding of cars is going to hurt our kids in a stronger affect one day. We need to help out when we can and do what it takes. It takes some time but we need to stand together and win this battle. Start car pooling with other families to bring the kids to sports and school. We all need to work together! | 3 |
d80e3b9 | The "Evening Star" or Venus the second closest planet from the sun. The author supports the idea of studying it but despite the dangers. It is very dangerous to be examine more precisely. Since it is referred as the Earth's Twin between size and everything; It has other difficulties to it. As the author supports this idea; he proves some very important facts on why we shouldn't examine it. It would not be safe for any human beings to travel.
Venus or the "Evening star"; it has it very own difficulties on its planet alone. As the autor writes, "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... temperature average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit,". The author proves a point here since we don't have that experience on Earth. The conditions are far too extreme that any human have ever experienced before. The author proves another point here in this statement. "... over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way...but the air pressure would be close of that sea level on Earth." The humans wouldn't be able to handle the conditions in Venus. The author supports the idea that it shouldn't be a good idea to study about Venus with all it's dangers.
In conclusion, The author has proven many many points on why this study would be very dangerous. Human beins can't handle the pressure or the heat that takes off from Venus. It has a thick atmosphere that would be over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. It would have a worthy pursuit but with all the dangers that it has. The author has proven his point clearly on why it should be a good idea despite the dangers from it. | 3 |
d814d86 | This would not be denifical in a classroom because it would make students uncomfortable knowing something is watching them, this would need its own computer to run, and it could not handle 30 people at a time.
First, people dont like being spyed on so having a computer program watching them all day would get some people feeling scared or unconfortable.
Second, the actical siad home computers cant handle the complex algorithms, and school computers are old and not as good as most computers at home so they would need a dedicated computer just for this program.
Finaly, the artical siad it counted action point based off mussel movement up to 44 for one person, but for a class of 30 people it would have to find individual people and measure their mussel movement independently from everyone else.
So, this program would not be useful because people would get uncomfortable, the space, cost and proccessing power need to run the program, and individual detection is needed before it can be used for a class room. | 2 |
d81bdc5 | Since the early 1900's, cars have been an integral part of the human life. Cars allow people to get everything that they need accomplished complete. Whether it's picking up groceries, picking up your child from dance classes, traveling across the country, or just sitting in the driver's seat listening to John Mayer rethinking the highlights of your day. Metaphorically, the car is what truly allows the world to continue rotating on it's axis. For this reason, advancing the wonderful technology of automobiles will bolster appreciation of drivers and car lovers everywhere.
In the world of technology, we see advancements, modifications, and improvements every second. Why not advance the beauty of automobiles? Automobiles are like a second home to some people, especially those with busy lives that require a plethora of transportation from place to place. I believe that now is the time to create a car that has the capabilities of being driverless. A car that allows for a safer, more effecient environment. According to the story, "Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009". Accordingly, they have driven roads calculating distances of more than half a million miles WITHOUT a crash. This is a truly amazing discovery. Progress is key to creating a future of state of the art technology.
Hence, in an effort to bolster encouragement for creative and innovative thinking, one must realize that in the lenses of 'driverless' cars... I don't believe the ultimate goal is to strip humans of the ability to control their car but improve the flexibility of it. For instance, if we have a car that is capable of being driven manually and automatically, this opens a variety of opportunity to the driver. Let's take this anecdote as an example: Johnny is a very busy businessman. He is always traveling to and from meetings. In fact, Johnny has a meeting to attend in 5 minutes and he hasn't eaten anything all day. Considering Johnny's situation, he could use a driverless car right about now. Instead of driving to the meeting, Johnny can flip a switch that activates 'autodrive' and pick up a McDonald's salad and chow down. Suffice to say, driverless cars can and will be effecient to the business driver and the everyday soccer mom.
Whether it's in 2016 or 2020, the efficiency of cars need to come up to par with the standards of this generation. Times are changing and improved technology is required in order to move forward in a variety of aspects. The driverless car can and will improve the overall quality of life. | 4 |
d81ea74 | Dear State Senator,
I think that our president's should be chosen by popular vote because they have better chances of winning and they will know how many people agree with what they are trying to do in the United States.
The president's have better chances of winning because they can have the most votes and wouldn't have to wait on the Electoral College. Such as paragraph 9 says, "Thanks to the quirks of the electoral college-won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." I think that was unfair because Al Gore could of been the president but instead he was not, after all the campaigning he did to get those voters to vote for him it ended up as a waste because the voting didn't get him anywhere. If I was a president I would be highly upset because I knew I could have a big chance of losing just because of the Electoral College. What doesn't make any sense to me is that the voters are not voting for the president but are voting for a slate of electors. What's the whole point of voting then? People are out here voting for electors that they don't even know and most of the electors are people who not holding public office. In paragraph 13 it says, "During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad." To me they are cheating people out of their votes, people vote for the one that they think could make a change not just voting just to be voting.
The president would know how many people agree with what they are trying to do in the United States. The electoral college votes won't help them know who is really for them and who's not because if someone win over electoral votes there are going to be people out there mad about the fact that they had won. This will make people not want to vote at all because 9 times out of 10 the person they are voting for gone lose. The electoral college just makes it difficult for the people that are running for president. I'm not saying that it should be easy to just become something big, but if you worked hard enough I think that you should be honored enough to become president through popular votes. This will make the incoming president feel appreciated for all the hard work they did to recieve all these votes. They will know that what they are trying to set forward is good for some people and not just for them. Such as paragraph 12 says, "Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote." What would happen then? That's why you should just give it to the person with the most votes because they deserve it.
I hope what I have really proved my argument that we should change the way a president is chosen so it can be fair to everyone. I think this will make the incoming president feel confident in himself to make this happen.
Sincerley,
PROPER_NAME | 4 |
d820a1b | the made a claim that venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it present and the author support his or her statement because he stated that astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well once have been the most earth-like planet in our solar system and also stated that today venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth. so thats show how the author supports this idea.
The first reason why the author believe that venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents is because he stated that astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well once have been the most earth-like panet in our solar system so they still could try and find out what the planet venus have and how venus was a long time ago and another reason why the author believe that venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents is when he stated that today venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth so that shows that venus was once like earth and the astronomers want to find out what was the caause of venus changing.
in conclusion the author supported his stement "venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents" very well because he bgave many reason why he stated that such as astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well once have been the most earth like planet in our solar system. and also stated that today venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth. | 2 |
d822d6b | Taking participation in the Seagoing Cowboys program is more of a different world then an adventure! This program helps you think of the people in need and how much you have helped them. Participating in this fun program is a great idea! Just imagine... riding on a boat, mist spraying, cooling you off after a long day herding animals. You have the benefit to see and tour many places that you have never seen before! Trust me. We all need to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program!
The Seagoing Cowboys program is a great oppertunity to help those in need to recover their food supplies. Doing this can help you be more aware of the people in need and help you know that you have been great help to them. This program hires men to take care of the horses, cows, and mules that were shipped over seas. This can make you come closer to the animals and let them know that you care very much for them!
Not only can you help, but this job does inquire some fun! You have the benifit to see and tour special landmarks and places that you have never seen before! It is quite an adventure! It is an unbelievable oppertunity to see all kinds of sites (especially on the job!).
On board, you can also find time to have fun! When you are on return trips after the animals are unloaded, you can play many games such as baseball, volleyball, and table-tennis in the empty holds where the animals stay. Fencing, reading, whittling, fun games, and boxing make some boat trips exciting!
Overall, taking part in the seagoing Cowboys program is an excilent oppertunity! It is more of a new world rather then just an site-seeing adventure! Taking part in this activity would make you feel better about helping not just your community, but citizens beyond your community, too! Helping those who need your support is quite the heroic thing to do! | 2 |
d8243a4 | I think that FACS is very useful technology, that could benefit classrooms everywhere. It, as the article talks about, can help students if there getting lost or bored. By just adjusting it's teaching algorythms to better help the student.
During everyday life, we look at others faces and can most of the time see how they are feeling. If your friend has a frown on their face, then you can try and use comforting tactics and try to help them in anyway. And you use these tactics because you know what they are feeling. And FACS can do the same thing!
If a student is having trouble in school and there learning style might be different. The FACS can adapt to that students learning style or mood. And help them better than just mindlessly teaching them, and not changing anything thats going on.
FACS can be extremely useful in schools all over the world. And can make students and their learning enviroments more flexible and effective. Which in turn with help a gargantuan amount in them having a succeful career. Because students should come first, they are the worlds future. And anything we can do to assist them or better their education, should be done. | 3 |
d825770 | A driverless car is a very useful thing in concept.
You would be able to complete objectives other than your own transportatin while being transported.
But that is only provided that you are being taken to your destination without haveing to worry about the transportaion.
The whole point of a driverless car is that you let the car do all the work while you atend to your daily acivities, but the car being adveratised is a half driverless car where any obsticals between point A and point B have to be handled by the user.
As of now, the "driverless" car is a wasted investment.
Despite not being very usefull, lets assume someone buys the half driverless car.
They would have to have an incredibly vast amount of welth to do so.
Then if they were the kind of person the advaratisers are adveratiseing to they would keep their eyes on the road and "enjoy" the ride, while still having to drive arond obstcals ocasionaly.
So they'd just be doing a more boreing version of driveing.
But not everyone is careful like those people.
Without a doubt, someone would not do their reserch and assume the driverless car is completly self-operated.
They would get in the car, start it, and then do something that advacates of safe driveing have been trying to stop for years.
Wether it be texting of drinking intoxicating substances, or even cautching up on sleep.
Even the safest person would completly loath the half driverless car due to how boreing it would get.
At least regular driveing allows some interaction between the machine and the driver so the oporator can stay engaged.
The half driverless car is too impractical to be used by anyone
So the half driverless car is out, but what if google or some other car selling establishment was able to succeed in making a completly driverlss car?
Well, it still wouldn't turn out okay.
Every taxi driver, school bus driver, public bus driver,and at some point, maybe even pilot, would be out of a job.
So thousands of people would lose their jobs becausen they were no longer needed to transport people.
This could portentally increse the homeless population and increse the number of people doing illegal things to get by.
In conclusion, the half driverless car would not work safey with most people today, and the driverless car would shrink the job market.
While not bad ideas, they are both incredibly innificent and cross-productive. | 3 |
d82674c | Unmasking the Face on Mars
Well on my opinion I don't think the face is a natural landform, in the text it states- twenty five years ago something funny happened around Mars. If the face has been apart of Mars for ONLY twenty five years I don't think is was apart of martian life, it would've already been discovered a long time ago. I honestly think it has been made up by an illusion.
Stated in paragraph three, NASA uveiled the image for all to see, it was a huge rock formation, which resmebled an humans head making out the shaped of nose, eyes, and mouth. They thought reasoning this situation of Mars would be a great way to grab the public's attention to Mars. It did.
Ever since then it has became an pop icon, so now that i think about it, It does'nt seem like it was apart of martian life. They so far haven't even caught real martian life on planet Mars. So I don't even know how to think that NASA could determine it was apart of alien life on Mars. It possibly could be but I don't think anything could live on the surface of that COLD planet.
It puzzles me that it just randomly popped up out of nowhere and has been located at that very spot for twenty five years, why could this happen now? I don't know maybe later in discovery the scientists of NASA will find out what and why this happened. NASA's budget wished there was an ancient civilization on Mars. I guess we'll have to find out later in the future.
How could they possibly determine it's real? Let's make a couple guesses.
The "Face on Mars" has been starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, articles, magazines, radio talk shows, and even haunted grocery store checkout lines! Now you know why people are so amazed of being able to read about this story and give NASA so much feedbacks about this "Face on Mars" story. One day they'll determine what'll happen. | 2 |
d82df10 | In the story I read there was a man named Luke, he was a Sea Cowboy. Luke had gone off to sea to help check on cargo. others need to partcipate in what Luke did. If nobody else helped Luke he could have been all alone. If you were Luke would you help ou still work your two time job?
Luke had a friend named Don, wich if it wasn't for Don luke wouldn't be out there. Luke was working a two part job one at a grocery store and one at a bank. Then Don told Luke to go to on Europe cattle boat,and Luke couldn't say no. It was an opportunity of a life time for him.
It was 1945 and World War 2 had just ended for Europe, and many contries that were in war was nothing but ruin. So some people's job now were to help those contries get back in shape, so 44 nations came together and formed a UNRRA. The UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of animals that were shipped over sea, thats what Luke and Don sigend up for.
A lot of people may say this task is verry dangores and that nobody should do it. But if Luke and Don didn't help ou then a lot of people could die because they have no shelter or food. They helped by going to Greese with horses for all the people and food for them and the horses.
Luke had turned 18 by the time they got to Greece to help out, but turning 18 also meant that he could be drafted to war. By 1947 Luke had already made nine trips to help people out. Nine trips was the most any "Seagoin Cowby" has ever went before.
In this story I read there was a man named Luke and he became a "Seagoing Cowboy". Luke helped out so many people on his journey. It was important that people would help Luke out. A lot of people would say that this was dangores and noby should do it. So like i said before, if you were Luke would you go and help our would you still work your two time job? | 2 |
d82e5cd | Electoral Colleges is something many people disagree with but there is a few that are for the idea. Personally i think we should get rid of the Electoral colleges for many reasons. First, when using the electoral college you do not vote for the president but you vote for a slate of electors, I think when you are voting you should have a choice for which president you vote for not electors. Using this, the electors have to win which I dont think is right.
Using electoral votes effects the people in smaller states. Big states have more of a "voice" to who wins the election if enough people vote. People living in smaller states have less of a chance of there choosen president to win because they dont have a large number of electoral votes. Saying that people in the smaller states know that they dont have much of a say to votes and are going to stop voting in general and stop paying attention to the campaigns.
The winner-take-all method is something that voters dont like. Candidates know that some states dont have a lot of electoral votes so they dont bother to reach out to them and dont spend time on them because they think or know they dont have a chance of winning their election. Since candidates dont go to small states that means they spend all their time in the bigger states trying to win them over and get their votes. People dont think its fair that the candidates dont make any effort to pay attention to them.
When you vote for who you want as president you dont actually vote for the president you vote mostly for a slate of electors. from the excerpt from "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" stated it is the electors that vote for presidents not us. i think that we should have more of a choice for who we want as our president but we do not. We should get rid of the Electoral College because it doesnt help us as i can see many people do not like it. | 4 |
d8326c4 | Dear,
State Senator:
I am writing you this letter today to tell you that we should change the elction by popular vote for the president of the United States. At the most, the electoral college is extremely unfair to the voters, and the system allows much worse disaster than the fiasco that happened in 2000.
The electoral college is unfair to the voters voting for the president and other candidiates. Using the "Winner-Take-All" system, the voters know they have no chance of winning, focusing on the tight races in the states also. All because they can't spend time in states.
Also, voters vote not for the president, but for the state of electors who vote for the president. Get this, if you lived in Texas, and you wanted to vote for John Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pleadged on him. Don't forget that there is the off chance that those electors won the stateside election, they would go to Congress and John Kerry would get 34 electoral votes but, who are they electors? I'll tell you, they can be anyone not holding public office.
Also, another reason why the Electoral College should be vacant, is because of the what happened in 2000. During the 2000 campaign, 17 states did not see the candidiates at all!
Those sates would include, Rhode Island, and South Carolina. Also, voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign add. Not one, and the electoral college has the power to make things worse than what happened in 2000.
It's no secret anymore, the electoral college is unfair, irrational, and outdated. We should not let the electoral college get away with what they are doing! completley unfair to the voters and another fiasco like 2000, or even worse than that can start up again. It's hard, it's very hard for me the say this, but I know, and you know that Bob Dole was right, we need to abolish the electoral college!
I hope you have the time the read this letter and seriously think about making some changes. I don't know much about politics but, I do know that what the electoral college is doing is not right at all. They are cheating voters just like they have been donig since 2000, maybe even a long time before that.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME
SCHOOL_NAME | 3 |
d8338f9 | The author started out the article very well before jumping into how studing Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger. He told you about venus to drag you in on why its such a interesting place now the reasoning of me sayiing this is cause the author states. That venus the brightest in the night sky even though its a planet, And the actual name isnt even Venus its Evening Star to kind of get you to the place of the thought. Where your like since its the brightest in the night sky thats why it's called a star. He pulls you in on it being the brightest by sayin even "Amature Stargazers to spot". So for the begining he started off by beginning to support this idea.
"It has proved a very challenging place to exmine more closely " he stating that it is dangerous to explore up close but he proves that it is also worthy to explore very poorly he didn't quite include reasonging on why it's worthy. He only provided minimum examples and ideas such as. How "insight to be gained on the planet itself, Also human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. He really tries to get you by saying on earth you should be wanting to explore and imagine an no fill your self with doubt. Which is not enough based on all the dangers of going to the planet venus.
There were more ideas of it being dangerous to explore rather than it being worthy to explore. He listed five resons it was a good ideab to explore which are listed above and they are not very helpful to his case. These are a few of the dangers he listed of exploring Venus up close it's inhospitible, "has a thick atmesphere of nintey-seven percent of carbon dioxide blanket" covering it. That even a submerine couldn't survive. Humans have sent sacecraft to land but its still claims to be unmanned since no spacecraft sent has survived landing.
Considering the pros and cons of the Authors examples and points. On exploring Venus worthy despite the dangers he evaluated his idea poorly based on the content, and the ideas he provided he could have went about it a diffrent way.
Provided thing that would make us less afraind to explore our sister planet up close personal. | 4 |
d8361b9 | Body actions say more than words could ever say. This can simply be tested by taking a glance at any individual you may come in-contact with; almost immediately, our brains can process exactly how the other person is feeling. In recent years, this process we do ourselves, has turned to technology. Professor Thomas Huang from the Beckam Institue for Advanced Science at the University of Illinois has worked close by Professor Nicu Seb from the University of Amsterdam, to accomplish creating a computer program that can capture and explain human emotions. After some time, this work in progress became a reality, and was named the Facial Action Coding System. This invention has sparked interest in many different groups of people and in many varying fields of work. One of these fields is education. The Facial Action Coding System can positvely be used in the classroom to improve overall student experience by effectively and accurately catching a glimpse of their nonverbal communication in hopes to result in lesson plan alterations and opening prime opportunities for vulnerability in teacher to student relationships.
This new technology advancement has been found to provide very accurate results based on anatomy; therefore, would be sucessful no matter where it was used. Creator, Dr. Huang, definitely did his research when creating the Facial Action Coding System. The text reads, "Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisley enough to convery specific emotions." Based on this information, it is easy to see that our body language, and simple expressions are simply coded in our human anatomy; Da Vinci knew it and now so do many others. All of the human muscles work together to deliver our innermost feelings and thoughts. The text reads, Eckman has classified six basic emotions -- happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness -- and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles." This information is essentially the way in which the Facial Action Coding System calculates human emotions in hopes to cause other people to potentially act differently. All humans use the same facial muscles, so this product can be effective on anyone.
Dr. Huang says, "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal...the software can even identify mixed emotions. Each expression is compared against a neutral face (showing no emotion)." This piece of text is important to comprehend in order to fully understand the capabilities of the Facial Action Coding System. By using this structured and prepared system the results relayed back to an individual are extremely accurate. As a result of this accuracy, not only could the product be used anywhere; one of the most effective uses would lie in the classroom. In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System uses a sytematic process to determine any individual across the world's emotions; which is an important piece of evidence because many individuals may not believe its' accuracy.
The Facial Action Coding System can effectively used in the classroom to adjust lesson plans based on student preference. One aspect, Dr. Huang mentions is the prevelance of nonverbal communication; especially for young children who are in the education system. He says, "Most human communication is nonverbal, includimg emotional communication." This quote is significant when in the context of the Facial Action Coding System. Within the walls of a classroom this computer program could be used to dig deeper into a students emotions and feelings in order to understand them better and adjust to specific needs. For example, after using this program on a group of kids in the classroom; red flags may appear that gear toward frustration, stress, or confusion and this would give way for a teacher to step in and make a difference. If a large group of students were confused, the teacher would then know they may need to review the topic more thouroughly or by taking an alternate approach. If the computer system can reveal that a student is frustrated, the teacher would be able to console them positively in hopes they would be willing to take part in extra help or practice wihtin a subject. Dr. Huang also mentions, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student in becoming confused or bored." As previously mentioned, by using the Facial Action Coding System, the teacher will be informed of the emotions and feelings of their students that they are unwilling to first hand share with an adult. Overall, this computer program would offer many positive advancements to the classroom that help teachers better prepare for individual student needs and preferences.
As the Facial Action Coding System could contribute to a teacher's knowledge of student reaction in the classroom, it could also make the classroom a much happier place by opening up chances for vulnerability and positive emotions. As previously stated, as a teacher becomes more aware of his or her students' emotions and takes practical steps towards fulfilling their individual needs; a door to vulnerability is quickly opened. Within the walls of a classroom, the relationship between a teacher and student is very important and can make or break a students learning for a short span of time. If the Facial Action Coding System was able to spot a negative emotion, and enable the teacher to step in and help the student walk through that struggle; vulnerability happens in the classroom and can make it a much better place to be. In additon the text reads, "According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them." As the FACS enters into classroom usage, many students will become more aware of emotions they may be unable to verbalize. With this knowledge they may be able to better combat their negative body language and work on recognizing when their emotions may be going down a wrong path and be able to change it quickly. Just as that quote said, making a specific emotion may allow the individual to rapidly improve. Overall, the usage of FACS in the classroom would allow for students to have much more realistic and intentional relationships with their teachers and improve their emotions everyday.
All in all, the Facial Action Codign System is a computer system created that could have many important usages in the future. However, one of the most essential would be within the walls of a classroom. This opportunity would open many positive chances for emotions to be relayed accurately to a teacher in hopes that they would be able to alter lesson plans and change other aspects of their teaching style to better suit individual student needs. In addition, other studies and research completed with the FACS shows that this system can and will relay accurate results because body language is universal and our human anatomy does not lie. Lastly, allowing students to better understand their emotions will help them react to them before they may get out of hand. With early detection and acknowledgement of negative emotions the classroom could become a much happier place to be. This system is going to change the way many programs work, but mostly within the classroom. Teens emotions are always changing, body actions always say more than words could ever. | 6 |
d836e6e | Imagine having to argue about keeping the Electoral College or changing to Election by popular vote for the president of the United states of America. which one would you choose? If i had to choose I Would pick to Abollish the electoral college because it effects who president, confuse people and candidates don't spend enough time in the states.
The first reason why I said that we should abolish the electoral college is because it effects who can become president. In passage two it said that "in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore thanks to the quirks of the electoral college won the popular vote but lost the presidency"."Over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. And yet , the electoral college still has its defenders. what gives?
The second reason why I said that we should Abolish the electoral college is because it confuse people. when Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency I bet a lot of people were confused. Most people would have pefered a direct election to the one we have now.
The last reason why I said that we should Abolish the electoral college is because candiates don't spend enough time in the states. what i mean by that is that is because of the winner take all system they know that they don't have a chance of winning. In the passage it said that during the 2000 campaig, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad.
In conclusion the reason why we should abolish the electoral college is because it effects who becomes president, it confuses people, and candiates dont't spend enough in the states. Now that i told you my reason don't you think the same. | 3 |
d83eb9d | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author does not support his idea of how worthy it is studying Venus very well, even though he makes some good points that would convince some people that it is worth the time, he also states some dangerous conditions that would be way to extreme for most people, especially people who have never been to space before.
The three biggest factors that would make most people not even thing about visiting Venus is the temperature, the gravity pressure, and the natural disasters it has to offer. The first factor would be the temperature you would feel on Venus. Our body temperature is 87.5 degrees, the author states that the average temperature on Venus is over 800 degrees. Even with the space suit, our bodies could never stand that much heat, combined with the reality of being on a different planet would be to much for a person. The second factor that would make Venus not worth the time is the pressure that gravity has on the surface. In our planet, we can handle it because we are used to it, but the gravity pressure on Venus is 90 times greater than the pressure that we experience. That would be way to much force being pushed down on a human being especially, if they don't weigh that much. The final reason supporting the fact that the author does not give enough evidence to go to Venus are the natural disasters. Since Venus
looks most like Earth out of all the other planets, it experiences the same natural disasters we experience which includes: "erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes". If the spaceships that the people sent up there didn't survive then we wouldn't survive. The author, and also the rest of us are lucky that the ships that didn't survive had no people in them. These resons make it clear that the author idea of Venus being a "worthy pursuit" is false.
So why is this important, this is important becuase in the future, they might actually consider sending people up to Mars and risk putting their lives at stake. Until they are able to send ship up there with no people in them and have a success, then Venus should not be explored. | 3 |
d83ebc6 | So I'm driving in my nice great black colored Handa with black rims and green neon lights. But let me stop there I do not want to get into all of the details of the car. Like i was saying i was driving and next thing you know BOOM!! I collided with a nasty old rusty out fo style truckand ruine my car. I called 1800-411-pain and they will handle it. I guess i have usage for this car anymore and I can just walk. my point i"m making is that you don't need a car to get you where you go all the time. citizens can use other sources of transportations. Citizens need to take advantages of limting car usage for the u. s. and the world. i'm going to i'm inform citizens about advantages of limiting car usage.
First of all, a lot of citizens love their cars like i did. What some citizens don't know that cars are dangrous. Well I think everybody know that because of all the accidents and crash but I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the pollutions. That the air is being polluted. Secondly, That is not the only thing. Riding bikes, walking, taking the bus, and taking a cab can help stop pollution. Now I'm not talking about taking away all cars. We have to take advantages of limiting the car usage.
Honestly, walking is not that bad and so is riding a bike. It is really good workout. It is also safer than cars if you don't trip or fall off your bike.
Also citizens won't cause congestion. Citizens don't also have pay bill and loans for their cars if you don't have one. Now i know some people have job to get to, so all you have to do is to wake up early for work ride a bike or take the bus arrive to work on time. If you was late and something comes up just make up a lie about why you are. At least you are helping out the world. Most of all, when you drive a car then a cop stops you and give you a ticket even though you didn't do nothing wrong. You can avoid that by just taking a bus. Also going to waste money on gas and the bus only 2 dollars. Like I said I'm saying that you should get rid of your car. i'm saying take advantage of limiting car usage.
In otherwise, in Vauban, Germany life goes on without the usage of cars. As a result, 70 percent of vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here. They had to give residents ticket if they drive their. All I'm trying to say is take advantage of limiting car usage. | 3 |
d842247 | The Electoral College. The system that our founding fathers had set for us to choose a leader of this country. It has been used forever and some poeple may agree that we should keep it. But others understand that we should change the voting system so that the election is more fair. I believe that the United States should no longer use the Electoral College to elect our president because I feel that we should have a more direct vote so that the person that most people actually want in office will be elected and so that all of the states can hear each candidates campaign so they feel like their vote actually takes part in the election.
To begin with, I believe that the United States should start to use a direct vote to choose our leader so that the winner of the popular vote actually gets to win and so that the peoples votes actually matter. It seems only fair that if you win the popular vote from everyone one in the country that you should win the race but with using the Electoral College the desicion will always vary. For example, during Al Gore vs Bush, Gore had over 60% of the nations vote. Most of the people wanted him as our acting president. But due to the Electoral College Bush ended up winning the election. If the people actually did have a say then Gore wouldve been elected because of the popular vote. When using the Electoral College your vote wouldnt be apart of the actual election. Your supposed to elect an elector to vote for you. So truly your elector has all the power because in the end they are the one choosing who your state has voted for.
Furthermore, the Electoral College shouldnt be used to elect our president because it makes it unfair to voters. With the winner-take-all system in each state the candidates dont spend time to try and campaign in all of the states because they think they have no chance of winning in that state. Every state should be able to see the campaigns for each of the candidates so they can have an actual choice. If campaigners spend most of their time focused on the swing states how would they know if they had a chance of winning over any other state that they thought wouldnt vote for them. For example, back in 2000 seventeen states didnt see any of the candidates or a single campaign ad. That is basicaly telling that state that their vote doesnt matter.
In conclusion, The Electoral College has major flaws in it that are easily exploited. The people dont get to vote for themselves, instead they put their vote in the hands of an elector who, in the end, has the final say on who the state votes for. Also the Electoral College, which has a winner-take-all system, excludes some of the states from actually seeing a candidate which makes it seem like their vote is irrelevant to the whole election. | 4 |
d84a404 | Have you ever known how if feels not being able to breath? If you haven't then you probably will someday. Breathing is something every living thing has to do to survive. At that another question. Have you ever made the connection between driving and breathing? Pollution is the connection, in europe twelve percent of the green house gases are from the muffler.
In the extreamest of places like Beijin there is so much exhaust in the air that you can see it. They call this smog, smog is very dangerous, breathing large amounts could easily lead to lung cancer. People all around the world are looking for the solution to this horrible problem. Hybrid cars some say, others solve the problem and live in car free comunities.
There are great advantages to car free comunities. The main dis advantage being that if you have to travel far you would have to use public transportation. The main advantages are that there is no car exhaust in the air. Also there is no road rage or traffic jams to worry about. Car-less comunities are spreading and one day we might factor out car exhaust as pollution and as a problem.
In major cities like paris they couldn't ban all driving so they compromised and made limitations on driving and giving small fines to non cooaperating drivers. congestion went down sixty percent in Paris in five days of limited driving. If we all just try and limit our driving a little we could help everyone breath a little better. If we control it now we could get rid of the issue before we are fined like the four thousand in France that week. Next time you jump in your car and fire the engine up take time to think about who you could keep from breathing fresh air; maybe one day it could happen to you. | 3 |
d84f0d1 | The invention of the Electoral College has definitely altered the United States of America. According to past experiences and news broadcasts, it seems like the Electoral College is the right way to go. The Electoral College is elected to vote for the president that they plan to vote for, and it has a huge impact on the outcome of the election. Many do argue of course that the establishment of the Electoral College the population of America not have much say as oppose to the president that they wish to be in office for a full 4 years. Although the Electoral College causes minor problems, it is definitely the way to go and decide who the next man in charge of the nation will be.
According to Source 3: "In Defense of the Electoral College" written by Richard A. Posner, the author is for sure for the fact that the Electoral College is thw right way to vote for president. Richard gives some valid points throughout his essay and really did convince me to stay with the decision of keeping this system. One of them explains that voters in toss-up states are more likely to know what the campaign is really going towards and what the candidates believe could turn the nation around and make it a better one. They are the most thoughtful and have the most impact on the election for sure.
Futhermore, another reason why the Electoral College should stay as the primary system is because it is sure that it will decide the outcome of a presidential election. In 2012, Barack Obama has received 61.7 percent of all total votes according to the electors, which has decided the winner of the election. It is said that one vote can overturn the election if the voting is really close. In Source 1: "What Is the Electoral College?", each state is selected with a number of electoral voters each election and is responsible for the voting of their party. This is the way it should be, a group of voters of each state represent the state and cast an overall vote for the next president.
As many would say, "we dont have any say in the election", they are technically wrong. As the people of the state, citizens have the opportunity to elect for and decide on who should be the electors of the president. The people rely on the electors to vote for the president that they think should be in charge of the nation. Will this be the method of coosing the president in the next few decades or even centuries? Who knows? Maybe the government will establish a new form of voting that everyone will be glad about. | 3 |
d850373 | I belive thate the face is just a natural landform becouse of facts
One exaple of why i belive its just a natural landform is in the text it states on april 5th 1998 mars global surveyor flew over cydonia and snapped a photo ten times sharper than the original viking photos revealing a narural landform. Another reson is in the text it states on april 8 2001 a cloudless summer day in cydonia mars global surveyor frew close enough for a second look.
Another exaple of why i belive its just a natural landform is in the text it stats thate they had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the face in the field of view. In the text it also stats thate malins team captured an extraordinary photo using the cameras absolut maximum resolution. In the text it also stats each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 viking photo. In the text it also statses that it is equivalent of a landform common around the american west.
I would understand why somone would belive it was not a natural landform. one reson they may not is in the text it stats it was winter in april 98 it was clooudy time of year on the red planit. In the text it also stats that some pepoul belived aliens marking where hidden by haze.
And so becouse of facts such as it being equivalint to a landform commen around the american west i belive it is not alins. so i hope this proves thate the face is just a natural landform. | 2 |
d852c77 | Venus is a great planet to study, but they got to worry about the danger of it. The planet is so bright, hot, and has air pressure. People would want to know about the planet, danger of it, and the testing the electronices that they can use.
The scientiest have to study the planet so the people don't die or get hurt while on the planet of Venus. They would have to study the tempereture, air pressure, and the amount of carbon dioxide. In paregraph one it says "Venus is sometimes called the "Evening Star" is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actully a planet". The planet is very hot with . the tempereture being around 800 degrees also 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus.
Venus air pressure is 90 times greater than what the experience on our own planet. In paragraph 3 it says "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth". Venus also has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solor system. Spaceships can't land on the planet for more than a few hours therefore they are trying to make some electronics made of silicon carbide.
The scientest are trying to test the silicon carbide electronic so that it can last on the planet of Venus for more than a couple of hours. In paragragh 7 it says"The silicon carbide electronic has been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions". There are older technology that are called mechanical computers. The device were first envisioned in 1800s. They also have played and important role in the 1940s during the World War II as a result the planet Venus is a dangerous place to study for humans to land on.
People would like to know about Venus, danger of it, and the testing for the spaceshuttles to land on. Venus is the second planet away for the sun and the first closets to the earth. The planet is dangerous for the spaceshuttles to land on because it is so hot and the air pressure is bad. | 3 |
d855308 | The author idea that studying Venus is worthy enough to study besides all the dangerous things that could happen. They had n't any spaceships go down to Venus for three decades because of how long it last there for couple of hours. It would be a challenge because of how high the carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere, and the temperature is so different compared to earth's. They can't do anything because of how much pressure and heat there is in Venus, because it's like the second planet closest to the sun it will just melt anything. Venus can not take humans up there, because the weather is like more instense than anyone has experiences at earth. Scientist believes that Venus was a place like how earth was with mountians and stuff..
I think in the article that it could be danger because of the different radiation there is and how your body could be affected by it and you might live just heal way harder. I think there shouldn't be any researchers trying to go up into venus because of the risk it could be to and the challenges of how to be able to surivie through all of that. NASA is trying to make a better more feature to make sure that the something can last up in Venus like how they used an example of the cell phones how better it has bcome over the years. I hope that if they try to go up there and do some experience to test out Venus they should be careful and think of all the risk that can happen when they are up there. | 2 |
d85ca40 | A boy named Luke Bomberger life was about to change. He was working in a grocery store and a bank with his friend Don Reist. Don invited Luke to go to Europe into a cattle boat. Luke didn't want to say no because he knew this was the first opportunuity of a lifetime.
World war ll was over in Europe. Many countries were in the ruins and low on supplies and food so 44 nations jonied together. They are called UNRRA. The UNRRA hiring Sea Cowboys to take care of the animals. I was thinking about it. The next day me and Don went to go sign up.It was August 14, the day the pacific war ended. Me and Don got our papers. So we borded the SS Charles W. Wooster with 335 horses and oats and hay to feed them. We were heading to Greece.
I turned 18 when i was still on that boat. I could be drafted for the military service. I was on nine trips. That is the most any Seagoing Cowboy of history! A Cattle boat trips were an amazing opportunity for small kids. i Have been to lots of places like Europe and China but seeing the Acropolis in Greece was tha best. Also the gondola in Venice, Ilaly was cool. Now i know why they call it the streets of water. I also went in a castle in China and marveled the Panams Canal on my wat there.
It took two weeks to cross the Alantic Ocean from the eastren coast to the United States, but the trip to China took FOREVER to get there. It took one month to get there. ONE month. I thought it was a year, but it was worth it
On my second trip i was a watch man. I never want to be one again. I wanted to go to bed. One time i went to go and cheak on the animals becaues that is my job. Anyways i went to give a report to the boss and i slipped down a siplery ladder because it was raining. My heart raced as i was flying in the air. I was heading to open space on the ship. A metal along to edge stopped on my side. I didn't work for a couple of days because i craked some ribs. But that is better than being dead.
But after all
that happened it was really fun on bored. We played Basketball and vollyball. When the animals had been houseed we played boxing, fencing, and table- tennis. But we didn't just play games we sometimes read and whittling.
But being a Seagoing Cowboy was more than just adventures for me i helped my family and i am grateful for the opportunity. It has made me more me think about others and what their need is and to always help.
I am Luke Bomberger and i graduated and i worked in a bank and in a grocery store with my friend Don Reist. Me and him signed up to by a Seagoing Cowboy. That changed my life, and i am glad i did take that oppoutunity of a life time.
I thing the lesson of this story is work hard and don't miss the oppuortunity. because that opportunity could bee a life changinf. | 2 |
d86032f | Dear Senator , I have read a lot about electoral college voting. It seems like a legit way of finding the right president to be in charge of our country.
But it also says that it's a compromise between the votes in Congress , and the votes of the popularity from the people. Is it a 50/50 compromise or does Congress have a stronger voting advantage over the people?
I think that if your going to make Congress's choices , able to rule over the peoples , then there shouldn't be two sides of the voting. Its not fair to us. It should be an equal advantage. There should be a way for that to happen if there already isn't one. Congress and society need to have an equal chance at electing the best man for the job.
The electoral college is widely regarded as an anachronism. A non-democratic method of selecting a president ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes , the winner. The cause of this is probably because Congress think theyare more wise and think this throught more then the people do. But I think differently. The citizens of the US , can be just as smart as Congress. Maybe even smarter or wiser.
I honestly think that you should leave a majority of it to the people because we can the research before we vote so we know which one would make the best choices for our country. If you gave us a chance to show you what we can do and that we can be smart about things , then maybe you would recommend the people being in charge of more things. | 3 |
d86072f | Well to start with ,they need to keep the most popular one by elections because it would be fair to people to have the electoral votes. its absoutly a great idea in my presice ! i think that people should vote on what they want to do not the senate or house of the united states . Also , it seems to me that the votes keep going down because people dont like the way they have to vote its going astronomical they need to take control NOW ! Even though candidates might now want to spend time going through the head ache of focusing on because to me its the most baic level and it UNFAIR to all voters all around the globe . Allthough my opinion is people need to realize to some of the overruled voters are all not electoral college dont mean you cannot vote for regular its entirely inpossible for the "new president" not to win and thats one reason why people pick that source because they know for a fact that they wll win their president they voted for this on coming "election" . ALL votes go to the house / state senate and it goes uphill from there so according to the passage all the electroal college requires a presidental candidate to have a regional appeal . But in 2012 President Barak Obama almost didnt make president until they put the electroal votes all together and we won PRESIDENT !! But of course knowing your vote you need to have to pay attition to the camapaign that the presidentcy were picked by a popular more VOTE . Even though votes swing on a national election one and a half americans express a petherance than a acual single vote which is probalbly much faster and easier on us and the senate. Knowing that people want to make sure our country stays in place they vote the correct presdient for the next four years so make the correct descision. | 1 |
d863753 | Dear state senator,
I think that we should get ride of the elecoral college because its not what people want. The popular votes lets you pick which president you want. The electoral college is when you pick your candidate but your picking a elector and they bring in the votes. The people that vote should be able to pick who they want and then yea. So we should have popular votes then keeping the electoral college. So we need a popular vote and not a electoral college where you dont actually vote, you vote for a elector and then you tell them which candidate you vote for and then they bring in the votes. For exaple, if i would to say that the candiadates are George washington and john kerry and i pick george and 34 others pick him the elector would bring 35 votes to the congress and then he would have 35 votes. You dont know the electors you dont know anything. | 2 |
d869f96 | I PROPER_NAME think that the electoral college should be Abolished . How would you feel if you were running for President and only 1 party got to pick the winner ? That just seems unfair and Unorganized to me . For someone to have to go through an entie process just to pick President , is way more far then what it could be . I dont thnk its okay for State Legislatures to have a say-so in who should be President should be because for them to try to pick it for themself with out the help of "The People" which is who really matters.
"The People" should have just as much an say-so in who the President and Vise president should be .Well they do but i dont think the State Partie should have anything to do with the votes. For 1 the collage or process its' self is Unnessary jst for someone to cast a vote , when they could really check who they want to vote for on a peice of paper or something . Sure that would take alot of time just to count but i think thats far more organized than for everyone to go through a process on a computer or something . According to the text the Electral College process consists of the selection of the electors .... Thats too much voting going on for no reason . Everyone is entilted to their own opinion and it should be heard , because every little vote counts. I remember when i was in Elementary school nd when election time came around they took the students in the library to vote ; even though we were not old enough to vote i can garentee the votes that we casted made a difference even if it was just by 1 vote . But as i think abut it , the president is not just for the benifit of the Congress and the State Legslatures , He/She is for the benifit of EVERYONE . i think that the State Parties wants to have a say-so in the votes just so they can feel important . | 3 |
d86e510 | Have you ever thought about having a car that can drive around by themselvs? I am sure that there are some of you have got annoyed about you want to get to places but you can not drive. Now there is a saying about driverless cars, and it's really a cool and conceivable thing to see in our future generation. There things I will prove for my opinion of there should be a car like that in the future.
I am on the side of there should be driverless cars in the future. Why? Cause I believed it will be convenience for people in daily life. It might not pass the law for now days but how will you know about the future? We as a human are the ones that can change our generation. Things got changed so fast and evolved day by days. If you didn't even try to how will you know it doesn't work out? My point of view to have driverless cars is they are convenience and futuristic. You got to change your stubborn and old mind of thinking toward the things you can or can't.
Those are my ideas of why there should be driverless cars in the future. To have driverless cars are convenience and cool.
You never know how things will turn out to be like. Which you got to step on the game, know what's coming, and live it and play it big. Be enlighten about what you wants to be and how you will change the generation to the next level, which the driverless cars could be one of yours begining. | 2 |
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