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1e96953 | In Science Fiction movies you may have heard or seen driverless cars. Have you ever thought what it would be like to own a driverless car? Well in a few years that may be possible.
Many companies like Google, General Motors, and BMW have tried to make driverless cars. While many cars have been successful, none have been completely driverless. In some cases like work zones and where accidents are, a human driver must take control of the car in order to bypass the scene.
I think that driverless cars would be cool, but there is some danger to yourself and others without a person being in control. First, if the car were to switch to where a human takes control and the person was not paying attention then there would most likely be an accident. Second, if you were to learn how to use a driverless car you would have to learn how to drive first without a driverless car in case you have to take control of the car. Third, technology isn't perfect, there might be some isues with the first models of driverless cars and overtime the driverless cars will be fixed so that there will not be as many accidents because of a malfunction. Lastly, if you wanted to go somewhere you would have to program the car or use a GPS.
If there were driverless cars there would most likely be less car accidents in the future. Many accidents are caused by people driving faster or slower than the posted speed, drunk drivers, and having no experience by driving a car. If you were to elminate driving then there would be less car crashes.
In conclusion I believe that driverless cars would be a benfit to society by preventing most car crashes. However even if there are driverless cars the person controlling the driverless car needs to pay attention just like if they were driving the car. In the future, are you going to drive or let the car drive for you? | 3 |
1e98d70 | The use of this technology in a classroom is valuable to read the emotional expression of students when he/she steps into the classroom to know what exactly is they're facial emotion representing.
This new sofeware called Facial Action Coding System is proven to read six basic facial emotions such as, happiness, surprised, anger, disgust, fear, and saddness. The sofeware is like math it can calculate you all your forty-four major facial muscles and calculate your emotion. For like example , if you raise both of you eye brows it most likley means that your facial expression is showing that your suprised to hear or see something.
I think that this sofeware is a pretty nice technology that can be usefull if your a teacher, rehabilatation center helper. For a teacher it can be a good technology to use at school so you can know more about the kids facial expression. It'll become a great technology for a rehabilatation center ,for veteran solders the have gone through a lot and are hiding other extra emotions.
Thomas Huang , of the Beckman Institute for Advance Sience at the University of Amsterdam did a great sofeware that will become very usefull to many places. It will help many people as well to know what extra emotions they are hiding that the sofeware can find for them. | 2 |
1ea12d7 | In the following essay I'm going to talk about how this new technology called Facial Action Coding System or FACS help us to identify human emotions. I think that the use of this new technology will be completely valuable to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom. Will the use of this new technology be helpful to the teacher? Will this techonolgy be use just inside of classrooms?
In different situations know how a person feels is important, not just because the person will probably need help but to understand the emotion the person is feeling. I believe that this kind of new technology will be more than helpful inside of the classrooms at schools because the technology can tell the teacher wether the students are learning or not; Can also tell the teacher if he needs to improve himself to make the class even interesting instead of bored. I think this kind of technology has to be used not just inside of schools but can also be used at important places like the goverment or the police departments not just to solve issues but to collaborate with them for the good of everyone.
In conclusion, this new technology is a big step for the humanity. This new technology can improve the learning method by knowing the facial expressions and make it even better. Just imagine all the good things this technology can do for us. Its amazing the multiple things that are being developed and the use of the Facial Action Coding System is one of those things. | 2 |
1ea7607 | This facial recognition technology would prove very useful in a classroom atmosphere. As it states in the article, if this software is implanted into the computers that children use in school, it can tell when the student is becoming tired or bored. Then the computer program could change the lessons to something different that may keep the students more attentive.
The teacher or professor of a classroom may not be able to monitor each individual student. Therefore, if the Facial Action Coding System was programmed into each student's computer, the professor or teacher would not have to worry about the students. It would keep them more alert and eager to learn.
Another reason why this program should be used is for students with special needs. Such as children with ADHD, Dyslexia, ADD along with many others. It could confrom to each child's individual needs. It would take a lot of strain off of both the teachers and the students alike.
I also belive the Facial Action Coding System could benefit in the future too. The dropout rate would go down along with the truancy rate. If children are more interested in school, they will come more often and try harder. Odds are that if they're happy with the way they are learning, they will continue to come to school throughout graduation. Therefore, increasing the total graduation rate.
As stated in the article, the computer program could modify the computer itself like an active human instructer. Most human communication is conveyed nonverbally. Especially including the use of emotional communication. Your voice could say one thing while you're really feeling something completely different. That would help tremendously in the educational world.
In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding Sytem should definately be in the educational system. It should be used on all online or computerized learning programs. It will benefit both the students and the teachers. Especially by altering the lessons to the highest advantage for each student. | 4 |
1ea8387 | Driverless cars, in my opinion, do not seem like a very good and safe idea. In the passage is talks about the cars only reaching up to 25 mph by themselves and that they aren't completely driverless. The cars can "steer, accelerate, and break themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." So, what happens if there's a mechanical problem or the "driver" isn't paying attention?
When or if accidents were to occur in these driverles cars, without certain regulations being made, it would be hard for officers to determine who's fault the accident was. It could be a possible mechanical flaw, such as the seat not vibrating when the car is about to back into something. This also stirs up the problem of it possibly being the driver's fault as well since they weren't being fully alert as they should've been. I feel as though these driverless cars cause driver's to become lazy and careless. They assume nothing will go wrong and all they have to do is sit back and relax unitl they have reached their destination. This is not the case however because if there were a mechanical flaw or a work zone or accident, and the driver wasn't paying attention, they could harm themselves or others. Driverless cars provide individuals with a false sense of security.
The passage also discusses the possibility of drivers getting bored and manufacturers creating entertainment systems for the drivers that can be turned off immediately when the driver needs to take over. This kind of contradicts the authors previous claim about the drivers needing to pay attention at all times. if manufactuerers are wanting to make entertainment systems, they obviously aren't too worried about drivers paying attention to the road. The entertainment systems are basically being made to make the drivers lazy and distracted that way they don't get "bored" while sitting there letting the care drive. WIth things in the car to distract the drivers, it seems very dangerous and unsafe for everyone.
Overall, driverless cars are not a wise investment. Although they are called driverless cars, their name actually is a contradiction to what they really are. The cars do drive themsleves however they cannot maneuver around workzones and accidents so the driver must be paying attention at all times. Drivers get a false sense of security and think that the only thing they have to worry about is wathcing out for the occasioanl workzones and accidents. This is not the case. Driver's still have to be aware of other drivers as well and the driverless cars are not guaranteed that there won't be any mechanical flaws. Granted, driverless cars are an advancement in technology, but i don't believe all scenarios have been tested enough for them to work to the full potential everyone thinks they will. | 4 |
1ea87c7 | I beieve that we should change the election to popular vote. It's about what the people want and what the majority of the people would like. You would not want people getting a President or Vice President that they do not like their beliefs on how to run a country, or despise to an extended amount. It's not right for the President and Vice President to say a bunch of things and not go through with it to the people. You shouldn't have only a few people vote or the President and not have your own opinion in the say of things.
People can get confused and vote for the wrong elector and not know what they really did. They can get confused and vote for he wrong candidate then the next thingt you know is that you have somebody running your country and you don't like the decisions they make and what they're doing to America.
Also, if there were to be a tie in the voting, they would have to chose the House of Representatives to vote for the President which could cause problems. In each state since they have representatives depending on the population, they wouldn't get the right amount of people to vote if it depends on how many voters are in the election. So it wouldn't be fair or even in that sense. It's not fair to the people of the country.
It's not certain that you will get the right vote because if you go off of electors votes which have completely opposite opinions from you. Electors that have different opinions can lead to voting for somebody who has no hope of carrying their state or country. People who know their vote may have no effect on the country would be unlikely to vote. | 3 |
1eab2e8 | Do you love going to foreign places, taking care of animals, making new friends, or just having fun? If you said yes to any of these things, then you should be part of the Seagoing Cowboys program. A Seagoing Cowboy is someone who takes care of horses, young cows, and mules while they are shipped over seas to places like Europe and China. You don't just have to take care of animals though.
On the trek over to Europe and back to America you never work all day and all night. You have shifts that you share with multiple other Seagoing Cowboys, and while you are on break, you can play games. To help pass time, we usually play baseball and volleyball games. We also host table-tennis tournaments. Some people even read, whittle, fence, and box. There is never a dull moment on board of our ship.
Once you unload the cattle, mules, and horses, you don't just go right back on the boat to America either. You can go and sightsee! I had the benefit of seeing the Acropolis in Greece, and got to ride a gondala in Venice, Italy. I got to do other things too such as take a tour of an exavated castle in Crete, and see the Panama Canal on my way to China!
On top of that, you become very close friends with the people on board of your boat. After all you are on the boat with them from a month to a little over two months. So, you guys will become great friends from playing baseball with them in your free time, or just because you have to share chores with them. Also, if you're an animal lover, you get to take care of the animals too!
Finally, a benefit of becoming a Seagoing Cowboy is you learn a lot too. You learn how to brave the storm of the harsh sea and how to take care of other people in need. It made me more aware of other people's needs and how to take care of them when they need help. Therefore, if you want to have fun, love sightseeing and animals, and want to make new friends, then becoming a Seagoing Cowboy is for you. Come and join us! | 4 |
1eac966 | This piece is about why scientist should explore Venus. The author supported his or her claim of exploring Venus well. The author provides evidence to counter Venus's harsh conditions.
The author gives many reasons why Venus is a dangerous planet. For example, the author says that there is a thick atmosphere that is 97 percent carbon dioxide, not only that but the clouds are highly corrosive with sulfuric acid. The surface temperature is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the pressure is 90 times that of Earth's. The author also mentions that the geology and weather is chaotic as well. The author manages to give some evidence for each of the dangers of Venus. He or she states that scientists can hover thirty-some miles above the surface to avoid geological and most weather hazards. It is also said that hovering up high will decrease the temperature down to about 170 degrees Fahrenheit and the pressure to Earth's sea level. This gives the idea that a human survivng on Venus is not easy but possible. The author gives that fact that NASA is currently working on electronics that can withstand Venus's surface, and the longest it has lasted is three weeks, so scientists can gather artifacts from Venus and study them.
The author provides evidence in that scientists are currently working to combat Venus's harsh conditions. The evidence present shows that it is possible to counter the planet's harsh conditions and also how close the humans are to being able to explore Venus. | 3 |
1eacbaf | In the book of the challenged of exploring venus.
the author suggests that starving venus persuit despite all the density present the venus has many systems that we don't know about the planet of the venus. venus is the our other planetary neighboor orbit the sun at different speeds. {NASA} are trying to studying one particulary compelling idea for sending humans. NASA also studying some simplified electronics made silicon carbie have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such condition. venus is one of the hottest planet in sum orbital. Now the NASA were sending scientific to the spaceship to learn some other planet, what are the different thing from other planet. sometime people called to venus "Evening star", is the one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. in this years,people get a lot of experience from the venus and learn what they have to do with those experience they have, and then use in our Earth. Venus and Mars are hottest planet including in the un orbital. Our planet and Veenus planet are so many differetn and also there was a lot of different thing and weird seen in the Venus planet. On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit, and the atmoshpheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. The scientific 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 innvation. | 1 |
1ead4a5 | Dear state senetor i am writing this letter to state my point of veiw on the Electoral Collage. First of all i would like to say that is to the people. Because the poplar vote dosent allways win it is in the hands of the Electoral Collage. so our vote is pretty much just a suggestion for them. In a article i read there was a short paragraph about what was wrong with the Electoral Collage wich was by Brandford Plumer. It talks about how under the Electoral Collage voters vote for electors but not the president.
Even though there is a great advantage there is also a great disatvantage to the system. I think that the electoral collage is vary unfair to voters as would most people if they knew they where voting for voters to vote for the president. May i state that it is vary outdated like lots of old things in amarica they are forggoten or we move on, but this is still a problem that needs solving. On that note i hope you take this letter into consideration and think about how this could help us in the future. | 2 |
1eb4606 | Theres diffrent ways you can show your emotion or how you feel. Why would you need a system to show how you you feel ?
You dont need a system to show you how you you feel becuase what if it tell you the wrong stuff, if it dont work right, what if it break on you and you dont know it?
Nobdy need a sytem to show there emotions. How would you know if they dont want to show it. Not everybody what to express they feeling. Sometimes they want to keep it to they self . If they wanted to express they self im pretty sure they would of went to the family doctor or something.
The system go through a long proces so that mean it go start from the bottom and make it way up. Would´nt that feel weird if you had a mechiane going through your face? Let´s say it was like a carmea or something then that would be better but it a whole macheine working you. It? really not that deep when you can just say how you feel. It really that easy just say it becuase who want to sit though that?
Mona LIsa says ¨ät least according to some new computer software that can recognize emotions¨ Lies. Ther no computer that can¨t recognzie how you feel and if it is it´s fake. Half of the stuff on the web now is fake like it just be uo there to jus t for attitiention. That why people look in books now days becuase they can atleast belive them. Don´t belive everthing off the internet it not all real.
Theres diffrent ways you can show how you feel. You dont always need a system to tell you expression. Sometime only you and yourself need to know how you personaly feel at times nobody else. | 2 |
1eb708e | People should join the seagoing cowboys program because you get to go to nine different trip.
Also they give you a lot of supplis so you can take care of the animal good and so they don't run out of food.
another reason you should join is becuase some jods can be hard but some are easy like, just checking on the animals every hour that was lukes jod.
Some details from the article to support luke's claims in why you should join the seagoing cowboys program are seagoing cowboys are more than adventure for luke bomberger.
luke opened up a new world to him.
''I'm grateful for the opportunity.
also another claim is you can go to Europe luke couldn't say no.
He know it was an opportunity of a lifetme.
also being a seagoing cowboy means to take care of the horse, young cow, and mules that were shipped overseas luke and don signed up. luke bomberger said ''it made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs,''and awareness stayed with his family to a numder of international student and exchange visitors of many years. | 2 |
1ec6478 | According to the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author Nick D'Alto decribes the new technology called the Facial Coding System which enables computers to evaluate and identify human emotions. The Facial Coding System should be used is classrooms all around the world. It would enable to modify their teaching methods.
First, The author describes how the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. The article it states that " The process begins when the computer constucts a 3-D computer model of the face." The author descibed what the computer has to do first to be able to evaluate a face. The text also states that "new computer software store similar anatomical information as electronic code." This is another way the Facial Action Coding System uses code to evaluate emotions.
Second, The benefits of having a computer that uses technology to read the emotional expressions of students. The article states that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." This could help teachers modify the lesson the help the students learn the lesson without getting confused or bored. The article also states that "Most human communication is nonverbal." This shows that when a student is bored or confused the student is unlikely not to use word but they are mostlikely to use nonverbal cues. Such as putting thier head on the desk.
Third, We as people can tell when a freind is sad, happy, or mad. The text states that "most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait." That is one reason why classrooms shuold have the computers to identify human emotions in class. The text also states that "We humans perform this same impressive calculation every day." However we might not always be able to convey the correct emotions.
Inconclusion, The Facial Action Coding System should be use in classrooms. There are student that get bored and then don't understand the topic. When a student doesn't understand the topic the student fails the test over that topic. Therefore with the use of the Facial Action Coding System shuold be used in classrooms all across the world. | 3 |
1ec9d22 | This is a a landform from mars and also this is just shapped to look like a human face . How do I know this is a land form because this is a rock just like on earth . The darkness just makes it look like a human face . This is a landform because it looks like it is coming from the ground you can see it that it is coming from the ground and from what I know people havn't gone to mars . This is just a face made from rock it is just like if you were to go to a rocky place but they are shaped like a face . It say the photo shawdow makes it have like a illusion that of eyes , nose and human mouth .This is just giving it more attention to mars about this photo it say only a little bite of scientist
thought it was made by aliens . It says it only can show
a natural landform and after all there was no alien monument after all . In conclusio there were objects in the photo sothis now proves there was no aliens in mars that said " Let's make this picture happen and let's make it like a human face" . | 2 |
1ecaf51 | We all know that driving makes life easier in terms of getting from point A to point B, but there are also many benefits that come from not driving or maybe not even owning a car. Not driving proves to affect the community in a positive way such as: less polluted air, happier people, and less congestion on the roads.
A study in Paris showed that the less drivers there are on the roads, the less smog there is in the air. France uses diesel and they tend to have more smog than "other European capitals" (par.17) who use gasoline. So by cutting the amount of drivers on the road, it also cut the amount of smog in the air. People used the roads less due to the amount of smog in the air and when there were less poeple on the road, there was also less pollution in the air, making for clearer skies. Also, in the United states, the percentage of people getting their licenses and of those who own cars has gone down in recent years. "If the pattern persists... it will have beneficial implications for carbon emmisions and the enviornment" (par. 34). Just like in Paris, the fewer people driving, the better our enviornment gets as the years go on. Alternatives to driving could be walking, using "public transportation", or biking to get to the places we need to go. These alternatives can help us "save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety" (par. 43) which are not only beneficial to us, but to our enviornment as well.
In Germany, there are certain places where you are not permitted to own a car and if you do, you have to pay $40,000 to be able to park it in a garage along with the payment of your house. Obviously, not many people are going to want to pay that much money, so they get rid of their cars in order to live in those parts of town. Not owning a car can even reduce the stress levels of some poeple and make them happier in the long run. A "mother of two" stated "when I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" (par. 3). So maybe this whole not owning a car thing is not only good for the enviornment around us, but also for our physical and mental well being. Sure, driving is nice, but it can be very stressful when having to deal with all the careless drivers around us and all the rules and responsibilities that driving entails.
Not only will less driving improve our enviornment, it will also result in less congested roads. "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog" (par. 14). No one likes having a polluted enviornment around them, and the more pollution there is, the less crowded roads will be. The clearer the roads are, the clearer the skies around us are. In conclusion, driving does have its benefits, but not driving has even more, such as: the ability to keep our enviornment healthy and clean, less congestion on the roads, and happier people all around. | 4 |
1eccede | Throughout time, pollution has been known to be a huge environmental problem. The excessive amount of individual car owners driving down streets is in no way helping this issue. Efforts to diminish the number of cars we see on our roads have been taking place in order to help the environment and therefore citizens as well.
It is no news that passenger cars are harmful to the environment. They release gases that pollute the air we breathe affecting not only us but the environment as a whole. Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of green house gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in some areas in the United States (Source 1). This realization has led to the promotion of "car-reduced" communites by the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (Source 1). But the problem is more widespread than that. Paris has acknowledged the importance of this issue after witnessing smog that rivaled Beijing, China, known as one of the most polluted cities in the world (Source 2). Paris's solution was to enforce a driving ban in order to help clear its air. Due to this ban, congestion was down 60 percent shortly after the intensifying smog (Source 2). It is a known fact that transportation is America's second largest source of emissions, therefore, limiting passenger car usage can greatly benefit the environment as well as citizens' everyday lives.
Limiting car usage has not only proven to be helpful towards the environment but towards citizens as well. With a decrease in car usage comes new benefits not just to individual citizens but to communities. Less cars means less time in irritating traffic. Usually, car traffic and traffic jams leads to huge amounts of stress. This is because the idea of not getting to work is stressful; not getting to work means losing money. Losing money adds even more stress. But when limiting car usage, losing money is not an issue one has to think about. Carlos Arturo Plaza agrees by stating that "It's a good opportunity to take away stress..." (Source 3). Rush-hour restrictions and other efforts towards limiting car usage have cut traffic making it easier for citizens to get to their jobs (Source 4). Those who choose other forms of transportation that are less harmful to the environment have even less of a problem and appear to be much happier. Heldrun Walter states that when she had a car she was always tense but now she is much happier (Source 1). The evidence has proven that limiting car usage is benefical to not only the environment but to citizens' daily life as well.
Keeping a clean environment is something of major importance. If one does not take care of the environment there will seize to be a healthy environment in which to live in. Limiting car usage is a big step when it comes to keeping the environment free of pollution. Not only is it beneficial to the environment but it helps citizens live a much happier life lessening the causes of stress. Limiting car usage helps the air needed to breathe, the money coming into your pockets, and one's overall happiness. | 5 |
1ed0f53 | Have you ever been sitting in class wondering what emotions the students around you are feeling? Have you ever wondered how to make things less boring and confusing in the classroom? Well now you can with the all new Facial Action Coding System. It's a system that can figure out the emotions that you are feeling just from your facial expressions.
I feel as if this could help in the classroom but not as much as Dr. Huang thinks. I think that yes it would help with making class less boring and/ or confusing but it can also just lead to even more frustation or sadness. It also isn't going to help if you are sitting in front of an actual human teacher and not a computer. If a student if feeling strong emotions such as saddness or fear; they need to talk to a friend about it, someone they can trust, not a computer.
So in conclusion, I give this system about a 50% chance of it helping in the classroom like Dr. Huang says it will. Theres just not really anything you can do to make school fun for someone that doesn't think its fun. I think it could help with other activities though, such as playing video games or watching videos. | 2 |
1ed10fe | I think Venus not is a worthy pursuit because of the dangers. Venus is too hot for human to live on it's too close to the sun. The atmosphere of Venus it too thin it lets too much heat into the planet. We wont be able to survive. How do you now we will have enogh oxygen on venus to live.
First, the planet Venus it toohot for human life to survive. Venus is the second plantes from the sun it's too close to the sun for us to even try to make it there. Also no one knows how long it will take us to get to Venus wonder if the spacecraft run's out of oxygen. If it run's out of oxygen everyone will die before theyy make it to Venus, but wonder if they do make it to Venus it might not be a lot of oxygen to breathe in because the planet is so hot. Then wonder if there no water you need water to survive ecause Earth is a liquid based planet,but Venus is not.
Secondly, how do we no if the spacecraft will be able to take that type of heat. The palnet surface temperatures on Venus average over 800 degrees fahrenheit I know that's way too hot. That type of temperature is beyond of what I can imagine I know Earth's surface is hot, but not that hot. Venus atmosphere is 97 percent carbon dioxide I think it's like that, because it's so close the sun. The closer you get to the sun the more radiant energy it gives off and too much radiant energy can be bad. Like how do we know that the spacecraft will still be getting singnal from Earth, because wonder if the eletronic gadgets over heat and just give out because the planet is so hot.
Lastly, they say that venus is our twin planet. I don't see how it can be our twin planet because it so hot and it's very radiant. The planet Venus has a rocky sediment and icludes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. Earth and Venus can be twins because Earth is not rocky it's a liquid based planet. Venus has a thin atmosphere because the heat keeps it's so hot and thin it can't get a break to even expand. But Earthis not as close, so Earth's atmosphere is a little bit thicker the Venus's atmosphere. Venus might also have some harmful chemicals. I say this because how do we know what's on the planet its could be all types of harmful gases from the sun. We never know what's there on Venus or what could happen if we go.
In conclusion,
I think Venus not is a worthy pursuit because of the dangers. Venus is too hot for human to live on it's too close to the sun. The atmosphere of Venus it too thin it lets too much heat into the planet. We wont be able to survive. How do you now we will have enogh oxygen on venus to live. We don't know how long it will take to get there and how much supplies we will need to take and what supplies to even take. It's al ot to think about before we could eventhink about living on Venus. We would need to figure a lot of things off first before we go. | 4 |
1ed83f4 | Do you belive in the supernatural or in acient civilizations, like aliens? Well I don't. In the passage "Unmasking the Face of Mars" there are two major opinoins on if there once was a civilization on Mars or if it was a natural landform. Based on text and factual evidence I belive that the "face" on Mars is a natural land form.
First, "on April 8, 2001- a cloudless summer day in Cydonia-Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look." (10) "Malin's team captured an extrodinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resoulotion." (10) Which Means they got the best picure they could.
In addition, "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digitial image 3 times bigger than you the pixel size. (11) "So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you would be able to see what they were!" (11) This proves that if it was a civilization, then it would have other structure too, but it doesn't.
My last peice of evidence comes from (paragraph 12), "The picture acutally shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa0landforms common around the American West." "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," says Gavin." "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." (12)
Finally, to oppose my argument the article also stated that, "The Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in April '98- a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet. (9) Some people are not satisfied with the results. They say,"The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze." (9)
Based on experts, text, and factual evidence I belive that the "Face" on Mars is a natural land form. I belive that the "Face" on Mars is just a natural landform because the author uses evidnce like how they went back on a clear day a took magnified-detailed photos and how things would have showed up if there were things living on Mars. Now, do you belive that there are civilizations on Mars? | 3 |
1edbc51 | There is a presidential campaign being held. There are two candidates running. the decision depends on the electoral votes. The Electoral College are the votes that elect the President depending on the majority votes. The Electoral College should be kept because it induces the candidates, it restores some of the weight that large states loses, and avoids the problem in which the candidate recieves the majority of the votes.
To begin with, the Electoral College should be kept since it induces the candidates. for example, to many of candidates are running for President. People don't know on who to vote on. The Electoral College eliminates most of those candidates. " Voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign- to really listen to the competing candidates." (Source 3) People want to know what these candidates offer to them. They want to vote for the best candidate. When they vote, the Electoral College decides on the majority vote of the state. The Electoral college should be kept since it induces the candidates.
Furthermore, the Electoral College should be kept since it restores some of the weight that large states lose. For example, since there are big states, there is political problems in what the people want. Large states have a lot of voters. The Electoral College should be kept since it restores weight to the large states.
Finally, the Electoral College should be kept since it avoids the problem in which the candidate recieves the majority of the votes. For example, presidents may have the popular vote but not the electoral votes. The Electoral College avoids run-off elections. The Electoral College should be kept since it avoids the problem in which the candidates recieves the majority vote.
In conclusion, the Electoral College should be kept. It induces the candidates. It restores some of the weight that the large states loses. It avoids the problem in which the candidate recieves the majority of the votes. | 3 |
1edf4db | Humans tend to think of only the present and not the future. We sometimes only focus on immediate comforts and don't think about how are decisions now will affect our kids and grandkids in the future. Yes, cars are amazing right now. They give us a kind of freedom that is unparalled. But at the same time they hurt the enviroment which hurts not just our future but our present also. Imagine not having a car. I can hear all the gasp now but really think about it. Not having to worry about spending half your paycheck on gas. Yes gas prices are down but for how long. Without cars you also won't have to worry about spending hundreds of dollars to fix it up when it breaks down. But best of all, not having a car will definetly have positive effects on your enviroment.
I have lost count on how many times my father has complained and stressed out about gas prices and the amount of money it takes to fix up his car when it breaks down. Admitedly gas prices are down. Lower than they've been in a while. But how long will that last before its back to $3.50 for a gallon of gas. And I am sure you could find something better to do with $400 than spend it fixing a transmission. Whatever that is. Not having a car releases stress. Soccer moms are the last person you would expect to give up there cars but in Vauban, Germany, a car free town that is exactly what heidrun Walter has done. She is a media trainer and a mother of two and she said "when I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way". If she can do it we can do it.
A lot of towns and cities are doing things like car free day. Which is where for that whole day everybody walks or uses their bikes and the only motor vehicles on the road are buses and taxis. In Paris, the smog level was so high, higher than Beinjin, China, that authorities banned the used of car on the roads for a while in an effort to reduce the smog level. People who didn't follow the ban were fined 33 dollars. In Bogota, Columbia though it was more of a choice for the people to give up their cars. "Millions of Columbians hiked, biked, skated ot took buses to work during a car-free day yesteday, leaving the streets of capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams." said Andrew Selsky of the Seattle times. This is a program that is being spread to other contries. The goal of this program is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Although there was gray clouds let loose rain showers now and then it did not stop the huge amount of participants. After three years two other Colombian cities joined the event. The mayor of Asuncion, Paraguay said "There people are generating a revolutionary change and this is crossing borders". | 3 |
1ee5f0a | This article is about making Mona Lisa smile but the main thang for this article is a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables reserchers to use computers to identify human emotions. It is saying in the article that "new software has been developing that improves accurace in perceiving the emotions of others. This new software,the Facial Action Coding system,has promising applications for a variety of industries." One of this details tell use that Mona Lisa is"83 percent happy,9 percent disgused,6 percent fearful,and 2 percent angry."This all stared when the subject of Leonardo da Vincil's of his renaissance panting of Mona Lisa, when"at least according to some new computer software that can recognize emotions. This new"software is the latest innovation from Prof. Thomas Hung of a advanced science University and how he thinkes people and computers can communicate. It all comes to geter with 3-D nd the model of the face and it shows the 44 major muscles in the model, it also shoes one or more muscles is called an action unit. | 1 |
1ee7159 | In this essay you will see reasons for the people who think it was created by aliens, and the people who think that it was not created by aliens. You will also see textual evidence for those reasons that we have. In this article we will be talking about " The Face on Mars". So here our the reasons for us to think it was created by aliens and for it not to be created by aliens.
I believe that the face n mars was not created by aliens. I believe that because of how the "face" has evolved. In 1976 the face looked like a face. In 1998 it started to not look like a face at all. In 2001 it just looked like a rock. So i believe that it was not created by aliens but that it was just something the olanet had made itself. This has certainly got the attention of the people.
The "Face on Mars" is not a face. If you look at the pictures from 1976, and 1998, and 2001 and in the text it says that the photo from 2001 is the most recent photo that NASA has. It still looks nothing like a face so since the 2001 picture is the most recent it shows that it is just a natural landform. It is just a natural landform. On Mars there are natural landforms everywhere and the fade away. Here on earth natural landforms are created everyday.
This article it also states that the "Face on Mars" is really just a mesa. Which proves that the so called "face" is not a face and it is just a landform.
Others still thought it was a face. Those people thought that because of what the article says in parargraph 11. In paragraph 11 it states that " As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size, so if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground, Egyptian-style pyramids, or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" So because of what they had said in that paragraph people believed that they had saw a face.
Those are the reasons for why people had thought that the "Face on Mars" was an actual face. Also the reasons why people thought that it was just a natural landform instead. | 3 |
1ee7cb0 | In the article the author talks about how two professors made a new software that can read facial expressions. Throughout the article the author tells the reader ways that this new technology can be useful. One of these ways that the author lists is that the technology can be used to read the facial expressions of students in a class at school to give feedback to the teacher to modify a lesson to make it more interesting. I belive that this technology can be seen as useful in certain ways but is mostly useless.
There are a few ways that this technology is useful. One of these ways is if the Facial Action Coding System can read the individual faces of the classroom and modify the lesson for that particular class. Since the "software can modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor" (paragraph 6) it would give the teacher feedback on how they can teach a lesson better therfore increasing the instrests in students and also could potentially increase test scores. Even though the software could have the potential to do these things I still belive that this software is useless.
The goal of a teacher, or anyone for that matter, is to succeed in their job. In a teacher's case it would be to grab the attention of the kids in their class so that the students can learn effectively. This software is useless because any great teacher can read their own class's facial expressions and modify their own lesson according to how a certain class reacts. What this means is that the Facial Action Coding System would be rendered as usless in the classroom because a great teacher can learn from their own class without the help from an external source such as the Facial Action Coding System.
In addition to great teachers being able to learn from themselves and their own classes without help, I believe that the software may not be able to accuratley describe all of the students facial expressions because of how many times we may change facial expressions in the duration of a class period. While some students may have the same facial expression throughout most students activley change their facial expression in multiple different ways. The Facial Action Coding System would have to activley read twenty to thirty students facial expressions activley at one time. This can also relate back the teachers not needing help from an external source because humans are engineered to read eachothers facial expressions so the teacher will already be reading the students facial expressions while teaching. This furthermore reinstates that this software is usless in the classroom.
Through teachers already reading students' facial expressions and great teachers being able to modify their own lessons to their class's needs this proves that the new software is near useless in classrooms. While others may disagree it is the truth that teachers already accomplish what the software can do. The software may do it in a different way but it is still being done. Outside of the classroom this software may be useful. One instance could be wile you are on a stage giving a speech in front of thousands of people it could help you modify your speech to attract attention. Or maybe video game develpoers could use a camera to track your facial expressions while you are playing a game to give them feedback if you are having fun and at what parts of the game. Theres a lot of new tehnology being developed today but I believe that facial recognition software does not belong in the classroom. | 4 |
1ef0af4 | "What most intrigues me is that rates of car ownership per household and per person started to come down two or three years before the downturn,"said Michael Sivak. When people hear this they automaticly think "oh no!"or "this is not good news". In reality its the complete opposite ;that's fantsic news .Less people buying cars are not just better for the Earth but better for the person their self too.
Less car uses could reduce three major things,one being a person's health ."When I had a car I was always tense .I'm much happier this way ,"said Heidurn Walter. When it comes to car most people worry about the most simplist things like when should they go to get their cars checked or it breaking down the road who should they call or what should they do .If you don't own a car or take the bus or even car pool more you would'nt have to worry about that. less car uses takes stress out your life. Not only stress but it could give you the oppertunity to be healthier. If you chose walking or rideing a bike every once in a while it gives you the opertunity to be healthier and more active.
Not using cars as much not only takes stress off your life and gives you the opertunity to be healthier ; it saves you money too. Each year the gas prices go up and everyday citizens find it hard to pay for it .Transportion is the second largest source of America's emissions. Also ,using less cars can save you up to a million in money each year. In Bogota,Colombia every year they have a car free day where they either hike,bike,or take the buss to where ever they need to go and this alone helps communtiy and it's enviorment. helping it clear the air of the global city.
Futhermore,speaking on the enviorment cars are one of the biggest reason for air pollution today. This makes it hard for people to see also for people to drive in .In Beijing ,China it is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world. Beijing traffic 60 percent was downfor five days due to the intensifying smog they had .This showes how just by driving cars can ruine the enivorment by not only ruining the air but also stop people from seeing what is going on around them also.
One should not give up driving a car completly ,but should reduce its uses. This can help you save money,be in better health ,and also help the enviorment by keeping the air clean. Also,there are many ways to do so ,and you still have the chance to get to where you need to be ;examples are busses,walking,car pooling,or even rideing a bike. Reducing car uses saves you money, but also keeps you heathly. So next time you get in your car think about a new way you could get from point A to point B. | 3 |
1ef1180 | To Whom it may concern ,
You should keep the Electoral College because it was a fair and easy way of voting.
The founding fathers established the constitution as a compromise between the election for the president by the vote of congress and the electionof the president by popular vote of citizens.
The elctoral college process consists of the selection of electors. The meeting where the electors vote for the president and vice president, and counting the electoral votes by congress."The District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the electoral college."For this reason the word "state" also refers to the Distruct of Columbia.
What's wrong with electoral college? " Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." So who picks the electors in the first place? "It depends in some states. Sometimes state conventions, sometimes the state party's central committee, sometimes the presidential candidates themselves."Most voters think the electoral college is unfair."The winner-takes-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states."
In conclusion, I think the Electoral college is fair, but others don't. I guess we wont know unless we vote on it. | 2 |
1ef2f49 | The Face on Mar couldn't been made by aliens. The monument was another natural formation. It is stated in the fourth passage, that it is giving an illusion to the shadows and making it look like it has eyes, nose, and a mouth." Evidence say in the fifth passage say that NASA would wather hide, and say that conspiracy theorists.
The monument has properties tht make it look like is has a natural human face. The shadows give it a 3D effect to look like a person from Earth. to eally see that it is not a face you will need to focuse on the picture, to not let the shadow make you think it is a face. The face is only a illusion of the mind, some people say the face looks like a Egyptian Pharaoh.
NASA thinks that if there were a alien civilization on Mars that it would be a popularity increase for the big red planet. People that still think that their was life on Mars defend by saying that it would help the budget for themselves. The Face on Mars became popular and started to get on talk show, radios, and magazines. Soon NASA wanted to let the conspircy take place and leave the Face alone.
The Face of Mars could have been made by alien because of the unexplainable things on Earth itself. In the last passage it states that i could have been made bye aliens. Compared to all of the things on Earth. It could be a possiblity of aliens making the Face on Mars. For example, in the last passage it says that Garvins say, "That it slike the lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on a Mars."
In conclusion, the Face on Mars was not created by aliens, and there for the case of the Face on Mars was a natural monument after all. It compared to West America for all of the weird thing that they have. | 3 |
1ef395a | In the article of Making Mona Lisa Smile, we are introduce to a new technonology that is scanning our face or something that seems like it is scanning our face to indentify our emotions. As explain in the article it shows that they had used it on Mona Lisa to figure out how happy see seems or how disgusted she felt, or even how angry she is. In the first paragraph it talks out the percentage of her happiness,fearful,anger,disgusted. " It shows that 83 percent she is happy, 9 percent she is disgusted, 6 percent that she is fearful, and 2 percent that she angry". We may never know that this might of been true since the face they scaned was a drawing of her and she is no longer with us but we can say its ture for now. Computers now in days can give errors or even shut down, they can even restart if not used right or overheat. That can prove that what they scan can't be ture.
Yes it would be awesome to scan faces but is it even worth to pay? like we already know how we feel everyday why should we have a coding system that should code the wrong information and makes us seem like we wasted our time and money. A other problem would be is it even safe? how does the FACS even work? I wounldn't pay money just to get hurt or even have marks on my face just to see my emotion. In the article it says it can "calulate our emotions like math homework" that to me seem to be cool because the computer is thinking like us and it's doing its hardest to get the percentage of our emotion. I'll say that the FACS is a good idea just that they should keep on working with their idea and learn their mistake or errors and work on them to make this a good thing to use and sale. | 3 |
1ef4021 | In the generation of 2016, many things are updated. Chordless phones are more of an antique than a necessity. People no longer write letters, but rather send a quick email or text. Cars are becoming, and will continue to become, more and more updated as the years progress. As handy as it is to have a car with bluetooth and heated seats, is it a benefit to the lives of 2016 to have a car with no driver? Due to all the challenges the government will face and many of technical difficulties this world faces today, the obvious answer is no.
It is always nice to be able to do less. Sitting back and relaxing is something everyone enjoys. However, when a woman gets into a taxi and imputs her destination, she is entrusting her life in technology. Teenagers like the thrill of roller coasters, until one gets stuck at the peak of the ride. This woman liked the car until the steering wheel got stuck, sending her into a ditch. She liked it before the brakes stopped working because of a wire snapping. Many things could go wrong technilogically, that would make the car ride seem a little bit scary. "If the technology fails..." (paragraph 9). Even the author of "Driverless Cars Are Coming" didn't deny that many things could in fact go wrong technilogically.
Even if this woman did get to her destination safely, many factors had to take roll in making driverless cars possible. For starters, the law would have to be set. "New laws will be needed in order to cover liability in case of an accident." (paragraph 9). It takes 75% of congress to be able to take a law to the president. When it makes its way there, the president can still deny that law; furthermore, it has to go back to the congress and get revoted. Laws put in this position do not normally pass.
"In most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars." (paragraph 9). It would take many months or even years to be able to pass this law, considering they have all this information about driverless cars and only a few places are allowed to even test them. Questions are raised such as "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?" (paragraph 9). Too much time is put into trying to pass the law, and in a society that is looking for ways to save time, it isn't worth the effort.
Furthermore, America has other problems to fix. The government does not need to put this country into more debt by spending its time and money on cars that are even less safe for its citizens. When smarter roads became too high of costs to be practical, people turned to developing smarter cars. "In the late 1950's, General Motors created a concept car that could run on a special test track....something that was simply too expensive to be practical." (Paragraph 3). For 76 years people have been putting time, money, and energy into making these cars more practical. Cars aren't a neccessity to everyone. Certain religions (such as the Amish) are without cars. Mackinac Island runs by horse and buggy. True, that isn't efficient for this huge country, but being billions of dollars in debt, that time and money could be used to help America pay what it owes. In the mean time, Americans can put up with what they have been using for many years.
In the generation of 2016, many things are updated. Phones don't have chords anymore. Americans don't send letters by mail as much as they used to. The citizens of this countru have been very efficient on many things. They have learned how to save time and money; furthermor, they have encorperated those ideas into everyday life. However, one item America doesn't need, due to limited safety; the time it takes for laws to pass; and the debt this country is in, is driverless cars. | 5 |
1ef816d | The author does not effectively support his suggestion that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. He believes that Venus has more value than just a rocky surface that is completely inhabitable by humans right now. Although the author provides multiple details that relate to his suggestion, he provides even more details that contradict his idea.
One way the author contradicts his suggestion is by telling us about the unmanned spacecraft that have been sent to Venus. He tells us how there have been multiple spacecraft sent to Venus but none have survived for a long period of time. For example, in the text the author states, " No spacecraft has survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades." This excerpt from the author's article completely contradicts his idea. He says that Venus is a worthy pursuit, but how is he supposed to convince readers this when at the same time he is saying that no spacecraft has been sent to Venus for more than thirty years.
The author also contradicts his idea of the value of exploring Venus by describing the planet. In paragraph three the author says that Venus has ninety-seven percent caron dioxide and has clouds that contain highly corrosive sulfuric acid. He also states that Venus has the hottest surface temperature in our solar system and would liquefy many metals. These details do not help his idea at all. They just show how much more inhabitable and worthless Venus would be to explore. It would be a waste of time and money to study a planet that humans wouldn't be able to even live on.
One final way the author does not effectively support his claim is by giving us details about the challenges humans would face even if we were able to make it to Venus. He says that photography and videography would be ineffective and that researchers wouldn't be able to take samples of rock, gas, or anything else while hovering safely above the planet. So even if humans were able to make it to Venus safely, it would be extremely difficult to research Venus. It wouldn't be worth it to spend time and money on an expedition to Venus that wouldn't even allow us to gain knowledge.
The author does give a good point to why Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. He says that Venus was once like Earth long ago and that it was probably covered in oceans and supported various forms of life. He describes the value of returning to Venus as "indisputable." However, he does not give enough evidence to support this claim. He only gives one piece of evidence on why Venus is a worthy pursuit and that is that Venus is closely related to Earth. But throughout the whole article, it seems he is constantly contradicting his statement. The author could have more effectively supported his claim that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents by providing details that will outweigh his examples of the dangers and challenges that Venus presents. | 5 |
1efd3f9 | With the new discovery of new technology called the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), many people argue whether or not this is vaulable to the students of a classroom. This new technology enables a computer to identify human emotions and improves accuracy in perceiving the emotions of others.
With much research done by professionals, this new emotion-reading technology would be valuable and effective in reading the emotional expressions of students in a classroom.
As a student learning in a classroom, one of the most important things is reamining focused and obtaining all of the information that is being given.
In order to receive the right education, it is vital that a lesson does not bore or confuse the person learning or else they will not fully understand what is being taught, and that is not good.
With the help of the Facial Action Coding System, according the Prof. Thomas Huang, a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored.
The computer can then modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor in order to make what is being taugh more understandable.
With the computer technology, students can receive an education with a learning method that is specific to them.
Instead of a student being bored or confused and losing focus while learning a lesson, the Facial Action Coding System can now modify what they are being taught in order to make their education more effective and specific to them.
Dr. Paul Eckman, the creator the FACS, has classified six basic emotions in which the computer can analyze; these emotions include: happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness.
By identifying one or more of these six emotions in a student, this will help the computer revise a lesson that would best fit the student's needs.
With this new technology, the computer will be able to detect if a student is fearful of the new material being brought their way.
As predicted by Dr. Huang, this can help modify the lesson so the student becomes more comfortable with what they are now learning and less fearful.
With the help of this computer program, it can also detect anger in a student whether it be at themselves for not fully understanding the material or at the lesson for not teaching it in a way that best suits the student; this will let the computer know that it needs to change the way it is teaching the lesson in order to help benefit the student.
If a student shows the emotion of happiness, it will let the computer program know to continue the lesson as it is.
With this new technology being able to detect six basic emotions, this will help the computer program FACS to modify the lesson in order to benefit the student with their education and make it easier to understand the student's frustration.
With classrooms around the world becoming more technologically advanced, this new computer program will help many students with receiving an education that is specific to them and will help benefit their learning experience.
Although
this can only be used to read the emotions of a student, it can still be very valuable in a classroom.
The FACS can read the emotions of a student and can, according the professional Dr. Huang, modify a lesson in order the suit the needs of the student.
This can be very beneficial to the education of a student since the computer program can detect when they are not understanding a lesson and can then change the lesson the benefit the student.
With the computer program being able to detect six basic emotions, this makes it easier to help the computer understand exactly what the student is feeling when learning new material; this can help understand a student's frustration or happiness of the lesson they are learning.
With all of the research done by professionals and evidence shown, the use of the
Facial Action Coding System to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom can be valuable. | 3 |
1efe2a5 | Is the technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom valuable? I think it is valuable becuase in paragraph six line six it states that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." In that case the lesson could be modified to be more intresting.
Computers that can read human emotions just from their faces can apeal to humans more. If you see something you like and smile it will show you more of that. Students could have a more emotional conection with computers. In paragraph six line ten it says "Most human communtication is nonverbal, including emotional communtication...So computers need to understand that, too."
To students it would almost be like having a teacher in the room instead of a computer. Having technology read emotional expressions is valuable because it would be able to read facial featchers better than a human. It would be able to know if you happy if you raise your lips at the corners of your mouth or squint your eyes slightly, to produce wrinkling at the corners of your eyes. The technology can even see more than more emotion like in the Mona Lisa. Paragraph one line one states "Shes 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry."
Overall I believe technology to read the emtionsl expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. It can help students be more intrested in their lesson. | 3 |
1eff034 | I think it isn't woth it because theres really no point in doing it. I think the students wouldnt like to express how they feel and espically not to a teacher that they don't like.
A reason i think this isnt good is because why waste money on something not useful and just aste it on something that is like helping out the community or something. We could pay workers to pick up trash or something instead of just wasting it on something that says how somone feels when them themselfs can tell you how they feel and plus they feel comfotable telling you.
I also think that your feelings are your privacy and shouldnt expresse them if you don't want to. At then end of this article my opinion stays the same and hasnt changed on what i feel. Like yeah its cool to use on art and stuff like that but on students who don't want to be tested then no. | 2 |
1effa08 | The planet that some call the "Evening Star," Venus, is the closest planet to Earth at points in time. Despite the hostile and dangerous environment, the close proximity and sustainable innovations outweigh the challenges and open up many doors for research of one of Earth's neighbors. Long ago, Venus was most likely the most similar planet to Earth in the solar system.
In looking at the development and changes that Venus has gone through, the planet's past may turn into Earth's future. Though right now the atmosphere contains "almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets," and the surface averages over "800 degrees Fahrenheit," it has features found on Earth as well. These include "rocky sediment...valleys, mountains, and craters." Analyzing this enviroment more closely would allow for a deeper understanding of Venus, and may fufill the curiosity of scientists wondering what Earth's "twin" truly is like.
As the conditions of the planet were described brutally by the author, his claim for the investigation of Venus is strongly supported. Providing different propositions, he appeals to the cautious and ambitious readers. First, an idea is presented with scientists floating more than 30 miles above the ground conditions, giving insight on the planet below. With this, safety is the prominent factor. However, it makes it difficult to obtain effective pictures, and the ground can not be analyzed. A solution to this is found in the chemistry of silicon carbide, having the ability to last in Venus's conditions for three weeks. If this project was put into action, the author tells of how they would be able to obtain samples of the land, photograph and gain insight on the planet. A similar idea is rooted in the toughness of mechanical computers with more resistance to "pressure, heat, and other forces" that could be found from problematic obstacles on Venus.
In his final argument, the author tells how travels on Earth and beyond "should not be limited by dangers and doubts," instead "expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." With this, a statement is made to fight for advancing knowledge of the unknown. Overall, in "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author gives facts to both sides, but gives more support to show why it is a worthy mission despite the risks. | 4 |
1f008dc | I believe that the so called face is just a natural landform. It is just a mountain with shadows that create an illusion of a face. In the very first picture of this landform it was very blurry, now cameras has evolved so now it is clear.
NASA wanted to figure out if this was a ancient face or an regular landform. So , 22 years later NASA went back to Mars to figure out what this landform is. With the technology NASA have they took pictures of the landform and they found out it was just a regular landform.
NASA wanted to do a double-check so in 2001 they took some more pictures. Now the pictures came out more clear than the last picture in 1998. Then NASA proved once again that it was just a natural landform.
Those are the reasons why that it is a natural landform. It was proved twice and the pictures were accurate, 3 times better the vision the last time they took a photo. Even with all the evidence some still believe that it is an acient Egyptian pharoh face on Mars. | 2 |
1f0364d | Dear State Senator, I am writting to inform you, that we need to change the fact that we have Ellectoral colleges and go to a popularity vote for presidancy. I feel that more people would vote if they new that their vote actualy made a difference. Instead of no one caring because of the winner takes all rule.
If the united states was to go to a popularity vote this would push millions of people to get up, out and vote because they know what the are doing is going to make a diffrence. According to Plumer "...over 60% of voters would perfer a direct election to the kind we have now." The fact is that voters cant always control whom their electors vote for. We don't want another 2000 fiasco on our hands again, since electors can directly defy the right of the people. Ellectoral collages are unfair, outdated, and irrational due to this fact by it's self.
The Ellectral colleges are non democratic in a way that when you vote for a presidential canidate you're really voting for a slate of electors. That slate of electors could vote directly aginst what you voted for and not lose a minute of sleep over it. According to Posner, "Romney was in the South, has no incentive t campiagn heavily in those states , for he gains no ellectoral votes.... the residance of the regions .. feel as if there votes dont count.. really isnt their president."By this the people meant that since the candiate dosent campaign there they feel as if they are disenfranchised.
For these reasons i think we should go to a Popularity vote for presidancy in the United Sates. I think it would make people feel more appritiated and more people would vote. This would also bring up the votes in total that would be cast. | 3 |
1f04460 | Do you really think the "Face on Mars" was created by aliens? The "Face" is nothing but an ordinary landform of Mars. Pictures, common sense, and science have proved that.
First, there are pictures that show what the "Face" really is. The "Face" is nothing but a common mesa(2). The mesa just looks like a face because of a coincidence.
Second, any person would know that NASA would rather have money than another secret. The discovery of alien life on Mars would be very rewarding in cash, and the defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars(5). They want there to be an ancient civilization because it would mean tons of money for them.
Finally, science proves that theory to be completely wrong. There have been absolutely no signs of any life whatsoever on Mars(7). If there's no life to build it, how can it be built by life?
As I said, the "Face of Mars" is nothing but a common mesa. All of these reasons have proved that. Now, if you excuse me, I have to get back to my research. | 3 |
1f06856 | do you think that car should be able to drive by their self? I don't think that cars should. Now I Know many people might disagree with me, but hear me out. I don't think that driverless should be develop because of reckless driving, car start to mafunction, and why would you need a driverless car if someone still have to drive the car.
there are many reckless driver out in the world today. when people are on the rode they think that they wouldn't have to look at the rode because their car is driverless. That car can stop working at any point of time, so why risk it. In a passage, I recently read, it say " the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times, so why make the risk of an accident go up.
Next why do you need a driverless car when you still have to driver the car. you are better off buying a cheeper car that works just as well. You wouldn't be able to take a quick nap if you wanted to. In the passage it say you would get bored waiting on your turn to drive the car. that can make accident happen.
I think that cars should not be driverless because of reckless driverss, stop working, and why drive a driverless car that someone still have to driving. It just not important to me as food and water is, so I'm saying no to driverless cars. | 3 |
1f06ef4 | The voters of America do not vote for a president; they vote for a slate of electors who then elect a president. The Electoral College is the process of voters relying on a slate of electors to vote for the pesidential candidate of their choice, though they cannot always guarantee who the electors will vote for. The Electoral College should be changed to election by popular vote for the president because it is a non-democratic method since voters do not get to vote for a president diectly, even though the outcome is almost always in the favor of the voter.
The Electoral College is a non-democratic method of voting because voters only get to vote for a slate of electors, not the president of their choice. Although it is rare for an elector to vote for the president that is not the first choice of of the people who elected him, it has happened. The Electoral College is also unfair because in the system, the "winner takes all". This is unfair because nominees only spend their time campaigning in the "swing states" that will get them the most votes. In these states, some voters know they have no chance of getting the president they wish to elect if the majority of the state chooses to elect the other candidate.
The Electoral College is an unfair way of voting because citizens do not have a voice in their elcetion; can only hope that their elector votes for the president of their chioce. Our Senator should change to election by popular vote so that every citizen may have a vote! | 3 |
1f07cb9 | By limiting car usage, car emisisons that go into our air, will be reduced and controlled. Car emisisons are a type of air polllution,that cause problems to people breathing the air. According to Source 2,when Paris enforced a ban on driving, Congestion went down 60 percent. When Paris limited car usage,it allowed for the air pollution caused smog to clear up,making the air for the better.
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By controlling car usuage,the amount of traffic in cities,states,and countries can be controlled. Lessing car usage,makes traffic less ,espically in big cities. According to source 3 , rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic. Acccording to source 4,pedestrian,bicycleand public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time,conserve resources,lower emisisons,and improve safety. With a controlled quantity of traffic,less accidents and traffic jams will occur.
By limiting car usage, people will use more green like alturnatives to transportation. People ride their bicyles,car pool to work and/or school,and use public transportation ,which makes less air pollution go into the air. By using other forms of trnasportation other than cars,people will become more independent from using cars as much and make our world less polluted and more green. | 3 |
1f0cbec | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming"
the author covers many points and facts about driverless cars. The author speaks about the advantages and disadvantages of the introduction of these cars. The author also speaks about the major companies making these cars from Google to Nissan. Nontheless driverless cars could prove to be unsafe, epensive, and have to many negative possibilites. These negative tradeoffs out weigh the possitive tradeoffs thus showing that introducing driverless cars would do more harm then good.
The article states "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and Pedestrians safe..." The introduction of driverless cars would make this law harder to keep. This would be because the burden to be safe would no longer be in human hands but in the hands of a cumputer and some sensors. We have all had computers glitch or take a while to repond. It happens all the time. But then the safty of human life is in the hand of a computer it becomes somewhat disheartening. Weather conditions could also prove to be an issue with safty. Would there be a limit to how hot or how cold the environment would have to be for the sensors to work properly? With this much riding on the safty of human lives the driverless car seems to be a very unwise choice.
The answer on how expensive these cars would have to be is partly answered in paragraph six when the author states "Radar was a device on a hilltpop that cost two hundred million dollars. It wasent something you could buy at a Radio Shack." If Radar back then was two hundred million dollars imagen how much a driverless car will be. Only the elite rich will be able to afford one and the majority of the popution will not. This shows that even if the driverless car was to come out in the near future only a handful of the population would have it since they would be the only ones who could afford it. But this also raises the issue with new roads since old ones would somewhat have to be updated in the long run. The article states that magnetic roads would be too expensive so smarter cars would be needed the roads would have to change a least a little to suit smart cars. With the many things that tax payer dollars are used for there would need to be an addition to smarter roads.
The negative possibilites of the introduction to smart cars are endless. The articel states " in most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars." This shows that law makers are fearful or the outcomes that some of these cars could create. Also the problem with the rise in law suit when these cars would get into an accident would also have to be put into account. The article adresses the problem of who would be to blame the driver or the maker of the car. Not only would this bring out more problems and law suits it would make it hard to find who was at fault. Also in the possiblity of an acccident if people were to be sleeping or watiching a movie responce time to move the car would be a varying constant from person to person showing that even if people were to get involved the chance to change the situation could be very slim.
WIth all of these negative situations
that driverless cars could cause it could be safe to say than the negative possibilites outweigh the positve possibilites. Driverless cars could prove to be unsafe, expensive, and have many negative possibilites. Showing that driverless are cars are not a very good idea. | 5 |
1f0e22b | The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author wants to know what Venus is about and what are the dangers that it presents. The author wants to know what things happen to venus and the challenges. The author knows that venus is sometimes called the Evening Star. The author also knows that Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size.
Venus is the second planet from our sun and simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth. It has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely. Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable, but what are the options for making such a mission both safe and scientifically productive.
Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value. 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. The author learned the things he had questions about. He learned about the thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. | 2 |
1f113e1 | Does Facial Action Coding System really help, understand kids emotions in the classroom and is it helpful?
I would say yes, because it would give help to teachers better understanding kids more in a classroom setting because there some kids in the classroom that arent ok with telling the teacher that they are confused or, that they need help. Which this would very much be helpful to kids and teacher because that would stop kids from leaving the classroom if they dont understand something, and that saves the teacher time and trouble from having to chase the student down to come get extra help or explain to them why the student did so bad on their test or quiz and teacher not having to call the students parents and tell them why their child isnt doing so well. (FACS) adress the problem head on.
Then some might say that this is bad because, it takes away the teacher from being able to teach and have a one on one talk with the student but no it doesn't, in the passage it says
"A classroom computer can recognize when a student is becoming bored or confused" Dr. haung says so then it would change the situation for the student to better understand it then maybe the teacher after can come and help.
In conclusion I think Facial Action Coding System it a great tool for teachers to use in a classroom setting Because the student can get a better understanding of the situation, and they can get help from the teacher or the student. | 3 |
1f1c3de | " What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! Well i think otherwise. Electoral College is a process, not a place , which the election of the President is by a vote in Congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral College do consists of choosing the electors, reasons to keep the Electoral College method of choosing the president.
The start of the Electoral College is well handingly choosing the electors, which consists of 538 electors each of course must be qualified. Most of 270 electoral votes are required to elect the president. The number of members in its Congressional delegation is equal to the entitled allotment of electors in your state, one is for each member in the house of Representatives plus two for the Senators. For the purposes of Electoral College, Columbia District is allowed 3 electors and is treat like a state. and when i say "state" for this topic i mean the District of Columbia.
Well backed up reasons to keep the Electoral College method of choosing the president, A outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible, just look back at the year 2000 it was less likely then a come over the popular vote the Reason for that is the winning candidate's share of the Electioral College expanded his share of the popular vote. For example, Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney.
"Electoral College is a process, not a place " each and every step of the Electoral college method comes out to be a well handed system. Its more then enough fairness included when choosing the Presisent and Vice President. Popular vote is more based on "winner-take-all" System thats awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate, unlike the Electoral College which is a process that consists of choosing the electors, reasons to keep the Electoral College method of choosing the president. | 2 |
1f1d392 | In the begening Luke have no idea that his life change after his high school gradation got two job part time job. His freind invited him to go to europe on a cattle boat. The year was 1945 August when World War 2 many countries were lefr in ruins so 44 nation join to from UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of thew gorses young cow and mules that was shiped overseas.
It was August 14 1945 the Pacific war has ended they got so thy head to Greace a cargo of 335 horses plus enough oats to feed them. Luke turn 18 before arriving to Greece ment military service.
It took two weeks to cross thwe Atlantic Ocean fromthe eastern coast of the United States and a moth to get to china. Taking caring for animals during the corssings kept Luke busy. It was hard work not for the dangers at sea. second trip Luke served as night watchman his job to take care of the animals every hour. | 1 |
1f1e073 | In the issue known as the "driverless cars" dilema, I stand affirmative in that we should implemint them in our system. Personaly I am very againts polution of the Earth and bettering our enviornment. A huge reason as to why our planet is suffering is that we use too mant green housegasses, thus causeing the green house affect on our planet. First off, let me explain what a green house gas is. Agreen house gas is any gaseous item that keeps in heat. One of the biggest contributions to green house gasses is corbon monixide (c02). Once this is realeased into our enviornment the gas keeps the heat inside Earth's atmosphere. The sun's rays come into earth and then once hit, they bounce off and attempt to return. The key word there is attempt, see the green house gases keep those rays inside and dont allow them to return, thus increaseing Earh's temperature. The addition of greenhouse gasses has affected our enviornment in more ways then you would imagine. The first thing that comes to mind is of course global warming. Also it affect our species and health. The artical says something about the driverless cars useing about hslf of the gasoline inour world today. This is the first reason why I am in agreement with the aouthor
. The second reason why I like this idea is that it resembles change. To me that is one of the things America stands o is the ability to change and not remain stagnate. Imagine a world where you could be driven around, its hard to imagine isn't it, but in this counrty anyone or myself can change things, and to me this is something worth changeing. I know that i have traffic probloms myself and I dont even drive, so i can't even imagine what the struggle is for those whom do particeipate in automobileic practices. To me driverless cars can be one-step closer into a carefreee America, so there is no way
that I can oppose this. There seems to be a problom with legalizeing this. The article says that driverless cars are only allowed in a few states with conditions. I recomend that we allow the continued reserch and developement of driverless cars continue until it become a practical reality. To be honest, arn't we already working tword this with Ubers? When I think of an Uber I think of a mindless puppet behind the wheel anyway, so what is the Difference.
In conclusion I belive that incorperating driverless cars will be a huge step in the right direction in the technology of America. One day I soon hope to tell my children "if you need a ride just call a google", or "I'll see you when the car drops you off". Just thinking about the possibilities are giveing me goosebumps. Many people may have conseerns with the saftey of padestriens or wreckless drivers, but I can see any real major concers. The article said that these cars... "have driven more than half a million miels without a crash". Whats not safe about that? also we could possibly eliminate drunk driveing accidents , no longer would a parent have to worry about thier child being hit by a drunk driver becouse computers dont get drunk. The road may not be the ideal spot fo innovation, but who is to say that we can't make it one. | 3 |
1f252fe | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming'' I viewed both positive and negative aspects of the driverless cars. I think driverless cars are going to become something great for our country. Driverless cars could save a lot of people lives from fatal car accidents. Driver less can steer themselves , brake , and also notifies you if your help is needed. in the article the narrator says"They can steer,accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notfiy the driver when the road ahead requires human skills. This quote tells all the amazing things driverless cars are able to do.
The driverless car also gets your attention with some type of alert to let you know danger is ahead. you could be distracted from the road for example, arguing with your husband or wife even your child and the seat will notfiy you when something is wrong ahead on the road. The article says"This necessitates the car being ready to quicky get the driver's attention whenever a problem occurs. GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger..." This quote tells us how the car is able to save lives from fatal accidents and when humans aren't alert the car is.
Manfacturers are also trying to create some type of entertainment for the driver that can still make sure the driver is alert of that the car is doing."Some manufacturers hope to do that by bringing in car-entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over..."This quote tells us that the manfacturers are also trying to keep the road in easily site so we wont have to look down and cause a accident.
In the artice it says "Most driving laws foucus on keeping drivers safe...and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers...the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control..." i disagree with is because all drivers aren't alert when driving. The Driverless car is going to help you be alert just in case we miss something we should've seen. The Driverless car will help the rates of fatal car accidents decrease over the years because it is helping us stay alert at all times.
I believe that driverless cars are going to make a huge impact on the world. Many lives will be spared because of the amazing alert system the cars have.
The driverless car will always come in handy when you need to quickly grab something that will distract you a bit from the road. I believe driverless cars were made to make the world a little bit safer for everyone. | 4 |
1f28e13 | Cars are the automobile that we like to use because we are fat and can't just walk places. It is too much work to walk to places or even bike. So we as human beings will just keep on getting fat and destroying the world. Then we will just have to do what they did in
Interstellar and find a new planet to live on but it probably wont work because we aren't that smart because we can't figure out how to make hoverboards. The world might be less poluted if we just had hoverboards not hovercars that would be stupid. People would just drive around a mile in the air and crash and have no chance of survival. Hoverboards would get you places faster and not kill you, I mean unless you go over water then like in
Back to the Future it would stop working. Actually that would suck if it rained then you like can't go anywhere unless you can dry the ground super fa st.
Cars just are so bad that they just have to go kill the nature and kill humans. I mean airbags only do so much like getting hit by a semitruck that would probably kill you unless you are in the semitruck then it would just be a semi hitting a semi and that wouldn't be good. Now what if we just got off our lazy butts and actually didn't drive and waste our time. We can just walk to places or bike. Now if we did that then it would waste more time but we would be fit though. Also if people are fit and don't drive cars they might get dates but then they wouldn't even be able to drive their date to the movies or dinner because they don't have cars. They could just jog there but by then it would just be easier to just call for food but then by the time the food got here it would be all soggy and gross. Also it would be cold and no one likes that. So cars are good and bad because science and logic say so. | 2 |
1f2ec63 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," many challenges of studying Venus are presented; however, the author provides many valid reasons as to why researchers should find ways to study this planet. The author describes the similarities of Venus and Earth, provides solutions to living on Venus, and expresses how researching Venus would be an advancement of the human mind.
The author supports their claim of Venus being worthy of pursuit despite its dangers, by suggesting that Venus may have once been similar to Earth. The author wrote in paragraph 4, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." By suggesting that Venus could have some answers to Earth's climate, the author provides strong support to their claim. The text also states in paragraph 4, "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." The author goes on to describe how Earth and Venus may have been closely related long ago. It is also mentioned that Venus is one of our nearest options for a planetary visit, which is beneficial considering the how long space travel takes. The author's claim is supported through this evidence of Venus being Earth-like at one point in time.
Another way that the author suppprts their claim is by providing some solutions to studying Venus, despite the dangers it possesses. The author writes in paragraph 5, "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape." In paragraph 5, the author continues to explain how the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth, solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not go over the radiation levels on Earth. The solution that the author suggests helps support their claim of Venus being worthy of pursuit by giving direct evidence as to how researchers may go about doing this.
Lastly, the author supports his/her claim by explaining how overcoming the challenge of studying Venus, would be beneficial not only to the insight of the planet, but also of human curiosity. 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." The claim is strongly supported through the author's description of how studying Venus could be beneficial to the human mind. Another detail from paragraph 8 is, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." The author supports that studying Venus would be worth overcoming the harsh conditions, as it would expand our views of imagination and innovation.
Despite all of the author's reasons for studying Venus, he/she describes how Venus has harsh conditions that must be overcome first. The text states, "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." The author expresses how Venus's conditions are far more extreme than any conditions on Earth. However, the author supports their claim by providing various reasons that support how Venus is worty of pursuit and how researchers may go about overcoming the dangers it possesses.
In order to support his/her claim, the author was able to provide at least three strong reasons that show how Venus would be worth studying, even though it presents many dangers. By explaining how Venus may have once been comparable to Earth, providing solutions to current problems, and expressing the benefits of studying Venus, the author is able to strongly support his/her claim with valid evidence. | 6 |
1f30de7 | Have have you ever wanted to learn more about something like about a person or maybe... a planet? This essay is on unmasking the face on Mars, is it real? or fake?
Well is is in fact real in here are the reasons why.
First, it is real because Twenty five years ago we spotted something weird happening on Mars. One of our spacecrafts, The Viking 1, was getting pictures of what may be possible land sites for its sister ship, The Viking 2. It was then that we noticed something strange, it was like a shadowy likeness of a human face. It had an ENORMOUS head nearly almost two miles end to end. it ALMOST looked like an Egyptian Pharaoh.
Next, a few days later we unveiled the image for everyone to see...even though we were not sure how everyone would react. But to NASA's surpise, everyone loved it it was in movies, books,magazines etc. There were some people out there who didn't belive it, said it was probably fake and that we were just trying to scare people into thinking aliens were real. But it was real alright and we have the evidence to prove it.
Third, even though few scientists believed it to the Face of an alien artifact, the photos of Cydonia became important to NASA when the Global Surveyor (MGS) to the Mars in September. After 18 years, the Viking missions ended. Not every one was okay with though. The Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north latitude, it was winter in April 1998. It was a cloudy time of the year on Mars. We tried to take a look at it one more time but it was to late. When the cloudiness ended on mars we had put another spacecraft on Mars. when we got pictures back you could then all the detail and more on the face.
Even though some people may still not ever believe it, we just want them to just acknowledge the thought of '' What If?''. Then maybe they could see that this really is an anicent alien mark. | 3 |
1f3890c | Here are some convincing statements to see if you want to participate in the Seagoing program. Here is one reason If you like the military you will like the Seagoing program you go on so many uniqe places you go to Venice,Italy a city with streets of water. You go across the Alantic Ocean,but if you don't like staying on ships that long you wont like the Seagoing program. The cowboys have some fun time on board they play baseball,and vollyball games in empty where animals had been housed. It sound like fun you go on trips you meet new people and play sports on the ship so it isn't boaring. If you like animals you will also like the Seagonig program you ship a lot of animals to different places you ship 335 horses to different places from across the world. Here are some other sports you play table-tennis touraments,fencing,boxing,reading,whittling,and games that also help pass the time. I would love to join and go to different places with people that could be a new friend to make. It is still kind of risky because people still break their ribs and not get to work for a couple of days and not get paid or you could die from sickness or broken ribs and if you get sea sick you won't want to go into the seagoing program. It sometimes chang peoples lives because that is who they are that is their hobby now. If you like all those reasons to join then you will really like the Seagoing program so go down there and sign up I think you like it and why not try it. | 2 |
1f3ac05 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", it shows how Venus actually is. It tells of how dangerous it is to explore, and learn more about. However, it also explains the importance of knowing about Venus. Here are some of the reasons stated on why it's important to know and learn more bout Venus.
First, it is thought Venus was once more Earth-like. It's believed that long ago it was covered in oceans. Also having features, such as, valleys, mountains, and craters, similar to the ones on earth. This excites and fascinates astronomers working on exploring Venus.
Second, Venus is sometimes our nearest planet to us. Venus, Earth, and Mars orbit at different speeds, causing Venus to sometimes be our nearest planet.
Which is a huge consinderation in exploring it, becaus eof long times of space travel. It is also known as Earth's twin because it is close in size and density.
Lastly, NASA is already working on a way to seend humans to Venus to study. NASA thinks a solution to the hostile enviroment is to let scientists float above the fray. If a vehicle could float above Venus, you could avoid its hostile enviroment. It allows them to stay up and away from danger. Though the temperatures and pressure wouldn't be easy, they would be survivable.
Therefore, exploring Venus is a good idea despite the dangers. We've already put a lot of work into developing plans to explore Venus, plus all the work we've already done to get them information we have. Venus is one of our closet planets, which is good keeping in mind the long time of space travel. | 3 |
1f3d9fd | In the article "Driveless Cars Are Coming" two sides of whether there should or should not be driveless cars are given.
Through out the article both sides use experts from car companies and scientists to give their side, or opinion, of this argument.
Reasons such as drivless cars aren't completely driveless and still need the driver's attention are given which gives the reader a standpoint against this argument.
Driveless cars are expensive and dangerous.
In paragraph 6 of this article, it states that the make-up of a driveless car consists of sensors and other parts of the car add up to two hundred million dollars to manufacture.
Another fact given in paragraph 7 states that "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel."
The quote just given shows how driveless cars aren't truly driveless and by using this point to back up the claim this kind of car would be a big waste of money because it doesn't fully serve it's purpose.
Last, but not least, if an accident were to happen would the blame go upon the manufacturer or the driver who was supposed to be assisting the wheel.
Although this idea of a driveless car is a good one and shoots for the sky, there is no way it could work out at the end of the day.
Too many points go into why driveless cars would not work rather than how they do.
Driveless cars are too expensive and dangerous to have exist, and people shouldn't rely on this kind of car because technology errors happen all the time while humans have the advantage of reaction time and common sense.
In conclusion, our roads would be safer if we kept human controlled cars. | 3 |
1f4513c | Driverless cars are coming and we all know it, but is it a good thing? The world keeps coming out with greater technology every single day. Some people believe that technology isn't always a good thing. Most people talk about cell phones and how it takes away from what kids could be out doing, but instead they are at home on their cell phones. Even though I may be a teenager and in the technology era my opinion is I don't think driverless cars are a good idea. When I think of driverless cars so many questions pop into my head. I start thinkging what if? or How do you? I'm sure the same thing happens to other people when they think about this topic also.
I am going to support the reason why I think that driverless cars are a bad idea, and this is how I will do it. Do you ever like to be in a situation where you have zero control over what is gonna happen? No oodles of people do not like to be in that situation at all. That's how I feel driverless cars are I feel like if you where going to get into a bad car accident what could you do to stop the car if you weren't in control? You wouldn't know what to do. In the article it clearly states that "the human driver must stay alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires". How fast are you likely to be able to take control of the car if something like a car accident where fastly approching? Exactly it would be incredibly hard. They make these commericals and advertisments sound amazing, and make it sound like nothing would ever go wrong, but what is really behind all this technology? Well we will never know. Letting some robot take over something that could cause death does not sound like a fun time to me. As technology will continue to progress, when you go to take drivers ed is there even gonna be an instructor teaching you or is it all going to be the car? These are all things that need to be assessed.
Like I stated in the beginning I do not like driverless cars and I probably still won't no matter what. I don't know about you but I like to be in charge most of the time,
and driverless vehicles do not alow that to happen. I think technology is starting to take over in loads of areas, and yes I am quit addicted to my cell phone but do I really need a car to drive for me? No that is completely lazy and is just an excuss so people can text or talk on their cell phones. Technology is the reason why most people get into vehicle accident every year and die. Do we really need more technology to cause problems? No we don't. If I ever had one of these driverless cars offered to me I most likely would not take the offer because I don't like this idea at all. In the near future I hope vehicle companies will take the opinions, and ideas of car buyers and use it to produce something that they will like. | 3 |
1f48e7a | Paragraph 2 implies that, "The Electoral College processs consist of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the eclectoral votes by Congress." Because of that I pesonally think that we should not keep the Electoral College, because people want to choose who they want to be preseident they don't want to rely on someone else to choose for them, that may even end up betraying them,and also when you vote you think you are actually voting for a presidential candidate but you're actually voting for a state of electors, the whole point on voting is to choose who you want. I think it's unfair to everyone just like
Source 2: The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong said in paragraph 14
"It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational, and also in
Source 3: In defense of the Electoral College: Five despised method of choosing the President in paragraph 15-16 said "The advocates of this position are correct in arguing that the Electoral College methid is not democratic in a modern sense...it is the electors who elect the president, not the people. When you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors, But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee (and that trust is rarely betrayed)...[; however,] it i sentirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote.
Paragraph 10 simply says that under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president.
Why waste your time and money planning for something knowing that you have no chance at winning. I agree with what
Source 2: The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong said in paragraph 13
"At most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because fo the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates dont' spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning." | 3 |
1f49bd9 | If I was working for NASA and l had an argument with a person that believes that ''the face'' was created by aliens, I would say that it is just a simple landform that was made on mars. I say this because if I were to work for NASA I would look back at data that will help me defend my answer, that ''the face'' was not created by aliens. For all we know it could just be a mountain that has ''eyes'', ''a mouth'', ''and a nose'' due to shadowing.
We human beings really have no clue if there are aliens or not, we find ''clues'' and believe there are but, in my opinion there are none. In the article Mr. Jim Gavin said ''It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho''. This is what I would say if I had a discussion with a person who believed ''the face'' was created by aliens. | 2 |
1f4aec1 | The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students is, in fact valuable. The Facial Action Coding System could be really beneficial toward students in many ways. For example, it could help students with their learning and comprehending abilities. Many students have a hard time understanding the lessions, whether it is because of a learning disability or they just simply dont understand something. It could even help the teachers asess how well their students are comprehending the material being taught.
One reason that I am for the use of the FACS(Facial Action Coding System) in schools is because I think that it would work well amoung a teachers side. Now a teacher has a great amount of responsibility; they have to teach the students, make sure they grasp and really understand what is being taught and then if they do not understand it they have to come up with an alturnitive way to get them to understand what was taught. Now, what if it is more than one student who does not understand, the teacher has to keep in mind that not everyone learns and percieves information the same way. The FACS woud adapt to a students specific learning style; by their facial muscles and it could really be benefical.
Also in this era, which is the technological era, a lot of school and homework is done online, so with this new computer system it would make homework and school lessions a whole lot easier for both the students, teachers and even the parents. It would be benefical to have that new technology on computers because you will not have a teacher at home with you when you are trying to complete the homework that was assigned. But with the FACS it could recognize when the they are confused and even bored, because lets face it, we all have become bored while doing homework.
In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System is in fact very valuable. Not only students but teachers as well, could really benefit a whole lot from just having this technological system available for them. Alot could happen just from the FACS reading the students facial expressions. | 4 |
1f4fabd | Why do you think the author suggests that studying venus is a worthy pursuit disregarding the danger that is being presented.
Venus is the closest planet to Earth which is why it is referred to as the Earths ''twin''. Most people study geography which is all around the world such as Earth. Meanwhile, others are studying or learning more about venus . Such as , venus is more dangerous because of how close it is to the sun and carbon dioxide that revolves around it.
The temperature is also an effect on how dangerous it is .
Even though mercury is closer to the sun venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet . This can result in erupting volcanoes and powerful earthquakes .Others on the other hand are fascinated by Venus because it has been the most Earth - like planet in our solar system . Earth is covered of different bodies of water and that could support different forms of life. Venus a very long time ago ,was also covered in large oceans which help others to adapt to . Planetary visiters put the option of venus out there because of its physical features such as valleys,mountains and craters. The NASA is sending people who are intrested in studying space and planets to visit Venus.
The people who are going to traveling on ship will not see as much due to the dense atmosphere .You aren't going to be able to take sample of things from a distance because of the risk that will be taken . Risk like taking resources from the planet can harm you . They are making different ways to travel to venus so it would be worth the time period and not limited.
The authors has used a good choice of words by saying ''that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presesnt . The trip would be very observative and informational . The danger in getting over there and staying there for a long time would be harmful . It would be a good to learn about because it has so many things to offer and inform you about . | 2 |
1f500e3 | Driverless cars are a thing of the future. With driverless cars one would have more time to be able to do the things they would want to do. Such things including, being able to be more involved with their family, having more leisure inside their vehicle, and the roads would be a less intense and stressful area.
With driverless cars people would be able to get closer to their family on the way to a long distanced destination. One would be able to talk more with their families and learn something about their beloved family members they care so much about. The driver would be able to play games with the family like "Monopoly" or "Life" when they would not be able to before with cars that require a driver. Driverless cars would make getting kids who are being unruly to behave easier such as if a single parent wanted to get their children to behave they could just turn around and get them settled down. The driverless cars would make it possible for families to stay on the road whilst eating so they would not have to take too long of a stop and loose time on sitting down and eating at an Arby's.
With the driverless cars one's trip to any destination would be more leisurely and comfortable. Driverless cars would be able to let a person who has been up all night packing fo a trip across the country, who could not book a flight for when they needed to be there, to sleep while the car drives itself while they get a nice relaxing nap or sleep. While in a driverless car one would be able to catch up on their favorite shows since they do not need their full attention on the roads they would be able to watch videos on their phone, tablet, laptop or whatever they use. Driverless cars would allot people, such as teens, to text or get on social media while in the car because they wouldn't be doing the driving.
The driverless cars would make the roads a much safter and less stress inducing terrain. With the driverless cars one would stay the mandated speed limit issued by the government for protection and they would not have to suffer a ticket. The driverless car would prevent unlawful circumstances like a highspeed chase which is not only a crime of resisting arrest but it can put innoccent people in danger of getting hurt or worse. Driverless cars would likely be a catalyst in brining down accident rates since they respond to their environments and alter their pathway if something happens and it would not spin out of control since a human is not driving it. The driverless cars would make the commute to school or work or any place you need to be easier since it put a sence of stress relief
from worrying about other people's driving and getting into an accident.
The driverless car would all around make dirving if not your everyday life easier if the mass production of this miraclous invention were to be created. So would you help or hinder the production of this revolutionary device? For all one could know it could change the roads maybe even the world around us. | 4 |
1f535d8 | Many people think that the "Face" is caused by aliens or it's just a natural landform. Which one of these could it be the answer to this mysterys "Face"? Now in days most people think that everything in space that might haved popped out is made by aliens but that is not always the answer. I personally think that it's not caused by aliens but there's always going to be people out there still thinking it was created by aliens.
In 1976 Viking 1 was cirleing around Mars when it took a picture in the region of Mars in Cydonia. It wasn't something that we would expect. It was very surprising, it looked like a face in the photo taken. A few days later NASA released some of the picture they took. Since than the "Face" became very popular it even has been in some Hollywood films.
I think that the "Face" is caused by the natural landform. Have you ever wonder why Mars is like Earth's twin or sisters well because they are alike. Earth has had natural landform just that in Mars it looks different but it doesn't mean nothing it's still a natural landform. Now I do understand why some people might say that it looks like it has been created by aliens cause it does look like a real face. The nose, eyes and mouth litterly looks like a real face of a person but just cause of that it doesn't mean it was made by aliens.
Now here is my true evidence that will convice people that the "Face" wasn't created by aliens. In 1976 was the first photo Viking 1 took. In 1998 another photo was taken later on in 2001 another photo was taken. If you see the pictures it is so obese that the "Face" on Mars is a natural landforming. In the pictures the "Face" looks like if it was changed over the years. | 3 |
1f55e4c | The advantages of limiting car usage is starting to become a lot more common. People are starting to realize that their happier when not riding their car, in fact Heudrun Walter mother of 2 said "when i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Walter now can walk the streets and enjoy the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children.
Us humans rely to much on our cars for transportation, We should learn how to get to places on our own. Before we had cars we walked on our own 2 feet and didnt complain, its time for us to get back part of our humanity. "All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change",said David Goldenberg, an official of Transportation for America. If cars were to all of a sudden disappear would you be capable of getting around without a vechicle of transportation?
In Bogota, Colombia a program was set to have a car free day. The only way of transportation was through buses and taxis, and violators would have to pay a $25 fine. "It was a good opportunity to take away stress and lower pollution" said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife. Not only does not riding your car lower pollution but it can also help lower emissions, conserve resources, and improve safety. The goal is to limit car usage and to start noticing the advantages of a car free life, like walking the streets and enjoying another beautiful day.
Fellow citizens I advice you to put down you car keys and go outside to smell the clean air, see the sun shining on your face and get a breeze of how life would be from outside the windows of your car. We can help make our environment be a better place all you have to do is start taking action and realize their are more advantages to limiting car use then car usage its self. | 3 |
1f58110 | I claim for the use of technology that reads students emotional expressions.One because it would help a lot of people know whats wrong with them or others if they aren't good at reading expressions.Second it could help detectives know weither the person faking or not(a smile,anger, ext).
One way it can help others find a way to know if someone sad, happy, or any other emotion is by the computer analising its data and seeing the 44 major muscles that help express emotion, to tell you what emotion the person feeling right now
Another way this could help is when detectives or police men would need help reading a person, which would really help by showing the person is faking the emotion or not, by reading the certain muscles need to make person actually smile or just a fake smile which fools everyone.
With the fact and reasonings i;ve shown u dear reader I hope u see that haveing a computer that know how to analyse your expretion can be help for and the concludes that we should have a F.A.C.S | 2 |
1f5d349 | The travel to Venus would be a very informational trip as scientist could conduct test and see if Venus was much like Earth today. This trip has many hazardous conditions that may limit the test cunducted by scientist.
Information the trip to Venus could provide is very usesfull. As we know so far this is the most similar planet to Earth spite the extreme temperatures; this planet has a surface of rocky sediment and has similar features such as valleys, mountains and also craters. Some of the differences it has include, different atmosphere makeup. Also, unbareable pressure and much more.
Risks that comes with the trip includes extreme heat, dense atmosphere, very high atmospherical presure and much more dangers. To prevent this the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has one idea that might work. Creating a blimp-like vehicle that is capable of hovering over 30 or so miles above the landscape, just like the aircrafts we have on Earth. As temperatures will still be some what of an issue, by their calculations, being about 30 miles away will reduce temperatures down to 170 degrees Fahrenheit. The distance will also reduce pressure down similar to Earth's sea level so it will not be crushed instantly. These conditions are not easy on us humans but, is still survivable.
Hovering over the landscape creates an issue to scientist. That being they can not recieve any actual samples from the ground to test. That meaning they need a way to do so without creating more risk. This is where systems that use mechanical parts instead relying electronics come into play. This is because with the 800 degree temperature the surface of Venus provides, even though electronis are fast, flexible and quick they are more delicate in general. This leaves them at a dissadvantage with the harsh climate. As mechanical part systems can be made to resist more pressure, heat and other forces.
In conclution, despite the harsh climate that Venus contains upon it's surface, this mission could be possible. It might take years to develop such technology but will be worth in the long run, if it provides helpful information containing a solution to have earth not end up like Venus. If it does not, we still have new knowledge about space and what may contain. | 3 |
1f649f0 | I think that we should get rid of the Electoral College. In "Does the Electoral College work?" and Sources 1-3 by the office of the Federal Register, Bradford Plumer, and Richard Posner. I think it is best if we get rid if the electoral college and the president gets elected by the populer vote.
I would be better if we got rid of the electoral college. In source two it said " Under the elctoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president". Us voting for other people so that they can vite for the president feels as if we arnt even voting for the president at all. The winner take all system also so that whoever gets the mosts votes in that state gets all the electoral college votes. The person you voted for would not matter because what if the other person you did not vote for gets all electoral votes, then your vote did nothing to help on the person you voted for.
Electoral college was used because people who made it thought that it was a bad idea if they just let the people vote.
They thought we were njot qualified to elect a president so they made the electoral college so that they make a loop whole so they can vote. | 2 |
1f65a7f | Being able to calculate if someone is happy or sad is not valuable. People themselve should be able to tell if someone is happy or sad even if they are covering it up. Dr. Eckman is able to detect if someone is happy or sad without FACS ( Facial Action Coding System). You can detect someone's emotions by the way they are acting.
Even without the new technology that the doctors invented to detect your emotions people should be able to tell if someone if happy, sad, etc. People should be able to tell if they are sad when they arent talking as much as they used to or mad when they have a bad attitude. They could tell when their happy when they are acting normal and laughing at jokes. Also your mostly with the people that you know the best so you should be able to tell their emotions.
Dr. Paul Eckman, the creator of FACS, is able to detect someones emotions without his new system. If Dr. Eckman could teach people how to detect someone's emotions then it would spread across the world then nobody would need the new system. When Dr. Eckman told us to look in the mirror and do the three steps he provided he was teaching us how to detect if someone is happy. Dr. Eckman created something that could be easily taught to people around the world. If people are able to be taught what FACS could do then therefor you do not need FACS.
Many people all around the world mostly are only with people that they really know personally. You should be able to detect how someone close to you is feeling be how they are acting. If they are not acting normal they obviously something is wrong, so now you need to find out what is wrong. They could detect if they are sad if they are not talking a lot and moslty just sitting around. If they are mad you could just look at their facial expressions when you tell them something and be able to tell if they are mad. So you should easily be able to detect the mood of somebody be the way they are acting.
The FACS that Dr. Eckman created is most likely expesive to make and install, also could talk alot of time. So if he would just teach people how to detect peoples different emotions by their facial expressions they he could be saving a lot of time and money. Once Dr. Eckman has taught people then people will then begin to teach other people, which then would lead to nobody needing the FACS. | 4 |
1f71276 | I am against the driverless cars because i personally do not think its a good idea at all. You could get seriously hurt in a car accident and it wouldnt be your fault because you werent driving and if you wreck into another car and their not driving who's fault is it going to be then? if anyone die's in that car accident would anyone get into trouble or would that be the maker of the cars fault and then would they be getting sued and in trouble for making cars that wont be safe or wasn't safe for peopel to drive in? i hope these cars are super duper safe.
If we were to have cars that drive themselves everywhere we need/ needed to go how would we get to be able to drive, we would only be able to drive when there are road blocks there and or constuction going on and if are cars couldnt make it through that then why should we make something like that for when the car is supposed to drive for us. I do not think this is a good idea to make cars like these they could cause us alot of problems for in the future time. | 2 |
1f7704a | In the text " The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the aurthor tells the reader allot about Venus. From the temperature to how close it is to earth. " A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid". This shows that the aurthor is supporting his text wioth facts by giving the reader an idea of what Venus is like. " Humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world. Each previous mission was unmanned and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us". In this paragraph the aurthor lets the reader know that there has been scientist and Astronomers that tried to land on Venus but they werent successfull because of the dangers on Venus. It also shows that because the scientest couldnt do this it wanted them to want to do it even more. | 1 |
1f78438 | Do you trust technology? Everyday we rely on thousands of technologies that perform thousands of different tasks. What if there was a technology that, if not working, could severly injure you or even kill you? Technologies can also malfuncition and not perform the task they were set to do. Computers can freeze and phones can crash and it happens all the time.
A driverless car is nice to think about at first. Someone may argue that it could take the pressure out of long car trips and could even prevent drunk driving. In paragraph one it says, "Google cofounder Sergey Brin envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system." This sounds nice and the idea sounds like it would work, but people are missing one thing. Technology can fail.
Small technologies that fail have little affect on our lives. When a call doesn't go through and your computer freezes it's not the end of your life and it won't hurt you. When you enlarge the scale and start talking about cars being the technology, big things can go wrong. In paragraph eight it says, "Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver? Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?" I think that this quote is a good arguement to why we shouldn't have driverless cars. People waiting at the wheel to drive would get bored and start to play on thier phone or look out the window. When the car needs the "driver" to take over he/ she wouldn't be paying attention or wouldn't be able to respond to the need of the car in time.
What would happen if you were on the interstate going seventy miles per hour and the automatic steering on your car went out? We can't rely on technologies especially when it performs such an important role as driving a car. In paragraph four it said, "For starters, they need a whole lot of sensors. Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS reciever, and an inertial motion sensor." I chose to use that quote because I wanted to show people just how much technology is on the car. Just how much technology that could go wrong. If one of those sensors didn't work you could crash.
I think that the whole idea of driverless cars is too risky and too unrealiable. I'm opposed to the idea of driverless cars because of the safety hazards that could generate from the technology failing. I understand that the idea of a driverless car sounds amazing and has so many pros-, but the amount of cons- outweighs the pros-. I do think that driverless cars one day would work and be safe, but I don't see it coming in the near future. Driverless cars sound great, but I don't think we are ready for them yet. | 4 |
1f7a4d9 | In the article 'The Challenge of Exploring Venus' the author mentions mutiple challenges of exploring the planet. Despite this, the author seems to support the further exploration of Venus. Later in the article, the author explains their reasoning. This essay will first analyize the author's statements at the beginning of the article.
In the first paragraph of the article, the author explains that there are many different challenges that have prevented humans from sending a probe to explore Venus' surface. Later, in paragraph three, the author gives examples of said challenges. These include clouds of corrosive sulfuric acid, average temperatures of 800 degrees, incedibly high atmospheric pressure, and a heavy carbon atmosphere. (paragraph 3) These conditions on Venus have prevented humans from exploring the surface because a probe that is able to withstand this harsh enviornemnt does not exist. After the author expalins why Venus has not been explored, they then present a few ideas that could lead to a new innovation.
In paragraph five, the author informs readers of an idea that NASA has come up with to explore Venus. The author describes this invention as a blimp-like vehicle that will hover above the planet's harsh surface. They reason that being able to explore Venus without having to touch the surface is possible due to thr more surviveable conditions of the atmosphere. The author reassures readers that traveling to Venus may be possible by explaining how technology could be invented to allow humans to survive the harsh enviornment. Towards the end of the article, the author also gives another possible breakthrough for these challenges.
In paragraph seven, the author describes another disocvery from NASA. The innovation that is mentioned, silicon carbide, may have the potential to survive in the harsh conditions of Venus for three weeks. The author gives other possible ideas such as using more durable older computers that may be able to survive on Venus longer than modern technology. This shows that the author believes that the answer to exploring Venus may be closer than originally thought.
The author of this article shows readers that they support the idea of traveling to Venus despite the current challenges. Throughout the article, the author provides many ideas that could possibly allow future probes to visit the planet's surface. Also, in paragraph eight the author desribes how they personally feel that dangers and doubts about traveling to Venus should not limit humans from exploring it. The Author cleary shows through this statement that they are positive that NASA will find a way to explore Venus. | 4 |
1f7c690 | People talk about how driverless cars are going to help the future, and its going to keep reckless drivers from being in control. Now, if you think in some aspects technology today still has not ever ran right, so why try make something so advanced if we can't even get the little things down first.
The world now in days has come to a point where technology is doing everything for us, as we come to a point where we rely on our Phones and computers to do everything for us. Dont get me wrong, technology does have its advantages, it can show us things that we never were taught how to do and help us with our history, it does help with alot of things but is it not kinda sad that we rely on it now.
I believe in some aspects that a car so advanced could decrease wrecks and reckless drivers, but if people now and days would straighten up and be the safe driver that they need to be then we wouldnt have to make a car so advanced to drive for us. Everyone is relying on their electronics to do everything for us now, but dont you think its kinda pety that we need technology to do things that we can literally do ourselves. They say in the passage that the smart car is going to need the passenger to take over on somethings, but is it not kinda scary knowing someday that technology isnt going to need our help and its going tobe doing everything for us. | 2 |
1f7cf56 | Mona Lisa, she's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. At least according to some new computer software that can recognize emotions. Thomas Huang, the beckman institute for advanced science at the University of Illinois, working in collaboration of the Unversity of Amsterdam and his colleague are experts at developing better way for human and computer to communicate to each person or online. For computer can use homework research to recognize the subtle facial movement the human use to express how they feel about the computer's using in it. The fact, they perform this same impressive for calculation for every day. Most of them would have trouble their issue of describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried and etc. The Mona Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a big smile to your face. By the way, making you happy face in this experiment also make you feel slightly happy to your face. Making faces could be reveal so they have a much of the science of emotions. | 1 |
1f7e64f | Can you hide your emontions by having a smirk on your face? The question is yes you can but can other people find out what emontions that are hiding underneath by using a computer.
But first we have to figure out what technology can do this and how the process works. First the technology used for this type of research is called Facial Coding System and it enables computers to identify human emontions. They way the technology works is that when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face. For this to work all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human mucles to recongize the face it has to work with. They're 6 emontions that the FACS is looking for, the emontions its looking for are happiness, surprise, anger, digust, fear and sadness for the technology to fully work on a human face.
Different ways that FACS can be most valuable would be at school with all of your classmates would be if the school want ts to get on what emontions you are having when you take a picture. They could use this information to find out if a kid is dealing with sadness,anger, etc. Another way that this type of technology can be valuable for my classmates would be when we watn to figure out how the technology works or if we want to figure out what emontions we are expressig of taking one picture.
On the other hand the FACS wouldn't be valid in my opinion at the same time because since we are teens we don't really care about what emontions we are feeling at that time and moment. All of my classmates really care about in the present time is being online and using other technology instead of FACS. The different technology I'm talking about all of the technology on are phones, tablets, video game conseles.
Would Facial Action Coding System be helpful for me and my classmates. I'm not sure because it could be either ways when you are thinking about it becuse there are some pros and cons to FACS being helpful. But hope that it can be used to figure out different historical paintings, sculputers, etc in the future to figure out what the artist was thinking when he or she was making to art and how they felt about when they were making it. | 3 |
1f7ff01 | In the artical the author decribes that Facial Action Coding Systems (FACS) can help to identify human emotional expressions. Profeser Thomas works with another guy named profeser Nicu. Profeser Nicu was from the University of Ansterdam. I'm against the vaule of using computer techonology to read students emotions.
One example that the authour gives is where the process begins. The text states" the process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D coumputer model of the face". The FACS has classifies six basic emotions which are: happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. These emotions are associted with the movement of the facial muscles
Another example that the author gives is web ads on your screen. The text says "if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a simalr might follow. Most student thay communicate is nonverbal. Dr. Haung put that video games and surgery on his notes.
One vaule of haveing techonlogy might help teachers know what students might be feeling even if the student doesn't want them to know. If the student is feeling sad or stressed the teacher can help with that through communication. Empathy is (feeling someone else's emotional state).
To wrap every thing up some people would like to have this techonlogy, but there are some people who don't. The people who would like it thinks it might help them find out what their kids or kid is felling and help them out; however, the people who don't think it would beause they hope the kids would come and coummunicate with them indsted of them finding out on a technlogy coumputer. | 2 |
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There reason why the author says to how he supports the claim is becuase we could have question like these ,"why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface?". So thats why we should or theres a good reasson why we should learn what we can from things like these.Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus.People who come learing things like this know how and where things goes when comes on to things like this .The thought of computers existing in those days may sound shocking, but these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all. Thats why back then it wasnt easy isnt learing things like this becuase bascelly now everything we look for or eveything we do now is by phone or a comuter or something the back then wasnt there to help as much knowing to what it is and what it dose.So that the why aother would ask how or why we would wanna study this or if it was worth it.
"Therefore, scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks. Or maybe we should think of them as challenges." its worth so much for you to see how much to learn or how much you get from listening, from it or to it's not just what you can see out of it.Reason would be becasue you wouldnt just know things like this you would know what to expcact what they say.The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable, but what are the options for making such a mission both safe and scientifically productive?,Theres a lot of reason why its worth studying thiis you have question and you want answers and you cant even figere that put becase of you dont know thow things and becuase you would see things that dont make sense to you.
Beyond high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface.In teh article it says how things can, be done a other or a onther it aways come to back and how things.It
come back yo what we know at the end of the day. | 3 |
1f92b35 | did you know that NASA and scientist has a way to found more about veuns with the new technology? veuns is one of the planet of the solar system and it has great fact the you don't know about? here some of thing you might or might not know about venus. venus is a worthy and dangers by being the close to the sun it ever hot and it very very hot here in summer guess how hot it will be and and it say it very bright light in
the night sky and if it was the bright in
that day time it will danage your eye very bad and and it kind of cool have the name as evening start and it pretty at night. The Venus is the closest planet to earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. there was a thick atomsphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus. even more challenging are the clouds of
highly corrosive sulfuric acid in venus's atmosphere. The NASA has particularly
compelling idea for sending humans to study veuns. NASA's possible soultion to the hostile conditions on the surface of venus would allow scientist to float above the fray and they has found new wat of it and imagine a blimp-like vehile hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling venusian landscapes.The scientist discover more about veuns and it really has been, It seen the NASA will go to the space and check it out with the new technology that they want to use for the discover about veuns and they has know it very hot and very bright and the scientist will has solution for the for NASA.From back then and now the technology has improve all of them and they will has way to go to dicover more about but they have discover hold all of new thing about veuns and they are awesome and they has very hard time for doing that but they has has done new thing over it and they has to go those pressure, heat, and other forces but at the end, They
strivinf to meet the challenge presented by veuns 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 intimdating endeavor. They will discover more about veuns at the end by the very edges of the imagination and innovation. | 1 |
1f94329 | I think that technology is valuable in a classroom because, it is an easier way to learn new stuff. Another way it is valuable is that technology is the most popular advertisment out. Everybody needs one, even if u are a kid. Plus all of the teachers can easly grade your homework right from their computer. They can access anything they need to help students out. We can look up anything on the computer. The main thing about technology is anybody can access anything or anything they want. But Idont think that it will be valuable to read the emotional expressions of students. The reason I think that is because you cant be able to do it. If we could do that then the teachers would know how to control, listen, and be able to instuct whatever they are learning about. But all that i can say is that we need to understand how we can read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom. | 2 |
1f94e33 | Thinking of the 21st century ideas of driving cars and SUV's around is considred fairly overrated now a day's. Opperating moto vehicle in city scapes and rural areas can get so overwhelming; the constant worry of oncomming traffic and pedestrians steering into your direction, dangerous pollution threatning to dystroy the ecosystems & surrounding landscapes, not to mention expenses that are strung along with the cost driving a car. By eliminating or limiting the use of cars, these unnessary issues would just simply....float away.
As we all know as a result of past generations: Global Warming is on the rise. This statement is esspecially true in the city of Paris, France...named to be the most polluted city in the world amoung tourist destinations in Europe. In a act to reduce these smog issues, "On Monday motorist with even-numbred licence plates were ordred to leave their cars at home or suffera 22-euro fine" says Robert Duffer who wrote from the article "Paris bans driving due to smog" in the
Chicago Tribune.
Ever since Paris officals had made this change in leglisation, pollution has gone down considerabley. Imagine driving through your city (for example I live in Jacksonville Beach), and there is no more smog, traffic is reduced, and the air you breathe is actually cleaner than before. From putting certian restraints like the city of Paris did on commuting, you too could experince all the wonders of "cut-back driving".
Moving onto another terrific viewpoint of limited car usage is a cut down on cost. Now how great does that sound, and in this expanding economy I'll be happy if gasoline prices drop below $2 dollars! On a serious note, the price tags of a car are extreamly heavy now as they were say two decades ago. There are matanince issues, speeding tickets, parking meter tickets, if you have a flat tire then you call a tow truck which....
COST MONEY!
"New York's new bike-sharing program and it's skyrocketing bridge and tunnel tolls reflect those new priorities, as do proliferation of car-sharing programs across the nation" says Elisabeth Rosenthal from "The End of Car Culture". Now in modern cities like New York, Miami, or even Jacksonville, many city officals have made this ninche of transportation much easier on civilans. Providing local trollys & public busses to help cut the cost of transportation for their residences. As exemplary from Rosenthal, its makes you happy not to drive a car as often... and makes you wallet happy too!
Although many critics are skeptical to obtain and enforce this idea, in actuallity this would be a tremendous favor to all if they participated. Sure if you don't have a car to use for example on a Saturday, then it may seem like a bummer but in perspective it's actually not! Getting around your local area and exploring all it has to offeroutside the four doors of you "gas-hogger" is a beautiful way to go through your day! Just think of all the cha-ching you'll be saving with every footstep you take.
WEEE-WOO-WEEH-WOO
!!! This is the sound of a ambulance driving in your lane to get to a car crash that hapened because of wreckless driving. "It's the inevidable that the 1% of the 99% of all drivers are going to be in some form of a auto vehicle accident by the time their 50" says Brian Williams of
NBC Nightly News . Can you imagine that happening to you, or has it already? 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," since making the change of on-foot commute and biking to distant locations. I live in a beautiful beach side town where almost everything is acessable by walking, biking, city bus, Beaches Trolly, or a surfboard! I myself have tried this and rode my bike up to Trader Joe's to get some ice cream. I can say I felt very stress-free by the whole experince. From simply switching to a non-automatic or mechanical form of transportation I not only relived my tension of road rage. I also had gained great deal of happiness from being outdoors.
In my last few final statements about the pros from limiting the usage of a vehicle, is it's just better. I dont know what other methods are so EASY to follow to get the results you want to the problems and issues people struggle with. Worry about the enviorment? Try limiting you car driving to every other day. Want more money in your pockets insted of in your car? Take the
FREE
transportation thats provided in your local area to get around you city in. Want to ease the stress that major highways and opperating a motor vehicle bring on? Get out and about by walking or biking to get from place to place. I can guarentee you'll love ti reap the rewards by limiting the usage of you car! | 5 |
1f98766 | I am going to write a essay about a aticle named A Cowboy Who Rode The Waves BY: Peggy Reif Miller
The reason I would want to participate in this program is because I like going on boat tripps, and you can learn a lot about fishing and it is a good job.
Lukes claims are that he wanted to go seagoing because it is a opportunity of a life time he said. He wanted to go sea going because he likes learning new things, and it sounded fun to him. In agust 1945, Don and Luke received their first orders to go to new orleans.
What I am trying to say is you can learn a lot, go fishing, It is fun, and you can go on really awsome trips. So if you like learning, having fun, and going on awsome trips then join the program Seagoing Cowboys.
Essay by: JESUS | 2 |
1fa1932 | After the reserch I have done I think that changeing the system would be a good idea because of the following reasons, its not really fair because your not actually voteing for the president, but for a slate of electors, also becuse of the candidates are more focused on the bigg states, and the swing states.
The first reason that changing the system is a good idea is that lots of people think that it is unfair. Like in source 2 by Brandford Plumer, "If you lived in Texas, for instance, and wanted to vote for John kerry, You'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry." but if the electors dont win the statewide election he wouldnt get the votes, so its like your vote didn't even count. The winner take all system is unfair because your actualy not choosing your own president.
The next problem are the big staes. The candidates dont spend many time is the small state because they now that those votes won't really help them win so the go to the bigger states where they now they will get more votes. In source 3 by Richard A. Posner says " a large state gets more attention form presidential candidates in a campain than a small state dose." For example in 2012 obama won the votes from florida, get got 29 electoral votes. But if he were to go to a small state and won he would only get a few votes, so its not fair for the smaller states and it's not equal.
The finall issue are the swing states. Candidates focus more on the toss-up states. In these states they spend more time and give out more information because in these states the people really pay colse attention to the campain. The candidates dont spend any time int the staes they now they no chances for winning, that why durind the 2000 campain, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all!
In response, based from the followin informatom given I think that The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational. It should not be the elecotal votes that matter it should be the peoples votes. Also some states dojnt even hear from the candidates because they are busy with the big staes and trying to win over the swing states. If you do change the system you will make lots of people happy and I think that it will work out well for the U.S and everything will be equal. | 4 |
1fa24bd | The author studying is worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents from the article because he or she is using context clues to tell what Venus is like. Venus is called the "twin" planet to Earth because it is the closet planet to Earth in terms of density and size.(paragraph 2)Venus goes around the sun in different speeds compared to Earth and the other planets. On paragraph 3, the author tells us a little bit about what Venus is like for example the atmospher is almost 97% carbon dioxide. On the planet's surface, the tempature averages 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmospher pressure is 90 times greater than what we experiecne on Earth today. The author also tells us that "Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun unlike Venus and earth and every other planet that revolves around the sun in our solar system.(paragraph 3) The author on paragraph 4 talks about what is living or on the planet Venus. For examplse, "the planet has surface of rocky sediment and includes familar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." (paragraph 4) NASA has sent people into space and hase gone to Venus and to study the planet. Studying Venus does have dangers things that can go wrong but the travels we have should not be able to effect on how we study our planets today or in the future. | 1 |
1fa88bb | Driverless cars are accomplishing many goals and it won't be to long until they will be in full function.
As a part of this I think that it is time to accept change.
The cars will have a few bugs at the start but won't be a problem for long term.
Automated cars should be able to be developed because of the tests that have positive results, the improvement in sensors, and the safety backing them up.
Cars can be very dangerous, escpecially if you put a computer behind it.
However the smart cars from Google had been driven a half a million miles without a crash.
This result shows how advanced technology has become and how it can be very realiable.
With more tests showing positive results it should be no problem for people to see that the cars are really something special.
Another reason for automated cars to be developed is because of the improvement in sensors.
Now that sensors can be very realiable and are getting cheaper and cheaper it wasn't a bad thought to use them in cars.
Many sensors that are put on the car are used for different purposes.
Some sensors are so improved that they keep a 3-D model of the car's surrounding.
This is important because it will be able to detect when danger is near.
Finally, the last reason automated cars should be developed is because of the safety that will be involved with it.
The automated cars will have key safety features to keep the driver and everyone around them safe.
One of these features is to tell the driver when to take over. Others include stopping when closing in on an object and turning off displays when the driver has to take control.
Will automated cars be developed?
I think they will but only if we let improvement happen.
Automated cars do seem a little fetched out but its important to see the positives.
With all the results from tests, advances in sensors, and key safety features automated cars would be a huge improvement that might just be safer than actual drivers. | 3 |
1fa91e9 | Luke would tell people to join the Seagoing Cowboys program because it is an opportunity of a lifetime. Many people wish to do this, but they may never be able to be a part of this program, so that is why he would tell you to participate in this program.
Another reason Luke would try to convince you to join is because you could be helping people and countries by taking care of animals, such as horses, young cows, and mules.
Luke would also tell people to join the Seagoing Cowboys because you could visit new places you have never been to before, like Europe or China, or Greece and Italy. Luke had the chance of visiting these four places because he was part of the Seagoing Cowboys, and you get to cross oceans, like the Atlantic and Pacific.
Another reason luke would tell you to join the program would be because you would always be busy. The animals all needed food and water two or three times a day. Bales of hay and bags of oats ave to be pulled up from the lower level. And their stalls have to be cleaned.
Luke would also tell you to be careful if you joined the Seagoing Cowboys. On Luke's second trip, he almost fell into the dark waters of the Atlantic. He served as a watchman, and he would have to check on the animals every hour. And one rainy night, when he was going to report to the captain, he slid down a slippery ladder on his backside. His heart raced as he shot feet first toward an opening on the side of the ship. But luckily, a small strip of metal along the edge stopped him from sliding towrad the the dark Atlantic, and kept him aboard the ship. Luke was happ he was alive, but he had to take a couple of days off of work because he cracked his ribs.
But you can also have fun on the ship, especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. They would play baseball or volleyball games in the empty holds where the animals had been. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped time go by faster.
Being part of a Seagoing Cowboy can be a great expierience, and it was for Luke Bombergur. It opened the world to him. He said he was grateful for the opportunity of being part of the program. It made him more aware of people of other countries and their needs. And that awareness stayed with him, leading his family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years.
That's why you should be part of the Seagoing Cowboys. It will give you great memories that will stay with you. It will give you life expierience that you might need later on in your life. It will give chances to visit new places you might love and never forget about. It will give you a chance of helping people and countries around the world. It will give you a chance to meet new people and to get to know them well. It will give you all of this and much, much more. That is why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. Once you decline it, you will regret you did. Once you accept it, you will be happy you entered this program. | 3 |
1fac7bc | The Face on Mars is a mesa found on Mars in 1976. NASA's Viking 1 space craft was snapping pictures to find somewhere for it's sister spacecraft ,Viking 2 when is saw this figure/face. On April 5, 1998 MOC team snapped a picture ten times sharper. It just revealed it to be a natural landform.
After taking the picture they saw no alien monument. They decided to take another picture just to clarify. On April 8, 2001 Malin's team captured a picture using maximum resolution. Each pixel was 1.56 meters compared to 43 meters per pixel which is the best they could have done in that time. If there were any form of alien artifacts or anything like that we would have seen it. The picture actually shows a form of a butte or mesa. They are landforms Common around the American West.
They have done other research to try and prove that there is no alien activity. Why would they lie? Defenders of the NASA budget specifically said they wished there were an ancient civilization. Typically if someone has an opinion of something they try to fight the opposing side. So why would NASA lie if they weren't against what the American people had to say? | 3 |
1fb0846 | The President of the United States is currently determined by an electoral college. The electoral college process involves the public voting for their elector and not the main focus, the candidates. Through this, many of the states gain more power than they should, and the votes are set up as a "Winner-takes-all" system. This unneccessary and inaccurate use of votes is outdated and needs to be shut down.
In an instant, an electoral college voter could change his or her mind and go against his or her original political party. This is a completely unfair use of power because it reverses all of the votes that went to the elector and to all of the voters who were counting on the elector to properly represent their vote. The voters have no say in whether the elector will stay true to his or her party.
The easiest way to prove that the electoral college must go, is to reveal the facts. In source 2: The Indefensible Electoral College it states "over sixty percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now". Multiple icons such as Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO have stated they would like to abolish the electoral college as well! We now have the majority vote to put an end to the electoral college and the unfair system.
"Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote," says source 2. A tie in the votes, which is very much possible since the total number of votes is 538, according to source 1, could then allow the fate of America to rest in the hands of the House of Representatives, a miniscule representation of the people. If the voting system were to be changed to the popular vote, the results would accurately display the winner that the majority of America chose.
"It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational," says Bradford Plumer, and he couldn't be closer to the truth. The electoral college system does not represent the people of America accurately and is more likely to result in a tie compared to the popular vote. To conclude, source 3 says the electoral college is "a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner
". | 4 |
1fb5dc7 | Have you ever wanted to travel the world, and help people? If you join Seagoing Cowboys Program you can do both. This program help the people who have been effected by World War II.We help them by sailing cattle boats across the sea. You should be a Seagoing Cowboy for these reasons in the following.
The first reason you should be a Seagoing Cowboy is you can travel the world. Luke Bomberger said that " The cattle boat trips were an unbelievable oportunity for a small town boy". Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China. He also said that
"Besides helping people, I had the side benifit of seeing Europe and China. But to see the Acropolis in Greese was special."
The last reason you should join is you can help a lot of people. What if you were one of the people that needed help? They would want you to join too! They would not get help if people did not join. Luke said that " It made me more aware of people of other countries in need." Would you want find that awareness too?
Sight seeing and helping people are why you should be in the Seagoing Cowboys Program. Seagoing Cowboys are amazing ar'nt they? It would be really fun to be a Seagoing Cowboy. Would you like to be a Seagoing cowboy? It seems like a lot of fun does is'nt! | 2 |
1fbb311 | A technology called the Facial Action Coding System is a software that allows computers to be able to recognize human emotions. Being able to detect how someone is feeling quite accurately. The use of this technology could be very valuable for students during class. Identifying how a student is feeling about a topic, seeing if they're being truthful to questions, and to be able to see how a student is actually feeling emotional wise.
First, this system would allow teachers to be able to see how well they're students feel towards a topic. "'A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored'" "'Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.'" The detection from the software would help out teachers to understand, which students are lost or which students don't have any interest in learning. Which allows the teachers to either change up the lesson or find another instructor to teach the student.
Secondly, it would allow teachers to be able to see if a student is being truthful or not. "In the real smile, the zygomatic major lift the corners of your mouth." "But in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and a differnt muscle, the risorius. To an expert, faces don't lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity isn't being truthful." This would give teachers the oppurtunity to see if specific students are lying about understanding a topic and if they actually did their homework or not. If a student were to lie about understanding a topic, the teacher could help them out. Also some students get away with lying about homework or other things. So this would allow teachers to either give more time to a student or give them their rightful score.
Lastly, teachers would be able to see how their students are actually feeling emotionally. "Imagine being able to detect exactly how other people are feeling, even when they are trying to hide their emotions." "New software has been developed that improves accuracy in percieving the emotions of others." Although students feelings should be kept private, trying to help out a student isn't harmful. Many students hide about how they're feeling or lie about it. So being able to detect how a student is actually feeling can allow the teacher to seek care or show sympathy.
In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding system would be quite valuable for students in a classroom. It would benefit teachers by allowing them to see how their students are feeling about the class, if they're lying about understanding something or something else, and how their students are actually feeling. | 4 |
1fbf8b4 | The face on mars is a natural occuring phenomon that occurs over time. It may look that it is created by some kind of super natural being. Jim Gavins cheif scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program said " It remindes me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River plain of Idaho. That's a lava dome that takes form of an isolated mesa about the same height as teh face on Mars,". That means that the " Face on mars" is a natural occuring phenomon caused by lava.
Althought not everybody beleives that the face is a natural occuring phenomon they believe that is evidence of a ancient Martian civilization. This therory is highly impossible that it is evidence of a ancient Martian civilization. But there are still people that believe it is a ancient Matian civilization, but most of the people on Eart believe and know that is a natural occuring phonomon that is caused by something natural to that planet possbly lava or maybe pressure. | 2 |
1fc46cb | Why would scientist want to travel to one of the most hostile planets in the solar system? The author of "The Challenge of Exporing Venus" explains by listing the reasons why we should, listing the challenges, and saying possible solutions to those challenges.
So, why should we explore one of the solar systems most hostile planet? Well, the author explains that, at times, Venus is the closest planet to Earth. It is considered to be Earth's twin, because both planets have similar density and size. It also could have been the most Earth-like planet in the solar system. It has similar features geography such as valleys, mountains, and craters; scientists believe that, long ago, Venus was covered in huge oceans and could possibly support life.
This planet, that used to support life, is now hostile. The author tells the reader that the atmosphere of Venus is 97 percent carbon dioxide, has sulfiric acid, and has an atmospheric pressure 90 times greater than Earth's. The surface also has it's problems. The surface averages over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. There are also erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning striking the surface.
The best solution for these problems is a blimp-like vehicle. This vehicle would orbit 30 miles above Venus. It would avoid all of the surface's challenges. It would be cooler at about 170 degrees Fahrenheit. The atmospheric pressure would be equal to Earth's sea level. This blimp would be solar powered and could possibly have simplified electronics made of silicone carbide. The author adds that simplified electronis will not be the only technology onboard, there is a chance that mechanical computers could make a comeback, as they are more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces.
The challenges scientists face have solutions, and the solutions can help scientists make new discoveries of a planet that remains unexplored. The author has explained why we should explore Venus, despite how dangerous the mission would be. They give the reader reasons why we should, such as possible life forms, and the author has more pros than cons. They also says solutions to the cons that scientists face. | 3 |
1fc5bd7 | The article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" is a negative aspect to the future. It is a negative aspect because if Driverless cars are invented that can cause more accidents and more people will think that texting is okay
because these new cares are being invented and they will not have to be in charge of anything. The future with a transportation system would change the world into a worse place.
My position on driverless cars is that it will help some that can not drive good as others but the ones who will always count on their car now for anything will not know what to do if something were to happen suddenly. When this car alerts you on an accident ahead of you or getting through traffic the people will have no idea what to do because they will rely on this driverless car to get them through. "Manufacturers are also considering using cameras to watch the drivers are remaining focused on the road." What this quote is trying to illustrate is that the manufacturers would put cameras into the cars to test and see if the driver is still paying attention to the road even though it is a driverless car or if becasue it is a driverless car they will be distracted by something on there cellular device. Also, driverless cars is more dangerous than a person driving by itself because what if something where to happen to this car, or the system stopped working and the person that was not paying attention caused a huge accident. My position on driverless cars is that it still isn't driverless because you would still have to be alert to take over.
The article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" is a dangerous invention that the manufacturers are coming up with because they think that this world would be better but other people might think the opposite. | 3 |
1fc74a6 | Self-driving cars are the new inventions of our generation! Let's celebrate we just made a new creative invention that people have been waiting for...or maybe not. We still make mistakes. We are not computers, but we are the ones that create them. Maybe this is not such a fantastic idea when you think about it.
According to the article, these cars will be "safer" due to sensors that should alert the driver as soon as there is a task that the car cannot perform by itself. These tasks include situations such as navigating around accidents and construction. However, this is still a very new invention. Even older technology that we continue using today contain glitches. The most common is the computer. Even the most popular and well-made brand will still have difficulties. In my experience, cars have had way too many glitches too. Every year people spend way too much money on cars. Maybe we should perfect everything we have before we try to find a possibly more harmful solution.
I don't believe that this was in the article, but I would think that most people would by this driverless car because they want to rest on the way to work. It's early in the morning, and people must want to have just a few more minutes or relaxation, maybe even sleep, before they have to deal with another full day of stress. The problem with this is that people fall asleep quite fast. What worries me the most is that individuals who miss their alarm clock in the morning would most likely miss the vibration that the car would provide, as stated in the article. Therefore, our lack of awareness would cause even more accidents than before.
In our economy today, people are constantly looking forand losing jobs today. My mother is currently searching for a job that would help benifit our family since she lost her job that provided everything we needed. Now imagine a thousand drivers education teachers and BMV workers struggling to find a job because of this one car. I understand that this will not be an immediate change, but overtime people will lose money and families could eventually break up due to the widespread of this invention.
In conclusion, I do not support this idea. I worry too much about others due to personal experiences. It's great that our community is using our brains to create an easier world; However, i do not believe that it is the right time. Our knowledge of electronics and awareness of basic people's needs must grow more. I can see driverless cars in our future, but I will only support it when it is the right time. | 4 |
1fcd324 | What is Facial Action Coding system? A Facial Action Coding System is computers that will help identify human emotions. For example say the person is 85 percent happy 7 percent disgusted and 4 percent fearful and 0 percent angry. Some new computer softaware can recognize emotions. I am for the value of using the technology to read students emotional expressions.
The process beigns when the computer constructs a 3 D computer model of the face all 44 major muscles in the model must move helps human muscle. For example your '' frontailis pars lateralis muslce above your eyes raises your eyebrows when you are suprised your orbicaularis oris around your moth shows your lips to show anger.
Onther reason is facial excpressions for each emotion are universal says Dr. Huang. Second using video imagery, the new emotion recognition software tracks these facial movements. Last it bring a smile to your face while its shows just much the computer can do.
This is the reason why i think the FACS is a great idea because it can help kids tell when they are sad or happy. Helps them shows there true feelings. THE END!!!! | 2 |
1fd270c | Earth is like no other planet, but what is another planter before Earth was Earth itself. The article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author talk about Venus being the most Earth-like planet in the solar system and should be explored more than it already is. The author supports the idea of stuying Venus is worthy pursuit desoite the dangers it presents because it helps scientists know more about the planet, want to explore the planet more, and because it's the closest planet to earth that sientists have found in the solar system despite the dangers.
Scientists know a lot about many plantes but moslty about Earth, but they found other planets that are close to Earth in some ways, one of the planets that are close to earth are in the same solar system as earth itself. Scientists need to know more about the planet then they already do to make sure that it is habitable for humans despite the dangers. In the article the author stated "Venus is the closes planet to Earth in terms of dennsity and size, and occasionally the closes in distance too meaning that just some features has Venus looking like Earth. in the article the author lare states "Astronomers are fancinated by Venus because it may well once been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system" meaning that scientists are willing to know more about Venus since it is the closes thing they have to Earth and its actions.
Even though it sounds nice that scientists ahve found a planet that was similar to Earth doesn't mean its like Earth now. Researchers have also tried to get as close as they can to the dangerous panet but are unsuccessful due to the temperatures and the the enviroment in general. in the article the author states "the planet's purface teperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit,and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our on planet" explanning that the establishment on the planet is something that a human cannot survive what so ever. Later in the article the author states "such an enviroment would crush even a submarine accostumed to diving to the deepest parts of the oceans and would liquefy any metals" stating that it is very hard for scientists to atemp to send anything to the planet but has been a real challenge to make one last over an hour or more.
Even with the unhuman like atmosphere scientists are willing to study the planet more, to get more information about it. It's shown that scientists still have hope for the planet as well as ours. in the article the author stated "Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knoledge to Venus" explaining that they are not willing to give up the exploration to Venus. At an earlier point of the articlet the author stated "Long ago, Venus was probably covered in oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like Earth" meaning that before earth got all the thing it needs to sustain life Venus might've had already had it at the point.
In nconclusion Studying Venus is worty pursuit despite the dangers in represents because it is the closes planet to earth we have yet that is not the furthest away from Earth itself, and because it helps scientists out with many reasearches about the planet. so what is one day Earth is unhavitable for humans and Venus is the closest thing we have distance wise and atmosphere whise. | 3 |
1fd6b7f | "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is a paper that sets out to support that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. After analyzing the paper, I am prepared to make the claim that the author fails to do so. He/she presents a vast array of information on the dangers of exploring Venus, as well as the challenges of doing so, but forgets almost entirely to argue that studying Venus is still is worthy pursuit. The majority of the essay focuses on setbacks, not rewards.
The author begins by explaining how spacecraft cannot survive on Venus long, and that previous missions have been short for that very reason. The pessimistic tone is continued in Paragraph 3, where the author describes the formidable heat, pressure, geology, and weather of Venus, and how such intense conditions would complicate research efforts. It states, "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of hihgly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere." In paragraphs 5 and 7, possible ways to combat these road blocks are discussed. Left out of the conversation is the "why?" The author describes NASA's efforts to bipass Venus's problems (like designing a hovering device or considering the use of mechanical computers) but doesn't fill readers in on why such pursuits would even be worth the effort. The question, "We can, but why should we?" is not answered.
To say that the author was not successful in vouching for rearch of the planet Venus is not to say that attempts were not made. Paragraphs 4 and 8 make a few attempts at telling readers why researching is still a good idea. The author informs readers that Venus is of-interest to scientists because it is the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Mentioned also is that Venus is sometimes the closest option for planetary visitation, making its exploration a more economical choice than other planets. Paragraph 8, the conclusion, says, "Striving to meet he 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." Here the author is saying that Venus should be studied because we can gather information, and humans are curious. This is not science or fact-based, and is not strong because it is common knowledge, not argumentative material. If addressing why researching Venus is a worthy pursuit is supposedly one of the focal points of the 8-paragraph paper, evidence supporting it should be found in more than two places.
In conclusion, "The Challlenge of Supporting Venus" did not do a good job of supporting the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. In fact 6 out of the 8 paragraphs talk mostly about what a struggle exploration would be, and the work it would require. It focused more on giving the reader facts and figures about why studying Venus would be difficult, nearly impossible, even, but it did not thoroughly explain why such difficulties should be worked through, or why researching Venus is a fruitful and worthwhile endeavor. | 5 |
1fd8cbc | The "Facial Action Coding System" is technology that can be used in the class room because some people can't figure out how good or bad someone is feeling. Teachers will be able to know if the student is learning or eithor not paying attention or sleeping in class. It'll be easier for them to know what's false and what's true expression in their situation they could be in.
In difference in the situation students can't understand someone's expression. Thanks to the technolgy now it'll be easier to figure out students emotion or anyone. The article states, " Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements- in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa. By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions. Each expression is compared against a neutral face.""The Mona Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much this computer can do."
Finally, yes the technology is worth a big margin but its worth to have the help we can all get to help us know many. In my opinion it'll be a better way to learn/read better on our emotional expressions because you"'ll have more information and could know more about everything you want or need to know about the expressions. According to the Facial Feedback Theory of emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them. We humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day, for instance, you can probably tell how a person is feeling simply by the look on their face. | 3 |
1fda3aa | Recently new technology has advanced at an absurd rate with phenomenal results. The tasks that these new materials and ideas can perform are a gateway to new discoveries. Inventions such as latest innovation with computers and their ability to detect honest facial emotions.
In the first passage the author introduces Prof. Thomas Huang and Prof. Nicu Sebe as they collaborate to deploy an elite communication system to illuminate the realtionship between computers and humans. In the text, the author explains the functions of the new computerized model of how the emotion facial indicator acts. In paragraph 3, he says, "Movement of one or more musclees is called an "action unit"." He specifies the different controls of how the computer navigates through the coding of facial features and muscle movements. The author then mentions Dr.Huang's perception of his new technology when in the text it says,"The facial expressions for each emotion are universal,". "even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression". Dr. Huang talks about how his computer enginnering works and the capabilities it possesses. In the passage, the auhtor says,"Yet Dr. Huangobserves that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisly enough to convey specific emotions.". This could have interested and motivated Dr. Huang to use modern resources to use da Vinci's technique and find the emotions from facial recognition.
The author mentions an example in the text explaining how a web cam could help students in school. In the passage, it reads,"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This puts another idea of the table for helping students who often find a specific subject boring or difficult to overcome that obstacle with a simple facial recogntion. This technology could help save students who struggle with schoolwork and manipulate the task to be a more understandable one.
In summary, using this advanced computer system can help individuals feel better, in the last parapgraph the author mentions, "By the way, did making a happy face in this experiment make you feel happy? According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, movjng your facial muscles not only express emotions, but also may even help produce them.". This is the technology that could be put to good use in order to maybe even help people feel beter when using it in different activities. The task that these new materials and ideas can perform are a gateway to new discoveries. | 3 |
1fdb506 | Everyone has at less had one car in there life time no matter how yes it was or how old or ragidy it was it was a car that was poluting our air and giving off greenhouse gas. Now I would now what i whould do with out my car but then again there are some berifits or advantages you would have if you didnt own a car.
We can start off on now much money you would save if you did have a car. Think about gas is about what $2.99 now right? Or lets just say your driving minding your own bessnious and some edeit rams in the back of your new Nisson 2015 car and oh lord i dont think you want to talk about how high you insurents would go up. People in Vaudan and in most of France don't even have cars 70 percent to be exact. Now its not like a law that they can't have veicals just alot of people choose not to have one. How ever if you do own a car you will have pertty much no where to put it. Street parking,driveways and home garages are actally forbidden in some areas. If you still really really want your car you have only two places to put it. One in a large parking garage at the edge of the development or two you can buy a space for $40,000 along with a home. If you never had a car you wouldn't have to spend all that money on gas,insurents,getting your car repaired/fixed,and a parking spot. That's why 57 percent of people sold there car when they moved to Vauba.
The biggest advantage you would have if you didnt own a car is that you will be giving back to mother earth. Cars are responsible for 12 perect of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and 50 percent in some car intensive areas in the United States. Cars can also be more stress then there worth having. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter. What do you think scards you the most when your dive? Getting in a car crash and seriousaly injuring yourself or worse die on inpacked right? Why don't you save the stress and the fear. Just give up you car. I know what your think what if i work far away etc? Just take the bus or better yet ride a bike to where ever you need to go or walk get some exercise and brake a little sweat. Or just take one day that we all not us own cars to just see how life would be. That's how BOGOTA got started in Colombia. They have been going it for 3 straight years. There are 7 million cizins people walked,hiked,and even skated. The only vehicals that where permitted where buses and taxis and if it rained it didn't stop them participating. Why can't we do that just for one day? If everyone just took one day that using cars I think i would make a big change.
There are many advantages we all would have if we all didn't have a car but I know it will take time for all of us to make that disitoin but hopful its soom before its to late for us and for the world. | 4 |
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One great reason to join the program is that if you enjoy seeing the delighted faces of a person in need after they have recieved something that could help them live a better life, you can now! After the devastating World War 2 many countries are in ruins. They have lost their food supplies, animals, and more. You can help them recieve new livestock if you join the Cowboys today! Another wonderful reason to join the Seagoing Cowboys is adventure! The Cowboys travel overseas to deliver the animals. It takes about two weeks to reach your destination. Imagine all excitement a two week passage will bring! The last reason that the Seagoing Cowboys are for you is the places you will visit. Seagoing Cowboys isn't all work. You and fellow crew members can play baseball and volleyball after you drop off the animals. You may also play table-tennis, fencing, and boxing. Crewmen like to read or whittle, too. Cowboys may visit many exciting places. Some visit China. Others visit all of Europe! I, Luke, visited the Acropolis in Greece. It was marvelous! I also visited Venice, Italy. Riding in a gondola because the streets are water was quite enjoyable! Visting an exacavated castle in Crete and marveling at the Panama Canal was wonderful! If you want to visit these places like I did join the Seagoing Cowboys.
Are you ready to care for those in need? Are you craving adventure? Are you ready to explore the world? Well, nows the time. Come join the Cowboys and I promise you wil pursue these dreams. Being a Cowboy will make you aware of people in other countries. Being a Cowboy will give you adventure and a chance to explore. I promise you will cherish the memories you make as a Cowboy. Now, what are you waiting for? Come join the Seagoing Cowboys today! | 4 |
1fdd140 | In the article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author presents themself really well with claims backed up by strong evidence. Venus has a lot of similarities with Earth, but hasn't been reserached enough throughout the years which needs to change in order for the future to be able to pursue their goals. The author makes a clear point in the article and supports their text with evidence to prove why society has the chance to research further into Venus and find out so much more about our neighboring planet. Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because of the similarities we share among them, the close distance between us, and the history that Venus has had which could've possibly "supported various forms of life."
First, Venus and Earth share a lot of similarities within themselves. "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too." Also, many years ago, there are speculations that Venus was probably full of oceans and could suport many different types of life, just as Earth was too. Many people may argue that since it was awhile ago, it can be completely different now which is true, but the author explains themself perfectly because they add that it still shares many features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. Lastly, although the temperatures differ between the two planets, the author provides a great alternative to hover 30 miles above the surface of Venus. This way, people are still in contact with Venus, but remain safe with the conditions that they have put themselves in.
Furthermore, the close distance between Earth and Venus make it a lot easier for travel and research. Although that they are still far distances away, it is very close when comparing planets, and the convienence of being close provides the chance of quality research, and possibly visiting in the near future. "Because Venus is sometimes right around the corner--in space terms--humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world." None of the spacecrafts survived more than a few hours, but that quote should motivate and challenge the workers and future workers of NASA to hopefully get the working pieces together to form a spacecraft that can survive long amounts of time.
Lastly, since Venus once could've supported various forms of life, the possibility to be able to support life again is quite high. With the right tools and research, we as a society can make an effort and use our curiosity as motivation to fight to be able to obtain life on Venus. With the surplus amounts of valleys, mountains, and craters that it has today, humans should not fear Venus for the fact that we have these features on Earth as well. The author once again provides a great statement because providing knowledge that both planets have similarties is crucial, and may even be a reason to explore and research further into Venus.
In conclusion, the author supports the idea of studying Venus as a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents well because of how close the two planets are, the many similarities that both planets share, and also the history of Venus once supporting life. With the right research, dedication, and curiosity, the future of possibilities for studying Venus or even traveling there is endless. | 5 |
1fe34e0 | All of you look at the face on the moon all the time but there is more than just the moon with an face on it. Well, the planet im talking about right now is Mars. Scientist believe that rocks just so happened to form an object that looks like an human face, also they do not think that the alien theory is correct. Others think that alien life on mars is possible. Im going to tell you why the scientist are correct, and why the media is incorrect.
Scientist believe that this cannot be alien artwork because they are certian it is an Mesa they say these mesa's where very common alll around Cydonia. Also this was said to be form by multiple shadows giving away illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. Fortunantly NASA got in the news, the paper, magazines, books, talk shows, and TV!
The media is incorrect becuase they aren't as able to go in a deep as the scientist can the media [people in america] can only use the resoures they as scientist has th right equipment to get the job done. Also if there was some kind of aliens they be very far we would have been able to see the aliens establishment.also there would be evidence baount movement if it was created by aliens they must've been strong to be able to haul all of those rocks. One more thing is education none os these people are just trained every day on how to use these machines it are lots and lots of hardwork and dedication. People have to go to college to get an degree on this very complicated work that is done by these specialy picked scientist.
So, in the end the scientist were scientificly right because there is lots of Mesa's around Cydonia. Also scientist got a little bit of and bebifit by being noticed in social media. The media were incorrect be cuase there was not alot of resoures the media could use unlike the scientist [or people that research at NASA] withc have all of the equipment they need to get the job done. Also education not every citizen is tought how to use these machines even if they do have them. Even more evidence from the alien establishment and/or tracks to lead to this creation. | 3 |
1fe666e | Imagine joining a Seagoing Cowboys program. This would not only be awesome, but it would be useful. You should join the Seagoing Cowboy program because it's and expierence, you get to visit many places, and you are helping people.
Now, this is an amazing expierence. You may be thinking,"This is a boring expierence," But, it's not. This is such a great expierence because of all of the things you get to do. You get to take care of cattle, store food, and of course, travel. You will probably get to see many awesome places. Now, this leads me to my next paragraph.
So, the next wonderful reason why you should join is beacuse you get to travel to different places along the way. You probably are wondering,"I thought this was supposed to help you," and it is. This still helps you because along the way you get to learn about new things, and see new things like Europe and China. After you join this program, you will probably never want to leave.
Finally, one of the most importanat reasons for joining the Seagoing Cowboys is that you are helping other people. You may think,"I thought this was about us having a good time," which it is, but you also are doing this to help people. You are doing this to help the people who's houses and towns have been ruined in World War II, this is why you are caring for the cattle, storing the food, and doing all of the traveling. This is obvioulsly the best trip you will ever take in your life.
Obviously, this is a great expierence, your visiting places, and you are helping people, but you are also, having a LOT of fun along the way. Of course you only get to have this fun and excitement if you joing the Seagoing Cowboys program. Why don't you make a difference while having a lot of fun, isn't it what you've always wanted? | 4 |
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