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2b4375b | Since I've heard about that the driverless cars are coming, a sincere expectation came to my mind. I am in, in the side of supporting the development of those cars.
As we all know, the nature resources are formed after millions of years, and with the rapid development of technology and electricity, those unrenewable resources are decreasing in a high speed. I can't imagine the days without coals, fossil fuels or gas. The driverless cars would be half of the fuel of today's cars, which could save a lot of resources that we might have time to discover the new type of renewable energy. This is the first reason I agree with the useful cars.
Fewer resources being used, that means less pollution it may produce. Carbon dioxide is one of the main source of air pollution at this time and the spread of driverless cars might have a chance to give us back a blue sky. We are now try everything to save our importance because we know how important that it, planting trees, making laws, walking instead of driving, but why not limiting where it come from?
Additionally, driverless cars are proved to reduce the accident rate. Although it doesn't exactly mean "driverless", but the different ways of alerting the driver what may goes wrong definately help them feel safer. Because humans will feel tired, but machines won't. The before-danger-warning would give driver time to realize the problem that occurs and to solve it. It might just be a few seconds, but probably could save a whole family's life.
Some people like to drive, when they are on a vacation, they like to drive to wherever they want, they feel free and relaxed. In spring break I am going to Florida. It's a thirteen-hour-drive! It's still alright for the passengers but drivers will be exausted. However, if you have a driverless car, machine can offer you a big favor. You don't need to be alerted all the time to avoid accident and hurt your family, oppositely, you are able to sit in a comfortable armchair closing your eyes and chat with your family. A long-term driving won't be a big deal anymore!
The expectation is always sweet and beautiful, there still are a lot of difficulties of bring driverless cars into families. This world has so many people, making all these cars could use a lot of resources. And we still need to test the cars to confirm that they are a hundred persent safe. Countries may start conflicts by the production or using of these cars. But with more and more talented scientists' hard work, I believe, we will finally break all the walls in front of us and build a fabulous future. | 4 |
2b48695 | Have you ever seen an alien? In 1976 the camera weren't as good as today so it could be anything. But today the cameras are great quality.
Back then you would have thought that it was an alien but today we clearly saw that it was just a landscape and not an alien. Its like the man it the moon it is just a landscape it is nothing big at all. By saying that it is an alien people today would probally believe that it is true they would go crazy.
But we found evindence that the first Viking was wrong and the it is just a moutain. Now a days we have new high-resolution images and 3D altimetry ,but back then they didn't have that kind of technology. Technology today can take ten times better pictures then back in 1976.
As the world grows faster in technolog we can expect better and better pictures but we found evindence that on Mars there is no life forms. So as far as we know their are no such thing as aliens. On Mars there might be pictures or thing that looklike an alien but its not it a fairytale our mind thinks it saw one but you never did. As i was saying there is no lifeform on mars,
Technology has delvoped over the years. From when the first sight of a camera to now it will always evolve into something better. Technoogy is the only thing will always change into something different. | 3 |
2b491f4 | "When you vote what do you commonly feel? Do you feel as joyful that your making a difference in the country as an elephant in its prime leading the herd? Perhaps you feel content, fairly certain that you picked the best person for the task like a donkey who's pleased to take a nap after helping his owners plow the field. Or maybe you just don't feel that your vote changed anything, still residing in the vote booth pointlessly waiting to be seen." The American people have always felt that they alone should decide who is to lead them. While this has been the case since America became a country, there are those who feel our current process of electing the people who will elect your candidate isn't a desirable system. Personally, I think the Electoral College is a acceptable method considering that it causes the candidates to interact with a greater bulk of the country, it makes voters consider there votes even more, and it prevents dilemas or tension relating towards the elections much more effectively. Although voters can never really all agree on something | 2 |
2b57626 | You have to join Seagoing Cowboys! This gives you a chance to trave around the world.
It also give you a change to make a diffrence, and help people in needed. You can go to places like China,Philipines,Germany,Eupore,and South America. You can visit all this wonderful places if you join the Seagoing Cowboys. You have a chance to save life. You can be the diffrence bewteen life and death to some. You can meet the native peple of forein lands. You can try diffrent foods and meet new people! The chances are endless! You can see things you never seen, and learn things you never known. This can all happen if you join Seagoing Cowboys.
Like I said "Beside's helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and Chine." You can have fun and help others at the same time. People in other countrys need our help. That's why we need more people. That's why we need people like you! | 2 |
2b59589 | I'm both for and againest the idea of this invention. To me it has both positive and negative things to be said about it, because we all know, that amazing thinga all have their faults.
Let's start with the positives. First, drivers will have more time to work or plan, making their life on the road a lot easier and benefits people who have stressfull or work-heavy jobs. Second, these cars take a lot less gas than normal cars do cutting would you need to pay literally in half. Finally, this achievement will go in history as a huge improvement in the evolution of our technology.
Now let's get to the negative side. First of all, even though you'll pay less for gas the price of the car probably won't be the same as other cars. With all the sensors involved it will take loads of money to buy and make and manufacture the car. Secondly, the court cases surrounding this huge inivation will be very complicated and complex. You can go to jail for vehicular manslaughter and there's no one to claim responsibility of what the car will do. Lastly, it will just prove how lazy of a society we are. The next genertion won't need to learn how to drive, causing choas and tragedy in some situations.
In conclusion, I feel like it's both a good and bad idea and I think It's up to you to make that decision of whether you support the idea or not. | 3 |
2b5d872 | Land either froms by its self, by people, or by having chunks taken out of it by meteors. The face on Mars could not have been created by a living life form, for the planet is unsafe for life. The rocks created a formation that looks like a face because of all the shadows and dust that were in the picture. Mars was hit by a lot of meteors and that is also why it looks like face. The face on Mars is most likely a volcano, a mountain, or a valley. Meteors have hit Mars so it takes some of the rocks and land away and it could happen to look like a face made aliens, but it cant be because it is a natural land formation of rocks.
Many people would disagree because they believe that Mars could have living lifeforms. Mars cant have living things on it because of the air being as toxic as it is. People think that there is a possability for things to be able to live on Mars, but there is no way for life to sustain on Mars because there is no where to grow food and raise animals to eat. There is no oxygen to breath so animals would just die because of lack of oxygen. | 3 |
2b63205 | Transportation is a large necessity in most countries worldwide. With no doubt, cars, buses, and other means of transportation make going from place to place easier and faster. However there's always a negative; pollution. Although mobile transportations are a huge part of daily lives, we are endangering the Earth with harmfull greenhouse gases, which could be suppressed.
A small suburb community in Germany called Vauban, has started a "car-free" lifestyle. In this city, markets and stores are placed nearby homes, instead of being located by far-end highways. Although Vauban is not completely car-free, 70% of Vauban families do not own cars; Even a large 57% of families stated to have sold their cars to move to Vauban. Some families have even said to be less stressed depending on car transportation. Cars are responsible for about 12% of greenhouse gases, and can even be up to 50% in some car-intensive areas in the United States.
Another insight to reduced car zones brings Paris' incident with smog. Paris' officials created a system that would in fact lower smog rates. On Monday, the motorists with even-numbered license plates numbers would be ordered to leave their cars at home, or they would suffer a fine. Same rule would occur on Tuesday, except motorists with odd-numbered license plates were targeted with fines. Congestion, or traffic, was reduced by 60% after five days of intense smog. Diesel fuel played a huge part in this pollution, having the fact that 67% of vehicles in France are of Diesel fuel. The impact of the clearing of smog, resided in banning the Tuesday rule of odd license plates.
Could you imagine a day without seeing a single car being used? This phenomenon occurs once a year in Bogota, Colombia. With the exception of buses and taxis being used, cars are to be left unattended for an entire day. Having a car-free day just once a year can even reduce the pollution slightly. The day without cars is part of a campaign that originated in Bogota in the mid 1990s. This campaign has renewed and constructed numerous bicycle paths and sidewalks all over the city. Parks and sports centers have also sprung from this campaign. Devoting your time to a car-free lifestyle has it's hassles, but in hindsight, it has it's benefits.
To conclude, living a car-free lifestyle does not seem like a possibility in this day and age, however managing the use of cars and pollution is something every country should take time investing in. Think about how much of an impact it would be if everywhere world-wide would take part in air-pollution reduction. Mobile transportation is lifestyle in a sense, and being dependent on cars or other means of transportation can impact the health of the Earth and even ourselves. | 4 |
2b67009 | I agree that the facial action coding system to identify humans emotions. These are some of the reasons that i agree with the facial action coding system "a classroom computer could recognize whan a student is becoming confused or bored" this could allow the teacher to help them with out the student feeling like he/she are the only one not to understand and this could allow them to get help from the teacher. Another reason is
"if you smile when a web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow". the computer well give you things that you enjoy on your screen so you can be interseted to buy something. This is a reason i think that the facial action coding system is a bad ida for the computers "then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles" you really want a computer knowing everything about you for an example how you are feeling today. what kind of thing you like to watch or the things you are interesed in but also this computer understands you like no one does. and this is why i think the facial action coding system is a good idea | 2 |
2b6bf6c | The people of our great nation are told to vote on who they would like to lead and represent them. This is a Democracy and American citizens deserve this right. There have been incidents where the majority of the popular vote from U.S. citizens did not lead to the election of that candidate. This is because of the electoral college. This is the cause of citizens not having the president they asked for. Most American people do not agree with the electoral college. "The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational" (The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best laid defenses are wrong, Bradford Plumer).
The disaster factor is a what the electoral college should really be concerned about. The system allows for many slip-ups. "The American people should conside themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century" (The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best laid defenses are wrong, Bradford Plumer). In 1960, segregationists in the Loisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. Also, electors who aren't loyal to the county have occasionally chosen to vote for the party that they'd want rather then vote for their party's candidate. Popular vote is what our founding fathers wanted in the beginning. They wanted equality between people, and the wanted the people to vote for who they wanted as a leader. With the electoral college, this vision cannot become reality.
The popular vote is what a Democracy is all about. "The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachorism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who recieves the most popular votes the winner. The advocates of this position are correct in arguing that the electoral college is not democratic in a modern sense" (In Defense of the Electoral College: Five Reasons to Keep our Despised Method of Choosing the President, Richard A. Posner). There is no point in having the people vote if they aren't voting for what they need as a nation. We have brought our nation together so that they can decide on someone to watch over them and protect them.
The Electoral college is non Democratic and needs to be abolishes as soon as possible. There is no more use for it, as the population continues to grow. The popular vote is the way our great leaders taught us how to vote. | 4 |
2b6d2b7 | Do you think we should put facial action coding system in our classroo? I think using technology to read the emotions expressions in a classroom is a good thing because it tells you where your students are bord in class, see if they are mad in class, and tell someone is tired in the classromm.
See if the someone is bord in class is a good thing because you can make the subject or class more fun. That will make the student pay more attention in class because they won't be messing or not paying attention in class any more. In paragraph 6 it says "A classrom computer could recoginze when a student is becoming confused or bored." What they meant by that is the computer would put a different lesson than instead making the student do the lesson being bord or confussed. That will help a lot of students because they are gonna learn more and get good grades.
The facial action coding system could tell a person if they are tired because the computer can tell by their muscles. It will tell the teacher wich student is tired so they teacher can do something about it. It will help out a lot of the teachers from telling who's falling asleep. | 2 |
2b743c0 | Driverless cars are the future of safety while driving across the world. These cars have the technology to predict and protect against complex life-threatening issues that a human does not possess the power to handle themselves. Although the change to semi-driverless or driverless cars may be expensive; it is a change that can change the future of driving on roads for the better.
An issue that comes with having fully human controlled vehicles is not all cars have safety measures that the driver can control, such as sensors in the brakes. These sensors contain information that the human driving could not possess alone, showing that we need driverless cars to help make the upcoming generation of drivers more protected on the dangerous roads. In paragraph five the author states: "antilock brakes can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone," which shows the true power of these sensors inside of driverless cars. Legalizing driverless cars can bring the power of antilock brakes to every car in the world which would drastically reduce the amount of accidents related to skidding on ice or flipping cars.
One of the reasons that these driverless cars are not legalized in all states is as of right now traffic laws are under the assumption that "the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times," as the author states in paragraph nine. Although these cars are not driven by humans one hundred percent of the time, they can still be taken over by humans whenever a situation such as an accident in the middle of the road needs to be navigated around, this is proven in the seventh paragraph. In paragraph seven the author says: "GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate whenever a vehicle is in danger of backing into an object," and "The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over," proving that when the driver is in danger, the driver can take over the controls. These innovations heighten the safety of the driver in one of these vehicles.
Driverless cars and sensors aren't anything new to the roads, either. In paragraph three the author states that General Motors has been working on driverless cars since the late 1950s. As technology rapidly advances the sensors and computer needed to make driverless cars can become less expensive and more powerful. In only ten years advancements such as antilock brakes and the ability to drive seventy-five percent of the time have surfaced, and there are many more advancements to come. The first generation of driverless cars are expected throughout 2016-2020, with many more generations and advancements to improve upon the original models.
In 1980, the dream of having a fully autonomous vehicle would be something to see in a science-fiction magazine. Little did the people know that these cars would be available in only 36-40 years away and could dramatically increase safety on roads. Driverless cars provide heightened safety for the next generations of drivers and should not be taken as something small. Now that the technology is here to stay we need to be able to put it to proper use. Driverless cars have many generations to come and more safety to benefit the future generation of drivers. | 5 |
2b7513d | The thought of having a driverless car appeals to many people for many reason. Some would feel like they could do other things such as talking on the phone would become safer with this. Others could feel like it would be a step closer to possibly having a floating, driverless car. With all this, people have to ask themselves, what could be the negative effecrs of having a driverless car? Diverless cars
should not be delevoped, because there are still many unknown answers.
There have been many advancments on car safty since automakers used speed sensors in the wheels when they created antilock brakes in the 1980s. Now adays you can buy a car that can detect when you are going to back into something that you can't see or came out of nowhere. With the driverless car, you have to worry about something malfuntioning while you're in the middle of traffic or if the car stopped working altogether. In paragraph 9, the author says "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault - the driver or the manufactures?" This is something that many people will debate about. Some will say that it was the manufacturer because they didn't check car to see if it had any faults. While others will say that it was the driver because they "behind the wheel", but whose fault would it really be?
Many teenagers look forward to being able to drive. They may study for long hours and practice parallel parking so they can pass their drivers test, and the long a waited drivers license. Would the develpment of driverless cars take away the need for having your licence altogether? People would assume that anyone could have one because they wouldn't driving.
Even with this, people would more then likely need to be tested on how to operate a driverless car and be trained to be able to look for signs that the the car has a technical problem that needs to be fixed right away.
With every new discovery and advancement, there are many questions that still ned to be answered. Driverless cars should not be develped because there are still some important answers that still need to be looked into. Many safety issuses need to be disscused, as well as what would be the sutible age to be able to opperate one. | 4 |
2b7e769 | Once again, it appears that people are glorifying the machine again and exalting it to a dominant position over society and humankind itself. Once again, people put quantity over quality, believing that something as complex and immaterial as human emotion can be quantified into a data set of integers and percentages.
This worship of machine, and the unjustified extension of its jurisdiction into domains it has no place whatsoever meddling with, finds itself expressed again in the recent technological concoction that is the "Facial Action Coding System," created by Dr. Paul Eckman, engineered and realized by Prof. Thomas Huang of the University of Illinois and his colleagues. With this FACS, they believe that one's emotions can be easily identified and laid down on a neat percentage-based chart of X-percent this, Y-percent that. This technology, they believe, can be used in classrooms, as a means of ensuring a student's perpetual engagement in the lesson via improvisation of the lesson based on whatever calculations are made.
However, does one need to make a particular face to be bored, or confused? There are some faces we might make most of the time, possible some of us who make them all the time when losing interest or encountering confusion--however, that may not be so for all of us. There may be those whose faces might say, "I understand the lesson," but their souls say "What in the world is this?" Similarly, their faces might say, "I am intrigued by this," while within their hearts in reality, they are waiting for that relieving ring of the lunch bell to come upon their eardrums.
The human face is not a good indicator for emotion--if one wishes to be somewhat poetic, one could say that the human face is "two-faced;" It could tell you one emotion while hiding and masquerading another. One's face can be stern and mean-looking, while in fact underneath it lies the feeling of great satisfaction or relaxation. One's face can be happy and smiling (a physically genuine smile, too), maybe even laughing, while masquerading behind it, for some conscious or unconscious purpose, is a sorrowful melancholy that could wring tears from a stone.
In contrast to the thought behind this technology's premise, which claims that the human heart's imprints on the face can be "classified [in to] six basic emotions--happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness--and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles," (D'Alto, Paragraph 3) I claim that human emotion can not be quantified. No one can rely upon the face to know the heart, just like no one can rely upon reason solely to know the Universe and the powers and Power beyond it. This technology should not be used in classrooms, or in fact anywhere really, for due to its erroneous foundation, there are bound to be erroneous results; not mere outliers, but I would say a significant chunk and portion of facial assessments. I am against the "value" of this technology being used to read students' emotions--for I am against this technology being used anywhere, and the false material-minded thinking which is its, and modernity's in general, foundational philosophy. | 5 |
2b83b27 | Transportation will only advance throughout time. Today's so ciety has advanced from horse and buggy, to steam powered engines, to trains powered by a magnetic field. Cars have advanced from a gasoline powered engine, to an engine that can be charged up from an outlet. The next thing to do is to make transportation easier for the public by making it unnecessairy for them to do much work. The way to achieve this is to mass produce driverless cars.
Driverless cars are very efficent. They don't cause the driver to have to waste time doing the work. Now, the drivers can make phone calls or eat lunch safer than ever. Driverless cars will still require the driver to be aware of its surroundings and be alert for a problem to occur. This causes maximim amounts of safety for the driver, and others on the road. The car is designed to notify the driver if there are any difficulties. Today's society is already halfway to driverless cars, so why not take that extra step? It couldn't do harm, besides many lawsuits, but those could be prevented by making laws for these cars before they're made for the public.
Driverless cars could be very beneficial to society. It could cause so many improvements for other things to technologically advance, too. The work and studies are continuously being made for driverless cars. All transportation could be just as high-tech as driverless cars only if they are released to the public. | 3 |
2b85ea9 | I'm going to tell you why you should join or why you should't join the program. I'll be giving my reason and also Luke's reasons to support my claim. I will be arguing on why others should join the program.
Others should join the program because you get to travel around the world. Luke stated that he went to China and Europe! He traveled the Pacific and Atlantis ocean several times. He's been to Greece. If you like to travel, this would be a great program to join.
Luke feeds and waters the animals. Luke has to check on the animals every hour. I would join this program because I'm an animal person and I would love to spend weeks, maybe even months with these animals. Others who aren't animal people maybe shouldn't join this program. It would be a great way to interact with the animals if you don't like animals al that much.
Joining this program could teach you something. It could teach you many things. It could teach you to be more cautious about things. As Luke stated "It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." This program can make you more grateful for everything. It could make you work harder instead of being lazy. You could actually get things done if you were to join this program. That is why I think you should join. | 3 |
2b87338 | Politics is everywhere and it rules our everyday lives. Each United States citizen has a role in choosing how our politics can operate. It might not be a huge role but it definately is an important small role. The presidential election happens every four years on the first tuesday of November. There is an electoral college which is the compromise between election of president by vote in congress and by popular vote of citizens. As state senator, I think you should keep the electoral college running because it is a safer option than just doing election by popular vote.
The electoral college consists of professionals in congress that are more specialized in politics then an average citizen is. The electoral college should be handed the trust to control our politics. There must be a majority of 270 electoral votes to elect that President. Each candidate running for president must have his or her own electoral group. The electors are chosen by the candidates political party, which means the person running for President if in good hands with his electoral college.
Al Gore lost the presidency, but he won the popular vote. Maybe the professionals in the electoral college saw a flaw in him that the average citizen would not see. 60% of people prefer doing the direct election (popular vote). The direct election would only satisfy themselves temporarily, but what if this president that got elected put the whole country in a downfall. Then people would realize how important the electoral college is.
There are some cases where the election process ends up being a disaster. What if citizens weren't able to chose the electors and the state legislatures were fully in charge of choosing those electors. Well, the electors can still chose to go by what the people want. In 1960, the segregationist almost replaced Democratic electors with the new electors that opposed John F. Kennedy. Some electors have even went against their political party's candidate and only choose who they wanted to chose. The segregationist that were in power at that time only wanted what they thought was best for them and not what was best for the people. Situations like this must require the votes and thoughts of the average citizens combined with the electoral college.
The electoral college has voters voting for electors only and not the president. The electoral college should stick around forever. Popular votes might not always be the best option. The citizens still have a say in which electors shall be chosen and that plays a part in electing the president. Even though voters are not always able to control who the electors vote for, they still have a part in chosing who will be president. | 4 |
2b89aad | The author states that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. How well does this author truly show this? He shows how we can see Venus from afar but we don't know what it is like close up, it's often reffered to as earth's twin which is very important, and we also need to get up close to Venus even if there is risks.
People from earth can see Venus just by looking up at the right place. The author states, "Venus, sometimes called the "Evening Star," is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot." So from afar we can see it as a big "light" in the sky, kind of like a star. But Venus is not a star it is a planet. What he means by this is that you can see how bright Venus is from afar but what you can't see what it is really like close up. But if we dont know what Venus is like close up then how do we know it is Earth's "twin"?
Venus is often referred to as Earth's "twin". According to the text "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the clostest distance too." The passage also states, "Venus may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth." So if Venus is so much like earth then why can't we send a spacecraft to Venus now? Well we tried and it didnt workout. There was a spacecraft sent unmanned because the spacecraft could only survive the landing for three hours. Venus today still have some features that are close to ours on earth. Could this mean it could become safe sometime? Doubtful. According to the passage, "Venus is a planet that has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountians, and craters." So why do we need to get so up close to Venus even though it causes risks?
Wouldn't you like to know whats on Venus even if it could be dangerous? I beileve this is why the author suggest thst Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it precents. You may wonder what thoes dangers are. According to the passage, "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." So why should we still go? NASA is finding a possible solution to the hostile conditions. According to the text "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hoveriing 30 or so miles above the rolling Venusian landscape. A vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground confitions by staying up and out of their way." It also states, "Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans." This means we would be able to see and get more information about Venus.
I conclude that because of all the new findings that this is why the author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit dispite the dangers. If Venus is like Earth does that mean that what happened to Venus might happen to us? This is why we need more information. The author shows us how we can see Venus from afar but we don't know what it is like close up, its often reffered to as earths twin which is very important, and we also need to get up close to Venus even if there is risks. These are very important to know when deciding weather it is a good idea to travel to Venus even with the dangers. | 5 |
2b8abd3 | There are many diffrenet views when it comes to driveless car, but im here to explain why it is a good reason to have driveless cars. ONe of the first reasons why driveless cars are a good idea is first that cars are getting smater, and saferfor the driver and passangers, plus they tend to cost about the same as much as a normal car. For example In 2013 BMW announced the development of "traffic jam assistant" and this car could handle drving functionns at sppeds up to 25 mph,but special touch sensors make sure the driver holds onto the wheel. A second reason why driveless cars are a good idea is because it will help people who are drving for long period of time. for example the "trafic jam assisant comesto play so say a driver happens to fall asleep and lets their feet off the gas the car will keep drving and control the wheel unitl the driver lets go of it and thats when the car lets a alarm off so that the driver can wake up and hopefully pull over safely. One last reason why driveless cars are a good idea is because if we happen to make drvieless cars for people in general then we could do it for people who drive as their work for example truck drivers. usually they have to make it to a certain destionation at a certain time to deliver something. Usually this can be very dangerours not only to the truck driver but to the people is their cars trying to drive around the truck driver. Hopefully i have changed oyour mind about this whole is driveless car good or bad discussion | 2 |
2b93ab0 | The author suggests that studying Venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents, I strongly disagree because the author did not provided more proofs on why we should go to Venus despite the dangers it presents. The author provided more cons than pros to support his answer.
The author he/she did not provided enough information to support his/her idea on going to Venus. It provided more cons, in the aricle it says, "Temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit,and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our plant. These conditions are far more exterme than anything humans encounter on Earth." (The Challenge of Exploring Venus 3).
This shows how the author did not support their own answers insead of providing more pros he/she provided more cons, I strongly disagree that we should go to Venus cause no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours so what makes you think a human can survive that with more than 800 degrees Fahrenheit, so overall I do not think Venus should be worthy pursuit despite it's dangers because no human would survive. | 2 |
2b98752 | The United States has ways of being civilaized, and thats by electing leaders. Those leaders that take role of the responsiblitiy are President. Presidents need candidates to vote for them. The only way the President will get elected is by the Electoral College or by popular vote. Although both ways are effective, only one way is the best. The U.S should stick with the Electoral College because its a game changer and trust worthy.
To start off the Electoral College is a game changer for Election Day. In the article " In Defenese of the Electoral College" the author states a good claim. Richard states " the reason is that the winning candidate's share of the Electoral College invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote". From this quote Richard points out the even when a candidate has a good amount of popular vote it all comes down to the Electoral College. The reason is the Electoral College is part of the candidate's team, whether its Democrat or Republican. In the article from Richard he gave an example, " Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney". In this peice of information Richard clearly states on how the Electoral College is stronger then the popular votes. Now in the article "the indfensible Electoral College" which was written by Bradford has a different claim. Bradford states " because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning". From this Bradford wants to express that the Electoral College is not fair to voters, and that it has cheesy methods. But even thought Bradfort disagrees with the method, Bradfort still stated the obvious. In the article Plumer states " taken shortly after Al Gore-thanks to the quirks of the electoral college-won the popular vote but lost the presidency". Although Plumer disagree with the electoral college, Bradford still notices on how the electoral college makes a huge difference. Basically the Electoral College is just a big game chnager on Election Day.
Futhermore the Electoral College is just a trust worthy method to use. Also it was like the first method to be used. In the first source "What is the Electoral College", the author gives some great information. The office states " the electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their resposibilities are". In this statement the Office is stating on how whichever party a person might be in, the electoral college will come through. The reason is because each state has an Electoral college and those states are in differnet parties. If the state that a person might live in is Democrat then the electoral college will go for that party, and same thing for the Republican party. From the other side of Bradford again wants a comeback. In his article Bradford states "in the same vein, faithless electors have occasionally refuesd to vote for their party's candidate". Now no one would know if this is true but the electors might have their reasons. But Richard A. Posner comes back and states "no region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. In this quote its supports the fact that the electors do choose who they please. Plus this makes it fair because candidates wont be getting votes all over the places. Also the electoral college will be trust wirthy because the college follows the majority of the people's vote, and then makes a vaild decision. So the electoral college just gives people want they want from trust.
All in all the Electoral College is just the better method of voting. The Electoral College will give what the people want. Also the electoral college represents the states votes. The reason is because electoral colleges are game changers and a trust worthy method. Certainly it wll be easier to choose a president and break ties. | 5 |
2b9dc98 | Limiting car usage is very important because, it can save a lot of money. Some places doesn't allow cars because of the space that they have. Such as in Vauban Germany, some people even give up their car. Vauban's streets are completely car free. 70 percent of Vauban's familiies do not own a car, and 57 percent old a car to mov there. In order to stay in that community they could not have a car therefore they had to sell it. Some are even happy without their cars. Having a car can have a lot of stress on some people. Every week you have to worry about gas. Gas now is a lot of money that you hae to spend. Think about it if you didn't have to buy gas every week or every other week you would have a lot of money saved up. The gas you put in your tank could of went to more grocery in the house. Something that is important such as a "want".
Since World War II people have been depending on a car to get around and that need to change as in today. In the United State the Enbironmental Protection Agency has beem proting
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and if they do not then they will play a much lager role in a new six-year federl transportation bill to be approved very soon.
Limiting the cars will even be better on the road as well. The congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after just five days of intensifying smog. The gas that the cars release is very dangerious as well, diesel fuel was even blamed since France has a tax policy that favors diesel ober gasoline.
In Colombian people as in the city participate in a car-free day every year whichthis is the Thrid year and the city has made a lot of money by doing that. The turn out always be large, despite gray clouds. "The rain hasn't stopped people from participating yet". It's also a great way to take away stess from people and lower the air pollution. The day without cars had began in Bogota in the mid-1990s. people started using bicycles or walking. | 3 |
2ba03f1 | The Venus sometimes called the " Evening Star "," 1 of thebrightest points of light in the sky , making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot " . Venus is the second planet from our sun,the plannet closest to Earth in terms of density and size and occasionally the closest in distance too . The danger of is "97 percent are carbon dioxide plankets Venus , 800 degrees of Fahrenheit , and the 90 times greater than what we experience on our own plannet ". The "(NASA) has particular comelling idea for sending humans to study Venus", they working in other approaches to studying Venus. The first envisioned in the 1800s and in the 1940s during the World War 2. The modern of computer they need is enormously powerful, flexible, and quick.
"Our travels on Earth and beyond shoould not only be limited by danger and doubt, but should be expanded to meetthe very edges of imagination and innovation"
The Venus had alot of danger and the scientists want to answer every thing about the Venus. Maybe in the feture people can living on the Venus because human are very smart, they will try to get there in one day and live there. | 1 |
2ba1c54 | Evolution is enevitable. Apparently car evolution is aswell. Some of us have dreamed of auto-pilot cars. Either when its snowing outside or just when we feel too tired to drive. Although the thought seems possible, how safe is it? Who will be blamed for hitting the car infront of you? How will it drive on ice?
Most states have made it illegal to have auto-pilot cars on the road. Probably because there are no true laws for non-human driving cars. "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fauly-the driver or the manufacturer?" The manufacturer is the one who designed the car and the 'driver' isnt in control of the vehicle. It is highly likily that the maufacturer will be at fault. This being so they will have to pay insurance on thousands of accidents. If an error occurs with a batch of cars and they all cause accidents they will probably go bankrupt or lose more money than they are earning.
No one wants to be injured going to work or on a family vacation. What if a auto-pilot car crashed into your car because their sensors went out? Likily the car will tell you when the sensors are dying, and that will cost alot to replace. "The infromation from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone." In theory, this sounds great. Something is sure to go wrong though. Most cars already have recalls every week on seats or air bags. What if you get a recall saying your google car has a sensor issue? That sensors fail or don't sense far enough ahead to stop in time?
Most cars already have cruise control, a setting that maintains your speed without pressing the gas pedal. Even though you need to steer still, you are mostly assisting the car. "Google cars aren't truely driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents." One would wonder if a sensor cant detect cars while pulling out, atleast yet, will they ever be able to?
If these auto-pilot cars can not navigate roadwork through GPS they likily will never be able to get around without information telling the GPS system that. Cars will mostlikily never be totally driverless.
All in all, these cars will probably be more than cars are now. These cars will probably never be one-hundred percent auto-pilot. Manufaturers will lose more money when a product malfunctions than earn. There are more problems to go wrong with these cars than with normal ones to begin with. Cars should be only driven by capable humans. We are already beginning to be a very lazy society and need to be more handy and independent. | 4 |
2ba1e02 | I do not think that driverless cars are a good idea. I think that it is unsafe, it's too expensive for most people to afford, and there would be a lot of legal issues as well.
First, drverless cars would be unsafe because a lot of things could go wrong. The car could glitch when you are not watching the road and not notify you when to pay attention and that could result in an accident. It says in the passafe "Driverless Cars Are Coming" that the car can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves but is not designed not be able to navagate through situations that need human skils. This means that the human driver must remain alert and the car must be able to quickly get the drivers attention when a problem occurs. But if the car could not get the drivers attention quick enough then that could be a problem.
Second, driverless cars would be very expensive and most people would never be able to afford them. Although it does not state how much the car would actually cost the car does have these thing called
"automotive radar sensors." According to Sebastian Thrun, founder of Google Car project "radar was a device on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars." With all of these fancy features that these smart cars have could rerally make that price go way up.
Finally, the driverless car companies would face a lot of legal action. Lawmakers know that driving safety is best achieved with alert drivers. As a result, in most states it is illegal to even test computer driven cars. Which means that it would take a lot of convincing by the car companies to make these cars legal. Even if the traffic laws changes new laws would still be needed in order to cover liability in case of an accident.
In conclusion, I think that these cars a re a bad idea. Too many things could go wrong and people could get hurt. There is nothing wrong with how we drive cars nowadays so why change it is my thought process. | 4 |
2ba276d | They say the facial expressions for each emotion are universal because even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression, the new emotion are facial movements for example the painted face from the Mona Lisa, we can identify a lot emotions as Vinci's masterpiece. Each expression is a neutral face. Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy,worried,sad,etc.
imaginate if the computer know when your happy or sad, that well be so cool, then you know if someone is sad and you can help him or you can know if this person is happy and he make you happy two, the can be great to create new stuff like videogame tv show and all kinda things, most human comunication is nonverbal, including emotionalcomunication, so that mean the computers have to understand that too, sometimes not only moving your facial muscles make make you express your emotion but that maybe make you feel them,making that can reveal sabout the science of the emotions. | 1 |
2ba53eb | i believe that its actually okay to use this tecnology, because why not i mean to me it seem like all that its doing is scanning your face no harm done to you or anything.Most people would probaly belive that this device could seem
dangerous if they dont add enough details about it, but im getting off task from the topic of this essay so yeah. Yeah im for using this tecnology in school because the teacher could be able to tell
if just by looking at a computer to see if the class is instrested in the matarial the teacher is teaching. That way they will be able to change their plan of attack while trying to teach the class how to do the work. and there is just so many benifits with this teconolgy, teairler the artical said tha they could even be use to tell if someone like a major celebrity or politician is lying so just imagaing how far this teconolgy could go just by scanning you face to see how your feeling or even just to see if your lying all just from your faical expressions. | 2 |
2baa048 | Cars that drive themselves are useless because they will only drive us for a certain amount of time until we are alerted to take over. Driverless cars will make us more lazy than we already are. We all will get bored of staring at the road for countless minutes or hours waiting for our turn to drive.
Driving our cars to and from our destination is already being lazy. Now that cars will be able to drive by themselves will make us more lazy. If we get too comfortable in the car while were watching the road we might eventually fall asleep and we wont get the alert of when we have to take over. This is a reason why driverless cars is a bad idea.
Imagine yourself staring at the road with out anything to do. You will eventually get tired of that and might want to do something, but you wont be able to because you have to keep your eyes on the road for any alerts. If you have a car that you can drive by yourself youll be pushing on the gas and moving the steering wheel around. Thats much better than doing nothing. This is another reason why having a driverless car is pretty much useless.
If the car has a malfunction while it is driving by itself and it crashes or hits something, you will be responsible for it. Even if you did nothing to the steering wheel or the gas pedal. You will have to pay the fine or go to jail, depending on how bad the crash was. Cars that drive themselves could be a really bad idea in the future.
Driverless cars is a bad idea for the future. They are pretty much worthless if we're still going to have to pay attention to the road to take over whenever there is an alert up ahead. We will get tired of waiting for our turn to drive whenever we have to. If there is an accident that occurs while you are in the car you will be responsible for everything even if you didn't do anything. | 3 |
2bab4f9 | Driverless cars should not be able to be developed and used. They aren't safe because you do not know when they'll mess up. Also because if the technology fails, and a serious car crash happens there is nobody to blame. I know that driverless cars are improving, but there are just some obstacles that they aren't good enough for, like driving fast on the highway and switching lanes when needed. Also because driverless cars still haven't developed to where they can detour around things like work zones and car crashes.
If driverless cars were to be allowed on the roads of the united staes it would not be good at all. This is because, in the United States, there are already too many cases where people are getting jailed for killing someone because of drunk driving, or driving under the influence. So if driverless cars were allowed on the streets people who are breaking the law, and driving under the influence will not be able to take over control of the car when a situation pops up where they are needed to manually drive. So therefore if a crash happens and someone got hurt who is there to blame, the manufactuers or the person in the drivers seat.
Another reason that driverless cars shouldn't be able to hit the streets is because these cars are not able to perform things that humans can do. For example, when a human is driving down the street they look ahead for things they have to watch out for like, potholes, speedbumps, roadkill, and glass. These cars will not be able to do things like this because they are built to a specific system to where they just know where they are going, and how to stop and stuff. So therefore they will just run over these things. If they just run over things like glass, and potholes objects like the tires on the car may be damged. If the tires get damgaed that means they'll have to be replaced. And replacing the tires on a driverless car may be really expensive.
So my point is that accepting driverless cars in the united states is not a good idea. Simply because they're too many things that may happen to the car. And also there are too many risks that may apply when having this car on the road. | 3 |
2bb20b8 | Have you ever thought about going places? If you have you should paritcipate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. You will feel the same exciment that Luke did. You will not regret it. You will be on a ture of awesomeness. Insted of just sitting down on the couch at home.
In the story Luke goes place's with his friend. When his friend asked him he says "it was an opprotunity of a life time" that is you are you going to be saying when you are done. It will be fun you can bring some one to just like Luke friend did. It would be nice you and your friend out going places.
In the story Luke goes to a lot of places like China,Europe,New Orleans,etc. Think of how you will feel going to all them places metting making new friends. it sounds like fun. Did you know people almost all over the world will meet you.
You might learn new stuff and you might get new stuff.
So you should sign up for the Seagoing Cowboys program. You will be able to do a lot of stuff just like Luke. How fun will it be just you and your friend going to diffrent places. So don't sit on the couch watching t. v. go to the Seagoing Cowboy program. You love it garunted just go and have the time of your life. | 3 |
2bb7f66 | Being a Seagoing Cowboy does sound like a lot of fun. I think being a Seagoing Cowboy would be fun.
First you are helping others.
It sounds fun to do, you have something to do, you are being a hero. you get to do a lot of traveling and sightseeing
You get to see things you have never seen before.
Seagoing gives you the chance to see different when you travel. You kinda become a role model when you are a Seagoing Cowboy. You are looking out for others i think you should be responible and caring to be a Seagoing Cowboy. It could be a lot of fun and make you happy to protect people. You are making people feel safe.
In conclusion i think the Seagoing Cowboy program is good for people and they should join it. It's an important and fun job, sometimrs you get hurt and it can be dangerous but it awesome. Just be careful with dangers at sea. | 2 |
2bb8a01 | The face found on Mars is just a natural landform. It is considered a natural landform because there is no proof that aliens made it. We also have yet to find any type of life form on Mars. They have investigated this face since 1976 to 2001.
There is no real evidence or proof that an alien made that face on Mars. It was first noticed in 1976. It could have been there way before then. Its a natural landform because as the planets move around the sun that could make the land make any type of shape that no one has any control over. There is also no proof that aliens are real either so it could really be from anything.
When NASA first spotted this face, they didn't have the best cameras back then. Once it got to the media everyone was coming up with there own theories about how the face got there. NASA caption noted it as a "huge rock formation which resembles a human head formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth." Thhe public took it out of hand and said it was created by aliens and didn't have any real evidence.
On April 5, 1998 when they flew over the planet for the first time and got a sharper picture of the face, the picture revealed that it was a natural landform. There was no evidence or proof that an alien made it.
In conclusion, the face found on Mars is just a natural landform formed by shadows and gives off illusions. It was most likely formed because of the planets spinning on the axis around the sun. The sun and other weathers, such as rain and snow can cause the land to form into anything from erosion or deposition. | 3 |
2bbf923 | In my opinion, driverless cars are a bad idea.
Yes, I get that it would save fuel and be much more convenient for everyday life, but i think it would cause more problems.
I think it is unnecassary to try to make these driverless cars becuase it could cost a lot, and end up not working out in the long run
First off, in my eyes these driverless cars would just cause more problems for everyday life.
These driverless cars would have trouble getting through complicated areas such as detours, road blocks, parking lots, etc.
And even though there are positive effects for this type of car, I think there are many more negative effects that could put lives at risk, and waste a lot of time getting places.
Do we have the technology to make these driverless cars happen?
Absolutely, but the risk/reward is not worth it in my opinion.
Whats wrong with just hopping in your car and driving it yourself?
"Backseat" drivers that try to tell the actual drivers what to do are already bad in todays world, just imagine a backseat driver trying to yell at a robot driving their car.
Overall, I think trying to make these driverless cars a reality is not worth the time or money.
It would be much easier and safer to have humans controlling their cars and evaluating the situation through their own eyes to mkae the judgement on what or what not to do.
I do not see anything wrong with todays ways of transportation so why fix something thats not broken? | 2 |
2bc341e | It might be valuable, because it would be easy to see if a student is bored or confused. That might help around the class a bit, especially if a student lies if they know a certain subject everyone just learned, but that certain student either didn't pay attention because they were bored, or they were just confused about the subject. With this technology, you can help them out and maybe it would be efficient.
In the article it says, "You can use the technology to see if a student is bored or confused." Since that was said, I think it would be a good idea to use that in a classroom. Like I said in my claim, a student might be lying, so using this technology might help out you and your student.
In conclusion,the technology is helpful and can probably help out other people too, not just students. People can lie about their mood and can feel down, but if you use this technology, you might see that something is wrong with the person because of how they feel, and you might be able to help them out. This technology is helping the world become a better world. | 2 |
2bca0d3 | I am writing a letter to my state senator in which i'm arguing if i'm in favor of keeping the Electoral College or Changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United states. I'm in favor of the election by popular vote for the president of the U.S.
The electoral college is unfair to voters. Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect 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, they would go to Congress and kerry would get 34 electoral votes. Also its Unfair to the voters because of the winner-takes-all system. In each state candidates dont spend time in states they know have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states. In the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all. In defense "The winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates, to focus their campaign efforts on the toss-up states." Ok but the winner-take-all system is still focusing on the ststes knowing that there going to vote for you, and notthe other states that possibly will or will not vote for you.
Another reason is that the Electoral college is just a disaster factor simple as that. 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 would not actually gone to Kennedy. Also what if a state sends two slates of electors to congress? It happened in Hawii in 1960. Luckily, Vice President Richard Nixon, who presided over the senate validated only his opponents electors making sure to do so ' without establishing a precedent.
In conclusion the Electoral college is unfair, irrational, and just a hotmess. Like Bob Dole said "Abolish the Electoral College'. | 3 |
2bca925 | He sed that the boat was good andit tolk a long time to go to aferk and one rane nit he fell on the loder and something stop his fall the co boy played a lot of sports and he leeding his famels and he ekplord in the se cor.
loke was a sekd for coboy and he thot his lifewould chang afterhis high school year. there was a war in 1945 over in Europe. they lift so they can help those people and so they can have food. luke turned 18 befor and wich meant he could be drefted.
it tolk a lot of weeks to crross the Atlantic ocean from the eastern cost. they were helping them with aunt katie's farm as a boy ahd prepared luke.
luke found time to have fun on boared. The cowboy played baseball basketball and volleyball. he also they were
played boxing reading, whittling and they were also playing games. | 1 |
2bcd7b2 | Venous, sometimes called the "Evening Star" is one of the brightest points of the dark sky. Making it a easy for evn an amateur stargazer to spot. The nickname is also mislead to an actual planet. Venus is the 2nd plant from our sun. Venus is simple to see from a dar away distant but safe vantage point of Earth. It proved a very challenging place to examine more closely. Earth, Venus, and Mars are neighbors. Differnce in speed means that sometimes we are closer or the closest to Mars and sometimes even Venus.
Each previous mission was unmanned, for good reasons. No spacecraft has survived over few hours after landing. That is why not even a single spaceship has been sent to Venus in over 30 years same as three decades. Numerous factors that are contributing to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us.
Venus atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets the entire plant. In these types of condition these are far mor extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth.
The National Aeronautucs and Space Administration has one particularly idea on sending human beings to study Venus. However, a spacecraft distant from Venus orbiting or hovering safley far above the plant can only limit on ground condition because most you can't penetrate the dense atmosphere, renderiinig standard photography and videography effectiveness.
NASA is working them selves up too other studies of Venus. For example, some electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested ina chamber further studing the chaos of Venus's
There are old devices that they use to use back dating in the 1940's during the cause of world war 2. By comparison, systems that use mechanical parts can be used for more resistant things to pressure, heat, and other forces.
Meeting up to the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the sighting of the plant to gain on the plant itself, but because of the suriosity will lead us into many equally itimidating endeavors. Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangerous and doubts. also expanded to meet the very edges of imagination. | 3 |
2bd315e | When you talk about "unmasking the face on Mars" what are you really talking about, well it is a natural forming landformation on mars.When people talk about haunted grocery checkouts, put in movies and books you really think about that pop icon "the face on Mars."Since the first photograph taken in 1976 the formation has looked just like a face.
Just as easily it could be a alien statue it could be a mesa on the Red Planet it is know that mesa are highly common. After a few days of discovery the first photot was released to the public by c aptioning the photo "huge rock formation...which resembles a human head." it enages alot of attention.
When man can reach the Red Planet we will be positive what "the face on Mars." is. Not everyone is satisfied with the picture eveidence. Acoriding to the article the face is located at 41 degrees north on the martian latitude where it was winter in April '98 a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet. The camera on board had to perr through clouds to see the face which may have caused the image to be incorrect.But the chances of these results be incorrect is 1 in 100 the photo was taken by specialist doing their job.
As if the stress was'nt enough they were sent back up to the Red Planet in the summer of 2001. And whenhey returned with pictures of a rock formation it was certian that the "face on Mars" was just an odd rock formation. With shadows like a face and rocks like a head the face will continue to be a pop icon around the world.Even if the face is only a natural landformation. | 2 |
2bd48de | How much value would come out of going to Venus? Scientists have tried many times to study Venus. Unfortunatley, they've always come out as failures. People could argue that the effort of studying Venus is useless and ineffective. However, scientists have little to no knowledge of how the planets in our solar system were made. Scientists could have more knowledge of Venus if they found a way to study the planet. The author of the article is right about the exploration of Venus being a worthy pursuit.
The author of the article does mention how difficult it is to study Venus by bringing up the planet's harsh atmosphere in Paragraph 3. Which further proves his point how valuable it is to study Venus. He also points out that Venus may have been a lot like Earth a long time ago in Paragraph 4. This doesn't just further our understanding of Venus, but it may also give us more information about Earth as well.
In Paragraph 5, the author mentions NASA's plans on how to study Venus. He does mention that those plans may have challenges fo their own in Paragraph 6. The author pushes to try those plans out in a realistic manner. The author being realistic with the reader, makes the reader want agree with him more.
The author backs up his suggestion with great evidence, but does it in a realistic way. He realizes how dangerous it is to study, but pushes for it by bringing up how little we know about Venus. The author's suggestion is correct and scientists need to find a way to study Venus. | 2 |
2bd6a10 | The topic of driverless cars will be argued until there arent any humans left. But to simply have a driverless car woud be like having an irresponsible parent. Cars were formally made for us to have an easier way of transportation; and now we want cars tha can dive themselves. Taking the taxi away from taxi drivers would put them out of business; As well as Uber Drivers and other assistants. How would the generations after us know what to do in an emergency if the driverless car werent able to function on its own? What would happen to the data base of a company if its system crashed, how would signals get out from the cars routers?
Having driverless cars would be a bad idea, for one it would take the place of a taxi driver which would take away jobs. Googles cofounder Sergey Brin says "...a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transportation taxi system. The cars he foresees would use half the fuel of todays taxis and offer far more flexibility that a bus. He believes such cars would fundamentally change the world." Another reason I wouldnt condone in the submitting of driverless cars would be to save the generation after me. Letting fresh young adults use driverless cars wouldnt teach them how to drive. Which means they wouldnt know what to do in case of an emergency. Yes there would be a manual that you'd have to read. But when it comes to fixing technology and mechanics, humans need a hands on experience which would help them in case they dont know what to do if the car becomes driverless. Finally, what would happen in a storm if the connection didnt go through or the companys system crashed? Would that mean the car isnt driverless? "...For starters, they needed a whole lot of sensors. Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive rardr sensors, a GPS receiver,a nd an inertial motion sensor." With all of this technology needed to properly produce a smart/ driverless car, would it be necessary? having this much technology, there would be too many technical difficulties. Which would lead into the owners of the car paying for more that what was even expected.
The world of technology today has help us for the better or worse. With smartphones being able to locate people, cars, and places around the world. ToSending a typed papre to your teacher just in time before grades come in. Technology has been tremendously heplful. but to have a 18 year old behind thw wheel of a driverless car not knowing what what to do in case of an emergency or the car having a mal-function would be pointless to buying your first car. | 4 |
2bd6edc | I think that you should join the seagoing Cowboy program because you can go over sea you can be at a certian place in just a couplle weeks but it all depens on how far away it is. My reason to join this program would be that evveryone should have a chance to do things that they can't do in a normal everyday life. This started a while back I was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a bank when my friend Don Reist invited me to go to Europe on a cattle boat. I couldn't say no. I knew that it was an opportunity of a life time.
I knew this because it isn't everyday that you can go out to sea and go to a different country. This was my only chance to help out and go to another place, but if I would have said no then I would have never of gone to Europe and I would still be at home working to jobs and not being able to do much of anything but work and work and work. At my first trip I wasn't at Europe until after I was 18 when this happened I could draft myself for the U.S. army and would be able to do this all of the time. When they got my draft they told me to keep doing what I was doing. What I was doing was feeding the animals. Then on my second trip I was on nightlook out. Every hour I had to check on the animals and make sur ethat there was nothing wrong with them. After a while it started to rain and I slid down the metal ledder and I cracked my ribs. But the best thing about this was that I could make my mark on the world. This is why I think that you should join the seagoing Cowboys. | 2 |
2bd6f85 | Im Here To Speak On The Idea Of Driverless Cars . I Think It Is A Great I dea , And I Think Every City / State Should Try It Out . Now Of Days People Get Tired Or Worn Out Driving , So I Think It Would be A Great Idea . Me Personally If I Was Able To Get One I Would . This Would be Very Awesome .
Having A Driverless Car Can Be Dangerous But At The Same Time You Still Hvae The Opportunity To Take Control Whenever You Need To . This Would be A
Great Idea For Those Who Come Home From A Long Day Of Work And Dont Want To Drive . Those Who Want To Take A 10 Hour Trip But Dont Want To Get On A Plan Or Drive . I Think Everyone Should Give It A Try . It May Be Some Pros And Cons To This But The least We Can Do It Give It A Try . I Really Think It Would Be a Great Idea .
To End This Off I Say I Agree To The Driverless Car . As Long As You Can Control It When Things Get Out Of Hand It Would Be A Great Product , I Relly Think Everyone Would Like That Idea . I Mean Think About It , No Driving ? That Would be So Awesome Especially For The People Who Drive All The Time . Driving Can Be Tiring Sometimes , So Therefor I Think Driverless cars would be A Good Thing To Put On The Market | 2 |
2bda011 | Car emissions are very deadly and dangerous. They can be lethal to humans, and also dangerous to the enviroment. It can lead to big enviromental issues like global warming, holes in the ozone, and air pollution. Many ignore the fact or are oblivious to it, but driving hurts our enviroment just for a little bit of convienence. Are cars doing more harm than good?
Cars have a convienent way of getting us to our destination faster but at the cost of our precious enviroment. We use our cars sometimes without thinking twice of what the actual after effect is. Paris is a city that has had almost, if not the worst, smog levels in all of europe. It has 147 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter due to the majority of cars which have diesel powered engines. Air pollution doen't jsut effect our atmosphere, it slowly kills, if not severly injuers, animals and people. It hurts us by causing major damage to our lungs and respitory system.
Greenhouse gases are another major thing in car emissions. Greenhouse gases are gases that keep or trap heat on earth to keep us from going into another ice age. A decent amount is good and is used to do its job, but when you have too much then the globe starts to increase in temperature. Antarctica, as you know, is made of ice. when ice gets to a certain temperature it starts to turn into a liquid. So when antarctica starts to melt into the sea, the general ocean level will rise, causing sea level cities, states, and countries start to flood with salty ocean water. If we cut down on gas or diesel car travels, the and greenhouse production rate would slow down and so will the rising temperature of the earth decreasing the speed of the melting arctic.
Cars are a very important and convienent way of travel but can be very deadly to us humans and tne earth we live on. Because we use them everyday doesn't mean that we can not cut down or change our ways of transpertation. Cars give off many harmful toxins and gases that we can, but refuse to control. we can cut down on the majority of the waste by limiting our car trips distance wise and based on how many times you leave the driveway. a simple change as in riding a bike or walking or even only going out when needed can slow down the speed of global warming and even drop the levels of air pollution. A little change can maybe just save the earth from another flood that can wipe out humainity. | 4 |
2bdb51f | Well in this Essay / Final Draft I am going to include a little bit of everything that belongs in an essay. This passage will also be an argumentative essay. On which I should pick that it's okay to have these type of cars or that we shouldn't have these kind of cars. So let's get started.
This passage is going to be based on my decion about picking or not picking the cars. I think my answer to that would be NO I don't think we should have the Driverless Cars. I think that because the whole point or should i say the whole reason why everyone wanted to be able to have there own car an be able to drive by there selfs. I don't think that people want a smart car . The smart car i would use for like old an blind people.
So that is my argument that we should not have smart cars. | 1 |
2be098e | There are several advantages of limiting car usgae. A couple of them are that there would be less pollution in the air and that communities would be set up different to make it easier to get to places without having to drive to these place you could just walk instead.
One advantage of limiting car usage is that there would be less pollution. Source 4 says, "If the pattern persits- and many sociologists believe it will- it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment, since transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions." This shows that if you cut out some of your car usage there will be less carbon in the air. Which would lead to less pollution and a better living environment for everybody. Source 3 says, "It's a good oppurtunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." The person who said this was talking about the car free day that occurs in Colombia. Going just one day without your car can have an impact on the carbon emissions and help bring down the amount of air pollution in that area.
Another advantage of limiting car usage is new community set ups. Source 1 says, "But it's basic percepts are being adopted around the world in attempts to make suburbs more compact and more accessible to public transportation, with less space for parking. In this new approach, stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway." This shows that the government is willing to set up the community in a different way to limit the amount of car usage on a daily basis. Which also makes your shopping trips more convinant because the stores you need or want to go to are walking distance from your house. Source 3 says, "Parks and sports cneters also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been repalced by broad smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic; and new resturants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up. This explains how the city is being remodeled to help encourage people to start using their cars less and to be able to walk to many places instead of driving there by bringing these places closer to their houses.
There are several advantages of limiting car usgae. A couple of them are that there would be less pollution in the air and that communities would be set up different to make it easier to get to places without having to drive to these place you could just walk instead.
There are several advantages of limiting car usage. A couple of them are less pollution and new community set ups. | 4 |
2be103b | Has it ever seem hotter than it usually has to you? The sun's heat just burning the skin on your body. Does it feel like if you want to get any where you have drive in a car because it's to far to walk? Cars are our main source of transportation but it is not helping our enviroment. Gas that is used in cars send off green house gas emissions that hurt the ozone layer, a layer of gas in the stratosphere that protects us from the sun's ultraviolent rays. Many cities have started becoming car free because of this harm to the enviroment.
One of the cities that has become car free is Vauban, Germany [Source 1]. This city has found a way to become car free so that it is good for the enviroment and people can still go to stores or their jobs. What this city does is they make suburbs more compact and make store easily a walk away from a store. It mentions in Source 1 that Passenger cars are responsible for 12% of green house gas emissions. In the United states it is at 50%. All those green house emissions put a hole in the ozone layer making it hotter around the world and letting the ultraviolent rays from the sun hit our body which can cause skin cancer. The design of Vauban is used to structure other cities allowing those cities to use less cars.
The acumilation of smog can be very dangerous. in Source 2 in talks about Paris having to ban driving due to the amount of smog in city. The people driving would be fined 22 euro. The congestion of the smog dropped 60% because of the ban on driving. Source 2 states that France uses diesel fuel instead of regular gasoline due to a tax policy. Diesel makes up 67% percent of vehicles in France. Diesel fuel is harsher than regular gasosline to the ozone layer because it uses different chemicals and burns quicker than regular gasoline.
In Source 4 it talks about the United States using less cars than normal. In April 2013 the number of miles driven per person dropped by 9 percent compared to the past. It also states that the amount of young people driving has dropped 23% between 2001 and 2009. This drop in amount of people driving is very good due to green house gas emissions being the second largest source behind power plants. This drop in cars driven also causes less harm to the ozone layer. Source 4 also says that because of technology and the internet people do not have to drive to see and speak with each other. Instead they can e-mail, call, or text each other.
To conclude, with people driving less cars it becomes better for the enviroment. It allows less smog to build up and hurt the ozone layer allowing ultraviolent rays to harm us. Cities will be designed differently to acomdate the fact of using less cars by making jobs and stores closer to houses. | 4 |
2be1641 | The use of technology to read the emotional expressions of a student in a classroom is valuable because it can help teachers or even other students know when someone is struggling on a certian topic. When being able to tell if someone is struggling is important because teachers would be able to get the student extra help for them to understand the topic fully.
Letting this technology into a average classroom would be very helpful for everyone. For students it would be able to see if the lesson needs to be slowed down or if the lesson should go by quicker for the best learning experience. Dr. Huang states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored"(Paragraph 6). One big problem in a classroom for the teacher is knowing if the student fully understands the topic because most don't ask quetiosn when they are confused but with Facial Action Coding, it would remove
that barrier and let teachers know how students are feeling. It not only tells the teacher if they are confused but also if their lesson is keeping the attention of her students or if her lesson is boring to most and she can adjust the lesson with that information. In the future the teacher might not have to change the lesson themselves because, "Dr. Huang predicts. “Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.""(Paragraph 6). The new technology, Facial Action Coding, has the potential to adjust the lesson for the student in the future because sensing emotion is just the start for the new technology.
Some people might debate the opposite saying that knowing the emotion of the students is not important for them to learn because its been the same for many generations. But knowing if someone is happy during school also transfers to the life outside of school. The article states,"According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them"(Paragraph 9). Being able to put a smile on a students face in the classroom even if it a fake smile helps real happiness come out and continue to stay throughout the day as long as they are enjoying the lesson.
With this technology students and teachers would be able to see which students are sad in the classroom to see if they are having personal problems or if they need help too. Most schools care about the well being of their students but some students are to scared to ask for help but by having Facial Action Coding teachers would be able to inform the student's parents or guardians that their is something wrong if the student has a sad expression the majority of the time. Being able to have this technology to identify this probelm would help get the student the help they need in or outside the classroom.
In conclusion, the good out weigh the bad when it comes to Facial Action Coding because having it in the classrooms becomes a valuable tool for many to use. It is a great tool for teachers to help create a happier and more enjoyable learning enviroment for the students. | 3 |
2be5e7f | Having a car that does most of everything by itself would be great. However, there is a few reasons why I wouldn't perfer a smart car over a car I can drive myself. It can be unsafe when you all the sudden have to take over, not driving yourself can cause you to fall asleep and become bored, and it's not always a good thing to depend on others. It's alot better to depend on yourself while drvining the on a electronical car that can possibly malfunction at anytime. That's why I wouldn't mind driving myself.
As stated in the article, "Google cars aren't truly driverless: they still alert driver to tale over.."
is a very unsafe senerio. If a driver is depending on a car to drive them around with out there help they may not always be prepared to take over the wheel. Perhaps what if someone was putting on thier making up, doing thier hair, eating a sandwhich, etc. they may not have enough time to take over the wheel before a crash happens. However, having a car that can give you a slight break to do other things could be very help when your rushing and in a hurry because you didn't get ready on time.
"Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting thier turn to drive?" , stated in the article goes to show that since the driver is not doing anything they can get bored. A good amount of people happen to doze off and fall asleep when thier bored. If a driver "behind the wheel" falls asleep that can be very dangerouse not only for them but the drivers around them. They can go off the road or even slide into another vehicle. However, not having to drive yourself if your going on a long trip could give you a chance to relax for a little amount of time.
Sometimes depending on other people and/or things isn't very good. While depending on your smart car something could happen. Everyday some type of electrionical system breaks down. What if thats your smart car? If you depend on something electrional for exapmle your smart car anything can malfunction. You can be driving down the road and all the sudden a wire breaks and your car no longer has control of itself. However, any type of car can be unsafe and malfuction and you can end up crashing. Smart car or no smart car nothing is garunteed.
So even though a smart car can alert you unsafe situations like being to close to an object it can be dangurous at the same time. I encourage you to just go ahead and not be lazy and drive yourself around. You have a less likly chance of creating a crash or being in a crash. Its unsafe, it can make you tired or bored not driving yourself around, and its not always the best idea to depend on other things. This is why a smart car will not be on the top of my list anytime soon. | 3 |
2be7c8e | Mysterious Face Found on Mars?
The mystery of the face on Mars, true or false? The face on Mars is just a mesa landform. This is proven by Nasa's Mars Global Surveyor when it took a picture of it with a camera that had a pixel span of 1.56 meters.
Some may disagree with this because they believe scientist are hiding this "consiracy theory" from them. An evidence to prove that their is
life on Mars.
However, after reading this prompt your opinion may change.
First, it is just a landform because of all the evidence's collected from the article. In paragraph 12, it clearly states that "What the picture actually show is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa". In 1976 the picture looked like it was a face of a human becuase of the camera's quality. The camera's from 1976 to now have evolved. " Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo". This shows that the quality of the pictures differences. Last, if scientist were to really hide this "conspiracy thoery" from us it wouldn't make a difference. In fact NASA would be benifiting from it becuase how it would appear in news, radio talk shows, books, etc. Paragraph 7
" There was no alien monument after all".
Next, now some believe that this conspiracy theory is a secret hidden from us by NASA. They think the face is evidence to prove life on Mars. This is because in paragraph 8 it states that " The Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian lattitude where it was winter in April '98, a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet". They believe that this may have caused the face to be hidden in the clouds. Also another reason they may believe it is a face is becuase they might have seen something that had false information on the web. This might be becuase in the text it states that " The "Face on Mars" has since become a pop icon".
Last but not least, now that you've read this prompt is the face on Mars really a face? The face turns out to be just a landform on Mars. The pictures from 1976 were unclear tooken with a camera that had 43 meters per pixel. Then in 2001, NASA retook the picture with a camera with that had 3 times bigger pixels than the one from 1976. Last, the picture was a big evidence to the people that it was just a natural landform. | 4 |
2be962b | The Facial Action Coding System would be cool. It would be cool if it can read your expressions. It would learn to read your face. It would give you things you like. It wouldnt give you things you dont like. It would be made just for you.
The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face. All 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. It classifies six basic emotions. The six emotions are happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. The computer model will learn exactly what your thinking. This will allow it to get to know you.
The facial expressions for each emotion are universal. The software can even identify mixed emotions. Each expression is compared to a neutral face. The new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code. If you smile a web ad appears on your screen, it will know you like it. If you frown, it will know you don't.
The Facial Action Coding System will be helpful in the classroom. It would allow the computer to pop things on the screen that are a interest to you. You will be able to learn more because you will have more information on them. It will keep you focused in the classroom, and it will help you learn.
The Facial Action Coding System with its use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. After learning the 44 muscles of your face they will know what you like and you dont like. Your computer will be just for you. It will help students learn. It will also help them stay more focused. | 3 |
2bec064 | using technology like facial readingd to see what a student is feelingsin the classroom is a big step in history. i think its a fantastic idea. sometimes we humans casnt tell the difference friom a ginune or facke emotion. this computer system bybasses all of that and gets right down to business and tells us whats real and whats fake. using this new technology is a need for schools. i sometimes lie about not needing help or if im stuggling with a problem i normally skip over it or not ask for help. these facial readers reduce let the teachers know how i would be feelings and they could come to me and ask if i needed anything. the sarticle states that is the computer could tell how the student was feeling it could help the student learn by switching up problems and making it a better learning experience for the student. it could read the emotkons if studfents when they are having a tough time during a problem or when they are doing well with the emotions it reads.
the technology would benefit students because when they need help the technology either helps the teacher know whats wrong or helps the student with a better and more accurate learning experience. | 2 |
2bf6895 | Your trying to visit a new city. You have spent countless hours on a plane and first thing when you land you find out that you have to stay in the airport even longer just due to the fact the the smog outside is too bad. We must limit are car usage.
Therefore showing us the advantages of doing so. Source 1 - in a place called Vauban, Germany they have said there goodbyes to cars. As driveways and home garages are mostly forbidden. The outcome has familes saying 'when i had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way'.
Also earth is are home. Why would should we all sit back and see are selfs destroy everything we bulit. The more cars we have and use the more damage we do on the earth. Cars have a huge part in the earths greenhouse gas. In Europe greenhouse emissions are up to 12%. In the United states greenhouse gas emissions are up to a bone crushing 50%.
Source 2 - Due to all the greenhouse gas after almost record breaking pollution, Paris had to do something about the smog. They set a law that only even numbered license plates were allowed to leave there home on mondays and odd numbered on the next day. That may have lead to some problems such as late to work...ect. But after five days the smog was down 60%.
We all have are reason to useing a car,truck,ect. but too much use can lead to problems that we are faceing right now. Best parts of not useing a car are workingout by walking or bikeing. Less smog. More money in the bank. | 3 |
2bfdedf | This picture on the right shows more and more detail as the years go by. It starts to get more and more focused when the cameras improve. This is one of the reasons why it can't be aliens.
As you see, throught the years, the world has devolped better technology. We've made better cameras and have found out a way to make things even more clear. In 1976, the picture appears blurry. It doesnt look focused on it at all. So what I am trying to say is, that this could not have been clear at first and that they didn't know what they were seeing at first. It could have been there the whole time.
The texts states what the picture actually shows. It says, "what the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-- landforms common around the American West." This is a landform. Garivn states that it reminds him most of Middle Butte in the Snake RIver Plain of Idaho. People have seen this types of landforms on Earth too, and there is no aliens on Earth. they have said it's a lava dome that takes form of an isolated mesa.
In the text, it says that scientists figured it was just another Martin mesa. They even said it was common around that area, Cydonia. The only thing that was different was, that it had shadows around it. That is completly normal for shadows to appear.
According to the research I have learned, I believe that this was not made by aliens. I believe, that this is a landform. There is no scienitifict proof that an alien had decided to make this. There is no actual evidence. | 3 |
2c00451 | Did you know that there are plenty of advantages of limiting car u sage? Well your in luck im here to tell you that there are many good outcomes of not using a car.
You don't have to pay "car fees",because when do you have a car you have to park the car in a certain area and some of the places you decide to leave the car ask that you pay them to park in the space you had picked or selected.
Experts have notice that when you don't use your motor vehicle that it is a huge reduce of greenhouse gas emissions. Passenger cars are responsible for 12% of the greehouse gas emissions in Europe, but 50% is from United States car-intensive.
People claim that they wanna try to make the "World" a better place, but some are not even tring to help. While some people on the suburn lifestyle actually have been trying because they've stop using there car and started riding biking or even walking rather. Back in the day around World War II we as people in society have depended on a car. So that needs to change soon or later, because what if one day you have to be somewhere important at a certain time and that car you depend on so much blows out? What are you going to to and you won't have enough time get your car done because it would probably take about 1-2 days in the shop. Think about it in your mind do you really need to depend on a car for transportation.
"DRIVING BAND IN PARIS?" Yes Paris, France have band driving because they say that driving was polluting the air. So the people of Paris have reinforced a law that states you are not allowed to drive a motor vehicle. The only reason they had put the law because they want to clear the air of the global city since there was so much smog in the air. People of Paris were either the choice to leave their motor vehicle at home or suffer the chances of paying 22-euro fine. Since the smog had cleared up the law was rescind. See what cars do to our enviroment they mess up the climate it creates global warming which will soon kill us one day. It is much better/safe if we all in the world to aleast tried to not even bother usng a car if would all be great if we would use bikes cause they do not pollute the air we all breathe.
Well people ik get informed many different ways you or some one else reading this essayI wrote you have the power to change the way you see what cars do to us and the place we call Earth. I can try to inform you its bad and we should at least try not to use cars so much as we do today. I'm not saying you have to ut i dont think you or myself wanna die anytime soon because of global warming or any pollution our motor vehicles do well see ya! :) | 3 |
2c00a1c | The author think its a good idea but bad idea at the same time. The author said that it would be a good idea becuase it would help with drivers when they are not paying attention. It is also a good idea becuase it has a sensor on the car that stops the car when the owner doesnt see whats going on. There are also some reasons why it wouldnt be a good idea because the car could one day act up or could stop working and something bad could happen to the person. I personally think its a good idea because it will help with drunk drivers. It also has a GPS systme that helps people find where they need to go instead of having to use their cell phones.
The only thing i would worry about is if it stop working while i was driving. For example, if a car were backing out of the driveway and i didnt see it i could get into a car accident. If the brakes stopped working and i wasnt able to stop at a stop sign or stop l ight i could aslo get into a car accident that way. It aslo would help save money, because you wouldnt have to pay for gas. They can steer by themselves and they can also accelerate by themselves. There is a camer on the back of the car and it would help people if they were backing out of the drive way see if anyone is coming or not. It is also compuer controlled.
It alerts the driver if there is a road block ahead or an accident. their cars have been driven and their cars have yet to get in an accident. They alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues.General motors created a concept car that could run on tracsk that were embedded with an eletrical cable that sent radio signals to a reciever on the front end of the car. Toyota Prius made a camera with a sensor that helped with being able to see behind you. There are also anilock brakes and driver assistnace. In 2013 BMW made a car that can handle speeds up to 25 miles an hour.
There are also sensor on the wheel of the BMW to make sure the driver has theor hands on the wheel. Laws are focusing on keeping drivers safe and also pedestrians. In most states like California, Nevada, Florida, and the district Columbia it is illegal even to test computer controlled cars.Tesla is releasing a computer controlled car in 2016. I also think it will help with our future and how it will become. | 4 |
2c0db08 | The author supports their idea very well. The story is very convincing to start off. The authornmakes sure to mention a lot of evidence to back up his/her statements. The author mentions a lot of facts with another fact to prove it is true. The author did good with trying to get their point across because of all the points they made to back up his statement.
The reason I think the author did good is because the author seemed to know what they were talking about.
The author mentions how Venus is most alike to Earth. Also that is just one of the many statements the author makes. The author had also used other statements to compare to why we could go to Venus. The author even gave their own idea on what think is possible. The author uses plenty of facts to help his idea and what he/she is trying to say. The author even says how NASA is working on approachesto study Venus and that helps make the essay even better. The author does not see his idea as a risk and more as a challenge. The author seeing it as a challenge shows he confidence in his idea. The author also uses how Venus has so many things alike with earth that it should be explored.
So all in all the author made a good essay and did well supporting his idea. The author was consistent with his/her idea.
The author made sure to use important facts to support their idea. The author was well rounded and did not seemed biased with their idea and was very convincing with what they said. | 2 |
2c0e0dc | "'All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change,'said David Goldberg, an official of Transportation for America.."(para.7).There's so many advantages if we limit care usage. For instence, more money saved,more space,pollution, and no traffic.
To start off, in the article"In German suburb, life goes on without cars", by Elisabeth Rosenthal,it states "car ownership is allowed but there are only two places to park-large garages at the edge of development, where a car-owner buys a space, for $40,000, along with a home." (para2) in other words its expensive. Then it goes on and says, "'when I had a car I was always tense. I'm much more happier this way,' said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two, as she walked verdant streets where the swish of bicycles ..." (para3).Ms. Walter is more calm now that she doesnt have a car. In paragraph 5 more reasons come up. "...is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes....Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe...and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." One of many causes of greeenhouse gas is cars. Next, "in previous bills, 80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highays and only 20 percent to other transport."(para9)which means that its expensive and most of this things money is wasted on is things that cars need.
To continue, the author, Robert Duffer, of "Paris bans driving due to smog", he states "after days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city."(para. 10) this tells us that cars are dameging the air we breath. Smog gets around fast,"Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France,after five-days of intensifying smog...[The smog] rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world."(para 14)
To add on, Andrew Selsky which wrote,"Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota", says "...leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams"(para20) basically theres traffic. In paragraph 24, "' It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution,' said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife". The Selsky states, "parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have be replaced by broad, smoth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic;and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up" now you can get to your places faster with no traffic and its a smoth trip and good for business.
Furthermore, Elisabeth Rosenthal writes in her article, "the end of car culture" some advantages. "president Obama's ambitious goals to curb the United States' greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week, will get fortuitour assist from an incipient shift in American behavior: recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars,driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by."(para29) In other words not many people are driving anymore its not "cool" anymore ,if you dont drive you'll fit in more.
To summarize,there are so many advantages if you limit car use, such as money saved,more space in the streets,and help keep our air clean. | 3 |
2c11555 | Luke Bomberger became a Seagoing Cowboy he helps people whose lives had been affected by World War ll. Luke became a Seagoing
Cowboy because he knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime, as he says in paragraph one. Luke also wanted to help others who had been affected by World War ll.
Luke crossed the Atlantic Ocean sixteen times and the Pacific Ocean twice, to help countries recover their food supplies, animals, and much more as it says in paragraph two. Even though it was a long journey across the oceans and the waters were rough Luke loved being a Seagoing Cowboy and he loved to help the people.
Some people would probably refuse to go to another country that had just been through war some people would say it was to risky and unsafe well it is, some people might say that it is too dangerous to cross the ocean well it is but Luke felt that these were things that he needed to do and is something that is important to him.
Luke also got to visit many great places in between his journeys, he got to see many different places such as the Panama Canal on his way to China in paragraph five Luke says that "seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special" and "so was taking a gondola ride in Venice , Italy a city with streets of water. Luke thought that it was all so great.
But some people might say that they wouldnt go there because once again it's just too dangerous or that if they wanted to go there then they definetly not go on a boat and they would much more want to fly there. Well once again that is their opinion and Luke was happy the way that he went and was happy that he could see it and that he go to experience the jouney.
In conclusion Luke loves being a Seagoing Cowboy he loves all the sights, all the help that he can give to these other people, and that he could have this opportunity in life. | 3 |
2c157d1 | Annoyingly-Repetitive commercials, constant news interviews, and a myriad of kisses on the cheeks of stangers babies occur every 4 years. Its been the same process since the start of this country to aid in electing new presidents Designed in eloquence by our founding fathers. On the contrary I do strongly believe that the electoral college was on the lesser side of this eloquence. The grueling process, the unfairness and the overall confusion provided by the electoral college in my opinion make this "electoral college" one of the most unintelligent lesser thought out compromises that this country has ever had to abide by.
The electoral college is tiring, The process downright-grueling, and overratedly-outdated. As Americans using the electoral college keeps us hidden. We believe we have a voice when in reality the "voice" that we thought we had is barely above a whisper. According to the article "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" the author Bradford Plumer states that "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." This statement provdided by the author suggests that something so simple-sounding turns out to be so complicated. By Americans placing a vote not for themselves but for the electors it is now not in the peoples hands like the government patronizes, even though you may put in a vote to elect a democratic canidate you never know who your state assigned electors might actually vote for, are you tired yet?
In Addition, its unfair to the presidential candidates. Although a presidential candidate may be well liked by people and "win" by popular vote that does not nessasarily mean the win in the presidency Although I understand the vfact that using the electoral college ensures a winner and avoids run-off elections I still do believe that this process is highly incompotent. The article by Plumer gives the example of the fact that in the 1960's segragationists almost succedeed in fully replacing democratic electors with electors of their choice or in essence ones that opposed of Kennedy. For candidates who place their blood sweat and tears into an election just to have lost by some electors but happend to be well-liked by people is foolish. America is supposed to be a country of the equal, and with the use of the electoral college is the perfect example of why this country could not be any farther away from equal.
Furthermore, the process is confusing. Between the electors, voting and the overall uncertainty it is not worth it. Going through unneeded stress just to further confuse people is idiotic. The presidential election should be elected by popular vote and the goverment shall see to it that the peoples votes are actually counted towards something. I honestly do not believe that the title of "land of the free, home of the brave should be given to a place where the government can not even see that this scheme no longer works. Its tiring, unfair, and confusing ; all red flags that this process is in need of some serious fine tuning.
In essence the electoral college is dead. Cheating people out of their rights is dead, and schemery is dead. Our government needs a serious wake up call. They need to open their eyes to the fact that this process is no longer effective and we are not that impressionable as the ones who were before us. The electoral college needs to be laid to rest and we should be alotted all the rights that we have not recieved from this grueling, confusing, unfair process. | 4 |
2c1e68d | Many people believe the face on Mars is an extraterrestrial being. Although it may seem true, the face is a natural landform. There are many facts to show this is a natural landform.
Many scientists have seen this face as life on Mars. Some conspiracy theorists have said there is life on Mars,and NASA is trying to hide it from the people. In 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over the face, but they revealed there was no face to be seen. There was only a natural landform. Scientists have began to lose hope of ever seeing the face again. If they were ever able to find the face again, they would have money to do more investigation. Although there were no extratrrestrial beings, people still believed the face would soon appear again. Scientists are still trying to look for ways to explain it all.
Reasearchers are still looking for the face on Mars. Scientist Jim Garvin states, "So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes an the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were !" He is comparing airplanes, pyramids,and small shacks to the face which is no longer there. This statement proves that the face is a natural landform. Many landforms on Earth form then after years or even decades, they decay down to nothing. Although landforms are always forming, they are also being destroyed. Without oxygen on Mars, there is no way the face is able to survive.
Although the face is not real and is a natural landform, researchers will stop at nothing to prove it is real. Conspiracy theorists are still trying to find the truth. Little do they know the truth has been revealed, the face is just a natural landform. | 2 |
2c21b01 | Face The Landform?
Everyone seems to believe that the face on mars was created by Aliens. They say that the scientists are wrong by saying it was a natural landform. But, do they actually do research like the scientists do? There are many reasons that the face on mars is just a lanform, and here are those reasons.
First off, when NASA's Vicking one spacecraft was just circling and roaming around it came across something unexpecting. By snapping a few pictures, they believed it was a face. Later, when it was revealed to the world, people believed that aliens had made that mark on mars. The texts says, that no one has past over that "face" in awhile. So how come a few pictures identify a face by using one camera? So that's when scientist decided to investigate the face on mars.
After scientists did a little research on their own, "The Face" turned out to actually be a messa that is common around the american west. How can that be? Well, i will expect no one to believe that because for 25 years it was known as the face on mars. Scientists had to travel up to space by Mars and snap several pictures of the face. After they did their research collected thir data it came out to be a landform.
Some say that the scientists used a digital three image camera. What's the difference its just a camera. Well, that camera captured the truth about mars. For proof, if you looked online you can actually see what was really there. Even NASA's spacecraft revealed it to be a messa. So, it was just a false staement. There was no alien monument, in the first place. So for 25 years the face on Mars was actually a messa. But NASA would rather hide the truth about what they saw. So until, it's revealed as an actual face, it will be known as a messa or some peopel still say it's the face of Mars.
So with that all said, the face turned out to be a messa. So with the actual data, everyone should know that it is a messa. So wa sthe face really created by aliens, no it was not. It was really a landform. | 4 |
2c23e62 | Can you believe there's actually technology that can identify your emotions ? There's a new technology that can show a how a human is feelings. It's called the Facial Action Coding System. This system can be used to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom by showing when kids are getting bored or confused, showing if fake emotions are being used, and help produce emotions.
First off, the system can read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom by showing if the kids are bored or confused. By the computer allowing to show how the students are feelings, the teachers can look at that and they can actually change things up a bit in class. On paragraph 6 it says, " Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." Therefore, the FAC system can feel the same emotions as the students are feeling and show how the students are feeling.
On the other hand, the FAC can also identify if fake emtions are being used. When you fake a smile the system can tell when it a real smile or a forced one. On paragraph 8 it says, " Meanwhile, muscles called orbicularis pars palpabreaus make crow's-feet around your eyes.But in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideway using the zygomatic major and different muscle, the risorius." Which means the FAC knows when the smile is real or fake when the way your smile is being structured.
Lastly, another way that expressing emotions in a classroom is valuable is helping produce emtions. Making an expression can also help you feel an emotion. That way this can help the students show their real emotions. On paragraph 9, the author says, "According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotions, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emtions but, also may even help produce them. "Therefore, that can change whole mood and emotions of a students. Helps students change what they are feeling.
The Facial Action Coding System can read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom showing that the system is valuable by showing when kids are getting bored or confused, if fake emotions are being used, and to help produce emotions. So yes, this technology is very valuable for a classroom. FAC can be a great use to read humans. | 4 |
2c24e6b | Should we have a facial action coding system for schools?
I do and do not think we should. First off I think it would not be a good idea because it's gonna distract the teachers. All the teachers are gonna be worried about how the students feel. Some students do not like talking about their problems at school. The teacher is already gonna know the students emotions before they sit down in their desks. I wouldn't want my teacher knowing all my emotions. Teachers are supposed to teach you but not only just teach but be there if you need to talk to them about something. I feel like its invading privacy of the student. I think we maybe should because it might actually help the teacher learn more about their students. Some students do not like going to talk to the teacher so maybe if the teacher talks to the student they might feel more better and the teacher will also know about that as well. I think if we got it in schools right now it would probably help. | 2 |
2c2a9be | This technology can be helpful and valuable to students in the classroom. Students can use this technology to learn new things about human emtion and how different muscle groups help with aiding showing the emotion.
In the passage Dr. Huang explains how Da Vinci studied human anatomy to precisely paint the facial expression of the Mona Lisa to to show what emotion she is displaying or feeling. Huang also explains if you physically make a certain face to display a certain emotion that you will actually feel that emotion. Technology like this can also help make more detailed and expressive face for either video games or for video surgeries.
This form of technology has countless uses in either the classroom and even more types of jobs and sciences. Being able to teach hman emtion in a hands on way will help with making people and students understand what basic human emtions and how certain muscle groups help in with physically showing these these emtions and how they can be better understood. | 2 |
2c2bb64 | It might be hard to study a planet that isn't letting people explore it because how hot it is, or the different weather it gets on certain days. It will bring dangers from studying it but that is what make you want to study the planet even more. Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The three reasons i'm going to give is to why Venus is a good planet to study.
The first reason why the author should keep on studying the planet Venus is because their might be a shot possiblity humans could survive on the planet. It might be a big struggle to have any form of life, but we won't know if no one studies it. In the text it states, " Solar powers would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans." I used this sentence from the text because it's explaining how we could have life! This is a huge deal to find this out. The temperature on the planet would be toasty around 170 degrees Fahrenheit. Our sea level on this Earth to close to the air pressure on Venus.
Another reason is the similarity between Earth and Venus. Astronomers are fascinated on how Venus may have been like Earth a long time ago. They predicted that is was probably covered with large oceans and could possibly be available to the thought of form of life. In the text paragraph 4 it states, "Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys,mountains,and craters." This is a good sentence because it's saying everything that is similar to Earth. This is also another reason why the author should study this planet becuase without studying and looking for clues for this planet, nobody would know about Venus.He needs to do his research to find out if this mission is both safe and scientifically productive.
Last but not least on why the author should continue is becuase he needs to find out more about the planet and how to get rock, sandrocks, anything about Venus. The author and NASA cannot find out more because everything they have built, it get destroyed after a few hours being on the planet. In the text it says, "Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us." It may seem hard to fully understand why Venus is super hot that keeps distroying NASA's spacecraft. They understand why not another single spacecraft has touched for more than three decades.
Therefore, the author should keep going and continue his research about planet Venus. I like this quote from the passage and it says "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination" The reason I like this is becuase the author is right, no one should be limited on what they want to do because of the dangers. It might be dangerous to study about planet Venus, anything could happen and go wrong, but thats why he should keep studying to be prepared. In the end I think he should keep going, to find out more about this planet even if the dangers is there to presents itself. | 4 |
2c35c89 | Yes, I believe this technology is very useful. This could be used for a lot of different things, such as online and in the classroom. As it says in the article, "If you smile when a web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." This could totally change the internet, if you are'nt liking something you could just frown and it would either change it up or put something diffferent on the screen. Or for another instance, if you are watching youtube, and if you are'nt liking your video you just frown and they would show you a new video.
This technology also can help in the classroom, if you are doing something online for a class and you got bored, the screening would change whatever was on your screen into something more entertaining that you may like, Dr. Huang predicts, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming bored or confused, then it could modify the lesson, like an effective instructor." I would like to see this happen, especially in the classroom. If i was doing a research project or a test or just an assignment online, i would rather have it change it to something more interesting. Although this could also hurt student academically, especially if they sratrt getting behind on their school work.
This technology could also work for video games, if you are playing the same games over and over the console would be able to switch it up and allow you to play new/different games. This could definitely help improve video games, even if you did'nt own the game you wanted to play, it could let you play a free trial to see if you want to go ahead and buy it. For example, if you are playing a basketball game and start to get bored, the facial screening will see that and switch you into a different game. This technology could also put you more into the game in a way, it could possibly scan your face and put you into the game as one of the main characters.
This facial screening technology is really cool, it just seems surreal that a computer can tell you exactly what empotions you are feeling. Just like with the Mona Lisa picture, the screening said that she was 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry. This screening can tell your exact emotions with exact percents, it can do all this just through a screen. The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of your face, and scans all 44 major muscles,
Overall, I believe that this technology is very valuable to society, I mean being able to read emotions just rhough a screen is amazing. Dr. Paul Eckman did an amazing job creating F.A.C.S. (Facial Action Coding System), this system can classify six different emotions. Those emotions are happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear and sadness, and this system can also associate one of those emotions with your faciaL muscles. | 4 |
2c3b302 | This new technology
to read students emotional expressions is should serve an important role in the schools, because humans can detect emotions in faces, like in paragraph five says, "we humans perform this same impressive calculation every day." But humans dont pay attention but if there was a software that focuses strictly on facial expressions this would be a revolutionary product.
Teen suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the world! Having this new technology will save many kids also many families from grievences. Suicide ties in with depression, and people who are depressed often smile, and say "nothing" when you ask them whats wrong and likely to not tell you how they feel. But if this technology was around in schools it would save hundreds of thousands of lives every day with one advanced product. This can detect a students low amount of happiness and high percentage of sadness, like for example in paragraph 1 is how the software would work. "She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry."
This will also improve learning in the schools, if the classrooms had this technology there. Most students may not understand something but since there is a classroom full of people nobody speaks up to ask the question. This software will deminish all of that. it will detect that students dont understand and the teacher will recognize that and modify their lesson so the student will not leave the class unknowing of subject. As in paragraph 6 explaines,"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored... Then it could modify the lesson."
Therefore I am for this advanced technology to read students emotional expressions. This can save many lives, and better schools tremendously all across the world. | 3 |
2c3c7f9 | Luke had no idea life would provide him something like a job. He was working two part-time jobs, he was working at the grocery store and at a bank. Then one of his friends invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat. He knew it was a chance of a life time. Luke didn't want to say no.
Here are some reasons to join the program, I think you should join the program because to help people in need. Also World War II just finished and if the people's family members died you could go comfort them. Another reason why is " To help these countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more 44 nations joined together to form UNRRA. Also to go take care of hores, young cows, and mules that were shpped over seas.
Some of the claims are " When my draft board learned that I was on a cattle-boat trip, they told me to just keep doing that for my service." " Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China."When Luke was helping his aunt Katie when he was little it had prepared luke for hard work, but not for the dangers at the sea.
So the main point of this was to always help those in need because once you do kindness might come back to you like a boomerang. Also once when Luke was done his awareness stayed with him leading his family to host students and exchange visitors for many years. | 2 |
2c3f197 | The author suggests that stuudying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents. The
differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus because Venus is sometimes right around the corner in space terms humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land this cloud draped world.
Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humnas to study, despite it's proximity to us. For an example Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. even though Mercury is closer to our sun. High pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like errupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface.
The author really wanted to let everyone who was reading this article were sure they knew Venus is a worthy pursuit despite. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has one particulary compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. Peering at Venus from ship orbiting or hovering saftely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on gorund conditions because most forms of light cannot pepetrate the dense atomsphere, redering standard forms of photogrpaphy and videography inffective. Also Researchers cannot take samples of rock,gas or anything else ,from a distance. Scientists mission was to understand Venus would need to get uo close and personal despite the risks.
Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value , not because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself. but because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Maybe the issue why not a single spaceship has tounched down on Venus in more than three decades. Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Like today Venus still has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features sucha s valleys, mountains, and craters. | 3 |
2c44bf1 | Why is Venus worth pursuing more reasearch. In the article paragraph 2 the author states Venus if often referred to as Earth's twin. Also it is the only other planet closes in terms of desity and size.
It is also said that there has be no spacecraft to survive the landing more than a few hours. It is said to be Venus's reputations has made it challenging to study.
Paragraph 4 says "If our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface?" After that the author sates that astronomers think that Venus once was like earth a long time ago. Venus has features that are alike on Earth.
Venus has a suface of rocky sediment that may be like valleys, mountains, and craters. The author says "that Venus can sometimes be our nearet option for a planetary visit, a crucial cosideration given the long time frames of space travel.
So why is it worth studing Venus more despite the dangers.It is like a second Earth. In paragraph 7 it says "NASA is working on other approaches to studing Venus. In example some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide
have been tested in a chamber acting as Venus surface and lasted for three weeks in the harsh conditoins. So there for it will be sfae to send more spacecrafts to Venus. Then after studing more and correcting the problems. You can send people to Venus to get a better veiw on it. In paragraph 6 the say it would be smart to hover over Venus from a safe distant. Althought the atmosphere dont let you see much. Making it hard to get photos or videography ineffective.Also they can't take any sampes of rocks to test and study them from a distance. So they seek to find the best solution to land on Venus. | 3 |
2c45808 | Twenty five years ago something very uncommon happened on our planet Mars. NASA sent a shuttle taht can take pictures of anything, NASA sent the shuttle out into space. The shuttle NASA sent out was called "Viking 1". Viking 1 was a shuttle that took (past tence) pictures of plantes. NASA sent the shuttle out to look for possible landing sites for its sister ship Viking 2. As the shuttle taking pictures it spotted a shadowy likeness of a human face. The Human face had a enormous head nearly two miles from end to end. Threw the cameras it seemed to be staring back at the cameras from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia. Those are some little details about the "Human Face".
Even though i'm a scientist at NASA, some of my friends who were also scientist we all agreed it was probably it was just another Martian mesa, they were common around Cydonia, but this one had unsual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. I was dissusing the "Face" with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. I was telling him (John) we 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." But now that the word got out people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars. He was also saying "Its evidence that evidence that NASA would rather hide." Me personally believed the Face was an alien artifact.
And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, so friends Micheal Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera which we called (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times shaper than the original Viking photos. We were very anxious to see the picture... the picture revealed ... like we said a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all.
Everyone wasn't satisfied. The Face on Mars is located 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter April '98 which was a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet. The camrea on board MGS had to peer though wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze.
So then I ordered mission controllers to look again. Mars Global Surveyor is a mapping spacecraft that looks straight down and scans teh planet like a fax machine in narrow 2.5 km-wide strips.
April 8, 2001 coudless summer day in Cydonia Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough fro a second look. They had to roll the Space craft 25 degrees to center the Fce in the field of view. Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best Viking photo. Meaning in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size. So if there we objects in this pictures like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks youll know where they were.
The picture showed the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms. So they we never alien sights. Even though John never blieved what i said. | 3 |
2c46fcc | Venus is a place in space where astronauts may go to. Venus is has the hottest surface temperture of any planet on the solar system. Venus is the second close planet to the sun because Mercury is the first that is closest to the sun. Venus is sometimes called the Evening Star because it is one of the brightest points of lights in the night sky. Some people may think that that Venus is one of the most dangerous planet in the solar system.
On the planet surface tempertures can get up to 800 degrees Fahrenheit. The atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what weve experience in our own planet. Venus has the hottest temperture of all the planets in our solar system. Venus is the hottest even when Mercury is closest to the sun. Some numerous factors have think that Venus is challenging planet for humans to study.
Humans have sent numerous spacecrafts to land on the cloud-draped world. Each spacecraft they sent was unmanned. Venus is the dangerous because no spacecraft they sent survived the landing for more than a few few hours. Im assuming this is why not a single spaceship touched down in Venus for more than three decades.
NASA is working on other approaches to study Venus. They are running test on the surface because of the chaos that has happened. They are looking back on old technology which was called the mechanical computers. This was evented in the 1800s. The studying that they are having I think that it shouldn't be anymore problems with spacecrafts or anything going to Venus. | 1 |
2c4ce2c | Dear,Senator of Florida Im am writing this letter to tell you that we should keep our electoral college. Because that way there is less drama and fuzz about who shall be president. I mean regarless when you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of elctors. The electroal college is widely regarded as an thing that seems to belong to the past and not to fit in the president, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the cadidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. But the good thing is trust because each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee and that trust is rarely betrayed however it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. Yet that has happened very rarely. There is 5 reasons why we should keep electroral college, number one."Certainty of Outcome" A dispute over the outcome of an Electroral college vote is possible - it happened in 2000- but it's less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. The reason is that the winning candidate's share of the Electoral college invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote. Number two, "Everyone's President" this is a desirable result because a candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president. The residents of the other regions are likely to feel disenfranchised to feel that their votes do not count, that the new president will have no regard for their interest, that he really isn't their president. Number 4," Big States " the electoral college restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states by population lose by virtue of the mal apportionment of the senate decreed in the constitution. Number five, "Avoid run-off elections" there is no pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a majority of the votes cast; that pressure, which would greatly complicate. Those are the reason why we should keep the elctoral college it will avoid many things also bring us what we want and need. | 3 |
2c5309d | Is the "Facial Action Coding System" really going to be able to read and react to students emotions? Well this new technology can read the facial expressions of a student therefore it can change the classwork based off how the student is feeling but, a computer can't really read a students true emotions just based off their facial expressions.
The "Facial Action Coding System" created by Dr. Paul Eckman is used in a new innovation created by Prof. Thomas Huang, Prof. Nicu Sebe and their collegues. This Innovation is a sort of program that allows a computer to read a persons emotions based off their facial expressions The facial expressions for each emotion are universal, states Dr. Huang. Although the facial expressions of a person are similiar to another like smiling for example, however we may unconsciously have an expression even though we are not feeling the emotion that expression conveys.
"Empathy (feeling someone elses emotional state) may happen because we unconsciously imitate another persons facial expressions." this shows we may show an expression without truly feeling that emotion the expression suggests. Therefore can this technology really help a student in a classroom setting?
A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, Dr. Huang predicts. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor. with this said it may become frustrating or irritating to the student with the constant changes. This technology sounds very convincing but think of an emotionally challenged teenager can the computer keep up or truly read the emotions of the teen just by facial expressions alone? "Eckman has classified six basic emotionshappiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadnessand then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles.". The technology can always improve but at the state it's in right now it may not be as accurate as needed to be in a classroom setting with only having the basic emotions proggramed. Although the technology is advanced and helpful to an extent it may not be something we can use right now.
This technology is helpful but also not good enough for students to enjoy and be helpful. This technology as previously mentioned can alter the classwork a student is doing based off their emotional state. According to Dr. Huang this technology can read mixed emotions as well but with only six to go off of it may not be a truly accurate answer and may make the student feel another emotion because it could not respond properly. This technology should be tested and improved on before going in a classroom setting.
In conclusion the "Facial Action Coding System" is a technology not ready to be put in schools but is still a good innovation. The new technology can't read all their emotions just based off expressions alone but in the future change accordingly to a students emotions hopefully based off not just expressions and be ready for students to utillize. | 4 |
2c5940a | I am for the value of using this technology to read students emotional expressions because, I believe it could help many people in school the silent the mad maybe even the one's that are confused and feel to uncompfortable to ask a teacher or a fellow student for help, so if you have one individual look at a camera for a minute or two just to be able to understand what there going through, and help a little more towards that I think it's great, the reason I say this is because, in the article making mona lisa smile the author makes a statement about how the technology could help see how a student feels about his or her work or life, I know this because in paragraph six the author says a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it coud modify lessons like an effective human constructor, and
Im all for it because it doesn't just help me and does't just help you it helps the world. | 2 |
2c5957b | The computer used to reccognisze peoples emotions uses muscle but the computer is not smart enough to recognize their emotions within their heart and hypocracy,which is the opposite of an emotion,the computer also forgets that there
a talented paople and there are some some people that have mental problems,
and lastly people that get fraustrated when suprised.Sometimes when a comedian makes up a joke,he expects the audience to laugh,but in most cases 30% of the
audience find it funny out of the 100%,but if the remaiming 70% finds out that other people are laughing,they just have to follow the crowd and reduce tension
to the comedian.
From the passage,in paragraph 4,the author says that it's "unversal",but again forgets that there are unique people,just like the left handed people and people
with high IQ.This doesn't make the computer to recognize everyones emotion,
unless being forced to make an emotion,but by this,it makes the unique feel left
out which is a contributing factor to commiting suicide.And in paragraph 8,if faces of paople doesn't lie,what about people with down syndrome and thieves that escapes trials for murder,because there are some murderers that calls the emergency themselves as an acs of deceiving.And as for student,they happily
cheat in the examination,but when the teacher asks"how was it",the student will reply in a sad tone saying that "it was too hard".
In conclusion,i hope i've been able to paddle my boat to it shore,by telling the readers the impossible reasons,why technology can't be used to recognize a student emotional expression. | 3 |
2c5df89 | The aunthor supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despit the danger",Venus is the closest planet to Earth terms of destiny and size and occasionally the closet in distance too. Earth, Venus, and Mar our other planetary neighbor that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus. Because Venus is sometimes right around the corner in space terms human have sent sumerous spacecraft to land on this could-draped world. " Venus has the closest planet to Earth that they are the same of destiny and size and Earth, Venus and Mars have the same orbit sun at their different speeds but Venus had the right around the corner in space sometimes. " Venus has the hottest suface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even through Mercury is closer to our sun." Venus is very hottest than planets in the solar system. Venus and Mercury are the hottest planets in the system that they are danger than planets. | 1 |
2c5e0fd | In this article the author presented both positive and negative aspects of the driverless cars. I believe that the a person should be driving a car at all times. First, the driver cannot be mad at anyone other than himself. Next, if you start doing that anyone can be in a car and people will be asking to lower driving ages and other things like that. Finally, you cannot go back and sue the company for the car hitting someone it was completely your fault not the companies.
The first reason I think people should drive cars is the driver cannot be mad at anyone if he/she gets in a wreck. The whole problem with accidents is that no one will admit they started the wreck. If you were to make the car drive by its self more people would be making the excuese of it was the cars fault. In the article it talks about the people going back and arguing with the company for the car. It wont be better for society it will make people be more of a excuese person and not take the fault for what they did. With people still driving there will be no reason to argue about it being the cars fault it was yours.
Next if you make the cars drive themselves everyone will want to get in a car and they will want to lower the driving age. If the car can drive itself they believe there is no room for fault. The car wont get in wrecks and anyone can be in the wheel. That is where more people will be arguing about the driving age and to lower it to allow younger people to be in control. The younger you are the dumber your choices are. If you let a younger kid get behind the wheel the car still might get in a wreck.Then everyone will go back to yelling at the company and no one can blame them you were arguing about making the age lower to drive.
Finally, if we keep people behind the wheel you cant go sue the company for the car getting in the wreck. With the person being in control of the car no one can be to blame other than you and the other driver. No one can go sue the company looing for money. They can use their own money for the damage they caused and rightfully need to fix. They need to be acountable for the damage they did and fix the problem that they caused. They shouldnt be able to put all the blame on the car and go back and sue the company that developed the car.Also think about all the money that is being put into these cars. So all together to sue the company and make the cars there is to much money being involved.
In conclusion there are many reasons why I believe cars should be driven by a person. First, the driver cannot be mad at anyone but himself for causing the wreck. Next, everyone will want to get in a car and they will want to lower the age on driving. Finally, if we keep people driving they will not be able to go back and sue the company for the car getting in the wreck.That is why I believe cars should be droven by people not autopiloted. | 4 |
2c5f6ae | Agreeing to the developments of smart cars has it's advantages but it also has it's disadvantages. Some smart cars can be developed to not have the need for a human to be responsible at anytime. Others disagree with the idea and think this idea should stop. In my opinion I disagree with the development in smart cars.
The inventors of these smart cars say that they have sensors to know if the human is paying attention but having smarter cars for that reason can be dangerous. Many people have had accidents and many of those accidents have been fatal. All those accidents need is for the person to take his/her eyes off the road for a quick second. At this moment they have cars that can drive themsleves but also need assitance once in a while but anyone can say "Oh I've got my eyes on the road" but in reality they are more distracted than a child playing toys. Many people can trust a car at it's job for one second but lose their life the next. Smart car development is not the smart way to go.
If furtists develop a car that can do its job with no human assistance at all, of course people will start buying but I guarantee more accidents occur. These car companies can't guarantee you that the car may turn off, that the car will stop working out of no where. Anyone can be driving and thinking the car has everything under control they start putting their mind into other things like texting, calling, writing, and even changing in a car because they're late to their destination. You can't always trust technology because there is something that can always make it go wrong. People will be unaware of everything going on around them when their eyes, ears, and mind aren't neccesary on the road. When the time comes on who's fault it was that the accident occured the question will be whose fault was it really the manufacturer orr the drivers? If you would've kept your eyes on the road and tooken responsibilty you'd be able to prevent being in a room where your freedom is to determined all because of one "smart car." | 3 |
2c60d12 | I would be against the self driving cars. There are plenty of reasons. They could always breakdown and instead of being able to fix a flat or something, it could be worse like the circut blew on the GPS or something. The cars could get into more accidents than actual people could cause. The cars could misslead you to your destination. Those are just a few things that could go wrong.
The reason I am against this is because, it would cost so much to get the parts fixed. The parts that you need the; GPS, Sensors, Radar, ect. "Radar was a device ona hilltop that cost 200 million dollars (paragraph 6, line 7-8)". So no mater what the cars are not worth that much. It simply is going to cost more to fix one of these cars than it is to a regular car.
Another reason is that, what if we do get the cars. If we get the cars whole bunch of laws will be changed. If they change the laws on cars what would happen to the people who still drive themselves without anyone else driving them. "...if traffic laws change, then laws will be needed in order to cover liabillty in the case of an acciedent (paragraph 9, lines 9-11). So if they change laws then people would have to learn a whole bunch of different laws.
Another reason is, what if technology fails on the car. What would happen if you got into a wreck? What if it wasnt your fault, it was the car? " If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at falt--- the driver or the manufacturer? (paragraph 9, lines 11-12)". If the car breaks down and causes an accident it could hurt someone really bad if not kill them.
There are plenty of reasons why driverless cars shouldn't be permited on the streets. It could cost alot, hurt alot of people, and or cause people to have to learn alot more than what they need. So intend I am against having driverless cars. | 3 |
2c64ebc | Driverless cars should begin to be developed because they can be helpful in many ways. Driverless cars can change the world. They should begin to be developed because they have sensors that allow them to alert the driver when they detect danger, they alert the driver when they need to take over, and they are
working on making them as safe as possible.
The driverless cars have sensors that allow them to alert the driver when they detect any danger. In the article it says, "GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object." The car has many sensors that allows it to detect any danger so the driver is alert about it. They are working on improving sensors, which means they will be safer, and the driverless cars will be able to handle more driving tasks.
Even though the cars are driverless, they still alert the driver when they are needed to take over. Many times the road may require human skills, so the driver will need to take over. In the article it says, "Google cars aren't truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigation through roadwork or accidents." Even though many people would want the car to be completely driverless, that may still be very helpful. It can prevent some accidents from happening, in case the car isn't able to function correctly during those conditions.
The manufacturers are trying to make driverless cars a safe as possible. They have many sensors to alert the driver when there are signs of danger. In the article it states, " Such diplays 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, and safety is a big concern." As it says in the article, safety is a big concern. In case of danger the driver will be notified, therefore many accidents may be prevented.
Driverless cars could change the world in many ways, and they could be very helpful. There are many ways in how they will be helpful, and some of them are because they can alert drivers when they detect danger, they notify the driver when they need to take over, and they are working on making the driverless cars as safe a possible. Those reasons support the idea that driverless cars could be a big change in the future, which is why they should be developed. | 4 |
2c6bc1c | Should the Facial Action Coding System be used in a classroom environment? Would being able to tell a students emotions help with giving them the lesson? I think it would for a few different reasons.
I think the Facial Action Coding System should be used inside and outside the classroom. It would help the teachers know what is going on inside the students heads. In which then they could give the lesson in a way that the students could feel better about their work. This also would help the teachers know what may be happening in he students lives. The Facial Action Coding System could also be used to look at pictures of people and see what their emotions were when that picture was taken. The Facial Action Coding System could and should also be used at everyday jobs. It would let the employees boss/bosses know what emotions they are feeling while working. Which would then let their boss/bosses know whether to fire them or change their work environment. Which in the long run would lead to happy, not as upset, or any other positive emotions the employees could have.
The Facial Action Coding System should definitly be used in classrooms, and even in the workforce. I think this technology should be released to the public as soon as possible. Even though most people can read others facial expressions just by looking at their face. | 3 |
2c6c2bf | When you join the Seagoing Cowboys, you join a year of adventure. When you join, you get to take care of animals like horses, cattle, and more. Soon enough you'll know everything there is to know about taking care of them like feeding, washing, grooming, and even playing with them. "It's an oppurtunity of a lifetime."
Not only do you get to take care of animals, you get to sight see as well. "It's an unbelievable oppurtunity for a small-town boy" says a cowboy named Luke "Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special," he says. So was taking a godola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water." Imagine seeing beautiful cities that you always wanted to see, right in front of your eyes.
And finally, when you join, you get to have fun. On board, especially on return trips after animals have been unloaded, the cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. You can play table-tennis, fence, box, read, whittle, and other games to pass the time.
Becoming a Seagoing Cowboy is more than an adventure, it opens the world to you. Luke says. "I'm grate ful for the oppurtunity, it made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." The awareness will stay with you, and you will feel good for the res of your life. | 3 |
2c6fc89 | The technogy that there using it looks wonderful explain every single details how the techonology works and how the testing are. It explain that they make a machine that can read face and pictures just like the Mona Lisa face, they describe that
Mona lisa have 83 percent happy , 9 percent disgusting, 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry. They explain this just because of a software computer read Mona Lisa face.
The coumputers are very smart at this time but a computer that reads face is a little bit complicated because they can do almost everything that a human wants but reading face is not so hard. Using technology to read emotions expressions of students in classroom is not so good because students can read faces too. A lot of people can read faces even if your mad or not people can see emotional in other faces .
The process of the software computer begin when the computer constructus a 3-D computer model of the face. it explain that thhe computer jus move muscle and the way faces move like in paragraph 3 describe " all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Movement of one or more muscles is called an action unit ". this mean that they read the muscle in the face to explain what motion humans do.
Reading faces is not so hard you can see people if they are happy,angry or sad is not so hard if see someone laughing you can tell that the person is happy or something make happy that person, like in the artticle say " In fact, we humas perform this same impressive " calculation " every day . For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." this mean that most people can show feelings on their face. Of course some people have trouble to describe faces because some people doesn't show feelings and other do.
How people feel it depends on them. most people are happy and others sad but every single people can be happy it depends on them not in other persons. The people that are always happy are the ones who thinks positive the ones that love their self a machine can read their faces but the machine doesn't know that humans can change their mind in less than an minute we can be happy and then we can be sad for a sad news but for the computer it will take time to know when human change emotions because it has to read I again the whole face , compare to us the human can see fast when other person get sad. like a quote it say "The Mona Lisa desmonstrate ir really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much this computer can do". this mean that the computer is smart it can read faces .
The technology is good for in some reason but reading faces too easy for human and humans doens't need a computer to tell hom the other person is feeling becuase humans can read faces too. their is no reason that human need a computer to tell them when ever a person is sad or happy. Humans can just look at their faces just to see of they are happy or sad. | 3 |
2c70d54 | Yes, I believe that using this technology can be used to read students' emotional expressions. I think this type of technology could improve the way we learn and live today. We have everything we need to make / build things that could inprove our future, we just have to be more percice and pacient with what we do in our work.
In paragraph 6 the author says "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." If this statement is true then it's also possible that the computer can change or "modify the lesson" to make it easier for the student to learn, "like an effective human instructor."
If this technology was used on a wider or more broad scale there would be so much more learning going on and it'll be easier and also more fun. Students' would actually like coming to school morre ecause this type of technology could improve our lives so much and we could learn so much more. | 2 |
2c70dc8 | Do you really think the new software the "facial action coding system" works? As crazy as it sounds, the answer is yes. By scanning your face you'll be able to see the muscles that move on your face to decide the emotion you have. Techology today is greatly advancing and advandcing fast.
It all begins when the3-D computer scans your face for all 44 muscles.That way they can tell you what mood your in. In the text it says " For example, your frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above the eye) rasies your eyebrows when your suprised". This quote connents to the claim becuase it gives you a visual on what muscles describes your emotion. Dr. Paul Eckman believes theres six basic emotions-happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear and saddness. Each characteristic has a movent of the facial muscles. Theres a differerce between expression and emotion. expression is just the face you make at the moment your doing somehting. emotion is how you feel. In the Text it says " Its all about those muscle action units. The computers can even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one. In the real smile, the Zygomatic major( muscles that begin at your cheek bone) lifts in the corner of your mouth". This relates because it explains how the computer can tell the diffence in between a real smile and a fake one.
Through all the information, do you think the "facial coding system" works? It tells you about the muscles that moves in your face. Also it explains that the computer and about how it scans your face with a 3D computer model. Plus the fact that computer can tell if your emotions are fake. Now since you have a little more information about how all this works you can decide if its true or not. Technology is getting better theirs no end on what scienists can do these days. | 3 |
2c71277 | Driverless cars are not safe they are not safe because the car is driving it's self, but a human still has to be holding the wheel. There could be more accidents like this then normal. People are not going to be able to drive if it comes to the point where all cars are driverless some people would agree, and some would disagree like in this story. The cars can only handle driving functions up to 25mph how it says in paragrapgh seven. Some states also dont like the fact that there are driverless cars.
In some of the states it is illegal to do a computer test on the cars this is stated in paragraph nine. Some of the cars have been driverless since 2009, but not all the way. If there's an accident it would be the technology, technology is always not correct. This is not a good idea some of the people would get bored how Dr. Werner Huber said.
Driverless cars would change the world how it's stated in the first paragraph. Why drive then? Why not ride a taxi, bus, or train instead of having a car that you can not drive. They should not make every car this way just some, and leave the rest how they are. That way there won't be arguments with other people. | 2 |
2c73a1c | so today i will be talking about my opion and how i feel about his whole little computre experssing reader and how do it will it worki and i feel that affects people hosnlty i feel like thats a bad isea because dont nobody want noody all in they bussuins iyou should let people feel how they wanna feel read more to find out how i feel about this whole techonalgy fellings/mood reader
According to the packge i just read the computre is a 3d modle that tells reather you sad or happy or any other mixed emotions someone can have if you sad this ad will pop up if you make a angery face anorther will pop up to make sure they read it rigth honstly i feel like this the dunbst idea every because it seem like technolgy is just taking over the world as it all ready .
I feel liek you should just leave people alone becauseif they feeling some type of way let them be stop always trying to be nosiey be and somebody bussins its not right stop trying to be caption save o let people be let them leave they life then if people find out you sad gthry going to be all up in your face like just leave people alone and let them be
In Conclusion i think the idea is stupid ion think you should do it yall just letting tecnolgy take all the way over i feel yall shoukd just let people be if somebody want someone to they moody they will tell them maybe talking about it make them madder then what they is you never know thsts why its important to mind your bussins | 2 |
2c75ee1 | venus is a worthy pursuit because there are many things that could be on there and many other thnigd that we have yet to explore.
Like the author says in the article 'venus is a challenging planet to explore". we could explore the planet in many other ways that would work. nasa has a idea about having the blimp about 30 milesabove the surface which would help the studying of the planet venus and help promote exploration and pioneering of the planet. Also the planet venus is much like earth othe than the high levels of carbon dioxide and tempertures, but us humans have many methods as the author says summerized which would help humans survive on t he planet and possiblt becom habitably. more information to support the other is that we havent sent any probe or anyting to venus in 50 years and now in the age that we are living in now we have significance amout of better and highl advanced technology and computers that could help with this motive.
The author has many claims to help pursuade humans to explore mars and he or she does a very well job of doing it. BUt therefore humans must go to venus ans the author claims it would help people and all of the people | 3 |
2c7af05 | Who is at fault when the technology fails and someone is injured? When there are positive aspects and negative aspects of dirverless cars, one should think about who will take responsibilities. Driving driverless cars could be seen as advantage to some but could also be seen as disadvantage for some.
I believe that driving driverless car is more dangerous than today's car. The cars could have postive aspects such as the speed and the fuels uses. The cars could have negative aspects too. In paragraph 7, the article stated that the GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vihicle is in danger of backing into an object. If we can make an example, people could have not notice the vibrate if they don't sit at the dirver seat.They could be resting at the back of the car while the car is driving it self. On the same paragraph, it also said that Manufacturers are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road. I think installing cameras inside someone's car is unneccessary because everyone has privacy that they want to protect.
Driving driverless could be advantage for many people. The cars would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus. That is something that would be able to change the world. The car can handle dirivng functions at speeds up to 25 mph. Sensors being advanced could be advantage to this driverless car. The information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power fromt he engine. That could help the human driver to control when they are managing it alone.
Driving driverless could be dangerous as the founder of the Google Car project stated. The car would not need driver but drivers still need to control it. Now, that is not something that could be called as driverless car. Paragraph 7 stated "special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." The car can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to alert the driver when the road ahead requires human skills. Then, this means the people who drive must remain aleart all the time. This had lead to questions on people's safety.
Ultimately, there could be postiive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Many people may have felt more relief because they do not have to worry about speeding up more than they used to. In other way, there may be people who opposed to this idea. They may felt like there are more dangers in it. I believe that safety is a big concern when it comes to driving. The questions that is still lingering is that who will take responsibiites when accident happens. | 4 |
2c7d7f3 | I think that the use of technology to read the emotions of students in a classroom is valuable , because they can read how you feel as in if you are happy Susan can read how happy a person is , she can read if something is discusting to you as an example bugs , they are gross if Lola had seen a bug she would get sick to her stomach. Computers can also read if you are scared or angry If there was a painting hanging on a random wall she could read who made the panting, what brand of colors used, which type of paint brushes invested , she could even find out where the painting was created and or if robert was still alive . It's actuallyamazing how computers can even tell what state or city the painter was from and also about his colleauges he worked with. These computers can construct a 3-D computer model of the face too. | 2 |
2c8144c | Many cliams say that venus is in habitbal but it colud be beacuse one venus was a planet where they had ocean like places but the carbon dioxie leaves are to high to even land there. Many say that venus is earths twin and they have the same size and the same closeness to the sun. Venus had a 97% of carbon Dioxide atmosphere. Venus is very unihabital because the average is over 800 degrees. Sinceist say that this planet is unhiabl because of it atmospheric presure is 90 times more that our own planet. So people say why should we even explor this place?. Well sinceist say it a greate way to see if we colud put some chimical in there so we3 can lower the degrres and the atomic pressure. NASA Sent over a ship that orbitis slafly over the planet. NASA May use old technlogi to complete this misson because its more agenst the temps there. | 1 |
2c81e5c | Everybody knows the future is coming and it's already happened to some of us. Driverless cars however, is not at all a good idea for the future what so ever. You can never one hundred percent trust technology, no matter what the case is. Driverless cars are not fully finished, are not truly driverless, and are very unsafe.
Driverless cars are not even finished. As stated in the text, "These smart road systems worked suprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical." They are very expensive to have all this technology put into the cars. Most of all they can actually steer, accelerate and brake themselves, but only that. It also states that Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by the year 2020, which actually means that we are 4 years away from the "real thing" that is unless they release earlier or later.
To add on, the "driverless" cars are not at all truly driverless. The car requires humans to do "human skills" in case the car is having difficulty. As quoted in the 7th paragraph, "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills. If the cars were truly "driverless" then why does it require humans to do work. Although, I have to agree that humans need to do all 100% of the work in any type of car no matter what the condition.
Driverless cars are very unsafe. You can never completely trust technology no matter how long you have had it or it's been in your life. So many humans in the world text and drive now so imagine how bad it will be once "driverless cars" appear in the future. If the driver is texting and the car needs human skills to navigate through an unknown or unfamiliar terrain, the driver will have no clue because he or her's face will be stuck in a phone or some other type of handheld device.
Driverless cars are a not the brightest idea because they are unsafe, not truly driverless, and are incomplete. Everyone needs to focus on driving and the road and not in their cell phones while on the road. Don't be that person that everyone is cautious about because you are unsafe and not cautious. Be safe and don't get a "driverless" car, get a normal car. | 4 |
2c83487 | keeping the
Electoral College would be the best choice. Selecting the Electors,the meeting for the president and vice president,and the counting of electoral votes by congress is a better idea than 60 percent of voters prefering a direct election to kind we have now. I understand that under the
Electoral College system,voters vote not for the president but for a slate of electors,who turn elect the president. If you lived in texas for instance and wanted to vote for john kerry you'd vote for a slate of 34 democratic electors pledged to kerry,On the off-chance that those electors won the statewide election they would go to congress and kerry would get 34 lectoral votes. Each candidate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen by the candidates,s political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their reponsibilities are. At the most basic level the
Electoral College is unfair to voters because of the winner take all system in each state,canidatdes dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning.
Election by popular vote for the president of the
United States
Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral votes compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and romney becausw almost all states award electoral votes on a winner take all basis even a very slight plurality in a state creates a landslide electoral vote victory in that state. A tie in a nationwide electoral vote is possible because the total number of votes 538 is an even number,but it is highly unlikely but each party selcts a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. Yet that has happened very rarely. It happened in 2000, when Gore had more popular votes than bush yet fewer electoral votes,but that was the first time since 1888 thats happened. there are five reasons for reraining the electoral college despite its lackof democratic pedigree all practical reasons not liberal or conservative reasons. A disput ove routcome of an electoral college vote is possible it happened in 2000 but it's less likley than a dispute over the popular vote. | 1 |
2c8ea49 | The face on Mars wasn't created by aliens, in fact it has no connection to alien life form at all! When the face was first discovered no one had really known much about it so people started hopping to conclusions before anything could be proven or tested. That is until NASA started looking into this "face on Mars". The face is actually a huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. That's it- simply a rock formation but the shadows casted upon the crevices gives the strange formation the appeal of a human face. When people began to become even more skepical, on April 8, 2001, NASA had the Mars Global Surveyor draw close enough to snap another picture of the face. The day was a cloudless summer day in Cydonia. NASA's serveyor camera had taken a crisp photo of the face in highest resolution. "Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel." so you can discern things in a digital images three times better than the pixel size. So NASA, and the rest of the world, had a more clear and better picture of the face everyone was talking about. Although the face may seem strange, it could be a rather common landform for Cydonia. "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesalandforms common around the American West." Although this one may seem to stick out from the rest, it could merely be the shadows playing tricks on the human mind. "Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." The landform may very well be common around Mars, it's merely the shadows ghosting around the landform that causes it to look like a face! So in reality, there is no alien life form connected to this rock formation at all! | 3 |
2c8f20b | The electorial college is one of the worst things to happen to america. there are so many reasons why but i will just give you three. It does not allow us to vote for president anymore. It's a lazy system. The voters have a right to pick yet it's not up to use it's up anyone who is not in office. The electorial system has just to may flaws.
The first reason is it doesn't alow us to vote for president anymore. The goverment has someone high in power of each state deside even if it's not true its who they want and how they want it. The electorial vote was created by some people high in power. Richard Nixon Jimmy Carter Bob Dole The U.S.A. chamber of commerce the CIO AFL all created the electorial vote mind you that all were know for bad ideas.
The second reason is It's a lazy system. Before some had to count all votes now no on has to count them the leaders of the states do it for them they pick who they feel and thats it. At any point in time there could be a tie because there is an even number of voters. Someone could even lows there presedince even if he gets the most votes.
The third and final reason is the reason that we use the electorial vote. We use it because its cheaper that way. The government wont tell u but its a cheaper way of voting. They know that if we use there way the money will come out of our pockets not theres so the have us use this way in stead.
Well there you have it there is why an electorial vote is bad. I will give them this it is easier. But still there are so many reasons why its bad. We dont even vote anymore the leader of a state does. Its lazy and bab for either candidate. The electorial vote has been and will always be a bad way to vote and a bad thing for America and its history. | 3 |
2c90891 | Ever wonder how the world would be without cars? Some advantages would be, cutdown on smog, less traffic jams, and much less car incipients. The world would positively be changed. Paris has already taken action to fight against the crisis of these negative effects on the city.
Parking is one problem about going somewhere like the beach and you cant be close to the beach because someone is already there. VAUBAN, Germany-Residents of his upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms oc commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars, according to Elisabeth Rosenthal, source 1, paragraph 1. Therefore, car accidents may happen at a higher chance, due to the overload of cars on the road. Cars are best used for far traveling and can go much faster and carry more of a load when going on a 200 mile trip, I would not want to have a bike.
According to source 2, Robert Duffer, claims in paragraph 1, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. They put a 22-euro or $31 fine on anyone that did not leave their cars at home, according to paragraph 2. During that fine, 4,000 drivers were fined. Reducing car use can make the air or sky clear without smog, Diesel fuel was to blame. Paris has typically more smog than other European capitals, because Diesel makes up 67 percent of vehicles in france.
Remember those time comsuming traffic jams that cause you to be late for just about anyhting? Moreover, limiting car usage can stop all those incidents and can clear up all of the roadways. Bikes, trams, city buses, can change the world of pollution. Delivery companies complained of lost revenue, while exceptions were made for plug-in-cars, hybrids, and cars carrying three or more passengers, according to source 2. The bikes through the city can be more friendly and also give opportunity for getting to know your neighbors in your neighborhood.
Reducing the car use will definetly benefit lots of people. What do you think the world would be like without cars? Would the deletion of cars set us apart from shipping? The people that enjoy traveling, they would have to switch to a hybrid or gas friendly car in order to save the environment and money. | 3 |
2c91690 | When i hear people say they are going to buy a car that can drive its self I always seem to get into a argument with them. It's not that i know someone is smart enough to do that but what's the reason. I see it as if u dont wanna drive then hire someone to drive for you. Having a car that does that is kinda scary in my eyes. Just all the technology that someone has to put into to blows my mind. In the article they went on about say how they have the google car that has gone over half a million miles with out a crash but I truly think thats on roads with nobody else on it. For a car to know when and where to go is easy only thing u got to do is have a gps system but for a car to know when it has to stop all of a sudden is hard. You never know whe you have to make a quick turn so u wont hit anybody or stop fast cause someone hopped out into the street. The way some people drive now a days the car would not know what to do. You could be just laying back in the car that drives it's self and a car cuts you off instead of u being focus on the road your relaxing and you hit and kill someone. Is it your fault or the cars? So in my eyes having cars that can drive them self is not good right now. Their is still of testing to be done. That also mean laws will have to be made just for the person who owns one. The article also went on to say that to alert the driving something bad is about to happen by having the seat vibrate. Thats not a good way to alert someone i'm going to need sounds or something. I just think they should just work out all the kinks first then put the cars out on the lot with data showing you it's save to have one. | 3 |
2c95040 | The use of this technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because many students have a hard time in school and with this technology computers could learn whether or not a student is mad, happy, sad, etc. Just from a computer screen reading their facial expressions. So if a student is happy and smiles at a computer screen an ad will pop up but if you then frown, the next ad will be different.
In the article it talks about a classroom computer that could recognize when a student is bored or confused, Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." If the computer could do that more students wouldn't be bored anymore because of the computer reading the student's expression,Which would keep kids interested in their school work. Which could keep more kids in school and would lead to higher education and more graduated students every year.
With this technology scientists could study how kids emotions get them when they are at home, school, etc. Which could lead to more better info about kids when they are at different locations. The Facial Action Coding System is very important because It can judge emotions and can keep people happy It has to be valuable. | 3 |
2c9e52a | If you want to believe that the face on Mars was created by aliens, that is fine, but we have evidence that it was not. The reason behind this is that like a lot of parts of Earth, it all naturally happened. Even if we find a clearer picture we have comfirmed in 2001 that it was just another natural landform And in the more clear picture, this face is the same as buttes or mesas commonly fond in the American West.
As we have been looking for more evidence we have gotten clear picture one after one, just to show that there was nothing left behind from aliens at the time. That was just the beginning. If we really have found a ancient artifact, then we would have started collecting small bits and pieces to examin them. Now, lets say that we did find that aliens created these lanndforms. We probably would have let more pictures to be seen to show proof of what we found.
Yes, there was also a thing during our winter where that everything on Mars is also hazy so that could be why we have been left to conclusion that it just naturally happened. However, if the monument gets abandoned every once in awhile then there could tools and items left back at it. If a landform was man made or in this case alien made, then there would be mistakes made, changes every once time.
As in an article that was read not that long ago, Jim Garvin says that the face on Mars looks about the same height as a Middle Butte in Snake River Idaho. This means that it was no matter what others say, it is just a natural landform that has just happened to look like a face. As from what Garvin said, "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars."
For that being so, the face is not an alien monument. The landform just has happened to be there and look like some face. Which if you still want to believe in the fact it could an alien thing that is fine. We have no alien evidence at all. | 3 |
2c9e6a6 | One way we know that is was now created by aliens i that there was no sign of them when we went to Mars.
Plus we know that it is to hot for there to be living creatures.
Most all of us have has known that mars broke away from the sun that is why it is so hot there. Mars is a big hit in movies, books, magazines, and talk raidio shows.
Some of the people that has went to Mars have taken pictured of what looks like faces in the outer layer of the planet.
How we knew Mars is off of the sun is that it is close to it and it looks identical in almost all the ways possible.
Mars is called the red planet cause of its enormous amount of red on it.
which leads to say it is from the sun.
Plus it is close to 100+ degrees on the planet plus the heat of the sun doesn't help that at all.
Researcher still wanna way to find out how to make it where people can live on any of the planets.
But there is one problem there is no oxygen up in space so those up there would die in a matter of seconds.
I think Mars could be a bad planet to keep going on cause there are more things thhat can go wrong up there. They risk lives every time they r up in space.
If one thing is done incorrect the hole thing fails and then some lives amy be lost.
That is all i have to say about this topic of Mars. | 1 |
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