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175ec92 | Yes, it is valuable it is able to accuratly define the expression of a students. Technology is a very powerful this in the new world, we are able to do almost everything so this is a very important task to do. Being able to figure out if students are actually concentrated or not is very important.
Mona Lisa is a painting that was made by Leonardo da Vinci it was able to
identify what she felt and even the percent of what she was feeling.It is able to identify what muscles you are moving and read your real emotions not the false ones. Fourty-four muscles in the model move like our human muscles "Yet Dr. Huang abservers that artists such as da Vinci studies human anatomy to help them paint facial muscle percisly
enouh to convey specific emotions"
Dr. Huang is the creator of FACS this classifys basic human emotions such as happiness, suprised ,anger, disgust ,fear and sadness. Not only could this be used in the class but also on pictures of presidents, art and maybe even older artifacts.It might be even important to identify a students expressions but things. "A classroom computer could reconize whan a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts." paragraph 6 Making Mona Lisa Smile. This way tecahers will be able to get the student back on track.
Students in a class can get very bored of what the subject is about and when a teacher talking for a long period of time this may cause a student to became distracted by another thing in class. With this technology the teacher will be able
to know if the student is confused and not really paying attention and fix the problem. | 3 |
1763449 | "Unmasking the AFace on Mar's"
Many people beleive there is other life forms on Mars. Recently NASA Found an odd landform on Mars in the region Cydonia. The landform looks exactly like a human's face. People claim that this Face looks like a great Egyption Pharoh, and that the Face was created by other life forms or "aliens." But, Cydonia is a region known for its various mesa's and landforms. Still the Face caught many veiwers attention.
Since, Cydonia has various landforms it led NASA to beleive that the Face was just some other natural landform. Garvin says in paragraph 12,"What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West." "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." This peice of evidence proves that the landform could very easilly be natural. For Earth has hundreds of natural landforms.
So, when the Face hit Hollywood people went wild and decided that it must be aliens. Conspiracy theorists claim,"Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars--evidence that NASA would rather hide." This claim makes people even more skeptical of how the Face was actually formed. The Face began to show up in magazines and movies. People sharing how they beleive the Face actually formed. Even though many people wanted to beleive there was life on Mars(including NASA) they had to stick to the evidence.
On April 8, 2001 the Mars Global Surveyor was nearing the Face. It was a cloudless day and Garvin and his team were hard at work adjusting the Spacecraft so it would center the Face in the camera for a clear photo. When it came time,"Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution." The clear photo helped prove that the Face was actually just a natural landform. That was caused by an isolated mesa.
Although, many people want to beleive that alien's created this odd landform called the Face. A lot of evidence proves other wise. Cydonia is a place known for mesa's and Earth has hundreds of odd landforms that seem to be Alien. Think that one day you could visit the Face of Mars istead of The Man in the Moon! | 3 |
176dd5b | Hi my name is Luke and I am person who is working in two part jobs. I work at a grocery store and a bank. My friend Don invited me to join the Europe on a cattle boat. It helps people in need of food, a home, farming and much more.
It is called the UNRRA meaning the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. I want more people to come and help because you are doing a deed to people around the world that needs your help with farming,getting food, and getting a home. The UNRRA has over 44 nations helping with these people in need, but we need more. ''The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy''. I had lots of fun times on the boat as well. This is not just work it is also about fun. When we travel to give people stuff in need, we will play games like Tennis, volleyball, baseball, pool, and much more activities to do.
I think that you should come down to the UNRRA. First, you are helping people that needs it. Second, You can come and hang out also have fun when doing it. Third, it's an unbelievable deal for a small-town boy. | 2 |
176fce7 | Venus is a rather intriguing planet that mankind would have a great interest in studying. Venus' great danger is what's stopping us from examining it up close. The author tries to say that overcoming this danger is worth dealing with to explore Venus, however. I believe their claim is valid and that there is value of trying to study the planet, even with these dangerous conditions. There's even a decent chance of working around the risks. The author uses reasons like it's the most Earth-like planet, studying Venus from a ship orbiting around the planet isn't insightful enough to learn much, and that NASA is even coming up with different methods of studying the planet to justify their idea.
There's a lot of evidence to suggest that Venus was originally similar to Earth in quite a few ways. The planet was likely covered with oceans that could've been able to support life. Venus also had other features like rocky sediment, craters, valleys, and mountains. Venus is also sometimes the closest planet to Earth, often swapping back and forth with Mars being the closest. This evidence shows that it's likely Venus was essentially an alternate version of Earth.
It's also a good point that hovering above the planet and observing it just isn't effective enough at gathering information. Since the atmosphere is impenetrable to light, photography and videography of the surface is near pointless. The inability to go down to the ground and collect samples of the materials, substances, and gases hinders our ability to understand the planet. Researchers are even considering innovating space technology to allow us to gather some form of meaningful knowledge. We need to advance past observing from an orbital space station and find a way to get down there.
NASA realizes that problems could be solved with the right approach. They've tested how long some electronics made of silicon carbide could survive in Venus' conditions and so far, the results have shown that there is potential. Building resistant computers may also collect information on the planet, but mechanical computers may get this job done the best. Mechanical computers were used in World War II, but they were sturdier than modern computers and don't require any electronics to function. If one method of getting closer to the planet doesn't work, we could always try again with another.
Overcoming the dangers of Venus is currently one of the toughest challenges of space exploration we've seen yet. With enough determination and patience though, we can find a way to work around this dilemma; especially since NASA clearly hasn't given up working on solutions. This may be necessary too; our current method of studying this place just isn't that good. The reward may be worth the effort too since Venus is one of the most interesting planets we've attempted exploring. Let's just hope that this won't stop us from wanting discover the whole universe. | 4 |
176fde9 | In the artical, "Making Mono Lisa Smile," the author writes about a new technology known as Facial Action Coding System, abbreviated to FACS. This technology reads peoples expressions and put together pecentages of how a person is feeling. Others claim that this is an excelent idea to use this in a classroom, but I disagree. It is a skill that most humans have, could be used in a way that it should not be used, and is unnatural.
Telling facial expression is a human skill that we recieve when we are born. The passage gave an example of a person and their friend. A person could easily tell how their friend is doing by looking and watching their facial expressions. Even if a baby was looking at another human being, the baby can tell hiw the ither person is feeling. Yes, it could be hard at times for they could easily have mixed emotions about something, but is that not what socilasing for? So why do we need a machine telling us how we feel in a classroom?
A student can easily hide their feelings. Rather that be out of shame, of pride, or even jalousy. Humanity would be lying to one self if all of us said that we have never hid our feelings. Actors and actresses around the world are hiding their true feelings to get into a charactor. These people are convencing themselves that they are a different person, which is what makes the acting industry so great and interisting. There are some students that are worried about their grades and some that could careless. Carelessness could come from boredom, however, if the subject is not appealing to them, they will be bored either way. There are certin subjects that most students find no intrest in that they have to take no matter what because it is required by the law of the state for education. For example, if a student enjoys math more than language art, they will most likely be bored of almost everything that is taught in the language arts classroom. For an educator to make it more intresting and apealing to this student, they might think about adding some kind of math into the subject. This will most likely not work because the student is in the mind set of laungue arts.
This machienery is unnatural to the Earth and to humanity. If we start using these in classrooms, it will most likely be taken farther and be sold to be at ones homes. it is said in the passage "your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms..." however, it was once imposible for a phone to fit in a pocket, it was imposible for an airplane to fly, and there are many othe "imposible" things that became posible. Now days with social media, people are more constricted in their "self buble" that they do not go and try to meet new people. If this machien was to enter our homes, the kids may never leave the house because "it knows exactly what I am feeling."
Over all, I do not think that this machienery is a good place for a school because it is a skill that most humans have, could be used in a way that it should not be used, and is unnatural. Humans need the interaction with other humans, they can easily fake their facial expression, and could become a cause of lower social skills. | 4 |
177409b | The new software can make 3-D models based off your face, to be able to do this software need to have fine accuracy. the software could identify humans emotions, but should be used in some cases. As in making computer-animated faces more expressive for video games or video surgery. What they shouldnt be allowed to do, is to choose certein ads and tv shows based off your emotions.
The new software is a compter that can know someones emotions just baseed off of one photo, or painting. This compter has such fine accuracy that it can make 3-D animated faces by the 44 major muscles thats in your face. This compter can know weather if your happy, surprised, anger, etc. This makes it easier for game designers to create people with better expressive faces, can help with video surgery.
The desgners of the computer also want it to show peolpe ads based off the peoples emotions, weather if there sad, happy, mad, etc. This would make people more incline to buy something based off there emotions. Which shouldn't be allowed, beacuse the computer could take control over peoples wants and there needs based off there emotions. This also is a lake of privite life, meaning that, beacuse your computer is scanning your face to "finger out your emotions" it also have a copy of your face. Which if people can get a hold that, they would have personal info. For example, with the new Iphone X. you can unlock your phone by putting your camera towards face. so if you happen to fall asleep, someone could get a hold of your phone and unlock it by putting it towards your face.
In conclusion the new computer software is a great creation which could help with computer animation and video surgery. But shouldn't be allowed to be used for ads, to make people but stuff based off there emotions. | 2 |
177a7d7 | School can be very boring to most kids. The endless notes and lessons from teachers, and the countless hours staring at a computer screen just isn't fun. Prof. Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Institute believes that every student's computer should have the ability to read its owners facial expressions to change the way it is being taught to benefit the kids! Schools around the nation need to look into getting computers with the ability to read their kids facial expressions if they want to see an increase in education.
Being able to read one's face seems like a far fetched idea, but it is very possible. Dr. Paul Eckman is the creator of the FACS, or the Facial Action Coding System. Eckman has stated that the FACS can read six different basic emotions. Happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. Beckman also states that each emotion is paired with characteristic movements of the facial muscles. "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal," states Dr. Huang. With that being said, if schools could put a version of the FACS into computers in their school and study the way their students handled the lessons, they could modify their lessons accordingly.
Dr. Huang and colleague Prof. Nicu Sebe are looking for more ways to interpret the importance of communication between humans and technology. With the technology that the FACS provides, Huang realized something. He realized that if this was put into schools, it would change the way lessons were taught. Huang states "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." He proceeds to state "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication. So computers need to understand that too." Huang is trying to interpret that having these in the classroom would make learning more enjoyable and more affective.
There have been times in school where teenagers across the nation don't understand a lecture, and are too scared to ask the teacher in front of the whole class. If a system like the FACS was included in computers across the U.S. school's would see an increase in not just education, but an increase in attendance as well. If we want to take steps to advance in the educational field, then these are the necessary steps to take. Get new technology in the classroom! | 4 |
177d6f6 | I do not see a place for self-driving cars in our time, but may see a place for them in the future. Although there are many advantages to these Google self driving cars there are also some things that take away from it's self- driving feature. Google may have found a new mode of transportation, but for the here and now I believe taxi's are for here to stay.
If these are self driving cars why must the driver or rider still be fully aware of the surrounding objects and traffic? If they had to state this why should this be allowed on the streets at all. This is a great idea and it's claims of helping our enviroment by using half the fuel the taxi's use would be a huge technological impact on our entire species' carbon footprint on our planet. But also what Google should deam the most important features of this product is it's saftey to passengers and to the vehicles surrounding it.
Although I do agree with amny this is a great idea and could take over the taxi cab industry in total, I feel this may be for the years down the road. Google shoudl wait ten to fifteen years in order to perfect the tehnology in order to get this self driving car on the roads. But until then I feel it is still time for the classic yellow taxi's to continue being driven by a human behind the wheel in our cities. | 2 |
177febf | There are many conspiracies that the face was created by aliens but none of those conspiracies have evidence to back them up.From most information scientists have gathered they collected the information that it was just a natural landform. There is no evidential proof that aliens even exsist and many other things in space are created by natural landforms.When the web surfers surfed the web thet foiund the JPL image and it "revealed that it ewas a natural lanform.There was no alien monument after all." There was also very similar rocks in the Amerucan West that formed naturally as well and that showed the the space rock can be formed the same way the other rocks were formed. As Garvin says in the article "it reminds me most of Middle Buttle in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." This means that this is not the only rock and there are other very similar one's that's why it is percieved to be a natural landform because if it was formed by aliens how did they do it very similar to the other's?"If it looks like the other one's that it is easier to say that it is a natural landform. Not that it is just easy to say but the aliens theory is just not as thought out nor' does it give as much fatual evidence as the real reason which is in fact that the "Face of Mars." is createc by natural landforms. | 3 |
1781f4e | The aurthor of this story thinks that despite all the negitive and dangerous
things about the planet it still might be worth studing for.And i would say yes.
I think that i would care about the dangers of venus but in the article in paragraph 4 is says 'Astronomers are fascinated by Venus bucause it may well once been the most Earth-like planet'.But we cant really study the planet because a single spaceship hasn't touched venus in over 3 decades.The author also talks about how the tempatures would be 170 dagrees Fahrenheit and the air pressure is close to sea level on Earth if someone were to fly a plane on venus .The aothor is saying that dispite all the dangers venus could be like earth.
I think the author is right to keep on trying to study the planet venus and build machines so that is could stand venus hard conditions.And by studing that they can try and make some metal or some sort so it wont melt when the machine touches the ground and last long enough so they can study venus.He also talks about how the conditions are not easy but survieable to humans.Also in paragraph 4 it talks about 'Venus having mountians and craters simmilar to earth".
In this article i think that the author did a good job at explaing why we should study venus and dispite the dangers.I think it would be a good idea but NASA should make a machine first that would last the conditions of venus.And if venus was Earth like i would try and discover the planet to see if the conditions are stable or not.
Dispite all the negitive stuff thats wrong with venus i would say stick with the author about trying to learn more about the planet. | 4 |
1782cc8 | Venus,sometimes called the "Evening star," is one of the brighest points of light in the night sky. however the nickname is misleading since venus is actually a planet.
Venus has proved itself to be a very challenging place to examine. Despite the challenges we have to take risks to examine the planet Venus because Venus is referred to as Earth's "twin", Earth is the closest planet to Venus in density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. Earth,Venus and mars orbit the sun at different speeds. Venus has the the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mecury is closer to our sun. Astronomers are facinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system.Sometimes Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for planetry visit, a crucial considration given the long time frames of space travel. Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of venus.
Working hard to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value because human curiosity will lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors.Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 1 |
1783b9f | The "Face on Mars" is just a natural landform. There isn't evidence of aliens making it.If it were an alien artifact, we would've seen aliens. Even from the picture from 1976 to 2001, we never saw evidence that there are aliens there. There is nothing on Mars that could've made this so it must have just been nature.
The Face is a Martian mesa. Martian mesas are common enough around Cydonia, so it's possible for them to be in that area. Also, the Face isn't the only mesa on Mars. This one just has unusual shadows that makes it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. These shadows made the pictures illusions because it looked liked a human face.
There are other natural landforms there. Next to the Face is another mesa but it doesn't have the same look as the Face. All of the other things on Mars haven't been made by aliens so this one isn't either. The other landforms on Mars have been naturally made. Lastly, there isn't any other explination for how this was made, so it must have been made by nature. | 2 |
1787e2c | Venus is sometimes called "Evening Star," is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. However, the nickname is misleading since Venus is a planet. In our solar system Venus is the second planet from the sun. Venus has some challenging place discover closely. Venus has a lot of interesting things.
First, it is worthy to study Venus becaus it is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in the distance too. In the article it said that Venus is sometimes right around the corner-in space terms-humnas. Venus hasn't not been touched down more than three decades. Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its promixity to us. The article show that a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus.
Second, Venus maybe a bit scary but worthy sudying it. As already said Venus has quite a lot of interesting. On the planet's surface teperatures average is over 800 degree and the pressure is 90 times graeter than our on planet. Even though Mercury is closer to the sun Venus has the hottest
surface temperature in our solar system. NASA has one particularly for sending humans to study Venus.
Third, a lots of researcher are trying to study Venus and curios about it. Venus is sometimes called "Evening Star," is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. However, the nickname is misleading since Venus is a planet. In our solar system Venus is the second planet from the sun. Venus has some challenging place discover closely. Venus has a lot of interesting things.
Finally, Venus is being study by a lot of researcher because of it interesting facts. Vehicles hovering over venus would avoid the unfrieindly ground conditions by staying up and out of their ways. Peerind at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safeky far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere.
Researcher cannot take any samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance. Vens can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit.
Inclonclusion, it is worth to study Venus because if it interesting facts. Others planets has a lot of it intersrting facts too but Venus has more. As already said Venus is the hottest planets in our solar system even though it not the closest to the sun. Now a day many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to oyr knowledge of Venus. It is worthy to study Venus because of it interesting facts. | 3 |
178a016 | The auther suggests that studying is a worthly pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Like Venus is even more challanging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venu's atmopsheric. Its more extreme than anything that a human encounter on earth. Venus has the hottest suface temperature of any planet in our solar system. Venus would be the place where there would be lots of problems like not easy conditions.
when using phones, tablet to acid or heat capable of melting tin. I feel like we would need more advanced things from earth in Venus because Venus would have the hottest suface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though mercury is closer to the sun. "It would the most challenging in exploring venus". The venusian geology and the weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightningstrikes to probes seeking to land on its surface.
And the most entresting thing is that somtimes Mars and Venus are closer to earth. Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has a value, not only because of the insight on the planet in how it had lots of bad things, but we still would have the good things that would we need to make people to survive in venus. Our travels on earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 2 |
178a1c0 | Today's world is full of ideas and innovation. Sometimes there are good ideas, and sometimes there are bad ideas. You can never expect all good ideas from one person, and that brings me to Sergey Brin, co-founder of the world's biggest search engine Google. Brin states his company is developing a car that operates without a driver- to an extent. Do not be fooled, Google has not came up with a completely autonomous car, though the project's future does seem bright.
There are many faults when it comes to a self-driving car. First, you will have to understand that, despite all of the technological advances brought on by our society, the car has advanced fairly slowly. With this, one has to realize the change from a car controlled by a person to a car controlled by itself may not be well-suited.
Secondly, there seems to be somewhat of a complication when it comes to regulations of a new concept. For example, in the passage "Driveless Cars Are Coming", the author brings up the issue with creating new traffic laws in order to accomodate the autonomous car. Would that not be a hassle? In my opinion, there are far more things to worry about than a driverless car. All of the time used to create laws, roadways, hubs, and so forth could be spent on medical research or fixing our environment.
On the other hand, the industry of making and manufacturing these cars and their components could create jobs for people living in our desperate country. On the flipside of that, what if, similar to all other industries, labor is outsourced in order for companies to establish an edge early? When dealing with social issues such as these, all conditions must be considered before moving on.
With this idea of self-driving cars, I really can not say I agree with the project. I feel like if there ever was to be a car like that, the problems would far outway the common good of it all, and perhaps the whole thing would turn into a hastly jumbled mess. All in all, the idea of an autonomous car seems outlandish and unnecessary, not to mention sloth in an already lazy America. | 3 |
178f445 | In the 21st century there has
been a lot of new technology invented. Driverless cars is among the many invention ideas that is still on the drawing board. Driverless cars should not be developed because it will cost a lot of money, traffic laws will have to be modified, and the cars won't be truely driverless.
The amount of money it will cost to make a mass oroduction of driverless cars is not worth it. The passage says "Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sennsors 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 internal motion sensor." All of the items that the Toyota Prius has on it will be needed for the new driverless cars. The things mentioned in the quote do not include the many internal modifications that will need to be made. The car companies that create cars will need to pay to have thier workers trained to be able to do the modificatins that the driverless car needs. The car company will also have to pay for all of the expensive sensors that are needed. This wil drive up the over all cost of the smart car, and make it too expensive for the average working person.
The driving laws that exist as of today focus on keeping all citizens safe, and lawmakers assume that the onlt safe cars have an alert human driver. The passage says "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safecar has a human driver in control at all times. As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer driven cars." In the US the laws state that it is illegal in many states . The laws in those states would have to be changed to allow driverless cars to enter into that state. The traffic laws that those states have were created to try and keep all members of society safe. The assumption of the states with these laws are that the only safe car is a car being driven by an alert human. Sincethis is that case the laws that were created most likely would not be changed to allow driverless cars to drive on the roads of those states.
The cars would not be able to be completly driverless. The passage says "They can steer, accelerate, and break 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 cars that have been invented and tested so far are unable to be completly driverless. The cars lack skills that only humans are able to accomplish. These skills include navigating through work zones and accidents, which are two very common things on today's roads.
Since the cars are not completly driverless a human driver will have to be alert at all times in case the car isn't able to preform a human driving skill that is needed.
The overall cost, law changes, and driving assistance that will be needed to operate a driverless car is not worth it. Those factors will not change in a few years, so car companies should not waste their time and resources trying to develop a driverless vehical. | 5 |
1792c42 | Well certenly we all have different facial expressions. But have you ever looked at somone and they look like they are made but they really are not? Well I feel that we shlould not use tecnology to view somone's feelings. A lot of differnt things can be misunderstood just with one little mistake. I will be telling you some reasons.
Tecnolgy does not alwys read ot tell the truth. It will be hard to tell if someone is really mad or has some feelings indide themselves if using tecnolgy. Mayeb the person can be happy and excited from the inside but from they outside they show a differnt facial expression. I feel that tecnology will just mess evrything up. We need to keep it all natural and they was it is now.
If somoene is das you can see it nut you don't know how they feel inside. You can probobbly draw a picture of them or soemthing instead of using tecnology. Also any type of facial expression sould be valuable in the classroom. You can't really judge a book by it cover. So really there is no need of using tecnology to see somones looks or to make them that way. Everyone has differnt reactions to differnt things.
So I think that tecnology shpuld not be usted to identify somone or to give them a value. They are how they are and that is how it is. In a classroom ther can also be differnt values and differnt emoltional expressions. Someone might feel down but we don't know that until they talk to us or let us help them. So no tecnoligy shpuld not be allowed to try and guess someone's value or feelings. | 3 |
17930b3 | The author supports his ideas in this passage good because he lists all the good details when he's going to support something. When the author talks about the Venus he has explantation showing how to explain that. In the passage it says " Venus is the second planet from our sun". It's also in our solar system, Venus is sometimes called '"Evening Star",is one of the brighest points in the sky. The author has different details and has found them.
The author talks about different stuff how our sister plant is so inhospitable". Scientists also see and search what's going on in the world and in the planets. I think it's good that we know some of these stuff so we know in the future that can happen. If you don't know none of these details you can search stuff online.
It's also good knowing these stuff because it's better to know them. Scientists do a lot of researching that's going around the world and earth. Also Venus is worthy to know what dangercan happen. It can get to 170 degrees Fahrenheit the air will be close to the area.
The solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed earth levels. Also says in paragraph 5 that's not easy conditions, but survivable for humans. Venus from a ship orbiting or havering safely far above. There is different facts about everything.
For the last paragraph it should be about how the world is working now. In paragraph 8 striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus. There should be limits by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination. Imagine exposing the cellphone and all that. | 2 |
1798e69 | There are quite a lot of reasons to join the Seagoing Cowboys program such as learning about a lot of things that you could not learn about just sitting at home. It is also an opportunity to meet new people and learn about why they are participating in the program so that you can find reasons for yourself.
It is a really good way to see places that you have wanted. For example Greece or Venice which are some of the many places that Luke went to when he was part of the program. Not only do you get to help people from other countries there are many other amazing benefits for being part of the Seagoing Cowboys. Some of these benefits are that you possibly might be able to see China and Europe along with a lot of other places. Also if you do be part of the program you can take care of animals
and learn hard work from the people that are there. You might also get the great opportunity to cross the Atlantic Ocean or
even the Pacific Ocean.
The Seagoing Cowboys is a great way to have fun to. Once the animals are where they need to be you can play baseball and volleyball in the empty holds where the animals had been housed. You also have table tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also help pass time. You can get to know about countries and their needs to. Luke even says that the cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy. You might get the chance to help people that were affected by World War II. You would also help in delivering horses, young cows, and mules overseas.
These are the reasons why people should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. It is helpful to other places to because you are giving them important things they need to survive and strive. Some countries were even left in ruins until they got some of the help they needed from the Seagoing Cowboys. | 4 |
1798ecb | We as people want to explore to new levels that no one has ever been to. Some of those things could be going to Venus. You would be the first person to go, everyone would love you, and you would get so much fame. Here's some things that you don't know about. It's exreamly dangerous and your chances of survival and very slim. By slim I mean next to none.
The planet is 97% carbon dixoide so we wouldn't be able to breath and you have have to be in a space suit with limited oxygen supply. Next, you wouldn't be able to touch the surface considering that the average temperatures and 800 degress fahrenheit. When you're there you won't be able to collect materails such as rocks, gases, or even anything else because you won't be able to get to there surface and anything you use to try to touch the surface will melt.
When you are there you will be experiencing 90 times more atompheric pressure than you would here on earth. It would literally crush you to be present on the surface of Venus. Not to mention you could be the second fatherist away from earth and that'll make it longer to get back to earth than normal. Also, when you are there the planet is rotating faster than it would on earth and make you very sick.
So, before you decide to make big leaps and explore new places you got to know what you can and can't do. The author from the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" gave me my information and did an amazing job explaining and getting me to understand how harse Venus could really be. You are limited to far heights and it's your choice to find them. | 2 |
179cb57 | Driverless cars can have many different positive and negative aspects about it. Yet people only tend to look at the positive. A person's brain tends to "shut-off" after being told the good things that can come of something new, that they don't really hear the bad of the product. Salesmen use this same technique. Sure having a driverless car can have some purcks, it is still just a acciedent on wheels.
What is really the point of owning or even making a car that doesn't allow the driver to even drive? Especually when there are so many things that would have to change in order to make room for the new vehicle. The law was originally made and planned out for cars that are originally driven by humans, but once you get a car that can drive itself, then those laws will have to change. In paragraph 9 it clearly states that "even if traffic laws change, new laws will need in order to cover liability in the case of an accident". It proves that the laws would have to change, not only for traffic safety, but also what would and should happen in case one of those driveless cars were to malifunction and cause a serious accident. Even then who would be at fault? "If the technology fails and someone is injured, then who is at fault?" The manufacturer could be the at fault if it had to do with the malifuntion of the car's interior of the engine. Or it could be the driver's fault if he or she didn't properly check their car's buttons.
Yet the car would still be able to control itself so that the driver is allowed to do many other things. In the case , to say, that the driver has been drinking that night and is in no way in shape to drive for a certain amount to drive. The car can "handle driving functions of at speeds of 25 mph... they can steer, accelerate, and even break themselves" (paragraph 7). This just shows the car's many capabilities of what it can do. Also the car has a feature that can allow the driver to turn of the autopilot and allow the driver to take control in case it is needed. Since "the in-car system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big concern" (paragrph 8). This goes to prove that drivwers are safer in this type of car.
As safe as the car may seen, It can be a real challenge to not only operate it, but also it can just be a rea challenge in itself. Dr. Werner Huber, who is a BMW project manager, admits that "the psychological aspects of automation are really a challenge we have to interpret the driving fun in a new way" (paragraph 8). Even a BMW manager admits it's a challenge to handle such a car. Plus should the resoncibility of controlling a vehicle really be taken away from the people? Those who are learning or know how to drive should know that they should never have the privilage to be on the cell phone. People need to learn that their actions-such as drinking and driving or texting-do have concequences that they should learn from. In paragraph 8 it states how "something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone". Well that is something that no one should be doing in the first place. No wonder it wasn't available to drivers before.
Driveless cars should not be driven at all do to the fact that there are just to many risks that are being taken when such a car is being driven on the road. It just creates immature and irresponsible people and is too much of a hassle to deal with. Even for the Government. That is the reason why some states in the U.S. are making it illegal to even test the computer driven cars. | 4 |
179f4f1 | Many people use cars for different reasons but thier are also consequences for driving.
Source 2 states, " Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city... smog rivaled Beijing , china, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world." Just imagine not having to worry about polluting our air, just ride a bike to get from place to place.
Source 4 states, " Studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." Park and sports centers have bloomed throughout cities due to lower pollution and greenhouse gasses all because some people cut out driving. Also, people are much happier knowing they are helping thier planet out one step at a time.
Vauben created a movement called "smart planning." They tried to seperate suburban life from auto use.
Source 1 states, "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions." If people would stop driving their cars or just drive them less, the world would be a healthier smog free evironment. Mr. Goldburg said that "How much you drive is important as whether you have a hybrid." Emissions of private cars owned by middle class are chocking cities.
Source 1 states, " In previous bills, 80 percent of apprpriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transportation." These things show how limiting car usage will help the world be a better place.
Many people in columbia and cities all around have had bike trails for this movment since the 1990's. Most people in columbia see this movemnet as a good thing and ride their bikes to and from even when its raining. In
Source 3 , a business man, Carlos Arturo Plaza states, " It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." Many people around the world see others creating a revolutionary change in the world and are slowly jumping on board. In
Source 4,
" studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." This show how limited driving can help the planet and help those who cut out driving become more involved in sports and the environment.
Source 4 states, "As of 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in January 1995." As I said before, people are starting to notice the revolutionary change in the world and are slowly jumping on board. Even busy soccer moms and commuting executives have given up their cars to help make this movement possible. The pollution and greenhouse gasses go down more and more each day making the Earth a better, healthier place to live. | 3 |
179fd6b | Dear Senator,
The Electoral College has worked for many years but is becoming unfair to the average, everyday citizen. I've recently analyzed the following articles: "What is the Electoral College?" by the Office of the Federal Register, "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even best-laid defences are wrong" by Bradford Plumner, and "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president" by Richard A. Posner. The United States of America should change to a popular vote for president to benefit the nation as a whole.
If we use the popular vote system, the nation as a overall unit will have some benefits in return. In, "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses are wrong," by Bradford Plumner, it argues, "voters vote not for a president, but for a slate of electors". This statement is very much true. Citizens may think they vote for president, only to realize that he or she is chosen for them. The worst part of all, most don't know who the electors are. To strengthen, in, "What is the Electoral College", by the Office of the Federal Register, it claims, "the meeting of the electors where they vote for president". If this comes to be true, why even let citizens vote? Under this system, thier votes don't contribute to the presidential election. The presidential election should be by popular vote of the people.
However, the Electoral College does have it's benefits. In, "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president" by Richard A. Posner, it indicates, "no voter's vote swings a national election". This will allow the electors of each state to decide which president if better for the particular state. One voter's vote could choose the wrong president that harms the nation and doesn't help it.
It is clear to see that both sides have their own pros and cons, but the nation should use the system of popular vote. This allows the people of each state to choose which president benefits them.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME. | 3 |
17a36e4 | In the article "Driveless Cars Are Coming," the author presents both postivie and negative aspects of driveless cars. The author uses many good arguments whether drivless cars should be or should not be a way of transportation. Sergey Brin, a Google cofounder, envisions a future with a public transportation system where trips of driveless cars form a taxi transport system. He believes these driveless cars would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer more flexibility. Brin also believes theses such cars would change the world fundamentally.
As I mentioned before, the author uses both positive and negative views for the topic of driveless cars. I personally think the idea of a driveless car is a great idea. Television, movies, and many people have been fascinated with cars that could drive themselves for a long time. I am for the driveless cars for various reasons. According to Google, their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash. Due to reckless driving, texting and driving, and many other incidents that occur in the real world, not very often can you drive long distances without seeing an accident. I believe these cars being cheaper on fuel would benefit the people who own them, by being able to save money. Driveless cars also give the owner the ability to do other task instead of focusing only on the road. The idea of the driveless car also has some negative aspects about it. But, I believe overall the invention of the driveless car would benefit atleast every owner at some point.
Automakers of the driveless cars are continuing their work for the hope that some day, driveless cars will be avaible.Driveless cars will change the world for the best. Although, we have not been totally successful yet, we grow closer to the destination of driveless cars every day. I believe driveless cars would have a great impact on everybody. | 3 |
17a53de | On May 24, 2001, NASA found something funny on Mars. The Viking 1 spacecraft was taking photos of possible landings sites for Viking 2. During that time, it spotted something that appeared to be an enormous head. It looked like an Egyptian pharoah, but turned out to be a regular, old mesa. It is still debated whether it was created by ancient Martian life, or whether is was just another regular landform on Mars.
My fellow co-workers and I thought this was incredible. We had just found something that could have proven ancient life on Mars. It turned out that it wasn't. Later, we figured out that it was another regular Martian mesa. We were so excited when we thought we had just found proof of earlier life on Mars. We thought we had just made one of the greatest scientific discoveries there has ever been. We were joyful when we saw the Face. We thought we found proof of ancient alien life without even looking for it.
Some people think that the mesa was actually created by aliens. In paragraph 5, it says that people thought NASA was just trying to hide all of the information. To be honest, we were hoping it was proof of alien life. We wanted to find proof of alien life. Why would we hide that information? That just doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
The Face is just a landform. In paragraph 2, it says that Marian mesas were common in the area the Face was in, Cydonia. Also, the shadows were the only things that made the Martian mesa look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. All that says is that a landform could be lucky and have some features that amde it resemble someone. Plus, how would Martians know what a Pharaoh looks like? They would be from Mars and not Earth. They most likely don't know anyone that even looks like an Egyptian Pharaoh.
In conclusion, the face is just a natural landform. It may look like a head, but that is just because of the unusual shadows that the mesa has. If my co-workers and I thought this was actually proof of alien life, why would we hide it from you? What is the point in hiding that kind of information? I'll leave you to decide that. | 3 |
17a53e0 | In the artical it give the example of smiling at a certain ad or frowning at another and the computer will no longer show you ads like that. I believe that the FACS software can be very useful in schools and other places. So here are some reasons that I believe that we should use this new software in our schools.
The new FACS software would be very useful in our schools because, like it states in the artical and by Dr. Huang, the computer could recognize when a child using the computer is starting to get bored. The computer could then change the way it is presenting that particular lesson to make it more interesting and enjoyable. This software could help bring up the overall grades by the student(s) because they now have an interest in learning the subject at hand.
In the artical it shows that this software could recognize the subtle emotions made by the Leonardo da Vinici's painting of Mona Lisa. FACS can recognize the facial expressions made by a child or teenager and recognize the six (happiness, surprise, anger, discust,fear and sadness) basic emotions, just like us people do in our everyday lives. The software can also recognize mixed emotions; FACS has found that the Mona Lisa is displaying 83 percent happiness, 9 percent discust, 6 percent fear, and 2 percent of anger.
Studies have found that when you are sad and fake a smile it can make you just a little bit happier. When moving your facial muscles it not only shows emotions, but also can produce them. When studying a lesson and a child is looking sad' the software could alter the lesson to, lets say, make the child laugh. Everyone knows that laughter is the best medicine. It may not make the child happy over all but it could brighten their day and make the lesson more appealing.
So, in conculsion I feel that the FACS software could be useful in schools and just about anywhere. There are so many things that this software could do to help in our everyday lives, from making lessons more enjoyable, to showing ads that you are interested in. FACS is just overall a good software to help computers figure out emotions and maybe brighten up the day. | 4 |
17a6ac5 | As a teen you wanted to drive. You wanted that freedom to go anywhere on your own. When we are young we dont relize the damage driving a car does to our world. It effects green house gasses, and C02 levels. In my opinion it also makes the human race lazier, or less athletic you could say. I'm a high school student, and to be honest I still want to be able to drive. But with limitation. I live about at most 3 miles from every place I need to go daily. Theres thift shops, Family Dollar and game stores within a mile of my home, and a 7-11 not much farther, Theres also a Naborhood Wall-Mart in 3 miles. The only place thats not in walking distance is school, and I just take the bus. My Mom daily drives to atleast one of these, I dissagree with that. Everytime I go walk with my 3 younger sisters, we go down nd have fun. While yes our feet hurt later, its still worth it.
"VAUBAN, Germany-Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneer, going where few soccer moms or commutin executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars." In Vauban any street parking is forbidden, along with driveway and garage parking. They are what you would call a "car-free" suburban area. While you can own a car, there are only two places to park on the edge of the development and it charges a rediculious fee to park there. Due to this 70% of Families there don't own a car. "When I had a car I was allways tense. I'm much happier this way," Said Heidrun Walter a mother who moved their with her family. They got lots of positive feedback from families in the development.
Are we Americans causing most of our issues with gasses from cars? Luckily no. "Recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." As said by Elisabeth Rosenthal, the writer of the passage "The End of Car Culture" which go's into whether car numbers are increasing or decreasing, and whats in the future for it. She says that it seems like America has gone down, and pasted the peak on cars. While you might counter, "Thats just the economy effecting how everyone spends their money and cars werent at the top." But people who stopped because of the recession may have no reason to restart that habit.
Biking, A healthy way to transport your self from one place to another. It keeps you fit, more active. Alot of issues with people today is if they are over weight or not. While I'm not saying that just because your thin that your healthy. If you dont exercise or eat well you aren't. To be Healthy and fit also doesnt mean body builder extremes. All I'm saying is as a person being healthy is easy, we just make it hard. When you see that donut instead of the carrot. or the couch instead of the bike. It seems like an ultimatum that our mind invents. When in reality we can have both. If everyone had to walk places it would make that mind oggling ultimatum easier. Forcing us to walk more instead of drive everwhere would make couch and donut time more aceptible.
Everyone wants to drive, with the freedom of going anywhere. I know the feeling. But overall we over drive, even if the amount has lowered. It's no secret that it effects our town, our country, our world with C02 levels rising. I'm notsaying lets get rid of cars completely. But if everyonce in a while before you pick up your keys to go down to the near by 7-11, take a moment and set down your keys and walk. | 3 |
17bb4bc | I am for the value of this technology to read students' emotions. I have a reason to support this opinion.
To begin with, this could be used to ditermine the hidden human emotions. For instance, when I am having a presentation about a specefic topic, but I cannot know the audence's true feelings against me because people usually flatter and do not show their real thoughts. However, by using this technology, I can figure out if mine was good enough or not from the data.
In other hand, I believe this has to be limited to protect individual human rights. For example, what if I could read emotions that are shown by folks, they would be bewildered because they have their own private feelings. This might become a big and grave issue later.
As a conclusion, technology is much smarter and more intellegent, but does not have abilities to control human rights. Just because that can decearn the emotion rate, does not mean that can know the real problem beyond this technology. | 3 |
17c3a14 | You should join the Seagoing Cowboys program for many reasons. One reason that you should join is because it is an opportunity of a life time. Another is becasue you get to help people. A side benifit of that is that you get to see Europe and China. It will also open your eyes to be more aware of people in other countries and their needs.
If you join the Seagoing Cowboys program you will get an opportunity of a lifetime. In the article Luke said that he couldn't say no on joining the program because he knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime. You also would get to help people in need from World War ll. You would also have the benifits of seeing Europe and China. In the article he said "Besides helping people, I had the side benifit of seeing Europe and China......". Last but not least it will open your eyes and make you more aware of people in other countries and their needs. At the end of the article Luke claimed that being a Seagoing Cowboy made him more aware of people of other countries and their needs.
In conclusion you should join the Seagoing Cowboys because you will be living the opportunity of a lifetime .You will also get to help people that need help after the disasters of World War ll. It will open your eyes to the people of other countries and their needs too. As well as letting you see Europe and China, while you are working! Please consider joining the Seagoing Cowboys and help around the world. | 2 |
17c5f94 | Dear State Sentator,
A lot of chatter about weather the president should be elected by electoral college or by popular vote is going around my school for the past couple of weeks, and i can't help but to give my own opinion about this argument. I believe that the popular vote should descide who is the president.
I believe this because of two reasons. One, the citizens are the ones that are going to have to deal with this good or bad president for four years and possibly eight years. Also the satate senators can be bribed by one or the other candidates running for president. This candidate could have the worst plans for the next four years and all because he cheated to win. This could cause riots and uprawrs around the United States.
Two, Electoral College is unfair to voters because of the winner-take-all system. What this means is that candidates are not going to focus on the staes that they know they wont get any votes from. for example in source tw, during the campain of 2000, sevebnteen states were not visited by either candidates so they didn't get to see any campain ads. this is unfair because it makes it harder, alomost impossible for these states to choose on who to vote for because they had no presentations to choose from. this puts to much power in the candidates hands.
Some may believe otherwise. For example, since the Electoral votes are from very experienced people that have put there life and time into knowing about what is right and wrong. they are much more experience than the normal citizens. Also Electoral College prevents run-off elections to occur. for example in source three, the electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes casted. This causes lots of pressure which would greaatly complicate the presidential election process. With Electoral Collage, this produces a clear winner.
In my own opinion the one that decideds the winner is popular votes. There can still be Elector Collage votes, but the Electoral votes have to much power and is unfair to the citizens of the united states. | 4 |
17d277f | Venus, also know as "Evening Star" is the brightest point in the night sky. Venus is also the Second planet from our sun. Venus is often referred to Earth's "twin" because of the density and size. There has been no spaceship to touch down on this planet for more than three decades ago. Almost 97% of carbon dioxide blankets Venus, also on Venus the temperatures get over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. This is also why it is sometimes called a challenge to go to Venus and explore.
Long ago, Venus was covered in oceans and various forms of life. Today Venus still has some features that are the same on Earth. Venus would be know for a optional planetary visit. NASA is creating some ideas to send humans to Venus to study this planet. So they are creating a vehicle that will hover over the landscape and above the fray. The Solar power would be great and the radiation would not exceed to Earth's levels.
When orbiting or hovering over Venus safely above the planets insight on ground conditions are going to be dangerous because some cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere.These people also cannot take any samples of anything from a distance away.They are trying to make a machinces that can last long enough to learn about this planet we call Venus.The study of this planet with not just be a good thing but it will make humans curious about this planet and maybe would like to come and visit it in the future.I think that this is a good project for NASA to do because it could be a long lasting project and you could also explore alot obout a Planet that we call out "twin" planet Venus. So I think that someday that people that really want to explore this planet venus will eventually be able to visit it someday. | 3 |
17d3737 | Exploring Venus
Throughout the text the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy mission but also he knows the cons . Visiting Venus may seem as an easy thing to accomplish since the planet it so close to Earth but actually exploring it is a very difficult task. Theres many obstucles and harsh conditions towards humans to visisting Venus but many are so facinated by it because it is very earth like.
Firstly , Venus is a part of our solar system . In paragragh two it stays "venus is often referred to as Earths "twin" , as in terms of the same density and size." That quote explains how the planets are very similar to one another. Many years from now if we discover more and more things about the planet and know that its safe , austronauts could possibly send people to stay there .
In addition , in paragrapgh four it states "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various life forms like Earth today." Many wonder how has the planet has changed, why did it change and if it could form back to what it was.
Finally , there are many cons throught the expirement of visiting Venus. Throught the text it talks about how different it is from Earth as well and how it could possibly harm any living thing . As in paragrapgh three it quotes "Thick atmosphere of almost nighty-seven percent , the planets surface tempatures average over eight hundred degrees and the preasure is nighty percent higher than earth" . No human is meant to survive throught those conditions . A submarine cant even handle the deep parts on the planet , our human flesh would just burn and melt with very high tempatures , and with all the preassue humans would just explode .
In conclusion , if austronauts are capable of finding out safe things for humans to travel to venus then they could possibly survive . Austronauts should push through the challenges so we could value it . Also , humans are very curious of how it could lead to anything so they shall expand their investigation . | 3 |
17d4184 | With technology rapidly evolving, new devices can be developed and old ones can be improved. However, not all old devices need to be improved further upon. For example, self-driving cars seems to be a catastrophe of an idea. They require manual driving in certain haphazard situations, such as navigating work zones. They also lack human caution and feeling, and bring up serious legal issues.
First off, a "driverless" car is not truly autonomous; it requires to be maunally driven in certain situations such as work zones and etc. In paragraph 7, the passage reads that "...all are designed to notify when the road ahead requires human skills...This means the human driver must remain alert..."
This means that the human driver must fight off any other distractions and focus on the road despite the fact that they are not driving. This would entirely contradict the purpose of a driverless car. However, manufacturers are proposing an alert system so the driver can be notified in the event something like that does happen. Ironically, that feature would be abused and drivers would be conditioned to begin to pay attention to the road after that system is set off. A faulty piece of hardware can easily cause that system to bypass a hazard or work zone. This would result in potential harm to the driver, passenger(s), workers, and even other vehicles.
In addition, driverless cars lack the perception and understanding of a human driver. For example, if someone is stranded on the side of a road and needs help, or their car needs to be jump started,a driverless car is not going to stop for them. It lacks empathy and generosity. Only a human driver is capable of helping out anyone who is stranded or needs help. Another huge problem with the autonomous automobiles is that there are legal gaps and anomalies when it comes to any damages done by these cars. The passage brings up an important point in paragraph 9. It says "...new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident." This brings up an immense anomoly: if two of these driverless cars crash into each other, who is liable and who is immune to any legal claims? Would the manufacturer be liable or the driver be liable? What if a driverless car crashed into a regular car, or someone's child? There would be too many new regulations and concerns wiht the law if these cars were mass manufactored. It would also be relatively unfair if a driver who did not program the car's GPS and driving system was sued and held reliable.
In conclusion, these machines require the quick and panicky control of a human driver in a random situation, and also lack human emotion and compassion in case any specail situation does occur, such as someone's car breaking down and etc. In addition to that, they also bring up many legal impracticalities and complications. Although they make traveling alot easier on the driver, they are not a safe, practical, or reliable invention that enhances the quality of human life. There is nothing wrong with the tradition of manually driving a car so why change it? | 4 |
17d73bb | A Cowboy Who Rode The Waves
In the story there was a boy named Luke and he had just graduated from high school. He was working two part time job at the grocery store and at the bank. Then one day one of his friends invited him to go to Europe
on a cattle boat. Luke knew that this was a great opportunity for him to go with him so he did. In the story Luke did lots of travling and it sounds like he really enjoyed himself. I believe that peole now days should do these type of things today.
My first reason why I believe that people should do these things today is because lots of people are lazy and do not do anything but sit around on their phones or either on a video game. It hurts peoples brains and its a waist of peoples lives. I think that alot of people would enjoy doing lots of other things then just staying at home laying down not doing anything. In the story Luke seem to have had a fun and great time experiencing lots of diffrent places in the world.
My second reason is because we really could learn something about our world. We can experience it without using google or siri. It could be a fun way to actually be right infront of the place or be inside of the place. You could take lots of pictures in there. Also you would feel proud of yourself. You would feel proud of yourself by saying I travled there world
before I
died I actually did something with my life other spent time at home on my phone or Xbox or other device.
My third reason is you could take a vacation with your family and go to some place like the Panama Canal. Also you could go to somewhere like Russia, Italy,Sweeden, and lots of other places you could choose.
My forth reason is in the story Luke says that it would be a great opportunity to go travel the world. That tells me that he was instreasted in travling the world with his friend. Also at the end he got hurt and cracked his ribs. He could not work for a coulpe of days but he still enjoyed himself hurt or not hurt.
In conclusion it would be just a fun journey to do and discover. If you could go travle the world would you do it? Or would you rather stay home being lazy on your phone? These are some question you would have to ask yourself. This is why reasons on why I think it would be a good idea. | 3 |
17d83e3 | Have you ever wanted to help animals cross the Atlantic Ocean? That's what Luke Bomberger was. Luke Bomberger was a Sea Cowboy that helped animals cross thje Atlantic Ocean. I have two reasons why you should join the program.
The first reason is that if you care about animals this is the right job for you because, at this job you have to take care of them by feeding and cleaning. The animals you will be taking care of are horses, young cows, and mules that are shipped over sea. The second reason is that if you want to be a cowboy, this is the right job for you because, you are dealing with cows, horses, and mules like every cowboy or girl.
Other people might have an argument about it. They might say that it's boring and stupid but, it's really not boring or stupid. It would be really fun if you wanted to be a cowboy or cowgirl, and liked animals | 2 |
17df6b8 | What do you think it would be like to tell others emotions with just a quick look? Well, with the Facial Action Coding System, FACS for short, you can. It quickly scans your face and tells your emotion. This shows being helpful for finding out friends emotions, showing the mindset in our classes and showing hidden feelings also leading to a glimp of mental illness. The real question now is, how will this be helpful in the classroom?
In the classroom, students show certains signs of how they feel. In paragraph 5, the text says " ..you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face.". Often when we are sad we frown or our eyes water, or when we are happy we smile but, just because we smile doesnt mean we are genuinely happy. The FACS has been classified the many different muscles in your face and has classified six basic emtions,as explain in paragraph 3. A quick look and we can understand if your happy, sad, or even bored.
While we are busy learning often times, we can zone out or we can be confused but not speak up about it. No worry, the FACS is here to help teachers understand how you feel. In paragraph 6 the author says " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored.". Later in the same paragraph it states " Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.". This shows the FACS has more of a use than just telling emotions, it can help you understand ways to make your classroom entertaining. It can also help you realize how fast certain students are working, or their mindset which they may keep hidden.
As humans, we often hide our true feelings. We may struggle opening up to others about how we feel out of fear of rejection or looking weak. Towards the end of paragraph 6, it says " Most human communication in nonverbal, including emotional communication. So computers need to understand that,too.". The FACS is able to detect multiple different emotions. It can not only tell the basic happy,sad,or mad, it can tell confused, bored, or depressed all just by using muscles in your face. This can let us know how students really feel when they walk in. It can give them a glimps into what they may have going on with them mentally, giving more awareness in mental health. This can help save students.
The FACS can come as an important tool to both teachers and students. It can show students how to react to their friends feeling a certain way. It'll give teachers ideas as to how to make interesting yet, entertaining lessons for their students. Lastly, if can give us an idea of how the other around us truely feel and way to help them. The FACS can be very helpful for students now and caring for toward into life. | 4 |
17e1148 | A Cowboy Who Rides The Waves!
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There are many reasons that you should consider joining the Seagoing Cowboys program. It is a very fun activity to participate in. In this essay I will be stating a few reasons on why I believe that you should consider participating in this program.
One reason is because you will mostly be on a boat at all times during this program. While you are on this boat you will be traveling all across the world. We all know that there are not many things to do on a boat but on these boats there most definitly be things to do. Such as sight seeing, Touristing, and much more!
Another reasosn is because say you like to get out of the house, well this will be one great oppourtunity for you to do so. Reason being because you will probably be gone for a long period of time on each trip. Plus it will take even more time because you are on a boat, and those things arent very fast. So if you are one of those people who do like to get out of the house for a long time this will be your chance to do so.
My third and final reason is because you will jus have a fun time. Mostly because there will be tons and tons of things to do on these Fun adventures. A couple of things that you might consider doing is if you are docked in paris for a few go check out the ifal tower, Or if you are docked in Washigton D.C. why not go see the White House and maybe you could even have the chance to meet the president himself.
In conclusion there many reasons you should consider taking on the Challenge of being a Seagoing Cowboy. One reason is because you will be able to see things like never before. Another is because you will be out of the house for a long period of time on each of these Adventures. Last but not least is because you will simpily just have fun. | 3 |
17e28c2 | You can not always believe everything you hear because the story can always change. Some people make exaggerations while others are simply mistaken by their findings. This scenario occured on May 24, 2001 when there was a strange dent on Mars. This event was advertized in a Hollywood film, books, magazines, radio talk shows, and haunted grocery store checkout lines for twenty-five years. Why did the news about this event linger around for this long?
When the dent in Mars was spotted, NASA investigated to determine what could have created such a mark. In paragraph three, it states that the mark resembled a human face that contained the following features, eyes, nose, and a mouth. It also states that the authors of NASA discussed that this finding would be a great way to lure the public into wanting to know more about Mars. If NASA could get the public interested enough, then the station would recieve an abundant amout of attention. This could make the station wealthy so that their budget would thrive and they could avoid any financial issues.
NASA gathered information by capturing photos of the face-like inprint on Mars. In paragraph seven, the article states that on April 5, 1998 the Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, and their team captured a picture ten times more accurate photo than the Vikings. Keep in mind that the sharp photos were taken in 1998; and that the Viking photo from 2001, in the top section of the article, is less detailed than the one taken in 1998. Technology, such as cameras, continues to improve the quality of pictures, not decrease the quality.
NASA not only does their research based on facts and history, but they also base it off of land forms. In paragraph twelve, it states that the picture taken actually shows a landfrom that is common around the American West. If NASA stopped drawing the public in by giving this information, then others would lose interest and NASA would then struggle to thrive and suceed. They could loose money, supporters, and others who make their station function. Why would a company want to put themselves in danger, especially NASA where many bright individuals that can help the future?
The article provides statements and facts in paragragh three, five, seven, and twelve to abolish the theory that there was ever a dent in Mars that could be an aliens face. Also, provided for you at the top of this article you can examine the photos that have been taken. Do not forget that you can not always believe everything that you hear or see, there is always the possibility of an error. This information proves to the public that there was no face on Mars. | 3 |
17e47df | The Face on Mars had no alien help to be formed. The reason we know this is because aliens can not create shadows. It stated in the article that the features were formed by shadows. The face is just a big rock that could have been formed from eroding rock and metiorites hitting the surface of the planet. As you can see the face does become eroded from 1976 through 2001. If it was created by aliens the rock formation would have stayed in tact possibly. It would not have eroded, it could have a few chizzle marks but other than that it would still look perfectly clear. Also if the face was created by aliens then it would have ment some kind of symbol.
On mars so far there is no possible way ro live there without certain eqipment. There is so far no possible way that the rock could have been made by aliens or anciet civilizations because they couldn't survive without water and the pressure on their head could have killed them. If it was made by ancient civilizations this would mean that there was water somewhere on mars at sometime which is impossible since it is somewhat close to the sun and all the water would have been dried up in probably in about a week.
In conclusion if at sometime there was any trace of aliens or ancient civilization on that planet they wouldn't have survived. If they did they would have been able to keep a generation on that planet and water. So the face is just a rock that has been eroded. | 2 |
17e6981 | Join in the Seagoing Cowboys program! We help countries recover thier food supplies and take care of horses, young cows, also mules that are shipped to us over seas. It will be a wonderful opportunity for small town boys (Luke's words). 44 nations joined together to form this group UNRRA (the united states Relief and Rehabilitation). And they hired us to help them.
It will be an adventure to travel all over the world helping people and animals (also Luke's words). We have alot of fun on board, especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. Besides the benefit of helping people we travel the world we go to different countries with friends that soon become family on this adventure.
We play games such as baseball, volleyball, boxing, fencing reading, whitteling and more! Once you join you will realize all of the good things you have done for people animals that are in need of our assistance. this job requirs alot of work and we keep you busy! But most importantly it is a job to help animals and people in needs. | 2 |
17eb73a | The Facial Action Coding System or FACS, in my opinion could be very helpful and useful in the future. The reason I say this is because, there are many students that get very bored, very unamused, confused and irritated with school work. And if we were able to have The Facial Action Coding System, it could possibly help students get back on track very easily.
In the text I read about how The Facial Action Coding System was able to, "calculate emotions". And like I said I think this could be very beneficial to students and adults in the Educational Field and the Work Field. For example, in the text it says, "if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." This shows that the FACS is following your mood, so whatever mood you have the following ad will appear. This could be the beginning of participation. In addition, they also say that a classroom computer could detect or recognize when a student is becoming bored, confused, or unamused, according to Dr. Huangs prediction. They also say, "It could be an effective human instructor.". This could be very effective on students and teachers. I say this because, if a student is bored or confused an ad that pops up could help them realize some things and help put them on track and hopefully get interested.
"The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive-for video games or video surgery. Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication. So computers need to understand that, too." according to Dr. Huang. This not only is efficient for students or teachers but, it is also beneficial to Surgeons. This technology is valuable and very useful it seems. The Facial Action Coding System is, a human emotion identifier or detector and this would be very useful to a classroom of students. And others. | 3 |
17ec828 | How would you feel if robots had your life in their possesion? Driverless cars are being developed by many different manufacturers. Driverless cars are not safe enough to be put on the road, as they can cause accidents and injuries if they glitch out or malfunction.
Driverless cars are a bad idea and will be a big problem going into the future. One reason is becasue the cars can cause an accident and seriously injure someone that wasn't even driving. In fact, traffic laws in most states do not allow driverless cars to be on the road, as the cars have not been proven safe enough to handle most extreme conditions.
Another good point is the cars could have a glitch in the system and get into an accident. The robotic cars would be in complete control of the passenger's life and other's once it starts driving on the road. If they do not alert the passenger to take the wheel, it could injure them and other drivers.
A counter-argument could point out that the cars have various safety precautions and will alert the passenger to take the wheel, but glitches in the system could occur and fail to alert the passenger. The manufacturers could get into big trouble even if the car didn't malfuntion because people wouldn't know if the passenger or the car was at fault in the situation.
Driverless cars are not needed in this world. Of course they would be a cool and convenient thing to have around, but they are too risky and dangerous to be brought into everyday life. I do not approve of this until the manufacturers prove that they are safe enough to withstand a storm. The same question could be asked. How would you feel if robots had your life in their possesion? | 4 |
17f590a | The challenge of Exploring Venus was an interesting essay about Venus and it explained the challenges for studying Venus. Such as "it's clouds being made of corrosive acid sufuric acid in Venus' atmosphere" but the author hardly explains why its worth stuyding Venus despite the dangers. Although this essay was great for informations about Venus and it's conditions it Barely explained why its worth stuyding Venus despite the dangers, it also got off topic for some time and the majority of the essay described the rough conditions and possible solutions for those conditions
First, the author barely talked about why its worth studying Venus. The one time the author even brings up why its worth studying is in paragraph 4 lines 2 through 4 "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus becuase it may have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." Next it goes on describing what Venus could have looked a long time ago. After that though the author states "The Value of returning to Venus seems indisputable". After this statement the author never really comes close to explaining why Venus would be worth studying despide it's great dangers.
Next, this piece was off the topic of Venus it self for a certain period of time. For instence, in paragraph 2 it talked about Earth and Mars and its distance due to the orbit of these planets in line 3,4 and 5 "Earth, Venus, and Mars, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds. These differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars". In paragraph 2 lines 7.8 and 9 it states "humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world." now itis talking about the spacecrafts that has been sent to Venus instead of stating things like the dangers of Venus and why it's worth it despite it's dangers.
Third, a good 2/3 of the essay is talking about the conditions and the solutions to those conditions that humans have came up with. the explanation of the condtions really start in paragrph 3 as it starts off by stating "Athick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets" that instantly lets the readers know how bad the conditions are in Venus and the of paragraph 3 continues to describe the harsh environment. After that about 1/3 or 1/2 of paragraph 4 is decribing why it's neccisary to study Venus dispite it's dangers. Then in paragraph 5, 6 and 7 it talkes about 2 different stratigies that NASA ( the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has came up with. one was about a ballon that was 30 miles above the Venusain landscape to observe and the other was using computers that used greas and levers instead of the modern technology and both of those things are not talking about why Venus is worth studying what so ever.
Finally, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" was quite informational it rarely
specified the reason why Venus was worth studying despite the fact that it's very dangerous. Maybe the author can change this essay into an informational piece about Venus instead of an argumentery Piece. The fact that it includeds lots of information was a great. | 4 |
17f9ee0 | What you think about Venus? Think we should study more ?
Venus is the second planet in the solar system and it's close to Earth and Mercury. Venus is sometimes called the " Evening Star " and it's one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely. I say we should study one planet per unit in science class. In case a student wants to be in the NASA, they can study bout each planet and they can know whats coming.
In paragraph 2 it states " Each mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for human to study, despite its proximity to us." The author is explaining details on why we should study Venus. If anoyone lands on Venus they won't survive much because they won't last more than few hours. Most spacecraft and spaceships need a lot of hours to be able to discover more about Venus.
In paragraph 3 it states " Venus has
the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even thought Mercury is closer to our sun. Beyond high pressure and heat, venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like eruping volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface."
This states one reaons why spacecraft and spaceships wouldn't last a few hours on Venus. It is very hot their skin can probably melt down very quick or once they touch Venus their spaceship can melt or not work anymore and they won't be able to go back to Earth.
While people are studying about the planet can always find out something new about it. They can find out stuff about the old times or what that planet had long ago, or whats going happen to it, and etc. In paragraph 4 it states that " Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely
with ocean and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, moutains, and craters."
This demonstrates how the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents and how the author supports the idea. Still think we should study Venus? I still agree with the author that we should study Venus but I say we should study one planet per unit. | 3 |
17fd420 | My position on driveless cars is that I am against the develpment of these cars. It too dangerous, not reliable enough and the prices will obviously be too high. The negatives in my opinion outway the postitives. There just isnt enough thats telling me its something right to do.
I feel its too dangerous, which will lead to lawsuits. If accidents happen the blame will be hard to put on someone. Drunk driving and texting is still happening today and if someone isnt paying attention accidents could happen.
And you cant always trust technology. Even cars on the road today have malfunctions with technology. If the technology fails its likely to scare others. More people would be hesitant to buy them.
The article stated a rhetorical question that was "why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver?" Which is my question too, people enjoy driving. To me its relaxing and gets my mind off things. It seems quite boring. If someone wouldnt be driving they'd use a taxi or limo, which is why we have those.
And lasty, how much will it cost to manufactor these cars? How long will it take? Just like hybrid cars, the pricing will be too high for anyone in the middle class or below to even afford these types of cars. The advancement in the technology tells me they wont even be manufactored fast enough. How often do you even see a hybrid car driving? I dont think peoples interest in these will be as much as manufators are expecting.
In conclusion, driverless cars are too dangerous, not reliable enough and too highly priced for everyday use. I think we are a society becoming way too dependent on technology. The thought of all cars taking control scares me. There isnt enough postive aspects for driverless cars. | 4 |
17fe311 | Mostly everybody man focused today is when i become a teenager , get a job and get my first CAR .Cars are good to get around but there are some advantages of limiting car usage , like pollution and more money you have in you pocket for youself. Thats sounds good right? I know !
To begin with ,Paris has banned driving to smog (pollution towards the greenhouse).Contaminated air we breathe isn't good for are lungs-just are health period. Consuming to much carbon and make us very sick and ill. Somethings we need to get to are pretty far and to get to places on time is faster by car- which most people think but isn't the case. Cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions. Plug-in cars , hyrbrids , and or cars carrying three or more passengers would be good but what about are power plants , cant they be used for something else? Cars are a good tool to have but its causing problems in our greenhouse that we need to stop
Meanwhile in Bogota , car free day is going in a great path. Many of us been in traffic jams before,right? Sitting at a light 3 times before you get to go .Do you ever think walking would be faster ? On car free day in Bogota,Colombia Colombians didnt use there cars and didnt complain about it ; they used bikes,skates or skateboards , even took a bus! Now, thats sounds like some good resources to me. We all like good days and not stressed one so leave the car in your drive way and start using other things to get you to where you have to go. This could be a community thing to everyone aound you , every citie , and every state.
Fouthermore , Car dealer ships need business to , start making that dont produce alot of pollution into the air we breathe , use resources that wont cause mot damage , the ozone layer isnt at its best and we need to save it before it gets worse , take action before its to late !
In Conclusion , can be very useful but why use them alll the time ? theres other things that can get us around like bikes , buses or even just walking . Driving all the time can be a bad habit . Pollution is a biggie as well , pollution are air is very unhealthy , but car makers are about what the car is about and not what its producing to are world. No need for gas today ; ill walk! | 3 |
17ff7c0 | Have you ever wondered what life on another planet would be like? Have you ever wanted to go to a diffrent planet? Have you ever thought about venus being like earth? Venus is alot like earth or it was a few years ago. Venus has water on it and if theres water there also could be life. Any spacecraft we have sent up to it hasnt last very long only a few hours so really dont know whats up there. NASA is creating insane technology.
First, venus is alot like how earth was at first alot of water and rocky but no trees or nature at the moment. We know for sure there is water and rocky mountains. It is also pretty hot there since its the secound planet from the sun. so life could be possible on that planet. Venus is also almost the same size as earth so they have alot of things in common.
Second, NASA has sent alot of spacecrafts up there to explore more and to find out more about the planet and to see if it is safe to land on the planet. All the spacecrafts only last for about a few hours and some dont even make it. Some just dont work after they land. That is why NASA has not landed up there yet. Its because they dont know all the dangers that could be up there. So for inorder for them to land up there they would need more information about the planet.
Third , NASA is making technology that is insane and could last in really bad conditions. They have made some of these drones with cameras just for venus. They have tested these drones in really bad condidtions just like venus. Those drones have lasted for full three weeks without any problems. So now they would probably send those to venus to explore the planet and see whats going up there. They would learn more about the planet before they land there themselfs.
Finally, venus is alot like earth because they have almost the same size and both have water and rocky mountains. NASA has sent alot of spacecraft to venus which isnt lasting more than a few hours. NASA is now making insane drones which would last about three weeks at Venus. So they would defintly find out if there is any danger up there. If not they would prbably land there and explore the planet The Future is here. | 2 |
1800723 | In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author gives us reasons why exploring Venus would be very difficult. But, at the same time, the author gives us reasons why it's important to explore Venus. It's because Venus is Earth like, and so we might be able to visit it one day.
The article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" states, "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally rhe losest in distance too" This is very important, it means that because that Venus is Earth like, as well as the closest planet to earth at times, its important to learn about it, in case we need to go to it at anytime.
At the end, the artivle also states, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meed the very edges on imagination and innovation." This means that even though it's dangerouse to go to Venus, we shouldn't help us hold it back, space is a very dangerous place, and if we let us hold us back, we won't get anywhere, and Fast. | 2 |
1807be3 | I think it would be a great idea to have this kind of technology in the classroom. There are many reasons why it can be seen as valuable. For example, students would stay on task longer and may even look forward to lessons. Who knows, maybe it could even change their outlook on school.
If we had this kind of technology, students would be able to work so much more efficiently. There are so many times when I see other students around me struggling with different kinds of activities and lessons. Not every student is the same, so you can't expect all students to score perfect on the same assignments. In paragraph six, Dr. Haung states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This point could also help teachers connect and understand with each individual student better.
I wish we had this kind of technology at my school. I feel like if we did, I'd be able to understand many more of the concepts my teahcers are teaching. Using the Facial Action Coding System could be extremely beneficial to schools around the world. | 3 |
182536b | The main idea of the articles is about the adavantages of limiting car usage .The writers explain how by limting car usuage it can help us out. There are many adavantages of limting car usage.
One of the most important adavantage of limting car usage is that it would be lowing the pollution by lowing the pollution it clear the air way around the gobal city. "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of france after fivedays of intensifying smog."smog by meaning pollution went down just 60 percent in five days. Thats a great adavantage just by limting car usuage. In source number 1 explains that " Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenouse gas emissions in Europe.. and up to 50 perecnt in some car-intensive areas in the Untied States." We as a country shoud lower that and the best way is to limting car usuage . Limting car usage is one of te some advantges to lowering pollution ( greenhouse gas, smog).
By limiting car usage it can make a alot adavantges like bulidng better communites in soby by limting car usage there like place way closer ." in this new approach stores are places a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway". this mean we will don't have dependent on cars to take us to places that we can walk to or ride bikes to. In source number 3 by bogota limting are use "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rus our restritions have dramatically cut traffic; and new restaurants and upscale shoping districts have cropped up". this is just making a better communite just by limiting car usage.
they are many adavantages to limitng car usuage we shoud just have a car free day it would have so many chances of making the Untied States are better place a better country that is already is. | 3 |
1828de3 | I dont think we need driverless cars. I think the cars we have now are so much safer than driverless cars because you have complete control over the vehicle. With driverless cars you might end up in a lot of trouble, you might wreck a lot of things. The car doesnt know where its going. The car isnt going to know if its a green, yellow, or red light. The car isnt going to know if theres a stop sign ahead. The car doesnt know if its a one way. People know all these things and thats why i think we dont need driverless cars. Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedistreans safe. And law makers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers. And without alert drivers we cant focus on those things. presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. Because if the technology for the driverless car fails and someone is injured. whos fault is it, the driver or the manufacturer? And thats why i think we dont need driverless cars. | 2 |
1829b0f | So driverless cars are coming and what is your opinion on them? Do yo think they are a good thing? Do you think they are a bad thing. I'm here to tell you why I think driverless cars are a good thing for people.
First of all, speed limit would be followed by everyone. Usually people don't drive the speed limit. If driverless cars happen, then we can make them go the speed limit. I think going the actual speed limit will reduce car accidents.
Second of all, the person in the car could still take control of the vehicle if needed. This is a good thing because if a turn or park is to difficult for the car itself, then the driver can take control and do the obstacle for the car. This will prevent the car from malfunctioning.
Finally, I think it will make it easier on a lot of people. If someone is handicapped the car is there to just drive for them if they can't drive for a long time. I also personally think it will reduce accidents because of how fast you are going.
In conclusion, Driverless cars are coming and while there are downsides, I feel that positive overweighs the negative. That is why I am for driverless cars. Do you think they are good thing for people? | 3 |
1831d64 | Due to the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto, scientist are speculating the idea of giving computers a new technology called 'The Facial Acion Coding System' which enables computers to identify human emotions. This new system could be very valuable for students.
Thomas Huang,of the Beckman Institute for advanced science at the University of Illinos, is working in collaberation with Professor Nicu Sebe of the University of Ansterdam to develop better ways for humans and computers to communicate. After the process of constructing a 3-D computer model of the face is done by the two , Dr.Huang then relies on the work of psychologist Dr. Paul Eckman, creatorr of FACS (facial Action Coding
System).
"Eckman has classified six basic emotions- happiness, suprise, anger, disqust, fear, and sadness- and hen associated each with characteristic movements of he facial muscles" (D'Alto , paragraph 3)
With this , computers are able to recognize these emotions and give each emotion a percentage to show how you are truly feeling. This could not only be great for communication with your computer but help any person express how they feel. This can help professors as well get a better understanding of how a student may be feeling at given time, which could excuse them or help in any way they could for the students benefit. Lots of people struggle to describe every facial trait that coveys every emotion and with this technology that shows you just that from just identifying facial mucsles, more people around you and even YOURSELF can begin to have a clearer understanding of how you are truly feeling in that point in time.
This is important for any person who may be going through a rough time and needs clarity to how they are feeing. In the future this could benefit so many people. Being able to have communication with your computer can also make the individual using the system feel more safe and understanding.
Although people dont enjoy those annoying ads that their computer may send out to them, imagine being able to have your computer recognize when you smile at an ad or "pop up" so you see a similar ad follow that one or if you dont like an ad so you frown, you then begin to see ads that have no relation to that last one. This could be extremely valuable to the PC you are on or any computer or device you choose to use this system on.
"Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," notes Dr. Huang "So computers need to understand that, too." (D'Alto paragraph 6)
With this, in this being very beneficial for any student, this could very much improve any computer as well. This technology could make computer- animated faces more expressive- for video games or video surgery. Anything can be improved by this expression and emotion detector.
If this sytem benefited in more than just the individual using it but also the computer or device being used for it, more things would begin to improve helping all citizens that even may not be using the system to their benefit.
In conclusion this system would be a great addition to add along to today's newest technology programs. Lots of people could be benefited from this and it could help improve lots of technology worldwide. More people could begin to learn more about themselves and start communicating with their computer by having their computer give them their emotions each day they logged. With this system it has the ablity to make users of any device of technology enjoy their experience more so than they would before, with everyone's help this new Facial Action Coding System could make a huge change in today's society. | 4 |
18327f9 | I think that smart cars should not be on the road because its a dangerous to others and yourself. Another reason is that somethig can happen like because it a cumputer it can get hacked, it put people lifes endanger on the road and off the road.
They haven't put all of the input that is necesssary for driverless car to a human at a wheel. Also this driveless car can get out of control skids. I say the only safe way is that people drive well some people if they can drive. If I were to choose Iwouldn't take a chance with driverless cars.
The smart cars shouldn't be on the roads because its dagerous to other and yourself also you wouldn't want to hurt someone. It would be really hard to wake up everyday knowing you killed somebody. So do the smart thing and drive yourself. Plus yuou would have less rist of killing someone if you drive your car not itself. | 2 |
1833139 | "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of Density and size, and occassionally the closest in distance too." Venus is a planet that holds many mysteries and scientist want to study Venus to see why the planet is so innhabitable as well as Geological. Venus is worth Studying because of how much geological studies and mysteries can be found and solved in such a matter of time. Scientist can not go to Venus because of how inhabitable it is. Venus is 97% Carbon Dioxide and has "Highly corrosive sulfuric acid in the atmosphere." There is more, In Paragraph 3 it says, "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 Degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 time greater than what we experience on our own planet." Venus has a hotter surface temperature then Mercury as well.
Even Though Venus is so inhabitable The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has an idea to send humans in a blimp like vehicle to be hovering over Venus. In Paragraph 5 it says "Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth Levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans." So it could be done, but it would be a challenge. NASA Has had many ideas (Even in progress) which have to relate to Venus. Of Course researchers and scientist can get Photographs and 3D Models of the Planet, They say it is still not enough. There are other approaches for studying Venus. For Example, In Paragraph 7 it talks about Simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber to simulate the chaos and wreckage of Venus's Surface. They simulate for 3 weeks as well. They are trying new types of metals to simulate and test to see if the metal can withstand the pressure and heat of Venus's Surface.
I personally think that the research should be tested and researched. I think this because Venus is a planet that many people do not know much about. Even Scientist do not know much about the planet. In Paragraph 8 it says,"Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only becuase of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Our Travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers an doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." It is a curious question, What is Venus really like? But I believe scientist will figure it out. Venus will most likely be studied and Scientist and researchers should have there answer soon. | 4 |
183678c | We need more people to join the Seagoing Cowboy program! It is For a good cause. You can meet new people, you can help people, and you can travel the world. It's a really fun job. It will be able to teach more about our world and the people living in it.
First of all, you can meet new people. Others may argue and say that not all people are friendly.However, if you meet someone from another counrty and learn more about that counrty and what has been going on in the counrty. You can learn about thier cultrues and what the believe in. They Can show you the type of food that is native to their counrty. I infer that if you join the Seagoing Cowboy program you will meet new people.
Second, you can help people. Others might argue and say that people are not always going to be thankful. However, you won't need them to be thankful you will now that you did the right thing. Imagine a counrty that just lost a war and need help to recover. That's where the Seagoing Cowboys program come into play. They will be there to bring supplies to help. They can give the counrty food and shelter to survive. I believe that if you join the Seagoing Cowboy program.
lastly, you can travel the world. People may argue and say that it could be dangerous. However, it could give you the chance to see thing you have only hear about on the radio or seen pictures of. it would be fun because you would be able to got to several diffirent counrties in a single day! You can finally be able to see the things other people have built. Imagine going back home and telling your friends and family members about what you have seen. I infer that if you join the Seagoing Cowboy program you will be greatful that you were able to travel the world.
You should join the Seagoing Cowboy program becasue you can meet new people, you can help people, and you can travel the world. It's fun being in the Seagoing Cowboy program and it is for a good cause. You will be proud of what you have done to help the world. | 4 |
18397b4 | Its valuable to use a technolgy that can read the emotional expressions of a student. I find it important to know how someone really feels and what they may be going through. For an example, many people hide what they truly feel, because of what others think. I have a great friend that really does not express themselves when we go out and hang, she always seems to be bored. The reality is that she has fun and likes the things I like, She may seem like she is bored, but you can tell when she is enjoying herself, she makes a small smile and looks over to the other side when she does not want me to see that she is having fun.
Having Leonardo da Vinci's painting of Mona Lisa is a great way to tell others an expression of all six basic emotions. The way Leonardo used his painting to get every single muscle to go with its roll in each six basic emotional expression of Mona Lisa.
We all have six basic emotions, which are: happiness, surprise, anger, digust, fear, and saddness. It is a surprise knowing when we humans are surprised an expression is shown in our faces, in the third paragraph the author says " your frontails pars lateralis muscle raises your eyebrow" when you're surprise. The most common facial expression is happy. In paragraph 7 it talks about how the instructions above were a happy face instuction, it also includes how their is a difference between a real and a false smile. Us humans have real emotional expressions. Our true expression never lie how we truly feel, as said in paragraph 8 " faces don't lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politican or celebrity isn't being truthful."
In todays world many people express themselves and many people don't. In the reality many people hide what feel and make a lying expression, with noticeable information on the lying expression. In instance in paragraph 7, with the instuctions of making a smile, Having a false smile is different than a real smile. For example, in paragraph 8 the author talks about the muscle in the smile, " muscles called orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus make a crow's-feet around your eyes. But in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risorius." This tells how a false expression can be noticable and yet use to make a lie.
A technology that can read an expression of a student would be great, so that a teacher may know how a student is feeling and can help or observe. As known many famous people lie about how they feel and we as humans are no different than a celebrity. We all have emotion expressions that we express and falsely express to fool someone. Helping the ones who are sad and angry, fear and disgusted to succed and the ones who feel happy to succed as well.
Having the technology that can read emotion expressions in a classroom of student is valuable. Since most students don't want to express their feeling phiscally. These are my reasons why having a technology to read the emotional expression of students in a classroom is valuable. | 3 |
1839865 | This article has some good points and some bad points why they want to have driverless cars. The author has a lot of good points, but in my opinion they are not good enough for me to believe that these cars should be allowed on the roads.
In the article "Driverless cars are coming," I feel as if these cars should not be developed due to the fact that the cars cant not completely control themselves in road blocks or certain situations where the cars nedd the driver to take over, which makes them no longer "driverless" cars. These cars have not been approved for complete reliable saftey. automakers are continuing their work on the assumption that the problems ahead will be solved. but then again will they be one-hundered percent sure it will be solved. there are enough accicents alone right now so why have a car drive for us that has unsolved problems. it just does not make sense.
So no, I believe these cars should not be allowed to be on the streets. There is to many risks, and there are a lot of little kids that play in the roads that could easly get hit by one of these cars and then who are the parents to blame the driver or the car. It is just to much to handle. | 2 |
1840279 | Many people are debating over wether the " Face on Mars" is a natural occurance or if it was allien made. Some people think that NASA is trying to hide there findings so NASA defended themsleves and said they wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars. Nobody will ever belive the same things but it has been shown that there was no allien activity on Mars
Conspiracy theorist believe there was alliens involded in the makeing of the "Face on Mars". Sceintist have taken pictures to prove that it was a natural landform and their were no signs of alliens. Even when people said the camera had bad quality NASA took another picture with a more advanced camera. When NASA got their second picture back it showed the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms that are commom around the American West. Even if there were alliens that created this why would NASA keep it a secret they stated they want there to be a civilization.
This shows that NASA was not hiding anything and that there was no actual proof of allien life on Mars. Without proof of life then nobody can conclude that the " Face on Mars" was made by alliens. NASA has more evidence than a conspiracy scientist would. Wether or not the sceints had reason to back up their theory it would most likely be weak because NASA's evidence is based on research and not a working conspiracy. | 3 |
1845963 | Electoral college unfair, outdated, and irrational. There are quirks and many disputes on outcome of votes, it is perfered by 60 percent of voters that there should be a direct election but the the big thing is that it needs to be placed there.
Its stated that their are many reasons to retain the Electoral College despite those reasons, Electoral College is there for ceranity of outcome. some say that the electoral college votes are not counted and that there is no need for it, but direct vote can lead to a president who has no real will to the state.
The electoral college consists of 538 electors with only 270 votes requiered to elect there is no need to worry about a tie. With the Electorial College still up and running there are no reasons for voting to fall apart each state is entitled allotment of electors this equals to the members in the Congressional delegation there is one each for the House of Representatives plus two for your senator.
For example the Electoral College is there to make sure that there is always a vote due to the fact that only one half of the eligible voters in florida actually votede in 2012. The people placed in the Electoral college are people who want to express a politaical preference so that there isnt a probblem of a single vote deciding the electon and no ties for another realecting,so its better off.
Another great example is the Electoral College is the best way to go is that Each canidate in your state has its own group of electors and each state has a law that varys on how electors are selected with there own responsability leaving it fully cappable of its duties to properly elect a president by populer vote with the use of fully qualified citizens. So Electoral college irrational or rational qualified and equiped keeping the despised method un voted. | 2 |
1849da9 | Some know think venus is not a planet. Some know venus is a planet but we all can agree that it is very intresting but why would we use resources to get to venus here are some reasons why and not allow me to show you if it,s worth it. venus is not the farthest planet it is actually not too far so it makes it a viable option. The only thing is is that we have not been able to examine venus with amount of distance between earth and venus which doesn,t give us a lot of options but here is what we do know.
First of all venus is known as earths twin and it,s not called earths twin for no reason. Venus is the same size and density which would make it more acustomed to our way of liveing. sometimes venus is actually even the closest planet so if we timed it right it would make it less the journey. The only things is not a single unmanned ship has not survived for more than a few hours when sent to venus.
Basically this tells us at the moment that mars is a more viable option because we have actually landed unmanned ships on it to collect data this is why many people talk about mars instead of venus. Some problems that get in our way is the air venus has a thick atmosphere 97 percent is carbon dioxide. Not only that but venus atmosphere has highly corrosive acid the eviorment is much more harsh than earth.
This means that it will be a long time before we get to venus are bodies have adapted to earth over the years but it took over 2000 years for us to adapt to this level we can,t wait that long. Our savior nasa is actually coming with ideas to get us there at the moment they have been thinking of makeing blimp like vechile which will hover and fly high to avoid storms and what not. Though it would still be hot but the air pressure is close enough to sea level.
What to expect from nasa in the furture a blimp that might make us be able to get more data from venus. Maybe one day we will be able to inhabit venus with the ideas they are coming up with. The fact of the matter is that it,s going to a long time until we get their. So it seems mars is the better option for now. | 3 |
184a02e | All throughout the world, experiments are taking place that replace the personal automobile with safer and more environment sensetive choices. Life in places, such as Vauban, Germany, is built around the lack of cars. Bogota, Colombia hosts their own Day Without Cars. Although this scale of events hasn't happened America yet, the youth of the United States aren't using cars as much as they used to. In all these cases, quality of life has improved and the environment isn't suffering as much as it previously did.
The residents of Vauban, Germany have made a monumental decision in the aspect of cars. According to the article
In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars , in the new district of Freiburg, the only cars that run in the streets are the trams that run to downtown Freiburg. This is done so that "stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway." This "smart planning" allows people to get to where they need to go without using cars. Placing busy businesses on a main street would normally be a bad idea because of the amount of congestion it would cause. In places like this, congestion isn't a thing that can happen. A walk could get you to central places allowing you to access the more important of places. The same article states that "passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of the greenhouse gas emitions." The envirnment is in a state of constant decline with the amount of greenhouse gasses and chemicals we are exposing to it. The lack of cars is a great way to put us in the right direction. The article mentions that cars were responsible for "up to 50 percent [of greenhouse gasses] in some car-intensive ares in the United States." Imagine how much clearer the sky would be with smog reduced by half. The implications of removing cars from our lives could mean the difference between severe global warming and living happy and healthy.
Three cities, deep within the Colombian urban areas, host a day where cars are not allowed. Andrew Selsky describes how "parks and sports centers have bloomed throughout the city; uneven,pitted sidewalks; rush-hour traffic; and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up." In Bogota, this singular day where cars were banned gave people a reason to try out public transportation and personal locomotion. Paris took a similar approach when, According to Robert Duffer, they "enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of he global city." Cars with even-numbered license plates were enforced to not be driven. The odd-numbered plates were the ones that were taken off the streets the next day. The two day ban allowed the envirnment to recover after extremely high smog levels. The rule that was applied in the Colombian cities was also enforced in the worldwide city of Paris. Both cities benefited greatly from a temporary ban of cars.
Car culture has always been strong within America. Elisabeth Rosunthal implies that for several decades, cars were a must-have object, but now, the youth are not as interested as the previous generations. Rosunthal shows how "America's love affair with its vehicles seems to be cooling. When adjusted for population growth, the number of miled driven in the United States peaked in 200 and dropped steadily thereafter, according to an analysis by Doug Short of Advisor Perspecive." If the largest cities stopped relying on cars as much, everybody would benefit. Even the car companies would have something to gain with advances in more personal vehicles such as bicycles. The environment would have an immense amount of weight taken off of its shoulders. In the US, where the 2nd highest source of environmental harm is cars, the impact would be monumental. The article relates that "people who stopped car commuting as a result of the recession may find less reason to resume hte habit." Teens all across America are car-pooling and finding new ways to help the environment while also getting to where they need to go.
Life is getting too busy. There is always something that needs to be done. Cars may help but there will never be enough hours in the day to do everything. Leaving personal transportation behind will be the next big step towards a more relaxed and stressless life. The advantages easily outweigh the disadvantages. | 4 |
184b77b | Is keeping the Electoral College a good ideal mr/ms senator? Well if you ask me i say no. Why have it? Say the article voters vote not for the president, but for the slate of electors but who elect the president. Because of the winer takes all system in each state it's unfair to the voters and it's unfair to me so changing the election by popular votes for the president of the united states would be best.
To begin with Having popular votes instead of keeping the electoral college will be better because keeping it will only cause more trouble i say. Why? Well the electoral college is know for being the "Disaster Factor" Sad cause not only they have a bad name for there self the Americans are also most worried about the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. Because of the focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states candidates hardly or mostly dont have time to put up any campaign ads. The stress of worring about the electoral college can be tuff, they dont even have to put any signs or ads. Crazy cause it's just this one process thats only counting of the electrol votes for congress.
In concusion the Electroal College consists of 538 electorals. Say the article only 270 eletroals are required to elect the president. In the article the system allows for much worse, but wrose as the election crisis in a century? Well i think so! Not even think i know so. Electors have refused to vote for their party's candidate and cased a deciding vote for whomever they please. It's all happening, everything i said in the begining...about the trouble. Why the senate gets to choose the vice president? why cant the qualified citizens choose for there selfs. That whole area needs some enjustments before they start chooseing for people. | 2 |
184bad3 | The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) could be useful for people that are not around you enough that you have no idea what they are feeling but in most cases most people can tell when their friend is feeling down or not."In fact, we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day. For instance, you can problably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face. Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, ect. Yet Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions. His new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code." This shows that most people do not know the specific traits that describe the emotion but most people also know that when their friend or family memeber makes a certain facial expresion that they are either happy, sad, mad, or even annoyed.
People can figure things out without needing a machine to do things for them. Maybe for paintings the FACS can be useful but not on ordinary people who know when their friend is feeling down or not. People do not need technology to do everything for them. People need to do things on their own make conclusions to things and if they have no idea what their friend or family is feeling they can just ask. | 2 |
184d83c | In this article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" i feel like the author has more negative than positive impact. The driveless car concept is good but the world is not ready for it. You will still have to have your hands on the wheel at all times, you will have to take control of the carwhen near a construction area or around an accident, and if the car fails then there is a chance that the blame could be on you.
First of all, these new "smart" driveless cars will only give you the ability to not have to think about when to stop and go. You will still have to have your hands on the wheel the whole time and also be alert. Wouldn't you rather just drive? Maybe these cars should actually be driveless but only used by people without the ability to drive with their hands.
My second reason on why this should not be an actual product in the future is because the passage even says that the car is "Designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." That just proves that the car is not ready to be put on the road. If the driver has to take over when the road has changed or a deer crosses the road ,How long will it take to switch this control over? It only takes a second for a child to dash into the street and not pay attention to oncoming traffic.
My third and final reason being that "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" We always hear court cases about drunk drivers and it it always their fault because they choose to get in the vehichle and do what they did, but what if we dont have control? How will a police officer know that we did not have the wheel at the time of the accident? Anyone could lie and say that their car was in complete control when the accident occured and could sue the car company.
In conclusion, the car is not ready to take on the road. You will have to keep your hand on the wheel at all times and stay alert, you will have to take the wheel anytime you are near a change in the road due to construction or an accident, and if the car fails then you will not be able to prove if it was you or this new "smart" car. | 3 |
1852090 | Have you ever wanted to travel over seas to amazing countries, but still need a job? If so and if not you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. In the program,you get to do a lot of fun things over seas.
If you are in the program,you get to go to amazing countries. These countries may include Europe, China, Greece, and wherever else they need you. In the story it stated that Luke, (me) , a Seagoing Cowboy, toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China. It was very fun to stay at the countires and to look at the amazing views as we went through.
In the program, you not only get to travel to amazing places, but you also get to help people and animals too. The UNRRA hired the "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the animals and people. We sail overseas with the animals and take care of them until we can get it to the people.
On the way back, the Seagoing Cowboys get to have a lot of fun playing games. We play baseball, volleyball,etc. We also do boxing,fencing,and other tournaments like those. We do this to pass the time on the way back and for all the hard work we have done over that time period we were helping the animals.
In the story it states that once on a trip I had a near death experience trying to help the animals on the ship. Although this is true, this event is very unlikely to happen, and I am still safe due to a piece of metal coming in my way to save me.
You or a family member should become a Seagoing Cowboy. You get to not only help people and animals, but you also get to travel through amazing countries, and get to have fun on the way back. The Seagoing Cowboys help a lot of people and it is very fun, and for those reasons you should become one of us, or better known as a Seagoing Cowboy. | 4 |
1853495 | There are so many ways that limiting car usage is good for me, you and just everyone in genereal! Yes cars do have their advantages but like everything else they also have a few disadvantages. People should limit car usage more all around the world and heres a few reasons why..
Auto mobiles help in many ways they help you get to where your going faster and in a comfortable sitting condition, but although your body is comfortable are you really relaxed? i presume not! Having a car is a big responsability which can also be very stressful. Think about it when you didnt have a car as a kid and young adult you didnt have to worry about if the insurance on your bike is payed , or if there was any mechanical problems with your legs. cars are expensive to buy and they continue to be quite the hefty financial load after youve bought the car too especially if no well maintained. In the article "IN GERMAN SUBURB, LIFE GOES ON WITHOUT CARS"' Parragraph 3 sentences 4-6 Heidrun Walter says " When i had a car i was always tense..." This quote proves the point that having a car is quite stressful , but thats not all she goes on to say "i'm much happier this way" Why is she so much happier? cause not having or needing a car lifted a huge load off her shoulders thats one less thing to worry about on a daily basis.
Also lets not forget one of the biggest issues in the world POLUTION! Pollution is a huge problem that we constantly see on the news , hear on the radio , and we see every day. One of the worst forms of pollution is the kind thats in the air we breathe to live and cars play a role now alot of people may say "my one car cant possibly cause that much pollution" but if millions .. billions of people think the same way then thats billions of air polluting cars driving around the world polluting the air we breath to live! Paris made a great arangement as stated in the article "PARIS BANS DRIVING DUE TO SMOG" they talk about how paris banned certain cars driving from one day and other cars the next . All the cars with even numbered liscense plates were to not be driven on monday and vice versa for the odd numbered liscense plates the next day. this was good because it only allowed about half the amount of cars that usually drive on a daily basis to drive. In time this should make quite the noticable difference in the smog and the overall experience of breathing the " fresh air".
In conclusion we should all limit car usage because it is less stress not having a car helps financially and lifts a great load of responsability off of our shoulders and also if less people drive on a daily basis then there will be much less polution in the air and i dont know about you guys but id rather live longer than drive and die young, but thats just me. | 4 |
18560d1 | The face seen on Mars is just a landform and we have proof. Most people think that it is an alien built machine but they would be wrong. It is just a messa. Using the evolution of technology and cameras we have taken multiple pictures to prove what it is. Here I will explain what we did to take pictures of this mysterious thing.. We will also explain why people believed us to be wrong.
In 1976 the Viking 1 took pictures so we could find a good landing spot for the sister ship The Viking 2. That is when the pictures the ship took were sent back to us to examine. That is when we first saw the 2 mile long face for the first time. The suprise was short lived however as we soon relised what it was,a messa. People were sure it was more than that. They believed it to be a space craft.
In 1998 we sent a different ship,the Mars Global Surveyor, back there to locate the face and to take better pictures of the face. People were still not impressed with the finding of the MGS. There was fog in the picture as the area the face is in is always foggy. They said the fog was obsurring the photo. They also belived that aliens were using fog to hide it and some alien space crafts they belived was surrounding the face. They picture without the fog to beleive what we saw.
In 2001 we again sent the MGS to take pictures of the face. We went on a clear summer day when there was no fog presant and we had to tilt the camera 25 degress to get the picture right on. This picture had the face bigger than a thum compared to the pixel sized faces before it. It was exacly the picture they need to prove it was a messa.
As you can see in the photos it is a messa on a different plant. Comparring it to Earth it would be just like the Snake River Plain of Idaho. The eyes nose and mouth were just shadows being casted onto it which is why the other pictures have the feature while the new one does not . After 25 years of people talking and theorizing about it on the new and on the radio we can finally put an end to this mystery. | 3 |
1859a6b | Proving The Face is Just a Natural Landform.
Although this face was unexpected,that doesn't nessasarily define that the face has anything to do with aliens. There are majority of theories we can assume from this topic. Few scientist condoned that this mysterious face had something to do with a very unordinary prediction .Some scientist seemed surprised when they saw the photograph of the face on mars.
As a scientist, many mistakes are made during observations, but that's apart of human life. Mistakes are casual in everyday life and, all of us make them. In my opinion, I don't think this entertaining outbreak had anything to do with aliens. In fact, they're wasn't a specific sign, or clue that an alien was actually was involved. NASA got a great shot at the face, and the picture closely showed that their was nothing do be deeply concerned about.
The face was defineitly rare, but over the years the face continues to fade so it shouldn't be harmful. If it happened to really be an alien, we would know from the recordings, and pictures that were captured. This is a huge topic to discuss, and space can likely be considered as a horrifying setting due to rumors, and scientific observations. Astrounaunts never discovered any issues, or new assumptions by traveling to space.
The main point is aliens aren't realistic, you may see them in movies, books, or perhaps may hear about them. An alien was never discovered by NASA, and the face just appeared to be a natural cause. The face could of been anything, but we know it wasn't an alien because there is no proof that the face was an alien, and still isn't as we speak.
In conclusion, think about other things that are possible. | 3 |
185b01a | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify humans emotions to see humans' reactions while they are using their computers. Computers can recognize emotions by the way you look, and it is allow to the computers to understand your feelings, and to change the topic because they used this technology to see Mona Lisa's emotions. "The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model on the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles." When technology developed they started their project with a 3-D computer.
A claim for the value of using this technology to read students' emotional expressions are that the computer can detected the emotions of the student because it has a "Web ad appears" on the screen of the student's computer, and it can see his/her different emotions by the way their faces are.
According to the text in paragraph 6 Dr. Huang explains how the computer might work if the student doesn't like what he/she has in the computer and it says "A classrom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor. The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive for video games or video surgery. Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication. So computers can understand that, too." It means that technology has developed, Dr. Paul Eckman and Dr. Huang created the FACS to see humans emotions, it has six basic as: happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. The Doctors are showing that the new computers can see what it is in your mind because they improved the technology.
My conclusion is that the "Facial Action Coding System" is a good appications for a variety of industries because it is able to detect exactly how other people are feeling, even when they try to hide their emotions. The new technology has "Empathy because it can feels someone else's emotions and can handle the complex algorithms. | 2 |
185b9d3 | The face on mars is a landformation. People would argue it isnt but keep in mind that isnt the case with this. With people argueing that it isnt they think aliens did it but that may not have happend. The face of Mars has to be a landformation.
The face on mars is a landformation because natural occurances happen. This could have happend fromm a meteor strike or the winds in Mars. Not to mention if the clouds in mars are constant then finding this twice on over a 20 year period should still be the same fro slow winds and mild weater.
Many people belive aliens were the cause of the face. Well thats nearly impossible if you consider the aliens were made in mars. Life forms take upon millions of years to grow and need about 60 degree weather on average and mars has below freezing average. Plus if theree were life on Mars, there should be green on Mars because of plants. People also think its aliens because of the lattitude changed. Well this is because the camera that had to take this picture had to be on a cloudy storm probaly causeing some small problems but nothing minor.
At the end I think the face is a landformation and that life could not of done this. It solid evidence. I mean stuff on earth happens like that all the time and people dont care, it is like how you see a bunny on the moon but in reality they are just cooled down oceans of lava. So the face on Mars in my opinion is a landformation. | 3 |
18621a8 | There is both positive and positive agriments about the driverless cars. I see this as something positve. why do i see the positive ? I see this as something positive beacuse is evry person woud havw a driverless car there woud be a less number of accedints. I think that all of the car accidets that happen are beacue of pepole not puting attetio on the road beacuse they are texting or doing something else and not having there eyes on the roads. another reson why pepole have accidents is beacuse they go to fast and go over speed, the driverless can has sensor that would make it not go over speed limits and not go on a red light and make an accitient by going on a red light. Originally , many futurists are manufacuring driverless cars so i don't see a problem with there not being enough driverless cars for evryone to have one. The price on cars like this won't be high do to the large amout of companies that are making them.
But for the other side there are negative sides to have driverless cars beacues what happens if your in the car and you fall asleep for waiting your turn to drive or maybe you have to drive beacuse theres an acciden in the road and your tierd and sleepy and for some how you lose control of the are and have an accident. Televison and movies have long been fascinted with cars that could drive themsleves but who can tell us that its really going to be like that ? no one beacuse i've seen a lot of things on television and when i buy then and use then they are not what i saw on television.
A point of veiw i also have but dont know if its positive or negative is about the lays beacues not in all states it's llegal to drive or test this kind of cars. the lawmakers woud also have to sit down and talk about if it's save to have this cars in the roads.
But in order to to see what happens and see if its something positve or negative we'll have to wait and see what happens in some years or who knos if theres ever going to be driverles car aroungd the world or just here in the unided states. | 3 |
1866c81 | The Author says studying venus would be worthy despite how dangerous venus is. Exploring Venus would be harmful for anyone who goes there, and its atmosphere wouldnt be the same as Earth. Venus is the closest planet to Earth and is sometimes referred to as Earths "twin". With NASA and scientist striving for Venus, Traveling to Venus will likely lead to many discoveries.
Venus is the second closest planet from the sun and has the hottest surface temperature than any other planet, even Mercury which is the closest to the sun. Temperature that average over 800 degrees and atomsphere 90 times greater than Earth would be harsh and it wouldnt be easy to live on but it would be survivable for humans. NASA has been studying ideas for sending humans into Venus so that they can study its surface, and NASA are also making a machine that would orbit over Venus surface without having to risk sending humans.
With NASA working on visting Venus I can refer that in a decade or two, NASA will get closer to complete landing on Venus.The Author wants the prusuit of studying Venus something that can lead to new discoveries and new lifeform we dont know about yet. Despite the danger venus offers, people will likely lead to theory of the planet itself. With Venus being called Earth's twin and being the closest to Earth, it would likely be the next planet we humans would live on. | 3 |
186845e | in the passage the author of the paasage "the challenge of exploring venus"belives that its worth the risk for example in paragraph 4 the authoer states scientist are fascinated by venus beacuse its the closes thing to earth. scientist have infered long ago venus was most likely covered in in with various life forms. also scientist have discoverd that rocky like features including valleys mountions an crators therefore they belive it could be livable despite its harsh conditons such as high tempetures naza has been working on other appproches to the studying venus for example some simplified electronices made of slilcon carbide have bee ntested in a chamber simulating the chaos of vensus surface an have lasted 3 weeks in such conditions this is evident that scientist are trying to find ways to explore the surface of venus in concluson this show thee amount of curiosity that scientist think would be worh studying venus despite all the negative aspects of venus | 2 |
1868e57 | Automakers are progressing closer and closer to bringing fantasy and reality together by creating the driverless car. Many people debate whether they should be legal, or if they even have any real use to the world. The driverless car is not a practical option for the world to turn to.
To allow technology to completely overrun our lives and to go on "auto-pilot" for the rest of one's life, would do much more harm than good. The driverless car will allow drivers to essentially ignore the road and their surroundings during their trip. Though the manufacturers may warn consumers to be alert during their ride, one must find it pointless to pay for an automatic car, when they may have a normal car that requires a slightly higher level of attention. One must fear that for going on "auto-pilot" for so long, the people may forget how to drive properly.
When these cars get in an accident, there will be a law suit between the driver and the manufacturer. If the car gets in an accident caused by the car itself, then the manufacturer will have "wrecked" it's reputation, and hopefully will be forced to recall every autonomous car of that model, which would be extremely expensive fpr the company to do. To add to that, these cars will be far too expensive for consumers to be worth all of the legal and insurance hassle that would be attached to it.
Finally, one should find that the automatic car would disconnect their emotional connection to their normal car. Tthe automatic car takes the fun out of driving, making the task seem to be a mundane way to get from point A to point B. The automatic car would steal one's confidence in having control over where their going, which also means drivers would do less "taking the long way home" and more "get me to where I'm going".
In conclusion, the automatic car is not going to become the future of driving. In American society, people have emotional relationships with their cars, and the automatic car would not fill in that gap. For the people that would go for the automatic car would become unaware of their surroundings, and frankly would be set on auto-pilot for so long, that one fears that they may forget how to drive properly. In the end, the automatic car may be good to some, but inpractical and inflexibole to many, but no one knows what the future may hold | 4 |
186ee0a | Dear State Senator,
I am writing to you to tell you that we should change to popular vote because for one there is less likely to be a dispute over the popular vote rather than an Electoral College. The reason is that the winning candidate's share of the Electoral College invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote. In 2012's election, for example, Obama recieved 61% of the electoral vote compared to only 51% of the popular votes cast for him and Romney.
The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favor of ir are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tigth races in the "swing" states.
Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. theres a thing called the disaster factor. The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century. The system allows for much worse.
The electoral college systems has lots of flows and is way too outdated. We should switch to popular vote and life will be easier.
Sincerely,
Julia | 2 |
1872cf4 | Through out the past, and till now transportation has been a huge role in our society. In the past boats were the main and fastest transportation man had. Until a man invented the automobile which changed transportation dramatically. These automobiles made it much easier to travel around town, or even across the country. What the people did not know is the harmful effects these automobiles put out.
Automobiles have there advantages which most of the buyers look at, but they did not relize the disadvanges not only are they bad for the enviroment automobiles are the main cause of death. Countries are working to promote either car free, or car reduced communities. As said in paragraph 9 the United States is working with the Enviromental Protection Agency to promote car reduced communities.
You may be thinking to yourself well ''Im not going to ride a bike every I go''. This is true but Im not saying that neither are these agencies they are simply saying that try carpulling, use busses, trams, ect. Riding bikes is a great way of not only transportation, but also fitness, and its a whole lot less exspensive.
In source 4 it states that President Obama has had goals of getting rid of green house gas emissions, and trying his best to make America a more enviromental nation. Studies show that people are buying less cars as years go on, and less people are getting their drivers licence. America seems to be slowing down its rave of the need to drive and own cars, more, and more people are starting to use bikes as their prime way of transortation.
Overall automobiles have been probaly the greatest thing or invention to man kind. Even though they may have their disadvantages. We just need to try as a whole to be less dependent oni our automobiles and try to carpull as much as we. Another great way we should keep doing and promoting is the use of bycicles. Society will find their way through, and hopefully try to be as car reduced as much as possible. | 3 |
1872f71 | The article ¨Driverless Cars Are Coming¨ shows where cars in the future may take a stand. Considering how far we have came along in the advancement of human technology it is almost inevitable to expect advance driverless cars to become popular, for the good or bad. The article brings out some of the pros and cons of having driverless cars. I feel that these cars are unessacary as well as unsafe.
A concern that we should all have is the safety of these driverless cars. How quick can a sensor detect a
child running across the street or a car jumping in front of you? The paragraphs try to dismiss this problem by showing the technology that is equipped on the driverless cars. The sensors and cameras supposledly are able to react. If you take into consideration the fact that these cars have been worked on since 2009, you would think they would have been made safe enough to be put into action. Yet there are still states where it is even illegal to test these driverless cars. Another reason I feel there is no need for these cars is the cost of them. These cars are probably gonna cost a fortune after adding up the cost of the technology its gonna take to supply these cars. All around the world many of people starve to death and live in proverty, yet car companies would expect us to spend money on these cars just to save us the worry of driving. Its not like driveing is such a pain you would need a computerized car to do it for you. My final reason is that these cars will cause complications when they are in accidents. As paragraph 9
of ¨Driverless Cars Are Coming¨ mentions, when accidents occur there is the controversial issue of who would be at fault, the driver or manufacturer. Insurance companies would have a hard time debating these matter as well.
Concluding that these cars are unsafe, cost too much, unessecarily cause contriverial issues, I dont look forward to seeing advancement in these cars. These are a few reasons why I position my self on the argument against further development of these driverless cars. | 4 |
187c555 | the use technology more useful to read the emotional expressions of the students is valuable is because teaches the students spmething that they never known.
the articles making mona lisa smile is a claim is because the using of technology to read students emotional expressions makes them think about how can technology so our emotional expressions and the only way to do that is by seeing a friends feeling and by seeing the facial muscles move and precisley enough to show it .
foor computers to show emotions it has to see the 44 major muscles model and how they move when they react to the emotions if the major muscles model don't move in the computer then we won't be able see the emotions .
the ways you can sse if youre showing a emotion is going to a mirror and see waht is happening to show emotion iis raie your lips at the corners of your mouth, then squint your eyes slightly to produce wrinkling at the corner of yours eyes, whild holding that raise the outer parts of the cheeks up toward your eyes. and thats what can to do to show emotions.
In conclusion, technology that is called FACS can show huaman emotions byy showing what creates them by show the mona lisa painting and what caused her to smile and this considers this valuable to the student so they can learn about this. | 1 |
187ef81 | Earth's twin venus is one of Earth' closets planet
Earth,venus and mars are planetary neighbor orbit the sun at different speeds
astronomers are fascinated how venus well once by the closeis
earth like planet in the solar system astronomers are saying that venus was probably covered largely with oceans and can suported life
NASA have a idea for sending humans to venus so they can study the hostile conditons on the surface of the planet
secientists can make a blimp like vehicle so it can hovering over the roiling landsacpe the conditilons of the planet it wll not be survivable for humans .
they can use a ship to see venus far above the plant so they do not have to send humans in to to the survivable part of venus lf they send a vehicle in venus the vehicle can not
send photography or any video back to the secientists becuase the unhavetbe conditilons.
lf they use a mechanical computer they ware use back in 1940 during world ll the computer can run with no elerctronis at all most modern computer are powerful to today the mechanical computer only use gears and levers and do not have tpo have enteteny
lf we have one of the project done we can make are way to venus | 1 |
18834d3 | Having a car that will drive on its own is cool and all, but when you think about it it could be very dangerous. People in todays society are very lazy. All most people do now in days is sit at home, sleep, eat, or watch televison. So I dont think having a driverless car is such a good idea.
See people today get used to things quick without really noticing that they are used to it. For example television, its a great invention but people over use it. Some people make television their top priority. People even use television as an excuse. It stops them from making interactions with the real world, because people have grown to be lazy.
Another example is a cellphone. Everywhere you go everyone has a type of cellphone, wether it's a smartphone or a flip phone. People are so drawn to their phones especially teenagers. Everyone is on some type of social media sight, wheter it's facebook, instagram, snapchat, etc. Again everyone is making technology their top priority.
Having a car that can drive itself isn't really a good idea. We as humans get lazy over just little things, so imagine having a driverless car. What if someone in the driverless car falls asleep? In the passage it says this "driverless car" isn't so accurate. Meaning it can't drive itself completely. The driver still has to be alret of whats going on. So knowing us as humans and how we are why would anyone want to make a driverless car.
I honestly believe this car will be dangerous. SOmeone could fall asleep from getting too comfortable, again us being humans and getting used to things, causing the driver to possibly get into a car accident not only risking themselves but other pedestrians.
I am not in anyway shape or form trying to say technology is bad, but if it isnt used correctly it can be a dangerous thing. I beleive only people who are responsible and mature and know right from wrong are the ones who caan handle this type of technology. These "driverless cars" are not for everybody. | 3 |
18865e7 | The students of today are the leaders of tomorrow. This statement directly portrays that students have the potential to grow and do outstanding things. In order for this growth, a student must be well educated in his or her school teachings, and must be confident in his or her learning. The Facial Action Coding System is a new technological device that can read a person's facial expression. Using this innovative technology, a teacher can thoroughly recognize if a student is understanding the material, and is confident in their studies. The use of this face-reading technology for students is essential towards a student's overall education, as well as personal confidence.
Education in the classroom is very valuable towards a student's growth. Due to personal experience, a student does not only need the education itself, but needs to understand the education for more knowledge. This facial-reading computer can clarify if a student is actually understanding the education. For example, Dr. Huang stated, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." Therefore, if a student is struggling, "Then it can modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." Therfore, this directly shows that the technology created can increase a student's performance in school. This can allow the teacher, or the program, to help the student understand more information when a student is struggling. This innovative technology can result in positive changes in student's education and school environments.
A student must be confident in what he or she is learning to advance in school. Without confidence, a student is often lost and loses hope in their personal ability. With confidence, a student is proud and is ready for any assignment given to them. This new innovative technology, the Facial Action Coding System, can determine whether a student is confident in their studies. As Dr. Huang stated, the technology studies facial expressions and muscles to determine what expression is being conveyed. Using this technology can allow the teacher, or the program, to determine if you are happy, proud, and understanding the material, or if you are angry, distraught, and unhappy with the material. This allows the teacher to provide personal help, so that therefore, they can provide understanding and you are more confident, and ready for subsequent information. This technology can help provide confidence for students in their respective studies.
Using the Facial Action Coding System in school environments would prove to be very beneficial and valuable. Through the ability of this new technology, understanding the education would greatly increase among students who need extra study tools and material. Confidence could be measued through the technology and help could be provided, so that students are better prepared mentally and physically for future assignments. This innovation could be used to guide the students of today, into leaders of tomorrow | 5 |
18869b7 | Many people strongly believe that the face that has beem discovered on Mars was created by aliens. Others say it was just a natural landform that was unitentionally created to have the appearence of a face on Mars. NASA unveiled the image for all people to see. In that case, the image really convinced many people that the face was created by aliens. In fact, the face on Mars has even starred in movies, talk shows, and magazines. As a scientist, I strongly believe that the so called "unmasking face on Mars" was just a natural landform.
On April 5th, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor had flew over Cydonia and Michael Malin and his Mars Obiter Camera team snapped a picture that was ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first made it's appearence on a JPL web site, revealing that it was just a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all!
In conclusion, what was strongly beleived to be a human face that was created by aliens on Mars, turned out to be just another natural landform. | 2 |
188be60 | The author says that Venus is worth studying despite how dangerous it can be. He uses information he already knows to backup his suggestion. For example, "Venus, sometimes called the "Evening Star," is one of the brightest points of light in the sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot."
When the author uses information like this people are going to get interested and they're going to want to know more about venus. He also puts in a lot of detail and he uses other planets to help explain how far away Venus is from the others.
Although the author does talk about why Venus is intersting he also talks about why and how Venus can be dangerous. The author says "Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us." This shows that even the author knows its challening to study Venus, but he still insists on studying Venus. He says that Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. Why does he suggest studying Venus when he knows how dangerous it can be?
The author talks about why astronomers are so fascinated by Venus. "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." explains the author. He supports his idea by telling us how Venus could have once been. For example valleys, mountains, and craters are things that are similar to Earth. He also thinks that Venus can be the nearest option for a planetary visit.
"NASA has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus." says the author. Researchers can't take any samples of rocks, gas, etc. which is
disadvantage they have. The author says that NASA is working on different ways they can approach Venus in order to study it. Some examples are simplified electronics made of silicon carbide, mechanical computers, etc. They can't use modern computers because they are delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions.
Even though Studying Venus is such a challenge the author says that it has value. He doesn't think we'll just gain more insight on the planet, he also thinks human curiousity will lead us to many thrilling endeavors. "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." says the author. In conclusion, although it may be dangerous and difficult to study Venus we shouldn't let that stop us from learning more. | 3 |
188d7b9 | PROPER_NAME
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Facial Action Coding
This new technology that has ben created by the Prof. Thomas Huang, is realy impreseve and it can became realy help full in our lives. But can help more in the classromms because it would help the teachers to now how their students are fealling and if they are having problems in the class or in theyr personal lives.
The Facial Action Coding System worcks by associating characteristic movements of the facial muscles witch emotions like happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. This technology can help the teachers "reconize when a student is becoming confuse or bored"(Dr. Huang). So the teacher can find a way to help their students, by founding another way to make them comprehend the class better or talk about their problems and find a solution.
In conclusion having this tipe of technololy in our schools can be realy help full and make a big change on the way students see the chools and in how the students learn. Beacuse by using this technology the teachers can find ways to make theyr clases more interesting or find diferent options so the students cant learn more, and they also can help to identify students that have problems or that have tipes of sadness or anger so the teachers can help them find a solution to theyr problems. | 3 |
188dc58 | Even though, driverless cars are a big part in technolgy evolving, and a major dream for the future, I can further elaborate my argument through quotes, word choice and proven data.
I do not think that driverless cars should be on the road after reading this article. I am 100% against "driverless" cars. Although it does give drivers a break and gets people where they have to go, these cars are not truly driverless. The cars still require for the human to stay awake and alert in case of an emergency. There are emergencies EVERYDAY. If a car is not able to maneuver around traffic on it's own, then it does not need to be called a driverless car. A driver is still needed, and if a driver weren't I would disagree more because letting a car have full control is ludicrous. I don't think that there can be a good solution to this problem. Though problem/solution writing mode is appropriate in this case I do feel as if there is no solution but to end driverless cars. There are more problems that can occur just because we don't want to drive anymore.
Driverless cars also need smart roads. The article says "These smart road systems worked surprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical." The statement is saying that these roads helped the cars run better but due to money it couldn't replace regular roads. I think that is a big strike. That would be like using Apple headphones with an Android phone. Although they would still work and you could hear the music, it won't be as loud, it will have a higher chance at breaking and it's quality is poorer. This shows lack of realism, if the smart roads work well then it should be mandatory to put the two together. Realistically, roads have been around for a long time and you can't put new technology on that and expect great results. Or even hope it works out, then thats being a surrealist.
Lastly, laws would have to be changed. Which would mean if there are accidents depending on the case either the car company or the driver would be liable. But these cars are supposed to be driverless. So why is the human involved? The article states " Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times". Meaning that the definition of a safe car would change. Which would compliacte things because it some states you wont be able to do this beacuse it is illegal. So if laws are changed after a long period of time, people would relocate just to use these cars, Politically, this would be a big deal. This is the safety of citizens on the roads and they aren't even driving. There is already enough going on with drunk driving and texting while driving so what if a driver is preoccupied to this exact thing in the driverless car? This will cause many questions to pop up and will not be a quick and easy process. This can relate to Bloom's Taxonomy analyazing and evaluating. The government will have to evaualte the situation and the data in order to be fully informed. Then, analyze the situation and form a strong opinion to discuss thouroughly to come to a conclusion.
In conclusion, driverless cars do no need to be on the road. In my opinion, they are not correctly named, and the bad outweigh the good. Although it was a good idea, I dont feel like it has worked up to it's full potential with all the flaws. In the end, these cars need to go back to the drawing board or just need to be given up on. | 4 |
189579d | I think that we should have more control over the car. like a manual over ride so we could just drive if we dont want to use the automatic mode. the fact that a camera will be watching you kinda bothers me, and they say its for saftey. I dont belive that i think its for people who do drugs, or drink and drive so i guess it would be safer but it would also take away our freedom/choice to drive.
Im still for it cause you would also have more time to pay more attention to others in your car. honestly thats why the camera thing, making sure your watching the road is a bit counter intuitive. You would just be sitting there bacicly looking out a window not to mention people would get board and then you'd definatly get distracted. It even says its on autopilot 90 percent of the time. I hope they redesign the inside of the car, maybe have it to a more liveing room type thing where the driver seat can rotate a 180 degrees to face towards the middle of the car. there would be a adjustable table tv, computer or if you need to face and talk with your kids.
So i think this would help on time crunches and multi-tasking. when you think obout it we spend hours of our day watching signs,roads, and cars. All that time just gone with little progress of anything but now you should be able to get a lot more done in little time, cause time is everything. And we really shouldn't be wasting it on staring at a long lonly road for hours on end. | 2 |
189a584 | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the Facial Action Coding System, also known as FACS, may be a good thing to have in a classroom. If a child is acting up constantly, the teacher will be able to read his emotions and talk to that student. Teachers would be able to tell if their students are doing okay. FACS could help teachers understand their students better.
FACS would be a good way to tell a child's emotions if they are acting up at school. This would help teachers understand why this student is always having a bad time. Teachers could ask why this student feels the way they do. Maybe its something at home or something to do with bullying. The child could then be able to express their thoughts because the teacher will know why they are always misbehaving.
Teachers and students should have a close bond. You are around eachother all of the time until you are out of school. Teachers should get to understand their students feelings. If a student is having a rough day the teacher could maybe cheer them up. Most teachers let things slide even though they can read some of their students expressions. Expressions tell it all. FACS could help kids have a better time in school if they were able to have their expressions read so they could talk about why they are feeling a certain way.
Students can sometimes be in a bad mood becuase of things that happen throughout their day. If teachers showed concern with how a student is feeling it may create better respect for a teacher that shows concern. It could help that student know that the teacher understands them. FACS could maybe help kids that struggle in school because they think no one cares about how they feel. If FACS scans their expressions it could better help them know that teachers are paying attention to how they feel.
FACS could be a great way for schools to take the time to help students. Students go through so much during their time in school. This could make students have the desire to go to school because they will know that someone at school will be concerned about them. Some kids have parents that do not care. It could make these types of kids care about school. If teachers do something kind and thoughtful for them then they may have the desire to do the same for the teacher and maybe others. | 4 |
189c65f | The article "making mona lisa smile", they use Facing Action Coding System. People may say that we should use this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom because we could tell if the students wanted to hurt themselves. We could also tell if something is bad going on in their lives. People may say that we should not have this technology to read the emotional expressions of students because they might not like the tchnology.
teachers may say that we should use this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom because we could tell if the student wanted to hurt themselves. The teachers or parents could tell if their students were safe with eachother in a room. It states in paragraph 6 line 6-7 "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused and bored."
parents may say that we should use this technology to read the emotional expressions of their kids so then they can tell what is going on in their minds, so then they can talk and help their kids what is happening.
people may say that we shouldnt have this technology because they would be affraid it would hurt their children if something terrible happened while the procedure was happening.
The article "making mona lisa smile", they use Facing Action Coding System. People may say that we should use this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom because we could tell if the students wanted to hurt themselves. We could also tell if something is bad going on in their lives. People may say that we should not have this technology to read the emotional expressions of students because they might not like the tchnology. These are why and why not we shoud use our technology on people or students at their school or jobs. | 2 |
189e376 | If you are someone who likes to go exploring and work a little then here is the job for you. The reason you should join this program is because on your extra time you can go sight seeing and look at what you will be passing on the jorney from place to place. The task you are asked to do is simple and you can do a variety of things on your way back home.
If you join this program then you could travel half way around the world, see different things, be in the millitary, help people, and work all at the same time. When you join this program you can see things like ruins and famos statues. Luke joined and look what he seen. He seen Europe, China, an excavated castle, and the Panama Canal. You don't see those things on an average day. If you join you can see all these things and have a life time expereince.
When you are on this voage all you have to do is feed the animals and water them two or three times a day. The bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship, so you might need some mucles. You also have to clean the stalls daily, which I know is a nasty job but someone has to do it. You also get the benefit of hellping families in need.
On the way back home you can also have fun by playing games with your friends in the empty stalls. It might not be the most sanatairy place but what else is there to do. Luke says that he and his friends play: Table-tennis, fencing, boxing,voley ball, base ball, and reading. This helped pass the time of the long jorney back home. This program could be fun even if you are in a ship and in animal stalls.
This why I think that joining this program would be good. You get to go sighting seeing, work, and have fun at the same time. Who would want to miss this opportunity of a life time like this one. | 3 |
18a1958 | People are lining up, waiting for hours on end to vote for a new president of the United States. That president won every single person's vote, but did not become presient. He did not become president because the ellectoral college voted for the other person. That is unfair because no matter what the citizens say, they are not even completly sure that the president they voted for was going to win. For example, in the year 2000, a little bit after Al Gore, they won the popular vote, but they did not win the presidency because they did not win the electoral vote, according to Source 2. Citizens of the United States should be allowed to a direct vote because in 2000, 60 percent of voters voted that they prefer a direct election, and because the voters are not voting for the president, they are voting for a slate of electors.
To begin, according to source 2, "If you lived in Texas, for instance, and wanted to vote for John Kerry, you would vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry. On the off-chance that those electors won statewide election, they would go to Congress and Kerry would get 34 electoral votes." This quote from Source 2 is explaining what your vote couts for when you go to elect for a president. Those electors are anyoen who doesn not own a public office. Who elects the electors is the state.
In addition, this year voters can expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could again lose the presidency and yet, the electoral college still has its defenders, states in source 2.
All in all, the electoral college is unfair to voters, because the winner takes it all system does not work in every state. | 2 |
18a3ec7 | Owning a vehicle or lisence is not what it used to be. Today, people all across the globe have given up driving for the many benefits that come along with alternative methods of transportation. These methods can reduce pollution, be cost effective, and even improve people's well being and happiness.
First of all, there is a surprising amount of options if you don't want to drive a car.
Public transportation such as trains and buses exist in most major cities, especially in America and Europe. San Francisco is a busy city with many young residents, and many of these residents are not interested in getting their liscenses. ". . . They organize their summer jobs and social life around where they can walk or take public transportation or car-pool with friends." Because so many options exists, many people don't feel the need to own a car anymore. Similarily, some cities and towns have been made specifically to be navigated by foot, like Vauban Germany. Towns like Vauban are tailored to fit its resident's needs in everyway. ". . . In this new approach, stores are placed a walk away, on a main streer, rather than in malls along some distant highway." In Vauban, necessities are convieniently placed so that the town's inhabitents may acsess them with ease, rather than driving around the town.
However, alternative transportation methods are not the only reason to give up your car. By not driving a car, air pollution can be decreased drastically. In Paris, France's largest city and international destination, driving was temporarily illegal because of heavy smog in the city. ". . . Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog." It did not take very long for traffic and smog to clear up once the ban was put in place, and the famous city began to look like itself once again.
People are also happier when they do not drive cars. ' "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," sais Heidrun Walter.' | 3 |
18a40e7 | Reducing car usage is becoming a big thing in a lot of cities around the world. In some cities they're developing "car-free" days, a day without cars, to lower air pollution. Too many people are using cars and this is causing traffic jams and pollution in the air, which is not good for the environment. I believe that limiting car usage is an advantage because it can help prevent air pollution, traffic jams, and can make people open their mind to use other ways of transportation. Most cities in different countries are evolving and people are liking "car-free day".
Limiting car usage can prevent congestion in the streets which causes the air to be polluted. According to Source 2, Paris typically has more smog than other European capitals, so Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. Congestion went down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five days of intensifying smog. This really helps clear the air for polluted cities.
The population is growing everywhere, especially cities like Bogota, Colombia with 7 million. According to Source 3, it was the third straight year that cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the Day Without Cars in Bogota, Colombia. Millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work leaving the streets of this capital city without any traffic jams. The turnout was large and people are liking this new change. For example, a businessman named Carlos Arturo Plaza said
"It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution."
Municipal authorities from other countries came to Bogota to see the event and were enthusiastic. The mayor of Asuncion, Paraguay said,
"These people are generating a revoluntionary change, and this is crossing borders."
Since these cities have made this change, there has been a great outcome from this.
There are many different ways you can go to places without having to use cars all the time. For example in Source 4, Mimi Sheller, a sociology professor at Drexel University, says
"Different things are converging which suggest that we are witnessing a long-term cultural shift."
In this source it explains that the internet makes telecommuting possible and allows people to feel more connected without driving to meet friends. The renewal of center cities has made the suburbs less appealing and has drawn empty nesters back in. Same with the rise in cellphones and car-pooling apps has facilitated more flexible commuting arrangements, including the evolution of shared van services for getting to work. With all of these changes, people who have stopped car commuting as a result of the recession may find less reason to resume the habit. | 3 |
18acc14 | The argunment in A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves was to make people to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys. The person name luke was the person trying to make people join and participate in the seagoing cowboys.
The text states that luke was always trying to help people with thing like rideing a boat to pacific ocean twice to help people affected by the world war two. It was 1945 , when the world war two was over. The text states that they were going to help recover countries food supplies,animals,and more. Thats why luke couldnt say no too his friend Don Reist and the story says that he knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime. Thats why UNRRA hired " Seagoing Cowboys"
for they can take care of the states that were in world war 2. In order to do that he need help so luke did was he tried too convince others to participate in with the seagoing cowboys. So luke and don sign up for helping other countries. The people begin to help them. That means that everthing went into plan. When luke was about to fall he caught himself brfore fall his heart was racing. They did what they needed to do.
In conclussion, luke said it was a unblievable opportunity that why everything went ok. He had alot of things to do in this passage. | 2 |
18ad0fa | The "face" on Mars was not created by aliens however it is just a natural landform that was created. "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size," he added. "So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!"
The land form known as the "Face on Mars" is just a Mesa. On Earth we have these mesas too. "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West."
Even though it may look like an artifact its not because it was just formed like that. The mesa has nothing to hide becaus eour satelights have take many pictures of this mesa and this is no evidence of an alien presence on Mars. There are no sybols of any kind on or near the face or shacks or anything that could lead to the conclousion that aleins had built the face.
This is my evidence that the "Face on Mars" is just a common landform that was misconceived as a face of sorts built by aliens. Even though it may just be a common landform it is hard to belive this is not an artifact from an anceint civilization that lived on Mars. | 3 |
18afcad | For my own position on driverless cars, I am against the development of them.
Reason being is because their is always minor fixes; fixes that can either indanger you and the safety of anyone else in the car with you.
"They said that Tesla has projected a 206 release for a car of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time."
That still isn't good enough for safety of human beings, because they would though act as if the car's purpose the entire time is able to just drive itself.
Especially in traffic on highways, express ways, or even downtown traffic. People would wonder is it really safe to use driverless cars?
The driverless cars would not be able to configure itself on what is safe with the incoming traffic and hazardous affects.
One question that people would need to know before hand using this driverless car is who's fault would it be if someone gets injured, the driver or maufacturer?
Most states want drivers and everyone in the car to be at alert at all times for safe reasons.
It is understood that the driverless car would be able to handle speeds up to 25 mph, but that would not be able to help during traffic like highways or downtown.
It just tells us how useless this new type of car will be used.
I believe that the driverless cars should not be indevelopment.
If so people should be careful and not to use them for fun, because these types of cars have bugs in them, that should be fixed before in use.
Do I believe that they sound great for the future of course, but at this time and era no because people can barely handle a new hover board that came out.
In regards this is what people should think about and believe what I have stated against this development of driverless cars, not just for fun and excitement but as well as your safety and safety of others. | 2 |
18bc87c | The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" does a good job supporting the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit, despite the dangers. The author uses interesting and good facts/ information regarding this topic.
The author tells us all the bad stuff about Venus that makes it "inhospitable" and says that it would be a very dangerous and risky mission. He tells us that humans can not handle the atmosphere of Venus. He gives us all the bad news and then lightens up and gives us the good news.
In the exerpt the author informs us that we can make it work if we float above the fray. The excerpt then tells us to imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape. A vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. Still, being so far above the surface the conditions are still not easy but they're survivable for humans.
Since we would have to hover over the surface, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else from a distance. But to understand Venus we would have to be up close and personal despite the risks. The author tells us that many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus. NASA is also working on other approaches to studying Venus. They are looking into and testing different technology that can withstand the harshness of Venus's surface.
In the end the author concludes that "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." Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. I think the author did a good job on supporting his claim with good evidence and facts. | 4 |
18bd3da | Driverless cars are not a way that the future should go. Self driving cars will do more harm than good. Developing these cars as a way of the future will hurt mankind. We will lose an entire job sector, an important skill in the form of driving, our laws as stated in the article will have to be overhauled to accomodate this change, and not to mention technology isnt always reliable it will break at some point usually the most inoportune time.
When science develops a fully operational car there will be the problem of soon humans will not see the need to learn to drive. This is similar to when humans developed the ability to buy meat from a grocery store now we dont know how to hunt or butcher to get meat for outselves since all we have to do is buy it. This scenary will be the same with driving soon humans wont know how. Then of course what will happen to taxi drivers when their job is outsourced to a cheap computer driven car. Or a truck driver when his job is taken over by machine. The standiard patrol ploice officer wont be able to catch speeders either becasue they arent drving. Changing all of our driving laws will be a necessity. As stated in the article who is at fault the car manufacterure or the so called "driver" of the vehicle in the event of a crash. Laws will have to change for this as well. Which goes on to the other part of the problem technology fails at any given time. What happens when this autocar skips a few stoplights.
So in conlcusion self driving should not be the way of the future. The cons far outway the pros. Jobs would be lost, more people killed, and most importantly humans will lose yet another valuable skill. | 3 |
18bfb7e | Driveless cars would be hard to control because even though it alerts you when you need to take control iy would still be hard. some people might wanna sleep while the robot drives and so they can't drive. We don't even need these cars we can drive ourselves people are just to lazy to drive. The only people that should be able to drive these cars are people that can't drive a normal car or that can't get there linsense but it don't matter cause you have to drive it yourself still.
I think these cars are pointless if you wanna make a robot controlled car you should'nt have to drive it at all. it's not like we need it anyway people can drive themselves it's not like your walking if your too lazy to drive a car that's bad. I wouldn't trust a robot driving a car anyways thats too scary that could easily crash the car. they're not smart enough to drive it because they don't have the common sense that we do. if two robot car and driving they will be thinking the same and just crash into eachother we can't even get our computer technology to work and now we want them to drive us places.
The cars go over half a million miles without a crash but a lot of people drive half a million in they're lifetime so your pretty much expecting a crash at least once in your lifetime. Soon enough we are gonna be so us to these cars that the teenagers won't even know how to drive a normal one. There will just be so many more crashes then they're are now because remote controlled robots are controlling it. Thats like a big r/c car without a remote I know i would trust that. | 2 |
18c3c09 | Many people believe that the face on Mars was created by aliens. These people are called theorist. Theorist are people who give accusations without any supportive details. That is kind of what you are,just a everyday theorist who doesn't like to support their claims. Although that is what sets you theorist aside from us scientist. We actually support our theories,like the face on Mars.
When the first image of the "face on mars" was released in 1976 it became a pop icon. People believed it was alien made and think their is alien structures on the planet.
I'm here to tell you that is not true,as you may know the most recent pictures from 1998 and 2001 you may see the images a little clearer and you are able to see the surrounding ground of the''face'',so if their was any alien activity or any alien structures down thier im pretty sure we would see it. Although we do think it is a landform. It is just another martian mesa,which unsual shawdows were used to give it this illusion of a human like face. | 2 |
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