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e2c03e0 | While the people of America can't go a day without using their car, other countries such as Vauban, Germany, Paris, and Bogota, Columbia decided to ban cars, or do not use them for one day. The main reason for banning cars, is because of all the air polution that spread thoughout the countries. For these countries they felt that this was a great idea to stop their smog and pollution problem.
In Vauban, Germany people felt happier to go without a car. Owning a car isn't forbidden, you just have to buy a space for it that costs $40,000 with a home. Most families don't own a home, over 70 percent dont own one. A media trainer with two childen, feels happier without a car. This trend is growing thoughout Europe and to other countries as well. Vauban has even placed stores closer to the suburbs, instead of malls that is further in the distant. The Environmental Protection Agency in the United States is spreading the idea of "car reduced" communities, and are starting a act.
Paris banned cars due to the smog that keeps intensifying. They blamed diesel because of France tax policy. The tax policy favors more for diesel than gasoline. If you brought your car, they would impound your car or you had to pay a fine of 22-euro or $31. Traffic has gone down 60 percent in the capital of France due to the intensifying smog. Paris has more smog than any other European capitals.
In Bogota, Columbia they now have a day where no one will use a car for one day. Millions of Colombians decided to use this day to go hiking, go on there bicycle, skate, or take the bus to go to work. Even though Bogota has many rain showers, the people still participated for this day. Some people there say that it is a good way to get rid of stress and lower air pollution.
The invention of the car was a great thing a long time ago, but some people say that this is the end of the car culture. Fewer people buy cars or even getting their licenses every year. researchers are wondering if this is the peak of driving. The researchers are thinking that America's love of cars is slowly fading away. As people see it, they think that this is much safer, conserves resources, and lower emissions. | 3 |
e2c1ac1 | In this essay I will be talking about the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars." The face was not created by aliens it is a natural landform. I have a lot of evidence for my claim.
They all prove that it is a natural landform.
The Face on Mars is just a natural landform.
It was not created by aliens.
Here is some evidence. "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform." Another piece of evidence is it was describes as a huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth.
Last but not least I have one more piece of evidence "We just don't pass over the Face very often." They thought is was made by aliens because they usually don't see this face. Now that they know it is a natural landform they will always see it.
In conclusion we can prove that the Face in Mars is just a natural landform.
At the beginning everyone thought that aliens made this. "It has been shown in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk showseven haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years!" All of this evidence proves that it was just a natural landform no one ever noticed. | 2 |
e2c2e20 | The author did a pretty good job explaining everything about Venus and all of this stuff about outer space. He said some very powerful things within this artical that should be changed in this wolrd and some should not be changed. The way he put everything into his own thoughts before just outting it out in the wolrd he had done a lot of reaserch about all of Venus and the planets.
I well enough think that he did a very good job at explaining everything about Venus and how the earth works. When the author states " our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edge" he is saying that even if there is danger in this world you shoudl never run away form it you should take a risk. The authour has some very good points on why you shouldnt be scared of this earth and all the new things happening with Venus and all the planets.
When the author was talking about the computers we should use on the planets and the new hovering saftly to the planets instead of taking rocket or a plan. That would be a good idea to try because with the hovering system you can get closer to the planets more than you can if you take a rocket or a plan all the way up there. It may not be as safe as taking a rocket up there because tou are more open being able to get hit by things up there. But with the new technology he is trying to use and to bring back that could honestly work becase the computers and tech that we are using today you cant take up there becasue there are no cell towers.
What the author is trying to do is a good idea and they way he explained everythung was super good to because he had so many reasons on what you could do to make it easier on everyone that has to go up in outter soace and work. He had a reason to back up everything that he was saying anf that is what is going to make people think that this is a good idea to start using diffrent things in this world. | 3 |
e2cc716 | Dear Mr. Senator,
I have read some articles and understand what the Eletoral College does for this contry. I agree that this state needs this system instead of a popular vote. I understand that people have the right to pick and choose the president but if you think about it how many people do vote? And how many poeple vote for what they truly think is best. I have leardned that most people follow the crowd. An Electoral College is just what we need to keep the poeple safe. As explained on
What is the Electoral College?
by the Office of the Federal register "the founding fathers establsihed it in the Consitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by the popular vote of qualified citizens."
The Electoal College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote of for the president and Vice President, and counting of the electoral votes by Congress. Its a difficult process but it has worked again and again over many decades. The Electoal College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appel. which the canidate gains no electoral votes by increasing his plurailty. that is a desirable result because a candidate with only regional appeal will umlikely succed to be a president.
Now each canidate running for president has his or her own group of electors. And they are generally choosen by the canidate's political party. I understand the positive and the negative part of popuar votes and Electoral College. I also understand that just one vote can change hthe futrue of most states. How could one vote change everything? It's quite simply one vote makes one person win the presidentcy. What if that one vote changes our basic ways to live. What if that one vote can take away some of our rights. What if one vote can make the world turn into yet another great depression. The Electoral College is the way to go. As said in
The Indefenisble Electoral College by Brandford Plumer in paragraph 13 "Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in the states they know they have no chance of winning focusing only on the tight races in the 'swing' states." The Electoral has its flaws but so does the popluar vote.
But
In defense of the Electoal College by Richard A. Posner it clearly states that " Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a polical prefrence rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election...." No one wants run-off elections or an uncertainty on the outcome. Everyone want to feel safe that we're going to have a president and have no rebellons for it. The system has its flaws but it also has there advantages . Mr. Senator I strongly believe in the Electoral College system. And you should too.
Sincerely,
A student of Deltona, Florida | 2 |
e2cd1e4 | My fellow scientist thinks that there is life on Mars because of the "human face" that was found on Mars in 1976, but I can give him three reasons why there isn't any life on Mars and that the Face of Mars is just a natural landform. One reason is that the "face", based on the 2001 photo, looks a lot like landforms on Earth. My second reason is that if there was any chance that there was life on Mars NASA would keep it to themselves. My final reason is that Cydonia has many other known mesas, why would this one be special?
In 1976 and 1998 I do admit it does look a little bit like a face, but in 2001, with the better graphics, the "face" looks nothing like a face. In 1976 it was very popular because it made people believe in life on Mars, but with the enhanced graphics the popularity of this "face" went down because people started realizing that it was not a face. Also, it looks almost the exact same as the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho.
If this "face" was made by aliens, NASA would more than likely keep it to themselves. If NASA were to tell this to the public saying that it was an extraterrestrial made landform, the whole entire world would freak out. They would most likely be terrified of the aliens. Another reason is since the United States' NASA found this they wouldn't want other countries to know about this, so we could be the ones to discover life on Mars beforwe the rest of the world.
In the region of Cydonia on Mars, there are a lot of other mesas and buttes. Why would this one be any different? If Martians made a mesa that looks like a face, why would they put it around other mesas. They would most likely put in a region that doesn't draw attention to keep there life a secret.
In conclusion, the "face" on Mars is just a natural landform because it looks like landforms on Earth, Cydonia has a lot more known mesas, so this is another of its many mesas, and last but not least, NASA would never tell the world that there is extraterrestrial life on Mars. | 4 |
e2d0be6 | To me I think we should change the election by popular vote for the president because the citizens deserve to vote on who ever they think will help are country. If they make the wrong decsion the it would be there fault and they wouldnt have no one else to blame but themselves for choosing that president or who ever they wanted to win. Also, if the person does make a mistake they should be able to unelect them also cause people need what is best for are country.
When people elect the president they usally go back through there speaches and see what they had promised for our country and make sure it is what they want. If it is not what they want they would probably go to the next person who is trying to be the president. When you are electing always make sure you are mking the right decision and make sure that they please you because they could elect that person because of yur vote you never no what could happen when voting.
Do you think it would be a good idea to elect someone who you are not sure about ? Well i dont think it is because they made the country to a bad situation or even smething dangerous like a war. But if they did keep the Electoral College i dont think they would care about the citizens of the united states I think that they would only care bout themselves and whats gonna please them and not everyone else. | 1 |
e2d253c | On May 24, 1976, NASA's Viking one spacecraft was circling mars. It took many photos of landing sites for its sister ship Viking two. As viking one took pictures, it came across a pecuiliar formation on the surface of the planet. The formation seemed to be an enormouse head similar to that of a humans. The scientist figured it was just another Martioan mesa, that was commonly spread throught the surface of Mars.
Conspiracy theorists think that it is bona fide evidence that there is life on Mars. Defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an acncient civilization on Mars. And so on April 5, 1998 another Mars global surveyor flew over and took a picture ten times sharper than the original photos. This led the the scientist to conclude and reveal that the face was just a natural land form and that it wasn't an alien monument at all.
Some people were not happy. The face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north of the martian latitude where it was winter in April 1998. This was a coudy time of year on Mars. They had said that the camera the pictures had been taken with had to peer through clouds to see the Face. They believed that the alien markings were hidden by the haze at the time.
On April 8, 2001, there was a cloudles day on Mars. The surveyor drew close for another picture. They said they increased the image quality to take the best picture they had taken of the face. They added that in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixle size you could see things like airplains, egyptian-style pyramids, or even small shacks.
This showed people that it was the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa, which are landforms common around the American West. This showed that the conspiracy theorists had been proven wrong. Since NASA actually researches theier data to learn more about it and they make hypothesize, it shows that they have a lot of since in saying that theorists are wrong. Theorist just make theories and they don't have anything to back them up if someone were to arugue about the subject. Conspiracy theorists are not always wrong but in this case they are. | 3 |
e2d3405 | Unmasking the face on Mars??
Face on Mars??? The face on mars is just a natural landform. Mars has plenty of landforms and its normal for landforms to creat a shape or face. Just because it makes a face on a planet doesn't mean aliens had anything to do with it. Under paragraph 5 you see a photograph of the face and many landforns surrounding it, so as you can see many landforms stand out on Mars.
In paragraph 3 it says (shadoes gave the landform eyes,a mouth,and nose) so its a landform with a face but the shadows make up the face. NASA has been studying this for a long time,but for what ?, as you bcan see its just a landform not a face.
In paragraph 7 it clearly says(thousands of web surfers were waiting when the image on the JPL website but when it appeared it revealed just a natural landform.). There was no momument after all. So in conclusion with this evidence, you can clearly see that its just a landform and not a alien monument. | 2 |
e2d9a03 | I'm against the idea of having driverless cars on the road. I dont like the idea of driverless cars because making them cost too much, they aren't completely driverless, they're illegal in most states and new laws would need to be made in
order to cover liability and it would be boring driving in a car that drives by itself.
A "driverless" car will need to have motion sensors all around the car to reduce the chance of accidents. If the car had motion sensors around it, we think it would know when to stop and when to go. But the cost of these things is outrageous. A radar cost 200 million dollars!
Another reason I disapprove of the "driverless" car is because the cars aren't completely driverless. Eventhough there are ways the car can announce when human services are needed, such as: vibrating seats, flashing lights, and just simply announcing when the human needs to take over, The human would still need to remain alert at all times because the smart cars aren't designed to know how to pull in and out of driveways, or navigate through work zones and around accidents. For these reasons human services are still needed.
The third reason why I think driverless cars would have a negative impact on
society is because we would need new laws for the cars liability and the cars are illegal in most states. What if there happened to be in accident because the person in the car wasn't paying attention, or maybe it was a manufacture malfunction. Who would be at fault? anyways, limited use of semi- autonomous cars is only legal in 3 states and the district of Columbia. so even though the thought of a car driving itself around sounds pretty cool, it would also be difficult to get it to be legal in all 50 states and international.
When you turn 16 one of the only things teenagers thinking about is their freedom and finally being on the road and able to drive. With driverless cars being brought up and manufactured, teenagers may not even get the chance to be on the road and drive for themselves. But even if someone is like 35 and has
already experienced driving by theirslef for the first time, wouldn't it still be boring? Just watching the road and not being able to do anything else because you have to stay alert at all times. Wouldn't it be kind of boring waitinf foryour turn to drive because the car that is supposed to be "driverless" doesn't know how to pull in and out of a driveway and it isnt designed to navigate through work zones and accidents?
In conclusion, I'm
against the thought of driverless cars because they're a watse of money, they're not completely driverless, they're illegal in most states and we would need more laws would need to be made in order of liability of the car, and it would be boring driving in a car that srives itself for you. | 4 |
e2dc569 | Fellow citizens pollution is the big buzz these days, ecofriendly supplies are increasing, people want quite, cars are being created to be electrical, no polluting gases, solar power electricity! Ever since we were younger people drove attention to limiting car use in any possible way; like carpooling, riding the bus, riding bikes, or walking etc.. So what is this craze about limiting car usage?
In Vauban Germany, you can say there is no life in the fast lane, it is all life is peaceful. As a result 70 pecent of families in Vauban do not own cars; as Heidrun Walters says "When i had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way." As Walters walks Verdant streets there were swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drowning out the occasional distant motor.
In Paris, there's not much peace or life in the fast lane, its city congestion!
After pollution measures reached a record high, Paris banned driving to clear the smog. Cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions. On a Monday motorists with even-numbered liscence plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 31 dollar fine. The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day. The smog eventually cleared enough to release the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday.
While in America after 2005 with the number of miles driven peaked, thereafter, that number steadily dropped. So does this mean America's love affair with its vehicles seem to be cooling? Probably not, but as of April 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak, equal to where the country was in 1995. The explanation is greatly because cash-strapped Americans could not afford new cars. Now because America's recovery of recession and unemployment, we'll be noticing in the next few years ahead.
Therefore, limiting car usage can either be an accident, emergency, placeage, celibration, or choice. Either way limiting car use is great for our environment and great for your skin! | 2 |
e2ec643 | Does the author support the idea of going to Venus?
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it present. Why the author belives Venus is a worthy pursuit is becueas, Astronomers think it holds many of our solor systems scerets.
Nasa or The National Aeronautics and Space Administration wants to send humans to study the evil planet.
By telling us all of these facts and theorys about our sister planet in the test, the author keeps supporting is main idea about being a good idea to go to Venus and heres why, In the text the author names off where he could be getting his information about Venus. Such as NASA, satalight, and photos. NASA and the author thinks studying Venus is a good idea for human curiosity but yet vary challenging.
In the text it stats "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system". The Author thinks if NASA could get spacecrafts or even humans to the planet we could learn more about out solor systems scerets. Or if it could really have been "Earth-like".
Did the author support the idea of going to Venus? Yes, The Author supports his idea well. They sighted their soures, gave theorys, and an idea what Venus is or could be. Saying "how much of a great challege it would be and hopefully one day we could get a human on Venus, but small steps first." Thats how the author supported his idea of going ti Venus. | 3 |
e2f214c | Google has had cars that can drive independently under specific conditions since 2009. Google cofounder Sergey Brin envisions a future with a public transportation system, where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. I believe this would be efficient use of driverless cars and it would be a large improvement to our transportation system today. "Driverless" cars still need drivers, or managers, to control the car, which would provide more jobs in large cities. Driverless cars would be able to use half of the fuel of todays taxis while offering far more flexibility with carpooling.
In 2013, BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant." The car can handles driving functions at speeds of up to 25 mph, while touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel in case of complex driving issues or a collision or near-collision. None of the cars developed today are completely driverless. They can do basic driving functions such as steering, accelerating, amd braking themselves, but are designed to notify the driver when he/she should take the wheel. This means the human driver must remain alert in case he/she should have to take over.
We could have large ammounts of cars in cities like this. It would provide jobs for the managers of the cars, while ammounting to less accidents on the road. All the smart cars could interact and communicate to each other to alert managers to accidents or taffic problems ahead. This technology could also be used to prevent more collisions.
Google has had cars that can drive independently under specific conditions since 2009. Google cofounder Sergey Brin envisions a future with a public transportation system, where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. I believe this would be efficient use of driverless cars and it would be a large improvement to our transportation system today. "Driverless" cars still need drivers, or managers, to control the car, which would provide more jobs in large cities. Driverless cars would be able to use half of the fuel of todays taxis while offering far more flexibility with carpooling. | 3 |
e2f5624 | Classrooms in this time period are filled with high-tech computers and new innovations that are useful to teachers and students. It seems like every month something new is added to classrooms that can help stimulate learning. Some of these new inventions are something that no one would of ever imagined. That's what makes them so appealing and why people grab them off shelves the first chance they can. This technology, you can't quite grab off the shelves, but it is something that is worth installing. This new software, Facial Action Coding System(FACS), relys on facial muscles to identify what emotions someone is feeling. One can only imagine all the different possibilities someone could have with this software, but a major possibility is installing it in classrooms. This technology would be useful to have in classrooms because it can advance learning, prevent bullying, and help identify mental disorders.
There are countless times, when one starts to daze and daydream instead of paying attention in the classroom. Daydreaming is just so much better then having a teacher talk about spectator ions and how iconic compounds can be net or not.
However, this new technology,FACS, could be very useful in the classroom for this reason. The reason being is that it can advance learning like we never would of thought. This computer would have the ability to stimulate lessons that would keep kids enterained and focused. In turn, they would be more likely to learn more and retain the knowledge. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored"(D'Alto). If this computer sensed that the child was becoming unfocused, it could do something about it, unlike teachers who sometimes don't always catch when a student is falling asleep or daydreaming. However, this computer would know and it could fix the issue right away so the child would be learning throughout the day. Since the computer keeps the child focused and learning for a longer amount of time, the child would have the ability to become more intelligent because it would be spending more time learning. This could lead to all different sorts of opportunities for the child, like special education programs, scholarships, etc.
Bullying is a serious issue. It can sometimes be hard to spot and to solve, and no matter how hard people try, it never goes away. It's always there in the hallways of some schools, lurking over some and haunting them. Yet, what if there was a way to reduce bullying in a big way? Well, now there is with the help the FACS. FACS could reduce bullying because it would be able to identify if, for an extended period of time, a child was feeling sad and/or scared. Then a teacher would know something is up. "By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions..."(D'Alto). Since this software can recognize mixed emtions, it would be able to tell if a child was showing the side effects of being bullied. By recognizing that if a child is being bullied, would help the child because they could talk to an adult and hopefully the problem would be solved. Also, if bullies knew that this software was in schools, then they would be less likely to bully because there would be a greater likeliness of them being caught. Overall, lower levels of bullying would result in higher self-esteem and confidence which then can be reflected in acedemics.
Everyday kids walk through the halls of school and feel like they are totally alone in how they feel. They feel like they will have to live the rest of their lives feeling the way they do, and they become hopeless. This effects their acedemics because they are less focused and might not care how they do in school. However, if FACS was installed in schools, maybe kids could get the help they need. "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling by simply looking on her face"(D'Alto). In some cases, this quote might be true. However, when it comes to having a mental disorder, most friends can't just guess how their friend is feeling. This is where FACS would come into play. This system would be able to know how a child is feeling and then, if those emotions are typically out of the range of what a normal teenager might be feeling, they could be sent to a professional. This professional could then diagnose the teenager whose been feeling this way and possibly have therapy. Overall, they would help them so they will feel better. After all this is done, and the teenager starts feeling better and being able to focus on school, their acedemics could skyrocket.
With all the new inventions and innovations that have been becoming known to society throughout the years, FACS is one of them that could have a postive affect on the public and, more specifically, classrooms. This technology would have the ability to advance learning by sensing when a child is losing interest and then change the lesson to keep them entertained and continue learning. It could also prevent bullying by knowing when a child has been feeling a certain way for a long time, and then other mearures could be taken to help the child. Lastly, this technology could help children with mental disorders figure out why they feel the way they do and educate them about it, while also helping them not to feel that way anymore. Overall, this technology belongs in the classroom because it could solve problems that end up helping teenagers acedemics and result in opportunities to advance the child further. | 6 |
e2f56d4 | In Columbia, Germany, and Paris they are trying to limit the usage of cars in many ways so that they can improve the air and promote alternate transportation.
By reducing car usage like they did in paris where they made people with even numbered license plates leave there cars at home then the next day did the same thing to people with odd numbered licence plates. People who dident follow this rule were fined twenty-two euro's or thirty-one dollars. About 4,000 people did not folow the rule and got fined and about 27 of them got detained due to the reaction they gave when recieving the fine. By implementing this in Paris it brought down congresion by sixty percent after five days. This is a reason why car usage should be limited.
Germany is trying to. In a city called Vauban, cars are banned. You can own a car which you can park in one of two garages the town has on the outskirts but it cost 40,000 dollars so people tend to sell there car. In the town stores are built down the main road in walking distance due to the fact that there are no cars. This town is an experimental new district, on the outskirts of freiburg, close to the french and swiss borders. The town is totaly "Car-Free" if you dont count the main thoroughfare, where the tram to downtown freiburg runs. If this town spreads around the world and othere towns and cities implement the same idea we could lower pollution and better the enviorment. If we build everything closer there will be o nead for cars so thats another reason why we should limit car usage.
In columbia they implemented a car-free day where every one took buses, road bikes and other neat things to get from place to place. This program is wanted to spread to other countries. In the third straight year of implementing this idea they banned all cars on that day except buses and taxis. The goal is to promote alternate transportation and reduce smog. Violaters faced a twenty-five dollar fine. Aside from the occasinal rain storms, this idea is a good way to "take away stress and lower air pollution." said ny businessman Carlos Arturo plaze as he rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife. For the first time two othere columbian cities join the event. The cites are Cali and Valledupa. "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictios have dramatically ut traffic; and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up." This is all in result of that event. Quoted from sorce 3.
As you can see there are many was to reduce air pollution and promote alternate transporation. By taking away cars alternate transportation is needed to fulfil that tasks that need to be done throghout the day and without the exaust of so many cars going off the air pollution will go down too. | 2 |
e2f6e1d | You should join the Seagoing Cowboys because, it would be an amazing experents to do. Luke also saw the world differently after he went nine times. They also saw some amazing things. You get to take care of animals. So if you like taking care of animals you'll like the cattle-boat.
Caring for the animals during the crossing kept Luke busy. It's an amazing opportunity that you'll get to do and have fun while doing it. You would also get to play games in the empty holds where the animals had been housed. Table-tennies tounaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time.
There are some ups and downs in this journy. You have to leave your family for a few months. Life at sea isn't that easy. When it's raining make sure to be extra careful going up and down the ladders on the boat. You can get hurt or even thrown over board.
In the end it is all worth it. Going on this journy will change on how you look at life. It will make you aware of people of other countries and their needs. It will probably even open up the world to you. So if you sign up or your friend asked you to go with them. Just go because it will will be the time of your life. | 3 |
e3077bb | In 1976, a mesa was discovered on Mars that resembled a face, calling it the "Face
on Mars," or just the "Face." The face was located in a region on Mars called Cydonia. The Face is just a mesa on Mars. A few scientists believed the Face was an alien artifact, and some conspiracy theorists believe the Face was evidence of life on Mars that NASA would rather hide. The article says, "And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Sruveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking Photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing ... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." This quate proves with the image that the Face on Mars isn't a face, it's a natural landform. The text also says, "Nevertheless, on April 8, 2001-a cloudless summer day in Cydonia-Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look." "'As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a image 3 times bigger than the pixel size,' he added. 'So if there were any objects in the picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!'" These quotes are telling how good the picture is so if there were any alien structures, we would be able to see them. The article also states, "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West." What this quote is saying is the face was confirmed to be a Martian mesa, not an alien artifact or proof of life on Mars. | 3 |
e30ea9f | Can you image a day without cars? with pollution in a high rate, and smog began to cover the roads and sky. A capital city of 7 million how is these possibe,well the goal is to promote alternitive transportation and reduce smog. Violators faced a $25 fines. when people have cars they began to become tease because of the stress of driving especillay all the crazies behind the wheel. with cars free day is stop all traffic and provide a day away from stress and lower air pollution.
car free day was started in Bogtoa,Colombia in the mid 1900s with a plan to spread car free day to the countries, to encourage millions of colonbians to hike,biked,skated or took buses to work during car free day and to create a 118 mile bicyle path. even the side walk that was once uneven and pitted,and replace by broad smooth sidewalk. rush hour restrictions have cut traffic and new restaurants and upscale shopping disricts have cropped up. parks and sports centerts also have bloomed throughout the city.
for the first time two other colombian cities,cali and valledupar,joined the event. the turnout was large,despite gray clouds that dumped occasional rain showers on bogota. but the rain hasn't stopped people from participating in car free day. | 1 |
e31884d | In paragraph 4 it says "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with Oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth.
The author also states that, Today, Venus still has some features hat are analogous to these on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, maountains, and craters. They recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, but a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel. In paragraph 5 it informs us that NASA says, that the visit would not have easy conditions, but survuvable for humans.
In paragraph 1 the author tells us that, Venus, sometimes called the "Evening Star," si one of the brightest points of light in the sky, easy even for an amateur stargazer to spot. Although, this nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. The author also claims that Venus is the second planet from our sun. It has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely. Also referred to as Earth's "twin," Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, occasionally the closest in distance too. The author also says "Earth, Venus, Mars, our other plaetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds. These differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus." He also states that Venus is sometimes right arounf the corner, in space terms.
In paragraph 2 the author claims "Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challening planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us." He also states that NASA has sent numerous spacecrafts to land on this cloud- draped world. Each previous mission was unmanned, and for a good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spacecraft has touched down on Venus more than three decades ago." But NASA is still studying how they could get a better way to study Venus. | 1 |
e32743b | This new technology of studying emotions via computer can be exploited due to faking faces. When Eckman said that he classified 6 emotions and gave the example of what controls what, the problem arises as in that it maybe false information due to a blank type of facial features that are unreadable. Also, if the person is capabale, they can hide their emotions by faking a different facial feature to put forth a positive type of vibe in such a way machines cant read. This is most likely going to backfire and have mis information due to errors and exploits. Emotions arent an algorith, they reflect us as a human and shouldnt be exploited to some company to make some big bucks.
The human is a complex entity to study because we are adapting over time so much, we change on a daily basis and thats what is the issue, if we were all like minded, then it would make sense a robot can understand us. This new technology of studying human emotions, isnt going to get us anywhere. | 2 |
e328a1a | Cars, a right and a way of transportation that we as people of the untired states have, used by many as a source of going from point a to point b. But if while going to those places you relized you where just killing the earth every mile at a time. Cars give off gas that pollutes the air and harms us, and begins to create green house gases. Over time these gases could do very harmful things to us. The soulution isnt as simple as everyone in the world giving up there car, But what if there is a long term soultion to fix this big problem.
In Vauban, Germany residents of this
Upper class community have given up cars in a experimental test to see the results of giving up cars to see others ways people could do about getting place to place and helping stop green house gases along the way. The results of doing this could mean that other countries, towns and cities may want to try this as well. In the town people make there way around by transportation such as bikes, running and walking. With this in mine you may be thinking what is I want to go the mall and its down a highway? Easy if the plan did happen things like malls, stores, food markets would be down the street so you can still enjoy the things you love but not have to spend money on gas and car payments anymore.
Paris bans driving due to smog, After 2 days of record breaking pollution paris put into effect a new rule that would clear up there city. On a Monday all cars where to not be on roads and stayed parked. With the option to leave your car at home or pay a fine of 22 euro's, 4000 drivers were fined and 27 got there car towed away. With smog polluting the air tempertures and weather changes begin to happen with cold night and warm days car emissons where trapped by warmer air. The act was a success and most pollution in the city was gone so by tuesday everyone could return back to driving.
In Bogota, Columbia Only buses and traxis where permitted fir the Day with a population of 7 million, the whole thing was a huge success and there was a huge turnout. The purpose of this was athe goal to promote alternative transpotation and reduce smog. Millions of colombians biked, skated hiked and took buses during the car free day leaving traffic jams and easing stress to many people. Authorties came to Bogota to see the event and not only where they enthusiastic but with them liking how the even happened it means they could do it for there city making a chain recation to more and more till all people would like to participate in this oppurtunity to help save the earth. This event was not a tragicic loss of not being able to drive it was just showing that there are other means of transportation and not driving your car can help you in many ways.
So with these efforts of showing it dosent hurt to try something and it can be a train reaction to starting something big to end green houses gases that people all over give to the earth on a daily baisis. This just shows that cities like ours could try things like this and maybe help start something that can have sucha huge impact on our lives. With this maybe peopl ewill start to relize tha tcars arent all a big thing, and maybe the peak could come to a end and people could start somehting new. With car purchases and miles on car dropping the way to old ways of transposrtation can resurface as main ways to get to places. This can help our states because in the whole world 50 percent of polution comes from the United States. This can be a problem because if we want to see changei n out world we need to start off small to get to the end of green house gases. | 3 |
e32b3f7 | Is there a future for driverless cars? Well certainly there is lots of companies that have been getting into the buisness of driverless cars. Driverless cars are cars that need little to mininum human help. There are a tons of problems with them to this day. Some people show interest in the negative side, or against driverless cars, but others are for the driverless cars.
My view is that driverless cars are a waste of time and energy. Tons of people enjoy the ride of having control behind the wheel. Also, both cars pollute about the same. Most driverless cars are gas, electric, or both. When you look at a chart you will see that the pollution from coal and gasoline are about the same.(Only for cars) When you plug in your driverless car you are using a natural resource called coal. Coal is burned in electrical plants to produce electricity.
The other side of argument is that driverless cars are a good thing. According to paragraph one ",The car he forsees would use half the fuel of today's taxis." That sentence shows that the people that are for driverless cars see change in fuel usage. The people for this car also say that the car has human like driving skills. There also claims of this car being driverless. They also claim that some people get bored behind the wheel of a older car.
There are tons of problems with the other side of this argument. One of the problems is that they see car using less fuel than today's taxis. When in reality they are using abolute the same in coal usage. Other claim that they have stated is that the car is driverless. How can it be driverless if it still needs help through harsh traffic and consruction sites. They also claim that it saves money, but in the end the car will cost a forturne.
This arguement has become one of the hottest topics of the decade. There are people that are for driverless cars. There are also people that are agianst driverless car. When really it is all up to the driver of the car. Would you rather drive a gas powered 1973 Dodge Challenger, or would you rather sit in a driverless 2020 Mercedes-Benz? | 3 |
e338a4c | As technology has advanced, our methods of transportation have advanced with it. Driverless cars are things of the future, just as regular cars were a thing of the future in the 1900s. There will always be risks and certain safety regulations just as with regular cars but having the technology and not using it would be taking a step back.
The use of driverless cars may seem lazier or seem to have more risks than a manual car but is that not what people once thought about regular cars? Cars already start themselves and can be put in a self driving setting, so a full time driverless car would be a step in the right direction and be all around safer for citizens and drivers everywhere. Having technology run your car rather than a human, the risk and chance of a wreck would decrease dramatically. Although as of now a malfunction in the technology that could cause a crash and whether the manufacturer or the driver is to blame is a blurry topic the restriction of testing the cars would never give them the opportunity to fix the problems. Progress is slow as shown in 2013 when BMW announced the "Traffic Jam Asssistant," which can only function up to 25 mph which wouldn't be nearly enough to drive on actual roads yet but the progress is still there. The lack of states on board with the test driving of these cars is restricting the chances for improvement.
We, as humans, sometimes give up on things we see as impossible but things we think of as normal now seemed impossible 50 years ago. Driverless cars are simply an advancement that we're ready to make and improve but we limit ourselve sin our own abilities. It may be 20 years from now but eventually in the baby steps being taken drvierless cars will see the roads. | 3 |
e33c88f | We all know that there many planet in our solar system. Also, we are living one of them and it's our home called Earth. And as we all know that's scientist want to learn about all the planet in out solar system. However, they still want to expand their curiousity about the planet in our solar system called Venus.
First up, Venus sometimes called the "Evening Star," is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it easier for even an amateur stargazer to see. But it's also misleading about Venus, it's actually the second planet in our solar system. But it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely.
There are fact about Venus that's show how dangerous it can be. People already try to send spacecraft to Venus, but everysingle one of them can't survive the landing a few hours. After that there is no more spacecraft that's ever landing in more than three decades. It's also have a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent of carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Additional challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. Then, on the Venus's suface an average temperature is over 800 degrees in Fahrenheit and the pressure of the atmospher pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. But in beyond of high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and eath present addtional of impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful eathquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its suface.
But scientist also believe that Venus was once like Earth now, it had it's own life . Today, Venus stil has some feature that are analogous to those on Eath. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and include the smae feature such as valleys, moutains, and creaters.
Venus also allow scientist to flow above the fray. The height of thirty-plus miles aobe the sufac, temperature would stil be really high about 170 degrees Fahrenheit and the pressure would be closes to that of sea level on Earth. But we can go on Venus but we can't collect any sample because we are too high for the suface from a distance. But scientist also looking back to the old technology called mechanical computer. These devices were first envisioned in the 1800s and play an very important role in the 1940s during World War II. But since mechanical part can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces than moderm technology.
An valuable reason that Venus is a place that worth a vist to explore is that the planet not only cecause of the insight to be gain from the planet itself, but also because of human curiosity like us will lead into many more knowledge in the future. And it should not be limited by dangerous and doubts but should be expanded to meet every inches of imagination and innovation of a human. | 3 |
e34416f | Facial Action Coding System allows computers to identify human emotions. Websites could use this technology to keep people interested in ads. Teachers could use this technology to identify the emotions of students in the class. I believe that the use of this new technology, on students, would be an invasion of privacy.
Most students do not want their emotions to be known, especially by a teacher or their classmates. Emotions are meant to be something that is willingly shared by a person, not taken from them by a software. If a teacher believes that a kid is confused or bored, then they should ask the student not a computer. Often an emotion that is felt is not shown on the outside. A person might look completely uninterested, when in reality they just naturally look bored.
The Facial movements do not tell every emotion as it truely is. Some emotions are easily confused while others are an odd combination. A person cannot always show their true emotions plain as day. There are disorders that give people permanant smiles or frowns. Some people naturally look angry or sad. If all emotions were clearly stated by facial movements, then there would be less confusion in the world.
Dr. Huang said that a computer could change a lesson based on the emotions that a student is "expressng." (6) If a student appears confused during a lesson, modifying it for that one student is a terrible idea. Classes are made up of more than just one student. If a lesson is changed because one kid is looking confused, then a few more kids might not understand anymore. It is impractical to try and keep every child interested in a class. If a computer kept changing the lesson because one kid was bored, then the entire class would never learn anything.
Logically, computers that are used to detect emotions in a class and change lessons beased on that are impractical, illogical, and a hinderance to learning. Students can ask a teacher to explain a lesson in a different way, but a teacher will not change an entire lesson based on one student's needs. There are many other resources that schools can use to help kids excell, but invading a child's privacy by analyzing their emotions is not the correct way to go about it. | 4 |
e348947 | Driverless cars are useful but in a way can be very dangerous. Those type of cars are like robots and have sensors. Driverless cars may seem helpful at first but what if they malfunction? They can forget to do what they were built to do. Like warn you when you are about to bump into something or if your driving to fast. It's better to use your own brain and control your own car, intstead of letting smart cars control themselves. Crashes can happen if your not paying attention, and you loose attntion on the road because you think your driverless car is helping you.
Driverless cars may seem helpful and cool but they can also put you in great harm if you don't have control of the steering wheel. Like the article said the driverless cars have a antilock brake, what if the brakes jam or stop working? Those cars also have sensors. What if the sensors stop working and if it's a driverless car, why would you want to drive a car that can drive on its own? You would get tired of letting the car drive on its own. It's much safer to drive your own car instead of letting a robot like car to drive for you. | 3 |
e3499a3 | A facial action coding system sounds very confusing. A software that can detect emotions. Could this be useful in the classroom? I say not yet. I think it could be valuable but not now because it is not devopled well enough yet.
The value of a teacher being right in front of you is not matchable. Many people learn different ways and a lot of them like a teacher teaching them instead of a computer. Kids, like myself, learn better when a teacher is making sure you stay on task. The idea of a computer being able to change its lesson based on your face and emotions sounds cool in theory but sadly the computer will not be able to keep the student on track and focused on school work.
Another issue with this technology is it has not been tested futher them just on a painting according to the article. The facial system needs to be tested further until they plan on rolling it out to online schools to be used in. So far all we know is it can detect a face on a painting very well but we do not know how well it would work on a student. The program could even read the students face wrong even if the student did not want that to happen. That could cause huge problems for the student when they like a lesson but the program read their face poorly and it changed the lesson.
In conclusion I think the technology is certainly cool and could seem usefull but I do not think they have researched about other uses as much as they could. Once the technology is perfected then it could be used in online classrooms but I do not see the uses for in a regular school yet. | 3 |
e354650 | In my personal opinion driverless cars are not the best idea scientists have ever discovered. I feel like driverless cars would be a very dangerous way for people to get from place to place. I also feel like there would be more bad aspects then good on this subject. On the other hand, they would be very useful and convenient.
In my opinion I think that driveless cars could be a very dangerous invention if they were not tested enough in varius ways. For example, what if there was a situation were someone was driving down that road and their car misfunctions or something electronically happens within the engine. Not only would the driver be in danger, but all the other cars around the smart car could be too. In paragraph four, the option of smart roads was discussed. I think it would be safer to try inventing roads that help the car before inventing a car and expecting it to do all the work by itself.
The bad things by far outweigh the good things when that idea of smart cars get brought up. Smart cars need a lot of electronical materials to not need a driver anymore. That is a huge risk anyone would be taking when stepping foot into a smart car. At any moment in time the electronical systems could crash or if the smart car was to need internet and something happens to the web. Another aspect of this discussion would be the law. If you, being the driver of a smart car, got into an accident and it was not your fault, you are not going to want to pay for the damage. Many laws would have to be changed in order for ordinary people to be able to drive smart cars on the roads. It a huge discussion of weighing the bad things and good things with the subject of smart cars.
On the other hand, smart cars would be very convient. In paragraph two they discuss that in today's day in age we have all the technology to allow smart cars to be manufactored. All different types of products are being manufactored with new technology everyday. Why not manufactor a smart car? Buying a smart car would be great for older people that can not get out and drive by themselves, but it still wouldn't help very much. This is my reasoning on that, the elderly person still might have to drive a little bit if something was to happpen and they run into a construction site or accidents. It may even be more dangerous for the older person to have to switch back and forth from the car being driven for them to them having to operate the vehicle.
Again, in my opinion I think smart cars are a bad invention unless scientists were to invent road systems that matched up specificely to a car. There is to many risks to be taking at this point in time in the progression of smart cars. Possibily in the future when scientists discover more about them they might be better and more reliable. | 4 |
e35f6ff | The author does not support his idea well that studiying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. The author talks about people being facinated with Venus, that Venus is the closest planet to Earth in proximity and features, and that it would be cool if humans were able to explore Venus. What he does not talk about well is the why. Why Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers.
Here is a part of the artical where the author talks about why it would be cool to study Venus. "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system,"(paragraph 4). The author mentions humans being facinated with Venus and how the planet was once Earth-like. This information does help us see how it would be cool to visit Venus and it tells us some information about Venus. On the other hand the author doesn't give a solid reason for why studying Venus is worth it and despite the risks. "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,"(paragraph 8). The author does not tell us what the insight is that will be gained from exploring the planet. Also what does human curiosity leading us into other endeavors have to do with how studying Venus is a worthy pursuit. Their reason and support for studying Venus is weak. The author trys to use their own opinion to convince the readers that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit. The author aslo doesn't give a sound explanation as to how the danger of heat can be overcome for enabling the trip to be successful. "Some simplified eclectronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions,"(paragraph 7). The author explains that there is a material that can survive on Venus for a little while. A problem to this could be that the metal might actually not work on Venus because since no one has ever been ther how would they know exactly what it is going to be like. That is why they are going there in the first place to explore Venus. They could have totally messed up on the calculations of surviving on the planet and it might be a failure. The pros of this mission are far less important than the cons to this mission. If they succed then they can say they know what on Venus and can gain some information. If they fail then people can die, a load of money is gone because of the time, energy, and resorces put into the exploration are gone.
The author does not support his idea well that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. They only give a few reasons why the trip would be worthy. They use their own opinions as facts trying to pursuade the readers to agree with their ideas. They also don't fully explain how they can by pass the dangers involved with this exploration study on Venus. Since the author has used their opinion as facts and cannot explain without a doubt that this pursuit can be successful despite the dangers I have to say that they did not do well at supporting their idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. | 5 |
e363a0c | In 1976, Viking 1, a spacecraft, was in search for its sister ship, Viking 2. When searching, they snapped photos of various Martian landmarks including what is now known as "The Face on Mars." They took this photo from an angle where it look as if a face was coming out of the ground. At first, NASA thought this might possibly be an artifact from Martian civilization, but were disappointed when they found it was just another landmark. Conspiracy theorists believed NASA was simply trying to hide the truth from them, but all of NASA's research proves the face is just an unusually shaped landmark.
Viking 1, the initial spacecraft to spot the landmark, didn't have the best technology. compared to today's technology, the picture would be considered blurry and out of focus. Yes, at first a few scientists believed the face was an alien artifact, but instead of jumping to conclusions, they did more research. this meant another spacecraft would be sent to get better evidence.
On April 5, 1998, NASA sent the Mars Global Surveyor to get the better quality pictures to conclude their research. At this point in time, the technology had improved tremendously and the picture turned out ten times sharper than the first picture taken by Viking 1. This helped both scientists and some conspiracy theorists to understand it was simply just a landform. Still, there were some people who believed it was an artifact. They complained they took the picture during a cloudy time of year, and that this might have affected the picture quality.
Again, even though it was becoming quite an expensive mission for NASA, they returned to get another picture. On April 8, 2001, Mars Global Surveyor came close enough for a second look. The 2001 one picture was such a high-quality picture, it was said if there were any objects on the ground, they would easily be able to zoom in and identify what it was. Now NASA had proved that this brilliant "face" was only a landform.
NASA did endless amounts of research in hopes of finding evidence of martian life, so why would they hide something like that? Releasing this to the public would benefit them more tahn if they hid it. The latest picture the spacecraft took of the landform proves that it simply IS only a landform. The research NASA has put into may not have given them the results they wanted, but it may later benefit them in finding life on Mars. | 4 |
e364c29 | The Electoral College has many flaws. One of the main ones is that it is unfair. They should get rid of it because of the unfairness and go to popular voting. The reason this is unfair is becasue of the "winner-take-all system" and how people arent really voting for president but for the slate of electors.
The first reason this is unfair is becasue of the "winner-take-all system". The system is where the electors that chose the winning president gets rewarded when really it was from popular vote. Then it picks who your state's representing candidate will be based on the preident that won.(
Source 1: What is the electoral college?)
Wouldnt you think that the reason we vote for president is to get a reward and satisfaction of your candidate winning? But no thats not how it works instead it's the electoral collge that gets an award instead.
The second reason why it is unfair is beacause when we go every four years to vote for our new pesident we aren't really voting for them we are voting for the slate of electors. In
Source two it mentions Bob Dole saying to abolish the electoral collge and most people will agree with that. It's unfair and not right to people that truly care. It also mentions how some states had most of their people voting for someone else that didnt win because the electoral college took over and voted the other way then popular vote." It's the elctors who elect the president not the people."(
Sourse3: In Defense of the Electoral Collge: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President)
To conclude this mess of being unfair these are the main reasons why people would love to get rid of the electoral collge and go to poular vote because it is unfair dealing with the "winner-take-all system" and we aren't really voting for the president but instead the slate of electors. | 2 |
e366506 | I think that smart cars are absolutly going to be a thing of the future. And that one day manual cars would just be a thing of the pass. But is it's safely range as good as they say it is?
If this driverless toy is going to be set out on the markets there should be plenty of safely tests ran on them. According to the passagee, there're going to be further improvents in sensor and the computer hardware and the sofeware to make driving safer. Nevertheless , no matter how many tests are ran the car's company would never be 100% sure there wouldn't be any malfuntions.
I'm kind of ify on the thought of letting these smart cars out to the public. And on top of all that, this car is going to cost a furtune. And only a certain amount of people will get them. That being said only a certain amount of people want have them and they'll want them. People get what they want now a days one way or another.So I highly disagree with the cars of the future being driverless. | 2 |
e36bb08 | Venus today is bizarre to many scientist. It's green appearence and similarity to Earth is why Venus is a must-visit planet to scientist today. Scientist claim it used to have life, habitable for humans and animals, Which it is said to have had water long ago. Proof of it being is because of it having formed structures that we know water would. It has very familiar features with Earth, those being; valleys, mountains, and craters.
The author supports this idea well because of Venus's bizarre terrain and very similar features with Earth. The author includes details such as it's form, relation, and body structure. It is the planet closely similar to our Earth in size and density having the author suggest that their may have been life on the planet of Venus. The author is very interested in Venus because of it's landscape and structure; similar to Earth, it could be a planet that once before held life.
Even though the terrain and atmosphere of Venus is extremely inhospitable, scientist are trying to make a way upon the planet. Idea's like mechanical machines are trying to be used, which a mechanical machine that was tested, has lived on for three weeks in the simulation of Venus's extreme heat. Today, NASA is working on other approaches to Venus as mechanical computers have potential to be used in this giant project of getting a close good look or view of Venus. | 3 |
e36e85a | What do you think about driverless cars? I don't like the idea of driverless cars. I think people would rather have the satisfaction of driving. I also think people would be even lazier than they are now. I also think people might still get into accidents.
I don't like the idea of driverless cars because I would rather have the satisfaction of driving somewhere rather than just sitting in the car. I would just be nothing in the car while the car drives me where I need to go. That would be realy boring. What if you had a really long drive to get to where you are going would you want to just sit there doing nothing? I wouldn't.
I don't like the idea of driverless cars also because people are already too lazy and you are just helping them be even more lazy. People already just sit on their butts and do nothing and if we have driverless cars you would just be helping them be even more lazy. Aput least when driving they are moving they hands and feet. If we have driverless cars people would probably would just sit there. They don't have to do anything cause the car drives itself.
I also don't like the idea of driverless cars because you might still get into accidents. The cars might not know when to stop and could crash. A car might come out of nowhere and end up hitting you beacuse the car couldn't stop in time. If they werne't fully driverless cars and they still needed a human to drive them at time what if the person didn't get to the wheel fast enough. They could go off the road or get hit be another vehical.
In conclusion, I don't like the idea of driverless cars. Do you like the idea of driverless cars? People would probably rather have the satisfaction of driving. Poeple would prabably be even lazier. People might still get into accidents. | 3 |
e376553 | It makes sense that people think this is evidence of an ancient civilization, but according to NASA they wish it was. Nowadays, with science fiction rapidly advancing it's hard to not imagine or want aliens and any sort of other life to exist because of how extraordinary it would be. Up until today NASA hasn't found any life out there, but they want to and all the other science enthusiasts do aswell. If this was a clue to other life out there, just stumbling upon this was way too easy. Obviously, others like this have been found, meaning this isn't anything more special than a natural landform. If aliens really did exist there is a small chance NASA would just easily stumble upon evidence like this one because if this was real it's too good to be true.
Realistically, there's so much reasoning from the experts themselves proving that this isn't anything unusual. First of all there's a thing called shadows and they can easily turn a natural figure into looking like some human-like structure. NASA will literally use technology we don't have access to such as more high-tech cameras to find out things no one ever knew existed. Obviously there are landforms like a butte or mesa meaning this isn't something never found. In fact there's one in Idaho called the,"Snake River Plain of Idaho".
When just ordinary people just make an inference it doesn't mean it's true. When thinking about who finds out all the things and goes up to see the things that occur in space it's NASA. Honestly they are the smarter ones, so there's nothing some regular people with opinions can prove. When the picture was shown it shows the landform started to change or deform, meaning if the structure is able to do such a thing looking like a face had no purpose. If it these are signs of an ancient civilization wouldn't there be more evidence discovered by now or wouldn't there be more of these near? | 3 |
e379e7a | In the classroom there are many issues of boredom, like having a boring teacher or boring subject. Well there could be a possible fix to that, in an article called "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto we are introduced to this concept and idea through the Facial Action Coding System. This system is a program that can read facial expressions and muscles to identify emotion in a person. This could help students a lot if applied right to the classroom. It could help them focus more on the topic, it could help them learn better in there own way, and it could help them get higher grades.
In class many kids have focusing problems because they're simply not interested in Chemistry or Algebra, but what if it was taught in a way that did interest them? Even if so a little this could help the kids find their focus in class. The FACS can read the emotions of the kids in the class and detect boredom (as said in the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile") and change it up a bit if it needs to, in online schooling this could prove very useful. By getting the attention of the kids, they begin to focus more on the lesson at hand, and maybe even begin learn better.
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author gives the idea of applying the FACS technology to the ourside world when its develpment is completed. The author states many idea's about how to include it in the world, including in the classroom. Once the attention of the class has been caught and they begin to pay attention they will actually begin to learn something, and the dominos begin to fall. Once they begin to learn something they understand it better and maybe even remember it better. Then they begin to do better on tests and finals and leads to better grades and GPA's.
The article explains how the FACS technology works in more detail than not. The software creates a 3D verson of the faces with muscles and all, then it determines emotion by tracking muscle movement. By this format it determines how the emotional state of someone is. When classrooms begin to grasp attention and kids learn, you begin to see higher scores on tests and thus higher grades in classes like Biology, Geometry, Chemistry, and Algebra. This raises GPA's, and though it may seem like a long shot, could increase college application rates.
The FACS software can prove to be very useful in society, most importantly in schools with large ammounts of failing students. In the article it uses the experiment of using FACS on the Mona Lisa itself, and it determines Ms Lisa is 83 percent happy. This ability could majorly help the students that need new methods of lecturing and homework. It could increase focus in class, and the learning rates because of it, and in result of it all could push out higher grades and GPA's across the country and help society as a whole become more interested. | 4 |
e37ca46 | We need to keep the Electoral College because it keeps the elections fair. It keeps them fair by allowing the states to be proportionaly represented. Also it makes sure there will not be run-off elections and keeps the presidential candidates from favoring one region.
The Electoral College keeps the election fair because all states are represented proportianly to the population of the state. This allows for the smaller states to have a more impactfull vote on the president. Since each state is represented equally the election is more fair than if just a popular vote was taken. This system is called unfair by some because they think that their vote is not being heard. This is not true because in source one it says that when you are voting for a president, you are actually voting for who your electors are going to vote for. So if you vote say demcratic, thats a vote going toward the elector voting democratic in turn him or her voting democratic for the president.
If the president was elected by a popular vote, there is a risk of run-off elections as shown in case three when Nixion had 43 percent of the popular vote but won the Electoral College allowing for a fair winner to be elected. If we continue to use the Electoral College a clear winner will always be produces, but if we go by popular vote a run-off election can occur. Some people may say that the Electoral College is unfair because the winner of the popular vote may not win because of the Electoral College vote and that is not true. If the president was elected by popular vote he or she who is running can just go for the big states, win them over and all smaller states are left with no signifigant say in the election.
If the Electoral College was not used it would allow presidental candidates to favor different regions making it seem like he or she was just the souths president or the norths ect. So with the Electoral College it makes the candidates branch out to try and win more states that they usually would not try to appeal to. In source two the speaker says "The electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance winning. This statement is not true because the Electoral College forces the cadidates to branch out to get more votes. And if the runner knows he or she won't win that state why spend money and other reasources on a rewardless cause.
When all is considered about keeping the Electoral College the only answer should be to keep it. It keeps the election fair by giving smaller states a bigger impact. It keeps run-off elections from taking place, and makes the candidates branch out to other states. | 5 |
e381cf4 | Does your school have spy technology? Do you want to feel like you're James bond? Well, were not that far off. Scientist are currently engineering a new software that can detect your mood and emotion. Although this is not a facial recognition device that opens a vault door to your secret spy lab, this new technology can be very useful in many differnt situations. The makers of this great softwear intend to introduce it to a school setting and it is causing a major contorversy. This technology should be introduced into schools for many reasons, it could help keep students focused, and could help sense if the student is troubled and needs consoleing.
The creators of this software believe that their technology can help students and keep them focused on the task at hand. One of the scientist, Dr. Huang predicts " 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 new software can do what so many teachers cant, it can understand the student. This opens up a whole new way of learning, It gives us a guarentee of sucess. These students will now work at their own pace and individually get help in what they are stuggling in.
Many students are going through troubled times and find themselves in difficult stituations. High School suicide rates are at an all time high and more and more school shootings occur. This new software could help prevent these tragidies from happening. The majority of school shootings and suicides are because the student is being bullied or feels helpless and alone. Dr. Huang states," Most human communication is non verbal, including emotional communication". This makes it very difficult to know if someone is going through a tough time and needs help. This new technology is giving us a key to understand how the students feel and know if these students need some sort of help before it is too late.
This software is nessasary and is exremely valuble to a school. It can help teachers greatly and help the students themselves. This program helps students achive their full potential and stop tragidies from happening. The Facial Action Coding System can overall help these students live happier, safer and healthier lives. | 4 |
e3820ea | Can you imagine not using a car when you go anywhere, not even up the road to the grocery store? Some people can't imagine living without cars, whereas some people already have made the transition, or are beginning to make the transition. Limiting car usage can cause people to be happier, have less stress, and can cause less pollution in the atmosphere for a healthier environment.
Limiting car usage has been found to eliminate some of the stress people are having everyday. Cars are another liability that put stress on people everyday. What are you going to do if you get into a car accident, your car breaks down, or there is an overwhelming amount amount of traffic that causes you to be late to a big meeting. Without cars, people dont have that burden on their shoulders to carry around. In Vauban, Germany "70% of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57% sold a car to move here. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two."
(Source 1 P3).
Vauban is the beginning of what could be a worldwide transition that could help save the world.
Saving the world may sound ridiculous when it comes to limiting the use of cars, but it's not. Cars are one of the leading causes in pollution and greenhouse gasses and have a large effect on the atmosphere. Cars influence the effect of global warming. In Paris, the smog reached a near record high and the city had to limit the use of cars for a period of time until the smog levels decreased. "Last week Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussls, and 79.7 in London, Reuters found"
(source 2 P17).
Without the cars, the smog levels decreased and caused a healthier environment for the time being. With limited use of cars, the air that we breathe everyday will be healthier, and the environment will begin to recover decreasing the levels of global warming, which could eventually severely hurt the planet if it continues.
The need for owning a car has gone down in recent years, according to a study at the University of Michigan. In large cities, people are living without cars just as easily as people that do have cars becuase of public transportation, and just walking places. In both the USA and Colombia, people have shown that the need for cars is miniscule when you have other forms of transportation. In Colombia, the city of Bogota had its third consecutive "car free day" which happens once a year. The people of Bogota surprisingly enjoy it. "Millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work"
(source 3 P20).
This is an opportunity to do many things for the people that live there which include taking away stress, causing happiness, and even getting a little exercise in that they might not get everyday. All in all, limiting the use of cars has proven to be effective everywhere it was tested.
Without cars, people may say the world would be a different place, and they're right when they say that. Who's to say it wouldnt be a better place? All over the world, cities are limiting the use of cars and the effect has been surprisingly positive. People are saying they feel less stressed, they feel happier, and the enivornment is happier too with less pollution. Who knew something so little, could have this large of an effect on people everywhere? | 4 |
e385ea5 | Have you ever looked at a friend and they thought there was someething wrong wgen there was nothing wrong. Well I think this technology can be very valuable because it can give the percent of how people are,find what they feel even if they look differnet, and it will give you steps to help.
First it give the percent on people and all they feel. They just have to do the math and look at all the muscles in there body. Then they will put it in the six different feelings. Then add it all up and which every one is the highest is what that person is feeling.
Second it will make sure we are not thinking wrong about someone who looks like thet are feeling something when really its something else. It will give you an ad for how you are feeling and mak you watch it,but if you start to feel something else then it will give you a different ad to watch. It will give you a lesson how what you are feeling so you wont get board.
Last reason is it will give you steps to help you. step one it might tell you to lift the corners of your mouth. Second it will tell you to crow's-feel around your eyes. It will know if you are lieing and it will wait till you are telling the truth about it. It knows how important feelings can be so it wants the right one.
That is why I think that this technology is very valuable and will be helpful later in life. It might help people start staying out of fights and getting in trouble. | 2 |
e386e14 | The author suggests that studying venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers that it can represent. The author stated " Astronomers are fascinated by veus becuse it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." The Author also discribed venus as a really hot atmosphere. The text stated that " 97 percent
of venus have a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide" Venus has some good and some Pro's and Con's though it can be dangerous to live in venus. scientiest are still trying to discover more about and trying to figure how they can get closer and learn more with out having any harms done to them. It is challenging planet for humna to study and despite it's proximity to us Venus planet surface temperatures aversge is over 800 degrees farhrenheit, the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on out own planet. The conditions in venus are really extreme and dangerous for any humans encounter on Earth. | 1 |
e38f2ec | Are driverless cars really that necessary? Driverless cars, in my oppion are not going to make the world better. I think that they will just make life more challenging, and will cause more problems. What is the difference between a driverless car and a normal car? Are they really driverless? Do they garrentee you saftey?
Who wants a car that is supposed to be driverless but still needs a driver? I don't think I would. A driverless car is just like a normal car that you have to control. You still have to be alert and watch the roads just as you would in a regular car. There really is no difference between a driverless car and a normal car, except one is a little more upgraded.
These new driverless cars do not garentee that you will be safe at all
times.The lawmakers say that safety is best achieved with an alert human driver. You are safer in a vehicle if you are driving rather than a robot driving. Testing computer-driven cars is illegal in most states. It is illegal because the people believe that driverless cars are not safe and will cause more accidents, and injuries.
Driverless cars are not really driverless. If they are driverless then why do the drivers have to stay alert at all times. Google has created a car that can drive in specific conditons. Google cars have driven more that half a million miles without crashes, but they are not completley driverless. Their cars can only handle certain things, and when the car can not accomplish the task it hands the task to the human, who should be ready to take over at any time.
I belive that driverless cars are not really driverless, they are not safe, and they are very similar to a normal car. So don't waste your time and money on buying a driverless car. They are not what you thought they would be. | 3 |
e3901bf | Venus is a dangerous planet, despite being called the "Evening Star", that scientists want to get more information about. Venus is the brightest "star" we see in the night sky, and tht's how it got it's nickname. This is caused by the extreme amount of heat that is being emitted into the atmosphere of space. The author suggests that Venus should be studied, decpite the dangers, because scientists believe it was once like Earth, NASA suggests having scientists floating above the fray, and NASA is trying to make technology for safer research, so that humanity can learn more about the solar system and find new dicoveries on other planets.
First and foremost, scientists belive this 800 degree planet once held life forms like the ones a person would see on Earth. In paragraph 4, the author states, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth." Then the author talks about the different types of rocks and land forms, as well as the fact that it's the "nearest option for a planetary visit." This explains how Venus could have once been like Earth at one point. Nasa has a couple interesting ways of seeing if these theories are fact or fiction.
Secondly, NASA is thinking of different ways to study Venus. In paragraph 5, the author proclaims, "Imagine a blimp-like vehical hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape. Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehical hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way." Soon, the author writes about the temperature and the pressure these people would have to deal with. This would show that NASA is thinking of sending scientists above the fray to observe Venus. If sending humans doesn't work out, technology will save the day, or research in this case.
Lastly, NASA wants to also try out technology to study Venus from a safe place, back on Earth. In paragraph 7, the author states, "Modern computers are enormously powerful, flexable, and quick, but tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme conditions. Just imagine exposing a cell phone or tablet to acid or heat capable of melting tin. By comparison, systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces." Earlier in the same paragraph, the author is putting that people have alredy tried to make some kind of technological device that can withstand the forces Venus throws at them. This shows that NASA is working on the technological approach to gain more knowledge of Venus.
All in all, Venus is a dangerous planet that scientists are curious to study and understand. The author believes it's a worthy pursuit, despite the inhospitable conditions because it's simular to the Earth, and NASA is trying to send people and technology up into space so they cay study the planet, so people can learn about the solar system and the planets. This is how great scientists are created, by studying the impossible. | 4 |
e39f9e8 | I am against the cars that drive by there self. I am against this because the car would be operated by a computer and computers have glitches and so forth all the time. Anything could make the car have a malfunction and it could and more than likely will put people at risk. If there was something ahead and you saw it a human would have more time to react than a computer driving a car. I feel as if there would be a lot more wrecks and injuries because the car wouldn't be able to spot the car/person as soon as a human would be able to. I know that accidents are gonna happen with a human driving a car or with a computer driving a car but I feel as if it would be a lot safer with a human. If a lot of accidents were to happen the people that made those cars would more than likely get sued for almost all there money. I wouldn't be against this if we were farther in to the future and they knew and studied more about it. My opinion is that they dont know enough about it yet to make it safe for the environment. | 2 |
e3a9504 | Limiting car usage can actually be effective believe it or not. While limiting your car usage you would be saving money, getting more exercise, and not polluting your environment as much as before.
Limiting your car usage is beneficial because you could potentially save alot of money. Every time you need to put more gas in the car thats fifty dollars down the drain. Saving fifty dollars a week actually adds up very rapidly and be used on something you will enjoy. Instead of buying gas you can go to the movies with friends, go iceskating or even out for dinner. Money is an important role in our economy today and spending a large amount on transportation regularly doesnt sound proper. Having more money is something im sure everybody would enjoy, especially not wasting it on gas money.
Not using your car is also benificial because you can get more exercise by walking or riding your bike where you need to go. Exercising is something everybody needs to do to maintain a healthy lifestyle and also staying active. Instead of driving your car park in in your garage on go for a nice relaxing bike ride. And if you dont have a bike go for a walk. People everyday are getting bigger and bigger and dont realize how important exercise really is.
Every time you use your car it harms the environment. When you start your car..... Pollution. I believe someday were going to have so many cars that all of the fumes and smoke will blur our vision when driving. During a point in time we wont be able to breath all the fumes because how strong they will be.
Not using your car is beneificial to both the environment and you. So next time you want to go out park the car and go for a walk. | 3 |
e3a9afd | I think you should join the Seagoing Cowboy program to help animals today.
The Seagoing Cowboys are a group of people that travel across the oceans bring animals to other countries such as Italy, China, and Europe. You get to see wonderful sights that you never would of dreamed of seeing. You get paid to see the world including many different types of animals on your boat. There are animals like horses, young cows, and mules. And all you have to do is feed, and clean the animals.
The crew that you will be with will be amazing. The crew members like to do fun things so the trip isn't bad. You can play a variety of games on board like baseball, volleyball, table-tennis, fencing, boxing and more! This will surely make your trip an adventure that you will enjoy.
This is a once in a lifetime opprotunity folks. You will never see the wonderous places you would see if you join. You could go on adventures like riding in the water streets of Venice, or seeing the Acropolis in Greece, the possibilities are endless!
So if you want to have an adventure, sign up today.
It will surley be a trip you wont forget. | 3 |
e3aad31 | I think that the use of the technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is extremely valuable. The reason why the use of this technology would be very valuable is becuase,imagine a computer that knows when your're happy or sad. For example , if you smile when a web ad appears on your screen .a simliar ad might follow. But of you frown, the next ad will be different.
First, She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. No that's not your science teacher, grading your latest lad assignment. It's the subject of leonardo da vinci's renaissance painting, Mona Lisa- at least according to some newsoftware that can recognize emotions. Imagine if "A classroom could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. uang predicts. " then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." The same technology can make computer- animated facs more expressive-for video games or video surgery.
Second,"Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," notes Dr. Huang. "So computers need to understand that, too." Your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile. But we can write down some simple instructions that "encode" different emotions. Eckman has classified six basic emotions- happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness- and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facialc muscles.
Third, "The facial expression for each emotion are universal," observes Dr. Huang, " even though individuals often show varying degrees of expressions"(like not smiling as broadly). Using video imagery, the new emotion - recognition software tracks theese facial movements- ina real face or on the painted face of Mona Lisa. By weighting the different units, the software can even identitfy mixed emotions(as in da Vinci's master piece). Each expression is compared against a neutral face (showing no emotion).
In conlusion, the use of this technology is very, no extremely important in shcools because it can give the teachers and the principles and idea how to get the students to learn better on what is being taught. The technology can also give the teachers and idea of who is bored or tired, or even who is having a bad, or fantastic day. | 2 |
e3aad5f | the aurthor is trying tell us about venus the evening start is the one of brighest points of light in the night sky.
venus is the planet and it the second planet form to our sun. venus is the closet planet to earth of density and size.
no spacecraft survived the landing more than a few hours. this issue explains why msot single spaceship has touched down on venus in more than three decades. on the planet's surface, temperatures avarage over 800 degrees, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our planet. venus has hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar systmes, so even though mercury is closer to our sun.
long a go venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could supported the various forms of life, just like earth.
(NASA) has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study venus.scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks. Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow their machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to their
knowledge of Venus.systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces. | 1 |
e3b538f | driverless cars will be allowed soon i know that because technolgy is advanceing and is geting to compicated I think that a human should be in the car even if it can drive on its own. the car can still not work if some thing goes wrong with the cumputer then thats when the human should take over and control the car.driverless cars will never be total saft because the sun can take down all the tecnolgy wich means that the driverless cars will shut down and could wreck.
They will have gps in the car so they know where they are going. even if they came out with them what about the laws on speeding is the car going to know how fast to go and what is in front of it. if a kid whats to run a way he will just get in the car and tel it were he wants to go and it will take him because it will not know how old he is that makes it worse for underage drivers.
if they had smart road like they said in paragraph 4 the roads could sense the car and send it the speed limit. the smart roads would take a lot of money to make them all for the USA.the brakeing what it could not work what the computer could just not use it thinks it used it but the brakeing don't work.
i think that there should be a driver in the car at all times to makesure the car is not going to mallfunction. i know that one day it will be made a driverless car and when that day comes there will be alot of people dieing because of the falls in the computer that is in the car wich is not supose to brake down. | 2 |
e3b78ff | Do you think our future will be a place with cars that we wont be driving? Will they be a world full of robots for drivers or just simply the car driving itself. Every year they are getting closer and closer to inventing driveless cares, in 2009 they started or were trying to invent a driveless car. They have been thinking and fascinated these cars in television and in movies. I agree o driveless cars being used because sesing the roads, driving and assisating, and it will be safer and thats what the law or the goverments wan't.
The car has sensors and will break by itself or know when there is danger or stuff behind you when you are in reverse.
Ever sice 1980 they started to use speed sensors but that was for the speed now they are putting break sensor when you push on the break hard the breaks automaticly turn on and they stop the car really quick to avoid crashes. These sensors will help out the human driver better controle and for he could manage the car and not to spin out. More and more improvements in sensors and cuputer hardware and software are being invented for driving could be more safer.
Driving and assisting people would help with being more safe on the road. In 2003 they announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant", meaning if you are driving near a traffic jam or an accident has accured you cant pass 23mph. The car can steer,accelerate, and brake themselfs, but they have touch sensors the car wont move if it doesnt feel the hands on the stearing wheel and the drivers full attention. For tye drivers wont get board they brought in-car entertaiment systems that use heads up displays, displays will turn off when the driver needs to take ove, something no availablee to drivers trying to text will the cell phone. This assistance will help people that cant see good but need to drive and handlycapp people also.
The law wants safe cars and the drivers to be safe and they are giving them cares that will be safe and drive by themself. A lot of states like California, Florida, and Nevada do not think these cars are safe so they are illegal in these states. Alot of states these cars have been proven to be more better and safer than cars that are there so it is legal to have these cars there. They dont even let them test drive how safe they are. Still if the law is changed they will have to make new laws because in the case of an accident, if technolagy fails.
This is why I agree on on the development of these cars. They are gonna be the future they will help alot of people not crash and to be more safe on the road. They are planning to have self driving cares by 2020 so we wont have to do anything anymore just hop on the cars on point A and get off at point B. The qote they use in this article ," The road to the truly automomous car stretches on ahead of us, but we grow closer to the destionation every day" goes with this article because every year of years they are getting closer and closer to 100% saftey and driverless cars. We are getting safer cars becausebthey are sensing the road, they help us with driving and assisting, and it will be sater and thats what the laws and the goverment want, to have safe cars. | 3 |
e3b8d42 | World war ll was hard on all of use. But with this organization is here to help you. You should really join use and help other lives that are in need of help such as humans and animals.
You should join this organization becuase you get ti travel to a lot of places and see new things. You could see the Eifell tower,go to greece,and other couintries too. Helping others is a great thing to do that makes you and the person you are helping happier. Joining UNRRA will teach you to care for others,be curtious,and to not always focuse on your self. I think that joining use willl make you happy. But there is always hard work to everything .If you love animals this would be good for you too becuase we save animals too and clean them and queck them constintly. There is also fun games such as table tennis,fencing,boxing,reading,whittiling,and games so time will pass faster.
I think that if you jion this organization yu will become happier and less selfish. You will become a harder worker and be more kind to people. This is why you should join the UNRRA. | 2 |
e3bcbd1 | Dear Senator,
I think we should change our voting method from the Electoral College to popular vote. The Electoral College consists of only 538 people. That's pretty much saying 538 people in America get to choose who our next president is. I think it should be set up by popular vote because their are millions of people in the U.S. that are able to vote, and each individual person's vote should count. The Electoral College is wrong because if there are about 100,000 people voting in a state, and 60,000 people vote for the Democratic side, and 40,000 votes for the Republican side, the Electoral College votes will go to the Democratic president and those other 40,000 Republicans would have voted for nothing. The Electoral College is one of the main reasons half of America doesn't vote. If one state wins the Republican electoral votes every single year, the Democrats will just stop voting. Then most of the Republicans will stop voting because they know they will win, and this will happen in every state until about 25% of America is voting, or possibly less. The popular vote gives evrybody a chance to win.
I do think the Electoral College is better in some ways though. First of all, the Electoral College is full of people that know why they're voting. They know about their candidates and what their candidates are going to do for the U.S. Most of the population that votes in the popular vote don't know why they're voting. They vote simply on if somebody is black or white, Democratic or Republican. I bet if most of America's voters did some research on their candidates, the polls would be very different. I think another good thing about the Electoral College is that the bigger the population of a city, the more Electoral votes it has. If you win the Electoral Vote, you are most likely going to win the popular vote. And another plus side is that a candidate can not rely on a single region to win. He has to be in the favor of multiple regions in order to win the Election. These are some reasons against the thought of popular vote.
Sincerely, PROPER_NAME | 3 |
e3c135a | Going place to place in a car is surely the fastest way possible, compared to taking a crowded bus or train. Having your own car is very wonderful, you get to have the space to yourself no noisy people around you, you can turn the music all the way up if you wanted to. Yes, all that's great for you but, have you thought about the consequences? Well, not consequences per say but there are bad side effects to having a car. The biggest reason being is that heavy car usage can pollute the air and harm the environment as well as yourself. Some people think that cars aren't the biggest reason as to why the air is polluted, and use that as an excuse to keep driving. "[The smog] rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world." quoted from source 2. The smog that was mentioned was from the over usage of cars in Pairs, smog that heavy could be toxic and very bad for your health. Heavy car usage does pay a strong role in the pollution that we have. Since most people who have a car use it all the time, I could just imagine how bad the air is right now.
Due to the high smog levels in Paris they had to put a ban on using cars, and if someone were to use their cars they would be charged a 22-euro fine which is $31 USD. This ban was later lifted to odd-numbered plates when the smog cleared enough. Pairs wasn't the only one to ban cars. As quoted from source 1 "VAUBAN, Germany-Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars." In Vauban, Germany they have completly taken away cars! Unlike some people who can't live without their car for more than 2 days, A whole community has been without one for much longer. " 'When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way' said Heidrun Walter," quoted from source 1. Without a car they have nothing to worry about and in term live much happier lives, they also save up money since they don't have to pay for gas, doesn't that sound good? Now, you don't have to go to the extremes of giving up your car completly but limiting the amount of times you use your car would be a fantastic start and if everyone around the world limits the amount of time they use their car by half, even by a quarter, the air around us would be much more clean and happy.
Alternatives other than using your car can be going on a train or bus, and yes I know I said that they can be a little unappealing, but I rather suffer a couple of minutes on a bus or train than having the long term effects of a polluted environment. Don't like the idea of going on public transportation? How about car pooling? If your friend wants you to drop them off somewhere that's on your way to work anyhow, give it to them, beats having them drive their car and get more pollution in the air. As stated in Source 4 "I was curious about what kind of car people drove, but young people don't really car. A car is just a means of getting from A to B when BART doesn't work." BART is reffering to the Bay Area Rapid Transit. As you can see, even young people would rather take public transportation if available.
Cutting down car usage can also mean you get to go out for more walks than usual! Walking is very important for your health but also for the environment, since of course, walking doesn't cause pollution. As stated in source 3 "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic; and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up." This all happend in Bogota, Colombia ever since their "Day Without Cars" started, their community and outdoor lives have improved dramatically. Walking can give you a chance to get some fresh air and cool your minds off things you might be dealing with. If you don't want to walk alone, walk with a friend and get to know each other better, don't just sit in a car talking on the phone with them, cars have made people less interactive. Invite your friend/s to go out walking with you, to a park, to the mall maybe catch a movie, or something else along those lines. Not only walking, but biking or skatebording can be a fun alternative, distract your mind with other activities or find a fun and enjoyable way for you to get you fom one place to the next, without the use of a car!
"But America's love affair with its vehicles seems to be cooling. When adjusted for population growth, the number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter." quoted from source 4. This is an amazing start for us in the US, we are slowly growing away from cars, or well, we seem to be a little less interested in them than we were years ago! We still have a long way to go, but, I strongly believe that going without cars or using cars less is a real benefit to our society, and to us as individuals. | 4 |
e3c54e6 | Why do you think Don Reist want Luke Bomberger to join the Seagoing Cowboys program ? Well , i think he wants him to join the Seagoing cowboys program because he probably really like it , and want his friend to join .
One reason i think Luke joined because like he say , he think it would be an opportunity of a lifetime . in the passage it states UNRRA hires seagoing cowboys to take care of horses , young cows , and mules that were shipped overseas , Luke and Don signed up . The passage also states in August 1945 , they recieved their orders to report to New Orleans . They arrived August 14 which was the day pacific war ended .
Another reason i think Luke wanted to join , because his friend was their and he wanted to be with his friend , and do what he are doing now . The passage states when Luke's draft board learned that he was on a cattle boat , they told him to just keep doing that for his service . The passage also states Luke turned 18 before arriving in greece , which meant he could be drafted in military service .
The whole thing to the paragraphs and all the supporting details is that Don wanted Luke to be like him and asked him to sign up so they could be with eachother . They wanted to have good opportunities with eachother t, they wanted to grow up and become something just from being stated in the seagoing cowboy program . Like they say in the story at 18 before arriving in Greece you could be drafted in military . That right there means they wanted to be something like a star that everyone wants to meat or be important or be famous , because lots of times it gets boring sitting around all the time . They said " hey lets get up and go sign up for something to become something together since we are close friends . " | 2 |
e3c6b7b | The electorian collage is a very popular thing amonst states and well some states have a just one law for it others are a lot more strict on there laws one of the ways they can win is by a winner take all vote but the other way is by a more popular vote where the people can vote and then the winners of the voting will vote agenst eachother and thoes two states are nebraska and maine
So what is the electorial collage you might ask well what happends is voters vote not for the president but for a state of electors who in turn elect the president if you lived in texas and voted for john kerry you vote for a state of 34 democratic electors pledged to kerry. on the off chance that thoes electors won the statewide electon they would get 34 electoral votes and kerry would get 34 electoral votes. | 1 |
e3d327c | "Facial expressions for each emotion are universal even though individuals often show varying degrees of expresions", as observed by Dr. Huang. A new software called Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. The process starts when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the person's face. Each characteristic movement of our facial muscles is associated with six basic emotions which are happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. The use of this technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because it will help teachers know when their students are confused, awares the teacher if the students are going through something, and help the teachers make learning more enjoyable due to them knowing when the students are bored.
This new software can be useful in a classroom environment because it will help the teachers know when their students are having difficulites or are confused. There are times when students are too afraid to speak up about not knowing the material because others might find it more simple than them. The Facial Action Coding System will allow teachers to know when their students are confused about a topic, and it will help them give that student the assistance they need. Some students can have difficulties when it comes to learning new material and take longer than others to grasp it. This new software will be of great use in the classroom because teachers will be able to offer help to the students that need it or direct students who do understand the material to those who don't. The system could also be used to notify the teacher when their students do understand the material, so they don't continue to go over it and be able to move on. Overall, this system will benefit both the students and the teachers.
Another reason to why this new system will be valuable in a classroom is that it will allow the teachers to be aware of other emotions the students are having besides confusion. Some students could be dealing with issues at home, and when they come to school they aren't in the best mood. When students of any age are dealing with an event or issue, it can affect them when learning.
The Facial Action Coding System could be used to detect a students emotional expressions, and in doing that it will allow the teacher to give his/her students the attention they need. When students have the right mind set, they are more prepared to learn and give it their all. When students are filled with sadness or even anger, they will not make the best decisions both in and out of class. Making sure the students are an environment where they feel safe and comfortable is important, and this new software can be of great help with that.
The Facial Action Coding System could also be helpful of letting the teacher know when his/her students are bored, so they could find a way to make it more enjoyable. There are students who have more trouble learning when the material is presented to them in a lecture format. Many students learn easier with more hands on activities or discussions. When students become bored in class, they can tend to get distracted or stop paying attention. The Facial Action Coding System can be used to recognize when a student is becoming bored or unamused with the lesson. This will notify the teachers that they may want to try new ways of presenting the material, so that their students don't get bored and stop paying attention. The system could also let the teachers know when their students are actually entertained with the material or how they are teaching, so they can continue to do it the way they are. When it comes to younger children or teenagers, it becomes harder for teachers to keep them involved and listening, so it is important to keep a classroom and teaching simple and enjoyable for the students. The more they want to learn about the material, the more they will understand it.
Although this new system is of great use, it is possible that it is not the most reliable. As humans we are a more complex system to understand at times. Emotions are difficult to control at times and even understand. As individuals, especially at a younger age, we can have trouble understanding our own feelings and how to deal with them. At the end of the day it is a machine that is telling you how you feel, and it cannot always be accurate. It can be helpful in many situations, but we should still be carefu with how credible the data is.
The use of this technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because it will help teachers know when their students are confused, awares the teacher if the students are going through something, and help them make learning more enjoyable when the students are becoming bored. This new software can be of many uses in a classroom environment, and it can better prepare students for the world around them. Technology has changed and advanced over time to the point of being able to recognize emotional expressions on people. With new advancements being made in technology all the time, it will lead to more changed and hopefully help solve problems and better the world around us. | 5 |
e3d4dea | The way of seeing how kids feel in a class room, this new technolgy shows it all. Will this change teaching and everything else in the class room, lets find out.
Professor, Thomas Huang of Beckman Institute for Advanced Science at the Universty of Illinois, working in collaboration with Professor Nicu Sebe of the Universty of Amsterdam. Are construction a computer with a 3-D computer model of the face; it uses all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles, this is called an "action unit".
I support this idea and here is why I do. This will show very high improvement in class rooms, as this it will show how a kid can learn, if they are happy about this subject and if they are highly entertained, or this could go another way of teaching say we didn't have this type technolgy. A math teacher gives there students a test, the average over all is a 72%, that is not good, a teacher will have to go over the subject again majority due to failing of the subject. Was it the teacher, or was it the students, who will ever know, but if they had the technogly in the room to read their facial expressions, for that the teacher may have post poned the test due to the results of the facial expressions coming back, which could have showed alot of confusion over the section. That could have saved alot of time and get better grades, as they could of not gone back over the section. This would show a lot of improvement in testing scores over all, as teacher would not mine going back over a answer if a student or students or confused what is going.
There are 6 different basic emotions in the system, happiness, suprise,anger,digust,fear and sadness. His new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code.
In fact, we humans preform this same impressive "calculation" everyday. We can tell when a friend is happy, or upset, due to how much we around them. Its that this 3-D facial computer system can even tell more when you can't.
If we had this in a class room , this would help so much, schools could see higher test scores and better improvements. I think it would even better if they took this to even more places. Such as Jails, Conceling areas, Thearpists, as it could show in their true emotions, this could be a lie dector, shows the emotions. Say they can't get anything from someone in a jail, they use that, they could see a fear emotion, or a blank emotion, or sad emotion. I just say this could change the future of alot things in every day life. This could also mean that, school corportaions might recieve rewards for really high scores in testing, which could really help out and some schools, for instance my school, we have don't have some of the newest technolgy as some other schools due, and why because i go to a small school, so we don't recieve high standards as other schools around us do. So that is why i agree we should have this newest technolgy and alot of the schools, to suceed in life and to help kids get better. | 4 |
e3dcfd6 | World war II was the start of development centering cars but; in the recent years the popularity as well as the traffice has gone down because of limiting car usage which have lots of advantages. Limiting the use of cars advantages are less air pollution and new communities
Initially, less car usage means less carbon emissions which leads to less air pollution. For example, Elisabeth Rosenthal author of " The End of Car Culture" wrote "If the pattern persists and many sociologists believe it will it will have beneficial implications for carbon emmisions and the enviorment since transportation is the second largets source of America's emmisions...". Limiting the use of cars will have a really big benefit on the enviorment by stopping more emmisions from damaging the O-zone layer. For example in Bogota, Colombia they have a day called "Day Without Cars" and Carlos Arturo Plaza a businessman who lives ther says "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." from "Car-free day is spinning into big hit in Bogota" written by Andrew Selsky. People living there have seen the benefits of the limits on cars and thinks it's a really good thing for their cityand not even rain can stop people from participating says Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus.
Additionally, these limititations have created new communities by building places that are very easy to get to. For example, Elisabeth Rosenthal author of "In Germany Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" wrote "In this new approach, stores are placed a walk away on a main street, Rather than in malls along some distant highway." With the new approach of limithing car usage things are built closer making many things accessible to everyone. For example, Andrew Selsky the author of "Car-free day is spinning into big hit in Bogota" wrote "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions dramatically cut traffic; and new restraunts and upscale shopping districts have cropped up.". With the changes of accessibility buissness owners have to come where the money is making everything more accessible and creating new things in the area. Building things closer attracts more people which means more homes being built and more families enoying the community.
Clearly, the advantages of limiting car usage is amazing because it means less air pollution and new communities. Limitations on car usage will benefit us and the world. | 4 |
e3e1455 | The Seagoing Cowboys program is a great idea. There are a lot of reasons you should join I will give you some reasons. This really should make you want to sign up right after you read it.
You are helping innocent people who servived any war, because it was left in ruins. Anyboby who joined got to go around the world for free to help people. If you have some free time you could even go sight-seeing. You could just see the happiness on an innocent child or adult to lighten your day up. If you like animals you could be around them all day long.
Luke once said "Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing Acroplis in Greece was special," he aslo said . " So was taking gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water." Luke got toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal while he was on his way to China.
If you go it's not like your the only person on the boat with a whole lot of animals. You can even have some of your friends sign up with you and that is even better. Just think of it like your on a boat with a lot of every people getting ready to help people. Every one else on the boat can become your friends so it's not just you and some strangers it's you a whole lot of your friends.
In conclusion, I think anyboby who could should be a Seagoing Cowboy. You will always make one more person in the world happy. You get to go sight-seeing in your free time. You will stories to tell your friends and family. | 3 |
e3e72ce | The arthor is saying that it can be possible to physcially travel to Venus as a exploration resort because of how much it's related to Earth. Venus is the second planet cloest to the sun and the third planet closest to Venus is Earth. Venus has mountains, valleys and etc. similar to Earth's terrain.
Venus is a dangerous place to be at because it's exposed to heat a lot more than what earth is exposed. So for that reason, Venus would be an inhabitable place but scientists are working hard to figure out a way to be able to explore areas with such high amount of heat exposure. scientists has lauched machineries over to Venus to explore the varity of stuff over at Venus but all of the machines only lasted a few hours and then broke down because of how unsafe it is.
NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus because they are curious to see why Venus is such a similar planet to Earth. The idea they had to help NASA explore more over at Venus was to use old mechanical technology because they thought that it would withstand the heat and pressure over at Venus. NASA is working hard to figure out Venus because in the near future they want to travel over there as another planet to attend on.
NASA is curious to see how the near future would turn out with all of these expierements because they are curious to travel beyond their imaginations. NASA also hopes that in the near future, flying cars and better technology are there because they would like to travel to other planets over my using cars and vehecials. So the arthor may be right about being able to travel to other planets with how NASA is going so far with technology. | 3 |
e3ea792 | The computer software is in schools would be a great thing for many different resons. The software could help the kids become more in volved in lerning,
It can release some stress on kids, and it can help its over all better grades within the class. The computer software can help people not just students in many ways.
First the computer software can help kids stay more interactive within school and help them stay focast at there task. with this software the computer can tell if you are getting board or unhappy, it will try and swtch things up to keep that student more ingaed in there work. This would make students enjoy learning and make them more focased at there work.
Another way the software can help is better grades when a student is more involved in school and enjoys learnign becaseu of how it is being taught will help grades rise. like it says in paragraf 6 ,"then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." this showing that they can help students get more out of thre learning. meaning better schools to choose from when it comes of time. when your grades go up then your gpa then you will hopfully fined a good school when it comes of time. and this software can help you bring up your grades becaseu it hellps yoiu enjoy school more and teaches you in differnt ways that you like better then when you have a teacher and helps you get the best out of what you have learned. When you understand it releases stress and then you day is better.
A third thing this software can do is not just for students what about for people who sit at a office or what about people who work with computers this software can help them be more profincent and help them do better at there job and can help them get payed for somthing they like and do somthing that they would want to do. They would have a better emotion threw out there day.
All in all the software can be very usefull for students and people to make there days a lot better and have better emotions threwout there day and improve there days in all and this software is a great thing that should be implomented in everyday life to help everyone have better emotions. | 3 |
e3f11a5 | Cars Driving Themselves?
How efficient could a car be with nobody behind the wheel? Many automobile companies like, Gerneral Motors and Berkeley, are contemplating the creation of a driverless car. A driverless car would require no help accerlerating, steering, braking, or any other task. A prototype has been created by Google's cofounder, Sergey Brin, who hopes to reduce the use of taxis and busses. If driverless cars are created, disaster will be the only task achieved.
For starters, companies will spend far too much money on trying to create this dream car of theirs. According to paragraph 4 in the "Driverless Cars Are Coming" reading, these cars will require many sensors, which are not cheap. Wasting money on uncertain creations, like this one, will ruin the company's budget plan. Of course, sensors are nothing new, but the excessive amount of money needed for them is unbelievable. No company should risk their money and, possibly, their bussiness on pure hope.
People may argue that they will never need their own car again, if a driverless car could just take them anywhere, but those people never think about how much they would have to pay for this car to take them anywhere. Yes, without a car, one would never have to pay for insurance or gas, but once those fees for the driverless car start stacking up, paying for insurance and gas would not be so bad. These cars are basically an overpriced taxi without a driver.
Safety is also a key factor. When riding in a driverless car, one is giving a computer the responsibilty of their life. According to paragraph 9, it is illegal in most states to even test driverless cars because of how dangerous they can be. Accidents are also bound to happen in these new cars, so what if the driverless car causes a severe accident? Will the owner of the car or the manufacturer be liable for the damage done? With cars driving themselves, accidents will be more likely to occur. The only positive way to keep drivers and the people around them safe is to have a human being manually driving the car.
Automakers are still testing and trying to improve the flaws of the driverless car, but they should reconsider their priorities. Companies such as, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have driverless cars by the year of 2020. These companies are putting a lot of time and money into a dangerous creation. Developing a car that could have a strong possibility of failing should not overshadow the safety of citizens. Supporting driverless cars is the beginning of giving up control. | 4 |
e3f153e | Using cars on this lovely planet is a good but also bad thing. Cars usage is good when riding to work or going to visit out of town. But cars polute the earth to with greenhouse gases and is making the earth hotter every year which will eventually melt the polar ice caps and everything will soon die . Fancy cars may be nice but it may the thing that kills us and everything living . Spending lots on a carv is really just wasteful,well i guess not all the time. Some days when your running late to work and dont have enough time to ride your bike or walk then you can take a car, or maybe if work is just to far than you can just take a car. Twelve percent of greenhose gases comes from cars .In paris a twenty two euro fine is commited if an even numbered license plate if car was not left home and odd was the following day. although the number in 2000 was 4,000 it soon went down to 2,645 in 2012.
Young drivers in barcelona decreased by 23 percent in 2001 to 2009 | 2 |
e3f3a45 | People always imagine the future with flying cars, robots as servents, and everything white. Similar to this idea, car manufactring companies are coming up with driverless cars. This is an idea where you dont have to have a driver in the car. The car drives all by itself to your destination. Most people would think that this is an amazing thing to accomplish/build. People are thinking so much about the poitives of this idea, that they are not thinking of the negatives. So many things to think about. Would if you got in an accident? would you blame the driver or the manufacturer?, not to mention that the cost of making these cars would be outrageous!, and if we had these cars , people would be so dependent on them and they would be so independent as a person.
Imagine yourself just crusing along in your car and your relaxing because the car is driving itslef. All of a sudden you get in a car crash! someone id badly injured. you get out of the car to talk to the peson about your insurance an everything. Who do you think they would blame for the car crash and the accident? the
driver or the manufacturer? "Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault--the driver or the manufacturer?" This quote indicates that there are a lot of thing that would need to change if we actually made this car, including car insurance. You never know what could happen with a car like this. Its just safer to driveon your own, than to put your life in the hands of a driveless car that has the potential of hurting not only you, but other people as well. has anone even realized how the car will be built?
People think that this car is just going to be made plain and simple. Thats not the case. These cars are going to be expensive to make. Its not like they are only going to make one driverless car, they are going to make hundreds of thouands of them. And they are going to be very very expensive to make.The tax money that we all pay would probably go to making these cars instead of something important like filling potholes, or making better streets. Our hard earned money would go to this instead of something that we are in dire need of. It would be a waste of our money.
We as people would be so independent if we had this car because we would rely on it to take us to all the places that we need to go. We would be so independent because we wouldnt know the city of country like we did before the driverless car came out. Its almost like we wouldnt know where we live anymore. We would probably forget how to drive and everything.
Overall i think that this is just a bad idea because we have a lot of problems in this world and this does not have to be one of them. | 4 |
e3f513b | Working on cattle boats are great, I believe that everybody should work on them And there are many good reasons why you should work on cattle boats And here are just some reasons.
One reason why working on a cattle boat would be you can help save farm animals. I'm not saying that farm animals would go completely extinct, but The population could go way down because of the war going on right know. Many countries were left to ruins so the animals would not have any food, shelter or even maby water.
Onother reason is that you Get to travel all around the world and get to see many different things. One time on my way to china I got to tour a excavated castle in Crete, and also marveled at the Panama Canal.
Also on the way back from trips when the animals were unloaded, we all found our times to have fun. We would play Baseball, volleyball games and many more exciting things that interested us on the way back wile we were not doing anything.
That is why I belive everybody should become a cattle worker, and my reasons why you should become one. | 3 |
e3f5cb0 | Driveless cars should never exist because, it is dangerous, it is not exactly perfect, and it is time consuming. Driving driveless cars is pointless. Even though technology has advanced and became more efficient, we still don't have the technology needed to ensure the drivers safety. According to the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" in paragraph 9, technology could fail and someone could get injured. Would it be the driver's fault or the manufacturer?
If you're going to invent and call a car, a driveless car, why does it still require a human to drive it? Yes I know that, the article in paragraph 7 says that you're only required to do so if the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones or around accidents. But what's the point if you're going to do that? It is a waste of time and money. It is not exactly perfect. If driveless cars ever exist in the future, the price of the car would be very high and almost no one would be able to afford it. It won't be the future way of transportation.
But if everyone could afford it, laws would have to change. The article says, in paragraph 9, that most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe. As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer driven cars. The aritlce also says, in paragraph 9, "But even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to covor liability in case of an accident". The whole process will be time consuming and that's why, I think that driveless cars should never exist. Companies and manufacturers should focus on making the car better in terms of handling, engine, and etc. | 3 |
e3f6385 | The future iscoming soon everday. And everyday people and inventors try to change our world upside down which they call ilfe changing aspects. To actually take away driving cars that people can take care of and moblie it by themselves, is not helping the future in any way. It's common sense to not call it a car anymore. Your not driving it, it's driving you! With driverless cars, no one will ever be able to monerver their way around the world. Depending on technology is bad, not good but at the same time it's helpful in many ways. This whole ̈́Driverless Cars' make the road signs and laws very unimportant. Why would you need to pass a test for your license when you can just jump in a car and command it what to do! We learn to drive for many reasons. One of them is memorizing. Remembering which way you came from is a great way to pratice on memorizing. With this tecnique you can understand the roads and signs without having to ask anyone where to go. But if you have a driverless car, you'll end up like the people who must ask every stick and tree they see on the road for help. It's useless to have a driverless car when you can monurver yourself around town! For example: ¨GM has developed driver's seats to vibrate when the vechile is in danger of backing into an object. The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over." ( Paragraph 7.) That is just ridiculous. If we ever do have driverless cars in the future, there will be a possible 95% that the world will be even more stupider because of how lazy some people can be to create such things. Driverless cars will not do any good for the future except currpt and slow the mind frame or children and adults. Learning the signs and controlling the car is much better than having a car drive you. You should never
place your life into the hands of technology, it's better to learn on your own and master it with time. Technology might try to prevent a lot of accidents in the future but they're doing it the wrong way. You can't escape trouble, especially if technology is involved. Something will always go wrong if you can't take control over it. NO matter how many times they might try to make the world better with a sim card or parts of a machine. Nothing except the person
themselves will ever be able to help or control their own things. Cars are just cars. While people are just people. | 3 |
e3f99d1 | In this article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author described how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding Systems enables computers to identify human emotions.
This technology could be used to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom, but should it be used in classrooms?
One reason why it should is very simple. This technology ,as stated by Dr. Huang in paragraph 6, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." This would eliminate the struggle of feedback for a teacher. Teachers do not know exactly how a student feels about the lesson because, "most human communication is nonverbal." The computers would be able to tell the teacher whether or not the students are understanding the lesson.
Another reason why it would be valuable for these computers in classes is that teachers would be able to eliminate the struggle of having to believe students, even though "humans perform this same impressive calculation every day." But the reason it is so hard for the teacher is that," most of us would have touble describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc." An example of this would be a student said that they had not been able to do their homework because someone in their family died. Without the computer, the teacher has to make a decision whether or not to let them turn it in late which can be hard and is just a small example. With this technology teachers would be able to tell whether they are lying or not. The reason the student could get away with it, if this technology was not being used, would be that they could sound serious about it and they could have a serious look on their face because "most human communication is nonverbal." These computers could tell if that person is actually lying by calculating "muscle clues."
The last reason is about safety of students and faculty of schools. If classrooms were to have this technology I'm sure people with depression and other serious issues would be able to get the help they need. The computers would be able to tell "the percentage" if someone is severely sad or very angry. This would ensure that people that work or study in schools are so much safer than without the technology.
However, this technology is still slightly new and probably expensive. Schools may not have enough money to purchase one or more of these computers. Even though it seems to work very well it still can be fooled. The reason for this is that," according to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotions, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but may even help produce them." Also the technology only has "six basic emotions," which may not be enough.
In conclusion, this technology would be very valuable to schools and classrooms even if there are some set-backs. Even though it may be expensive now maybe one day all schools could use this technology. This technology would save lifes and minds of students and teachers. | 5 |
e3fa7fd | Dear senator i was wondering what the electoral college was. And iv noticed that its unfair .Because of the winner-take-all system,the posablet of a tie. of couser there are more reasons but those are the top two.
Many american people think the electoral college is unfair Because of the winner-takes-all system. Which is when candates dont spend time in state they know there not going to win. For example in the 2000 campaign seventeen states didnt get to see who they where even voting for. And some of the largest media markets didnt see a campaign ad. Ever one should at least get to see who mit be running the U.S.A. If the president was picked on most poppler vote the people would see who there voting for and also see what there are plans are for the U.S.
Another big reason the electoral college should be changed is because of the posablet of a tie. Many people are worried about this because the responablaite of chocing the president would be the house of represantives. Which is unfair because each state has only one vote. For example let say florida represenates 400,000 people, they would have as much to say to texas who represenates 1 millon people. But if the president was chocien by polpular vote then there could never be a tie and voter would have a changes to vote for who they really want.
All and all the electrol college should be changed. Because of the winner takes all system and the posablet of tie. The college has worked for a long time now but i think the american people are ready for a change. | 3 |
e4020f0 | In this article I feel like the computers to identify some human emotions is cool. I want them to create a great technology like that, because it would be nice to look at someones human emotions. "Dr. Huang said that the facial expression for each emotion are universal." The calculations of the emotions will be endless. The Mona Lisa demonstration help people to smile more.
The people who wants to create this experiment wants it to become a success. This technology can make you laugh at anymoment. Also the emotions can change big time by pressing one key on the computer. They try to create these emotions by make people emotions change in their body.
In conclusion the main reason of this article was to show people that they can controll whatever they feel like it. Also most people in life wants to get controlled by some type of leader in life. They want to help people to wants to act to act better by changing their emotions in the act. Also I love the way that the mona lisa actitvity can change one single person emotion. | 2 |
e402d72 | When you lower the usage of cars in a certain area, you could see many benefits. Remember when you would hear occassionally that pollution in certain areas are affecting the world. And is it sort of worrying that you might be in one of those cities? Well, one of the main contributors is cars. Driving around, dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Swiping its claws at the Ozone layer. Many countries have suffered this pollution the hard way. As in France, they had to ban certain cars after every few days or so. Because the Smog in there was so dense. The pollution could have been very harmful if not given the right precautions. Scary right? Thats why citys like Vauban, Germany have noticed these facts and are now trying out some very "Eco friendly" solutions to help. They simply didnt use cars. They resident of the area knew of the danger and gave up their cars for the greater good. And it worked. The city was and still is very clean. And peacful without the very few sounds of motor cars from a distance away. A few city caught on to this, as they are also worried about pollution engulfing their atmosphere. So a few other city like Bogota, Columbia. Have made a car-free day in which the only means of transportation was a: Bus, foot, or bike. Which lowered the number of people you would see on the street. It was a big success in Bogota. But few other countries have caught on to this. Like Beijing, China. The most polluted city on earth, is like a giant vortex of smog and trash. They didn't notice yet. And might be one of the few city that find out the hard way when you keep putting smoke in Mother natures face. But our country, America. Is finding out the safe way to travel with less pollutant use. We are trying new and better means of transportation. As in Biking, Carpooling. Or just walking if the distance isn't that tough. Fewer teens these days could honostly couldnt care less about a drivers license. Now they just carpool with other friends or take public transportation. The percentage of peak drivers have descresed to a percentage that of which was around 1995. These pieces of evidence tell us that we can make this world a better place, for the good. Its just a simple step to a bigger door. To where we actually don't have to worry about global warming, or pollution in certain countries. We should just live peaceful lives. And not about whats gonna happen first. Vauban, Bogota, Paris, Asuncion Paraguay. And small parts of the United States have thought about this. When will the rest of us get the picture? Limiting car usage is very vital to pollution and will kick it down a notch. And we could wake up in the morning to see a beautiful glimering sky. Shining its blue flourescent light back at you. Not a giant billowing ball of black smoke that will cover your sky. Turning it into a Gloomy, dull patch of depression on your day. That is why you have to lower your car usage every now and then. Or else, it could end up like that. It might end up as in you make the decision. Or your peers make the decision. You really should consider the darger of what might await you when you step into your car. | 3 |
e40991f | Dear Mr Senator, whats the point in voting if our vote may not even count?
In the Electoral college people citizens vote for a slate of electors who then later go and vote for president. However, sometimes it doesnt work that way. The electors are not obligated to choose the president that the people want. The Electoral college is corrupt and needs to go away.
The people of America dont like the Electoral college and want something new. Stated in source 2, " Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore-thanksto the quirks of the electoral college- won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent off voters would prefer a dirt election to the kind we have now." In short, people were so unhappy with the election and the way it ended. people would rather have direct voting than to continure with an Electoral college.
The Electors in the Electoral college arnt always innocent. They can lie, cheat, they go behind the backs of the states citizens and not even vote for who the citizens want. In 1960, segregationists in the lousiana legislature tried to get rid of the democratic electors. They wanted to replace them with people who would oppose John F Kennedy. Sourse 2, number 11 says "In some vein, faithless electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whoever they please..." This means that with an Electoral college, the person you want to vote for may not even get picked cause of lying electors.
Even though the electoral college is a pretty bad thing, there are still a few upsides. The Electoral college avoids te problem of neither candidates getting a majority of the votes. In sourse 3, number 22 (There is no pressure for run-offelections when no candidatewins a a majorityof the votes cast; that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presidential election process, is reduced by the electoral college, which invarable produces a clear winner...) Simply this says that without the electoral college voting can be difficult and stressful.
In conclusion, The Electoral college may not be the best thing for our society, and also can we even trust that our votes even matter? either the Electoral college cant be trusted and it needs to be gone for good, or something needs to change. | 4 |
e40a58f | I argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College,because the Electoral College is process consists of the selection of the electors ,which the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President , and the counting of the electoral votes by congress.
They get to vote who is going to be but, the Electoral College is consists of the selection of five hundred thirty eight electors. The majority of two hundred seventhy electoral votes is requied to elect the president. I think that is not going to be alot of votes of people who is voting for the person who they want. Is just voters vote not for the president , but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. Not always the voters can control whom their electors vote for!
The argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. The American people should consider themselves lucky, because the two thousand fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century. They was lucky that happen , consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people. Perhaps the most worrying thin is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president.
The electoral college is unfair,outdated, and irrational. The arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality, and the arguments against direct elections are spurious at best. There's five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president and those five reasons is certainty of outcome, everyone's president, swing states, big states, and avoid run-off elections. These five reasons have something to deal with Electoral College. Is just some arguments that they have of electoral college, in of defense of the electoral college.
Is just asking if the electoral college works? I think that it doesn't because they have arguments about it ,about they dont get that much votes. And that something is wrong with the electoral college. People should decide on what they want and that voters can control whom their electors vote! It can be a argued that the electoral college method of selecting the presisdent may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying thier state. Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference. | 1 |
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e4131fa | I would agree with keeping the Electoral College because its a fair way to elect the president of the united states. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors the majority only 270 votes is required for the final dessision. Each candidate running for the president has his or her own group of electors but the state law varys how many are selected. The presidential election is held every four yearson the tuesday after the first monday of november.
The states are called districts for example the word state also refers to the disrict of Columbia. You can help choose your states electors when you vote forpresident. Even though your voting for your candidate your really voting for the candidates electors. Most states have a winner takes all system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate.
After the presidential election your govenor prepares a certificate of ascertainment listing all of your candidates who ran for president in your state. The Certificate of Ascertainment also declares the winning presidential candidate in your state at the meeting of the electors in December. Then the certificate is sent to the congress and the national records of the presidential election. | 1 |
e413e1a | I think government should change electoral voting to voting by popular vote. Americas government say every citizens vote counts but they are really only counting the electoral votes. Their was an incident in 2000 called "The disaster factor" according to source 2, this crisis let electors defy the will of the people. Some electors called "faithless electors" refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for who ever they want.
If we have electoral votes we might as well not have popular votes. People spend there time going to vote for the president they feel is better for this country yet, when they get home and watch the polls they realize the only votes they are counting are electoral. Growing up i was taught that every vote counts be voting just to vote for electorals just so they can vote for our president doesn't seem like im voting for myself it seem like they are voting for us.
In source 3 their counter-claim is that we should keep our electoral colleges, they also say "it is the electors who elect the president, not the people. When you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors." basically telling on themselves by saying our votes don't matter or count.
In source 2 they say "the electorsl colleg is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they have no chance of winning" the electoral college isn't fair at all, if it was based off popular votes, candidates will have what it takes to win in any state they want.
In conclusion, in my opinion government should remove the electoral college, It is not a fair system to U.S. citizens every citizens vote should count so it should be abolished. | 3 |
e4185ae | Its a good statement on why they think they should visit Venus but its to risky. Venus might be the closest planet to Earth from density and size and sometimes the closest. The different speeds of Venus and Mars are why we are sometimes closest to Mars than we are Venus. So why not go and explore Mars it would be safer than Venus.
Humans have sent numerous spacecrafts to land on Venus but Venus is all cloudy. Each and every mission was unnamed for a good reason, each of the spacecraft dissapeard after a few hours after the arrival on Venus. Not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in three decades for that exact reason. It gets to hard for humans to study, considering nothing can be there for more than just a few hours and its to dangerous to land there. To land or even to see people cant because the amount of clouds that cover Venus.
On the surface of Venus tempature average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than are own on Earth. Its would be way to extreme for us to even come close to even think of getting down there. And Venus has the hottest aurface temparture of any planet in our solar system although Mercury is closest to the Sun. Venus has a more likely chance of impacting Volcanoes, Powerful Earthquakes, and fequent lighting strikes. But the planet Venus used to be like Earth and it still has some features like Valleys, Mountains and craters.
So it would be way to dangerous to even try to land on venus. They were talking about a blimp like vehichle floating above the surface of Venus, even though it would still be aroud 170 degrees there. It would still be to dangerous what if something goes wrong theres always that what if. And even if it did work theres no possible way scientist could take samples of rock, gas, and plants since there not going to be doen there. They also have slight visibility up there from the clouds since no light can pass through. | 3 |
e41c360 | I think that the author is suggesting that studying venus is worth a pursuit despite the dangers. because they can find different types of species and able to figure out if there is life/organism. And NASA is trying to figure out methonds on how the could have their equipment not damage or destroyed by how hot the temperature their is . And NASA might use silicon carbide for the projects for venus and NASA is going to use a old technology called a mechanical computers the deviced was made in the 1800s and was played a important role in 1940s in world war II.
But the device can caculate only using lever and gears. But the problem of modern technology it has it's pros and cons the pros is that it's powerful, flexible,and quick. and cons is that it's very delicate when it's in on extreme physical comditions.
NASA is going to send people to study venus but the surface might be to extreme for but the the scientist are going to foalt abpve ground like around 30 feet or more but the surface of venus is extremly hot like around 170 degress Fahreheit
(Now that hot) but Earth,venus,and mars are some what close to each other kinda like neighbors.
Venus has it's atomsphere very thick almost 97%of almost pure carbon dioxide blankets now thats a lot. it's challenging bevause the clouds have a high corrosive sulfuric acid in venus and the average temperature is around 800 degrees Faherheit! and the atmospheric to be more scientific the pressure around venus atmopshere is around 90 times greater thaat what we have on earth and the conditions on venus is far more extreme then any other human ever experience on our own planet. | 2 |
e42198c | In the article, the author goes into great detail about the exploration of Venus. He goes into great detail because he wants everyone to know that Venus is a facinating planet worth exploring. Venus has many challenges, but we can go and explore this odd and facinating planet.
The author wants everone to explore Venus because he belevies that the challenges that Venus presents shouldn't hold us back from exploring it. In the article it says, "
Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." The author also presents the readers with ideas on how to approach the studying of Venus. For example, in the text it says, " NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplifed electronics made from silicon carbide have been test in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." He also states that they are other benefits to exploring Venus like learning about the history of the planet. In the text it states, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth."
The author did a very good job expaining why we should study Venus. He has givin lots of good information and evidence supporting his claim. The author has also givin us many reasons on why we should study Venus. Although there are some challenges, we should overcome them and find a way to explore Venus. | 3 |
e42224c | Even though many people thought that the "Face on Mars" was created by aliens, NASA proves differently. When the ship went pass Cydonia the first time and snapped the "Face Like Photo", they realizied it was only a mesa. They wanted to realse the face to the public to get attention that NASA was discovering new things on different planets. When the public got the photo though, most people thought that it was created by aliens, without any evidence. Even NASA told the people that the shadows were a "huge rock formation. . .which resembles a human head. . .formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth", according to the text "Unmasking the Face of Mars". There are some reasons and details that show that NASA was right, it is only a mesa.
When the mesa was released to the public, the "Face on Mars" became a pop icon, inculding in starring in a Hollywood film, appearing in many books, magazines, radio talk shows, and even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years. While all of this was happening though, NASA wished there was an ancient civilization on Mars. When the public started to beleive that NASA was hiding facts about "The Face", NASA went ahead and started to budget the next spacecraft to Mars, the Mars Global Surveyor. When the spacecraft lanched 18 years after the Viking missions ended, the spacecraft first job was to find the "Face like mesa". When the Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, they were able to snap a picture of the face like mesa 10x sharper than the Viking did. What they revealed was a natural landform.
Even when the Mars Global Surveyor snapped the natural landform, people weren't satisfied. The Face on Mars was taken during the winter on parts of Earth. Because parts of Earth was in winter during the picture taking, Mars was cloudier than normal. People thought that because of the clouds, important alien like features could of been hiden. When NASA heard about this, they decided to take another spacecraft to Mars in 2001. This time, Mars wasn't cloudy and we had the technology to see little things all the way down to a small shack. There it was proven it was only a mesa that caused all of the problem for NASA. This is all how NASA proved that the "Face" on Mars was only a mesa with weird-like shadows. | 4 |
e426299 | We should change the Electoral College to election by popluar vote. As its states in the text "The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational." When you vote for a president, your actually voting for a state elector. It is possible that the winner of the electoral vote wont win the national popular vote, but that happens rarely. Over 60% of voters would prefer direct elections.
Voters doesnt vote for the president in the electoral college, they actually vote for the slate of electors. Wouldnt you want to vote for the persident you want except voting for the electors? Its unfair that some states has more representatives than others because if its up to to the representatives big states, such as California has 55 representatives which represent 35 million voters. So as a example if the votes are tied and its up to Wyoming and California to decide who is president, Obama or Romney, and if California representatives voted for Romney, then even if Wyoming representatives voted for Obama, Romney would of won.
They should let us (citizens of America) vote for president except for the electors. In my personal opinion, there would be a higher amount of votes per president. It'll be fair if the president would be elected by the most popular votes. The president that has thhe most votes should be the one who wins it all. | 2 |
e4288ad | "The Electoral College is a process, not a place". It was established as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote elected by the citizens. But people such as Bradford plumer are staring to think even the "best-laid defenses of the system are wrong". While others believe we should keep our "despised method of choosing the President" said - Richard A. Posner. but in all reality the Congress should keep the Electoral College as a way of electing the presidents and its candidates, even though it could use some updating.
The Electoral College should be kept as the way of voting for the President and his/hers candidates. "Despite the lack of democratic predigree, its all pratical reasons, not liberal or conservative reasons." says Posner. A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible, but its not likely than a dispute over the popular vote. Basically its a certainty of an outcome, Now understanding the fact that the electoral college voters vote not for the president, but for the state of electors, and over 60 perecent of the voters would prefer a direct election. Only because the people believe the electoral college is unfair, outdated and irrational to the voters. People can see what the ones against the electoral college are upset about, its true, it is the electors who elect the president, not the citizens who vote. But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominees, and that trust hardley ever betrayed.
Ones against have said "the large states get more attention from presidental candidates in a campaign rather than a small state". They also have said "the winner of the take it all system in each state, candidates dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, seventeen states didnt see the candidates at all, including South Carolina and Rhode Island.. they didnt even get a single ad". But the electoral college restores some of the weight in the political balance that the large states lose in population.
Plumer strongly believes to abolish the electoral college. This year he already expects a close election in which the popular vote winner could lose the the presidency yet again, but the electoral college still has its defenders.. In his arguement he would call the electoral college a "disaster factor". The only disater factor on the electoral college is that its not a modern sense.. When you vote for a presidental candidate your actually voting for a slate of electors. The Electoral College needs to be updated in the method of selecting a president.
In a nutshell, the Electoral College should be the way to vote for the president and the candidates. It could be argued that the elctoral college is unfair and not updated, which is true, the electoral college needs to be updated. But the electoral college was made by founding fathers as a compromise, and it should stay that way. | 4 |
e42cb67 | First of all i would like to say ,"For one aliens are not real at all so thats out of the convo". I aloso would like to know why is it so crazy for mars to have a face like figure on it. We have volcanos weird rocks all type of stuff , even in las veagas its a figure on the mountens that form the face of the devil . Thats way more scaryer then having a face on mars . But still how do u know aliens are even real ? the face could've came fro anything such as mars getting to hotand starting to brake apart . Neverthless, on april 8th, 2001 a cloudless day in cydonia, Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look . they had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees captured an extraordinary photo using the cameras absolute maxuiam resolution . Each pixel was in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 viking photo. | 2 |
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Also we don't work the whole time we also play games like baseball,volleyball, table tennis tournaments, boxing, fencing, reading,whittling,and much more. We visit other towns, we went to China and Europe. We saw Italy and excvated a castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal.
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So you should join for reason like you'll get to places that you would not be able to go. You'll be helping our country and other countries.You don't just work the whole time we play games to. It's made me see the world in a different way and
it may make you see it a diffrent way too. | 3 |
e430494 | Driverless cars seem like a wonderful idea but produce so many threats that it may not be worth it. In my opinion driverless cars are a mistake. Even though the idea is good, it is not very practical at all. Basically self-driving car manufacturers are asking drivers to trust our lives to sensors and blinking lights.
Self driving cars still rely on humans to take over when things get too difficult. Even though google has been testing automated driving systems since 2009 they still can't use them practically on the roads. What happens when you're sitting down using the heads-up displays meant to keep you busy and you start to drift off? Sure the car has noises and vibrations to wake you up, but some people are heavy sleepers that won't be woken up even by all that commotion. And even if it does wake you up it would have to be a sudden, loud noise or movement and that can induce panic causing the driver to swerve off the road. Then you have crashes, lawsuits, and injury or even death.
That is another point that must be addressed. Who is to blame when the inevitable crashes occur? Is it the driver's fault for trusting in the technology, or is it the manufacturers fault for producing systems that arent perfect enough to trust our lives with. And what about drivers who refuse to trust the systems in the first place? How will the cars react against the human element.
Many people are against these self-driving cars and will refuse to trust their lives to robots. Humans are unpredictable and often times don't pay attention to the road, or drive under the influence leaving an element of surprise that the robots have to react to in a split second. And a middle class family or even upper class might be reluctant to spend the money on the cars and systems nescessary to allow for automated driving.
Self-driving cars are not the future. Automobile deaths are decreasing every year as cars get safer and more reliable. There is no reason to introduce a new problem that will just cause more deaths and inevitably end in tradgedy. Humans should not put their lives in the hands of sensors, that's just blind stupidity. The lawsuits, cost, and having to put full trust into a computer should be proof enough. | 4 |
e43638a | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" it talks about how technology today has came to the point where there are making cars that can drive on there own and won't need any human interactions.To me this isn't such a great idea , yea it sounds cool and interesting but then again do you really trust a computer to drive you at 60-75 mph ..
I wouldn't and according to the article some cars have crashed already and to me technology can stop working at any given moment and you'll end up in a car wreck.I'm also against this because why would a person not want to drive there own car?Isn't that the point of having a car?To me putting your life in the hands of technology isn't even something i'll think about doing .
But then again this technology car can be used on road trips and when your getting sleepy it can be quite satisfying to take a quick nap and let the car drive so you won't loose time. | 2 |
e4373b5 | Even though Venus has been said to be uninhabital, the author supports his idea of studying Venus enough that would want to make people study it.
The author uses logos to prove that Venus is worthy of being studied by stating factual evidence from NASA. NASA is the best place to get information of planets like Venus and thats what the author did and he got that Venus is, "[a]t thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans"(5). The evidence would help perssuade people to do it because it shows that Venus used to be exactly like Earth, and we would want to explore the planet and find out anything about what happened there and how we could stop earth from doing that.
In conclusion the author would defently be able to perssuade everyone that Venus would defently would be a great planet to explore and find more physical evidence about Venus and what has gone down with it and how it could of all happened. | 2 |
e4386ac | Should the Facial Acting Coding System be allowed in classrooms with students. I think so, it can be very helpful.It is easy non verbal quick communication. If the students understand the infromation being given. lastly, if they are comfortable with their surroundings.
In the classroom, teachers ussually give long lessosn. Within this time span it is easy for students to lose attention and not focus or just get confused. using the Facial Action Coding System it can show the teachers how well they are teaching. If it shows that the students are not quit getting it, the teacher can have them stand up walk around or go get a drink. In paragrpagh six it says, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored."
"Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication." The Facial Action Coding System would reduce the amount of time it takes to resolve a problem with a student. If you know exactly how they are feeling you can give them what they need to cvhange thier mood. There would not even be communication. You can just look at all his emotions in the system and know how to fix his emotions or change them.
The system can also tell if they are comfortable with the people they are around or what they ae doing. If someone is not comfortable they wont do their best work. So, if you can see that they are uncomfortable with the system you can move them or ask them why they are uncomfortable.For example, paragrapgh five says, "In fact, we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day. For instnace, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." Humans can tell a little bit of emotion but, not 100 percent of it and what to change of it.
In conclusion, i think we should have the Facial Action Coding System in all classrooms. It helps with telling students emotions. Whetther they understand the informatiion being given. Whether they are comfortable with what is going on in the class. Lastly, it gives quick nonverbal communication for quick changes in the class. Yes, the facial Action Coding System should be in all classes for the reasons I have stated. | 3 |
e43f082 | The art of technology to read expression would be valuable for many reasons. Many people like to guss or are unaware of peoles feelings which could cause problem with communication. It alsp could stop some problemd not all but some.
With technology being that advanced to tell peoples felling it could defuse problems or keep them from happining. If someone is feeling sad or depressed and they are read from the computer it could tell a teacher to go help the kid out. By helping the kid or person it could keep tjat person from makig bad decisons. It could help out long term for those students. It could also help a teacher find out how to teach a specific subject the way thsts most beneficial to students. The computer reading emotions could help with that by letting the teacher know a kid is confused about something. A lot of time kids or people in generall don't like to ask for help about some things because it can be imbarrasing or they are just independent people but if they need help and dont ask the system could pick that up and inform the teacher. It could also make learning morre eifficant and interesting. Most people would want to know about how teachers are able to read emotions. | 3 |
e4446a2 | My position on driverless cars is I think they are a good idea because it would make long road trips easier on the driver. I say that because if it notifies the driver when something is wrong or they need to take the wheel I think it would make less accidents happen. It has a sensor for when people need to reverse the car and makes noises or vibrates the seat if the car is to close to something. Also in 2013 when BMW annouced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant", the car can handle driving functions up to 25 mph. But the driver has to keep hold of the wheel so the driver would be alert at all the time if they need to take control.
If we have all this stuff on the car like the "Traffic Jam Assistant" sensors for when the car is in reverse and it alerts the driver when they need to take over the accident rates would drop. People wouldnt be so careless when they drove too. Some people get tired of driving or they just want to be on their phone well when they have the driverless car all those probelms would disappear. They would just have to be alert when the car needs them to take the wheel. Driving may sound fun to new drivers but new drivers can be reckless and careless it would definantly drop the accident rates.
The only bad think about the driverless car would be if something failed than it would be the maufactures fault. It is their job to make sure to alert the driver to take over and make sure everything works. But automakers are continuing their work on the assumption that problems ahead will be solved. They are expecting a car that can be on autopilot 90% of the time we just have to drive that last 10%. In 2020 three different cars are expected to be able to drive all by themselves. Making the driverless car better than they expected. | 4 |
e44478f | Dear State Senator,
I agrue in favor of keeping the Electoral College, for this reason it wouldhave to be the fact that it is a much easier method electing presidental canditates. At times I know it can be unfair to most of the voters around the nation but this way is more easier than it might already seem. Instead of the people voting for which they think is the new president, it would be more likely the electors who elect the president for the state. These slate of electors are trusted to vote for the party's nominee. For some states it wouldn't be just random it be either democratic, or republicians. When having the electors it wouldbe possible to be the winner of the electoral vote but not the national popular vote.
For the president's chance of winning having an Electoral College will exceed his share of popular vote. An example would be the election backin 2012, Obama had 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared 6to what Romeny had because most of the states awarded the eletoral votes on the winner-take-all basis, can get a chance of having victory in winning the electoral vote. But there would be a possible chance of having a tie against the states.
Another reason for this debate would have to be the reason that the candidates themseveles have to get the regional appeal from the states. For Romeny that gave him an opporunity but had little to offer. He no electoral votes in the states that he knowshe will win. For this unsuccessful result, Romeny only had regional appeal there for he was less likely to successed in the southern region. For other states that felt as if their votes didn't count, so there for assumed that Romeny had little interest, leading to the thought of an unlawful candidate. Swing states on the other hand have a chance of making it. The reason for that being is voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign knowing that they are going to decide the election. On avergae they are are thought of as the most thoughtful voters (the result is that they have recieved more information and attention from the candidates.
Electoral Colleges balance the weight in political balance that larger states lose virtue of the Senate. For Obama he won that vote based on the amount of electoral votes he recieved from Florida was 29. Also 3 from the state of Wyoming. In other reasons, larger states recieve the most attention from the candidates than the small states do.
Based on the information I have provided you in this statement, I will concluded that sometimes this method can be a little complicated to most voters in the U.S. For the reason is that most of the smaller states remain unseen by the candidates of the elections but sometimesend up winning thepopluar vote for the candidate they chose. In the beginning in starting the Electoral College was held by our founding fathers of this great nation. There for this methodshouldremain as it should. Thank you for your consideration.
Yours Turely, PROPER_NAME | 4 |
e44552c | There are many advantages to limiting car usage. These examples include, less stress, cleaner air, and more safety. There is less stress because you are always tense as stated in the first source. There's cleaner air because cars are one of the leading causes to air pollution as said in source two. There's also more safety because streets don't have as much traffic stated on source three and four.
One benefit of limiting car usage is that there is less stress. There is less stress because when you own a car you may find yourself tense a lot of the time or maybe all of the time. In source one, Hedrium Walter stated that she was always tense with a car and now she is much happier. Bike riding and walking outside can be relieving without the sound of motors, hearing the children play in the park and breathing the fresh air is much better. In source three Carlos Arturo Plaza said that car free day is a good way to take away stress and lower air pollution. This is another instance of someone supporting limiting car usage because there is less stress.
Cleaner air is another benefit to limiting car usage. Cars are one of the leading factors to air pollution, this is shown in source two. In source two, it states that congestion was down sixty percent in the capital of France afer five-days of intenstifying smog. This proves that limiting car usage provides cleaner air for the enviroment. With cleaner air, there is a healthier poulation which is a benefit to limiting the usage of vehicles.
There is more safety with limiting car usage. If car usage is limited, then there aren't as many car accidents and there is less traffic. Less traffic could also lead to public transportation becoming more efficient and faster. The bus would be able to get to places much faster without other cars being in the way wich would be a benefit to limiting car usage.
Limiting car usage would be for the better of the population. It would cause less stress, cleaner air, and more safety. The usage of cars should be limited for the better of man and it should happen everywhere. | 4 |
e44fdbd | Did you know that there has been an ongoing debate between Nasa and the society? The debate is about whether or not the imprint on mars's platform that appears to be a face, was created by a natural cause or by an alien. I had done some scientific study on the situation myself, being that I am a scientist and I believe that the imprint was indeed made naturally.
some eveidence to back up my claim would be that in paragraph 12 of the article i used as a part of my scientific study is that what the picture actually shows is the martian equivalent of a butte or mesa. This reminds another scientist named garvin, of the middle butte in idaho. A middle butte is a lava dome that takes form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the face on mars. This is proof that the imprint was made naturally and not by an alien because lava domes are made naturally which is what the face on mars is.
In conclusion, my opinion is that the face on mars was made naturally on the platform. I have done research on this very subject and i am positive that my hypothesis is right. | 2 |
e45168f | Introducing driverless cars to today's society would be a very big step in technology. Though it would be a big step, it would not be a step in the right direction.
They have yet to create a car that can fully operate on its own. there are too many sensors needed in order to safely use a driverless car, such as video cameras mounted near the rearview mirror, automotive radar sensors, and a dubbed LIDAR. With all of the sensors needed, one could stop working while the car is in motion putting the passenger in danger.
Conflicts between the users of the driverless cars and the manufaturers would be in presence often. The user of the car may often find problems that he or she cannot fix themselves and would have to spend a lot more money to take it in to get fixed. The users might also come to a stituation where the car is in condition to where it cannot get fixed and then have to buy a new car, causing thaty person to spend more money.
Putting Driverless cars on the road will put people in more danger. Users and manufacturers will not have a trustworthy relationship and people would spend more money than they do on regular cars. | 2 |
e458750 | Fake Face
In 1976, in the mission control room, the scientists founded something eerie on Mars, there was a human face on it! Many scientists said that it was just a Martian mesa, but many people still stuck to their primal thoughts instead of the scientists' well-educated minds. Scientists stated that the face was just founded out that it's just a mesa. Also, Earth have a similar structure as the "Face". And finally, if scientists discovered extraterrestrial life on Mars, what will prevent them from talking about the upcoming major event in scientific history. Many conspiracy theorists may state that this "Face" is a clear evidence that there are life on Mars. But how could there be life on Mars just judging that there is a landform that looks like a face? Therefore, this states that Mars don't hold life.
In Mars, there are many landmarks, canyon, mountains, and, of course, mesa. Life on Mars would be impossible due to harsh weather going down below freezing, and absence of liquid form of water. Then how could a creature make a monument that is two miles long without getting burned, frozen, or starve? With these harsh environment we can conclude that nothing can create this except that it got created naturally. With these reasons, we can conclude that this "Face" cannot get created by extraterrestrial lives.
Furthermore, Earth also have similar landforms as Mars. In the Western America, there are hundreds of butte or mesa. Mesa is a structrue that consists of elevated area with a flat top. Scientists say that the "Face" is just a mesa. In fact, a lava dome mesa that have similar quality with the "Face" that is located on Mars. Also, human brain is linked to analyzing faces. When you go to a sightseeing area, you may see some rocks that are shaped interesting, or during your way to work, you may see many non-human objects that looks like a face. So how could a structure that is present on Earth be a proof that life exists on Mars? In conclusion, Mars cannot hold life that many peoples believe.
And finally, scientist would not keep a vital discovery as a secret. Many space-related articles state that discovering life outside of Earth would be recorded as a major event in history. And if a scientist discover an alien, then he or she would be rewarded tremendously. Will anybody tries to prevent this "once in a lifetime opportunity" probably not. Also, scientists would be delighted for an advance in technology, they would not leave the aliens alone, they would attempt a communication to the aliens and try to learn many things about their life. Consequently, this shows that aliens don't exist in Mars.
Some may say that the "Face" is a clear example to show the life on Mars, and that these creatures created this landform as a sign or as an art. However, with art or sign, they would live near the structure, but there are no sign of a life around the area. Also, it is not reasonable to believe what the conspiracy theorists are stating. They do not have clear evidence, they are just following their primal thoughts like a primitive life. Clearly, it is not wise to believe the conspiracy theorists over the scientists in NASA.
All in all, this proves that life cannot survive on Mars. The "Face" is proven to be a mesa that is common on Mars. Also, there are similar landforms in Earth called as the lava dome mesa that have very similar properties with the "Face. And finally, scientists would not attempt to keep this amazing discovery as a secret on their own but share with the world instead. It is unwise to trust yourself and not the others to make you well informed and educated. Should we spend our time, money, and our thoughts on the devious, sycophantic conspiracy theorists who don't know what they're saying? | 5 |
e45d84b | wat i think abou drivless cars, i dont think we should have them and i think we should beacause its not fun haven someone drive you around all the time and how much would we ahve tp pay but the eldery could ude this a advantge and there would be fewer recks less people off the road. but it would be dangerous wat if a storm comes wat would the google cares do keep driving or wat or when kids are getting offf abus would the cars stop and just last week a google car got in a wreck how safe are these cars really and thhey say they been around since 1950 so why are they getting in wreacks im a tenneanger and i dont want someone driving me around i want my own car so i can say i havee the best car .but why are they motion how can they ssee the whole road , it doessnt add up wat are traffic cops gonna due put people out of there jobs then peoplw wolund be out of a job
and how would people pay for these the wealthy yeah but even the poor have cars and the pay taxis so who rally coul ddo it
so i dont think we should have cars like that just for the eldery thats all we should have them for and no i dont want the eldery to just ride in them ethier but they have to have a way to get ouround and its hard for them but it is a sekf driving car so thtas my postive and negative | 2 |
e45e3ee | In "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author gives examples of both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. The article has more convincing exaples of negative aspects of "driverless cars". "Driverless cars" are something that should only be seen in movies.
"Driverless" cars can only drive under certain conditions, so why pay extra money for a car that can only do basic things when you can do them and more yourself. According to the article,"The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. In fact, none of the cars developed so far are completely driverless. They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents."
Why would anyone want to go 25 mph in a 30, 35 or even a 45. People already complain about how slow traffic is. ow about getting to work in 10 minutes with out traffic in a "driverless car", when it only takes 5 minutes with traffic in a regular car. The "driverless cars" are not really driverless all they can do is steer, accelerate, and brake, but the driver still has to do every thing else. Is the "driverless car" really worth wasting money that was earned by working hard? Americans are already struggling to find money, are they now just going to be broke because everyone wants a "driverless car".
We have laws for a reason, why would we change them just because someone watched back to the future where they had flying cars? The car manufacturers believe that states are going to overide the laws just because California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia have passed a new law were "driverless cars" are only limited. Laws are put in to place for a reason, this particular law was put into place because no one really knows if "driverless cars" are safe. The text states, "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that saftey is best achieved with alert drivers. Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times."
There are so many unanswered questions about "driverless cars". Do we really want to put something out in the streets that we hardly know anything about? Most people are scared when they do not know the basics of something.
According to the text,"If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer." Most people would not buy it if they can buy it get injured in an accident and it be their fault because the car is not safe.
Although the article has more evidence leading to why we should not have driverless cars, some might argue that it is fun to adventure. The "driverless car" would be a easy way out if you do not like driving, and can put enough faith into something you harldy know about. Some might argue that change is good, but change can sometimes be bad.
"Driverless cars" are something that people should not have. Why waste money on something that no one knows if it works or not? Is taking a risk better than being able to assure the safey of everyone? Car manufacturers should get all of the questions answered before they start selling "driverless cars". "Driverless cars" are something that should only be seen in movies. | 4 |
e464b92 | I think tecknology like this would most defintely help teachers understand whats going on with students. most students are good at hiding their true emotions they will come to school with a smile but really they are feeling depressed.
This tecknology would help teachers read their students better and be able to help with any issues. Why would this be good tecknology to have? It would be great because teachers then would be able to prevent fights allowing more students to be at school instead of suspended or expelled, Would make students open up more if teachers knew what kids were sad and which ones were happy.
I think this could be the answer to school bullying because the kids with the most anger are probably the blulliers and the kids who are felling sad or the ones who are felling fearful are the kids who are being bullied.
This tecknology would be very useful for schools, teachers, and students. with tecknology like this I dont see why every school could'nt be a safe happy enviornment where all kids feel safe and content, and even teachers would feel content cause they will understand how every student is feeling during that class. | 2 |
e47176c | In my opinion i think that having driverless cars is a good idea. Many people are very distracted during car rides and do not know how to pay attention to the road. Having drivereless cars will be a good thing for the community becuase it can help nervous drivers get through traffic safetly, help stop texting and driving, and it notifies people of their surrounding so that they will not run into things while driving.
Driveless cars allow people to be notified of their surrounding so that they will not run into things. For example, " GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object." This feauture allows the driver to know when it should stop reversing by adding vibrations to your seat so that they will not hit anything. When the driver feels the vibration it will know that there is an object neerby and it is necessary for them to stop. This will cause less accidents and make it safer for people to drive. The " blind spot" while driving will not longer be a problem while driving because you will now have a sensor that tells you when you are to close to an object making it safer to drive.
A lot of people text and drive or talk on the phone while driving even if they know it is not the safe thing to do. The driveless car has a feature called" In-car entertainment and information system" that allows people to do this while not putting there life in danger. The text states, " Some manufaturers hope to bring in car intertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over- something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone" People will have the opportunity to text while the car is driving but as soon as the car is in need of the driver it will take away the feauture so that the driver will not be texting while driving so that will not be putting their life or other peoples life in danger.
The driveless car has a "Trafic Jam Assistant". Some people get really nervous while driving in traffic causing them to get overwhemled and maybe even cause an accident. The " Traffic Jam Assistant" can help stop that by helping get through traffic safely. For example, " Traffic Jam Assistance .. The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure that the driver keeps hold of the wheel." This feauture will allow drivers some assistance getting through traffic jams. Going at 25 mhp, and sensors that allow it to detect objects near by traffic jams will no longer be a scary experience for drivers.
I think that driveless cars are good for the future. It will help nervous drivers get through traffic jams easily, notify people of their surroundings to make sure they do not crash into things, and help stop texting and driving accidents. People live busy and hectic lives and sometimes driving under stress is not safe. The driveless car will help make less accidents for people and a safer driving experience for everyone. | 4 |
e471f5a | My position on the arguement is, no, we shouldn't have self driving smart cars. The only reason we would have self driving cars, is to please the wants of drivers now days. People would get worse, and lazier at driving from lack of experiance. The self driving cars are not fully functional either. The cars need to be equipped with hundreds of sensors, and maps that would cost a great chunk of your money too. So, by the time Your finished with the making of the car, it would not even be worth it financially. The self driving car would be a mistake if it does get street legality.
There is no need for self driving cars, unless the people want that luxiory. The is not a fuction that the self driving car can preform that, us as humans, can not do ourselfs. The technology that we have in modern day cars, is almost as far advanced that we need to go, with the exception of fuel efficienty. The manufactures say that the dr0iver should stay alert at all times when they are in a self driving car in case of an emergency, but if we all have self driving cars and are not constantly testing ourselfs on our driving abilities, then how do we know that, when the time comes that you need to take over, that your diving abilities will be good enough?
The self driving cars are also still in the making of being, self drived. For a nessary self diving car, it needs a plethera of sensors and receivers. By the time manufactures do get all of this jammed into a small compact car, the price would be so outrageous, that is wouldn't be worth your money. So, in the making of the self driving car, it would be easier and cheaper to buy a manual car.
The cars themself would be financially irrlogical to produce. An estimate price to buy a brand new, compact car, is about $35,000. Thats just for the car itself. The sensors and receivers that the pland to put on the car, would skyrocket the price of an adverage compact car. Not only that, but im assuming that the cost of labor to make those cars, would also bring up the price. At the end of the day, your paying an extra $10,000 just so you dont have to touch the wheel. Your brain may say yes, but your pocketbook is saying no.
Those are the reasons why self driving cars sould not be allowed to be legalized on the streets in the United States. Not only would they cost more, but they could also Make your driving skills get worse. America should just stay with the tradititonal manual driving cars. | 4 |
e476e48 | The unmasking the face on Mars is not a real face. As much as we wish here at Nasa that it was and there was an ancient civilzation on Mars so our budget would be higher but it is not. It is a natural landform, kinda like the Middle Butte In the Snake River Plain of Idaho. We have check mulitple times since there was a little haze in the first photo but we do not fly over it often. It took 18 long years to get to the bottom of this and it is simply just a natual landform. We are certain.
When we finally released the image we titled it "huge rock formation." It cause huge attention to Mars which we were indeed greatful for but in the picture it was formed by shawdows giving illusion of the eyes, nose, and mouth. "Face on Mars became a pop icon, was in books, magazines, radio talk shows, and was the talk of grocery store check outlines for the next 25 years. You might think since we found that landform on mars it means there is life on Mars but that is information we do tnot want to reveal at the time. There is just no way that that was created by aliens but here at Nasa we wish it was. As you can now see it is not.
I understand there is a lot of theorist that ssy it was created by aliens but the truth does not lie and that we did not take the pictures at the right time because it was cloudy but once again we went and took more than one picture to make sure we were postive. We thought at the begginning what you did but there was factors that show it is not. We felt it was important because of the tax payers and to get the bottom of it and after 18 long years of questions we finally know it is just a ladnform | 3 |
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