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30e1b7b | It could be a opportunity of a lifetime to travel over sea's and be a Seagoing cowboy. It can lead your family to host a number of international student to help educate them in learning like school for them. You can help people with their needs and other countries that suffer without food or water. Being a Seagoing cowboy can lead to many different adventures in life.
Luke said for being a Seagoing Cowboy he lead his family to host lots of international students and exchange visitors for many years. He overthought about going too but he just couldn't just skip this opportunity of a lifetime. He also didn't know his life would change really quick right after high school graduation. World War II was over in Europe and many countries were left in pieces.
Luke was very suprised about going over sea's.
It took him about two weeks for him to cross the Alantic ocean. It also took him a month to get to China because he was so far away from China. He has helped out his Aunt Katie's farm as a boy. Which had made him brave enough to cross the oceans just him and some other people on board of the ship or boat.
That's why I think Luke should presuade other people to join the Seagoing Cowboys. It would be a great opportunity for them. They would get to experience and see some really good, beautiful things out there. There might be some slips and falls but they would probably be fine like Luke did he fell and sliped up he ended up being fine. | 2 |
30e3b93 | Venus is the second planet from our sun. each previous missions was unmanned, and for good reason, Since no space craft survived the landing for more than a few hours. In this problem explains why not a single spaceship has touched doen on venus in more than three decades. A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Also the planet is referred to as Earth's twin. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and indcludes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters.
Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study. Even more challening 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 peole experience on earth. Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface. A vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way.
Venus was a dangerous challenging for humans. Before land on the planet scientists had to study and even thought Venus is like earth, But more temperatures on the surface. No one cant even make it by its limited dangers. Systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces. Good thing is many researchers made new upgrade machines to last long enough to understand Venus. | 2 |
30e7e7a | The author somewhat supports the idea Venus is worthy of exploring despite all dangers. Our author thoroughly explains all of the dangers to expect in Venus, but fails to include much reason as to why we should explore it. The main purpose of this article is to explain the dangers.
The main reason to explore Venus, according to the author, was it's possibilty that it was once like Earth. In paragraph 4, the author explains, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." They further explain that it could've supported life, and still shares some aspects of Earth like mountains and craters.
However, why would this be worth the risks and dangers that humans would face trying to explore it? The author fails to explain how this could be beneficial to us on Earth. The author then goes on to tell of possible solutions to get a better study from Venus. But, none of them seem effective. In paragraph 6 the article states "researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance." It is evident that the current methods of studying Venus would prove unproductive.
Despite the possibilities of exploring Venus, they all have very big risks and dangers. The article states that the conditions of Venus are far too extreme for any humans on Earth. Why risk lives of people to just maybe learn a thing or two about Venus? The article responds that the "human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." But, fails to further explain how or why this would be useful.
In conclusion, the author fails to support why exploring Venus outweighs the dangers. The article does not go into much detail. Many questions are left unanswered such as, what kind of information would we get out of this? Why is this worth risking lives and money? Although the possibility of learning about life on other planets would be extraordinary, the dangers of losing human lives and expenses should be a factor in deciding if its worth it. | 4 |
30ee72d | Being a Seagoing Cow is great way to get to know and see more things about other countries. In this draft I will talk about why you should become a Seagoing Cowboy. When you become a Seagoing Cowboy you are helping others and at the same time you are having fun. When you arrive at your destination you are not only delivering goods but you are seeing many amazing buildings, landmarks, statues, and more.
Being a seagoing cowboy is hard work but it is for the greater good, as in helping others during World War Two. A way to start can be by getting offered by a friend or offering a friend. After the War, people in different countries needed supplies, and fast, so a Seagoing Cowboy could get the jobs done. Making the world a better place is a good thing to do. Plus when you do so you feel good that you have done something that has helped others.
When you are done dropping off your load you have a lot of extra time on the way back so you can play games like table tennis, baseball, volleyball, fensing, boxing, reading, whittling, and other games to pass the time. Traveling all around the world can show you that a lot of countries are in need of food and help.
It will take a while to cross the sea to where you are going, and if you have animals on the ship you have to feed almost all animals two or three times a day. Ypu have to be up for the hard work of cleaning animal stalls, feeding animals, night shift watching, and more.
I hope you want to become a Seagoing Cowboy, and enjoyed the draft. That's what I have to say about becoming a Seagoing Cowboy and why you should become one. | 3 |
30ef32c | I do not believe in driverless cars. Driving is something we look forward to. Once we get our license and can drive all that hard work is paid off. If computers drive for us then what is the point of having to wait?
I believe that if we, humans, have computers do everyhting for us then what will there be for us to do? I happen to really enjoy driving. If computers drive for us then who knows if there will be a maufunction and it wrecks without warning. While the author did say that the car alerts the so called driver if there is any need for human help, how will it be able to tell if it is a cunstrustion site for sure. Or what is the road changes? I don't think driverless cars are a smart idea. For example; most states in the US have laws against it, for our saftey. We should know that we can't count on computers to work 100% of the time. How many times a day does your microwave stop working? Or how many times do you have to reset you wifi? If we can't count on machines to bake our food for us than how can we count on them when we are putting lives at risk?
I know that there are some precautuions thatg can be taken to avoid this, but it's not worth the risk. Computer modified cars are helpful, but there should always be a human driving. While, most car accidents are human errors just think about how many times the driverless car will wreck until we have a perfect one. I just don't believe that it is worth it. | 3 |
30f0911 | People go through many emotions in a day an hour or even a minute. Our emotions are changing constanly and we don't even realize. Some people try to fake their emotions to others and some people let their emotions out into the world. Emotions come in many varities mad, sad, happy, confused, etc. As people look at us they can tell wether or not were happy, mad, or sad. They could tell by looking at our facial expressions, the way we talk, the way our body moves, and many more. As technology keeps taking over our daily lives as the years go on, a computer has been made to tell the emotions of an individual. It can tell the emotions of people in pictures, painting, or even right on the spot. The computer is thought to eventually end up in the classroom to tell the emotions of students. It would tell teachers if the students were bored or excited so they could fix their emotions on the subject they might be talking about. This has brought up the arguement as to whether the emotion telling computer should be brought into the classroom or not. Their are many different opinions on this topic. The emotion telling computer should be brought into the classroom. It would be a huge achievement for every school around the world to have this device. The emotion computer should be the next best thing in the classroom.
The computer could tell if the students were bored or not on a certain subject. If classrooms did have the computer teachers could look at it in the beginning and the end of class. It gives the teacher the advantage to see which method of teaching bores or excites them more. If many students were bored one day change it up the next. Once students begin to be more happy as the teacher goes on the more the students will want to learn. Students who are bored will not learn a thing, but students who are excited will be interested in learning and will get better grades. The article states, "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."(Huang) The emotion telling could change the way the lesson is being taught to make it more exciting. The more students are happy and excited about learning the better the test scores and grades. Some may argue that a computer would not be able to change the way a kid is feeling, however, it could make the teacher change the way his or her students are feeling. The computer should be used in the highschool classroom to tell the emotions of students.
The computer could make students feel better and interact more in the classroom. The could computer could analyze the patterns of emotion in students each day. If a student has been mad or sad, the teacher could ask them whats wrong and try to fix the situation. "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face. Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc." The computer would be accurately precise on each students emotions. If a student was shown to be stressed or worried for a certain amount of days, a teacher could tell the parents so they could help him or her. The computer would help make many students feel better each day. Some may argue that anyone could tell the emotions of another, however, the computer could get down every single emotion in a percentage. The FACS computer needs to be in the classroom for everyone to use.
The emotion telling computer should be the next best thing in the classroom. The computer could do many things for students, parents, teachers, faculty, and many others, It can enlighten others to do better and want to learn more. Grades of students would be better, tests would be higher. Everyone would be in a lot better mood if we all had the computer. The Facial Action Coding System could do things no other would think was possible until now. The computer should be in every classroom; and you should urge others to consider making the computer the face of the future for every school. | 5 |
30f1b0b | I believe that the author did supprt the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. In the story the author talks about many ways we could overcome the risky challenges that Venus has and what could happen if something does go bad. The author also gives good points on how Venus could be a nearest option for a planetary visit. Also how its often referred to as Earth's "Twin", and how Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size.
The atuthor talks about how humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on Venus but none of them survived. He also talks about NASA has been working on other approaches to studying Venus, like a silicon carbide has been tested in caber simulating the environment of Venus's surface. It has lasted for three weeks in that type of conditions. If they keep testing and fixing or inproven the project then they maybe one day make a another one that can surive that type of environment and get the researchers the samples they need to learn more about Venus.
The author does support on how Venus is a worthy to study despite the dangers it comes with. The author talks about the cons about Venus but he also talks about how NASA can overcome themn by making and researching machines that can last long enought to understand the type of environment Venus has. | 3 |
30f8ef9 | Cars are not something that have to be used everyday. Limiting car usage could be a good thing to do. Minimizing car usage gives you the opportunity to have more parks and fun places to go without the parking lot taking up all the space.
Less space for parking makes everything more easier to get to which is an advantage instead of having to walk in the parking lot . For example, " . . . make suburbs more compact and more accessible to public transportation, with less space for parking." ( In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars, Elisabeth Rosenthal, Paragraph 6 ). This explains that if you get rid of the cars theres more space to park and everything else becomes easier to get to versus having many parking spaces taking up room and causing traffic and other things. Also with not using cars theres more room for small stores and big stores to be put in different places that couldnt be put there because of cars so you could drive. For example, " . . . stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway." ( In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars, Elisabeth Rosenthal, Paragraph 6 ) and " Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour retsrictions have dramatically cut traffic; and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up." (Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota, Andrew Selsky, Paragraph 28). This shows that now there's more spaces for even more stores which is an advantage because the cars used to take up that space used for bigger roads for more cars to come on but without that problem theres room for other thing's.
Also it's a good way to save money because it decreases smog, and air polllution. For example, " Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog." ( Paris bans driving due to smog, Robert Duffer, Paragraph 14). This shows that after France decided to stop using cars the smog decreased tremendisely. Having no vehicles can also make the environment better because there wouldnt be a lot of carbon being produced. For example, " . . . it will have a benificial implications for carbon emissions and the environment." ( The End of Car Culture, Elisabeth Rosentha, Paragraph 34). Which is an example of how it could better for the environment. An advantage also is there will be less pollution. For example, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution . . ." This explains that it would be a good thing for us , we would have better breathing and also again a better environment .
In Conclusion, Minimizing driving usage could lead to better things such as less pollution, a better environment , and lastly more room for other things . So theyre are many advantages to minimizing driving usage, it's not so bad. | 4 |
30ff0f0 | The year is 2041, and astronaut Jeff Goudard has just landed in the region of Cydonia. He is extremly exited becouse he will be the first human to see the only alien artifact known to man. As soon as he lands, he sees the face. Jeff's jaw drops practically to his feet. He relizes the "Face on Mars" is really just a plain old mesa, just like the ones out in the American West. Now just like this astronaut, there are probably hundreds of people that think that the "Face on Mars" is some sort of alien monuent, but in reality science and logical thinking has proven that in reality, the "Face on Mars" is really just a Mesa almost identical to the ones found out in the American West.
First off is the logical thinking portion. In the region of Cydonia mesas are incredibly common.
Now this particular mesas is oddly shapped, I will give it that, but it is just a mesa. What gives it human fetures is just the shadows. Just look at 1976 Viking one photograph. You can clearly see shadows Just look slightly below it, you can see a long shadow protruding from the mesa. Now on the flip side, look at the picture captured on 1998 when it was cloudy out and there were no shadows at all. The image just makes it look like a weird rock, not like a human face at all.
While still on the topic of the photographs, the one snapped on 2001 also proves that the so called "Face on Mars" is really just a mesa becouse of not the actual formation, but the surronding area. It was taken by a very high quality camera. In fact, it's pixles spanned 1.56 meters whereas the best Viking photograph the pixles spanned 43 meters. That ment that you could zoom in around the area of the mesa to scan if there was any other evidence of alien life. So scienteists and analysts could scan the sourrounding area for pyramids or buildings, but they found absolutly nothing that would sugest that aliens are present in the region.
Lastly, lets all say that the so called face really was an ancient alien structure, why would NASA keep it a secret. I mean, NASA is really short on funding, but if it was proven that there was aliens on Mars, then that would mean NASA funding probaly would go through the roof. What better goal could NASA have then to make conatact with extratrestrialls. This must mean that the "Face on Mars" is just another mesa. What organization would pass up the opprotunity to get through the roof funding.
So just face the facts. The "Face on Mars" is just a mesa that had well placed shadows that are one in a million. So don't be Jeff the astronaut, and just face the facts early on as oposed to having high hopes and dreams just to have them crushed by even more scientifically proven evidence. If you don't remember anything from this article, remember this: don't be Jeff. | 5 |
3107452 | Would you want a driverless car? The devlompemt driverless cars has been going on since the 1950's. At first they were using magnetic pulses but then later the tried using sensors. I would not want a driverless car. What if you bought a car that wasn't manufactured correctly.
In paragraph 9 of the article, they were asking who fault would it be if the car's technology failed and someone got hurt then whos fault would it be, the drivers or the manufacturers. See, the car would have to be of high mantance in order to keep it updated with new roads, construction sites, and more.
So if you're driving your driverless car and your hands have to be on the wheel the whole tome, what are you gonna do during that time when the car is driving and your just sitting there. Like it asks in paragraph 8, "Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?"
In conclusion, no. I would not want a driverless car. There would be far too many risk in driving a driveless car and you would get very bored waiting for your turn to drive. | 2 |
310b8bc | Wouldn't you want to see what it is like on another planet? Or just in space? I would too. Venus is the second planet from the sun so it would not be too far to ttavel there. "Often referred to as Earth's 'twin,' Venus is the closest planet to Earth in density and size. Studies have also shown that Venus was much like us long ago, They say it was probably covered with oceans and has the same surface as us, rocky land, mountains, and valleys.
They do have an idea that could happen. They could stay above the dark cloudy atmosphere and have a temperture way below the normal. 97% of Venus is made of carbon dioxide so it would be much easier to hover the cloud cover planet than try to land on it. NASA has been trying to find other ways to study Venus. They have figured they could possibly "simplified electronics made of silicon carbide been tested in a chamber simulatiing the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted tree weeks in such conditions."
I believe that NASA and other organizations have been trying to find ways onto Venus or hover it because we could possibly learn more and find things from there we never knew about. Many people are unsure about the idea of this but it could possibly help our lives out in some way. So, would you want to see what it is like on another planet?" | 2 |
310dca5 | Diverless cars should be made and used. I say this because they are
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more wiser and most cases when driving. They will not make the wrong turn if it has the directions of the place it is going. It can stop, brake, and accelerate by itself without the help of any humans. Driverless cars are not completley driverless because if a situation on the road occurs, the car will need the assistance of a human to get through the situation. these cars will not simply rely on itself for driving, but also the road. Thought the road system was too expensive, it could help the driverless cars. The cars are controlled wirelessly, but you can still be in control at any time of the car. Driverless cars should be used to help people who can't normally drive. This car is somewhat like a safe taxi without a driver. This car will make driving more easy, but will also allow the person in the car to be more cautious of their surrondings so that the driver can take over. The driverless car will make less mistakes than humans do on the road, such as speeding, making hte wrong turn, or running red lights. So in conclusion, I think that the driverless car should be developed and made. It will bring driving to a whole new world. | 2 |
31101d2 | Dear Mr. Senator, there is a huge concern over who's vote is the real vote, Americas, or the Electoral College "Your vote counts" is what the citizens of America always hear when it is finally time to vote. But does it really count the way that it should? The tuesday after the first monday in November, everyone is going crazy lining up outside of the voting polls and waiting to make their vote count for who they want their new president to be. But are they really voting for a President or a state of electors? Whats the point of even putting in our vote if the Electoral College is gonna take over and vote for who they want. It makes no sense at all.
It is completely understood that they use the peoples votes for who they pledged on but that really has no purpose. Instead of having the people of America vote then why don't we just have the Electoral College be the only people to vote? So basically when the people of America go and vote they are not voting for any president at all. Instead they are voting for Democratic and Republican electors. That completely overrides the whole purpose for the Presidential election.
In 2002, Al Gore lost the election due to the Electoral College. He had more individual votes but George Bush had more electoral votes. That proves that many peoples vote doesnt count. If more people voted for Gore thats what the people of America wanted and there was proof. So it was very unfair how Bush won because of electoral votes. Why do the people of America even vote if things like that may happen, how come they encourage us to vote, why not just let the Electoral College do all the voting for who they preffer? If the people cant get what they want then why do we even vote for it?
The only real reason that the people are to vote is to be played. America is being fooled by thinking that their vote does something when really it does nothing at all. If Bush won because of the Electoral College and not individual votes why did the people even vote? If noone were to vote then we would still have a president because, the Electoral College would just vote for who they wanted instead right? So why must America vote? If our votes count then why would we need an Electoral College to assist in the presidential election? America should be able to get who they want not who the Electoral College wants. So the question usually asked should not be, "Did you vote" but instead, "Did the Electoral College vote"?
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
3111562 | In the article the author states,"Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors" meaning getting humans to another planet, in particular Venus, will be extraordinary research and could lead humankind to staying for many more centuries. If we find that we can live on Venus with this research, then why shouldn't we. There were a lot of failed missions to the moon and now look what we know about it. We learned so much because people decided to risk their lives in order for us to learn more about the universe. We can do so much good with the world and if we have the choice of trying to go to Venus, shouldn't we try? The only way we know we're going to fail is if we don't try and not trying would be a diservice to people. Besides, what if we get to make friends with aliens? | 2 |
3112774 | A visit to Venus will give you many opportuntiies.The author supported many things about studying Venus is a worthy pursuit, but can be dangerous. In can peers didn't know that. Venus is second planet from the sun, but is also is the closest planet to Earth. You will have a great chance to explore Venus becaue it is nearest planet that is close to earth.Venus is called the "Evening Star" because of how bight it is and is simple to be spotted. Long while back Venus used to be covered with largely with oceans and have supported various forms of life just like earth. Now it has cnahged, so thats why many people are trying to study the new Venus
NASA has sent humans to study Venus. NASA is the only possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus. "Because Venus is sometimes right around the corner- in space terms- humans have sent numerous spaceship to land on this cloud- draped world." (author 2) This proves that many people and spaceships has been sent to Venus since it is the closest planet and to learn about it. Many things has been sent to Venus instead if people because of the high temperature.They have sent spacehips and tablets to experiment it. Only opportunity you will be able to go to Venus is join with NASA and study. Majority all peers has got to that point if they have gone to a another planet. Only reason why they're warning you it's for any poor conditon in case! It matters because going and study or visit another planet can be challenging.
Becoming a peer that has many open opportunity's is a great and worthy. For example studying and proably visiting Venus is higly recommneded since it is the closest planet to earth. Although, it is also the second planet that is close to the sun. Sun can kill you from at the heat which that can be dangerous.Venus has the hottest surfave temperature of any planet in our solar system. That's why NASA is established. Studying and joining with NASA is a better opportunity other then going alone because you can be in danger and can cause you extremely consequences. Venus has value, human curiosity will likely lead us into many intimidating emdeavors. | 3 |
3118039 | The Challenge of Exploring Venus is about NASA wanting to figure out a way to get to venus without getting hurt or damaged or at least being able to send a space craft ,but none of the space crafts have survived so the have to keep on thingking of ways to get to venus not because something is wrong ,but because the are facinated by the so called "earths twin" or "evening star". Venus however is not a planet where you can just go to, the temperatures are so hot they melt most of the space crafts and the pressure so high that a submarine would be crushed. NASA wants to try to allow scientist to float above the fray hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling venusian land to try and get a close up to the planet without getting hurt.
The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers by telling me and all of the people reading this text that long ago their might have been a time where " Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth. Today, venus still has some of those features that are analogus to those on earth" just like on earth Venus also has valleys and mountains. The author also thinks its a good idea to keep studying venus because " The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable, but what are the options for making such a mission both safe and scientificaly productive"?
The author thinks it important to get to Venus but also want to be safe about it. In paragraph 8 the author states "striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likley lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Our travels on earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation". In this paragraph the author is telling us that exploring things is important in life in order to se what else is out there exploring different things can also be useful depending on whats found out there.
In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" I think the author supports the idea that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangesrs by giving us so many examples as to why it might be a good idea to work through the dangers and work our way towards finding a safe way to get to Venus. | 4 |
3122de5 | The author supports that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers represents. Venus is a planet closest to Earth. It's conditions are far more extreme than anything human encounter on Earth. Venus may be the most Earth-like plannet in our solar system. Venus has more characteristics than Earth does.
Veus conditions are far more extreme than anything human encounter on Earth. Venus has the hottest surface of any planet in our solar system. The atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. It is crazy imaging Venus having way more pressure than Earth. The text sasy, "Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupying volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes." This shows that Venus has many powerful climate changes. The author states this becaue, he wants to inform us how dangers Venus can be, but yet so interesting and gives readers want to know more of it.
According to the article, Venus may be the most Earth- like plannet in our solar system. The text says, "Often referred to as Earth's twin." Venus is closest planet to earth in terms of density and size. This shows that people may know Venus as a different version as Earth. This relates that the author supports the idea of studying Venus is worthy because it is very similar to Earth, so why not study it and explore it? The author may think that Venus can be somewhere people can survive in and look more forward to.
Venus has way more characteristics than Earth does. The author stated how it is the hottest surface temperature, more powerful climate cahnges, more atmospheric pressure, etc. Venus is a unique planet. The author want us to invest more to Venus, because it has some features that are analogous to those on Earth.
Venus has dangers it despites, but can be so interesting to invest more on. The author thinks Venus may be the most earth-like plannet in our system. It is like Earth's 'twin'. So, if it's similar to Earth, why not look more forward to studying Venus. It is important to know what's surrounded in Earth. | 3 |
3128486 | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to idenify human emotions. Yes I agree that the use of this technology to read the emotinal expressions of people and students because some people are scared to show they fears and even things that borther them.
In the Text "Making Mona Lisa Smile"
I notied alot of vaulid points and and good reasoning behind the idea of the Human Emotion things I feel as if it would slove promblems around and help people thats suffuring from addiciton, depression "happiness, anger, disgust, fear, sadness" and other things that they are going threw . It will help out wsith people that dont like speaking up or that is swcared of what other people will think or say about them if they ask for help or even reach out for help. And ill support my answer with "A Classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". and " Most human communcation is nonverbal, including emotional communcation."
My conculsion for the text is that they should not only be in school it should be in hospitals , schools, and places that deal with clients of common emotion problem or even health . | 2 |
312bef6 | My name is Luke Bomberger and I am a Seagoing Cowboy. I have gone to Europe, New Orleans, and China. I have helped others so I want you to help to. You should help people who are suffering because of World War 2. We can go all around the world and when we are not working we can look around in the country we are in. My friend Don covinced me to join so you should join.
The program was started by the UNRRA or the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. They hired the Seagoing Cowboys to take care of hores, young cows, and mules while they where going across the sea. they fed the animals hay and oats and gave them water. I one time almost died when I was working on the boat at night and watching the animals. I slipped and was sliding down and if the peace of metal was not there I would of fallen into the dark Alantic. I could not though because of my cracked ribs. Other things we would do while on the boats is play table tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, and whittling to pass the time. I have benn doing this for many years but i dtill love it and you just meet so many new people on the boat and in all the different countrys.
To conclude I hope you will join the Seagoing Cowboy program. we need so many more people to help us on the the boat. You will like all the animals But somtimes we just need more help taking care of the animals. If you ever fell like joining you know what to do. We all hope that you will join us. | 3 |
3130ac1 | Most people think that the electoral college is not reasonable. I don't think they're wrong. The electoral college is very unfair. It is unfair because the people's votes might be overuled, the electoral college is biased, and they may not pay any attention to the people's opinions.
First of all, in some cases the popular vote might not be of any value. Besides, the popular vote doesn't matter in the decision for president it elects members for the electoral college. So if I wanted to vote for a republican president but the electoral college ends up voting for the democrat I would have wasted my time going to vote. Clearly, the electoral college's vote overrules the popular vote.
In addition to overruling the popular vote, the people on the electoral college are biased. If the people who are on the electoral college are biased then, they might not take people's votes into account to their electoral vote. I know no one would want their vote to be ignored so this is another reason why the electoral college should be abolished. If a democracy means the people decide who their leaders are, then why are there other people who might not represent the people chosing our president. Quite obviously, the electoral college is biased and might not care about the popular vote.
Furthermore, even if the people's votes go to the electoral college, the college might not even pay attention to the reasons people give to vote for someone. Most people don't really care that their votes go to deciding who is on the electoral college, but they are missing the point. The electoral college are made up of human beings and they will say no to ideas they don't like. I don't think that the fate of our country should be resting on the idea that if one person doesn't like someone they will reject the idea. Obviously, the electoral college might reject some ideas just because they don't like them.
To conclude, the electoral college cannot be trusted to decide the future of our great nation. This group of electors might be biased, their votes overrule the popular vote, and they might not be open to opinions. Consider these reasons for the electoral college not deciding the future of the United States. These people cannot be trusted to vote for our new president. | 4 |
313de19 | The suthor supports this idea of Venus is a wothy pursuit despite the dangers on planet Venus. Venus was once like Earth long ago and so scientists want know more about Venus. In the article it states "Astronomers are facinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earh like planet in our solar system." It also states "Venus still has some features that are analogous to thoses on earth." This shows that with features Venus used to have like rocky sediment, moutains , craters, oceans and signs of life could have been related to Earth. The author states that if researches and NASA are looking for ways to have more information about Venus. In the Article it states "Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long." In paragragh 7 it states " NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus."
In coclusion if Venus were to be like Earth then NASA and researchers would more into it and focus on other ways about sending spacecraft to know more about Venus. | 2 |
314040c | In this passage "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," I'll give the author a full credit for this assignment on how he describe Venus. The author gave a lot of detail about Venus. There is so many stuff I learned about Venus like it the hottest planet. The author really supported his ideas, sometimes it makes it intresting and sometimes it seems challenging to go to Venus. This author is so detail it like his counting 1 piece of a humans hair.
The author gave us so many detail about Venus. Venus planet surface temperature is an average of 800 degrees Fahrenheit, oooh man that hot. Also the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our planet, that a bit dangerouse because it could crush submarine underwater. This one is my favorite because it really intresting. Venus has high pressure and heat and the weather present erupting volcanoes, powerful eathquake, and frequent lightning stikes, I found that out really intresting because we don't that much here we will get them like once in 2 month. The author gave us so many detail I could just keep going, that was just 1/4 of the detail.
If you wanna learn about Venus, this is where you should start reading. I say that because just by reading this I get the hang of it. Some things I learned are, Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system. Here is something really intresting Mercury is the closest to the sun but still, Venus is way hotter I find that out pretty intresting. We know the sun is really hot, totally if you get really close to it. Also Venus is a challenging planet for humans to study because of the planet's conditions.
The author support his title "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" by giving us detail about how dangerous it is. The author just doesn't say it dangerous or challenging. It giving reasons how it dangerous, like no spacecraft survuded landing more than a few hour. The clouds are highly corrosive sulfuric acid in the atmosphere. Also like i said it the hottest planet in our solar system. No human can really live long in a hot planet. If people lived in Venus they will have trouble living their because there is a lot of storm, that don't really often happens in Earth.
Also solar power would be plentiful, and radition would not exceed in Earth's level.
In conclusion, the author has supported his title with ideas. The author gave plenty of detail about Venus and how it challenging. There is so many stuff I learned about Venus like it the hottest planet. The author really supported his ideas, sometimes it makes it intresting and sometimes it make it seems challenging to go to Venus. I love how the author just gives spectacle detail about Venus. | 3 |
3142f8d | I'm opposing the idea for driverless cars because, although it's a good thought, I wouldn't feel safe driving on a road where there is a car without a person. I was intrigued by the question in paragraph 9 when it asked, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fauly - the driver or the maufacturer?" I think the maufacturer is to blame because they're the people putting these cars on the street although people are buying them and giving their lives to a computer I just wouldn't feel comfortable doing it.
I could see why people think that driverless cars are a good idea because in paragraph 2 Google states that their cars have driven half a millions miles without a crash, but those cars aren't truly driverless, they have a human sitting in it ready to drive and the car alerts them when there's roadblocks, when the driver has to pull out of the driveway, and when there's traffic issues.
The author puts some good details about how they have advanced sensors (paragraph 5) and i can't wait to see the Mercedes, Audi, and Nissan driverless cars in 2020. | 2 |
3147bb8 | Through out the day emotions can change quickly just by looking at something or talking to someone. People emotions are an everyday thing,and software is be creating to were the technology can read a person a emotion. Not a lot of people like to describe how they feel, and no one can really understand how they feel if they show no emotion. Now wait what if the computer can still decet emotion without needing to take a survey or as questions, just by using muscle recantion.The use of technology to read emotional expressions of students in the classroom is valuable because the technology is more effiecnt and can detect a slight muscle in the face, also can tell if the emotion is a lie,and lastly the technology can later help schools figure out what a studnet would rather like to read or how the would to learn it by using emtotion decter.
The technology is valuable because it can detect the slightest muslce in the face. Studies say that if a person makes a slight change in the face the computer can read the face and show how the student feels about the lesson him or her are learning. Also the technology is useful to figure that the muscle that is being used to give off the emotion can later help other understand the person better and knows what will satsify them or not. In paragraph five it says,"in fact, we humans pefrom this same impressive "calculation" every day. For instance, you can probably tell how friend is feeling by simpliy looking at on her face."
Another reason is that the technology is effienct and does work properly. The technology can dectect if the emtion is trying to be created rather than true.In the text paragraph eight it says,"but in a false smile,the mouth is streched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle,the risorius. This saying that in are we use differnet mucles to make different faces. Just slightly is the face is changed then the technology can detect wether or not if the face is false or true.
Lastly,it would be valuable for students in the classroom because can dectect how the student fills about a certain lesson or objective. The technology the can tell the teacher how the student is feeling during the assignment or passage being read. Then give them other options to were they can feel more engertic about the lesson.In pargraph six it says,"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson, like an effective instructor.This evidence helps explain how that a computer can change how a student will about school and make it more attentive and to follow along more instead being bored and confused.
In conclusin,technology is valuable to help read and understand students emotions. The technology would read the muscles to help getting understanding of how the studnets feels. Then can tell if the emotion is being created and not a true emotion. Lastly, could help to teachers get understanding of what the studnet would prefer rather than just giving them boring and confused passages the studnet does not understand. That's how technology could further work and help schools with a better learning effecient. | 4 |
314b42e | Are you ever afraid to drive in fear of an accident? Did you know that 100% of car acciddents are caused by human drivers. Driverless cars are soon going to become a reality in our world as Google and many other car companys are making driverless cars. Driverless cars seem to be a very good idea to me because of how they can get you where you need to go as you relax and not worry about focusing too hard, allow you to not have to carefully monitor other drivers, and how they allow a human to take control as the human desires.
First, Driverless cars would be able to get you where you need to go without having to focus too hard on driving. "Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009. Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash." Here, the passage talks about how reliable driverless cars can be. Being able to rely on the car to focus on the driving for you can be a huge relief when under a lot of stress while driving.
Secondly, I think driverless cars are a good idea because of how you don't have to carefully monitor the driving of others. Your driverless car will tell you when someone is driving recklessly and allows you to take control of the car at any moment you would like. "This necessitates the car being ready to quickly get the driver's attention whenever a problem occurs." The passage talks about how driverless cars will be able to notify the human in the car of any problem that might require a human driver.
Thirdly, I think driverless cars are a good idea because the human is able to drive whenever they want. It isn't as if you are forced to let the car drive itself. I believe that this is a great feature for people who love to drive as they can drive as they wish. "Some manufacturers hope to do that by bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over." The passage states that the driver could take over whenever they feel like it and enjoy in-car entertainment when not wanting to drive.
Finally, Driverless cars are a very good idea because they allow you to take focus off the road and put it elsewhere, not have to focus on other drivers, and have the ability to choose to drive and not drive whenever you feel like it. Driverless cars are most likely going to be in our world very soon. I believe that it will be a great experience for everyone. | 4 |
31530b2 | The Challenge of Exploring Venus an article that shows shows imagintion and motivation of Venus. In this article the author did a well job on showing both positives and negatives of this idea. He talks about Venus and the most information about this planet. In his Introduction he has a hooking sentence getting the readers attention by saying the nickname for the planet. He backs up his idea by showing facts and history instead of saying his opinion. It is said by the author that its a good idea on exploring Venus.
The negatives and positives about this planet are well explained and shown by the author. The author first begins talking about the negatives about the planet to show that it also has negatives and is clear about the information and still supporting his claim. He begins by mentioning the failure of humans sending numerous spacecrafts to land on Venus and only lasting few hours in paragraph 2. The author also talks about its climate and atmosphere in section 3. Which on average overs 800 degrees Fahrenheit and and is 90 times greater in atmospheric pressure. After talking about the negatives and cons about Venus the author then dives into the positives and shows more postives then negatives. He begins by telling the readers in paragraph 2 that Venus is referred to as Earth's "twin" showing that Venus is worth exploring if it is compared to Earth and feeling safe about it. In paragraph 4 the author talks about Venus possibly having life when he tells the reader that long time ago Venus was covered in oceans and could have supported life.
The author backs up his idea by showing facts on the possibilities of sending humans to explore the planet. He gives informations and in paragraph 5 talking about NASA's idea of sending humans to study Venus and developing solutions to the hostile conditions. In section 7 the author brings more research from NASA that is testing simplified electronics and lasting 3 weeks in such conditons. To reinforce his idea he talks in paragraph 6 of scientist going to to Venus to conduct important research such as samples from rock and gas.
The author madehis idea clear and showed it with good information. He showed the cons about his idea and then the positves. He gave the readers basic information in his introduction. He tehn dived into his idea and backed it with many important research information. The author showed his idea with him never saying his opinion. | 4 |
3154945 | Am atgument form Jukes poiny of view convincing others to participaye in the seagoing Coewboys programe.
The text states
states that Luke Bonbugher had not idead thast his life woulld change soon after his high school graduation, He was working two part time jods one is in a gracery staore and a bank,He knew it was an apportunity of a lifetime.
The passage states that,It was 1945,World War teo was over in Eurpoe,and many contries werer left in ruins.The text also statses thst even seagoing cowboys to take care of the horses,youngcown.and mules that were shipped overseaes.Luke and on signed up.
THis passage is talking abot how Luke and Don where toghther all the time and they used rto great and fun things to do when Lurk turned 18 before arviving in Greece,They got their SS Charles W.Wooster.
A reason to join this game is. u get to do fun things with for friends or whoever u are with in the game and i think the game would be fun bacuse u get to explor. | 2 |
3157b9b | As many countries in the world starting on develop high techonology, the use of computers is very necessary. Scientists begin working on study new techonology to help humans lives become more convinience. One of the new uses of techonology is that reading, and identifying human emotions. While highschool students usually have trouble to know their friends, and classmates oppinions about them, the new technology called the "Facial Action Coding System" in a classroom is valuable.
The use of computers to read humans emomtions expressions is helpful, because it can read emotional expression accurately, and people will need it, especially students. Highschool students often curious about what people think about them, but somtimes they could not know what the emotion exactly means. Therefore, they need techonology that can help them, specifically the Facial Action Coding System. This techonology allows computers to analyze both simple and complex facial expressions. In order to do this, the computer has to built up 3-D movements of facial muscles, and all those movements are the same as movements of the face in real life. One more way we can tell this technology can work well is that it compares every emotion to a no emotion face, because it says "Each expression is compared against a neutral face (showing no emotion)." in the text. With its characteristics, the Facial Action Coding System can help students in classes. Students then can understand their classmates, partners easier. They would feel more confidence, and could focus on lessons better.
The purpose of studying techonology is to help humans lives become better, all techonologies are really useful and have certain value to humans, including the use of Facial Action Coding System. This is a technology that can help identify correctly people feeling base on what they are showing in their faces. When highschool students often face challenges to understand other students facial expressions, the use of this techonology is needed. It is not only because it can work well, but it also help classes more effectively by improving students feeling. This technology is very valuable, and every students will need one. | 3 |
31610f5 | DEAR,state senator i argue in favor of keeping the electoral votes alive to choose for the new turn. people say that the electoral voting system may turn alot of potential voters away from voting for a new president since the electoral voting has been tight on alot of people who don't like to use that way then they want it as a direct election and to abolish the electoral college!
There are alot of ways we can actually save the eletoral voting system .the electoral voting consists of a very non-democratic way so all the voters can decide on a canindate for whoever receives the most highest votes on,in 2000 gore had way more votes than bush but fewer electoral votes on him andthat was since they first ever voting for the presidents back in around 1888 thats a very long time almost 200 years when that happened. basically we need to keep the electoral voting for some practical reasons thta we do not know about now maybe it could be from thedispute over recent years of voting .
or we can choose a different option then electoral voting maybe instead of the canindates to get voted by a party we should just vote on a popular vote that we should rely on next time it comes around | 1 |
316583e | Driverless cars are touted as the future of society and a solution to public transportation problems in the modern world. Driverless cars utilize technology to let computers make decisions on where and when a car should move. However, driverless cars take control out of human hands. Driverless cars should be not be developed due to many obstacles in manufacturing and practical use that decrease the benefits of driving them.
One aspect of driverless cars that prevents them from being beneficial is their high cost. According to "Driverless Cars Are Coming", roads that use a certain type of driverless car would require new wires and radio transmitters as upgrades, which would be extremely expensive. The cars themselves would utilize cutting-edge sensors, cameras, and three-dimensional projections to function, which would definitely increase the cost. The lack of control over the vehicle at all times would most likely lead to more accidents, especially if driverless cars would share the road with human-driven cars. These accidents would also raise the price of owning a driverless car.
In addition to the high cost of accidents, the decision on who is at fault for a crash in a driverless car would cause new complications in daily life.
When driverless cars do get in accident due to a malfunction, neither the owner or the manufacturer would want to claim responsibility. This disagreement will cause confusion in courts and unnecessarily add more workload to government systems that handle insurance and punishment. Eventually a consensus on who is responsible for driverless car crashes would impact the way people live. If the manufacturers were found to be guilty, then driverless cars would be made mandatory and probably more expensive in order to minimize risk of accidents and increase profits to offset the costs of crashes. If drivers were agreed to be at fault, they would constantly be on edge to make sure their car doesn't hit another car, which would defeat the purpose of having a driverless car.
The final aspect of driverless cars that make their development not worthwhile is their inability to be fully driverless. Without full automation, drivers would still need to pay attention and be able to drive at any time. According to the article, safety means a car "has a human driver in control." People in driverless cars would be risking their lives by trusting a computer-driven system that could shut off at any moment to give control to a human driver. Teens would still need to be trained to drive, which is expensive, but only need to apply those skills a fraction of the time they do today. The public transportation system mentioned in "Driverless Cars Are Coming" would not only be dangerous, but probably result in people being late to their destinations due to system malfunctions or strict adherence to speed limits that people do not follow.
Driverless cars seem to be the figurehead of fuel efficient, effortless transportation. However, driverless cars have many downsides that would waste money, time, man hours, and lives. Completely automated cars would force people to put their lives at risk every day. Modern cars that are computer-assisted but not driverless are safer and allow people to be in control of their safety. | 4 |
3167320 | Luke should use these reason's to convince other people. The program helps with people in need, people around the world that need supplies, and livestock. The Seagoing Coyboys program is a program for helping other's.
The first reason is the program helps with people in need. Luke and Don go help people and sign up for program. Example-
Luke helped Katie's farm for checking the animals every night. Then he slipped and cracked his ribs so he coudn't work for a couple days. He also took care of cattle while on board.
The second reason is Luke going around the world. He went to many parts of Europe. In Greece he got drafted with the military. He went to China to help animals with crossings. In the Pacific and atlantic ocean he took care of animals, while going to Europe. There were alot things to do.
The last reason is Luke going around and giving supplies. In the first paragraph he worked a two- part job. Then when going to Europe he gave cattle to people or farmers. He probably gave them food and water. The reason is because is the end of WWII and buildings are down.
The Seagoing Cowboys program is a program for helping others. To sum marize the reasons. The program helps with people in need, the program goes around the world, and the program helps with livestock and supplies. Luke did a great thing to help with the world. | 2 |
3167722 | The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because it involves anything to communicate. Professor Thomas Huang and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate.
The quote says, "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. Movement of one or more muscles is called an "action unit." Then Dr. Huang relies on the work of psychologists, such as Dr. Paul Eckman, creator of FACS (Facial Action Coding System)."
Most of the experts can identify how people feel about anything like bored, happy, and etc. "Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions. His new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code. Perhaps Dr. Huang's emotion algorithms are a different sort of Da Vinci Code!" Most of the experts knows that faces don't lie. Only the muscles are easy to spot if some people are really "smiling" or something else. | 2 |
3168ef6 | Well using facial recognition to read the emotional expressions of the students in class seems pointless to use. In what ways would it help to know how a teachers students are feeling? Students are at school to learn what they need to learn, not neccesarily what they want to know. It is not their choice what they learn, so if they get bored or not, it does not mean you could just modify the lesson, but instead they would have to finish the lesson one way or another. Facial recognition of students expressions in the class room, would not help their education in any ways.
Having this technology in the classroom not only may it tell the emotions of the children, but it invades their personal privacy as well. The way students feel while in class has a much greater horizen than just inside the classroom, but as well as everything going on in their lives, such as parents, friends, things at home, work, etc. Which is an invasion of personal privacy to the way someone feels, that may have nothing to with school. It is said in the article “A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,” But what about all the other emotions other than just confusion and bordem? All the other that are included such as "happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness", but the problem with this is that these aren't all the emotions but merely just six specfic ones. So how could you determine how someone is feeling emotionally without all the other emotions that all concide with each other? You can't, because it's impossible to tell how someone is feeling emotionally.
It all comes back to the Facial Action Coding System, can it accurately determine someones emotional state only through facial expressions? As stated "But in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risorius. To an expert, faces don’t lie;", The system may be able to tell if the subject is faking a facial expression, but what help would that be in the classroom. Even if someone is faking an emotion, you still truely couldn't tell how they feel mentally especially through FACS. As D'Alto says "Eckman has classified six basic emotions—happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness" this means the system only has 6 BASIC emotions, it still couldn't be able comprehend the greater complexity of feelings and how they all work together to truely tell how a person is feeling.
The FACS could be very helpful in many other fields, "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive—for video games or video surgery." It could change everything, the way plastic surgery is performed, create simulations, help mental health, it could be used in court to find if someone is guilty, military, and medicine as well. The application could have millions of good uses around the world as well as endless possiblities for the future, just not for education.
In conclusion I believe using the Facial Action Coding System would not only be wrong, but inaccurate, an invasion of privacy, and would have no good practical use in a classroom. Although it could have many applications in other fields it just wouldn't work out in a setting of a school or college, reading the emotional expressions of students. There are other ways to be able to engage students in work and to help them when they are struggling. Teachers need to be able to help their students, having software that can tell a students emotions won't help anything or anyone until the teacher steps in and does something. But having a computer to read students facial experssions to be able to know their emotions would only add onto the problem. | 4 |
316c1b7 | The Electoral college is an unesessary procces of which The U.S.A does not need. It is has too many flaws in its system. Such as the way the votes work. Sure, the American people able to say their input, but they aren't able to say it directly. Also the confusion that the voting system works might make voters confused as to who they voting for. All in all this is not the voting system that America needs. What is needed is a direct form of voting.
Throughout the years, it has become apparent that The Electoral college is a disaster. Considering all the mishaps that have already occured due to the system, would it be safe to allow it to continue? "Back in 1960, segregrationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeded in replacing Deocratic electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. (So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy.)" This even being a possibility is more than enough. It is time for a change.
Now, if a tie were to occur in the electoral vote, the election would be handed over to the House of Representatives. From there on the delegators are in charge. Since each state is only able to cast one vote, the will of the people is oppresed. This is not the American way. All should have their say in the matter. Altough, yes voting is still task that most American find annoying and do not take part of, but with this change more people might start seeing that hey can make a change and start voting when it comes to it. | 3 |
317173f | Driverless Cars are coming soon or later? People have argued that there are positive and negative things about this crazy invention. I see alot of negative things about this invention that is suppose to come into the world by technology. If the car would fail at a point
you could be injured, injured bad or death can occur, people have less experince driving and people will be more lazy then what they already are, and someone could even fall asleep because they arent incontrol of the car the car is incontrol of you and something bad could happen if your in danger and the car doesnt alert you like its suppose to or what if it doesnt?
What if the car fails at letting you know you are in danger and something bad happens is it your fault or the cars fault? If the car fails at telling you this you could be hurt, hurt badly or you could put your life at risk and you could die if your in seroius trouble. You cant depend on nobody or nothing but yourself. I feel like this could put your life at risk. Most people would like to drive the car not the car drive them. Technology could break down at any time you just never know when that time is. It may not work at its best like they say it will, at some point and time it will or could fail
People would have less experince as drivers do today and people would be more lazy. What if your in danger and your incontrol of the car now what if that person has lack of experince and they wont know what to do. They will be in danger and could really hurt themselfs or others. They could crash into another car or crash into smething. This invention is sounding very dangerous not just too me but many others. People are already lazy enough and they would be even more lazy with this invention. Technology is taking control over our world and this would be a big one. Some car accidents are going to happen in the world but i feel like most people are alert and focus already on the road and their surroundings.
If you arent incontrol of the car you could possibly fall asleep at the wheel and what if you need to take over? Then what? Something serious could happen and you could put you and others at risk. Most people want to be incontrol of the car and not have the car be incontrol of them. This invention is very dangerous and i dont feel like it would help our world today. If this invention isnt made i feel it will cause no stress and not alot of worries about the negativities that could happen.
Technology is taking over our lifes very quickly and thats not how it should be. I hope this dangerous invention doesnt come soon or later in our lifes we need to be resposible of being incontrol of the car at all times. This could cause lack of responsibility in many of peoples lifes. This invention is very dangerous. I hope many others see alot of negatives i see in this invention that might happen in the world I would like to see and many other would like to see more people come together and argue that this is dangerous and shouldnt happen in our world. We shouldnt want to be control by technology. Bad things could happen to you, mine, and others lifes. | 4 |
3178186 | Have you ever dreamed of being on another plante? Have you ever wondered what is the closest plante to Earth? Have you ever asked your self where would our next destination be? Well, in "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author does an amazing job on explaning these qustions and even more like:
why is Venus sometimes is called the Earths twin? What calenges we might face on Venus? and what is it like?
First, the author discuses the differens of the star Venus and the plante Venus. The star Venus
is usually the brightest star in the sky and often is referred to as the "Evening Star" but the plant Venus is the second closest plant to the sun and the closest plante to Earth and is often referred to as Earth's "twin." Venus is similar to Earth in many ways, some of wich are: density and size.
Next, we have not sent a singal spacecraft to Venus in almost 30 years. The reason behind the lack of missions to Venus is because Venus is souronde in a thick atmosphere that is made of 97 percent of carbon dioxide and many other factors that the author
discuses in paragraph three and four of the passage. The conditions on Venus are far more extrene than those on Earth. In the passage ir says the " such an environment would crush
even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans."
Finally, what is venus's crust like? and why are scientists thinking of sending anyone ther? In paragraph four and five the author explains how venuse might have ben once the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Today, venus still has some Earth-like feuturs. Mountains, valleys, and craters are some of the future that you might find on Venus.
In conclusion, the author did a great job explaning why studying Venus is an important no matter what chalenges we might face. In the eighth paragraph the author said " Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges os imagination and innovation." I 100% agree with the author and thonk that we should prdue exploring outter spcae no matter what problems we might face. | 2 |
3179784 | The 70 percent of vouban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move there.
The lifes with no cars is more happines. "when i had a car i was always tense. I'M much happier this way" (said Hedrun Walter). The 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. After days of near-record pollution,paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. Paris typically has more smog than other European capitales. In Bogota Colombia exist a program call "car-free". This program is about try to clean de globalcity, this program works to the next form: In a program that's set tospread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked,biked,skated or took buses to work during a car-free days. Bogota create this program because the smog of the car is alot than the global city was to dark,the tournut was large, despite gray clouds than dumped occasional rain showers on Bogota. "It's goog opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution,"(said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two-seat bicycle whith his wife. When the program starts for the first time other Colombian cities, Cali and Valledupar ,joined the event. This program or campaing that began in Bogota in the mid-1990s. It has seen the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths, the most of any latin American city, acording to Antanas Mockus,the city's mayor. After all those events | 1 |
317fa74 | Is one of your biggest fears driving, or getting in a really bad car accident. Either way when it comes to driving yourself or a driveless car there is still a possibility. '' In fact none of these cars developed so far are completely driverless.'' Another thing that came from this passage was ''This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires. so this means you still have fault even if your car was driving itself because you could've took control.
Next, if the car is driving annd has a malfunction then this could cause issues for everyone else driving with them. So one thing that you might ask is well they have sensors that will keep everyone safe. But we all know you need batteries for those things and they wouldn't last forever. So all this does is prove another point, and that is that the driver of this car needs to be alert the whole time while in this vehicle. The one thing that we all know is that people aren't going tto pay that much attention to the road, they are just going to be facinated by the car. So this just shows that this will just cause more danger to themselves and the people around them.
Then, we haven't even talked about how these car respond to emergence vehicles that are driving fast down the street with lights and sirens. Then we don't even know how long it takes for the human to regain control of the car. Do they have to pull the car over, or hit a switch, if so is there a delay such as 10 seconds or so. A known fact is that more police officerss die every year from driving lights and siren down the street on their way to something and die because of someone not paying attention. So if humans can accidently hit each other and sometimes kill each other then why would we want driverless cars doing the same thing.
Now we're going to talk about if the car took gas or electricity or both. The car seems like it would be helpful in certain areas, for example people with fatigue. they coulb be tired feeling like they're about to fall asleep. they have a car driving itself to the location. But who says the car can get them there without loosing gas or electricity. Then they don't know where they are and theycould hitch hike but they won't know where to go. So now they have to take risk and dangers with these cars.
In conclusion I think that these cars arre dangerous but helpful in some areas. The cars are hazardous when it comes to stoping for emergency vehicles because we know to pull off the the right side of the road but a computer might not. Then you have a possibility of the cars having a malfunction and crashing into things killing everyoune. But he car can save lives when it comes to drunk drivers and drivers falling asleep at the wheel. Those are my opinions on the United States on having driverless cars on the roadways. | 3 |
318dac4 | Luke bomberger wants to become a seagoing cowboy. He really wants to become one. He crossed the Atlantic ocean 16 times and the pacific ocean twice to help people by World War 2. I got that off in the beginning of the story. In paragraph 4 it says that he had made nine trips-the most of any seagoing cowboy. In paragraph 5 it says luke also toured an excavted castle in crete. So far he is going good and he also became a seagoing cowboy and he is doing great. Helping out his aunt katie's farm as a boy had prepared luke for hard work nut not for dangers at sea. On luke's second trip luke served as night watchman. Luke had a little accident and he could not work for a couple of days because of cracked ribs but he was glad he made it out alive. Luke had wonderful time's and then bad one's but he always worked hard to become and seaboy cowboy and so far he is doing pretty bad right now because he broke his ribs. Luke also found time to have fun on board. Being a seagoing cowboy was being more than an adventure for luke. It opened up the world to him. Luke bomberger said "I'm grateful for them opportunity". He wanted to be a seagoing cowboy it was his dream it was all he has wanted to be and his dream came true he was the most wonderful seagoing cowboy he was hard working and he made it look fun. He worked hard for his dream and he has made it come true. He has done wonderful things.
He has helped the people that needed help.In all these paragraph there is a short pharagraph about what he done or what he was about to do. So this story was basicly about luke and how he wanted to be a seagoing cowboy. In pharagraph 1 it tells about how is life was about to change after his high school gradution. At first he was working two part-time at the grocery store. That is were he was and used to be and that is were he was working. But now he has an even better life. So this was about Luke bomberger and his wonderful life and how he helped and how he used to be after he became a seagoing cowboy. What made luke love seagoing so much how did he get into it what made him love it so much what made him want that and not other things. I mean he started out at a grocery store the he land in begin a seagoing cowboym I guess he enjoyed that the most because he reallly done a lot of great things in his life he has gone done places he has basilly wanted to do. He has gone places he has wanted to go he has done things he has never done before. I mean if I was luke I would be so happy for myself and what I have done to have such great gift.
Now that his dreams came true in begin a seagoing cowboy. Well he has a good path on his way he still has a wonderful jorney to go on.
He has earned great stuff and he also deservet because out of his old life he has a whole life up a head no that he has got what he wanted he is going to try and keep it. He is going to work hard and be the best he can at everything. Luke omberger got what he has always wanted now he has a great life on his way. Hope you have a good one Luck Bomberger. | 1 |
318ff17 | Have you ever wanted to be a sea going cowboy? Well i got some reasons why you should join. and if you think your not have fun you mistaking. One more little you get explore. Well i got some really cool facts about joing the seagoing cowboys.
Here are some facts about seagoing cowboys. If you like anmals this would be allot of fun for you because the one thing that you will be doing is hanging out with animals. Another reason is that if you have adventure side to you your gonna love this you get to go all over the world on a boat at that so not only exploring the land but the ocean. Also one more thing if you have ever thought of going to a different country an speaking multi languges well you get do that on a daily bases. And it is very fun ihave some reasons why it might be fun to you.
It is very fun so if you like here some reasons to get you interested. you can play animals and if thta isnt fun i don't know what is. Also you get play games after you drop off the animal such as table tennis,volley ball, and boxing oh and if you want to just chill after all that fun you can read a book. Also you can look over the rail and see the water and if get luck you see some sea life. And there is some bad things about being a seagoing cowboy.
There are some bad things though but you get used to it. One thing is that if you have family you wont get to see them but don't worry you get to see them after you get back from all that fun and you can tell them about it. Another reason is that when your on board um you gotta take care of animals like clean the manuer of the ground and bathe them some they stay healthy oh and feed them but after that your done for the day but remmber your helping other people. One more reason you wont have the luxury of sleeping on a soft warm bed but you wil get used to it. But other those bad reasons it is really fun to be a seagoing cowboy. Remmeber how I said you get to go to other countrys well you can learn new things.
You get to learn new things i have a few reasons how you get to learn new things. like a new language like if you to germany you can learn german. Also you can learn new cultures and lifstyles of and goverment/Economy.One other thing is that you will learn what type of people there are there nice or mean. Also they could have different types of than what America has. One other thing is that you will learn how to live on a boat so you could possibly own your own boat when you get out of your service. Maybe you might meet their leader and shake his hand you ever know what you might learn in a different place.
You could meet new people maybe even make new freinds. Like you could meet the president/leader but you could meet other people. And this has brought us to my conclusion.
With these facts i have give I hope you chang mind. just remmeber you would be given alot of opurtunitys. So willyou become a seagoing cowboy. | 4 |
3192920 | I am a high school student and in my point of view what i infer about reading the passage is that election by popular votes needs to happen. why am I thinking like this? There are several reasons, well first i dont know what this people are doing maybe they are being paid to choose the president it dosen't mean enything that they got more ethoes than the rest of the state. People should choose who they really want to be the president, they should give prove of when they count the votes.
The countrie is the home of alot of people imigrants and native we all should have the same rigths and that rigth is to vote for the person that will lead the countrie to a better place, not some slate of the state. Maybe they got more ethoes than the rest of the countrie but each person is smart to know what is good and what is wrong. In the passage they tell the reader, under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. Then what is the point of voting maybe this people are not even considering the people who vote they are only doing what they think is rigth.
This people have alot of money but they still want more and more, inportant people would brive this elector with alot of money, and they would be doing whatever they are ask for. They could be 200 votes of the entire state that if the state only as 20 electors thoes are the votes that are counting in real life. What future could we have trusting this electors our chances are really low we cant let this happen .
After reading all my letter you will understeand why did I talke like this about the elector and why the electoral college have to be remove. The word of the entire countrie should coun't more than the wor of 200 people. Thoes 200 could be in who knows what to trust our future. this is why I think that electoral college is not an opssion. | 2 |
3194f6f | The author supports the article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", well by giving us ideas on how to get to venus safely, relating Venus to earth and by including information on how exploring from a distance will not work.
The article "The Challenge of Exploring
Venus", gives ideas on how to get to venus safely by building vehicles that won't touch the ground due to its hot conditions. In the text it states, " ...(NASA) has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus... solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. The author writes this to add-on to influence the pursuit by having a safe way to get to Venus.
Futhermore the author supports the idea of exploring Venus being a worthy pursuit by adding information on how it relates to Earth. In the text it states," Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system... Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have support various forms of life, jut like Earth." The text also states,"... Venus today still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth." Relating their challenge to Earth makes readers think about how Venus could have went from Earth-like to a pit of fire.
Additionally, the author supports the idea of exploring Venus despite its dangers by including information on how exploring Venus from a distance will not work. In the text it states,"... hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on the group conditions...rendering standard forms on photography... ineffective." To be able to explore Venus indept they will have to touch ground to explore effectively. In the text it also states,"... researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance. Therefore, scientists seeking to conduct a thorough misson to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal..." The author uses this to show us that exploring Venus for our knowledge means we need to get onto the planets ground not hovering.
In conclusion the author supports this idea of Venus being a worthy pursuit despte the dangers it presents by including valid information to get to the planet safely, relating Venus to Earth and by giving information on why exploring from a distance won't work. To support the reason of Venus being a worthy pursuit the author is giving information to make people want to do something. | 4 |
319d071 | A New Place
In the article "The Challenge of exploring Venus" the author talk about the distance between the Earth and Venus. Also he wrote thing refering to the tempeture on Venus and comparing both temperatures Earth and Venus. And then he talk about how the NASA is working to study Venus.
Venus or sometimes called the "Evening Star" is considerate a planet. Venus is the planet closer to Earth, but also Mars is another neighbor from the Earth planet. "These differences in speed mean that somethimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus" said the author. This is one of the reasons why it may be a new place for humans live.
The temperature is appropriate for humans. In the article the author show us the planet's surface temperature, it has an average over 800 drees Fahrenheit. He also indicate that the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater, "It is more than what we experience on our own planet" he said. He discover that Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in the solar system. In other words Venus has become a great option to life.
"The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus" he said. Personal who work for the NASA and has the mission to study and understand Venus have obtain amazing results. One of the results is that the conditions are not easy, but survivable for humans. Machines contribute to their knowledge of Venus, "those machines make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all". This study of Venus has comverted on a challenge for humans who have the curiosity to know more about this planet.
The author expres the idea very well, because he show arguments from all the contained. He always have a point to talk about, and always have an argument to suppot it. | 1 |
319d75e | Pretty much all working adults and teenagers own or drive a vehicle on a daily basis. But while all that driving may get you from point A to point B quickly, it is also doing great damage. Constant driving has left cities polluted and covered in smog. People are finally beginning to realize that and have begun making necessary changes in order to prevent this from continuing.
One suburb in Vauban, Germany is a great example of people limiting car use and the positive impact that it has. This upscale community has generally forbidden street parking, driveways, and home garages so that the streets of Vauban are completely car-free. About 70 percent of families in Vauban do not own cars and over 50 percent sold their cars just to move there. Heidrun Walter, a Vauban local and mother of two, is quite pleased with the car ban. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." This ban has drastically reduced greenhouse gas emmisions that come from tailpipes on cars. You may think giving up your car ride to work every morning is a terrible idea, but living with pollution, smog, and gas emmisions that lead to breathing problems sounds even worse.
The driving ban in Paris, France shows just how bad driving all the time can be. Due to the cold nights and warm days in the popular city, the warmer layer of air trapped car emmisions - causing five days of smog. Being that France has a tax policy that favors diesel and in turn makes up over 60 percent of vehicles in France, it was to blame for the intense smog. After days of near-record pollution, the French party banned driving until the smog cleared. People were left with the choice of leaving their cars at home or facing a 22-euro fine. This goes to show you that your daily driving habits have long-lasting effects that should be taken care of sooner rather than later.
For another example of people striving to lower air pollution, look at Bogota - a city in Columbia that bans cars for one day every year on the annual Day Without Cars event. The purpose of this ban is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. It's obviously doing well because now two more Columbian cities, Cali and Vallendupar, are joining the event. Even authories from other countries have visitied Bogota to witness the event themselves and were quite enthusiastic. Enrique Riera, mayor of Asunción, Paraguay, said, "These people are generating a revolutionary change [that] is crossing borders" after attending Day Without Cars. More parks and sports centers have opened up and sidewalks are now being replaced with smoother sidealks for people to walk on. Bogota is just one city now realizing the negative impact constant driving has on the town, as well as its people, and taking steps to lower those impacts.
In conclusion, there are many disadvantages to driving all the time. Which means a lot of postive advantages when we stop. Going completely car-free can be difficult - especially if you are in an area without buses or taxis, but you can still limit your driving and reduce greenhouse gas emmisions and pollution. Don't take so many driving trips, car pool with friends, invest in a bike or shop at places closer to you. Limiting your car usage is something everyone can do and will postively affect your environment. | 5 |
31a4f01 | In this argument we are going to talk about space aged cars ans how we are trying to develope them. To be completely honest they arnt going to work, well at least not yet. there are to many things wrong with them as of now, and I am going to tell you the three main reasons why we shouldnt have these cars on the road yet.
These self operated cars can be usefull, but there are some downsides to the idea. lets say you get in a wreck with a person who has a self moving car, who is going to pay for your ca repair bills? the person who was in the self operating car wont because they didnt do it, and we all now that the gopvernment wont pay for a damn thing unless it will help them out in some way, or paying people who dont work , but we wont get into that. Anyway it is unsafe to have a auto controlled car for insurance reasons and how that would work.
Do you know haw much slower that this world would be if everyone could only go 25 mph. It would be a very slow world. People would have to change their schedules to wake up early enough to make it to their work or school while only going 25 mph maximun speed.
peoples life could be in danger if one of these machines malfuntion, or just stop working. I mean the only time i can see this idea ever being practical is at night if someone gets off of work really late and is tired; they could have it auto pilot just incase they fall asleep.
Overall i dont think this is a very good idea yet. if they can make some inprovements this could be a legitamete idea, but as of now i hink we are better off with our man operated vehicles.there are to many risks and not enough payout for what it is worth. | 3 |
31b203a | The Electoral college is a place were they elect the presidant of the united states and the congress choose if they put a vote in for that presidant and his people. The process is the selection of electors next the meeting of the electors and then where would they vote for the presidant and the vice presidant and the counting of the electoral votes by congress the elctoral college consists of 538 electors and a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to vote for the presidant. The presidants election is held every four years on a tuesday after the first monday in November.
The presidential election is held at the electoral college i think that why would you have the electoral college when you can just vote some other way insted of having this big thing just to elect the presidant and the vice presidant why can't you just have a regular meeting deciding if you are voting for that presidant and the vice presidant the electoral college to me makes no sense why would you have this big thing that makes no sense at all if you wanted to vote for the presidant then vote i dont get why you have to go through a big system just to vote i think its just easier just to vote a regular way and it takes so long and it also depeneds on what state you are in and how you have to vote in texas if you wanted to vote for a certain person you would have to vote for the slate of 34 or what the number of that person is like for example if you voted for Jhon Kerry you would have to vote for slate of 34 democratic electors it just depends on the state. what if there was a tie the election it would be thrown into the house of representatives where the state delegations vote on the presidant and the vice presidant cause only each state casts one vote a single representatives from Wyoming representing 500,000 voters. this is why i think we should not have the electoral college becuase it causes to much cauase throught all the steps you have to go through it takes so much time up and there is so many other thing we can be focusing on i think the electral college needs to be gone and over with and we need to find other ways to vote for the presidant and the vice presidant. | 2 |
31b73d2 | I believe that the use of technology in the classroom that allows computers to read the facial expressions of students and understand their emotions is extremely valuable. I think this becuase, it could recognize when a student may need more help, it would make learning online much more effective, and could help a variety of ways all through different grades.
The text talks about how a computer could tell how a student is feeling about the material. Paragraph six states "A classroom computer could predict when a student is becoming confused or bored" (D'Alto). By predicting when students have become confused, or bored by the matieral, it could allow the teacher to know who needs more help. After seeing this the teacher could possibly pull these students asside and try re teaching the lesson in a different way that they would undertsand better or would keep them more engaged.
This type of technology could also be extremely valuable to somebody doing online schooling. The text states, "Most human communication is non-verbal...so computers need to understand that too" (D'alto). This example shows that as of now a computer is unable to comprehend a lot of the communication a human puts out. If, for example, a kid taking an online math lesson understood everything to begin with, but then became confused after a certain new topic was brought up, the computer with this new technology could easily recognize this and expand more on this new part and make sure the student displayed signs of understanding before moving on.
Another big advantage to this type of technology is that it can be used effectively to help in classrooms from Pre school, all the way through college. For example if in an early grade, a student was playing a learning game and displayed a frown, the computer could quickly recognize that this student is not enjoying the particular game, and could maybe shift to another game that would be more suited for this childs learning preferences. Paragraph 6 also states, "the same technology can make computer animated faces more expressive- for video games or video surgery" (D'Alto). By making faces more realistic in video surgery it could even be useful to a student whom is in medical school, or by allowing for a wider range of creativity in someone who is in to designing animated video games or movies.
To conclude, i believe this technology could be a great addition to all kinds of classrooms for a number of reasons. This could be a huge advancement in today's education system. | 4 |
31b8cf7 | Have you ever woken up one day and thought what life would be like without cars. Can there be advantages to limiting car usage? There have been people studying this and wondered what life would be without cars or trucks. In Paris they enforced a law that stated on monday motorists with even-numbered liscense plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or pay a 22-euro fine. The same rule would apply for even numbered liscense plates the next day. The reason that Paris did this was because they had days of near-record pollution, and banned cars to help "clear the air" of the global city.
Would limiting car usage for america be an advantage? No it wouldnt, you know why. The reason being is because there are alot more americans not making money or not trying to make money, Americans could not afford new cars, and the unemployed weren't going to work anyway. As of April 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in January 1995. Whether if thats because of americans not making enough income to purchase new cars or teens and adults prefering to take the tram or a bus as said by Mr. Sivak whose son lives in San Francisco and has his own car but takes the Area Rapid Transit, when he can, even though it takes longer than driving.
Limiting car usage is also starting to become an advantage in other countries as well. In Bogota, Colombia they had a day without cars, and people hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work. Like in Paris they're goal was to reduce smog, and if they violated the rules they were fined a whopping $25. A businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza said,"It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution."Also parks and sports centers have bloomed throughout the city;uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks.
When its all said and done research shows that there are advantages to limiting car usage. Some countries are taking the extra step to try and solve the problems of pollution in they're country. Paris for example are giving people that are out driving on monday with odd number liscense plates a 22-euro fine, and the same goes for even on the next day to help with they're problems with smog. Even in america teens and adults would rather take the tram or the bus, being able to drive isnt a priority to some people in america. In Colombia they have a day without cars and they're goal as well is to reduce smog and pollution in they're country, and giving $25 fines to those who don't follow the rules. So overall it would be an advantage to limit car usage. | 3 |
31b903a | In my oponion, I think the state senator should not change the Electoral College by popular vote for the President of the United States. I think it should not change because this process consists of the selection of the electors. This is where they vote for President and Vice President as well as the counting of the electoral votes by congress. The majority of the electoral votes is to elect the president. This also makes things much easier because each candidate running for president for your state has their own group electors where the electors are chosen by the candidates political party. It is also helpful because you actually help choose your states electors when you vote for your candidate you are voting for your candidates electors. At the end it makes it easier on the governor to list all of the candidates who ran for President in your state along with the names of their respective electors. | 1 |
31be4dc | I think that they should do voting by the popular vote because it should be what the people feel most comfortable choosing and they shouldnt have the electoral college. It can be argued that the electoral college method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state. Democrats in texas for example or republicans in california knowing their vote will have no effect they have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign that they would have if the president were picked by popular but of course no voters vote swings a national election and in spite of that about one half the elgible american population did vote in 2012 election. Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election.
A dispute over the outcome of an electoral college vote is possible it happened in 2000 but its less likely than a dispute over the popular vote the reason is that the winning candidates share of the electoral college invairably exceeds his share of the popular vote in 2012's election for example Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney . . . . because 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 the nationwide electoral vote is possible because the total number of votes 538 is an even number but it is higly unlikely .....
I think those two paragraphs from this passage explains why i would like for people to just do popular voting because it makes the people comfortable and who they feel will make a america as best as it can be. That person who is being elected should feel proud and make america safe is what i stronlgy agree and i think others should to because it is a great choice. The elctoral college consist of the selection of the electors the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice president and the counting of the electoral votes by congress and i feel like thats a little too much when people can just vote instead of getting someone as a president who their not comfortable with or familiar with and dont know anything about the person so everyone just vote by the people for the people. | 1 |
31c0221 | Driverless cars are not a good idea. It's almost defeats the purpose of life. If we had driverless cars then no one would have to go out of there house for anything, and this is a problem because we would never have to leave the house for anything. It sounds like a good idea don't it? Sadly it is not, if we never had to leave the house then we would become lazy and dependent on robots to do everything for us. Outside activity would decrease greatly and the streets would be empty. Well, exept for the cars, which no one would be driving. I don't want to see our people turn to a boring way of life. If we did have these "diverless cars" what do you think would happen to all the fast food industry? I know, since there would be no people there would be no workers at places like; Mcdonalds, Taco Bell, Arbys. Everything would be automated just like the cars. The fast food industry isn't the only job that would be taken by robots, most jobs in america and around the world would be taken. The citizens of the world would have no where to work. That is why these cars are a bad idea. | 2 |
31c2e4e | To the State Senate,
Addressing my ultimate opinion, I believe should change the vote of the Electoral College into a popular-based vote. Examining a large number of articles which has fufilled my understanding of the Electoral College including the process and diverse opinions of the Electoral College. This essay will propose the counterclaim the opposing side of why we should not change the process of vote in the United States and address the counterclaim of why the Electoral College should be changed to a popular vote. In order to understand each side, we must first comprehend the process behind the Electoral College. Posner stated, "...it is the electors who elect the president, not the people. When you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors" (3). This is the one of the most important concepts to understand in the process of the Electoral College, for we must know that each vote you compose, you vote for a slate of electors, who will basically vote for their candidate. "The Electoral College is a process, not a place" (Office of the Federal Register, 1). This lets us put down a foundation of the Electoral College as well.
According to Plumer, "Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote" (2). This indicates how the tie could carry the vote to the House of Representatives, where the federal judgement takes place of voting for the president. Not only this, but Plumer also stated,"Because each state casts only one vote, the single representative from Wyoming, representing 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representatives from California, who represent 35 million voters" (2). This statement from Plumer strongly imposes the knowledge that this tie carried to the House of Representatives would hardly reflect the will of the people due to census of the population. This article highlighted that the vote in 2000 where the system actually seemed to flaw when Gore recieved a higher popular vote than Bush, however, Bush received a higher electoral vote. In this situation, is this truly fair? This example dipicts how the vote is truly determined on a group of people from the population rather than a vote depending upon the entire nation itself. Plumer stated, "...the electoral college is unfair to voters...swing states..." (2). This brings us the idea of the swing states and how the candidates in the winner-take-all system do not bother to go to states they know that they have no chance of winning, which harshly reveals that some votes may be biased from the electors ignoring other states. "It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational" (Plumer,2). This concludes how biased the Electoral College can be when it comes to ties, representatives, the disaster factor, and a great multitude of concepts and situations where the Electoral College has flawed.
Now, I have also read articles that contained letters that emphasized why the Electoral College should not be changed in any way, due to the "...Certainty of Outcome...Everyone's President...Swing States...Big States... Avoid Run-Off Elections..." (Posner, 3). These subtitles are points that Posner focused on that he believes can persuade why the Electoral College is somewhat efficient. In each of these points, I can counter that the certainty of the vote is false due to the fiasco of Gore and Bush in 2000, as well as the concept of the House of Representatives that I mentioned earlier as well. In the factor that Posner mentioned in his point of everyone's president, I do not find this very accurate due to the reason that our vote relies on a slate of electors, not us entirely, as it would in a popular vote. In swing states, it mentions in the article of Plumer that a winner-takes-all method is unfair to voters because electors ignore states that they do not have confidence in winning the vote. A major point that I disagree with would be the point that Posner pointed out with Big States, where he mentioned that,"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..." (3). In this, I would argue that this is unfair, because of the inequality of representatives due to population, which is not the voter's decision. In the statement of Avoid Run-off Elections, Posner states that, "The Electoral College avoids that problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast" (3). I find this false due to the reason that the Electoral College is based on a different amount of voters and electors in each state, which in turn is viewed unfair because there is a factor of the swing states once again, explains that some electors choose states over another which lets us show how unfair the Electoral College is, generally speaking.
In conclusion, we have established our opinion on why the vote should be changed into a popular vote instead of the Electoral College due to a myriad of concepts, such as the disaster factor in 2000, why swing-states are unfair, the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote, just to reveal the tip of the iceberg in our arguments of understanding why the Electoral College is biased, irrational, and unfair. We have also covered the counterclaims and reasoned them with logic, reality, and true rationality of why the Electoral College shoud be abolished in the vote of the President of the United States of America. So, ask yourself as a state senator, who is truly in the hands of the final say for the President? | 5 |
31c49e5 | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming,"that the postive and negtives about
driverless cars is that a postive is in paragraph 7 states that "the Google car simply announces when the diver should be prepared to take over."This is a postive thing that is if a driver asleep or unware it will alert them;nother thing
that manufacturers are also thinking of is that to use cameras to watch the
drivers sre remaining on the road and focused.A other good idea would be
is that if the manufacturers uses both of thoese ideas togather
you never know what could happend.
The negtives about this article is that none of the cars in fact are not fully capable of being driverless it will still requier a driver.Designing
a car that
use a seat that vibrates is not that good of a idea therefore that bad things
can happend, which GM designers had created. The other thing is that it's
not completely diverless that is the car have to still notify the driver for
roads ahead, work zones,accidents, and navigation.Which this just till about the
development of the driverless car that a new ideas that are not vary good
at being driverless.
I belive that form the article that the aspects of driverless cars is that it is more
negtive than a postive. That is it's not fully capable of being a diverless car there is more that they have to do, to be able to get on the road they need to be on .
That what they should do is all of the car maufacturers come togather and create this car,make it what it stands for a diverless car that needs no driver
to contral the car period.GM had cars that was having bad breacks in there
cars which made many accidents an the court got involed which tell you do
not get ideas form GM they make bad ideas and some are good but most can be bad.
That just working togather can help
the deveolpment of these cars an realy
good ideas would make this dream become real to the
people and manufatures,car designers,compenys,and to the world as will.
There will be always a roadblock lie ahead in less you stop it an work
through it as best as you can even though you got your car to half a
million miles without a crash so far is accplishment in any book even though
there is more work ahead an development of driverless cars but people will
hope for it to be done in 2020 or less than that. | 3 |
31c5595 | Dear Florida senator,
I would say lets get rid of the electoral college vote the reason is because the voters vote for slate of electors. They really are not letting the people speak their mind about who should really be president. Like it said in the story and I quote"
sometimes the slate of electors might vote for the other side
". Also it says in the passage that the electoral college vote "is unfair, outdated, and irrational". The eletoral college vote is just a waste of time to be honest.
Another reason why I think we should get rid of the electoral college vote is because it really doesn't make any sense to have it. The popularity vote should be the one that counts the reason is because it gives the voters the chance to vote for the president instead of having that eletoral college vote where they can't just easily just vote for the new president. The other thing is that in the electoral college votes it goes by slate of electors well some states have more electors than others like californa and texas all states should have an equal amount of voters instead of just giving the big states the all of the power.
The last reason why I think we should get rid of the electoral college vote is because of the disaster factor. In the year of 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis. In 1960 segregationists in louisiana the lesgislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democrtic electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. the other thing is what if their is a tie between the two. The whole election would be thrown to the house of representitves.
These are all the reasons why I think we should get rid of the electoral college votes because it is more easy doing the popularity vote because it gives the people to speak on who they want to be president. | 3 |
31d3659 | Have you ever wondered whst it'd be like to always have a ride to places? The thought of one person sitting in a car alone and not having to drive to reach their destination sounds pretty luxurios to me. Ther have been, and will always be debates over the existance of driverless cars. Everyone knows that, in a car, safety is always the most important thing. I honestly believe that driverless cars can be made safe if they aren't already, and they should most definately be seen on the road in a few years.
Like I stated earlier, safety is the most signifigant quality in an automobile. as stated in passage number nine, "most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passangers, and pedestrians safe". I'm pretty sure most of the manufacturers making these driverless cars are aware of this also. The googlr cars have been driving themselves since 2009 without an accident. The thing is mainly that the driver should still be alert, and ready to take over in a dangerous situation. Manufacturers are working towards this problem being solved in a few years.
Also, these self driven cars would use less fuel. In passage number one, it states that google founder Sergey Brin forsees driverless cars using half the fuel of today's taxis. This would make the automobile more efficient, and economical. I hear people everyday complaining about not being able to go places, because of the lack of fuel they are able to afford. Well if half today would be full in the future, than what is there to worry about. Go out, have fun, do as you please.
Lastly, but most definately not least, with driverless cars it would be almost impossible to get lost. In driverless cars there would be an internal GPS that knows where it is going. Also, constant updates would notify of any roadwork or detours. The possibility of just typing an address, and just relaxing as you go about your driverless trip certainly sounds satisfying. The endless road trips and vacations would be fantastic.
In my closing, driverless cars in afew years could become safer than human skilled driving. Having to pay less for gas is always a good thing, and never getting lost in places you don't know makes you more confident to go more places. Driverless cars can really change the world with all of the ideas and things that come along with them. The possibilities are endless, and simply fantastic. I almost can't wait to see what can happen in just a few years. | 4 |
31d8391 | why visiting venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger, the planet might have once had life, to gather info on venus to know it better, to satisfy peoples curiosity.
the planet might have had life before due to that it is earth like when it comes to terrian, " Today venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sedimrnt and includes familiar features such as valllys, mountains, and craters."
to gather info on the palnet, is to understand our history more, " Many researchers are working on inovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of venus."
to satisy peoples curiosity is to satisfy the search for meaning, " Striving to meet the challange presented by venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity would likely lead us into many equally intimadating endeavours."
the possiblity of venus having life, gathering info on venus to learn about it, and to satisfy our curiosity, is why exploring venus is worth the danger. | 2 |
31d9589 | Imagine you are a scientist and one day you discovered a face on mars. You don't know if its just the landform or is it a sign telling the scientists including you telling something. A scientist in NASA had to take caution at the these types of things. I believe that the face is just a natural landform because after all it was just a rock formation, a theory and it takes more than just a weird formation to look into the work of it.
Rock formations happens all the time on different planets. A camera circling the planet Mars could not even recognize the "Ailens". It was just a formation because there is no actual proof of ailens being on the planet. Rock formations come in different shapes and sizes.
"Ailens" being on the planet is very rare and is a theory. There was no actual footage of aliens. Conspiracy theories happen all the time, just because a face appeared on the surface does not mean ailens were there. It could even be something else other ailens on Mars. Theories are not scientifically proven because everyone has their own controversial opinion.
Thousands of anxious web surfers were all excited and quite confused when the JPL appeared on a website. It was just a natural landform. No ailen momument happened at all.Web surfers had pictures of the face and there was no signs of ailens.
The "Unmasking the Face on Mars" is just a natural landform.There were no actual signs of aliens even with videos and pictures. Conspiricies and Theories happen all the time so everybody will have their own opinion and sometimes it can be controversial. Controversial statements and opinion is what shapes humanity today. | 3 |
31dd5a1 | limiting car usage has an advantage because insted of using a bunch cars which most people do people can use their feet to walk and jog and legs to ride bikes insted of just sitting in chair and moving a wheel around thats why in the streets of vauban germany they completely banned people from using cars so they can be more active by using their feet to jog,run and walk and their legs to paddle a bike an other advantage that car usage has is with driving banned the air will also be extremly clean and not polluted with dirty machine gas that means people will not have to breath with dirty air and will be able to breath good and fresh this why car usage is good not only for people to be active and not lazy but to keep the air fresh and clean so that people will stay heatlhy and of course so that mother earth could be healthy as well now that people will begin to use less cars they will go to stores and buy bikes to use and people will be selling alot more bikes so for once human being have really done something good for themseleves and planet earth because earth is the only reason why human beings and other life forms exist | 2 |
31dfb5f | The Challenge of Exploring Venus
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the high pressure and extremely hot surface. The author suggests that us human can survive on Venus if there are some innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to bring more knowledge about Venus.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has some promising ideas for sending human to study Venus. One of their idea was that if a blimp-like vehicle hovering above 30 miles can avoid the unfriendly ground condition of Venus. But, monitoring Venus from a ship orbitting safely above the planet can only provide so little information about ground conditions. NASA saw the issue and have developed "some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions" (Paragraph 7). NASA was able to see how they can improve such technology to last even longer in difficult conditions. By improving technologies that they already had, NASA can show the world more possibilities of living on another planet, that can help prevent humanity from overpopulation and explore a whole new world.
Overall, despite the challenging condition Venus has brought upon, human curiosity will likely to lead us to more incredible innovations. New innovations can help human adapt in different challenging environment much easier, bringing new possibilities beyond the expectations. | 3 |
31e00b5 | "With less cars we have less accidents and less problems ". As a teenager i should be getting prepare to get my learner license but i do not bother because thats not my priority that doesn't mean i'm not interesting in driving but everything i need are close by like the mall , restaurants and a lot of other thing so i dont really see the need to be driving . By limiting our car usage we prevent accident and we payless bill such as car insurance and gas money .
"After a day of near-record pollution , Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city ". Every country should have more than one day where we are car-free because that will protect the air we breath by bringing the congestion down and also we will have less car accident. where everyone can take the bus or we can just walk to wherever we need to go. it would be a good opportunity to lower the cars accidents and the pollution ."All of our development since World War 2 has been centered on the car , and that will have to change " we can centered that development on something better , on something that will be on our benefit and that will help us to move foward not that the cars doesn't help us but it also pollute the air we breath and we need the air more then we need the cars , might as well reduce the development of car to protect ourselves . "In previous bills , 80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transport ".
buying a car and still have to pay all those extra money is a a pain and a waste money. Those money could got to your kids college funds or for vacations , putting yourself in a situation to have too much in your plate is not worth it ,why be always tense when we can be happier . That is too much money just on cars who will bring more trouble then anyone deserve . "A study last year found hat driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009 " young people have found out its not that fun having to drive around . Most likely as soon as you can drive your parents leave all the responsibilities on you ,starting with the groceries then dropping your young sibling somewhere to others thing. There's also the gas money , the car accidents and if you take a light the tickets bills and the money for when you taking the highway . People shouldn't have all those trouble coming with the car , thats why the percentage reduce because most people now just take the bus or walk .
Many times my aunt had complained about the problems that come with the car but she still use her car for simple reason such as going to walmart by the house when she could just walk there .The advantages of limiting our cars usages such as less accidents and a better air to breathe are way better then the disavantages which are polluted air , having to pay cars insurances with gas and otherso why not stick to what's better for our environment. | 4 |
31e0361 | In the article "The Challenge of exploring Venus" the author describes why humans should continue to explore Venus. The Author of the article makes several convincing claims throughout said article.
One example is in paragraph four it states that long ago Venus was very Earth like in the fact that it was largly covered in ocean. As most of us have been taught that water is essential for all life to be able to survive. Venus also has many geological features similar to Earth in that it has valleys,mountains,and craters. These similarities make us curious and what to ask the question if Venus was so Earth like then did it ever contain living organisms? Also we must ask ourselves could it ever sustain life.
Another factor that makes humanity so curious about Venus as it states in paragraph four as well that Venus is one of our nearest options for a planetary visit. Imagine looking up at clear stary night and along with the pale face of the moon and the twinkling of the stars. You would see a shining glow in the distance wondering what could it be what is going on there and can I visit it. For Venus it is entirely possible to do so.
Though one might say that the author gave too many negative factors to visiting Venus. Yes he does but these are but challenges in the way of human curiosity. Yes the air might be ninety-seven percent carbon dioxide yes the surface might temperature might be eight hundred degrees. Can these challenges stand in the way of human injanuity and our will to discover the unkown. No nothing can stand in the way of human curiosity. For eaxample in Pragraph seven it states that NASA is working on other approaches such as simplified electronics made of silicon carbide. This invention has even been tested by the simulated chaos of Venus and it lasted for three weeks.
Though we might not be ready yet for our long awaited visit to Venus it will adventualy be possible. I might not live to see it but in the wake of human curiosity and the will to discover the unkown nothing can stand in our way. Nothing will stop us from reaching for the stars. | 4 |
31e190f | Crash. That was the noise of a driverless car having a collision because its sensors did not work. With scientist creating driverless cars they are opening a new set of problems for the daily driver. There is a possiblity that it
will be hard for people to figure out who is at fault, or a driverless car could take lives do to computer problems.
When a driver less car is in a crash, who is the damage pinned on? The car or the driver? This is an issue the daily driver will have to deal with if they start putting driverless cars on the road. When we start letting driverless cars on the road it is a matter of time till one of the cars gets into a crash.
What if a driverless car kills or hits a pedestrian? The counter argument maybe that the car will not hit someone because they have sensors and cameras to not hit someone. There is a possiblity that our technology can go out or stop working and hit someone. That could cause a chain reaction of states not wanting the driverless cars in there state like California did. There is going to be flaws and glitches that need to be worked out before we can put these cars on the road.
With techonolgy advancing, scientist creating are new inventions and modernizing the old ones. Some new invertions are great, but some of them their not such great ideas. With the driverless car there is too many errors that could happen for them to be safe on the road. The cars would cause a lot of problems like it could be hard for people to figure out who is at fault, or a driverless car could take lives do to computer problems or glitches in the system. The world is not ready for driverless cars. | 3 |
31e4327 | The Challenge Of Exploring Venus
My Claim that
support the passage is " Do Not Judge A Book By It Cover" despite the facts that venus is one of the brightest points in the night sky, it was simple for amateur stargazer to spot. Venus is the closest planet to earth in terms of density and size and closest in distance. The only difference between the venus and earth is the speed because sometimes we are closer to venus because it is always around the corner.
No spacecraft has ever survived landing on venus. Venus is marked as the challenging planet for human despite the promixity and the similarities they both share. There is 97%
carbon
dioxide which bblankets venus and it is more challenging due to the highly corrosive sulfuric acid in its atmosphere. The atmospheric pressure in venus is more greater than what we experience on earth and also it has the hottest surface.
According to Paragraph 4, the astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well once have been the most earth like planet in our solar system. Venus was for once looks like earth which includes different oceans and some rocky sediments which partains to mountains and valley. Eventhough venus is no more condusive for human being it is still consider as one of nearest option for planetary visit for humans. NASA are compelling ideas for sending human to study venus. The possible solution for NASA to study will allow the scientist to fly above the fray. If blimp-like vehicle hovering above the venus was created this would be of help to the astronants to complete their research because the vehicle won't come down to the surface of the venus that low, but there would be a lot of solar power and radiation so that the condition can be survivable for the humans.
If a ship orbiting safely above the venus is created this wouid
help to provide some insight about the ground conditions because most form of light can't penetrate the dense atmosphere so this will render any form of photography in effective and also things cannot be picked from the surface of the venus, so with this scientist is planning to conduct a thorough
mission to understand venus would need to get up close despite the challenges they're going to face. According to
paragraph 7, NASA is working on other approaches to study venus examples are some simplified electronics made of silicon and also using the mechanical computers to study the surface of the venus but using a modern computer can be delicate because of the the risk it entakes.
Finally, for scientist to study the Venus they need to create some powerful equipments that can be of help to them. Venus is large but due to the risk, it is made difficult for scientist to study it. | 1 |
31e5878 | Dear State Senitor,
The Electoral College is an ineffeciant way to cast presidential votes. We the people vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. If we were to change to election by popular vote then the elecions would be truly fair. After all, it was said by our founding fathers that we the people are who change the government and the face of our nation. It would lead to more voters and an overall better quality of said electee.
The Electoral college voting system is flawed in many different aspects, such as the chance we take of electing electors that may be biased as much as to betray their pledge and vote for a presidential canidate that you did not vote for them to vote for. Voters cannot control whom their electors vote for.
The Electoral college is unfair to voters and irration in all. It is anachronial and non reliable and should be abolished and replaced. | 2 |
31ea4a0 | In this article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," I am for the development of these cars. Im for these cars because they are safe and Smart cars they have been tested to work like a human person. Driverless cars are coming. These cars can change the world.
Driverless cars are safe and smart because they can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves now that's a smart car. Driverless cars have necessitates the car being able to quickly get the driver's attention whenever a problem occurs. All though you have to pullin and out a driveway these cars are amzing.
Driverless cars are/ smart-road systems workes surpisingly well. The have the skill of a human at the wheel. Computer hardware and software make driving safe. The car is developed were the driver's seats will vibrate whe the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object.
Having this car would change the world! In the article they say that Dr. Werner Huber, A BMW project manger driver, Says "We will have to interpret the driving fun in a new way." Drivers no longer need to take over. These cars are amzing ,they are the future.
This is why I am for the develoment of these cars. Im for them because they are safe and smart. These driverless cars are amzing. Having these cars with change the world in the future. | 3 |
31f70db | When Don came to me and asked me to go to Europe I was glad that is said yes because it's a great adventure that you will never forget. We joined the seagoing cowboys for a reason, it was so we could help out in Europe. When I got to Europe so many diffrent type of countries were riped apart. It was like if there was a huge explosion in a city and it was all gone. People that lived there seem like if they really needed help. We need to help them recover their food suplies, animals, and more.
The day the Pacific war ended we headed for Geece with 388 horeses and hay to feed them all.
When I turned 18 I could have been drafted to military severice but they told me to just keep doing what I was doing. I loved the seagoing cowboys and the trips that we made.
In total I made 16 trips. I think that being a seagoing cowboy is amazing. If you get bord we play talble-tennis,fencing, reading, and writing. I also believe that every one else should try it out and experiance being a seagoing cowboy. | 2 |
31f7cbe | The author explaines how he sees it as a challenge a goal to reach, in paragraph 8, states "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimdating endeavors." It shows how he beileves that he could reach this goal, he's convinced that it is a worthy challenge to meet.
According to paragraph 2, no spacecraft survived the landing for over a couple hours, "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." The author issues the problem that in three decades not one spacecraft has landed on Venus, numeros issues, also Venus reputation as a unpossible mission for human study. According to the text, "Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for human to study, despite its proximity to us." This proves the point of why in three decades not one spacecraft hasn't landed, because it's dangerous to be around there, there's a high chance that your running into death for a study that nobody really sure about, stating that there could be a chance. That it could be somewhat like earth.
Astronomers are trying to get to Venus, because they beileve that Venus was once like earth like the factors that earth have, they beileve that Venus also have it. According to paragraph 4, " Astronmers are fascinated
by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." That shows how there into studying more into Venus and going try to complete the mission that nobody has done to go to venus and study it and see if there's life in Venus. Factors that relate Earth with Venus is all the features it haves. According to the facts in the passage it states. "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleyes, mountains, and craters." Author states that Venus could be are options to vist. "Furthermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a panetary vist, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel.
The author decribes how the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has an idea or creation to make the vist to Venus happened. NASA's solution or idea is to send humans to study Venus. They manage that goal with there plan that they think that could work. Such as decribed in paragraph 5 it says. "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling venusian landscape." It explains how they plan to send humans to Venus and study Venus. That there plan to reach that challenge that hasn't been done.
Many researchers have the idea to work on there machines to last longer enough to be put in Venus and to really to study it from close enough. " Many researchers are working on inovation that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus." This statement shows that the plan they have to travel human and going around it isnt enough or not good enough to get the good studies in the planet, to see the true facts. NASA has been working on electrioncs that could be used in the planet perhaps from projects and expermeints. Putting them into test in a environment like if it was venus. "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." This shows how they think there could be life in Venus and perhaps step on that planet like if it was Earth.
This shows how NASA, science really want to meet this challenge and making it a goal to accomplish. There convinced that Venus is somewhat like Earth. Perhaps no one has been there for the risk for human to be there. There working on to make it happened with reasearch science. New ideas that they put to test. "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by danger and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." This is what the author strongly describes with back up information and details. | 4 |
31fe4d7 | There was a man who's life was about to change.
That mans name was Luke Bomberger.
Luke bomberger had a friend who helped him out, sugesting seagoing cowboys to him. That is when it all begin for Luke bomberger.
Lukes friend asked him to go to Europe on a cattle boat.
Luke said he could not turn down that opportunity.
It could start Lukes whole currire just to go to Europe.
It did start Lukes currire.
It started him becomeing a seagoing cowboy.
Luke bomberger and his friend road down on the cattle-boat.
"The cattle-boat trip was unbelievable opportunity for a small town boy," he says.
Luke toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China.
It took a little while to cross the Atlantic Ocean from eastern cost of United States and a month to get to China.
Luke was busey because of the aniamls during the cossing.
The animals had to be fed two or three times a day.
Luke bomberger found something just by a friend asking him to come with.
Do not let a huge opportunity go down the dran just because you don't want to.
So what are you going to do when somebody gives you a opportunity. | 2 |
31fffb2 | Have you ever heard about the thing that happened at NASA twenty five whole years ago? Well it was one of the biggest things that was a thing because they were figuring out if it was a real face or not. It was difficult but i'm pretty sure they found out about it even if it wasn't a face but were about to find out.
The face was a really difficult thing to focus on for as long as they did. I don't think they would've focused on it as much as they did if it wasn't so important to figure out honestly. It was just a shadow they saw out of plain sight while a spacecraft was circling around and then they suddenly saw a shady shadow and it looked like a human face. Only a few days later is when they showed the image they took of they shadow for everyone to see. The face begin to be known and everyone was soon to know about it after they reached out and posted the picture of the unknown face.
There was many obstacles to find out who's face it was. "Twenty five years ago something funny happened around Mars. NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planrt, snapping photos of possible landing sites for its sister ship Viking 2, when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face" (Unmasking the Face on Mars,1), This little bit of a paragraph tells us that basically someone was out just snapping pictures and found this. That's overly rare too have something like that happen.
Others might say that think it's all fake but in my prespective I believe that you can't just go and and discover that and it all be fake it's not happening and it never like that. I also believe that it would be hard to take a picture of that thing when you were supposed to do what you were supposed to do. Let people believe that it's "fake" but they have prove that's very specific that i cited in paragraph three. This is just beliefs and honesty now others might be different a lot might think different because no minds think the exact same all the time it's simply just what I believe.
All in all my beliefs are still the exact same I'm sticking to what I think is right. Everyone has their own opinion but if it would get bad because people think all differently this is just what I have on mind. The face in my eyes I believe was real because you can't just drop what you're doing and go take a picture of something that's totally fake. Everyone has their own opinion though and that's how I see it. | 2 |
320475b | Not many notice how electoral college is important even it has some flaws. This voting system is a great way to determine the final results to see who becomes the president.
Besides having an electoral college we have a popular vote and it always turns out to be the president with less votes, as it states in the passage "it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote." The electoral college consists of 538 electors, and from that 538 votes 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president, but appearentley people belive that electoral college is unfair. In the passage it states "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters because of the winner-take-all system in each state," many can tell from reading this that many people are hating the electoral college idea.
Electoral college may be unfair but it does chooes the president even if they add a popular vote which would out rule the electoral college. In this case if we were to of had popular vote instead of electoral college than it would be even more difficult than electoral college. When ever using popular vote to determine the president than the process for it isnt long; this system is unfair too because of the people choosing the president because of the words and lies it says. What we need is to have electoral college to determine if the candidate is fit to be the president by not saying lies but from saying things that will actually improve the lives of others.
Why cant people just vote normally, why is there even an electoral college, why do they make us vote even if there's gonna be an electoral collegeor popular vote which is gonna decide for us. So many questions that have to be asked and answered; theres not many people that understand what the electoral college is for, but people also understand is how unfair it is to the people that vote."The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse." So appearentley there was a crisis including the electoral college, but we still kept this system even if the crisis barely happened in 2000. | 2 |
32090e3 | Driverless Cars in my opinion should be made. In the article they ask a question "Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore?" Many people should be glad if Driverless Cars come about, because that just saves he or she thousands and thousands of dollars.
If someone were to have a Driverless Car then they could just sit back and get comfortable. In the article it states that people have to stay alert , so that they can be ready to take over incase needes. In reality Driverless Cars could actually be safer than a regular car. With all the sensors and stuff there are more "eyes" to see whats going on. So maybe if the car behind you is going to fast and is going to ram into the back of you , the car could maybe move itself quick enough so you don't get hurt. Coming up with something such as the "Driverless Car" the world could be a more acident free world and everyone including yourself could be more safer. | 2 |
32097dc | In1998, new high resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA's Mars Global Survey, a spacecraft revealed the a face on mars. Some believe that the face was created by aliens, others including NASA, and myself believe that it is just a natural landform. NASA research states in the article that it is just a huge rock formation, and there is common landforms around the American West. Also web surfers get dissapointed when what they been waiting for is really just a land formation.
When NASA unveiled the image for all to see they caption the picture "huge rock formation." They also stated "human face..formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." They also state "huge rock formation that resembles a human head." This shows that NASA believes and told the public that what some think is created by aliens is really just a natural landform.
Similar pictures have been found common around the American West, that look just like the "face" on Mars. The article states that "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa--landforms common around the American West." Garvin states "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the snake River Plain of Idaho." This shows that
NASA compares the face to comman landforms already found and explains they are very similar.
Thousand of anxious web surers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, only to reveal a... natural landform. They text states "there was no alien monument after all." The text also states that "web surfers who waited so long for what they thought was going to be great was really just land." This shows that the web surfers where disapointed in there find, and there hopes not becoming realality.
However, those who say it is created by aliens disaprove with the fact that the "face" is just natural landforms. The text states "but not everyone was satisfied. The face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winte in April '98--a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet. The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze." Also the text goes on to state "some people think the face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars-- evidence that NASA would rather hide." These examples from the text show and help prove why people belive they were created by aliens and isnt a natural landform.
So as you can see NASA and myslef belive that the face is simply just a natural landform for many reasons proven. NASA states its just a huge rock, web surfers where dissapointed in there findings, and similar landforms have been found that match up to the face. Little do people know, the face is actually just a natural landform and not a alien creation like some hoped to find. Alien creation? Silly nonsence. Natural Landform? Very understandable! | 4 |
320ae92 | I think the NASA are just lying so they can caught attantion to the public plus i think that the NASA just made the face by them self and made it look like it was there before they get to mars, and there is no such as alien the NASA are just lying to make it realistic and in the artical they said this might caught attation to the public and it really did, even tho there was an alien, the how can the alien know hwo human faces look like, it not impossible plus the alien won't even know how to draw, alien don't have brain's they are just a creature living with out brain's so I'm not gonna believe that their are alien or the human face that had been discovered by the scientist i think it just a lie or they just make it up, i think the public shouldn't belive it either. But it up to them im just saying that it a lie. | 1 |
320c246 | Driverless cars are positve tools coming to our future. With the new technology that is being created today, it will be possible to create a safe and effective way of transportation. A person will simply not have to worry about transportation as often as today.
A positive aspect of driverless cars is the capability to flexible transportation. "The cars he forsees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus." While there are many methods of transportation in the city, such as trains, buses, taxis, and even Ubers, people still plead for a better method to transportation. Driverless cars will fundamentally provide a way for people to get to their destination safely.
Safety is one of the biggest concerns of America. Many people are injured and killed each year from car accidents. Driverless cars will provide safety to reduce and potentially eliminate car accidents. "Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009. Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash." The developing driverless cars have a positive report on eliminating car wrecks. This information is in favor of road safety.
While driverless cars are in the making, the current "Traffic Jam Assistant" is a feature fully available. This is helping the development of driverless cars as a whole. "The car can hand handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." Improvements in technology are advancing toward driverless cars. With the current model of driverless cars, people can still drive the car in difficult situations if necessary. "The road to the truly autonomous car stretches on ahead of us, but we grow closer to the destination every day."
A problem many see arising is the liability charges that could potentially happen if a driverless car makes a mistake. "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" As many believe the technology can fail, automakers are solving these problems. "Automakers are continuing their work on the assumption that problems ahead will be solved." Many of the problems people are worried about and opposing driverlss cars are in the works of being solved.
Driverless cars can benefit everyone. Better transportation, safety, and convenience are a few of the positive benefits that can make a difference in the world. As technology is advancing, driverless cars are near the future. | 4 |
320f4d3 | Dear, State sentaor
Juding by this artical "Does the Electoral College Work?", readers would agree that electoral colleges should be changed. This artical explains what electoral colleges are, how they help voting, and how they are bad. These three things give the reader the opion about this artical.
Source one "What is the Electoral College Work? " by the Office of the Federal Register explains what an electoral college is " The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the president by vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens". The founding fathers intended to help with elections but later people want it to go away so their votes matter.
Since electoral colleges have been formed they have been disliked because they are thought of as "an anachronism, and a non-democratic method of selecting a president". Another is "The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational". In most of the passage it talks about how the readers demise the electoral college.
To sum up this passage the readers would agree electoral colleges are unwanted, and not need. This is supported by many quotes in all of the sources. The best quote to prove this point is " Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense ... it is the electors who elect the president, not the people. | 3 |
320f87a | i would make cars to use for transportion but i would not let everybody paid 500 for the car notes. then telvison have a long been fascinated cause it been there longer so when i get done i would make my cars and telvison. we got make alot drive way and it going be alot traffic. some people dont crash that mean it alot people can drives. Some people can't drive because they didnt pay attienion on the road because text and drive then they crash. people like us we follow the direction on the road so we wont get crash or ran over anything so the car wont get hit by any thing. but we can get together on the road some people like to text and die i dont wont nobdy to see that. Some people dont pay attenion to the light on the street oor not in the right lane or turn when u suppose to turn that why we got lot driverless. Then alot people dont got they driver liences. Then people dont be in the lane right turn when u suppose to turn. some people can't park right because they dont pay attetions. that why we dont get caught. if you can't find what you want then u can get a navigating so you can be on your way to whatever your you go. that why driverless are coming. | 1 |
321758b | Life on Mars has been discussed for many years. The face on Mars has raised the concern on whether there is life on Mars.\ Most scientists believe that there is not enough evidence to show that there is infact life on Mars. Common people ,who disagree with scientists and other people who agree with the scientists, think there is enough evidence for life to be on mars. Life on Mars has been a very contradictory argument for many years. There has never been 100% true evidence of life on Mars. Many people just want to believe there is life.
First of all, the face on Mars has never shown any pure evidence that there is alien civilization on Mars. No on has ever been on Mars' surface to check around the face to see if there actually is pure evidence to support alien existence. If life does exist on Mars, we probably would have more evidence than we do now.
Next, for many years NASA and many other scientists, or even the common man, have been debating whether there really is life on Mars, or used to be. All of the pictures that scientists have now show no sign of life. If there was life, we probably would have noticed more structures around the face by now.
Finally, The main reason there is a debate between common men on whether there really is life on Mars is that they simply just want to make themselves believe there is life on Mars. The convince themselves there is life. They still have no scientific facts to support their claim.
In conlusion, the face on Mars is just a natural landform. If there is alien life on Mars, then there is no 100% pure evidence that there is or ever was. These are the reasons why life on Mars does not exist as we know of at the moment. But there could always be new evidence that says otherwise. | 3 |
3217d6b | The Seagoing Cowboys program changed my life. It opened me up to new experiences and opportunities. That is why I believe other people should join the Seagoing Cowboys program too. Here are some reasons why I believe you should also join along.
First of all by joining you get to help those in need. While I was a Seagoing Cowboy we had to care for a country's animals that were shipped overseas. Which was an amazing experience for a small-town boy like me, which surely this would be a great experience for you too. Another example is that you get to visit many different places. Once I was able to see Europe and China, even Acropolis, Greece. Also I got take a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water. It was an amazing experience that you would feel almost everyday if you joined the program. May I add you will have fun? Once when we took return trips, after the animals been unloaded, we would play baseball and volleyball in the empty holds where the animals were housed. We also would play table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and even play games to pass the time. It was a fun time.
These are my examples of why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. Surely, if you join you will be open to new experiences and opportunities as I was. I hope you take these reasons in consideration and join, I bet it'll be an opportunity of a lifetime! | 3 |
322025b | NASA noticed something unfimiliar on the Red Planet called Cydonia. Many people thought it was an old ancient civilization. There were many conspiracy theroies. Is there an actual head on Mars?
Some people may disagree, but the face is just a rock formation. There has been no discovery of aliens yet to think this had something to do with aliens. Phototgraphs show that its a rock formation.
In 1998 NASA took photograpghs of the "face" while orbiting Mars. They then posted the pictures online. When the image appeared on the website, the photo revealed a natural landform. There was no ancient civilization monument.
So, Is there an actual head on Mars? No, it is just a rock formation, and when light hits it, it produces shadows that look like eyes, mouth, and nose. Many people were upset because it wasnt an alien monument. NASA will always keep a close eye on "the Face on Mars". | 2 |
322a5bf | This passage is talking about cars an how it's polluted. Then how we "diving ban to clear the air of the global city."(10)How many cars are on the roads?
"Almost 4,000 divers were fined, according to the Reuters. Twenty-seven people had their cars impounded for their reaction to the fine."(12) "That's easier to imagine than a car-free Champs-Elysees."(13) "congestion was down 60% in the capital of France,after five-days of intensifying somg. Rivaled Beijing,china,which is kown as one of the most polluted cities in the world."(14)
The gasoline that was blamed was diesel fuel."Since France has tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline. Diesels make up 67% of vechicles in France. Compared to a 53.3% averagof diesel engines in the rest of Westen Europe,according to Reuters."(16)
"Car-free dayis spinning into a big hit in Bogota."source(3)Millions of Colombians hiked,biked,skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday,leaving the streets of this of capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams."(20) To me that's a good idea. With only buses and taxis permiited for the Day Without Cars in this capital city of 7 million. This goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Violattors faced $25 fines.
The End of Car Culture. Out of all that I care about what's going on in the world. We all should this is a place we live,breath,eat,sleep nad play on. Do the right thing try to make a differentes in the world around you."With all these changes,people who stopped car commuting as a result of the recession may find less reason to resume the habit."(36)
Finally I think sould happen peolpe should stop polluting the air that we need to breath. Because it's harmful to atomhisphare. If that gose we all will go with it. Everyone should do something nice for are mother earth. Witout her we all wouldn't be here today. How much do you care about her? | 1 |
32303e8 | Electoral College votes should be changed to election by popular vote. Electoral College votes don't really have purpose to them , but popular votes do. Instead of voting to choose electors to vote for the next president, popular votes seem more accurate , because it shows what president is more popular or wanted by the people.
To add on, electoral college votes not for the president, but for a slate of electors, states source 2. The electors are people not holding public office, which no one wants to vote for electors, the whole point is just to vote for the next president to serve and help maintain our country. Electoral College votes can be confusing also because voters may sometimes vote for the wrong canidate which is another problem if that person wasn't really voted for in the right mindset. To conclude, most people believe that electoral votes are unfair and in my opinion shouldn't be continued.
On the other hand, some people might agree to the idea of electoral college votes, it has certainty of outcome and sometimes the electoral college votes excede the popular votes , which gaurentee the win of the president elected. In toss-up states however, voters tend to pay more attention to the campaign and really listen to the competing canidates. So in toss-up states, thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election but electoral college votes don't necessarily let that happen. Lastly , electoral votes are kind of a good thing because it avoids the problem of elections where no canidate recieves a majority of the votes casted. With electoral votes, we avoid the problem of run-off elections and by doing so , the electoral votes help clear a winner.
In conclusion, the thought of electoral college votes all relys on someones opinion. If more people dislike the idea of the electoral college vote , then maybe it could be changed to popular vote only. In some peoples opinions, using electoral college votes are somewhat useless because most people who vote, their votes won't count , which makes the whole voting process pointless since everyone doesn't get a say in what president they should be able to have to help bring out and set forth their ideas. But popular vote allows that freedom of voting for the most wanted president, not the president picked only because electors wanted them. Voting is all based on the perspective of all people which is why electoral college votes should be changed to election by popular vote only. | 3 |
32333f3 | We shouldn't have Electoral College for many reasons but a few main ones. First off it isn't fiar to voters, secondly it may cause riots, and finally they are basis.
If we continue Electoral College it is not going to give the votes a chance to be seen because the college can vote but the Electoral College is the main vote the country sees because the country always miss counts and have a smaller number if they miss count the percentage of votes can be impacted a lot more and with the 60 percent rule. and yes the College style of votining is used a lot today if we use one vote per state you see how you state votes and dont have to demand a recount because it was already counted for at state level and isn't needed at national level so we wont have a hard time counting everything.
This method of voting useing a few people to vote for
"our
" president is not the smartest thing the country has done and they prove to be wrong every four years becuse the amoust of prosteting will go up the more and more we make these mistakes when we lose votes or demand a recount 10 times or let the college vote for the people in the united states. So witch is it for the Constitution, are we for Amendment 1 with the freedom of speech and press so we can choose our own president or is it that we will all go for the 23rd amendment and go to letting the few people choose our countries fait for the next four years butr then equals the fait for as long as the United States is around free from other countries.
Finally our system of Electoral College is very basis toward whom ever gives them more money to their state or campains more there because we all know that the year leading up to the elections are just a popularity contest and they just are like trying to get prom king/queen everyone promises a vote if you give them something in return, it just happens to be the people who can run for president are very wealthy and can afford to give up a small fortune for a for sure vote to them. But on the other hand if you gave me money like that i would vote for you if i liked it or not and these Electoral College is pressured a little to vote for the person everyone arounf them wants.
If we got rid of the Electoral College system of voting i believe that we would have a better economy and and the voting system would give more varried results so we can get a more acurate way because it would be easy to get rid of a system of voting but very hard to bring one in to being a thing and we can't easly do that for the reasons of there is already one and that the hoops to jump though for D.C. to pass it. therefor i am aginst haviong the Electoral College and bring use Popular Vote for all states. | 2 |
32387e2 | The Seagoing Cowboys program is a wonderful expirience. The trips you took were an unbelievable opportunity. By 1947 I had made nine trips which was the most trips any Seagoing Cowboy has made. These are the expiriences I had being a Seagoing Cowboy that will convince you to join the program.
It all started in 1945 when World War ll was over in Europe and many countries were left in ruins. Helping people is a wonderful thing to do and that is something I got to do while being a Seagoing Cowboy. I also got to help lots of animals that were shipped overseas in the World War ll by feeding them and caring for them. Some of the animals I got to care for were horses, young cows, and mules. Also by being a Seagoing Cowboy I got to visit lots of different countries and meet new people. Seeing the Acropolis in Greece and taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy was very special to me. I also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China. It is also very fun on board with the other cowboys. We played baseball, volleyball, table tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, and whittling. These games weren't only fun but they also helped pass some of the time.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy has opened the world to me. It has made me more aware of the people from different countries and their needs. If more people join this amazing program they will most likely expirience the different countries that I had been to and meet the different people that I have met. The Seagoing Cowboy program is truely a wonderful expirience. | 2 |
323b601 | Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers because of the temperatures, the most earth like in our systems, and limited insight on ground conditions.
One reasons why Venus is a worthy and danger is because of the temperatures average. In the passage paragraph 3 the author said that ''even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. on the planet surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenhit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greather than what we experience on our own planet.''In the passage paragraph 3 it also said that ''Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our system, even though mercury is closet to the sun'' The author is saying how hot Venus is and it is even hotter than the planet that closet to the sun.
The second reasons why that studying Venus is aworthy and pursuit despite the danger is because Venus is the most earth like in our solor systems. In the pessage paragraph 4 it said '' Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solor system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth.'' The passage in paragraph 4 also said that ''The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familar features such as calleys. mountains, and craters. Futhermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetray visit, a crucial consideration given the lontime frames of space travel.'' It is saying that Venus and Earth are similar and it is a worthy pursuit.
The last reasons why venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers it because of the limited insight on ground conditions. In the passage paragraph 6 it said '' However, peerinng at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective. More importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else from a distance.'' This is saying that Venus has its own limited on ground. and you can't take any sample out of Venus.
In conclusion the studying venus is a wrothy pursuit despite dangers it present. It because of the temperature, the most Earth like in our solor system and limited insight on the ground conditions. | 3 |
323bd4f | Dear senator, the electoral college many be a good process to help select a president. "The founding fathers established it in the constiitution as a compromise between election of President by a vote in Congress and by popular vote of qualified citizens.(infor. find in paragraph 1)", but in my opinoin i think that we should change the election by the popular votes. By doing that, it allows voters to have a fair vote. There would not a "winner-take-all" system anymore, but above all the candidates can have a fair fight against each other without the interfrence of the representatives.
Well to start it off, why would having the popular vote be better than the electoral college? That's because the electoral college is unfair to voters. "The winner-take-all system in each state caused the candidates to not spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states.(infor find on paragraph 13)"
Perhaps you are wondering, what does the reprentatives got anything to do with electoral college being unfair to the candidates. When there are two candidates who are tie in the electoral vote, the decision whould be thrown to the representative to decised. "The single representative from Wyoming, representing 500,000 voters, and the 55 representatives from california represent 35 million voters.(infor find on paragraph 12)" By given that many votes for just one representative, is it fair for the candidates? Not only that, but what about the 55 representative from california, what if all those 55 representative voted for their candidate from california? You know without thinking, of course the candidate from california would win. Would it be fair for the candidates and the other voters?
Although if you think about it, electoral vote can help in cerent ways. Like what if there is not many voters that voted? Or being in a tie, but of course that wouldn't happens, and like i said earlier it would'nt be fair to some of the candidates and voters who tried hard to elect or be elected. Like i said before please change the system of electing president by popular votes instead of electoral college! | 3 |
323c0b8 | New technology is always created, and it only gets better and better every time. Technology is very important in schools because most kids are accustomed to interacting with technology on a daily basis. This makes school a little more fun for students who do not enjoy school as much as others. But did you ever think technology could be used for emotional purposes at school besides making it a little more interesting? There is a new invention called Facial Action Coding System that could help teachers and students have a better learning environment. Using new technology like Facial Action Coding System could be used in the classroom to help quiet students understand a subject and give teachers results of how the student feels.
In a classroom there is always some students that need help but do not want to ask for it. That means that their grades will most likely go down, and it will not be the teachers fault. Students feel ashamed to ask for help when they don't understand something because they don't want to look dumb in front of their friends or teachers. This problem has been going on for a long time, but new technology like the Facial Action Coding System might just be the solution. This new technology can read the students facial expressions when they are confused. "'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'" (D'Alto 6). With this new system students who don't like to speak up about their lack of understanding can get help without telling their teacher. This will prevent their grades from going down and improve their understanding. Therefore, the Facial Action Coding system would benefit the students who find it difficult to communicate their needs to their teachers.
In addition, instructors can learn the students' ways of learning and how they feel when they get the results from the Facial Action Coding System. It can be a challenge for teachers to understand their students because most students don't open up to their teachers. "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by looking on her face. Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc" (D'Alto 5). Like with friends, teachers might notice their students might be feeling down, but they don't want to ask because they don't want to make them feel weird or the student might deny that they are not feeling well. It is impossible to know exactly how a person is feeling, and without knowing that we can't offer help. If the Facial Action Coding System was in the classroom students and teachers could have a better teacher to student relationship without too much awkaward communication.
All in all, technology is being created to make our lives a little easier, and a classroom can be difficult to run without communication. The Facial Action Coding System can help students and teachers understand each other to be succesful. For example, if a student needs help but doesn't want to ask for help the system will recognize confusion and change the lesson so the student can have a better understanding. Afterwards, the teacher will get the results and approach the student to give him or her the help they need personally and in private. If new inovations are being created we should use them to help us understand one another. | 4 |
323cdd6 | By being the second planet from the sun, venus has gained al ot of attention from scientists and try a lot of way to make our way to the Venus, but none of the scientist have ever get lay their hands on the Venus. Venus is one of the brightest points of the light in night sky, and a very challenging place to examine more closely.
Venus is referred as Earth twin, because its the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size and occasionally the closest distance too. Sometimes Venus is only i the right corner in space terms, so scientist has sent numerous spacecraft to landin Venus but each previous mission is unmanned, and no spacecarft survived the landing for more than few hours.
Venus has thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide, and surface of venus, the temperature average is 800 degrees Fahrenheit and 90 times greater atmospheric pressure than what we experience in Erath's. Even though like that, the scientists is fascinated by venus because it may well once have been Earth-like planet in our solar system.
By hovering safely far abopve the planet or peering at Venus from a ship orbiing
far above the planet can provide only limited information. Researches cannot take any forms of rocks, gas or anything from the distance. Therefor, to understand the Venus, they would need to get upclose. NASA is working on other way to approaching the Venus and some electroniocs have been tested and only lasted a couple of week in such conditions.
Old technology have been looking back even though the modern technology are poweful and fast but old technology have their own advantage. By exposing the tablet or phone to acid or heat capable of melting tin can damage your phone to the extent of damage, but system that use mechanical part can be ,ade more resistant to pressure, heat and other resources.
The human curiosity will led us to the discovery of new things in the Venus.The curiosity can lead us to alot of things, and expanded to meet very edgers imagination. By being the second planet after the sun, venus catch a lot of people attention from all over the world. | 2 |
3241fbf | Have you ever heard of a driverless car? Not many people have in this day in age because it hasnt been a hot topic in the many years people have been trying to achieve this task.
My position on driverless cars has me very intersted in the near future of where this invention might go. My opinion of driverless cars is amazing, it could help with fuel saveing and aslo passenger safety for many people on the road. Also it would change the face of todays technology skale amazingly. The technological advances for driving cars will esculate over time and maybe even introduce the floating car.
The safety of passengers would increase dromatically becuse there will not be many accidents around the world. There are people driving drunk, or under the influence of other substances. Self driving cars would also help people that cannot drive because they have a medical condition that prevents them from useing car transportation. Self driving cars would help those people over come those obsticals in there life and give them the transortation they need to do the tasks they need to overcome such as doc. apointments.
Self driving cars would help fix many intrasting situations that causes problems in today society. From saveing lives to help the need to get to point A to point B with no struggle and not much effort to do so. I am inroduced to the struggle every day with my mother. She has a dissability called muscular skurosis (M.S.) with affects her brain and her muscles so she is not able to drive. The self driving car will help with that problem and will giver her the option to leave the house and go do what she needs to do
My conclusion is that self driving cars, or asisting cars would help change the driving world and save many lives from people who drive destuctively and help people have transportation to get where they need to go. | 4 |
3242556 | FACS: the Facial Action Coding System, or possibly the future of teaching. FACS can use all fourty-four major muscles of a face model from a computer to classify how a person is feeling based on six basic emotions. Those six emotions are happiness, anger, disgust, fear, suprise, and sadness. This has major potential to be used anywhere, but the best place could be the classroom. FACS should be used in a classroom because it can read a person's emotions, and could change a lesson if students are bored or confused over a less.
FACS was used on the famous Mona Lisa and produced some very interesting results. It stated that "She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." That is the true emotion of Mona Lisa according to a computer. But Professor Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science at Illinois University, belives that this could be used for more than just reading the emotion of people in paintings. He and Professor Nicu Sebe of the University of Amsterdam think that the software can be used on the classroom.
First, we need to know how does FACS work. Dr. Huang uses the computer to construct a 3-D model of the face. If movement at one or more of the fourty-four major muscles in the model occurs, that is called an "action unit." Dr. Huang then uses the work of psychologists to take it one step further. Dr. Paul Eckman is one the psychologists work used as he is the creator of FACS. Eckman classified six emotions, and then associated each with movements of facial muscles, such as "your frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when you're suprised." But Dr. Huang knows the true potential of FACS, the classroom.
A classroom computer with the FACS software could read the emotions of kids in a classroom. It then could change up a lesson if most students are bored or confused. Lets say a student or multiple students aren't understanding a lesson very well from the notes and is confused. The computer could create a game to play that not only makes students excited, but helps them understand the lesson more. This could be crucial towards the future of education.
FACS could become the next teacher assistant for a classroom and succeed at a high standard. The system could lead to better grades for students and lead to a higher graduation rate at universities. This is just the beginning of FACS, and the future only gets better for something as powerful as this. That, ladies and gentleman, is true potential of FACS, the future of education all over the world. | 4 |
3245968 | When did technology start controlling humanity? Technology has grown, and it has started to control society. Humanity relys greatly on their phones and computers for information. What happens if all of technology just shut down one day? People would not know how to live a life without a screen attached to their hand. Now people think driverless car should exist, putting technology in control of human lives should not be accepted, or allowed.
Imagine, a friend was walking across the street then an autonomous car does not stop for her, or him. There would never be a good-bye, another conversation, or even a hug on a bad day. Technology goes bad everyday. Why should people let themselves get put in danger, or let others get put in danger? If humanity valued life, they would realize a little bit of driving triumphs dying from, literal, lazyness. Most people could not live with the guilt of killing someone, which they might have to do if they drive, or ride, in these autonomous cars. Humanity needs to learn to value human life more.
The article says that these autonomous vehicles can only handle speeds up to 25 miles per hour. If people took an autonomous vehicle out onto the interstate, they would cause a wreck immediately. If as of now the manufacturers can only create cars that can stay in control at 25 mph, what happpens when they try to create cars that can go 60 or 70 mph and cannot keep them in control? The article also says they cannot drive around work zones or accidents, so how can they drive around a kid that darts into the street? The manufacturers are supposed to be making these vehicles very safe, but why then is it illegal to drive these vehicles in most states? If this topic contains so many questions on safety, why is it being pursued?
If putting technology in control endangers people, why do it? Society puts a price on life, but they should not. When something gets undervalued, it usually get slung around and broken. People should not treat life like something that can just get slung around and destroyed. Putting technology in conntrol of life does that. | 3 |
324d38b | Do you believe in life on Mars? Well I don't and here is why. There is no evidence what so ever of life on Mars. What about the Face on Mars you ask? Well I was hopeing you would ask about that. You see that is what this essay is about. The Face on Mars.
The Face on Mars is just a naturel land form. From 1976 to 2001 People have been taking pictures of the Face on Mars and every time they took a picture of the Face on Mars they got closer to it and as you look at the pictures you can see that the space in which the Face on Mars is located you can see that it is just a mesa that formed naturely on Mars.
So in conclusion the Face on Mars is just a naturel land form created by god when he made the universe. Oh! You are an atheast? Well then looks like we will have to have a nother conversation some time? Well until then, bye. | 2 |
3252ee0 | Technology to read emotional expression of students in the classroom is valuable? Is technology in classrom good for students for teacher can read there emotions. I think it would be good to hvae them in classrooms. Teachers should have them so they can read studets emotions. Here are my three reasons why teachers hsould have technology to read emotional expressions.
If the students like the teacher or any other students. If the teacher uses the technology on the students she can tell rather or not if the students likes her. If the students dont like the teacher can at least try to make that student like her. The teacher can tell if the student is going to give the teacher a bdad time by the teacher emotions.
I mean thats good to know because the teacher can know what student going to give her a bad time.
The students are in a bad mood or something or they getting bullied by a classmate. The teacher can know by using that technology on the student. If the student is in a bad mood the teacher can sit down with that students and talk to what student bully him. I think the teacher would find out more which students would catch the bullys. I think that technology would be grate for a school.
I think it could help the teachers know if the students would get that material. Like if they dont get it the teacher can use that technology and know if that student dont get. The teachers would ask that student if the students lie the teacher can use the technology. I think that would be great the teacher can help the student more.
Those are my reasons why technology of emotional expression should be in the classroom. Those are my three reasons why. | 3 |
3256f36 | This article is mostly about NASA and it's discovery of the face on Mars they believe that the face had a human form, but they figured out that it was just another Martian mesa. NASA thought it had unsual shadows to make it look like a Egyption Pharaoh, a few days later after the discovery Nasa unvieled the image for all to see. It starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows- even haunted grocery checkout lines for 25 years-some people think the Face is a bona fide evidence of life on Mars-evidence that NASA would rather hide.
Although few scientists believed the face was an alien artifact, and so on April 5, 1998, when MGS flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his MOC team snapped a picture of the face. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL we site, revealing ...a natural lndform. There was no alien monument after all. Mission controllers prepared to look again.
Nevertheless, on April 8, 2001, MGS drew close enough for a second look and got a much better photo of the Viking photo. What the picture shows is the Martian equivalent of butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West. There are mant reasons why the face could have been made by aliens or if it was made by something else most likely it was aliens in my poinion, but we need proof to be able to determine if it was or not.
The article is just saying that there could be alien life out there, because there is so much that is undiscovered an things we do not know about, so it is possible that it was aliens or if it was something else think about it what do you think about all this? | 2 |
3259adf | Dear State Senetor,
T
he elecoral collage should stay the same because it worked this long right and it will keep working as long as everythis is fair. The country is based on our votes and that is how it should be because we are part of this country and we make it a free country. This is how our founding fathers stated this country and thats how it need to be our country has the best presedent that we could have in this type of situation because he is a colored man and there is nothing wrong with that. If we did not have an electoral collage it would be harded to keep things in line such as how the voting works and how it should be decided that we have the best presedent we can get at that time for our country. As an example we have been fighting on Iran and alfaganastan for a long time and presedent oboma did the best he could with the best that he had to make sure that we were still a free country and the we were safe from terrorism. The electoral collage was a good iead and still is so thst way we do always have a good presedent or for anything that this country need to vote on it always keeps thing in order and fair to this country so there for it is what this country need in order to make the best we can with the best we got. | 1 |
325ec31 | Dear, Senator of Florida
After reading this article about Electral College, I believe that we should keep Electoral College because it makes it easier to count up all the votes for the president of the United states. One of my main reasons is because what if we get a tie on the votes, there is a whole prosses that we need to go through just to break up that tie. If we have Electral College then it makes it easier because we just count up the amount of electral votes given to each state.
I stated that we should keep Electral College because it makes it earier to count up the "electral votes" for the president of the United States. I said this because on Source 1: What is the Electral College?, "the Electral College consistes of 538 electors. Amajority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President."(Office of the Federal Register,3). Also if we get a tie there is a whole prosses that we go through to break up that tie. According to, Source 2: The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defense of the system are wrong, "in that case,the election would be throuwn to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president."(Plumer,12).
My other reason for us to keep the Electoral College is because it makes it so much easier for them to count up how many votes we get in the whole United States just to chose out president. According to the map on Source 3: In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President, it showes that deppending on how popular or how big the population is in the state, it has more electoral votes. This has nothing to do with how big or small the state is, for example the state of Alaska is the United States biggest state and it only has 3 electoral votes but the state of callifornia wich is very small compaired to Alaska has 55electoral votes. the reasons that they state in Source 3: In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President, are very interesting and can convince you to keep Electoral College. "1) Certainty of Outcome, 2) Everyone's Presiden, 3) Swing States, 4) Big States, and 5) Avoid Run-Off Elections."
Hopefully I got you to keep Ellectoral College and forget about the idea of changing to electing the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. I have stated my oppinion of the topic and hopefully you will agree with me. | 3 |
3261155 | Cars are believed to be mandatory in life today. They get use where we need to go quicker that it is to walk or ride a bike. Cars have many positive effects, but also many negatives. The gas emission percentage from cars in several countries have risen dramtically. Many people say, having a car stresses you out. By cuttin down on car usage, our world could be a cleaner and stress relieved place.
In many middle-class populated cities, the amount of pollution is sky rocketing. Because of this, some cities like Vauban, Germany are making their communties car free. Doing this can cut down on the amount of gas that comes from the tail pipes of cars, making the enviroment healthier and making it easier to breathe. Not as many cities are going as extreme as Vauban, but they taking the extra measures. In Paris, France the amount of pollution to due to car usage was getting higher by day. So they enforced a partial drivng ban, if they didnt follow this law they would have to pay the thirty one dollar fine. In Bogota, Colombia, they have a car free day that is now spreading to the borders, such as Paraguay. Even by cutting down a few times a day will not only help the enviroment, but will also help people breathe easier too.
Having a car can put a lot of stress on someones shoulders. You have to worry about maintence, gas prices and even traffic on the main highway on your way to work. If you take away that stress people will be happier than if they got stuckin traffic to or from where theyre going.
Driving is something that doesnt require much physical effort. It can make people lazy. In Bogota, Colombia during their car-free day, people ride bikes, skate or even walk to places. In New York's bike-sharing program not only is it cutting down on gas emissions, its also helping people stay in shape and bemore active.
So while having cars helps us get places sooner and quicker, its also having any negative effects people are turning a blind eye to. If even one city cuts down on driving for one day, it could help the enviroment. Many cities, states, and even countries are trying to cut down on the negative effects driving has. | 3 |
32630a9 | The Face from Mars is just a natural landform and not something an alien created because there's is no life in Mars that we know of. NASA also used a camera's absolute maximum resolution to see if it was created by someone or something.
In the article, in paragraph 10, says "On April 8, 2001- a cloudless summer day in Cydonia- Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look." That is when they used the camera's absolute maximum resolution to capture photographs of the Face. The camera could see airplanes on the ground or even pyramids made my Egyptian from Earth.
Also, On April 5, 1998 when MGS flew over Cydonia for the first time, ten pictures were taken.
These ten pictures showed no signs of alien activity. They were just landforms.
Then, the day had finally came. The day of true, so the true was that the Face was just a landform. This landform looked like landforms from the American West. In the last paragraph it states "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars."
This is why the Face in Mars can't be something created by aliens. It was just a landform created by nature. There is no doubt about it NASA as prove it by supporting their cliam. Thier no life in Mars that we know of so till then. The face is just a landform. | 3 |
326414d | The author siad that becaue if we keep on studing the planet knowing more about the planet could be a new. Earth because the sicinets from NASA said " Venus was probaly coverd largely with oceans and could have supported various from life like earth today". But the heat on venus is very high because its very close to the sun than we are its at leat "170 degress fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that se level on earth" NASA has an idea about sending humans to study venus but the way to avoid venus hostile conditions on the surface is to. Hover it about 30 plus miles up.NASA is trying to work on diffrent approches to study venus but nothing has survied over than 3 weeks. Because of the 97 percent carbon dioxide and the avrege temperaturs are avrege "800 degrees fahrenhiet and the atomspheric pressure is at least 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet". Venus is an extrem plant far more than any environment it would be able to crush even a submarine that means that the preuse on venus. is as strong as diving to the deepist parts of our ocean. In conclusion i think that making venus hospitable is not the right thing to do because of the condistions that venus has are very dangers its not worth puting lots of effort into a planet thats very dangers but at the same time is it is because if we do it with time and pastions. We can make things happend but it's going to be dangers. | 2 |
32644d5 | Few Nasa scientists believe that the face on Mars was created by aliens. To be scientifically correct, the face is actually just a huge rock formation which are commonly found on Earth. There is no evidence supporting the clame that aliens created that landform on Mars.
Scientists have proved that the face on Mars was created by a huge rock formation. The image taken on Mars in 1998 revealed that the face is really just a natural landform. Therefore, there was no alien monument after all. Perhaps people wanted to think the face on Mars was created by aliens just so it couold be a good story for a magazine or Hollywood film, but that is not true. Scientists have revealed how the landfrom is equivalent to a butte or a mesa, which are commonly found on Earth.
With the evidence provided from scientists, the claim that aliens made the face on Mars has been proved incorrect. There is no evidence that prove that the landfrom has been created by aliens. In conclusion, aliens did not make the landform on Mars. | 3 |
3267b54 | Dear; state senator
It states that keeping the electoral college is a more promising way to vote for the president of the united states. If they change it to election by popular vote then it probably wont be fair. Just like in 1960 when they send two slates of electors to congress but that was probably because they had the popular vote and not the elertoral college.
The electoral college is a process,not a place people might have thought that is what place like maybe a college [school]. The thing is who ever thought that was wrong beacuse it was found by the father established it in the constitution as a compromise. Its a long story lets just cut to the chase the electoral college conists of 538 electors a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect president. On the other had the thind is if you elect your president by the popular then the required number will be higher and possible wont have a president because they will never finsh counting the votes.
Electoral college is the best way to go beacuse like that will only have one slate of electors. But if the popular vote then most likely will end up with two or more slates of electors and personlitly I wouldnt like that. It would be better just to stick with the electoral college so people and the congress wouldnt have to go through so much work just to pick a president.
Look also if the popular vote that doesnt mean that they will win most likely they will lose the predidency for example Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency over 60 percent of the voters. See having the popular vote wouldnt be the best thing to do. Just stay with the electoral college dont make it so hard on people. | 2 |
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