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243aba3 | Cars have been used and started to rise since World War II. Vehicles have trended to make them fit our life and culture. But there has been so many tragic events taking place because of the use of cars and people debates whether cars should be used or not. It will be a great idea to limit cars because it will protect the environment, cut difficulties while on the road and improve safety and business.
Initially, it would be a great option to limit cars because it will protect the environment. Cars are used to make it easier to transport places but it does not help protect the world around. Cars cause damage to the whole atmosphere and can harm many. For instance, in Paris, people are fined for driving because of the smog polluted in the air. According to the passage "Paris bans driving due to smog", Paris typically has more smog than other European capitals. The use of driving vehicles can make it difficult to live in the world.
Furthermore, limiting the use of cars will be a big advantage to the world because it can cut difficulties while on the road. The less use of cars will lead to better circumstances while on the road. It will be easier for buses or delivery trucks to do their tasks quicker and more efficient. For example, in Bogota, many parks and sports centers have been replaced with smooth sidewalks which cut rush hour situations and traffic. The roads will be wider and more smooth for the environment.
Moreover, it would be a great idea to limit the use of cars because it will improve safety and business. Most instances when cars weren't used in different regions of the world, it led to the improvement of businesses but also better safety. In Vauban, having less placement for cars created more safety for customers to go into their desired place. It also has been more accessible and compact to public transportation. Limiting less cars progresses the world all around.
In conclusion, it will be a huge advantage to limit the use of cars because it will protect the enviormnent, cut difficulties while on the road, and improve businesses and safety. Using less cars will not only protect ourselves but protect the world that we live in. | 4 |
243e03f | Why is riskly to examine Venus more closely? Venus is a planet but some time called as "Evening Star". Venus in the colest planet to Earth in our solar system. Every palnet in solar system are different and Venus is the unquie one. It's risy to study Venus colsely. NASA is planing to send humam to study Venus.
First, every palnet in solar system are different. Venus have some interesting fact like every palnet. Venus is also know as Earth's "tiwn" because they have colest denstiy and size. Venus is the second planet but the hotest planet in our solar system. The planet's surface is aroud 800 Fahrenheit. Also, the weather is dangerous like earthquakes and lighting. Scientist believed that Venus used to cover with ocean. Venus surface has valley and mountain.
Second, studying Venus closely is dangerous. The atomosphere of the Venus is 97 carbon dioxide. Venus is the hotest planet in solar system. The spacecraft can only survied only a few hour after landing. The enviroment is extremely dangerous. However, the author of "The Challenge of Exporing Venus" think sudying Venus is worthy.
Finally, NASA is planing to send human to study Venus. A lot of researcher are working on creating new machines. "Some simplified electronics made of silicon cabide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such counditions". Hopefully, human can get to Venus without problem. Sometime, human way too curious and forgot about the risk.
In conclusion, Venus is very unquie and value. There are some people who is willing to take a risk to study Venus. I think it's worth to study Venus. Every planet are dinfferent and also interesting. | 2 |
2440f97 | Taking our time to make sucj car's, have the people actually taken theri time to think of the consecuences in making these cars? At the moment, driveless car's are being developed, but still not finished. Car's are able to drive on their own, or being able to actually let the driver know that it is too close to another object or car. If there was an accident with one of these car's, and there were victims and death's included, who would be the one to be blamed? the driver, or the person who actually made created teh car to begin with?
There are also the facts that if the car was to suddenly shut down or to have complications, it could cost the life of many. At the moment, the car's thet Google has, are able to drive on their own, but it is required for a driver to take control after some time. They say that these car's "alert drivers when they have to take control again. If these4 were to not work and alert the driver as it should at the moment and cause problems. What would be the concequences in the future?
The driveless car's could help in many ways, but by donig this, many in the enxt generations will not know the necesary knowledge for problems if they were to have to go back to driving on their own. Would having car's that can drive independantly really be a great thing to have in our economy or could it be a setback? | 2 |
2441f8c | The developmeant of driverless cars can be dangerous for our society. In 2009, Google made a car that could drive by itself, in certain conditions. These cars have been banned in certain states, it's against the law to test drive them in these states. How are we supposed to know how these cars do in other conditions if states have them banned for their states safety. Driverless cars can only assist us in driving not drive the car itself.
In the 1950's. General Motors made a car that could drive on its own, on a special test track. This special test track was "embedded with eletrical cable that sent radio signals to a reciever on the front end of the car"(Driverless Cars Are Coming). This Track could easily stop the car if needed, but we dont know how it would do out in the real world with other people. There are alot of sensors on the car. On Google's modified Toyata Prius, There are sensors on the left rear wheel, a sensor on the roof. a camera ner the rearview mirror, automotive radar sensors and a GPS. Sure having a lot of sensors on a carwould help the car pick up motion around it, but what if somthing happened to the car, one of the sensors broke out, the the car wouldn't be able to pick up movement around the car. BMW, a car manufactuer, developed "traffic jam assistant"(Driverless Cars Are Coming). The car with traffic jam assistant can handle any driving function at 25 mph as long as the driver keeps their hands on the wheel. The car can steer by itself, which isn't safe because the car might see the need to turn itself in one direction and accidently hit a car. Based on its sensors, it need to steer left, but the sensor can be really sensitvie to any moverment. The car can accelerate and brake by itself also. The car alon can go faster when it doesnt need to or stop, either way it can cause a accident.
The driverless cars movement needs to slow down and test its self more and more beforecoming out in the real world. The car relies on so much on its sensors or when it feels the need to switch back to giving the driver control. Driverless cars might seem pretty cool now, but wont when everyone starts to get one. | 3 |
2444077 | Driving or any moter transpertaion is a bad source to the enviroment. some people around the world help the planet by using car pools or bikes, and others ways to travel useing less gass and polloution to get around. And even countrys are helping out.
The data shown in the passage is that many poeple chose to sell there cars and chose to use other reasoures to get around. in the text it says , " when i had a car i was always tense. im much happier this way". this qoute showes that having a car isnt as fun as people say. it can leave to stress and make people feel very tense. some people cant live without their cars , but others travel on bike and busses to not just do to do it, but to make a difference and help the earth. Data has been shown that the driving in America has decreased over the years and study shows that the driving by young people has decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. My response to this would be that all of this, is that people are trying to help and make for something better
Getting around without cars isnt just happening with small time people, Countrys are even getting involed. for example Paris, after days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a patial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. motorists in paris with numbered license are told to leave there cars at home, if not they would have to suffer a 22-euro fine. this is a great way to allow less pollution go into the atomshere, this also helps everyone even if they dont know it. And not just paris has a car-free day, but Bogota , Colmbia use this as well. many colombians hiked , biked, skated or took busss to work during a car-free day. this helps our planet so much even if its a small thing it help little by little.
Many countrys do a great thing by doing this and it helps and even if the trip from A to B might take a little longer, its worth it. usage of cars being less used is a very important thing people do . | 3 |
2444a41 | The Driverless?
Some people say cars shold be driverless others say they it should not become driverless. I agree with the people who say it should not go in the driverless deriction. There are so many that will happen or go coplety wrong like the law, can they fix it, and not complety drivless.
First they are not complety drivless because the car can not drive throught every thing like work zones and around accidents. So the person has to stay aleret to take over then be relaces and enjoy the ride.
Next is the law will it change a lot because of the new car? As a result, in most states it's illegal to test the computer driven cars. Sone more states will follow suit as soon as the cars are truly safe. If the technology fails and some is injured, who is to blame-the driver or the manufacturer?
Lastly can they fix the posbile damege that they do. They are continuing their work on the assumption that the problems ahead will be sloved. Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 precent of the time. Guys what about the 10 precent even thought it's a small prcent why not try to make it the safest car around.
Well we have come to the end of it all. Even thought it was a tought argument with our luck it is going the dorection of driverless with or without us. So with that said and done good luck to you all. | 3 |
2444c8a | Schools should use facial action coding system because its use full for school.
One reason why schools should use facial action coding system because it can be use full for health classes. health classes effect how much your emotions affect your body for example if you're always depressed you'll have a chance that your body might suffer from something and you might have a hard time to bring your body to stay strong again after suffering from depression and if your always happy you won't have a problem.
My Second reason why schools should use facial action coding because a day on a test. A day on a test you'll have a emotion that you don't wanna take it or just too lazy to do the test and might end up the person guessing all the problems and not even caring. The next day they would see there scores in the test and be embarassed because they got there score low.
My Third reason why schools should use facial action coding because incase of a fight. People might be angry and might take there anger away on someone else and it could manage to start a fight that's why you can check on them and ask why are they angry and calm them down. You never know if that could happen so always be prepared. | 2 |
244587b | The electoral college is not a place, but a process. A process that seems meaningless, a process that is uncalled for. It doesn't make any sense to me because i thought when someone votes, their vote goes straight to the person running. to learn that, that is not the case at all is really an eye-opener about how much politics confuse me.
You help choose your state's electors when you vote for president because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candiddate's electors.
Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on Abolishing the electoral college! They are not alone; according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore-thanks to the quirks of the electoral college-won the popular vote but lost the presidency.
Over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. This year voters can expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could again lose the presidency. And yet, the electoral college still has its defenders. The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century, the system allows for much worse.
Back in 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy.(So that a popular vote for kennedy.) In the same vein, "faithless" electors ocasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please.
At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have nochance of winning. If anyone has a good argument for putting the fate of the presidency in the hands of a few swing voters Ohio, they have yet to make it.
Pretty much anywhere you go whether it's school or work, you will hear that as an American Citizen, you have the right to vote. If you don't vote for the president of your choice, you can't complain when things go wrong. Yet your vote really doesn't count unless the electors you voted for win .
How can they say our vote counts when it really doesn't, all i'm saying is that they need to start saying what they mean and stop directing people towards lies. | 2 |
244db43 | "Boom!", was the the first thing I saw when I looked up from the passengers seat.Two cars had crached into each other.We were on route 33 going to Fort Wayne.The speed limit there is about 55 mph or 60 mph. Both of the cars were destroyed.On the road there were so many pieces of each car.The crash was extremely bad.The people inside were in a dangorous situation.We called 911 then the police arrived and a helicopter had to get a person and took them. since then the only thing that I think about is driverless cars.Driverless cars development would be
be much safer because they would stop before you crashed,they would accelerate alone, and people wouldn't have to worry about drunk drivers.
Driverless cars would help so many people out.The best thing is that they will stop before you crash into something.The article said that there are cars that can brake themselves.But the driver has to remain alert for when a situation requires it so they are still not that safe.With driverless cars you wouldn't have to be so scared because you would never know when you needed to stop the car.That would help teens out so much.In the TV I always see commercials on teens getting into car accidents and sending there last message to their father or mother.And that does happen because thousands of teens die from car accidents.I also read in an article that every person will get in a car accident sometime in their lifetime.It's really frightning.That's why driverless cars will save alot of people.
Driverless cars would be able to accelerate by themselves and that would be of much help.In the place I live their are alot of deer and there are alot of car accidents due to deer crossing the roads. And if the car could accelerate by itself then we would be able to have less deer accidents.the firt instinct that I have when we saw a deer when we were driving was to tell my dad to hit the break.He ignored me because he read an article that the best thing to do when your going
to hit something is to accelerate not stop.But to many of us we only think on hitting the break not accelerating.Driverless cars are just the best way to go.
There are many times when families die because the person that crashed into them was drunk.So driverless cars would make it safer for us and for them because if a person is drunk they wouldn't have to drive.That would make roads alot safer.The article said that maybe by 2020 some car brands like Nissan will have driveless cars which will be better for all of us.That way no one is in harms way becasue of drunk people.An example could be my cousin he was in a really bad car accident because the friend that was driving was drunk.He was in comma for 2 weeks and the had to do a brain surgey because he was in a very critical condition.The driver only broke a hand but my cousin got the worst.That happens so much these days becasue people are not responsible.I know that with driverless cars those type of accidents will be a thing of the past.
That is why driverless car development would be a better way to go becasue they would stop on there own,accelerate alone and people wouldn't have to worry about drunk drivers.It is something that every country should consider becasue all the gadgets people create are for a better future and I know that driverless cars are going to be the best thing created for the future.That way we will all be safer. | 5 |
2450980 | Recent trends are showing that the average person is trading in their keys for a more contemporary mode of transportation, such as public transit or walking and biking from point A to point B. Even though the reason as to why this is occuring has yet to become clear, there are some general benefits that are known to come from this. More and more, cities in developed and developing nations are now being planned to be more dense, so that the citizens in them can get to where they need to be, without needing a car. Because of this, fewer greenhouse emissions are being created, there is less congestion and smog in cities, and the burden of traffic is being lifted from the everyday driver. The more this trend continues, the more beneficial it can become.
Climate change is a ubiquitous threat to the world. In order to face and reverse the direction of where the world is heading, some cities are finding new ways to face this issue. For example, a city in Germany has practically given up cars through its policies and design. Citizens are only allowed two places to park, and the city is designed so that everything you need is within a walking or biking distance, albeit more dense. More and more places are slowly beginning to adopt this style of suburb because "emissions from an increasing middle class are choking cities" (source 1). Making this change will not be easy, but it is important because "passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe... and up to 50 percent [...] in the United States" (source 1).
Another issue that weighs down cities everywhere is the horrid smog and unbearable congestion most cities face. In order to combat this adverse effect of driving, Paris has banned driving in efforts to reduce the smog it deals with. The effort proved to create a temporary solution, as "congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog" (source 2). A city in Bogota, Columbia has taken a day off from driving, and the results were so positive that the movement has spread to multiple cities in neighboring countries. This movement "[left] the street eerily devoid of traffic jams" (source 3).
In an ever changing world that exists today with cities that never sleep, the average person is constantly burdened and stressed by things that tend to pile up. So why have driving and traffic be added to that heap of annoyance, especially if it's avoidable? The fact is, driving can be incredibly stressful and sometimes border on superfluous. A resident of the densely populated german town where 70 percent of its citizens don't own cars claimed, "when I had a car, I was always tense. I'm much happier this way", referring to how they no longer need to own a car or drive (source 1). The day of no driving in Bogota, Columbia has been said to be"a good oppurtunity to take away stress" (source 3).
Modern nations have revolved heavily on the invention and continuous innovation of the automobile. However, the increasing dependence on this mode of transportation has created some adverse affects for the general population of the world. In order to solve this problem, an emphasis on cleaner and more efficient modes of transportation must occur, along with more densely designed, modern cities. A larger independence from cars can create fewer greenhouse emissions, cause less congestion and smog in cities, and make the average citizen free from the stress of driving. Change will only ensue with a more proactive stance on this issue | 5 |
245484c | In the article making mona lisa smile by Nick D'Alto talks about how this new technology can read a humans emotion .and i think the new technol can be used durinh class to tell how a student is feeling .not only can it be used during schools it can be used outside of school to.the new technology can solve many other problems in education and personal problmes .
i support this idea because teacher can used the new technology to take students that don't get the lesson that there are being teached can be help out by the teacher because some students are afread to ask , The new technology can also help the teacher know what lesson is working and what lesson is not.as written in the articel pf makink mona lisa smile in paragraph " a class rom computer could recoginize when a student is
becoming cofused or bored '' which could help the teachers modifiy the lesson ,like an effective human instructor this technology can improve the way we learn and make students more intrasted on learning new things that could impacted many other schools grades
new technology that reads emotions not only can help improve education but it can also help use bulit relationship between students and teachers which can casuse less problems in schools like cheating ,fight ,get kicked out of schools ,drugs and copying .it can also help students with personal problmes that they may be expericeing that effected there education and life style by reading there emotions with the new software to help the student fell good about ther problems weather is bulling or some other type of problems this new softeware can improve reationship and edducation no matter what .
i support this soft ware not only becasue it can improve eduation and relationships but also becasuces it helps out a student ,family member or even a friend in there life to make a right decicion by read there emotions and adtitude to a
person which they can fixe ther emotions that impacts there class mate and teacher
not useing the soft ware would be a big mistake becasue there would be nothing to know how a student is felling about school and what lesson are not work there would also be no major impacted in education growing | 3 |
246057b | Participating in the seagoing program was the best thing that ever happened to me. Even if it does't seem that interesting, you should try it. I know, some people don't like do get out much but this is better than anything you can do inside.
It is a very good experiance to go seagoing. You get to see a lot of different places and meet different people with different life styles. Sometimes it is weird hearing them talk, but sometimes it can be funny. The people also ask about our country. They wonder about the people, food, and animals that we have. They also wonder what our houses look like.
I think you should go seagoing because it's like nothing else. Traviling the sea, and seeing the water as the sun sets. It's like nothing else. I also love the sound of the ocean. It calms me when I miss home. But sometimes, the ship feels like home.
I very much wish so that you will go seagoing, because it's the best thing you will ever do. If it doesn't interest you thats ok. There are millions of other things to do. Maybe it's just not for you. But for me, it's just right. | 2 |
246252f | Popular vote is the way that the presidential voting should be because, of the fact that peoples votes arent actually making a difference in who is to become president of the untited staes of america. Electoral College is the way that the gov't wants it to happend. Voters dont vote for the president no ore that for for the people that vote for the president. The american voise is not being heard.
"The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens."(1)
"The Electoral College process consists of selectioms 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."(2) The pluthora of just votes of the people dont really endure in the face that its not counted in for the vote of the President.
"At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusingonly on the tightraces in the 'swing' states."(13) when the candidate know they arent going to win they just step back and try other states if not they know they are going to lose the elections.
"It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favo of itare mostly assertions without much basis in reality. And the arguments against direct elections ae spurious at best. It's hard to say this, but Bob Dle was right: Abolish the electoral college!"(14) The depate between the electoral college and the popular vote is a hard war because, while also the people voice is what matters but while also the electoral college helps out america in the fact that some of the people aren't aware of the votes and who the vote for what so also they might pick a wrng person. While also the people of the unted states of america can be segregationist and some one completely wrong just because of the the candidates race.
In conclusion, the Electoral College isn't the best way to have prsidents elected into office. But it's in the heart of the American people that stand strong hat should vote for the Commander in Chief. | 2 |
246585a | Dear Mr. Senator, I have written this letter in hopes that you would change your mind about keeping the electoral college. Popular vote is the best method of voting because people's voices would be heard, and it would give more people the motivation to vote.
To begin with, you've probably herd the term democracy since thats what our government is right ? well that word comes from the latin words demo & kratia meaning people rule . Popular vote would be better than the electoral college because then peoples voices can truly be heard, no scams, no funny buisness, just old fashion voting. Popular vote is also an easier and much more simple system than the electoral college. with popular vote all you do is look at the polls and see who has more votes as apposed to counting each and every states electoral points until you get 273.
In addition, if popular vote is put into action then it would inspire more people to vote, some citizens are very skeptical about the electoral collage but with popular vote the facts are in the polls. According to " The Indefensible Electoral College" by Bradford Plumer The electoral college is infair, outdated, and irrational.
In conclusion, Popular vote is a better idea than the electoral college because theres no funny buisness, and the peoples voices are truly heard. I hope this essay i wrote helped you make the right decision to drop the electoral college and switch to popular vote, if you have time to write me back that would be much appreciated.
sincerely, PROPER_NAME | 3 |
24694b6 | When you are a seagoing cowboy you have an amazing time playing games and you also get to help people in need. Plus you get to go to see placesyou dreama bout at night saying that "im going to go there when i grow up." Some details from the text that support this statement are
Luke also found time to have a grate time on the boat especially on the return trips after the animlas have been unloaded they played baesball, volleyball, table-tennis, ect. In empty holds where they kept the horses and animals to pass the time.
"Besides helping people I have had the side benifit of seeing Europe also China. But seeing Aeropolis in Greece was special" he saids. "So was taking a gondola ride in Venice Italy, a city with streets of water."
It opened up the world to him. " I'm grateful for the opportunity." he said "It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs."
In conclusion when you are a seagoing cowboy you have fun help people and go places it is the most ultimite job there is. | 2 |
2469fc0 | Studying venus is wrothy pursuit despite the dangers venus is also named after a strip club but any who its sometimes is call the 'evening star' its one of the brightest points of light in the night sky .Venus is also a planet well a second planet from our sun ' earths twin'.A thick atmospheric of almost 97% carbon dioxide the clouds of highly sulfric acid in venus atmosphere on the planets surface the tempetauras avrage is over 800 fahrenheit and the atomsopheric pressure is 90 times then we experience in dusty indianapoils ok im done talkin about venus something naamed after a club bur anyways striving to meet the challange presented by venus has value not only because of the insight to ne gained on te planet itself this teacher in my testing room look like a allen so I think she from venus but alsoo because of human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors . | 1 |
246a61a | Driverless cars are obviously cars without drivers. Many have envisioned such an idea as revolutionary like Sergey Brin. As a matter of fact google has bulit such cars since 2009. However some people see this as a flawed idea and see this as a bad thing. I'm honestly split about each side.
Driverless cars do have a lot of positives. They are ecologicly friendly, so they save both gas and money. Also, they are way more flexible than a bus could be, since it can go anywhere. Not to mention they are way more safer than normal vehicles, alerting people who are distracted by anything while on the road. Speaking of safety, that seems to be a marjor area that is adressed. For instance, when there is a problem the car would state it and giver the passenger the option to take over. Another way is the cars expensive sensors that detect when there's going to be a problem, and automaticly breaks the car to avoid any damage.
However, there is some glaring issues that must be adressed. First off people will get bored beccause they are passengers. Plus being alarmed of this everytime your dozing off, by the car itself, isn't going to help anyone, just annoy them. On top of this driving cars is a rite of passage into adulthood. Taking that freedom away is just wrong. Not to mention, whos to blaim in an accident involving two of these things from different companies. It's stated in the paragraph that new laws must be made for these kinds of cases, and that could take years.
In conclusion, I'm split about this idea. Driverless cars might be the next evolution for the motor companies, but it is flawed in some rather serious degrees. | 4 |
246b556 | Do u wont to know how a face got on mars.There are many apinyons what people think about it. I think something crashet in to it. Same people says othere whyes.
The face on mars is probly from the wilnd or somethink hiting it and it makes the face looking. According to the text they think it is a rale face or somthing. They tock pictersh frome the sadlight stachon in space. There are scientests studing that today.
What i think it was from a rock hiting it and it made the fac or it had a wind storme and it made that face. According to the text they think it was frome there rockets landing there. Many people have there own apionyons. People say someone made it to show they where there and did not tell any one so they have something to talk about and to descuver what hapened.
People wonts to know how the face got on mars. Many people dont like the way we are finding a face on mars. There are many things people wont to know about the face on mars and i think it is from wind or a big rock but thats me.
This is what i think about the face on mars. I had many questons runing throw my mind about the face on mars. One of the qustons i had going throw my mide is how would they see it on mars or if they where on mars and sall it mack a face. | 1 |
246c075 | How do you feel about driverless cars? Do you think they will be safe or dangerous? Do you think they will ever be invented and if so how long do you think it will take to invent them?
I think driverless cars are going to be an amazing product for the world and its buyers. The reason I agree with it is because many people who drive normally are focused on many others things like cell phones, kids,etc. However, driverless cars are going to be able to watch the human inside the car making sure that they are focused on the road at all times. In the text it says "Manufactuers are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road."
I think driverless cars are going to be a safe product as well. The reason I say this is that many of them have cameras installed or they are going to have cameras installed so they can see where there at and the area that they are in. They also have GPS installed just in case a driver gets lost and doesn't know where to go. There are many drivers who are always talking on their cell phone or they are on social media and they end up getting lost because of that problem. In the text it says "Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the review mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS reciever, and an inertial motion sensor."
I think the driverless will eventually be invented. The reason I say this is that some car companies already prototypes or something similar to a driverless car. A few major car companies already have cars that can drive themselves with speeds up to 25mph and also park themselves. Many people who drive normally don't know how to parallel park so once the driverless car is invented it'll be able to do it for them. In the text it says "In 2013, BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant". The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. In the text it also says "Telsa has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time."
In conclusion to my arguement, these are my reasons on why the driverless car would be an amazing product for the world and also for the safety of the drivers and their loved ones. | 4 |
246c469 | Have you ever thought the ''Face'' was made by aliens? The ''Face'' Is not made by Aliens. The ''Face'' Is A Natural Landform. On May 24,2001-twenty-five years ago something weird happened around Mars. NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was snapping pictures of possible landing sites for its sister ship Viking 2,when it spotted something that looked like a face.
An enormous head seem to be staring back at the cameras from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia. Scientists thought it was just another Martian mesa,common around Cydonia. In paragraph two it states,'Only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh'.The ''Face on Mars''has since become a pop icon. It has starred in a hollywood film,appeared in books,magazines,radio talk shows ,and even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years!
In paragraph five it states,"Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars and evidence that NASA would rather hide,say conspiracy theorists". Defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars. On April 5,1998,Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time. Micheal Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera(MOC) team snapped like 10 pictures. In paragraph seven it states,"When the image first appeared on a JPL web site,revealing ...a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all". | 3 |
24701c6 | I believe that the face is just a natural landform. There are no facts to prove that aliens created that. Also there are also no facts to prove aliens didnt make that landform on Mars. I will still continue to believe that it is just a natural landform created by the planet Mars in earlier years.
I can prove my arguement in many ways. For example, it states in the text that " And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Vikings photo. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting, when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing. . . a natural landform". Just that last sentence alone can make my arguement 10 times better. That statement proves to us it was just a natural landform. In addition to this, in the article it states " there was no alien monument after all.". Which tells us there was never alien monument and that never was made by aliens.
As you can see in the picture, it looks pretty old. Which should really show everyone something. The photo as taken in 1976. With our newer, more advanced cameras it shows that its just a natural landform on Mars. In the article it states that " As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size," he added "So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pryamids or even small shacks, you can see wwhat they were!". Which means if we really wanted to, we can capture a picture of the so called "face" or natural landform. Also then we would be able to prove what it is and what it is not.
There are many other reasons why this arguement can be won by either side, but there is never a true answer until someone goes onto the planet Mars and takes a look at the face or landform in person. in fact, I will always stand my ground and say it is just a natural landform on Mars. | 3 |
2472175 | The things you can do to help yourself, and others is just don't drive ride a bike, or take public transportation. Never the less having a car is a great responsiblitiy, like driving the right way, and not driving reckless. That could end up bad, because you know how law enforcement is they will pull you over for anything. Then on top of that they will give you a big fat nasty ticket to pay, so that really ruins what you have to like pay your bills or something. Plus its always better to just take public transportation, because trying to get a car that's worth $40,000, isn't even worth it, if your still paying for it, then you will have to take really good care of that car.
The car is at its lowest did you know that, because nobody buys them anymore, or nobody gets there permit. Cars are becoming nothing anymore, the roads America bulit will be soon for nothing. Like I said your better not buying a car, then spending all that money, and you have to spend more money on it later, Like if you get a ticket, or you have to pay to get it fix. Pointless absolutly pointless cause most people just uses cars to get from A to B, nothing else like what's the point of having a car if your not going to use it all the time might as well just take a bus, and spend like 50 cents, or something.
If you really want a car, at least use it instead of just showing it off, and letting it dust in your driveway, or garage. People in other countries like say Germany, all they use is bikes. They live a life without cars, and look at them saving all that money, and what if it is a poor country at least there not greedy and selfish. Also the cars are literally a poison to the enviorment, we are literally killing off our enviorment, and for what the nicest car that you have and probably won't even use that's pretty dumb as if i should say. Having a car, and showing it off doesn't make you cool it make's you look like a selfish greedy person who could have nothing else to spend his, or her money on but who am I to judge right? Soon you will realize that all that money you spent was all just a waste, and you could have done somethimg else better to spend it on.
I'm not saying don't buy a car, Like I mean don't buy the most expensive car ever cause like that's just herendous. Like just buy something that's nice and cheap like maybe a Nissian not a Ferrari. Imagine if you run out of money what are you going to do ask people to help, Your going to have that fancy car, and be like "oh what will i do". You will realize that you messed, and that when you were being all selfish and greedy, nobody will care to help you. It's like all these other regular people who use there money wisley and not be selfish. The car is nearly at it's end cause soon there will be no more gas, what will you do. It's at the time where you make your own desisions, and think about do I really want to spend my money on a car, or do I want to be smart and ride the bus, or a bike and save my money and help the enviorment. | 2 |
247b49d | The Electoral College is a process which occurs in the United States to help determine the president for the next four years of the entire nation. It is a very controversial topic and a plethora of people want to disregard the Electoral College. People want to vote for their president, but ultimately they are voting for the electors of the state who represent the president in the end. The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. It makes the voters feel like they have less power when they are voting and when people of a nation feel that way, they lose interest and lose the desire to vote for their country because they feel like their vote will not count or have and affect.
At the end of paragraph 10, two questions are asked, "Can voters control whom their electors vote for?" and "Do voters get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate?". The answers were;not always and sometimes. If a system or process confuses people enough where they vote for the wrong candidate they desired, then that system needs to go. That system is the Electoral College.
The single best argument against the electoral college is the disaster factor. With a name like that, you know this system cannot be good. Also, 3 high ranking officials and a couple of them that opposed the electoral college, were former presidents. They were Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Bob Dole. The electorals confused system works like this. Voters vote for a slate of electors who in turn are the ones who elect the president. Is'nt the whole point of the election to vote for your candidate that you would like to win, and not his employees'? When a state votes for a president and has their majority vote, then the amount of electors in the state are what counts towards the voting polls. The state electors could be anyone not holding office at that time. Furthermore, electoral votes can possible end in a tie due to the fact that there is an even number of electors, 568, which is a big worry in the result of the election. Compared to electoral votes, there is only 55 representatives in California, but there is 35 million people in the state. A tie almost guarenteed, will not happen with that comparison.
A winner take all system is in play with the elcectoral college process. The system consists of when a president wins an election then all electors part or even somewhat representing that candidate are now with the president. Also bigger states have more representatives and the candiates focus more on those staes to try and win them over. it leaves the smaller states like Wyoming and South Dakota, for example, to be left out of the equation and not be focused on too much in the process.
All in all, the elctorall college and process needs to be abolished and is not fair to the people of the nation voting and being taken advantage of. | 5 |
247e418 | Everybody shows emotion every day, they are apart of the human nature. Dr. Huang and his partner have high knowledge adn are highly educated at making improved ways for humans and computers to communicate. Dr. Huang and his partner made a computer, Facial Action Coding System, that can so called "calculate" eamotions. This computer could be valuable to read expressions of students in classrooms.
People would say that when they are or were in school that they were had some type of emotion about the lesson that htey were going to learn. "'A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confude or bored,' Dr. Huang predicts" (paragraph 6). This computer could help the students learn and teachers could help the students better if they are unexcited, bored, or even confused. When a teach knows that a student(s) are bored or confused with a lesson they try to change it to where the students won't be. "'Then it [the computer] could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor" (paragraph 6).
With the Facial Action Coding System the teacher would really have to do much and figure out how to change the whole lesson but still have the same content and have it in the same time length as planned.
To help students understand in the classroom the Facial Action Coding System could be valuable by reading the students expressions. Citizens who go or went to school would agree that this computer could help and even Dr. Huang said that it could help students. It could also help teachers by not taking up there time so they could get other stuff done, like grading paper and looking at other lessons. | 3 |
247f18e | I think that the development should happen because it can be easier to drive. Also i think it can prevent less accidents and save lives. For example, sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individial wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could ever manage alone.
Also, the development should happen because it can be very hepful. For example, In 2013, BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant". The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. In fact, none of the cars developed so far are completely driverless.
My last reason to have the development is sensors and computer hardware and software to make driving safer are also leading cars that can handle more and more driving tasks on their on. Also antilock brakes and driver assistance still seem a long way from the dream of calling a driverless cab to take us take us wherever we desire. | 1 |
2480abd | A lot of people enjoy the rush of adrenaline. So much energy is rushed through a persons body when they do something that is looked at to be difficult or dangerous. Once they successfully achieve their goal they feel amazing but they do everything they can to achieve there goal even though it could possibly be very dangerous. This is just like in the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus". In the article it talks about how NASA is interested in studying Venus but they really can't because of all the obsticles they need to get by. But those obsticles don't matter to them. The author suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Some ways that show that studying Venus is worth it is when it talks about Venus being one of the only planets being very similar to Earth, being one of the closest planets to Earth and the possible inventions that could be made that can change a lot in exploration.
Earth has very different characteristics from all the other planets in the solar system. So when astronomers discovered Venus they were fascinated to see how it has many of the same characteristics that Earth does. Since another planet has many similar characteristics to Earth it sparks curiousity. It starts to create questions which people and astronomers want answers to. So scientist and NASA want to do everything they can to answer some of their questions no matter the risk. In the text it says, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life." This shows how Venus is shown to be very similar to Earth. It has many similar charcteristics which shows there could have been life on the planet very long ago. The reason it is seen to be worth exploring is because if astronomers continue studying the planet then they could possibly maybe find a way to possibly live or find current creatures still living on the planet.
When people want to really know about something they will do everything they can to discover more. Especially when the thing you want to know more about is right next door. It's like having a child and candy. If there is candy right next to a child they can't be told not to have it and expect them to listen. They will go right for it since it is so close to them. That is exactly how astronomers feel. They can't resist the urge to study a planet that is so close to them. There are many other planets in the solar system which they can't study because of the distance from Earth, but this planet is so close. In the article it says, "Often reffered to as Earth's 'twin,' Venus is the closets planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too...Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit." This supports how the planet Venus is the nearest to Earth. Making it easier to arrive there distance wise. Yes, there are many dangers of visiting the planet which can make it seem very immature to even risk going, but that doesn't stop NASA. If they have something close to them they can continue doing test and possibly find a solution to reduce risk and fully and appropriately study Venus.
The other reason which NASA wants to continue studying the planet is because of the possible inventions or spark of ideas along the way. If there are new invention or ideas it could change things for ever in the future. It could make further studies a lot more easy. In the text it says, "Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape...a vehicle hovering over venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions...simplified electronics made of silicon carbide...have lasted for three weeks in such conditions.Another project is looking back to an old tehcnology called mechanical computers." This shows how many great inventions can be created or even early inventions from before can be used. That leads to more curiosity and encourages NASA to keep studying Venus despite it's dangers.
There could be many reasons for why people would like to continue working on something no matter the risk. For example the study of Venus. NASA and many astronomers continue working on the study despite of the dangers because of Venus being one of the only planets being very similar to Earth, being one of the closest planets to Earth and the possible inventions that could be made that can change a lot in exploration. | 5 |
24811c2 | The electoral college is a very important this to keep when desiding the presidend. Our founding father established this process in the constitution. The presiden has to have trans-regional appeal he cant just have a lot of states on his side. it is true that public voters dont directly vote for the president and sometimes the electores may not vote for the right person.
The process of the electoral college is writen in the constitution by our founding fathers. Its a compromise between congreses votes and the peoples votes. To win the electoral votes you have to have 270 votes witch is the majority of the votes. Every candidates has his or hers own group of electors that are choosen by the political party.
The presidental candidate has to have trans-reginal appeal because a candidate with reginal appeal is unlikely to win. If a candidate were to campaign heavily in one region he or she will gain no electoral votes. so the candidates have to go croos contry and not stick to one region to actuly gain anything. A candidate can make every person in one reginon vote for him. But the candidate that go cross contry have a better chanse of wining because they have more electoral votes.
Yes a puplic vote does not go direcly to helping a person win but it does help. if there were no elctoral colled a candidat could go to all the hevily populated stae and get all those votes and be puy in to office like that. Just because you are voteing for a slate of electoros doesint mean you are not voting. The publics votes go twored helping choose the electors that vote for the president.
The electoral college is a good thing to have when voting for the president. Its a compromise between congress and the citizens thta was set by the founding fathers. It makes it so that a candidate cant just win over one part of the contery and win; he or she has to win over the majorety of the people. Yes you are voting for people to vote for you but your votes choose those people. The electoral colleg is a grate prosse to have and keep. | 4 |
248162f | Did you know that if you are a Seagoing Cowboy than you will have a lot of unique adventures? Some of the adventures I went on were going to tour an excaveted castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China, Going to Europe and China, And seeing the Acropolis in Greese was very special to me. You should join because there is lots of fun on deck like playing baseball, volleyball, and table tennis tournements and much more. Being a Seagoing Cowboy was a gret adventure.
One great reason to join the seagoing cowboy group is you go on a lot of unique trips on the way there. I went to the excaveted castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China. I also went to see the Acropolisin Greese and that was very special to me. Last i went to Europe and China.
Another great reason to join the Seagoing Cowboy group is you have a lot of fun on the deck. One thing we used to do was play baseball and volleyball in the empty holds where the animals used to be. We also played table tennis, boxing, and fencing. To make the time pass we used to read and study a lot after playing the games.
The next reason you should become a Seagoing Cowboy is you will have much more than an adventure in your life. I am very greateful for this opportunity. It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs. Being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure to me.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy changed my life and made it an adventure. All the fun I had on deck all the trips and being a Seagoing Cowboy enspired me. It will change your life to an adventure and you will have a lot of fun with your crew if you join. Would you like to become a Seagoing Cowboy? | 3 |
248e116 | What if there was a way to tell teacher's if student's are sad, mad, happy by using a computer. Something that will tell teachers if that student is confused on what is being taught.
Teens now of days hide their emotion's from parent's ,teachers, friends, anybody that's close to them. You won't know how that child feel's. Holding their emotions in, can cause problems in the classroom. Student's will lose focus on what's going on the class, thinking about thing's on their mind's.
The lastest software innovation from Prof. Huang can tell you if someone is mad, sad, or happy. All the computer need's is a 3-D computer model of that person face. Having this kind of technology to read expressions can be good in a classrooms. It'll tell teacher if that student is confused or bored. This type of technology will also tell if students are happy, mad, or sad. Teachers can confront students by asking if their okay, what part of the lesson in confusing to them.
Using this techology more kids will get good grade, even more kids will gradute. Students will be able to get work done because of teacher asking if their okay or what they don't get about what's being taught. | 3 |
24927d1 | When it comes to deciding wheather or not driverless cars should be used is up to everybody's own opinion. It is a pretty nice idea thoguh, having cars tat can drive for you while you also payattention is a fantasic idea. For example, take from paragragh 2, on how we have been fasintated by driverless cars. There have been at least more then twenty or so movies that have that idea, look at the movie called "I Robot". The cars can actually drive itself, but when it can't do that or when the drive wants to drive it shuts off with a smooth transition from one to the other. In addition, having a car that can drive itself but also have the sensors that need a human touch is a great idea, it makes sure that the driver it paying full attention, but also gives the driver some lee-way room when on the road. In addition, it is great that some cars like the BMW's can drive up to 25 mph when the car is in a area where there could be road work or traffic jams.
But in contrast, paragragh 9 made perfect a statement when saying/asking who will be at fault if the car crashes. If the car has a technology problem, does that mean the manufacurer is to blame or if the car is switching to person driving and it glitches out who is to blame then. In addition, when driverless car start to make advances in the world, does that mean we will no longer need to get driver licences, no longer need to have back ground knowledge on how the roads work and how to operate them if the cars system doesn't work. Will we no longer need to have any background on how to drive and how to operate them. In consculsion, it is a great advancement in are socitiy today, to have driverless cars, but down in the long run it make not ne the advancement that everybody will want to have for the future gernerations to come. | 3 |
24971db | With new technogly developing helpring us advance in the wrold we often forget how to slefmange our own control "Driverless Cars" should not be created, due to more careless driving. Everyone is all about the future and what it holds for us and how we can adavnce our life style,like how we drive. Thrugh out the years how we creat and run our cars have changed through a little help of new technogly that is being made every year. We hear see cars now that can help avoid crashed, traffic and also help navegate "2013, BMW annouced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant.", but how much are we relying on the car then our self as a driver?
BMW developed a car that "steer,accelerate, and break themselves." this new addidtion to the cars is very helpful in surten ways. For example have having the car for 7 years or so how do we knwo that the technogly will stay the same insuring that the vehical is still safe for the roads? "Google car simply annouces when the driver should be prepared to take over." If the driver should be ready how can that be if the driver devlopes bad habbits that rely driver t o do evrything, there for the driver will not be prepared causing more then likley a car crash.
Driver takes classes to know the basic knowoldge for the roads. It has become very helpful for the alerting driver if thet are to close to a car when parking or when they have been in a crash they deveopled the first aid assistance. Giving the driver and pasangers the help in case all wrose causes.
The idea of puting a camera in the "Driverless Cars" is not so much the best idea due to the concern on a young to feeling pressure if they are doing the right things. Teens tend to do wrose when they knowthey are getting monituered , this creating a downfall in buying a car.
In 2020 driverless cares should not be realsed due to any mofuction. being tested driving theres always that one care that wont fucion right and can cause mager sufering. Money out into this car only the higher living people could afford because of how much they are putting into the car, to the income inf making these cars will be low.
We should stay improving the satey and technogly we put into the cars but the self driving should not be developed in the car. The saftey of the new drivers can stay focus adn not rely on the car for all the work. Over time people will form bad
habbits so it is safer to have the river have all controll of ther vehical. This should be baded by all the staes not just "califorina, Nevade, Florida adn the Distric of Columbia." | 3 |
249867d | Twenty five years ago an enormous head almost two miles end to end has been seen to be staring back at the cameras from a region of the red planet called Cydonia. For some conspiracy theorists, they thought that it was a sign of life on Mars, or it may be from some kind of ancient civilization that was there millions of years ago. Some of them say it almost looks like the ancient egyption statues built on Earth.
Global Surveyor arrived at the Red Planet in September 1997, after the viking missions ended. Chief scientist explained "We felt this was important to taxpayers." So on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia, Mars Orbiter Camera snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. They've got new technology so now the picture has more detail in it, it even shows some rocks on the Mars surface. When the picture was released to the public, it was now revealed a natural landform, no sign of alian civilization or any type of mark.
Not everyone was satisfied with the Face being ruled a natural landform. Some say the camera on board Mars Global Surveyor had to look through clods to see the Face. Skeptics considered alien markings were hidden by the clouds. The Face is a very interesting much more can lay behind the discovery but as the Global Surveyor pass through it when it is all clear they take a picture that is very vlear for all to see. The extraordinary photo was the best photo they have ever taken of the face ruling it a natural landform.
The Face is a very popular among Hollywood films. It has appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows, and more, It is truly a pop icon. SOme people think that that face a very good evidence for life on Mars. Evidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorist, Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget would rather wish that there was an ancient civilization on Mars.
The Face resembles a human face like the statues in our ancient civilzation built by egyptians. Our ancient monuments are very and amazingly common to the Face. What if this was ancient civilization at its best. After the cloudless summer picture the world has ruled The Face a natural landform not ancient monument in any means, Some Skeptics still believe however. So as we go on there may be more discoveries that lay behind the monument maybe proof of ancient civilization. Mars is a very indistinctable place, NASA may stumble upon some proof that life beyond Earth exist. | 3 |
24a099b | The author goes into great detail about the pros and cons of the driverless car. Giving us examples on the cars features and how a humane could work the car. He also gives us facts, but I in this eassy I will explain to you and give you reasons on why I think the driverless car is not good. I will also share my pros about the driverless car. What do you think about the driverless car?
One reason i dont think the driverless car is a good idea is because of acciedents. If you were to get into a wreck then what? who is resonsable for the damages? You? But you weren't even driving. So whos going to pay all of that money to get the car fixed. You shouldnt have to you. I'm sure the manufacturer does not wanna pay it. Its not his car anymore. Yet you were the one who put all this money into this car and you cant even drive it. What will happen if you get hurt? The same problem with your cars steering or etc could be the same thing wrong with everyone elses car. Now you have hundreds of people sueing. You cant really control this car you might as well take a taxi. Atleast your not the one who has to pay for damages.
The second reason I think they are bad ideas is safety. Now they say this car is safe because of the warning features and sensors. Yet this car could run off the road at anytime and you cant stop it. You have kids and a family, I dont think you want this car to take that or harm your family. No one really knows what makes these cars tick. It could be water one small spill and everything is hay-wire.
My third reason is the sensors. If one of your sensors does not work yet you think it might, all
it would take is for someone to step behind and and boom. Now your paying for a hospital bill plus more. How could this be your fault when they gave you a reliable car that should be able to stop when danger is in the way. In a normal humane driven car you have control you just turn around to see whats behind you. You are your onw sensors, you would trust someone who thinks they can drive take your car. Right?
In conclusion its mainly about safety for you. These cars might be more trouble then its worth. With so much happening at once it could be overwhelming. Testing could go great, but when you get in that car your taking a billion dollars and a headache with you. So stick to the old fashion way less worries more money in your pocket. | 3 |
24adfc3 | The meaning of a democracy is that the people vote for their leader or president. The electoral college denys that right and that is why the state senator should change that. Not only do the popular votes barley make a difference but, with the electoral college in play the representatives vote for our president, not us. If popular vote was the way the president was elected the elections would be fair.
To start with, how can we live in a democracy were the people do not pick their own president but, some representatives we suposadly chose can. If we were alowed to choose our own president then we could at least feel right in what we chose and not what the representatives did. according to
Bradford Plumer the electoral college is unfair due to the winner take all method which basically states that if you are a big state and have many representatives then you will have a majority of a say when it comes to voting. I it were only up to the people to vote then every single vote would count more towards the winning president and not towards the representatives. If the electoral college would keep on then even if the popular vote went for one of the representatives the electoral vote would decide the actual winner.
Also, acorrding to the Office of the Federal Register a total of 270 or more electoral votes are needed to elect a president. The total amount of votes consists of 538 electors, meaning there could be a tie in elections. This implys that the system is not fool proof and can have errors. However, if the popular votes were counted more than the electoral votes there would not be any chance of a tie and a president will always be elected. Most Americans do not know that they are voting for representatives who in turn vote for the president making this unfair. Thats just another reason why the electoral college is outdated and not needed.
Although the popular vote system is a little bias and favors the president the citizens like the most, it can also prove more effected for the fact that there will always be a winner no matter what. The popular votes system cant be represented by most states like the electoral college does but, it does have the vote of the entire country as opposed to a few states with more representatives.
In conclusion, the senator should change the voting system for many reasons. First, the popular vote is more reliable and there will always be a winner. Second, the electoral college has an even number of votes meaning there could be a tie therefore ruining the election. Finally, most people would like to personaly vote for theyre president rather than someone else to do it for you. These simple reason suggest why the senate should change the system. | 4 |
24ae08e | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", the Facial Actions Coding Systems symbolizes a change in technology.
I think this could change our country because it will open our eyes up a bit for the kids sake. This could help us in many ways. Eckman has cassified six basic emtions- happiness, surprise, anger,disgust, fear,and sadness are all very important for children and adults.
The article says " In fact, we humans peform this same impressive "calculation" everyday. For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." I completely agree with all of this because it so true. Everyon eknows that they use this in every day life and you probably don't even know it either. I use it his at school every day because I care for the people around me.
This could show who in the classroom is depressed and could help our world be a better place. by the new technology using this, it could save lives by suicide. I'm saying this because our world had become dark with all of this. we need more help.
The Article says " a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts
and then it could modify the lesson, likean effective human instructor". This could be huge for the schools we send our children too. "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," notes Dr. Huang. So what he is getting at is computers are going to have to start to understand that
and i completely agree with him.
In the article " Making Mona Lisa Smile," the Facial Actions Coding symbolizes a change in technolgy and I agree that we should do this for our children. We need to do this cause it will change our ways of how we learn forever. The computer will not misread peoples faces and
if they ever get bored of the lesson he/she is learning. Then, the computer will regonize it and make the lesson funner and will benifit the kids much more than what they are doing now for us. | 3 |
24af377 | Vroom,vroom cars go by there are cars every where people like there cars some people go to work in them others just like to ride in them. But do you think cars are good for the enviroment do you think we should have them every where we go or just for important things like work. Well people are trying to solve that problem by inventing new cars like ''the eletric car'' or ''the solar power car'' but people dont have the money to buy those things. Or should we just not have cars for a day just like in BOGATA,Colombia where they did not use there car for a day and people around the city were walking and rideing bikes to work. i think there should be a day where America should not use cars and then we could see how people react to how they think of that and say if they liked it or not. Because people in America are buying less cars and are driving less and i think we should keep it that way.
People in VAUBAN,Germany residents of a community are not useing cars and people like the idea there ''they think that its safer and they are less stressed'' you could have a car but it will cost u a fortune $40,000 just to get a car and a apartment with a garage to put the car in. But ''some people sold there cars just to live in that community'' but are happy there in the community there lives 5,500 residents within a rectangular square mile. so wat i think we should do is use are car less and save the enviroment from pollution and start doing what contrys like VAUBAN,Germany or paris, and BOGATA,Colombia are doing makeing this world a better place. | 2 |
24afacf | Lots of people have been saying that there is a "face" on Mars. People think that it was created by aliens. NASA scientists are most likely hiding some key information about this natural landform to keep conspiracies.
I believe that the "face" on Mars was created naturally by winds or other natural occurung events on Mars. There has been more and more information on the "face". Were getting pictures that are more sharp and clearer.
If there was any other objects such as; small shacks and buildings the images have gotten so much clearer that the camera would have easily captured them. In 1976 you can make out a face, But in 1998 you can't really tell that there is a face anymore. I think it is a natural landform because you can clearly tell that it has been blown away. In 2001 you can clearly tell that the whole right side of the "face" has been blown away because it was natural. | 2 |
24b2241 | You may think its a waste of your life being a Seagoing Coyboy but let's just think about it. Think of all the places you could go and see for just a little bit of work! Some may say "Oh well
Luke wasted his life being a Seagoing Cowboy." well they're wrong. Luke got to see so many amazing things on his way home alothough taking care of cattle and almost fallingnover i might have considered it to. What luke did was amazing helping countries get pieced together again after the war by taking cattle from one place to another. Luke said "The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable for a small town boy." i bet they were!
You might be saying why would i waste years of my life for this? Well I say they're not wasted! Going on trips for free doing some minor work is better than staying at home eating potato chips with some doctor pepper watching who knows what like the Oprah show or somthing. I would go on the trips for the thrill of it plus i've never been out of North America so that would be fun. Oh what is that your saying? You dont like leaving your home? Well get a house boat for the cattle then you can ride withc the cattle and have modern day comforts. What now? House boats are to expensive? Then tie ballons to your house like Carl did in Up. I know I know helium and ballons are expensive. What is that? You hate traveling? Well if so why are you even reading this im trying to argue why its good to be a cattle-boater. So i came up with the perfect sollution! Buy a horse,a cow,a goat, and a boat and. BAM! You have a cattle-boat. What now? You get sea-sick well take a bag because this is a good job and im sure it pays good, because you know on a boat with stinky animals. All you'd have to do is clean thier pens give them food and water and i'm sure bathe them. See? Simple job. Besides like Luke had an opurtunity of a life time getting to see so many places. What now? Oh you dont like the ocean well then...
Buy a pool and let your imagination play out. It's not that hard right? Why would you argue about a job when you can: A. See the world, B. Do little work, and C.Help others. Thats like helpping an orphan child who has no-one to adopt them. So get off your couch finnish the doctor pepper and potato chips and get to work on Sea-cattleing! | 3 |
24b3411 | Throughout the passages the limiting car usage is critical, our community are giving up their cars. due to Suburb, smog, and car free day. The United States, with it's broad expanses and suburan ideals, had long been one of the world's prime car cultures. American's are buying fewer cars, driving less, and not following inforcement laws.
In Germany, Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, or communiting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars. Therefore, Street parking and driveways are forbidden on the outskirts of Freiburg, near the French and Swiss borders. causing residents to react differenly. Passengers cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive area in the United States. Basic precepts are being adopted around the world in attempts to produce suburbs more compact and more accessible to pubilc transportation with less parking space. Also, the Environmental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced". Many experts expect public transport serving suburbs to play a much larger role.
For Instance, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of global city. Because, traffic was down 60 percent in the capital of France it created smog. Since, Diesel fuel was blamed France has a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline. While, Delivery companies complained of lost revenue while exceptions were made, and cars carrying three more passengers.
In Other Words, in a program located in Colombia that's spread to other countries millons hiked, biked. or took buses to work during a car-free day leaving the streets of this capital city devoid of traffic jams. the goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. In different too, President Obama's goals to curb the United State's greenhouse gas. recent studies produce that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less, and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. As of, part of the explanation certainly lies in the recession, Americans can't afford new cars, and the unemployed weren't going to work. The limiting car usage has big a big problem around the world and people's reactions are critical, the factors of the the car limiting usuage are smog, suburb, and car cultures. | 2 |
24b83b4 | I certinly believe that the "face" was created by natural landform. I believe that because earth was created by natural landforms. There is no way that aliens could of created the face. Besides the point aliens do no excist!
There is proof that it was a landform and not aliens. "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appered on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform". Landforms can cause, alot of things like, holes, cracks. I know that the landform did in fact, creat the face on the planet mars, no one will tell me diffrent.
They have gathered up information and said "there were no alien monuments after all". If there was aliens on the planet dont you think we would of sean them by now? We have took pictures of that planet 3 diffrent times maybe more, we still have not found proof of life on that planet much more the aliens.
That is why I believe that the landform made the face on mars. The face was indeed not created by aliens. | 2 |
24be491 | Have you ever been able to understand what your face does when you are feeling something? It can read there feelings and find the best way for them to learn it. It can tell if they are really upset or if they are just faking it. It could explain to us why people make the faces that we make in every day life. This would be a good tool to use in the classroom.
This tool can help kids that kids that get bored easily to become more interactive. This program can show us what the child is thinking so we understand and can help them with this. This is a new program that definetly can help us in the future to understand peoples feeling. This could also be something physicatrist should use on there patients before they see them. Get a picture of there face and figure out how they are feeling.
This could also help teacher understand if a child is hiding something. This new program can show if the kids are truely smiling or faking it. This is another thing physicitrist could use on the people they are evalating to see if they are hiding behind an smile and help them find a way to come out of there shell. Since this is compared to a neutral face there will always be something on there mind and always will be a felling cordinatted with that. This could help help ad makers to make ads more exciting and to make more so they people will actually start buying some of the products and not just srolling past them and waiting on them to go away.
This could be a good new thing for people to use. This can help a lot of people to read others. This technology can be used for many different things. This can be good to people in certian professions to understand people more. This will be a helpful resource and a great tool for people and this will make understanding people reactions easier. | 3 |
24c6ae0 | As americans, we use vehicles quite a bit. From driving to school and work, to going to the gym or hanging out with friends. But although we use these 4-wheeled machines on a regular basis, would limiting the usage of cars be benefitial?
Despite the fact that we use vehicles as our primary source of transportation, cars are actually polluting the air, and causing danger in our lives. According to paragraph 9, in the source titled
In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars
; many places, including the United States, are promoting "car reduced" communities. It is believed that America's "love affair" with its vehicles seems to be cooling, as recent studies show "Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by" Which was quoted in source 4, titled
The End of Car Culture.
Bill Ford, of Ford motor company, proposed to partnering with the telecommunitcations industry to create cities where transportation traffic is conjoined with a connected network to conserve resources and improve safety.
In a sense of taking away stress and trying to lower air pollution, residents of Bogota, Colombia and Vauban, Germany have been biking, hiking, and skating to work. Residents have claimed to have been happier, and less tense since the car free environment came about. In France, however, a "partial driving ban" was set to clear the air, after days of a near-record pollution.
Cars are used on a daily basis. But if we ease off the gas and start hitting the breaks on the use of cars in modern day, would it make America a happier place? | 2 |
24c8a88 | Have you ever wondered what other people might be feeling? Well the aruthor in the store is introducing us to this new technology called The
Facial Action Coding System (FACS). This Technology is suppose to detect anyones emotions at that time by using a 3-D model of a face and detects it by the 44 major muscles must move like human muscles.
I believe this could be a good use for in the future for students in school who deals with depression and anxiety and doesn't show it. Some students probably wont't like the idea of a computer telling how you're really feeling because like some they probably doesn't like to show any emotions but this technology could help a lot of students out dealing with their emotions.
It would be just like us telling a friend how are they feelings just like in the article its says For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feelin simply by the look on her face".
We all need just a reminder to smile every once and a while just like in the article it also says helps the muscles and helps preduce them.
Overall, i think this technology could be very usefull not only to just express feelings but also for students, adults, anyone who deals with their emotions to helps them. Make them feel happy and be able to show their emotions intead of keeping it inside of them. | 2 |
24cc082 | the conditions are extreme anything humans encounter on Earth mi evidence is .Even more challenging are the
clounds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere . On the planet 's surface temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit , no easy conditions ,but
survivable for humans .( parag
3)
Venus is the seconds planet
from our sun, is so inhospitable atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus have strong solar power and radiation would not exceed Earth levels.
These conditions are far more extreme an enviroment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the
deepest parts our oceans and would liquely many metals ,venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes , powerful
earthquakews , and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface
temperatures would still toasty at around 170 degrees fahrenheit , orbit the sun at different speeds . the planet has surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as vavalleys, mountains , and craters .
mi conclusion is what in venus not is easy survive for we the humans both have technology what help for obtain and survive in venus but is warning. | 2 |
24cd6b4 | In this article the author gives us positive and negative views of the driverless cars. I agree with these claims that the author has made. But i disagree/agree with this author there are many other reason why we shouldn't/should have driverless cars.
My reason for saying that we shouldnt have driverless cars is because for the people who actually like to drive sometimes would not enjoy the idea of this car driving for them. But besides that the driver still has to watch the rode at all times. This isnt like a break for them you have to be up and alert at all times. For the people who dont like to drive this would be a risk for them as well. You need to be prepared for things like car accidents, backing into other objects or people. You can get tired of driving but you still have to be ready for anything.
My reason for saying that this is a good idea is because of the long hard tiring days you have. You could be coming from work and not really feel like driving but you are still ready to watch the rode you can put the car to work think about it who wouldn't want to have a car driving for them and not put in that much work on your part. A car that senses everything. That is so amazing because it's not too much stress on your part. In the text is reads that it gives you a 3-D model of your surroundings, and a spinning sensor on the roof.
In conclusion, I think a good idea to have driverless cars. They can benefit a lot of things in your life. I also think its a bad idea just based on the economical reasons and because they arent that safe. My information concludes for both arguments in the passage. | 3 |
24cd9fa | I agree on the idea of this new technology being valuable in classrooms for students. This technology can help students in class if they are confused or lost. Also this technology can help teachers understand their students more.
This technology can help students if they are lost by reading their facial expression
which then modifies the lesson as a human instructor. in the passage is says " a classroom computer could recognize when a student is bored or lost, Then it could modify the lesson, like a human instructor." This quote explains how the computer can help you in class by the way you feel or when you don't understand the lesson in class.
Another way this new technology could be great in classes is that it can understand non verbal communication including emotional. like in the passage it says " Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication." this quote states that this new technology can understand you in many ways, not just in facial expressions but also through both nonverbal and verbal communication.
These are my reasons why I agree in using this new technology in classes. | 2 |
24ce1cb | The position I have on driveless cars is that I am not sure if we can truly rely on these cars. If you are going to invent a type of car that is really driveless then invent it. I think if it is going to be a driveless car then it should stick to its true meaning "DriveLess". In the future I think we will have the technology to create these kind of cars where they are sold worldwide but I think the government wont change or make new laws for these cars. Which I dont see why they would because these cars do seem safe with all the systems they have for safety of the driver.
Technology plays a key part for the invention of these cars. Big Companies such as Google,BMW,GM,Mercedes-Benz,Audi, and Nissan all have driveless car projects they are working on. As the technology gets better over the years so will sensoring, the gps signals, antilock brakes, and driver assistance. Even Sebastian Thrun the Google Car Project founder thinks that the technology is catching up to the dream. BMW has announceed that they had developed the "Traffic Jam Assistant" that lets the car steer, accelerate , and brakes its self. Although there are very few examples, just think about the technology will have in the future if we already have this kind of technology as of today.
Safety of the driver and the passengers also plays an important key role in driveless cars. When the technology increases I think the safety of the driveless cars will increase to because Google said they had a project car that went over five hundred thousand miles without a crash. In a driveless car today though the driver must stay alert at all times, because any kind of a situation can come upon such as navigating through work zones or around accidents. Google and GM have developed warning signs to tell the driver when the driver should be ready to take over.
All these reasons are why I think these big companies should have laws to where they can work on the development of these cars anywhere. It is something that can be created today instead of in the future only if we let it happen. | 3 |
24e41cc | Some people think the Face was created by aliens. If you really think about it is just a natural landform. There are many reasons in why, it is just a natural landform. Being a scientidst at NASA is an important job.
The people at NASA have many reasons why the Face is not an alien artifact. First,
Cydonia became a prority for NASA when Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) arrived at the Red Planet in Sept. 1997, eighteen long years after the Viking missions ended which had a impact on the Face. Second, a cheif scientst for NASA's Mars Exploration Program said that " They felt this was important to taxpayers". I totally argree with him and what he said, it would be very important to the taxpayers.Then, "We photographged the Face as soon as we could get a good shoot at it".
Many people had to play an important role to tell that NASA wasnt created by aliens. On April 5,1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time a man named "Micheal Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the orginal Viking photos." Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on JPL website reveal a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all. Although many people werent yet quit satisfied. The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face due to it being winter.They started to think " Perhaps, said skepticss, alien markings were hidden by the haze." Misson controllers began to prepare to look again. "It's not easy to target Cydonia, says Garvin." In fact its hard work".
Many people still began to think that the Face was created by aliens. On April 8,2001 a cloudless day in Cydonia Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. " We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view," said Garvin. "Malins team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's abssolute maxium resolution." Each pixel in the 2001 images had spanned 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo. The picture showed the Maritan equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms common around the American West.
Many people thought that the Face was created by aliens, but turns out it was a natural landform. The NASA had to take mant steps for them to be able to complete this task. The NASA had took many important roles to find out if it was an natural landform. Being a scientist at NASA is an important job. | 3 |
24e42b3 | The author is supporting this idea very well. Because in the text he is giving many reason on how Venus is our sister planet but a lot hoter than us. In the text they said, "On the planet's surface tempertures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the armospheric pressure is 90 times greater that what we experience on our own planet.
They came up with so many ideas to go to Venus and take test samples. Example, "Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Vensian landscape. Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms." It's going to be a very dangerous job to do on the planet. Because they cannot take samples from a distance, they have to take samples on the planet.
It's going to be one of the biggest challenges they will ever have, but if they want to know what it's like to be on Venus, they're going to do it for everyone and the people in this world. | 2 |
24e61ae | No technology cannot make you happy unless technology and social media is all you would live for. Technology is not to live for unless you have no goals in life and just want to do nothing but sit around and live off technology and social media. It's hard to come by and not live with technology today because its huge nowadays. Our phone are distracting a lot. computers are used for a lot today in school, at libraries, at work all over the place. You can use technology for almost anything. In the passage the author stated, " The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face", computer could possibly do anything. Technolgy can possibly read emotional expressions of students in a classroom. In article 5 the author stated," In fact, we humans perform the same impressive " calcuation " every day." The author basically said, us humans calculated the same facial expressions we give out to others. | 2 |
24e6449 | Some claim that a picture of a natural landmark and a shadow is really a sign of alien lifeform or a civilization. Nasa a billion dollar company dissagrees and has proof that this is indeed a landmark with a shadow and not any sort of alien life. That has not stopped some conspiracy theorists from saying that this is a cover up.
Nasa as we all know is a company that is paid to fly unmanned and sometimes manned aircraft into the sky and most excitingly space. That is a positive thing for us humans who have no idea why we are here and how are we here. People don't like to know or believe the truth and sometimes make up lies or takes something the wrong way and make everyone from the news to the everyday household hear about something that didn't even turn out to be true. That is the same case here, Nasa released a photo of a mountain during a time of day that would have shadows, and Nasa being a public and government company is forced by law to release photos to the people. Which leads to more proof if Nasa took more photos that showed aliens or other inteligent lifeforms they would have to release it they can't just magicly hit erase.
Conspiracy theorist still do not believe Nasa so they demand more photos and still Nasa has even more proof that this "face'' is indeed a montain with shadows stratigicly placed to look like a human face. Theorist say that everything Nasa does is either faked or fixed to look like something it is not. In this case it went viral and many people still believe it was aliens that went there and did that but Nasa declines and this time Nasa has a little more proof.
Nasa would've got money to send a human or a robot to Cydonia if it were a human lifeform or an alien, and we all know the team that worked on it would've got some pretty heavy paychecks just by working on the case, just imagine that checks the team would make if it were a civilivation. But Nasa will not be sending over humans or a robot for a couple reasons, the best reason is that the already know that this is just a mountain, not a civiliation.
In conclusion Nasa knows this is a mountain and not a lifeform of any kind.
Nasa also knows that lifeforms like ours can not survive on the surface of any planet without an atmousphere like mars. So even if a lifeform can survive without oxygen unlike us that the proof of that area says otherwise. | 4 |
24e64ad | First of all, good morning/afternoon/night, hope you're having a good day.
So, the author gives many details to prove that visiting Venus is worth the dangers and who knows what else can be there, explaining that this planet could be our safest/secure option to explore, since has many characteristics from the Earth, like he says, mountains, valleys, and craters, and also that Venus was more likely to be the planet where there was life just like in the Earth actually, and that's exactly why so many scientists and astronomers are fascinated by our sister planet, even if it is almost or basically inhospitable.
He honestly has a point, if Venus has all of those good things, then why not can we do an effort and visit it?
Technology has advanced a LOT, and we have people intelligent enough, so it is possible to visit Venus, and when that happens, we could examinate and analyze this planet, so we can find a way to make it a future home for us, since the Earth is actually in a really bad state, thanks to us, humans that don't notice how bad this situation is.
The author even includes the NASA, thing that with other important things that he says (like information about what NASA is doing, and other important data about what can we do) means that he's very serious about this, so, here, he makes a really clear and explained claim, where he provides specific details and information that we definitely need to considerate, in conclusion. | 3 |
24e6877 | The Mars Face has been a popular topic for ages. People still argue about if its an alien artifact or just a nutural formation on Mars. Some people are thinking NASA is just lying. Some people at NASA wish that they had found evidence of alien life.
The Mars Face is a natural landform known as a mesa. These landforms are commun throughout the west part of America. These landforms are formed by plate tectonics. There are a lot of landforms on Earth that are the same as the Mars Face.
The face got its look from shadows. The Viking 1 spacecraft did not have a high level of technology. The space age has developed lots of technology since the 1970's. I mean they just got a man on the moon a few years prior to the Viking 1. So in 1998 a high level camera did fly over and take very graphic and detailed pictures of the Face showing it's just a landform. Since the technology level wasn't very good in 1976 they couldn't zoom in like the Mars Orbiter Camera Team did, so the shadows were apparent there and not in the 1998 photograph. The pixel size is greater in the 2001 photo than the 1976. The reson the face appeared was because of the technology level back in 1976 they Viking 1 couldn't zoom in far enough to get past the shadows.
With this evidence I hope you're convinced there are no aliens on Mars or ever was. NASA would be estactic if they found alien life. The Face is not an alien made memorial or artifact. The Face is a natural landform that occurs on our own planet. | 3 |
24e71c9 | Limiting car usage can affect our enviroment in so many ways. Although you may have not ever thought about it before, limiting car usage can help not only our enviroment, but ourselves as well. Let's talk about what can happen if we ditch our vehicles.
People in Germany have completely given up their cars for the most part already. Since most of their residents are suburban pioneers, they find almost no point of even owning a car. Here in America we use cars for transportation (for almost everything)! In Germany, many have admitted that owning a car makes them stressd. Heidrun Walter who is a media trainer said, "I'm much happier this way." The trend of not owning a car isn't just growing in Europe. Lot's of families from Chicago are abandoning their cars as well.
The city of Paris has banned driving for a good enviromental reason. There has been so much pollution in the city from smog that there was a driving ban to clear the city's air. If anyone is caught driving, they are sent a fine of 22-euro, which is $31 here in the US. Although this may seem like a harsh punishment, it has helped Paris overcome a lot of its smog. The only exceptions when it comes to driving are delivery companies and public transit.
Bogota, Columbia has jumped on the bandwagon along with many other places. This country put a ban on cars to prevent smog as well. There was a huge turnout on their part for doing this. Buisnessman Carlos Arturo Plaza stated, "It's a good oppurtunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." Ever since the day where they banned cars for a short period of time, there has been many other new advancements in their society. Parks and sports centers have spread throughout the city, uneven sidewalks have been replaced, rush-hour restrictions have drastically cut traffic, and new restaurants/upscale shopping districts have opened up.
Last, limiting car usage also has a great effect when it comes to getting rid of greenhouse gas emissions. Research has suggested that Americans are now buying fewer cars, fewer licenses, and overall driving less. It seems as many people are starting to open up their eyes and realize all of the long term effects that come with car overusage. Article 4 clearly states that many sociologist believe that if this pattern persist, it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the enviroment. It is said that creating cities in which pedestrian, bicyle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to not only save time and conserve resources, but also lower emissions and improve our safety.
All in all, there are many advantages when it comes to limiting car usage. We can help dramatically improve our enviroment and safety. More people should take into consideration about being more conservative when it comes to transportation. We can work around a lot of it by simply walking or riding our bikes short distances rather than wasting a lot of energy with cars. | 4 |
24e9709 | In the United States, the process to pick the president is rather complicated. From nation-wide voting to states that swing from party to party, it has intricate parts that most people find confusing. The electoral college, the process that in the end picks the president, is also rather complicated. It was made to be a compromise of picking the precident by votes in congress and popular vote from citizens by the founding fathers. In modern times however, most citizens agree that popular vote makes more sense and that the electoral college has become rather bloated. In the case of finding reasons of why the electoral college doesn't really work is because private citizens vote for someone else to vote and that voters from different states don't control who the electors choose.
First of all, because of the electoral college, citizen's vote counts less when they vote for someone else to vote. Most citizens would relish the chance to vote for the canidate that they choose to support. But when they do vote, their vote only just might sway the electors vote. For example, during the 2000 presidential election, instead of the intended canidate winning the vote, the electoral college choose another. It removes any sense of personal worth when participating in general elections and makes it harder for some canidates to win.
Furthermore, not only do electors choose the president, but the votes themselves from private citizens don't control who the electors choose. Electors are people chosen at state conventions, presidential candidates, and state party's central committees. The amount is chosen on the populations of such states, making smaller states with still a significant poplation seem unsignigicant. However, the biggest slight is that the votes made by the citizens don't obligate electors to choose what the general population has already choosen. It takes away control from the "people" and is inherently wrong.
In conclusion, the electoral college is rather useless because it does the job that citizens already do and takes away control from them. By voting for electors, the electoral college process takes away a sense of self in elections while giving the power to choose the president to a group of about 200 people that can be persuaded or just simply choosen by the candidates themselves. Its a bloated system and should be dealt with. | 4 |
24e9ae8 | This article talks about how Venus can be very challenging if you were to travel and land on it. It explains the very hostile living conditions that one can face while living or being on such a planet. Venus is part of our solar system and it is the second planet from the sun. Venus is kind of like Earth in a way because they have some sort of relations to each other, expect for the fact that if you go and try to live there you may crushed or even liquefied. No one would be able to stay on Venus since it is considered to have the hottest surface temperature than any planet in our solar system.
The author makes really good points on why studying Venus can have a great outcome despite the dangers it may bring with it. In the article it states that astronomers are fascinated by Venus since it may have been very similar to a planet we live in. They get to discover if Earth really could of supported any types of life long ago. The author says that Venus could be one of our nearest option to go explore and also since it is considered as Earth's "Twin".
Exploring Venus may be a challenge but The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, also refered as NASA, were thinking on sending something like a vehicle to float just enough the surface of Venus. They decided on something like that to avoid any bad conditions that are said to happen. Even though when floating up in the surface they wont be able to have physical evidence from the planet like samples of rocks but they are able to provide insite on how things are in Venus. In the article it states that the scientists are wiling to take the risk to go study this planet to be able to learn more about it.
In conclusion, the author supported the article very well on how studying Venus can provide valuable information and that they should go ahead and study it. There are challenges on the way such as the horrible conditions if they do decide to pursue but there are ways around that. They also have more than one idea they can use if one dosen't go as planned like simplified electronics that will be able to survive the pressure, heat, and may other forces that Venus has to offer. They should go for exploration because it could bring more knowlegde and insite on the "Earth's twin" than just the predictions that were made in the past. | 4 |
24ef783 | This new technology is actually valuable. In the story they talk about how making yourself smile still can make you happy. This technology could really help because then they can tell if someone is really unhappy. Most people do not want other people to know what they are feeling but it helps people around you. This technology can tell you like what percent happy you are or digusted or fearful or angry. Like Mona Lisa's percentages were 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, and 2 percent angry. With people being able to know how people in paintings were feeling you can put together what might be happening or what they are trying to point out.
This technology is actually very helpful because they can tell everything by just using a computer and using it on a painting to see what their emotions are. The computers can detect all 44 muscles in someone face. All the muscles have to move like human muscles. They say in the article that the movement of one or more muscles is called an action unit. The Eckman has classified six basic emotions and those emotions are happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. An example they used by telling any of those is your frontalis pars laterials muscle which is above you eyes raises you eyebrows when you are surprised. A way they can tell that you are angery is when your orbicularis oris which are around your mouth tightens your lips.
There are many different things that this technology can tell about you which could really help because it could let people around you know how you are feeling instead of having to answer and you just say your fine. Like you can kind of tell how a friend is feeling by just looking at their face. Everyone can have trouble describing like the reasons why they feel like that but atleast you can tell how they are feeling. Even if you do not know why they are feeling that way you can try and change how they are feeling. Like most people do not want to have to explain why they feel that way they just want a friend to be there for them and help you boost your mood. Computers are unstanding what peoples emotions are but they are still trying to figure out how to nonverbal communicate with someone.
The article gives you instructions to do while looking in the mirror. The first instruction is to raise your lips at the corners of your mouth, the next one is to then squint your eyes slightly, to produce wrinkling at the corners of your eyes, the last one is holding that, raise the outer parts of your cheeks up, toward your eyes. They ask if you express in the mirror suggest an emotion and it does it is a happy emotion. Experts can even tell by just looking at a celebrity and they can tell if the are being truthful about being happy or if the are sad.
This technology could help many people. Do you just sit there sometimes and think what are they feeling or are they sad or happy well now you can tell by just doing some very easy things. Like you can use a computer that can recognize what you are feeling even if you are just sitting there doing something the computer can still tell. You can even learn ways to just look at someones face and can tell how they are feeling by just the muscles on their face. This can help friends they will be able to tell how their best friend is feeling and they can try and change their mood. Even if it does not seem helpful it really is, by just telling what someones emotions is by just looking at them can actually change a lot of things. | 3 |
24f699d | NASA's
mars globe surveyspace craft revealed the face of mars is a mesa (intro) ,scientists found it was just another martian mesa(2).
A few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see. The caption noted a “huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth.” The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars(3).
on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all.(7)
Nevertheless, on April 8, 2001—a cloudless summer day in Cydonia—Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. “We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view,” said Garvin. “Malin’s team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera’s absolute maximum resolution.” Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo(10).
What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa—landforms common around the American West. “It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho,” says Garvin. “That’s a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars.”(12).therefore there is no alien life forms on other planets. | 1 |
24fc7ae | Do you want to go on a little adventure and save some animals? Well then you should join Seagoing Cowboys program.
You get to save some animals and while your doing that, you can see some things you haven't seen before and be on a adventure.
After the return trips we play baseball and volleyball in the empty holds where the animals have been housed. We also have table-
tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing,reading, and whittling. Here it from me, Luke Bomberger. I had no idea that my life would change when I joined the Seagoing Cowboys program. You know, being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for me. It opened up a world for me. I'm grateful for the opportunity that I got. It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs.
That's why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. I'm sure it will change your life just like it did to mine. | 2 |
24fd1fd | The Seagoing Cowboys is a program that you should join if you like farm animals and know how to take care of horses, mules, and young cows. I think this is a program that you and other people should really join. Why? Well keep reading to find out.
This oraganzation is just for you because it offers the right things to help you get to other people in need. In the text it says, "To help these countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more, 44 nations joined together." What a neat way to serve for others! I would really like to have the joy of doing that.
The Seagoing Cowboys also supply you with the chance to see the world. It states that, " 'Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China.' " Luke also got to see and tour other places he had never seen before. Some where Greece, Italy and the Panama Canal.
The Cowboys offer one other great thing that is the most important thing for every one to have, fun. They also have great games for exersize. When they were done with the shipping and going back home for more stuff it says in the story that, "The cowboys played baseball and vollyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed." Doesn't that sound like fun? They also did other activities like whittling and reading in their spare time.
Now that you have seen and read all about the great things the Seagoing Cowboys do I hope that one day you will join them. They sound like a neat opportunity to serve, have fun, and to see the world around us. I know that if I had the chance that I would sign up to help. Would you? | 3 |
24ff191 | I am all for driverless cars because I think it's the next step to further our advancments in technology. We have always wanted to strive for more and always have wanted more, this is the nextstep for that. Right now we are just in the midst for driverless cars, but very soon we will have them as they are in the works and being planned right now.
I think we should have driverless cars because the rest of the items around us are also advanving in technology so why not cars while we're at it. It's not a brand new idea because we've seen this creation or idea in many sci-fi movies and fictional movies as well. If phones can advance from large, bulky, and using buttons to smart, small, and being touch screen then cars can become self drivers. Another example of advancement are tv's they have had alot of history because when they were first made they didn't have any color and they also varied in size. Then they went ahead and added color to advance the creation just a bit more. Now look, we have flat screens all in HD being hanged on the wall with color! They have come along way and so can cars! We're almost there to reaching self driving cars, all it takes is time. We already have technology for it we just need a bit more tweaking on it. Take a look at the google car as mentioned in paragraph 4, it can basically drive all by its self thanks to all the technology it has such as the sensors on it. There are certain times it may need human help, but all we need to do is perfect the technology and boom we'll have self driving cars everywhere in no time!
We don't always want to remain in the same place without advancement so with these cars it will be the next step, the next step to change! We've always been about change and advancement so why stop here? Why stop here and not achieve a goal many people have dreamed about for years and finally make it a reality? With time, belief, and great minds working with great technology, it is most likely possible that one day we will have these self driving cars. Very soon! | 2 |
25024a4 | Would you keep the Electoral College how it is or would you keep it? I would want to keep it how it is. In the artical it says " the Electoral college is a process not a place.
why i think that we should keep it how it is because is concissed of it concissed of 538 electors and the majority of 270 elector votes is required to elect the president. your state is required to allotment of the electors to equal the number od members in its Congerssional delgation. Under the 23 Amendment the district of columbia is allocated 3 electors. each canidate running for state has the there own group of electors. Electors are genarall choosen by the politial party. you or who ever is voteing helps choose your states electors when you vote. but when you vote for your candidate you ae actually voting for you candidates electors. After the electon there is a Certificate of Ascertainment perpared by the governor listing all of the canidates who ran for President along with the hname sod their electors.
Althoe there are some reasons why the Electoral college should change. Richard Nixon, Jimmy carter, Bob Dole, and plenty of oothers think that it should change because according to a gallup poll in 2000 taken shortlyafer Al Gore he wonn the popular vote but lost the presidency dur to the quirks of the electoral college. in the Electoral College system people vote not for the prresident but for a slate of electors as i had said in the last pargrraph who in turn elect or the president. electors could be anyon not holding public office. voters sometimes control who there electors vote for. wich makes the voters sometimes get confsed about the electors wich makes them vote for the wrong candidate. In the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in the centery. in 1960 segegaters in Louisiana legslater nearly suceeddin replacing Democratic electora with new electors. So that the popular vote for Kennedy woulld not have actually gone to Kennedy. So them electors in the same vein they qould have to occasionally refuse to vote for the partys cannidate and cast a decideiing vote to who ever they please.
So as research shown ther are som eflaws in the Elecoral College. | 1 |
2504d68 | Their are three reasons why Luke's point of view convince people that they should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. One reason was that it was an expirience of a life time,he does what he likes to do,and he gets free time to do fun things. Thoes are the reasons why Luke's point of view convinces others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program.
I can support this answer that the Seagoing Cowboy's program was an expirience of a life time when the passage says "but the Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger"."It opended up a new world for him". I can also support that it was an exprirence of a life time when the text says,"I'm greatful for this for this opportunity,"he says."It makes me more aware of people in other contries and their needs."thats the reason that it was an expirience of a life time.
I can support that he gets to do what he likes to when the texts says that "Biside helping people ,I had a side benifitt of seeing
Europe and China. I can also support that he likes what hes doing when the text says "Luke also tored and excavatede Crete and marvoloues at the Panamna Canal on his way to China."
I can support that found free time to do fun thing when the text says the cow boys played baseball and volleyball table tennis and more fun things. They also boxed read whiting and more those are the reasons how he got to do fun things
In conclusion he did alot of things to inspire people to be a Seagoing Cow boy. If mre people were like hime the world would be a better place. | 3 |
2505b2a | In the article usage of FACS is shown by telling us The Mona Lisa's true emotions after using the program. I believe that the technology used can be important in schools and classrooms to show wether students are bored, sad, or angry. This technology can be used to help students with different emotions learn lessons better. The technology can also help teachers further understand how a student's emotions affects their learning.
When the program gets implemented into schools it may actually help students learn better. In the text it is explained that "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal", meaning that it can be used on almost any one. This would make it easier to use the program in other areas and different kinds of people.
In conclusion I believe the use of this technology is valuable in learning environments, to read people's emotions better, and helping them out in the long run. | 2 |
250a6cf | Sad, happy, angry, confused, worried, these are all emotions that humans have that can be can or can't be recognised by other human beings. But wait, now a computer system can detect emotions. The Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions, after all, faces don't lie. We can look at paintings to see how characters, like the Mona Lisa, felt when being painted by artists, create empathy, and identify how someone really feels. Humans are emotional beings but we have a hard time identifying emotions, maybe technology can help.
Technology, espacially the FACS, that can identify others' emotions using facial expressions, can lead to discoverable understandings. The FACS could make it possible to interpret emotions of people who were being painted at the time. According to the passage, "The Mona Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much much this computer can do". Creating empathy could be possible after moving face muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even produce them, which is what FACA is going to use to indicate emotion. According to the passage, " Constantin Stanisskavsky, had his actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage, as a result, Empathy may happen because we unconciously imitate another person's facial expressions". Detecting emotions in places where emotions are often expressed at different times, such as schools. According to the Dr. Huang's prediction, " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". Humans may not be able to tell someone's emotions, but if a computer does, then we'll be able to have a greater understanding of one's emotions and how to predict them.
Humans aren't computers, we don't know how to use emotions or analyze them in daily life. With the invention of FACA, analyzing emotion in someone or something can be put to good use. Emotions can go a long way; from being able to predict emotion to how to use them. From expression to analysis, emotions will always change as we change the future. | 3 |
250a96a | In 1976, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft snapped a picture of what appeared to be a human face, in a region, Cydonia, on Mars. Scientists figures that it was just a "Martian mesa". The figure was just a natural landform. Photo evidence points us in that direction.
In 1998, Michael Malin's MOC captured a picture ten times sharper than the first. The photo showed us a natural landform. Some weren't so easily swayed.
Once again, in 2001, another picture was taken from Malin's team. It was taken at the camera's maximum resolution. The picture showed the equivalent to a buttle or mesa. Garvin said that it reminded him "the most of the Middle Bittle in the Snake River Plain of Idaho."
However, conspiracy theorists Think that the face is evidence of life on Mars. That NASA would want to hide exactly that. At the same time defenders of the NASA budget actually wish that there was an ancient civilization there.
All the photos taken to see what the face on Mars really was shows us one thing. The "face" on Mars was just a natural landform. Just another Martian mesa. | 3 |
250aece | Does your expression in the mirror suggest an emotion ?
In fact, these emotional expression are seen in differnet forms for example, if your happy you smile, if your sad you dont smile. There are plenty of different way to show your emotionsand how your feel. There is value to how you feel, act in ways that people see in everyday life. The authrs describles how new technology enables to identify human emotion in life.
Human expression is how your show your emotions to your friends, family, teachers. People express their emotions in many ways. Here is an example, Mona Lisa she was 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry most of the time. that's how she expressed her emotions.
Dr. Huang did research on peoples emotions and how people showed their emtions in ways, that he did know how people expressed their emtions with how their face looked to see their emotions show. Dr. Huang looked at the painting of Mona Lisa that Da Vinci painted to show Mona Lisa's emotion in the painting to show, how she felt about being in the painting to express how Da Vinci and Mona Lisa both felt the paintg that both of them liked the painting. Da Vinci emotion to paint a picture of Mona Lisa he felt happy, but he also that she was happy about him painting a picture of her being happy, mad. In conclusion, the author tells about how to identify human emotions and how they express them in ways. | 1 |
2510330 | Luke enjoys the oppoutunity to be a Seagoing Cowboy. According to the text it states that Luke said, "I'm grateful for the oppourtunity to be a Seagoing Cowboy, I think a lot of people will enjoy the chance as well". According to the text it aslo claims that, it will be a fun ride while on board, it has activites such as baseball, volleyball, tennis tounmates, fencing, boxing, reading and whitting.
While reading the text it states that Lukes life has changed by joining the Seagoing Cowboys program. He helped people beacause the affect of World war II. The text states that, During the war it wasn't alot of food, water, most of the shelters was not sturdy. Thats when Don signed up.
When Luke turned 18 he had finally arrive to itally, that means he can aslo get drafted by the military. While in the military he had made 9 trips in the course of 9 years.He had helped alot of people during this process. He went to china and the great wall of china and helepd during that process of people starving being hedydrated and alot more.
While on the ship he had to feed all of the animals. Clean up for them. Water all of the plants,and make sure all the bales of hay and bags of oats are still good. On the second night he was on night patrol. he had to guard the ship and make sure the coast guard knew who he was. Comming to my conclusion i think Luke enjoyed this oppourtunity and will love to come back if he can. | 2 |
2515e4d | In the excerpt the author talks about how even though going to venus will be a challenging journey it will aslo be a meaningful one. Through paragraphs 1-8 he paints a perfect picture of what NASA's has tried to do and what they are currently doing. He starts by explaining that yes, the living conditons on Venus are not ideal but they are survivable. Through the previous voyages to Venus, they have been able to establish that Venus is not a stable enough planet for them to completely land advanced technology there yet. The author tells us that in the past NASA has sent rovers and stuff up to the surface of Venus to get us a better view of our galaxies "evening star''.
But within hours the space craft was lost and in a way killed due to the harsh conditions on Venus. Taking all that into consideration, NASA is planning on devising a better plan to rediscover and reexplore Venus. They are brainstorming on a way to make a device that can hover 30 or so miles above the surface of Venus. That distance will be the equivalant to jets and commercial airplanes flying over storms here on earth. The author succesfully persuaded me to believe Venus is worth exploring after reading this excerpt.
He did so by descriptively creating a scene in my head of Venus being Earth's equal. He talks about there being valleys, hills, and craters on Venus's surface just like they are here on Earth. He also goes into detail about how there is a strong possability that long ago Venus could have been covered in water that could have supported various life. There is also a strong possibility that if Venus can support our earth needs, then it could possibly be supporting someone elses. With further research and explorations we could find out if there truly is other life forms other than us.
In conclusion, Venus is worth going back to and doing a deeper investigation of what the planet really can do. I do believe that if anything would happen to earth it would be in our best bet to be able to flee to Venus. The author did a amazing job of supporting the idea of conducting better research on Venus by painting a vivid image into my head. Through his use of words and use of back story, he helps show that with enough motivation and dedication. We can transform Venus and its rough planetary conditons into another Earth. | 4 |
251aefe | There are many reasons citizens should limit there car use and help our planet. First off in the first text I read someone says when they got rid of there car it reduced some of the tenseness they had and they felt happier. Also the cities who used less vehicles wouldnt feel as tight and over whelming.
In the second text i read it gave me many statistics on how using less cars would help us. One thing they stated was they banned certain vehicle license plates for a couple days and the smog percenatge went down as low as 60 percent. Also car pooling or hybrid cars were fine because it helped the cause of less smog.
In the third source I read through it helped me understand the importance of not using your car often. They banned car usage that day besides buses and taxis which is hard to follow through especially on a rainy day so many people got finned. In the text they said its a goo dopportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution. After hearing about this many other cities started joining in on the movement to help reduce pollution, which they did do. Also the park centers and pitted sidewalks have imporved tremendously.
During the last article I read it really opened my mind to riding bikes, walking or even car pooling. It talks about since the market crashed people didnt have enough money to buy cars and pay for gas. This made me think how much money you could save if you stopped driving. You could do so many other things without paying for a car and its gas money.
So overall I think we should reduce our driving because we could reduce pollution, save money and if it has to come to it you can car pool with a group of people. | 3 |
252141e | The planet venus is close to the sun which makes it impossible for humans too be on there, on paragraph 3 it states "on the planets surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. these cnditions are far more exreme than anything humans encounter on Earth." so the temperature is horrible and is not habitable for humans to raom there even in space suits, but scientists discovered or theorize that the planet Venus has similair features like planet Earth and they said it once had water on it on paragraph 4 it states,"Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. Furthermore, recall that venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel." there is likely that is could be like Earth but the planet is too close too the sun, Nasa is approaching other options too discover more of the surface of that planet as it refers on paragraph 7 it says,"NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions" their confidence and surennes about this project is so challenging for them but its not impossible for them because they said on paragraph 8,"striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has Value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiousity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." and there not scared to exapnd their limits, one day they'll achieve that dream. | 2 |
2522c5d | Although there are many negative aspects of driverless cars, there are also a lot of postive aspects. Driverless cars still have the ability to alert the driver to take over when pulling in or out of driveways. It also alerts the driver when dealing with traffice issues, such as navigating through road construction or even through accidents.
In the article it states that "In 2013, BMW announced the developement of 'Traffic Jam Assistance." The BMW can handle driving funstions at speeds up to 25 mph. Special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. The article syas, "In fact, none of the cars developed so far are completely driverless." The driverless cars can still steer, accelerate, and brake themselves. All of them are designed to notify the driver when the raod ahead requires human skills. Although the car may be driverless the human driver has to remain alert and ready to take over when the situation requires. Some car manufacturers, such as GM have developed driver's seats that vibrate when the car is in danger of backing into an object. Other cars, such as the Google car have made it so that the car announces when the driver should be prepared to take over. Other car manufacturers have considered putting flashing lights on the windshield and having other heads-up displays. They have also considered using cameras to watch that the driver is remanining focused on the road. Manufacturers hope to make driving fun in a new way by bringinning in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. These displays are able to be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take control. The in-car system is actually a safety feature, and safety has and is a big concern worldwide.
In conclusion having driverless cars can be safer and more efficient. These cars can help alert the driver to take control of the vehicle before an accident happens. Driverless cars can help keep teens and adults from getting seriously injured in an accident. | 2 |
2523ddd | Have you seen or heard about the Face on Mars. You probably have on its been starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazinesw, radio talk shows, even in grocery store checkouts lines for 25 years! NASA is researching this closely. The Face is just a natural landform because how would aliens make a face in the middle of Mars? Why would they? In Mars there's all sort of natural landforms so who knows?
How would aliens make a face in Mars? Why? I don't know either its kind of seems impossible. Aliens might have step on it to make it look like a Face but they would have made it on purpose. To me it does look like an Egyptian Pharaoh but back then they were barely finding out what Mars was or didn't even know about Mars. On April 5, 1998 the Mars Global Surveyor flew over to Cydonia they took pictures then times sharper than the original pictures, then when the image first appeared on a JPL website, revealing it was a natural landform. There was no alien manument after all.
In Mars theres all sort of natural landforms created by Mars weather that makes landforms look cool and interesting. When NASA send viking 1 it was circling the planet getting phtos of possible landing sites for its sister ship Viking 2, when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. Thats when NASA started reseaching it. In April 5, 1998, it was proven that it was just natural landform. Through the years the face starts cracking and fading away because of the weather. The weather of Mars is usually unpredictable, but usually cold. Also the wind in Mars is pretty commen and it makes the land look like a lot of weird things!
So Mars makes all type of natural landforms and why would aliens make a face in Mars? How? I dont know either. Its all of about Mars weather that makes this natural landforms, but its mostly the wind. It looks like an Egyption Pharoah but later on it starts disappearing because of the conditions of Mars. So don't let those "unrealistic" aliens trick you. | 3 |
2529033 | Dear Participants Thinking About Joining TheSeagoing Cowboys,
Well, hello. My name is Luke Bomberger, a participant onboard the SS Charles W. Wooeter. If you're reading this letter, then that means that you're thinking about joining the Cowboys. This can be a great oppertunity to go explore the big bright beautiful world, but know this. You're not just going to go sighteeing. Your going to help people in europe and China happier. Now let us begin with the best parts of the trip.
The first thing that you need to know about our little band of participants is that we all have eachother's backs. We help eachother with our jobs and have fun together. All that we do is help our cargo (horses) get to our destination saftly. These horses are supposed to be feed and watered three times a day. We have all the oats and water we need tokeep th horses alive. Don't thionk that all that we do is deliver and feed horses. After the horses are loaded up onto the destination then we all get to ave fun. We have table tennis tournaments, paly volleyball, and much more.
That's all tht I have for you right now. If you want to learn more about this bnd of participants, come and find us and jion us. We aren't just looking for men, we are looking for wemen too. Just find us, sign up, and have fun. I hope to see you there.
Your friend,
Luke Bomberger | 3 |
2529a4b | Ok, now how would you like to have a car that drives itself? I'm talking soon, like next 5-10 years. Sounds great, sounds real futuristic, but I just know those things can't be successful anytime soon. Personally, I would love to ride in a driverless car one day but that's a huge risk to take.
To start off with, a driverless car does sound prety cool. I mean it coulld introduce so many oppurtunities for the world that we've never seen yet. A driverless car could be the start of something new. Like Google cofounder Serge Brin believes, such cars could change the world fundamentally.
In counterclaim to that, THERE WILL NEVER BE A COMPLETELY DRIVERLESS CAR! Well, at least that's how I see it. I mean a driverless car, I know it's 2016, but that's going past the limits. It's all pure imagination if someone believes a driverless car will be accepted into the streets of the world.
There's only one HUGE reason I say it won't happen though... A driverless car will never be safe enough to count on. I mean be real, would you ride in a plane wth no pilot with only computed sensors telling you what's going on around your plane? What's going to happen if one of those sensors on the car don't react one time? Like I know everyone has had a surprise mishap with a computer-generated system before. Think if your car caught a virus or something or just was being used too much, your on the road, then our car starts going crazy and drives off the road. Who's fault will it be? What if someone gets hurt because of your car, not you or the car's manufacturer, but your car?
In conclusion to all this, I think it's a brilliant idea to have. It definitely presents many arguments, but I wouldn't be in a driverless car even if it was my only choice. I wouldn't want my life in the hands of a technological device or machine or whatever it'd be called. | 3 |
2530fb7 | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. The article states lots of information on what the machine can do and how it does it. The Facial Action Coding System could be very helpful for not only students, but teachers too.
Everyone that has been to school knows that, not everyhing you learn will be interesting and nor will some of your teachers. By having new teachnology that could change that and make future genarations more involved in their own learning, will be life changing. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts.(6) I personaly would like a teacher that knows when I need help or when I know what Im doing. Its even better if they know when we are bored, it could change lots of students mind sets towards public education.
The FACS could help in many ways, one it could be helpful towards actors or just people that want to be more in touch with there emotions. "According to the Facial Feedback Thoery of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them." (9) When you sign up for a class that you have to act in and your grade depends on it, this machine would come real handy. I was in a speech class my first semester of 10th grade. The teacher made us memorize a monolge of a movie character. We had to say word for word while showing emotions, emotions that I had never felt before. With the FACS future students could be better at that class and it can go a long way.
The Facial Action Coding System does help students in the classroom. It would be a whole new genaration of studnets if this machine went out to the schools. When students dont have to wait on real teachers to move on or help them with something they are stuck on, the makeup of theyre brain will totally change for the better. Students will be faster at thinking, solving and much more during school. | 4 |
25346ad | Imagine that you are in scientist at NASA, the man that you worked with was an photographer of Mars. As the man comes in he as an Trapper keeper as he is walking down towards your office. He shows you the photographs that he took when he was outterspace on the planet Mars. He noticed something about the picture and he tells you to look at it and ask you what do you see, you tell him that you see an figure that looks like an face. Then he agrees with you, you start to jump to conclusions and ask if it is made by aliens or is just a regular landform. A few days later NASA unveiled the image for everyone to see. The note on the paper was stated " huge rock formation." As they are passing around the picture for everyone to see one of the co-workers had assumed it was made/formed by an alien. You and a couple of your workers were talking and assumed that it was just a regular landform and changed as the years went by. The manager had did a little debate, if they thought it was made by an alien they would have to go on one side and if they thought it was just a natural landform that is going to change as the years go by they would have to go on the other side. The people of NASA that thought it was an alien artifact, had to explain and decribe why. One of them volunteered and said that they think it is made by an alien because there is no way that it is just going to change through the years. You interupt him and say that is possible because many things change over the years, policies, laws, taxes, and many more things. You explain to them that it is not made by an alien becuase the photographer of viking 1 and viking 2 goes around and takes pictures of the planet as it circles around then they noticed something different about the figure when the picture was shown. The people that is on your side agree with you and say that you are true so they ask for more evidence to make your statement better than what it was. So you tell them that what the picture really shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms common around the American West. You and the co-workes take the last look of the picture and you are amazed. As the years goes by you see that the face doesnt appear on anymore of the picutures from the time it started to the time it ends ( 1998 - 2001. ) | 3 |
253a54b | Driverless cars would be able to handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph. Driverless cars would be a great advance in technology and would be safe as well. In fact, none of the cars developed are completely driverless. They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead rquires human skills. Three ways driverless cars would be much more safe are, the car will notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents. The car is quick to get the drivers attention when a problem occurs, and the car can turn off electornics when the driver needs to take the wheel.
In the passage it states, the car will notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents. This feature gives the sense that the driver is still in control at all times. The driverless car is in assistance to the driver, and it sees what the driver does not. The driverless car can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves decreasing the chance of accidents greatly. While the driver is focused on watching the road, the car is focused on keeping the driver safe.
The car is quick to get the attention of the driver in many different ways. The driverless car has limits and there are times when it will need the driver's assistants. The driverless car alerts you in ways you can not ignore. For example, the driver's seat vibrates when the vehicle is in danger and the google car simply annouces when the driver should be prepared. In the passage it says there are other options that are under consideration like flashing lights on the windshield and other heads-up displays.
Electronic use are often a problem while driving. The manufacturers want to make driving fun, or while your waiting you're still able to text and check social media. Manufacturers are hoping to bring in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over-something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone. In this way, the in-car system is actually a safety feature.
Three ways driverless cars would be much more safe are, the car will notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents. The car is quick to get the drivers attention when a problem occurs, and the car can turn off electornics when the driver needs to take the wheel. These ways show that the driverless car would be more efficient and safer for the human driver. | 4 |
2542bb4 | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. As driverless cars are becoming a new deveoping technology, it's best to ask yourself, "Are driverless cars really a necessity?" The answer is, no, they are not a necessity for many reasons. We should not continue to develope driverless cars mainly because; driverless cars are not completely driverless, the car would need a new built-in entertainment system to put inside of the car, and if something were to go wrong with the car, who is to blame for this?
When you hear the words, "driverless car" what comes to mind? Perhaps, you think of a car that can take you anywhere, and young teens the age of thirteen not needing an adult to drive them to a desired destination. However, driverless cars are not 100% driverless. In the article, the cars are said to be able to steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, because of this an alert driver is said to still be required. People are still needed to be able to navigate through work zones and around accidents. Manufacturers are still working on creating new ways to alert the driver when human skills are needed, but it is no secret that this will continue to cost money.
Another reason why we should not have driverless cars, is because to have them, companies think a built-in entertainment system should be created, installed and required inside of all driverless vehicals. Today, we already have vehicals that contain a television inside for the passengers who occupy the back seats, to help keeped them entertained. This new entertainment system is said to shut off when the car needs the driver to take over and will not be available to a driver who is texting or using their phone in any way. However, putting in an entertainment system would still be considered a distraction, just the same as if someone were to be using their phone, and the article states drivers will need to remain alert, but they can not remain alert with an entertainment system.
Finally, we should not have driverless cars because, if an accident were to occure, or if something fails, who is to bame for this issue? There are situations where we would not know who to blame, the driver or the manufacturer. We could blame the driver, stating that they should have been paying attention and been alert to stop the accident before it occured. However, we could also blame the car's manufacturer, because they were supposed to build the car and make sure it was not able to fail in the first place.
As you can see, driverless cars could bring more trouble to us than we realize. They are not a necessity, we do not need to use driverless cars as our dominant way of transportation. The article states many positives and negatives aspects of the development of driverless cars. However, we should not continue to develope these cars because; driverless cars are not completely driverless, the car would need a new built-in entertainment system to put inside the car, and if something were to go wrong with the car, who is to blame for this? | 4 |
2548fcc | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming." it talks about how its expected to have cars that drive theirselves very soon. Humanity has always dreamed of seeing self driven cars or flying cars. It has been portrayed in movies and television shows, but is it really a safe thing for humans? In the artice the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Driverless cars should not be developed because, they do not really drive on their own, people would get bored of these driverless cars, and new laws would have to be developed.
There really is no such thing as a "Driverless Car". In the article it states that in 2013 BMW announced that they developed something called "Traffic Jam Assistant", which means that the car can manage driving itself to speeds up to 25 mph. Except they can't really continue driving theirselves all the time. The author states that "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." If the car is still notifiying the driver to take charge at times then the care isn't really a driverless car. The author also says "This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires. This necessitates the car being ready to quickly get the drivers attention". A driverless car should not have to get the drivers attention if it is suppose to drive by itself, the driver should be able to remain safe and calm in a driverless car.
Another reason why driverless cars should not be developed is because people would get bored of not being able to drive their own car. Yes the driverless car would relieve a lot of the stress that you get knowing you have to drive but not driving at all seems boring. In the article it says "'The psychological aspects of automation are really a challenge,' admits Dr.Werner Huber, a BMW project manages driver. 'We have to interpret the driving in a new fun way.'" This shows that even the ones manufacturing the driverless cars beleive it would be boring for people to not drive all the time.
Next reason to why driverless cars are not good for being developed is because new laws would have to be developed. The development of new laws is not easy and according to laws now its only safe when an a actual person is driving the car. In the article it states that "traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer driven cars." This shows that if driverless cars are developed then new laws would have to be developed and some laws would have to be changed too. It is possible that it could change safety laws aswell.
In conclusion driverless cars should not be developed because, they do not really drive on their own, people would get bored of these driverless cars, and new laws would have to be developed. Although it sounds like a fun thing the outcome of driverless cars is never known. These autonomous cars could change the world in a negative way. The old fashion driving we all know wouldn't be the same. | 4 |
2556150 | Technology today is beginning to support the possibility of driverless cars. However, there are many issues that would support arguments against the development of these cars. This radical idea is actually rather unrealistic, the technology required is far too advanced for any humans to develop in a safe manner. In addition, there are too many safety and law issues surrounding the automatic cars. Lastly, cars that drives themselves would be rather unbeneficial to people themselves. Development on driverless cars should not continue on farther than they already have.
Technology nowadays has advanced farther than we could have ever imagined. It's true that we have now accomplished what used to seem impossible, but how far is too far? Many of the cars that have been developed have incredible technology, but they all still require a reliable human driver. The farthest companies, such as BMW, have come are things like the "Traffic Jam Assistant." This car can handle speeds only up to 25 mph, which is far below the speed limit on most roads. The cars are able to perform specific functions on their own, but are all programmed with things to make sure that the driver is fully alert since they can't handle more than slow and striaght driving on their own. The idea of completely driverless cars is unrealistic, which has been proven by the requirement that the cars need a driver to fully take them over in most situations. Too much time and too many resources are being put into an idea that may take centuries to develop, this time and resources could be put into more pressing issues.
In the states, it is illegal for driverless cars to even be tested. If they can't be tested in real life situations, then how will we ever get the chance to develop them? It's true that some states, such as California and Nevada, allow limited use of semi-automatic cars, but thats a far cry from allowing cars to completely drive themselves. The current laws are based off the fact that a safe, human driver is required to be behind the wheel. New laws would have to override current ones to allow such vehicles, which seems to be more trouble than worth. Aditionally, questions on safety play a major role in many arguments. Technology is wonderful and often helpful, but its never 100% reliable. When malfunctions occur, people will get hurt by the destructive weapon that is an automatic vehicle. Also, the question of who would be liable for the accident would arise; is it the manufacturer or driver? Many conflicts between individuals and large companies would begin to form.
Finally, driverless cars may cause more harm than good to the human mind. If the technology to have cars drive themselves is developed, then more and more things will evolve to "improve" human lives. In reality, this technology will likely promote extreme laziness in already unproductive beings. While behind the wheel, drivers would get bored and distracted absolutely doing nothing. Even though sensors and other technology are being developed that would quickly alert the driver when the vehicle is in need of assistance and keep them "safely" preoccupied, they are not full-proof. As with all technology, malfunctions would likely occur and cause accidents. Also, the driver may have a tendency to check their phone and do other distrating things if they rely too much on the technology, which would cause even more accidents. This again brings up the question of liability. Was it the driver's fault for not being alert or the manufacturer's for failing to alert them?
To conclude, the development of driverless cars should come to a halt. It is true that car technology has advanced greatly, but everything still requires a functioning human driver. This development is overshadowing more important issues of today's world. In addition, there are laws in place that prohibit driverless cars for a reason. It is nearly impossible to test out the development of these vehicles due to these laws, which should be a very obvious sign to discontinue these efforts. The largest issue is safety. Technology is not completely reliable and never will be. Especially in new developments, malfuntions and technical difficulties are very common. Things have been developed that may alert drivers and keep them from becoming bored, but they may promote bad habits. People would become increasingly lazy and become more unsafely distracted behind the wheel than ever. Don't support the development of driverless cars by making sure to be a safe, alert driver and understand how far too far is concerning the development of technology. | 5 |
2557bb7 | In this article the author presents both poisitive and negative aspects of driverless car, i am against the develpoment of these cars because if these cars get legalized the driver will feel free to keep there eyes off the road, they will not take as much responsibily, drivers could fall asleep and cause an accident, it is a very expensive project that could benefit the world in much better ways, there will no be no personal place while being in side of those cars, and because teenagers will want to be the first ons who wold like to use them without even having experiences in normal cars which could cause many accidents since teenagers arent responsible enough to be driving one of those cars.
Many car accidents are already happining in this world because of texting while driving, alcohol, and unresposible people driving . If these cars get legalized not only will they make a driver think they are free to get there eyes off the road but they will make them believe no accidents could happen since the cars should of been tested and passed before coming out. In any time when the drivers gets a call or message and is driving on a driverless car they will think its not a big deal if they get there eyes off the road and text. Leaving all the reponisibilty to the car by its own. Many things could happen in a second. another car could come and crash, but since the driver trusts too much on their car they wont even notice there is something dangerous just infront of their eyes.
Coming up with these cars is a lot of money,On paragraph three the author stated, " These smart-road systems worked surprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to exsisting roads, somthing that was simply too expensive to be practical. " The author must of added this to make the reader realize that coming up with these cars requires a lot of money. So if cars are already an invention and many people use them without being driverless why doesnt the government spend the money in something more useful such as kids in Africa, or adding school to countries that cant afford building an education center. On paragraph fourthe
author also stated, " Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror , four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver , and an inertial motion sensor. " Those are many things that those cars would use ! more money that could be used in more benefital ways.
Another reason of why i am against the development of these cars is because once you step inside those cars you will no longer have personal space, everything you do or say will now be not only heared or seen by whoever is in the car with you but also by whoever is the one in charge of looking at you through the camera. On paragraph 7 the author stated, " Manufacturers are also considering using camera to watch that reminders are remaining focused on the road. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver." That is letting the reader know that it is a possibilty that cameras will be located in these cars.
Even the people who are developing these cars know that drivers have to be watched over , so why are they putting peoples life in risk?
The fact that more accidents could happen because of these cars, the lack of resposiblty these cars will cause, money waisted on other things instead of things that could benefit this world, and no longer having personal space on our own cars are some of my reasons of why i am againt the development of these cars. | 4 |
2557bb9 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author supports the idea that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers in which he talks about throughout the text. There is textual evidence in which he has written that shows his interested in Venus although it being dangerous for anyone. He states many facts in what Venus is like. As well as its many threats to life if it were to land and try to research it.
To begin, he talks about many things about Venus from like how it is Earth's "twin," and the many various dangerous factors it has. For example he states, " Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study." This is the author saying Venus is a planet that is difficult to study because of its many factos of danger like high temperatures and high pressure it has that could harm us humans. Which could unintrest us in studying but we still try and solve the questions we have over Venus.
Secondly, the autor talks about the research and studying NASA has been doing over Venus to over come its many challenges in ways that are new and innovative. He states, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of innovation." This shows how he feels that no matter what the challenge or problem is that slows us down from traveling we should always be able to think about them and overcome them. Another factor he talked about with this is about human curiosity and how it could lead us to discovering even greater things that could be challenging as well.
In conclusion, the author is very intrested in what happens with the study of Venus and how they should continue to study it no matter what the challenge is. Everthing he talks about shows how people have been trying to research it despite it being hard and all the innovations people are coming up with in order for us to get a chance at learning more about Venus. That's how the author shows Venus is
a worthy pursuit no matter what the danger could be. | 3 |
25588ad | The invention of driverless cars could be a really good thing, but could also cause harm.
These cars can allow us to be safer in most situations, but there are a few where drivers need to be able to take control of the wheel.
Could this invention also help with the enviornment and the costs that people spent on there car or could it make cars more expensive.
Driverless cars can help drivers, passengers, and pedestrians to be more safer than with cars that can only be opperated by a driver.
With the use of cell phones, drivers who use them are more at risk of getting into an accident. Driverless cars can help with this problem. Most people, when they hear about car accidents related to cell phones, think of teen drivers.
This isn't always the case.
Many adults text and drive.
With driverless cars teens and adults can use their phones with out having to worry about getting into an accident.
Although, the driver still has to pay attention to the road it makes it safer.
These cars would create less accidents in these situations or in a medical situation.
If a driver blacks out while driving this could cause a serious accident harming the lifes of themself and others or if the driver has been out drinking at night, these cars provide a safe way of transpertation.
When a car accident occurs, the driver who caused the accident can get into a lot of legal trouble.
With driverless cars the driver won't be the one to blame if someone happen to die in the accident, but the responsibility has to be given to someone.
This means that the company that made the car would be responsible for the accident, which could changer their mind on driverless cars.
The cost of gas can be a major problem.
Google cofounder, Sergey Brin, invisions driverless transportation to use half the fuel we use now.
This would help for the cost in fuel for people who are having a difficult time paying for gas or in could cause the price of gas to go up.
There is one thing we know though.
With these cars using half the gas, our enviornment is becoming a healtheir place.
There will be less polution from the cars in the air, which can benifit our health. Going back to the cost these cars will have you spending, could this car be more expencive then the cars we pay for now.
These cars use rotating sensors, video cameras, automotive radar sensors, GPS receivers, and inertial motion sensors.
All these devices can add to the price of the car cuasing driverless cars to be more expensive.
Will people by these cars if the cost more or will they just sit.
Driverless cars are a good idea to help with our safty.
They could help protect many lifes.
The developers of the driverless car should give it a try and see how it works in real life situations.
No matter what type of car, the driver still should be paying attention to the road to keep themselves and others safe. | 3 |
255a2a4 | Finding how the Face on Mars was created
Have you wondered if the face on mars was aliens or a landform? If you did im going to help you answer that question that you have beenn wondering. I used to want to know what the face on mars really was NASA said it was a landform but reporters, people in movies, and in magazines thought it was aliens. Who would you believe someone who has actually been studying about it for the longest and went to school for it or your favorite director.
I thought it was aliens too because of all the magazines and movies i had seen about it but they were all jumping to conlusions. So then i decided to do a little research myself. After i started researching i started to write articles and put them online or in the newspaper, and anywhere else that i could. During all of my research i found out that it actually is a landform.
As in the article it says not all scientists beleived it was an alien im not saying none of them did but some of them didnt eventually i got a call from NASA they wanted me to join them. They said my work was outstanding and they would love to work with me, my immediate answer was yes. My immediate answer was yes because NASA was my dream job even when i was younger i wanted to be in NASA.
We began to research even more traveling in space trying to find more clues. We had no luck for quite some time until... we had a storm and after that we went back to look and there was another face. We immediately documented the photos and got to writing so we could publish it.
Everyone believed the movie stars and all those other people becasue they have lots of money but they didnt think about intelligence. NASA has lots of it i believed the rich people to at first,but i failed to see the intelligence until i started researcing on my own. When I joined NASA i really found the intelligence now im employee of the month for coming up with the idea to go back. Everyone else had given up becasue they were upset because they felt as if they let people down. So I decided to go back one more time, and i found what we all were looking for! | 2 |
255b12f | I argue that smart cars will turn out to be a bad idea. The owners of the car must have control of the car at all times. For example, The owner cal fall asleep behind the wheel. That can cause an accident. Will the cars alert the driver if he or she is fall asleep from a long day of work? Or if a family taking a family vacition and the driver gets tired, will it alert him or her then? Having a smart car isn't the best idea at this moment.
Making a smart car takes a lot of work to do. In the artical it said something about it has to be driven on smarts roads. Im pretty sure smart roads are going to cost a lot of money to have that done. The world now would have so many people mad at them for building such a not to bad idea as a smart car whith smart roads.
instead of investing all that money into smart cars, try using it to do good for the people in need. Forx example, build houses: buy food for the homeless, clothing, Better houses for many other people. Do something positive with the money. Now im not saying this won't ever happen, because there can be a strong possibility it would. When the time do come we will see how good the smart car really is.
Lets face it smart cars aren't just ready to be put out in this world right at this moment. The smart cars have a lot to work on before thry can be release. They also have to find a price at which they are going to be able to sale.
The inventers are going to really work on the safe issues and what will happen if someone falls asleep behind the car. No one is going to want someone driving them around all the time. The world would be a lazy place if this happens. However people nagg on how they are tired of driving, that will be a good time for the smart cars to come along a help us out. | 3 |
2565613 | Making Mona Lisa Smile
Mona Lisa is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted and 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. Mona Lisa is a Painting that is drawn by the use of color painting and other handful material, when humans are drawing with their hand and feelings it shows the facial expression and emoyion of the drawing. Technology cannot be used to express humans feelins or emotions, even with what is installed in it.
With the use of technology, the facial expression and emotion of Mona Lisa and even other drawing emotions and feelings cannot be expressed because technology has no feelings or emotions, also emtoins cannot be calculated, "Hold on! Can we actually "calculate" emotions-like math homework? And how can a computer recognize the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we feel?".
Technology cannot express feelings to human, so it cannot be used to calculate human emotional expression.
In technology, the human muscles, 3-D computer model of the face and all major humans muscles are installed in the computer, "The process begins when the computer constructa 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Movement of one or more muscles is called an action unit". Technology should not be use to paint or even draw because technology cannot express human feelings and behavior. The use of technology to read emotions expressions of student in the classroom is not valueable because technology can never calculate the feelings or expression of humans.
In conclusion to the use of technology to calculate humans emotional expression. Technology cannot calculate humans expressions because humans emotion and facial expression varies from time to time and based on what there are seeing and feeling at the moment, so technology cannot calculate human expressions. If technology can calculate humans feelings the our phone or other electronics devices should have been able to tell us where we want to go to at a particular moment, and be able to know when calls should come in or not. | 2 |
2565957 | Since the day the first car was made cars have only gotten better. Now there are hundreds of different cars with differents styles and purposes. Recently driverless cars have been added to the list. Yes, cars that drive them selves are finally here.
In my opinion driverless cars are a great idea. Imagine if u could just sit back and relax while your car is casually stolling through traffic. In paragrapgh 2 it says the cars arent truly driverless. Which i think is a good thing. If our car was 100% driverless we wouldnt have controll of how we get to places. And what if your car accidently makes a wrong turn. You should have the power to put it back on the desired path.
Driverless cars are closer to being apart of every day life than we think. Google has been developing self driving cars since 2009. Imagine the progress they will have made in 2020. Yes driverless cars have negative aspects but the positives are just to much to ignore. Driver less cars are indeed the future. | 2 |
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256a191 | Do you like going on fun adventures, saving lifes and vistiting many unique places? Well if you join or participate the Seagoing Cowboys program you will get to go to so many places like different countries,and castles. Not only that, But save lives in different countries. You will miss out on so many fun adventures and other peoples lifes and countries if you don't join the program.
If you join the program then you will have so much fun with all the different places and adventures. One of the people who come here, named Luke has been to so many beautiful places. Luke has made nine trips, more than any member in the Seagoing Cowboys. Luke has toured an excavated castle in Crete and went to the Panama canal on his way to China.
If it wasn't for Luke's friend, Don Reist,he would have never been a member and he would have never seen any of these places that he has been to. Luke knew it was an oppurtunity of a lifetime. At the time Luke joined, World war 2 was over in Europe. Many countries were ruined and needed help, so Don and Luke joined to go on a mission to go to other countries that were ruined to help the countries recover their food supplies,animals,and more.
"The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy," he says. Luke has gotten hurt for other people, because he knew that what was going on in their lifes,are far worse than his. He has traveled alot and seen alot that has happend in other countries, and they need more people to save them.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger. "I'm grateful for the opportunity," he says. "It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." That awareness stayed with him throughout his life. He lead his family and international students and exchanged visitors for many years. You can join this program and save lifes of other people in different countries,and visit countries and places just like Luke Bomberger and Don Reist. | 3 |
256ce94 | In the story "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" is about a man named Luke. Luke first started out working two part-time jobs at a grocery store and at a bank. Then his friend Don invited Luke to go on a cattle boat ride to Europe, but Luke couldn't say no.
Then the reason Luke started to work with the "Seagoing Cowboys" because he wanted to help the people with their cattles, horses, and mules. Also to help countries recover their food supples, animals, and more, 44 nations joined to help to form UNRRA. Luke also join to travel across the ocean and se new places too.
Then Luke work hard to feed the cattle, horses, and mules twice or three times a day, Luke started to work hard by bring up bales of hay and bring bags of oats from the lower holds of the ship to feed the cattle, horses, and mules everyday, and cleaning the stalls for the aniamls to comfortable when the animals are on the ship. Then on one rainy night after Luke made his hour report to the captain. He slipped on the leader and landed on his backside, but he was stopped by a small strip of metal on the edge to keep him from flying overboard. Luke broke his ribs and could not work for a couple days to his engary.
In conclusion Luke and other people had a hard life during the year that they had, but they still had a good life during the year with their families and friend that are there to support you no matter what happenes during those year they had together.Also you should always work hard to complete your goals in life like Luke did in the story. When Luke completed his goals he got the best out it and he was happy all his life and his dream came ture to be a "Seagoing Cowboy" because he worked hard with the cattle, horses, and mules by getting them to places the animals need to go. | 3 |
256de7d | With the advancement in technology in our society the need for cars has become are very big necessity. But recently in Freiburg, Germany they do they have stopped the use of cars and many don't even own them. A woman by the name heidrun Walter said "I'm much happier this way, I used to be a lot more tense when i had a car". Currently, not having cars have helped the community be a better place, many ride bicycles places and you can hear the sound of children playing in the streets "drowning out the sound of distant motors." More recently however planners for this organization are trying to make their way towards the suburbs. The reason they are working to make a car free nation is because recently Passenger cars are the reason for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions in europe and it even goes up to 50% in some car-intensive areas in the U.S!
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency promotes "car reduced" communities, even legislators are starting to act. With the decrease of cars it would bring many benefits, You would have less deaths from drunk driving or driving in general, It would be safer for your children to play in the streets, pollution would go down to a low, the chances of rode rage would go to a very low, and no cars would also mean many stores would be built closer to homes so its in walking distance. Also we would most likely have more public transport so the need for cars wouldn't be needed.
Another place that is working their way into being car free is BOGOTA, Colombia; Recently they had a specific day where millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work because it was a car free day. Violators faced $25 fines if they went against it. Even with rain people have still participated, people know that they are making the community a better place one car less at a time. It has also been a good opportunity to lower stress and air pollution in our environment. For the first time two other Colombian cities, Cali and Valledupar also joined the event. Even Municipal authorities from other countries came with enthusiasm to see this event. One of them by the name Enrique Riera stated "These people are generating a revolutionary change, and this is crossing borders." This campaign had started in the mid-1990s and has since cause the construction of 118 bike paths according to the city mayor. Also parks and sports centers have become a bigger thing and have been built all throughout the city. uneven sidewalks have been replaced with fresh neat side walks, rush hours restrictions have cut traffic, and new shopping and restaurants of started to show.
Recently in Paris After days of near record pollution, Paris had to ban all driving because the smog was just way too bad. It was so bad that they would fine you $31 if you got caught leaving the house with a car. Almost 4,000 drivers were fined and Twenty-seven had their cars impounded for their reaction. Cold nights and warm days are the main cause of the car trap emmisions. Diesel fuel was also blamed since France has a tax policy that put diesel over gasoline. Diesels make up 67 percent of vehicles in france, Compared to a 53.3 percent average of diesel engines in the rest of West Europe. | 3 |
257592b | I am going talk about how studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. If studies show that exploring Venus can help us find new ways of helping our planet, then you have to take that risk despite the possibility that it may not help our planet at all.
The article tells us that there are many ways to attempt the expedition to Venus. While all of them still have a good chance of failure, they still have a chance of success. "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." There will be failure in some of these attempts, but we can't let it stop us from taking risks if it could help create a better future for our planet and for everyone.
Therefore, the author's claim to study Venus despite its dangers should be a risk well worth taking. If Venus can be used in any way to provide for our planet, then we have to be willing to take matters into our own hands to further help our planet. While there is still a possibility that it may not provide at all, there is still a good chance that it will provide a better future for everybody on Earth. There will be a plenty amount of failure heading our way, but we can't let it stop us from taking risks knowing that Venus could help our planet. We have to move forward and if need be, we better be willing to sacrifices ourselves for something bigger for the future of everyone else and for the future of planet Earth. | 3 |
2578c02 | Other people should get into the Seagoing program because they could help people that need to be helped. The text says," To help these countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more, 44 nations joined together to form the UNRRA." The text also states,"UNRRA hired Seagoing Cowboys to take care of horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas." People should join the UNRRA so that they could help people out. Like a lot of people say, put other's needs before your own.
A lot of people should get into the Seagoing program so they can go places they wanted to go. The text states,"besides helping people, I had a side benefit of seeing Europe and China." The article also states,"Luke also toured the excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China." Those are also a good thing about the program. People could go places they have never been to before.
You should join the Seagoing program because you could see things you have never seen before. The article says,"but being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke." The text also states,"it made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." Being a seagoing cowboy can be very exciting. People should join if they want to help other people.
Being a seagoing cowboy could be dangerous, but if you have the right skills and luck it won't be dangerous. The text says,"helping out on his aunt Katie's farm as a boy had prepared Luke for hard work, but not for the dangers of the sea." The article states,"a small strip of metal along the edge stoped his slide, keeping him from flying overboard into the dark Atlantic." That last piece of evidence is pure luck. That is why you should prepare for the dangers.
The main part of being a seagoing cowboy is to help people, not hurt them. If you hurt them that means you didn't care about others and you didn't want to help them. It is good for everyone that got into the Seagoing program and care for others that are hurt. People should get into the Seagoing program to stop violence. Violence does nothing good for anyone. Violence only makes things a lot worse. | 4 |
2578fb0 | In the artcile "Making Mona Lisa Smile" I read about some new technology that reads facial expressions and can identify several different emotions. The technology looks at the 44 major muscles in your face and depending on what muscles are used it can calculate which emotion or emotions are being used. For example, when you raise your eyebrows in surprise you use your frontalis pars lateralis muscle and the computer can calculate that you are surpised from that. It can also calculate the emotions of figures in paintings such as Mona Lisa, who is 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry. I think that this technology would be invaluable in classrooms.
It would be an invaluable asset because when students get bored they tend to pay less attention. For example, if you were working on an online lesson and the computer could read your facial expression, it could send a message to the teacher telling the teacher that the lesson is boring the students. Or if a student was confused it could send a message to the teacher saying that the student is confused and needs help. It could even help a confused student on it's own by working through the steps on the problem they got confused on. This would prove to be invaluablew because
it would be like there are more than one teacher, and this would help students get one on one assisstance even when the teacher is busy.
So to wrap it up, it would help students get one on one help even when the teacher is busy. It would send the teacher a message saying that a student needs help. It would help the teacher realize that his or her students are bored and may stop paying attention to it. These are the main reason why I think that this technology would prove to be invaluable in classroooms. | 3 |
2579053 | When most people think of space programs in the near future, they often think of missions to Mars. However, this is not the only option. Many scientists at NASA are working to create a Venus space program. This research is supported by the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus". The article does this well, by providing factual evidence, deterring counterarguments, and rethinking the problem to be easier to address.
One of the most important parts of any claim is the evidence. The article fufills this with arguements that Venus is easy to reach. The author states that "Venus is sometimes right around the corner--in sace terms" (Venus 2). They also used evidence to address the problem that Venus is inhospitable to humans. on the surface, Venus is about 800 degrees Fahrenheit, but the author points out that a vehicle at a much higher altitude would have a temperature of around 170 degrees Fahrenheit.
That isn't the only way problems such as this could be averted. The author also includes some NASA research on elecronics and mechanical computers that use no electricity and don't easily break.
All of these now solved problems have deterred scientists from finding ways to research Venus. The author addresses this as well. They say that "maybe we should think of them [the problems] as challenges"(Venus 6). This way of thinking makes getting to Venus seem much more achievable.
With all of these good traits of an article, the author argued that researching way of going to Venus is a good idea after all. In the end, only time will tell whether humans get to Venus or Mars first. | 3 |
257a5bc | Driverless cars sounds like a good idea to the normal everyday person who has to drive everywhere. But if you actually think about it, its not such a great idea. People would easily get bored and tired of it and then people would start to get fatter and more unhealthy. Also it says that driverless cars arent completely driverless. For example in the passage it mentions that the car will notify the driver when they need to take over if there is an obstical in the way. To me, if these cars cant function like a person dribing, then there is no reason at all to have them. People might as well continue driving by themselves because there is no reason to have a car that cant perform all by itself. On the other hand, driverless cars would be good for people who have disabilities or any other problems that would hinder them from driving. They could go places without needing the help of another person or having to wait for a bus to come pick them up. So my opinion is that they can make driverless cars, but dont make every car in the future driverless. There will always be people who like old fashioned things, and i feel like some people would not approve of driverless cars. So its up to the people of the world to decide whether driverless cars is a good thing and should be put out for the public, or a bad thing and should just be left alone. | 2 |
257a6a6 | Driverless cars are going to make a huge impact on multple people who own one in many positive ways. Nevertheless, driverless cars can possibly impact on people negatively. Therefore, I do not agree with the invention of driverless cars for thr United States.
Located in paragraph one, the positive behind driverless cars is that they use "half the fuel of today's taxis and off far more flexibilty than a bus." Sergey Brin believes that these care will fundamentally make a difference in the world. Another amazing fact is that these cars can drive independently drive themselves more than half a million miles without crashing.
Located in paragraph two, line four, it states that these Google cars are not particularly driverless. These cars appear to alert th driver to take over the car when the car is pulling in and out of driveways. They even alert the driver when dealing with complicating issues with traffic. For example, "navigating through roadwork or accidents." Car accidents can happen in a split second. It may alert you right away, but this will not give you time to turn away or slam the breaks to keep you from being involved in the wreck. If you happen to be involved in an accident, who is to blame?
Located on paragraph nine, line nine, it states " new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of the accident. If the technology fails and some is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" This is a huge problem! Most people now will trust that this car will not wreck, however, if they do get involved in an accident they will blame the manufacturers. Like most large businesses will defend themselves and bring them to court.
Finally, what about the teenagers? They go to school and study real hard for their future. The first car they receive is a driverless car. How will this teach young adults to be responsible? How will young adults learn the basics of paying attention to everything on the road and around it? Personally, this whole driverless car invention is sounding a bit lazy and crazy. As a sixteen year old with a drivers permit, I would rather drive on my own then to sit in a driverless car. Driving has helped me to not be completely oblivious in my surroundings. I have learned to pick up some sort of detail in everything. Driving has also helped me with my reflexes. Ina driverless car it doesn't sound too reassuring.
Driverless cars can impact many people in many different ways. This invention can save us fundamentally. This invention could lower the car accidents rate. Nevertheless, we the people can do that on our own. We all just need to pay more attention on the road, and to know when or when not to drive. That is definietly one way to save money. Don't believe me?
Many people just feel like driving instead of walking. If it is a nice day out and the store is a mile away. I do believe people have the ability to walk. Get out and enjoy. Like I have said before, and I will say it again. Driverless cars can impact many people in many different ways. | 4 |
257c46e | Dear Mr. State Senator,
I am writing this lettter to talk about how the Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational. First, the Electoral College is unfair to voters. Second, there could be a tie in the electoral vote. Last, the voters are merely voting for the slate of electors rather than the president. Those are my points on why to take away the Electoral College.
To start this off the Electoral College is unfair to the voters. Because of the "winner-take-all system in each state", the candidates don't take time to go to other states that they know they will lose, they only really focus on the "swing" states. For example, during the 2000 campaign, seventeen statesdidn't see the candidates in their state at all, also 25 of the largest media markets had not seen a single campaign ad from a candidate. Also it's unfair because voters don't really know who to vote for because they see no campaign ads and candidates don't show up to their state and tell them what he/she is running for. That's why the Electoral College is unfair to voters of the presidential election.
Second, there could be a tie in the electoral vote. In the case of the tie it would go straight to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote for the president. By this the House's decision is no where close to that of the people in their state. The election is omly a few swing voters away from catastrophe. That's why it is bad if the vote ends in a tie.
Lastly, the voters are merely voting for the slate of electors rather than the president. For instance, if you "lived in Texas and wanted to vote for John Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry." The worst part is that the electors could be anyone you don't even have to hold a political position to be an elector, they could be very biased and narrowminded. That's why the Electoral College is unfair.
In conclusion Mr. Senator the Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational because it is unfair to voters, there could be a tie in the electoral vote and the voters are merely voting for a slate of electors and not there president. So Mr. Senator I would like for you to take this into concideration and Abolish the Electoral College! | 4 |
25811d9 | Driverless cars are coming but are we ready? I dont think the world is ready for Driverless cars yet. I think there are just to many details not worked out. For an example other cars will cars with human drivers still be on the road? Do we actually have the capability of making such technology? If a Computer driven car and a human driven car get into an accident who is at fault?
Even now other cars on the road interfere with each other, but what if humans weren't the only things driving our cars? If driverless cars are introduced and becomes a popular thing will the government cut human drivers all together? Is it possible to have both human and computer robots on the same road? Is haveing a computer drive cars as safe as the Manufactors' say? Can the "Smart Car" tell if or when another car could hit it.
Do we have the capability of creating technology so advanced it can drive a car by itself? This has to be a really difficult thing to create. How can you get a car to work like a human is driving it when no one is driving it? I think if they do try this they should just take out human driving all together. I believe it's more dangerous to have a mix of computer and human drivers out ther than letting a bunch of teens drive with their music up really loud.
If the companies
can sucessfully create these how could saftey tests be preformed if several states say that its illegal to test- drive computer driven cars in their state? Will there be certain roads meant for "Smart Cars?" If a "Smart Car" and a human driven car get into an accident who is to blame? Will Driving Laws be different for these computer cars? How can these manufactorors gaurantee my saftey on the road if they can't test the Cars? Is it even possible to come up with technology that doesn't need to be controlled by a human?
Driverless Cars are coming, but maybe not as soon as we think. There's alot we dont know about the Smart Cars and life with one, but we have time to learn. Wether it's another car, the cars Technology or Traffic Laws Smart Cars have a long way to come before I think they'll ever be road ready. | 4 |
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