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22d825e | Driverless cars gives the world an oppurtunity that offers a great convience. In my aspect, I would never drive a driverless car because it is unecessary in this world. Although, the aspect of accidents in cars would drop by a major level, the fun of driving a car would all be gone. Even though the car would have a "manual mode", where the driver has to drive a car through the work zone and around accidents, it would not be as enertaining as to drive on the highway at high speeds. Additionally, if driverless cars were an idea that was put to use, many people would lose their jobs, because a lot of the jobs that people have are to make sure that the highway is safe. If driverless cars were there, there would be no need for those people, because the roads would be safe.
The whole point of driverless cars is so that the human inside the vehicle does not have to do any work while in the car to drive it. If the car still needs a human to watch over it and navigate it through the work zones and accidents, there is not really a point in the cars. Like said in paragraph 7, "They can streer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills..", there should not really be that "human skills" part of the sentence, because in the pharse "driverless cars", it says so itself that the car is driverless, and if a driver is still required then the cars are not really driverless.
There is also the question of if someone is injured, who is at the fault- the driver of the manfacturer. This question was presented in paragraph 9, and does not have an answer at the time. I think this is a very vaild point that the article is making because it could be either's fault. Although, considering the fact that people still buy cars these days, and if someone is hurt, it is usually the driver's fault. I would think that there is somekind of waiver of some sort that says, if you buy this product, you are using it at your own risk. Although this again, just supports the argument of driveless cars are not necessary in this world.
Considering the content from the article, I think that driverless cars still require a lot of work, but hopefully manufacturers can perfect them. They need to reinvent driving in a fun way, like said in paragraph 8 by Dr. Werner Huber. He said that "We have to interpret the driving fun in a new way". The true challenge to driverless cars, lies in this. I would support driverless cars if they can truly accomplish driverless cars in a fun and new way. | 4 |
22d9b4a | I think the driverless car is a waste of time because of time because you do not even get a insure that your safe when you get in the car. In the text it states in most states it illegal to test compuer made cars. What driver would want to be in a csr thats not even tested to see if it does not shut down on commands or to notify if you are in danger of getting hit or close to backing up on a car.
The car can not even drive on its own around construction sites or around heavy traffic jams that what type of car people would buy without question. If the car can not move around or hit the brakes when your in serious danger than why even get it. Its jus a waste or your money and time and you can not inusre your safety.
The biggest thing that about the cars is you do not even know if you can sue the company for car failure. What if it just stop working and you hit someone than its going to be on you not the other person. The law might say it was on you for buying a car that was not tested but it was their design and if it could not be tested why are they on the street.
I believe the only the car good for giving your leg a rest from the peddle but that what we have cruise control for. The car is junk and have no need for people daily life and should not be out for a drive. alot of people will get hurt or worse for a untested car thats legal on the street. | 3 |
22dd848 | Different people can have many different opinions on weather or not the "Face on Mars" was made by aliens or not. There are many reasons for my it might have been made by aliens. There are also many reaons for why it is just a natural landform that formed on Mars. It seems more likely that the face was not made by aliens, but formed naturally. Now here are just a few of the many reasons for why "The Face on Mars" is a natural landform.
The first reason for why aliens did not form the "face" is becuase aliens have not been proven to live on Mars. Which would make it impossible for them to have formed it. The second reaon is that life has not been proven to exsist on Mars, so it would have to be formed naturally. Finally, there are many landforms that are on Earth and may look like something else, and was naturally formed and not man made. For example, a cave in Tennessee has a lot of rock formations that look like bacon, a sun set, and even a frog. Those are just a few reasons for why the face on Mars was not made by aliens, but was naturally formed by nature.
The face on Mars has many differnt opinions for weather it was made by aliens or was naturally formed by nature. There are reasons for why either one of them could be proven correct. As you can now tell it is very unlikely that the face was made by aliens. Instead it was formed naturally by nature. Now you know why it is very unlikely that aliens made "The Face on Mars." | 3 |
22e1e7a | Who would want a driverless car that still needs a driver? Wouldn't you feel bored waiting for your turn to drive. If by chance, you got in an accident, who would you blame? The driver which will be you or the manufacture? I were in your shoes, I would rather drive around myself. I would rather drvier around myself, because I trust myself more than their driverless car. I believe any company should not try to developed driverless car.
First of all, I believe that any company should not try to developed a driverless car because it cause more accident. I believe it will cause more accident because the driverless car they develope is not 100 percent safe. Imagine a 50 cars driving it self in high way. You don't know who they are going to break or stop working. Even tho "GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object" I still would not trust it. Will you be ready when it's vibrate?
Second of all, I believe that any company should not try to developed a driverless car because it can lead to serious trouble. For example, If you get in an accident, who will you blame while driving driverless car? Will you blame yourself or the company. I can tell you this. No one won't want to lose their money. You won't want to lose your money nor the manufacturer. When this happen, someone will fill lawsuit. The company and the people will hate each other.
Another reason I believe that any company should not try to developed a driverless car because anyone won't like a driverless car who need assit. What is the different between you driving the car and you have to be ready when ever the car need assit. I can tell you that many people hate to wait. Also you can trust 100 percent that when the car need your assit. You don't know for sure that it will alert you. It is man mad car. Anything can happen. If I were you I will not trust them because they can lead you to death.
Finally, I believe that any company should not try to developed a driverless car because you can drive as you please. Pretend you are late for something. And you need to get there fast. You need to go faster and driverless car has certain speed. This are the reason I believe manufacturing should not develope a carless car. | 4 |
22e3946 | Driverless cars should not be developed into an actual invention. For their are many negative reasons why they shouldnt be. A driverless car is a pointless waste of time.
For a driverless car to be driver less it must not have a driver. Well according to paragraph 7 it states," In fact, none of the cars developed so far are completely driverless. They can steer, accelerate, and brake themeselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents, this must mean the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requres." Why develope driverless cars that still need driver? Secondly, in paragraph for the list the gear mounted on the car. " Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-
estimiating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview miror, four auto motive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor. The most important bit of technolopgy in this syster is the spinning sensor on the roof. Dubbed LIDAR." A regular car requires simple parts at times such as a spark plug or a new battery perhaps some oil. If every car was to be replaced by driverless cars, who would have to pay for replacement parts the owner or the manufactuer. I guarantee you none of those parts are remotely cheap. Currently out of the various models of driverless cars one with potential was started by engineers at Berkeley, but their model requires roads to be updated as well with magnets to alternate polarity. That would be alright but it would be an unpractical amount of money that taxes wouldn't help pay for much.
So in conclusion, due to the fact of the lawful consequences in case of an accident, high cost replacement parts and the unpractical amount of money for the updating of roads for driverless cars doesnt seem all the much worth it in the long run. Plus is it really safe to let computers drive a potentially deadly vehicle. | 3 |
22eb6fa | With the new Facial Action Coding System (FACS), scientists can now make computers to read and interpret human emotions revealed through facial expressions. One of the applications is using the technology in classrooms to analyze the facial expressions of the students during classes. Personally, I do not approve the value of applying this technology in classrooms to read students' emotions.
First, the FACS technology is a brand new technology with a lot of space for development. It is highly effective and useful in many different areas. For example, historians can use the technology to interpret the emotions of historical figures on paintings and photos. Psychologists can use this technology to aid understanding and analyzing the emotions of patients in order to reselove the emotional issues. The technology may be applied in law enforcement as well by analyzing the emotions of criminals and enemies to obtain useful inteligence. Also, as the article mentioned, FACS has a bright future in animation and video editing. With all the potential developments of FACS, using the technology just to analyze the students in schools to know if they're interested and engaging during classes seems like a waste of the asset. A good teacher is well aware of the students in the class. Teachers know if a student is interested. They can either catch the students' attention or teach without people paying attention. It would cost a great amount of money to apply FACS in all the schools. Instead of spending the money on the technology, it would be better to use the money on teachers' training programs and improving teaching regulations to make sure the courses taken by the students are benefitial and interesting, so the classes are more likely to attract students' attention. This is a far more effective method to resolve the issue than spending a lot of money and applying the technology on students who tend not to pay attention in classes. The main focus of the development of FACS should be on other areas which bring more benefits and possibilities to the future.
Secondly, it would be considered as privacy invasion to apply the FACS technology in a public location, like schools. Personal emotions are definately considered as personal privacy. People do not have the rights to spy on other people's emotions, especially when they keep their emotions to themselves. The FACS technology should not be applied in a way which gathering people's emotions by reading the facial expressions without permission. If it is being used in schools, it surely will be a mendatory requirement because students do not have more control over teachers. Emotions are one of the unique qualities owned by humans as a very advanced form of life. The creators of the FACS technology are supposed to understand the point and respect normal human emotions in daily life. In addition, the use of FACS in schools is relatively not applicable. Firstly, it requires a large amount of funds to apply the technology. Secondly, teenagers in high school are going through a stage of life where they are unstable emotionally and value their privacy greatly. There is no doubt that the teenage students would strongly oppose the idea of using FACS technology in the classrooms and observing their emotions all the time.
In conclusion, it is not of enough value to use the Facial Action Coding System to identify students' emotions in a classroom. Based on the two reasons previously mentioned, the effective way would be ensuring the students are interested and attracted by the classes, rather than finding out whether they're are paying attention. And, it is socially unacceptable and not applicable to apply the technology on students. Therefore, instead of spending the money and time monitoring on students' emotions, why not developing the FACS technology for other more influential and benefitial potentials? | 5 |
22ed5ef | What If i told you that instead of haveing the electoral college vote for us we can change the vote to popular vote. The American people and past presidents have all come to one conclusion, that the electoral college should be removed and instead move on to popular vote. Many peole have had this thought but it has never became an actual reality and I personally beleive that the electoral college should nto decide our presidents.
The electoral college is a wide variety of people from different states who gather together and decide who becomes the president of the United States. The electoral college doesn decide who are president is, but they do so in a terrible manner such as they take the popular vote into a miniscule amount of consideration and completely make up the decisions without taking into consideration the american people who perfer popular vote over electoral vote. In 2000 the electoral college had something called the diasaster factor where there was a giant election crisis. As stated in the article " the system allows for much worse" and that the american people should call them selves "lucky". The electoral college is a very risky way in order to elect our president
What people dont realize is that each state gets a certain set of electoral votes and the three major states with the most electoral votes are California,Texas, and Florida. What most presidents do is cater to the states that have the most electoral votes which means all the other states with not as many electoral votes get excluded from giving their opinion as it is taken over by the bigger states. This is also awful because most states might vote for one president but get ruled out because the majority of electoral votes are taken over by the bigger states. Agriculture states such as Idaho might not get apealed as much by presidents and don't get the supplies and support some states deserve. Even presidents such as Nixon, Bob Dole, and Jimmy Carter all belived that the electoral college should be abolished and move on to popular vote.
Another opposing view is that we should keep the electoral college for a couple of reasons to avoid run off elections but with popular vote that would almost never happen as people choose the canidate they perfer as run off election would be very unlikely. Another debate is that presidents would go after states with bigger populations but no matter what with electoral and mpopular vote presidents are always going to go after states with more people it's a problem we can not avoid.
I personally and storngly beleive that we should abolish the electoral voting system and start using popular vote as it seems like our best chance to ever get the right president but even then we still make mistakes but us as the american people need to learn from our mistakes in order to make the future better for voting and many more things. | 4 |
22ed7ef | I think that people should be able to use there own car when they to for there to get around aleats lower gas prices so people want be in there cars much as they u to be. Some people need to use there cars for the onlu way for transpartion to get doctors and dentisis appoinments they can also use there cars less because there wasting valuable resources in world because gas makes the car so that a valuavble resources we need to keep so maybe if people stay out thers cars it will make the gases prices go down they you can use for only if really need if you the car as a emgercy.
Why are there no cars on Vaubans street but expect there are only a few down town in but thats only if you are ride the tram to get around. I think every state should have a trams and bus and bullets trains to get them to one to another that would totally cut out the numbers of cars you will see on the so why not consider trying a new idea to get cars off the road maybe invent something that will occupie peoples so they want have to you there cars to get around I am try it and see though it might be good thing to do.
Why do people by more than one car its only one of them and mulitiply cars so why waste money more than one car when you can sell your for things that are important like paying a bill or get gorcery for you house or just helping otherss out so i thing that dumb for peole to have more than one car if you are not going to use the cars all time I understand that celebrites haves mulitiply cars because they show them but the car usage is still high but people can do what evere they want with there money who I am just a boy i coming telling you people with more than car is really really ricdulious to but hey I am going sit back and let people use up there gas in there so be it. | 2 |
22f1552 | the author article about studying venus is good. My opnion is that we should study Venus because that can be a good thing for us because if something goies wrong here maybe we can use Venus so we can go live over there. Its good that we should study it so they can see that needs to be done and we need to survive if we ever have to leave earth. I read in the article that is dangerous because they are lava and earthquakes and venus has the hottest surface temperature in any planet . i rad it on paragraph 3 line 10 " venus has the hottest surface termaperatures of any planet in out solar system". i read about the volcanos and eraquakes on paragraph 3 line 13 " erupting volcanos, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes".
they refer venus like " the earths twin" if they call me like that is for a reason maybe it can really be like the earth a place where humans can live there without a problem. Venus has a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus> Its on paragraph 3 line 1 " A thick atmosphere of amost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus". the clouds are highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus atmosphere. Its on paragraph 3 line 3. So its really dangerous but if they want to study it its for a reason maybe there is things they are can do to fix it so it can be a good place where humans can live,
We should study Venus is a perfect oppurtunity for us to study new planets and see what we can do to have another safe planet. Its gonna be dangerous but i believe that we have the right tools and the right equiment to go over there and we have really good machines so they can work in there . | 2 |
22f55dc | This is from the NASA facility er do not have fool proof on what made the crator in mars we don't have full evidence on what happend on mars. The face on mars is a mystery and very intersting phnominon and leads to very meracisly things in the future but for futher notice we cant say it was aliens. NASA scientist dont believe that this was alien trying to send a signal or a message to us for all we know a astroid may hit mars and we didnt know.
On the flip side people and scientis have belived and wondered if aliens are real and there is many cases to make people believe there are alien living amungst human along with movies, games, and toys. We are all fasinated by space and still think aliens are real and some think that aliens are not real.
We may never know what amde the face on mars if it was aliens or just rocks making shadows and if we ever find out why there was a face it will be a sight to see in the near future. | 1 |
22fa8b0 | Some people think that the Face on Mars was created by aliens, which is anaccurate. Mars obviously has alot of natural disasters on its planet almost daily. These natural disasters could've made the surface into a face like shape by how much damage was caused to the enviroment. Mars is full of red bolders that could of been tossed around by the storms and left marks or craters in the surface. I have a little more detail to my theory.
First, there is no sign of alien life on Mars. I'm not saying there's no sign of life on Mars period, there is sign of water being on that planet and possibaly plants as well. It's just that there is no sign of a species on that planet, not even fossils of the so called "aliens". If there was any aliens on Mars what material would they have to make any form in the ground. Aliens probably wont have any exsplosives on their planet with no material to make it with.
Next, if there were any aliens why would they make a face on the ground. It has no meaning to it, it might just be a ruler/king or something to their people. I dont think aliens would want to put a face on the ground that barely looks like a face. The enviroment made the form because the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho was made by our enviroment, so it can be a caquensadence. That's a compairason that leads me to believe the enviroment of Mars made that face on the surface.
Then, there are scientific facts and quotes from NASA that supports lots of evidence. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter revealed that the Face was a natural landform. And added that "there was no alien monument after all.". The team snapped ten photos of the lanform that was sharper then the first camera of Viking 1. This team gives more evidence than the conspiracy theories by the public.
In conclusion, I think that my theory is both accurate and logical. I took edvice from people who did their research on this topic. The evidence that i took were both believable and not crazy theories from ordinary citizens. These are my reasonings on why i think that the Face was made by Mars enviroment. | 3 |
23020fe | I am against this new technolgy called the Facial Action Coding System. It seems like it doesn't really work and they just make things up. I don't see how it could actually work like that. You can almost never what a person is feeling based on their facial expressions because some people have masks. You just can't say "Oh this person looks really happy all the time" Well maybe their not happy all the time. Maybe their not happy at all.
The text states "She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." Maybe that's her happy face or maybe it's her "I'm going to kill you face". Who knows. All we know is that she looks happy. Somewhat happy. It's not like she's around to tell you what she was feeling then. Maybe she was just trying to looks ugly for da Vinci because maybe he had a thing for her and she wasn't interested in an artist.
The text also states " In fact, we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day." Okay, I can probably agree to that. But still, computers that can calculate expressions seems a little futuristic to me. Maybe in 15-20 years that would be the coolest thing ever but right now, it just seems like people are trying too hard for a big new invention.
So there you have it, I am against this whole calculating expressions computer for now. It again seems a little futuristic. Maybe someday in the future, if it's still an idea I might buy me one. | 3 |
2305032 | From small town suburbs to largely populated cities, car usage can drastically affect a community. In developed worlds, personal automobiles are an increasingly popular trend, and help people go about their day to day business. Many would rather drive down the street to a grocery store of job instead of walking there even though it is common knowledge that the pollution and other harmful emissions cars create is bad for the enviroment and the people living there. The question remains, what are the advantages of limiting car usage?
Many believe that automobiles, especially the very popular "car", can be very bad for the enviroment. According to the article, "Paris bans driving due to smog", it explains how near-record pollution within Paris caused a partial driving ban. This was to help clean the smog infested air in the dense city. Although many delivery companies complained about lost revenue, congestion within the capitcal lowered by 60 percent. By Monday that week, "the smog cleared enough for the ruling French party to rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates on tuesday". In another article called "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota", this one tells how Bogota, Columbia has also banned cars to promote alternate transportation and reduce smog. The ban is only for one day a year (called The Day Without Cars), but it's helped cause the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths, new, smoot sidewalks, less traffic, and new restaurants and shopping areas. Business man, Carlos Plaza claims "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." Both of these articles explain how limiting car usage in a city can be benificial to both the city and its residents.
In addition, the United States in partaking in this quest for less cars as well. Article "The End of Car Culture" by Elizabeth Rosenthal shows us that "recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." It is possible that this is partially because of the recession; many Americans could not afford cars. Also, more center cities have made the "suburbs less appealing and has drawn the empty nesters back in". If this goes on, scientists believe carbon emissions could greatly reduce and this will be extremely benifical for the enviroment. According to the Mr. Sivak's research, less and less people between the age of 16-39 have been getting licenses. More studies have concluded the same results, but only time will tell in this trend will continue. No matter the reason behind it, this example also demonstrates how limited car usage is benificial.
On the other hand, some believe that less cars is NOT benificial. In source four, it claims that the lowered amount of people driving automobiles will be harmful to the profits of the car industry. To further explain, "companies like Ford and Mercedes are already rebranding themselves 'mobility' companies with a broader product range beyond the personal vehicle". This, without a doubt, is to combat the loss of sales and encourage people to continue buying their products. However, thos is pretty much all there is on the negative side of limited car usage. For the rest of the community, this doesn't affect them and is in fact quite benificial.
Cars, both the rose and the thorns in a community and enviroment, can be both benificial and harmful to people, depending on who you are. For most regular pedeastrians and citizens within a city, less cars means less pollution, traffic, and stress. Unless you are a business owner of a car dealership or working for a delivery company, limited car usage means very postive things for social relationships, health, the enviroment, and general living conditions of a busy city. The less harmful emissions of gases from cars could greatly affect the outcome of our clean, energy efficient future. | 5 |
2308e61 | People all over the world use cars to drive to work or take their children to school. To most people, the automobile is an everyday part of life. But there are downsides to the extreme usage of cars. Some people are noting this trend and are begining to limit their car usage. Two of the many advantages of limiting the use of cars are that it promotes alternative forms of transportation and it also reduces air pollution.
One positive effect of less cars is the improvement of other forms of transportation. In the article "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars", by Elisabeth Rosenthal, the author talks about a car-free town, Vauban, Germany. Because there are not cars, people are forced to use other forms of transportation. Instead of using cars, mothers and their children walk everywhere, people ride their bikes to the store, and a tram is used to go to downtown Freiburg. Another place where transportation has benefited from a car-free society, is Bogota, Columbia. According to the article "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota", written by Andrew Selsky, since car-free day began, bicycle and pedestrian-friendly areas have been improved. For example, since the 1990s, 118 miles of bicycle paths have been built in Bogota. "Parks and sports centers have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic; and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up", writes Selsky. Promotion of other transportation, such as walking, is just one of many benefits of limiting car usage.
Another major advantage of limiting the use of cars is the reduction of air pollution. "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", Rosenthal writes in "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars". By driving less, we can reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. "Paris bans driving due to smog," by Robert Duffer, is a prime example of the reduction of air pollution after limiting car usage. "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city", writes Duffer. One Friday, the smog of Paris "rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world". On the following Monday, motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a $31 fine. After only one day with less cars on the roads, the smog had nearly dissappeared. This shows that even a day with less cars can make a huge difference in the amount of air pollution. Rosenthal's article, " The End of Car Culture", states that many sociologists believe that if the pattern of less cars continues, "it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment" because transortation is America's second largest sourse of carbon emissions. Less air polution is a very important advantage of less cars.
Overall, there are many advantages of limiting the use of cars. Not only does it promote and improve other forms of transportation, but it also decreases the amount of smog and air pollution, which are harming our environment. | 5 |
230cf75 | In the world today people are coming up with new ways to do things such as having driverless cars. This is good because we know we can do things with technology we never could years ago. This can be bad because this can tell us that technology is over ruling us, but thats not the case now.
Driverless car can be a bad idea because looking at technolog these days, it does alway work properly and that could lead to the cars. if some wrecks another car that would mean that it would be the cars fault but all the blame would be one the "driver". No one would know how it happened properly because there would be indication on how it happened.
Another reason why this would be a bad reason to have drverless cars was that the speed would be the same for everyone and some people may be in a hurry to get to places and the cars would take only the main roads to get to their destination. If the car wasn't used right it would mean that many people would be in danger to reckless people in the world.
The last problem with this kind of car would be when the person in the driver seat won't pay attention to the road and they get hurt for it. Many people in the world would be get hurt because they aren't doing anything and think that they would be perfectly safe and they won't.
In conclustion, the world would be a safer place if we didn't have driverless cars. This would lead to fewer injuries, problems, and misusage of the cars. If we just stay the same we can have less problems as well. So before we start thinking about having anything relative to these driverless car we should think again. | 2 |
230f9dc | The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers by explaining and going in depth about how hard, challenging, and doubts the studying of Venus is going to be, but that how in the end it will all be worth it at the end of the day. The author expresses to us that after all this reaserch that we (the people on Earth) will be able to expaind one day to different places. He also goes through the entire artical talking about all the challenges of exploring the planet Venus, But in that last parograph explains why it is important we (the people on Earth) should keep going and "Striving" to gain knowleg and expaind our travels.
Despite all the "challenges" and "dangers" of exploring the planet Venus the author believes in still going and in doing the reaserch... Why? you might ask yourself. In parograph 8 the author states, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." This tells us that if we strive to pass this challenge then we will hve so much benifit and gain so much more then all of those challenges and problems in the end, and we will be able to travel on Earth and beyond.
So, the author supports the idea of studying Venus even though there are many dangers it presents, the benifits out way the concenqenses. The author explains this in a way that is very different where through out almosed the entire articale he talks about all the challenges it would be to explore more about Venus, but just in the last parograph is when he talks about us (the people onn Earth) striving to overcome the chalenges and the value, and the things that will be gained from not limiting our travels on Earth and beyond. he puts this articale together very well because in that last parograph the author does a really good jod of explaining why we should still explore Venus even after all he just said about all the different challenges they have and will still have to face with Venus. | 3 |
23129f8 | Yes, I think technology is good for everyone because your computor can tell when you are bored, happy, and sad. I feel like it would be an great idea to create something like this because if you are bored your computor may have something different for you to do instead of sitting there bored about the work you are doing. Also if you are sad and not feeling likr your normal self the computor can cheer you up by doing something to make you feel better. What if you have an computor and it can tell you having mixed emotions and the computor help you with that? I really think if we have this technology today everything would be much better. I say everything would be much better because kids today get bored fast and we need something that would help them not to get bored fast. We really should have an computor that can tell if we'er happy, sad, and even mad because what if it help us out of them type of emotions? What if we'er sad and the computor help us through the day? What if we'er bored and the computor make he work be fun? I really wish we had this type of technologhy in our generation today. | 2 |
2312dc6 | I think it would be very useful in classrooms. Like the article said, the computer would be able to tell if the strudent was confused. Or it could tell any other emotions the student was feeling to make sure they were getting it.
The technology seems like it would be very expensive though. That is one downside to it. It seems kind of crazy to think about computers reading emotions. Another thing is sometimes people may not want their emotions read. This technology could be used for many things outside the classroom though.
I am not sure if I would want this in the classroom or at a job yet. I may need to learn more about it first or think about it some more. It seems like a very helpful and promising idea for the future though. I am curious to see how long this technology takes to get to the classrooms and other places that may need it. | 2 |
2312fc6 | (BENNGING)Luke was brave and went out to sea.He knew he might not come back but he still did it.He wanted to be a seagoing cowboy then he had to out into the sea. His friend helped him out alot so now he is a brave soilder like his friend.
(MIDDLE)Luke didn't want to go out at sea at first but now he does because he is not scared because he in brave and did his job.He got to where he was going the day after the World War ll.Luke was lucky that he made it alive because the boomed cloesed to where he was going to.
(MIDDLE) Luke was also brave because he wanted to go out at sea even if his friends and family didn't like it.He was very brave and now he is in the army protecting the world from danger and harm. His friend made a good choice and I would the samething if I was Luke's friend.
(MIDDLE) My middle is that you can always have a friend but is that friend your true friend.If it is then you will know and they will be there to help you anything that you need help with.Just like Luke's friend helped him when he needed help the most.That is what friends are for to help out their friends who need their help.
(END)That you can't do by yourself it takes two people to be friends and Luke and his friend did what they had to and they did it bravely and as a team of friendship. | 1 |
2313cd7 | I agree with the driverless cars. I think it is an awesome thing to create and I also think it will keep those focused and alert because maybe they don't know what the car is capable of and is scared something bad will appear
But again on my other side i'm thinking that people will take adavantage of this opportunity and will be on their phones or with their buddies in the car doing something they should'nt be doing.
There is nothing wrong with having to help your car out. The driverless car is not as smart as you are and so therefore you will have to help. Do not get a driverless car in the future if you want it to drive you 100% of the time. Driverless cars is an option and an opportunity for the world to see something different and to prove others. You will have to be the "Traffic Jam Assistant" but theres nothing wrong with that, the driverless car will be cotrolling everything else. You really have nothing to worry about but always stay alert.
I definanlty agree with the driverless cars. It's an great oppourtunity. For the world and the better life itself. | 2 |
2315ee0 | Dear senator,
I wanted to write you this letter to say that we should keep the electoral college. Because they tally the votes fair to elect the goverment and president that the people of this powerful country have elected to be their leader. The electoral college was one of the rules that our founding fathers made for our country which has kept our country stong in the past so why would we want to take away that cause that would be like erasing our countrys past and our fathers rule. The electoral college consists of 538 electors for the electoral college so if we take away this process cause its not a place then we are putting 538 people out of a job.
First things First, we should keep the electoral college cause it is a great process that lets our people choose a leader of this brave and powerful country fairly by having the electors read the votes and tally them up and pick the leader the most people voted for but sometimes its not the most cause if bigger states with more powerful people vote for a diffrent president and the one president has the most votes but if the other one has the more votes from bigger states and cities like california then he gets the popular vote. The electoral college has never technically failed us it has gotten close in the John F. Kennedy election when state legislators were technically responsible for picking electors and that the electors could defy the will of the people so say like if John F. Kennedy got the popular vote then it could possibly not go to him cause the electors could get replaced with new ones that could oppose him. The mistakes were never to the point that it messed up our country just little mistakes that got fixed by a direct election which we have now a day so that these little mistakes cant mess our whole voting system up. We should keep the electoral college because it is proven that people have out voted electors in the Gore vs Bush election cause Bush got the electoral votes but Gore got the popular vote by the people.
Second of All, we should keep the electoral college because it was one of our founding fathers rules and processes and they were the people who founded and discovered this brave, powerful, and beutifal country so if we throw that away then we are betraying our fathers and our anceistors. Another thing is electoral college has of america and they aint running for president and they are aloud to vote which is fair cause it's everyones president not just only the people not appart of the constitution. The great rule that our constitution made for the electoral college was the mal-apportionment which means even if the large states has a bigger population they still could lose by virtue so if we dont have an electoral college that will not be possible then we would just get out voted by heavier states and electors. The electoral college is a great process for fair voting for our goverment and president and if we keep that running then we keep our country running as a healthy country.
To Wrap it up, I think we should keep our electoral college for many of reasons. one because its the fairest most strongest process of voting. two because it lets everybody vote including the electors. and last but not least it keeps our founding fathers rule going and keeps us loyal to our brave and powerful countrys leader. | 4 |
231a04e | The author supports their topic by giveing facts about the plant and its conditions on why we should even try to go to that plant. one reason that they shouldnt go is becuase yes it might be like our plant and it might be survival for us but the conditions their we would struggle.
"human have sent numerous spacecraft to land on his cloud-drapped world". this shows that if they cant even get it to were a spacecraft can land and withhold the damage and wind and heat their then how are we as hians going to be able to live on a dealy basis with a ground temp of 800 hundred degrees fahrenheit. we would die instanly u would be cooked another peace of evidences is that the atomspheric pressure is greater their then going to the deepest part of our ocean and going all the way down.
some of the facts i have showed u should show u that that not going to happend and that thats abad idea beacuase to me sounds like a lot of people are just going to die trying to figure out how to live on another planet but can figure out how to have life on that planet they say its " safe for human condiitions no probley not. | 2 |
231b95b | The use of the Facial Action Coding System technology in a classroom is not valuable.
It could easily distract children from school work.
The technology is not needed for any need in a classroom.
And the technology goes against normal morals and personal space.
The technology shouldn't be used in a classroom.
The use of this technology could easily distract a child from school work.
During a school task, the child nor teacher needs to know the child's emotions.
As a now high school student, i've seen that school work doesn't need your emotions.
School is for learning, not for counceling.
The only place this technology could be used is in theater or health managment.
I'm sure this technology would cost a lot of money that many school districts don't have. Multiple school distrcts in my area are hurting, and they can't afford to pay for this technology that isn't needed.
After the fact of ditraction, the technology doesn't have a select purpose.
There isn't a need for it in schools.
Why would you need to know your emotions for a school task?
School is a place for all children to learn subjects like math, language arts, and science.
School is not for counceling.
There are supplies schools need more than emotion recongnizing technology.
There isn't a place for it in learning through grade school, perhaps in college if you are studying to be some type of counceler.
Last but not least, this technology goes against personal space!
No one wants a computer reading their emotions while trying to test, or without knowing.
It is a persons right to keep how they feel to themselves.
It is unecessary for a teacher to need to know a students emotions.
If the student wants to tell a teacher that he is feeling upset he/she has the right to do so.
And if the student would not want anyone to know, it is his right not to have anyone to know.
it may be good for a student to reach out to a teacher for help, however, this doesn't mean a teacher needs to know a students emotions based of this technology.
During test in schools we have to put our phones nd earbuds away to prevent ditraction. So why have a technology that would distract a child from a task?
This technology isn't needed in schools and isn't valuable in schools.
It would be a big waste of money for a school district to buy this technology and only use in one or so classes. | 3 |
2323c66 | I am against the self driving car because it can crash and it would be you fault. And it isn't even a self driving car because the driver still has to pur their hands on the wheel most of the time. It can't drive itself the driver has to keep their hands on the wheel almost all of the time.
If you get in an accident and someone is injured it is your fault. The car won't even be made until 2020. The car will only drive itself 90 percent of the time. Some states won't even allow them to make self driving cars because they are to dangerous. Like Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia. The only safe car is one with a human behind the wheel.
Drivers would get bored just sitting there. The car can only go 25mph without a human's assisstance. Human drivers have to stay more alert than ever with the car. None of the cars they make will ever be completely driverless.
The cars have to alert you before they back up into something. Nobody wants a driverless car that you have to drive. | 2 |
2324a33 | First,there has never been any realistic shows of life on Mars. Nobody has ever seen an alien before. Also there has been a lot of "alien sightings" all around the world that were just modern day things. Like a towel rack,a plate,a light,a lawn mower,or even a box of cereal. The eyes can deceive in some areas and make you think you see something when you really don't.
Some landforms are formed by the planet itself. As it states in paragraph 7,"Thousands of axious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web sit,revealing ... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." Proving that the Face was just a natural landform on the planet Mars and not some kind of "alien monument". Sometimes the eyes can deceive you to make you think your looking at something your really not looking at. Those were one of those times.
Not only did that hurt NASA's reputation,it educated others on how there isn't life on Mars and there probably will never be life on Mars. It also tought NASA a lesson to gather more information and make sure that they know what they are doing, and what they are really investigating before they reach anything out to the public. Nevertheless ,in my opinion and based on the facts I've read. I don't believe that there is life on Mars. | 2 |
232ae04 | What you are about to read is going to give you insight on the advantages and disadvantages there are when talking about limiting car usage. In the next few paragraphs and sentences I am going to state true facts about the advantages and disadvantages of limiting your forms of transportaion. I will also talk about not just the individual advantages and disadvantages, but I will also talk about how it could help or hurt, a community. Now strap down, let's click on those seat belts, and go for a ride, all puns intended.
I think it would probably be best if we started this paper off by talking about the disadvantages right off the bat. Now, the first one that I think everyone thought of right away would be that of, how could places like the United States of America, a country that is thousands of miles wide, convert to what is being proposed in these articles? Where I live now is on the ocean, so on the outskirts of our city, LOCATION_NAME, to be exact. If our county, LOCATION_NAME, was to change to this ideal, then we would have to bike about 3 miles just to get to the bridge to get across the river back to main land. Another example would eb that where I used to live, LOCATION_NAME, there was a lot of land seperating my old house and the main drag of my town. In the summer, it wouldn't be that big of a deal to just take a bike and gon on a bike ride, but when it came around to it being winter I would probably want to take a car that had 4x4 wheel drive, if you catch my drift. I think that the disadvantages are painfully obvious when it comes to this system, but I could definetley see it working in large citites not unlike Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and so on.
Now that we've finally gotten the disadvantages out of the way, we can talk about how this would help communitites all across the world become safer and cleaner. In the first article I read a quote that I thought was perfect for the advantages paragraph.
"When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happer this way,"
(Paragraph 2, Lines 4-5) This really got my attention right from the get go because It made me think about our daily lives and how I feel when I'm behind the wheel. Im always stressed Im going to wreck my car! The other thing that caught my eye was when I read about the Columbian city of Bogota. In Bogota, they banned all motor vehicles except buses and taxis for a day. A businessman was quoted as saying
"It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution,"
It seems that when the idea of outlawing all motor vehicles and having only bikes and your feet for transportation, people are a lot happier.
In conclusion, I would love to see less cars on the roads, and see more people switch to greener alternatives such as bikes, skateboards, feet, etc. I think it would also take care of the issue of obesity and pollution. The only thing that I find hard to believe is that we would just disband the use of cars all together. I think that we have built so many roads all over the place that finding another use for them would be hard. All in all however, I think this is a great idea. To have communities closer together which would form stronger community bonds and it would allow us to drastically reduce the amount of pollution we create each year. | 3 |
232c60c | Venus is the second closest planet to the sun. Many people would find a planet like this an intersting topic of research to pursue. In the article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is about the planet Venus and all of it's glory. This article is about people who want to explor the planet Venus. They believe exploring Venus is a mission that is worthy to be pursued. This essay will include, the study of Venus, the pursuit in exploring this planet, and the dangers that could occur traveling to Venus.
Venus is known as the Earth's twin because of the density and size of both planets. They both are very alike to one another. Because the two planets are very similar, astronmers are facinated by this thought of traveling to another planet that Earth. In the article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author says, "These conditions are far more exterme than anything humans encounter on Earth; such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals." (paragraph 3). The author has done research on this topic for some time and he realizes that Venus's atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater. than on Earth. The author finds this planet very different from the planet we live on now. And is far more dangerous and fascinating than other planets.
Many people have done research on this planet because most astronomers want to see this new planet and experience all of its differences. If the astronomers traveled to this new planet, they are predicting that they will be able to survive when going there. The tempeture in Venus will be very "toasty" because this planet is very close to the sun and that is one of the variables the researchers are trying to get around to. In this article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", it says, "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape. Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfreindly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way." (paragraph 5). In this quote, NASA is trying to find solutions on how to get to Venus in a very safe manner. They know that tempetures will be very hot almost to 200 degrees Fahrenheit, but they asume it will be survivable for humans.
Going on this trip will be very dangerous because of high tempetures and the situation at hand. There are many dangerous ahead in this traveling experience if they proceed in taking action. Travelers believe that it will be an experience that they will not regret and they are excited to learn more about this planet even if it is very dangerous they still want to proceed in this event. In this article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author says, "Therefore, scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks. Or maybe we should think of them as challenges. Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus." (paragraph 6).In this quote, the author proceeds in saying that travelers are already too deep into this research that they have already found solutions and they have already thought of occuring problems that they are now trying to fix before they take action. A couple of their concerns are when they are close to Venus, the tempetures will be rising which is a very frightning thought for these explorers. But they are keeping their heads ups and continuing their research and expirementing solutions.
Exploring Venus is a very big task for these explorers. Having this challenge for them is encouraging and everytime they find something new about this planet, it makes them want to keep dipping and finding more new things about this planet. These explorers find joy in this research on Venus and all of the differences when comparing Venus to Earth. These explorers might be going into some trouble when planning on traveling to Venus, but that doesn't matter to them. They want to explor this planet even if it is dangerous or unrealistic. They will keep searching for a reasonable solution for this journey. | 3 |
232c896 | As I read this article about Driverless Cars, my mind wonders to a whole lot of problems. Although right now I am not directly affected by this because I have yet to get my license, I dont find the driverless car project as a good idea.
The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of a Driverless car taxi system is a limited budget which means a limited amount of driverless cars. Also, how much would these cars cost? In paragraph 10 it states the vehicle makers "Tesla, Mercades- Benz, Audi, and Nissan". These car companies already sell higher end regular cars at high prices, let alone a so called Driverless Car.
A big position on my behalf of Driverless Cars would also be safety. As stated in paragraph 9, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault - the driver or the manufacturer?". Everyday technology fails in some way, shape or form and people in turn get hurt, injured and sometimes killed. My question to myself that I am pondering would be, "how safe is it to step into these Driverless cars and be able to trust that something won't go wrong?"
For decades now, people have had to learn how to drive. Some would even say that there is a thrill that comes from driving and that it keeps your mind alert. So what is the point of a Driverless Car? In paragraph 8 it says "wouldnt drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?" This statement tells me that humans like to drive and that in a car where we wouldn't need to be alert or wouldn't need to do anything, we would get bored. So when I asked "What is the point of a Driverless Car?" I believe the answer would be that the human species is lazy and a Driverless Car would mean less work and more relaxation.
In the end, I do not see a time in the future where there is no need to buy a car anymore. Driverless Cars and our roads would need a lot of work before it could be anywhere near possible to have a car drive itself by 2020. | 4 |
232fafd | There are both positive and negative aspects of driveless cars. There are reasons on why driveless cars should be on the road. But, there are also reasons on why they should not be on the road. One reason why they should be on the road is because they would use half the fuel of today's taxi. One reason on why they shouldn't be on the road is because they still need a human in the smart car, and that might cause wrecks due to the driver if he/she is not paying attention.
One reason why the smart cars should be on the road is that they are better on fuel. Google cofounder Sergey Brin says that he envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driveless cars form a public-transport taxi system. He also says that the cars he forsees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer more flexibility than a bus. Television and movies have long been fascinated with cars that could drive themselves. Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009.
One reason on why they should not allow driveless cars on the road is the possibility to wreck. The driver still has to remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires. This necessitates the car being ready to quickly get the driver's attention whenever a problem occurs. Which sometimes it might not quick enough or the driver might not have enough time to react, which will possibly cause a wreck.
Another reason why they shouldn't allow smart cars is because they will cause more wrecks. Since they can steer, accelertate, and brake themselves, they might not brake in time when they get close to another vehicle. But, they notify the driver when the road requires human skills. They notify the driver when the driver needs to navigate through work zones and around accidents. And, they are better on fuel.
They shouldn't let the driverless cars on the road due to the possibilies of a wreck. Also, they might not give the driver enough time to react. Then, the smart cars require a driver in the vehicle anyways, and they need full attention inside the vehicle. Another reason on why they should ban the vehicles is because the quick change from vehicle to driver would be very quick. | 2 |
2336577 | First off, we can not say it was an alien who creater these human-like faces. We can't prove it was an alien at this time, because we haven't even figured out if aliens even exist! It most likey was a nautural landform, because over time, rock formation could've combined all together to create this face-like figure on mars.
Next, this is obviously a landform, and not created by aliens, because, during those cases, there was no alien monument after all! Also, on April 5, 1998, thousands of web users were anxiously waiting for the very first image on a JPL web site, which seemed to reveal that it was actually a natural landform.
Next, not everyone was happy with the results of it being a natural landform and not created by a alien. The "face on Mars" became such a big deal, it was in films, magazines, books, radio shows, and most likely your checkout line at your local grocery store!
Fourth, many people were wondering why NASA didn't just hide the discoveries of the life on Mars. Conspiracy theorists say "life on Mars", evidence that NASA workers would have rather hide to prevent too many questions on the face.
To conclude, maybe it was all just a huge rock formation, since aliens have no evidence that they actuslly exist, or have been seen by a human. So what do you think? Do you think aliens may have created this landform, or was it just a natural lanform? | 3 |
233796f | Using a software to know what students feel like is important because it allows you to find the bugs and fix them. It's good to know what your students are feeling. whether it's happy, sad,mad, fear, or bored you will always know. It's also good because it can tell you what you need to know like did they like the lesson you gave. Were they confused, or bored? shown in paragraph six " Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication."
Dr.Huang says that Da Vinci studied anatomy to help paint perfect unit action. Dr. Huang's emotion algorithms are different than Da Vinci's because Da Vinci was using his mind to do it. Dr. Huang was using his technology to crack the
Da vinci's code. It's the differnce in time that makes it tough for them to be compared by eachother. Shown in paragraph five.
Its
important for students to know what muscles they have in their body. They should be taught this in health classes. Knowing that will help understand how they use their muscles even when they don't realize it. According to making mona lisa smile in paragraph's 7,8,9 shows you the muscles, and the effects that they have.
In conclusion, Using a software to know what students feel like is important because it allows you to find the bugs and fix them.
Teachers can use expressions from their students to know what they are doing right or wrong. It saves a lot of time so that the kids can enjoy learning, and not get bored, tired, or confused because of it. | 3 |
233ca6e | Someone has been working hard for 16 greuling hours at their work.
Their drive home is two hours on long, boring, quiet back roads.
How are they supposed to stay awake and drive in those conditions?
Driverless cars could be the solution to that.
Driverless cars could whisk that person to their house safely and securely.
Driverless cars should be made because they would provide extra safety when in cars, give unqualfied drivers more transportation, and make driving more enteraining.
Driverless cars would provide extra safety when in cars.
Technology is so advanced today that a driverles car would have several sensors to keep the car from crashing, swerving, and other disasters.
There would be sensors on almost all aspects of the car, such as a 3D camera for vision, speed sensors on the wheels, and motion sensors.
There would be
very strong motion sensors to track moving objects around the car within s wide radius so the car can detect when to slow down or stop in traffic.
Also, the frame of the car would be bigger and stronger, so if an accidident occured the driver would be less affected.
Driverless cars would give unqualified drivers more transportation.
Elderly people who have trouble seeing or other problems with their body can pose a serious threat to other drivers.
Instead of kicking them off of the road, they could be placed in driverless cars so they will not have to drive.
They would be able to sit back and relax while the car takes care of the driving.
Also, it could help people with temporary conditions.
People who are very tired,have broken limbs, or have certain disabilities or diseases possibly cannot operate a vehicle properly.
While a sleepy driver takes a nap, the car would drive them home safely and when they get home, it would wake them up with an alarm.
Driverless cars could help out mostly anyone.
Driverless cars would make driving much more entertaining.
A car that could drive itself would already be very cool, but what makes it even better is that a person does not have to multitask while the car drives itself.
If there were important matters that needed to be dealt with, the peron could get it done in the car.
A person can eat and not have to eat and drive at the same time.
If they had to make a business call, they could do it right there on the spot.
Drivers would not be bored or distracted while driving anymore.
Driverless cars should be made because they would provide extra safety when in cars, give unqualified drivers more transportation, and make driving more entertaining.
There are so many accidents that happen because drivers are careless and oblivious.
With driverless cars, there would not be that problem.
Ther car would drive itself, and would work in unison with cars nearby to avoid accidents.
Driverless cars is the next step to being a safer place on the road indefinitely. | 3 |
2343110 | Dear senater ,
I know befor you were senator you voted just like us and you know how frustrating it can be somethings. The Electoral Collage sould be discarted and Presidents of the united states should be elected by popular vote. If we do the popular vote it will be more efficent and be easier to keep track of. We have to do it because The Electoral collage it's failed to elect a President , the masses (the people) don't get to pick the president, and its outdated.
Firstly, we need to abolish the electoral collage because it has failed to elect a President in the past. In the case of a tie in electoral votes it would be the task of the house of representatives the elect a president and the way they elect the presidnt is worse then the electoral collage. even thought and exact tie in the predidental elections has not occored so the catostrify of the house of representatives electing the presisdent has not happen yet ,but it is entirly possible.
Secondly, we need to abolissh the Electoral collage because the masses (the people) don't get to the president. In the electoral collage usage of the system resalts in the
People electing the electors ,to elect the president. And in this system the eletors can pull a switcharoo and vote for the other canadent if they so please, to betray the people by doing so. allthought its system has worked scince the founding of our country ,it is still quirky and disfunctionable at times. the electoral collage allows the electors to do as they please if a elector for florida promises to pick one president and gets all the votes to got to the electoral collage he can choose the Other canadent because his freind wanted him to. how stupid is that!
Thirdly, we need to abloish the electoral collage because it is outdated. in our day and time we have smart phones and aindroids that we can use to vote for the president in the peoples choice. there could be a web site that you can go on to submit your election and at the end of the election the compuster can tally us the number of votes to the exact amount so it would be the peoples choice. its also outdated becouse we dont need one or a few guys to be sent somewhere to cast the vote of the people , we have so mmusch advanced technology that we can have any legal person who wants to vote can and actually have there vote matter insted of what the elector pick so it matters to those few poeple instead of every single person in america.
In conclusion, we need to abolish the electoral collage because it can fail to elect a president(which is almost did in 1960), the masses (the people) can't elect the president(they have to elect the electers to elect the president, and also is is very outdated. in my opion, we should also consiter tweking the electoral callage instead of just getting rid of it. | 4 |
2344268 | After reading "The challenge of exploreing venus" i belive that it is a very interesting idea. Scientists want to exlpore futherer and learn more about this mysterious planet that in ways is very similar to earth. There are many problems though such as venuses voilet and trechorous weather, many probes they send dont last a few days due to such harsh conditions.
Venus is a very strange planet, it is so similar to earth but also very different. It is belived to have at one point been covered in noting but vast oceans which may have held aquatic life just like the ones on earth. Venus also contains valleys,mountians, canyons all very much like earth.
To send humans to explore venus would be impossible due to the fact there atmoussphere is made up of nothing but charbon monoxide and there is lots of sulfhric acid which would burn humans. The best way of exploration is by probe which can go places humans can not.
In conclusion exploreing venus would be a great scientific discovery and would make history. But are the risks really worth it? thats up to everyone else, our travels into space shouldnt be limited but sometimes they ned to be. | 2 |
2348e16 | Do Google cars truly work? Can humans completely trust a machine to do all of the work for them with their lives on the line? Although Google cars are really interesting and intelligent, these cars cannot be trusted. These cars can only help a person drive and alert them when the task is too hard for the car. All drivers must remain alert throughout the ride, and not everyone can stay alert. Also, what happens if the car ends up in an accident? Someone will have to pay for the price, which can cause immense conflict. Therefore, Google cars should not be produced and sold to customers, for it will cause conflict and danger for everyone.
In paragraph seven, the author states that "none of the cars developed so far are completely driverless." This statement means that the cars cannot drive completely by themselves and will need a person to be alert in case the road "requires human skills." Although the seat vibrates to get the driver's attention, it is possible that some will not be able to react quick enough, which may cause a severe car accident.
Because of this problem, people must stay alert just in case they go though a road that requires human skills. The author states that "the Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over." This may seem like a simple issue, but it isn't; people who drive for a long period of time will get bored if they drive the Google car. In paragraph eight, the author questions this by asking, "wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?" If people get bored of waiting for their turn, then they will do something to get rid of their boredom, hence leading to a terrible accident.
When someone runs into a car accident, most people would blame the driver. In paragraph eight of the excerpt, it says, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault---the driver of the manufacturer?" Logically, both of them are at fault; the driver should have been paying attention, and the manufacturer should have known the consequences of selling the car. However, this will most likely unsatisfy the people. Everyone will get into a huge argument which will lead to an enormous conflict.
Google cars are an amazing invention, but it has some flaws; even if "Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time," people should not trust the car. What about the other 10 percent? The 10 percent shows that it is possible that the car will get into accident, and that accident could lead to thousands of people dead. These accidents will most likely happen because people were not alert during the times they should have been. Can one trust these cars to take them anywhere with their lives on the line, or should they risk the 10 percent and hope for the best? | 5 |
234a75d | In this article the author explains what Venus is at first , next he/she explains the benefit of learning about it and then finally talks about the dangers and challenges that come with studying it. Venus or the "Evening Star" is a planet similar to earth in size and density and is even reffered as earths "Twin". Yet these to are two very different planets, for example Venus's atmosphere suffers from the "greenhouse effect" which causes its surface temperature to average around 800 degrees fahrenheit! It also supports no life at least that we know of to this point unlike Earth.
To study the "twin" of Earth we must first either put something on the surface of the planet or take pictures of the planet from right outside the planet. This is a problem because its so hot on the surface that it will melt our currant technology and with the greenhouse effect the atmosphee is to thick to take pictures through. This is obviously a problem for scientist who want to learn more about the planet Venus. If we do learn about Venus though it might benefit us tremendously because we will know how to prevent Earth from having the same problem Venus did that eventually destroyed the planet into what it is today.
In conclusion I think the Author of this article realizes the dangers of studying eath's "twin" Venus but ultimantly thinks that the positives outweigh the negitives on this one and I agree. If Venus at one point really was like earth and supported life we need to know what destroyed it to prevent us from rewriting history. I think that outweighs any danger or problem in the longrun and Im sure the author would agree with me based on his/her article. Scientist as I type this are working on a solution for problems such as the ones up above and I wouldnt be surprised if we learned a lot more anout Venus in these next couple of decades! | 3 |
234b700 | The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable, I feel this way because it can help on so many ways. In the text kids would ask if this machine really worked, like tthey were intrested in knowing what it was. The computer can help with teachers because if the students are feeling down or something is wrong with them, the system can see whats going on and what type of mood their in so you can try and make them feel better. It also says that the facal expressions are universal, and that using a video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks the facial movements. Thats another way why I feel like this system is helpful to students in a classroom. This system can go so far with so many different things dealing with all types of emotions including mixed emotions. It also goves you examples on how a computer will know if your sad or not, and alot of students in a classroom would find that satisfying. One example to that is saying if you smile whena web ad appears on your screen, a smiliar ad as the first one might follow. But if you frown, the next ad while appear to be different on your screen. I find that so amazing, that theres so many ways in the electronic community just to come up with new out of the world things, and this is one of them. For that, I feel like yes this system is valuable to students in a classroom. But not just one classroom of students, but students from all over the worls. I feel like they would love it and how it works. Not alot of children have the opportunity to try out systems like these, so if they had the chance I think they would take the opportunity in showing that this system is good for everyone. It doesn't even just have to be students , it can also be adults too! I feel like they would also love the system. | 2 |
235422a | The Facial Action Coding System is a valuable software, that helps recognize the emotional expressions of students in classrooms. Through the developed technology, detecting emtions has became easier to identify. The improved accuracy has changed the ways of communication by students. In the following paragraphs, the advatanges for using this new system will be introduced.
Being able to detect exact emotions through a promising application has impacted the emotional recgonition of students in serval ways. As mentioned in the passage, "humans perform the same impressive calculations every day." This means that it is easy for others around you to identify how you are feeling by simply looking at your face, however it is challenging to observe if a person is hiding true emtions. The Facial Action Coding System is intended to catch these instances and convey real feelings.
In conclusion, the value of this technology can have a positive effect on any person that incounters it. The modified information could improve complex communication and give imediate feedback. To this "expert, faces do not lie," in fact this developed a better way for humans and comupters to improve skills. | 3 |
2357683 | "This face is unbelivable," said Ryan."You really belive that junk they already said that it was just a rock formation," I responded. It was an illusion which resembles a human head formed by the shadows. Ryan got mad but didn't really have any proof to say other wise.
He said that It's bona fied evidence no matter what i said or the article. He also said the alien markings were hidden by haze.
I responded,"But in 2001 during the summer of Cydonia they took another picture and what the picture actually shows is the martian equalvilent of a buttle or mesa landform. He said the picture's could have just decayed and rotted away so that's why it looks so diffrent.
Even though he had a good point he still agreed with me and realized he was coming up with things i already prooved wrong. So we just called it a day and waited for the next debate to come up. | 2 |
235ab08 | Are driverless cars good or bad? Reliable or unproductable? Can they benifit us in the future? Or will it cause danger?.
For many years scientists have tested cars that can make driving alot easier for us in the near future. I honestly think driverless cars are an unproductable invention and can cause danger. It seems to me that it may or will cause alot more accidents than texting while driving or drinking while driving. For example, say if there are driverless cars in the future, and you or a group of friends are going on a road trip. The car is on auto pilot and you are drinking or texting, reading, listening to music, and/or perhaps sleeping. The car may not signal or warn you that their is traffic, or on road construction uphead. The car may cause you to get in trouble for not paying attention and taking control when neccassary, and/or may cause a horrbile accident. This can and will cause conflict between you and the manufacturer. This can cause a huge debate on driverless cars ; are they dependent and reliable enough or are self service cars safer?.
Driverless cars may indeed help those who are in need of going from one place to another such as senior citizens, legally blind, etc. But it may also put them in danger without them knowing. Another example, if you are a handicap, legally blind, or deaf, you may be in grave danger. The car again is on autopilot and is driving through a neighborhood and there are signs everywhere to when and where to stop, if there is construction, or there are people crossing the streets. You come to a stop at a stop sign, you are not paying attention, you are oblivious to your surroundings when doing other things. The car will go head but there is a car coming from the other side of the street where there is no stop sign. You and the other person collide. Now remember, the car is supposed to be an upgrade, advanced in technology. The car has sensors to sense if there is danger but the car may have a flaw. This again will bring conflict and debate. This can lead people to believe that driverless cars are unsafe and unproductive and is a liabilty. But say you were paying attention to your surroundings, instictively, you would look left and right. The car will go foward but, there is a car coming from the other side (remember there is no stop sign for the other car to stop at) you and that person collide. Again, the car is to have warned you but if you were alert, you would have taken control of the car when driving through a neighborhood.
Either way to me, driverless cars are dangerous no matter what. There not industructible and cannot always be depended on. They may be smart and advance but even the greatest technology can be a danger and liability. | 4 |
235ca29 | Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit. If your looking at the furthing fact of us humans. It would be a great take on futhuring our lives becoming a smarter race. Although its mostly negatives coming out of Venus. Its still possible which for some people thats all it takes.
Venus, " A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus". With a stunning tempature "average of over 800 degrees Fahrenheit". Also with a daily eruption of volcanoes, powerful earthquakes and frequent lightining. Venus now Venus is a very very dangerous task. But NASA however, has came up with a brilliant idea, with a solution to the horrible conditions for humans. They beleive that humans would never even have to come to the planet completely to do thier research. NASA has developed a vehicle that would hover above the mess that is Venus."30 or so miles" above. It comes with a kick though, with the high tempatures of Venus regardless of how high they are there will be a tempature of 170 degrees Fahrenheit. Very dangerous but yet very possible.
What the author was overall trying to explain is that taking on a planet like Venus is very dangerous but yet very possible. Overall in the longrun it would benifit NASA more importantly the human race. But the journey is very harsh with scorching tempatures and daring weather, a high chance of failure. Yet still possible in furthring the world. In conclusion thier is many risk yet the chance that we'll benifit and come out very sucessful is the chance we will take is what the author is trying to explain. | 3 |
235df70 | In most cases computers help you with math or looking up an answer. But now a days computers are getting more advanced like being able to change a masterpeice made by
Da Vinci. That would be something that could draw the bored kids in. Even the confused student's who dont ask for help could beneifit from a more advanced technologly. Most lessons are drawn out and very long which makes me want to put my attenton else where, then what im post to be focused on. If a computer could recognize when I was confused or bored that would benifit me and my teacher.
That would put me in a better place of learning and being focused. If I and my fellow peirs was actully happy about learning I feel our mind would lock more stuff in. Sometimes it goes in one ear and out the other. But this wouldn't just help school students. This could be used to help a seller of a video game. When most people play games after while its not as fun. When the Facial Action Coding System enables the game can reboot itself to be more interesting and keep that person interested to buy and play more of that same game. Just like in school I would come back more ready then ever if I had something not boring to look forward to. Not even helping the every day life this could be a grate value to the discovery of the human muscles. Showing how your muscles in your face come together and make that facial expression. Like the example given in the story the Zygomatic major ( muscles that begin at youR cheek bones) lift the corners of your mouth. Using the computer you can find out what helps the cheecks rise up.
Im getting to off topic just wanted to show other ways that this coumputer can be helpful. The students would be more prepared for test and examines like iSTEP, SATS,and ECAS. if the lecture was more intersting to grasp the consept that is be taught to me or anyone. Like Dr. Huang said " faces don't lie" if my face expression is happy im locked into my studies and ready to learn. But if I'm bored I get right on my phone so can find that spark. I now by being a student other students feel this way this could make life so much easier to actully feel like you learned something today. So this more advancd computer will definitly help students and the work environment there in. | 3 |
235fab2 | Driverless cars should be developed because they offer more, are safe, and help with polution.
Cars that drive themselves offer more to the community. They could possibly become the new public transportation system. Taxis and buses would be replaced. Driverless cars are more flexible and can get people to where they want to go faster. People won't have to wait and stop at each indivsuals location to get to theirs like you would on a bus.
Driveless cars are safe. The sensors used in the cars have become way more advanced. They have come to the point where they are able to detect and respond to out-of-control skids and even roll overs. The brakes can be applied on individual wheels, and reduce or increase the power in the engine. This is better responce and control than a human driver could have. Even if something were to go wrong, human control is still accessable. Google has had driverless cars since 2009. They all have droven over half a million miles and are still going strong with not a crash yet.
Driverless cars also help with polution. Google cofounder forsees that they will use half the fuel of todays taxis. Then, if you think about the majority of buses that could be replaced to, then that only adds to it. Less gas being used means less hazardous fumes being put into the air. Possibly in the future,
these cars could even be ran on electricity, helping the ecosystem even more.
Driverless cars offer a new, safe, and evironmental helping way of transportation that should not be overlooked. This could possibly be our break through to the new and improved future. | 4 |
23649bd | Sharing Our Future with Technology
Driverless cars will be more of a negative thing for the human race, because they spy on you, lead to distractions, and would add on to the idea of the "robot takeover".
Driverless cars would not be a good thing because, yes they do the work for you but they will be spying on every move you make in the vehicle. In the article it says that "Manufacturers are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver". That is in invasion of privacy. A person's car is like their second home. There could be a time where something need to be said and left in the moment. Not recorded for later use.
Another reason the Driverless Cars are not a good idea is because people would get bored in a car waiting on their turn to drive. Humans usually try to preoccupy themselves when passing the time by and waiting on other things. Driverless cars would in a way increase the risk of accidents because people may try to text or do something that will distract them from paying attention to when they are being signaled to take over.
The last reason that the invention is bad is because, the cars could be a great addition to the "Robot Takeover" that is so popularly expected. A great amount of developement has to go into these cars, because they are driving themselves so they have to be really smart. They could possibly turn into the expectation of the takeover that will put humans to end. It is not smart for humans to create something that will demolish us.
The idea of driverless cars is a bad idea because you would not have private moments in the car anymore, they lead to distractions, and could possibly be a factor in the end of all man-kind. | 4 |
2364b68 | The danger of the development of driveless cars is a terrifying thought. Car accidents can cause a plentiful amount of tramatic disorders like PTSD, sleep insolmnia ,and night terrors. On some occations people that are involved car accidents never want to be in a moving vechicale again. Driveless cars would run on computers. Computers can short or glitsh on occasion every device glitshes.
When childeren are young they don't think about the danger of being around a moving vechical. A driveless car would be running off of sensors and cameras. There could very well be a toddler running out in the middle of the road and the camera doesn't catch it and the sensors glitch the only outcome is either a dead child or a severly injured child. Teenagers will be in cars drinking and think they won't have to worry about driving then there breaks lock up on a patch of gravel that they didn't know was there next thing you know teeengers get killed in a car accident. If something goes wrong it wouldn't be the drivers fault,privacy and things like tickets wouldn't exist.
Youre giving away youre privacy and location. Anyone will be able to tell were you've been, how long you were there, and where you went after that. Kids, parents, spouses and the government all will know or will be able to find out. Who you are with and when you when and got them. What you have when you got in the car and what you had when you got out.
Why would you want to put your life or your childerens like into the wires of a computer. The risks of putting not just yourself but the people around you in jeopordy because a car that drives itself. Computers can't be trust with the lifes of people. Peoples location will always be known and so will peoples buisness. | 3 |
2365387 | Yes, the Electoral College Works because in source one it tells the reader the steps you have to take in order to be able to work. For example in paragraph five it states how each candidate running for president has his or her own group of electors. It also states that the electors generally chosen by the candidate's political party, but some state laws vary on how electors are selected and for what there responsibilities are.
It is a hard process to go through in order to be a candidate and get voted to be president because people have the right to choose who they want and why they want the person to be president. Some reasons why people want the person to be president are because of the things there going to do like make the country better or improve the government while they are in charge for four years. Reasons why they might not want to choose the person as a president could be because of many reasons. Source two states how some voters do not vote for the president but vote for the slate of the electors who in turn have to elect the president.
Source three mainly talks about the five reasons to keep our methods of choosing the president. A good example is how in the catogory certainty of outcome it states that president Obama recieved 61.7 percent of the elctoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes casted for him and Mitt Romney. Most voters that end up in swing states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign as it states in paragraph twenty. But, big states lose virtue by population. For example Obama who won the vote only got twenty nine electoral votes out of the state of Florida. In Wyoming he only got three electoral votes so this means that larger states get payed more attention than the smaller states do.
In conclusion the Electoral College does work but, it all depends the how many people vote in each state and how many the electors decide to vote. | 2 |
236bdd3 | Some people changed their views on the planet Mars in May, 2001 do you know why? Twenty five years ago NASA used their Viking 1 spacecraft to find a landing spot on Mars but, they found much more. Some people might think its aliens who made this forgein face figure on Mars, much like my family friend OTHER_PII. He believes that aliens live on mars but as a scientist at NASA I know there is no aliens on Mars and this is some natural cause. Here is what NASA's scientist have found out about this face like on Mars.
OTHER_PII told me "There are aliens on this planet." I know this is a natural cause for this face to appear like this. This is why im trying pursade him and tell him its "actually Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa". These landforms are commonly found in the American West. This one in pericular reminds Garvin "Of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho."
NASA has seen this kind of landform appear on Mars before. On April 8, 2001 with no clouds in the area Mars Global Surveyor got us a sencond look. OTHER_PII still thinks it is made from aliens though. Average for NASA's spacecrafts can go up to 43 meters, but this pixel went up to 1.56 meters. Many people still think this is alien made and we want to get as many as people we can to know the truth.
Some people might think different like OTHER_PII he states " How can this possibly be a landform like on earth but there is no earth like subtances on Mars?" He points out that other people think this way too. The picture was in magenizes and on posters in stores. Everyone got a good look at it and all of us think that it is becuase of aliens. How can a natural think on a planet make such a thing as a face. Others also might think that the photo was edited because they ddint see it in person but, OTHER_PII believes it is work of aliens.
OTHER_PII and the other people that think this about the Face on Mars is because aliens are incorrect. NASA has the facts and the oringal picture.This is for sure a landform made naturally and looks like a face. Every simple in the fact that this landform is not alien made. "Unmasking the Face on Mars" is just zooming up on the spacecraft and this is not made by aliens.
Reseach at NASA shows that this in not in fact "work of aliens". we have seen this before on this planet and we know what is caused from too. No, we have3 never seen a face show up as one of these landforms before but it is highly possible. This is why NASA states aliens did not do this and the photo was not editied. This photo shows a Martian landform and these landforms are on eath too. There are no aliens on earth it there? So how can these be from aliens, they are just landforms made naturally. This is in fact how OTHER_PII is incorrect and reseach showing the landform is natural is the real reason "There is a face on Mars." | 3 |
236de48 | The planet, Venus, has the potential for being a great place to visit and for sending people there, too. While it has some dangerous conditions, scientists have come up with a solution to oversee the planets atmosphere. According to NASA, "the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray." "At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth." This information shows that it is possible for people to, not live on Venus, but live above it without being harmed.
Astronomers have been studying Venus for a long time and they believe that the planet once had life on it. It makes even more sense for this to be true as Venus is one of the closest planets to the Earth. According to the author, "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." Not only that, but it has a large rocky surface with hills, mountains, and valleys. With all of the advanced technology we have in todays world, scientists can also find several ways to reduce the pressure and harsh conditions. This makes it even more safe to study further into the planet itself.
There are many ways we could think of to make sure that Venus is a safe and reliable planet, but many people still wonder of this amazing idea. If NASA can send people to the moon and send a machine on Mars, than who says we can't do the same with this gas planet? This discovery could be a great change to the world. | 3 |
236f38c | Dear State Senator,
After experiencing the dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote in 2000 I realized that the Electoral College is an old fashioned and unfair voting system for our next presidents. The vote of all United States citizens should be taken account but with each state only getting a single vote it is highly inethical for a state with 500,000 voters like Wyoming and a state with 35 million voters like California having the same amount of votes.
The candidates who of course want to win will want to spend there time campaigning in states they think they have a chance of winning over but what about states that they do not think will vote for them? States like South Carolina and Rhode Island during the 2000 campaign didn't even see the candidates at all. This all because of the winner take all system established in the Electoral College.
There are people who still support the electoral college but on what end? They say it has a more certainty of outcome but there have been past cases where the electoral college almost hit a tie. In my opinon the odds of defult outcome in Electoral College is the same as the odds there would be in popular vote for the United States
Past presidents like Bod Dole, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter even agreed to destory the Electoral College. If even presidents want to abolish the Electoral College then what is stopping us from doing so. It's time we make a change to this irrational way of voting and start valuing the opinons of each United States citizen. The only way to do this is to start having direct elections and stop using the Electoral College way of voting. I am positive that this will have a positive affect on how people look up to the government because it will finally make them feel that the government values there opinons.
Thank you for your time and consideration,
PROPER_NAME | 4 |
23709d9 | electrol college is not just a college it is a process, The electoral college is a process that consist of the selection of the electors, it started in the founding fathers established in the constitution as a comprise between election of the president . this means that the electorol college should stay this college is more than just any old college its history ,its in the constitution this college should not be gone this college should be honored. these electorals mainly select the votes for the people in the white house like the president and vice predident. our state is entitled allotment of electors equals the nuimber of memebers in the congressional delegation . i want electoral college to stay because they are good at things for the state . and they also have a big role in alot of things.
the electors college plays a big role in our state . under the 23 amendment of the constitution , the district of columbia is allocated 3 electors and a treated like a state for purpose of the electoral college . this means that because of the electoral college the district of columbia is treated like a state . so electoral college is the reason why some districts are called a state why take this type of college away if this has such a big role in alot of things to do with the congress . with out the electoral college they wouldnt have presidents or any thing . in every election the electors are always there in every president election every president have their own group of electors behind them . they are joined by a canidates political party .
u may wonder how the electors work because all u do is see them behind the prsident well the process is hard and they want students who wants to be an elector to get ready on what they are about to get in to . it first start off by the u choosing the president when u choose the president u choose the group of electors this means when you choose the president the electors goes with him or her , most states have winner takes all system that awards all electors to the winng pesidental canidate's electors . after the election the govoner pepares a 'certificae of ascertainment'. this means that that it is listing all of the canidates who ran for president in your state along with names of their respective electors . the electors go through a long process . and the college wants the studentsa to know all the things they need to before they become electors.
the electors deserve to have a college someone might want to be an elector and they might think its hard for them it wouldnt be anything with out electors they do more than just stand behind the president they do more they help the president the president we have today wouldnt be able to run for president without a group of electors . and they need a college for someone who wants to be an elector. this college should be honored to be in a program like that these electors are needed in our country with out electors we would have nothing if we didnt have electors the electoral college is widely know as an non democratic method of selecting a president that outa be by declaring the canidate who recieves the most popular votes the winner .
these are all the reasons why we need the electors program . because they play in a big role of our country and dthey also good for our state and .l so we need these progems to show young student that being an elector is not easy itbis very hard and a long process and we need to show students how the experience is and they also need to be knowleged trained to do stuff that will make our country better . because if they mess up on one little thing its an automatic fire for them . we need these colleges because it plays a big role and it reuires the votes. of the president meaining it helps the president win . | 1 |
23748b3 | Luke has crossed on the atlantic ocean 16 times. It took him about two weeks to get there and back. He took care of the anmials on the crossing so that kept him busy most of the time. There is good things that happend and some bad things that happen with becoming a seagoing cowboy.
First, you need to be trained if u are not trained then why would you even go in the first place. You need to stay fit, u need to be able to survie with out food incase you run out or run out of water. Helping out on his aunts farm helped him get in shape and prepared for a real adventure. On his seconed trip he was the night watchman . That does not take so much hardwork but staying up is the key. He had to check on the animals every hour, and then tell about his hourly report. But he could not work for a while because he broke one of his ribs.
Next, he did not just go to help people even know that was his main priorty. he also went to see all thease beaituful places the would have been arriving to.
Then, they would still have fun on board it is not as bad as u think. You still get to play baseball and volleyball games where all the animals had been staying will they were on board. They played thease games to pass time, table - tennis tourmants, fencing, boxing, reading, and whittling.
last, of all the cattle boat trips, were unbelievable opportiny for a small - town boy he says. Beside helping people getting to travel areound the world it was just brethtaking. Most of his trips were a susses I enjoyed the trips and can't wait for more.
To sum up my thoughts, I think he should go u still get fun out of this trip it is not like you have to work all day and night. He endeded up going and he had a great time. He said in this passage it opended up a whole new world for me. From day one crossing the atlantice ocean. I new right then and there this was a oppurtuntiy of a life time. | 3 |
237a974 | The "Face on Mars" has since become a pop icon. It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows- even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years. Some poeple think the Face is hard core evidence of life on mars. Meanwile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars.
The face on mars is a natural landform. Mars has powerfull winds just like we do on earth which if the dirt gets built up on rocks it can cause a face looking shape. The face is just a maountain with craters up at the top which makes it look somewhat like a human face. Mission controllers prepared to look again. "It's not easy to target Cydonia," says Garvin. "In fact, it's hard work." Mars gGlobal Surveyor is a mapping spacecraft that normally looks straight down and scans the planet like a fax machine in narrow 2.5km-wide strips. "We just don't pass over the Face very often." he noted.
But not everyone was satisfied. The Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees norht martian latitude where it was winter in April '98- a cloudy time of year on the red planet. The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze.
In conclution, the face could be real or it could be a fake. But from teh research that we have conducted at NASA concludes that it is just a natural landform caused by geological occurences. | 2 |
237beac | In the article ''Driverless Cars Are Coming,'' they talk about how there is a new invention coming. As you can tell by the title of the article, they give some pros and cons about the new invention. Some thing's the author of the article mentions is how the car works and what kind of details will be in it.
One of the first things they mentioned was how the car works. It tell's how the car would run on half the fuel we use today. Google has already made a car that is ''driverless' and it has not crashed yet. These cars would run on a track that has an electrical cable that sends radio signals to a receiver on the front end of the car.
Further on, they also explained some details they might add to the car. One of the details is that the car can handle functions up to twenty-five miles per hour, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. Not all of the cars are completely driverless. In fact, the only main things they can do are steer,accelerate, and brake. All are designed to notify the driver when the road requires human skills. Another detail they have is that the drivers seat vibrates when the vehicle is in dangerof backing into something. One last detail they mention is having cameras watch the driver to make sure that the drivers a remaining focused on the road.
With both of those topics being mentioned, I honestly do not think they should make the cars for public use. They say how it will be safer the driver and those around them, but in all honesty, I do not think they will be. One of the details that does not sound reasonible on the car are the cameras. The idea of someone watching you while you drive just does not sound pleasant. Yes it may make sure the driver is staying focused, but I do not think that should be on there. One of the only things about the car that sounds excellent, is the lower fuel usage. With lower fuel also mean less polution which I think is great. | 2 |
238702a | Students do not need a computer telling them how they feel. Knowing how YOU feel is something that no one can change, you change it. The FACS is just a computer trying to get into your mind. But your mind is your own personal business, you only show it sometimes when you want to or sometimes when it's so strong you just have to show it.
In my opinion a computer should not be programmed into looking on the outside not knowing whats on the inside. The saying is,"It's not whats on the outside it's what's on the inside." But a computer has no emotion, just what the programer programed the computer to do. A computer can't read someones smile even though they are depressed. That happens to me all the time. I talk to my friends with a smile, but when I'm talking
about the same stuff to my therapist my face is a little different because I can't express my opinion very well to my friends.
In the article it says that each expression that the computer recieves is compared to a neutral face meaning no emotion. Humans always have an expression on there face therefore they always have somekind of emotion on there face. The nuetral face problably looks like someone being angry or sad or possibly confused. The computer doesn't know what a sarcasitic smile looks like or someone who is truely smiling but there mouth is frauwning so then the computer will see sadness.
In the article it also states that human communication is mostly nonverbal, including emotional Dr Huang said computers need to understand that too. Frankly I think that is insane, thinking that computers need to know our emotions! Computers are just a tool for knowlege, well some our, and some are just to make you be in a virtual world. No. Live in the now, don't go to your computer, show it your face and have it tell you how your feeling. Just listening to your little voice inside your head, listen to that and feel from that. Everyone has emotions so don't be afriad to show it to PEOPLE NOT ROBOTS! Enough said on that.
The article does state that putting on a happy face actualy works, I do believe that. I have read articles relating to that. I have tried putting on a happy face when I was sad and it kinda worked for me but I can't get happy that easy, but I know it probably works for a lot of people. "Whoever thought that making faces could reveal so much about the science of emotions!"
That statement, in my opinion, doesn't really need to be said because showing your emotions and facial expressions is something that every human has and science doesn't really need to be improved for the facial expression.
In conclusion I beleive that computers don't need to know our emotions, people need to talk with each other and share then you could know more about someone. Instead of | 4 |
2388754 | Have you ever woner what the Face on Mars really is? Some people say that it is a rock formation that resembles a human face. Some say that it was an alien artifact. I think that the Face is just some kind of rock formation. If the Face has anything to do with an alien, we would be as suprise and intrested as all you guys would be.
First of all, if the Face relate to some kind of alien things, why do you think we would keep it a secret? Imagine that it actually had to do something with alien and we told everyone. That would be a benefit for us because more people would be intested in NASA. It will make us get more money make good profits. We as a scientist would actually want to see some kind of alien artifact too but that is not what we are finding right now.
Second of all, the people who said we are hiding something don't even have any prove. Jim Garvin, chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, said that " We felt this was important to taxpayers". That shows that we are not hiding anything. We send a spacecraft twice after the first picture which was in 1976 with a better camar to really make sure what we say is true. We even show the would all the picture. The people who said we are hiding something have no idea what they are talking about.
In conclusion, I am telling you that the Face we saw on Mars was nothing but a rock formation. Don't believe in everything you hear because some of them do not have prove of what they are saying. To make sure it was what we think it was we send Mars Global Surveyor in April 5, 1998 and we send it again on April 8, 2001. If we find some things that have to do with alien, we will tell you guys. But for now that is not the case, so lets not think that the Face have something to do with aliens. | 3 |
2389ddc | Technology have go further, we have technology everywhere, from cameras to Facial Action Coding System (FACS). The FACS is a software that can read your emotions, it reads the muscles of your face, it creates a 3-D computer model of the face and reads the 44 major muscles in the face, the software can classified six basic emotions: happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness.
The FACS can be used in schools but it can have controversial problems, because some parents may not want a computer to read their childrens emotions, or they can think that is not a good thing that a computer can read your face and later they can use the picture of the face for other things, but some other parents may like the idea of using FACS in the school because they can know how their kids are feeling.
The pros about using that technology is that they can save the data and compare of how the students are feeling in the classroom and change the way of teaching, that can help the kids to not feel bored in class and they can enjoy it, other pro is that parents can see how their children are feeling and they can talk with them if they have issues or something is happen with their life and they don't want to tell them, in the article Dr. Huang predicts that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored."
The cons might be that the the parents may not like the idea that a computer is reading the emotions of their kids, and the other con is they will not want to change the way of teaching because a computer said that the kids are bored or confuse, they might blame the teacher for not teaching the right way.
At my point of view is a good idea to use the FACS in the shools because the kids will not get bored if the school change the way of teaching and they will enjoy it, the other thing I like about the FACS is that the parents can know how their kids are feeling and they can talk with them, they can have more time together and be in time with the family, but now is your turn to decide what idea you like the most, you are with the pros or cons. | 3 |
23a874d | Venus has had a lot of research put into it . they ave put spacecrafts of many kinds on it ,but they can not last on there for more then a few hours. some belive it is because ofthe high heats on that plant ,also it might be because of the pressure in the air and it messes with the craft. scientest are still not 100% sure as to what it is quiet yet.
Earth and Venus are a like in some ways. they are the closest alike within all the plants in the solar system . they both have large bodys of ocean on them and creatures on them . NASA wants to maybe someday have someone land on Venus ,but that would be way to dangerous becasue of the heat . also venus has almost no oceans anymore . another thing is that they have really thick and heavy clouds on them and that may harm them.
NASA is testing diffrent types of spacecrafts and putting the min chambers that are simaloar to Venus . some last up to a few minties till a few weeks for others . it all just depends on how it is made. a lot o fpeople are fasanated by venus and how are solar system works . because venus and earth are so close to each other but venus has such high temputures and it is weird because earth is not like that. another thing is sometimes earth is closer to mars then it is to venus , because of how the earth moves. | 1 |
23ac622 | Cars. Cars were first made using human hands for humans to drive around in. Cars are a major evolution from walking around everywhere. In old days I don't know how hard driving was and/or if they had driver's licences.I think we as people should not except driverless cars.
Now a day's people have to take two test too be able to drive. First test is the reluctant permmit test once you pass that you have to get your hours. By hours I mean driving hours at night, morning, on the highway's, streets and etc. The second test we have to take Is the critical drivers test this test is mostly on you,you make your own pressure. There are two people in the car you and the (scorer),she/he dosn't matter who it is they will not jugde on race or sexuality.Once you pass that test your off to the races.
We as people have to go through all that as humans to be able to drive. I get those test make sure we will be responsible on the road so we don't injure yet even kill innocent bystanding pedestrians. All those test to keep them ok and safe I can deal with that so I will be able to drive. In some cases people don't even have a(n) permmit they just drive. There's a catch to that they don't drive stupid or and don't get pulled over.That's breaking the law but if the police don't catch them so be it.
Brains. I know people have those what about robots or A.I. do they have brains? Technically speaking they do have brains called the mother board. That Board/ chip is the harness to their thinking without that they are smart as rocks. What and how many test did they have to take too be able to drive for google, or BMW? I get people have been fasinating over cars that drive themselves. But if the A.I cant pull into drive ways or deal with complicated traffic issues like, roadwork or accidents. I get companies have did remarkable test with great outcomes.
Why do we want cars that drive themselves? The test that G.M did was a graet test and idea. Too exspensive they said how much money did futurist spend to make theese driverless cars.
in conclusion I don't think we need driverless cars. It will take alot more money to build than regular cars. So I say nay. To the future for now keep doing good things like finding a cure for cancer doing great there in that area. every baody probably couldn't afford the cars any way so that's less money.Thank you. | 4 |
23acd87 | Dear state senator,
I'm writing to you today regarding my concerns on our voting method for the president of the United States. Although we've been voting by the electoral college for how ever many years, I don't think it is the most efficient and fair way of voting. Our Chamber of Commerce, former vice president Richard Nixon and many more would have to agree with me when I say that abolishing the electoral college could only be beneficial to us. The electoral college system is unfair, confusing and forces people to compromise.
The electoral college is unfair, being that voters don't always control who their electors vote for, opposed to election by popular vote. One reason why America strives is the fact that we are a democracy, where every one gets a say and we are not ruled by a dictators or communist. The electoral college in no way follows our democratic system, the people are not voting for our president our electors are the ones voting for us.
Not only is the electoral college unfair but it is also confusing. For new voters they may be confused by the eletoral college. New voters may wonder why can't I just vote for the candidate I most prefer. Think about it like this, in the electoral college the electors are the middle man. Why not cut the middle man out? And as a result make the voting system much simpler.
People may agrue that the electoral college system stops a majority vote. So let's say, you're a democrat living in the state of Texas with the electoral college system in place. You might as well not vote for an elector cause the majority of the people in texas are going to vote for the republican elector. On the other hand, there is the election by popular vote, gives everyone a say in whom they'd like to vote for. There is always the possibility of the disater factor.
After sharing my concerns with you state senator, I hope you understand where I am coming from.
My deep regards,
PROPER_NAME | 4 |
23b0b0f | Arguing whether the use of the techonology to read the emotional expressions of stuidents is good idea and is it great techonology they have invented because now you can see how other people really feel and you would not think wrong, another thing is you can also tell how the other person feel about you. Even though i think this is a great idea, some people may not like it and feel offend by this idea because no technology or computer could tell how a person is really feeling. No techonolgy is hundread percent correct.
Using this techonolgy ti read emotional expressions of student in the classroom it is valuable because when a students is feeling down or depress you would know so you could help them. Another things not much students are going to like this becuase some poeple don't like to tell people how they really feel. They don't like public to know. So it will be embrasse to them. I think using a computer to read poeple emotional would not work on everybody it's not like everyone is willing to tell the public their problem or anything.
Using the techonolgy to read emotional expressions, some people will love it because it said in the article,
"You can tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face. Mos of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that appear" i agree with you can't actually tell how a person feeling just look the facial expression, using the technology it tell exacally how many percent the person is feeling so it would tell you how they are really feeling. As it say in the article "we humans perfom this same impressive "calculation" every day. Having the techonolgy in an classroom is not a good idea though. Why have a technology in a classroom when you know already how a student would feel about school.
I think these kind of technology would be useful to use in thearpy or pyspath hospital because you would know exactly how a person is feeling so you can help them and make them feel better. Having this techonolgy is a geat idea but it depend where you use and not a classroom. | 3 |
23b30d1 | Astronauts risk their life by exploring the different planets in our solar system. In the article ''The Challenge of Exploring Venus'' talks about how dangerous it could be to exoplor it. Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because it was once the most Earth-like planet in our solar system, Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for planetary visit, and NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus.
Venus may be inhospitable now, but it was once the most Earth-like planets in our solar system. In the article it discusses how Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. It states that, ''The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features [like] valleys, mountains, and craters.'' Meaning it has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. Venus is also the second planet from our sun.
Earth, Venus, and Mars orbit the sun at different speeds, which could lead to planetary visits. ''The differences in speed mean that sometimes we ae closer to Mars and other times Venus.'' Humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud draped world. Each previous mission was unmanned, and no spacecraft survuved the landing for more than a few hours. Venus has proven to be a very challanging place to examine more closely.
There are inhancements that NASA are trying to improve for differnt approaches to studying Venus. The author exclaims, ''A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus.''
An example of what NASA is trying to do is to create simplified electronics made of silicone carbide that have been tested to in a chamber that stimulates Venus's surface; this electronic has survived three weeks in such conditon. What's even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. So imagine exposing a cell phone to acid or heat capable of melting tin. | 3 |
23b46a7 | The world of cars is rapidily changing due to their emission of greenhouse gases. These gases not only are warming the globe as a whole but are more locally effecting the quality of air in our cities. Efforts are being made to lower the amount of gases and improve air quality such as Car-free day in Colombia and bans on driving in Paris. For Colombia the city of Bogota has built bike roads and nice sidewalks to limit the need or want to drive and ultimitely reduce smog. During their last year millions of people walked on their car-free day even when it rained showing that people want to make a difference and positively help their enviroment.
In some areas like Paris where pollutants are at 147 micrograms per cubic meter drastic actions had to made during its peak on smog. The city of Paris put a partial ban on driving reducing the smog by 60 percent.
Some communities like Vauban, Germany have created car free suburbs and building lifestyle around that. Instead of large suburbs like we have here in the States they have focused on making shopping within walking distance. People of Vauban have been reported to being less stressed and more happy after living in a car free community. However; this is not the most practical here efforts can be made to redesign how we live such as making super markets easier to access on an everyday basis and only buying the groceries that you need for a couple of days instead of a week or two. This trend has brought people from all over Germany to live there and has set a trend changing how other communites live there lifestyle.
Giving up cars has can build a better life for you and the planet by reducing pollution and lowering your stress but it in order for its full benefits it needs to be done as a community. | 3 |
23b4894 | I agree with the authors perpose with studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents. Venus is the second plant away from the sun and the Earth's twin. At first it was called the Evening star because it's one of the even and brightest points of light in the night sky. We all know that it's completely different from the Earth's atmosphere. Theres a rick going to venus becuase of all the lost signals from there and there's probably no life in the other planet.
The thick atmosphere that is 97% carbon dioxide is Venus there is no life in that planet nothing. The clouds are higly corrosive sulfuric acid in venus and the weather over there its crazy 800 degress fahrenheit and the pressure is 90 times greather Earth's. So why to NASA and everyone wants to study the planet venus, is it for a project,research,are they planning on going there we don't know but soon we will know. There's probably something living on venus planet right now and that we don't know about if they try to find it it will be difficult to find because of the lost signals they had before. Before people think that this planet Venus had a body water.
The author has a point with the statement he said with out risk and a lot of courage there can not be nothing. That's the whole point of everything is people didn't take risk where would they be today where would the people be at right now. It would be hard to get there and NASA can not get no sample of rocks, gas, or anything else froma distance. Scientist even said it, it would take risk and a lot of challenges for them to reach Venus. we will get there on day it wont be today or tomorrow but if the keep pushing and working hard the will reach Venus one day. | 2 |
23b5db1 | Is using technology to show emotional expresions of students in classrooms good? As a teen who attends School and as a person who gets confused easily i Would agree that is a good idea. Some people are to shy or just simply nervouse to ask for help and they dont ask. Having a Computer that could recognize when its confused Helps not only the students but the teacher Most teachers go on When not really knowing that a student has been left behind. As students we go through things that most people dont know and that can aslo trigger are behavoir and distractions in class and if a computer can see that it can help the student.
Tracking down a student while doing a lesson might be difficukt you can be focus on one student while the other student is confused. But while using The computer it can help all the students because if helps it dectect when a student is confused. 'A classroom computer could recognize when a studeent is becoming confused or bored" Sometimes teachers arent able to notice it and students end up doing other stuff and they never learn like that but with the help of the new technology it can change.
Most students in school dont want to tell when somethung is bothering them. But that can also affect the way a student is learning they can be thinking about something else and when its time to do it they arent able to. They are confused the teacher might not be able to dectect that fast but the computer can "Most human communication is nonverbal including emotional communication". The computer understands that. | 3 |
23bc2c4 | Firstly, i am for the value of using this technology to read students emotional expressions, becaue it is not someting that can just be eaisily told these days and it must have been even worst to tell in the past. I personally beilieve that it wold be best to have somehing that has been woked on by many people and can be very well depended on. These days no one can tell ho someone fels because of their facial expression. so in my essay will be giving evidence that supports whymi am for the value of using this technology to read students emotional expressions.
Secondly, my evidence that supports that i am for the value of using this technology to read students emotionl expressions is in the text where it text states " The software is the latest innovation from Prof. Thoma Huang, of the University of illinois, working in collaboration with prof . Nicu sebe of the university of Amsterdam. Dr. Huang and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate". from this evidence i can definenly defend and give evidence for why i am for the value of using this technology to read students emotional expressions. from tis quote i am for the value of using tthis technology to read students emotionl expressions because their are many people many universities who combind their knowlege and what they know together so off couse they would come up with something so great. by something so graet i mean humans, technology and emotions. What i can also personally add to this parrgraph is things are way more depenable and understanding and way more better and trustfull and when many people join their heads together.
Thirdly, another evidence that supports that i am for the value of using this tehnology to read students emotional expressions is in the text where the text states " The process begin with the computer model of the face .....then Dr. Huang relies on the work of psychologists, such as Dr. paul eckman......for example, your frontalis pars lateralis muscle ......" . from this evidence i should already know that i am for this technology and i agree with it being used to read students emotional expressions. I agree with it being used to read students emotinal expression, because just from the first four words of the quote i know that is is definently dependable .I know from those four words in the begining of the quote that this passage tells me everything that i need to know about this technology. It also leaves me without worries and question but the need to use it.
Fourth, another evidence that i can use that supports why i am for this the quote "The software is the latest innovtion from " just from this quote i can support why i am foe the value of using this technology to read students emotional expressions because i no that what ever company or what so ever this project will definently be graet and will as much as it is expected to do great. Another reason why i am for the value of using this technology to read students emotional expressions is the text states "While looking at the mirror :......1....2...3...... does your expression in the mirror suggest an emotion?
Can your lab partner recognize which one........accordig to facial feedback.....".
Also this quote " Who ever thought that making faces could reveal so much about the science of emotion! from this quote i can say that people can't just understand your emotions and how you feel because of your face expression so that is wy their is a need for a technology that is thrustfull and has been developed with so much knowlege to help with all that and the curiusity of how someone feels from their facial expression.
To conclued i would definently say that i am for the valueof using this technoogy to read sudents emotonal expressions. This technogy is the latest technology so i can count on its new developments. This techology has been created by many developers many universities, many proffesors so am for sure that they made it the best that it should and needsto be. This technology helps us understand and fills us in with all the questions that we have of it and it and the human emotion and others. I love this technology and i hope it definently works for sure. | 2 |
23c08f2 | The ideas of driverless cars a good but what would be better is a car that can drive without out a human helping at times. in the alt 1950's the idea began with general motors created a self friving car made for a smart road. the track had a eletric cable tht sent signals to a reciever on the front of the car.
in the 1980's about 10 years after the sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out of control skids or rollovers. i think that these ideas are great and can be do with hard work. before 2000 none of these ideas would have worked because the technology was not advanced enough. it would cost 2 two hundred million dollars to put a radio divice on a hilltop and thats just to much to pay for. in 2013, BMW announced the development of "traffic jam assitant." The car can handle the driving fuctions at speed up to 25 mph, but special tuch sensors make sure the driver keeps ahold of the wheel.
in my opinion these ideas really changed the way we think about car and how we drive them. we are not qite there yet but we are getting there soon. | 2 |
23ccdb6 | Thet face on the red planet was not made by aleans it haped naturaly. Also theres no prove that the aleans did it just like people think that the pyramids were helped by aleans to build the pyramids. But the face looks like an egypion pharaohs face. What we can see is that it looks like a humans face. The face was first seen in a Hollywood film and think the face is bona fide.
But NASA still has no prov of alean ecestens. NASA took a pictur of the face and proved it was a nateral formland and that there was no aleans but not evryone was oky with that. Other studed the pictur and ther were alean markungs hidden by haze. So NASA went back even tho it was going to be hard work. They zoomed in as much as posebl. They colled see things that looked like littele airplanes ,or Egygtian-style pyramids or even small shacks.
Like on Earth ther are things that look like other rhing but cant be ecsplandd how they were formed or how they were formed by. That is my finel conclusion of the face that if marked on the red planet. I think it was made naturaly. | 1 |
23d1582 | The electonal are very impornont for the people in the u. s because they need better leader in which they vote every four years.
There 270 electoral vores required to elect the preasident well the 23rd Amendment only let's us have 3 elecotor and treated like for state for purposes of the electoral college were 'discussin the word state also refers to the districy of columbia'.
Why dosen't the u. s just have better party well we only the two great party but what about the other onces? we as people should change that because i don't think it's very fair to have only have two big party somepeople would agree with me if we just ask qustion about why should we should have more big party but why not all of us should change that for the last 300 years we have been vote for the party.
"In 1976 a shift of just 41,971 votes would have just deadlocked the election 1976 a tie would have occurred if a" mere 5,559 voter in Ohio state by 3,687 voters in hawaii had voted the other way election 'is only a few swing voters aways from catastrpe".
Do you know if state have lots of vote on which they vote for the person who is running for president they would mostly be in office by just only four state if they get very high vote lets ask in explan like Ohia they get 50% of the votes most likely they would be the president of the u. s that just a fact right there to show you.
In 1968 thorw 1992 they both had only a 43 percent of plurality if popular votes, while winning every electoral and college 301,370 respectively invariably produces a clear winner of which they vote for like for explain like obam they mostly vote for him over about 2 years ago back in 2012 well that because big states vote for him and he got to be the president for the last 6 years of office. | 1 |
23d44f9 | Have you ever looked at someone and thought, I wish I knew how they feel? Well now with the help of a new technology called Facial Action Coding System you can do just that. An article called "Making Mona Lisa Smile" goes in depth about how the system works and what it does for society. Basically, this system shows you exactly what a face is feeling emotionally. I think this is a great idea and a step into the technology of the future.
One reason why this system is great is it can show you exactly what emotions someone has. The system constructs a 3-D model of the face on the computer. It then compares the face to a face that is showing no emotion. The system then looks at your 44 muscles in your face to see how you are feeling. The system can even detect mixed emotions. Dr. Huang of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science at the University of Illinois is the creator of this system and he says this about the system, "By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions. Each expression is compared against a neutral face." Dr. Huang is explaining that this system can even detect if you are feeling multiple emotions by weighing different units.
Another thing the Facial Action Coding System can do is recognize faces from paintings. The most recent piece of art they have studied for emotions was the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. After the process, they discovered that the Mona Lisa is 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry. Gettng these results can now tell us what painters from a long time ago were thinking about in there art when they painted it. This can be very useful in figuring out more ideas from artists in the rennisance age.
In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System is a great tool that can help out the future of emotions greatly. It can detect all emotions and even detect if someon had mixed emotions. It can also detect emotions in paintings like the Mona Lisa. I think this is a good idea and that it should be spread to the entire world. | 3 |
23d7e8f | Becoming a Seagoing Cowboy is an opportunity of a life time. The places you get to go, experiance you gain, and the fun to be had is all to much to pass up. It opened up a whole new world to me and a lot of other people.
If it weren't for the Seagoing Cowboys Program, I wouldn't have visited half of the places I have in my whole entire life. While on the job, I had time to visit Greece, Italy, China, Crete, and many other countries. I even got to sail the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean 2 times!
Another reason that you should join is the amazing experiance you'll gain. When I first joined, I had a tiny bit of experiance with animals from helping out at my Aunt Katie's farm. But even if you don't have a little bit of a backround with helping out animals, you'll have all of the knowledge you'll need just by taking one trip. Being in the Seagoing Cowboys program also taught me about all of the dangers there are at sea.
The last reason you should join the Seagoing Cowboys is the fun you get to have. Yes, you do have to work hard and still get the job done correctly. But after the job has been completed, you can play games with the other cowboys. For instance, I used to play a lot of baseball and volleyball in the empty holds where the animals had been housed. Other stuff that helped pass the time were table-tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, and whittling.
Now that you've read why I recommend you join the Seagoing Cowboys program, (especially for the places you go, experiance you gain, and fun you get to have) I hope that you will consider my point. It really cahanged me for the better, and I thing it will change you, too. | 3 |
23da144 | Driveless cars are one of the most talked about upcoimg advancements in modern technology. These cars are efficent for the driver, as well as the enviorment. Although some don't have the greatest eye appeal, the Tesla model S, for instance, has a clean and luxury look to it. Even though these cars are tremendesly positive in the aspect of a driveless car, their is most definetly drawbacks. However, the pros outways the cons by a wide margin.
These cars could change the way people all around the world commute and travel. A long car ride across country can be just as easy as sitting there and enjoying the ride. Gas prices are a major issue in our econemy. During the reccession in 2007, gas prices got to as high as 4.00$! These driveless cars are ran by Electricity, and some are even toying with the idea of using solar power.
A younger male lands a new job he wanted, so he goes out with friends to celebrate. This male has a couple drinks and is just barely under the legal limit to drive. He isnt responsible and thinks he can drive home. He's not only putting his life in danger, but other peoples lives as well. What if this same male owned a driveless car that drove itself 90 percent? The odds of him getting in a wreck go down dramatically and could potentially save many peoples lives.
Although, with everything its not always perfect. I am a big supported of the driveless car, but i will be the first to admit there is some drawbacks and worries. On a long trip or early morning drive to work what if the driver falls asleep at the wheel and an emergency occurs were the driver would have to take over? Would the vibration in the seat be enough to wake this slumbering person up? Suppose there is a white out condition were the sensors and cameras cant recognize a thing and malfunction. Will the car be able to tell the roads are too slick to go 70MPH on the interstate? Also suppose its driving in a highly populated downtown area. All the diffrent variables it would have to be prepared for. People and little kids walking in the street, crosswalks, people biking along side the road, construction sites, is just to name a few things.
However, I believe Driveless cars are coming, there will be some dropbacks, there will be some figuring out to do. All-in-all its a terrific idea and i think itll change the world and the transit system as we know it. Cars are just the start. Could Aircrafts be next? Maybe, what is to stop us from finding out. | 4 |
23dbca9 | I believe that driverless cars should be developed because of the many positive capabilities of the cars, advanced technology that is currently available and constantly being improved, and the safety features added by the driverless car.
One major consideration for the development of the driverless car is the environmental benefits. The Google cofounder Sergey Brin says that the cars "would use half the fuel of toay's taxis." There is a large fear of increasing gas prices and lack of natural resources in the world today. The production of driverless cars would quell those fears as they are much more fuel efficient than the cars used today. Brin also states that the cars would "offer far more flexibility than a bus." This is crucial as the bus usually has a route that it must adhere to while the driverless car can go straight to the desired location. This aspect also positively impacts the environment. Similarly, the advanced technology that is already being created also helps with the development of the driverless car.
Beginning from the late 1950s, the concept of the driverless car was already thought of. Now, the concept is beginning to come to fruition due to the advanced technology created. The most important bit of technology on the driverless car is the spinning sensor on the roof, also known as the LIDAR. The LIDAR is able "to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings." Without the LIDAR, the accuracy of the driverless car would be greatly reduced as the car would have no sense of its surroundings. Another technology that was greatly enhanced is the antilock brakes. In the 1980s, the antilock brakes "used speed sensors at the wheels" to monitor when the car was becoming out of control. Back then, the antilock brakes only had a sensor to monitor the wheel's speed. Now, the antilock brakes have become more advanced to the point that they are able to "detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers." The antilock brakes have evolved from only having a sensor that monitors speed to sensors that can detect many dangerous conditions. The advancement of car technology greatly affects how safe and successful a driverless car may be. A driverless car would most likely not be able to work in the 1980s with the speed sensor as the antilock brakes. Now, the driverless car would be able to work very effectively as it combines a plethora of sensors and cameras to ensure safety. Speaking of safety, the driverless cars all have a safety feature that guarantees almost the maximum safety potential.
The reliance of a driver within the driverless car finalizes the development of the driverless car. If the car encounters a foreign situation, the driver will just be notified and will take over from there. This concept of passing over the responsibility of driving makes the driverless car very safe. As long as there is an alert driver within the car, the car is almost certainly not going to make any accidents. Car developers designed the driverless car to "steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills." Thus, the car will do most of the driving and when there is a difficult situation, the human driver will take over. This ensure the utmost safety of the driver and the passengers as there is an extremely low risk of an accident occuring. There are "driver's seats that vibrate" and the Google car even "announces when the driver should be prepared to take over." This increases the safety of the driverless car as the driver will be notified when to take over. Therefore, the driver will also know the situation and will be ready to handle any troubles the driverless car couldn't handle. The safety features positively affect the development of the driverless car.
All in all, the cutbacks on the usage of natural resources, the advanced technology used to increase the safety of the driver, and the many built in safety features advocate for the production of the driverless car. | 5 |
23e30c0 | Hello! Today you problem feel super board with nothing to do,but you really love adventure. I know what to do I'll tell you what my friend Luke's friend did for him. Lucks friend Don Reist invited him to toto Europe on a cattle boat. Luke said yes, and began a whole new adventure. You know that a cattle boat is not as bad as it sounds. You should tell yourself should I.
Here are a few reasons why you should consider going.
<It would be a lot of fun
< You love trying new things
<You also like adventure,and trust this is a chance of a life time at least Luke thinks so.
You should remember that these are only a few reasons to try there are tons of more were that came from. I would tell you,but I'm kinda in the middle of taking a HUGE test. I don't wanna spend my time doing that. I want you to at least consider it. I think you could be the best cowboy or cowgirl who rides the waves ever.
This is my conclusion I really hope I have convinced you to try riding the waves if I haven't at least try new things,and never stop be leaving that you can't. You have the world to explore. You are an adventurer,and I can't wait to explore what cool things you can do to like our amazing world. | 1 |
23e5178 | My positoin for driverless cars. Hmm its got me thinking like it would and will be a great idea but for all those uber, taxi drivers who depend on those jobs. But if theyr'e where driverless car the place I would need to sit will be a question. Becuase I will be insured if they are full driverless because due to sueing issues for google atemtpting this. Also that in paragraph nine it talks about the laws as in the term here. new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident . If technology fail and someone is injured. The question was who is at fault the driver or the Manufacturer.
Some negative aspects from driverless car are overheating or crashes. These big problems can casue huge affects to peoples lifes. Another negative would be what kind of fuel will it use gas or oil maybe some random flued. Another could be that people who try to break into them and steel stuff and will there be
alert systems for these situations Maybe if the car breaks or starts to smoke what will the car do?, open all the doors turn of alert the passenger to get out. Also if these driverless car get to boring
and dozed off and cant be awake to see what they are doing then what is gonna happen when they cant be up for it. If there is a car crash or a collision and the car cantt stop its self.
Some possitive things I think about this car could be the fuel it could replace. As if they where ran by electricity and the roads where replaaced localy that electrical roads can charge the cars or repower it. Another is
on better brakes for the car torward the road to fix the issues for dead cars and crashes. Like in the articles it talks about how in the 1950's they used radio signels to send out to the google indistrie. Also if the cars did have entertainment would it shut off during warnings. My last is if the car breaks how could the car get help and is there a gps within it.
Also to make sure the driver is ready and always have the hand on the wheel as such they do have in here. In 2013 BMW announced the development of Traffic jam assistant. The car can handle driving functions up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sore the driver keeps a hold of the wheel. Thats what caught my attention knowing that the car would need some sort of human control. There for those are my thoughts on this driverless car. maybe they could just add more things or add these driverless design to semi trucks due to the high dangers for the people who are risking there lives through horrible winters strors and other natural disasters.
Even tho how far its gonna go if we finish this driverless car whats gonna be next? | 3 |
23e63ae | Diverless cars are something that a lot of people imagine when they think of the future. They think about getting driven around by robots or computers that would do all the work for you. The driverless cars are capable of many things but
are not capable of driving through construction, an accident, or just traffic. Driverless cars have pros and cons to them. They can be very dangerous if the person driving is not paying attention.
When there is an accident, road construction, or traffic, the cars need assistance getting through the problem. The driverless car would not be completely driverless. Lets say that there is an accident on an intersate, which has stopped traffic, the traffic is almost at a complete stop. The car would need the driver to take over and get through the traffic.
Most people today own a cell phone of some kind. Some of those people like to text and drive, which is dangerous because they pay attention their phone and not the traffic and people arround them. If the driverless car was to need assistance, those people would not know that because they are to busy texting. People think they can multi-task so they can text and drive at the same time but it is not true. Our brains focus on one thing at a time, so if we are texting while driving, we are not paying attention to the road in front of us.
If you are riding in a car on the way to work, a meeting, or evena family occation, you probably get bored if you are not the one who is driving. You get distracted, some people even get tired and take a nap. If we were in a driverless car and something was to happen and the car needed assistance, we would not be paying attention to help the car. We could be sleeping, texting, or even just zoned out. Then you could get into an accident and hurt yourself, or someone else.
Driverless cars can be very dangerous. Society is not ready for that kind of technology yet. The car would not even be completely driverless because it would still need our help, which requires attention. If we did not have to drive the whole time, we would get distracted, or bored, or both. We would not pay attention to the world around us to realize that the car needs assistance through traffic, construction,
or an accident. | 3 |
23eb690 | In the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars" it says that it seems to be a face on mars,but there is not. The "face" that we see on is just a natural land form. We can tell that by many ways. Some ways are that in 2001 we see a picture of the so called "face of mars" closer and see it is not something created by aliens.
One way we know that the landform on mars is not made by aliens is that; scientist took a sharper photograph of the "face" in 2001. NASA states,"What the picture actually shows is the martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West." The scientist prove that the "face" is just a landform.
Also the article tells us that hollywood makes up a lot of these things about there being aliens. In paragraph five it says,"The "Face on Mars" has since become a pop icon. It has starred in a hollywood film, appeared in books,magazines, and radio talk shows..." Hollywood makes up things like this to make us beleave in something just for them to make money.
Now on the other hand this could be true. Aliens could of put it there. The article even states,"Some people think the Face is
bona fide evidence of life on Mars-evidence that NASA would rather hide..." There is a chance however," Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an achient civilization on Mars."
In the article it does state that there could be a "Face" on Mars made by aliens, but facts prove that the "Face" is just a natural landform. The picture took in 2001 proves alone that it is only a landform. So for now we know that Marvin the Martian isn't flying around building ancient civilizations. | 3 |
23ed908 | I vow against the value of using technology to read student's emotional expressions. My reasoning is big data companies will configure this to their advantage and bordeom in a classroom can guide someone toward something higher.
To begin,"Big Brother" will exploit this in order to make money off of it unsuspectedly. The text gives an example of what the technology can do in terms of personalizing ads. It does not matter who someone is big data companies, will find clever ways of gathering anyones data in exchange making life more simple no matter if that person is student or not. Once the data is stockpiled, it is on the internet and avaliable to anyone that pays for it.
Secondly, bordeom as terrible as it sounds is good for the brain. Bordeom in the text is mentioned as something that looms in the learning environment and this new technology can help create a more effective lesson. The second society lets such algorithms coexist with AI that is when the people lose control of their lives; because, it will let robotic minds make decisions for society. Boredom is misunderstood, it can allow society to have think beyond the surface and allows someone to excel as they then understand the joy of a subject has detierated, now looking anew.
To conclude, "Big Brother" would manipulate this technology to profit and boredom is beneficial. Not everything is what it presents itself as on the surface. | 3 |
23ee95d | DEAR, Senator
Changing the electoral college would not be an great idea due to the fact that it has been around for centuries and would negatively impact the voting system. Some believe the voting system is a very unfair and outdated system because of the electoral college. When changing the system to popular vote it will affect many people, it may also come out worse than the electoral college. 3 big points why the electoral college should stay the same is one because the electoral college has been around keeping voting in place for centuries. The second great point is that a disaster only happend once. Then the third main point is the winner take all idea is a great idea for the electoral college.
The electoral college has been around forever so why change it now. Some belive that the electoral college is a good idea Because of the voting way in the electoral college system voters vote not for the president but for a slate of electors. which is good because people need to have a leader of there state and that leader shows them which president is really good for whta they do. Presidents talk about what they are gonna do to help the country and the slate elelctors define what the presidents are gonna do to help out that certain state. Then the people of the state vote there slate electors for good reasons. The electoral system should stay around alot longer the system is just rigt for voting.
The electoral college is in good shape for staying and not changing a disater only happend once 14 years ago back in 2000. That means at least 3 elections happend since then and nothing went wrong. Even though if the electoral college system is such a good system then why was there such confusion in th200 fiasco. That makes the electoral college system look very bad becuase it can keep it's voting in balance at all. This was only once, If the system changes then this could happen more than many more times. Then soon we won't even know which president wins the election.
The electoral college looks really good due to the "winner-take-all"
system which awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate. some say this is far but others believe the "proportional representatin" system, the system that the state governor prepares a "Certificate of Ascertainment", which list all the canidates who ran for president in the state along with the names of there respective electors.
In overall the eletoral college should stay due to the fact that the electoral college has been around keeping voting in place for centuries, a disaster only happend once and finally is the winner take all idea is a great idea for the electoral college. so let's not try new stuff keep the electoral college. | 3 |
23f176c | The article is obviously talking about the Making of Monalisa Face. It talks too about the Facial Action Coding System. It´s a program or system that knows if you are sad, mad, happy, etc. The guys who are helping now are Prof. Thomas Huang and Prof. Nicu Sebe. The creator of Facial Action Coding System is Dr. Paul Eckman.
The FACS can know if your sad. I need to say it is very cool. Thats how far technology is going. A computer can know your emotions. Dr. Eckman has classified six basics emotions, happines, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. Its all about the movement of the muscles.
In conclusion its not an important thing to have in this world but is kind of nice been able to see if the person in the pictur was happy or sad etc. Dr. Eckman is a really samrt men, Prof. Thomas and Prof. Nicu too. So if you want to know if your friend is sad take a picture of him. Do the process and show it to him Im sure he will be surprise. I really think this is a good idea, we can know if the presidents or old history people were happy or sad. | 2 |
23f2def | Facial Action Coding System (FACS) should be used in the classroom. The FACS technology would be very helpful in classrooms because it can help the kids in the class understand things better.
The FACS technology would help kids understand better by reading their emotions and telling what they understand and what they don't. The technology is capable of reading human facial expressions and giving the verdict on what they are feeling. Say for example a kid in a class has no clue what is going on in the subject, the FACS system can read his/her emotions and change the course to be a little more understandable for them. It can also help by seeing if the anyone is feeling sad or depressed and they can help that person.
Although this technology sounds great and seems like it has no flaws or problems, it does. The system may become a distraction to the children by them knowing about it and continuing to think about it. The FACS system may also mess up and read the wrong emotions on someone and send the wrong information to whoever runs the system. It is not said how long of a process that it takes just to figure out one persons emotions. Having the system would be better than nothing though. It's better to know how the kids are feeling rather than not knowing at all.
Overall the FACS system is very impressive at figuring out human's emotions based on their facial expressions. The FACS technology would be very helpful in classrooms because it can help the kids in the class understand things better. | 3 |
23f58d4 | NASA. The United States form of a dominating space academy. The Viking 1, was in fact NASA's spacecraft that was launched in 2001. The spacecraft was set course for the small, red planet that is simillar to Earth. The planet is called Mars. Viking 1's "sister" Viking 2 was supposed to be landing on Mars, and that's why Viking 1 was sent up in space to begin with. While Viking 1 was snapping photos, its camera picked up a weird face-like structure on the surface of Mars. Some believe its a mysterious face that "so called aliens" built. I believe that their reasoning is just a bunch of garbage. What I think that is, is just a simple and natural landform made by the underground volcanoes, sandy surface, and rocks that landed there.
One reason I believe that this is a natural landform is from looking at the photos. The "face" isn't any perticular shape that any man or alien would want. The landform would be shaped as a circle, square or any other simple shape, and it would not be so ridgid and cracked. If you were to look at the photo furthest to the left, you would assume that it resembled a face, but If you compair that photo to the one taken twenty-five years later, you would begin to understand that to photo was out-dated and that the camera was not as clear as the one taken later. In addition, why would an alien make a structure of a human's face.
That part of the theory makes more sense if you take into consideration the angle the camera could have been taken at. Notice photo two? Its seems to be taken at an angle where there looks like there is a small mountain range looming over the rest of the area. This is key evidence explaining how this is just a natural landmark on Mars.
If you still do not believe me, then this next part will. If you think about it, why would NASA keep an amazing discover like this a secret? The answer is that they would not. If NASA went worldwide with their "face" they would make more money than millionaires or even other space academies. It does not make sense that the academy would keep an alien encounter hidden.
In conclusion, NASA is either brave or very stupid not to tell people about their "face", or people just want to get their word out to make other people critisized, make other people feel stupid, or they just want to feel like they are correct when they are clearly not. Therefore; This "so called face" is not a face, but it is just a land mark that was naturally constructed by the elements and not alien life-forms. | 4 |
23f9c2e | In the artical "Driverless Cars Are Coming" they are talking about the negitaves and positives of the Driverless Cars.
I think driverless car are cool but are they all safe? One of my negitives is that the cars might malfuction and make you get in a accident and cause harm to the driver in the car, and if your just sitting there will the cars diving it will be a easy way for you to dose off and fall asleep, but in the section "Driving Or Assisting?" in parigraph eight they talk about they can put entertainment in to the driverless cars and have an heads up display and when its turn for the driver to take over it will instantly turn off for the driver to drive. Some of my positives of the driverless cars are that if you late for work but didn't have time to eat breakfast then you can eat it in the car while the driverless car is driving or you could do your hair if you had to rush and all you could do is shower and get dressed. Or you have to talk on the phone for work or something because if you dont have a blutooth then you can't really drive with the phone in your hand and and you could get pulled over and get a ticked.
but one more negitive is that people might take avantige of the driverless car and on the weekend go out and get jrunk the think it'ssafe because the car an drive by its self and the car could malfuntion and then get inaccident and when the cops come the person in the car will be the blaim because they were drunk then they will go to jail. so there gose my nigitives and positives of driverless cars . | 2 |
23ff7e3 | "The Challenge of Exploring Venus"
ESSAY
"The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is an article about the planet Venus.The article talks about features that Venus has and how dangerous it could be to humans to explore. The author of the article supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit, despite the dangers that could happen. Why does the author support that idea?
Why does the author support the idea of exploring Venus even with all the dangers that come when exploring it.The author does not say
that exploring venus would be a worthy pursuit despite all the dangers that could come, but he shows in the article facts that prove that he supports the idea.For example in paragraph number seven he states , "
NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made silicon carbide have been tested in a
chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions."This shows that he belives that there will be an exploraion on planet Venus.
The Author of " The Challenge of Exploring Venus" belives that exploring venus is possible in the future.Technology is getting more advance everyday,He stated in the text with facts that he is right in what he belives. | 3 |
2402f2d | Using technology to make people show facial expessions is wrong. People should have control of their oune facial expessions Using technology to make people show facial expessions is wrong Using technology to make people show facial expessions is wrong. The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-d computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Using technology to make people show facial expessions is wrong. People should have control of their oune facial expessions Using technology to make people show facial expessions is wrong Using technology to make people show facial expessions is wrong. The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-d computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Using technology to make people show facial expessions is wrong. People should have control of their oune facial expessions Using technology to make people show facial expessions is wrong Using technology to make people show facial expessions is wrong. The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-d computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. | 1 |
24046b8 | Imagine constantly coughing. Would you like that? Car ownership is decreasing becasue: of pollution, people use other people who can drive, and the dangers. It is just not needed anymore.
Pollution is everywhere you go. THIS. It goes from China, to Europe, and to America. But what causes it? In Paris they banned driving after having near-record breaking pollution. France blamed it on their people wanting to use diesel fuel instead of gasoline. Cars that run on diesel takes up 67% of France. Paris has the most "smog" compared to the other parts of Europe. IS. After many days without driving any cars, car companies lost revenue, but the "smog" cleared up. A. By limiting the car useage pollution has goen down, making Paris a less of a polluted city. WASTE. (Source 2: Paris bans driving due to smog. by Robert Duffer)
Before you go somewhere do you tend to call a friend to see if you can car-pool? Now in America car pooling has been becoming quite popular. OF. With social media it is easier to contact your friends to see who is going where and when. Driving two separate cars is a waste of gas, time, and money. TIME. So car-pooling is the most efficient. Many Americans have a love with cars from Mercedes, to BMW's Americans are big fans. But are they dying out? Statisics say that the percentage of peopel getting their license is 16 to 39 years old. With the entertainment at home what is the need to transport anywhere. (Source 4: The end of car culture. By: Elisabeth Rosenthal). The need for cars is dying out.
Everytime you get into a car there are dangers. Car accidents happen every single day, and most of them happen where you least expect it... One mile in diameter from your house. (Source: Google) There are also dangers of spending too much money on your car. Many Americans purchase die for cars (Source 4: The End of Car Culture. By: Elisabeth Rosenthal), but can most of them afford it. Lets thing. A Mcdonolds worker who makes $7.50 an hour, purchases a $100,000 Ranger Rover plus the insurance they have to pay every single month. Even though on your way to work people will see that you have a nice car and adore you, but a few months later the outcome will not be pretty. That person will eventually become bankrupt, have to sell their house, and their car, and live in a box for their entire life.(Yahoo news) And no one wants to live in a box. So limiting car use will help. If that Mcdonolds worker never bought a car, and instead purchased a bike he/she would have money to buy food, and keep a roof over their head. Even though people now are fat and lazy it would also decrease the number of obese people in America.
To wrap things up, we should limit the use of cars. From Paris limiting it they decreased pollution, from car-pooling you save money, and from not purchasing a car you will decrease your chances of dying. But the main question is.. Who would actually get rid of their car? | 4 |
2404f31 | Venus, a planet that is the second closest to earth, and maybe second earth to be. The author suggests that the study of the planet Venus is worth pursuiting despite the dangers it with holds.
Venus is a planet that once had bodies of oceans and perhaps life living on it. The planet does contain high heat tempuratures as well as atmospheric pressure that is 90 times greater than what we experience here on earth. The conditions of Venusian geoloogy and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquales, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface(paragraph 3).
The solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. These are not easy conditions but tolerable and survivable for humans.
In conclusion, the planet Venus should be worth studying and finding discoveries that would make living on Venus easier. The dangers and doubts should ot keep us from striving at our best to succeed. | 2 |
240c2b5 | Death Box Known As The Driverless Car
New, innovative,and futuristic those are some words that average minds would describe the death box with wheels. The death box with wheels refers to the idea of cars that doesn't need a driver. These driverless cars are being developed and are coming to the market soon. Some people will purchase them because they are the fresh new thing absent minded of the dangers that will fall upon them for choosing them. I am against the fact that people need driverless cars in the world.
How reliable could these cars actually be? They rely on sensors and laser beams to form a constantly
updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings. What if one of the lasers or sensors were to malfunction without the passengers knownledge? That's a window of oppertunity for an accident to occur. Imagine yourself riding on a highway without the care in the world in your driverless car. Now that that delightful picture is etched into your brain imagine that the car swerves into a ditch because it kept straight when it should have turned. This was a result of two things , the lack of natural human instinct and a faulty sensor.
The driverless cars can lead to the devolution to the human race. The car is basically promoting laziness. A car that drives it self is juss begging humans to do things that they wouldn't normally do when they are driving like drinking liquor or helping themselves to any other drugs. When driving a regular car the driver can excerise their focus, motor, and visional skills. When you own a driverless car there is less oppertunity to convey and excerise those skills.
I think that th driving assisting features on the newer cars are okay but going ahead and making a car completely driverless is insane! In the article it states,"Presently traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." They are right to assume that the cars aren't completely safe to put your trust in. We all have experienced a time in our life where technology was unsuccessful or malfunctioned. The artical expresses a good point; If the technology fails who's at fault? Would it be you or the manufacturer?
In conclusion, there are to many things I deem are wrong with the driverless cars consept. People might think of them as innovative and futuristic but they could end up being there demise. These cars could become malfunction at any time without the passengers awareness. Since they rely on lasers and sensors to help the car drive itself a sensor could break and leaving the people inside subjective to an accident. Wo is really to blame if the person is hurt badly while putting there trust into the car? Would it be there fault for ignorant or would it being the manufactuer fault for selling them a death box with fancy cameras? | 4 |
241077a | Driverless cars may be the future but it would be a rather risky option. Sure the driverless cars are going to have advanced technology and have a ton of motion sensors on the body of the cars but all that technology, including the crucial sensor on the roof of the car that constantly processes 3D images around the car's body can cost millions of dollars to produce.
The cost to manufacture the cars aren't the only problem, The psychological aspects contribute to the driverless car aswell stating that the fact that drivers may get bored when they aren't driving. The drivers could also doze off to sleep and miss all the warning displays about the car needed to be taken over by the driver which can lead to more accidents.
Driverless cars are also illegal to test in some states becuase the safety of the public is concerned. The hardware in these cars can easily fail and traffic laws will need to change in order who will be the one to blame if the car malfunctions- either the manufactuer or the driver. Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that a car can olnly be safe if a human driver has total control. The advanced technology can throw the driver and the manufacters through a loop, which may result that the whole situation will turn into a mess and the manufacturers will be sued because the driverless cars didn't meet the highest standards for pedestrian safety.
Yes, having an extra pair of eyes in the car is very usefull when backing out or to prevent an accident thanks to the automatic brakes and sensors, but being in a car that is driverless can be very dangerous if the driver is not alert and prepared to take the wheel when there is a work zone ahead. Also the driverless cars may be very expensive because of all the technology that is enhancing the safety features. Driverless cars will cause problems in the near future if the technology malfuntions or causes harm to the driver. | 4 |
241385f | Have you ever voted? do you thing you need to vote to be a good american citizen? if yes why do you think that? In my opinion i think there is a very good reason we should have an Electoral College. My reason for that is that the Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. This is why i believe the Electoral College should continue just this little piece of information is all about organization, and organization alows us to get things done faster.
In paragraph 10 in the article "Does the Electoral College Work?" the author says "IF you lived in texas, for instance, and wanted to vote for [John] Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 democratic electors pleged to Kerry." The author absolutely makes no point because you still are basicly puting in a vote for the president but just not directly. The Electoral College is the way America organizes the voting system.
Alot of people are like theres no reason for the Electoral College to exist that theres no use when theres a mojority rule. Ask yourself this what if theres a tie we cant have two presidents at one time it would be an abomination. The Electoral College will basicaly be the tie breaker. They would be vote to break the tie them selves. | 2 |
2414f7f | The author of
" The Challenge of Exploring Venus" , supports his idea of pursuing Venus despite its dangers by, including information about NASA's intereset in studying Venus, how Earth-like the planet is, and information about the planet and why we should study and explore it.
In paragraphs five and seven the author talks about how NASA is working on approaches to study Venus. In paragraph seven of this article it says "... possible solutions on the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus wold allow scientists to float above the fray.", this means that they have come up with some ways to explore and study Venus without falling victum to Venus's harsh conditions and environment.
Also in paragraph seven the author mentions that some simplified electronocs made of siliocn carbin have been tested in a chamber simulating Venus's surface. The device lasted for three weeks in those conditions.
The author also mentions that Earth and Venus are very similar to each other by saying, " Often referred to as Earth's 'twin', Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too." . The author also calls venus "our sister planet" in paragraph four.
He also talks about how Venus has some features that are similar to Earth and how it probably could have supported various life forms.
In paragraph four the author aks the question "Why are scientists even discussing further vists to its surface?" and he answers this questions by saying that It has simililar structure to Earth. The author also mentions that we should explore Venus because our human curiosity will lead to other endeavors.
The author suported his idea by including information about the planet and why we should explore it. He includes enough information about what his is talking about and makes it very clear on what he is trying to get across to the reader. | 3 |
241d49c | The race for the smartest car has started. This new trend of building the most intelligent vehicle is taking place. Is this really what is needed? Smart cars that drive themselves may sound cool, but the requirements for them are not. Computer driven cars are costly, unsafe, and a legal hassle.
Google has had self driven cars since 2009. They have been researching and creating new ideas for them since, however the required sensory components are exspensive. A car like the modified Toyota Prius, that can drive itself, requires over 7 sensors. One sensor called the LIDAR uses lasers to map out the vehicle`s surroundings. It is not cheap to make. One must stop and recap. It requires 7 sensors to make one car. If companies plan on mass producing these vehicles the amount of mechanics needed would be enormous.
Another important step in creating these vehicles is dealing with the laws. Many states have created legal barriers stopping even the testing of self driven vehicles. California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia do not have these laws. Laws are created to protect the populace from dangers. If the government thought these cars were safe for people to drive then why would they make specific laws blocking their use?
The major factor in the debate is safety. Anytime a new vehicle is manufactured tests are ran to make sure it is safe. Almost all self driven vehicles actually require a driver to be present before it will drive. Many of the cars need the driver to be alert at all times in case the system doesn`t work. This proves that technology is not perfect. How can one put their lives in the hands of a computer. Not one piece of technology out on the market today is perfect. What if the sensors in your car fail. Then the car is driving blind. That is a grand issue. It could mean life, or death for not only the driver, but any passenger inside the vehicle.
Overall, these self driven vehicles have far more negatives than positives. Their price, questionable safety, and legal restraints keep them off streets for now. In the future will they be better? Only time will tell, but for now stay away from these robotic traps. Stick to reliable manually driven vehicles instead. | 4 |
2421da3 | "The Face" on Mars has brought up alot of attention. People are debating whether or not it is real or fake. There are two sides to the argument. Is it a sign of aliens or civilization, or is it just a natural landform on Mars? Some people even say is it even a face at all. Let's find out what it really is.
The face can be argued as a landform or something that an ancient civilation made. We as a whole, NASA, have confirmed it is a natural landform found on Mars, a mesa. Mesas are actually quite common in the American West according to the article. There has been no signs that an ancient civilization has lived on Mars, so it is highly unlikely that the face could've been built by aliens. Although it is possible, it is highly unlikely.
If there was alien life on Mars, we (NASA) wouldn't deny it, because all it would do is bring us more money and more exploration to do. If there would be one sign of ancient civilization on Mars, then that might just mean that it could or once did support life. We have checked to make sure that there is signs of life on and near the face by taking multiple pictures like the pictures in 1976, 1998, and in 2001. Some said that alien markings were hidden by haze but we have proven them wrong as seen from the pictures.
In conclusion, "The Face" that has been argued about is just a natural landform called a mesa. It is not alien made, it is natural. Although it is possible for aliens to have created something on Mars, we have not found any signs of alien life capable of making such things. So for now, there is no signs of aliens that we know of yet. But once we do find a sign, you better bet that we, NASA, will tell as soon as possible. | 3 |
2426a90 | Hey state senator, I'm writing this letter because I want to change the elections by popular vote for the president of the United States. In the passages say "The Electoral College process consists of selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and Vice President, and the counting of electoral votes by Congress." (Source 1, by Office of the Federal Register) I think the people should vote for the president they want to rule the country, also i think is unfair because people have a voice and they can choose for whoever they want. "Under the electoral college system, voters voe not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president" (Source 2, by Bradford Plumer) Why voting for slate electors when you can vote for the president right away, it is a wate of time. As the passage was saying "The Electoral College is widely regarded as a anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner." (Source 3, by Richard A. Posner) This means that Electoral College prosses is out of age and non-democratic.
Some people might think that the Electoral College is right. "The Constitution as a compromise between electon of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens." (Source 1, by the Office of the Federal Register) This shows us that the electors are better qualified than ordinary people, they know what the country needs and who is better to rule it.
Indeed, the Electoral College is unfair and a waste of time. who will know what is better of the country than the people who walks in it everyday, who has seen what is going on and who is fighting for making this country a better place for the future. "It's official: The Elrctoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational." (Source 2, by Bradford Plumer) That is why I think it should be abolish the electoral college. | 3 |
242cec4 | Imagine a world with cars that can drive by themselves; how easy everything would be! Now imagine everything else that must come with this new technology; society would need new laws, economy would need more money, and what would happen to the people? How would the people change? How much would this new technology affect our already-dependent-on-technology society?
The public distribution of driverless cars would cause a large-scale reformation of many aspects of society. This would include not only the cars themselves, but also laws, roads, and the minds of the people. As explained in paragraph 9, laws would have to change to accomodate these driverless cars, and to "cover liability in case of an accident." The process of making new laws will forcefully change how people think about certain situations, such as insurance. The making of new roads might come about, also, because the option of smarter roads is open; the roads worked "surprisingly well." This will also change our society and the mind processing of individuals, as they will become less independent.
Another characteristic of people wit driverless cars that will change is their ability to stay alert and focused. In paragraph 8, the passage explains that one way to battle boredom for the passengers aboard the car is to provide entertainment and information systems that will automatically turn off if the need for custom navigation arises. However, although this is an innovative idea, suddenly turning off the systems will leave passengers confused and perhaps angry, and neither of these reactions will keep the possible driver alert and focused enough to get the car out of danger quickly. The systems will be distracting and will linger in the minds of the passengers, which can be unsafe when the driver must take control immediately after being interrupted from his favorite television show. If the car then crashes, we must ask why it would have happened, if the systems were supposedly so safe and foolproof.
Other questions we would have to ask ourselves concern the costs of introducing driverless cars into society. In paragraph one, Sergey Brin says that these cars would "use half the fuel of today's taxis." However, this decrease in expenses cannot combat the larger amount of sums due to several aspects. For example, building enough cars to release to the public would be quite costly; in paragraph 6, Sebastian Thrun says that some technology to build the driverless cars used to cost two hundred million dollars, and "it wasn't something you could buy at Radio Shack." The process of building these cars and getting them on the road could be very long and very expensive, throwing the United States into even greater debt. Another problem would be insurance. Paragraph 9 says, "Even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident...who is at fault -- the driver of the manufacturer?" This event could lead to a court case, and buying more insurance to cover more needs: none of which comes at an easy price.
"Automakers are continuing their work on the assumption that the problems ahead will be solved." This excerpt from paragraph 10 shows that automakers are merely assuming that they can surpass any obstacle and fix everything. However, we must consider what might happen if these problems can not be solved. The costs spent on creating these cars would have been for almost nothing, and society will have to reluctantly ease back into the "old ways," disappointed, thinking about what they could have had. It will be better in the long run to prevent the completion of driverless cars at this moment in time, when society and economy are not quite ready for it yet. It is an easy future we must be prepared for, but also look forward to. | 5 |
242eb2a | Scientists want to study Venus for a variety of reasons, it seems. They have discovered valleys, mountains, and craters in Venus's surface. NASA seems to be working on several ideas for machiens to go down to Venus's surface as well.
NASA is working on a few different projects for going down to Venus's surface. One of these projects is a set of simplified electonics made, or coated, with silicon carbide. This material is proven, in a simulation chamber, to be able to handle conditions not unlike those on the surface of Venus. It'll have to be able to handle acidic rain, lightning stikes, and extremely high temperatures. 800* F, in fact.
But, why would anybody even want to study Venus? It's so brutal over their. Well, scientists think that long ago, it may have been an Earth-like planet. This is where the mountains, etc come in. Because Earth and Venus both have these rock formations. The atmosphere is almost 97% carbon dioxide, which could have come from severe global warming, which brings the temp. up to 800*F. We're slowly heading that way, so people on Mars, in a long, long time, might be making these same observations, about Earth. Or maybe, they already did, a long, long time ago. Either way, NASA wants to be able to make closer observations about Venus. They think hovering 30 miles above its surface would still be at temperatures of around 170* F, which is still pretty warm, you'll want a lot of AC. But, the radiation levels won't be unlike that of earth, and the air pressure would be about that of sea level on earth. So, it'd be rough living, but it'd be fairly survivable for humans to live in.
So, again, Venus is a tough planet, it's atmosphere is absolutely crazy dangerous. There's lighting, earthquakes, and freaking volcanoes!!
Plus, it's atmospheric pressure, is 90 times that of Earths!!!!
But yeah, it's definitely be great to get some of those rock samples or gas samples from Venus. I think it'd definitely be a planet worth studying. | 3 |
243124b | Do you want to be a seagoing cowboy? I would I think it would be fun.You get to see alot of beautiful places,and you can play games to pass time.Especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded.The cow boys played alot of games like volleyball and baseball,where the animals was being housed,table tennis,fencing,boxing and even reading.
First,the trips was an amazing opportunity for a small town boy.I had the side benefit of seeing china and Europe. Even some places I never heard about its so wonderful.When my draft board learned that I was on a cattle boat trip,they told me to just keep doing that for my service .By the time i was discharged in 1947,Then I had made nine trips,the most of any seagoing cowboy.It took about two weeks to cross the atlantic ocean from the eastern coast of the united states and a month to get to china. Caring for the animals during the crossings kept me busy.
They had to be fed and watered two or three times a day. Last,but being a seagoing cowboy was much more than an adventure for me. It opened up the world to me,im grateful for the opportunity. It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs. | 2 |
2431df1 | The text
"The Challenge of Exploring Venus," treats a very important decision, that is the worthines of pursuing or not the study of the planet Venus despite the danger it presents, the author agrees to this idea of pursuing said study, but he support's his idea of studying Venus in a very poorly way.
The autor of
"The Challenge of Exploring Venus" made the text so that people would know the rewards of exploring Venus, but during the text he does nothing but make the idea less apealing to the eyes of the people, this is shown by the following excerpt "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 time greater than what we experience in our own planet.... Venusion geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface."this excerpt is one of the reasons this text apeals more to an idea of disagreement than one of agreement, making the reader feel more inclined to disagree with the authors oppinion, being this the opposite of the whole reason of the text.
This also can be shown by the next quote " However, peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the panet can provide only limited inshight on ground conditions... More importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance."
this quote not only does not help the authors point of view but it also contradicts this passage, "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of venus would allow scientis to float above the fray." this causes a clash of ideas, wich is not a good think to try and convince people.
In conclusion the Text of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" creates a feeling of disagreement/fear towards the idea of studying the planet venus, this is conflicting with the idea of worhtines of pursuit of venus that the author tries to give the text, meaning that the text does not support the author's idea and if it does it, is in a very poorly way. | 4 |
2437079 | The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuabe because teachers really cant tell weather all students are confused, bored,happy or sad. Also some people cant express there emotions like others can or some people can't always read another person's emotion.
Classroom's are full of students so teacher's cant tell wheather a student's is bored, or confused with a lesson so if the tecnology was valuable the lesson could be changed in the text it state's "A classroom computer could reconize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts."Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." So if classrooms had this tecnology it would be slightly better for students to learn without being bored or confused.
Some people cant acually tell how other emotion's are they might be having trouble for instance in the text it states "you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face. of course most of us would have trouble accually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc." This tell's you how some people have trouble figuring out a person trait and its not easy for many people to tell how your feeling. so its hard for a teacher to know how a class full of student's are feeling about each topic bacause some might not want to tell that they dont understand something or get the topic beacause many people don't like to express there emotion's.
With the use of the technology that reads the emotional expression's of student's in a classroom it would be easier for student's to learn better because and to understand because the tecnology would know that one student is confused or another is bored because it was to easy for them so with the technology being valuable it would be easy for most student's. | 3 |
24370b2 | Have you ever thought a computer could tell how people are feeling? I never thought that a computer could detect how people are feeling until I read about this new technology called Facial Action Coding System. I think this new technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because a teacher could tell if you were confused or bored and people can tell how you are actually feeling.
I think this new technology to read the emotional expression s of students of students in a classroom is valuable because a teacher can tell if you are confused or board. In the article, the author states that "then it could modify the lesson, like an efective human instructor". I believe this is true because it could help the teacher know who doesn't understand what they are teaching. It could also tell the teacher who needs it explained in a different way to help them understand it better. Having technology that can tell if a student is confused or board would have value becasue it could help teachers know which of their students are understand what they are teaching and which ones aren't.
I think that this new technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because people can tell how you are actually feeling. In the article, the author states that "there are six basic motions-hapiness, surprise, anger, disguest, fear, and sadness. I believe this is true because those are the basic emotions that people show. If we use this technology, then other students will know how their friends and teachers are feeling. It could also help students know if another student is upset about something that they said. Having technology that can tell how someone is actually feeling would have value because it could help students know how their friends and teachers are feeling.
I really believe that this new technology would have value because teachers could know if a student is confused or bored over what they are teaching and it could help people know how you are actually feeling. This could help teachers know who needs help with what they are learning in class. It could also help students know how you are actually feeling. | 3 |
2438f66 | Venus may be a worthy pursuit of study even with the dangers that come with this challenge due to the information that the author provided within this article. The planet Venus may be useful in some way even though it is extremely dangerous and nonhabitable. The atmosphere on Venus is really thick to where it is close to impossible to see anything without being on the planet. Venus is the closest planet to Earth in size, density and in distance as well. Venus can be seen pretty easily from Earth however only through and observatory or telescope. Venus could either be a good idea or a bad idea due to it's positives and negatives but we also don't know too much about Venus.
Some of the difficulties of trying to study Venus are really deadly in many ways. The atmosphere of Venus is 97 percent carbon dioxide which is extremely deadly and makes it really difficult to see Venus while off planet. The clouds of Venus are made of highly corrosive sulfuric acid which is obviously a problem toward the study. The planet's surface temperature is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. The atmospheric pressure is at least 90 times greater than the pressure on Earth. These are some of the most hostile and extreme conditions of just about any other planet within the solar system.
Venus is also a necessary item of study due to the possibilities that could be created by studying the planet. Venus could have been the most earth-like planet in our solar system but it was a long time ago. It has been said that Venus was probably covered with oceans and bodies of water and other resources that could have supported multiple forms of life. The planet has many formations that are similar to Earth such as mountains, valleys and craters. Venus is our nearest option for a planetary expedition. The value of studying Venus is unchangable and can be unlimited depending on what could be found on Venus.
NASA has some ideas on how to get humans to Venus such as a blimp-like vehicle which can hover about 30 or so miles above the landscape.
Solar power would be plentiful, Radiation wouldn't be too high, and temperatures would be survivable. This vehicle would create survivable conditions for humans to complete their study and learn way more about Venus. NASA has tested using earlier technology made of silicon carbide which would survive in Venus conditions for about three weeks. The mechanical computer could be used for Venus because it is not electronical but it instead has mechanical parts which could be changed to have resistance to heat, pressure and other damaging forces.
There are many factors that can cause the Venus study and exploration to happen or to be dismissed. There are things that could be developed which can possibly make a way to study Venus without having too many problems. Also, there are many obstacles which are in the way of the study such as the planet conditions or the technology which would be required to develop the items needed for the study. There are many positives and negatives to this study but neither is greater than the other because there are ideas in the making about how to survive on Venus however there are many things which can get in the way of the development of the technologies. This study will probably take much time before it can actually be initiated because it will take time to gather everything that is needed and it will take some time to actually arrive at Venus and produce some results. | 3 |
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