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1fe9c77 | "Eckman has classified six basic emotions—happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness—and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles." Being able to associate muscle movements throughout ournface with the true current emotion someone has seems to be impossible, by the Facial Actiom Coding System can attest to that. The Facial Action Coding System could revolutionize the way classrooms are run and impact schools in a great way by altering the way classes are run based on students emotions. It would be a great idea to have this system installed as a classroom computer because it could modify the lesson for students based on their understanding, teachers can detect the truth of students emotions about the class, and it can help students better their emotions or see for themselves how their emotions seem to be.
Having this facial expression reading system installed in classrooms can benefit many classes with better understandings. “Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor [based on the students emotions].” Detecting how students truly feel about the lesson could be a big help in how classrooms run. For instance, if the majority of the class is sensed to be confused about the lesson, teachers are then able to see that they need to spend more time on it or reevaluate how they are teaching the lesson and slow it down. If the computer senses that the class is bored, they may not learn as well if they don't care about what they are learning so the teacher could possibly change up the class with a game. Overall it could greatly benefit classes as a whole.
This computer can help teachers and they way they run the class and teach the lesson as well. Teachers could use this technology as a baseline for themselves to see how their classes react and feel about the way they run their class. “A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,” Dr. Huang predicts. This would greatly benefit students as well because no students want to tell their teachers that they hate the way their class is run and be honest with them. This would give teachers true insite about their class and would want to make it as beneficiary to students as possible. If teachers saw that students weren't enjoying their class they could altar it in some way to make it better for everyone.
This system being installed in classrooms could also help students see what their emotions look like and possibly make them better. If students knew what their emotions looked like outside of themselves, it could be a big eye opener for them to see what they may seem to be like and that they may not know themselves. "According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them." If students saw how their emotions looked and they weren't good they could try to change them which studies show actually could change them by just having different facial expressions. This could help all students if they were mad or sad and it detected that, they could put a smile on their face which may actually help better their emotions.
The Facial Acting Coding System is a great idea to put into classrooms that could better everyone as a whole class as well as individually. It would be an amazing idea because it could modify the lesson for students based on their understanding, teachers can detect the truth of students emotions about the class, and it can help students better their emotions or see for themselves how their emotions seem to be. Every teacher would run their classroom to make it as beneficial to students as possible if they could and with this installed into classrooms, it could happen. The Facial Acting Coding System would change classrooms for the better and help teachers and students expedentially. | 5 |
1fea416 | The technology presented in the article is quite impressive and very useful. Although there are many good uses for this tech I don't believe it should be used in a schooling environment. Granted there are many pros to using it. These can include knowing when a student is bored and changing the lesson to something more exciting, or finding out when a kid is infuriated and ready to explode. Also this technology could potentially prevent school shootings by finding out the emotions a student might have. I believe the issue boils down to the lack of privacy students would be feeling and the discomfort of knowing we're being watched.
As a student the thought of always being watched a monitored concerns me. As a teen we sometimes keep our emotions hidden like secrets, and want them to stay that way. The lack of privacy would feel immense. In my opinion the pros and cons have a distinct balance. I would feel safer knowing that the kids on a short fuse would be known about, and worried cause the technology would be violating my privacy.
Really I don't think this technology should be used in a schooling environment. I think the comfort gained by knowing school shootings could be prevented is shot when my privacy comes into question. I think there are many uses for this technology and that many advancements can come from it, but it just doesnt belong in a school. | 3 |
1feabe5 | You're keeping your eyes on the road, making sure nothing goes wrong, but isn't that what your fancy car is supposed to do for you? You feel as though you're being watched. That's because you are. You're sitting doing nothing bored out of your mind when you could be cruising down the road, feeling the wind in your hair, feeling completely in control. But you're not. At this point in time, driverless cars are more trouble than they are worth. They are also taking away the comfort and safety that drivers today have become accustomed to.
Throughout the years, there have been many attempts and advances made toward the production of driverless cars. These attempt have not been successful thus far. The driverless cars that have been made are not even truly driverless. They still require the attention of a human. One great idea these car manufacturers had was to make smarter roads, but that is something that would take many years and a lot of money that people just don't have. In paragraph 9 of the article, it describes how there would have to be laws written and passed for this all to work out and lawmakers "know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers." This shows that lawmakers are not particularly eager to make this happen and without them it won't happen.
Another reason why the project of creating driverless cars should not be continued is that it would be taking away the comfort and safety that drives today are used to. Even though drivers would not be in complete control of the cars they still "must remain alert and ready to take over when the situation requires." What is the point of having a driverless car if people are still forced to make sure the car is safe? This might even cause fear among drivers because sometimes people feel safest when they are completely control and they know others are as well, but with driverless cars they would not have that security. Sometimes it's even a comfort to people to be able to cruise down the road knowing they can take themselves anywhere they want to go. Even if they weren't afraid they would at least be bored out of their minds like everyone is on road trips. The article also describes how "the car watches the driver." Horror movies and tv shows all have illustrated how much people dislike feeling like they are being watched. Not to mention, there are people out there who can hack the cameras in cars and people would never really be sure that the people watching them have their best interests. In paragraph 9 the article also proposes the issue of possible conflicts arising if someone if injured in said driverless cars. Who would be at fault? This would be yet another issue courts would have to deal with when they already have so much on their plates.
Although there are many reasons why driverless cars should not be produced, there are many positive things that could possibly occur if they did exist. Sergey Brin forsees that half of the fuel used in cars today would be used for these cars and there would be more flexibility than buses, but there is no solid proof. It is very possible that instead of roads being full of buses the roads are cramped with cars and traffic would be unbearable. Also, buses typically use less fuel because they are carrying around people that would have used more fuel in seperate cars. Driverless cars have also been proven to go a million miles without crashing, but did these cars have destinations in highly populated areas with many other driverless cars around them? It's impossible to know for sure that this fact means anything without have the proper conditions accounted for. The article also says that the cars could have built in entertainment systems, but wouldn't that just distract the driver from the road? They are supposed to be "alert and ready to take over" at all times.
Overall, the continued research and production of driverless cars would be so much work and money used when there is already a safe system in place. Without driverless cars people won't have to worry about things changing or fear for their safety. They can just contiue to live their lives as they have for years. The article says that safety is the most important thing. If that is true, the world is better off without driverless cars. | 5 |
1ff00d8 | Cars have been used for as long as we can remeber. They have made traveling a whole lot easier. You may be surprised about how many citizens are no longer using a car to get to places. Three advantages of limiting car usage are less pollution,more time and healty life,and it improves safety.
To begin with cars have givin us both advantages like faster traveling time but they have also given us disadvantages. Most of us can agree that cars have caused some of the pollution that we have now. The cold nights and warm days have caused th car emissions to be traped in our atomsphere. In Paris,one of the biggest capital has a big amount of cars that nearly had a new record of pollution. Acording to
Elisabeth Rosenthal, from the new york times "passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe."
Research has also found out that Paris have more smog then any other European capitals. After not using their cars the smog quickly reduce. In the capital of France congestion was 60 percent down after five-days of being unable to use their cars.
Another thing that is also giving us a more healty live and more time.
"Rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic" according to Andrew Selsky, from the seattle times.
A businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza said "
It's a Good opportuinty to take away stress and low air pollution."
Parks and sports centers are now starting to get bigger and appear more through the city. More people have also started using the sidewalks or get on a bicycle. Malls are now closer, leaving you able to walk to it. You can now hear the swishs of bicycles and children talking instead of the sounds of cars.
Last of all,it improves safety of many people. Since there are less cars on the street there are less chances of car crashes. Parents can know be less worried about their child being run over. Car crashes caused by drunk drivers are also less liklely to happen. People now take public transportations or car-pool with friends making it more safer.
In conclusion, car have been around for a long time. They have givin us advantages and disadvantages. There are many advantages towards limiting car usage. Three of these reasons are less pollution,more time and healty life,and it improves safety. | 3 |
1ff02e8 | Studying a planet called Venus is worthy pursuit but it is dengrous. As we have seen in the paragraph exploring Venus can teach us alot of things and there is alot of things that we can learn in Venus like if there is a life in there or if we can grow something there but no man have put his foot on it because it is too dengrous and too hard to go over there.
As we seen in the first paragraph Venus, sometimes called the "Evening Star" because it is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. Venus is also known as Earth's "twin" since it is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size. Venus is sometimes right around the corner and humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world. Each pervious mission is no man which mean just airplane or robot because no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours, that is the reason the no man have ever step on it. For others reason it is too hot even though Mercury is closer to our sun. The averange on the planet surface is 800 degrees which can kill us and it has greater pressuer than earth. It is 90 times greater than earth. The others reason is that it has powerful earthquakes,erupting, and frequent lightning steikes to probes seeking to land on its surface. To get over there NASA is trying to make thing that can land on the planet and stay for a very long time, so that they can explore.
So alot of our people are trying to go to Venus but it is challenging. They are trying and become stronger. Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited b dangers and adoubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 2 |
1ff2705 | The author is answering rather or not if humans going to Venus is worth the dangers it presents. The author thinks that yes, we should go to Venus because it will meet the very edges of are imaginations, curiosity, and we are making machines that will last longer on Venus.
The first reason the author gave us on why we should land on Venus is that it will meet the very edges of are imaginations. What the other means by this is thed human body is always thinking about what is out there in space. By putting humans on Venus this can give us an answer to are imangination and maybe make us think even more about what is out there.
Not only does the author say it will meet the very edges of are imaginations he also says "Striving to meet the challenge presented by it will meet the very edges of are imaginationsenus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity. What the author means by this is he is showing that we are never not wondering. We will always be wanting to do something that will answer a question that we have. For example, "i wonder what this book is about". what you would do is read the book. Just like how we wonder what Venus is like. We want to land on it.
The last reason the author gave to us is that NASA is making more machines to be able to handle the weather on Venus. In the text it says "Many researchers are work on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus". By the author saying this hes menaing that sinse we have more machines that can make it to Venus we can now learn more about to be able to send humans to that planet.
So by the author giving us all these reasonf he thinks that yes, we should go to Venus because it will meet the very edges of are imaginations, curiosity, and we are making machines that will last longer on Venus. | 3 |
1ff3b4f | The technology is valuable for many reasons. One of the reasons being is that the latest innovation is being used to make it. A second reason is because it can make characters in video games seem more expressive. It would be better for humans that can not talk.
Reading students facial expressions could help see if they need help or go to the councilars office. Using this technology teachers can use it to see if their students are confused or lost while doing their work. If a student is angry it can read their facial expression then the teacher could send them out into the hall.
The technology could even possibly know when a fight is about to happen between two students reading their facial expressions. Empathy can happen when using this technology. It can be used to see if someone is lying or telling the truth. Lastly it can be used to conduct a classroom. If a student is tired the teacher would know to wake them up. | 2 |
1ff3c5d | So obviously by reading the title in this excerpt, you can infer that this whole passasge is about Venus. How close, conditions there, and other basic backround knowledge. Why would the author want to include this? Because this excerpt is about the possibility and dangers of exploring Venus up close and personal. The author, in this passage, provides good detail, and opinion, causing me to agree with said author that Venus should be explored.
Like I said in the intro he starts of by painting a picture in your mind about what scientists at NASA are dealing with here. First, he gives you some relatable information about it. That to the normal human looking up at the sky, it's just a very bright star that's actually a very close planet. Then he proceeds to provide on some technical facts about condidtions. He says, " A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus...On the planet's surface, temperature average over 800 degrees Farenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet."
To persuade someone something this big, you have to give reasons for them to care. Good ones too. So the author did just that. He explains many reasons why a mission to Venus whether it be manned or unmanned should be sent to Venus. He claims that the reward outweighs the risk. Do keep in mind this is a planet at an of average 800 degrees Farenheit. Well he explains that the planet might've once been like our home. That a variety of creatures must've once called Venus home. There is convience in the fact that it is very close and space travel is very long and that it's surface has some barren natural structures and valleys similar to that of the Arizona and Nevada region.
He also gives ways or really one way to go about doing this. In the passage he reminds the reader that the surface temperature is an average 800 degrees. He also needs you to remember about the atmosphere containing acid-like forms melting metal in minutes. Basically, the surface is the no-no zone. So how do you do it? He mentions the idea of having an aircraft vehicle, sort of like a blimp to go ahead and stay up in the air avoiding the hellish conditions of the ground. There is still some risk but overall a lot safer. He also gives the idea of fully mechanical machines to calculate as it takes steel metal longer to melt. All the while making you confident in the idea of an mission to Venus with these ways or concepts in mind for the sake of science.
So in conclusion if the author's goal was to persuade me, he definitaly persuaded me. He provides evidence to convince you there is a way, he convinces you that there is something to be had in Venus, while also telling you to beware as it could go wrong in a lot of ways for us. | 4 |
1ffa5d3 | Do you have car? could live with out your car? there a new trend going on. In a few citise around the world are not using cars. some people may ask,what are the perk of not using car. One of these perk is it help pervent smog. The other is that we emit less greenhouse gas emission.
In the U.S we dont' get smog for car. we tend even to hear about smog at all. But paris that another story. They banned the uses of personal automobiles just so they could reduce the amount of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter. Compare to brussel which is 114 (PM) and london which is 79.7 (PM).The best city to compare paris smog to is beijing because just like them the smog is very visble. Once your able to see smog by just looking outside that not a good sign. It then becomes unheathy just to breath the air around you. Would want to live in a city where all you see is smog?
GreenHouse gass emission is a very known topic today. Car produce this gass which add to globel warming. Theren other thing that cause this like buring tree,fossil fueland other thing. But car are responsible for 50 percent of greenhouse as in U.S.,because car are the main way of transportation. If we limited our car uses like in Vauman how they only one road to get to a tran to ther downtown. If we could do that in america we could cut down our greenhouse emission by half.
What are the point in have a car when then ther con out weight ther pro. All they really give us is smog and more greenhouse gass emission then we already have. We could just walk to place we need to go even take a bus or taxi. So what reason do we have to have car? If we don' t use car we help the city and world we live in. | 3 |
2005423 | Driving vehicles is a easy way to transport, but on the downside it is effecting the air in a very bad way. Every day people are driving cars and trucks knowing that it pollutes the air but are doing nothing to stop it. If everybody stopped driving vehicles the world would be a much healthier place and much safer too. This is because the burning of fossil fuels pollutes the air, and brings harm to pedestrians when there is a unexpierenced or drunk driver. A good way to prevent this from happening is to get a bunch of people or even everyone to quit driving.
Though driving is an easy means of trasportation so is riding a bike, a skateboard, walking, running, all these things can get you to your destination. Yes these things will take longer but it will also be a good exercise and will not be polluting the air. Not only is it polluting the air but it is also a very expensive way of transportation because you pay for the car then all the gas it takes to get from one place to another. Every year the world should have a week of no driving so the air can clear up and to show everyone that they are making a big mistake driving every single day to get to work or go pick up groceries.
In Vauban, Germany they have a suburb with nearly 5,500 residents that live car-free! These people try to keep their environment as clean as possible. In the article "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal she said "Automobiles are linchpin of suburbs, where middle-class families from Chicago to Shanghai tend to make their homes..." This meaning that to many people are relying on cars and need to stop to help us, to help earth. | 3 |
2009f18 | I would not be against the idea of this because it could actually help one when they show a specifc expression on their face. In the article, it already shows what the Mona Lisa was expressing when she was being painted by Leonardo da Vinci. I think that showing our expressions could actually make others think you're happy, but also sad, angry, disgusted, fearful,
or surprised. These expressions mostly depend on the muscle of the face like the frontalis pars lateralis or the orbicularis oris. These specifc muscles in the face is what giveaway the expressions of what we are feeling.
In this article, Dr. Huang observes how, "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression." People perform the same "calculation" every day when we see someone. You can already tell how your friend is feeling just by looking at the face and observing the facial expression they are making. Artist Leonardo da Vinci, however, studied human anatomy to help paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey that specifc emotion. Dr. Huang says that he himself stored a similar anatomical information as electronic code.
This would make this idea very valuable to students in a classroom. This could also be used to understand the muscle of the face to show what expression people could be making nowadays. This could also produce emotions instead of just "using" the same one every day. Actors could also learn more about the muscle of the face whenever they are in a play. This knowledge could help others know about the face. | 3 |
200c863 | Venus is a worthy pursuit depite the dangers because in the article
¨The challange of exloring venus¨ that says that many reaseachers are working on inovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of venus ans it wont be dangerous. i believe that the people who are trying to go to venus or sent something to venus should do it because you never know what other kids of things are out there and if we dont try news things we wont discover new stuff .
one reason we should try to go is only becuase of the insight to be gained on the planet itself but also because humans curisoity will likely lead us into many eqaully intimdating endeavors and if they have doubt that their nort going to make well the new inovations that wont hurt us and it will now longer be dangerous . | 2 |
200d3eb | Emotions may be hard to understand sometimes, but they are still vital in everyday life so that we as humans can communicate how we are feeling with each other. It is especially vital for teachers to know how their students are enjoying the lesson. With modern technology that can read emotions, teachers may be able to better understand their students, and create a lesson that is fun for everyone.
From an emotion test taken on the Mona Lisa, Professors Thomas Huang, and Nicu Sebe detected the lady's exact emotions based on what is portrayed in the painting. According to the technology, she is "83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearfuk, and 2 percent angry." This technology used on a classic Renaissance painting could be used in schools to help teachers better understand the students, and therefore help to make the class fun for every one. In the article it gives the example of a class room computer recognizing when a student is bored or confused, then modify the lesson to fit that person's personality.
All in all, this sort of technology that can read emotions would be helpful for schools because it could help students understand their school work better, and in turn help them do better in school. | 2 |
200ea48 | I think the use of techology than can read the emotional expressions of students in classroom is valuable. Technology would be able to make see and predict more student's emotions. Knowing the emotions of students would allow changes to be made in the teaching of individual students. With technology, classrooms would be more effiecient, have better test scores and grades and would allow for a better development in education.
Using technology would help teachers see what method of teaching would be best for their classroom, based on feedback given from technology. If teachers would use technology in the classroom, they could make changes in the way they teach their students, allowing better efficiency in the classroom. With better efficiency less time could be spent learning and more strengthening of what students know.
Technology would also help classrooms have better grades and do better on tests. This would be possible by seeing the students that are bored or confused. With students that are learning better and understanding more, their grades are sure to increase, as well as their test scores.
Technology would also help better develop education. With feedback from technology and a change in teaching styles, education as a whole could be changed. The change would consist of a better ability to teach students in the time they get with the teacher. And a better understanding in students of what they learned.
Technology to read emotional expressions in classrooms would be valuable. Classrooms would have better grades and test scores, be more efficient and allow for a development in education. Technology used in classrooms could also help scientists better develop uses for technology in other parts of life. Classrooms would better as a whole. | 3 |
200f74f | Being a seagoing cowboy might be the best thing to join into. You get to travel around the world. You also get to a tour around the country your at. If you decide to join the seagoing Cowboys you get to have fun with your fello cowboys. These are some reasons why you should join the seagoing cowboys.
The program helps countries torn by World War II by bringing them cattle,horses,ect. Once they get there,They give the animals to citizens who need food to keep going. So after they're done,They get to sightsee the countries famous architectures and religious temples or churches,ect. Done with all their jobs,the cowboys go back to the ship and play some games and sports.
What was once the cattle and horse stables was now a tennis court. You can see cowyboys enjoying their free time and playing baseball and volleyball. They also chat with each other. They get home to their families and get rest for their next trip. In conclusion,Being a seagoing cowboy is on of the best programs to pretisipate in. | 2 |
200fcf4 | In the passage "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" explains why the exploration of Venus is a worthy pursuit even though there are dangers. As stated in the article Venus which is reffered to as Earth's "Twin" would be most suitable for life on another planet. There are risks of taking the exploration to Venus such as a successful landing and and harsh tempatures, but if you look at the upside of potential life on a new planet the pros out weigh the cons on the oppurtunity to explore Venus.
The author supports the idea of exploring Venus for potential life by explaining how Venus is the "Most Earth-like in our solor system." Signs of water on Venyss from long ago could have supported many forms of life on Venus. The passage also says "Today, Veneus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth." which shows the simililarities to the planets. Which also ties into how Venus is the closest planet to Earth with the features it has.
The other side to why we should continue our exploration on to Venus is because we have the technology in today's world that is advanced enough to get to Venus. NASA has shown they have the technology to last on the surface of the earth for 3 weeks which is a great start to exploring the surface of the planet. NASA also came up with the idea of "Allowing scientist who go to Venus to float above the fray." which means the scientist would be in Venus but they wouldn't be on the surface. That would allow the scientists to get a a bird's eye view of what Venus is like.
With strong evidence like how closely Venus is related to Earth and the technology we have on Earth to get us to Venus the author is able to make a good arguement and support the exploration of Venus. The Pros such as a new potential of life, and the exploration of a new planet out weigh the cons which are cost and, the danger of landing on Venus.
Therefore the support the author used, makes the exploration of Venus a claim that has evidence behind it to support his idea. | 2 |
2012c2f | Dear Senator,
I think we should change the election to popular vote for the president of the United States. It seems very unfair to the president who got the most votes from the citizens but lost the votes of the Electoral College. If the majority of the citizens voted for president 1 but president 2 won then a lot of people will be upset. It will cause many things to happen. It's better to have just a few hundered people upset than a few thousand people mad. Either way someone will be upset, but which would you rather?
In some states, more people may vote one president 2 so all the votes for president 1 won't be counted. Those few votes for president 1 could have made a change in the popular votes. It may not seem like they would make a change but it will. Yes those votes will be on the presidency votes but the Electoral College votes will be the votes that make the diference.
People vote for the president that they believe will help them and the whole United States in a positive way. Imagine living when schools were segregated and you wanted to desegregate schools. One president offers to keep segregation in schools and the other president offers to desegregate. You would vote for the second president, right? Then that president won the presidency votes but lost the votes for the Elector College. You, like many others who chose the same president, would be upset. The schools will stay segregated. Many arguments about desegregation may start. If the Electoral College didn't exist then a lot of people would be happier. The schools would be desegregated. Everyone, no matter what color their skin is, would have an equal opportunity to education. | 2 |
201523b | In the article the author talks about the ups and downs of getting to know venus as a planet and having human life live their.
Now, even though their are good parts about exploring venus there are many bad and dangerous parts about venus. Like for example, in the begining of the article the author talks about how, every mission was unmanned because, they couldn't even surive on the planet for no longer than a few hours. Also , they even talk about how Venus has a thick atmosphere of nearly 97 percent carbon dixide and thatn just blankets venus.This tells us that we have a less chances of even surving on venus. Venus weather is also horrible their teamputer averge is over 800 degrees, they have things like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes , and frquent lighting strikes. I know that these are things that happen on earth nearly everyday or every now and then but, with all that plus the heat ; we might not even be able to surive on there. The author does talks about how we and ahve a ship orbiting or hovering over the planet safely but, researchers wouldn't be able to take
samples of rocks,gas, or anything. So,what would be the point of even going down there if we can't even really explore it.
The postive things about venus, is one: Venus is already one of our
sister planet and is referred to as Earth's "Twin." It is the closest in distance, size ,destiney, and it even the most Eart-like planet in our solar system. So, we do have many things alike that well help [people feel better about even getting to explore venus. Another, thing is that in the article the author states that "we havent touched Venus in more than." Meaning that we don't know what down there things could have changed drasctically we would never know. The authour also includes, how the planet has a rocky surface of sediment and has many features such as valleys, mountains and craters; plus Venus was proplaby even cover in largely oceans that could have supported many forms of life.The author use these facts to show us what we can benfit form exploring venus.They evne put in how NASA is compeling the idea of sending researchers down to study Venus. The last thing the aouthor states is how we should'nt keep our limits small just becuase were afraid of the dangers that migh happen but we should expand them and think of them as challenges too.
So,include Venus can be a worthy of studying and exploring. Just with a little more reseacher and better technogly; the authour shows us that we might actually have a chance of living on venus. | 4 |
2019908 | "What is the
Electoral college?
In the history, talk electoral college. The electoral college consists of the selection of the eletors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice president, and the couting of the electoral votes by congress.
also, the electoral cogelle consists of 538 electors. a majority of 570 electoral votes is requiered to elect the president.
According with the test, i agree because all the candidates generally hace responsabilities . so, they need to demostrate to the people that them can have good ideas for the state. then the people need to have a vote for the best candidate for that can pass to be the new president of the state. each candidate have many obligations with the state the obligation president is better the state. one "evidence is each candidate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors"
in conclusion, i think that is good be president of a state but a president have many obligations that to accomplish. | 1 |
201c1ab | i believe that smart cars, or driverless cars, are a thing of the future. only the future.
smart cars seem like a good idea to some, mostly the people that can not drive, due to handicap.
the cars wouldnt be driving themselves, they would only do simple tasks. such as, steer, accelerate, and brake. humans can do all of that, and more, just fine. the cars "heads up display" can work miracles. yet, if the driver isnt paying any attention to them, then the whole thought goes down the drain.
if one of these "smart cars" where to get in a road accedent, would it be the manufacturers or the drivers fault. i beileve that it would be the manufacterers fault. if the car has a faulty sytem. then there may be more danger in these cars, than any good. Also, google had announced its first smart car accident, March 1st, 2016. thankfully no one was hurt, but it just shows these cars are not perfect, by any means. | 2 |
201eeec | Do you love drive? Well some poeple do and they just don't like to drive every day to work.
first thing if people don't want drive they could just ride bike to work that help them with exerics. Also they don't know that the gas is ever high and they can't affored it and that why they walk or ride the bike.
Another reason is that 27 people had there can impounded or on side of the road becuase they ran out of gas. when you drive and you see your gas meter and it on the E and your car just stop and you about 2 miles form the gas stion and you have a gas can in the back but you don't want to walk and you know you need that gas so that you can get home you think,think,think and you said i'm walk and you get out the car get the gas can and go. and people don't like drive they can just ride the train to work or the bus becuase you don't really have to put gas in your can you just ride and get drop off were you work.
Next thing i should think that they should make sidewalk for people that want to walk to school,home,work,or freinds house. Well if they family want to go on a trip to see there grandma then they can take there car and go see her. And what ever car you got please look for the limit becuase some car drink gas and then you have to fill it back up again. If it was just less driveing they approach stores,and other thing that they can walk to. If you need a ride home you can call the tax and they will take you home and you really don't have to drive or put gas in the car.
I think people should stop drive becuase you really don't need to drive every day about 4,000 people don't have there license and the drive. if you drive and it cold you should trun a on the heat to low becuase heat will messup your emission. and that why i should think that people should walk stead of drive all the time.
We all the people should just say that Monday,Tuesday,Wensday we all should drive to school,work or where ever and Thursday,Friday,Saturday they should walk to work or take the bus. And that why the people should drive less. what you think? | 2 |
201f6a9 | I belive we should have driverless cars for many reasons. One reason is becuase like it said in the article " the he cars he foresses would use half the fuel of today's taxi" so we would using way less fuel so that would be saving people money.
Also people wouldn't have to buy cars anymore so people would be saving even more money then since we won't be buiyng cars anymore we won't have to worry about paying to get them fixed when they break down.
With less peo[le driving thier would be less wrecks becuase people wouldn't be doing stupid things like speeding and not paying attention. You also wouldn't have to worry about going to fast or going to slow. Many compine are working on making driverless card but they aren't totaly driverless. They have made cars that can back out for you and BMW has made a car that can drive it's self but also sometimes need human help for certain situation.
One of the main problems with getting driverless care is that its against the law to test them in some states. They would also have to get a law passed decinding wether the company or the person in the car is for blame if the car wrecks. i belive that we will have driverless cars one day. | 2 |
201fd9c | There are many advantages to a car but life could be easier without one. The world could be safer without cars, less pollution, less accidents.
Stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway. Cars also cause pollution, which can be deadly to the enviorment. Cars can create smog which could be prevented by having one car free day. People who have cars also are more stressed than those without cars. A car free city would most likely see parks and sports center bloom throughout the city and uneven pitted sidewalks replaced by broad smooth sidewalks. Rush hour restrictions would dramatically cut traffic and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up.
Americans would save so much money if they didnt buy a car. It seems as americans are buying less cars each year. Bill Ford laid out a business plan for a world in which personal vehicle ownership is impractical or undesirable. Changes are being made by people to limit the use of cars and its a great idea.
Life is much easier without cars. The world could be different and better if improvments are made daily and everyone contributes to limit the use of cars. Too much harm comes from using a car. | 2 |
202006a | The Facial Action Coding system is valuable for students. One reason is that we can see how diffrent people felt in diffrent important events. The second is that the computer can change up the learning method if they see that the student is getting bored with the way they are currently learning. The last reason is that it could keep students more happy throughout the day. This is a huge improvement to the school system.
The first reason that the Facial Code System would be valuable is that we can see how difffent people felt during important events. For example they showed us the Mona Lisa and the results from it. If we look at all the imprtant events and see pictures of these people then we can see how the people really felt during these events. For example the Mona Lisa. In the painting she is smiling but it was one of the first paintings of people smiling so maybe she could have been worried or sad, but the results stated for the most part she was actully happy.
The second reason is that the computer in a classroom coud see how we feel and if we become bored and uninterested. In paragraph 6 it states , " A classroom comupter could recogniz when a student is becominf confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective instructor." So overall we would learn better in the sense that it would switch up the lesson so that we woudl stay focused. It would keep us interested. Also overall we would learn the material faster since we wouldn't be procrastinating as much.
The final reason is that it could keep students more happy throiughout the day, In paragraph 9 in states, " According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emorion. moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions , but also may even help produce them." So if a student is not feeling well or is sad they won't learn as well. So the computer will sense then and give them a break or an activity that they like to do and their mood will increase. They will learn better because of it.
The Facial Action Coding system is valuable for students. The first reason reason is that we can see how diffrent people felt in diffrent important events. Secondly is that the computer can change up the learning method if they see that the student is getting bored with the way they are currently learning. The last reason is that it could keep students more happy throughout the day. This could be a huge improvement to the school system. | 4 |
20233ea | Emotion's, a common thing in every day to day life. Something to us that indicate quite easily, either being a guessing game, or knowing for a fact what they expressing. But can a computer compet against the human mind? After many of learning/performing the same task that a computer can do to figure human emotions and such? I think not!
First thing, I'll like to point that yes, Dr. Huang created a computer software to,"Precisely enough to convey specific emotions.", but you gotta think, computer can mess up. Emotion's can not only be indicated my facial expression, but also tone of the individual. Plus, is it really a big deal to spend money to figure out different peoples emtion when we can simple just look at them, and say, "Hey!
He/She looks quite upset.".
Secondly, I'll like to point out that, what the hassle to make a program, when a normal "Home PC can't handle the complex algorithms used to decode" emotions. This can even done even better by just looking at a mirror and just copying down their exact facial expression to figure out how they were feeling, and wasting time to encode and create a software to see different types of emotions that could possible fail at doing.
I'm not saying that computer shouldn't be able to perform task humans do always, like there are time where this can sorta useful. For example from the text,"Make computer-animated faces more expressive--for video games... communications." having some benefits. But just for seeing facial features for emotions, we could easily do that on our own.
So, can i computer can copet to the human to the human mind, to compet to figure out if someone either feels happy or said? Well, that's your desicion to decide that. But do remember, can a PC compet to us human ? | 3 |
2024044 | Venus will be a great planet to live on. Imagine if you could have a house on earth and one on Venus. There are alot of bad things about Venus. Also there is alot of good things about it to.
Some of those not so good facts from the passage will be no space craft survies the landing on venus for more than a few hours. It has a thickness atmosphere of almost a 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Verus.
Some more not so good facts about venus will be some of the clouds have highly corrosire sulfurie acid. Also on that planet surface temp is over 800 degrees ferhight. Then the atomspheric pressure is 90 times greater then what we experrence on our own planet. This may scare you away but dont let it do that. People is coming out with new things everday. It just takes time.
Venus was probably coverd with large oceans and could have supported varrious forms of life just like earth. Venus still has some features that are similer to earth. Temperatures would still be very warm at 170 degrees fahrenneit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. Radiation would not exceed Earth levels but survivable for humans. Old techtology called mechanical computers were first envisoned in the 1800 and played in 1940s during world war 2. It make calculations by using gears and levers and dont require electronic at all. Which on venus it will be some time intell electronic will be there. All in all, give it some time do some research study and some day we will be on venus. | 2 |
2027926 | Dear Florida State senator,
I am in favor of changing the election by popular vote for the president of the united states. Changing the election by popular vote is more efficient than the electoral college process. Inputing this into the political voting system would enhance the voting process making it less difficult to deal with, get rid of the electoral college and its faults, and get the U.S citizens opinion on who the president should be and not just the electors voting for the president.
As you are already of aware of, the electoral college is the process where it consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and the Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. By the explanation of what the electoral college is, you and I and many others can conclude that this process takes too much work;much more work than really does need to be put into place. Even though most Americans aren't aware of that when they are electing for their choice of the president they comprimise with the most, they are really voting for electors to vote who the next president will be. It's not fair and it's not right.
While reading an article about the electoral college(by Brad Plumer), I noticed that the electoral college system has numerous instances of it that make it wrong. While in place Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, and the U.S. chamber of commerce all agreed on abolishing the electoral college; And I compromise with this agreement because it is completely accurate and make sense as to why these political figures wanted to rid of the electoral college. This is called a "Disaster Factor" according to paragraph 11 in the article "The Indefinsible Electoral College" meaning that the state legislatures are literally responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people. How wrong is this? Also given that so many voter vote for one party for president and another for congress, the House of Representatives' selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people.
In source 3 of the article, it was very precise on as to why the electoral college should no take place. Our country has both republicans and democrats. Not all democrats have the same opinions as republicans, and not all republicans have the same thoughts as democrats. According to paragraph 15, the Electoral college is widely regarded as anachronism, which is a non-democratic method of selecting a president that should be overruled by declaring the candidate who recieves the most popular votes is the winner. This is not fair to people who are democrats. The electoral system is obviously based off of mostly and strictly Republican beliefs. The voting process should be based on just republican bias, but also democrat bias. It's as if the democrats thoughts mean nothing. Paragraph 19 made a claim that Republican bias is baed strictly off of the region in which on lives, because majority of Reoublicans live in the southern states of the U.S. This makes other people(No party, Democrats, etc.) that are inhabited in othe regoins of the U.S. feel disenfranchised and feel as if their votes do not count, that the new president will have no regard for their intrests, and that this person is not really their president.
The article gave me an outlook of what the electoral college really is and how it works. The electoral college is not a fair process at all, and it is way the complicated for the people involved in some political job that is involved with the president, it is hard on the citizens that live in this country that have an idea of what president they want to vote for, and it is hard on us as a nation. The election process should be changed by the process of popular vote of the country's citizens. The electoral college is unfair, outdated and irrational. The electoral college needs to be abolished as soon as possible. Please take this into high consideration.
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202b78d | This essay is about the story of a cowboy who rode the waves. It is also about reasons why you should join the program. It also is about details from the article to support Luke's claim.
These are some reasons why you should join the program. One reason why you should join is because it is fun. Another reason you should join is because you have alot of time so you can vist places you always wanted to vist.
This paragraph is about details from the article to support Luke's claim of joining. In paragraph 1 he said that it is an opportunity of a lifetime. Another reason is because he gets to ship cattle across the world to help people. The final reason is because you can go to places you have never been like China and those type of places.
This is the conclussion of this essay. So now you know why you should join the program of a cattle boat driver. Also now you know the reasons why Luke likes his job of a cattle boat driver. Also you know more about the cowboy who rode the waves (Luke). | 2 |
2036c27 | This author really wants to explor venus despite all the dangers there are. I feel like the author did have his own opinion of still exploring Venus, but he makes the danger sound so huge but tells it to us like it is not a big deal, and also came up with the idea of using technology to find out more about Venus.
Although Venus is the most Earth-like planet in our solar system we have to understand more about it and the consequences and danger of going there. If for example the astronaut really did want to explore the place he would have to know the safety of how it's like over there first or else his family member might not see him back home and would never see his discoveries. I personally feel like they should of said we will learn more about the safety and build things to protect the people going there and exploring instead of saying Venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author did catch my attention when they said they were going to create a machine, and I strongly like that idea but afterwards he was saying the explorer still had to be around thirty-plus miles above the ground making me feel like it is still dangerous with or without the machine. Like in this quote, "Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades."
In conclusion that is why I think the author did not really support his ideas, but overall I liked how he came up with different ideas during his research of how we are going to achieve the idea of reaching to Venus. | 2 |
203725b | You are going down the road and you see a car being driven by itself. How is that even possible? How does it know were to go and how does it avoid crashing? These are few of the many questions people will be asking sooner or later. There are many advantages to having driverless cars. What about you? What do you think would be the best thing to do?
Cars are a big part in this world. They take us to many different places but sometimes we do not make it to our final destenation. There are billions of car crashes around the world. Caused of drunk driving, texting, failing to do a stop, going over speed limit, not paying attention, and many other things.
These are things we can avoid by having driverless cars. These cars have a lot of technology that will be able to make us get home safe without being in any risk. You can relax and text while the car is taking you home. It is just like having your own chofer. You will not own, that way you can save a lot of money. Cars are really expensive. They can leave you in debt. With these driverless cars you will save so much money and use that money on something more usefull. Plus you would not have to worry about your car breaking down and trying to find a mechanic for it. People waste hundreds of dallors fixing their cars. You would not have to pay to fix these driverless cars.
They are not your responsibility. They will just take you to your destination safe and calm. This invention would make the world a better place. That is what we need. To make this world a better place. What do you think? Wouldn´t you want to avoid accidents? These were the reason why I think driverless cars are a great idea. | 3 |
20383c7 | Cars are becoming a must in today's society. In some places, people live and survive without a motorized vehical. People don't have to stop using cars altogether, but should be able to limit themselves to save of world from pollution creating a better environment to live in.
Some people don't understand the severity of pollution and how much cars contribute to that. Pollution is said to become Earths demise, whith cars producing and letting out so much smog, it seems as if the Earths demise could be near. According to Robert Duffer, Paris has "enfored a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." This evidence of Paris giving a partial ban shows how detrimental cars can have on Earth environment. Further examination reveals, a situtation where Bogota has even issued a " car-free day" stated by Andrew Selsky. This source shows us that with even one day without using a car could be a useful plan for all places. People of today don't need to not use their cars, just use their cars either less per day or per week.
Although some may say, we need cars to get to work or to go to the grocery store, they can always just use public transportation. Buses are already running even if you are in a car so why not use them instead of polluting the air even more. In Bogota, when they have their car-free day, most people either "hiked","biked", "skated" or "took buses" as a mean of transportation. More evidence shows a senario where the Environmental Protection Agency is encouraging a "car reduced" community, stated by Elisabeth Rosenthal. Resources such as this one shows that if the United States Evironmental Protection Agency is concerned about our pollution rate why shouldn't we? If we cut down on our use of cars, pollution rate can drop extremley down causing a better living environment.
When you stop to think why cars have become so prevelant, there is no exact reasoning. If we don't even know our exact reasoning for having a car, in a case that we can't rely on buses or our own two legs to provided why are we risking the safty of our Earth in order to use them? Cars aren't the slighest bit the problem, how and how often we use them is becoming the problem, if we limit our use of cars our advantage would be the single best thing in live, happiness and peace of life. | 4 |
203dcec | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author presents both positive and negative aspects of cars that drive themselves. Although, there are bountieous reasons why driverless cars are a good thing, there are also myriads of reasons as of why this could also be a bad thing. From upgrading roads to the invasion of privacy, driverless cars are not looking too good for the future.
The article mentioned "many futurists believed the key to developing self-driving cars someday wasn't so much smarter cars as smarter roads." What that piece is stating is in order to have smart cars or driverless cars the U.S will require "massive upgrades," hence the mention of smart roads.
The roads will need to have built in radio signals to send messages, in binary code, to the car, to alert the car of road conditions or any problems. In response to knowing this the author states that this was "simply too expensive to be pratical." So now that smart roads are out of the question, it is up to technology to teach the car human skills.
Technology is being used to help the cars "mimic the skill of a human at the wheel," as the article states. It has the proper sensors, but sensors alone could not possibly be enough. According to the article the cars are designed to notify the driver when the road requires human skills. Everything about driving a car on the road is a human skill, not to mention technology is known to have loop holes and gaps hidden throughout it. Statistics most likely shows that there are many ways to hack into the technology and change how a company programs their product to work. If it is not being hacked into, technology and the internet is also known to malfunction often, which could lead to innumerable amounts of incidents.
Another concern with driverless cars is invasion of privacy. The article mentions that while the driver watches the road, the car will be watching the driver. An issue with that would be that if the footage gets out and private information is shown in the footage will the company be held responsible. This could cause issues as identity theft and more to rise. Wanting to be sure that drivers are focusing on the road is one thing, but if it causes a stir with privacy that could potentionally be bad for the car companies and the people in charge.
My position of driverless cars is no technology could drive a car better than humans. Driving is a human activity, it started with humans and should end the same way. I do agree the world would use less gas, but I don't believe it is quite as safe as it seems. There are countries and people who are already in debt, we should be trying to help them out before we try to spend billions on smart roads. We also can not just rely on technology to keep us safe, there are already an aboundant amount of technology malfunctions going on, adding this to the equation would not help. Lastly, one that will probably have more of a concern with everyone would be privacy, I do not believe most people would feel safe knowing they are being watched as they are driving, and knowing that fact could even possibly make them unfocused. Driverless cars was a good idea, but I personally do not believe that anyone is ready for them. | 4 |
2042022 | Can we really use technology to help us with our emotion's in life? Well I think we should have technology because you never know what the object would do to make you feel better or calm you down in a bad situation. Well technology can be very useful when it comes being lonely, sad, or bored which tecnology can support you with all different ways to make you feel better.
There are a lot professer's who are trying to test out these technology to be safe and to support them in life. Some tested on the emotions of their face expression of how to tell how they are feeling toward in life. Some also tested ways to describe how they are feeling towards that person. Some technoogy that professor's tested on was the ad's that can help with there feelings by giving them a support in life. Finally their's one more that they tested on was the human communication of how people interact with each other and at the end the technology will give some hints,or tips that will support us in a way.
Technology can support us in a way we might think it doesn't do in life, but i it will help us in life wilth bad situation,or worst senario we have trouble. This might be a chance for you to understand why technology is good instead of losing your mind,lonely,or just need some one to support you when it's hard times to deal with in life. | 1 |
2047852 | Who likes driving? Everyone has once though of cars that drive themselves. Although it sounds good, Im against the development of driverless cars. Driverless cars can be risky, expensive, and its against the law. Its not worth fighting for.
First, driverless cars are too risky. It is dangerous to be in a vehicle that you can't control. If you were to be in a driverless car and something goes wrong do you even know what to do? Its like any other electronic that may need to be charged and things that charge have the possibility of blowing up. It's not like a motorized car with common mistakes it'll be something most mechanics haven't seen before, and would have to refer you to someone else who may be far and expensive.
Second, it would be very expensive. Smart cars are expensive and these are even smarter cars. In the article, it said "Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020." which are expensive branded vehicles and that makes driverless cars cost even more. The newer the more expensive. Also, if your driverless car needs repaired then it will be very expensive because not many mechanics will have the parts and the experience for these cars.
Last, because it's a law. It's a law for a reason and there must have been problems with this before for this law to have been put in place. In the article, it said, " In most states it is illegal to even test drive computer-driven cars" so why would they be safe to put on the road?
Although driverless cars sound fun, it is not worth it. I'm against driverless cars. Driverless cars can be risky, expensive, and they are against the law. These vehicles will cause havoc on the roads. Do not support driverless cars. | 3 |
204aeb7 | Limiting car usage is a great way for our pollution to decrease. With limiting cars we also will be able to walk place to place without being tempted to drive there.
Limiting car usage will clean up the pollution by a lot. There have been "efforts in the plast two decades to make cities denser." Some places have started to do that by limiting cars, and they have decreased the ammount of pollution where they live. Paris has "enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." They only did that because days have been so close to near record pollution. They had limited the days people can drive and only after five days the congestion was down sixty percent. If there is a decrease in pollution the air would be much cleaner to breathe for everything, plants, animals and most importantly us humans.
The other good side of limiting car usage is that we can use other ways to transport and enjoy the outdoors by doing that. We can ride bikes or even walk from point A to point B. New York has started a bike program and it is skyrocketing. People can ride them to work or anywhere they want to go. People say "the trend may accelerate. There has been a large drop in the percentage of young people getting there licenses. Young adults that are nineteen and twentyone have not bothered to get a license, even though they live in a place where it can come in hand most of the time. How they can get away with doing that is that they have summer jobs not to far so it is in walking distance. Some people have a car but choose other ways to travel from place to place. "Mr, Sivak's son lives in San Francisco and has a car but takes Bay Area Rapid Transit, when he can, even though that often takes longer than driving." There is other ways then taking a car.
Using other ways to transport is a good way to start cleaning up the areas yo live in. You can clean up the pollution dramaticaly. You can also just walk to where you want to go. If it's not in walking distance you can carpool, take a bus, or ride a bike. | 3 |
204b964 | In today's growing world to many it may seem as if living without a car would be impossible. Our ever evolving lifestyles and cultures though may prove otherwise. Across the globe it is becoming more likely for people to leave their car at home, and walk opposed to driving a short commuit. The benefits of this decision are incredibly impactful on the enviorment, improving human health and saftey, as well as on our, the people's bank accounts. Becoming a society nonrelient on cars will prove not to be easy, but justifiable when those three points are taken into account.
The effect that cars have on the enviorment is no suprise to most. If you turn on most news channels, global warming is talked about by the hour. Thus proving drastic measures need to be taken to secure our planet's future. What better way of doing so then by reducing the amount of greenhouse gas emitted into the atmosphere. Source one line five states "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." The article goes on to state in line seven our lives being centered around the use of cars will have to change. Our planet needs it's inhabitors to treat it with the same respect people do to the dignified, and a car free world is one way to do so.
By decreasing the number of people using cars as their mode of transportation good health and safety will soon be boosted across the globe. The effect of walking instead of drving will decrease obesity and increase positive moods. According to source one line 3 Heidrun Walter believes she is much happier and less tense without a car. If she a working women and mother of two can live without a car I find many other people could find ways to also. Limiting the use of cars would not only improve health but safety. By limiting cars you limit the amount of possible accidents. Whether an accident results from carelessness, accident, or intoxication there is no arguing the fact they take many innocent lives daily. By reducing the amount of car usage this will no longer be a major factor in the premature deaths of people. According to all four sources the idea of leaving cars parked in the garage at home, or choosing to live a car free lifestyle is catching on now more than ever. Personally I hope we soon have healthier, safer pedestrians.
In today's economy money is tight. People looking to save a dollar will justify almost all reasoning to do so. Throughout the world many countries have decided to become less relient on cars. By making cities more compact people are finding it very possible to live a life without cars. Imagine cutting the price of not only a car, but car insurance and gas out of your life. I can promise you your wallet would thank you. Source four line 35 states "We are witnessing a long term culture shift." The internet has made it possible to connect with friends and family without meeting face to face and because of this the use of cars is rapidly declining. Source four also states many of America's youth are declining the possiblity to be licesnced and drive. Suprisingly enough Mr. Sivak, a socialogist's children do not drive; their ages being in the early twenties. This is yet more proof of our ever evolving lifestyles.
Fellow citizens, at times our lives can deal us many unexpected difficulties that make living in this day and age problematic. Cutting out the use of cars however would not be one of them. Deciding against the use of cars would impactful the enviorment, improve human health and safety, and our bank accounts from draining. All four sources prove the possiblity of a car free society throughout the entire world. So my question to you is why not stop using cars now? The world and your future self will surely thank you. | 5 |
204f925 | Have you ever thought what is like to join seagoing cowboys? Well you could join Seagoing Cowboys like Luke Bomburger. If you ask Luke he could tell you what it is like but, Luke might want you to join the Seagoing Cowboys.
Luke has some reasons for you to join the program. one reason is you can help other. Also it opened his world i mean that luke saw what he could do and after the program Luke decited to contune at home and try to encorger people to join, Also you would be helping countries out by perviding food and place to live. Also this is a life changing exprence
Why should you join the Seagoing program? beacuse you can help others and when you help others it makes you feel better and it makes them feel happy. The program could chang your world like it dd to Luke.
You would be helping other countries out with their needs. When you help a country out people could say " It is the person that helped our county out and thank you''. Also you get to travle overseas witch gives you a break from home, you might miss your friend and family but , you are doing something good. Also when Luke Bomburger joined he missed his family and friends but he keeped his head up high and he rembered that he is helping out some one else. Well if these reasons still dont convenent you then you should go talk to luke Bomburger about the Seagoing Cowboy program. Also you should go do some reasruch and talk to Luke Bombruger and read thos pargraph.
So are you thinking about joining the Seagoing Cowboys? Also jut think about it you are helping some one in need, you are helping countrys and this program can cahnge your life. Also you might have a fun time helping others and going around the world. so what is better than helping others and exporling other countrys and having fun when you are helping others. Just ask Luke Bomburger he would might say he had a lot of fun and he helped others and countrys. Luke Bomburger had an awesome time and he helped others and countrys. You might makes some new friends and you can work with your friends also you can bring a friend along to the program. Also you can bring a family member along. Luke Bombrugher brought his friend Don Reist well Luke Bombrugher got invited by Don Reist. Well there you have all the reasons to join. I hope you join the Seagoing Cowboys program and get some friends or family member along. Well if you join you get the exprence like Luke Bomburger did with means lots of fun and exploring new places and countrys. Also this changes lifes.
Also you should check out the book A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves by Peggy Reif Miller. In the book A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves it gives Lukes reasons why to join the Seagoing Cowboy program and his story while in the program. | 3 |
205075e | Have you ever thought its time for change? Germany, New York , Columbia , and the United states are trying to reduce cars driven. Many benifits are coming from the downfall of cars being driven. Less stress, no smog from pollution, and less money spent on expensive cars.
Vauban's streets are completely car free. Heidrun Walter says she is less tense and much happier without a car. Walking, bycicling, and hyking are much more eco friendly. In 2006 a trend is growing in Europe. Vauban home to 5,500 residents may be the most expieriment in low car suburban life. Car ownership is allowed but there are few places to park large garages and the edge of development. 70 percent do not own cars and 57 percent sold cars to move to Vauban.
Car pollution is at its all time high, in paris motorists were ordered to leave their cars at home due to smog. 67 percent of vehicles in France use diesel fuel. Only 53.3 percent make up the rest of western europe. passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of green house gases, and up to 50 percent in some car intensive areas in the united states. Chicago to Shanghai people tend to make their homes which is a huge reduce of green house gas emissions from tailpipes.
Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as the years pass. Americas love for vehicles seems to be coolig down. The number of miles driven dropped in 2005 and continued droppimg steadily. In 2013 the number of miles driven was nearly 9 percent below its peak. If this persists there will be beneficialimplications for carbon emissions and the enviroment. Last year a study was found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009.
This is why life today would be fantastic and more benifitcial with car free cities and more walking, bycicling and hyking. less stress, less pollution, and less money spent on cars. As days continue the percentage of cars and miles driven decreases drastically. | 3 |
2050ae7 | The Electoral College. A process not a place. The Electoral College was established by the founding fathers as a compromise between election of Presidents. It works by a popular vote by qualified citizens. I am aganist the Elctoral College because it is unfair to voters and the voters don't vote for the Presidant they vote for the slate of electors.
Why is it unfair to the voters? Now it's unfair to the voters because of the winner take all system. Candidates don't spend time in states they knoiw they have no chance in winning, so they foucs on the "swing states" In the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't get spoken to by any candidates at all. If anyone has a argument for putting the fate of the presidency in the hands of a few swing voters in Ohio.
Voters dont vote for the President. They vote for the slate of electors. Electors are and can be anyone that deosn't hold a postion in a public office. Now we the people dont pick the electors in the first place. Depending on the state, sometimes the state party's central committee choose, sometimes the presidential candidates choose them self. Voters can sometimes contorl whom their electors vote for, but not all the time. Sometimes the voters get confused about the electors and they go off voting for the wrong candidate. To me that's un-fair to the voter because they are not voting for the presidant but for an a elector that can mess up and vote for the wrong candidate.
So concludeing to me claim, I'm aganist the Electoral College because it's unfair to the voters ts's self and that the voters dont vote for Presidants, but for electors. | 3 |
2059452 | In the day now we are experincing new types of technology. Everyday we are inventing new software to help us in the long run. It now could be vitle for our computers to know what we are thinking. having the use of the technology so that our computers can read our faces to understand our emotins could be valuable.
The first reason that we should let our computers know our emotions is that then the computer could tell what we like in ads and what we dont like. If we dont like a specific type of ad our emotions will tell the computer. It could be possibe that we could program the computer to not advertise that type of ad again. It is said in the article, " For example, if you smile when a web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different."
The second reason is that if you are bored in class with the work it could make the lesson to your liking so that you are not as bored with the subject. Like in math if you dont like the equation it would chage it to something to do with your hobbies. It states in the article, "' A classroom computer could recongnise when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. " Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor."'
The third reason is that most human communication is nonverbal so the computers should be able to tell what we feel anyway. We communicate alot through our emotions and body language anyway why shouldn't the computers be able to tell what we feel. It states in the text, "' Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," notes Dr. Huang. "So computers need to understand that too."'
Thas is why technology should be able to read emotions. It could be vrey useful in alot of situations. | 3 |
2062bda | Have you ever read a book called, "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves"? Well if you have im going to make a argument essay. The argument essay is going to be about, convincing others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. I hope you get convinced and join. The two Paragraph will repensent why you should join the program.
Here are some reasons that you might be instered in if you may want to go.The first reason I think you should join because, you get to help things that need help. Another reason to join the program is,maybe if you want to go somewhere in your lifetime but you never get to go,well if you are a Seagoing Cowboy you get to tour a lot of different places.One good reason is that,it's animals in need of your help, it will feel good if you are helping animals that's in need of your help. Last reason is, if you like caring and helpin other animals than you would like this job because it keeps you busy when travaling.
These are the details from the text to support my reason to join the program. My first detail it is about the first reason I stated,in the story it say's,"It made me 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 vistors for many years."The next detail from the passage is about the 2 reason i stated,it says,"Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China."This detail is about the third reason I stated,"But beeing a Seagoing Cow boy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger." "it opened up the wored to him." The last detail is about the last reason,"Caring for the animals during the crossing kept Luke busy.
In my conclusion, if you didn't read the book called "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves." Well now you konow a little somthing about it. | 3 |
20744ab | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus,"the author suggests that studying planet Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangerous it presents. Since Venus is the closet planet to Earth in terms of density and size, the distance are similar too. This planet has different speeds. Though, humans have sent many spacecrafts to this dangerous land. Each mission was unmanned sicne no spacecraft ever survived the landing for a few hours.
Some dangerous this planet planet presents are, the atmosphere is thick and is almost 97 percent of carbon dioxide. The clouds are highly corrosive sulfuric acid in the atmosphere and the conditions are more extreme than human encounter in Earth. "Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solor system, even though Mercury is closeer to our Sun"(Paragraph 3). It has so much heat and pressure and the weather presents additional dangerous which are, erupting volcanoes,powerful earthquakes, and excesive amount of lighting strikes.
This dangerous can really affect humans and humans won't really be able to survive in that planet. Scientists believe Venus was once covered largely wiht oceans and could of supported forms of life. Since scientists are now able to knwo more about technology and ivent new spacecrafts. We now have new information of the Planet Venus. Now, we know it's surface is rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters.
In conclusion, I think the more we learn the more we can be able to experience more things and have more knwoledge. Technology has been playin a big part of this situations and expriences. The more technology advances the more we will be able to exprience more. | 2 |
2078da0 | Do you believe driverless cars are really safe? Even though driverless cars could be very helpful to people in some situations, I am against the development for driverless cars. Driving isn't supposed to be fun, because driving should be safe at all times. In my opinion cars are at their zenith.
First of all, driving a car isn't supposed to be fun, it's suppose to be safe. With driverless cars you have to be alert 100 percent of the time because these cars aren't comepletely driverless. These cars could cause many accidents. If the driver isn't completey alert and if an accident is ahead what is the car supposed to do? When driving, the drivers, passengers, and pedestrians are supposed to be safe. Can a car that is in control 90 percent of the time ensure that?
Secondly, cars are at the zentih of development. Most cars today have everything you need to be, "safe". Cars today have radar sensors, position- estimating sensors, a video camera mounted near the rear view mirror, a GPS receiver, and a Dubbed Lidar. All of those things promote safety when driving. The person driving doesn't have to know when to take control of the vehicle because they are already in control. What more could a car possibly need?
I am against the development of driverless cars. Cars are already developed and shouldn't need anymore done to them. They are safe enough. Driving isn't supposed to be fun. These cares could cause accidents if the driver isn't completely alert. Everyone on the road is supposed to be safe. | 3 |
2079bbf | The author suggestion to still try to visit Venus knowing how dangerous it is very risky. Although Venus has a lot of similarties when it comes to Earth, there are even more differences that play a big part in the visit.
The author's theory on trying to visit Venus it will be very hard and with take time. It would take a lot of time because of the harsh weather conditions and the high atmospheric pressure. In the third paragraph, the author states that " On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenhit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater then what we experience on out own planet." which provides the exact numbers for what it would feel like compared to Earth and is very dangerous becuause of the extreme temperature and the crushing atomphic pressure.
The author provides more information that it can be very dangerous by stating that even 30 miles above the surface it would be very hot, around 170 degrees but the pressure would be lower. A benefit of visiting Venus is that we maybe able to know if there were anymore human like species or maybe even aliens because of the large amountof comprasions and history believed to be on Venus. One of the last problems is that it would be very hardto get any type of samples because if they got too close to the surface then they would melt to death so what would be the poin tof visiting a place that you may not be able to do actual studies on and may not be able to get more then a picture or video of the surface from 30 miles above the planet unless you take time to heavly prepare and create something to with stand the conditions.
Those are the reasons why it is very hard for NASA to visit venus and why it may benfit our history and future generations to come if we can make the visit even though it is very risky right now. | 2 |
2080bea | Their are many reasons you should join the Seagoing Cowboys programs. One of Luke's reason you should join the the Seagoing Cowboys program is having the ability to see the world. Luke did this when he was with the Seagoing Cowboys program. He traveled to Europe and China. Luke saw the Acropolis in Greece. Luke was also able to take a gondola ride in Venice, Italy.
Another one of Luke's reason you shouls join the Seagoing Cowboys program is helping the animals. The Seagoing Cowboys program was hired by the UNRRA to take good care of horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas to other countries. Luke was able to feed the horses with hay and oats. Luke had to water and feed the animals two to three times a day. He also had to clean the animals stall. Luke had to haul bales of hay and bags of oats from the lower holds of the ships. Luke also had the job of checking up on the animals at night every hour.
Another one of Luke's reasons you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is how much fun you can have. On the return trips when the animals have been unloaded. Luke and his fellow cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty stalls where the animals had been housed. Luke and his cowboy friends played table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading and other games also helped the cowboys to have fun and pass the time.
Those were three of Luke's reason of why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys programs. Lets review what those three reasons are the first one is being able to see the world, the second one is being able to help and care for the animals, and the last reason is being able to have fun. | 3 |
2085ad3 | Dear State Senator,
I am writing this letter to you today to talk to you about Electoral College and election by popular vote. I feel very strongly on this topic as it is something I know I will come in contact with when i have the right to vote in the near future.
As we look back to the very day the Constitution was written, it has been a comprise that between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizen that fifve hundred and thirty eight electorshave a meeting for they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress, as stated by the Office of the Federal Register.
I strongly feel that we should change from Electoral College to election by popular vote. The reason I am saying this is because, it allows voters to equally vote for their rightful choice of president in that they feel best about having rule over the country.
Why is populary voting a better choice may many ask, popular voting is a better choice because it allows voters to have fair chance of having their choice of President, become Presidnt.
In the eyes of some, one in particular being Richard A. Posner, Electoral College may be good for a few reasons, those reasons being, Certainty of Outcome, Everyone's President, Swing States, Big States, and avoid Run-Off Elections but, in the eyes of others, it may seem "Unfair, outdated and irrational." Says Bradford Plumer.
In some cases, Electoral College may be an easier way to go for, the desired President to get elected but, not exactly the fairest way either. I believe that everyone should have a fair chance at voting and waiting for the out come equally with everyone and thats why I believe be we should change to election by popular vote.
Thank you. | 2 |
208907c | author supports the idea that studyng.the national aeronautics and space administration (nasa) has one particularty compelling idea for sending humans to study venus.(NASA'S) poddiblr solution on the hostile conditions on the surface pf venus would allow scientsists to floar above the fry. imagene a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so siles above the reiling venusian landcape. NASA is working on other appoaches to studyng venus. for example, some simplified electronic made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chambersimulating the caos fo venus's surface and have lated for three weeks in such conditons, anonothjer project is lookign back to an old thecnology called mechanical computers, these devices were firs envisioned in the 1800s and played an important role in the 1940s during world war
of evidence form the article that support claim.venus,
sometime called the '' evening star. this nickname is misleading since venus is actully a planet.in our solar system. venua is a second planet form pur sun. a thik atmosphere of almost 97 parcent carbon dioxide blamkets venus. even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric, acide in venus's atmpsphera. on the planet,s surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than whe we experience on our own planet. venus geology and wather preset additonal impediments like eruping volcanoes, powerful earthquoekes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its suface.
temperaturees would still be toasty close to that sea level on earth. solar powe would be plentiful, and radiation, would nor exceed earth levels. not easy conditons, but survivable for humans, photography
and videograpy ineffective. more importantly, rearchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from distance.
litke
our travel on earh and beyond should nor be limited by dangers and doubt but should be expanded to meet the every edges of imagenation and innovaction,
conclution. this told of the venus a planet its the second planet on the system solar in the orbit this si interesting because i learnig a lot over that | 1 |
208eb37 | In many places like Bogota, Colombia and Paris, France there are many advantages to not using cars because:first, it would "promote alternate transportation..." and "devoid traffic jams", and second, it would help to "...reduce smog."
To begin with,according to Source 3: Car-free day spinning into a big hit in Bogota states that "It was the third straight year cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted..." because the Bogota leaders wanted to reduce traffic jams and promote alternative transportation. This is a great advantage because by reducing traffic jams and promoting alternative transportation, you are decreasing the number of death by car accidents and helping people with the choices of other transpotation methods.
In addition, according to Source 2: Paris bans driving due to smog, it states that "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city."This ban was a huge advantage because in the article it states that, "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog..." and that thanks to the ban, "The smog cleared enough Monday for the ruling French party to rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday."
In conclusion, The bans stated in Source 2 and in
Source 3 have advantages because they will "...reduce smog", "promote alternative transportation..." and "devoid traffic jams." | 2 |
208f29c | I am against it because, maybe people may be going through some things and are just depressed or sad but dont want anyone to know their personal business. I also feel like it is a violation of privacy. Everyone has bad moods and good moods and some days are not as good as the others, but i feel like it would be worse with people saying things like "hes sad" and then questioning that person, which can make the situation worse because maybe they may not want to talk about it. Also someone else telling you your emotion or how you feel may make you think you must feel that way for instance if they tell you your emotions but thats not right, you may try and correct yourself to fit the computers recognition. which is not right because i dont think it is fair that a computer should be able to tell you or say how you are feeling and what your emotions are. That would start conflict and attitude which will cause even more worse distracting emotions. | 2 |
20a1cb4 | Dear, senator
I belive the electoral college was a usefull tool in the past ,but is now an out date system that should be changed. If we continue to use this system we aren't really giving the people a fair chance to vote for who they want. For example in California a more democrtic state republicans may be lessen the incentive to vote knowing that there vote will not have an effect. This rasise another issue, which is not everybody is voting and it is not all a right but a prevlige among US citicens every where. The elctoral college was evective in the past because we did not have the technologe to count all the votes from each state, but now we do so we can only go by the popular vote.
The popular vote is more effective and I'm not the only one who thinks so over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. Al Gore thanks to the electoral college won the popular vot but lost the elctoral, how is it that some one could win more votes from most voters ,but still lose? The answer is the elctoral college, the reason is that you are not voting as a indiviual person but as a state. This brings me back to California and how republicans votes don't count because the state voted democrat.
Though the electors should do there job and vote with the state they could always defy the will of the people. In 1960 segregationist nearly succeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would op-pose John F. Kennedy. So please take into consideration that your vote may not have an effect on the election if we don't change the system. | 4 |
20a8ce1 | Dear $tate $enator,
I believe that the electoral college should be shut down and choosing the president should be popular vote; first, the people don't even vote for the president, and, second, the peoples votes are not even recognized by the president.
For starters, the people don't even vote for the president they vote for a slate of electors that vote for the president. It states in source 2, " Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." This quote shows that people don't even vote for the president. That is just sad.
Also, the peoples votes aren't getting recognized. A quote from Source 2 shows this by saying, " 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." This quote explains that the peolpe vote for this guy, and the president is elected because of 34 electors, not you, them.
However, people say that the electoral college gives the certainty of an out come. It states in Source 3, " A dispute over the outcome of an electoral college vote is possible-it happened in 2000-but it's less likely than a dispute over the popular vote." This quote shows that a dispute is more likely to occur over popular vote. On the contary, it is unfair for the electoral college to cast votes for the people.
Finally, I believe in popular vote because you vote for the president and your vote is recognized. | 3 |
20af98d | I know this Face is just a natural landform because, in passage 5, its says, "some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars, evidence that NASA would rather hide". This shows that people are going against what scientist are saying and that people have opinons that this is just a natural landform, and that this was naturally formed on Mars.
Also, people have taken pictures of this landform with a camera that is ten times sharper than the Viking photos, stated in passage 7. After they took these pictures with this high tech camera it showed there was no alien monument. When this landform was made and the first photo was shown it formed a humans face, it didn't form an alien. In passage 3 it says, "illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth" of a human being.
If a alien were to make this landform they would probably make it of them, something that actually looks like them not some other creature, like a human. "When the camera was located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in April '98 it was cloudy on the Red Planet". While they were searching they never seen Alien markings.
So therfore, the clouds being so cloudy the alien markings where shown as never visible because, they were covered if there was any alien markings but, the camera shows there is no alien markings and that this is a natural landform. Some people have there opinons on if this was reall made by an alien but very few scientist believe this was made by an alien although some do. This is why I say that this is a natural landform and is not made by any type of alien in any form and that this landforn looks naturally made on Mars. | 3 |
20b3b91 | The 3D computer that can recongnize facial movements that can tell you what the person is feeling is the next step to new technology. It makes the world better with good outcomes to make a person feel better. This creation is amazing and I am all for it.
This 3D computer is a new look in life that can help you know when a close person to you is down or happy. It can even help children/teenagers in school when confused with work. "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 type of computer can have you home school because of your facial expressions and it knows when you need help even without you telling someone you need help. Also, "if you smile when an Web ad appears on your screen , a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." Huang and Sebe software is a great use of technology that helps you out with different task you do daily.
Prof. Thomas Huang and Prof. Nicu Sebe are developing a 3D computer that allows it and you to read you and other emotions. While Dr. Huang relies on Dr. Paul Eckman creator of Facial Action Coding System. The six basic emotions is happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. The reason I am all for this device because it benefits us to help everybody in the world out more. Like counselors, if a person comes to the couselor but is scared to say what they are feeling you can use the emotion software. Even if you are a teacher and doesn't know when a student needs help or is losing intrest in the assignment it can notify you when the student needs help or even help the student out on its own. "Muscles called orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus make crow's feet in your eyes." This can help the computer caculate when your are showing an emotion of happiness by reading your face and notice when that muscle is moving.
Huang and Sebe software invention that can tell others what a person is feeling is absolutely the next step into technology. I feel that this is a good idea becuase it can affect people in good ways and help others out. It's all about the way you use it and the outcomes you get out of it. | 3 |
20b7318 | During my life i have watched meny presidental elections on my telivision. To me the Electoral College on papper should work, Should being the key word. As I read the paragraphes on both why the Electoral College work and does not work I have decides the side with not haveing the Electoral College.
Historical evidence and evidence from this paragraph piont to not haveing a Electoral College. One reason for this was when Al Gore lost the presedency but won the populure vote nation wide as stated in Source 2. Anouther piont is that if the people have so munch power over who is voted to be presedent then how do we have a presedent that the people did not want the president but the person is still elected, its an outrage! One example of how the Electoral College chould be a distaster waiting to happen is that rthe votes are tied which may seem not likey at forstn glance but say if the votes are tied the presedency is thrown into the House of Representatives which lets face it, in the end the desision will not be approved by the people and the people will then barly have a say on who gets to be presedent or not. Another thing is the Electoral College can also be vary bisest towrdes one party or the other. This is evident because if a certine party got more electors than another party which whould led to a canedat from one party have more support then another.
Source 3 talks about how sure thats its posssable for their to be a tie in the Electoral College but its unlikey supports what im trying the say in my earlyer Paragraph, that even though a tie is unlikey it is still possible to happen the chance is still their. This paragraph also says the everyone is a president but if that is the case then why dose the poeple that "we" vote for the eclectoral College help vote for the presedent insted vote for the other canadate is an atrosidy on its own. The winner-take-all system is one that only afects the swing states because if thoughs states have already voted then the staes the already votes whould be for not because the numbers for who gets voted whould be already in favor of one state or another. The fact the larger states have a bigger say in who gets voted on is not fair. the is becuase if all the big states vote for someone and about 1/4 of the smaller states vote on one end of the scale and the other states vote towrdes the other end of the scale then the ballence whould be off and one side would overpower the other side by fact of shear numbers of votes compared to the other side.
After reading over my responce and the evidence that I have profided form the paragraph hear I have with great pride that i have argued my point across to you that the Electoral College in papper is good but in reality is only a crumbleing castle waiting to fall into the tiny bites and pieces that it should be. | 4 |
20bf31c | Venus, one of the closest planets to Earth, is occassionally called the "Evening Star". Humans have tried to explore Venus for many decades, but failed because of the dangers it presents. Researchers are trying to find better solutions to overcome these dangers.
Venus is a planet that is most similar to Earth. The author says, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." (Paragraph 4) Venus has many features that are similar like those on Earth, such as oceans and there might have been plants or animals living there. "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value," (Paragraph 8) Even with the dangers it has, studying Venus can lead human into many discoveries.
Landing on Venus's surface can provide better insight. The article says, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." (Paragraph 8) Exploring Venus may be dangerous, but it can help humans see beyond the impossible.
Venus is a dangerous planet to land onto, but it is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Venus can help answer many questions that humans have and make new discoveries. | 3 |
20cb752 | I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. | 2 |
20cce9b | I think the use of this technology is valuable for games or computers or cameras because people can already kinda notice how other people emotions are by how there body movement are and how the tone in there voice is or the looks on there face. I think this technology would be helpful becasue on video games you can see the emotions of the characters on the game or the emotions of a person in a picture. Like It said in the article below the picture she's 83% happy, 9% disgusted and 6% fearful and 2% angry, that's what the new technology recgonized. Using video imagery the new emotion- recognition software tracks these facial movements. The new software can even identify mixed emotions to. His new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code. In the article says Dr. Huang predicts then it could modify the lesson like an effective human insturctor; The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive for video games or video surgery. Dr. Huang also notes that most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication so computers need to under stand that too. | 2 |
20cdd57 | The author suggest that studying Venus is a worthly pursuit despite the dangers. They think this because Venous could have been like earth a long time ago. The text states that, " The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes famillar features such as valleys, mountians, and craters.
They have been keen on the idea of sending humans to study venus. The issues is that the planets too hot. They started to think about the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow them to float above the fray. All thought the temprature would be around 170 degrees Fahrenheit the air pressure would be at earths sea level. Another plus would be the solar power would be plentiful. depite this it wouldnt' be easy conitions but liveable for humans.
NASA has been working on an appraoch to study the planet. they have made electronics out of silicon carbide. It has been tested in a csmber simulating the chaos of venus. They are striving to beat the challenges presented by venus. But the planet has vaules not only but also has insight to be gained on the planet itself. Humans will began to grew curiouser and curiouser but we can only do this if we go around the intimidating endeavor.
It should not be limited by danger nor doubt. | 3 |
20d9bb9 | Luke had a really great time when he was with the UNRRA, and he almost did it for free, and chances are if he did you can to. You almost do it for free, you can have a fun time, you get to go to a lot of neat places, you don't have to be 18 to join, you get experience with animals, and best of all you don't have to have much experience.
First thing's first, you don't have to use big bucks to join, you really just have to sign up and hope for the best. In the story Luke didn't know much about it but he still couldn't turn the opportunity down.
Secondly, you would have a lot of fun. You'd get to play basketball, volleyball, table tennis, fencing, and boxing in the empty holds where the animals used to be to help pass time on your way back.
Thirdly, you got to go to a lot of neat places. When you got to your destination you have to do something, so why not go site seeing. For example, if you were going to Rome, go see the Colosseum or see the Acropolis in Greece.
Fourthly, you don't have to be 18 to join. You can be 17, or 16 but I'm pretty sure you have to graduate highschool before you can join.
Fithly, you get experience with animals. On Luke's first trip, he had 335 horses and you could have also had cattle as well.
Sixthly, you don't have to have much experience with animals or with water. You just have to be on guard because anything can happen.
Lastly, you would be helping others and yourself because you are becoming more responsable and you are giving back to people who need it most.
In conclosion, you should really join the UNRRA today and make a difference in not just your neighborhood but also around the world. | 3 |
20db8b2 | The idea of driverless cars is an amazing idea that would be bring alot of postitve and negative factors. I believe that the positive out weights the negative factors in alot of aspects. The three main reasons I believe this is because it would be safer, its something that can be taken advantage of soon, and their are only a few laws that need to be disscused in order for this to happen.
The first factor that I will attribute is the fact that it would make driving alot safer. The reason behind that is because the number one cause behind crashes and accidents is texting and driving. A driverless car would completely eliminate that! You could be on your phone, taking an important call, or just scrolling on social media. The sad thing is that most people behind the wheel do not take being on your phone and driving as a big deal. So if someone in control of their own car gets an important call, they more than likely will take it which increases the chances of an accident. That is one reason I believe that smart cars would be a positive thing, it will make driving alot safer.
The second reason is that this is something that could be in affect very soon and what I think scares most states. The fact that something like this could be in our streets within four years is crazy! The article states, " Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that drive themselves by 2020". Some of the major car dealerships are already working towards this idea of a smart car so this is something that can and will be applied very soon. That is the second reason I think smart cars is a good idea, beacause this is something that can be in affect soon.
The third and last reason I believe smart cars is a great idea is because it will only take minor laws to be added or taken for smart cars to be on the road. That is an amazing thing that there are only a couple of laws and things to be discusssd for this to happen. One of those things, as stated in the article, is the issue of who will be at falt if the technology fails in the smart car and someone is injured? That is one of the minor issues that need to be discusses but still thats something that can be resolved. That is the last reason I believe smart cars is a positive thing, it only has a few minor things to be settled legaly.
Smart cars is an amazing idea and invention. It will bring a whole new way of driving and getting places that will improve society. Again the reasons are because they will prevent texting and driving, can be on our streets soon, and can have issues resolved easily. Salute to a whole new generation of driving. | 4 |
20db990 | If I was a scintst at NASA discussing the Face. I whould have to prove to the person i was discussing with that it was made by it,s self not alien to do that i need facts about mars.
In paragraph 3 the passege stated that a few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to to see the caption noted a huge rock formation. Which resembles a human head form by shadows giving the illusion eys nose and mouth. the authors resoned it whould ba good way to engage the public and attract attetion to mars.
Like the authors want to do mars became popualr in pargraph 5 it stated that The Face on Mars had became a pop icon it has starred in a hollywhood film appeared in books, magazines, radio taalk shows even haunted grocery store check out lines for 25 years. Some people think the Face bona fide evidence of life on Mars evidence NASA whould rather hide.
Some people belived the Face was an alien artifact photographing cydonia became a prioriy for NASA when mars Global Surveyor arrived at the red planet in Sept. 1997 eighteen long years after the. Viking missions eneded people felt that was important to taxpayers. | 1 |
20dda58 | "
the Electoral college have been discovred by our founding fathers in the constitution"
why distroy something that was given to us? over time we have been voting for the Electoral College not the president. I personally think we should be able to vote based on popular vote,
Over years, we voted for the Electoral College it consits of voting for President and Vice President and the counting of the electoral votes by congress, sounds diffict right? well this is how they run things, personally I think we should vote based on popular votes because according to source 2 under "
what's wrong with the electoral college"
many people get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate, yikes! not always do we get control whom we vote for , it all depends on the state. We should be equal, Electoral college is unfair to voters. in the same source they state that the electoral college is unfair, outdated and irrational harsh words? but its true.
Lets take a look at the present. President Obama who won the vote, got 29 electoral votes since were a large state we get more votes. take a look at map where its shows the breakdown of the number of electoral votes, it shows each state. many small state have less than 5 electoral votes simply because its not huge, but yet again you're voting for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. Popular votes have many benfits such as equallty and justice's. In source 3:
"In Defense of the Electoral College:Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president"
paragraph 21 popular vote was very close in Florida (2012) .
It have been said that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off a potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their states. popular votes have a chance and will be picked based on popular vote. In source 3: states that they is no pressure for run-off elections ,It's provided a clear winner , sounds good doesn't it? One single vote can decide an election sounds stressful. Popular votes are bascially stress free and in the Democrats in Texas ,Republicans in california their vote have no effect they leave it to the popular vote.
In conclusion, popular votes have such great benfits and had more justice and give better oppourity to those who bascially are in a sticky sitution. Electoral College have so much to do with the voce president and is indirect. | 2 |
20e2d04 | Way back when the only way you could get around is by walking or riding a horse. They didn't have cars back then, they never even thought about getting around by driving. Back then you didn't have to worry about gas prices or anything like that. In this generation everyone think's the only way they can get where they want to go is by driving a car,when that really isn't the case.
Driving in this generation can be fun, but can also cause a lot of disadvantages. Cars can be very dangerous and cause a lot of damage in this world. Right when you get in your car and start driving around you are poluting the air. There's so pollution in this world and cars are making it worse. The world use to be clean before cars came around cars are taking over people and their lives.
Cars cause a lot of accidents. Every second of everyday there is an accident and people are loosing their lives because of it. People don't take driving seriously at all. If we didn't have cars there would be no accidents happening. No one would be driving under the influnce and having to worry about getting in the car and driving home. If we all walked we would be getting our excercise and not have to worry about loosing a life.
I think we should go a week without driving a car and see how everyone likes it. Yes, the sidewalks will be packed but when you drive you have to deal with traffic. Another thing is that you don't have to worry about wasting your money on gas. I think this world would be a better place with less cars and more walking. | 2 |
20e8865 | The author makes a valaid point. In the passage he said that Venus may have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. It is often referred to sa Earth's twin. As it is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size.
Venus might of had been largely covered by oceans and could have supported various forms of life. To this day Venus has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. Venus has a surface that has rocky sediment, valleys, mountains, and craters.
The dangers of traveling to Venus are extreme. Unlike Earth, Venus has an average temperature of 800 degrees and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than on Earth. The clouds that surround Venus are highly corrosive sulfuric acid.
NASA has one compelling way to battle the harsh conditions. They would send astronauts and scientists to float 30 or so miles above surface in a blimp-like vechicle. The scientists would be above the fray. It will not be easy conditions but surviable for humans.
However it would be limited because they are above the surface. At least they could study some of the planet. The author states that our travels should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation.
The author stated the the pros and cons of the exploration of Venus. He implies that we could learn alot about Venus and even Earth by studying Venus. So he did a support his idea well. | 2 |
20e88fd | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author supports this claim very well by showing how survivable Venus could be.
Firstly, the author states, "Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels." This shows that we would have healthier and more energy were we to live on Venus, and living on Venus is the main reason to explore it. This piece of evidence also shows although radiation wouldn't be any better on Venus, it also wouln't be any worse. Which could be a tremendously amazing thing.
Secondly, the author states, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans that could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." Although this evidence speaks in the past tense, this still shows how little we know about Venus and how much we could know if we were to explore it better. Even though it is intensely dangerous, it is beyond worth it if we were to attempt to start life on our twin planet.
Lastly, the author states, "Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." This shows how well the planet is, in the present; as well as how good of an idea it would be to find out more about it.
In conclusion, there is still so much left undiscovered of Venus, and the author layed out many good reasons as to why we should still continue trying to explore it. Besides, history never would have been made, in all of time, if no one ever took a few risks here and there. | 3 |
20ec8b0 | I believe that driverless cars are great. Our world is constantly moving forward. Technology is advancing everyday, like with robots in Japan. Driverless cars are another great technological advacement for the world.
The first reason why driverless cars are good is stated in the first paragraph, "The cars he forsees would use half the fuel of today's taxis..." That would be excellent for the environment. Yes, there have been many challenges, such as still needing a driver for more complicated driving situations like road construction, and of course safety concerns. But driverless cars would be so much easier to get around with.
In conclusion, driverless cars are advanced, environmentally friendly, and would make the world a better place. In the final paragraph, it says, "Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time." So these cars should be further researched and produced. As it says in paragraph 10, "The road to the truly autonomous car strecthes on ahead of us, but we grow closer to the destination every day." | 2 |
20f1b82 | "Driverless Cars" sound like something from a movie, not real life. These are one of the most outrageous and ridiculous ideas I have ever heard of. These cars should not be allowed in the future because they are unsafe, expensive and will cause conflicts betweeen owners and manufacturers. If these "Driverless Cars" become a common thing in our daily lives, things will be different and people will be in danger.
Driverless cars would be very unsafe. If the system malfunctions or goes bad the car could do whatever it wants. There is always a chance that the car will not take you to the right place or the breaks decide they do not want to work or some reason. It says in the article that "For starters, they need a whole lot of sensors." What would happen if a sensor broke or the sensor was covered up by something. Inevitable crashes would be the answer. The article also talks about how to alert the drivers when they need to take over when it says, "GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over." This could go wrong if the driver falls asleep or the seats lose the ability to vibrate. The driver could also be startled by the surprising vibration that it may cause him to swerve or crash. The announcement could go wrong if the driver is hard of hearing or if they lower the volume because they feel it is irritating. Overall "Driverless Cars" are unsafe.
"Driverless Cars" would be very expensive not only to manufacture, but to purchase aswell. The majority of people are middle class and a car with such high-end features and accomodations would most likely be out of the price range for middle classed people. The article says, "Radar was a device on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars." This shows that radar alone used to be very expensive. It is already expensive just to buy a regular car but all of the sensors and radar and other features added would only up the price. This is not including all of the gas prices, maintainence, and other features that people want and have to pay for. Expecting these "Driverless Cars" to be the new everyday thing is just not in the budget of everyday people.
The conflict of who to blame when an accident happens is very simple. People would not want to pay for the accident so they would say that their car malfunctioned and end up filing for a lawsuit against the manufacturer. This whole entire idea of these new cars would cause an ongoing series of problems and lawsuits that would would fill up and awaste the courts time. "Driverless Cars" are a problem waiting to happen.
In conclusion, I do not believe "Driverless Cars should be allowed to drive on public roads. They are unsafe, expensive and will cause conflicts betweeen owners and manufacturers. The realistic idea of these cars working, and being reliable and safe, is very slim. People are fasinated by the idea of these cars, but they do not see the big picture which is all the threats and dangers this car holds. | 4 |
20f1ea0 | The development of these cars would be a good idea. They have not had any crashes while using their cards. Their cars have many good things in their cars that would help the world to discover thiefs and killers. They have not create any harm or dangerous things.
Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash. Which is good because they were being safe and the materials created in their cars also helped them. They are being so safe that when you were to pull in and our of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, they would take over for you because of safety.
Their cars have 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 receiver and and inertial motion sensor. These things help you keep track of your destination and how far you drove. These also help you to mimic the skill of a human at the weel. The sensors detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers. The sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on the wheels and reduce power from the engine, making far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone. So when you were driving in this car and were to have an accident, you could easily be safe because of the sensors.
The development of these cars should be allowed. These cars can help you get to your destination faster with safety and help you control the vehicle. It will improve your skills for driving. | 2 |
20f1f55 | "Thats incorrect!" Sara shouted to her colligue. "Theorys are very unbelieveable myths, especially one with aliens." Many believe research to be true, but others still believe in theorys. Research is not always correct, but it can be proven correct after trial and error. The following agrument is concluding whether to believe theory or research is most truthful in the scenario of the "Face on Mars."
Theory is false in many ways. It is based on an assumption or a belief that something irrelivant has happened. For example, believing in aliens or the Big Bang Theory is quite inaccurate. We have no proof of their existance or records of their happenings. Some believe "The face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars." This was proved wrong by NASA scientist Michael Malin when he "flew over Cydonia for the first time ... his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos."
Malins major accomplishment had "thousands of anxious web surfers waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing... a natural landform." This spread news to the people that the research is in fact correct. The "Face On Mars" was not an "Alien Monument" because it is "a natural landform." Theorists still refused to believe this as they keep their hopes up to one day see alien forms of life.
Although the "Face On Mars" was proven not to be an "Alien Monument," it does have to be specified to the public of an assumption on what they believe the formation might possibly be. "Jim Garvin, chief scientist for NASA's Mars exploration program," concluded that it is a "Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa." Yes, this is a type of theory, but it is a relevant theory based on a previous discovery of events.
The previous statements prove that research is the most truthful way to belive in the scenario of "The Face On Mars." Scientists Michael Malin and Jim Garvin proved that the what was believed to be "Alien monument," was actually a landform that is common around the American West. "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa." In conclusion, the "Face On Earth" is proven by research that it is not an "Alien Monument," but an American West resembled mesa. | 3 |
20f7124 | I dont really know what my choice is, like i know alot of poeple like to drive an control thereown car. But i dont understand how alot safer an more controlled it would be it would be cool if you just had a gps an typed in where your going an the car drives stops turns and does all that by itself. But also you gotta know if all the people in world had that type of car you dont know if its running on electrecity or solar power or wind power. If it used on elecrtecity bam you already know there is gonna be so much power outtages and balls of spark going everywhere cause literally we drive by phone pole and electecity boxes everyday dnt you think if one of those things blew it wouldnt be like a cercuit. im just saying ya it would be coo just to fall asleep in yo car if your going somewhere really far an just have your car drive. But it is also risky cause what if they just made em that year or what ever year an they only tested a couple million do you know how may people are in the world ya theres alot more than a couple million, what im trying to say is what if it does its own thing diesnt stop or doesnt turn your either gonna get yourself killed or someone else killed. that is all i have to say about these new driverless cars they sound cool but reality is it worth it? | 2 |
20fa155 | In German suburb, this is a "car-free" place, this may seem shocking to many for people who use cars to go where they need to everyday... Car ownership is only allowed in two places; large parking garages at the edge of development, where a car owner buys a space, for $40,000, along with a home. Some say that it's good for the earth due to the bad pollution. As I move along I will give some of my honest opinnion and some opinions of others.
Some countries around the world is trying to put an end to polluting the earth and one of the ways they did that was to ban driving cars. People would think that as crazy but it is actually a brilliant idea because it would lessen the Ozone whole that is being crerated by polluting. We actaully need this Ozone hole to protect us from the dangerous sun rays. Another reason why they are putting an end to cars is the dangerous smogs that have been filling the cities.
My honest opinions on this subject matter is I think it's creative in a way but I don't like it just because of how much I have to travel everyday. First I go to school of course, then I go home then I drive to practice which is a 30 minute drive, that also means driving all the way home too. I also think this is creative in some ways because first it saves gas money since gas prices are going up soon due to economy. Second of all it help lessen the pollution we are doing to the earth.
Some other people have writen their own opinions on this "car-banning" process. A mother of two who is also a media trainer name Heidrun Walter gave her honest opinion of this "car-banning". "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Another man name David Gold berg, an offical of Transportation for America said "All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change.
Although our development is changing it may have a good effective role on our earth. Ask yourself next time is it really worth the drive? | 2 |
20fe8b8 | I do not beleive that the author justifies their statement of "Venus has value" in paragraph 8. The author does not explain the pros of exploring Venus as well as they explain the cons of why we should explore Venus. Why do I think this? Well the autor describes the deadly, hot and thick atmosphere of Venus, stating that the reason exploring Venus is worth the risk is because "Venus still has some features that are analigous to those on Earth." Well, does that justify spending millions or hundreds of millions of dollars on a rover or a spacecraft to explore it? I don't beleive so.
It's quite simple to explain why Venus does not need to be explored or closly examined from high up in it's atmosphere. The pros do outweigh the cons in this aticle, here is a quote from the author: "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." That temperature is obviously deadly to humans, and that is a major risk when it comes to spending millions on making a rover that will only last up to a couple hours just to get a glimps on the planet. Or maybe just to get a couple pictures. The author does not go on to say how exploring Venus with genuinley benifit the human race. The author simply explains how scientists are curious about the planet and what is on it, I do not beleive that satisfying our curiosity will help anyone. This is a quote from paragraph 8 of the article that states: "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likley lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors."
Now, to add on to the last quote I stated from the article, the author does not state what the human race would do with that "insight" that we would gain about Venus, they just state that we would have insight. well then I would ask the author, what is the point in the insight if we wouldn't be able to do anything with the insight that we have gained from the exploration? All that we would gain from spending millions on sending a spacecraft to Venus would be meaningless insight and the feeding of our curiosity. When there are many bigger issues to be solved here on Earth. For example, the crisis that is curently happening in Venesuala, their government is shut down and millions are starving, some familys have resorted in digging through the trash for food and we could help them, but instead we want to spend money on gaining "insight" about Venus? Which the article states that Venus is too dangerous to go to anyway. It angers me that half of New York could be underwater in the next thirty years from global warming but we are worried about getting a small peek into the world of Venus.
I do understand why Scientists would like to go to Venus, it would be a great acheivement for humanity. But I am a firm beleiver that our planet should come first, after all, we do only get one Earth, that means we must take care of it. Maybe one day when Our problems down here are solved and we have the ability to really gain benifits from Venus then I will want us to explore more. But for now I'm sticking to the thought that our planet comes first. In conclusion, no, I do not beleive that the author of this article did a good job at explaining why studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers of it. Because in the end it's not just the dangers of going to Venus that keeps me from beleiving that we should. It's the problems that we are facing here on Earth that are far more important. | 5 |
2101c39 | Driverless cars are exaclty what you would expect them to be. Cars that will drive without a person actually behind the wheel controlling the actions of the vehicle. The idea of driverless cars going in to developement shows the amount of technological increase that the wolrd has made. The leader of this idea of driverless cars are the automobiles they call Google cars. The arduous task of creating safe driverless cars has not been fully mastered yet. The developement of these cars should be stopped immediately because there are too many hazardous and dangerous events that could occur.
One thing that the article mentions is that the driver will be alerted when they will need to take over the driving responsibilites of the car. This is such a dangerous thing because we all know that whenever humans get their attention drawn in on something interesting it is hard to draw their focus somewhere else. The article explains that companies are trying to implement vibrations when the car is in trouble. Their are some people out there who do not feel vibrations and therefore would not be able to take control of the car when needed. The article also states that companies are trying to put in-car entertainment into the car while it is being driven. This is just another thing that will distract the person who is supposed to be ready at all times to take over driving when asked to do so.
Another thing that can go wrong with these cars is any type of techological malfucntion. Every person with any kind of technological device has experienced some sort of error. Now imagine if your car has an error technologically and it takes the life of one your loved ones. The article talks about sensors around the car that read the surroundings of the car and that is what helps he car to drive without a true driver behind the wheel. Those sensors could have a malfunctions and be sensing something that is that even there and make a left turn into a 100 foot deep lake. The vibrations that cause the driver to be notified to drive could malfunction and now the driver has no way of knowing that the car is in trouble and now you, the driver, and the rest of your passengers are being buried in your local cemetery.
One last thing that the article mentions is negative about the developement of driverless cars is who to blame for the wreck if there were possibly some sort of technological malfunciton or even some sort of human error when taking over the driving aspect. Should the manufacturer of the car be blamed or should it be the driver? No one knows because there is so many different factors that attribute to who to assign the blame to. Some of what will have to be made is a judgement call. When it comes to insurance and having to pay for any damages you do not want someone to have to make some sort of judgement call. What if that judgement call that was made was the wrong call? Now there are going to be even more lawsuits today in our courts than there already are. This problem alone will just lead to many more issues today in the world that should not have to be dealt with.
With all these things that could possibly go wrong with these driverless cars there is no way that the developement of them should continue any further. In today's society if something bad COULD happen or something COULD go wrong, it WILL happen, and it WILL go wrong. There are just way too many safety hazards that come along with these driverless cars. Becuase of all of these problems that arise with the cars it is just a gargantuan risk to implement these cars into our lifestyles. | 5 |
2103089 | The article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" talks about the positive and negative aspects of the driverless cars. I am totally against the development of these cars. They are not safe, they are not necessary, and anything can go wrong. I do not like thinking that the production of these cars can lead to harm or bad things in the future.
I am against the development of the driverless cars because they are not safe enough to be on real rodes. If there are children in the car and something happens to the car it could hurt the kids and be very dangerous. Also not having control of the wheel at all times is dangerous because even now when people don't have their hands on the wheel there are multiple risks like crashing. Another thing that is not safe about these cars is that if it goes out of control on the road many lifes could be in danger and no one would know if it was the driver or the car.
Another reason I am againt the driverless car is that they aren't necessary. Cars now are simple. People know how to press on the gas and turn the stearing wheel the way they want to go. It isn't necessary to make a brand new car that can drive on its own if people know how to drive with their hands and feet perfectly fine. A lot of people in the world drive. If they don't like driving they catch busses or taxis. Even with the driverless car the car still needs a driver. And if most people drive there is no point in making a driverless car that you still have to drive. There is no point in paying a lot of money for a driverless car when you stil have to drive it. Also why take chances on a car that you still have to drive when you have a car that you know how to drive? You would pay all that money just to still end up driving.
A third reason I'm going against the development of the driverless car is that something can go wrong. There are so many things that could go wrong with the driverless car and no one should take that chance. If a sensor messes up and doesn't detect a wreck coming up instead of notifying the driver it could keep driving and crash into the other vehicals. There are so many different issues involving construction, wrecks, and traffic on the road and if one thing goes wrong with the car it could mess up everything and something very dangerous could happen. If it doesn't sense that their is construction ahead and it keeps going something bad could happen and people could end up paying a lot of money.
Having a driverless car isn't worth the risk. There are many reasons the driverless car doesn't need to be on the roads. They are not safe, they aren't neccessary, and anything can go wrong at anytime. They shouldn't put the driverless cars on the road because if anything goes wrong everyone around could be in danger. The companies need to make sure that A sensor will never mess up and that everything is 100% perfect with the car before they put it out for anyone to use it. | 4 |
2107217 | Saving The World, One Car At A Time
In country like Germany,Paris, and Colombia, they limit the use of cars due to carbon emission. I think that this is a great idea. Limiting car usage means less pollination, which would benefit us greatly.
"If this patterns persists" says Elisabeth Rosenthal, we could turn this problem around. Take Paris for instance, they issued a ban against driving on specific days. Though "almost 4,000 drivers were fined, according to Robert Duffer's article, the"congestion was down 60 percent. You can't tell me that is not remarkable.
We could just take a day and walk or ride our bicycle to work/school, and make a difference, so let's try. I know some people think that driving less is an inconvience and won't stop carbon emission, but I think the opposite is true. There will be "gray clouds" like Andrew Selsky says, but we CAN save the world, even if it just one car at a time. | 2 |
2107730 | Mar's Face
Many people think that Mars has life living on it. One example would be the two mile long landform, the Face. People have been wondering for years what this odd shaped landform is, could it be an alien statue or just a natural landform. The Face is not an alien formation, but a natural landform.
When NASA sent Viking 1, in 1976, to photograph Mars. They took images of the landscape there and stumbled upon a newly forming mesa or butte. Once NASA brought the images back and analyzed them. They found that the Face was nothing more than a Martian mesa with unusual shadows that made it look like a face.
Then, in 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over the region again. They snapped several pictures of it, at a ten times higher resolution, I might add, and analyzed these new images. They finally put their images on the internet and revealed to the world, that the Face was nothing more than a natural landform.
Finally, in 2001, NASA sent Mars Global Surveyor a second time to photograph the Face. The team at NASA used the highest possible resolution to photograph this controversial piece of Mars. They found that the picture shows the, "Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa," which are are also found in the American West. NASA's chief scientist for the Mars Exploration Program says," It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho."
Some people think that the Face provides evidence for life on Mars becasue NASA could not get a good shot of it. They do have a point that it would be hard to get a clear image of the Face with challenging weather. Yet, NASA has proven over and over again that the Face is nothing more than a natural formation.
The Face is nothing more than a natural landform and not an alien formation. Scientists found that is was a Martian mesa but the unusual shadows made it look like a face. NASA also found that it was nothing more than a natural landform and the Face looks very similar to buttes or mesas here on earth. Others think that NASA could not have gotten good pictures because of the weather, but NASA has proven that the Face is just a natural landform. The Face is just a strange piece of Mars and not a symbol of alien history. | 4 |
21077ac | In the article the author talks about how many people have fought in weather Mona Lisa was smilimg in the painting Leonardo Da Vici made , they were trying to figure out if she was happy, mad, sad, or annoyed. but thatnks to Dr. Haung , he figured out that Mona Lisa is happy and smiling in the painting. He said that there is a computer that can analyis weather you are happy ,mad , or sad ,etc. and so the people that said she was smiling were right about the painting. scienetest have also called smiling 'zygomatic major'. but that not all in the text they said that this might be one of
Da Vici's new codes by using facial expression. even thought Mona Lisa doesn't have any eyebrows the computer was still able to analyis if she was happy. the computer he used for this is called an' emotion algorithms'. they have been trying to track down her emotions for centuies. According to them Mona Lisa used muscles to show enough expression to rove she is happy. in the text it says" according to to the Facial Feedback Theory Of Emotion , moving your facaial muscles not expressesemotions, but also may even help produce them". | 1 |
210fff5 | It is wise that election is chosen by popular vote. I think that it should be kept this way, and all that are Electoral College should be changed to election by popular vote. Election by popular vote is an easier choice and makes things more simple. It could give candidates more of a chance to get elected. Time would be wisely saved if all states had the same system, it would give people more of a chance to get elected.
In the Electoral College voters vote for a portion of electors, not the president. The Electoral College is unfair to voters, this process is just undated and not right. A lot of states may not even see their candidates. If election by popular vote is used more than the places that don't, then they should be changed.
It is just easier to decide when there are more or less voters. The Electoral College just has less of a chance to be kept. If every state did the same to elect then it would be easier to decide who should be the president of the United States. | 2 |
21100ac | Dr. Paul Eckman is the creator of the FACS which stands for Facial Action Coding System. This system was created by Dr. Paul Eckman He classified six basic emotions which are happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. When you first try out the system the first process begins with the computer constructs with a 3-D model of the face. It gathers all the movement of the facial muscles, it shows if your mad or happy "your frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when you're surprised" this quotes says that the system can tell us your face expression, how you feeling during that time. If they tested out students in a classroom with this system FACS it would be valuable because it would show teachers how they students are really feeling that day, it would show teachers if the students really care about there eduaction which this would help out teachers because they'll see who really cares. Like when Mona Lisa smile, they tested it out the picture with the system to find out how she was really feeling "she's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry" this showed that the sysytem can tell all the different types of emotions at one point which this shows us that if they tested this system out in classroom with serval students this would show all the different types of emtions they're feeling that day and would help out a lot. | 2 |
21133d1 | Throughout the essay "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author does a good job of suporting the claim that studying Venus is worth while. The author provides examples and counters them with ways to overcome said obstacles, and uses specific examples on how NASA plans to study and explore Venus.
Venus has many different aspects and characteristics from Earth, such as the temperature of over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure that is 90 times greater than the pressure on Earth. Geological and weather challenges include lightning strikes, erupting volcanoes, and powerful earthquakes. The author mentions all of the issues regarding visiting Venus in the second and third paragraph. Although the author mentions the challenges, he/she is doing that to completely inform the reader by giving all the details and then finding ways to counter those obstacles. The author brings up the question of "If our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface?" in the beginning of paragraph 4. This shows how the author brings up an argument against the initial claim, and then proving that argument wrong to make the claim more valid. Next, in the fifth paragraph, the author uses evidence from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide ways to escape the hostile conditions of Venus. For example, one idea is to allow scientists to float above the fray in a blimp like vehicle. Again in the second paragraph, the author again mentions another plan by NASA to study Venus. This plan is to use simplified electronics made of silicon carbide because they could survive Venus's surface for a limited amount of time. By using specific evidence and research already done by NASA, the claim that "Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents," is being proven well. Lastly, in the final paragraph, the author does an excellent job of summarizing the scientific gains that would come from exploring Venus. The last line states, "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." which is a fantastic summary of the article and shows how well the author presented and supported his claim.
In conclusion, the author uses excellent writing skills to support and validate the initial claim, and does it very well. The author thoroughly analyzes each danger and possible solution, and also states the positive effects of traveling to Venus. By using specific evidence and research from NASA, and countering all of the dangers with possible solutions, the author supports the claim brilliantly. | 5 |
2116512 | The author feels that Venus has much potential of we explore it and overcome it's dificulties. The author also feels that the exploration of Venus was once like Earth and can hold many secrets.
The author thinks it is a good idea to explore Venus because it may have been an Earth-like planet in our solar system. The author says, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth," (4). The author explains that Venus was likely a planet similar to Earth today. If we learned about why Venus has taken up such harsh conditions, we may be able to predict the way Earth will die.
The author says that even though the conditions on Venus are harsh, we would be able to get vast amounts of solar energy from the planet. The text says, "Solar power would be plantiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans," (5). The author thinks that even though the conditions are harsh, it is worth the risk. If we are able to collect the large amounts of solar energy from Venus, then we could help power our planet when we rus out of non renewable resources, making it worth the risk of traveling to Venus.
In conclusion, the author thinks that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because we could learn about future evnts on Earth and also help our planet by harvesting energy from the solar power on Veunus that wouln't be accesible here on Earth. | 3 |
21178bf | As a NASA scientist, I believe that the " face " on Mars is a natural formation. I dont believe that aliens could have formed this. During my work, I have discovered many different ways to make you believe that the face is natural.
The scientists that work with NASA, such as myself, have found many different reasons as to why the formation looks like a face. During our time photographing Mars, we have been equiped with much better quality cameras, which help us see things better on Mars itself. Over the years, we have discovered that when you use a higher quality Mars Global surveyer (MGS), the " face " no longer looks like a face. Still some people didn't believe us the first time we got photographs of the land mark, so went and did it again. This time, we made sure that there weren't any clouds that could default the photos of Mars. What we found out by looking at these photos is the the facial features are simply just shadows. Take the eyes for example, while photographed from the middle of the land mark, there is a shadow being created by the sun. From this angle, the sun makes the land mark seem as if it had eyes. The " mouth " is simply just a hole in the land mark, which looks like a mouth while photographed from the middle of the land mark. There is no way aliens could be the cause of a natural piece of land on Mars.
Now that you understand what the " Face " actually is, I hope you dont still think aliens were the cause of it. There is scientific proof that it is a natural piece of land that just so happened to form on Mars. | 3 |
211d058 | To what lengths will one go in the name of discovery? In the article, "The Challenge of Expolring Venus," the author goes into great detail descrbing the dangers of venus in regards to overall climate and pressure. However, they also state that its striking similarties to Earth would make the arduous trip worth the while. In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author strongly supports their idea of supporting travel and explorations of Venus through use of tone and argumentation skills.
Venus, commonly known as Earth's "twin," is a planet often regarded with mystery and wonder. The author states that, "Humans have sent numerous spacecraft... unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived... more than a few hours" (The Challenge of Exploring Venus 2). Doing so, they introduce a sense of uneasiness to the reader and a need to continue reading. Then, the author goes on to counter this with comparisons to Earth-like or somewhat survivable conditions on Venus, such as similar radiation and airpressure levels. According to the author, Venus has "Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans" (The Challenge of Exploring Venus 6). By introducing this counter statement, the article's author attempts to downplay the immense risks and gives a sense of reassurance. overall, the author harnesses specific tone elements to support his argument.
Throughout the article, the author emphasizes the dangers and horrible, risky conditions of Venus, but successfully counters them with agruments providing evidence to the benefits of exploring and current steps taken to ensure safety and possible missions to the planet. According to the article, "NASA's possible solution to the hositile conditions... would allow scientists to tfloat above the fray" (The Challenge of Exploring Venus 5). The author attempts to formulate arguments that would make a trip to Venus a seemingly "indisputable" option. He also goes on to highlight the fact that although modern and flexible technologies would be unable to withstand the acidic and extremely hot climate of Venus, NASA is looking to reinvent the mechanical computer system used in World War II. In doing so, the author gives valid evidence to the reader, provoking thoughts in support to the article's claim.
Venus is a dangerous planet, but the curiosity of the human race appears to trump the fears of exploration. The author of the article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" utilizes strong tone and compelling counter arguments to support their claim. The article also displays arguments from both sides, and allows the reader to understand the risks, but also be wooed by the oppsing view. This provokes the question, is there ever truly a limit to man's curiosity? | 5 |
2121299 | Would you like to own a driverless car? Or would you prefer to drive it on your own? A lot of people agree with this idea, and many do not. I personally don't believe that it is safe enough to be behind the wheel of this automobile. A driverless car, in my opinion, shouldn't even be an option in today's society. I disagree with this idea because, people tend to fall asleep and they simply do not pay enough attention to their surroundings.
First of all, many people can hardly handle the simple instructions that they're given to control a car on their own, so what makes Sergey Brin believe that they'll be able to sit back and let a car drive for its self? When a conflict occurs and it's time for the driver to step in and take complete control of the car and they don't do so quick enough, then what? There will be another person lost or wounded due to driving. In paragraph 7 the texts simply states, "Manufactures are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road." So, what makes the inventor of this senseless car believe that drivers won't doze off while sitting back and letting a computer drive for hundreds of miles? If the manufactures are implying that they will use cameras to watch what the driver is doing, then they simply do not trust their creation well enough to leave it to do it's job.
Also, many people have lost their lives due to careless drivers. Some people do not pay attention when they're in full control of an automobile, so I strongly doubt that they will come to their senses while a computer is driving for them. If the car makes a mistake it will be on the driver to fix it, but if the driver isn't aware of what is going on then there will be a serious problem. Paying attention to the road is something that many people just cannot seem to do. I find it very outrageous that this car will even be considered to be driven on the streets of the U.S.A.
However, I do understand why some believe that this car will be the car of the future. I mean, who wouldn't want to sit back and relax while a computer does their job? When it comes to homework or something that I'm just not sure about, I leave it to my computer to give me the answers, but when it comes to driving a man made invention such as a car, I'm absolutely against it. If the car can't reverse on it's own, then it is believed to be use less.
In conclusion, I will continue to live by my opinion on prohibiting driverless cars because, people tend to fall asleep and they simply do not pay enough attention to their surroundings. Advising drivers not to purchase these types of vehicles should be strongly proposed. However, I fully understand why someone would want to create an automobile that does just about everything for them. | 4 |
2123c43 | I can assure you that the Face on Mars is just a natual landform, like the ones here on Earth. "In 2001, on April 8, MGS captured a photo using the cameras absolute maximum resolution." "Using more pixels than the best 1976 Viking photo." "As a result, the image was much more clear." "So you could discern things that were on the ground." "If there were structures on the ground, you could see what they were."
"What the photo really showed was the equivalent of a butte or mesa." "Landforms in which are common around the American West." "It is also like the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." "A lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa." "In which is the same height as the Face on Mars."
Another reason is that, "on April 5, 1998, MOC team took a picture ten times sharper than th original Viking photos." "Thousands of people were waiting when the image appeared on a JPL web site." "It revealed a natural landorm." "People were disappointed to see this." "Meaning no alien monument was found."
Now I hope I have explained this clear enough for you to understand. To show you how the Face on Mars isn't really a face at all. And that it wasn't built by aliens. But is in fact a natural landform. Just like the ones here on Earth. | 2 |
2126db8 | Do you want to help other people in other countries? If so, come join the UNRRA now!
There are many reasons to join the UNRRA. You get to help other people by giving them what they need to survive. You can by giving them food, clothing, and shelter. When you help other people with their needs, you get to go to other countries that you might have only heard about or not even heard of at all. When you bring people what the need to survive, you can see the joy on their faces. Seeing joy in others is a warm and inviting feeling. You can go sightseeing and go visiting very, very important places. I have been to many important places and landmarks, and so can you if you join. If you have dreamed about crossing oceans and helping others, then this is a job for you.
When the feeling of boredom strikes you if you have been on the boat for a long time, you have the chance to get to know your shipmates better and make friends. There also may be games to play on board like baseball and volleyball in empty stalls where the animals once were. There is table-tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling; which is carving things into blocks of wood and various other games. If you love taking care of animals, then you might be good at this job. There are many other jobs on board the ship. There is the opportunity to learn about your shipmates, learn what other countries and other people need, and there is also the opportunity to mature.
All of these things I have learned or done while on this job and trip around the world helping others. This is your chance to join the UNRRA ( United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) or become a "Seagoing Cowboy" today. We need you now! | 3 |
2129e90 | The use of the facial software in class rooms could be a vital aspect in stopping and preventing tragedies such as school shootings,bullying,and possibly fights.
In todays society is a key element on being able to read people's emotion to be able to determine how to approach the said person. Many people are able to tell when a peer is angry pr sad but some people just have a blank face. The use of the software could help teachers understand their students,which in turn can help elaborate people's triggers and can lead to a better day."In fact, we humans perform this same impressive calculation every day.
For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face.
Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc. Yet Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions.
His new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code. Perhaps Dr. Huangs emotion algorithms are a different sort of Da Vinci Code)"
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. The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressivefor video games or video surgery. Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication, notes Dr. Huang. So computers need to understand that, too.Eckman has classified six basic emotionshappiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadnessand then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles. For example, your frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when youre surprised; your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger.
In conclusion the software should be implemented in todays classrooms .Althoughyour home PC cant handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisas smile. | 2 |
212f1e9 | Facial action coding system, is a source of technology that knows how your feeling through facial recongnition. It is used to identify with the muscle movments on a human face. Using this type of technology to read emotional expressions in a classroom filled with students shouldn't be valuable.
Yes the Facial Action Coding System is helpful with identifying exactly how your feeling, but why in a classroom filled with students? Having computers know exactly how they're feeling isn't something that students
would be able to be
comfortable with. If someone isn't happy, the computers shouldn't have to be programmed to go out of its
way to help a
person doesn't
want to be helped.
In the article in paragrph 3
it states that there are 44 major
muscles in a model that move just like a humans face to identify facial expressions. With that kind technology with the
computers knowing, its an invasion of privacy
to
the students. Students like to to keep to themselves, keeping
their
emotions private. Paraghraph 5 It states that humans can also read eachothers facial expressions. Why let a computer find out what your feeling when humans can do the same thing? Also in paragraph 7 it shows steps on how to encode different emotions, the students don't even need
that sort of technology if they can find out what theyre feeling for themselves.
This is why using the
Facial Action Coding System shouldn't be valuable. That students don't need advance technology to read exactally what they're feeling. That humans should be able to read eachothers emotions or just keep it to themselves either a device knowing. | 3 |
212f8b4 | In todays world students often get board in a classroom. Therefor students dont pay atention when the teather is teaching. The result of them not paying atention leads to them getting bad grades. It would make a great diffrence if schools would use the FACS. There are many reasons why schools should be useing FACS but here are some of the main reason.
One of the reasons schools should be using FACS is because it would be able to tell if someone was getting frusterated and were to imbarest to ask for help. If teacher knew that one of their students were getting upset with something they would be able to help them to complet there assiment and not just sit there and not do it. If they did not use this they could not tell if the student was getting upset and didnt know how to do somthing and didnt fell comfortable asking for help in front of the class.
Another reason is they could tell if the students were liking the subjust that they were on. The teacher would be able to see if the students were likeing the way that the teacher was teaching thing so the teacher would know for the next years. This would improve the students grades by the teacher knowing how the students like to be tought.
Last but not least the teacher could tell if something was going on either outside of schools or in school. The teacher would be able to tell if they were upset and they could ask them what was wrong and they could try to help solve the problem. This could improve grades as well by helping the student foces more and help them not be upset.
If the schools were to use FCAS they should would become a better place for students to learn. The schools would become higher in rank because the studente would get better grades. there for FACS should be used in schools. | 3 |
213b477 | No body wants to walk every where, and never make it on time somewhere or walk so far just to get groceries. It's better for citizens to have a car to run erences and do what they got to do to get some where. The only thing citizens should avoide is "accidends" because then you won't no car to get any where, But it's always good to have a walk somewhere to get moving and get energy and not be lazy. I mostly preffer citizens should use there car to do things they need to do before going home so they don't have to keep going in and out the house wasting gas, and just wasting your time to relax after Work , School , and Ect.. Cars need a lot of taking care of too because if you have'nt check your car yet just in case if anything is wrong with it your car could randomly break down. Cars are very useful to get where you need to go faster and also maybe safer.
Their's pros and cons having to use a car,the pros are that they get you places faster and most important "Emergency" it's good to have a car to get to the hospital and go to a friend or family that would need your help. Cars are good to get to work on time to get money to previde for your Family,Pay bills,Groceries and Ect..The Cons is that motors can ruin the air pollution. Theirs citizens out there that can be a recless driver ad could hit another car,people of side walks, and run into someting. I thinks citizens should at least once in a while use a bike, Skate, or take a public transformation, to move more get out the house. Most other countries don't even use cars to get places they use bikes,carges with the horses taking you,skate,or walk they do that because they feel they don't need cars to get places it get them out and do something,Why you think other counties have lots of activies,prades,places so close togther to make thing healthier and better for the people.
At the end I feel like we should go out more and use less car activity and do more thing to get out and move around. Citizens wants to feel safer start useing bicycles,public transformation, or walk, it's better to be safe then sorry. Also maybe less accidences and more better air to breath and feel safe. Also less drunk driving and anything that could ruin you driving because you could be in danger and could put theres in danger too. | 2 |
213db80 | An Electoral College is a process established in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualifed citizens. Each candidate running for President has a group of electors who people vote for when voting for the candidate of their choice. The candidate with the most electoral votes and popular votes is the new President. Although this is not a democratic process, we the people still need to keep it for various reason including, having swing states, the votes between bigger states and smaller states, and avoiding run-off elections.
Toss-up states, or swing states, mainly help the outcome of the election. Although they don't elect who becomes President, they are the ones who are more likely to really listen to the competing candidates and know who to vote for than careless voters who vote for no obvious reason or are told to. They are the most thoughtful voters, which could really help the U.S. pick a great President for the next 4 to even 8 years. The more votes from those who pay attention to the election, the better chance of having a great President.
Bigger states are important to the candidates in the election. A larger population would mean more votes, and more votes would avoid a tie between the candidates. For example, Florida is a larger state. In 2012, the popular vote was very close because Florida had more electoral votes. Wyoming, a smaller state, had only 3 electoral votes. In other words, larger states get more attention from presidential candidates than smaller states do.
The Electoral College avoids run-off elections, which is when no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast. When there's a tie in votes, great pressure arises and the presidential election process is greatly complicated. The Electoral College avoids this problem, reduces the pressure and produces a clear winner.
The Electoral College may not be a democratic process and may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carring their state, but is important in a variety of ways; including swing states, votes between big and small states, and avoiding run-off elections. Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote that may decide an election. | 4 |
213de64 | We discovered the face on mars twenty-five years ago and since then we have not uncovered anything that tells us there are alien life forms living on the planet. Is it still possible for there to be aliens on the planet, maybe. We could go back to the planet and see if there is any evidence of alien life forms now.
The face on Mars is formed from wind blowing dirt and sand around, pileing it up and packing it together. Now it just so happened that it managed to form a face with eyes, a nose, and a mouth. Now is this a strnge thing to have happen, yes it is indeed but it still happened all on its own. If we were to go and look at the photots you would see that there are no footprints or anything aroun the face, there is just the face.
Unless the alien life forms are living beneath the planet there are no aliens. Is it possible for aliens to be living underneath the ground of the planet, yes it is possible. For all we know there could be aliens living underneath the crust of our planet. We do have yet to discover everything but for now we will assume that there are no alien life forms living in this galaxy, maybe in another galaxy but not this one. | 2 |
213f458 | In this essay the author supports well the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author presents us wih many advantages there is to furthure exploring venus. Venus is the closest planet to the Earth in terms of density and size, and on some occasions the closest in distance to. Venus may very well have been the most Earth- like planet in our solar system due to its very familar forms and possibly long ago could have had the same features and asspects that Earth has today. There have been many rising ideas that could help with a more thorough study of Venus. These are some of the ideas that the author presented us with in this article.
To begin with the author explained how similar Venus is to Earth. Although Venus is the planet closest to Earth in terms of desity and size it has been very difficult for us to study the planet. A thich atmospherte of almsot 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. What has been even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. Here the authos has been giving us specific ideas on why the Venus us so hard to study. But the autgor has presented us with a very important detail. Venus is sometimes right around the corner from Earth in space terms, which can be our neartest point for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel.
Not only does the author give those deatils but also explains how Venus could have one been very silimar to Earth in many asspects. The author says that
Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. The author also includes existing facts. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features suck as valleys, mountains, and craters.
The author also presents us with some possible ways to fix the prbelem of bein able to study Venus. The idea is that NASA has a possible solution that would allow scientists to float above the fray. Being able to float 30 or so miles above the planet could avoid the unfrienly conditions but they would be survivable for humans. There are also other ideas given by the author like simplified electronics made of silicon carbide that has been able to survivie in the conditions for 3 weeks. And mechanical computers. All of these could give the opportunity to better study Venus.
In conclusion the author has presented us with sufficiant details that suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit. Not only because it could be a great scientific study and make us more knowledgable. But the author says human curuiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. The authors is saying that being able to study Venus which is the planet most similar to Earth could benefit us becasue one day Earth as we know it could chnage and could become as dangerous as Venus is to humans now. Knowing more about Venus could help us prevent futhure harm to the Earth and ourselves. | 4 |
213f930 | So today, my friends and I are going to meet up about joining the UNRRA. I hope they say yes (which i'm pretty sure they are going to).
"Hey, Luke," says Mort and Jake.
They say,"Uh, we have something to tell you. We aren't joining the UNRRA."
I say,"What? How come you don't want to join the UNRRA?"
Jake says,"Well, I'm sort of afraid of oceans or lands of water."
"No need to worry about that," I say,"You would be distracted by all the amazing places we get to see such as how I got to see Crete and I got to see the Panama Canal."
"Oh really?" says Jake,"I've never knew that, thanks for telling me. I might join the UNRRA, now.
"Would't you be on the ship all the time? I want to have some sort of fun while i'm on the ship," says Mort.
I say,"No need to worry about that, Mort. We do a lot of things to past time on the boat."
Mort says,"Really? What do you guys do?"
I say,"Well, there's Table-Tennis, Fencing, Boxing, Reading, Whittiling, and games to pass up the time."
"Oh, that's all I wanted to know," Mort says.
I say,"Now, are all of you convinced to join the UNRRA?"
Both Mort and Jake say,"oh, yes we are!"
So, as you can see, convincing friends to do something can be hard at times. Sometimes, you just have to have the facts to come with you. I'm very glad I signed up for the UNRRA in the past because is I didnt, I problaby wouldn't have been able to convince them to come. | 3 |
213fc89 | My friend Brynna thinks that the "Unmasking the Face on Mars." was done by aliens, but the other hand I dont think it was. The first photos looks like an alien but they were taken long long ago, but the pictures today are way sharper and shows us more detail about them. On paragraph 7 it states, "And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on the JPL web site, revealing... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all"(Unmasking the Face on Mars, paragraph 7). Basically it was just a landform that looks like a face.
Also the artical states that the weird looking mask looks like landforms common around the American West, it states on paragraph 12, "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa- landforms common around the American west"(Unmasking the Face on Mars, paragraph 12).
Brynna states from paragraph 5," Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars- evidence that NASA
would rather hide, say conspiracy theorist"(Unmasking the Face on Mars, paragraph 5).
But you have to think about the citizens, would you really want to know if aliens do exist or not? Not knowing is stress free and just makes the world a better place. But if you know you'd freak out every day of your life thinking aliens can come down any day now. Not knowing everything is a good thing sometimes and not knowing what NASA is hiding is a good example.
So knowing that the pictures they have are real pictures, it is a landform. My text evidence in my first three paragraphs will give you the reasons why "Unmasking the Face on Mars" is a landform and not a face. | 3 |
2140b9d | I think that driverless cars shouldn't be developed. These cars shouldn't be developed for many reasons. As of right now, the cars still need driver assistance, but in the future they may not. What will that lead to though? These cars are not completely safe and accident free, many thingscan still happen. These cars shouldn't be developed because it can cause more accidents, the cars may malfunction and the driver wouldn't be capable of conrolling the car themselves, and then there is the problem of some people using these driverless cars, and some people won't be able to use them, which could cause problems as well.
One reason why this car shouldn't be developed is because it can cause more accidents. Dr. Werner Huber, a BMW project manager driver states, "The car psychological aspects of automation are really a challenge. We have to interpret the driving fun in a new way." He is basically saying that this is actually a pretty big challenge, because there are safety requirements that need to be met. There is also no laws for these cars. What happens if someone gets injured? Who is going to be reliable for the injury? Laws are writtern with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. This seems to be true. You can't always rely on robots, as I know you can't always rely on people, but when it comes to crunch time, and you need to make a big decision on the wheel, people are going to do what's best for them, robots are only going to do what they have been controlled to do. Also, these cars can only handle functions up to 25 MPH. There are speed limits that are way above this, and since there are no laws that would help it, the driver may get tickets for noy following the law of the speed limit. Whe you look at the facts, this could cause serious disruptions, serious injuries, and many mishaps on the road.
Another reason why these ars shouldn;t be developed are because the cars could malfunction at any time. You can't always rely on robots. They are only programmed to control certian situations, not all situations. As of right now, the cars aren't reliable enough. It states, "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills." We need to take these things into consideration. Many people are ignorant, and may not pay attntion to te notifications it sends out. This is an accident waiting to happen. What if the driver doesn't hear the alert, or isn't paying attention becaause they give full control to the car? Then things will go wrong, which could lead to accidnets or injuries. Also, it says that the car steers, accelerates, and brakes itself. This can cause problems as well. Since everyone won't have these cars, the car is going to have to rely on the other drivers on the road with them. They are going to have to worry about when the car in front of them goes or stops, when they pull out or pull in somewhere, if an accident happens in front of them, or if there is a road condition that they need to avoid. Also, there is the scenario with lights. WIll the cars be able to stop at lights, or stop signs on there own? If not then this could cause huge accidents.
The last problem is that some people won't be able to use them, and if they do, not efficiently. People, simply put, are stupid, so why would you rely on them to take over a car when the car stops working by itsself? You wouldn't. Some people also have disabilities that can cause them to not hear or snese the notifications, and well there is people who won't be paying attention to the =m either in all honesty. You have to put these things into consideration when making these revolutionary chnages to the world. One incident in the programming could cause serious catastrophic events. Also, not everyone will be able to afford one of these cars. If people can't afford some of these cars, then that woudn't be safe. There would be some drivers that would have the cars, and some that won't. Basically what I'm saying is that some people will go off their instinct and knowledge while driving, while others go off computer programming.That isn't a good idea, ebacsue usually people use signals with each other to figure what they need to do, but the car won't be able to do that. It just isn't safe for the roads to have both driverless cars, and cars that need drivers in them at the same time. People may argue that these kind of ideas are good, and that after all, the cars may be revolutionary and help the world. It's just that robots can't be trusted, as certainly as people can't be either, but people will be able to make the best decision based on the current events at the time. Just think, have you ever seen Irobot? Anything could happe, and many malfunctions could occur.
To basically sum this up, the development of these cars are a bad idea. There will be many more accidents, more malfunctions, and the incapability of people wouldn't help any either. I think that this is a very bad idea, and as much as I want it to be a good diea, I just can't see it turning out fot he best. | 5 |
2148c4b | In this article the author did a great job at explaining why we should still try to study Venus. Although there are many challenges NASA is trying to overcome, the author inlcuded details about the geology, weather, and what kind of technology we could use on Venus.
As stated in this article Venus is the most "Earth like" planet, meaning that Earth and Venus are ver similar. They both that a rocky sediment that eventually forms valleys, mountains, and even craters. Scientists assume that long ago Venus was actually mostly covered in water too, which would have made it possible for organisms to grow there. Venus is also one of the closest planets to us - besides Mars, that would make it easy to send things such as rovers to explore it. But there are some things about Venus that aren't so Earth like and would make it difficult to explore.
The author also explained in paragraph 3 that if NASA were to send something to Venus there is no way it would survive the trecherous weather conditions. There is a thick atmosphere made up of blankets of carbon dioxide and under are currosive sulfuric acid clouds. Since the atmosphere and clouds are so thick it makes it hard to even see in the first place. Not to mention all of the volcanoes, earthquakes, and lightining that would destroy anything we sent up there. It is also said that Venus has the hottest temperature of all the planets in our solar system resting at a whopping 800 degrees, which would melt almost any piece of technology we sent there.
In paragraph 7 the author talks about how NASA is looking at different approaches to visiting Venus, or sending technology out there. NASA has tested simplified electronics made of silicon carbide in a chamber that simulates what it would be like on Venus and they lasted up to three weeks. But some think that if they were to use an old piece of technology from the 1800's that it could possibly work as well. That piece of techology is called the mechianical computer, which actually uses no technology at all, it uses gears and levers to calculate things. But overall NASA would need to be careful due to the fact that it is 800 degrees on Venus and that could melt several different things.
In short, the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" did a great job supporting why people should not give up studying Venus. They provided solid evidence of why our two planets are similar, weather conditions that would hold us back, and technology we could potentially use to explore Venus. | 4 |
214b662 | Limiting car usage will have a advantage and major inpact on people all over the world because it will slow down polution you will spend less money and it will bring people together more
When limiting car usage it will bring down the pollution rate and help the world. Less people have been driving since 2005, as of april 2013 9 percent less than in 1995. less people are driving in the us but more people are driving in london so they have had days where no one drives but taxies and buses.
people also will soend less money if they stop driving as much because the people will not have to buy gas,change the oil in ther vehicles. maintain the ware and tare that then need everyday will only have to buy tires one a year because they will wear down slower with less miles on them. many people want buy and new cars because they will reilize that the dont need as much as they have been before.
By driving less it will bring more people together becasue while walking to work or on the bus people will make new friends. The will meet new people walking down the sidewalk and also more familey will stay together more becuas they will stay home more becuase it will be harder to go place that they would want across town so it would also bring famileys tgether more.
In Conclution i think that limating car usge would be a good thing because ther would be less polution and people would spend less money than what they do now it would also bring more people together and help people make new friends. | 3 |
214bad3 | Does students emotions matter in a classroom?Is using technology to see their emotions, actually useful?The answer to that is yes.The use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable.Students facial expressions can say a lot about how they feel or what they go through, and with the help of technology, teachers maybe able to see what works to get their students more happy.In the following, you will read why technology can actually help read students facial expressions.
Humans mostly use facial expressions and emotions to show how they feel,rather than talking about them. Usually humans can tell how another person feels by looking at their expressions, but other times humans just hide it. Emotional expressions are very important in human communication, especially if a student is in class studying, because then the teacher can help and see how
the student feels. That is where technology comes in.Teachers do not always know what to do when the students are bored or upset, but technology can help with that. Dr. Huang says,"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"(paragraph 6, D'Alto).This shows that the computer can help change the students emotions to help learning more interesting for them.The computer can change its screen according to how the student feels about it. Dr. Huang says," For example, if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different"(paragraph 6,D'Alto).The author shows how the students can choose what they want to see to make learning more interesting for them, with the help of technology.
Sometimes students dont want to talk about their feelings. When they have this program in their classroom, the students will have to smile at certain things so that they can watch what they want to see.Smiling helps a lot with emotion and feelings.The author writes,"According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them"(paragraph 9, D'Alto).This shows that the more students smile for the computers, the more happy they may also feel.The author writes,"Empathy(feeling someone else's emotional state) may happen because we unconsiously imitate another person's facial expressions"(paragraph 9, D'Alto). The author states how one persons feelings can affect others. The computer can also do that to a student by letting them see things that make them happy.
Students may struggle with certain things that they are currently learning, so the computer can help make it easier and more fun for the student to understand. Teachers often just teach the way they know how to, and they dont pay enough attention to the students emotions and facial expressions.Technology can join the student and help teach him/her in the way that they enjoy.This can lead to good grades and more happiness.Its like a computer can have and understand human emotions, that some humans may have difficulty understanding.The author writes,"Of course most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc"(paragraph 5, D' Alto).This shows that humans are normally not capable of telling anothers humans emotions. The author writes, "...da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions. His new computer software stores similar anatomical information"(paragraph 5, D'Alto).THis shows that the new computers have the capabitliy to see how a human is feeling, and help the students with learning.
The "Facial Action Coding System" has found a brilliant way of helping students learn. Emotions can really affect how a certain student is concentarting in education, and sometimes it can even take over. Humans use facial expressions to show their emotional expressions, and when their computer sees how they feel, it can make it more fun and interesting for the student to learn.Students dont have to even mention their feelings, the computer can just see it.Students tend to smile so that they can see what they want to see. The use of technology to read the emotional expressions of a student in a classroom is definitely valueable. | 4 |
214e706 | The world need the cars not just for hang out with your friends or family the are a lot people who need a car like transportation when they going to the work also for emergency that means car they has to continue in the world peolple they neede.
Car they are necessary for a better style of life that way the humanity but aslo how many life are they die driving a car something people they don't control what they are doing and that kind of people put on danger other and that way can be affected that both.
People they atre traying to use the tecnology to made a car more save and inteligent for the humanida and that way less car crash but the thing most important is the life of billion of people who are driving in the world.
The world need peolple who invent new thing that work better in the car or if really necesisary destroy the cars in the world or invent a new transportatio for the humanida. | 1 |
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