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1bd1109 | Did you know that Venus was a planet and is that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit? Well it actually is and Venus is the second planet from the sun. Venus is sometimes called the Evening star because it is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. Making it simple to spot in the sky.
Venus is referred to as "Earth's twin". Venus is the closest planet to earth in terms of density and size. Also it is the closest according to distance too. Earth and Venus are like neighbors. Venus was just around the corner, Humanshas sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world. The previous mission was unmanned and for a amazing reason. No apcecraft have survived the landing for more then a few hours. we should send more. Despite the danger but we haven't touched venus more then three decades.
The author supported the idea of studying this planet is a worthly pursuit because we have to know more about this planet then just knowing we are the closest out of all the planets. He stated,"Our travel on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation". The author claims that space is an important study according to this statement. | 2 |
1bd30e5 | Are driverless cars neccesary? in my opionon driverless cars are not neccesary for one i belive driverless cars are more for amusment than anything else. for example in the artice"telivision and movies have long been fascinated with cars that could drive themselves" so companies are going through all this trouble to make a driverless care that will amuse peaple.
secondly i dont think driverless cares are very safe driverless cars are not driverless yet they are more of an asistant for the driver. the driver can not pay attention and that could lead to acdidents.
finally driverles cars are technolgy and technology can always have glitches and i dont know about you but i would not like my life to depend on a machine that can have glitches if a driverless car were ever to harm a driver the driver could sue the comapny and that would be a loss for the companies so the companies would be taking a risk so in conclusion i dont think driverless cars should be something that peaple can go out and buy. | 2 |
1bd5edc | The Natural Landform on the Unatural Planet
Seeing something that you can't really tell what it is is frustrating, right? NASA and conspiracy theorists totally know what you are going through. NASA found a
"Face on Mars" and now everyone thinks it has something to do with aliens. Well, they are very wrong. NASA would have benefitted from the "Face of Mars" if aliens had anything to do with it, NASA took a picture on April 5, 1998 snapping a higher resolution picture, and on April 8, 2001, they took a picture at the sharpest point on a cloudless summer day, proving for the second time that it was just a landform. The skeptics may have their points on to why it may be created by aliens, but NASA has three amazing photos to prove them wrong. The Face on Mars is not really a face after all.
To begin, NASA's budget would have benefitted a lot if the landform had anything to do with aliens at all, so why would they want to keep it a secret if it were true? First things first, When NASA revealed the photo of the huge landformation it became a huge hit! They were hoping to catch the attention of Mars to the public, and boy oh boy, they did just that. It starred in a Hollywood movie, appeared in magazines, books, radio talkshows, even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years! Unfortunately, the positive popularity always comes with the negative. Some conspiracy theorists thought that the Face was bona fide evidence of life on Mars, evidence that NASA would rather hide. Defenders of NASA's budget can only wish that there was an ancient civilization on Mars.
Secondly, on April 5, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia, the section on Mars where "The Face" lives, snapped a picture of it ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. The picture proves again that the face is just a landform. The conspiracy theorists and people that supported their opinion were still not happy with the results. They said in paragraph 8, "The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze." I don't know how they get these crazy assumptions, but they will just never give up! They went all the way back to take a second picture to prove they're wrong, don't you think that shows that nothing about this landform is alien infested, or was created by them?
Last, but not least, They took a second picture of "The Face" at the highest resolution possible to prove to the opposing side again. We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view, said Garvin. Malins team captured an extraordinary photo using the cameras absolute maximum resolution. Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo. Garvin proved the correct point for everyone, hopefully having everyone believing that "The Face" is not a face, just a lava dome.
On the other hand, the other side had a bit of detail to help support their side as well. Their first assumption was that in the second photo, wispy clouds covered any alien like markings. To prove that wrong NASA took another photo at the highest resolution to prove that it is just a natural landform on Mars that has nothing to do with aliens. The skeptics will probably never give up on how this was made by aliens, but NASA has three extraordinary photos to prove them wrong every single time.
In conclusion, "The Face" is just a natural landform. NASA would have benefitted from the "Face of Mars" if aliens had anything to do with it, NASA took a picture on April 5, 1998 snapping a higher resolution picture, and on April 8, 2001, they took a picture at the sharpest point on a cloudless summer day, proving for the second time that it was just a landform. The skeptics can try to find every way to show that aliens had something to do with it, but they don't have three pictures of the landform itself. Real facts beat assumptions every time. Mars may be a mysterious place, but what isn't mysterious is the natural landform on Cydonia. | 5 |
1bd9027 | I think the driverless car is a bad idea, because if and when someone is injured in a car wreck who is to blame. you can make a law about that, but its just gonna turn into an arguement with everyone who is paying attention to it. If a driver is injured in a car wreck with the dreiverless car the person to blame is the manufacture. the manufacture put this car into the world and said it was safe and the "most of the time" nothing will happen. If the driverless car comes out into the world, its gonna be ran off some sort of technology back at the manufacture, if so its gonaa be hackable by anyone who is smart enough to do so, or if someone who works for the manufacture wanted to they could hack it them selves and get a lot of people hurt just by turning it off or turn the direction its going a little bit. they may even be a little mishap in the driverless car and the manufacture just skip it and move on later that mishap may get a bunch of people killed or injured. | 2 |
1bd9707 | The electorial college should not be used because you dont exactly vote for the president. the electorial college is to voulintary for presidention voting. 3 reasons why the electorial college should not be used because you vote for a slate of electors, they would have the advantige in votes, and it over rules the poeple vote.
One reason why this method should not be used becaus you vote for a slate of electors. instead of voting and using the poeoles vote, you vote for electors to elect for you. it comes from a variaty of places of whom is the electors. which lead to the biggest election crises odf 2000.
Another reqason why this method should nt be used is because they would have a advantige in votes. Republicans would mostly build up the election group. which is over 300 polititions.
one last reason is that it over rules the poeples vote. if the poeple vote is up to 40% and the electorial vote is 60% it would over rule our vote. which leads to a obviouse winner in the election on the camopaighn run.
the reason the elecctorial colllege should be banned is, you votefor a slate of electors, they would have the advantedg in the vote run, and it over rules the poeples vote. | 2 |
1bd9d8e | Many compainies around the world are trying to figure out the way how to make cars driverless and making the car drive by itself with out a drivers assistence. Companies like Google and GM and many other manufacturing companies. But could this be possible? What are the negative aspects? What are the postive aspects?
There are some positive and negatives aspects of driverless cars for example some of the negative aspects of diverless cars are that in order for cars to driver without a person then the roads would have to be built differently and that would take a lot of money and time to construct every road and highway in every state and country. Another negative aspect is that some driverless cars can steer,accelerate, and brake themseleves, but they are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills such as navigating through work zones and around accidents meaning that the driver still needs to be focused and paying attention to the roads overall the car is not driverless.
Now, the positive aspects are that now technology is so advanced and people do not have to navigate their cars and they can just let the car do it. Many companies and manufactors have already started on this project and tried to do an example on their own and some of the cars actualy work. For example Google modified a Toyota Prius using estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating senor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor. With all of those equipment there will be a chance that companies and manufactors will be able to construct the driverless car.
In conclusion i think that i am against the development of these cars because there are many things that could go wrong in these development of these cars for example all roads would need to be contructed again to be able to navigate the driverless cars and that would take a lot of time and also a lot of money. Another reason i am against the development of these cars is that these types of cars could cause a lot of technical difficultiesin the cars system and therefore could lead to more accidents and that would cause more deaths and more injuries on people. Therefore i am against the development of these driverless cars. | 3 |
1bdcde3 | In "The challenge of the Exploring Venus" it shows alot of the good and bad of studies that will help us understand why the author suggest that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The article stated that it is one of the brightest point of light in the sky.
Vince is the 2rd closest plant to the sun which meaning 800 degrees fahrenheit and the presseure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet.
170 degrees fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth, although Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system even though Mercury is closer to our sun, if humans lived there ther could be a chance of additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and freqent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface. Otherwise the planet would still have some efatures that are analogous to those on Earth such like Valleys, mountains,and craters.
Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for planetary visit. Asronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may erll once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system and i trust that the astronomers would say that because we still think that Mar would be our planetary visit. Although humans have sent numerous spacecrafts to land on the "cloud-draped world" as they call it. They have said that no spacecraft has survived the landing for more than a few hours ,despite its proximity to us and, of course should like a big danger and risk to take, not easy conditions, but survivable for humans. NASA's possibile solution to hostile conditions on the surface Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray.
Researcher cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance, Venus would need to get uo close and personal despite the risks, they are working on innovations that allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of venus, and some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simlating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions. But now they use mechanical computers which were first envisioned in the 1800s and played lots of important roles in the 1940s, by comparison systems that use mechanical parts can be more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces.
What i think of all of this is that the author us right to suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit depite the danger and chaos it represents human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Our travels on Eather and beyond should not be limited by dangers and boubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation as the article stated. The astronomers of today they shall wonder off to make Venus a both safe and scienctifically productive, and the people of todays world would be amazing at all the thing that is happening or what will happened to Venus. | 3 |
1be148f | The technology to read the emotional expressions is cool and all but using it for students in a class room should not be a good idea. Reasons why it would not be a good idea, the first reason is that students do not want to show their emotinal expressions, second reason if they do this and see what they are feeling they may or may not want to talk about why they are feeling this way, and third reason is that some students may not want to do it at all or not confable about doing it.
Many students do not want to show their emotional expression. I know people that like to hide all emotions and some like tho show their emotions even being happy, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. They also do not want to show emotions because they are scared of what people will say or do. And they just do not want people to worry about them.
Another reason why this is not a good idea is if students do this and people see what they are feeling they may or may not try to get that person to talk to them why they are feeling that way. I know from personal experinces why people do not want to talk about their feeling is that they do not know how to talk about how they are feeling or they just dont want to talk about them.
Thrid reason why this is not a good idea is that some students may not want to do it at all ot not conitable about doing it. I feel like their many peole would not want to do this because what they are feeling and some may just want to do just for they fun of it. Many people have their own opions but i feel like students just do not want to do it beacause if they are upset, angry, or depress and other people find out they are feeling that way everone is going to try to talk to them about it. But also it could be they are just not conitable about doing the test at all.
the technology may be cool but it could help people open up or it could put stress on them having everyone trying to get that person to open if they are upset or depress. So this is my reasons why this should not be use in a class room. | 3 |
1be4323 | why should we participate in being a Seagoing Cowboy? Some people ask but barley anyone knows. This might help us some times. But I think this will tough. We should do this, because it might help us, you sometimes get free time, and it is easy.
This job might help us alot. We can earn money and get a new house. You are shipping things. Things like milk dairy and other things. You could get a new house or a new car it might be able to be big small or whatever size you want it to be.
On this job you sometimes get freetime. You get freetime if you work hard on your job. The games we can play are like Poker, Cards, and more. If we don't want to play games we dont have to play any games. Therefore it is your choice if you want to play games or not.
Lastly this job is very easy. Mostly because all you have to do is ship crates with animals in them. The story says Luke also found time to have fun on board, especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. The job is probaly the easiest job you can find. So if you want this job for any reason it is a great job.
The job is great for all of these reasons. if you frogot what they were the reasons are that it might help us, you sometimes get free time, and it is easy. I think this job would be great for any of us. So if you want this job and if I were you then I would take it. Therefore I think this is a great job. | 2 |
1be7b59 | I do think it is possible to research venus even tho its deady in its ways. I am going to be stating on where in the paragraph and why i beleive it will support my answer.
The author states in paragraph 5 that they can stay 30 or so miles above the planet in a blimp-like vehicle but, they would still be toasty at 170 degrees fehrenhiet and they can have a jet to go above the storms. The pressure is about as strong as earths sea level at the level where the jet could be. With this information i read, I beleive it is possible to research venus with, maybe, no casualties. Venus is earths sister so its very similar to what earth has so it could have the needs to support life if, we know on what infromation it can give is good infromation.
From what i read and from what i know i can inform that it is worth trying to explore venus. Sure it has problems that might never be passed but, its worth a shot to increase and thrive our human race. The planet had some of the things we need like water, life, a hospitalized place, and yet it has things we dont need like high killing temperatures, almost no sunlight, no breathable air. Venus is worth exploring because it might gave a chance to help us thrive or even have the things we need to thrive like mars. | 2 |
1bee451 | The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom isn't a good idea. Some students may feel depressed and they probably don't want anyone to know. By using that technology you are exposing that. Although it was for good intentions some people may not feel comfortable with using it. Many people like to hide their emotions and not show it at all.
By having that technology exposed your emotions can also lead to bullying. By bullying that can lead to even more depression or anger. Most schools don't tolerate bullying but that technology is somewhat promoting it even though it has good intentions. I'm sure that alot of people can tell the emotions by looking at them. This also shows that the technology is uncalled for, the can simply ask someone how they're doing and you can tell by that.
In the article it says "In fact, we humans perform this same immpressive "calculation" every-day. For instance, you can probably telll how a friend is felling simply by the look on her face." Instead of wasting money on technology you can simply ask how they are feeling.
There is no use in the technology if you can just ask how are they doing. Alot of people wouldn't even use it. Either because they don't feel comfortable using it or either the don't want people to know how they're feeling which alot of people don't. | 3 |
1bf0096 | Well I think that the electoral college should stay because, its much easier then just picking a person to run the united states. The first reason is because, all you need to get is 270 votes just to win the whole thing. Also the winner take all deal is when the person with the most vote would take the others votes beacsue that person dont have all of the votes, so the person with the most votes would take all of the votes. This is from passage Dose the electoral college work? And the electoral college was founed by the founding fathers, so we know that this thing is really good to use.
The things that are wrong with use the electoral college is that is the person gets their votes for thir state the might just win because, the more the people that live there more of the votes that they might get. Pluse that shoulldnt be right beacsue that person knows everyone that lives in the town and they might not know that the other person is way much better then the person that they knew for many years. Also most people thing the electoral college is un fair beacsue it doesnt really give you the right things and the peple might be force to chose the wrong person beaucsue they knew that person for many years but the dont nothing about the other person. | 2 |
1bf4ba6 | While i feel like this could help with a few thing i feel as if it would just hurt humans in the long run because people will start to rely on the computers to tell them how other people are feeling, and that jsut makes it harder for the few people that help other people to help them when they are in need. This would be because we wouldnt be able to tell if ther person is scared or worried or just in need of help from anyone.
First of all, my biggest problem with this is that we cant rely on computers to tell us everything they cant feel what we feel when we look in the eyes of someone else. Not to metion that a computer can only do as much as we program it to do so it can only know all that we have discovered so it cant tell the different emotions of any accuratly because it doesnt know their give aways or how well they hide their emtions.
Secondly, you cant just base someone's emotions off of their facial expressions. This is because everyone including me find ways to hide how they are feeling and find ways to make their face look unemtional. To this effect people can control their facial muscles to a different degree of effiecenty. So, there for the computer would possible give inaccurate reports over and over again.
So, in the end I dissagree with that fact that this computer can tell how people are feeling based on their facial expressions. This is because for one they can't know for sure how well the person can control the muscles in their face, secondly they cant see the look in the eyes of the person and feel the emotion that is coming off the person who is looking at the computer. Finally, these are the reasons i can not agree with this article that you can tell someones emotions with just a computer instead of another human being. | 3 |
1bf8cee | When you're driving you are harming the planet. Allot of people do not realize the impact that they are making on the enviroment. Besides the fact that youre releasing toxins into the air driving is also dangerous and you can harm other people if youre not careful. There should be limited car usage for multiple reasons. It is much cheaper to ride a bike, in some places when you own a car you have to pay seperatly for a garage to put it in and you also need to buy a car and cars are not cheap. Riding youre bike places is better for the enviroment and will save you money that otherwise would have to be pent on a car and putting gas in it. Also if there is limited car use then the green house gas emmision could be lowered. Another reason is that people who are driving are likely to be tense and when you're on a bike you could be much happier than driving a car everywhere.
When you own a car there is alot of maintnence that goes into the car. Also when you own a car you need to put gas in the car. In places like Germany there are very few places to park a car and they also have to pay to put it into a garage. Owning a car could be a very costly deal and it would be much easier to ride a bike down the street to the market or other places that you need to go.
The green hosue gas emission in the United States is up to fifty percent. Driving cars everywhere is ruining our enviroment. We need this earth to last as long as we can and polluting it is not going to help us. Riding your bike places is an efficent way of transportation it may not be the fastest but it will get you where you need to go without polluting our earth. Driving cars is not only polluting our earth but it is also killing people, irresponsable drivers that drive under the infuence have killed dozens of people. Riding a bike is much more safe.
It is said that allot of people are tense when they are driving and that giving up driving has made people much happier and less stressed. When you give up driving you also give up the stresses of driving and makes you hapier.
If there is a limited use on driving it could make you ess stressed, it could lessen the pollution on earth, and it could save you money and get you to places safer and cheaper than driving a car. | 3 |
1bfcf1f | Human emotion can be expressed by many things such as body language, tone, and language. Emotion allows us to understand others and empathize easier. A software known as Facial Action Coding System has been developed to improve accuracy of calculating the emotions of others. Using this technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is invaluable because humans already can "calculate" emotions, the classroom is not taught by a computer, and human emotions are very complex.
The first reason that the FACS is invaluable to the classroom is because there is no need to use technology to "calculate" emotions of a student. A classroom consists of a teacher and several students which are humans. The author stated within the article, "humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day," He further on states that we can probably tell how a friend feels just by the look on their face. Since humans can already perceive and understand emotions of others, there is no need for a mode of technology to figure out when someone is bored or confused about certain subjects in a classroom. When a student is bored or confused about a certain subject, he or she could simply ask for help from a teacher or a peer. Using the FACS technology would be redundant in reading emotional expressions of students; Therefore, it is invaluable technology.
Computers are not what teach students in a classroom. The author tells the reader to imagine a classroom computer that could recognize your emotions, so it could "modify the lesson like an effective human instructor." There is always a human instrcutor( the teacher) in a classroom, so there should not be a need for a modification of a lesson by a computer when the teacher can modify the lesson. Students do not need to be dependent on a computer to learn what they need to learn in a classroom, and a computer that can calculate emotion is obsolete by its uselessness in the manner of learning.
The final reason why emotion calculating technology is invaluable in a classroom is that emotion is too complex for just a classroom computer to calculate. First of all, emotion differs from person to person. In the aritcle Dr. Huang, a professor of the University of Amsterdam, said, "The facial expression for each emotion are universal," but he also stated, "individuals often show varying degrees of expression." If emotional expressions are all unique, it would be very difficult for computers to calculate the exact feeling a students is feeling just by their facial expression. Also, in the seventh paragraph, the author stated, "Your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile." This means that the classroom computer would not be able to calculate like how it was used in the article.
In conclusion, the FACS is too redundant and under developed to be of any use for a classroom enviorment. It is invaluable and there are mulitple substitutes that can read emotional expressions of students in a school. In the future, with further innovations, there will be a time where classrooms use this type of technology to enhance education; but as of right now, the system is not useful for helping classrooms teach students. | 5 |
1bfefc4 | Humans are naturally curious creatures. No matter what people try to do their curiousity will always get the better of them. This is not a bad thing, being curious has changed life on Earth durasically. New inventions have been made vaccines have been created to help people improve their quality of life. Not only has the human curiosity helped to improve life here on Earth, but it has also brought new knowledge about the things outside of Earth's atomosphere.
Since the 1800s devices had been made to expaned people's knowledge about the planets around Earth. Computers have been made that "make calculations by using gears and levers." These machines had been made as early as the "1800s and played an important roles" in human history. "Modern computers are enormously powerful, flexible, and quick." With the modern advances in technology there are no reasons to why with even more improvements made humans would not be able to go an explore other planets such as Venus.
Changing perspective on going to Venus could help humans to one day actually go and study the magnificent planet of Venus. "We should think of them (risks) as challenges." Instead of thinking of the opsticalls that will have to be faced when going to Venus, think of them as challenges that will have to be overcame to get the succes and the results needed.
There are other approaches that could be taken on traveling to Venus. "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus". Despite the dangers that lie ahead with traveling to Venus there are so much more advantages and knowledge that can be gained from going to Venus. By actually going on Venus NASA sciencetist would be able to study "rock, gas, or anything else" that is more than what could be done if they only got a 'birds eye view' of Venus.
Sciencetist could discover exactly why Venus is "so inhospitable" compared to Earth. They would be able to comferm their beliefs of Venus being "covered largely with oceans". Sciencetist could find out what Venus would have been able to support. They would be able compare how exactly Earth and Venus are so simular and also how they are so different. The knowledge that they learn could even improve life here on Earth.
Humans are always going to want to discover new things outside of Earth's atomosphere, which has helped improve life for many people. With the modern advancements being made in technology and the knoewledge that could be optained by going to Venus there is no reason to why in the near future exploration of Venus should not be mastered. Every trip outside of Earth's atomosphere will have new challenges and new opsticalls to overcome. If NASA would not have worked hard like they did Neil Armstrong would never have gotten to the moon. Now is the time to overcome the challenges and get someone to Venus. | 4 |
1c030ff | Imagine a point in time in the future where there could be driverless and flying cars. People have always for a long time thought that this could maybe never be possible. Google cofounder Sergey Brin begs to differ. He believes that their may be a start towards driverless cars.
Sergey Brin imagines a future where numerous amounts of driverless car could form a public-transport taxi system. He believes that this could one day become a reality. Driverless car production should still continue over the next several years. Although driverless cars have drove over 500 miles without crashing, there are still setbacks. Driverless car would still have to alert the driver while backing out of driveways and navigating themselves through road issues such at construction zones and accidents with other drivers. Driverless car so far can drive, turn, and brake, but there are still somethings that the driver would still have to do.
Although the production of driverless cars is still just underway, there is still much more to be done. In the future, driverless cars may be available to everyone someday. There is still a long way to go, but we are getting closer to achieving this everyday. | 1 |
1c03444 | Cars...do we really need them? Just like cell phones there a popular demand and we need them but we became addidcted. Theres many differnt reasons why you may or may not need a car, but im going to be giving you the benifits of not using you car so much in todays socitety and mayvbe after reading this youll reduce the usage of your car.
To begin with, Theres many differnt ways people look at cars. Some look at it as to juss get you from point A to point B some look as collectable items some dont even see the value of a car but at the end of the day most cars are giving off gas thats polluting the air. As a kid were told pollution isnt good and as teens and adults were well aware that to much isnt good for our atmosphere but we still dont do anything about it. in china (paris), A high level of pollution hit the city and due to that they enforced a "partial driving ban' to clear the air. setting the example other cities enforced acts to help clear the pollution out the air and as a result the "smog" had cleard in time. After that many cites around the world did different thing to reduce pollution. for example in bogota colombia a programed held a "CAR FREE DAY" were people rode bikes skated and took buses to work. This program was set to spread all around the world.
Next, cars has benifited us in alot of ways but still has its flaws. For one you have safty. Not going off stats but i once read the most dangerous thing you can ever do is get into a car. your driving not only for yourself but the ones around you and some fail to realise that. Then you have conserving resources, were burning coal putting it into the atomosphere turning it into gas putting in our vehicals puttting into the atomosphere not u using our resources wisely.
In conclusion, the benifits on using your car less are better than the benifits of using you car the way we been using them thinking long term, there many different ways of transportation, and some you can do to benifit youself like exersize and ect. | 3 |
1c0a106 | The point of view on driverless cars vary from many people. In my opinion, I don't think that driverless cars are such a good idea. I think that we have found out that not all manufacturing works. There have been wrecks from people actually driving the car because something went out on the car such as brakes. The driverless car could just go out because it is all electric and it relys on the internet. The internet doesn't work all the time, for example I could be going down the road and be on my phone and only have two bars and my phone would not work. The problem could be worse, since I live in Indiana there is a lot of corn fields and country roads, so what if I am going down a country road and there isn't any type or form of internet?
There is a part in the story about how it is illegal in the states of California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia to even test out the theory of driverless cars. I agree with those states, but I also think that it is dangerous and if the system crashed in all these cars it would be really dangerous. There is also a part in the story that catches my eye and it talks about the GPS reciever and the intertial motion sensor and all those things. I have went on vacation and my GPS has lost signal and lost battery or just broke plenty of times, how would it be any different in a driverless car?
The positive sides to driverless cars is the people that text and drive really don't have to worry about wrecking because the car is doing everything for you and you really wouldn't have to watch the road. The other positive side to this driverless car is that there are antilock brakes which means that they are sensors and the story gives us evidence that it has been advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids and rollovers. The story provides us more information about the antilocks, "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 more than a human driver can manage alone." I think that that is huge when it comes to driverless cars, it helps with the little wrecks that turn into big wrecks.
The next positive thing that I think for the ddriverless cars is that it could help tremendously with the drunk driving people do. I have experienced my own situation of a drunk driver just recently and they passed away from it. The driverless cars could stop them from swerving all over the road and going to fast. The amount of drunk driving people do is ridiculous and doesn't just put their life in danger but everyone else on the road also. The driverless car is genius for things such as people having their mind on something else such as they get caught off guard to easy or that just hate driving or they are scared of driving.
In conclusion, the points of views from negative to positive vary in multiple ways and it depends on what you personally think. The driverless cars could be the future and make a huge difference to the world but I still think that the driverless cars have a lot of work to do with the system. I also think that it is a good idea to just keep the cars that you drive yourself because that is all anyone knows how to do. I think for now we don't have to worry about the driverless cars, but maybe in the future we something might change. | 4 |
1c0c7cd | Venus is the closest thing to Earth in our solar system scientists claim. We can't even explore it though because of many factors. It would be great to explore Venus and see if any life forms once had inhabitted it. There would be many advantages with having another planet.
Venus being able to support humans would be a great thing for the world. The air pollution in the world right now is very high. Once our ozone breaks away completly we will fly to Venus and pretty much start over. It might be a crazy idea but it could work. The ozone on Earth won't last forever. We just have to figure out a way to safely inhabit Venus.
Venus has many problems when it comes to conditions to live there. The atmosphere is made of mostly corrosive sulfuric acid. The temperatures on Venus' surface is also around 800 degrees Fahrenheit. The pressure alone on Venus is 90 times greater than Earth, that's enough pressure to crush a submarine. Scientists will have to brainstorm some amazing ideas to try and inhabit Venus.
Scientists can barely even learn anything about Venus with our technology to date. Even if we take a blimp 30 miles above Venus to try and do research, it will still be around 170 degrees Fahrenheit. Also you won't be able to see the ground do to the atmosphere, it's so dense it doesn't let in any light. Scientists will try and resort to older technology to maybe get some data from Venus. They will use mechanical machines instead of machines containg computers. This may lead to the machine lasting long enough on Venus for scientists to gain enough data to try and send a human there.
Scientists have a heavy task ahead of them if they want to inhabit Venus. There are many factors that make exploration of Venus difficult, hopefully scientists can figure out ways to get around them. We will just have to wait and see what the future holds for the exploration of Venus. | 3 |
1c1348d | I personally, think that it would be a bad idea to use this kind of technology in shools to help students learn. This is mainly because of errors that the computer could make, or other outside factors. If the program makes changes to the lesson due to facial expressions alone, then it would make an unbelievable amount of mistakes. In case you still aren't sure what im getting at ill explain in more detail below.
First lets just ignore the outside factors and I'll talk about just the flaws of it telling emotions based completely off of facial expressions. Im sure that I am not alone in saying that no matter how I'm being taught I will, without a doubt, be bored. If It detects this then it will try to switch to a way of teaching that it thinks that I will enjoy. The problem, however, comes when I'm bored with that way as well. Because it would keep switching, it would be almost impossible to learn anything due to the program changing how the lesson is tought every five minutes.
Now lets ignore the problems with the facial recognition not working properly, and focus on the outside factors that would make putting this in our schools a disaster. Lets say that you hate a the way it is currently teaching the lesson. Then out of nowhere you see PROPER_NAME over in the corner fall out of his chair and smile, meanwhile your computer is sitting there thinking, "Oh boy, the human really likes it when I teach this way!" and decides to teach like that more often. Well now that kid is stuck learning that way until the program can take a hint and change it. Now lets explore the opposite effect. Lets say that the program has been doing an amazing job teaching you, but your cat died yesterday so you are verry sad. The Program now thinks that it is doing a bad job teaching you and decides to cross that method of teaching off of the list and try another one. Now you aren't learning as well as you could be otherwise.
In conclusion, I think that it would be a horrible idea to utilize this technology in our school systems. With even one of the errors that I mentioned it would be a bad idea, but with both of them happening at once they would practically be destroying the students' educations. | 3 |
1c139c1 | In the United States of America, and all over the world, cars are used every day. People use them to get to work, to go see family, and to get simply, from A to B, but a new idea is sprouting up in Europe, the U.S., and elsewhere where people are doing something unheard of.... giving up their cars. According to Source 1, "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars", Vauban, Germany is a city that is almost completely car free. Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two says, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," THis shws that living without cars is not only possible, but could have some great consequences.
Living car free could seem like something impossible, but it has great effects. In the article "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars", there is a study ervealing that passenger cars are responsible for 12 peercent of greenhouse gas emmisions in Europe....and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States. Without cars, we could lower pollution, which is a huge problem for some places. In the second article, "Paris bans driving due to smog" Paris has to enforce a partial driving ban to clear the air of the city after days of near-record pollution. Motorist with even number liscence plates were ordered to leave their cars on day and motorists with odd numbered plates were ordered to the next day. This enforcement had positive consequences along with it. Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital and the smog hanging over the city eventually cleared. This shows almost immediate benefits to the decline in driving. Can you imagine the benefits after a long term period of car-free cities? The possibillities are limitless.
Car-free periods of time don't have to be long term. In Bogota, Colombia, a car-free day takes place every year and it is a "big hit" with millions of Colombians according to the article "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota". For the third straight year, cars have been banned only excluding busses and taxis. The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog in the city of 7 million. Anyone who violated the rules were fined 25 dollars. For the first time ever, two other cities, Cali and Valledupar, have joined in the event. Businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza says "It's a good oppurtunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." This should show that car free periods of time are possible, not matter how long, and that they have great consequences that come along with them.
You might say that it would be extremely difficult to make America a car free country. Well, according to a report in the fourth article "The End of Car Culture" America may be on it's way. Research studues show that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. The nummber of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter according to a analysis by Doug Short of Advisor Perspectives, an investment research company. In April 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak. Thsi shows that there is a steady decline in driving and autiomotive transport in America. Also found in the fourth article, if the pattern persists, it will have beneficial impliactions for carbon emmisions and the enviorment. Many sociologists believe the pattern will continue. Alternate sources of transportation have popped up also. In New York, a new bike sharing program has popped up and in San Fransisco, Bay Arear Rapid Transit is another viable option of transport. With all of these options, doesn't one fit you?
In conclusion, alternate transport oppurtunities and car free periods of time are the solution. With so many ways to lower how much and how you drive. The switch to a more economic means of transport would be easier than you think. The possibillities are endless and multiple studies show that the good consequences outweigh the bad ones. One question is yet to be asked, are you ready to make the switch to the better way of tansport? | 5 |
1c18756 | Think that it would be a great idea to participate in this program because you will get to vist and see so many beautiful places and you will have many great experiences. On paragraph 5 is tells you that this opportunity for a small town boy was unbelivable besides helping people he was able to see Europe and China. One of the best parts is that you wont have to work all the time becuase in paragraph 8 it says that they had fun activities to help pass the time. This great oppertunity opened lukes eyes to the world and the people around it. If you are planning on doing this then i think you should do it because it is such a great oppernunity.
In paragraph 9 luke sayes that being a seagoing cowboy was much more then an adventure for Luke Bomberger. It opened up the world for him. If you are planning on being a seagoing boy imagine all the places and people you will be able to meet. You will be able to see so many different coultures and how other people live. Would'nt that sound like so much fun it would be an adveture you will never forget.
Imagine being 18 and traveling around the world. Not every 18 year old gets the oppertunity to travel to Greece or China or Europe. Now that would be great. Traveling at a yound age. Teengers now these days are always stuck on there phones instead of going outsude and enjoy the fresh air. Take this oppertunity you wont regret it. Luke didnt. | 3 |
1c1c470 | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. The use of this technology, to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom, is valuable. I believe this technology would be great to use in a classroom. It would really help the teacher with his or her lesson. Dr. Huang predicts that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". If a simple classroom computer can determine a students' emotions, that would be a great assistance to a teacher. The teacher would then know if he should go into greater detail or if he should make his lesson plan a little more interesting.
Human Beings can be really good at hiding their emotions. With the Facial Action Coding System no one would be able to hide their true emotions. If someone was really depressed, but they portray themselves to be happy, this technology could stop that person from hurting themselves or others. If a school therapist or school social worker had this technology it would make their jobs so much easier. They could sense what the students are really feeling, rather than what the students want them to think their feeling. Also, the school therapist would know if the patient would need to be prescribed any medicine.
Another reason why the Facial Action Coding System would be a good idea is because, as stated in the article, it could reveal so much about the science of emotions. The FACS (Factial Action Coding System) could detect a false smile. If you are not feeling geniunely happy, if you are just "putting on a happy face" this technolgy would be able to see through what your false act. This new technology could become the next big thing. It would be able to uncover the truth about alot of people.
The last argument I am going to state on why the FACS would be valuable on detecting students emotions is that the technology could tell whether a student is telling the truth or not. The article states in paragraph 8 that usually when someone squint their eyes slightly, to produce wrinkling at the corner of their eyes usually means that their not being thruthful. FACS uses muscle clues to determine whether a person if being truthful or not. This would be great in a classroom. For example, if someone is being bullied and they tell the teacher but the bully says he isn't bullying anyone, this would be great for the teacher. The teacher would know which one of her students is telling the truth.
In Conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System would be a superb idea. This new technology would not only be very interesting but it would also save many lives. This technology could be used in many different jobs. It could also help many people. With this technology you would no longer have to take someones word on how their feeling, even when you have a gut feeling telling you otherwise. Rather than assuming what someone is feeling you could now know for sure with the Facial Action Coding System. | 5 |
1c1d128 | Having a day where driving cars is banned instead of having traffic on the roads. Many countries including the United States are banning cars for a day or forever is becoming a new trend. The reasons that countries are doing this is so they clean up the air because the greenhouse gases have been a problem for the past couple years.
In Vauban, Germany the advantages of limiting car usage has been great for the suburban community. In souce 1 one of the residents said "when i had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way." So having only walking and using bicycles as transport the residents are better off without cars. Even in Paris they started the new trend after a near record pollution the enforced a no driving ban to clean the air. France had blamed diesel fuel since they favor diesel over gasoline and paris has more smog than any other European capitals.
Bogota, Colombia millions of the people during a car free day hike, bike, skate, or use the bus to get to work. They wanted to promote alternative transportation to reduce smog. "It's a good a opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," said carlos Arturo. Even Colombia's two other cities, Cali and Valledupar joined the car free day event. In the U.S president Obama has goals to curb the greenhouse gases. The shift in bahavior is because in a recent studies Americans are buying fewer cars. | 2 |
1c23f06 | Many cities, states, and countries are trying to find solutions to our problem of pollution and smog. Many have established car free days or car free suburbs which have helped to better or environmet.
In Vauban, Germany there is a suburb in which has limited the usage of cars, seventy percent of the families living there do not own cars another fifty seven have sold their car to move there. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" stated by Heidrun Walter a resident and mother of two. This statement shows that by selling or not purchasing a car you can avoid stress however this may not be true for all people. Not owning a car allows us to save money by not having to pay for the car or car insurrance. "Passanger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe...and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States". Limited car usage would lower these numbers to take a step forward in bettering our environment allowing a better future.
As well as car resricted subburbs some cities have other ideas to reduce car usage. Paris had previously installed a plan to have drivers with even numbered license plates to leave their vehicles home and odd numbered plates to leave their vehicles home the next day "Congestion was down 60 percent". This shows that this idea to ban vehicals based on license plates can work, however 4,000 people were fined due to non cooperation. Paris was not the only capitol to try and lower personal vehical usage, Bogota, Colombia for three years has had a day in which cars have been banned only allowing taxis and buses, the goal is to reduce the smog in a capitol city of 7 million. Despite a rainy day most citizens participated in the car free day "It's a good opportunity to take away and lower air pollution" stated by Carlos Arturo Plaza. Foregin cities and countries aren't the only ones trying to lower pollution, "recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less ang getting fewer licensences as each year goes by." Although riding a bus or other public transportaion or an alternative to a gas or diesel vehical such as a bicycle may take longer than a car but it has shown to be worth the extra time.
There are pros and cons to limiting the use of gas and diesel vehicals. Many countries and cities are trying to promote car-less suburbs or car free days to help contribute to the reduction of smog and pollution. | 3 |
1c24c26 | Considering the fact that more often than not, students get bored in the classroom at least a few times. If their computer had the ability to tell when they are bored, then it can find something that the students enjoy. Paragraph six states that if " 'A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused of bored,' Dr. Huang predicts. 'Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.' " When we get bored in class a good teacher can usually tell. some teachers will try to make class more intersting for the student. The more interesting it is, the more you are likely to learn. But if you're on the computer, the computer will automatically know when you're bored. Teachers don't always know just by you're face because that might not be something they were supposed to learn. Plus computers would most likely have more resources to provide something interesting for you. Teachers might not always have that at hand. Paragraph six also says " 'Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication,' notes Dr. Huang. 'So computers need to understand that, too." We already have phones and computers that we can talk to and they know what to do, some smartphones even talk back to you. But they can't read our emotions. They don't know what we need unless we say it. Making computers be able to calculate our emotions could make things easier, for students, for teachers,and for anyone who needs this kind of technology. "So, who really thought that making faces could reveal so much about the science of emotions? " Paragraph nine. | 3 |
1c2cde0 | driverless cars are dangerous and pointless. the car is suppose to be ment for the driver not to use the instruments in the car right? so why do the driver have to be alerted to still grab the weel every once in a while to drive. there is no point in making an computerized vehical when humans have been drinving cars themselfs for decades now, why try to change it up now.
another reason why we should not have computerized cars is computers take up our whole world now already for instance: our credit cars, our taxes, most jobs are using technogly,our cell phones, when we go to colledge, libraries, jobs mostly obtain computers too. so it shows that we cannot have nothing to ourselfs everything is based on technogly, nothing is on hand made or hand worked anymore. so why should we let the govnerment take over our cars as well ? so the computers are going to be rulers of our world forever for everything.? i dont think so.
i think it is very pointless and stupid to spend so much time and so much money on unneeded materials. they should be spending money on more important tasks. such as like medical insurances. housing agencys,(ect) i dont think they should put so much time and so much money into something that is not even secure enough.
my last reason concludes why there should not be driverless cars because, what if the driver gets shot or passes out and is not aware of the car alert to assist the driving? then the car will crash and it will be a total wreck. so ther's no point in creating a car that is not even all the way reliable. the car is not one hundred percent secure and can fall out of sorts.
in conclusion i feel ther should not be any driverless cars created any time soon or ever . | 2 |
1c2e15b | I support " The Facial Coding System"
because, it would help with alot of different things going on in school. Like for example it could tell what kind of mood the student is in so the teacher could know how to approch them wihtout the student " going off." This would even help with knowing if the student gets the lesson the teacher is teaching by thier facial expressions.
Like i said it helps with alot of differnt things, the author says, " hold on, can we acually "calculate" emotions." yes we can, its a "smart computer" & its like a person. I say its like a person because, say you see your friend and he/she has a frown on her/his face. You auctmactly know theres something wrong because he/shes frowning & thats also what the computer is bacislly doing.
Like the author said " whoever thought that making faces could reveal so much about the science of emotions." Faces dont lie and your feelings cant hide. I say that this invention would be great also because of children that get abused at home, & when they come to school they're getting bullied here too. So this is why i support " The Facial Action Coding." | 3 |
1c3468c | This is the stupidest thing to put in a class room. whats the point in having a
machine that can read emotions, maybe the kids dont wanna tell people how they feel because we havee been tauht not to trust people. so if a machine is gonna tell people how we feel or what we are feeling then whats the point of a counsleor.
one of the main reasons i wouldnt want tis in my school is because i dont want everyone to know if im having a bad day or if im mad. like if i come to class and im depressed and the machine tells that to my teacher then ill probably be put in counseling. and we are kids the only person that sould be able to read our emotions is or parents. Teens have a lot going on like the machine may not be right then we could get put in counseling or tutoring for no reason.
One thing i dont understand is what happens if were doing fine we just over hear a student say something confusing? would we be put in tutoring for that, and a lot of kids have stuff goig on at home so they dont neede a computer pointing out that they're upset or depressed. this iws why i think having a machine like this would not be a good thing to have in a class room. | 3 |
1c36085 | The Electoral College is a process begun a long time ago due to the lack of educated and literate citizens in the United States, whom the government did not believe were eligible to vote for any president under any circumstances. Now that our literacy rate in the United states is now more than 80-90% (or so I believe), I don't really think that the Electoral College is useful anymore.
The Electoral College is a process describing 538 electors voted for by the state who will vote for the new president every four years. A majority vote of 270, one more than half, is required to elect the new president. The number of electors for each state equals the number of members in it's Congressional delegation; meaning one for each member in the House of Representatives that represents your state, and two for your Senators. However, I think that a popular vote, or having the citizens themselves vote for the president, may be more useful.
There is an off chance that electors may vote for a candidate that their citizens did not want to choose, or the chance that two slates of electors may be sent to Congress, etc. Another prospect is the idea of a tie in the electoral vote, which would mean that there would be 269 votes for both Presidential candidates. In the event of this happening, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, in which the state delegations would choose the president. This may be fatal, however, because states like Wyoming, which only have the population of 500,000, will have as much to say about the fate of the United States as a state like California, home to 35 million people.
A lot of people usually are in favor of the Electoral College due to certainty of outcome and swing states. Swing, or toss-up states are the states that are undecided until the very end, and could very well change the entire tide of the Election. "Voters in toss-up states," reads one argument, "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." But should we really leave such a large and important decision up to such few people? A mere 538? And even less for toss-up states?
Overall, I think that the Electoral College is outdated due to it's lack of need anymore, does not fit the democratic and equal methods of the United States (for the most part), and leaves too large of a decision to too small of a group. Popular voting may just be the solution to this problem, and although popular voting may not be perfect either, it might help us figure out who we really need for our president, rather than leaving it to just a small group. | 4 |
1c37396 | During the 1700's the world did not have transportation like we do now. They had to ride on horses and walk to where they needed to go. Now all we depend on is driving where we need to go. Its hurting our world and the people around who are around it. Their are plenty of advantages of limiting car usage around the world. Many people think its no good side to not driving around everywhere but their are. Stores are becoming closer to walking distance. It stops cars from poluting the world and it lessons stress from the human body.
Everywhere you look you see a store or a building. We drive to places because we think its to far a walk or its a bad day to walk. In the Article "In German Suburb,Life Goes On Without Cars" it says that in Vauban,Germany they built stores that were a good walking distance on a main street instead on a long far away highway. So that means the stores are closer to you,which is good because you can go alot more often if they are closer and easy to get to. Another advantage to that is that its faster to walk if they bring the stores closer to you. This is some of the advantages to limiting car usage.
Cars are polluting our world everyday and everynight night somebody wants to drive. In the aritcle "paris bans driving due to fog" it says that Paris had to force people to leave their cars at home or they would have to pay a fine if they drive it. It says that it was intense smog. Cars cause alot of damage to the world but people who drive dont see how it's effecting the world. The Smog caused alot of traffic to happen and that most likely caused car accidents to happen. Instead of driving if you walk it helps you not worry about gas prices or anything that you worry about that is related to driving so it relieves stress.
All in all limiting car driving is the way to go. It improves the walking distance to and from the stores. It helps the world from being polluted and relieves stress from your body. Why would'nt you want that for yourself and your family. | 3 |
1c388f0 | Many people now a days use cars, trucks, buses or other ways of transportation on a daily baises. Most do not even think twice about all of the pollution they are creating in our world, or even the traffic that they are helping create. Fellow citizens should start becoming aware of this problem and finding different ways to travel.
Many people who work in larger cities tend to face many traffic problems when on their way to work, sometimes causing them to be late for their job. If we were to begin doing things like car-pooling, walking, biking, or even just taking a bus to work or school we could immedialty see changes in the amount of traffic. In Paris, after reaching several days of near-record pollution, they ordered a partial driving ban in attempt to clear up the city. According to source 2: Paris bans driving due to smog, "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France..." in just five short days. Other places, such as Bogota, Columbia are also taking part in car-free days. These places are also seeing a drastic decline in the amount of traffic seen in the city. The author of source 3: Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota, Andrew Selsky, millions of Columbians hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work during a car-free day, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams.
Another advantage to limiting car usage will be that there will be a noticable decline in the amount of smog and pollution. "Paris typically has more smog than other European capitals" as stated in soure 2:Paris bans driving due to smog. After being ordered a car-free day, smog was cleared enough by the following Monday for them to call off the ban on cars the next day. One simple step such as a week-long car-ban can reduce the amount of pollution drastically. Elisabeth Rosenthal states in paragraph 8 that "an increasing number of private cars owned by the burgeoning middle class are choking cities." If we begin to limit our car use, we will notice great changes in our environment.
In conclusion, if we do just a few simple things in our society, we will be able to notice the great advantages to limiting car usage. The amounts of traffic in cities will decrease, as well as the amount of pollution in our city, all because of just a few simple things that we can change. | 4 |
1c3aaf7 | I dont think driverless cars should be invented because some computer or gps systoms can get a glich or shut down while driving.I think that would just cause more accadents and make it unsafe for the people. When someone is walking they can get hit or if the car just stopped working without a driver it wouldnt be stopped .i think it would be better if the is a human driving so that there can be accorit eyes on the road.And you can see every thing that is going on or come to a stop at a short notice.
Driverlass cars can also be useful because if a person was driving to a far place and there was no one to help them drive while they get rest the driverlass car would be very helpful. And also if you were to tired to go and pick kids up from there schools the car can come in handy.
driverlass cars i beleave are very dangerous because you never know if there is somthing wrong with the car and it could loose control and
be the cause of a really big reck or if the is a on going road that was a on going
road before but changed into a dead end. i beleave it would be to dangrous and there shouldn't be
driverlass cars. | 2 |
1c3ad49 | Imagine being able to enter a car, input a destination, and then arrive there without needing to drive at all. Driverless cars are coming and they are our future. They would be able to drive by themselves using sensors attached around the car and an advanced computing system. According to paragraph one, Google cofounder Sergey Brin, "believes such cars would fundamentally change the world".
Driverless cars will have a profound effect on the world today as we know it. They will be able to do so many things. Paragraph one states that Google cofounder Sergey Brin "envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system.". The technology of driverless cars today hace created such amazing feats. According to paragraph two, Google's self driving cars "have driven more than half a million miles without a crash."
There are some that believe with have a long way to go with the law until we see self driving cars. Paragraph nine states that "Most drtiving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers.". They believe that without an alert driver at the wheel, the car endangers everyone around it.
Most of the complaints against the safety of driverless cars is being worked on by companies now. For example, in parahraph seven, "The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over.". Other manufacturers are also working on this problem. Paragraph seven states, "Manufacturers are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the world. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver." So many safety systems are ebing put into place, the danger of driverless cars is nearly non existant.
Driverless cars are the future of this country, and the world. The technology will forever change our daily lives we will wonder how we ever lived without it. Transportation as we know it will be changed indefinetly. | 3 |
1c3d190 | The the face on mars is not a alien. It is a landfore that is kinda in the same shape as a human face, but the one we seen on Mars was ten times bigger than a human face.. We have been study Mars for aladn time we have not seen any sign of life but we thank their could be, but were not for sure. We took the picture from are spacecraft so it could be a little dusty their. We are going back to take another picture because the face was not that clear.
Mission controllers prepared to look again and try and get a better picture. It is not easy to target Cydonia in fact, its a lot of work to get all of are reseach to get of it together. We just dont pass over the face very often.
We only seen Cydonia one time and we still did not really get a good picture.
What we thank is that it is not a alien it is jus a big dust cloud that has be moved around and kinda looks like a human face but is not because it says it is ten times bigger than a human face. | 1 |
1c4115c | if our sister planet is so inhospitable why are scientists
even discussing futher visits of it surface.Astronomers are facinated by venus because it may well once have benn the most probaly covered largely with ocean and clound could supporte various forms of life just like earth.today Venus still has some a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys mountains and craters furthermore recall that venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit a crucial consideration given the long time frames os space travel the value of returning to venus seems indisputable but what are the options of waching such a missions both and scientifically productive.
The national aeronaustic and space administration NASA has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus NASA of possible solution to the hostile condition on the surfaceof Venus would allow scientist to float above the roiling venusian landscape.Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditionsby staying up and out of their way.thirthy plus miles above the surface temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degress fahrenheit
but the air pressure would be plentiful and radiation would not exceed earth levels not easy condicion but survivable for humans
however peering at venus from a ship orbiuting or hovering safely far above planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light canoot penetrate the dense atmosphere rendering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective more importantly researchers cannot take samples of rock gas or anthing ele from a distance therebefore
Venus wold need to get up close and challenges many reseachers are working oon innovation that would allow our machines to last long anoungh to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of venus
stiving to meet the challenge presented by venus has value not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself bul also because human curiosyti... | 3 |
1c45114 | in this passage it gives many examples on why driverless cars are good and it also gives many reasons why it is not. Honestly im on the no go side. There are a few reasons why. there is that when there are no drivers that means you dont get to enjoy family time. Another reason is that what would happen if something glitched and went out of control and killed someone who would get blamed for that the manufacture or the owner. the third reason is kids my age wouldnt get to enjoy driving for the first time or getting their permit. Those are the reasons why I dont think driverless cars are a good idea.
What I mean when I say family time is that when my family and I go on a trip we try to have fun playing the license plate game where you try to find the alphabet by going in order from a to z on peoples license plates. I would think that there wouldnt be as much fun if there was someone driving. another thing is everyone would get tired of eachother if no one was driving because everyone would be looking at eachother playing games and after a while it gets boring. If there was a driver the people that are getting annoyed with eachother can switch with the driver and then problem solved until someone needs to switch again.
I think that it would not be smart to get driverless cars cause of malfunctions glitches and other problems with electronics. Imagine that you are in your awesome new driverless car and you put your desination in and it goes, so your just sitting there and a malfunction happens and you hit a family thats on a walk would you be the one to blame for it or the manufacture. That would be something that would be a lot of trouble for the person who hit the family if they were driving there would be no malfunction or glitch that would happen. I understand the reason people want driverless cars but what happens if stuff like that happens how would the people with that car feel. People buying the cars have to think of all the posibilities that could happen if something in the car goes wrong.
I'm not sure how other kids feel about driving and getting their permit but I know I love driving anytime I can I will because the fact that I am so close to be able to drive around on my own, not having to ask people to take me places it makes me feel independent. If driverless cars come into play then kids wont get to feel that rush and the feeling of being independent cause it's going to go back to you asking your car to take you places not people. I know that not all teens my age want to drive or even like driving but the teens my age who do will miss out on it and it will suck and how will they feel if something goes wrong with the car.
All of the reasons I mentioned are because its all true just think on all the things it would take away from our society today. Kids wouldnt have as good of personalities as they do. Malfunctions would happen people could die and it would take tolls on the people who owned the car. The other kids my age wouldnt get to feel the rush of driving on their own. These reasons would change the society for the worse I think its better to have cars run on electricity not gas but not to where it drives on its own. | 3 |
1c49271 | Electoral College? Are you serious? Why is the election set up like this? I though it was a free country. But no. You guys practically vote on your own. You just make it look like you guys care, taking advice from the people in the states, but it's really just your decision. I want to choose freely, not think I am choosing freely. The President is a person who takes action in the country and we the people, want to choose the right one. You guys even show it sometimes. In the state, we might have a majority pick for one president, but you end up picking another one instead.
I understand that the Electoral College represents us by the number of people in the state, but there's one problem, you're not representing us well. I think that the United States shouldn't have the Electoral College and should just have a president win by the most votes. This is truly the best way to choose a president. I seriously don't like the idea about Electoral College and I think that the U.S should change that.
Look, Whomever this reaches, I just want you to know, many people out there, in the U.S, feel the same way as I about the Electoral College. Many of us feel like we are worthless, like we don't matter. If we can't choose our own president to make decisions, how can we trust this country and stay happy, people may leave, have protests, very bad things can happen.
Think about it, it isn't the best way to do it. I just want you to think of the lie you don't want to tell but you are telling. Thank you for your time to sit down and read this carefully and appreciate my thoughts about the Electoral College. | 2 |
1c4beb6 | Driving has been a necessary skill in society ever since Ford made the T Model. Since then the use of cars has only become more common within society. People use cars to go to and from work, as well as to travel on vacation and chauffer people around. While driving, people could be doing much more productive things, such as preparing for the arrival of a destination, or doing homework or fun activities. The legitamacy of the development of the driverless car is confirmed by the by the actions that people go through each day and the convenience that the car would provide, once laws are passed to make the car a reality.
These days people's lives are filled with stressful tasks such as work, school, and extracurricular activities. A lot of peoples' time is used to drive when the time could be directed towards more productive things. The development of sensor technology (paragraph 5) has allowed for the possibility of a car that can almost drive itself. As companies such as Tesla, Audi, Mercedez Benz, and Nissan come closer to the objective of a car that can completely drive itself (paragraph 10), people are still presented with difficult tasks to fulfill other than driving. That is why the development of technology that can drive itself and take the work load off of the driver and free up time for the driver would be beneficial to society.
The arguement that the people might have against the car could be laws that prohibit unattended vehicles on the road, and the conflict between driver or manufacturer if there is an accident. It is clearly stated in the passage (paragraph 9) that manufactureres belive that more states will allow limited use of semi-autonomous cars on roads as soon as the cars are proved more reliably safe. Many automakers are predicting that the problems ahead will be solved (paragraph 10). Also, the debate between the drivers fault, or the manufacturers fault (paragraph 9) can easily be settled with a few waivers, laws, and signed papers.
The convenience and safety of the driverless car is becoming more and more legitimate as manufactureres continue to produce and develop capable cars. Laws against the driverless car are assumed by manufacturers to be less limiting and even solvable in time ahead. Because the work load that the car would take off of people and the convenience that the car would have, the benefits would outweigh the soon to be obsolete laws that are currently limiting the cars capablilites. Also the idea of a car that can basically drive itself is simply fun. Once the conflict between driver and manufacturer can be solved, most likely through laws and waivers, and the driver can make the personal choice to allow the car to drive itself, then people will be pleasantly surprised by the amount of free time they have. | 4 |
1c4c81e | I believe the use of the technology to read students emotional expression is pretty suffisticated, but i dont think it is nessisary. in the article, humans can assume other people's emotions because we have the same emotions as everyone else. Us humans know what it looks like to be happy, suprised, angery, disgusted, scared, and sad because we all go threw it. I know that there is obviously more that only 6 emotions, Some people feel jellousy and some may feel uncomfortable, others may feel paine and some will feel stress. That is already 4 more emotions that we can calculate and a computer can't. Another thing that humans can callculate is sound. We can here if a person is crying, We can detect that they might be sad. If someone is yelling, we can detect that they are mad, or got hurt, they might even be excited depending on the tone of the voice. Those are a coupple of reasons why i think we dont reqlly need the technology of reading emotional expressions, maybe that is just a little extra.
I dont think we need to "calculate" the way people feel threw a computer. I wouldnt want everyone knowing how i feel at all moments. I'd like my privatcy! If i want to talk about how i feel to someone that i trust then i would but i know that i definitally would not like anyone and everyone being able to know my emotion whenever theyd like. Just knowing that this could be possible... gives me chills. This should not be used on everyone, especally if they dont feel comfortable about it.
I understand that the machines can modify lessons like an effective human instructor or it can make computer-animated faces more expressive for video games or even video sergery which is pretty amazing. I do agree that the emotion analyzinig shouls be used for things like that. it helps out the way technolgy looks and aslo atrackts more people to it. "The facial expression for each emotion are universal"
that is something they have said while detecting the Mona Lisa.
Tecnologhy like a computer can obviously change the world wit5h people creating and discoveribg new idias to shar with everyone including the world.
I say we dont ditch the tecnology all together, but maybe just the parts that we can handle on our own like, detecting emotions on other people. Instead we can focus on comuincating. We can develope these skills to distinguish emotions instead of not gaining any knowledge and letting technology do all the work for us. Although this idea was fantastic and increadable, i dont think it is important for out needs. | 4 |
1c4d399 | I thinck for the emotional things of the technology is kind of more advanced like every moment they do something different they always have to make a digital and some other people don't really get about the digital things they get lose really easlly and for some other people is more likely an easy thing to do but not always because it has their difficulties and they are challenging so they have to do it right or they will mess up the photo, and theirs a conclusion about this and is kind of creepy that now computer can easlly detect the movement of our facil guess what they mean like emotions and other things that's on our faces but i think it helps people to understand how things work and how our selfs are doing if their mad, sad, happy etc. there is better ways for humans and computers to communicate not only by facial recognizing, all the software of all the people are different and computers softwarre is just way different then humans it just takes time to figure this out quickly. things can actually change from good to sometimes bad and it's not the way to show their expresion that has been having by the other kind of people. | 1 |
1c5210a | I think if we limit the usage of cars it could possibly be a good thing. America has very high pollution a lot of it comes from cars, second only to power plants. If say Jacksonville decided to be car free it would be hard because Jacksonville is the biggest city, according to how much land it takes up. But Vauban in Germany is the perfect city for it because it has 5,500 people in a rectangular square mile which is small and allows people to walk from place to place. But jacksonville, say if i wanted to walk to Orange Park it would take a long time beacause it is already a 45 minute drive.
If America was to become car free then there would be a lot of complications, such as if you live at the beach and have to go downtown for work and cant catch a bus. I think America should pick one city to start this and if it works well then move it to a whole state and only allow buses and taxis to be driving around. In America the drving peak has already passed, in 2005 was the when the highest amount of cars and most driver liscense were given out.
An advantage of being "car free" would be that the stress of evryday life would go down. A lot of stress results from cars and driving. If you get stuck in traffic your going to get mad but we wouldnt have to worry about traffic anymore because we would be either walking or taking buses/taxis. Also local buisness would be making more money because if a person is walking they are going to want to eat what ever is nearest to them. People live very close to some local buisness and instead of just driving by them all the time you would actually eat there.
Looking into the future I could see honestly say I dont see America becoming car free. I see it staying in Europe the reason I say this is because we have a lot of evryday commuting going on, in every city, in every state someone is almost always out driving wether its to catch a early flight or to get a head start on a road trip. people are always drving. Looking back into the past, a lot of people did walk places, and then more and more people started driving and it eventually caught on.
So now once again I ask you, do you think America will ever become car free? Do you think less and less people will start driving or will the number of drivers increase? People who have tried this seem to be a little less stessed wich could ultimatley help us all. | 3 |
1c56823 | In this passage it introduces this mission on traveling to Venus, a planet in our solar system. In the beginning of this passage we are pointed towards the dangers to this mission, but also devices that can encourage astronauts and humans to accomplish this challenging mission.
Venus has often been referred to as Earth's "twin." With scientists attempting to study venus has been a challenge due to the risk of getting there. According to the author, "no spacecraft has lasted more than a few hours." Venus has toxic substances that clouds the atmosphere. According to the passage, "due to the extreme weather nothing will be able to last."
NASA has thought of constructing a vehicle that can hover over the planet and take photographs and videos to study the differences and similarities between earth. This vehicle will be 30 miles or more above Venus and the astronauts will send in information. More importantly, researchers cannot have samples of the life on this planet , which would be more effecient than the pictures. Another project could be the computer from the 1800s despite the technology back then it would be reliable ,because the power and it does not require electronics at all.
The worthy pursuit of this dangers have to be really thought out before traveling to this risky planet. It's effectiveness due to the ways to study it is low but can be very relieving to reach. | 2 |
1c5a11c | In this article we are talking about the FACS ( Facial Action Coding System) and how it could read students' emotional expression. At first this article was talking about the Mona Lisas' facial expression and how she's 83 percent happy, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry.
This would benifit the classroom by letting the teachers know what makes them instrasted in the classroom. When you look tierd and about to sleep the teacher will try and do something different to help you pay attantion. Just like speaking in a different tone or walking around the classroom to get someone's attantion.
Us humans do the same thing as-well just like easily looking at someones face on a date or in a classroom to she either they like you or they don't like the way your expressing yourself. It would also help if your in a room full of strangers and wanting to get to know them but you can't really know what to say or if they would like the conversation.
What the computer does when they are calculating a face is that they compare it with a neutral face. Just by using video imagery, the new emoion- recogition software to track the facial movements. There are facial expressions for each emotion on your face but even tho individuals often show varying degrees of expression.
All in all this invention would be amazing to have. You can use it on students and see if there instrasted in a subject and how well the teacher's behavior effects them as well. You can use it on some painting to see what they were feeling while they were getting drawn. | 3 |
1c652c1 | The electoral college is a bad thing for the United States of America and should be taken down because the electoral college is done by electors instead of the people of America. This is a bad thing because basically the popular vote done by the citizens of America don't count for anything if the loser wins the electoral votes. In the year 2000 Al Gore won the popular vote against George Bush but even though the people wanted him to be the next president Bush won the electoral votes and became U.S. president instead of Gore.
Bradford Plumer wrote that, "Perhaps the most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the House of Represinitives, where state delegations vote on the president (The Sentate would choose the vice-president.) Because each state cast only one vote Wyoming, represinting 500,000 voters would have as much say as the 55 reprisinatives from California, who represent 35 million voters. Given that that many voters vote one part for the president and another for Congress, the House's selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people. And if an electoral tie seems unlikely, consider this: In 1968, a shift of just 41,971 votes would have deadlocked the election; in 1976, a tie would have occured if a mere 5,559 voters in Ohio and 3,687 voters in Hawaii had voted the other way. The election is only a few swing votes away from catastrophe.
A counterclaim for the argument made by Bradford Plumer would by written by Richard A. Posner. Posner says, "It can be argued that the Electoral College method of selectiong the president may turn off potential voters for a canidate who has no hope of carrying their state -Democrats in Texas, for example, or Republicans in California. Knowing that 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 the popular vote.... But of course no voter's vote swings the national election and in spite of that, about one-half of the eligible American population did vote in 2012's election. Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people think that a single vote may decide an election...."
This quote from Posner means that less and less people are voting because they know that their vote doesn't count for as much as it should. | 3 |
1c6bf32 | I think it will be good in a couple years because some people can't really drive without help because the sensors will be more advance. It can really do wonders to peoples lives in the future such as going out easier being safe and more efficient. But you still need a driver's license if you want to drive a smart car because when there is a something major going on the car can't sense what other people are going to do. I really think it can do good in the future with the more advance sensors on the cars and we may have better technology. I think it can do real good in this world like herlping people that can be hurt or in pain.
In paragraph 5 and 7 they have great detail of how it will help advance more in the future. In paragraph 7 they said,"None of the cars developed so far are completely driverless. They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." They are not fully there yet on the selfless driving subject but they will be soon because in paragraph 5 has detail on that because it said,"Within 10 years, those sensors had become more advanced to detect amd respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers. The information from thr 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 humman driver could manage alone. Further improvements in sensors and computer hardware and software to make driving safer are also leading to cars that can handle more and more driving tasks on their own." It will be advanced in the future.
I really hope one day it will happen because we are damaging the plant by using the cars we are using now. It will damage the future for our children and future generations by doing what we are doing we need stop it because we don't want to have future generation clean up what we already can clean up now. So I do hope and dream the smart car can help with this problem in a couple years. Just help save the plant and leave it clean for generatons to come. | 2 |
1c6fcc3 | Seagoing Cowboys
There is some many reasons why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program.
1 You get to see really unique places. So many countries that you have never seen in your life.
2 If you join you get to help out people, who need help and you will be like a angle to them and others.
3 You get to take care of animals, you do that every day then it will be easy for you.
4 When you travel there it is harder, but when you come back it so much easyer. Because all the animals are off the boats, and you get to play games and other things.
5 Being a Seagoing Cowboy was more than that to other people, you help them out and you get to have fun, it openes the world for you and others.
6 You now know more about Seagoing Cowboys, after reading this articl that it is all not you it is you and others. | 2 |
1c71060 | Have you ever thought about what the world would do without automobiles. I have and it isn't pretty. Paris has enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. Now, chew on that! I mean if you think about all the gas stations, and all the space that automobiles take up, it really wouldn't be a bad idea in banning cars in like citys and small towns. If you were to drive 20 miles in 8 minutes, How fast do you think you would get to that destination if you were to walk that 20 miles. Some situations just isn't fair, Like motorists with even-numbered license plates would have to leave their car at their home, or suffer a 31$ fine. One of the most populated city in the world has gone down to 60% of their population in about five days of intensifying smog. If you were to get rid of all these cars, Who would be getting up every morning just to go to school or even their jobs?
I've thought about alot of things in my life, But never across the fact of get rid of cars. The advantages of limiting automobiles are high, just for the fact of smog problems, or even damaging the air that we breath. Diesels make up 67 percent of vehicle in France, compared to 53.3 percent average of idesel engines in the rest of Western Europe, according to Reuters.(Duffer,16)
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You just ran into a car trying to park the long bed V8 4*4 Nissian Titan at gatorbait in Melrose FL. All that money that you payed to get the stupid truck, and now you dented the front bumper. That will be 12,000 for the truck, with another 2,000 to fix the front bumper. How can save money, but also get rid of all this crammed space. I will have to say that we need to get rid of all these cars and just leave them at the house.
I don't know what will happen to automobile shops, but it isn't about the lousy shops! It's about our freedom to do what we please, and if that means that automobiles are in the way, remove them. We, the people, need to make more compact, accessible places where it will be with less space to park. I have an idea, let's forbidden street parking, Driveways, home garages, and generally anything that can be used to park or put a car in. Until that happens it is just a dream, that hundreds would love to become reality. Fellow citizens should also make only 2 places avaliable to park, and that would be parking garages or you have to pay 40$ and buy a house if you break a rule to drive your car to a place.
It just dosen't make sense to keep something that is causing us so much greaf. Did you know that passanger cars are responsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe,While up to 50% in the U.S is car intensive areas. Life as we know still goes on like nothing has every really bothered us like the Automobiles do. "Our Development since World War 2 has been centered around the car, now that has go to change." Said David Goldberg, an official of Transportation for America. They are promoting new communities that would be less dependent on cars. I believe that we finish this car problems, We can focus on more important things such as life, family, and Money.
As I write, People are out in the real world making cars for humans like me and you. If we can't put a stop to having all these new vehicles, than it truly will say something about us and who we are as a community. Yes, I agree with having vehicles to drive from point A to B, But that dosen't mean that I don't want change that will help us with money issues. Automobiles are a waste of space, and can hurt by putting all this money that we're just throwing away like we are the richest country in the World. But, we are not. | 4 |
1c71fb3 | Venus is the second planet from the sun, and one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. By some this planet is called the "Evening Star'' because of how bright it is. This planet is known as Earth's twin, because its the closest planet to Earth in size and density. Often times the closest planet to Earth if it wasnt for the way Mars orbited. There is alot about Venus that people don't know about. Through the good in this planet it's also dangerous.
Venus has the hottest suface tempature of any planet on the solar syatem, even though Mercury is closer to the sun. Knowing what the atmosphere is like up there makes it harder for people in Nasa. No spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours, as it states in paragraph 2. Every since then no aircraft has touched Venus in almost 3 decades. This planets surface average tempature is 800 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 90 times greater than Earths surface. Venus's atmosphere is not just hot it also contains up to 97 percent carbon dioxide which is bad for your lungs.
Despite the dangers scientist are looking for new ways to explor this planet. Nasa has been trying to look for new ways but also some old ways from World War 2 that they could improve on. As they were looking for different ways they came up with the idea to hover over the plant so they could see it scloser, and that would allow humans to survive up to 170 degree weather. Through our the dangers and the beauty of this planet, scientist wont stop until they explorer this star. | 2 |
1c745e9 | FREEDOM!
We are all americans here so we should have the freedom we were ment to have. I understand that we do in fact have a lot more freedom than other countries but I am talking more on voting freedom. The electoral college is, in my opinion and many others, a bad way to decide the president of the United States of America. I beleive that for americans we should have a better say in things and agree that we rather have popular voting than what we have now. Others beleive the electoral college helps with Big States issues. But in the end popular vote is a good way to help people who deserver presidency to get it.
The article The Indefensible Electoral College, many have agreed on abolishing the electoral colleg. The article (The Indefensible Electoral College...) states "...according to a Gallup poll in 2000... over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to what we are doing now." If we the people do not get final say into things than we are'nt really as free as we are told we are. If the people want a different voting system it should be granted to us. A good example to people who had been effected by this was Al Gore. The articel states. "Al Gore who had won by popular vote but still lost the presidency to the electoral college." This goes to show that he was someone that many wanted as a president but where cheated out by the electoral college.
Others may believe that the electoral college helps not let bigger and more populated states get more attention than a smaller state would. But even by popular vote this would be the same. If a populated state votes then they will get basically the same say as they would with the electoral college but it would give them more say. Whilst other low population states get less votes and attention just like with the electoral college. So even though it would make a great change with other things, this matter is no problem.
Few have lost presidency due to the quirks in the electoral college. A good example is Al Gore who I talked about earlier. But still in the future changing to popular vote will help people who earned presidency actually get it. Instead of being scammed out of their votes by the electoral college. If someone has earned the presidencty then they should have the right to it, but with the electoral college in the way some are unable to actually do this. If we the people want someone to be the president than we want them! Al Gore won popular vote but since we do not get the only say he had lost presidency. If popular demand was the only voting system than we would probably be in a better place right now.
In conclusion, we the people of the united states deserve to actually have our own and only say in to who is going to lead us. If we say we want them, we want them... I understand that we our the ones that get the say, but we are being evened out by state percentage, so basically popular voting is ruled out. Popular voting is a better way to vote mainly because it is straight forward and to the point. If someone receives more individual votes than they should be the president... It is a easy straight forward process... | 5 |
1c74f89 | Do driverless cars seem cool to you? Driverless cars are a thing of the future, but do we really know how much work, money, and time it will take to create driverless cars? I firmly beleive that having driverless cars in our society would be super cool, but I do not believe we should create these cars. Driverless cars would require changing the laws and there would be to many complications if someone got injured due to a driverless car. The money and time we would have to put towards driverless cars is simply not worth it.
In paragraph 9 it states, If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer? This question from the passage shows that there would be many questions if something was to happen and whose fault it was if there was not a person driving the vehicle. We have never had completely driverless cars before, so why should we get them now? Drivers are doing fine now but who is to say they won't fall asleep or get distracted if their car is driving itself? In paragraph 8 it says, "Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive? Drivers would get bored and then what does that mean, usually an accident. Tesla is projecting a release in 2016 for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time. People can barely afford a new car right now, let alone a driverless car. Driverless cars will be too expensive, too timely, and there will be too many complications.
The money and time we would have to put towards driverless cars is simply not worth it. In most states as of now it is illegal even to test comuter-driven cars. If that is the case then it would be amazing to see all states make it legal for completely driverless cars to be on the road. Computer-driven cars are controlled from a computer and can be controlled if something was to happen, in the same way driverless cars will also be able to be controlled, but there will be a human present. If the future does hold driverless cars there will be a lot of money going into those cars and even more money out of your pocket if you decide to buy one. We will see what the future holds for these cars. | 4 |
1c7a00d | The author continuaslly shows that they belive that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. The author said in paragraph 5 that NASA was working on a "blimp like vechicle" that would hover over the landscape. in the same paragraph they said that this vechicle would hover at about "30 or so miles" above the terrain. In paragraph 5 the author said that the ship would have to stay at 30 plus miles high in order for the tempeture to stay "at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit". Also in paragraph 5 the text said that the "air pressure would be close to sea level on earth".
In paragraph 6 the author includes that "many scientist are working on innovations that would allow are machines to work long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of venus". In paragraph 7 the text say that NASA has tested some "simplified electronics made from silicon carbide". These "simplified electronics" have been proved to work for about "3 weeks" in a "chamber simulationg the chaos of Venus's surface".
The evidence that was displayed shows that the author and scientist think that a trip to venus would be a worthy cause. The text started out with facts about the planet of venus. Then the author slowly talked about how to safely study venus and the equipment that would be needed to do so. | 3 |
1c7a738 | The use of the technology that can read emotional expressions of students in a classroom would be extremly valuable. This technology would be so valuable because it would not only help teachers see when students are confused or lost but then the computer could modify the lesson to help the student learn the best way possible. Plus this technology is active and working right now.
The use of technology to read emotions would greatly benifit students. It would allow teachers to provide even more help when a student is struggling with the assiginment or the lesson. Prof. Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science at the University of Illinois, has been working on a way for a computer monitor to read human emotions. Dr. Huang says that, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This would allow for every student to learn in the best way possible, because when their is only one teacher, that said teacher will only teach the lesson one way and expect everybody to learn it that one way. Although in reality everybody learns differently, some students learn best through hands on learning while others may learn the best through seeing examples of how to do the disired task. The point is that, everybody learns differently and if a computer can modify each lesson to fit the learning styles of students, students would not only learn better and faster, they may also enjoy learning a little bit more. Which would then help with attendance issues and people not wanting to go to school because it just being "dumb" or not fun. Plus this technology is also already working and has been improved on. In "Making Mona Lisa Smile," written by Nick D'Alto in 2006, says that, "She’s 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." D'Alto is refering to the Mona Lisa painting. These said percents, 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, etc, were only able to be obtained through the latest innovation on a new computer software. (Keep in mind that the article was written in 2006.) With technology that can read emotions extremly well in 2006, just imagine how much farther it can come in 12 years. The technology has been sure to have advanced, to it being even accurate. This would teachers to know what students are thinking and how they can help them or how the computer can modify the lesson for the student to help them learn in the best way possible.
With technology becoming more advanced by the day, why not advance the technology in our classroom's to help benifit the students. The use of technology to read a sudents emotions would grealty benifit the student and if it is benifiting the student why not use it. If this new technology helps students learn better and faster would'nt it be wrong for it not to be used. If this technology is available for schools, schools should invest it this technology to help the student learn faster and quicker. | 3 |
1c7e08b | Luke, the man that shipped 335 horses, and enough hay and oats to feed them all. People should sign up to be a Seagoing Cowboys.
The reason people should sign up is you are helping other nations rebuild them selves. you are helping nations rebuild them selves by rebiulding houses, farms, and shops. You are also helping by sending animals to the other countries, so they can start a farm again. It is also helping people recieve food for their emty stomachs.
If people don't sign up for the UNRRA the nations will fall to the ground. People will starve, if they survive the harsh cold winter. Did I also mention the harsh cold winter that thousands of people will die from if they you don't help!
What you will be doing on the ship is feeding, and wattering the cattle thwo or three times a day. Second is you will also have to keep night watch, and take care of the cattle. Third is you you will be on nine trips stopping at different nations. if it is a rainy day you need to be careful, because you can be injured or killed.
Another reason you should join is you will be travalong around the world shipping cattle to other nations, and farms. When all the cattle is off the ship you can have set up some equipment to play some storts for example. Volleyball, ping pong turnaments, and much much more. The trip will also open up the world to you, because you helped thousands of people around the world. It will also stay with you making you happie.
In conclusion all the horses you shipped will make thousands of people happie. It will also rebuild nation, farms families, and cities. The horses will be breeded, and also used for transport. Anyways please sign up to the UNRRA America! Thank you | 3 |
1c80539 | [M]Luck point of the view convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program.[A]The texts states that In August 1945 they received their orders to report to New Orleans. When my draft board leaned that I was on a cattle boat trip they told me to keep doing that for my service. Luck made nine trips the most of any Seagoing Cowboys. The cattle boat trips were an unbelieve opportunity for a smalltown boy. Helping people I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and china.[A] It took about two weeks to cross the Altantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to china. Helping out on his aunt Katie's farm as boy had prepared Luck for hard work but not for the dangers at sea. Luck made another trip to night watchman. He had to check all the animals at night. Luck also found time to have fun on board especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luck Bomberger. It opened up the world. He leading his family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years.[M] This proves how Luck point of view convincing others to be a Seagoing Cowboys program. | 1 |
1c84003 | Limiting car usages is a goood thing because near record pollution is found in our air when cars are being used. Also 60 percent of conjestion went down in the capital of france because of cars. Diesel fuel was blamed because diesel makes up 67 percent of cars. Parks and sports centers will bloom throughout the city;pitted sidewalks will be replaced by broad; smooth sidewalks. Rush-hour restrictions will drop dramatically; and upscale shopping and new restuarants will be builted or will start to a variety of new customers and a jump start in better bussiness.
Recent studies have shown americans that buy fewer cars,driving less are getting less licenses as the year goes by which equals up to less pollution in the our air. An with these changes people stop the usage of car usages and ride bike where they go thir will be a weight drop in all ages around the world. Also if this happen kids from ages 18-21 will be less bothered of getting a license. Some may still be interested, it wont be a priority no more. Also the will be a upscale in the growth of bikes and bike bissinesses.
An from all this you will learn that cars pollute are airs. Therefore if we stop the usages of cars we will less traffic,more bussinessses, and also more bikes. Are air will less polluted and their will be a recent weight loss in all ages plus many professional bike businessess wil upscale in making bikes and make more over time. | 2 |
1c84510 | Dear Senator,
I was recently was informed that the electrol collge system is going under. It helps use with our votes. If we lose it certain American citizens votes will not be counted in for the president election. I believe that we American citizens should be able to vote. Our votes should all matter. We as a nation are one. One vote we all should be able to vote.
To begin with,
We hold our next presidnet in our hands. Thats why we should change the election by popular votes. If everybody over the age of 21 votes all of our votes would be counted in and we would pick our president. We should also keep the electrol college so congress helps our nation to vote also. Because if we give this country over to the wrong president our country could fall and we could go under. One of the reasons that our country is still standing today is because we as a nation have pick a great president, without hessition. Back in the old days we didnt have a right to vote. We are blessed to be able to vote and a system like the electrol college today. If we lose the electrol college we lose hope and faith that our country we be still standing.
In conclusion,
We americans are sometimes not greatful for the things we have but without we are lost. Senator we need your help. Without the electrol citizen we lose hope on our country. Please let us down. | 2 |
1c8abcd | Some people think that the Face on Mars was created by aliens. Just imagine how can an alien race that may or may not be exdinct, built something like the Face on Mars. Hear me out on this one, but what if the Face on Mars was just an natural landform? Let's think about for a minute and see what can come up with. Let's delve deeper into this interesting idea, shall we?
Now what if the Face on Mars was a natural landform? "We photographed the Face as soon we could get a good shot at it." (6). My evidence is the structure itself, maybe it just looks like a face, who knows! We believed maybe because it looks like a face, aliens created it. Let me give you more evidence.
Aliens has been a man's fantasy forever. Do we know that that aliens really do exist? Ever since the first man on the moon, sciencists have been working to prove that aliens exist. We barely have enough evidence to even prove ourselves. Do we humans have enough evidence that shows aliens are real?
No, we dont have enough evidence that shows aliens are real. Maybe one one day we may or may not find an alien race on a farway planet. Until then, we just have to more evidence that proves it. Who knows, maybe aliens did created the Face on Mars? My conclusion is that the Face on Mars is a natural landform. | 3 |
1c8ac21 | Hello, my name is Hannah. I am a scientist at NASA who has been studying the "face" on Mars over the years. Today my close friend Mason had asked me about any imformation I've found out recently. I said,"Well, it just appears to be a natural formation rather than something that was created." He argued and argued over how the aliens built it,and how its just been hidden all these years.
In a shorter explaination I told Mason that the shadows show how they do on Earth on natural formations. He didn't quite get it so I showed him a messa and how they shadow. He still thought the marsians made the formation of the face.
The next day, he talked to me about the same thing. Only this time I knew that I could prove to him that the "face" was only natural. I pulled up the pictures taken over the years and let Mason examine them very carefully. The picture taken in 2001 shows that there is nothing else around the face. If there was anyhting on the ground such as an airplane or a shack, you have been able to tell what it was. But there was nothing. Mason still didn't agree that the form on Mars was a natural landform.
It was now the third day he has argued over the face on Mars. But this day, Mason didnt argue with me. He asked to see the pictures again, along with pictures of a messa and a butte, which are natural landforms here on Earth. Mason looked for hours and hours and hours. He finally spoke up,"Maybe you guys here at NASA are right.. It seems to be completely natural.." I replied,"I told you old pal. Next time you should look into something more before you argue about it."
The next morning Mason came to work with me. The other scientists and I all came agreed that the face on Mars was completely natural. Not only did NASA finally figure out how to "unmask the face" and call it a natural landform, but they also provided a lot of information that way people understood it better. To this day the "face" is known to be a natural landform! | 3 |
1c8b117 | Many people have different opinions about what happens on the planet Mars. During a recent discovery many people had the idea that the face on mars was created by aliens. Scientists had a different theory. Scientists believed that the face was formed by something more believable. Aliens was not one of those.
On May 24th NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was on Mars. The spacecraft was going about it's regular mission until it noticed something interesting. The text states, "..when it spotted the shadowy likenss of a human face." The text states, "A few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see." Once NASA revealed the images for the world to see, many of them claimed it was from aliens. Scientists had to quickly do their research to clear up false accusations. The text states, "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." Once NASA cleared it up that it wasn't an alien monument they quickly found out what the face was. The text states, "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa---landforms common around the American West. NASA was able to put an end to the false accusations, and also support their conclusion with nautral landforms.
While many people do have different opinions about certain things, sometimes those opinions can chhange. By being able to provide people with evidence as to why something is the way it is can steer thier opinion in another direction. NASA had many followers who felt that the face on Mars was caused by aliens, but NASA was quick to provide them with correct imformation on the formation of the face. | 3 |
1c8c3de | In the article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the narrator tells us why NASA is struggling so much to explore the planet of Venus, what's so hard about it, and what their plan is.
The author believes that studying Venus is a "worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents." The author supports his idea very well by proving many good points and using factual evidence.
The author supports his idea by proving good points and using evidence. You can tell he is sincere about this and would like for the scientists to try and further explore Venus and its commodoties. For example, in paragraph 8, he talks about how our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts. This is a very reasonable statement, and proves that he actually has a reason to want Venus to be explored. Also in paragraph 8, the author says, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." This quote supports the authors idea because he is giving an ethical reason about why he wants scientists to create the technology to be able to put humans on Venus. He is explaining to the readers why he wants this to take place, and by giving his opinion, it automatically supports him and his idea.
The author does many things to help support his idea throughout this article. He is very opinionated about why he wants there to be people on Venus. The author support his idea very well by proving many good points and using factual evidence. | 3 |
1c8c585 | Imagine cars driving themselves in the future. Envision a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. Think what it would be like to not drive again and have it done for you. The thought of having it all done for you, seems nice right?
I feel that driverless cars can be a good idea but a bad idea when it comes down to it. Think about it, who wants to drive around all the time when it can be done for you? But, opposing to that; traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. Besides in most states it is illegal to even test computer-driven cars. If driverless cars were to happen it would be a good idea to have new laws that will be needed to cover liability in the case of an accident.
Also, if the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer? Driverless cars sound good and all but when it comes down to it there is alot at stake and alot of work to do on them. First you have to test the cars and test if there even functional/capable of driving driverless, make new laws, technology failure. Cause what happens if your in a car accident?
Saftey is a big concern when it comes to driving. So you should still be aware of your surroundings whether yu driving a driverless car or not.You never know what can happen. Manufacturers are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver.
Driverless cars can be a good but bad idea. When it comes down to it, who really wants to drive all the time & such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over. But the bad part of it all is the proccess. You have to think about your saftey through it all, the new laws, how to work it. It's all a big step. Do you think it's worth it? | 3 |
1c8d415 | In the article ¨Driverless Cars Are Coming,¨ the author talkes about positive and negative aspects of having diverless cars. Driverless cars can be very dangerous for they can only operate correctly in the right condicions. These smart cars could be putting peoples lives at risk and cause serious problems, and the only way these problems could be truly solved is with a great abundence of money. Aruguments would accure about whos fault it would be if someone were to get into an accident. Driverless Cars need to be highly improved or not put onto the roads, you should always be more safe than sorry.
Therefore, in this article it says, ¨ all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and aroung accidents¨(7). Showing how dangerous these smart cars can really be. If the car can not work properly in the condicions that are all around us, what makes them safe to have on the roads? As the cars keep devoloping the more dangerous they will become to us humans, if smart cars ever get to the point where they truly are driverless it would not be neraly as safe to be out on the roads. This is because these cars are know to have problem with changes in the road and when they notice this change they are programed to alert the human driver. Thinking of that, what if a child were to run out onto the road, how fast can this car really react, or how fast could this smart care alert the human driver? These driverless cars should be concidered hilgly dangerous to humans for they will never have the power to oberate just as a human could.
To futher explain why these cars could only hurt not help human kind, ¨Originally, many futurist believed the key to developing self-driving cars someday was not so much smarter cars as roads¨(3). This idea would help solve many problems that come along with the diverless car, but therfore would cause a great problem of its own. These smart roads would be highly expensive and the only way to pay for them would be the peoples money, and that seems almost impractical. These smart roads used electrical cables and magnets to help guide the car down the road, and with these ideas you would be putting the power into the roads not the cars. And with that these driverless cars would be much saver for everyone. But these roads could never be used for that they would take way too much money to be instaled, saying that driverless cars still remain unsafe.
Overall these cars would also be very hard to get llegalised. ¨Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers¨(9). Therefore, it is already hard enough to keep the drivers alert and watching the road while they are driving now, could you imagen how hard it would be to keep people alert when they have nothing to do? These laws are there to keep people safe and smart cars are the easy way to go not the safe way. Also, serious arguments would accure that would only cause problems not solve anything. Because what if this car gets into an accident while self-driving, would it be the drivers fault or the manufacture? Could you blame it on the driver and say they should have been more alert or say that the manufacture should have made/programed their cars better? These arguments and cases would be never ending, because almost all humans do not want to be saw as guilty so they would do and say anything to get off the hook. As to say, these smart driverless cars would do a lot more harm than help.
To justify my argument that everyone should be against the development of these driverless cars, just think about if it was you. These cars can not be pradictable and no one can be postive what will really happen. But what if it was you who got hurt or maybe a family memeber, because they let these unsafe and unperdicable cars out onto the roads. You would have no one to blame because it was just a machine or just a accendent. They are never meant to hurt but everyone would rather be safe than sorry. Make the right choice and do whats right to keep people safe, not to make their lives easier. | 5 |
1c935d2 | In "The Challenge of exploring Venus" the author very well suggests that study of Venus is worthy despite the dangers. The author does this by stating the dangers and the way NASA is trying to over come these dangers. NASA is doing reserch and test to try to find a way for a mechion to last up there. There is a lot of reason why the author very well supports the idea studing Venuscis a worthy pursuit despite the dangers.
A reason why the author supports this claim is in the texts its states,"Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." We can maybe learn more about Earth by learning about Venus because they are simlar in a lot of way. That is why it is important to try to find a safe way to explore Venus.
Another reason is beacuse in ghe texti s states,"Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." If Venus only could have supported life if we explore it we could find fossles of creatures we mever knew exsited. That is why that is another reason.
These reason and so much more is why this is worth the dangers to explore Venus. The author put reserch into this artici to bake it up and they did it good. | 3 |
1c98fd5 | The future is near and the talk about driverless cars is upon us. Driverless cars give us the oppertunity to save thousands of dollars in buying cars and paying for repairs. This also would be a lot more flexable than a bus because, the driverless cars could take us to our exact destination. Plus the driverless car idea would use half of the amount of fuel we use today.
The struggle we face on saving up to buy a car would not be a problem to us anymore. Multiple teens who already stress because of school have to also handle a job on top of that just to buy a car. Some even have to give up activities they love because of their jobs. Adults spend thousands of dollars just to buy cars and then have the risk of having to spend even more money when they break down to repair them. Cars are expensive items and the money we spend on them could go to other things like vacations, bills, and food.
Buses today have a certain route they follow on a daily basis. They are only capable of taking you to the closest bus stop to your desired location, this could still be a mile walk away from your destination. With driverless cars it would serve to you more as a taxi that takes you where you want to go. This saves us a lot of time because if you are late for the bus and have to wait on the next one or you still have a long walk even after you are dropped off.
The polution fuel causes would decrease by 50%. The driverless cars are projected to use only half the amount of fuel cars and buses are usuing today. This makes earth a lot healthier and safer to live on for you and your family.
Driverless cars are a great change for the would. Makes your life a lot cheaper, safer, and saves you a lot of time. The talk of the future is here and the driverless cars are near. | 3 |
1c9cce1 | When you think of voting for president, do you think of the white house, your nearest voting station, absentee ballots, or Electoral College? Is Electoral college a good thing or does it leave some states in the dust? In my opinion we need to drop electoral college and vote ny popular vote. In the article "What is the Electoral College?" The authors,the office of Federal Register, say that "you help choose your states electors when you vote for President because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors".(the office of Federal Register p.6). It states that when you vote you are not actually voting for the candidate you want but his or hers electors, Hereby proving that you are not voting for the President of the United States, but for the hope of your vote counting.
Every state has a certain number of electoral votes. Some have high amounts known as "swing votes". An example of a swing state would be California with a whoping 55 electoral votes. States like this are more likely to see the candidates speak and do more campaigning, due to the high number of electoral votes. But what about other states who have to see their future President through a tv screen because they dont have as many electoral votes as larger states. For example a less visited state would be Rhode island with only one electoral vote becuase of the small population. In the passage "In Defense of the Electoral College:Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president" by Richard A. Posner it states that "They are likely to be the most thoughtful voters, on average(and for the further reason that they will have recieved the most information and attention from the candidates), and the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election"(posner p.3 swing states). This statement is saying since the bigger states with more electoral votes are the most informed they should be the ones to decide. "Why are they more informed" you might ask?, Becuase ther are the bigger states and have more attention from the candidates than smaller states. Any state with large Electoral Colege votes are basically choosing our countrys leader and just because we live in a smaller state means we have very little to no say?
More people would be informed of our candidates and care more about the election if they knew individually they got a say without the rest of the state triumphing over their vote. If a candidate sees that a state with fifty five Electoral College votes is not liking him , and if a state with only three electoral college votes isnt for him, the candidate will go for the higher amount of votes state. How are we supposed to be united and one as a country if a larger state has more votes than a smaller one therefor gets more attention and time from a future President." Knowing their vote will have no effect, they have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign than they would if the president were picked by popular vote..."(Posner p.5 avoid run off elections). If they have no incentive to pay attention THEN GIVE THEM INCENTIVE! Many people who are the appropriate age to vote complain about people not voting but if they think their vote will not matter than why would they?
Popular vote can insure that every single American can have a vote of their own and not grouped together with the rest of the state. I think that knowing your opinion and voice can count and truely make a difference matters in a situation like voting for president. "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a state of electors, who in turn elect the president"(Plumer p.10). As it says we are not even voting for our president but for votes.
If the United states president was elected by popular vote then it wouldnt matter what states got more attention and "how many more states do i have to win over to be the president?" but a true genuine popular vote for the leader of our country. That is why we need to abolish the Electoral College and get on with the popular vote situation. | 4 |
1ca2b1e | I believe this idea of having self driving cars is not a good idea because, you have to be alert at all times while in this type of car, human skill is going to be needed at times while in these cars and because, its just simpliy a watse of time and money on the manufactuar´s part.
In the story it talks about how self driving cars will change the world and all but, as I see it its all still the same as if you drove the car yourself. In paragraph two it clearly stats that the passanger in self driving cars still has to stay alert at all time just incase complicated traffic issuses are happining. What good does having a self driving car if you have to be alert with it as if you were driving the car yourself.
On top of having to be alert at all times while in these cars. You as a passanger will be needed during complicated traffic issues and roadwork or accidents. I understand that these cars can only do so much as far as tachnology goes but, as I see it they really are not changing anything. In paragraph 7 it tells the reader that self driving cars can function up to speeds at 25 miles per hour but, what about if you are on a highway where cars usually have to go around 40 miles per hour what will the car do then? Its pointless to continue with this research because, the things that the driver would want these self driving cars to do are not able to be done with these cars. Just an example is most human drivers have hard curves and turns while driving self driving cars are not able to do this. This is why its just a waste of time and money.
My last reason why I believe self driving cars are not worth the effort is because of the time and money that is being wasted with these cars. The story clearly states that they have been working with self driving cars since 2009. Its been 7 years in this process of making what is being called a driverless car and to be
honest with you I am not seeing enough pros in this research to want to be on their side on wanting to develople self driving cars. On top of them being in this procees for 7 years I can not imagine the amount of money companies are wasteing with this process. I can promise that test drives for these types of cars are not cheap and in paragraph two is says that they have drivin more than half of a million miles with this self driving car. the only pro to that is that it has all been without accedent.
Who knows maybe in the future they will accomplish making a well developed self driving car but, as I said I do not believe this is a good idea. Much more can be said with the proper imformation but, in the long run companies are just wasteing their time and money in making something that will take years and years to perfect and by then what good will it do. One mistake with the car malfunctioning and all their time work and money will be down the drain. | 4 |
1ca3291 | The author from the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" supports the idea of studying Venus because of these three reasons: it has been three decades since anyone has visited, people are thinking of living there, and the last reason is because we can make new technology by trying to send it to Venus. The author also states facts in the article.
The first reason is that it has been three decades since anyone has visited. Back in the 1900s, people began making tests to see what was on Venus. They were curious so people began sending spacecrafts. What is sad is that none came back. They stopped the research and forgot about it. It has been hard to study since the planet has a hot temperature. The planet's surface is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is about 90 times greater than our own planet. Venus has the hottest surface temperature from any other planet in our solar system.
The second reason is because people are thinking of living there. We should study about Venus a lot more for this reason. Venus has mountains, valleys, and craters. The planet's surface is rocky. Scientists say that Venus might of been the only Earth-like planet in our solar system. Venus might be our only option for a visit. It is the second planet from our sun but it is really close to us.
The last reason is because scientists are making new technology. They have sent many spacecrafts and all of them have failed. Scientists want to take a step further and send humans up there. There have been small vehicles brought up there to see how many miles it can run and how long it will survive. Scientists have to be really careful with what moves they make. Any wrong move can affect the mission. They need to be alert because it is a big risk.
The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Here are three reasons I found: it has been three decades since anyone has visited, people are thinking of living there, and the last reason is because we can make new technology by trying to send it to Venus. Those are the reasons why we should study Venus. | 3 |
1ca4609 | If you would like to be a Seagoing Cowboy please read this article.
You may not know what a Seagoing Cowboy is but that is why I'm hear to explain. Seagoing Cowboys get to experience what it's like to tavel to different countries, learn respinsibility, and learn about cultures they might never even heard of. We would like you to be our newest Seagoing Cowboy. After your first trip you might even want to invite your friends to become a Cowboy too.
Seagoing Cowboys see new places, because of the work that they do. They must take food, animals, and supplies to countries who can not grow and thrive after tragic accidents. In the passage Luke Bomberger and his friend Don Reist become Seagoing Cowboys and work together on a boat traveling to Europe. In Europe the people had just fought in World War II and had no food or supplies, not even animals. So the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration sent supplies and animals on a ship to help the people in Europe.
Seagoing Cowboys learn responsiblity by taking care of the animals and crew members on board their ship. In the article Luke must take care of horses, young cows, and mules by giving them water and food, cleaning the pens, and pulling hay and supplies from the lower decks. Seagoing Cowboys not only take care of animals they have to watch out for one another. In the passage Luke was almost knocked overvoard but thankfully a strip of metal caught him and his crewmates pulled him back aboard.
The people who do sign up to become Seagoing Cowboys get to travel around the world and learn about new cultures, eat new and interesting foods, and even get to see amazing landscapes and structures. In the passage Luke got to see the Panama Canal, a castle in Crete, and even spend time in China and Europe. Luke took nine trips from one place and back again-that's the most of any Seagoing Cowboy.
Seagoing Cowboys have great experiences. They learn new thingss and see new places. Plus who doesn't love working with animals. It would be a great experience and lots of fun to be a boy or man to travel to new countries and learn new things. We hope to see you on our next trip and have a great time. | 4 |
1ca4a2d | The author of "The challenge of exploring space" does a excellent job supporting the arugument that Venus should be further explored. They did this by using research done by NASA, scientific projects, and even presenting challenge to the reader or audience.
In pararaph 5 the author intoroduces an idea that NASA has made special products to explore the face of Venus. The author says " imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiing venusian landscape. Just as our jet airplanes travel at a high altitude to fly over many storms, a vehice hovering over venus woud avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way." This evidence helps convey the idea that the face of venus shoud further be explored because space experts have been working on it.
Similarly, in paragaph 7 the author intorduces a new idea that NASA has also been working on. Electronics that can survive the harsh enviornment of Venus. The author states "For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." This is another piece of evidence the author used well to support their agument that Venus shoud be further explored because we have the ability.
Lastly the author proves her argument rigt because he/she presents a challange at the end of the article that makes you want to take action. The author says, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imaginaton and innvoation." This is the last sentence of the article and the writer did a very nice job using it as a challenge to face and a call-to-action. This sentence will make reasearchers accept the challenge, which will prover her argument correct.
Overall, the author did an excellent job of presenting the argument and being able to support it with different types of evidence and even a challenge. The method he/she used was very effetive and proved a point very well. | 4 |
1ca992d | In "Driverless Cars Are Coming" they show the next future is cars for our society. It looks and seems like a bad and great idea. But we never really know until we take a full look into the research for this idea that they have for us. Google cofounder Sergey thinks this plan will work out. We'll end up seeing whether that is true or not.
As I see yes these cars are working by themselves and showing alot of positive things. But how can we insure for sure that it wont be that expensive we need more facts for that. The car will tell the driver when the driver has to move it by vibrating the drivers seat or some kind of signal. What if there are malfuctions to this process and it doesnt alert the driver. Yes the driver should already be alert just in case but we all have flaws that sometimes we space out.
It does seem like they are off to a good start with idea for "Driverless cars" but they need to have some facts,more percentages of how they know they wil be right that this will be a postive thing. I am still balanced out whether this is bad or good. im at a fifty-fifty with there idea. Maybe in a couple more years their plan will work but for now i just dont agree. | 2 |
1caaf3f | In America we have lots of cars, lots of roads, leading anywhere you want to go. In Europe they have car free cities where things may run a lot smoother;quicker. Limiting car usage could raise property prices due to lack of highway noise and can protentially save the world from population extinction due to smoke from the tail pipe.
On houses near the highway , of my knowledge, the price is usually lower because you have to suffer the aggonizing pain of the cars honking an zooming past. In the passage "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars""When I had a car I was always so tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two, as she walked the streets where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out occasional distant motor." Most American families want to live in quiet and peaceful homes. If cars were to be limited there would be less noise and then there will be a higher value for the houses next to the roadways.
Smoking an second hand smoking is one of the leading causes of death. All cars have a tailpipe and all cars let out ridiculous amounts of gaseous smoke during the average cars lifetime. In an article I read about Paris, titled "Paris bans driving due to smog", the goverment was over-whelmed by the amounts of smog in their city. They proposed a law to restrict drivers from driving on certain days based on their drivers license plate numbers. Thereby reducing the smog in the city. Then when the smog was cleared ramoved the restriction. Less smoke means more fresh air, more fresh air means more healthy and active people running around the world creating more jobs for a better future.
All throughout the world goverment, kings and parliaments are trying to dispel smoking while cars are one of them, without them there will be higher property values and less greenhouse gases in the air. I believe with less cars in the world we will live a easier life with less coughing and wheezing. | 3 |
1cab2eb | Dear Senator of Florida,
I strongly believe that we have to change the way we vote because the Electoral College is a horrible way to vote. It is not fair one bit and i think we should vote for the candidates that deserve to truely win. Not have it where we vote for someone but we actually are just voting for a slate of 34 electors who are pledged to the runner.
Electoral college has so many disagreements, but then it has agreements. This way of voting avoids run-off elections because if two candidates had the same amount of popular votes then they look at the electoral votes and it helps them know who is the winner. In large states they try to do electoral votes becuase it gives the presidential candidates more attention in a campaign than smaller states do.
Then we have the disagreements and they are pretty good logical points. When we use this system we dont vote for the president we are only voting for a slate of electors that elect for the president themselves. This just basically in my eyes looks like a cheat election and it shouldnt even count. Another thing is this method of selecting our president turns off potential voters for a candidate that has no intension of carrying for their state. Some people just vote to vote so they dont care of what might happen to their surroundings but then there are people that are voters and care and want to express a political preference other than the people that think a single vote will decide an election.
"Electoral Votes get overruled by declaring the candidate who recieves the most popular votes the winner". The electors are the ones that are voting not the people. This is all wrong i believe that we should vote for the president by popular vote. Its more fair and efficent. There wouldnt be anymore cheat elections. It would be the "people voting finally"! | 3 |
1cb069a | My essay on the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" is against the development of driverless cars because they are not safe.
Car development has come along greatly, but driverless cars are not the way to go. If someone's driverless car breaks down it will be extremely expensive to replace the parts necessary for function. Driverless cars also would take jobs away from working citizens such as; Cab drivers, Pizza delivery specialists, Postal workers, and Truck drivers. IN THE ARTICLE, it says "GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over.", but if the vehicle's system malfunctions the commands necessary to announce to the driver to manually operate wouldn't function properly.
Driverless cars can be very dangerous. When one is using a driverless car, he/she is putting his/her and their passenger's lives in hazardous conditions. No one should take that risk. | 2 |
1cb6294 | Luke Bomberger was a seagoing cowboy. He crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific twice to help people affected by world war ll. He took care of horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas.
Along his trip he got chance to visit many places. He had the benefit of seeing Europe and China. But to him seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special he also said that taking that gondola ride in Venice, Italy also was.
He fed and watered the animals and cleaned the stalls. Bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled from the lower holds of the ship and thats what Luke did. During the crossings caring for the animals kept Luke busy.
He was a watchman and had to look out on the animals every hour and report back to the captian. One day he was doing his normal rutien, and he had slid down a slippery ladder an his backside and when he slid a small strip of metal along the edge stopped his slide, kepping from falling overboard in the Atlantic ocean. Helping on his aunt Katie's farm when he was young had prepared luke for hard work.
In the story it tells you of a man named Luke Bomberger and what he did as a Seagoing Cowboy. It doesn't really try to convince you to participate in the program but if you do you can get some details from what he did to what you might do if you joined. After this program he said "it made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." | 1 |
1cb7062 | In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" it says "Evening Star, is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot. However it is misleading since Venus is actually a planet." Although people think Venus is a star it is a good idea for someone to study it because not that many people have that much Knoledge on it.
"If our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientist even discussing further visits to its surface?" People are discussing visiting the planet because no one has visited it in 3 decades and it has probably changed. In the article it says "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." If someone could go visit Venus and see how it looks now and see if Venus could still have some type of life form on it now. Also they should take people to Venus and see how long they can live there.
In conclusion, even though numeros space crafts have been sent up to Venus the and have not compleeted their mision they still should go to venus and test if it is safe for humans to be on or go to. | 2 |
1cb73aa | Have you noticed? Have you noticed the sidewalk person-population is increasing? More and more people are taking public transportation, walking, and biking. smog and polution are coating our cities like a blanket.
"Passenger cars are resonsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. Up to 50% in car intensive areas around the
U.S.
'' says source 1. There is an experimental town in Germany, named Vauban, whose streets are filled with people instead of cars. This seems to be the growing trend, a movement, called "smart-planning''. As cars decrease, the city of Vauban is more compact. They no longer have a worry about where to set parking. Stores are set on main roads, no longer having a mall on the side of a congested highway. Everything's just a simple walk away. Things are simple here, and air is clean.
Unlike Vauban, France had to take things to a new level. As smog layed heavy over Paris, a driving ban was set to clear the air. Though congestion was down 60% in the capital, cold nights and warm days caused a layer of air to trap car emissions. Diesel fuel was blamed in this case, the tax policy made by France, favors diesel over gosoline. "Deisels make up 67% of vehicles in France, compared to a 53.3% average of diesel engines in the rest of Western Europe" says source 2.
As France set a ban on cars for a little while, America seems to be just losing intrest in motor vehicles. Source 4 tells us " Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." As driving decreases so does the polution, creating healthier enviroments.
IN CONCULSION, AT LEAST MAKE THE TOPIC INTERESTING. PLEASE AND THANK YOUUUUUU :) | 2 |
1cbab90 | The author's claim in the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is not well supported by the evidence provided, and the reasoning behind the evidence. The author claims that the planet Venus would be a worthy goal to pursue, despite the dangerous conditions and harmful atmosphere that the planet posseses. The author provides information on possible ways that we could overcome the challenge of landing on the planet Venus, but no clear reason as to why we should pursue this goal besides his own rationalization of a reason provided at the end of the article. Not only is the evidence that the author provides theoretical in the efficiency of the tools stated on another planet, but the purpose of the tools in collecting samples and taking photos is not descibed or elaborated on. Despite the risks, the author has no clear reason for the benefit of landing on Venus, and the tools that the author proposes do not support the idea that it would be possible to land on Venus and actively collect samples or take pictures.
The author claims that the value of returning to Venus "seems indisputible" in paragraph 4, but the only reason for this claim is his analogy that Venus is similar in structure to Earth. In paragraph 5, the author states that a possible way to approach the planet seems possible, because NASA had an idea to create "a blimp-like vehicle to hover over Venus." The author in paragraph 6 states that the blimp would only allow us to recieve "limited insight" on the planet, and we would not be able to take samples or take pictures due to the dense atmosphere. The author does not provide any possible way to collect samples and overcome this issue, besides stating how "many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus." This statment provides no actual evidence as to any progress researchers have made, or if anything useful will come from the knowledge of the surafce Venus.
In paragraph 7, the author mentions a technology made of "silicon carbide" that has been tested by NASA, and survived a simulation of the conditions of Venus for three weeks. The author does not elaborate on the uses for these strong electronics, and leaves the reader guessing at the purpose of this technology. The author also mentions the use of mechanical computers used in the 1940s during World War II. The author speaks of how these computers make calculations by using gears and levers, but does not elaborate on anything else besides their increased resistance to "pressure, heat, and other forces." Once again the author provides no clear reason to the purpose behind the inventions, besides the possible survival of the technology on Venus.
Finally, the author presents his own opinion in paragraph 8. The author states, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planent itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." Paragraph 8, as the author has wrote, is entirely opinionated and dangerously optimistic. His reasoning behind the value of "meeting the challenge of Venus" is the equivalent to practice for humanity, because "human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally indimidating endeavors." The authors opinion of the research on Venus, as shown by this statment, seems to be entirely based on the idea that we should practice for future endeavors despite the dangers which is not only naiive, but dangerous.
To summarize all of this information, the author shows no clear reason as to why we should risk the resources and manpower to attempt an expedition on Venus. The author provides no purpose for the tools stated besides their increased survivability rate, and the author's opinion is forced onto the reader by stating in paragraph 8 that we should ignore the dangers and doubts of exploration to meet the limits of innovation. The author poorly supports his claim of "a worthy pursuit despite the dangers" and provides no facts or evidence for the benefits of humanity attempting the challenge of Venus. | 6 |
1cbe327 | There can be many reason why people had decided to stop using there cars and start doing more activities. First, cars waste money and gas and the gasonline burns and gases comes out and goes in the air. However, they pollution is destroying the air and leaving smog behind. Therefore, people should stop using there cars and think what should they do for the environment.
Using less motor vechicles are less important than the environment, the world we live in.
First, cars waste money and gas and the gasonline burns and gases comes out and goes in the air? We are wasting so much money on gasonline everyday and its ruining the air. Why because when the fuel burns, the gases comes out of the tanks and into the air and that's how we cause smog. We need air not chemicals to breathe and plants to help us breathe oxygen. We need sunlight so stay warm and have the plants and animals to eat and so we can stay health. What if you can you don't have to use the car for one month how would you feel about the air and the pollutionh without cars?
However, they pollution is destroying the air and leaving smog behind?
It's true that we are sometimes breathing in smog. It's disturbing that we have to breathe it in and out. We need to stop using cars and trying to figure out what we can do to protect the environment and the commiunty to help us. Many countries have smog and you can't be able to see the sun. Don't you want to end up like that place, and do want to be safe. Plus if we stop using cars and more into the environmentm we can connect to the people and other resources. Many people have a lot of stress when they are driving, what would you think if they got more connected to the world and having more social. They and even you can have a better life and having a good time socialing with others.
Therefore, people should stop using there cars and think what should they do for the environment.
Using less motor vechicles are less important than the environment, the world we live in. Many teenagers want to learn how to drive or wants to get there new car. But they don't notice other stuff going on in our world, they think they are more important than the world. But can you notice sometimes the most teens don't need cars like pther places because they don't need it and spend money on gas. Half the population had dropped of the percentage of teens driving. What can you do without cars and people who don't need it are better of having a life than people who spend on money on cars.
As a result, what can you do for the world without the cars and think about the air. Make a community without and motor vehicles and a better place for your have to live in. What would you have to do to stop using your cars and figure out a way to do transportation to a place you have to go. But had you know that in New York and France us there bikes to get to places. Because its a big place and not enough room to have cars to get to places. Plus its helps you stay fit and healthy. So think about the air and what can you do for the popluatin with people that have cars. | 3 |
1cbe5ec | Dear, Senator
Keeping the Electoral college is a bad idea to do. We should not have leave up to the electors to make the final vote. The Electoral College system has the votors vote but not for the president, but for the slate of electors, that then turns and elect the president off of there own votes.
As a soon to be voter it will be better to let the voters make the desion on who our president should be. All Americans should have the choice of saying who going to be president over us for the 2 or 4 years. I dont feel Electoral College is needed in this case. votes need to be taking with the population of votes that are sumitted by us the voters.
The Electoral College was a good idea that we had been using. It consists of 538 electors but 270 electoral votes are required to elect the president. Less electors need to needed and more of the population vote needs to be added in to the final election.
After learning all the things i didnt know it was very interesting. I really think that by using our population vote will be a better thing to do. The Electoral College seems like a very dificult process. Hopefully one day you will change this process of how the president gets elected. | 2 |
1cc05be | I think the athor of this story did a good job explaining himself on why we should try to pursuit Venus. In the sencond paragragh he explained that Venus is the closest plant to earth in terms of density, size, and sometimes the clostest in distance. Then he explain some issue of landing on Venus because each previous mission was unmanned and the spacecraft could only survive for 2 hours. Then he started to talk about Venus thick atmosphere, clouds along with the temperatures and the atmospheric pressure. The reason saying all of this about Venus is a good idea becasue it gives the reader more information about why Venus would be hard to explore.
He also explains that Venus has the highest surface temperture of any the plants in our solar system. He also said that Venus geology and weather present additional dangers like erupting volcanoes, earthquakes and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on the surface. Then he starts tlaking about how Venus at a point could have looked like earth. Venus long ago could of had oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like earth. The plant has a surface of rocky terrian and includes familiar features like valleys, mountains, and craters.
All of this is why I think the author of this story did a good job of explaining why it would be a challage exploring it. He gave good facts about the plant and talking about what nasa is doing to try to explore the plant. | 3 |
1cc3ce2 | Many people agree in abolishing the Electoral College. Electoral Collage caused a dispute in the year 2000. The Electoral College is a irrational system and it should be banned.
Certainly the Electoral College has some benefits. In the passage "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our sidpised method of choosing the President" by Richard A. Posner the author states that the Electoral College "avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recieves a majority of votes cast." With the Electoral College there is no issue of a candidate getting the most votes, so there wont have to be any run-off elections. Run-off elections complicated the election process. Posner asserts that the "winning candidate's share of the Electoral College invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote." It is because of this that the possibility of an argument over the outcome of an Electoral College is lesser then an argument over the popular vote. Although this is true, the people should have the say on who their president will be. The Electoral College is a broken voting system that causes confusion and dispute. Therefore, the Electoral College should not be used as a way of voting for America's President.
A key issue is that the candidate with the most popular vote does not have the certainty of winning. This is a problem because America can not have the leader she wants and deserves. Bradford Plumer from the article "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" argues that the Electoral College causes " the popular vote winner could again lose the presidency." If the people can not chose who they want as their leader then where is their freedom? Plumer also states that the voters can not always "control whom their electors vote for," We dont get to chose who the electors are voting for. This way the value of the people's opinion is being diminished into nothing. The resonable solution to this problem is to just end the Electoral College imidiatly.
Another factor is that the electors have to much power over the election. Palmer writes "that the electors could always defy the will of the people," The electors are the only people who have decent amount of power to chose a president. The people should have that kind of power. The author asserts that the electors " have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please," The electors are able to just change their mind when wver they like. The popular vote must decide on who should win. The future of america should depend only on the will of the people. The people has to finally stand up and fight for their right to chose their own President.
In final consideration, the Electoral College is unfair to the American people. We should have freedom to chose whom our country's leader should be. The popular vote should stay and the Electoral College should be banned once and for all. | 5 |
1cc616f | Marlenne M
ISTEP
ENG 10 Part 1
28 February 2019
Dangerous and Venus
Venus could be one of the best planets although its name is "Evening Star" and making it one of the brightest points of light in the sky. Venus is reallly important to our scientists. Venus out of all our planets looks more like our planet Earth. Meaning, it has a lot of characterists that Earth has. Although, Venus seems like it's the closest similar we have to Earth, it is indeed dangerous. Knowing that Venus is really dangerous NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus.
As, I said in my previous paragraph Venus has many characterists that are similer to Earth. Also, scientists actually believe that many years ago Venus was covered largely with oceans and could supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Venus is actually referred to as Earth's "twin." They both are extreme close to density and size. Out of the all the planets scientists are really intrieged to discover new things on Venus and maybe even find out what Venus was like years ago. They can probably even prove their hypothesis that Venus had oceans and various living things.
Dangerous isn't even the word for explaining Venus. Venus is the second planet from our sun. Making it slighty challenging to examine more clsely. Most people would think this is why we aren't able to step foot on Venus but Venus has more diffcult problems then just being super close to the sun. As stated in the text, " Earth, Venus, and Mars, our other planetary meighbor,orbit the sun at different speeds. These differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus." Some humans have been sent to venus but never managed to stay alive.
Even though Venus can be life-threatening, our scientists won't give up. They are fascinated by Venus. Even today Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. Venus can sometimes be our neartest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel." What this means is that scientists are looking further into second choices in case Earth one day is ruined by something or even humans.That being said if Venus is the the nearest option we have than NASA should try and do everything to be able to explore the planet Venus. "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation."
In conculsion, NASA will find a way for scientists to be able to study and even so make the planet Venus livable. If NASA is working on some simplified electronics made of slicon carbide then of course one day humans will be able to even travel to Venus. Dangerous but never enough to stop our curiosity. Earth should always have a second option incase something goes wrong, and if NASA believes that Venus has life then I do believe so too. If they were able to get a man on the moon, then they will be able to study and explore Venus no matter how dangerous it is. | 4 |
1cc6247 | Helping out people in other contries with the UNRRA makes me feel good inside. Let me tell you why everyone should join the UNRRA's seagoing
cowboy program
First and for most , it is very fun. We play all the average games like baseball , volleyball ,
table tennis , fencing , boxing and ready. Another
way we have fun is with the animals. Watching the baby horses play is adorable.
Last but not least my friends and I have fun. We tell jokes and play pranks . You know the usual guy stuff.
This program teaches responsiblity. I am in charge of the animals and I have to feed and water them 3 times everyday and clean their stalls once a week. It may not sound fun but it is worth it when you see the light in peoples eyes when they recive one of our animals.
As well as responiblity you get certain rewards. On my free time I like to see the awesome structures that the people have in their cities. In total I have gotten
one gondola ride , 2 trips to Acropolis and 1 trip to the Panema Canal.
These are only the three top reasons why everyone should join this program. and if you are interested the UNRRA always needs new people! | 3 |
1cc6be8 | Emotions can reveal a lot about what is going through someone's mind. When a person is wearing a neutral face on, it is hard to tell what emotion they are feeling. Now there is technology to help decipher what that perosn is feeling. Dr. Paul Eckman has created a process when a computer contructs a 3-D computer model of the face to tell what emotion is on it, Facial Action Coding System or FACS.
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'alto, the use of Facial Action Coding Sytem (FACS) to read the emotional expressions of students is valuable education wise and emotionally.
Knowing a student does not understand or is uninterested in a topic can help teachers in a tremendous way. If there is
"a classroom computer that could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson" (D'alto). By modifying the lesson, the teacher will make a change to the lesson. After changing the lesson to an easier way for some students to understand, it can help the students grades. When a student is bored of the topic, the teacher can fix the lesson to be more interesting.
Not only will education be better for students, but emtionally they will feel a lot better. Dr. Eckman designs his system with the basic emotions: happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness (D'alto). In classrooms, students may show emotions other than being bored or confused, but show something is wrong with them. Teachers can be notified that a student may seem troubled and can assist emotional support. Humans can tell when their friends are feeling by just giving a glance, but some may have trouble telling what emotion the other person is feeling (D'alto). With a new computer software that stores similar anatomical information as electronic code, created by Dr. Huang, a classroom computer is able to tell what emotion a student is feeling (D'alto). Teachers may not be close with some students, so they are unable to tell what the stduent is feeling. However, the computer can signal that a student is feeling a certain way to the teacher.
Students can excel education wise and emotionally due to the use of technology to read their emotional expressions in "Making Mona Lisa Smile".
Currently, students are becoming to feel sad or unwated, and tradies will unleash in school. With technology one step ahead, it is able to stop students from feeling unsafe, sad, or confused. | 4 |
1cc8f9d | Many people believe having car usage is a Problem. Let me began, Passengers cars are responsible of the greenhouse gas emissionsion in Europe. Also up to 50% in same car-instensive areas in the United States. After Percents of near-record pollution driving ban to clear the air of the global city.
Diesel Fuel blamed, because it makes up to 67% of vehicles causes smog(dirt that comes out the exhaust pipe when you push the accleraler),avoided love affair with its vehicle seems to be cooling The number of miles driven in the united states peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter the studies was made .Adjusted population growth instead next year will be accomplished by citizens that come as all that wants there voice to be heard about the whole studies and ideas of carpooling .Part of investments driven 9 percent because of cash neraly the decrease have changed. Through out the year people began to start connecting there cars with the diesel oil company ,whichment may of them shared van services or either caught the Bike -shring program. Many shift in the driving population suggest that the trend may accelerate. Obervations have came to a conclusin on what should be made and how should people be able to get to work ,or school.
Studies made near members of the mobile congress last year excutive laid out came partening with the commericial and public transporation traffic are woven .Thats when bill ford came out with his car the first Ford530 the name of this segement was called 'Smart Planning,Even families from foreign companies began to like the idea of buliding the first carinstaed of public transporation. The main focus runs through the development of the wandering children drown out and the chatter occasional distant motor. This idea completed $ 40,000 along with the home. Generally forbidden in this experimental new district on the outskirts. Passengers cars are responsible of the gas emissions in europe. The 5,500 residents within a regular square mile, may be the most advanced concepts the diffculities in life with the less transporation,which stores are placed a walk away.
While there have been efforts in the past two decaded to make to make cities denser ,and better for walking planners are now taking the concepts to the suburbs. There the most advanced experiment in low-car suburban life. But its basic precepts are being adopted around the worldin the attempts to make suburbs more compact and more accesibble. Less depentable on cars:'how much drive?.Either you refer to hybrid with spread-out homes and private were emissions choking cities. Delivery companies complained of lost revenue while expections. The smog cleared Monday for the ruling french party to rescind. It was the third straight year cars been banned with only buses and taxis. Its a good opprtunity to take away. For the first time ,two other colombian. The turnout was large ,despite the gray clouds take away the dark clouds. Municpal authorities fromother countries.
The day without cars is part improvement campaign that began in bogosta. Parks and sports centers city. Uneven .pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad ,smooth sidewalks. The United States and Surbaban Americans love affair with its vehicles. The peeks of miles driven peaked in 2005 and dropped analysis steadily thereafter,according to an investment advisor. As of April 2013 ,the number of miles driven research. Part of the explanation certainly lies because afford new cars,cash-strapped. Americans could not go to work anyway. | 1 |
1ccaa99 | Nick D'Alto, the author of Making Mona Lisa Smile, explains how new and advanced technology can read and translate facial expressions down to percentages of emotion. He uses credible sources like college professors and creators of this new technology to further this thought and out them into benefitial environments like classrooms. Putting Facial Action Coding Systems (FACS) in classrooms would be valuable because it will be reliable when solving issues of students, understanding their thought process, and forces teachers to break down lessons to confused students.
Knowing the FACS can identify human emotion, it can understand students thought process trough out the lesson they are given. Due to personal experiences, everyone has once in their lives misunderstood what was said to them in class. With the FACS system present the teacher can simply slow down the pace of their teaching to where each and every student can understand.
The FACS system can prevent common problems in a classroom environment happen before it even occurs. If there were to be conflict between two sudents, before a fight occurs, the teacher can simply call the student up to their desk so the computer can scan their face in order to find out how and why one student is acting towards another.
Lastly, the FACS system will force teachers or professors to break down lesson in their simplist forms. Understanding the FACS system can be used like a translator, translating nonverbal communication, the teacher can quickly switch up teh style of their teaching.
In conclusion the FACS system would be helpful in more environments than a classroom. It would be very helpful in environments like a psychiatrist or counseling. In a community where emotion is more relevant to the occupation. | 3 |
1ccb947 | The claim the author gave about going to venus and researching it from a safe distance is good,Because it will give great information about venus and how it works."striving to meet the challenge presented by venus has high value not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself". This is saying that going to venus will help us understand how the planet works.
Venus is worth researching even though the casualties could be high and the risks could be."Weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes,powerfull earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface". This is saying that there is alot of risk in going to go research venus.
In conclusion i think that we should go to venus becasue it will get us more closer to landing on venus. Researching venus will get us more closer to landing on it because the research will tell us when the temperatures will be lower and when everything is good. | 2 |
1ccd84e | Cars have become an essential part of everyday life.
They allow people to bring themselves from point A to point B in a substantially less amount of time than just walking, running, or biking.
They have allowed us to travel parts of the world that were previously out of reach.
Although they help us do all of these everyday tasks, there are many downfalls to driving them ourselves.
Human error when driving a car has caused many severe accidents and deaths.
This has influenced us to create a new method of travel where we wouldn't have to even install a steering wheel.
Driverless cars are not as far into the future as we believe and they are potentially a great solution to the high death rate of drivers and their families around the world.
Currently, the level of fuel consumption is very high.
There are so many people burning fossil fuels that we are actually causing global warming.
While driverless cars will not solve that problem completely, they will greatly reduce the rate at which we burn fossil fuels.
Paragraph 1 of "Driverless Cars Are Coming" clearly states that we will only burn half the amount of what we are currently burning of our fossil fuel supply.
This could give us time to produce a new solution to completely rid the Earth of fossil fuel usage.
The burning of the ozone layer threatens the existence of our species and all life on Earth.
It is one of our greatest threats.
With driverless cars, comes the lack of human error in our current transprtation system.
By allowing machinery of this kind to take over, we could potentially eliminate a substantial amount of car accidents caused by distraction and inexperience, thus lowering the death rate.
Manually driven vehicles are also very expensive to purchase.
Most people only lease their cars which is also very expensive.
By replacing these cars with driverless cars, you would pay much less money to travel than you would to lease or buy a car.
By eliminating this expence, you are allowing people to save more of their hard-earned money which will improve the quality of life for everyone.
Today, we have such a huge problem with fuel consumption and pollution that people in some highly populated areas are forced to wear masks outside so they don't breathe in the smog.
This problem is mainly the result of the number of automobiles in use.
People are also dying in automobile related accidents every day.
When cars posses the capability to communicate with eachother about their position on the road, accidents ahead, or road work in progress, they will greatly reduce your chances of being injured in an accident.
Driverless cars are a huge step into the future and should be seen as a positive advancement to today's technology and a great way to stay safe on the road. | 4 |
1ccde24 | Scientists believe that Venus could sustain human life. According to the article, "Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels." Therefore, human life is possible on Venus. But not without some difficulties.
The conditions on Venus are extremely dangerous. According to the article, "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." Conditions like this include erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes.
Overall, human life is possible on Venus. Not easy, but possible. According to the article, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." The possible knowledge that could be obtained about Venus and the fact that Venus might be able to support human life are both very big reasons that scientists want to study Venus. | 2 |
1cd0bbb | Hints to help us understand that the author very much supports venus and believes venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers .Venus is a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide. The clouds are challenging of highly corrosive sulfric acid in venus's atmosphere.The planet venus surface temperatures avarege over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, atmosphere pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience in our own planet.Conditions that venus has are more eextreme than we ever encountered on Earth, as in evironment , metals, and deepest parts of our ocean.Venus can be quite dangerous for example, venus has the hottest temperature, even tho mercury is closer to the sun, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, also frequent lightnig strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface. Venus is the most the most earth like planet in our solar system. Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and can have supported various forms of life, like earth.Till this day Venus still has some features such as valleys, mountains and craters.NASA has one particularly compelling idea for sendin humans to study venus. Surface of venus would allow scientist to float abover the fray.However , peering at Venus from
ship orbiting or hovering safely far abovethe planet can privide only limited insight on ground conditions as in forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere , most importantly , researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else. NASA is working on other approaches to study Venus. Som simplified elrctronics made of silicon carbide have been tested. Modern computers are enourmously powerful, flexible, nd quick, but tend o be more delicate whem it comes to extreme physical conditions.Venus has value. | 2 |
1cd1479 | In my opinion, I think that this technolgy in this story can read emotional expressions. It says in the story: "The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the falce all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles". Dr. Hunang says that "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal".
The technology from this story and the technology in our present time is way different then in this story in our real world the technolgy has changed in many different ways having phones that track where you are and what your location is. The Phones, computers, and tablets have really changed over the past few years. Although in this story you are talking about mona lisa and what there technology consits of. In our era now we have 3D and 4D printers that you can print projects and other things from. In the story it says it scans mona lisa's face and tells whether she is mad or angry and a whole bunch of emotions and other things that go on during the scan. But you can proably tell how your friend or a person is feeling by the look on him or her's face. Computers are really changing alot on what processor it has in it and a bunch of new features added to the computer each year. Meanwhile, in the story it says by moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions but it also may even help produce emotions.
In conclusion, I explained whether the use of this technolgy in this reading to explain the emotional expresssions of students in a classroom. | 2 |
1cd6fae | Based on what I have read o do not think self riving cars should be allowed. The law is right based on what they say these cars eventhough they have sensos to make the driver aware of situations in need of a human. The person in the car may become to focused on what they are doing and ignore the sensor. The idea of self driven cars is too risky. Even though they are going for safety a car cant drive like a human or have the response time of a human and even computers make mistakes.
Even in a simple GPS they tend to make mistakes often. So what happens if the cars GPS is off on its calculations and the car drives through a house. Will they blame that on the driver. I would hope not. It shouldnt be the drivers mistake if the car messes up. You cant always rely on computers.
So no I highly disagree with this. Computers arent perfect, and there are just some things only humans can do. Driving might just be one of those things. What these people are visualizing are just things they have seen on t. v that does not mean it will happen the same as it does on t. v. | 3 |
1cd7165 | I think that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. Most people think that all you do is work, like taking care of animals. However, there are ways for you to have fun while working. You can play games, read a book, or even see cool sights. Here are a couple of things you could do.
First of all, you can see many different sights and explore while traveling. I know that I have visited some really cool places, like seeing an excavated castle in Crete. You can also see many different things. You could see the beautiful, wavy water or see a beautiful sunset while you travel. Another place I think you should visit is the Panama Canal. So, if you ever get bored and don't anything else to do, you should some beautiful sights and marvelous places. You may never know what you see and even make new friends along the way.
Second of all, you could play games if you get bored. The Seagoing Cowboys program isn't just all about working for animals. It's about having fun and playing games. For example, I know when I joined the Seagoing Cowboys, we would play games, like table tennis, baseball, and even volleyball. You could also read too, if you would like. Where would you play these games, you ask? Back then, we would play in the empty holes where the animals have been housed.
Third of all, you could just have fun. You could read a book, play games, or even relax. Talk to the animals while you take care of them. If all you do is work and no fun, then you are going to not like being part of the Seagoing Cowboys. I remember when I did do a lot of fun stuff, but I had to do work first. I would like to tell you a very good story. One rainy night, after making my hourly report to the captain, I fell down the steps, but luckily I made it okay. I just couldn't work a couple of days because
I had cracked ribs. Trust me on this point. If you say to people that you had a great time, they would probably want to join too.
In conclusion, I made very good and understanding points. First, go visit some sights and places while you explore. Not only could you explore new worlds, but you could also meet new people and try out different languages. Second of all, you could play games. If you play games like volleyball and baseball, you will be more happier when you play games that if you just do work all the time and not have any fun. You will get bored and most likely not enjoy yourself all that much. Third of all, have fun. You should join the Seagoing Cowboys program for these reasons. Hope to see you there! | 4 |
1cdccc2 | I think you guys should be in the Seagoing Cowboys. One reason of the reason why you should join is that if you like to travel than you should join another reason why you should join is that if like helping people you should join and the last reason why you should join is if you like animals and you want to take care of them than you should join the Seagoing Cow. If you want to join there is some bad news. One of the reasons why is that it takes two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean to get to the eastern coast of the United States and it took a month to get to China and another reason why its hard to be a Seagoing Cowboy is that if your 18 you have to join the military service. This is good news about being a Seagoing Cowboy one of the reason why it is good is that you can see diffrent things i saw an excavated castle in Crete and on my way to China i saw a Panama Canal. I hope you take all of this information and think about being joining the Seagoing Cowboys. | 2 |
1ce2f50 | The idea of not having the resposibility of driving has been wanted by many for years. It has been seen as a futuristic thing that could almost never happen. Now, the driverless car has been invented. Many will be pleased with this, but many will not. I, for one, am against driverless cars for several reasons. Some of those reasons are liability and cost.
One concern of driverless cars is liability. If a driverless car gets into a wreck, who should be held responsible? Some would say the car manufature and other would say the person in the vehicle. There are so many different type of situations that every situation would be different. I think that the car manufacture should be held responsible for the driverless car since they made the car, unless the person inside the vehicle had to take control. There will be controversy over every car accident.
Another concern is the cost that these cars will bring to every city. As said in the readin "Driverless Cars Are Coming", roads might have to be redone. This will cost thousands for many cities and states. If another city gets new roads before another then a driverless car could not go into that city. That may be the place the passanger is wanting to go also. Producing these cars would cost more also. More satellites would have to be made to accomidate all of the driverless cars, too. If there are too many driverless cars out and the system fails, that will cost thousands upon thousands of dollars.
Futuristic ideas have always been sought for, one of them being driverless cars. There are many different position on them, but mine is that they should not be made. There are many concerns about driverless cars, a couple of them being liability and cost. Although this thing is highly wanted, will it be the right thing to do for our society? | 3 |
1ce9669 | Driverless cars should not be permitted. There are a few small problems that will become major issues if they are not fixed in due time. There are three main reasons why driverless cars should not be permitted. One of the reasons is when accidents occur people will not know who to blame the accident on because it could be the manufacturer's fault or the driver's fault. Another reason is there is not any information about how much money it would cost to create driverless cars based on the text. The final reason is the cars are not really considered "driverless" since the driver has to take control on certain occasions.
If or when accidents occur, then who would be the blame? People would not know whether to blame the driver for the accident or the manufacturer of the car. People can claim that the driver is the fault for the accident because it looked like the car spun out of control, or people could say the manufacturer is the blame because it look as if the car was having technical difficulties.
How much money will it cost to create the driverless cars? Finding out how much money it would cost to create these driverless cars is a top priority. However, based on the information in the text, there is not enough information to determine how much it would cost to create the driverless cars. Companies defintely need to look into that before spending lots of money on the creations of driverless cars.
Are the cars considered "driverless" since the driver has to take control of the car on certain occassions? If the car was driverless, then why does the driver have to take control while the car is backing out of a driveway? An acctual driverless car would be able to back out of an driveway and avoid accidents without a driver taking control. The driver also has to take control of the car if the car detects an accident on a road ahead. The driverless car should be able to steer right around the accident or should be able to find the shortest route around the accident without the driver having to take control of the car.
Driverless cars should not be permitted because if an accident occurs people would not know who to blame, there is not enough information based on the text about how much money driverless cars would cost, and the cars are not considered driverless since the driver would have to take control of the car on certain occassions like if the car detects an accident on the road ahead or if the car is backing out of a driveway. If manufaturers can fix these problems then driverless cars would not be an issue, but until then the driverless cars need to stay off the roads because there is very important issues that need to be fixed before people get hurt. | 4 |
1cebc9e | The driverless cars could still be dangerous. Maybe it stops working, or maybe something goes wrong. You can never trust a car because eventually everything stops working at some point in time. But how you know if this car is stable and good for you to drive. I guess we will find out.
Yes, it tells you have you make it and that they will test drive it for you but how exactly do you know that its safe to driver. A car driving all by itself coud go wrong i mean you still have to help stere it when there's like construction or a car accident up ahead. But if the car is sepposed to drive by itself if should be able to do that to because the car drives by itself. Driverless cars are scary if you think about it because something could go wrong when you're driving it. It could stop stereing by itsef and what are you going to do nothing because you can't if a car stops it's stereing. What would you do if the wheels stops sensoring the brakes and you need to stop everything could go out and you would be able to fix it. If you stay with the cars we have now you could take it into the shop have them look at it and tell what's wrong with it, and they can help you fix it. We have enough laws as it is, added more for a car that needs a law for liability in an accident just for the car, no thank you. If you get in an accident is it your fault or the manufacturer? The manufacturer because why is it your fault when the car can stere itself answer that one for me.
So why would you want a car that is not for you? You dont. Do you want to get in to an accident and them ask you if it's the cars fault or yours, cleary its the cars, because " it can driver by itself."If the car can drive by itself then why do you need to take control for construct or a accident up ahead we shouldn't have to do that, that should already be programed into the car. So i will gladly not take one in 2020. | 2 |
1ced533 | Technology that can make Mona Lisa smile. Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. It is able to read a person emotional state. This technology can be useful in many was. In classrooms it technology can improve learning.
Facial Action Coding System can improve a child's learning. It could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. This can help modify the lesson so the student can stay forcesed on the lesson. That would help a lot of student work at the best speed for them. The Facial Action Coding would work by watching the muscles in a person's face to tell what mood their in. Even if the Computer couldn't handle the complex algorithms used. They can weite down some simple instructions that "encode" different emotions. This could really help keep student on key with their learning.
This technology can be useful in many was. In classrooms it technology can improve learning. This would be valuable technology for students in a classroom. There are so many ways we could befit from this. Students all around could use this to help them. | 2 |
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