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18c9ed8 | I support driverless cars to an extent. Driverless cars seem like they could help out a lot, but as paragraph nine states, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault---the driver or the manufacturer?"
That's a good question too because the driver wasn't expecting for the technology to fail, but the driver should have been ready anyways.
I enjoy the things that current smart cars do like stopping for you because it can sense the environment, but if we rely on smart cars too much it can be a problem. For example if we would rely on smart cars too often there are chances where we expect a certain thing that the car can do for our safety, but it ends up malfunctioning and causing an accident that could be deadly. I think we should stick with driverless features, but not rely on them because you always need to be ready just in case they do malfunction. It can be very deadly if you completely rely on your driverless car.
I agree with parargraph eight in it's explanation of texting and driving because many people text and there are many accidents every year due to texting and driving. In the paragraph the text states that, "Such displays can be turned off intantly when the driver needs to take over---something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone. In this way, the in-car system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big concern."
I find this to be very helpful for someone who texts and drives, it could possibly lower accidents caused by texting and driving. It could be very helpful to people with emergencies too where they have to respond immediately to a message, but they're driving, if they have a smart car they can let it take over for a small moment to answer the text message.
I'm going to refer back to paragraph nine again about laws being affected by driverless cars. In paragraph nine it states, "Presently, traffic laws are written wih the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars."
New laws will have to be made in order to make driverless cars legal and tht could be a problem because of all the work that is put into creating laws anyways. It could cause a confusing mess with the law system and driver's license tests would have to be remade to fit the requirement of driverless cars. Safety laws would also be affected because of the malfunctions that could happen with driverless cars as I talked about above.
As I said before, I agree with driverless cars to an extent. There can be positive effects of driverless cars, but there can also be negative effects too. I feel that we need the option to have a driverless car, but still rely on yourself to drive it and only use the driverlees option when necessary. | 4 |
18cbfcc | Dear State Senator,
You should keep the electoral college vote the same without the popular vote because the winning candiate's share of the electoral college invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote. Aswell as the electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no canidate receives majority of the votes cast.
To begin, the reason is that the winning candidate's share of the electoral college invairably exceeds his share of the popular vote. for example in the 2012 election, Oboma received 61.7 percent of the electoral votes compared to 51.3 percent of the popular votes. A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is very possible like the total number of votes-538-is an even number, but it is highly unlikely. It is less likely to have a dispute over the popular vote but it is more likely to have a dispute over the electoral vote. In 2012's election voters in toss-up states are most likely to pay close attention to the campaign- to really listen to the competing canidates- knowing they are going to decide the election. Causing the popualr vote to go up. When we as a community should not want to president be chosen by a popular vote but by the electoral vote, it is only fair!
Also, the electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no canidate receives majority of the votes cast. For example, Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had only a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes, while winning the majority in the electoral college. Did you know that there is someone from a small state and they only get three electoral votes. Well, they are not treated equal and only the large states get more of the attention from presidential candidates than a small state ever will.
It can be argued that the electoral college method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state. You should keep the electoral college vote the same without the popular vote because the winning candiate's share of the electoral college invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote. Aswell as the electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no canidate receives majority of the votes cast. So I'm going to leave you with this. What will you choose? The popular vote of the electoral vote? It's up to you not.
Sincerly,
An american Citizen. | 3 |
18d08e8 | The face-like structure found on mars is just a natural landform. It looks like landfroms we would find on Earth and the photograph we took in 2001 says the same thing. Consider the following reasons why this landform was not created by aliens.
First of all, the landform looks like a mesa or butte from the American West. Jim Garvin, chief scientist for NASAs Mars Exploration Program, says "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, says Garvin. Thats a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." The author of this article says, "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesalandforms common around the American West." The Face is not made by aliens. It is just a landform the happend to look like a face.
Second reason is this. The landform that looks like a face is the same as the other matian equivalent to buttes of mesas. There are other mesas on Mars it just happens that this one looks like a face. If you look at a 1976 Viking 1 photograph of the Face on Mars, you see there is another mesa or butte below the Face. This mesa or butte has no special form or image. It is just another mesa or butte. The Face is not made by aliens. It is just a natural landform the happend to look like a face.
The last reason why the Face was not made by aliens is because in 2001 NASA took a new, clear picture that shows the landform is not a face. In 1976 the Viking 1 took a photo that looked like a face. This is where the idea of aliens making the Face came into play. In 1998 a Mars Global surveyor (MGS) took a picture that did not quite look like a face but did not quite look like a nature land form either. It convinced some it was natural and some still believed that it was made by aliens. The author says, "Nevertheless, on April 8, 2001a cloudless summer day in CydoniaMars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look...What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesalandforms common around the American West." The picture of the Face from the MGS in 2001 convinced most people that this was really a natural landform and the Face was just a coincedence.
The Face found on Mars is not made by aliens. It is a natural landform called a mesa or a butte. The picture of 1976 is misleading and out of date. The newest picture taken in 2001 shows the real, updated version. The landform is a mesa not an alien made creation. | 4 |
18d261d | In Vauban, Germany, the citizens are not allowed to own cars and if they do, they're parked on outskirts of the city or in garages at the end of their developments. The citizens walk and bike ride places, and they refrain from using their vehicle as much as possible. Overall, people are happier. They're getting more exercise and are being able to enjoy the outdoors and communicate with eachother more than if you were passing your neighbor in your car. It leaves the streets safer for the children and creates a more family-centered environment that the rest of Europe is starting to experiment.
Maybe your idea of a family centered area is one of spread out houses with private garages and cars but we can also create that by doing away with vehicles and removing them from our environment.
In Paris, vehicles were banned for a period of time because the of smog content in the city. If citizens did not comply to this order they were to be fined and your vehicle could be impounded. The increase use of motorized vehicles by mass pollutes cities and makes it unsafe to breath the air. Hybrids, plug in cars, and vehicles transporting 3 or more people were excused from this sudden crack-down on automobile use, but after a few days the French government allowed it to return to the normal use of all vehicles.
In Bogota, Columbia, no-car days are being experimented with. The citizens have been every enthusiatic in participating and overall it has been a huge opportunity for people to get out and enjoy the city on foot, on bikes, or in buses or taxis. Other cities surrounding Bogota joined in the event this year and also enforced fines upon anyone who did not comply to the rule. Business has boom and overall stress and worry is lowered because of the fresh start people get with biking places instead of driving. | 2 |
18d3320 | In the passage " The Challange of Exploring Venus," the author gives his opinion on the topic saying that it would be a worthy pursuit to study and explore Venus despoite the dangers it presents. Venus is the second planet to the sun and it is often reffered to as Earth's "Twin". This would be because of their like size shape, size, and density. Still Venus is not safe for many reasons, altough many scientist believe that it would be great to keep on trying to explore Venus. I will evaluate some of the points that are made that show why exploring Venus is something that we should pursuit and how some of dangers may not allow it.
We will first start of with some of the dangers that Venus holds for any explorer. Venus is very close to Earth and very similar so many would think it would be little more simple to explore, but you would be wrong if you think like this. Venus' temperatures can average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, 10 times more than some temperatures here on Earth. Venus also has clouds of high corrosive sulfuric acid. Now I'm not a scientist but I'm for sure that mean that it can burn our faces off very excessevily fast. In Venus there is also geographic and weather problems like here on Earth, except these arent anything like small rain showers or high winds. These are erupting volcanoes at every corner, powerful earthquakes,and lighting strikes very often. In paragraph 3 the author puts all thuis into perspective by saying " sunch an enviornment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquify many metals."
Now with all these dangers being said there are still many people who want to explore Venus. One of them being the author of this passage. The author gives very good points on why Venus would still be a great pursuit. One of the points that author brings up is that Venus could have once been something similar to Earth, maybe even habitable for us humans. To go along with this in paragraph 4 the athor states "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely in oceans and could aave supported various forms of life, just like Earth." This shows that Venus could have been as good as Earth many many years ago and that maybe their still is a chance that it is. This is a great point that really supports exploring Venus because for many years now NASA has been looking for a planet similar to Earth.
Another great point the author bring up to supports his ideology of pursuing to explore Venus altough many dangers is that we have found many new ways to explore it. The authors states some ways to explore Venus without sending a human to Venus with the technology we have now and still be safe. In paragraph 5, the author says " Imagine a blimp-like vechicle hovering thrity or so miles abovethe roiling Venusian landscape.' This shows that we have an idea to send a vechicle to Venus but not touch the ground to get information about Venus without the vechicle being destroyed. This helps the authors point a lot because now it shows we do have the innovations to explore Venus a bit better. There would be a little problem with this and that would be that we wouldn't have much samples of rocks, gas, or anything else.
In conclusion I do believe that the author makes very good statements about why it would be good to keep pursuing the exploration of Venus. Venus does withold many dangers but everyday we are coming up with new techonology to make our lives easier maybe we could do the same for Venus. Also, Venus is could hold some very important information to us about how other plantes could be habitable by us and how this could be possible. The author got my attention from the start and never lost it, he used good facts and stats to backup his points, and thought us ways that Venus could be important to more than just astronamers and scientist. | 4 |
18df808 | I vote yes that we should keep the electoral college in. Its easy to do because you don't have to count them up yourself. I facts that these four guys even like it (Richard Nixon,Jimmy Carter,and Bob Dole).
Do you know over 60% of voters would prefer voteing direct election? We need more people to vote the more voters the better it will look,we don't need to beat aound the tree. This make people feel better to vote then doing it another way. So want u like you vote to go right in so you know your vote count?
The only con of doing this is we don't know who did it. You want think that really matter but it does because some can cheat for somebody. The state legislatures been picking electors since 1960. In Kennedy days when he was running he got cheated out his vote,so he lost but they done fixed all that things going well.
This is five reasons the keep the method of voting like that.#1 fact there is a certainty of outcome by that i mean it show the popular votes. In 2012 Obama received 61.7% vote and Romney popualr vote was 51.3%.#2 is he/she have to be everybody president. He/she can't play sides like her cant just do the most for the south havt to be fair fot all of them.#3 swing states by sayig that the winner-take-all. So whoever win they take it all the awarding and everything else.#4 big states with big states the elsctoral collegethe balance all it out by the popualr votes. So it compare as a small states so u bout say its even. Last #5 it can stop and avoid run-offs when Nixon and Clinton was running it was a tied at 43%.
So do you understand where i'm coming from with this. So keep it easy just let the electoral college stay around. If it was left up to you will you keep it around because i know i will. Thats how i feel bout it even know it want never mean nothing. | 2 |
18e24eb | I am now going to tell you what i think about technology reading emotional expressions of students in a classroom here ar the three things I'll be talking about, first what i think about this idea, secondly do i like this idea and thirdly if this will be valuable for teachers in the future. First i personally think that this idea is great because people can know what facal expression a persons has just by a simple computer and i think that's very cool "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Hung predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like and effective human instructor". Secondly i really like this idea because a computer can structure a 3-D model of your face and move your cheek bones to make you smile, squint your eyes, and show teeth also when your angry move your eyebrows, close your lips things like that "Eckman has classified six basic emotions happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness- and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscle. For example above your eyes, raise your eyebrows when you're surprised, around your mouth tightens your lips to show anger". Finally this can be very valuable for teachers in the future because teachers can use that computer that reads emotional expressions on his/ her students to see their facial expression and tell what they are feeling this could help the teacher by making her class less boring, doing more avtivities, explaining more the lesson so students can understand and be less confused "you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face. Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, ect". This shows that technology is coming more advanced each year and it will be improving also technology can help in alot of things that could be very benificial for some people and other things like construction, health, school and information. | 3 |
18ed7e6 | The technology of Facial Action Coding System is valuable in classrooms."According to some new vomputer software that can recognize emotions." The software would be valuable to see and calculate how someone is feeling so someone could either help if the person felt happy or sad by their facial expressions."The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscle in the model move just like human muscles." This ecplain how it calculates the facial structure in order to procees your emotions.
Next, " the facial expressions for each emotion are universal," observes Dr. Huang, "even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression." The machine processes the use of an individuals facial features to tell emotions. The text states as well" in fact, we humans perform this same impressive"calculation" every day.For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is felling simply by the look on her face." This tells how we as people
look at the expressions people make
inference how they feel and guess their emotions.
"The Mona Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face while it show how much this computer can do." The machine has the abilty to look at someone face and be able to to tell human emotions."Your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile.The amount of technological advances this machine has is greater than the human eye and an average computer to be able to decode the facial expressisans made by people.
In conclusion, the machine is able to analyze "six basic emotions-happiness,surprise,anger,disgust,fear,and sadness. The machine is able to do this because it was created by " Prof. Thomas Huang,of the Beckman Institute for advanced science at the University of Illinois, working in collaboration with Prof. Nicu Sebe of the University of Amsterdam." | 3 |
18f3009 | I am for the value of this technollogy to read students emotional expressions. To start off with I think this would be a. good idea because it says in the article "for instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling by just simply by the look on there face." This proves you can probably tell how one of your friends are feeling by just a expression on there face but my point is this that the technollogy can tell what emotions youtr friend is actually feeling. This would be helpful because sometimes you ask a friend what is wrong and they just say nothing but you know something is wrong by the way they are acting and this technollogy will help with that because and can tell what emotions they re actuallyu feeling
In addition, this technoollogy would also be a positive because you can know when anyone is happy,sad or frustrated. For example it says in the article "imagine a computer that knows when your happy or sad. For exampe, if you smile when a web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow, but if yyou frown, the next ad will be different.'' This shows that you can tell how someone is feeling just based on if they smile or frown. Personally I am against this because I would love to know what everyone is feeling if they asre my frien oir not and know the real reason why they are acting the way they are no matter if they are sad or happy.
In conclusion, I am for this technollogy to read students emotinoal feelings because i would like to know how everyone is feeling and acting the way they are. For instance, what if it is a friendand no matter how close you are they will not t ell you if they are upset or happy and if you had this technollogy you could tell what they are feeling because they could lie and say they are not feeling anything which then this technollogy could then help with that. | 3 |
18f621f | I think we should get rid of electoral college because its not fair that some of the larger sates get more votes than the little states and its also not fair that some states are a win and take all state, it also dosent make sence that if you are winning the popular vote you still have possibality that you could lose the campagin. the other the thiing with electoral collage it can a tie the house of represntative gets to pick and they aare most likely to vote for the vice presidant. On paragraph 13 it says that "the electoral college is still un fair to voters because of all the winner takes all system" so that would hurt the chance of the person running there campaign there because they know there not gonna have achance winning that state so they dont even try to campaign there, also on paragrahph 23 it says that "voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preferance rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election" i also think the way of electoral votes is an outdated methothed of voting and should let the people have more power and actually count for the person they want to win. | 2 |
18f7fc7 | some people believe that the face on mars is and alien artifact, i believe it is just a landform. there isn't enough evedance for this statement to be true. Although it was a cloudy time on mars when the first picture was taken i can see why people might think it is and alein artifact. But what you are accualy looking at is a mesa with weird shadows on it that make it look like a face. if you look at the picture from 1997 then at the picture from 2001 you can clearly see that their isnt a face. When the fist picture was realesed to the public LOTS of people sthought it was a face. so what do you do if everyone was saying it was an alien artifact? you would probably believe them. some people believe the face on mars is and alein artifact, i believe it is just a landform. | 2 |
18f8ef2 | Discussing the face on Mars. Well the face on mars is fasinating picture that the spacecraft took. People say it looks like a face, and that it was created by Aliens, but it really didn't. What really happen is that its called a Martian mesa, and that it's common around Cydonia, only that there was a very unusual shadows that had people thinking that it's a face. And if it was really why can't man go on that planet to see if its a real face. It's because it not real and they just want people to think it's real by having it on Hollywood films and other movies. The government would have never allow this important information out to everybody because the world would go crazy that their is a new planet, and aliens are on that planet. it would have people thinking such as if they were gonna try to attack us and crazy stuff like that.
Another fact about this is on April 5, 1998 Mars Globbal surveyor flew over Cydonia and snapped pictures of the intresting planet to see what was there. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team revealed that there were no aliens monument after all. And that's why the Face of Mars isn't what they say it is. | 1 |
18f90f1 | The electorial college is not what the people want. Isn't this the peoples country, govorned by the people for the people. The eletorial college is good it has our vote in it too but the other half is guys who have great degrees and are all smart wearing suites and decideing what the think is best. There not really thinking about the farmer and what all he does and his troubles. And with the electorial college your not voting for the president your voting for the electors that he has in your state. Also you cant even control who your elctors vote for. The electors can defy the will of the people and thats not what the people want.
The electorial college is unfair to voters,canidates dont spend time in staets were there realy a head or behind just in the tight race states trying to win thos votes. The eltorial college is who wins in your state and thats who gets the votes. You could put votes together with other states and see who has it. It is the peoples choice not the govornments. We need what this country wants not what the govornments wants we are a body. We are a democracy not a dictatorship where the govorment controlls us. We have rights, its a popular vote for everything else why can't the presidential election be a popular vote that way we can speak about what we belive in. The american dream! The farmers and the store owners the ones who break their backs for us all its what we need. We can trust our vote, not the vote we give someone else to vote for us.
So let us have what we want and need as great american citesens of the United Staes of America. You and i both know it's what we need. "It's hard to say this but Bob Dole was right:Abolish the electorial college!" | 3 |
18f9457 | Things in life has changed over the years 2018 is a whole new year with many things different then the 1980s for sure. In the past there was no phones or laptops. Now in the present almost everyday something comes out new. There is always a new software here and there. I do not find that a "Facial Action Coding System" is valuable for kids in the classroom.
I do not think that it is valuable for kids in the classroom. I do not think that it is valuable because if kids do not understand they will have a confused look on their face. They will also be the ones to ask questions about what they are confused on. Kids have many emotions but I do not think that it will be able to be hard to tell if they are struggling or not.
They said in the passage that it is a painting "It's the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's Renaissance painting, Mona Lisa." Also in one of the paragraphs below it says that the human face has to have all 44 muscles in the face to be able to show if they are happy, sad, digusted, etc. In the painting how could there be 44 muscles is the real question. You can not paint 44 muscles in all the right spots when not everyones face is the same shape. Having the same size shape of the face and testing people I can see why they would say that you would be happy or sad. This is a painting and there is probably not a single person with the same face as Mona Lisa.
The "3-D" computer model could possibly show all 44 musles in the face but that would be a lot of face scanning because like I said before in my last sentence there could not possibly be someone with the same face shape. How can they test multiple people when those people could have the muscles all over there face. There is simple ones like the "frontalis pars lateralis muscle" which is above your eyes and the "orbicularis oris" which is around the mouth. that is only 2 out of the 44 muscles that they have to scan on a persons face.
If they wanted to test multiple people that would have to have someone who actually knows where all of the muscles are. In the right stop because if you guess the spots the mood can be wrong. I do not find that it should be used on anyone. Human communication is when two or more people talk together. That is one of the most simplest ways to find out if the kids in your classroom does not understand what you are going over with them. Emotional communication is when someone lets out all of the emotions that they have and will show them becasue they will either be mad with a grumpy face on or they will be upset and not smile at all.
I came up with that it is not valuable for kids in the classrooom because I do not understand why there would have to be a software out when the student could just ask a question in class or even ask after class. There's many other things to do then to have to scan the face and have someone point all of their facial muscles out to find out how they feel. Plus there are multiple kids in the classroom that you would have to scan and not everyone has the same facial structure that would be many times pointing out every single facial muscle and finding out how they feel when there are simpler ways to figure it out. | 4 |
18faa4d | Dear State Senator,
I will like to talk about changing the way that we vote for elections. I want to make voting for president based on a poular vote and not the Electoral College system. The Electoral College system is a meeting of electors where they vote for President, Vice President, and votes by the Congress. In the Electoral College system, voters do not vote for the president. Instead, they vote for a slate of electors who elects the president.
For an example of the system, if you were living in Texas and wanted to vote for John Kerry you'd vote for a slate of 34 electors pledged to John Kerry. If the electors won the election Kerry gets 34 electoral votes. The electors can be anyone not holding public office. These electors are picked by the state and can come from different kind of conventions and party's of and by the state. The system can get very confusing, sometimes the electors dont always for who you want to be elected.
I'm asking to change voting to the most popular vote. This kind of voting is based on qualified citizens and they voting for whom ever they please. I like this system because you have a voice to speak and choose the kind of president you like. The Electoral College system is an unfair, outdated, irrational system. This kind of system is not needed in america from me speaking personally.
A word that would descibe the Electoral College system is anachronism. Anachronism is something that belongs to the past and not in the future. I can't see that kind of system being in our lives forever. Elections based on the most popular vote is good system, but us humans take advantage of that too. We have the power in our hands to change the world around us, but don't do it or use it. Either way based on popular vote is a way better system than the Electoral College system and i will like for our country to use that system.
Sincerely, Student | 3 |
1900da1 | The Face that is on Mars was not made by aliens it's just a natural landform. "The caption noted a "huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth" (NASA 1). The Face is not really a face it just looks like a face. The face on Mars is just a natural land form because it's just a shadow giving an illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth, it's just another Martian mesa just that this one has unusual shadows, and NASA took a picture that the Face just looked like a landform here in America.
The Face on Mars is just a natural land form because it's just a shadow giving an illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. "The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars" (NASA 1). NASA is just trying to get Mars attention. NASA didn't take a really good picture in 1976, but then later on they did and they saw it was just a natural landform.
The Face on Mars is just another Marian mesa just that this one has unusual shadows. "Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh" (NASA 1). The Face on Mars just had wierd shadows that made it look like a face. The Face is not an alien artifact it's just a landform.
The Face on Mars looks just like a landform here in America. "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesalandforms common around the American West" (NASA 1). It just looks like a landform in America. The Face looks like Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho (NASA 1). The Face is not an alien artifact it's just a natural landform.
Some people think the Face on Mars is an alien artifact but its not. It's compared to many landforms here in America. The face on Mars in the first picture just had really unusual shadows that made it look like a face.
The Face on Mars just had some unusual shadows that made it look like a face. In a better picture it just looks land a natural land form. The face on Mars is just a natural land form because it's just a shadow giving an illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth, it's just another Martian mesa just that this one has unusual shadows, and NASA took a picture that the Face just looked like a landform here in America. | 4 |
19021fe | Driverless Cars Good or Bad
Can you imagine a time in the future where no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore? Well I couldnt imagine a future without buying cars. To buy a car is what mostly what everyone wishes for. Yes there is no technology coming up and by the years it expands more and more each day, but not because of that means that getting the idea of enventing cars that drive themselves is good.
I am against future cars the drive themselves because first there not even proven all the way safe. These cars can get out of control any day and something bad can happen. In the story it says that states will follow as soon as the cars proved more reliably safe, which means that there not all the way safe. Anything can happen and when the driver has control of the driving they know what there doing. The driver knows if there driving right or wrong, But how will these cars that drive themselves know. Imagine one day the system might not work and the car will automatically fail with the system. These cars are'nt safe and until there not proven safe I am againts it.
The next big reason why I"m against it is all the money there going to watse on these cars just to make them and when they come out. Theres going to be millions possibly millions of dollars to make these cars. Instead of focusing on something like this we can focus on bigger things. We already have cars we can drive we dont need to be expanding and wasting money on things that are'nt as important. Just more tax money coming out of people things will keep pricing up. Theres no point to invent cars to the next level if cars we have now are good enough.
My last reason on why I'm against these cars is the when you drive its freedom. Its a priviledge to drive, and when you drive you feel free. If the future brings cars that drive themselves the freedom of the people will be gone. So bringing cars that drive themselves wouldn't be so great for people who love to drive because they wouldn't feel free. Therefore cars are good just where they are.
Eventhough some may argue that having cars that drive themselves is good for whatever reson they might think, I'm against. So, can you imagine the future were no one needs to buy cars anymore? I couldnt. Theres freedom when you drive. Its good to be able to drive yourself. This is why I'm against "Cars in the Future". | 3 |
190716b | The new technology to read people expressions are valuable to students and to other people. It is helpful in so many ways like if someone is lookin sad and you ask them what is wrong and they say nothin. But with the new technology you can tell something is wrong so you want to help them out . For example your frontalis pars lateralis muscle above your eyes and raises your eyebrows when you are surprised, your orbicularis around your mouth tightens your lips to show anger.
The expressions of how you are feeling are universal and us humans perform this same impressive calculation everyday. And you can tell how someone is feeling by the look on their face and their mood. The mona lisa is really to bring a smile on your face. I think this new technology is good for people so they can get more help and express how they feel just so they can feel more comfortable. If you hold your emotions in to long it is going to be bad because all that energy and is going to make you wanna do something bad that you can't control. This new thing givng you the instructions that encode differnt emotions. | 2 |
190a8d4 | In paragraph seven it says that in 2013 the BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant" (meaning that the car can move but it still needs assestance from the driver) is proof that this Google car is not safe. It says that the driver seat will vibarte when the vehicle is in danger of backing in to an object. But what if the driver is sleep and the car dosn't react in time and not only will the car be damaged but will the driver be ingerd and will the object that was involved in the acedent be damaged.
In paragraph nine it states that "presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." Now they came out with a car that doesn't need a driver (only in emergences). That they still have to come up with some sort of law saying that when in an emergence that ether the driver or the maker of the car will be acconted for.
I think that these cars are not safe and that they put driving at a grater chance for car crashes becase even thow technolagy is improving there are still malfuncutions and the car can stop, run into things, and turn on by its self. The cars are alsoeaser to be hacked and that someone could take over the car. Than that person life is in danger. | 3 |
190c3fe | Dear, Mr./Mrs. Florida state senator
I am writing to you about the Electoral College and i would like to share my opions with you. As we know the Electoral College chooses the president by having 538 electors and the winning president must have at least 270 electoral votes to claim the presidency. States get a number of electoral voters and depending on the size of the state depends how many voters that state gets, bigger states get more electoral voters and smaller states for example Rhode Island get less. The way the Electoral College is set up it seems that the men/women running for presidency would try to get the minds of the bigger states with more electoral voters to choose them so they can reach the 270 mark. It is clear to me that we have done it this way ever since the founding fathers created it. Its time for a change, the Electoral College is out of date and needs to be replaced with popular vote. Lets not forget the 2000 election when Al Gore won the popular vote but lost because of the Electoral College, Al Gore quite frankly should have won, I mean he did have more votes.
The Electoral College is a system that doesnt work, popular vote on the other hand does work. If the United States of America wants a "fair" election then we should give them one with the popular vote. It is simple and easy to understand, the man/woman with the most votes wins the presidancy. Its time to let the Electoral College go bye-bye, the 538 electoal voters need to leave and make room for a more efficeint election. Most Americans are done with the "winner-take-all" style, if we can let the Electoral College go we can have more "fair" elections, not "winner-take-all" elections. Sometimes though even the electoral voters don't even vote for who won that state they also vote for whom they want to be president. The Electoral College is not effitient, in "1968, a shift of just 41,971 votes would have deadlocked the election," and again in 1976 a tie could have happened if some voters voted the other way, in that case they were only a few votes away from a disaster. If we have the popular vote then canidates would try to get everyone from every state, but with the Electoral College some canidates dont even visit a state or a region they know they won't win over. So that means they will try the bigger states or a region they came from with that said its unfair to the voters.
The Electoral College is a good way for the voters within the college to cheat their way into having the candiate they want to win, win. So if this country wants a more fair vote every four years on a Tuesday after the first Monday then we must have popular vote.
I hope you will take my facts and opions into consideration and give it time to think and discuss what you think, but if everyone wants a more fair election I say we give them one.
Thank you for your time, from: a student from a high school. | 4 |
190ca77 | Have you ever heard of the Face on Mars? Do you believe in life on Mars? The Face on Mars was first discovered in 1976, but gained a gargantuan amount of attention in 2001 (paragraph 1). Conspiracy theorists belive that the Face on Mars is bona fide evidence of life on Mars, however this theory is false (paragraph 5). The Face on Mars is a Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa (paragraph 12). This can be proven by understanding that Martian mesas are common (paragraph 2); realizing that in the 2001 photo if something was near the Face, NASA would have been able to see it
(paragraph 11); and acknowledging the fact that the Face on Mars resembles natural structures on Earth (paragraph 12).
First, the Face on Mars is a natural landform because Martian mesas are common. "Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh," (paragraph 2). The fact that Martian mesas are common makes the idea of the face on Mars being a natural martian Mesa more logical. This is because there are more natural landforms called Martian Mesas on Mars than just the Face.
In addition, the Face on Mars in a natural landform because in the 2001 NASA photo, if there was Martian life people would have been able to see it (paragraph 11). "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size," (paragraph 11). "So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" (paragraph 11). This means that no matter what was near the Face on Mars during the photo, people would have been able to see what it was.
Finally, the Face on Mars is a natural landform because it resembles natural landforms here on Earth. "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa--landforms common around the American West," (paragraph 12). The Face on Mars is quite similar to the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho (paragraph 12). The fact the Face on Mars is resemblant to natural landforms on Earth makes it more understandable that the Face on Mars is a natural landform. This is because this lets people know that these types of natural landforms are possible, and that they are even common.
Conspiracy theorists may say that the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars , and that NASA would rather hide this evidence (paragraph 5). However, in the 2001 photo of the Face there was no other evidence of life on Mars (paragraph 11). Also, the Face is considered a mesa which are very common on Mars (paragraph 3).Therefore these peoples' theories are not true.
In conclusion, the Face on Mars is definitely a natural landform. This is because it is considered a Martian mesa which are common around Cydonia (2). Also, the Face on Mars can be justified as a natural landform because if their was any Martian life located near the Face on Mars during the 2001 NASA photo, people would have been able to see it and tell what it was. Finally, the Face on Mars is a natural landform because it resembles natural landforms here on Earth. | 5 |
1911daf | Cars have always been apart of American culture. From the "...birth place of the Model T; the home of Detroit; the place where Wilson Pickett immortalized "'Mustang Sally'"(The End of Car Culture, Rosenthal) Cars and automobils have impacted our everyday lifes from going to the store to hanging out with friends, but car usage has been stedily decreesing and for all the right reasons.
A new movemnent is trending everywhere, it's called "smart planning". It's simple, separate subarban life from auto use. In doing so this movement is going to help out the econdomy and also the enviorment. "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe...and up to 50 perecent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." [empheses on original] That many emissions are horrible for the enviorment and even worse for our pockets, because they're just going up in smoke. New cities are rising and are acctuly trying to adopt this trend by making cities denser, which means that all the stores and your work place are in walking distance. By being able to walk to your local shopping store or favorite move theatre means that you're saving gas, and by saving gas the ecodimey is saving money which will make prices in all the stores and other bussnesses cheaper for the consumer, you!
The infamous smog is not only in Bejing, or the United States, but also in The City of Love. "Paris typically has more smog than other European capitals...[Last] week Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in London..." (Paragraph 17, Duffer) The city is not so lovely as you'd think it would be, but the trend has cought on in Paris! Not only that but it also has been great for the enviorment. "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog...[The smog] rivaled Begjing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world." (Paragraph 14, Duffer)
Most people would think "I could never do that! No one could live like that and still make a living!" Honestly though, it's been doing the city of Bogota in Colombia, a city comprimised of 7 million citizens a favor. They held a event for only one day evey year since the mid 1990s to improve and "...promote alternive transportation and reduce smog." (Paragraph 21, Selsky) Doing this has sparked a revolution of change thoughout the whole city. More people are willing to walk insted of drive to help the enviorment and the place they live in, and the city is giving right back to them! "Parks and sports centers have also bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut trafic; and new restaruants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up." (Paragraph 28, Selsky) Just one day a week could cut down smog and other green house gasses a lot and help our enviroment and the edodomey.
Back in the 1950's people had to use cars to do eveything. From talking to a friend face to face to going to the nearest resturant. But now you can do all of that in your own living room, due to technology that has advanced us to be able to use Facetime, Skype, or Oovoo to talk to our friends face to face using out phone, tablet, or personal computer. And to drive anywhere we need to we have apps the diliver taxies to our houses for us."...the Internet makes telecommuting possible and allows people to feel more connected without driving to meet friends...Likewise the rise in cellphones and car-pooling apps have facilitated more flexiable commuting arrangements, including the evolution of shared can services fro getting to work." ( Paragraph 35, Rosenthal)
Working everyday will effect this because no one wants to miss work. Missing work means less money and creates more stress for the person missing work. By saving maybe $10 on gas that day you're missing out on the $125 you could've made by working, but there's another solution to this also. Car-pool! Even if you're driving the car yourself or you're in the car you're saving fule and money. Once a week you could to this to stop in increes of smog in our enviorment and even help with traffic jams. And without traffic jams eveyone is less stressed out and a lot more happier.
By not using our cars as much, we can help ourselves and everyone aroud us by making a better world that makes it better for our children, or even our childrens' children. We can save money by just taking one day off of not driving. We should limit car use so we can stop car accedents from happening, getting stressed in traffic jams, to helping out the economical heart of the United States, and just to make our world a better place to have fun and thrive in. | 5 |
191623d | Dear, State Senator
I have recently read articles about the electoral vote system currently in place in the united states.
The electoral vote system elects other people, called electors, to vote for the people. They basically vote for president, if you and many others vote for him/her. I believe the electoral vote system is glitchy, outdated, and confusing to some.
The electoral vote system can be manipulated and unfair. The electors can be choosen by state conventions, state central committees, and the candidates running for president. If the president can choose his electors, could'nt he replace the orignal electors for new ones that will guarantee a vote for him. The peoples vote would'nt matter. This situation happened in the two-thousand election when George W. Bush won the election with more indivisual votes than electoral votes. This violates our constitution which states, the government is controlled by the people and allows for change if enough people in the US want it. If you've ever noticed that during the presidential election, candidates don't come to certain states. In the electoral system, each state has a winner-take-all system. When the state goes over their electoral votes, the winner with the most electoral votes takes all of them, while the electoral votes of the opponent gets no votes toward him. This can cause mayhem, the non-counted votes can make a big diffrence in the election. In nineteen-seventy six their would have been a tie if 9,246 voters in Hawaii and Ohio voted the opposing side. The elections come close and without the popular vote which accounts for millions of people in America, we may have had better elections with less debates. The electoral college contains 538 electors, out of those 538 their only 270 are mandatory to vote. Each elector equals each member in your states House Of Represenatives and add two for the senate. California has a population of 35 million and wyoming has a population of 500,000. Wyoming having 5 electors and california having 55. This doese'nt make sense because if a state may have a higher population than wyoming but yet still have less electors. The system is very confusing in these ways causing some to vote for the wrong candidate and others thinking they are voting for the right candidate they believe is true .
The electoral votes are'nt the worst because we are still showing our democracy, showing off Americas greatnest in its government. The electoral vote crisis in two-thousand rarely happens. This situation has'nt happened since eightteen-eighty eight, its a rare occurance. Electoral votes also make the playing field even. If we had popular votes in place, then wouldnt the presidents have a landslide if they went to all the biggest populated states. The electoral votes can allow ties and close elections to happen instead of land slides in many elections.
The electoral votes should be replaced. Even so they even out the playing field and the occurence of rigged electoral votes happen, it still doese'nt make up for the both elections lost in eightteen-eighty eight and two thousand. If we dont change the electoral votes soon, the occurance of electoral vote sabotage will occur more often causing an unfair government to be in place. | 5 |
1917eb2 | Venus is often called the "Evening Star" for being the brighest points of light. It's also the second planet close to the sun. And as it's simple to see from distant, it proved a very challenging place for examining closely.
It's very worthy even though Venus's thick atmosphere is 97% carbon dioxide. But getting through the clouds are worse with them being sulfuric acid as a high danger sign for spaceships to only be there for a few hours. The temperature has scortching heat of 800 degrees fahrenheit and 90 times more pressure than our planet. Venus has impediments of erupting volcanoes, earthquakes, and lightning strikes to anything landing on it's surface. Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may once of been like Earth with oceans and various forms of life.
The Astronomers think it's a good idea to kepp trying to land on Venus even though their spaceships never last more than a few hours and believe there might be various life forms like Earth and some oceans. But Venus is to deadly with acid, scortching heat, and 90 times our pressure that could crush a submarine. Also Venus has some lighting that strikes anything landing on it's surface and erupting volcanoes with frequent earthquakes. Venus also has a surface of rocky sediments with valley's, mountains, and craters under the clouds and atmosphere.
People have tried sending multiple spaceships to Venus but they never came back. It was the brightest "Evening Star" but the most dangerous planet with sulfuric acid atmosphere. Astronomers know the dangers of going to Venus but want think theres life form and oceans like Earth. If anything was to land on it's surface, lightning would strike it and the spacecraft could only last a few hours if lucky. My conclusion to this is that Venus is a dangerous place but I would like to see whats on that planet, and know if there really is any life form or oceans. If so the astronomers might take some life from there adn water to bring and test what it actually is. But they can't send people into acid atmospheres and scortching heat just to land on Venus. | 2 |
191ef7e | As a teacher imagine being able to have more students engaged with a class lesson that they enjoy, this can very well be the future at some point in time with new technology such as the Facial Action Coding System.
The FACS can percieve the emotions of others and send feedback as to which emotions they are feeling which is valuable information within a classroom setting.
In paragraph 6 it states that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,"
"Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor."
This is valuable information as it allows the teacher or instructor to modfiy the lesson so that it corresponds with the students emotion which in return allow for more students to be engaged with a class lesson.
This new technology also allows for the instructor to be able to empathize with a student that may be feeling sad or distrought.
In paragraph 9 it states that "moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may produce them." this means that the instructor can use the feedback to put on a "happy face" to empathize with the students more which means that if you're smiling anyone around you is more likely to smile and empathize aswell.
These are multiple reasons as to why I believe that the Facial Action Coding System in a classroom setting is valuable, not only to the teacher's success, but the students' aswell. | 3 |
191f22e | Imagine this. A world that caused you to suffocate when you opened your house door. No this is not a water world, just the poison-filled atmosphere caused by the doing of the last century or so. Since cars entered the time of modern technology, pollution began. More and more people purchased cars for their own wishes, desires, and/or conviniences that continously added on to the killing of the world. Now go forward in time. We're in the 1960's. This is the time scientists started to understand that the ozone layer began to appear with holes in it allowing dangerous U.V light to enter. This U.V is causing the water to rise, is now one big source of skin cancer, and many different detromental factors that destroy or will cause the destruction of a panoply of environments. All of this due to a good amount humans not having the energy or the will to find other means of transport.
"In German Suburbs, Life Goes On Without Cars." So is the title of a fantastic article written by Elisabeth Rosenthal which shows that even an area with (I like to say) beautiful cars can survive and thrive rather well. Rosenthal is a fighter against the car epidemic, you can say. Rosenthal writes this article explaining how a small part of germany does not need cars to survive. The opposite, in fact; the survival of that little habitat is becoming powerful on the thriving scale. Rosenthal intelegently implements the opinion of a mother of two in this article. The mother, Heidron Walter, states " When i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Now, we can all agree that most moms usually have places to be prevalent to their children. As you can see, Haidron seems to be just fine. Not only is Haidron doing well, apparently, but she is now a source of the rehabilitation of this Earth.
Since we're in the area of Europe, what of the beauty and the capital of the world of love; Paris? Well, according to Robert Duffer's article on the pollution of Paris, there was a small outbreak of smog given off. In the very first sentence, I read a jaw-dropping sentnce that said "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." Looks like the beauty of Paris was lost. Dont' worry though, your honeymoons will still be available in this city, thanks to that partial ban. In fact, if the smog were to become more of a definite factor in the environment, then it would of broke the record in Paris for that particular reason. Sadly, that was not all that was concluded from this observation; ", after five-days of intensifying smog...[The smog] rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world," concluded Duffer. Incredibly, this did not occur due to the fact that cars were simply at the off position, which is a way of change that you and I can easily achieve.
Enough of the safety of the ozone layer, what about your safety in a car? Did you know that the percentage of you entering a car and driving inreases your chance of getting in a car crash? Pretty obvious but you never thouoght of it that way have you? Now, think of this but the statistic will be towards your child/future child. Everyday, a teenager dies of a head on collision. May it be a drinking problem, texting and driving, or a simple mistake, either way, someone has been lost that day. Families lose a big part of them, a future is lost, an education that could've been used one day. Gone. Rosenthal states in her article "The End of the Car Culture" that 23% of young people have stopped driving between the years of 2001-2009. If I was a father, I'd add on to that statistic of 23%, not the other statistic...
You may be a brother, a sister, a friend, a father, a mother, but you are human. As human, it is your responibilty to stop our foe, greenhouse gases and U.V light. The time of gasoline cars have ended and we have entered the era of higher, more environmentally friendly versions of cars. Thes cars are detteriorating the world with malice. Now with the help of all around the world will be much more beautiful. Now, Imagine this. A utopia filled with vibrant colors and vigorously jubilant people on the sidewalks of the world. People without the addiction of cars. People laughing, enjoying themeselves, living, and of course, breathing. | 3 |
191f567 | The passage "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" is a really intresting passage. In the text states, that "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". This shows, that if they have to go somewhere they go walking. Also the street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbiden in this experimental new district on the outskirts of Freiburg.
However, In Vauban's streets are completely "car-free"-except the main thoroughfare, where the tram to downtown Freiburg runs, and few streets on one of the edge of the community. But car ownership is allowed, but there are only two places to park, and is for $40,000, along with a house. And as a result , 70% of Vauban's families do not onw cars, and 57% sold a car to move there. Because when she had a car she was always tense. Also cars causes lazyness to do stuff, and it doesn't keep you healthty. For example, when you walk you stregh your body and and all the parts of your body are moving. But when you use car you sit down and sometimes that can cause a back problem.
Forthere more, all of our development since World War II has been centerd on the car, and that has to change. In Levittown and Scarsdale, New York suburbs with spread-out homes and private garages, were the drea towns of the 1950s and still exert a strong appel. This means, that back then spread-out homes and private garages where the dream towns. In the United States, the Enviromental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities are staring to act, caustiously.
Indeed, many experts escept public transporter serving suburbs to play much larger role in a new six year federal transpotation bills to be approved this year. Also in previous bills, 80% have by law gone to highways and only 20% to other transport. This means that having a car is a really waste of money but its also important to have a car. | 1 |
19234b3 | The challeange of exploring venus
Study venus is a pursuit to dangers, Venus is the challenging planet to humans because of the diffculties. This planet is one of the closest planet to earth which is also dngerous to earth if anything comes up at anything and we do not find a way to overcomme the challenges in venus it might destroyed the earth. this passage explain to that it is called the "earth twin".
" 97 percent carbon dioxide blanketts cover the venus evedn more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in venus atomosphere" venus also have the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system no human can surive carbon dioxide without oxygen it is one of the hottest planetno xspace crft haver ever landed on the ground.
No livingthings lives on this planet if we caan find a solution to this problem we be one of the greatest achievement that human accomplish on earth. we can also make this planet our planetary, venus is one of the most challenging exploring planet on the slolar system.
if we can find a way to overcome this challenges we should be able to over come all other planet on the solar system challegings this we dont have to worry about this earth twin to affect our own earth. i | 2 |
1924ce2 | Is technology a valuable source for everything? In the world we live in now, the year of 2016, we've discovered things that are taking place that would've never even been though of before. And now, the idea of driverless cars has came upon. I don't agree that this is the best idea for us right now. Simply because, it takes away from alot of learning, it'll cause lots of disagreements with individuals and manufacturers, and technology is'nt always dependable.
Driverless cars will take away from learning. In the United States now there are many laws for finally being elgible to drive. Going through the permit policy at the correct age, and then finally your license. Many teenagers have already went through this process, with taking drivers ed, practicing behind the wheel and more. But, with driverless cars it'll lead the growing generation right into what they don't know and you should still know how to drive while in the car, but with no knowledge of that concept, how will that work?
As stated in the passage, "if the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" If there is any type of wrong happening, both sides will make any claim to make sure their not at fault. Factors like money problems and a bad name could occur against the manufacturer, and money situations against the individuals also. No one will want to be blamed, and it could cause so much. There are always lawsuits and situations where it's a company against a citizen.
As we can all verify now, technology isn't always dependable. Starting from phone problems, updating apps, getting into Google, loosing files, crashing, and more. It's never 100 percent dependable. Let's say the sensors seek a problem too late, or not at all, it's the inviduals job to just be secure and take control, then what is the purpose of even having them hold the name of driverless? There so many wrongs that can happen. If a driver is sleepy, and thats her reason for wanting the driverless taxi, and ends up falling asleep, not able to respond to sensors, what happens? And whose fault is it?
All in all, I believe there's not a big purpose or need for this concept right now. There's not, and theres so many reasons why. Taking away from learning, causing lawful conflicts, and the use of not so dependable technology. | 4 |
1926426 | I think driverless cars will be a good idea for the world. Driverless cars would help younger people on driving. Also, It would be better for the economy. Last it would be better on gas as it shows in the text. I have more reasons, but these are my best reason.
Driverless cars would help youngers people on driving because younger people have a higher ricks in getting in an accidents. By them being on their phone to much. For example, if a younger driver gets a text while driving. Nine out of ten of them would read the message and send one back while driving. which could lead to a accident. Also, younger drivers are not prone to their surroundings.
Having driverless cars would be better for the economy. By the price of the cars being more than a regular car now of days. Parents of children would buy the cars so, their children will be safe getting place to place. Every parents wants their child safe at all times. Also, it could help the USA from being in dept with other countries. Last it would help the economy by having a increase in the market.
The driverless cars would be better on gas. In the story "Driverless Cars Are Coming'', it talks about how the price of the driverless cars would be half the price of it now. The driverless cars would run longer without having to be refilled. The cars would get places that are far faster than a regular car because a regular car would have to stop more to fill up their tanks. Leading to them having to spend more time to get to their locations.
That is why I think driverless cars would be better than regular cars. They would be better for younger drivers. It would help the economy better, too. Also, it would be better on gas. There are many more reasons why driverless cars are better than regular cars. These are my most important reason why driverless cars are better. I hope you agree. | 4 |
192755f | Voting time is here again and its time to cast your vote for the president, but do you know what really happenes when you vote? See the United States Constitution has this process set that the election of a president consists of the selection of electors and each state has electors based on population. Citizens vote for the electors canidate and the elecotrs take the majorety of the votes wheither it be Demicratic or Republican and all votes of that states electoral representatives vote for the states winning president. Crazy right? But is that the most effective way to this and if it is not the why shouldnt we chage it to something more fare and equal and not leave it up to some special elecorss. Leave it to the people to decide who we want for our president.
The United Staes is a fairly new country compared to others around our world yet we have some pretty advanced technologies and some really brilent ideas but when our founding fathers made the Constitution I dont think they made the best choice. Even some of our previous presidents like Nixon, Carter, Dole, Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO have said we need a better way to elect our presidents. In 2000 Al Gore had won the popular vote and was set on presidence but did not win thanks to this outragious system and lost the electoral vote and lost his shot at precendence. If you win the popular vote doesnt that mean your the fan favorate and the citezens want you to be president because the majority voted for you. During a pole shortly after Gore lost people were asked if we should keep the system we have now or chang and 60% of the people asked said that we should change. Cant you see the people are cying our for help and asking to change the system so someone like Gore doesnt get cheater again.
When campaining as a president shouldnt you try to visit every state to try and increase yo popularity? Well sadly it really doesnt work like that with this current system you see some presidents lets take Obama and Romney as and example. Some staes wont see the canidates at all because they "know" they will win the electoral votes. Obama in the 2012 election never visited some staes like Ohio or Romney and flordia because they knew that the majorety would vote for him and he would win that state. Now how is that fair. If it was up to just a popularity vote each president campaining would go to every stae trying to get as many voters as possible instead they say eh i will skip that state because I will get the majorety any ways. On top of the the electoral system makes smaller states less important because it is set up where more population means more votes. That to me is saying well you a small state so everyone in that stae you mean way less that this other state. California, Texas, and Flordia are the most campianed staes in the US because they have 55,38,29 votes respectivley. now places like Arizona, Ohio, north and south Dakota have six, three, three, and three respectivley. how is any of these people less important adn less aluable the the ones in California, Texas or Flordia.
I still cant find a reason why we should keep this sytem around and the more I think about it the more I want to get rid of it. The electoral college is taking our power as US citezens our of our hands and defies us from voting for the president and in turn makes us vote for special offece people. I say leave the electoral system and change to a popular vote wins presedency. This puts power where it should belong, in the hands of the citizens. Who else is with me on abanding the old way and taking a new step in the direction of power to the people. | 4 |
192c7f5 | The new technology called Facial Action Coding System enables computures to identify human emotions. The process begins when the computer contructs a 3-D computer model of the face. The fourty-four muscles in the model must move like human muscels. Dr. Paul Eckman creator for FACS calculated the emotions of Mona Lisa. I do not believe that FACS is important for the students to learn about.
This technology is not important to what is going on to in the class room or in todays world. The students in highschool have other things they have to be getting ready for like graduation. There are standards into graduating on time or even early and I am sure learning how to caluclate emotions from a computer and pictures is not one of them. The technology is in the path of achievment if the activity is in a progam by its self and not in the high school or middle school. Some students are pushing the edge to gradutate as it is. This will be something they will want to do and they cant if they are behind in their classes. These students already have way more technology on their hands now adays than they should. The technology is upgrading each day. FACS is not something that would help someones career with in the futrue. School's should be about helping kids get ready for the future. They should not make everything the students be on the computers. Some people want to contain the knowledgement about the expresstions on other peoles faces than gradution than they should take a class about FACS out side of school. The kid in elementry are not going to know what paper and pencil's even are if we keep coming up this technologys like this that we dont really need. I would not want a computer telling people, or evem myself, what mood i am in. I know what mood I am in. I would not want my parents to know if I was mad because I would be mad at them and not want them to know. If people wanted you to know their feelings they will most likely tell you how they feel. The Facial Action Coding System is the waste of a schools money. The money that is put into the FACS is way more than a school could possibly They could use the money to fix something around the school. The FACS is just way out of hand.
The new technology called Facial Action Coding System enables computures to identify human emotions. The process begins when the computer contructs a 3-D computer model of the face. The fourty-four muscles in the model must move like human muscels. Dr. Paul Eckman creator for FACS calculated the emotions of Mona Lisa. I do not believe that FACS is important for the students to learn about. Students should focus on getting a diploma, rather than knowing someones emotions through a computer and picture. | 3 |
192cc79 | It would be in our advantage to use cars less,simply because there not good for the enviroment.
If we as human beings keep relying on cars as much as we do the world will be in bad shape
US as people have to treat the earth better because this is our home ,this is were we have to live and many generations after us have live .
The number of miles driven per person in america has definetly decreased over the years, the recession had a lot to do with that. With that being saidmany measures the decrease in driving preceded the downturn and appears to be persisting now that recovery is underway. The rates of car ownership in america has also decresed. Maybe that means something more fundamental is going on.
By us using cars as much as we do pullution starts to happen. One of the biggest pollutes cars cause is smog.
smog is like fog but it contains gases and if we keep relying on cars as much as we do the world wont be a safe place for us to live. Smog got so bad in france that they had to stop people from drivng.
Maybe we should be more like vauban,germany and have less cars, '' when i had a car i was always tense, but im much happier without a car '' says heidrun walter . Vauban completed in 2006,is a growing trend in europe,the united states and elsewhere to seperate suburban life from auto use, as a compnent of a movement called '' smart planning ''
One if president obamas goals is to curve greenhouse gas emmissions, and i support that fully. studys sho that americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licences as earch year goes by. This makes me question wether or not america hass passed peak driving. if this behavior persists the socioligists believe that we will have beneficial implications for carbon emmisions and the enviroment,sense transportation is the second largest source of americas emmisions. | 3 |
192d275 | If there were some sort of life form to create that face on mars,nasa would happy because they would be getting more money.
The first image that makes the natural landform look like a face had low resloution compared to the other images.
If there were any sort of things they built you would be able to see due to the size of the images and the resolutoin of it.
If there some sort of lifeform on mars nasa would get more funding.
They were getting everyone atteieion. They were making everyone wonder if there was some sort of alien life form on mars that could have created that "face". They would have gotton so much money to go investigte what was on nasa and they would've got paid so much money.
The origanal viking image had very low resolution compred to the ones taken 1998 and 2001.
Michel malin and his MOC team took some photos that were ten times clearer than the origanal viking photos. some conpiarcy theoists thought that they hid some alien marking. Nasa did not hide anything you can clearley see in that in the photos taken after the origanal viking photo.
The later images taken after orignal viking image were clear enough and largened enough to see any type of building of sorts of that but none were seen so there must be none.There were 1.56 meters per pixel in the orignal image but in the 2001 image there was 43 meters per pixel.
There is no reason for nasa to lie about there being no alien life form on mars,the later image had good enough resolution to tell whats there and whats not and there is no building or aircraft or anything of that sort there expect a piece of rock. | 2 |
192dd1b | Sometimes having to be a scientist is not the best idea. Scientist discover different things at different paces,such as the ones that these scientists discovered on Mars. This face that the scientists discovered have evidence that it is just a natural landform. It could also be proven that the face that was found on Mars was not created by aliens. This face was is the face of an alien,and it is going to be proven in this argumentative essay.
First off,the face that was found has no signs of being an alien because any planet has those wierd funky looking holes right? It could have been that with the temperature and time those holes could have appeared making it look like a human face. It could of just simply have been a coincidence that it happened like that. Either way we could say that maybe it was an alien or just a natural landform,nobody has been able to personally prove it because there has not been one astronaut that has went up to Mars and looked at it with its own eyes. The human being has made assumptions about a lot of different things and the majority of the time the human being is incorrect because they do not have evidence to prove that what they said was correct.
Next,lets say that maybe the human being is correct,how could scientists prove that it is what the human being suspects?
In the article in paragraph 2 it reads,"Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa,common enough around Cydonia,only this one had usually shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharoh." In this part of the reading the author of this article are saying that it could have just been another Martian mesa,but that this one had the unusual shadows that make it look like an Egyptian Pharoh. Like it says in the text it could have just been the shadows something that make it look like an ancient Egyptian Pharoh. It could have maybe been that Martian that the scientists have said it is.
Finally,in this situation scientists might be correct again. It could only be a natural landform that formed with the weather or something different that helps little things like these form up. There are no certain clues or evidence that this "face" could be a human or an ancient Egyptian Pharoh. Sometimes the human being wants to suspect things that are not close or correct to what a specialized scientist can do. Sometimes it is just probably that the human brain gets carried away by what it looks at. Sometimes it helps to pay close attention to what we are doing or looking at, for the hiumans good. | 3 |
192f5f6 | A person emotion should be allowed on how the person wants to express them self in the way they want to and how how emotion can have an impact on how they are treated in a way. and people can right away identify how a friend or relative is feeling
By their facial expressions. people who use this cumputer can rerally benefit from it when they want to put a smile on their faces when the person feels down. how the perosn may be feeling about a lots of thing that is going threw the perosn mind at that moment and how they are going to react next. by emotion it can show a lot of a human personality in their face expression.
personality can help with emotion and how your reaction may ocur in a sitiocional life and experiencing you have might confronted. when you look in the mirror might that affct the way you show emotion in you personality. and how you force the look at look that you dont really want to show but have to anyway because they make you.
why would facial expression show who you are and how they make you look in your own person and how it can come so natrually in yourself. And how you express yourself in that form and how muscle motion can help you with all the muscles working to help you. With the facial expression you make in yourself and to never fear your emotion and just let it out and be confident in yourself. | 2 |
19382b5 | To inform fellow citizens about advantages of limiting car usage you would have to tell them everything. Like how residents from Germany upscale community are suburban pioneers and they have given up their car's. Street parkng, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in there district. Why is this forbidden? i just don't get it. Car owners buy there own space, for $40,000 along with there home. In Europe passenger cars are reponsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and up to 50 percent in some car intensive areas in the United States.
In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency is promoting car reduced. Many experts expect public transport serving suburbs to play a much larger role in a new federal. So fellow citizens should help them out with there limiting car usage. they sure have a lot going on. Like in the end of car culture. There expanses and suburban ideals had long been one of the world's prime car ciltures. But American's love affatr with its vehicles seems to be cooling. Its seens like they don't mind.
If i was a big huge fellow citizen i would help out with what there going throuh because i don't think this is right. For them to be having to pay so much more then what we have to pay is not cool. What would we do without car's we can't walk everywhere. That wouldnt be right. They say te day without cars is part of an improvement campaign that began in Bogota in the mid 1990s.
What about if it was raining how are we suppsoed to get to work or get food. we need a car to get to places. They say the rain hasn't stopped people from participating. But i think it has stopped them. Therefore we need are cars to get to where we need to be. | 1 |
1943465 | Hi my name is Luke and there are a ton of reasons to go on Seagong Cowboys Program, and there all right here. Just keep reading and the only thing that you would want to do is go on that trip.
Oh how much fun that was on that boat with all of the lovely animals and my friends.
One of the best things about the trip was all the friends I made, you know playing games and stuff.
I know what you're thinking; what about all of that hard work the whole time.
Well on the way back the only thing that we did was play games, read, and everyonce in a while we would have to clean off the docks.
There were no animals on the way back and thats why it was so fun.
On the way there it was pretty hard work taking care of the animals, but we only had to that every hour, and even then we all pitched in and helped.
If you're thinking about how long it took, it really just depends on how fast you work.
There in't really much to say about the work that hasnt been said, the point is it's not that hard.
The best part about the trip was all the places that we stopped at along the way.
One of the best ones was when we stopped at Greece and I saw the Acropolis.
We also stopped at Vince Italy, the city had streets of water.
We also visited Europe and China, plus im even including the fact we helped so many people along the way.
This is the best thing that could have happened to a small town boy like me.
The only reason why I got to go on this amazong trip was because of one of my friends told me about it.
I guess I'm just trying to be a good friend to and give you the life changing trip.
Just think about it.
All that I'm really trying to say is that this is the most amazing that happened to me and it all I had to do was take care of a couple of animals with my some of my closest friends. | 3 |
1944939 | The electoral college is described in many ways. It is described as needed, useful and helpful. I think it is described as unfair, outdated, and irrational. I describe it this way because majority votes do not really "count", has been used for three hundred years, and it is just more time taken to vote for our president.
To kick it off, the electoral college is unfair in many ways. When we vote for our president, our votes don't exactly count. We just vote for representatives to go vote for the president. Many people would have won by majority vote, but the electoral college had more votes for the other side.
Continuing on, the electoral college is very outdated. The Founding Fathers used it when they were alive. I think that America is a little past that, because that was three hundred years ago. Why still use something that old? It is pretty irrational to still use the electoral college.
Finishing off, the electoral college is very irrational. It makes no sense to have a process that long to do a somewhat simple thing. Even other Americans believe that the election should be based off of majority vote. Sixty percent of them believe that to be true! The electoral college is a waste of time.
All in all, the electoral college is just a waste of time, and process. It takes to long for the president to be voted in. It also makes no sense because our votes dont even count. Most of us believe it should go away, by majority vote,too. | 3 |
1944ada | Wow, being a seagoing cowboy is amazing. Why hasn't every guy become one? Doesn't every guy want to help others in need, to have fun, and to see the world and all of its amazing places. Obviously, if the people reading this are like most guys and want to do those amazing things, sign up to be a seagoing cowboy. It's the oppurtunity of a lifetime!
The first reason all guys should become a seagoing cowboy, it involves getting to help others in need. After a long, devasting war, many countries have just been left in ruins to rot. The people there need hope. A seagoing cowboy can get these countries on their feet again and help the countries recover by giving the people that live in them food, animals, and more. Lets face it, we are those people's only hope, They are dieing out there. The only solution is to become a seagoing cowboy and save them.
The second reason all guys should become a seagoing cowboy, it involves getting to have fun while hanging out with other guys. On the ship while the cowboys are going to other countries to help other people, they get to have boatloads of fun. The cowboys often play baseball and volleyball games when they hang out with eachother. Not to mention the table tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, and reading. The cowboys are never bored and are always finding something fun to do. Clearly, being a seagoing cowboy is a very fun and relaxing job.
The final reason all guys should become a seagoing cowboy, they get to explore the world and see amazing places. The cowboys get to see Europe and China daily. They also get to explore all of the amazing place there like the Acropolis in Greece, Venice, Italy, castles in Crete, and the Panama Canal. Anyone who wants to see the the amazing world should definitley sign up to be a seagoing cowboy. This really is the oppurtunity of a lifetime for everyone who is dieing to get out of the house.
Some people may love home but really want to go on this trip. They also may not want to leave their beautiful family behind all by themselves. It might be possible that they are just scared to travel to an unknown place, but, being a seagoing cowboy allows the cowboys to only take one trip to help others, have fun, and see the world. It won't take very long at all!
Being a seagoing cowboy is an amazing job to take. The cowboys get to help other countries, have fun, and see the world and all of its beauties. Everyone who has ever become a cowboy has had the time of there life. Wait, have all the people who were reading this story stop to sign up? | 5 |
194ce55 | Imagine finding what looked like to be an alien monument on a different planet. NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet, Cydonia, and taking photos of possible landing sites for Viking 2. The spacecraft took a photo of a landform that looked like a human head. NASA sent out the image for everyone to see and it got a lot of attention. People have started making assumptions as if that proves there is life on other planets, it was an Egyptian Pharaoh, and many more. NASA proved that there was no alien monument, but not everyone agreed. The landform on Cydonia is not an alien monument.
Many people think that this landform on Cydonia is an Egyptian or alien landform. The text states,"As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size," he added."So, if there were objects in the picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" NASA concludes that the landform is just a butte or mesa, which are landforms common around the American West. Jim Garvin compared the landform to the Middle Butte in Idaho. Garvin found that they were about the same height. The face is a landform that has shadows casting on it to give it the form of a face.
In conclusion, the landform on Cydonia is just a mesa with shadows casting on it that make it look like a face. NASA has taken many photos to prove this evidence and has compared this to other mesas on Earth. Many people still don't believe the proven evidence and still believe they are alien monuments. People believe the markings of aliens were hidden by a haze, so NASA took photos on clear days to prove that it is just a mesa. The face on Cydonia is just a mesa and not an alien monument. | 3 |
194eb61 | To began with i would love to say i cant wait for the driverless care. its chaning the whole game these car makers better come up with something new before drivelss car take over. i feel like this new project would be good for people around the world. i have three main points to help you understand where i'm coming from. first off the car would use half the fuel of today taxis and offer far more flexiblitly than a bus. the cars have been driven more than half a million times without a crash. GM has developed drivers seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of baking into an object.
First, i would like to speak upon my first point" the car would use half the fuel of today taxis and offer more flexbiltiy than a bus". if we get driveless car we are looking at less money spent on fuel more moeny in your pockets and you can do more trips when your driving the drivelss car compare to a regular car. second,"the cars have been driven more than half a million times without a crash". Thats wonderful because now of days people are looking for somthing safe for them and their family. i dont know about you but i would choose this car in a heart beat because its more safer than the regular cars. Third,"GM has developed driver seats that vibrate when the vehicel is in danger of baking into an object". thats really amazing and would come in handy for winnter when all the snow is on the ground and when its pooring down raining and you cant see. this car is also good for new divers and for people who have trouble seeing it can help you to not get in a accident.
in my opinion, i would i pick this car over a regular car because it have the basic things that i am looking for in the car. once again the car would use half of fuel in today taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus. Thier cars been driven more than half a million times without a car crash. GM has developed drivers seats that vibrates when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an objcet. can i ask you a question, after reading all about the new driveless car would you drive it? | 3 |
19518a6 | The author supports the idea of studing Venus is a worthy persuit dispite the dangers because it has some similarites to earth.
The similarites to eart are that Venus has valleys,mountains, and craters. They want to study venus to see if it is safe enough for a spacecraft to land and get more evidance . NASA has a possible solution to the hostile conditions on th esurface of Venus would allow scientsts to float above fray.
Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not be exceed earths levels. Not easy conditions but survivable for humans.
To find out more important information about Venus the reseachers would have to have some type of sample but they cannot
take samples of rock, gas, or anything else from a distance. To conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would have to get up close and personal dispite the risk. We are not yet able to land and get pieces of the planet because of some risky differences from earth that we would not beable to compet with.
NASA is working on other approches to study Venus, lookig back to an old technology called mechanical computers played an inportant role bakc in the 1940s during worl war 2 these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all. Systems that use mechanical parts cna be made more resistant to pressure,heat, and other forces.
Dispite the dangers of Venus because its diffrences from earth , our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by these dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. We need to find ways to protect our self on Venus and be able to stay alive if we were to ever land there. | 2 |
1952ebf | Prof. Thomas Huang believe that with his latest software will be calculating people face expression. He believe that this technology can help students read emotional expressions. With his computer that can construct a 3-D computer model of the face,all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Prof. Thomas Huang relies on the computer to tell him the calculations.
With this type of computer it can help the students in class, and with the same technology it can make computer animated faces more expressive for video games or video surgery.
The computer can calculate face expression just like humans. When we see our friends face expression we can kinda figure out that they are mad,happy and etc. The computer is more advance then humans and it can figure out more then we can. As humans we impress calculations everyday, just like computers that is program to calculate humans face expressions. The computer can recognize when the students is confused or bored faster then a teacher can in a classroom.
This computer is just like a human and it can do more then humans. The computer can help a lot with students. This is a good thing to use because some students get confused during a lesson and sometimes a teacher can't tell. With this computer that can calculate their expressions, the computer can modify the lesson to help the student understand more clearly then a human instructor. With this program, it can even make video games more fun for students and make them understand it more. With this intervention it can make a big difference in people lives. | 3 |
195345f | Have you ever seen a alien before? If you have not seen them before how would you know if aliens are real or not. I will know because im in the NASA and aliens are not real.
Aliens are not real because if they were they wouldn't be living on Mars because there's no life on Mars they most likey would invade Earth as we know it. Whatever you seen on Mars it was just a natural landform. If aliens were real they would have almost the same things we have like two eyes, mouth, and two feet, and two ears. The difference between us would be either brown, or gray.
I think aliens aren't real because the face which resembles a human head formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. Also 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. | 2 |
195769a | Dear Senator,
I am writing this letter to discuss the Electoral College. I have read some interesting facts about the Electoral College and I believe changes need to be made. The people of the United States of America should be in control of who is elected. It should not just be a group of people from each state that is allowed to pick.
I am not the only one that feels this way. In the source "The Indefensible Electoral College:
Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" it says, "According to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortley after Al Gore-thanks to the quirks of the electoral college-won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now."
It is wrong to have the people vote for people to vote for the president. If someone wants a certain president to be elected, but they don't know who the electors are going to vote for then how do they know which elector to vote for? In the source "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" under the "What's wrong with the electoral college column" it says, "Can voters control whom their electors vote for? Not always. Do voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate? Sometimes."
In conclusion, I say abolsih the electoral college! I am not the first person to say that either.
Bob Dole also said"Abolish the electoral college!" It is not a fair system to use. There is plenty of evidence to show that the majority of the American people are against the electoral college. | 3 |
195da78 | This landform on mars does look like a alien face but is just another regular landform. It doesn't prove any aliens are on mars because it is another martian mesa with really good shadow placement to fool the eye. NASA isn't trying to hide anything about aliens or extraterrestrial life because they want to find life on another planet like mars. Even if there was a alien civilazation, why isn't there any more of these or different formation and buildings on mars. That is why it is just a regular landform on mars.
Well this mesa is fooling people because it does look like a face but it is just another mesa The shadow are just placed coincedentily. The landform is pretty big so it coudln't be built fast enough for it to go unnoticed. plus NASA isn't hiding anything, why would they need to. That is one of the reasons why I think it is a coincedent.
Even though NASA seems like they want to cover it they really don't want to because it will be the biggest find ever in space age history. We send probes and rovers for research and to find life. We also send then to find the necessary elements for life to exist. If we do find life it will be the biggest news for a long time. So we really aren't trying to hide anything exspecially aboutr life on mars.
So if there was life on mars and they did make it ,why aren't there any other structures built. Like on earth aztecs did die out but had way more monuments to their gods. They didn't spend all their time building a face Plus their buildings couldn't erode away or the face would't be there. So why did they only build one ?
Those are the reasons I believe face on mars is just coincedental. We really would want to find something on mars. If we do find someting on mars the face could be evidence that there is life on mars. We will probably find out soon. Maybe find alien life on another planet. | 3 |
1961fb2 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus"the author persents the topic on how the study of Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it persents.
There are lots of thing to be leared about Venus so many things to elopre and discover. But there are aloso losts of dangers as well. For examlpe in the text it raeds,"Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any of the planets in our solar system", high heats in extermily dagerous thats one of the aine reasons Venus is hard to explore and have so many dificultys trying to learn more bout the plant its self. Another example as to why the study of Venus is difficault is its living coditions for examle in the text it states,"a thick atmosphereof almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blnkets Venus"this making it hard to even try to have a living thing on Venus. another exaple is in the text it states,"Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfric acid in Venus's atomophere"this adding on the the reasons as to why its difficult to even get close to evaluate data.
All though there are many more reasons and exaples on to why Venu is a worthy peruit despite the dangers it presents these are a few of the exampls and resons. | 2 |
1962ad7 | The author does not support the idea enough that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. Compared to their reasons on why studying Venus is a worthy pursuit, they gave a lot more reasons on why it is dangerous. They greatly showed how the conditions on Venus are far more extreme than anything humans are used to. On the other hand, they explained very little on how it would benefit us and showed how it's mostly just out of curiosity.
The author provided many, many dangers that the pursuit of studying Venus presents. The text states, "These conditions [on venus] are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on earth... additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking land on its surface." The author seems to thoroughly describe the dangers of visiting Venus by describing the high temperatures, the high atmospheric pressure, and other things humans are not used to. They also point out how Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, and how no spacecraft has survived a landing on Venus for more than a few hours. This is all a lot more information provided on the dangers compared to the information provided on the benefits for studing Venus.
The author explained very little on how studying Venus is a worthy pursuit. The text states, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." The author always seems to make a vague statement on how Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers but never provides any evidence. The author says the planet would gain us insight, but doesn't show how. The second part of their statement about human curiosity seems very careless; the author sounds like he/she is just curious to have more insight on Venus. The text also states, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth." This statement could have been the start of a good reason on why Venus is a worthy pursuit. Venus could possibly be inhabited by humans in the future. However, the author does't explain this; they just begin to compare Venus to Earth.
To conclude, the author did not effectively support the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. They provided many of the dangers, showing how humans would not be able to handle the conditions. On the other hand, they did not thoroughly explain why Venus is still a worthy pursuit despite these dangers. They gave very vague statements but provided little to no evidence. They should have built on their reasons to show how the dangers of studying Venus don't matter as much as compared to the benefits of studying Venus. | 4 |
19676b0 | I present negative aspects of driverless cars becasue they can be dangerous when your driving them. We should't have driverless cars because anything could happen when your driving them. Even though they can drive under specific conditons you always have to be alert.
"They still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents." If the car can drive by its self I think it should be able to get threw roadwork by its self. Anything can happen when the driver is not paying attention to the road. The driver can accidently fall asleep or be on the phone and swerve right off the road. People are really fascinated with driverless cars but its not the better chioce when it comes to safety. The car can alert you to late and you wouldn't have a chance to take control fast enough.
However I think you should pay attention to the roads at all times."The information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone." I don't think thats true becasue anything could happen with the car, with a human i think they have a better response on stopping the car with the brakes. "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. If anything happens to the people i think the maunfacturer
should have full responablity because, why have driverless car anyways.?
"Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time." I don't think they should sell those and I hope nobody buys them. Because its useless to have a driverless car that you still have to be alert to. If its that good the car should alert it self when at risk of anything. "Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020."
Its illegal in some states to even test computer-driven cars but in my opioin I think it should be in all states.
I hope this invention of driverless cars never gets far in the rest of the states. It may cost the state a lot of money because I think half of the peoplr are truly going to get hurt. "Why would anyoe want a driverless car that still needs a driver"? | 4 |
196e078 | Technology that reads emotional expressions ? I think that is a great idea, it would help students learn so much more. It would also keep them involved and paying attention. Having the computers detect emotions could help in the long run.
If the computer could tell if the student was bored or uninterested it could change the lesson and make it an activty less boring. Maybe not even less boring but more interactive with the students. An activity that the student will actually want to participate in. The activity could still have all the material the student needs to learn but in a form that makes him want to learn it.
If a student became confused the computer would be able to recognize that , it could come up with ways to help or it could send an email or something to the techer to inform them your confused. Some kids are to shy to ask their teacher for help so they just sit there daydreaming because they don´t get it. Most times they fail that subject because they never got the help they needed to understand the lesson or subject.
In paragraph 6 Dr. Huang stated that most human comunication is nonverbal, so their facial expresstions are going to tell you how they feel about something or give an idea about what they want to say about something. so if a student likes something the computer can detect that which could then help teacher pick lessons that he or she knows the students like beacuse the computer showed it. It would make lesson planning less of a pain for teachers.
Having technology be able to detect our emotions would help in the classroom , not only for the students but for the teachers too. Students will become more involded and interested in the lessons they have to do. Teachers won´t have to struggle to find lessons that will get everyone to learn the material while having fun. More kids will pass their classes. All of these postitve things coming from the computers being able to tell how someone is feelings, i think its an idea that is going to work. | 3 |
19712ee | First of all, if i were to inform citizens everywhere about the advantages of car usages, then i'll say this. we find ourselves to go to many different locations by car each day, and what i mean by this is that it is an advantage. while there are many countries who claims that cars are an advantage to us, there are a certain few places and citizens who want to make a change to this. By changing, they mean getting rid of or forbidding the use of cars. to many people, the first step to this is to forbid the uses of street parking, driveways, and home garages.
Even though this makes a bit of sense, i believe that a good reason for doing this would be because of the harmful fumes that cars release that pollute the air that we ourselves breathe in. there is also proof for this as well, for example, It's said that in Beijing, China, is known to be one of the most polluted cities in the world. this is a shocking fact. although we recieve this devastating news, i believe that we can make a no-polluting world by not using our automobiles for the time being, i can say that although this might not permenantely make the air cleaner, but we can if we just prevent ourselves from using our cars.
Next comes this, we are also aware on how in Bogota, Colombia, that there is little use for cars, since they are only permitting the transport of buses and taxis. however if a violater is caught driving his own vehicle, that person will recieve a $25 fine. there are even a number of people who have claimed that it's a great way to take away stress and lower air pollution. and if this keeps up at an average pace in the next few years, Bogota, Colombia will be confirmed as a clean and non-polluting place.
Then comes a known fact of where people are starting to least often drive cars over the past few years, and this has been proven true since many citizens are realizing that it has to be the fact alone on that people are less likely to get their licenses or that they may be dealing with a bit of money trouble, and that the unemployed are less likely to work any longer.
Lastly, as it comes all down to these facts, i still believe that we may one day drive our automobiles without doing anything harmful to our enviornment, and at the same time, our automobiles are being useful every single day, since it is another way of getting around to places in where we need to be. such as jobs, going to school, and many more. it may be difficult to believe my opinion on this, but it will get much more simplier as it goes on to progress itself. | 2 |
1973fe0 | People who think the Face was created by aliens are illogical. Some people think that because they dont believe its a land form, it looks man-made, and NASA hasnt shown any proof of the Face showing that it is a landform. The people have no explanation how the Face was created or what created it.
People think the Face was made by aliens because all they have seen were pictures. The pictures only showed shadows that outlined eyes, a nose, and a mouth of a human face. When NASA released this news it attracted attention to Mars because there was a conspiracy that there was ancient civilization or life on Mars, which people thought were aliens.
Next, The people didn't believe NASA's theory that the Face was a natural landform because in the picture that the Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia to take showed that there was wispy clouds indicating it was winter around that time. The people blamed the clouds that they couldn't see the markings on the Face because they were hidden by clouds. People also said that the Face was bona fide evidence so NASA would rather hide the Face instead of announcing the information to the public. But some defenders of the NASA budget said they wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars because they would make more money off of the publicity of the "alien" made landform.
Last but not least, NASA began to take closer photos of the Face to prove to the people that it was a natural landform made by shadows. So they went 25 degress closer to the center of the Face in the field of view. Malin's team captured an amazing photograph using the camera's maximum resolution meaning zoom point. This photo made the Face three times bigger than its actual size on Mars. So that means if there were any objects like alien people you would've been able to see them clearly in the zoomed up photo.
Garvin said, "that the picture of the Face reminds him of the most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." Garvin said this because NASA found out what the picture actually showed which was the Martian equivalent to a butee or mesa. Which were landforms that were common around the American West. The Middle Butte is a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars.
I agree to NASA's side for leading the investigation of the Face besides just telling the public that there was alien life on Mars. They used the right information like photos and descrbe how the Face was made by shadows which really looked like an human face. The public thought there was life on Mars because when NASA took the pictures there was cloud in the way because it was winter in Mars's time. Also they thought since they've only seen photos NASA was hidjng information from them so they would'nt get bombarded with press and other stations when NASA really wanted the publicity and more money for more reserch. | 4 |
197ea96 | This Essay will talk about the Mona Lisa, FACS, and the universities that came up with the investigation, of the Mona lisa Picture. The value of the technology of the FACS, is great in my opinion. the answer to a question that has been asked for a long time has finally been solved. That question is; is the mona Lisa smiling?
This evidence from the article I have found, tells us the emotions that are going on with the Mona Lisa painting. It says " She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." Most people have thought that the Mona Lisa was always, 100 percent happy. A lot of other people could not read Mona's facial expressions. Know one would have had the clue to think that the Mona Lisa painting would have had four different expressions in one picture.
My name is Nathan, and I am here to tell people about the Mona Lisa painting. I have read this article, and I have made some good questions, and opinions. There are a lot of facts in here, but also a good number of opinions as well. Obviously know one knows 100 percent, about what happened in the renisance back then. Know one Knows what had happened, because know one from our century, was around when that happend, because it was from a long time ago.
I think the Mona Lisa had mixed feelings when this painting took place. It might have ben her lifestyle, or her attitude that effected the vibe, and the attitude towards, her face that eventually went into the painting. It is so interesting to know what happend before, we lived.
We the people, can now know the Facial expressions, and the mood of paintings that were painted long ago. People have invented something that is extrordinary, and can change research, and that development is called FACS. FACS stands for "Facial
Action Coding System."
What the FACS does is it allows people to identify pictures, and expressions. It is all done on computer. This inovation is a big step, in learning. It inspires young kids to become even better researchers, with is great.
The people that are involved in this are very intelligent. and they come from good schools. Researchers in different schools use the FACS, too. The person that innovated the FACS is Prof. Thomas Huang, that is from the Beckman institute. That is for the Advanced Science at the University of Amsterdam. Dr. Huang's main goal was to have humans and computers to communicate better.
I think the FACS is very great, and I strongly think it is a leap forward in technology. The FACS has let us learn about things we couldn't before, and I think the world of invention and innovation will let us journey even farther. The Mona Lisa facial expression recognation, was just the beggining. | 2 |
197f299 | There are many advantages to having a car. such as being able to go drive places with your friends or even driving across the country, but there are also a lot of down sides to a car. such as paying for gas money, paying for ensurens, or even paying for the car its self.
If you happen to live at the beach or in the city there is really no reason for a car. Almost every thing at the beach or in a high populated city is either within walking, biking, or busing distance. This way you save money and you can get a good exercise.
Also polution is very bad in the world today. In france dieseles make up 67 percent of vehicles. which dieseles are known as the most poluting vehicles/gas in the world.
The day without cars campaign that began in bogota in the mid-1990's was a great idea! I think that america should adopt this campaign and put it in to action. This "day without cars" would not only cut down polution and get people out side execising, but could also even save life that could have been taken due to car accedents or people geting hit by drunk drivers while walking.
So those are just some of the reasons why I encourage limiting car usage and promoting alternitive choices for transportation. | 2 |
198070f | On the planet surface of Venus, "temperatures average over 800 dgrees Farhrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet."(The Challenge of Exploring Venus).These harsh conditions are not meant for any human to experience but is the knowledge of this unique planet worth the risks? In the passage The Challenge of Exploring Venus, the author suggests that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. He supports this idea by explaining the dangers and background of Venus then by telling the plan of making it work and the reason why.
To begin the story, the author presents background information on Venus including its relation to Earth and the solar system. Then goes on to explain the difficulties that have been present in trying to explore this planet. It states in paragraph 2, "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for a good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours."(The Challenge of Exploring Venus). This quote simply speaks for itself but was not used accidently because it lets the reader infer how serious the conditions are on Venus. The fact that a spaceship, made out of materials specifically for exploring space, couldn't survive the landing shows how fatal this planet can be.
After reviewing all of the conditions and background of this planet, the mission to study this planet is still, or even more, prioritized then if these details weren't known. Most humans are very stubborn and once they have the desire to do something, it doesn't go away until that thing happens. This heavily relates to scientists and explorers, because part of their job is to discover things and help things make sense. Another crontributer is curiosity, most explorers are full of it and if they aren't they probably don't enjoy their job much. As it says in paragraph 8, "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."(The Challenge of Exploring Venus) Not only will the success of studying the planet satisfy their curiosity of it, but it will lead to more discoveries and curiosities to make things even more worthwhile.
Throughout the story, the author supports the idea that the dangers of Venus are worth the risk if it means being able to study and discover new things. If humans didn't have curiosity life would be boring, it would be the same thing all the time no one would have the urge to do something new or figure something out.
Scientists are working together and brainstorming ideas to make the study of Venus possible not only to satisfy themselves but to help others in new discoveries. Imagine a life without living, sometimes dangerous things are worth the risk if it leads to a longlasting prize. | 4 |
19819e9 | In Vauban, Germany, residents there have a unique way of doing things. They have given up the idea of cars. Even driveways and garages are starting to be forbidden and there are only a few streets in use. Vauban is becoming an example of a growing trend in Europe and is trying to seperate suburban life from auto use.
The cars being used particularly in the suburbs are a main reason greenhouse gases have increased over time. There have been many efforts to make cities denser and better for walking, but now, planners are focusing on the suburbs. "All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change," said David Goldberg. The U.S is now starting to promote "car reduced" communities and some suburbs are starting to look a little more Vauban-like. Also, the idea of less car use is being spread globaly, even in Paris, France. Fines started to be inforced on citizens that didn't leave their cars at home after a day of near-record pollution. Since deisel gas is favored in France, that became a huge blame along with the cold nights and warm days in France causing the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions. In addition to that, France is already one of the top smog-containing European Captials. Despight all of this, there are few exceptions being made.
In Bogota, Colombia, a program had begun that was proposed to spread and inspire. It was their third straight year they banned car use for a day with the exception of buses and taxis. Their main goal is to take away the stress of Colombians and to reduce air pollution. Authorities from other countries even became enthusiastic about the idea and before you know it, the idea caught on to two other Colombian cities. The idea has caught the attention of many, even our president.
Obama stated that he has set goals to lower the United States greenhouse gas emission. This being said, studies have shown that Americans are buying less cars then usual and are not driving as much as we use to. The United States had long been one of the world's biggest car cultures and now the love with the vehicles seem to be cooling down. This has been showing signs that recovery is on its way and the use of carbon emissions has been decreasing.
There are many factors that play in the decrease of car use. People are being connected through social media, suburbs are becoming less apealing, and communicating has become easier with the use of elctronics. The rate of driver lisence have gone down and people are finding more ways to get to places they need to be. | 3 |
198286b | Have you ever thought about what life would be like on the planet of Venus? Over the years, scientists and astronomers have been studying if Venus is able to substain life. Even with the temperatures of up to eight-hundred degrees farenheight and with an atmospheric pressure that is ninety times greater than what we experience on Earth, I see why the author thinks that pursuing this journey will be worth it.
One reason why I think the author is for pursuing the journey to Venus is because of the analogous features that Earth and Venus share. In paragraph four of the text, the author states that the surface contains of a "rocky sediment" and "includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." This is crutial to the author's point because it shows how, in many ways, Earth and Venus are so much alike. Just as the author questions, "If our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussin furthur visits to its surface?"
One of NASA's possible solutions is another reason why I feel the author thinks it is worth the trip to Venus. This solution is described as sending a spaceship to outer space to hover about thirty or more miles above the surface. According to the article, "...temperature would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level." The article also implies that there would be plenty of energy through solar power and would be survivable, but with rough conditions.
Even with the advanced technology that we have today, scientists are beginning to look back and discover that mechanical computers that were used back in the 1800's and 1900's might just be the technology that we need to study Venus. According to the text, "...systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces." The advanced technology that we have today is not meant to be used in conditions such as Venus has. With this being said, these mechanical computers could be very important in studying our pursuit to Venus in the future.
In conclusion, the exploration to Venus could be very dangerous or very benefitial to the future of space exploration. Though, with the similiarities between Earth and Venus, the possible approach of hovering the planet, and using technology that will substain such conditions all are reasons why this journey could be worth the danger. No one will ever find the answers to their questions, if they choose not to explore them. | 4 |
198c196 | There are many people in the world who strive to meet their goals, regardless of the dangers it beholds. For the planet, Venus, however, The challenge for studying the planet is a big challenge. There are numerous examples to how studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers. They can be communicated through these three instances: Venus has similar traits to earth, it is our closest neighboring planet,
One reason why Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers is becuase of the similar, Earth-like traits it has. Astronomers have made a hypothisis saying that Venus has similar traits to earth, as well as possibly having some sort of lifeforms developing on that planet. "Astronomers are facinated by venus because it may well once have one well been the most earth-like planet in our solar system". Despite the challege, Astronomers wish to explore venus to see if the traits on that planet are similar to earth.
Another reason why Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers is because it is are closest neighboring planet. | 2 |
1991cce | T
hese two articles both shows reasons why we should limit car usage. I know people are going to be like, " How am i going to get to work?", " How am i going to do this and that with out my car?", but if you sit down and really think about it there are some very good reasons why us fellow citizens should limit our car usage.
On paragraph 3 source 1: In German Suburb Life Goes Without Cars, it says " when i had a car I was always tense. Im much happier this way, a media trainer and mother of two as she walked verdant streets where the swish of bicycles and he chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor" in this quote it talks about how a mom is going green and starts walking and bicycling instead of driving every day. If you drive everyday you lose alot of money thru out the year spending on gas, car repairs etc. and you pullute the air, now a days the air that we breath is getting worse and worse by the years passed but we could fix it if we limit our car usage. With going green and limited driving you could start walking and get good excersise, our world to day not doing so good and one main reason is because of pullution and obesity. You could knock both of those out by just simply walking to the store instead od drving and losing gas. Cars are graeat dont get me wrong, they have been the a big impact om our world but it changed over the years as people started buying cars and gas prices and oil prices are going up, we should all just go green for a while.
It will help if you just stop drving one time a week, that will make a impact to our society. I dont think people shouold be fined for driving a car that they payed for and that is theirs, if you could talk well and a good persuader you could change the mind of the citizens. Hopefully the world changes and goes green a little more eery thing helps. | 3 |
19953a8 | Dear state senator,
It is highly unlikely that you will read this, but hey it is worth a shot. There are many reasons as to why the Electoral College process should be used to elect the president of the United States and many reasons as to why the popular vote process should be used. For this same purpose, there is a controversy as to which process should be used. If I had a say into which should be used and which should not be used, I would rule in the favor of the popular vote process and not in the favor of the Electoral College process.
The first reason as to why I would be in favor of the popular vote process is that in the Electoral College process, big states are being more effective than small states. This might lead the small states to not vote because they feeel that they would not make a difference. Source #3 claim the following, " So, other things being equal, a large state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a small state does...." When bigger states have more electoral votes, the candidates will be lead to thinking that if they get the bigger states, for example California who gets 55 electoral votes, to be in their favor then they might have a bigger chance at winning which will have the small states, like Hawaii who only gets 3 electoral votes, thinking that they have no say as to who gets to be their president. This claim is supported by source #3 when it is stated, " Knowing their vote will have no effect, they have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular vote".
The second reason as to why I am not in the favor of the Electoral College process is because as said in source #3, " Voter is toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign- to really listen to the competing candidates- knowing that they are going to decide the election". Candidates mostly pay attention to states that have more electoral votes, this causes them to pay more attention to the bigger states and leave out the smaller ones, as already argued, some states get more electoral votes than others. Another reason why this is bad is because most states will not pay attention in the election because they will not make a difference. If popular vote were to be in action, then more people and citizens will pay attention because it will be a more interesting election since more epeople have a say and the candidates will pay attention to all states. Even the bigger states with more electoral votes know that they are the ones to basically decide the election.
The popular vote process is more effective and fair for the United States in choosing the President. Most people can argue in that favor as well. If you qwant the elections to be fair, I supposwe that you will pay attention to the voice of thousands of citizens and you will be fair. | 4 |
1999c5d | There are many advantages to limitng car usage aroung the world. When it comes to our economic problems cars are producing more and more pollution and destroying our O-Zone layer. Many diiferent countries are making differences by having car free cities where you only have few cars or none and creating a safer street for the people and cleaning up and repairing the sidewalks. Paris has a lot of Diesel fueled cars and the pollution got so bad they had to ban cars for a couple days to be able to clear the air because how bad the smog was getting and anyone who didnt listen to this rule was fined and if were caught driving had the opportunity to get their car impounded and towed away. The United States also have the same problems when you look at the statistics car usage is dropping in the U.S even though the population is growing. Even though this is benefitting the economy there is still a alot of pollution occcuring.
Source A shows us that in this experimental area "Vauban" almost everyone has given up their cars to live in this suburban location. "Vauban's streets are completely car free" according to author Elisabeth Rosenthal. She claims to have become a lot less stressful when she gave up her car to live in this area. She says that in Vabuan there is a lot less cramp and not much traffic at all because of the car free streets. Now everyone rides bikes around to get to places or even just walk, because of this the sidewalks were all repaired when the experiment was started and made everything presentable. Also when this experiment was completed in 2006 Businesses were opened just walking distances away from residents, so that people would be comfortable living in this town. Source A shows that private owned cars are choking cities because of all the fumes that are being created by cars and trucks and all motored vehicles. Passenger cars are responsible for more than half of all Greenhouse emissions in the Unitewd states, and since there is a lot of Greenhouse fumes being created the Enviromental Protection Agency in the U.S. is promoting car reduced communities. Yes, it is only one small way to change how the future of our world is going to be but it will make a change.
In Paris, France there was a temporary car ban because of how bad the situation was getting. A smog was created and covering all the skies and was a frightening view to see. So the government went on and created a ban with specific rules. On one day the Cars with even numbered license plates would not be allowed to be driven and on the next day it would be odd numbered license plates were the ones that weren't allowed to be driven. If any person were to disobey this law and take the car out of their homes and caught by an official they would be fined and have the vehicle towed and impounded. Causing the person to have to spend more money and get the car back. This ban was eventually lifted as the skies cleared and everything went back to normal. Bogota has a car free day every year which is set to be a day where everyone walks aroung or ride bikes, skate, or hiked around everywhere all for the ecosystem to be able to recover at least for 24 hours. Because of this one day, bycicle lanes have been created and sidewalks have also been repaired. Making it a safe place for people to be able to get around. This is a very effective way of recovering the damage that was once done by the cars that our own people use.
In the United States studies show that all though the population is increasing car usage is dropping and not as many cars are being bought and used like before. studies also show that as every year passes less and less americans are getting licenses and buying cars. Some may say that it is because of the economic problems a lot of the Americans are going through with the money limitations or if it is just a personal choice. Either way car reduction means less pollution and it is all benefitting our planet. According to source 4 as of 2013 the number of miles driven per person is 9 percent below the peak which almost ties the amount of miles driven per person in 1995 when a lot less people were even alive.
All in all Car reduction programs and bans on cars on certain days all benefit the O-Zone layer and should be done annually to be able to help our ecosystem. This is a very effective method to use and I feel as if all of the world should adopt this ideology and use it as it has statistically shown effectiveness. | 4 |
19a2117 | Twenty five years ago something funny happened around Mars. NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet snapping pictures of possible landing sites for Viking 2, then it spotted a shadowy likeness of a human face. An enormous head nearly two miles from end to end. It seemed to be staring back at the cameras on Viking 1. These photos were taken from the region of the Red Planet called Cydonia.
Viking 1 took a picture of something call a butte or mesa. They're most common in the American West. It's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on mars. Their is one in the Snake RIver Plain in Idaho.
On April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos.
"As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 rimes larger than the pixel size. If there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" said Jim Garvin.
The picture actually shows is the Martian Equivalent of a butte or mesa. This landform is most common in the American west. "It reminds me most of the MIddle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," says Jim Garvin. | 1 |
19a9f1b | Driverless cars are coming, do you want to buy one? Google cofounder Sergy Brin envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. Would you want to have a driverless car?
First of all, as it says in paragraph two, google cars aren't truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues. If you still have to control the car yourself most of the time so whats the point of wasting thousands of dollars on it. Then on another note how are people gonna afford these smart driverless cars. People would have to spend their life savings to buy this car. This car is not worth spending all hard earned money on.
Additionally, what if the technology fails and someone gets injured. How will they know who is at fault the driver or the manufacturer? Driverless cars can be danger to everyone on the road. Technology can fail at any given minute. Do you know how many accidents would accure if this happens. If the car is driverless nobody is gonna be paying attention to the road. That is another danger by having a driverless car.
Lastly, Since you still have to drive this driverless car, wouldn't you get bored waiting for your turn to drive. You still can't get on your phone and text because you have to watch the road. Plus some cars have a button that you push to make the car drive by itself. Like my grandma, her Honda can drive by itself just by the push of a button. That's another reason not to get a driverless car because some cars can already drive by itself.
In conclusion, Should people buy a driverless car? No, it's a danger to the roads and people on the road. It's not really a driverless car and you still have to pay attention to the road. Don't buy a driverless car, it cost to much and it's a hazzard. Don't waste your money. | 3 |
19b167b | There are many advantages of limiting car usage around big cities, not just pollution. For example there is more excerise involved in comuting back and forth from work to home or school. Think of all the possibilites by not having to use a car, you get to meet new people that you wouldnt if you just drove, you could save money on gas to help pay bills.
The reasons for driving is that there are many miles of distance between you and your destination and your running late, or there is also a possiblility of you being to lazy to walk anywhere. When did people in general from all around the world gets so lazy? I say this because if you live in a compacted city like new york or paris, everything is basically within walking distance and if no there are subways and trams to help. I understand if your way out into the country why you need car cause there is nothing you can really do but city peoples should at least try to limit you car usage.
I believe that what paris did was right, by prohibiting car usages for 5 days. They were at very high levels of pollution in the city and it drastically decreased once they stopped car usage all over the city. Many people may not have been happy about getting find but they can defenetly breathe better. Also vauban in germany is on the right track if they are heading for being green. I think people should listen to these few countries and help make this planet accessibly livable. | 3 |
19b293c | Back in the day getting a car was a right of passage into the adult world, now it just seems silly to get a car. Biking, walking, trains, buses all seem be taking the place of cars. Why? Seems to be the big question that car companies are asking. An here are the answers new towns are being constructed all over the world where car are unnessacery, also new programs to show other ways of transportaion, but also for less population.
The Europeans seem to be taking ton the idea of a "car-free" life. In Vauban,Germany they have created a community where street parking, driveways, and home garages are geberally forbidden. 5,500 residents live within a a rectangular sqaure mile, making it more compact and more accessible for public transportantion. This makes stores a walk away, there is a main street, rather than a distant high way. Vauban, is an example of a growing trend in Europe, United States, and elsewhere. They are separting suburban life from auto use, a start of a movenment called "smart planning."
Bogota, Colombia is starting a program that is spreading to other countries. Millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated, or took the bus yesterday. This is the third year cars have been banned, using only buses and taxis, these are only trasportantion permitted for the Day Without Cars. In this captial city, the goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. The turnout was large even with the rain showers, "The rain hasn't stopped people from participating..," said Bogoto Mayor Antanas. And for the first time two other cities are joining the event. The day without cars is part of improvement campaign, they have constructed 118 miles of bicycle paths, the most in Latin America.
In Paris they have started to enforce partial driving ban to clear the air of smog. On Mondays motorists with even numbered license plates to leave their cares at home, and on Tuesdays odd numbered licenses plates must do so as well. If they use their car they will get fined, 4,00 people were fined that Monday! This new plan of action is due to the intensifying smog in Paris, that monday 60% of the smog was down. In the Untied States less people are starting to use cars, not because they will be fined but because a change in culture. Many sociologist believe that a decrease in car usage will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and enviroment.
To conclude limiting car usuage seems to be a trend around the whole world. The advangtages of less car usuage, is they are building communties where cars arent nessacery, making programs to show there are other ways of trasportant, and less cars means less smog. The whole world is starting this new trend of less cars, you never know cars might not be a thing 50 years! We seem to be heading towards a new age, that only seems to be increasing throughout the world. | 3 |
19c4c74 | Hello there people we are the seagoing Cowboys and we would like you to join us on the high stormy waves of the Alantic,Pafic,and dont forget the artic sea!
The people really need your help getting them back food,supplies,animails. We already have 44 nations that have njoind us on this quest to help these countrys that need our help.
Do you have what it takes to beat Lukes record. Its more than nine trips on the open sea. No you will not be fightring in the war but if you get hurt and dont want to come with us on this wonmderful journy to see other parts of the world then thats ok.
Luke had this insadent when he cracked his ribs during a storm on night when he was going to go report to the captin. Im sure you will be ok.
This is once in a lifetime thing so dont miss out. Just make sure that youjr parents are ok with it. We only take 12 to 21 year old so dont miss out. Are you ok with going out on the open seas and taking care of aniamuls. Well if you do then be a seagoing cowboy!
Dont worry you loving parents at home we will have fun activitys while the animals are off at thier new home. If you parents like you can donate some animals to the other countyrys arcross the world! It would be a pleasure if we could have your kid help us get the sullpies the other countrys need becuse they are in ruins and they need our help.
We understand is you dont want to see your child go for a few months but this is saving those other countrys that are in ruins and need our help. Join the seagoing Cowboys and also beat Lukews record of being a seagoing Cowboy. These countrys are really counting on us to help brighten there life into gods arms.
If we dont save therse countrys from starvation or sickness. Please be a seagoing cowboys and save the day for these ruined countrys. These 44 nations need more help themn what that have. We need more animals more suplies then what we got now. If you can come and be a Seagoing Cowboy ythen we understand. Parents please let your kids help thje countrys that lie in ruins from this god unforsaking war. When we first started witch was when Luke was with us it was trhe year 1945. And is only be 1 year since and these countrys still are depending on us Seagoing Cowboys to save the day. Everyone in the counterys are dieing every hour if we dont get there in time to save the day for this unforgiving war. If we dont help these people then who will? Thats right NOONE WILL.
People will die if we dont help them. Thats why we need your help. Luke has claimed "Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing Acorpolis in Greece was special." Luke has also said "We arrived August 14 the day the Pacific war ended." He was a Seagoing Cowboy for more than 9 trips!
That is the challange that your captin will have given to you if you chose to be a Seagoing Cowboy. The trip will be hard possibly rainy but you get to see other citys towns or even new countrys! That is what it would be like to be a Seagoing Cowboy. You would have a little time to do boxing,fencing,reading,whittling,Tabble tennis tournaments,baseball, and vollyball! You would have a ton. Of this to do if you get bored with No animals on boared to take care of while you are sailing the open deep sea waves of the Alantic,Pacific,or Articx ocean.
Just remeber saftey first because one time Luke was a Watchman on sea and he was supossed to check on the animals and he was going to go tell the captin about the hourly cheack up onm the animals when the wet ladder he was climbing down. That was BAM he fell of the ladder be sqid he was glad to be alive in the very sacary moment and thast is why we keep pushing the fact that safetyu first for our Seagoing Cowboys. So if you want to be a Seagoing Cowboy that just come over to the loading docks of your nearest city or town by the ocean. aOr if you already are living by the ocean then come down by the loading docks and get ready.
All you have to doy is sign your name on a sheet of paoer and wait for the next day and you will get a knock at the door. | 3 |
19d0d84 | Cars are great, you can get from one point to another in a short amount of time, but are they really necesary? After all we have public transportation, bicicles, and our own two feet.
The advantages of car usage can be picked up by other forms of transportation, and the environment can be saved at the same time. If car usage was limited the world and its people would be much better off. There would be less pollution, a drop in the number of people diagnosed with diabeties, less accidents, and over all a healthier planet and world population.
There would be less pollution because if car usage was limited then there would be less pollutants from the gas in cars going up into the air. Source 2 provides evidence of this, from "...days of near-record pollution, Paris enforcesd a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city."(Duffer 10) to "The smog cleared enough Monday for the ruling French party to rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday."
Additionally many people are content with not having a vehicle, or even a licence in some cases, as shown in Source 1, 3, and 4. In Source 1 Heidrun Walter explains her view on not having a car after previously owning one, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Carlos Arturo Plaza in Source 3, shows his support inlimited car usage by saying how it helps the environment and the health of the people in reducing stress, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." In Source 4 Elisabeth Rosenthal speaks of how her own children and Mr. Sivak's son, all avoid using cars and Rosenthal's children don't even have licenses and they are 19 and 21 years old.
The health of the people in our world would improve and there would be less people diagnosed with diabetes because they would likely get more exercise. With limited car usage people would have to find other ways of transportation, which includes bike riding, skating, hiking, or public transportation. While using public transportation would not help to improve the health of the people, biking, skating, and hiking would, as some people do these things just for excercise. So if people were forced to do one of these alternative forms of transportation, they would be excercising and getting from point A to point B all in one shot.
Not only would limited car usage help peoples health by making them be more active, but it would also help by providing cleaner air. Poluted air can cause health problems, especially in the lungs, if car usage was limited, then polution would go down, so people would be breathing fresher air that would cause less lung damage.
There would be less accidents because there would be less cars on the road. The majority of the vehicles on the road would likely be public transportation too, so the drivers may be more cautious than the average driver since they have the lives of many people in their hands.
The world would be a safer and healthier place is car usage was limited. | 4 |
19d2d0a | Cars have always been a big part society; it takes us from home to work to home agian. However, people fail to realize that driving cars is damaging our earth. We don't have anywhere else to go if we keep killing earth. The government should take action and try to get the people out of cars and on bycicles.
In Paris, the government banned certain cars to drive on certian days. In Robert Duffer's article it explains which cars are banned, "On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered tro leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day." Paris takes action in hopes to help their air pollution. The smog was so bad it "rivaled Beijing, China".
Vaugban, Germany tries an experiment. They make a suburb with real people, going to real life jobs without cars. This is one of the first car-free cities and it was great. Life continued, people still breathed, society was advancing without any help from a combersome vehicle. Not only did this city help with air pollution but it got people up and outside! People walked or used bycicles to get to where their were headed. Exercise is the one thing almost everyone pushes off but now with no cars you have to get that exercise in order to get to work! Mother and media trainer, Heidrun Walter said '"When I had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way"'.
Even in Bogota, Colombia people believe '"It's a good oppertunity to take away stress and lower air pollution."' Eventhough Germany didn't allow a single car, Colombia did allow there to be public transportation only( busses and taxis). The people are happy and content with this simplistic lifestyle, so much so that other cities have joined the event! This goes to show that society doesn't need cars. We can take control of our life but lately we have been letting technology control the way we live.
Elisabeth Rosenthal believes it to be "The End of Car Culture". What do you believe? Are you happy with the life you are living now? "Has America passed peak driving?". | 4 |
19d3181 | Vauban,Germany where the trees grow ,The suburban pioneers and soccer moms live in but wheres the cars near the city of freiburg just across the french and swiss borders the streets of Vauban are car free . Car free? but wait at the the main throughfare tram downtown is where all the cars park well a few cars park there.
Vroom Vroom if your going to buy a car you need a garage and a house dont you you need a house to store all your belongings and your family inside and you need agarage to put your fancy new car in all the cost comes up to about $40,00 thousand dollers. About 70% of the people who live in
Vauban,Germany do not own a cars and the other 57% sold there to move here. but once you come here all youll see if bicycles and people having good convosations and children just wondering about the streets of gemany. The city of Vauban finished in 2006 growing a trend in
Europe the suban city of
Germany isnow called smart planning.
Other suburbs in other countrys have to have to pay gas its about 12 percent of the greenhouse gas in
Europe .
While in the city the government is trying to make the city denser and for people and kids to walk around in a health enviornment about 5,500 within a mile have a low- car actually live in a low car suburban life. In the new life thats going on now its goinf to be easier for people to walkin in and out of malls they can finally walk in the main street rsther than walk a long distance way to get to their destionation.
Around the world where they have tight spaces like
New York and maybe
Georgia are starting to look like these little surban cities in
Germany and
France . In the cities that we have talked about about 80% of people have gone to law highways and the other 20% use the transportantion that there to bring them around.
In
Paris they have banned the clear air globe city people who ride on motorcycles were orderd to leave their transportant at home or they wouold have to suffer a 22 euro finr the the united states that means about $31 dollars
(hey thats not bad at all )
about 4,000 drivers were fined and 27 people had their car impounded.
In
Bogota,Colombia large grey clouds are caused by cars and people not giving a care ( you know what i was about to say) about their country its like they dont even care this is like the third year that the city of
Bogota has been banned of cars the only thing they have right now are buses and taxies i guess they dont want cars anymore just tell them (the government of bogota that they dont want it ). | 1 |
19d6dc5 | In "The Challenege of Exploring Venus", the author belives that studying Venus can provide insight on the planet and also provide new discoveries. The author uses the idea that humans can't help but explore against the reader to prove that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.
If Mars fails to host the human race, we might still have a chance, and that chance is called the "Evening Star" also known as Venus. The authors main point of the passage all revolves around the idea that we will explore Venus someday, or maybe even live there. In the passage it states " Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system" (4). The author isn't saying we should study Venus for fun, he's saying that people will start studying it eventually. In the passage it also states, "Solar power would be plentiful and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans" (5). Venus might one day be our last hope which is the reason why the author is trying to convey people to start studying it.
All in all, human courisity as said by the author will lead us everywhere. Venus though, will bring people insight on the planet and new discoveries despite the dangers, and the author supports that idea very well. | 3 |
19d7b55 | Dear Senator,
I am not alone when I say that I'm not in favor of keeping the Electoral College. According to the Gallup poll taken in 2000, over 60% of voters prefer a direct election, but Congress does nothing to change that. Keeping the Electoral college is unfair to the people of the United States. We should not keep the Elctoral College because, when Americans are voting, they are not voting for their president but for a slate of electors; the legislature is responsible for picking our electors not the people; and the process of a tie in the Electoral College is too unfair to the people.
When Americans are voting for a new president, they want their opinion to count. The popular vote explains what the people wanted for president, but that's not what the people are voting for. When we are voting for president, we are instead voting for a slate of electors; they in turn vote for the president. Voters can't control who the electors vote for, and this gives the a small say in voting for the president.
In the 2000 presidential race Al Gore received more individual votes thjan George W. Bush, but Bush won the election due the amont of elctoral votes over powering the popular votes. This completely goes against what the people want. The state legislatures are responsible for picking our slate electors; these electors have the right to defy the will of the people. Electors have refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a vote for whomever they please.
During a presidential election, one of the most worrying things to receive from an electoral vote is a tie. When there is a tie, the election is sent to the House of Representatives. Due to the fact that many voters vote one party for the president and another for Congress, the House's selection will barely reflect the will of the people. Their votes can be the complete opposites of the people's vote. You could help us bring an end to the Electoral College.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 4 |
19db546 | In this article it talks about the Making of the Mona Lisa Smile, they used a computer to look at the painting. The computer told them that "Shes 80 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry". They also takedkl about how
you can make your self fell happy. the technology now a days is so facinating. The people that make them can make computer software that is so high tech that soon enough we won't even need people anymore to do things. we can just buy a robot or a computer with correct software and have it programed for us to use it as a personal assistant.
Computers today help with so many things, they help with orginaizatiion, work, school, etc... The computers in the next generation are most likely going to be very smart because by the next generation comes along the software and programming will be much more stronger than it is today.
The technology we use today is able to tell how you are feeling with just alook at your face. They have made the software so updated that we can tell that. We never woul;d have been able to do that back in the 1900s. They didnt even have computers until the 1970s.
Yes the technology that we use today to read the emotions of paintings if a face on a human is a valuable to have in the classroom. | 2 |
19dee01 | I would tell them that how could an alien do that if they have never seen a human. I would explain to them that its kind of hard to turn a rock into that, that is why i would think its natural. But since the rock looks like that it would attract attention to mars and it would make people want to pay and learn more about it. I would also say that thr face on mars has been in a few films,books,magazines,and radio tallk shows because when people found out about it it was a top/ very popular thing.
But things would be more truthful or realistic if there was some type of civilization,war,or history about people living there, like in the 700 B.C earlier and later than that. People that would believe in the aliens would want more info or proof. Talking to my scientist co-worker they want to keep going taking better picks so it looks better and so they see if there is any alien marks. But it is very hard for them to search and look for things like Cydonia for example. Its also very hard for them to take pictures of it when its winter because of the clouds and dust.
But in 2001 each images spans where 1.56 compared to 43 meters per pixels in the best 1976 viking photo. You can discern things in a digital image three times bigger than the pixel size,so if there where any objects on the ground like houses,shacks,planes,water,aircraft, or anything else you would of been able to see it. But in a way the aliens could of been tiring to send a messages to earth to let them know it was life there. But if they continue with the pixels, and to make bettter pixels they would be able to see even more every time.
There are a ton of things on earth that look like something but its not its just natural (it just happen). So something like that could of happened on mars, but it would be kind of strange for something to happen like that to happen on a planet where the is ''no life'. But everyone has there own opinion on what they think but we can only leave it up to the scientist to figure it out a regular person mostly likely can't only the pros. Us scientist will be able to figure it out today,tommorow,next month,or even years from now but hopefully one day we will find out. In my opinion I think we will with the technology we have and the things that will still be invented and be released one day.
So there is no way to really prove if aliens are real or fake. They are most likely fake, because they haven't tried to reach earth in any way. But if they did they would come in some type of aircraft. The aliens whole entire world would be shock and scared. No one would know what to do,because no one would even think something like that would happen in this current generation. But it could happen whenever most likely when its least expected.
But in some part of the world some, or alot of people are preparing for this are always waiting for this to happen. People should always be prepared for anything rain,sleet,snow,tornado, or anything evrything. But if the aliens never knew about life in earth, and they decided to send aircraft to like we did if they saw a rock with a alien looking thing on it they would react like we did. They would keep sending taking more pictures, however they would look at it they would get curious and try to make a trip to earth not knowing that there is actual life there.
But if earth did the same thing it would be a problem its taking a huge risk. When they would arrive and look around if they saw aliens they would panic. The aliens would be stronger then them most likely they probably wouldn't be making a trip to home. The aliens would some what react like a dinosaur if the NASA people didn't move (but they would) they would't get attack. But if they did move they would,so tiring to have NASA to go to mars is very risky for NASA and the astronauts. So they could make a better attempt by sending a drone and going around the whole planet,but the drone cant do everything that a human can. So if there is a cave or a door only a human would be able to search it the correct way, plus the drone could easily brake down or fail. | 2 |
19df6c7 | First of all, the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers for many reasons, the first reason will be because they are not sure what can they find there so they need to be very prepared for any visual or physical contact in Venus. another reason will be because it's close to the sun, so that means a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus.
Also in paragraph 2 says "each previous mission was unmmaned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades.
In the paragraph 3 it says many reasons of why it is dangerous to go to study Venus more closer, it is dangerous to study Venus even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Farenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth; such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun. Beyond high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface.
Our sister planet is so inhospitable; Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth.
NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus.
In conclusion, its important to know the risk are you gone to made cause of your actions, this information is a clearly example of cause and effect; the plans can be finished good or bad. | 2 |
19e5a11 | " During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markests didn't get to see the candidates at all."-Bradford Plumer. Are society is relaying on this electoral college system, when we don't even know who are those electors. I agree, that we should change our election to a popular vote because people get often confuse to whom their voting for, and it might lead to picking the wrong person that would be helping leading this country. On the other hand, the people that agree on keeping the electoral college system say that " when you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors." The majoredy of citizens don't even know who their voting for, imagine their going to be more lost and eventually ending up voting for the wrong person. The electoral college should be remove for good which will allows to have a stable society.
The Electoral college dosen't allow the candidates to come and visit the states. So, you don't even now who you're voting for." In 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly suceeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy." What's the point of having privileges to vote, when the segregationist who elect electors are against the president you voted for. What's happen to having free rights, and be able to vote for who you want, and knowing that he or she would suceed and lead our country to the right path. By having the electoral college system it is getting rid of those rights. Also the "2000 fiasco" was known as the biggest problems we had in the century. Are goal is improving our country not deteriorating it. If we change our election to a popular vote we wouldn't even be in this mess.
Citizen who agree on keeping the electoral college system say that "electoral votes induces the candidates as we saw in 2012's election to focus their campaign efforts on the toss-up states." What wrong with all the states? Are we not part of this country to? Their focusing all their attention on the states that they would be recieving their votes from. Their not even giving other states an opportunity of getting to know their candidates and what their offering to are country on improving it. Another, example is that the electoral college votes relay on larger states. They do that because they know that all their votes are going to come from the bigger states but that's incorrect they should relay on the whole country completely of getting their votes from.
In conclusion, the | 3 |
19e5e8b | You use driving in everyday life such as the school bus, cars, trucks, etc... Today manufactors are smarter than ever and today the have driveless car! That is crazy isn´t it, now you still have to have your hand on the wheel but for the most part the drives for you.
I dont´t mind the idea of moving cars, I just wouldn´t buy one because I like to be able to control the car and not a computer. I just don´t think i would trust it. The price on these car are probaly going to be very high and if you wreck who are you going to blame it on, the car or yourself. Plus we would have to make new laws about the marst cars as well.
If there are these cars I beleive there will be more wrecks because of machanical failure in ther car, Those wrecks will lead to lawsuits of the people who had the car and is trying to the maufactors and the people have a good lawyer they will probaly which might put the car business in a strugle if the give up all this money from lawsuits.
If we have driverless car there will be more wrecks and mor lawsuit out and I don´t think it is worth all of that. So I think we should just stick to regular car and make them more safe. | 2 |
19e85b7 | Driverless cars, Whats my opionon on them, and some supporting details. Well first off, i dont really care if they are made or not, it's not my money or time being invested or devoted into them. Now i wouldnt say they are a good idea, but i will say i think they are a really cool project and concept, and i do and know they are out there.
Do i see issues with cars that can guide or drive themselves? Yes, i do, but did anyone see cruise control being a thing when it was first invented, i dont think so. Some major issues i see is law suits, and such when they are invloved in a accicent, such as who fault it is the driver or the computer, and what you can do if it is the computers fault. what if it kills someone? who gets blammed, and who goes to jail for the crime. What if the driver of the self guided car gets killed in a stand alone accident? Who knows.
I also see a issue of them releasing the car, and they'er being alot of unsolved issues, fatal ones, so i think it should go threw major and long and extensive testing, during snow conditions, dirt roads, high ways, city streets, alleys, sand, mud, tempture testing, impact testing, and long hours testing to make sure this thing is almost faultess, and insures safety for everyone.
I also see the benefits of this car, such as allowing the driver to relax and pay attention to other obstacles, and unseen objects etc. I see it allowing cars to hold lanes better, maintain safer speeds, and stopping impacts before they happen with the right technology. i see it making a incoventent travel more convenient, and making simple life task even easier then they were. It could also cut down on the careless drivers.
I do think it's a neat idea and a cool project that needs alot of time, and developement, but i dont wan't all human task, and responsibilties taken away. I don't wanna see the world turn into nothing, but robots, and automated machines. I want to see cool things, that are fun, and make life a little bit eaier, but still allow us to have do do things. Thats just my personal opionon. | 3 |
19e8bd3 | Have you ever heard of the "Unmasking the face on Mars" before? Well people started making accusations before they got a high quality photograph. They though it was a face aliens had made on Mars, that was one of the many accusation made about the face on Mars.
The face on Mars is just a landmark because "The Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in April 98a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet." So there as a big cloudy winter storm when people discovered the face. Well with all the wind blowing it could of just been made of dirt and rocks and everything blowed into one pile and by a cowincidence been made into a face.
Second another reason why the face is just a landmark because right after the winter storm they got "A 1976 Viking 1 photograph of the Face on Mars." Before they can go make accusations that go into history you have to have a high quaity picture to prove you are right. They got one picture and that is not enough to solve something in history to start making illogical accusations without evidence.
Finally why the face is just a landmark on mars is because instead of waiting to get a high quality image they waited 3 years to go back to Mars to see it. When they finally did go back to see the face they had a lot better and high quality cameras. So when they arrived back on Mars it was proven that the so called face was just a landmark. A quote in the text that makes everything logical is "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesalandforms common around the American West."
So there you have it the face on Mars was just a landmark not an alien face.
See before everyone made illogical accusations they did not have a high quality photo and when they first took the photo when it was a cloudy day. NASA is correct because before making accusation they went and got evidence to prove their thoery's. | 4 |
19ea366 | The Seagoing Cowboy program is not a popular choice of career. But meeting new people, traveling from place to place, and taking care of animals is fun, right?
If you'd like to make more frineds, there's all sorts of ways to meet new people. In this program you're able to do just about every one of them. The first new people you're going to meet are your fellow crew members on the ship. Then when you get to the destination you meet even more people, whether it's strangers on the sidewalk, or even an army crew waiting for their animals.
Traveling? Definetely! I've traveled to so many places. Some of my favorites are Greece, China, and Italy. My favorite part about Greece was the Acropolis. On my way to China, I saw the Panama Canal. I loved taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, and adventuring an old castle in Crete was pretty cool.
If you're a big animal lover, this job may be for you. I've taken care of hundreds of animals. My first shipment contained 335 horses! Along with the horses, enough hay and oats to get them through the trip. The trips were very long so taking care of the animals kept me busy and as long as I was busy, they were healthy. The animals had to be fed and watered two or three times a day. And the stalls had to be cleaned.
Like I said, meeting new people and traveling can always be fun. And if you love animals, you're practically ready to sign up. The Seagoing Cowboys aren't always easy, but it sure is fun! | 3 |
19ea9ea | The auther supports his idea by writing a paraghragh and putting in ideas or what people reserach. The author starts the paragragh by telling us what is venus is and what conditions that the plants has what earth does not have. The next thing is that the author said that Venus is the closest planet to the earth in terms of density and size and occasionally the closest in distance too. The next thing that the author puts in the paraghragh is that venus go around the sun in diffrent speeds then the earth. I think we should explore venus because venus might have the material that earth has not the second thing is that venus might have new creature that we never seen before that can with stand the conditions that venus has. The third thing is that venus never ben explord before so we might see thing we might not have seen on earth. The next thing I want to say is that we can use venus as a waypoint for space ships to go back and refule and get things to explore new planets but the conditons on that planet IN the paragragh it said that venus has sulfuric acid in the air is 90 time denst as the atmaspher on the earth. The second thing is that the artical said venus average tempoture is over 800 degrees fahrenhiet and venus has the hottest suface tempoture on anyother planets in our solar system. The third thing is that venus weather presents thing like eruping volcanoes powerful,earthquakes, frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface. The artical said that peopel try to get to the surface of venus and it was not working until they made a robot that can with stand the surface for three weeks. The next thing is that long time ago venus use to have thing that earth have to but over time they distaper and have the same surface like earth the nexts thing is that they were thinking to put a huvering vehicle like a plane that can huver over the clouds that can scan the surface with out have something happening but they cannot take samples so they have to get close and personale. so the nasa is tyring to get samples from venus and worrking on the computers that can scan the suface. Thats the thing I can sume up from the paraghragh. | 2 |
19f4b8e | Although the idea of driverless cars is quite enticing, the reality is that driverless cars are not practical. Yes, there have been many advances in the driverless car and it does have environtmental benefits like the use of less gasoline, but there are serious downsides to the driverless car.
The amount of money that would be spent on the driverless car would outweigh the amount of gas money a person would save. The article states that smarters roads were too expensive, so they are making the cars smarter by equipping them with sensors. Money is being spent on developing the right kind of sensors, and then there is the price to install them in every car. It is not stated in the article were the money to develop and test the driverless car comes from, or how much this costs, but by the looks of it, this wouldn't be a cheap commodity. Spending money on something that is not needed seems trivial when that same money could be spent of things that could benefit people's health or quality of life.
More importantly, there seems to be a multitude of safety risks. If there is not a driver controlling the car, how is it going to correct bad situations? I understand the car will have control of itself, but will it know what to do if an animal runs in the road, or a tree has fallen? Researchers are asking those very questions, which is why they are thinking up ways to alert the driver when it is necessary that he or she takes control of the car. It says in the article that it is illegal in test computer-driven cars in most states because those states are taking safety precautions. So despite lawmakers viewing driverless cars as a danger, people are still working to enhance the ability of these cars and looking into ways to ensure safety by having a driver ready to take action if a situation goes awry. In paragraph 8, it states that some manufacturers want to bring in-car entertainment into the vehicle so drivers stay alert without getting bored. This all just seems to be a bit excessive; if the driver just drove his or her own car, he or she wouldn't need entertainment, and safety wouldn't be called into question.
Having a car that can drive itself is not a necessity, but more a luxury. Like many luxuries, it is expensive, but on top of that, it is also dangerous. Automakers have a good vision and strong ideas, but I just don't see the purpose. There are a lot of areas of the driverless car that needs improvement, and researchers know this. It seems as though it would be a waste of time, money, and hardwork to get the driverless car into a state at which it would be considered safe. Overall, human safety is the most important thing, and the driverless car cannot guarantee that safety. The driverless car is a neat fantasy, but it should not be anything more than that. | 4 |
19fcf9f | I think that fellow citizens should have the advantages to car usage, because not everyone would feel comfortable ridding around in a bus or a train with lots of other people . But then again you have some conflicts with the environment getting all ugly and nasty . Some people are different from others not everyone will want to go the same way meaning . They rather have their own privacy and not be on a bus or a train full of random people that might be sick with a flu or smell really nasty. Thats why 80 percent of transportation has been thruogh highways an only 20 percent to other transportation . Most of the people who intend to use train or buses don't have the right amount of money to purchase a brand new car or even a used one . The cause of that is Taxes or IRS are taking to much from the people who work to hard an theres nothing that can be done too that.
This is what I don't get about how things are being done to try an save our planet called earth . If you want to try an save some thing an make it better. Don't make a expensive invention an expect people to by it like for examlpe the hybrids or plug-in cars. People can't afford many things in life because money comes an goes without out you evening knowing it . So why try to start something new when its only making more of a mess that inventers are cuasing.
The way Bogota is going is the best idea that I've ever heard of they couldn't of nailed it any better . They stopped a capital city of 7 millon people from using their cars . An look at the good effects it did, new restaurants where opened an upscale shopping district haved cropped up . The pitted an uneven sidewalks have been fixed an replaced by new smooth sidwalks. Even parks and sports centers haved also bloomed throughout the city, which is good because parents have more time an money to get their kids more actived in to sports an going out to play.
The last passage explanes what I've been saying less people are buying cars why invent new things . People are going unemployedment an things aren't going to get any better for our country . The governments are asking for to much plus you have taxes an the IRS right behind them waiting to grab your money that you worked hard for . Another thing that I don't get is why the President of the untied states can help other countries but yet can't even of seem to help his own country who is lossing more money as days go by . Whats going on up their in the white house we the people slecet you the president to run our country not others an help benfit us. | 1 |
1a05aeb | Having a car now a days is very important and extreamly useful in order to transport yourself from one place to another. However, people don't realize the damage they are causing when using cars or other transporting veichles. Fellow citizens haven't yet understood the advantages of how great it would be to limit car usage.
Citizens should know that limiting car usage is a great a great avantage because it causes less pollution. According to Source 2., after several days or pollutuion Paris mandated a driving ban to clear the air of the global city and about 4,000 drivers were fined for not obeying the regulations. In line 11 it clearly states, "On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were odered to leave their cars at home or suffer 22-euro fine $31. The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day." Paris has pushed so far the "car-free" law that they are willing to banned and fine individuals. Not only but, in Source 3 it explains Bogota has also enforced a "car-free" day. In line 24 it states "I'ts a good oppertunity to take stress away and lower air pollution."This helps people undertsnad the advantages of limiting car usage. | 2 |
1a07cfb | Would you like to join the Seagoing Cowboys program? You will have so much fun we do lots of things. After World War ll we go and help many animals and people. You will get to do many things in your free time. You will learn many things about our program.
Lets talk about what we do in our program,and where we go. How did we go and help the animals that were being shipped away on sea? Well the UNRRA had called us and told about them,and it seemed like they needed our help. As you know we help a lot of animals in our company. The animals deamnor change when we came in.
In our free time we play many games and we eat A LOT of food. Some of us act like monkeys in a good way. We talk about many thinks while were on sea OH
I almost forgot we help people too. It takes about Two weeks to go to some places it takes months too. Just remember its alawys worth it with animals and people. You will also get a free shirt and a enourmous tv. please don´t go just because of those things.
I think this program is very important and very fun you get to help people lives and animals. You can save many live in just one city we would be very melancoly if you didn´t join. When you join we WILL be able to unjoin if you would like everything that you do here is free. You do not have to pay for anything here all of its FREE.Thank you thank you for haveing time to watch this commercial I hope you join this program. | 2 |
1a0971f | A world with driverless cars would be a very simple world. With newer and more advanced technology being invented everyday, it
gets safer as well. Although driverless cars are not completely driverless yet, it's still a great start to an amazing future.
I am a new driver, meaning that I am just learning how to drive, and I have to admit; it's not as easy as it looks. I think it would be wonderful to live in a time period that has driverless cars, or at least be able to witness them being made. The majority of our cars now are already operated by computer systems, even though humans do the majority of the work required to control a car. The human kind as a whole isn't always the keenest when it comes to being aware of our surroundings, and being able to have a car that allows us to pay more attention without actually doing anything could take away a lot of the pressure for drivers, especially teen drivers.
Fuel consumption has always been, and probably always will be one of the top issues associated with cars and driving. But with the creation of these new, driverless cars, the amount of fuel consumption should go down according to Google cofounder, Sergey Brin. The health of our planet is a major concern, and having millions, maybe even billions, of cars letting out gas is not making it better. If we can create a car that requires less fuel (which means it'll produce less gas into the air), then that is one thing we can check off of the list of things destroying Earth.
Sensors and lasers are also great contributions to the completion of driverless cars. Although they would, of course, still require the driver to be on stand-by, 98% of the energy to opererate and drive the car would be done by the car itself. Technogly is continuously advancing, and at an even faster pace, it's getting hard to keep up. In no time we'll all be driving in cars that don't actually require us to drive. Sebastian Thrun seems to have the same idea, considering that in just the time frame of the 2000s, we've created GPS, computers, laptops, and touchscreen cellphones.
Paragraph eight asks us "Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver? Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?" I think these are great questions! I know that as a new driver, I would totally miss not being able to drive, so why not create a car that gives you the option of deciding if you want the car to drive itself, or if you want to drive! Of course no one likes traffic, and who likes 16+ hour car rides to Florida? These could be the times that the car would drive by itself.
All in all, driverless cars could be one of the many successes of man kind, but safety is still an issue. It's a great thing to be able to come up with the idea to create things such as driverless cars, but it's even better to know your'e the one who perfected the idea, and turned it into a reality. We are living in a reality of an innovative generation that's only just getting started. I can't wait to see what happens next. Maybe my car will be flying by then, too! | 5 |
1a0ee12 | ¨Wow look at that car it´s the kind of car that it can drive its self.¨ These are the words you may be hearing in the furture because people are starting to create cars that can drive themselfs. What do you think about this? Do you think that its a good thing that people are making it or a bad thing? If I had to chose I believe driverless cars are bad because they might cause an accident, something could go wrong when you are using it, and maybe they could stop working out of nowhere.
Think about this if the car would cause an accident who will they blame it on the car or the person that was in it? Some may never know but what if the driverless car cause an accident how would people react to it. It´s bad because then people would have to come up with a new law probably saying who would get the punishment if a accident would happen with the driverless car. In the text it says, ¨ New laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident.¨ Therefore I believe that the driverless car is bad and could prevent accidents while driving.
If the driverless car would be made and people would get them something could go wrong at anytime without them noticing. Driving the car would be putting the people at risk that are using it because something could go wrong with the car and could cause an accident that would put other people in danger. What if the technology in the car would fail at anytime it would put at risk for the person in the car and that won´t be good. Therefore I believe that the driverless car could stop working while using it an it could put people in danger.
In the text it says, ¨Automakers are continuing their work on the assumption that the problems ahead will be solved.¨ Even it says that in the text what if people would buy the driverless car and then it would stop working out of nowhere. If that would happen many people will see that it could stop working out of nowhere and it could put them in danger were their lives are at risk. If the driverless car would stop working out of nowhere would people get their money back, or would they get a new one, or would the company that sold them the car would just not give them nothing back? This is why I believe that the driverless car is not good because it could just stop working out of nowhere and then what would you do after that.
In conclusion people should think about weither or not to get the driverless car because some stuff could happen to it. People should think about if getting the driverless car is really worth it getting because you never know it could just be a waste of money. I believe people should just drive themself to places so they could see the places around them and if possible go as fast as they want to go. Therefore I believe that the driverless car could cause accidents, could fail of technology, and just stop working at anytime. | 3 |
1a0ee90 | There is a major debate going on in the United States about whether or not driverless cars should be able to be on the roads. Driverless cars should not be allowed on the roads with human drivers.
Three reasons driverless cars should not be allowed on the roads are, they don't have a human to react to a situation, they can malfunction, and they do not have the survival instincts that people have.
Some people think driverless cars are safe because they are able to react better than humans.
However, these cars cannot react as well as people.
A driverless car relies on sensors hooked up on the car to know its surroundings whereas a human can visually see their surroundings and react to a situation.
In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" the author states that, "The spinning sensor on the roof. Dubbed LIDAR, it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings." Cars that rely on sensors can't completely know what is around them.
Many people think that tecnology is reliable, that it will never malfunction.
However, there have been many cases where tecnology has given out on us.
Tecnology is never one hundred percent.
It will fail every once in a while.
The author of the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" states, "If the tecnology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-driver or manufacture?" Tecnology can fail even at the worst moments.
Do you really trust something that could fail in an emergency?
Many people also believe that a car will avoid collisions.
However, a car doesn't have the survival insticts that a human has.
A human will avoid anything that puts their life in danger.
In the article "Driverless Cars are comming" the author says that, "None of the cars developed so far are completely driverless. They can steer accelerate, and break themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills." Cars can not navigate conditions tht require human instict which the cars themselves do not have.
Driverless cars should not be let out on to the roads.
If they are put on the roads people may have trouble.
The cars could cause trouble for human drivers.
The driverless cars can not drive like humans.
The cars may cause more danger than good for human drivers. | 3 |
1a0ff6e | People believe that this natural landform that looks like a face on mars was done by aliens. Well it wasn't. If it was aliens we would tell you because it would be a benefit for us. People on earth see natural landforms that look like certian things all the time. Not to mention it looked like such a face because the shadows that it casted made it more detailed.
If it was aliens it would benefit us. Like the text states, "Some people think the face is bona fide evidence of life on mars." But its not. The text comes back afeterwards and says "Defenders of the NASA budget wish there was ancient civilization on mars." If it was an ancient alien statue we would say it and back it up, because it would have a highly strong benefit towards NASA because we could get donations for it. Along with more popularity.
Not only would it benefit us, but it looks like natural landforms all across the world. The text even states, ""It reminds me most ofMiddle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho."" Not only that but it mentions, ""that's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same hieght as the face on mars.""
Why not ask questions about landforms that look detailed or look like aliens may have done it on earth?
The main reason the face looked the way that it did was because of the shadows that it casted. The text tells us, "Shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose and mouth." The text also tells us, "Because of its face like structure it become a great attraction. Starring in films, books, magazines and other articles." If it weren't for the shaddows then what was the point.
What if NASA is lying? What if none of this is true? WHY SHOULD PEOPLE BELIEVE US? People should believe NASA because again this all would benefit NASA. The text even states, "Defenders of the NASA budget wish there was ancient civilization on mars." Not to mention, if it was a sign of human life it would show a dramatic increase of popularity.
So no it isn't an alien statue, or a sign of ancient alien civilization. If it was we would tell you so we could have a benefit or major profit. On Earth we have natural landforms all around that look like actual things made by aliens. Why not question them about those natural landforms? Not only that, the only real reason it looked like a face was because the shadows it casted made it look like it had a mouth, eyes, nose, and other facial features. And we're not lying because it would benefit us. | 4 |
1a10d27 | Have you ever seen on televsion the cars that people arent driving? Or how you dont need to constantly keep your hands on the wheel or your foot on the gas pedal? Well these cars are coming to your dealier ship, knowing that you dont have to stay focused on the rode and paying attention to what other drivers are doing makes me not like the idea of having driverless cars. If the driverless car is doing what is it supposed to do doesnt mean that the driver on the oppisite side of the rode is doing what they need to do.
The reason that i would disagree to have driverless cars comes from many viewpoints, what if the map that is located in the car doesnt see the aminal that is about to run in the middle of the road at night. like in paragragh eight it stated that why would you want a driverless car when you have to wait your turn to drive, it only needs you to drive when the car cant opperate on its own. What if you are doing something that forces you to not pay attention to the rode and then you need to help out and you need to take control, but you are doing something else, your hands arent by the wheel or gas pedal, the car needs your help and you cant be near it, what would happen in that situation, would it be your fault or the driverless cars fault? With the laws, how would your driverless car know the speed limits in the area when they change from different rode and interstates. you are the safest person to be driving the car because you have the eyes on cordation when driving and can notice traffic signs and speed limits signs.
With cars being able to drive themselves it would make the road more dangerous by not knowing the speed limits and not knowing road regulations. what if the speed limits changes from street to street, the driverless car doesnt have to know that. Not staying completely focused to the road will have effects on the cars that do reqiure the driver to stay focused. The idea of having driverless cars makes the roads more dangerous for other drivers and pedestrians. | 3 |
1a14e33 | Have you ever wondered about how cars would be upgraded ? Just like phones are being upgraded each year, becoming greater that people love it. After reading the article of "Driverless Cars Are Coming", I do not think that upgrading our cars in the future would be nessary for people. The reason why is because it could have a negative impact on us. It can also cause death, change of law , and change of rules the way people are driving.
In paragraph 1, Sergery Brin says that he envisions a future where there would be public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public tranport taxi system. He also says that the car would use half a fuel of todays taxis and would offer more flexibility than a bus.He believes thats such cars would fundamentally change the world. But as for me, I do not believe that it will change the world. People will face consequence, death, and danger if cars like this are invented.
In paragraph 7, it says that cars are designed to notify drivers when the road ahead of us requires human skills, suck as navigating through work zones and around accident. If the car was invented,how would we be able to turn away from accidents and work zone? If something happened while inside the car, we would just be dead.Inventing this car will bring death,
desruption and war to the world.
People do not want desruption,death, and war, they want peace and if this car is invented we will have to face danger.
In paragraph 8, it says that in-car system is actually a safety feature and that safety is a big concern. If the car is invented there won't be any safety. The reason why is if there were no stop light, and signs how are we going to know what the rules are?To change the rule and the law , the goverment would have to change everything that they have worked on for many years.They would have to make new rules and new laws.It will just bring choas to the goverment and to the people.
In conclusion, having a car being invented without a driver would be a bad idea for the future. The reason why is because it could cause death, consequence,change, and desruption to the people and to the world.The cars will not secured us, or give us safety, it will danger us and kill us.We should be happy right now with all the rules and the laws because it keeps us safe from dieing and accidents.People will died twice more than people dieing now.Inventing the car is a bad choice for everyone. | 4 |
1a17d8e | The Seagoing program teaches you how to have athority and percistence. That program changed my life forever;and it might change yours to. The Seagoing program has lots of things to do like,take care of horses,young cows,and mules that weren't on shore,they were shipped overseas. There might be people in the world that don't care,but wouldn't you want to help an helpless animal.
There are a lot of people that try and try to find a job but it is so hard working two jobs, or your working a lot of hours,or maybe you don't have a job at all,but the Seagoing program helps you with all of that. They even say that 44 nations joined TOGETHER to form the "UNRRA" (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration).Actually the UNRRA hired the Seagoing Cowboys to help animals and stuff,so the Seagoing Cowboys are in really good hands. The Seagoing Cowboys also helped with World War ll with recovering food suplies,animals,and more. We put up a really good program for people that need jobs.
The Seagoing Cowboys also get to travel a lot. We get to go to places like China,Europe,and New Orleans for buisness trips. We help many people around the world and we fight strong and get the work done. The work that we do shows people that they have a good life it might not be the best but they get to see and help others. At the end people the Cowboys did get to relax so played baseball and volleyball,some played table-tennis,fencing,boxing,reading,wittling,it is not all work sometimes you get to sit back and think you just help a loyal country out today,that shows kindness and honor. | 2 |
1a19cfb | Although many people believe that the photo of a " Human Face" taken by NASA's Viking 1 from 1976 is created by aliens , many scientists prove it to be wrong. Considering how land can form in many shapes and sizes , it's not impossible for a landmass to looklike a face. It's also not impossible for aliens to build it but the fact that NASA have never discovered aliens prove that it cannot be credit to aliens, atleast not yet. Light also made it looklike a face and hide some parts with shadows thus making us blind to the other half. Another prove is that if we view it closer, it's nothing like a face but just an illusion. Therefore proving that aliens should not be credit of creating it.
Landmasses can have a variety of results. On Earth there are many landmasses ranging from high mountains to blue seas to dry lands and each of them have different types of appeareance. There are also many islands on Earth that shaped like a heart or other shapes. Even on Earth, there are many artifacts that are thought to be made by aliens. Why? Because they were ahead of their time but as soon as humen start accepting them, they were considered inventions. Knowing this fact, it's pretty clear that there will be more unique shapes and unknown tools to be discover on the Red Planet. We just have to take our time and use it as our advantage.
Light also tricked our brains into believing that it was a face. Light can cause many illusions and it's strongest with shadows. We humen use light to make shadows of dogs and rabbits using our hands and the result seems like a dog's or rabbit's shadow. The shadows hide the other half of the face and thus the other half might just be a plain of nothing on it. We only use our naked eyes to judge it when we should use the measurements to determine if it really could be a face or just a landmass.
Then in 2001, NASA took another picture of the "Human Face" and with better and higher technologies, the face was re-discovered with small details. The camara from 1976 did not provide enough evidences and it's not clear enough for our naked eyes to see the small details like the strings and the land features. The land features prove that the other half was nothing like what we imagined. Only half is like a face and the other half is just land with no features of a human face. The picture from 2001 reveals that, what was thought to be a face made by aliens for decades, is just illusion made by landmass and light.
Many people still and will still believe that it was made by aliens because they are in denial. Although aliens existing has always made humen curious about the lifeform of other planets, the face is just leading us into a wrong direction. We need to focus more on discovering more planets beyond our reach and also see if there is water source available on them. We should not let little landmass trick us into wasting millions and millions of dollars on it. But what ever the cause may be, nature will always surprise us and we just have to be ready for it. | 4 |
1a1c096 | New codeing software that can read facial expression and then determin emotion. How will this be used and to what can it be applied to in schools to help teachers. How will this help teacher plane activites in the classroom. How much would it cost for a school to get and to use.
Teachers and how will emotion reading software help them in the classroom and what would it have to be on for it to work. I think that it whould help teachers in many ways one of the main thing I see it being used for is to help teachers to see what there student are haveing troulble with and then the teacher can help students that are haveing trouble with certain things helping students learn better.
teacher will be able to plan around the students needs it a class. If the student under stand how to do something the teacher can move on past it that lession or if certain student need more help so they can focase more on those certain student and give them the help that they need and move on after they under stand. Helping teacher plan there classroom day on the need of the students.
When the software bug free will be cheap to schools to use in the class rooms? The software is not a cheap thing so will all schools be able to use it and if it is will the computers be able to use it? I think it will help teacher alot with planing thigs in there classrooms and help student but i dont think that it will be to costly for all schools to have it and have the right tecnology to run the software. | 3 |
1a229bc | I must say that, in my opinion The Face on Mars is indeed NOT created by aliens. It is simply illogical. And, to prove my point, I have conjured a few reasons as to why this "Face on Mars" is a natural landform.
Firstly, the picture taken in 2001 is solid proof, as well as the 1998 picture. Both seem to resemble a simple mesa, a natural landform quite common on Mars. The 1998 photograph was slightly blurry, so three years later Michael Malin and his crew returned to the Red Planet, to the Cydonia region. Mr. Malin set the Mars Global Surveyor camera to maximum resolution, and snapped an excellent picture from above the Face. And, going even further, I will point out that each pixel in the 2001 photograph spans1.56 meters, as the Viking I's 1976 photo spans 43 meters per pixel. As you can see, this is a significant difference and must not be overlooked.
Also, I will point out that, in 1976, we at NASA were still relatively new to venturing beyond Earth's orbit. The Apollo 11 mission was just seven years old! To attach a high-powered camera to a space shuttle was very challenging at the time. I still hold to my belief that, during the 1976 mission, it was either the fault of the Viking I for holding a bad angle for the camera and causing blurriness, or the camera's fault for simply not being powerful enough. The 1976 photo spans just 43 meters per pixel, which at the time was a very high resolution, but now is considered very low. All in all, the Viking I photo of the Face on Mars is forty years old and must not be taken as seriously as it once was.
My final claim that the Face on Mars is a mesa lies in the fact that, if the Face really was an alien monument, NASA would not keep their lips tight about it. It would make global headlines, and shock the world. I find it highly unrealistic that NASA would even have been able to determine what the Face was forty years ago, much less hiding a discovery of extra-terrestrial life that could make a huge profit for the space program. And, had NASA really claimed that the Face was an object built by otherworldly life, surely someone would let the cat out of the bag. Not to mention that, if the vast majority of NASA believed it was an alien monument, do you really think that they would wait eighteen years to investigate the subject again? On top of all of this, it's simply illogical that aliens would create such a thing. As far as we all know, the supposed "aliens" on Mars have never come in contact with a human, much less seen one. That only leaves possible explanation; aliens created a monument that of which coincedentally resembles a human head. An absolute coincedence.
Are you ready to accept the truth about the Face on Mars? I have listed valid, credible arguments including the high resolution of the 2001 photo, and the weak resolution of the 1976 photo. I also questioned the logic of extra-terrestrial life, and the logic that NASA would have used to cope with the discovery of aliens. Thank you for your time and effort in reading this essay. | 5 |
1a252f8 | The number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005. From there, it steadily dropped to, as of April 2013, nine percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in January 1995. This decrease has had positive effcts, though. Limiting car usage saves time, improves safety, conserves resources, and causes more social interactions with people.
Recent studies suggest the Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less, and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. Still, in places like paris, cars are still causing polution. After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. On Monday, motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine. The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day. Because of this ban, congestion went dow 60 percent in the capital of France. By haveing fewer cars out on the streets, it lowers rates of traffic and the time it takes people to get to work. Also, in result of a decrease in traffic, there would be less accidents and less lives lost to motorvehicle collisions.
France's tax policy that favors diesel fuel over gasoline results in higher percent of people using diesel vehicles. Diesels make up 67 percent of vehicles in France, compared to 53.3 percent average of diesel engins in the rest of Western Europe. By cutting back on car usage, the world would save an astronomical amount of resources. If people stopped bying cars, there would be less production of them. Thus conserving the metal, as well as other materials, used to make the cars.
"When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two, as she walked verdent streets where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor. Sitting in a car to get to work, or any where in fact, restricts how much interaction you have with other people. By walking, or even taking public transportation, you get the chance to run into people you know or meet new people.
Time saving, improvement on safety, conservation of resources, and more social face-to-face interactions can be accomplished by limting car usage. The decrease in the percentage of miles driven in the United States from 2005 to 2013 proves that people are starting to understand this. If the pattern persists--and many sociologists believe it will--it will have benificial implications for carbon emissions and the enviornment as well. | 4 |
1a26c65 | At NASA we found something interesting on Mars, it looked like a face that the Viking 1 spacecraft was taking photos of. Many people believe the Face was an alien artifact, but it was not.
The Face is a natural lanform and was not created by aliens. The captin of NASA at the time said it was a "huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." The Face wasnt a face it was just the shadowing and placement of where the photo was taken from. "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared o a JPL web site, revealing...a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." This was after more clearer pctures were taken and it looked just like a landform, nothing else.
It wasn't an alien artifact, it was just a landform taken from an angle which it looked like a face and the Viking 1 didn't take that clear of pictures from the ones I have seen and the photos were taken all the way back in 1976. | 2 |
1a289be | The best option of a substitute planet in our solar system is Venus, if our world get destroyed by us or eny other entity people could go to Venus because it's the planet more likely to our own planet. Mars also is very likely to the Earth, but is this particular case, we will focus in Venus.
First, one of the reasons we should consider Venus as an option to live if our planet gets destroyed for a disease, apocalipse or any other reason, is bacause Venus is in our solar system, this is a really big advantage because the population don't have to travel for a long time to found another place to live in. There is a lot of other planets people can go because there are more likely to the Earth, but there are years light far from our planet, and we don't still have the technology to go to that other planets.
Also, the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus is similar to the temperature of the Earth. This is really important because we can't go to a planet that is a lot cooler or hoter that the Earth for a simple reason, people would die if we go to any other planet that has a high or low temperature. Also not only people would die, animals and plants too, people need plants and animals to eat, if we don't have animals and plants we don't have food and medicine and people would die.
Finally, the size of Venus is almost the same size of the Earth. People can't go to a planet that is smaller that the Earth, because it wouldn't be enough space to live in, if it is bigger nice, if people would have a bigger planet and population can grow up, but it can't if the planet is smaller.
In conclution, if the people have to leave the Earth and go to another planet, the best option would be Venus, or even Mars, because these two planets are more likely to the Earth and there are the nearest planets we have bucause there are in the same solar system. | 4 |
1a28c7f | Dear, State Senator
We should change the election process for the president of the United States to the 'election by popular vote' method. This process is a lot more equal and very easy for the people.
The 'election by popular vote' method needs to become the newing presidential voting process for many reasons. When people vote today its not just the indivisual people voting its the indivisual states voting as a whole. Which in a way can cause confussion and unequality. The electoral college has many flaws inside its system, for instance ''under the electoral college system, voters do not vote for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president.'' But if you had the 'popular vote' method every single person that voted would have a personal vote that counted as 1. It is aggreable to sya that ''the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational.''
Even though the electoral college is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non democratic method of selecting a president. There are still at least two good reasons to keep it. One being that it ''restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states only ny populaton lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreeed in the Constituton.'' And the other being that the Electoral college avoids the problem of elections where no candidate receives a mojority of the votes cast.
In counterclaim of the good attributes of the electoral college voting system we could still state that the 'popular vote' method is still a much more equal, fair, accurate, and durable way of voting for the president of the United States. | 3 |
1a28f21 | There are many reasons why not only me but others say that driveless car are a bad idea. Cars are made for humans to contorl them. Some cars are not as driveless because they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issuse, navigating through roadwork or accidents. Driverless cars must know where you want to go to take you there. This will not help anyone learn how to drive cars the right way if they do it for you. This is just like a teacher helping a student on his or her big test.
Driverless cars are not safe. Why might people say that? Well in the story Driveless Cars Are Coming it said that many futurists believed the key to developing self-driving cars wasn't so much smarter cars as smarter roads. Uses posittion- estimating sensors on the leeft rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera, a GPS receiver. What happens if these things goes out? Who can we blame the driver or the manufacturer?
The car will have alot of problems someone can get injured if the technology goes out. Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver? Wouldn't driveers get bored waiting for their turn? Such displays can be turned off instantly hen the driver needs to take over. Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers , passengers, and others sfae. | 3 |
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